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Noting that Mitt Romney downplayed his opposition to abortion rights in an Iowa newspaper, the Obama campaign on Wednesday accused the Republican nominee of attempting to hide extreme views on reproductive health in order to moderate his image and "close the deal" with skeptical women voters.
"There's no legislation with regards to abortion that I'm familiar with that would become part of my agenda," Romney said in an interview Tuesday with the Des Moines Register editorial board.
That marked a fairly recent change of tone for Romney who, earlier in his career, changed from being a supporter of abortion rights to an opponent. During the Republican primaries this year, Romney asserted his anti-abortion bona fides, saying repeatedly that Roe v. Wade should be overturned and that all federal funding for Planned Parenthood should be eliminated. He has also said he would appoint Supreme Court justices committed to overturning the landmark decision that legalized abortion.
"The real Mitt Romney will say anything to win," Stephanie Cutter, deputy campaign manager for Obama, said in a conference call with reporters. "He's cynically trying to hide his real positions."
Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards, who said she has taken a leave of absence to campaign for Obama, noted that Romney has also spoken in support of the proposed Rubio-Blunt amendment, which would give employers the power to determine whether health-care plans would cover abortion, and in favor of a proposed "personhood" legislation that would define a fertilized human egg as a person for the purposes of determining constitutional rights.
"Mitt Romney is proudly pro-life, and he will be a pro-life president," campaign spokesman Andrea Saul said.
Said Richards: "The American people can't trust him (Romney) to be honest and direct with what he believes.
Strategically, the Obama campaign has been counting on a gender gap – a disparity between women's and men's support of the president's reelection – to win.

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Today I am sharing with you all a recipe I envisioned that came out great the first try! It is always nice when that happens. This is just part two of my journey with Kraft Foods as a Kraft Tastemaker.
There are many recipes that get me excited about summer. Whether it be a tasty fruit dessert or bonding with family over a campfire making s'mores, there are just so many flavors that bring out the fun! My mind instantly went back to the delicious Strawberry Trifle recipe I created and shared with you about 3 years ago and a brainstorm was born. Why not combine the love for the trifle with the fun of s'mores? So, here you have it! A glorious outpouring of love, yum and memories that I hope you will enjoy and share with your family as well this summer.
S'mores Trifle Recipe
1 20 oz. bag JET-PUFFED Marshmallows
2 pkg. (3.9 oz. each) JELL-O Chocolate Instant Pudding
2 cups milk
1 8 oz. container COOL WHIP Whipped Topping, frozen
1 box (16 oz.) graham crackers
2 1.55 oz. chocolate bars, broken into pieces
Pour 2 cups of cold milk into a mixing bowl. Pour JELL-O Pudding packets on top and beat with electric mixer on low for 30 seconds. Move mixer to medium speed and beat the pudding for 4 minutes. Place in the refrigerator until you are ready to assemble the trifle.
Place graham crackers in a sealed plastic bag and crush fine. Place 1/2 of the COOL WHIP container with 12-14 marshmallows in a microwave safe bowl. Place in microwave for 30 seconds and stir well. Marshmallows may still be lumpy and that is ok.
Begin to assemble the trifle starting with a layer of graham cracker crumbs. Use half of your batch. Layer the marshmallow and COOL WHIP mixture over the graham cracker crumbs. Next, layer half of the pudding.
Layer the broken pieces of one of your chocolate bars over the pudding. Make sure to layer them close to the edge for a more appealing look. It's ok if they do not completely cover your dish.
Now it's time to add another layer of graham crackers. Use all but about a 1/2 of what you have left. We are saving a little for the top!
Make another batch of marshmallow/COOL WHIP mixture by placing the rest of the COOL WHIP in the microwave safe bowl with about 12-14 marshmallows. Microwave for 30 seconds and mix well. Spread the marshmallow mixture over the graham crackers.
Add the rest of the pudding over the marshmallow mixture. Top with remaining chocolate bar pieces. Cover the top of the trifle with marshmallows and then sprinkle the remaining graham cracker crumbs over them. Some of the crumbs will fall through the marshmallows and that is ok.
Finish your marshmallows off by using a lighter to toast the tops.
So, what are you waiting for? Even if it is raining outdoors you can enjoy the s'mores indoors while adding in the cool factor to bring down the heat of summer. If you try it I would love to hear your thoughts or ways you made it even more awesome.
Enjoy the ooey, gooey, chocolatey deliciousness of s'mores you love in this easy microwaveable trifle recipe. No campfire required.
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The two-time defending champions in a Baseline League that produces the best football in the Inland Valley will graduate four to the college ranks on Feb. 6, National Signing Day. Upland High School's class of 2013 also includes four soccer players and one baseball player, forming one of the largest groups of any one school in the area to receive athletic scholarships this year.
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Not having to go to class has meant a little extra time crafting time. One of my co-workers asked me to make her granddaughter a hat. She didn't care what kind, so long as it was pink and brown and had a flower.
I found the pattern on Ravelry and of course, forgot to que it and now I can't find it to share. I'll have to dig up the paper copy to figure out which one it is and I'll post it when I find it. I used THIS pattern for the flower, but left off the picots.
Endless Forms, which is run by her sister. Crafty talent clearly runs in the family.
Look how cute the stitch markers were packaged! The stamping on the paper is such a nice touch.
Aren't they pretty? They work like a dream and I love them. She sells really cute jewelry too.
I'm uber late on posting our class project for Easter, but here it is anyway. I saw this idea HERE and fell in love. Cheap, easy, and cute. Plus Piper said it wasn't too "babyish" which is a requirement for 5th grade crafts now. I wish you could see me rolling my eyes now. Ha!
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At-planting treatments for early-season insect control make sense for irrigated High Plains cotton, says Texas A&M Extension entomologist Jim Leser.
Leser recommends in-furrow insecticide applications or seed treatments and then to watch for pest thresholds to build later in the season before treating again.
"My goal is to take care of those early pests (Western Flower Thrips, for instance), and then go clean for as long as possible," he says.
"Doing something at planting is a good investment. Over any ten-year period, growers will make more than enough additional yield with an at-planting treatment to cover treatment cost and pocket a tidy profit."
Controlling thrips is the primary objective, he says.
Leser says he has questions whether Cruiser, a seed treatment, or Temik, an in-furrow material, provides the best results.
"We don't have enough yield data," he says. "Weather and other factors have prevented us from accumulating enough yield information to compare the two adequately. Cruiser is the most promising alternative to Temik for Western Flower Thrips, but numerically may not control them quite as well."
Leser says Temik controls the pests for a little longer, especially at a 5-pound rate, which is normally used where nematodes are also a factor. "The trend is that farmers get a better yield with a 5-pound Temik application than they do with Cruiser."
Results are closer with 3.5 pounds of Temik. "Temik still lasts a little longer."
But Leser is worried that old standby materials such as Temik may not be as effective as they once were. "I used to control thrips with 2 pounds of Temik," he says. "Now I use at least 3 pounds and usually 3.5."
He says the difference could be that Temik may be breaking down in the soil from microbial activity or that thrips are staying on cotton longer than before. He's teamed up with Texas A&M plant disease researcher Terry Wheeler on a project to find out what's going on.
"It's not an easy problem to solve," he says. "We have a greenhouse test underway and we hope to begin field studies in the spring."
Convenience may play a role, too. "The lock 'n Load option with Temik has reduced potential for human contact," he says, "but it's still somewhat inconvenient. Farmers have to have the boxes. Seed treatments are more convenient, but Cruiser still has to prove that it makes comparable yields. We're still looking."
He hopes to look at a new Gaucho formulation, Gaucho Grande, with double the amount of active ingredient per seed "with no cost increase." Leser says he hasn't tested the product yet but expects to in the 2005 season. The goal is to improve Western Flower Thrips control.
"The standard rate of the earlier Gaucho treatment did not adequately control western flower thrips although it was effective against other less common species."
He says a Bayer Temik-like material, without nematode activity, may soon be available with increased residual activity over the old standard Temik. He also says studies are underway to see if Syngenta's new nematode seed treatment product will be effective and compatable with their Cruiser seed treatment.
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SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT (publ. 11/29/2012, pg. 2A)
A story about refunds for Sharks tickets did not make clear that the two-week processing delay for November refunds applies only to season-ticket holders who paid by check. The refunds are going to full-season ticket holders, not partial-season ticket holders. Also, the 31.8 percent of the NHL season that has been canceled accounts for games through the end of November.
SAN JOSE — That first refund from the Sharks after the lockout-forced cancellation of 16 regular season and three preseason games through Dec. 14 isn't likely to soothe many fans.
That's because the first check comes to 1.8 percent of the 70 percent of the season most season-ticket holders have paid for to this point.
For example, a fan with two $80 seats in the lower bowl using the installment plan paid 70 percent, or $4,928 of the $7,040 total cost of season tickets, before the team stopped collecting final payments with the lockout pending. That fan will be getting back $88.70.
In an email sent to season-ticket holders Tuesday, the Sharks also noted that it would take two weeks to process and mail out November refunds to those who paid by check, pushing their actual arrival inside the mailbox to mid-December.
Though four more games already have been canceled for next month, the team only is giving refunds on a month-by-month basis in case a labor agreement is reached and more games are added to the December schedule.
Using the team's formula, 31.8 percent of the season has been canceled through the end of November, or 1.8 percent more than the Sharks declined to collect.
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Andrew McNight, singer, song-writer, guitarist and poet, will lead the service at the Unitarian Universalists of Sterling Sunday, June 29, at the 10:30 a.m. service. UUS meets every Sunday, at 10:30 a.m., at the Sterling Oaks Commerce Center at 22135 Davis Drive. Call 703-406-3068 or visit uusterling.org.
Gateway Community Church's "Celebrate Recovery" is meeting at Arcola Community Center located at 24328 Goshen Road. Celebrate Recovery is a biblically based 12-step program for addressing addiction, co-dependency, anger and other self-destructive behaviors. It meets every Tuesday night from 7 – 9 p.m. E-mail firstname.lastname@example.com or call 703-327-2700.
Riverside Presbyterian Church's Kenya Café will be open, from 9:15-10:30 a.m., Sundays, at Potomac Falls High School. It offers a friendly, comfortable spot to grab a cup of coffee, chat with others or just relax and read the paper while the children are in small group. The café is also designed to raise awareness of Riverside's partnerships in Kenya and other parts of the world.
Feel free to join the church for worship at 10:35 a.m. Contact 703-444-3528 or www.riversidechurch.com.
The Shepherd's Table is organized by Loudoun Church Alliance in association with Prison Fellowship at Lansdowne, local churches and faith-based nonprofit organizations. The Shepherd's Table provides a safe and centralized venue for shepherds/elders and ministry leaders to meet on a monthly basis reaching out across all denominations and faith-based nonprofit foundations. The Shepherd's Table meets the first Thursday of each month, at 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Contact Jack Stagman at 540-338-0409 or by e-mail at email@example.com.
Congregation Sha'are Shalom is offering preschoolers the opportunity to receive a Jewish education in a developmentally appropriate early childhood setting. The Rosie Uran Jewish Education Center is now registering students for the 2008–2009 school year. Information is available at the synagogue Web site: http://www.sha-areshalom.org/edu_rujec.php. Participatory visits by parents and prospective students are welcome. Call 703-737-0686 to speak with Sheri Brown, director.
Ashburn Presbyterian Church (APC) is offering its Stephen Ministry to people in the community. Stephen Ministry is grounded in Jesus' command to love one another.
Through one-to-one caring relationships those who are hurting and stressed receive a Stephen Minister to listen and pray with them. Caregivers walk with people through a variety of difficult life situations such as: divorce, grief, unemployment, relocation or just the stress of life. Anyone interested in being a care receiver, call the Rev. Mark Armstrong at 703-421-0511.
APC is located at 20962 Ashburn Road. Call the church offices at 703-729-2012 or visit the Web site at www.ashburnpresbyterian.org.
Join Riverside Presbyterian Church, 20 Pidgeon Hill Drive, suite 109, on Monday nights at the church office, 7:15-8:30 p.m. Where middle-school students meet weekly to strengthen and build friendships have fun and study God's Word in large and small groups. Visit www.riversidechurch.com or call Daniel or Barb at 703-444-3528.
Wat Yarnna Rangsee in Sterling will be offering free meditation classes every Sunday. Inquire and register at the temple at 21950 Shaw Road, Sterling, 703-406-8290/2509.
Congregation Sha'are Shalom, Loudoun County's Conservative Synagogue, holds Erev Shabbat services Friday at 7:30 p.m. and Shabbat morning services on the first and third Saturdays of the month at 9:30 a.m. Rabbinical intern Michael Ragozin will preside over services once a month. The congregation has an active Men's Club, Sisterhood and extensive gift shop. Call 703-737-6500, e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com or visit www.sha-areshalom.org. Congregation Sha'are Shalom is located at 19357 Evergreen Mill Road, Leesburg.
Beth Chaverim Reform Congregation holds traditional Shabbat services, family services, children's services and High Holiday services. The religious school features preschool through post confirmation, B'nai Mitzvah, Hebrew High, adult Hebrew and adult education classes. Social activities include interfaith discussions, youth group, Sisterhood, Men's Club and Empty Nesters. Student Rabbi Jesse Gallop and Rabbi Randi Nagel, lead biweekly Shabbat services, help prepare B'nai Mitzvah students, provide pastoral counseling and sick/bereavement visits and teach adult education classes at monthly pot-luck dinners before Shabbat services. Call 703-391-8669, visit Web site www.bethchaverim.org or e-mail email@example.com.
The Loudoun Church Alliance is a formal association of churches of many denominations. It works in the areas of youth development, international missions, evangelism outreach, and is now working to develop relationships with government and business. Contact founder and missionary Jack Stagman at email@example.com.
Galilee United Methodist Church, 45425 Winding Road, Sterling, invites the community to its evening contemporary worship service at 6 p.m., every Sunday, featuring the Winding Road praise band. Sunday school is available for children in kindergarten through third grade, and child care is available for the younger children. Visit www.GalileeUMC.org or contact the church office at 703-430-2203.
The Unitarian Universalists of Sterling meet on Sunday mornings, at 10:30 a.m., at the Sterling Oaks Commerce Center at 21355 Davis Drive near Route 28 and Church Road. Call 703-406-3068 or visit uusterling.org.
The Unitarian Universalist Church of Loudoun Sunday services are held, at 9:30 a.m. and 11:15 a.m., at the UUCL chapel, located at 20460 Gleedsville Road in Leesburg. UUCL is a welcoming congregation and invites everyone to attend Sunday services. Call the church at 703-737-7644.
St. Gabriel's Episcopal Church of Lansdowne is extending an invitation to families that have children with autism spectrum, ADHD, bipolar disorder and similar conditions. St. Gabriel's has developed several programs to reach out to the community.
* The "Chrysalis" Room is a safe space for children with autism spectrum, ADHD, bipolar disorder and similar conditions. Includes a trained professional staff that provides appropriate activities and lessons. It is available every Sunday during the regular 10 a.m. worship and for special events.
* Spiritual Support Group for families with special needs, on the first and third Thursdays of each month, from 7-8:30 p.m. This group is completely "drop-in."
All programs held Belmont Ridge Middle School, 19045 Upper Belmont Place in Lansdowne. Visit www.saintgabriels.net or call 703-779-3616.
Galilee United Methodist Church's Sunday evening contemporary service, called Winding Road, has a new time of 5 p.m. The current series is "Jesus, Supersize Me!" Come explore places from the Bible where Jesus goes the extra mile to show us how to "supersize" our lives. Galilee UMC is located at 45425 Winding Road, Sterling. Call 703-430-2203 or visit www.GalileeUMC.org.


