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Audio visual (AV) hire Oxford
A creative company with AV equipment to create a perfect event.
While looking for an AV supplier in Oxford, Bucks and Berks in which to trust your conference or AV solution, you would probably think it wise to bypass a company with disco as part of its name, but what's in a name?
We are a supplier of high-end audio and lighting solutions and have grown from strength to strength since 2005. And our lighting technicians are second to none, flying all around the world for specialist events.
We can offer you AV solutions from simple plasma screens and projectors, to full conference sets along with anything audio related.
Even though AV hire is usually required for corporate events or conferences, there are no premiums for you: you will pay exactly the same prices as anyone else who comes to us for exactly the same equipment. A breath of fresh air, as other suppliers have been known to charge up to seven times our prices for lower quality equipment.
We consistently impress our clients and always reinvest back into our company so that all of the equipment we offer is exceptionally good quality and great value for money.
To give you an idea of our client base, we work for and on behalf of: Coutts, JP Morgan, Credit Suisse, Oxford University, Goldman Sachs, Blake Lapthorne, City of Oxford college, Oxford Brookes, Red Bull UK, Coca Cola, Cadburys, Walmart, Budweiser, Mahiki, Chase Vodka, Tyrells, Channel 4, BBC, ITV, Kraft Foods, Pimms, Agrivert, Levi's, New Look and Jack Wills to name just a few.
The above have had either AV, lighting or staging hire in Oxford, Bucks or Berkshire.
A - is for audio
Many services fall under the AV hire bracket, please see our tiles for more information.
Audio: This is about hearing what is going on, so whether it be a sound scape from a film, talking on a documentary media file within a presentation or with presenters or delegates talking to a crowds at conferences. We have the ability to supply everything necessary for unbeatable sound quality for your event.
Top of the range Pro audio d&b sound systems through to AKG 747 V11 lectern mics and Sennheiser's full range of handheld, lapel and headset mics (300 series) guarantees faultless audio reproduction of whatever you put through the PA system. Like anything we hire, this can be manned by one of our experienced technicians or we can set the package to run by itself.
Shotgun microphones: Highly directional and extremely sensitive to the front its an ideal lectern mic. Generally these microphones are used in pairs because when presenters are talking they naturally move their head side to side to address the room.
Cardioid microphones: One of the most common microphone types used today, these are most commonly used for delegates asking questions and presenters who will not need to use their hands to demonstrate a product.
Lavalier & lapel mic: Small and discrete microphones that attach to the user's collar and can be hidden from view. These are best suited for TV and recording.
Headset mics: The ideal choice for a presenter who wants to move around and still be clearly heard, these mics are preferred over lapel mics and are much better in reverberant spaces. They come in a variety of skin tones, so that they are almost invisible to your guests.
V - is for visual
The visual side of AV hire covers a large amount of different products.
Visual: This is all about the image of the event and how it's produced, whether that be by an amazing set built as a backdrop or a projector and screen being used for a presentation. We offer high-powered projectors and screens along with large Plasma and flat-screen hire in Oxford, Bucks and Berks.
Everything can be combined into a custom-built set and stage which can be illuminated in corporate colours or have a logo projected onto it. Our lecterns are all capable of being branded and lit internally so that the theme is carried on throughout the whole site. We also offer cameramen, live feeds with picture in picture, and recording of your event which can be edited afterwards for distribution to your delegates, so the event can be relived again and again.
We have listed a few popular AV hire items below with descriptions.
Projectors and screen: Small and large data projectors. Can be front or rear projected.
Plasma and flat screens: Large screens up to 70" available for small meetings and with delay screens for larger conferences.
Custom sets: Our team of dedicated set builders are able to design and build the perfect set for your event.
Set lighting: We have a great array of lighting for colour, design and branding.
Staging: Our Lite deck staging is modular and can be added to for larger platforms.
Lecterns: Trilite and acrylic in stock.
Filming and recording: Our dedicated team of cameramen, directors and post editors can make sure that your conference is not forgotten. We use PIP to put presenters on screen next to their presentation for larger events.
Conference PA hire
Unbeatable service with great rates.
The audio equipment along with mics, mixers and outboard are some of the best in the world. For any conference you should be looking for the best.
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Plasma & flatscreen hire
Large screens for any event
Whether your requirements are for a small meeting or for video feeds for larger hires viewing, we have everything in stock for the perfect event.
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Projector hire
High-quality projector hire.
Projectors are a great tool to get your message across, we have a variety of sizes available with various screens for front or rear projection.
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Set hire
From stock or built to your specifications.
All of our sets are built by set builders who specialise in this trade. We can create anything from a standard set & backdrop through to intricate designs.
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Set lighting hire
Transform your set
Once you have your set and stage, whether it be venue owned or custom your next step is lighting - this allows you to brand the whole set so you conference looks high quality.
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Staging hire
Make sure you are seen.
When addressing your delegates or guests you need to make sure you can be seen by everyone attending. Staging allows you to have an area which is easily visible at your event.
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Lectern hire
Good looking lecterns.
Having a good looking lectern for your conference or event is very important and it's why we have three types; wooden, aluminum and acrylic which can be branded.
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Event filming
Remember the event.
Filming your event allows you to keep it forever, sometimes if the event is large enough filming the presenter can be projected to other areas of the event so everyone can see.
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Microphone hire in Oxford, Bucks and Berkshire.
We have a lot of different types of microphones available for hire and we have listed a few popular ones below.
Mics available; Shure SM58, SM57, Beta 58, Beta 57 and drum mics. AKG 747 v11 lectern mics, condensers and drum mics. Sennheisser 335, 345, 365, lapel and headsets along with AR133 DI boxes.
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d&b audiotechnik
High-quality audio
d&b produce arguably the best speakers in the world for events. We use these speakers for conferences, bands, weddings and festivals.
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Hearing damage
Listening to music at high volumes can be bad for your health, listening to distorted music at high volumes is much worse.
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Amazing speaker systems
Turbosound offer extremely well-designed speakers that are ideal for PA hire, from nightclubs to birthdays. High impact sound for any event.
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Beautiful & personal
Create your dream event.
Using the latest audio, visual and lighting we can do anything from a simple fairylight canopy with uplighting all the way through to building projections, in any venue. (We also do discos!)
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Attention to detail
High quality & reasonable prices
Your business or corporate event reflects on your company name, so why not go to the company with the highest quality equipment, technicians and a service that is second to none?
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The perfect result
Tour-friendly equipment
Our commercial section covers a wide range of events from band tours, club nights and festivals through to charity events and any event where the public will be attending.
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DJ Equipment hire
The latest technology.
Everything any DJ could require, all at great prices.
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Band PA hire
Amazing sound.
Great packages to suit all bands, featuring D&B audiotechnik and Turbosound speakers paired with Midas and Yamaha desks.
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Theatre hire
LED or incandescent
We have everything needed in stock for a successful theatre show, large or small.
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Recent clients
All of these clients have used us for our expertise to make sure that their conferences, presentations and events have been perfect.
We supplied PA hire, AV hire and/or lighting for each client and every event was perfect.
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Museum late night event
With 4000 people due to be in attendance over a three hour period, we were tasked to design and supply over a dozen lighting, audio and visual solutions for the event that had over several different areas.
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AV hire
We will need to the media source for projections and audio feeds - i.e. VGA and minijack.
If a site visit is not possible we will need to know the dimensions of the room.
We will need to know how many delegates will be attending.
We will not be beaten on price.
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ACDisco Lighting and PA Hire Oxford
5 stars - based on 40 reviews but well over 6000 very happy clients
Unit 34 Wheatley Business estate, Old london road
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(01865) 875519
Office hours Mon-Fri 11:00am - 18:00pm
Event hours: 24/7 - 365 days a year - meetings by appointment only


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Romney Isn't Christian, and That's All Right: Jeffrey GoldbergJeffrey Goldberg
Oct. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Robert Jeffress, a prominent Southern Baptist pastor who supports Texas Governor Rick Perry for president, provoked a predictable uproar this month when he labeled the Mormon faith of one of Perry's rivals, Mitt Romney, a non-Christian "cult," and suggested that Romney's beliefs should disqualify him for Christian support.
Jeffress was widely censured for his intolerance, but ritualized condemnation won't stop such anti-Mormon eruptions between now and next November should Romney win the Republican nomination.
