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Hampshire Record Office in Winchester can provide a wide range of Key Stage 1 - 3 resources for use in schools across the county, including history packs and videos, and photocopies for local studies such as maps, census and trade directories.
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Cook County's chief judge asked the Illinois Supreme Court on Monday to appoint a judge from outside the county to preside over the involuntary manslaughter case of a nephew of former Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, hours after a judge with ties to Daley recused himself.
In a letter to the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts, Judge Timothy Evans wrote that another judge had, upon the request of attorneys for the special prosecutor, agreed that an outside judge should be appointed to avoid any "appearance of impropriety."
Monday's request illustrates just how politically charged the case of Richard Vanecko is. Vanecko is charged in the 2004 death of Mount Prospect resident David Koschman, but the same special grand jury that indicted Vanecko is also investigating whether authorities covered up or impeded the investigation into the Koschman's death because of Vanecko's relationship to the powerful Daley.
The 38-year-old Vanecko has pleaded not guilty. Koschman died days after he fell and struck his head during a fight with Vanecko outside a bar in Chicago's Gold Coast neighborhood
On Monday, even as Judge Arthur Hill stressed that he believed he could have impartially handled the case, he recognized that he should not do so, saying during a court hearing Monday that "in an abundance of caution, I am recusing myself form further proceedings."
Last week, Hill announced that he once worked for Daley as a prosecutor when Daley was Cook County state's attorney and was appointed to the board of the Chicago Transit Authority during Daley's mayoral stint.
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After Vanecko was indicted earlier this month, Koschman's mother said to reporters that a police detective told her post-fight that she would be "impressed" by who Vanecko was related to and that if she filed a lawsuit, Vanecko's family had the wherewithal to tie the case up in court "for years."


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I loved educational shows as a kid,and now most of them suck. However,it's sad to say that one of my favorite educational shows growing up,is now stupid. A.K.A Arthur. The show is based on a set of books by Marc Brown. Now,turning books into shows end up in a terrible result,but this actually wasn't bad. The show is about a young aardvark named Arthur,who goes on adventures with his friends and family. Now,this was actually educational. Unlike Dora or Barney,this had morals that weren't forced on us,or no stupid "Ask the audience" thing. This show had lessons like tell the truth,or care about others. The characters were all great,(well not all),but they were funny. There's Arthur,the young typical main character,Buster,his friend who he hangs out with,Franchine,a sports star who wants to be the best,Brain,a smart kid who did a book report on magnets,and Binky,a kid who acts tough in real life,but just like Harold from Hey Arnold,He's a mama's boy. Now,the show was good,until Cookie JarTv took it over,and ruined it. Now,the voice acting sounds horrible. Arthur sounds like he's lost his puberty. Carl is just a useless character. I mean,of course he's got aspergers syndrome,but seriously,was he really needed. But the old seasons had problems too. And those two problems were D.W and Muffy. Muffy is just a generic rich girl who is such a snob (And said haunakah was less important than christmas,and she called Franchine rude for hanging up),while on the other hand,D.W is just a complete spoiled rotter selfish brat who I would never have as a sister. She thinks she's perfect and all that,but she's always throwing tantrums,treats her friends like garbage,and gets away with all the trouble she has caused. For example,in one episode,she learned to swear,and didn't get in trouble because she didn't know what she was saying,and yet her classmates starting cussing. In another episode,she played a CD a thousand times,and when Arthur threatened to break it,he got grounded and they thought he took D.W's cd. And then in the christmas episode,DW through a tantrum because she didn't get what she wanted,but the parents didn't do anything at all. And then,there was the infamous episode where Arthur punches DW because she broke his model airplane that he told her not to touch,and yet he gets grounded,and DW gets a lecture. The dad even told Arthur that when Binky punched him,he said that "Well,that's how DW felt when you hit her". What is with these parents? They can't decline a spoiled 5 year old who doesn't even know what H20 stands for. What idiots. It's just like Megan getting away with pranking Drake and Josh. Overall,with those problems,I used to like this show,now it sucks. Just watch the original episodes
I stopped watching this show even before I was 13! It's not even a suitable show for my future children to watch! Why? Well, for one thing, the music is dumb...Or WAS dumb way back when I used to watch it. And regretfully I did watch a few episodes of this show. But back then, I did not know what a good show was. For another thing, the plots have a tendency to be very much on the dumb side, even for a kids show! They don't really teach kids anything except maybe manners, if they're lucky. Anyway, I remember one episode when the mother recently had a baby and it was one of the worst (if not THE worst) episode of this show I ever saw! Finally, to wrap this up, the acting on the show can be...You guessed it...Downright dumb! Stupid is more like it. And don't even bother watching this show with closed captioning! They have ridiculous phrases in the captions to describe certain things (Such as chuckling stupidly). Really, how does a person 'chuckle stupidly'? Terrible! Just terrible! And even more harrowing is the fact that I know someone who is in their early 20's and they watch this show!
Gah! I cannot imagine how they can sit through even 1 minute of this show, let alone an entire episode! Now, if you want to teach your children proper manners or anything of the sort, teach them yourself instead of making them sit through this pointlessness they (PBS) calls a 'TV show'. The End.
A greattransition from book to T.V. The show itself isabout an aardvark with glasses named Arthur, and his pals, as they discover things about friends and growing up. I say,very littleother kid shows blended great morals and lessons with great writing and even witty hilarioushumor. Even adults will find this show fun. There is very little that bring down it's near perfect status. Maybe some stuff in the later seasons, but it's small enough for me to still give this show a 10.


