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This is the latest iteration of Volkswagen's Polo – a car with lots of rivals occupying Britain's most popular market sector. Going up against newly revamped models, such as the Kia Rio and Citroen C3, as well as the massively popular market leader, the Ford Fiesta, means the Polo has some tough competition.
It's longer, lower and wider than the outgoing model, though under the skin it retains many of the same components including the engines. It continues Volkswagens reputation for solidity and interior build quality, but with a fresher design and vibrant colour scheme it aims to appeal to a younger, funkier crowd.
The Polo is characterised by horizontal lines that make it appear wider than it is – it looks planted on the road, but is still unmistakably a VW. Up front it features the company's corporate grille, while simple character lines down the side continue the horizontal theme.
The rear is very simple, with the boot release cleverly hidden within the VW badge – a premium touch.
How your Polo looks depends very much how you configure it. Opt for a base-spec S on steel wheels – ideal if you prefer to glide under the radar. But buyers who want something more eye-catching can opt for a range of bright colours, including the 'Energetic Orange' metallic hue of our test car. You can even spec racing stripes.
The Polo's performance remit covers the whole market – from the powerful 197bhp GTI to a rather more pedestrian 64bhp in the basic 1.0-litre MPI engine. Our car was fitted with the latter, and though it provides a very refined and smooth engine.
We think the sweet spot is the 1.0-litre turbocharged petrol engine with 95bhp. However, if you do a lot of motorway miles, you may be more comfortable with the 113bhp option – it gains a six- rather than five-speed gearbox making for more relaxed cruising.
Mega-mile-munchers can also opt for a choice of diesel engines, which promise rock-bottom running costs.
Ride and handling
The Polo has carved out a name for itself as the safe and predictable option in the supermini sector, and nothing has changed on that front. It's a very solid-feeling car, and all the controls are pleasantly weighted making smooth progress easy.
It's not as fun in the corners as a Ford Fiesta, though it's more comfortable – especially on the small wheels and squidgy tyres of our SE model. Opting for larger alloys sees the car's looks improve but the ride may suffer slightly.
Head onto the motorway and the Polo is a stable and comfortable cruiser that feels confident in a crosswind. It's one of the larger cars in its segment and that's reassuring when you're mixing it with large trucks and lorries on a busy motorway.
Interior and equipment
The Polo's interior is a paragon of build quality. It feels more solid in here than many cars from the class above, and every switch operates with a reassuring click.
Material quality is understandably not as plush as in VW's more premium cars, but it's still very good for a supermini. The top of the dash is swathed in soft-touch plastic, while the steering wheel and gear lever feel great in the hand.
It's also reasonably roomy, offering more legroom in the rear and luggage room in the boot than the Ford Fiesta. It can't compete with the capacious Skoda Fabia on this front, though.
Standard equipment on the Polo includes an eight-inch touchscreen infotainment system with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto support, engine stop/start, automatic headlights, 15-inch alloy wheels and safety technology such as Front Assist, emergency braking and pedestrian detection.
You pay for quality, and the same is true of the Polo. Though our mid-spec SE comes in at a reasonable £14,630, head into the options list and that can quickly mount up. In fact, our car came in at over £17,000 – an incredible sum for a vehicle with a less powerful engine than most city cars.
The Polo should be relatively cheap to run, though. We recorded excellent fuel economy from our 1.0-litre test car, and choosing a diesel engine could see your mpg rise to well over 60. Service plans are available for a reasonable sum, too, and Volkswagen's strong residual values should ensure a good offer if you wanted to buy on finance.
The supermini sector is full of choice, and no one car can appeal to everybody. The Polo doesn't have the driver appeal of the Ford Fiesta, but if you're happy to pay for top quality, comfort, and reassurance, it's an excellent choice and far superior to the old model.
The stats
Model: Volkswagen Polo SE 1.0
Price: £16,950
Power (bhp): 64
Torque (Nm): 95
Top speed (mph): 102
0-60mph: 15.3 seconds
MPG (combined): 60.1
Emissions (g/km): 108


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Spandex-clad women charged with stealing at garage sales
Miami Springs police arrested Matilde Clariel Veras, 45, of Miami Springs, and Clara Mercedes Castillo, 39, of Miami, on Feb. 7, charging both with grand theft for stealing at neighborhood garage sales.
Police in the small city of 14,000 have been on the lookout recently for two ladies in "black spandex pants" who witnesses say have bolted from area lawns without paying for old shoes and cheap fashion jewelry.
"The two females have been stealing from all the garage sales in Miami Springs for the past couple of months," a witness said in a Jan. 31 police report. The witness took video of the suspects "stealing" as well as photos of their tag number.
Items snatched by the duo, witnesses said, include a pair of "snake print rhinestone" boots and "nine gold rings."
During a traffic stop Saturday morning, the two "admitted to stealing property for the past two months at local garage sales," police said.
Veras and Castillo were charged with two counts of grand theft and booked at Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, according to the Miami-Dade Department of Corrections database. Each was released later Saturday on $10,000 bond.
Persons with any information about other garage sale thefts involving the accused, call Miami Springs police at 305-888-9711.

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BEIJING (Reuters) - His face adorns countless advertisements in China, he's sold millions of albums, and wherever he goes his adoring fans mob him. But for Taiwan singing sensation and budding actor Jay Chou, worldwide fame can wait.
Chou's music, which intertwines Western R&B and hip-hop with a distinctive Chinese flavor, has drawn a huge and sometimes obsessive following across Asia, especially in China, since his debut with the album "Jay" in 2000.
Last year's sports comedy "Kung Fu Dunk" was a hit across Asia for Chou. He'll appear onscreen with Taiwan supermodel Chiling Lin in "Ci Ling," which won't be released for at least another year.
But unlike Korean pop sensation and actor Rain, one of Asia's top-selling musicians, who has tried with little success to break into Hollywood, Chou says global renown can wait.
"For the international market, you have to study English," Chou told Reuters in a rare interview with foreign media, admitting that his English skills were not up to the task.
"When the time is right, I will do the international market, but it's not right yet."
Brought up in suburban Taipei by his mother, Chou, 30, flunked his college entrance exam and had thought about becoming a piano teacher, until fame came knocking.
With his catchy songs, street Mandarin, boyish good looks and self-effacing, almost shy, manner, he has won the hearts of fans even outside Chinese-speaking Asia, and has had much success in Japan. He is rarely out of the paparazzi's glare.
His global profile was raised when he starred alongside internationally renowned Chinese actors Gong Li and Chow Yun-fat in Oscar-nominated director Zhang Yimou's spectacular 2006 historical drama "Curse of the Golden Flower."
Already garlanded with praise and awards for his music, Chou now wants to pay more attention to his film career.
"Movies are more of a focus for now. As for music, I'll put out one album a year," said Chou, immaculately dressed in a white and gray checked suit, a small diamond-encrusted crucifix dangling from his neck. "I'll probably do two films a year."
Unusual for a star in the bubble-gum world of Mandopop, the classically trained Chou writes many of his own songs.
"He's a god," said Lin, getting ready to start filming "Ci Ling" with Chou, a film whose unlikely plot centers on a couple who go back in time to ancient Mongolia looking for treasure, according to Chinese media. "Nobody can match his creativity."
The power and popularity of his songs have not gone unnoticed in Beijing. Some have appeared on a list of 100 approved songs for music lessons in Chinese middle schools.
"He's unique, in every way. He's the best of his generation," said "Ci Ling" director Chu Yin-ping.
Chou has managed to avoid the political pitfalls in China that have befallen several other popular Taiwanese singers.
China banned Taiwan pop star Chang Hui-mei for a year after she sang the self-ruled island's anthem at anti-China President Chen Shui-bian's inauguration in 2000. China considers Taiwan its sovereign territory, not a separate country.
She was later forgiven, though, and allowed back into China.
Chou says he would like to work with Western artists, bashfully admitting a preference to team up with U.S. hip-hop group the Black Eyed Peas. Fellow Taiwan star Jolin Tsai in 2007 recorded a song with Australian pop star Kylie Minogue.
"If I have to sing in English, wow, it will take a lot of time," Chou said. "If they don't mind, I'll sing in Chinese and they can sing in English. That would be a better match." (Additional reporting by Vivi Lin, editing by Miral Fahmy)


