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Charles "Mike" Nichols
Mike has been diving since 1977 and teaching since 1986. Started Scuba Ventures in 1988 to provide quality scuba service in a friendly atmosphere. Has made over 5000 dives on every continent except Australia (on the list to do) and Antarctica (not on your life). Favorite dive destinations are Cozumel, Mexico (50th group trip this year) and the Cooper river for artifact recovery.
Gary Laubscher
Gary began diving in 1983 in the cold waters off the Northern California coast. He has been a past member of the York County Emergency Response Team, He hold a certificates for advanced rescue diving, is currently a PADI Master Scuba Diver, Dive Master and EFR Instructors. Gary will be attending the PADI Open Water Instructor Course in July of this year.
Dr George D Smith
Dr. George teaches kids and adults for a living and loves working with new divers. George has been in many of the local waters here in SC & NC as well as the Keys, Caribbean and more.
Sherry will often be found behind the underwater camera capturing your moments below the surface. She works with new students and enjoys helping people get more comfortable in their new aquatic environment. Her passion as a shutter bug is evident in many of the pictures at the shop.
Cheryl Miller
Cheryl Miller is an IT manager for Wells Fargo for her day job and a diver in her off hours as much as possible. She completed her Divemaster certification from Scuba Ventures in February 2012. She's been diving for several years now and is completely hooked! Diving has opened up many opportunities over the years including meeting her finance on a trip to Dominica three years ago. Cheryl loves talking about diving and going on dive trips. Diving combines her love for travel, adventure and the development of life-long friendships. She resides in Charlotte with her friend Anne who also dives.
Laurie Certo
Laurie has been SCUBA diving since early childhood in her family's back yard in-ground swimming pool in Pittsburgh, PA under the instruction of her dad also a PADI Divemaster. She grew up idolizing the Mermaids at Weeki Wachee Springs in Florida. Officially certified as an Open Water Diver in 1995 with SSI, she later earned her Advanced Open Water Certification in 2003 with PADI and then continued her requirements for Nitrox, Rescue, and finally finished her Dive Master Certification in February 2012. Laurie enjoys underwater photography and finding all the little interesting sea creatures hidden on the reefs. Laurie works for Bank of America to fund her travel and dive habit.
Ali Memita
Ali used to tell people that she was a SCUBA diver & worked as an IT professional between dives. She's no longer an IT professional but she's still a diver! Ali began diving in May 2006. In February 2012, she completed her Divemaster certification with Scuba Ventures. Diving is both exciting and challenging for Ali. She has been on more than a few trips with Scuba Ventures and looks forward to many more. Ali lives in Matthews with her teenage daughter and dive buddy Sydney, who is also SCUBA certified.
Leeann Hyland
Mrs. Pinky! Leeann is the neighborhood nut around the shop! She like to keep everything light hearted and fun! She enjoys diving anywhere she gets an opportunity and is constantly looking for that next adventure!
Jason Adams
Jason started diving in 1990, first certified by none other than Mr. Mike Nichols. After an extended break and a newly kindled love of the underwater world and conservation, he's back at it. His diving portfolio includes Hawaii, the Florida Keys, Cabo San Lucas, the Dominican Republic and many others. He and his wife actually decended in the Sea of Cortez only to acsend in the Pacific Ocean.
Christie Adams
Chrisite is our Shop Organizer and Design Freak, she started diving in 2009 and has quickly fallin in Love with the water. Her diving has taken her to Florida, Cabo San Lucas and even the Dominican Republic. But be careful, she loves to explorer and we have to keep an eye on her. But her eye for design and perfection is the reason we love having her around. Don't like the way something looks, blame her!


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Gloria Steinem (1934-)
Gloria Steinem, an acclaimed trailblazer for women's rights, worked as a journalist and activist in the 1960s-70s to headline a movement that became known as "second-wave feminism." After working for New York magazine, Steinem co-founded Ms. Magazine, a publication dedicated to women's rights concerns. Steinem continues to work as a writer, touring lecturer and political commentator on progressive social issues.
Steinem was born on March 25, 1934 in Toledo, Ohio where she lived with her parents, Leo and Ruth Steinem. In 1944, her parents divorced, leaving a young Steinem to take care of her mentally ill mother in Toledo. After graduating high school, Steinem attended Smith College in Massachusetts where she studied government. After graduating magna cum laude, Steinem earned the Chester Bowles Fellowship, which sent her to study and research in India. Her time abroad incited an interest in grassroots organization, which would later manifest itself in her work supporting the Equal Rights Amendment.
Steinem started her professional career as a journalist by moving to New York and writing freelance pieces for various publications. She first gained national attention when Show magazine enlisted her to report undercover as a Bunny at the Playboy Club. The expose revealed that contrary to the glamorous image of the Bunny, the waitresses were actually overworked and underpaid. Steinem struggled with her career after this job and found it difficult to be assigned serious political news stories because of her sex. She worked to earn a few reputable profile pieces until 1968, when she landed a job as a founding editor at New York magazine.
At the magazine, Steinem found herself reporting on political campaigns and progressive social issues, including an abortion hearing which influenced Steinem's own feminist philosophy. She became involved in the women's movement by attending rallies, protests and sit-ins. In 1971, New York magazine printed the first Ms. Magazine insert, which Steinem co-founded and wrote for when it became an independent, regular circulation in 1972. That same year, she and fellow second-wave feminists such as Bella Abzug and Betty Friedan formed the National Women's Political Caucus, which supported the changes cited in the Equal Rights Amendment including reproductive freedom and wage disparity between the sexes.
Since her time working for the women's liberation movement in the 70s, Steinem has co-founded a number of organizations focusing on human rights issues like racial equality and pro-choice activism. In 2004, Steinem co-founded the Women's Media Center, which aims to promote positive images of women in the media. She has authored four books, including a biography on Marilyn Monroe, and her writing has been published and reprinted in anthologies and textbooks. Currently, she's working on a book titled Road to the Heart: America As If Everyone Mattered about her travels around the world as a touring lecturer.

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Ringrose, Jessica (2002) Developing feminist pedagogical practices to complicate whiteness and work with defensiveness. In: Working through whiteness: International Perspectives. State University of New York Press, Albany, pp. 289-318. ISBN 0-7914-5339-1Full text not available from this repository.
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Ask a Dentist. Get Answers to Your Dental Questions.
If you replaced the tooth yourself using super glue, it is very difficult to remove the excess glue without damaging the acrylic of the denture itself. Over time the extra glue will start to flake off and you may be able to smooth it with a small emery board. Be careful not to damage the tooth or the denture, only the glue.
If your tooth was repaired by a dentist or dental lab and 'glue' is remaining on the denture, I would take it back and have them polish the area more fully.
I replaced the tooth myself about 3 months ago and it fell out again. do I have to remove the old glue from the denture before reattaching the tooth. It is a front tooth?
if you do not remove the old glue the tooth will not fit properly in the socket. Repairs with glue, as you found out, usually dont last more than a few months at best. Sometimes the tooth fell out originally because the bite from opposing teeth is too strong in that area. A temporary repair with glue usually wont hurt anything but its always best to have it professionally repaired when possible.
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About the Book
In this world there is A Special Love that exists for people and many animals.
All creatures are very different in their own unique ways, but the one enduring characteristic that so many have in common is natures gift for a mother and baby to be able to cherish, play with, protect, and care for each other.
Together they share a never ending devotion and a bond that lasts forever.
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that the world's biggest cupcake was concocted by Chef Ryan Abood of Manchester, New Hampshire? It was a whopping 1,224 pounds and needed 800 eggs and half a day to bake.
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The Starke County Commissioners and the Starke County Council will meet tonight at 6 p.m. to discuss the proposed jail project.
Council President David Pearman said the council and the commissioners hope to approve a proposed ordinance that would enable the officials to utilize a 0.65 percent tax rate that would help fund the construction of a new jail facility.
Once the ordinance is approved, Pearman said the project will start to take shape
"Everybody wants to know where we're going to put the jail so we're really going to have to look harder at that," Pearman said. "To start a project, we have to have a site so they can look at the site, understand what we need for site readiness and site preparation. I think that will be the next step. We'll start looking at some property in some areas and some zoning and things like that. Our partners, our consultants, will then take things to the next level. They'll start refining some of the drawings, working toward the ultimate goal of starting to work on some bids and things like that as well."
The new jail facility would be built on a site of anywhere from four to 10 acres, and the preliminary design plans call for a facility of 32,406 square feet. The current Starke County Jail is only 13,350 square feet.
The facility would hold 108 beds, with the option of adding an additional 32 beds if necessary. The total estimated cost for construction came to $14 million. The construction would take approximately 18 to 20 months, depending on the site and design.
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Chafee intends to make endorsement in RI gov.'s race
CRANSTON, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee (CHAY'-fee) says he plans to make an endorsement in the race to succeed him as governor, but hasn't made up his mind yet which candidate he will support.
Chafee switched from being an independent to being a Democrat earlier this year and said during a taping of WJAR-TV's 10 News Conference on Thursday that he will endorse a fellow Democrat. He is not running for a second term.