One reason why is that Mormonism isn't, in fact, Christian. Today's Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints doesn't resemble a cult in any meaningful way. But its relationship to Christianity is similar to Christianity's relationship to Judaism.
Christianity grew from Judaism, but it soon distanced itself in fairly dispositive ways (that whole business about God having a son, for example). Mormonism reached escape velocity from Christianity virtually at the moment of its creation. Richard Land, a leader of the Southern Baptist Convention, told me that in his view, most Mormons are "socially and culturally Christian," but theologically they are a thing apart.
Just so we're clear, I couldn't care less whether Mormons are Christian, for two reasons: 1) I'm Jewish, so both Christianity and Mormonism (not to mention Islam) are a bit too arriviste for my taste; and 2) religious tests for public office are profoundly un-American. It says so in Article VI of the Constitution: "No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States."
Perfectly American
The New York Sun noted in a recent editorial that "the religious test clause is the most emphatic statement in the entire constitution. 'No … ever … any,' is the way the Founders put it." It's perfectly American to support for public office qualified Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses and Lubavitchers and Druids, and even -- perish the thought -- atheists. (Although we will sooner have a Wiccan as president than a self-declared atheist, except if that atheist has a plausible jobs plan.)
Neither does Mormonism offend me aesthetically. I don't particularly care about what secular culture -- on Broadway and off -- sees as evidence of its essential ridiculousness: the early dalliance with polygamy; the belief that every righteous Mormon gets his own planet; the sacred underwear; the off-putting absence of both acne and irony among Mormon youths. Christians believe in a virgin birth, after all, and members of my faith remove the foreskins from 8-day-old boys, just as our Bronze Age ancestors did (which bothers me not at all).
Theological Honesty
Mormons themselves contend that "Christ is at the center of our worship, study, service and faith," as a statement released by the church after Jeffress's comment put it.
But theological honesty demands that we recognize that Romney would be the first president to be so far outside the Christian denominational mainstream.
There is much in Mormonism that stands in opposition to Christian doctrine, including the belief that the Book of Mormon completes the Christian Bible. Christianity had an established creed about 1,500 years before Joseph Smith appeared in upstate New York with a new truth, codified in the Book of Mormon, which he said was revealed to him by an angel named Moroni.
"The Nicene Creed and the Apostles' Creed settled the basic ideas of Christianity," said Michael Cromartie, an evangelical who is vice president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington. "The canon was closed, and then Joseph Smith comes along and says that there's a new book, an extra-biblical addition to the agreed-upon canon."
An Ontological Gap
Nothing in Mormonism is quite as alien to Christian thought as the core assertion that God and man are of the same species.
"This is a canonical belief of Mormons, and it stands in radical opposition to the beliefs of the monotheistic religions," Richard J. Mouw, the president of the evangelical Fuller Theological Seminary in California, told me. "Your people" -- that is, Jews -- "and my people would say that the fundamental sin here from the biblical point of view is that God is God and we're not. There's an ontological gap between creator and creation."
Mouw, who is a leader in the deepening dialogue between evangelical Christian and Mormon theologians, said he believes that many Mormons are moving toward more Christ-centered modes of worship. The Mormons who, in the Salt Lake City vernacular, tend to "go planetary" -- who embrace some of Mormonism's more idiosyncratic folk beliefs -- are dwindling in number. But Mouw said he isn't ready to accept Mormonism as branch of Christianity.
What Really Matters
How much does this theological dispute matter? Among Republicans, probably not that much in the end. Land, of the Southern Baptist Convention, suggests that evangelical voters are pragmatic, and highly motivated: "Do not underestimate Barack Obama's ability to unite social conservatives around a candidate," he said.
But here's a prediction: If Romney wins the nomination, we will see a rush of anti-Mormon propaganda -- generated by secular liberals, not evangelicals. Anti-Romney leftists, the sort of people who would be loath to utter an unfavorable word about Islamic doctrine, will expend a great deal of energy and money bringing to light the most peculiar aspects of Mormon theology and practice, in an effort to convince evangelicals that the man leading the Republican Party is a harebrained heathen.
When confronted by such questions about his religion, Romney shouldn't defend its doctrines. He should defend the right of a Mormon to be president. And those Mormons drafted to defend their faith on the political battlefield shouldn't argue that they are merely misconstrued Christians, a claim that won't fly with pivotal Christian constituencies. Instead, they should assert that theirs is a legitimate and moral system of belief, and that a country that elected a black man named Barack Hussein Obama as president is certainly ready to elect an adherent of what Land calls the fourth Abrahamic faith.
(Jeffrey Goldberg is a Bloomberg View columnist and a national correspondent for the Atlantic. The opinions expressed are his own.)
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Miller wrote:So I put a Wii U Mario Deluxe edition on layaway and I bought Mario Kart 8 in order to redeem it on Club Nintendo in time to get a free game and I chose Wind Waker. SO HYPE!!!!
I choose Wii U cause I now live with 3 other people that love Nintendo games so it's the ultimate home party console. Mario Kart 8 and Smash Bros are gonna be so much fun. Plus Mario Party 10 next year and a bunch more stuff. I really hope the Wii U takes off and they dont abandon it.
Im actually debating getting a Wii U now.. i have the One and the 4, but like you said, the Wii U is just a solid party system for multiplayer games.. and now that they are releasing some good old classics like Mario Kart Smash Bros and Mario Party, i may pick one up for my living room.


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A total of $14.5 million has been committed by institutional investors and an additional $50.5 million has been committed by institutional investors through the proposed placement of 201.8 million ordinary Hillgrove shares under a conditional placement.
Last Friday the South Australian base metals project developer secured project finance for its Kanmantoo copper and gold project in South Australia.
The project finance facilities comprise a $30 million project loan, $20 million in bonding and guarantee facilities and associated commodity hedging facilities for the project.
Macquarie Bank and Barclays Bank have committed to the project funding facilities.
Hillgrove also announced it would undertaking the fully underwritten $65 million placement, including a conditional placement subject to shareholder approval.
The equity raising is underwritten by JPMorgan and Wilson HTM.
The Australian Financial Review


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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 9.0445 Monday, 11 May 1998.
Date: Friday, 08 May 1998 09:11:04 -0400
Subject: Edmund Shakespeare, Hamnet, Katherine
This may really stir up a happy hornet's nest, but has anyone thought to
write about Shakespeare's use of personally evocative names? Edmund
Shakespeare and Edmund the bastard in <italic>Lear</italic>--the two
disenfranchised second sons? Even from the scanty facts, one could work
with someone who is "base born," becomes himself the father of an
illegitimate child, and dies young but not unloved.
Is it just me, or could there be something going on between Hamnet and
Hamlet? Where did Shakespeare get the name Hamnet, anyway?
And what is it with all those Katherines, Kates, cats, and cates that
men are in love with in Shakespeare plays?
If Shakespeare could write some sort of insider actor/playwright's joke
into Corambis/Polonius talking about playing Julius Caesar, couldn't he
be playing with names more often that we think?
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Zicklin School of Business Receives Renewed Business and Accounting Accreditation from AACSB International
Baruch College's Zicklin School of Business and its Stan Ross Department of Accountancy have maintained their accreditation by The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) International, a distinction earned by less than 5% of the world's business schools. The Zicklin School has maintained this prestigious accreditation since 1933 while the Stan Ross Department of Accountancy has maintained a separate AACSB accreditation since 1984. Read more
Second Open Forum: Middle States Reaccreditation Self-Study
Baruch College faculty, staff, and students are invited to participate in a discussion of the College's 2009 Middle States Reaccreditation Self-Study on Tuesday, February 2, from 12:45-2 pm in NVC 3-160. Every 10 years all colleges and universities in the United States are required to undergo this review to confirm that their academic programs and educational offerings and services are in compliance with mutually agreed upon standards. As part of this process, the College must conduct a comprehensive self-study. Faculty, staff, and students interested in joining the open forum are encouraged to become familiar with the Middle States reaccreditation process at http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/middlestates. The most recent draft of the Baruch College Middle States Self-Study can also be found online at http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/middlestates/internal.
Students in Crisis: How Can I Help?
According to recent data, nearly 50% of college students report feeling so depressed that it is difficult to function, and 10% say they have seriously considered suicide in the past year. As a faculty member, you play a vital role in helping to identify these at-risk students so that they can get the support they need. In an effort to do this effectively, the College is taking part in a pilot program that gives faculty and staff the opportunity to engage in simulated conversations with students who show symptoms of depression, anxiety, paranoia, or thoughts of suicide. By taking part in this program, you can expect to gain awareness and confidence when faced with actual students exhibiting these symptoms. If you are interested in participating, please send an email to Marco Dinovelli for further information and a login.