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Europe (i/ˈjʊərəp/ or /ˈjɜːrəp/) is a continent that comprises the westernmost part of Eurasia. Europe is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. To the east and southeast, Europe is generally considered as separated from Asia by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways of the Turkish Straits. Yet the borders of Europe—a concept dating back to classical antiquity—are arbitrary, as the primarily physiographic term "continent" also incorporates cultural and political elements.
Europe is the world's second-smallest continent by surface area, covering about 10,180,000 square kilometres (3,930,000 sq mi) or 2% of the Earth's surface and about 6.8% of its land area. Of Europe's approximately 50 countries, Russia is by far the largest by both area and population, taking up 40% of the continent (although the country has territory in both Europe and Asia), while Vatican City is the smallest. Europe is the third-most populous continent after Asia and Africa, with a population of 739–743 million or about 11% of the world's population. Europe has a climate heavily affected by warm Atlantic currents, tempering winters and enabling warm summers on most of the continent, even on latitudes that have severe climates in North America and Asia. Further from the Atlantic, seasonal differences increase, but the mildness of the climate remains.
Europa, also known as Residence Palace, is a complex of buildings between the Rue de la Loi/Wetstraat and the Chaussée d'Etterbeek/Etterbeeksesteenweg in the European Quarter of Brussels, the capital city of Belgium. It is formed of three buildings, a press centre and a building currently being renovated (estimated completion: 2016) for use by the European Council, mainly, and even also (for some occasions) by the Council of the European Union as a summit building. To the west lies the main Council building, Justus Lipsius and across the road lie the Berlaymont and Charlemagne buildings of the European Commission.
Walloon businessman Lucien Kaisin planned the building following the end of the First World War. It was to be a luxurious apartment block for the bourgeoisie and aristocracy of Brussels following a housing shortage caused by the war. It was also intended to address the shortage of domestic workers at the time by having them available to all residents. Kaisin described the building as "a small town within a city".
Cable were a British indie rock band originally from Derby, UK who released 3 albums in the late '90s: Down-Lift the Up-Trodden ('96), When Animals Attack ('97), and Sub-Lingual ('99), on Infectious Records. The band split up in 1999.
Formed in 1992 by Matt Bagguley and Darius Hinks, Cable were initially inspired by the art-rock leanings of indie-labels such as Touch and Go, Dischord, Blast First, Southern Records and Shimmy Disc, and also UK artists such as Spacemen 3 & My Bloody Valentine. The first settled line-up was Matt Bagguley (vocals/guitar), Darius Hinks (guitar), Pete Darrington (bass), Neil Cooper (drums) and throughout 1993 the band played regularly with underground acts from the U.S (such as Medicine, Polvo, Truman's Water, Rocket From The Crypt..) In early '94 their debut single "Sale of the Century" was released on 7", by Derby-based indie-label Krunch! Records. Radio 1 DJ John Peel played it immediately on his show saying it was the best thing he'd heard that week and phoned the band during the show to invite them to record a session. John Peel remained a loyal fan from that moment on, and altogether the band recorded 4 Peel Sessions.
Cable is an American band formed in 1994 in Rockville, Connecticut. They combine a hardcore punk and emo aesthetic with a rhythmically complex, often discordant metal-influenced musical approach. Lineup changes and delays between recordings may have hindered their notoriety over the years.
The quartet formed in 1994, at which time it consisted of Randy Larsen (guitar/vocals), Vic Szalaj (drums), Matt Becker (guitar), and Jeff Caxide (bass) and were players in Connecticut's "noise-core" scene. This line-up recorded a demo and appeared on a split 7" with Malcolm's Lost. Vocalist Aaron Lazauski joined the band briefly and appeared on the "Part Three"/"Feed Me Glass" 7" in 1995. Soon, both Lazauski and Larsen left the band and Bernie Romanowski joined the group as vocalist/guitarist. In the documentary Last Call, Jeff Caxide stated that he was unhappy with Larsen's departure and soon, he parted ways with Cable, only to, ironically, be replaced by a returning Randy Larsen, who picked up the bass upon re-entry into the band. In 1997, their debut, Variable Speed Drive was released by Doghouse Records.
Cable (or the cable) is a foreign exchange term used for the GBP/USD currency pair rate (British pound vs the US dollar).
The term cable is a slang term used by forex traders to refer to the exchange rate between the pound and dollar and is also used to simply refer to the British pound itself. The term originated in the mid-19th century, when the exchange rate between the U.S. dollar and British pound began to be transmitted across the Atlantic by a submarine communications cable. Since that time the exchange rate has been referred to as the cable.
The first Transatlantic Cable was laid under the Atlantic Ocean in 1858, but it failed after only about a month of fitful service. The first really successful cable across the Atlantic was completed in July 1866, reliably transmitting currency prices between the London and New York Exchanges. The first such exchange rate to be published in The Times appeared in their issue of 10 August 1866.
Transatlantic communications are now mainly carried by optical fibre cables, supplemented to a small degree by satellites, but forex traders' nickname for the pound-dollar pair still hearkens back to the old days of copper telegraph cables.
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Yaquina Bay Lighthouse
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The older lighthouse is said to be haunted by
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The story says that someone disappeared after
the old lighthouse was abandoned. The tale got its start with an old
magazine story called the Haunted Light, a late nineteenth century story about
a young girl who is drawn to the empty lighthouse one day while picnicing with
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Some say her spirit still lingers, yet was it
a story of fiction or fact? The legend of Muriel is a well-known tale in these
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To the north of the old lighthouse is the
replacement. Yaquina Head Beacon is still said to be haunted. In
the thirties, one of the lighthouse keepers said he heard the ghost on the
stairs almost every night.
No keepers now, but the staff and visitors and
volunteers have heard voices and footsteps in the Yaquina Head Lighthouse.
Most believe that the spirit is one of the old lighthouse
Heceta Head Lighthouse
To get to Heceta Head Lighthouse from Portlant,
Oregon, you have to drive along highways of incredible vistas. The
Pacific Ocean and the rugged shores of the Pacific Northwest, some of the most
beautiful scenery in the world. Heceta Head Lighthouse sits on a wedge
of cliff, with its keepers quarters and light tower.
The keeper's quarters is a Queen Ann style
fully restored house, beautiful amid the trees and rock croppings, now open to
the public as a bed and breakfast. It is said to be the most haunted area of
the compound.
The legend talks about a keeper's wife named
Ru. who lost her child in an accident, with conflicting tales of the way the
child died.
Guests of the bed and breakfast talk over the
breakfast table of ghostly experiences and for the most part, the tales hold
true to the legend.
The curator tells of the DeRoys, a couple, the
wife joining her husband the keeper at Heceda Head. Staff have seen a woman,
the style of the early nineteen hundreds, moving about the keepers quarters. A
workman in the attic saw woman's reflection in the windows he was cleaning,
the image clear and not fleeting.
The desolate area and windy weather gives the
haunted lighthouse an even eerier feel, but none who work there have reported
feeling uneasy with the spirit which resides there. All have reported
feeling quite comfortable in the keeper's house.
On the coast of Maine,
Owls Head Lighthouse is extrordinary when it comes to the
stories of hauntings there.
An hour north of Portland, Maine, Curtis
Island Lighthouse is a bird sanctuary. Even closer to Owls head, we get
to Breakwater Lighthouse, one of the few said to be not haunted.
Owls Head is a rocky, craggy area on the
coast, sitting haunted on the hill. Footprints appear on the stairs and
the cleaning's been done after a rain, but the footprints don't go down the
stairs. Is it the spirit of a keeper taking his job seriously to this
One family that stayed in the keeper's house
in the eighties, who found the ghost interacting with their daughter.
The tiny daughter told the dad in the middle of the night that he had to turn
on the fog horn. The family knew it wasn't coming from the little girl,
but from a keeper from days gone by.
Strange events have gone on in the house, the
footprints, the cleaning, the extreme care of the lighthouse, points to a
former keeper. The resident family never feels alone.
Prospect Harbor,
Maine is about five hours north of Boston.
The keepers quarters is used for navy personnel,
calling it Gull Cottage. The former light keeper's ghost is said to haunt Gull
Cottage and the solitude brings on a tale about an old man called Captain
Guests often talk about the events that plague
them through the night, like doors opening and closing, lights going on and
off and other odd occurrences. The owners leave journals for the guests
to write in if they have odd occurrences. There are a trio of statues at
a window at Gull Cottage and in the morning, they're faced in a different
direction than they were in before the guests retire.
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Pensacola Lighthouse
Nearly one hundred and fifty years old, the
tower is maintained by the US Coastguard and they tend to refuse the rumors
about ghosts.
The local story talks about a tragedy in the
late eighteen hundreds on a hot summer night. An argument between a
keeper and his wife resulted in a bloody and brutal murder, likely, the locals
say, after years of abuse. The blood stain won't be scrubbed out.
It returns no matter how much one tries to clean that part of the bedroom
A plumber, looking for frozen pipes one cold
January evening, saw and heard a person near him and around him, not his work
partner. He spoke to him and the specter spoke back. To this day
the plumber swears the encounter is true.
Tour guests have seen a lady in white on the
second catwalk on the tower and even though the stairs and tower are
locked, the spirit is seen walking around the light.
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Hillsboro Police released the name of a driver who crashed into Dale's Supermarket Oct. 14.
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When I was told that my services as a Mad Men recapper would no longer be needed after the next episode, I was relieved. The fame, the acclaim, the post-coital glow and the long savoring of a candy cigarette afterwards, the folding money discreetly tucked into my top pocket by the coat-check babe at Monkey Bar ("a little something extra from Graydon," wink), none of these could compensate for the performance anxiety, the angst of expectation, that would come fog-rolling in on Sunday morning—Broadcast Day.
And, not to bitch, but sitting each week in a cold studio on those non-ergonomic chairs next to Michael Kors and Nina Garcia became less and less of a treat, with Michael complaining about his bottled water being lukewarm and swimming with "filmy material," which to me looked like the orange flecks of his makeup slowly dying their way to the bottom, and Nina complaining about everything being too "matchy-matchy," a phrase she wouldn't let go of no matter how much Michael and I tried to pry it away from her. Then there is the guilt that accumulated week after week like soot on the keyboard until each key blackened into row upon row of cavitied teeth: the guilt of knowing that these Mad Men recaps were doing nothing to address our social decay, improve the livestock, or promote longer, wavier hair. I was making a product that produced a rich, creamy foam that didn't solve anyone's problems and left me scouring my soul for an alternative that would help people and allow me to live with my conscience; like, say, a really fun wine column. But I know nothing of wine and such daydreaming wasn't going to spring me from the mousetrap in which I was pinned, foiled by the foam-rubber cheese yet again. I could have spent Monday's beautiful afternoon protesting the genocide of Native Americans celebrating Columbus Day, but instead I was symbolically lashed to the mast, being lashed literally to the mast not being something I'm "into," just so you know.
But now the end is near, I face the final curtain. But although I have just invoked Frank Sinatra's ego anthem "My Way," and Mad Men's Roger Sterling (John Slattery, who directed last night's episode) is clearly meant to be the show's Sinatra avatar, it was Don who once again exemplified the lyric intent of that song, doing it His Way, but with an egolessness that's far harder to emulate. It's personal showmanship with an impersonal shadow.
