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It's every kid's Christmas dream - seeing Santa Claus in person delivering bundles of presents.
And now one UAE website is making that dream come true. For every order above Dhs300 placed on Mumzworld.com between now and December 30, Christmas shoppers can choose to have the gifts brought to them by the big man himself.
Friends Ryan McGorie, seven, Maxim McLaughlin, four, and William Norris, three, were delighted when Father Christmas delivered their big bundle of gifts to Ryan's house in Dubai this week.
Lucky Ryan got a Spider-man stacking kit as part of a joint birthday and early Chrimbo present. The Spidy fan said he was really looking forward to seeing his picture in 7DAYS with Santa Claus - so he could be famous among his friends at Jebel Ali Primary School.
Maxim promised Santa he'd start eating his vegetables - while little William simply said: "I love Santa Claus!"
Ryan's mum, Katherine, said the Mumzworld idea was "brilliant".
However, 7DAYS can exclusively reveal that the Mumzworld delivery van was called into emergency action to bring the pressies to Ryan's Jumeirah home... after Rudolph and friends were detained at immigration.
"I couldn't get the reindeers through customs," Santa admitted to 7DAYS.


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bareMinerals Flawless Definition Mascara Reviews
Bare Minerals Flawless Definition MascaraThis was terrible. It is a super thin formula that made my lashes crispy. My lashes were not voluminous or defined Back to the drawing board for this one! — 5 years, 5 months agopowerwoman033 | 509 reviews
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Lash DefinitionI got a deluxe sample of this in a Bare Minerals kit as a 500 point reward from Sephora. Generally I am unimpressed by Bare Minerals because the products I have tried from them have been disappointing. This mascara is actually the best thing I have tried from Bare Minerals so far. The wand is plastic, which I usually don't care for but this one is nice. It tapers to a fairly fine point making ...read moreit easy to get to the inner and outer corner lashes without making a mess. The filter on the tube of mascara is really great too because it gets ALL the excess mascara off the brush, leaving you with just what you need for an eye. This lengthens and defines my lashes really nicely without any clumping. It doesn't do much by way of volumizing, but it doesn't claim to either. Bare Minerals has another mascara with a completely different wand for that. I find this to be a pretty basic mascara, albeit nice. I don't love it enough to pay $18 for it because I think there are a lot of other mascaras on the market for the same price or less that do just as much or more than this one does. However, I will enjoy using the remainder of the deluxe sample. — 4 years, 10 months agoHeathRene | 285 reviews
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LikeI like this mascara. I have long full lashes so this is perfect to define them. I like the brush beause it helps to separate them. I have not experienced significant flaking or that I end up with racoon eyes by the end of day like with some other mascaras I've used. Overall, it works for me & I would repurchase. — 5 years, 2 months agoFeline44mom | 212 reviews
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not the best, not the worstBare Minerals claims "you'll enjoy every lash. The tapered wand lengthens, darkens and lifts, separating each individual lash for precision definition." So does it hold up to its reputation? The packaging is a nice understated tube. The brush is similar to the Lorac 3D Multiplex mascara where it is a solid plastic brush except that this one is not curved. The formula is fairly thick, but n...read moreot too thick. Yep its black, it thickens the lashes, but it does not curl or lengthen. I don't really like it. I tried it for a couple weeks but I never really started liking it. It did start clumping a bit. The thing I liked least about this mascara is every time I wore it my eyes felt like they had something in them after just a couple hours. The first couple times I chalked it up to other things – I do try new products VERY frequently so I figured it might have been something else. Low and behold it was this because the day I stopped using it, no more itchy eyes, no more flakes on my face. Would I buy it again? No, the itchy eyes alone do it – but then the clumps? Nope. Will I finish the sample? Nope, I used for 2 weeks and I am done – it is not empty but I'm tossing it. — 5 years, 5 months agoslagoon | 51 reviews
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2nd Annual Together We See Eye Run. Together we See is a non profit which raises money to send blind and disabled children and their siblings to Camp Quest in Florida. Age group awards 3 deep 10 & under, 11-15 to 70+, Accuchip timing. Post race BBQ with chicken and hamburgers. at Boca Raton YMCA. Bounce house & Cotton candy for kids. Raffle prizes. 1 mile run at 5pm (non-competitive), free kids races in field behind YMCA at 6pm. Race is directed by Jacob Goldberg. Call 561-361-1950 for information. Info: http://www.eyerun5k.org/Event schedule and times5:00pm Start Time- 5K & 1 mile. 6:00pm kids run. Packet pickup at Runner's Edge January 5th-11th(noon).Race day regisgtration 3:30-5pm
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A World War II bombardier's parachute was repurposed into a christening gown that has been used over the past three generations of his family.
Matthew Smith and Adele Guinee began dating in 1942. Guinee was a student at Emmanuel College and Smith was an 18-year-old sophomore at Harvard who had just enlisted in the Army Air Force.
When Smith left for basic training, he and Guinee wrote letters to each other over the course of his 42 missions in the South Pacific. While Smith was on rest leave in Australia and heading back to the Indonesian island of Morotai, his two-engine C-47 got caught in bad weather with low fuel. There were 23 men on board, but only 16 parachutes. They had to decide whether they preferred to jump or ditch with the plane.
Smith and 14 others decided to jump. One landed on 1,900-foot-high pile of rocks and others were hospitalized for weeks. One was killed. But Smith only suffered a concussion, scrapes, and bruises.
Smith flew 20 more missions after he recovered. His last was over Taiwan on August 6, 1945, the same day an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. He was discharged as a first lieutenant that year, and brought the white nylon parachute that saved his life back home with him.
One month later, he and Guinee married, and the couple had seven children. When their first son was born, Guinee took the parachute and made a christening gown for him. The other six children wore the gown at their baptisms, as did their children.
"If it wasn't for that parachute, my husband might not be here," Guinee said. "I had never sewn anything before, and I've never sewn anything since."
At a church in Somerset, Massachusetts last week, Guinee's namesake and the couple's fourth great-grandchild became the 18th baby to wear the christening gown. It had grown fragile and yellow with age, but remains irreplaceable to the family.
"We're not the same, either," Mr. Smith said. "But it's been a joyous ride. The parachute is as old as I am, and we're going down the same road in the end."


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Price: £49.99
Format: Xbox 360 (tested), Xbox 360, PC, Wii
Developer: Ubisoft Reflections
Publisher: Ubisoft
It begins with incredulity. You can't quite believe that Ubisoft Reflections are actually going to do it. From there, you move on to begrudging admiration, "Fair play to them," you think. "At least they're trying something different." And then you realise it actually works, that what should have become 21st century gaming's latest running joke is, in fact, a twisted stroke of genius.
The it in question, is the mechanic at the core of Driver San Francisco, and it will probably stand the test of time as one of the strangest game design decisions ever undertaken.
You're Tanner. You're a rough, tough cop, on a mission to bring down a sleazy drug lord who put a bullet in you. Your only weapon in this one man war is your ability to recklessly endanger people's lives with your automotive handling skills. You can drift with the best, boost your speed like no other, and you're a dab hand at driving criminals off the road too. The only problem is, you're in a coma. Except, that's not a problem at all, because, for reasons best left unexplained, you can now leap into the body of any driver in the city.
That's right, you can swoop out of your body and into someone else's with the push of a button. It's a glorious mix of Life on Mars, Quantum Leap and Bullit, and it works. It really, really works. After that brief flirtation with disbelief, everything clicks into place and you're shifting between the brains of San Franciscans with nary a care in the world.
Of course, the reason the shifting mechanism doesn't fall on its arse, is because of the game that Reflections have built around it. This is a San Francisco alive with possibilities, a bright beacon that acts as both your playground and your race track. The game is essentially a sandbox driving title, with the bizarre story holding everything in place. You slip between different people, drive around as them and complete tasks, earning willpower that you can use to move on to the next part of the narrative.
You're cop and robber, street racer and getaway driver, sliding around a vast city that's designed just for you and the screeching sound of rubber on concrete. The cars handle with all the fluidity of an arcade racer, letting you throw them around the streets with abandon, ploughing through crates of rubbish to burst out of an alley and into the side of an escaping perp.
Driver isn't without its problems. Sometimes, you just want to get on with the story, but you have to complete another race or another police chase first. Other times, the formula gets a little stuck in the mud, and the fresh ideas of the first few hours start to get old. That doesn't change the fact that Driver San Francisco is a whole boat load of ridiculous fun. It's fast, cool, sexy and innovative, and it deserves a place on any gamer's shelf.


