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Three years later I sit on the green couch and tug at a stubborn zipper on a slip-covered pillow that haven't been washed in who-knows-how-long. Jayci is yelling at me from her "rest-time" that she wants to come out, which is causing Caden to stir angrily in my arms. He has already, after-all, been asleep for nearly fifteen minutes, which is clearly long enough. I sigh loudly. I'm having one of those days again. The kind when Adam is out chopping wood (literally) for who-knows-what, and the three-year old is in rare form, and the six month old who hasn't slept in six months continues to not-sleep. And I am daydreaming about running away to the nearest hotel where I will collapse in blissful sleep.
A few nights ago, Caden only woke up ONE time all night and I was nearly giddy with the excitement and prospects of what lay ahead. Clearly, before long they would BOTH be sleeping all night! And also napping simultaneously! And I would do laundry and NOT forget to put it in the dryer! And then I would fold it and put it away that same day rather than waiting for weeks! And the dishes wouldn't stack up! And the kiddos would always be polite and respectful and never steal things from us!
But things don't always go as planned, and the last three nights Caden has woken up at least once an hour all-night-long. I realize we've developed some bad-sleep-habits with our sweet little guy (mostly because of his health stuff), but I dont have the energy or stamina at 3am to risk him waking Jayci up by letting him cry even for a few minutes. Besides, who can remember in the constant fog of sleep-deprivation whose turn it is to get up with the baby and how long it's been since he last ate? My only thought is of the quickest route back into my bed.
And so I am still confused. And sleep-deprived. And definitely desperate.
I am, however, a whole lot less self-loathing about the whole thing. Because if I've learned anything in the past three years it is this: there is no mom-club. Or if there is, it's merely the triumphant joining of mothers who have realized that there is no formula, no secret. Only babies who like to sleep and babies who don't. Only moms who breast-feed and those who give formula. Those who cry-it-out and others who co-sleep. Moms who have realized that over every single one of us is a God who lavishes grace. A Father who stands in the gap when my patience wears thin with all-the-tantrums and the lack of sleep. Who offers me hope and fresh starts each morning. Because maybe today will be the day that my sweet-miracle-baby finally lets me sleep for eight uninterrupted hours. Or at least three. And if not? Well I have the blessed assurance that He will sustain me through the weariness. That just as surely as He carried me while Caden was in the hospital, He will carry me now, through the mundane days and sleepless nights.
So for all those moms who are struggling to find their way, who are certain that everyone else has it together and has everything figured out. Let me assure you: we don't. Even right this minute, I can barely keep my eyes open wide enough to remind Jayci not to jump off the couch and to ask her to take the marker away that Caden has somehow got his hands on. I am praying for all of you today (and for myself) that we will get some sleep. And that even if we don't, we will find REST and refreshment in the arms of a loving Father who extends grace in my shortcomings, and reminds me that it is those very shortcomings that will point my children to Him.


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Where a plaintiff alleges that his union violated its duty of fair representation when it decided not to persist in his grievance after he was fired by the city of Cambridge, the complaint must be dismissed based on the fact that the plaintiff has initiated an administrative proceeding with the Massachusetts Division of Labor Relations based on the same allegations.Read More »
Mortgages – Summary process – Injunction
Where plaintiffs, who ceased making their mortgage payments in 1997, have requested a preliminary injunction to prevent the defendant, which purchased the plaintiffs' home at a 2009 foreclosure sale, from enforcing a District Court summary process judgment against them, the complaint must be dismissed on res judicata grounds.Read More »
Attorneys – Estate plan – Duty of care
Where a plaintiff estate executor has brought a legal malpractice complaint against the defendant attorney who prepared the testator's estate plan, the defendant's motion to dismiss must be denied, as the defendant has not convinced the court that he owed no duty to the plaintiff.Read More »
Criminal – Impoundment – Statement of the case
Where the commonwealth has filed a statement of the case in a prosecution of two defendants on charges of extortion and conspiracy, the defendants' motion for impoundment should be allowed as to those portions of the commonwealth's statement of the case that include direct quotations of recorded statements purportedly made by the defendants.
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Real property – Unauthorized practice of law – Injunction
Where defendants have been engaged in the unauthorized practice of law in Massachusetts by drafting deeds and other legal instruments for the conveyance of real property, the defendants should, at the request of the plaintiff Real Estate Bar Association, be preliminarily enjoined from continuing to do so.
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Domestic relations – Surviving spouse – Nursing home debt
Where a plaintiff nursing home has brought an action to recover payment for nearly two years of services provided to the defendant's late husband, the plaintiff is entitled to summary judgment on the issue of the defendant's liability under G.L.c. 209, §1, but denied as to the amount of damages, which is reserved for jury determination.
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Employment – Harassment – Retaliation – Punitive damages
Where a jury, having found for the plaintiff on claims of sexual harassment and retaliation, awarded her $70,000 in compensatory damages and $375,000 in punitive damages, the compensatory award should be remitted to $35,000.
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Tort – Defamation – Social media
Where defendants have conducted a social media campaign against their sister's former employer, a $1.5 million attachment is warranted given the likelihood of the plaintiff's success on the merits of its claims of defamation and intentional interference with advantageous relations.
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Civil practice – Third party – Employer
Where an airline named as a defendant has moved for leave to file a third-party complaint against the codefendant's employer, the motion must be denied absent any basis for holding the employer liable.Read More »

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Republic Act No. 8371
Republic Act No. 8371, known as "The Indigenous Peoples Right Act of 1997," was enacted to recognize, protect and promote the rights of Indigenous Cultural Communities or Indigenous Peoples (IP's). The law also provides for the establishment of a National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP), the lead government agency that formulates and implement policies, plans and programs for the recognition, promotion and protection of the rights and well-being of Indigenous Peoples and the recognition of their ancestral domains. It was signed by President Fidel V. Ramos on 29 October 1997.
The Republic Act also states that ICC / IP women shall enjoy land rights and opportunities with men in all spheres of life and provides for her participation in the decision-making process in all levels as well, full access to education, maternal and child care, health, nutrition, housing services and training facilities.
External Link
- Republic Act No. 8371. (Accessed on 24 April 2009)
- Republic Act No. 8371 In National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women Website. (Accessed 24 April 2009)
Original content from WikiPilipinas. under GNU Free Documentation License. See full disclaimer.


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Marvin hops over the edge of his retaining wall, which he built.
The eastern boundary of this area is marked by a retaining wall that runs parallel with the river.
If the Terrace is at the outer side next the street, a perpendicular, mason-work, retaining wall may be constructed.
This retaining wall consists of a front curtain wall and a horizontal slab joined at intervals by ribs or counterforts.
That there was a mass of sand laid over the tomb is strongly shown by the retaining wall around the top.
The pile of stones proper from which the pyramid was evolved may be traced to the retaining wall of the tomb.
The terrace structure has been substituted by a uniform slope with a retaining wall below.
Mr. Mensch says that the proposed design of a retaining wall would be difficult and expensive to install.
Rick thought the row of rocks probably constituted a retaining wall, so that made it a terrace instead of a meadow.
Armed priests, stationed at the upper edge of the retaining wall, began to move uneasily among the seats to restore order.


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Getting a first deer was among the stories heard at a couple of Princeton-area deer registration stations during the Nov. 9 opening of the firearms deer season here.
Sometimes it was more of just an exchange of humor between the hunter and the proprietor at the check-in place. When Jeff Nobbe, of Anoka, walked into Backwoods Sports along Highway 95 east of Princeton Saturday morning, there was some laughing when Tom Murray and Nobbe joked with each other.
