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SAN DIEGO - Police were on the lookout today for two young menwho grabbed a pair of teenage girls in a dark Rancho Penasquitospark over the Labor Day weekend, threatened them with a knife andsexually assaulted them.
The victims, both of whom live in Clairemont, were attending a family party in the 12600 block of Spindletop Road on Saturday evening when they decided to take a walk into a nearby open-space area, according to San Diego police.
They were sitting beneath a tree about 8:15 p.m. when two men who appeared to be in their late teens or early 20s walked by them, San Diego Police Department public affairs Lt. Andra Brown said.
Moments later, the strangers grabbed the girls from behind, and one put a knife to the older victim's throat while his cohort put his hand over the other one's mouth.
The assailants then forced the girls into a more secluded part of the park and sexually assaulted them for 20 to 30 minutes, Brown said. The attackers finally fled when a parent of one victim came looking for the girls.
Hearing the adult calling out the girls' names, the men ordered them to walk away, then climbed onto a single bicycle and rode away.
The girls described the assailants, who spoke English to them and Spanish between themselves, as cleanshaven, roughly 5-foot-6-inch Latinos, Brown said. One was wearing a baseball cap and a white shirt with a San Diego Padres logo on it, and the other had on a shirt with an attached hood.
Police have not received any reports of similar recent assaults in the area, according to Brown.
"It looks like it was a crime of opportunity," Brown said. "We're not looking at this as series-related."
Investigators were working with the victims to generate composite facial renderings of the assailants to release the public.


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dindlee Says:
Sorry, but Phoenix Emmanuel is awful. Phoenix might be technically unisex but skews male. And Emmanuel is all-male. It irritates me because Emmanuelle is feminine is pronounced the exact same way. Why use the male form?
Azura is lovely.
maggiemary Says:
James Knight is rather handsome.
Was won over by Maceo, a big improvement on Nahla, which I have never been able to like.
I have loved Cressida for a long time, I hope it doesn't go mainstream.
VegasCountryQueen Says:
I love Chesney for a girl — of course after Kenny Chesney. 🙂
Abby Says:
@maggiemary – Nahla has grown on me, but I do agree – I liked Maceo instantly!
Beautiful_Haiku Says:
Kenny Chesney, John Lennon and Elvis Presley…. Heroes??? Anyways, I like Cressida, James Knight, and Maceo. I remember a rapper named Maceo… not much became of his career though
EmilyVA Says:
I like James Knight. I also like Clancy surprisingly. Is it maybe a tribute to the late Tom Clancy, novelist, who died very recently and very suddenly, at the relatively young age of 66?(Yes I know he's not that young, but considering how many people I have known who lived to be 80 or older and certainly 70 and older, I would consider that young.)
I certainly see John Lennon as a hero. Maybe Elvis is a sad story of addiction, but not entirely un-admirable. I think a tend to look out for is to see more contemporary legends honored and not just those of long ago.
EmilyVA Says:
sorry a trend not tend
strawberrytree Says:
I have loved Cressida for a long time. Love Isobel too. I also like James Knight- Knight is a bit out there but balanced well with James. Even though it would usually be not my style, I also like Azura.
Hate, hate, hate Phoenix Emmanuel. I don't think it is unisex at all- it is straight up male.
NameWeary Says:
I love Isobel, too, but… as someone with an extremely common name spelled an extremely UNcommon way, I will never do that to a kid.
vlsewell Says:
I was just thinking how I love the spelling Isobel 🙂 and Knox is on my guilty pleasure list.
As for Lennon, I can't fathom why anyone would name their child after John. He was a domestic abuser and cheated on his wife; a complete hypocrite. Even changing the spelling to Lenin wouldn't work.
Idk much about Clancy as an author, but I certainly like the name. Reminds me of Chauncey which was on our list of middle names for the boy we're expecting in December
Beautiful_Haiku Says:
How is John Lennon a hero?
tori101 Says:
My favourites are…
James Knight
Isobel Kelly
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lalala__lauren Says:
I love Em(m)anuelle and am sad they chose to not use the feminine form! Poor Phoenix's name seems like her parents picked a name thinking she'd be a boy, then kept it even though she came out a girl :[
Cressida is a character in the Hunger Games books, so I'm not a fan of it while that's still popular.
lakooby Says:
i keep thinking of jaime as a boys name because of the choice of spelling (pronounced jamie)… but now see that its also very much a girls name! i do love the name…
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SIXTY-two people have lost their jobs at a bakery equipment firm originally established by former Clarets director John Turkington.
Major problems began for Turkington Europe Ltd, on Billington Road Industrial Estate, Burnley, when its American arm ran into trouble with financiers in February.
Just over 100 staff were later laid off at Turkington USA's plant in North Carolina, leaving their Burnley colleagues with a £6.9million banking liability.
This resulted in director Stuart Ashman placing Turkington Europe, which makes dough-processing and bakery equipment, into administration.
Mr Turkington has not been involved with the business since December 2010, it is understood, after stepping down as company secretary.
But he did step in to buy the intellectual property rights to the spare parts and servicing interests for the firm, in a recovery sale arranged by Blackburn debts specialists Winterhill Largo.
Administrator Andrew Haslam, of Begbies Traynor Ltd, said efforts had been made to find a suitable buyer for Turkington Europe but no interested parties had come forward.
"The company had received a demand in excess of $11million from the bankers of its holding company, Turkington USA, for which it had provided a cross guarantee," he said.
Prospects for the Burnley plant remained unclear as it mainly dealt with sub-contracted work from the American arm of the business, according to Mr Haslam.
The company also had a £300,000 bad debt with an American customer over an unfulfilled major order, adding to insolvency worries.
But administrators have said that it is likely that about £59,000 outstanding to staff in wages and holiday pay will be honoured.
Creditors have until today to register claims with the administrators for any outstanding debts.
The firm had debts of about £349,000, when it entered administration, and about £191,000 of these are thought to be recoverable.
Mr Turkington established his engineering empire more than 30 years ago. His firm J F Turkington Engineers, also based at Billington Road, went under in 2007.
The American expansion began under Mr Ashman, as chief executive of Turkington Industries, in 2004.


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Last month, I told you that Bolt died. He was a Doberman pinscher, and he hadn't even turned 1 before dying in a fire in a Frederick home.
Stone is out of the hospital, and he talked recently about his recovery and the day his dog died with Cara Anthony, a terrific reporter at the Frederick News-Post.
She wrote:
Nearly two months ago, the sound of a whimpering puppy drove Calvin "Skip" Stone into a Frederick house that was engulfed in flames.
Now, Stone, 37, is a recovering burn victim who is grieving the loss of a family pet.
"I could hear the dog upstairs crying and whining," Stone said during a recent interview with The Frederick News-Post.
