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good luck to you. now you can put all your thoughts and energy into photography. i know that's your passion. xo!!
Paige, you truly have so many talents! Just from getting to know you through your blog, I know what these are! I will be praying for you! I have had a similar journey/experience trying to make money from things I am passionate about. Recently, due to mostly financial circumstances, the Lord has led me back to teaching, but I feel it is the right thing~for now~because I am in a Catholic School so I know the Lord is with me.
Have a blessed day!
Sometimes you just have to "trust." You have many talents and with your sweet personality you will soon find what you are looking for. Good luck.
praying for you, paige!
I know that God will lead you…and as you wait, he will teach you and grow you….
hoping it's photography for you!!
So. Proud. Of. You:) Praying that the Lord leads you right to where He wants you to be. You have so many gifts and can't wait to see how He will use them!
NOOOOOooooo!!! No No No No No!!!!! I know you'll be successful in anything you do, but I can't imagine not seeing your face at staff meetings anymore! How could you be so selfish and not think about what you're doing to ME??
Good luck! I am certain you will excel at whatever you decide. Am having somewhat similar issues myself and wringing my hands a lot lately — oy! You'll do wonderful — no worries!
Your little girl is growing up and looking more and more beautiful each day!
Have a good WEdnesday!
Blessings on your new journey. I know photophraphy is one of your gifts and hopefully you're interested in possibly having an Etsy site to sell some your flower prints (love them). I know exactly what your going through. I too have decided to resign after 20 years at a job that has always be a great place to work. I got it when I became a single mom of 4 and kept it even after I remarried because they were always very flexible with my hours so that I could be involved when my kids were young. The problem is that it was always a job (which I know was a blessing to have) but never a passion. I'll be deciding what my passion or passions are and will be beginning my own business in the next 4 to 5 months. Hope you'll share your trials and tribulatons. You'll blaze the trail.
trust in the LORD with all your heart..
Way to go, Paige!!! I can't WAIT to see where the Lord takes you…He knows your heart & passions better than ANYONE…way to take the leap of faith. I know you will be GREAT at whatever you decide to do 🙂 (secretly hoping it's photography!)
Oh Paige! I commend your courage! I know the "in-between" time can be hard, but honestly, you have what it takes girl! I truly hope your talented eye brings you joy, fulfillment, and peace. You are such a gifted photographer, and I KNOW you will thrive and succeed above and beyond in that arena! Your photographs are just beautiful!! Praying for you. Sending luck and a hug.
Jen xo
oh Paige I truly understand on some level what your going through. I pray for our Father to open your eyes to the burning bush that is there for you..for you to step into your calling, purpose and dream.
take it from a friend who has left familiar..there will be those giants but always know He has all you need..in Jesus name
Now go..xo
Think of it this way- you've taken the first step to getting that paycheck for doing something for which you have a true passion. The first step is always the hardest!
Congrats on the courage to step out in faith! Praying big prayers for you, Paige! May God give you the wisdom to know what to do and the courage to do it.
Congrats my dear for having courage and faith….I know your passion will create amazing things!!
Well… it's about time you put your gift of photography into the professional realm!! I'm so excited for you and those who book you – -what a gift to receive a great photo of someone you adore!!
If we were closer, I'd hire you RIGHT NOW to shoot my Christmas card photos, and my sweet pre-teen girl, and my dog and my boys, and……
Good for you Paige! Your timing on this post is interesting – after almost 14 years of being a SAHM, I just this week accepted a 20 hour position doing what I did in my "previous life" – taking a baby-step back into the professional world is thrilling and terrifying all at the same time! Isn't it a blessing for us to have these "choices", with the support of loving children and spouses. All the best to you as you pursue your passions!
Good for you! You absolutely took the right steps in leaning on Him for guidance and with that you can't go wrong. I'm excited to see what all is in store for you 🙂
Good for you! Follow your dream! I had left my job in the medical field after 21 years to be home with my family. It was a blessing to be able to be home for our children. Now I'm at the point of trying to figure out what I want to do when I grow up. Best of luck to you with your adventure.
Whatever new journey life take you on I wish you the very best! You are so talented…follow your passions and you will do great.
So proud of you Paige! You took a big girl leap and are trusting Him… I know that you are going to flouirsh at your next endeavor. Big hugs xoxo
paige, although it might not be easy, i feel like this is a good decision for you. i really feel like you have a talent for so many things and you know i've said, "if you decide to give up the nursing, you definitely have a talent with that camera".
you are going to do great things my friend and i think He lead you in the right direction.
prayers coming your way.
You know what's weird is that before I even read this post I was thinking that it seems really weird for you to be a nurse. I swear. I just see you as a photographer period. I hope that's what you are going to do because you will succeed. I have no doubt. Big giant be brave hug to ya.
Blessings, Paige!
Good luck on your new journey. Your photography is amazing! Now try to relax little prior to making that final decision. God bless!
You've taken a brave step!I believe if you use your talents for God's glory he will bless beyond measure…so go get em!!!
One of the best pieces of advice was given to me five years ago by our young assistant pastor's wife – "Just because something is a very good thing in itself doesn't mean it is what God has ordained for YOU to do."
I have gone back to these words time and time again, praying God would make things fall off my calendar when I've over-committed by taking on "good things" to which God was never calling me.
Congrats on listening to Him. I can't wait to see what He reveals to you.
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God Speed to you! You can do it! If you can't figure out the big picture just keep taking the next kittle step, and then the next…..
I'm sure this time feels a bit scary to you but I think it's so exciting! I love change. As long as it's my idea. 😉
Good for you Paige. It is so difficult to know when the right time to take that step of faith is. For those whose family depends on their sole income the time may come much later but God will provide the opportunity for them to use their talents. For me it took 25 years in a civil service job. I look happily forward to a (very) small pension check this spring but none the less, the chance to find my passion. It is both scary and exhilirating. I pray you find it, too. Blessings, Patty
Good for you Paige! No need to worry, God already has a plan for you. I will pray he leads you to where you are suppose to be very soon. Patience doesn't come easy. You have taken the first step though. That's usually the hardest one. Hang in there!
Paige, I am playing catch up here! I wish you great blessings in your new adventure! You will do fabulous and you will be so happy, because this is your passion and you are good at it! I am sure at first it's scary, because change is scary, but with your faith and support you will be fine!
Congratulations, Paige!!!
ps…I love the photos of Caroline, beautiful colors on her!
Sometimes the hardest part of change is just setting it in motion. You are past that part now. Congrats on starting your new chapter!


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If you're one of the few cross country teams still running deep into November, it validates the hard work put in during the summer months.
The Coe-Brown Northwood Academy girls team is still running in that rarified air.
