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Battlestar Galactica:
The Complete Epic Series
1978 (2003) - Universal
review by Jeff Kleist of
The Digital Bits
Program Rating: B+
Disc Ratings (Video/Audio/Extras): B/C/B+
Specs and Features
Approx. 1167 mins (24 episodes at 45-50 mins each, some in multi-hour telefilm format), NR, full frame (1.33:1), 4 DVD-14 discs (dual-sided - 1 side dual-layered, 1 side single-layered) and 2 DVD-9 discs (single-sided, dual-layered), Digipak packaging in custom "Cylon Helmet" outer box (with lenticular eye), audio commentary on
Saga of a Star World
(with actors Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict and Herbert Jefferson Jr.), deleted scenes and alternate takes for each episode except
The Magnificent Warriors
Take the Celestra
(more than 3 hours in all), 5 documentaries (
Remembering Battlestar Galactica
- 45 mins,
The Creation of Battlestar Galactica
- 7 mins,
Composing the Score
- 6 mins,
The Cylons
- 5 mins, and
Working with the Daggit
- 5 mins), photo gallery, Sci-Fi miniseries preview trailer, videogame preview trailer, insert booklet with episode guide and photos, animated program-themed menu screens with music, scene access (6 chapters per episode - see
episode guide
below), languages: English DD 5.1, subtitles: English (captions), French and Spanish
For more than five years prior to the release of
Star Wars
, producer Glen Larson had been pitching his version of "Exodus in Space". The idea was to follow a band of Humans elsewhere in the Universe, as they fled through space in a ragtag fleet of ships from the persecution of the vile, mechanical Cylons. Unfortunately, the pitch held little appeal to TV networks executives at the time. However, all that quickly changed. Following the success of
Star Wars
in 1977, ABC jumped on the chance to cash in on the Sci-Fi craze.
Debuting in the fall of 1978,
Battlestar Galactica
became the highest rated and biggest-hyped TV premiere in history. Originally conceived as a series of telefilms, ABC changed their minds, deciding instead to turn the property into a full-fledged series literally at the last minute. The result was a few decidedly sub-par episodes right off the bat. As with many TV series, interest began to wane over the course of the first season and, coupled with the long production schedule and falling ratings, ABC cancelled the series after only 24 episodes. That left
as yet another Sci-Fi series that ended with a fan-frustrating cliff-hanger. Thousands of letters and phone calls poured in to ABC, but by the time the network realized their mistake, it was already too late - the sets had been struck and the cast had moved on. Desperation to keep the franchise alive (and perhaps the desire to cash in on the popularity of
) lead to a short-lived follow-up series, a monstrosity known as
Galactica 1980
(which most fans would like to forget).
Star Trek
before it,
Battlestar Galactica
enjoyed a healthy run in syndication, garnering a strong and loyal fan base. Over time, a dozen or so videotapes of episodes were released. For some reason however, Universal never released the best and most popular episodes, choosing instead to show them only as badly cobbled together telefilms designed for syndication. Until now, the only way to see many of these episodes was in this format on TV, or in the extraordinarily limited edition Japanese laserdisc set issued in the 80s. Thankfully, the DVD format has changed all that. Packed with a surprising amount of extras, and featuring appearances by some of the greatest actors to ever grace the silver or small screen (including Lorne Green, John Colicos, and Fred Astaire), all 24 episodes of
Battlestar Galactica
can finally be enjoyed in their original, uncut format.
Battlestar Galactica
was one of the last TV shows to be finished entirely on film, which is fortunate for fans. What this means is that instead of having to work with blurry analog videotapes, Universal was able to pull the original film negatives from their vault, and do brand-new, high definition transfers of each episode. That also means that these episodes contain scenes that haven't been seen since their original airing on television. Shot on a television budget (albeit expensive for the time), these episodes do exhibit quite a bit of grain and occasional print damage, but the trade-off is that you gain tremendous detail and texture - detail that wasn't seen even in the original broadcasts. You can see scratches and imperfections in the chrome of the Cylon armor, and actually make out the Vipers flying escort, which were previously just white dots on screen. Of course, some of the cheaper matte paintings and projected backdrops are a little more obvious, but the benefits of these new transfers far outweigh such issues. Fans that have been watching these episodes on years-old VHS tapes and on the SciFi Channel will be shocked at how much better they look on DVD.
Also benefiting greatly from today's state-of-the-art production technology is the audio on these episodes. The producers of this set have re-mixed every episode of this show in Dolby Digital 5.1, working from the original audio stems. Dialogue is locked in the center channel, but is crisp and clear despite the limited dynamic range of the source tracks. Given that the original stems are two decades old, you're not going to find split surrounds or panning effects here, but you do get a ton of LFE thanks to the show having been originally designed for Sensurround (a mono theatrical format with an isolated LFE, faithfully reproduced on the theatrical cut DVD).
But if the video and audio quality of this 6-disc set is impressive, you'll be even more surprised at the supplemental gathered for this collection. For starters, you'll find a tremendous amount of deleted and alternate scenes for almost every single episode. The pilot alone contains over 34 minutes of never-before-seen footage! These are not wasted, throwaway scenes either - this DVD collection contains virtually every single deleted subplot fans have been talking about for 25 years. There's also alternate takes of scenes, extended scenes, B-roll footage and even gag reel material. In all, there's more than 3 full hours of such material to enjoy - an absolutely incredible surprise, and more than reason enough for fans to buy these DVDs without hesitation.
Amazingly, that's not all you get. You can also enjoy an audio commentary track on the 3-part pilot episode, with stars Dirk Benedict (Starbuck), Richard Hatch (Apollo) and Herb Jefferson, Jr. (Boomer). I've seen all three together at various conventions, and the best part of this commentary is that most of what they talk about is new. These are stories you haven't heard before... and they continue from the commentary into a series of documentary featurettes. There are 4 mini documentaries in all, each under 10 minutes in length. These cover such topics as the genesis of the show, the creation of the Daggit and the Cylons, and the composition of the show's score. Fans have heard all the "monkey in bondage" stories before (the Daggit was played by a chimpanzee) at conventions, so it's the Cylon material I found most amusing. Illustrated with plenty of B-roll of Cylons with their helmets off, and suits of Cylon armor blowing up, the experience of being a Cylon is well covered by the crew. The piece with Stu Philips talking about composing the music is fairly technical, in that it concentrates on the structure and techniques of recording for television. Fortunately, that doesn't keep it from being interesting.