Anthony asked Stone if he had any regrets about trying to save his dog. Stone did not, despite all of this:
Stone broke his left leg after the failed rescue attempt, and about 20 percent of his body was burned, including his face, ears, hand, back and arms.
"It's been frustrating, but I am healing faster than they expected," Stone said.
Stone has since moved in with his parents in Knoxville, where the family buried Bolt in the backyard after the blaze destroyed the house. He was still in the hospital when his father created a makeshift grave for Bolt.
Meanwhile, Stone is deflecting the label of hero, Anthony writes:
He has become a hometown hero in the eyes of animal lovers, but Stone said the real hero is his son, Joey.
Joey dragged Stone away from the home as the blast of flames blew him away from the front door.
"My son is the real hero," Stone said.


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SALINAS, Calif. — The Salinas city council has approved the sale of a 1.6-acre downtown site to Taylor Fresh Foods, which plans to build a corporate headquarters and retail complex there.
The sales price is $1.5 million.
The council voted 6-0 Sept. 27 to sell city-owned land in the 100 block of Main Street after hearing presentations from Taylor Fresh Foods chief financial officer Tom Bryan, among others.
The Salinas-based grower-shipper plans 80,000 square feet of construction in a five-story building. Taylor Fresh Foods will occupy the top floors. The headquarters is moving downtown from a different part of the city. About 150 to 200 Taylor employees will work at the new location.
Construction is expected to begin within a year, city officials said.
The site across the street from the National Steinbeck Center and Maya Cinemas has been vacant since 1989, when the Loma Prieta earthquake led to condemnation of the historic Cominos Hotel building. In recent years it's been used as a parking lot.
From the 1920s into the 1950s, that hotel was an informal center of deal making in the agricultural business community.
Some famous politicians, entertainers and sports figures also stopped in from time to time.
City council members, including mayor pro tem Gloria De La Rosa, plus representatives of local business associations, said they expect Taylor's arrival to revitalize the area.


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Pennsylvania Artist Wins Maryland Black Bear Conservation Stamp Design Contest
Steve Oliver from Delaware County, Pa. won the 17th annual Maryland Black Bear Conservation Stamp Contest with his painting, Morning Stroll, of a black bear taking a walk along a riverbank.
"The Black Bear Conservation Program is an important program and I am happy to support it in any way I can," said Oliver.
A panel of judges selected Oliver's painting from 11 qualifying entries submitted by artists from Maryland, Tennessee, South Carolina, New York, Georgia, Kentucky, Illinois, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. They judged the works before a crowd at the 24th Patuxent Wildlife Art Show on March 24 at the National Wildlife Visitors Center in Laurel, Md.
Oliver is the only artist to win this award five times since the contest began in 1996. Oliver's work has won numerous awards and honors since he entered into the professional art community in 1995. His paintings have been featured on several conservation/hunting stamps, including the 2010 Delaware Duck Stamp. To see more of his art, visit steveoliverart.com.
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1 bedroom house for saleNorham Place, Berkeley Alford, Worcester
Sold STC £119,950
Property Description
Key features
- Refitted Breakfast Kitchen
- Double Bedroom
- Refitted Ensuite Shower Room
- Open Plan Living Area with Vaulted Ceiling
- Off Road Parking
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An Immaculately Presented and Refurbished One Bedroomed Home Situated in the Residential Area of Warndon Villages Having Access to Local Amenities, Worcester City Centre and Junction 6 of the M5 Motorway.
Accommodation Details:
The property comprises reception hall, refitted breakfast kitchen with appliances, open plan living area with vaulted ceiling, walk in storage/airing cupboard, double bedroom, refitted ensuite shower room and gardens.
The property benefits from gas fired central heating, off road parking, front and rear gardens, no chain.
Ground Floor
Canopy entrance porch with courtesy light, meter cupboard housing "Ferroli" combination boiler to serve central heating and domestic hot water, part glazed front door leading to reception hall.
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Recessed halogen spot lights, telephone point, designer wall mounted radiator, ceramic tiled flooring, door to breakfast kitchen.
Living Area With Kitchen 23' 3" x 11' 6" max. ( 7.09m x 3.51m max. )
Breakfast Kitchen 10' x 7' 8" ( 3.05m x 2.34m )
Front facing, inset single drainer stainless steel "Franke" sink unit with mixer tap over and cupboard below, one pull out corner unit, one single floor mounted unit, one three drawer stacker unit, range of eye level units (two with display lighting). Range of built in "Neff" appliances to include oven and hob with stainless steel extractor, washer drier, fridge and freezer, "Corian" breakfast bar and work surfacing throughout, recessed halogen spot lights, ceramic tiled flooring.
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Living Area 13' 2" x 11' 6" ( 4.01m x 3.51m )
Rear facing, vaulted ceiling with exposed beams, two wall light points, two vertical wall mounted radiators, ceramic tiled flooring, under stairs pull out storage unit, double glazed patio door to rear garden, stairs to first floor.
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Bedroom 11' 7" x 8' 1" plus recess & ensuite ( 3.53m x 2.46m plus recess & ensuite )
Front facing, recessed halogen spot lights, access to insulated roof space, coved ceiling, single panel radiator, smoke detector, sliding door to refitted ensuite.
Refitted Ensuite
Low level wc, pedestal wash hand basin with chrome mixer tap, walk in shower cubicle with chrome fittings, recessed halogen spot lights, extractor, chrome ladder style towel rail, ceramic tiled flooring.
Outside - Front
To the front of the property there is a small lawned foregarden with cold water tap.
Outside - Rear
To the rear of the property there is an enclosed garden predominantly laid to lawn, granite patio area with security lighting, cold water tap, exterior electrical outlets, second patio area, gated rear access, timber garden shed.
All mains services are connected to the property.
From Connells Warndon Villages office proceed out of Ankerage Green turning right into Mill Wood Drive, at the 'T' junction turn left into Plantation Drive, at the traffic island turn right into Woodgreen Drive, at the next traffic island turn right into Hastings Drive, take the first turning right into Saltwood Avenue, first right into Norham Place where the property will be located on the right hand side as indicated by the agents "For Sale" board.
1. MONEY LAUNDERING REGULATIONS - Intending purchasers will be asked to produce identification documentation at a later stage and we would ask for your co-operation in order that there will be no delay in agreeing the sale.
2: These particulars do not constitute part or all of an offer or contract.
3: The measurements indicated are supplied for guidance only and as such must be considered incorrect.
4: Potential buyers are advised to recheck the measurements before committing to any expense.
5: Connells has not tested any apparatus, equipment, fixtures, fittings or services and it is the buyers interests to check the working condition of any appliances.
6: Connells has not sought to verify the legal title of the property and the buyers must obtain verification from their solicitor.