"A lot of people have said cross country is a summer sport played out in the fall," said Coe-Brown co-coach Brent Tkaczyk. "You've got to do your running. You've got to get that work in."
Coe-Brown's still competing, proof that they did their running. The Bears will run next week in the Nike Cross Northeast Regional in Wappingers Falls, N.Y. They are coming off the most successful fall in program history in which they three-peated as Division II champs, repeated as state champs and were second at the New England championship in Maine (all their scoring impressively done by underclassmen). Coe-Brown did most of this with its two strongest girls running at less than 100 percent.
Coe-Brown draws its students predominantly from four towns: Northwood, Strafford, Nottingham and Barrington. They also get a handful of students from Deerfield. It's not uncommon in the summer months to see Coe-Brown runners doing their road work along the back roads, trails and byways of their respective towns.
In addition, co-coaches Tkaczyk and Tim Cox offer optional, relaxed summer runs that meet near the Bow Lake dam on Tuesdays and Thursdays starting in mid June. They also run the popular five-day running camp in Bar Harbor, Maine, in late July that draws approximately 50 kids and their families, some from other teams and even other schools.
"It's something that's a lot of work, a lot of preparation" Tkaczyk said. "There's a lot of thinking that goes into it. But it's a blast. It's fun."
The fun part, of course, is intentional. So is the team building.
"That's where it starts," Tkaczyk said. "It starts with camp and building that dynamic. The kids in tents at night. It's just fun."
Cox did summer running camps when he was in high school and they were, when he looks back as a coach, too intense. The Bar Harbor camp offers plenty of running opportunity, but not under intense conditions.
"The camp challenges the team," Cox said. "Not just running challenges; other challenges as well. That really brings the team together."
In addition to the running, there's swimming, hiking in Acadia National Park, shaving cream fights, skit night, a talent show, sock wrestling and dance competitions. The kids prepare the meals. Parents, a necessary fixture, also pitch in.
"It's an awesome time," said Strafford junior Jessie Carney, who is contemplating doing her senior project on the camp. "It's huge for team building. Over the summer we lose seniors and get a bunch of freshmen and the team totally changes. That's a great time to define the new team. It's a really important time."
This is the fourth year the camp has gone to Bar Harbor, and it remains a time period that is cordoned off well in advance on calendars across the Northwood region.
"It's my favorite week of the year," Tkaczyk said. "That's including state championships and all that. My wife goes. My kids go. Cox's wife and kids go. We all get together and it's just a blast."
"It's so much fun, you don't even realize how hard you are working," said Nottingham sophomore Katie Scannell, "until you look down and you realize you just did a two-hour long run and you feel great."
For first-time campers there's some initial trepidation, but it quickly dissipates.
"I wasn't sure what was going to go on at camp," said freshman Brooke Laskowsky, the team's only runner from Deerfield. "But I was pleasantly surprised. I love running, so I was excited that we ran. Then there were the fun things like the shaving cream fights."
It brings a new team slowly together without any outside pressures or expectations other than that you help out, do your runs and, of course, have fun. For Cox and Tkaczyk the formula doesn't work if you're not having fun.
"It's definitely the highlight of my summer," Nottingham freshman Meg Scannell said. "You get your physical activity in and worked really hard, but it was super fun and you wanted to keep doing it. And you bonded with your team."
"It's a phenomenal experience," Cox added. "It's not just about getting faster. It's about coming together and meeting challenges as a group. It's not just running, it's a lot of things you do in life."
If the running camp sets the tone as the fall season approaches, the Bow Lake runs allow runners to have a relaxed outlet to touch base with teammates, coaches, alumni and friends. The runs used to be at Coe-Brown in the late '90s, but that quickly changed because "we're running here all the time," said Tkaczyk.
They moved to Northwood Meadows State Park, which is beautiful, but the horseflies are terrible. Eventually they settled on Bow Lake six years ago with its nice trails, back roads and access to water.
"That's the reason we have the camp in Bar Harbor," Tkaczyk said. "We have the water and all the other opportunities. We really feel like to get the kids in the water after a run; get their legs wet. It's therapeutic. That's another reason why we run at (Bow Lake), as well."
The twice-weekly optional Bow Lake runs start at 5:30 in the early evening with runners stretching out on the beach near the dam. Coe-Brown runners past and present (and future, too, with the Cox and Tkaczyk kids joining the fray, as well as the brothers and sisters of runners) are among those gathered. There are parents, too.
"Come run. Here we are," Cox said. "It's been pretty awesome, too. Running's a great way to get together; an easy way to get your miles in."
Carney said during the summer the runners are supposed to run almost every day. "Sometimes it can be a daunting task to run by yourself," she said. "So just a couple days a week getting together running with friends kind of keeps you on track. It keeps everybody honest because if you haven't run all week and you come back, people are going to notice. It's great for team bonding."
Great for the body, too, including a refreshing swim in the Bow Lake waters after a hearty run.
Like Bar Harbor, the Bow Lake runs help set the tone for the season. But, really, it's what the runners do on their own in the summer months that makes or breaks what happens once the season starts.
"The thing is," Cox added, "you are not still running in November if you didn't do your homework in June and July."
Mike Whaley is the Sports Editor for Foster's Daily Democrat and the Rochester Times. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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For the first time, immunization campaigns are being launched simultaneously tomorrow in 112 countries and territories in the World Health Organization Regions of the Americas, Eastern Mediterranean and Europe, with the goals of expanding immunization coverage and raising awareness of the importance of vaccines.
For the first time, immunization campaigns are being launched simultaneously tomorrow in 112 countries and territories in the World Health Organization Regions of the Americas, Eastern Mediterranean and Europe, with the goals of expanding immunization coverage and raising awareness of the importance of vaccines.
The simultaneous immunization weeks, which began in the Americas in 2003, expanded to the European Region in 2005, and start this year in the Eastern Mediterranean, promote national and cross-border activities in a collaborative effort to prevent disease and save lives. Many countries are working to eliminate measles, and most are expanding vaccination to reach those who have been excluded up to now.
In Europe, organizers say, "The European Region is experiencing stalling momentum in meeting the 2010 goal to eliminate measles and rubella. Measles coverage in many western European countries is below the recommended 95% and there are ongoing measles outbreaks in some of these countries. We would like, with Member States' assistance, to take this opportunity to focus on what countries in the Region need to do to achieve the elimination goal."
In the countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region, "Every day, more than 5500 infants are not fully immunized, amounting to an estimated 2.1 million children not receiving DTP3 vaccine in 2009. Moreover, 25% of under‐five deaths are attributed to vaccine‐preventable diseases each year. A large number of child deaths due to pneumococcal disease and rotavirus diarrhoea can be prevented through vaccination with newly available vaccines."