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VATICAN CITY (AP) — A Vatican court on Saturday convicted a Holy See computer technician of helping the former papal butler in the embarrassing leak of confidential papal documents and gave him a two-month suspended sentence in the last trial in the scandal.
Claudio Sciarpelletti, a 48-year-old Italian who is a computer program analyst in the Vatican's Secretariat of State, testified that he had played no role in helping to leak the documents, which later formed the core of an Italian journalist's book alleging corruption in high ranks of the Vatican bureaucracy.
Last month, Paolo Gabriele, who served Pope Benedict XVI his meals and helped him dress for ceremonies, was convicted in a separate trial for the theft of the documents from the papal apartment and is serving an 18-month prison sentence in Vatican City.
Gabriele and Sciarpelletti are the only Vatican employees to be formally investigated in the case, which distressed the pope, embarrassed the Vatican hierarchy and left many wondering about the competence of the Holy See's security apparatus.
Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi told reporters after the verdict that the probe into the leak "isn't closed," but gave no indication of whether any other suspects existed. Lombardi said it was unclear if Sciarpelletti will keep his Vatican job. The defendant was ordered to pay court costs of a few thousand dollars, Lombardi said.
Sciarpelletti was convicted of aiding and abetting Gabriele by giving conflicting statements to Vatican investigators about an envelope found in his desk, addressed to Gabriele.
Judge Giuseppe Dalla Torre cited Sciarpelletti's long years of service at the Vatican while suspending the sentence and ordering the criminal conviction not to appear on his record. The judge, a layman, said the court concluded that Sciarpelletti had helped Gabriele "elude the investigations of the authorities" at the Vatican.
At the start of Saturday's proceeding, the Vatican prosecutor sought conviction and a four-month sentence, which the court agreed with. But in announcing the sentence it immediately shaved two months off it to reflect Sciarpelletti's Vatican employment "service and lack of criminal record."
The verdict, following just over an hour of deliberation, was rendered "in the name of Pope Benedict XVI," Dalla Torre said.
Sciarpelletti looked crestfallen when he heard the verdict, then embraced his wife in the courtroom, according to a pool of reporters chosen by fellow journalists. Gabriele lives in Vatican City, but Sciarpelletti and his family live in Rome.
Both sides in the Sciarpelletti case have three days to appeal. Defense lawyer Gianluca Benedetti indicated that he would appeal.
Vatican investigators found the sealed envelope addressed to "P.Gabriele" and containing documents in Sciarpelletti's office desk. The prosecutor himself confirmed Benedetti's assertion that the envelope held documents "irrelevant, of zero value."
Gabriele, in court this time as a witness, described himself as a friend of the computer technician. During his own trial, the butler said he was concerned that Benedict wasn't being informed of the "evil and corruption" in the Vatican.
Gabriele testified he would give Sciarpelletti "many things" he had read on the Internet, along with copies of the pope's speeches and church teachings, but contended he never gave him official documents.
Sciarpelletti testified he never opened the envelope given to him 2 ½ years ago and insisted his statements to investigators were confused because of the "great panic" and "moral shock" he felt after being arrested and held in a Vatican cell for a day in May. He also said that it is difficult to remember what he did nearly three years earlier, including who gave him the documents.
At one point, early in the probe, the computer expert told Vatican investigators the envelope was given him by his boss, Monsignor Carlo Maria Polvani, who is a nephew of the current Vatican ambassador to Washington. The diplomat, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, was the No. 2 administrator at the Holy See until being posted in Washington earlier this year.
In one of the letters leaked in the probe, Vigano pleaded with Benedict not to be transferred after exposing alleged corruption in the awarding of Vatican contracts that cost the Holy See millions of euros (dollars).
Polvani told the court he "never transferred any document protected by official secret" to Gabriele. "I swear on (my) baptism and priesthood that I never" did such a thing, the monsignor testified.
At one point Saturday, the usual formal atmosphere of the Vatican courtroom was interrupted by a bit of humor. When a court employee who was writing summaries of the testimony on a laptop complained of computer problems, Sciarpelletti offered his services, asking the judge: "Do you need a technician?"
The courtroom rippled with chuckles, but his help wasn't needed. It turned out there was a problem with a plug, which was quickly resolved.


