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Rome: Clashes As Thousands March The Streets
Protesters threw smoke bombs and bottles at police in Rome as demonstrations against austerity measures in Italy turned violent.
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Demonstrators have clashed with police in Rome as tens of thousands of people marched through the city to protest against unemployment, government cuts and construction projects they say take money away from social services.
The protesters turned over rubbish bins in front of the Economy Ministry and set several bins on fire.
Using sticks and clubs, they attacked police in riot gear. The police responded by charging the protesters and chasing them up side streets.
The demonstrators, who infiltrated a mostly peaceful protest, threw smoke bombs, eggs and bottles at the ministry and broke the window of a nearby bank.
Police said 15 of the most violent protesters have been arrested and two policemen have been injured.
In another area along the demonstration route, police defused a large firework with a bullet inside, which they said could have caused serious damage had it gone off.
Protesters also set off smoke bombs and fireworks along the route and many planned to camp out during the night in front of the Infrastructure Ministry.
Italian protesters take on police during mass march against austerity budget (PHOTOS)
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Violence broke out between police and demonstrators in Rome on Saturday as tens of thousands took to the streets to protest Italy's new budget.
"We are laying siege to the city!" chanted the crowd, as a small minority pelted the police and government buildings with water bottles and eggs.
A group of protesters turned over garbage bins and set some of them on fire in front of the Economy Ministry.
Police say they confiscated tear gas canisters and rocks from some of the radicals in the predominantly youthful crowd and found chains stashed away along the route of the march.
Organizers estimated that 70,000 people took part in the protest, while authorities placed the number closer to 50,000.
"With this budget the government is continuing to hurt a country which is already on its knees," said Piero Bernocchi, leader of the left-wing COBAS trade union that was behind the demonstration.
"Even after austerity has proven to be disastrous, with debt rising, the economy crumbling, and unemployment soaring, they still continue with these policies."


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Josh Barnett takes to the cage again
Ronin. The Japanese term came to define a samurai with no lord or master. The word literally means "wave man" or a wanderer; someone who is adrift, socially speaking. For the past 16 years, perennial top 10 heavyweight Josh Barnett has been a fighter for hire with no specific ties to any one organization or even a particular region of the world. With no anchor in place and Strikeforce setting sail to the great beyond, MMA's global fanbase is huddled together eager to see where "The Warmaster" will battle next . . . Click here for more by Jordan Newmark, UFC.com
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Rep. Hearn has opponent; signatures must be in by July 11
EAST PROVIDENCE — Now that the filing deadline for candidates in the 2014 election cycle has passed, the next date of note on the political calendar is Friday, July 11, when those running must submit the mandatory amount of signatures from residents of their respective voting blocks to be eligible to have their names placed on the ballot.
For local East Providence School Committee, City Council and all State Rep. candidates from wards and districts, they must have 50 signatures. For Committee and Council At-Large seats they must get 200 signatures or 50 each from the four wards in the city. And for State Senate candidates, they must get 100 signatures.
After that, candidates for local offices have until July 14 to remain on the ballot. The date is July 18 for state and federal offices.
Primary Day is Tuesday, Sept. 9. The General Election takes place Tuesday, Nov. 4.
Hearn has opponent
From The Post's sister paper The Barrington Times came late word sitting State Rep. Joy Hearn (D-Dist. 66, Barrington, East Providence) will indeed have an opponent in the November General Election.
Joel Hellmann, a longtime Barrington resident and current member of the Bristol County Water Authority, filed papers to run for the seat as an Independent. Previously, the Secretary of State's election website had not been updated to include Mr. Hellman's information.
As noted previously here at eastbayri.com, 22-year veteran State Senator David Bates (R-Dist. 32, Barrington, Bristol, East Providence) announced recently that he will not run for re-election. The veteran legislator said he plans to spend more time traveling with his wife once he steps down from his position in the general assembly.
Republican Gio Cicione and Democrat Cindy Coyne will battle for Sen. Bates' vacant seat. Mr. Cicione, the former head of the state's Republican party, is an attorney in town and owns Brickyard Wine and Spirits. Ms. Coyne, who retired from the Rhode Island State Police with the rank of lieutenant after 20 years of service, is a member of the Barrington Town Council. She is currently an administrative supervisor within the Department of Campus Safety and Security at Johnson & Wales University.
Ward 1 correction
In the open East Providence Ward 1 race, left vacant when incumbent and Council president Jim Briden opted out of the race, former state rep Ed Lynch declared as did Robert Britto and newcomer Robert Silva.
Both Mr. Lynch and Mr. Britto were unsuccessful candidates in 2012. Mr. Lynch lost to Mr. Briden in the Ward 1 Council race while Mr. Britto was runner-up to Katherine Kazarian in the Democratic Primary race for the then reconfigured District 63 House seat.
A correction, in a previous story about the potential Ward 1 race, Mr. Lynch was incorrectly called a former City Councilman, but he has not previously served on the council.


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Chris Jewett stood before the Manhattan Beach school board surrounded by a standing-room-only crowd and asked for his job back.
Jewett was fired from his position as the Mira Costa High School boys lacrosse head coach in December after a small group of parents filed complaints against him, alleging he made disparaging comments to players, created a "pay-to-play scheme" and gave preferential treatment.
At the board meeting last week, Mira Costa teacher and coach Andy Caine also spoke on behalf of varsity baseball head coach Cassidy Olson, who was penalized in December after 37 parents filed anonymous complaints against his coaching, alleging abuse and bullying. The parents demanded he be terminated from the post he's held since 2010.
Since then, parents and students have rallied behind the two coaches, with many outraged at how the situations were handled by the district.
"The message you send to my kids and this community is that someone like me can work really hard and do a lot of good for the community ... but if a group of people with a lot of money doesn't like you or has a personal vendetta against you, they can get an attorney, threaten the school district and get you fired," Jewett said.
Jewett, who would have entered his third season as head coach, told the board he had the support of 98 percent of the lacrosse parents and players, and the investigation into his behavior showed only that he used "the occasional bad language." He apologized for that.
"This group of parents came after me in the fall and you turned them away," he said. "They came back in December, and they threatened to sue me, and you fired me."
Jewett said he and his attorney are considering all of his options.
The school district hired Andrew Casimir, a first-team All-American defenseman at Dowling College in 2011, as the new lacrosse coach late last month.
School board members said they would not take action on his request for reinstatement.
"The board has not directed me to reconsider the nonrehire of Chris Jewett," Superintendent Mike Matthews said. "We are moving forward with the season."
Baseball coach Olson said last month he worried for the future of athletics in town.
"I would hate to see Manhattan Beach become a community where the players whose parents have lawyers automatically play. It's not fair to the hard-working kids who deserve to play and make the team."
Interim athletic director and longtime coach Don Morrow had interviewed all of the baseball team members late last year, after the complaints were filed, to investigate allegations that Olson had created an environment of fear, bullying and danger, since he often tore up doctor's notes and made the boys play anyway.
Last month, Morrow said no evidence was uncovered during his investigation to back up the parents' claims, and he recommended the district reinstate Olson as head coach immediately.