General Treasurer Gina Raimondo announced her candidacy Wednesday, joining a Democratic field that also includes Providence Mayor Angel Taveras.
Democrat Clay Pell, grandson of the late U.S. Sen. Claiborne Pell, expects to decide whether to run by the end of January.
Chafee says he's spoken to all three and will make a decision after the field is finalized.


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Certificate programs consist of specialized education in specific career fields, without the general education coursework required for a degree, and designed to prepare you for early employment and/or to improve your specific job skills. You must complete at least 15 credits or two-thirds of the credit hours required for a certificate program (whichever is less) at GCC.
In most cases, the courses required to complete a certificate may be used to fulfill requirements for an associate degree in the same field. If you complete the requirements for both the certificate and the degree simultaneously, you will only receive the associate degree.
Due to the sequence in which the certificate course requirements are offered, completion of these certificate programs within the normal time frame is not possible if a student begins required coursework in January.


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The Dallas Mavericks basketball team have only been playing in the NBA since 1980, but in that time they've taken three division titles, two conference titles, and a championship. The young team was built in the 1980s on players such as Mark Aguirre, Derek Harper, and Detlef Schrempf, but most Mavs fans would just as soon forget about the '90s. Then, in 2000, a newly minted dot-com billionaire named Mark Cuban bought the team, injecting new off-court energy into the organization. On the court, players like Jason Kidd, Dirk Nowitzki, and Jason Terry were added, whose hard work paid off in 2011 when the Mavericks beat LeBron James and the Miami Heat in the NBA finals.
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Chunky Caramel Popcorn Clusters
Recipe by Lou6566
This recipe is from Land O lakes, and they have a winner here for sure. It is downright habit forming! Once you start eating it, you just can't stop! A mixture of dark chocolate, white chocolate, cashews, and pecans that can't be beat.
Top Review by ann.farnsworth
I can't believe I have never rated this recipe! We make these popcorn clusters at least once a month and when I walk in with a big bowl of them to any party I can hardly make it to the table to set it down. Excellent!
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Ingredients Nutrition
Caramel Popcorn Ingredients
- 12 cups popped popcorn
- 1 (9 3/4 ounce) canwhole cashews (2 cups)
- 1 (5 ounce) bag pecan halves (1 1/2 cups)
- 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
- 3⁄4 cup butter (land O lakes)
- 1⁄2 cup light corn syrup
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
Drizzle ingredients
- 1 cup dark chocolate chips
- 1⁄2 teaspoon shortening
- 1 1⁄2 cups white chocolate chips
Directions See How It's Made
- Heat oven to 250°F Place popcorn, cashews and pecans in large roasting pan.
- Combine brown sugar, butter and corn syrup in 2-quart saucepan. Cook over medium heat until mixture comes to a boil (7 to 8 minutes). Continue boiling 2 minutes. Remove from heat; stir in baking soda.
- Pour butter mixture over popcorn mixture in pan; stir well. Bake for 60 minutes, stirring every 15 minutes. Remove from oven; place onto waxed paper or parchment paper. Cool completely. (DO NOT BREAK INTO PIECES.).
- Place chocolate chips and 1 teaspoon shortening into resealable plastic food bag. Microwave on HIGH (100% power) for 30 to 45 seconds; knead bag. Continue microwaving at 15 second intervals, kneading until smooth. Cut tiny corner from bag; drizzle melted chocolate over popcorn mixture. Repeat with white baking chips and remaining 1/2 teaspoon shortening, microwaving on MEDIUM-HIGH (70% power). Drizzle over popcorn mixture. Let stand until chocolate is set (3 to 4 hours). Break popcorn mixture into pieces.
- Store in container with tight-fitting lid or resealable plastic food bag.
- Recipe Tip
- Chocolate and white baking chips can be melted separately with shortening in a small bowl in microwave or in small saucepan over low heat until melted. Drizzle chocolate mixtures with fork or spoon.


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Grecotel Kos Imperial Thalasso, Kos
- Free breakfast, free WiFi in lobby, and free parking
Main amenities
- 384 apartments
- Private beach
- 4 restaurants
- Full-service spa
- Indoor pool and lazy river
- Free children's club
- 2 outdoor tennis courts
- Beach umbrellas
- 24-hour front desk
- Coffee/tea in a common area
- Air conditioning
- Daily housekeeping
- Free breakfast, free WiFi in lobby, and free parking
Feel at home
- Cribs/infant beds available
- Supervised childcare/activities
- Children's pool
- Playground on site
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
What's around
- In Psalidi
- Agios Fokas Beach (1.5 mi / 2.4 km)
- Kos Marina (2.9 mi / 4.6 km)
- Moslem Shrine Lotzias (3.5 mi / 5.6 km)
- Tree of Hippocrates (3.5 mi / 5.6 km)
- Kos Thermes (3.6 mi / 5.8 km)
Grecotel Kos Imperial Thalasso, Kos
Hotel Info: 866-539-8117from $287
- Family Room
- Junior Bungalow
- Deluxe Bungalow, Pool View
- Standard Double Room, Garden View
- Bungalow, Garden View
- Standard Double Room, Partial Sea View
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At a glance
Key facts
Hotel size
- This hotel has 384 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 4 floors
- Check-in time starts at 2 PM
- Check-out time is noon
Required at check in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
Travelling with others
- Babysitting/childcare *
- Free children's club
- Pets not allowed
Extra people
- Roll-away beds available, charges may apply*
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free self parking
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In the hotel
- Children's club (free)
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Supervised childcare/activities
- Free breakfast
- 4 restaurants
- Bar/lounge
- Snack bar/deli
- Beach bar
- Poolside bar
- Room service (during limited hours)
- Coffee/tea in a common area
- Beach sun loungers
- Beach umbrellas
- Indoor pool
- Children's pool
- Health club
- Outdoor tennis courts - 2
- Full-service spa
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Beach towels
- Lazy river
- Tennis on site
- Pool sun loungers
- Arcade/game room
- One meeting room
- Computer station
- 24-hour front desk
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Laundry facilities
- Hair salon
- Luggage storage
- Wedding services
- Multilingual staff
- Year Built 2002
- Elevator/lift
- ATM/banking
- Garden
In the room
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Air conditioning
- Minibar
- Bathrobes
- Slippers
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Soundproofed rooms
- Premium bedding
- Furnished balcony
- Private bathroom
- Shower/tub combination
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Satellite TV channels
- Phone
- Refrigerator
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe
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Special features
Elixir Thalasso Spa has 2 treatment rooms. Services include massages, facials, body wraps, and body scrubs. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy and thalassotherapy. The spa is equipped with a sauna and a spa tub.
Children under 18 years old are not allowed in the spa without adult supervision.
DiningLagoon Main Restaurant - This poolside buffet restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
The Pavilions Gourmet - Overlooking the pool and garden, this fine-dining restaurant serves dinner only. Reservations are required.
Pirates of the Aegean - This beach restaurant specializes in seafood and serves dinner only. Reservations are required.
Coral Self Service - Overlooking the garden, this restaurant serves lunch only.
On Site
- Health club
- Outdoor tennis courts - 2
- Tennis on site
- Fitness classes on site
- Bicycle rentals on site
- Playground on site
- Rowing or canoeing on site
- Surfing/boogie boarding on site
- Volleyball on site
- Water skiing on site
- Windsurfing on site
- Parasailing nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Scuba diving nearby
Grecotel Kos Imperial Thalasso, Kos's small print
Also known as
- Grecotel Imperial Thalasso
- Kos Thalasso Grecotel
- Grecotel Kos Imperial Thalasso Aparthotel
- Grecotel Imperial Thalasso Aparthotel
- Grecotel Imperial Thalasso Hotel
- Grecotel Imperial Thalasso Hotel Kos
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- Imperial Kos
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- Kos Grecotel
Cash transactions at this property cannot exceed EUR 500, due to national regulations. For further details, please contact the property using information in the booking confirmation.
Children under 18 years old are not allowed in the spa without adult supervision.
Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments and can be made by contacting the property before arrival at the number on the booking confirmation.
Optional extras
Babysitting/childcare is available for an extra charge
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.
Hotel registry number: 1143K015A0533800
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As Humpty Dumpty once said, per Lewis Carroll: "When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less."
Dill Pickle Potato Chips Manufacturer: Humpty Dumpty Potato Chip Co.
A word, Humpty Dumpty told Alice, means whatever I want it to mean.
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I was seven the first time my mother mailed one of my stories to a magazine (Humpty Dumpty, now defunct).
It was a clear paraphrase of the downfall of Humpty Dumpty—the restoration alike hopeless, alike impossible.
"Then wish for them, and fire off this," said Humpty Dumpty, handing her a cracker.
"Humpty Dumpty was blown up instead of falling down," said Alice.
But I never heard that Humpty Dumpty did a lot o' squealin' when he bust.
Tommy put Humpty Dumpty up on the stone wall and ran off with the twins.
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Nuggets 98, Cavaliers 91: Danilo Gallinari scored 23 points and Kosta Koufos added 21 as Denver rallied for its 11th win in 12 home games.
Kenneth Faried contributed 17 points and 11 rebounds, Andre Iguodala recorded 13 and 11 and Ty Lawson also scored 13 points for the Nuggets, who improved to 13-2 at home and extended their overall winning streak to four games.
