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VIENNA, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- The company behind the planned Nabucco West pipeline said it started the pre-qualification process for steel pipe producers.
Nabucco Gas Pipeline International GmbH said it called on potential steel suppliers to apply for the pre-qualification phase for the planned construction of the 820-mile, 48-inch Nabucco West pipeline.
Nabucco West is part of the Southern Corridor, a planned network of natural gas pipelines meant to break the Russian grip on the regional energy sector. It would draw gas largely from the Shah Deniz offshore gas field in Azerbaijan.
Nabucco West would carry Azeri gas from the Turkish border to Hungary.
"The launch of this pre-qualification process is yet another step toward ensuring that Nabucco is ready to meet the gas delivery schedules of the Shah Deniz consortium," the group said from Vienna.
Last week, the consortium said it chose Italian contractor Saipem to start engineering design work for the pipeline.
The project is up against the planned Trans-Adriatic Pipeline to secure gas from the BP-led consortium working offshore Azerbaijan. A decision is expected by June.


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"But God sent me ahead of you to preserve for you a remnant on earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance. So then, it was not you who sent me here, but God."
I love that. You say, "But I was hurt. I was abandoned. I was abused. I was devastated. I was neglected. The people who were supposed to care for me didn't." Yes, true, but God.
Here are some lyrics to a few songs that I like that talk about 'but God':
"I was content as I watched myself dying in my sin. I was my own end, my own God. God of a world where satisfaction came from temporary sensations, where decisions were based on the latest temptations, where happiness and comfort was my only salvation. I was a cheap imitation. But God..."
"But God, being rich in mercy, placed salvation on your head."
"But God rich in mercy made a way
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The result are a dozen or so early Harry Potter reviews which may or may not be worth taking a look at, as long as you keep the circumstances in which the movie was seen by these reviewers in mind. The overall consensus among those lucky few who were first to see, is as you'd expect, overwhelmingly positive.
There's not a single negative Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 review to be found anywhere on the internet. Should that trend continue as the generally less connected members of the press start to see this movie, that may not be a good thing for the film's box office. If you look back on all the previous Potter films, the better the reviews the lower their box office totals. Of course, even Harry Potter at its lowest is still a bigger money maker than most movies at their peak. The reviews don't matter except as a conversation starter, but here's what's out there so far:
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THE family of a disabled boy who was filmed as he was attacked in a school playground spoke out last night after the shocking online footage was watched by more than two million people.
The parents of Conor Radford have expressed their dismay after a video of their son being taunted and punched by another boy in front of classmates at Greenfield Community College, in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, went viral.
Since then, the family say they have been shocked by threats made against the boy who punched their son and last night they broke their silence to say: "We just want it to stop."
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Dad Jason, 46, said: "The fight happened about a month ago and, as far as we were concerned, it was over and dealt with. The video coming out is a different can of worms. We didn't want to publicise this but we just have to deal with it now.
"We've had grown men saying online that they want to beat up the boy who assaulted Conor. That's not right and it's not what Conor wants. You can't solve violence with violence. For everyone's sake leave it - it's done."
Conor added: "It's all over now, so we're friends – we were friends again before the video came out. I just don't want anyone to hurt him."
The fight happened in January but unbeknownst to Conor, someone had filmed the incident and decided to post it online at the weekend. Within a few hours it went viral, and before it was taken down on Monday the video had been seen by more than two million people.
The 15-year-old, from Newton Aycliffe, was unable to fight back because he has arthrogryposis, a rare medical condition which means he cannot lift his arms or punch. The fight ended when Conor's friend, Adam Scott, intervened, throwing his arms around him and leading him away.
Conor's parents praised Adam's bravery for breaking up the fight.
Mum Sarah, 35, said of the video: "We knew about the initial fight which was about four weeks ago, but we didn't know there was a video so it was a shock when my phone started to go with people messaging to see if Conor was okay.
"There were so many emotions; anger and hurt. I was gobsmacked by it. We hadn't realised how vicious it was. I don't think the other boy realises what could have happened. It could have ended differently if Adam hadn't been there to stop it."
Conor has had ongoing health problems and in 2006 was diagnosed with aplastic anaemia, which meant he had to have chemotherapy and radiotherapy. After the treatment failed in 2010 he had to have a bone marrow transplant the following year.
Mrs Radford added: "With everything going on he's overcome. It's heartbreaking."
But she added: "Conor's fought death three times. If he can bounce back from that he can bounce back from this."
Greenfield head teacher David Priestley said: "We are taking this incident very seriously. We have carried out a thorough investigation and have spoken to the students involved and their parents.
"We are taking action in line with our policies against those who played a key part in this incident and we have also been in contact with the police.
"I would like to thank those who have contacted the school about this and wish to reassure parents and the wider community that we do not condone bullying or fighting at Greenfield Community College."
A spokeswoman from Durham Police said they were working with the school to address the issues.
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Egypt's first steps toward liberty remind us of our own
A small group, using the latest technology, excites fellow citizens with the concepts and possibilities of freedom after years of battling a repressive regime.
As the protests grow more visible and vocal, armed representatives of the current regime try to interrupt, intimidate or imprison those calling for freedom, for an end to domination by a despot.
Against all odds, this populist revolt succeeds. The seeds of democracy have been sown.
Sound familiar?
In 2011, it�s a story involving bloggers, Tweets and demonstrations in Egypt and elsewhere in the Mideast that we�ve watched unfold with amazing rapidity. But for Americans, that same path to freedom harkens back to pamphleteers, village greens, Liberty Trees, 1776 and our own Declaration of Independence and Revolutionary War.
Sure, many of the particulars are different. But in the end, both are stories of the people demanding change, insisting on freedom from an oppressive government and�we hope for Egypt, Tunisia and other countries�charting their own path toward protecting religious liberty.
Freedom of speech, press and the rights of assembly and petition could not have been more in the forefront in both movements. And as Egyptian leaders and citizens grapple with their nation�s future, expansion of religious liberty and the new role of religion in Egyptian government and public life will be among the first major considerations.
So what First Amendment lessons can those in Cairo take from America�s ongoing experiment as a free nation?
First and foremost, our nation�s founders took the concept of a union of church and state off the table, blunting the legacy of centuries of European strife over the mix of faith and government. The Founders used the first 16 of the First Amendment�s 45 words to set out two ideas: Government may not �establish� an official religion, nor may it interfere with individuals� �free exercise� of their faith.
The remaining words of the First Amendment protect citizens� right to speak and write as they wish, and individually or in a group to seek peaceably �a redress of grievances.� From Boston Harbor�s pre-Revolution Tea Party to the current tea-party movement, those principles have helped keep the nation on track and provided protection for dissenters, advocates and critics.
All five freedoms have sustained the Founders� vision of �a marketplace of ideas,� where Americans can debate, discuss and decide how our shared version of freedom should work.
Worth noting as we watch Egypt�s first steps toward liberty is that we didn�t exactly get it right from the beginning. It took us some 13 years after the Declaration we celebrate each July 4 to adopt the Constitution, and two more years before we ratified in 1791 the First Amendment and nine others that make up the Bill of Rights. Then, just seven years after that, Congress adopted the Alien and Sedition Acts�providing jail terms for those openly criticizing the House, Senate or president.
Even today Americans are still debating how our basic freedoms apply: the presence of religion in public life and public schools, whether protesters can use military funerals as a staging ground for their message, the role of a free press in a Twitter society, and many more issues.
Perhaps the greatest First Amendment lesson for all to keep in mind is that many voices, not fewer, in the marketplace of ideas�despite what may initially appear to be disorder�ultimately will provide the greatest stability.
