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FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank and the Bank of England on Thursday underlined their determination to keep interest rates low in an attempt to reassure markets unsettled by the possible end of the U.S. Federal Reserve's bond-buying program.
Abandoning a longtime practice of saying it "never precommits" on interest rate decisions, the ECB said it would keep its benchmark interest rate the same or lower "for an extended period of time."
The statement followed a meeting of the bank's rate council which left the refinancing rate for the 17 European Union countries that use the euro unchanged at 0.5 percent.
Draghi said the decision followed "an extensive discussion" of a potential rate cut.
Instead of a cut, the bank offered what is called "forward guidance". The practice — already used by the U.S. Federal Reserve — is designed to give markets clarity about central bank's future course of action in order to influence and reassure markets.
The Bank of England did something similar at its monthly meeting Thursday. Under new governor Mark Carney, the bank issued a statement saying that expectation of a rate rise "was not warranted". The Bank also kept its main interest rate at 0.5 percent.
Markets reacted dramatically to the two banks' statements. In London, the FTSE 100 index of leading shares closed up 3.1 percent, while Germany's DAX stock index ended Thursday 2.11 percent higher. Both the euro and pound fell on the two banks' actions as investors moved their investments to currencies with a higher return.
The goal of the ECB and the Bank of England was to keep bond market interest rates from rising and hurting economic growth through higher borrowing costs. Market rates have crept up since the Fed signaled last month it could begin phasing out its bond-buying program this year.
The Fed program — known as quantitative easing — has been sending fresh money into financial markets, driving bond prices up and keeping borrowing costs down. Word the Fed might scale back soon sent this into reverse.
Analyst Christian Schulz called the ECB guidance a "mini-revolution" because the central bank abandoned its longstanding catchphrase that it "never precommits" on its policies.
"This is a weak form of forward guidance. But it is guidance nonetheless," Schulz wrote in a note to investors.
At his news conference following the ECB meeting, Draghi rebuffed attempts by journalists to pin him down about what an extended period meant just saying "an extended period of time is an extended period of time."
He also did not specify any concrete targets for unemployment or growth, as the U.S. Fed has done. The U.S. central bank has said its rates will remain near zero until unemployment falls to 6.5 percent.
Still, Draghi was clearly at pains to show the bank as leaning toward doing more to help stimulate the eurozone. The ECB president said the current record low benchmark rate of 0.5 percent "is not the lower bound." He added that the bank's statements were intended "to inject a downward bias in interest rates for the foreseeable future."
The ECB added that rates would remain low so long as three conditions continued to exist: no threat of inflation, weak economic output, and anemic lending by banks. But no figures were mentioned.
The eurozone economy has struggled due to the region's government debt crisis which has forced countries to cut back on spending and raise taxes to try to reduce levels of debt. Economic output shrank 0.2 percent in the first quarter, the sixth quarterly decline in a row.
Growth is key to getting the eurozone out of its problems. An expanding economy increases government tax revenue as people and businesses earn more. And it reduces the size of debt relative to the size of the economy.
In theory, a low interest rate could stimulate the economy by reducing borrowing costs on the loans businesses need to expand and create more jobs.
Yet the currently low refinancing rate - the rate the ECB charges private sector banks to borrow - is not being passed on by banks. That is because banks themselves often have strained finances and are keeping money back to meet new regulatory requirements aimed at strengthening the financial system.
So there is skepticism among economists and ECB leaders themselves about how much good another rate cut will do. The bank has already cut interest rates, made cheap three-year loans to banks, and offered to buy the government bonds of indebted countries in the open market if they promise to reform their finances.
Much attention has focused instead on tools the ECB could use beside rate cuts to try to get the economy going again. Forward guidance was one of those.
The bank has also said it is looking at ways to promote lending to small companies, working in cooperation with other EU institutions. However the ECB cannot do that alone. It would take months to set up measures — such as bundling small business loans into securities which could then be sold off — so that more money could be freed up for banks.


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- Premier League
Man Utd strike £150m deal to rename training ground
Manchester United have sold the naming rights of their Carrington training ground to Aon for an estimated £150 million.
The eight-year deal with Aon - the club's current shirt sponsors - starts in July, and the ground will be known as the "Aon Training Complex".
The agreement will mean the American insurance company also has the right to display its logo on United's training kit for friendly and competitive domestic fixtures, while it will become the club's presenting partner for overseas tours, starting with the trip to the Far East this summer. Aon will provide the club with business expertise in return.
With this just the latest in a number of sponsorship deals the club have struck up of late, there has been some concern among fans that United's owners, the Glazer family, will look to sell the lucrative naming rights for Old Trafford.
United's executive vice-chairman, Ed Woodward, however, insisted on Sunday that "Old Trafford will not be sold".
It is also reported by the BBC that the Glazers see Old Trafford as the "heart and soul" of the club and will not look to jeopardise that.
Aon currently sponsors United's match kit, but General Motors' Chevrolet division will take over in a $559 million, seven-year deal from the 2014-15 season.
United became the first club to sell sponsorship rights for their training kit to DHL two years ago. Last October they bought the courier and logistics company out of its £40 million, four-year deal, in the hope that they could make more money from another partner.

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Is This A Hookup Website For Catholic Priests?
The Italian press has uncovered Venerabilis, a website that unashamedly helps Roman Catholic priests and seminarians find same-sex partners.
Catholic blog Gloria explains (in between fainting spells of disbelief):
The Homo Sensitive Priestly Society -- Venerabilis in English -- claims to be a loose association of gay and homophile Catholic priests. The website serves as a gay dating site, so that aberrosexual priests can find contact among themselves, or homosexual laity can meet like-minded priests and vice versa. This page offers chat rooms in five languages, including in German, a Twitter service to the Catholic Church and some news from a "homo sensitive" view. The ads are unique. Anyone who registers on the Venerabilis and gives a personal ad or responds to one, seeks homosexual sexual contact.
It's about finding sex partners. The homo-mafia in the Church obviously feels sufficiently strong and emboldened to operate almost in the open. This site is smart in that everyone operates under automatically generated IDs, but people are dumb and have left their personal e-mails all over the place. And, if the sodomite mafia is as well established and widespread as we think it is, then it would make sense that there would be a great concentration in Rome, for that is where the levers of power are located.


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On Friday, December 5, over 50 activists gathered for a rally outside of the Briger Forest in Florida's Palm Beach Gardens. The group was protesting the Scripps Phase II project, which is currently clearing the 681-acre forest for the construction of a bio-tech city, complete with animal testing labs and shopping malls.
The Briger Forest is a unique mosaic of scrub, flatwoods and wetlands. Florida has more endangered and threatened species than any other continental state, and the habitat found in the Briger Forest is increasingly rare, as so much of Florida's southeastern corridor has been paved over for development. There are at least 13 species of plants and animals listed for protection likely present in Briger.
Altering the rush hour traffic and neighboring communities to the destruction happening right behind the treeline, Friday's crowd sang chants, flew flags, swung banners, and displayed signs in solidarity with the wildlife inside. The two-hour protest was completely peaceful, with the exception of one element: the police. Despite the fact that this was a legal gathering of families, students, activists and children engaging in free speech activities, Palm Beach Gardens police—many undercover—surrounded the protest, blocked traffic, followed vehicles, covertly filmed protesters, prohibited participants from accessing public roads, and used loudspeakers to shout their opinions and drown out the chants of the crowd. Continue reading


