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San Francisco prosecutors have filed additional charges against a man accused of posing as a doctor and performing liposuction while smoking a cigar, including accusations that he sexually touched a female patient.
The woman is the latest patient to accuse Carlos Guzmangarza, 49, of passing himself off as a doctor and botching the treatment.
She told police last month that she went to Guzmangarza for treatment of a skin condition in July 2011 at his Derma Clinic on Mission Street.
She said she had paid him several thousand dollars for three visits, during which he touched her inappropriately and made sexually charged remarks, prosecutors said Tuesday. He also prescribed a gel that proved to be a skin irritant, they said.
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In addition to charges of sexual touching under false pretenses and sexual touching without consent, Guzmangarza has been accused of practicing medicine without a license, false impersonation, identity theft and grand theft.
Guzmangarza pleaded not guilty in December to similar charges after a Daly City woman came forward, alleging that her abdomen became infected after he performed liposuction on her during the summer of 2010.
During the procedure, Guzmangarza allegedly smoked a cigar and had the conscious woman hold the IV bag, prosecutors said. At one point, some of the fat Guzmangarza was suctioning out fell on the floor, and he picked it up with his hands, prosecutors said.
The woman said that a few days after the surgery, Guzmangarza showed up at her home with 6 pounds of her fat. Saying he needed a place to dispose of the material, he allegedly flushed it down the toilet.
In light of the additional charges, Guzmangarza's bail has been increased from $750,000 to $860,000, said Stephanie Ong Stillman, a spokeswoman for the district attorney's office. He is scheduled to return to court March 5.
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Ben Wheatley Claims A Field In England
The Kill List director's new project
The director of last year's Kill List and this year's Sightseers has announced that his next project, A Field In England, has been picked up by Film4.0, and will precede his other announced film, Freakshift.
Set during the English Civil War, it sees Kill List's Michael Smiley and Sightseers' Richard Glover joined by The League of Gentlemen's Reece Shearsmith and The Mighty Boosh's Julian Barratt - as well as Peter Ferdinando and Ryan Pope - in playing a group of deserters on a hunt for treasure in 1648.
Smiley will play the lead, O'Neil, an alchemist who wants the ragtag group of reprobates he's just captured to help him find the gold he believes is buried in one particular English field.
On their way to the treasure, they consume a quantity of rather powerful fungi that makes the arguing soldiers feel something rather... disturbing, and, as the press release would have it, puts them on a "psychedelic trip into magic and madness."
Wheatley himself describes it as "a project that we have been talking about for years and are very excited about making. It brings together the more psychedelic elements of Kill List and Sightseers and weaves in our take on historical drama."
Unlike Sightseers, which was written by its stars Alice Lowe and Steve Oram, A Field In England sees a return to the Kill List set-up of Wheatley on scripting duties with Amy Jump.
There is no earmarked date for A Field In England's release, but by the looks of Wheatley's output, 2013 looks like a decent bet.

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The designers of Autonomobile (ATNMBL): "Speed has been the driving factor for car design, styling, and engineering for a century. Most vehicles on the road today are capable of reaching 120 mph yet they are mostly used at moderate speeds and sitting in traffic. It's time to look at performance in a new way. Our vision is a new focus on quality of time while in traffic and transit. Dismissing the need for extreme MPH and acceleration as irrelevant, performance can be measured by time savings instead.
Driverless cars, once a fantasy requiring new roads and infrastructure, are now technologically possible, even inevitable. GPS, sophisticated sensors, and navigation databases will allow driverless vehicles to operate on the same roads we have today.
The shift from a driving infrastructure to a riding infrastructure has deep implications for society, yet it is currently being defined almost exclusively by engineers and the military. Positive design visions are desperately needed if this technology (and other robotic technology) is to have a positive impact on society.
ATNMBL is our vision of a concept car for 2040 that represents the end of driving. Upon entering ATNMBL, passengers are presented with the question: "Where can I take you?". There is no steering wheel, brake pedal or drivers seat. ATNMBL drives by itself.
About the size of that parking space you couldn't fit into, electric powered with wrap-around seating for seven, ATNMBL offers living comfort, views, conversations, entertainment, and social connectedness. The vehicle is designed from the inside out with elements influenced by architecture and domestic interior spaces.
From the outside, ATNMBL looks like micro-architecture. Large windows, a pitched roof and asymmetrical from every view, it is designed without any reference to automobiles of the past. In contrast to today's automobiles, where much of the car's space is reserved for engine and drive train, ATNMBL's mechanical components are densely packed and simplified, providing dramatically more interior space in a vehicle that is shorter than most cars on the road today.
Electric motors in each wheel provide all-wheel drive. Electric power is stored underneath the seating and floor with additional power provided by solar panels on the roof. Within a gridded pattern on the front and rear is an array of headlights, tail lights and sensors.
Passengers enter ATNMBL from the curb side through an electric glass sliding door into a standing-height entryway. Inside, the seating arrangement is a direct reference to the familiar living-room setting of a couch, side chair and low table. Riders are oriented towards each other and to the view outside through the large floor-to-ceiling windows on both sides. Centrally oriented is a large flat display that features live trip information, maps, and entertainment.
The display can slide up to reveal a bar behind. A new and comprehensive sense of control is introduced through voice recognition and a touch screen remote control (or one's personal phone), offering riders a wide range of trip planning, ride sharing and performance settings that can be very detailed for those who want elaborate control or extremely simple for those who would rather just relax and enjoy the ride."


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Toxic Water: A series about the worsening pollution in American waters and regulators' response
Examine whether contaminants in your water supply met two standards: the legal limits established by the Safe Drinking Water Act, and the typically stricter health guidelines. The data was collected by an advocacy organization, the Environmental Working Group, who shared it with The Times.
3 Water Systems in Divide County, North Dakota
- City of Crosby Crosby (Serves 1,089 people)
- City of Noonan Noonan (Serves 154 people)
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Good teachers work to create personalized experiences for students that motivate them and target their specific learning needs. But teachers can't do it alone. Digital content and tools that support personalized learning create new kinds of student data that help teachers tailor instruction specifically to students' needs and interests, and get rapid insight into their learning progress. And as we celebrate Digital Learning Day, what better time to highlight the need for more effective digital instructional tools?
There's no replacement for the powerful connection between teacher and student, but digital instructional tools provide teachers with valuable information and resources to meet individual needs and track student progress. Teachers are constantly trying to analyze how their students are doing based on many data sources, and new tools that organize data well and provide actionable insights into what individual students need are becoming available.
Products like Lexia Reading Core5 make it easier for teachers to help students analyze an author's viewpoint, or better understand important literacy concepts like comparing and contrasting. Lexia Reading Core5, a Common Core-aligned writing tool and Literacy Courseware Challenge winner, was designed to provide support for students who are performing at or below their grade level.
"The data helps me talk to them about their goals, celebrate their achievements, and set new goals," said Mariana Robles, a teacher at Hawthorne Elementary School in Riverside, California. Robles has seen incredible growth from her students since introducing tools like Lexia Reading Core5, and she has found it much easier to monitor their progress. "Technology enables me to have and give almost immediate feedback."
But challenges remain. While teachers rely on digital tools to help their students prepare for college and career, they rarely get to shape and design these products to meet their specific needs. A recent report from the foundation's Teachers Know Best series presents the findings from a survey of more than 4,600 teachers about how they use digital tools to tailor instruction and meet students where they are.
What we've learned is that more than two thirds of teachers—67 percent—are not fully satisfied with the tools they currently have access to. Teachers tell us that far too often, time is their biggest obstacle. With current technologies, they spend so much time just figuring out how to collect and analyze data that they have no time to significantly alter instruction based on that data. Our teachers—and most importantly, our students—deserve better.
To learn more about the findings from Teachers Know Best: Making Data Work for Teachers and Students, join us for a webinar with iNACOL tomorrow, where I will present key findings from the report and share the foundation's efforts and the efforts of our partners to better understand teacher perspectives about the use of digital instructional tools in the classroom. I invite you to join the conversation on Twitter using #TeachersKnowBest during the webinar.
Whether you are a teacher looking for ideas of digital tools to use in your classroom or just want to see what's out there, check out www.graphite.org. Who knows, maybe you'll stumble upon a digital instructional tool that helps you transform your classroom.
Sara Allan
Sara Allan is the Deputy Director of Market Accelerationon the College Ready team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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"The world faces a clear choice. If we invest relatively small amounts, many more poor farmers will be able to feed their families." —Bill Gates, 2012 Annual Letter
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In Senegal, 80% of households now have a bed net, helping the number of malaria cases there drop 50% in a single year.