Kyrie Irving scored a game-high 28 points and Dion Waiters chipped in 18 for the Cavaliers, who fell to 5-17 on the road.Cleveland held a seven-point lead after one quarter and pushed it to 11 just over two minutes into the second. C.J. Miles buried a 3-pointer with 1:07 remaining to give the Cavaliers a 56-45 advantage at the break and hit a jumper with 10:35 left in the third to increase the lead to a game-high 13 points.
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GAME NOTEBOOK: Tristan Thompson (10), Irving (eight) and Waiters (eight) combined for 26 of Cleveland's 30 first-quarter points. ... Miles returned to the lineup after missing one game with a lower back strain. ... Faried's double-double was the 29th of his career. The Nuggets are 24-5 in those contests.


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Central Location. Quiet - Our room was anyway. Secure Parking. No bar or restaurant in the Hotel.
Convenient location The lift was small and had a very funny smell
Wonderful location in the centre of Laval. Clean and comfortable if not exactly luxurious, but good value. This is the second time we have stayed there rather inconvenient that reception was not open all day
Location The breakfast was too basic
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Excellent location. Garage was important as we were travelling in our own car. We arrived on a Public Holiday (1 May 09) and the hotel was closed until 5:30 pm.We had been given a check-in time of 4:00 pm - so had to fill in 90 minutes before we could get into our room. Notice of Public Holiday and Sunday afternoon closures would be useful.
The room was very spacious. Very effective double glazing, once the window was closed no outside noise whatsoever. Central location, popular restaurant on doorstep. Undersground parking available but very tricky if you have a big vehicle.
The location of the hotel in Laval Although it was very useful to have parking facilities at the hotel, the garage had rather a bad smell.
nicely decorated room / soundproof room at street side / airco / buffet breakfast (although limited choice) very small elevator / small bathroom (although not all bathrooms are the same) / bath/shower tap needs replacement
Friendly, helpful staff. Good location with old town just across the bridge. Will return.
very nice staff, a good restaurant and a very good breakfast buffet. Nicely situated on the outskirts of the city with sufficient parking place. A nice place and great value for money.
it was quiert We did not find it for 1.5 hours road signs need to be better
staff warm and friendly attitude a little sparse, we were on a blokes trip to leman and it was adequate but I would hesitate to use it for a family trip
Good breakfast. Restaurant had been advertised (which is why we booked). Only when we arrived did we find it was not open at weekends.
Very nice location. Staff very friendly but couldn't speak English. Convenient location for attractions in the area, e.g. Laval, Rennes & Le Mans. Quite hard to find / Breakfast not included.
We rate this hotel as one of the best that we stayed at during our holiday and consider it the best for service and value.
Could arrive late , nice breakfast (I love French bread)
Friendly staff,good service, even provided evening meal after resturant closed.Clean room which was excellent value for money.
It was clean, friendly staff, nice restaurant,food good, hotel easily accesiable and easy to find. Everything was good.
Friendly staff nice rooms excellent food The hotel seemed unprepared for the amount of guests there was a shortage of beer in the bar the staff had to go to local shop for supplies also they only had half a dozen pint glasses which was meant people had to buy half pints which made the night considerably more expensive as the price for half a pint was much more than half the price of a pint
Standard of the rooms & the hotel, the food, wine, the outdoor pool & the staff were second to none
You are the guest and nothing is a problem. The food both in the restaurant and for breakfast were excellent. I stayed in this hotel back in June and enjoyed the experience, and re-booked for this visit, I have re-booked for my next trip to Laval in june Next year 1. They only have one room with twin beds. 2. The service in the Le Capucin Gourmand Restaurant was not as good as in June. 3. As a smoker it would be nice to have a covered area at the back (It was wet on this visit)
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location, near airport and fair out dated bathroom
Don't visit this hotel without testing the reastaurant !
Easy to find location. Mattress was dipped in the middle where lots of people have slept - not good for my back. Bed also had stained sheets and had a blanket rather than a duvet which I don't find very comfortable. Reception staff not very polite when struggling to make myself understood in French, I asked in French if he spoke English but he was not happy with this question, even though I tried my best to communicate.
Location near ring road. Nowhere near to simply go for a drink.
Size of room, location, cleanness
Friendly helpful staff, clean, great food location - quite far out of town (about 10 euros in a taxi)
Owners are very freindly and helpful, grounds are quite pleasant on a summers evening, and they have secure parking.
the room was pleasantly appointed, the location was good and the staff were welcoming. it was quiet and generally good value.
This is a great hotel. We are pleased to have found it. Very French in style, welcoming and comfortable. Lovely breakfast and safe parking. Nothing to fault here.
The hotel is in a convenient location and is easy to find. It has its own secure parking facilities and is within walking distance of a resteraunt and shops. There is minimal service, the room was pooly designed on a noisy road with no air conditioning and only one window which opened onto the noisy road. Breakfast was minimal and subject to an extra charge.
Very clean and friendly
My stay was for i night on my way to Anger's I the hotel was very comfortable and the gardens looked lovely and relaxing, hotel very easy to find and I would recommend it to family and friends if they were visiting the area.
The friendliness and helpfulness of Madame was exemplorary. We enjoyed our stay very much and wished it had been longer.
Very quiet environment: I could sleep very well. Comfortable room with bed with several soft pillows. Friendly staff. Free wireless internet connection. No proper room heating: cold by day and even colder by night. Only French tv channels. In my room the bathtub was embedded under an inclined ceiling: no way to stand to take a shower... Breakfast is a bit poor.
The location was convenient as we traveled through the Loire Valley. Price was one of the most reasonable for a clean place to stay. Hosts were very nice. Not that it matters but the rooms were stripped down. An old building could have had great decor to make it more inviting.
Basic travellers hotel,. You get what you expect, clean and comfortable Reception was closed between 12.30 and 5.30
The staff were very good and very accomodating as I arrived very late they phoned to say they had left my room unlocked and to let me know the room number.It is also in an area where there are few reasonably priced hotels so it was good to find a reasonable one My room was very clean but the bathroom was nevertheless still a bit smelly .I found the website not particularly helpful


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That is about it. No details.
LOL and no link.
here lemme help you...
Panthers agreed to terms with third-round WR/KR Armanti Edwards on a four-year, $2.5 million contract.
and I think they should put this in the signings thread since he has already been drafted.
nevermind your too late bra.
Posted July 9, 2010
Did you just call him underwear?
LOL-heard it on radio so didn't have a link for lazy asses who need pics. --and should have posted it elsewhere. No need to be a richard about it, or is that your thing, bra?
I was trying to help ya man. You don't need to get your panties in a wad.
Way to go Salty, you done pissed off teh noob...
...and MHS, you should include a link when you post news like that, its just the way things are...
Posted July 10, 2010
Radio link? Sorry Saltman, I guess I don't know your style yet.
I'm mystified by the 4-year multi-million dollar deal. He's has zero minutes pro game time, was a 3rd round draft pick, is transitioning to a position he hasn't played in years...
Were not even into training camp yet. How can they know he's worth this?
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Kummer varieties can be seen as a higher dimensional generalisation of
the $x$-coordinate representation of a point of an elliptic curve
given by its Weierstrass model. Although there is no group law on the
set of points of a Kummer variety, there remains enough arithmetic
to enable the computation of exponentiations via a
Montgomery ladder based on differential additions.
In this paper, we explain that the arithmetic of a Kummer variety
is much richer than
usually thought. We describe a set of composition laws
which exhaust this arithmetic and show that these
laws may turn out to be useful in order to improve certain
algorithms. We explain how to compute efficiently these laws in the model of
Kummer varieties provided by level $2$ theta functions. We also
explain how to recover the full group law of the abelian variety
with a representation almost as compact and in many cases as efficient as
the level $2$ theta functions model of Kummer varieties.
k-SIS problem. The Boneh-Freeman reduction from SIS to k-SIS suffers from an exponential loss in k. We improve and extend it to an LWE to k-LWE reduction with a polynomial loss in k, by relying on a new technique involving trapdoors for random integer kernel lattices. Based on this hardness result, we present the first algebraic construction of a traitor tracing scheme whose security relies on the worst-case hardness of standard lattice problems. The proposed LWE traitor tracing is almost as efficient as the LWE encryption. Further, it achieves public traceability, i.e., allows the authority to delegate the tracing capability to untrusted parties. To this aim, we introduce the notion of projective sampling family in which each sampling function is keyed and, with a projection of the key on a well chosen space, one can simulate the sampling function in a computationally indistinguishable way. The construction of a projective sampling family from k-LWE allows us to achieve public traceability, by publishing the projected keys of the users. We believe that the new lattice tools and the projective sampling
family are quite general that they may have applications in other areas.
worst-case complexity of approximating the Shortest Vector Problem in ideal lattices within polynomial
factors. The distinguishing feature of our scheme is that it achieves short signatures (consisting of a
single lattice vector), and relatively short public keys (consisting of O(log n) vectors.) Previous lattice
schemes in the standard model with similarly short signatures, due to Boyen (PKC 2010) and Micciancio
and Peikert (Eurocrypt 2012), had substantially longer public keys consisting of Ω(n) vectors (even when
implemented with ideal lattices). We also present a variant of our scheme that further reduces the public
key size to just O(log log n) vectors and allows for a tighther security proof by making the signer stateful.
and Patey proposed two biometric authentication schemes between
a prover and a verifier where the verifier has biometric
data of the users in plain form. The protocols are based on secure
computation of Hamming distance in the two-party setting. Their
first scheme uses Oblivious Transfer (OT) and provides security
in the semi-honest model. The other scheme uses Committed
Oblivious Transfer (COT) and is claimed to provide full security
in the malicious case.