The real documentary gem on these DVDs, however, is a 45-minute piece called
Remembering Battlestar Galactica
. It's a great retrospective look at the making of the show, with the cast and crew free to reminisce about their experiences. In addition to many of the featured players, this documentary has a good concentration of supporting cast members as well. Moments with bit players like the Borellian Nomen (and an all-to-short bit with Patrick MacNee) are a surprising addition here. I'll admit to a little disappointment at the absence of a few people (like Sarah Rush, Ron Kelley and few of the other bridge crew cast), but I'm sure the DVD producers did the best they could given actor availability and the production budget. Rounding out this nice batch of extras are a photo gallery, and trailer-style sneak peeks at the new videogame and the Sci-Fi Channel's upcoming mini-series remake.
If I had one small complaint with these DVDs, it would be the menus. All of the discs use a common main menu that appears when you first play them. You have to navigate into the individual episode menus to get to what you're looking for. This is made a little better by the welcome addition of a "play all" option that lets you view everything on that side of the disc. You're shown each episode in turn, and at the conclusion of it, the disc takes you directly to the deleted scenes page. It's a very nice touch that I wish more TV DVD sets would emulate.
Before I finish, I'd be remiss in not mentioning this set's spectacular, though somewhat bulky, packaging. The DVDs are enclosed in a Digipak, which fits into a large silver box featuring the face of a Cylon staring at you. While the attempt to make the eye "move" via a red lenticular lens didn't quite work, the effort is appreciated. The outer box also holds a beautiful, full-color booklet printed on semi-gloss cardstock. This booklet contains a complete episode guide, full color photos and a smattering of blueprints of the ships and sets from the show. Sadly, none of this will fit on your DVD shelf, but it's a nice package nonetheless.
Battlestar Galactica
was one of my TV favorites as a child. Sure, it was derivative, and lifted plots from previous films and TV series like
The Guns of Navarrone
. But anyone who complains about that is missing the entire point of
. It's got a unique spiritualism that no other program has ever duplicated - a spiritualism that adds a distinct a sense of purpose to the journey of these characters. The show had fantastic production design and special effects for its day. And if all that doesn't impress you, how can you balk at any series that features killer robots from outer space, complete with creepy-red, ominously-scanning eye slits? Cheesy or not,
Battlestar Galactica
holds a special place in the hearts of many Gen-Xers. I'm pleased to say that anyone who loves this show as much as I do is going to be absolutely thrilled with the care that Universal's taken with these DVDs.
Jeff Kleist
Disc One
Saga of a Star World
(3-hour pilot) and
Lost Planet of the Gods
Disc Two
The Lost Warrior
The Long Patrol
Gun on Ice Planet Zero
The Magnificent Warriors
Disc Three
The Young Lords
The Living Legend
Fire in Space
Disc Four
War of the Gods
The Man with Nine Lives
Disc Five
Murder on the Rising Star
Greetings from Earth
(2-hour presentation)
Disc Six
Baltar's Escape
Experiment in Terra
Take the Celestra
The Hand of God
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As a lifelong environmentalist, hiker, skier, and lover of the outdoors, Ann McLane Kuster has a deep and personal connection to environmental issues.
In her campaign for Congress, Annie has been endorsed by the League of Conservation Voters, which pointed to Annie as the best candidate in this race for protecting the environment and growing clean energy jobs.
Beginning with a youth spent in the ourdoors and an undergraduate degree in environmental policy, Annie has a lifelong commitment to a safe and clean environment. This led her, among other things, to:
* Serve on the New Hampshire advisory board for the Trust for Public Lands
* Work with her friends and neighbors as a volunteer to successfully persuade lawmakers to ban the hazardous burning of toxic construction & demolition debris in New Hampshire.
* Help save two local family farms from development so that they could be enjoyed by their entire community
Climate Change
* Annie is deeply concerned about climate change and believes our country has a duty to lead the world in combating it.
* Specifically, Annie believes that investment in clean and renewable energy, and a focus on improving energy efficiency will create of new American jobs, make us safer by decreasing our dependence on foreign oil, and have substantive and positive impact on climate change.
* Annie also supports efforts to give companies market-based incentives to create energy in cleaner ways that don't leave taxpayers paying clean-up costs.
Nuclear Power
* Annie has serious concerns about the safety and the extremely high taxpayer costs of expanding nuclear power.
* We can't afford the billions of taxpayer dollars that would needed to subsidize the power companies as they build new nuclear power plants.
* We've already seen the serious safety concerns with the recent leakages of Tritium and other chemicals at the nearby Vermont Yankee plant.
* There are a number unanswered questions about were we store the fuel and the waste from nuclear power plants in a way that is safe from terrorists and environmental damage.
* Instead of spending money on new nuclear power plants, Annie believes our tax dollars would be better spent investing in safe, clean renewable energy resources.
Ending Subsidies and Better Oversight of Energy Companies
* Annie believes we need to change the broken system in Washington that has given tens of billions of dollars in subsidies to big oil and energy companies and avoided real safeguards or oversight at the expense of the rest of the country.
* Instead, Annie believes we need to invest in the safe, renewable energy technologies -- from wind turbines and solar panels to wood pellet heating and low-power light bulbs -- that are already employing thousands in New Hampshire.
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INGRID LOYAU-KENNETT is wearing Union Flag socks. They are the same ones she was wearing on Wednesday afternoon, when she jumped off the Number 53 bus to confront two alleged terrorists who, just minutes previously, had apparently brutally murdered a soldier outside Woolwich Barracks in south-east London.
