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The social costs of cycling are much lower than those of driving but according to a recent Danish study it's not because of reduced pollution or emissions
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Ho hum. Another week, another list of the "world's best cities", this time ranked on bicycle-friendliness. The problem with the fashion for rankings is most times the lists just aren't reliable
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Is there any reason why cycling couldn't be as popular in Sydney or Brisbane as it is in Amsterdam? Is it just a matter of providing infrastructure and supportive regulatory policies?
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The idea promoted on Q&A last night that cyclists need to be physically separated from motorists at all times sounds sensible; but it could be a dangerous idea for urban cycling
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Cycling's usually given a minor role in the future of our cities, but it has two big advantages. One is it's a private mode of transport. The other is it's low cost, both for travellers and tax payers
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Saturday's commemorations will also be attended by the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall.
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On Friday he will visit the British Air Services Memorial at St Omer, which he opened in 2004 to honour his fallen comrades.
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On Wed, 2 Sep 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:
When I invoke Ekiga-3.2.4 a message box pops up telling me that the installed video driver (v4l) does not support the colors used by Ekiga. The camera is a Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Communicate STX and works for others running Slackware and other distributions. I built and tried CamStream to see if that would help me learn what the problem with the video could be, but all I get from that application is a black window and text in the console telling me: W: VDLinux::run() VIDIOCMCAPTURE failed (Invalid argument) W: run(): VIDIOCSYNC(1) failed (Invalid argument) I want to get this working so I can use Ekiga for video conferences with clients. I've not before used a video camera on my system so I've no idea where to start looking. Rich
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In short Radiohead's
performance was nothing short of brilliant. The stage lighting was done
perfectly and was very colorful at times. Example is Dollars And Cents,
when the stage at one point was drowned in blue flashing lights, where
the band members were not terribly visible, but overall the visuals
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These were among the adjectives being tossed around to describe the Radiohead show as we sat in my car, waiting for an hour to exit the Shoreline parking lot.
It was my first Radiohead concert, and I was truly blown away. The band absolutely nailed almost every song. The "Kid A" stuff was incredible -- I was curious how those songs would translate in the live performance, and was amazed at how complex and compelling they turned out.
The performances were just masterful. This is truly a band on top of its game. It's so exciting to witness a group of musicians who are in total control. Many of the great shows I've seen (Rage Against The Machine, Tool, Smashing Pumpkins come to mind) left me with that same sensation -- "this band has mastered its art, and is using its powers to ROCK MY WORLD!"
I'll leave it to others to describe the songs and the set in detail. (BTW, thanks to everyone who posted reviews of the Red Rocks, Gorge and Vancouver shows! I enjoyed reading them and they really pumped me up for this show!) I'll just mention that the last four or five songs of the main set were the pinnacle for me. They had a great continuity, like we were being taken on a journey.
What talent, what passion, what technical brilliance, what emotion! And did I mention that the sound was perfect? Kudos to the band and crew for such crystal-clear acoustics. They lost control of the feedback a couple of times, but that only served to remind me that this perfection is not coming from a record, it's coming from those 5 dudes wailing away down on the stage.
I was especially impressed with Jonny. I focused my binoculars on him several times, and man that guy is a hell of a musician. His guitar work ranged from tender to monstrous (sometimes in the same song, e.g., "Paranoid Android"), and his keyboard and electronic layers were lush and beautiful. He played multiple instruments on almost every song, bouncing back and forth and never missing a step. (The other band members were also fantastic, amazing, etc. Jonny just stood out for me, maybe because I was unaware how much of the overall sound he is responsible for.)
My wife is a lighting designer, and she made some interesting observations on the lighting. She saw lots of symbolism in the light show, as each song had its own display that was tailored for that song. The lighting, to her, represented different aspects of modern society. For example, one song featured horizontal lights that were like flowing power or communications (like electric and fiber optic lines). Another had vertical lines, like a jail cell. Another had stark yellow lighting, like in a big parking lot. Later in the show, the lights started wide at the top and funneled down to a point at the bottom, like a spaceship landing. And later, the lights were forming stars and constellations. It was like Radiohead came to expose our world and then remove us from it?!? Maybe this is all crazy talk, but it fun to discuss during the slow crawl through the parking lot.
The sky is the limit for Radiohead. Their execution last night was flawless. Their only boundaries are their imaginations. Is there any reason to think that there won't be 5 more great albums? 10? I've always been more of a casual fan, but after last night I am ready to step up and join the cult.
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The scene was suitably surreal as Radiohead took the stage at the Shoreline - the cloudy, sunset sky was filled with airplanes taking off and landing at the nearby airport. As venues go, the Shoreline suffers from inadequate volume for those in Lawn Seats. Also, the technical geniuses running the show failed to turn on the right projection screen until about ten minutes into the set. However, these technical deficiencies could not detract from the overall experience of Radiohead's spectacular performance. With two new albums to draw from, the setlist was largely comprised of cuts from Kid A and Amnesiac. The band also dished out many crowd-pleasing torch songs from Ok Computer and a scant two songs from The Bends. The evening was entirely Pablo Honey-free, which is fine with me, really. Luckily, we did get two spectacular B-sides: an amazing rendition of Permanent Daylight and a dark, twisted version of Talk Show Host. Thom even bopped his way through a cover of Can's 'The Thief' during the first encore. Overall, the highlights of the show for me were: Lucky, Packt Like Sardines, Permanent Daylight, Pyramid Song, Idioteque, Everything in its Right Place, How to Disappear Completely, The Bends and Motion Picture Soundtrack. Many of these tracks have been seriously reworked for live performance (especially Packt.it's totally unrecognizable and unbelievably cool). Surprisingly, the slower, moodier tracks like Pyramid Song, How to Disappear and Motion Picture Soundtrack came off even better than the more rocking tracks, as the lush instrumentation and Thom's intense vocal splendor enraptured the massive crowd. The setlist was ideal, as the only song that I would've loved to hear that wasn't played was Let Down. Another complaint is that the T-shirts at the show were the same ones that can be had on W.A.S.T.E.
