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TUNIS: Tunisian authorities have dropped a case of possible indecency against a young woman allegedly raped by two policemen, her lawyer says. The accused officers may now face charges.
''The charges [against the woman] were dropped for lack of evidence and the judge has decided to [charge] two policemen for rape and a third for corruption,'' Bouchra Belhaj Hmida said. The case was dismissed ''against the woman and her boyfriend'', another lawyer, Emna Zahrouni, said.
The 27-year-old alleged rape victim faced possible indecency charges with her fiance, based on the testimony of the alleged rapists, policemen who say they caught the couple by surprise in an ''immoral position''.
The woman, whose identity has not been revealed, was delighted after the case was dismissed. ''I'm very happy even though I had expected to be found innocent. I'm glad that the other two will now face charges,'' she said. ''This is the beginning of our victory.''
A judicial source had said the police found the couple having sex in a car on September 3. Two of them then took the woman to the police car, where they raped her, while a third restrained and tried to extort money from her fiance, the source said.
The case sparked a storm of protest in Tunisia, with NGOs, media and opposition figures saying the proceedings had transformed the victim into the accused and reflected the Islamist-led government's policy towards women.
The Prime Minister, Hamadi Jebali, from the ruling Islamist party Ennahda, said in October the policemen, who were arrested shortly after the incident, would be ''severely judged''. But he also said there might be a case of indecency to answer. But the President, Moncef Marzouki, offered a state apology to the woman.
Since the Islamists' rise to power after last year's revolution, feminist groups have accused police of regularly harassing women, by challenging them over their clothing or if they go out at night unaccompanied by family members.
Gender equality, enshrined in the Personal Status Code under Tunisia's first president, Habib Bourguiba, made the north African nation a beacon of modernity in the Arab world.
Ennahda, the Islamist party that heads the ruling coalition, was criticised for proposing an article, since dropped, in the new constitution referring to the ''complementarity'' of men to women, rather than equality.
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PEORIA, Ariz. -- With injuries already sidelining two of Seattle's top hurlers in Hisashi Iwakuma and Taijuan Walker, Mariners general manager Jack Zduriencik said Saturday "it remains to be seen" if his club has enough starting pitching heading into the regular season.
Neither of the two right-handers is expected to be available until at least several weeks into April after Iwakuma reported to camp with a sprained tendon in his right middle finger and Walker came down with bursitis in his throwing shoulder.
Zduriencik said the good news is neither pitcher is expected to miss significant time. In the meantime, a couple starters will get an early opportunity to show what they can do. The Mariners have two proven veterans -- Scott Baker and Randy Wolf -- in camp as non-roster invitees attempting to come back from 2012 Tommy John surgeries.
Additionally, a young group of prospects -- Brandon Maurer, Erasmo Ramirez, Blake Beavan and Hector Noesi -- have all gained some experience in the past season or two and will have a chance to grab jobs.
"You're hoping something real positive comes out of Baker and Wolf," Zduriencik said. "Those are veteran guys that have been around a while. They've got every opportunity to make the club here. Brandon Maurer has to get back on the mound and start throwing again. We've got Erasmo, Beavan, Noesi. Let 'em all compete.
"It sounds like we've been through the worst with these pitchers in terms of the two that have had setbacks. But the bright side is they should recover nicely and it's going to make for an interesting camp for everybody else that's in there."
Baker made his spring debut Saturday against the Angels and threw two scoreless innings with one hit, one walk and one strikeout, while Wolf will start Sunday's game against the Indians in Goodyear, Ariz. Zduriencik and the rest of the Mariners' staff will watch those two closely.
"No question," Zduriencik said. "And there's no question that they came in with intentions of making the club. And that's good. They'd have been given every opportunity to make this club because they give you options and depth, but now it puts them in a little different light.
"There are less numbers, at least initially. They'll be given every chance to pitch here, so let's see. And you've got other guys like Mark Rogers and Matt Palmer coming in here to compete, too, that want to be part of this club. And Zach Miner has starting in his history. So you never know. Let's see what happens."
Zduriencik said the positive with Walker is the 21-year-old didn't have any structural damage in his shoulder based on MRI tests.
"It was just a young guy who got amped up before camp trying to get himself ready and strained himself," Zduriencik said. "The good part is everybody feels good about it, he just needs to build his throwing program back up and that's going to be the setback. We don't think it's going to be anything physical now, being he's got the clearance and positive information on it."
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LAKEPORT -- The Lake County supervisors will receive the Clear Lake Advisory Committee quarterly report Tuesday at 9:15 a.m.
The regular Board of Supervisors (BOS) meeting convenes at 9 a.m. at the Lake County Courthouse.
The BOS will present a proclamation at 9:10 a.m. designating this as National Hospice Month. The Lake Family Resource Center will give its final report on domestic violence services for last fiscal year at 10 a.m.
At 10:30 a.m., the supervisors will consider the proposed Lake County Weed Management Plan, which would cover aquatic and terrestrial invasive weeds. The BOS will discuss purchasing property for an alternate road on Mount Konocti at 11 a.m.
Among non-timed items is a request to send state legislators a letter asking for the repeal or amendment of Assembly Bill 109 (Public Safety Realignment), a Public Works presentation of the completed work summary of road maintenance projects funded by the general fund and a policy on media releases and the release of public information.