Political liberty is powered and preserved by individual freedom, and dissent will find an outlet, protected or not�particularly in a 24-7, Internet-saturated world.
We should all consider the words of John Seigenthaler, my colleague and the founder of the First Amendment Center, who observed in 1991 on the 200th anniversary of the First Amendment�s ratification that �freedom of expression is never safe, never secure, but always in the process of being made safe and secure.�
May that process continue everywhere.
Gene Policinski is senior vice president and executive director of the First Amendment Center, 1207 18th Ave. S., Nashville, Tenn., 37212. Web: www.firstamendmentcenter.org. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Malcolm Hearn's Documentary Stalks Damien Hirst's 11 Spots
A filmmaker goes around the world, touring all the galleries showing Damien Hirst's Spot exhibition as part of a contest. Will he win a Damien Hirst print, paying for his trip, plus continue the ongoing critique of the art world? Watch the trailer for the doc and tell us what you think.
You don't have to like Damien Hirst's work. He's the richest man in the art world, and taste has nothing to do with it. And if you like art like Malcolm Hearn does, that's a problem. Hearn, who collects art has set forth to travel around the world, visiting eleven galleries showing Hirst's Complete Spot Paintings exhibit, all for a chance to win a mystery spotted print. Through his travels, Hearn is documenting the process in 11 Spots, meanwhile criticizing the art world for its pretentiousness in the ballooning prices of art. "I'm feeling conflicted about my involvement and that's my challenge," he says in the trailer for the documentary. "Through first-person narration and on-camera testimonials, I will examine this conflict between confronting and feeding the market." Is it even worth calling bullshit on fine art after it's become a world of exclusivity and status?
60 Minutes reported on how it's a route for the rich to get richer. No surprise there. It's popular, and even from it's 1% world of gazillionaires, it still manages to trickle down into hip-hop and streetwear. Jay-Z rapped in front of Hirst's pinwheel painting in the video for "Blue Magic" and Supreme has worked with Hirst on a line of decks and T-shirts, respectively. Hearn's work will definitely continue the conversation. But any actual change will probably be spotty.


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This review is of the JD Wetherspoon pub, "Liberty Bounds", which is situated opposite to the Tower of London. It has been open as a Wetherspoon's free house since March 1998.
I've been to this pub a number of times over the last few years, and have always found it a friendly location with a positive atmosphere. There is usually a high number of tourists given the location, and this is reflected in some signage which has been translated into a number of European languages to explain where and how to order food and drinks.
The pub is on two floors, with a bar on each floor, and the toilets on the first floor and a disabled toilet on the ground floor. It's not one of the largest pubs in their estate, but it's quite sizeable and it's usually possible to find a seat, or not have to wait too long for one. It can get quite busy in the early evenings after work, and in summer months with tourists.
The inside of the pub is warm and comfortable, there are carpeted floors and numerous little corners to sit, including either side of the fireplace upstairs, tucked away in an ideal location to people watch. There are also a number of different sized tables, including larger tables which can accommodate larger groups.
Without commenting too much on how Wetherspoons operate, effectively they are generally cheap and offer a very good range of real ales and a number of real ciders, as well as a good selection of lagers, spirits and bottled drinks. The food I find to be of a perfectly good quality, and there are frequently offers, such as Tuesday grill night (steak and a drink), Thursday curry club (curry and a pint) and the Sunday lunch (although served until 10pm) which includes a pint and a Sunday roast meal for around 7.79 pounds.
During my visits, I've found that there are usually around five to eight real ales on, and they are priced between around 2.50 and 2.80 pounds a pint. The staff are happy to top the beers up and to let customers sample the ales before purchase. Generally the staff are knowledgeable, but even those who aren't as clued up on real ale soon find out from a colleague, and I've found that the ales are well kept.
My experiences with this location are that the staff are positive and helpful, and the pub is generally well staffed so that queues aren't excessive. I've also noticed that staff are conversational and engaging with tourists, which adds to their experience following the visit to the Tower of London. A few months ago, just before the company got rid of their coffee loyalty card, a staff member at this pub told me and said they'd be willing to complete my part-filled loyalty cards for free so that I didn't waste my half filled cards. I thought that was a helpful gesture which meant a few free coffees.
When I've had food here, it has arrived quickly, usually taking around ten to fifteen minutes, and has always been as I expected. The menu is at London prices, so is a little more expensive than some Wetherspoons, but given the central location, I think it's still reasonable. It's very close to Tower Hill underground station and Tower Gateway DLR, and about a ten minute walk from London Liverpool Street train station, so if you're heading towards those locations, this is a handy stop-off point.
In terms of cleanliness, I have seen this location get a bit behind and see plates and empty glasses stack up, but I haven't found that this is the norm, and in general I've found the pub to be clean and tidy. The toilets are also large and well looked after, although inevitably after a heavy night of trading standards can fall a little.
Although I find that the chain has a superb selection of real ales and is a perfectly agreeable place to go for reasonably priced food and drink, it doesn't have the atmosphere that a few of the local pubs have, so it might be best to try a couple more nearby locations. I'm not personally keen on the nearby Minories (over-priced and staffing enthusiasm is a little varied in my experience) but the Dickens Inn and the Hung Drawn and Quartered are both worth trying.
The pub's full address is 15, Trinity Square, Tower Hill, London, EC3N 4AA and there is more information on the pub and the entire chain on the company's web-site at http://www.jdwetherspoon.co.uk/.
Overall, I'd recommend this pub for anyone that is nearby. I find it a pleasant stop for a 99p coffee, but most food and drink is reasonably priced, especially given the location.
Located right by the Tower of London and close to Tower Bridge, The Liberty Bounds is another excellent addition to Wetherspoon's fleet of pubs. Due to its location, tourists and visitors to London can indulge in copious amounts of booze before visiting historic landmarks of national pride.
The Liberty Bounds is right on the corner next to Tower Hill tube station and is split over two floors with a bar on both levels. The usual Wetherspoon décor is there - the same tables and chairs, the same carpet and pictures of the local area as it was.
I have been to The Liberty Bounds quite a number of times, but on our visit to London this weekend I thought we would give it another go. It was getting close to 10pm and I knew that it would be one of the only pubs in the area to still be serving food. We went upstairs as we entered the building, it was quite cold inside and loud. The main problem being some loud business types who were drinking copious amounts on an after work bender. Being a Friday many of the pubs were full of city types drinking quite a lot - in fact just around the corner in Leadenhall Market (where we discovered the entrance to Diagon Alley from Harry Potter) was like walking through Operation Panther in Afghanistan.
The service was fair, with quite a few beers 'off'. I settled for a John Smiths and we went for a chicken and chips and a chilli con carne. Both meals arrived quite quickly and were pretty rudimentary. No effort at all had gone into their presentation and looked like they had just been dumped on our plates. There were no people going around clearing empty glasses and the noise from downstairs was very loud and distracting. After finishing our meals we left quite quickly.
I have been to the Liberty Bounds before and it probably is much more inviting during the day or at weekends. As it was, we decided to eat right at the fag end of the day when the city workers were quite tanked up. I suppose we didn't really catch them at their best, but you would have thought a little quality control wouldn't have gone amiss.


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Who says we have a pack of jokers up at Stormont?
Fools can rush in, as the song put it, but not MLAs. Well dare they, Speaker William Hay insisted yesterday.
Assembly members could not question a Minister on a statement if they have not been actually present in the Chamber to hear it, he told the politicians using his very best headmaster's voice.
And he would not accept the excuse that they had been listening in their rooms just before bustling along the corridors.
Will Hay, of course, was a famous comic whose quintessential headmaster in films like The Ghost of St Michaels brightened up the British big screen of the 1930s.
