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Address: 12800 SW 145th. Ave. - Miami, Fl 33186
Tel: 305-869-1700 - Fax: 305-869-1780
Staff on duty: 24 hours / 7 days a week.
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Miami Executive Airport (TMB) is one of the busiest general aviation airports in Florida, serving corporate, recreational, flight training, and governmental agency activities. Miami Executive is just 15 minutes from the business centers of South Miami-Dade County. As a reliever to Miami International Airport, its location also provides fast and easy access to the Florida Turnpike, Ocean Reef, the Florida Keys as well as the recreational and business activities in Miami and Miami Beach. The airport provides modern, efficient and professionally staffed FBO facilities serving the expanding corporate and business interests of South Florida.
The airport is home to a number of full-service FBO's, FAA 141 flight schools, FAA 145 (and JAA) Maintenance Repair Stations, Law Enforcement and Medical aviation units, an award-winning FAA-staffed control tower, Miami Automated International Flight Service Station, U.S. Customs and Immigration private aircraft clearance facility, and National Instrument Landing System Test Facility. TMB also participated in the NASA/SATS program.
Since 1995, approximately $16 million has been spent on airport improvements including high-mast safety-and-security lighting, repaving and grooving of all runways and taxiways, new airfield signage, widened run-up areas, and a new Customs Private aircraft clearance facility. The Airport is one of five that are owned by Miami-Dade County and managed by the Miami-Dade Aviation Department.
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Used primarily as a blocking tight end in his high schools offense – Warren Central rushed for almost 5,000 yards last season, Hazelett, because of his potential and impressive physical stature, has already received 23 scholarship offers, including one from Louisville.
"Louisville is a school that I'm looking at," Hazelett said. "I feel like that's one of the schools I can maybe I can make it to the next level at. I got the offer toward the end of my sophomore year and then I received a written offer during my junior year. So I'm real excited about that offer."
While Hazelett hasn't received any new offers recently, Wisconsin watched him workout last week. Because of his basketball schedule Hazelett hasn't been able to make many visits this spring, though he did attend Cincinnati's junior day. "Louisville wanted me to come down for junior day but it's kind of hard for me because of my AAU schedule," said Hazelett, who helped Spiece Indy Heat reached the round of 16 at the King James Shootout in Akron, Ohio over the weekend.
Basketball is definitely something Hazelett enjoys and he's hoping for an opportunity to play both sports in college. At Louisville, the Cardinals have had a few recent two-sport players, including 6-8 wide receiver Josh Chichester, who played some for Rick Pitino's team last season. "That's something I would like but I haven't really discussed it with the (Louisville) coaches yet," Hazelett said.
It's still very early in the recruiting process for Hazelett. Instead of putting together a list of favorites, Hazelett has concentrated his efforts on his school work and on becoming a better prospect in both sports he plays.
"I really don't have a top five but Ohio State, USC, LSU and Florida are up there but I don't have offers from any of those (programs)," Hazelett said.
Soon, though, Hazelett knows he'll have to get more serious about his recruitment. Hazelett already knows a few of the factors that will help him choose a school and he'll soon put together a short list of college's he'll look at more closely.
"I'll look at the graduation rate, history and tradition and if they have the best major for me," he said. "Next week I plan to narrow my list down and by the end of spring I should have the official list of schools I'm looking at because right now my mom told me to just play ball and be a kid and that's what I'm doing."
What are Louisville's odds of landing on Hazelett's short list? "Louisville for sure will make the list because they consider me one of their top guys," said Hazelett. "So Louisville will definitely be on that list."

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Top 5 Tuesday: Weird Endings
By Chris Mehring / Wisconsin Timber Rattlers | October 29, 2013 10:59 AM ET
Game Three and Game Four of the 2013 World Series had some really, really unusual final plays. For this week's Top Five weird finishes to Timber Rattlers games since 2000. I didn't realize the name Leury Bonilla would show up on this list as much as it did.
5.) August 2, 2007 - First up, Bonilla almost kills himself in Dayton. It's the bottom of the ninth inning. The game is tied, but the Dragons have two on with one out and Keltavious Jones at the plate. Jones lines a pitch to deep right. Bonilla went back to the track, lunged for the ball, got a glove on it, and crashed headfirst into the wall, a plexiglass LED screen. The Rattlers team went out to the warning track to check on Bonilla as the Dragons celebrated on the field. Bonilla was down for a long time, but eventually made it up on his feet. Scary play.
4.) August 4, 2007 - So, of course, two days after that finish in Dayton, Bonilla is called on to pitch with the game on the line in Fort Wayne. He played every position except centerfield during the 2007 season. Wisconsin's bullpen was gassed and there was no one left to put on the mound in the bottom of the twelfth inning as the Wizards had scored a run off Keith Renaud with two outs to cut Wisconsin's lead to a single run. Renaud had tossed 4-1/3 innings of relief, but his pitch count was way up there and the only choice was Bonilla, who balked on his first pitch to send the tying run into scoring position. Then, he struck out the batter he came into the game to the game to face and the Timber Rattlers held on with a position player picking up the save. No, really.
3.) June 1, 2005 - Craig James was the Wisconsin closer in 2005. In this game, he entered with the scored tied 3-3 at Cedar Rapids. The first two batters reached base in that inning, but James struck out the next two batters. James got the next batter to send an easy grounder to short for what would be the final out of the frame and the Rattlers would be hitting in the top of the eleventh. But, the ball hit a pebble in the basepath and bounded over the head of shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera. The ball wound up in left-center as the winning run scored for the Kernels.
2.) May 4, 2001 - The Timber Rattlers and the Clinton LumberKings were in a scoreless tie in the bottom of the seventh during game one of a doubleheader in Grand Chute. Wisconsin had the bases loaded with two outs and Guillermo "Bill" Martinez is at the plate and reliever Antonio Garris has come into the game to face Martinez. Garris gets a called strike two on Martinez when catcher Drew McMillan decides that he can throw to first and pickoff the runner for the final out of the inning. McMillan's throw sailed down the line in right and the winning run scored from third on the play.
1.) April 30, 2007 - Backstory: Before the 2007 began, Minor League Baseball tried to initiate some policies that would speed the game. Umpires, players, and coaches were informed before the start of the season that if a batter needed a little time between pitches, they could only move one foot out of the batter's box. If a batter walked completely outside the box with both feet, a strike would be called. Now, let's fast forward to the bottom of the ninth inning at Time Warner Cable Field at Fox Cities Stadium in late April of 2007. Leury Bonilla, who had homered in the bottom of the seventh inning off Dragons reliever Pedro Viola, stepped to the plate with Wisconsin trailing 3-1. Bonilla was the tying run in the bottom of the ninth due to Ogui Diaz reaching first on a two-out error on Dayton third baseman Juan Francisco. Bonilla was down in the count 0-1 to start. Plate umpire Alex Ortiz called the next pitch from Viola a strike to run the count to 0-2. Bonilla thought it the pitch should have been called a ball. He decided to collect himself instead of saying anything to Ortiz. Unfortunately, Bonilla took a couple of steps out of the right-handed batter's box as he walked up the third base line. Ortiz immediately called a strike on Bonilla. That strike just happened to be strike three. The final out of the game came on a called third strike that was never even thrown to the plate. That is #1 on any list.
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LANSDOWNE – Jim Crawford holds out a cup filled with a clear liquid. It doesn't look like much – in fact it just looks like water.
Chisholm is a surname that will be recognized in a thematic concert at the deCoste Centre in July.
By Rosalie MacEachern
Special to The News
Chisholm is a surname that reaches far back into the history of Pictou County and the clan will be recognized in a thematic concert at the deCoste Centre in July.
Duncan MacDonald, producer of Strathglass Farewell, which depicts the clearance of the Chisholms from their ancestral territory, notes there was one Chisholm on the Ship Hector.
"We know there was one fellow named Chisholm and he appears to have been a single man. We know from the few passenger lists we have that quite a few by that name arrived in 1801. Some may have come willingly but we also know that between 1801 and 1810 a great many were cleared off the land," said MacDonald.
When he toured New Glasgow Pioneer Cemetery with Lynn MacLean, who was a driving force in the restoration of the historical cemetery, they located a couple of Chisholm headstones. One stone in particular drew their attention.
"We have a tall stone close to the riverbank. It is quite legible and it states that Angus Chisholm died in 1829 at the age of 41 and his daughter Margaret died at age 11 in 1840 while his wife Margaret lived until 1871," said MacLean.
MacDonald points out this Chisholm is too young to have been on the Ship Hector so there is a good chance he came as a young man between 1801 and 1810.
"There is very little from this period that we know with certainty but thousands of Chisholms were cleared. Some went south to Glasgow and others went to Australia but the majority came to Nova Scotia and some are likely buried in this cemetery," he said.
MacLean notes early references to New Glasgow mention a man known as Daddy Chisholm. He was, according to Dr. George Patterson's "A History of the County of Pictou," a married man with no children who obtained a grant of one and one-half acres on the bank of the East River near the location of the cemetery. Patterson states Chisholm and his wife were, for a time, New Glasgow's only inhabitants.
"We know there were Chisholms among the early settlers in Pictou and New Glasgow and in various parts of the county so Strathglass Farewell is very much a Pictou County story," said MacDonald who produced Ships of 1801 in 2012 and 2013.
The concert, which is set in the Scottish highlands and on board a ship bound for Pictou, features a dramatic falling out between a Chisholm family and their Fraser neighbours.
"The clearances affected more than Chisholms. There were Frasers, MacDonalds, MacIntoshes, Grants, MacRaes and likely others who were turned out by the Chisholm chief and his ambitious wife who believed the tenant farms would be more profitable as sheep pasture," said MacDonald.
The betrayals and worries of the clansmen, as well as their hopes and dreams, are portrayed in song with accompaniment by fiddles, bagpipes and piano.
"It was music and storytelling that allowed the highlanders to preserve their culture so that is how we've chosen to present their stories," said MacDonald.
Strathglass Farewell is being staged in conjunction with Antigonish Highland Games on July 12, at Strathspey Place in Inverness July 24 and at the deCoste Centre Sunday, July 27.