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Perspectivas do Desenvolvimento de Pernambuco
This paper tries to find the social-political roots of the poor performance of the economy of Pernambuco in the last 24 years. It defends the hypothesis that the traditional oligarchies' leaderships in the state's process of industrialization and the political force of the popular classes led to the reinforcement of the social contradictions and therefore causing a lack of involvement by the government in long terms politics. The focus in short terms benefits, seeking to attract political support, unable the key players, which represented the political power in the state, to insist in the execution of structural projects, delaying the economical development on the long term.the paper argues that overcoming this problem demands a process of conscientiousness by the several antagonistic political forces, in order to define a minimum platform of common interest for the whole the state.
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[See also: Perinatal Mortality Data File]
Topic/focus: Vital Events
Year(s): 1983 - 2003 (EDRC); 1983 - 2005 (online)
Source: National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
Study and sample characteristics: Data based on vital records
Universe: Infants born in the United States who died in the United States before one year of age
Variables: Varies by year (304 in 1991)
Access: Publically available
Cost: Free
Key web links: CDC: National Vital Statistics System
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The Eatsdropper is the new French fry
I know I've been far from prolific lately. One would think that, being self-unemployed and all, I'd have nothing but time to cook and write and entertain you with my kitchen shenanigans. Fact is, while I have been cooking a lot, my time has been otherwise occupied with things like walking the dog, taking the occasional exercise and … a supertopsecret project that I will reveal soon enough. I do intend to get back to meatier posts here, but in the meantime, here's a little amuse bouche to whet your appetite.
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Customer: "Why are they called Lucca?"
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have the Molinari ravioli."
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used to get Molinari ravioli here. I guess I haven't been in here in a long
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Coworker: "Moe's is like an upper-scale Taco Bell"
– Eatsdropped by Broderick at work
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– Eatsdropped by Anita at a party
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Cannabis Should be Legalized, Says Groundbreaking New Report Released Today by Canadian Senate Special Committee
OTTAWA, September 4, 2002 -- Canada's Senate Special Committee on Illegal Drugs today released its final report on cannabis. According to a press release by the Committee, the exhaustive and comprehensive two-year study of public policy related to marijuana found that the drug should be legalized. The 600 plus page Senate report is a result of rigorous research, analysis and extensive public hearings in Ottawa and communities throughout Canada with experts and citizens.
"Scientific evidence overwhelmingly indicates that cannabis is substantially less harmful than alcohol, and should be treated not as a criminal issue, but as a social and public health issue," said Senator Pierre Claude Nolin, Chair of the Special Committee, in a news conference today in Ottawa. "Indeed, domestic and international experts and Canadians from every walk of life told us loud and clear that we should not be imposing criminal records on users or unduly prohibiting personal use of cannabis. At the same time, make no mistake, we are not endorsing cannabis use for recreational consumption. Whether or not an individual uses marijuana should be a personal choice that is not subject to criminal penalties. But we have come to the conclusion that, as a drug, it should be regulated by the State much as we do for wine and beer, hence our preference for legalization over decriminalization."
Ethan Nadelmann, Executive Director of Drug Policy Alliance, the leading organization promoting alternatives to the war on drugs in the United States, applauded the report. "Marijuana prohibition now makes no more sense than alcohol Prohibition did 75 years ago," said Nadelmann. "Canada's joining a growing number of other nations that are turning their backs on the U.S.'s costly and counterproductive marijuana policy."
According to the press release, the Senate Report concludes that:
- The Government of Canada should adopt an integrated policy on the risks and harmful effects of psychoactive substances covering the whole range of substances including cannabis, medications, alcohol, tobacco and illegal drugs, focussing on educating users, detecting and preventing at-risk use and treating excessive use.
- As far as cannabis is concerned, only behaviour causing demonstrable harm to others should be prohibited: illegal trafficking, selling to young people under the age of sixteen and impaired driving.
- Legislation for a cannabis exemption scheme should be introduced stipulating conditions for obtaining licences, producing and selling cannabis; criminal penalties for illegal trafficking and export; and the preservation of criminal penalties for all activities falling outside the scope of the exemption scheme.
- Present medicinal marijuana provisions are not effective and must be revised to provide greater access for those in need.
- Amnesty should be provided for any person convicted of possession of cannabis under current or past legislation.
In its extensive report, the Special Committee suggests a number of specific initiatives for implementing its recommendations such as:
- creation of a National Advisor on Psychoactive Substances and Dependency within the Privy Council Office;
- a high-level conference of key stakeholders from the provinces, territories, municipalities and associations in 2003 to set goals and priorities for action;
- creation of a Canadian Centre on Psychoactive Substances and Dependency with a strong, clear mandate, adequately funded and reporting to Parliament and with a Monitoring Agency on Psychoactive Substances and Dependency to conduct studies with the provinces and territories and table a bi-annual report on drug-use trends and emerging problems;
- amendments to the Marijuana Medical Access Regulations to provide new rules regarding eligibility, availability, production and distribution with respect to cannabis for therapeutic purposes;
- amendment to the Criminal Code to lower permitted alcohol levels to 40 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood in the presence of other drugs, especially, but not exclusively cannabis; and
- Canada seeking amendments to United Nations conventions and treaties governing illegal drugs and supporting the development of a Drugs and Dependency Monitoring Agency for the Americas.
The Committee also examined the international obligations and repercussions of Canada's cannabis policies as well as approaches taken by other countries. It studied the impact of more liberal policy approaches to cannabis in countries such as the Netherlands, Switzerland and Spain along with more restrictive policies such as Sweden, France or the United States. There is a clear international trend to reassessing domestic drug policy such as recent initiatives toward decriminalization in the United Kingdom. Deputy Chair Senator Colin Kenny points out that "though what we are recommending for our country has an impact on our friends and neighbours, Canada must make its own decisions in the best interests of its citizens."
"This should be a wake up call to the United States," said Nadelmann. "Our northern neighbors are recommending public health before politics. They recognize that cigarettes and alcohol are more dangerous than marijuana. It's time to put an end to the hypocrisy in America."
The Senate Special Committee on Illegal Drugs is chaired by Senator Pierre Claude Nolin with Senator Colin Kenny as deputy-chair. Also serving on the Committee are Senators Tommy Banks, Shirley Maheu and Eileen Rossiter. The Special Senate Committee on Illegal Drugs maintains an Internet web site at www.parl.gc.ca/illegal-drugs.asp where proceedings, testimony, research, general information and its report can be found. The complete report can be found at www.parl.gc.ca/37/1/parlbus/commbus/senate/com-e/ille-e/rep-e/summary-e.pdf.
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This episode of salad fingers, though they are all good, is by far the best one, i hope some new ones come out soon
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lol 1:21 begins talking south african to a doll an himself lovely shitzofrenic dude :)
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man ive seen 1,2 and 3......this is the most fucked out of them all.........seroiusly this is just like........FUCK!!!!!! its more screwed up than any horror movie ive seen!!!!!! thiss is the shit that turns young kids mental........GOOD FUCKING WORK!!!!!!! hehehe i hope i have nightmare........actually after seein this i dont.............
