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Should you or shouldn't you expect NFC in the iPhone 5?
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1. SuperAndroidEvo (Posts: 4888; Member since: 15 Apr 2011)
If the iPhone 5 looks anything like that Chinese copy then really who cares. I am really worried that Apple might actually just make a taller/longer iPhone 4.
3. wendygarett (unregistered)
I don't mind that :)
How do you expect the 4inch screen phone to be ?
5. SuperAndroidEvo (Posts: 4888; Member since: 15 Apr 2011)
Different looking. Just like all other 4" plus phones out there. Nokia phones always look different, Samsung phones look different, HTC phones look different, & Sony phones all look different. I can really keep going.....
Why is it that Apple is fine with the same design just a little taller?
Remember what happened to RIM for having the same OS & the same designs?
Apple: same OS (iOS6) Same design (iPhone 4, 4S & maybe 5). Looks like history is repeating it self.
Please let's hope the iPhone 5 looks different than a 3 year old iPhone 4. Please!
27. E.N. (Posts: 2610; Member since: 25 Jan 2009)
The iPhone's design may be different from the leaks, but I don't see it being too different from their rectangular, external antenna design. Most people are happy with it.
22. ZayZay (Posts: 571; Member since: 26 Feb 2011)
As much as I dislike Apple (Thumbs please), I don't care what it looks like as long as I have enough in stock on launch day to make a lot of money that month in sales. New accessories are a fortune to me when I sell 3 per phone and sell 100 phones when it launches. It is the only time I am thanking apple for coming out with a new phone.
26. Obdabeast (Posts: 41; Member since: 01 Jan 2012)
no business can complain about apples constant sales.. definitely brings in the money on all the accessories being sold for them. I have customers even now buying Iphone 4s's even though they know the 5 is coming out soon. ( mind you I'm an android guy )
2. bobfreking55 (Posts: 866; Member since: 15 Jul 2011)
chances are they'd save it for the 5S or something, because they'd keep the same design and etc... they'd have to have something ''game-changing'' again --- something like the Bluetooth 4 on the 4S.
then again, maybe they will, but ususlly Apple keeps it's upgrades as minimal as possible.
4" screen may be good for the next iPhone, iOS 6 is a failure, camera will be good, and probably a better siri and 4g... what else?! is that worth 850 dollars?
12. sgogeta4 (Posts: 394; Member since: 02 Feb 2011)
Except Bluetooth 4.0 isn't game-changing, it's just catching up.
4. andyandy1 (Posts: 1; Member since: 29 Aug 2012)
eh who needs an iPhone, check out the 4 new colors Samsung is adding to Their Galaxy S III : mobileadvancesDOTcom
6. Mittal (Posts: 494; Member since: 14 Dec 2011)
this post seems inpired from a similar one at AnandTech
17. MichaelHeller (Posts: 2731; Member since: 26 May 2011)
Perhaps similar, but definitely not inspired. I'm not even sure when I last visited AnandTech. Maybe a case of great minds thinking alike?
24. Mittal (Posts: 494; Member since: 14 Dec 2011)
oki similar :)
20. MichaelHeller (Posts: 2731; Member since: 26 May 2011)
Can you post the link? I can't even find the article you're talking about, just the one that Vic sourced yesterday for his piece, which is all about hardware of the iPhone.
25. Mittal (Posts: 494; Member since: 14 Dec 2011)
ya here u go
7. Joshing4fun (Posts: 1242; Member since: 13 Aug 2010)
I expect it now and trust me, it'll be "revolutionary".
9. The_Innovation (Posts: 642; Member since: 18 Jul 2012)
Sarcasm, right? I hope...
11. PapaSmurf (Posts: 10457; Member since: 14 May 2012)
You must be new here.
Of course he's being sarcastic. Apple releases a feature that's been around, slaps their name on it and call it "revolutionary" on "The world's most advanced operating system."
14. The_Innovation (Posts: 642; Member since: 18 Jul 2012)
Yea I figured, but thanks for the confirmation lol.
8. The_Innovation (Posts: 642; Member since: 18 Jul 2012)
Honestly, who cares?
10. PapaSmurf (Posts: 10457; Member since: 14 May 2012)
Without a doubt Michael is one of the best writers in this site.
I wouldn't expect Apple to release NFC until next year like you said. When more people start to use it, then they would use the feature due to popular demand.
13. jenna_23 (Posts: 145; Member since: 02 Apr 2010)
Well I have nfc on my xperia ion right now not once have I used it o_O
15. CharlieAtInfinity (Posts: 253; Member since: 10 Apr 2012)
Whats the use of NFC on iphone when it cannot even send files from bluetooth and has no usb mass storage
18. MichaelHeller (Posts: 2731; Member since: 26 May 2011)
Is that a real question?
16. ph00ny (Posts: 1840; Member since: 26 May 2011)
Is anyone expecting apple to follow the real standard?
They went ahead with imessage, airplay, etc
19. MichaelHeller (Posts: 2731; Member since: 26 May 2011)
Apple always follows standards when it means devices interacting with outside products (like NFC payment systems). The means of transferring files between iPhones via NFC will likely use some sort of proprietary system though.
23. Fallout09 (Posts: 421; Member since: 17 Oct 2011)
Add.... 8 pin connector.


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Spain: ETA verification panel probed in court
MADRID (AP) — Three members of an international committee that oversaw a partial disarmament by Basque separatist group ETA have appeared in court to answer questions before an investigating judge.
Judge Ismael Moreno summoned them to Spain's National Court after committee spokesman Ram Manikkalingam said Friday that ETA had placed a small quantity of weapons out of use in what is viewed as a first step toward an unconditional total disarmament.
After appearing before Moreno some two hours on Sunday, Manikkalingam said they had answered question in a bid to be "transparent" and because they believed there was "a real chance for peace."
ETA is blamed for killing some 830 people between the late 1960s and its cease-fire in 2011 in a campaign for a Basque homeland in northern Spain and southwestern France.

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Skip to comments.Murtha's War Hero Status Called Into Question
Posted on 01/13/2006 11:53:53 AM PST by paltz
(CNSNews.com) - Having ascended to the national stage as one of the most vocal critics of President Bush's handling of the war in Iraq, Pennsylvania Democratic Congressman John Murtha has long downplayed the controversy and the bitterness surrounding the two Purple Hearts he was awarded for military service in Vietnam.
Murtha is a retired marine and was the first Vietnam combat veteran elected to Congress. Since 1967, there have been at least three different accounts of the injuries that purportedly earned Murtha his Purple Hearts. Those accounts also appear to conflict with the limited military records that are available, and Murtha has thus far refused to release his own military records.
A Cybercast News Service investigation also reveals that one of Murtha's former Democratic congressional colleagues and a fellow decorated Vietnam veteran, Don Bailey of Pennsylvania, alleges that Murtha admitted during an emotional conversation on the floor of the U.S. House in the early 1980s that he did not deserve his Purple Hearts.
