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LAGA was commended for its achievements in wildlife law enforcement and for its impact in the larger context through various recommendation letters.
The LAGA-MINFOF COLLABORATION
· The Last Great Ape organization (LAGA) was born because the survival of Africa's great apes demanded urgent action. Without it, the great apes and many other endangered species will soon become extinct. LAGA was registered in Israel in December 2002 and operates in Cameroon. It is a field-based organization designed to establish the effective enforcement of local wildlife law that is critical to the survival of the threatened animals.
· The Cameroonian Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife (MINFOF) made the courageous decision to go ahead with a pilot project in collaboration with LAGA. The collaboration seeks to create a successful model that will provide the missing ingredient in the wildlife conservation formula: creating a deterrent factor.
· LAGA is the first specialized Law Enforcement NGO in the sub-region. It focuses on threatened species and mainly on the dealers, the primary generators of the illegal bushmeat business, the ivory trade and the pet trade.
LAGA's DIFFERENT ACTIVITIES:
· INVESTIGATION– Investigators, undercover agents and informers gather precise information so that dealers in meat and the products of threatened species can be arrested in the act, producing concrete evidence for the courts.
· OPERATIONS – LAGA technically assists MINFOF and the Forces of Law and Order to arrest violators and to channel complaint reports to the courts. LAGA closely supervises operations in the field.
· LEGAL ASSISTANCE – LAGA formed a legal team to assist in the administrative procedures of prosecuting the first wildlife cases known in the courts of Cameroon.
Follow @LAGA_Enforcement
The LAGA Family is less than a dozen activists. An NGO without a single vehicle. In a world of multi-nationals among the conservation industry giants, LAGA is proud to be small and slim. Follow this link
LAGA-MINFOF Ivory operation Douala
The Littoral Regional Delegation for National Security has arrested 2 wildlife dealers in Douala for trafficking in 1 ton of ivory about to be exported to international black market. The Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife in collaboration with the Judiciary and LAGA is establishing a case file against these ivory traffickers who are now behind bars. This, in conformity with the law of 1994, governing the wildlife sector in Cameroon. None is above the law !!! click here for more
FRANCE 24 - Reporters Broadcasts LAGA
France 24 broadcasts the activities of LAGA in enforcing the wildlife law in Cameroon. Enforcing wildlife law in a country ruled by corruption is not easy to go smoothly. This episode narrates an ivory operation and the kidnap of a LAGA investigator by notorious ivory traffickers. Follow the story as you click on the play button above.
Arrest of Italian timber logging director
Future for Nature Award
Interview with Ofir, the Director of LAGA on LAGA's activities, achievements and inspiration. One of the most awaited achievements Ofir seeks to see is working together with many countries beside those of the sub region to get wildlife traffickers behind bars. The Director in this interview also thinks that the larger problem is not just the wildlife criminals but the current trends in conservation. Watch more of this interview by clicking the play button above. click here for more


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WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Wednesday approved a Republican bill aimed at keeping alive prospects for enacting an overhaul of federal transportation programs and continuing the flow of highway and transit aid to states.
The bill would also allow the Keystone XL pipeline to proceed. The pipeline, which would transport oil produced from Canadian tar sands to Port Arthur, Texas, was previously blocked by President Barack Obama. The White House has threatened to veto the GOP bill, which it says bypasses longstanding practices for the approval of cross-border pipelines. The veto statement noted that a final pipeline route has yet to be decided.
The bill, passed by a 293 to 127 vote, technically extends the government's authority to spend money from the federal Highway Trust Fund through Sept. 30. That authority now is due to expire on June 30. But the real intent of the measure is to provide a parliamentary rationale for formal negotiations with the Senate on a more comprehensive transportation plan. Both parties have made passage of a transportation bill their top job-creation priority for the year.
House Republican leaders decided on the strategy after repeatedly trying and failing to garner enough votes to pass their own, long-term transportation plan. That effort ran into opposition from tea-party conservatives, who say transportation programs should be paid for entirely by user fees such as federal gas and diesel taxes, even though revenue from those taxes isn't enough to cover current transportation spending. Conservatives also would like to see the federal role in transportation dramatically reduced, with states picking up those responsibilities. However, moderate Republicans from suburban districts don't want transportation spending cut and complained about the bill's treatment of transit programs.
Democrats have solidly opposed the GOP transportation plan, saying it undermines environmental protections, penalizes union workers and doesn't spend enough money to meet highway and transit construction needs. Instead, Democrats have unsuccessfully pressed House Republicans to bring up a bipartisan, $109 billion transportation bill passed by the Senate earlier this year.
Lawmakers in both parties said the Senate bill would likely pass the House, but possibly with more Democratic than Republican votes, an awkward prospect for House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio. That gave rise to the House GOP's newest tactic — trying to trigger a formal legislative conference with the Senate without actually having passed their own long-term legislation.
But there is concern in Republican ranks that by using what is effectively a shell bill, the Senate will have the advantage in negotiations on a broad array of transportation policies.
"Are we going to support the Senate bill? Absolutely not," Rep. Bill Johnson, R-Ohio, said at a conservative gathering the day before the House vote.
The Senate is unlikely to go along with a final bill that requires approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, but Republicans said it was appropriate to tie to transportation programs a project they believe will increase the amount of oil available to the U.S. market and lower gas prices.
"If anyone has not felt the pain at the pump, all they have to do is go to a local gas station," Rep. John Mica, R-Fla., chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, said. "This pipeline has been studied to death."
But Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., called the pipeline a scheme to export oil to China that will do little or nothing to lower gas prices in the U.S. He said most of the oil that arrives in Port Arthur winds up being exported.
"That oil is American oil," Markey said. "It should stay in the United States."
Sixty-nine Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the extension, partly in the hope of keeping prospects for a long-term transportation plan alive.
"A long-term bill will provide the certainty that states need to invest and proceed with their plans long on the books," said Rep. Nick Rahall, D-W.Va., the senior Democrat on the transportation committee. "It will provide the certainty that highway and transit contractors desperately need to give them the confidence to hire that one more worker."
Associated Press writer Alan Fram contributed to this report.
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Most facilities today have surge arrestors on the building supply (service). These are typically bought on a budget mentality that results in a waste of the entire investment. It doesn't have to be that way. In fact, correct specification and installation will provide a very high return on investment (ROI).
The first thing to consider is that these systems need to be part of a larger surge protection strategy. They will protect only against the larger spikes (reducing them to a lower voltage) from outside your facility.
With this in mind, we turn to 280.4, which provides the minimum requirements for surge arrestor selection. Essentially, you have to select a surge arrestor that is listed for this use and that is sized to at least the maximum continuous operating voltage at the point of application:
- For solidly-grounded systems, it's the phase-to-ground voltage.
- For impedance or ungrounded systems, it's the phase-to-phase voltage.
This is the minimum safety requirement. The circuit protection requirements aren't covered by the NEC, as their determination requires an engineering analysis for the specific system and location. Manufacturers and their authorized resellers can help you with this analysis.


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American Precision Museum
196 Main Street, Windsor VT
Mailing Address: PO Box 679, Windsor, VT 05089
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: www.americanprecision.org
Contact: Ann Lawless, Executive Director, firstname.lastname@example.com
Ingenuity in manufacturing technology: Past, Present, and Future. Our Mission: To capture the imaginations of young and old with the spirit of innovation, problem solving and design demonstrated through the dynamic story of the machines and people which form the foundation and future of the manufacturing industry in America. Housed in the original Robbins & Lawrence Armory, a National Historic Landmark, visitors explore the beginnings of modern industry and discover the machines that have shaped our world.
Hours and Admission: Open daily 10:00am to 5:00pm from Memorial Day weekend through October 31. Adults $8.00 Students $5.00. Admission by donation on Sundays.
Barnard Historical Society
Village School, VT Route 12, Barnard, VT
Mailing Address: PO Box 234, Barnard, VT 05031
E-mail: email@example.com
Contact: Caz Rosenewski, President
The Barnard Historical Society is housed in the former Village School, circa 1850, which is itself a museum, being essentially intact as a one-room school house. It has a complete genealogy section and many artifacts from Barnard's early agricultural days.