Baruch Statistical Consulting Laboratory Open House
The Statistical Consulting Laboratory, which offers assistance to Baruch faculty and PhD students conducting quantitative analyses, will be holding an open house on Thursday, February 11 from 11 am to 3 pm in the Newman Vertical Campus, Room 11-170. Professor Ron Neath and graduate assistant Irina Cobir will join director Shulamith T. Gross in explaining the lab's services and introduce attendants to future mini-course topics to be offered by the lab. Current topics include: Bayesian Statistical Analysis with WinBugs, Multilevel Modeling with HLM6, and Structural Equation Modeling with LISREL. Attendants will be able to register for the mini-course of their choice at the open house.
Baruch Volleyball Grabs Second Consecutive Week in NCAA Top 10
The Baruch College men's volleyball team has maintained its ranking as the #10 team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III. The #10 ranking, outpacing M.I.T. and Nazareth College, by the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA), is the highest ever achieved in the 25 years of men's volleyball history at Baruch College. More info
Tonight, 5 - 7 pm | Newman Vertical Campus Room 1-107, 55 Lexington Avenue
Haiti Relief Concert
This outreach effort, hosted by the Undergraduate Student Government, will include live bands, free food, and ongoing fundraising.
Feb. 4, 12:30 – 2:20 pm | Newman Vertical Campus Room 5-150, 55 Lexington Avenue
Teach-In on Haiti
Professor Ted Henken of the Departments of Sociology and Black and Hispanic Studies will moderate a discussion in conjunction with esteemed faculty, students, and historians on the politics, culture, and history of Haiti. The Teach-In will culminate with a call for action on ways that we as a community can make a difference.
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Baruch Performing Arts Center Presents the 55 Underground Concert Series:
Feb. 12: Engelman Recital Hall, Newman Vertical Campus, 55 Lexington Avenue
Ari Hest in Concert
Already signed to a major label contract, Ari Hest opted out of his deal so that he could have more control over his art. He then embarked on his ambitious "52" project, during which he spent all of last year immersed in an unprecedented effort — to write, record, produce and release one new song per week, for 52 weeks in a row. Now he's sharing the resulting album with the Baruch community. More info
Feb. 13: Engelman Recital Hall, Newman Vertical Campus, 55 Lexington Avenue
Jazz and Blues Vocalist Pyeng Threadgill
Baruch Performing Arts Center welcomes jazz and blues vocalist Pyeng Threadgill and her band for her debut concert at Baruch College, accompanied by Tyler Wood (keys), Derek Nievergelt (bass), Kevin Louis (cornet, percussion), John Shannon (guitar), and Evan Pazner (drums). More info
Feb. 18: Engelman Recital Hall, Newman Vertical Campus, 55 Lexington Avenue
Jazz Rock Experimental Quartet "The Breakfast"
The Breakfast is a hard-hitting jazz rock experimental quartet whose music ranges from progressive rock to sonic landscapes. More info


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Justices say McKenna can challenge health care law
Thu., Sept. 1, 2011, 10:53 a.m.
OLYMPIA — State Attorney General Rob McKenna did not overstep his legal authority when he joined a lawsuit last year against the federal health care reforms pushed by President Barack Obama, the state Supreme Court ruled today.
But he did overstep that authority when he refused to handle an appeal of a property rights case for Public Lands Commissioner Peter Goldmark, the court said in a separate decision.
The two cases, which were heard the same day by the court and involve some of the same issues of constitutional authority of the state's top legal officer, generated very different rulings from the court. So different that Justice Debra Stephens argued they are "inconsistent" in a dissent she filed in the Goldmark case.
Both cases involved a request by a government entity for the state's highest court to issue an order telling McKenna what to do, known in legal terms as a writ of mandamus.
The City of Seattle had asked the court to order McKenna to get out of the lawsuit over health care reform, arguing the change in law was a benefit so his participation in an attempt to overturn it was not in the best interests of the state.
But the state constitution disperses power among different statewide elected officials, and the people have, over the years, vested the attorney general broad authority, the court said. "Attorney General McKenna's decision to sue to enjoin the enforcement of the (health care act) falls within that broad authority" and he has no obligation to withdraw from the lawsuit.
Previous cases have held that a governor could withhold funds from an attorney general over a case in which the two disagree on the correct course of action, the court noted. But Gov. Chris Gregoire is not part of this particular case.
If she were to challenge McKenna's participation in the health care reform lawsuit, the court suggested the result might be different: "We … leave for the appropriate case the issue of what result the Washington Constitution compels where the governor disagrees with the attorney general's discretionary decision to initiate litigation," the court said.
The case involving the dispute between Goldmark and McKenna revolves around efforts to condemn land for a power line by Okanogan County Public Utilities District 1. Some of the land is state property managed by the Department of Natural Resources, which Goldmark heads.
DNR had argued the Okanogan County PUD has no authority to condemn state land but lost that claim in a summary judgment. Goldmark wanted to appeal that ruling, McKenna refused to allow one of his deputies to handle the appeal or to pay for a special assistant attorney general from outside the agency to be appointed. Goldmark hired a private attorney who sought a writ of mandamus from the high court; McKenna filed a contingent appeal on the lands case, saying he'd withdraw it if he won the fight over the writ.
"We have never been squarely presented with an instance of the attorney general refusing to represent a state officer on an appeal," the court said in its majority opinion. "The plain language of the statutes, however, leaves little to question."
The attorney general has a mandatory duty to represent the lands commissioner, and that duty wasn't satisfied, as McKenna argued, simply by taking the case to summary judgment. The appeal is also part of that duty, the court said. It ordered McKenna to provide Goldmark with representation throughout the appeal.
In her dissent, Stephens argued against ordering McKenna to take up the appeal, saying that it could "trivialize" the writ of mandamus and expand the court's duty into resolving disagreements between other state elected officials.
"While the attorney general's role to provide legal counsel is mandated by statute, it fundamentally involves discretion and legal judgment entrusted to an independently elected official," she said.


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Morganbased on1077 ratings.
A corporate risk-management consultant must decide whether or not to terminate an artificially created humanoid being.
Release Date: 2 September 2016
Runtime: 92min
Genres: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Directors: Luke Scott
Actors: Kate Mara, Anya Taylor-Joy, Rose Leslie, Michael Yare, Toby Jones
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text: Al, please, it's the Great Man's birthday! Show some manners. Regards, George On Jan 19, 2012, at 18:14, ATMackeyJr at aol.com wrote: > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes: > You must really think Lee was a total incompetent, then. > > Best Regards, > Al Mackey > > > In a message dated 1/18/2012 9:53:06 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, > georgeconnell at me.com writes: > > Esteemed GDG Member Contributes: > Perhaps I was raised in a less forgiving school--where we were expected to > use American lives prudently. I know that sounds pompous, but I can't > think of anything worse than pissing away the lives of youngsters entrusted to > you by their parents. You can't be perfect all the time, but Custer (and > Kilpatrck) failed that test on a number of occasions. > > Regards, > > Regards, > > George > > ----------------http://www.arthes.com/mailman/listinfo/gettysburg_arthes.com -to unsubscribe > http://arthes.com/pipermail/gettysburg_arthes.com/ for Archives


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Gallery: Opening of Trout Fishing Season in the Eastern Sierras
JUNE LAKE -- The last Saturday in April marks the opening of fishing season in the Eastern Sierra when thousands of fishermen descend on the waterways, lakes and tributaries to try their luck catching the elusive rainbow trout.
In years past anglers would brave the wind, rain, snow and ice to hook the slimy quarry, that also includes cutthroats, browns and bookies, but this year the mid-day temperatures hovered in the low 70's.
"The Opener," as locals call it, is a make or break weekend for the economy in Inyo and Mono counties.
With gasoline prices in Bishop near the $4.10 mark, fishing pressure is somewhat less than in the early 1980's, but officials are trying their best to lure fishermen to the Sierras with an increase in the amount of fish taken from hatcheries, and stocked into the lakes.
Chuck Bonham, director of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, said that more than 3.6 million pounds of trout were released into area waters before the season began.
In 2011, 2.1 million pounds of fish were planted, compared to 2.86 million pounds in 2012.