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I have a question, and I believe I already know the answer, but I am going to ask anyway, as I am extremely unfamiliar (still) with the Win32 API. I will try to format this as best as I can, as it's slightly confusing to reference it...
If you were loading multiple bitmap images (let's say 50), and needed to render them everytime the screen updated (WM_PAINT notification)... Should you be calling LoadImage() during every iteration, or should you save the HDC? HBITMAP? And simply BitBlit per image per iteration (WM_PAINT)?
Thank you in advance.
Definitely do LoadImage() once and save the returned HBITMAP.
Perhaps you could show me where I went wrong with that assumption then...?
void IMAGE::repaint() {
// "hdc" is set to BeginPaint()'s hdc value right before calling
HDC hdcMem = CreateCompatibleDC(hdc);
// image is an HBITMAP member stored from "HBITMAP image = (HBITMAP)LoadImage(NULL, file, IMAGE_BITMAP, 0, 0, LR_LOADFROMFILE);"
HBITMAP hbmOld = (HBITMAP)SelectObject(hdcMem, image);
// This is absolutely valueless... but I used it anyway (I already know the dimensions, considering I created them)
GetObject(image, sizeof(bm), &bm);
// GetLastError() says this always returns 0/the function always returns 0
BitBlt(hdc, 0, 0, bm.bmWidth, bm.bmHeight, hdcMem, 0, 0, SRCCOPY);
SelectObject(hdcMem, hbmOld);
// Stop memory leaks (GDI object count loves to sky-rocket)
Am I running into yet another magical undocumented wall, that I seem to always find...? Thanks again.
Well, if you do LoadImage() once then of course you shouldn't do DeleteObject() on that object until you are shutting down your application. That code looks like it's deleting it after the first time it's rendered.
(Also, for efficiency you can also create the memory DC once and save it, rather than creating and deleting it each frame.)
By removing the DeleteDC/Object, it creates a massive memory leak:
Whether you use the classes individually defined DC or a locally created one on the stack, it doesn't work. BitBlt still returns 0, and still fails inevitably without reason or explanation.
Something else must be going on with your GDI objects, because that makes no sense. LoadImage() creates an object and DeleteObject() deletes it. Just selecting it into a DC doesn't create an object and you're selecting it out again at the end of the paint function, which is correct.
Anyway, the rest of the code you posted looks correct to me. You're not getting anything from GetLastError()?
I agree, it makes absolutely no sense. Granted, I believe I just found where/why it is not working the way you'd expect it to;
In the initial function which loads the image, and sets up the values, this is what I originally had:
HDC hdcMem = CreateCompatibleDC(hdc);
this->hdcMem = hdcMem;
HBITMAP image = (HBITMAP)LoadImage(NULL, file, IMAGE_BITMAP, 0, 0, LR_LOADFROMFILE);
this->image = image;
Apparently, you cannot copy the values straight over like that. I was under the impression (the debugger showed the same values) it was working fine. In the initial loadImage() function, I believe what I'm going to do now is absolve all locally defined functions, and simply use the class' innate ones.
In the destructor of the class, I should be (for safety sake, and not relying on the operating system) calling the DeleteObject/DeleteDC, correct?
Thank you again for the help, as always (through-out the years).
Yeah, if you wrap the GDI objects in classes, it would be appropriate to call DeleteObject/DeleteDC in the destructor.


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CHRS Team Attends 2nd International ASSHH in Paris
The Center on Health, Risk, and Society (CHRS) team, including Director Kim Blankenship, Assistant Director Monica Biradavolu, Research Manager Nimesh Dhungana, and our India collaborator Annie George, presented papers jointly on a panel at the 2nd International Association for the Social Science and Humanities in HIV (ASSHH) conference held in Paris, July 7-10, 2013.
ASSHH "is an international membership organization that promotes and supports critically informed and theoretically engaged social science and humanities research on HIV/AIDS. We are committed to generating, supporting and distributing social science and humanities scholarship, promoting dialogue and networking within our disciplines and between them and the larger scientific community, and training emerging social science and humanities scholars in academic and non-academic settings."
The association "emerged to address concerns among social science and humanities scholars that our work had been ignored by international agencies and funders of HIV research, and was poorly understood by many biomedical colleagues thirty years into the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. It had become apparent that the exclusion of the important contributions of social science and the humanities in major HIV conferences, in publications with a significant readership on HIV/ AIDS, and in key international policy forums was having a detrimental impact on the effectiveness of responses to the epidemic."
The ASSHH conferences, the first of which was held in Durban, South Africa in 2011, were organized to provide a space for social science and humanities scholars to share their work and develop collaborations on topics of common interest.
Based on AU's Project Parivartan the CHRS team panel was entitled Community Mobilization as HIV Prevention: Lessons from the Avahan India AIDS Initiative.
Dhungana's paper "Multiple Processes and Outcomes of Community Mobilization: A Case of Avahan," was a systematic review of analyses of community mobilization processes and impacts that discussed some of the key outcomes associated with successful community mobilization. Using eight years of ethnographic field data, Blankenship's paper, titled "Sex Work as Work: Mobilizing Female Sex Workers for HIV Prevention in India," analyzed how workplace organizing, as reflected in the language of "sex work as work," provided a critical framing to both facilitate and constrain community mobilization efforts to achieve health impacts as well as broader social change goals. George analyzed ethnographic data collected from three districts to contrast the role of peer educators in community mobilization interventions and more traditional HIV prevention interventions in her paper, "Peer Educators in HIV Prevention: From Community Organizers to Outreach Workers." Finally, Biradavolu's paper, "Monitoring, Enumerating, Creating Sex Workers Through Community-based Monitoring," showed how monitoring is not a neutral process. Enumerating 'target populations' in an HIV prevention program led to the construction of categories of female sex workers that did not take into account the fluid nature of sex work in the region and resulted in a struggle between increasing bureaucratization of peer outreach work and continued efforts at mobilization.


