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Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the U-S.
But even with all the information available, some people wonder which drugs they should take -- and who really needs them.
Experts agree that high blood pressure and high cholesterol increase your risk of having a heart attack.
What they don't agree on is who should be taking medication to treat those conditions... and that can cause some issues.
"Doctors and patients might be confused about when it's time to use medication to treat high blood pressure or high cholesterol," says Lisa Gill of Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs.
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Loving An Anxious Child: What Parents Can Do by Stacey Gill
On October 18 we held our second class, The Anxious Child, led by Dr. Anne Marie Albano in the offices of In Good Company. Attendees learned how to recognize the signs of normal childhood nervousness and more serious anxiety issues. They also found ways to manage serious cases of anxiety. We thank Stacey Gill, who attended the class last week, for writing up this wonderful post about the class. You can read more of Stacey's writing at One Funny Motha.
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On the fourth floor of a cozy New York office an intimate gathering of parents assembled behind French doors to hear Dr. Anne Marie Albano, Director of the Columbia University Clinic for Anxiety and Related Disorders and associate professor of clinical psychology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, speak about ways to identify and address anxiety and related emotions in children, adolescents and young adults. The Modern Village, a continuing education series for parents, presented the talk on Thursday night in the second of their on-going lectures and seminars.
"The big thing we work on is uncertainty," Dr. Albano said. "Anxiety comes when we can't predict the situation, and we don't have control over it. We have to teach kids to deal with uncertainty and ride it out."
Although all children face anxiety, Dr. Albano distinguished between normal levels and disruptive levels. Dr. Albano also acknowledged that while it may be difficult to parse out the child's actions and the motivation behind them, several warning signs may help parents determine if anxiety is the root cause for their child's behavior.
Potential Red Flags
- Child is extremely shy
- Child looks to isolate him or herself
- Child avoids social situations
- Child constantly questions what can go wrong
- Child worries about the future
- Child lacks self-confidence
- Child has trouble sleeping
- Child exhibits physical symptoms of breathlessness, sweating and dizziness
- Child experiences frequent stomachaches, headaches or nausea
- Child avoids or has trouble completing school work due to the child's fear of making a mistake
When the anxiety level is excessive and treatment necessary, Dr. Albano asserted there is really only one therapeutic treatment.
"Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is the goal standard," Dr. Albano explained. No other therapy is effective according to Dr. Albano who focused her presentation on psychological treatment rather medication.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) works by exposing the child to the things causing the anxiety and having them sit with the feelings until they subsides. Of course, every fear and discomfort isn't thrown at the child at once. The method takes a gradual approach.
"It's a process we are working through," Dr. Albano noted.
The child works to build up his or her resistance to the fear. If the child has an intense fear of the dark, for example, he or she would first sit in a dim room during the day to get accustomed to the anxious feelings. Eventually the feeling diminishes and the child moves on to a more anxiety-inducing fear like sitting in his or her darkened bedroom at night. The child does this for longer and longer periods until the child is sleeping in his or her room overnight.
Recognizing the difficulties parents face in dealing with their children's anxiety, Dr. Albano suggested several ways parents can help their child manage it. Parents, she said, need to show sensitivity to the child. Parents should explain they understand how the child feels, but that does not mean they should accommodate the fears. Parents should also provide positive reinforcement when the child copes well with his or her anxiety, and they should remain consistent in their approach, maintaining the rules put in place to help the child handle the anxiety. Dr. Albano discourages singling the child out, but promotes collaborating with the child's therapist.
While Dr. Albano recognized how difficult it is for parents to watch their child struggle, she emphasized the usefulness of mistakes in promoting learning. She insisted parents must allow their children to experience the struggle and deal with the consequences because this allows them to learn how to problem solve. She pointed to actions on the part of the parents that can help their children cope.
Actions by Parents
- Identify their own role in child's behavior (Do they secretly enjoy having the child sleeping their bed because it makes them feel needed and important?)
- Focus on the effort made by the child in coping with anxiety rather than focusing on the outcome and praise the child's efforts
- Talk to the child about the situation realistically
- Focus on coping with the anxiety-producing situation; talk about ways of handling the situation rather than ways they can avoid and get out of the situation
For parents struggling with this issue Dr. Albano recommended several resources in the NYMetro area including Long Island, Staten Island, New Jersey and as far as Massschusetts:
EffectiveChildTherapy.com for general information and techniques;
The Association of Behavioral Cognitive Therapists, for help finding a therapist.
In New Jersey
The Youth Anxiety and Depression Clinic at Rutgers University, directed by Brian Chu, Ph.D
The Child Anxiety Disorders Clinic at Fairleigh Dickinson University directed by Dr. Andrew Eisen
Behavior Therapy Associates, directed by Dr. Steven B. Gordon, Ph.D., ABPP
On Long Island
On Staten Island
Freedom From Fear, directed by By Mary Guardino
Sabine Wilhelm, Ph.D., The Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Related Disorders Program at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
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Watch for Dr. Albano's book, coming in Spring, 2013: You and Your Anxious Child, by Anne Marie Albano and Leslie Pepper (Avery/Penguin Books).
Stacey Gill is a freelance writer, part-time blogger and an award-winning journalist who is currently working on a memoir. She writes for several hyper-local media outlets covering towns in the New York metropolitan area. Previously, she worked as a copywriter for Saks Fifth Avenue and before that as an assistant editor in the book business. She lives outside the City with her husband, two crazy kids and a pair of hermit crabs.
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"DOSA, San Francisco's first South Indian Restaurant, has opened a second location in the City's burgeoning Fillmore district to further explore the broad and diverse reaches of the South Indian culinary landscape. The new eco-friendly restaurant can not only accommodate more guests with a larger venue, but also highlights a greater breadth of regional Southern Indian specialties and showcases the urban Indian dining experience at its best through a comprehensive wine and spice-infused cocktail program."
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David Scott offers up his Turkeys of Boston Sports Media for 2007.
Bruins rookie goaltender Tuukka Rask made his first NHL start a successful one last night, as the Bruins defeated the Maple Leafs in Toronto, 4-2.
Fluto Shinzawa notes that Rask was drafted by Toronto, (traded to the Bruins for Andrew Raycroft) and says he didn't look rattled at all during his debut. Stephen Harris says that someday we might look back at last night as a key moment in Bruins history.
Harris' notebook has Rask enjoying his win over the team that drafted him. Shinzawa's notebook has coach Julien flipping the right switches leading into last night's win.
Mike Reiss notes that if a comparison can be made to this Patriots offense, it is the 1998 Minnesota Vikings, who interestingly enough, also had Randy Moss. John Tomase has John Madden praising the Patriots, and specifically Bill Belichick, for keeping his team focused and motivated each week out. Jim Donaldson says that Joe Montana's 49ers have set the bar for Tom Brady and the Patriots. Christopher Price has more on Madden's comments about the Patriots.
Reiss mentioned it in his mailbag yesterday, and today Niner Watch, Week Twelve is posted on Patriots Daily.
I thought it ironic that the Herald has a piece touting Bill Belichick's motivational techniques. Just a couple of weeks ago, on November 2nd, Mike Felger on his radio show (along with Patriots Football Weekly Andy Hart and Tom Casale) said that Belichick as a motivator is "a disaster" and that he is "weird, terrible, awkward" and that players only play for him because of his game plans. By the way, Al Groh was not the Patriots defensive coordinator in 2001 – he was the head coach of Virginia by that time.
Tomase also has a very good Tale of the Tape look back at the Bills game. However, in the post Madden, Tiki on the Pats, the blog states that the Patriots will be the first team since the 2001 Ravens to play two straight games in prime time. Last year's Broncos played three straight prime time games, First on Sunday Night Football against the Patriots, then on Monday Night Football vs. Baltimore and finally on Sunday Night Fottball against Oakland. There was a bye week in there, but the team played three straight prime time games. Eric McHugh has a Patriots report card from the Buffalo game. Lenny Megliola notes that Pro Football is supposed to be hard, but the Patriots make it look like child's play.
