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OTSUCHI, Japan — Four days ago, Otsuchi was just another Japanese coastal town, a destination for surfers and lovers of remote beaches. Now, only a supermarket and a Buddhist temple remain standing amid a sea of devastation.
Like most of Japan's northeast, Otsuchi was rattled by Friday's massive earthquake and then flattened by the ensuing tsunami. More than half the town's population of about 19,000 is buried under the rubble, officials say.
"Otsuchi reminds me of Osaka and Tokyo after World War II," Tadateru Konoe, president of Japan's Red Cross, told Reuters, as rescue workers swarmed over rubble, twisted metal and debris, some of it ablaze.
"Everything is destroyed and flattened. This is a complete disaster. In my long career in the Red Cross, this is the worst I have ever seen," he said.
Fires burned in the hills overlooking Otsuchi, complicating rescue efforts. Near-freezing temperatures, and the extent of the devastation, made chances for surviving this disaster slim.
"It really doesn't get any worse than this — I've never seen anything so bad," said Patrick Fuller of the International Red Cross Federation of the Red Cross. "It is feared that more than half the town's population is buried."
All along the ravaged northeastern Pacific coast, there were similar scenes of destruction. The wall of water transported homes inland, swept ships into fields, upended cars and, in one instance, lifted a sailing boat onto the roof of a house.
As many as 10,000 people are thought to have been killed. Kyodo news agency said 2,000 bodies had been found on the shores of Miyagi prefecture, which suffered the brunt of the damage.
In Minami Sanriku, Pulitzer Prize-winning Reuters photographer Adrees Latif said the waves wiped out the whole town. More than 10,000 people were unaccounted for, but some families who lived in the surrounding hillside survived and could be seen scrambling across the rubble to get to what once was the centre of town.
"I have seen similar disasters — I covered the (2004 Indian Ocean) tsunami from Thailand — but I have never seen anything like this in my life," Latif said. "I stopped shooting for a while to look out on to the town, and I just stood there in disbelief."
The enormity of the disaster has shaken Japan to the core.
Survivors walked through the rubble, many in tears after losing loved ones, others unsure of the fate of family and friends. They lined up in front of notice boards at emergency centres looking for news.
"I am looking for my parents and my older brother," a weeping Yuko Abe, 54, said at an emergency centre in Rikuzentakata, an all-but-flattened town of 24,500 people in far-northern Iwate prefecture.
"Seeing the way the area is, I think perhaps they did not make it. I also cannot tell my siblings who live away that I am safe, as mobile phones and telephones are not working."
Many spent another freezing night huddled in blankets around heaters in shelters along the coast. Almost two million households were without power, the government said. There were about 1.4 million without running water.
Prime Minister Naoto Kan said food, water and other necessities such as blankets were being delivered by vehicles but because of damage to roads, authorities were considering air and sea transport.
In Kuji, the Kita Nihon Zosen ship-parts factory was reduced to matchwood and a skeletal frame by the tsunami, but some staff turned up for work anyway on Monday and waited at the front gate, smoking cigarettes.
Many were in shock. One young worker at the ship parts factory explained why he was there. "Because it's a work day," he said.
When the earthquake hit, factory boss Teruo Nakano sent a few workers to look at the sea level. The tide often recedes abnormally in a tsunami before the huge volume of water gathers in height on the shallowing shore and strikes.
"Just after the quake, the water level was already a metre lower, so we thought 'this is bad' and escaped immediately to higher ground," he said.
All the workers survived. Nakano said he planned to send them all home.
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Located in Naple, B&B Il Sorriso is less than a 10-minute walk from Cavour Metro Station. It features large air-conditioned rooms with balcony, a sweet breakfast daily, and free Wi-Fi in the shared areas.
The rooms have a modern style, and some are set on 2 levels. Each comes with a TV and an en suite bathroom with shower.
At the Sorriso B&B you can start the day in the dining room, where a sweet breakfast is served daily. It includes sweet pastries and croissants, together with hot drinks.
The Chiesa di San Severo church is a 10-minute walk from the property, while the harbour is 1.2 miles away.