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Swedish Håkan Ludwigson has worked, the past 40 years, as a travel and advertising photographer, with some of the world's largest magazines and brands on his customer list. In addition, he has won several prizes, held exhibitions and published numerous books.
Ludwigson's images are described as the cutting edge between documentary and fine art photography, whilst simultaneously adding his personal pictorial language. He is known for his photographic versatility, which includes his personal projects.
One of his projects came to life when, early in his career, he travelled across Australia documenting cattlemen and their work. These pictures, recalled from hibernation a few years ago, have since then been shown at many exhibitions and will soon be published in book form titled "Balls and Bulldust".
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Karachi: "Pakistan is one of those countries where obesity and diabetes are increasing at alarming rate; every one out of four Pakistanis is either obese or overweight. Overweight and obesity are the fifth leading risk for global deaths.
At least 2.8 million adults die each year as a result of being overweight or obese. Five out of 10 fatal diseases are associated with obesity, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancer," these views were expressed by Dr. Rizwana Waraich, Assistant Professor at Dr. Panjwani Center for Molecular Medicine and Drug Research (PCMD), while delivering a lecture on "Obesity – Related Diseases and Prevention" at the video conferencing hall of Latif Ebrahim Jamal (LEJ) National Science Information Centre on Saturday.
The lecture was jointly organised by PCMD and Virtual Education Project Pakistan (VEPP) as a part of series of popular lectures for public awareness on common diseases of Pakistan. Health professionals, students, research scholars, NGO representatives and general public attended the lecture.
Dr. Waraich said that obesity is not just a cosmetic problem, it's a health hazard. This is because obesity has been linked to several serious health ailments like heart disease and stroke, high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer. Overweight and obesity are major risk factors for a number of chronic diseases, including diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and cancer; once considered a problem only in high income countries, overweight and obesity are now dramatically on the rise in low- and middle-income countries, she added.
"Pakistan is one of those countries where obesity and diabetes are increasing at alarming rate. Our nation is now facing a "double burden" of disease, as we continue to deal with the problems of infectious disease and under-nutrition; we are experiencing a rapid upsurge in non-communicable disease risk factors such as obesity and overweight, particularly in urban settings.
The fundamental causes of obesity are an increased intake of energy-dense foods that are high in fat, salt and sugars but low in vitamins, minerals and other micronutrients; and a decrease in physical activity due to the increasingly sedentary nature of many forms of work, changing modes of transportation, and increasing urbanization," she said.
Overweight and obesity are largely preventable; the intake of healthier foods, and regular physical activity are easiest ways to preven obesity.
She said, "In Pakistan obesity level among rural areas is found to be 9 percent in males and 14 percent in women, while in urban areas situation is quite alarming as the obesity level is found to be 22 percent in gents and 37 percent in women. The higher obesity level in urban areas is due to their changing life style, high fat and carbohydrate-rich diet and lake of exercise."


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Forbes magazine has come out with a list it calls "America's Most Indebted Politicians." The top nine are all one-time presidential candidates who ran up huge campaign debts, including Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and even Lyndon LaRouche. Number 10 is Long Beach-area Congresswoman Laura Richardson.
Forbes.com lists Richardson's campaign debt at $439,785.
"The congresswoman from California's 37th district is the only member of this list whose campaign debt didn't come from a presidential run and is also unusual for amassing such a large backlog of unpaid bills in elections with only token opposition," the business magazine writes. "She won her congressional seat in a 2007 special election and successfully defended it in 2008 and 2010 with 75 percent and 69 percent of the vote, respectively."
Richardson is running in the June 5 primary in the 44th congressional district, facing fellow Democratic Congresswoman Janice Hahn in one of the incumbent showdowns prompted by California's latest round of redistricting.
Read the whole Forbes story, find the complete list and look at details of Richardson's debts by clicking here.


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Security Systems are Life-Changing for Kansas Homeowners
Purchasing home security in Kansas is the best way to protect what's important in your life. Instead of worrying about the safety of your family and your home, learn more about ADT home security systems to discover a security service that can help you safeguard your precious possessions. ADT's not just the biggest security systems dealer in Kansas – it's also the largest provider of security systems in North America. Founded in 1874, ADT has years of experience protecting Kansas' homeowners, providing security systems in Arkansas and monitoring the homes of Colorado home security owners. You can be the next. Discover your perfect home security solution today with ADT in Kansas.
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Why get home security for your Kansas residence?
Many Kansas homeowners have never been especially open to getting a home security system. The reasons are plentiful, but misguided:
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The first objection many people raise to owning a home security system in Kansas is the added cost and monthly bill. Indeed, there is a monthly charge for the best security service in the industry, but it's not without its value.
When you get a home security system from ADT, you're only paying a little more than a dollar per day, regardless of which system you choose. In other words, you could sacrifice your daily cup of coffee from the local convenience store to make up the difference. If that's not convincing enough, consider that when you buy a home security system, you're not just paying a monthly fee that goes into a black hole, never to be seen again. You're paying for peace of mind that you can actually feel each day as you leave and arrive home and as you lay down to go to sleep each night.
2. "Home security systems aren't as effective as my dog or firearm"
Despite how vicious your dog may be, or how skilled you are with a firearm, there are caveats to relying on these methods to safeguard your home. Not only are both methods unpredictable and potentially unsafe, but they are usually unnecessary.
Dogs are excellent for becoming notified when someone breaks in your home. And having a firearm can be an effective, albeit confrontational and risky, way to protect yourself and your property. But what if you're not home? Most dogs aren't imposing enough to stop a determined criminal. And rifles and handguns surely don't shoot themselves. A home security system for your Kansas property is an effective solution that you can rely on.
3. "Burglars aren't afraid of home security systems"
For some reason, many people have this idea that security systems only serve to cause a ruckus and actually do nothing to thwart burglary efforts. Au contraire. Home security systems have actually proven effective at stopping criminals in their tracks in the past. Think about it – if you were a burglar, whose sole purpose was to stealthily creep into people's homes to steal property, the last thing you would want is for a high-decibel alarm siren to begin blaring in the dark of the night. Burglars are less likely to target homes with security systems, because they are more likely to be caught if they do so.
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Bond mutual fund investors may be warming to the possibility of an improving economy. Last week funds saw the largest withdrawals in two years, Bloomberg.com reported on Wednesday.
According to Investment Company Institute, or ICI, statistics, investors pulled $8.62 billion out of bond mutual funds the week of Dec. 15.
Institutional investors may have been mostly responsible for the large fund outflows and could be locking in rates by buying individual bonds, a consultant speculated in the Bloomberg.com story, "Bond investors take $8.62 billion out of funds in week, most in two years"
"I would guess most retail investors are staying put because you aren't seeing the money go anywhere else," consultant Geoff Bobroff is quoted as saying.
Investors have been piling into fixed income investments for the past two years. ICI research shows that total bond fund inflows totaled $642.8 billion between Jan. 1, 2009, and Oct. 31, 2010.
Why are institutional investors getting nervous?
If the economy continues to improve, as we're all hoping it does, inflation will also heat up. As a result, we'll see interest rates edging up.
Rising interest rates mean rising bond yields. Yields move opposite of price so investors may see the value of their investments drop. For investors holding individual bonds to maturity, that's not too much of an issue. For bond fund investors a decline in value will be unavoidable, particularly in long-term bond funds.
Although there is scant inflation now as measured by the Consumer Price Index -- the annual rate of inflation was 1.1 percent in November -- the market may believe the possibility is on the horizon.
Yields on the 10-year Treasury have climbed over the 3 percent threshold in December. On Wednesday the 10-year Treasury yield was 3.36 percent according to the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
From mid-July of this year until the beginning of December, the 10-year Treasury yield didn't break 3 percent and went as low as 2.41 percent in October.
It looks like next year promises to be interesting. Until then, enjoy the holidays.