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A Beaumont teen with what had seemed like a bright future pleaded guilty Monday, Aug. 12, to robbery and evading arrest after a home invasion led to a chase June 16.
Sunday, June 16, 2013, at 2:22 p.m., officers responded to a home invasion in the 1600 block of East Drive.
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I would like to get a list together of the exact killer+ effect we get on each piece of gear and food. Now that we have our AF3+2 we can do this( for every 2 killer+ we get +1% damage done). So far this is what I have tested, I would really like to see what some more exotic food might do.
Enchances all
Killer Bow: +2 killer effect
flawless ribbon: +1
Undead Killer
Exorcist Hose: +2
Marinara Pizza: +5
Plantoid Killer
Ginger Cookie: +10
Wizard Cookie: +12
Pipilaka Belt: +5
Lizard Killer
Goblin Chocolate: +10
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Field to Market, or The Keystone Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture, is a coalition of "very diverse" organizations aimed at finding ways to feed a growing population with a growing appetite. The coalition realizes this has to be done without depleting the world's resources, says Fred Luckey, the group's chairman. Luckey was interviewed at this year's Commodity Classic in Nashville, Tenn.
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Esther Pearson, 78 - September 05, 2013Esther Carolyn (Foster) Pearson, 78, of Brady passed away Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013, at her home in Brady following a courageous battle with cancer.
Services will be conducted at the Evangelical Free Church, 1721 Lake Ave., Gothenburg, on Tuesday, Sept. 10, at 11 a.m. with the Rev. Robert Litzenberger officiating. Interment will follow at 1:30 p.m. at Fort McPherson National Cemetery near Maxwell.
Pearson was born July 4, 1935, to Benjamin and Carrie (Hoff) Foster at Benkelman. She grew up on the family farm near Benkelman and graduated from Benkelman High School in 1952.
Following graduation, she attended McCook Junior College and then began her teaching career. She taught in near-by rural schools, Cozad and North Platte. She graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in education from Kearney State Teacher's College in 1959.
On Aug. 7, 1960, she was united in marriage to Willard Pearson at the United Methodist Church in Benkelman. To this union, four children were born. She and her husband lived in Wild Horse Valley north of Brady for over 50 years.
Pearson was a loving and devoted wife, mother and grandmother, family members said. Holidays were a special time for her to show her love for her family by creating favorite dishes and decorated birthday cakes.
For many years, she enjoyed growing large vegetable and flower gardens. She was also active with her children's 4-H projects. She cherished being a grandmother and attended her grandchildren's activities whenever possible, family said, and made and embroidered a baby quilt for each grandchild.
?One of her favorite pastimes was reading her Bible which brought her joy and comfort, family said. She faithfully attended church and was active teaching Sunday School, Bible School and AWANA classes. She also participated with the women's mission organizations.
Pearson was preceded in death by: her parents, Benjamin and Carrie Foster; sisters—Dorothea Foster and Bernice Jensen; brothers—Harry, Lloyd, Donald, Leonard Foster, and three infant brothers; a sister-in-law, Marjorie Foster; niece, Carrie Gallington; nephew, Leonard Malm; brothers-in-law—Duane Malm and Robert Jensen.
Survivors include: her husband, Willard Pearson of Brady; her children—Mary (Douglas) Hartman of Omaha, Richard (Sharon) Pearson of Brady, Edward (Catherine) Pearson of Seward, and Ruth (Toby) White of Des Moines, IA; grandchildren—Joshua and Brooke Hartman, Trina Pearson, Aleah, Calia and Zakary White; a sister-in-law, Hildur Malm of Maxwell; nieces and nephews.
Memorials are suggested to the Central Plains Hospice, P.O. Box 108, Cozad, NE 69130, the Gideons International, P.O. Box 133, Gothenburg, NE 69138, and the Evangelical Free Church Missions.
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What are the top three pieces you need to take your look from day to night?
When taking a look from day to night, it's all about having three easy pieces on hand: a little leather jacket, a piece of statement jewellery, and a clutch. These items are relatively basic-most of you probably own them already-but they shouldn't be boring. Fit and material is key for the jacket; you definitely want one with thin leather (it's dressier) and a cropped silhouette. Theyskens' Theory makes a super chic option that's very simple and classic, but I also like the streamlined biker style from Helmut Lang. If you already have something in basic black, why not switch things up and get a cropped biker in white leather? Whatever you pick, just make sure it's very clean-this is not the time for trendy accents or details. As for your statement jewellery, don't be afraid of a glitzy necklace or chunky cuff. A bold piece of jewellery can make anything-from a white t-shirt to a chic sheath-look appropriate for evening. Last but not least, the bag! Instead of going for a simple solid-coloured clutch, add interest to your outfit with an embellished bag. Marni makes a couple of amazing options: one with bright yellow beading and the other in black and silver. If that seems too ornate, you can always just go for a pattern instead. Lanvin's diamond-print clutch is beyond gorgeous and sure to transform any office outfit into an amazing after-hours look!