Nobbe's story of getting a four-point buck was standard fare, though. He had gotten to his deer stand located on Murray's land in the Spectacle Lake and Green Lake area at 6:30 a.m. He sat there for about 3 1/2 hours without seeing any deer, so he decided to go over to the deer stand his hunting partner, Bob Bergstrom, of Bloomington, was seated on in the same general area. As Nobbe was preparing to leave his stand, the four-point buck walked below his stand. When the deer was far enough away, Nobbe took the buck with a .20 gauge shotgun.
Nobbe had been hunting in the area for 14 years.
Alex Karo, 15, of Brooklyn Park, walked into Backwoods Sports not long after with his stepfather, Jason, and his mother, Tali. All three were in a good mood,
especially Alex, who had shot the first deer in his life. He had been sitting on a deer stand for about two hours that morning when he saw a big doe and two younger bucks walking across the field. The deer disappeared into woods for about 15 minutes, and then returned to an opening about 50-60 yards away and Alex shot it.
"Then we high-fived, and I cried," Tali said. "He's been trying a long time. … He's Mr. Outdoorsman. We love it (deer meat) in the Crock-Pot."
Jason said that the family planned to eat the deer's heart and backstraps that evening.
Next into Backwoods Sports was Kevin Woitas, of Lexington, and hunting partner Troy Mendoza. Woitas said he had taken a fawn buck at 8:30 a.m. that morning. There was only one shot possible and that was when the deer walked into an opening about three steps wide, Woitas said.
Over at the Hofman Oil and BP gas station in Princeton, employees said a young man had come in who had shot his first deer. He returned after having dropped the deer off at a meat-processor in Foley. The man was Erik Crooks, 23, of
Minneapolis, and the deer he took was a seven-point buck. Crooks said he had been in his stand for about two hours about 10 miles south of Princeton with his Uncle Tom, who owned the land, and a family friend.
This was Crooks' sixth season of deer hunting and on this morning he saw a deer come into view and then stop behind a tree. Crooks remembered cursing to himself wishing the deer would turn around and come back into full view in an opening about a yard wide about 30 yards from the deer stand. After five minutes the deer did just that, and Crooks took his shot with his 12 gauge shotgun.
"My adrenaline was going and my heart was pounding," he said. "It was exhilarating."
Crooks added that he has only seen a handful of deer in his life.


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Important information public libraries need now about the Affordable Care Act
|What Libraries Need to Know
As part of the Affordable Health Care Act, U.S. citizens and legal residents are required to have qualifying health coverage.
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services formed partnership to help libraries respond to patron requests for assistance in understanding and navigating new health insurance options in the Health Insurance Marketplace.
What Libraries Need to Know
• Ohio has chosen to use the federal exchange for health insurance rather than implementing a state-based exchange. The federal exchange is located online at Healthcare.gov
• The federal exchange opened October 1, 2013. Open Enrollment will close March 31, 2014. A handout with dates is available.
• There are four methods an individual can use to apply for health care insurance: mail, toll-free phone, online at Healthcare.gov, and in person through certified navigators. The toll-free phone number patrons can call for assistance is 1-800-318-2596 (TTY: 1-855-889-4325). Assistance is available in multiple languages. For Spanish speaking consumers, CuidadoDeSalud.gov is also available.
• The federal government awarded grants to organizations that will serve as certified Navigators for health insurance. These Navigators will be trained by the federal government and will provide in-person assistance to individuals. The Ohio Navigators were announced August 15, 2013. The State Library compiled the list of Ohio Navigators.
• The Ohio Association of Foodbanks, a statewide navigator organization, is looking for partners to help host enrollment events in easily accessible locations. Libraries interested should fill out this online form: http://bit.ly/15QvJVB. The libraries would ideally be able to help with logistics of the event and provide meeting space and computers.
• In addition to Navigators, organizations will serve as Certified Application Counselors and will help with enrollment. These organizations will receive federal training but will not receive any funds. Organizations interested in becoming Certified Application Counselors can apply at http://marketplace.cms.gov/help-us/cac-apply.html.
• There will also be Champions of Coverage, orgnaizations that will assist with outreach and education. Organizations intersted in becoming a Champion of Coverage should apply at http://marketplace.cms.gov/help-us/champion-apply.html.
• A tool to help people find local help is available at https://localhelp.healthcare.gov/. More information is being added to the tool in the next few weeks.
• A site with resoures for organizations, including libraries, is available at marketplace.cms.gov. It includes printable handouts as well as the paper form for individuals, families, and individuals not receiving financial assistance. To order informational materials in bulk, you will need to create a username and password at http://productordering.cms.hhs.gov/. Once your account is approved, you will be able to choose the publications that you wish to order and they will ship them to you for free.
• HealthCare.gov has many resources for patrons including printable fact sheets: Get Ready to Enroll in the Marketplace and Things to Think About When Choosing a Health Plan. They also have a YouTube channel with videos.
• HealthCare.gov has created several widgets and badges in English and Spanish to quickly link website visitors to additional information. Code for the widgets and badges is provided and can quickly be added to already existing websites.
• What Obamacare Means for You video from the White House
• WebJunction received an IMLS grant to provide information to the library community regarding opportunities and resources to connect patrons to health and wellness information. Although the project is still in development, an eHealth section on the WebJunction website has resources available now to help libraries get started. Also included in this project will be a needs assessment regarding patron requests for health information and the development of a comprehensive guide for public libraries to utilize in helping patrons navigate health information at their local library.
• American Library Association's Affordable Care Act for Libraries
• The Ohio Department of Insurance has a Frequently Asked Questions section on federal health care reforms.
• The Centers for Medicare and Medicade Services has a Frequently Asked Questions on the Health Insurance Marketplace (Exchange) section.
• Kaiser Family Foundation's For Consumers: Understanding Health Reform site includes great resources including a flowchart for The Requirement to Buy Coverage Under the Affordable Care Act and video, The YouToons Get Ready for Obamacare: Health Insurance Changes Coming Your Way Under the Affordable Care Act.
• Consumer Reports free guides to health care reform and Medicare
• AARP: Health Insurance, Health Law Answers, and Health Care Reform Law Fact Sheets
• Medline Plus, administered by the US National Institutes of Health, which presents information on medicine and healthcare in easy-to-understand language.
• Rural Assistance Center Health Reform Topic Guide
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has Key Features of the Affordable Care Act and fact sheets.
• American Public Health Association Health Reform Resources
• Guidelines for Medical, Legal, and Business Responses from the American Library Association's Reference and User Services Association
• Do's and Don'ts. This Job Aide for libraries will assist library staff in helping with questions about the Heathcare Insurance Marketplace.
• WebMD's Health Care Reform: A Guide to Health Insurance and Affordable Care Act
• Veterans and the ACA from the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs
• Curious about where uninsured Ohioans are located? Enroll America provides maps, including this interactive Google map of Ohio.
• A message from Beverly Cain, State Librarian of Ohio on the Affordable Care Act and the impact on libraries.
• Assisting the Public with Health Insurance Changes, a free webinar given by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
View the Recording
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• Affordable Care Act: Resources for Librarians: Free webinar given by Ruth Holst, Director, and Samanthi Hewakapuge, Consumer Health Coordinator, from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine Greater Midwest Region.
Given Tuesday, September 10: Recording coming in late October, Slides
• Privacy, Difficult Conversations, and Drawing the Line: Considerations for Librarians Assisting Patrons with Implementation of the Affordable Care Act given byDon Boozer, KnowItNow Coordinator. Since it is recorded, you can watch it at a time convenient to you.
• WebJunction webinars
Libraries & Health Insurance: Preparing for October 1, is recorded and available.
Meaningful Use: Libraries Connecting Patrons to ACA Resources, is recorded and available.
Federal Depository Libraries and the Affordable Care Act: is recorded and available. (learn more about depository libraries in Ohio).
• Center for Medicare & Medicade Services (CMS) has Training Materials and Presentations and Health Insurance Marketplace training webinars (Health Insurance Marketplace 101, Understanding the Health Insurance Marketplace, and Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP) Overview Training).
