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Discipline debate causes stir in IASD
The pending school disciplinary action against seven Indiana Area Senior High School students charged with underage drinking while on a school-related trip earlier this month has spawned a pair of dueling online petitions aimed at influencing the students' punishment.
The petitions have been set up on the www.change.org website — one calls for the board of school directors to consider the students' overall personal accomplishments and to be lenient in dispensing discipline; the other calls for the board to follow the letter of the district's student behavioral guidelines and to give no special treatment.
The youths, according to police in Derry Township, Dauphin County, "did purchase, possess, consume, attempt purchase or knowingly or intentionally transport any liquor or malt or brewed beverages" at 11:56 p.m. Saturday, March 9, in Hershey Lodge.
The Pennsylvania District of Key Club International that weekend hosted its District Convention/Leadership Conference at Hershey Lodge and Convention Center.
Online court records show summary citations were filed March 12 before District Judge Dominic Pelino and were mailed to the students at their homes in Indiana.
Those charged are Mason Douglas Lockard, 18, of Quincy Circle; Nicholas Scott Bizousky, 18, of White Oak Drive; Jacob Williamson-Rea, 18, of Chestnut Street; three 17-year-old boys; and a 16-year-old boy. The Indiana Gazette does not routinely publish the names of juveniles accused of crimes.
The four juvenile suspects pleaded not guilty to the charges on March 13, and are scheduled to appear for a summary trial April 18 in Pelino's court in Hummelstown, online court records show. Online court records showed no response to the citations filed against Lockard, Bizousky and Williamson-Rea as of press time today.
Derry Township police declined to comment on the nature of the incident that resulted in the summary citations. Officers refused to say whether their investigation would lead to any additional charges.
The school district's Attendance, Behavioral Guidelines and Discipline Policy, a handbook distributed to all students each year, classifies alcohol with other drugs and lists possessing, furnishing, consuming or being under the influence as Level IV offenses.
Level IV is the most serious level of offense in the district. Examples of Level IV offenses, according to the student handbook, are extortion, bomb threats, harassment of staff, "serious" assault, hazing, vandalism, theft, arson and inappropriate use of prescribed or over-the-counter drugs, and using/furnishing/selling/possession/(being) under the influence of alcohol or controlled substances. The prohibition against drugs and alcohol in the handbook applies to field trips, athletic contests and other school events.
Possible disciplinary measures for Level IV offenses include suspension, expulsion, criminal prosecution or other board or administrative action, according to the handbook.
The case has drawn attention among the student body, in social networks and according to email messages to the Gazette because of a belief that the youths have already been or imminently will be expelled from school.
School board President Thomas Harley and other board members deflected questions about the incident and would not discuss whether the matter has come before them. District Superintendent Dale Kirsch only quoted information on the discipline policy published in the student handbook, and said that the board and administration keep details of student discipline issues confidential.
With the specter of possible expulsion looming over those charged, students at the school have rallied to their defense, some wearing T-shirts with the slogan "Let Them Learn."
The students shouldn't be expelled because they get good grades, play sports, hold jobs and serve the community, according to the petition organized by high school senior Alexia Akbay.
"Yes, they made a poor decision. They did not use their better judgment or consider the consequences. IASD has made an even poorer decision by interrupting their educational careers when it means the most," Akbay wrote in the preface to the petition.
The comment section on the Web page includes remarks from supporters who say the school board has no authority to sanction the youths, and that other students accused of offenses such as theft and drug possession have received punishment less severe than expulsion.
Launched early this week, the petition (http://chn.ge/ZEvT04) has been publicized on Facebook and through links circulated in mass email messages to the Indiana community. The emails were distributed by Romeo's Pizza and Mediterranean Restaurant, which is owned by Akbay's parents.
One of those charged, Williamson-Rea, identifies himself as an employee of Romeo's on his Facebook page.
Williamson-Rea declined to comment on the case; Akbay did not respond to a request to comment on the petition effort.
The petition had garnered 774 signatures through this morning.
A counter-petition (http://chn.ge/16N8ZYN) expressing support for the school board's decision to expel the students — although no action has been taken — has been posted by Katie Kowalski Little, a 2004 graduate of Indiana Area Senior High School who lives with her husband at Camp Lejeune, N.C.
Little said the school board should uphold its published policy and not yield to pressure from a group of students.
"Yes, these students are revered as 'outstanding' students, as they receive good grades, are in sports and numerous clubs. However, if they were truly outstanding they would not have been drinking while representing their school they supposedly hold dear to provide them an education," Little wrote.
Little and a supporter who signed the petition said the students knew the consequences of underage drinking and should accept their punishment rather than try to avoid the sanctions and change the system.
The petition was posted Wednesday and had fewer than 10 signatures as of this morning.
Under the district's discipline policy, expulsion can only be imposed by a vote of the school board at a public meeting — on a motion that typically identifies the offenders by numbers, not by their names — but after considering evidence and testimony at a closed-door hearing.
At the school board's only meeting since the incident, on March 11, no disciplinary measures appeared on the agenda or were presented for the directors' consideration.
District officials and board members said no disciplinary measures have been discussed at public committee meetings and no action was taken in any executive sessions since the charges came to light. The board's next public meeting is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Monday.
The school board's agenda for Monday, which was posted online Friday, shows the directors will consider a motion to hire an attorney to represent the administration in expulsion hearings. No other details about the matter appear on the agenda.


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Embedding Maven
It is a very rare usecase, but sometimes you need it. How to embed Maven in your application, so that you can programatically run goals?