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PORTSMOUTH — When backup forward Colin MacDonald hit a baseline jumper with a little more than a minute to play Tuesday night, it marked the highest point total of the season for the Portsmouth High School boys basketball team.
All five starters watched the moment from the bench. They'd earned their fourth quarter off.
Ben Landry's 19 points led five players in double figures for the Clippers, who improved their Division II record to 4-2 by running past Milford, 82-42, at Stone Gym, on the eve of Friday's big showdown with Hollis-Brookline.
"I thought we were very good tonight, very unselfish, especially after the first quarter," said Portsmouth coach Jim Mulvey.
Guard Travis MacDonald added 14 points for the Clippers, and guards Donovan Phanor and Zach Hansler, and Colin MacDonald all finished with 11.
"Everyone just had a knack for putting the ball in the net tonight," said Phanor, who was also active on the defensive end. "We were doing it well. We just need to keep it up these next few days because Hollis-Brookline's going to be a tough one."
All in all, it was a good tune-up for the next one against Hollis, whose 5-1 mark includes a competitive loss to unbeaten Pembroke (61-51).
"They're good," said Mulvey. "I've scouted them. I saw them at the Christmas tournament in Nashua. They're big and they're veterans. They're going to be a real test."
Toward the end Tuesday, the only test left for the Clippers would be if they could top their season-high point total of 78, though they did put up 85 in a holiday tournament game against St. Thomas that didn't count in the standings.
Like it does so often when the Clippers are in sync, much of the offense was generated by defense. When the Spartans' Mitch Banuskevich hit a transition 3-pointer at the halftime buzzer, it was his team's first field goal of the quarter.
Ahead 28-17 at the start of the second quarter, the Clippers put things away with a 13-1 run. Phanor made a steal and scored to make it 37-17, and Landry capped the spurt with drive through the lane to make it 41-18.
The halftime score was 48-25. The Spartans scored five quick points to open the second half, prompting Mulvey to spend a time-out 48 seconds in, but Phanor hit a three right after that and the mild drama was killed.
"They're good," said Milford coach Dan Murray, whose 2011 team beat Portsmouth in the Division II championship game but has turned over completely since then. "They move the ball well. They've got shooters. But defensively, we took a step back tonight. … We're a better defensive team than we showed."
The Clippers made 7-of-15 from 3-point range, often passing up semi-open tries for penetration and shorter jumpers. They were 1-of-17 from deep in Friday's 57-41 win over St. Thomas.
"You saw what we were the other night," said Mulvey. "You can't live and die like that. … One of the (assistant) coaches at halftime said every time we make five or six passes, something good happens."
The Spartans, who got eight points apiece from guard Ross Briggs and forward Evan Perron, were playing without Wayne O'Brien, their top player, who's still another week or so away from returning from injury. In addition, guard Harrison Urda picked up two fouls in the opening 97 seconds and spent long stretches on the bench.
"(Urda) runs the offense for us," said Murray. "But we've got to learn to use both sides of the floor, ball reversal. We mentally freeze."
The Clippers, meanwhile, will go from a cold opponent to a hot Friday match-up.
"We're in for a good one," said Phanor. "Although this was a pretty good win, it's not going to beat Hollis-Brookline."
The coach's eye also found things to dwell on — the ball sharing in the first quarter, even as it produced 28 points, plus some paint defense. All were filed away for the rest of the week.
"I know it was a blowout," said Mulvey, "but it seems we have a lot to work on."