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REDDING, CALIF. USA, CALIFORNIA -- Well..December 20, 2005. We bought this TV. Paid $1940.49 for it. Two and a half weeks later I noticed it had a white dot on the screen which means the beginning of the pixels being lost. Called where purchased and they were very rude and not helpful at all but after I complained severely, they exchanged it, we also had to drive 2 hrs to pick it up at their other "Target" store. Now remember this is number 2 and the date for having that one was January 13, 2006. Doing great then on December 1, 2006 the color lamp went out. Got the runaround from RCA. Finally got them to send a tech out. He said the lamp will be here in two weeks.
Two weeks later it was done and that night it worked for 20 min and stopped. Again I called RCA and same old thing. The tech came out again but this time he told me RCA was out of the lamp and it would take 3 to 4 months to get one. OH I GOT PISSED. HELL NO! So I started to call RCA. It was about 10 to 20 calls before they said the lamp will be in very soon. Now remember the date, we are in the end of December 30, 2006. At that time I also asks them, that we wanted to buy an extended warranty on it. Sandra who said she was a supervisor told me at this time "we are not offering one for that T.V." I said "Why?" She would not answer. It's still not fixed.
On January 11, 2007 it was done and I was giving a warranty cost $199.00. At that time I asked the lady on the phone "this will cover anything that goes wrong with the T.V. right?" She said "yes Ma'am." That is not the end. On October 3, 2008 the lamp went out again. So I did like I did before and got the same feedback but this time they told me that the warranty did not cover the lamp. Oh I was sick and started to call again. Meanwhile my husband said we need to pay for it upfront so I don't miss the games, a guy thing LOL. So I did, it cost $241.31 which is more that that damn warranty is.
I have been on the phone more than 8 times, try to talk to someone that can help me and all I get from them is "Oh I am so sorry ma'am." I finally said to them "give me the # to Corporate Headquarters and talk with someone who has some senses." Their answer was "sorry ma'am we don't have a # for them." I can go on and on about more that happened but the bottom line is RCA should not be building a product that only lasts half a year or maybe a year, when we pay so much for it.
RCA was once a very well known name and the top of the line. I will never buy a RCA again and I will tell everybody who listens not to buy one and I have also called BBB and will be calling the Federal Trade Commission. Bottom line we want a full refund back from both. Does any body have the # for RCA corporate headquarters? Please help.
Last July, my wife & I purchased a 40" flat screen RCA television, on sale at the local K-Mart. After enjoying our new TV for about 2 weeks, it developed the annoying habit of turning itself off every 20 minutes or so. Of course, it was still under warranty so I contacted RCA to determine how to best get it repaired. Now, since we live in Islamorada in the Upper Florida Keys, I was told that I would have to bring the television to the nearest repair facility @ one hour away in South Miami. So... We had to rent a trailer, load up the television, & drop it off at Latta TV Repair.
It took the technicians there over 8 weeks to assess and repair the problem (replace the picture tube). So, in early October we re-rented the trailer and made the trek back up to Miami to pick it up. Less than 2 weeks later it began turning itself off @ every 20 minutes, again. Once more, we rented the trailer, drove the hour to the repair shop, and were told that since they already knew what the problem was it would be a "quick fix".
4 weeks later (mid November)… Latta TV called me to tell me that the television could not be repaired, that they would send it back to RCA, and RCA would replace it. On December 7th I was contacted by an RCA / Thomson representative and informed that they would NOT replace the faulty television, but instead would issue a refund. They said I could expect a check in 6 – 8 weeks.
After 8 weeks (January 30th), I contacted RCA to determine the status of the refund and was told that the request was sent to accounts payable on the 27th, was in the final stages of processing, and that I could expect the check within 2 weeks. 2 weeks later (February 14th), I called again and was told that the request still hadn't been processed and that someone would look into it and contact me.
Since then, I have called RCA at least once a week and have been told: "be patient…", "the request may have been lost…", "accounts payable is in another state, so there is no way to track the request…" etc….. Finally, on March 27th, 2006 "Kathleen" at RCA told me that a check would be expedited via fed Ex and I could expect it within 2 days. Well it's now 8 days later and Kathleen will not return my calls. I am sick of being lied to by RCA and am on the verge of legal action!
My wife & I both work full-time, 10 hours a day just to make ends meet. We haven't been able to afford to replace the television, and are both getting extremely frustrated with RCA. Eight months ago we paid $850.00 + tax for a faulty television, we were only able to use for a few weeks. We would really like our money back, but we feel that RCA is giving us the run-around and has no intention of refunding us.
Dean H
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EL PASO, TEXAS -- I had my phone for 6 months, and then the display died. When calling "customer service" you reach someone in the Philippines who is really of no assistance. When asking if you can speak with someone in the US, they say "no". There is no way to reach them. So, I was sending the phone back, as per the warranty book, but they already moved to a different location. Sent it so I could track the package. Have called multiple times to find out when I would get my replacement, no logical responses, just lies.
On 8/23/08, I was told the replacement phone already shipped, but because it was Saturday, they could not access the tracking number, and unsure if it shipped FedEx or UPS. Called this morning, and was now told it has not shipped. Finally, after 40 minutes, got a supervisor who said it has shipped, doesn't know which provider, and can't give tracking number. Asked him to contact the warehouse in the US, it is a business day, and get it for me. Told me it takes at least 4 business days. Hello - this is the information age - email takes very little time. He still insists at least 4 days.
As soon as I get the replacement phone, which I should have received before I sent back the defective one (at least that is what reputable businesses do), I will be filing complaints with the Better Business Bureau, Attorney General's office and Federal Trade Commission. Will also send a letter to my Congressional Reps to let them know, this is what NAFTA has done, outsourced our jobs, and we get no answers, no customer service. They do NOT respond to any type of email to any address you can find, and the one phone number I did locate, was disconnected. There are numerous complaints about this company on various websites!!!
When I purchased a replacement phone, I made sure it was not GE, and that the warranty was not with Thomson. I very much doubt I will ever see the replacement phone, or if it will work, if I do get one. How can a business NOT have a legitimate phone number in the US that allows you to speak with a US rep??? Other businesses that are global have the option to speak with a representative in the US - this fly by night company does not!!!
On July 25, 2006, I bought my husband a 52 inch RCA projection TV from Wal-mart. I paid $897.00 for the TV. June 1, 2008, the screen "spoiled", it did not go out, but gives a 3-D concave image. The upside is you can listen to the TV. The day it broke, I called RCA-Thompson. These people are NOT smart!! They told me that the picture is covered under warranty for 2 years BUT parts and labor is not covered. Then what the hell do they pay for?? They gave me a phone number to a service center.
I called this man who is 70 miles away. He said that it sounded like some sort of tube and the price with parts and labor should be around $200.00 and I have to take my TV to him, 70 miles one way. (70 miles one way times there and back 140 miles, plus that trip again to pick the TV up after it is fixed, 280 miles total. We have a truck that gets about 14.5 miles to the gallon, gas is $3.86 a gallon. Total for fuel about $75.00.
Today, after stewing over this for almost two weeks, I decided to call Wal-Mart and tell them what crap RCA is and that they need to pull these products from the shelves. I spoke with two very nice people at Wal-Mart who listened to me crab about my TV. Then, I call RCA again. This lady was very hard to understand and she could not understand me, which made the conversation go south, FAST!!!
I asked her for the shipping address for RCA. She asked me why I needed the address. I told her that I was going to take the TV apart and ship it there piece by piece, just to make a point! LONG story Short, save yourself the time, energy, dollars, and stress. Buy anything other than RCA.
PAINCOURT ONTARIO CANADA -- 22 months ago we bought a new RCA HDTV 52" rear projector TV, model number D52W26. Of course it seems it never fails... Now that the TV is paid in full the tv decided to break. 2 weeks ago my husband tried to turn the TV on by the remote, nothing happened so we have changed the batteries in the remote and still the same.... Didn't want to turn on, so when he saw that he tried to turn it on by the TV itself, again nothing and all in the sudden there was a loud sizzling noise coming out of the TV and started to smell like if something was burning..
So we unplug the TV... The next day I called RCA and was told that there is nothing they could do about it and that the warranty is only good for one year. Also gave us an 800 number to call. I called that 800 number and they told me to call my local Thompson repair guy. I called there and gave me another number to call, which I did and it was a company from London Ontario Canada. The guy came to my place the same day to look at it and have found that one of the motherboard was burned.. He even showed me. Anyway while talking to him he told me that RCA knew all along that they had a glitch when the TV's were made in 2005 but there was no recall on them.
Anyway they will try to get a new board but if they can't find one they will have to rebuild the one the guy brought with him... and also mentioned that there would be a warranty on the piece itself for only 90 days. It will cost around 600.00 for either the board or to have it rebuilt. He said it doesn't matter which way I look at it.. it's still the same price. What I am wondering is do you guys thinks it's worth fixing those type of TV or what would you do at my place. Personally I am afraid that if they do get another board that same thing will happened over and over again.
ST AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA -- We bought two 32 in 32V432T at Wal-Mart six months ago for $250.00 each. Hers went first, turning on and off, and auto programming on its own. Her set is on its second trip to a repair center. Mine started the same thing today. Power on and off by itself and starts to auto program by itself. What gives? These are only months old! Any suggestions on repair? What crap!
No help from RCA/Thomson. They couldn't care less now that they are selling their surplus through Wal-Mart. One is still in the shop for over a month now. Don't know what to do about the second one yet. I could have bought a bigger, brand new (not RCA) TV for all this money now. Don't buy this set. I was told this is a common problem with these models. They need to recall them. I will never, ever buy from RCA again. I also have a RCA/DVD player that is a piece of junk too.
COLLIERVILLE, TENNESSEE -- Basically... I bought this TV paid over $2,000 for it with financing. When I got it it made a weird noise. Called where purchased they said it was supposed to make that noise. Lamp heating up. So right after it goes out of warranty it is shutting itself off and making an even louder whirring. I call service center here and they say sounds like a lamp. Take it out and check it. Lamp looks new to me (after all it hasn't been on that much). So they charge me almost $100.00 to come out and then they say it sounds like the lamp but the lamp looks good. Bottom line... lamp cost $400.00! And maybe it will work maybe not!
Call RCA thinking maybe they will send me a lamp since my guess is it was defective from the start. Their great customer service? Nope... out of warranty. Their suggestion call another authorized RCA dealer (and pay another $100.00) and maybe they can locate the problem. After reading all these reviews it is apparent that RCA is producing low quality products, is aware of it and couldn't care less. They are selling on the brand name only.
I will no longer own any RCA or Thompson products. I refuse to buy from companies that do not offer customer service. I also wonder why there is no mention when you purchase a DLP TV of the fact that the lamp lasts just a year and costs $400.00! What a racket!
CALIFORNIA -- You be the judge and I hope you read this before you purchase RCA. We bought a 50: HDYV DLP in March of 2006. By May of 2007 it started making funny noises. In October we were told by the customer service department to replace the bulb, which we did. Didn't fix the problem. In November the authorized service center came and took the set to his shop. By January the set was deemed non-repairable. We were promised a replacement TV and are still waiting. It is now June 2007. Yes, that is right, over eight months and no resolution. And in all that time Thompson has only called us one time. Of course we have made countless calls them, at least once a week.
Each time we are lied to and given another speech. The one phone call we received was in April telling me that when I sent them my receipt, they would complete the transfer of a replacement TV. Well, to date still no TV and another run around. So, you be the judge. Would you buy RCA? Not if you are smart... So, the end of the story - August, 10 months later we finally got a new TV. I had filed a report with the Better Business B. and RCA called me regarding my claim. The BBB did their job and I got some attention from RCA. They did replace my TV, but I am still stuck with an RCA.
CHICO, CALIFORNIA -- We have an RCA 52" TV and it has nothing but problems. The TV came to my with problems. First of all the screen had water spots in the inside and the TV also had an eighth of inch gap on both top corner about two inches long. I have spoke to the customer service rep. They told me they will exchange the TV but when I call them this week they said they got to check with the service center who put the screen in.
The service center was the one that suggested that I Put tape around the TV to keep the dust from entering through the gap of the TV but that look tacky and I'm tired getting the around. I just one my refund 1349 because each TV you brought me have nothing but problems and take 2 month before you fix it and still isn't right. Under California consumer electronic affair act the TV should had been exchanged or offered a refund for the original unit which was purchase at Best Buy 11-19-06.
I also purchased a RCA 19" Flat Screen TV set in Nov. 05. The bottom left of the screen is discolored. Approximately a 5" x 5" section. I have tried to get in touch w/ RCA and have not been able to find a number to get in touch w/ anyone. I tried emailing through their website and have not heard back from anyone in two weeks. Under 1 year old - I really expected much better as I have two of brands in my house that are 5 yrs + old and are in perfect working order.