"Blowing Smoke," written by Andre and Maria Jacquemetton (hmm, I wonder if they're related), darted with a tension that was missing from last week's episode, the shock reverb from the loss of the Lucky Strike account ratcheting up everyone's fear gauges, Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce now sitting dead-duck in the water as leaking blood draws dark fins from all directions, snapping up their accounts. The episode begins with Don pitching a Heinz client, who represents Heinz beans, which before the war were the flagship product of the company. Now, "Ketchup is king," "pickles are funny," and beans are only funny in a way that you can't exploit in commercials. (In the mid-'60s, you couldn't; today on TV, an advertiser could probably fart away in sheer rhapsody.) Unhappy as the client is with the current agency, he isn't willing to give Don a pitch opportunity because he isn't sure, nobody's sure, that Sterling Cooper will be around in six months.
"Not no, but not now," is his answer to Don, who, like Willy Loman on a bad day, leaves with nothing for his efforts but a handshake.
Back at the Ponderosa, everybody is gnawing on their innards. Billings have shrunk by 50 percent and new accounts are difficult to drum up when you're on death watch. Dr. Faye's boss, Dr. Atherton, councils the partners that "Tobacco is the ideal boyfriend" for Sterling Cooper and says that he can get them an exclusive meeting with Philip Morris, which is set to launch a new brand of cigarettes marketed to women (presumably a test run for Virginia Slims, launched in 1968). So avid is the agency for any shot at a billing that Bert promises, "We will listen more than speak."
"Like a good girlfriend," Dr. Atherton mildly assents.
It's a comment that actually carries more residue of sixties sexism than all the cruder frat-house hijinks of Stan and crew in the office, further proof that subtle is always the sharpest way to go.
But the anticipation of a comeback pitch goes for nil as Dr. Atherton emerges from the elevator on the appointed date alone, the top brass at Sterling Cooper standing around expectantly as if waiting at the altar for the groom to arrive.
Unfortunate news, Dr. Atherton announces, formalizing what they already suspect: Philip Morris has bagged the meeting. The prospective groom is a no-show, having chosen a different bride.
"You're an asshole," Roger tells Atherton, not the most emollient way to address disappointment.
The partners form an emergency huddle as Peggy, Ted, and others press their ears against the walls to eavesdrop on the grownups making contingency plans that will put a major hurt in the partners' wallets. Existentially, it isn't as if the walls are closing in on the agency as much as they're ready to fall backwards like stage flats, a collapsing house of cards leaving everyone in high-rise, slow-motion free-fall, like Don in the opening credits. All that is solid will melt into air, to paraphrase Marx. Having no desire to form a skydiving team, each of the senior partners must kick in $100,000, and the junior partners $50,000, to keep the company solvent for the next six months with reduced staff, hoping to ride out the storm until the account picture improves. Just having entered parenthood, Pete doesn't have $50,000 in the kitty and tigress Trudy forbids him to give any more money to that company or hit up her dad for a loan. "Forbid" is a pretty strong word that Pete, in his manly pride, takes umbrage at, but he can take all the umbrage he wants and hock it at the pawn shop for all Trudy cares, having flounced out before Nina and I could get a good look at her outfit.
Between these two visits from Dr. Atherton, Don bumped into a bohemian ghost from his past, Midge the Greenwich Village artist (Rosemary DeWitt), who just happened to be lolling around in the skyscraper lobby, having conveniently lost her pocketbook. "Where are you going with so much purpose?" she asks Don, tilting her head and hugging herself so flirtily that she seems ready for her own easel in An American in Paris. Learning that Don is now a fellow Villager and solo, she entices him over to meet her husband, a playwright whom, upon meeting is said to resemble Dylan Thomas, or is it Brendan Behan, but in fact looks like neither, his only similarity being in his ability to sponge. "He's very interesting," Don says, having handed hubby a $10 bill to buy groceries, to which Midge retorts, "He's an idiot," sounding very Elaine Benes.
Interesting, idiotic, he's definitely insignificant. What's significant is that Midge's art garret is an even crappier apartment than Don's, a translated piece of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Appalachian poverty with walls painted Kafka-cockroach-vomit-green. Reclining on her crappy bed in an open-crotch stance, Midge seems at first to be giving Don the old come-hither, but it turns out she's found something better than sex: heroin, which makes her feel like she's drinking 100 bottles of whiskey while someone licks her tits, which is pretty hard for any man to compete with, satisfaction-wise, even Don. Now we understand why she's so skinny, so needily beguiling (she's needily needle-ly, ya dig?). Don offers to buy a painting, writing her a check for $300, which is just useless paper for her purposes. "Don, what am I gonna do with a check?" she wistfully sighs, presumably because drug dealers doesn't offer check-cashing services, distrusting their customers for some reason. So Don forks over whatever bills are left in his wallet and leaves with a painting, answering her question about the quality of her work with an existential, "Does it matter?"
Back in his apartment, that cozy little cubbyhole of despond, he seems ready to junk the painting as nothing more than the token of a gesture, but something in it signals a sub-unit in his mind and he props it up on the sofa and looks at it as if looking into it, through it, as if finding a keyhole and fixing upon a single-point of Samatha meditation until his unconscious unlocks the solution to his dilemma.
He takes to his notebook, tearing out the journal pages as if ridding himself of the past and as the night deepens we see him typing a statement under the heading WHY I'M QUITTING TOBACCO.
The resulting pages he folds neatly into an envelope and their contents are printed in a full-page ad in The New York Times, declaring that Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce will no longer accept tobacco clients—no longer promote a product that "never improves, causes illness, and makes people unhappy."
Speaking of unhappy people, the partners are none too joyous that Don has taken such a bold public unilateral stand without consulting them, casting their fates to the wind and the wolves.
Upon entering the office, Don sees them waiting within the glass enclosure of the conference room, a mime troupe of angry faces, and rather than enter the cage he enters the sanctuary of his own office, which they soon invade like a Soviet delegation.
Nothing Don says placates their ire. When he says he slept last night for the first time in ages, Roger sneers, "Was it with a smile on your face over the prospect of the taste of shit in everybody's mouth over breakfast?" When Don says he did what was best for the company, Pete fumes, "You did what was best for you. Because you're impatient and childish." Bert, usually the wise elder hush puppy of the firm, calls Don "cynical and craven," announces his resignation as partner, and spreading his arms wide in the direction of Don's desk, proclaims, "We've created a monster."
When Don remarks to Lane, the last to leave, that he knows that Lane knows this could work, Lane deflects the remark by noting that he has just moved his entire family back to New York, leaving the rebuking implication hanging unspoken in the air that he has a lot more at stake should this firm go under than Dan does, something he might have thought of first. (It also lets the viewer know that Lane caved to his brute father and there will be no chocolate bunny hopping down the bunny trail of his future.)
What makes Mad Men a great series is that so much of its mystique is predicated on the myth of Don Draper's creative genius, and what this season has shown better than the previous three is that his genius is not a myth, not a hollow bag of tricks, but a demonstrable force that derives from digging deeper into his thought processes than anyone else—so deep he barely seems to be thinking so much as submerged in the problem before him, like Simenon's Inspector Maigret, entering an almost self-induced coma to disengage from the noise of the moment and emerge with his mind no longer a muddle, the nature of the crime clarified.
Consider what doesn't happen in the showdown with the partners. Personal insults are hurled at Don, one stick after another (childish, craven, cynical, monster), and he not only doesn't throw insults back (how easy it would be to say, "Bert, what do you do around here except sit around in your socks?"), but the insults seem to pass right through him (likewise the mockery of rival Ted Chaough, who places a prank call to Don, pretending to be Senator Bobby Kennedy congratulating him and doing the worst Kennedy impression ever), because he's working on a different plane. Don has pride but he doesn't have a speck of false pride; he perceives what needs to be done and what the opposition isn't anticipating better than anybody (even Pete, the most forward-looking of the others) because his mind is always trained farther downfield, zeroing in on the target, blurring out everything in between like a Zen archer. Even Peggy is reluctant to approve of Don's bold counterstroke gambit, so anxious is she about her job status, though she does have a good comeback when asked by Don what she thought of the ad: "I thought you didn't go in for these kinds of shenanigans," an allusion to his snappish chastising of her after a stunt involving actresses pretending to be fanatical shoppers went badly awry. He's a good enough sport to concede the point with a quick smile.
But the tartest line belongs to Roger, who, embarking on carrying out the agency's economy measures, gripes, "Well, I gotta go learn a lot of people's names before I fire them."
There was a second storyline in last night's episode that is part of the ongoing serial that might be called The Passion and Pathos of Young Sally. It was Sally who had the most profound, uncanny insights last night, telling her psychologist about the time she re-brushed her teeth after her mother told her breath still smelled like spaghetti. Did it? the psychologist asks. Doesn't matter, Sally says. "She doesn't care what the truth is, as long as I do what she says." So Sally is practicing the outward show of conformity of being a Good Girl, which not only keeps a semblance of peace in the household but impresses the psychologist as a genuine sign of improvement. We soon learn that Sally has been secretly meeting with creepy Glen, who reminds Sally that he was the one who coached her to kissed her mother's ass to keep her happy. The scenes with Glen have a painful, sincere sweetness you seldom see in movies or TV, none of the strained precociousness of sitcom quips and a palpable sense of precious stolen time that can't last. They compare their dreams of flying—not like a superhero, but standing upright—and discussing what happens after death, Sally no believer in Heaven. "When I think about forever, I get upset," she says, a wonderful line. They finish their Cokes and then bike off to their separate houses.
But one afternoon Betty, driving around like an avenging angel on wheels, spots Sally slipping off and follows her, making a shrill, indignant scene over something quite innocent. Betty's false pride, of which she has an angry surplus, seems spiked with vindication over the discovery that Sally's Good Girl act has been the sham she always suspected it was. How dare she think she can pull something over on me!
Over Norman Rockwell dinner, Betty announces that maybe it's time to move, given the low-caliber of the people migrating into the area, and husband Henry's all for this, eager to get out of the House of Don, while Sally excuses herself and throws herself on the bed sobbing, the overhead shot of her in bed a mirror of the same shot of Don in bed with a crash-landing hangover, causing Nina Garcia to poke me with her pen and whisper, "A bit matchy-matchy, yes?" Yes, perhaps, but I was so emotionally pulled into Sally's pain that I tuned out its pictorial purpose. I hate seeing Sally cry; there's something so pure and defenseless about her plight. She's either going to evolve into a saint forged in suffering or develop telekinetic powers and turn their next residence into a house of flying daggers, converting her mother into a lovely order of shish kabob. Either way, we're pulling for you, Sally! Your tears shall not spill in vain!
But now I've reached the near-end and can see the light at the end of the prison tunnel leading out of the football stadium toward Shawshank Redemption. After next week, no more, no mas, I'm free, no longer shoulder-bent under the weight of all this guilt and responsibility, no longer tasked to studying the X-rays of Don Draper's shadow self each week and asked to deliver a prognosis. I can finally hang up the Dr. Kildare rubber stethoscope that has been with me faithfully ever since Halloween 1964, perhaps find it a new home on eBay once I unclog the ear tips.
One thing about next week's season finale. When Megan rattled through the list of phone messages for Don following his NY Times full-page ad, she mentioned something about someone named Emerson Foot calling. Just a hunch, but I suspect that's significant somehow, precisely because Megan made it sound so offhand, just another piece of verbal traffic. Unless, of course, I misheard. Like I say, those Dr. Kildare ear tips could use with an unclogging.
Well, we shall see, shalln't we?
P.S. Oh, it's Foot with an "e."
Now the crystal ball becomes less clouded.