Reiss's notebook observes that the Patriots will be playing their first "hat and t-shirt" game of the season on Sunday night against the Eagles, as they can clinch the AFC East with a win. Glen Farley's notebook has the Patriots Hall of Fame getting closer to completion.
Peter May has fans, media and even other teams around the NBA now taking notice of the Celtics, and even using them as a measuring stick. Steve Bulpett notes that the Magic were able to expose the Celtics a little bit, and other teams will be quick to try and copy them. Scott Souza says that the Celtics will be doing their best to try and learn from their mistakes in the Magic game.
Bulpett's notebook has the Celtics going back to basics at yesterday's practice, hoping to return to their winning ways tonight against Golden State.
Red Sox/Mike Lowell
Michael Silverman notes that "Comfort level, not the bottom line, was the deciding factor for Mike Lowell" in his return to the Red Sox. Nick Cafardo says that "Thirty seven and a half million was enough for Mike Lowell." Jeff Goldberg says that Lowell showed that he is not just all about the money, and speculated that Terry Francona could be next for a new contract from the Red Sox. Joe McDonald has Lowell's decision trumpeted by all.
Mike Fine notes that Boston has become a destination for athletes of all sports.


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Gambling picks up at Partygaming – 24/10/05
Excerpt from ATE Online
The demand for internet gambling has continued to drive growth at the UK's biggest online gaming firm Partygaming.
There had been concerns that earnings would slip after Partygaming stopped letting players from rival websites gamble at its poker card tables.
Partygaming warned that growth could be less than many analysts had predicted.
Instead, the exclusive website helped lift growth and the firm said revenues rose 32% to $220m (£124m) in the three months to 30 September from a year ago.
Source: BBC
Friday, October 21, 2005
Excerpt from Igaming News
PartyGaming Plc this morning provided a trading update in which it revealed that revenues for the third quarter remained in line with expectations–despite the reported downturn in July and August. The company also reports that the moving of PartyPoker.com to a standalone platform has already led to better-than-anticipated results.PartyGaming Trading Update: All Is Well
by Bradley Vallerius
Investors' confidence, for the time being, appears to be at least partially restored, as share prices rose 11 percent (8p) on the day–the biggest single-day increase since its initial public offering at the end of June–to 87p.
Total group revenues for the third quarter reached US$220 million, an improvement of 32 percent over the same period in 2004. Revenues from poker rose by 4 percent compared to the second quarter of 2005 to $209.1 million. New real-money signups for poker totaled 209,372 (up from 183,065 during the same period last year), and the average daily rake was $2,167,619 (up from $1,611,575).
Casino revenues, meanwhile, were $11 million, which was -$2.1 million lower than revenues from the previous quarter. The company attributes the dip to lower activity levels by high-value players at StarluckCasino.com. Still, new signups rose to almost 20,000 over the period (up from 13,073 during the same period last year), and the overall level of active player days rose by 12 percent compared to the second quarter of 2005.
Volatile Market
PartyGaming revealed on Sept. 6 that its revenue growth was slowing while retention rates and player yields were declining. The resulting alarm among the investment community led to the company losing more than one-third of its market value in a single day.
Competing online gambling companies were affected as well. In the weeks that followed, online casino 32red was forced to delay its fundraising as it floated on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange, while 888 Holdings, operator of the largest online casino in the world, was forced to settle for a market valuation far below what it had initially anticipated.
I-gaming share prices fell further last week as PartyGaming announced that it launched a new poker platform and had ceased aggregating the poker players of its clients into the same network as its own players.
The same day PartyGaming announced these plans, Empire Online–PartyGaming's largest client–revealed that its rate of growth is also slowing. This week Empire warned investors that it will probably miss analysts' forecasts for profits for the year by 10 percent as a result of getting shut out of PartyGaming's network.
Initial Indications
PartyGaming's new integrated platform has so far been a success.
"Revenues for the third quarter were in line with consensus expectations, and I am pleased to report that, since the end of the third quarter, there has been a material uplift in performance across all of the Group's activities," explained CEO Richard Segal. "Moving PartyPoker.com to a stand-alone platform, with increased customer functionality, has contributed to an encouraging increase in poker revenue. Further, the initial response to cross-selling our casino games to PartyPoker.com customers has been much stronger that anticipated."
The company stated in today's trading update: "Since the end of September there has been a marked improvement in poker and casino. Launching the new platform and introducing new features for PartyPoker.com has had a significant and positive impact and, since the launch, daily gross poker revenue (excluding skins) has increase by 10 percent versus the average for the third quarter. Moreover, the initial response from customers to playing casino games using their PartyPoker.com account has been very positive. The group remains comfortable with consensus forecasts for revenue and EBITDA before share option and IPO costs for the current financial year."
Andy Brough of Schroder Investment Management in London told Bloomberg News, "The whole of the sector will sigh complete relief today." He added, however, that "there's going to be a lot more competition coming into this market."
PartyGaming expects to deal its 3 billionth hand of poker before the end of the year.
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IGN acquired Bradley Vallerius from GNC in '03 for a Sony Walkman, a bag of "River City Group" lip balm and a player to be named later. It's worked out quite well so far. "V" can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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The Seebaldt Pilot, Detroit MI
Ann Donner Consulting is pleased to be a member of a multi-sector team, led by studio[Ci] and the community organization, It Starts at Home 48204, that received a national grant from the US Department of Energy's SunShot Initiative, Solar in Your Community Challenge, for a sustainable community building project, The Seebaldt Pilot (TSP). Located in Detroit's 48204 community, TSP was chosen as one of 48 teams in 23 states and Washington D.C. to win $50,000 with the possibility of additional funding if all goals to support Low and Moderate Income (LMI) households are met.
The primary objective is to deliver the energy infrastructure to reach at least 50% LMI households, on one block, with 100kW by the end of 2018, then expand the project to the rest of 48204. If TSP is successful in demonstrating a replicable and scalable model for low-income solar, the project could win the SunShot Challenge $500,000 Grand Prize. Teams are evaluated based on their innovation, impact, expertise, team composition, plan, and progress over the course of the 18-month performance period that started in May 2017.
The first step is to construct a Hybridized Net Zero Energy (HNZE) Canopy prototype that will provide solar electricity to two homes and collect rainwater for garden irrigation. The HNZE solar/water harvesting prototype will provide critical data to inform and advance the TSP to the next phase of development.
The long-term vision is to create a sustainable future for the 48204 community that incorporates a unique solar technology creating an energy cooperative to deliver energy, education, and empowerment to LMI residents and implement a Net Zero Energy (NZE) district. TSP is part of a larger strategic neighborhood vision to leverage and deploy publicly owned, vacant properties to provide energy, water, food/waste, and mobility infrastructure which will support renewable systems of workforce development, education, economic development, culture and empowerment for youth and adults.
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Each year, students, faculty, staff, and administrators select and read a common book as part of Chaffey's One Book/One College program. Many instructors incorporate the College Book into their courses, and the One Book/One College committee holds a series of free events to encourage college-wide conversation, creativity, and community. Past events have included film screenings, food tastings, visiting speakers, faculty lectures, family programming, marathon book readings, essay contests, dialogues, live performances, blogs, art exhibitions, forays into the local community, and much, much more.
Programming is supported by employee contributions as well as by the Vice President of Instruction & Student Services, the School of Language Arts, and the Chaffey Bookstore. Collaborations with on- and off-campus partners are created with groups such as Professional Development, Ethics Across the Curriculum, the Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, student clubs, local bookstores and other organizations and businesses.