The record number of fish this year should be a boon to anglers. Lake Crowley, just 28 miles north of Bishop, was one of the largest benefactors of the trout plant. "For the past two months we have been focusing on Crowley," Bonham said.
Action on June Lake was slow but steady, with several limits coming into the marina by noon. One of the largest fish was reeled in by Whit Behrens who caught a 3.9-pound rainbow trout while trolling a "mirror shad" lure on monofilament line behind his boat.
"It wasn't an epic battle, but it was fun," said Behrens who traveled from Pleasant Hill to fish at June Lake. "It was first thing in the morning when I caught him and it really took the pressure off." The angler who catches the largest fish at June Lake will receive a silver belt buckle with a gold trout on it. Behrens will have to wait until nightfall before finding out if his fish held up.
The fishing bait and tackle company Berkley made an appearance in the Sierras on opening day handing out jars of its signature Power Bait to youngsters fishing the shorelines.
Berkley introduced the floating bait 25 years ago during the opening of trout season on June Lake. Today most fishermen carry some variation of Power Bait in their tackle boxes.
At Convict Lake, south of June on Highway 395, anglers were taking full advantage of a bright sunshiny day while fishing in shorts and tee shirts.
Benjamin Arai of Pasadena got up before the crack of dawn and cast some "Zeke's" floating bait into the inlet where water from upper Convict Creek flows into the lake. It was just after 5 a.m. when he reeled in a 5.12-pound rainbow trout.
The angler who catches the largest trout at Convict Lake by 3 p.m. on Sunday will receive a cash prize of $500. Convict is well known to produce some of the largest fish on opening day.
Near the inlet at Convict, Derrick Perez of Upland was cooking up some of Saturday's catch.
Using a cast iron skillet on a camp stove, Perez and his fishing buddies were frying trout fresh out of the water, just feet away from their fishing spot. According to George Torres from South El Monte, the group of guys usually cook up cheeseburgers, hot dogs or warm up a pot of menudo, but this year they ran out of food. " Every year we take our fish home and have a fish fry for Mothers Day," said Torres.
"This year were had some bacon grease left over, so we figured, why not cook some fish? "


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It was very clean & fresh Overpriced for a hotel on the hiway when the pool & resturant were closed. Felt as though we'd imposed on the owners.
local info, and help as needed
Excellent swiming pool, calm, near to the beaches and nature reserve. possible to breakfast and dinner on the terrace Train line very close, although traffic wasn't too frequent.
We felt really spoiled. This hotel gives you all the attention you need. I would recommend this to anyone! The sulfur springs nextdoor are also used for filling the swimmingpool, so this could be considered a spa as well... :)
everything!! people are amazing there and we loved the hotel!! the best technology in and confort in europe!! totally kids friendly too!!
Enjoyed the pool and sitting on the terrace, nice buffet breakfast in the dining room Landscaping is barren, needs outside work, and possibly more staff
stunning view, nice setting, quiet restaurant did not meet expectations: no outdoor space to have lunch, relatively too expensive for the offer they got, dishes not outstanding (grilled fish was still cold inside, semi fredo still frozen)
Amazing views, especially from our own balcony and the garden/pool. Service and food was excellent. Garden is beautiful. Many cute & social little cats. :) There are no other services or restaurants nearby, quite an isolated place. However, it brought very nice tranquille feeling to our stay.
Absolutely stunning daytime sea views from the open garden/lawn viewing area, and spectacular sunsets (with drinks) at same area. Friendly staff. Access road very narrow and windy. Sea view room (premium rate) had only partial sea views, more mountain views. Dinner at restaurant was very expensive, and food only so-so. Room had usual problems of poor lighting and virtually no shelves for toiletries in bathroom.
the private beach was amazing, we could drive down to it and use the facilities- awesome! a final signpost would have been good to indicate that we had arrived at the hotel, signage was a bit obscure at times.
the views were outstanding,very beautiful in good weather.Food good but expensive. somewhat remote, noisy shutters in the wind which keep you awake.
Views Small rooms. In ned of refurbishment. Poor breakfast
Great view and relaxing atmosphere Breakfast limited, would like some bacon and eggs
Privacy. Scenic drive up to it. Isolated location with spectacular views of the sea and islands. privacy of room. slow restaurant service. checkin. limited breakfast buffet.
Cozy rooms, nature, stunning view from the balcony, reception staff poorly cleaned in the room, cook in a restaurant is tasteless, the rooms don't have Internet.
Comfortable. Incredible views. Great staff especially Stephania at front desk.. Good price. Dining seemed expensive. Bar service outside sometimes too slow.
the staff and size of the room as well as breakfast were great
position in relation to old town no wi fi in the bedrooms
Good location of the hotel. Bus service going to and from the hotel and sun beds with umbrella is free on the beach near Porto Ercole, excellent beach. Have a garage with 10 places for cars. The hotel is still in it's late 80' when it comes to colours, but good beds and nice bathrooms that have recently been updated. Have a small tub on the roof with sun beds. Typical breakfast for 3 stars hotel. Internet cost € 5 for 1 hour. The aircondition is too cold, can't turn it down. Small elevator, can max be 4 people in it (without luggage) . Got a room that wasn't cleaned but we immediately got a new room. Stay off rooms near the mainroad, to much traffic to have a good night sleep. x01-x04
The staff were very helpful and the room was very clean. It was very useful to have a fridge in the room and the air conditioning was very efficient. The room for breakfast was dark and rather depressing. The croissants ran out. It would have been nice to have some fresh, rather than tinned, fruit.
Efficient Hotel, Worthy of its 3 Star rating , Friendly staff , good buffet breakfast and some nice extra touches like a free bus service to the main beach if needed , which was 3 miles away. It is on a good bus service route from Orbetello Station if travelling by public transport. No
personnnel staff were very friendly, spoke English and explained many details about Orbetello. The beach was lovely with free umbrellas and chairs, and a fair restaurant. The Hotel rents bikes 10 euro per day. Breakfast really nice and fresh. Receptionist of night shift (Italian man) didn't speak English at all. The seaside is 6 km away from the hotel and the buses go there several times a day
Easy to get too and close proximity to our destination ie Porto Ercole and Porto S Stefano Felt that it is a bit pricey for the standard
Location was an easy walk to the town, spacious room, very quiet at night, free umbrella / lounges at the beach, great breakfast Uncomfortable (sagging) mattress, air conditioner was inadequate (especially during the night), the hotel description mentions swimming pool (not at the hotel) and the photo of the hot tub is misleading, the free shuttle to the beach was not available for three hours (wait for next group)
The staff is absolutely amazing, very, very efficient indeed! The breakfast is sumptuous and you don't need to take the car to go to the beech (there are hotel buses) or spend any money to have an umbrella and beech chairs (the hotel takes care of that too!). The only thing we miss was fresh fruit at breakfast, a pity!
Its location The hotel is in need of a general uplift a bit on the shabby side, but as a one night stay it was fine
food was very good.room well decorated,nice view. Hotel is not as appears in photos ,on the beach,but is the other side of a busy road which has no pavement.
Staff were friendly and efficient. The restaurant was excellent. Breakfast very good. Hotel room was a good size and quite well appointed. Only minor point was the plastic chairs on deck - cheapened the room. Also, although there was pay tv, there were only news channels that we could access in English. Would have been nice to have been able to watch an "un-dubbed" movie.
Location and view Limited menu, no coffee machine in room
The non-sea view rooms have a beatiful view of a green hill.
beautiful setting their website doesn't have pictures of the rooms
A very clean well run hotel Beach was dirty only a few loungers no umbrellas and hotel was right on a main road so the sea view room which we had also had a main road under it.
We enjoyed our stay. Hotel staff was friently. Room was clean and nice with balcony against to see. Beach located just in front of hotel - a road in between - but during our visit in Sept., there were not much to do or to stay. Restaurant served special menus every evening. Nothing special but food was ok. Tv doesn't work.
Very clean and easy to reach by car and good parking. Great view. Not much to do in the area off season. Breakfast was skimpy.
Quiet location, not right in the town of Porto Santo Stefano, but right next. It is a quieter more convenient location.
Lovely location
The staff was excellent. Very nice hotel Had to change room after first night, smelle of smoking. Phone in second room did not work.