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The show was so awesome.
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The SHoreline was
a great venue. The lights were
1. National Anthem:
full of energy, the crowd loved
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powerful. The lights were
4. Airbag: When Thom
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10. Knives Out: (Thom
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18. Fake Plastic Trees:
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VATICAN CITY (RNS) Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, a prominent voice of the Vatican on sexual and medical ethics, died Sunday (April 20) at the Pius XI Clinic in Rome.
He was 72 and died after suffering cardiac arrest, the Associated Press reported. According to Catholic News Service, he had been hospitalized since early April with a respiratory infection.
Pope Benedict XVI will preside at Lopez Trujillo's funeral in St. Peter's Basilica on Wednesday (April 23).
As president of the Pontifical Council for the Family since 1990, Lopez Trujillo helped to lead the Catholic Church's campaigns against abortion, artificial birth control, embryonic stem-cell research and same-sex marriage.
The Colombian-born cardinal provoked controversy in 2003 when he stated that condoms did not offer reliable protection against the transmission of HIV, a claim contested by medical authorities including the World Health Organization.
Outspoken on the political ramifications of church teaching, Lopez Trujillo denounced Spain's recognition of same-sex marriage in 2005, and called on Spanish officials not to perform such marriages, even if that meant losing their jobs.
On other occasions, the cardinal stated that Catholic politicians who support laws permitting abortion should not receive Communion. Also ineligible to receive Communion, the cardinal said, were Catholics participating in embryonic stem cell research, including women who donated their embryos for experimentation.
Lopez Trujillo was born in Villahermosa, Colombia, on Nov. 8, 1935. He was educated in Colombia and in Rome, where he became a priest in 1960. He became archbishop of Medellin, Colombia's second-largest city, in 1979, and served in that role until 1991. Pope John Paul II made him a cardinal in 1983. -- Francis X. Rocca
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Japan's Topix Index Snaps Six-Day Slide on Economic Data
Japanese stocks rose, with the Topix Index snapping a six-day drop, as Japan's economic growth beat estimates and the U.S. Federal Reserve signaled its readiness to provide further stimulus, boosting earnings prospects.
Nissan Motor Co. (7201), a carmaker that gets a third of its revenue in North America, rose 3.3 percent. Toshiba Corp., the maker of Regza brand televisions, rose 5.6 percent after saying it will halt domestic production of sets. Melco Holdings Inc. (6676) jumped 6.8 percent after forecasting a 22 percent rise in profit.
The Nikkei 225 Stock Average (NKY) added 0.9 percent to 8,876.59 at the 3 p.m. close in Tokyo, with trading volume 26 percent higher than the 30-day average. The Topix gained 1.1 percent to 747.16, with 26 out of 33 industry groups advancing.
"The market is taking a breather with data out of the U.S. and Japan after getting too much of negative news one after another," said Takashi Ito, a strategist equity market at Nomura Securities Co., Japan's biggest brokerage. "The selloff has come to a halt because we haven't gotten new bad factors."
The Nikkei 225 retreated 13 percent from this year's high on March 27 as China's economic growth slowed and on renewed concern about Europe's debt crisis. That compares with a 6.2 percent loss in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index and an 8.4 percent drop in the Stoxx Europe 600 Index over the same period.
The decline has brought the value of stocks on the Topix down to 0.89 times book value, compared with 2.1 for the Standard & Poor's 500 and 1.34 for the Stoxx Europe 600. A value less than one means investors can buy companies for less than the value of their assets.
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Shares rose after a report showed Japan's economy grew an annualized 4.1 percent in the first quarter, beating economists' estimates for a 3.5 percent expansion. Reports showed U.S. housing starts and industrial production exceeded forecasts in April. Federal Reserve policy makers said they stand ready to deploy more stimulus measures should the economy lose momentum, according to minutes of their policy meeting last month.
Nissan added 3.3 percent to 777 yen. Sony Corp. (6758), Japan's No. 1 exporter of consumer electronics, gained 3.9 percent to 1,161 yen.
Shares also rose as the 25-day Toraku index, which compares the number of stocks that have advanced with the number that have declined on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, fell to 65 yesterday. A reading less than 70 indicates to some investors a gain is likely.
"You don't want to sell much more because shares have been oversold and I think they are likely to rebound," said Kiyoshi Ishigane, a Tokyo-based senior strategist at Mitsubishi UFJ Asset Management Co., which oversees the equivalent of $70 billion. "The debt crisis will affect Japan, but its impact will be rather small compared with the U.S. and Europe."
Greek Gridlock
Futures on the S&P 500 (SPX) rose 0.5 percent today. The gauge slipped 0.4 percent in New York yesterday after the European Central Bank said it will stop lending to Greek banks temporarily as President Mario Draghi signaled it won't bend key principles to keep Greece in the monetary union. The political gridlock after an inconclusive election last week reignited fears Greece will renege on austerity pledges required for 240 billion euros ($306 billion) in aid and exit the euro.