In this paper, we show that their protocol against malicious
adversaries is not actually secure. We propose a generic attack
where the Hamming distance can be minimized without knowledge
of the real input of the user. Namely, any attacker can
impersonate any legitimate user without prior knowledge. We
propose an enhanced version of their protocol where this attack
is eliminated. We provide a simulation based proof of the security
of our modified protocol. In addition, for efficiency concerns, the
modified version also utilizes Verifiable Oblivious Transfer (VOT)
instead of COT. The use of VOT does not reduce the security of
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Lil Wayne took a step closer to becoming a true rock star by performing alongside Kid Rock during the Country Music Awards in Nashville last night (11/12).
Birdman Jr. assisted Rock in performing his song "All Summer Long." But rather than rap as he did with Rock at this year's MTV Video Music Awards, Wayne, sporting a Tennessee Titans football jersey, played the background as he strummed his guitar. Reports say Weezy wasn't actually playing, but mimicking as Rock's actual guitarist played the tune.
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Elwood Pass & Kerr Lake run...
Saturday June 25th Club members met at the Junction Restaurant in Pagosa Springs for a run up Elwood Pass. Trail runners included leader Glen Hood (club VP), Randal & Judy Denny, Don & Linda Dodson, Pat Henkels, Denise & Pat Boggess, Steve, Jen & Nicholas Rumore, Jerry McGeorge (me, club President), Dan Pickett and Glen's friend Jeff. Steve & Jen brought out their new Hummer H1, which was very capable on this trail.
We had a feeling we'd be the first up the trail and that proved to be correct. After getting Pat's rig off the trailer on East Fork road, we aired down and headed towards the Elwood Pass trailhead. After the first of several major water crossings, Glen took us on a detour, and another great water crossing, up to the old Black Diamond mine site, where we had a quick lunch break. After lunch Steve, Jen & Nicholas had to head home. Meanwhile, the rest of us we pressed on and team-winched the first of seven tree falls we encountered blocking the trail. After the first tree was cleared we headed down the side road from the mine to the main Elwood Pass trail. At the next water crossing we got time for some pictures. Along the way we picked up another Jeeper, Mike Kelley of Pagosa Springs who we invited to come along with us. Mike had a super time learning what his new Rubicon could do. (Mike later sent Glen a nice thank you card, and a very generous donation to the Creeper Jeepers.)
We proceeded on in anticipation of the trail becoming snow-bound and we weren't to be disappointed. I took over "lead dog" duties at the second snow blockage, and with "Glen the super-spotter", busted through about 10 more before the day was done. All this fun was interspersed with six more tree-fall clearings, numerous winch-fests and strap-jerks to get everyone through the snow. Dan Picket had gone over Wolf Creek Pass and took the Summitville Road to the Elwood Pass turnoff. He met us on his ATV at the last (and worst) snow pile of the day, and got a great picture of me getting high centered.
With everyone safely on top, Glen led us down the road and up the short run to Kerr Lake. We found a fabulous camping spot at around 7:30, whereupon it became a scramble to get camp set up before sunset. Everyone got settled, ate & turned in after a fun but exhausting day. Rainfall off & on all night just made things that much more "campy". (The bugs loved us, too.)
Next morning Glen, Pat Boggess and others tried some fishing but the cold wind put a damper on things. The rest of us got breakfast going (or, in my case, murdered numerous pieces of bacon & three eggs which I ate anyway.) All packed up we stopped for a group shot at Kerr Lake, before heading down to the old town of Platoro to check out the Skyline Lodge and look for fuel. Pat & Denise decided to head on home at that point. With no gas to be had in Platoro, Glen, Pat H. and me headed down to Rocky Mountain Estates, 13 miles south of Platoro, gassed up and met everyone back at the Platoro Reservoir turnoff, where we headed on to Elwood Pass for the return trip. Naturally, the trip down was a lot easier than the way up. We had fun with the water crossings again and late in the afternoon finished the day off with a hike up to Silver Falls before we all broke for home.
Next year,
let's camp for two days at least! -Jerry McGeorge
Pass Campout...
Next morning we broke up camp by 10:30 am and headed to the little town of Platoro, & I mean little, to get gas. Well, this little town didn't have any gas. So 4 of us had to go 13 miles down the Conejo River to get enough gas to get back home. It was a nice drive down and back up a beautiful valley for about an hour. We met up with the rest of the group except for Pat & Denise Boggess and Dan Pickett decided to go back via the highway. We decided to go back down Elwood this time, we had never gone down Elwood before so we thought it was a good idea, thanks for the suggestion Don. It only took us 2 hours to go back down but we stopped near the bottom to play in a water crossing and then a short hike to check out Silver Falls.All in all I think everyone had a wonderful 2 days, & as always it was beautiful! Thank you all, Don & Linda Dodson, Randall & Judy Denny, Pat & Denise Boggess, Jerry McGeorge, Pat Henkels, Jerry & Dick Kelley, the guy in the Rubicon, for all the help with the trees and the snow drifts. -Glen Hood
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Xoom, Motorola
At the Consumer Electronic Show in January, it looked like the technology manufacturers of the world were ready to steamroll Apple with a plethora of new tablet PCs. The iPad no longer would have the market to itself, and machines like Motorola's (NYSE:MMI) Xoom — with its brand-new Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) mobile OS, called Honeycomb and made specifically for tablets — would lead the charge. At least, that's what the press said.
The Motorola Xoom hit stores in late February and barely was noticed by consumers, despite a massive advertising campaign. Global Equities analyst Trip Chowdry said in April that Motorola manufactured between 500,000 and 800,000 Xooms this year and sold between 5% and 15% of that stockpile. At best, Motorola sold just 120,000 Xooms. At worst, it sold 25,000. Meanwhile, Apple sold more than 9 million iPads in the second quarter.
There is no tablet market. Just an iPad market.
Google TV, Google
Television has changed dramatically in recent months. Disney (NYSE:DIS), Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA), News Corp. (NASDAQ:NWS) and CBS (NYSE:CBS) have watched their respective networks — not to mention cable providers like Time Warner (NYSE:TWX) — continue to lose viewers to streaming video services like Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX).
Of course, the Internet hasn't taken over the living room quite yet. It looked like it might last fall when Google released its Google TV software in Logitech's (NASDAQ:LOGI) Revue set-top box and Sony's (NYSE:SNE) Internet Television HD TV sets. No dice. The platform — a search tool that lets people look for TV shows on cable, networks and Web sources simultaneously — was panned by critics for being unusable. Those aforementioned networks also moved quickly to block Google TV from accessing their websites, forcing users to watch shows through traditional means.
Sales of Google TV ready devices have been abysmal. How abysmal? A Thursday report at TIMN, reprinting an official statement from Logitech, said returns of the Revue Google TV set-top box actually have outpaced sales. The price of the device has dropped from $250 to $99.
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Defending champion Woods lost 3&1 to Australia's Nick O'Hern, while world number one Singh went out 3&2 to 51-year-old US veteran Jay Haas.
England's Westwood was beaten 7&6 by Davis Love and Ireland's Harrington was a 3&1 loser to Rory Sabbatini.
But England's Ian Poulter and Luke Donald both reached the last 16.
Woods, the 2003 and 2004 champion, had a chance to regain his top spot in the world rankings but he needed to finish significantly higher than Fiji's Singh.
"Nick made all the makeable putts he had and I didn't make any. That's the difference between winning and losing," said the 29-year-old Woods.
"He's very solid, very consistent, he's got an amazing short game and doesn't make many mistakes."
O'Hern insisted he had tried to stick to his own game:
"I knew I was playing well. Matchplay is a whole different ball game," said the 33-year-old Australian, who went two-up by the third and was never less than one hole ahead.
"I knew I would be playing my second shots first so that was a chance to put some pressure on Tiger."
In other matches, world number four Phil Mickelson beat Argentina's Angel Cabrera 4&3 and Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell lost by one hole to Australian Robert Allenby.
Another British loser was English Ryder Cup star David Howell, who went down 2&1 to Australia's Adam Scott.
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Caramelised Red Onion & Pine Nut Tart
Recipe by JustJanS
A nice easy tart, suitable for a light lunch.
