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I'm not saying that it's easy to make a record sell. I'm just saying that you can't expect to win the lottery if you don't buy a ticket.
Anyhoo, Noz, a man who refers to the latest Dogg Pound album as "very nice"(a), was kind enough to put up a list of records designed to provide a modicum of hope that there's some worthwhile rap coming out anytime soon. Or, at the very least, get your mind off the fact that this summer's hip-hop album's are a total cuffin' wash(b).
But, unlike Noz, I really don't care if you all kill yourselves or not, so I'll take the liberty of debunking his attempt at uplifting sorcery(c).
Outkast—Idlewild: I've already spoken on this and I don't like repeating myself. So I won't.
Young Jeezy—Thug Motivation 102: The Inspiration (Or something like that): If you like Jeezy, you'll like the record. If you don't, you spend your time using him as a punchline on bulletin boards all day, your life is basically worthless and you won't like the record(d).
Me? I predict bigger and better than the debut. And because my opinion is the only one that matters, you can save your self-righteous indignation for your real parents.
Pharoahe Monch—Desire: I'll see it when I believe it.
Note: For those of you children who lost your hip-hop virginity to Makaveli, Pharoahe is that nickel. Twice. Even if he does do the gospel thing, it'll be better than Gnarls Barkley.
Granted, he may still go wood in the hood, but I'd rather see him strike out than see Yung Joc hit a home run(e).
Pimp C—The Pimpilation: As I said in the comments to Noz's bit of trickery: "Pimp C's album sounds like it's gonna be the other half to the slab of smoking trash that was Bun B's last album. Them dudes really need to hole themselves up somewhere and drop the album they're capable of. Unless, they're still signed to Jive. Then in which case I must call for a boycott. Standard."(f)
The Clipse—Hell Hath No Fury: Somewhere near the end of his jedi mind tricks, Noz opines that some Scarface record I have no knowledge of has the potential to be better than Hell Hath No Fury.
As if.
Rick Ross—Port of Miami: If you can look aside little things like lyrical dexterity, this one may actually be en fuego, as they say in Cuba. The
Nate Dogg Akon joint is infirm and—as much as I hate to admit it— there's a Cool & Dre a banger or two on there. Not sure what anyone was thinking with "Blow," but , oh well.
Raekwon—Cuban Linx II: I'll see it when I believe it.
Project Pat—Crook By The Book: Three Six Mafia without Crunchy Black is like Harold Melvin without the Blue Notes.
Nas—Hip Hop Is Dead: If you believe that God's Son was Nas' best album(g), then you'll understand that this one may be much better. At any rate, you'll all cop it(h), dissect it, hate it, love it, send legions to war over it. I can hear the Nas Stans marshaling their forces as I type:
"Dudes, this is our greatest battle yet. Our whole lives have led up to this moment…"
And, not for nothing, dudes that keep fronting on will.i.am obviously go to parties where all they do is nod their heads real hard to old Black Sheep and Primo cuts while buying the cheapest drinks allowable and talking about "bring New York back" and "real hip-hop." Losers.
The Game—The Doctor's Advocate: Mathematically speaking, this may very well be the most anticipated album of the year. Not to say that we all think it's gonna be much good, if any. But we're all curious. I think it's perfectly fine to admit this without having to be a closet homosexual, or whatever the going is slur is.
P.S.—To quiet some of the scuttlebutt being thrown around les internetes, I spoke to my homegirl at the MC Rating Association of Armerikkka (MCRAA), and she confirmed that the Clipse are not overrated, whereas Lupe Fiasco is(i).
(a) I don't know what to make of that, either.
(b) This may make no sense, but The Big Bang has a total "winter" feel to it.
(c) Except for the tax write-offs. I'm not giving those the dignity of a response.
(d) Unless you're Oprah, in which case you're too rich to care either way.
(e) And was that crap him and his bag of a boss pulled at the BET Awards supposed to be a "performance"? Somebody kill me. Please.
(f) I just cut and pasted that, so it's not really like I really repeated myself.
(g) Which it was.
(h) And by "cop," I mean: "Purchase in a perfectly legal manner not one second before it is commercially available."
(i) He's good and getting better, but you children are building him up to expectations he cannot possibly live up to. I say cut to the chase and crucify him now.


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The Assembly of Delegates is the legislative branch of Cape Cod Regional Government, known as Barnstable County. The Assembly of Delegates is located in First District Courthouse, Route 6A, Barnstable, MA. The office telephone is (508) 375-6761, the fax number is (508) 362-6530, or email the Assembly of Delegates. There are fifteen towns located within Barnstable County, and each town is duly represented on the Assembly of Delegates.
In 1989, by an Act of the Massachusetts General Court and confirmed by a majority of Barnstable County voters, the Barnstable County Home Rule Charter went into effect and the first session of the Assembly of Delegates convened. The Barnstable County Home Rule Charter authorizes a County tax to fund regional services, and each town pays a certain percentage based on its assessed valuation. This tax is in addition to the Deeds Excise Tax, received by all counties in the Commonwealth, and an assessment authorized in 1990 by an Act of the Massachusetts General Court and confirmed by a majority of Barnstable County voters for the Cape Cod Commission Environmental Protection Fund. All legislative powers of the County are vested in the Assembly of Delegates and, except as provided in the Barnstable County Home Rule Charter, the acts of the Assembly of Delegates are required to be by Ordinance. Periodically the Assembly of Delegates adopts Resolutions regarding issues of regional importance to Barnstable County.
Assembly Membership
The Assembly of Delegates consists of fifteen Delegates representing each of the towns located in Barnstable County. A Delegate's vote is weighted based on the 2010 U.S. Decennial Census. The town of Barnstable, for example, has the largest vote of 20.92% and Truro the smallest vote of 0.93%.
Delegates are elected by the voters in each of their municipalities for a two year term. Delegates were elected for the fifteenth session of the Assembly of Delegates in November 2016, and took office on January 4, 2017.
At the beginning of each legislative session of the Assembly, a Speaker and Deputy Speaker are elected from its membership. The longest serving member on the Assembly of Delegates holds the honorary title of Dean of the Assembly. The Assembly of Delegates employs a Clerk to provide legislative assistance to the Assembly. E. Suzanne McAuliffe, the Delegate from Yarmouth, was elected Speaker for the fifteenth session of the Assembly of Delegates. Deborah McCutcheon, the Delegate from Truro, was elected Deputy Speaker. John Ohman, the Delegate from Dennis, was voted Dean of the Assembly on February 15, 2017 and will hold that title and honorary position until he leaves office. Janice O'Connell serves as the appointed Assembly of Delegates Clerk and as County Clerk.
The Assembly of Delegates holds regular meetings on the first and third Wednesday of each month at 4:00 p.m. The Business Calendar (meeting notice and agenda) identifies key communication topics, and items scheduled for discussion and action by the Assembly of Delegates. The Journal of Proceedings (meeting minutes) of the regular meetings are available to the public. The Assembly of Delegates has Standing Committees to deal with important issues facing the County. Committee meetings are where the Assembly's work takes place prior to regular meetings. Standing Committees meet to hold public hearings on Proposed Ordinances and prepares a report for the full Assembly prior to a vote by the legislative body.
Currently all meetings of the Assembly of Delegates are held in the Assembly of Delegates Chamber in the First District Courthouse, Route 6A, Barnstable, MA, unless otherwise noted. The Assembly will be relocated on the county campus at sometime in the near future.