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Toshiba to demo a 720x1280 pixels 4" LCD screen, lesser resolutions weep
After all, the Japanese announced that at the SID expo this week the company will showcase one of its Low Temperature Poly-Silicon (LTPS) LCD displays, 4" in size and, get this, with 720x1280 pixels of resolution.
The high-resolution screen sounds like a perfect candidate to go into high-end smartphones, since, besides the insane pixel count, it sports contrast ratio of 1500:1 (the iPhone 4's screen has been measured up to 1117:1), 92% color gamut (the iPhone 4 covers 64%) and viewing angles up to 176 degrees.
However, the last rumor is that the factory plans with Toshiba were scrapped, and Apple is siding with Sharp for the production of the iPhone 6's display, which, coincidentally, also has an LTPS display production technology that allows for greater than 300ppi density, which is the threshold for a Retina Display moniker.
Nevertheless, Toshiba's screen is a remarkable achievement and should give a boost to the competition, all in our favor as customers.
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2. vantenkiest (Posts: 314; Member since: 20 Apr 2011)
SWEEET! i can get rid of the damn root app lcd density
3. protozeloz (Posts: 5396; Member since: 16 Sep 2010)
sorry for the rain on the party but... why do we need a higher density that the one the human EYE can see? I mean "retina display" should be the top a company should go to improve sharpness, companies should be working on better power management or other stuff....
5. Lucas777 (Posts: 2137; Member since: 06 Jan 2011)
agreed... and idk why this is so "breakthrough" when it is the same ppi as the retina display... it is just slightly bigger...
6. protozeloz (Posts: 5396; Member since: 16 Sep 2010)
a wise guy told said once when asked why his company was not interested on getting a res above 400ppi to beat apples and his answer was plain simple:
''Is tis going to really benefit the customer having something they cant appreciate with naked scenes, not so long ago someone invented the dvd audio with a quality thats so good the human ear cant perceive any defects on it, yet the protect failed because the files where big and the proses was more costly, and the real benefit? none same things could apply to screens apple did a great job by not only making the Highness res on a smartphone but setting a limit, a line no one should try to cross above because there is nothing to it. better work on other tings like battery management and overall life of the screen''
I couldn't agree any better
7. Lucas777 (Posts: 2137; Member since: 06 Jan 2011)
exactly... but i dont understand how nobody has been able to replicate it yet...
8. protozeloz (Posts: 5396; Member since: 16 Sep 2010)
I have searched and searched for a reason why we don have it just to cut bragging rights, all I found is that there are solutions (something related with copyright) but companies don't feel like using them because they are focusing on other stuff


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Archive resource - Reading Connects family involvement toolkit
The Reading Connects family involvement toolkit is for primary and secondary schools and provides ideas and case studies to inspire you to reach out to your pupils' families and encourage them to make their homes reading homes.
Reading Connects was a network to support schools in developing a whole-school reading culture with the ultimate aim of improving pupils' reading attitudes and increasing how much they read. The network was funded by Government from 2004 until March 2011.
We are now pleased to be able to provide schools with a new offer to help you transform literacy in your school. Our Network is just £100 per school per year, and offers benefits such as monthly resources, evaluation tools, discounts on National Literacy Trust products and special offers from partner organisations. Find out more.Download this file


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Thomas F. Caserta, 69, of Alliance, passed away on Friday, Jan. 25, 2013, at his home following a courageous battle with cancer.
Born on July 6, 1943, in Alliance, he lived in Alliance most of his life.
A 1961 graduate of Alliance High School, he had attended The Ohio State University.
He served our country in the U.S. Air Force and was a member of the NRA.
Tom attended Alliance Church of the Nazarene and was a machinist by trade for many years and had also worked for Western-Southern Life Insurance.
He was very devoted to his friends, but especially loved spending time with his family. He loved watching his grandchildren grow up and always attended their many various sporting events. He was an avid outdoorsman and enjoyed hunting and fishing. One of his greatest enjoyments was working in and taking care of his garden. Tom was a great cook and was passionate about cooking, especially Italian food. He had a great sense of humor that never failed him.
Survivors include his wife, Patricia (Frame) Caserta, whom he married on July 11, 1964; his children, Michele Caserta, Thomas A. (Wendy) Caserta and James D. (Daniele) Caserta, all of Alliance; grandchildren, Danielle, Celeste, Nina, Thomas and Logan; a sister, Nancy Caserta Giovanini of Surprise, Ariz.; several nieces and nephews; and dogs, Maggie and Ginger.
Preceding him in death were his parents, Thomas and Laura (Spiller) Caserta.
The family will receive friends at Sharer-Stirling-Skivolocke Funeral Home from 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. His funeral service will be held at Sharer-Stirling-Skivolocke Funeral Home at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, with Rev. Glen Davidson of Alliance Church of the Nazarene officiating. Interment will follow at Highland Memorial Park .
Memorial contributions may be made to Alliance Visiting Nurse Association and Hospice, 885 S. Sawburg Ave., Alliance, OH 44601.
Arrangements are by Sharer-Stirling-Skivolocke Funeral Home, 1000 S. Union Ave., Alliance, Ohio 44601. This obituary may be viewed and condolences may be sent to the family online at www.sharerfuneralhome.com. (1-28-13)
Patty sorry for your loss, You had a good husband, Chuck Beckrtt


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Hewitt out of US Open, Davis Cup
LLEYTON Hewitt insists retirement is not on the horizon despite season-ending hip surgery ruling him out of the US Open and a critical Davis Cup tie next month.
A day after dropping to his lowest ranking in nine years, the former world No. 1 revealed he had been left with no alternative but to go under the knife in a bid to resuscitate his career.
A frustrated Hewitt has been restricted to just four tournaments since April the French Open and Wimbledon plus the prestigious Queen's and Olympic Games and the 27-year-old decided enough was enough.
"Surgery was always the last resort, but unfortunately that's what it came down to," he said. "I am also shattered that I can't lead the Australian Davis Cup team in Chile (from September 19-21) in our bid to rejoin the World Group, and hope that the boys can still come through with a great win."
Hewitt hopes to recover in time for the summer season, with the Australian Open his next major goal.
He has slumped to 55 in the world rankings, his lowest since May 1999, when he was a teenager about to tear up the rankings and eventually become the world's youngest-ever season-ending No. 1 at 20 years and 10 months in 2001.
Had Hewitt soldiered on, he would have been unseeded at the US Open for the first time at a grand slam since the 2000 Australian Open.
Along with all-time greats Jimmy Connors and Ivan Lendl, Hewitt is one of only three players to have made seven successive US Open quarter-finals in the professional era.
However, the 2001 Flushing Meadows champion will sit out only his second major in a decade.
Apart from the 2005 French Open, when he had a broken rib, Hewitt has missed just one of the past 40 grand slam tournaments, dating back to 1999, and has been the last Australian standing in 18 of his last 19 majors.
One of few fathers on the ATP Tour, and also expecting a second child with former actress wife Bec, Hewitt has vowed to continue playing, presuming his rehabilitation from arthroscopic surgery goes smoothly.
"I am looking forward to playing again in January in my home country, and using that as a springboard to compete at my best again on the world stage for at least a couple more years," he said.
Despite being little more than a part-time player in 2008, Hewitt has performed commendably at the big events he has contested.
Hewitt's absence next week leaves world No. 88 Chris Guccione as the only Australian direct entry in the 128-strong men's draw for the season's final major.
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Jerusalem (May. 23)
Both Jewish and Arab leaders here are studying the statements made today and yesterday by State Department spokesmen in Washington concerning the admission to Palestine of 100,000 displaced Jews from Europe.
A spokesman for the Jewish Agency issued the following statement: "The test of the Jewish attitude to the policy of the United States Government is whether or not the Anglo-American committee's recommendation for 100,000 Jews to be permitted to go to Palestine immediately will in fact be implemented and without delay. It is gratifying to learn that this is apparently the intention of the United States Government."
Jamal Husseini, chairman of the Arab Higher Committee, declared that the U.S. stand on the 100,000 Jews was "one good reason why the Arabs will refuse to participate in any further consultations. So long as the United States declares its policy first and asks Arabs to talk it over afterwards, it is obvious that no useful purpose can be served by further discussions," Husseini added.


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Obama 'drone warfare rulebook' condemned by human rights groups 25 Nov 2012 President Barack Obama's administration is in the process of drawing up a formal rulebook that will set out the circumstances in which targeted assassination by unmanned drones is justified, according to reports. The New York Times, citing two unnamed sources, said explicit guidelines were being drawn up amid disagreement between the CIA and the departments of defense, justice and state over when lethal action is acceptable. Human-rights groups and peace groups opposed to the CIA-operated targeted-killing programme, which remains officially classified, said the administration had already rejected international law in pursuing its drone operations. "To say they are rewriting the rulebook implies that there is already a rulebook" said Jameel Jaffer, the director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Center for Democracy. "But what they are already doing is rejecting a rulebook – of international law – that has been in place since [the second world war]."