Instead, the district limited Olson's time at practices and will keep him from 12 of the team's 30 games this season.
The parents who lodged complaints against Olson through attorney Joe Di Monda say justice has not been served.
Brian Clebowicz, the father of a sophomore JV player, told the board he and the other 36 parents who cited more than 40 specific allegations feel their children have been jeopardized by the "capricious, irresponsible and threatening behavior" of Olson. Even after his suspension for half the season, Olson called a meeting of parents and players in January, in which he "railed against" parents who lodged complaints, Clebowicz said.
"This is an administrative problem with a misbehaving, insubordinate employee in a stipended position," he said. "He's in direct defiance of his suspension. This is cause for dismissal in accordance with the Education Code."
Caine, the JV baseball coach, said he was "deeply saddened" he had to attend the board meeting to address such complaints.
"The reason for Olson's firing changes with the wind," he said. "The bottom line is there is no evidence of any cause for his dismissal.
Olson and Di Monda have both asked to see a copy of the investigation report into Olson's behavior, but the school district has not released it. Jewett received the report detailing the investigation into his coaching last month.
Matthews said he will bring a revised policy on coaching to the March 6 board meeting. It would prohibit coaches from being paid to coach at MBUSD while also being paid to coach the same students in a club or private environment, he said. It would go into effect July 1.
"It would eliminate perceived or real conflict-of-interest problems that exist when a coach is both a high school coach and a club coach," he said. "MBUSD would be one of the first districts to do this, and I believe it will be a very positive step."
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For true chocoholics, convenience-store candy is a sad substitute for the real deal. Forcing chocolate aficionados to subsist on Snickers and Hershey bars is like asking a beer snob to stick with PBR. Luckily, the Miami Fine Chocolate & Food Show is about to bring the best and brightest in haute chocolate and cuisine to the 305. Sweet-toothed attendees will get to sample handmade, small-batch goodies, from organic truffles and bars to macarons and ganache. There'll be everything from artsy edibles by Mendocino's Flying Noir California to handmade treats from local Venezuelan chocolatier Cacao Art Chocolates. Plus, Food Network Challenge winner Paul Joachim will sculpt life-size chocolate doubles of Miami's pro athletes. Bite of Bosh, anyone? There'll be savory food too. South Florida chefs such as Norman Van Aken, Allen Susser, and Adrianne Calvo will showcase their skills with demos and seminars. Plus, what's chocolate and food without their partner, alcohol? Guests will get schooled in how to pair beer, wine, spirits, and even coffees and teas with artisanal foods, chocolates, and cheeses. So put on your stretchy pants. It's time to get chocolate-wasted.
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The improvement in emerging unemployment "has been substantial," Pantheon Macroeconomics chief economist Ian Shepherdson told The Wall Street Journal following the release of the Department of Labor's weekly jobless claims report on Thursday. Initial applications for jobless benefits decreased for a second consecutive week, giving analysts another piece of evidence of labor market improvement.
The number of Americans filing first-time jobless claims decreased by 3,000 to a seasonally adjusted 302,000 in the week ended July 12. That drop put jobless claims well below the 310,000 new claims expected by analysts and close to an annual low. Last week's jobless figures represent the second lowest number filed in 2014.
Jobless claims, which serve as a proxy for layoffs, are once again trending near a seven-year low. Before the Great Recession, weekly applications for unemployment benefits averaged approximately 320,000 due to the normal churn of the labor market, and for a majority of 2014, claims have fallen near that level. Declining jobless claims highlight the fact that emerging unemployment is returning to acceptable levels.
In other words, fewer Americans are being laid off, even if the nation's long-term unemployment level remains elevated and employers still do not have the confidence to significantly boost hiring. But while jobless claims have never stabilized below the key benchmark level of 300,000, the generally downward course charted by application numbers is evidence of ongoing healing in the labor market.
What is also encouraging about last week's jobless claim numbers in particular is that emerging unemployment traditionally grows at this time of year as auto manufacturing slows. Generally, American automakers halt production at several factories in the first half of July in preparation for new model year changeovers.


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Cochran's Holds Fundraisers, Without Snow
03/22/12 7:34AM By Amy Kolb Noyes
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(Host) It's been a tough winter for snow sports - the type of season that can be devastating for a small family run business like Cochran's Ski Area in Richmond.
But Cochran skiers have come up with a way to support their favorite ski hill.
VPR's Amy Noyes has more:
(Noyes) Despite temperatures in the mid-80s, skiers and riders headed for the one patch of snow left at Cochran's Ski Area.
They came to participate in a rope-a-thon. The idea was to collectively ski and ride 5 million vertical feet using the ski area's rope tow, and raise $20,000.
Cochran's had such a tough season, the money will help pay the bills.
Unfortunately, there wasn't even enough snow left to operate the tow. But that didn't stop families of skiers from hiking up the hill and taking a few runs in their shorts and tee-shirts.
Tyler Wilkinson-Ray is a ski coach at Cochran's and one of the event organizers:
(Wilkinson-Ray) "Unfortunately, this past week of very warm weather means we don't even have enough snow to run the rope tow. So instead we're out here and we're hiking. We have a little course set and we're grilling and listening to some music. So we're still fundraising money and having a blast."
(Noyes) Olympic Gold Medalist Barbara Ann Cochran and her siblings run the ski area that their parents started. She says the area is actually a nonprofit corporation.
(Cochran) "We are a nonprofit. We were the first nonprofit ski area in the country, I believe. Mom said that they were always nonprofit, they just never had the stamp of approval for being a nonprofit. Our goal is really to provide affordable skiing and boarding for families of any size. And that's what the mission was when my parents really started this. It's been what we've been trying to do for the last, over 50 years now."
(Noyes) If the snow holds out until Sunday, Cochran's will hold its last event of the season: the annual "Thank God for Snowmaking Slalom."
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Bruce FalconerMay 27, 2008 1:55 PM
Senator Carl Levin (D-Mich.), chairman of the Senate's Committee on Armed Services, spoke with reporters this morning by phone from the Persian Gulf emirate of Qatar, where he was preparing to board a plane for Israel, the final stop on a fact-finding trip that had already taken him to Afghanistan and Pakistan. Discussion of the latter took up most of the conference call, with Levin urging that NATO forces based in Afghanistan amend their rules of engagement to allow troops to engage enemy fighters on the Pakistani side of the border.
"It's not right for our troops to be shot at and not respond," Levin said. "We have every right." In fact, U.S. forces already return fire across the border when attacked, but NATO partners—Germany to the north; Canada and the UK to the south—do not. Levin said that a tougher response from troops based along the border would help prevent Taliban and Al Qaeda from slipping back and forth so easily, a continuing frustration for the U.S. military.