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By WGBH News
The WGBH News Where We Live series, which returns Nov. 14–18, explores new economic realities in cities and towns across Massachusetts. But we know you know this story best. Is the American Dream still possible where YOU live?
Send us your stories or impressions of the economic change, growth or difficulties in your community. We'll share them across WGBH — and we might mention them on air. So keep them coming! You can submit your stories here.
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'Always Christmas' in Georgetown
submitted by Terry and Rick Palardy
"We are living our retirement dream. Rick started making wooden ornaments for gifts back in the mid-'70s... we are living our happily-ever-after years, right here near the center of town, where we can walk to everything basic when we, too, reach the age when we can no longer drive. I just published a book."
Promoting Sustainability In Norwood
submitted by Susan Clare
"Our nonprofit, launched this year, is dedicated to sustainability and community building in Norwood. Our grassroots efforts are aimed at getting 'small and local.' We are becoming a presence in Norwood, and wish to see the town viable and sustainable for all residents and businesses."
Here's a sampling of what we heard in April.
Arts Ed. On The Chopping Block In Norwood — But Why?
submitted by Carl Cummings
"There's an interesting – and enraging – economic situation in Norwood that I'd like to share.
"Recently, the town's school committee passed a 2012 fiscal budget that will dramatically decrease the public school system's music department.
"Fighting for fine arts funding is unfortunately nothing new. It's a campaign that WGBH has been very active in historically, and it isn't the first time this battle has been fought in Norwood. The music department there has in fact enjoyed a rich history of quality, consistently developing both award-winning groups and passionate, successful students over past several decades. All of which hasn't come easy; without constant effort from the town's parents, educators, students and alumni to secure funding, the department likely would have been critically reduced years ago.
"But I call this recent development both interesting and enraging for two specific reasons. Read more
'Mall City' In Burlington
submitted by Nicholas Zubiri
"Some new housing developments are being built. A large Borders bookstore is closing, in Wayside Commons Mall adjacent to the Burlington Mall. In recent town elections, most elected offices went unopposed. Lahey Clinic may be a great hospital, but many residents would go rather go to Winchester or Emerson. Sometimes, I feel that Burlington is trying to become Mall City within Mass."
A "Renaissance" in Old Haverhill
submitted by Elinor Curtin Cameron
"Several festivals from Kids' Fest in May through a Trolley Tour to the Cultural Treasures in June, River Ruckus in the summer, the Italian Festival in the fall, the Santa Parade and Christmas Stroll draw crowds to the downtown area...Outside the downtown core, Haverhill's Cultural Treasures: John Greenleaf Whittier's Birthplace, Tattersall Farm, Haverhill Firefighting Museum, Winnikenni Castle and The Buttonwoods Museum invite visitors to encounter the city's rich past and to explore acres and acres of recreational land. Haverhill is home to two colleges, Northern Essex Community College and Zion Bible College, six golf courses, a ski area and a hospital.
"The Merrimack River courses through the center of town. For years an industrial sewer, it is now suitable for recreational boating and is studded with docks, both private and public, from Rocks Village through the center of town.
"Grassroots organizations are working to revitalize the area. Their influence is starting to truly show. Haverhill is an old city which seems to have discovered viagra and is re-discovering its youth."
Jamaica Plain, Boston: Stores Come and Go, the "Coziness of the Place" Remains
submitted by Rebeca Plank
Downtown Reinvention in Attleboro
submitted by Amy H.
"Attleboro is a city that is trying to reinvent itself like so many other communities around MA. Once know as Jewelry Capital of the world, the city has declined in recent decades, but there is hope on the horizon. A downtown revitalization plan is taking shape, industries are starting to occupy former factories, and people are noticing the great assets that Attleboro has. It's all right here!! The close proximity to Boston and Providence is great as well!"
Creative Reuse in Watertown
submitted by Rich Minton
"I'm on a very active recycling committee that works with and advises the DPW and runs projects designed to bring recyclables into the stream that are not curbside items. There are several sister groups that are deep into environmental issues. Currently the town is extending the bike path on an old rail bed so that the Charles River bike path in Watertown that goes between Cambridge and Newton/Waltham will connect with the Minuteman Bikeway at the Fresh Pond Reservoir."
Beverly: A City of History, But 'Something Sorely Missing'
submitted by Mickey Coburn
"People don't seem to come to visit — tourists. They pass through on their way to other North Shore towns. The city has history. Something sorely missing. Not sure what that is."
New Diversity In Lynn
submitted by Shane Woodbury
"My wife and I work in health care, so we really haven't suffered in this economy. We bought our first home in Lynn last year, by the beach area, and we love it. But what I've noticed in Lynn is that many houses are for sale and it seems like the same houses have been on sale for a couple of years now. I don't know for certain, but I think less people are buying homes in Lynn and more and more are renting. And the ones who are selling, seem to be having a difficult time in selling their homes.
"Back in the 80's, downtown Lynn suffered some major big fires. At the same time, malls in Danvers and Peabody were becoming the North Shore's new destination for shopping. Downtown Lynn never recovered from the malls in surrounding towns and communties. However, downtown Lynn does have a thriving Hispanic community who have open their own little corner stores and resturants everywhere. The food is great and I find the Hispanic community in Lynn to be hard working, very friendly, and determined to achieve the American dream of owning your own business and home.
"So downtown Lynn is still in transformation. Many new reasturants like the Blue Ox and many very popular Spanish resturants like La Fe and Rincon Macorisano are thriving in business. The Lynnway is still a big destination for auto-sales. But I guess to sum it up here, Lynn is rich in diversity and is mostly a middle-class working small city. The crime rate is not as high as some think it is. In fact, for a city of over 89,000 citizens, Lynn's crime rate is actually normal for a city of it's size. Anyways, most importantly, Lynn is where I was born and is where I live now. I would have it no other way."
|Fruit Street Fields in Hopkinton. (Flickr)
Ten Years in Downtown Hopkinton
submitted by Mary Murphy
"My business, Hooray for Books, "Creative Classes Where Kids Look, Cook, & Devour Good Books," just celebrated 10 years in business which seems like a huge milestone these days. I am actually franchising the business concept but feel like many others in our downtown are going under/away and Space for Rent signs are more prevalent in the downtown. Our town also just voted down a new school that was tied to starting districting too. People don't want to divide the town into districts and they likely can't afford higher taxes either."
submitted by Sarah Hines
"Will be interested in hearing about Ashland on Thursday. There are a number of people working on different aspects of the town and we'd be glad to tell you about the efforts to revitalize our Rt. 126 corridor, the downtown, introduce Design Guidelines, create an urban renewal plan...and more."
We've heard short comments from you, too:
submitted by Peter Pascale
"PARKING TICKETS. Dramatic increase in issuance of tickets to supplement budget shortfall. This would be a good news story."
submitted by Geoff Gilbert
"New condos, parking garages, riverwalk, bridges & main street improvements."
submitted by Bill
"Foreclosures, foreclosures, foreclosures."
submitted by Ralph
"Budget problems."
And let's not forget your tweets! You can get us on Twitter via the #whereweliveMA hashtag, or by tweeting @wgbhnews.
@CallieCrossley: For 20 yrs Randolph has been most integrated/diverse town in MA. Still is but at risk of becoming more homogeneous
Keep it coming, folks!
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The study, which will include Point Loma Nazarene's Dr. Jamie Gates, is entitled "Measuring the Extent and Nature of Gang Involvement in Sex Trafficking in the San Diego/Tijuana Border Region." The research will take place over the next three years, beginning in January.
Through their research, the three professors will gather empirical evidence of the suspected relationship between gangs and human trafficking, said Point Loma Nazarene officials. Significantly, they will also create an integrated human-trafficking database that will include new sources of data, in addition to the information received through social service and law enforcement agencies.
The new sources will include those identified as trafficking victims at San Diego middle and high schools, along with ethnographic data from traffickers themselves.
"Communities around the country are trying to get a handle on the scope and nature of the human trafficking in their neighborhoods," said Gates. "We have gained unprecedented cooperation from schools, as well as a broad range of law enforcement agencies and social service organizations in San Diego County."
The new research builds on a yearlong study of gangs in San Diego and Tijuana, which established that 10 San Diego gangs are involved in sex trafficking.
Gates co-chairs the Research and Data Subcommittee of the multi-agency San Diego County Regional Human Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (RHT-CSEC) Advisory Council. The council's ultimate goal is to reduce human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation of children in San Diego County and the Mexico border region.
"Our work lays the foundation for a system of integrated data collection across the county and serves as a model to other regions," said Gates. "We have also established something we're calling RADAR (Research and Data Advisory Roundtable) on human trafficking. HT-RADAR is an independent collaborative of professional researchers in San Diego County pooling our knowledge and research resources to better understand and address this complex and multi-faceted social problem."
For more information, visit www.pointloma.edu.


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Aldermen for the city of Camdenton are looking over a proposed budget that, when approved, will go into effect on July 1.
Aldermen for the city of Camdenton are looking over a proposed budget that, when approved, will go into effect on July 1.
The proposed annual 2014-2015 budget accounts for the anticipated collections of revenue in the total amount of $5,849,636. A reserve balance of $220,732, subject to the Special Road District's approval, is budgeted to be included as additional available funds for expenditure. A total amount of $5,658,412 of expenditures is budgeted for the upcoming 2015 fiscal year. This budgeted figure reflects approximately $73,801 that was eliminated from original budget requests.
According to City Administrator Jeff Hancock, the total budget for last year included estimated revenue was in the total amount of $5,755,708 and $5,508,033 was in expenditures.
The city anticipates paying a total of $1,725,509 in personnel costs. The majority of the payroll budget is allotted for the city Police Department, 36.94 percent to be exact. Administration takes up 14.94 percent of the payroll budget while the Street Department takes up 14.83 percent. Other departments including Parks and Recreation, Airport, Sewer, Water and Fire use less than 10 percent of the proposed payroll budget each for the 2015 fiscal year.
Officials are estimating the Sales Tax Revenues to increase for the General, Transportation and Special Revenue Funds by a modest 1.5 percent. With a few exceptions, most of the other revenues are conservatively budgeted to remain basically flat.
The city's water service revenues did not come in as expected and are approximately 2.8 percent less than previously budgeted. This reduced amount is again budgeted for the upcoming year. City officials say that it is anticipated that with some additional community growth, building permits and water and sewer connections are anticipated to see a slight increase.
Due to a recently-obtained higher interest rate, the city anticipates a slight increase in interest revenues. Hangar lease revenues at the city's airport are budgeted to slightly increase.
Water and Sewer revenue was adjusted in May 2010 and the Board of Aldermen continued the present rates. A recent internal rate analysis indicates that the present water rates now shows a total deficit between needed revenues and annual expenditures of $14,778 for the service charge fees and an annual deficit of $100,362.38 for the volume charge. This analysis also notes that Sewer rates indicate a service charge deficit of $8,744 and an annual deficit of $27,295.78 for the volume charge.
Grant income in the Transportation Fund reflects carry over funds for the Missouri Department of Transportation grant for land acquisition/engineering for the Runway Extension Project.
Some adjustments may be made when the board of aldermen discuss the budget further in an upcoming meeting. City officials hope the final 2014-2015 budget is approved at the board's June 17 meeting.