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It was the first year that the boutique Rock the Farm festival, based on the site of Chase Distillery, opened to the public.
And the emphasis was on the art of creating beautiful, delicious drinks, with bartenders from as far away as Germany battling it out to win the coveted Chase Cup.
Chase's English potato vodka was recently crowned the "World's Best" by the San Francisco World Spirit Awards, and with other artisan drinks on offer including marmalade vodka, rhubarb vodka and smoked vodka there was probably no better place than the company's Herefordshire farm to host an event which would showcase the best of the illustrious drinks industry.
And along with plenty of local food and drinks, visitors had the opportunity to take a tour of the farm and hear from speakers who are already making their mark in the industry.
Good music was also in abundance, with Herefordshire's own country singer/songwriter Sasha McVeigh opening the main stage on Saturday.
And on Sunday, festival-goers were privy to an intimate performance from indie rockers Mystery Jets who have previously frequented large venues across the UK .
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Indie pop girl group Delora on Saturday.
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It's not just the rank-and-file knowledge workers who should be clued into the power of virtualization but their managers, all the way up to the C-suite. How do they think IT has been able to deploy more systems over the years without blowing extremely constrained budgets or consuming every inch of available floor space or every KW of power?
A recent Cisco partner whitepapertitled"Cisco FlexPod Express Study:Virtualization on the Rise, found that 40% of information workers hadn't heard of server or desktop virtualization. While the lack of knowledge in the workspace is intriguing, the study perhaps says the most about how well IT managers and other high-level executives are integrating virtualization into their companies.
wiredFINANCE finds this incredulous, 40%! The survey specifically referred to knowledge workers. It wasn't talking about miners chipping away at rock faces or lumberjacks living deep in the woods for months at a time. Could it be the high executives who are so clueless? It shouldn't be you, however, if you have been reading wiredFINANCE here for, say, the past three or four years. (Actually, the overall white paper is pretty good; you might want to read it.)
Certainly, as the study authors write, virtualization is creating a more efficient IT department behind the scenes. In general, no matter the size of the company or budget, the study found that IT professionals don't need to be sold on virtualization. Many companies are already realizing the benefits and its adoption should continue to increase until virtualization is simply a mainstay in the workplace.
Still it's not the rank-and-file knowledge workers who should be clued into the power of virtualization but their managers, all the way up to the C-suite. How do they think IT has been able to deploy more systems over the years without blowing extremely constrained budgets or consuming every inch of available floor space or every KW of power? Maybe they think virtualization is magic.
As it turns out, maybe the respondents actually weren't totally clueless. The researchers found:
This last point should be the most infuriating. Most non-virtualized servers run at 10% or less utilization. (The best non-virtualized servers might run at 15-20% utilization.) That means a server that costs $10,000 wastes $9000 of its value. Say an organization has 10 departments, each running its application on a non-virtualized server. How much money is the organization wasting?
Yet, 61% of middle managers say cost stands in the way of virtualization. There are valid reasons not to virtualize servers, but cost should NEVER be one.
Why? Because you can get the basic software for virtualization, the hypervisor, for FREE from a variety of vendors. Microsoft, for example, includes its Hyper-V virtualization software with its Windows Server product. Sure, it is not suitable for any buta small company but it will get you started. Similarly, VMware, the 900-pound gorilla in the virtualization space, offers a free version too, again mainly to get you started, like training wheels on a bike. KVM, an open source Linux hypervisor is free and comes built into the latest versions of Linux. Supported by IBM and a slew others along with an active community, KVM is the real thing and free. Like other free open source products, you pay for support, not the product or the license. (With conventional products you pay for both the license and the support.)
By virtualizing servers you can increase your server utilization, effectively boosting your ROI. You can dramatically reduce energy consumption. You can reduce administration and support costs because there simply are few physical machines to deal with. You also save on floor space. Virtualization also provides the foundation for all the benefits you can get from cloud computing, starting with pay only for what you use when you use it.
In case you've missed it, you can read up on virtualization right at wiredFINANCE hereand hereand here. Virtualization isn't perfect and it certainly isn't easy, but it is essential for any organization that wants to maximize its IT infrastructure ROI and tap the benefits of cloud computing.