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wow dude
awesome. were the hell did you get the idea. it isnt scary like everyones saying, but it would be if no one else was in the house, the lights were off, and the volume was up really high.
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that made me want to curl up in a ball and cry...
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Skype Technologies S.A. recommends users update their software to fix "high-risk" security holes attackers could exploit to cause a denial-of-service or launch malicious code. The vulnerabilities affect Skype software for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Pocket PC.
The Luxembourg-based Internet telephony service provider, which allows users to make free calls between computers or low-cost calls to regular telephones not connected to the Internet, said one problem is that "Skype can be made to execute arbitrary code through a buffer overflow when Skype is called upon to handle malformed URLs that are in Skype-specific URI types callto:// and skype://." Skype could also be used to launch malicious code "during importation of a VCARD that is in a specific non-standard format…
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Mariel Hemingway and Barbara Hershey
Mariel Hemingway
Manhattan (1979), Deconstructing Harry (1997)
It's not a terribly original bit of analysis to affirm that Hemingway has not had a great acting career in film, or that she didn't fulfill the promise she made in her beginnings, when she seemed to have beauty, intelligence and talent to spare and got so many nominations for awards, including one for the Oscar just in her second film for the big screen, Manhattan. Following that impressive beginning, she had to wait three years to have her next film released, and then went on to making Star 80 (a cult film only nowadays). After that, again the long wait for projects, the TV, and forgotten roles in forgotten films that balanced that early taste at the best awards with the bitter after taste of two back-to-back Razzie nominations. From there, the relative but still indubitable oblivion.
Watching Manhattan again, it's still difficult to imagine how such slow but steady languishing could happen. Perhaps part of the problem was that she was difficult to cast: she was only 16 when Manhattan was shot and, despite playing a role that required a special maturity, despite the fact that she captured the hearts of an audience that was mostly older than she was, she looked and sounded like she was indeed, only 16. After a role like that, one couldn't imagine her playing a normal adolescent, as her image was closely linked to the precocious, mature, clever Tracy; but she was 16, she looked like a 16-year-old girl, and her voice was as sweet and innocent as a teenage girl's voice normally is. You couldn't cast her as a normal teenager, but you couldn't cast her in leading lady roles, either.
Yet there's a consolation for this: if she became so attached to that persona, it's because she played it so exceedingly well that people identified the actress and the character. Maybe this hurts some careers, but at least we know that performances like Anthony Perkins' in Psycho, Louise Fletcher's in [One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest or yes, Hemingway's in Manhattan[ will be considered as some of the finest examples of the art of acting for many years to come.
Hemingway created a template for a role that Allen has tried to use again in some of his later films, and she set the bar so high that, although arguable, it wouldn't be unfair to say that she has not been matched by her successors. Hemingway's Tracy was the first "nymphet" in Allen's filmography, and the role/concept would re-appear in different incarnations, the most obvious one being Juliette Lewis' Rain in Husbands and Wives, and less obvious ones being the women played by Mira Sorvino in Mighty Aphrodite, Samantha Morton in Sweet and Lowdown, Charlize Theron in Celebrity or Scarlett Johansson in Scoop, even though in the last case the openly sexual component of the early nymphets was finally sublimated into a screwballesque friendship.
Still, Hemingway's model remains the most natural, the most believable and realistic, and the most charming, although I want to underline how that charm is never forced or underlined: her Tracy doesn't try to be sweet, wise-beyond-her-age and loveable at all costs, no. In Hemingway's hands, she seems naturally mature, and there's never a false note in which she winks to the audience, trying to make obvious that she's so clever and witty. In the same way, she never underlines the character's youth or enthusiasm, letting it spring naturally.
In Allen's canon it's extremely difficult to single out performances, because in his hands many thespians have delivered career-best performances. I must confess that, in such canon, I initially didn't pay much attention to Hemingway's work, generally focusing on the long-time muses Farrow and Keaton, or on the showier work of some ladies in more openly comedic, sometimes even outrageously funny roles (Judy Davis in Husbands and Wives, Tracey Ullman in Small Time Crooks, Wiest in Bullets over Broadway…). But over time, after having seen many times many of his films, I've found myself drawn to this subtle, low-key, perfectly modulated work. Scenes such as the one in which Isaac first breaks up with Tracy are among the most genuinely touching in the director's filmography, and it's thanks to how honestly and pristine the quiet suffering of Tracy, the quiet suffering of Hemingway, comes across.
It's a pity that Hemingway's career didn't go to the further places one could have expected after her promising beginnings, but it's beautiful that she at least has such a high peak, that she has one work that has become a template so hard to imitate. It's also beautiful that Allen acknowledges it, as shown in the gift he gave to her in 1997, with a role in his great Deconstructing Harry, when her career was nowhere.
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Barbara Hershey
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Barbara Hershey's face, intense but somehow vacant, looking directly into the camera, occupies the very opening moments of Hannah and Her Sisters. Hershey played just this one role for Allen, but in his canonical 1986 picture about the ups and downs of family life she became a clear entry into the catalog of his most potent and dangerous leading ladies. Lee is the bait that lures her sister Hannah's compulsive husband (Michael Caine) away for a year's affair and sets the overriding question of the film in motion: can self-sufficiency be a bad thing?
Lee is young and fragile compared to the rest of her family. She has a history of substance abuse and she is involved with a controlling older man (Max von Sydow). Confronted with Elliot's overwhelming desire, she submits, we might guess, more from repressed curiosity than specific passion. When Elliot openly reveals his feelings for the first time, the two confer in hushed tones outside Lee's apartment. She tries to reassure herself that she isn't to blame, talking about her sister and saying "we're very close", which sounds a lot like denial. Hershey makes Lee seem sincere, though, a mixed-up girl simultaneously threatened and a little excited at the thought of breaking ties with her suffocating life and violating her chronically stable, emotionally sacrosanct sister.
The flaws of the characters involved do not undercut the drama of the feelings at hand. Rather, they bring what is already a situation fraught with betrayal into sharper focus. Hershey and Caine (Caine won an academy award for his role), may seem selfish, but they are also thoroughly convincing. Allen gives his customary care to Hershey's sexual presence on screen to ensure that the guilt and shame of their affair hits home with the audience. In his interviews with Eric Lax he compares her entrance in Hannah and Her Sisters to Scarlett Johansson's in Match Point and Christina Ricci's in Anything Else as pivotal moments in which actress and character alike are unveiled for the first time and the mood is set for the rest of her performance.