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There are many misnomers concerning activated carbon lined hunting clothing's ability to adsorb and therefore eliminate a quantity of human odor, so let's shed some light on what activated carbon is and does.
Some facts:
1. Activated carbon is one of if not the most adsorptive substances known to man.
2. Due to its high degree of microporosity, the surface areas of the primary, secondary, tertiary pores along with the exterior surface area of one gram of activated carbon has a surface area of approximately 2.17 tennis courts.
Fact: The American College Dictionary defines adsorb as: "to gather (a gas, liquid, or dissolved substance) on a surface in a condensed layer, as when charcoal adsorbs (sucks in) gases".
Webster's Dictionary defines adsorb as: "A process by which molecules are taken up on the surface of a solid by chemical or physical action. Large amounts of gases, for example, may be adsorbed on the surface of a porous material such as charcoal".
3. Activated carbon is used in thousands of filtration processes for adsorption purposes and many are likely used within your home and automobile.
Even with these undisputed facts an activated carbon lined suit is not a magic bullet. It works only as well as the hunters dedication to properly care for it and use it in conjunction with other gear. The words "dedication to properly care for" immediately eliminates (a quantity of) hunters from the scent-control regiment category.
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My History with Carbon Clothing
In the mid 1990's after talking to some respected non-endorsed bowhunters that were effectively using carbon clothing I researched activated carbon, liked what I read, saved some money, and bought a liner suit.
After a couple seasons of not getting winded I was so impressed that I begged Scent-Lok's Greg Sesselman for two years to join his staff. He didn't know me from Adam, but my unyielding persistance persuaded him (to get me off his back) to put me on staff. My persistence was based solely off of my belief in the product.
If you have read any of my articles over the years, you will know I am a man of principle. I have passed up many opportunities over the years to further my "career" in the hunting industry because they were things I did not believe in. Activated-carbon clothing made me a beleiver because it worked on the ultra-wary white-tailed bucks I have chased on the highly pressured public lands I hunt annually.
Without question, the proper use of an activated carbon lined suit used in conjunction with other scent-control measures on gear has raised my success rate on mature bucks more than any other factor.
Other Hunters
I talk to many hunters at in-store promotions and at seminars that have suits and get winded. Always wanting to aid hunters in their quest, I delve into how they care for their suits, and if they care for them properly, what else they do to reduce as much scent as possible.
Every hunter I talked to made at least one of the following mistakes concerning a scent-control regiment:
1.Using leather or Cordura boots instead of knee-high rubber or neoprene boots. When is the last time you saw a pair of leather or Cordura waders? Never, because they breath and let air and water (moisture) in and out. Every fox or coyote trapper also uses rubber boots and elbow length rubber gloves to keep from leaving odor at sets.
2.They tuck their pant legs into their boots allowing air and odor to escape every time they take a step. When you properly drape the pant legs over your boots there will be 10-inches or so of carbon-lined pant legs to suck in (adsorb) that air and odor.
3.They wear their rubber boots while getting gas, walking on oily driveways, working on the farm, or other non-hunting related places. It doesn't always have to be a human odor that spooks deer; mature bucks are often spooked by any odor that is foreign to where they survive.
4.They don't wear carbon gloves. Just consider the odor left on everything you touch while walking in, climbing, or on stand.
5.They never wear a head cover with an attached facemask that covers their mouth and nose. When properly dressed the only portion of your body that is not covered with a carbon layer should be your forehead, eyes, and ears. You breath from your mouth or nose and those areas should be masked. Hunters tend to replicate what they see hunting personalities on TV and in videos do and most of them do not dress properly, but where they hunt it is not as necessary to be scent free.
6.They wash their carbon suits instead of properly reactivating them in a clothes dryer. This is partially the fault of the suit manufacturers because while they do mention to use a dryer for reactivation and occasionally wash a suit to get rid of physical dirt, they do not emphasize the fact that over-washing will over time cause a loss of carbon.
7.They do not properly store their suits in an odor-control container such as an air-tight bag or a Scentote.
8.They improperly wear their suits in restaurants, in the vehicle, getting gas, etc. I have witnessed this on many occasions in my travels.
9.This one is pretty much universal. They never wash their fanny or backpacks that hang in the tree with them, yet they get into them several times during a hunt and after each hunt to reload them with their bare hands. Packs quickly turn into large human scent wicks unless frequently washed in odorless detergent.
10.They hunt too low or exposed, get seen and of course blame it on their suit because god forbid they did something wrong. Every hunter does things wrong, and that is where learning comes into play. When a hunter (me included) becomes to smart to learn, he becomes ignorant and stagnant.
A scent-control regiment requires a specific type of individual and not all hunters are cut out for that type of work ethic and dedication. If as a hunter you are not willing to go through the entire laundry list of required criteria to keep your human odor as minimal as possible, don't take getting winded out on carbon technology, take it out on yourself.
John Eberhart has never spent a dime on a hunting lease or an outfitted hunt. He hunts primarily public land and highly pressured private parcels in the Upper Midwest. Over the past 30+ years, he has killed dozens of P&Y-class bucks. He attributes his success to a tireless work ethic and an all-encompassing approach to scent control. He hails from Michigan.


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The board approved a $825,000 grant and $1.3 million loan for the pool.
The project is timely because of the current condition of the swimming pool in Monticello, which was built more than 50 years ago. A deteriorating building, combined with a series of mechanical failures in 2008, is likely to result in the closure of the pool this summer.
While a number of questions remain about the project and it's funding, city officials are moving forward with planning. "We are moving ahead cautsiously, but moving ahead nonetheless," explained Monticello City Manager Myron Lee. The city hopes to finalize the design plans this summer and begin construction in 2010.
In November, 2008, city residents approved a recreation sales tax that will generate an estimated $20,000 a year in revenue, enough to service $600,000 of the $1.3 million loan. San Juan County has pledged up to $500,000 for the project. City officials hope to raise the remaining $250,000 in the near future and are hoping for private donations.
A number of groups have pledged their support for the swimming pool project, led by school children who are simply saving their pennies. The school kids have pledged to save 700,000 pennies and are well on their way, with more than 200,000 pennies already contributed.
Two students participated in the presentation to the CIB and they may have turned the tide in the favor of the city. Linda Barton, President of the Monticello High School National Honor Society and Bailey Goodwine, the Monticello Elementary School Student Body Vice President, explained the penny donation program to the board.
It must have been convincing, as a member of the CIB emptied his pocket change for the project.
Other local contributions to the project include $5,000 from the Lions Club and two $5,000 donations from the city recreation committee.
The students and Myron Lee were joined at the CIB meeting by Monticello Mayor Doug Allen and Adriann Goodwine. In adition, it was the first meeting for the newest member of the CIB board, San Juan County Commissioner Bruce Adams.
The Monticello City Council is expected to discuss the issue on Tuesday, March 10, after the current press deadline.


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Arkell to be remembered at ceremony on Monday
May 17. 2014 9:35PM
CONCORD - Stephen Arkell's name won't be on the memorial wall, but his sacrifice will be honored.
On Monday, New Hampshire dignitaries will join relatives and police officers from across the state to remember those whose names are engraved on the New Hampshire Law Enforcement Officers Memorial, situated on the grounds of the Legislative Office Building in Concord.
The 10 a.m. ceremony falls one week after the shooting death of Arkell, a 48-year-old Brentwood police officer and father of two.
Jane Young, associate attorney general, expects the annual event will be even more somber than usual.
"Because the pain and the tragedy is so fresh," she said. "There's an additional family that's there that's grieving with them.
"The hope is that you never add another name to that list and God forbid, another name has been added."
Two names were added to the memorial this year; both incidents date back to the 19th century and were only recently discovered.
Special Officer George E. Pray of the Dover police was shot and killed on New Year's Eve in 1888 by a man who had been recently released from the state's "insane asylum," and Manchester Police Sgt. Henry McAllister was shot and killed at the police station in 1895.
Earl Sweeney, assistant commissioner of safety, noted three names will be read for the first time at this year's ceremony: "two whose bravery had been lost in the mists of time . and one who tragically answered the final call to duty last week."
Members of Brentwood Police Department will lead this year's procession to begin the 10 a.m. ceremony. And they have been invited to join the relatives of fallen officers who will place a white carnation for each of those 46 - soon to be 47 - names on the wall.
-- Shawne K. Wickham


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Scabby needs a special light
Scabby was in Florida last week to launch her perfume (?) and I remember thinking to myself at the time that she did indeed look a lot less filthy in the pictures – attached. For starters,her outfit is almost decent. And it doesn't appear like she just came from a session with an entire football team.
Now we know why. Page Six reports that Scab's manager was insisting that photographers at the event only use "ring flash" when shooting her. It makes for a much more flattering shot without shadows and imperfections. Then her manager scrapped it out with a local photographer who resisted because the device isn't practical. At a subsequent charity function, no access was granted unless photographers agreed to use the ring flash. So several of them skipped out instead.
In other words, Pamela Anderson's people, in the interest of vanity, decided to make it MORE DIFFICULT for press to cover an event to benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Awesome. Way to go Scabby.
Photos from Wenn.com