Barnstable County government has always been recognized as the exception to failing county governments in Massachusetts and has served as a model for the successful regionalization of services. The Assembly of Delegates, in conjunction with the Board of County Commissioners, the executive branch of the Cape Cod Regional Government, work together to preserve and enhance regional services in Barnstable County.
Additional information about Barnstable County Assembly of Delegates may be obtained by contacting the Assembly of Delegates Clerk.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Assembly of Delegates?
The Assembly of Delegates is the legislative branch of County government. This is the branch of County government responsible for adopting new legislation (ordinances) and maintaining checks and balances over the executive branch.
Who are the members of the Assembly of Delegates?
The Assembly of Delegates consists of 15 members elected on a non-partisan basis from each town on Cape Cod to two year terms (ending in even years). The vote of each delegate is proportionate to the percentage of total County population of his/her member town.
The name of each delegate and the community he/she represents can be viewed on the Assembly's web page.
Where is the Assembly of Delegates located?
The Assembly of Delegates generally meets in the Assembly Hall Chamber and maintains a business office staffed by a Clerk both located at the First District Courthouse on Route 6A in Barnstable, MA.
When does the Assembly of Delegates meet?
The Assembly of Delegates meets on the first and third Wednesdays of each month beginning at 4 p.m.

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Academics in the United States found that taking part in extra-curricular activities could boost children's self-esteem and academic performance.
And few youngsters said they joined groups because of parental pressure.
The study argues for the continued expansion of organised activities such as sports and after-school clubs.
The researchers said there was little evidence to back up what they called the "over-scheduling hypothesis" for children aged five to 18.
In an analysis of a national study and review of three scientific studies, they concluded that "organised activities did not dominate American-based young people's free time" and that activities such as watching the television and playing games took up as much or "considerably more" time.
The study found young people in the US spent an average of five hours a week taking part in organised activities such as sports, music and the arts, although a small proportion (between 3% and 6%) spent 20 or more hours participating in such pasttimes.
And, at any given time, 40% of young people were not engaged in these activities, the study found.
"Written and televised media reports and popular parenting books suggest that the lives of many young people are now replete with hurry, stress and pressure brought on, in part, because of their involvement in too many organised activities," the report said.
"Youth are seen as taking part in a variety of activities because of the perceived pressure from parents and other adults to achieve and attain long-term educational and career goals."
But the study, as well as dismissing this notion, said youngsters who participated in out-of-school activities had lowered rates of smoking and drug use, improved educational attainment and better relationships with their parents.
Dr Joseph Mahoney of Yale University, who led the research, said the real issue was those young people who did not participate in extra-curricular activities.
"Of greater concern than the over-scheduling of youth in organised activities is the fact that many youth do not participate at all," he said.
"The well-being of youth who do not participate in organised activities is reliably less positive compared to youth who do participate."
The research calls for the opportunities for young people to participate in activities such as sports, music and the arts to be increased.
"For the vast majority of young people, participation is associated with positive developmental outcomes."
The findings are published in Social Policy Report, a publication of the Society for the Research in Child Development.
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When I read a story on how difficult it is for writers, artists, and rock stars to retire (May 20th in the U.K.'s Telegraph) by critic Neil McCormick, I immediately thought of pastors and ministry leaders.
Granted, they're not famous writers or rock stars (at least most of them) but generally speaking, they don't lead normal working lives. While they work very hard, they don't have typical 8 to 5 jobs, don't slave at a desk, can determine their own schedule, can be intensively creative, and are passionate about their work.
Not a bad life—which makes retirement quite difficult. Pastors and leaders—don't be offended, but while your job can be very challenging, you're not really retiring from a job you hate.
But back to McCormick's post. Read the excerpt below and you'll understand why pastors and ministry leaders (like novelist Philip Roth he's writing about) have difficulty retiring. Here's the important section:
"Philip Roth has announced his retirement. Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say he has reiterated his retirement. Two years after the publication of his 2010 novel Nemesis, Roth declared that it would be his last. Now it seems he has broken his self-imposed silence to affirm his self-imposed silence, giving a televised interview to insist that he is not going to give any more interviews, or appear on television. At 81, Roth is shuffling very slowly off the world's stage, taking curtain calls. This is the showbiz way, in which retirement is a very flexible concept.
For most people, retirement involves giving up the day job to potter around doing stuff you always wanted to do, like write, paint, perhaps pluck a musical instrument. But what if those very things are your occupation? It can be hard to take seriously pronouncements of retirement by artists, novelists, musicians, actors and other creative types.
Perhaps because we have never taken seriously the idea that they had a proper job in the first place. These are people who make their living indulging in what everyone else considers leisure pursuits. What are they going to do with their spare time? Take up a hobby?"
So next time you get frustrated because a pastor or ministry leader won't quietly step into the shadows, this will give you some insight.
What are the biggest reasons you've encountered that make church and ministry succession so challenging?
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Victoria Beckham: "Most [Models] Are Naturally Thin"
Can anyone keep Victoria Beckham's body image philosophy straight? She seems to constantly flex between opposing contradictions. One second, the media is calling out her anorexic-seeming lifestyle and the next she's quoted as being pro-curves. To be honest, our opinion of Beckham wavers as well. Sometimes she frightens us with her so-thin physique that's nearly alien-like, but at the same time, we absolutely respect the woman's talent and style and agree that her Fashion Week show was a hands-down success. When Posh went on "The View" yesterday to talk about her work and the fashion industry, she seemed very pro-health: "The CFDA have reached out to designers, stylists and casting directors not to work with underage models, girls that are too thin and to be more ethnically aware. And I think designers are listening. I had a casting last week and had some terribly thin girls come in and it wouldn't have worked." This would seem to suggest she's not into the heroin-chic look. And yet Beckham also said, "Most of these girls are naturally thin. And I don't think we should be discriminating against someone because they are too thin or too curvy or too large or whatever it is." Most models are naturally thin? We're not so sure about that.
Whoopi chimed in and commended Beckham for embracing size, referring to how great Jennifer Hudson looked in one of her designs, saying, "You made dresses that look good on women that have breasts and have a little hips," and Victoria agreed: "You don't have to be tiny, it's about getting the proportions right." So, we might ask, did the models in Beckham's show look no different than any other runway? Perhaps we're being a bit too unrealistic. If we were in her position, we'd want to present our collection at its most fashionable face to appeal to the critics and vendors. (Because even we admit that while Victoria's dresses do seem to look good on many a different shaped girl, they're clearly made with the vision of someone with an Audrey Hepburn-like physique, and that's the way they look best.)
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NQ Mobile
Another technology player that's starting to trend within range of triggering a big breakout trade is NQ Mobile (NQ), which provides mobile Internet services in the areas of mobile security, privacy, productivity, personalized cloud and family protection. This stock is off to a decent start in 2014, with shares up notably by 12.7%.
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If you take a look at the chart for NQ Mobile, you'll notice that this stock has been uptrending strong for the last two months, with shares moving higher from its low of $10.53 to its recent high of $18.50 a share with strong upside volume flows. During that uptrend, shares of NQ have been making mostly higher lows and higher highs, which is bullish technical price action. That move has now pushed shares of NQ within range of triggering a big breakout trade above some near-term overhead resistance levels.
Traders should now look for long-biased trades in NQ if it manages to break out above some near-term overhead resistance levels at $18 to $18.50 a share with high volume. Look for a sustained move or close above those levels with volume that hits near or above its three-month average action of 5.15 million shares. If that breakout triggers soon, then NQ will set up to re-test or possibly take out its next major overhead resistance levels at $22 to $24 a share.
