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Book Hunting in Britain
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An hour later, I'm standing in the large library in Barnes' redbrick townhouse in Tufnell Park, a quiet North London neighborhood. Barnes is at home somewhat nervously awaiting the verdict on the Booker Prize, for which his splendid novel Arthur and George has been nominated (but did not win). Barnes goes straight into a shrewd diagnosis of the malady of collecting books: "There is something inauthentic and possibly neurotic about it," he says, noting that he would never use one of his rare first editions for the purpose of actually reading the book. "It's like women buying clothes that they're never going to wear."
This kind of incisiveness is characteristic of Barnes' writing and seems to take visual form in his birdlike aspect, his pointy beak and pale blue eyes. His shrewdness is in full flower in Arthur and George, a novel with many essays nested inside. The book, which will be published in the United States by Knopf in January, is also a testament to the author's antiquarian taste. Revolving around a real-life mystery involving Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, it is filled with knowing details gleaned from a lifetime's bibliomania. The British edition is designed in faux-Victorian, with embossed lettering on the spine and no dust jacket.
When he was 18 or 19, Barnes started collecting authors he admired—"Huxley, Waugh, Greene, Auden, Eliot, and Larkin," he says. Or expected to admire—sometimes he would begin collecting, he says, "in advance of anticipated enthusiasm." He spent much of his youth going to provincial bookshops around England, where he would sift through cardboard boxes of unsorted books to fill out a collection of 19th- and 20th-century literature. Like most collectors, he most prizes volumes the value of which wasn't appreciated, such as a foxed octavo he lays down for me to examine on his oversized billiard table. It's the first two cantos of Don Juan, published anonymously in 1819. Barnes found it more than 30 years ago for the equivalent of a dollar in a shop near Salisbury Cathedral.
Barnes collects the way I do—he doesn't care about immaculate condition or the more technical "points of issue." His is a writer's collection focused on the life of the book and the author. What he responds to, Barnes says, is "getting that whiff of the first reader." For example, he likes his Dickens in the original serial parts; he takes down David Copperfield, with the original illustrations by Phiz and Victorian advertising on the inside covers. Barnes also collects copycat, spurious, and pirate editions of 19th-century best sellers—sequels to "A Christmas Carol" by various authors, and Pickwick Abroad, an unauthorized 1839 continuation of ThePickwick Papers that Dickens didn't write. Another prize is his original illustrated softbound set of Rudyard Kipling's Indian Railway Library Series from 1889. Barnes describes coming across these oddities as "the pleasure of finding things you didn't know existed."
In recent years, Barnes says, he has tried to stop book collecting because "[I] began to think I was fetishizing the first edition." He has also come to dislike what he calls the fogeyism of it. In truth, he notes, the first isn't the "pure" edition, with subsequent ones representing a falling away. First editions are often distinguished by their errors; subsequent versions may be far more faithful to the author's choice and intentions. Barnes says he also started to feel he wasn't a real collector because he was too focused on collecting works he admired and not enough on what was most collectible based on rarity. Despite his love for Philip Larkin, for instance, he never tried to acquire a copy of The North Ship, Larkin's scarce first collection of poems, because he didn't like it as much as Larkin's more mature poetry.
At a loss for shelf space, Barnes began to sell off some of his books—Auden and John Betjeman—and got more interested in vintage photographic portraits of writers and composers. He says these pictures give him the feeling of "authentic context" that first editions used to. Barnes shows me some of the photographs, which he has stacked up in his office, including Anton Chekov, Rudyard Kipling, George Sand, Mark Twain, Jean Sibelius, Graham Greene, and T.S. Eliot (Eliot is wearing shorts and knee socks on a hike in New Hampshire). Barnes also has cartoons of Waugh and Larkin by the late Marc Boxer, a Henry James letter on engraved Lamb House stationery, and a tiny sculpture of Flaubert at his desk that was sent to him by a reader. An original photograph of Gustave Flaubert, who was the inspiration for his breakout novel Flaubert's Parrot, has been eluding him.
Barnes, more than anyone else I met, reflected my own mixed feelings about collecting books. It's expensive. It benefits no one. It takes up nonexistent space in our New York apartment. It's a nerdy and pedantic thing to be into. But after a week in Britain, I am more hooked than ever and have been on a buying spree on Abebooks ever since coming back.
Paradoxically, I think working at an Internet magazine intensifies the attraction of beautiful printed objects. I hope my children will grow up to love literature, but I expect they will absorb it as readily via a screen or pod as from glued quires of printed pages. The book has had a good run. For 550 years it was the most practical way to deliver writing to multiple readers. But over the coming decades, we're likely to discover that it is not the only or the best way. By the time Google Print gets done digitizing the Bodleian Library, we will all be used to zapping novels electronically; humans will be reading them on screens, in forms that take up no space, travel anywhere, and undergo no decay. But as the Gutenberg era draws to a close, books take on greater magic as artifacts. What no longer serves as technology lives on as art.


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BOSTON — Massachusetts Gaming Commission members today wrestled with untangling the governance and financial control of a proposed Foxwoods casino in Milford.
At an adjudicatory hearing on the suitability of the resort casino's applicant, Crossroads Massachusetts LLC, the commission's Investigations and Enforcement Bureau Director Karen Wells said a glaring issue for the applicant is that they haven't identified a 55 percent equity owner yet.
The commission's staff report did not include a recommendation because without the majority investor it was deemed incomplete. However, information on the 10 entities and 12 individuals listed as qualifiers was presented, in the event the commission chose to proceed with the applicant.
Ms. Wells said, "From our perspective, it has to be thorough and it has to be complete. I'm kind of throwing my hands up here because I don't know what to tell you."
Scott Butera, Foxwoods Massachusetts' president and CEO, said it is in negotiations with two potential majority partners.
In summary, the commission's background report raised concerns about the inability of Crossroads Massachusetts to identify its planned majority owner and financial sources and the suitability of Crossroads' principal organizer, David Nunes.
Further, it questioned the ability of the applicant to run a successful gaming operation in Massachusetts given its difficulty in finding an additional equity interest and the current debt load and declining revenues of Foxwoods in Connecticut.
Commission staff raised additional concerns about the legitimacy of the provision in the operating agreement giving Foxwoods MA LLC exclusive and irrevocable control over the proposed casino.
During the morning session, commissioners tried to understand the relationship among Crossroads, the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Council and its gaming enterprise and Foxwoods Massachusetts.
Also, on Tuesday Hopkinton town officials expressed dismay that the commission had not made available sufficient information about the background of Crossroads' qualifiers.
In a letter sent by town counsel J. Raymond Miyares, officials wrote: "Rather than assisting the applicant in obscuring the complex web of relationships that comprise its proposal, the Commission should have been shining a light on these matters, so that the public – and particularly the communities that are being asked to shoulder the burden of hosting or surrounding the facility – can make the informed assessments possible of the applicant's suitability."
Mr. Miyares also noted that Gaming Commission representatives had not contacted officials in Norwich, Conn., "who have had to endure the consequences of Foxwoods' instability, mismanagement and lack of integrity for almost three decades."