Short answer is: it's tricky. I dabbled into the matter for my java webapp automatic syncing project, and at some point I decided not to embed it. Ultimately, I used a library that does what I needed, but anyway, here are the steps and tools that might be helpful.
What you usually need the embedded maven for, is to execute some goals on a maven project. There are two scenarios.
The first one is, if you are running inside the maven container, i.e. you are writing a mojo/plugin. Then it's fairly easy, because you have everything managed by the already-initialized plexus container. In that case you can use the mojo-executor. Easy to use, but expects a "project", "pluginManager" and "session", which you can't easily obtain.
The second scenario is completely embedded maven. There is a library that does what I needed it to do (thanks to MariuszS for pointing it out) – it's Maven Embedder. Its usage is described in this SO question. Use both the first and the second answer.
Before finding that library, I tried two more libraries: the jenkins maven embedded and the Maven Invoker. The problem in both libraries is: they need a maven home. That is, the path to where a maven installation resides. Which is kind of contrary to the idea of "embedded" maven. If the Maven Embedder suits you, you can stop reading. However, there might be cases where the Maven Embedder might not be what you are looking for. In that case, you should use one of the two aforementioned libraries. So, how to find and set a maven home?
- Ask the user to specify it. Not too much of a hassle, probably
- Use M2_HOME. One of the libraries uses that by default, but the problem is it might not be set. I don't usually set it, for example. If it is not, you can fallback to the previous approach
- Scan the entire file system for a maven installation – sounds ok, and it can be done only once, and then stored in some entry. The problem is – there might not be a maven installation. Even if it's a developer's machine – IDEs (Eclipse, at least) have an "embedded" maven. And while it probably stores it somewhere internally in the same format a manual installation would, it may change it's path or structure depending on the version. You can, of course, re-scan the file tree every once in a while to find such an installation
- Download Maven programatically yourself. Then you can be sure where it is located and that it will always be located there in the same format. The problem here is version mismatch – the user might be using another version of maven. Making the version configurable is an option.
All of these work in some cases, and don't work in others.
So, in order of preference: 1. make sure you really need to embed maven 2. use the Maven Embedder 3. use another option with its implications.
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Another option is to use Eclipse's Aether lib. It's not trivial to use but it allows your code to connect to any Maven server, retrieve artifacts, retrieve artifact dependency tree, upload new artifacts…it's a true Maven API
Project page: http://eclipse.org/aether/
Some examples: http://git.eclipse.org/c/aether/aether-demo.git/tree/aether-demo-snippets/src/main/java/org/eclipse/aether/examples
[…] not happen on changing the pom – you need to rebuild and restart. A bit of a workaround to embedding maven and running the dependency goal, but you need to restart anyway, if new jars are […]
What about MavenCLI?
@MariuszS – many thanks, this actually works smoothly. I'm adding it to the list of options, and also updated my project

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My next art show is January 20th. My spring semester starts January 9th. I'm not prepared for either.
If I could give up washing dishes, laundry, walking the dog, and parenting, I might feel okay with these dates–and I might not have this headache.
But no pixie is going to sprinkle my apartment with magic dust and announce, "You now have the gift of extra time!"
Bills will not pay themselves. (Shocking, isn't it?)
I don't need to live in a spotless apartment (please, never stop by unannounced), but I do rather like eating off clean plates and wearing clothes that don't smell. (I'm a conformist.)
The thing I've learned about art shows (at least, my art shows) is that they do not pay for themselves. From a budget perspective they are foolish endeavors… why go through all the bother?
I know plenty of people who when deciding where to live and what to study and what job to take look at the money. They have a lifestyle they want (above the basic food-and-shelter), and they act accordingly. Often these people have lovely houses in nice neighborhoods and they do things like take trips and go shopping for new clothes.
When I'm in these people's houses I feel I'm from another planet and my brain is incapable of figuring out how these people manage it. They have matching furniture in the living room!
Okay, I'm rambling when I've got plenty of work to do.
If you know how to juggle everything and live like a grown up, please let me in on the secret.


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Dirt 2 is a racing game that you will not be able to put down. There are over 30 cars to pick from and upgrades can be purchased for your rides for an endless amount of gameplay.
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This game is a good game. The levels of skills involved in the game vary and are made of long career modes. The visual and audio presentation is excellent however the game does not have a split–screen multiplayer. In Dirt 2 you act like an upcoming race driver who is competing on the off - road circuit. You will encounter experts like Travis Pastrana and Ken Block. At the end of the Dirt Tour career mode you are assured of being a champion. Your opponents are not easy to deal with; they are equally great at handling the vehicles. In this game you have the advantage of flashbacking and replaying the bits you did not perform as expected.
Your career in this game begins with a Subaru Impreza; the car belonged to the late Colin McRae. This game has over 35 other cars and their ratings are from one to ten in acceleration both how they are handled and their speed. Your career starts with a promising game but as you proceed through the ranks, you advance them. You can also play around with the settings of the game and you are rest assured of some achievement. Once you get behind the wheel you will be able to distinguish between the seven variables and with only five settings, navigating around the game will be easy for you.
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You have six flashbacks to use throughout the game. If you want to use a flash back, you pause then an instant replay of about 15 seconds then you continue playing from any point you wish. You have to be careful while racing because even the slightest of mistakes can be very costly. When you exceed 100 miles per hour then beware as chances are that you will end up messing up the race. It is advisable to be cautious while driving at high speeds.