Traders can look to buy NQ off any weakness to anticipate that breakout and simply use a stop that sits just below some key near-term support at $14.28 a share, or around its 200-day moving average of $13.74 a share. One can also buy NQ off strength once it starts to take out those breakout levels with volume and then simply use a stop that sits a comfortable percentage from your entry point.


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K-State Baseball Gives Back
The 2013 Big 12 Champions grabbed brooms and garbage bags and began, as a team, cleaning up after the arena's 11,000 plus fans.
Country music filled the air and the team began working to raise money so its adopted family could have a special Christmas surprise.
Every year during the holidays, K-State baseball comes together to raise money and purchase Christmas gifts for a local family in need. Though the team has never met this year's family, having the opportunity to give back to the community is something they all take to heart.
"It means a lot to me. My family kind of always did things like this for Christmas growing up," junior outfielder Mitch Meyer said. "So now I get to carry on the tradition with my team, my second family. It's a pretty good feeling to help someone out."
The money raised for cleaning up after the men's basketball games will be spent on gifts the adopted family wants and needs. Along with the cleaning, the team will also do the shopping.
"Half the team will go out and pick out the gifts while the other half will go out and deliver it to the family, so it's a neat deal," sophomore pitcher Blake McFadden said. "One, you're able to pick out what the family wants, and two, we're able to meet the family and see how excited they are. It's interesting seeing other people that are in need, that don't get as much or aren't as fortunate as us on the team. It's just a good feeling seeing we're giving them what they want and making them happy."
For sophomore catcher Alex Bee, seeing the happiness of the children he has a hand in helping is the best part.
"My favorite part is seeing the excitement in these little kids' eyes," Bee said. "I mean, I was once a little kid and I remember how cool it was to get something new. So just seeing what we do and that giving back makes their Christmas, their day and maybe even their year, it's just awesome."
The Wildcats cleaned Bramlage not once, but twice as it also spent time sweeping up messes after the basketball team took on Northern Colorado on Nov. 8. It takes about four hours to clean, and the team earns $400 per game - a total of $800 for its adopted families.
"It's a good feeling when our team can come together and do something like this," McFadden said. "It brings us together as a team and it's a good thing for us to get out into the community that supports us very well. To be able to support our community, any time you can help someone in need it feels great."
Meyer also agreed that giving back to the community is the least the team can do, especially during this time of year.
"This community gives back to every sports program here in Manhattan, so this is about just giving back more than you take," Meyer said. "It's kind of warming for this holiday season. It's really nice."
The gifts are scheduled to be delivered starting on Dec. 16 - a day K-State Baseball is looking forward to and won't soon forget.


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The Black Dahlia Murder
On October 6th, The Black Dahlia Murder will release their eighth full-length, 'Nightbringers', via Metal Blade Records. For a first preview of the record, a video for the title track can be viewed at metalblade.com/tbdmRead More
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On August 29th, Metal Blade Records and BMG will release 'For the Sake of Heaviness: The History of Metal Blade Records.' For a preview, please visit Billboard.com for an exclusive excerpt of the book.Read More
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IMPD officer arrested for DUI
A Metro Police officer was arrested early Wednesday morning on preliminary charges of driving drunk. It's the second time in two weeks that an IMPD officer was arrested on drunk driving charges.
State Police say Ronald Santa, 43, was arrested at 12:31 a.m. at the intersection of Harding and Hudnut Blvd. on the southwest side after several calls to 911 reported an erratic driver in the area.
State Police say a trooper stopped Santa, who was driving his IMPD K-9 vehicle. Supervisors from both departments were called to the scene and Santa was given a field sobriety test, which he failed, according to ISP.
Troopers took Santa to the Arrestee Processing Center, where he was booked on misdemeanor charges of driving while intoxicated and operating a vehicle with blood alcohol content of .10. In Indiana, a driver is considered legally drunk with a BAC of .08.
There were no other passengers in the vehicle at the time of Santa's arrest. His K-9 partner, "Bart" was also not present in the car.
IMPD released a statement about Santa's arrest Wednesday afternoon.
"The IMPD is in the process of conducting its own internal investigation of the incident last night.@ During the interim, Officer Santa has been assigned to administrative duties, with no police powers.@ He has also been referred to the Employee Assistance Program as well as to the IMPD's Office of Professional Development and Police Wellness," the release stated.
Santa was also accused of driving erratically in his K-9 squad car on I-465 in December of 2010. He tested positive for alcohol when an IMPD supervisor went to his home and he was subject to an internal investigation at that time.
Some Marion County residents were in disbelief over a second IMPD officer being arrested for DUI in as many weeks. A Morgan County deputy arrested IMPD Officer Kevin Brown last week for allegedly driving drunk. He is already suspended pending the outcome of his investigation.
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"They ought to set a higher standard than normal people do and they should not go out drinking and driving because that endangers the public too," said James Tharp.
IMPD Chief Rick Hite calls this a sad day for his police department. He is emphasizing help is available for any of his officers through the department's wellness program.


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Had a nice cruise on the Pearl, but won't be going back: Norwegian Pearl Cruise Review by red88
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Had a nice cruise on the Pearl, but won't be going back
Destination: Western Caribbean
Embarkation: Miami
Background - this is our 4th cruise, having cruised once previously with Holland America and twice with RCL.
We flew in the night before, spending the night at the Marriott Biscayne Bay (nice hotel, I would recommend it). Arrived at the ship about 12:30 - embarkation was reasonably quick (we were on board by 1pm). Having read recent reviews, we knew the buffet would be busy, so I went to the gym and everyone else went to the Summer Palace for lunch.
Ship layout - much different than HAL or RCL, where the layout was mostly symmetrical on both sides of the ship - on the Pearl there were several levels were you could exit to the deck on the Port side, but could not on the Starboard. On several More occasions we'd have to go up a floor (or two) to move forward (or back) on the ship. We also noted NCL has devoted much square footage on the ship to specialty restaurants and the spa (both accessible to guests for an additional fee) - we found the layout of the Garden Cafe Buffet to be inefficient for the large number of people who always seem to be there (it was long and somewhat skinny, running along the starboard side of the ship). On many occasions there was not enough room for people to get through, causing many bottlenecks), oftentimes difficult to find a table. There is a specialty restaurant on the port side of the ship - if NCL had devoted this area for the buffet as well there would be ample room for all passengers to walk and find a table. We had not encountered this 'bottleneck' problem on HAL or RCL.
Cleanliness - the ship was ALWAYS spotless and looked brand new. Kudos to NCL for this. It was rare to find a empty glass on deck (which was commonplace on RCL).
Room - everyone knows an inside room is small and ours was no different. Our daughter slept on a bunk that folded down from the ceiling (right above our bed). Our room was very quiet even though we were beneath the casino. The shower in the bathroom was much larger than RCL's shower. We checked out my in-Law's balcony and found it was significantly smaller than the balcony rooms we had on HAL and RCL. On a side note, I spoke with a guest who had a suite on the 11th floor under the pool deck, she said it was so loud they had to be moved to another room. Also - an employee in the Kids Program (12th deck) said all the guests on the 11th floor (balconies) "hated them" because the kids are running and screaming (in the Kids Program) until midnight or after - every night. Note to self - NEVER book a room under the kids program.