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PS Would PASHA FRAÎCHEUR MENTHE (2000) BY CARTIER be a good alternative?
Received this yesterday. L-O-V-E the opening, yet within minutes - it's gone, followed by the most faint of woody, soapy notes. For those that have experience with Booster - is the opening that ephemeral? Is the juice (post opening) that weak? Did I get a bad bottle? Is Booster simply a juice that causes olfactory habituation?
PS Would PASHA FRAÎCHEUR MENTHE (2000) BY CARTIER be a good alternative?
Booster which I have is indeed pretty weak, at least on my skin. I remember needing to re-apply it later in the day.
For me it's actually quite strong. I can only do one spray from about arms length or it's pretty overpowering...maybe it's just my skin, since I got it I have considered it a stronger frag...lasts all day on me. I was thinking this was the same for everyone, now I know better.
Pasha Fraicheur Menthe is nothing like Booster so if your wanting something in the same vein as Booster then you're not going to get it with the Pasha. I don't get a lot of mint with the Pasha, if that's what your looking for. I'm a mint head so if your looking for suggestions on some great minty frags...mint being the star player...just let me know, cause I don't know if that's what you're looking for.
Alrighty then....
Guerlain Aqua Allegoria Herba Fresca-I interpret it as more of a spearmint. This one is awesome!! It's fresh mint leaves mixed with grass...as if you took some crushed mint leaves and fresh cut grass and rubbed it on you. It's really fresh and awesome. Both my wife and I love it. It's relatively cheap-4.2oz bottle for about $80 bucks through a Guerlain boutique. You can get it at Sephora also, just a smaller bottle. Longevity isn't the greatest but I don't mind reapplying it throughout the day. On my skin I get about 4 hours, on clothes about 6 hours. I can't say enough good about this frag!
Guerlain Aqua Allegoria Mentafollia-Even though this is also from the Aqua Allegoria line, it is nothing like Herba Fresca. This is more of a peppermint in my view. The mint note is very prominent throughout the life of the fragrance, but it is more of a tea scent in my opinion...that being said, the mint note is great. Also very refreshing. It has great longevity on me-I get about 10-12 hours with this one. Both Herba Fresca and Mentafollia become more of a skin scent toward the end, Mentafollia projects more than Herba Fresca and it has better sillage. Mentafollia is discontinued, but it's still pretty easy to get on ebay. I got my 4.2oz bottle for about $45 bucks. Not bad at all!!
CDG Peppermint Sherbet-This one is a little weird but in a good way. Obviously it is peppermint mint. Of course the mint note is the dominant one here, but a few minutes into it you get a woody/pencil shaving/pepper vibe. I kinda dig it. It's different. Also there is a prominent bay rose note to it-prominent in that you can always detect it, but it's always in the background. Longevity on me is pretty good, about 8 hrs, on clothes even better. But this quickly becomes a skin scent...I like skin scents, I don't like my fragrances to scream at everyone as they pass by me. It's pretty inexpensive also, $42 bucks on Luckyscent for 1 oz. It's discontinued so Luckyscent is about the only place you can get it...it shows up on ebay now and then. It's a unisex scent but my wife thinks the pencil shaving/pepper vibe makes it too masculine for her to wear.
Lush Dirty Gorilla Perfume-I love this stuff. I didn't think I did the first 3 times I tried it in the store, but there are so many smells in Lush stores that it's hard to tell anything in there. It's $29 bucks for 1 oz and worth a lot more. It has a strong mint note-more toothpaste but I like mint in any form-and it also has a sort of clay smell to it, it's got a dirty mint vibe. It's a different take on mint. I would say that Dirty is the closest one to Lacoste Booster, although I think Dirty is far superior. It is very invigorating and fresh. It's a very underrated frag in my opinion.
Federic Malle Geranium Pour Monsieur-This one has a mouthwash vibe to it which is very different from other frags. I personally love this fragrance also, although it doesn't get a whole lot of love on BN, but there isn't a lot of love for mint on BN either. Geranium Pour Monsieur is more about Geranium than mint, thus the name, but the mint has a strong presence in this fragrance. It's a very unique frag and very fresh and clean. The sad thing for me is that I'm allergic to it, it gives me quite the rash, which it doesn't seem to do that to anyone else so you'd be fine I'm sure. Great frag, expensive, but great-$150 for a 1.7 oz bottle. Kinda the norm for niche though huh?
Heeley Menthe Fraiche-I was soooo excited to try this one because people said that it is a mint lovers dream, but I was extremely disappointed. Menthe Fraiche is all about Yerba Mate. I lived in Argentina for 2 years and all they drink down there all day long is Yerba Mate, and that is the prominent note in this fragrance. There is some awesome mint in it for the first 15 minutes, then it fades to Yerba Mate, which is a nice scent, just not mint like I wanted, and then 45 minutes later it fades to nothing. $150 bucks for a frag that lasts 1 hour at best is unacceptable to me. I so wanted this to be THE mint fragrance, but it so is not!!
Some that people claim to be minty but in my opinion are not minty past the first couple of minutes are:
Pasha Fraischeur Menthe-which you mentioned. It's an ok fragrance, just not about the mint at all.
Cartier Roadster-All about wood, very little about mint...I have wanted to like this fragrance, but, I actually kinda hate it.
Live Jazz-I DO NOT get why people consider this a mint frag at all!!! The mint goes away in like 2 seconds and you are left with Coriander, Coriander, Cilantro, Coriander, and then more Coriander mixed with Cilantro!!! I'm beginning to think that people think that mint smells like Coriander or something because that is all you get with this scent. Mint, um...no!
And then there are some that are discontinued and that I would love to try out, but I don't think I will ever get the chance and that is Jo Malone Tea Collection Fresh Mint Leaf (Super expensive when you see it on ebay), and CDG Series 1 Leaves: Mint (absolutely no where to be found).
One day I will try DSH Menthe Moderne and Mint Moroccan Tea, I've heard good things about those. And people say that Jacques Fath Green Water is super minty, but I doubt it...I want to try it, but I have discovered that a lot of those mint frags that are mentioned on BN are really not mint frags, they are a frag that has a little bit of mint in it. I think that Green Water will be all about the citrus and a little about the mint...which I think will be great, just not a mint frag. Then again, people on BN have very little tolerance with mint and they consider almost every mint frag to smell like toothpaste, which I definitely don't agree with except for in the case of Dirty, and maybe with Booster-although Booster to me is more woody. I have my $10 buck Booster bottle that I think is great, and well worth the whopping $10, but you know all about Booster.
I hope this helped. I think I'm on a mission to try every mint fragrance there is, well I guess I should say that I'm on a mission to try every fragrance that has mint mentioned in the notes, whether I will be able to detect that mint is another story.
Thanks so much. It is appreciated!
Your not missing anything with Lacoste Booster Neal. It's not a projection monster, but most mint scents aren't anyway and I like the soapy drydown which in my opinion makes it a perfect casual summer fragrance. Let's also not forget that it's around $30 for a 4.2 oz bottle.
Some day's you're the statue and some days you're the pigeon.
I've had the after shave and I loved it. Will buy the EdT soon...
After experimenting with all of the above, I ended up with two bottles (got a back-up) of CDG Peppermint Sherbet and one bottle of Lush Dirty Gorilla Perfume. I was looking for uplifting and invigorating refreshness for summer and these did the trick. I prefer the CDG Peppermint Sherbet.