William Hay, on the other hand is not just as famous for comedy but lightens up the Big House nowadays.
It was a day for the comedic. Even the Deputy First Minister, one half of that newcomer duo the Chuckle Brothers Ian and Martin, who are about to go on tour of some big venues in England, had a go at doing Frank Carson.
Danny Kennedy, chairman of the Chuckle monitoring committee, had attempted to entrap the senior republican over national sovereignty and local honours to replace the Queen's.
"That's a cracker," McGuinness replied.
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STAKEHOLDER MEETING IN MSHA's SOUTHEASTERN DISTRICT ALLOWS FOR CONSTRUCTIVE DIALOGUE
A long-awaited meeting with the U.S. Mine Safety & Health Administration's Southeastern district stakeholders from the Carolinas and Virginia was held last Aug. 22 in Greensboro, N.C. with MSHA leaders. Discussions were substantive and constructive.
North Carolina Aggregates Association President Steve Bruce, Martin Marietta Materials, kicked off the meeting by urging that regulators and the regulated communicate better on behalf of safety, health and compliance. Informative presentations on education, conferencing, consistency in enforcement and effects of citations on injury prevention were presented. MSHA's Acting Administrator for Metal/Non-metal Marv Lichtenfels, Arlington, Va., and Sam Pearce and Doniece Schlick, Southeastern district, all struck a tone of conciliation.
Wake Stone's Roland Massey made a presentation on education and training. Massey emphasized the import of state grants funding, as well as the need for both operators and inspectors to consistently apply the knowledge from MSHA's effective training materials, e.g., the MSHA DVD on highwall safety.
Abel Parker, Luck Companies, recommended that MSHA better communicate reasons for citation modifications and vacatures. Parker also urged that the industry do more to circulate MSHA's development of suitable training materials. In regard to the guarding guidance issued in recent years, Lichtenfels, said that if an operator demonstrates compliance with the guidance, "We're going to back it."
Bryan Moore, Vulcan Materials Company, presented on conferencing and contests. He said that improvements in conferencing – e.g., by allowing for more objective evaluations of issued citations – should result in relief of the Review Commission's case backlog. Pearce commented that the district does hold accountable (e.g., tracking the number of vacated citations written) the 53 inspectors who work there.
Ron Slaton, U.S. Silica, discussed analysis of data on enforcement. He emphasized the fact that MSHA's own data shows no linear relationship between MSHA enforcement and injury reduction. Slaton suggested that stakeholders get a chance to provide comment on draft guidance.
Lichtenfels commented that he hopes to improve the degree to which operators can provide suggestions before the agency issues future guidance. He also said that that lock-out/ tag-out always is a cause of between one and three fatalities every year. Future guidance will concern ladder safety and housekeeping.
Lichtenfels says that he welcomes ideas for future training of inspectors. He reported that, regarding conferencing, two-thirds of all citations conferenced do not get contested. Lichtenfels then promoted attendance at the SE district safety and health conference, slated for Nov. 4-7, 2013, in Birmingham.
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Richards closing in on return
Micah Richards is targeting the Manchester derby for his comeback after five months on the sidelines.
Richards has been out since injuring his knee in Manchester City's 1-0 win over Swansea in October but has resumed training.
And while he believes he will not be ready to face Newcastle, City's next opponents on March 30, he hopes to be in contention for the meeting with Manchester United at Old Trafford on April 8.
Failing that, the England international aims to be available for City's FA Cup semi-final on April 14 against either United or Chelsea, who replay at Stamford Bridge on April 1.
Richards told City's official website: "I'll be trying my best to get back into the squad and it will be great just to be back among the lads and getting a feel for everything again.
"I think the Newcastle match will come too soon for me, though I hope to have been training normally by then.
"Realistically, I'm looking more to the game away to United and then the FA Cup semi-final - maybe against United again to be properly involved again - two relaxing games in a week on the horizon!"
Richards, who was also hurt on Olympic duty with Great Britain in August, has been limited to four City appearances this season but said his comeback is progressing well.
He added: "In the last ten days I've been training outside again, doing two days of running and then a recovery day after that.
"I had a big fitness session on Tuesday and I'm starting to feel really good again so when the lads are back from international duty, I should be taking part in partial sessions with them as I continue to close in on a return."
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"When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (sometimes
"When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again")
is a popular song of the American Civil War that expressed
people's longing for the return of their friends and
relatives who were fighting in the war.
Some believe the tune is that of the Irish antiwar
song "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye", presumed
to be the original on the basis of oral and textual
evidence, although no published version is known to
pre-date "When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again"
[1]. However, expert James Fuld, author of the standard
text on popular music, The Book of World Famous Music,
states on page 640 of that volume that Donal O'Sullivan,
the Irish authority, has written the Library of Congress
that he does not consider the melody of "When
Johnny Comes Marching Home" as Irish in origin.
As stated, no printed music of Irish origin has been
discovered that predates American publication in September
of 1863 by Henry Tolman in Boston under the title
"When Johnny Comes Marching Home". Library
of Congress records do show a title "Johnny Fill
Up The Bowl" that was published in July of 1863
by John J. Daly that appears to contain the song's
The lyrics, written by Irish-American bandleader
Patrick Gilmore, and published under the pseudonym
'Louis Lambert', effectively reverse those of "Johnny
I Hardly Knew Ye", in which Johnny returns home
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A mobile technology company with a base in Belfast has won new business in the Netherlands.
TotalMobile, which has recently moved from Antrim town to new premises at Clarendon Dock, has signed a deal with Aenova BV, a leading software company based in Delft.
The announcement was made by Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster at the annual Northern Ireland-Netherlands Trade and Export Society dinner in Belfast this week.
TotalMobile - a subsidiary of Consilium Technologies - specialises in products which help companies increase the productivity of their remote staff.
The firm, which has one of the fastest growing public sector customer bases in the UK, first broke into the North American market in 2008. This year the firm increased its Northern Ireland-based staff by 10% to a total of 90.
The company intends to grow staff numbers over the next year to support planned expansion in the UK and North America.
The new deal originated from Invest Northern Ireland's 'Going Dutch' initiative which has helped a number of small to medium-sized enterprises here access the Netherlands market.
Colin Reid, TotalMobile managing director, said that Aenova is an "ideal fit" for the firm.
"Aenova will integrate our software within its solutions and also market it as a standalone product and market it to existing and new customers," he said.
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As Congress considered health care reform legislation, I met with hundreds of constituents, health care consumers, providers and business owners to hear what they felt was the right change for Maine. Thousands of Mainers wrote to me and called my office to share their thoughts and make recommendations about key elements of the legislation. The debate over health insurance reform was intense and passionate, and while we may not always agree on every issue, I have truly appreciated the opportunity to hear from people all across Maine who shared their concerns, frustrations, hopes, and personal stories with me.
I was proud to work with my colleagues in the House and Senate to strengthen the health reform package, and ultimately to vote in favor of this landmark legislation. While the bill is not perfect, I am confident that this is the right step forward for Maine. I firmly believe that this is the best opportunity we have had in a generation to lower costs for those who are already insured, improve the quality of care in this country, and finally provide guaranteed access to a choice of affordable coverage for every American family.
Health care reform legislation is already starting to make our health care system more transparent, giving consumers new rights and benefits and helping states control costs for families. Because of health care reform legislation, patients will no longer be denied coverage due to preexisting conditions and insurance companies will not be able to cancel policies of people who get sick. Young adults will be able to stay on their family insurance plans until age 26 and seniors on Medicare will pay less for their prescription drugs because the Medicare "donut hole" will be eliminated. Preventative care, including annual check-ups and cancer screenings, will be free under Medicare and all new private insurance plans.