The men, their hands smeared with blood, were armed with butcher's knives, meat cleavers and a gun. As other passers-by stopped to stare, or film the incident on their mobile phones, Mrs Loyau-Kennett, a divorced mother of two from Helston, Cornwall, saw a man lying in the road and, without a thought for her own safety, stepped in to help.
The image of her calmly confronting one of the suspects has dominated both national and international news coverage of the incident. She is slight, dressed in jeans and a navy body warmer, with her hands tucked into her pockets. A daffodil is pinned to her top buttonhole. The attacker, his eyes dark with anger, towers over her. Blood is spattered on the sleeves of his black coat, drops sliding off the knife he clutches in his left hand.
As she waited for the police to arrive, Mrs Loyau-Kennett tried to reason with the two suspects. "Would you like to give me what you have in your hands?" she asked one, pleading with him to put down his weapons. "We want to start a war," the other told her. "I will shoot the police when they come. I want to kill them." Looking them straight in the eye, she replied calmly: "That's not going to happen. I am here and I am going to listen to you."
That was the moment Mrs Loyau-Kennett became a national hero. While up to 60 others - men, women and children - stood back and watched, the 48-year-old, a former cub scout leader trained only in first aid, single-handedly kept the attackers calm and distracted until help arrived. Then, this extraordinary woman got back on her bus and carried on with the rest of her day. Her actions have inspired the country. As reports of her bravery emerge, she has been called fearless; selfless; a model citizen.
In the aftermath of such brutality, Mrs Loyau-Kennett's behaviour gave hope. She faced down atrocity with humanity. Yesterday, David Cameron praised her courage. "When told by the attacker he wanted to start a war in London, she replied, 'You are going to lose. It is only you versus many,'?" the Prime Minister said. "She spoke for us all."
Just 24 hours after the attack, Mrs Loyau-Kennett is struggling to understand why everyone is talking about her. A quiet, matter-of-fact woman with a tendency to laugh when nervous, she is overwhelmed by the attention her actions have brought. She has not been home since the incident.
The navy body warmer, its daffodil intact, is tucked under her arm - and those red, white and blue socks are proudly showing beneath her trousers. "It's a bit much," she admits, shrugging. "I don't think I've done anything extraordinary. I suppose if everybody says I'm a hero I will have to believe it eventually, but right now I don't get it."
Mrs Loyau-Kennett was on her way home from visiting family in France when she ended up in Woolwich. She was born in Brittany, but her family is British - her great-grandfather worked for MI5 and her grandfather was awarded the Defence Flying Cross by George V for his efforts in the First World War. She came to England as a teenager and, after living briefly in New Zealand, has been here since.
Formerly a teacher, and a Snowy Owl leader in her local Brownie pack, she is now retraining as a translator. She had stopped off in London this week to stay with her two grown-up children while looking for a job. On Wednesday, she decided to head back to Cornwall, her home for the past five years. "I thought, 'There's no traffic, so I'll get the Number 53 bus [to central London].' Well, that didn't last. The bus stopped because there was a body on the road and a crashed car. In that split second, you think road accident. I saw the person wasn't moving and nobody else was going to help, so I went. How can people just sit there and do nothing?"
Within seconds of getting off the bus, Mrs Loyau-Kennett realised there was more to the scene than she had thought. The dead man had apparently been run over in a car and attacked with knives. A Caribbean woman tending to the man on the ground told her he was dead.
I love this country; I love its values and I love the Queen. But it makes me sad that everything is going downhill.
"I took his arm to feel his pulse," she remembers. "There was blood on the pavement where he had been dragged and blood was pouring out of him. Suddenly this excited black man came up to me and said, 'Get away from the body; don't touch it'. I looked up and I could see red hands, a bloodied revolver, bloodied meat cleaver and a butcher's knife. OK, I thought, this is bad." She stood up and started talking to the suspect, now believed to be Michael Adeboloja. "He said the man was a British soldier and he had killed him," she explains. "He said he did it because British soldiers had killed women and children in Muslim countries."
She says she tried not to think about the weapons the man was carrying. "It's one thing to take your car and kill someone - and it's another to look someone in the eyes and plunge a knife into their stomach. I was sure he was not going to do that to me. I didn't even think his revolver was working, so I asked him. He looked at it and then at me and said, 'Yes'."
Mrs Loyau-Kennett says that the suspect looked "genuinely upset, like someone who had seen something terrible. He seemed very agitated." When he walked away, she approached the other man. "He looked older and he said nothing," she said. "I asked him if he wanted to sit down and give me what he had in his hands."
Ten minutes passed. A crowd had gathered around the dead soldier, but still nobody else approached the suspects. "There were 50 to 60 people," says Mrs Loyau-Kennett. "They were watching; filming on their phones. I pushed one back because he was too close. I told them if they want to do something, come and help. It made me sad. They were thinking of themselves, not about this poor guy."
Then, a woman from the crowd asked Mrs Loyau-Kennett to step back. "I told her I wasn't leaving; as long as I don't see professionals here, I'm staying. He knows me; he knows I'm calm. I'm not afraid whatsoever. I'll stay until something happens."
Around her neck, she wears a small gold cross, encrusted with rubies and diamonds. She is a practising Catholic and partly credits her faith for how she acted. "I live my life as a Christian," she explains. "I believe in thinking about others and loving thy neighbour. We all have a duty to look after each other. A whole group of people walking towards those guys would have found it easy to take those weapons out of their hands. But me, on my own, I couldn't."
Later that day, Mrs Loyau-Kennett met up with her children, Basil, 23, and Pewony, 24, who were waiting for her at Victoria station. "They knew what had happened when I got there," she says. "I had texted them saying, 'I'm on a different bus because of the shooting'. They must have thought, 'What the heck?' My son said, 'Are you crazy, Mum? You could have been killed'. He was upset that he could have lost me." From a pocket in her handbag, she takes out two faded photographs of Basil and Pewony as tousle-haired schoolchildren. "I didn't let them cross my mind on Wednesday," she said.
Mrs Loyau-Kennett plans to move to London to be closer to her children. She also harbours hopes of a political career. "I love this country; I love its values and I love the Queen. But it makes me sad that everything is going downhill. If being a politician means saying what other people are afraid to say, then why not? I'd be quite good at that."