Excellent staff service lack of evening restaurant
A very nice Hotel. Clean, comfortable right in the centre of town. Would stay here again. Not applicable
I stay in a lot of hotels. Afterwhile, all of them look alike. But every now and then, there's a hotel that does a little extra to make things not only different but also a great stay. The rooms are wonderful and kept in top condition. The cleaning staff goes above and beyond. The cleaned the wineglasses we had used the night before and put them on the drying towel and set them next to the wine bottle. They even folded my pajamas.
The room, the staff, the location - steps from town center, the breakfast. we had a small problem with the in room dsl connection
A modern complex, the restaurant was undergoing interior alterations despite that the atmosphere was good, both the meal and waiter service was excellent. We particularly enjoyed the opportunity to enjoy local produce; fresh seafood, wine and olive oil. We had a junior suite where the bedroom was up stairs. Given our age and mobility a single level room would have suited us better.
I liked the recepionist (Stephano?) the most. He was very kind and gave a great service.
Excellent staff and great location Bathroom was slightly dated but I liked it.
In general staff wanted to help But they didn't speak english, which lead their willingness to help to fail. Bathroom was quite unpleasant
The hotel was set on the sea shore with wonderful views over the sea, good bathing facilities and very good location in relation to the town which is very attractive. Poor breakfast
Good location, parking outside the hotel bathroom too small
Excellent location, very good accommodation and very helpful staff, good breakfast choices Hard to find any bad points but maybe an indication of the location vis a vis the bus stop from Orbetello station would be useful for people travelling without a car.
The opportunity to relax on a sun bed and to dip into the sea when hot I felt that the breakfast choice could have been better and our shower in the bedroom was poor standard
The location was very nice. We where there out of season so there was no one in their resturant. We ate elsewhere.
To be honest we thought that the hotel was only saved by the excellent staff. We were extremely disappointed with the hotel and its amenities. It was claimed to be a 3 star but it was little better than a basic, clean country motel. The breakfast was very basic...but coffee was good. See above
Great location and vallue for the money (Off season) Wifi not in the room. Only in the bar.
A very clean Motel 6 but with a killer view!
Excellent location, friendliness of staff.
Very friendly, helpful staff. notice required to use, Wellness centre, but really only blip in otherwise good service.
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Worst Purchase: I've made some questionable fashion decisions in the past, but I think the worst ever purchase has to be a pair of leather leggings. They looked fabulous on the hanger- but on me, they were a disaster!
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As Tom Waits grumbles, "The large print giveth and the small print taketh away." While Hulu may give people a bit more control over when and where they watch TV shows, the Terms and Conditions page imposes some fairly harsh restrictions on Web viewing.
First, Hulu video is streamed only, so you can't save shows to your hard drive. Most notably, streams of the prime time TV episodes simply expire after five weeks. So if you embed one of them at your blog, after five weeks you'll see a dead link there.
It's anybody's guess if these restrictions come from the old protectionist mindset of the studios, or as a result of pressure from their old cable and satellite distribution partners. It should be said, though, that Hulu is only in early beta, so some of the restrictions may eventually be lifted.
Hulu: Just the Beginning?
Finally, while the content is impressive, Hulu is by no means a total destination point. It only contains content from NBC/Universal and Fox (and some smaller partners). It's very unlikely that CBS, ABC, Viacom and Disney will throw their video onto Hulu any time soon.
Smart money says we'll eventually see two or three more large, competing Hulu-type portals launched by the other major studios either together or in pairs
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Planning for a public health information infrastructure for food safety
Every year, food-borne illness in the US causes an estimated 5,000 deaths, 325,000 hospitalizations, and 76 million illnesses, with financial loss of over $7 billion in premature death, medical costs, and lost productivity; yet food-borne illness is preventable. The current system to prevent food-borne illness is inadequate, despite the efforts of food producers, federal regulators, and state and local health departments. Effective and efficient prevention of food-borne illness requires analysis and understanding of causative factors and their interactions, the relative risks associated with particular hazards and behaviors, the opportunities to prevent or reduce risk and health consequences, and the relative cost and effectiveness of available risk reduction and health protection interventions and strategies. Although much of the information needed to build this understanding exists, it is in agency, government, or industry silos, and is not widely shared. There is no coherent mechanism for defining data needs, designing approaches to data collection on a system-wide basis, and integrating that information -- in short, there is no public health information infrastructure for food safety. This project will tackle the first phase of creating such an infrastructure by defining the need, feasibility, and objectives; identifying the issues and obstacles that must be addressed; developing initial design concepts; and building commitment among key institutions and individuals for collaboration. The Food Safety Research Consortium and the Public Health Informatics Institute will continue their early success in bringing diverse parties in the food safety community together. If this first phase is successful, it is possible that renewal funding will be considered to pursue the next steps to establish an integrated infrastructure for food safety.
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Amount Awarded $70,710.00
Awarded on: 6/15/2007
Time frame: 7/1/2007 - 6/30/2008
Grant Number: 62276
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Hunters: Episode One for iPad Review
The turn-based gameplay that Hunters incorporates is reminiscent of classic PC titles like Omnitrend's Breach 2 and MicroProse's XCOM: UFO Defense, but unlike those pre-Internet titles, Hunters benefits from both the network and the touch interface that iPad gamers take for granted. Do these new modalities make Hunters a better game as a result? Read on to find out.


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In places where malaria is intense, about 10% of all female mosquitoes are infected. As a result, people rarely go more than a few weeks without being re-infected. Eradicating malaria would require eliminating the parasite from human and mosquito hosts, because parasites can rebound from a single survivor.
Malaria Infection Control Measures;
Bed Nets–impregnated with insecticide, these nets provide a physical barrier against bites at night, when female Anopheles feed.
Indoor Spraying–after a blood meal, many anophelines rest indoors in roof thatch and on the undersides of furniture, which can be coated with insecticides. Indoor spraying has no effect on mosquitoes that rest outdoors under leaves.
Antimalarial Drugs–although malaria parasites are developing resistance to several drugs, combinations of drugs can kill the parasites, thereby curing the patient and preventing infection of new mosquitoes.
Controlling Malaria
In some areas of Africa over 40% of the population can be infected with malaria at any given time. Choose different control measures and see if you can control this deadly disease.


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It's Hinsch's 3.0!
The 65-year-old Fifth Avenue luncheonette — formerly slated to close for the second time in two years on March 1 — will remain open for the foreseeable future, with a new nighttime personality that will give customers a different menu, shaded windows, jazz music while they eat, and the option to bring in their own alcohol.
Hinsch's co-owner Roger Desmond — who helped save the restaurant from the grave in 2011 — said he had a national burger chain lined up to take over his 10-year lease on the space between 86th and 87th streets, but the deal fell through. Desmond put the spot back on the market, but in the meantime is looking to shake things up at the ice cream parlor, which he claims has so far failed to attract the vital youth market.
"I want to make it work. I always wanted to make it work. So while I'm here, I'm going to continue to try to make it work," said Desmond.
The businessman said he plans have the 1950s soda fountain transform at nightfall into a swinging hangout for the dinner crowd, bringing blinds down over the windows and staying open at least two hours longer than its former 9 pm bedtime. Candles will go out on the tables, the radio system will turn from golden oldies to jazz, and the kitchen will start serving chicken francaise, Texas meatloaf, fried chicken and waffles, and a cheeseburger with beef from gourmet meat dealer Pat LaFrieda. And instead of just drinking egg creams, customers will be free to bring in a six-pack of beer or a bottle of wine.
"It's going to be a different place at night," said Desmond, adding that the changeover will start in the next week. "I can't wait to see what it will look like myself."Reach reporter Will Bredderman at wbredderma
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Tintin was a big part of my childhood. On special occasions my parents would buy the latest book and I became totally absorbed by the great adventures of the Belgian reporter and his snowy dog. I remember the story was always set around the world and it brought great opportunities to learn about geography and cultures in a fun way! Tintin took me to Egypt, to America, to Congo, to the Himalayan mountains…
Time has flown by and I have become a tour guide, but at age 52, I still enjoy Tintin's subtle ideas and jokes. I love taking visitors along the comic strip trail in Brussels to show them the cartoon murals and then having a snack at a Tintin-themed café. Next we walk to the flea market featured in the 1943 story The Secret of the Unicorn, which is where Tintin found the model ship containing the map to the buried treasure of Sir Francis Haddock! At the Belgian Comic strip centre, located in a gem of Art Nouveau, you will discover original comic strip drawings and unique objects. The Hergé museum offers a comprehensive journey through the life of Hergé, one of the greatest artists in the 20th century.