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A ruling by a federal court in California threatens to upset a controversial new fishing management plan embraced by environmental groups, including the Environmental Defense Fund and The Nature Conservancy.
In 2011, the regional council overseeing marine fisheries on the Pacific Coast instituted a kind of cap-and-trade program for the Pacific whiting fishery and the groundfish fishery, which includes fish such as Dover sole and petrale sole.
The council, which oversees marine fisheries off the coast of California, Oregon and Washington, decreed the government would no longer tell fishermen when to fish or what kind of gear to use. Instead, they'd tell fishermen how many fish each could catch by assigning them shares, or a percentage of the fishery.
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The idea behind the change is that if a fisherman "owns" a piece of the resource, he or she will be a better steward of it.
In order to figure out each fisherman's – or corporation's – share, the Pacific Fishery Management Council reviewed catch level history from 1994 to 2003. Those who caught the most fish during those years got the biggest shares.
But a small group of boat operators and processors said they thought the way the council had divvied up those shares was unfair. So they sued the government, and last week, the judge ruled in their favor.
"The original allocation was illegal," said James Walsh, lead counsel for the plaintiffs, the operators of the Pacific Dawn and Chellissa, James and Sandra Schones, the Da Yang Seafood company and Jessie's Ilwaco Fish Co.
It "did not include the more recent history of harvesting and processing," he said, "thereby short-changing" those who have been consistently fishing the resource, "in favor of those who left the fishery prior to 2003."
He said the allocation favored fishermen who gamed the system by leaving in 2004 to build shares in an Alaska fishery that was structuring a similar management plan, as well as "certain environmental groups that bought permits but haven't used them for fishing."
Although The Nature Conservancy owns the largest share of shares in the groundfish trawl fishery, it does not own Pacific whiting shares, which is the fishery involved in this case.
And although a brief in the court case mentions that the Environmental Defense Fund owns permits, no evidence could be found to support that statement, and a spokesman for the organization denied any ownership.
"This allegation – that EDF owns permits – is flat-out wrong," said Tom Lalley, a spokesman for the Washington D.C.-based organization. "EDF does not, and has never, owned permits. Permit ownership is public record, and there are no records showing that EDF has owned quota or permits."
The federal government and fishery council now will have to reconvene to figure out how to re-allocate the shares.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration "takes the findings and conclusions of the court in the Pacific Dawn case seriously," said William Stelle Jr., northwest regional administrator for the agency's fisheries. "We appreciate the court's decision to accept our recommendations on referring the issues back to us, to embrace a workable schedule and to leave the overall program in place this year while we reconsider the limited scope of issues he found wanting in his ruling."
As the government moves forward, Walsh had this to say: "Do not reward game players, investors who did not work the fishery or environmental groups that are not committed to keeping this well-managed fishery competitive in world markets."
The Pacific Fishery Management Council will convene [PDF] in Sacramento from Feb. 29 to March 7 to discuss this issue and others.


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Murrysville Community Park will host softball-baseball complex
Murrysville officials plan to move forward with the creation of a softball-baseball complex at Murrysville Community Park.
Council Wednesday agreed to split one large baseball field at the community park into three for the use of the Franklin Regional Athletic Association. They instructed Chief Administrator Jim Morrison to gather more information before agreeing to a proposal that would enable the association to post signs featuring local businesses along the fences.
"I don't think council has any problems with the development of new fields," council President Joan Kearns said. "There's just language (in the proposal) that we really need to pore over and make sure is in the best interest of the community."
The municipality will spend about $150,000 on the field project during the next 18 months.
As part of the agreement, the association will sign over the rights to Little Haymaker Field, a ball field adjacent to the Murrysville Community Center. The municipality will spend an additional $50,000 to convert that property into supplemental parking for the community center.
Council is slated to give its final approval or rejection at its Aug. 21 meeting.
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LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A Los Angeles city councilman today proposed naming a portion of a Westwood park after Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, whose 20-year tenure on the county board ends in November.
Councilman Paul Koretz wants a playground at HolmbyPark named after Yaroslavsky, who previously spent 20 years on the City Council, where he represented the Fifth District from 1975 until 1994.
Koretz's motion has been assigned to the Arts, Parks, Health, Aging and River Committee.
Yaroslavsky is termed out after sitting on the Board of Supervisors since 1994. He said last month he would not run for the congressional seat being vacated by Rep. Henry Waxman, saying he was sticking to an earlier statement that "four decades in elected office was long enough."


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While chatting with "Good Morning America," the Jenner gals talked about their big sister Kim Kardashian's lovely wedding in Florence, Italy on May 24.
"Honestly, everything was amazing," the 18-year-old model explained. In addition, Kendall said that she and her sis "wore some simple pretty gowns" throughout the wedding week in Europe "that Kim and Kanye picked out."
"The whole wedding was just filled with so much love," the 16-year-old chimed in. "It was just really amazing to watch that."
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The Vichy Government, in a diplomatic note to Washington, has declared that unless the United States accepts the 200,000 to 300,000 German, Spanish and other refugees now in France, it would have to take "the appropriate steps," Edgar Ansel Mowrer, Chicago Daily News correspondent in Washington, reported today.
Mowrer said the French note implied that President Roosevelt a year ago offered to look after the refugees and that now, if anything happened to them, it would be due solely to the President's dallying. It was pointed out, however, in Washington that the President made no such promise, only stating that the U.S. would participate in international action for refugees.