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A shot at a modeling career helped him get his visa and pay the bills, but music was the reason Mathieu made LA his permanent home. His first KCRW connection was through Garth Trinidad. For five years, the two DJ's shared a residency at Zanzibar in Santa Monica on Sunday nights called "One Way," and when a slot opened up on KCRW, Mathieu submitted a demo, focusing on international and eclectic music and sharing the soundtrack to his life.
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- Body dysmorphic disorder, which is an imagined belief that there is a defect in your body or your physical appearance even though none exists, such as seeing yourself as fat when you are thin.
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In California, the No. 1 dairy state, you'd expect local schools to serve local milk. But several suppliers to Southern Californian schools were serving milk from neighboring states. For the California Milk Advisory Board (CMAB), representing more than 1,600 dairy farmers, this was about pride and economics— a pride further wounded when celebrity chef Jamie Oliver crusaded to ban chocolate milk from Southern California schools.
Working with Ketchum, CMAB designed a program to turn parents, kids and teachers into California milk evangelists. The Real Seal Appeal campaign offered a chance for participants to win up to $1.4 million in cash, books and prizes for their schools. To win, they needed to buy milk at retail, collect the Real California Milk Seals found on products and hand these seals to their teachers. A partnership with school media publisher Scholastic, helped spread the word—along with coverage on local TV, radio, print, blogs, Facebook and Twitter.
Within 90 days, nearly 100,000 seals were collected. Beyond renewed pride in locally produced milk, the campaign prompted one of Southern California's largest milk processors and school suppliers to switch to Real California Milk, enabling the schools they serve to participate and providing CMAB with an education opportunity. Coverage included 40 influential blog posts (3 million impressions) and 3.6 million impressions from views of Scholastic's customized online program hub. In addition, familiarity with Real California Milk Seal increased from 55% to 64%. —Scott Van Camp
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Like the rest of the world, the U.S. government appeared to have been taken aback last month when Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, fell to an offensive by jihadis of the Islamic State that triggered the collapse of five Iraqi army divisions and carried the extremists to the threshold of Baghdad.
A review of the record shows, however, that the Obama administration wasn't surprised at all.
In congressional testimony as far back as November, U.S. diplomats and intelligence officials made clear that the United States had been closely tracking the al Qaida spinoff since 2012, when it enlarged its operations from Iraq to civil war-torn Syria, seized an oil-rich province there and signed up thousands of foreign fighters who'd infiltrated Syria through NATO ally Turkey.
The testimony, which received little news media attention at the time, also showed that Obama administration officials were well aware of the group's declared intention to turn its Syrian sanctuary into a springboard from which it would send men and materiel back into Iraq and unleash waves of suicide bombings there. And they knew that the Iraqi security forces couldn't handle it.
The group's operations "are calculated, coordinated and part of a strategic campaign led by its Syria-based leader, Abu Bakr al Baghadi," Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Brett McGurk told a House committee on Feb. 5, four months before fighting broke out in Mosul. "The campaign has a stated objective to cause the collapse of the Iraqi state and carve out a zone of governing control in western regions of Iraq and Syria."
The testimony raises an obvious question: If the Obama administration had such early warning of the Islamic State's ambitions, why, nearly two months after the fall of Mosul, is it still assessing what steps, if any, to take to halt the advance of Islamist extremists who threaten U.S. allies in the region and have vowed to attack Americans?
In fresh testimony before Congress this week, McGurk revealed that the administration knew three days in advance that the attack on Mosul was coming. He acknowledged that the Islamic State is no longer just a regional terrorist organization but a "full-blown" army that now controls nearly 50 percent of Iraq and more than one-third of Syria. Its fighters have turned back some of the best-trained Iraqi units trying to retake key cities, while in Syria, it's seized nearly all that country's oil and natural gas fields and is pushing the Syrian military from its last outposts in the country's east.
"What started as a crisis in Syria has become a regional disaster with serious global implications," Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said Wednesday.
Yet Defense Department officials say they might not complete work on proposed options for U.S. actions until the middle of August, a lifetime in a region where every day brings word of another town or village falling to the Islamic State. Some lawmakers and experts say the delay borders on diplomatic malpractice.
"We did see this coming," said Royce, adding that Iraqi officials and some diplomats at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad began urging the administration in August 2013 to launch U.S. drone strikes against Islamic State bases near Iraq's border with Syria.
"This was a very clear case in which the U.S. knew what was going on but followed a policy of deliberate neglect," said Vali Nasr, the dean of Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies and a former State Department adviser on the Middle East.
"This miscalculation essentially has helped realize the worst nightmare for this administration, an administration that prided itself on its counterterrorism strategy," said Nasr. "It is now presiding over the resurgence of a nightmare of extremism and terrorism."
Administration officials deny the charges of inaction. U.S. policy, they contend, was aimed at helping the Iraqi government deal with the growing threat.
"That was also the desire of the Iraqi government. The Iraqi government wanted to act on its own with our assistance," McGurk told Congress this week. He insisted that Baghdad didn't formally request U.S. airstrikes until May.
The situation, however, was far beyond the Iraqi government's ability to cope.
One complicating factor was the administration's approach to Syria and the uprising there to topple President Bashar Assad, a goal President Barack Obama adopted as America's own in an August 2011 statement that said Assad had lost all legitimacy to rule and must go.
Some experts argue that Obama committed a key error in 2012 by rejecting calls from top national security aides, lawmakers and others to train and arm a moderate rebel force to fight Assad.
Obama administration officials say that rejection was based on a variety of concerns, including that weapons passed to moderate rebels might end up in the hands of more radical elements such as the Nusra Front, an al Qaida affiliate that by mid-2012 had taken the lead in many of the anti-Assad movement's major victories.
But without a well-armed moderate force, the battlefield was left open to increasing jihadi influence, others respond.
"This crisis was allowed to fester and get worse in many ways due to inaction against Assad and ISIS," said Phillip Smyth, a Middle East researcher at the University of Maryland.
A review of the record shows, however, that support for the anti-Assad movement also hampered U.S. action to quash the Islamic State, which until earlier this year rebels considered an ally in the push to topple Assad.
In testimony in November, McGurk said that one of the reasons the United States had not granted Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki's request for assistance against the Islamic State was Maliki's refusal to close Iraqi airspace to Iranian planes flying arms to Assad's military.
While Maliki's fears about the Islamic State "are legitimate," McGurk said then, "it's equally legitimate to question Iraq's independence given Iran's ongoing use of Iraqi airspace to resupply the Assad regime."
In another misstep, some experts said, the Obama administration appears to have turned a blind eye as U.S. allies Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey and others provided arms and money that allowed Islamist groups to hijack the Assad opposition and ultimately provide Baghdadi with a secure patch in Syria from which he eventually would send men and weapons back into Iraq.
Smyth disputed that idea in part, noting that the Islamic State was largely self-sufficient financially, although the influx of foreign fighters provided a crucial boost to its manpower.
What is indisputable, Smyth said, is that the White House became immobilized by the complexity of the crisis: Having declared that Assad had to go, it found that there was no opposition group that didn't have some ties to jihadists, and actively backing the rebels would put the United States on the same side as al Qaida.
"When you have a policy that was paralyzed by a number of different things, the result is a confused policy," he said.
On Iraq, meanwhile, the public testimony shows that the administration moved slowly to respond to the rising Islamic State threat. One complication: Doing so would have put the United States effectively on the same side as Iran, the main regional ally of Baghdad and Damascus.
Maliki, whose Shiite Muslim majority dominated Iraq's government, formally sought stepped-up U.S. military and counterterrorism assistance in October 2013. But he had been asking privately for help much earlier.
One such appeal came after a March 4, 2013, attack inside Iraq by Islamic State forces on Iraqi army troops who were escorting back to the border dozens of Syrian soldiers who'd fled into Iraq to escape an attack on their post by anti-Assad rebels. While still inside Iraq, their buses drove into bombs and gunfire. At least 49 Syrians and 14 Iraqis died. It was one of the first documented instances of the Islamic State coordinating attacks on both sides of the border.
Ali al Mousawi, Maliki's spokesman, called then for the United States to immediately give priority to arming Iraq with weapons that the country already had requested so that it could fend off any future incidents.
"We need equipment as fast as it was delivered to Turkey," Mousawi said, referring to the deployment of Patriot anti-missile batteries by the United States and several NATO allies after Syrian missiles landed in Turkish territory.
"They managed to install the Patriot systems within two weeks. We need something like that," he told McClatchy the day after the incident.
Instead, the White House stuck with a policy that tried to make use of the crisis to pressure Maliki into replicating the U.S. success late in the 2003-2011 occupation of enlisting Sunni tribes to help fight al Qaida's Iraqi affiliate, which eventually became the Islamic State.
"We made it clear to Maliki and other Iraqi leaders that the fight against terrorists and militias will require a holistic _ security, political, economic _ approach," McGurk told the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Nov. 13 in describing talks held with the Iraqi leader during a visit he'd made to Washington a week earlier.
The approach called for Maliki to be more accommodating to his Sunni Muslim political rivals. The administration called on Maliki to end a harsh crackdown on Iraq's Sunni Muslim minority, restore their political rights and provide salaries and other benefits to Sunni tribes that agreed to fight the Islamic State. Maliki failed to make good on numerous assurances that he'd comply.
Washington also had other priorities: trying to mediate a feud between Maliki and Kurdish leaders over oil revenues, boost the country's petroleum industry and promote ties between Iraq and its Arab neighbors.
It was only after Islamic State assaults in December on the Iraqi cities of Fallujah and Ramadi that the administration began stepping up military aid to Baghdad. It sent unarmed spy drones and 75 Hellfire missiles _ which had to be dropped from propeller-driven passenger planes _ for use against Islamic State bases in western Iraq.
And the United States has yet to deliver helicopter gunships and F-16 jet fighters that Iraq already had purchased. It also dragged its feet on Baghdad's request for U.S. military advisers, some 300 of whom were dispatched only after Mosul fell.
While there are many reasons for the Obama administration's failure to tackle the rise of the Islamic State earlier, lacking intelligence is not among them.
By early 2013, U.S. intelligence agencies began delivering more than a dozen top-secret high-level reports, known as strategic warnings, to senior administration officials detailing the danger posed by the Islamic State's rise, said a senior U.S. intelligence official. The reports also covered the threat to Europe and the United States from the return of thousands of battle-hardened foreign fighters, including dozens of Americans, who'd fought to topple Assad.
Intelligence analysts well into this year "continued to provide strategic warning of (the) increasing threat to Iraq's stability . . . the increasing difficulties Iraq's security forces faced . . . and the political strains that were contributing to Iraq's declining stability," said the senior U.S. intelligence official, who requested anonymity in order to discuss the sensitive issue.
On Feb. 11, Army Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, told the Senate Armed Services Committee in public that the Islamic State "probably will attempt to take territory in Iraq and Syria to exhibit its strength in 2014."
Flynn warned then that Iraqi forces were "unable to stem rising violence in part because they lack mature intelligence, logistics and other capabilities." They also "lack cohesion, are undermanned, and are poorly trained, equipped and supplied," leaving them "vulnerable to terrorist attack, infiltration and corruption," he said.
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., a member of the House Intelligence Committee, said his committee had been regularly briefed on both Syria and Iraq.
"I do not think it was an intelligence failure. I think that we got the information we needed to have," he said recently when asked his assessment of the developments in the region. "I don't feel like I could lay responsibility at the feet of the intelligence community for not seeing this coming, because they were aware of the growing risk."
Nancy A. Youssef of the Washington Bureau contributed to this report.