For now, she cannot get over the fact that so many people, including the Prime Minister, know her name. "I can't imagine him saying that," she squeals, throwing her head back and laughing. "My name! I love David Cameron! He's such a good guy." Could an invite to Downing Street be on the cards? "Oh yes, that would be amazing," she grins. "In the meantime, though, I'd be happy if he just took me for a pint in the pub."
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HEREFORD Lions Club chipped in £500 to the Hereford in Bloom fund to buy plants for the beds, planters and hanging baskets which once again brightened up the city centre following the decision by Herefordshire Council to abandon flower planting as a cost cutting exercise. Hereford City Council funded the watering.
Lions Club member Ian Foster said: "It is important the city looks bright, cheerful and welcoming if it is to attract the extra visitors needed to boost the local economy. Lions Club was pleased to do its bit towards making this happen."


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Madison County's search for a new code enforcement officer will not hinder its renewed enforcement of delinquent mobile home tax citations.
The county has released code enforcement trainee Kevin McIntyre from a probationary period of employment, according to personnel coordinator Connie Benge.
Benge would not give details concerning McIntyre's release.
Part of McIntyre's job description included checking for the display of correct property tax decals on the county's mobile homes.
This year the Madison County Tax Commissioner's Office has cracked down on delinquent mobile-home property taxes, even running an ad in The Madison County Journal warning residents that citations were being issued if decals were not displayed.
Residents who do not display a homestead exemption decal, a permanent charge to property decal or a yearly decal on their mobile home can face court, and be charged a minimum $35 fine even if the delinquent taxes are paid before the court date.
The county hired McIntyre in July.
Chief Appraiser Rebecca Duncan said she expected McIntyre's vacant position filled by the end of October.
Duncan said the position's vacancy will have little affect on citations. The tax office takes two delinquent tax cases to court a month, and previous citations have already filled both case times for the month of October, she said.
Published in the Athens Banner-Herald on Thursday, October 2, 2003.
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April 18, 2013
RENO, Nev. - The University of Nevada women's tennis team will wrap up its regular season on the road with two dual matches, one against New Mexico on Saturday and a showdown with Boise State on Sunday.
The Wolf Pack (9-6, 3-3 MW) will face off against the Lobos (7-12, 1-5 MW) and the Broncos (13-7, 4-2 MW) in the final two matches of the season. Nevada is hoping to end a two game losing skid, with losses to UNLV and Mountain West leader No. 48 San Diego State. After a win over Alicia Aguilar of San Diego, Emma Verberne now has a share of third place for most singles victories in a career, tied with Caroline Baily at 56 wins. Michelle Okhremchuk was 3-1 in her matches last weekend, playing from singles position one and teamed with Verberne in doubles. Senior Sophie Stevens and sophomore Juliette Legendre teamed together to earn two doubles wins.
"With the Mountain West Championships right around the corner, it is important for us to be playing well," head coach Guillaume Tonelli said. "These will be two tough matches to get us prepared and get us on our A-game before then."
The Lobos come into the matchup off a 7-0 defeat to Wyoming, and have dropped four of their past five matches. Expected to play from position one for the Lobos is Michela Bezdickova, who has notched a 14-5 record from there this season. In doubles, Bezdickova has teamed with Laura Richardson to record an 8-11 record from the first position. The match with New Mexico will begin at 1:30 p.m.
The Broncos have won their past three matches before the contest with Nevada, including coming off a 7-0 toppling of Air Force. Four Broncos players come in with double digit singles victories, including Megan LaLone, who holds a 13-5 record. Expected to play in position one is Marlena Pietzuch, who is 9-5 from that position this season. The team of Morgan Basil and Sandy Vo is the top doubles pair for the Broncos this season, with a 14-4 record from position two. The match with the Broncos will begin at 11 a.m.


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Mt. Pleasant Township church to mark 5th year at current location
Just over five years ago, parishioners of Transfiguration of Our Lord Polish National Catholic Church began the parish's first official Mass at its current location in near darkness.
Prior to the start of the Mass on Dec. 8, 2007, a vehicle accident occurred in the vicinity of the place of worship on Bridgeport Street in Mt. Pleasant Township in which a utility pole was struck, knocking out power to the edifice.
"The Mass began with emergency lighting and candles," said Ann Rosky, the parish's council secretary. "We didn't even have an organ."
The congregation — led by the Rev. Joseph S. Lewandowski, the church's administrator at the time — pressed on nonetheless.
Soon after, something extraordinary happened.
As the parish began singing the hymn titled "Gloria," power was restored to the building bringing light back the facility where its members had worked for roughly three years renovating it for worship.
"That's such a joyous song. I'll never forget how that was when the lights came back on," Rosky recalled. "Tears came to my eyes, because all of our work up to that point was visible again to all."
The need for such work was borne out of what Rosky and Daniel Levendusky, chairman of the church's council, both referred to as a situation in which their parish was left with "nothing."
Its members found their way back with a similar sense of resolve.
In September 2002, Transfiguration Roman Catholic Church in Mt. Pleasant Borough was closed after structural engineers determined the building was unsafe and could collapse.
A $2 million estimate to make repairs prompted the parish's pastoral and finance committees to ask the Diocese of Greensburg to raze the building.
When the building was razed in 2003, the church's parish was dissolved and its members were forced to seek out other local churches.
"The flock was scattered, and we basically wanted to reestablish our own church," Levendusky said.
Levendusky's son, Alan, subsequently told him about the Holy Family Polish National Catholic Church in McKeesport, which is part of the Pittsburgh-Buffalo Diocese of the Polish National Catholic Church.
Levendusky and his wife, Carrie, attended a service there. Soon after, the couple and other former members of the dissolved parish worked to become a member of the church's Pittsburgh-Buffalo Diocese.
In October 2003, the Right Rev. Thaddeus Peplowski, bishop of the Diocese of Buffalo-Pittsburgh, issued a warrant declaring the parish a member of the church.