White House drafting drone 'rule book' 25 Nov 2012 Facing the possibility that President Obama might not win a second term, his administration accelerated work in the weeks before the election to develop explicit rules for the targeted killing of terrorists by unmanned drones, so that a new president would inherit clear standards and procedures, according to two administration officials. The attempt to write a formal rule book for targeted killing began last summer after news reports on the drone program, started under President [sic] George W. Bush and expanded by Mr. Obama, revealed some details of the president's role in the shifting procedures for compiling "kill lists" and approving strikes. The draft rule book for drone strikes that has been passed among agencies over the last several months is so highly classified, officials said, that it is hand-carried from office to office rather than sent by e-mail.
Pentagon Wants to Keep Running Its Afghan Drug War From Blackwater's HQ 21 Nov 2012 Inside a compound in Kabul called Camp Integrity [sic], the Pentagon stations a small group of officers to oversee the U.S. military's various operations to 'curb' the spread of Afghanistan's cash crops of heroin and marijuana, which help line the Taliban's CIA's pockets. Only Camp Integrity isn't a U.S. military base at all. It's the 10-acre Afghanistan headquarters of the private security company formerly known as Blackwater. Those officers work for an obscure Pentagon agency called the Counter Narco-Terrorism Program Office, or CNTPO. Quietly, it's grown into one of the biggest dispensers of cash for private security contractors in the entire U.S. government: One pile of contracts last year from CNTPO was worth more than $3 billion. And it sees a future for itself in Afghanistan over the long haul... When all the options are exercised, the contract extends through September 29, 2015, over a year past the date when Afghan soldiers and cops are supposed to take over the war. And the "government preferred location" to base CNTPO? Camp Integrity.
Mysterious respiratory virus claims another life in Middle East 24 Nov 2012 Another person has died and at least three more cases of a mysterious respiratory virus have been discovered in Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The World Health Organization confirms that that the new strain is part of the coronavirus family, which also includes the deadly SARS. The WHO has confirmed six cases of infection, with four in Saudi Arabia and two in Qatar. The World Health Organization earlier said that the virus does not appear to be contagious, but on Friday it announced that the two latest cases discovered in a Saudi family were epidemiologically linked.
NORAD F-16s intercept Cessna 337 over Charleston, SC 23 Nov 2012 Two F-16 fighters under the direction of North American Aerospace Defense Command intercepted a Cessna 337 general aviation aircraft in the vicinity of Charleston, South Carolina, today at approximately 11:20 a.m. EST. The aircraft was designated a track of interest because of an apparent discrepancy between its track and flight plan. Once it was intercepted and identified, the aircraft landed at the Charleston Executive Airport without further incident. The pilot was directed to contact the Federal Aviation Administration for further direction.
High-tech surveillance gear raises questions in NJ 23 Nov 2012 A federal anti-terrorism program has drawn North Jersey deeper into the practice of hidden surveillance, equipping police departments with high-tech cameras, infrared technology and automatic license plate readers to keep tabs on people as they travel to local reservoirs, financial hubs and malls. The stepped-up security around potential terrorist targets links the region into a network of clandestine monitoring. Some of the departments are already putting to use the equipment provided by Homeland Security; others are gearing up.
Judge Denies Bail to Hacktivist Jeremy Hammond 21 Nov 2012 A federal judge refused release to one of the men accused of helping Anonymous and others hack various media, government and private-spy websites last year. Jeremy Hammond was one of five so-called hacktivists arrested in a March sting operation engineered after the FBI made an informant [traitor] of Hector Monsegur, a hacker known online as Sabu, who led a group called LulzSec. At a bail hearing in New York on Tuesday, Hammond's defense attorney, Elizabeth Fink, implied that investigators used entrapment to snare Hammond for the cyberattack on private intelligence firm Strategic Forecasting, or Stratfor. Monsegur led the Stratfor attack under his Sabu alter ego while he was working for the government, Fink said.
Anonymous takes down NISD website over student tracking 25 Nov 2012 The hacker group Anonymous has claimed responsibility for taking down the Northside ISD's [Independent School District, San Antonio, TX] website in protest of the district's controversial tracking ID badges for students. The group said in an e-mail to KENS 5 that they took down the district's website (www.NISD.net) on Saturday. They also included in the e-mail a link to a recent Kens5.com article on the district's new Smart IDs: "We saw your article... Anonymous (@tr1xxyAnon) are not going to allow this!" The website was still down as of Sunday morning.
Anonymous to NISD: 'I hope you noticed that I took down your website for a reason' 25 Nov 2012 On Sunday, tr1xxyAnon tweeted, 'This is the official statement of #Anonymous and me.' The announcement was posted on Pastebin. 'Dear NISD, I sincerely hope you have noticed that I have took [sic] down your website for a reason, and that reason is stripping away the privacy of students in your school. What was going through your mind when you had this idea? Now it is your school and your rules, but you seen what I did to your website, and have a simple deal for you, weather you accept it or not, is up to you. ...I am giving you 1-3 days to hold this meeting with the parents... IF you do not hold this meeting and nothing happens, I will simply shut down your website, like I did last time.'
Judge stops school from expelling girl who refused to wear tracking device 24 Nov 2012 A Texas high school student will be allowed to continue going to class for now despite her refusal to cooperate with a[n insane] program that forces pupils to be mandatorily tracked with computer chips. Andrea Hernandez was told she'd be expelled from John Jay High School's Science and Engineering Academy in San Antonio starting next week if she insists any further on disobeying a new policy that requires students to wear ID badges equipped with tiny Radio Frequency Identification ('RFID') chips. Now attorneys with the Rutherford Institute say Hernandez has been granted a temporary restraining order that will prohibit the Northside Independent School District from relocating the student to another facility.
Keystone pipeline protesters arrested in Texas --Cherokee County sheriff's deputies used 'pain compliance' measures 19 Nov 2012 The fight to block construction of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline through east Texas stepped up Monday as protesters locked themselves to machinery. Dozens of others formed a human chain to keep heavy machinery from moving around the proposed pipeline's path in Cherokee County, said Ethan Nuss, spokesman for the Tar Sands Blockade group. Three protesters at another location suspended themselves from 50-foot pine trees with their life lines anchored by the construction equipment, Nuss said. Cherokee County sheriff's deputies used "pain compliance" measures, including pepper spray, to remove the four protesters locked to the machinery, Nuss said.
UK's RBS could face separate Libor fines: paper 25 Nov 2012 Royal Bank of Scotland is facing the increasing likelihood of having to settle separately with the UK and U.S. authorities investigating its involvement in the global interest rate-setting scandal, the Sunday Telegraph said. The British newspaper said [corpora-terrorists] RBS is concerned it could receive a "double hit" of separate fines - one from the UK's Financial Services Authority and one from the U.S. authorities. The bank had been hoping to agree a single collective deal, similar to the one agreed by Barclays, which became the first, and so far only, bank to settle with regulators over the allegations that traders attempted to manipulate the setting of key inter-bank lending rates such as Libor, paying fines in June totaling 290 million pounds ($464 million).
Protesting Greek municipal workers occupy town halls 22 Nov 2012 Greek municipal workers occupied hundreds of town halls across the country for a fifth day on Thursday to protest against public sector layoffs demanded by European Union and International Monetary Fund lenders. Greece has promised the lenders it will revamp its bloated public sector by putting as many as 27,000 workers into a layoff scheme. City and local workers are expected to be among the first to be laid off under the plan. Their protests have intensified since the Greek government passed a package of austerity measures earlier this month, with workers this week staging daily sit-ins at more than two thirds of the country's 330 city halls and several ministries.
Fire Kills 112 Workers Making Clothes for US Brands 25 Nov 2012 The 100-plus workers who died in a fire late Saturday at a high-rise garment factory in Bangladesh were working overtime making clothes for major American retailers, including Wal-Mart, according to workers' rights groups. Officials in Bangladesh said the flames at the Tazreen Fashions factory outside Dhaka spread rapidly on the ground floor, trapping those on the higher floors of the nine-story building. There were no exterior fire escapes, according to officials, and many died after jumping from upper floors to escape the flames. As firemen continued to remove bodies Sunday, officials said at least 112 people had died but that the number of fatalities could go higher. [Solution: Boycott sacks of sh*t of the universe, Wal-Mart.]