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The number of visitors to Tokyo Skytree hit 1.77 million during the first Golden Week since it opened last year, its operator said.
The number of visitors to the 634-meter tower and surrounding facilities between April 27 and Monday exceeded the 1.64 million recorded in the tower's first week after opening, Tobu Tower Skytree Co. said Tuesday.
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Every time we find a VIP with his pants down — Arnold Schwarzenegger or Anthony Weiner, for example — you can almost hear the collective "huh?" around the nation's water coolers, on its Twitter feeds and shared over its backyard fences.
What in the heck were those guys thinking? Where were they when John Edwards, Eliot Spitzer, Bill Clinton and so many others crashed and burned? Why wasn't the very real risk of shame and humiliation enough to stop them cold?
In fact, the more we anticipate wagging fingers, public pillory and guilt, the worse we're likely to do when it comes to self-control. If we focus on the pride that comes from good behavior, we make better choices. By far.
What would make anticipating pride so much better than anticipating shame in controlling temptation? One reason is that pride focuses attention on the self (not the cake) and on success rather than failure. Shame, on the other hand, emphasizes the opposite; it focuses attention on the object of desire and the act of succumbing, making resistance harder to pull off. Simply put, anticipating pride makes us feel good, and anticipating shame makes us feel bad.
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Perhaps one of William Shakespeare's most well-known plays, "Romeo and Juliet" explores the story of star-crossed lovers Romeo (Marliet Martinez) and Juliet (Cassie Powell) torn between their feuding families, the Montagues and the Capulets. The play, directed by founding artistic director Erin Merritt, also features Holly Chou as Benvolio, Scarlett Hepworth as Friar Lawrence, Karen Anne Light as Tybalt and Carolyn Power as the Nurse.
"Woman's Will is sure to place its unique mark on Shakespeare's timeless tale," said Civic Arts Manager Andy Jorgensen.
Additional performances of "Romeo and Juliet" will be held across the Bay Area in Fremont, San Francisco and Oakland.
Woman's Will has previously performed productions of "Twelfth Night," "Richard III" and "As You Like It" here in Pleasanton as part of its summer performance schedule. In addition to Shakespeare, the company also performs a variety of plays from classical and well-known playwrights and will be performing "Antigone" by the Greek playwright Sophocles later this year. The troupe also runs public and private theater classes.
Visit www.womanswill.org or Civic Arts, 931-5361 for more information.
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In case you missed it, "writer" and "artist" Rob Liefeld has completely lost his mind. He has left all his books at DC Comics and then as a proactive move, started tweeting about the decision. He claimed he wanted to get the truth out there before the publisher started to spin the news. It all started out okay, but it quickly got ugly.
Soon Liefeld started making personal attacks against both editorial and creative talents. Not content with saying his previous editors are fat or small dicked, he moved on to even attacking his collaborators. In one tweet, he lashes out at Grifter artist Scott Clark:
Where things really get entertaining is when he starts picking a fight with Batman scribe Scott Snyder. After Rob made some remarks about the fate of DC Comics being all Batman related comics, Snyder asked via Twitter direct message if the shots were directed at him. Luckily Liefeld published this conversation in hopes of showing people how he's being mistreated, but it seems the plan back fired as Snyder really doesn't seem to be anything but nice and respectful. Eventually this peaks with Liefeld telling Snyder he didn't give a shit about his opinion of their co-workers. The entire conversation reads like a madman that is slowly losing touch with sanity.
What people might not have realized is that DC Comic farms tweets from their creators to post on the front page of the DC website. I figure they are just automatically harvested, if not… it makes the following picture so much better.
Yep, that is Scott Snyder on the front page of dccomics.com making fun of Liefeld's pouch fetish and calling him out on his work on Deadpo…. errrr… Deathstroke and Hawkman.


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An updated analysis of electorate betting odds shows the most likely outcome of Saturday's election will be 51 seats to Labor and a landslide 91 seats for the Coalition. This is similar to the projected outcome based on odds from the day before Mr Rudd toppled Ms Gillard as prime minister.
This projected outcome works out to a roughly 5 per cent swing against the Labor Party. The odds are more negative about the government's chances than the national polls. The six national polls released this week show an average swing to the Coalition of about 3 per cent. A 3 per cent swing would give Labor 62 seats compared with the Coalition's 85, according to The Australian Financial Review's swing calculator interactive tool.
If the electorate odds analysis proves accurate in the election, it will demonstrate just how destructive Labor's three years of internecine leadership battles have been for the party.
This odds analysis indicates a slightly worse result than the combined odds and polling analysis by Julian King, a vice-president at corporate advisory firm Pottinger.
Dr King predicts that Labor is most likely to win 55 seats compared to the Coalition's 93.
The analysis was done by US-based Australian statisticians Leng Lee and Kaighin McColl and is based on Sportsbet electorate odds from September 3.
Since last week, the numbers have become even worse for Mr Rudd.
The marginal Labor seat of Parramatta has gone from being too close to call to a 67 per cent chance of being won by the Coalition.
Punters now also favour the Coalition to win Lyons in Tasmanian, with a 56 per cent chance that Labor member
Rudd's return likely to have saved two seats
The only seats that Mr Rudd's return looks likely to have saved are Page and Barton. The NSW seat of Page is held by
If the odds are right and the Nationals candidate Kevin Hogan does not win the seat, Ms Saffin will be part of a much smaller team in the next Parliament.
Alongside her will be a Labor MP for the seat of Barton, former Hurstville mayor Steve McMahon. He has a 55 per cent chance of victory.
The south Sydney seat of Barton has been held by Labor since 1996 but it looked like a seat the Coalition could win when Kevin Rudd took over.
The analysis shows Labor is favourite to win Melbourne despite a Galaxy poll on Wednesday showing Greens member Adam Bandt ahead.
Liberal member Sophie Mirabella is still the favourite to win in her seat of Indi but her implied chances have dropped from 92 per cent at the end of June to 68 per cent this week. Punters also give embattled Liberal candidate Jaymes Diaz an 83 per cent chance of winning Greenway from Labor.
Historically, electorate odds have been more accurate than seat polling in terms of predicting election outcomes. Odds are thought to quickly combine public information, such as candidate mistakes and polls, with private information that certain parties might have.
Dr Lee and Mr McColl subject the data to a "Monte Carlo" analysis where they run 100,000 simulated elections to produce a range of probable outcomes. They then subject this result to further number-crunching to control for other statistical phenomena, including long-shot bias and correlation between seats.
The pair said their results should not be taken as predictions. They assume lots of punters are betting, and betting rationally.
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No one wants to come home and see every digital clock in the house blinking or finding that the VCR missed recording the last quarter of the big game or a cold dinner in the microwave oven. Until recently, household appliances were simple electromechanical devices, unaffected by small changes in the electric power supply. However, the home electronics revolution, while giving Americans more comfort, choice, and control in their homes than ever before, has generated some problems as well.
Appliances Show New Sensitivity
Once considered high-tech luxuries, electronic devices like VCRs are now as common (and inexpensive) as toasters. Today, almost every home has equipment that depends on sensitive electronic circuits and controls.
Voltage changes that electromechanical appliances tolerate without missing a beat often prove problematic for electronic devices. For example, consider digital clocks. A programmable timepiece provides many conveniences; however, the need to reset every clock in the house after an otherwise invisible voltage fluctuation is irritating. Such power disturbances can not only disrupt your clocks, VCR, and microwave oven, but also products like your personal computer, television, stereo, garage door opener, satellite receiver, home security system, cordless phone, and answering machine.
The Electronic Maze Grows
Even appliances such as ovens, air conditioners, clothes washers, and refrigerators, which once were simple electromechanical devices, are becoming electronic marvels of convenience and efficiency. And new technologies are even being commercialized to allow homeowners to communicate remotely with these appliances through the Internet. Driving the progress are computers that are smaller, faster, less expensive, and increasingly sensitive to power disturbances with each new model.
By the year 2000, electronic devices accounted for half of U.S. electrical demand. This is particularly true in residences where there is a growing reliance on home electronics. The good news is that electricity is still as reliable and high quality as ever. At Hawaiian Electric, our reliability level is about 99.98%, which exceeds the national average of electric utilities. Flip a switch and the lights go on, just as it has for over 100 years. The electric power you receive meets standards far superior to most of the rest of the world. In spite of this fact, the growing number of sensitive devices has led to a new concept: appliance compatibility with the power environment.
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There are 13 Holiday Inn Resort hotels in the United States. During the next three months, we're going to visit all of them.
Today we start with the Holiday Inn Resort in Lake George, NY (see video, above). The Away is Home crew dropped in for a visit just after the busy Fourth of July holiday.
The centerpiece of the Lake George experience is Lake George, of course. The Adirondacks rising around it will remind you of a European alpine resort, except that this place is as American as it gets, from the red white and blue banners flapping in the breeze to the day-after fireworks on July 5 — you know, just to make sure you understood how independent this nation really is.
After a long day in the car and touring the state capitol in Albany, the kids immediately stripped down to their swim suits and jumped into the hotel pool. One of the very first things you'll notice about the Holiday Inn lodging experience that sets it apart from other properties is the towel.
The signature blue-and-white striped towel, which is bigger than the standard hotel towel, is one of the most coveted hotel trinkets in modern lodging history. When you pick one up, you'll understand why. It's a great towel — soft, durable and attractive. I haven't wanted a towel this much since staying at the Peninsula New York, which offers monogrammed luxury towels.
How popular are the towels? A few years ago, when Holiday Inn held Towel Amnesty Day, it reported losing half a million towels a year to thieves.
The adults really liked the rooms, which easily accommodated a five-person family. There's even a refrigerator (empty, not one of those minibar refrigerators that suck money out of your account). And it was the first night in more than a week that we had a really good night's sleep. The beds rock.
What's the difference between a Holiday Inn Resort and Holiday Inn? We bumped into Michael Spilman, the Lake George property's general manager this afternoon, and he explained it. In order to be a "Resort" you need a concierge, bellman, live entertainment and you must be within 10 miles of a resort area like Lake George.
We're looking forward to this adventure and we hope you'll follow us to all 13 properties. Here they are:
Holiday Inn Resort Daytona Beach Oceanfront (Daytona Beach, FL)
Holiday Inn Resort Fort Walton Beach (Fort Walton Beach, FL)
Holiday Inn Resort Castle I-Drive (Orlando, FL)
Holiday Inn Resort Panama City Beach (Panama City Beach, FL)
Holiday Inn Resort Pensacola Beach Gulf Front (Pensacola, FL)
Holiday Inn Resort Lake Buena Vista (Lake Buena Vista, FL)
Holiday Inn Resort Waikiki Beachcomber (Honolulu, Hawaii)
Holiday Inn Resort Lake George – Turf (Lake George, NY)
Holiday Inn Resort Wilmington E-Wrightsville Beach (Wrightsville, NC)
The Lodge at Running Y Ranch, a Holiday Inn Resort (Klamath Falls, OR)
The Lodge at Eagle Crest, a Holiday Inn Resort (Redmond, OR)
The Beach House, a Holiday Inn Resort – Hilton Head Island (Hilton Head, SC)
Holiday Inn Resort Galveston – On the Beach (Galveston, TX)
Next up: Daytona Beach, Fla. See you there!