The other side of that coin is the Pakistani government's apparent lack of effort to stop the cross-border flow of insurgents and weapons. Levin told reporters that U.S. intelligence agencies have evidence that Pakistani army troops not only give Taliban and Al Qaeda insurgents free passage, they also, in certain cases, have actively aided their military operations—a fact that brings into question continued military aid for the Pakistani regime. The Frontier Corps, in particular, a tribal militia that has become the recipient of millions of dollars in U.S. support, is of suspect loyalty, said Levin. (Read my earlier piece on the Frontier Corps here.) Whether funding for the Corps or other parts of Pakistan's military will continue depends on whether those forces are being used for their intended purpose, namely to crush Taliban fighters and establish some modicum of government control over the Federally Administered Tribal Areas. "We don't want to strengthen the Pakistan side if they're going to misuse the support," Levin said.
Jonathan SteinMay 27, 2008 1:28 PM
Nat the Dem has a good catch from Bill Clinton's autobiography, My Life:
On April 7, we also won in Kansas, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. On April 9, Paul Tsongas announced that he would not reenter the race. The fight for the nomination was effectively over.
Okay? Can we stop with this now?
Jonathan SteinMay 27, 2008 12:37 PM
I second the thinking of Josh Patashnik over at TNR: the Democratic nominee shouldn't just pick a VP that helps win in 2008. He or she should pick a VP that can win in 2016, and that the Democratic Party sees as a future standard-bearer. As Patashnik notes, "One of the most important things a party does is cultivate talent for the future... There is no shortage of promising prospects who could achieve much if given that level of stature (the vice presidency)--why pass up the opportunity to put one of your rising stars in that position?"
I think that consideration effectively eliminates Sam Nunn, the oft-lionized foreign policy guru of the left who was born in 1938 and will be 78 in 2016. It probably also eliminates Joe Biden, who will be 74 in 2016, and Governor Ted Strickland of Ohio, who will be 75.
Jonathan SteinMay 27, 2008 11:09 AM
Is any fact-checker in the Mother Jones San Francisco office able to lend Bill Clinton a hand? On the campaign trail recently, he echoed the Clinton campaign's argument that the pressure Hillary Clinton is facing to quit the Democratic race is "unprecedented" and that primary races routinely last into June. It's particularly odd because Bill was part of a race where also-ran candidates were pressured to get out and the frontrunner, Big Dawg himself, had the nomination wrapped up in March.
Here's the NYT fact-check that disproves all this. Look, I love Bill as much as the next guy, and I'm weary of the Clinton pile-ons (the RFK assassination stuff was nonsense and we didn't touch it here on MoJoBlog), but Bill is either deliberately misleading Hillary's supporters or he's completely resorted his memory and convinced himself of something that isn't true. And this is far from the first time he's done this. Remember when he defended Hillary's sniper fire comments? He made so many errors that ABC had to footnote them. He claimed after South Carolina that the Obama campaign had played the race card on him, then denied that he had ever said that.
While Hillary Clinton gets something wrong, the press usually debunks it immediately. But Bill Clinton largely gets a pass. Something's going on here. Possible explanations are below. Give us yours in the comments.
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Jonathan SteinMay 27, 2008 10:45 AM
Last week I wrote that President Bush's presence on the campaign trail would only be of use to John McCain if GWB stayed out of the spotlight and worked behind the scenes to raise money, primarily from the members of the Republican base who aren't huge McCain fans.
That's basically what's happening. The McCain campaign moved an event with the President scheduled for later today from it's original location, reportedly the Phoenix Convention Center, to McCain's private home. The event went from being open press to being closed press. The cause for the changes? Lackluster ticket sales, a fear of anti-war protesters, and presumably a desire to keep the pair away from the cameras. Writes the Wall Street Journal:
President Bush and John McCain will appear together at a fund-raiser in Phoenix Tuesday, the first time in nearly three months that the Republican presidential candidate will be seen beside the man he hopes to succeed.
With Mr. Bush's popularity at a record low, the McCain campaign has made sure that television footage of the two men together will be minimal. The maneuvering is the latest example of Sen. McCain's aggressive effort to separate himself from the White House, even as he embraces many of the policies that Mr. Bush has promoted throughout his presidency...
Politico adds: "In its daily e-mail update to reporters this morning, McCain's campaign made no mention that the leader of the free world would be appearing with the candidate tonight."
David CornMay 26, 2008 11:42 AM
On Sunday, Karl Rove gave students of spin a prime example of a non-denial denial. He was a guest on ABC News' This Week and after discussing the presidential campaign, he was asked by host George Stephanopoulos about the Don Siegelman controversy. Siegelman is the former Democratic Alabama governor who was convicted and imprisoned for corruption and who charges that the Justice Department prosecution against him was part of a secret campaign mounted by Rove and other Republicans. Last week, the House judiciary committee subpoenaed Rove in connection with the Siegelman case and the firings of U.S. attorneys.
One has to wonder if Siegelman has been trying to save himself by pinning his case to the U.S. attorneys scandal, but the way Rove answered (that is, did not answer) a question from Stephanopoulos about the Siegelman affair was quite suspicious. Look at the entire exchange:
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: As we know and our viewers probably know you were subpoenaed this week by the House Judiciary Committee to give testimony on any involvement you may have had with the prosecution of the former Alabama governor, Don Siegelman. He's claiming there was selective prosecution. He's out on bail now even though he was convicted. He said your fingerprints are all over it. Here's what the House report said.
It said, "In May 2007 a Republican attorney from Northern Alabama named Jill Simpson wrote an affidavit stating that in November 2002 she heard a prominent Alabama Republican operative named Bill Canary say that Karl Rove had contacted the Justice Department about bringing a prosecution of Don Siegelman. The question for Mr. Rove is whether he directly or indirectly discussed the possibility of prosecuting Don Siegelman with either the Justice Department or Alabama Republicans."
Did you?
KARL ROVE: Let me say three things, first of all, I think it's interesting -- everybody who was supposedly on that telephone call that Miss Simpson talks about says the call never took place. I'd say...
Laura McClureMay 24, 2008 12:27 PM
I don't know how Weezer managed to get every single living 'Tube meme star under one video roof, so to speak, but they did. Even if you don't like Weezer, you've got to check this thing out—the video for "Pork and Beans" is practically an instructional aid.
Here are 10 memes I caught as they whizzed by:
1) Daft Hands
2) Daft Bodies
3) Tay Zonday
4) The Numa Numa kid
5) Miss South Carolina
6) K-Fed, (who pretty much is his own meme these days)
7) Chris Crocker
8) The Dramatic Chipmunk
9) The Diet Coke and Mentos experiments
10) "All Your Base Are Belong to Us."
I'm sure there are like 30 I'm missing. Anyone want to fill in the gaps?
Julia WhittyMay 23, 2008 10:11 PM
You might remember the perplexing study out of Texas A&M that found the more Americans know about global warming the more apathetic and less individually responsible they feel. Stranger even than normal middle-America strange. Well Jon Krosnick of Stanford University suspected the story might be more complicated than that and re-analyzed the polling data. He and colleague Ariel Malka found some intriguing differences, as reported in New Scientist. Concern about global warming was greater among people who said they knew more about the subject, and was most marked among those who identified themselves as Democrats, as well as among those who said they trusted scientists to provide reliable information on environmental issues. Republicans, as well as those who had little trust in scientists—yet still claimed to be knowledgeable—did not have any great concern:
This may reflect the different ways people get information about global warming. If your sources are the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Al Gore, Krosnick suggests, the relationship between knowledge and concern is likely to be different than if your main sources are skeptical advocacy groups such as the Heartland Institute, and the conservative radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh.