"[Murtha] is putting himself forward as some combat veteran with serious wounds and he's using that and it's dishonest and it's wrong," Bailey told Cybercast News Service on Jan. 9. Murtha served in the Marines on active duty and in the reserves from 1952 until his retirement as a colonel in 1990. He volunteered for service in Vietnam and was a First Marine Regiment intelligence officer in 1966 and 1967.
Murtha and Bailey, once allies, were forced to run against each other in a Democratic congressional primary in 1982 following redistricting. Murtha won the election.
Murtha has, in the past, publicly dismissed any questions about whether he deserved his two Purple Hearts, noting during his 1994 congressional campaign that "I am proud of my service in Vietnam."
In his Friday, Jan. 13, response to the Cybercast News Service investigation, Murtha again defended his military record.
"Questions about my record are clearly an attempt to distract attention from the real issue, which is that our brave men and women in uniform are dying and being injured every day in the middle of a civil war that can be resolved only by the Iraqis themselves," Murtha wrote in an email response.
"I volunteered for a year's duty in Vietnam. I was out in the field almost every single day. We took heavy casualties in my regiment the year that I was there. In my fitness reports, I was rated No. 1. My record is clear," Murtha added.
However, another source, World War II Navy veteran Harry M. Fox, previously indicated that Murtha in 1968 personally asked Fox's boss, then-U.S. Rep. John Saylor (R-Pa.), for assistance in obtaining the Purple Hearts, but was turned down because Saylor's office determined that Murtha lacked sufficient evidence of wounds. Murtha later challenged Saylor for his House seat in 1968 and lost. Fox said he personally viewed Murtha's military records in 1968 as Saylor's aide.
When Saylor died in 1973, Fox attempted to succeed his boss in Congress, but was narrowly defeated by Murtha in a 1974 special election.
"Pretending to be a big war hero and boasting about having medals is a slap in the face to our veterans who were seriously wounded or killed in action," Fox was quoted as telling the Uniontown Herald-Standard in the newspaper's Nov. 1, 1996 edition. "He campaigned as a war hero and I've never seen any documentation that he earned any of these honors," Fox reportedly stated.
On Friday, Jan. 13, Murtha's congressional communications director provided Cybercast News Service with a copy of a letter from the commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, citing Murtha's request of Sept. 26, 1967, seeking Purple Hearts. Cybercast News Service did not authenticate the letter.
"The records of this Headquarters show that you are entitled to the Purple Heart and a Gold Star in lieu of a second Purple Heart for wounds received in action against insurgent Communist Guerrilla forces on 22 March and 7 May 1967 in the Republic of Vietnam," according to the letter signed by an individual identified only as A. Gardoni. Gardoni's title is not listed on the letter.
Cybercast News Service attempted to contact Fox for this article, but learned that the health of the 81-year-old was too poor to allow him to communicate. But in a 1996 newspaper article, Fox questioned whether Murtha deserved his Purple Hearts, alleging that there was insufficient evidence of injuries and that Murtha was never confined to a hospital.
"Of course Congressman Saylor wanted to help if he could, but there was nothing in the service record to indicate the wounds were of any severity and the documents specifically indicated that next of kin was not notified in either instance," Fox told the Herald-Standard in 1996. "We were amazed that Mr. Murtha was asking for Purple Hearts for superficial lacerations," he added.
Murtha's accounts of his Vietnam War wounds may also conflict with the available U.S. Marine medical records obtained by the media.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on May 12, 2002, reported that "Marine Corps casualty records show that Murtha was injured in 'hostile' actions near Danang, Vietnam, on March 22, 1967, and May 7, 1967.
"In the first incident, his right cheek was lacerated, and in the second, he was lacerated above his left eye. Neither injury required evacuation," the Post-Gazette reported.
But an Oct. 26, 1994, article in the Herald-Standard quoted Murtha as describing two different injuries.
"I was wounded in the arm with shrapnel from a bullet that hit the motor mount of a helicopter. In the other, my knee was banged up and my arm was banged up when a helicopter was shot down from a very few feet," Murtha told the Herald-Standard.
A June 1, 1967 report in the Johnstown Tribune-Democrat quoted a letter that the newspaper indicated was sent by Murtha to his wife that same year. The letter apparently detailed yet another version of how Murtha qualified for one of his Purple Hearts. According to the Johnstown Tribune-Democrat, Murtha's injuries involved his being "struck in the ankle" by a "shot that ricocheted off the helicopter."
Murtha, a 16-term congressman from southwestern Pennsylvania and the senior Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, drew national attention on Nov. 17, 2005, when he called for an immediate withdrawal of American forces from Iraq.
The Vietnam veteran even took a swipe at President Bush and Vice President Cheney, neither of whom have actual combat experience.
"I like guys who've never been there, who criticize us who've been there," Murtha said. "I like that. I like guys who got five deferments and never been there and sent people to war and then don't like to hear suggestions that what may need to be done."
Murtha discussed his own combat experience as a marine intelligence officer in his 2004 autobiography, "From Vietnam to 9/11: On the Front Lines of National Security."
"I had been awake more than twenty-four hours by the time we landed. A few hours into the battle, an on-again-off-again event, I could no longer keep my eyes open. I curled up next to a bunker and fell into a deep sleep for about an hour. Even the noise of frequent gunfire didn't wake me up. (One of my fellow officers told me the next morning that when he hadn't seen me for an hour or so, he assumed I was dead,)" Murtha wrote of one of his Vietnam combat experiences on page 14 of the 2004 paperback edition of his book. Murtha's two Purple Hearts are referenced on the back of the book.
In addition to his Purple Hearts, Murtha received the Vietnamese Cross for Gallantry and the Bronze Star with combat "V" for service in the 1st Marine Division in Vietnam. Murtha also served in the Marines during the Korean War but did not serve in Korea, according to his book.
'He's a phony and a liar'
Bailey said during the time Murtha was being investigated for his role in the Abscam FBI sting in 1980, Murtha made a confession on the House floor.
... you admitted, back in our corner, that you didn't earn your purple hearts (sic) (you indicated you had small scratch on your cheek that wasn't even directly related to an APC [Armored Personnel Carrier] that ran over a small antipersonnel mine that was behind you). The other purple heart [sic] you even declined to explain," wrote Bailey in an open letter dated May 5, 2002.
Bailey is also a decorated Vietnam combat veteran. He served in the U.S. Army's 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions and was awarded a Silver Star and three Bronze Stars.
"At the time (of Murtha's alleged admission), you were feeling particularly vulnerable because it wasn't too long after you had called me crying and sobbing, thanking me for 'saving your life' before the ethics committee (on Abscam-related charges). There was no doubt in my mind that you were expressing to me that you did not believe you did anything sufficient to earn the purple heart [sic] and that you didn't want to be active in my efforts to laud Vietnam veterans that served with us," Bailey wrote in his May 2002 letter.
"You may deny that all you wish -- but you and I know that that conversation took place," he added.
In the Jan. 9 interview with Cybercast News Service Bailey affirmed the contents of his 2002 letter.
"The issue here is this idea or pretense that [Murtha] knows combat and he's got two Purple Hearts. He's a phony and a liar," Bailey said.