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My late father had many folksy sayings when I was growing up. Some were hokey, but several provided a lot of solid insight into life. All were homespun and delivered sincerely, reflecting my dad's humble roots and deep reservoir of common sense. One of my favorites has always been, "Life is like a pendulum. It swings too far to the left, it swings too far to the right and it is rarely in the middle where it belongs." I have always found this advice can be applied frequently in life's journey, as well as to politics, fashion and sports. And even to the stock market.
Take the cases of Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOG). Last summer, Apple could do no wrong. Every product it launched exceeded expectations, the stock climbed what seemed like every week and then moved above $700 a share in mid-September. It became the most valuable company by market capitalization, displacing Exxon Mobil (XOM) for a time, and analysts were busy putting price targets above $1000 on the Cupertino, Calif., juggernaut. Some even speculated on when the stock would achieve an incredible trillion-dollar market capitalization....537 more words left in this article. To read them, just click below and try Real Money FREE for 14 days.
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10 a.m. Rep. Tom Price, vice chairman of the House Budget Committee, and Rep. Chris Van Hollen, the ranking member of the same panel, will discuss the future of the federal budget at an event at the National Press Club.
11:30 a.m. Kansas City Fed President Esther George gives speech at the University of Nebraska-Omaha on the topic of the U.S. economy.
1:30 p.m. Atlanta Fed President Dennis Lockhart speaks in Madrid, Spain.
7:30 p.m. Philadelphia Fed President Charles Plosser speaks to the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research annual meeting in Stanford, Ca. on the topic of the economic outlook and monetary policy.
7:30 p.m. Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker speaks at Franklin & Marshall College on economics and the Fed after the financial crisis.
9 p.m. President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio will deliver the Republican response.
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Trial to Assess the Efficacy and Safety of SPM 927 (200, 400, and 600mg/Day) in Subjects With Painful Distal Diabetic Neuropathy
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This phase 3 trial is being conducted at approximately 80 sites in the United States (U.S.) to investigate whether lacosamide (SPM 927) at different doses reduces pain in subjects with diabetic neuropathy. Approximately 455 subjects will be randomized to placebo or to one of three doses of lacosamide. To qualify for this trial, subjects with symptoms of painful distal diabetic neuropathy ranging in duration from 6 months to 5 years must have an average pain intensity of greater than or equal to 4 on an 11-point Likert scale (0-10 scale) during the 7 day period prior to the start of treatment.
To determine what effect lacosamide has on diabetic neuropathic pain, subjects will use a diary to record their daily pain intensity (morning and evening; and pain interference with sleep (morning) and activity (evening). Use of rescue medication (acetaminophen) and subjects' quality of life will be investigated. In addition, the safety and tolerability of the different doses of lacosamide will be investigated.
|Diabetic Neuropathies
|Drug: SPM 927
|Phase 3
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Multi-Center, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Parallel-Group Trial to Assess the Efficacy and Safety of SPM 927 (200, 400, and 600mg/Day) in Subjects With Painful Distal Diabetic Neuropathy
- To investigate the efficacy of 200, 400, and 600mg/day of lacosamide compared with placebo in reducing pain in subjects with painful distal diabetic neuropathy.
- To investigate the effect of lacosamide on subjects' perception of pain, sleep, activity, and quality of life, as well as to investigate the pharmacokinetics and safety of lacosamide.
|Study Start Date:
|October 2004
|Study Completion Date:
|December 2005
|Primary Completion Date:
|December 2005 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Diabetic neuropathy
Exclusion Criteria:
- Subject has previously participated in this trial or subject has previously been assigned to treatment in a trial of the drug under investigation in this trial.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00135109
|United States, North Carolina
|RTP, North Carolina, United States, 27709
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|UCB Pharma
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|NCT00135109 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|August 23, 2005
|Last Updated:
|September 19, 2014
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Diabetic Neuropathies
Peripheral Nervous System Diseases
Neuromuscular Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
Diabetes Complications
Diabetes Mellitus
Endocrine System Diseases
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So I was dx'd when I was young and had been on ritalin, concerta, and adderall for most of my life up to about 2008 or so. I went off of it and then back on sometime last year. Finally I took up meditation and put the medication down.
*I do NOT condone this*
I decided to take ritalin yesterday in an effort to see if what meditation has done for me and whether or not the medication even helps anymore. It doesn't help. In fact it hindered me. I went from calmness to a mind that felt like things were happening moment to moment and way to fast. I tried to sit down and take advantage of the concentration in meditation. I could concentrate alright. But what you would probably expect is I also could not sit still. I took 1/4th of what the doctor prescribed me (5mg methylphenidate) and my body became sooo rigid that it made my neck hurt from being so tense.
The only benefit I truly got from this experience is I can see this polar opposite of calm focus vs. intense focus.
For me it was not a pleasant experience.
(just an FYI, this medicine is mine and I was prescribed it.)
I do want to promote one thing though:
I know there are people that greatly benefit from this medication. However alluring it is, I feel that meditation should be done before or at least in conjunct with it.
For me I realized that a lack of focus was not my hindrance. It was my anxieties ability to take a thought and push it so far up that my thinking becomes erratic and unfocused. I meditate 2 times a day for 45 minutes and the calmness gives ME a focus 10X that of the medication when I wasn't meditating. This is just my 2 cents and everyone is different, but to those interested in meditation vs medication I would say try Anapanasati.
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Nintendo's next big home console, the Wii U, is set to launch here in the US in a week-and-a-half on November 18. That's typically when we'd expect to see unboxing videos start appearing online, but Nintendo president Satoru Iwata took advantage of his position, getting the jump on everyone with a nice head start. We've got the video below, after the break, of Iwata unboxing the Wii U Deluxe Edition console, showing off the system hardware, GamePad, and all the packed-in accessories. Check it out, and let us know in the comments if you plan on picking up a Wii U for yourself!
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Hello again,
I don't know what this is, but it was pretty enough to buy at a recent estate sale.
At first I thought it was a ring holder, then some type of candleholder......
now I'm clueless.
It's lovely, with very attractive hand painted and gold adornments
Unfortunately there isn't a mark on the bottom,
Any guesses what it might be, or perhaps you know what it is?
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About Green River
Green River College is a public college where students from all over the world come together to learn, grow and enrich their lives. Green River's main campus, founded in Auburn's Lea Hill neighborhood in 1965, stretches over 180 acres of beautifully forested land. Branch campuses, located in downtown Auburn, Kent and Enumclaw, bring the college's unique educational experiences to local communities.
At Green River, students can choose from a wide variety of transfer degrees, career and technical education, pre-college and basic skills courses and continuing and community education classes. High-quality faculty and motivated staff advise, counsel and support students in their chosen educational careers, creating an atmosphere where achievement is expected and encouraged.
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12401 SE 320th Street
Auburn, WA 98092-3622
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The roots of Green River College stretch back to 1945, when the Auburn School District started a program of adult evening education, which soon became the largest in Washington state. The popularity of the program convinced citizens from the surrounding communities that the Green River Valley needed its own community college. Local committees began working to secure state approval to start a community college in 1959. In 1963, the determination of local citizens paid off when the Washington State Board of Education approved the community college.
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According to Irsay, in 2004, a frustrated Polian was at wit's end as he attempted to secure Manning's new $98 million contract and, in a fit of pique, told Irsay, "We need to trade Peyton; we can get a bunch of defensive players and become like Tampa Bay or Baltimore." Irsay said no. "Understand something, Bill, we are not trading Peyton Manning, period,'' Irsay recalled telling the former team president.


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It ill also offer second screen functionality via SmartGlass and PlayStation Vita.
"After our Director's Cut announcement we received an overwhelming response from the community asking us to bring this ultimate edition of Human Revolution to other platforms," Eidos-Montréal GM Stéphane D'Astous stated.
"We're thrilled to accommodate that request."
This new version of the game offers improved visuals, integration of the Missing Link DLC, eight hours of developer commentary and overhauled boss fights.