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BRISTOL, Tenn. – The Lady Tornado featured three double-digit scorers and stayed close with one of the top teams in Conference Carolinas but one late run by North Greenville inside the last seven minutes helped the Crusaders deliver a 69-58 loss to King on Thursday night.
King (3-16, 3-8) trailed by five with just under 11 minutes to go when Kelly Jackson (Lynchburg, Va.) scored the team's next four points on a pair of mid-range jumpers to close the gap to one, 50-49. North Greenville went a 9-2 run to separate itself from King, starting with a steal by Krisceda Cotton that that turned into a fast break layup. Cotton scored four of the nine points on the run to help NGU take a 59-51 lead with 5:06 remaining.
Brooke Johnson (Roan Mountain, Tenn.) broke up the run on the next trip down the court with a jumper from the right elbow, but Aliyah Stokes responded with a three pointer to thwart the moment and take a nine-point lead. Cotton extended the lead to 13 with another layup and a pair of free throws after being fouled.
Johnson battled back with the next five King points with her fourth three ball of the night but the Lady Tornado pulled no closer. Karly Stache hit a three with under a minute left guiding toward a 69-58 final score in favor of North Greenville.
The Lady Tornado had three double-digit scorers, led by Alley Sprouse (Newport, Tenn.) who recorded her first career double-double. Sprouse made a day from the field, hitting 8-of-15 field goals, to give her 17 points to add to her 13 rebounds. Her 17 points and 13 rebounds made for new career highs in each category. She has now scored 10 or more points in each of her last four games, steadily increasing with each contest.
Brooke Johnson and Kelly Jackson combined for 26 points and nine rebounds between them. Johnson scored 16 points, hitting 4-of-6 threes on the night, and tallied six assists on the night. Johnson scored ten and added six boards.
King will host St. Andrew's Presbyterian College as part of a doubleheader, kicking off the action at 2:00 p.m. at the Student Center (Bristol, Tenn.). Saturday is Washington County Youth Basketball Day, where fans from Washington County (Va.) that wear their basketball team's game jersey will earn free admission for them and their family for the day.