Food - as noted previously, the buffet was always crowded, and the food was ok (unless you stood in line for a made to order item such as an omelet or pasta, those were both excellent). Overall the quality of the food was much better in the dining rooms than the buffet. We found the overall quality of the food on NCL to be equal to HAL and much better than RCL. We went to 3 speciality restaurants - the Japanese steakhouse (similar to Benihana), which was great, also went to the French Restaurant - also very good. We also went to the Tapas restaurant - was NOT Tapas but a Tex-Mex restaurant (had we known this we would have gone somewhere else) and it was ok. On RCL there were always wait staff in the buffet getting additional drinks/filling glasses, stopping by our table to talk (most of the time with our daughter who loved it). None of that on the Pearl - actually not one employee in the buffet made eye contact with us other than the "washee washee happy happy" person. Also, on HAL the employees in all restaurants (dining rooms and buffets) learned our names on the first day of the cruise. The only NCL employee who asked (and learned) our names was Jurgen on the water slide/rock climbing wall (he was great).
Kids Program - our daughter enjoyed the kids program very much. As she has some health issues, they gave us a cell phone every time we checked her in so they could call us if there was a problem. Unlike HAL and RCL - there is a $6/hour fee for the kids program when the ship is in port. When the ship is at sea there is no charge for the program. There is NO flexibility with the age groups which was fine with us, but if your child has a birthday soon after the cruise don't plan on 'bumping' them up to the next age group.
Gym/spa - the gym was half the size that it was on RCL, but turns out it never got near being full during the cruise. All the machines were new with TV monitors, and all were in good working order. There is also an aerobics room with steps/mats/exercise balls that is empty most of the time. There were several exercise classes at no charge (where RCL charges for each class). I paid the $99 fee for the week for the spa - it was wonderful, highly recommend it. During sea days it was oftentimes difficult to find a place to sit (so I sat in the jacuzzi or the sauna). This is what I'll miss most from the cruise.
Pools - there were two pools and one water slide (in one large area). The Kids Pool was 4' deep on the shallow end, up to 6 or 7' on the deep end. We never got to the adult pool. Both pools were in one area that oftentimes had music cranked up so loud you could not hear the person next to you. I was hoping for a quiet 'adult' area where I could read my book. Turns out the only place to do this was at the spa (several other guests I spoke with said the same thing, they paid the extra $$ to go to the spa to have a quiet area to read). If your idea of a good time is listening to "Funky Cold Medina" at super high decibels you will LOVE the pool. Otherwise you may want to pack your earplugs.
Other - one of my favorite things about HAL is their walking deck complete with hundreds of deck chairs (providing a quiet area to sit and read (or nap) in the shade). The Pearl had maybe 15 to 18 chairs total on their walking deck (and they were always taken). The casino was much larger than any we had ever seen on HAL or RCL. We never went to see any shows.
I stayed on board (apart from Key West) so have no comments about the ports or excursions.
Overall we had a very nice cruise. Will we cruise NCL again? Probably not, but we're glad we went. Less
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God really needs to do a better job making His intellectual property secure. The Bible, the American mini-series screening on Channel Nine, is an uninspiringly bad adaptation of a book that has inspired artists for thousands of years. You would think after that Mel Gibson movie, which maniacally focused on Jesus being beaten and tortured, the Lord would take a little more care with the next adaptation, but it's clear all the decent agents are ending up in hell.
A huge success in the US, where it aired on the History Channel earlier this year (maybe they're finally running out of Hitler documentaries), The Bible was conceived by the husband-and-wife team of Mark Burnett, the creator of Survivor and The Apprentice, and Roma Downey, who previously starred in the long-running spiritual melodrama Touched by an Angel.
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A dramatisation of The Bible on Nine turns out to be more Game of Thrones than dusty sermon as sword-wielding ninja angels and a Scottish Noah spice things up.
If that sounds like an odd pairing, then the show reflects their influences: broad, impassioned performances tied to a ruthlessly structured narrative that moves from one dramatic moment to the next. When the prophet Samuel declared the Israelites would have a king to uphold God's laws, I half expected Survivor's Jeff Probst to hold a tribal council and then announce: ''I'll go tally the votes.''
Screening on Tuesday nights, The Bible is a simplistic, surface-skimming take on a text rich with incident and theme. The first five episodes have galloped through the Old Testament, offering a greatest-hits package from Moses and Noah through to Daniel in the lion's den. The remaining episodes, focused on Jesus Christ and not needing to leap centuries in a single edit, hold out the chance of maintaining a minimal focus.
What have we learnt so far? The bad guys, and they're definitely depicted in such simple terms, favour eyeliner; some angels can do martial arts (bad luck for the residents of Sodom); if David's slingshot didn't work on Goliath, he could have blinded him with his dazzling white teeth; to converse with God, walk into the desert and look up. I'm no biblical scholar, but there might be some deviation from the source material here.
There is virtually no sense of character, no thematic depth and no life to the dialogue. The roles are played with lines delivered either solemnly or archly. ''You've heard about us?'' a Jewish spy who has snuck inside Jericho asks a woman he's holding at knifepoint.
''You have a god who commands the winds and parts the seas,'' she replies, and if you think that reads badly, that's still better than how it was delivered.
There actually is a God on this show who commands the winds and parts the seas, and it's a ruddy big digital effects computer network that turns dozens of extras into hundreds, renders God's wrath from multiple angles and makes sure that the burning bush is strong enough for Moses to roast marshmallows if he wants. It's dicey, second-rate CGI, but preferable to some of the physical filmmaking: when Samson brought down the Philistine temple, the stone blocks had the tactile qualities of polystyrene.
The Bible veers between the passable and the incompetent, but that's not merely a case of budget and ambition diverging. There's a long tradition of Bible stories being told in the simplest form, such as illustrated children's books, as an aid to missionary work, and that's what Burnett and Downey have intentionally made. This is a deliberately uncomplicated tool for making converts in the digital age.
Will it work? Some misfires in the first half of the show's run have been comical, and recurring elements, such as the Israelites choosing a leader who ends up going against the wishes of God's prophet, are hardly inspiring. It doesn't help that there is a ready accent on violence, but a shuttered attitude to sexuality.
The Bible was shot in Morocco, with some first-rate British actors cast, but few could prosper under such cheesy circumstances. When Samson, played by the fine actor Nonso Anozie (Game of Thrones), fights the Philistines, the slow-motion recalled The Incredible Hulk TV series from the 1970s.
''Lord, is this what you want from me?'' the shorn giant later asked, and he wasn't the only one beseeching a higher power for the suffering to end.


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MILITARY bands will fill a Bury park with pomp and circumstance when they perform in an afternoon spectacle.
Clarence Park, in Walmersley Road, will host musicians in their formal military uniforms as they play a range of instruments on Sunday afternoon.
The event, named Fusiliers in the Park, starts at 1pm with the opening of display stands, including an Army climbing wall and display of infantry weapons by the Territorial Army.
Musical performances start of 1.30pm with the Army Cadet Force's pipe and drums, followed at 2pm by the band of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (Lancashire).
After a short interval to allow people to browse the stands, the Corps of Drums and the Band of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (Lancashire) will perform at 3.15pm.
The event is free to attend and a collection will be made on the day to raise money for the Fusilier Museum, in Moss Street, Bury, and Bury Hospice.