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June 7, 2002
Melanie Franco Nussdorf, Esq.
Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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Washington, DC 20036-1795
Dear Ms. Nussdorf:
This is in response to your request for an advisory opinion concerning Prohibited Transaction Exemption 77-4 (42 FR 18732, April 8, 1977) (PTE 77-4). Specifically, you request an opinion as to whether the prohibition on sales commission payments in PTE 77-4 would apply to commissions paid by a plan to an independent broker who executes the plan's purchase or sale of shares of open-end investment companies registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 through a securities exchange.
As you know, PTE 77-4 provides an exemption from the restrictions of section 406 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (the Act), as amended, and the taxes imposed by section 4975(a) and (b) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the Code), by reason of section 4975(c)(1) of the Code, for the purchase or sale by an employee benefit plan of shares of an open-end investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, where the investment adviser for the investment company is also a fiduciary with respect to the plan (or an affiliate of such fiduciary) and is not an employer of employees covered by the plan, provided certain conditions are met.
Section II(a) of PTE 77-4 provides that the plan must not pay a sales commission in connection with such purchase or sale.
You represent that your inquiry concerns an investment vehicle known as an Exchange Traded Fund or ETF which is similar to a mutual fund. You have explained that an ETF is legally classified as a registered open-end investment company. Like other open-end investment companies, an ETF issues shares representing an undivided interest in a managed portfolio of securities. Additionally, ETF shares are offered continuously and may be purchased and redeemed directly through the ETF on a daily basis, at the net asset value (NAV) per share, with or without a fixed transaction fee.
You represent that direct purchases and redemptions occur, however, only in large blocks (generally called creation units) and generally are effected through an in-kind tender of a specified basket of securities, and not cash. You note that this tends to reduce portfolio turnover and attendant transactional expenses by minimizing the liquidations and acquisitions of portfolio securities required with respect to purchases and redemptions in ETF shares.
You state that individual ETF shares trade on the exchanges at market prices, which may differ from NAV. Trades of ETF shares in the secondary market incur brokerage commissions, like common stocks.
You have requested an advisory opinion confirming that the sales commissions precluded under section II(a) of PTE 77-4 do not include commissions paid to brokers provided that: (1) the sale of shares of open-end investment companies registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 are executed through a securities exchange; and (2) the brokers are unrelated to the investment company's principal underwriter or investment adviser (or their affiliates). You note that where the broker is not affiliated with the investment adviser for the fund and the fund's principal underwriter, neither the adviser, the principal underwriter, nor any of their affiliates, derives any additional benefit from initiating a transaction which causes the broker to receive a commission.
ETFs did not exist in 1977 at the time PTE 77-4 was granted by the Department of Labor (the Department). At that time open-end investment company shares were purchased from the fund itself (or through a broker affiliated with the fund). The prohibition in PTE 77-4 on the payment of sales commissions by a plan was intended to avoid potential abuses that could arise if a mutual fund, its investment adviser or an affiliate thereof were to receive a commission or load in connection with the transaction. The Department explained in the preamble to the proposed class exemption relating to PTE 77-4 that the requirement that the plan not pay commissions would apply ...whether the transaction is between the plan and the mutual fund directly or is executed by the mutual fund's principal underwriter or transfer agent as an intermediary. (See 41 FR 50516, November 16, 1976). Each of these types of transactions would involve payment of a commission to someone associated with the mutual fund.
The Department's views regarding fees paid to parties with respect to transactions described in PTE 77-4 were also discussed in Advisory Opinion 93-13A, in which a company, serving as investment manager or trustee to employee benefit plans, proposed to invest the plans' assets in affiliated mutual funds. The Department stated that conditions (d), (e) and (f) of PTE 77-4, relating to required disclosures and approval by an independent fiduciary, would not apply to fees paid to parties unrelated to the mutual funds' adviser, or any affiliate, under the arrangement described in the advisory opinion.
As noted above, ETFs are a more recent development in the securities market and their trading procedures differ from those of traditional open-end investment companies. In this regard, creation units are traded directly with the fund in like-kind exchanges while individual shares are traded between investors on securities exchanges and result in brokerage commissions being paid to brokers who may or may not be related to the fund, investment adviser or any affiliates thereof.
Based on the above facts and representations, the Department is of the view that the term sales commission as used in section II(a) of PTE 77-4 does not include brokerage commissions paid to a broker in connection with purchases or sales of shares of registered open-end investment companies on an exchange if the broker is unaffiliated with the fund, its principal underwriter, investment adviser or any affiliate thereof.(1)
The Department cautions, however, that where a plan fiduciary, who is an investment adviser to a fund, causes the plan to pay commissions to a broker-dealer who is an affiliate of such adviser or of the fund, such commission payments would be separate prohibited transactions under section 406(b) of the Act for which no relief is available under PTE 77-4. Section 406(b) prohibits a plan fiduciary from dealing with the assets of the plan in his own interest or for his own account, acting in his individual or in any other capacity in any transaction involving the plan on behalf of a party (or representing a party) whose interests are adverse to the interests of the plan or the interests of its participants and beneficiaries, or receiving any consideration for his own personal account from any party dealing with such plan in connection with a transaction involving the assets of the plan.
This letter constitutes an advisory opinion under ERISA Procedure 76-1 and is issued subject to the provisions of that procedure, including section 10, relating to the effect of advisory opinions. This opinion relates only to the specific issue addressed herein.
Ivan L. Strasfeld
Director, Office of Exemption Determinations


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LAKEPORT -- The Lake County Board of Supervisors (BOS) will receive an update and consider whether to give direction about the establishment of a sheriff's office substation in Clearlake Oaks at 9:45 a.m. Tuesday.
The regular BOS meeting will convene at 9 a.m. at the Lake County Courthouse in Lakeport.
At 9:15 a.m., the supervisors will discuss whether to give direction regarding county acceptance of donated paper subdivision lots and future trail use.
The BOS will consider policies for leasing and purchasing property for county use at 9:30 a.m.
Among non-timed items will be a request to approve a $15,000 donation from Friends of the Middletown Gibson Library for the new library, a proposed agreement for a needs assessment study for the Lake County Hill Road Correctional Facility and proclamations expressing appreciation to Wesley Chesbro and Ruth Valenzuela.


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Governor's Race
Democrat Tom Wolf, a businessman running for public office for the first time, has held a double-digit lead over Republican Gov. Tom Corbett, the state's former elected attorney general, since the May primaries, according to independent polls. If Wolf wins, it will break a 40-year precedent of Pennsylvania voters electing governors to two four-year terms and alternating control of the state government between the Democratic and Republican parties every eight years.
Pennsylvania Congressional Races
The state's 18 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives all are open and 16 incumbents are seeking additional two-year terms. Republicans, aided by the GOP-drawn redistricting that took effect in 2012, control the congressional delegation and aim to at least retain the current 13-5 lineup. Among the most closely watched races are three in southeastern Pennsylvania - those for the open seats in the 6th and 13th districts and the 8th District fight between third-term Republican Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick and Democratic newcomer Kevin Strouse, a former Army Ranger.
Pennsylvania Legislative Races
All 203 seats in the state House of Representatives and half of the 50 state Senate seats are up for grabs. Democrats are eager to gain ground in several districts in suburban Philadelphia and scattered locations around the state. But Republicans control the Legislature - 111-92 in the House and 27-23 in the Senate - and worked to keep it that way in shaping the latest redistricting maps, which are being used for the first time in Tuesday's election.
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MIAMI - A police officer crashed his cruiser into a Miami BP gas station convenience store around 5:30 a.m. on Saturday.
According to authorities, the officer somehow lost control of his car while driving near SW 8th Street and 74th Avenue.
A manager told Local 10 that a cashier was inside the store at the time of the crash, but was not hurt.
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Wiltshire Police are appealing for the help in locating a missing father and son from Chippenham.
Geoffrey Tomlinson, 41, and his nine-year-old son Jack Tomlinson were last seen at their home in Hardens Mead yesterday morning.
It is understood they left the house between 5am and 6am.
Mr Tomlinson is described as a white male, with shaven brown hair and of a slim build. He normally wears glasses but these were left at his home address.
Jack is described as white, taller than average for his age, with mousey brown hair and of a medium build.
At this stage, it is not known what the two were wearing but Mr Tomlinson may be wearing a black Slazenger jacket.
Anyone with information as to the whereabouts of either Mr Tomlinson or Jack should contact Wiltshire Police on 101 immediately or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 where information can be left anonymously.