Public libraries should review their reference policies with staff to make sure they are clear about your library's guidelines for providing the best possible service to all patrons. This will help staff with questions around standards of service, levels of service to users (including limits of service), and priorities of service. The American Library Association recommends that legal counsel review your policy for legal language and compliance with Ohio laws.
• About Library Reference Policies
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• Aurora Public Library (Aurora, IL)
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The Ohio Library Council has provided the following notice that libraries could post to communicate to the public about library staff assistance.:
"The Affordable Care Act includes sweeping changes and a number of options in healthcare coverage. There are a wide variety of resources available online that provide information about these options, and how to choose what is best for you. The staff of the ______________ Public Library can direct patrons to those resources.
Making the correct healthcare choices requires an understanding of each person's or family's unique health and financial circumstances. Members of the ______________ Public Library staff are not trained or licensed to provide advice or to assist you in selecting a specific health plan, but can provide information and direction to public resources about the Affordable Care Act that will help you make your own choices."


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How do you think the new GigE standards will influence the machine vision industry?
Respond or ask your question now!
By Keith Reid
Automated image analysis has long been the driver behind industrial machine vision systems. The technology is mature, and almost mainstream from a challenge standpoint. Still, there are some notable issues that can arise, such as the need to process and analyze a flood of images in real time. Many of the objects being imaged, while uniform in nature, can also be highly complex or pose a variety of imaging challenges due to color issues or environmental factors. With the proper knowledge, hardware, software and tweaking such issues are usually overcome.
Beyond industrial machine vision, similar needs are now being addressed in a broad range of fields. Often, the basic algorithms are similar, at least at the starting point. But, the challenge in applying those algorithms can increase by an order of magnitude to meet the needs of military and security professionals, biological researchers, medical professionals and those who rely on geological and environmental information�to name but a few.
One of the most challenging of these areas is remote sensing, where the goal is to call out details from imagery generated by airborne or orbital platforms using a range of sensors. Typical challenges include the limited control over illumination; an ever-changing background clutter; variable imaging optical perspectives; typically very large images; hyperspectral images with hundreds of channels; variable weather conditions (clouds, snow, etc.) and literally an unlimited number of objects that could be modeled for extraction and that may vary in greatly in appearance while serving the exact same purpose.
"The basic tasks are more or less the same compared to industrial machine vision�you use edge detection or classification or segmentation," said Dr. Christian Wiedemann, a software engineer for MVTec Software GmbH, (Munich, Ger.). MVTec is a leading software developer for machine vision applications, with its HALCON product being used for a range of tasks including basic remote sensing analysis. "But, you have to use more knowledge about the contents of the scene if you want to interpret natural scenes. For instance, identifying context objects which are near the object you want to extract. You can use these objects, if you can find them, to get some information about the specific object you are interested in. However, it is relatively complex to model the relationships between these different objects. What is easier in remote sensing tasks (relative to industrial machine vision), is that you have a lot more time to process the images. You do not have to do this in real time so you can have an hour or even more to process the image."
The challenges are such that most civilian-grade systems are currently limited to less granular applications like land-use classification, where forest, farm and urban terrain can be identified and quantified. Beyond that, identifying and extracting even common elements like roads can pose complex challenges. "Imagine you want to extract roads from an image, and the road goes through a forest so you cannot see the road in those areas," said Wiedemann. "You have to conclude that we have a road found in the open areas on both sides of the forest so the road must go through the forest. So you cannot extract everything from the image."


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A man whose jet ski failed him in New York's Jamaica Bay swam to John F. Kennedy airport, where he was easily able to penetrate the airport $100 million, state-of-the art security system.
Daniel Casillo, 31, was able to swim up to and enter the airport grounds on Friday night, past an intricate system of motion sensors and closed-circuit cameras designed to to safeguard against terrorists, authorities said.
"I think he should be given dinner and a bottle of champagne for showing us our faults," said Nicholas Casale, an NYPD veteran and former MTA deputy security director for counterterrorism.
Instead, Casillo was arrested after the incredible adventure that has stunned security officials.
Man swims to JFK airport, past $100 million security system
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|The collision of cosmic-ray-produced thermal neutrons with nitrogen nuclei generates 14C by a reaction in the upper atmosphere. Rapid oxidation to carbon dioxide and global homogenization within 2-3 years introduces the resultant 14CO2 into the carbon cycle, where the radioactive CO2 is taken up in photosynthesis or precipitated as carbonate mineral. 14C decays by beta emission with a half-life of approximately 5700 years giving a useful age range of approximately 50,000 (approximately 80-100,000 years with AMS) b.p. Several sample preparatory labs for 14C exist within the USGS, as well as services of commercial labs. Working arrangements with Lawrence Livermore National Labs AMS facility (or others) provide the isotopic data from prepared samples. Individuals must make their own arrangements for obtaining C-14 data, but may find the following contact people helpful.
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A former Marine infantryman who started The Duffel Blog is trying to do for military news what The Onion does for regular news -- make it so outrageously real that it's hard to tell what's true and what's not.
Former sergeant Paul Szoldra of Lakeland, Fla., who started the blog, tells the Military Times that an official at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington got at least one phone call from a servicemember miffed about a purported ban on his favorite Tapout mixed martial arts gear, not realizing it was all meant in jest.
A sampling of some TDB articles:
One article says the Pentagon has proposed a "controversial policy assigning ranks to military spouses" that would include a "spousal court" to solve disputes.
Szoldra, a 28-year-old college senior, says regular contributors include about 20 volunteer writers described as "disgruntled Marines, annoyed Army guys and sickened sailors."
"I guess airmen just don't have anything to complain about," he says, noting the lack of Air Force offerings.
One 23-year-old active-duty Marine, who writes under the name Stormtrooper, scored with his first article: "Marine officer's wife emotionally disturbed after being denied salute."
Here's the Military Times' Gina Harkins describing how Szoldra stumbled into writing the blog:
Szoldra was a mortarman and a combat instructor during his eight years in the Corps. When he got out in 2010 and transitioned to college life at the University of Tampa, he found the change jarring. He started a website to help others making the switch from the combat zone to the classroom and called it CollegeVeteran.com. In an attempt to boost traffic, Szoldra came up with the idea to add some fake military news.
So he posted a story about a colonel in the Air Force who was so sick of the "Chair Force" nickname that he banned all chairs on base. The story was a hit, but he was worried people would think his college veterans site was a joke, so he separated the two and in March, The Duffel Blog was born.
About five months later, TDB blog has more than 8,500 fans on Facebook and about 1,200 Twitter followers.
Stormtrooper tells the Military Times that writing for TDB is a great outlet for the frustrations of a low-ranking Marine.
"Military policy is so absurd sometimes," Stormtrooper says. "We get yelled at for having our hands in our pockets, we get yelled at for not saluting someone, we get yelled at for talking on a cellphone when every other person can do it. Writing about it all is just a great outlet."
After posting its article, the Military Times, which, like USA TODAY, is a Gannett publication, got a firsthand taste of The Duffel Blog's humor with a piece accusing it of writing a "hit" piece in claiming TDB writes fake news.
"I absolutely cannot believe the levels that Military Times will go to try to marginalize our news organization," Szoldra is quoted as saying in a real-fake response to the real article about the fake news site, if you follow me. "We are the #1 military news organization in the world. I have always said that we would take on and beat Mil-Times and Stars & Stripes."
"The jealousy in their newsrooms is quite obvious," he adds.
The Duffel Blog article says the blog is exploring "the possibility of a $20 million lawsuit against The Times over allegations of slander, libel, emotional distress, sexual harassment, and the wrongful death of our beloved kitten, Mittens, who committed suicide due to the stress the article caused him."