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Daytripper by Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon
A stunning, moving story about one man's life and all the possibilities to be realized or lost along the way. Brothers Bá and Moon take readers through the life of a man named Brás de Oliva Domingos, selecting a series of individual events of great significance to Brás, showing each as if it could be the day Brás dies, and in so doing creating an examination of family, friendship, love, art, life, and death that urges the reader to turn the same careful inspection on their own life. Central is the relationship between Brás, who is first seen as a disgruntled writer stuck in a job writing obituaries, and his father, Benedito de Oliva Domingos, a famous author. Although each section can be years apart, themes all beautifully tie in throughout the work; characters develop as more is learned about them as the story jumps back and forth in time; and moments of Brás' life take on entirely new meanings as events from his possible pasts or futures cast them into new lights. Moon and Bá's artwork is as impressive as their writing, and aided by colorist Dave Stewart the artists/writers render gorgeous cities and landscapes from Brazil across several decades, adding in touches of the surreal when the story calls for it. This is an intense work that promises to bring the reader along on a personal and rewarding journey.
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Decembers WI Christmas party was a sure sign of our branch going from strength to giving strength, with a full table of secret santa gifts and an even fuller fuddle finger buffet. Well done ladies and thank you all who made or brought something to gift to one of their fellow members. There were some truly lovely gifts again this year!
The Christmas revelry got off to an excellent start with Christmas head ware (in anticipation of our up and coming fascinator workshop), some fabulous jumpers (the yarn craft workshop coming in handy again), and gloriously festive table dressing from our lovely Grace-Ann.
The tombola table of temptation kept us all trying until all of the Gin and luxury gifts were gone, raising nearly £80 for the branch and the Christmas themed quiz had us groaning and scratching our heads in the attempt to win the Bombay Sapphire prize.
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Latest content added for The Portal to Texas History Collection: Rescuing Texas History, 2007https://texashistory.unt.edu/explore/collections/SG07/browse/?fq=str_location_county:Childress+County,+TX&fq=dc_type:image_photo&display=list2008-02-18T23:56:44-06:00UNT LibrariesThis is a custom feed for browsing The Portal to Texas History Collection: Rescuing Texas History, 2007Aerial Photo of Childress2008-02-18T23:56:44-06:00https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth34409/

Aerial photo of Childress looking southeast. The country club and golf course are visible in the foreground.
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Aerial photo of the high school, rodeo arena, and football stadium.
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Aerial photograph of Fair Park, looking southeast.
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The Young Matron's Club arrays itself around a central tree for a watermelon feast at Nannie Kithchens' home in 1934.
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Photograph of the Childress Concert Band seated and standing with their instruments outside of a nondescript building. The band consists of all men; a large bass drum occupies the center of the frame which says "Childress Concert Band."
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Old Settlers parade in Childress, Texas. A small float in the shape of a building is being drawn by two horses. One of the horses has a sign on him, but the only legible word is "Childress." Men in light-colored suites follow the leading float and more floats can be seen in the distance down the road. Horse-drawn vehicles and pedestrians line the sides of the streets to view the parade.
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In 1925, a life-or-death race to deliver desperately needed anti-toxin from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska turned a sled dog named Balto into a hero.
Balto was a Siberian husky born in 1923 in Nome, Alaska. He spent the early part of his life as part of a dog team that transported supplies to miners in the surrounding area. Balto was actually considered to be a "scrub dog," meaning an inferior or slow-working dog.
On January 21, 1925, several Inuit children in Nome, Alaska were diagnosed with diphtheria, a disease that was still common, widespread, and greatly feared in the 1920's. Caused by bacteria that invades the nose, mouth, and throat, the disease usually develops in the throat and can make it hard to swallow and even cause a patient to suffocate. If diphtheria is not properly treated in time, the bacteria then produces a powerful poison that spreads throughout the body and causes serious complications such as heart failure or paralysis. Back in that time life was much harder, right now we have a lot of medicines almost everywhere near us, we also have excellent services like the best loans from Stockton Blvd CIC.
Without anti-toxin to combat it, the highly contagious disease would quickly spread to all of the children in Nome. After telegraphs asking for help were sent to Fairbanks, Anchorage, Seward, and Juneau, the only serum in Alaska was found to be at a hospital in Anchorage, nearly 1000 miles away. A train would be able to transport the medicine part of the distance to the town of Nenana, but after that, transportation methods were almost non-existent. Pack ice prevented delivery to Nome by ship, while frequent blizzard conditions prevented transport by air (in fact, two aircraft that might have been able to make the trip and deliver the medicine had been dismantled and stored for the winter in Fairbanks). A way needed to be found — and quickly — to traverse the remaining 674 miles between Nenana and Nome. It was finally decided that the fastest and most reliable way to transport the anti-toxin over the remaining distance was by using a relay of dog sled teams. It was estimated that the trip could take up to 13 days to complete.
In Anchorage, the serum was packed in a cylinder, wrapped in an insulating quilt, and then tied up in canvas for further protection. The package left Anchorage by train on Monday, January 26 and arrived the next night in Nenana, where it was turned over to the first musher and his dog team.
More than 20 mushers and their dog sled teams eventually took part in a Pony Express-type relay, battling against temperatures that rarely rose above -40 degrees Fahrenheit and winds that were sometimes strong enough to knock over both the dogs and the sleds. On February 1, 1925, the package was handed off for the last time to a musher named Gunnar Kassen in the village of Bluff. Kassen's sled dog team, led by Balto, set off to cover the final leg to Nome.
Soon after the team left Nenana, a blinding blizzard began, dropping temperatures to -50 degrees and generating wind gusts in excess of 50 mph. Kassen found himself unable to navigate, and almost gave up all hope of making it to Nome in time. But Balto knew the trail well, and, following his instincts, led the team through the cold and snow.
Over the next 20 hours, Balto slowly led his sled dog team over the final 53 miles. On February 2 at 5.30 AM, the team finally arrived in Nome. The dogs were too tired to even bark, but the serum had successfully been delivered — only seven days after leaving Anchorage, and just 127 1/2 hours after leaving Nenana.
The press had been following the story for days, and Balto and the team instantly became famous. Balto appeared on the front cover of newspapers all over the world, and shortly afterward appeared in a short Hollywood movie "Balto and the Race to Nome." Kassen took Balto and the team on a nationwide tour, which concluded with the unveiling of a life size statue of Balto in New York City's Central Park on December 17, 1925. Sculpted by F.G. Roth, the bronze sculpture is New York's only statue commemorating a dog. The statue includes a plaque with an inscription that reads:
"Dedicated to the indomitable spirit of the sled dogs that relayed anti toxin 600 miles over treacherous waters, through arctic blizzards, from Nenana to the relief of stricken Nome in the winter of 1925 – Endurance, Fidelity, Intelligence".
Balto's first taste of fame was short-lived. He and the team were soon sold to a "Vaudeville museum," and Balto himself was used in different dime shows and stage acts. In 1927, Cleveland resident George Kimble discovered Balto and the team living in horrible conditions, and quickly started an appeal to raise the funds to buy them. Suddenly the nation became interested again, and Kimble raised the money he needed in only 10 days. By the way, you can also get money instantly by applying for a payday loan as long as you can repay on time. my sources about loaning all came from here loanload.co.uk. The team was quickly shipped to Cleveland zoo, where they received a hero's welcome.
Balto was a star attraction at the Cleveland Zoo for six years until he died in 1933 at the age of 10. After his death, Balto's body was mounted and put on display at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, where it remains to this day.
Balto's legend still lives on today. The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog race has been run from Anchorage to Nome every year since 1973, and commemorates the role of dog teams in the settlement of Alaska and the heroic serum relay of 1925 that saved numerous lives. In 1995, Universal Studios released the popular animated family feature "Balto," featuring the voices of Kevin Bacon and Bob Hoskins. When looking for no credit check loans or soft credit check loans Bridge online services, visit bridgepayday.com for more information.
Today, some Alaskan schoolchildren are campaigning to bring Balto back to his home state, proposing that his body moved to the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race museum in Wasilla. But Cleveland officials aren't ready to give Balto back, noting he spent more than half his life in their city. There are plans in the works, however, for Balto to return to Alaska at least temporarily, as part of an exhibit at the Anchorage Museum of History and Art.


