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Montcalm County drain commissioner to reorganize office
STANTON — The Montcalm County Drain Commissioner's Office is about to be reorganized with old positions leaving and new positions being brought on.
Drain Commissioner Sandy Raines, who was elected in November, approached the Montcalm County Board of Commissioners Finance and Personnel Committee Monday to explain her reasoning for bringing changes to her office.
"I'm trying to reorganize the office," she said. "Basically I'm going to be hands on with everything. I will be in the field and in the office and I want to be more proactive. I want to expand our maintenance and I don't want this office to be complaint driven."
Raines said she wants to move forward with a proactive mentality, especially within the community.
"I want to improve the public relations with townships and the public," she said.
Part of Raines' efforts include the removing of former positions, and the introduction of new ones.
Raines said she originally attempted to fill the position of Deputy Drain Commissioner, which was previously held by Raines until she was elected as Drain Commissioner, but after 19 applicants came forward and four of those were interviewed, she said she and her interview panel "did not feel comfortable" with any of the applicants because none of them were qualified to take over the position of Drain Commissioner in Raines' absence.
Raines then told county commission members that she believes she could move forward without replacing the position of Deputy Drain Commissioner, while creating a new position of drain inspector, starting at an hourly wage of $18.01 per hour.
Raines previously made $19.97 per hour serving as deputy drain commissioner.
Raines said she would also like to reclassify the position of administrative aide to the drain commissioner, currently held by Carrie Wills, giving the position more responsibility and raising the hourly wage from $18.01 to $18.44 per hour.
According to Raines, after no qualified applicant came forward for the position of deputy drain commissioner, she then received 15 applicants for the position of drain inspector.
"I was still disappointed in what I received," she said.
The scenario of having no qualified applicants for the position is what Raines said brought her before county commissioners during Monday's meeting.
"There is one applicant who I feel is qualified, my husband," she said.
According to Raines, her husband, Veldra Raines, currently works on the road commission and has done so for 13 years. Rains said her husband has "extensive experience in management and organizational skills and with a wide experience on heavy equipment."
Knowing concerns of nepotism may come up in discussion, Drain Commissioner Raines highlighted the county's hiring policy in a letter to committee members, which states "selection of employees is solely on the basis of qualifications for the position. Relatives of employees may be considered for and selected to fill vacancies; provided, however, that all County requirements with regard to recruitment and selection procedures have been strictly observed."
"I feel that we have a proven work record of working successfully together," she said. "Don Cooper (former drain commissioner) supports my decision. I didn't take this lightly and I weighed the pros and cons."
According to Finance and Personnel Committee Chairman Ron Baker of Howard City, being that Raines is an elected official, she does not need board approval to move on with her decision of hiring Veldra Raines.
"According to the rules of the road, we have an elected official (Raines) who has the authority to hire personnel herself," he said. "I think she's eligible to move forward with this anyway."
Raines, however, said she still wanted approval from the board of commissioners.
Raines also requested that her husband be hired at the two-year wage level, based on his experience.
According to Raines, the combined decisions would be a cost-savings measure for the county.
Controller-Administrator Chris Hyzer confirmed the new scenario would be less expensive to the county than the previous arrangement.
"There would be a savings to the county if I'm allowed to put him in this situation because (my husband) would not be taking health insurance," Raines said.
According to Raines, that savings is approximately $14,862.28 per year.
Members of the Finance and Personnel Committee then made a motion to change Carrie Wells' position. The motion was passed unanimously.
A motion was then made to support the creation of the drain inspector position, with Veldra Raines being hired for the position.
The motion received no support from the committee.
"I will not support it because of the close relationship," Commissioner Tom Lindeman of Greenville said.
County Commissioner Betty Kellenberger of Carson City asked Raines if she believed this would be a permanent change for the office.
"I don't think I need a deputy drain commissioner," Raines said. "I think my people can make those decisions (for the next four years). I see this as a good move. I've been in the drain office for 34 years. I was only deputy drain commissioner for 16 of those."
Raines said if she hired someone without the experience that her husband has, she'd be "starting at ground zero."
A motion was then made and passed with County Commissioner Ron Retzloff opposed to approve the position of drain inspector to start at the second-year wage level of $18.01 per hour, as opposed to the starting rate of $16.15 per hour.


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Published: September 16, 2013 - 11:25 AM | Updated: September 17, 2013 - 01:51 PM
GREEN: U.S. Rep. Jim Renacci, R-Wadsworth, said Monday he will use his new position on the House Ways and Means Committee to lower business taxes and then pay for the cut by reducing deductions.
Speaking before a meeting sponsored by the Green, North Canton and Jackson Township chambers of commerce, Renacci said the United States can't be competitive in attracting and keeping business with its current 35 percent corporate tax rate.
He wants that figure at 25 percent.
"The goal of the committee," he said, "is to make sure we are revenue neutral, in other words the revenue does not go up, the revenue doesn't go down, and also by taxpayer class we stay neutral. In other words, middle income, high income, their tax stays the same."
Renacci, in his second term, said many other nations tax corporate profits at around 25 percent and some rates are as low as 11 percent.
"If you automatically got a tax cut of 10 or 11 percent, where would you go?" he told the group of mostly business people. "That's one of the problems we have in the United States."
Renacci conceded that the effective U.S. corporate tax rate is much lower because there are so many deductions, but he questioned the fairness.
"When you do that, you are picking winners and losers, so let's just drop the rate down and eliminate the deductions."
He declined to say which deductions will be targeted except to say they will not be solely business deductions but also deductions for personal taxes.
"The minute you put up your hand and say, 'Here is one deduction we are looking at,' then markets change and everything changes, so what we have agreed on Ways and Means is to not talk about it."
Paying for the corporate tax cut would not be easy. The Tax Policy Center said the proposal would reduce the federal government's revenue by $1.3 trillion over the next 10 years.
With Democrats controlling the Senate and the presidency, Renacci said he doubts any reform passed by Republicans in the House would become law this year, but it's still worth doing.
"The goal of the committee is to pass tax reform by the end of the year. That's the goal," he said. "Now, people say, 'Are you ever getting tax reform done?' I would doubt that we can get something done by the end of this year, but whatever we promote by the end of the year will probably be the baseline going forward, so it's very important to get something out. I'm not sure we will ever get anything past the Senate and the president."
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Mitchell senior guard Jake Driscoll is out until at least February with a broken left forearm, Mustangs coach Jared St. Charles confirmed Tuesday.
The 6-foot sharpshooter broke both bones in his arm during a non-basketball fall earlier this month. St. Charles said Driscoll had surgery to insert screws and a plate into his arm and that the Mustangs' top player will miss the rest of the regular season. The team will reevaluate his status in February, and Driscoll could return for the playoffs.
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Shea butter weighs my fine hair down, it's notorious for doing that to us fine haired ladies.