Polar Bears Get Chilly Birthday Surprise 23 Nov 2012 Despite being in sunny California, two polar bears at the San Francisco Zoo celebrated their birthdays this month in true, really chilly style. Pike, 30, and Ulu, 32, got a very special sub-zero treatment Nov. 15 when the zoo had 10 tons of fresh snow blown into their habitat. "As the worldwide symbol of climate change, the presence of polar bears both in the wild and in zoological educational programs is a vital tool in carrying the messages of conservation," the San Francisco Zoo said in a statement. [Slideshow: Polar bears frolicking in fresh snow.]
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Using more than $1.5 million of its fund balance, Connellsville Area School Board Thursday passed a 2013-14 budget. The budget allows real-estate taxes to remain unchanged from 2013-14.
Before agreeing to balance the budget by taking $1,666,900 from the fund balance, revenues were approved at $65,603,300 and expenditures at $67,270,200.
The district's fund balance will now stand at $5,856,638.
Business Manager Eugene Cunningham said the fund balance has been decreasing for the last three years, since the district has been using it each year to help balance the budget.
"We'd like to see that trend change," he said.
Cunningham explained money has been taken from the fund balance in recent years because of almost $4 million a year in funding that continues to be cut from state and federal allocations.
During public comment, Bryan Kiesel, a CPA, said the board "has a fiduciary responsibility to the taxpayer to safeguard the district's assets and provide the best academic preparation for our students.
"The argument that the board doesn't know what funding will be from year to year is a foolish argument offered as an excuse for not understanding how to manage a $70-million business," he added. "What business has a crystal ball to know what its sales will be from year to year? Yet millions of businesses develop their business plans to control their financial destiny."
No board members commented on the budget.
As part of the budget process, a motion passed to set the millage rate at 12.60 mills, the same as this past fiscal year, per $100 of assessed valuation of real estate.
In other finance business, directors accepted the workers compensation insurance policy from Highmark Casualty Insurance Company at a savings of more than $6,000 from last year's policy and the district's excess liability insurance policy with Old Republic Insurance Company at a savings of almost $500 from last year's policy.
The board approved the errors and omissions insurance participation agreement for the PSBA Insurance Trust's School Leaders: Legal Liability Risk Management Program at an increase of $4,400, as well as the district's Property/Casualty Insurance Policy with PSBA/ACE USA at an increase of $11,120.
Directors adopted the 2013-14 Connellsville Area Career and Technical Center Budget with revenues and expenditures balanced at $3,837,100.
Under personnel and review, a motion passed to extend contracts for JROTC instructors Ulysses R. Winn and Chief Joseph M. Cordier from July 1 of this year to June 30, 2014.
July's regular board meeting has been canceled.
Rachel Basinger is a freelance writer.


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Frisky Rant: I'm Pissed That Kate Gosselin Got Voted Off "DWTS"
Did Kate Gosselin really get the boot from "Dancing With The Stars" last night? Whine, whine, whimper. I know, I know—she's genuinely one of the worst dancers the show has ever seen. I am aware that I'm probably going to hell for saying this but I want—no need—her to stay on the show. Why? Because she is my reason for watching. Because miraculously she seems to keep getting worse every week. And because she makes me belly laugh, darnit. I've watched the show in past seasons and there have been some embarrassingly bad dancers. (Hi, Heather Mills and Steve-O.) But somehow none were as ridiculous as Kate. Case in point, this week's fox trot debacle. I won't be forgetting about it anytime soon. It was the comedy highlight of my week. I know I'm pathetic for admitting that, but it's the truth. In fact, I don't even know if I'm interested in watching the show anymore this season. Seeing Kate do her stupid dance moves week after week reminded me that my life is not that bad. Things could be much worse. I could be divorced with eight kids, no job prospects, a bad weave, no rhythm and the whole world could be watching as I bomb on the dance floor week after week. Can't we give Kate another chance to cut a rug? She just wants to dance. And we just want to watch.


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September 03, 2012
Mark Abrahamian, Guitarist for Starship, Dies at 46...
Mark Abrahamian, the lead guitarist for the band Starship died from a heart attack following a concert in Norfolk, Neb. He was 46. Starship is best known for their post-Jefferson Airplane hit, "We Built This City." Rock on, wherever you may be. (Via Spinner)
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9:00 PM on Sunday, October 27, 2013
w/ Jordana Divinorum, Groit, DJ CZI, DJ Macabria, DJ NIghtshade, DJ...
Venue: Ozzy's Bar & Nightclub
Neighbourhood: Centre
Friends of the Winnipeg Public Library 9th Annual Big Fall Book Sale
10:00 AM on Saturday, October 26, 2013
12:00 PM on Sunday, October 27, 2013
60 tables loaded with good used books from nearly new to very old. CDs, DVDs & LPs too. Sunday everything is half-price. Information: 204-488-3217; email@example.com. A Friends fundraiser in support of Winnipeg Public Library
Venue: Grant Park High School
Neighbourhood: Winnipeg
Exhibition: Légers tremblements / Slight Tremors by Barbara Claus
Daily at 9:00 AM - From Thursday, September 12, 2013 - Friday, November 1, 2013
The artist's installation will fill the gallery with drawings, images, video projections and written words. The exhibit will then lead the spectator through many avenues of thought, causing sensations, reactions, leaving place to remember and to reflect, a transparent poetic matter, a space where
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Living Room
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a faith- based support group for persons living with mood
Venue: Immanuel Pentecostal Church
Neighbourhood: Winnipeg
2013 Dollhouse & Miniatures Show & Sale
10:00 AM on Sunday, October 27, 2013
Join us for the 2013 Dollhouse and Miniatures Show and Sale at the Dakota Lawn Bowling Building on Sunday, October 27, 2013 for fun for the whole family!
Venue: Dakota Lawn Bowling Building
Neighbourhood: St. Vital
The Winnipeg Art Gallery presents European Renaissance and Baroque Art: 1500-1700
Daily - From Saturday, September 1, 2012 - Thursday, January 30, 2014
Venue: The Winnipeg Art Gallery
Neighbourhood: Winnipeg
The Winnipeg Art Gallery presents The Academic Tradition in Europe and Canada, 1700-1900
Daily - From Saturday, September 1, 2012 - Thursday, January 30, 2014
Venue: The Winnipeg Art Gallery
Neighbourhood: Winnipeg
Alzheimer Society - Coffee Break® 2013
Daily at 12:00 AM - From Sunday, September 1, 2013 - Thursday, October 31, 2013
Make your coffee count by hosting a Coffee Break® in support of the Alzheimer Society of Manitoba. This September or October, invite co-workers, friends and family to make a donation in exchange for a cup of coffee. It's a fun and simple way to support people affected by Alzheimer's disease or
Arborescence: Photography by Simone Hébert Allard
Daily at 11:00 AM - From Saturday, September 28, 2013 - Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Arborescence means having the "size, form, or characteristics of a tree". The artist turns this on its head by portraying the humanlike qualities of our wooded consorts, exposing the deep-rooted connectedness that exists between us.
Venue: Wayne Arthur Gallery
Neighbourhood: Centre
Tarot cards reading, Flame reading, Psychometry, Tea cup reading -- Fundraiser event
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We offer fun Tarot cards readings, Flame readings, Psychometry, Tea cup readings for insight into life's challenges every Sunday from 6:30 -7:30 pm. Cost is $15.00 for a 15 minute reading. 204-222-0071 or email at firstname.lastname@example.com Spiritualist Fellowship Church 300 Arlington Street at Portage
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European Renaissance and Baroque Art: 1500-1700
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Venue: Winnipeg Art Gallery
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Library Out Loud
1:30 PM on Sunday, October 27, 2013
Come share your writing - in any genre - with The Writers' Collective and Millennium Library! You don't need to be polished or professional; you don't need to have been published. You need only be willing to read words you have written, OUT LOUD. For more info, call Reader Services at 204-986-6779.
Venue: Millennium Library - TD New and Noted Room
Neighbourhood: City Centre
Band Jam
Sunday, October 27, 2013
Venue: Marion Hotel
Neighbourhood: Centre
Girl Guides of Canada
Daily - From Thursday, August 22, 2013 - Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Register: www.girlguides.ca Today's program helps girls learn about global and cultural awareness, career exploration, science & technology, nature, camping, community service and the arts.
Venue: Various community clubs and churches
Neighbourhood: Winnipeg
Manitoba Electrical Museum and Education Centre
Daily - From Thursday, March 28, 2013 - Friday, March 28, 2014
Interactive exhibits include a robot made of more than 50 household appliances. Regular hours: Monday-Thursday, 1-4 p.m. Free admission. Call 204-360-7905 to arrange a group
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Over the past few days, I considered making some drastic changes to the way I report my finances at the end of each month. I've been trying to decide whether it makes more sense to separate my business accounts from this report and report the numbers separately as I did a few years ago, remove the business accounts altogether, or leave the report the way it is.