In the Americas, regional launching events are being held in border areas of Nicaragua, between Suriname and French Guiana, and between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. On the US-Mexico border, a joint event is planned in Las Cruces, New Mexico in conjunction with the launch of US National Infant Immunization Week. The regional goals are to reach children under 5 years of age, pregnant women, elderly populations, border and isolated populations, indigenous populations, and low coverage municipalities.
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Readers of this blog may have noticed some chaffing back and forth between me and Tim Lambert. Anyone that's followed the chaffing may have noticed that Lambert has spent a lot of time criticizing studies by John Lott on guns on statistical grounds. On a personal basis, I dislike/hate guns and cannot imagine why anyone would want one in their house. I have pretty typical urban Canadian views. Intuitively, I'd be inclined to think that anyone purporting to prove that more guns leads to less crime is likely engaging in pretty suspect statistics and would be inclined to think that Lambert's criticisms of Lott are probably meritorious. But it's not a topic that so far has interested me enough even to read Lambert's criticisms of Lott.
By chance, while I was googling a complete different statistical topic, I stumbled across another statistical take on Lott, also severely critical. What intrigued me is that these criticisms of Lott's methodology parallel my criticisms of Mann's methodology. Maybe I'll have to look at the Lott criticisms some more.
Here's the article that I noticed together with a quote:
Lott's work is an example of statistical one-upmanship. He has more data and a more complex analysis than anyone else studying the topic. He demands that anyone who wants to challenge his arguments become immersed in a very complex statistical debate, based on computations so difficult that they cannot be done with ordinary desktop computers. He challenges anyone who disagrees with him to download his data set and redo his calculations, but most social scientists do not think it worth their while to replicate studies using methods that have repeatedly failed. Most gun control researchers simply brushed off Lott and Mustard's claims and went on with their work. Two highly respected criminal justice researchers, Frank Zimring and Gordon Hawkins (1997) wrote an article explaining that:" just as Messrs. Lott and Mustard can, with one model of the determinants of homicide, produce statistical residuals suggesting that 'shall issue' laws reduce homicide, we expect that a determined econometrician can produce a treatment of the same historical periods with different models and opposite effects. Econometric modeling is a double-edged sword in its capacity to facilitate statistical findings to warm the hearts of true believers of any stripe."
Zimring and Hawkins were right. Within a year, two determined econometricians, Dan Black and Daniel Nagin (1998) published a study showing that if they changed the statistical model a little bit, or applied it to different segments of the data, Lott and Mustard's findings disappeared. Black and Nagin found that when Florida was removed from the sample there was "no detectable impact of the right-to-carry laws on the rate of murder and rape." They concluded that "inference based on the Lott and Mustard model is inappropriate, and their results cannot be used responsibly to formulate public policy."
The analogy would be even more complete if Lott, in addition to a complicated methodology, did not disclose his data (until his feet were gradually and increasingly put into the fire), misrepresented his methodology in important particulars, failed to disclose adverse cross-validation statistics, etc. etc. When I see a comment about the impact of slight changes in Lott's statistical model, the line of analysis seems pretty similar to our analysis of the presence/absence of bristlecones.
It may be that Lambert on Lott and M&M on Mann have more in common than we may have appreciated. Also, it's pretty easy to understand that if you had some other studies by Lott's co-authors finding similar conclusions, anti-Lottians would not necessarily be very impressed and would be quick to examine each one of those other studies to see exactly where the flaw was. I'll try to spend some time working through the analogy.


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TORRINGTON >> A 39-year-old woman told police that Randy Brumell raped her inside his East Main Street bicycle shop in March after kidnapping her at gunpoint, according to a recently unsealed Torrington police arrest warrant application.
The woman had previously dated Brumell and met him in Torrington to talk, according to the warrant. After an angry Brumell verbally berated the victim, he took her back to his East Main Street store and raped her, the victim told police.
Brumell, 33, was due in Litchfield Judicial District court on Tuesday, but his case was continued after his attorney notified the court of a scheduling conflict. It was the second time Brumell's attorney, Raymond Kotulski of Waterbury, had to miss a scheduled appearance. His client is being held on $750,000 bond and has been charged with first-degree sexual assault, second-degree kidnapping, first-degree unlawful restraint, criminal possession of a firearm, and other charges, including alleged drug offenses relating from a search of his home, business and vehicle during the investigation into the rape that police said turned up marijuana and drug paraphernalia.
According to the unsealed warrant application, on March 11, Torrington police Detective Kyle Johnson went to Yale-New Haven Hospital where the victim was receiving treatment.
The victim had told hospital officials she was sexually assaulted in Torrington on March 10. A rape evidence kit was performed by hospital staff.
Johnson said the victim informed him she has known Brumell since the end of January 2013 and had a relationship with him. She said on March 10, around 11 p.m., she drove to Torrington to meet with Brumell at his 6 Victoria St. home. Brumell suggested they get into his van and go to his store, Brumell's Cycle and Fitness, 911 East Main St., to talk there.
The victim told police they got into Brumell's black utility work van, detailed with his business name on the outside, and started driving. During the drive, the victim said Brumell became angry and started yelling at her, apparently upset about a previous date the victim had canceled.
The victim told the detective Brumell "continuously stopped the van very abruptly to yell at her," at one point hitting the brakes so hard she flew forward. The victim said she tried to get out of the van, but Brumell grabbed her by the arm and pulled out a silver gun.
Brumell, the victim said, "then began yelling about how he is a gangster and she shouldn't mess with him."
The victim eventually escaped the van on a side street off of East Main Street and called her friend, telling her Brumell had a gun. Brumell then turned the van around, and approached the victim with the gun in his waistband, telling her to get back into the van, which she did because she was afraid, according to the warrant.
Brumell took the woman back to his shop and led her inside, yelling at her and pushing her up against the front windows. She asked him to put the gun down and he did, eventually calming down. He then instructed her to get on the ground and began having sex with her. The victim told police she only had sex with him because she was "scared for her life."
The victim also gave police voice messages from Brumell just after midnight that picked up the arguments between the two, along with a call around 3 a.m. asking her to talk to him and again at 3:30 where Brumell states, "You know I'm just really sorry for what I did. You know I vow now to never ever hurt you like that, physically, emotionally," according to the warrant.
Police later searched Brumell's home, business and van and located a handgun in the store, which had been reported stolen out of Lexington, N.C. Brumell has at least four felony convictions since 1997 for narcotics sales and criminal weapon possession, police said, making it illegal for him to be in possession of a gun.
After the search, Brumell was arrested on marijuana-related charges and questioned in the presence of his attorney about the rape allegations. Brumell told detectives the sex was consensual. When Detective Johnson asked Brumell about where his gun was at the time of the sex, Brumell's attorney stopped him from answering and said they weren't going to answer questions about the gun, and that Burmell was not holding her at gunpoint.