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Hi Azdgari,I am wearing a black shirt.Do you believe me?Does believing me burn more calories than not believing me?If I am wearing a black shirt and you believe I am wearing a black shirt, does that somehow mean that you did some extra work that helped to make my shirt black?
In order for the "salvation" to be truly "unmerited" and unrelated to anything people do to earn it, it would either have to be arbitrary (Yahweh picks out some people to be saved and others to be damned before they're born, then insures that they're converted/not converted, respectively, without their having any say or influence in the matter) or universal (everybody goes to Heaven, even the atheists and pagans, and won't they be surprised!). Problem is, both kinda blow up the whole Christian salvation drama and "spiritual warfare" epic. The first turns it into a puppet show, the second sweeps away any perceived need to be involved with it at all because everyone gets to the finish line, whether they're in the race or not.


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My Advanced Legal Research professor, SMU's amazing Donna Wolff, taught me to follow the Michael Jackson rule when it comes to conducting research: don't stop 'til you get enough. The logic is that when the case law starts overlapping and referring back to what's already been reviewed, the research circle has closed and that phase of the project has ended. The hard work of applying that newfound knowledge begins.
Until now, my approach to law school has been to experience as much variety in the legal internships and jobs I take as possible to better define what practice area and career path to pursue upon graduation. The problem is that, with the exception of family law, I have enjoyed all the work so far.
A recent tour of the FBI showed me that the Michael Jackson rule might apply to my law school journey, as well. The agent leading us through the facility mentioned that the agency's old headquarters was housed in the West End. Following the Oklahoma City bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in 1995, the powers that be determined that the headquarters should be less accessible to the public and thus, less amenable to attack.
It clicked for me then that I had worked in the West End building he referenced as a baby law student two summers ago. It is a beautiful space and serves as home to several companies, including the labor and employment boutique I clerked for.
As my time at the USAO winds down — tomorrow is my last day here, sadly — it resonates, too, that my experiences have started overlapping. My work at the U.S. Attorney's Office brought me to the FBI headquarters, which used to be in a place I've already been. With law school graduation looming in December, I realize that the research circle is closing. Perhaps, that phase of this process has ended. The time has come for me to apply the knowledge gained from three summers of work and nearly four years of school, and boldly step into the future.
I eagerly anticipate everything that lies ahead.


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Death at Page Restaurant brings prison sentenceBy JAMES A. KIMBLE
Union Leader Correspondent
January 16. 2014 8:09PM
BRENTWOOD — A Dover man who leveled a fatal punch that killed 24-year-old Joshua Krantz during an unprovoked assault at The Page Restaurant in Portsmouth pleaded guilty on Thursday to manslaughter instead of going to trial.
Zachary O'Neill, 24, pleaded guilty to a single count of manslaughter as part of a negotiated plea deal with county prosecutors, according to Interim County Attorney James Boffetti.
O'Neill is expected to receive a 10 ½ to 22 year prison term when he appears for sentencing on Jan. 23.
The plea deal was worked out following the last pre-trial hearing for O'Neill, who had faced charges of manslaughter and first-degree assault for attacking Krantz on April 6.
O'Neill could have faced up to 18 ½ to 33 years in state prison had he been convicted by a jury of the manslaughter charge. The first-degree assault charge also carried an enhanced prison term of 11 to 22 years, according to indictments.
His trial was scheduled to begin later this month.
Krantz was attacked from behind on a basement-level dance floor around 12:43 a.m., police said. O'Neill went after Krantz for accidentally spilling a drink on him earlier in the night, according to prosecutors. He was free on bail in another case at the time of the attack, prosecutors said.
Krantz went home after being hit, and was found dead in his Dover apartment hours later. O'Neill was identified as a suspect a few days later.
An employee at The Page told police that O'Neill said he waited until nearly the end of closing time to hit Krantz because he didn't want to ruin his own night. Krantz reportedly spilled a drink on O'Neill earlier in the night, police said.
Krantz died from an acute epidural hematoma that occurred as a result of his skull being fractured, prosecutors said.
The Page closed its doors permanently on June 21 once the city filed a petition with the state Liquor Commission to terminate the bar's liquor license.
The attack on Krantz was the latest in a series of violent assaults and fights that happened in and outside of the once-popular downtown nightspot.


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GOMA, Congo (AP) — The president of the M23 rebel group in eastern Congo says army helicopters struck civilians near a rebel camp 25 miles north of Goma, a claim that was corroborated by a resident.
Bertrand Bisimwa said Wednesday the attack on the Rumangabo camp killed five civilians, but his claim could not be verified. The resident, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals, said the attack resulted in civilian and military casualties but could not provide figures.
Fighting resumed last week between the government and M23, a rebel group that formed last year and briefly captured Goma, the area's most important city, last November.
Both sides have been accused of rights abuses in recent fighting.
Army spokesman Col. Olivier Hamuli confirmed Rumangabo had been attacked, calling the camp "strategic."