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December 11. 2013 9:40PM
Decision to tap F&G habitat fund explained
By GARRY RAYNO
State House Bureau
— The Fish and Game Department's controversial use of dedicated habitat funds to pay two biologists and another position was part of the state operating budget approved by lawmakers in June.
In order to receive state general fund money, the department had to first look within its own funds to address shortfalls, said Executive Director Glenn Normandeau.
"There shouldn't have been any surprise about it," he said. "I made it clear where we stood from the beginning."
The decision to use $140,000 from the Habitat, Game Management and Fisheries Habitat Accounts recently drew protests from sportsmen and organizations across the state.
The Fish and Game Department has traditionally been funded by money generated by license fees and permits, but the drop-off in those revenues has left the department struggling.
The department lost 15 positions in the current budget, and he said using the dedicated habitat funds was a way to retain three positions the agency needs.
Normandeau noted the biologists' time for much of their work would have been charged to the habitat accounts, but now their entire salaries and benefits will be drawn from the dedicated funds.
The work they do is federally reimbursed, he said, so that money will now go into the habitat funds instead of the fish and game fund, which pays for general department operations.
"Doing it this way picks up a portion of what is lost," Normandeau said.
He noted the controversy over the use of the habitat funds came because the N.H. Fish and Game Commission had to approve it, which it did in August.
At the time, some commission members were not pleased to use the dedicated funds for the positions and insisted it be a one-time event.
Commission Chairman Tom Hubert of Newport said there has not been significant opposition to the use of the habitat funds once people understand the funds are not being robbed, noting fish and game departments around the country are facing similar situations.
The issue was not discussed at the commission's monthly meeting Wednesday in Concord, but the topic of additional revenue to help fund the department was.
The arrangement for paying the biologists ends with the biennial budget June 30, 2015, so the department is exploring other ways to raise revenues, such as a $5 fee on hunting and fishing licenses and charges for a conservation decal.
But Normandeau said the proposals face an uphill battle in the Senate, where Senate President and former Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Morse, R-Salem, has told him he will not entertain any new fees or increases.
A funding commission has been meeting to try to determine ways for the department to increase its revenue base so it can continue to do what state statutes require.
The commission will be reconstituted and meet again in January.
While Normandeau was not optimistic something would come from the commission's work, Hubert was "cautiously optimistic."
He said there is no readily available nugget to fund the department's operations, but noted the need to expand its revenue stream beyond just hunters and fishermen is apparent.
He said the department is required to oversee more than just fishing and hunting.
Normandeau said he assumes in the future there will be other sources of money for the department, or lawmakers will have to decide what the department will not do in the future.
"If we lose many more people," Normandeau said, "(lawmakers) are going to have to tell me what not to deal with."
The department had 212 employees and is now down to 178, but its responsibilities have not changed, Hubert noted.
The habitat funds are derived from license fees. For example, $2.50 from the first hunting license a person purchases each year goes into the game habitat fund, while $1 from every fishing license sold goes into the fisheries habitat fund.
The habitat accounts are used to hire seasonal or permanent employees, contractors, equipment, land conservation and other such activity but must be used to benefit the license holder through data gathering, wildlife or fisheries management and conservation.


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New Hampshire Business Newsreel
December 10. 2012 7:06PM
Marketing firm raises funds for nonprofit
MANCHESTER - Marketing agency wedu is using social media to promote its fundraising drive for four local nonprofits.
For the fourth year the company has created festive displays for its palladium windows facing Middle Street. The agency selected four local nonprofit organizations that stand to benefit from "votes" for their respective windows.
David's House Inc., Manchester Animal Shelter, Special Olympics of New Hampshire and YMCA of Greater Manchester's Youth Opportunities Unlimited Program each will receive $250 from wedu if their windows receive at least 250 votes on Facebook. After a week of voting, the animal shelter's "Reindeer Workout" and the YMCA's "Elf Sourcing" have surpassed 250 votes.
The charity to generate the most total votes by 5 p.m. Dec. 16 will receive an additional $500 donation from wedu, as well as a $2,000 agency credit for creative work.
To vote for your favorite window or charity, or for more about the holiday-themed app, visit: https://www.facebook.com/weduinc/app_374129202676058.
The holiday window displays can be viewed in person in front of wedu's office at 20 Market St. in downtown Manchester.
Credit Union wraps gifts for fundraiser
NASHUA - St. Joseph Hospital Employees Credit Union is offering gift wrapping services from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. to noon Saturday. Megan Lyman, Miss New Hampshire, will be on hand to wrap gifts from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday.
Participants need to bring gifts and any boxes they would like used. The credit union will provide wrapping services, including wrapping paper, tissue paper and bows. Donations collected will be given to the New Hampshire Make-A-Wish Foundation. The wrapping will take place in the main lobby of the hospital.
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (Feb. 9, 2013) – The Chicago Fire defeated the San Jose Earthquakes Saturday in MLS preseason action at UC Santa Barbara's Harder Stadium in Santa Barbara, Calif. Offseason acquisition Jeff Larentowicz converted a late 79th minute penalty kick to give the Fire the victory. In the first match of the doubleheader, the Chicago Fire drew 1-1 with UC Santa Barbara courtesy of a 12th minute header from Michael Videira.
WATCH: Postgame reaction to win vs. SJ
Fire Head Coach Frank Klopas had his full squad available for selection to start the match and was bolstered by the additions of Dilly Duka, Arne Friedrich, Sean Johnson and Patrick Nyarko, who all made their preseason debuts Saturday evening.
The Fire saw their best chance of the first half come in the 36th minute as midfielder Joel Lindpere laid off a ball for Nyarko before making a long run towards the box. The Ghanaian winger rewarded Lindpere's running, slipping the Estonian international behind the San Jose backline before goalkeeper Jon Busch came off his line to make a point-blank save.
As the match wound down and looked as if it would end in a scoreless draw, Corben Bone played the ball through to trialist Quincy Amarikwa, who was taken down in the box by the San Jose defense. Larentowicz converted the ensuing penalty kick in the 79th minute to give the Fire the late, 1-0 advantage.
Goalkeeper Sean Johnson, fresh off international duty with the United States, recorded four saves to preserve the shutout.
In the first match of the double header, the Fire Reserves drew 1-1 with UC Santa Barbara. In the 12th minute, Supplemental Draft pick John Gallagher's cross from the left found Michael Videira at the top of the six-yard box who headed home the first goal of the match. Less than ten minutes later, UCSB's Charlie Miller pounced on a rebound off the post in the 21st minute for the equalizer and the match ended 1-1.
The Fire return to Chicago Sunday and have two days off before heading to Charleston, S.C. for the Carolina Challenge Cup on Feb. 13.
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Chicago Fire 1 – 0 San Jose Earthquakes
Chicago Fire: Sean Johnson; Logan Pause (C), Arne Friedrich (Steven Kinney 40'), Austin Berry, Gonzalo Segares; Patrick Nyarko (Corben Bone 40'), Jeff Larentowicz, Joel Lindpere (Daniel Paladini 70'), Dilly Duka (Yazid Atouba** 40'); Chris Rolfe (Jalil Anibaba 55'), Sherjill MacDonald (Quincy Amarikwa* 52')
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San Jose Earthquakes: Jon Busch (David Bingham 55'), Adam Gorski, Ty Harden (Peter McGlynn 55'), Tommy Muller (Josh Suggs 55'), Justin Morrow (Henrik Robstad 55'), Shea Salinas (Sam Garza 55'), Rafael Baca (Brad Ring 55'), Sam Cronin (Abu Tommy 55'), Ramiro Corrales (Cordell Cato 55'), Chris Wondolowski (Sean de Silva 55'), Mike Fucito (Adam Jahn 41')
Scoring Summary
CHI – Jeff Larentowicz (penalty kick) 79'
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Ian Harvie is living proof that comedy and catharsis go hand in hand. Billed as the world's first female-to-male transgender comic, Harvie routinely uses his experiences with discovering gender identity as the basis of his stand-up act. He might be riffing on the nipple sensation in his armpits due to a chest reduction surgery. Or he might be talking about how people mistake him for "the lost fucking member of Wham!" Harvie's humor is hilariously raunchy, but it's also too sincere and well-intentioned to be deemed self-deprecating.
His career took off about six years ago when he moved from his native Portland, Maine, to L.A. There he met Margaret Cho. The famed comedienne used him as an opener for her act, and they toured together for two and a half years. Harvie has since hosted his own talk show and successfully embarked on a career as a headliner in his own right. At the moment, he's organizing the Maine Comedy Fest, an event he created last year. (Cho is headlining in 2012.) The Alibi caught up with Harvie in advance of Laughter Links Us Together, the Albuquerque Pride comedy show, which he'll be starring in on Saturday, June 9, alongside his friend Jason Dudey and Southwest FunnyFest founder Dana Goldberg.
How does gender identity play into the type of audience you attract?
Whoever you are as a comic, you have a perspective and that perspective is your identity. So if you're Margaret [Cho] you're probably queer, feminist, political, dirty. If you're Jerry Seinfeld, you're talking about everyday events—which, you know, he admits and Larry David admits the comedy and the show was a lot about nothing. Even that's people's identity. And each of those perspectives draws a certain kind of audience.
The people who are probably the most interested in me are probably queer, liberal—they're not all gender-variant, but they have an interest in gender. Generally you'll draw the people who have an interest in what your perspective is. So if you are part of the redneck comedy tour, you're gonna draw rednecks—that's your perspective and that's your identity. And that's why comedy's so great and so different, in that we all draw different kinds of people.
You've referred to yourself as an identity collector—could you expand on that?
When I was 19, I came out into the queer community—you know, a female body, physically female, [but] very masculine. I came out to a lesbian community, like the dike community. And twentysomething years later, I came out again and learned something more about myself, that I figured out I was transgender and that I was a man. But I didn't give up my butch identity or my "butchininity" to become trans. I didn't leave that history behind. I didn't just drop this other thing and pick up this new thing.
You know, I'm queer, I'm butch, I'm trans, I'm a man, I'm female. There's a lot of things that I am. And I don't necessarily feel for me—and this is not the same for everybody—that I have to give up one to accept another as part of my identity. I guess ultimately for me that just means that I'm embracing my history. I don't resent that I was born female, I don't resent that I was raised and socialized a girl, I don't resent any of the things that have happened in my life, and I embrace all of it and it's all still part of me.
You've said you felt uncomfortable in your own skin prior to getting chest surgery in 2008. Before that transformation, did comedy play into your ability to cope with that feeling of discomfort?
Absolutely. I transitioned on stage. I was going through it emotionally, like it was at the forefront. So it was hard to not talk about it on stage and hard to not be processing some of that on stage, you know, in a mild to moderately therapeutic way that maybe the audience wasn't really aware of. The stage can be sort of a pulpit, but it also can be like a couch in your therapist's office. I do talk about a lot of stuff today where parts of it is very real for me. So if you hear me talking about what "the girls" were like on my chest before surgery and things like that. ... Of course I would have made it through it without comedy—being on stage—but I don't think I would have made it through it without a sense of humor. And I think that's one of the things for me that's very healing. It's healing to be able to laugh about something that ultimately often feels like it's torturing you.
What will you be bringing to Albuquerque?
I have some good dick jokes lined up—the trans version of dick jokes, as anybody should have a good dick joke lined up. ... By the end of my set I think everybody in the room will be doing a couple of things—one: thinking, hopefully, That was funny—but ultimately that their feelings about their bodies, in a general way, are really not that different. Like we're all a little bit trans. No one feels 100 percent OK about their bodies, no one does. ...
I'm going to hopefully make everybody feel like family at the end because of our shared experience. That, and laugh their ass off. I'll talk about the restroom, I'll talk about my chest surgery, I'll talk about stuff about my relationships and talk about my family. I love to talk about how my family all took it and how my mom still calls me by my birth name out in public and she looks like a crazy lady. So it'll be lots of different things, but the core will just sort of be that we're all family.
Speaking of restrooms, I've heard you have a phobia of public ones.
Well, I'm always afraid that I'm going to be found out. I'm always afraid that my trans-ness is going to be visible in the bathroom somehow, like maybe my pee's going to sound different than his pee next to me or something. I'm always nervous. And the whole time I'm in there, I'm just in the stall rocking back and forth like, I've got a secret. I'm just trying to figure out what my defense would be. I don't know what I would do if I were found out. It's funny, but also it's scary, because there's people out there who for some reason want to kill people like me and my trans sisters and that's crazy to me. But there are people out there that are that crazy phobic and you don't know where you're gonna run into them. But I don't know what my defense would be. It would be like, "You wouldn't hit a dude with a vagina would you?" And then you know, I'd run hopefully, confusing them long enough to get the hell out of there.