Brumell, who was released on bond after the drug arrest, was re-arrested on April 26 in Torrington.
He remains in custody at the New Haven Correctional Center.


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Do you do your own hair and makeup when you anchor the news?
Yep! Many people (including myself before I got in the business) believe every TV station has a makeup artist/hair person that styles the anchors hair and does their makeup, but the truth is that usually only very large stations have that. Your national news like CNN, Headline News, Fox News, etc... all have makeup and hair people. Some of the bigger cities likely do have someone as well, but you'd be surprised at how many places leave this up to the anchors themselves. Keep in mind, some stations may give their employees an "allowance" for makeup or clothes, or pay for them to get their hair done if it's at a certain place. Many stations may also have consultants that come in every so often to make sure the anchors have a good "look" for TV. Personally, I'm glad that I get to do my own hair and makeup. Though it would be less stressful at times, it's definitely something I love and enjoy!
Do you do your makeup a lot differently for the news?
My news makeup does differ from my everyday look in a few ways...
- More face color (like bronzer, blush) to stand up to bright lights in the studio
- More contouring- it seems to come off really well on camera
- More defined eyeliner- a soft line simply doesn't do enough to bring out the eyes on camera
- A "smokey" eye for news = browns, plums rather than blacks- they seem to cast too much of a shadow
- Overall a more careful makeup application- especially where under-eye concealer is concerned
Do your TV clothes come from a wardrobe or are they your own?
I wear my own clothes. Ever since I've become a full time anchor, I'm always looking for sales and good deals on clothes I think would look nice on air. You can't afford to spend a lot on any one thing, because having a large selection is more important (to me). I fear looking the same everyday so I try to be creative with jewelry too like an interesting necklace or earrings.
What face makeup works well under the bright studio lights?
What I use isn't very expensive! Though I do like to switch it up from time to time, lately I've been using Rimmel Lasting Finish Foundation- and I set it with Mary Kay loose powder. The combo seems to work great- keeps from getting my shiny and lasts well beyond the newscast. My concealer is kinda pricey though- Bobbi Brown Corrector and Creamy Concealer duo. It's great for the circles! :)
Are you allowed to wear colorful makeup on air?
It's sort of an unwritten rule that the makeup you wear for the news should be fairly neutral. Especially when it comes to eyes. I do sometimes wear colors, but it's nothing really bold and in your face or glittery or anything like that. With lips, I can get away with a pretty big range-- I've worn deep reds, reds, pinks, nudes, etc. The whole theory on not being too colorful with the makeup is to not distract from what you're saying.
Hope this was an interesting post for you! Please let me know if there are any other questions I didn't cover! These are just some of the ones I get the most. Have a great day!


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OTTAWA - Defence Minister Peter MacKay says a heavy-lift Canadian air force transport plane will continue to assist French forces in Mali for another month.
The commitment involving the C-17 Globemaster, which has been shuttling war material, vehicles and troops between France and the Malian capital of Bamako, was set to expire Friday.
MacKay confirmed the extension to March 15 outside of the House of Commons on Thursday following question period.
"We received a request a few days ago, but it was a request that came to us through military channels," MacKay said.
"We wanted to examine the specifics of what that would request would entail and how it would fit with ongoing operational requirements of the Canadian Forces."
MacKay offered no details on the status of the special forces contingent that was deployed to protect the Canadian embassy in Bamako, which had been scaled back.
It is the second extension for the Canadian support mission, which kicked off in early January after French forces intervened in the former west African colony where al-Qaida-linked militants had threatened to overrun the country.
In January, air force planners cleared the schedule of the C-17 transport, which is attached to 429 Squadron out of CFB Trenton, Ont., for up to three months to give the government flexibility in the unfolding situation.
French forces have made quick work of militant strongholds, pushing them out of many provincial towns in the northern part of Mali. But fears of an Afghanistan-style insurgency have taken hold as both Western and African troops have faced roadside bombs and ambushes in some areas that were thought cleared of guerrillas.
Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird acknowledged that threat in his testimony before a House of Commons committee earlier this week, saying Canada won't "get into another Afghanistan."
Public opinion polls suggests Canadians don't want to see the country get any more involved in the conflict than it already is.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper said last month that he would reach out to the Opposition parties to seek a "broad" national consensus Canada's next steps — a reflection of fears the war in Mali would be a drawn-out conflict.
The Commons foreign affairs committee has held a series of hearings, mostly fact-finding sessions.
Thursday's news of the C-17 extension caught Opposition members off guard.
NDP foreign affairs critic Paul Dewar said there's been virtually no dialogue, in spite of the government's promise to consult the House about the mission.
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"We need some details. Having a minister announce this as he's walking up the stairs isn't helpful. It's not open and it's not what the government said it would do on Mali."
The U.N. Security Council is still debating whether to deploy up to 6,000 peacekeepers in Mali to help stabilize the country.
The 15-member council has dragged its feet on approving a French request for blue-helmeted peacekeepers to patrol areas that it has cleared of militant fighters.
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The latest NAR Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers showed a growing trend among recent buyers.
The latest figures show that 89 percent of buyers purchased their home with the help of a real estate agent or broker. This is a sharp increase from a decade ago in 2001, when only 69 percent of buyers enlisted the help of an agent or broker.
Why do today's buyers buyers choose to work with an agent? Let's look at just a few of the many reasons an agent can be your biggest ally.
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Watch Your Back Kristen Stewart!! Rooney Mara Stole Your Part. Could She Steal Your Whole Career?
Fame comes and goes pretty fast these days. For the past year Kristen Stewart has been Hollywood's leading "it" girl while portraying Bella Swan in the Twilight franchise, but she lost out to newcomer Rooney Mara for the next generation of book-to-screen-heroine, Lisbeth Salander.
And in the fickle world of fame it isn't hard to envision a future where Rooney can use her leverage in the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo franchise to eclipse Kristen's star power. The pair will obviously be competing for similar roles going forward. They're both talented young actresses of a certain age with the acting chops it takes to tackle difficult roles. But in some ways, Rooney will emerge from the Dragon Tattoo movies with an edge over Kristen.
"Kristen needs to watch her back. This is the kind of role that can change a young womans life. But let's see how the movie does. I think it is premature to kill off Miss. Kristen just yet," says PopEater's Naughty But Nice Rob Shuter.
The character of Lisbeth Salander, the bisexual, introverted, highly sexualized hacker cum private detective is one of the most complicated female roles to wind its way onto the screen in a long time. The role is so beloved by fans that entire websites and Facebook pages have been devoted to debating which actress could possibly fill Lisbeth' s combat boots.
Cult of Celebrity author Cooper Lawrence has no doubt that Rooney could easily eclipse (pun entirely intended) Kristen's fame.