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Police: Prominent attorney killed by drunken driver in Ossining
OSSINING - A prominent Westchester attorney was killed by an alleged drunken driver in Ossining last night.
Police say Michelle Sergio, 38, of Nanuet, struck and killed John Mangialardi, of Briarcliff Manor, with her Nissan at the intersection of routes 9A and 134.
Mangialardi, who was running for Ossining town judge, is believed to have been checking on campaign signs at the time of the accident. The 55-year-old was a partner in the Hartsdale firm of Mangialardi and Berardino and was a major in the New York Guard. He had also served as a lieutenant colonel in the National Guard.
Mangialardi co-hosted 'Anything Goes,' a cable television show featuring discussions of politics, law and current events. He leaves behind a wife and two daughters.
Sergio was arraigned Wednesday morning in Ossining Town Court on a misdemeanor charge of driving while intoxicated. She is due back in court next week.
For more on the attorney who was killed in Ossining, visit News 12 Extra on Channel 612 or watch the video on the left.


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|Kate Beckinsale and Robert De Niro in "Everybody's Fine.'' (Abbot Genser/Miramax Film Corp. via Ap)
Defamation Is modern anti-Semitism an invention of right-wing Jews intended to silence dissent? Israeli filmmaker Yoav Shamir wears his point of view lightly but firmly, and the results are provocative in the best ways. You'll have some good, loud arguments on the way out of the theater. In Hebrew, English, and Polish, with subtitles. (91 min., unrated) (Ty Burr)
Everybody's Fine It takes some effort to neutralize the charm of a modestly charismatic Robert De Niro performance. But this tedious dramedy does a stupendous job. De Niro plays a widower crossing the country, by train and bus, to drop in on the adult children who claim they're too busy to visit him. Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell, and Drew Barrymore are the kids. Adapted from a 1990 Italian film. (101 min., PG-13) (Wesley Morris)
The House of the Devil A college student (Jocelin Donahue) baby-sits for devil worshipers during a lunar eclipse. Bad idea. Director Ti West has made an almost fetishistic re-creation of a horror-suspense movie circa 1978, but his genuine love for the genre keeps it from being an empty stylistic stunt. With Tom Noonan and Mary Woronov. (95 min., R) (Ty Burr)
The Strip A nominal comedy about the employees of a Chicago-area strip-mall electronics store. The dialogue is embarrassing, and scenes that should take two minutes wind up lasting 10. It makes you appreciate what hard work effortless comedy is. (90 min., R) (Wesley Morris)
Up in the Air From Jason Reitman, a warm, smoothly made movie about a man (George Clooney) who spends most of his time firing people. The movie concerns his attempt to settle down. At its very best, it invents new for old Hollywood sophistication. The sequined cocktail parties and crack banter are now happening in the Admirals Club lounge. With Vera Farmiga, Jason Bateman, and Anna Kendrick, who'll rightly be labeled a discovery. (109 min., R) (Wesley Morris)
½ Black Dynamite In the spoof that bears his name, Black Dynamite (Michael Jai White) sports every outfit in the blaxploitation look book: leather, denim, Afro. The movie, meanwhile, strikes many of the genre's poses. And for its first 50 minutes, it's as intentionally funny as "Shaft in Africa'' and "Dolomite'' are accidental comedies. Tedium overtakes the movie - one corny martial-arts sequence turns out to be plenty - and all the good jokes start to dry up. (84 min., R) (Wesley Morris)
The Blind Side Sandra Bullock plays a Memphis woman who takes in an enormous, athletic African-American. He thrives. She thrives. The film is hard to resist. But it's another Hollywood movie about a black male rescued from God knows what either by nice white people or sports. Here it's both. How good we feel is directly proportional to how blind we're willing to be. (125 min., PG-13) (Wesley Morris)
A Christmas Carol Robert Zemeckis's second try at 3-D motion-capture holiday storytelling (after 2004's dire "The Polar Express'') is a marked improvement: A darkly detailed marvel of creative visualization that does well by Dickens and right by audiences. Jim Carrey (or his digital facsimile) gives a sharp, reined-in performance as Scrooge, and while the film sometimes panders, it just as often soars. Too scary for the little guys, though. (96 min., PG) (Ty Burr)
Fantastic Mr. Fox A dry stop-motion delight. Director Wes Anderson adapts Roald Dahl's 1970 kids' book to his usual obsessions (irresponsible dads, confused children). George Clooney voices the hero, raiding henhouses in a mid-life crisis. A fairy tale for adults that's gracious enough to let everyone play along. With the voices of Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, and Bill Murray. (87 min., PG) (Ty Burr)
The Messenger A forcefully acted and peculiar emotional drama about two soldiers (Ben Foster and Woody Harrelson) who inform the next of kin of soldiers killed in service. The movie, which Oren Moverman directed and co-wrote with Alessandro Camon, devotes itself more to the noti fiers than the notifications, which in themselves are powerful, and opens into a strange, fraught universe of the men's downtime. (88 min., R) (Wesley Morris)
Ninja Assassin Cobbled together from the instructions of assorted Hong Kong gangster bloodbaths and whatever the French superproducer Luc Besson did last, this long, thanklessly repetitive slice-kick-and-shoot-'em-up has nothing to offer but the aggravating awareness that Jet Li and Jason Statham have done it better. This time our star is a moderately charismatic young martial artist named Rain. (99 min., R) (Wesley Morris)
Oh My God Peter Rodger took a movie camera on a tour of the world and its religions. He came back with a documentary that succinctly captures the experience of enduring this ponderous, repetitive, and exasperating attempt at moral, philosophical, and spiritual discourse. The problem isn't with the questions. It's the manner in which they're asked. When the movie isn't harassing Muslims and worshipping Buddhists, it's condescending to almost everyone else. (93 min., unrated) (Wesley Morris)
Old Dogs A painfully stupid family comedy about two aging buddies forced to play daddy, this looks exactly like what you'd get if Robin Williams and John Travolta went out, got hammered, scrawled scenes on a bar napkin in random order, gave the napkin to "Wild Hogs'' director Walt Becker, and filmed it. Trust me, you could do it at home and save yourself the $9.50. (88 min., PG) (Ty Burr)
Pirate Radio A rowdy, mostly hilarious British comedy-drama about the offshore radio stations that blared rock 'n' roll to a desperate UK audience in the 1960s. Writer-director Richard Curtis has made a party, not a movie, and if the party goes on too long, at least the guests are great company and the host's taste in music is impeccable. With Philip Seymour Hoffman and Bill Nighy. (120 min., R) (Ty Burr)
Planet 51 A digitally animated family film about an astronaut (voiced by Dwayne "The Rock'' Johnson) visiting a planet where he's the alien. Fast, shiny, short, and cheerful; also obnoxious, unoriginal, and potty-mouthed. Young children and adults with a high pain threshold will enjoy the movie during its brief pause on the way to your On Demand menu. (88 min., PG) (Ty Burr)
Precious: Based on the Novel "Push'' by Sapphire Is America, in fact, ready for a movie about a poor, fat black girl (Gabourey Sidibe) who can't read and is pregnant, for the second time, with her absent father's baby? Who cares? It's here, and it's very much alive. In its own determined way, this is a work of immense, astonishing joy. It believes that in this girl's wide, brown face and bleak little life there's a reason to live. Mo'Nique brings down the house as her mother. (110 min., R) (Wesley Morris)
Red Cliff The very epicness of John Woo's historical war picture is an entertainment. It's set near the end of the Han Dynasty, in the second century, and focused on the territorial battle among warlords (Tony Leung, Chang Chen, and Zhang Fengyi). But truth be told, the movie feels laborious. It's almost 2 1/2 hours, pared down from a 4-hour-plus Asian version, and what's not admirably comical or thrillingly staged is corny, cramped, and impressionistically vague. (148 min., R) (Wesley Morris)
The Road Writer Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic fable has been brought to the screen by Australia's John Hillcoat ("The Proposition'') with bleakness and caution. Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee play a father and son crossing the barren wasteland of what used to be America. The movie's darker than a happy-face sleigh ride like "2012'' but arguably not dark enough. (119 min., R) (Ty Burr)
The Twilight Saga: New Moon The second installment in Hollywood's adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's mega-selling vampire romance series is an anemic comedown after the full-blooded swoon of last year's "Twilight.'' Director Chris Weitz is stuck with a sequel that's a morning-after mope-fest, but Taylor Lautner is relaxed and likable as Native American wolfboy Jacob Black. (130 min., PG-13) (Ty Burr)
2012 "Apocalypse Really Soon'' or "Airport 2012.'' Director Roland Emmerich ("The Day After Tomorrow'') imagines global apocalypse as a state-of-the-art multiplex circus whose special effects stagger the senses and play like a video game, and whose human drama aims for the cosmic and lands waist-deep in the Big Silly. John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Amanda Peet are among the scrambling humans. (157 min., PG-13) (Ty Burr)
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"Legalize it / Don't criticize it" sang Peter Tosh decades ago, and many still sing marijuana's praises. It's no worse than tobacco or alcohol. It's a godsend for people suffering intensive pain—it may help restore appetite and improve general well-being. Legalize it. Don't critize it.