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Sunday, February 25, 2007
ORANGEBURG – South Carolina State University alumni, friends and supporters gathered in black tie on Saturday, Feb. 24, to raise resources to support the University's general scholarship fund, which provides financial assistance to many of SC State's 4,000 undergraduate students.
The 2007 Scholarship Gala and Tribute was held on Saturday, Feb. 24, at 7 p.m. in the Smith-Hammond-Middleton Memorial Center on the SC State campus. The gala wasfollowed by a special concert by The Original Manhattans, featuring Gerald Alston and Blue Lovett.
"For nearly 111 years, SC State has created a legacy of excellence by providing a nurturing educational environment that has produced global leaders including six college presidents," said Valerie M. Dinkins, interim vice president for the Division of Institutional Advancement and executive director of the South Carolina State University Foundation.
"Institutional milestones accomplished by SC State and its graduates would not be possible without the sincere support, commitment and encouragement of alumni, friends and supporters who contribute to the foundation," she added.
At this year's gala, SC State and its Foundation celebrated the achievements of current students and young alumni of South Carolina State University.
Alumni honorees at this year's gala include:
• Jameel Allen, MBA, '01 – Member of SC State's Board of Visitors
• Michael Asbury, '02 – Only Physician Assistant in South Carolina in Dermatology
• Aundrie Blanchard, '06 – First graduate of SC State's Nuclear Engineering Program; Associate Engineer, Savannah River Site
• Nicholas Cluster, MAT, '01, '03 – Former SC State faculty member; University of Georgia doctoral student
• Sam Davis, MD, '01 – 2006 graduate, Wake Forest School of Medicine; Second-year Orthopaedic Surgery resident, Duke University Medical Center
• Joelle Dick, '05 – MBA candidate, Rice University
• Damian Duncan, MBA, '01 – Associate, Alternative Assets Group, Merrill Lynch & Co., NYC; MBA, Harvard Business School
• LaTonya Durant, MA, EdS, '97 – Consolidated School District Three Teacher of the Year; 2006 Milken Family Foundation National Educator Award recipient
• Chatavie M. Newton, '06, '06 – Gates Millennium Scholar; Candidate, Master's in Engineering Management, Duke University
• David T. Williams, '01 – Fourth-year medical student, University of Louisville School of Medicine; National Association of Medical Minority Educators' Southern Region Scholar Award recipient.
Student honorees include:
• William Bright, sophomore biology major
• Robert Caldwell Jr., sophomore mechanical engineering technology major
• Portia Gifford, junior chemistry major
• Amid Hamidi, sophomore chemistry major
• Latisha Jefferson, senior civil engineering technology major
• Candace H. Payne, senior chemistry major
• Demar Roberts, junior political science major
• Samuel Sojourner, sophomore biology major
Established in 1971, the goal of the South Carolina State University Foundation is to encourage voluntary private support of SC State from a variety of sources by upholding the values and traditions that embody SC State and American higher education. The Foundation solicits, receives, and manages private support for SC State. The annual Scholarship Gala and Tribute, created in 1996, is the signature fundraising event for the Foundation.


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Involvement will be important all throughout your life. It would help if you started at a young age. Even colleges look for people who are involved in a lot of things and are willing to try something new. You should want to have experience in a lot of things when you grow up and getting involved is the way to do it. Do things beside academic work, like join a sport or a club. It will help you in the long run.
Try to reach outside of your circle. If you never try something new you will never know if it would have worked out or not. You could be left wondering for the rest of your life what would have happened if you tried a new club or activity. When the opportunity came up at school to join the ski club, I was hesitant to try because I feared I might fall again and again and embarrass myself. I decided to take the risk, and found that I am a better skier than I expected I would be. I also found that everyone falls on the slopes; it's not really awkward at all. As a result, I have really had some fun!
You can also meet new people by getting involved. That is just another reward of getting involved. You will meet people just like you who are trying to do something new for a change. Running for Student Council enabled me to work with other students who I barely knew before. I found others who shared my ideas and my desire to improve my school. I am glad I did not miss this experience.
Getting involved is beneficial in many ways. Put yourself out there, learn something new, and if you like, stick to it. There is never a need to be bored, as there are unlimited opportunities to try new things. It will not only help you in the future, but also enhance the present. In conclusion, getting involved is the way to go!
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Monday, April 30, 2007
Doctor Who Series Three (I am in yr program SPOILIN' yr storiez)
The Shakespeare Code continued the fun. However, I'm getting a bit bored with all these 'last of their race' aliens turning up all the time, we had the Daleks, the Gelth, Satan, the Spider-thing from The Runaway Bride ... give me the good old days when Jon Pertwee just had to fight a Sontaran, from Sontaran, where there was an entire planet of Sontarans getting on with whatever Sontarans did. Martha's whole 'but what if I kill my grandfather' thing was amusing. I'm also wondering about the race issue. So far the humans and human-shaped creatures have been pretty colour-blind, Mickey's skin-colour was never a storyline and so far racism has been the domain of alien races and creatures like the Daleks. Now that we have Martha I'm in two minds about whether there is an issue here that needs to be addressed or not. Other than the threat of death the worst a companion of the Doctor's had to worry about up to now was being lightly patronised, I do wonder whether, if the makers are insisting on keeping the show more or less on Earth or recognisable equivalents whether there should be some situations they land in where Martha does stand out and is in danger just because of her skin colour. I'm not calling for Doctor Who and the Terror of the KKK but I'm wondering if ignoring the fact that Martha is different to almost all his other companions in one very visible way is actually a ham-fisted liberalism. Anyway, plenty of time for this to be addressed. The episode had any number of great lines, plus the rather unnecessary 'Doctor gives Shakespeare a number of quotes from his great plays' (a William Hartnell story had Queen Liz tell Shakepeare to write a particular play and Sir Francis Bacon give him the idea for Hamlet, rather suggesting that Shakespeare hasn't come up with that many of his own plays himself at all).
Gridlock gave me a brand new feeling, being glad to see the year five billion. New Earth had it's moments, but they didn't involve the hospital, the implausibility of the Cat Nuns cure or the Doctor's solution. But this was a nice character piece, with a great feeling of claustrophobia with everyone stuck in those little hover-cars they'd made their homes. The moment where everyone comes together to sing the hymn was either really sad or really uplifting depending on how you chose to read it, and Ardal O'Hanlan did an amazing job acting through the cat prosthetics. I must say though that I've never really cared for the Face of Boe as a character, so don't really care that he's shuffled off the coil, still, being five billion the Doctor could easily meet him in his own past. It's great that Martha isn't just a script with 'Rose' crossed out each time, and that the Doctor's relationship with her isn't at the same place as it was with Rose, though I'm not sure why Martha would be fancying the Doctor.
It had to go wrong eventually and it did so with the Daleks in Manhattan two-parter. Some of the problems were thankfully addressed in part two, the big one being the racial purity of Daleks. It was bad enough that the Emperor Dalek made his Daleks out of humans (though I suppose Davros was doing the same back in the Colin Baker days, and this was one of the big things in Remembrance of the Daleks) but all the stuff with the Cult of Skaro being there to 'think the unthinkable' was just daft, the equivelent of the Nazis saying "You know what, we could really do with some Jews to help us out round here". Then there's the Doctor suddenly way to eager to cuddle up to Dalek Sec, never mind that he's taken over an innocent human body, the Doctor doesn't seem to mind too much about all the humans the Daleks have captured to turn into human-Daleks. And the lightning streak allowing them to keep their independence? This was a mess of two episodes, with my largest cheer being when Solomon gives a cringingly awful speech that echoes that of the American President in Mars Attacks! just before he gets killed by the Daleks ("can't we all just get along?" "Exterminate!"). The first two series managed to credibly present the Daleks as a bigger physical threat and also, because of that whole Time War business, a bigger emotional threat for the Doctor to deal with, as they killed his people. This story diminished them, not least because of the three times in the second episode where the Daleks should have just shot the Doctor on the spot. At least the other stories managed to give fairly credible reasons why they didn't, mainly by use of things like forcefields and being in different places most of the time. In one of the last scenes the Doctor has a nice long talk with Dalek Khan, who decides to run away rather than shooting him. I know the Daleks are scared of the Doctor but really! I've heard a rumour that the BBC have a deal with the Terry Nation estate which means they must have a Dalek story each season or else they lose the rights to ever use them again. I hope this is incorrect as I really think the Daleks need to be left alone for a good long while as this story, reusing bits from The Parting of the Ways, Remembrance of the Daleks and The Evil of the Daleks as it does suggests they've seriously run out of ideas for now about interesting things to do with them.