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IBM PureData System for Transactions: Fixes for IBM Data Studio
Product documentation
For some releases of IBM PureData System for Transactions, you must download and install an interim fix for IBM Data Studio to enable certain features when connected to databases in those versions of IBM PureData System for Transactions.
Review the following fix pack information for your version of IBM Data Studio:
Tip: For information about which version of IBM Data Studio is supported by your version of IBM PureData System for Transactions, see PureData System for Transactions: Restrictions, Known Issues, and Workarounds for IBM database tools.
Data Studio Version 3.1.1 and 3.2
For IBM Data Studio v3.1.1 and v3.2, you must download an interim fix from Fix Central and then install it on the computer where you installed IBM Data Studio by using the Update wizard in IBM Installation Manager.
Data Studio Version 4.1 and later
For other versions of IBM Data Studio, see the following document for details about finding, downloading, and installing available fix packs for your version of Data Studio.
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Software version: 3.1.1, 3.2, 4.1, 126.96.36.199
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As others see it: Thanks, Sen. Kennedy
The name Edward "Ted" Kennedy might have meant something completely different.
As news shows announced the Democratic senator's death Wednesday, CNN's sports commentator Rafer Weigel reported that when he was attending Harvard, Kennedy was told by the head of the Green Bay Packers that he might have a future in pro football.
Kennedy's performance on Harvard's football team was good enough to prompt the remark.
Kennedy politely explained that he planned to go to law school and enter "another contact sport: politics."
As a senator, Kennedy championed such causes as health care, immigration, education and civil rights.
And, as would have happened if he'd entered that other contact sport, Kennedy gained admirers and detractors. ...
Like many an athlete and politician, he also lived his life in public with sometimes tragic results.
The whole country knew when his 12-year-old son lost a leg to cancer, when he and his wife of 22 years divorced and, of course, when he drove off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, causing the death of his passenger.
Chappaquiddick seemed to mark the beginning of a difficult period in Kennedy's life. He developed a reputation as a heavy drinker and skirt chaser.
But Chappaquiddick also helped free him of his own national ambitions and, once he overcame his demons, Kennedy developed a reputation as a hard-working, effective lawmaker who could work both sides of the aisle to get results.
His accomplishments include the Americans with Disabilities Act, Meals on Wheels, family leave and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Not everyone appreciates or agrees with what he accomplished -- just as they might not have liked him if he had joined the Packers -- but his dedication and service to the county demands that we recognize his passing.
Thank you, Sen. Kennedy.


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Police credit council camera operators for legal high arrest
Hamilton Police credit council camera operators for legal high arrest
Hamilton Police say an effective partnership with the City Council's security camera operators is having a positive effect in keeping psychoactive substances from being illegally sold in the City.
Sergeant Dave Raffan said the call comes after the overnight arrest of a man caught on CCTV selling packets of psychoactive substances in Hamilton's Garden Place.
"Hamilton City Council City Safe camera operators observed the man interacting with several people throughout the evening who appeared to give him money while he passed them small items in return.
"Officers apprehended the man in Garden Place about 10.20pm and found him in possession of 45 2gm bags of an approved brand of synthetic cannabis. The selling of such items from unlicensed premises is a breach of the Psychoactive Substances Act and all licenses approved under this act are currently subject to a temporary suspension imposed by the Ministry of Health."
Mr Raffan said the man told Police he had obtained the packets of synthetic cannabis from a dealer in Te Awamutu and then brought them to Hamilton to on-sell to his customers.
"As a result of his entrepreneurial endeavours the 36-year-old now faces charges relating to the selling of psychoactive products from non-approved premises and breaching the medicines Act in relation to pills he was found in possession of.
"Last night's arrest highlights the value Police place on the City Camera's CCTV capabilities and how they assist in keeping Hamilton safe. Police will continue to monitor how psychoactive substances are being sold in the Waikato and offenders should expect or attentions if they flout the regulations."