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Saskia Post has always loved acting.
Picture: Cathryn Tremain
Nearly 20 years ago, Dogs in Space promised to make her a star. So whatever happened to Saskia Post? Luke Benedictus finds out.
According to Flashdance star Kevin Bacon, there are two types of actors: those who say they want to be famous and those who are liars. Melbourne actress Saskia Post defies that split, however. She gives the impression that major success would be a pleasant bonus, but nothing of real significance.
Post remains best known for her role opposite Michael Hutchence in Richard Lowenstein's 1987 film Dogs in Space, and admits she's never been ferociously ambitious. To illustrate, she tells a story of how she attended a party at Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles before the US premiere of Dogs in Space. The swanky hotel on Sunset Boulevard was swarming with industry bigwigs and Post remembers watching a friend desperately trying to hustle as many Hollywood contacts as possible.
Post, meanwhile, had her mind on other matters. "I was sitting at the other end of the table talking about lawn bowling," she explains. "I was telling someone how great bowling was because you could drink beer while you were playing. Yes," she concludes with a wry chuckle, "that conversation must be where it all went wrong."
Post is reflecting on her sporadic career while sitting outside Red Stitch Theatre in St Kilda, where she's making one of her infrequent appearances on stage in the production Vincent in Brixton. With her olive skin and cascading mass of chestnut hair she is unrecognisable as Anna, the nice-girl nurse, in Dogs. Then again, that's hardly surprising, given that she's now 45 and was almost 20 years younger, with bleached blonde hair, when the film was released.
And yet the cult movie, which revolved around the druggy squalor of a Richmond share-house and the inner-city rock scene, remains the reference point for Post's career. Since Dogs, Post's output has been decidedly limited. She surfaced with a modest role in Proof and wangled the odd play and TV gig here and there, but her professional appearances remain fitful. "I just take the work when it comes, man," she explains. "I work once every two years. But I'm hoping in the future the roles will come fast and furiously."
It's hardly surprising that Post is excited about Vincent in Brixton. The play is loosely based on the time Vincent Van Gogh spent in London working as an art dealer during his early 20s. Away from his native Holland, Van Gogh (Adam Hunter) falls for his landlady, Ursula (Post), a middle-aged widow who has spent the past 15 years mourning her husband's death. The romance coaxes Ursula out of her black depression. "It's a really beautiful script and deeply layered," Post says. "We'll have to do it really badly to f--- it up."
Post actually has a Dutch connection of her own; both her parents come from Holland. While at drama school in Sydney, she drew on her European background to land her first role playing a Dutch girl, Julianna, in The Sullivans. Further TV work followed in Sons and Daughters and Return to Eden, as well as movie roles in One Night Stand and Bliss. Then came Dogs. "I did have quite a nice, happy, fun career," she says. "But after Dogs things got quite difficult."
Post insists she never fell out of love with acting, but the offers simply dried up. She acknowledges that she has always been hopeless at self-promotion.
Indeed, Post really doesn't seem to value fame and fortune at all. She mentions, for example, doing a TV commercial in LA for Foster's Lager in the late '80s, "playing some woman whose husband drank beer".
The ad, directed by Ray Lawrence of Bliss and Lantana fame, had a colossal budget and Post couldn't fail to cash in. "It was disgusting," she says. "A lot of money."
Her reaction was to try to squander her windfall as quickly as possible. She challenged a friend ("the wife of the other guy who drank beer") to a spending spree. They would go into a department store and see who could spend the most money in 15 minutes. "It's money and it's stupid," she says with a laugh. "Who cares?" (For the record, Post only managed a modest $700 in Macy's.)
As a practising Buddhist, Post admits she's most motivated by the desire to lead a balanced life. Though she'd like to act more, looking at her busy schedule you wonder how she'd fit it in. She works as an administrator for North Yarra Community Health, delivering health and support services to marginalised groups; she studies transpersonal art therapy, a form of art-based counselling, for the terminally ill.
She's never married or had any kids, and she'd love it if more acting roles came her way. "But I've got a couple of dogs and a cat, lots of really good friends and I've just started an affair," she says excitedly. "In fact, if I had a new vacuum cleaner, life would be perfect."
Vincent in Brixton is at Red Stitch until November 5. Tel: 9533 8083
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We employ more than 82,000 people working in 119 operations, including 103 subsidiaries around the world, with global sales of $53.10 billion in 2013.
LG consists of four business units – Home Entertainment, Mobile Communications, Home Appliance, Air Conditioning and Energy Solutions.
The world needs renewable energy today. To meet the future head on, LG Electronics has made significant inroads in environmentally sound solutions for a healthier and safer planet with its advances in Solar Energy. In 2008, the company proclaimed its charter, 'Life's good when it's green'.
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2013 Cadillac SRX Features CUE Infotainment System: 2012 New York Auto Show
Rounding off the American luxury brand's lineup, the Cadillac SRX debuted yesterday at the unfolding New York Auto Show featuring a restyled front end and refreshed interior.
While the same host of luxury appointments you might expect from the brand like leather and wood trim are present, the upcoming model's most interesting feature is its new infotainment system, called "CUE."
Don Butler, vice president of Cadillac Marketing explained the system during a press conference today. Butler referred to the system as "intuitive technology" which might be hard to take at face value, but the brand is doing everything in its power to make that true.
To start, CUE is designed to work like the tablet and smartphone systems so many of us have come to feel comfortable with. While that itsn't true for everyone who might be buying a Cadillac, the company is dispatching iPads loaded with an application that runs a near-perfect copy of the CUE system to its dealerships so staff will be comfortable explaining it.
Next month, that same app will be available to the general public as well, so people can follow along and take their tutorial software home, or even try it before sitting in the car.
While that's nothing new, the cool functional features behind CUE got a little clearer during Butler's speech. Drivers won't have to fiddle with lots of little buttons, or even worry about tapping the right part of their screen while driving to control the system. Instead, it uses proximity sensing to know what your hand is approaching the screen.
For example, when a song is playing the screen shows the artist, album, radio station and other relevant information, but the screen senses shifts to display the most likely controls as it senses your hand approaching.
Aside from cool tech features there will be standard device connection options like an SD card slot and USB ports. Safety features like adaptive cruise control, automatic braking, lane departure warning and more.