So, that's where things are right now. Next week we're back with Martha's irritating family so I suggest we'll hear about the mysterious Mr Saxon again, the closest thing we have to this season's Bad Wolf/ Torchwood. I'm lukewarm about Martha's kin, not least because the Dad seems to be a stereotyped hapless male but, with only a few lines and hardly any screen time so far that may be a view that will be challenged. I wonder if his mid-life crisis girlfriend is around for the Doctor to see as some anti-Rose, again she's only had a few lines and little screen time but it was something I thought I saw straight away in the first episode. Ah well, only a few more episodes and then surely they'll be joining up with Captain Jack...
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I'm not sick but I'm not well...
A mother who goaded her toddlers to fight like dogs for a sick video said yesterday she could not understand what all the "fuss" was about.
Zara Care dismissed widespread disgust at her actions and claimed: "It's a tough world out there and they have to know how to stick up for themselves. You've got to learn to be strong." Care's tearful two-year-old son and three-year-old daughter were filmed begging for mercy as they were forced to punch each other. Despite expressing remorse in court, Care seemed unrepentant yesterday in her first interview since the case. She said: "I feel hard done by. We've had a real hammering from people. The way we see it, everyone's made a mountain out of a molehill. It's a lot of fuss over nothing." She insisted: "When we were kids we were always punching and kicking each other. My mum said it's just what brothers and sisters do and she's right. The kids were fighting normally and I just thought I would film it."
Ummm, my wrong-o-meter has just broken.
In an interview in The People newspaper, Care said she wanted to become a childcare worker "but the court banned me from working with kids".
Now that just seems sooooo unreasonable.
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Saturday, April 28, 2007
Although Miss Playfoot has not worn the ring in classes since last April, she decided to take the school to the High Court "because I didn't want them to think that they had won. You can't treat Christians like this".
Yes, but I think it's fine to do it against the stupid.
Labels: Christianity, stupidity, United Kingdom
Friday, April 27, 2007
Labels: humour, movies, YouTube
And remember... don't let Skeletor touch you in your bathing suit area.
Thursday, April 26, 2007
Music Blah Flowers
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007
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Is That His Own Hair?
Is That His Own Hair?
Originally uploaded by Loz Flowers.
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007
* That's 'slightly less mature' in the sense that Barry Cryer and Grahame Garden haven't been in it yet.
Labels: BBC, comedians, radio, Radio 4
Queers, Know Your Place!
Labels: gay, homophobia, humour, queer, YouTube
Monday, April 23, 2007
But where is atheism when bad things happen? I suppose, in the context of the largely Christian or Christian-influenced western world, it comes down to whether one finds it more comforting to believe that there is a God up there who sits back and allows mankind to mess things up on his own, or whether one finds it more comforting to believe there is no larger power and that it's our responsibility to try and make the world a better place for everyone. I get quite angry when anyone tries to write off disaster as 'part of God's greater plan' or tells me that the dead 'are in a happier place', I can't see a point to living if there's actually a book-sanctioned Big Fella upstairs who decided to make a young man of Korean descent unable to handle rejection. That's what seems truly evil, nihilistic and life-denying to me.
Labels: atheism, atheists, Christianity, death, philosophy, religion, Richard Dawkins, United States
Keep your chin up, ok? Don't let the whole "Death Star getting blown up" thing get you down. It's really my fault just as much as it is yours. Your original plan called for three weak spots, and I asked you to cut it down to one. If I had suggested we get rid of the weak spots altogether none of this would have happened.
[via Kung Fu Monkey]
Labels: humour, science fiction, Star Wars
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Friday, April 20, 2007
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Wednesday, April 18, 2007
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Labels: bombs, stupidity, The War Against Terror
Saturday, April 14, 2007
Friday, April 13, 2007
Labels: humour
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Fuck Oxfam!
Monday, April 09, 2007
Saturday, April 07, 2007
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Does anyone else think the human race has activated it's own self-destruct gene in the last few generations or is it just me?
Labels: India, sex-ed, stupidity
This is my Toblerone, this is my body...
However, if it's not Lindt or Green and Blacks chocolate then the Catholics might have a point.
It would make mass more fun though, especially if they substitute the wine for that stuff from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory that makes you fly around the room until you belch it out.
Labels: Christianity, religion, stupidity, United States
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
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Sunday, April 01, 2007
The Sopranos, Seven Series in Seven Minutes
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(5 out of 5 stars)
"Sometimes when bands go for broader appeal, they make horrible mistakes (Celtic Frost's Cold Lake comes to mind). And then there's the case of Uniform Choice's Staring into the Sun.
UC was a full-on, straight-edge hardcore band, that fit in more with Minor Threat and Agnostic Front ... until they released this. Call me crazy, but this thing rocks. It has soul, it's about love, the songs still have a hardcore feel, but they are organized in more of a pop structure that really works (just skip over "She's Locked In"...it's the only song that really blows). It's not Blink-182 or Green Day (bands that just won't admit they're radio-pop-punk). It's just good music, and it's different. Maybe this is the album that killed UC ... but at some point, you've gotta take a chance. Listen to Avenged Sevenfold and Atreyu - do you hear hardcore melodies? Maybe they bought this album. So should you."
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KH | United States | 09/02/2007
(1 out of 5 stars)
"In the late 80's rumors began circulating that straight edge vanguards Uniform Choice were looking to cultivate a more mature, polished sound. The rumors were true; Staring Into the Sun was the result. Perhaps no other hardcore band has released a follow-up album with such a resounding THUD. Fans of hardcore and sXe music in 1988 were absolutely befuddled by this release, and rightfully so. Gone was the split-second drumming, furious guitars and straight edge anthems so brilliantly executed by Uniform Choice in its previous incarnation. In its place a bunch of guys with long hair were playing alt.rock (and only doing that half-convincingly, even if lyrically the output was still articulate and thoughtful). The sound was such a departure from earlier UC releases it became almost an overnight flop."


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posts on 7/1/2014 7:14:27 PM
Hi, Once again my favorite book by my 5th grade students was The Blue Man. I so wish this book could be published again. I have yet to read any book this exciting in every chapter. That is say something because I read a lot of books. I wish every child could read this book--especially the 10-12 age boys. I read the Blue Man first in 1979 in junior high. I decided to read it again to see if it was as good as I remembered it. It was better. I read the hardback edition copy which I borrowed from a library from out of state. I ended up buying the paperback copy as the hardback editions listed for well over $100. Is it me or is the hardback copy better than the scholastic paperback version I bought? True, the paperback is excellent, but it seemed a cut under the hardback I had read. Your thoughts?
Chris Platt
posts on 6/30/2014 8:30:59 PM
Finally, some good news to report: We will be self-publishing a new edition of Sinbad and Me thru a company called Page Publishing Company. As I get more details and timing, I will post them here. But first, I need your help. We will be publishing an eBook edition and probably a paperback as well. I would like to also publish a hardcover edition, but since this is self-publishing, that is a substantial additional setup charge I do not want to lay out if there is no interest in a hardcover Sinbad. Please, please, if you DO want a hardcover edition of Sinbad and Me, post that desire here on this board. Also it would be great to go to the publishers web page and tell them directly, like a writein campaign. And also please note your preference on the Facebook pages for Kin Platt and Sinbad and Me. I really need your feedback. Thank you.