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|Barber House in 1900. Source: City of Winnipeg Historical Buildings Committee
Edmund (sometimes spelled Edmond) Lorenzo Barber (1834-1909) was born in Hamden, Connecticut. He migrated to the St. Paul area in 1854 working for the Minnesota Democrat. In 1859 or 1860, he located to the Red River Settlement to work for his brother's dry goods business. Barber later opened at least one dry goods shop and traded in furs, hides and firewood. He developed business ties with John Christian Schultz, a rising businessman and political figure, through involvement in Schultz's Nor'Wester and joint real estate transactions.
Schultz may have been rising in the political and business worlds, but he wasn't known for his ethical business practices. This caused friction between him and the francophone community of the Red River settlement. During the Red River Rebellion, Shultz became the leader of the newly formed, anti-Metis party called the Canadian Party. The Canadian Party had small scale military conflicts with Louis Riel's provisional government on numerous occasions. At one point, Shultz was taken hostage by Riel but managed to escape. There are rumours sometimes present as fact that Schultz hid in Barber House before fleeing to Ontario, but ultimately it is unverifiable if he hid there or not.
|John Christian Schultz. Politician and leader of the Canadian Party
Edmund Barber married Barbara Logan in 1862. Logan was the daughter of Robert Logan, a well-known fur trader. This marriage allowed Barber, who was bent on establishing himself as a member of the elite, to enter into the social circle of the most well-to-do citizens of the Red River Settlement and early Winnipeg. Barbara's brother Alexander Logan was one of Winnipeg's first Mayors.
In 1873, the same year Winnipeg was founded, Barber bought the Nor'Wester newspaper from John Schultz. Barber would be editor and owner of the paper for the rest of its publication lifespan. Many of his other business endeavours were not especially successful. The dry goods store he moved to the Red River Settlement to work at was struggling with the rebellion and a poor crop season. Even when Barber was buying up real estate property, he was unable to pay his suppliers for the dry good store, and had perpetually bad credit. A friend of his from Ontario strongly encouraged him to pay off his debts saying "a merchant's good name and credit is everything to him."
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Barber never did head his friend's advice. Barber's store theoretically should have bounced back. The rebellion ended, crops had a better season, and the population of the area continued to increase. But despite all of these external factors swinging in Barber's favour, the store was never consistently profitable. In 1871, Barber opened a second store in Portage La Prairie, which promptly failed and closed. In 1873, he bought a saloon which should have been a very profitable venture, but that failed as well.
Edmund and Barbara moved into a tiny home called Thistle Cottage. The cottage was much too small for their growing family, and they desperately needed a new home. Barber house is thought to have been built sometime in the 1860's but lack of records make it hard to say for sure. It is a two-storey, seven or eight-room log house. Like the story about Schultz hiding there, much of the information about Barber house is difficult to verify. It is unclear if the house was built by Barber himself, or if he paid somebody else to build it for him. Some records suggest the house may have been built earlier on and another property, and Barber purchased the house and paid to have moved to his lot.
|Barber House, Date unknown.
A one-storey veranda topped by a balustrade once extended across the façade, while a wooden enclosure sheltered the doorway. It is not known whether these were original elements or later additions. Most of the veranda was demolished sometime after 1959. Prior to then, it had been enclosed with windows and the balustrade had been removed.
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|Barber House, 1959.
After the house was the victim of arson in 2003, Heritage Winnipeg didn't want to see it vacant and vulnerable anymore, fearing demolition but instead wanted to develop a plan to get a family living in the historic home once more and to take care of it.
Heritage Winnipeg was involved in a restoration/rehabilitation study for the house. Heritage Winnipeg had numerous meetings with both the provincial government and the city about the heritage elements of the home, both interior and exterior. They also consulted and had presentations and discussions with the Point Douglas Resident's Advisory Committee and community memers about occupying the home with tenants, and making it available to the community once a year for Doors Open Winnipeg.
After much searching the SISTARS started working with the federal government to build a daycare on the vacant land behind Barber House. SISTARS had enough money to expand their project. The community of Point Douglas voted to see Barber House become incorporated into the new daycare facility. Through SISTARS dedication to the community, they developed a plan to turn Barber House into a community centre for seniors. The new daycare would connect to Barber House, and it would become a project that would bring generations together, and allow children to learn from their elders.
At this point Heritage Winnipeg saw the community enthusiasm for this use of the home, and laid aside its plans to move forward as a residence. Heritage Winnipeg was excited to hear of the community centre plans, and stayed involved in a support role to help the new community centre come to life. In 2010, SISTARS made their intent official to turn it into a community centre for seniors, but almost as soon as the sale went through, the house was once again set on fire by an arsonist.
The fire didn't however stop the future plans for this large community project. The rehabilitation project went ahead, and many viewed the house as a metaphor for Point Douglas itself. Point Douglas was one of Winnipeg's first residential neighbourhoods, but after the Canadian Pacific Railway put their tracks through it, the neighbourhood became more industrialized, and began to fall into great disrepair. The population became comprised of mostly immigrants, whose interests were largely ignored or neglected by the government. Barber House, like Point Douglas, spent a long time being ignored and neglected. Residents describe Barber House as "rising like a phoenix," out of the ashes of the 2010 fire. There are many people dedicated to working towards Point Douglas itself following suit, and rise from the ashes.
The daycare and rehabilitation of Barber House was successfully completed and in February of 2012, Heritage Winnipeg held their held their 27th annual Preservation Awards at Barber House and presented the SISTARS organization on behalf of the community with an award for the successful rehabilitation of this historic home and for its integration into the social fabric of the community.
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NEW SWEDEN – Katherine G. Mattson, 93, died March 20, 2014, at a Caribou health care facility. She was born on Sept. 24, 1920, in New Sweden, the daughter of Henning V. and Addeline (Hedeman) Mattson.
She attended the Jempland and Stockholm schools, and graduated from Beauty school in Augusta. She worked as a beautician for a number of years. Katheryn was a member of the First Baptist Church of Stockholm, the Stockholm Musuem and The Home Extension Group.
She is survived by two brothers and their wives, Walter Mattson and his wife, Sylvia, of Stockholm, and Charles and Claire Archer of Hallowell; and several nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by two sisters, Phyllis Alessi, and Margaret Nelson; and three brothers, John, Jack, and Stanley.
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THIS is the man police want to speak to after a woman claims she was raped - following an encounter with a man in a Bolton town centre pub.
The alleged 46-year-old victim told police she was raped in the early hours of Sunday morning.
It is claimed the incident happened between 1.30am and 6.30am.
Police say the woman had been drinking at The Swan pub in Churchgate and was seen up against the wall with a man near to the gates of the pub.
The man police want to speak to is white, in his mid 20s to mid 30s, with a heavy build.
He had short shaved brown hair, wore a blue short sleeved t-shirt, dark trousers, a dark tracksuit to that was tied around his waist, black trainers with a logo on the outside and carried a black rucksack with an embroidered U on the front.
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That's it. I'm packing my bags and moving to the Western Cape. The reason? Good food. Actually, make that superb, excellent, delicious food. You see, the winners of the 2012 Eat Out DSTV Food Network Restaurant Awards were announced recently, and there are eight Western Cape restaurants on the eagerly awaited top 10 list – along with Hartford House in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands and DW Eleven-13 in Johannesburg.
These annual awards showcase the top restaurants in South Africa, and the top 10 list is always eagerly awaited. While there are loads of foodie awards that happen around the year, the Eat Out Awards are a fantastic barometer of quality. United Kingdom-based food columnist (and contributor to Wall Street Journal Europe) Bruce Palling was one of the judges, and he was quick to point out that our chefs can hold their own anywhere in the world.
'Some of the chefs would rank in my personal top 20 anywhere in the world,' he told the media. (And he should know, he's also on the panel of the World's Best 50 Restaurants.)
Chef Luke Dale-Roberts and The Test Kitchen in Cape Town took the Restaurant of the Year accolade, while Margot Janse of The Tasting Room, at Le Quartier Francais in Franschhoek, was named Chef of the Year.
Here's the list of winners:
- The Test Kitchen, Cape Town
- The Tasting Room, Franschhoek
- Jordan Restaurant, Stellenbosch
- Overture, Stellenbosch
- Rust en Vrede, Stellenbosch
- DW Eleven-13, Johannesburg
- La Colombe, Cape Town
- The Greenhouse, Cape Town
- Terroir, Stellenbosch
- Hartford House, KwaZulu-Natal Midlands
Other notable awards went to Carne SA (Best Steakhouse); 9th Avenue Bistro (Best Bistro); Saigon (Gardens) (Best Asian Restaurant); Fresh at Paul Cluver Estate (Best Country-style Restaurant); and the Café del Sol (Best Italian Restaurant).
Some of the chefs would rank in my personal top 20 anywhere in the world.
The Lannice Snyman Lifetime Achievement Award (sponsored by Paarl Media) went to Alicia Wilkinson of the Silwood School of Cookery, while the Boschendal Style Award, in Association with Visi magazine, went to Green House at Babylonstoren.
Cheers to all the winners and here's to hoping for a few more wins from Jo'burg next time around.
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... This ereader also failed the drop test. Remember when I reported that you could drop keys on the Nook Glow and damage the frontlight? The Firefly has the same problem. In fact, the first couple dings on the screen happened before I tested this ereader even though this ereader came with a case. ...
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These discussions say, Pawan has bright chances to occupy number one slot of Tollywood relative to other star heroes because his present following is unreachable for others. If this is the situation for a class and family oriented film, what would be ballgame if Pawan comes up with a real mass commercial entertainer? Power Star will next start working on sequel to 'Gabbar Singh' from September.
Sampath Nandi who himself is a diehard fan of Pawan is readying a script which will have all the expected masalas for fans. If this tentatively titled movie 'Bengal Tiger' gets good response, Pawan will be confirmed as number one hero. So, Pawan is set to occupy the seat from his elder brother Mega Star Chiranjeevi who almost quit the films for busy political works.