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The Current NVIDIA Lineup
The Current NVIDIA Lineup
It may have taken them a while to get the ball rolling at a meaningful pace, but NVIDIA is well on their way towards fleshing out their first generation DX11 lineup. Currently, the GTX 480 and GTX 470 hold the topmost rungs where they can compete against ATIs single card flagships; the HD 5870 and HD 5850. They are both beastly cards that spill out the framerates as quickly as they consume power but there is no denying the fact that they each provide some excellent performance.
Running a bit lower along the rungs of the 400-series brings us to the GTX 465 which until recently represented an interesting wrinkle in the lineup. However, this GF100-based cards performance and efficiency were brought under heavy scrutiny when the GF104 core was released.
The GF104 was NVIDIAs first departure from the standard GF100 core layout and moved the Fermi architecture into a realm that was infinitely more affordable and attainable than past cards. Everyones darling, the GTX 460 series came front and center with a significant increase in its Texture Unit count versus GF100-based cards and it dazzled the press and consumers alike. There are bound to be additional GF104-based products coming soon so stay tuned.
Until additional 400-series cards are released, the GTS 450 1GB will act as NVIDIAs lowest-end DX11 desktop card that is available at retailers. The GF106 core at its heart is essentially half of a GF104, and as you can see its specifications are very much in line with its asking price. Parallels will naturally be drawn between it and the outgoing yet infinitely long lived G92-based GTS 250.
The fact that we are comparing this new GTS 450 card to one which sports a GPU core that essentially debuted in 2007 is simply shocking and yet tells two stories; the longevity of the G92 and the fact that NVIDIA has been relying on its associated architecture for FAR too long. Nonetheless, the GTS 450 is meant to act as a direct replacement for the GTS 250 in addition to the 9800 GTX, 9800 GTX+ and 8800 GTS. Judging from specifications alone, it should be able to do this without a problem since the only areas where it really loses out is in the memory bandwidth and texture unit departments. By now we all know that the Fermi architecture somewhat makes up for its lack of TMUs with additional processing cores so this should be a non-issue as well.
Competition for this new card is of course ATIs HD 5750, which is currently retailing for between $130 and $145. From our understanding, NVIDIA is hell bent on dominating this price category; be it by overall performance or a more appealing cost structure.
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magnolia swirl cowlWednesday, March 12, 2014
Ever have one of those projects where knitting them is way more enjoyable than the finishing? (All of them?!) Well, this was definitely one of those.
This pattern calls for you to whip stitch the long strip together using 5 yards of organza ribbon. I decided to forego that detail and seam the edges together instead. All 178" of it.
And, it sits tight around your neck blocking air for those super cold days.
Pattern: Magnolia Swirl Cowl
Yarn: Magnolia, #5425 berry, 3 balls
Needles: US 6
Happy Day!
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Really pretty, I love the pattern and the yarn you chose!ReplyDelete
You are a saint! I can't imaging doing that. I even converted a baby bolero edging to a knit on border to avoid the seaming of 18" of border. I'm a wimp, and I don't really mind seaming. LOLReplyDelete
adorable! i love that color, too!ReplyDelete
It is beautiful!!!! xxReplyDelete
You are a WAY better woman than I!!ReplyDelete


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We're targeting the 18-30 demographic. Our desired audience had an inclination towards tech, is well educated and open to the idea of improving your life though technology. They mostly likely own a smartphone and are a young professional.
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|Journalist Najam Sethi, speaking up for the free press in Pakistan
A Cambridge college honoured one of its distinguished former students last year at a ceremony marked by the presentation of an artwork sculpted by a Friend of Fairlynch.
Sculptress Angie Harlock Wilkinson, who works from a studio in Otterton, created a bronze figure 'Isadora, Joy' which was presented to the journalist Najam Sethi.
A prominent journalist in Pakistan who studied at Clare College from 1967 to 1970, Mr Sethi is known as a convinced democrat, an advocate of moderation in foreign policy, and an opponent of religious extremism and violence.
On numerous occasions he has incurred the anger of autocratic governments. He was imprisoned for two years by the Zulfikar Ali Bhutto regime in the 1970s for siding with the Baloch nationalist movement. In 1984 General Zia ul Haq imprisoned him for a month for publishing a book - From Jinnah to Zia - by a former chief justice of Pakistan, Mohammad Munir, which was highly critical of the 1977 coup. In May 1999, he was imprisoned for one month without trial but was released after an international outcry. In 2009 he was awarded the Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom prize of the World Association of Newspapers.
|'Isadora, Joy', inspired by the courageous dancer Isadora Duncan
Angie felt that the choice of this particular figure in recognition of Najam Sethi's courage was highly appropriate, showing as it does "the brave and inspirational Isadora Duncan absorbed in dancing her instinctive and emotional style of free dance which she performed tirelessly and taught to girls all over the world."
The Outstanding Alumnus of the Year Award made to Mr Sethi by the Clare Alumni Council is designed to provide a role model to current Clare College students, to demonstrate that it is possible to contribute to society without necessarily achieving financial or professional 'success' in traditional terms.
Clare's Alumni Council has elected Dr Alice Welbourn as Alumnus of the Year for 2012. Dr Welbourn has spent her career working to raise the profile of HIV-positive women. She is the author of Stepping Stones http://www.steppingstonesfeedback.org/, co-founder and chair of trustees for the Sophia Forum http://www.sophiaforum.net/ and the Director of the Salamander Trust http://www.salamandertrust.net/
|Local sculptress and Friend of Fairlynch Angie Harlock Wilkinson
Originally from the Cotswolds where she grew up, Angie, who also studied at Clare College, has had longstanding family links with Devon. She feels that she has come back to her roots in the West Country after a career which included teaching modern languages for a number of years in local Cambridge schools. During the 1980s and 90s, she helped her husband start and develop a successful English language school.
In 2000, she started to devote more time to her passion since her late teens. Working in wax, she tries to capture these fleeting moods and sensations in her dancers, figures and many studies of lively horses.
|Angie's bronze figure of a shire horse "enjoying a satisfying roll in the grass after a hard day's work"
"Expressing my sense of what is exhilarating and elemental in nature is intrinsic to my work," she says. "Amusingly, I created a female figure called Devon Woman - for the 'Coast' exhibition at Otterton Mill two summers ago - which was inspired by the rugged Jurassic coast along the cliffs by Ladram Bay, and was a rusty-reddish bronze nude in several pieces, suggesting the stacks broken off from the beaches, but only a few people really 'got it', and my own mother wasn't one of them!"
Angie often creates pairs or little groups to better express the elusive flow of feelings. RHS Rosemoor http://www.rhs.org.uk/gardens/rosemoor has put her four bronze 'Dancing Maenads', pictured above, in its celebrated Winter Garden as part of its Winter Sculpture Exhibition. "The Maenads would entertain revellers at their feasts with their music and dancing," she explained, "so I thought they would make a nice subject to inspire joy and freedom of spirit in the viewer."
Angie only recently joined the Friends of Fairlynch although she had visited the Museum on many occasions.
"I do love history, and look forward to learning more about the area from the archives, in part so as to feel a deeper understanding for, and gut connection with where I live," she says. "And also how the landscape that means so much to me, and to my artistic well-spring, has evolved."
For more information about Angie's work, click on http://www.angieharlock.co.uk/
Click on http://www.thefridaytimes.com/beta2/tft/aboutus.php to see how Najam Sethi is defending the freedom of the press in today's Pakistan.
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Logitech is one of the better known brand names in computer peripherals, representing high quality products. For quite some time, I had been using a Microsoft Basic Optical mouse on my desktop, and while it worked ok, it didn't feel as responsive as I would have liked. So, I decided it was time to buy a new mouse, preferably from Logitech. After checking out the entire range of models and corresponding prices, I came to the conclusion that the G1 optical mouse was probably the mouse I was looking for. Low to medium price, no extra fancy buttons and fast, with an internal 800dpi engine. Were my expectations fulfilled? You'll find out by reading this review.
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According to Logitech, the G1 Optical Mouse is "...Based on the technology that powered the best-selling Logitech MX 510 Performance Optical Mouse, the Logitech G1 Optical Mouse is ideal for gamers and PC power users alike. This lightweight, ambidextrous mouse captures 5.8 megapixels of surface detail per second on a 12-bit data path (typical mice use 8-bit data paths) to deliver lag-free performance and up to 15 Gs of instant acceleration. The G1 Optical Mouse is plug-and- play, working immediately when plugged into the USB port on a desktop or notebook PC..."
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Give your wardrobe a luxe dose of dark glamour with this pair of polished bebe shorts, featuring glossy genuine leather. Try it with a pair tights and a metallic sweater for an instant day look.
- 100% leather
- Rise: 9" (23 cm)
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- Leg opening: 24" (61 cm)
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Rated 5 out of 5 by Thequeengets from Runs big but it's A MUST HAVE! The quality is excellent, soft leather, great style and well made but it runs big... I'm XS and size 0 but I had to get 00 and it's still kind of loose. Better than tight anyway... I love how it pairs with printed silky tops and Zahara shoes! I purchased the black one. I'm glad I used a coupon because they are more like a treat to me hehe. However I justify it because they take my outfits to the next level, great for fall season and true quality leather. Recommended!
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Our aim is to ensure that all projects are supported by both our staff and visitors. We work closely with the communities to identify their needs in order to improve their general well-being through empowerment, improved infrastructure, skill development and the overall enhancement of health, education and lifestyle for the future.
Recently we also introduced filtered water supply and recyclable water bottles in all of our camps reducing purchased water by approximately 65%.