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Monday, December 31, 2012
Quality Family Time
The trouble is, my kids also have time off from school themselves. Now, if I had been on the ball, I might have been able to sign them up for winter break camp someplace, but my organizationals skills were all used up on other things during the semester. It almost would be easier if my kids were younger, because whatever day care set up I would have would probably be able to accommodate them.
And, of course, there's the question of why child care duties should always have to fall to me, the mom? Well, in my particular case, there's any number of factors that play into it, but one major point is that my husband has a "real" job where he can't work from home and has to use up valuable vacation time if he doesn't go in to work. On the other hand, my job is much more flexible: I can work where ever I like and no one keeps track of my vacation time. Hence, it's my problem if the kids aren't usefully occupied.
So, here's what we have been doing to keep the kids out of my hair while I try to get work done. There's been a lot of TV and video games, but I've been limiting their screen time to 2 hours a day. I insist that we go for a walk each day, no matter the weather. This keeps us all from going completely stir-crazy. We made each kid write a list of activities to do while I work to keep them out of my hair. Use of these lists has only been partially successful so far. There has been a lot of reading of books and playing with LEGOs. Not so much practicing of instruments or working on long-term school projects.
What do you do for childcare during school breaks? How do you keep your kids and yourself sane? Please share your ideas in the comments!
p.s. Best wishes to all WiA readers for a Happy New Year!
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- Vicky Kalogera said...
Hannah, some years we have signed the kids up to full-day camps for this period. This of course means extra expenses. Pre-schoolers who go to day-care facilities are easier to deal with, since those facilities are usually closed only for a couple of days around christmas and new year's. When kids have stayed at home, we do what you're describing ... we also arrange for play dates with one other friend per child (not a whole crowd) - sometimes the play date is at another house, but even if it is at our house, kids are happily playing for hours entertaining themselves and all I have to do is make sure they stay safe and offer them a snack (which they have to take in the kitchen, so I don't have to deal with spills and messes) ...
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- Mordecai-Mark Mac Low said...
I faced the same situation (partner was on service at her hospital, so I was responsible for childcare over break, as the one with the flexible schedule.) Two big parts of the solution for a nine-year-old were to invite a friend over for the day, and kits. We invited a friend over for at least three different days. They would go off and do stuff on their own quite happily -- and I only had to run the washer/dryer a few times: after the tie-dying kit got used, and after cleanup of an outdoors coke & mentos experiment got a little overenthusiastic. Having some kits and activities set up in advance definitely helped -- we did write out the lists of stuff that could be done, both solo (which worked alone for another day) and with her friends. One day pretty much got taken up putting together a robotic mouse kit, which she mostly could do on her own with just occasional help. Between all that, I managed to get about as much uninterrupted time as I would have in the office (speaking as a tenured faculty member with some admin responsibilities), and finished off a big review paper...
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Yesterday we looked at AAA El Paso and San Antonio, today it's High-A Lake Elsinore and Low-A Fort Wayne.
The Storm have been the organization's best team and show no sign of letting up despite losing some of their best players, outfielder Hunter Renfroe, shortstop Diego Goris and RHP Joe Ross to San Antonio. However, they have had some solid additions in shortstop Jose Rondon, who came over in the Huston Street trade, and catcher Dane Phillips and most notably center fielder Mallex Smith.
Since being promoted from the TinCaps Smith is hitting .331/.406/.504 with 26 stolen bases in 30 games. Philips has solidified the catcher position 21 extra-base hits in 42 games for a .302/.374/.543.
The biggest surprise this year in Lake Elsinore has been how good the pitching is in a league that is not friendly to pitchers. The recently promoted Ross may have more ceiling than anyone on the Storm's roster but both RHP Zach Eflin and RHP Colin Rea are not far behind. Eflin in particular is doing what he did last year, eating innings and being among the league leaders in ERA.
Out of the pen the Padres found two very solid bullpen arms late in RHP Brandon Alger, a twenty-sixth round pick in 2012, and RHP Adam Cimber, a ninth round pick out of the University of San Francisco in 2013. Cimber in 60 innings has an ERA of 2.70 and Alger has taken over the closer's role with 10 saves in 14 opportunities and a 3.16 ERA.
This spring the Padres sent one of their youngest teams to Fort Wayne with five of the eight regulars under 20. The biggest problem the TinCaps have had this year is just catching the ball with a minor league leading 173 errors in 108 games although the numbers have been getting much better as the long winter in northeastern Indiana subsided.
Third baseman Dustin Peterson, 19, and first baseman Jake Bauers, 18, have been the offensive standouts this year with Peterson being among the league leaders in RBI and Bauers has been at the top or near the top of the Midwest League batting leaders since he arrived in late April. Fernando Perez, who has seen considerable time at first, second and third has also shown some pop with 30 extra-base hits and a a .286/.325/.426.
On the mound they don't have the headline talent of LHP Max Fried and RHP Zach Eflin from last season, there has been some good performers led by RHP Kyle Lloyd, a late round pick in the 2013 draft. Lloyd has 110 strikeouts in 88.2 innings against only 25 walks in 21 starts.
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Mallex Smith can obviously run what other parts of his game should we be paying attention too?
Randy Smith: He has really improved his understanding of the game offensively. He obviously has some speed – when you are leading the minor leagues in stolen bases that tend to be the case – but he has been using it to open up more of the field for himself with his bunting.
Mallex can also drive the ball some as well, just a big improvement over where he was last year. As with everyone he can improve on his routes a little in the outfield and keep on learning about when is the right time to run. But the only way you are going to learn and get better is to run and Mallex is doing that now.
What makes Zach Eflin so effective?
Randy Smith: Zach is just an extremely competitive kid. He might not have received as much publicity as some of the other guys last year that we had in Fort Wayne, but in the end he led the Midwest League in ERA and he is pitching very well in a tough hitter's league this season. On the mound, he mixes his stuff well and understands what the hitters are trying to do.
I know I am repeating myself a little, but he is one of the best competitors that we have in the organization.
How Has Dane Phillips been progressing defensively?
Randy Smith: He's gotten better but still has some work to do. If he can improve on his throwing, then that is going to make his bat that much more interesting. Offensively we have seen some big jumps in RBI and power. He is swinging the bat as well as he ever has since we've had him.
Fort Wayne
Any reason why Trea Turner has hit so much better in Fort Wayne than in Eugene?
Randy Smith: We always thought he was going to hit and he just got off to a bit of a slow start in Eugene. He's a very good athlete with some excellent hand-eye coordination and a very good defensive shortstop. It's important for him to continue to fill out and get stronger to handle the long seasons.
What type of expectations did the organization have on Dustin Peterson going into the season and how has he done so far?
Randy Smith: It's a very big jump from the Arizona League to the Midwest League. You start the season dealing with the cold and end up with the humidity in the summer. Dustin is only 19 and has done a good job in driving in runs. We think the plate discipline is going to improve as he goes forward and learns how to lay off some of the breaking balls.
Defensively, we've seen some improvement at third but at this age and at this level he is far from a finished product.
How has catcher Ryan Miller been developing defensively this season?
Randy Smith: Ryan had a really good Instructional League with us but he still hasn't had that much experience as a catcher – but we like where he is heading. Offensively, he's made progress as a hitter and put up some pretty good numbers as a hitter. He didn't have a single home run in Eugene last year and has nine in Fort Wayne.
Again, he's a very good athlete who is using his athleticism to get better at both his defense and offense.
Tomorrow in our final segment we talk about the short-season teams in Eugene and Arizona home to most of this year's draft choices.