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"During the pre-G8 Nutrition for Growth event, an additional USD $4.15 billion was pledged directly in support of nutrition through 2020. Action contre la Faim-France (ACF) salutes the positive gains made at the Nutrition for Growth Summit, bringing together stakeholders from a range of sectors and placing nutrition at the center of global efforts to eradicate poverty and hunger. Yet the scourge of undernutrition is so massive and pervasive, it will require a different scale of commitment. According to The Lancet's estimates, it would cost $9.6 billion a year to scale up a package of 10 essential nutrition-specific interventions and achieve 90 percent coverage in the 34 countries that now account for 90 percent of the global burden of malnutrition. Yet according to ACF's Aid for Nutrition report, current donor government support for nutrition programs is just 1.5 percent of what is required annually."
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When I was a teenager I was sent to live with the Nuns. Well, it was the 70's, NZ, and I was a pregnant convent girl from a big Catholic family with a sick mum. This is where bad girls ended up, they said.
The Convent I was sent to was beautiful, old, fragrant, with wide corridors and huge sash windows, high ceilings, airy rooms and verandahs, enormous flower and vegetable gardens and was run by thrifty Nuns with jangling keys at their waists, who, as well as Bad Girls who they shuffled down the Adoption Path, took in washing from local private hospitals.
The laundry was the hub of the Convent. It was huge, with enormous tables for folding, huge wicker laundry baskets on wheels, entire rooms for stacking folded linen, big industrial washing machines, a drying room and an enormous mangle. Busy with silent rabbit like girls at work. The mangle was so wide it could iron a full length girl from side to side. Flat as a paua fritter. But that was the warm part of the laundry, you kind of worked up to that side as your pregnancy advanced. The side where the laundry was received, sorted and rinsed was where we began, it was cold, right there where the trucks pulled in and out. Always cold. And sorting the linen in the sluice room was the worst of the jobs. Some of it should have been rinsed in the hospitals. We never hardened to it.
The rinsing girls on the cold side had cracks in their hands that never healed from the cold water, nails always waterlogged, ripped and bleeding, infected cuts that never gave up and to this day they go white and numb at the threat of chilly weather. If it is terribly cold I am left using my hands like paddles. Our shoulders were always in pain. Don't feel bad though, due to my .. um.. high spirits I was often sent out to work with Sister Delphina in the gardens. Sometimes I was sent to the library, where the girls did their correspondence school work in the evenings – to think about my sins! Well that WAS a hardship. However I am wandering off the subject.
At of the outdoor end of laundry, near where the vans brought in their loads of bloody linen, leaking hideousness through the canvas bags which we rinsed and washed as well, was a small alcove. This is where the girls who were living at the Convent came to wash their own clothes on Saturday afternoon. Saturday afternoon and Sunday were our days off you see. The big laundry was silent. The nuns at prayer. And if you wanted your washing to be dry for ironing by Sunday afternoon you washed on Saturday.
In this alcove with its cold concrete floor, and high iron crossed windows with jasmine creeping in from the nun's garden, divided by a short bevilled glass wall from the laundry rinsing rooms were two big spotless concrete tubs and a long stone bench. Above one tub were two taps, one copper and one steel. One hot and one cold. Hot. The joy of it. I still love to hold my hands in a tub of hot water. Above the other tub was one cold tap. Between them was a small mangle. We washed our clothes by hand. It was Saturday. We were still in one piece, our babies bobbing gently in our bellies. And we chattered a mile a minute. As disconnected as any teenagers. Hauling our fat pregnant selves up onto the benches, dropping our slippers and swinging our bare feet, helping with each others washing, pushing them all through the mini mangle between the tubs, trying to jam each others fingers between the rollers,(watch out for your hair, watch out !) babies having babies. Dragging our heavy baskets of wrung out dresses and nighties and aprons across to the long empty clothes lines surrounded in heady lavender hedges, and we hid amongst the washing, giggling teenage giggles, hanging our scented colourful clothes out to dry with little wooden pegs, letting our faces drift into the wet soapy smells. The colour of them an afront to the white weekday sheets. Young and strong, steeped in a sadness we never discussed. A sadness that demanded silliness. And one of my strongest scented memories of this period was the laundry soap.
The soap was soap.
Now let me tell you about the soap.
We will digress shortly for a moment. All the housework was done by the girls as well. Only our 'side' mind you. The Nuns cleaned their own. We had a long wing of our own, with many bedrooms. My job was to clean and polish the endless wide beautiful corridors, the visitors parlours and the dining hall, all wide planked native wood and brass at the doors. One of my friends who I never saw again, this often being the way of these friendships forged in hardship, had the job of cleaning the two big bathrooms. Doling out clean towels and soap (carefully counted out by the nun with the keys) as she went. Each bathroom had 6 toilets, 6 hand basins and 3 showers. And in the hand-basins and showers there was home-made soap. Made by a Sister no-one ever saw. And when the soap was a slither left abandoned in a soap saucer, my friend's job was to collect all the slithers, rinse them, pop them into a big battered tin pot, fill the pot with water, boil it for a wee while, then take the pot with its old worn ladle, down the path and across to the Laundry and set it in the Girl's Wash House ready for Saturday afternoon. This is what we washed our clothes with. Good soap. And our clothes smelt lovely.
Of course I still cannot bear to throw away the last slithers of soap. And now that I am making my own soap, not only do we have the slithers but I also have the endy bits and cuttings off the soap cakes. And wasting it would be dreadful.
It all gets tossed into my soap pot and cooked up. I often add a few extra drops of lavender as a treat. If you want a formula, maybe a pound of soap to a gallon of water. But it is an excellent laundry liquid, especially for woolens. Best in a jar with a lid, using the ladle to dole it out. It does not pour well!
And when it comes to dirty dogs after a day in the fields with the mud and melting snow, soap is a wonderful thing.
Both dogs are trained to stand in the shower and be hosed down, then toweled off before they can sit in front of the fire at night. They do it. But with studied ill grace.
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Go ahead...make my day!
When I arrive at work at 8:30 am, I usually hang up my purse, glance at the phone to see if the little orange 'messages waiting' light is blinking, ( it usually is..) then turn on lights, my computer, and finally myself by brewing a nice little espresso from the Kuerig for my daily latte.
Today, when I noticed the light blinking on my phone, for some reason I decided to listen to the one message before heading off to to the kitchen.
It was a customer. And she wasn't happy.
Now I can tell you, I am normally a very nice person, but having a conversation with a frustrated customer before having that first cup of coffee could be, well... a bit risky! Potentially spirited and possibly regretful!
But this woman's voice message seemed a little more urgent than the usual, so I knew I just had to call her back right away. She genuinely seemed frustrated and confused, yet, hopeful in her message -->"Hello, Mouthman?? ….Is it possible this is a good number, and that you can help me? I've called three times already! I'm really at my wits end! "
Well, I don't like to leave people hanging at their wit's end if I can at all help it… so no coffee for me- instead, I just sat down, took a deep breath and dialed.
Sue W from Baltimore told me she recently bought our shirt for her grandson from a catalog. When she discovered it was too small, she called the company for an exchange to one size bigger. They told her they didn't have any more sizes. They told her her only option was to return the shirt. Since her grandson had already tried the shirt on ( and of course immediately went into giddy chomping mode ecstasy! ), she was horrified to learn that she was going to disappoint him - a lot! The company didn't even bother to connect her to us- in fact telling her the shirts are no longer available. She was left in the dust..to fend for herself on her quest to find a replacement Mouthman shirt.
Now this lovely lady admits to having no relationship at all with the internet- so she looked to the shirt for clues. Bless her heart for believing that we DO still exist! She found our name on the tag, then triumphantly found our phone number through her yellow pages iPhone app. She called early this morning with no idea that out here on the west coast there are many of us who are still sleeping at 6am and nowhere near our desks! (although once I actually fell asleep at my desk..but thats another fun story)
I told her yes, of course we could help her! That we are the inventor/owner/manufacturer and yes proud sellers of our own beloved MouthMan shirts.
And that no, her grandson will absolutely not be left without HIS own beloved MouthMan shirt!
And how sorry we are that she had to go through that letdown with the catalog seller...
And that some companies aren't all that great at referring a sale- even if it is to their own supplier and at the expense of a maintaining a positive relationship with their own customer.
Needless to say, we had a wonderful conversation- we laughed and chatted like old/new friends. I could tell she wanted to talk- and we enjoyed sharing stories about how Mouthman came to be, our Journey connection, our families, our nationalities, and more. She shared her story of having Alopecia since childhood- having lost her hair as a teenager. She made fun of herself, yet all I could hear was how beautiful of a person she is. Not complaining just sharing and being gracious and extremely grateful for the time we were spending on the phone chatting it up. Her problem was solved by me insisting on sending her a free shirt in the size she needed for her grandson, on the premise that she please share the smaller shirt with another child. She got so excited to know she could do this, and immediately thought of giving it to her grandson's kindergarten class for their raffle- and promised to buy more shirts and tell everyone she knows to check us out. She even offered to send a note to the catalog seller who wouldn't take the time to help her, to remind them that indeed we are still in business and they should be more helpful to their customers if they want them to order things out of their catalogs in the future.
We hung up giggling, and promising to keep in touch as she told me how I absolutely made her day.
Well, Sue W from Baltimore, I know you probably cant read this, but indeed you made mine too. And then some.
And in case I haven't said it enough to all of our friends and fans out there who ordering shirts, sharing our story and rooting for our small company to succeed,
You all make my day too. Every day.
Now, time for my coffee!
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Three Faculty/Staff Members Are Tri-County's Educators of the Year
(By Lisa Garrett)
PENDLETON --- Three faculty/staff members have been chosen as Tri-County Technical College's 2012 Educators of the Year and will be recognized at the South Carolina Technical Education Association (SCTEA) meeting in February.
Dr. Phil Buckhiester, provost, is the College's outstanding administrator; Dr. Harriette Dudley, public services department head and early childhood development instructor, is the outstanding instructor; and Kevin Steele, manager of administrative services, is the outstanding staff nominee.
Each will be honored at the SCTEA Annual Conference, set for February 23 - 25 at the Hilton Myrtle Beach Resort. SCTEA is a professional association of technical education personnel and others interested in post-secondary technical education.
Piedmont native Dr. Buckhiester returned home to the Upstate in 2004 when he joined the College as vice president for academic affairs. He is a former member of the executive committee of the Chief Academic Officers' (CAO) peer group and serves as the liaison for the General Education/AA/AS peer group. He is a former member of the Commission on Higher Education's articulation and dual enrollment, high school graduation and postsecondary entrance alignment committee, established by the Education and Economic Development Coordinating Council. In 2005, he served as chair of the degree structure committee of the CAO's peer group and as a member of the presidents' WorkKeys committee.
Dr. Buckhiester retired from the University System of Georgia in 2004, with 28 of those years spent at North Georgia College & State University in administrative and teaching capacities. His last position there was as vice president for academic affairs.
Other administrative positions held there were associate vice president for academic affairs, director of the academic advisement center and head of the department of mathematics & computer science. Prior to moving into administration, Dr. Buckhiester taught mathematics at North Georgia College & State University and at Valdosta State University. While at North Georgia, he received the Phi Kappa Phi promotion of excellence in higher education award, the president's outstanding service award and the North Georgia College alumni distinguished professor award.
His professional memberships have included Omicron Delta Kappa, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, the Mathematical Association of America, the American Mathematical Society, the National Academic Advising Association, the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, the Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society and the Society of the Sigma Xi. As a mathematics faculty member, Dr. Buckhiester was awarded nine grants, served as a book reviewer for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and published eight papers in journals.
Dr. Buckhiester's undergraduate degree in applied mathematics and his Ph.D. in mathematics are from Clemson University.
He and his wife, Becky, live in Seneca. They have three adult children and are members of Trinity Baptist Church in Seneca.
Dr. Dudley joined the College as public services department head/early childhood development instructor in June 2010. She has spent most her career in education - most recently as a professor/coordinator for St. Louis Community College from 2000 - 2010. Prior to that she was the early childhood education coordinator for Southern Illinois University, and a pre-K and elementary teacher for the Norfolk public schools. She began her career as a special services supervisor for the Human Development Corporation (Head Start). She holds a bachelor of arts from the University of Missouri - Columbia in Columbia, Missouri, a master of arts in teaching from Norfolk State University in Norfolk, VA, and a doctor of education from Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD.
She authored an article, "The Cohort Leadership Development Model: Student Perspectives," that appeared in the April 2008 Community College Journal of Research and Practice.
She received the phenomenal woman award from the Sigma Gamma Rho sorority in 2009, the service excellence award from St. Louis Community College in 2009 and the teacher of the year award from the Sentinel Newspaper in 2008.
Last year the work of Tri-County's Early Childhood Development (ECD) advisory committee members, both in the classroom and the community, earned them the distinction of advisory committee of the year.
The committee's work included partnering with Clemson University's Early Childhood program to co-sponsor/host a professional development conference for more than 100 teachers, parents, and college students. Committee members also shared their time, expertise and experiences with ECD students by serving as mentors and guest speakers in ECD classes.
Dr. Dudley is a member of the American Association of Women in Community Colleges and the National Association for the Education of Young Children. She and her husband, Ernest, live in Anderson.
Steele joined the College in 2005 as manager of the bookstore and cafeteria services operations. His duties have expanded to include responsibility for all auxiliary services of the College, which includes café services, the Campus Store (bookstore), cleaning services, risk management, postal services and shipping. He also plays a pivotal role in audio-visual support, the telephone system and special events.
Steele and the Campus Store staff recently were featured in "Foreward Online," an online newsletter published by MBS Textbook Exchange, Inc., the industry leader in wholesale textbook distribution. The newsletter touted the innovative strategies and services Steele has undertaken to make the Campus Store successful.
Two years ago, Steele "in-sourced" the College's café operations and built a highly valued student service. Café sales grew more than 34 percent in the second year of café operations. He was the first in the technical college system to introduce meal plans which have been highly subscribed by students (over $40K sold in first year of adoption). The café system serves three campuses for both breakfast and lunch.
Steele also introduced new technology, operation standards and commercial arrangements to more efficiently and effectively operate administrative systems at Tri-County Technical College.
The Seneca resident received the Presidential Medallion for Staff Excellence at the 2010 annual faculty/staff fall convocation. The medallion, along with a cash award made possible by the Tri-County Technical College Foundation, goes to a person who has demonstrated over and over a strong belief in the purpose and mission of the College.