In other words, all knowledge is not equal, particularly the ignorance-based kind.
Julia Whitty is Mother Jones' environmental correspondent, lecturer, and 2008 winner of the Kiriyama Prize and the John Burroughs Medal Award.
Julia WhittyMay 23, 2008 8:42 PM
The Pacific Ocean from Canada to Mexico within 20 miles of shore is showing sharp changes in pH levels for the first time. Scientists have feared this possibility as yet another side effect of our growing carbon dioxide emissions. Excessive CO2 in the air is absorbed by the ocean, forming carbonic acid that corrodes the shells of many marine creatures, including those that form the backbone of marine foodwebs. Worse, the acidified water upwelled from the deeper ocean is likely 50 years old. This suggests that acidification will increase in a delayed response to atmospheric CO2, which has grown from 310 parts per million 50 years ago to 380 parts per million today—the highest on Earth in more than a million years. "The coastal ocean acidification train has left the station," says Burke Hales of Oregon State University and an author of the Science study, "and there's not much we can do to derail it."
There is also a strong correlation between acidification and the dead zones forming off the Oregon and California coasts in recent summers. The dead zones are caused by upwelling waters that fuel an over-abundance of the tiny marine plants known as phytoplankton. Normally, the upwelling winds subside for a day or two every couple of weeks in a 'relaxation event' that allows the buildup of decomposing organic matter to be washed out to the deep ocean. But in recent years, especially in 2002 and 2006, there were few if any relaxation breaks and the phytoplankton blooms were enormous. "When the material produced by these blooms decomposes," Hales says, "it puts more CO2 into the system and increases the acidification."
It's too early to predict the biological ramifications. Shell-building plants and animals may be adapting, or they may already be suffering consequences that scientists have not yet determined. "We may have to assume that CO2 levels will gradually increase through the next half century as the water that originally was exposed to increasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide is cycled through the system. Whether those elevated levels of carbon dioxide tip the scale for aragonites [shell-builders] remains to be seen," says Hale.
Party BenMay 23, 2008 7:54 PM
Sure, everybody loves a guitar show-off, melting picks and blistering fingers as they break barriers of time and space to send billion-note hyperspeed solos out into the cosmos like a rock Big Bang. But for those of us who came of musical age under the fuzzy blanket of shoegaze, the anti-rockist banners of punk, or the tripped-out tie-dye of psychedelia, Yngwie Malmsteen-style pyrotechnics not only seem excessive, they also kind of hurt our ears. So, let's take time to celebrate guitarists at the other end of the spectrum, musicians who have found that a single note, played at just the right moment, can stand up to the most complicated finger gymnastics. Now, sure, you may ask, "if it's just one note, how can you tell if it's a solo and not just, well, a note?" There were two basic criteria: one, the position of the solo at a climactic moment in the song, generally just after the second chorus (disqualifying "You Keep Me Hangin' On"); and two, when the solo is finished, you feel like standing up and cheering, or at least you would if you weren't so cool.
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Medeama land in Ghana after CAF Confed Cup success in Morocco
Medeama arrived in Ghana on Monday morning after qualifying to the next stage of the CAF Confederation Cup campaign.
The Ghanaian side lost 2-1 at Moroccan side Maghreb de Fes on Saturday but advanced on a 4-2 aggregate win.
The Mauve and Yellows are on their way to their base in Tarkwa to prepare for Wednesday's outstanding First Capital Plus Premier League match against Hearts of Oak.
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Dancer's Bajan threw in a rare clunker in his last start May 10 on the Toronto oval, finishing sixth, more than four lengths behind Main Executive in the New Providence Stakes. But jockey Corey Fraser thinks Dancer's Bajan will be back on his game in his second start of the year.
"He's just an honest, hard-trying horse who gives you his all every single race," said Fraser. "He's a very cool horse to be around."
In addition to his love of Woodbine's Polytrack, Dancer's Bajan has proven very effective at seven furlongs with a record of three wins, one second and one third. He has earned more than $500,000 in a career that includes 13 top three finishes in 16 starts.
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Mickey Arthur is not a man to sugercoat a bitter pill.
It is a pragmatism that underpinned South Africa's surge to the apex of world cricket on his watch.
So when the now-Australia coach opens a vein, admitting their intricate Ashes planning has been destabilised by dual ructions he never saw coming, it is fair to ask if alarm bells are ringing internally.
If he were a poker player, Arthur would be devoid of chips. Not for him smoke-and-mirrors shenanigans.
Mickey rarely bluffs. He lays his cards on the table: right now, 16 weeks out from the Ashes, Australia are not where Arthur had hoped they would be.
That's not to say the coach is resigned to Australia being Ashes roadkill come July. But on this preparatory tour of India, a trip now fast sinking like the Titanic, Australia's brainstrust are re-writing their battle plan for England on the run.
Sound scary? It is. In his mind, Arthur had key pawns in the right places. The batting, it seemed, was sorted.
The sage head of Ricky Ponting was, privately, locked in for England. So, too, Mike Hussey. Now, suddenly, incredulously, they are gone, haemorraghing 247 Tests, 19,613 Test runs and 60 centuries.
How do you replace the irreplaceable? Overnight? That is what Arthur and his on-field general Michael Clarke are confronting - and the reality bites.
"I was pretty scared when I looked at the schedule because we'd been building a top six and a team," says Arthur, reflecting on this tour of India and the repercussions of Ponting and Hussey's twin retirements during the summer.
"It (results on this Indian tour) is probably not that fair a barometer. We were nearly the finished article, then we lose (almost) 300 Test caps.
"In my thinking, Ponting and Hussey were coming to the Ashes. We had them pencilled in to go to the Ashes, so we had some stability in the top six.
"We thought we had experience, some good young players and it was the perfect blend. We then lose both those players."
And, with it, the aces up Arthur's sleeve. Forced to play a new hand in India, he has watched helplessly from the dressing room Australia's incessant and insidious capitulations.
The batting line-up, Clarke aside, has neither consistency nor solidity. The top four of Ed Cowan, Dave Warner, Phil Hughes and Shane Watson have posted one half-century from 16 innings in the first two Tests.
That will not win the Ashes. Hughes is likely to be axed for the third Test. If Australia had more depth, Watson would need a bulletproof vest.
These are the permutations, and perils, Arthur feared about India. In a cricketing sense, it is a place, manic, relentless and confronting, that can suffocate spirits and scorch the soul.
The coach not only needs a stable batting order. He now needs to safeguard this group from being mentally tortured before the Ashes.
"On every tour to India I've been on, there's been casualties," he says. "We don't want those casualties going into the Ashes because we've got to back what we think are our best players.