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LAKELAND | A Lakeland selection committee Monday chose a more ambitious development to replace a failed development once slated for the city-owned Bay Street parking lot.
The committee chose Broadway Real Estate Services' project, called NOBAY Village, as its favorite of three proposals to redevelop the downtown parking lot along the north side of Bay between Kentucky and Tennessee avenues.
The idea behind the name is that NOBAY is for "north of Bay Street," like New York City's SoHo stands for "south of Houston Street." And the project would be unlike anything else in downtown Lakeland, said Matt Clark, president of Broadway Real Estate.
Broadway's offering was one of three considered at a meeting to rank proposals received by the city. The city has been looking for a new developer for the site since December, when a Daytona Beach company named White Challis Redevelopment pulled out of plans to redevelop the 53,000-square-foot parcel.
Broadway's proposal is the most grand of the three.
The company's pitch is to construct a 100,000 square-foot, four-story, mixed-use building that would fill the lot, which takes up three-quarters of a city block. The project was unanimously voted the top proposal by the eight committee members, who are high-ranking city officials.
Broadway's plan calls for the city to waive all impact fees, all city utility connection costs and fees and all streetscaping expenses, with the total capped at $500,000. Broadway would cover costs beyond that.
The proposal would replace the 142 parking spaces at the Bay Street parking lot by creating 130 spaces in a covered first-floor garage. Broadway said it will pay the city about $265,000 for the lot.
Coming in at No. 2 on Monday was a proposal by Winter Haven-based Tom Wolf Co. to construct a 50,000-square-foot, three-story, mixed-use building, and third was one from Green Mills LLC for a 58,600-square-foot, three-story mixed-use building that would be composed of mostly low-income housing.
Tom Wolf Co. offered $200,000 for the land and gave no limit on the impact fees and street-scaping contribution it wanted from the city.
Broadway's proposal still faces further reviews before construction can began. First it must be approved by the Downtown Community Redevelopment Agency Advisory Board at its Thursday meeting at City Hall and later by the Lakeland City Commission.
Still, Clark said he is excited about the prospect.
"There's been no material residential development (downtown) in about a decade, and this will, hopefully, spur all kinds of other downtown development projects," he said.
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Broadway's proposal is even more grand than that of White Challis. Where White Challis planned to build 21 lofts, 14 two- and three-story townhouses and 5,000 square feet of retail space. Broadway proposed 75 to 85 apartments, including two-story townhouses, and 12,000 square feet of retail space. And White Challis was going to receive the property for free.
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You're wrong Fenway. If memory serves me correct you don't play the AL Central to get to the World Series. Eventually you'll have to compete against the likes of the Yankees, Red Sox, Rangers, Angels, etc...
A high payroll does help over 162 games - but not as much in a short series.
And while it is true that the White Sox do play NYY, Bos, Tex and Anaheim during the season - so do the other teams in the Central.
The Twins didn't dominate because the Pohlad's were spending money, they simply had better baseball people.
The Tigers may overspend now because Mike Ilitch wants to win before he dies. Ilitch also doesn't mind if his teams lose money because fans flocking downtown will wind up spending money at other venues that he owns. (casino, Hockeytown etc). The Tigers and Twins are drawing better at the gate, but they also have the advantage of being the only team in the market and playing downtown.
It boggles the mind that the White Sox can not put back to back playoff runs together. But for whatever reason JR will not clean house and bring in new people top to bottom. Just look at 2 proud hockey teams that floundered for decades - the Blackhawks and Bruins. Nothing changed until the front office was cleaned out.
Ponder this over your morning coffee - if KW was fired this afternoon how many teams would be calling him to make him their GM?
The whole concept of the three divisions can be traced back the White Sox being fed up with being in the AL West. When Fay Vincent tried to change the divisions he wound up getting fired because the Tribune did not want to see the Cubs being moved. Of course then you had the insanity of St. Louis being in the East and Atlanta in the west.
The White Sox wound up being screwed when they were sent to the AL West in 1969 but at least then it was a pure geographic move - but the story I was told than in 1972 it was the Brewers who were moved East and not the White Sox simply because the powers than ran MLB just assumed the White Sox would soon leave Chicago.
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Ñāṇa wrote:Hi Lazy eye,Lazy_eye wrote:Just for clarification, are you saying that a) there is a difference between Mahayana and Theravada perspectives, and Bhikkhu Bodhi misrepresents it, or b) there is no difference?
What I am saying is that Ven. Bodhi's paper Dhamma and Non-duality misrepresents Indian Mahāyāna mādhyamaka and then proceeds to critique this misrepresentation. It's a straw man argument. It in no way represents the view of the historical Nāgārjuna, Āryadeva, Buddhapālita, Candrakīrti, or Śāntideva.
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To be fair to Bhikkhu Bodhi, his assertions are based on what is generally accepted scholarship into Madhyamaka (and its closely allied sutra tradition in the Prajnaparamita). I don't think he misrepresents Nagarjuna as being a proponent of "advaya", if the Bodhicittavivarana uses that term twice (paras 46 and 99). That text has been attributed traditionally to Nagarjuna, I believe.
Now, if it is shown that Bodhicittavivarana is definitely wrongly attributed to Nagarjuna, then I suppose that it would be fair to notify Bhikkhu Bodhi that early Indian Madhyamaka is bereft of "advaya" and should therefore be excluded from the "Mahayana" rubric.
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P.S. I don't think Bhikkhu Bodhi would want to be dragged into a Y & M sectarian debate, given that the Bodhicittavivarana shows obvious traces of lateness in criticising the Alaya Vijnana.