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The Curtis Memorial Community Center Banquet was held last Friday, June 6th. Shown above l-r is Mayor Kevin Brown presenting the Citizen of the Year Award to Gilbert Larson. Photo by Amber Hickert
The Annual Curtis Memorial Community Center Banquet was held Friday, June 6th at the Community Center. Gilbert Larson was awarded the Citizen of the Year and a large contingent of his family was there to surprise him as his name was announced.
Mayor of Curtis Kevin Brown read of all the great deeds that Gilbert had done throughout the community.
Success isn't about what you inspire others to do, and our honoree tonight has definitely inspired many to give back as well as be the very best they can be.
Gilbert has hired many young people to work for him in the farming business and also in other endeavors he has made in our community.
He is one of the very first to step up when things need to be done. Gilbert has served on many boards, such as school board member, Rotary member and past president, NCTA advisory board, Medicine Valley Economic Development Corp., United Methodist church choir and many church offices, Chamber of Commerce, Fall Festival Committees for years, Teammate Mentor, and he served his country in the Army National Guard 4 years active and 3 years reserve, he has sung in the Easter Pageant Choir for many years, is a member of the American Legion and has served as an officer in that organization. He was awarded farmer of the year and presented this award by Governor Franklin Morrison of Nebraska in Lincoln.
Gilbert has been a big part of the growth of our community by the many business endeavors he has undertaken and helped our city grow. He has been a farmer-rancher, sales of butler buildings and irrigation products, he built our mall which holds seven businesses along with the post office and added the car wash across the street and all of these have been a great addition to our community. He is currently the Vice President of First Central Bank Loan Production Office in the mall. He used to love to fly and now he has traded that into making golf balls fly. We all make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give and this gentleman has definitely given much of his life to others.


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WASHINGTON — President Obama, seeking to deliver on his State of the Union promise to spur job growth, will arrive in Tampa on Thursday and announce Florida has won more than $1 billion in funding for high-speed rail.
The state had applied for $2.5 billion in stimulus funding for a line that would run from Orlando to Tampa. But the White House said no state would get more than half its request right away. Instead, Obama will cast the award as a down payment.
In addition to $8 billion in overall rail funding to be awarded to several states, Obama has pledged an additional $5 billion through the annual budget process.
"It's a pretty good start," said Sen. Bill Nelson, who was pushing for the full funding along with Gov. Charlie Crist and other elected officials in Florida, and longtime rail advocates.
Despite the setback, advocates cast the announcement in breathless terms. "This will be one of the largest boosts to the state's economy since Disney, since the interstate highway system," Nelson said.
"It's going to be the foundation of a more modern Florida," said U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Tampa.
Rail backers claim it will bring 23,000 jobs to Florida over four years and create 600 permanent jobs once the line is running, by early 2015. The plan is to eventually extend the rail to Miami.
Obama will allude to the high-speed rail initiative Thursday night in his State of the Union address, but the details will come out Thursday.
Thursday's visit, which will include a town hall meeting at the University of Tampa, will coincide with rail announcements by administration officials across the country.
Thirteen major corridors will receive awards to help develop new high-speed rail infrastructure or begin the transition to high-speed rail, according to the White House.
"In addition, smaller awards will also be made for improvements to portions of existing rail lines. Overall, 31 states will benefit from the awards, which will lay the groundwork for a nationwide high-speed rail system," the White House said.
Florida has a mixed history with rail. Voters in 2000 approved spending for a bullet train for the state. But they quashed it four years later in a repeal vote backed by then-Gov. Jeb Bush.
Obama's $787 billion economic stimulus has come under increasing attack from critics who say it has not created the jobs it promised.
Many Florida politicians have embraced the rail concept, including Crist, who said he will meet Obama when Air Force One touches town in Tampa. Crist's rival in the Republican U.S. Senate primary, Marco Rubio, said he supports rail in general but added to his ongoing criticism of the Obama administration.
"I think we should all be concerned about increased spending on anything at a time when the federal government is borrowing money to function."
Staff writers Amy Hollyfield and Adam C. Smith contributed to this report.