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|Ashley McCown
Homicides in the workplace are on the rise. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, in 2010, the latest year for which figures are available, of the 4,547 fatal workplace injuries, 506 were homicides.
No one wants to think about workplace violence happening in their company. Small business owners probably feel that could never happen to their company. Or, understandably they may feel there is nothing that can be done to prepare for, let alone prevent, something from happening. In fact, there are measures that can be taken to protect a business against threats and mitigate an actual attack. So rather than hoping the unthinkable never happens, here are five steps small business owners can take to get started.
Update your Emergency Response and Crisis Communications Plans. Plans that sit on the shelf, gathering dust aren't of much use when a crisis hits. Plans need to evolve with the organization they are designed to help and the world in which we now live and work. And if you don't have a crisis plan, now is a good time to start.
Educate your staff. They are one of the best resources your organization has to identify potential violence before it happens. Employees can be trained to look for troubling behavior in co-workers and suspicious activities of unknown individuals, i.e. someone standing in the same area or videotaping day after day.
Collaborate with law enforcement. At the local and federal level, law enforcement agencies are tremendous resources for training programs and expert counsel. They want to work closely with the private sector in emergency planning as it vastly improves emergency response. We regularly invite local police, fire and emergency response personnel to participate in table top exercises for that reason. The Department of Homeland Security offers a range of training and resources for the commercial facility sector [www.dhs.gov/cfsector]. Much of this information is valuable for a business of any size.
Demonstrate your Emergency Response Plans. You don't want an actual crisis to be the first time you put your plan to the test. Table top exercises and drills show you which parts of your plans work well and which ones need to be retooled. They also give your Crisis Response Team a chance to work together before a situation occurs.
Communicate. Effectively managing a crisis is not just about the tactical response. Communications plays a significant role in getting the right information to the right people quickly. When we do table top exercises, we invite everyone who works on site to participate including receptionists, security guards, parking attendants and janitors. Any one of those people could be the first to see something suspicious, so key staff and vendors on property should be empowered to say something if they see something. Similarly, communicate with abutting properties about your crisis plans as a collaborative approach to surveillance and communication can stop violence before it happens.
Every time there is workplace violence, whether at a university or in an office building, there are lessons for all of us. By committing to plan and prepare now, small business owners are taking critical steps to protect their property, their reputation and their most important asset: their people.
Ashley McCown is president of Solomon McCown & Co., a Boston-based strategic communications firm specializing in crisis communications. She can be reached at email@example.com. You can follow her on Twitter @CrisisBostonPR.