The newly formed parish then found a temporary home at the First United Church of Christ in Mt. Pleasant, where it leased space and many of its members reconvened to conduct its Saturday Masses and fundraisers.
"The accepted us with open arms," Levendusky said.
In early 2004, parish members set out in earnest to find their very own place of worship.
In fall of 2005, the parish learned that the site formerly occupied by Rainbow Gardens — a bar and banquet hall — was for sale by owner Kathleen Fatla, Levendusky said. By December of that year, the parish approved the purchase of the building for $135,000, he said.
In spring of 2006, roughly 10 of the parishioners began working together to renovate the facility.
"We had to frame the Sacristy, the choir room, we did all the wiring and the plumbing," Levendusky said. "God gave us the skill to do this. I lived down here for about two years."
The group located pews out of state and received a donated podium, choir hymn boards, tabernacle and bell.
On April 19, 2008 — about four months after the "Gloria lighting" — the church's official dedication was held.
Since then, the parish's members have worked hard to serve the surrounding community and to build a strong bond with the diocese on both a regional and a national level, said the Rev. Bruce Sleczkowski, who this month is marking one year as the parish's administrator.
"With the faith and devotion of the people attending, I am totally amazed," Sleczkowski said. "They're growing slowly, and they're not only demonstrating their faith, they're sharing their faith and doing things for others in the community.
Locally, the parish members assist the Salvation Army with ringing the Christmas bell. Nationally, its members recently sent ceramic angels to Newtown, Conn., to comfort the survivors of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.
"That's admirable," Sleczkowski said.
Parishioner Diane E. Cheek, a biology professor at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, serves on the Buffalo-Pittsburgh Diocesan Council.
Teen member Kristen Yanuck attended a national youth conference last year held in Niagara Falls.
In addition, Levendusky has served previously as a delegate representing the parish at Diocesan synods in Carnegie and Erie and at a national synod in Manchester, N.H. Synods are legislative bodies of the church which address the financial workings of the church.
"They're finding a niche in our church," Sleczkowski said. "And the parish is embraced by the diocese and the national church. We have a very positive direction we are going and we have a very bright future.
"I, myself, enjoy celebrating the Eucharist with them; they're wonderful people," he said.
A.J. Panian is an editor for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at 724-547-5722 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Vision 2040 meeting in New London, Minn., focuses on well-being, economic vibrancy
NEW LONDON – The task of increasing the "well-being" of the Willmar area was voted the top issue to discuss during a Vision 2040 session Wednesday in New London.
Issues like mental health, social connectedness, wellness screening, nutrition in schools and availability of places for people to walk in the winter were some of the ideas generated by the group of 45 participants.
Identifying key areas of needs that aren't currently being met and listing existing programs that could be expanded, is the first step in the long-range planning process that could help area communities reach common goals in the next 27 years.
A major part of that plan is cultivating new leaders to take over implementation of the dreams being discussed today.
The input will create the "bones" of what will eventually become a working playbook for the community to follow, said Rebecca Ryan, founder of Next Generation, the consulting firm that's holding meetings all this week to lead the community through an exercise to explore four main areas: well-being, economic vibrancy, inclusion and things to do.
There will be a meeting for each topic this week.
At the meeting in New London, the participants voted on the two issues they wanted to spend their 90-minute block of time exploring.
Well-being was the top vote-getter followed by economic vibrancy.
The group was divided in half and sat at tables made up of participants of all ages.
Half of the group explored ways to increase the quality of life while decreasing health care costs.
At the end each group summarized their ideas.
Without improvements in mental health, a person's "whole life falls apart," said Marv Calvin.
That meshed with the focus of "social connectedness" between elderly and young people highlighted by another group that also said there's a need for one master website that lists every community activity that's available every day.
Protection of green space, healthy eating in school and physical activity was also mentioned.
Ann Stehn, director of the Kandiyohi County Health and Human Services Departments, said in an interview that she was pleased participants looked at health "very broadly" from a social, emotional and environmental view and considered the questions of "how are we living and how are we eating" and didn't focus just on health care per se.
The other half of the group discussed economic vibrancy, where topics included developing a community working and networking spaces throughout the county for people who work in a home office, expanding angel investors, entrepreneurship mentoring, having satellite offices in area towns for the Kandiyohi County and City of Willmar Economic Development Authority, getting an airline carrier to service Willmar, expanding businesses at the MinnWest Technology Campus and restoring the small business program at Ridgewater College.
When the Vision 2040 plan is completed this fall, Ryan said the community will have a complete plan that will not only include the broad picture for the community for the future but also a step-by-step playbook with "bread crumbs" to lead them to the right resources to accomplish the goals.
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by William A. Henkin, Ph.D.
Copyright © 1999 by William A. Henkin
Last October I offered a program for Janus called "Abuse (Survivors) in the SM Community," as I had also done five years ago. I intended the title to imply that the program would cover both the presence and concerns of abuse survivors in the BDSM communities, and also the existence in the communities of abuse itself. In the event, the two hours allotted just wasn't enough time for me to answer all the excellent questions participants asked; when, at the end of the evening, someone suggested I address a few of the outstanding questions in this column, I decided to take up the suggestion, and so, from time to time in the coming months, I shall. In this month's column I'll respond to three very short queries from the Q & A portion of the program that were based on discussions earlier in the program, one of which I touched on in an earlier column a couple of years ago.
<A> 1. When I use the word "abuse" in this answer I mean it the way consensual players use it in BDSM, not the way nonconsensual people do who violate other people's physical or emotional integrity.
First, perhaps obviously, the phrase "psychological masochism" represents to me erotic pleasure from being hurt psychologically. To be hurt psychologically reads to me as a desire to be humiliated or demeaned, and might include verbal abuse, being the subject of an interrogation scene, or forced consensually, of course, perhaps in a game of consensual nonconsent to do something one fervently wants not to do.
Second, the phrase could derive from some of the psychological literature from 20 or 40 years ago, when sadist and masochist were the only labels applied to kink, and when all sadists were assumed to be tops and dominant, while all masochists were assumed to be bottoms and submissive. In those terms a person we might now describe as submissive could have been called a psychological masochist.