To Elliot, Lee is as vulnerable as she is desirable and the opening sequence elicits that dual nature. There is indeed something of the predatory, furtive male glance in the way the camera follows her through the wall with Elliot's voice-over praising her beauty. Allen emphasizes Hershey's ragged looks and wild hair with what had become, for him, a rare use of the close-up. She is self-evidently the perfect vehicle for Elliot's wanton daydreaming, and a symbol of all the sexual hang-ups which would haunt the director's life and work.
For Hershey, Hannah and Her Sisters marked a culmination of her long struggle to gain recognition in the '70s. For Allen, it was hailed as a return to form. It has come to define the Woody Allen Picture of the '80s: domestic, feminine and sensitive to an extreme. Hershey's performance is essential to all that, for hers is the face, not of temptation, but of the compulsion to abandon the safety of household life for the danger of something rash.
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The Woodland Library Rose Club's 25th Annual Garden Tour featured eight landscaped private gardens as well as the historic Gable Mansion on Sunday.
Located throughout the city, the gardens featured not only roses but edibles as well. The afternoon event culminated in a Vintage Bridal Fashion Show at the historic Gable Mansion, featuring two dozen vintage bridal gowns, a narrated history of gowns of each era - ranging from 1906 to present day, with several from each decade.
Festivities at the Library rose garden feature docent led tours of the largest public rose collection in Woodland. Musicians and tastings of local wines, coffee, olive oil and honey were available throughout the gardens.
One of the gardens featured was created by John Newman and Theresa Pedersen, who focused not only on roses but many edible plants as well. The Newman-Pedersen home is a classic California Bungalow built in 1906 and is fairly modest inside and out.
But it features numerous fruit trees, perennial herbs and mixed flower and vegetable planting beds along with chicken coop.
Moving in about seven years ago, Newman and Pedersen, along with daughter Marea, rearranged the plantings, focusing their roses on the south side of the yard.
To the north of the home, a driveway was removed, which offered space for seasonal vegetables such as tomatoes and cauliflower along with Fuyu Persimmon and cactus.
There was even room for a salt-water swimming grotto surround by urban patio, fruit trees and perennials.
The event was sponsored by Blue Wing Gallery, Cocco's Couture, The Daily Democrat, Yolo County Historical Museum, Becky Worley, Unique Skin Care at Trends, Corner Drug Company, Kathy & Pete Cholewinski, Lifeshine and Trends Hair Salon.
The Woodland Library Rose Club was founded in 1989 by a group of rose enthusiasts with a mission to help people learn about growing roses. An American Rose Society affiliate, the club consists of rosarians, Master Gardeners, and neighborhood gardening enthusiasts who, together, care for and preserve more than 500 varieties of roses on the grounds of the Woodland Public Library.


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The Breaux Bridge Crawfish Festival, held the first full weekend in May, provides the perfect opportunity to witness over 30 Cajun and Creole bands over three days coupled with the delicious crustacean, the crawfish. Sample crawfish dishes prepared every way imaginable-fried, boiled, étouffée, bisque, boudin, pie, jambalaya and crawdogs-along with other Cajun & Creole favorites. The Crawfish Festival also hosts a parade, crawfish eating contest, Cajun and Zydeco dance contest, crawfish étouffée cook-off, crawfish race, carnival rides for young and old alike as well as an arts and crafts fair.
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Friday, May 5
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5:30-7:30pm Forest Huval
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9:30-11:30pm Chubby Carrier & the Bayou Swamp Band
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Saturday, May 6
Crawfish Stage
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1:30-3:00pm Roddie Romero & the Hub City All Stars
3:15-5:15pm Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys
5:30-7:30pm Wayne Toups & Zydecajun
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Breaux Bridge Tent
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Sunday, May 7
Crawfish Stage
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The world famous Crawfish Festival began in 1960 as a spin-off of the Breaux Bridge Centennial Celebration. The Louisiana Legislature had just named Breaux Bridge the Crawfish Capital of the World in 1959. The festival is now known around the country and even the world. Every May, thousands of hungry people flock to Breaux Bridge to be part of the festivities.


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The Atlantic Music Festival simultaneously strives to be one of the leading music programs and the most inspiring summer music festival in the world. Every year, the AMF Institute committee seeks young artists who hold extraordinary talent and commitment to music.
AMF Institute offers programs for composers, conductors, instrumentalists, and singers. Those admitted to the AMF Institute receive lessons, coachings, master classes, and have opportunities to perform alongside world renowned artist-faculty members throughout the festival season.
Hailed as one of the most beautiful campuses in the nation, Colby College is this year's host to the Atlantic Music Festival.
Composition Program, Piano Institute and Seminar, and Opera Workshop students may elect to enroll in full-session or half-session. All AMF Fellows and conducting students must be in attendance for the full duration of the festival.
- Full-Session: 07/01 – 07/29/2018
- Session One: 07/01 – 07/15/2018
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AMF Institute offers programs for composers, conductors, instrumentalists, and singers. By using this program selector, you may learn more about programs that are available for your discipline.


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After last night's loss, the Kentucky Basketball team is looking to pick up the pieces Saturday at home vs. Baylor.
It will be the first step in getting back to where everyone expects them to be, which is the top team in the SEC.
ESPN has released their new SEC Power Rankings and the Young Wildcats come in at #3 behind Florida and Missouri.
3. Kentucky. John Calipari's young squad has been battered by some of the nation's top teams, suffering losses to Duke and Notre Dame (on the road). The 14-point loss against the Fighting Irish on Thursday was a blow to its ego but the Wildcats could shake it off Saturday if they get a win over Baylor.
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Future of South Boston Hostess Store Could Hit Area Hard
South Boston, VA - The potential liquidation of Hostess - known for some of America's favorite snacks - is hitting close to home for folks in South Boston.
The Merita Bakery Thrift Store on Hamilton Boulevard is a Hostess subsidiary location. Now, the store will be closing its doors if the company follows through with plans to shut down.
The store provided baked goods from 40 to 50% off. It also provided jobs for six employees who learned with the rest of the world on Friday that the company they worked for was moving toward liquidation.
Since Saturday, the already discounted items in the Merita Bakery Thrift Shop have been an additional 50 % off.
Their popular breads and snacks have been flying off the shelves but once it's all gone, the store will close for good.
"I knew it was coming. It was just a matter of time and I think they should have tried to save it more," said customer Frank Bishop.
Bishop is close to some of the employees at the store. He disagrees with Hostess choosing to close , eliminating more than 18,000 jobs across the country, after not being able to come to an agreement with the BCTGM Baker's Union.
"I think it's a crying shame all these people lost their jobs. The union is fighting and the big wheels can't get together and I think it's just a crying shame," Bishop said.
For the customers who look forward to the convenience and discounts they get at the thrift bakery, this is a big loss.
"It's meant a lot to people in Southside and live in Clarksville, but I come up here to buy so, that's quite a distance," customer Garnett Miller explained.
"Sometimes it's nice to come in a small store and not have to go into a big store to get what you need," customer Renay Wilborn added.