Only now, you hear the refrain in courtrooms and state houses, not just reggae bars and subculture outposts.
In Canada, a judge determined that the law prohibiting the cultivation of marijuana is unconstitutional because it doesn't allow for medical use of the drug, The Globe and Mail reported Dec. 12. In the province of Alberta, Justice Darlene Acton threw out a charge of cultivating marijuana against Grant Krieger, who grows and consumes the drug to alleviate the symptoms of his multiple sclerosis.
In England, marijuana use has reached significant levels. A recent study indicates that up to two-fifths of children will have tried some form of drug before their 16th birthday, the BBC reported Nov. 23. Cannabis is by far the most popular drug among young teen-agers, with 11% saying they had used it in the past year. The survey of more than 9,000 secondary school pupils carried out late in 1999 points to a small increase in drug use over the previous year.
Marijuana use has been widely debated in English political circles, after the Conservative Party shadow home secretary, Ann Widdecombe, announced a couple of months ago that she favored the idea of giving police the powers to issue fixed penalty fines to cannabis users. Her proposal caused a fierce debate and embarrassed the Conservatives, as no less than eight members of the shadow Cabinet subsequently confessed to having experimented with the drug in their youth.
The British government, however, shows no sign of relaxing current restrictions. Home Secretary Jack Straw said there was little chance that the government was ready to relax the law on possession of soft drugs, The Telegraph reported Oct. 11. Straw did promise, however, that medical use of cannabis compounds to alleviate the suffering of those with conditions such as multiple sclerosis would be legalized if tests now under way show it to be effective.
In the United States, Hawaii became the eighth state to decriminalize the use of medical marijuana, The New York Times reported June 15. Patients with certain qualifying illnesses must obtain a doctor's recommendation to use marijuana and must register with the state Department of Public Safety to avoid criminal prosecution. Initial reports suggested that 500 to 1,000 people will be eligible to use medical marijuana.
The marijuana question came up again during the November elections. And not by chance: The Washington Post reported Oct. 29 that a number of pro-drug ballot initiatives were the result of a well-financed campaign led by a trio of wealthy businessmen.
The trio have spent millions more to support medicinal-marijuana initiatives around the nation. In past elections, they had won approval for such initiatives in seven states.
The first of the trio is John Sperling, who founded the for-profit adult education institute known as the University of Phoenix. Another member is George Soros of New York, the Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor, financier and currency speculator who is worth an estimated $5 billion. The third is Peter Lewis of Cleveland, head of the fifth-largest auto insurer in the nation, Progressive Corp.
Their latest success came in California, where voters approved Proposition 36. The measure virtually bars authorities from sending nonviolent drug users to jail; instead, it requires treatment for drug possessors. The Washington Post reported Nov. 9 that the trio put more than $6 million into the campaign, overwhelming the efforts of their opponents.
Against smoking? Marijuana is worse than cigarettes. Weekend-only user? Studies say the drug's effects last all week.
Meanwhile, voters in Nevada and Colorado approved the use of "medical marijuana." And in Oregon and Utah, voters OK'd measures making it harder for police to acquire and use the proceeds of drug-related forfeitures.
Other pro-drug proposals failed. Massachusetts rejected a drug-reform effort in November, while Alaska turned down, by a wide margin, an attempt to completely legalize marijuana. Notably, the latter plan was not part of the package of legislation supported by the Sperling-Soros-Lewis trio.
The bankrolling of drug liberalization measures by these wealthy businessmen raised a few eyebrows. The Associated Press on Nov. 9 quoted Calvina Fay, executive director of the Drug Free America Foundation, as saying, "I think the initiative process is becoming dangerous. ... The very wealthy who have the money to do it are buying public policy all over the country."
Medical Concerns
A number of medical studies give grounds for worry over the consumption of marijuana. In a new federal study, monkeys repeatedly gave themselves doses of the main active ingredient of marijuana, according to the Oct. 16 New York Times. The researchers say the result emphasizes the idea that people can become addicted to marijuana.
Marijuana smokers may also have a higher risk of contracting lung cancer than tobacco smokers, the BBC reported June 20. A study in the United States found that one of the key ingredients of marijuana may promote the growth of cancerous tumors.
The researchers, from the Jonsson Cancer Center at the University of California, Los Angeles, suggest that THC, the major psychoactive component of marijuana, may reduce the body's ability to fight tumors. Previous research has found that THC can lower an individual's resistance to both bacterial and viral infections.
These effects of THC, combined with the tendency of marijuana smokers to inhale large amounts of tar and other cancer-causing agents, put users at increased risk of lung cancer, the researchers suggest. Moreover, studies have shown that marijuana smoke deposits four times as much tar in lungs as tobacco. The tar also contains higher doses of carcinogenic hydrocarbons.
Another warning concerning marijuana use came from a Sydney, Australia, doctor, John Anderson. The Age newspaper reported June 14 that thousands of casual marijuana smokers who have a joint on the weekend were unaware that they were affected throughout the rest of the week. Anderson said the chemicals in one marijuana cigarette lasted for weeks, leaving the smoker with greater anxiety, depression, slower reaction time and a "cognitive deficit" that reduced the person's ability to distinguish "relevant from irrelevant material."
And then there is a New Zealand study, which showed that people who take cannabis regularly are much more likely than nonusers to move on to harder drugs. According to a Nov. 8 report in The Times of London, Keith Hellawell, the United Kingdom's anti-drugs coordinator, said the survey had convinced him that cannabis was a "gateway drug" which lead users on to more-harmful substances.
The study tracked 1,200 children from birth to age 21. It found that young people who smoked a marijuana cigarette more than 50 times a year were 60 times more likely to move on to harder drugs. All of which should give voters pause the next time a pro-drug initiative appears on a ballot.
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You've got that straight.Originally Posted by bbnbama
OK, I just can't let this go. On other forums I have written posts that jokingly put forth conspiracy theories. I am not joking here - something doesn't smell right.
I suspect Quiz Show type antics (Quiz Show was a 1950s game show that got caught up in a scandal when it was revealed that the producers rigged the show in favor of a WASPy competitor over a Jewish competitor).