Top Review by French Tart
I am SOOOO surprised that this has only been made ONCE before in 8 years! This is JUST the kind of food I love............simple ingredients that are allowed to shine individually, we BOTH loved this Jan. I made a FEW small changes, to allow for less fat, even though it is good fat, I used spray olive oil in between the filo layers and also used 15% reduced fat liquid creme fraiche. Other than that, this was made as posted and was just brilliant. We ate this as part of a meze style lunch with dips and salads, and still have half left for tomorrow. Made for Make my Recipe in the Oz/Kiwi forum and the Under Cover event in the Photo's Forum, and a keeper for me thanks Jan! Karen :-)
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 40 ml olive oil
- 30 g butter
- 3 red onions, peeled, halved, thinly sliced
- 60 ml red wine vinegar
- 60 g brown sugar
- 4 eggs
- 375 ml heavy cream
- 1 pinch salt
- 4 sheets phyllo pastry
- 60 g toasted pine nuts
Directions See How It's Made
- Lightly brush a 19cm slab pan with a little of the olive oil.
- Preheat your oven to 180°C.
- Melt the butter in a frying pan over a medium to high heat.
- Add the onions and cook stirring for 10 minutes or until soft.
- Add the vinegar and sugar and stir to combine.
- Cook stirring occasionally for 8-10 minutes or until the liquid evaporates, and onions caramelise.
- Set aside to cool slightly for about 5 minutes.
- Whisk together the eggs, cream and the salt.
- Place the phyllo pastry on a clean surface, and-working very quickly- brush each sheet with a little olive oil and fold in half crossways.
- Place phyllo crossways in pan to line base and 2 opposite sides.
- Repeat with the remaining 3 sheets until all of the base and sides are covered.
- Spread onions over pastry, then the cream mixture, then sprinkle with the nuts.
- Bake the tart, covered with foil in the preheated oven for 15 minutes, then uncover and bake for a further 15 minutes or until set.
- Leave to cool for 10 minutes in the pan before cutting into 4 pieces to serve.
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A350 XWB Shaping Efficiency magazine
Take a behind-the-scenes look at the technologies, processes and people of Airbus' next-generation widebody jetliner with the "A350 XWB Shaping Efficiency" interactive magazine. This e-publication, launched in 2013, includes exclusive video content, insightful news articles, dramatic imagery and more.
To be notified by e-mail when a new edition of "A350 XWB Shaping Efficiency" is available, simply register on the Airbus website's Subscription page. Tablet users can also review the magazine using a dedicated app that is available on iTunes and the Google Play store.
#01 Bringing a Vision to Life
The Airbus A350 XWB – Xtra-Wide Body – will soon make its historic maiden voyage.
Starting with this edition and continuing up to and after the A350 XWB's first flight, Airbus will bring you an all-access backstage pass on the development, assembly and flight tests for this truly revolutionary aircraft.
In this edition:
Meet the two test flight pilots and the aircraft manager of the first flight crew. In the second edition, you'll meet the other three members of the first flight crew
Visit the A350 XWB flight simulators and ground test facilities.
Discover what makes the three A350 XWB models different from each other and from the competition.
So come along as Airbus takes you for the ride of a lifetime on this revolutionary aircraft.
#02 Warming up for First Flight
The first flight of the Airbus A350 XWB – Xtra-Wide Body –– is closer and closer to happening.
In this second edition of the A350 XWB magazine, we continue to bring you all the latest news on the development, assembly and testing of this truly revolutionary aircraft.
In this edition:
The international team of flight test engineers as they test themselves and the aircraft.
The 'torture tests' one unlucky aircraft is subjected to.
What makes carbon-fibre materials so useful in aviation.
How the latest in engine technology reduces the A350 XWB's environmental impact.
The latest milestones in the development of this aircraft.
Now strap in as Airbus takes you on the ride of a lifetime.
#03 "The Time is Here: The Time to Fly"
Issue #03 is all about the excitement of the big day: 14 June, the day MSN001 made the maiden voyage of the A350 XWB programme.
We have coverage of the event at every step: from the first flight crew preparation, the briefing and boarding, the take-off, the flight, the landing, to the crew's debrief to the media.
In this third edition of the A350 XWB magazine, we continue to bring you all the latest news on the development, assembly and testing of this truly revolutionary aircraft.
In this edition:
The first flight crew preparation.
The briefing and boarding.
The take off.
The flight.
The landing.
So let us take you behind the scenes with exclusive video contents: be with the crew as they settle in onboard the aircraft, join the telemetry office as they monitor the four-hour flight, and much more...
#04 Flight test Campaign : Full speed ahead!
Ever since MSN001 made its maiden voyage in June, the flight test department has been busy, not just with that aircraft but also MSN003, the second A350 XWB to fly.
In Issue #4 we give you an insight into the flight test campaign and the department in charge. We'll take you inside the home of the flight test department – the building nicknamed the 'Abreuvoir' – to meet the pilots, flight test engineers, test equipment teams, mechanics, and other people who work there. We also have exclusive video coverage of two critical tests: VMU and Flutter.
So join us and learn how the 'Abreuvoir' got its name, why MSN003 is the second test aircraft, and how and why the VMU and Flutter tests are performed.
In this edition:
A350 XWB MSN003 : Meet the First Flight test crew
Now there are two: MSN003 takes its first flight
En route for Certification
L'abreuvoir : A strange name for a Very important Building
#05 Time to leave Home : A350 XWB goes global
In the months between its initial flight in October and the end of 2013, MSN003 continued to accumulate flight test hours. And during that time, all of its flights began and ended at its home in Toulouse, France. But that's all changed in the first few weeks of 2014.
In this edition:
Follow MSN003 and its crew to the heights of Bolivia and the cold of wintertime Canada
Visit the Home of the A350 XWB Launch Customer
The A350 XWB Makes a Sparkling Debut at the Singapore Airshow
Visit MSN5000, the non-flying test specimen, as it undergoes the ultimate in 'torture tests.'
#06 What a Year It's Been – And There's Still More to Come
A little more than a year ago, MSN001 made the very first flight in the A350 XWB programme. Since then, the programme has achieved many milestones on its way to certification.
In this edition:
Discover MSN002, the first cabin-equipped test aircraft.
Follow the Certification activities: Water ingestion tests , hot and cold weather tests at the McKinley Climactic Laboratory in Florida; and hot weather tests in the United Arab Emirates.
Early Long Flights : the first two passengers-carrying flights with Airbus employees.
#07 Certifiably Excellent
In just over 14 months Airbus executed one of the toughest, most intense test programmes ever developed and it was rewarded for its efforts when, on 30 September, the A350-900 received EASA Type Certification, paving the way for commercial launch with Qatar Airways.
In this edition:
"Certified ! The A350 XWB is now formally cleared for take-off"
"Aircraft certification for beginners: the What, How and Why"
Join our video teams as they follow MSN005 on its round-the world Route Proving Trips.
Be sure to check out the impressive test fleet formation flight featuring all five A350 XWB test aircraft.
Tablets owners can also download our all-new A350 XWB Magazine on the AppStore or on GooglePlay.


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Order No. 2508, as amended (14 F. R. 258; 16 F. R. 473, 11620, 11974; 17 F. R. 1570, 6418; 19 F. R. 34), is further amended by the addition of a new section, numbered 23 and reading as follows:
Negotiated contracts. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs is authorized to exercise the authority delegated to the Secretary of the Interior by the Administrator of General Services with respect to the negotiation, without advertising, of:
(a) Contracts, under section 302 (c) (9) of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (63 Stat. 377), as amended, for social and welfare services required to carry out program responsibilities of the Bureau, subject to the conditions imposed by the Administrator of General Services in the delegation of authority (18 F. R. 8738); and
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Eduardo Guzman, 24
Inmate Erroneously Released From Santa Barbara County Jail Facility
Santa Barbara- January 24th, 2014
The Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office is requesting the public's assistance to help locate an inmate who was erroneously released from the Santa Barbara County Jail this morning, January 24. Shortly after 6 a.m., 24 year old Eduardo Guzman Gonzalez was released from jail due to procedural errors.
Gonzalez was booked on a domestic violence charge and was ineligible for release due to a probation violation hold and immigration detainer. Once the erroneous release was identified, the Sheriff's Office notified local law enforcement agencies and immediately conducted an investigation in an attempt to locate Gonzalez. The Sheriff's Office has not been able to find him and a warrant has been issued for his arrest.
Gonzalez has ties to the Isla Vista and Santa Barbara areas. If you see him, you are asked to not make contact with him, but call 9-1-1 immediately. To leave an anonymous tip, call 805-681-4171.
A thorough review of our internal policy is underway to ensure similar events do not occur again.
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Freeh report faults Paterno, Spanier, Penn State leaders for failing to protect children
Penn State University administrators allowed a culture of cover-up, feared taking on the football program and failed to put safety first, investigators say.
"The most saddening finding by the special investigative counsel is the total and consistent disregard by the most senior leaders at Penn State for the safety and welfare of (Jerry) Sandusky's child victims," investigators for former FBI Director Louis Freeh wrote in their much-anticipated report into how the university handled the child-sex scandal.
The report released on Thursday found four leaders in particular — the late football coach Joe Paterno, former President Graham Spanier, athletic director Tim Curley and former Vice President Gary Schultz — failed for more than a decade to protect children from Sandusky, the assistant football coach whom a jury convicted last month of abusing 10 boys over 15 years, often in Penn State facilities.
Freeh also criticized university trustees, saying they failed to control the institution and ask adequate questions once they learned of a state investigation into Sandusky.