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Cadillac Catera and Cimarron Forum Discussion, key fob weak. in Past Cadillac Vehicle Discussion; I have tried putting a new durecell battery in and it seemed like the range was better but its back ...
key fob weak.
I have tried putting a new durecell battery in and it seemed like the range was better but its back to before, have to be right beside the car for it to work. Is there something i can do to improve the distance to?
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Re: key fob weak.
Even brand new, Catera remotes did not go very far. I think 10 ft. was the limit and maybe less depending on where you are with respect to the sensor. I think this is another quirk left over from the Catera's European heritage. In addition to that, the key fobs get weaker with age.
- 07-25-13 08:47 PM #3Cadillac Owners Enthusiast
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Re: key fob weak.
Disassemble and clean.
I have taken it apart and cleaned as much without doing damage to it. Didn't seem dirty or dusty inside either. Ah well guess its something to live with then.
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changed my system to viper can unlock or lock from inside house!


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Sat out the entire 2010 and 2011 seasons due to a knee injury suffered during the 2010 PDL season • Made Dean's List Fall 2011
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Named All-ACC Second Team • Appeared in 21 games, starting 20 in the midfield • Finished the year with five goals, three assists and 13 points • Scored the lone goal in a 1-0 overtime win over Virginia Oct. 2 • Provided a pair of goals including the game winner against Evansville Sept. 6 • Assisted on the lone goal in the third round of the NCAA Tournament win over Indiana Nov. 29 • Put three shots on frame in three different games • Notched three goals in ACC play • Scored the game winner against Duke Sept. 18 • Tallied 46 shots with 22 on goal • Posted 12 points in first 13 games.
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Playmaking midfielder jump-started the Carolina attack in 2009 • Started 23 of 24 games • Finished fifth on the team with 11 points on three goals and five assists • Tallied five points over the final eight games of the season • Assisted on Billy Schuler's game-winner against Jacksonville in the NCAA second round Nov. 25 • Netted goals in back-to-back regular season games against fellow College Cup sides Wake Forest and Maryland • Scored the lone goal at No. 4 Maryland Nov. 7 • Staked Carolina to an early lead with a first-half score against No. 1 Wake Forest Nov. 1 • Also scored versus UNC Asheville Sept. 30 and picked up assists against East Tennessee State, NC State, South Carolina and VCU • Fired 35 shots, putting 15 on goal • Ranked fourth among all Olympic sports male athletes in the SuperRam competition, which measures overall performance by the UNC strength and conditioning staff.
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Two-time Parade All-America selection (2006 and 2007) out of Naaman Forest High School • Also named to the NSCAA/adidas Youth All-America teams in 2005 and 2006 • Rated the nation's No. 1 midfielder by Student Sports Magazine • Gained a wealth of international experience with the U.S. National Team youth squads • Named to player pool for 2005 Under-17 World Cup in Peru • In 44 career games at Naaman Forest tallied 98 points on 36 goals and 26 assists • Played club soccer with Solar Soccer Club • Helped team to 23 first-place finishes and three national finals • Ranks as the club's career scoring leader with 154 goals and 275 assists • Played with the Texas and Region III ODP team for five years • Honors student at Naaman Forest • Member of the Student Leadership Council and the National Honor Society in 2006 • Texas Scholar from 2004-07.
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Zimbabwe's education ministry said Friday it is investigating how school text books donated by the U.N. children's agency wind up in the hands of bookstores and street vendors.
The United Nations Children's Fund has supplied 22 million books since late 2010 after a decade of economic meltdown that left many schools without teaching materials. In some schools, scores of pupils had shared a single book.
Education Minister David Coltart said Friday that culprits behind the theft and sale of books _ officially the property of government schools _ will be prosecuted.
The books, stamped and identifiable, sell for up to $10 on the street or $20 in a bookstore. A main teachers union says teachers may be stealing them to make up for poor salaries of about $220 a month.
Coltart said the donated books became the responsibility of individual schools across the country.
The joint schools program with UNICEF ended acute shortages of books and made Zimbabwe the only country in Africa with an estimated ratio of one book for each pupil, Coltart said in a statement.
The books were stamped with UNICEF and education ministry emblems and the legend "Not For Sale." Each delivery was signed for and accounted for by principals at registered state schools.
Coltart said a likely market for stolen books was among unregistered and informal schools.
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Wow, just goes to show that you can trust no one. And that everyone is a potential threat. Never let your guard down, it's that moment they will get you. Stay armed and stay safe.
This is a discussion on Found myself in a potentially bad spot yesterday. within the Carry & Defensive Scenarios forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; A little background:I've been involved with a little "dispute" with the Property Owners Association in my neighborhood. There is a rule that no signs are ...
A little background:I've been involved with a little "dispute" with the Property Owners Association in my neighborhood. There is a rule that no signs are allowed on your property at all. I didn't know about the rule, even though I have a copy of the covenants, so I put up a small political sign in my front yard. Someone had taken it down a couple times but I just put it right back up. That's normal in this area, politics is serious business. :) Anyway, one of the "representatives" from the POA came by the house when I wasn't home and talked to my wife and told her to take it down so she did. I couldn't believe there was a rule about signs so I looked in the covenants and see that it does indeed say no signs, no exemption for Realty signs or anything. Well there are signs up all over my neighborhood, mostly For Sale/For Rent type signs, but others too. Since they haven't been enforcing the rule I want them to just keep not enforcing it, especially not against me. After exchanging emails/phone calls with the POA, they insisted that the rule only covered political signs and asked me to come to Monday's board meeting so he could show me the text in the covenants. So I go:
I have my CHL from the state of Arkansas and carry most of the time. For the most part, if I'm not in a gun-free zone I'm armed. But there are a lot of gun free zones that interfere. This time, I had just come from a gun-free zone so my gun was locked up in my center console when I got to the POA building for the board meeting. I didn't make a conscious choice to go in unarmed, I just forgot I guess. I didn't really consider it a hostile place so it slipped my mind.