If I were one of the NewsCorp / Fox entities, I would launch an investigative report of this show just like ABC did of Fox's American Idol when one of the contestants accused Paula Abdul of wrongdoing.
By the way, does anyone know if ABC ever published the popular vote that were tallied from week to week?
As I stated before, I am OK if KM won based on the popular vote but it was the judges scoring that I am baffled by.
"We all know that we're going to get beat tonight." - Melrose (ANTM Cycle 7) when Monique gets eliminated from the CoverGirl / Queen Latifah challenge.
"Hi pretty lady...and Tyra." - Heather (ANTM Cycle 9)
Ummm .. Hi guys. I'm new to this forum, just wanted to put my 2 cents in. Maybe more like 1 cent. heh
I only caught the last 2 episodes of the show, and without having gone throught the drama from the start, I just sort of unbiasedly (is that a word?!) thought that Kelly's performance was better than Johns - and I have always liked John. He just seemed a bit stiff, didn't have as many moves, that sort of thing.
Okay, that's the end of my 1 cent tirade...
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Hi,ho, I'm new, too!
Well, I didn't watch it at first cause they took off my favorite- Supernanny- for this...
But I have to admit, I was curious. So, carefully avoiding the 8:00 repeat (I'm faithful to you, Jo! ) I turned it on at exactly 9 to see who won. Surprise, surprise it was the girel in skimpy outfits.
A;though a friend of mine has stated that she was on an ABC show and that wad the main reason she won, but after reading a few magazine articles about it, I'm convinced it was a bit of both reasons.
Consider: The first night the show was on, she was wearing a conservative, floor-length dress, and she was almost eliminated from the competiton. On each show after that the outfits get skimpier and skimpier, the dances get steamier and steamier...and the votes get bigger and bigger..until they get perfect 10's at the end! EVERYONE knew it was rigged both ways, rigged cause she was from ABC, AND rigged to be eye candy so 2 of the 3 would be swayed to vote for her anyway!
Ya know what I'd like to see? I think JO is so pretty, I'd like to see a dance competiton with HER in it vs. Miss Kelly! Both from ABC, BOTH lovely women..let's see who would win THAT! >


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Good Thing I Don't Watch TV! [Comic]
Damn, that's me.
Me as well…
On a second notice, at least you don't get all the propaganda while you burn your brain-cells. That is, unless you watch the millions of advertisements….;-)
advertisements are everywhere xD
Would have been funny if he said good thing I don't watch TV then next thing it shows him watching Hulu on his notebook.
or Project Free TV…..or just generally bootlegging movies.
I think the joke here, is that watching a PC monitor, day in and day out, is practically no different then watching a T.V screen – however you would refer to it as.
Is it worse if I actually do both? :s
at the SAME TIME! *dun dun duuuuuhhhhh!*
I'm pretty sure I'm not average there where a few years I never left the house and all I do is watch tv so I would say I'm at least at 20 years of tv and I have had a tv next to a computer for 13 years so I do both at the same time
i feel like that every damn time i realize the time. DARN YOU INTERNET!


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Another politically ill-timed storm is bearing down on the Northeast — this time in the form of a blizzard that's already causing canceled flights, just as official Washington is ramping up for the State of the Union, Kathryn A. Wolfe and Burgess Everett report. The storm, dubbed Nemo by The Weather Channel, has forecasters predicting more than 2 feet of snow throughout the Northeast, with impacts as far flung as Pennsylvania and Maine — not to mention near-hurricane-force winds that could push large waves ahead of it along the coast. Above: Boston, Mass. | AP Photo


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The new secondary logo for the University of Arkansas Razorbacks, has drawn almmost as much comment and criticism in two days as Bobby Petrino, John L. Smith or Bret Beliema.
Now, there may be another season to add to Hog football: regular season, postseason (maybe?), offseason, recruiting season, spring football and logo/uniform season.
Some have noted that the new head-on Razorback too closely resembles an Arkansas State Red Wolf.
Others say it's more like Pumbaa, the wart hog in Disney's The Lion King.
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" Genre: Junior Books / Author: Dick Bruna / Hardcover / 28 Pages / Book is published 2003-05-04 by Egmont Books Ltd "
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I have a Dutch friend who lives in Holland and whenever she comes to visit she always brings the kids a little something. She likes to buy Dutch ( we get a pack of Tupils every time, it's great, our garden looks wonderful) so this is how we ended up with a few Miffy books.
For those of you who are not familiar with Miffy, to quote an article, "Miffy is a small female rabbit in a series of picture books drawn and written by Dutch artistDick Bruna. The original Dutch name, Nijntje, is a shortening or diminutive of konijntje, "little rabbit. The first Miffy book was produced in 1955, and almost 30 others have followed. In total they have sold over 85 million copies, and inspired two separate television series as well as items such as clothes and toys featuring the character."
These books are great for quite small children as they have really simple but fun stories, are quite short so to keep the attention of a little one and also have lots of pictures and bright colours. In this story Miffy goes to the seaside and does all the things little kids love to do at the beach. She puts on her swimsuit, plays with a bucket and spade, finds some shells and takes a paddle in the sea.
I think the beauty about Miffy books is their simplicity. Miffy is a simply drawn rabbit as she is just white with not many features but she is instantly recognisable. In this book, the left hand page has some text and then the right hand page has an illustration about the text. The drawing is simple, for example when she has found some shells the drawing is just a collection of abstract shells coloured blue and orange, green and white, solid green, solid blue and solid orange, however it is a striking picture and very effective and its fun for me to be able to show my kids what shells look like.
The text is black and bold and easy to read and will be a great book when it comes time for my little three year old to start reading and recognising words. At the front of the book there is a spot to write your name as it says, "this book belongs to........." and its here my friend has signed it with the name of my kids. My friend got the English version of the book thankfully as I dan't read or speak Dutch and it is published by Egmont books and costs £4.99 in hardback.
The Miffy series of books have enjoyed a resurgence in popularity of late, as the generation that first enjoyed the books as kids back in the 80's buy up the books and toys for their own children to enjoy. The books have a great deal of meaning to me personally, as these were the books that I used to read over and over again as a very small child, and when I was allowed to have a pet rabbit for my 4th birthday, of course, I named it Miffy. The books instilled in me a love of reading that continues to this day.
For anyone who has never seen these books before, Miffy, or Nijntje in her original language, is a character created by the Dutch author Dick Bruna back in 1955, spawning a series of 30 books, as well as additional spin off books featuring characters that feature in the books, such as Boris Bear and Poppy Pig. The illustrations in the books are very appealing to young children, as the design of the Miffy character is very simple and basic, with bold primary colours for the backgrounds of the pictures, which have a very childlike quality, although my feeble attempts to copy them are usually pretty poor! Miffy is a young rabbit, who I always imagine her to be roughly equivalent to a child aged about 6 or 7. The books would mainly appeal to kids between 4 and 8, although I bought mine for my son when he was a baby, and I loved reading them to him, as the pictures and rhyming text are ideal fare for young babies.
The books usually feature a short rhyming story about Miffy doing everyday activities, such as visiting the park or zoo. The one I am reviewing is about Miffy visiting the seaside with her Dad. Most of the scenarios in the books are ones that young children can relate to.
The books are not particularly long at only 28 pages, so only take a couple of minutes to read. The format of each book is text on the left hand page and a bold picture on the right hand page. The version of the book that I read back in the 80's didn't rhyme, but I think that the text must have been revised in more recent years so that it would seem more appealing, although I must admit there are more than a few dodgy rhymes in there that don't quite work, for example:
"Me, me said Miffy, that is great
hurrah, I'll go as well
and I shall take my bucket too
in case I find some shells."