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In today's first round matchup of The Motley Fool Better-Buy Tournament, Groupon squares off against Atwood Oceanics in a battle to determine which stock is the better buy now. The 64-company tournament pits two Motley Fool analysts against each other as they make the case for their stocks, with the winner determined by you, the readers.
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My take on the character design was a bit more realistic than the original. I decided to show details of his face instead of it all being completely black. I think it makes more sense that way.
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A Sailor Moon themed restaurant is coming to Tokyo later this month, as part of the art exhibit on the media franchise at Roppongi Hills. The Chibiusa Cafe has just unveiled its menu, and holy crap, Sailor Moon fans in Tokyo are in for a (technicolor) treat.
There's a Sailor Moon Special Hamburger with star-shaped tater tots, a Heavenly Miracle Romance Parfait, a Luna P Ball Berry Mousse and an Evil Black Crystal Cocktail, among other items. Click here to see the full list and photos.
Like the Sailor Moon art exhibit, the Chibiusa Cafe will run from a limited time: April 16 is opening day, and the restaurant will close down on June 19. Book your plane tickets ASAP!
In the meantime, check out this revealing documentary about the LGBTQ community's connection to the Sailor Moon franchise.


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Come for a full day of crafting......no interruptions, great food, optional classes & bingo, and chocolate & socializing. Hope you can make it.
- Those registered for the All Day Event will have access to my inventory of Big Shot products, inks, and stamps(by request).
- I will have Stampin' Up! kits available for purchase if you are wanting to work on quck & easy projects.
- Registration options: You can register for the All Day Event, or to individual classes(different fees apply).
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- Card designs will be posted Feb. 1st.
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BEIJING — As Dechan Pemba left her apartment Tuesday morning, seven or eight government security officials surrounded her, she says, including some who apparently had been waiting in her landlord's apartment.
The 30-year-old ethnic Tibetan, a British national who is a part-time English teacher, tried to explain that she was running late, but they insisted that she return to her apartment to talk, saying it would take only 20 minutes.
Instead, the two-year Beijing resident says, they held her for 4 1/2 hours, then she was unceremoniously put aboard an airplane, deported and told she couldn't return for five years.
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George Kenneth (Ken) Anderson, 89, who moved to Laguna Beach from Detroit with his wife, Bette, in 1987, died Dec. 18 at Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach. The cause of death was septic shock, following partial recovery from an ischemic stroke in November 2008.
Anderson was born in Detroit, Michigan, on Oct. 14, 1921, and served as a B17 pilot in England in World War II and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters and two Battle Stars. He was a B29 pilot instructor and flew in the Michigan Air National Guard, remaining in the Air Force Reserve as an Academy liaison officer until his retirement in 1971 as a Lt. Col. His civilian career included management positions in marketing and sales with the Ford Motor Company until 1987, and his educational background included a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan, an MBA from Wayne State and an associate degree in fine arts from Saddleback College.


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Been looking through some old photos lately, getting ready to make our family yearbooks. It is nuts to me how much my babies have grown. They were so little!
Just babies! And now they are walking, talking, big kids! Emmie's language skills have just exploded recently. It is totally endearing and yet absolutely bittersweet. Where is my baby going?
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2015 is a very important year when it comes to single occupant carpool lanes and changes being instilled for many qualifying vehicles. High-occupancy vehicle lanes, also known as HOV lanes, is a network of special-use freeway lanes that connect major population and employment centers. These lanes work to increase freeway efficiency by moving more people in fewer vehicles than the full lane next to them, and also save time for both bus riders and carpoolers when it comes to areas of congestion. Everybody stays on schedule and remains happy. Typically, drivers were always permitted to use the HOV lanes only when there were two or more people in the vehicle. However, it has also been determined that single occupants operating hybrid vehicles could also take advantage of these lanes.
For California, there has been news regarding single-occupant use of carpool lanes. This is because, as of October 5, 2015, the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) began issuing 75,954 Green Clean Air Vehicle decals. To use these lanes in California with a single occupant, a Clean Air Vehicle Sticker must have been distributed to you by the DMV. Here are the two types of stickers still available and what they do:
- White Decals: These decals were made available to an unlimited number of qualifying Federal Inherently Low Emission Vehicles (ILEVs). These vehicles are typically 100% battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell.