Hours and Admission: Museum: Memorial Day - end of October: Saturday, 12:00 pm to 3:00 p.m., or by appointment.
Bethel Historical Society
Museum in Brick Church, 2nd Floor, Church Street, Bethel, VT
Mailing Address: PO Box 25, Bethel, VT 05032
Website: http://bethelvt.com
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com
Phone: (802) 234-5064
Contact: Nick Nikolaidis, President, or Janet Hayward Burnham, Vice President
The museum is located in the Town Hall, 318 Main Street, Bethel, VT. There are written records, paintings, photographs from the Bethel area, and 19th-century room vignettes. Special exhibits change annually. The society meets once a month, usually on the first Monday, at 7:00 pm in the Conference Room at the Town Hall.
Visitors by appointment.
Black River Academy Museum & Historical Society
Museum, 14 High Street, Ludlow, VT
Mailing Address: PO Box 73, Ludlow, VT 05149
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Phone: (802) 228-5050
Contact: Georgia Brehm, Museum Director
The three-story Academy building, built in the Richardsonian style, once housed the Black River Academy (Calvin Coolidge's alma mater) and is now an historical museum for the town of Ludlow. There are academy memorabilia, 19th-century furnishings, costumes, tools, farm implements, a Finnish exhibit, and Coolidge memorabilia, as well as a textile school offering courses in weaving, spinning, and quilt making.
Hours and Admission: June - Columbus Day: Tuesday – Saturday, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm. Winter by appointment. Not accessible to the disabled.
Bridgewater Historical Society
12 North Bridgewater Rd, Bridgewater, VT
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 98, Bridgewater, VT 05034
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Phone: (802) 672-3745
Contact: Jeannette Sawyer, firstname.lastname@example.com
Hours and Admission: Saturdays 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, June to September.
Cavendish Historical Society
Former Town Hall & Church, Main Street, VT Route 131, Cavendish, VT
Mailing Address: PO Box 472, Cavendish, VT 05142
Website: www.cavendishhistoricalsocietynews.blogspot.com
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Phone: (802) 226-7807
Contact: Margo Caulfield, Coordinator
The museum is housed in the 19th-century former town hall. The society also owns a handsome stone structure, the former Universalist Church (circa 1844), which is used for meetings and special events. Collections are of farm tools, household utensils, costumes, weaving implements, textiles, photographs, and items used or made in Cavendish. The Cavendish Historical Society also has a blog where you can learn about upcoming events, new historical information we uncover, as well as following aloing with our Young Historian's program. The link is www.cavendishhistoricalsocietynews.blogspot.com
Hours and Admission: Late June to mid-October: Sundays, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm, or by appointment.
Chester Historical Society
Chester Central School and Academy Building, 330 Main Street, On the Green, Chester, VT
Yosemite Firehouse Museum, Chester Depot, VT Rte 103, Chester, VT
Mailing Address: PO Box 118, Chester, VT 05143
Website: http://chester.govoffice.com/
Email: email@example.com
Phone: (802) 374-0119
Contact: Ron Patch, President, firstname.lastname@example.com
The society rents the former school building from the Town of Chester and displays collections of 19th-century household furnishings, quilts, costumes, agricultural machines, documents, photos and postcards, early typewriters, and memorabilia of Clarence Adams, Chester's "Gentleman Burglar" from 1886-1902. Also housed in the building are the Chester Alumni Museum and the Chester Art Guild. The society also owns the former Yosemite Firehouse in Chester Depot, where there is an evolving collection of 19th-century firefighting equipment, including an 1849 Hunneman Handpumper and hose and ladder wagons.
Hours and Admission: Memorial Day - Columbus Day: Saturday and Sunday, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm, or by appointment. Free. Not accessible to the disabled.
Green Mountain Perkins Academy & Historical Association
Museum, Academy Circle, VT Route 106, South Woodstock, VT
Mailing Address: PO Box 143, South Woodstock, VT 05071
Website: www.greenmountainperkinsacademy.org
Email: email@example.com
Phone: (802) 457-3779
Contact: Mary McCuaig, President
The Green Mountain Perkins Academy was built in 1848 and served as a private high school until 1898. Students came from the local area and as far away as the mid western United States and Nova Scotia. Many students went on to college and others stayed in Woodstock and became teachers and farmers. The local Grange was founded on the third floor of the Academy in 1874 and had meetings there into the 20th century. The building was restored in 1957 and is now open as a museum. The large classroom on the first floor has the original desks and wood stoves. The Academy contains a small library established in So. Woodstock in the late 18th century as well as school books from the time period. There are collections including 19th century georgraphy maps, a loom and weaving supplies, Windsor backed chairs, Grange paraphernalia, musical insturments, sheet music, photos and records pertaining to school Directors and students and more.
Hours and Admission:
July - August: Saturday, 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Labor Day Weekend: Saturday, Sunday, Monday, 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm, or by appointment.
Hartford Historical Society
Garipay House Museum, 1461 Maple St., Hartford, VT
Mailing Address: PO Box 547, Hartford, VT 05047
Website: www.hartfordhistory.org
Email: email@example.com
Phone: (802) 296-3132 or (802) 295-2715
Contact: Martha Knapp, Director
The society owns a turn-of-the-century house with Dr. Garipay's home office, as well as a growing collection of documents, artifacts, and photographs of Hartford's past. There are four public lectures each year as well as various special events. A newsletter is published six times a year.
Hours and Admission: Monday through Friday: 9:00 am- 1:00 pm or by appointment
Hartland Historical Society
Martin Memorial Building, 14 VT Route 12, Hartland, VT
Mailing Address: PO Box 198, Hartland, VT 05048
Website: www.hartlandhistory.org
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Phone: (802) 436-1703
Contact: Carol Mowry
The society has a collection of artifacts and a library devoted to the enjoyment and knowledge of Hartland's past.
Hours and Admission: Monday, 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm or by appointment. Free.
Norwich Historical Society
Museum, 277 Main Street, Norwich, VT
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 1680, Norwich, VT 05055
Website: www.norwichhistory.org
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Phone: (802) 649-0124
Contact: Judy Brown, Director
The society owns the 1807 Lewis House and outbuildings that contain a collection of Norwich documents, maps, photographs, textiles, furniture, and hand tools. The society offers periodic exhibits and lectures relating to Norwich's past. An active partnership with the neighboring Marion Cross School brings on-site historical programs to elementary-aged students. The Society also assists with familial inquiries. Two major annual events help raise funds to maintain and restore the Lewis House: the House & Garden Tour (June) and Norwich Antiques Show (September).
Hours and Admission: Wednesdays and Thursdays, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm (year-round); and Saturdays, 10:00 am until noon (June 1 – October 31) or by appointment. Admission is free.
Pioneer Memorial Society
Chester, VT
Mailing Address: 1192 Farrar Road, Chester, VT 05143
Phone: (802) 875-3205
Contact: Peter Farrar
Visitors by appointment.
Plymouth Historical Society
Plymouth Union, 35 School Dr, Plymouth, VT
Mailing Address: c/o Plymouth Town Clerk, 68 Town Office Road, Plymouth, VT 05056
Email: email@example.com
Website: www.plymouthvermonthistoricalsociety.org
Phone: (802) 672-3547
Contact: Melissa Lynds, President
Hours and Admission: June - September: Wednesday, 1:00 pm -3:00 pm, or by appointment.
Pomfret Historical Society
Pomfret, VT
Mailing Address: PO Box 54, South Pomfret, VT 05067
Email: email@example.com
Phone: (802) 457-1021
Contact: Alan Graham, President
Visitors by appointment.
Reading Historical Society
Museum, 670 Route 106, Reading, VT
Mailing Address: PO Box 44, Reading, VT 05062
Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com
The museum is located in a 19th-century church. Collections are of town records, church documents, clothing, furniture, tools, books, photographs, portraits, paintings, farm implements, 19th-century gadgets, and machines.
Visitors by appointment and programs in the summer.
Rochester Historical Society
Rochester Library, Main Street, Rochester, VT
Mailing Address: PO Box 428, Rochester, VT 05767
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: www.rochesterhistorical.org
Contact: Nancy Woolley, Secretary
The museum is located on the 2nd floor of the Rochester Library, in the center of the village opposite the park. Exhibits include farm tools, military items, clothing, verde antique marble, and paper trivia.