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Before you make these I have to warn you they are so intense and decadent that even the biggest chocolate addict among you may have trouble having more than one, but in saying that you may find it difficult to stop at just one one!
- 200g/7oz dark chocolate
- 150g/5¼oz plain flour
- 30g/1oz cocoa, sifted
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ tsp instant coffee
- 150g/5¼oz unsalted butter, softened
- 225g/8oz brown sugar
- 1/3 cup brandy
- 225g/8oz blueberry's
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 egg
- 170g/6oz white chocolate chips
- Place the blueberries in a shallow dish pour the brandy over them and cover it with cling film and place it in the fridge overnight or for at least 2 hours
- Preheat the oven to 170C/325F/Gas 3. Grease a square baking dish with butter and grease proof paper.
- Break the 200g/7oz dark chocolate into pieces and place into a heatproof bowl with the instant coffee set over a pan of barely simmering water, stirring occasionally, until it has melted.Set it aside.
- Place the flour, cocoa, bicarbonate of soda and salt into a large bowl and mix well.
- In another bowl, cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Beat in the vanilla extract and the egg.
- Add the melted chocolate and stir well, then mix in the dry ingredients. Finally fold in the white chocolate chips and the blueberries with the juice.Pour mixture into the prepared baking dish and smooth en the top.
- Transfer to the oven and bake for 25-30 minutes, then test with a skewer - it should come out semi-clean and not wet with batter. If you pierce a chocolate chip, try again.
- Leave the brownies to cool in the baking tray for 10 minutes, then cut them into squares and allow them to cool completely
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After Thoughts
- If you cant get your hands on blueberries I am sure cherries or even strawberries would work. I would have loved to try it with some mull berries
- If you feel there is too much liquid from the blueberries which have been soaked in brandy just add as much of the liquid as you like