Doug is an unrepentant news junkie who loves breaking news and has been known to watch C-SPAN even on vacation. He has covered a wide range of domestic and international news stories, from prison riots in Oklahoma to the Moscow coup against Mikhail Gorbachev. Doug previously served as foreign editor at USA TODAY. More about Doug
Michael Winter has been a daily contributor to On Deadline since its debut in January 2006. His journalism career began in the prehistoric Ink Era, and he was an early adapter at the dawn of the Digital Age. His varied experience includes editing at the San Jose Mercury News and The Philadelphia Inquirer.
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Best Of :: Arts & Entertainment
At first glance, Dahga Bloom might seem a funny fit in this category. But you forget one very important fact: their name. This Fullerton-based band—vocalist/guitarist Bryan King, keyboardist/guitarist/vocalist Lucas Drake, guitarist/vocalist Matt Mason, bassist/vocalist Manny Lopez, violinist/mandolinist/percussionist/vocalist Zach Nelson and drummer Sean Yakubovsky—used to be called the Living Suns, but they decided to change their name after several members had a similar dream about the African god Dahga emerging from a blooming flower and commanding them to change the group's name. Um, yeah.
We heard that electronic experimentalists Do LaB started putting on Lightning In a Bottle because they didn't want to be twiddling their thumbs between Coachella and Burning Man every year. The three-night, four-day festival at Oak Canyon Ranch features DJs, bands, installation art, spiritual talks, yoga and organic food, ensuring a lot of Hula-Hooping, fire-dancing and brain-wobbling from attendees. Bringing a crunchy-granola vibe to antiseptic Orange County is a feat in itself (be prepared for poi spinning and worm-composting classes), but it's so family-friendly that circus performers and freaks on stilts commingle with 5-year-olds racing toy boats on the lake. The sun floats down in dazzling shades of orange, pink and blue over Irvine Lake every day, giving way to the festival's neon lights, four-on-the-floor house beats, and performances from such big-name acts as Booka Shade and the Album Leaf. Transcendent.
The Hootenanny serves as not only an annual rockabilly festival, but also a retro fashion show. Though respect must be paid to those talented gentlemen who pull off gravity-defying pompadours, the main attraction is the women. They need not bare all to turn heads, as they parade in lavish updos, vintage-cut dresses and stilettos. No hair is out of place, and their makeup is always flawless despite early-July temperatures that reach toward the triple digits. Some girls look to the likes of Bettie Page, Mae West and Dita Von Teese for inspiration. Others take Old Hollywood glamour or 1950s-housewife style and fuse it with punk and tattoo culture. The result is modern homage to midcentury styles at the largest local rockabilly event.
Good God, this album rocks. From beginning to end, listening to this 11-song set generates the same apoplectic anxiety and guilty fun you experienced as a 15-year-old sneaking out in the middle of the night to ride on the back of your boyfriend's motorcycle and drink beers in abandoned warehouses. Consider the anthemic swagger of "Jules' Story," or the exultant, heart-stopping breaks of "Always Afraid." Crystal Antler's sophomore release uses the requisite five-man-band instruments to display a sophisticated take on arrythmic beats, shrieking vocals and shredding, rollercoaster-y, feedbacking guitars. And somehow (especially on songs such as "Fortune Telling"), the overall set conveys a sinister, sexy mood that makes you greedy for song after song after song, until you've listened to the album 20 times on repeat without noticing.
"Rock band" may be a bit generic a descriptor for this quartet, whose sound righteously struts the battlements of metal, rock and indie. But the "best" part is apt. Winners of the award for Best New Artist at this year's Orange County Music Awards, Railroad to Alaska bring to the stage an invigorating blend of visceral energy and inventive artistry. While banging their heads behind sprawling waves of cascading hair, guitarists Justin Suitor and Jeff Lyman pluck out a nimble interplay of classic-rock-era riffage in the vein of AC/DC mixed with psychedelic, reverb-laden ambiance. While their songs sound great on an iPod, their live shows are the main event: Witness Suitor abandoning the stage to howl amongst the metal monkeys in the pit. Interesting side note: Suitor demonstrates his range of talent and lends his songwriting services to local pop band Honeypie.
The Cosmonauts are punk as fuck, just not in the sped-up-and-spit-out-lyrics-to-three-chord-guitar-songs way. No, they're punk as fuck in that careless, who-gives-a-shit, it's-all-about-honest-to-goodness-rock-&-roll way. Just don't equate that with sloppiness. Their songs have garbled vocals, spun-around choruses and distorted, spacey guitar drones, but they're deliciously hook-heavy and incredibly danceable. Watching the band live, prepare to sweat your socks off.


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In a move he's described as the opposite of hazing, Meyer created the black stripe program as a way to welcome the newest members of his team -- as soon as they earn it. Having one's black stripe removed is a sign that a youngster has done something either with his play or his intangibles to be considered a full part of the squad.
And today, the first two members of the Dream 14 class to have their stripes removed were announced by Meyer -- running back Curtis Samuel and linebacker Raekwon McMillan.
Congrats to Curtis Samuel and Raekwon McMillan for being the first 2 freshmen to get their black stripes removed! pic.twitter.com/OZg6314sZ9— Urban Meyer (@OSUCoachMeyer) August 10, 2014
The two shouldn't be a huge surprise. When speaking about Samuel today, Meyer said, "I gotta be careful because I do this, but I love that kid, and man oh man, does he go hard. He is talented and he will play this year."
McMillan, meanwhile, earned praise from Meyer throughout the spring and was one of two true freshman along with wideout Johnnie Dixon who was permitted to practice along with the veterans on the first day of fall camp Monday.
A product of Hinesville (Ga.) Liberty County, McMillan entered OSU as the No. 5 middle linebacker in the nation and ranked 50th in the Scout 100. The 6-4, 240-pounder is battling senior Curtis Grant for the middle linebacker job.
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Sharansky: from Soviet Dissident to Pres. Bush´s Muse (REUTERS) By Megan Goldin JERUSALEM, ISRAEL 02/01/05 09:50 AM ET)
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - It´s been a long and lonely road for former Soviet dissident Natan (Anatoly) Sharansky who has for years been ridiculed for his political theories of spreading democracy across the globe to obtain world peace.
But the former Soviet "refusenik," who is now a cabinet minister in the Israeli government, no longer walks alone. His companion in his campaign to democratize the world is no less than President Bush.
To have the ear of the most powerful leader in the world after decades of having his political ideology dismissed as naive and eccentric is a pleasant change for the diminutive Ukrainian-born mathematician.
"I am sorry that there are so few people who believe in these ideas but it´s nice to think that one of these very few people is the president of the United States," said 57-year-old Sharansky in an interview at his office in Jerusalem.
Not only did Bush read Sharansky´s new book "The Case for Democracy" with avid interest days after it was published, but he gave a copy to his top adviser Condoleezza Rice and said he personally bought a copy for British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
"This is a book that ... summarizes how I feel. I would urge people to read it," Bush told CNN.
Bush was so taken with the book that he summoned Sharansky to the White House in November. The president spent an hour in the Oval Office discussing Sharansky´s ideology based on his years as a dissident and prisoner in the Soviet Union.
"I told him (Bush): ´You are the real dissident. Politicians look at polls -- what is popular, what is not popular. A dissident believes in an idea and goes ahead with it ... even when there are so many people who disagree,"´ Sharansky said.
Palestinians and Israeli peace activists see him as betraying the values of freedom and human rights he says he holds dear because he has not fought Israeli occupation and has helped prop up a succession of right-wing Israeli governments.
Even Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told him: "They are good ideas but they don´t belong to this part of the world.."
So it was with a feeling of vindication that Sharansky heard Bush´s inauguration address on Jan. 20 in which he called for "expansion of freedom" around the world and an end to tyranny, phrases which could have been taken from the pages of his book.