I'm not sure how relevant my business bank accounts and receivables are to my personal finances. I transfer as little as possible between the business and personal accounts to keep my income taxes low, so most of the revenue stays "in the business."
I didn't change the report for May before putting together this article. These numbers include my business accounts and personal accounts commingled, like usual.
I'll need to start making some decisions about how to better manage the business cash. I wrote about a friend of mine who was looking for better interest rates for his business's cash and he decided to take advantage of business CDs offered by a local bank; I prefer to avoid long-term CDs with the rates currently so low. I'm not sure an investment account for my business is the right approach either, so I'll ask around among colleagues to get some ideas.
I expected to see a seasonal dip in business income in May, like in 2009 and 2010, but that was not the case this year. Keep reading to see the numbers. You can see last month's numbers have been revised upward; I expect the same to happen this month as more business invoices are calculated.
For those curious — and every month I don't explain this, someone asks — I create the above report using a combination of Intuit Quicken and a Microsoft Excel template. Quicken provides the capability of tracking my spending and income, and at the end of the month, I export a custom report to a file compatible with Excel. I open the output and use the data as input for the template. I add a column for the latest month, update a few formulas to track the change percentages, and copy in chart into a graphics editor.
Cash in banks
I am trying hard to get all major clients to pay the business via direct deposit. I've been moving back and forth between my apartment and my girlfriend's apartment in New York so much, it's difficult for me to find time to get to the bank to deposit checks. As I said above, I keep most of the cash in the business and transfer only what I need to personal accounts. This means that whatever I don't need is just left in cash.
I'm open to suggestions for how small businesses usually manage their assets when they are not distributed to the owners or shareholders. The large company I used to work for had entire departments dedicated to investing company-owned assets and still left a sizable portion of these assets in cash accounts, so my experience there isn't much of a help.
Investment and retirement
Overall, my investments performed poorly during May, reflecting the overall stall in the market. The only investments that increased this past month were my Individual 401(k) at Vanguard, which increased only because I added to my investment in the Total Stock Market Index, and a small investment account at ShareBuilder that includes an investment in Toyota ADR. TM is up for the month but down from the recent peak earlier this year.
Accounts receivable
In May, there was a change with one of my major clients. Rather than paying the invoice within 30 days, this client be paying within 60 days. This will affect the accounts receivable balance starting in June. While this is creates an unfortunate delay, it comes with the benefit of eliminating a middle-man arrangement and increasing the value of the contract.
2004 Honda Civic
My car passed 131,000 miles on the odometer this month. I've been driving from New Jersey to Queens and back more often, and this past weekend, I drove to upstate New York for a friend's wedding. It's time for regularly scheduled maintenance, though, so in a few days I will call the dealership to schedule an oil change and a few other minor adjustments.
At some point over the past few days, most likely while the car was tightly parallel parked on the street in Queens, a red car hit my Civic's rear bumper and left a large scratch. The last time I was at the dealership, I asked for an estimate to repair the smaller scratches and dents on the vehicle, but the price from their body shop did not make the expense worthwhile. I don't plan to sell this car, so its appearance doesn't usually bother me, but perhaps insurance will cover the cost of fixing this larger scratch.
The scratch changes my car's condition from Excellent to Average, and with that change, I should take a significant hit in my valuation. I haven't updated the value of the car in Quicken beyond my standard $100 decrease for depreciation.
Accounts payable
This includes my business bills that are invoices but unpaid at the end of the month as well as any credit card balances. I pay my credit card balances in full every month to avoid interest fees and late charges. I'm thankful that, unlike ten years ago, I earn enough income to cover the basic living necessities and no longer need to worry about going into debt just to commute to work every day. There was a big decrease in my business expenses in May, which resulted in the drop in accounts payable from last month.
Looking forward
Typically, business slows down in the summer. I have every reason to expect the same. Despite slower progress building the business, I have some new deals in place that will keep income very healthy. As far as expenses go, June will also be slow. I see no major expenses coming up this month. I plan to visit family in California for a few days, but that trip is already paid for. I expect to take a vacation later this summer, so I'll likely plan for that this month.
What are your plans for the summer?
Updated March 6, 2012 and originally published June 1, 2011.


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Top Review by Pixie
I love the combo of the chocolate cookie crumbs with the pineapple-coconut filling! Delish! I couldn't resist putting a few more cookie crumbs on top for decoration. I used regular flaked coconut, low-fat cream cheese/cool whip because thats what I had and it worked great. What a fantastic little treat to be able to make up and freeze! I'll be making this one again during the summer months! Made for PAC Spring 2009.
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 1⁄3 cup Oreo cookie crumbs
- 1 (8 ounce) containerphiladelphia cream cheese spread
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 (8 ounce) can crushed pineapple, undrained
- 1 cup baker's angel flake coconut, toasted
- 1 (8 ounce) container Cool Whip Topping, thawed, divided
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- DIVIDE crumbs evenly among 12 paper-lined medium muffin cups.
- BEAT cream cheese spread and sugar in large bowl with wire whisk until light and fluffy. Add pineapple and coconut; mix well. Stir in whipped topping. Spoon into prepared muffin cups. Sprinkle with additional toasted coconut, if desired.
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We Didn't Want To Get Off the Ship!!!: Norwegian Spirit Cruise Review by kateydid14
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We Didn't Want To Get Off the Ship!!!
Destination: Western Caribbean
Embarkation: New Orleans
Embarkation was a piece of cake-we arrived at the port around 12:45 and were in our cabin by 1:30. Our luggage was delivered just a couple of hours later. We had a balcony room, which we really enjoyed. It was directly under the Galaxy of the Stars so was a bit noisy between 10 pm and midnight but we are night owls so it did not bother us. Our cabin was in decent shape; there were signs of some minor problems, such as some rust on the balcony, a small rip in the sheets one night, and missing caulk in a few places in the shower stall. But the cabin felt clean and our stewards were awesome! They were both friendly and always smiling. We always had fresh towels and a clean bathroom. Once on board, I asked for a refrigerator, which was promptly brought More to our room.
The Spirit was pretty easy to get around. The public spaces were in tip-top shape. The photographers were a bit annoying but we just said no and they left us alone. The shows we saw were ok: the broadway review and Elements. We are not much into gambling; even if we had been, the Casino was SOOOO smoky that I wouldn't have stayed long (that was our major complaint about the trip). We enjoyed spending time in Champagne Charlies and the english pub (can't think of the name right now). There was a man playing acoustic guitar several nights in these bars that we really liked.
Lots of variety for breakfast and the food was pretty good. We enjoyed filling up our plates and then eating poolside in the mornings. Nice and quiet! We ate one night at Le Bistro, one night at Cagney's, and one night at La Tratorria. The rest of the nights we ate in Windows, except for one evening in the Garden room. The food was usually very nicely presented and tasted pretty good. Not the best food I've ever tasted but certainly better than most chain restaurants. We were worried about service since the Daily Service Charge covered the tips for the waitstaff but each waiter/waitress was polite and we were served our courses promptly and efficiently, even when we did not order wine or some other form of alcohol to drink. We did have one minor problem in the Blue Lagoon; my husband ordered a beer which was brought promptly but I ordered iced tea and our waitress made a face and sighed. She obviously did not like the idea of bringing me a drink that was "free" and did not have an automatic tip attached to it.
We enjoyed spending time outside on Decks 12, 7 and 13 on sea days; we could always find quiet spaces if we wanted. The waitstaff on decks 12 and 13 were great about bringing drinks; they were not at all pushy but always seemed to know when we were ready for more. We also liked the Internet access in the library and just sitting and relaxing in the Galaxy of the Stars.
I had my nails filled and a manicure done at the spa and was not especially impressed with the service; it was not up to the standards I am used to at home. We did not try any of the other spa services so cant say if this was just a one-time thing or if the spa services are usually so disappointing.