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Last month at TED, Gary Flake showcased "Pivot", which is an incredible visualization approach to navigating large sets of data on the web. If you've seen the Seadragon demonstrations before, you'll recognize this as a novel application of Seadragon. There a number of reasons this demo catches me – it's a weaving together of so many things that are current for me right now, namely innovation through user-experience design, thinking about Cloud technology as a platform for innovation and the Semantic Web as a trend upon Cloud technology that is going to fundamentally alter our ability to transact on the web.
First of all, I just recommend that you invest 6 minutes of your life in watching the video. What really stands out for me here, is the experience of "the content is the data" and the opportunity to directly manipulate the data as you drill into the data set. As we start looking at gestural interfaces, it's clear that the ability to quickly move through a data set in an intutive, engaging and revealing fashion is quite literally at our fingertips.
I think when we reach behind the glass from the user-experience, we recognize that this is a great example of one of the vectors of innovation that Kevin Lynch often talks about, "Client and Cloud". That this rich client is able to sit atop platforms of information that exist in the cloud (such as Wikipedia), presents incredible value to such an application. However, in order to be able to offer this kind of navigation in the cloud, it requires that there be some structure and meaning to data that is presented there, and some ability to draw inference between relationships between data that exist in different clouds.
Inferring meaning about data (and particularly data in the Cloud) is a key research topic in the Semantic Web, while being able to connect and move data between clouds is also an emerging challenge that there is huge opportunity to address. I'd like to talk about disparate clouds, moving data across clouds, sharing data between clouds, and "Interclouds" in another entry…but for now, let's drill a little more on the Semantic Web.
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If you follow through some of the comments from viewers, a shortcoming that is pointed out (and this is still just a research project) is the need for all of the data to be tagged effectively and accurately, and with cross-referential tags. For the demo at TED, it's expected that the data was pre-organized and tagged; for this to reach mass market, we'd need to solve that problem in a more scalable way.
If you want to read more about the Semantic Web, I'd highly recommend "Pull" by David Siegel as a clear and detailed guide to the Semantic Web, and the opportunities it presents. The Semantic Web – being able to infer meaning about content and from that meaning enabling a fundamental transition from pushing information to pulling it.
David talks about the difference between "Content" and "Data", and that the only thing that isn't metadata, is content. When we think about the content that we produce, whether that be documents, videos, photographs, manufacturing drawings, there is "Format" metadata that can be automatically attached at content creation time.
For a photograph for instance, we see a tremendous amount of metadata attached by digital cameras through an interchangable and agreed upon data format, EXIF. By tagging photos at content creation time, EXIF allows us to record date and time information, camera settings such as aperture, shutter speed, focal length, shutter time and ISO speed, as well as thumbnail images. Over and above EXIF, camera phones can geotag a photograph, recording geographic position of a photograph, so you can unambiguously capture where a photograph was taken.
The bigger challenge facing the semantic web, is what David calls "Content Metadata", which by definition is more about the meaning of the photograph. You may have taken the photograph in Paris on a Nikon camera on Thursday afternoon; but how do you record who is in the photograph, that it's a photograph of Notre Dame, that it's a fashion shoot for a particular magazine, the name of the models in the shoot and the particular clothes they are wearing ? That's a much richer tapestry of data about the content, that enables the more powerful searching and exploration that Gary's Pivot demo shows.
We see some attempts at post-processing of content to extract content metadata; for instance face recognition in photos such as the work startups like Face.com are undertaking.
However, I think if we look at how the problem of format metadata was solved, we have a clue to how we can also address these problems for content metadata. At content production time, the metadata likely exists in some other format, in some other tool. The fashion photographer has likely booked their models, booked their wardrobe, described where and when their shot is taking place and who that shot is for. They may have sourced the clothing from a particular retailer, and the retail information for that clothing also exists, including colors, materials and perhaps even inventory. If we think about how we can capture that metadata in the tools that are used at the most early phases of content creation, and if we think about the ways in which that metadata can be preserved throughout the content creation and production process, then the final content can collect metadata throughout each stage of the production and creation chain.
When that data appears in the cloud, it can appear with meaning.
I've talked about photographs, but this applies in all other opportunities around content creation. Videos start with storyboards, describing actors, locations, camera angles, lighting and shoots. Manufacturing begins in CAD tools where materials, colors, weights, etc, are all recorded … but that information often becomes discarded or lost as a 3D model of a shoe becomes a flat comp in Photoshop becomes a JPG on the web.
I believe there's an enabling technology for the semantic web, which is working our way from back to front, all the way to the beginning of the content creation process.
Gary's demonstration of Pivot is a fantastic user-experience; direct manipulation of the content presented as the data, the ability to move seamlessly from trends and representations all the way to the very content itself.
However, powerful experience on the glass depends upon power behind the glass; the Cloud and the Semantic Web are as fundamental innovations as the innovations we are seeing in user-experience design delivered on the Web.
To bring this back to Kevin's Vectors of Innovation, it's the relationship between Client and Cloud. What's exciting to me, is what emerges when we innovate on both sides of the glass.