I go in and right away the president acknowledges me and says that he re-read the covenants and sees what I was talking about (which means he didn't bother reading them before, but at least he is now). He starts to tell me how the covenants should read and how they are going to change them next year, yada yada yada. The official meeting hasn't started yet, but I'm optimistic that he is going to just let it all slide and not worry about it until they get the rule fixed to be more reasonable. Then in walks the "representative" that had talked to my wife. Apparently he is also the one that kept taking down my sign. This is where the meeting went downhill. I mentioned to him that it is actually a crime to remove a political sign without the candidate/property owners permission. He was already mad that I kept putting it back up and just got more mad. He got up and grabbed me and proceeded to take me outside, while inviting me to "take it outside". I ducked out of his grip and ran to the other side of the room and it occurs to me, I'm unarmed! I asked the board to intervene as he came after me again and they just sat there. He grabbed me again and shoved me against the wall this time. Now I'm being completely non-aggressive because he is just grabbing and shoving, but I'm really worried it is going to go further. I got out of his grip again and ran around the room trying to call 911. At this point the treasurer tells me I'm going to have to call them from outside the room so I run out. He didn't follow me out, maybe one of the board members intervened as I ran out, I don't know.
Since 911 had already answered I decided to report it and waited for the sheriff deputy to arrive, he didn't come out until the sheriff arrived.
I told my story and he/they told theirs. It turns out that grabbing my arm and pulling/pushing me against the wall would get him an "assault ticket" but none of the witnesses "saw" that apparently. The deputy told me that they had said I "brought it on myself" but none could give a detail on what I did that brought it on me, so he wasn't going to pursue that with me, but in exchange he wasn't going to write a ticket to the other guy either. That was actually fine with me, since he didn't chase me out I think he had realized his mistake and maybe learned something.
Did I learn anything? I don't know. I would not have drawn in this situation because he wasn't doing any harm to me and "I run faster scared than he does mad!" but I didn't leave myself the option if it had gone uglier.
I did not expect this to be a hostile place at all. So far, all the conversations I had had were cordial and neither side seemed mad. If anything, I felt like the board members were trying to "lead a young fellow along" and help me understand. In fact, the president even admitted he had made a mistake in reading the covenants when I first got there. I am much younger than everyone I have talked to at my POA. (My wife thinks they might be getting irritated that all of us young kids are moving into their retirement community). I had put them into the nice old-guy category in my mind and had actually let myself fall to condition white. (How did he get ahold of me! TWICE!) He should have never been able to get that close to me the first time, I should have been retreating as soon as he started coming at me.
Would things have been different if I was armed? I think so, I hope so at least. I hope I would have never let myself fall below condition yellow if I had been armed. I would have been out the door before he got out of his seat.
It was stupid of me and could have gone very bad very fast. What's funny/sad is that I still categorize the guy that attacked me as "weak old-guy" and don't think anything bad could happen. He has to have gotten "Scared straight" when the deputy showed up. Right? Even though he knows where I live, he won't come to my house again.... will he?
I guess I still need to let this soak in for awhile to see if I can learn anything.
Wow, just goes to show that you can trust no one. And that everyone is a potential threat. Never let your guard down, it's that moment they will get you. Stay armed and stay safe.
Let me jokingly remind you of Marine Corps Rule #23 (Don't know if it's real or not):
Be polite and professional, but have a plan to kill everyone that you meet.
I would check on your Force Continium Laws in your state. Most states unless you completely felt your life was indanger you could not have used Lethal means however maybe reasonable force to repel the immediate touching was in order. Pepper spray maybe an option.
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Unfortunately I feel I've heard that kind of story way too many times. Yours isn't the only experience of that sort that I've heard of with those POA/HOA board types. Every one I've run into has bee madder than the hatter. It was a learning experience though. Next time you'll be prepared.
I'm not sure why, but I find that when I'm armed I am more alert for trouble and calmer in my responses. My wife remarked recently that I have a shorter fuse than I used to, but has not connected it to my carrying.
I don't believe in POA. It was my money that bought the property, and they aren't going to tell me what I can and can't do on it. I also would not pay the dues for them. That just seems to be money well wasted.
I suggest that if you can find in your inner self the will to inflict violence on someone who is trying to victimize you, and can back up that iron will with all the force that you can muster, you will most likely be successful.
I'm sorry I'm a little less we'll contained. If he would have came at me like that he would be laying on the floor from a boot to the chin. Good job in keeping your composure.
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Even if I had been carrying, if there were no threat of deadly force, I would not have drawn my weapon. To do so could be construed as deadly force in Alaska, and if I had pointed the weapon at my assailant, even if it were done only to deescalate the situation, it definitely would have been considered deadly force.
Nothing in your post would have justified the use of deadly force, so I would have ended up in jail, without my weapon and likely would have done 1 - 5 years if not more in prison.
I have kept my situational awareness at yellow since the day I first carried my firearm.