Visitors by appointment.
Royalton Historical Society
Royalton, VT
Mailing Address: PO Box 11, S. Royalton, VT 05068
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Phone: (802) 763-8567
Contact: John Dumville, President
This local historical society is located in the 1840 Town House with exhibit rooms and collections. The society maintains the 1840 Town House, the 1844 Center Schoolhouse & privy, and the 1836 St. Paul's Episcopal Church. Articles in this society's collection relate to Royalton's history, artifacts, photographs, diaries, as well as manuscripts.
Visitors by appointment.
Sharon Historical Society
Museum, On the Green, Exit 2 off I89, Sharon, VT
Mailing Address: PO Box 176, Sharon, VT 05065
Website: sharonhistoricalsocietyvt.wordpress.com
Phone: (802) 763-8549
Contact: Mary Ayer, Vice President
The society's collections include gifts from residents past and present.
Hours and Admission: July 9 - August 27: Sunday, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm, or by appointment.
Springfield Art & Historical Society
65 Rte. 106, North Springfield, VT
Mailing Address: PO Box 336, North Springfield, VT 05150
Website: www.springfieldartandhistorical.org
Email: email@example.com
Phone: (802) 886-7935
Contact: Hugh Putnam, (802) 886-8430; email@example.com
In July, 2015 we sold our Victorian Mansion on Elm Hill and moved to North Springfield (the Cota & Cota Building). We schedule programs on the third Saturday and change our displays quarterly. Visit our website for more information.
Hours and Admission: Saturdays 1:00-4:00 pm or by appointment. Admission is free.
Stockbridge-Gaysville Historical Society
Mailing Address: PO Box 39, Stockbridge, VT 05772
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Phone: (802) 746-8369
Contact: Mette Rea
Are you wishing to become actively involved in sleuth activities? We are a small group who will welcome your participation.
In 2019 we'll be researching the background of our early residents. From April to December, we meet on the third Thursday at 7PM at the Belcher Library.
Weathersfield Historical Society
Reverand Dan Foster House, 2656 Weathersfield Center Road
Mailing Address: PO Box 126, Weathersfield, VT 05151
Email: email@example.com
Phone: (802) 263-5230
Contact:Ellen Clattenburg, (802) 263-5505 or Ginger Wimberg, (802) 263-5626
Hours and Admission: Late June - Labor Day, 4 afternoons a week 2 pm to 5 pm and by appointment.
West Windsor Historical Society
West Windsor Grange Hall, 1023 Rte 44, Brownsville, VT
Mailing Address: PO Box 12, Brownsville, VT 05037
Email: email@example.com
Phone: (802) 484-3370
Contact: Thomas Kenyon, President
The Mission of the WWHS is to discover, collect, preserve and disseminate information regarding the history of West Windsor and creating an interest in it.
Hours and Admission: Tuesdays 10 am until noon. Admission is free.
Weston Historical Society
Farrar-Mansur House Museum, Old Mill Museum, and Band Wagon Museum at the Historic Millyard, Weston, VT
Mailing Address: PO Box 247, Weston, VT 05161
Website: www.westonvt.com
Email: email@example.com
Phone: (802) 824-5294
Contact: Jean Lindman, Museum Director
The society curates three museums on the National Register of Historic Places. The Farrar-Mansur House, built by Oliver Farrar in 1795, served as a home, tavern, and community center. It was sold to Franklin Mansur in 1857 and remained in his family until 1932. Displayed in room settings, the extensive, multifaceted collection includes many fine pieces of New England furniture; outstanding examples of early 19th century, Vermont-made brass, copper, silver, pewter, and tin items; toys; musical instruments; china, pottery, and glassware; costumes, quilts and samplers; and significant 19th century portraits. The Mill Museum overlooks a picturesque mill pond and waterfall. Built in 1785 as a sawmill, and later as a grist mill, its collection of early trade tools and products includes equipment used in farming, cheese making, coopering, blacksmithing, woodworking, weaving and spinning, and tinsmithing. The Bandwagon Museum houses a red Concord coach used as a bandwagon by the Weston Cornet Band fron 1880 to 1930.
Hours and Admission: July - August: Wednesday & Sunday, 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm; Saturday, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm, or by appointment.
Windsor Historical Society
Town Hall, 29 Union St, Windsor, VT
Mailing Address: PO Box 300, Windsor, VT 05089
Phone: (802) 674-2326
Contact: Barbara Rhoad, Archivist, email@example.com.
Visitors by appointment.
Woodstock History Center
26 Elm Street, Woodstock, VT
Mailing Address: 26 Elm Street, Woodstock, Vt 05091
Website: www.woodstockhistorycenter.org
Email: email@example.com
Phone: (802) 457-1822
Contact: Matt Powers, Director
The History Center, located in the heart of the village, celebrates the evolution of Woodstock over the past two hundred and fifty years. Visitors may tour the museum and view several new exhibitions each year. In addition to its museum, the History Center has an extensive library where researchers are welcome to view historical and genealogical information. For those who prefer the outdoors, the History Center has perennial gardens and a beautiful back lawn with a view of Woodstock Village's only covered bridge.
Hours and Admission:
Open from May 30 to October 14 (2018). Museum hours are Wednesday through Saturday from 1-5 pm, and on Sundays from 11 am - 3 pm. There is no charge for admission.


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LONDON (MarketWatch) — European stock markets climbed on Friday, with the Stoxx 600 index posting its best weekly performance in almost a year, as U.S. stocks also advanced and upbeat German data calmed nerves that the region's powerhouse was losing momentum.
The Stoxx Europe 600 index SXXP, -0.25% rose 0.6% to close at 273.33, extending gains into a fifth straight day. The index jumped 4% on the week, in sharp contrast to last week's 2.7% loss.
"We have been catching up from last week," said Predrag Dukic, senior equity sales trader at CM Capital Markets in Madrid.
"But at the moment we're not seeing too many moves. A lot of traders are under a lot of pressure because volumes are low and margins have been significantly reduced. Traders aren't really prepared to take on more risk and are waiting for this year to end," he said.
Shares of Outotec Oyj OTE1V, +0.16% jumped 6.3% after the Finnish metals-processing firm lifted its services-sales target to an annual level of 1 billion euros ($1.29 billion) by the end of 2017 from a previous target of €500 million by the end of 2015.
Shares of some supermarket chains moved lower. Shares of France's Carrefour SA CA, +0.21% lost 0.3% after Nomura cut its rating on the entire European supermarket sector to neutral from bullish.
German Ifo beats expectations
Underpinning sentiment for investors, the Munich-based Ifo Institute said its business-climate index rose to 101.4 in November from 100 in October, topping analysts' expectations. The surprise improvement also rallied the euro EURUSD, +0.0702% which climbed above $1.29. See: German Ifo index beats forecasts, rallying euro
"The German economy has once again surprised us positively. There were reports that suggested otherwise, but it seems to me that the Germans are doing rather well and will surprise next year with more figures that are better than expected. This is good news for Europe," said Dukic from CM Capital Markets.
The German DAX 30 index DAX, -0.53% jumped 0.9% to 7,309.13 and closed the week 5.2% higher. Bayer AG BAYN, +1.19% rose 1.6% to €69.74, after Nomura raised its target price on the health-care firm to €78 from €72.
Data from France also showed business sentiment improved but remained close to its lowest level in three years. The index for business environment among industrialists rose to 88 in November from 85 in October. See: French business sentiment still near 3-year low
France's CAC 40 index PX1, -0.12% gained 0.9% to 3,528.80, with a 1.4% gain for Sanofi SA SNY, -0.70% SAN, -0.72% and a 0.8% rise for Total SA FP, -0.23% TOT, +0.69% The French index rose 5.6% on the week.
Oil stocks recovered in the afternoon, as oil prices moved higher. See: Oil futures rebound on weaker dollar
Greece discussions
After the weekend, attention will return to Greece, when euro-zone finance ministers meet for the third time to try to agree on a road map to debt sustainability for Greece, a move necessary to release the country's next tranche of bailout money.
"At the moment, there is a logjam because the IMF (rightly) is insisting that debt sustainability can only be achieved through official-sector-debt forgiveness (OSI), a prospect that the northern members of the euro area are unwilling to accept at this point," analysts at RBC Capital Markets said in a note.