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Hot and steamy is my lingering impression of Borgo Italia, a new restaurant that specializes in home cooking from Liguria, Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna. And it's not because the Oakland restaurant is run by three hunky Italians. It's because of a singular antipasti, Torta Fritta Emiliana ($12).
On a recent Saturday night, the warm, fried, salted dough was the first dish to arrive on our table. I peeled one of the puffy, beignet-like balls open and breathed in its yeasty heat before stuffing it with the best salumi money can buy. I pressed the bread together, allowing the steam to "cook" the prosciutto: Precious piggies wrapped in hotel-grade, pillow-soft down comforters. Yum.
Dishes like this, and a silky, ribboned tagliatelle served straight from the saute pan, offer a glimpse into the kind of refined comfort food Borgo Italia owners Fabio Dalle Vacche, Franco Camboli and Paul Ferrari (of A.G. Ferrari) were lucky enough to grow up with.
They opened the restaurant two months ago in the historic building that used to house B Restaurant in Old Oakland as an homage to their grandmothers' cucina casalinga, or home cooking, and the villages they served (Borgo means village). With its wood-fired pizzas, handmade pastas, and focused wine program, the restaurant brings regional, ingredient-focused Italian fare to downtown Oakland.
Camboli, a top pastry chef from Tuscany, cooks in the kitchen while Vacche, a consultant who grew up in his mother's restaurant in Borgotaro, near Parma, minds the front of the house. Camboli is also an Advanced Level III sommelier (I know, who IS this guy?) and no doubt works his contacts in Italy to source some of those coveted, small-production gems on the wine list. Gorgeous, by-the-glass gems, like the 2010 Poderi San Lorenzo "Polesio" Sangiovese from Marche ($9), are food-friendly and fairly priced.
On our visit, the vibe was mellow and moody. Down-tempo beats filled the dining room up to the high ceilings and brick-lined perimeter. Vintage accents, like imported antique furniture and refined copper lighting, provided just the right touch.
So did our waiter, a confident, familiar gentleman who brought us complimentary wine when our entrees were delayed and provided an answer every time we asked him for a suggestion. I love that. There's nothing more off-putting than a waiter without opinions.
He steered us to the heavenly fried dough and that Tagliatelle al Ragu ($15), fresh egg pasta tossed in a rich, savory tomato sauce spiked with tender bits of ground beef and veal, which was gorgeous.
Any restaurant that respects and elevates the vegetable side dish gets extra points from me, and Borgo Italia's contorni menu was brimming with seasonal options. Both the Funghi al Forno ($8), a generous heap of sauteed mushrooms, and Melazane a Funghetto ($8), bites of sauteed eggplant, were tasty though heavily salted for our palates.
Vellutata di Porri e Patat ($8), a potato leek soup, was more balanced in flavor. Camboli uses high quality, extra-virgin olive oil instead of butter or cream to attain that velvety smooth texture. If you're lactose-intolerant, you will be thrilled.
For us, the least thrilling dish was probably Scallopine Vitelo ($17), the veal scaloppine entree that was running a tad late. It was tasty and well-prepared but small in portion and a bit tepid upon arrival. It was served alongside the sauteed eggplant and roasted potatoes, which were also too salty for me to finish.
What we did finish was the Tiramisu ($8). Borgo Italia's is gluten-free, made fresh daily, and available for take-out in a glass jar. Camboli, a celiac, crafts his lady fingers from a mixture of rice and corn flours, which soaked up the espresso and mascarpone like a charm. The restaurant was out of pizza boxes or we would've ordered a margherita pie for breakfast.
Speaking of breakfast, how good would the fried dough taste with butter and jam. …
Borgo Italia
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WHERE: 499 Ninth St., Oakland
HOURS: 8 a.m. to 11 p.m.
CUISINE: Italian
VEGETARIAN: Several options on our visit, including potato leek soup, margherita pizze, homemade egg pasta, sauteed eggplants, and sauteed mushrooms.
BEVERAGES: Advanced certified sommelier Franco Camboli's focused wine list of Italian gems under $100 gets our admiration.
NOISE LEVEL: Moderate
PARKING: We used the $5 parking lot behind the restaurant.
KIDS: Ours loved leftovers of homemade egg pasta with ragu. He would've gobbled up all three wood-fired pizzes on the menu as well.
PLUSES: Fresh, unfussy cucina casalinga, or home cooking.
MINUSES: Some of the dishes were too salted for our palates.
DATE OPENED: Sept. 18
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There's is this kid, 19 or so that has played a lot tournaments I've been in. I've only played southeast missouri tournaments.
I ALWAYS get on the same card as him. I don't know if the TD has it in for me or what but I always do, at least first round. I don't know if this is "normal" for other tournaments, but every 4 or 9 holes, whoever was keeping score passes it to someone else. Usually i've done all 18 if I'm on top, if not, most people do every 9. I've seen every 4 once, but I wouldn't count on it.
When people have the card I ALWAYS do it with them and make sure they write down the right numbers. I'm good with numbers, and can remember. I'd rather not to, but I do it anyways. My concern is when I might miss count a hole or just remember mine, or maybe be far away when they are writing down the score to where I can't go up and check. What he does is when they ask what he got on said hole he WILL say one down what he gets if he's over par. I swear, everytime he gets a bogey he WILL say "par".
Then EVERYTIME I've called him out and told him, no. You got a 4 on that hole. This has been going on for 4 months (4 tournaments, and over 7 rounds together). What do I do? He plays the "Oh I forgot" card and gets away with it. I fear when others are keeping score they won't question him like I do.
Is there a rule that might address this? Possibly if you get called out enough, you get stroke penalties? Or even kicked out? Is it up to the TD to decide this rule? I'm curious how to handle it. Basically all I can do is make sure MY score is right and play hard.
(Oh, and if there's a rule against threatening pieces of shit like the above about lying about scores, I think I have a lot of stroke penalties to catch up to.. I think he leaves the tournaments scared from what I tell him every tournament. I'm not a violent person, but the last tournament I did get pissed and almost punched him in the face. He clearly knows what he's doing, its just a matter of him getting caught doing it. Clearly he wont do it when a TD is around (why would a TD be on the course) and the TD can't just take the other players word for it... so he's a little bitch.)


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As Seattle is consistently rated one of the healthiest cities in the nation, these cheesy, spicy burgers are a healthful alternative to a beef burger.
Burgers are a favorite menu item in our house. In an attemp to add variety I started making turkey burgers. I started by seasoning them in the same manner that I would a beef burger.


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ONTARIO – The Ontario Reign will hold its 4th annual Go Green/Teacher Appreciation Night Saturday to benefit the University of La Verne's Scholarship Foundation.
The 6 p.m. game is against the Idaho Steelheads.
The Reign players will wear specialty green jerseys to be auctioned off in an auction immediately afterward.
Discounted Teacher Appreciation tickets are available for this game for as low as $8 per ticket at 909-941-7825.


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2011 Porsche Cayman R
As the 2012 Porsche Cayman R snaked over a road that never learned that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line, the car seemed to handle quite well. Then I glanced at the speedometer. The Cayman R was running about twice as fast as I had thought, and had plenty of room to go faster.
I hadn't driven a car this good in the turns since the Lotus Evora S. The comparison between these two cars is apt, as they take a similar approach to handling: light overall weight and a well-engineered, rigid suspension.
To earn the R trim, the Cayman does away with extraneous weight caused by pedestrian appurtenances as door handles, replacing them with simple straps. The sport seats use carbon fiber shells and aren't power-adjustable. Instead of a trick spoiler that automatically rises at speed, the Cayman R's downforce generator is fixed to the back of the car.
Nylon straps serve to unlock the doors, saving the weight of a metal door handle.
The Cayman R also gets a limited-slip differential, standard, to help it corner. Porsche seems to have left off some of the sound-deadening materials to save additional weight, as the pinging of pebbles flung up by the tires inside the fenders played clearly through the cabin. And as in other Porsche models, extensive use of aluminum helps keep overall weight down, resulting in an incredibly nimble car.
The car delivered to CNET lacked any electronics in the cabin more sophisticated than a CD player, so I initially thought Porsche had purposefully kept it as a pure sports car, similar to what Ford does with the Mustang Boss 302. But here I was wrong, as a look at the Porsche Web site showed the Cayman R can be optioned with navigation, a Bluetooth phone system, and a USB port for digital music.
Let me first say that Porsche's current generation of cabin electronics, packaged as the Porsche Communication Management System option, is quite good. I recently got to try it out in the Panamera Turbo S. Although the LCD is smallish, the maps show in good resolution and include traffic data. The Bluetooth phone system makes the contact list of a paired phone available on the LCD, and the stereo can handle iPods and other digital audio sources.
These optional electronics are all very modern, but I didn't mind that Porsche left them off CNET's car. Given the Cayman R's handling capabilities, I knew exactly on which roads I wanted to drive it, and I didn't want to be interrupted by any phone calls. The minimal sound insulation would have forced the stereo into competition with the excellent exhaust note, and the stereo would have lost.
Vents in the rear fenders help cool the engine.
That is not to say the Cayman R is some sort of bare-metal stripped racer, all roll cages and fire extinguishers. It did have a radio with a CD player, and a monochrome LCD to display the six radio presets (and that only). This car also came with the optional sport exhaust. This odd little extravagance makes a more aggressive exhaust sound at the push of a button.
Porsche engineering emphasizes efficiency, but the company does a little extra bowing and scraping to the gods of economy by including two drive modes, normal and sport. In the default normal mode, the throttle is detuned and an up arrow icon appears on the instrument cluster when the car thinks it should be shifted up a gear. As usual with these little helpers, it recommends sixth gear at anything above 50 mph.
The direct-injection engine sitting amidships lays its six cylinders flat, in Porsche style, and displaces 3.4 liters. Not a huge engine, yet it produces 330 horsepower and 273 pound-feet of torque. Although CNET's car came with the six-speed manual, another extravagance can be added in the form of the Doppelkupplung, Porsche's seven-speed dual-clutch transmission.
This spoiler is fixed in position, unlike on other Porsches, which get automatically rising wings.
Although not harsh, there was a decided mechanical feeling when shifting the six-speed manual transmission. I could feel each movement in the linkage up through the short shaft of the shifter.
In traffic or dealing with the interminable stop lights of city streets, this overtly mechanical shifter, and the car's other brutish elements, made it a chore to drive. The only civilized thing about it was a hill hold feature, essential on San Francisco's steep streets.
Frustrated by the tedium of driving in the city, I tended to leave the sport exhaust on and let the engine rev high. If I couldn't go fast, at least the car would sound fast.