Chris Platt
posts on 4/23/2014 9:22:20 PM
Folks, if any of you know Steven Kimble, who posted the query below, please contact him for me and let him know I have a copy of Blue Man for him -- Free. I mentioned that here, but he does not seem to have gotten the message. Thanks.
Chris Platt
posts on 1/18/2014 11:07:31 PM
Hi Steve, I think I can help. Several years ago, we reprinted copies of The Blue Man to the original specs, so it looks just like the original. I can send you a copy if you would like. If you send me your email address I will get in touch and get your mailing address. You can try posting it here, or look for me on the main social networking site or business networking site and send me a note there.
Steven Kimble
posts on 1/18/2014 12:06:26 PM
Can anyone help me get a readable copy of The Blue Man for a reasonable price? I would be fine with a reprint or even a photocopy. I recall buying it like 47 years ago from schoolastic books and thouroughly enjoying it many times. I must have lost my copy decades ago and would very much like to read it one more. Any assistance would, of course, be greatly appreciated.
Chris Platt
posts on 12/22/2013 8:09:06 PM
Thanks, Andy. And the same to you and yours. Thanks also for all your encouragement and support while we tried to pull this off. As things stand now, I do not think it will ever work out, but I really appreciate your efforts. Have a great New Year.
Andy Valencia
posts on 12/22/2013 2:07:34 PM
Hi, Chris! I hope you & your family have a great holiday season. Here's hoping that 2014 will be the year you straighten out all the legal details and bring the whole Sinbad series back to print! Regards... Andy Valencia
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posts on 8/6/2013 2:21:35 AM
Interesting to see you saying that. Awhile ago, you told us you were the biggest idiot on this message board. Glad you have broadened your sights because the whole state of Florida is quite an achievement! Tomorrow, The World. But seriously, why do you keep posting this nonsense to the Kin Platt Message Board?
posts on 6/28/2013 7:38:02 PM
Hi Chris, I just sent you invites from both FB and LinkedIn. Hope it's not too late, didn't realize the previous message failed. I guess these social media sites are more restrictive than they used to be. Soon as we're connected I'll send you a message with my address. My Kin Platt book search has paid off with one of the Hitman series (They're Coming to Kill You, Jane)so far. Picked up several of the eBooks last week and am enjoying them all very much. Cynthia - Let me know if I can give you any help. Not sure what I can do but I'll do what I can.
posts on 6/28/2013 6:25:03 PM
I'm not on Facebook much, but I did like the Kin Platt page today (6/28) and sent a message with my address. Hopefully you'll get it! You can let me know here if not or if you have a personal Facebook page. I'm not a frequent user of Facebook, so who knows if I know what I'm doing or not! I know I sure would love a hardcover copy of The Blue Man! My poor falling apart original copy of Sinbad and Me is still with me, purchased as a child from the bookmobile that came to my little school. Cost me all of 60 cents! I loved the story so much it was one of the very few books that stayed with me during hard times and various moves. I bought a better copy on eBay last year for $60 and felt lucky to get it!
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Rumor: Google will use ARM chips from Qualcomm in data centers
Google reportedly developing ARM chips with Qualcomm and announce next week to support these chips in its data centers. If the rumor is true, this is a blow to Intel, which now dominates the market for server chips.
Google plans to use the Qualcomm ARM processors as they perform adequate notice Bloomberg based on anonymous sources. Google and Qualcomm would Google would disclose publicly its support to the project and work together for some time on the development of the chips and next week.
The end of 2013 there were rumors that Google had plans for own server chips. Qualcomm is working even though times on ARM socs for servers and the company now has its first server designs for testing purposes delivered . Google uses according to Cnet since 2005 its own server design and probably works both companies to optimize Qualcomm's ARM server chips for a new server design.
Google is one of the world's largest buyers of chips, for use in its data centers worldwide. Until now, Rose especially Intel the holding. Google buys quarterly 300,000 processors, according to research firm IDC. Intel is with large distance the largest chip supplier for servers, particularly for systems in data centers. Meanwhile, the market turnover makes a third of Intel's out.
Some manufacturers are working on alternative chips based on the ARM architecture for data center applications, including Qualcomm and AMD, but were so far that hardly a threat to Intel. The ARM chips to make data centers especially economical. The consumption of data centers is a growing problem.Viewing:-357
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The hotels in Pamporovo are dotted around all over the place, giving each a sense of peace and quiet, whilst only being a short shuttle-bus ride away from the resort centre. Take for example the Hotel Pamporovo, nestled in its own little section of pine forest, only 600m from the nearest lift. If you really want to get off the beaten trail, the Hotel Rhodopi Home is in the delightful mountain town of Chepelare, perfect for an authentic taste of Bulgaria. If you're having trouble deciding, get in touch and we'll be more than happy to help and give you the rundown on our great deals.
You'll not only have the choice of what standard of accommodation to choose from, but also if B&B, half-board or full-board works best for you.
B&B is not only the cheapest option, but will let you head out and make the most of Pamporovo's great restaurants (we love the White Hart and Chevermeto).
Alternatively, a half-board will give you one less worry about finding somewhere to eat for dinner (not that you'll have a problem like that here!), whilst a full-board takes care of breakfast lunch and dinner for you – sometimes throwing in drinks and snacks too.
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Explore the curiously wondrous world of Walt Disney's animated classic "Alice in Wonderland" aboard an oversized Caterpillar!
Journey down an enchanted rabbit hole into the topsy-turvy realm of Wonderland. Hop atop a king-sized Caterpillar and follow the White Rabbit into the nonsensical realm made famous in the beloved animated movie.
Down, Down, Down!
Wind your way along a curving path surrounded by surreal sights, dazzling colors and madcap music as you retrace the steps of Alice and her adventures in Wonderland. Coast through wacky places like White Rabbit's House, Tulgey Wood and the Queen's Garden, and encounter such zany inhabitants as:
Down and down you go, until you come face-to-face with the dreaded Queen of Hearts. Vexed by a game of croquet, she proclaims, "Off with their heads!" but as you try to leave, the Queen's bumbling army of playing cards blocks your way.
Can you escape in time for a very "unbirthday party" where you're the guest of honor?
Alice in Wonderland is unique to Disneyland Park; you won't find the attraction anywhere else. The famous Fantasyland attraction premiered on June 14, 1958, nearly 3 years after Disneyland Park opened to the public. It is based on Disney's animated feature film Alice in Wonderland, which was released July 28, 1951.
In 1984, the painted cut-outs of the original attraction were replaced with more lively three-dimensional sculpted characters. New lighting and special effects were also added. After 50 years, Alice in Wonderland continues to be a favorite stop in Fantasyland for both children and adults..
Alice in Wonderland may close intermittently to accommodate fireworks performances and will reopen approximately 20 to 30 minutes after the show has concluded.


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Is there a new pencil for the new iPad pro 10.5 announced yesterday, or is the one advertised on the website the latest?
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They didn't announce a new one. You can use the current one with the new iPad Pro 10.5 inch.
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In Central America, a common view of the current situation argues that the U.S. authorities are reconfiguring their imperialist toolkit to resist more successfully the growing influence of Russia and China in the region, especially via Nicaragua. Focusing on the agendas and interests of extra-regional actors, such a view tends to overlook the decisive role played by the Central American people themselves. As for the United States, the fundamental goal of U.S. corporate elites in Central America is what it has always been: they reject any sign of political and economic independence in countries of strategic interest to them.