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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. & BRISTOL, Conn. & ATLANTA, October 22, 2009 - Windstream (NYSE: WIN) and ESPN today announced that Windstream high-speed Internet customers now have access to ESPN360.com. ESPN360.com is ESPN's 24/7 broadband sports network, which offers more than 3,500 live, global sports events annually. It is available through www.windstream.net at no cost to fans who receive their high-speed Internet service from Windstream. With the addition of Windstream, ESPN360.com's total distribution will exceed 50 million subscribers.
"ESPN360.com enhances the value of Windstream high-speed Internet service and provides our more than 1 million broadband customers more options and control over how and when they watch sports," said Roger Woziwodzki, vice president of strategic business development for Windstream. "ESPN is the recognized leader in sports programming, covering sporting events around the world, and now we are bringing many of those events to our customers' computers."
"We're in the midst of the Fall football season, which is the perfect time for Windstream to launch ESPN360.com," said David C. Preschlack, executive vice president, Disney and ESPN Media Networks. "Windstream customers will have thousands of live events at their finger tips and the deal represents a tremendous step forward in serving fans while growing our collective businesses."
ESPN360.com features live online sports coverage from a broad array of global events including (but not limited to):
Through a sleek, simple video player accessible via ESPN360.com, the service gives consumers control over their broadband sports viewing experience – providing reliable, high-quality video and the ability to pause, rewind and fast-forward live events. With the ability to deliver up to 15 simultaneous live events, fans are able to toggle between events in a main viewing window, and with a single click, jump to another event. Video can be viewed in widescreen (16:9) and normal (4:3) views and can be expanded to full screen or reduced to a compact size. Recently completed events are archived and available for on-demand replay.
About Windstream
Windstream Corporation is an S&P 500 company that provides phone, high-speed Internet and high-definition digital TV services to customers in 16 states. The company also offers a wide range of IP-based voice and data services and advanced phone systems and equipment to businesses and government agencies. The company has approximately 3 million access lines and about $3.1 billion in annual revenues. Windstream is ranked 4th in the 2009 BusinessWeek 50 ranking of the best performing U.S. companies. For more information about Windstream, visit www.windstream.com.
About ESPN
ESPN, Inc. is the world's leading multinational, multimedia sports entertainment company featuring a portfolio of over 50 multimedia sports assets. The company is comprised of six domestic television networks (ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN Classic, ESPNEWS, ESPN Deportes, ESPNU), ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNEWS and ESPNU HD simulcast services, ESPN Regional Television, ESPN International (46 networks, syndication, radio, web sites), ESPN Radio, ESPN.com, ESPN The Magazine, ESPN Enterprises, ESPN PPV, ESPN Zones (sports-themed restaurants), and other growing new businesses including ESPN360.com (Broadband), ESPN Mobile Properties, ESPN on Demand and ESPN Interactive. Based in Bristol, Ct., ESPN is 80 percent owned by ABC, Inc., which is an indirect subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. The Hearst Corporation holds a 20 percent interest in ESPN.


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Chuck Frias Comes To Aspen in 1974
Originally from Dartmouth, Mass., Chuck moved to Aspen in 1974. He started in the property management business as a housekeeper in October 1974 with Coates Reid Waldron. He became property manager the next year, and continued in that capacity until 1985. Coates Reid Waldron was the largest Aspen property management company in Aspen from 1974 until 1995.
In 1985, Chuck became a partner and vice president of operations for Aspen Club Properties. He was in charge of property management, real estate and what is now the Sky Hotel. Chuck manages these entities until Aspen Club Properties was sold to another company in 1985. Chuck continued to run these companies until he bought the remaining interests in 1998. After immersing himself in every aspect of Aspen real estate and property management, he acquired the company that is now Frias Properties.
Tim Clark Grows His Company
In August 2000, Tim and Chuck combined their companies into Frias Properties of Aspen. The two remain 50/50 partners today.Tim Clark was born in Aspen, graduated from Aspen High School and then the University of Colorado. Tim's real estate, management, sales and development experience were honed over years working with his father, a prominent attorney. He became a Realtor and started in Aspen property management with Dolomite Villas Management in 1988. Tim and his partners merged and acquired other Aspen-area management companies and grew his company to Aspen Classic Properties.
Frias Properties of Aspen
Frias Properties of Aspen has become the property management and rental company of choice in Aspen, Colorado. Frias Properties is one of Aspen's largest employers, whose list of employees includes accountants, brokers, concierge, front desk staff, housekeepers, maintenance staff, reservations staff, sales and marketing staff and owner services representatives.
Frias Properties' main office is located at 730 E. Durant Ave. There are also three satellite check-in locations: Fasching Haus, 747 S. Galena St.; Independence Square, 404 S. Galena St.; and Silverglo, 940 Waters Ave.
Chuck has served on or held executive seats on local charitable boards including the Aspen Chamber Resort Association, Aspen Valley Hospital, the Aspen School District Finance Board and the Aspen Lodging Association. A devoted father, husband, skier, golfer and biker, Chuck lives in the Meadowood neighborhood with his family.
Tim believes deeply in the value of becoming involved in the community and has served on a variety of boards and community-based organizations. He is currently president of the Aspen Lodging Association. Through hard work and integrity, Tim has earned the respect of the Aspen lodging and real estate community and of the many buyers and sellers that he works with.


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''We have had shatter-proof glass for many years now,'' notes John Dawlings, of Birchgrove. ''Would it not be possible to apply this technology to cauliflowers? The fact is that cauliflower sprays everywhere when chopped up.'' In this era of genetically modified foods, John may well have a point. Does it have to be this way?
''I can confirm the table-tapping method of expressing disapproval,'' writes David Morrison, of Springwood (''Tell me I'm not going insane,'' Column 8, Monday), ''usually employed to indicate to a child that silence or a change of subject would be appreciated. Once fairly common, I was not aware that it may now be obsolete.''
Then again, it does have a long history, says Pat Yeo, of Burnie, Tasmania: ''Oh dear, Rachael. I think your friends would have been perplexed, perhaps insulted, had they known that in the Middle Ages and later, when a suspected witch crossed one's path, the only way to ward off evil was to make a cross with the index fingers of both hands or, by crossing the index and second finger of one or both hands. Perhaps they're still wondering which friend you felt might be a witch.''
''I have some bad news for Sonia Elphick regarding mosquitoes becoming silent,'' writes Roger Lea, of Caringbah (Column 8, Monday). ''They are not, but like me, your hearing needs a check - you may need hearing aids. Then when a mosquito flies near your ear you'll think you are at an aerodrome.''
''I realise English is an evolving language,'' says Ron Miller, of Gundaroo, ''and that it sometimes adopts incorrect usage, but I can't get my head around the constant misuse of 'silver bullet' by politicians, journalists and others when they really mean 'magic bullet'. Magic bullets take a solution to the very heart of a problem; silver bullets are used for killing werewolves and other monsters, and by the Lone Ranger to sort out the baddies of the West.''
The last word on baked beans, perhaps? (Column 8, for much of last week.) ''If you add enough tabasco sauce,'' advises Bill Doyle, of Lorn, ''all canned beans taste the same. Buy the cheapest.''
Bingo! ''The movie your readers are looking for is How Hopkins RAISED the Rent, (1911),'' writes heroic researcher Paul Foley, of Croydon (Column 8, since 12/12/12), ''a film made by Alice Guy-Blache (1873-1968) for Solax, and described by Moving Picture World (Oct-Dec 1911, p. 42) as 'A fresh and amusing character comedy. Hopkins is a man capable of living by his wits and, his landlady and her help are characters worth seeing. It is a good entertainer. By the way, Hopkins raised two rents. A quick check of the movie databases found that none included synopsis or performers, and the film is considered 'lost'.'' So, not ''paid'' the rent, as it appeared in the 1912 Herald ad. Naturally, we blame the American Picture Theatre for the red herring, not the paper.
An appalling Christmas joke, told by a fellow who shall remain nameless over a pre-Yuletide ale: ''What do you call Santa's helpers?'' Column 8 thinks. ''Elves?'' ''No. Subordinate Clauses.''