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NEW YORK (AP) — In Facebook's second quarter as a publicly traded company, the world's largest social media site is juggling the challenge of growing its advertising revenue while maintaining the loyalty of more than 1 billion users.
Facebook is expected to report earnings of 11 cents per share on revenue of $1.23 billion after the market closes Tuesday, according to FactSet. The Menlo Park, Calif., company has not provided investors with any financial guidance.
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Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter said several new or modified products will likely boost revenue growth. Besides the mobile ads, these include the Facebook Exchange, which lets advertisers target users in real-time, based on outside websites they visit.
Challenges for Facebook include the declining fortunes of online game maker Zynga Inc., which accounts for as much as 12 percent of Facebook's total revenue. And last week, a disappointing quarter from Google Inc. dragged Facebook's stock lower with it. Google's ad revenue grew at the slowest pace in three years and some have begun to expect the same from Facebook.
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- Laundry facilities
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
- DVD player
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Languages Spoken
- English
- French
Free self parking
Room Amenities
- Bathrobes
- Premium TV channels
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Free bottled water
- Coffee/tea maker
- Designer toiletries
- Furnished balcony
- Desk
- DVD player
- Free local calls
- Hair dryer
- Daily housekeeping
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Iron/ironing board
- Minibar
- In-room massage available
- Free WiFi
- Number of bathrooms -
- Premium bedding
- Shower/tub combination
- Private bathroom
- Turndown service
- Free toiletries
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Cable TV service
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- Down comforter
- Pillowtop mattress
Where to Eat
A complimentary buffet breakfast is provided each morning in a café with harbor views, and features eggs, sausage, breads and pastries, fresh fruit salad, cottage cheese, yogurt, cold cereals, juice, coffee, and tea.
The hotel does not have its own restaurant, but there are several dining options within the surrounding area.
Nearby restaurants:
Shima Sushi
Il Terrazzo
Restaurant Matisse
Nearby Things to Do
Victoria Regent Waterfront Hotel features a private dock where charter boats and fishing excursions can be arranged (surcharges). Running and hiking paths are located along the adjacent waterfront.
The recreational activities listed below are available on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Ecotours nearby
- Golfing nearby
- Helicopter/airplane tours on site
- Mountain biking nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Golf lessons available nearby
- Kayaking nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Windsurfing nearby
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
Spa Services
- Manicures and pedicures
- Body treatments
- Facial treatments
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Massages
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
Hotel Policies
Check-in time ends at noon
Check-in time starts at 4 PM
Minimum check-in age is 19
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Children 16 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for CAD 20.00 per night.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets not allowed (service animals welcome)
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Optional extras
- Rollaway bed fee: CAD 20.00 per night
Hotel Name
- Hotel Regent Victoria
- Regent Hotel Victoria
- Regent Victoria
- Regent Waterfront
- Regent Waterfront Hotel
- Victoria Regent
- Victoria Regent Hotel
- Victoria Regent Waterfront
- Victoria Regent Waterfront Hotel
- Waterfront Hotel Victoria
- Victoria Regent Waterfront Hotel Suites
We should mention
This property's policy is to refuse certain bookings for the purpose of group events or parties, including pre-wedding stag/bachelor and hen/bachelorette parties. Children 16 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms.
Awards & Affiliations
- Victoria Regent Waterfront Hotel & Suites is listed in the 2012 Condé Nast Traveler Top 100 List.


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The Eagles announced Thursday that they placed their franchise tag on Pro Bowl wide receiver DeSean Jackson.
The Eagles, in a move widely expected, became the first NFL team this offseason to franchise a player. The deadline for teams to franchise one of their free agents is Monday at 4 p.m.
"We want DeSean to be an Eagle for the long haul and this is a step in the right direction to accomplish that," Eagles general manager Howie Roseman said in a statement. "DeSean is a talented player and a proven playmaker in this league and we look forward to him continuing his career in Philadelphia. It's our understanding that he has the same desire. We will continue our efforts on getting a long-term deal done with him."
Jackson, if he signs the one-year tender, will stand to earn $9.4 million next season -- nearly more than three times what he made during his first four seasons in the NFL.
The receiver said just after the season that he would be OK with the franchise designation, but he declined to answer the same question when he was approached at the Super Bowl last month. If Jackson does not immediately sign the tender, the Eagles could decide at some point to pull back the tag. They've done it before -- with Jeremiah Trotter in 2002 and Corey Simon in 2005.
He can sign the tender as soon as he prefers.
Jackson released the following statement:
"I am honored that the Philadelphia Eagles organization perceives me as a franchise player. I look forward to getting a long term deal done soon and being an Eagle for many years to come."
There's also the chance the Eagles and Jackson agree on a contract extension, although the team using the tag suggests that negotiations remain stagnant. The deadline for a player under the franchise tag to get a new contract is July 15.
Before the Eagles tagged Jackson his agent, Drew Rosenhaus, was asked about the franchise tag when he spoke to Sirius NFL Radio.
"If a player is franchised, it certainly doesn't mean that you have to play for that franchise tag for that year," Rosenhaus told Alex Marvez and Gil Brandt. "You obviously have the opportunity to get a deal done afterwards, before camp starts, you have time to work out a long-term contract.
"If my clients get franchised, believe me we're going to roll up our sleeves and hope that we can convert that into a multi-year deal."
The Eagles could also decide to tag and trade Jackson, although that scenario is unlikely. With a number of attractive free agents on the market receiver-needy teams may not be interested in trading for Jackson, who has some baggage. Interested teams must be prepared to meet the Eagles' asking price -- which would be significant -- and Jackson's contract demands.
ESPN reported last week that the Eagles were willing to listen to offers for Jackson, but a team source said that was not the case.
Jackson's production slipped last year. He admitted at one point during the season that he let his contract situation become a distraction. The 25-year-old held out from the start of training camp as a sort-of protest over the lack of an extension. He was slated to earn approximately $600,000 in base salary in the final year of the four-year contract he signed as a rookie.
At first Jackson did and said all the right things. But as the team struggled he appeared to become disinterested at times. He missed a team meeting before the Cardinals game and coach Andy Reid benched him. Two weeks later, he short armed a few passes against the Patriots and Reid sat him in the fourth quarter.
For the final five games, though, Reid said Jackson was "all-in," and both he and owner Jeffrey Lurie said after the season that they wanted the mercurial receiver to return for a fifth season in Philadelphia.
During his first four seasons with the Eagles Jackson became one of the most dynamic players in the NFL. He earned Pro Bowl invitations in 2009 and 2010, the first as both a receiver and a punt returner, the first time that had ever happened.
Still, his size -- a generously listed 5-foot-10, 175 pounds -- and the two concussions he suffered in 2009 and 2010 make signing him to a long-term deal a slight risk. It's unclear how much Jackson and Rosenhaus have sought in contract negotiations and how much the Eagles believe he is worth.
At this point, all signs point to Jackson playing next season under the one-year tag.