I guess in the future if you are invited to a meeting to air out differences you need to invite a few witnesses,I would also repost the sign and let the candidate know what's going on,also get a surveillance cam to catch the guy removing it
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Tye, I'll second the pepper spray...if anything, just because it would be funny and make a great story...I mean, because it would effectively de-escalate the situation without being forced to use a greater amount of force...yeah, that's what I meant.
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
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Put the sign up again and if he comes on your property to take it down, have him arrested for trespassing, or get a restraining order filed on him.
POAs suck in some ways, but are good in others. It's not cool for your neighbor to collect junked out cars and let them pile up on his property, because it has a direct effect on the value of your property.
Pepper spray would have cleared that room!!!
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File on your POA. They are violating your 1st amendment rights. just like it is illegal to remove a political sign, they cannot pass an ordinance in the covenents, that violate your civil rights.
Had a similar POA problem with my direct tv dish. They tried to make me have it moved where it could not be seen from the street. When we got to the Justice of the Peace court, I mentioned FCC regulations allow the placement of antenna or dish, where needed, for the reception of TV signals, and the judge agreed. They were madder than could be when they had to pay all the costs, including my time lost from work, and the judge warned them about harassing me. I don't get bothered anymore.
Just my $0.02.
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Situated near the airport, this hotel is 1 mi (1.6 km) from Jersey Lavender Farm and 2 mi (3.2 km) from Jersey War Tunnels - German Underground Hospital. Reg's Garden and Les Ormes Golf and Country Club are also within 2 mi (3 km).
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This smoke-free hotel features a restaurant, an outdoor pool, and a bar/lounge. Free weekday breakfast is provided, as well as free WiFi in public areas, free self parking, and a free airport shuttle. Additionally, 24-hour room service, a meeting room, and dry cleaning are onsite.
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The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast on weekdays. A computer station is located on site and wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary.
This business-friendly hotel also offers an outdoor pool, tour/ticket assistance, and a garden. A roundtrip airport shuttle is complimentary to guests (available 24 hours). Complimentary self parking is available on site.
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- Free WiFi
- Free breakfast
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- Total number of rooms - 38
- Outdoor pool
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- Number of floors - 2
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- Tours/ticket assistance
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- One meeting room
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- Free self parking
- Area shuttle (surcharge)
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- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Television in common areas
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Available in some public areas: Free WiFi , Free wired high-speed Internet
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- Bathrobes
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- Free WiFi
- Phone
- Refrigerator
- Free bottled water
- Daily housekeeping
- Free toiletries
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- Iron/ironing board
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- Digital TV service
- Room service (24 hours)
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A complimentary full breakfast is served between 7:30 AM and 9:30 AM on weekdays.
La Place - This restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
24-hour room service is available.
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Recreational amenities at the hotel include an outdoor pool.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Bicycle rentals nearby
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
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Check-in time starts at 2 PM
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- Children 12 and younger are not allowed at this property. All guests older than 12 are welcome.
- Rollaway/extra beds are not available.
- Cribs (infant beds) are not available.
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Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
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HIGH POINT — The High Point furniture market's new opening day — a Monday — will be a true opening day if members of the Market Authority's board of directors have their way.
"We are trying to bring some excitement back to opening day," said board Chairman Paul Toms. "And at the same time, we want to keep the end of the market as important as the beginning."
Toms, who also is chairman and CEO of manufacturer Hooker Furniture, said the longstanding practice of some showrooms welcoming buyers before the official opening puts a strain on transportation and other local services.
Subsequently, he said many of these same showrooms have been closing before the market officially ends, which inconveniences buyers.
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When it decided about a year ago to overhaul the market's dates, the board settled on a Monday-through-Sunday format. In addition, beginning in 2007, the spring market will begin in late March and the fall event will take place in late September or early October. Next year's market dates are March 26-April 1 and Oct. 1-7.
In other business, the board elected Bray as its new chairman. Toms, who has chaired the group for two years, will remain a board member.
The board also added another ex-officio (non-voting) member to its ranks, veteran furniture sales representative Rick Gillispie. Gillispie, who also is first vice president of the International Home Furnishings Representatives Assn., is the first sales rep on the board.
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It's been a little bit since I've written, but in that time, Diesel has learned some new tricks and is continuing in his training. He's been in the "small" training class where there are only about 4 or 5 dogs. He's been doing ok. He has learned some agility and is a real natural at it, only I can't enroll him in an actual agility class because of his reactivity towards other dogs. It has been hard over the winter and we haven't walked him as much as we would like so he's been "bored" chewing on power cords and getting in trouble here and there. I've been trying to work with him as much as possible in the house--he's learned a few new tricks--roll over, say please, wave and hop (on his hind legs). He's a very high energy, high prey drive dog so I will be thrilled when Spring gets here! We bought a new house with a fenced in yard (that we should be moving into in the beginning April) so he will have a nice area to run and play and it will be nice to be able to work with him outside off leash. He is STILL reactive towards other dogs, but we continue to work on that as much as possible. I won't give up!!
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Diesel has been doing really well with the training he has been receiving. We've been doing mostly private lessons since his group participation can greatly improve!! However, there is a class starting this week with other reactive dogs...we'll see how he does. For the past three weeks he has been attached (via leash!) to one of us in the household at all times. And when he's not with one of us, he has to be crated. It is helping a little bit, especially with house training. We have not had any accidents since we started this.