Bailey also questioned why Murtha has thus far declined to release his full military records in order to clear up the controversy.
"The Marine Corps ought to be able to produce all the orders, the medical stuff, the citations and the orders granting [the Purple Hearts] and everything else. Where is that stuff?" he asked.
According to a May 16, 2002, edition of the Washington, Pa., Observer-Reporter, Murtha "produced military paperwork indicating he was entitled to the awards," and a Murtha spokesperson was quoted as saying that "the media for years has investigated 'and found nothing.'"
But Murtha's paperwork did nothing to sway Bailey's opinion.
"You may fool a few reporters into believing that merely because you got some perfunctory paperwork made out by a friend, that that means you earned the purple hearts [sic]. But even if you were awarded the medals later, there should be affidavits from witnesses. These things should be easy to get," Bailey wrote in his letter while demanding an apology from Murtha for questioning his credibility.
Murtha could end the controversy at any time, Bailey added, simply by calling a press conference and producing the evidence of his wounds.
"Explain where you were and what you were doing when you got the purple hearts.[sic] Explain who was with you and treated your wounds, but most important, Jack, describe your wounds or the lack thereof, as you did for me, years ago," Bailey wrote.
"Unless the Marine Corps gives out medals for unsubstantiated noncombat-related telltale scratches, procured for use in political campaign -- then show me the money, Jack," Bailey added.
Murtha: 'I'm proud of my service in Vietnam'
During the 1994 congressional campaign against GOP opponent Dr. William Choby, Murtha's two Purple Hearts became a political issue.
"Explain your Purple Hearts. He (Murtha) used them to get elected," Choby charged in 1994.
In responding to the charges, Murtha claimed that he "didn't ask for the Purple Hearts.
"I'm proud of my service in Vietnam. I don't know if he (Choby) served in the service at all. I left my family and my business to serve in Vietnam. My family made great sacrifice for me to make that service in Vietnam, so I'm very proud of that," he told the Uniontown Herald-Standard in the newspaper's Oct. 26, 1994 edition.
"I am disappointed that a guy (Choby) would say something like that when I volunteered in the reserves and I felt it was important that I go. What's the point in all this? It's irritating," Murtha added.
Choby also challenged the validity of Murtha's Bronze Star with Combat 'V' during the 1996 congressional campaign.
"I find it very curious that Combat 'V' doesn't even exist in any of the materials he had distributed," Choby was quoted as saying in the Herald-Standard of Oct. 13, 1996. "His military record improves over the years," he added.
The Murtha controversy is reminiscent of the flap surrounding the war record of 2004 Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry. But while critics like the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth attacked Kerry in 2004 because of his anti-war activism of the 1970s, Murtha's three chief accusers all made their allegations years and in some cases decades before Murtha emerged last November as a prominent anti-war activist.
Choby told Cybercast News Service on Jan. 5 that Murtha's entire political career is based on his war record. "Without that credibility of those combat medals, he would have never been elected to office," Choby said.
(Monisha Bansal also contributed to this article.)
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Vietnam was a war in which the draft/lottery motivated involvement, not particularly patriotism.
I would have avoided Army service except for a low Lottery number towards the end of the Vietnam war. So, I entered the Reserves and managed to stay Stateside as things had winded down by then...otherwise I'd have likely served in Vietnam.
But that would not have made me a patriot even if I had gotten a purple heart for whatever.
Murtha, like Kerry, like any "veteran" needs to be judge on the here & now, not judged by whatever claims they make about a war that ended 30+ years ago.
Do you find it odd that a Colonel retiring after 37 years would a receive an EOT not from the Corps but a much lesser award from the Governor of his state?
Anyone who ever sat in a VFW Post or American Legion bar knows the whoppers being told about military service. It ain't bragging if you can prove you did it, so, prove it Jack Murtha.
Nope, never done in the Army for sure.
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"Service record fraud points to a lack of character, honesty and morals, very important attributes in my books. It also dishonors those who earned those decorations the real way and cheapens those very honors, inexcusable!"
"There sure are a number of wusses on this thread that are scaredy-cats. Where does one stop when it comes to fraud, dishonesty for personal gain? No wonder we're in the shape that we are. "
Well said and worth repeating.
I think this approach will backfire. Best to deal with Murtha in the present, not the past.
Correct. Engage him on his ideas.
Quite. In my area, bums at stoplights with "Vietnam Vet, please help" are to be seen. Doesn't mean they automatically should hold high political office.
Sister's boyfriend was in Vietnam, got a purple heart and a VA disability....but still is a full blown Commie.
I'm not going to get in between two Democrats accusing each other of lying.
The man is using his "record" in the here and now, that is what makes it subject to checking and verification, in the here and now.
We all know there are plenty of fake veterans out there, and quite a few real veterans who have "puffed up" their accomplishments. JF'nK for example, along with many of the other peacenik veterans. IIRC Cindy Sheehan had one of those hanging around her. A cashiered Marine, who later became a homosexual porn star, IIRC.
That's what people said about John Kerry in the 2004 election. The reason I disagree about it backfiring, though it may (and with no disrespect to you, dirtboy) is because Murtha expects us to respect his "present" based on his "past" (as did Kerry). Therefore, it is all fair game.
Besides, if he is one of the people questioning others' ethics, then his should be open for scrutiny as well. I'll be interested to see where this goes (or doesn't).
Excellent point.
think this approach will backfire. Best to deal with Murtha in the present, not the past.
Correct. Engage him on his ideas.
The only problem is we have 160,000 troops over in Iraq that Murfa has made every hour more dangerous for them. Then there is the message of weakness and division that Iran and our other enemies hear. Murfa's military service allows him to stake out the high moral ground and shriek his unamerican BS! If he misrepresented his service record he needs to be knocked off the hill.
"Fact is that politicians with war records tend to "improve" them as time goes on and memories fade. Many civil war veterans who mustered out as sergeants were promoted to Captain or major as time went by."
I don't believe that was the case with Bob Dole or the President's father.
I find it odd that a Colonel retiring after 37 years wasn't bumped up a grade.
One of my old CO's retired a general after a bird strike in a huey ended his career as a pilot. That sort of courtesy bump in grade is not uncommon, especially if you are a "political" as Muthra is or was.
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snow, on october first...am i allowed to dislike that?
ulf wrote:what else could i have meant?
Bowser wrote:What happened to fall?!?
OMG, it is Global Warming!
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OMG, it is Global Warming!
Well, we had the warmest September in ages over here. Doesn't mean a thing, just saying.
Bowser wrote:This is just another cycle in our conditions on earth.
Adjustments are needed but I'm not buying these worst case scenarios during my lifetime (next 40 years).
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BOSTON (AP) — Boston's Berklee College of Music has presented an honorary doctor of music degree to singer, songwriter and activist Harry Belafonte.
The entertainer was honored Thursday night during a concert in his honor. He playfully stuck out his tongue upon receiving the degree.
Berklee students and faculty performed the celebration of Belafonte's life and music, from "Banana Boat Song" to "We are the World."