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Ron Mitchell: Without legal medical marijuana, I can't return to my NH homeBy RON MITCHELL
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April 22. 2013 7:05PM
My wife and I currently live in Vermont, but Manchester is our home, and we would very much like to return in 2013. Whether we do depends on whether New Hampshire allows the medical use of marijuana.
I severely injured my back at work in 1987, and since then I have been prescribed every pain medicine you can imagine. As the years passed, I found myself needing more and more pills just to get by. My health was on a downward spiral. By 2009, the pain had gotten so bad that I thought I was going to need to have a morphine pump embedded in my abdomen.
I had never even thought about using medical marijuana. You can imagine my surprise when my doctor, a well-respected pain specialist, suggested I consider trying it. He sincerely believed this plant could reduce my dependence on pain medications and improve my quality of life. Yet to try it would be illegal.
As my condition worsened, I became desperate, so I decided to follow my doctor's advice. A friend was able to find some marijuana for me, and when I gave it a try, I felt a level of comfort and relief I had not experienced in many years.
I was, therefore, elated when the New Hampshire Legislature passed a bill that would have allowed people like me to legally obtain and use marijuana for medical purposes. But that feeling of happiness gave way to despair when it was vetoed by Gov. John Lynch and the effort to override it fell two votes short.
At that point, I felt I had no choice but to move to a state where I would not have to obtain marijuana in an underground market and risk being arrested and labeled a criminal. So I found a small apartment in Vermont, where I qualified for the medical marijuana program. I began growing a small amount of marijuana in my home in accordance with the law.
About four months later, my first harvest was ready, and since then I've had a steady, reliable supply of medical-grade cannabis. It has dramatically improved my quality of life, allowing me to reduce my intake of pain pills from as many as 20 per day to only two per day. I am finally able to get a good night's sleep, and I no longer have to worry about local or state police raiding my house and arresting me.
My wife was able to find a job and join me in Vermont, but she needs to return home to help care for her aging parents. I cannot return, however, until it becomes legal for me to use and grow my own medical cannabis.
We were very encouraged when the House overwhelmingly approved House Bill 573, which would allow patients to grow up to three mature plants in addition to setting up five non-profit, state-regulated dispensaries. It will probably be at least two years after the bill passes before a dispensary is able to open, though. This simply isn't soon enough for me and all the other patients who need medical marijuana now.
Patients in Vermont have been growing their own medical marijuana since 2004, and I have never heard of law enforcement having any real problems with it. In Maine, they have been allowing cultivation since 1999. If a few plants in patients' closets were causing major problems in Maine and Vermont, don't you think we would have heard about it by now?
If this bill does not pass, I cannot return home without putting my health and freedom at risk. Is this the kind of health care system that will best serve the needs of this U.S. Army combat veteran (1971-1973)?
My wife needs to return home to New Hampshire this summer, with or without me, to care for her parents. I would very much like to join her in moving home, but that decision will depend on what happens with HB 573. New Hampshire should not make criminals of patients who want to grow their own limited supply of plants.
Ron Mitchell, formerly of Manchester, lives in White River Junction, Vt.


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For those old enough to remember, reports of the latest FBI snooping must have brought back bitter memories of a now-hated program known as COINTELPRO.
COINTELPRO is the FBI acronym for a series of covert programs culminating in the 1970s directed against US domestic groups. In these programs, the Bureau went beyond the collection of intelligence to secret action defined to "disrupt" and "neutralize" target groups and individuals.
The techniques were adopted wholesale from wartime counter-intelligence, and ranged from the trivial (mailing reprints of Reader's Digest articles to college administrators) to the degrading (sending anonymous poison-pen letters intended to break up marriages) and the dangerous (encouraging gang warfare and falsely labeling members of a violent group as police informers).
Today, reports of the latest FBI snooping programs create déjà vu all over again. According to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union, the San Francisco FBI conducted a years-long Mosque Outreach program that collected and illegally stored intelligence about American Muslims' First Amendment-protected religious beliefs and practices.
The ACLU charges that FBI documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act reveal that from 2004 through at least 2008, the San Francisco FBI conducted a "mosque outreach" program through which it compiled intelligence on American Muslim religious organizations and their leaders' and congregants' constitutionally-protected beliefs and activities, without any suspicion of wrongdoing. The ACLU previously disclosed that the FBI turned its "community outreach" programs into a secret and systematic domestic intelligence-gathering initiative.
Now, FBI documents obtained by the ACLU of Northern California, the Asian Law Caucus, and the San Francisco Bay Guardian show that the FBI used the similar guise of "mosque outreach" to gather intelligence on mosques and Muslim religious organizations.
The organization also claims the documents also show that the FBI categorized information about Muslims' First Amendment-protected and other entirely innocuous activities, as well as mosque locations, as "positive intelligence" and disseminated it to agencies outside the FBI. As a result, the ACLU says, the agency "wrongly and unfairly cast a cloud of suspicion over innocent groups and individuals based on their religious beliefs and associations, and placed them at risk of greater law enforcement scrutiny as potential national security threats. None of the documents indicate that the FBI told individuals interviewed that their information and views were being collected as intelligence, and would be recorded and disseminated."
The ACLU and human rights and civil liberties groups generally have taken the position that the "FBI's targeting of American Muslim religious organizations for secret intelligence gathering raises grave constitutional concerns because it is an affront to religious liberty and equal protection of the law. The bureau's use of outreach meetings to gather intelligence also undermines the trust and mutual understanding necessary to effective law enforcement. Additionally, the FBI's retention of information gathered through "mosque outreach" in its intelligence files violates federal Privacy Act prohibitions against the maintenance of records about individuals' First Amendment-protected activity."
The ACLU says the San Francisco FBI documents described above bear titles such as, "Mosque Outreach Liaison," "Mosque Outreach Contacts," or "Mosque Liaison Contacts." Some of these documents indicate that the FBI begins its "outreach" with questions about possible hate crimes against the Muslim community, but none of the documents appear connected to a mosque protection effort initiated after 9/11 by the FBI Civil Rights Unit to guard against anti-Muslim hate crimes.
That effort operated under a "44" FBI case file number (see for example, this 2007 San Francisco FBI memorandum). In contrast, the file numbers on the "mosque outreach" documents were redacted, and many were classified "secret," which indicates this effort was conducted under the FBI's national security-related investigative and intelligence authorities. Although sometimes heavily redacted, all of the documents make clear that the FBI used its outreach meetings to document religious leaders' and congregants' identities, personal information, and religious views, practices, affiliations, and travel, as well as the physical locations and layouts of mosques.
Documentation obtained through FOIA has proved to be a treasure trove of information. But, sadly for those who enjoy spy-thrillers, their content is largely prosaic and teetering on boring. Here are but a few of many examples:
• The FBI visited the Seaside Mosque five times in 2005 for "mosque outreach," and documented congregants' innocuous discussions regarding frustrations over delays in airline travel, a property purchase of a new mosque, where men and women would pray at the new mosque, and even the sale of date fruits after services. It also documented the subject of a particular sermon, raising First Amendment concerns. Despite an apparent lack of information related to crime or terrorism, the FBI's records of discussions with mosque leaders and congregants were all classified as "secret," marked "positive intelligence," and disseminated outside the FBI.
• The FBI met with members of the South Bay Islamic Association four times from 2004 to 2007. FBI agents documented as "positive intelligence" and disseminated outside the FBI an individual's complaint of travel delays during the Hajj pilgrimage caused by the No Fly list, as well an individual's conversation about the Hajj, "Islam in general," Muslims' safety in the U.S., and community fears regarding an FBI investigation of imams in Lodi, California. Two memoranda from 2006 and 2007 contain no descriptive information apart from the name and location of mosques contacted by the FBI, which the ACLU said might be appropriate to record in a normal community outreach context.
• Two 2008 FBI memoranda described contacts with representatives of the Bay Area Cultural Connections (BAYCC), which was formerly the Turkish Center Musalla. The first describes the history, mission, and activities of the BAYCC, the ethnicity of its members and its affiliation with another organization. The second memorandum indicates the FBI used a named meeting participant's cell phone number to search LexisNexis and Department of Motor Vehicle records, and obtained and recorded detailed information about him, including his date of birth, social security number, address and home telephone number.
All the memoranda listed above were described as "positive intelligence" and disseminated outside the FBI. Some were classified as "secret."
The ACLU says, "Almost every FBI memorandum described above was labeled 'positive intelligence', which means the information in it would be uploaded and retained in FBI intelligence files.
The ACLU points out that in its previous "Mapping the FBI" alerts, "we called on the FBI to stop using community outreach for intelligence purposes, to be honest with community organizations regarding what information is collected and retained during community meetings, and to purge all information collected improperly. The latest revelations make the need for these reforms even more urgent."
William Fisher has managed economic development programs in the Middle East and elsewhere for the US State Department and the US Agency for International Development. He served in the international affairs area in the Kennedy Administration and now writes on subjects ranging from human rights to foreign affairs for a number of newspapers and online journals.
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Samba gave away a penalty in the opening 10 minutes by tripping Ashkan Dejagah before losing possession for the Bulgarian's second goal of the night, and Berbatov said the nerves were evident early on.
"Yeah, you can see [players are nervous] sometimes," Berbatov told Sky Sports. "In the first couple of minutes you can see which players look nervous or [who] is having a bad game.
"So you try to push and press on them, which was the case with their player when we scored the second goal. You need to be clever in a situation like this because if you take advantage of them like you should, we score."
The Cottagers took a three-goal lead before QPR got back into the game, but with a penalty save by Mark Schwarzer and Steve Sidwell sent off late on, Berbatov stated that "childish mistakes" almost cost them.
"We weren't nervous but we almost threw the game away," Berbatov said. "We had a comfortable lead in the first half - three goals is a lot - and the something in the second half, a bit childish maybe.
"They scored the second goal and started to believe. But in the end we held onto the three goals we scored. We could have scored more but in the end three points was good for us.
"The only time they can score is when we make a mistake, so the goal for them lifted their spirits. If you look back, you see mistakes and try to correct them next time, but now we're going to celebrate the three points.
"I think you should give [the man of the match award] to [Schwarzer], or I will be giving it to him in the dressing room, because it's not the first time he's saved a penalty.
"He's a great goalkeeper and without him I don't think we were going to win this game."
Berbatov also stated that he is enjoying life at Fulham, and refuted suggestions that the club were ever in danger of relegation.
"It's great, I'm enjoying my football here. You can see it on the pitch, by the goals I score and the way I'm playing. It's going great for me, and for the team, so I hope it continues this way," Berbatov said. "We've always been safe. I don't see why anyone should worry. We play good football and sometimes we make childish mistakes which is why we suffer, but if we correct this we will be even better."