The future of Hostess' famous snacks is up in the air as rumors swirl about a new company acquiring the brand.
As the most popular snacks sell on Ebay for more than twice their retail value, it's obvious that folks are not ready to let them go.
"The items like the Ho-Ho's and the Twinkies...that's very popular. People are going to miss that," said Ann Garnett Miller, another customer at the store.
The decision to liquidate came after union workers went on strike alleging that the company wanted to cut wages by 8 %.
Hostess officials could not be reached for comment, but Monday afternoon, Hostess and Union officials agreed to enter mediation at a judge's request.
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Do you know what really happens during tax appointments?
A CPA reveals all.
April 9, 2012
Years ago, when I joined a CPA firm and took over the clients of a retiring tax preparer, I was in for a surprise. I had prepared to face a stereotypical number-crunching exercise based on intricate tax rules. I had studied, learned the software and felt ready to tackle tax returns. Yet, I was unprepared for what tax appointments were about.
My mentor Cor had taken tax appointments to their highest level — an art form — by the time he retired at age 80. He could complete a tax return by hand in minutes. The year Cor retired, he and I handled his tax appointments together. When clients realized that, this time, he was truly retiring, many clients got teary-eyed. One explained that he was like a father to him, while another said she'd known Cor all her life.
Because Cor chatted with his clients in a particular tone, feel, content, and comfort similar to that of a dear and respected relative. The range of personal topics involved problem children, marital issues, grief, regrets, dreams, financial plans, health problems, and old age. He always provided wise counsel or fatalism with good cheer and always with deep empathy.
Over the decades, Cor guided his clients through the vicissitudes of life. Little of it had to do with taxes. One client said he was able to retire early by simply doing what Cor repeated yearly: pay down your mortgage and save money.
Cor's example made it clear to me that tax returns are just the occasion. The yearly appointment provides a foundation of trust, respect, privacy, and familiarity. What evolves from it can go far beyond taxes and can lead to profound professional relationships. When my mentor reminded an elderly client that she needn't file a tax return and asked why she kept coming back, she simply replied: "I just come to see you."
Of course, Cor demonstrated what the best tax appointments should be. As all proficient CPAs know tax appointments are a personal blend of tax preparation, personal finance advice, and life conversations. Many CPAs say clients are comfortable discussing a wide-range of personal matters that they would not otherwise discuss with their relatives. Emotional situations are common enough for many CPAs to have a box of tissue within clients' reaches. Surprisingly, the robotic stereotype of the CPA tax preparer does not fit the deep human aspect involved in the work we do. And unfortunately, neither does our formal education.
As a novice tax preparer, there were two areas for which I was most unprepared:
Having seen how influential a well-rounded trusted adviser can be, I was determined to fill the gaps.
The resources that helped me most came from the community of like-minded peers who made up the Personal Financial Planning (PFP) Section at the AICPA. The vast majority of PFP section members are tax preparers with various degrees of involvement in helping clients with financial issues (estate, retirement, education, investment planning, etc.). Initially, the resources I found in the PFP section helped me answer clients' personal finance questions. Ultimately, the section also helped me develop personal finance expertise, become a financial planner, and earn the Personal Financial Specialist (PFS) credential.
Thanks to clients involved in life coaching, I also discovered that guiding clients through diverse life circumstances has its own discipline and principles. Taking a coach approach to personal conversations helps steer clients comfortably and effectively through issues outside our expertise. Unlike tax, where a little knowledge is dangerous, a little coaching awareness and practice is surprisingly transformative (see Do You Know What is Most Important to Your Clients?)
Football coach Jimmy Johnson said, "The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra." That is particularly true of tax appointments, where a little extra guidance will, over the decades, greatly impact your client's financial security, retirement, legacy, children's education, and much more.
Much of what really happens in tax appointments goes far beyond taxes. Clients not only trust CPAs' tax expertise, they trust their overall integrity and guidance. As such, clients often share with us personal financial and life concerns. Formal CPA education does not prepare us to provide such guidance, but the resources to rise to the occasion exist within our profession. The most important resource, however, may be a great mentor (see Great Mentors Shape Great CPAs) to exemplify how influential and beneficial our profession can truly be.
Jean-Luc Bourdon, CPA, PFS, is a principal with Kozak Financial Advisory, located in Santa Barbara and Camarillo, Calif. Bourdon currently serves on the AICPA's PFS credential committee. He is past chair and member of an AICPA PFP Networking Group. Bourdon volunteers as a financial literacy advocate. His opinions and comments expressed within this column are his own. This information is being provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment or tax advice.
* The AICPA's PFP Section provides information, tools, advocacy and guidance to CPAs who specialize in providing tax, retirement, estate, risk management and investment advice to individuals and their closely held entities. All members of the AICPA are eligible to join the PFP section. CPAs who want to demonstrate their expertise in this subject matter can apply to become a Personal Financial Specialist credential holder.


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This document describes how to restore functionality to a Cisco TelePresence Touch 8-Inch LCD touch panel when it becomes unresponsive to touch after it is cleaned with a wet textile or cloth.
There are no specific requirements for this document.
The information in this document is based on these software and hardware versions:
After you clean the Touch 8-Inch product with a wet textile or cloth, the LCD touch panel (screen) becomes unresponsive to your touch. This occurs because the new touch sensor does not recalibrate correctly.
Here is a list of symptoms that you might encounter when this issue occurs:
The problem described in this document only occurs with the new touch sensor revision for the TAN numbers that are outlined in the Prerequisites section of this document. The problem does not occur with the previous or old touch sensor revision.
Complete these steps in order to check the touch sensor revision of your Touch 8-Inch product with the use of the CLI:
Once these steps are complete, you receive output similar to this:
*s Experimental Peripherals ConnectedDevice 1001 HardwareInfo: "101650"
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In order to resolve this issue, reboot the Touch 8-Inch product. This triggers a recalibration of the touch sensor, and fixes the problem.
Cisco recommends that you clean the Touch 8-Inch LCD touch panel with a dry microfiber or similar textile/cloth.


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On the main stage of the Colombian Independence Day Festival last month at Tamiami Park, Juan Carlos Zapata mouthed the words to the Andean country's national anthem. Then he followed with The Star-Spangled Banner. With his hand over his heart, the trim, fresh-faced 33-year-old looked like an earnest schoolboy -- neatly cropped hair, crisp blue polo shirt, and sharply creased khaki pants. Beside him were Hernando Torres, the Colombian vice consul; Henry Givens, a member of the Miami-Dade Community Relations Board; and Florida Rep. Rudy Garcia. As each man made a short statement, Zapata kept looking over his shoulder. Perhaps county commissioner Miguel Diaz de la Portilla or U.S. Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart would show up, too, he thought.