I second PT, I also like the gelatin treatment mentioned. It can be a bit strong though, so you can always get Ion effective care at Sally's to try first to make sure your not protein sensitive. I would also make sure to follow up with a good DT. One recommended DT I also use is GVP CB (also from Sally's), but be sure to mix with something that can penetrate & moisturize the hair, like a tad bit of coconut oil & honey. You may need to follow that with a cleaning conditioner like one of the Suave Naturals or VO5 to get the Coconut oil out.
As far as products, I really like the Yes 2 line. Right now I Lowpoo with Yes to Cukes and Rinse out with YEs 2 Carrots conditioner. I only low poo, not co wash, cowashing commonly weighs down fine hair as well.
Lastly, I also agree with FSG. Fine hair LOVES FSG. It's really easy to make too. I usually top it with a harder holding gel like Biosilk Rock hard Gelee mixed with Herbal Essence Totally Twisted. If I get a chance when I'm not mobile, I'll link the FSG recipe. Mine changes often.
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Windows 7 Tablets From Computex Don't Go Far Enough To Unseat iPad
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As Apple announces it has sold more than 2 million iPads (no indication of US/global split), would-be competitors are unveiling their tablets at Computex in Taiwan. With so many products in the mix (and so few on the market), it can be hard for a product strategist to keep up with it all. So here's Forrester's quick guide to the tablets that are taking on Apple in the near future (note: this list doesn't include devices that may have a tablet form factor but are primarily eBook readers, such as Acer's planned 7" Android tablet. It also excludes tablets that are more rumor than reality. And I know just by putting together this list I will leave some off, and if that's the case leave a comment and tell me which ones you think I should add. Okay, enough caveats!):
Noticeably absent from this list is HP, the No. 1 PC manufacturer, who debuted a Windows 7 tablet at CES and then mysteriously cancelled it. As we've written before in our blog and in a new report, Microsoft needs a Windows 7 tablet success to prove that its operating system can be relevant for new form factors. We forecast that by 2015, tablets will reach more than 50 million users in the US and will constitute 20% of PC sales, so the stakes are considerable.
Surveying the offerings from Computex, the good news is that Microsoft is working with multiple OEMs to get something out there; the bad news is that none of the products give consumers a real reason to choose them over the iPad. As Engadget notes, Windows 7 tablets like the Asus Eee Pad are like laptops without keyboards, and that's not good enough. A hit Windows 7 tablet would do something above and beyond what the iPad can do: stream video, games, and Xbox Live connectivity back and forth from your tablet to your Xbox, for example, or integrate with other devices and software in innovative ways. It has to one-up Apple in solving a problem for consumers—to be the best computer for the living room, kitchen, bedroom, or bathroom, for example, or to be a better tablet for sharing with other people within a home or office environment. It could be more portable than the iPad, more comfortable to hold and use, or much, much cheaper. These are all opportunities for creating a better tablet than Apple has, but we don't see the tablets—Windows 7 or Android—at Computex doing anything substantially better than the iPad.
Tablets are a supply-side driven trend—meaning that consumers don't know that they want tablets until Apple and other companies teach them to want tablets. Apple's iPad has the curation and the cache—not to mention the marketing prowess and the Apple Store distribution channel—to be the most successful at teaching consumers to want this "other" device in their lives. We don't think it's impossible for other products to unseat the iPad, but we haven't seen them yet.
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Comment from mike hensgen (not verified) on Tue, 06/01/2010 - 12:31
Thanks for the quick snapshot on the subject from Computex...agree that none of them will UNSEAT Apple, but believe they reflect the growing recognition by consumers of the unique product niche, and what will obviously be some bleed off from what will be iPad's gargantuan first 18 months' volume... 10, 15, 20 million?
It will be great to see where the whole device segment goes, with the various hardware and op system choices down the road....thanks for the hot press report from the front!
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Comment from Guillaume d'arabian (not verified) on Fri, 06/18/2010 - 13:21
Unless manufacturers are successful at launching appstores equivalent and show some more "adult grown" OS/interfaces, they will struggle to unseat the iPad from it's niche. Their strongest asset would be to outnumber the iPad. The same as what's happening with iPhone and Android devices.
Windows being still the dominant OS, it is no surprise to see more Windows 7 tablets than Androids.
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i have a taurus that doesnt like everthing i feed it. But I still like the gun.
I recently bought a NIB Skyy industries CPX-1 subcompact in 9mm.
The CPX-1 is very similar in design to a Kel-Tec P11. It has a 10 round capacity, 3inch barrel, stainless steel slide, polymer frame, and aluminum receiver. Out of the box it came with 2 magazines, with both finger extensions and flat floorplates, and trigger lock. The fit and finish out of the box I found to be particularly good, with all the seams in the polymer smoothed out, and the feed ramp showing a mirror finish. It is DAO, with an external safety. The external safety is a point of argument, I find it unnecessary on a DAO gun, but I can live with it.
The first thing I found about the gun is that it is more picky than any other gun I own. It functions, although somewhat un-reliably with any Remington UMC ammunition I fed it, but has performed flawlessly with any Winchester White Box. It is also more susceptible to issues arising from a lack of proper cleaning. After 100 rounds or so failures to extract start happening. As with any small auto, I also had to get used to not limp-wristing, and take a higher grip on the frame. This is where another issue became noticeable. The safety is positioned in such a way that during recoil, it is extremely easy to engage the safety without noticing it. I remedied this problem by adding material to the detent hole making the safety much stiffer to operate.
The gun is as accurate as I can expect for a 3" 9mm, I qualified for my CCW with it, and shot a 100% (48 shots from 3yd to 15yd, all in the silhouette). Skyy recommends NO +p ammo for this gun, but I can live with that as well.
I paid $259 for it, and feel it was a great bargain.
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i have a taurus that doesnt like everthing i feed it. But I still like the gun.
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I have had the opposite problem. I get jams with the Winchester rounds, but no problems with the Remington rounds. I have fired off about 4000 rounds with this gun so far; it seems to be reliable for the most part.
After the first 500 rounds, the safty broke off; Skyy sent me a new one, and it arrived within a few days. After about 3500 rounds the slide lever broke off; once again, Skyy sent me a new one within a week. The service department is really good.
After the slide incident, I did purchase a S & W 38 snubnose; and keep the Skyy as my back-up. In todays world, you can never have enough weapons in the home.
I used to carry the Skyy; but have started carrying the S&W. For a low-cost handgun, it is a great deal. Easy to work on with minimal gunsmith experience; and the serviice department is very easy to talk to and get parts--they honor the life-time warrenty. Buy American in todays age, before the government outlaws and closes down gun manufactures.
Well this certainly raised a dead thread! :D
It's been well over a year since I bought my Skky CPX-1. FYI, Skky is now Sccy, so perhaps mine is a collector's model?