Leaders appeared to fear "bad publicity," which in effect meant full disclosure and openness, Freeh said. He pointed to a culture of fear within the institution, underscoring statements by locker-room janitors who said they feared reporting Sandusky's behavior more than a decade ago.
"They said, 'We can't report this because we'll get fired,' " Freeh said. "They knew who Sandusky was. ... They were afraid to take on the football program. They said the university would circle around it. It was like going against the president of the United States.
"If that's the culture at the bottom, then God help the culture at the top."
Spanier, who remains a tenured professor at Penn State, denied he engaged in any "active concealment."
"Not only did Dr. Spanier never conceal anything from law enforcement authorities, but prior to 2011, he was never contacted by law enforcement officials, or any other officials, about any criminal activities now attributed to Sandusky," his lawyers wrote. "And as he told Judge Freeh himself last Friday and has steadfastly maintained, at no time in his 16 years as president of Penn State was Dr. Spanier told of any incident involving Jerry Sandusky that described child abuse, sexual misconduct or criminality of any nature."
Relatives of Paterno, who was ousted by trustees in November and died in January, released a six-paragraph statement saying they were reviewing the Freeh report.
"The idea that any sane, responsible adult would knowingly cover up for a child predator is impossible to accept," their statement read. "The far more realistic conclusion is that many people didn't fully understand what was happening and underestimated or misinterpreted events. Sandusky was a great deceiver."
Other reaction came swiftly from Nike Inc., whose founder, Phil Knight, defended Paterno at a memorial service last year. The company CEO said he decided to change the name of the Joe Paterno Child Development Center at Nike headquarters in Beaverton, Ore.
"It is a terrible tragedy that children were unprotected from such abhorrent crimes," said CEO Mark Parker. Knight recast his own tone on Paterno, saying, "It appears Joe made missteps that led to heartbreaking consequences."
Penn State's trustees said they accept responsibility for failures of accountability but that no members of the board would step down in the wake of Freeh's report.
"Let me be perfectly clear: An event like this can never happen again" at Penn State, said trustee Kenneth Frazier, who chaired an investigative task force for the board.
Leaders failed to put the welfare of children first, he said, specifically naming Paterno, Spanier, Curley and Schultz.
The "61 years of excellence that Joe (Paterno) gave to the university is now marred," said board Chairwoman Karen Peetz.
Curley and Schultz are awaiting trial on charges of perjury and failure to report. Curley's attorney, Caroline Roberto, called the report "lopsided," saying the Freeh group lacked subpoena power and didn't interview key witnesses.
Schultz attorney Tom Farrell said a trial will show "there were no efforts between and among Messrs. Schultz, Curley, Paterno and Spanier to conceal Mr. Sandusky's behavior."
No attempt to investigate
Sandusky, 68, awaits sentencing. A Centre County jury found him guilty on 45 of 48 counts last month.
Perhaps the most notorious incident was reported in early 2001, when then-graduate assistant Mike McQueary told university leaders he saw Sandusky assaulting a boy in a campus shower. Listed only as "Victim 2," he has not been identified by investigators.
At the university, there was no "attempt to investigate, to identify 'Victim 2' or to protect that child or any others from similar conduct except as related to preventing its recurrence on university property," the Freeh report states.
Freeh found Paterno, Spanier, Curley and Schultz concealed Sandusky's activities not only from the community and authorities, but also from the university board.
The trustees, however, "did not create an atmosphere where the president and senior officers felt they were accountable to the board," Freeh said in a Philadelphia news conference. Trustees reported that their meetings felt scripted or that they were "rubber-stamping" decisions by Spanier and a few select board members, according to the report.
More broadly, Freeh said Penn State failed to implement provisions of the Clery Act, a federal law that requires federally supported universities to report serious crimes.
"Indeed, on the day Sandusky was arrested (in November), Penn State's Clery Act implementation plan was still in draft form," he said.
Changes suggested
The findings are among dozens in the 267-page report ordered by university trustees and priced at $6.5 million.
In conjunction with the report, Freeh released 119 recommendations for Penn State. One is "for Penn State itself to study, evaluate and make any needed additional changes," he said.
"The goal should be to create a more open and compliant culture which protects children and not adults who abuse them," Freeh said. He said the university has made strides toward Clery Act compliance and begun a search for a qualified chief compliance officer.
Penn State needs a stringent compliance program, including board oversight through a committee, Freeh said.
Peetz said Penn State has begun to bolster accountability in risk management, audits, compliance, governance and human resources. Trustees will vote on Friday on several new governance issues.
Among the report's other highlights:
• Spanier, Schultz, Paterno and Curley allowed Sandusky to retire in 1999 as a member of the Penn State football legacy, with ways "to continue to work with young people through Penn State." That granted Sandusky license to bring boys into campus facilities for grooming as targets for his assaults, according to the report. Sandusky retained unlimited access to university facilities until November 2011.
• Schultz learned in 1998 of an on-campus shower incident involving Sandusky and an 11-year-old, then told Spanier and Curley. Schultz's confidential notes from May 4, 1998, read in part: "Behavior — at best inappropriate @ worst sexual improprieties" and "At min — Poor Judgment." Schultz also noted: "Is this opening of pandora's box?" and "Other children?"
• A culture of reverence for the football program is ingrained at all levels of the campus community. "There is an over-emphasis on 'the Penn State way' as an approach to decision-making, a resistance to seeking out perspectives and an excessive focus on athletics" that can inhibit the university's standing as a progressive institution, the report reads.
• Curley met in March 2001 with the executive director of The Second Mile, the youth-service charity Sandusky founded in the late 1970s. Curley told the nonprofit executive of a shower incident on campus the previous month but said he had concluded, after speaking with Sandusky, that nothing inappropriate happened. Curley advised Sandusky not to bring children to Penn State facilities because of the potential for "bad publicity," according to the report.
$100 million in liability
Freeh's firm, hired by trustees in November, interviewed more than 430 people, including current and former employees, trustees, coaches and other residents.
Trustees vowed to give the group full independence and investigators kept their findings from all parties — including Penn State leaders — until this week, according to the Freeh group.
Private attorneys representing Sandusky's victims said they would look to the report for evidence that could support civil claims against Penn State. The university will probably have to pay out more than $100 million to resolve such claims out of court, Chicago securities attorney Andrew Stoltmann said.
"The risks for Penn State in going through discovery and leaving a decision in the hands of a jury could be cataclysmic to the university," Stoltmann said.
Officials with the state Attorney General's Office and the U.S. Attorney's Office are expected to have a keen interest in the report. Those agencies are running separate investigations involving Sandusky and Penn State.
The Freeh group gave the Attorney General's Office email messages among Spanier, Curley and Schultz. Freeh pledged to share with prosecutors any evidence relevant to their work.
"The Freeh Report should prove helpful to decision-makers, the Penn State community and the public at large in understanding how this disturbing situation developed, as well as how to prevent it from being repeated in the future," state Attorney General Linda Kelly said. She said the report "will not hinder the continuing work of our statewide investigating grand jury (or) ongoing criminal prosecutions."
Adam Smeltz and Debra Erdley are staff writers for Trib Total Media. Smeltz can be reached at 412-380-5676 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Erdley can be reached at 412-320-7996 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Staff writers Scott Brown and Brad Bumsted and The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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'True Blood' Season 5: Two More Preview Clips from the Premiere!
You thought you were free of the relentless barrage of "True Blood" marketing, didn't you? There's just one more week left until the "True Blood" premiere, so HBO is getting even more aggressive with their campaign than they have been thus far, releasing preview clips seemingly every day.
Just a few days ago, we uncovered a clip released through "Entertainment Tonight" that featured Sookie and Alcide. As it turns out, that was one of a group of three clips that HBO was planning on releasing over the weekend. That means that there are two more clips, which you can see right here!
The first clip has Bill calling Jessica and telling her that he's going to have to skip town for a bit... all while Eric is busy cleaning up the remnants of a corpse in the background in super-speed. Vampires make pretty efficient housekeepers, as it turns out.
The other clip checks in with Terry and Arlene, who have a quick conversation with Terry's old military buddy Patrick. Arlene mentions the fire that wrecked their house, which seems to put Patrick in a bit of a mood. Does he know something that they don't?
I know, I know, there have been a lot of "True Blood" clips lately. With these two clips, and all the rest of them, it's a wonder we haven't seen the entire first episode already. And f this year is anything like last year, HBO may be releasing a big chunk of the beginning of the season premiere, so we might get to see even more in the coming week. But if they keep putting them out and you guys keep watching them, I'll keep posting them. Deal? Deal.
Check out the two newest "True Blood" season 5 preview clips below:
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Jane and Gary Schloss of Philadelphia announce the engagement of their daughter, Jenna Michelle, to Matthew Daniel Swern, son of Doriann and Jack Swern of Mount Laurel, N.J.
Jenna and Matt met at Rutgers University in New Bruns-wick, N.J. Jenna graduated with a dual major in communications and sociology. Matt earned a degree in information technology.
Jenna is employed by the Burlington Coat Factory and works in their corporate offices. Matt is a project manager for GoldTeir Technology.