Lieutenant Colonel Eric Davidson, of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (Lancashire), said: "I want as many people in the park as possible to enjoy the bands and experience the beautiful surroundings of the park.
"I'm sure it will be a great day, as well as raise money for two good causes in Bury."
The band of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (Lancashire) will provide further support for the hospice when they perform a concert with members of Bury Music Service.
It will be held at 7.30pm on Wednesday, July 4 at St Gabriel's RC High School, in Bury.
Tickets are available from the hospice's shops and the Fusilier Museum.


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CHICAGO, Ill. - Henry D'Alessio got his first guitar four years ago.
"My neck kept going back and forth," he said.
"These movements were so intense and there were so many of them, if you were stopped at a stop light, the car would actually move," said Darinka D'Alessio, Henry's mom.
Henry takes medication to help control it, but it's also caused him to gain 60 pounds in two years. It's a common side effect of current meds.
"Side effects can include a lot of weight gain and sometimes the emergence of other involuntary movements and sometimes cardiac problems, sleepiness, and fatigue," explained Katie Kompoliti, Associate Professor of Neurological Sciences at Rush University Medical Center.
Now, a new investigational drug used to treat schizophrenia and depression could treat the disorder with fewer side effects.
"It's going to work for tics because it blocks dopamine,"Kompoliti said.
It's the first Tourette's drug available in pill form.
"Nobody likes to get shots," Kompoliti said.
Henry has to remember to take his meds twice a day.
"It would make life a lot easier because I wouldn't have to keep track of that all the time," he said.
Instead he would have more time to make music.
The next step for this treatment is the Phase III trial.
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Tourette's syndrome (TS) is caused by a malfunction in the brain and can be linked to genetics. Adults and children who are affected by this syndrome experience "tics" which are uncontrollable movements and sounds. It is common for Tourette's patients to have other issues such as OCD, ADHD, anxiety, emotion and behavior control problems and learning difficulties. TS is measured by the severity of the patient's tics; sometimes a patient's tics will go away by the time they have reached adulthood. (Source: tsa-usa.org/imaganw/What_is_TS_English.pdf)
SYMPTOMS: If a person is under the age of 18 and is noticing constant tics for more than a year, then there may be a chance that the individual has Tourette's syndrome. There are two kinds of motor tics and two kinds of vocal tics; simple and complex tics. Simple motor tics include: head jerking, eye darting and blinking, finger flexing and shoulder shrugging. Complex motor tics consist of flapping the arms, hopping around and crude gesturing. As for vocal tics, some simple symptoms are yelling, hiccupping and throat clearing, while complex vocal tics incorporate the repetition of another's own words, the use of different tones of voice and the use of swear words. (Source: mayoclinic.com/health/tourette-syndrome/DS00541/DSECTION=symptoms)
TREATMENT: As of now, there is no cure for Tourette's syndrome, but there are medications offered to those who have tics that interfere with daily functioning. Most patients do not need treatment but behavioral treatments such as habit reversal and comprehensive behavioral intervention for tics (CBIT) are offered to those who suffer from severe tics. (Source: cdc.gov/ncbddd/tourette/treatments.html)
NEW TREATMENT: A new drug is being studied to decrease the amount of tics a patient with Tourette's experiences. Typical medication is injected into a muscle several times a day to relieve the tic, while this new pill only requires one dose a week. Side effects from older medication include weight gain, fatigue and dulling of the mind. This new medication is still being studied but will be preferred for patients so they do not have to constantly remember to take their medicine. (Source: mayoclinic.com/health/tourette-syndrome/DS00541/DSECTION=treatments-and-drugs)
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SMEs in Global Market: Challenges, Opportunities and Threats
Globalisation is a source of opportunities as well as a source of threats. Specific advantages derived from operating in a global market seem to be exploitable only by large organisations unless Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) can find an organisational solution allowing them to cope with global business opportunities without suffering from limited resources and without exposing themselves to the risk of direct investment. In the European experience, regional clusters of SMEs have turned into competitive advantage a peculiar - both at once competitive and co-operative - relationship, strongly based on geographical proximity and on cultural affinity. Thanks to recent developments in information technology, the replication of a similar industrial model might, in principle, be achieved in spatially distributed manufacturing processes. A proposal for the framework of a distributed network specifically devoted to small- and medium-sized firms is discussed; existing features of local clusters of SMEs are reviewed to evaluate to what extent their experiences might facilitate the implementation of a spatially distributed production process.
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The question of who controls health-care costs has been endlessly discussed, but it seems that we've all missed the answer: the media. In recent weeks, we have watched the cost of birth-control pills rise dramatically: Three weeks ago, in the infancy of the Sandra Fluke fracas, we were told that the annual cost was, at most, $600; then Fluke upped the ante, reporting $1,000 per year in her congressional testimony; and finally, her figure was widely misreported as being $3,000 per annum. This last spike seems to have been the messy byproduct of Fluke's claim that $3,000 would be the cost over her three-year stay at Georgetown Law.
Fluke's figure seems to have been plucked from thin air. Planned Parenthood estimates the monthly cost at between $15 and $50, which translates to $160 to $600 per year. If we were to take their maximum figure and run with it, we'd still be well below Fluke's oft-repeated claim. But even Planned Parenthood's price is on the high end. As has been widely reported, both Target and Walmart (and their online iterations) have been selling generic birth-control pills for $9 per month in 41 states since 2007 — equivalent to the cost of three cheap coffees at Starbucks. (The cost in the nine remaining states is around $27, or $324 per year. For the difference, we can thank those states' regulations making it illegal to sell prescription drugs as loss leaders.)
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Maiden. Council Bluffs. Boydton. Bluffdale. And now Lenoir and perhaps Altoona. These are the cities you'd never heard of that have become the homes of billion-dollar server farms.
Your iTunes downloads, Facebook posts and YouTube videos travel through these small rural communities en route to your desktop and mobile device. The growth of the digital economy is not just reshaping how we use the Internet, but creating a new data center geography in which armadas of servers now reside in suburbs or rural towns, often outnumbering the humans in these communities.
The economics of hyper-scale computing favor cheap land and cheap electricity, which are unavailable in many of the historic Internet hubs, which are located near major cities. This has created an unusual side effect – major data centers are transforming the economies of small towns around the U.S., placing them on the front line of the race to build out the infrastructure that runs the Internet.
A handful of these towns have received concentrated investment of more than $1 billion on a campus of server farms. Google, Apple, Microsoft have each deployed these billion-dollar data centers in little-known towns, and Facebook is not far behind.
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These projects have been hailed by governors and economic development officials, who see data centers operated by Internet titans as symbols of the new economy. Huge server farms are hailed as saviors of rural communities, which have often been abandoned by the factories that were once the lifeblood of the local economy.
Yet data centers don't fit neatly into the traditional model of economic development engines. They have been reliable generators of hundreds of construction jobs, which are welcome but temporary. But the advanced level of automation at work in data centers translates into a limited number of permanent full-time jobs, and much of the investment arrives in the form of servers, generators and UPS equipment.
Here's a look at the billion-dollar data centers:
- Maiden, North Carolina – This town of 3,300 people in Catawba County is home to the iDataCenter, Apple's first company-built data center facility. The campus began with a 500,000 square foot main building and a 30,000 square foot "tactical" data center next store. Apple has since added two massive solar arrays and a "fuel cell farm" featuring Bloom Energy Servers fueled by gas from a nearby landfill.