I think my initial problems with Ammo type is really just a matter of this gun liking to work clean. The slide stop is made with such tight tolerances that mine ceases to function after a few magazines. If I keep it clean after each range session, it will always work flawlessly for at least 3 magazines. I have more reliable things to carry, such as an XD or even a Makarov from time to time. I do keep this as a truck gun, though, since the loss is minimal if it gets stolen.
Looking back, I should have spent my $250+ on a nice used .38 revolver.
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Undefeated Mercito 'No Mercy' Gesta from Cebu, Philippines weighed 137 and Ty Barnett of Washington, D.C. scaled in at 135.5 for their upcoming lightweight main event on Top Rank's "The Future is Now" show on Friday in the Dallas Event Center at Texas Station Gambling Hall and Casino.
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Eastern PA Caravan to Bimmerfest 2012
Those of you interested in driving to Bimmerfest from Lancaster, PA should reply to me. Last year we met at the Walmart Parking lot on Rt - 30 and had an excellent drive to the event, right in the back door, no waiting, no traffic, no hastle. Let's do it again this year. We'll get the exact info out soon, but for right now I wanted to get an email out to plan on attending this event.
Tom Caskey - BMW CCA & ZSCCA
It was a fun drive last year, I was thinking of joining again.
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The drive is still happening
The event is still happening. We will meet in the Wal-mart parking lot at the junction of Route 30 East and Route 462. Plan on arriving between 6:00 and 6:30 am. We'll try and leave about 7:00 am. Bring your camera, a 2 way radio if you have one, a GPS, cash to enter the event, a folding chair or two, and sunscreen. We'll take a similiar route to last year arriving about 8:15 to 08:30 am. For you first-timers a 2 way radio is really helpful to let me know (I'm the lead driver) if you get stuck at a stop sign or a traffic light.
I'm in. Last year was a blast driving down...until the cooling system on my E36 M3 failed just before we got there. A mix between bad motor mounts and some spirited driving on the way down caused my engine fan to get hung up in the front of the car. Luckily the couple with the E92 M3 were very generous and gave me a ride back to PA. Looking forward to a different outcome this year!
Are we leaving earlier this year? Will they let us in 1-1/2 before the gates open?
Leaving Time for Lanc, PA Bimmerfest Caravan
If you are interested in driving with us then post a reply. We will leave @ 7:00 am and get there sometime about 08:30 (about an hour before last year). Everyone thought that was enough time to get situated, and see everything. If there are only four or five of us we can leave earlier. - Tom
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That was amazing. Pics I took on the way tomorrow ! Thanks fior your efforts
Too bad my 5er was in the way the whole time!
Awesome, thanks for the compilation! We need a gopro for next time!... hd
You're welcome. GoPro is the way to go for sure! Not bad for an iPhone though. The Garmin GPS suction cup bracket actually fits perfectly over the Otterbox belt clip for the iPhone. My poor mans GoPro for now!
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Bay Area Bike Share Expanding Into East Bay With 1,500 BikesBay Area Bike Share is planning a major expansion that will eventually add 1,500 bikes and 117 stations in the East Bay.
Bay Area Bike Share Program To See 10-Fold ExpansionThe Bay Area Bike Share's fleet of 700 turquoise bicycles, available for checkout at self-serve kiosks, will expand tenfold to 7,000 over the next two-and-a-half years.
Bay Area Bike Share Expanding Despite Bicycle Maker's BankruptcyThe Bay Area Metropolitan Transportation Commission approved $8.7 million in funding Wednesday morning to expand the Bay Area Bicycle Share program to the East Bay in 2015 despite delays in existing expansion plans caused by the bankruptcy of a key business.
New Bay Area Bike Share Program A Hit With RidersThe new Bay Area Bike Share system has only been in service for a week but seems to be a success as four times as many bicyclists have signed up to use the service as there are bikes available.
Bike Share Program Launched In 5 Bay Area CitiesBay Area commuters fed up with traffic clogged streets have a new option to get around the region.
Bay Area Bike Share Program Begins August 28A Bay Area bike share program in San Francisco, Redwood City, San Jose, Mountain View and Palo Alto will begin operating on August 28. The program's first phase is set to launch that day with 700 bikes.
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Discover what it takes to put together a successful portfolio.
Your portfolio is an important component of your application to the Lesley University College of Art and Design. Essentially your portfolio is a collection of 12 - 20 examples of your strongest and most recent artistic work. It is a visual record that demonstrates an understanding of basic art concepts, skilled use of materials and the ability to communicate ideas visually with imagination, creativity, clarity and originality.
Final portfolios must be submitted through SlideRoom.
You might wish to construct your portfolio based on your area of interest and a potential major at the Lesley University College of Art and Design.
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We value observational drawings. Approximately one third of your final portfolio (4 - 6 pieces) should be work that highlights your ability to draw from direct observation (what you see in real life). Examples of this include self-portraits, still life drawings, landscapes, interiors or figure drawings.
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RABAT (Reuters) - The man set to become Morocco's first Islamist prime minister said on Friday his government would not try to make women dress more modestly.
Abdelilah Benkirane is to lead a coalition government after his Justice and Development Party (PJD) became the latest Islamist movement in the Middle East to win an election in the wake of the "Arab Spring" revolutions.
The party is anxious to reassure powerful secularists in the Moroccan establishment, foreign investors, and the tourists who provide much of the country's revenue, that it will not try to impose a strict Muslim moral code.
"We are proud that our point of reference is Islamist," Benkirane, the PJD's secretary general and prime minister designate, told a small group of reporters invited to a briefing.
"I will never be interested in the private life of people, Allah created mankind free. I will never ask if a woman is wearing a short skirt or a long skirt."
"But there are things forbidden by the law. I think even in some European countries, people cannot be naked in public places," he said.
On relations with countries in Europe, Morocco's biggest trading partner, Benkirane said: "They are our friends and we need them and they will need us ... Morocco not only has historical ties to Europe but philosophical ones."
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This is why I cant even be fucked arguing on the hunter forums anymore, 90% of the posts are stupid comments like this, that would get insta banned if you said it on the mage forums.
People as per usual, are overreacting and dont understand the class in the slightest. Knee jerk nerfs have been flying out in every direction. They FINALLY listened and removed readiness the ACTUAL problem with BM. But not before they changed and removed dozens of other spells. They are just shit at doing anything when it comes to hunters, but the community is even worse, just fuck off if you dont know what your talking about. "X class is OP NERF" isnt feedback.
I played huntard this patch, I quit because I got bored of my pet shitting on kids even when I was very undergeared. Huntards need some meaningful nerfs, not nerf 1 thing 5% then buff another 30% to compensate
Originally Posted by Day Dreamer
Mages and rogues are pretty average these days and locks are beatable by any melee who is not completely clueless. Hunters, on the other hand, are completely out of control in both arena and 1v1. Any team with a hunter in it in 2s and 3s will walk all over the opposition. Wanna talk huntard/ret, huntard/disc in 2s and how they faceroll everything ?! Wanna talk huntard/disc/random in 3s ?!