Belafonte was a confidante of Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement. In the 1980s he helped start the USA for Africa project to fight hunger, and also pushed for an end to apartheid in South Africa.
Other recipients of Berklee's honorary doctorate have included Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Steven Tyler, Willie Nelson, Aretha Franklin and Quincy Jones.


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Joann Cataldo sat waiting for her turn to read, clutching a bag of candy she thoughtfully brought for the students.
Joann Cataldo sat waiting for her turn to read, clutching a bag of candy she thoughtfully brought for the students.
When a reporter showed up to write a story about that year's annual Rotary Read In, Cataldo was certain she and her candy would make the paper.
Instead, a fellow reader walked in with a live chicken in a cage to complement her story and, well, Cataldo's candy couldn't top that.
Cataldo has read to elementary students in 20 of the previous 21 Read Ins, and if she never thought - or figured out how - to bring a live chicken, she's done much more for the cause.
The communications studies/English teacher at Delta College offers her students extra credit to participate in the community event. She's never failed to send a strong contingent out to any number of schools. The 50 to 60 students who signed up this year will read at five different schools during Thursday's 22nd annual Rotary Read In.
They'll join more than 700 community members who have volunteered to spend about 30 minutes at a school, read a book and then donate it to the classroom.
"I want them to see what it's like to be a little kid in elementary school again and experience the joy kids get from reading," Cataldo said. "It seems to me as if most of the students have never read a novel in their entire lives, or if they did, it was because it was assigned in school."
Getting them to read, for themselves or to others, wasn't always so difficult.
"The generation in the beginning (of the Read In), maybe a third would go back and become tutors at the school where they read. Not anymore," Cataldo said. "Things have changed. Priorities have changed. Now they'd rather be on Facebook."
Or, like a lot of adults in the community who haven't tried participating, "it's out of their comfort zone," said Gary Frush, one of this year's Read In coordinators.
"Certainly there are those people who are employed in positions where they can't leave their jobs at 10 a.m. on a Thursday morning, and there are people who don't like kids or being around them," Frush said. "There are some of those oddities, but I think it's because ... it's a little scary."
Once people try it, stop worrying about what to wear or what to say and just show up with an age-appropriate book and start talking to the class of children as they'd talk to anyone, "They say, 'Wow, this is so much fun I want to do this next year,' " Frush said.
Susan Drake is among them.
She read for the first time in 1995 after joining Rotary and has gone back every year since.
"It's tough to explain," Drake said. "The kids are so excited to see you and have you read a book and talk to them. It's funny, you're there 15, 20, 30 minutes, but you feel very connected to them. They really appreciate the fact you read to them. They enjoy the story and listen closely."
The interaction illustrates one of the Read In's objectives.
It allows students to meet community members, see that grown-ups get excited about reading, and gives those grown-ups a chance to return to elementary school, see the children of the community in their school setting.
A therapy dog is visiting Peyton Elementary School and someone will read in sign language in a class at Montezuma School. Spanish books will be read in English immersion classes, and some readers will visit special needs classrooms.
Organized by Frush and other members of Stockton Rotary as well as members of the other Stockton Rotary clubs - Delta Rotary, Sunrise Rotary, North Stockton Rotary and Pacific Rotary - this year's event will send readers to 55 different schools, including all elementary schools in the Stockton and Lincoln Unified School Districts. North Stockton schools that are part of Lodi Unified were dropped for charter schools in Stockton.
Large groups and companies providing a block of readers make the saturation possible, Frush said.
Rotary is in its second year of organizing the Read In after Sue de Polo and San Joaquin A+ organized it the first 20. The clubs have returned the event to February, having held it in March last year.
"We're going to have it the last Thursday before Dr. Seuss's birthday (March 2)," Frush said.
Celebration of Theodor Seuss Geisel's birthday at Cesar Chavez Central Library comes a day after the Read In; stories and activities are planned for elementary school students at 3:30 p.m.


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STONEHAM — The officers wore different patches, arriving from across the region, but as they prepared to enter St. Patrick's Church, they stood together under a light drizzle Tuesday morning.
Sean Collier, who was allegedly slain by the Boston Marathon terror bombing suspects last week, bought a new truck two months ago, a shiny black Ford F-150. It was parked in front of the church, close to the formation of police. The truck bed was filled with large flower arrangements, and bunting hung from the front bumper. A small sticker of the MIT Police insignia was affixed to the front left side of the truck, just before the driver's door.
On the back left window was another sticker, this one with a message: "Rest in Peace Officer Sean A. Collier."
Collier's funeral was private, attended by law enforcement, elected officials including Governor Deval Patrick, and Collier's family and friends, with three busloads from MIT. News crews pitched camp at a nearby intersection closed to traffic and on a lawn near the front of the church. As the slain officer's family emerged from a black limousine, there was silence except for the clicking of cameras.
The service lasted about 45 minutes, and officers from the Somerville Police Department, where Collier was to begin a new job this summer, led the way out, along with officers from MIT, where Collier had worked for about a year.
"They assassinated him; he had no chance, and it's hard to even comprehend," said Mary Susan Blout of Stoneham, standing in front of the church. "And I'm tired of having to explain it to my kids."
Collier, 27, was attacked Thursday night near Kendall Square in Cambridge in what Boston Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis has called a "vicious assassination,'' an attack that helped spur a massive law enforcement response that ended with suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev fatally wounded during a gun battle in Watertown and his brother, Dzhokhar, captured after a 20-hour manhunt.
Since his death, Collier's family and friends have described a man who seemed destined to be a police officer, someone who had helped others since his childhood years in Wilmington, where he grew up with five siblings.
His siblings told the Globe's Kevin Cullen what they called "Sean stories," kind acts undertaken by him during their shared childhoods that continued once they became parents.
"When people say he was born to be a cop, they should know that didn't start when he was 18," his brother, Rob Rogers, told Cullen. "It started at 3, when he began looking out for everybody."
On Wednesday at noon, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will host a memorial service that is expected to be attended by Vice President Joe Biden, top MIT officials, police officers from across the country, and other members of the MIT community.
The service, which will be held on Briggs Field, is expected to draw up to 10,000 attendees. Only law enforcement and members of the MIT community with school identification may attend; the event is not open to the general public.
"The outpouring of support from the MIT community has been overwhelming," John DiFava, MIT police chief, said in a message posted Tuesday on the school's website.
"The MIT police are being embraced by warm wishes wherever we go, and we truly appreciate it," he said. "It's hard for me to express how meaningful this is to us."
Three people were killed in the Marathon bombings and 264 injured, officials said.
A private funeral Mass was held Tuesday for 8-year-old Martin William Richard of Dorchester, the youngest of the three killed in the bomb blasts.
On Monday, a Mass was said for Krystal Campbell, the 29-year-old restaurant manager killed in the bombings.
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The price for a gallon of gasoline is up 45 cents in the past four weeks. Gas has now risen 33 days in a row, says AAA.
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Rising prices come even as the U.S now produces more than half of the oil it consumes, with last year the largest one-year production jump ever. So why the gas price spike?