"We've got to keep the team as stable as we possibly can. We can't go into the Ashes thinking what's our best top six?
"We can't be using the first couple of games as a trial. We need to be clear in our mind as to who those players are.
"I was clear in my mind ... but I'll talk to you again after the next two Tests."
Australia now have just two more Tests, and 124 days, to find their royal flush.
For Clarke, the concern with his side's profligate batting is not the mere collapses, but that the failure could be symptomatic of a deeper, more toxic cause.
Watching Clarke around the team hotel on this tour has provided some compelling insights. Buoyant by nature, he has smiled less. He is hurting.
"I hate losing ... hate it," he mused in an elevator on Friday.
Some days, he bears the look of an isolated leader carrying boulders. Others need to do some heavy lifting.
"The only way you get better is by working, continual hard work, dedication, the want to get better," Clarke says.
"It's OK to go to training and say, 'I practised today', but if you don't go there with a plan, with a goal of trying to improve, it's a waste of time.
"It's not necessarily about quantity, it's about quality. In the first two Test matches, we've let each other down - that's the most disappointing thing for me.
"It can't be about one person. I've never played cricket that way and I don't want this team to go to that."
You could forgive Arthur if he picked up the phone and told Hussey: "We need you for the Ashes." But the coach won't pick a fight he can't win.
Without Hussey, and Ponting, an Ashes win in England will be akin to scaling Everest. Right now, Australia appear trapped in the death zone.
The Arthur-Clarke legacy, and the application of the sweeping Argus Report, will almost certainly be crystallised by the 10 back-to-back Ashes Tests this year that could make or break Australian cricket.
"That was Huss's decision (to quit)," Arthur said.
Has he tried to lure Mr Cricket back for an Ashes swansong?
"We couldn't try and persuade him either way," he concedes. "It was right for him. Everything he has said subsequently has made me think that the time was right for him.
"It was disappointing because it was almost back to square one again in terms of experience. But we can't change that.
"That's his decision. It was disappointing to lose him, though, ahead of what is such a big year. A year, I guess, that will define Michael's and my leadership."


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Always been a Larry fan. Extremely classy with the way he treats the Cardinals fans as well.
Football has been very, very good to us.
After losing seasons 2013-15, the giants put up 11 wins in 16.. they are on way Back
But for now we can console ourselves with this fact-
# of Super Bowl victories since 1985:
1-Chicago, St. Louis, Tampa Bay, Indianapolis, New Orleans, Seattle
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My husband, Michael, is the cook in our house and discovered this simple treatment for green beans. I hope you like its pleasant flavor as much as we do. —Kathy Jackson of Arlington, Virginia
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- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 teaspoon sesame oil
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
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- 1/4 teaspoon minced fresh thyme or dash dried thyme
- 1 pound fresh green beans
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- In a large bowl, combine the first five ingredients. Add beans; toss to coat.
- Transfer to a 15-in. x 10-in. x 1-in. baking pan coated with cooking spray. Bake, uncovered, at 400° for 16-20 minutes or until beans are crisp-tender, stirring occasionally. Sprinkle with ginger. Yield: 4 servings.
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The BBC's iPlayer getting an official full-scale launch may not sound as immediately exciting as that of, say, BBC HD, but in many ways it is actually the more interesting of the two to a fair chunk of our beloved population. Anyhow, whether you care or not, 25th December is the day upon which the iPlayer officially leaves Beta, and also marks the start of the consumer marketing.
If I was feeling cynical I could imply that this will basically amount to a few minutes worth of adverts followed by a series of complaints from an increased number of Vista, Mac and Linux users wanting to use the iPlayer and finding themselves unable to do so. All is not lost though as Adobe and the Beeb are partnering up to offer a streaming service which will work on non-Windows XP operating systems with the same 7-day time limit on catch-ups.
On the download front, the time limit on BBC-supplied video files is still 30 days, which is fair enough if you ask me - for one, if you haven't watched the program by then you probably weren't that interested in it anyway and second, it'll be on BBC3 every other hour by then anyway. Supposedly the iPlayer now offers over 25 programmes a week which isn't to be sniffed at. If you don't have a clue what this iPlayer thing I'm talking about is then shame on you and why not check out the link below?


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The NRA Stands Behind Guns, Not Gun Owners
The National Rifle Association (NRA) doesn't speak for gun owners, not even for its members. The NRA speaks for gun makers and gun sellers. And the message is simple: buy more guns.
For many, the name NRA brings images of commandos and vigilantes, of survivalists and trophy hunters. People see the celebrity faces, the bombastic Charlton Heston, the wild-man Ted Nugent. They rarely see the what the NRA really is: the organization of Glock, Remington, and Smith & Wesson.
The NRA comes off as crazy to many of us, because, well, it is crazy. Opposing background checks on all gun sales -- crazy. Opposing gun owners having to notify police when guns are lost or stolen -- crazy. Supporting gun ownership for people on terrorism watch lists -- double crazy.
But crazy can be good strategy as they surely know. Not wanting to see the door cracked open even an inch, the NRA fights any and all restrictions on guns and actively works to loosen those that exist. A good starting position. Even if the NRA loses a skirmish here or there, the Guns "R" Us nation they've helped create is protected.
The NRA can get away with crazy because they are both very well-funded and because they downplay who they really work for, who they really represent. They are fundamentally a business lobby group, but unlike your usual business lobby group they claim to represent the customer. In this way their crazy doesn't taint the companies relying on them to create markets (as if selling guns isn't taint enough).
Nearly a hundred makers and sellers of guns, ammunition and gun accessories contribute to the NRA. Gunmaker Beretta gave the NRA $1 million dollars in 2008 alone. The infamous Blackwater Worldwide (their new weasel name is Xe), has given over half a million. Fifteen of the companies giving the NRA money make assault weapons. Dozens make or sell high capacity ammunition magazines. Could that be why the NRA is so opposed to restricting them?
Once an organization that claimed to not be affiliated with any gun companies, the NRA has received tens of millions of dollars in contributions from them since 2005 alone. Any company giving $25,000 or more gets to be part of their "Ring of Freedom." Giving $5 million or more gets you dinner at headquarters with the NRA CEO. Five million dollars before the CEO will have dinner with you? I guess that shows how much money there is in guns and how lucrative it is lobbying for rich gun makers.
The NRA gets money from its regular members as well, but what the NRA doesn't do is represent their views. Polls show that NRA lobbying has been out of step with its members' beliefs. This year's poll of gun owners by Republican strategist Frank Luntz shows the continuing disconnect.
Nearly 75 per cent of NRA members support background checks for all gun owners, 64 per cent agree owners should have to report lost or stolen guns, 71 per cent are against terrorism watch list members owning guns. Almost all NRA members believe that states should make their own laws for concealed handguns while the NRA has been lobbying for federal legislation that would force concealed handguns on everyone.
And would gun owners support the NRA position that the country's national public health agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), shouldn't work to prevent violence and injuries? The NRA lobbied to have the entire injury prevention section of the CDC shut down but settled for having Congress defund the violence prevention program. Congress also forbid the agency from supporting gun control as a possible path to injury prevention.