Among other stocks that rose, Toshiba advanced 5.6 percent to 322 yen after saying it will end making televisions in Japan after posting a loss amid falling prices and a stronger yen.
Melco Holdings jumped 6.8 percent to 1,834 yen after saying it expects a 22 percent rise in profit to 5.4 billion yen ($67 million) in the year ending March 31 on growing sales. The company aims to expand in developing nations such as Brazil, it said in a statement.
Of the 1,521 companies on the Topix that have posted quarterly results since April 2, 287 exceeded expectations, while 214 missed analysts' estimates, according to data compiled by Bloomberg News.
The Nikkei 225 Volatility Index (VNKY) fell 7.6 percent to 22.79, indicating traders expect a swing of 6.5 percent on the benchmark gauge over the next 30 days.
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While many airlines believe that they are focused on customer service Southwest continues to be the winner in terms of customer satisfaction scores and the number of complaints received from consumers. The primary reason for this is that Southwest has a culture that is purely focused on providing great service to the customer at a fair price. They have removed many roadblocks in terms of ensuring customer satisfaction including no baggage fees like many other airlines charge. Southwest empowers their employees to allow them to make decisions when faced with a problem by a customer. Instead of contacting a manager an employee has the ability to correct the situation. This ensures the customer is happy and returns for future flights with the company. In addition to focusing on customer satisfaction by empowering employees the company also makes it a point to ensure that their employees are happy. Part of how they ensure employee satisfaction is by empowering employees as not only does it provide for happier customers it also provides for happier employees. Employees are encouraged to have fun in their jobs and are even free to add their own unique spin to everything from airline announcements to the encouraged interaction with customers. In addition, Southwest has had an employee profit sharing plan since 1973 which has allowed employees to currently own approximately 10% of the company. This provides employees with a vested interest which provides them with the incentive to continue to provide great service as more customers means increased profit sharing. The culture of having fun and rewarding employees has been the hallmark of Southwests success even through difficult economic times in which other airlines filed for bankruptcy. The employee loyalty that has developed in the culture allowed for the employees to accept temporary pay cuts in an attempt to protect the jobs of everyone and ensure the airlines long term success. Providing the incentives and atmosphere in which people love to work has allowed them to succeed in terms of both employee and customer satisfaction.


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Townsend, Tennessee - Fly Fishing in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, East Tennessee and Western North Carolina
Welcome to the Fishing Report from the Great Smoky Mountains. It is foggy and 70 degrees in Townsend this morning. The forest is just now getting some light. It is so peaceful outside. At daybreak, a squirrel is always sitting outside our front door, peering in. He is almost always there. That animal is not afraid of people. I think he was someone's pet at one time.
We do not feed birds or squirrels. If we put up a bird feeder at our house, it would only last a few days. A bear would tear it down. None of us who live around here have them. Bird feeders cause problems.
Little River is flowing at 131 cubic feet per second (cfs) or 1.64 feet on the flow gauge. Median flow for this date is 115 cfs. The water temperature at 6:45 am is 68.5 degrees.
It is going to be hot during the day and warm at night through the weekend. Highs will be in the high 80's and maybe low 90's. At night, lows will be in the low 70's or high 60's through that period.
Yesterday was hot in the afternoon. The water temperature in Little River just inside the National Park peaked at 70 degrees.
With this forecast continuing, I would fish in the higher elevations where the water is cooler. You will be more comfortable too. Heat indexes will be high this week. Drink plenty of water.
Flows are good for this time of year. We have a chance for rain every afternoon for several days. Fishing will be good high up in the mountains. Dry flies would be my choice.
You won't see many fishermen. Tourism is low right now. August is transition time, from young families in the Summer with kids going back to school, to an older crowd in the Fall, enjoying the mountain views. Fishermen will be back soon.
I drove to Tremont Lodge yesterday to look at the remodeling progress. We are holding Fly Tyers Weekend there in November. Of particular interest to me is the meeting facility. Remodeling there is almost finished. It will be ready for our event. The building has two floors with 2,000 square feet of meeting space on each floor. I was checking for wheelchair access to both floors. There is not an elevator. There are ramps to each floor. We will have disabled veterans attending. I wanted to make sure anyone in a wheel chair could get to both floors. They can. That was a relief.
The lodge is also installing the highest speed internet wi-fi available in our area. We have the same service at our store and it is extremely fast. But due to credit card processing, it is not available to the public. All of our computers have software to protect us and you from malware and viruses. We do not store credit card information on any of our computers or server. When you buy online, your credit card information is never on our remote server. But, we do access a payment gateway online called Authorize.net. We have all the latest software and we are PCI compliant. If we were to be hacked, there is nothing to get. Things have changed in business as you know.
David Knapp is working at the store again, part time. He is also a professional guide. It is great having David back. Yesterday he worked with Bill Bolinger. When those guys are helping you, count on getting information based on some unbelievable fly fishing experience. Bill has fly fished in more place than just about anyone I know. David's been around too. They both fish in Tennessee at least once a week. David has spent a lot of time in Colorado. Bill likes Montana and Wyoming.
I'm going to feature people on this page who will be tying at Fly Tyers Weekend. I'm starting at the top, alphabetically. So, today's featured tyer is Mike Adams. I hope you enjoy learning about these talented people. Mike's photo and bio are below.