It's not just speculators, nor the summer blend switch, nor even refinery logjams.
A big reason: taxes.
Closely-watched crude inventories in the Gulf Coast declined by 12.5 million barrels in December, 50% above the 31-year average, says the U.S. Energy Information Administration, a unit of the U.S. Department of Energy. That drop helped drive gas prices higher, some oil traders say.
But the EIA points out this curious state tax maneuver: "U.S. crude oil inventories typically decline during December as oil companies try to reduce the tax they must pay on the value of their oil holdings," says an EIA spokesman.
Specifically, December 31 is the day states like Louisiana and Texas, where huge volumes of crude oil are stored, slap state taxes on crude oil stocks. The lower the inventory, the lower the tax bill for oil companies.
"These taxes," the EIA says, "create an incentive to draw down crude stocks in the region at the end of the year in order to reduce the tax bill. If oil prices have risen during the year, this accounting practice gives companies stronger incentive to reduce inventory because doing so will further limit their tax exposure," the EIA says.
The EIA's preliminary data for December 2012 show a drop of more than 12.5 million barrels in the Gulf Coast region, "to approximately 165 million barrels," the EIA says. "The reason for this sharp decline: December 31 is the typical assessment date for taxes on crude oil stocks that are collected by many states/counties/municipalities."
So, "to decrease crude inventories," the EIA adds, "companies can do a combination of the following: delay or decrease imports, increase runs at refineries, move crude oil out of the taxable region, or sell crude oil to other market participants."
The EIA adds: "Although large crude oil draws can be an indication of demand outpacing supply, the December phenomenon typically does not reflect tightening of the oil market, but rather how companies in the region are taxed on crude stocks." It says it believes the markets take this tax move into account.
Since January 1981, when the EIA began publishing regional crude stocks data, "Gulf Coast crude inventories dropped by more than 10 million barrels within a single month 24 times," the EIA says. "Ten of these instances were in December; no other month accounts for more than three occurrences."
But those tax moves can only work for so long. States are pushing to raise gas taxes more than ever, to fill balance sheet holes blown open by things like government benefits.
Differences in state taxes help cause huge swings in gas prices, ranging from a low of $3.19 a gallon in Wyoming and Montana, to $4.17 in California and $4.28 in Hawaii, says AAA. New York taxes are about 49 cents, the highest in the nation, but the price per gallon is on average $3.99, AAA says.
Transportation funding is a big issue for many statehouses this year. Fourteen states have not hiked their gas taxes in 20 years, while eight states and the District of Columbia have done so since 2008, says the National Conference of State Legislatures.
State officials across the country, from New Hampshire to Wyoming to Washington, now clamor to raise gas taxes. Virginia Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell's is going in the opposite direction -- he wants to repeal the gas tax and instead raise sales taxes. Maryland Democrat Governor Martin O'Malley seeks the same plan, too.
But a big business lobby group supports raising federal gas taxes to pay for the nation's highways and bridges, as well as similar infrastructure.
The gas tax and other similar revenues pay for the federal Highway Trust Fund, which now sits around an historic low of about $36 billion, with fears this fund could go bust and need a federal bailout.
"The Chamber (of Commerce) supports reasonable increases in gas taxes that are phased in and indexed to inflation," Thomas Donohue, Chamber president, recently told the House of Representatives Committee on Transportation. "From a business standpoint, if you need something that's going to provide a good return, you have to go out and invest in it and buy it," meaning, highways and bridges, Donohue said.


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Vampyres (US - BD)
Gabe picks up a few sexy hitchhikers, and goes back to their place for drinks...
Bisexual seductresses Fran (Marianne Morris) and Miriam (Anulka) have developed a perfect plan of vampiric attack. At night they pose as innocent hitchhikers, and bring unsuspecting male victims back to their castle lair, where they drain them of blood. The next morning they stage a car accident to do away with evidence.
José Ramón Larraz's Vampyres is my personal favourite entre in the peculiarly abundant lesbian vampire sub-genre, with the possible exception of Harry Kümel lavishly realized Daughters of Darkness (1971). Vampyres is built on the shoulders of earlier films, and surely owes something to Kümel's film, but it owes a lot more to the sub-genre most popular film, Hammer Studio's genuinely sexy Vampire Lovers (1970). Vampire Loves was the first of many loose adaptations of the grandmommy of all Sapphic vampire stories – 'Camilla'. Written by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, the story actually predated Bram Stoker's 'Dracula', and was likely partially based on the real life exploits of Erzsébet Báthory. Vampire Lovers wasn't the first film to deal with lesbianism among vampires, but it was the first to do so implicitly and explicitly in a mainstream release. The film was certainly more sexually charged than Hammer's earlier releases, but the signature gothic style, stage-inspired acting tones, and plunging necklines were still firmly in place. Vampyres is quite gothic, and incorporates gloriously hammy overacting, with evocative images of the misty English countryside. While confined to the castle sets Larraz's work conjures memories of vintage Hammer, but upon the misty countryside his imagery recalls Jorge Grau's Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (1974). Not so ironically, both Larraz and Grau are Spanish, and both films were released the same year.
Euro-sleaze merchant Jess Franco jumped quickly on the bloodsucking, lady lovin' ladies bandwagon, and squeezed out two sub-genre films the year after Vampire Lovers hit titillatingly titled Vampyros Lesbos and She Killed in Ecstasy. Vampyros Lesbos is a sort of psychedelic mini-masterpiece, and one of the consistently terrible director's best films, comparatively speaking. It's a hallucinatory, bizarro scrap of filmmaking that could only come out of Franco's post-'60s softcore period. She Killed in Ecstasy is a more obvious front-runner to Vampyres, featuring a more coherent plot, a darker tone, and less listless, dream-induced imagery. In both films a sense of impeding doom is placed on the heads of the leading ladies, though Franco focuses more directly on the tragedy, while Larraz's vamps are proper villains. Larraz's film outshines pretty much every Jess Franco film in terms of ensemble cast, but Franco holds the distinct advantage of having cast Soledad Miranda in both Vampyros Lesbos and She Killed in Ecstasy. Marianne Morris is a stunning and well spoken actress, but neither she nor Anulka can touch Miranda's unspeakable magnetism.
Unlike Hammer or Franco, who produced a few more girlie-vamp romps (in Franco's case a few genuine hardcore items), French director Jean Rollin's career has more or less been defined by his erotic vampire output, including The Nude Vampire Shiver of the Vampires (both 1970), Requiem for a Vampire (1971), Lips of Blood (1975), Two Orphan Vampires, and Rape of the Vampire (1968), which actually predates Vampire Lovers. He even made the only lesbian zombie movie of his era, the underrated, and genuinely tender Living Dead Girl. Rollin's films are mostly of the overtly art-house variety, though he was not above directing junk for cash, sometimes even Franco's leftovers, as was the case of Oasis of the Zombies. Thanks to the sheer quantity of output his films kind of end up defining the bulk of the genre. Vampyres doesn't often evoke Rollin's work, but the hypnotic scenes of Larraz's vampires retreating from the morning sun certainly owe something to Rollin's listless ladies of the night. The wavering fog certainly doesn't hurt.