Overall, a very enjoyable vacation! We would definitely cruise with NCL again and would love to someday be on the Spirit again! Less
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Cabin review: BC11000 Balcony
Forward cabin 11000: right under the Galaxy of the Stars. It was somewhat noisy between 10 pm and midnight so if you're not a night owl, this may not be the cabin for you. We liked having passengers on only one side of us and there was not much foot traffic down our wing of the ship. Being so high up and so far forward, we worried about getting sea sick but this was not a problem for us. We're 1st time cruisers so we don;t really know if sea states of 3 and 4 are unusually calm but that could have accounted for the lack of seasickness I suppose!Read All Balcony (BC) Reviews >>
Port and Shore Excursions
After lunch, which was pretty skimpy, we walked into the jungle to several Mayan ruins. They were quite impressive and awe-inspiring. It was the highlight of our trip! Our guide was terrific and our heads were spinning with all kinds of information about Mayan peoples and their civilization. The largest ruin was 112 feet high; many of the people in our excursion and the other group at the site climbed to the top. The view was amazing at the top; hubby was disappointed that he did not climb up but he does not like heights. It was a pretty steep climb and most people used the rope to climb up and down.
The ruins were not at all crowded and were very non-touristy (which we think is a good thing) although I suppose if you like being around tons of people, walking on paved (or at least even) pathways, and everything being picture perfect because it had all been excavated many decades ago, this is not the site for you!
We made it back to the Spirit with about 45 minutes to spare. We highly recommend this excursion!
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"My biggest message is that I don't want us to ever forget this," Guest told The Daily Beast. "I wanted to paint something that would probably alter people's consciousness."
Guest has produced unrelated works for Denzel Washington, Tyler Perry and President Obama.
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TAMPA — It took 78 minutes, but Durant was finally able to get a ball past East Bay goalkeeper Derrick Miranda.
Cecil Clarke's goal in the 78th minute Wednesday broke a scoreless tie and gave the Cougars a 1-0 win to advance to the final of the Wharton Invitational.
Durant (16-1) outshot the Indians 23-3 but didn't score until its 23rd shot on goal.
"Our shots just weren't going in," Clarke said. "I guess we were a little unlucky."
East Bay (7-3-2) packed in its defense for the entire game, making it hard at times for the Cougars offense to get legitimate scoring chances.
Durant's Billy Fanning had the best opportunity to break the tie in the 54th minute when he banged the ball off the right post. But Clarke was the only Cougar able to solve Miranda after he snuck past him and smashed the ball into an empty net for the winner.
It was the second game of the season between the teams, with the Cougars winning the first meeting 3-2.
"We're just trying to win the championship," Clarke said. "If we play as a team, hopefully we'll come out on top."
Durant will face Sickles (11-3-1) for the championship Saturday after the Gryphons got two goals from Sebastian Matta in a dominating 3-0 performance over Newsome (7-3-2). Chris Kidd also scored for Sickles as he opened the scoring just five minutes into the game.


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A CHARITY night in Sale raised nearly £4,500 for national cancer charities.
Gaynor Leigh, of Reading Drive, organised the event at the Ashton-on-Mersey Golf Club.
With Barclays and NatWest matching some of the money raised, £3,975 went to Breast Cancer Care and £500 for Cancer Research.
Timperley-based band The Invaders performed on the night for free and prizes were donated by friends and local businesses.


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OXFORD, England -- Catholic bishops from the Pope Benedict XVI's native Bavaria have pledged to tighten procedures for handling abuse claims against local clergy.
"Our uppermost priority must be to seek the truth and create an open atmosphere which encourages victims to state what was done to them," bishops from the Munich and Freising and Bamberg archdioceses said in a statement after a mid-March meeting.
"We wish to investigate every suspicion and clear up every mistake," the March 18 statement said. "We therefore unanimously recommend revising our church's guidelines to include an obligation to register suspected sexual abuse with the authorities and physical abuses with the district attorney's office so it can immediately mount an independent investigation.
"As bishops, we must do everything in our power to prevent abuse."
The bishops also said they felt "consternation and shame" at reports of sexual abuse by priests in the south German region, which includes the pope's hometown of Marktl am Inn. It said the bishops would press for the German church's revised 2002 guidelines to include greater care in the selection and training of priests, and more effective abuse prevention in Catholic schools and organizations.
Meanwhile, Archbishop Reinhard Marx of Munich and Freising demanded closer church cooperation with judicial authorities and said Catholics should pray that victims would forgive their abusers "in the knowledge that healing comes from God."
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"We must pray that the children and young people who suffered mistreatment and abuse in the church, at the hands of its associates, priests and order members, will find strength to endure," the church leader said in a homily during the meeting.
"God's mercy requires that we let ourselves be transformed by his love and placed on a new path -- not that we quickly pass over the truth, but that we say what is happening clearly."
Throughout several European countries bishops and clergy reflected on the March 20 letter Pope Benedict sent to Irish Catholics in which he apologized to victims of priestly sexual abuse and announced new steps to heal the wounds from the scandal.
Archbishop Robert Zollitsch of Freiburg, president of Germany's bishops' conference, said the letter also was "a summons for the church in Germany." He met with the pope March 12 to discuss clergy abuse in Germany.
Meanwhile, the German government's Berlin-based spokesman, Ulrich Wilhelm, said March 22 the letter was welcomed by Chancellor Angela Merkel for "openly advocating damages for injustice and better prevention."
In neighboring Austria, where at least 300 alleged clergy sexual abuse cases have been registered since February, Cardinal Christoph Schonborn welcomed the papal document as a "true pastoral letter." He also announced plans for a March 31 Mass of atonement in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna.
Msgr. Franz Schuster, vicar general of the Archdiocese of Vienna, said in a March 23 interview with Austria's Catholic news agency, Kathpress, that a church working group under his leadership had met a day earlier to discuss standardizing procedures for handling abuse claims in dioceses and religious orders.
He said that the group proposed strengthening links between existing diocesan offices charged with investigating abuse allegations. The plan will be submitted to the Austrian bishops' conference for discussion at its June meeting.
In Switzerland, where more than 60 abuse complaints are being investigated by a church commission, a bishops' conference spokesman said March 21 the pope's letter would provide "a good occasion to survey and update" church guidelines adopted in 2002.
Abbot Martin Werlen of the Benedictine Abbey of Einsiedeln proposed March 21 that an international database of clergy suspected of pedophilia be developed and circulated to bishops.
In the Netherlands, the Catholic church's Help and Law organization, established in 1995 by the Dutch bishops to assist abuse victims, said March 21 the number of abuse claims had risen to around 1,100. Most accusations dated from the period between 1950 and 1970, the organization said.
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Free school uniforms, clothing and miscellaneous items are available at East Lake Baptist Church at 3213 Lake Road. Clothes Closet is open from 9 a.m. to noon Wednesdays. For more information, call 254-690-4400 or 254-699-8125.
Open Arms Outreach will give out free school supplies beginning at 9 a.m. today at 409 N. Eighth St. in Killeen. This back-to-school event will be held in conjunction with the ministry's free monthly food pantry. In addition to the free food and school supply giveaway, breakfast burritos will be served at no charge. For more information about the ministry and its programs or to volunteer or make donations, go to www.OpenArmsOutreachInc.com or call 254-291-7387.
Back-to-School backpack and supplies giveaway is from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Aug. 24 at Bible Way COGIC, 300 W. Jasper Road, Killeen. A free Jump House and free refreshments will also be offered. Children must be accompanied and supervised by a responsible adult. For more information, call 254-319-3919.
The second annual Back to School Buzz, hosted by Grace United Methodist Church, is from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday. School supplies will be given away. Local stylists are offering free haircuts. Free food will be available. This free event, for anyone in the community, will be held at 101 W. Avenue F. Donations to provide school supplies for 50 families in Copperas Cove are being accepted. Financial donations need to be made by Tuesday. For those wanting to make a donation, contact Shelia Creer with Needs 4 Real, which is a Christian based organization, at 254-458-9770. For more information, go to the website at http://screer.wix.com/needs4real.


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Well, even though the service rules were not followed, you have actual notice of the hearing, so you should attend (unless it is less than 15 days away, in which case you should call the court and ask to postpone it because the service of process rules were not followed).
The service of process rules will protect you if you did not appear, and later asked to set aside the judgment because you were not served. But it won't get the case dismissed outright or anything.
At this point, it really won't help you to avoid court, even though you were improperly served.
Like you said, the rules are in place for a reason, but that reason is to make sure that you are aware of the court date, which you are. If they took a default judgment because you never knew about the hearing, you could get it set aside because of improper service.
But at this point, it is probably best to just appear or contact the lawyer on the papers and try to settle it.
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New 'Hunger Games' Still Shows Katniss, Effie & Haymitch in The Capitol (PHOTO)
This weekend, fans were treated to yet another new still of the upcoming Hunger Games movie (via DailyBlam). In this freshly-released photo, Jennifer Lawrence (Katniss), Woody Harrelson (Haymitch), and Elizabeth Banks (Effie) are seen seated in what looks to be their quarters in the Capitol. Best of all, another one of Bank's outrageous outfits is revealed!