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text: 19 July 1999 Mandy's qualities shine through Sign up for our weekly email * Again Paul Routledge gets in his favourite phrase "disgraced former trade secretary" (5 and 12 July). However proud he is of his part in Peter Mandelson's resignation, borrowing a few quid from a mate is not going to end a career. Who, apart from the Westminster rabble, gives a toss? I have just finished Routledge's Mandy and, I'm sorry, Paul, but for all your black spinning, it seems your spite is generated mainly by dislike of his sexuality. Thank you, though, for helping me understand why Mandelson will be an important political figure for some years yet. David CordingleyTeddington, Middlesex Subscribe from just £1 per issue This article first appeared in the 19 July 1999 issue of the New Statesman, The transport row: who is to blame? More


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- 30 steamer clams (about 2 pounds), scrubbed
- 8 large fingerling potatoes (about 10 ounces), cut into 1/4-inch rounds
- Salt
- 3/4 cup chopped chives
- 1/3 cup plus 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1/3 cup shelled roasted salted pistachios, finely ground
- 3 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon unsalted butter
- 1/4 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
- Freshly ground pepper
- Four 6-ounce skinless cod fillets
- All-purpose flour, for dusting
In a large skillet, bring 1/4 inch of water to a boil. Add the clams, cover and cook until opened, about 3 minutes. Transfer the clams to a baking sheet to cool. Strain the cooking liquid through a fine sieve into a medium bowl. When the clams are cool enough to handle, remove them from their shells and pull off the brown outer membrane. Rinse each clam in the cooking liquid, then strain the cooking liquid again through a fine sieve to remove any sand or grit.
Put the potatoes in a saucepan of cold salted water and bring to a boil. Simmer until just tender, about 5 minutes; drain.
In a blender, puree the chives with 1/3 cup of olive oil until smooth. Using a small spatula, press the puree through a fine sieve into a small bowl. Season with salt.
In a small saucepan, combine the ground pistachios with 1/2 cup of the reserved clam cooking liquid and bring to a boil. Remove from the heat and whisk in 3 tablespoons of the butter. Stir in the lemon juice and season the sauce with salt and pepper. Keep warm.
Season the cod with salt and pepper and dust with flour. Heat the remaining 3 tablespoons of olive oil in a large skillet over moderately high heat. Add the cod, skinned side up, and cook until golden, about 4 minutes. Turn the cod and cook for 3 to 4 minutes longer, or until just opaque throughout. Transfer the cod to a plate and keep warm.
In a medium skillet, heat 2 tablespoons of the clam cooking liquid. Add the clams, potatoes and the remaining 1 teaspoon of butter and simmer just until heated through. Pour the pistachio sauce onto plates. Divide the clams and potatoes among the plates and set the cod on top. Drizzle the plates with the chive oil and serve.


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Wednesday, 13 December, 2000, 16:31 GMT
Rembrandt fetches Ł19.8m
An art dealer has paid a world record price of Ł19.8m for a Rembrandt masterpiece after falling in love with the woman in the picture.
The 17th Century oil painting, entitled Portrait of a Lady, was sold to Dutchman Robert Noortman at Christie's in London for almost Ł15m more than expected.
The painting was part of a sale of the huge collection of the late Baroness Batsheva de Rothschild.
Mr Noortman, who owns a gallery at Maastricht, said: "You can tell that the woman in this painting must have been someone Rembrandt really liked, because it is so intimate.
"There is such feeling in it that you fall in love with the old lady just looking at it. I fell in love with her even though she's meant to be 62 - and my wife didn't even mind."
A major work by the 17th Century Venetian artist Canaletto was also sold for Ł7.7m. The painting, Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo, had been expected to fetch around Ł4m.
A tiny painting by El Greco also surprised auctioneers by selling for Ł1.3m.
Rembrandt's 'friend'
The panel, called The Flight Into Egypt, measures just six-and-a-quarter by eight-and-a-half inches.
The woman portrayed in the Portrait of a Lady is believed to be a friend of Rembrandt, a 62-year-old called Aeltje Uylenburgh.
She was the wife of a Calvinist clergyman, Johannes Sylvius, who also had close contact with the painter.
The clergyman vouched for Rembrandt when he got married and Christened the artist's second child, his daughter Cornelia, in 1638.
Mr Noortman said: "It is the best Rembrandt to come up at auction for decades and he was one of our greatest painters, so I am very happy.
"I knew it was going to go for more than Christie's thought, but it's only money."
The painting sold for Ł18m plus Ł1,803,000 and Ł315,000 in VAT.
'Significant auction event'
A Christie's spokesman said the collection, led by the Rembrandt, also includes Islamic and Venetian glass as well as other decorative objects and porcelain, including "a superb group of Renaissance style jewellery".
The sale was described as "a major highlight of the international sales calendar" this autumn.
Lord Hindlip, chairman of Christie's, said: "The Rothschild name is synonymous with the very best and broadest collecting.
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"The appearance of these works, led by a particularly important group of Old Master paintings, marks a significant auction event."
The Baroness Batsheva de Rothschild, who died last year, was born in London, in 1914, but came from the French arm of the great dynastic banking family.
In true Rothschild style the Baroness bought and collected works of art and inherited many pieces from her grandfather, Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, who was one of the 19th Century's greatest collectors.
Her impressionist and modern pictures and drawings are to be sold in February 2001.
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If some other module alters a form and sets $form_state['no_cache']=TRUE and Mollom has captcha on it, Mollom captcha never succeeds with error "The word verification was not completed correctly. Please complete this new word verification and try again."
function example_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id) {
if ($form_id == 'user_register') {
$form_state['no_cache'] = TRUE;
This problem removes from service a big chunk of core Form API functionality if Mollom is used and makes Mollom a bad citizen. It was not a problem in D6 (for $form['#no_cache']), judging by Mollom's D6 code that forced form to be not cached.
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Can you explain why you're overriding and enforcing no_cache in your hook_form_alter()?
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Is there any workaround available?
Same problem as iva2k, i need $form_state['no_cache']=TRUE but Mollom refuses to accept the word verification.
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Well, the Form API cache is - architecturally - not supposed to be disabled after a module enabled it.
We should probably remove the ability to disable it (once enabled) for D8.
For D7 (and below), Mollom module relies on the form cache as a storage that is unique and bound to 1) the current user, 2) the current form, 3) the current build of a form, and 4) retaining and maintaining security. Resembling all of that in custom code and a custom storage would be nuts. ;) That is, because the Form API cache was designed for exactly that job.
The no_cache option will not only break with Mollom module. it will also break any kind of module that adds #ajax functionality to affected forms, because #ajax equally relies on the Form API cache.
Long story short, Mollom module isn't doing something wrong. It is leveraging Drupal core APIs in exactly the way they have been designed for.
On the contrary, I yet have to see a module that cannot be made compatible with the Form API cache. Most often, it merely means to move processing logic from hook_form_alter() into a #process, or in most cases even better, #pre_render step.
In short, I've never seen a (valid) reason for force-disabling the Form API cache via no_cache.
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Can you clarify some more what exactly Botcha tries to achieve (or work around) by disabling the form cache?
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Well... if that's all... then:
Instead of force-disabling the form cache, that logic is as simple as this:
function botcha_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id) {
if (!empty($form_state['cache'])) {
if (!empty($form_state['botcha_was_here'])) {
form_set_error('', t('You are not allowed to preview a post, use Ajax, or submit a form twice.'));
$form_state['botcha_was_here'] = TRUE;
else {
// ...do whatever you do if the form is not cached...
In other words: Simply leverage the form cache instead of force-disabling it.
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Well, it depends on how exactly the form is processed and what exactly Botcha wants to do.
To run the code on every (re)build of the form, move the entire code from
hook_form_alter() into a #process callback and only register that #process callback in
I think that's all advice I can provide right now... Given that Botcha's usage of no_cache breaks all #ajax and other entity form interactions, I'm a bit surprised that the problem space is entered from a Mollom-module-conflict perspective — AFAICS, the impact on much more common form/entity/ajax handling functionality should have triggered many other bug reports for Botcha already...?
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Alleged Greensburg heroin dealer gets lecture, has bond tripled
A bid by an alleged heroin dealer to have his bond reduced backfired Thursday when District Judge James Albert tripled it to $75,000 and gave him a lecture to boot.
Albert listened to 45 minutes of testimony from two Westmoreland County Drug Task Force members who said they witnessed Travis Brown, 27, of Greensburg, sell nearly two bricks of heroin to confidential informants in Greensburg and South Greensburg in 2012.
After hearing the testimony, Albert ruled there was sufficient evidence for Brown to stand trial on seven counts of manufacturing and delivery of a controlled substance, plus two counts of illegal possession of a controlled substance.
Brown's attorney, Deborah Jackson of the public defender's office, then told Albert that her client wanted his bond reduced from $25,000, noting that he lives in Greensburg and is not a flight risk.
Assistant District Attorney Leo Ciaramitaro objected, pointing out the amount of the heroin Brown allegedly sold — about 100 stamp bags.
"If anything, I think the amount of Mr. Brown's bond should be increased by a few thousand," Ciaramitaro said.
Albert did that — and then some.
"I consider heroin a detriment to our society. I'm going to increase it to $75,000," Albert said. "And let this serve notice to anyone in the area dealing heroin who comes before me that I consider heroin a detriment to society and they will have a high bond."
Mt. Pleasant Assistant Police Chief Dan Zilli and Southwest Greensburg Police Sgt. Todd Brant testified that a confidential informant purchased various amounts of heroin amounting to nearly 100 bags. The alleged buys were made on Sept. 15, 2012, in South Greensburg; Sept. 26, 2012, near Smith's house on South Main Street; and Oct. 15 in the parking lot of Dino's Sports Lounge in Greensburg.
Brown failed to post $75,000 bail and was remanded to the county jail to await trial.
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Ed Schultz: Democrats Took Over in January 2009
MSNBC's Ed Schultz began his show Monday talking about all the jobs President Obama has created since he took office.
Unfortunately, as he made the case about how terrible the Bush years were by comparison, the "Ed Show" host wrongly informed his viewers that Democrats took over in January 2009 (video follows with transcript and commentary):
ED SCHULTZ: Folks, let me tell you something. I was watching Rachel's show the other night, and the, she sent her, one of her guys out on the street to start asking some questions to people about who's in Congress and what their names are. And it was amazing to me how little people on the street knew. Let me just tell you one thing: this is the only chart you need to know come next election. This is the only chart you need to watch. This is the only chart that matters to American families. Are we headed in the right direction?
And sometimes we get lost in the 24-hour news cycle, and we don't see the progress the country's making. Here's the progress right here. Here's where the Democrats took over. Here's the plan right there. We never saw that during the Bush years. So get your cellphones out. I want to know what you think. Tonight's question: Who do you trust to create private-sector jobs?
It is indeed funny how Schultz mocked "how little people on the street knew" about "who's in Congress and what their names are." After all, the date he pointed to on his chart when he claimed "Here's where the Democrats took over" was January 2009.
Hate to break it to you, Ed, but the Democrats took over both chambers of Congress in January 2007.
Of course, it's understandable that Schultz doesn't want his viewers to know that the unemployment rate was 4.4 percent when the Democrats took over, or that the last budget done by a Republican Congress produced a deficit of only $160 billion.
He also doesn't want folks to know that over seven million more people were employed in December 2006 as compared to today, or that there are still 2.8 million fewer workers in America than on the day Obama was inaugurated.
Putting even a finer point on this, our friend Moe Lane produced an interesting chart Monday comparing some economic numbers today to four years ago that I'm sure Schultz would also like his viewers to not be aware of (h/t Weasel Zippers):
Not a pretty picture, is it?
As for Schultz's claim we never saw job growth during the Bush years, I guess he was sleeping from September 2003 till June 2007 when the nation experienced 46 consecutive months of employment gains:
As for Schultz's question, "Are we headed in the right direction," the Real Clear Politics "Right Track-Wrong Track/Direction of the Country" poll average currently shows 31.4 percent saying "Right" and and 61.4 percent saying "Wrong."
But "the only chart you need to know come next election...the only chart you need to watch...the only chart that matters to American families" is the one Schultz misrepresented to his viewers Monday night.
And this shill is amazed by how little people on the street know.
Well, Ed, it's because five days a week, on both television and radio, you're badly misinforming them.