Visiting politicians are no strangers to the ten-year-old festival, Miami-Dade's largest annual gathering of Colombians. But new this year, scattered among the ads for phone cards and package delivery services, were flyers touting Colombian-American candidates for political office. Zapata is competing against compatriot José Luis Castillo and three Cuban-American hopefuls for the District 11 seat vacated by Diaz de la Portilla, who is running for mayor. Although the odds are stacked against the Colombianos, their candidacies show both the growing efforts by their community to win local political power and the obstacles that stand in the way. Because he has held political office (as president of the local community council) and he has long organized aid efforts for Colombians, Zapata has a real shot at victory.
It is only 4:00 p.m. and traffic is backed up from the park entrance at Coral Way and SW 97th Avenue east to SW 60th Avenue and north to SW Eighth Street. By 8:00 p.m. there is no more soda or lemonade at the concession stands; it has been swilled by the record crowds who snapped up the 30,000 preprinted tickets and forced ticket-sellers to handwrite 15,000 more. This has to do with the situation in Colombia, Zapata says gravely. In the past two years, the number of Colombians fleeing to South Florida has increased dramatically as the civil strife that has wracked that nation for the past half-century has escalated. The founder and president of CASA (the Colombian American Service Association), Zapata has lobbied for support for Colombian refugee families at the local, state, and national levels.
Tamiami Park is not far from the street where Zapata's family moved after immigrating in the late 1970s. Back then he lived on the edge of wild terrain where he rode a three-wheel motorbike. Who could have imagined that one day it would all be houses? he asks. In sharp contrast to the sudden arrival of hundreds of thousands of Cubans on the Mariel boatlift and Haitians fleeing the repressive regime of Jean-Claude Baby Doc Duvalier, Colombian immigration has occurred gradually. It began in the early 1970s. The largest numbers settled in what would become District 11, a chunk of land covering Westchester, Sweetwater, and the ever-expanding frontiers of Kendall.
A 1995 University of Miami study based on 1990 census data shows roughly 25 percent of Miami-Dade's Colombian population is concentrated in District 11. Estimates of the number of Colombians currently residing throughout the county range from planner Oliver Kerr's estimate of 75,000 to CASA's guess of about 200,000. Thomas Boswell, a demographer at the University of Miami, puts the figure at roughly 100,000 but admits that's a stab in the dark. I don't know much about [Colombians], Boswell concedes. That's kind of a lost group in Miami, and they're a significant group.
A federal law passed in 1995 that prohibits identification of registered voters by national origin makes an assessment of Colombian-American voting power even murkier. In District 11, according to David Leahy, county supervisor of elections, there are about 77,000 voters -- 50,779 Hispanic, 20,515 white, 2,429 black, and 2,966 other -- but there is no breakdown by national origin. Given the large and diverse South and Central American population of the district, Cuban-American voters are likely not the majority but rather the largest among many ethnic groups.
Robert Curbelo, Zapata's Cuban-American rival for the commission seat and his long-time friend, has come up with his own quirky calculations for the district's registered voters. Curbelo's numbers home in on Mexicans (16) and Jamaicans (249), while fudging registered Colombian-American voters at anywhere from 2000 to 6000. Despite his calculations on the demographic breakdown of the district, Curbelo claims to be uninterested in ethnicity. If I were, jokes the lawyer known for his work on behalf of Elian Gonzalez's Little Havana relatives, I would move to another district.
Taking the matter more seriously, another Cuban-American political observer, who wishes to remain anonymous, maintains, If there's a place where a Colombian can win, it's District 11. Political consultant Rick Katz, however, cautions against any candidate running specifically as a Colombian. You can't try to organize your ethnic group to vote for you and not expect other groups to vote for their own, he argues. There just aren't enough Colombians in any one district to elect their own candidates. Well aware of the arithmetic, Zapata declares bluntly: I'm not a person who wraps himself up in a flag.
An ambitious young man, Zapata joined the City of Miami Youth Advisory Council at age nineteen, coached youth soccer for fourteen years, and helped establish the West Kendall YMCA. He worked on the local and state campaigns of a number of Hispanic Republicans. In 1993 he even convinced his parents to provide a rental house as headquarters for Miguel Diaz de la Portilla's county commission run. Inspired by the success of the Cuban American National Foundation (CANF), Zapata established CASA in 1994 to provide a broad range of services to Colombian Americans.
In 1996 Zapata beat out four other candidates for a seat on the newly formed Miami-Dade West Kendall Community Council with 40 percent of the vote. He was elected as the council's first president and served from 1996 to 1998. Although unopposed at the end of his two-year term, Zapata says he did not run again because he believed the council had no power. We in the community were supposed to have final say on zoning, he complains, but the developers would just get special exceptions from ... the county commission, so what was the point? (Community council votes can be appealed to the commission.) Curbelo stepped in as community council president, a job he still holds.
Just as Zapata stepped down from the community council in 1998, Andres Pastrana took over the presidency of Colombia. CASA gained new urgency and visibility. In an effort to negotiate peace, Pastrana ceded a portion of Colombian territory to FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia), the nation's largest Marxist guerrilla group. Suddenly the chaotic conflict between the army, Marxist insurgents, right-wing paramilitaries, drug traffickers, and common thugs could be summed up in a formula familiar to South Florida: The president is pandering to communists! As the violence escalated, a new flood of immigrants arrived in Miami-Dade, desperate for help. Zapata got a crash course in politicking.
In a whirlwind two years, the scrappy activist won and lost his share of battles. In 1999 the county commission rejected a proposal to allocate $150,000 for CASA to assist Colombian refugees. A bitter fracas ensued on Radio Caracol (WSUA-AM 1260), the Colombian-owned station that shares first place in the Spanish-language ratings with the powerful Cuban exile Radio Mambí (WAQI-AM 710), leading to a compromise in which $200,000 was dedicated to Colombian refugees through a county agency. In 1999 CASA won a $100,000 contract from the state to assist 1500 refugee families. Although Zapata claims the association served 7000 families, Gov. Jeb Bush vetoed a follow-up appropriation this year.
On July 20, 1999, CASA organized a demonstration demanding Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for new Colombian immigrants. It attracted 3000 protesters to the Claude Pepper Federal Building in Miami and a couple of hundred more to related demonstrations in Houston, Chicago, and Detroit. The demonstrations garnered media attention for CASA's appeal. Zapata gained an ally in Lincoln Diaz-Balart and, with the help of a Washington lobbyist, secured the signatures of 44 U.S. representatives in a letter supporting the TPS request. Zapata believes partisan politics ultimately weakened the initiative. A decision on TPS is pending with the Justice Department.
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His efforts on behalf of CASA have earned Zapata considerable recognition, moving one Cuban American familiar with the organization to worry: He may be exploiting the suffering of Colombians for his own political gain -- just as we've seen some Cubans do millions of times.