The NRA's fingerprints are all over the CDC restrictions, or should I say gun manufacturers' fingerprints. Such is the influence of big corporate money. Gun money has bought politicians, silenced agencies, shifted politics to the right. It has kept dubious second amendment half-truths ringing in everyone's ears, disguising them as full truths through repetition. It has limited the political viability of serious gun control.
Once an organization that supported common-sense gun regulation, the NRA now sells guns at any cost. Once an organization that opposed guns being carried around in public, it now wants to arm as many Americans as possible. Once an organization of reasonable gun use, it is now behind the unreasonable number of guns and gun deaths the United States is famous for.
We need to start seeing the NRA for what it is: a marketing and lobbying machine for the gun industry. When we recognize that the NRA is just trying to make money for gun makers, all their crazy starts to make a little sense. A little.
Kapil Khatter is a family physician who writes about health and corporate accountability, here and at illgotgains.com.
"I wish to God she had had an m-4 in her office, locked up so when she heard gunfire, she pulls it out ... and takes him out and takes his head off before he can kill those precious kids," Gohmert said of slain principal Dawn Hochsprung on Fox News Sunday. He argued that shooters often choose schools because they know people will be unarmed.
"If people were armed, not just a police officer, but other school officials that were trained and chose to have a weapon, certainly there would be an opportunity to stop an individual trying to get into the school," he told WTOP's "Ask the Governor" show Tuesday, warning that Washington may respond to such a policy with a "knee-jerk reaction."
Gov. Haslam says he will consider a Tennessee plan to secretly arm and train some teachers, TPM reports. The legislation will be introduced by State Sen. Frank Niceley (R) next month. "Say some madman comes in. The first person he would probably try to take out was the resource officer. But if he doesn't know which teacher has training, then he wouldn't know which one had [a gun]," Niceley told TPM. "These guys are obviously cowards anyway and if someone starts shooting back, they're going to take cover, maybe go ahead and commit suicide like most of them have."
State Rep. Mark McCullough (R) told the Tulsa World he plans to file legislation that would bring guns into schools, calling their absence "irresponsible." "It is incredibly irresponsible to leave our schools undefended – to allow mad men to kill dozens of innocents when we have a very simple solution available to us to prevent it," he said. "I've been considering this proposal for a long time. In light of the savagery on display in Connecticut, I believe it's an idea whose time has come." Sen. Ralph Shortey (R) told the Tulsa World that teachers should carry concealed weapons at school events. "Allowing teachers and administrators with concealed-carry permits the ability to have weapons at school events would provide both a measure of security for students and a deterrent against attackers," he said.
Baxley, who once sponsored Florida's controversial Stand Your Ground law, told the Sarasota Herald-Tribune that keeping guns out of schools makes them a target for attacks. "We need to be more realistic at looking at this policy," he said. "In our zealousness to protect people from harm we've created all these gun-free zones and what we've inadvertently done is we've made them a target. A helpless target is exactly what a deranged person is looking for where they cannot be stopped."
At a Tea Party event Monday night, Perry praised a Texas school system that allows some staff to carry concealed weapons to work and encouraged local school districts to make their own policies.
Cornish plans to introduce legislation that would allow teachers to arm themselves, according to the AP.
In an email obtained by Gawker and excerpted below, Richardson tells three superintendents that he could have saved lives had he been armed and in Sandy Hook on Friday: If I had been a teacher or the principal at the Sandy Hook Elementary School and if the school district did not preclude me from having access to a firearm, either by concealed carry or locked in my desk, most of the murdered children would still be alive, and the gunman would still be dead, and not by suicide. ... [O]ur children's safety depends on having a number of well-trained school employees on every campus who are prepared to defend our children and save their lives?
"And I'm not so sure -- and I'm sure I'll get mail for this -- I'm not so sure I wouldn't want one person in a school armed, ready for this kind of thing," Bennett, who served as education secretary under Ronald Reagan, told Meet the Press Sunday. "The principal lunged at this guy. The school psychologist lunged at the guy. It has to be someone who's trained, responsible. But, my god, if you can prevent this kind of thing, I think you ought to."
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German war-dead find final resting place in Czech soilBreaking News
The place is the town of Cheb, known in German as Eger, in the Sudetenland region near the Bavarian border. The new war cemetery, the largest and last burial site for German war dead on Czech territory, will be officially opened on September 11, some 65 years after the war.
Hundreds of plain granite crosses mark the graves. The people buried in them include 473 civilians who died either in internment camps or during the expulsion of ethnic Germans after the war.
The term Sudetenland refers to the regions of modern-day Czech republic that had been populated since the middle ages by ethnic Germans. On this pretext, German Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler occupied the Sudetenland in 1938 in the run-up to World War II.
Under the Nazis, hundreds of thousands of Czech Jews were transported to concentration camps, and socialists, communists and other parts of the Czech population were persecuted.
Before interment in Cheb, the remains of thousands of the dead were stored in cardboard boxes in a bunker near the city of Pribram, in the Czech Republic's northern Bohemia region.
Inscriptions on the crosses speak for themselves: Paula Grimm, died 1946 aged 63. Elsa Dietz, died 1946 aged 16.
The reinterment in Cheb of victims like these has opened old wounds in the Czech Republic and is regarded by many as a silent indictment of wrong done to innocents, an issue the Czechs have often chosen to suppress.
Although Germany has thus far been unable to reach formal agreement on war graves with the Czech government, 11 burial grounds like the one in Cheb have been established since 1991.
The National Association for the Care of German War Graves, a humanitarian organization tasked with registering and caring for the graves of German war dead abroad, sees this as a sign of goodwill.
The mediators for the German war cemetery in Cheb, which covers 1.5 hectares, were Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg and his former German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier. It initially sparked controversy but has now been accepted.
"The critics fell silent when the first coffins were interred," remarked Cheb deputy mayor Michal Pospisil, who said he viewed the burial site as both a memorial and a sign of reconciliation. "Actions like this jettison ballast from World War II."
The project has also benefited the adjoining municipal cemetery. The German war graves association provided 900,000 euros (1.14 million dollars) for renovations that included restoring tombstones of the town's ethnic German residents.
Only about half of the war dead buried in Cheb are known by name. One is Svatopluk Innemann, a pioneering Czech silent film director accused of having collaborated with the Germans. He was reinterred in Cheb in November 2008.
Another is legal historian Otto Peterka, onetime rector of Prague's Karl-Ferdinand University, the city's German university.
Wehrmacht soldiers can generally be identified by their military identification tags.
For relatives, the cemetery brings closure after decades of emotional distress.
"It's very comforting to know where my father has his last resting place," said Siegfried Wiedemann, a 68-year-old Bavarian with no memory of Urban Wiedemann, who had been listed as missing in action since the last days of the war.
Finally, in 2007, the son learned that his father had not been taken prisoner by the Soviets as assumed, but had died on April 8, 1945, in a military hospital near Prague. Now he lies in Cheb, just a few hundred kilometres away.