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In a pair of recent cases, the National Labor Relations Board has ruled against businesses who fired workers who used profanity in the workplace.
In one case, the NLRB ruled that a business shouldn't have fired an employee even though he berated the owner to his face. In the other, the board ruled that Starbucks was wrong to fire an employee even though he used profanity and got into an altercation with a manager in front of customers.
Big Business has expressed alarm at the NLRB's stance. In a posting on its website Friday, the Chamber of Commerce wrote that the board was "flat-out undermining the ability of employers to exercise even the most basic principles of running a business."
In the first case, "Plaza Auto Center, Inc. and Nick Aguirre," the NLRB ruled on May 28th that a Yuma, Ariz., car dealership owner was wrong in 2008 to fire a worker who had called him an "asshole" and "f---ing crook" and similar insults during an office meeting to discuss a wage dispute. The NLRB said that owner had instigated the incident by telling the employee that if he didn't like the pay, he could work elsewhere. That was an "implied threat" of firing, according to the board.
"The facts in the case persuade us that [the employee's] outburst would not have occurred but for [the owner's] provocation, which included threats of discharge," the majority ruled.
On Monday, the NLRB ruled on "Starbucks Corp. and Local 660, Industrial Workers of the World," again finding that a worker's profanity was not reason enough for dismissal. That case involved a Manhattan barista who was a vocal union supporter. He was fired in 2005 after he came into the store he worked at on his off hours to engage in a union protest. He then became involved in an altercation with a customer who was also a Starbucks manager from a different store. The worker told the other manager "You can go f--- yourself" in front of customers, among other things.
The board ruled that while the actions would ordinarily be firing offenses, Starbucks' real reason for firing the worker was his pro-union activity. It noted various cases where Starbucks had not fired employees for profane outbursts — including the other manager in the dispute, even though he also used profanity in the same exchange.
In both cases, the employers were ordered to rehire the employees and pay them for lost wages.


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advancing public understanding of religion and education
Fall 2002, Vol. 29 No. 2
Openly Addressing the Reality: Homosexuality
and the Catholic Seminary Policies
Michael J. Maher
In the year 2000, a Jubilee year for the Roman Catholic Church, an issue with which the Church has struggled over centuries came once again into public discussion through a number of published articles and studies. The newspaper, the Kansas City Star,1 published a series by Judy L. Thomas discussing the high rate of AIDS infection among Catholic priests in the United States. The series also explored questions of homosexuality among U.S. priests and how the issue was handled in Catholic seminaries. A book by Fr. Donald Cozzens, President-Rector of Saint Mary Catholic Seminary in Cleveland, The Changing Face of Priesthood,2 was also published in 2000. Cozzens argues that American Catholic seminaries were attracting larger and larger numbers of gay students and that "Should our seminaries become significantly gay, and many seasoned observers find them to be precisely that, the priesthood of the twenty-first century will likely be perceived as a predominately gay profession."3 Recent years had seen attention to the issue by conservative groups such as The Roman Catholic Faithful, which operate a web page and have attacked organizations for gay Catholic clergy, such as the Chicago-based Communication Ministry, Inc. and the now defunct Saint Sebastian's Angels web page.4
While not so widely in the popular media, the issue of gay seminarians had been a subject of study for the Catholic Church in the United States in the recent decades. Popular Catholic sociologist, Father Andrew Greeley, reported that a gay subculture of priests existed in most Catholic dioceses in a 1989 article in the National Catholic Reporter.5 An earlier example of concerns over homosexual Catholic seminarians is a 1966 workshop for psychologists engaged in the assessment of candidates for the priesthood and religious life which took place at the School of Nursing of the Saint Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center in New York. Coville presented, "Perhaps the most troublesome and most frequent appearing sociopathic features or disturbances in assessment work concern the high incidence of effeminacy, heterosexual retardation, psychosexual immaturity, deviations or potential deviations of the homosexual type….A recent study of 107 male candidates, for example, shows that 8% of these were sexually deviant, whereas 70% were described as psychosexually immature, exhibiting traits of heterosexual retardation, confusion concerning sexual role, fear of sexuality, effeminacy, and potential homosexual dispositions."6 Coville was careful to point out that the sample should not be assumed to be representative.
The issue is not specific to the United States. Great Britain's Channel 4 aired a documentary in 2001 entitled "Queer and Catholic."7 In the documentary, Fr. Kevin Haggerty, Rector of Saint John's Catholic Seminary, warned that gay students were forming "divisive cliques" in Catholic seminaries. Elizabeth Stuart's 1993 book, Chosen,8 is a collection of stories from gay Catholic priests in Britain. She found that the handling of the topic of homosexuality in British Catholic seminaries had not improved greatly between the 1950's and the 1990's. The Working Group of Catholic Gay Pastors of the Netherlands published its "pastoral letter," Called to Blessing, in 1989. The group was founded in 1980.9
In fact, the issue was still the concern of Rome in recent decades. The Sacred Congregation for the Religious, a Vatican congregation, stated in 1961, "Advancement to religious vows and ordination should be barred to those who are afflicted with evil tendencies to homosexuality or pederasty, since for them the common life and the priestly ministry would constitute serious dangers."10
While I am reluctant to connect the two issues, I must acknowledge the 2002 media coverage of cases of sexual abuse of minors by priests in the United States. While such cases have been reported by the media for some time, this year has brought out more cases and more offensive behavior than previously shown. Again, I am reluctant to connect the two issues, but it is clear that the American public has been forced to think more about the sex lives of Catholic priests, especially where their lives involve sex with males. In the face of priest sex abuse scandals in 2002, Pope John Paul II, as well as Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls and Secretary of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith Archbishop Tarcisio Bertone, have all stated that seminaries must screen out homosexual candidates.11
The purpose of this paper is to report a case study I conducted in Saint Louis, Missouri. I wished to investigate how homosexuality affected the policies of Catholic seminaries in the 1950's. I argue that the Catholic Church has long been aware that a significant percentage of its clergy are gay and that one demonstration of this is through the policies of its seminaries.
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Baltimore Marine Centers, the operator of five distinctive, first class facilities located in and around Baltimore's famous Inner Harbor, has proposed a first-of-its-kind floating wetlands project to be installed at its Harborview Marina. The proposed floating wetlands have the ability to transform the stark, structured Baltimore Harbor shoreline into a beneficial ecosystem, typically provided by tidal wetlands in a natural environment.
The proposed 1.6 acres of floating wetlands at Harborview Marina would be the first of its magnitude to be constructed for public use and education, as well as to benefit the environment – not only in Baltimore, but in the entire United States. Baltimore Marine Centers and a team of architects and other partners have created a well-researched plan for constructing, installing and maintaining the floating wetlands at Harborview, and are currently in the process of obtaining permits for the project. The Joint Federal/State Application for the Alteration of Any Tidal Wetland in Maryland has been submitted to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Maryland Department of the Environment.
Improving the Health of Our Harbor
The many environmental benefits of the floating wetlands include improving water quality and clarity, removing excess nutrients from the water, reducing the incidence or severity of low dissolved oxygen events, and providing a habitat for a variety of beneficial plants and animals. With each acre of floating wetland materials being manufactured from 500,000 recycled plastic bottles, the project would also impact plastic bottle recycling and job creation, in addition to the direct benefits the wetlands would have on the environment.
Educational Opportunities
The educational opportunities that the floating wetlands would create for the Baltimore community are unlimited. Living Classrooms and other organizations are committed to developing programs to utilize the proposed floating wetlands and public access piers at Harborview. These organizations see the pier system as an essential resource in providing Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematic (STEM) education and real world, hands-on opportunities for students. As a committed partner, Living Classrooms seeks to create a program focused on the floating wetlands by integrating and utilizing the wetlands and piers. The piers will have platforms to allow students and the public to use bathyscopes to view the underwater conditions as well as vegetative and aquatic habitats. The platforms will also allow visitors to see the dense, myriad wetlands and wildlife habitat.
The floating wetlands at Harborview Marina would be another jewel in the Baltimore Harbor for all to visit. By creating the floating wetlands, Baltimore Marine Centers hopes to inspire others to preserve our Harbor – our city's greatest asset.
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From Under Armour to MaxPreps, Leon McQuay III is shaping up as everybody's All-American.
The Armwood safety, who committed to USC at Friday's Under Armour All-America Game at the Trop, has been named a second-team All-American by MaxPreps. The squad was released Wednesday.