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The new Corvettes are engineering masterpieces. Over time, Americas Favorite Sports Car has only improved, and expanded the boundaries of what we would expect from a car of this caliber. But that doesnt mean there isnt room for improvement. Because Chevrolet has made such strides in performance and handling, we have a solid foundation that requires only tweaking to mold that performance to our personal tastes. Some possible modifications would be installing Vette Brakes & Products urethane bushings to achieve more precise handling, lowering the car for a better center of gravity and aesthetics, and upgrading the brakes to better withstand warping and fading.
We heard that Chris Petris from the Corvette Clinic was going to be doing these upgrades on a 2000 Corvette, so we invited ourselves along. Here well show how to take your C5 to the next level of sure-footed performance.
See Better Binders in the July 2000 issue for a comprehensive brake removal/install. Youll note that we did not swap out the sway bars or stiffen them up with new bushings. Because of the newness of the car, Chris suggested that the owner get used to the way the new suspension feels. Chris says you can get into trouble quickly because the suspension is not very forgiving anymore, and he believes you should take it in steps rather than make drastic changes. There is going to be a noticeable difference in the handling of the car. Youve got to admit that the visual effect is greatly improved.


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Nationally renowned performer Lorie Line will perform with her grand piano and her band one night only in North Platte, Dec. 10.
The holiday extravaganza features different musical arrangements, variety, spectacular costumes and the Christmas message.
This year's theme carol "O Come, O Come, Immanuel" will set the tone of the night. Line will also perform music from the Orient, French counterpoint and classic pieces from The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky. Fans should plan to bring their bells as they will be invited to ring along.
Classically trained since age 5, Line has been touring for 23 years. Her unique grass roots story has been featured in magazines and news publications across the country.
She has hosted three PBS specials and sold 6 million albums. Known for her compositions and unique arrangements, Line has published 38 books of music that are distributed all over the world.
This year Line is traveling with her "Fab Five," including national award-winning drummer (21-year old) Jean-Pierre Bouvet, America's Got Talent bassist Josh Fink, Chase Hardin on guitar, Derek Bromme on trombone, and newcomer 18-year old Clair Elrod on the violin.
The family show is two hours long and is appropriate for children ages four and up.
Line will be live on stage at the NPCP, one night only, Monday Dec. 10.
The performance will start at 7:30 p.m. and tickets are $50 each.
Tickets can be purchased online at www.northplattecommunityplayhouse.com or at the door prior to the performance. Doors will open at 7 p.m.
For more about Lorie Line, see www.lorieline.com.
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SOUTH FLORIDA - Some big name Democrats and Republicans went to South Florida to encourage voters to cast their ballots on Tuesday.
"Now the other side, they may have Pitbull and Bruce Springsteen. But you're going to get to see some of the rock stars that we have on our ticket today with Jeb Bush and Condoleezza Rice," said Adam Hasner, who is running for U.S. House of Representatives against Lois Frankel.
In Davie, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush praised Mitt Romney as ready to be president, and said President Barack Obama's policies have failed.
"He could have led. He could have created consensus on these bigger things that need to get done that require Democrats and Republicans working together, but he shunned that idea, and now we are a divided country and we need a new president that will unite us and bring people together again," said Bush.
Rice faulted President Obama for sending mixed messages to friends and foes.
"I do think we've tended to send some confusing signals. Talking about getting distance from Israel, we don't need distance from our friends. We need to be close to our friends," said Rice. "Hugging Hugo Chavez? It doesn't make sense."
At Miami-Dade Elections Department headquarters in Doral, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said Republicans put up barriers to voting.
"Where you see a concerted effort on the part of the Republicans, in this case, on the part of Governor Rick Scott, to discourage voting, to make it difficult for people to vote," said Villaraigosa.
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GREETED with cheers and hugs, 20 cyclists completed a 400-mile bike which raised £50,000 in memory of a tragic young man.
Family, friends and cricket playing colleagues of Rob George spent last week cycling from Paris to Colchester in memory of the 21-year-old, who died last December following a long battle with cancer.
On Thursday night the group took the ferry to Harwich, where they enjoyed breakfast courtesy of the Harwich Pier hotel before cycling the final 20 miles on Friday morning.
They were welcomed to the Colchester & East Essex cricket club in Castle Park with cheers and hugs from around 40 family and friends, along with a glass of champagne.
Rob's mum Lorraine estimated the ride had raised £50,000 for the Rob George Foundation, which helps young people with serious illnesses or who have little income but a lot of sporting or artistic talent.
See Monday's Gazette for the full story and more pictures