"But the European creditors have already demonstrated the willingness to move, and we expect a deal that will include a mix of options: lower interest rates on current loans, an interest moratorium, a longer repayment schedule or an agreement on OSI at some point in the future, conditional on Greek performance," they said.
Meanwhile, European Union leaders failed on Friday to reach an agreement on the EU's budget for 2014-2020 after a two-day meeting in Brussels. See: EU leaders' budget talks end without a deal
Among other notable movers in Europe, SABMiller PLC shares UK:SAB rose 1.2% to 28.34 pounds ($45.20), adding to a 6.4% gain on Thursday when the brewer reported a rise in net profit. On Friday, Nomura lifted the stock to neutral from reduce, while Société Générale raised its target price to £29.7 from £28.
The U.K.'s FTSE 100 index UKX, +0.12% rose 0.5% to 5,819.14, boosted as heavyweights followed their respective sectors higher, with GlaxoSmithKline PLC GSK, +0.79% GSK, +1.05% up 0.8% and energy group BP PLC B, -0.63% BP, -0.64% up 0.4%. The London benchmark index closed out the week 3.8% higher. See: SABMiller rises in U.K. market, oil firms up


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Cliff Grassmick
Address: 311 Mapleton Ave.
Original facility built: 1895
Assessor valuation (based off 2010 information): $14 million
Former uses: Boulder-Colorado Sanitarium, Boulder Memorial Hospital
Current services include: Boulder Center for Sports Medicine, pediatric rehabilitation, neurologic and orthopedic rehabilitation and counseling.
As Boulder Community Hospital continues its 10-year expansion project — a $125 million overhaul that includes some shuffling of services across its campuses — the hospital has not made a decision about the fate of its Mapleton Center facility in west Boulder.
"Our goal at this point is to get through the first two phases of our redevelopment project and determine what makes sense for the hospital and the community," said Rich Sheehan, a hospital spokesman.
Within the next three years, Boulder Community Hospital plans to move the acute care operations to its Foothills campus from its Balsam Avenue facility. The Balsam facility will receive a facelift and serve as the base for the rehabilitative services now housed at the Mapleton Center.
Although hospital officials have not listed the property at 311 Mapleton Ave., instead opting to take a wait-and-see approach, that hasn't stopped others from knocking.
Sheehan said the nonprofit Boulder Community Hospital Foundation has received several inquiries about the west Boulder facility that formerly was the Boulder-Colorado Sanitarium and Boulder Memorial Hospital.
None of those inquiries has been a formal offer, he said.
And if one was presented, "I'm sure we'd entertain it," Sheehan said.
Any changes to the Mapleton Center most likely would not come for a couple of years. Boulder Community intends to occupy that facility until late 2015 at the earliest, he said.
That's when, according to the current project timeline, Boulder Community would start moving the rehabilitation and other therapy services — minus the therapy pool — to a newly refurbished facility off Broadway and Balsam.
That move would be the final phase of the extensive project.
"Our focus at this point is expanding our facility at Foothills Hospital and then moving the major inpatient acute services to that campus," he said.
The nearly 15-acre 311 Mapleton Ave. property was valued at just over $14 million, according to Boulder County assessor records. That valuation most likely was determined by a cost approach in which the assessor valued the land using the going rates for the commercial price of land in that area, incorporated the cost to construct the building and then accounted for depreciation, Boulder County Assessor Jerry Roberts said.
That valuation was based off market prices in June 2010, he said.
If the property were to sell, prime potential uses could be a retirement community or apartments, said Todd Walsh, a commercial real estate broker with The Colorado Group in Boulder.
"I can only imagine apartment developers would be interested," he said. "But for (a retirement community), I think there's strong demand for that. It's almost perfectly built out for just such a user."
Boulder's commercial real estate sector has experienced a resurgence during the past 24 to 36 months, Walsh said, noting tighter vacancy rates, limited concessions and increased rates.
"My belief is the momentum is genuine," Walsh said.
Contact Camera Business Writer Alicia Wallace at 303-473-1332 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Only five! There are probably many, many more, but let's start with with five. Web research site My Navi News polled nearly seven hundred of its online readers, asking them to list the things they did not want to find in a guy's room.
Some of the results might surprise you. Some might not.
Number five, at 5.4 percent (multiple answers were allowed), were gambling-related publications, such as horse racing newspapers and pachinko mags. "I hate people who gamble, and I think it's wasting money," said one 23-year-old woman.
There was a tie for number four. At 5.7 percent, the thing those polled did not want to find in a guy's room was a picture frame with the dude's own photo in it. "It's not a photo of someone together, but hanging a photo portrait of oneself," said another 23 year-old, who works in food service.
"Regardless if it's a guy or a girl, I hate people like that." The general consensus was that people who decorated their room with framed photos of themselves were narcissists—though, getting your photo taken solo in front of, for example, a World Heritage Site got the okay from one lady.
"I don't want to be compared to some idol."
Also at 5.7 percent were idols goods, such as idol photos, posters, and photo books. "I don't want to be compared to some idol," said a 29-year-old.
At third place with 8.6 percent was cosplay outfits. "I'd imagine that...he used that with his last girlfriend," said one 28-year-old. "I wouldn't know if he's wearing them or asking girls to wear them," said a 27-year-old businesswoman. While another said she would allow idol goods, but would draw the line at cosplay.
In second place with a whopping 27.8 percent was "moé" style anime goods. "Moé" is the Japanese slang used to refer to super cute, big-eye characters—typically young females.
One woman quoted said that she wouldn't dump the guy if she knew about this interest before hand, but would be freaked out if she discovered his room was covered with stuff like this—as if he was hiding it. "It would really depend on how much moé stuff he had," said a 24-year-old woman who works in retail, "but, yeah, I'd probably dump him."
"Yeah, I'd probably dump him."
And number one with a bullet, at 28.2 percent, was personal items belonging to the guy's ex-girlfriend—for obvious reasons. In a similar study, for what Japanese men don't want to find in women's rooms, personal items belonging to ex-boyfriends was third, proceeded by cigars (second place) and cartons of cigarettes (first), and followed by gambling publications (forth place) and mah-jong tables and tiles (fifth place). Mah-jong is a male preserve in Japan and connected to gambling.
According to this data, the woman polled found ex-girlfriend's possessions slightly more disagreeable than moé anime stuff. This lines up with a previous polling that Japanese television did, showing that Japanese women really don't like anime-style posters, figures or even computer desktops.
But, breathe easy gamers, because video games didn't make the top five. Though, if you are playing moé games, you might want to hide that. Pronto.
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Bay Street Theatre to Host Kids School Vacation Theater Camp, 2/18-20
Bay Street Theatre has announced its upcoming February School Vacation Kids Camp, February 18, 19 and 20. The camp is for students age 8 through 12, and runs from 9am - 3 pm each day at the Bay Street Theatre. Cost is $255 for the three-day camp per child.
This is the first time the camp will last only 3 days, due to the additional school time rescheduled by the Sag Harbor School District because of the hurricane. The camps will be led by Susan Galardi and Bethany Dellapolla, and include instruction in acting, singing, dance, performance & more. In addition, there are fun, creative theater games and improvs to help develop skills and to encourage students to stretch their abilities as young actors. Students will learn standard songs and choreography, and are also encouraged to create their own original work. The camp ends in a performance at the theater for friends and family.
"The sheer fun of improv comedy and acting exercises, or learning a song or developing a short theater piece, engages children in problem solving, creative thinking, and collaboration," says Galardi. "Through simple character study, they walk in someone else's shoes and gain insight into themselves and others."
A graduate of Carnegie-Mellon University and the Manhattan School of Music (Vocal Performance), Susan Galardi is a singer/actor/songwriter/playwright and a member of Actors' Equity. As a performer, Susan was cast as the lead in many off-Broadway musicals and opera workshops in New York. She performed her original one-woman show, directed by Betty Buckley, in NYC and the Hamptons. In the Hamptons, Susan was cast as Miss Maudie in the Equity production of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD at the Bay Street Theater; read leading dramatic roles in Naked Stage productions at Guild Hall; and played a leading role in her original children's musical, WHO IS NATALIE SPOO?, for which she wrote the book, lyrics and music for the 10-person musical. Susan also wrote book/lyrics/music for her musical LIVING PROOF, produced three times in New York City to critical praise. In the area of improv/comedy, Susan appeared in many pre-taped sketch comedy spots on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" and "Comedy Central".