Mike Adams writes on his website, "From the age of 12, I knew the thing I wanted to do the most was to get people in the great outdoor. The best way I could think to do it was to help them learn to catch fish."
In 1997, Mike and his wife Vicki moved from Phoenix, AZ to the Johnson City Area to start a guide service. Mike has been guiding clients on the South Holston River and Caney Fork River in Middle Tennessee ever since.
He has developed some great fly patterns too. They are tied by Holly Flies in Pennsylvania and sold to fly shops in the Southeast. One pattern, Mike's Magic Beetle is one of Little River Outfitter's top selling Summer flies. There are many more.
You will enjoy Mike and learn from him at Fly Tyers Weekend. Mike always draws a big crowd to our shop in February, when he demonstrates his skills to our customers. Mike also helps Mahoney's Fly Shop in Johnson City when needed. He's an expert, any fly shop owner would want to have talking and assisting their customers. Mike is the real deal.
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Former St. Joseph swimmer Stein headed to national meet with Edinboro
Holly Stein knows there is a better chance of finding loose change under the seat cushions of her couch than on the floor of a bank.
Her first trip to the NCAA Division II national swimming championships, admittedly a surprise to the freshman from Edinboro, still carries great value.
And Stein isn't about to give back the opportunity — not one thin dime.
"Getting to nationals was a goal, but it's really hard to make it," said Stein, a St. Joseph graduate and a PIAA bronze medalist as a senior. "Looking at it now, it's probably my biggest feat so far. I am looking at it as a way to gain experience. My coach said I have nothing to lose."
Stein has qualified in two events for nationals, set for March 12-15 at the Spire Institute in Geneva, Ohio, but has her eye on her primary event, the 100-yard breaststroke. She is ranked No. 9 in the country in that event with her time of 1 minute, 3.06 seconds.
Stein pulled the plug on the school record in the 100 breast at the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference championships, placing fourth.
She also will compete in the 200 breaststroke.
Having competed at the highest level of the sport in high school, Stein has big-stage experience, but she admits this is something new.
"There are a lot of fast people at PIAAs," she said. "But I'll be going against some of the fastest swimmers in the country."
Stein certainly had the talent to compete at the Division II level. Some might say the immediate impact she's had on the program was expected.
She was recruited by several Division I programs coming out of high school, where she competed as an independent since St. Joseph doesn't have a swimming team. Lafayette and Navy were among her pursuers.
"I was nervous coming in (to college swimming)," Stein said. "There are so many great athletes. But (qualifying) definitely has showed me I was ready. I am not going to lie; competing against those great athletes in intimidating."
Stein is a human performance major and stresses that she is in college for academics first, swimming second. Still, simply being around other humans has helped her progress in the pool.
There was a time when she represented her entire high school. She was St. Joseph swimming.
"It's nice to finally have a team around me," she said. "Now I can turn to a teammate and talk to them when I am freaking out before hitting the blocks."
Nerves won't be absent for Stein at the national meet, but she knows anything from here is a bonus.
"I'm nervous for any meet, but I'm also really excited," she said. "I have to look at it as experience for next year. I want to go out and have fun with it."


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Germany has us in its grasp. We are in Berlin after a smooth train ride, which also involved a short stint on a ferry, from Denmark. The train fit onto deck three, next to cars and trucks. Upstairs, a mini cruise ship with eateries, a massive duty free shop and outdoor decks. Very nice outside. The only downside to the ferry, which took us from Danish to German soil, was that it was only 45 minutes. We left Dragor under red early morning skies.
Truth is, we fled Denmark! Turns out the ticketing was using from Dragor to Copenhagen train station was "one clip short" (only three clips instead of four, a system that works for the Danes and their public transport zones). Not interested in honest mistakes, the regional train attendant called me to the proverbial carpet at 8am on a Sunday morning, ripping my three clip ticket twice between his eyes and my own. In front of the children no less!
I was fairly mortified but admittedly not shocked (I knew I was one clip short but had just overpaid by one clip on my bus earlier that morning and was hoping for some good vibes from that). And, honestly, I was banking on no attendant since I had not seen one my entire week in Denmark. No fooling this system!
The guy was nasty. Whether I knew I was one clip short or not, I was in the wrong but he was nasty about it!after ripping up my ticket, he told home the fine was 100 euros. I asked if I could just pay the one clip! Nope, he does not allow that, he only gives fines. But, this time I would be sparred! He walked on. The woman standing next to me said, "he is walking in shoes that are too big for him," which I thought was interesting. She also said that if he had imposed the fine she would have raised a ruckus and others would have joined her. Solidarity, sister! Then, the man next to me gave the attendant a clip on my behalf. Solidarity, brother! I apologize to Denmark for trying to mush my extra bus clip into my regional train clip!
Coco and Henry spent the rest of the day worried if we had the right tickets for our two big trains and for the ferry. Bad Mommy!
We arrived at the Berlin hotel excited. Kids excited for a pool. All excited for our next stop. The hotel, the Radisson Blu, is well-located and stylish. Thank you to Lamont for the hotel recommendation! The pool is nice. And, there is a tub in our room! We have not had a tub since home and we all took long baths last night. We had the seemingly endless breakfast buffet this morning and then went on a 5 plus hour bike tour, the "all city tour." Seemed appropriate since we leave tomorrow and we wanted to see as much of the sights as possible. I feel like we saw the "sights" but little of a Berliner's Berlin. I was awestruck by the Berlin wall. I just had never imagined myself at the wall and therein was, with all of its oppressions and fear-mongering.