In fact, now, it is more realistic to speak of U.S. authorities plural rather than a U.S. government. With a president who has effectively admitted his foreign policy is hostage to interests beyond his control, the U.S. has no coherent government as the term is normally understood. The other side of the world from Central America, in Syria, Russia has shown up the U.S. government's incoherence and dishonesty by demonstrating conclusively how the U.S. protects, arms, and equips the pseudo-Islamist terror militias U.S. officials claim to be fighting. This has very real parallels in Central America, where glaring contradictions exist between avowed U.S. government policy in the region and what the U.S. authorities actually foment.
On March 3 this year, the presidents of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, and the U.S. vice president issued a joint statement on their Plan for the Alliance for Prosperity of the Northern Triangle. That statement makes very clear the U.S. authorities' agenda, namely to consolidate U.S. corporate control of the three countries' economies, drawing them away from the influence of the solidarity based Bolivarian Alliance of the Americas (ALBA) led by Venezuela and Cuba. ALBA has been dramatically successful in promoting economic and social investment and well above average levels of economic growth in Nicaragua. Ignoring that reality, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, a consummate charlatan, cynically proposes an agenda suggesting U.S. official concern about human rights and migrants, about organized crime and narcotics and about corruption.
But almost everything in the March 3 joint statement indicates that U.S. policy in the region seeks to replicate the same failed policies that have worsened security, undermined human rights and deepened poverty and inequality in Mexico, and in the United States itself, ever since the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement. The false, glib jargon of the corporate media parroting U.S. propaganda in the region is based on the absurd premise that United States officials have any credibility at all when they offer policy recommendations to anybody. Repeated scandals have made plain that the U.S. financial system is irredeemably corrupt, endowed with an impunity corrupt elites elsewhere can only envy.
The U.S. criminal injustice system and its industrialized incarceration regime is grotesquely repressive, targeting ethnic minorities in the most blatant way imaginable. The U.S. economy is an austerity basket case, incapable of generating productive employment and with the participation rate at historic lows. Inequality in the United States grows year by year with an ever greater number of vulnerable families and individuals falling into extreme poverty. The natural environment of the United States is suffering chronic depredation, threatening the health and well-being of the country's people. Yet this is the very same hopelessly failed policy context from which embarrassing phonies like Barack Obama and Joe Biden brazenly offer advice to Central America and the rest of the world.
In reality, the regional point of reference in Central America now is Nicaragua, which has dramatically reduced levels of poverty by democratizing its economy, especially expanding the cooperative sector and encouraging small agricultural producers and small businesses, systematically increasing the minimum wage, attracting record levels of foreign investment, completely overhauling its energy infrastructure, making major investments in local roads, ports and airports and actively diversifying its global trade relationships. By contrast, the Alliance for Prosperity of the Northern Triangle is a pallid, half-baked imitation of that model, geared entirely towards binding Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador ever more tightly into the dead hand grip of sterile, destructive corporate greed.
Of the three Central American countries in the Alliance, only the government of President Sanchez Ceren in El Salvador is working seriously to develop policies to democratize the country's society and economy, against fierce opposition from the country's reactionary elite. Last Sunday's election result in Guatemala suggests that the right wing in the Alliance for Prosperity countries feel satisfactorily entrenched in defense of the U.S. elite's regional interests. Guatemala's President elect Jimmy Morales is little more than an effective public relations spokesperson for the agenda of Guatemala's most reactionary corporate military elite. That election result in Guatemala comes immediately after a decisive sharpening of the reactionary post-coup regime in Honduras via the U.S. Embassy's recent intervention forcing the closure of the business empire of Liberal party veteran Jaime Rosenthal Olivas.
In every single area of concern to Central America's impoverished majority, regional reality contradicts the rhetoric of the U.S. authorities and their regional allies. Far from wanting to halt migration, the U.S. corporate economy depends on desperate migrants both for their cheap labor and for their overall positive contribution to U.S. gross domestic product. Far from being anxious to promote human rights, U.S. corporate elites depend on military and police repression to advance and secure their business interests in the region. Far from needing to crack down on organized crime and money laundering, the U.S. authorities are extremely anxious to control those activities for their own ends, just as they have promoted false Islamist takfiri terrorism in Libya and Syria.
Above all, the United States authorities and their covert arms work to manipulate the narcotics industry and its logistics network in Central America. While no doubt many members of the Guatemalan and Honduran security forces genuinely attempt to combat the narcotics industry in their countries, many of their superiors are actively implicated in narcotics just as their counterparts are in Mexico. The Salvadoran authorities face a desperately hard task trying to control organized crime and narcotics, as demonstrated by the transport stoppage provoked by the mara crime gangs earlier this year. Again, as in almost every other sphere of social and economic policy, Nicaragua leads the region as a bulwark against organized crime and narcotics.
Nicaragua's crime statistics are a categorical indictment of failed U.S. security policy in the region and that of its allies in Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala. Nicaragua has just under nine murders per 100,000 inhabitants, the third lowest in all of Latin America. This year, the incidence of rape fell by 20 percent compared to 2014. In 2015, the country has had three kidnappings for extortion and all of the victims were rescued by the police with no ransom paid. Over the last five years, the incidence of robberies with menaces has fallen by two thirds. The security forces, with the lowest budget in the region, confiscated five and a half tons of cocaine, US$3 million in illicit cash, hundreds of firearms, almost 200 vehicles and 30 boats, closing down hundreds of points of sale of crack. Nine nascent local drugs cartels were broken up along with 260 crime gangs across the country.
According to the World Economic Forum, in the Americas only Canada and Nicaragua scored zero this year for the indicator of Crime and Robbery as the most important problem for doing business in those countries. After Canada and Chile, Nicaragua has the lowest cost of crime and violence suffered by businesses in the Americas. The World Economic Forum also places Nicaragua among the four best countries in the Americas in terms of "competitiveness for tourism and travel". Vanderbilt University in the U.S. reckons Nicaragua has the lowest perception of insecurity in the Americas, with the lowest level of extortion and the highest rating of any Latin American country in "citizen security" at 66 percent.
The director general of Nicaragua's police is a woman, Aminta Granera. Commissioner Granera read out these figures at this year's ceremony marking the 36th anniversary of the founding of Nicaragua's first democratically accountable police service by the Sandinista People's Revolution of 1979. She said the statistics, "express the effectiveness of our Retaining Wall Strategy which is nothing but the morale, the values, the model promoted by our government of reconstruction and national unity, values with which we were formed in our revolutionary origins and which we have sought to preserve. A model that provides for coordination between all the institutions of the government and the state with the Nicaraguan people as the main protagonist of their own security."
At the same event, President Ortega noted in relation to Nicaragua's outstanding levels of security, "We're not satisfied and even if we were in first place on the planet we can't be satisfied; because the violence on the planet is of such dimension, crime, genocide, of such dimension that no one has the moral authority to throw the first stone. And those who want to throw the first stone are those with the least moral authority to do so. They want to come and measure us and rate us on the theme of human rights, the greatest abusers of the human rights of people who've violated and continue violating the human rights of entire peoples … Who? The great powers. Who? The developed countries of global capitalism who think because they have money they can set the rules, judge and punish whoever they want."
The soft coup against Otto Perez selectively facilitated under U.S. auspices by the U.N. Commission against impunity in Guatemala along with the liquidation of the businesses of Jaime Rosenthal at the insistence of the U.S. Embassy in Honduras are two immediate examples of what President Ortega was talking about. Very plainly, the U.S. authorities are exploiting the motif of corruption as part of its overall campaign to impose their counterproductive, pernicious corporate agenda in the region. It is an open question as to whether the U.S. has any coherent foreign policy in Central America. Certainly, in terms of results, the Alliance for Prosperity has no chance of competing with the solidarity-based model of ALBA as implemented in Nicaragua. There is already an extremely successful social, economic and political model in Central America and it is called the Sandinista popular revolution.


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ROX Trinity Leeds
Located in Trinity Leeds, our ROX Leeds store is a beautiful boutique offering the UK's most stunning diamond jewellery. As the first store to be opened in England, ROX Trinity Leeds holds a special place in our hearts and the boutique is just as stunning as you'd expect from ROX.