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By Angella Arjune Kaied
Kabir Association of Canada
What is Peer Pressure?
- Teenagers seem to have more of a problem with peer pressure because they are just beginning to learn about who they are, and what their belief systems are. They can be easily swayed, especially if they have a strong desire to fit into certain groups, and they are becoming more and more self-reliant. (Dr. Bruce A. Epstein, author of "The Importance of Peer Pressure")
- Dictionary Definition: peer pressure is the pressure from one's peers to behave in a manner similar or acceptable to them.
- Normal part of growing up and everyone faces some sort of social pressure on a daily basis.
Adults feel the pressure to socialize with certain people, or to attend certain functions. Pre-school aged children are assessed on how they interact with their peers, and adolescents are similarly judged. "A healthy part of every child's development is involvement with their peers. This is especially true during adolescence, as teenagers develop a sense of independence from their parents."
Is Peer Pressure Always a Bad Thing?
- Peer pressure can be both a positive and negative experience.
- Positive peer pressure can motivate teenagers to excel in certain areas like sports, and influence some to take positive action to help others, the environment, etc.
- Positive peer pressure is the backbone of most cheering sections.
- Negative peer pressure is when the teenagers are influenced to partake in deviant behavior, that is not in one's character, nor is it morally sound, and it puts them at a risk for experiencing a negative outcomes.
Socialization and Peer Pressure:
- Human beings are social creatures.
- We have very few basic instincts to help us survive in the world.
- We learn almost everything from others such as parents, peers, and teachers.
- One survival instinct we do have that seems to be inborn is the fear of rejection.
- This fear leads us to conform to the group so that we can fit in, and have a group to protect us from harm.
- During adolescents the need to belong to a certain group is very strong.
- Isolation and social rejection during adolescence can lead to serious behavioral problems and communication difficulties.
- Teenagers will do a lot of different things to become a member of certain groups.
- Some of those things could be simply changing their appearances, wearing the acceptable brand name shoes, or to more seriously engaging in behavior that is out of one's character, such as drug use, risky behaviors like street car racing, etc.
When Peer Pressure Leads to Drug Use:
- Peer pressure is one of three major influences on teenagers and drug use.
- The other two are the existence of a drug-prone personality (someone who is interested in drugs on their own, and enjoy the feeling the drugs give them, or a person who is easily addicted to lots of different things) and an unsatisfactory parent-child relationship.
- Some teenagers try alcohol because their friends are drinking. Some start to smoke because its what the cool kids are doing
- Most teenagers will resort back to their own ideas about smoking and drinking
Substance Use Patterns of Canadian Youth:
- Most commonly used substances are alcohol, tobacco, and cannabis.
- Increase in cannabis use throughout the 1990s has been reported in all provinces.
- Ecstasy use had increased eight-fold in Ontario students between 1993 and 1999.
- Since early 1990s there has been an increase in the percentage of students reporting current use of more than one substance at a time, including illicit drugs.
- Some provinces reported an increase in the percentage of students who engage in heavy drinking episodes, five drinks or more per occasion.
- School drop-outs, or those at risk of leaving school, are at a higher risk for substance abuse, or are already regular or heavy users.
- Young males are more likely than young females to engage in riskier forms of substance abuse.
Not all of the drug abuse going on amongst teenagers is due to peer pressure, however peers can and will influence some teenagers to engage in inappropriate behavior.
How Can We Help Our Teens Resist Peer Pressure?
Judy Halassy is a Youth Social Worker who has a few suggestions on how to raise such a teen.
- Teens would naturally want to spend time with their friends.
- But as a parent, make it a priority to spend time with your kids.
- Go to their soccer games, their recitals, etc.
- Get interested and involved in their lives.
- Listen, listen, listen and hear what they are saying.
- Don't try to force your own viewpoints on them, let them share their ideas with you.
- As teens share their ideas and thoughts, don't ridicule them or say how immature their thinking is.
- Help them explore their feelings about certain issues,
- This will build their confidence on certain topics and it will help them be strong when confronted.
- Positive discipline and setting limits give children a sense of security.
- Consequences and rules need to be consistent
- Let your child take responsibility for his/her actions
- If they get in trouble at school, don't go and defend their actions, let them realize what they did was wrong, and they need to be accountable for it.
- Nurture interests and hobbies, the more things they're interested in and are good at the less likely they will get into trouble.
THREE A's OF SELF-ESTEEM
- Affection
- Acceptance
- Accomplishment