- Green Decals: These were originally available to the first 40,000 applicants that purchased or leased cars that met California's transitional emission vehicles requirement, which was an enhanced advanced technology partial zero emission vehicle requirement. The green decal limit has been raised to a maximum of 85,000, which was immediately effective.
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Hi all,
Dean Decker of the Folsom office of the BLM informed me a couple of weeks ago that the Stevens Trail and Blue Wing/Fords Bar Trail both have public easements on them, as enacted by the Placer County Board of Supervisors. Subsequently I learned that Wendell T. Robie was one of the principal advocates of these easements. Decker was kind enough to supply the date and ordinance number for the two actions by the BOS. The BOS staff in Auburn sent me copies of the two ordinances.
The first ordinance, #301B of May 11, 1953, is a remarkable document. It lists dozens and dozens of trails and roads, referencing them to various U.S.G.S. maps pubished around the turn of the century. It often specifies section numbers and townships. Among the specified trails are the Donner Trail, the Green Valley Trail, the Stevens Trail, the Blue Wing/Fords Bar Trail, and the China Trail from Lost Camp to Sawtooth Ridge. Copies of the maps were filed with this ordinance. The essence of this ordinance is that all the roads and trails shown on the U.S.G.S. maps specified, are declared public roads and trails, and that it is a misdemeanor to block or obstruct them in any way, save for an unlocked gate to limit ingress or egress of stock.
The second ordinance, #312B of January 11, 1954, (Section 1) repeals all of the first ordinance. It then proceeds to state (Section 2) that "All public trails, public hiking trails, public riding trails, public county trails and public roads situated in the County of Placer, State of California, are hereby declared to be County roads, and subject to the following herinafter provided rules and regulations for the use of said trails and roads."
The sections that follow are almost identical to those concluding the first ordinance, forbidding the closure or obstruction of public roads and trails, except by unlocked gates for control of stock, and declaring it a misdemeanor to close or obstruct a public trail.
I am no lawyer, but it seems to me that by repealing all the specific language of the first ordinance, with its long list of trails referenced to historic maps, and only declaring that all public trails and roads are County roads, the BOS managed to sidestep the issue entirely. As much to say, it is not for the BOS to say what trail is or is not a "public" trail. That, apparently, is left for the courts.
So it would appear to me that there is no formal public easement on the Stevens Trail or on the Blue Wing/Fords Bar Trail, or on any of the trails listed in the first ordinance. Too bad.
I wonder if any provision for public roads and trails was made in the legislation signed by Lincoln making the land grants to the CPRR. Since Robie (I presume) made his list of trails for the BOS in 1953, many of the historic trails have been blocked or obliterated by logging and road construction, both on Forest Service land and on the Southern Pacific railroad lands. Today the old railroads lands are mostly owned by Sierra Pacific Industries.
Other North Fork Trails news:
1. We haven't heard anything from the Gold Run Properties people regarding possible purchase of the Canyon Creek Placer Mine.
2. A list of about fifteen trails, with descriptions, was sent to Supervisor Rex Bloomfield. Rex may be able to interest the Placer Legacy in land acquisition around some of these trails. We are starting to amass photographs of some of the trails and of the North Fork American Canyon, for a more polished presentation of our objectives in preserving and enhancing public access to these historic trails.
3. I need a good, 3 megapixel digital camera (Nikon 990, for instance) to help forward this work. I have all the tools to make PDF files and burn them onto CD's for distribution to our elected representatives, and to organizations like the BLM, Placer Legacy, Trust for Pulic Land, Forest Service, etc. But I need a good digital camera.
[The blog post above was extracted from an archive of Russell's emails to his "North Fork Trails" email distribution list.
Posted by Richard L. Towle (Russell's brother)]
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Home Theater in a Box systems, abbreviated as HTB, are absolutely the last kind of system I'd recommend to someone. However, my recent experience with Fluance has given me pause with the announcement of their new AV5HTB home theater in a box system. Even given Fluance's positive reputation, I had to do a triple-take when I saw the $199 price-tag.