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Good learning. Waiting to get that pungency on tongue one day...LBZ is not easy bushesshah82 wrote:When you have that dry mouth, saliva washing it should release further flavors. That's part of the Banzhang mystique just as much as pungent huigans. If you have pucker mouth and it's not doing anything, probably not banzhang (or good banzhang), if it's young.
Dang...I eat too much MSGs these days


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Oklahoma State University Cooperative Extension, along with USDA's Risk Management Agency, has teamed with the Otoe-Missouria and Ponca tribes to sponsor a Specialty Crops Workshop, from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. April 9
Participants should meet at the one acre garden site north of the gravel parking lot at Paradise Casino, 7500 Highway 177, Red Rock, OK 74651 for registration and refreshments.
There is no cost to attend but participants are asked to preregister by contacting Jennifer Jensen, OSU Cooperative Extension assistant, risk management education, at 405-744-9826 or firstname.lastname@example.com, or Frankie Reid, Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians, 580-723-4466, ext. 120 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Season's Greetings
Pushing the Envelope wishes our readers a joyful holiday season and a prosperous new year. We will take a break this week, but we encourage you to read over the past year's blogs and let us know what you think on any of the wide range of topics we covered in 2014. We post comments as they come in, even if you comment on a blog that ran years ago.
On January 5 we will share our annual list of the Top 10 Postal Stories of the Year – one of our most popular blogs. As always, we look forward to your comments and insights.


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If you're involved in electronic warfare, you don't want to miss your mark. That's what Thomas P. Zahm of Raytheon Company is trying to ensure by using Mathematica to design and analyze the performance of a target location system that is under development.
Zahm said recent flight tests indicated a deficiency in the performance of a new target location system and he turned to Mathematica to find the answers.
"I used Mathematica's symbolic powers to derive algorithms, the programming capabilities to simulate the results, and then the graphic features to visualize the results," Zahm said. "The symbolic capabilities of Mathematica allowed me to develop a new and more accurate algorithm and prove it correct without compromising either schedule or budget."


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Island-Only Kitchens
We visited an island-only kitchen over the weekend. And let's just say, it blew that whole kitchen work triangle thing out of the water:
We had never really considered an island-only kitchen before. That is, until we briefly experienced one this weekend. It wasn't something we thought we'd like, but we warmed up to it. We didn't get a pic, but it's large (say 12' x 5') and floats in an open living/kitchen/dining space. Pictured above are a few examples to give you the idea.
An island-only kitchen has countertop space only at a central kitchen island. There might be a wall oven or refrigerator in an adjacent wall, but all countertop work space is on the island.
What we love about this is the communal feel it imparts on the kitchen. If one or many are helping you prepare a meal, you can all gather around the island to do so. You end up experiencing meal prep in much the same way you experience dining - gathered around a large surface facing one another. Most kitchen layouts would have you lined up along one side of a counter or even facing away from one another (as in a U-shaped kitchen).
The all-island kitchen seems to be a contemporary movement. Maybe that's because it frees up wall space, allowing for more open flow between rooms and for more large windows at exterior walls.
This layout does make the sink-range-fridge triangle a bit less likely, but it can still be efficient from our brief impression this weekend. What do you think of an all-island kitchen? Would it work for you?
Related: Gain Cooking and Eating Space with a Kitchen Island
(Images: Boffi via Marin magazine, Laminex via Tara Dennis, 3 & 4: Record Cuisine)


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LONG BEACH, N.Y. (AP) — Of the more than half-dozen hospitals in the New York area forced to close because of damage from Superstorm Sandy, only one has yet to reopen, idling hundreds of workers for months and forcing thousands of residents to travel farther for emergency health care.
If Long Beach's 2.2 mile-long boardwalk destroyed by Sandy gave this seaside community its soul, then the hospital was its heart.
Besides being the only major medical facility on this barrier island east of New York City, the Long Beach Medical Center was also the city's largest employer, and the idling of 700 of the hospital's 1,200-member workforce in the aftermath of Sandy — a natural disaster that destroyed many of those workers' homes — has been doubly tough on the community.
"We're getting calls every day from people wanting to know where to go for services," says CEO Douglas Melzer, who has been affiliated with the hospital for 36 years. He and a small office staff work out of a nearby office building, hopeful they can return to the 160-bed hospital and neighboring nursing home by early April. Melzer says the reopening will likely happen in stages.
"We have a mission to care for this community," he said. "They've been traumatized by this."
Just before Sandy hit in October, patients in the 162-bed facility were relocated to 12 hospitals under evacuation orders. When the storm struck, a small crew remained in the hospital, including Mark Healey, the hospital's director of facilities and engineering, who recalled spending several days at the hospital before, during and after the storm.
That night, he and his team were in the basement hoping to do whatever they could to stop the floodwaters from gushing through every window and air duct, to no avail.
"The water was weeping through the walls," Healey, 41, recalled. "At a certain point we knew it wasn't going to be manageable."
The facility lost power — it didn't come back until February — and Healey and the others debated whether to stay on a higher floor but ultimately decided to hunker down near the emergency room entrance for the night.
At one point, Healey said, they discussed the possibility of swimming away if it became necessary. "Thank God, there was no need for anything of that nature."
Still, the storm caused $56 million in damage, according to Melzer. The basement flooded completely. Destroyed were the building's boiler plant, three of four emergency generators, its kitchen, laundry, morgue, pharmacy, family care center and central supply departments. An adjacent 200-bed nursing home also had flooding on its ground floor, though patients returned to that facility in late January.
"This place has always been here for these people," Healey said. "There is a definite hope and need. We've got to have this facility."
Now, during emergencies, ambulances must travel farther to reach hospitals. The next-closest hospital to Long Beach is about seven miles away in Oceanside. City officials have clocked ambulances averaging up to 90 minutes on round trips through heavy local street traffic. They said they are not aware of any patient deaths resulting from the longer trips.
South Nassau Communities Hospital in Oceanside has seen a huge increase in emergency department visits from Long Beach residents, said Mark Bogen, chief financial officer. An average of 380 Long Beach residents have come to the ER over the past four months, an increase from an average of 180 residents over the first 10 months of last year, said Bogen.
"There's no question there's been a backup in our emergency room," he said.
It's an effect that has lingered much longer than at other hospitals closed by Sandy. Bellevue Hospital, NYU Medical Center, Coney Island Hospital and a Veterans Affairs facility in Manhattan were also forced to close after the storm. NYU opened in late December; Bellevue reopened last month and Coney Island Hospital has started reopening. Eastern Long Island Hospital in Greenport also closed for about a day.
Two New Jersey hospitals were closed briefly. Hoboken University Medical Center reopened after two weeks, and the Palisades Medical Center in North Bergen was closed for two days.
The damage at Long Beach means a new hospital will essentially be built from the inside out, Melzer said.
On a recent visit to the Long Beach hospital's first-floor emergency room, crews were working to replace Sheetrock in damaged hallways, electrical fixtures and high-tech medical components while air filtration machines whirred in the background, clearing dust stirred up from the work.
Melzer expects FEMA reimbursements and insurance to cover most of the repairs. Flood-prevention efforts moving forward include elevating the hospital's boiler plant and electrical distribution systems above the flood plain, and flood-proofing other sections of the hospital. Such essential departments as the pharmacy, purchasing/stock room, and communications are being relocated to higher floors. The reopening is expected to take place in stages.
City officials noted that the December unemployment rate for Long Beach jumped from 6.9 percent in 2011 to 10.9 percent last year; they attribute most of that to the loss of the workers at the hospital.
"Long Beach Medical Center is the largest employer in the city, and its closing has had adversely affected numerous families trying to recover, as well as the local economy," said City Manager Jack Schnirmann.
Most of the 700 people who were laid off live in Long Beach, and many of their homes were damaged by Sandy. Some have returned to work to help with the repairs. Employees were eligible for FEMA emergency unemployment Insurance as well as a relief fund administered by the United Hospital Fund.
Marnie Greenfield, an X-ray technician for the past 23 years and lifelong Long Beach resident, said her home was flooded by about 3 feet of water, destroying personal items including her technician licenses and certifications. Like many in Long Beach, her car was also destroyed. Then she learned days later that she would be unemployed until further notice.
"You just wake up one morning and overnight your life has changed," Greenfield, 46, said. "In the course of 12 hours you go from having a good job, a nice home and a nice car to no home, no car, no health insurance and now you have to start worrying about having a mortgage to pay."
Nevertheless, Greenfield described herself as an optimist.
"I'm very hopeful it will be soon," she said. "I really can't wait to go back to work."
Associated Press writer Katie Zezima in Newark, N.J., contributed to this report.