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The spectacular beauty of the Himalayan Mountains in Northern Pakistan belie harsh living conditions that will be even harsher this year for farmers whose livestock and fields were wiped out by the August floods. Ahead of the snows that will cut much off the region off for the winter, WFP is pre-positioning food so that the local residents will have enough to eat.
GILGI BALTISTAN— In the summer months, Pakistan's remote Gilgit Baltistan is busy with mountaineers climbing the world's highest mountains.
Some head to K2, the second highest on earth, while others are off tackling Nanga Parbat or Killer Mountain, a much-feared peak. Other travelers explore legendary glaciers and stay in 400-year-old forts in a spectacular region that is home to the Himalayas, the Hindu Kush, the Pamir and the Karakoram ranges.
Harsh conditions
On the way to K2, mountaineers will drive through the little village of Youno. Draped by snow-speckled mountains, life is bucolic with bleating sheep meandering under tall green and gold trees as children play amongst houses made of large stones.
While on the surface travelers could see it as idyllic, the reality is far harsher. The people of Youno are disturbed about the coming winter, particularly after the August monsoon floods completely drowned their agricultural lands in grey mud and rocks, destroying crops and any hope of replanting.
As Muhammad Talib, a small-scale farmer and father to six children, explains it: "This year, now that our fields and lands have been destroyed, we have no crop to sell. We don't have any firewood as there aren't many trees in this rocky terrain, and we don't have any alternatives of firewood for example oil or gas that could us warm during winter time. Winter is going to be very difficult for us all."
A tough winter
Local school-teacher Muhammad Askari, who shares his home with 15 people, is also concerned. "To overcome our difficulties to survive, people mostly take loans from banks which they later repay by selling off their crops or cattle. We are very worried about life this winter."
The people of Youno are not the only villagers facing the prospect of a tough winter - almost the entire population in the high altitude valleys in the Gilgit-Baltitstan area is vulnerable to heavy snows, extreme temperatures and cut off roads between January and March.
WFP has so far dispatched over 5,000 tons of food to the region, ensuring food security to an estimated 110,000 people affected by floods and now bracing for winter.
Arancho is a stone village from another age, reached by crossing rivers and driving along precarious dirt roads on the sides of mountain passes. Families in Arancho live in two storey stone houses, with their livestock and food parked underneath, much of which was lost in the recent floods.
Haleema lives with a family of ten. "We face a lot of problems in winter because there's always a shortage of food. After the floods it's going to be even worse," she says. "Sometimes the temperature goes down to minus 20 or even minus 30. When it gets very cold, we move down to the basement area where it's warmer."
With the winter coming, WFP will continue to deliver rations to the remote Arancho until snows completely cut off the village. Sitting near her two bags of wheat flour, Haleema is grateful for the food: "I do not know how we would survive without this assistance from WFP."


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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released a report saying there were 222 cases of the measles in 2011, more than triple the average of 60, and the highest number since 1996. No one in the United States died from the disease in 2011, although about 164,000 people die from it around the world each year.
Plus: Our Complete Vaccines Guide
In 2011, there were 17 measles outbreaks. The CDC says the great majority of the cases can be traced back to travel in countries where the vaccination rate is much lower. 72 percent of the cases occurred in people who had not received the measles vaccine, or did not remember if they had been immunized.
The measles has long been considered eliminated in the U.S. due to the Measles Mump Rubella (MMR) Vaccine. However, fears over a now debunked connection to autism caused more and more parents to opt out of the vaccine. Protection comes from the vaccine itself, but also from "herd" immunity, which depends on high rates of vaccination. To quote the report, unvaccinated individuals "continue to place themselves and others in their communities at risk for measles and its complications."
Plus: The End of the Autism/Vaccines Debate?
Did you choose to vaccinate your kids? Do reports like this scare you?


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Bulldogs Face Very Challenging Slate
Complete 2010 Yale Women's Soccer Schedule
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Yale women's soccer coach Rudy Meredith has never been shy about scheduling difficult opponents, and 2010 certainly won't be an exception. The Bulldogs will play four of their first five games against teams that reached the NCAA College Cup last year, and the one exception was ranked as high as 11th in the nation at one point in the season. Yale's 17-game schedule includes nine contests in newly renovated Reese Stadium.
A pair of Big Ten foes will come to New Haven to kick off the season. Yale hosts Penn State on Friday, Sept. 3. The Nittany Lions have won 12 straight Big Ten championships and have a 125-16-8 all-time Big Ten record. Illinois is one of the contenders to end PSU's streak, and the Illini visit Reese Stadium two days later.
After a visit to UConn, which reached the second round of the NCAA College Cup last year, the Bulldogs will meet two of the ACC's top teams. Yale plays at Duke on Sept. 12 and then travels to Boston College on Sept. 15. BC reached the Elite Eight of the College Cup last year before falling to Stanford.
Sacred Heart (Sept. 17) kicks off a stretch of four straight home games that includes a visit from Syracuse (Sept. 19) of the Big East and the Ivy League opener against Princeton on Sept. 25. The homestand concludes on Sept. 28 against Marist.
Yale's first Ivy road game is at defending champion Harvard on Oct. 2. After a trip to St. Peter's on Oct. 5, the Bulldogs play two more league road games – at Dartmouth on Oct. 9 and at Cornell on Oct. 16. Holy Cross (Oct. 19) comes to town in the last non-league game before the home portion of the schedule concludes with visits from Penn (Oct. 23) and Columbia (Oct. 30). The regular season ends at Brown on Nov. 6.
Yale returns eight starters from last year's team that finished with a 10-6 overall record and a 5-2 Ivy League mark, which was good for second place. The Bulldogs have won at least 10 games in four of last six years.
Report filed by Tim Bennett, Yale Sports Publicity


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Vandal caught on video slashing holiday display but cannot deflate Christmas spiritBy HUNTER McGEE
Union Leader Correspondent
December 19. 2013 8:12PM
DERRY — After some minor vandalism at his home last month, David Bourque decided to set up a video surveillance system.
On Friday, Dec. 13, the system he installed captured someone using a knife to slash inflatable outdoor holiday decorations at the Don Mac Drive residence.
It shows an individual running across the yard, over to a large inflatable blue globe with flashing lights. The person uses a knife to slash at the base of the decoration, causing it to immediately lose air and sag to the snow-covered ground. A car with its lights on can be seen passing by, just as the person begins running toward the decorations.
The six inflatable decorations were damaged beyond repair, at a total cost of approximately $600, Bourque said Thursday.
"It's not an overwhelmingly large display, but it's a cute display and the kids get enjoyment out of it," Bourque said. "That's really why we do it — it's for the kids. So, having it cut up like it was last Friday was heartbreaking."
Bourque spoke from the driveway of the house. His wife, Joyce, was inside the home, ready to answer the door for a television news crew that was expected to come by later in the afternoon.
The 25-second-long video has appeared on some area media websites, Bourque said.
Fortunately, Home Depot responded Thursday after viewing a television broadcast of the vandalism on Wednesday night, Bourque said. A manager stopped by the house and dropped off some new inflatable decorations, a thankful Bourque said.
Londonderry Home Depot manager Peter Catlin said the store donated the items to try to give back to the community.
"We figured that this was the right thing to do," Catlin said. "It's part of our core value that Home Depot is giving back to community whenever we can. We want to try to right a wrong whenever possible."
Police are investigating the vandalism, Derry Police Capt. Vern Thomas said in an email Thursday. A report on the incident hadn't been completed as of press time.
Bourque said he has turned over a copy of the video to police, and they have attempted to enhance the images.
Bourque had installed the security cameras after several of the decorations received minor damage in an incident on Nov. 14. He said the cuts were not that large and the holes were easily repaired following the first incident.
But the second incident was far worse, he said.
"This was very intentional — very long cuts," he said. "This time, they really intended to destroy it," he said.
Neighbors have been sympathetic and said they hope the person responsible for it will be caught. But no one has stepped forward yet with any information, he said.He said the video of the incident has appeared on local television broadcasts and YouTube. Boston television stations and even a Portland, Maine, station have also covered the story.He said he hopes all of the media attention will help lead to the capture of the individual who committed the vandalism.
"All I want is for the person to be caught and, at a minimum, an apology," Bourque said. "I'd like to know why this happened."
Anyone with information on the incident is asked to call the Derry Police Department at 432-6111.
Crime, law and justice Holiday or vacation Derry Top Section Stories


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Grab free Katy B EP with tracks featuring Diplo, Jessie Ware (playing Union Transfer on 1/18) and Iggy Azalea (playing The Troc 12/20)
Budding UK pop darling Katy B has plans to follow up her 2011 debut, On a Mission, with a second full-length record sometime in 2013. But in the meantime, the singer released Danger, an EP with four brand new tracks partially produced by Philly mixmaster Diplo. It also features vocals from Jessie Ware (playing at Union Transfer January 18th) and Iggy Azalea (playing at The Trocadero December 20th); go here for more information. You can hear the EP below and download it for free here.