"Not only is she in GWTDT she is also in Social Network, the other HUGE movie coming out. Rooney has an older sister who is a working actress who can keep her in line, she founded a charity organization and her personal profile is as sweet as is that face! Kristen is already known for being a kind of curmudgeon, she tries to be unlikable despite her film's popularity, whereas Rooney is much sweeter," Lawrence says.
"We no longer have room for everybody, we are an information hungry society and if KStew wont give us anything real, we will move on and tire of her. If she is arrogant enough to think she won't be replaced in the hearts and minds of fans, tell her to call Hanson and ask how things are going."
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First of all, I have to apologize for the delay in getting the results posted. We have been unbelievably busy in the last 2 months (mostly due to the content of our previous blog post) and wanted to make sure we could put aside the proper amount of time and effort to judge our numerous entries.
We judge contest entries in 3 different areas on a 1-10 scale:
1) Ingenuity
2) Originality/Creativity
3) Presentation, Documentation, & Explanation!
However in addition to simply voting this year the TR crew sat down, threw back a few beers, and discussed why we had our top picks. Rather than simply give a numeric score as the basis for winning, I took notes on that discussion and want to convey our thoughts in cliff-note form as I feel they provide feedback to not only the contestants that won, but also others who will enter in our future contests. One thing to keep in mind is that even if your project did not win this time, if you continue to improve and further document your project you are eligible for re-entry in our future contests.
So without further ado, here are the top 3 Contest Winners!
Third Place:
Project – A PLM mech for MW
Creator – jes1510
Prize – Roboni-I
Why it won: jes1510 took a newer concept (PLM) that had been discussed pretty thoroughly here on the TRC, prototyped it using Bioloid components and a bit of hacking, and then blew us away with a ground-up hand built metal chassis. This gave us a really nice peak into how he planned out this project and made it a reality. The hand metal-work is top notch as well! Even though this project is still a work-in-progress, it's an excellent show of pioneering a relatively new leg design from concept to proof-of-concept to final version.
Second Place:
Project – Hi No Hikari
Creator – darkback2
Prize – Headplay VR Goggles
Why it won: darkback2 took PLM and decided to run with it as well. He was actually the first person on our forums to dive in and start building after our fairly feverish discussion in the PLM Discussion Thread. He absolutely excelled in documenting his progress, success, and failures. He actively discussed it with the community, took feedback into consideration, and continued to improve the project and push it forward. Somethings would go wrong, but he would quickly come up with a solution and keep pushing on. This is a pretty familiar process to tinkerers in general, and hit home nicely with the judges. Did we mention the entire bot was built using a drill press, vice, and jig saw? Definite bonus points for the DIY approach. Again- the huge number of progress updates as the project developed and community interaction made this project score very highly.
First Place:
Project – Archer – an IK controlled biped
Creator – Zenta
Prize – InterbotiX PhantomX Hexapod Kit
Why it won: Zenta is pretty famous about these parts- a few years back he nabbed First prize for his Phoenix Hexapod entry which had some of the most impressive IK and smooth motions we'd ever seen. He pretty much conquered Hexapod Inverse Kinematics, so he moved on to the next challenge: Biped IK. In terms of raw technical expertise, Archer is one of the most advanced robots we've seen on the TRC. Bipedal IK is not an easy thing to solve, and not only did he pull it off perfectly, the end result and overall smoothness in Archer's movements is unrivaled. On top of that, he implemented a COG (center of gravity) shifting device that is absolutely brilliant. The videos demonstrate this robot's capabilities perfectly, and consistent project updates as well as a full release of all of his code is what landed Zenta first place here. He set the bar pretty high with this entry, but with an open source offering we hope other's can learn from the knowledge he shared with this project. Congratulations to Zenta for the truly awe inspiring project!
Well that's it for this round folks! We'll be sure to keep you guys updated on when the next round of projects will start. Until then, keep building!
Editors Note: Three bipeds won? Seriously? We haven't had a single biped place in top 3 in the last 3+ years this contest has been running, and this year we had not one but three bipeds place? Wow. Someone better make sure Giger hasn't killed off the TR crew and replaced us with his humanoid brethren.


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CO2e distinctively compares over 100 years how much CO2 would be required to achieve the same global warming effect to the effects of a certain greenhouse gas thus stating the global warming contribution of the GHG.For instance, methane (CH4) has 23 times the global warming potential of CO2, while nitrous oxide (N2O) has roughly 300 times the potential of CO2.


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Queensland lashed in spectacular series of storms
THE biggest hail stones meteorologists had ever seen lashed south east Queensland on Sunday in the final episode of a spectacular series of storms.
Towns on the Ipswich outskirts and south of the Sunshine Coast copped some of the biggest hail stones with areas east of Ipswich recording 6cm hail while Caboolture reported 3cm hail stones.
But Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Tony Auden said the biggest hail stones he had ever heard of - tennis ball size - landed on the Brisbane suburb Toowong at 6pm on Sunday.
Brisbane bore the brunt of the successive storms over the weekend with flash flooding and pockets of heavy hail in the suburbs.
Mr Auden explained the very active storm system was a combination of winds, instability and merging weather fronts.
"We probably get it every few years," he said.
"It shows what can happen and there is every chance we will get this outbreak again but it definitely was a top-end event.
"We do expect a peak (in storm activity) in November or December."
Fallen trees, leaking roofs and localised flooding resulted in 650 requests for State Emergency Service assistance in less than 24 hours.
Community Safety Minister Jack Dempsey said SES teams had completed 200 jobs by midday on Monday.
"During the storm activity more than 100,000 lightning strikes were recorded along with heavy rain, hail and wind gusts of up to 90km/hr," Mr Dempsey said. "More than 100,000 homes and businesses had powered restored over the weekend and I thank Energex for their great work."
The weather bureau drew criticism after the storm about delayed storm warnings in the lead up to the wild weather.
While BOM regional director Rob Webb confirmed the bureau would review its response to the storms - as is normal protocol - he said his team worked "really hard to inform the community".
Mr Webb said forecasters did various media interviews following the release of a severe weather alert last Thursday.
He said Saturday's storm did move on forecasters earlier than they expected.


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It's the kind of story we want to get behind: a group of diverse high schoolers led by a tough but caring mentor, face a challenge for which none of them are prepared. As the disparate group becomes a team, putting in blood, sweat and tears, we cheer them on in their quest toward success.
This is the kind of story author Neal Bascomb strives to tell in The New Cool: A Visionary Teacher, His FIRST Robotics Team, and the Ultimate Battle of Smarts. Unfortunately, it's a goal he fails to achieve.
"The New Cool" introduces us to the D'Penguineers, a group of 31 high school seniors who attend the engineering academy at Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta, Calif. The book follows these students as, led by physics teacher Amir Abo-Shaeer, they work to create a robot for FIRST, a worldwide competition.