Im just saying its interesting when people said mage/healer/x and its auto win no one cared, people bitched but it was nbd. once other classes took the place of the usual dominant classes in pvp since pvp was pvp in wow its a crisis. HOOOO MAN Ive never seen this level of forum activity in a long time.
@Illiterate you know its going to end up that way. Just like mages remember when people complained about getting ice lance raped so what did blizzard do? Ice Lance nerfed by 20% Frost Bolt buffed by 25. Expect it
Chaos! Madness! Like a hug for your brain!¯\(°_o)/¯
Originally Posted by Alpheus
People doing below 200k dps? Ain't nobody got time for that.
Originally Posted by smartazjb0y
Why? Why should content be gated behind skill?
14/14h and finally done
Originally Posted by Volant
How does being a paraplegic make playing wow more difficult?
Because they're so dumb they play via riverdancing on their keyboard, Duh! How did you not know this?!
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It is with a sad heart and many many tears that I tell you all Mac crossed over the rainbow bridge today. In June of last year Mac was diagnosed with spinal arthritis. He had been getting old but I had noticed it was harder for him to move from place to place. One of his favorite spots is under a bench I have in my room that has a stereo on it and one day I went to turn it on and it wouldn't work. I investigated and found the cord had been partially severed. It was still hooked up though and gave me quite a nasty jolt. I was not sure if Mac had been electrocuted so we went to the vet. With a sentence of spinal arthritis and not electrocution hanging over him Mac was doomed and I knew it. Bracing for what might come we made the house as easy to navigate as possible and I grabbed two old pillows and stitched a cover for them so he could sleep more comfortably. Now Mac has never been a bed kind of dog, happily sleeping on the floor and prefers the cold hard floor of our kitchen. There are dogs with hair and then there is Mac. In full coat he can put a Samoyed prancing out to be best in show to shame. Living in Houston we kept him shaved during the heat of summer and with a shave in August he would be in full coat again by October and wonderfully full for Christmas photos with Santa. But I knew there would come a day when Mac would need the bed and I waited. Mac literally went from bounding all over the house in joy to creeping to crawling in a matter of months. I fashioned a belt to lift him to take on his walks but even those became too hard for him and I became a nurse-maid bound by my love for Mac. Mac took the failing of his body in good stride just as he does everything else. He held royal court on that bed but last week he hid. Even when Mac had been new to the forever home concept he had never hidden before. I think I cried for hours that night. Thinking I was making too much of it I was shocked when he did it again and he could barely stand for longer than 5 minutes. His movement had become bursts place to place and for a dog who greeted everyone with a smile and a wag of his tail he was withdrawing. I called mom who agreed enough was enough, Mac never hid and he was never not happy to see someone now Mac was sad something neither of us could stand. As I took Mac to see the vet there literally wasn't a dry eye in the office, they all knew this dog. Mac had greeted for the vet office for over 2 years, he had been patient as vet techs were taught how to properly hold dogs. He had soothed dogs waking from anesthesia and helped comfort grieving owners whose pets just couldn't live anymore. Mac's ashes will be scattered as there is no dog that doesn't need a little Mac in them, he gave to all and wanted only a hug or pet in return. Hug your pets' tonight folks, they are worth the world to us and a lifetime worth of lessons on patience, love and understanding for all human failures.
Now it's no secret I was an abused dog. When mom adopted me that wonderful day 12 years ago the rescuers told her I had been abused. I had actually been abused by children. I ADORE children, from the groping hands of a toddler to the tender touch of a dying child I LOVE THEM. But light a candle near me and I tremble, I used to scream.
It is said you can judge a society on how it treats it animals. It is well documented truth serial killers and some mentally disturbed maim or abuse animals. Animal Planet has a wonderful show called Animal Cops and it highlights the trials and rescues of various SPCA agencies around the nation. After a person is convicted on animal cruelty charges and pays their fine what happens then? Can they adopt again? The answer to this should be NO but the truth is yes. Why is this? Because none of the various rescues and shelters have a criminal database that links to all the others to tell these people they are criminals. What some of the bigger shelters do have is access to the DMV records but not to most criminal records. So a person that is convicted of animal abuse can and sometimes might adopt another dog or cat and the cycle continues.
So how do you stop the cycle? Give a voice to those of us that cannot talk. Let it be known it is not okay for criminals to animals to own more. Now not every criminal maims or abuses animals but those that have should not be allowed to have more.
The project: Make criminal records available to shelters and allow shelters to make their own rules and policies regarding adoption. Make the AKC refine and revamp their breed rescues to be better equipped for background criminal record checks.
What do you think?
Dear Diary,
Ever had one of those quiet days? One where the house is empty and you can just stretch out and enjoy the sun? I got to have one of those days today. Then the cat decided to cause some mischief... Buster is 8 years old but acts like a kitten. He danced across the keyboards on mom & dad's cpu then decided to do a bit of "rearranging" on the table. He rounded off this escapade with a death defying leap to the counter and knocked everything off of there as he skidded and slid. I actually barked at him a couple of times to tell him to knock it off but he grinned and smiled as he thought I would be blamed for the huge mess.
Mom, dad & Rusty came home and took one look at the house and said in unison "Buster!" See, I would never get into that kind of trouble it's just too dirty. I like my paws clean and I like to not have to worry about messes. After everything was cleaned up mom came over and brushed me and gave me a treat. Dad came over too and told me what a good boy I had been all day.
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— In U.S. cities, that place is Provo-Orem, Utah, where 76 percent of residents say their area is becoming a better place to live, according to a Gallup poll released on Tuesday.
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He's never been one to take life too seriously, so when David Letterman received death threats from an Al-Qaeda jihadist his knee-jerk reaction was to joke about it.
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Claiming that their issues didn't stem from his hosting duties at the 1995 Oscars, the "Late Show" host said, "This predates the Academy Awards. She hated me long before then."
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During the month of November, the Indiana Kiwanis Club was treated to a number of interesting programs. After participating in the United Way Pancake and Sausage fundraiser, President Bruce Jenkins and a representative from Merrill Lynch discussed investment strategies.
On Nov. 12, Josie Cunningham presented a moving account of the battle at Gettysburg, which took place 150 years ago. She ended her touching presentation with a recitation of the Gettysburg Address.
Nov. 19 brought Don and Becky Becker, Civil War re-enactors, dressed in garb of the time. They shared memorabilia and Don presented a slide show detailing the actual 1863 battle.
Dave Koches represented Kiwanis at the Pine Grove Key Club meeting. The Key Club has raised $2,000 being donated to three charities: Alice Paul House, Chevy Chase Community Center, and Alex's Lemonade Stand. Representatives from these groups accepted checks on Dec. 4. Salvation Army bell ringing at the Indiana Mall will be Dec. 21.