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We had group training this past Minday and I was a nervous wreck. I pulled into the parking lot early, hoping to beat most of the other dogs in. I took him for a walk around the parking lot so that he could see the other dogs going in at a distace and see what his reaction would be. Well, as I expected, he barked, he lunged, his hair stood up on his back. So I put him back in the Jeep and went in to tell the trainer how Diesel was acting. Being familiar with Diesel, he tells me to bring him to the door and he would take it from there. Yes, Diesel was about to start his antics but Paul won't have it. Within seconds he had him behaving with a technique he used. He didn't have to do it much but it was just what Diesel needed. He behaved for the rest of the class! I scheduled a private class with him so I could learn more about Diesel's obsessive dog behavior and what I can do to break him of it.
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This guest post is by Dawn and entry in our non-fiction writing contest .
It all began on the evening of June 29, 2012. My husband Tony and I were at a local barbecue festival just a few blocks from our home when we heard someone say a storm was coming. We gathered up our belongings, bought barbecue dinners to take home and headed to the house. I was looking forward to a quick shower before enjoying my dinner in the comfort of my air-conditioned home. I had been out in the heat all afternoon.
Tony said he was going to walk down the alley to visit some friends for a few minutes. No sooner than I had gotten in the shower, the lights started to flicker and I hurried out. The lights continued to flicker for a couple of minutes and then they went out.
I didn't panic because we keep emergency candles, lighters, and flashlights throughout the house. I lit a couple of candles and then kept an eye on what was happening outside, eventually opening a few windows to get some air flow through the house. The wind was fierce! I used my cell phone to call Tony. He and his friends were safely watching the storm as well. Once the winds stopped, he walked home and we went on to bed, thinking all would be well tomorrow.
Day two of this ordeal began to really test our preparedness. We have only being focusing on prepping since February. Tony and his son Kyle got out the generator and filled it with gas. They plugged in the refrigerator and deep freezer. I went back to the barbecue festival to help out.
The vendors had lost some of their merchandise and tents but the contestants wanted to continue with the competition. On the way there, I turned on the car radio but our local station was not on the air. It just so happened that our mayor was at the festival to help out as well. I was able to get some first hand information about what had happened. The storm had knocked out power to most of the areas around us for at least 100 miles.
It was expected that we would be without power for a week. Our city water supply could run on emergency power for three days and no stores or gas stations were open in our town. The neighboring town had some gas but the wait in line was around 2 hours. Although we had gas, Kyle took all of the empty gas cans we could find and went to fill them up. Telephone and cell phone service was scattered. Upon my return home that afternoon, I was able to share that information with my family and some friends.
Kyle and his girlfriend brought over their frozen and refrigerated foods and my inlaws brought their frozen foods to our house. We began to map out our plans. We had plenty of drinking water should the water supply end but I wanted more. I filled up containers totaling about 60 more gallons. We hooked up an old phone that we keep in our preps. Just a few weeks ago Tony suggested that I get rid of that phone but I convinced him otherwise since our usual phones all require electricity.
He was glad he had listened to me. Our phone service was fine as was our cell service. We sat up camp chairs under the only tree in our yard and filled a cooler with drinks. Later that evening our generator stopped running. Kyle was on generator duty and it had plenty of gas in it. After several minutes of trouble shooting, he finally listened to his girlfriend who kept saying it probably needed oil.
She was right and fortunately we had about half a quart of the appropriate oil. I layered several blankets over the freezer in the basement and that evening we unplugged the freezer and plugged up the window unit air conditioner in our bedroom. This was also when I thought about checking our sump hole for water. It was a good thing I did. It was almost full. I was able to plug up the pump and drain it. This would now become a part of my daily routine After a dinner of grilled chicken and corn on the cob we all settled down for the night.
Day three found us still with no power but the local grocery store was open with limited supplies. I went in at 8 am and bought some ice for the coolers and oil for the generator. I also used my debit card to get some cash back because most of the cash I had been gone between the barbecue festival and sending kyle for gas.
When I got home, I checked the everyday supplies and decided on a crockpot of spaghetti sauce for dinner. We were feeding 8 people and that seemed to be an easy thing to get together. The temperatures were still around 100 and grilling or using the camp stove was a hot job. The crockpot seemed like a good alternative and everyone seemed to enjoy it.
Days four and five were pretty much the same as. We had settled in to our routine. I used my cell phone daily to check the Internet for any news of what was going on. Our radio station finally got a generator and was giving updates a couple of times a day. Power companies from all over the US were here working to restore power, and there were cooling centers, ice, and water available at various locations. The water system was going to continue to provide water for us.
We had a gas hot water heater so warm showers were available although cool ones were preferred. Power was starting to come back on in some locations but we were still without. July 4th, my dad invited us over to his house for a cookout. His power had come back on the day before. We enjoyed a nice evening there and upon returning home, found our electricity on. Although this experience had not been a great hardship for us, it was a relief to once again have our power!
We learned from this experience. We learned that we have plenty of food in our everyday pantry and freezer to feed 6-8 people for around 5 days. We did not have to open any of our prep foods during this time. We learned that a generator takes oil about as often as it takes gas and we will now keep extra oil along with the gas we already keep. We will continue to keep our vehicles at least half full of gas. We were so glad that we had begun that practice a couple of months ago.
We will keep more cash on hand. Although we did not need it this time, we need some type of water collection/filtration system. We also learned that our community was not prepared to communicate with the public about what was happening.
Although we had radios, we had no radio station that could give us any news or information. We were not aware that there were cooling stations, meals, and ice and water stations available until a couple of days in to things. We found that out during one of my daily cell phone internet checks. We did not need these things but there were people who did and did not know they were available. We also learned that if we each take on a role or two, our group will thrive.