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Cristiano Ronaldo is said to be interested in a return to Manchester United this summer, according to reports.
The Real Madrid ace wants to leave Spain and people close to the player says that he still holds United close to his heart, Sky Sports said.
Ronaldo left United to join Madrid in an £80m deal in 2009 and the Red Devils have attempted to bring him back to Manchester on at least one occasion since then, according to Sky.
Reports suggest United will offer Spain keeper David de Gea, 26, and £174m in exchange for the Portugal star.
United remain cautious about getting involved in a transfer merry-go-round and club officials believe that the Portuguese legend will eventually decide to stay in Spain.
The players' advisers, though, have been told to find a way out of Spain for Ronaldo, who is apparently upset after he was recently accused of tax evasion amounting to £13m.
The problem for Ronaldo is that very few clubs could afford his wages on top of what would be a massive transfer fee.
PSG are said to be interested in signing him while AC Milan's new Chinese owners have also reportedly been in contact with his agent Jorge Mendes.
Chelsea are also rumoured to be interested.
A move to the Chinese Super League is also a possibility, although Ronaldo is said to want to carry on playing in Europe.


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Holdrege Has It!
Holdrege, Nebraska created this video, and yours truly was tapped to be a part of it. Please feel free to check it out if you're interested!
Friday, January 4, 2013
ICWA and SCOTUS
For only the second time, the Supreme Court of the United States will hear a case involving the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). This Reuters article describes the situation as a "human tragedy," which pretty much can describe any case on appeal involving ICWA, as the failure to abide by ICWA's mandates can essentially 'undo' an adoption.
Whatever the result, it will be wonderful for attorneys involved in these types of cases to have a little more guidance from the Supreme Court.
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Merry Cinemas – Round 4
Yesterday, in Round 3 of Merry Cinemas, the classic holiday comedies went head-to-head. Home Alone went up against National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, and The Santa Clause took on Elf. Which two movies are continuing on in the tournament? Well, let's see how you guys voted:
So Home Alone and Elf are still in the running – good choices, guys! Today we're continuing on in the comedy category. Eight Crazy Nights is going head-to-head with a new favorite, Arthur Christmas, while Deck the Halls is taking on Fred Claus. What two movies will continue on in the hopes of becoming the top holiday film? Well Swaggernauts, that's up to YOU to decide!
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April 6 found a statewide smoking ban turned down by an 8-1 vote from the state Senate Public Policy Committee assigned to review the issue.
House Bill 1018, according to a recent Indianapolis Star article, had split senators on the committee between not wanting a state mandate for banning smoking and believing that the current proposed bill was too weak to do any good.
The United States is the world's greatest military power, but is it our job to be the world's policeman and interfere in internal affairs of other sovereign nations?
And by starting military action in Libya while we already have forces engaged in Iraq and Afghanistan, are we stretching the U.S. military, not to mention the federal government's budget, too thin?
Those are questions we think should have been thoroughly debated in Congress before President Obama made the decision to start military action in Libya without congressional approval.
The state officials most responsible for ensuring Indiana's children are educated seem to be doing all they can to stifle the process most likely to ensure the state's prosperity.
High-schoolers who are able will get the chance to move ahead to college a year early if Senate Bill 497 makes it into law. That's wonderful, but it will affect the schools those students will leave behind.
Recent headlines about the seizure of dogs from a Perry County man's home generated plenty of buzz and an outpouring of concern and assistance for those rescued animals.
We hope the positive response helps generate long-term support for efforts to prevent similar cases of animal abuse or neglect in the future. But for that to happen, more of us need to get involved in helping control our local pet population and supporting advocates who want to put in place common-sense measures to protect animals.
When the NCAA started requiring 820 SAT or 68 ACT scores for freshmen to be eligible for college sports, longtime college basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian predicted that there would be cheating on those standardized tests to make star athletes eligible.
He's been proven correct in several cases. The most notable one involved current NBA star Derrick Rose, who led Memphis University to the NCAA men's Division I championship game in his only season there.
Tell City-Troy Township School Board member Dr. Gene Ress expressed conflicting and misguided messages when he addressed a small crowd at a school-board meeting Tuesday.
The gist of his message: Fellow board member Sherri Flynn did nothing illegal when she talked in an open meeting about the board's hiring of new Schools Superintendent Lynn Blinzinger, but board members shouldn't share with the public anything that occurs in executive sessions.
It's no secret that Hoosiers – and Hoosier politicians – disagree on the roles labor unions should play in the 21st century work place. So-called right-to-work legislation in the Indiana House was effectively killed last month after Democrat lawmakers in that body left the state, literally. In doing so, they denied that body a quorum and added Indiana to a list of states in which lawmakers have fled their seats to stop legislation they opposed.
It can't be said enough times. Politicians need to put aside party politics and start reaching across the aisles for compromise.
If the past decade has taught us anything, it's that our politicians need to wake up, listen to the people and start taking suggestions instead of fighting.
Recent disagreements in Wisconsin and in our own state have seen a slightly disturbing event occur; Democrats refusing to vote on issues and fleeing state capitals for hiding instead of debating the issues at hand.
That our public school system has severe flaws is a popular premise in government and among many education reformers. And $300 million in recent spending cuts to Indiana's public schools necessitated by the state's need to balance its recession-riddled budget certainly haven't helped solve the schools' problems.
In the usual scheme of things, a sickness enters a body, then spreads. In the body known as the Tell City-Troy Township School Corp. Board of School Trustees, we may have just seen the beginning of a reverse process.
To say the board as a governing body is ill might take the metaphor too far, but we would like to see others catch what Flynn took to their table Tuesday.
The Perry County Council will meet Wednesday evening to discuss changes to the retirement fund currently offered to deputies employed by the county sheriff's department. As The News has reported, Sheriff Lee Chestnut wants the county to fund a transition from the current program under the Indiana Public Employees Retirement Fund to another geared toward police officers and firefighters.
Alabama publisher NewSouth Books announced at the beginning of January that the company would publish a version of the Mark Twain classic "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" without any of the offensive terms, including the "n-word" which appears in the original novel 219 times.
One of famed cowboy philosopher Will Rogers' best known quotes is his reply when asked which political party he belonged to. "I'm not a member of any organized political party — I'm a Democrat," he said.
One might say the same thing about both major American parties now, as one would not expect an organized party to try to overthrow some of its most powerful and respected members.
We agree with Gov. Mitch Daniels' assertion in his State of the State Address last week that the state has no more critical a duty than educating its children.
We disagree, however, on one of the methods he touts as an improvement to public education.
Two announcements from City Hall over the past week give us hope that Tell City's downtown has a bright future.
A story in last Thursday's issue reported on the likely sale of the former Dat's Kajun restaurant to Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana, a nonprofit group dedicated to preserving buildings with significant history or architectural value. Many of us remember the building at the corner of Main and Pestalozzi streets as the Glow Room Tavern and we've all seen the imposing structure's gradual decline over the past few years.
As we turn the final page on one year and begin another, it's natural to look forward to the months ahead, as well as recall the events of the past year.
We would like to mark the new year by extending our thanks to the men and women who left public office last week. Without a doubt they served us well.
Editor's Note: In the months before the Christmas of 1897, an 8-year-old girl named Virginia O'Hanlon wrote a letter to the New York Sun, asking if there really was a Santa Claus. Edward P. Mitchell gave the assignment to Francis P. Church, whose reply to Virginia appeared in the Sept. 21, 1897, edition of the Sun. Virginia's letter and Church's reply, as it appeared in the Sun, are reprinted below. Virginia O'Hanlon Douglas died May 13, 1971.
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Patriots rose to the occasion last week, mustering from homes and farms to honor the life of a fallen brother.
They lined Tell City's streets Thursday as the cortege carrying the flag-draped coffin of Barry Jarvis made its slow journey to Deer Creek Church. Students, store workers, old men and women, even preschool students stood outside, watching and weeping. Many held flags and placed hands over their hearts.
Tuesday marks the 69th anniversary of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. This editorial was written by Cannelton News Editor Bob Cummings and published Dec. 6, 1960. At that time, the county was home to hundreds of World War II veterans. The number of living vets who fought in the war are far fewer today, but the relevance of Pearl Harbor Day remains. Cummings' editorial is published here in its original words.
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Thursday saw Congress sign a new childhood nutrition bill that will now be presented to President Obama to sign into law. You may have heard of the bill; it's the same one First Lady Michelle Obama is backing in which new nutrition standards will be set for foods sold in schools. According to TheHill.com, the $4.5 million bill will also expand the eligibility of children in need to participate in school-meal programs and give schools a 6-cent increase to help cafeterias serve healthier meals.
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PAST 310 Introduction to Pastoral Studies
The course is an introduction to Pastoral Studies. It contains segments on the ministries of teaching, preaching, pastoral care, organization, and celebration. It also treats the theology, history, and present opportunities in ministry. There are three mandatory seminars held each semester.
PAST 320 Pastoral Care
An introduction to pastoral care. Topics include: counseling relationships, pastoral counseling in a parish setting and in schools, pastoral counseling for adults and seniors, counseling the anxious and depressed persons, alcoholics, the burnt out, and the grieving.
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The course aims to foster a theological-ethical framework for reflecting on the moral responsibilities of pastoral ministry. Topics include ministry as vocation and as profession, and deals with issues of ethics, power, sexuality, and confidentiality.


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The Minister of Youth Empowerment, Sport and Culture Development, Thapelo Olopeng says the government intends to start preparing for Tokyo 2020 as early as this year. In an interview with BOPA, the minister said he had communicated with all sports administrators to treat athletes with the understanding that they aren't just competing for leisure.
"We are now at the professional stage. We have to make sure that we treat them professionally. We have to make sure we know what they eat and our medical team has to always be there to support the athletes, even outside competitions," he said.
Furthermore, Olopeng said he was of the view that the time is now for the country to benchmark, adding that Batswana athletes could not compete with top-level athletes from the US and other countries without knowing exactly what it takes to get to that level. Mr Olopeng said in other countries sport has the backing of the private sector, whereas in Botswana it's still government-driven. On that basis, he said he wants to lobby the private sector for assistance.
"I am happy that our private sector is willing and what we have to do as sports administrators is to put our house in order because they have been helping us in many aspects, as far as sport is concerned," he said.
Minister Olopeng said his dream for Tokyo 2020 is for Botswana to go for gold, saying he's confident Botswana has great potential. He said there's not much time left before Tokyo 2020, that's why he insisted that preparations be started as early as possible.
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LONDON--Waggener Edstrom has hired Nic Shaw as editor-in-chief at its London office.
Shaw joins from Haymarket Media Group, where he led the publishing company's creative solutions team, delivering editorial and promotional campaigns for such clients as Acer, BMW, Canon and HTC.
Previously, he spent two years as managing editor of Stuff, and has also edited global customer titles for Toyota and the McLaren Formula 1 team.
At Wag-Ed, Shaw is charged with developing compelling content across print, digital and video channels. He reports to Jon Silk, head of Wag-Ed's Studio D unit in the UK.
"Nic further strengthens our award-winning creative capabilities and brings a fresh perspective in both consumer and B2B content production," said Silk. "Our integrated approach to the research, design, build and activation of content is becoming ever more strategic for our clients, and Nic will play a vital role in driving Studio D's continued success."