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What a waste of perfectly good baskets. The first few holes are all trees and no fairway. And all the holes average around 100 ft. i wouldnt even call this a course. Hole 9 ends in the middle of the woods.
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It's small but makes for a great place to learn, practice, and have fun. Extremely clean (no garbage) , most holes are very short, and it's in the woods. I wouldn't use it as a destination from far away but if you are nearby, play it. BTW, just down the road (rte 97), there is an amazing dairy bar/farm stand with crazy good ice cream.


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BOSTON — The prospective new owner of the Telegram & Gazette is one of those public people who does a pretty good job of making sure he has a private life, too.
John Henry has been around town long enough, though, to leave a trail of bread crumbs that can lead the baseball fans, and now newspaper readers, of New England to some conclusions.
Such as:
He does not like cold weather.
He does not feel obligated to do things the way they have always been done.
He knows when to get out of the way.
A lot of what is important to know about Henry was revealed in his first few days as principal owner of the Red Sox.
While the outline of his purchase of the franchise — for about $700 million — in December 2001 was in place when the team opened spring training in Fort Myers in 2002, the particulars had not been nailed down. Anyone who has been to the closing for a $200,000 house can imagine the paperwork involved in buying one of the greatest franchises in American sports.
So, in February 2002, Henry was in Fort Myers, Fla., with partner Larry Lucchino waiting for adviser David Ginsberg to finalize the sale back in Boston. On Feb. 27, Henry and Lucchino joined members of the media at a cookout at the team's minor league facility, both expecting to hear from Ginsberg any minute.
It was one of those cold Florida days, though, when 55 degrees felt like 25 because it was supposed to be 75. After a couple of bites from cold hot dogs, Henry and Lucchino took off for the warmth of the owner's box at City of Palms Park, a pack of reporters following.
Not long after that, Ginsberg called and the window of the owner's box opened, a hand came out with its thumb up, and Henry owned the Red Sox.
The day before, though, was even more telling in terms of where the Sox might be headed under Henry. He was at batting practice on one of the fields and spotted some wide-eyed young fans watching the big leaguers hit. Henry asked bench coach Mike Stanley to give him a hand with something and the two rounded up hats and gloves for the kids and let them go into the outfield to track down stray fly balls.
This was unprecedented. Under the hidebound Yawkey administration, no commoner could step on Red Sox grass. Anyone who did would have needed a rabies shot, because the guard dogs would have been unleashed.
It was the first tangible evidence that things were going to be different in Boston baseball.
Allowing the kids on the field was symbolic, but minor. More substantial changes followed as time went on. After taking stock of things through 2002, Henry hired Theo Epstein as the youngest general manager in baseball and began plans to retool Fenway Park and turn it into a revenue machine.
Improvements that the previous ownership said were impossible — putting seats on top of the left field wall, for instance — were routinely accomplished. Henry spent money on the ballpark, but also spent it on acquiring players and rebuilding the farm system.
While Henry was a hands-on owner, he let his baseball people make the baseball decisions. In 2004, the Red Sox and new manager Terry Francona got off to a fast start and through 50 games were 31-19, in first place in the AL East.
After that, the team sank into mediocrity, going 21-25 in a span of 46 games, falling 9� games out of first. After one loss at Fenway, Henry and Lucchino debated the team's future while in the owner's box. Henry thought the Sox would come out of their slump in time; Lucchino thought the roster needed a shake-up.
Lucchino's argument prevailed, the Nomar Garciaparra trade followed and in October, the Red Sox won their first world championship in 86 seasons.
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Nicole Kidman walked the red carpet on Sunday (February 22) at the 2015 Oscars, hosted at Hollywood's Dolby Theatre.
Louis Vuitton was the designer of choice for Nicole, whose gown, shoes, and white crocodile Petite-Malle with crystal details clutch were all by the design house, with her jewels by Harry Winston.
Nicole's strapless, yellow sequined gown put the focus on her tiny waist with a red belt. My favorite detail of the gown was the hemline, which had a torn, jagged-edged effect.
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Gallery: Fashion Models With Gap Teeth
Lara Stone is officially a supermodel. Lindsey Wixson is the face of everything and Abbey Lee Kershaw is inescapable. Sure, Lauren Hutton (and Brigitte Bardot, in the non-model realm) kind of paved that way a long time ago and gap-toothed girls are nothing new (Alek Wek!) but… Lauren Hutton also has a few major campaigns this season and it's fair to say gap-toothed girls are having a moment. Here's some of the current top tier and a few of the memorable ones throughout modeling history.