"I was very excited not only because the words were so familiar and the ideas were so important. (But) the ideas were expressed with such confidence ... not by an academic but by the leader of the free world who was going to implement them."
Sharansky´s theories on "liberty" and "freedom" germinated while working as an aide to leading Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov in the 1970s and during his eight years in a Siberian jail after the Soviet authorities convicted him as a spy and traitor.
He became a symbol for the movement to free Soviet Jews and under enormous international pressure, particularly from the United States, was released in 1986 as part of a prisoner swap with Moscow. He immediately immigrated to Israel.
There a painfully thin Sharansky, despite being force fed at a Soviet hospital before his release, was greeted as a national hero. He later formed a party for Russian immigrants which joined the right-wing government of Benjamin Netanyahu in 1996.
He resents being pigeonholed as a "right-winger" despite opposing the 1993 Oslo peace accords with the Palestinians. He says his political views are conceptually different from anything on the Israeli political spectrum today.
"Today I am called a right-wing extremist. Tomorrow I will be called a left-wing extremist," he said. "I am a refusenik."
He says he would give the Palestinians "all the rights in the world" once they instituted full democracy which he believes would ensure the existence of a Palestinian state at peace with Israel.
The gist of Sharansky´s view is that the "free world" should encourage countries to democratize by linking international standing and aid to their record on human rights and freedom of speech.
It was such linkage through the 1975 Helsinki Agreements that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, he said.
Sharansky said he firmly believes the world would be more stable and extremism would fizzle out if all peoples, including those in the Middle East, enjoyed freedom and democracy.
As with Bush´s speech, Arab academics are somewhat skeptical about Sharansky´s view.
"I can´t swallow that he was a champion of human rights in the Soviet Union and when he came over here he forgot his past and was part of the scheme of occupying another people," Palestinian political analyst Ali al-Jarbawi told Reuters.
Sharansky says he has been misrepresented as a hard-liner when he is simply committed to his belief that there will never be peace without democracy in the Arab world and elsewhere.
Sharansky does not spare criticism for the United States, saying it tried to appease countries such as Saddam Hussein´s Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Washington, he said, should have linked relations and aid with improved human rights and democracy.
His advice to Bush is to ignore skeptics and stick to your ideals. "Dissidents are always alone ... You can only hope the logic of history is on your side. That is what happened in the Soviet Union and that is what I hope will happen in the Middle East." (© Reuters 2005 02/01/05)
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Here is a different striped pattern than many other tops out there right now. The Sandra Tee by Soft Joie has a scoop neck, asymmetrical bottom hem, and cap sleeves. It is semi-sheer as well.
The bright and colorful floral print on the Wilton Blouse by Joie is fun and casual. There is smocking at the crew neck, pintucking at the placket and back, eight buttons down the front, gathered elastic banding at the bottom hem and cuffs, and 3/4 raglan sleeves. It is 100% wrinkled silk and is sheer.
The Long and Lean Fabulousness Tank by Free People is a top you'll want to wear when your hair is up so you can show of the gorgeous back. There are leather insets at the lace racer back. This tank also features a scoop neck, 2.5 inch lace straps, and two inch slits. It is semi-sheer.
This flowy tank is cute and forgiving. The Porter Slouchy Tank Top by Rachel Pally is an oversized, scoop neck camisole with ruching at the neck and spaghetti straps. It is sheer and available in two colors: cafe and petal.
The Gold Coast Blouse by Burning Torch feels a bit exotic! There is metallic embroidery throughout and at the cuffs, quilted silk banding at the split V-neck, smocked at the shoulders, ruching at the front, 2.5 inch slits at the sides, scalloped edges and 3/4 length raglan sleeves. It is also sheer.
Threadless has a lot of new designs, including RainDeer, The Paper Panda, and the reprints Dandy Lions and Wild Wild Wind.
Over at Snorg Tees, check out Hipster Owl.
We think the new design Care Beers Tee at Glennz Tees is cute and funny.
Over at one of our favorite companies Concrete Rocket, check out their two new designs Forget Me Not and Golden Cage.
Finally, Crazy Dog T-Shirts has a coupon code that is good through the end of the summer. Use the code ICEPOP for $5 off at check out.
Add some color to your summer wardrobe with the Devore Tee by Ksubi. This ombré burnout tee has a crew neck, inverted side seam, rolled cuffs, and short sleeves. It is sheer and comes in aged pink and aged blue.
The Vine Stripe Kimono Top by C&C California is perfect for staying warm on those cooler summer evenings or as a transitional top during the spring. There are vertical seams at the sides, an inverted pleat at the back, banding at the bottom hem, and elbow-length dolman sleeves. The shirt is also semi-sheer.
Embrace your bohemian side with the Embroidered Gypsy Blouse by Haute Hippie. This top has embroidery throughout with beading and pyramid studs, a drawstring and smocked elastic banding at the split V-neck, long raglan sleeves, and a drawstring at the cuffs. It is semi-sheer.
The Bonnie Eyelet Tank by Juicy Couture is sweet and girly. There is eyelet detailing throughout, scalloped edges, a V-neck, ruching at the bust, gathered elastic banding at the back, and 2.5 inch straps. It is also lined.
The Ruffle Buttons Top by Testament is a ornate t-shirt. There is a floral print throughout, ruffles at the V-neck and placket, ruching at the neck, and banding at the bottom hem and cuffs. Looks great with jeans, shorts, or a casual skirt.
We really like the beading on the Beaded Collar Tank by Akiko. It's intricate and interesting to look at. There is also ruching at the rounded hem, a racer back, and an asymmetrical bottom hem. Great for a night out with the girls.
It's not often you see a wrap with a tank top, but this is the case with the Ruffle Wrap Top by Parker. There is a single snap along with ruffle trim at the front wrap detail, gathered elastic banding at the waist, ruffle trim at the edges, and adjustable spaghetti straps. It is 100% silk, and besides this rainbow print, it also comes in black snake skin, purple, and pink ditsy.
Nothing says summer to the Shirt Snob quite like eyelet details. So the Eyelet Camisole by Rebecca Taylor is perfect for this time of year! There is embroidery throughout, eyelet detailing and gathered elastic banding at the scalloped top hem, a shirttail bottom hem, and adjustable spaghetti straps. The bust is double layered, and the top is semi-sheer.
We don't feel that we'll ever tire of stripes! The Gauzy Sheer Stripe Tank by Splendid is a simple tank with a scoop neck, racer back, asymmetrical hem, bias seam details at the front and back, and 1.75 inch straps. It is sheer and available in white and coral.
The Flow Front Cardigan by T-Bags is a versatile cover up that can go well with jeans or a dress. It is oversized with a V-neck, four buttons, an extended fronthem, pintucking at the yoke, button tabs at the cuffs, and sleeves that can be worn either 3/4 length or elbow length. It is semi-sheer and available in both ivory and orange.
We like the mustard color of this next look. The Noonday Stripe Shutterbug Top by Madewell is a striped top that features ruching at the crew neck, an inverted pleat at the front, four buttons at the front, a shirttail hem, and cuffed raglan cap sleeves. It is sheer and 100% silk.
The Keoni Ruffle Blouse by Diane von Furstenberg has such a fun print that you will want to wear it every day. There is a split V-neck with pleated ruffle trim and a rope tie, leather tassels at the tie, ruching at the back, a shirttail hem, gathered elastic cuffs, and 3/4 length raglan sleeves. It is also semi-sheer.
We can't get enough of florals! The Adler Camisole by state & lake has a V-neck with ruffle trim, exposed banding at the waist, five buttons down the front, a rounded hem, and spaghetti straps. It is 100% silk and available in two colors: mulberry floral and spring tulip.
The Sequin Camisole by Vince is perfect for a night out dancing with your best friends. It has a V-neck, distressed sequins throughout, darting and bias seams at the bust, an inverted pleat at the front, a hidden zipper at the racer back, and spaghetti straps. It is double-layered.