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Adam's away from the drawing board for now and I'll be traveling this week (New Jersey, represent!), so things will be a bit odder than normal.
Which is a scary thought all by itself.
Adam's away from the drawing board for now and I'll be traveling this week (New Jersey, represent!), so things will be a bit odder than normal.
Which is a scary thought all by itself.
Um… well… Save Hiatus is kinda, um… going on, you know… hiatus. Again.
Due to the intrusion of real life, Adam and I need to change our focus on our activities (i.e. for various reasons, we both need to do more stuff what makes us money) and will have to step away from the strip for a while. The site will stay up and I hope we can keep something going here because it's way too much fun to let die, but for right now it'll be quiet around the apartment.
Thanks for your support, and hope to see you soon.
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Sonny Rhodes, our favorite Firefly theme song blues musician, is in need of a hand up. He is a very proud man, but circumstances related to medical conditions are preventing him from working, and he's trying to keep a roof over his head.
Sonny's wife Ann called me with these details and hoped the Browncoats could help. Sonny hasn't performed since October 2008, except for once or twice against his doctor's wishes when he had to keep the power from being shut off and pay rent, and doing that made his condition worse. He just had an emergency hernia operation and needs to have two hip operations as soon as possible. Ann said he'll likely be out of work for a few more months and, besides being in a lot of pain, is naturally quite worried about paying medical and rent bills. Sonny has vowed to be there for the Browncoats in the future and would appreciate any financial assistance that may be possible via the PayPal Donate link on his MySpace page.
If you can do anything, please consider it. Adam met him on the last Browncoats Cruise and couldn't stop talking about his skill and charm.
The donate link is through PayPal, but you don't have to have a PayPal account to use it; you can use your credit card if you'd rather.
ParSec snapped to attention. "Welcome aboard, Captain!"
"Thanks," the man said. "Sign here, please." He thrust a small pad at her and stood waiting. ParSec looked at Chavez, who shrugged. She signed the pad.
"Great, hang on." He folded himself back through the hatch, in stages, and then backed out again while dragging a large box. The box had a frosted front and blinking lights. Blinking lights on a coffin-sized box, in Hy's personal experience, were never good. "There you go," the man said, slapping his hands together. The box had tiny wheels on it; it continued to roll a few more inches after he set it down. "You have a good day, now." And he swung the hatch closed behind himself. Within seconds an engine fired up and the floor shook as the delivery ship disengaged and fell away.
Chavez was already bent over the box. "It must be cheaper to order frozen captains," he said. "Maybe they buy them in bulk." Read the rest of this entry »
Traditionally, a "town" is either a small city or a really big village, or even a settlement with delusions of grandeur. Streets mark where the cow paths to the water used to be, or where people did most of their walking in the areas left to them after the richer citizens marked off the bits they wanted. Towns often have a central location where residents gather to picnic or to celebrate or to pass out the torches and the hastily painted signs that say, more or less, "Down with the Richer Citizens." Businesses radiate outward from there, leading to urban areas filled with determinately industrial industry and violent crime and to suburban areas filled with peaceful neighbors and friendly, domestic crime. Farther out you get small fiefdoms, often ending in "Hills" or "Estates" despite the absence of either, with strong identities and clearly designated perimeters where everyone knows everyone and, more importantly, knows who doesn't belong. And at the outer ring of the town will be the rural spots where crops are grown, livestock is stocked, and folks can find a place to call home where the hustle and bustle of the town can't be bothered to visit.
Venture was both a ship and a town, and like most combo devices it wasn't a very good either. As a ship it lacked maneuverability and possessed what attacking forces, were they any, might call a "target surplus." And as a town… as a town it made a great ship. Read the rest of this entry »
"Right, right. Thanks, Katy," Hy said, sitting up and coincidentally dumping her bedclothes from over her head over on top of the other pile, which squeaked in protest. "This isn't over," she warned the pile. It giggled. Hy lurched to her feet and shook her head. C'mon, Alistair, what you gonna do when emergencies hit and worried townsfolk wake you in the middle of the night, hats in hand? Get used to getting up at oh-christ-hundred, you signed up for this.
She grabbed a tunic at random, thought about possible media coverage of the experiment, and put it back to select another with a careful eye towards fit, style, and recent cleansing. Hy dressed quickly, trying not to look at the empty spot on the bed where Arcus was now rolling about to create a giant Arcus-filled blanket tortilla. Her husband Ambrose was already hard at work somewhere. Sewage management waited for no man or mayor, apparently. Hy sighed, trying not to feel hurt that he was paying more attention to human effluvia than he was to her. Everyone in the town was hustling to get the bugs out of their systems while diasters were still easily contained, and making their byproducts swiftly and smoothly wend through the mysterious processes that turned crap into vegetables was, at the moment, much more important than spending time with her. Dammit.
Besides, soon she'd be leaving him behind to deal with slightly different human byproducts. She thought about Ambrose crawling through the sewer mains and smiled to herself. Their jobs weren't that dissimilar, actually. She just turned crap into government. Read the rest of this entry »
The crowd stood there, smiling softly, watching. She was down to her hands and knees now, hands bloody from pulling, and they just watched. Lovingly, they just watched. Some of them even started to join hands and sing, swaying back and forth and beaming at each other over the wonderfulness of it all. She screamed as she felt herself slipping into the cold, dark ground with a wave of grass sweeping up to close over her head, and the last thing she saw was her husband kissing the top of their daughter's head as they both calmly watched her die–
"Eeeeyaaaaooouugh!" she yelled, sitting up hard enough to wrench her back. Hy Alistair, mayor of the newly-formed and completely airborne town of Venture, waited a full minute to compose herself and let her heart rate drop back down until it was merely tachycardia. She was in her dark, stark bedroom, full of metal and plastic and shiny fake wood, with no window anywhere and only a single small picture frame displaying a sunny sky on an otherwise featureless wall. The bed itself, with a small table to either side, was the only thing suggesting "bedroom" in the first place; otherwise a casual observer might have guessed "storeroom" or "shipping container" or "closed-off end of an abandoned corridor." Not what you would expect to see in a picturesque town that had heretofore only appeared in her dreams. She closed her eyes and let herself dwell on that fantasy town. Damn appealing, even with the scary grass monster which probably represented her deeply suppressed fears of leadership or failure or…
At the end of the bed her daughter Arcus was still pulling at her foot and giggling.
—Or her fear of being convicted of a capital crime. Venture had laws against murdering eight-year-olds, right? She was certain she had seen that in the bylaws somewhere. Read the rest of this entry »
The greenest, most picture perfect meadow imaginable stretched out before her beneath an endless blue sky. She ached to just run through the layers of sweetgrass and clover and wildflowers, rolling on them and breathing in the sweet fragrance, but that would have to wait. Her people were coming.
Instead, she eased off her shoes without looking down and let the ground caress her bare feet as a promissory note for later. Maybe she could come back and roll naked on the clover, would that be too scandalous? More to the point, did she care? Thousands of tiny leaves tickling her skin… Maybe later, in the moonlight, when the grass was even cooler and no one would see her. Mayors have an image to uphold, after all.
They began arriving then, individually and in family groups. She stepped reluctantly back into her shoes; the first few people noticed and grinned at her for it. She touched their hands as they approached. More people gathered, walking up the hill from the picturesque town below, laughing and holding hands. Children ran and played as they came. Songbirds flew around them to nestle in the trees. Lovers held each other. The meadow quickly filled with people and still they came until finally she looked out over a sea of smiling faces. For one crazy second she thought about jumping up into their arms and rolling over and over on top of their heads, and she chuckled when it occurred to her that they'd probably let her do it. Read the rest of this entry »
Tuckby then began expounding the mathematics behind his discovery of Interim Space, a non-place which exists between the smallest possible division of time. It took more than forty years and thousands of ferrets, but he finally made the breakthrough of firing two concentrated bursts of tachyons to… do something or other, Parvo had no clue, he had zoned out as soon as the Fudd guy started jabbering.
Had there been signs, with Kelly? Some subtle indicators he might have noticed had he not been blinded by love and six-inch-long skirts? She had seemed to favor pony tails a lot, but that could have been a Japanese thing. And she did disappear between 6:30 and 3:30 each day but she had assured him that was the early shift at the pesticide taste-testing facility where she worked but would never let him visit.
Tuckby was now waving his arms like a pissed-off windmill and raving something about time-space and induced causality-suppression and yadda yadda yadda. Her skin was awfully clear. And she did have that habit of waiting outside when he bought booze… No, this was insane, it was one of Buchanon's tricks. Parvo's job was fine, Kelly was waiting for him, he wasn't going to get railroaded into volunteering for some idiotic science project with Dr. Wabbit Season, here. Parvo took a deep breath, squared his shoulders and started listening again.
"–which is why doing so would be the most dangerous thing imaginable, with consequences for our entire solar system, so don't ever, ever do that," Tuckby finished, wild-eyed and breathing heavily. Read the rest of this entry »
Tuckby rushed over to them. "This is the culmination of my life's work! I, Marcus Tuckby, have managed to stop time in its tracks!" He was a gesturer and inveterate arm-waver, never a good sign.
"Uh huh," Parvo said.