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I'd be a pretty rubbish blogger if I didn't post something about the Australian Federal Election, especially given the dramatic result (at the time of posting I'm still not exactly sure who the prime minster is).
But, to be honest, like most Australians I am utterly sick of the whole thing. It seems to me that a hung parliament is pretty representative of a country that in the end, couldn't decide which party was less rubbish, and accordingly voted them both out.
And that's about all I have to say on the subject. In the meantime, remember: if at first you don't succeed, skydiving is probably a bad idea.
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Shahid Afridi's daughters are no less than celebrities. They are there to support their father whenever they can. In the latest Pakistan Super League match too Shahid Afridi's daughter were seen giving interviews and they were busy posing with their star dad. While giving an interview Ajwa and Ayesha revealed that they were supporting Shoaib Malik. They said all of them were Pakistani players so it was difficult to choose.
Shahid Afridi however made it clear that in their hearts everyone was rooting for their own teams even if they were not saying it!
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From the Archives: GOProud's Jimmy LaSalvia talks about CPAC and gay conservatives
GOProud's Jimmy LaSalvia talks about CPAC and gay conservatives
February 17, 2011 2:03 PM MST
A minor controversy erupted in the weeks leading up to the 2011 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in regard to the participation of GOProud, an organization of gay conservatives. A handful of groups decided to sit out this year's CPAC rather than be seen in the same room with gay men and lesbians.
Jimmy LaSalvia, executive director of GOProud, spoke to the Charlottesville Libertarian Examiner at CPAC about the controversy and about his organization's mission and plans for 2011 and 2012.
GOProud, LaSalvia explained, is a national, 527 political organization representing gay conservatives and their allies.
"We started in 2009," he said, "so we're about a year and a half old. We're growing, with about 10,000 members. We bring the perspective of gay conservatives to every issue that affects Americans."
Federal issues
GOProud is based in Washington works only on federal issues, he said, "like a lot of organizations that you see here at CPAC." He gave as examples Americans for Tax Reform and the Club for Growth as national organizations "that have a Washington presence."
The issues that most concern GOProud, LaSalvia said, are "whatever comes up in Washington. The priorities of our membership are the same as the priorities of most conservatives and, in fact, of most Americans."
GOProud, he said, wants to help the new Republican majority in the House of Representatives "to rein in the size of government, control spending, protect our borders, and protect us from the terrorists." In that, he noted, "we're just the same as everybody else in America."
'Biggest, best CPAC'
Despite the controversy and the absence of a few groups from the CPAC exhibit hall, La Salvia said, this year's conference was "the biggest, best CPAC ever."
LaSalvia said the reception of GOProud by CPAC attendees has been positive.
"We've had a lot of people come up to our booth and tell us that they're glad that we're here, that they're glad that we're part of the discussion that's happening here at CPAC to offer solutions to our country, to help get our country back on track. It's great," he added.
When reminded that former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin had also spoken out in favor of including GOProud in CPAC, LaSalvia noted that she "went out of her way to say" that her own absence from the conference was due to scheduling conflicts and not because she wanted to endorse those who were shunning GOProud.
LaSalvia also pointed out the millionaire businessman Donald Trump spoke to CPAC because he was invited by GOProud and that he also favored an inclusive conference and conservative movement.
Support like that expressed by conservatives at CPAC, LaSalvia added, "has really been heartening."
Differences in approach
Asked if there's a difference between the way conservatives and other people approach gay issues, LaSalvia said there was not.
"There may be policy differences here and there among conservatives with issues relating to gay people, but conservatives aren't any different than any other Americans," he said.
"As you know," he continued, "in the past couple of decades, more and more gay people are coming out and living their lives openly and honestly. The vast majority of Americans and the vast majority of conservatives have gay people in their lives, so as folks around the country think about issues that affect gay people, they think about people who are in their lives. They think about Joe and Bill and Sue and Lynn and their lives when they think about these issues.
The consequence of knowing gay people personally, LaSalvia explained, is that "conservatives are no different than anyone else [who] thinks about these issues."
'Fun' plans for 2011 and 2012
GOProud's plans for 2011 and the presidential election year of 2012, he said, are "to engage in the debate as it occurs on Capitol Hill and across the country."
Noting that CPAC marks the kickoff of the presidential campaign season, LaSalvia said that "we'll be very engaged in that."
He hesitated to give more details and cautioned that "I can't really tell you the specific things that we've got planned this year but a lot of them will relate to the presidential election."
What he would say for certain is that, whatever GOProud has planned, "it's going to be fun for everybody. It's going to be fun for our country and the Republican party and we're looking forward to engaging in it."
Publisher's note: This article is part of a series marking June as gay pride month. It was originally published on Examiner.com on February 17, 2011. The Examiner.com publishing platform was discontinued July 1, 2016, and its web site went dark on or about July 10, 2016. I am republishing this piece in an effort to preserve it and all my other contributions to Examiner.com since April 6, 2010. It is reposted here without most of the internal links that were in the original.


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Based on data in OpenStreetMap, here is a list of townlands in Rathclarin.
Rathclarin is in the baronies of East Carbery (East Division).
Rathclarin is in the counties of Cork.
Rathclarin is on Logainm.ie: Rathclarin.
It is located at 51° 39' 51" N, 8° 43' 23" W.
Rathclarin has an area of 27.3 km² / 6,734.9 acres / 10.5 square miles.
There are 14 townlands that we know about in Rathclarin. This represents 95.4% of all the area in Rathclarin.
Rathclarin was added to OpenStreetMap on 10 Aug 2016 by Teester.


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On July 30 this year, the authorities in Gohardasht prison conducted a savage attack on the
political prisoners in hall 12 of ward 4, the guards insulted and beaten the prisoners and they forcefully transferred the prisoners to hall 10 in the same ward. The prison authorities have deprived the prisoners of minimum hygiene products and decent clothing, the prisoners have also been deprived of all family visits and they have been placed under pressure to end their hunger strike.
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Since the news came out the prisoners on hunger strike have gained massive support not only around the world but also fellow political prisoners in various prisons across Iran have expressed their support.
On August 15, 2017, Mr. Gerard Deprez, MEP and Chair of the friends of free Iran Committee in the European Parliament, issued a statement from Brussels where they expressed their concern about the health and safety ofpolitical prisoners in solitary confinement of Ward 4 in Gohardasht prison of Karaj, west of Tehran. They have been on hunger strike to protest the regime's ruthless attack on the prisoners on 30, July.
The statement also mentioned the recently published Amnesty International report on human rights violations under the «moderate» Rouhani. the statement concludes with an urge to the President of the European Parliament, the EU High Representative Federica Mogherini, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN Special Rapporteur on Iran to publicly condemn the continuous mistreatment of political prisoners in Iran and to call for their release.
A group of exiled prisoners in Ardebil prison expressed their unconditional support to the prisoners on hunger strike and added that they would stage a hunger strike in support of their demands are not met.
Also the political prisoner Ali Moezi expressed his support from Tehran's Central prison. In his letter, he recalled his memories from Gohardasht prison, memories of the martyrs of the 1980's, particularly the martyrs of the 1988 massacre in Iran. He remembers the martyrdom of some of the political prisoners in recent years in Gohardasht.
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The lack of options for the prisoners to protest inhuman treatment has resulted in a number of hunger strikes, that is the only way the prisoners can show their discontent with the prison authorities.
Political prisoners all over Iran needs our unconditional support, not only those that languish in Gohardasht prison. It is our duty to urge our leaders to put pressure on the Iranian regime to make them respect and uphold human rights. It is our duty to be the voice of those unable to speak for them selves.
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Forex currency trading is something that has a lot of uncertainty attached. There is no accurate way of determining what to expect before actually witnessing the final result. So, having a good start in forex trading can boost your confidence greatly, so be sure to keep in mind these forex tips to attain the best possible result while trading currencies:
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While trading currencies for the first time can be really exciting, you must not forget that it is essential that you only use funds that you can afford to lose. You must carefully assess how much money you can put into such trading without having to face any type of financial difficulty. Also, you need to get it fixed in your mind that maintaining a minimum margin deposit is crucial for successful trading.
If you do not have much extra cash to spend in forex trading right now, you may initially have to be satisfied with small yields, since you will only be able to invest low amounts. However, that does not mean that your situation will not improve. As you begin to accumulate forex profits from your trading efforts, you will gradually reach a position where you can invest large sums to get large returns.