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Rivaling football in its number of screaming fans and dedicated participants, FIRST was dreamed up by the eclectic and brilliant millionaire Dean Kamen, whose eccentricities (his bedroom door is designed to look like a cupboard door, for instance, and he usually rides his helicopter to work) abound. Kamen is a man who wants to fix the big problems in our world. He worries that America's preoccupation with celebrities and sports players instead of science and technology will leave us lagging in worldwide innovation. Kamen created FIRST to show the next generation of students that being smart is "the new cool" and to inspire them to follow a technical path.
FIRST isn't a show-and-tell kind of competition; it's an all-out war. Robots, created all across the country during a six-week building period, come together in regional and national battles. In the end, one team and one robot triumphs over all others. If the D'Penguineers win the world championship competition, or if they gain publicity, Amir might just be able to raise the $3 million he needs to construct a building for his growing academy.
The stakes in this competition – for the D'Penguineers, for Amir, and for the country at large – seem high. The competition seems fierce. The robot challenge sometimes seems impossible.
But as you read "The New Cool," none of this excitement comes through. As we follow the process of creating a robot, the book drags, focusing little on the students themselves.
For two pages, Bascomb describes how Amir teaches friction. For another two, he explains how students create sketches in computer-aided design program SolidWorks. We're taught torque, the logic of coding, and how a lathe works. The first half of the book is filled with these dry topics while we're left to wonder who exactly the D'Penguineers and Amir are.
A few students do stand out. There's Gabe, the talented-beyond-his-years programmer who loves theater and has a father diagnosed with leukemia. There's the robot's eventual driver, Chase, who struggles with a learning disability and who has finally found a home in Amir's program. And there's Turk, the die-hard sports fan who hopes to become the team's shooter in the FIRST competition.
But you never hear enough from these students and you find yourself wishing Bascomb had asked harder questions: How does Gabe cope with his father's illness and the responsibility of FIRST? How does it feel for Chase to deal with a learning disability while designing a robot? And what do they really think of their teacher, Amir, whom we never really understand?
Equally frustrating is that we don't get to know the 28 other students on the team who pop in and out with just a sentence or two of explanation. With so little connection to the students, it's hard to be impressed when the group ultimately comes together as a team.
Bascomb originally intended to follow three FIRST teams for the book, but ultimately decided to tell just the D'Penguineer's story. Nevertheless, he does pen two chapters about the other two teams, one of which is called 2Train. 2Train member Gabe Ruiz has a story begging to be told. He's from the South Bronx, desperate to escape, and looking at FIRST as his ticket out. As the short chapter about Gabe comes to a close, it's hard not to think about how much better the book would have been if 2Train had been the focus.
The pace of "The New Cool" picks up slightly at the regional and championship competitions as the D'Penguineers' hard work begins to pay off, but by then it's too late and too little.
Despite the important message contained in "The New Cool" the book fails to resonate. There's no question but that the kind of robots created in the FIRST competition are impressive. And there's no denying that the students who make them learn invaluable lessons. Amir's academy is the kind of solution that could fix public education; Kamen's vision might save the nation.
Which is why it's such a shame that this book doesn't do any of it justice.
Kate Vander Wiede is the managing editor of The South End News in Boston.


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In this post we'll take a look at the first result from the Code Clone Analysis, and do some refactoring to eliminate the duplication. The first result indicated that it found an exact match repeated 14 times across the solution, with 18 lines of duplicated code in each of the 14 blocks.
Net Lines Of Code Deleted: 179
In this case the code in question was a bunch of classes representing the various Bosses. Every Boss class has a constructor that initializes a whole bunch of properties of that boss, however, for most bosses a lot of these are simply set to 0's.
Every Boss class inherits from the class MultiDiffBoss, so I simply moved all the initialization of the various properties to the base class constructor, and left it up to the Boss subclasses to only set those that are different than the default values.
In this case there are actually 22 Boss subclasses, however, due to some inconsistencies in the code structure Code Clone only identified 14 of them as identical blocks. Since I was in there refactoring the 14 identified already, it was pretty straightforward to identify the other 8 subclasses that had the same duplicated behavior and refactor those also.
Note: Code Clone Analysis is pretty slow right now. It takes approx 1 min to build this solution, but it takes 9 mins to run Code Clone Analysis. Personally, if the results are high quality I'm OK with it taking a long time to run since I don't expect it's something I would be running all that often. However, it would be nice to be able to run it as part of a nightly build, but at this time I don't believe it's possible to run outside of Visual Studio due to a dependency on the meta-data available in the VS environment.


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PARIS, April 25 (UPI) -- The owners of Paris' first wedding boutique aimed at gay men said the store is set to open four days after the National Assembly voted to legalize gay marriage.
The owners of The G-Day said the boutique will open Saturday, four days after the National Assembly voted in favor of a measure to legalize same-sex marriages, The Local.fr reported Thursday.
"Are you a couple? Do you want to get married, or are you simply curious to know what could be on offer, and haven't had the chance to think about it yet? Then G-Day was made for you," the business' website reads.
The store said customers at Saturday's opening will find "everything they'll need for a successful wedding."
"There will be about 40 totally gay-friendly exhibitors there, and we've even had to turn away new ones, for lack of space," opening event organizer Claire Jollain said.


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Question about Kenneth Cole KC1104 Wrist Watch
How do you adjust the wristband on a kenneth cole reaction watch
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my wristband is to big & i dont know how to make it smaller can you please help
i have a kenneth cole reaction modle # kc3702 watch and i need help because i dont how to make it smaller please help
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arrows inside bracelet.Arrows are pointing the way the pins must come
First you have to find out what sort of pins or even screws are used to keep links together.
Examine both bracelet sides and find the side where pin ends have a groove.
Start with a tiny screwdriver and start to unscrew one of the screws. If it turns, but doesn't come out, that means you have a pins instead.
For removing pins the best would be pin removing tool (approx.5GBP on ebay), but it's possible to do the job without it.
Take a hardened steel needle and blunt the sharp end to the approx. size of pin end diameter using any sharpening stone or sandpaper. Get an old towel and fold it to make a soft base for work (like small cusion). As you don't have a special bracelet holder you will need a pair of helping hands to hold the bracelet steady upright. You will need small hammer and pair of flat nose pliers as well.
NOTE: The pins MUST be driven split end out first, not vice versa. Make sure that the grooved pin ends are facing towel, not the needle and hammer!!!
Now place the watch on the folded towel, take that needle and smallest hammer you have and start driving the pin out using light blows. Do Not hit hard, as you will brake the needle, scratch your watch or even injure yourself. Watchmakers are using 45 gram hammer, so, calculate your strength of blows.