Besides the sites, being on the bikes was great and we all enjoyed it. A bit more than 6 miles at the slowest pace! With lots of stops. About 30 minutes of the tour was spent going through a huge, autumn-beautified park, to and from a beer garden for lunch. I had volunteered to be the caboose (rather, the "butt babe,"as the tour guide called it) and my role was to be last and make sure there were no stragglers. My reward was a tiny piece of the Berlin wall, which it turns out you can buy most anywhere. Henry commented that I won my piece of wall. No, I said, I earned it!
I am poolside now as I type. Imagine we will have a late dinner within three blocks of the hotel and watch German-language Disney channel a bit. The language doesn't matter. My kids have seen those shows so many times they could do the dubbing themselves.
We have one large bed, which we are all sharing. At least I thought it was one large bed. It's actually two small beds pushed together. Last night, Coco and I shared a bed. Tonight, which even before nightfall I will call the "night of a crappy sleep," I share a bed with Henry. That kid moves around ALL night. He'll even pull your hair! He yanks blankets and steals pillows. He pushes. He crosses his legs over your body. He shifts to sleep sideways. Ah, Henry! Good thing he's also a good cuddler!
On Tuesday, we head to Prague. Short time in Berlin, but so glad to get a glimpse.


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Donora still smarting over bank exodus
Like a superstar athlete preparing for a big game, Donora Mayor John Lignelli was throwing out guarantees at the end of the borough council meeting Thursday.
When the discussion turned to the losses of PNC and Citizen's Bank, the mayor could not hold back.
"We will have something in this town," he loudly exclaimed. "Trust me. We will have something."
Resident Terry Perrotta said she was shocked that during the meeting, no one on council or Lignelli mentioned the bank branches closing.
"They're making Donora a ghost town," Perrotta proclaimed. "I have to do my aunt's banking for her, and now I have to go out of town.
"I'm not really worried about it because I have a car. I'm more concerned about the senior citizens in the town that don't drive. What are they going to do?"
Perrotta said she was glad to hear Lignelli has something in the works with another lending institution and told council she has talked to officials from PNC and other banks about coming to the borough.
"I spoke to Tom Graney at Charleroi Federal in Monongahela, and he said they wouldn't be interested in putting a branch here," Perrotta said. "He said that banks are losing too much money, and that no one in Donora is taking out loans."
Councilman Thomas Kostolansky said that when the mayor and council met with PNC officials, the bankers showed no interest in hearing the pitch to stay in town.
"That's really sad, because this borough does business with PNC," Kostolansky said. "I feel that if we do get another bank or credit union, whatever it is, everyone in the borough should honor that business and switch their accounts.
"It's a shame because we have no school, we don't have a church downtown ... PNC wouldn't even consider backing off their motion to close."
Kostolansky said he has done business with PNC since 1972. For Councilwoman Marie Trozzo, it's been even longer.
"I've been with PNC when it was PNB, since 1965," Trozzo said. "I told that gentleman when we met that I feel like they're deserting me. There's so much electronic banking now, they don't need people."
Council President Dr. Karen Polkabla said PNC officials indicated that the ATM machine will remain at the intersection of Sixth Street and McKean Avenue.
Citation coming
After hearing complaints from Steve Grcich of 504 10th St., council announced it will issue its first $1,000 citation for failure to tap in to the new sewage system.
Grcich complained of the stench caused by a nonfunctioning septic system at 506 10th St.
"The weather is getting warmer, and it's been warmer the past few days," Grcich said. "If I leave my car windows down parked in front of my house, I have to drive almost two miles just to air it out. What is the borough going to do about it?"
Councilman Jason Menendez said it has been a problem for nearly seven years, and the solution was the borough providing sewage service.
"Well, now we have the sewage, and I don't think that is going to matter," Menendez said. "The deadline was going to be March 1, but I think we should send this citation now.
"It's gone on too long. If you look in the back, there's actually a pool of waste.
Menendez ripped the unnamed scofflaws.
"We both know that it doesn't matter when they get cited," he said. "You can cite them from now until doomsday, and it won't matter. If they don't pay, they'll face the consequences at the magistrate."
The original deadline for residents to tap in was Feb. 1, but Menendez said another month was added to give residents a final chance to comply.
Grcich said the original owners moved out of the house, but the daughter of those residents has since moved in.
"You come down on a nice warm day and sit on my porch," Grcich said.
"There are still quite a few stragglers who haven't done anything toward tapping into the system," Menendez said. "Maybe if we issue the citation, this will get them moving on it."
Money moved
Council agreed to reallocate the following Community Development Block Grant money in an effort to begin repairs to the Sixth Street parking garage.
• $40,000 from 2010, originally slated for a street sign replacement project.
• $20,000 from 2011, originally slated for the street sign project.
• $179,000 from 2013, originally for the milling and repaving of McKean Avenue.
The money from the street sign project will be immediately available for an engineering analysis, contract specifications and a request for proposals for the parking garage project. The $179,000 will become available during the last quarter of 2013 and will be used for construction costs.
Polkabla said the borough is going ahead with the street sign replacement. The money will come from the capital reserve fund.
Code Enforcement Officer Tim Durka said the borough will save money on the project because the street department will handle the work.