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April 12. 2013 9:30PM
This week's Rare Bird Alert
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This is New Hampshire Audubon's Rare Bird Alert for Tuesday, April 9.
A male Eurasian wigeon was seen in a small pond along Route 108 south of Bodwell Farm in East Kingston on April 9.
A sandhill crane was seen flying near the Merrimack River in Bedford on April 7, but has not been relocated.
A red-headed woodpecker has been coming to a birdfeeder on Grafton Road in Alexandria since Dec. 13, and was last reported on April 9.
A hoary redpoll was seen at a birdfeeder in Troy on April 7, and two were reported from a birdfeeder in Strafford on the 4th. A few flocks of common redpolls are still being reported from several locations.
A male Barrow's goldeneye was seen off of Great Boar's Head in Hampton on April 7.
A pair of gadwall was seen on Horseshoe Pond in Concord on April 7, and a northern shoveler and a ruddy duck were seen at the Exeter Wastewater Treatment Plant on the 9th. One hundred and sixteen lesser scaup and seven buffleheads were seen at the plant on April 7.
Three American coots were seen in World End Pond in Salem on April 6.
Five red-necked grebes, four horned grebes, and a green heron were seen on the Connecticut River in the Hanover area on April 9.
A yellow-crowned night-heron was seen at North Beach in Hampton, and a great egret and seven snowy egrets were reported from the coast, all on April 7. A great egret was seen in Reed's Marsh in Orford on April 4 and 5.
An adult Iceland gull was seen at the Rockingham Park parking lot in Salem on April 3.
A pectoral sandpiper was seen flying over Meadow Pond in Hampton, and a piping plover was seen at Seabrook Beach, both on April 7. A solitary sandpiper was seen at Horseshoe Pond in Concord on April 9.
Two fish crows were reported from the Merrimack River in Boscawen on April 4, and seven were reported from the Merrimack River in Concord on April 7.
A great cormorant was reported from the Merrimack River in Boscawen, and two double-crested cormorants were seen at Horseshoe Pond in Concord, all on April 9.
An eastern screech-owl was seen in a tree in Hollis on April 6.
There were numerous sightings of American kestrels during the past week including six at the Pease International Tradeport.
There were several red-shouldered hawks and northern harriers reported during the past week.
One hundred and fifty tree swallows were seen at Sewall's Falls in Concord on April 7, 400 were seen on the Connecticut River in Hinsdale on the 8th, and there were several sightings of smaller numbers seen elsewhere during the past week.
Early returning migrants reported during the past week included: pine warbler, palm warbler, yellow-rumped warbler, ruby-crowned kinglet, golden-crowned kinglet, winter wren, eastern phoebe, fox sparrow, chipping sparrow, field sparrow, Wilson's snipe, northern flicker, yellow-bellied sapsucker, rusty blackbird, and pied-billed grebe.
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THIS is 69-year-old Frank Miles who lay on a wet floor for almost four hours waiting for an ambulance after falling over.
Mr Miles, from Magor, lay on the floor at the back of the Waterloo Hotel in Pill, Newport, for three hours and 35 minutes with a fractured left kneecap while he waited for an ambulance.
Mr Miles had been to a Newport and Uskmouth Rotary Club meeting at the hotel on Wednesday and was leaving at 2pm to go home when he slipped on the wet wooden decking leading out to the car park.
Hotel staff and rotary club members dialled 999 six times until a rapid response vehicle arrived with a paramedic at 5.30pm - some three hours and 20 minutes after the first call was made at 2.10pm.
The paramedic apologised to Mr Miles for the long wait and an ambulance, with two paramedics, arrived around 15 minutes later to take him to the Royal Gwent Hospital a mile away.
While the hours went by Mr Miles was wrapped in blankets, had his head propped up by a pillow and his leg supported by a cardboard box.
Hotel staff tried to protect him from the rain with three umbrellas and were concerned about the risk of hypothermia.
Despite the wait, Mr Miles remained in good spirits and said he was not in too much pain.
The retired civil servant said: "On a very rational basis I think it's ridiculous that when you injure yourself you have to wait for so long. It does feel like a long time but I feel relatively comfortable."
The hotel's manageress Teri Hawkes made the first call to the ambulance service and said she was told not to move Mr Miles.
The hotel's owner Bob Evans said :"I would have picked him up and taken him in my car but they said it's too risky. It's so frustrating that we can't do anything."
A retired surgeon and a retired GP were among the rotary members at the hotel who kept checking on Mr Miles' knee.
Former Newport GP Dr Malcolm Bright made the third 999 call and said he was told there was no ambulance available.
He said he asked to speak to a senior manager but was told they were too busy to speak to him.
He rang again at 3.40pm and said the operator hung up on him as they said they had another emergency call to deal with.
Dr Bright said that Mr Miles had told him his left kneecap had been fractured, and he was still in hospital yesterday.
Dr Bright said: "I think the paramedic service is wonderful but this has got to be a terrible system. Something needs to change and something needs to be improved.
"It's frightening that the ambulance service can't cope at this time of year."
A Welsh Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: "We very much regret the time taken to respond to this call, which was received during a period of high call volume in the area.
"Whilst we cannot discuss individual patient details, we will be looking into this incident and would encourage the patient or family involved to contact us directly should they wish to discuss their concerns."


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BEIJING (AP) — Police from Laos are handing over five suspected members of a drug ring to their Chinese colleagues in an exchange highlighting growing cross-border law enforcement cooperation between the neighbors.
Police said three suspects were transported to the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming on Tuesday. Two more were being moved Wednesday.
Police wouldn't say what nationality the suspects were. They were caught in Laos on March 19, 2013, in possession of more than half a ton of methamphetamine produced in the lawless "Golden Triangle" region encompassing parts of Laos, Myanmar and Thailand.
China stepped-up law enforcement cooperation with its southern neighbors in the wake of the killing of 13 Chinese crew members in an attack on their ships on the Mekong River in October 2011.


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School lunch, activity card costs to rise
Food increase because of federal mandate
Brady school superintendent Bill Porter said the board has no choice but to raise school lunch prices a nickel for the 2012-13 school year.
At their regular meeting Monday night, the Brady school board passed a measure on first reading that increases lunch prices.
It's a done deal, Porter said, although formal action—planned at the Aug. 13 meeting—will raises prices K-6, from $2.05 to $2.10, and grades 7-12, from $2.25 to $2.30.
Milk and juice will rise from 30 to 35 cents and adult lunch will remain the same at $3.
Schools participating in the National School Lunch program must provide the same level of support for paid student lunches as they do for lunches served to students eligible for free and reduced lunch-priced meals.
"It's a state mandate through the federal government," Porter said.
Because of the increasing cost to offer activities, the board decided—on first reading—to raise admission prices.
Student activity tickets will go up from $25 to $26. The adult rate will be $42 compared to $40.
Family tickets will rise $5—from $80 to $85.
In other action, the board approved a proposal to buy 40 iPads for junior high students and teachers.
Unlike high school students who receive an individual laptop computer, Porter said the iPads will be available on carts and used only in the school.
The reason for the $23,180 purchase, he said, is because iPads are less expensive and junior high students don't need to do as much on the computer as high school students.
Whether or not the district will invest in more iPads depends on how things go this time, Porter said.
On another matter, the board decided to give substitute teachers a $5 pay raise.
The board approved a measure that increases pay from $85 to $90.
Porter said contracts are worked out with long-term substitute teachers.
On a related issue, the superintendent said board members discussed, but took no action, on a raise for non-certified staff.
However he did say members were considering a 25-cent across the board increase.
The board also decided to offer volleyball and football to junior highers, as was done last year, but not basketball because of space limitations, Porter said.
In other business, the board:
decided to wait on a window replacement project. Porter said they received a bid of $187,750 to do the project but it wouldn't be finished by the time school starts in August.
"We'll look at it again after school is out next year," Porter said.
elected to put the 2012-13 school calendar online and send paper copies only to those families who don't have computers.
Porter said it's a way to become more electronic and it saves paper and postage.
chose to have hearings about parental involvement and student fees at 6:45 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 13, the date of the next board meeting.
transferred $1,000 from the general fund to the employee benefit fund to help pay health deductibles. The board also transferred $72,749 from the general fund to the building fund to help pay off a loan from a bond issue, Porter said.
formally approved 2012-13 teacher contracts and addendums based on action taken at the last board meeting in which certified staff members received a 3.6% raise.
okayed a substitute teaching certificate for a North Platte woman who wants to teach in the Brady school system. The certificate now needs state approval.
heard a report from teachers who attended a Nebraska Educational Technology Association (NETA) conference where they learned more about technology use.
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Author: Sharon Morgan Beckford
In Naturally Woman, assistant professor of English Sharon Morgan Beckford explores the fiction and poetry of Canadian-Caribbean writers.
"I was inspired to write this book for two reasons: as a black diasporic female, a mother and a wife, I wanted to reflect on my identities and desire for individuation. I engaged this selection of literature as a way of learning about self and the human condition. Second, I wanted to use my analysis to shape an understanding of this literature that speaks to other aspects of life beyond the politics of race and racialization.
"I was intrigued by the techniques used by these women writers. I wanted to show that these stories revealed the hybrid nature of mythologies and literary traditions that are African, Caribbean, Amerindian and European. I wanted to determine how this syncretism illuminates the experiences of marginalized women living in modern multicultural societies. This analysis helped me to understand not only my many shifts across time and location, but also how those movements informed and shaped my personal relationships with my children, especially my daughter, and what they taught me about being a wife."