President Patti Ann Cribbs called the meeting to order at 7:06 p.m. A motion was approved to dispense with the roll call of officers due to the Christmas party being held after the meeting.
The treasurer's report was placed on file for audit.
There were no reports on sickness and distress. All members are healthy or on the mend. It was a very happy report for the auxiliary. Dixie Kalafsy was the Good of the Order winner. She donated it back to the auxiliary.
Evelyn Bondra, Mary Ann Thomas, Annette Lucas and Becky Povlich hosted the Christmas party. The tables were decorated with figurines of Santa Claus, sleighs, snow globes and poinsettia plants. The luncheon consisted of an hors d'oeuvres table with cheese and crackers, Swedish meatballs, wieners and two varieties of punch. Dinner included chicken salad sandwiches, pasta salad and Jello salad along with coffee.
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Bioshock - Movie @ GameSpot
r3dshift writes about a new Bioshock movie at GameSpot, which he describes as "awesome". There are some possible minor spoilers but it's certainly worth a look for anyone following Bioshock with nearly seven minutes of footage.
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I honestly think that this video has an enormous atmosphere - greater than most games I've seen and certainly emulating those that have been available lately. The graphics are also outstanding and breath-taking. It's just so much a 100% candidate for my GOTY award.
I'm also looking forward to Bioshock. If it's half as good as System Shock 2 was then it'll be a great game.
Between Bioshock, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Supreme Commander, and C&C 3, I'm going to have a great Summer:)
Albeit (sadly) it seems there's not been much response to this video, I thought I'd point out that it's also available for download in HD, weighing in at 176.8 MB:
http://download.gametrailers.com/gt_…mo_2_h264. mov
Some very nice looking stuff, one of the things I'm definitely looking forward to this year!
The only things that impress me about Bioshock so far are the art direction and audio. The gameplay doesn't look very special.
Doesn't look very special? For a shooter? Are you high?
Now if you think of it as an RPG (which it really isn't) then sure…I guess (maybe) you could say that. But since it's a shooter at heart…um…I don't think we've seen and read about the same game here.
And honestly it sounds like it has more consequences based on actual choices you make in the game than most recent so-called RPGs do. The character development will be about on par with System Shock 2. So that's a bit lacking in the RPG department…but still more complex than Oblivion was.
Maybe "gameplay" means something different to you than it does to me.
And no, as a shooter, it doesn't look impressive to me either. I measure up FPS's to the standards set by games like Half-Life 2, F.E.A.R., Far Cry, and Painkiller, and as a shooter this game is not close. Not that I would complain about that, since System Shock 2 wasn't a great shooter either, but it did have a robust role playing system, even if it was a bit contrived.
And getting AI characters to attack each other is nothing new. You could do it in Postal 2. The fact that this is a controlled demo makes it even less impressive to me.
Like I said previously, I love the art direction and the atmosphere, but I am pretty lukewarm on the gameplay. It reminds me of Inivisible War in a few key ways. Forgive me for being pessimistic. I'm tired of getting excited about games and then later finding out that they aren't very good.
That I can understand. You're still feeling the burn of Invisible War.
You're right that it still does have a chance of being a steaming pile of poo ala Deus Ex Invisible War. Of course all the blind moronic reviewers will give it 80-90% scores if it's just like Invisible War…but to me that game was absolute trash. Not even worth paying $15-$20 bargain bin price to play. Maybe worth $5 just to see how horrible it was.
The fact that Bioshock is being made simultaneously for the 360 & PC could be a bad sign. But I think (hope) they're going to prove that it can be done so that neither game is hurt by that fact.
I'm probably setting myself up for massive dissappointment but I think this game will push gaming forward the way System Shock 2 did (or should have). Since I'm looking forward to this game above all other PC games this year…I sure hope it doesn't live up (down) to your expectations. Of course I pre-ordered STALKER too…so I might just be an optimist (or a sucker). :)
I'm with the doc on this one ;) . Nothing really new or impressive has been shown so far. That trailer is just showing off some *boom* and some *flash* and then some more *boom*. Well, and that attacking a big daddy is a stupid idea. OK. Great. Thanks for the advice.
Otherwise I'm not sure what there is to be excited about. With the exception of the 1950s deco and art style, there is absolutely nothing original to be seen here in my opinion.
So I hope that they will show a little more of the gameplay and the story progression in upcoming trailers. But my expectations are fairly low since Ken Levine said that they are building the levels and the gameplay first and then constructing a story around it all later. Kinda like id's method when they make a new Doom or Quake or Blizzard when they made Diablo. That's why I don't expect this game to have a memorable story at all.
Also, there's a good chance that playing around with the gimmicks, gadgets, remote controls and weapons will get old after a couple of levels.
We'll see though. I still have some little hope left to be positively surprised by one of the next trailers or better yet the demo that will hopefully come out before the game's release.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Actress Pamela Anderson wiggled down the catwalk to a whooping audience on Friday and Vivienne Westwood told fashionistas to fight economic crisis by wearing a back-to-front shirt.
Huge safety blankets folded into coats and out-of-control pink tulle added Westwood's trademark rebellious touch to the show, culminating in Anderson twirling down the catwalk first in a tutu and then in a skin-tight T-shirt.
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With an album coming out and all the touring and promo work that goes with it, most people who know even a tiny bit about these things (that'll be me) were wondering how on earth she would manage to fit it all in.
What's interesting now is whether her departure will have a knock-on effect on the other judges.
Sir Tom Jones apparently only agreed to come back for the last run when he and Jessie had a cosy little tete a tete at Gary Barlow's Jubilee gig. They agreed to return if the other one did. Sweet!
So where does that leave the 73-year-old now?
Will you miss Jessie J on The Voice?
And what about the forever-jetting-off Will.i.am who spends so much time going here, there and everywhere he pretty much doesn't have time to sleep...?
Not to mention Danny O'Donoghue, whose appearance on the reality show has already irked his (less famous now) fellow bandmates at The Script.
Jessie might just be the first of several to bid farewell to the show.
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Big Band Dinner Dance will benefit Sealth and Denny jazz bands Mar. 22
Saturday night in the Chief Sealth Galleria you have a chance to enjoy some great food AND great music as the Chief Sealth International High School and Denny International Middle School Jazz Bands present an evening of jazz featuring performances by the school jazz bands and West Seattle Big Band.
Dinner features Otis Pimpleton's Louisiana style BBQ chicken with baked beans, potato salad, and mixed vegetables.
A vegetarian lasagna option is available upon request. A dessert dash is included as part of the event.
All proceeds benefit the school jazz bands.
Mar 22, 2014 6:00 PM
Prices for the event:
VIP TABLE FOR 8/Dinner & Dance $240.00 ($249.39 w/service fee)
Table will be closest to the stage and at the front of the buffet line. They will be emailing you for your meal preferences for the 8 guests.