It's clearly not a sub-genre innovator, but the balanced refined and exploitative elements set Vampyres apart, and generally make for a more entertaining experience than any of Franco or Rollins' entries (it's sad to admit that most lesbian vampire movies are actually pretty boring). The sex is reasonably explicit in this uncut form by early '70s standards, but still well within the confines of the softcore variety. Mostly we're talking lots of naked bodies rubbing up against each other without any insertion shots or genital close-ups. The violence is the more startling element, and not really comparable to any analogous films up to Rollin's Lips of Blood. Overall it's not on par with '70s horror's most shocking gore exercises (it doesn't touch any of the Italian cannibal monstrosities that barely predate it), but it's pretty severe, and tonally not as cheeky as the similar work Hammer put out. Excepting the brief opening sequence, Larraz wisely holds back on the more graphic elements, waiting until the film's center point (almost exactly) to reveal explicitly that the women are vampires, via a super bloody accidental feeding frenzy. The next scene sees the well fed lovers showering the blood off their bodies, and revealing the fact that they swing both ways even in death. The sex and violence never flies off the rails, but there are plenty of the red stuff to go around, and two genuinely effective little jump-scares.
Blue Underground scores again, though Vampyres isn't nearly the pant-shitting perfection of their last couple releases. This 1080p, 1.85:1 transfer isn't quite the complete overhaul the New York Ripper transfer was, it's more representative of the studio's DVD release, which looked a smidge better than the early Anchor Bay release. The problems usually have something to do with age and the relative darkness of certain shots, along with the general age of the material. This high definition version has the advantage concerning clarity of fine details even during the pitch black shots, which by the way, were positively incomprehensible on VHS. There is a lot of grain dancing in the darkness, but the daylight scenes are pretty remarkably clean, at least in part, despite the persistent fog that seems to attack the area around the castle. Vampyres isn't a wildly colourful film, though the outside daylight shots are rather rich with green grass and trees, while the castle interiors are reasonably warm. The HD transfer features a pretty sizable advantage in terms of contrast, which was a little muddied on the SD transfer. The purity of the blacks, which are very seldom cut with blue or red tints, is quite impressive, even if the overall compositions remain basically the same. There's no digital noise, artefacts, or edge-enhancement, but the film itself is clearly damaged in some sections, featuring the aforementioned grain, and occasional dirt.
Vampyres comes fitted with an overqualified DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 track, along with an unneeded Dolby Digital EX 5.1 track. Like most of Blue Underground's surround sound re-designs the bulk of the audio still sits in the center channel, including most on-screen effects and dialogue. The surround channels are used almost exclusively for musical score, though some minor natural ambience is available in the rear and stereo channels. Once again the value of this redesign is in the fidelity of the center channel work, which is no longer tinny or as flat as the original DVD and VHS mono track. The original mono has been included here for purists, and there are very few differences found in the basic dialogue tracks, save the added LFE. The musical and more aurally busy scenes, on the other hand, are pretty different, and delightfully subtle. At the center-point of the film there is a perfectly eerie thunder cue, and some of the car sounds do move into the side speakers. Vampyres starts with an awesome, Goblin-esque score, one which I've somehow neglected to notice all these years. It's probably because the bulk of James Kenelm Clark's (writer/director of Video Nasty victim Expose) original score recalls Hammer's era scores. There is one solitary moment I can recall where the high end of the score becomes distorted upon the most intense high notes, but the uncompressed quality works well for the most part, including throbbing kettle drums, warm strings, and bright wind elements.
The extras here have been ported from Blue Underground's older DVD release, and start with an audio commentary featuring director Larraz, and producer Brian Smedley-Aston. Larraz's accent makes him a little difficult to understand, but he's full of curse words and sex talk, and Smedley-Aston is Johnny-on-the-spot with the supporting facts and figures. Highlights include Smedley-Aston's descriptions of the castle exteriors (apparently one of Hammer's favourite spots) and interiors, Larraz admitting he had no interest in logical story telling, and Larraz comparing his script to Bukowski's novels. There are a few blank spots, and occasionally Larraz totally loses focus, but considering the lack of retrospective documentary, or really much written information on the film it's good to have something to learn from.
'Return of the Vampyres' (14:00, SD) is an interview with stars Marianne Morris and Anulka, shot a few years back for the DVD release. The lovely, and extremely classy British gentleladies briefly run down their pre- Vampyres careers, then place the bulk of their focus on the film's production. The interviews were not taken at the same time, but are intercut effectively, and feature some supporting photographic evidence. The disc is completed with the classy international trailer, and the hilarious American trailer ('very unusual women').
Like Jess Franco and Jean Rollin's best efforts, Vampyres does end rather abruptly, and doesn't feature an excess of plot or character building, so the film probably won't be much of a crossover piece for viewers tuned to modern horror pacing. Genre fans who know what to expect definitely need this one under their belt, though Vampire Lovers is probably a better place to start concerning the lesbian vampire sub-genre. The film certainly shows its age, but this grainy high definition transfer is still a noticeable enough upgrade from the various DVD releases. The 7.1 DTS-HD track actually sounds fine, but is a bit of a waste considering the lack of directional elements in the source material. The extras have been ported from the DVD release, and are too brief.
*Thanks to Troy at Andersonvision.com for the screen-caps, which have been taken from the Blu-ray and resized for the page. Clearly I've censored one as well.
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Dude... I love the censor job. HILARIOUS. Never thought I'd see the DVDActive logo used like that. Gabriel Powers FTW!!
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Hey, Nick - you wanna enthral Gabe with our experience of watching Vampyres?
You're far more eloquent that I am...
Wilson Bro (K)
You're far more eloquent that I am...
Wilson Bro (K)
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great sensorship.
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Wilson Bros wrote: Hey, Nick - you wanna enthral Gabe with our experience of watching Vampyres?
You're far more eloquent that I am...
Wilson Bro (K)
Um, OK.
Back in 98, a lovely 35mm print of it was being played at the Frightfest in London, and being regular attendees, we went. Jose Larraz was guest of honour, and introduced the movie. It's sad to say that the induction of alcohol & being couped up in a cinema for about 10 hours took its toll, so we ducked out of the screening after 10 minutes, off to spend some time at a Westminster movie-fare.
We didn't see Vampyres, but we did go back in the cinema armed with a couple of bottles of Jack Daniels & the "Version Integral" laserdisc of Leon (The Professional) before getting Sr Larraz to sign a few things. Ah, happy days.
By the way, a certain main female member of the cast was working in a shop LITERALLY a few streets away from the Hampstead location of the fest, but didn't bother to turn up for a brief appearance.
You're far more eloquent that I am...
Wilson Bro (K)
Um, OK.
Back in 98, a lovely 35mm print of it was being played at the Frightfest in London, and being regular attendees, we went. Jose Larraz was guest of honour, and introduced the movie. It's sad to say that the induction of alcohol & being couped up in a cinema for about 10 hours took its toll, so we ducked out of the screening after 10 minutes, off to spend some time at a Westminster movie-fare.