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The Thai government has realized that you cannot be an exporter and buy votes from farmers by jacking up the rice price.
The United States tried this and failed at it miserably back during the 1980s. This failure resulted in the rice marketing loan program we now labor under. The result of high price supports is out-of-condition rice and rising stocks of rice. The alternative is to let the market trade.
When a government intervenes in a market, it becomes complicated and eventually expensive to someone, somewhere. You either subsidize someone or the customer pays for what he wants. I lean towards the second approach. Politicians trying to buy votes are lousy rice marketers in the United States or Thailand.
Thailand dropped the paddy or rough rice support equivalent for milled rice 100 percent B grade, which is the benchmark quality for Thailand, from about $189 per metric ton (about $8.57 per hundredweight) to about $176 per metric ton (about $7.96 per hundredweight).
Our world paddy indicator was recently posted at $179 per metric ton, so the 10 percent decrease initiated by the Thai government drops their market back to world price levels for paddy or rough rice around the world.
What does this do to the Thai 100 percent B price and what does this do to rice futures? That is a very good question.
As for the Thai market, say the 100 percent B could theoretically drop to $280 per metric ton. There are two problems with this price. First, we need to see if the farmers do a tractorcade on Bangkok, and second, the local Thai paddy price is already trading below the new support price, which takes effect this November.
I expect this market to relax with the new support price and make up some but not all of this price drop, perhaps $10 per metric ton down. My objective for some time has been about $290 per metric ton. But don't wait around a for rice loan deficiency payment; it is highly unlikely this crop season in the United States.
The Vietnamese price is on fire and the Brazil price is on fire and Brazil is sucking rice out of small exporters in the north of South America right now. As for rice futures, the key for the U.S. rice market is the price of paddy rice delivered to Porto Alegre, Brazil, not to Bangkok, Thailand.
The price of paddy or rough rice in Brazil reached $250 per metric ton in October or about $11.33 per hundredweight ($5.10 per bushel). So a Thai rice price of $290 per metric ton (100 percent B) with a tip to the exporter may soon be deliverable to Brazil at about $380 to $400 per metric ton, well below current cash milled prices in Brazil.
The world rice market is so much smarter now than it was four years ago during the last El Niño when Brazil paddy rice prices rose to a high of $295 per metric ton ($13.38 per hundredweight or $6.02 per bushel). Prices are running up during planting rather than harvesting as they did in Brazil in 2003.
The U.S. rice market is now the least clear of all the rice markets around the world. Vietnam is rising, Brazil is rising, the EU paddy price is rising, and the Thai price support is getting realistic. Probably the worst part of the market is the edgy and dark outlook for U.S. exports.
The worm in the apple is the GMO problem. For many countries, GMO means two things, more money in the rice farmer's pocket and less hunger. That is not how some finicky, well-fed and anti-U.S. Europeans see it; but this is how most of the Asian rice market view GMOs, not necessarily in Beijing but in a hundred thousand hamlets outside of Beijing.
The Arkansas price has more to do with Brazil than Rotterdam or Bangkok over the next 10 months. El Niño is a Spanish word, not an Asian word, because it hits hardest in South America. I would bet you a churrascaria steak dinner that Brazil is just as important to U.S. rice futures this winter.


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Rome Unveils First-Ever Permanent Contemporary Artwork to Its Cityscape, a Sculpture by Giuseppe Penone
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Since the late 1960s, Giuseppe Penone has challenged the boundaries between our bodies and nature in his arresting performances, sculptures, installations, and works on paper. A member of the radical Arte Povera group who sought to smash the divide between art and life in their unconventional works, Penone first gained attention for his landmark performance, Rovesciare I propri occhi (To reverse one's eyes) (1970). Wearing a pair of mirrored contact lenses, which reflected and blinded him to the surrounding landscape, he picked his way forward with his feet and hands, emphasizing his body's connection to the earth. Such performances eventually gave way to sculptures, mostly focused on trees. Exquisitely attuned to volume, mass, and space, Penone crafts trees out of materials like bronze and wood, revealing the disarming similarities between bark and skin, branches and limbs, trunk and torso.
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Tomorrow morning, a few hundred Henry Countians will gather in the gym at Henry County High School for a special ceremony.
There, the school's Junior ROTC cadets will honor the county's many veterans. It's a ceremony that never fails to make me cry.
All too often, we fail to recognize veterans. Whether or not we agree with the particular war they fought in, we owe them a thank you.
I am writing in response to the politically motivated letter from Harold Bratton (who is not even a resident of the city) stating that Campbellsburg City Hall needs a change.
I would like to thank everyone who recently came out to the 11th Annual New Castle Fall Fling on Saturday, Oct. 2. It was a tremendous success.
I would like to thank everyone who brought their cars, trucks, and tractors to our car show. It was enjoyed by everyone. I want to thank the many vendors who came and set up all around the Courthouse. Thank you's also go out to our entertainment of LA Entertainment, Six Miles South, and TumbleTime.
October is National Breast Awareness Month. Now is the time for flu immunizations. Has there been anything published to educate the community regarding both events? Seems our tax dollars should be utilized by the local health departments for just this purpose.
Alright, Henry County, it's time. Tuesday morning at 6 a.m., the doors open for you to exercise your right to vote.
It's a right we have that many in this world do not. Too few of us exercise it. Residents in some countries risk life and limb to cast their first votes.
It's right we are so often told, albeit via political rhetoric, that men and women in uniform died to protect. A right they've died to give to others.
At this busy time of year with elections, the holidays, etc. there is something I want to talk about. Child abuse — harsh words, ugly words. Words I don't want to think about.
I find it amusing that someone who should promote healthy living, does not see the benefit of the new Henry County Recreational and Service Park to our community!
I am requesting your vote for my son-in-law, Ronnie Stephens for jailer. He has given many hours helping with youth sports activities in the county.
Three good steps to make sure that you don't explode or go off on your neighbor.
Step one: Make sure that your septic system has been inspected and approved by the health department and was installed by a licensed installer and keep your records.
As I write this, the polls for the 2010 General Election have been open for about seven hours.
I happily did my duty Tuesday morning, casting my vote around 6:45.
I will be so very happy on Wednesday. Not because I'll be recovering from 18 hours covering the election on Tuesday, but because it will be quiet.
I want to take this opportunity to thank each person that my team and I came in contact with during my campaign for jailer. I want to thank you for taking time out to answer your door and being cordial to us as we interrupted your ballgame, nap or dinner.
I wanted to thank Perry's Hardware for their donation of lumber and Southern States of Eminence for their donation of the black plastic to help construct the community Halloween Tunnel at my house at 280 Vernon Avenue in Eminence.
I am writing this letter as a word of thanks to the Eminence Board of Education and its administration.
Several weeks ago, while the students and staff were on fall break, the board hired a company to come into our district and make some necessary changes to the building.
Mike Ray is an honorable man. I have known him since Protect Our Children, an organization that Pid Smith and I started to stop an illegal waste incinerator and which culminated in county-wide zoning. Since that time he has served Henry County in several capacities, the last as the appointed head of the Henry County Development Council.
The morning of Wednesday, Oct. 27, was a sad morning for one of our business owners. Ricky Rines lost a good part of his Automotive business.
The big day is almost here.
On Nov. 2, Henry Countians will head to the polls and cast their choices for city, county and state races.
I'd like to extend a big thank you to those candidates who participated in our election forums last week, and those who will attend our third and final forum tomorrow night in Campbellsburg.
With four weeks left before the election, it is make-or-break time for many candidates. In Kentucky, our legislature contains many true statesmen who should be kept in office. Rep. Rick Rand is of these statesmen.
The letter by Dr. White on Oct. 6 presented numerous questions and comments. The following will provide responses to some of the questions, and provide further detail relative to various comments.
I just want to say we don't need a new jailer. J.C. has done an excellent job.
The family and friends of Jackie Payne would like to thank the unknown person who rendered aid to him by calling 911. Jackie had a motorcycle accident on Mulberry Pike on 10/6/10 at approximately 8:30 p.m. He was unconscious and lying off the roadway when this unidentified male called for medical assistance. We need more people like this in the world who are willing to go above and beyond.
The family and friends of Jackie Payne
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