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The Editor's Back Fence
Who's Behind Measure R? "Sam Zell" is the Answer
Last night (Tuesday, October 5) a League of Woman Voters debate on Measure R, on the Berkeley ballot in the upcoming election, served as the arena for dramatic revelations about the financial muscle behind the advisory ballot measure which purports to give citizens the opportunity to endorse their mayor's "green vision" for downtown development.
As they say in clichéd movies about investigative reporting, all you have to do is "follow the money." Measure R opponents, including anti-R debaters Councilmember Jesse Arreguin and Planning Commissioner Patti Dacey, showed up clutching the hot-off-the-internet documentation of California Form 460, the Campaign Disclosure Statement, which was made available only yesterday. .
It revealed that the "Berkeley Alliance for Progress – Yes on Measure R" committee has raised $32,450 so far, of which by far the greatest percentage,$25,000, came from—wait for it—billionaire Sam Zell's Equity Residential Corporation. .
Yes, that Sam Zell. The same one who bought the L.A Times and the Chicago Tribune and sucked them dry, ran them into bankruptcy.
Planet readers know him well. A Google search on the Planet website will give you more information than you need about who he is and what he's been up to, mostly collected by ace reporter Dick Brenneman.
And as luck would have it, the front page of today's New York Times features a multi-page expose of how Zell destroyed the Tribune: "At Flagging Tribune, Tales of a Bankrupt Culture.
It's disgusting reading.
When he's not destroying newspapers, Zell is the dominant financial interest in Equity Financial, which bought the many downtown Berkeley properties developed by Patrick Kennedy. The company is gradually buying up more and more of downtown Berkeley. Equity's latest project proposal would cover almost all of a big block at the corner of Shattuck and University.
Berkeley's campaign finance laws limit individual contributions to candidates, but vague committees with high-flown monikers like "Alliance for Progress" aren't covered, which is why the Zell group (and other development corporations) can contribute the lion's share of the budget for ballot measures like R.
It's all part of a really disturbing trend in campaign financing, capped by the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision which says that corporations are just like people when it comes to cash-register politics. Here in Berkeley, they're even better off than people, allowed by law to make $25,000 contributions (and more) to advance their political goals.
The listed treasurer of the Berkeley Alliance for Progress is Vicky Liu of San Francisco, previously an aide in Mayor Tom Bates' office, who told the Planet she's an independent contractor just "volunteering" for this job. Bates himself is a well-known "Developer's Democrat" who was supposed to speak on the Pro side at the debate, but bailed at the last minute.
How is the committee spending Zell's cash? Well, at the debate someone was passing out the Alliance's glossy and expensive tri-fold mailer, heavy with green ink and prominently displaying the name and logo of the Sierra Club, which ought to be ashamed of itself. The League of Women Voters, despite its claim that it was the "nonpartisan" sponsor of the debate, lent its logo to the piece as well, along with several other well-known green-washing outfits like the Downtown Berkeley Association. Needless to say, none of these organizations was listed as financial contributors.
With Meg Whitman, Carly Fiorina and Developer's Democrat Don Perata in Oakland all trying hard to spend their way into political power, Berkeleyans should worry that now their own city seems to be for sale.
This is not a new story, of course. The San Francisco Mime Troupe's summer show several years ago was called "City for Sale", satirizing the San Francisco trend which has now reared its ugly head here.
What happened in the debate itself? I'll leave that story for the Planet reporter who was there to tell you.
But I'd like to hereby announce the Planet's Sam Zell cartoon contest (funded by the O'Malley family and friends as a public service). We'll pay $500 for the best editorial cartoon which depicts Sam Zell (not a pretty fellow, judging by his picture in the Times) in bed with the League of Women Voters on one side and the Sierra Club on the other. Entries will be published in this space, and readers can vote for their favorite.
It should be fun.
If you want to know more, Berkeley Daily Planet historic preservation columnist Daniella Thompson has also posted an excellent analysis of Berkeley Alliance for Progress Yes on R contributors on the Berkeley Architectural Heritage blog.


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Kind of a heartbreaker. They probably deserved a point out of this one.
Jonathan Boutin [5] stopped 27 of 30 shots faced but took the loss allowing a bad short side goal in the third that was the decider.
First Period
PHI Matsumoto, (5) (Bartulis, Greentree), 10:52 (PP)
NOR Fletcher, (1) (Klinkhammer, Lawrence), 16:41 (PP)
PHI Tolpeko, (1) (Matsumoto, Greentree), 19:30
Second Period
NOR Leach, (1) , 17:10
Third Period
PHI Ruzicka, (4) (Zingoni), 6:38
Norfolk outshot Philly, unofficially, 33-30.
Norfolk ends the weekend 1-2-0. While that's disappointing, the work ethic was there for all three games this weekend and they were very competitive for most of the two games against division leading Philly.
Norfolk's power play and penalty kill continue to be a sore spot partially due to the fact there are some personnel on those units (like Taylor, for instance) who are playing those roles for the first time. Those units should improve over time.
The other good news is that there are rumors Karri Ramo [6] could return as early as next weekend. Also, there might be a conditioning stint in the cards for Ryan Craig [7] next weekend and Dan Boyle's potential return means there might be another defenseman (whether its Smaby or Janik) headed to Norfolk in the near future. That's three key pieces that might be back in Admirals uniforms next week.
Game sheet from TheAHL.com [8].


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So we've noted here before the "Hey Girl, It's Paul Ryan" Tumblr site, but now there's a full-blown Paul Ryan music video. All I can say is if you like the theory that the coolest campaign wins, Romney-Ryan are indeed heading for a landslide:
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slingshotjoe needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 256 designs submitted by 66 freelance designers.
Raptor Performance
This company is a small business that has at roots the competitive action pistol shooting disciplines (buzzer goes off and competitor tries to shoot several paper targets located in different shooting positions/locations as quickly and accurately as possible).
A quick search within YouTube for IDPA or USPSA can provide for some background of the sport. The interest is to expand competitor training offered today to other markets (think law enforcement and/or military) and to develop and market products directed at enhancing equipment within the sport.
Many of the products that enter the market place in competition are innovative in nature and will generally find themselves in the mainstream law enforcement and military communities over time.
We'd like to be perceived well by everyone from the pistol shooter who may be brand new to firearms out to law enforcement SWAT/Special Response Teams. Most logos focused on the latter tend to be very Rambo-ish or hyper-military and therefore alienate someone very new to the sport (women and young adults). We'd like to find a logo that has appeal to both sets and in between.
• Looking for a clean lines, creative, symbolic/modern logo that can maintain a serious element while not leaving the viewer thinking that this is a military business.
• In the same breath, we'd like to find something that is bold, strong, sharp, focused, and fairly simple.
• We'd like to port the use of the logo across different media such as a website, screen printed t-shirts, embroidered clothing (polos, hats/jackets, vests, etc). So 4-color process and shading would probably not work well with the latter.
• We'd like to incorporate symbolic line art of a bird of prey (hawk or falcon rather than an eagle which seems overused) that ties into view a sense of motion, power, etc. If it makes sense, incorporation of symbolic line art of a semi-automatic pistol could be used in place of a bird of prey such that it in some way can include elements of a bird. Or both a bird and pistol as in one of the sample images attached. No shotguns, no rifles, or no revolvers.
Some ideas, logos we've seen that have nice lines and emulate the simplicity we are searching for are attached.
Outside that, http://www.sevignyperformance.com has a logo that's got the idea we're after ... though it may be too simple ... but it does incorporate the symbolic nature of the view we want.
Please ask questions if you have any. Thank you in advance for considering to create and submit your idea!
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