In other matters:
• Polkabla said the borough's seat on the Mon Valley Sewage Authority Board has been vacated. Any taxpayer who is a resident of the borough or maintains a business in the borough, can submit a letter of intent, including qualifications, to council by March 6.
• People interested in raising vegetables or flowers on their own plots in a community garden, or experienced gardeners willing to help with a community garden project should visit the Donora Public Library or go online to firstname.lastname@example.com. Kostolansky said council will tour the borough with library officials to seek a location for the garden.
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Alfredo Santos Buenaventura
Alfredo Santos Buenaventura was born in Sta. Maria, Bulacan on 14 October 1929. His parents unconsciously provided him the musical atmosphere.
At an early age in grade school, he became a member of a band that marched the town because of his fascination with trumpets and trombones. During the pre-war, he became one of the twenty boy sopranos of Tiples at Sto. Domingo Church. They were given first class musical training. At that time, he also wrote his first composition which was a Danza.
Bueneventura also had formal music lessons. At the age of 12 to 13, he already arranged and conducted band in his hometown. He was an official organist of the Manila Cathedral from 1960. He also became a member of the League of Filipino Composers and received numerous outstanding awards in music industry such as the Republic Cultural Heritage Awards that he won twice.
He is among the few composers in the Philippines who composed five full-length operas. He has his own set of ideas about music and composition. He created a combination of contemporary and conventional, kept his melodies simple and understandable but he used contemporary harmonies to suit the intellectuals.
- Samson, Helen F. Contemporary Filipino Composers. Quezon City: Manlapaz Publishing Company, 1976.
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The Kindle Library Lending feature will be available for all Kindles and Kindle apps, Amazon said. The company did not give a more specific time frame for launch of the service.
You'll be able to check out a Kindle book from a local library and start reading on any Kindle device or Kindle app. If a Kindle book is checked out again or that book is purchased from Amazon, annotations and bookmarks will be preserved, Amazon said in a news release.
Kindle has free reading apps for a range of devices including Android, iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, PC, Mac, BlackBerry and Windows Phone.
"We're doing a little something extra here," Jay Marine, Amazon's Kindle director, said in a statement. "Normally, making margin notes in library books is a big no-no. But we're extending our Whispersync technology so that you can highlight and add margin notes to Kindle books you check out from your local library.
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And if you've got a balance in your flexible-spending account, you may not feel compelled to run out and buy a pair of rhinestone-studded prescription sunglasses on Dec. 31.
Here's why: A Treasury Department ruling issued in May allows companies to give workers with flexible-spending accounts an additional 2½ months to spend money in those accounts.
Health care flexible-spending accounts permit you to have money deducted from your paycheck for out-of-pocket medical costs. Because you're using pretax dollars, a flexible-spending account can save you money.
But many workers spurn the accounts, or put only a small amount in them, because of a nettlesome provision in the law. It requires participants to forfeit any money they haven't used by the end of the year.
Treasury said companies can now give workers until March 15 to spend unused money in their flexible-spending accounts before the balance is forfeited. But don't postpone your eye exam until you've checked that your employer has agreed to extend the deadline.
The Treasury ruling gives companies the option of extending the grace period, but they're not required to do it. Only about half the USA's largest employers plan to offer the grace period this year, according to a survey conducted in August by Deloitte Consulting.
"A lot of times when regulations get passed in the middle of the year, it's a hassle for companies to change their plans," says Tom Billet, senior benefits consultant with Watson Wyatt.
He expects more companies to include the grace period in their 2006 benefits packages.
That way, workers will know about the grace period when they decide how much money to contribute to their plans, he says.
If your company hasn't adopted the grace period, there's still time. The IRS is giving companies until Dec. 31 to amend their 2005 plans. A friendly call to your human resources department can't hurt. When asked why they're not offering a grace period, 16% of companies that chose not to said employees hadn't requested it, according to the Deloitte Consulting survey.
Workers who are allowed to use the grace period may find it easier to figure out how much to contribute to their accounts, says Scott Halstead, chief executive officer of WageWorks, which manages health care spending plans for employers.
For example, if you know you'll carry over some of your 2005 funds, you may decide to reduce the amount you contribute to your 2006 account.
Making plans
With or without a grace period, the rising cost of health care has made flexible-spending accounts more valuable than ever, Billet says.
Many companies, seeking to contain the cost of health care coverage, are increasing workers' out-of-pocket costs. Workers accustomed to $15 to $20 co-payments for doctors' visits may now be required to pay 20% of the bill. Companies are also requiring workers to pay more for prescription drugs.
With a flexible-spending account, you can cover those expenses with pretax dollars. Depending on your tax bracket, the savings can be significant.
Suppose you spend $1,000 during the year on out-of-pocket health care costs. If you're in the 28% tax bracket, using pretax dollars to pay those bills will save you more than $350.
A new kind of plan
Some employers may be spurning the grace period because they're shifting away from health care flexible-spending accounts in favor of health savings accounts, says Martha Priddy Patterson, director of employee benefits policy at Deloitte Consulting.
To qualify for a health savings account, you must sign up for a high-deductible health plan, also known as a consumer-driven plan. With these plans, you pay a lower share of your insurance premiums in exchange for a larger deductible. If your employer also offers a health savings account, you can contribute to a tax-free account to cover the deductible.