Here is a cute top for summer. The Ruffle Front Tank by Tibi features a V-neck, a tie and pintucking at the bust, a cascading ruffle at the front, and adjustable spaghetti straps. It is 100% silk.
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Support peace in Africa and look good doing it. Procedes go towards charities working over there. 60$ *edit* I recently bought the grey shirt version of this and absolutely love it. Be political, make a statement, and look good doing it.
If it comes in a bag from Kitson, 99.9% of the teens you have on your list will love it.
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Pascack Theatre
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A little gem just off the main drag in Westwood, New Jersey. Unfortunately, the beauty of the theatre is hidden behind the walls of this sixplex. Originally the Pascack Theatre was 1,275 seats including the balcony. Operated by the Skouras Theaters Corp. chain in the 1940's, United Artists turned it into a quad in the early-1980's.
The theatre was subsequently sold and now has six screens, two in the original orchestra, two in the balcony, and two on the original stage. The Wurlitzer Theatre Pipe Organ was removed in 1997 and relocated to the Brook Theatre in Bound Brook, New Jersey.
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I have'nt been to this theatre since last September, when new management took over. They were very stiff and rude. While the old management would let you buy your ticket and wait inside the lobby by the candy stand, the new regime makes you wait either outside or in the lobby and does'nt allow wandering around the theatre. When I asked if I could wait by the candy stand, I got a very curt "no!". I felt that the cattle prods would come out if I asked any more questions. This situation may be better now, but I have'nt been back to find out.
Does anyone out there have a photograph of this theater from the sixties? I would appreciate this very much. Thank you
Saw this theatre on Sunday as I got off the train for a family function. The rear of the auditorium is very visible as there's a parking lot behind it. Doesn't seem big enough for 1000 seats, though. I went to the front and just like above link for the drawing, it's spot on. Not too plain, not too over-the-top (that is, in reality, not the picture).
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i own an original one sheet from hitchcock's vertigo taken from the pascack theatre. at the top of the poster in the white border handwritten it notes in red paint "pascack wed-sat." does anyone know if back in the 50's movies were released on fridays as they are today? reason i ask is why wouldn't the movies also be shown on mon. and tues? sunday? were there any theaters open at all on sundays?
I recall that growing up in Cleveland, that many neighborhood theaters ran films (especially those that typically ran double features) on a Sunday-Monday-Tuesday and then changed features for Wednesday-Thursday-Friday-Saturday; there was a lead-in insert sequence in front of the previews that would indicate which sequence of days a particular set of films would be running. If a film did well, it would be "held over" with this fact appearing in the newspaper ads and with a banner over the posters. Based on the note on the poster, this is quite likely how the Pasack ran films during that era.
Does anyone know which 3-D system they're using because the person that answered their management line doesn't!
New movies were generally released on Wednesdays up through the early 1980's, when the industry switched to Friday openings. Up until the 1970's, many theatres outside of major cities ran split weeks, Wed->Sat, Sun->Tue or some variation of this.
I haven't been to the theater in years. I was very impressed with the improvements and upgrades the new owner made. The sound system was great! The theater was clean as well as the remodeled restrooms. The owner and employees were extremely courteous and friendly. The chairs were a better quality and more comfortable than AMC. It is nice to have a local theater in town that is comparable to the big chains.
I went to this theater once in 1989. I'm from Newark, but my mother had an art show right next door to this theater. I'd usually help her out, and when there was a theater in the neighborhood, I'd see a film to kill time till the show ended. Saw a double-feature that day: "No Holds Barred" and "Lords of the Deep." Nice little theater.
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Spiders On a Roof
There's a great chance you've already seen this somewhere, but it would be a shame if we missed covering the newest illusion featuring spiders! Science artist Marlin Peterson recently created astonishing 3d chalk drawing (trompe l'oeil painting) of harvestmen spiders. These daddy longlegs, as some like to call them were painted atop the Seattle Center Armory, which is located right underneath Seattle's Space Needle. I'm just curious will these be visible on Google Maps, once they update their satellite imagery?


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River Flicks for Kids: 'Puss In Boots' - Hudson River Park's Pier 46
Hours: Dusk (about 8:30pm)
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Description: Free outdoor movies just for kids under the stars on Manhattan's west side waterfront. Films start at dusk. There will be free popcorn; other snacks and beverages will be available for purchase. This week's film is "Puss In Boots" (2011; 90 minutes; rated PG).


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By Chris McGuinness
Killeen Daily Herald
Five residents will compete for a single open seat on the Killeen Independent School District board of trustees, according to filing paperwork released by the district Monday.
Retired military veteran Brockley Moore, former educator Phuong Lan Carter, newspaper owner Mi-Ok Doranski, defense contractor T.J. Carson and former city council member JoAnn Purser filed to run for Place 7 in the May 12 elections.
Place 7 currently is held by Ron Rainosek, who also serves as the board's president.
Rainosek, who was appointed to the board in 2005 and re-elected in 2009, announced at a February board meeting that he would not seek re-election.
Moore, 45, is a member of several community organizations. Most prominently, he serves as the president-elect and community support chairman of the Killeen Area Alliance of Black School Educators.
Moore is no stranger to the election process. He ran against current trustee Kenneth Ray for the board's Place 4 seat in 2011, but was defeated after garnering roughly 39 percent of the vote.
Carson, 50, has also previously run for a seat on KISD's board. Carson, who owns Defense Logistics Management Group, lost to current board member Susan Jones in 2011.
Carter, 39, was employed from 2006 to 2009 as a teacher in the Copperas Cove Independent School District and holds a master's degree in counseling and psychology, according to her candidacy paperwork.
Doranski, 53, is the owner of the Korean Weekly Newspaper. Her husband, John, is running for an open seat on the Killeen City Council.
Purser, 50, manages and owns several businesses, including Bentina Rentals, Purser Homes and Killeen Engineering and Surveying. As a member of Killeen's city council, she was defeated in the May 2011 elections by Terry Clark. Purser's name was included on a petition which led to the recall of five council members in November.
While the five candidates will compete for Rainosek's open seat, the incumbent in the second seat up for re-election will have no challengers.
Board member Minerva Trujillo filed to run again for her seat and as of 5 p.m. Monday, no one had filed to challenge her.


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Copper is known as the "smart metal" because it is supposed to indicate changes in the global economy. Copper has historically been used primarily for industrial purposes so it has been a good indicator of economic strength or weakness.
In 2009, two months before stocks bottomed, copper prices bottomed and started rising, indicating that the worst of the global recession has bottomed.
Copper is back in the news this week but not for good reasons. Copper has fallen to 44-month lows and in New York, prices have breached the key $3.00 per pound level. Yesterday, copper for the May contract closed at $2.95. Today, it traded as low as $2.91 before bouncing back to around the $2.95 level.
Copper has fallen over 14% this year and about 9% in just the last week.
China consumes about 40% of the world's copper demand a year so the theory has been that copper is an indicator of the strength or weakness of the Chinese economy.
But there is another worry now. Commodities analysts believe that up to 60% of China's copper demand is used for collateral in the shadow banking system.
With copper prices falling, collateral on those loans is also falling. Some will have to come up with more collateral when the Chinese Central Bank is trying to tighten credit.
Copper is also involved in the currency carry trade. Analysts believe large copper positions are being unwound as traders get out of the carry trade, causing even more pressure on copper prices.
Is a copper panic brewing?
And if so, can it be contained without damage spreading to the rest of the Chinese economy?
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This beautiful Mission Beach retreat will be your home away from home!
Located steps away from the breathtaking Pacific Ocean and serene Mission Bay, it is the perfect getaway for your family and guests. This spacious 3 bedroom unit is bright, airy and beautifully furnished throughout. Recently renovated to include hardwood floors and a larger patio, great for entertaining!