For $199, you get two bookshelf speakers, a timbre-matched center speaker and two monopole surround speakers. There is no subwoofer in this system and I'm so thankful to Fluance for not trying to incorporate a sub-par sub with this setup. One of my biggest complaints with HTB systems is that their subs tend to be absolutely terrible.
True to form, I've grown to really respect Fluance's philosophy and approach of building speakers that emphasize their quality over a given frequency range as opposed to developing speakers that try to do too much and end up being masters of none.
The AV5HTB speakers come with MDF wood construction and silk-dome tweeters. The Fluance AV5HTB is only available in ash black finish and come with a 30 day risk free in-home trial.
If you're in the market for an entry-level 5.0 home theater system that might be able to give you the available cash to purchase a real, high-quality, entry level sub from the likes of SVS, then I'd absolutely give this new system from Fluance a serious look. You can check out the HV5HTB online here.


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Indy: You've called the making of your new album, Quiet Nights, your greatest studio experience. What made it special?
DK: I think I was in really good shape because I came straight off of the road after touring really quite hard through Europe all summer. So I was with [bassist John Clayton and drummer Jeff Hamilton], and we just went in the studio. And because I was in really good vocal shape and in good physical health and my chops were where they should be, I think that's the way to prepare for a record, even though it's daunting at first.
Indy: Quiet Nights is upbeat and romantic, and it seems to reflect your life now with your husband, Elvis Costello, and your twin sons, who were born in 2006. What's family life like?
DK: I'm laughing all the time. When my kids are around, you lighten up pretty quick ... I like having my family around me. I have [my musical] family around me, but I like having my kids. They're just little lights ... And he [Costello] is just such an amazing father and person. We both are just loving being parents.
Indy: You recently finished your first outside production project, producing none other than Barbra Streisand's new record. How did that go?
DK: She made me feel comfortable. She really trusted me and she also isn't afraid to speak her mind. So you always know where you stand. And you always know what everybody's feelings are, because they're right there. We had a great time socially as well. If we had to wait a little too long in the studio, we'd deal cards and play gin rummy, and that always just lightened things up. And we laughed a lot and told stories.
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Having just reached my 90 days clean, I have been reflecting on my life since I quit using.
I have had so many good things, so many blessings given to me since I quit using meth that I am really struggling right now. I feel as though everything was so fucked up in my life for so long because of my bad decisions that I don't deserve anything good.
Every morning I wake up and,
honestly, I'm afraid that it's going to be taken away from me. I mean what did I do other than use drugs for how many years? What have I done to deserve a great job that I absolutely love going to every single day? What have I done to deserve my healthy, smart and beautiful children that I have great relationships with? I keep waiting for it to all come crashing down because it always does.


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"Art Quiz: Mirrored Or Not?" is a quiz which invites you to test your knowledge of art and painting. Current version of the game consists of 50 famous paintings, some of which are shown in their correct form, some are shown as their mirror image. The aim in quiz is to work out which are correct and which are not. During the game you have an option to look at both current/mirrored views of the painting trying to find out the correct view.
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This kit contains 102 components, a Space Marines Transfer Sheet, five 40mm round bases, and one 25mm round base with which to make a Deathwing Command Squad, Deathwing Knights or five Deathwing Terminators.
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The highest-ranking members of the 1st Company's Inner Circle are sometimes accompanied by a Command Squad from the 1st Company.
Such a hand-picked formation of the most veteran Deathwing Terminators makes a formidable unit, ideal for a bodyguard or to be assigned special duties.
The Command Squad stands resplendent in the iconography of the Dark Angels and Space Marines, as well as wing motifs, rivets, searchlights and studs.
As well as options for an Apothecary and Champion, and storm bolters, power sword and power fists, there are interesting features such as an under-slung plasma cannon, a censer-featuring halberd of Caliban.
The kit includes the eerie-looking miniature of the Watcher in the Dark, which embraces a Perfidious Relic, and stands in a long cloak – out of which pokes a power-armoured foot.