Indeed others express related suspicions. Alonso Rhenals, president of the Colombian-American Democratic Council, is more concerned about Zapata's political affiliations. [Zapata] is a Republican, and he has said publicly that his model for activism is the CANF, argues Rhenals. A lot of people think that is an exclusionary model. And he has an almost unconditional alliance to Lincoln Diaz-Balart. Zapata characterizes the alliance as a good working relationship, adding We have to recognize that Diaz-Balart and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen have done more for Colombians than anyone else in the past year.
Within the Colombian-American community, Democrats and Republicans stand in for Colombia's two ruling parties: the Liberals and the Conservatives. Zapata believes these imported political divisions are what drive his critics. Some people say that everything I do, I do to get votes, Zapata scoffs. The thing is, the people I help can't even vote.


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How long will Australian consumers stay in their present funk? Not even the chief executives of Australia's largest retailers know the answer to that question.
The confidence and credit data suggest that, if anything, consumers are becoming less confident about the economy and their financial situation, and economists are warning the rise in the household savings rate may have further to go.
But at least some of the factors behind the increase in consumer caution may be about to ease, which could bring some relief to retailers. Even a plateauing of the household saving rate at a high level would be a relief, because it would see consumer spending growth accelerate to match the solid, boom-driven growth in household incomes.
But it is even possible to imagine a decline in the saving rate over the next year or so if the global and domestic cards fall the right way.
There is reasonable agreement on the issues behind consumers' new-found caution. The fall in share prices – down almost a third from their 2007 peak – is certainly a major factor. Older Australians have seen their retirement savings eroded and undoubtedly are watching their pennies more carefully.
But with house prices also sagging, households generally have gone a year with no increase in their nominal wealth.
Australian law strongly encourages households to invest their savings in equities and real estate. The returns on these investments are largely in the form of capital gains.
Capital gains are part of income and in the long period of economic growth up to the global financial crisis, Australian households effectively used capital gains to maintain what they thought was a conservative saving habit.
Equity prices and household wealth took a hit with the crisis and we shouldn't be surprised that households are digging into their current income to at least partially rebuild their savings.
The increase in saving out of current income no doubt is partly driven by the desire to meet long-term goals, such as adequate retirement income. And as more months pass with no further recovery in share and property prices, we might expect the rate of saving from current income to edge further up. But the increase in saving almost certainly is partly precautionary.
It is not just the carbon tax debate that has got people rattled. All the talk about the patchwork economy and structural change, possible further increases in interest rates, the threat of a default by the United States and the ongoing financial crisis in Europe are enough to make the most dedicated consumer cautious. And of course that caution has second-round effects on spending by people in the retail sector.
But at least some of the factors bearing down on consumer confidence are likely to fade. The introduction of the carbon tax will be much less of a blow to households than its opponents make out, and the Gillard government is working hard to get the information out to the public.
We now know the US government will not default on its debt and, with any luck, the second half of the year should produce better news about that country's economy as the impact of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami on manufacturing output dissipates and petrol prices cool.
The news from Japan is mildly encouraging. In its July board meeting minutes released on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia noted that industrial production in Japan had been rising strongly and car production, which had been severely disrupted by the disaster, seemed likely to return to normal more quickly than expected.
Hopefully the shadow over the global economy of the European sovereign debt crisis also will become lighter as a result of Thursday's agreement on a new assistance package for Greece.
Despite official claims to the contrary, Greece's debt was unsustainable on a realistic estimate of the country's future growth and fiscal outlook. Returning Greece's debt to a sustainable proportion of gross domestic product requires large budget surpluses to reduce the net public debt, and strong economic growth.
But, as the International Monetary Fund came close to admitting earlier this month, Greece's reform effort was not going to produce the necessary combination of stronger economic growth and large budget surpluses. The new assistance package will lower the burden on Greece by what will amount to a partial default on its debt and a reduction in interest rates, and longer maturities on European bailout debt.
Lower interest rates and longer maturities also will apply to bailout loans to Portugal and Ireland, although economists question whether they will manage to do enough to avoid default. And it remains to be seen if Italy's politicians can do enough to stop that country's drift towards financial crisis.
A more optimistic global economic environment would be transmitted to Australian households partly via the Australian sharemarket which is directly affected by the major overseas markets. Higher share prices would directly reduce the pressure on households to increase their saving from recurrent income and would be a tonic for business and consumer confidence.
In those circumstances, people might start noticing more of the strengths of the Australian economy – such as its low unemployment rate and the near-record level of job vacancies.
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JEFFREY BROWN: And to our second take on how Syria is impacting the wider region.
Margaret Warner is in Egypt. I spoke with her earlier today.
Margaret, the president is out seeking support from the global community. What are you hearing from officials and key players there?
MARGARET WARNER: Well, Jeff, let's take the major players, starting with the Egyptian government.
They're clearly opposed, as they made clear in the Arab League this week. The deputy prime minister said to me yesterday, the Egyptian government simply doesn't believe that this will significantly affect Assad's behavior. They don't think it will help the Syrian people. He said, we really are not persuaded by the intelligence, especially after what happened over the Iraq war intelligence. And he said, finally, people in this region, our constituents, are very weary of war after the last two years.
Then I went to see a figure in the Muslim Brotherhood, and he said much the same thing. He said, it's not logical, is the way he put it, for President Obama to be so concerned about 1,000 people killed in a chemical weapons attack, when 100,000 have been killed, have been slaughtered by Assad in the last two years.
And, basically, people, Jeff, here, do not accept this distinction that the president's trying to make between the use of chemical weapons and the wholesale killing of Syrian civilians by aerial bombardment and artillery. They see it as an esoteric argument about some international weapons convention treaty that just has no relevance to their lives.
JEFFREY BROWN: And, on the streets, what are you hearing about Syria?
MARGARET WARNER: Jeff, to a man or woman here, I am hearing the same kind of vehement opposition.
We interviewed the co-founder of one of the youth movements that got all those millions into the streets, that helped lead to the ouster, the military ouster of President Morsi. And he was violently opposed. He said, why is President Obama supporting the terrorists in the ranks of the rebels?
And I can also tell you that American officials here are braced for the possibility of a violent reaction from the streets if and when a strike occurs. And they're counting on the Egyptian security forces this time to do a better job of protecting the American Embassy here than they did last 9/11, when, in fact, mobs stormed the American Embassy and some even got over the wall.
JEFFREY BROWN: Well, give us a brief preview of what you're working on for next week.
MARGARET WARNER: Well, Jeff, we're working on whether Egypt, the country in this region that seemed to have a successful Arab spring revolution, seemed to make an evolution to democracy, it has now seen it go up in smoke, and whether they're going to be able to resolve their differences here without resorting to the kind of violence between the two really fiercely opposing camps that we have seen in Syria.
JEFFREY BROWN: We will look forward to that.
Margaret Warner in Cairo, thanks so much.