Unlike flexible-spending accounts, health savings accounts let you roll over unused money from year to year. If you leave your employer, you can take the money with you. You can use the money to pay for eligible medical expenses or save it for retirement; as long as withdrawals are used to pay for qualified expenses, you won't pay taxes on them.
With a health savings account, "You're going to get all the tax benefits of a flexible-spending account without the forfeiting issue," Patterson says.
One downside to health savings accounts is a contribution limit. You can contribute the amount of your deductible, up to $2,650 if single, or $5,250 for a family. If you choose a plan with, say, a $1,000 deductible, that's the maximum you can put away each year. There are no limits on flexible-spending accounts, though most employers limit annual contributions to $5,000.
Health savings accounts are ideal for people who don't think they'll spend much on medical expenses and want to save unused funds, Halstead says. Conversely, if you're the type of person who racks up a lot of out-of-pocket medical bills, he says, "Flexible-spending accounts are great vehicles."
Sandra Block covers personal finance for USA TODAY. Her Your Money column appears Tuesdays. Click here for an index of Your Money columns. E-mail her at: email@example.com.


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A gay man found guilty in June of forcing a Dallas socialite to leave her home to him and his partner in 2005 will be sentenced Friday.
Mark McCay, 50, and partner Justin Burgess faced second-degree theft charges after Mary Ellen Bendtsen signed over her portion of her family home at 4949 Swiss Ave. to them just weeks before she died.
McCay said the battle for the home began among Bendtsen's family before she died from a stroke in February 2005. He said when her husband died, Bendtsen's sister and brother, who each owned a third of the home, wanted to sell it. But Bendtsen refused, wanting to stay in the home.
"The house was her and she was the house. They were one," McCay told Instant Tea on Wednesday. "You just don't uproot an 88-year-old from her home."
The home has since been sold after a judge nullified the will Bendtsen signed in the hospital that left her portion of the home to McCay and Burgess.
McCay's trial began in mid-June and the jury spent a day and a half deliberating before returning a guilty verdict. He now faces up to 20 years in jail.
He said the friendship between him, his partner and Bendtsen went back 14 years with the couple having dinner together several nights a week and McCay often fixing things around her home.
When Bendtsen became ill, her sister and daughter, who had only recently moved back to the area, wanted to move her into a nursing home, McCay said.
In January 2005, Bendtsen slipped outside on slick pavement during a rainy day, twisting her ankle and cutting her forehead. McCay said her daughter forced her to go to the hospital. The accident made her daughter file for guardianship, but the daughter lost the case after Bendtsen was declared competent.
In the meantime, Bendtsen gave McCay power of attorney so the daughter couldn't make any permanent decisions about her home.
Bendtsen was against leaving the home or selling it and wanted to leave it to McCay and Burgess to commemorate their long friendship that her family didn't understand, he said.
After the will was nullified, McCay and Burgess went to mediation in 2006 to try to settle their claim to the home, even offering to buy it at full market value, he said.
"She wanted us to have it," McCay said. "I'd spent so many years doing repairs and things for her."


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The build process is the usual configure, make, make install. I recommend that you check out the SVN tree and then make a directory inside the src directory called build. From there, just: ../configure ; make ; make install If you have a multi processor machine, use "make -j <N>" where <N> is the number of processors you have. As far as development goes, I use drscheme to develop drscheme, with two separate trees, but I think most people can just use the one drscheme. Robby On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Todd O'Bryan <toddobryan at gmail.com> wrote: > OK, so after Sam fixed the Typed Scheme bugs, I feel obligated to > check out the SVN code and start playing. > > How should I set everything up so that development is pretty easy? > Given the DrScheme key-bindings, I'm guessing Emacs is a common > choice, but I'm not sure what extra goodies I should use to make > building and such fairly easy. > > Does anyone have a description of what they use to develop PLT and how > it's all set up? > > Todd > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme >
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Serbian archaeologists found evidence of what could be the oldest metal workshop in all of Europe. According to National Museum archaeologist Dušan Šljivar, experts found a "copper chisel and stone ax at a location near Prokuplje in which the foundation has proven to be 7,500 years old, leading us to believe that it was one of the first places in which metal weapons and tools were made in prehistoric times." Archaeologists hope that this find in southern Serbia will prove the theory that the metal age began a lot earlier than it was believed to have, Šljivar said.
Šljivar added that this finding, along with 40 similarly valuable ones before it, among which there were more parts of metal tools and weapons, as well as a smelter and furnace, prove that people inhabiting this territory began working with metal more than 5,000 years before the new era. Prokuplje Museum archaeologist Julka Kuzmanović-Cvetković said that the site "shows that the people living on our territory started a civilization that presented the basics of the technological revolution. We want to prove that the site was a metal works center in the central part of the Balkans," she said.
The Ministry of Culture has set aside some EUR 12,500 for this year's excavation at the site near Prokuplje, called Pločnik. Šljivar said that these funds have enabled experts to investigate with more detail the 25 square meters and find new specimens.