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Make It Count: Managing and Measuring Your Trade Show Marketing Efforts
No company decides to participate in trade show marketing without expecting a return on their investment in time and money. But many miss out on the best opportunity for returns by failing to tie their marketing strategy to measurable trade show objectives.
Do you want your trade show exhibit to raise awareness of your company? Launch a new product? Generate leads? Provide a place to meet with current clients?
Your answers to such strategic questions will help you define exactly what you want to achieve from a given trade show and then set stretch goals to help everyone involved focus their efforts.
- The Five-Second Rule for Trade Show Exhibits
What do you want your target market to think about your company?
Within five seconds, most people who walk by your trade show display will decide whether your message is of interest to them. Make sure you get your best prospects to stop at your booth and stay a while. Your trade show exhibit should match your corporate brand image and send a powerful message at a glance.
Many companies invest heavily in pre-show marketing to targeted attendees with promotions designed to bring them to your exhibit. If you are relying just on passersby to make a sale, you may be missing a big opportunity
- The Right Size for a Trade Show Booth
How big should your booth space be and why?
The bigger the space, the more area you have to display your products and services and make a positive impression. But bigger is not necessarily better, when you factor in your budget and your potential ROI.
The first step is to determine how you will utilize the space, which depends, in part, on the message and the image you want to convey. If you want to demonstrate that you are the leading company in this market, your trade show booth had better be big and bold.
With a small budget, first-time exhibitors may just want to work from a skirted table with professional-looking tabletop graphics. Others may bring a portable, pop-up display wall with shelves to display their products. Still others go custom with larger spaces that allow them to have several different areas within the booth to perform different functions, such as showing a multimedia display, conducting product demos or meeting privately with clients and prospects.
Before you decide, be sure to familiarize yourself with the exhibitors' guide, which can help you understand what you can and cannot do with your booth space. Some shows, for example, prohibit giveaways, while others welcome them. The guide also should contain a list of other companies participating, who could be prospects as well, along with a floor plan and a schedule of when the show floor will be open.
Location is critical. Try to get your booth space in a corner, entranceway, or other high traffic area. You want to see a steady flow of traffic by your booth. For the most popular shows, you will need to submit your request for booth space as soon as the show permits in order to get the best location. Some exhibitors will place their booth order for the following year on the day that the show closes.
- The Need for Measurable Goals
What do you want to measure?
Just like creating a business plan, companies need to plan for effective trade show marketing. The plan should establish the results you want and how those results will be measured. Your goal may be as simple as "one closed sale" or collecting 50 "A" leads. Whatever you decide, determine upfront how you are going to measure the success of participating in any particular trade show event. You might want to calculate such ratios as the cost per lead or the cost per orders written.
According to the article, Formula for Success, in EXHIBITOR magazine, the trade show manager for Wells Fargo Mortgage achieved amazing results by creative show planning in advance of a National Association of Realtors convention in San Francisco.
"Wells Fargo staffers interacted with approximately 5,500 attendees, 10 percent more than at the prior year's show. And of that group, 2,217 were ranked as highly qualified leads, an improvement of more than 66 percent compared to the previous year's show. Furthermore, attendees stayed in Wells Fargo's exhibit longer than they had in the past. Attendees spent an average of 25 to 35 minutes in the booth, roughly 20 percent longer than their average dwell time in 2012. And an exit survey (conducted on the second and third days of the show with more than 420 attendees) … discovered that 89 percent of realtors were more likely to refer homebuyers to Wells Fargo following their visit to the booth, and that 95 percent of attendees had a more favorable impression of the mortgage lender than they did before attending the show."
Those are numbers that really prove the exhibit's effectiveness. But the company wouldn't have known where they stood without doing the market research and quantifying their results.
- The Power of a 30-Second Elevator Speech
What is most important for our clients and prospects to know?
Instead of standing around asking sales-type questions, your staff will be more effective with prospects if everyone can share the same 30-second elevator speech. The speech should include the main messages you want to get across, such as your products' major features and how it benefits your customers. Those same points should be reflected in your booth graphics and literature.
Talk with your marketing/advertising personnel to make sure that the messages that drive your brand advertising are carried over to the trade show event. Keep the focus the same and make sure your messages can be quickly and easily understand by a new prospect.
- The Benefits of Rating Your Potential Customers
What is an "A" lead and how can I quickly rate booth visitors?
As prospects come to your booth, your staff should be prepared to ask them a few qualifying questions about their needs, which can help determine if the person is a good candidate for what you offer.
For prime candidates, make sure to collect contact information for follow-up, preferably through an automated lead retrieval system, and then document information about the conversation for future reference.
The 80/20 rule may apply. If you get a lot of booth traffic, don't try to collect everyone's information. Focus on those who show real interest and who fit your criteria of a strong prospective customer.
One common mistake is to think that handing out marketing materials is enough. The fact is that most literature given out at trade shows is never read. It may be more prudent to provide a one-page flyer or to offer to send the literature via email or mail. Even better, ask if you can hand-deliver the brochure after the show in a meeting to discuss the prospect's needs in more detail. Regardless, limit the amount of literature you hand out at shows.
Determine in advance how you are going to follow up on all leads. Will you send out literature, call each person, or a combination of the two? For your best leads, it is critical to contact each qualified prospect and arrange a follow-up call or meeting within a week of the show while they have your exhibit fresh in their minds.
- The Value of Surveying Your Staff
Was this show worth the time and money?Before you move on to the next show, take the time to figure out what worked and what didn't at each show. Survey everyone who participated in the show and ask for their recommendations on how to improve results in future trade shows. Once you have compiled the evaluations from your staff, be sure to report back on your overall results. By measuring your trade show marketing efforts, everyone will see how they have contributed to your company's success and how they can be even more effective next time.
About The Tradeshow Network Marketing Group
The Tradeshow Network Marketing Group is a full-service trade show display company based in Chicago, Illinois, which serves clients nationally and internationally. Products include custom exhibit designs, modular exhibit displays, island exhibits, fabric booths, portable designs, and other trade show supply accessories. In addition, The Tradeshow Network Marketing Group offers a rental display inventory depot with a variety of choices to fit all budgets and trade show display booth space sizes. They provide comprehensive trade show services including exhibit design, booth installation and dismantle, trade show logistics, exhibit storage, exhibit management and trade show marketing services.
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Very last minute August bank holiday deals
If you're reading this late on Wednesday afternoon, then you probably didn't catch the last minute August bank holiday deals blog, and you still haven't got around to organising anything for the bank holiday weekend. Worry not, there are plenty of holiday deals still available and, if you can't get away for the whole weekend, there are some decent day trips too
Cottages all over the UK
A quick search on Cottages4You turfed up a ton of late deals all over the UK. There's a six-man cottage (pictured) near Glencoe in Scotland available from Saturday to Monday for £243 - that's £40 each. Or try a four-man cottage in Axbridge in Somerset for £186 for two nights (£46 each).
Lesbos, Greece
For a longer stay, try a range of deals from First Choice departing tomorrow and Monday to Majorca, Corfu and Rhodes. There's also a good deal to Lesbos: seven nights B&B at Eftalou Hotel (pictured). Flights depart from Gatwick and the price tag is £251 per person.
Nice, France
BA Holidays is where I found the best European deals: there's a three night stay at the two star Normandie Hotel with flights for £350 per person. Or, for an urban break farther a field there's a weekend away to New York: three nights, flights and three star hotel Holiday Inn Manhattan on 6th Avenue (pictured) for £698.


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Nicole Richie may not have any motherly advice for expectant mama Jessica Simpson, but that doesn't mean the 30-year-old Fashion Star mentor isn't willing to help her fellow co-star prepare for motherhood in other ways.
"I offered for her to take my kids up until she has hers," Nicole says on Access Hollywood Live. "That didn't really work, but the offer still stands because she hasn't had her kid yet."
If she wants to take them, go ahead," Nicole adds, jokingly offering for Jessica to temporarily raise her daughter Harlow, 4, and son Sparrow, 2, until her own bambino arrives. "I will go to Cabo, no problem."
Is Jessica getting prepared to welcome a little girl?
The mom-to-be was recently spotted shopping in L.A.'s Bel Bambini boutique, carefully picking out clothing and accessories for her upcoming bundle – in pink.
"Jessica and her mom [Tina Simpson] spent over an hour at the store," a source tells PEOPLE. "She took her time picking out the perfect baby items."
What did she grab?
Pink baby clothes, a Moses basket, and "other adorable baby items," the souce reveals.


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Last week I came across an op-ed piece, K'naan, on Censoring Himself For Success – NYTimes.com that really stuck with me. In his essay, Somali born rapper and musician K'naan discussed a down-side of his considerable success, the pressure he felt to court and retain a mainstream audience. His record label was keen to see his lyrics, which had been steeped in the politics and history of his home country, "all the baggage of Somalia — of my grandfather's poetry, of pounding rhythms, of the war, of being an immigrant, of being an artist" to be more accessible, familiar, American.
"If this was censorship, I thought, it was a new kind — one I had to do to myself. The label wasn't telling me what to do. No, it was just giving me choices and information, about my audience — 15-year-old American girls, mostly, who knew little of Somalia. How much better to sing them songs about Americans."
I realize that K'naan's dilemma is no perfect analogue, and that the book business and the music business are different in a thousand substantive ways. In book publishing, I think the field is both broader and more fractured and the financial stakes lower, but the author's central dilemma, tugged between the countervailing poles of personal expression and the broader marketplace, between remaining true to an inner voice and figuring out how best to broadcast it, is probably familiar to many writers. In an era when publishers and agents exhort writers to build a platform, create a brand and market yourselves, to what degree do you think these pressures affect the creative process? Do you find that marketing concerns influence the content of what you write? Or do you think that there is no inherent contradiction in writing a book and then figuring out how, and to whom, to sell it?