After a few blows check if the split end is coming out and when you see that the end is long enough to grab it with pliers, pull the pin out with pliers. When pulling, do NOT turn pliers, as pins tend to brake when twisted. Use firm grip and your strength to pull the pin without twisting.
After shortening the bracelet or adding extra link(s) make sure that the pins go back EXACTLY the same way as they came out- the blunt end first in the hole and the split (grooved) end last. Before doing that check remaining pins in bracelet to make sure that you put them back from the right side of bracelet.
It is recommended to use plastic hammer to drive pins back in or you will scratch or damage bracelet. If plastic hammer is not available use an old toothbrush handle (or some plastic item) as an absorber. Simply put pin into the hole as deep as you can with your fingers, put the toothbrush handle on split pin end and hit handle, not the pin.
Make sure that pin ends are flush with bracelet. If needed- hit few more times.
Job done!
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Until recently, the period of transition from the Iron Age into early Antiquityfor the region of Kumanovo was nearly unidentified. It is in this period that the influence of the achievements attained by southern civilizations– both Hellenic and Macedonian, becomes evident for the first time in this part of the Balkans.
Presently, the most explored site in the mentioned region that features a defined stratigraphy and best reflects the transition from the 7th into the 6th century is Gradishte near Pelince. We can record the penetration of southern influences though the occurrences of matte painted earthenware and colored in lines, found in the lower reaches of the river Vardar, that nearly simultaneously occur in the necropolis near river Bregalnica, and date from the same time as the autochthonus, hand-made pottery decorated using incising tools. As a logical development, what follows is the dominance of grey ceramics from the 5th century. This site most probably existed until the end of the 5th / the beginning of the 4th century, but signs of settlements are absent up until the Roman period (2nd – 3rd century) when it was most likely used as a small guard post for overseeing the Pchinja road.
Something similar can be noted on the Glauchica site, near Lipkovo. The Iron Age settlement experienced southern influences through the use of pottery made on wheel, but it appears that later this settlement was abandoned and consequently there are no characteristic forms of ceramics from the 4th and 3rd centuries BC. The inhabitants of this settlement were buried in Kisela Voda, a place where owing to the content of the water passing through the caskets the bodies are naturally mummified. Unfortunately, due to political reasons only, this necropolis is not yet excavated thus its chronological frames are not determined.
Kostoperska Karpa and Gradishte in Mlado Nagorichane share a different fate. The former site used to be and still is located on the spot where the road that led from Nish to Thessaloniki met the road from Skopje to Bulgaria. The early-antique settlement there continued to thrive into the Hellenistic period, and its location contributed to the occurrence of ceramic forms that clearly reflect the commerce with the south, as well as the imitation of the imported luxury pottery vessels.
Gradishte in Mlado Nagorichane is a site made know upon Z. Georgiev's survey, around 30 years ago. These have set the chronological frame of the site, that certainly lived through the Celtic invasion of 280 – 279 BC., and immediately after that life in the settlement was renewed, although in a more modest volume. The recent surveys done by V. Lilikj also support this chronology.
We can see that not all early-antique settlements were abandoned in the 4th – 3rd century BC, as was claimed thus far. Some have lost their significance in the 5th century, others continued to live on after the Celtic invasion and there are no discernable differences that would suggest Dardani raids and settlements. Consequently, we cannot easily discern the origin of the population settling this part of our country. The theories suggesting the Agrianes, Paeonians, Dardani and the Thracian-Triballi tribes have their support and claim, but they also have serious shortcomings especially because the history sources place all these tribes in different locations at different time periods. The overview of the material culture says that in different time periods, the ethnic landscape of the population would change, which has always been the border zone between the large Balkan peoples.The contemporary understanding of national identity as unique and unaltered since the ancient days, as well as its uniformity and homogeneity throughout the entire territory of the Republic of Macedonia does not coincide with the real picture obtained by archeological digs. If we combine this picture with the antique sources there is a possibility to gain a more realistic display of history, without the subjective view that is more and more present in Macedonian archaeology.
By Dejan Gjorgievski – Museum of city of Kumanovo


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Nearly four years after it began regulating cigarettes, the Food and Drug Administration is poised to extend its reach to a broader range of tobacco products. At the top of that list: cigars, which have experienced a boom in recent years even as cigarette sales have declined, in part because of growing popularity among young people.
Anti-tobacco advocates and industry representatives widely expect the agency to require changes in the marketing and manufacturing of cigars. But the central question remains: What kind of cigars will the FDA target, and how?
On one end of the spectrum are the hand-rolled Cohibas and Arturo Fuentes that stock the humidors of high-end cigar shops and are favored by aficionados who don't blink at paying top dollar. On the other are the convenience-store brands that appeal primarily to young smokers, such as 59-cent blueberry Swisher Sweets, peach-flavored White Owl Cigarillos, Phillies Blunts Sour Apple and menthol Cheyenne "little cigars" that are barely distinguishable from cigarettes.
Public health experts and some anti-tobacco lawmakers are pressing the FDA to regulate all cigars, but they mostly worry about the inexpensive, flavored varieties that have proliferated in recent years. Such cigars "are marketed aggressively and have resulted in high school kids and young adults being twice as likely as their older counterparts to be cigar smokers," the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids said in a recent report.
Meanwhile, makers of "premium cigars" have been lobbying intensely in an effort to avoid being lumped in with the candy- and fruit-flavored, corner-store varieties. A bill on Capitol Hill, co-sponsored by dozens of lawmakers, would keep carefully defined "traditional large and premium" cigars out of the FDA's reach, although its prospects remain uncertain.
"You don't see a teenager with a $15 premium cigar sticking out of his mouth, standing on the corner," said Bill Spann, president of the International Premium Cigar & Retailers Association. "Nobody's ducking outside for a 15-minute cigar break. Nobody's smoking two boxes of cigars a day. You don't inhale them. And they are not marketed to, desired by or affordable to underage youth."
The industry's main trade association, the Cigar Association of America, which represents all kinds of cigar manufacturers, is pushing a simple message: One-size-fits-all regulation won't work.
"All our products are different, so you should look at all of them differently," said Craig Williamson, president of the cigar group.
The 2009 law that gave the FDA power to regulate cigarettes and several other types of tobacco also authorized it to broaden its jurisdiction to include other products, such as cigars, pipe tobacco and e-cigarettes. Late last year, the FDA said it would issue a proposal by April.
In the interim, cigarmakers have begun to brace for their first brush with government regulation and the changes that might bring. "It's something we've been planning for," said David Sylvia, a spokesman for Altria Group, the parent company of John Middleton, which manufactures the popular Black & Mild cigar brand and a variety of pipe tobaccos.