Bethany Dellapolla will lead improv and acting exercises, and teaches all dance and choreography. She received her BA in both Theatre Performance and Radio/Television Production from SUNY New Paltz. She also graduated (with honors), from Long Island University with a Masters Degree in Childhood Education and teaches, choreographs, and directs various theatre camps, productions, and classes throughout the island and Manhattan. She is a proud member of the new SAG-AFTRA alliance! Regional and NYC Acting Credits include: THE GRADUATE (Elaine Robinson), THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE (Olive Ostrovsky), CABARET (Frenchie/Lady #2), THE LARAMIE PROJECT (Romaine, et al), COMPANY (Jenny), RUTHLESS! (Lita Encore), THE NEW WORLD (Featured Vocalist, NYC) and THE MISS FIRECRACKER CONTEST (Popeye, NYC).
There are just a few spots remaining, and the camps always sell out. Cost is $255 for the three-day camp per child. For payment and more information, call Jessica Lemire at 631-725-0818 ext. 129. For more information about the camps or other programming at Bay Street Theatre, log on to www.baystreet.org.
Bay Street Theatre is a not-for-profit institution, dedicated to presenting new, classic and contemporary works of the highest quality, which challenge as well as entertain, speak to the diversity of the community and champion the human spirit. Bay Street's commitment extends to educational programs for all ages to foster the continued value of theatre as a vital art form for future generations.


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Regular CD-i web updates (part 1)
>> Wednesday, February 1, 2006
When you set yourself a deadline it's amazing how things are quickly
adapted to the project except for the sources I'm depending on. I realize
with a story a month I must be careful not to run through all of the
subjects because they're highly limited. Moreover, I wish time was a little
slower because due to a lot of circumstances i'm going to ease the stress
for next month story in order to complete the whole with the goals I want
to achieve As a result you'll have to wait for any promises and continue to
enjoy the updates the cd-i websites are offering. This is to say we've
actually had some interesting news this month with the rising of another
cd-i website. It's a website between brackets however as is the case with
Arno's Eigenstart page you can find on www.cdi.eigenstart.nl. If you're
familiar with the concept, it's nothing else rather than a collection of
bookmarks from around the Web. If you remember your good old days at
CD-Online you also had your own start page where you could save your
favourite URL's in. So now David stood up and created cd-i.eigenstart.nl.
The rise of some rivalty certainly lead to some update-time for both sites.
Media additions were found on Le Monde, obviously trying to recap some space after a six month absence. Dubbed into The World of CD-i they have not exactly been sleeping during January, and they're offering new movies and pics about cd-i titles created by Blurb. Great job! It's still a lowdown you have to follow the log-in procedure which I find very annoying.
The four player adapter was just using the same pins from the original connector. So that's the same 8 pins, which leaves two pins for every player. The cable was just divided in 4 strings. Actually the set-up is very easy.... We could do the same thing! Other than this I hope you want to participate with your interest about the involvement of Nintendo with the Philips CD-i system. I highly believe this to be one of the biggest interests especially for foreign visitors who just want to find out what all the fuss is about. Ofcourse this has been discussed in different ways the past years but when you have a close look at all the 'sources' available on the web it's sometimes laughable what kind of 'facts' and contradictions they publish about this. Just type 'SNES CD-ROM' in google and feel lucky. Or browse through this thread where I have collected them for any archive. With some new articles in the near future I hope this will clear up the situation for at least a bit, because it is 100% certain neither Philips nor Nintendo play with open cards about all their licensing matters.
So with all the excitement going on at least if you're following the forum I still hope to leave you shaken, but not stirred... :D
Last but not least a follow-up to the december issue about Creative Media crawled a little to the back. I was asked what happened to the company and what happened with this four player adapter, and a lot of other questions that indicated me this subject is of high interest to you all! Creative Media was sold to its stock-owner "Creative Action" which still exist nowadays. They just did not continue the Multi Media branch with it. After low sales of the Testuo Gaiden game, they decided to stop the whole business. They were just busy finishing Whack a Bubble, and they finished the game after Creative Media was officially sold. According to the developer it came to a surprise the game was published in the end. It's a bit of a mystery who stood up and published the title as New Frontier was already shut down.
Being a spin-off of the classic Arkanoid gameplay, Whack a Bubble was the last project Creative Media finished. In fact, Creative Media was sold to Creative Action right before the end of Whack a Bubble. The game was finished in the end and 1000 copies were pressed. It remains a mystery who picked it up and distributed it. With PMPRO stocking this title from the beginning, Philips would be a right guess who took this one up.
About the four player adapter: the missing thing is only the software. The four player adapter was just using the same pins from the original connector. So that's the same 8 pins, which leaves two pins for every player. The cable was just divided in 4 strings. Actually the set-up is very easy.... We could do the same thing! They built a prototype in a box they bought from a normal electronic store, so it's impossible to show some impressive pics, the prototype doesn't look actually good or something. Maybe when we get the chance to dig up the software of Taco's Toyroom Troopers we can experiment with this again. Thumbs crossed!
Alright, a few games are up to be covered in the column, spread the word in the forums and let me know if you want some details about a specific title or developer. I'll be back!


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Many people including the NRIs have invested their share in Kochi real estate property market. Apart from a comparatively risk free field for investing money, real estate is an area where one can be more sure about yielding profits. In a city like Kochi, which is heading towards a metropolitan status, property dealers and owners are sure to benefit at least for a few more years. Apart from buying land and constructing ready to occupy homes, many of the real estate dealers purchase land and sell it again when the market price increases. This proves to be much beneficial.
Prices of properties in Kochi are seen fluctuating accordingly with the location of the property, nearby facilities, infrastructure available, etc. The demand for land and building near the IT parks in Kochi, as well as, near tourist locations in the city are high in demand. The real estate builders thus concentrate on such sites and sell their projects gaining considerable profits.
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The operator of the stricken Japanese nuclear power plant said Sunday that it hoped to stabilize the facility's reactors by the beginning of next year in a state known as a cold shutdown.
The plan for the Fukushima Daiichi power plant is Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s most concrete timetable yet for resolving Japan's worst nuclear crisis.
Emergency crews have struggled to avert a disastrous meltdown at the plant since March 11, when the earthquake and tsunami that struck the nation's northeastern coast damaged the complex. Several explosions have rocked the plant, which has leaked dangerous radioactive isotopes into the air, soil and water. Workers have focused on trying to cool the reactors, but their plans have often seemed haphazardly conceived and executed and the results have been mixed.
"We are doing our best to avoid a deterioration of the situation," said Tsunehisa Katsumata, Tepco's chairman, bowing deeply and offering an apology during a news conference at the company's Tokyo headquarters.
Last week, Japanese nuclear regulatory officials decided to raise the severity rating of the disaster at the power plant to the highest level by international standards, equaling the 1986 Chernobyl meltdown in the former Soviet Union. Before the rating was hiked, the disaster had been labeled on par with the 1979 Three Mile Island accident near Middletown, Pa.
Earlier Sunday, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met with Japanese Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto in Tokyo during a 5 1/2 -hour visit. Clinton, the highest-ranking U.S. official to travel to Japan since the disaster, said the United States had encouraged American corporate executives and tourists to "go about their normal lives and to travel to Japan."
She said Washington and Tokyo had agreed to set up a "public-private partnership for reconstruction" that would involve both Japanese and U.S. companies and organizations.
Under the two-phase plan announced by the power company, the next three months will be spent cooling the reactors and plugging the leaks spewing radiation, Katsumata said.
During that period, workers will try to restore a cooling system for pools containing spent fuel rods and repair reactor No. 2, which is believed to have a hole in its containment chamber. Equipment will also be installed to decontaminate water that was used to cool the reactors and has been pooling in underground tunnels, at risk of spilling into the ocean.
In the second phase, Tepco hopes to bring the reactors to a stable shutdown state. If successful, the work would mark a significant step toward deactivating the reactors, which is expected to take years to complete.