Come see why our Mission Beach peninsula is one of the most popular vacation spots in Southern California. Whether you choose to spend your days on the high-energy oceanfront boardwalk or at home on your private patio entertaining guests, this vacation rental will not disappoint! Just promise us that you will take some time out to relax and enjoy the world famous San Diego weather.
This is a very nice place to stay with perfect location on the quieter end of Mission, in between the bay and the surfing. The fridge takes a while to cool down and there is no air conditioning so it is pretty warm during the day inside the house. However it does cool down a bit at night. The furniture is very nice and the beds are so very comfortable. There is only one bathroom which can be tough sometimes. Another good thing is there is a washer and dryer in the garage and two parking spots. We really enjoyed our stay.
We had a great time here in early July, 2016. The living room has a new sofa (different than the one in the photo). The kitchen was well stocked with dishes, glasses and cookware. We were a bit concerned with the one bathroom situation (we had two couples and three teenage girls), but it all worked out pretty well. Overall, it was a great vacation and the unit was very comfortable for us all. Here are a few items we thought would be helpful when you look into booking a place.....The King Bedroom has a smaller window and seemed pretty dark throughout the day. Not much dresser-drawer space in that room. The other two rooms had nice big dressers which helped keep everything organized and they were bright and well lit. The garage is very small (we had two large SUVs). We had to park outside of the garage and move one of the vehicles any time we wanted to open the garage door. We found it easier to park along the street and use the garage for bike storage and laundry. The unit is right on the corner of busy Mission Blvd near the south end of the peninsula. It's a bit noisy with the airplanes and traffic, but that is anywhere in this area. Several great restaurants nearby within a short walk or bike ride away. We avoided getting into our cars unless we needed to. The beaches and or bay are just a short walk away. We brought some of our own bikes but the girls used the units bikes which were in good condition. The boogie boards could probably be replaced as they were wobbly and cracked. There were not a lot of bath or beach towels, so you might want to bring a few extra. The patio was great for sitting, visiting and parking bikes during the day. We hope this review was helpful. It's a cute place, nothing fancy but clean and neat and well stocked in the kitchen.
Could not have been happier with this condo in San Diego! We started out our vacation at Disneyland & this is exactly what we needed after! Since it's on the opposite side of the boardwalk, it's quiet, calm & relaxing, but just a short walk to all the fun! Short walk to the beach, bay & where the two connect & a great view of Sea World's fireworks! This place DOES NOT disappoint & we couldn't be happier with our choice!
We just returned home from the surf retreat about 3 hours ago. We celebrated my husbands "50th Birthday" at the beach with our adult kids and one granddaughter (3 yrs) this house was really great we Loved the location and the space, even joked with the kids that it was larger than our first home back when Dad & I got married... Lol having one bathroom was not an issue, we made it work just fine. My son & son-in-law took my husband deep sea fishing & I went with the girls to the "Bernardo Winery" in Escondido (would highly recommend). Some negatives that our family thought were worth mentioning were the lighting in the bathroom was poor, the ceiling fans in each bedroom have one speed "LOW" and the traffic and airplane noise is certainly noticeable (but I would think where ever you are in mission your going to hear that)... All and all it was a FANTASTIC VACATION and we would stay here again.
Our family stayed for 7 days and had a wonderful time. Tara was very accommodating working with us on the dates we wanted to stay due to the July 4th Holiday. The Beach house was perfect! The house had everything and more than we expected! Bikes, beach chairs, full kitchen with every utensil needed, beach towels, BBQ and much more! We loved having the beach and the bay within steps! everything about this place was great and we would be happy to return.
My kids (6 and 3) and my parents (considerably older than that) stayed here for nine days June 2015. My mom has a hard time with stairs, which was the primary reason we rented this condo. We loved the place. It was clear they had recently purchased some new kitchen wares, rugs, etc... I expected to eat out mostly, but after long days either at attractions or the beach I was the only one with energy to go out. Fortunately, the kitchen had everything you needed to make just about anything. enough pots, pans, cooking utensils, blender, gas stove, a knife block full knives in addition to some other knives... there were some spices available. you get the idea. You can actually cook good meals here. The BBQ was brand new and they had a lot of propane tanks in the garage. We have a Toyota Tundra, not the double cab but the access cab, and it couldn't fit in the driveway spaces or in the garage. Tara was very accommodating and told us that we could lock up the bikes and leave the garage door open and use it as a carport. This option could work for any truck. Instead, I opted to throw a bike in the truck and park by belmont park. It was great to have the beach cruisers. I used them to make my way all over Mission and Pacific beach along the ocean and bay. It was a block walk to the bay, a block and a half to the ocean. walking distance to a playground at the tip of mission beach. They had sand toys, beach chairs, a wagon. Tara really made it easy to enjoy ourselves worry free.
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Target: Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada
Goal: Enact stricter safety regulations for Canada's privatized railway industry
In light of Quebec's recent Lac-Mégantic oil train explosion that has most likely claimed 50 lives, Canada needs to seriously re-examine its policies regarding the transport of crude oil via the railway system. While what happened in that small, rural town is a tragic accident, it can also be a wake-up call to a corporate-run railway industry that is in desperate need of regulation. Please sign this petition and call for immediate regulation of Canada's methods of transporting crude oil.
In 2009, fossil fuel companies shipped 500 carloads of crude oil by railway in Canada, which is a fraction of the 140,000 carloads that will travel through the country's rails by the end of this year. According to Guardian journalist Martin Lukacs, because the derailed train's crude oil cargo is just a part of the recent fossil fuel boom, what happened in Quebec is not just a tragedy but a corporate crime scene.
Before the mid 1980s Canada's publicly-run railway system was heavily regulated, but when conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney took over, things took a turn for the worst. Canada's railway became deregulated, giving corporations the freedom to write their own safety standards. This corporate authority resulted in the full privatization of rail-lines, along with huge layoffs and cost-cutting measures. In order to prevent another tragedy like the one in Quebec, please urge Canada's prime minister to bring safety regulations back to their railway system.
Dear Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper,
In the wake of the recent tragedy in Quebec, it is an opportune time to both grieve and take measures to ensure that this accident will never happen again. The oil train explosion highlights the need for regulation of Canada's railway industry, especially policies concerning the transport of crude oil.
Deregulation and the boom of extremely invasive methods of extracting oil and gas, like the shale oil from North Dakota that contributed to the recent explosion, have led to a railway industry vulnerable to accidents like the one in Quebec. At the end of 2013 140,000 carloads of crude oil will travel through Canada via train, compare that to the 500 carloads shipped in 2009. Canada's completely privatized rail industry lacks the right kind of safety regulation to keep up with the fossil fuel boom.
And now with talks of transporting energy sources like fracked, shale oil by truck and even by waterway, given what has happened to the town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, safety should be priority number one. Please do your part in preventing an accident like this from ever occurring again and regulate your country's railways.
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The article analyzes the critical state of unemployment in Nigeria. Some of the key factors include the politicization of formal education that led to the production of persons with little or no relevant skills; the economic recession that led to inadequacy of funds, lack of appropriate inputs, poor conditions of service; and poor economic planning on the part of the nation's leaders. It points out some of the poor policies such as free education, which resulted into over production of labor without corresponding increases in job opportunities in established industries for graduates. The failure of the education sector to forecast the manpower needs of the Nigerian economy is highlighted among lead causes. It concludes with solutions such as the need to restructure the economic and education systems; to encourage and support self employment through job creation for the jobless; and to repatriate Nigerian wealth stored in foreign banks by corrupt leaders among many others.
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|Ibadan, Nigeria
|The Department of Educational Management, University of Ibadan.
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Young linemen strengthen Steelers
Ziggy Hood and Cam Heyward are first-round draft picks but, as they are fast learning, numbers mean nothing at this Steelers training camp.