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El Niño impacts sea surface height, sea surface temperature and wind vectors. In this lesson, data for each of those three characteristics from the 1997-98 El Niño event will be analyzed and compared. Students will work in teams of 3 throughout... (View More) the activity, initially doing a team analysis of a single characteristic, and then jig-sawing into other groups to share information. The lesson culminates in a series of questions, a written summary and a comparison to similar observations done by scientists. This lesson uses student- and citizen science-friendly microsets of authentic NASA Earth system science data from the MY NASA DATA project. It also includes related links, extensions, an online glossary, and a list of related AP Environmental Science topics. (View Less)
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In this inquiry exploration, student design an experiment to test the absorption of heat by different earth materials. Materials required include plastic water bottles, soil, sand, water, thermometers, lamp with 60 watt bulb, and stopwatch. This... (View More) activity is part of the MY NASA DATA Scientist Tracking Network unit, designed to provide practice in accessing and using authentic satellite data. (View Less)
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Baseball Player Caught Singing Adele During Game
Cleveland Indians second baseman Jason Kipnis apparently has a thing for emotional breakup ballads. Kipnis wore a wireless microphone during Wednesday's Spring Training exhibition game and was heard briefly singing part of Adele's 'Someone Like You' between pitches.
His serenade went out live on the air, because the game was part of Major League Baseball's experiment with in-game audio. Regardless of whether Kipnis purposely busted out the performance because he knew the cameras were on him, or if he forgot he was wearing a mic and was caught in an "oops" moment, it doesn't sound like he will receive an invite to 'American Idol' or 'The Voice' anytime soon.
Kipnis claims we didn't get to hear the real deal. After the game, he tweeted, "They didn't get my clearer, louder version later in the game!! Adele would've been proud! #sortof." He added, "And the mic had nothing to do with it… I sing all the time!! It keeps me relaxed when I'm on the field #andentertained #dontfightthemusic!"
Kipnis claimed the song was in his head because he had watched a YouTube video of a subway busker belting out the tune. We prefer the subway singer's version over the baseball player's.
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A local shares
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Retired Jamestown Postmaster Ed Booth decided he had to do something after Hurricane Katrina tore through the south with an unmatched legacy of destruction. So Ed packed up his pickup truck and headed south to offer his help in the relief efforts.
Fortunately for us, Ed has embraced the technology of the Internet. Ed has his own on-line blog and has detailed what he has seen while helping those who have been so deeply affected by the hurricane. Ed has also posted a number of pictures online.
Our thanks to Ed for taking on the monumental task of helping out down south. He has done something that many of us wish we could do. And we are thankful that Ed has taken the time to share his experiences with those of us back home.
Look for Ed's blog at www.dbooth.net/ed


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Diane Kruger: MET BALL 2010 with Joshua Jackson!
Diane Kruger hits the MET Ball with her boyfriend, Fringe actor Joshua Jackson, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday (May 3) in New York City.
The couple is wearing classic Calvin Klein Collection and we especially love Josh's ascot and floral pin!
Ms. Kruger was also recently named the new face for Calvin Klein's new fragrance, Beauty.
The Costume Institute Gala Benefit celebrates the opening of the "American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity" exhibition. The event is hosted by Patrick Robinson of The Gap, co-hosted by Vogue editor Anna Wintour and talk show queen Oprah Winfrey.


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SANTA ANA, Calif. — A couple suspected of fleeing police in a vehicle in Santa Ana smashed into a car carrying four family members, including two young boys who were injured in the crash, authorities said Wednesday night.
Among the five people injured in the collision were the 4-year-old and 10-year-old brothers. The younger boy had light trauma injuries and the older one had moderate injures, said Division Chief Kris Concepcion of the Orange County Fire Authority.
Their parents received minor injuries and the man driving the vehicle that was being pursued suffered broken bones in his lower extremities, Concepcion said.
The incident began after the man and a woman were stopped by police on Cedar Street near Edinger Avenue. It was unclear why the stop was made, the Santa Ana Police Department said.
Click here to read the full story on LATimes.com.


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Consensus Report
Polar Icebreaker Roles and U.S. Future Needs: A Preliminary Assessment (2005)Polar Research Board
Each report is produced by a committee of experts selected by the Academy to address a particular statement of task and is subject to a rigorous, independent peer review; while the reports represent views of the committee, they also are endorsed by the Academy. Learn more on our expert consensus reports.
The age and condition of the U.S. Coast Guard's polar icebreakers are jeopardizing national security and scientific research in the Arctic and Antarctic, according to an interim report from the National Academies. Because of a shortfall in funding for U.S. polar icebreaking activities, long-term maintenance on these icebreakers has been deferred over the past several years, making the ships inefficient to operate and their technological systems outdated. Congress asked the National Academies to provide a comprehensive assessment of the current and future roles of U.S. Coast Guard polar icebreakers in supporting U.S. operations in the Antarctic and the Arctic, including scenarios for continuing those operations and alternative approaches, the changes in roles and missions of polar icebreakers in the support of all national priorities in the polar regions, and potential changes in the roles of U.S Coast Guard icebreakers in the Arctic that may develop due to environmental change. This brief interim report highlights the most urgent and time-dependent issues, and a final report, expected to be released next summer, will examine the type and number of icebreaking ships that the U.S. requires in the long term and other issues.
Key Messages
- Because of the geographic location of Alaska, the United States is an Arctic nation with significant geo-political, security, economic, and scientific interests in the Arctic, and U.S. interests must be protected in this region.
- Currently, only one U.S. Coast Guard heavy icebreaker, the POLAR STAR, is capable of supporting the re-supply operation in Antarctica.
- Having been given budget authority over the icebreaking program, the NSF is now fiscally responsible for missions outside its core mission and expertise. Without budget authority, the U.S. Coast Guard has been put in a situation in which it has the role of operating a ship for which it does not have full management control.
- Significant long-term maintenance of the heavy icebreakers has been deferred over the past several years. This, coupled with the lack of a plan for replacement or refurbishment of the nation's icebreaking ships, has put meeting national needs in the north and south (as outlined above) at risk.
- The need for icebreaking in the Antarctic is primarily a result of a succession of national policy statements and Presidential Decision Directives, which assert that the United States has strategic interests in the Antarctic related to foreign policy and security, environmental protection and scientific research.
- The two existing heavy icebreakers, POLAR STAR and POLAR SEA, have operated in both polar regions for 29 and 28 years, respectively, and are near the ends of their design service lives. Both ships are inefficient to operate because they now require substantial and increasing maintenance efforts to keep vital ship systems operating, and their technological systems are becoming increasingly obsolete.


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Amtrak asks seven firms to dream up plans for Chicago's Union Station
Amtrak has asked seven architectural and real estate firms to submit proposals to redevelop a key part of Chicago's Union Station and plans to select a winning proposal by the end of May.
The firms include the Chicago office of architects Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; Chicago developer U.S. Equities Realty and the Chicago office of Jones Lang LaSalle, which currently manages Union Station for Amtrak.
The firms are being asked to come up with plans for Union Station's neo-classical Headhouse building (above), which is bounded by Clinton, Canal, Jackson and Adams streets.
"This is a pretty blank sheet of paper," said Amtrak spokesman Marc Magliari. "We will be looking for some creative, imaginative and transportation-oriented uses of the building."
The request for proposals comes amid a sputtering economy and the prospect of more people using the already-overcrowded station, which serves Metra commuter trains as well as Amtrak's long-distance and regional routes. The Obama administration recently awarded $8 billion in funds for the development of high-speed rail networks, including a Midwestern network with a hub in Chicago.
"Certainly everything points to us having more service," Magliari said.
In 2006, a joint venture headed by Jones Lang LaSalle won the bidding to redevelop the Headhouse into a hotel, condominiums, office and retail space. The company planned to redevelop the existing structure and to build an 18-story tower on top of it. Amtrak, which owns Union Station, entered into a redevelopment agreement with Jones Lang LaSalle. But the $250 million project never proceeded.
The other firms invited to participate are Boston architects Goody Clancy, Philadelphia architects Wallace Roberts & Todd: the architectural firm of KlingStubbins, which has offices in Cambridge, Mass. and Philadelphia; and New York architects Ehrenkrantz Eckstut & Kuhn.
The request for proposals contemplates the redevelopment of several vacant office floors above the station's Great Hall, a grandly-scaled, now little-used waiting room that has been employed as a movie set. It also invites the possibility of new uses for vacant retail space around the Great Hall.
The project's scope does not include the crowded concourse area to the east of the Great Hall. Nor will the project use federal stimulus money devoted to high-speed rail, Magliari said.
Amtrak is requesting the proposals at a time when the real estate market has been battered by overbuilding and a credit squeeze. But the railroad concern wants to have plans in place that can be acted upon once the economy improves, the spokesman said.
Magliari said the seven invited firms would be free to team up with other companies as they made proposals. Jones Lang LaSalle, for example, had worked with Chicago architect Lucien Lagrange on its previous Union Station plan.
In a separate move, the spokesman said, Amtrak is developing plans of its own to provide air-conditioning in the Great Hall. The lack of air-conditioning limits the hall's ability in the summer to serve as a "customer-friendly" waiting room or as a site for special events, Magliari said. That portion of the project won't likely start, he said, until October.