Recently, Tepco has been under intensifying pressure from the government to explain to local officials and nearby residents how long it will take to gain control of the situation at the nuclear plant.
Tens of thousands of people have been living in emergency shelters since the government ordered residents living within 12 miles of the nuclear plant to evacuate. Many had complained about not knowing when it would be safe to go home.
Last week, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said the government would expand the evacuation zone after data showed higher than normal radiation levels in towns and villages outside the perimeter. The government had previously advised residents 12 to 18 miles away to stay indoors. About 200,000 people were living within 18 miles of the plant before the disaster.
On Sunday, Banri Kaieda, the minister of economy, trade and industry, said there was much to do before residents would be cleared to return home. "Tepco will have to thoroughly collect data on radioactivity levels, clean up contaminated soil and dispose of radioactive debris and water at the plant," he said.
Some experts said that continuing aftershocks and typhoons during Japan's storm season in August and September could delay work at the plant. "These kinds of natural disasters remain a worry over the next six to nine months," Koji Okamoto, a professor at the University of Tokyo, told public broadcaster NHK.
Analysts estimate that Tepco will have to spend more than $100 billion to compensate residents and businesses near the plant in Fukushima prefecture. According to Japanese media reports, the government is considering helping Tepco with the payments by setting up a fund using loans from banks and payments from other power companies.
But Tepco's Katsumata said nothing had been decided. "It all depends on the government's support," he said.
Japan is trying to rebuild after the magnitude 9 quake triggered a deadly tsunami that left tens of thousands homeless, mainly in the country's northeast. More than 27,000 people are dead or missing.
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Though rumors have swirled for weeks, are they on; are they off, Chris Brown and Rihanna put their romance on full display at the Lakers-Knicks game on Christmas Day, reports TMZ.com.
The two arrived to the arena in the same car earlier today, but got out of the vehicle separately. They eventually met up inside and sat down together in their courtside seats.
Brown sparks RiRi's ire when, right after she left his side in Paris, his other girlfriend, Karrueche Tran, rushed to be by his side. Things weren't made any better when Tran's friend, singer Christina Milian, went on the Wendy Williams Show and said that her good friend was still dating Brown, even though Rihanna and Chris made a song declaring that their love was 'Nobodies Business'.
Rihanna had just insinuated that she was single on Instagram, but that all seems to be behind her now.
Brown has never claimed to be faithful to one or the other of the young ladies. As previously reported by NewsOne, Brown made a video saying that he was in love with two women and his behavior has definitely backed up that statement.
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Michael Lynn Hoffman (born November 30, 1956) is an American movie director.
Hoffman was born in Hawaii and grew up in Payette, Idaho, played basketball, and attended college at Boise State University. There he was elected as student body president of BSU. He was a cofounder of the Idaho Shakespeare Festival (along with Doug Copsey and Victoria Holloway) which is celebrating its 30 year anniversary this year. While at BSU, he served as president of the student body and earned the high honor of Rhodes Scholar, the first BSU alumnus to achieve this honor. While studying at Oriel College, Oxford, he extended his interest in drama by founding the Oxford University Film Foundation, (OUFF), and by making a student film Privileged, which starred a young Hugh Grant.
Befriended by John Schlesinger, who provided the funding, Michael's next film was Restless Natives, a humorous look at young Scottish boys who hold up tour buses. His other credits include Some Girls, a film starring the young Patrick Dempsey (Derek Shepherd on Grey's Anatomy), Restoration with Robert Downey, Jr., One Fine Day with Michelle Pfeiffer and George Clooney, Soapdish with Sally Field and Kevin Kline, A Midsummer Night's Dream, for which he also wrote the screenplay based on the work by Shakespeare, and The Emperor's Club (starring Kevin Kline). He has made three films with Kline (so far), including the aforementioned A Midsummer Night's Dream.


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Maya T was born and raised in Tokyo before moving to Vancouver. This curvy Canuck is an international model who's spent time as a ONE FC Ring Girl and has modeled for Maxim and FHM Philippines. On top of her modeling duties, and perhaps because of them, she's a fitness enthusiast and loves getting some workouts. She's even aiming to become a personal trainer. In the event that she does become one, we'd like to volunteer as her first clients.
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Normally, I'd explain the WHO? and the WHAT? of this letter.
But thanks to its advice from 1988...,
Today, I am a man of mystery.
Dear Adam,
I hope when you talk to Alisa, you don't confide everything in her. Specifically, regarding your financial condition. She doesn't have to know all your personal business. You don't know if she repeats it to her mother or not.
In any event, keep certain things to yourself. If you get married, that's another matter! But, until that happens, it's better to remain a man of mystery than one who bears all. Girls like a little challenge.
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Wayland faculty named to Who's Who list
Wayland Baptist University business faculty members Dr. Bobby Hall and Dr. Claude Lusk were recently honored by being included in the 2002 edition of Who's Who Among America's Teachers.
According to Who's Who, educators are chosen by their students and communities as the most influential at their schools. Educators are recognized every two years for this honor.
Hall is associate professor of business administration, serving in that position since 1999. He is also Director of Institutional Research and Effectiveness. He previously worked as university relations director, director of placement and director of the graduate program at WBU. He is a 1982 graduate of WBU and holds the MS degree in management from Wayland and the Doctorate in Education degree from Texas Tech.
Lusk served as assistant professor of business from 1999 to 2002 before being named Vice President of Enrollment Management on September 1. Prior to his teaching career, he had served as Director of Admissions for Wayland. He is a 1984 graduate of WBU and holds both the MBA and Doctor of Education degrees from Texas Tech.


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Viktoria Sorochinski is a Ukrainian-born artist who has lived and studied in Russia, Israel, and Canada prior to settling in New York City, where she acquired her Masters of Fine Arts in 2008. Since 2001 she has participated in various group and solo exhibitions and international photography festivals in Canada, USA, France, Italy, Russia, China, Georgia and Argentina. She is also a finalist and winner of several international photography competitions and awards including Lucie Award - IPA (Discovery of the Year), Magenta Foundation's Flash Forward, PDN Photo Annual, Voices Off Arles, ONWARD, Review Santa Fe, Descubrimientos PHE, BluePrint Fellowship, and Encuentros Abiertos. Her work is widely published in internationally acclaimed magazines, among which are British Journal of Photography, EYEMAZING, NY Times, PDN, GUP, Le Monde, BLINK Magazine, THE PHOTO/ARTVAS, Planeando Sobre BUE, AZART Photo, and many others, as well as in web portals worldwide.
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Tara Lynette Bishop and Alan Ross Curtsinger were wed at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 23, 2012 at River of Life Community Church in Springfield.
Samantha Tingle and Josh Deacon of Mackville announce the birth of their daughter on Aug. 24, 2012 at Spring View Hospital in Lebanon.
Layla Raelynn Deacon weighed 5 pounds, 5.5 ounces and was 18.75 inches in length.
Maternal grandparents are Mary Tingle of Mackville, and the late Ray Tingle.
Paternal grandparents are Mike Deacon of Willisburg and Melissa Gribbins of St. Joe.
Tara and Nicholas Smith of Springfield announce the birth of their son on Aug. 24, 2012 at 9:58 p.m. at Hardin Memorial Hospital in Elizabethtown.
Conner Thomas Smith weighed 6 pounds, 14 ounces and was 19 inches in length.
Maternal grandparents are Marilyn and Tom Monroe of Springfield. Paternal grandparents are Denise and Howard Smith of Springfield.
Landon "Pudden" and Janelle Clark are pleased to announce the forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Jennifer Martin Clark, to Brandon Allen Mitchell, son of Robert Mitchell and Teresa Mitchell.
James and Jennifer Craig of Springfield announce the birth of their daughter at 2:15 a.m. on July 3, 2012 at Hardin Memorial Hospital in Elizabethtown.
Lillian Kathryn Craig weighed 7 pounds, 12 ounces and was 20.5 inches in length.
She was welcomed home by a sister, Kirsten, age 10.
Maternal grandparents are Mary Evelyn Smith of Springfield, and the late J.W. Smith.
Paternal grandparents are Doris Carwile of McDaniels, Ky. and Ronnie Burdett of Eddyville.