Many fans speculate that the pictured trio are either watching a recap of the chariot event or training scores. From the look of Jennifer's worried face, we would guess the latter. What do you think? Flip through the gallery above for a closer look, then sound off in the comments!
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Definition of sell
soldplay \ˈsōld\;
transitive verb
1 : to deliver or give up in violation of duty, trust, or loyalty and especially for personal gain : betray —often used with out sell out their country
2a (1) : to give up (property) to another for something of value (such as money) (2) : to offer for saleb : to give up in return for something else especially foolishly or dishonorably sold his birthright for a mess of pottagec : to exact a price for sold their lives dearly
3a : to deliver into slavery for moneyb : to give into the power of another sold his soul to the devilc : to deliver the personal services of for money
4 : to dispose of or manage for profit instead of in accordance with conscience, justice, or duty sold their votes
5a : to develop a belief in the truth, value, or desirability of : gain acceptance for trying to sell a program to the Congressb : to persuade or influence to a course of action or to the acceptance of something sell children on reading
6 : to impose on : cheat
7a : to cause or promote the sale of using television advertising to sell cerealb : to make or attempt to make sales toc : to influence or induce to make a purchase
8 : to achieve a sale of sold a million copies
intransitive verb
sellableplay \ˈse-lə-bəl\ adjective
sell down the river
sell short
Examples of sell in a Sentence
He buys and remodels houses and then sells them at a profit.
Stock prices are increasing, so now is a good time to sell.
Only a few stores sell that type of equipment.
Origin and Etymology of sell
Middle English, from Old English sellan; akin to Old High German sellen to sell, Greek helein to take
First Known Use: before 12th centurySee Words from the same year
First Known Use of sell
Origin and Etymology of sell
Middle English selle, from Anglo-French sele, from Latin sella — more at settle
First Known Use: 15th centurySee Words from the same year
Definition of sell
chiefly Scottish variant of self
SELL Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of sell for English Language Learners
: to exchange (something) for money
: to make (something) available to be bought
: to be able to be bought for a particular price
SELL Defined for Kids
Definition of sell for Students
1 : to exchange in return for money or something else of value He sold his bike to my brother.
2 : to make available for sale The store sells shoes.
3 : to be sold or priced The new product is selling well. These sell for a dollar apiece.
sell out
1 : to be bought until all are gone Tickets quickly sold out.
2 : to betray a person or duty They sold out their country.
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Legal Definition of sell
sell short
: to sell something one does not own : make a short sale
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1881 Birth of Pelham Grenville Wodehouse — P.G. Wodehouse to theatre lovers — in England. He will go on to write the "Jeeves" stories as well as many Broadway musicals including Rosalie and The Three Musketeers (lyrics), Anything Goes and Oh, Kay! (librettos), Very Good Eddie and Sally (additional lyrics), and wrote the words to the song "Bill" heard in Show Boat. He will die in 1975.
1928 Eva Le Gallienne directs and co-stars with Alla Nazimova in a Broadway production of Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard that runs 63 performances.
1930 A new musical revue opens tonight on Broadway: Three's A Crowd, whose book is by Howard Dietz and much of its music is from Arthur Schwartz. In the cast are Libby Holman, Fred Allen, Clifton Webb, Tamara Geva and Fred MacMurray. Some memorable songs are introduced tonight. They include "Body and Soul" and "Something to Remember You By." This revue will run 272 performances.
1938 Raymond Massey plays the 16th president in Robert E. Sherwood's Abe Lincoln in Illinois, which goes on to win the Pulitzer Prize for drama.
1952 Shirley Booth plays a lonely American looking for love in Venice in Arthur Laurents' The Time of the Cuckoo. The show will run for 263 performances at the Empire Theatre. David Lean's 1955 screen version, "Summertime," will star Katharine Hepburn. It is also reincarnated in the form of Richard Rodgers and Stephen Sondheim's 1965 musical Do I Hear a Waltz?.
1953 John Forsythe plays an American captain learning how to live with the natives on occupied Okinawa in John Patrick's drama The Teahouse of the August Moon, which wins both the Tony Award for Best Play and Pulitzer Prize for drama.
1969 Broadway audiences get the effects of the post-war 60's today as many performances, both on Broadway and off, are canceled due to Vietnam Moratorium Day. Producer Hal Prince cancels the performance of Fiddler on the Roof that was scheduled for this evening. The cast will be paid, though. Although its shows are being performed, the proceeds from Hair go to various charities of the cast's choice. Woody Allen, the star of Play It Again, Sam, doesn't go on, although producer David Merrick says it is a breach of contract. Many off-Broadway performances are canceled, and even national tours are affected. Joel Grey, performing in Dallas in Cabaret, threatens to take out a newspaper ad explaining his absence. He misses tonight's performance.
1987 Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia makes his Broadway debut today with the concert show Jerry Garcia Acoustic and Electric at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.
2003 NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg joins Manhattan Theatre Club artistic director Lynne Meadow and executive producer Barry Grove in firing a confetti cannon on West 47th Street to rededicate the refurbished Biltmore Theatre. The theatre that once housed Hair and Barefoot in the Park has been dark since 1987 and came close to being demolished. Instead, backed by a $27 million capital campaign, and an accompanying multi-use tower that made it all financially feasible, the 1925-vintage playhouse relights as MTC's new Broadway flagship.
2003 Also today, 89-year-old playwright William Gibson (The Miracle Worker, Two for the Seesaw) has a late-career hit with Golda's Balcony, a drama about Israeli prime minister Golda Meir. Gibson and star Tovah Feldshuh will earn Tony nominations for their work.
2008 Edie Adams, a multi-talented actress who put her shapely figure, comic instincts, and clear, Juilliard-trained singing voice to good use by creating the roles of Eileen Sherwood in Wonderful Town and Daisy Mae in Li'l Abner, dies at age 81.
2009 Rebuilt from (below) the ground up, the 1918 vintage Henry Miller's Theatre reopens with Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Bye Bye Birdie. Nolan Gerard Funk, Gina Gershon, Jayne Houdyshell, Bill Irwin, John Stamos and Allie Trimm star in the first Broadway revival of the 1960 musical about a rock singer whose manager plans one last publicity stunt before he's drafted into the army.
More of Today's Birthdays: Hassard Short 1887. Jane Darwell 1879. Ina Claire 1893. Jan Miner 1917. Robert E. Lee 1918. José Quintero 1924. Linda Lavin 1937. Gavin Lee 1971.


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ANAHEIM – Andre Ethier was the Dodgers' Tuesday hero for his game-ending grounder, but the forgotten outfielder still hadn't hit a ball out of the infield in 15 days when he stepped to the plate in the second inning Wednesday at Angel Stadium.
In his second start since July 22, he then doubled to the right-field wall to drive in a run and added a fourth-inning single.
Ethier, 32, is still learning how to adjust to his new role as an everyday reserve. But, he said, even one start can make quite a bit of difference.
"It just helps to maybe get a little timing and rhythm back, if you haven't been in there for a couple days," Ethier said before the game. "That's the tough part about being a pinch hitter, coming off the bench. Sometimes the game doesn't present you with the opportunity to get an at-bat or maybe two every night. Anytime you get a spot start where you can get four or five at-bats, you can really try to feel comfortable again up there."
Ethier has not hit well this season. He brought a .241 average and .306 on-base percentage into Wednesday's game, both of which would be career lows by a significant margin.
He has too few pinch-hit appearances – 16 – this year to read anything meaningful into them. In 91 such chances over his career, he has been perfectly capable, with slightly better statistics than his overall numbers.
"It's a whole other learned skill," Ethier said. "Pinch hitting's one of the toughest things in baseball to do. It's learning what it takes you to prepare for that, what it takes to keep yourself sharp and keep that edge about you."
Ethier said he learned about the role earlier in his career from veterans like Mark Loretta and Mark Sweeney.
"You have to be confident with what you're bringing up there, no matter what," he said. "Sometimes you can say you have the timing and you've been grooving, and you go up in the same situation and you don't get it done. What's your excuse that time?"
It became obvious this week that the Dodgers were going to designate utilityman Chone Figgins for assignment. But that didn't make the ultimate decision easier for the team, Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said Wednesday after the club finally did the inevitable on the last possible day to do it.
The Dodgers must now trade or waive the 36-year-old Figgins over the next 10 days. It's likely he'll clear waivers, at which point the team could offer him a spot at Triple-A Albuquerque, but Figgins will have the right to decline the assignment.
"That's a tough one with Figgy," Mattingly said. "I think we all got pretty attached to who he is and what he brought to the club. But the situation changed."