<A> 2. "Self-inflicted violence," abbreviated SIV, is the formal term used by the psychiatric and psychological communities to describe the behaviors of people who hurt themselves deliberately. The best-known forms of SIV are cutting people cut their own skin with knives, blades, broken glass, or other sharp objects and burning people press cigarettes, cigars, or other hot objects to their skin. Sometimes the phrase is used to include people who bang their heads against walls, or pound their bodies to bruises. In 1993 a graduate student attempted to do a dissertation using the same term for people who do ritual cuttings, brandings, tatoos, and both play and permanent piercings, and made the mistake of writing to Piercing Fans International Quarterly (PFIQ) for help. In response she got dissenting opinions from three psychotherapists in the BDSM communities at the time Guy Baldwin, Dossie Easton, and me. As I recall, her dean later suggested she change her topic.
There is also a newsletter devoted to people who are or have been involved with SIV, which was on the reading list I handed out at the program and which I've mentioned once before in this column. That is The Cutting Edge: A Newsletter for Women Living with Self-Inflicted Violence, published by Ruta Mazelis. Subscriptions are available by donation; the publisher requests: $10 - $30 per year and asks that professionals or others with adequate resources pay $20 - $30 per year; no one is turned away because of inability to pay, however. The address is P.O. Box 20819, Cleveland, OH 44120.
<A> 3. In brief, yes. For a variety of reasons people who are abused often, regularly, or extensively may shut down their abilities to feel their own feelings or to discern differences among some kinds of behaviors. The classic example is the very young child who dissociates severely so that s/he doesn't even feel "present" during abuse, but feels more like an observer or witness to the event that is happening to her or his body. Dorothy Allison includes a good description of this sort of dissociation in one of her short stories in her collection Trash. This condition is also sometimes seen among people who grew up believing they had to be extraordinarily tough because "men don't cry," or because of some other emotion-negating training.
It may also be that people are sometimes unaware of what they feel because there is no outside validation for it, or no definition for it in their society. Perspective didn't exist in western art until around 1300 CE, evidently because people didn't see with perspective until Giotto di Bondone invented or discovered it and began to use it in his work. That doesn't mean their eyes didn't work the same way ours do, but that they didn't have the... well, the perspective to know they were seeing that way. So also it is quite conceivable that very few women or children felt abused a couple hundred years ago when everyone knew it was the husband and father's prerogative to keep his clan in line by physical force if necessary, though certainly history is full of evidence that people responded emotionally in many ways people do today when they are the subjects of behavior we now call abuse.
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Career counselors from the 13th Sustainment Command talked with about 50 soldiers regarding retention options March 22 at the command's Soldier and Family Readiness Center.
The soldiers are slated to leave the Army or re-enlist.
Master Sgt. Humberto Flores, the senior career counselor for the command who led the briefing, emphasized education above all other subjects.
"The No. 1 thing I want to share, regardless of whether you're getting out or staying in, (is that) it's important to take the necessary steps to prepare yourself for transition to civilian life," Flores said. "While you're in, take advantage of the opportunity to receive as much education while you're still in, both with military training and civilian education.
"If you're staying in, the education and training you pursue will help to build you into a stronger leader and soldier and prepare you to go on to great things for the Army," he said. "If you are moving on to a new chapter outside the military, it will give you an additional step towards whatever goals you have moving forward."
Flores also stressed the importance of taking advantage of re-enlistment options when they become available, as they won't always be there.
"For example, for the (job of motor transport operator), there are only 45 slots in the entire 13th we can re-enlist to stay," Flores said, referencing the commander's allocation process, which allows commanders to retain a limited number of soldiers serving in an over-strength specialty or skill level. "However, once those available slots are filled, soldiers with that (specialty) will be required to either reclass or get out."
Flores said those with additional questions should meet with their career counselors.
Some soldiers said the options were clearer to them after the briefing.
"There was a lot of great information that was put out that I was not completely aware of," said Spc. Pedro Perez, an automated logistics specialist with the command's 289th Quartermaster Company, 553rd Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 4th Sustainment Brigade. He said he was discussing his options with his family. "It's good to see exactly what all my options are, and it'll help me decide on what my future holds."


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JERUSALEM (Feb. 19)
President Bush's initial negative response to a Soviet plan to end the Persian Gulf war has generated waves of relief in Israel.
But it also has raised fears of the shortterm consequences should a desperate Iraq, facing an imminent allied ground offensive, conclude it has nothing to lose and launch a chemical attack on Israel.
The U.S. president, about to meet with congressional leaders in Washington on Tuesday, told reporters that the secret plan proposed to Iraq by Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev fell far short of U.S. requirements to end the conflict and that he was "not going to give."
Those remarks, while not a total rejection, satisfied Israelis that Bush shares their conviction that Saddam Hussein must not be allowed to emerge from the war with his regime in place and his military machine intact. That stance is good for Israel in the long term.
But a more immediate cause for concern is the considered judgment of the Israel Defense Force that Iraq may still have the ability to mount chemical or biological warheads on its Scud missiles, despite the aerial pounding it has taken for more than a month.
Moreover, the belief here is that when the ground offensive begins, Saddam Hussein will unleash whatever non-conventional weapons he has, not only against U.S.-led coalition forces but at civilian targets in Saudi Arabia and Israel.
Neither Washington nor Moscow has disclosed the nature of Gorbachev's peace plan, which does not satisfy Bush.
The German news magazine Bild published what a Soviet spokesman indicated was a fair approximation.
According to Bild, the main points are that Iraq should withdraw from Kuwait without conditions; the Soviet Union would guarantee Iraq's state structure and borders; the Soviet Union would oppose any sanctions against Iraq or personal punishment of Hussein; and all further issues, including the Palestinian problem, would be discussed in due course.
An interesting sidelight was an interview broadcast Tuesday with Robert Markurian, an aide to Soviet Middle East troubleshooter Yevgeny Primakov.