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Last week I attended Ladies Day at Royal Ascot with Sky Bet for a day of bubbles and betting. All going well I've got a Get Ready With Me video coming up on my YouTube but I thought I'd run through what I choose to wear on the day in a separate post.
I recently attended a Dove event around colour confidence where Stylist Alex Longmore matched which colours work best with my skin tone and hair and she suggested pastel and nudes worked perfectly for me. With this in mind I opted for an old cream Issa dress with wrap detail in the middle which I love as I think it looks really flattering. I had planned on wearing my friend Tara's black hat but it would appear I have a rather small head so bought this last minute fascinator from Accessorize at the station about 30 mins before our train! My bag is from Ted Baker and I think the peachy orange tones work really well with the nude dress. Then finally I wore my most comfortable gladiator style shoes from Zara. And trust me, when you go to Ascot you want to opt for comfort as you're on your feet all day.
I went to the races with my lovely friend Josie, who took these pictures for me and we had such a fun day winning some money and sitting in the sunshine all day! If you've never been to the races I'd definitely recommend going, it's such a fun day out especially if the sun is shining!


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by Andrea Rogers
The SUNY Trustees' decision to extend the life of the UFT Charter School by two more years has prompted a variety of responses. Critics from within the charter movement and from afar suggested that the school should have been closed.
NECSN's Bill Phillips has a different view, and supports the ultimate result -- automatic closure for the school should it fail to improve quickly. Check out his Op-Ed in the Daily News for more on this.
In a twist, the co-lo policy vehemently opposed by UFT for other charters was used to extend the life of its own struggling school. This New York Post editorial is also worth a look.


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In a study of more than 8,000 adults, those with a chronic health condition such as diabetes or asthma were more likely to report psychological distress and functional impairment if they were residents of poor or middle-income households. There was no significant association between chronic disease and distress for individuals from higher-income households.
"The findings suggest that a person's physical and mental well-being are tied closely to one another. They also highlight the importance of getting health care providers the support and resources needed to screen and address the physical and mental health concerns of their patients," said Dr. Jeffrey Duong, co-author of the Journal of Community Psychology study. "Recently, the US Department of Health and Human Services has sought to promote the implementation of integrated models of care in community health settings, which may enable providers to better identify and intervene in their patients' medical and behavioral health problems sooner, thereby improving health outcomes."
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31 Jan 2010 Grassy Snow AngelSunday, January 31st, 2010
Despite a meager snow fall, Sam was undeterred.
Despite a meager snow fall, Sam was undeterred.
Aunt Maureen gets acquainted with Bicycle Dorbie (left) and Queen Dorbie (right).
Highs in the 20s today. Too cold for us but not for sparrows.
First time on a scooter. After completing the 1/2 mile loop around the park, Sam declared that uphill was "a lot of work" and downhill was "scary." Flat was "just right." She is the Goldilocks of Scooterers.
Today was the last class of a semester-long gymnastics session at The Little Gym. Even though Sam has been with the class for only 4 weeks, she was included in the closing ceremonies. I don't think she's ever going to take that medal off.
Miss Faith reads a book at the Middletown Free Library preschooler storytime.
Sam shows me a picture she drew. Me: "Are those houses?" Sam: "Yes, but they're falling down." Me: "And that's a tree?" Sam: "It has blackberries on it. And it's falling down too!" Me: "And is that little girl thinking about something? A house?" Sam: "She's wishing she were a house. This is a picture […]
Rain. Cooped up inside again today. I made up a phonics jumping game. One person makes the sound of a letter and the other one jumps upon it. I guess it was a success with Sam because I got tired of the game long before she did. I took a much needed break from jumping […]
The house in the back of the photo belonged to the town undertaker in the 19th century.
Sam, Mom-Mom and I went to work with Granddaddy at Laurel Brooke. Didn't sell any houses today.
Sam performs a nightly show while the grownups clean up after dinner. This one allowed me to play some more with iMovie.
Sam knows a couple of sight words, including "Yes" and "No." She delights in pointing these out on the page when I read to her. Not since her toddlerhood has the word "No" been so interesting to her. Yesterday and today Sam spent a couple of hours doing "work" at her grandfather's office. She loved […]
Mom-Mom got a tin foil hat today. And some highlights.
Miss Judy helps Sam get into the "basket position" on the high bar.
Guess where we went again today? My daughter is obsessed with chickens.
On this sunny winter day, warm for this part of Pennsylvania, we went to Linvilla Farm for their 50% off vegetable sale and the wooden playground they have behind the store. But we stayed for the fowl. There's something so peaceful and calming about feeding chickens individual kernels of corn.
Monty, Bertie, and Gil. Monty's ears didn't take kindly to glue so he got stapled.
Homemade pizza tonight. Sam shaped her own mini pizzas and bread sticks, which she called "bread crusts."
An old friend's daughter (hi, Emma!) introduced us to Bobby, her Chinese hamster.
Or several. Birdhouses courtesy of Tyler Arboretum. I hadn't been to the Arboretum since I was a kid. I took Sam there today for a "Tiny Trackers" class on birds. We saw Chickadees, Robins, and White-throated Sparrows who say "Canada Canada Canada." Sam loves that. "They say where they're from!" We didn't come across any […]


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MSNBC host Joe Scarborough and Paul Krugman will debate the debt and deficit tonight in a segment on PBS.
From Politico's Mike Allen in Playbook:
MUST-SEE TV! Tonight on " Charlie Rose," a smackdown between Joe Scarborough and Paul Krugman. After arguing over the debt on their blogs, they're taking it to the airwaves, for the full hour. Tapes today on Charlie's legendary set at Bloomberg HQ in Manhattan. Airs 11 p.m. on WNET in NYC, and WETA and WHUT in D.C., and 200+ other PBS affiliates.
Scarborough and Krugman have gone back and forth over the past month-plus over whether the deficit is as big deal as Scarborough says it is. In mid-February, Scarborough memorably dismissed Krugman and other like-minded pundits' usage of charts as something that "liberals make up on their mom's PowerPoint." Scarborough also called Krugman as extreme on the deficit as the NRA's Wayne LaPierre is on guns.
One of the problems with Scarborough's argument, as Krugman and others have noted, is that none of the important people who agree with Scarborough are mainstream economists.


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The schedule is viewable online in calendar format
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The Trinidad Triggers will play one Spring Training Game, one on May 18 at Garden City.
the Triggers will play in the Pecos League's Mountain Division with (Santa Fe, Garden City and Alpine)
Here is a breakdown of the Trigggers Schedule
2018 Season Tickets are on sale at http://www.TrinidadTriggers.com