This fantastic box set will provide numerous options for the Warhammer 40,000 collector and modeller alike.
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By Joseph Leray
Yesterday, Hitbox Team game designer Woodley Nye announced the studio's follow-up to last year's "Dustforce:" it's a first-person tower climbing game called "Spire," and it was apparently influenced by "Quake 3's" rocket-jumping.
"One of our goals since the beginning has been to create an FPS movement system that feels snappy like Dustforce, incorporating walljumps, wall sliding and other advanced techniques," Nye writes. "The level generation will result in scenes that demand mastery of all sorts of skills, not just running and aiming."
Nye goes on to explain that the team wants "'Spire' to exude a sense of exploration and mystery, but also promote flashy and skillful play. … We tend to agree that the 'best' way to play a game should look and feel cool."
"Spire" is a fantasy game about reaching the top of a mysterious, procedurally generated building, with new items, monsters, and level design for each playthrough. These elements won't be completely randomized, though, as Spire uses some sort of Left 4 Dead-esque AI Director to manage the rhythm of the game.
"Environments and the transition between them tell a story," Nye explains. "If the generator has created a dangerous, frantic sequence with lots of combat, it might think to then generate a scene with lower intensity to better control the emotional arc of the experience. In this way, 'Spire' will generate intentional level flow instead of randomized environments."
Hitbox Team is promising that the enemies and items will be "non-standard": avoiding traditional fantasy elements like elves and goblins will make enemies feel "new and unfamiliar," they write. The choice of in-game items seems to have a similar goal -- I don't see any swords or shields, but there are harps and cannons, apparently.
There's no release date yet -- though the team is "well into development" -- but comments on the Hitbox blog suggest release for PC, Mac, and Linux, thanks to the versatility of "Spire's" Unity engine.
Moving from "Dustforce" -- a graceful and precise 2D platformer -- to "Spire" seems quite ambitious, but the promise of first-person free-running game that isn't Brink is exciting. EA and DICE seem obstinately opposed to developing a Mirror's Edge sequel, but Hitbox Team may be up to the task of bringing wall jumps and parkour back in style.
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SOURCE: Rumblefish
December 06, 2011 10:00 ET
CD Baby's 3.5 Million Songs Now Can Be Added Into Rumblefish Catalog and Used in Online Videos, Slideshows, Presentations and Games
CD Baby's 3.5 Million Songs Now Can Be Added Into Rumblefish Catalog and Used in Online Videos, Slideshows, Presentations and Games
PORTLAND, OR--(Marketwire - Dec 6, 2011) - Rumblefish, the leader in music licensing for social media, today announced a partnership with CD Baby, the world's largest indie music store and online music distributor. With this partnership, consumers and businesses will be able to add music from CD Baby's catalog into YouTube videos and other online videos, slideshows, presentations and games using the Rumblefish API, Friendly Music and the Music Licensing Store. The partnership also means CD Baby artists will have access to the lucrative traditional sync licensing market -- advertising, film, TV and games -- also an important revenue source for any indie artist or label.
"We're here to help our artists connect with their fans through every avenue available. Fans can add soundtracks to their videos and slideshows, and they can share them on their favorite sites like YouTube and Vimeo, as well as in mobile apps like Animoto and Instagram," said CD Baby President Brian Felsen. "Rumblefish is the clear leader in sync licensing and can open these doors for our artists through its deals with social destinations like YouTube."
CD Baby has approximately 3.5 million tracks in its digital distribution catalog, including some of the top indie artists such as Ingrid Michaelson, Joe Purdy, recent Grammy nominee Linda Chorney and Macklemore. In early October 2011, CD Baby launched integration with Facebook, allowing artists to create a storefront and pages there. It has directly paid its approximately 250,000 artists over $200 million in royalties to date. Starting December 15th, CD Baby artists can sign up at no extra charge to become part of the Rumblefish catalog in their account at https://members.cdbaby.com/SyncLicensing/SyncLicensing.aspx.