McQuay (6-foot-2, 184 pounds) is the only bay area player on the team. A first-teamer on the Times' All-Suncoast squad, he had 54 tackles and five interceptions for the Hawks as a senior. Currently, he is No. 32 on ESPN's list of the nation's top 150 senior recruits.
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In dissenting from today's ruling striking down most of the Arizona immigration law, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia took a swipe at President Obama's new immigration policy.
Scalia noted that "after this case was argued and while it was under consideration" -- on June 15 to be precise -- the Obama administration announced it would stop deporting the children of illegal immigrants, provided they meet certain criteria.
"There has come to pass, and is with us today, the specter that Arizona and the states that support it predicted," Scalia wrote: "A federal government that does not want to enforce the immigration laws as written, and leaves the states' borders unprotected against immigrants whom those laws would exclude."
Commenting on his order earlier this week, Obama said he acted because Congress has not moved on efforts at comprehensive immigration legislation, including a proposal affecting the children of illegal immigrants.
In a statement on today's court decision, Obama said that "we will continue to enforce our immigration laws by focusing on our most important priorities like border security and criminals who endanger our communities, and not, for example, students who earn their education.
"Which is why," he added, "the Department of Homeland Security announced earlier this month that it will lift the shadow of deportation from young people who were brought to the United States as children through no fault of their own."
Scalia spotlighted the president's earlier statement in his dissent:
The President said at a news conference that the new program is "the right thing to do" in light of Congress's failure to pass the Administration's proposed revision of the Immigration Act. Perhaps it is, though Arizona may not think so.
But to say, as the Court does, that Arizona contradicts federal law by enforcing applications of the Immigration Act that the President declines to enforce boggles the mind.
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Cope's Monument Men Review
Based on a true story about a group of men, (older, mostly already served and were doing other jobs) who went into World War 2 to find and protect works of art and other monuments from being destroyed or kept illegally. It was performed nicely by George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, John Goodman, Bob Balaban and a great ensemble cast. It was nice to see Bill Murray play a straight man to Bob Balaban's slightly comedic performance (usually it's the opposite).
The script may have been slow at times but history also unfolds like that. Still it is not to be missed. It's a part of World War 2 that we may have forgotten about and it's great to see that our country, and the men who may not have been credited correctly in history, were able to retrieve the world's largest collection of historical art pieces and return them to their rightful owners.
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The Economics Of Kim Kardashian
Ever wonder how celebs get so stinkin' rich? (I mean, Nicolas Cage owns a friggin' island.) And why the heck were those kids from "16 & Pregnant" on the cover of the tabloids for, like, a whole year? It might seem like it defies explanation, but it doesn't. In her new book Celebrity, Inc., gossip reporter Jo Piazza shares the behinds-the-scenes machinations that line famous people's pockets with the green. She knows firsthand why celebs make bank for acting, selling baby photos, tweeting, and endorsing products they might not even have used. Even if you're not into reading about celeb gossip, the economics of showbiz are fascinating. [$9.99 for Kindle, Amazon]


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Uh-Oh: NBC replaces Faith Hill with Carrie Underwood for Sunday Night Football
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NBC replaced one blond country music singer with another younger, blond country music singer.
Carrie Underwood will take over the intro to Sunday Night Football this season, replacing Faith Hill. NBC made the announcement Tuesday.
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Obama announces nominees for EPA, Energy
WASHINGTON — President Obama signaled his willingness to tackle climate change with his pick of Gina McCarthy to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, one of three major posts he filled on Monday.
A 25-year veteran of environmental policy and politics, McCarthy has worked for Republicans and Democrats, including Obama's presidential rival, Mitt Romney, who tapped her to help draft state plans for curbing the pollution linked to global warming. Along with McCarthy, Obama nominated MIT nuclear physicist Ernie Moniz to lead the Energy Department and Wal-Mart's Sylvia Mathews Burwell to head the budget office.
McCarthy has led the EPA's air pollution division since 2009, ushering in many of the agency's most controversial new rules, such as placing the first-ever limits on greenhouse gases on newly built power plants.
Moniz, as head of MIT's Energy Initiative, has worked on developing ways to produce power while curbing greenhouse gas emissions.
"They're going to be making sure we're investing in American energy, that we're doing everything we can to combat the threat of climate change, that we're going to be creating jobs and economic opportunity," Obama said.
But conservatives immediately stressed her role in what they consider to be destructive policies from EPA.
"McCarthy will continue the regulatory attack on oil, coal and natural gas with the result that Americans will experience increasing energy costs and high unemployment rates," said Thomas Pyle, president of the Institute for Energy Research, a conservative think tank that receives some support from the fossil fuel industry.
Moniz, 68, was a former Energy Department undersecretary under Clinton. He's advised Obama on numerous energy topics, including how to handle the country's nuclear waste and the natural gas produced by the controversial technique of hydraulic fracturing.
Environmental groups are wary of Moniz, because of his support of natural gas and nuclear power. His MIT Energy Initiative has received funding from oil companies such as BP, Shell and Chevron.
Burwell is Washington veteran who served in posts in the Clinton administration, including deputy OMB director. She heads the Wal-Mart Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the retail giant, and has led the Gates Foundation's Global Development Program.


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YORKTOWN, N.Y. -- Yorktown Police arrested and charged a 17-year-old Lakeland High School student after he allegedly posted photos of metal knuckles and unidentified illegal drugs on his Facebook page, according to Yorktown police.
The school's resource officer learned about the social media post, approached the student and found him with a metal knuckles knife on Wednesday, March 12 at 12:15 p.m., Yorktown police said.
The suspect, a Yorktown male resident whose name is being withheld because of his eligibility for youth offender status, was charged with fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon and is due to appear in court on Tuesday, April 15 at 6 p.m.


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Washington (UPI) May 9, 2008
Driving China's pipeline strategy of seeking agreement with Russia and Central Asian states for transmission of oil and natural gas is a potential shortage beyond the energy issues so prominent in the media.
And China's potential shortage is tankers. According to a recent report in PortWorld, a prominent Chinese shipping executive commented that by 2015 China will need nearly 150 Very Large Crude Carrier tankers to meet its rising energy needs. For Beijing, the news is bad, as the country's top five shipping companies currently have a combined fleet of 27 VLCCs.
VLCCs are the second-largest class of tankers, displacing 200,000-320,000 tons, and are capable of carrying 2 million barrels of oil. Tankers are second only to pipelines in terms of efficiency, and their efficiency of large volume transport means that importing oil by tanker adds only two to three U.S. cents per gallon to cost.
China's tanker fleet comes with problems that make Beijing's proposed Central Asian and Russian pipelines increasingly important as a backup policy in the event its tanker fleet is interdicted on the high seas, either by weather, terrorism or enemy navies.
The reality is that, in the short term, China relies on ever-increasing oil imports delivered by sea. In 2006 Chinese crude imports rose 14.2 percent to 2.9 million barrels per day. China's largest supplier was Saudi Arabia, shipping 0.479 million bpd, a 7.6 percent increase from the previous year. Angola came in second, with 2006 imports rising an impressive 34.6 percent from 2005 levels to 0.471 million bpd, with Iran in third place with 0.337 million bpd, up 17.4 percent from 2005 levels. The Middle East was responsible for nearly 45 percent of China's oil imports in 2006, which totaled 1.32 million bpd, while African imports totaled 920,000 bpd, 31.5 percent of China's total crude imports.
What is significant in this pattern, however, are China's rising imports from Russia, which in 2006 reached 0.321 million bpd, a 24.9 percent increase. Unlike China's top three importing nations, Russian exports move exclusively by rail and pipeline on "interior" lines. Whatever Western analysts might say about the state of Russian democracy, the reality is that Russia is a stable political entity, unlike the volatile Middle East or Africa, from where China receives more than three-fourths of its energy imports. In the interim, however, Beijing will be forced to rely on maritime transport to import its crude deliveries, a pattern that will not shift in the foreseeable future.
Further driving an emphasis on interior pipelines is the Chinese shipping executive's observation that China's tanker fleet by 2011 is estimated to increase to only 63 vessels, which will only be able to transport approximately 58 percent of China's crude imports.
Last year the CIA numbered the world tanker fleet at 4,295 vessels of 1,000 deadweight tons or greater. According to U.N. statistics, in 2005 475 new oil tankers were built, totaling 30.7 million DWT of an average capacity of 64,632 DWT.