It did. Since Figgins last played in the majors June 13, Miguel Rojas emerged as a highly capable defender, and the Dodgers also acquired infielder Darwin Barney from the Cubs. Barney's in Triple-A now, and the Dodgers believe the longtime second baseman can play well at shortstop given some time to train there.
"Figgy could play short, but he's not what we're really looking for at the position," Mattingly said.
With five outfielders fighting for three spots most nights, the Dodgers share some qualities of an American League team. In that sense, Angel Stadium affording them the use of a designated hitter Wednesday and Thursday is appreciated. "A couple years ago we came in with the DH and we're like, really? It didn't help us much then." Mattingly said, laughing. "But now we're pretty well-equipped for it." … Yasiel Puig signed an exclusive deal with Fanatics Authentic, the memorabilia division of Fanatics, a retailer of officially licensed sports merchandise. Puig joins the likes of Boston's David Ortiz and the Rangers' Prince Fielder now tied to the brand. … Mattingly, asked why he stacked left-handed hitting outfielders Ethier and Carl Crawford back-to-back in his lineup Wednesday: "These cats don't have a lefty out of the pen."
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- Good news, prisoners: a California court has ruled you have a First Amendment right to all the "erotic" werewolf novels you desire. Hubba, hubba. [Raw Story]
- An actress named Shannon Richardson of Texas, who had small roles on "The Walking Dead" and "Vampire Diaries," has been arrested for allegedly sending ricin-laced letters to President Obama.[Yahoo]
- Check out the trailer for Woody Allen's newest film, "Blue Jasmine." [The Atlantic Wire]
- "Mad Men" creator Matthew Weiner addresses those rumors that the office asskisser Bob Benson is secretly a government spy. [The Wrap]
- Katie Holmes had dinner this week with feminist icon Gloria Steinem. Weirdest. Pairing. Ever. [US Weekly]
- Is "American Horror Story" getting a spinoff? [Bloody Disgusting]
- British stylist and fashion editor Annabel Tollman died suddenly last night at age 39. [Refinery29]
- Uh, actually, it is possible to be taken seriously as an adult in the workplace even if you're — gasp! — unmarried. [Cosmopolitan]
- Fancypants designers Marchesa created a nail art line for Revlon? Okay, sure. that's pretty, I guess. [Styleite]
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There is a story behind Bart. JIBcon 2011... Jensen and Jared were given these stuffed animals, Jensen got a zebra and Jared a giraffe...I'm not sure, but, I think they signed them for auctioning at the con. I know they signed their mugs (I guess mugs they drank from during the Q&A's?) to be auctioned for a good cause. Jensen named his zebra Bartholomew, Jared, after a few missteps, named his giraffe Francesco.
The boys naming their stuffed animals...
Oh, and I did find the picture.
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LAS VEGAS—A 21-2 NM State second half run led the Aggies past CSU Bakersfield 70-60 in the championship game of the Western Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament Saturday night at the Orleans Arena.
Trailing 7-6 at the 13:03 mark, CSUB went on a 19-5 run which provided the Roadrunners with their largest lead of the first half, 25-12. The 'Runners held NMSU without a field goal for over 13 minutes, but the Aggies ability to draw fouls kept the Aggies in it. NM State took 16 first half free throw attempts. NM State connected on 12 of those tries as CSUB led 29-20 at halftime.
Jaylin Airington, who came into the game, eight away from 1,000 for his career, scored the first eight 'Runner points of the second half and earned his 1,000th on a three-pointer with 16:22 to go in the second half.
Down 39-28 with just over 15 minutes, remaining, back-to-back Ian Baker three-pointers keyed the game changing NM State (28-5) charge. The Aggies took the lead for good when Chancellor Ellis sank a three at 9:05 of the second half. Baker would make three three-pointers as the during the 6:44 span.
CSUB trailed 47-41 at the under eight media timeout when Airington broke the Aggies' momentum with a basket, the first for CSUB in over eight minutes. Airington scored his 12 consecutive point with just under five to play to make it a 51-49 game. That would be as close as CSUB would get in the final portion of the game. NMSU would score eight of the next 14 points to put the game away.
After only shooting 4-of-14 in the first half, NM State would go 14-for-25 in the second. NMSU made all six of their three-pointers in the second half. The Aggies would end the night 25-of-36 from the free throw line, compared to 10-of-15 for the Roadrunners.
Baker, the tournament MVP, scored all 15 of his points in the second half. Eli Chuha led NM State with 16. Dedrick Basile was CSUB's top scorer with 17 points. Brent Wrapp scored 11 points, grabbed nine rebounds, and had seven assists out his point guard position for the 'Runners. Basile and Airington would be named to the All-Tournament team.
CSU Bakersfield (22-9), the WAC's regular season champion, will receive an automatic berth into the National Invitational Tournament. The NIT field is scheduled to be announced Sunday at approximately at 5:30 p.m.


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Ask Health Experts and Get Answers to Your Health Question ASAP
Other then conventional medications following tips will help you greatly
Topical nasal decongestants such as oxymetazoline (Afrin) and phenylephrine (Neo-Synephrine) provide relief from nasal congestion.The oral decongestant pseudoephedrine(Sudafed) help relieve nasal congestion & you can breathe easily.
Eucalyptus oil is should be used in a steam inhalation to help clear nasal and sinus congestion.All these medications are available at counter.
Avoid cold drinks & cold items.Sip hot liquids and drink plenty of fluids and take steam inhalation.Use a humidifier or steam in the bathroom.
And yes sinus pressure can cause tiredness and the feeling of being off balance or vertigo.The infection can travel through eustachian tube and cause infection in ear which can cause loss of balance(vestibule of ear normally maintains the balance of body.
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The labyrinth, a part of our vestibular (balance) system present in ear.
The labyrinth interacts with other systems in the body, such as the visual (eyes) and skeletal (bones and joints) systems, to maintain the body's position. These systems, along with the brain and the nervous system, can be the source of balance problems.
Yes anxiety,stress can also cause the symptoms like tense/tight feeling or dizziness.Other conditions like high blood pressure & diabes can also cause such symptoms.
So you need examination by a otolaryngologist for blood tests, an electronystagmogram (ENG--a test of the vestibular system), or imaging studies of the head and brain to know the exact cause & treat accordingly.
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Through the recently announced $150 million investment in research excellence, Rice University seeks new faculty members at all ranks, starting as early as July 1, 2017, in the broad area of molecular nanotechnology (MolNan). Successful candidates will drive a dynamic, innovative, and independent research program and will excel in teaching at the graduate and undergraduate levels, while embracing Rice's culture of excellence and diversity. MolNan faculty hires are expected to make original and impactful contributions in nanotechnology and in chemical engineering as an enabling discipline. The search will consider applicants from all engineering and science disciplines, with emphasis on those with research programs in sustainable energy (carbon-based, electron-based, water-based), catalysis, and polymers/soft-matter. The ideal candidate will pursue research with strong intellectual overlap with chemistry, physics, materials science, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and other related disciplines.
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As part of Rice University's recently announced $150 million investment in research excellence, Rice intends to hire multiple faculty members whose research focus is in data science. We seek two distinct kinds of specialists: (1) data scientists who can make fundamental contributions to the theory, algorithms, and systems aspects of data science, and (2) scholars who work on emerging applications of data science to problems in health and medicine, urban analytics, and high-volume or high-velocity data-intensive science. A successful candidate might have demonstrated capacity in either of these specialties, or in all of them.
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By CAMERON NIXON
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The Tigers' women's tennis team sits well in the mid-south, with a 5-2 record within the conference. The men have struggled, at 2-4, within the conference. Overall, the women are 13-6 and the men are 6-12. This weekend, both teams faced Campbellsville University at home. The women lost 5-4 and the men lost 7-2 against Campbellsville's own Tigers. Both Campbellsville teams are ranked within the top 25 in the coaches' poll.
The men's tennis team won two out of three matches in doubles, as Gustavo Echeverria and Ryne Least beat a Campbellsville group 9-8 and Ross Phelps and Zach Thomas won 8-6 as well. The men's team didn't fare so well in singles, losing every match against No. 16 ranked Campbellsville.
The women played a bit closer against Campbellsville's No. 19 ranked women's team. They found themselves down 2-1 after doubles, with senior Haley Hart and freshman Kelly Swanson getting the lone win. In singles the tigers made it interesting as Kelly Swanson, Shelby Eden and Jacqueline Otis each won. Shelby Eden dominated, winning all 12 of her sets. All of the women's losses in the mid-south this year come from teams in the coaches poll.
The men's and women's teams will both play in the quarterfinals on Friday the mid-south conference tournament. The men will play on the road against an unannounced team while the women will host a quarterfinal game here at Georgetown.