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Homeless people in Dacorum will benefit from a new hostel that is on target to be completed and opened next year.
Dacorum Borough Council's new homeless hostel in Redbourn Road, Hemel Hempstead, is estimated to open in March 2015 and will be used by homeless people in Bovingdon and Kings Langley.
Preparation work started on the site, known as The Elms, in October and contractors have been working over the winter to prepare the site for the piling and concrete frame which will be erected in February 2014.
Councillor Margaret Griffiths, portfolio holder for housing, said: "We are delighted that the hostel is going so well. It will house some of the most vulnerable members of the local community in a state of the art building, providing a whole range of high quality services to its residents."
The tender to find a managing agent to operate and manage the hostel and its occupants will be issued in January 2014. A management agreement should be signed by August 2014.
For more information, go to http://www.dacorum.gov.uk/home/housing/council-new-build/the-elms, or contact Jack Burnham on email@example.com.


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A Window into the Genius of Shen Yun
By Tara MacIsaac
Epoch Times Staff
NEW YORK — Imagine mingling with the river folk of yore along the Yangtze River in China. The soft, pink, blossoming foliage reflects off the river; mountains appear in a purple haze on the horizon.
Now imagine standing atop a precipice, gazing along the Great Wall of China, which extends into the distant sky. Smoke signals billow from its towers as they did once upon a time.
In Shen Yun Performing Arts' theatrical display of classical Chinese culture, digital backdrops bring scenes from 5,000 years of history to the modern stage. State-of-the-art technology is used to depict the natural world as well as ancient Chinese art, including classical Chinese gardens and the heavenly scenes often portrayed in Buddhist paintings.
The New York-based company specializes in classical Chinese dance, but it also revives the diverse traditional dances, dress, and music of the 55 ethnic groups in China.
While presenting the old, Shen Yun creates something new.
The Academy and Emmy Award-winning production designer of Avatar, Robert Stromberg, said that the backdrop could be "a new art form in itself — live performance mixed with digital projection."
After watching Shen Yun perform in Los Angeles in 2010, Stromberg told New Tang Dynasty Television that Shen Yun's backdrop created the feeling of "going to the theater and the movies at the same time."
"The show was absolutely beautiful," said Stromberg. "It was so inspiring, I think I may have found some new ideas for the next Avatar movie."
Stromberg has also studied Chinese landscapes and appreciated the authenticity of the backdrop. "Seeing a traditional performance with the authentic dance moves and authentic backgrounds — it all came together.
From Himalayan Peaks to Subtropical Forests
Every year, Shen Yun's performance changes. With about 20 dances in each performance, the dancers run through the broad history, and geographical and ethnic expanse of China.
Dancers depict Tibetans in the Himalayan Mountains, and Yi ethnic dancers take three steps forward and one step back in a circular motion that characterizes "Beating Buckwheat Step," a movement inspired by harvest time. The dance takes place against the backdrop of blooming fields, mountains, and valleys in Southwest China.
Shen Yun moves through mountains, crags, valleys, fertile basin lands, down to the subtropical evergreen forests of Southeast Asia.
Ethnic groups are portrayed in their native environment, but the digital backdrop does more than just set the scene. It also provides an interactive prop display, traditionally executed with pulleys, strings, and sandbags.
Shen Yun "creates a unique atmosphere and a beautiful, colorful world," Masahide Yanagawase, one of the most famous visual-effects artists in Japan, told The Epoch Times after watching the performance in Tokyo in 2009.
Shen Yun Performing Arts will perform an all-new 2012 program at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and Segerstrom Center for the Arts Jan. 11–14. Please visit www.laspectacular.com