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text: Politics 17 April 2008 It's all right to loaf around The comfy slip-on is no longer a style slip-up. Sign up for our weekly email * I've always regarded loafer-wearing men with some suspicion. This is due in no small part to the fact that Italian men favour loafers, and I grew up with the erroneous impression that Italian men are great philanderers (maybe they are, but the ones I know are pretty faithful - it's the women who need watching). The idea was that, as loafers are quick and easy to get on and off, they were worn by men who needed shoes that were easy to get on and off. In other words, men who had to get dressed in a hurry on finding they needed to make a quick getaway. Brogues don't allow for fast exits out of windows. Thus, because I spend an inordinate amount of time looking at what people are wearing, and judging them for it, I've always mentally labelled men who wear loafers with the word "shifty". It's wrong of me, I know, but there you go. Loafers were big in the 1980s, especially those heinous ones with big fringes and tassles, which are, unfortunately, once again very fashionable this year. After some wear, and little attention (few people take good care of their shoes), a loafer splays out and looks untidy, because it doesn't have any laces to corset it back together. Personally, I would advise against wearing loafers that look too coarse - that means no cheap leather, no thick raised "piecrust", no chunky tassles or fringing. Really, just avoid buying "value" loafers, because this is one shoe that shows how much, or little, you've paid. Stripped of detail, loafers are very probably the perfect flat shoe, even if I still can't get my head round men wearing them (so are pumps, but the pump doesn't have the variety that a loafer can give you). The Gucci loafer, with equestrian-themed metal snaffle, is a bestselling classic that you can still buy; ditto Salvatore Ferragamo's version, which has a chunky chain across it. A fashionable friend in the mid-1980s once spent a silly amount of money buying Gucci loafers in every finish she could find: black leather, black suede, black patent and, finally, decadent white leather. The driving shoe (which Tod's makes so well, if expensively) is a good way to wear loafers if you prefer something with a bit of a sporty feel. The 133 rubber pebbles on the sole and heel help cushion your foot from, well, life in general. I managed to procure two prototype pairs of Joe Casely-Hayford loafers in 1989, which served me well for the best part of two decades. They had a horsehair apron, patent surround (patent leather is a great way to make a flat shoe glamorous) and the strap had the four suits of a pack of playing cards embossed upon them. But what made them really beautiful was that they were elongated, with a squared-off toe; they looked fabulous peeking out of a pair of trousers, yet were blissfully comfortable. I'm not sure what more one could ask of a shoe. Annalisa Barbieri was in fashion PR for five years before going to the Observer to be fashion assistant. She has worked for the Evening Standard and the Times and was one of the fashion editors on the Independent on Sunday for five years, where she wrote the Dear Annie column. She was fishing correspondent of the Independent from 1997-2004. Subscribe from just £1 per issue This article first appeared in the 21 April 2008 issue of the New Statesman, Food crisis More


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Well, the voters of Pembrokeshire have had their say, apart from those in 13 of the 60 wards, in which there was only 1 nomination and therefore that person was elected unopposed. Strangely enough, 13 were also returned unopposed in the 2008 elections.
There are reports that Pembrokeshire is a democracy desert. So whilst the Independents may argue that it is a vote in support of their governance at County Hall since 1996 when Pembrokeshire County Council was recreated, I know it is also difficult for the political parties to get the candidates to stand.
I digress....
The highlights of the the results was the election of 22 year old Jacob John Williams who took the East Williamston seat by 602 votes from Jim Codd, who only managed to get 282 votes. A Welsh Conservative candidate got 41 votes. I dont know who Jim Codd is (or was), but for a sitting councillor to lose to a mere novice who was ALSO standing as an Independent, must surely show what a mountain Jacob had to climb. To persuade almost 50% of those who voted to support someone who was so young, is a proud achievement for him. Barely old enough to have come out of full time education (assuming he went to University), Jacob could actually be sitting on an education committee! We all expect councillors to be slightly older, so I am very pleased that such a young person will be sat in the Council Chamber and I wonder what the age is of the 2nd youngest councillor. Is there anyone near his age? Please let us know, below. I am sure the Western Telegraph's coverage will include an article on this young man. I wish him well. He obviously did the leg work, getting round the ward and Jim Codd must have done something to see the electorate decide to put their faith in such a young man.
The other result that surprised me was the political demise of Anne Hughes. I have always found her comments on the Independent Group to be somewhat "odd", but she was always returned. But to be unseated by a Plaid Cymru candidate is also a surprise.
I have met Cllr Rhys Sinnett a few times and found him very approachable and assumed he was elected for his own abilities rather than the Party label, but now Plaid has 2 County Councillors in Milford Haven, which is hardly a bastion of the Welsh language, so its congratulations also to Stephen Glanville Joseph who like, Jacob John Williams, had double the number of votes of the councillor they defeated.
So whilst the electorate have had their say, no doubt Jamie Adams will take over from John Davies, who has had a successful 8 years as Leader.
The tree has been shaken and some councillors have fallen, including Cllr Calver of Manorbier, who won his High Court case, the day before.
Its now up to the Council to re-group and tough times lie ahead, a point I made out to Ken Rowlands, my own councillor, as the matter was not mentioned in any election literature.
The elections saw the Labour group increase its numbers, the Conservatives lost a couple of seats, and Plaid and the Liberal Democrats stayed the same. I guess we now have to watch how many of the elected Independents go into the Independent Political Group (the IPG) and those who remain as "independent " Independents. I understand that the Mike and Viv Stoddart's daughter now joins them on the Council. I wonder who will also join at the next elections as it seem thats 5% of the Council is now from the Stoddart family..
Finally, a You Tube film was brought to my attention, of one Councillor. I will now see tarmac in a different light!
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Getting Ready To Subtract - Decompose a Ten
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Complete the sentences below to show how many tens and how many ones there are in the numbers. Use the base ten blocks to help. The first one is done for you.
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