Markurian, one of the officials present at Gorbachev's meeting Monday with Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz, said the Soviet side made clear its "negative attitude" toward launching missiles at Israel and warned Iraq that the war could not end until that stopped.
Furthermore, the Soviets stressed that one condition for ending the war had to be "ensuring Israel's security," Markurian added.
He said Primakov spoke in a similar vein at his meeting with Saddam Hussein in Baghdad last week, which Markurian also attended.


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I'm certainly not done talking politics but for today, let's not go there.
Let's talk women. Let's talk children. Let's talk Moms and Dads and pets.
Here are some great photos about all of those - because photos are great ways to feel the connection to other people. When you see a simple photo, like those shared here, you don't wonder if the people (if there are people) are one party or another. You see them as people. When you see pictures of animals, especially our pets - generally dogs and cats - you know they are not caught up in the politics of life. They merely want to love and be loved. Oh, and they want treats. Like kids.


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Summary of Season 1 (1999) - 4 discs
Modern-day New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) brings an element of humanity to the "family" in this Emmy Award-winning series from HBO, as Tony turns to a psychiatrist (Lorraine Bracco) to come to terms with the effect of his job's brutality on his life. As the Feds crack down and the tension within the organization rises, Tony's wife (Edie Falco) and two kids have expectations of leading a normal life.
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Biotech Dangers, Biotech Workers, Industry And Our Health & And Safety With Becky McClain
Becky McClain, a molecular biologist at Pfizer was fired for making health and safety complaints and then was retaliated against by the company and government officials controlled by Pfizer. She talks about the systemic dangers of biotech and the corporate control of government agencies responsible for the protection of health and safety of biotech workers and the public.
Biotech Dangers, Biotech Workers, Industry And Our Health & And Safety With Becky McClain
Becky McClain is a molecular biologist and biotech health and safety advocate at Pfizer who was contaminated by the company and then fired for making health and safety OSHA complaints. She won a Federal lawsuit but continued to face criminal retaliation by Pfizer and government officials. She talks about the dangers facing biotech workers, financial conflicts of interests and the failure of government agencies to defend biotech workers and the continuing retaliation against her by the company in collusion with US government officials.
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The Pueblo of Isleta and the New Mexico Environment Department have established water-quality standards for the Rio Grande, which flows through Albuquerque, New Mexico. Trace-element concentrations historically have been greater than maximum permissible concentrations allowed by these standards. It is not known if these concentrations are due to sources from the Albuquerque metropolitan area or are from natural or other sources outside Albuquerque.
Accurate water-quality data with lower reporting limits than have been previously available were collected, and instantaneous concentrations and loads were calculated for trace elements and other constituents in the Rio Grande during high-flow and low- flow conditions. Seven sampling sites were selected upstream from, in, and downstream from metropolitan Albuquerque. Concurrent streamflow measurements were made at the time of sampling to determine suspended-sediment loads. Samples were analyzed separately for trace elements dissolved in water (less than 0.4 micrometer in diameter) and for those contained in suspended sediment (greater than 0.1 micrometer in diameter). Sample collection and processing, analytical methods, and quality control are discussed.
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Irregular Periods
What is Menstural Cycle
Menstrual cycle, most of time we hear about women periods which happen monthly bases or clockwork bases. It happens naturally or we can say it's built in woman from the age of 10-15. On regular basis woman got their periods every fourth week of a month. Some woman got problems and their period's time may vary from their previous period time.
According to research most of female got their first period between the ages of 10 to 15, this first period is known as menarche; pronounced as meh-nar-kee.
Different girls got different period cycle, some got 24 days cycle and some got 34 days cycle period, in which 28 is common notice by the doctors. It varies each month from starting of their first period cycle.
The first day of girl's period comes day one in her cycle period, at early stage her pituitary glands informed her ovaries got one of the eggs that contain for release. First one egg will grown-up completely, while grown-up of first egg lining of the uterus becomes thick to made place for fertilized egg. This whole process made girl pregnant.
On mid of 28day cycle the egg breaks loose and makes their way into uterus through fallopian. It is also known as ovulation. When egg doesn't fertilized it starts to fall apart and after two weeks the lining and egg both leave a girl's body as her period. And this whole process starts again over some time period that's why called a cycle. With the passage of time the monthly periods may affects due to certain reasons. After two years of menarche, girl's body may or may not allow this schedule, which has directly linked with brain. In response she may feel illness, rapid weight loss, stress etc.
Normal Period Doesn't have to Be Regular
In daily life, most of girl got their periods clockwork. Some girls got irregular or extra periods due to many reasons. When their daily life schedule changed or visit outstations, their periods may late or early before their cycle.
It is not necessary that each time they got similar time periods of their cycle; it may vary from time to time. Due to their hormones she may bleed first two-three days or may be at the end of week. These different levels of hormones the body manufactures vary from girl to girl, and it has direct effects with the amount and length of bleeding.
Some experts diagnose different symptoms of irregular periods that are:
- back cramps or stiffness
- headaches
- mood swings
- bloating
- acne breakouts
- disturbed sleep patterns
- heavier breasts or breast soreness
Teenage girl often got irregular periods problems; these are normal changes of their daily life. But after some tears when girl become mature, her periods becomes in clockwork in regular cycle. It will take almost three years from her menarche.
In some cases some teenage girls got irregular periods permanently due to excessive daily exercise, avoid eating calories and by losing weight. Also some got irregular problems due to imbalance of their hormone. When thyroid gland becomes disorder and level of thyroid hormones too low or high in blood, it affects menstrual irregularities. One of the other reasons for irregular periods is excessive production of androgen that is hormone, which causes increased muscle mass, facial hair, increased in height, public hairs, and deepening of the voice in males etc. Due to high production of androgen, hair can grow on their face, chin, chest and abdomen.
If you missed your periods and you are sexually active than it is sign of pregnancy; and in these situations, girls should consult their doctor. Also if you are getting problems in your regular periods like longer than seven periods or less than seven periods , more than twenty one (21) days or less often every 45 days or got abdominal pain, in all cases you must consult doctor for precautionary measures.