For Beijing, with its bloated foreign exchange reserves, the cost of building 123 new VLCCs by 2015 will induce sticker shock, as over the past decade the costs of constructing a regular VLCC have varied from $70 million to $100 million. Accordingly, not even accounting for inflation, the cost of constructing 123 new VLCCs could reach an eye-popping $8.6 billion to $12.3 billion.
Nor would this be all. As the majority of new tankers being built for Chinese shipping firms will fly China's flag, China's navy would inevitably have to expand to provide force protection for its expanded merchant marine. To protect its Middle East and African imports, the Chinese navy would be forced to deploy far beyond the South China Sea south and westward into the Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea, a logistical nightmare compounded by the vulnerability of Chinese imports traversing some of the more volatile maritime choke points, from the Strait of Hormuz to the Straits of Malacca.
During the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War, free-floating sea mines were released in the 21-mile-wide Strait of Hormuz. The 600-mile-long Straits of Malacca, transited by 50,000 ships a year, is 1.7 miles wide at its narrowest point and suffers from a combination of traditional piracy and indigenous Muslim extremist movements that make passage of the waterway especially unsettling. Among the Islamic terrorist groups active in the area are the Free Aceh Movement, Jemmah Islamiyah Lashkar Jihad, Laskar Jundullah and Rabitatul Mujahideen.
Even worse for Chinese naval planners is the fact the U.S. Navy is active in both areas. In short, a massive Chinese tanker fleet represents a horrendously expensive and vulnerable logistical nightmarish scenario in which China will have to invest billions with no guarantee of 100 percent security.
China has already negotiated pipeline agreements with both Russia and Kazakhstan. While predicting the future is cloudy at best, in such an environment, it seems a safe bet to say that the future will see Beijing seek every conceivable and possible pipeline agreement with its energy-rich neighbors to the north and west in an attempt to secure its energy imports while minimizing their vulnerability to the vagaries of maritime threats ranging from the weather to the U.S. Navy.
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ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) — Rock Hill police are investigating the death of a woman who died in a weekend tubing accident on the Catawba River.
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Best Of :: Bars & Clubs
The nonprofit Rhythm Foundation is celebrating its 20th year of spreading global musical cheer in South Florida, and each season seems to get better than the last. That's a tough feat, given the group's track record. Founded with the intent of showcasing the best in "world music," the outfit has managed to shake that term's sometimes boring and crunchy connotations via a program of the planet's most exciting music, regardless of scene or language. For the 2007-2008 season, Rhythm Foundation has helped push pop forward and reinvent some of the oldest forms of folk. That's meant hosting, say, the Argentine-Swedish singer-songwriter José González at the lovely Manuel Artime Theater in Little Havana, which provoked an enraptured audience into possibly the lowest noise levels ever recorded for a Miami audience. It's also meant hosting Brazilian baile funk tricksters Bonde do Rolê at the soon-to-be-defunct downtown club Studio A, or Spanish disco-popsters the Pinker Tones at the North Beach Bandshell. Other times, it's meant even legendary Bollywood playback singer Asha Bhosle and tabla master Zakir Hussain. The common thread? New explorations into sounds and textures, and some of the smartest, coolest crowds you could hope to amass in this town. The folks behind Rhythm Foundation prove time and again it's a small world after all, but there's room for all of us to dance in it.
You know Rachel Goodrich. You were drunk, it was Churchill's or PS14 or wherever, and there was this girl playing music, and you didn't really give a crap, but then you noticed everybody else was paying attention, so you started to listen and — zammee! — you were, like, Holy shit. This girl's pretty good. A blurry minute later, you thought, No, she's very good. Maybe it was the ukulele she brought out; maybe it was the participatory glee she incited when she handed instruments to the crowd; whatever it was, you were digging it. And then the tequila took hold and off to the curb you stumbled — but Rachel played on without you. A Miami Beach native, the 23-year-old musical phenomenon has been writing her own stuff since she was 12 and began performing at age 16. The stuff she's working on these days — music she describes as "shakeabilly" — is a little bit rock, a little bit country, a little bit crazy-woman, and generally a whole lot of fun. Her only regular gig at the moment is 190 Restaurant, every Friday night, but it's not hard to find her playing somewhere on any given weekend. Check her MySpace page for upcoming shows. And if you're too lame to go out and hear her live, she's got an album coming out in a few months.
Six signs of a serious afterhours party: 1. A crowd that goes to sleep insanely early, only to arise around 3 a.m. and then begin getting ready to go out. 2. A hard-core subset of that crowd that won't deign to do afterhours, or even party much, anywhere else. 3. A 24-hour liquor license (!). 4. Marathon sets by some of the world's superstar DJs, from Roger Sanchez to Dubfire, who show up after they've played gigs at regular clubs. 5. International mix CDs named solely for one geographical area — say, a terrace — of said afterhours party. 6. A crowd on said terrace visible from the highway until, sometimes, 2 p.m. the following day. Space Saturdays boasts all of these. Nobody else in town can, and they don't even try. End of story.
Induce is sort of like the dark horse of the DJ pack. What he lacks in superhigh-profile residencies at boring danceterias he more than makes up for in skill, deep musical knowledge, and diversity. A young DJ with an old-school mindset, he's the type of guy who still lives with rooms of old vinyl and who doesn't need Serato to school his weaker peers and move butts. An Induce set is always a tossup because he does with finesse what the best DJs do: plays to the crowd. And because of his encyclopedic mental library, audiences are startlingly wide in range — everyone from indie types at Poplife to hip-hop heads at Purdy Lounge to fashionistas at Gen Art parties to Zen types at The Standard to the swank and pampered patrons at The Shore Club. Just see the track list of his 2007 mix, More Iconic Less Ironic: Eric B. & Rakim, The Cure, the Neptunes, and Stereolab all get equal billing. Meanwhile, he's been garnering web love for his own productions and for his turn as half of the duo, uh, Casual Sax, which has been blessed with Perez Hilton's golden wand. Boring laptop jocks, eat your hearts out.
Shine, nestled inside the glam Shelborne Beach Resort, was a labor of love for DJ Jonathan Cowan, whose family has long owned and operated the hotel. With a veteran dance-floor conductor at its helm when it opened in the spring of 2006, the club quickly distinguished itself for its stellar Steve Dash sound system and even more stellar DJ lineup. For that year's edition of WMC, Shine glittered with luminaries rarely seen in Miami, including Satoshi Tomiie and Frankie Knuckles. But by early 2007, weekly operations ceased and all kinds of rumors swirled — Miami New Times even declared it the "best club to die within the past year."We were all wrong. Cowan was just on a break to take care of family business and retool the club's programming a bit. So last summer, Shine came back with a bang, hosting special events during which the likes of Adam Freeland, Layo and Bushwacka!, and King Britt, among others, graced the decks. WMC 2008 saw the place slammed, with the return of Tomiie, for one, and parties by Ibiza superclub Pacha and legendary label Def Mix. The remainder of the year, the club continues to open for special events, treating local dance music cognoscenti to house, techno, electro, and the rest of the best in new beats. The moral of the story: Patience pays, and Shine still sparkles.
As rumors flew that The Eat was spending a lot of time in a not-so-secret rehearsal space, the collective excitement felt across South Florida's music scene was palpable as far and wide as our hipsters are astute and with it. The Eat, previously named Best Band of All Time by this publication, had not played in about a dozen years, so the news was almost earth shattering to fans. Arguably, The Eat was South Florida's first punk band, releasing in 1979 a DIY single ("Communist Radio/Catholic Love"), which has likely changed hands more times on eBay than there are actual copies. But rarity wasn't the only reason the group's sides sell for hundreds of dollars — The Eat's catalogue is chock full of musical and lyrical gems on par with any chart toppers from that period. Ever wonder how the Miami scene got its bizarre sense of humor? Just pick up last year's It's Not The Eat, It's The Humidity compilation, and it will all start to make sense ... well, more sense, anyway. Those songs influenced young bands (and other funny people) for years afterward. The compilation itself was perhaps the biggest reason Mike and Eddie O'Brien reformed the band with longtime member Kenny Lindahl and newcomer Mike Vullo (substituting for Chris Cottie, who passed away in 2004) to perform to a packed Churchill's Hideaway on Groundhog Day. The band was spot-on, and audience members left with huge grins on their faces. The boys have already played at least one other unannounced set this year and promise more official gigs in the near future. We hope they really mean the actual "near future," not 12 years from now.