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T-Mobile's moral track record is taking another hit: The wireless carrier is facing a lawsuit for cutting off a client's text message service simply because the company briefly extended its services to a medicinal marijuana club website.
Ez Texting, which was founded in 2006, said that it signed on a client called WeedMaps, a provider of information about legal marijuana dispensaries, a year ago without incident. Yet on Sept. 9, according to a statement from the company, "we were informed that certain carriers objected to the legal information available at WeedMaps' Website, and the fact that our short code was displayed on their Website," says Ez Texting's statement regarding to lawsuit.
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To appease T-Mobile, Ez Texting says it immediately terminated its business relationship with WeedMaps, blocking texts to and from the company and telling it to remove its short code from its site. Nevertheless, the very next day, T-Mobile starting blocking all SMS texts sent to Ez Texting's shared SMS code, according to the company, which means none of its customers receive texts from the company. Those customers include businesses, nonprofits, and religious groups.
"By doing so, without any warning, without any justification, and without any appeal, T-Mobile has put our business in jeopardy," reads the Ez Texting statement.
Ez Texting maintains that SMS services are protected by law the same as telephone services. "The FCC has found that text messages are phone calls. It is illegal for common carriers, like T-Mobile, to block phone calls. Consumers have the right to send and receive text messages just as they have a right to make and receive phone calls," the company argues.
The company raises a couple of interesting questions as to where this sort of action could lead: "If T-Mobile takes a stance to block lawful information about medicinal marijuana, will they take stances on all contentious issues? Will they block text messages from groups that advocate for gay marriage? Will they block text messages from religious organizations?"
Further, Ez Texting likens T-Mobile's action to blocking a toll-free number to a medical marijuana dispensary -- and asks whether the company's actions suggest it could block calls to customers using a rival carrier, such as Verizon or AT&T.
T-Mobile has not responded to requests for comment yet, so it's plausible there's more to the story than what Ez Texting is alleging. If the company's claims are true, however, T-Mobile has much to answer for in jeopardizing Ez Texting's business, as well the business of its clients, for seemingly employing such strong-arm tactics without any legal basis.
Notably, there's a certain irony here in that Ez Texting was quick to terminate its business relationship with WeedMaps and apparently starting playing the moral and legal cards only when its own business was adversely affected.
This article, "T-Mobile sued after blocking marijuana text service," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Get the first word on what the important tech news really means with the InfoWorld Tech Watch blog.


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Apple Cider Cheesecake - No Cook
Recipe by Krsi Sue
This recipe was on the lid of some whipped cream. I always have instant apple cider on hand, so this is an easy addition to my quick to make desserts. Prep time is refrigeration time.
Top Review by Zanni
I was searching to see if this recipe had been posted yet and here it is! I made this today for a Fall family get together and it is very good! I left off the granola bar though. I used a knife and kind of cut up the apples while they were still in the can. The one downside is that the cream cheese layer is very thick, so the lid that the crust came with wouldn't fit! I ended up using some toothpicks and saran wrap.
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 10 ounces apple pie filling (or homeade apple filling)
- 1 graham cracker pie crust
- 10 ounces cream cheese
- 4 tablespoons sour cream
- 4 (1/4 ounce) packages instant apple cider drink mix
- 4 ounces whipped topping, thawed
- 1 granola bar, crunchy kind
Directions See How It's Made
- Spread apple pie filling on bottom of pie crust.
- In a large bowl, beat cream cheese, sour cream and cider until fluffy.
- Beat in thawed whipped topping.
- Pour over apple pie filling and refrigerate.
- Crush granola bar and sprinkle on top just before serving.


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Gaaaaaah all this new spring stuff is so cute! So what if it's definitely still winter outside… that's what layering is for, right?
Primary Colours dress (Queen's students, holla!):
Polka Dot dress (belt not included):
Gaaaaaah all this new spring stuff is so cute! So what if it's definitely still winter outside… that's what layering is for, right?
Primary Colours dress (Queen's students, holla!):
Polka Dot dress (belt not included):
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Hooray, the first of our new lines for Spring is here! Just a couple of pieces for now, but they're great ones.
Stevie cotton chinos:
And sheer back tie top:
Tons more new shipments arriving really soon! And the sale stuff won't stick around much longer, so come in asap if there's something you've been eyeing…
Forgive the slightly weird photos… best we can do for now! But just trust me, these tights and socks are super-awesome in person.
Dip dye over-the-knee socks in dark grey and plum:
Sheer tights in blue and rose (and we have black as well):
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Brass locket (necklace shown here is a medallion, but the locket has the same design):
Plus a couple other things you'll just have to come see in the store!
Yessssss, Spring is coming!! We just got some great new pieces from Steven Alan and the shop is looking brighter already.
Boyfriend shirt in purple/pink plaid:
Izzy top in washed blue anchor print:
Oversized cardigan in navy/blue stripe:
And we don't have an image of this one yet, but we also got a Boyfriend Pullover shirt in an awesome bleeding madras fabric… come see!
Hey guys, thanks for coming out to the Queen of Hearts shop crawl last night! In case you couldn't make it and haven't had a chance to check out our new window display yet, here are a couple of photos (thanks, Anabela!) of the feathers made by Robin and the amazing birdhouse by Jason McLean:
It all looks even better in person, so try to stop by soon!
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Valentine's Day can be a tough day for singles, but here's a happy spin on it… we have a few lonely sale items left and they are just crying out for a perfect mate like you! Clothes before bros, am I right?? Let's set you up with one of these gems.
Built by Wendy velvet miniskirt, black, size XS (now $100):
APC Madras Water Flower print skirt, size L ($75):
Steven Alan Dora pants, navy, size 8 ($130):
Built by Wendy Wool Felt Hunting jacket, black/taupe, size S ($205):
Bodkin Refraction dress, grey, size 4 ($120):
Steven Alan Soma dress, purple paisley, size L ($170):
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Sightsound wins 35 Franchise films for internet
Franchise Pictures, the prolific Hollywood production partnership between Elie Samaha and Andrew Stevens, has entered into an exclusive, five year, worldwide internet distribution deal with Sightsound.com, the internet company which has pioneered distribution of music and movies online. Franchise will concurrently become a shareholder in Sightsound.com.
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The grass is not always greener on the other side. Just ask Plaxico Burress, Steve Smith, Barry Cofield and Kevin Boss. All four players left or opted not to sign with the New York Giants last year, and all four missed out on the opportunity to win a Super Bowl ring. Now wide receiver Mario Manningham is facing a similar choice: sign or go elsewhere.
Pro Football Talk is reporting that the Giants and Manningham are not making any positive progress in their contract talks and that the wide receiver is ready to enter free agency.
"Per league source, receiver Mario Manningham has made no progress on new deal with the Giants and will enter free agency," PFT tweeted.
This doesn't come as a huge surprise since Manningham is likely seeking a much larger deal than the Giants are willing to give, but to see that absolutely no progress has been made is unfortunate nonetheless.
With a very stacked list of free agent or potential free agent wide receivers, Super Mario and agent Drew Rosenhaus may not receive the offer they're both hoping for. Much like the case with running back Ahmad Bradshaw a year ago, multiple free agent options will likely drive down the price for Mario and he'll ultimately be forced to settle for less than he and Rosenhaus value him at.
Will that spell a last second return to Big Blue? Time will tell.
- Be sure to "like" Giants 101 on Facebook and to follow Giants 101 on Twitter
- Text "oneteam" to 20222 to donate $10 to the One Team for the Lights charity initiative.
- Purchase your Super Bowl XLVI gear through Giants NFL Shop
- Get your very own "GMEN" t-shirt (as seen on Michael Strahan at the Super Bowl XLVI ceremony)
- Get free autographs from Mark Collins and Stephen Baker this Friday night in NYC.


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What happened over the past four years to cause Burr to change his mind about this judicial nomination? Only one thing. Richard Burr became a mercenary in the War on Obama.
Perhaps part of the reason for the resubmission of the nomination was the recent coming to light of a letter from 2009 (reported by The Huffington Post) in which Burr explicitly endorsed May-Parker for the seat! Apparently, the White House has concluded that Senator Burr cannot maintain such a blatantly disingenuous stance and stonewall the nomination in silence much longer without drawing significant negative attention from North Carolinians.
Good catch, guys.
The man has no scruples
And North Carolinians have no memories, at least when it comes to Dick Burr. He's flip-flopped on so many issues it boggles the mind, but we keep sending him back to DC.