Intimate and luxurious our ROX Leeds Boutique opened in October 2013 and is our first own branded boutique, exhibiting the finest Diamonds and ROX Jewellery collections.
Located in a bustling, creative area of the centre, step inside and you are instantly encapsulated into a haven filled with elegance and style.
We have provided a self- indulgent shopping environment without compromising on central location.
In addition to a luxurious and stylish browsing area where you will see all the stunning jewellery on offer, ROX Trinity Leeds also houses one of our famous Moët & Chandon Champagne Bars to make the diamond buying experience all the more thrilling.
ROX Trinity Leeds showcases our stunning lines of diamond engagement rings, diamond jewellery and our exclusive ROX jewellery lines so you're sure to find something you love and cherish forever.
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Royal Caribbean International's (RCI) Allure of the Seas has shown from her christening that she is more than a follow up to the largest cruise ship on Earth. In fact, she is the very largest — five centimeters longer than Oasis of the Seas, which debuted in December 2009.
Allure has already garnered plenty of buzz from the entertainment industry: "The Today Show" with Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb broadcasted live segments from her, Taylor Swift performed amid week-long "Taylor-mania" activities and Adam Sandler and Katie Holmes filmed portions of "Jack and Jill" onboard. Even Oprah Winfrey chose Allure as one of her Favorite Things.
The naming ceremony was also over the top, as Princess Fiona from "Shrek" presided in 3-D. While this wasn't the first time an animated character served as a ship's godmother (Tinkerbell was chosen for the Disney Wonder), this was the first godmother in 3-D.
The move underlined RCI's new partnership with DreamWorks Animation, which involves 3-D movies, a "How to Train Your Dragon Ice Show," a "Madagascar Aqua Show" and characters from "Shrek" and "Kung Fu Panda" featured in Royal Promenade parades.
Overall onboard entertainment continues to impress at the AquaTheater on Allure, which presents the new "OceanAria," a story of ancient people of the sea told through gymnastics, spectacular diving, synchronized swimming and dancing fountains. The Broadway hit, "Chicago," is also performed onboard.
The layout on Allure is almost exactly like that of Oasis, with seven neighborhoods that spread guests throughout the ship and make Allure seem much more intimate than she is. The design is so cleverly done that there is little crowding, except for in the Windjammer Marketplace and during Royal Promenade parades.
In port, RCI has created a number of stations at the docks so passengers can reboard the ship quickly, and the process is often faster than on ships with considerably fewer guests to handle.
Allure has plenty of onboard amenities as well, from the iPod docking stations in all accommodations, unique at this point in the fleet, to new dining options. One restaurant that adds panache to the ship's nightlife is Rita's Cantina on the Boardwalk. It's a combination of a Mexican beach bar and Southern California taqueria, offering the likes of tequila, margaritas, guacamole, shrimp ceviche tostados and taco salads. The cover price for food is approximately $8. Live guitar music and dancing attract passengers to the Boardwalk at night.
Another addition on the Boardwalk is complimentary and very popular, especially with families. The Boardwalk Dog House is a glorified hot dog stand, with bratwurst, hot dogs, sausages and lots of toppings. The Dog House has taken the position occupied by the heavily visited Donut Shop on Oasis. (The store moved next to the Ice Cream Parlor.)
Following its Coach store on Oasis, Allure debuted the first Guess store at sea, placed on the Royal Promenade in place of the photography store. Another new feature is the guest kiosks in the Promenade, where passengers can print out their running bills or email them, print airline reservations and keep track of their alternative restaurant reservations, spa appointments, etc. The Royal Promenade also claims the first Starbucks at sea, open from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. with all the standard Starbucks choices.
Among younger passengers, Allure drew praise with the Adventure Ocean Theater and Science Lab and the teen areas, Fuel Disco, The Living Room and the Back Deck. Like Oasis, the ship has the Royal Babies and Tots nursery service.
Apart from the FlowRiders, an ice skating rink and sports courts, Allure has a huge selection of spa and fitness services available, from 158 cardio and resistance machines to a Youth Spa, Vitality Cafe and kickboxing, spinning and yoga classes. The spa has couples' massages, a dry float bed and steam rooms for men and women.
In terms of accessibility, Allure shines, with 46 wheelchair accessible staterooms (33 with balconies). The wonderful handmade Carousel on the Boardwalk has a ramp for wheelchairs, and the basketball court, miniature golf course, video arcade and youth and teen center are accessible. In addition, all of the 24 dining and bar venues offer wheelchair seating and, like every Royal Caribbean Cruise Line ship, Allure has a pool and a whirlpool with lifts.
Shipbuilders contend that every ship has a very different character, even if it is an exact construction duplicate of other vessels. Allure certainly has her own personality offering a taste of show business and a lot of enjoyment for those who sail with her.


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The Villa Gallici Hotel in France offers seven acres of old world charm and luxury. The hotel once served as the 18th century villa of Provençal house member of Relais et Châteaux.
The Villa Gallici is furnished with rich sumptuous fabrics that make you feel like you've stepped back in time, so the hotel not only offers posh services but an ideal place to relax in the shade of the garden or at the pool. While you'll feel like you're in the middle of nowhere, the villa is located just steps away from the heart of the city of Aix-en-Provence.
Aix en Provence
Aix en Province is located at the heart of Provence between the Luberon and the French Riviera where Italy and Spain meet at the foot of the Sainte Victoire. It's a "spa town" with several fountains located at the heart of the city.
Accommodations at the Villa Gallici Hotel
Guests of the Villa Gallici Hotel have the choice of 22 bedrooms and suites, and most of them overlook a secluded lavender fragrance-filled garden or terrace. Rooms are decorated with stunning textiles and brightly colored embroidered materials.
Accommodations include:
- 3 classical bedrooms
- 3 superior bedrooms
- 6 luxury bedrooms
- 5 junior terrace suites
- 5 terrace suites
The spacious suites are furnished with Provencal boudoir fantasy style period pieces, but offer every modern comfort.
Fine Dining at the Villa Gallici
The dining experience at the Villa Gallici offers a blend of flavors that balance tradition and creative new dishes like butter fried scallops, or fine saffron gelly with lemon pepper.
At twilight, a thousand candles light the restaurant with a flickering glow reflected on each table and in the cozy lounges where friends and family gather on plush sofas. In the spring and summer outdoor seating is also available under the trees.
It's an ideal setting to enjoy a wine matched to your preference.
If you're ready to be pampered during your stay in France, the Villa Gallici offers remarkable service waiting to discretely care for your every need.
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Testing my new Daniel Smith watercolors! Love the deep earth colors!
Added the sweet tree stamp from Penny Black
Absolutely stunning!!! I'm amazed with what you do with watercolors.
So many elegant cards on this one page. Very beautiful.
I love this stamp and both of these are beautiful!
These are lovely. I am especially drawn to the neutral colors on the second card. TFS.
Gorgeous Earth Tones for your backgrounds, Birgit. Beautiful with your heat embossed trees. TFS Hugs.
These are lovely watercolour backgrounds in such pretty muted shades Birgit and I love the way you merge the colours and the white trees are just perfect over them. x


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The 'First Kiss' video that went viral last week has since sparked many first kiss parodies. This most recent one features Saudi men greeting each other for the first time in the traditional form of rubbing noses.
Though it is supposed to be a custom, the rubbing noses aspect of this video is just as awkward and funny to watch as this video's predecessor. The men in the video seem more modern in their traditions and aren't accustomed to the touching of their noses. One man jokingly said, "I've never done it before. I'm afraid I might just kiss him." Others didn't waste any time and just nose-dove right in.
This geographical social experience is making these 20 men well-known not only in Saudi Arabia, but worldwide. The video was only posted yesterday, and has almost 200,000 views.
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