- Council Bluffs, Iowa – Google kicked off the data center craze in Iowa in 2007 when it announced plans to invest $600 million in a new facility in this town of 60,000, located just across the Missouri River from Omaha. Google clearly loves the location, as three successive rounds of expansion have raised its investment in Council Bluffs to more than $1.5 billion.
- Boydton, Virginia – With its latest expansion, Microsoft's investment in its data center campus in southern Virginia has reached $997 million. Microsoft has built more than 316,000 square feet of data center space in Boydton, a town in Mecklenberg County with just 431 residents as of the 2010 census. The company plans two more phases at the data center, a hybrid facility that includes traditional raised-floor space as well as IT-PAC modules.
- Bluffdale, Utah – The U.S. government is also in the mega-data center business with its $1 billion-plus facility for the National Security Agency (NSA). The secretive project includes a 30-megawatt first phase featuring 100,000 square feet of data center space and 900,00 square feet for technical support and administrative space. Bluffdale, a suburb of Salt Lake City, has about 7,500 residents.
- Lenoir, North Carolina – This town in Caldwell County in western North Carolina is home to 18,000 residents and more than 50,000 servers. Google opened a $600 million data center in 2007, and this month expanded its investment to more than $1.2 billion.
There are two other examples of data center clusters that have transformed small rural communities:
- Quincy, Washington: This town of 5,000 residents in central Washington state is home to data centers for Microsoft, Yahoo, Sabey, Dell, Intuit and Vantage, which likely total more than $1 billion in investment. The server farms are attracted by the extraordinarily cheap hydro-electric power from dams on the Columbia River, and a climate ideal for using fresh air to cool servers.
- Prineville, Oregon – Facebook put this central Oregon town of 10,000 residents on the map when it picked Prineville as the location for its first company-built data center. Apple has also decided to build a major server farm in Prineville. Between the two companies, Prineville may eventually one McDonald's and six buildings filled with servers housing the world's music, photos and status updates.
These locations all offer abundant land for massive facilities that can house of tens of thousand of servers, and the electricity to power these armadas of servers. They offer tax incentives that make it cheaper for data center operators to buy their land and servers. In many cases, they also offer the opportunity to cool servers using outside air instead of power-hungry chillers, slashing the cost of operating the data center.
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After a four weeks break it's a return to Cornish Pirates rugby action at the Mennaye Field on Sunday, when Doncaster Knights visit for an important RFU Championship clash. The kick-off is at 2.30pm.
Doncaster Knights might well be at the foot of the Championship league table, but they're guaranteed to provide stern opposition, as aware that the bottom club faces relegation at the end of Stage One they will be mightily keen to start acquiring the league points needed to ultimately leapfrog to safety.
February marks the start of what should be a fascinatingly interesting period, and for the Pirates it's a case of seeking a win that will help them in their push for a top four promotion play-off spot.
Barring sickness or injury Sunday's match should also provide another memorable day in the career of the club's longest serving present player, popular prop forward Alan Paver, who is set to make his 300th appearance for the Pirates. To reach such a milestone in the professional era is a truly remarkable achievement, and one that only a small amount of players achieve.
The Pirates welcome back from injury wing Matt Evans, who is their top try-scorer in the Championship this season, and this week's confirmed on loan signing from London Welsh, Ashley Smith, is named on the bench.
Tickets for Sunday game will be available on the day but as ever they are also available on-line at www.cornish-pirates.com, from the club's ticket office open Mon-Fri 9am - 12 noon, and from certain Warrens shops about the county.
The Cornish Pirates selection is as follows:-
Cornish Pirates: W. Davies, B. Mercer, T. Riley, J. Fatialofa, M. Evans, K. Hallett, G. Cattle (capt), L. McGlone, P. Burgess, K. Marriott, G. Johnson, D. Barry, A. Paver, D. Semmens, P. Andrew.
Replacements: R. Storer, R. Elloway, B. Prescott, D. Lyons, B. Maidment, T. Kessell, A. Smith.
Referee: Matt Carley (RFU) Assistants: Dino Maddern & Tom Foley
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Hippo and Co
Garema Place, city
6257 9090
Wednesday to Saturday, 5pm to late
Hippo has been renovated and is laid back but luxurious with exposed brickwork and wood panelling. With its big glass-fronted balcony, the bar looks out over Garema Square and the comings and goings of a summer Saturday night. Get comfortable on the leather banquettes and low tables for a cosy chat. Or perch at the balcony bar amid the candles and watch the night life pass below. Hippo's spacious without feeling impersonal, comfortable without being cramped. The bartenders are chatty and cheerful, happy to help you choose a cocktail from the big menu, which includes Stop the Floats - a luscious blend of Sailor Jerry rum, sarsaparilla and creaming soda with a scoop of salted caramel ice cream. The speciality of the house is whisky, though, with more than 200 whiskies to try on the bar and weekly tastings on Thursdays.
Soju Girl
41-43 Northbourne Avenue, Civic
6257 5328
Tuesday 5pm to late, Wednesday to Friday noon-late, Saturday 2pm to late
Soju Girl is a rare beast that actually does what it promises: it's a bar and a restaurant and is good at both things. The space is divided into two wings - the bustling restaurant on the left and the tapas and bar on the right. The food here is a standout, with lotus root chips a popular bar snack and little plates that include sushi of the day, oysters, fluffy pan-fried roti, and crisp and tender pork dishes. And the cocktails are well put together and interesting, often with an Asian twist. The signature soju bubble tea is loaded with passionfruit jelly balls while the plum dog millionaire is a mix of rum, apricot liqueur and Korean plum syrup.
16 Kendall Lane, NewActon
6257 7325parlour.net.au
Tuesday to Sunday, noon to late
It's back with a vengeance. The tapas bar and wine room went up in flames two years ago but has reopened at the Diamant Hotel in the trendy NewActon area of Civic. The eclectic decor - grandfatherly chesterfield sofas alongside funky modern chairs and elegant chaise longues - has been retained and refreshed with turquoise and bright green colours. There's a big courtyard space for summer evenings. And the wine list is the work of someone who knows what they're doing, full of unusual choices.
Sydney Building, 32 Northbourne Avenue, city
6162 0906
Wednesday to Friday, noon to late, Saturday 4pm to late
The feature piece of this narrow bar on Northbourne Avenue is the crystal-beaded tree at the back of the room, which is just pretty when it's sparkling with lights. The bar is filled with high tables and mirrored walls downstairs, while a loft upstairs has tables looking out over the bar and the tree. The wine list is small - half a dozen reds and whites, a couple of sparklings. Likewise with the cocktail list, which includes classics like the cosmo and the bellini. It fills up quickly on Friday nights as chic city workers gather to celebrate the end of the week before moving on to dinner.
Polit Bar
8 Franklin Street, Manuka
6162 2947
Wednesday to Sunday, 4pm to late
This Manuka bar upstairs and just to the right of Public (where the Julep Lounge used to be) is a new addition to the Parliamentary Triangle scene. The look is elegant but a little quirky. It's bordello meets political nerd: a curtain of shimmering beads, a screen print of old Canberra, a tiny stage and plush seating around low tables. It's intimate and there's table service, which starts with nibbles and water and goes on to an extensive cocktail menu and small plates. Try the centenary cocktail - a fruity, bubbly creation with cranberry and sparkling wine. There are cocktail classes with bartender Marti McGregor, monthly burlesque shows, and an event with the attention-grabbing name of Naked Girls Reading, on December 11.