The FDA has yet to outline its plans, leaving plenty of speculation about whether the agency will regulate different cigars differently — without creating loopholes.
"If they can't figure out a way to keep this thing from being gamed, then they basically shouldn't make any exemptions," said Richard A. Daynard, a Northeastern University law professor and president of its Public Health Advocacy Institute.
The 2009 tobacco control law banned candy and fruit flavorings in cigarettes, which had been shown to disproportionately appeal to young people. Some companies reacted by making small changes in the products, such as adding tobacco to the wrapper to help them meet the legal definition of cigars.
Another 2009 federal law put in place sharp tax increases on cigarettes and small cigars but spared larger cigars. In response, companies added weight to their products to qualify for the lower taxes.
Even as cigarette smoking decreased between 2000 and 2011, consumption of loose tobacco and cigars grew 123 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC found that tax disparities prompted many smokers to switch from cigarettes to other products such as cigars.
In at least six states, including Maryland, youth cigar smoking now equals or surpasses cigarette smoking, according to numbers compiled by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids — a figure the group says underscores the urgency of FDA regulation.
Spann hopes that the FDA at least decides to exclude the small companies and storefronts that make and sell premium cigars — or that if the agency doesn't, Congress will.
"There are 85,000 Americans working in or around the premium cigar market in America," he said. "The government should be helping them, not trying to regulate them out of business."
Matthew Myers, president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, said there is no evidence that the FDA intends to impose a host of onerous, unnecessary regulations on mom-and-pop manufacturers of large cigars. "They have bigger fights to fight," he said.


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Fire burns field south of Minden
Staff Reports
A fire raged across a field along Highway 88 just north of Centerville early Saturday morning.
The fire started when a controlled burn was rekindled at about 4 a.m. by wind gusts of up to 70 mph south of town. Dry vegetation burned to the fence along Highway 88.
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The latest issue of Time Out Chicago magazine has a feature on The Like, a four-woman band that draws its inspiration from the original British Invasion. They're in Chicago tomorrow night, as part of a triple bill that includes The Static Jacks and headliners The Futureheads at Lincoln Hall. I can't say that I had heard of The Like before, although they've been around a few years. The article made them sound pretty interesting, and the catchy and clever songs on their MySpace page have me eager to buy their latest CD, Release Me, which comes out next Tuesday.
Singer-guitarist Jeff Lescher will unveil the new line-up for his critically acclaimed power pop band Green, tonight at Martyrs, on Lincoln Avenue. The band now includes veteran musicians drummer Mike Zelenko of Material Issue, bassist Eddy Ulm, and guitarist Tommi Zender.
Happy Birthday wishes go out today to singer-guitarist Chloe F. Orwell, who along with her husband, drummer Brad Elvis, has fronted Big Hello, as well as their current band, The Handcuffs. Orwell is a charismatic performer who never shies away from expressing her opinions. The Handcuffs are currently working on the their third CD, and have just announced their summer schedule, which includes outdoor gigs at Millennium Park, Taste Of Lincoln Avenue, and North Halsted Street Market Days.
The Old Town Art Fair, which takes place this Saturday and Sunday, is always worth checking out (along with its sibling event, The Wells Street Art Fair) and this year it will be even more fun thanks to The Bon Mots. The highly melodic Chicago power pop band will be performing at the corner of Orleans and Wisconsin Streets at 3:30 PM.
Congratulations to Braam, the Chicago-based rock band comprised of 17 brothers. Actually, three brothers and a non-related drummer. Their "Burlington Northern" has snagged World Music and Independent Film Festival nominations in the Music Videos category for Best Cinematography and Best Director (Jerry Vasilatos). The band is also asking its fans to vote for "Burlington Northern" in the WMIFF People's Choice category.
I've complained here before about the lack of Hollies souvenirs being offered to fans, but there are now some pretty cool things for sale on the band's official website. In addition to the various tour books which have been available for quite a while, there's a new book, titled Through The Ages. It features photographs of The Hollies from drummer Bobby Elliot's personal collection, and many of them are previously unpublished. Fans will also find shirts and a baseball style cap bearing the Hollies logo for sale. I've already added some of these items to my birthday wish list, but I'd still like to see The Hollies create their own Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame t shirt.
Crystal's Blue Line Persuasion. Now that American Idol runner-up Crystal Bowersox has told Mike Thomas at the Sun-Times that she's considering a "guerrilla subway tour" in Chicago, I wonder if we'll start seeing a number of pretenders donning blond dreadlock wigs, hoping to cash in on her idea. According to Bowersox, she used to earn enough money to eat and pay rent by performing at L stops in Chicago back in the days before she became famous.
Glenn Tilbrook has just posted on his Facebook page that Squeeze will be releasing a CD in August. The band will be part of a dream double bill with Cheap Trick at Ravinia in Illinois on July 10th.
It was great to read in the news today that Natasha McShane, the Irish exchange student who was severely injured by a man wielding a baseball bat this past April in Chicago, is starting to walk, eat, and talk again. Her recovery is taking time, but her parents are encouraged. There will be two benefits for McShane in the Chicago area this Sunday, June 13th. Gaelic Park, in suburban Oak Forest, has a full line-up of entertainment scheduled for its Tara Room and Carraig Pub. The Orland Park-based band Bohola kicks things off at 3:00PM, and the live music continues until 7:45PM. Other acts include the Katie Sullivan Band, Gavin Coyle, and Three Men In Kilts. The performances at the Irish American Heritage Center, on the city's north side, will start at 1:00PM with the Pauline Conneely Ceili Band in the Erin Ballroom and the Johnny Gleason Duo in Fifth Province. The fundraiser concludes with the Joe McShane Band and Seamus Kennedy, who start their shows at 8:00. Other acts include students from the Academy of Irish Music featuring Trinity Irish Dance, Baal Tinne, who will also feature Trinity Irish Dance, and Avondale Ramblers. The full schedule for both of these fundraisers can be seen at each location's website. Here's wishing McShane a full recovery.
Rock N Load is reporting on Facebook that The Go-Go's have canceled their Happily Ever After farewell tour, which was scheduled to start at Lilith Fair in San Diego, on July 27th. Guitarist-vocalist Jane Wiedlin injured her knee while hiking, and will need surgery to repair it. Her recovery is expected to take up to a year. No word as to whether the band will try another farewell tour at that time. Wiedlin has posted a message on her Facebook page that she's currently writing and recording songs.


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The Best party I ever threw
Thanks Babe for an exceptional first year of marriage!
You are the sunshine of my live.
I've loved you for the last 12 years and it just keeps getting better.
You made me love you even when I didn't know thats what I wanted or needed.
You have brought to my life a balance and stability that I was lacking on my own.
You are the bearer of unconditional things.
You held your breath, and the door for me.
Thanks for your patience.