Don't worry though, the kids love it, and as long as you are sitting cuddled up to your child, reading to it in a nice gentle voice, I don't think that they will be too critical of the shortcomings in the text!
It is easy for the child to see what is going on in the pictures, and that in turn, gives lots of scope for conversation and discussion about the story. In one picture, you can make out the little stripty beach tents behind the sand dunes, and get your first glimpse of the blue sea. In another picture you can see all the cloured shells that miffy has collected, which can start a discussion about colours and you can ask the child which one they like best. We also see Miffy building a sandcastle, which, lets face it, everyone loves to do!
Miffy at the seaside is a lovely kids book, but I would also recommend all of the books in this series, as I think every home should have at least one Miffy book on the shelf. I like the way that the book is laid out, which makes it very easy to read and follow, and set the child on it's first steps to independent reading skills. This is one that my kids want to read over and over again.
This little hardback book is part of a series of books aimed at very young children featuring the iconic bunny rabbit, Miffy. Miffy is actually quite a very well-established character with this particular book first written in the 1960s by Dutch author and illustrator, Dick Bruna, and subsequently translated into English and many other languages.
Although I'm familiar with the Miffy character and have seen some of the programmes and merchandise available, I don't personally have any nostalgic connection with the character. This wasn't a series of books that I personally enjoyed or even came across as a child myself.
Miffy at the Seaside is the only book in the series that we own and my son actually received it as a Christmas present from his nursery when he was around 18 months old. Despite this being a fairly age appropriate book, it didn't really capture his attention at the time (and, I must admit, it wasn't a book that I particularly enjoyed reading) so it ended up sitting at the back of the bookcase.
Now my son is three years old, we have recently rediscovered this cute little book. The book is a nice size for toddlers and I do like the minimalistic style in which Miffy and other items are drawn as well as the bold, primary colours used. The book is simply laid out with a small verse of rhyming text on the left hand page and a simple uncluttered image on the right. Despite this, I'm still not particularly enamoured with the story, in all honesty.
This particular book centres around Miffy having a day out at the seaside with her Dad. I do like the fact that the Dad is the main parent within this story (no mention of Mummy) as so many contemporary children's stories either make no mention of a father whatsoever or go over the top with slightly nauseating 'How much I love my Daddy' themes! In this book, it is just taken as a natural event that Miffy happens to go out for the day with her Dad.
The story covers in very simple language and pictoral representation several of the traditional seaside activities so we have Miffy going swimming, building sandcastles and collecting shells. Despite the simplicity of the images, my three year old was confused by the image of the vehicle that Miffy is transported to and from the seaside in and had to ask what it was. (It was some sort of yellow wooden truck so not really a familiar object.)
I normally love reading children's books that are written in rhyme as it automatically provides a rhythm and gives the book a certain amount of life and excitement. This book lacks the pleasure of reading rhyming texts written by the likes of Dr Seuss and Julia Donaldson, for example. At times, the rhyme seems quite stilted and it is actually quite difficult to read the text and ensure that it does actually rhyme because the words don't necessarily flow easily. I can only presume that this is a consequence of the book being translated into English from its original Dutch text.
Despite my ambivalence towards this harmless little story, my son does appear to enjoy it and, at just 28 pages with very little text on each page, it is a relatively short read so no real hardship for me to read.
The full retail price of this book and the others in the series is £3.99 which seems pretty expensive for a little book such as this. Used copies can be picked up from 1p (plus postage) from Amazon Marketplace though.
With the weather getting hotter every day, a Miffy book about Miffy at the seaside is of course the one you want to read to your child! I borrowed this book from the local library and read it to my girl yesterday, hope you like my review!
**About Dick Bruna**
Miffy was born in the Netherlands, and Dick Bruna is the illustrator who created her. Miffy is known for her sweet character and her long, white ears. Illustrator Dick Bruna started drawing in 1940 and after several years he started to draw Miffy. In the beginning, Miffy mainly was famous in Holland, but nowadays she is famous worldwide. There are all sorts of Miffy books for sale, about a wide range of themes. For example about gardening, about going on holiday, going to school and shopping. These are all interesting subjects for small children. The books about Miffy are known for its simple drawings and the few colours used. The stories are mainly written in poem form.
**General information about this book**
Author; Dick Bruna
Price new; 4,99 Pounds (Amazon.co.uk)
Year of publication;2003 (in the UK)
Pages; 28
Publisher; Egmont Books Lmt.
Age; 0-3 years
**The story**
In this Miffy book, the little white rabbit is going to visit the beach with her dad. Every page contains text in rhyme form and an illustration next to it that it showing the situation described in the text. The colors used in this Bruna book are mainly orange and yellow but there is some green and dark blue used as well (just not as much as in most Miffy books).
Miffy and her dad go to the beach and Miffy is in a little wooden cart that is pulled by her dad. She brought along a shovel and a bucket to play with on the beach. When Miffy and her dad arrive at the seaside, they see a big orange/white striped tent and they decide to stay near to that tent. Miffy changes into her swimming gear, a cute little orange swimming pants. Miffy's dad tells her she can now start making a big sand castle. You see Miffy disappearing behind a pile of sand, while working hard to build a sand castle. After finishing the sand castle she gets her bucket and starts collecting shells that are lying around on the beach. An illustration of a few shells is drawn. When Miffy is done collecting shells, she goes out to take a swim. Dad is joining her and they are splashing water in each other's faces. After the swimming, it is time to go home. Miffy tells her dad, she isn't tired, but the final page shows an illustration with Miffy sleeping in the wooden cart, while being pulled back home by her daddy.
**My opinion**
If you are planning on going to the beach, this book is great to read from and to prepare your child for what lies ahead. Besides that, the book is pretty adventurous and has many activities that can be interesting for kids to now about (looking for shells, building a sand castle). This books main colour is yellow, and I have to say although it isn't my favorite colour, it is the right colour for a book about beach and sand!


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Altera Ranks Among Top 25 Greenest Companies in U.S.
Jul 22, 2014, 08:00 ET from Altera Corporation
SAN JOSE, Calif., July 22, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) announced today it has ranked #24 on the Newsweek Magazine 2014 Green Rankings of more than 500 U.S. companies. Newsweek's annual Green Rankings are one of the world's most recognized assessments of corporate sustainability and environmental impact. Newsweek evaluated companies on eight specific indicators, including conservation and sustainability efforts in the areas of energy, carbon, water, and waste productivity.
Company reputation was also taken into account in the ranking, and Altera earned highest marks in this area. Reputation was scored by a consultancy called RepRisk, which collects and analyzes controversies related to human rights violations, poor working conditions, corruption, and environmental destruction.
"Altera has always operated its business in an environmentally conscious manner, and strong efforts have been made by Altera's Facilities, Human Resources, and Corporate Social Responsibility teams to make our campuses greener," said Kyle Bowers, Altera vice president of Reliability and Quality Assurance. "Altera works hard to maximize our sustainability efforts, and we continue to look for areas where we can institute even more positive changes and minimize our environmental impact."
Altera Green Initiatives Among the green efforts is Altera's recycling program, which diverts well over 80 percent of the waste generated on the San Jose, Calif., site away from landfills to be recycled, composted or reused. In addition, Altera installed Bloom Energy fuel cells in late 2012, which reduced the purchased-electricity carbon footprint by 34 percent. Altera's strong focus on corporate social responsibility also includes guidelines and tracking of sustainable procurement, supply chain propagation, and employee health and safety initiatives.
Newsweek partnered with independent investment research company Corporate Knights Capital to complete the 2014 Green Rankings. To ensure data collected was accurate and reliable, Corporate Knights Capital used a variety of techniques, including statistical analysis of industry trends and year-over-year shifts in performance; as well as manual investigations of outliers.