Hippo's Louisiana Hook
Makes 1
60ml London dry gin
30ml fresh apple juice
30ml freshly squeezed lemon juice
15ml sugar syrup (boil sugar and water to a thick syrup)
fresh mint leaves
Campari orange ice sphere
30ml Campari
30ml blood orange juice
60ml spring water
Put the orange juice, water and campari into an ice sphere mould (or use an over-sized ice-cube tray) and freeze. Shake the gin, apple and lemon juice and sugar syrup with ice. Put the mint into a glass, then the campari sphere, and strain the gin mix over.
Soju Girl cocktail
Makes 1
1 kiwifruit, peeled and pulped
30ml soju (from Korean grocers)
30ml Midori
20ml lemongrass syrup (boil down lemongrass stalks with water and sugar to a syrup)
20ml lime juice
45ml cranberry juice
Put the ingredients into a cocktail shaker in this order: pulped kiwifruit; soju and Midori; lime juice, lemongrass syrup and cranberry juice. Add ice, shake, and strain into a glass (or pink takeaway box).
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Literacy news
Man Booker shortlisted author inspires prisoners to read
22 Oct 2012
Recent statistics shows that literacy is a significant issue in prisons: 60% of prisoners have difficulties with basic literacy skills, half the male prison population was excluded from school and 20-30% of the prison population has learning difficulties.
In an attempt to support prisoners and young offenders to become avid readers, author Stephen Kelman has visited prisons in Lewes and Brixton to encourage prisoners to read. The visits have been organised by the National Literacy Trust in partnership with the Booker Prize Foundation, which is building on its history of celebrating the best in contemporary literature by increasing disadvantaged communities' access to high-quality writing. You can view a short film of one of the visits below.
Stephen Kelman's Pigeon English, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2011, tells the story of a young boy on an inner-city council estate. It was selected as the focus for the visits because it may have resonance with many prisoners. The author said:
I'm thrilled that Pigeon English has been chosen for this project and I'm really looking forward to taking part. I'm sure it will be a valuable and rewarding experience. Books can change lives – they changed mine and I'm honoured to get the chance to share my story.
Jonathan Taylor, Chief Executive at the Booker Prize Foundation, said:
This is the first initiative from the Booker Prize Foundation as part of its wider collaboration with the Man Charitable Trust. It aims to provide a bridge between literacy and literature and to encourage more people to be able to read good books.
Jonathan Douglas, Director of the National Literacy Trust said:
In June 2012 there were 86,048** prisoners in England and Wales. Nearly half*** of these prisoners have serious problems with reading that need to be addressed. We hope that having a renowned author visit these institutions will inspire prisoners both to pick up a book and to work on their literacy skills while in prison. We would like to thank the Booker Prize Foundation for funding the initiative and Bloomsbury Publishing for kindly donating copies of Pigeon English.
As well as Lewes and Brixton, the initiative will also take place at HMP Swaleside. Prison librarians will be given lesson plans to use with their reading groups and participating prisoners will each receive a reading journal to track their progress and a certificate of achievement. Pigeon English will also be serialised on prison radio, reaching up to 50,000 prisoners across England and Wales.
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Manor's new mayor brings emergency experience
Manor's incoming mayor is bringing an extensive background in emergency services to his new post.
Though Jeremy "J.R." Dixon is taking an elective office for the first time, his community-service résumé includes serving as a Manor volunteer firefighter since 1994 and two years of experience as the borough's emergency-management coordinator and fire marshal.
In his day job, Dixon, 33, is a safety inspector for Bettis Marine Propulsion Co. He also works part time as an emergency medical technician for the Penn Township Ambulance Association.
Even after his swearing in as mayor at council's reorganization meeting on Monday night, Dixon will continue to serve as the emergency management coordinator. His primary duty as mayor will be oversight of the police department.
"As a former Marine and safety engineer, he brings a new perspective on things to the mayor's position," said Councilman Brian Woy, a fellow firefighter. "I look forward to working with him on some traffic issues we have in the borough; updating our emergency-response plans; and coming up with some long-term goals for the borough regarding parks, roads and borough facilities."
Dixon, a Republican, succeeds Democrat Dave Sturgess, who decided not to run for re-election after six years as mayor and four years on council. Dixon was the only person who filed nominating petitions for the seat.
Since his family moved to the borough when he was 5 years old, Dixon said, he has considered Manor home. Even when he was serving in the Marine Corps and completing bachelor's and master's degrees at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, he maintained his membership in the fire department.
"To me, this is where my family's always been from, and, for the foreseeable future, will be from," said Dixon, a married father with one son. "It's a great combination of being close enough to all the things that are urban but not having parallel parking on the streets. It's got a real sense of community where people aren't afraid to help each other."
As mayor and emergency-management coordinator, Dixon said, he wants to ensure good working relationships among the police, road crew and firefighters, particularly during emergencies.
He said the biggest problem facing the police department probably is the difficulty in retaining officers. Though council created a third full-time position last year, one of the more experienced officers recently left for a full-time job in Penn Township, and smaller communities frequently lose part-timers to jobs elsewhere.
"The revolving door is just going to be there. It's the nature of the beast," Dixon said. "We're a borough of 3,200 residents. We're blessed to have a full-time police department, and what we've had to this point is fantastic."
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Samsung Finesse User ReviewsPost new review
Please note that each user review reflects the opinion of its respectful author and not of Phone Arena.