"You're right to scoff, sir. Many have trod this road and been waylaid by false paths, spurious reasoning, or the budget cuts of weak-kneed fools! But only I have reached the end of that long and difficult trail to discover the closely-guarded wonders to be found at the end!"
"Can you just dial back the mad scientist thing a little bit, you're flicking drool on my coat."
"Behold!" Without warning Tuckby spun and dashed back to a small table directly underneath the massive device. It was burnished steel, about the size of a footstool, and contained… nothing. There was even a dramatic spotlight aimed at the table, to highlight the nothing. The lab techs and assistants stood around with an eerie, worshipful silence. Buchanon gripped Parvo's arm and dragged him over to look at the nothing. They looked at it for a long moment as Tuckby beamed with pride.
"Well, I'm impressed," Parvo said.
Tuckby stopped in mid-rave to look at the table. "Why? There's nothing there." Abruptly he lowered his arms and looked at Parvo more closely, then smiled in a totally different manner. "I'm so sorry, son, my mistake, are you here for one of the special tours? Admiral Buchanon, is he allowed to have candy," he asked, patting his pockets, "or should I–" Read the rest of this entry »
[Hey, what happened? We backed up!
Yes, yes we did. I'm changing how I post novel excerpts here, for several reasons. I was trying too hard to post entire chapters and skipping over important stuff to do so - everyone who complained about me cutting Parvo's first scene with Dr. Tuckby can stop spam-bombing my e-mail now, I'm putting it back - and I've been told that shorter chunks are easier to read at work, you slackers. Also I can post more frequently this way. So I reworked the previous posts and will continue on from here. We're back in the first chapter. I'll try not to do this again.]
Twenty minutes later Parvo was looking up at the biggest, ugliest chandelier in the world. It didn't help that the crystal and brass monstrosity appeared to have a laser cannon coming out of it, or that the scientist standing under it seemed to be in love with it in a way that was disturbing and possibly against the laws of God and man.
"Isn't it glorious?" he demanded, beaming at it.
It also didn't help that the scientist, whom Buchanon had introduced as Dr. Tuckby, looked exactly like Elmer Fudd. Parvo realized his edginess was partly due to his unconscious expectation that Tuckby was, at any moment, suddenly going to whip out a shotgun bigger than himself and fire wildly into a hole in the ground.
Around him was an assortment of lab techs and research assistants who all seemed very proud of something. Otherwise the room was conspicuously empty in that stark, "must be easy to quickly decontaminate" decor which signalled, to the experienced eye, that this was not a good room to be accidentally locked in, particularly if any sort of countdown was involved.
"Yeah, you're a lucky man, doc," Parvo said. "Can I go home now? I have a federal manhunt to start avoiding…"
Buchanon leaned over and whispered out of the corner of his mouth. "Vince, your only options at this juncture are to nod politely and pretend to understand what's about to change your life and the lives of everyone on this planet forever, or go directly to jail. Now, political advocacy groups, concerned with negative implications regarding personal sexual preferences, forbid me to suggest or insinuate that a very large and smelly someone in that jail might want to make you his very unhappy girlfriend despite your own personal sexual preferences, so I'd appreciate it if you'd choose the first option, thus allowing me to avoid a few angry phone calls and allowing yourself to continue to walk normally. I await your response."
"So," Parvo said brightly, clapping his hands together. "What's it do?"
"Good boy," Buchanon whispered.


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The healthcare.gov website continues to be plagued with problems and experts have begun to worry about the trend that more people are electing medicaid than buying private insurance through the exchanges.
Angela Mattie, an associate professor in the Health Care Management and Organizational Leadership Department in the School of Business at Quinnipiac University, is available to comment.
"Approximately half of Connecticut's newly enrolled in Obamacare's health care insurance programs chose to enroll in Medicaid. ObamaCare provides for Medicaid eligibility expansion as well as health insurance exchanges. The health insurance exchanges, in order to be successful, must have enough young and healthy people in the pool to effectively spread the risk and account for those individuals in the same bucket who require significant health services.
"If the young and healthy are flocking to the Medicaid option there will not be the ability to spread the risk within the exchanges. While the jury is still out on why the Medicaid option is so appealing, theories are: lower costs, better public education, and ease of enrollment."
To schedule an interview with Mattie, please call John Morgan, associate vice president for public relations, at 203-206-4449.
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Alfie is sick at the moment bless him he has had a rough time of it,bless his heart,so both of us are going to cuddle up on the sofa today,
Right enough of my waffle I just want to say sorry to Judie and my team mates at http://crafty-emblies.blogspot.co.uk/ as should have posted this yesterday,so here it is finally today.
Next its time for another challenge over at anything goes,were the theme this month is,ribbons,and buttons,so as long as you have both on your creations you are welcome to join in. We are also saying goodbye to steph this week too,take care Hun its been great to work with you.
So if you would like to play along the link is HERE
Also we too are welcoming new DT members,so welcome to Nikki,Judie,Kerry,Janine and Carol. Great to have you on the team girls,and I look forward to working with you all too.
Just before I go would like to show you these tags I made using,graphic 45 papers,ladies diary.
Thanks for looking guys and for your continued support love hugs Cheryl xxxxxxx


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Price Accentuates Positives As Miners Face No. 4 Oklahoma [VIDEO/OPINION]
It WILL be a big game. The Sun Bowl WILL have a better atmosphere for fun and tailgating. The Miners ARE healthy.
But as the Miners kick off against the Sooners this Saturday night in the Sun Bowl, there was one word you didn't hear from UTEP head coach Mike Price -- "win".


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- Who doesn't like to have dessert? And what about one that is easy to make ahead of time and your family will love?
Ingredients for 8 servings
- 1 can of condensed milk*
- 1 can of evaporated milk**
- 6 eggs
- 1 (8oz) pkg. of cream cheese (optional, see note)***
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla
- 1 cup of sugar
- 2 tablespoons of water
*** I do not always have the cream cheese at home and prepare the recipe just omitting the cheese. The flan still come out delicious.
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One of the reasons for New Hampshire's success in the annual Maple Sugar bowl is size. If you take a look at the Granite State Roster, you'll find a few 300 pounders roaming the lines. Take Lebanon high offensive guard Alexander Morrill, for example. He's listed at 6-2, weighing 300 pounds. He's headed off to UNH in the fall. Morrill is a division 4 all state honoree, has won top lineman awards and was named team MVP his senior season. An invite to the Shrine Game is something Alex doesn't take for granted and doesn't want to be apart of the team falls to Vermont for the first time in 11 years.
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Age: 74
Appearance: authoritative, jovial, grandfatherly; like an actor hired to play a doctor in an ad for private healthcare.
What does he really do? He's a former civil servant, the one-time head of the Lord Chancellor's department, until recently the chairman of the London Library, and an avid letter writer.
Who are his pen friends? Mostly current and former MPs.
So what sort of thing does he write – dense, green-inked rants about speed cameras stealing his identity? No. Sir Thomas was appointed as an independent auditor in charge of reviewing all expenses claims made by MPs from 2004 onward. Yesterday, transgressing members received a letter either requesting more information or asking for repayment.
MPs must certainly welcome his impeccable credentials and thoroughgoing approach. Yes, some of them must. But others are suggesting he has exceeded his brief by declaring improper expense claims that had previously been approved by the fees office.
Still, Gordon Brown must be happy with the job he's doing. Actually the PM accused him of having "retrospectively introduced new rules, so people who were doing everything right may have to pay back", although he has also suggested that MPs do just that – pay back. Brown himself has been told to return £12,415.10, so you can see why he's grumpy.
What does Cameron say Tory MPs should do with their Legg letters? It's understood he means to tell them to "Pay up or get out".
And so they should. Quite. But MPs facing large demands, possibly up to £200,000, may decide they'd rather not, especially if they're stepping down at the next election.
Don't say: "Steady on. Moats don't clean themselves, you know."
Do say: "Right away. Who shall I make it out to?"


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21st Annual Cayuga Lake Wine Trail Wine & Herb Fest/April
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21st ANNUAL WINE & HERB FESTIVAL
April 26-28
Friday, 1:00PM-5:00PM; Saturday and Sunday 10:00AM-6:00PM.
You know SPRING is in the air when it's time to visit the trail for our annual Wine & Herb Festival where you'll receive an herb or veggie plant from each winery plus recipe cards. As you savor herb prepared cuisine and sip our fine wines with your souvenir wine glass, visit Six Mile Creek, Long Point, King Ferry or Montezuma wineries on Friday afternoon only to start your weekend out right.
Participants are eligible to win one of our Grand Prizes from: Corning Museum of Glass, Courtyard by Marriott in Ithaca, Holiday inn in Auburn, LaTourelle Resort & Spa, School's Out Charters, Water to Wine Tours and Watkins Glen International.
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The Cayuga Lake Wine Trail is the first organized and longest running wine trail comprised of 17 members including 17 wineries, a cidery, meadery and four distilleries that has something to offer everyone. Step inside the warmth of family owned and operated boutique wineries and explore the tastes, aromas and sights unique to the Finger Lakes These wineries have won over 5,900 national and international medals and six Governor's Cups to date. A tasteful reason to visit!