Especially the number 1.
Maybe the message came from coach Mike Tomlin — a likely source — or defensive coordinator Dick LeBeau, but it is being repeated so often at St. Vincent College that it might as well be printed on a bumper sticker.
Statistics are for losers.
A supposedly too-old Steelers defense was No. 1 overall and No. 1 against the pass last season yet, as defensive line coach John Mitchell said, "Stats can say anything. You can cut stats up anyway you want to. We didn't have a good season last year. Our deal is not to have great stats, it's to win the Super Bowl."
Linebacker LaMarr Woodley picked up on the theme, saying, "The ranking was high, but I don't think we played good defense last year. We didn't get that many turnovers, we didn't get to the quarterback that much."
That's where Hood and Heyward come in. At least the Steelers hope that's where they do as their starting defense becomes younger and, perhaps, more efficient.
It's uncommon for recent first-round draft picks to share the same position, but Hood and Heyward are running 1-2 at left defensive end. Hood, a first-round pick in 2009, is the starter at the position long held by Aaron Smith, who retired following three consecutive seasons ended by injury.
Heyward, a first-rounder in 2011 and the son of former Pitt and NFL running back Craig "Ironhead" Heyward, is expected to play at least one-third of the snaps because Mitchell routinely rotates players.
"When you've got players who can play and there's no drop-off, you like to keep them fresh," Mitchell said. "There are about 65-70 plays in a game and you want to be fresh in the fourth quarter, so the only way to do that is to rotate those players during the game."
Not that Hood, who started all but two games last season, intends to let Heyward push past him to take the majority of the snaps.
"I didn't get on the team to ride shotgun to anybody," Hood said. "It's mine, I guess now, and I'm going to do the things to keep that job. … You've got two guys they drafted and took special interest in. If we have to battle, that's what we'll do. It's only going to bring the best out in both of us. I think we're both doing the right things."
Heyward can play either the left side or the right, where Brett Keisel starts. When the Steelers go with the 25-year-old Hood, the 26-year-old Steve McLendon and the 23-year-old Heyward together, it becomes one of their youngest defensive lines ever.
McLendon will start the season at nose tackle if 12-year veteran Casey Hampton isn't ready. Hampton is recovering from a torn knee ligament and still isn't ready to practice.
Maybe it's because a first-rounder is pushing him, or that he wasn't satisfied with a 2011 season in which he had 1½ sacks in 14 starts, but Hood wasn't about to gamble with his starting job. He went through his most exhaustive offseason conditioning program, one that emphasized much more than weight lifting.
Hood developed such leg strength and dexterity that, despite weighing 307 pounds, he can sit on a chair and, in one motion, leap up and balance himself on top of a 50-inch pedestal, as evidenced by an online video.
"When I get there (the weight room) in the morning, he's always done working out," rookie nose tackle Alameda Ta'amu said.
Hood felt he needed to get into better condition after being bothered by some minor injuries last season.
"I want to stay healthier — when you stay healthier, you last a little longer," he said. "That's why I took better care of myself this offseason, to make sure I can prevent those kinds of injuries."
And, he might have added, to help the Steelers avoid losses like the upset defeat in Denver that shockingly ended a season in which they achieved much by going 12-4 but, despite fielding a top-of-the-league defense, didn't win the AFC North or a single playoff game.
"We hold ourselves to a higher standard than people think," Hood said. "We feel like we could have done better. We're going to have to do better this year."
Alan Robinson is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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It is the first, and possibly the best, of Sudermann's remarkable psychological studies.
In the pastor Sudermann attempts to paint the altruist in action.
Can Sudermann have purposely set a trap for his moon-struck constituency?
However, Sudermann's virtuosity has plenty of opportunity for display.
Sudermann and Hauptmann hold the ears of men of letters throughout Europe.
This is why I call the book the most pessimistic of all Sudermann's writings.
It would seem that Sudermann was again attacked by his doubting mania.
In this colossal novel, Sudermann has made a searching and masterly study of feminine frailty.
Her room was very nicely kept, and she had on a shelf a novel of Sudermann's and a little book of Rosenthal's sweat shop verses.
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Today's colourful space belongs to interior designer Dominique Brammah and her partner Ashley Ryan, who is studying physiotherapy. Dominique and Ashley rent their sweet two bedroom apartment in Bondi, Sydney, and have been here only since March this year. Despite having moved in less than 6 months ago, as is evident in these pics, Dominique already has the place looking ship shape! Bright and cheerful, the decor perfectly complements Dominique's sunny temperament – she is the sweetest lass, and was such delightful company during our shoot!
Day to day, Dominique works at respected Sydney design firm Arent and Pyke, and though she doesn't have quite the same budget as some of her amazing clients, she's has pulled together the prettiest space with the perfect balance of investment pieces and second hand finds. Amongst salvaged treasures from op shops and Mitchell Road Antiques, Dominique's most impressive bargain is her dining table for two! Constructed from a black steel table base picked up at St Vinnies, and a piece of carrara marble cut to size by a stonemason, it's the perfect treatment for this tiny dining room.
Prior to moving here, Dominique had been living with friends in a big, beautiful share house just around the corner. When she and Ash decided to move out together, they found themselves on a somewhat depressing hunt for a decent and affordable apartment in Bondi! 'Boy did we see some doozies' recalls Dominique, recounting the long list of 'dark, sad, underground, tiny, stuffy' apartments they viewed before scoring this one! 'Although our place does have its quirks, it is bright, with lots of natural light, white walls and timber floorboards' says Dominique, who was willing to compromise on some things, but not on natural light. The location was also a major drawcard – 'it's well located, in the crap part of Bondi – not the romantic part where everyone is good looking and the beach is just a hop skip and a green smoothie away from your doorstep!' Dominique says! Before signing the lease, she had already measured up the space and drawn up a furniture plan to work out what she needed to buy and where everything was going to go. Now that's why an interior designer makes an excellent partner / housemate!
Before moving in, Dominique also exploited a few of her interior design trade connections, and bought her very first 'grown up' piece of furniture – the beautiful Joe sofa from MCM House. She is also the biggest advocate for investing in Australian art, having saved her pennies to acquire much loved artworks over the years by local painters including Jen Tyers, Rachel Castle and Laura Jones. 'My Rachel Castle is a pretty special piece' says Dominique. 'It was purchased from Rachel's first painting show at Koskela in 2012, and shortly after I started work at A&P. I begged the lovely chap at Koskela to let me pay it off in instalments and God love him, he must have known how much I wanted it and said yes. It really represents the enlightenment I felt at the time having found my dream job (vomit, but it's true)'.
Amongst other precious treasures are the photographs over the sofa, taken by Dominique's dear friend, Sydney photographer Luisa Brimble. 'She traded these for some dollars towards her recently launched Alphabet Family Journal' recalls Dominique, who then gifted them to Ashley for their first anniversary. 'The one of Bondi, for me, is about our first summer together. I love that big sky' says Dominique.
When asked to describe her personal aesthetic, Dominique is thoughtful. 'This is actually something we are asked about at work a lot – the idea of personal style' she says. 'People struggle to trust their gut instinct and say a lot things like "but how will I know if it will work? Will it go? etc". But I have this general idea that if you love something passionately, if you have to have it, then it will work with everything else you already own and will own down the track' she explains. 'I don't like the stuffery and the toffery of interior decoration. I like clean palettes, fresh tones, and the joy of patterns and prints. It is easy to really go for it in interior design. It is much harder practising restraint!'
To learn a little more about delightful Dominique, check out some of the projects she works on at amazing Arent&Pyke, and she also co-edits Arent&Pyke's excellent In Out Blog (well worth a look!), and when she's not FLAT OUT with all of that, she has a bit of a freelance floral habit which you can check out over here! What a clever cookie.