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This week in Island history
The news of 10 and 15 years ago is from the Jamestown Press. The news of 100 years ago came from the collection of the Newport Historical Society.
100 years ago From the Newport Daily News, January 20, 1909
The clam chowder supper given for the benefit of the Beneficial Society last evening in the Gardner House hall by several men interested in the society's work proved so much of a success that they can be expect to be called upon again.
From the Newport Daily News, January 21, 1909
Between three and four inches of ice have formed on the ponds and some of the iceboat owners are getting their craft ready for the sport.
From the Newport Daily News, January 23, 1909
The clam diggers had another favorable tide yesterday, it falling far below the usual low water mark.
A heavy fog has hung over the island all day and the accompanying warm weather is causing the frost to come out of the ground making the dirt roads and sidewalks almost impassable.
75 years ago From the Newport Daily News, January 18, 1934
Steamer Mohican of the Jamestown & Newport Ferry line is now tied up at South ferry wharf and is being dismantled, having passed her days of usefulness. All the lumber is given to the unemployed. Each day a crew of six men take what they can carry away, and each succeeding day a new crew will take more.
An important step towards the realization of the Jamestown-Saunderstown bridge was taken Wednesday afternoon when the Emergency Public Works Commission gave its approval to the $2,400,000 project.
From the Newport Daily News, January 19, 1934
It is announced that sufficient back taxes have been collected in the past few months, so that it will not be necessary to sell the large bond issue originally contemplated.
From the Newport Daily News, January 20, 1934
The organization meeting of the Jamestown, No. 1 Boy Scouts was held in the Thomas H. Clarke school Friday evening under the sponsorship of the American Legion.
50 years ago From the Newport Daily News, January 20, 1959
A well known Jamestown landmark, Carr School, is being torn down by its owner, John B. Foley, who bought the structure several years ago at public auction from the town…. The Carr School served the community adequately until a few years ago when, outmoded and unsafe and far too small for the rapid growth of the community, the present Jamestown Elementary School was constructed.
From the Newport Daily News, January 22, 1959
At a special Town Council meeting yesterday morning in Jamestown, the town treasurer, Philip J. McCafferty was authorized to borrow $85,000 from the Industrial National Bank in anticipation of taxes. The money is needed to operate the town from the end of the fiscal year, Feb. 28, to the May financial town meeting.
25 years ago From the Newport Daily News, January 18, 1984
A Worcester, Mass., oil company that delivered diesel fuel oil to Newport Electric Corp. substation on Eldred Avenue instead of a generator in Portsmouth, caused an oil spill Tuesday about 4:45 p.m. … Fifty to 75 gallons of diesel fuel spilled into a dike under the fuel tank, especially designed for such an accident. From the Newport Daily News, January 19, 1984
The twin snowstorms that dumped about 5 inches of snow on Aquidneck and Conanicut islands since noon Wednesday were more of an inconvenience than anything for area residents. From the Newport Daily News, January 23, 1984
Fire damaged Hammond's Tru- Value Hardware Store Saturday afternoon. … The blaze destroyed supplies in a one-story ell at the rear of the three-story structure.
Frederick R. Coleman, owner of the 19th-century Bay Voyage Inn on Conanicus Avenue, will appear with his three new partners before the Jamestown Zoning Board of Review … to seek variances for the structure they plan to convert into time-sharing units.
15 years ago. From the Jamestown Press, January 20, 1994
Local education costs may rise as much as 14 percent due to increased spending compounded by cuts in state funding. The Jamestown School Committee has approved a $4,661,227 operating budget for 1994-95.
Three and a half hours of scrutiny from the Town Council Saturday brought only a few minor changes (to the town's) proposed $3.9 million budget for 1994-95.
10 years ago From the Jamestown Press, January 21, 1999
The town will voluntarily enter into the state Remediation Program to clean up its closed, and now infamous, landfill on North Main Road.
Town Council members agreed to some significant budget changes during their final work session on the proposed $4.54 million general government budget for fiscal 1999- 2000 last Saturday.
The February Board meeting of the Rhode Island Bridge and Turnpike Authority will shed some light on the feasibility of whether local commuters can expect some reduction in the price of a token to cross the Newport Bridge. Results of extensive engineering studies done late last year will reveal whether the 30-year-old bridge needs work done on its decking, a 7-inch thick concrete slab reinforced with two layers of steel.


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School grade "safety net" policy may be extended again
A stopgap measure that would keep schools all-important A-to-F grades from falling more than one letter could extended another year, Education Commissioner Pam Stewart told reporters today.
Stewart and other education officials have said at this week's Education Accountability Summit that the State Board of Education is expected to take up the "safety net" provision at its October meeting.
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MORGAN HILL (CBS SF) – The Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office searched parts of San Martin and Gilroy Thursday for missing teenager Sierra LaMar.
Sierra, 15, has been missing since March 16, when she failed to show up for school on a Friday morning.
Thursday's search was being conducted by about 20 members of the sheriff's search-and-rescue team, and will involve K-9 units, sheriff's officials said.
Last week, hundreds of volunteers searched an area near LaMar's home after the sheriff's office reclassified the case as abduction rather than a possible runaway.
The most recent development in the case came last Thursday, when searchers found an empty box labeled "stainless steel handcuffs," near a couple of used condoms.
It was not clear if the items, discovered by KlaasKids Foundation volunteers, have any connection to the case, sheriff's Sgt. Jose Cardoza said.
More than 1,000 tips have been received by phone and email, all of which are being followed up on, investigators said.
Anyone with information about the case is asked to call sheriff's investigators at (408) 808-4500 or the anonymous tip line at (408) 808-4431.
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You're here.
After months of answering the question, "So where are you going to college next year?" Emmanuel is starting to feel like more than just a response, just a name, just a place.
You've taken your first steps as an Emmanuel student. You're on campus meeting people who will be a big part of your next four years. People who will impact the rest of your life. This is not just any place, it's your place.
Within these pages you will discover some of the highlights of the new student experience at Emmanuel College. You'll find tips on how to succeed in your first year. You'll find insights from current students who share their thoughts on the various activities in which they're involved and the community they enjoy and speak of often.
So, what now? Well, as you're about to learn, that's up to you. Welcome to Emmanuel!
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