We didn't see Vampyres, but we did go back in the cinema armed with a couple of bottles of Jack Daniels & the "Version Integral" laserdisc of Leon (The Professional) before getting Sr Larraz to sign a few things. Ah, happy days.
By the way, a certain main female member of the cast was working in a shop LITERALLY a few streets away from the Hampstead location of the fest, but didn't bother to turn up for a brief appearance.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 30th March 2010
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.85:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 English, Dolby Digital EX English, Dolby Digital Mono
Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish
Extras: Director and Producer Commentary, Return of the Vampyres, Trailers
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Jose Ramon Larraz
Cast: Anulka, Marianne Morris, Murray Brown
Genre: Horror
Length: 88 minutes
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CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - Jan. 22, 2013) - As first disclosed in 2009, and on September 29, 2011, October 27, 2011, and in a number of subsequent news releases, the Company commissioned SRK Consulting of Lakewood, Colorado ("SRK") to prepare a Preliminary Economic Assessment ("PEA") in respect of the Company's Rossland, British Columbia magnesium property (the "Record Ridge South Property"). Completion of the PEA has required the completion of extensive metallurgical test work, which resulted in the Company receiving a metallurgical report dated October 31, 2012, as well as a market and pricing study prepared by Roskill Consulting Group Ltd. for magnesia dated November 2, 2012. Both reports were immediately provided to SRK as input in preparing the PEA. The Company expects to be in a position and has undertaken to provide the PEA in mid February this year following technical review.
The PEA is expected to reflect additional work that was recommended to be undertaken in the Company's "NI 43-101 Technical Report on Resources, West High Yield (W.H.Y.) Resources Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:WHY), Record Ridge South, Rossland, British Columbia" prepared by SRK, SRK Project Number 183201 dated February 11, 2009 (the "2009 SRK Report"), which is available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
The Company wishes to clarify, restate or retract certain of its previous disclosures concerning its mineral exploration programs in respect of the Record Ridge South Property. In its news releases of June 24, 2011 and June 30, 2011, the Company referred to the 2009 SRK Report in error as a "reserves report" and reported a recoverable quantity of tonnes when the SRK Report provided estimates only of mineral resources and not mineral reserves. In the Company's corporate video and its September 17, 2012 corporate PowerPoint presentation, which were posted on the Company's website and have since been revised or removed, there was disclosed a quantity of recoverable in-situ magnesium with associated values. The Company retracts this disclosure as it may be misleading and fails to consider operating costs, capital costs, smelter costs and other factors relating to the potential mining, extraction and recovery of metals. The Company also retracts economic analysis disclosure on its website (which has since been withdrawn by the Company) having previously posted a third party investment analyst's report dated March 24, 2009 by Fundamental Research Corp. ("FRC Report") containing the results of an economic analysis related to the Record Ridge South Property. The Company retracts the economic analysis in the FRC Report as it does not comply with NI 43-101.
In disclosing its mineral resource estimates pertaining to the Record Ridge South Property in its PowerPoint presentation on the Company's website, the Company did not disclose the mineral resource categories and grades as required by NI 43-101. This information is reproduced below:
Record Ridge South Mineral Resource Statement
Bart Stryhas, Ph.D. CPG, Principal Resource Geologist of SRK, who is independent of the Company, is the qualified person and the author of the 2009 SRK Report. Dr. Stryhas has approved the disclosure of the scientific or technical information contained in this news release.
About West High Yield
West High Yield is a publicly traded junior mining exploration company focused on the acquisition, exploration and development of mineral resource properties in Canada with a primary objective to locate and develop economic gold, nickel, and magnesium properties.
Reader Advisory and Forward-Looking Statements
This press release may contain forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, the PEA's compliance with NI 43-101, the timing of the Company's receipt of the PEA, the test work being conducted, the expected results and recommendations of the PEA and mineral resource estimates relating to the Record Ridge South Property. Often, but not always, forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of words such as "plans", "expects" or "does not expect", "is expected", "budget", "scheduled", "estimates", "forecasts", "intends", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate", or "believes", or describes a "goal", or variation of such words and phrases or state that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might" or "will" be taken, occur or be achieved.
Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, future events, conditions, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, prediction, projection, forecast, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Such factors include, among others, the actual results of current exploration activities; delays in the timing of SRK's review and the preparation of a NI 43-101 compliant technical report; conclusions of economic evaluations; changes in project parameters as plans continue to be refined; future mineral prices; as well as those factors disclosed in the Company's MD&A. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual actions, events or results to differ materially from those described in forward-looking statements, there may be other factors that cause actions, events or results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. The Company disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, except in accordance with applicable securities laws.
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JANESVILLE, Wis.—Principals and other administrators in the Janesville School District could soon have the chance to earn raises of up to 6 percent.
A Janesville Gazette report ( http://bit.ly/UtJMPY) says the school board is expected to discuss the proposed incentive-pay system at its meeting Tuesday.
The new system would rate administrators on skills, ability and performance, rather than award pay increases based on experience. District spokesman Keith Pennington says if all 35 administrators received the full 6 percent it would cost about $200,000 per year.
The directors, principals, assistant principals, coordinators and supervisors who would be covered by the program have an average annual salary of $98,000.
Human resources director Steve Sperry says administrators' pay was frozen in 2009, 2011 and 2012. He says they received a 2.25 percent raise in 2010.
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My 14 yo ASD son self harmed, just a little cut, just over a year ago. There were one or two minor and superficial cuts after that, then nothing for a long time. Then a couple of months ago, he made 15 cuts on his arm, we'd had a big row, I blamed myself. Nothing for a while. Then last night, he showed me his arms, he has dozens and dozens of cuts on the outside of his forearms. He gave me a bag full of bloodied toilet tissue that he'd cleaned the cuts with. He says it's all one or two days old.
He's just got a girlfriend, just a few weeks ago. He's been getting up in the morning without hassle, getting dressed, having breakfast and going out to meet her so they can walk to school together. They message each other constantly. I thought it was cute, nice that he has a special friend, but last night he also told me that she self harms too.
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I've told school, about the escalation in his behaviour and also about the girl. The are aware and vigilant. As it happens we have a CAMHS appointment next week. I've informed them too.
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Some of you know that I started my career with Flux as the senior publicist. In that capacity, I had the good fortune to work one-on-one with many of the authors (and in my new position, I'm enjoying the chance to get to know the other authors not in my charge) and it often fell to me to discuss with them some of the quirkier of aspects of publishing. Like having a final copy of a book in your hand when it first gets delivered from the printer is very different from the book actually appearing on a bookshelf. These things take time. And after a bit of initial consternation, everyone comes to understand this.
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June 19. 2013 9:23PM
Bethlehem Hebrew Congregation's 93rd season has something for everyone
— Bethlehem Hebrew Congregation's 93rd season is filled with religious services, films of Jewish interest, education for all ages and guest presenters.