Great-grandmother is Margaret Carmickle.
Kyle Evans Burkhead and Patricia Diane Weakley announce their engagement and forthcoming marriage.
Weakley is the daughter of Diane and Donnie Morgeson of Lebanon, and the late Clarence Weakley.
Burkhead is the son of Ethelynn Angulo of Lexington and Bruce and Kay Burkhead of Springfield.
The wedding will be held at Mackville Baptist Church on Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012 at 6 p.m. The reception will follow at the Marion County Sportsman's Club off of Campbellsville Highway.
All family and friends are invited to attend.
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Los Angeles is a city of extremes. I will not argue with you that Beverly Hills is one of the worst places on earth (see also: Fifth Avenue, Dubai) and that conspicuous displays of the worst extremes of capitalism make me want to go back to college and curl up in a ball on a common room couch (I kind of want to do this anyway). And I am definitely not arguing that the extremity of poverty and crime in some other parts of LA is part of its charm, because certainly I don't think it's very charming to those residents. Just that Los Angeles is very extreme, in a number of ways. And it tends towards entropy.
And so when articles turn up online claiming that LA has the rudest people in the country I shrug, because I know that it's not really true. I mean it's definitely kind of true. All the clichés about agents and producers are true. All the Beverly Hills housewives are just as vain and tucked and terrifying as they seem on TV. But that is a tiny portion of Los Angeles, and one of the greatest things about Los Angeles is that no one part represents any other part. Every house is a different architectural style.
There is nothing worse than bad art but there is nothing better than good art. Bad art is the most embarrassing thing to witness, good art among the most sublime. It is only because art has this ability to arouse embarrassment in you that it can also arouse admiration. A mediocre artwork inspires no true feeling in its audience.
I often become obsessed with a bad song on the radio and then spend a lot of time trying to discern what makes me consider it bad; why it is capable of creating such strong feeling in me, why I have such a clear feeling about the direction of its quality.
Sometimes really terrible songs that get played a lot in the public sphere eventually gain meaning because you associate them so strongly with certain places or time periods. So your feelings about the song are really about a personal experience of a song, which can elevate a bad song to sentimental or a good song to indelible.
One of those OK Cupid internal metric blog posts demonstrated that people whose appearance was divisive inspired more fervent messaging than people who were merely attractive or unattractive. One person's dream is another's worst nightmare. This makes sense in terms of a larger argument about extremes. If you are predisposed to liking something, you will be drawn to the most extreme version of it.
Extremity is dangerous, and danger is linked closely to excitement. Anything some people feel strongly negative about is going to be a fetish for someone else, often a fetish for the person who feels strongly negative about it. Fantasy is not real life.
One set of preferences is never better than another. People answer Fuck Marry Kills very differently, and all answers are equally valid. Eugenics and appearance fascism depend on the conceptual lie that there is one ideal kind of beauty, but there is no one universal ideal, just endless ideals and anti-ideals. The ideal kind of beauty is variety.
There is literally nothing worse than bad theater (maybe bad stand-up or improv comedy) but when theater accomplishes its goals it is one of the most transcendent experiences life permits (West Side Story). Films allow audiences to have theatrical experiences without the embarrassment of watching the actors potentially fail onstage.
But it is the potential embarrassment, the possibility that something will go wrong, the "liveness" itself, that makes theater more charged than film. Watching an entertaining film, the audience will gasp or cheer together and individually find satisfaction in the collective expression of a crowd. It is especially pronounced during horror movies.
In a live setting, a show with a live audience and a live performer, collective expression turns into cathartic group release. Any kind of coordinated simultaneous experience is theatrical; sports, concerts, church, class. You are channelling something bigger.
Shakespeare remains eternally popular because of the quality of the work, and Hamlet remains the sort of platonic ideal of an artistic expression. It is a perfect standalone text, but when it is staged correctly it conducts automatic feeling in the audience.
Reading Hamlet is conducting this feeling in yourself, but to see Hamlet staged well is to have this feeling conducted in you, to feel yourself played the way an instrument is played. If you believe in the performance, you will feel the emotions rise up in you on command and it is remarkably easy to feel like they are coming directly from God.
There Will Be Blood is an extended meditation on this idea, and it sounds like PTA's now dead Scientology movie would have been further exploration. Paul Thomas Anderson is obsessed with charismatic performance. It turns up constantly in his work; Dirk Diggler, Tom Cruise's Frank T.J. Mackey, the phone sex in Punch-Drunk Love.
Punch-Drunk Love is about learning to channel your own internal charismatic performance, and Adam Sandler is so effective because his basic screen persona is the id attempting to escape its repression by the self. Boogie Nights is about the filming of sex, a process that transforms a real experience into a fantasy, an impossible ideal.
Christopher Nolan also gets into this in The Prestige and somewhat in Inception (*nc*p*i*n). Where does this desire come from, to orchestrate feeling in others, in strangers? How real can it be when the trick is so obviously out on the table?
If a lapdance makes you have an orgasm, does it matter that the stripper doesn't really like you at all, she just wants your money? If an illusion creates the correct reaction, does it matter how much artifice and fakery went into creating it? Does any artifice and fakery automatically become genuine the moment it provokes a genuine reaction?
Can't artifice be genuine to begin with? The alternative assumes there is such a thing as an authentic pure object, but there is no such thing. Isn't acknowledging the importance and value of artifice a way of demonstrating that there is no such thing as true authenticity? That the only true authenticity is authenticity of feeling, and if you perform authentically it does not make it inauthentic that you are performing?
Like any magic trick, you have to buy into the illusion for it to work. If you no longer believe the preacher they will have no effect on you. If you come in predisposed to hate something, you might still hate it. But I have noticed lately a sort of public enjoyment in stoking early backlash to its furthest possible extreme and then conquering it.
That James Cameron relished detraction of Avatar, and David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin took enjoyment from getting hazed by the internet generation about making a Facebook movie with Justin Timberlake because it made it all the more impressive and satisfying when they pulled it off. There is well-earned smugness in the execution of the best sequences in both. Because they were right and we were fools to doubt them.
Because they took skeptics and converted them into believers. Because everyone loves a good trick. Because we all anticipated in advance an artwork's potential to be embarrassing and then it laughed at us with art. "I told you, I know what I'm doing."
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This mock is a bit overly optimistic. A lot of these picks are pipe dreams, even though Walter Football mocks the guys in the first four rounds later than when they show up in this draft. I'm expecting that a lot of them will get drafted earlier. Think of this as my last bit of fun before the reality of the combine sets in, and I won't be able to project some of these players to KC when I do.
I'm assuming that Albert and Colquitt are re-signed. Not sure about Bowe, but regardless of whether he's here or not, I added some new blood at WR to help alleviate the setback our WRs will take. I'm also assuming we get an extra 3rd and 7th round compensatory selection.
Supposedly Andy Reid doesn't go very heavy on secondary or linebackers, and likes offensive and defensive linemen. Yeah? Well he also likes the 4-3 defense, but that's not happening now. For lack of a firm grasp of some of the later round guys, I'm purely drafting players that I know and like, and who fill a need on this football team. Screw accuracy.
1. Geno Smith, QB, West Virginia- What do you call a QB with good size, great arm strength, a phenomenal release, excellent pocket awareness, and the touch and accuracy required to play QB for Andy Reid? You call him Numbah One.
2. Xavier Rhodes, CB, Florida State- The first of the "there's no way this guy will be available when it's our turn" picks. I feel a bit splurgey here taking a guy so high when this draft is incredibly deep at CB, but I think the world of Rhodes. He's a truly legit starting NFL CB. His tackling needs work, but he's fearless and aggressive, and rarely finds himself in bad spots in coverage. His physical playing style makes him ideal for the 3-4
3. Phillip Thomas, S, Fresno State- All kinds of things are being talked about this guy (not to be confused with last year's Phillip Thomas from Syracuse, who was kind of a dickhead). He'll make a great SS in the NFL, having played both safety spots fairly well at Fresno State, but excelling in the box and in run support. Time for us to put Berry back where he ****ing belongs and get someone else for the job he currently occupies.