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Florida's consumer confidence was unchanged in December, reflecting the continuing divide between the mood of Republicans and Democrats following November's election.
Florida's consumer confidence was unchanged in December, reflecting the continuing divide between the mood of Republicans and Democrats following November's election.
The survey by the University of Florida showed a confidence level of 74 for the second straight month following a post-recession high of 80 in September and October.
The index is benchmarked to a 1966 level of 100 and measures changes over time within a range of 2 and 150.
The December confidence level among Republicans was at 49 compared with 103 for Democrats, similar to November's results.
The confidence level for people younger than 60 rose two points, while confidence for those age 60 and older fell one point. The difference by age was more pronounced for expectations about personal finances a year from now, said Chris McCarty, director of UF's Survey Research Center in the Bureau of Economic and Business Research.
Worry about the fiscal cliff dragged down expectations both about personal finances and the U.S. economy over the next year, though consumers were more optimistic about personal finances now compared with a year ago and the longer-term outlook for the U.S. Florida consumers also felt better about buying big-ticket items in the weeks leading up to Christmas.
Several indicators point to a strong economic recovery, including rising home prices and a lower unemployment rate in Florida, declining gas prices and a resilient stock market -- all pointing to the possibility that state revenues might be higher. However, McCarty points out that the recovery will be jeopardized if Congress allows scheduled tax increases and spending cuts to occur -- the so-called fiscal cliff.
Floridians could face a delay in tax refund checks and smaller paychecks as tax cuts expire.
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Martinsville, VA. (October 23, 2009) – Sam Hornish, Jr., driver of the No. 77 Mobil 1 Dodge Charge, will start the Tums Fast Relief 500 from the 31st position at Martinsville Speedway on Sunday.
Rain showers delayed the morning practice session on the famed half-mile short-track forcing NASCAR to revise the schedule pushing everything back 30 minutes. The NASCAR Cup Series began its first practice shortly after noon. During that session, Hornish turned a fast lap of 20.232 seconds at a speed of 93.594 miles-per-hour before spinning and making contact with the wall.
The Penske Racing No. 77 Mobil 1 team immediately pulled out the back-up car and began preparing for qualifying.
"We've had a strong short-track program this year so this isn't the way we had hoped to kick our weekend off," said Hornish. "The guys did a great job getting the back-up car ready for qualifying today but our focus is really on practice tomorrow. Starting back there will make a long day even longer but hopefully I can keep the Mobil 1 Dodge Charger out of trouble and bring home a strong finish."
The Tums Fast Relief 500 will air live on the ABC television network as well as MRN Radio on Sunday, October 25 with coverage beginning 1:00 p.m. ET.


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Objective: To analyze the outcome of frameless radiosurgery for intraspinal and intramedullary metastases.
Methods: Eligibility was approved by an interdisciplinary tumor board. Clinical status, treatment parameters, local tumor control, pain level (visual analogue scale) and adverse effects have been recorded prospectively. Patients were treated with a single irradiation fraction utilizing the CyberKnife® system (Accuray Inc. Sunnyvale CA). Clinical and MRI follow-up were done every three months after treatment.
Results: From 2005 to 2009 22 patients with 24 metastases of various primary cancers (mamma 6, renal 4, lung 2, melanoma 2, others 8) were treated. The median age was 54 years (range 24–80). Eleven intramedullary, four intradural and nine intraspinal extradural lesions were located at six cervical, twelve thoracic and six lumbar levels. All but three patients had initial neurological symptoms and 60% of the patients suffered from mild or severe paraparetic deficits (ASIA scale B, C and D). Median prescription dose was 16.5 Gy (95%C.I. 16.0–17.0) to the 70% isodose, median target volume was 1.4 cm3 (95%C.I. 0.8–2.0). During a mean follow-up of nine months, two lesions showed a local progression, resulting in an actuarial local tumor control rate of 95% after six and 83% after 12 months. Three lesions resolved completely, seven showed a partial remission and 12 lesions were unchanged on MRI controls. Initial neurological deficits improved in four of 16 patients and remained stable in 10. Pain was reduced in three of 10 patients and remained stable in seven. No adverse effects, apart from mild nausea in three cases, have been observed.
Conclusions: Robotic radiosurgery for intraspinal and intramedullary metastases is a feasible and safe treatment option for selected patients. Neurological deficits improved or remained unchanged in most patients. Therefore radiosurgery may offer a non-invasive treatment to control neurological symptoms and pain.


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As lead singer of indie-disco trio Gossip, non-conformist Beth Ditto became just as famous for challenging the perceptions of female beauty and sexuality as she did for her spell bindingly raw gospel-soul voice. Born Mary Beth Patterson in 1981, she grew up in a tiny house in Searcy, AK with her large family, before moving to Washington at the age of 18, where she teamed up with guitarist Brace Paine and drummer Hannah Blilie to form post-punk outfit the Gossip.
After being named "the coolest person in rock" by NME, one of three publications she posed nude for (alongside erotica magazine On Our Backs and London style bible Love), the band broke through to the mainstream with their third album's title track, "Standing In the Way of Control," written by Ditto as a response to the U.S. government's ban on gay marriage. Ditto's larger than life, uncompromising image turned her into an unlikely fashion icon, a development which resulted in her opening Jean Paul Gaultier's Spring Collection at the 2010 Paris Fashion Week, and creating her own collection for U.K. retailer Evans. After providing guest vocals on records by Calvin Johnson ( "Lightning Rod for Jesus" ), Simian Mobile Disco ("Cruel Intentions") and Jarvis Cocker (a duet cover version of Heaven 17's "Temptation"), she released her own solo debut self-titled EP in 2011. Ditto also has her own advice column in British broadsheet The Guardian, launched a campaign to ban the clothing "size zero", and formed supergroup Crisis with Paul Weller and Graham Coxon to raise money for a homeless charity.