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PaidContent reports that News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch, in an interview last week with Fox Business Network's Neil Cavuto, predicted that everyone in America who can afford one will buy a tablet, and vertured the opinion that "this is the end of the laptop," musing about the irony of the man who invented the personal computer, then the laptop (Steve Jobs), has now become the agent of "destroying them."
Much as I admire and respect Rupert Murdoch's many accomplishments, and would never contradict his business judgment lightly, I don't anticipate the iPad killing off the laptop (or, for that matter the laptop killing the desktop—at least completely—in the near to mid-term future.)
However, it's inevitable that the iPad will bleed off a proportion of device sales that would otherwise have likely gone to laptops, or in some instances even consumer desktops. Of course this is already happening with PC laptops—especially netbooks—whose sales have been decimated by (presumably) the iPad tsunami. On the other hand, interestingly, Apple's own laptops are enjoying record sales, driven particularly by the new MacBook Air's popularity.
But heck, I want an iPad myself (I'm waiting for version 2), even though I'm a consummate laptop fan. With the price of conventional paper and ink magazines skyrocketing, I perceive the much more economical alternative of electronic subscriptions will become increasingly attractive and more dominant, with Mr. Murdoch's new $0.99 per week "The Daily" e-newspaper being an emblematic case in point. The tablet makes a much more comfortable and convenient and versatile medium for relaxed reading for pleasure than does a laptop.
However, at least in its current and foreseeable future iterations, I simply can't take the iPad seriously as a substitute for a real laptop as a content creation and production device. I'll revisit that assessment if the iPad ever supports real multitasking, a Finder-type file directory, standard USB I/O, a mouse driver, decent storage capacity, and so forth, but I'm not holding my breath waiting for that, and anticipate using real laptops as my primary work tools and content creatiion platforms for years to come.
On the other hand, I left desktop computers behind a decade ago, and haven't missed them, so never say never. I expect that Steve Jobs is right that the MacBook Air, more iPad-like than any previus Apple laptop, is a bellwether of the laptop's future.
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The Feng Shui House Book: Change Your Home, Transform Your Life
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[WORLD CUP 2014 QUALIFYING: Tuesday] The USA and Costa Rica were among five teams to clinch berths in the World Cup finals. Italy and the Netherlands became the
first teams to clinch from Europe, while Argentina won, 5-2, at Paraguay to return to the finals.
World Cup 2014 Finalists:
Brazil (host)
Japan (Asia)
Australia (Asia)
Iran (Asia)
South Korea (Asia)
Italy (Europe)
Netherlands (Europe)
USA (Concacaf)
Costa Rica (Concacaf)
Argentina (South America)
ITALY. The Azzurri secured qualification to the World Cup finals for the 14th straight time when they came from behind to beat the Czech Republic, 2-1.
It didn't look like it was going to be Italy's day when Libor Kozak put the Czechs ahead and Mario Balotelli hit the crossbar. But defender Giorgio Chiellini equalized seven minutes after the break and Balotelli won the game from the penalty spot.
NETHERLANDS. It took more than a half but the Dutch finally broke through against tiny Andorra with a curling shot from Robin van Persie, and the Manchester United star added a second goal for a 2-0 win on Tuesday. The win along with Turkey's 2-0 win over Romania in Bucharest sent the Oranje pack to the finals for the sixth time in a row.
Other key European results ...
-- After losing to Slovakia at home for its first defeat in qualifying, Bosnia-Herzegovina turned around and beat Slovakia, 2-1, in Zilina on late goals from Ermin Bicakcic and Izet Hajrovic to stay even with Greece on points but in first place in Group G with a far superior goal difference.
-- France broke its scoring drought, twice coming from behind against Belarus before winning, 4-2. Franck Ribery scored twice to pull the Bleus even, and substitute Samir Nasri and Paul Pogba scored three minutes apart for the win.
-- England's 0-0 tie at Ukraine moved it into first place in Group H, one points ahead of Montenegro and Ukraine with home games against Montenegro and Poland remaining.
-- Switzerland took control in Group E with a 2-0 win at Norway on a pair of goals by Fabian Schaer, both headers off Gokhan Inler free kicks.
-- Russia's 3-1 win over Israel moved it back into first place in Group F, one point ahead of Portugal, which lost to Brazil, 3-1, in a friendly played before 62,310 fans at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Mass.
Europe standings
Europe schedule
ARGENTINA. Under-strength Argentina clinched its ticket to Brazil with a 5-2 win at Paraguay, getting two penalty kicks from Lionel Messi. Sergio Aguero, Angel Di Maria and Maxi Rodriguez also scored for Argentina.
Colombia missed its chance to clinch when it fell to Uruguay, 2-0, on late goals by Edinson Cavani and Cristian Stuani in Montevideo.
The win was the third in a row for the Celeste, which pulled even with fourth-place Ecuador, which tied Bolivia, 1-1, in La Paz. Uruguay and Ecuador are two points behind third-place and three ahead of sixth-place Venezuela.
The top four teams qualify automatically, while the fifth-place team will face Jordan, which is one step away from reaching the World Cup for the first time thanks to a 9-8 shootout over Uzbekistan, 9-8. Both legs of their Asian playoff series ended 1-1.
South America standings
South America schedule
Egypt update ...
Bob Bradley's Egypt beat Guinea, 4-2, to remain the only unbeaten and untied team in World, Cup qualifying. The Pharaohs will learn whom they'll face in the final round of qualifying when the 10 African finalists will be paired in a draw on Monday. Egypt came back from a goal down after four minutes to win. Mohamed Aboutrika celebrated his 100th appearance for Egypt with a goal.


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Statewide domestic abuse incidents decline
The annual report, compiled from data submitted by district attorneys� offices throughout the state, shows the number of domestic abuse incidents has declined.
Statewide, the year�s total number of reported domestic abuse incidents dropped 3 percent from 2005 to 25,531 incidents.
Rock County had 1,217 incidents and an 87.5 percent arrest rate.
Walworth County had 459 incidents and a 67.3 percent arrest rate.
In Jefferson County, 415 abuse reports were made and 76.8 percent of those led to an arrest.
Green County had 158 reports and a 56.3 percent arrest rate.
Outside Milwaukee County, the most common charge issued statewide for abuse cases was disorderly conduct followed by battery.
The third-most common charge in 2006 was a municipal citation or ordinance violation.
There were 40 domestic homicides reported in 19 counties.
The youngest victim was an infant younger than 1 year old. The oldest was 85.
Homicide victims were most often females killed in their residence by a family member using a firearm or knife.
Of all domestic reports, about half of all victims and offenders were between ages 18 and 29. About 28 percent were 20-29, and 22 percent were 40-49.
Most domestics were between a spouse or ex-spouse (21 percent), with next most frequent by a partner or ex-partner in a dating relationship (17 percent).
A copy of the full report is available online at www.doj.state.wi.us/cvs.
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Chapman racking up strikeouts, saves
Chapman racking up strikeouts, saves
Despite Chapman's triple-digit fastball velocity, Baker felt the left-hander had become more of a pitcher than a thrower this season.
"I think it's safe to say that," Baker said Saturday. "He has the ability to come in and out and up and down. He's feeling comfortable and very confident with what he's doing. And he's using more than just his fastball. Getting ahead helps to use more than just your fastball."
On Friday, Chapman struck out first batter Todd Helton with an 88 mph slider. He needed only 11 pitches to record his 20th save and that type of pitch efficiency could make him more repeatable.
"That helps a lot. It puts him in a position even to possibly go a third day if that second day is not a lot of work," Baker said.
Chapman has worked three straight days only once this season -- July 13-15 vs. the Cardinals.