Barbecue Chicken Dinner/Dance $23.00 ($24.80 w/service fee)
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Student dance-only tickets without dinner can be purchased at 7:00 at the door.
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Sleeping New Zealand sea lionsImage: Laura Boren | DOC
Following consultation on the draft Threat Management Plan (TMP), DOC and MPI have been working together to see what a comprehensive plan would look like. The have taken into account stakeholder submissions and how this could be achieved.
On 10 May 2017 the Minister announced a government investment of $2.8 million over four years to support the recovery of this taonga species. Read the media release about the funding.
The proposed scope of the new TMP involves four key areas of work:
Prioritisation of the finer details of the New Zealand sea lion TMP will take place at two meetings with Treaty partners and stakeholders in Dunedin and Invercargill during May 2017. Following these meetings DOC and MPI will provide Ministers with a final TMP for approval and implementation.
New Zealand sea lion Threat Management Plan
The draft Threat Management Plan (TMP) is a culmination of a number of workstreams and several workshops to understand the common causes of pup mortality for sea lions at the Auckland Islands, and an overall risk assessment for the species.
Pup mortality for sea lions at the Auckland Islands (PDF, 585K)
The plan recognises that there is no single threat that is impacting the sea lion population, and recovery will require mitigation multiple threats at the range of breeding sites.
The plan proposes a work programme to be reviewed every five years on progress towards meeting the plan's 20-year goal; that the population will be at or above its current population level and increasing.
The public consultation process ran for 8 weeks and closed on August 19, 2016. DOC and MPI officials have considered all submissions and are currently liaising with key stakeholders over some of the management and research identified in some submissions. Officials anticipate that a decision on the full extent of the resulting Threat Management Plan will occur in early 2017.
In the interim, work on some key aspects of the Threat Management Plan, including the development of a sea lion forum and reviews of Operational Plans for some fisheries, will be underway shortly. In addition, over the coming sea lion breeding season, DOC is coordinating field research that focuses on some of the key threats. This includes a risk factor study on pup mortality in the main breeding colonies on the Auckland Islands, and maintaining the "Planks for Pups" initiative that has been successful in saving nearly 25% of pups born on Enderby Island. DOC is also improving community engagement material for Stewart Island and the Otago coast, and is liaising with volunteers
This section provides an overview of the work undertaken in the development of the Threat Management Plan.
In March 2014, the then Minister of Conservation, Nick Smith, and the Minister for Primary Industries, Nathan Guy, announced their intention to develop a TMP.
See the March 2014 media release: Low count triggers new plan for endangered New Zealand sea lion.
Currently the largest breeding grounds of New Zealand sea lions are on the Auckland Islands where the majority of the pups are born each year. DOC has closely monitored this breeding population over the last 20 years or so and has seen this population decline substantially. The New Zealand sea lion has been listed as nationally critical, prompting the development of the TMP.
A Threat Management Plan (TMP) for New Zealand sea lions has now been developed by the Department of Conservation and Ministry for Primary Industrie, and reviews all natural and human-induced threats to sea lions and explores protection measures to ensure their survival.
The TMP will provide a 5 year programme aimed at reducing the decline, with a long-term goal of reversing the decline of sea lions so that they return to a thriving population.
The Department of Conservation and Ministry for Primary Industries developed a joint programme of work. The TMP timeline had three main work streams: risk assessment, monitoring and active management, and policy.
The risk assessment stream was made up of three phases:
Development process for the Threat Management Plan (PDF, 70K)
Alongside this rigorous risk assessment process, an monitoring and active management approach was taken. In practice this meant that DOC and MPI would take management actions and respond quickly to reduce mortality wherever possible. For example, the field team on the Auckland Islands actively rescued pups from terrain traps and holes to reduce pup mortality wherever possible.
An urgent piece of work, requested by scientific experts, was completed to address high pup mortality at the Auckland Islands. An expert workshop was convened in early June 2014 specifically to look at these issues and assess what could be done in the following summer field season.
Results from the workshop indicated that a new and deadly strain of bacterial infection is killing a significant number of pups. Experts are assisting with simple and cost effective methods of isolating the cause of the disease and developing possible responses.
Discussion paper on New Zealand sea lion mortality: causes and mitigation (PDF, 585K)
A literature review for global otariid species (fur seals and sea lions) was conducted, with the aim of identifying probable threats to the population recovery of New Zealand sea lions. It was not intended to be fully comprehensive, but to function as a background document for New Zealand sea lions, reviewing the threats to sea lions, and the inclusion of a comparison with similar international species.
Review of threats to the recovery of NZ sea lions and other otariid species (PDF, 1,162K)
The Background Document for the New Zealand sea lion Threat Management Plan provides more detailed information on the natural history and biology of the New Zealand sea lion/rāpoka. It also summarises the key threats the species is exposed to. It is intended to be supporting material to assist anyone wanting to make a submission on draft New Zealand sea lion Threat Management Plan.
Background document - New Zealand sea lion Threat Management Plan (PDF, 3,480K)
Engagement opportunities were provided to stakeholders throughout the development of the TMP, through already established groups and forums (such as the Aquatic Environment Working Group, Conservation Services Programme Technical Working Group, and Environmental Engagement Forum), and through agency websites.
Opportunities for feedback have included:
Visit the meetings and project updates page for summaries and reports from stakeholder meetings.
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Amanda arrived during the early years of XL Girls. In a way, she was a pioneer of the large-and-in-charge league. Unfortunately, the plump and curvy New Yorker only visited once before moving on to other activities. There's nothing else of Amanda out there that we're aware of.. no other companies that filched her after seeing her at XL Girls. In this rare hardcore scene, she and Nikko paired-off for a pure fuck encounter without story or theme. It was one of two XXX experiences she did with the cock. Amanda told a funny story during her visit that yet again proves that cheesy pick-up lines can blow-back at the pick-up artist. "One time a clerk at a store where I was buying condoms said to me, 'Maybe you and I should get together and use those, babe!' "What he should have done was just give me his name and phone number on a slip of paper. It's possible I might have phoned him later on, and if we clicked on the phone, I might have considered meeting him for coffee even though he was a stranger.


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Returning Asians to fill talent gap, boost innovation
By Eveline Danubrata
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - "Go East" is a message being heeded by many Asian professionals in the United States and Europe who see brighter job prospects in a region that is expected to outperform the rest of the world for economic growth.
Zhang Zheng Han, 26, is one of a growing flock of highly educated Asians living in the West who have bought one-way tickets home, lured by job opportunities, family ties and a comfortable lifestyle.
"Right now no nation is changing as swiftly as China," he said. "There are so many opportunities for people in my generation."
After getting his masters degree in engineering from the UK's Nottingham University, he came back to China and immediately began work for a stem cell research firm.
Other Asians should follow, according to American investor Jim Rogers, who co-founded the Quantum Fund with George Soros. He thinks this century will be China's and now lives in ethnically Chinese Singapore, where his young kids are learning Mandarin.