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The "Election 2012 Housing Health Check," issued by the online real estate marketplace RealtyTrac in October, reported that 65 percent of local housing markets nationwide are worse off today than they were four years ago. Since January 2009, more than nine million homeowners have entered the foreclosure process or lost their homes outright. Over 12 million more are seriously underwater, owing at least 25 percent more on mortgages than their properties are worth. Behind these statistics are struggling households facing personal ruin, households that are unable to contribute to the nation's elusive economic recovery.
By all accounts, restoration efforts for homeowners in the United States have been underpowered. Other countries have shown greater audacity in responding to the housing meltdown, and their economies are already enjoying the fruits of early and astute interventions. Iceland's economy and its housing market have substantially recovered since the government implemented widespread debt forgiveness for homeowners, easing the debt burden for more than 25 percent of its population.
The Obama administration's latest initiative to assist homeowners, a revision of the Home Affordable Refinance Program, known as HARP 2.0, is showing promise. But more creative initiatives would be welcome, and more pressure needs to be applied on banks to expedite loan revisions.
At press time, the nation was still juggling presidential prospects. Whoever wins on Nov. 6 needs to stop pretending that the "worst" of the housing crisis is behind us. Millions of U.S. homeowners know that is not the case; they can see it each month in boldface type right at the top of their mortgage statements.
War Against Want
In 1963 the late Senator George S. McGovern put forward a novel idea. By cutting the military budget by 10 percent, the government could expand the program known as Food for Peace. Senator McGovern was the first director of the program, which sought to distribute U.S. food surplus to impoverished nations abroad. He was also a strong critic of runaway defense spending. As early as 1963 he spoke against the buildup of U.S. military forces in Vietnam. His antiwar stance did not prove popular with the American public, who soundly rejected his candidacy in 1972 in favor of President Richard M. Nixon. Yet his stands against defense spending and on behalf of the world's poor were prophetic.
Annual U.S. military spending now stands at nearly $700 billion. Meanwhile, aid programs both at home and abroad are threatened by Congressional plans to cut discretionary spending. These programs could be saved by reductions in the defense budget, but the military fiercely resists any cutbacks. Late in his public life Senator McGovern spoke against both the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. A B-24 bomber pilot in World War II, he was an unlikely leader of the antiwar movement. Yet he knew from experience how war undermines the fiscal and moral health of a nation.
After losing his Senate seat in 1980, Senator McGovern continued to lobby on behalf of the world's poor. He helped set up the United Nations World Food Programme and, with Senator Bob Dole, established an international school feeding program. With time, perhaps, the late senator will be recognized not for a historic election loss but for these momentous gains.
Now the Scouts
The following statement about perpetrators of the crimes of sexual abuse may sound familiar to Catholics: "That was a different time.... That was a time when people thought—the medical community thought—there was a potential for rehabilitation." This is not a bishop apologizing for a priest. It is Wayne Perry, the president of the Boy Scouts of America, apologizing after the release of a cache of documents detailing accusations of abuse of "many thousands of victims," according to The New York Times, allegedly committed by 1,247 scout leaders between 1965 and 1985. The parallels between the Catholic Church and the Boy Scouts are striking. Both of these institutions were seen as moral institutions charged with caring for children; both were organized in clear-cut hierarchies; and both instinctively tried to prevent the documents from being released. The B.S.A. called these records the "perversion files."
The terrible revelations about the scouts, however, do not let the Catholic Church off the hook. Nor do they let Penn State off the hook. Child abuse occurs in a variety of settings: families, schools, social service agencies—indeed any setting that includes children. Even organizations that do not deal directly with children are prone to cover-ups: the British Broadcasting Company is embroiled in a case of ignoring the abuse of hundreds of young girls by a popular television host. The scope of these crimes points to the need for greater vigilance, continued transparency and further education about sexual abuse. The Catholic Church has made great strides in the prevention of abuse, but much work remains. In the future, the "perversion files" of every organization should be empty.
The current comment, "War Against Want," has been revised to reflect the following correction:
An earlier version of this current comment misidentified the nature of the late Sen. George S. McGovern's military service during World War II. Mr. McGovern served as a B-24 bomber pilot, not a fighter pilot.
Hopefully all this outing will raise what appears to be a dulled moral sense of the nation.
Regarding "House Call," ('Current Comment', Nov. 12, 2012), once again the magazine seems to betray an ignorance of its namesake nation's founding principles.
While it isn't said outright, it appears that the editors would love to see the federal government step in and somehow mandate large-scale mortgage forgiveness (or make it effectivley the only option). They might do it in Iceland, a more socialistic nation, but, come ON.... You have to realize that banking is a business. It is subject to regulations as are all businesses to one or another extent. Beyond this, it is not the government's place to interefere at will with its most basic core activity (taking in deposits and lending them out). Nor can it make whimsical ad hoc adustments to contract law, which says one contracted for these particular terms, which if unmet carry certain understandable consequences.
One may always attempt to re-negotiate on his or her own, and certainly no bank should get a pass for genuine deception or misconduct. But as far as merely noting that the housing sphere is depressed, and, understandably, wanting to help, well, to paraphrase an old saw, Iceland is a different country. They do things differently there.
These are some abiding principles of our civil society. But If the government wants to incentivize banks to re-negotiate, the most acceptable way is by offering to leave them alone to varying degrees more than it does now as a "reward." This it should do. Here there is room for the creativity you seek, on the part of the government. But much more so, when the correct chains are loosened (not all of them), we will see great creativity by the banks in becoming accomodating and using benign refinance policies as competitive weapons. That's our way.
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Agree or disagree with him, George McGovern was a genuine man of peace, and one with real credentials to speak out. Hopefully he is or will soon be enjoying the treasure he has stored in Heaven.
That said, why is defense spending hated so much? There is no argument that the Pentagon is as susceptible to waste, fraud, and redundancy as any other agency, and this must be ever more diligently ferreted out and extirpated. But there appears to be an almost visceral dislike of the concept of defense spending past artificial markers that have no validity in reality (e.g. we spend more per GDP than this or that group of other nations, or we spend this percentage of GDP vs. the percentage we spend on other items). The only condition that matters in defense spending is what we need in the way of defensive items.
Think of it this way.... There is a poor woman living in a leaky, roach-infested, crime-ridden apartment building in the "projects," with fear of getting robbed or worse every time she goes out of the apartment itself (or even if she doesn't), and then one day she meets a genie who can magically cure just one of these conditions, but not all. Which would the majority choose? Probably to get rid of the crime and threat of violence. Then one can actually look at her home as a shelter, if a poor one, and can think straight, and begin to use her creative gifts to better the other conditions. When one is under threat, that takes all one's mental function.
So it is with nations. We are a big place, and face many threats. We need a large, robust, and flexible defense. How would it benefit our society to spend half the defense budget on other items, only to appear weak (and we would; do not kid yourselves), emboldening those who would threaten. Peace through strength is all about deterrence by not firing a shot!


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This week in Island history
The news of 10 and 15 years ago is from the Jamestown Press. The news of 100 years ago came from the collection of the Newport Historical Society.
100 years ago From the Newport Daily News, July 29, 1909
The training squadron, which has been anchored off the east shore of the island the past few days, got underway Wednesday and put to sea. … Their going will make things about the ferry seem quiet, as the coming and going of their small boats and the shore parties have made the shore front lively for the past few days. Both Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, hops were given in the Gardner House hall for the midshipmen, each proving to be very enjoyable.
From the Newport Daily News, July 31, 1909
The season in which shore birds can be shot opens tomorrow and the new law, which requires each gunner to be licensed and to carry such license, to show upon request, is operative. Although birds are reported plentiful, only six local sportsmen have as yet taken out the necessary license at the town clerk's office.
75 years ago From the Newport Daily News, August 2, 1934
St. Matthew's parish hall was an attractive spot Wednesday, when the annual flower show of the Jamestown Garden club was held. The day was perfect for the occasion, and there was a large attendance, including many out-of town guests. Looking into the hall, one was reminded of a forest, filled with greenery and flowers. Opposite the entrance, the wall was banked with beautiful evergreen trees and shrubs donated by Mr. and Mrs. B. Tweed, with wild flowers of all kinds intermingled, and the pretty colorings and lively containers, and the attractive arrangement.
From the Newport Daily News, August 3, 1934
Owing to a cut in the budget the Y. W. C. A. Seaside camp at Conanicut Park will close for the season Sunday.
50 years ago From the Newport Daily News, July 28, 1959
The Jamestown Town Council last night approved, with minor reservations, a state plan to reroute and control traffic at the ferry landing. The main change is to eliminate the traffic island at Ferry Wharf. A monument depicting Roger Williams meeting Conanicus … would be moved to the easterly end of Narragansett Avenue. The cleared area would make parking possible for 60 more cars while waiting for the ferry.
25 years ago From the Newport Daily News, July 28, 1984
The U.S. Coast Guard enlisted all boats in Newport Harbor to help pull competitors in the Save the Bay swim out of the chilling waters and rough seas less than an hour after the swim began this morning.
From the Newport Daily News, July 30, 1984
About a dozen swimmers completed Saturday morning's 8th annual Swim the Bay despite cancellation of the race by the Coast Guard about an hour after it began.
From the Newport Daily News, July 31, 1984
The Town Council Monday spurned a developer's proposal to build a 120-unit housing complex for the elderly because of lack of information. … In other business, the Council asked Town Administrator Robert W. Sutton Jr., to try and get residents to change their house numbers to conform to the recently-completed numbering project.
15 years ago From the Jamestown Press, July 28, 1994
The Town Council can restrict activities on the public floating dock at East Ferry that may interfere with boating activities or pose a threat to public safety, and it has asked the Harbor Management Commission to make recommendations on what these restrictions might be.
Computerized index of Press now available at the library. In a cooperative effort with the Jamestown Press, the library has installed a computerized index system intended to provide islanders with an efficient means of accessing local information.
10 years ago From the Jamestown Press, July 29, 1999
(photo caption) David Martin, chairman of the island's No Port Coalition, moderated Tuesday's rally at East Ferry.
Cable company offers digital service. Jamestown Bridge the first and only to support a fiber optics cable. (Article is about cable service availability from Cox Communications.)
After several years of talking about reviving the many well loved traditions of the Feast of the Holy Ghost, the Jamestown Holy Ghost Society has finalized its plans for the Sunday, Aug. 7 celebration.