Some of us cooked while others cleaned up or kept the generator going. Some kept security watch while others checked on elderly family and neighbors, giving them ice and/or food. We learned to listen to each other's ideas and suggestions about how to do things.
Each person was responsible for something.Overall, we did really well during this situation. We feel comfortable with our overall progress and are thankful for the opportunity to test ourselves. We are now looking at how we would handle a similar situation during winter months. Prepping has become a way of life for us.
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Trouble Is Our BusinessStan Crock
General Douglas MacArthur had it wrong: Old soldiers don't die or fade away--they go high tech. Some 2,000 of the nation's military elite have enlisted in a database owned by Military Professional Resources Inc. (MPRI) in Alexandria, Va. As Information Age mercenaries, they're doing everything from briefing Swedish troops on Operation Desert Storm to coaching U.S. officers on managing GIs.
The eight-year-old company, located within a Scud missile's range of the Pentagon, provides an array of services to clients domestic and foreign. With U.S. defense spending way down, the privately held concern estimates that overseas sales will account for nearly 40% of billings this year, helping double revenue, to almost $12 million. There are some risks to that growth strategy: Earlier this year, MPRI tactical expertise was credited with helping Croatia gain militarily against Bosnian Serbs. The company was also blamed for helping establish a worrisome new power in the Balkans.
Most consultants would exult in the spotlight, even if undeserved. Not MPRI. Company officials insist its Croatian contract--licensed by the State Dept.--was simply for sociology lessons on turning communist-trained soldiers into more democratic troops. "People think we're doing something we're not doing," fumes Harry E. Soyster, vice-president for international operations and former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Some analysts say he has a point: MPRI has too high a profile to run a covert operation that would violate the arms embargo in the Balkans, they contend.
SURPRISE TURN. The Pentagon has trained foreign officers for years, but privatizing and exporting U.S. military knowhow is a new twist. Classroom training may not be as swashbuckling as the forays of mercenaries. But "it's a real franchise, if you can find a customer," says Loren B. Thompson of the Alexis de Toqueville Institution, a conservative think tank.
Training foreign armies wasn't the plan when MPRI was launched in 1987. The company was the brainchild of a group of retired Army officers brought together by a consultant. Their mission: review a report on using computers to teach soldiers. The former generals had a field day making suggestions--and realized their military experience was a valuable commodity. Unlike some other Beltway consultants, they set out to sell "a bona fide product to the government," says Robert D. Wood, MPRI's chief operating officer.
These days, MPRI cruises cyberspace for new business opportunities offered by the Defense Dept. on the Internet. The hourly rates for the company's consultants are a trade secret, but they're a fraction of the $450 an hour Wall Street lawyers charge. That has helped MPRI snare a series of competitively bid Pentagon contracts for such things as writing field manuals and analyzing the cost-effectiveness of storage equipment.
To help expand the company's reach overseas, MPRI brought in Soyster and former Army Chief of Staff Carl E. Vuono, a mentor of Colin L. Powell and architect of the Army's modernized training regime. MPRI advertises in military journals for foreign clients.
THRIFTY MOVE. Woods admits the venture might never have been launched if its founders had foreseen the radical changes the defense business would undergo. But Soyster is confident that the company, which has grown from 5 to 165 full-time employees, can survive even more defense cuts. He figures it's a lot cheaper to hire gray-hairs from MPRI than to have the Pentagon fly in its own commanders--with their families--from Japan or Berlin. "You get the same or greater experience," he says. MPRI isn't exactly profit-gouging either: It expects travel costs and payments to specialists to limit profits to a minuscule $230,000 this year.
Of course, MPRI's success depends on Washington and other capitals having some cash to spend on its services. The company is betting that, like the old soldiers on its payroll, the global market for its information and experience won't fade away anytime soon.
Recent business for Military Professional Resources
TAIWAN AND SWEDEN Held seminars on Operation Desert Storm and the lessons to be learned from the U.S. victory over Iraq
CROATIA Designed courses for the armed forces on how to convert from the communist armed-forces model to a democratic one, including how the military should deal with elected civilian leaders and how officers should treat enlisted soldiers
PENTAGON Wrote manuals on such issues as joint tactical-missile defense and analyzed cost-effectiveness of an equipment-deployment and storage system


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Example: why add the keyword 'sun' to an image if the actual sun was not in the frame? Just because the image was taken outdoors, in daylight, does not mean the keyword 'sun' should be used (this particular example is very common). If you overuse a word in your keywording, the one image you do submit that's actually pertinent will be harder for designers to find—in fact, they may miss it altogether.
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ESPN Soccernet's Ives Galarcep sizes up the storylines for Thursday night's prime-time match-up between the New York Red Bulls and Toronto FC. For starters, several former Red Bulls have moved to the Canadian club: there's former New York coach Mo Johnston, who's now in charge of building TFC; there's former MLS MVP Amado Guevara, who the Bulls traded away more than a year ago; and finally Marvell Wynne, who was drafted by Johnston in New York only to join him later in Toronto. Finally, Red Bulls defender Kevin Goldthwaite was also a former TFC player.
Guevara says that
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going to have to play against them and it's a strange feeling because I've never played a team that I care about and respect so much."
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The wonderful thing about designing a stair is the opportunity it presents for playfulness. Unfortunately, this potential is rarely realized. Too often, code and budget restrictions, along with complicated structural considerations, take the fun out of the design.