posted on 28 Apr 2010, 01:21
i love the phone. doesn't take great pics. the video option is is a great. my biggest compliant is it needs more apps. there are virtually no useful apps for this phone. can't not use java games on it so the only games you can get are the pricy metro pcs games and there aren't to many of them anyway. i always have problems using the inernet as well. myspace does not work at all which is frustrating because it worked with my cheap $30 dollar phone that i had before.Design 8/10Features 4/10Performance 10/10
- great touch screen
- love the widget
- texting is easy with the qwerty key board
- no apps
- poor internet connection
- no storage folders
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mark trost
posted on 12 Apr 2010, 14:17
Very disappinted in Finesse From Striaghttalk
I just received a STRAIGHT TALK Samsung Finesse and am VERY disappointed. First, the manual is confusing, showing images of phone buttons without noting where they are or what they truly do. Texting is okay, but you are simply not allowed to edit a completed text message even in draft mode an even when you press the EDIT button which only allows you to edit who gets the text. Internet is a big disappointment. One can never see the entire page no matter how wide you zoom. The Straight Talk version does not allow video or audio streaming (or videos of any kind as far as I can see, not can it operate as a GPS nor does it have any access to any apps). Navigating a page is difficult since there really is no mouse like pointer, everything is done by finger and the lag time is driving me nuts. Also, you never know how long a page will take to load as there is no bar indicating how much of a page is loaded or needs to be completed. Even when it loads, you can't do a lot. I tried going to traffic.com and the page comes up showing traffic in Raleigh NC. I'm in New York and couldn't get it ever to bring up NY traffic. This is my first experience with a smart phone and it is not a very good one. I can only assume that the Iphone is a lot more responsive and easy to use. If it isn't I can't imagine how these ever really caught on. If you want to spend over $300 and get full net access at a relatively low fee, get a netbook with a skype connection....Design 2/10Features 3/10Performance 2/10
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posted on 01 Feb 2010, 07:45
Love my Finesse
I've seen reviews that point out youtube not working. The new generation of finesse phone have cured this problem. I've been able to see youtube from the beginning. This is a great phone. if you want a mini gaming console then this phone is not for you. it uses BREW style games and these can not be obtained free on the web and must be purchased from the carrier. If you are looking for a phone to use as a phone, texting device and camera then this fits the bill. I give it a 9 out of 10Design 10/10Features 8/10Performance 9/10
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amber harewood
posted on 15 Jan 2010, 12:21
very interested
first of all i am very satisfied with my samsung finesse my screen is workin properly n my apps are great .........i think thos hoo had a problem must have done somthing with there finesse because those of us in our rite mine are very awear that the samsung finesse is one great fone and please any one hoo wants to buy it go on ahead because i asure you that ,you WILL be satisfied.......THANK YOUDesign 10/10Features 10/10Performance 10/10
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posted on 04 Dec 2009, 15:45
samsung finesse rocks
i just got back from the metropcs stopre and i just bought the samsung finesse and traded in my tmobile htc touc h pro 2 and im glad i did samsung is wayyyyyyyy better than htc for many reason one reason being is thatthe batteries last longer and the blutooths are better and the cameras tae wayyy better pics the touch pro had a 3.2 meg camer and the finesse only has 2 and the pictures still come out wayy better i want every one to know that just becouse this phone cost almost 400 dont let it get away from you unless your waiting on the samsung finesse 2 this is the 2nd greatest phone in the world i would have to give the iphone basically just for all the apps becouse lets all face it if the iphone didnt have any apps what would be the point of it. but this it a geattttttttt phone..Design 10/10Features 9/10Performance 10/10
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rebecca white
posted on 03 Dec 2009, 16:17
i ♥ this phone so much
hi my name is rebecca white and i used to have and iphone with att then the phone started freezing up and i took it back to att so that they could give me a new one but they said that i had to pay 120 dollars i asked them why when i pay 25 a month for warrenty and they had no responce so i just sold my phone to my someone on ebay and i went to the metropcs store down the street from my house and i was thinking about geting the sameung messenger 2 until i saw this sexy phone that was just callinfg my name the only thing that was stoping me was the price but i had to get it and im glad i did im so happy i have this and not the iphone some people think that the iphone is like the best phone ever but its not imean the onlyt thing that it has to offer is a gang of apps the finesse has beter gps a better plan a betterDesign 10/10Features 10/10Performance 10/10
- mp3
- gps
- touch screen
- apps
- lots and lots of space
- sexy
- mobile im
- metrobackup
- weather app
- pocket express
- much much more
- price
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Mike Wedmer
posted on 26 Oct 2009, 09:03
My thoughts on the Finesse
After reading the other reviews on here, I am wondering if some of the negatives are based soley on the METRO PCS versions of the phone
I got mine from N-telos. I pay $60. a month and have unlimited talk time anywhere I want. I have text/photo/video messaging enabled.
Many people have mentioned that they cannot sync it to thier PC but I have not encountered this problem. I do not mind clicking a button to open the file associated with the memory card.
I just plug in the handy USB cable and in a few seconds I have added music photo's and movies to my card that will show up on my phone.
The pictures must be jpeg format and must also be no more than 100dpi. Otherwise they will not show up on the phone.
You cannot instantly upload videos from the phone to the internet. However I plug the phone or the sd card into my PC and can upload videos no problem.
video and sound quality are excellent. I have taken video's with lots of ambient noise in the background but voice came through clearly.
The quality of the Photo's are a little better than most other similar phones.
I work as an Artist/custom painter. I use my phone to show images of my work to potential clients. It has helped me to secure numerous jobs since I got it.
The Internet is a little slow and the rss style feed makes it difficult to scan some pages.
The phone has an extremely limited number of available apps. About half of those available are worth looking into. however some are largely overpriced.
The GPS is...Design 9/10Features 7/10Performance 9/10
- Large responsive touchscreen
- Good Music player
- many good installed features
- Quality picture and video with many features.
- lightweight
- very good call quality
- attractive design
- apps are limited
- apps are way overpriced
- phone locks midway through a call requiring you to unlock it to hang up.
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Sky J.
posted on 21 Sep 2009, 16:16
Don't expect a real smart phone
I got the Finesse as a birthday gift. It was a replacement for my old Metro PCS phone. I was thinking of going with another carrier for a smartphone but since my family had paid the hefty price for this, i decided to keep it. I was impressed by it at first. it seemed to be a functional piece of hardware. Then I noticed a few things. The first thing was the fact that the security really sucks. i have my email going to the one of the slim line of apps (which we will go over in a moment) you have on the phone. I hate having to log in/out everytime. That's when I realized, the only locking feature is for the entire phone. You cannot lock media, internet, or anything else seperately. If i lose my phone or someone borrows it, they can easily go into my private business. Every phone I have had since at least 2000 has been able to do this. very simplistic phones. so why does this "smart phone" lack such an obvious feature?Then there is the fact that everyone points out. The lack of downloadable apps. Some of the standard features are pretty cool.like the handwriting on the screen. But the email feature had to have a patch to fix. The IM feature has never worked properly for me. The lack of an ability to sync to the PC is really odd to me as well. And let's not mention the biggest faux pas. The inability to play any video other than the preloaded MI movei on the memory card (if you got that) or videos taken with the phone or sent by IM. It was originally played up to have video but don't...Design 9/10Features 4/10Performance 7/10
- Internet browser
- Handwriting interface
- MP3 music player
- Lack of apps
- No video
- Problems with the loaded apps
- Lack of security
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posted on 17 Jul 2009, 02:02
I totally fell in love with this phone when i first seen it. I bought it and ive had this phone for about three months and i am not totally satisfied. I am getting another phone because my finesse does not work properly I removed the battery from it and shortly after puting back on and turing the phone back on my touch screen did not work only the actually buttons work but not the touch screen. I am very upset about this.Design 9/10Features 9/10Performance 1/10
- mp3
- touch screen doesnt function corectlly.
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Christian Ayala
posted on 15 Jul 2009, 12:44
A little marvel
I got this phone because from all the lineup from metro pcs, this is the one that stood out the most for its design. However, thereis a lpt to like here, sincethis phone offers a lot of things and is just wonderful to look at. first the good, the multimedia capabilities, the full internet browser and the gps. the bad is only the fact that there are not a lot of apps to download like there are for the Iphone, which is shame because a phone like this coul make good use of some of those apps. also, I would like to be able to sync my finesse with my computer so I can transfer files and docs from it. Since I have a blog, I would love to be able to post pictures from my phone that I had previously fix in my pc with photoshop because it seems that this phone does not display pictures processed in a pc. Anyway,overall is great, does not make envious of those who have an Iphone (except for the apps) and as a phone performs just great. this phone has everything you need on the go and then some. Is a great machine.Design 10/10Features 8/10Performance 8/10
- desing, multimedia capabilities, internet browser, decent battery life.
- limited downloadable apps, the "camcorder" is blurry, wish it has more sync options and upload of files from it for the people who make blog posts.
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posted on 09 May 2009, 16:41
Well I had my Finesse for about two weeks now. and I must admit i am quite suprised by it. I did not think that it woul[d actully be this good. I mean by far the best phone offered by metroPCS. I mean once i got use to useing a full touch scren i feel in love. The Full html web maks it great for me to look thing up on the go. I have not had any problems with mines yet. Overal a great phone. There's just a few things that i wish it could do but no biggieDesign 10/10Features 10/10Performance 10/10
- Touch Screen
- Mp3
- Talk Time
- HTML Web
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