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CHARLESTON, SC (AP) - South Carolina, Southern Cal and defending Atlantic Coast Conference champ Miami will play in the 2014 Charleston Classic.
Tournament organizers announced six of the eight participants in the field, played each season at TD Arena. The other teams are Akron, Cornell and Penn State. The final two teams will be announced later.
Miami, Penn State and South Carolina each returning to the tournament for a second time.
Miami won the 2009 event.
This year's tournament started Thursday and features No. 19 New Mexico, Clemson and Georgia.
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.


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During the summer months, I'll have the opportunity to introduce you to our talented culinary team. Our executive chefs work each day to provide delicious, healthy, fun meals to our guests. I look forward to introducing them to you so you can learn a little more about what makes them howl in the Great Wolf Lodge kitchen.
As the Executive Chef at the Great Wolf Lodge in Kansas City, Chef Stoutingberg opened the resort in Charlotte/Concord as the Executive Sous Chef before moving to the Sunflower State of Kansas.
Chef Stoutingberg has been working in resort kitchens since 1991. His passion for the culinary field comes through in every dish he creates for families at Great Wolf Lodge.
GWL – What is your all-time favorite food?
Chef Stoutingberg – My favorite item are the crab cakes on our menu in Camp Critter. They are served as an appetizer with our signature red pepper aioli and corn salsa (recipe below).
GWL – What makes a meal at Great Wolf different from other places?
Chef Stoutingberg – The family friendly atmosphere where the entire family can enjoy a meal while the kids can still interact with Magi Quest be entertained by Wiley and friends and even splash in the water while mom and dad enjoy their meal..
GWL – Please share any career achievements/highlights or awards that you have earned as a chef either prior to or during your time with Great Wolf.
Chef Stoutingberg – I've had the honor to prepared and served meals for many notable dignitaries and events in my years as a chef. Some of them include the Queen of England, Presidents Clinton and George Bush, opening event of USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier and the opening of Great Wolf Lodge in Concord.
Broiled Crab Cakes
with Red Pepper Aioli and Corn Salsa
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To make the crab cakes:
- Mix together the mayonnaise, mustard, cilantro, lemon juice, Old Bay, bread crumbs and egg.
- Gently fold in the crabmeat.
- Form four crab cakes, spray skillet with pan spray, lightly cook on each side for 2-3 minutes.
- Top with Red Pepper Aioli and serve with Corn Salsa (recipes below).
To make the aioli:
- Finely chop the garlic in the food processor. Add the peppers and blend until almost smooth.
- Blend in the mayonnaise, and lime juice with the machine running, blend in the oil.
- Season the aioli, to taste, with salt, cayenne and pepper.
To make the corn salsa:
- Grill jalapeno skin-side down, until charred but still firm, about 5 minutes. Cool slightly; finely chop.
- Roast corn in 350 degree oven for 8 minutes, after cooling cut kernels of husk.
- Mix with rest of ingredients jalapeno, cilantro and red onion in a bowl. Stir in the remaining 2 teaspoons olive oil, the lime juice, sugar and ½ teaspoon salt.


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Since 2007, Memorial Sloan Kettering's postdoctoral researchers have had the opportunity to showcase their research projects at the annual Postdoctoral Research Symposium. The symposium helps foster scientific and social interaction among postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, and faculty.
The daylong event allows postdoctoral researchers to share their work via talks and poster presentations, and to receive feedback from investigators in a variety of scientific fields. The symposium also features a keynote address from a nationally recognized scientist. Past speakers include Drs. Nick Hastie, Eric Kandel, Christine Guthrie, and Paul Nurse.
A competition is held to select the best posters based on visual and oral presentation, content, and scientific merit. The posters are judged by a committee of postdoctoral researchers and faculty members, and three postdocs each receive $500 cash.


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Secret evidence. Denial of habeas corpus. Evidence obtained by waterboarding. Indefinite detention. The litany of complaints about the treatment of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay is long, disturbing and by now familiar. Nonetheless, a new wave of shock and criticism greeted the Pentagon's announcement on February 11 that it was charging six Guantánamo detainees, including alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, with war crimes–and seeking the death penalty for all of them.
Now, as the murky, quasi-legal staging of the Bush Administration's military commissions unfolds, a key official has told The Nation that the trials have been rigged from the start. According to Col. Morris Davis, former chief prosecutor for Guantánamo's military commissions, the process has been manipulated by Administration appointees to foreclose the possibility of acquittal.
Colonel Davis's criticism of the commissions has been escalating since he resigned in October, telling the Washington Post that he had been pressured by politically appointed senior Defense officials to pursue cases deemed "sexy" and of "high interest" (such as the 9/11 cases now being pursued) in the run-up to the 2008 elections. Davis, once a staunch defender of the commissions process, elaborated on his reasons in a December 10, 2007, Los Angeles Times op-ed. "I concluded that full, fair and open trials were not possible under the current system," he wrote. "I felt that the system had become deeply politicized and that I could no longer do my job effectively."
Then, in an interview with The Nation in February after the six Guantánamo detainees were charged, Davis offered the most damning evidence of the military commissions' bias–a revelation that speaks to fundamental flaws in the Bush Administration's conduct of statecraft: its contempt for the rule of law and its pursuit of political objectives above all else.
When asked if he thought the men at Guantánamo could receive a fair trial, Davis provided the following account of an August 2005 meeting he had with Pentagon general counsel William Haynes–the man who now oversees the tribunal process for the Defense Department.
"[Haynes] said these trials will be the Nuremberg of our time," recalled Davis, referring to the Nazi tribunals in 1945, considered the model of procedural rights in the prosecution of war crimes. In response, Davis said he noted that at Nuremberg there had been some acquittals, which had lent great credibility to the proceedings.
"I said to him that if we come up short and there are some acquittals in our cases, it will at least validate the process," Davis continued. "At which point, [Haynes's] eyes got wide and he said, 'Wait a minute, we can't have acquittals. If we've been holding these guys for so long, how can we explain letting them get off? We can't have acquittals. We've got to have convictions.'"


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You can learn a lot about colonial history, get an ice cream cone and some easy exercise or some powerful espresso and also visit the nation's oldest store, all with one visit to Adamsville this weekend.
Adamsville had its heyday about the time the Revolutionary War militiamen unloaded their muskets.
The village docks welcomed coastal packet ships then. The saltworks employed dozens, and four stores traded with farmers from Tiverton, Little Compton and Westport.
It is not that busy these days.
But the village is still holding its own, mostly through love, Judy Wilkie said.
Wilkie stood outside Gray's Store, 4 Main St., putting out a doll's crib and some needlepoint pillows, all being sold in what is listed in historical records as the oldest continually operated store in the nation.
That record was in jeopardy when shopkeeper Grayton Waite died one year ago at the age of 59.
But Waite's son, Jonah Waite, worked with Wilkie and they reopened the store July 1.
"When Grayton died, Jonah had one more year of college and I needed a hip replacement, so we closed," Wilkie said. "But I really wanted to reopen this. I had been here for 16 years with Grayton, helping him. Jonah wanted to reopen, too.
"I was born and grew up in the village. This is very much home to me. When I walk into the store, I remember seeing things that were here when I was a teenager. So Jonah and I reopened. I feel we are honoring Grayton. He really loved this place."
The reverence for history and the past exists everywhere you look when you walk through Adamsville, and that reverence will be on display this weekend. There are temporary signs up before every house lot,explaining the history of the spot and how it was used during the past 250 years. The signs are up as part of the South Coast Artists Open Studio Tour taking place this weekend and on Aug. 17 and 18.
History is everywhere you look in Adamsville.
There is a monument to the Rhode Island Red, a chicken that originated nearby and is the state bird of Rhode Island. Most of the houses in the village are referred to by name — the Captain's House, the Spite House, Abraham Manchesters (which burned down in 2002) or The Barn.
Just across the state line, 30 yards down the street from Gray's Stores, is Gray's Grist Mill, a business that opened when George Washington was alive.
The grist mill remains open. The cornmeal it produces is for sale next door at Gray's Daily Grind, a coffee shop at 638 Adamsville Road, Westport.
Ralph Guild, a member of the national Radio Hall of Fame, opened the business one year ago with a partner, Mary Miska, who manages the store.
"I've been coming to Adamsville for more than 50 years," Guild said. "I would come down to the mill and have John Hart, who ran the mill, show me how he would grind the corn. He would tell me stories about Adamsville. I formed an attachment to the place."
Guild found Adamsville through Fall River.
"My wife, Calla, and I had just moved to New York," he said. "We joined the Newcomers Club and met someone who grew up in Fall River, Joan Sweetser. She invited us to come up to spend the weekend with her in Adamsville."
He bought a house in Adamsville the day after Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, Guild said. Over the years, all five of the Guild children apprenticed in the mill, so there was a lot of family support when Guild announced he intended to buy the property from John Hart, his old friend.
"I didn't want someone buying this and turning it into something modern," Guild said. "This is one of the most unspoiled villages in Rhode Island or Massachusetts.
"But I will admit, I have a romantic attachment to the place."
Wilkie knows the feeling.
"A lot of people come here who are interested in history," she said. "It is in all the historical registers and it has been in Yankee Magazine a number of times. For those of us from the village, it is quiet and peaceful most of the year and it is a little busier in the summer. We have a few new businesses now, and it helps all of us.
"But all of us, we are here because we love it."
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CenturyLink, a Monroe, La.-based multinational communications company, suffered a widespread outage that affected CenturyLink customers in at least 20 states on May 7. An issue with a core router was determined to be the source of the problem, although specific details were not revealed. The outage caused the company's switchboard to be flooded with calls, thereby making it more difficult for customers to get information.
Outages such as this one often generate phone calls to channel partners from customers who are looking for workarounds, as well as any specific information as to when service will be restored. "We did receive a few calls about this issue," Garth Brown, president of Seattle-based solution provider Semaphore Corporation, told CRN after the May 7 outage. "I'm glad that our people really did not get hit too badly, but apparently the situation was a lot worse in other places."