"I'd like to visit him there every year for as long as I can," the son said.
Both the German war graves association and Cheb officials want the war cemetery to be more than merely a memorial site for the 1,100 known relatives of the deceased. They also envision it as a meeting place for German and Czech youth groups.
The association's president, Reinhard Fuehrer, sees signs of further German-Czech rapprochement on the political horizon.
"We expect the new government in Prague to accommodate us because we need legal guidelines to recover Germans killed during the expulsion," he said.
The remains of at least 1,500 ethnic Germans killed during postwar expulsions on Czech territory have yet to be found. For them, Fuehrer said, there is space in the war cemetery in Cheb.
Skeletons exhumed near the Czech village of Dobronin recently could be those of 15 murdered ethnic Germans. Several men are said to have forced them to dig their own graves in May 1945 before either shooting or beating them to death. Czech police hope to determine the identities of the dead with the help of DNA analysis.
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#3440 closed Task (wontfix)
Create quirks mode sample
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As long as quirks mode is supported a sample should be added, at least in the development builds, so it's possible to easily check features/bugs without the need to change the code of the samples themselves.
This means also that checking for regressions in the CKEditor equivalent of http://rev.fckeditor.net/ can be done easily just testing the appropriate sample online.
Also other kind of features that are supported should have a test file for the same reason, as it's easier to say "check sample xxx and do that" instead of "modify sample xxx in this way and do that" (multiple editors, RTL, relative/absolute position...)
Change History (3)
comment:1 Changed 8 years ago by arczi
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comment:2 Changed 7 years ago by fredck
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comment:3 Changed 3 years ago by Reinmar
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It's not something we need any more. QM is pretty much gone and we have bug reports related to it very rarely. But first of all - it would be a bad PR.


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Brazil Utilities Gain as Barclays Sees Election Boost
Brazilian utilities rallied in Sao Paulo trading, with the benchmark measure capping the biggest two-day gain in almost five months, after this week's elections eased the outlook for political risk.
"The results from the state government elections were overall positive for utilities," Barclays Plc analysts led by Felipe Mattar wrote in a note to clients today. Brazilians voted Oct. 3 for governors, lawmakers and the president.
Barclays raised Cia. Energetica de Minas Gerais, known as Cemig, and Cia. de Saneamento de Minas Gerais, or Copasa, to "overweight" from "equal weight," saying Minas Gerais state's re-elected Governor Antonio Anastasia will maintain a "market-friendly" stance. Elections in Sao Paulo and Parana states were "positive" for Cia. Energetica de Sao Paulo, or Cesp, Cia. de Saneamento Basico do Estado de Sao Paulo, Sabesp, and Cia. Paranaense de Energia, Copel, the analysts said.
The MSCI Brazil/Utilities Index gained 2.9 percent at 4 p.m. New York time, for a two-day advance of 4.8 percent, the biggest since May 11. Gains were led by state-controlled power company Cesp, which jumped 4.1 percent to 27.69 reais, while Copel, the largest electricity distributor in Brazil's southern region, advanced 3.6 percent to 40.15 reais.
Brazilians will vote again Oct. 31 to resolve runoff races, including the presidency.
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Starting mid-February, a traffic lane shift will occur on the Dallas North Tollway under Interstate 635 to allow for the construction of new center columns for a future I-635 bridge. This lane shift along the Dallas North Tollway will be in place for an estimated two to three months.
This work is part of the Texas Department of Transportation's LBJ Express project in north Dallas.
LBJ Express crews will re-construct the I-635 bridge over the Dallas North Tollway and portions of the connecting ramps within the interchange. Closures of the Dallas North Tollway will be needed occasionally to accommodate work. Most of the closures will be scheduled at night and on weekends during off-peak hours whenever possible. You can find real-time road conditions, scheduled lane closures and other traffic advisories at www.lbjexpress.com and www.NTTA.org.
The LBJ Express project is being developed and constructed by the LBJ Infrastructure Group UC, a private developer, under a comprehensive development agreement with the Texas Department of Transportation. According to www.lbjexpress.com, the project will double the capacity of I-635 between U.S. 75 and I-35E. Seventeen miles in length, the roadway will contain rebuilt freeway lanes and new express managed toll lanes.
Managed lanes are part of the North Texas Region's Metropolitan Transportation Plan and are facilities that add lane capacity to existing freeways by combining high occupancy vehicle (HOV) and new express lanes to improve freeway efficiency. At present, the NTTA does not have any managed lane projects.
A segment of the new LBJ project will cross over the Dallas North Tollway within the next couple of years. The NTTA is working early with the LBJ Express project team to minimize future interruptions to travel on the Dallas North Tollway. Currently, there is no firm timeline for the New LBJ project construction over the Tollway.
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All in all, it seems to us that Sprint and Microsoft are looking forward to some future projects, probably beginning with the upcoming HTC 7 Pro, expected early next year. It's all for the future, but the third-largest US carrier is putting a lot of faith in the new Windows Phone 7 OS so that if your carrier is Sprint and you are very keen on the new Windows Phone 7 devices, then this may be a match made in heaven.
What is your opinion on that? Anyone jealous that your carrier doesn't have the same close relations with Microsoft's new OS? Excited, Sprint supporters?
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Go Straight To The Tailors?
Greatly worrying about the tear in your pocket, you take a quick trip to the tailors. Although the walk is quite a way: over a couple of the stone bridges to avoid trailing through the winding river, along a combination of dirt tracks and also the smart cobblestones, and finally into the district of your town where the shops are situated.
The twin seamstresses who run the tidy shop greet you with words of friendship and ask how you are. Once the pleasantries are over, you pass them your coat and explain the situation, adding:
"I hope it won't cost much. Friends' discount and all that?"
One of the seamstresses, Mable, tilts back her head of sharp perm curls, whilst her snuffly cackle echoes around the store.
"Oh, we're sorry, but of course we can't give discounts. We have friends all over the town and as soon as we give you a discount, the rest of them will be wanting one. On the other hand, if you're looking for discounts, sign up for the Cooke's membership account."
You boggle at Mable's cheek.
"But then one has to buy a least a thousand items before gaining significant discount, and that shop doesn't hold nearly enough for a thousand things."
"Oh, I don't know." Mable's eyes twinkle.
"What?" You ask, but she will say no more.
Then you spot the boy in the corner, leaning over to examine a fine piece of grey fabric
"Drew!" You exclaim, startling him.
"Oh, it's you," he replied, putting a hand to his heart slightly, "I thought maybe Mr. Bathers had come to ask me why I wasn't manning the coffee shop. To be honest we've haven't had that many customers recently, only on those when that local singer comes round."
You can instantly tell that Drew is a rather naïve youth; he has a slightly pockmarked face, and a crooked grin, whilst greasy cold brown hair that hangs over one eye. His pointed nose gives him the impression of a pigeon!
"What are you doing here? I thought we were meeting up."
"Yeah, by the river, but that wasn't till a bit later. I was going to buy you a dress; you deserve it after all the sets of two pounds you've spent on my coffee and the many donations that you've made to the museum. That fossil exhibition has never looked grander."