"If you're in London you're in the wrong place at the wrong time ... You gotta move east," he told Reuters TV recently.
The trend of reverse migration has accelerated in the past few months as the financial crisis has hit the United States and Europe harder than many Asian economies. This influx will serve Asia well as it needs skilled managers to leverage further growth, experts say.
"These returnees would serve as a bridge between Asia and the rest of the economies," said Irvin Seah, an economist at Singapore's DBS, Southeast Asia's largest bank. Continued...


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Somehow, despite all this attention, Robyn Annear had not heard of the story until she was putting together a display on the origins of street names in Castlemaine, Victoria, where she lives. "No-one knows the origin of Wimble Street but there was a rumour that it was named after a big-made chap who was working as a lime carter in town and, by the way, he was really Arthur Orton."
Once informed, Annear was hooked on this "incomparable story". A typist and bookseller turned amateur historian, she has authored two other character-filled histories - the award-winning Bearbrass: Imagining Early Melbourne (1995) and Nothing But Gold: The Diggers of 1852 (1999) - and decided to get to the truth of Tichborne.
"My first impulse was to find out what happened in Australia because the two standard texts were written from a British point of view." During three years' work, she followed the Claimant's trail to Tasmania, Gippsland and the Riverina, and went into the archives of the National Library and state libraries of Victoria and NSW.
"The Mitchell Library has the best collection of Tichborneiana. There are lots of notes in the Claimant's handwriting and his barrister Kenealy's handwriting." She also spent $1200 on her own copy of the nine-volume, leather-bound, annotated trial transcripts. "I had to get my hands on it and immerse myself. Pages fell out and the bindings cracked as I read it," she says with a fanatic's pleasure.
Annear decided not to travel to England, where the Claimant began and ended his life, "because I knew I would be engulfed and I wanted to keep the Australian focus". Her publisher was keen for her to go and for a while she considered "doing a Claimant" and faking some emails from London.
The Claimant's protean existence encouraged people who encountered him to invent and misremember all sorts of wild impossibilities. So many versions of his life emerged from her research that Annear set up elaborate flow charts and databases to try to make sense of them. Sometimes Roger Tichborne, Arthur Orton and his alias Tom Castro seemed to become one person, but then they turned into three or more.
Probably they were two, says Annear. "I found out really early that the Claimant wasn't Tichborne but if I'd said that's it, the book would have lost its point." She drops some heavy hints about her scepticism through the narrative: on page 39, for example, she writes that Lady Tichborne held on to the hope that survivors had been found from her son's ship "long after it ceased to be a reasonable one".
However, it's the twists and turns of the story, the vivid detail Annear accumulates and the audaciousness of the Claimant that make The Man Who Lost Himself a gripping, if sometimes baffling, read. Aids to the reader include a cast list of 84 characters and maps of South America, south-east England, Victoria and Tasmania.
"I always thought a conman had his story well worked out," Annear says. "I was not prepared for someone like the Claimant who made it up as he went along and constantly threw spanners in his own works. I think he may have told his story for a lark in the first place and never got over it."
Annear was able to trace in more detail than previous writers the Claimant's travels from Hobart up the country - passing through her hometown of Castlemaine - with adventures as a stockman, a horse thief and a bushranger, using various names including Dan Morgan and, most commonly, Tom Castro. "What happened in the bush was the crucible of the story," she says.
Many people who met him along the way remembered his cryptic stories of being wealthier than he appeared. Annear pins most down to the time after Lady Tichborne ran a notice on the front page of The Times of London in May 1863 (and later in the colonial press), offering in English, French and Spanish: "If anyone can give any clue of Roger Charles Tichborne ... A handsome reward is promised for any well-authenticated particulars."
From then on, the case fed on the opportunism of agents, lawyers, relatives and hangers-on. "It was an amazing combination of his front and others' greed," says Annear. In the end their ambitions were defeated by equally determined forces on the other side of the family, who refused to give up their property and riches to this blow-in. But not before bonds were sold to raise �40,000 for his defence and attempts were made to identify the ballooning, 150-kilogram Claimant by his nervous twitch and his tiny, retracted penis. He spent the last years of his life in prison, music halls and poverty.
The magic ingredient in the story was its location. "The case brought Australia and the idea of Australia into the British living room in a way that it hadn't been since the gold rushes. In the British imagination it was a mysterious place where you could arrive as a baronet and be reduced to a butcher. They were ready to believe anything could happen," says Annear.
So, for a while, was she. Her young daughter tried to help her reach a conclusion by leaving a note to the fairies in the garden and telling Annear she would dream the answer. "It didn't happen," she says. "It was like a monster that grew more heads."
Even DNA testing might not definitively identify the Claimant because of a possibility that he was the illegitimate son of a Tichborne, even if he was Arthur Orton, the Wapping butcher. She doesn't expect her book to lay the mystery to rest.
Two people have recently approached her with separate claims that Roger Tichborne was their father or grandfather and lived out his life in different parts of Victoria. "I'm sure there's more of that out there and I'm looking forward to it," says Annear, before swearing her next book will be fiction.
The Man Who Lost Himself: The Unbelievable Story of the Tichborne Claimant, by Robyn Annear, is published by Text, $32.
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ITV's original decision to scrap News at Ten in March 1999, and replace it with a 6.30pm Evening News and the 11pm Nightly News, was attributed in part to its wish to show uninterrupted films, dramas and live sports coverage at peak time. Viewers hated the breaks in films for the half-hour News at Ten, and of course, there was big ad revenue to be had if ITV screened uninterrupted blockbusters.
Did it work?
Well, yes, if you are ITV's advertising director; no, if you were one of the dozens of very vocal campaigners who complained the new late night news had damaged democracy. While viewing figures at certain times rose, contributing to a £100m increase in advertising revenue, those for ITV's news bulletins fell by up to 13.9%. This, said various politicians, prime minister Tony Blair and culture secretary Chris Smith was actually bad news for the electorate, since less people across Britain were tuning in to any daily news as the 11pm bulletin was too late.
So we're getting the old News at Ten back?
Not exactly. It will be back, and at 10pm, but only 20 minutes long and on three times a week, instead of five. It won't be aired on a Friday night, and will also be off our screens on one other night per week when ITV will be free to transmit a movie or another major event, such as football. As for Trevor McDonald - no specific announcement has been made, but it is presumed he will simply revert back to the 10pm slot.
Now is everybody happy?
No. There are rumblings of opposition brewing to the three-nights-a-week arrangement. Gerald Kaufman, the chairman of the House of Commons culture committee, says it's "deplorable" and he has criticised the ITC, saying it had "shown itself to be weak". The BBC won't be happy either. It had planned to capitalise on the 10pm slot by moving its 9pm news back an hour but Chris Smith has urged programme bosses to reconsider. Sky News will be squirming too. Its News at Ten was doing very nicely without competition from ITV.