Suggestion: during irregular periods girl should keep extra pads or tampons in their back and use them easily in these situations. But if you want removal of this irregularity than consultation of Doctor is must, will prescribed pills against irregularity.


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The inn at which Hal now refreshed himself, in oakham, was not of the large or celebrated ones.
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"Mr. oakham saw him this morning before coming over," said Sir Henry.
"If it does not inconvenience you," replied Mr. oakham politely.
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Greeley Youth Commission spreads Valentine's Day cheer
February 11, 2013
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Jackie English, 15, sat at the Rodarte Community Center in Greeley on Friday afternoon painting small, clay flower pots with pink and red paint, ribbons and hearts.
Spending a Friday afternoon like this is nothing new for English. She has been doing one service project a month for three years.
"This is fun," English said. "It is great to make your community happier. Any Friday afternoon is worth that."
English was with 10 other members of the Greeley Youth Commission, who serve as the youth voice to the Greeley City Council. Members ages 11-17 must apply and interview with the council. They complete one service project a month and meet to discuss ideas for the council.
"I joined because I like being involved in the community, and I like the idea of learning more about the community," English said.
The youth painted and decorated the pots and then constructed tissue paper flowers to put in the pots. Then they delivered them to residents at Kenton Manor, 850 27th Ave, a residential and nursing home in Greeley.
"We hope they can brighten people's days," said Brecken Arnold the Greeley recreation supervisor. "They are really good kids. We have had a really strong commission the past couple years. It has been really easy to do projects like this."
The commission's big event each year is the Youth Service Day Awards reception.
Nominations are given to the group for outstanding youth leadership.
They are then voted on and the winners receive plaques and are recognized by the city council.
"I think it is great to recognize people for how hard they are working in the community," English said. "It promotes more youth leadership, which I am a huge advocate for."
Ben Gutierrez, 17, wanted to carry on the family tradition his siblings started by being involved with the youth commission.
He joined this past summer and said he is glad he did.
"I like being more involved," he said. "It's exciting. I get to make a little bit of a difference."
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This isn't for my own children (who will eventually be homeschooled), but for my sister who is in public school.
She's not doing well in math. My understanding is that they're working on pre-algebra and simple algebra stuff as well as probablility, etc. She's currently in 7th grade but I think they're working out of the 8th grade text book. She also has problems in language arts. She's not a strong reader at all. I'm not sure about other specifics of her issues in language arts. Part of it is a lack of motivation. But one of her teachers has told my mom that she thinks she has test anxiety because when the teacher talks to her one-on-one, my sister can tell her the answers, yet she does very badly on tests. My mom has been told to take her to Kumon by multiple teachers, but my mom got laid off of her job earlier this year and they are really tight on money. She has asked me to help her out once a week after school and over the summer (my sister cooperates with me and actually listens to me more than she does my parents when it comes to schoolwork).
I'm not really sure where to start though. I'd have more of an idea of where to start if she were being pulled out of school (because we'd deschool first and not really worry about what the school system thinks she needs to know when, but rather re-hab her entire education experience, slowly building her confidence and making sure she's grounded solidly in the basics before moving on)
But I'm not sure that approach is possible just over the summer. So does anyone have any advice? Any free or cheap curriculum resources?
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I found this the other day....you can download a placement test to help tell where a child is in their math abilities.
My 12 year old daughter is going to be homeschooling for 7th grade next year and she's really been struggling with math. I was so glad to find this test before I try to buy any materials. Hope this helps you!
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For math, I would use a combination of khan academy (mentioned above) and the free worksheets provided by Homeschool Math website. http://www.homeschoolmath.net/worksheets/ Scroll all the way down. They have things organized both by grade level and by topic. If something is missing, I would look at math mammoth. The downloadable books are usually about $5 each. Sign up for her newsletter as well. Maria is a great help and her newsletter is nice.
For English, I would go for Easy Grammar. It really only requires 10-15 min/day when you use it through the school year. So, in your case, you might combine some lessons to shorten the duration. I linked you to the level that I would expect to work for you. http://www.easygrammar.com/egp.html
Mom to three very active girls Anna (15), Kayla (12), Maya (9).
Thanks for the suggestions every one. I'm going to talk to my mom a bit more about what her specific issues are with language arts.
I have a couple more specific questions though:
any ideas on reducing test anxiety? sometimes she seems to know the material but forgets it when its time to test. (though, i guess this doesn't apply to many homeschoolers, depending upon the type of stuff you do at home. I may ask in the school forum as well).
also, how would you go about strengthening reading skills, like looking at context clues, etc.?
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I too recommend Khan Academy and Math Mammoth.
I haven't used these, but they're something to look at re: Reading Comprehension
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Japan, China and South Korea will hold ministerial discussions next week and are expected to agree on the launch of three-way free trade talks, media reports said Thursday.
The meeting will be held on Tuesday on the sidelines of an East Asia summit in Cambodia, public broadcaster NHK said, despite a spike in tensions between Tokyo and its neighbours over two separate territorial disputes.
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Beijing and Tokyo are squabbling over the sovereignty of an archipelago in the East China Sea, while Japan and South Korea are in dispute over who owns a pair of islands in waters between the two countries.
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White House Chief of Staff John Sununu went out of his way Thursday to assure American Jewish leaders that he does not blame them for the current controversy over his travel practices and that he wants to continue having a "good and productive working relationship" with them.
Sununu told a group of five Jewish organizational leaders in a telephone conference call that he is "not blaming anybody but myself" for the public fire he has come under in the wake of disclosures about his use of government jets and limousines for personal business.
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When Kim Jong Il admitted to Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in 2002 that North Korea had kidnapped Japanese citizens, apologized and pledged to end the practice, prospects for a fair account of the extensive abduction of foreigners by North Korea briefly appeared to brighten. Nowhere were developments more closely watched than in South Korea. While the abduction of Japanese citizens captured global headlines because of Mr. Koizumi's trip to Pyongyang, South Korea has had vastly more of its nationals taken by North Korea.


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