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|Yankees | Jose Campos re-signs
Tue, 16 Dec 2014 09:09:54 -0800
The New York Yankees re-signed P Jose Campos to a minor league deal Monday, Dec. 15.
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|Yankees | Jose Campos undergoes surgery
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New York Yankees P Jose Campos (elbow) underwent Tommy John surgery Friday, April 25, and will miss the rest of the season.
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|Yankees | Two players optioned
Fri, 14 Mar 2014 01:16:04 -0700
The New York Yankees optioned P Bryan Mitchell to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre and P Jose Campos to Class A Tampa.
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|Yankees | Jose Campos throws
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New York Yankees RP Jose Campos (elbow) threw live batting practice Monday, March 3. Manager Joe Girardi indicated that fellow rehabbing P Manny Banuelos (elbow) is "a little closer" than Campos.
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|Yankees | Jose Campos completes rehab
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New York Yankees P Jose Campos (elbow) has completed his rehab program and will be ready for spring training.
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|Yankees | Jose Campos could be ready by spring training
Sat, 03 Nov 2012 10:14:35 -0700
An unnamed New York Yankees official is hopeful that minor league P Jose Campos (elbow) will be healthy by spring training.
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|Yankees | Jose Campos not throwing yet
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New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said P Jose Campos (elbow) has not been throwing yet because of a sore elbow but expects Campos to pitch again this season.
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|Mariners | Jesus Montero yet to take physical
Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:57:26 -0800
Seattle Mariners C Jesus Montero, who was acquired from the New York Yankees last week in exchange for Ps Michael Pineda and Jose Campos, is having trouble leaving Venezuela in order to undergo a physical exam. The trade that also involved SP Hector Noesi is being held up because of this issue. Montero is waiting for a passport and Visa to be issued.
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|Yankees | Add Michael Pineda to mix
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The New York Yankees traded for SP Michael Pineda and P Jose Campos Friday, Jan. 13. They sent C Jesus Montero and P Hector Noesi to the Seattle Mariners for the two pitchers, according to a source.
Fantasy Tip: Pineda joins a rotation which includes CC Sabathia, the newly-signed Hiroki Kuroda, A.J. Burnett, Freddy Garcia, Ivan Nova and Phil Hughes. Pineda will likely slot second or third in the rotation, with Garcia, Hughes and Burnett fighting for the final spot in manager Joe Girardi's rotation. Pineda had a fine 3.74 ERA in 2011, but he didn't get many wins with the lowly Mariners. With plenty of run support, he has 15-17 win potential in the Bronx.
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|Mariners | Jesus Montero, Hector Noesi acquired
Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:27:29 -0800
The Seattle Mariners acquired C Jesus Montero, the top prospect in the New York Yankees system, along with P Hector Noesi Friday, Jan. 13, in exchange for SP Michael Pineda and P Jose Campos, according to a source.
Fantasy Tip: Montero let his bat do the talking in a stint in the majors last season, posting a .328 average with four homers and 28 RBIs in 17 games. There are questions about his ability to catch in the majors, but his offense is very much majors-ready. The 22-year-old will see plenty of playing time alongside Miguel Olivo and at designated hitter, much like the Yanks planned on using him.
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I'm trying to find information about the Caldeno Golf Links and The Edgewood in Delaware Water Gap.
I'm trying to find information about the Caldeno Golf Links and The Edgewood in Delaware Water Gap.
K.H., Stroudsburg
Although both The Edgewood and Caldeno are gone — the inn burned in the 1970s, and the golf course closed in the early 1900s — the two have a short shared history.
Caldeno, founded in 1897 by wealthy industrialist Charles C. Worthington, became a popular golfing haven, gaining national fame within a decade, according to a 1909 New York Times article.
During the 1901 season, golfers playing the nine-hole course would pay an "entrance fee" of $10, which was also the price of the "annual fee." Membership reached 35 players, according to "Harper's Official Golf Guide."
Worthington supervised the designing and construction of the sporty course, also known as Caldeno Golf Links. The course was conveniently located a quarter mile from the Delaware Lackawanna & Western Railroad station. Out-of-town golfers arriving by train often stayed at nearby Water Gap House.
Caldeno had a life of about 15 years. During World War I, U.S. Army troops trained and camped on its fairways. In November 1915, the Water Gap House burned to the ground. The first phase of golf in the borough came to a close.
The former fairways and greens of Caldeno are now covered with the homes built along Cherokee and Minsi roads and Dogwood Drive.
The Edgewood, built in 1912 by the Newhart family, was on Minsi Drive next to the Caldeno, according to the 2009 book "Journey Along the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad: A Pictorial History of Pocono Mountain Boarding Homes, Hotels, Inns & Resorts from the Delaware Water Gap to Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania" by Alan Sweeney.
The inn, later known as Ma's Hofbrau House, was destroyed by fire in July 1979.
A number of years ago, you published the meaning of the donkey and elephant symbolism use for our country's political parties. Could you republish the answer?
C.C., East Stroudsburg
With the coming of November election, it's an ideal time to revisit the animals' pedigree:
The use of animal symbols to represent the modern-day political parties is attributed to political cartoonist Thomas Nast, who created the images of the donkey and elephant for use in Harper's Weekly during the 1800s.
Andrew Jackson was the first Democrat to be associated with the donkey. During the 1828 presidential election, his opponents had tried to insult him by labeling him a jackass; henceforth, a donkey.
The elephant symbol came to life when Nast drew a donkey clothed in a lion's skin that was depicted scaring the animals at a zoo. One of those animals, an elephant, was labeled "The Republican Vote."
I'm a fan of Roseanne Barr and would like to write to her by snail mail. I have no computer. Could you publish her address? Thank you.
G.S., Pike County
Send your fan mail to actress and comedian Roseanne Barr c/o Full Moon & High Tide Productions Inc., 424 Main St., El Segundo, CA 90245-3002.
For previous questions and answers, see poconorecord.com/consumer. Published questions are limited by space available.
Send questions to Write to Know, Pocono Record, 511 Lenox St., Stroudsburg, PA 18360.
Fax 570-421-6284.
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