The Cultural Series @ The Colonial Thursday series include "Cabaret-Berlin" at 7:30 p.m., July 11, and "My Sweet Canary" at 7:30 p.m., Aug. 29. The final film in the series, "Mahjong and Chicken Feet," is at 5 p.m., Friday, Sept. 27.
A live performance by the Orchid Ensemble is on 8 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 28, at the Colonial.
The ensemble presents Lan Tung on the erhu/Chinese violin, Yu-Chen on the zheng/Chinese zither, and Jonathan Bernard on percussion.
As the musicians blend ancient musical instrument sounds and traditions from China and beyond, they create beautiful new sounds in a variety of musical styles. Their repertoire includes traditional and contemporary music of China, world music, new music, jazz, and creative improvisation.
The Colonial Theatre is located at 2050 Main St.
Tickets may be purchased at the door or at www.bethlehemcolonial.org/.
Ellen Fisch, longtime Bethlehem summer resident, returns Aug. 3 to present a new photography exhibit featuring architectural details of both the BHC Synagogue and Bethlehem's Durrell Methodist Church.
Fisch said that she has developed a new art form for this exhibit by subtly enhancing the photographs with traditional fine art media: pencil, pastel, and 24K gold leaf. Time and place details will be announced on the BHC website: www.bethlehemsynagogue.org.
In July and August, Shabbat services are held Friday evenings at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday mornings, usually 9:30. The first Shabbat service, July 6, is a family Shabbat service and begins at 10 a.m.
On July 13, Hazzan Marlena Fuerstman will lead a coffee cake discussion following a shortened service. Fuerstman will also offer classes in Hebrew and on the prophets. Days and times will be set when participants sign up.
Geoffrey Brahmer returns to BHC on Friday, Aug. 9 to present findings of his latest Holocaust research: "Hartheim Castle: A Holocaust Journey." Brahmer's presentation includes images, history, and narratives of events in Austria's Hartheim Castle, one of the Nazi euthanasia centers for the mentally and physically disabled.
This presentation is open to the community and admission is free.
The Beit Sefer for students 5 to teenager reconvenes in August to welcome students for another six-week learning series. Bar/bat mitzvah training is offered upon request.
BHC also plans a complete schedule of High Holy Day services from Selichot (Saturday, Aug. 31) through Simchat Torah (Friday, Sept. 27).
Visitors to North Country are always welcome to participate in any or all BHC's religious services, programs, and events at our historic synagogue, 39 Strawberry Hill.


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Before I left for spring break, I finished the body of the foldover cowl pullover. Anxious to see what it looked like, I tried it on and was instantly disappointed.
It may be hard to see from this photo, but it is a bit big. Big in a boxy sort of way. I wore it around the house like this and the look grew on me. I was thinking that perhaps I liked it. Perhaps I liked it big and boxy. Perhaps I needed a big and boxy sweater. I decided to pack it in my suitcase and ask my mother for her advice.
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Wow! Your mom is awesome! If you've got to rip a sweater, that's a great way to do it.ReplyDelete
I just started following you and am a fairly new knitter (can count my projects on one hand). I just finished my first sock..it is big and slouchy. I might just get a vodka and orange juice and sit outside in the sun for a bit of ripping myself :) Excellent celebration while so much effort disappears back into a ball.ReplyDelete
Owwwweee. Oh well. It's like pulling off a band-aid. Once you rip it, it's gone.ReplyDelete
Onward and upward!
Dang, I hate when that happens.ReplyDelete
That's all part of this wonderful hobby, it's one that gives us a chance for a "do over".... rip away...ReplyDelete
I agree that the boxy and t-shirt look was great, a bit of light felting and voila....and LOL at 'do-over'. I like to 'do-over' just not on the same project :-) Good on you for being brave and what a perfect setting for frogging!ReplyDelete
Yeah, I know, ripping something out is really hard, but it's better than never wearing the garnment that you made. That used to happen to me :(. Good luck with the new knit!ReplyDelete
Good for you to be so brave! I just ripped out 8000 stitches, but that is nothing and I still felt the pain of doing so. I love what the sweater promises to look like (in that color, on that pattern) when you do finish.ReplyDelete
which helped take the sting out more? mom or the beer? haha! moms know best...and you are too pretty to hide in something so big- if you want boxy wear a fleece or sweatshirt! if you work hard and knit something it should be wonderful!ReplyDelete
I adore your mom! Beer and the shore -- a perfect way to make a sad task into a happy one :-)ReplyDelete
mom's are so good for the frogging episodes in life aren't they?ReplyDelete
I think you look darling, but the way you described your mom's honesty seemed pretty special--I'd have ripped it out too. Cheers.ReplyDelete
You know what they say...a bad day at the beach is better than the best day at work. We don't believe that in our house, any day at the beach is great. I have ripped the project I am working on now 4 times. The first time I ripped it I was three rows from finished. I like to think this saves me money and I ALWAYS learn something. Can't wait to see it done, everything you knit is beautiful.ReplyDelete
I love that your mom knows you so well that when she says "you're ripping out your sweater," you do it.ReplyDelete
Yep! Mom's do know best! And she knew you'd need a beer to make it a little easier!!!! Love that for you :)ReplyDelete
You go girl! I think I love your Mom!ReplyDelete
I love the basic shape of the top before you ripped it out. Definitely too big for you, but a great shape for a little girls dress (appropriately downsized so it doesn't fall off the shoulders).ReplyDelete
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Man, I HATE frogging, but your story was lovely - what an awesome Mom - and the picture of the yarn balls with the ocean in the back ground was wonderful!ReplyDelete
Love the color and the yarn, but Mum was right. It will be a far, far better sweater when properly fitted.ReplyDelete
PS. Didn't know you were a beer fan. I knew I liked you!
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Need advice on triglyceride levels of 505
My mother recently suffered a stroke (well one TIA and four small strokes). They found full blockage of both carotid arteries (one small, one large) going up one side of her neck.
She's always had high cholesterol but suffers terrible side effects from all of them and refuses to take them. She is still recovering from the deficiencies caused by her stroke and her latest blood work shows a total cholesterol of 174 and triglycerides of 505.
The doctor has prescribed Zocor to be started immediately. She doesn't want to take it. She's never had any trouble with her heart and does not have heart disease; however, her cerebral vascular system appears to be a mess.
Is she greatly increasing her risk for additional strokes if she continues to refuse this medicine to try and get that number down?
I can't give you a number that will express her individual risk, but I can tell you that the medications used to treat cholesterol are believed to reduce one's risk for stroke. Thus, if she can tolerate the medication and take it, it should be of benefit for her.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hamas rulers in this Palestinian territory have shuttered two Arab media bureaus over their coverage of Gaza's Islamist leaders.
Hamas Attorney General Ismail Jaber told The Associated Press Thursday that he closed the Gaza Strip bureaus of satellite channel Al Arabiya and West Bank-based outlet Maan because they "spread fabricated rumors" that "harm the Palestinian national interest and resistance movements."
A Maan correspondent said Hamas was upset about its reports that Hamas militants were contributing to chaos in the Sinai Peninsula following the ouster of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not permitted to speak publically about the matter.
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