You blush, "Well, thank you. I'd forgotten where you told me to meet…"
"And you came to find me?" Laughed Drew.
"Actually, my coat needed mending. You were just extra bit on the side!"
He laughs, but you hear a tense strain in his voice.
"So, shall we go now?"
"Sure…" But you hesitate under the pretence of checking your coat with Mable.
You are wary of where to take Drew; you don't want to him encourage him too much, especially as you are not serious about a relationship with him.


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Tuesday, March 12, 2013 at 7:11AM
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- Your Code May Be Elegant - But mine f***ing works. Amen to that.
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Estelar Santamar Hotel & Centro de Convenciones
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Estelar Santamar Hotel & Centro de Convenciones
About the Hotel
Property Location
Located in Santa Marta (Pozos Colorados), Estelar Santamar Hotel & Centro de Convenciones is close to Zazue and Octopus Dive Center. This beach hotel is within close proximity of Nabusimake and Rodadero Beach.
Make yourself at home in one of the 134 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and LCD televisions. Complimentary wired and wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming provides entertainment. Private bathrooms with showers feature complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Conveniences include phones, as well as desks and minibars.
Relax and unwind with massages, body treatments, and facials. This hotel also features complimentary wireless Internet access, an arcade/game room, and gift shops/newsstands.
Satisfy your appetite at the hotel's restaurant, which serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner, or stay in and take advantage of 24-hour room service. Relax with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge or a poolside bar.
Business, Other Amenities
Featured amenities include complimentary high-speed (wired) Internet access, a 24-hour business center, and dry cleaning/laundry services. Event facilities at this hotel consist of a conference center and meeting rooms. A roundtrip airport shuttle is provided for a surcharge (available on request), and free self parking is available onsite.
Hotel Facilities
- Porter/bellhop
- Beach towels
- Conference center
- Outdoor pool
- Number of meeting rooms - 12
- Free self parking
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Total number of rooms - 134
- Children's pool
- Luggage storage
- Arcade/game room
- Restaurant
- Pool sun loungers
- Pool umbrellas
- Free WiFi
- Elevator/lift
- Wedding services
- Bar/lounge
- ATM/banking
- Number of floors - 5
- Conference space
- 24-hour business center
- Beach umbrellas
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Poolside bar
- Meeting rooms
- 24-hour front desk
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
Room Facilities
- Hair dryer
- Free WiFi
- Refrigerator
- Cable TV service
- Desk
- Daily housekeeping
- Cribs/infant beds available
- Private bathroom
- Phone
- Access via exterior corridors
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Free toiletries
- Minibar
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Shower only
- Turndown service
- Air conditioning
- Room service (24 hours)
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- If you are traveling with a child your property may require you to present the following documents: Parents traveling into Colombia with a child under 18 may be required to present the child's birth certificate and photo ID (passport for foreign visitors) upon check-in. If a relative or legal guardian is traveling into Colombia with the child, that relative or legal guardian may be required to present a notarized consent of travel signed by both parents and a copy of both parents' ID. If only one parent is traveling into Colombia with the child, that parent may be required to present a notarized consent of travel signed by the other parent. Visitors who plan to travel with children should consult with a Colombian consulate office prior to travel for further guidance.
- This property offers transfers from the airport (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details before travel, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
- Reservations are required for massage services. Reservations can be made by contacting the hotel prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
- Up to 2 children 11 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding.
- Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms.
The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
- Airport shuttle fee: USD 10 per vehicle (one way)
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Today Publishing is the publishing house of four parenting magazines, namely MomBaby, Parenthood, Parenting and Mami & Baby. MomBaby magazine was published in 1994. Being the one and only locally produced Chinese parenting magazine, it had taken the Malaysian market by storm. MomBaby is a monthly magazine devoted to helping young mothers and mothers-to-be get reliable information on childcare and parenting.
Due to the overwhelming success of MomBaby, Parenthood, a monthly English parenting magazine, hit the local bookshelves in time to greet the new millennium in 2000. A special pullout aptly named Pregnancy comes free with every issue of Parenthood. A year later, another Chinese magazine namely Parenting, was published. Parenting covers issues about raising children.
On December 2004, Mami & Baby, a monthly Malay magazine hit the market in response to the popular demand by our readers and potential advertisers. A special pullout aptly named Hamil, also comes free with every copy of Mami & Baby.
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Fergusson Winery & Restaurant
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Yering Station
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Enchanted Parent Review
Movie Review
Aside from Mickey Mouse, Disney Studios may be best known for their assortment of fairytale princesses. Beginning with Snow White , these lovely ladies sing away their woes (often with the help of their animal friends) while waiting for their Prince to arrive and whisk them off to happily ever after.
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From all appearances, Giselle (Amy Adams) is no different. Living in a cartoon forest, she and her woodland friends croon through an upbeat tune in anticipation of the regal arrival of the man of her dreams. In the meantime, Queen Narissa (Susan Sarandon) has her stepson, Prince Edward (James Marsden), tied up with troll hunting in an attempt to keep him from finding his true love. Yet as fate would have it, the two meet and plan to marry the following day. Stepping in to stop the ceremony, the Queen banishes Giselle to a strange and foreign land known as modern day New York City.
Popping up in a manhole, the now real life Giselle is terrified by her new surroundings and wanders the streets in search of the castle. Luckily along the way, she meets Robert (Patrick Dempsey), a disillusioned divorce lawyer who is about to propose to his girlfriend, Nancy (Idina Menzel). Going against his better judgment, Robert and his six-year-old daughter, Morgan (Rachel Covey), bring the disheveled and disoriented "princess" home for the night. By morning, Giselle has sewn a new dress and cleaned up the place with the help of some sewer rats and other assorted city wildlife.
While her naivety worries Robert, her optimism slowly begins to rub off on him. Unsure whether she is for real or just delusional, the cynical lawyer soon finds himself tutoring Giselle about love and life in the modern world.
This charming collision of the animated Andalasia with real-life Manhattan takes an age-old genre and tweaks it for contemporary audiences. Viewers get plenty to laugh about as the innocent Giselle navigates the unfamiliar streets of the Big Apple and learns to take a more sensible approach to falling in love. While the film has few language concerns and brief moments of sexual innuendo, this princess is busting out all over in her self-made clothing. The script also contains some perilous moments for the characters, including a hideous monster that swoops down on the city.
Fortunately Giselle's unexpected experience doesn't dampen her cheerful attitude, which inspires others to have a more positive outlook on life. And while audiences can laugh at the romantic notions promoted in classic Disney tales, most of us will still enjoy this happily ever after ending.Starring Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey, James Marsden, Susan Sarandon.. Running time: 107 minutes. Theatrical release November 20, 2007. Updated November 23, 2010
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What do Giselle and Robert each teach the other about love? How do they moderate the other's view of romance?
How does Giselle's cheery attitude affect those around her? What impact does it have on the couple involved in divorce proceedings? What influence can a person's outlook on life, either optimistic or pessimistic, have on others?
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