3. Markus Wheaton, WR, Oregon State- Andy Reid's Desean Jackson. Super soft hands and blazing speed. Okay height, looks a little lean, but he's hardly a midget. Ya'll were saying it's a problem how we have no receivers with speed and separation ability who can take the top off the defense? Not anymore.
4. John Simon, DE/OLB, Ohio State- This guy has been a terror against my Wisconsin Badgers for so long, and I'm glad to finally be rid of him. He's a super-smart player who's tenacious at exploding into the backfield. Has a wicked spin move that he uses a lot. Very smart, physical. Urban Meyer ****ing loves this kid for his leadership on the field. **** Manti Te'o. This is REAL stuff we can use in the defensive huddle.
5. Gerald Hodges, ILB, Penn State- Another B1G linebacker, yes. Looks a little light and lean, but he's speedy, rangy, and sheds blocks like a mother****er. In the 1-gap we'll be running, we'll need far more players like him who cut through the line of scrimmage and make plays in the backfield. Oh, and did I mention he's phenomenal in coverage close to the line of scrimmage? Would probably be better suited in Derrick Johnson's LB spot, but that's okay if he sits down for a year and plays special teams. If there were ever a player to exemplify Dorsey's BPA jargon, he's it.
6. Chris Gragg, TE, Arkansas- While watching Tyler Wilson's games this year, he's one of the receivers that kept showing up. Huge size with soft hands. I think what I love most about him is his ability to run after the catch. I can just see him now as a potential 3rd down savior for Geno Smith. Not a very effective blocker according to Hog fans, but **** it. It's the 6th round, and we can get one of our other slapdick TEs to block.
7. Rex Burkhead, RB, Nebraska- Andy Reid has his Correll Buckhalter. But seriously, I've always liked Burkhead. I think he's got a real toughness to him that could make him a valuable NFL RB to some team. If Droughn or Gray don't find any consistency this offseason and in preseason, a guy like Burkhead could be a valuable weapon in contrast to Charles.
7. Omoregie Uzzi, OG, Georgia Tech- A player who caught my eye by chance when I was watching Georgia Tech/Georgia game earlier this season. Against behemoths Jenkins and Geathers, Uzzi could not be stopped. He made his man nearly invisible on every play. Very explosive from his lower body. It was well-suited to Georgia Tech's run heavy offense, for which I imagine he was a huge factor. For what the Chiefs would have him do, his skills as a run blocker won't be needed as often, but in the 7th round like this, you certainly need to take a chance on players like this. He certainly has the frame, tenacity, and ability to excel in pass protection in the NFL.
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Strengths to this draft:
-QB. Duh.
-Rhodes and Thomas are NFL starters who will compete with Lewis and Slapdick X for starting spots on the roster. The massive crater that ***** created in the secondary will soon be in the past
-You say we had a depth problem in our defensive backfield? Sounds fascinating
-Adds REAL depth to playmaking positions. No ****ing McClusters or Wylies.
-All of these players with the exception of Uzzi and Burkhead have huge pro potential, yet aren't so raw that they shouldn't even see the field their rookie years.
Weaknesses to this draft
-Really puts pressure on Bowe to get re-signed
-No defensive line picks, leaves it kind of an open wet fart of a glaring weakness, and the thing that may be this team's downfall in 2013. On the other hand, I think it's time to find some talent via free agency if we can't draft our own defensive linemen. We've been so heavy at that position for so long that it's probably time to ease off it for a year just so we can take inventory of what's there and what's not. But this IS Andy Reid we're talking about
-Belcher's old spot will still probably be open next year, though I COULD potentially see Simon working out there. Another year of Siler wouldn't be the end of the world.
-A few other holes remain open, though that's going to occur no matter how well we draft this year.
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I bet Xavier Rhodes could play FS in the NFL...he's certainly big enough and can cover well.
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I really like the first four picks. I don't know much about the next four but, I will start watching them. I think Thomas is a second round lock who might slide into the first. I will be very suprised if Reid moves Berry. He is the best run support safety in the NFL and that's why he's made two pro bowls at SS. However, he does remind me of Brian Dawkins more than any other player and he was a FS under Reid so maybe you will get your wish? Thomas is a guy that could play both safety positions and he and Berry could switch back and fourth. I like this concept a lot. You should check out Cooper Taylor, FS, from Richmond (he transferred from Georgia Tech). He is 6'4" 230 lbs. He has good speed and agaility. He's a ball hawk, a solid tackler, and can lay the wood. He is a little raw but is very underrated. I think he's a guy we will look at for sure that would allow Berry to move around. Cooper already moves around and plays both positions. Check out the video below (note that It's from a couple of years ago when he was at Tech). It is hard to find tape on the guy.
Last, I love Uzzi. I had him in my first mock here back in November. He would be a perfect last pick.
Great job man.
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A weakness to this draft is if the Chiefs don't re-sign Bowe, they're kind of boned at WR for awhile
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Would love this draft. Geno and Rhodes would make it a home run. And Wheaton is a play maker.
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Direckshun-style projection. I really like all the options we have at LB with this draft. Essentially, depth in the defensive backfield is a problem no more. I see Simon as a guy that can play on the interior for us if we want to retain that "thumper" role that Belcher had.
QB: Smith, FA, Stanzi
RB: Charles, Gray, Droughn, Burkhead
FB: DiMarco
WR: Bowe, Baldwin, Wheaton, Breaston, Copper
TE: Boss, Moeaki, Gragg
LT: Albert, Stephenson
LG: Allen, Uzzi
C: Hudson, Patterson
RG: Asamoah, Uzzi
RT: Winston, Stephenson
DE: Poe, Pitouitua
DT: Powe, Smith, Some guy
DE: Jackson, Bailey
OLB: Hali, Simon
ILB: Siler, Simon, Hodges
ILB: Johnson, Hodges
OLB: Houston, Simon
CB: Flowers, Rhodes, Arenas, Brown, Daniels
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part 2: You've posted about team events. I know Jon W has advertised these at the LPC, but I don't think any teams have ever signed up for any of his team events. Perhaps we are all too concerned about our own personal rankings, unless it is actually the National Team Championships. I did help out a couple of weeks ago at the Cambs and Herts Junior Team Foil Event. t'was a great day for all involved, an u/12 & an u/16 event, 16 teams of each, and could be single or mixed sex. it went v.well and lots of young fencers had lots of fencing, all sorts of abilities. For some of the fencers it was an opportunity to fence away from their clubs for the first time, for others, they took it quite seriously. I'm not sure there is enough desire amongst the people who you would want to come to enter a non-serious competition. Perhaps that's the problem that JW has found. Anyway, thanks again for yesterday, and I look forward to taking part in the next event you organise. Kind regards Pete eames
Dear Chris, thanks again for organising the comp yesterday. It was really good, and how competitions should be run. (caught me out at one point when the next round started much sooner than I expected...!) There was one thing which I'm not sure you were aware of; in the middle of the final between Gareth and Phil there were a series of announcements over the loudspeaker about the boys competition poules having to be re-drawn. Gareth lost a couple of points whilst that was going on. i've never seen Phil fence before but he seemed completely unfazed about anything at all. I just wonder if that made a difference, or if that's just what happens sometimes. I thought it was just a bit unfortunate.
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The Senate will have six fewer veterans and the House may see little or no change in veterans' representation as a result of Tuesday's election, a disappointing result for those hoping to see more veterans in Congress.
The Senate currently has 26 veterans, but that number will fall to 20. Thirteen veteran senators were up for election Tuesday, four incumbents and nine challengers. None of the challengers won, and one incumbent -- Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass. -- was defeated.
Full results of all House races are not yet known, but three incumbent veterans lost Tuesday and 12 veteran challengers won, said Seth Lynn, director of the Center for Second Service at the George Washington University Graduate School of Political Management.
Nine of the veterans who will be part of the freshman class in Congress in January are Republicans, including seven who deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan. The other three are Democrats, including two women who are Iraq veterans.
Lynn had been predicting an increase in the current total of 92 veterans currently serving in the House, but acknowledges that he may have been overly optimistic.
"There probably won't be as large an increase, if any, in veterans in the next Congress," he said. "However, we will almost certainly have a comparable number of veterans in the House as we do now. We won't see a significant decrease, and this is important because we have been losing about 10 veterans in each election over the last few cycles."


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