What right does the ITC have to force the rescheduling?
The ITC is the television industry's regulator and as such, issues licences that allow commercial television companies to broadcast in and from the UK. It does not regulate BBC1, BBC2 or S4C (the Welsh fourth channel). It can advise companies when they have breached their licence, and often this is nothing more than contacting the television company concerned, offering guidance and making it clear that the offence should not be repeated. In a more serious matter, it can issue a formal warning, require on-screen corrections or apologies, disallow a repeat or impose a fine. In the most extreme cases it can shorten the term of a licence or even withdraw it altogether. Throughout its involvement with News at Ten, it has used clipped terminology such as "insisting" and "asking". But the only recourse ITV actually had was to appeal through the courts. If ITV chose not to come forward with a proposal for an earlier bulletin after the ITC's ruling, the body was in a position to "direct" them to move it, backed by statutory powers which ensure television channels fulfil their "public service" obligations.
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|Some changes this year, if you forget to make your picks you will be awarded the least amount of correct picks made for the week so that you don't fall too far off the pace.
I have also set the picks deadline to 5 min prior to each game so that some of you slugs that can't get out of bed on Saturday morning in time to make your picks now have a fighting chance.
Pretty straight forward, pick the most amount of games correctly and win some money. Things will run much smoother this year. Good luck.


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The award winning Lemon Street Market is the epitome of all that is great about Cornwall. Bursting with individual shops, offering foods, gifts, furniture and even a barbers, The Lemon Street Market is an oasis in the centre of Truro.The Lemon Street Market offers a choice of restaurants for you to enjoy. Sit among the shops, under the palms in the Explorers Restaurant and enjoy a selection of contemporary foods from our menu. On the first floor you will discover The Lander Gallery, Cornwall's largest selection of combined classic and contemporary art, all with a Cornish theme.
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Alex Jennings was near to tears at his West End first-night curtain call as he paid tribute to History Boys star Richard Griffiths who died after heart surgery.
At the Duchess Theatre, Jennings, appearing as playwright Alan Bennett in Untold Stories, announced that West End lights were dimmed earlier in the late actor's honour, and added: "Richard Griffiths is irreplaceable."
Griffiths, 65, who died last week, starred with Jennings in the premiere of Bennett's The Habit of Art, about WH Auden and Benjamin Britten.Jennings hailed him as a "peerless" performer of Bennett's work — "from the man in A Private Function feeding ginger biscuits to that pig, to The Habit of Art at the National and heavenly Hector in The History Boys".
After last night's performance, former History Boys stars also expressed sadness at the loss of the man who played their inspirational teacher, and praised Jennings for being the image of Bennett, who they got to know while in the hit show.
Samuel Barnett, who starred in BBC Olympics sitcom Twenty Twelve, said: "The History Boys is like a family, that's why we're all so sad about Richard dying. We've lost one of our own. It does feel the circle is incomplete."
He was "startled" at Jennings's performance as Bennett: "It was like watching Alan — his body language, the way he plants his feet. Alex has done more than an impression. He's got the spirit of him," he said. Being Human star Russell Tovey said: "It was such a respectful performance." But the curtain-call postscript on Griffiths left him "streaming with tears".
It was completely right the lights were dimmed, he said. "That he's gone, it's like a cog on the wheel is not there any more."
The dimming of lights across the West End just before curtain-up is a rare honour previously granted to figures including Laurence Olivier, Harold Pinter and Natasha Richardson. Mark Rubinstein, president of the Society of London Theatre which organised the tribute last night, said it was "fitting" to honour "a fine actor who made such a significant and lasting contribution to our London stages".Reuse content


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Captain Pirate is an odd little game for your Windows Phone. Odd not so much in a bad way but remember the old board game Operation? Where you had to have a steady hand to extract game pieces (body parts of sorts) from a cartoon character? Touch the edge of the game board as you extract the game piece and you lose.
Captain Pirate reminds me of that game.... well, in a way.
With Captain Pirate, the goal is to maneuver a pirate's hook to buried treasure, avoiding dangers and collecting gold coins along the way. Touch/bump into any of the dangers and you lose a life. Lose three lives and the game's over. Captain Pirate is a decent game for your Windows Phone but probably more appealing to the younger (much younger) crowd.


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Europa League: Dynamo Kiev and Rapid Vienna draw 2-2 in Group G
Christoper Trimmel headed a late equaliser to earn Rapid Vienna a 2-2 draw with Dynamo Kiev in Europa League Group G.
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Christoper Trimmel headed a late but richly deserved equaliser to earn Rapid Vienna a 2-2 draw with Dynamo Kiev in Europa League Group G in Austria.
Dynamo went from being in a position of total control at 2-0 ahead during the first half to having to settle for a draw.
However they could have few complaints, having allowed Rapid to dominate the second 45 minutes from start to finish.
Dynamo led from the 30th minute when Andriy Yarmolenko struck, and a most unlucky own goal four minutes later from Christopher Dibon gave them their two-goal cushion.
Guido Burgstaller began the fightback by netting in the eighth minute of the second half, and just when it seemed their effort would bring no reward Rapid's Trimmel proved their saviour.
Dynamo had lost their group-stage opener to Genk, while Rapid slid to defeat against Thun, so this was a chance to make up ground.
For the visitors, Younes Belhanda and Miguel Veloso lifted early shots over the Rapid crossbar and Danilo Silva cracked a 25-yard drive off target.
With pressure building, the opening goal duly arrived. Benoit Tremoulinas ran down the left, hugging the touchline, and trickled over a low centre that the home defence might have dealt with better. Instead it reached Yarmolenko, lurking near the penalty spot, and his left-footed strike found the bottom left corner.
Dynamo's second came when Belhanda and Stefan Palla jostled for the ball inside the penalty area, with Rapid left-back Palla getting a toe in to seemingly eliminate the goal threat. Yet the ball arrowed straight at the shoulder of Dibon who at close quarters had no time to adjust, and goalkeeper Jan Novota was wrong-footed.
The seeds of a comeback were sown before the break as Rapid began to pour forward, and the crowd had cause to believe when Palla set up Burgstaller in the 53rd minute. A cross from the left found the Austria international striker who converted a right-footed shot from 12 yards.
Terrence Boyd, Louis Schaub and Burgstaller each went close in the subsequent three minutes, the latter when Maksym Koval had to tip the ball wide for a corner.
Still they piled on the pressure, Brian Behrendt clearing the bar from 20 yards before Koval turned away a 30-yard free-kick strike from Thanos Petsos.
Dynamo flickered to life when Novota needed to be sharp to push aside a shot from Dieumerci Mbokani.
But Petsos was at it again from long range soon after, as the match entered stoppage time, sending his 25-yard attempt wide of the left post. And then came the leveller, Palla involved in a goal for the third time in the game as his cross again from the left picked out Trimmel, and from six yards he rose well to head home.