That was not the case with this Fire Island, N.Y., project. When Jerry Caldari, of New York City based Bromley Caldari Architects, PC, designed the summer house, he didn't skimp on space. The double-height living area boasts a soaring ceiling framed by steel trusses and a custom-built 20-foot folding door that opens to the sea. Such a dramatic room, Caldari decided, deserved a stair that could hold its own, both literally and visually.
Thus, he conceived a steel-framed, semidetached structure that swoops between floors on stringers made of welded steel plates sculpted into whimsical shapes. Most stairs made of steel are commercial stairways; the added dead load of concrete poured into the steel pans for treads makes them heavy, stodgy affairs. This stair, though, combines relatively lightweight oak treads with a beefier stringer design than is commonly found on the commercial versions; it is both very light and very strong. Also, the inside stringer is bolted to a steel angle within the wall; the steel angle is bolted to the wall studs.
To incorporate the code-required intermediate landing, Caldari widened the stringers halfway up. And, in a bit of inspired whimsy, he kerfed the top of the stringer below the landing and the bottom of the stringer above the landing to represent the positions of the treads and risers. The railings are made of simple flat steel bars; the two undulating intermediate members and the curved handrail are welded to straight verticals. Master Rail, of East Quogue, N.Y., fabricated the ironwork.
Caldari's stair is sturdy, inventive, and code-approved. New York state has one of the least restrictive codes in the country in terms of stair construction, and Caldari's design reflects that. In many other areas of the country, though, the codes dictating spacing and height for balusters, risers, and railings are much more restrictive. In these regions--and in any household with children--an open, minimalist design like Caldari's would need to be modified to satisfy safety requirements.


text: La Casita del Corralon is in Granada's charming Albayzín district, just 821 feet from Mirador de San Nicolás Viewpoint. This house has free Wi-Fi and a small private garden. The air-conditioned house features a double bedroom and a twin bedroom. The lounge includes a sofa and flat-screen TV. Bed linen and towels are included. La Casita del Corralon has a kitchen with a hob, microwave and oven, as well as a washing machine. Free daily breakfast is served at the sister hotel, located 1,805 feet away. Free private parking is also available. La Casita del Corralon is a short walk from Dar Al-Horra Palace. The Albayzín district, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is famous for its beautiful narrow streets and Moorish past. There are various bakeries and supermarkets nearby. You can walk to central Granada in 5 minutes. A minibus that runs every 10 minutes will take to the city centre, and a tourist train regularly departs for Alhambra.


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A juror has been charged with illegally playing detective during a criminal trial.
Mr Dieter Schmitz, 47, appeared briefly in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on Tuesday accused of conducting research when a juror in a County Court trial on or about December 6, 2012, into a matter relevant to the trial without the authorisation of the trial judge. No details were given about the trial or the actions of mr Schmitz.
Under the Juries Act, a juror "must not make an enquiry for the purpose of obtaining information about a party to the trial or any matter relevant to the trial, except in the proper exercise of his or her functions as a juror". This includes conducting any research by any means such as using the internet to search an electronic database for information or consulting another person.
The maximum penalty for the charge, under the Juries Act 2000 (VIC), is a fine of 120 penalty units ($17,323.20)
In the current day and age the legal system struggles to combat and prevent jurors from doing acts such as this. Is media exposure and access to information and technology in the 21st century jeopardising the right a fair trial?
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Let's Do is a deeply unsettling -- yet always engrossing -- first collection of stories. With stunning translucence, Meacham dissects emotional terrain that is intimate and familiar in characters marked more by loss than good fortune. Estelle, in the title story, used to be "the kind of girl who looked forward to things." Years later, jettisoned by her husband after the death of their infant son, she wonders how she arrived at a point in her life where there are no longer beginnings, just endings.
While the women in Let's Do are hard on themselves, they're also without self-pity. They weather life's quotidian tragedies with grit and determination. But it's not just Meacham's women who are wounded. Bill, in "Good Fences," newly retired and vaguely unhappy, ponders where a line has been crossed after meeting his new neighbor, a young single mother. For other men, like Carter in "The Assignment," such reflection turns malevolent when his girlfriend, frightened by a near-assault, demands that he attack her so that next time she'll be better prepared.
Meacham's stories have a novel's heft; crafted with immediacy and candor, they reveal her uncanny precision in locating those points from which to propel her characters to a different and unexpected place -- a place where there's no second-guessing, and all bets are off. (Spring 2005 Selection)


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Brown was always quick to straighten out an IKE in the FDNY, but he could do nothing about the IKEs in Washington.
In short, Romney needed to straighten out his financial affairs, and those around him should have told him to do it long ago.
"Matters will straighten out as soon as you see your wife," Penny declared.
You were assigned to straighten out that man, Sornal, weren't you?
I had to straighten out his form before I was able to decide whether he was living or dead.
Curiosity overcame the desire to straighten out her clothes.
An incompetent file clerk can, in a short time, get the files in a demoralized condition almost impossible to straighten out.
You have told so much while no sense was in you that you might now straighten out the tale.
Usually they run their affairs in a haphazard manner and their books would defy an expert to straighten out.
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5,000 WITNESS DANCES BY AMERICAN BALLET; Three Ballets in First of Two Performances by Company Given Here Last March.
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The American Ballet last night gave the first of two performances at the Lewisohn Stadium before an audience which, according to the official estimate, numbered 5,000. Though this may seem rather m small crowd in view of the company's recent publicity in connection with its forthcoming appearances with the Metropolitan Opera Company, it is probably to be accounted for by the fact that the program offered nothing new.
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