"CD Baby has always been a leader in independent music and we're humbled to plug their amazing catalog into the worlds of social media and sync licensing," said Rumblefish founder and CEO Paul Anthony. "The opportunities in sync licensing have never been bigger. There are hundreds of millions of consumers looking to add soundtracks to billions of videos, photos and other user-generated content, not to mention several thousand professional music supervisors working on commercial productions. We want to help them all create the perfect soundtrack."
To date, Rumblefish has licensed about 5 million soundtracks from its music catalog into user-generated videos, slideshows, presentations and games. To see Rumblefish's living counter of soundtracks licensed, look in the upper right hand corner of www.rumblefish.com.
About CD Baby
CD Baby is the largest digital distributor of independent music in the world. CD Baby distributes over 3.5 million tracks to dozens of digital music retailers including iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody, and Spotify, and pays artists weekly for their product sales. From their Portland, OR headquarters, they warehouse and ship over 360,000 independent CD titles to a customer base that spans the entire globe. The company also offers other services to musicians such as the ability to accept credit cards at shows, web hosting through their sister company HostBaby, and eBook distribution through BookBaby.
About Rumblefish
Rumblefish is a pioneer in music licensing and has been a trusted provider of music for top TV shows, films, ad agencies and video games for over a decade. The company has always made artists and labels its priority, and has paid millions in royalties to its members for the licensed use of their music. Rumblefish launched the Music Licensing Store in 2006, dubbed "an iTunes for Corporate America" (CNBC). It was the world's first online resource for 100 percent copyright-cleared music for businesses. In 2008 the company struck a landmark licensing deal with YouTube and in the summer of 2010 deepened that relationship with the launch of Friendly Music, a website where consumers can license soundtracks. The company now boasts the world's largest music catalog for social media and diverse clientele including Animoto, Virtual Active, Amazon Studios, Kaiser Permanente and Google among others.
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2013 Florida Legislature leaves $51 billion on federal table
2013 Florida Legislature leaves $51 billion on federal table
By Roger Caldwell
The President of the Florida Senate Don Gaetz (R-Niceville) and Florida House Speaker Will Weatherford (R-Wesley Chapel) would like to congratulate the 2013 Florida Legislature for an historic session that was extremely productive and transformational. I am always amazed by the level of bills that are introduced and passed in 60 days by the Florida Legislature. At this point I am still wondering if this is enough time to get the job done properly, because our governor has signed over 20 bills and most Floridians don't have any idea who they will help or hurt.
I am even starting to think that most Florida legislators have a limited understanding about most of the bills in the session and they vote as a partisan block. The leaders of both houses and the governor determine months before the session starts, the direction and focus of the Legislative session, and powerful lobbyists write the bills. It would be very interesting to find out which legislator had read and understands every bill that they voted on.
As the governor congratulates everyone for a job well done, the AARP Florida's state director had a different perspective on the 2013 legislative session. "The test of leadership is to solve problems. This year the Florida Legislature failed that test on important issues regarding the health of older Floridians. The failure of health-care expansion was quite simply a blunder. This Legislature came up short for more than eight million Floridians 50 and over on critical health-related issues," said State Director Jeff Johnson.
Under federal law Floridians could have gotten $51 billion worth of federal aid to expand health coverage under the Medicaid program. This is a slap in the face, because by failing to expand Medicaid coverage 1 million uninsured Floridian will miss out on health coverage. When the House refuses to act, the spirit of collaboration goes out the window, and the Legislature fails to deliver to the Floridians they serve.
Our governor has refused millions of federal funding connected to health-care, because he was philosophically against the Affordable Care Act. But once the Supreme Court upheld the law as constitutional, our governor made statements making it appear that he supported the ACA. Nevertheless, our elected legislators failed to reach an agreement on expanding health care coverage in Florida, and now as a state we are a square one, and it makes no sense.
On October 1, 2013, states will be required to have a health insurance marketplace and Florida appears to be behind in its implementation of this component of the ACA. The federal government has stated that it would pick up 100 percent of the cost of the implementation of the bill until 2016. It makes no sense for legislators and our governor to leave $51 billion on the federal table.
The ACA is a very complicated law but it provides jobs and funding, and it helps one million Floridian families and residents receive access to basic preventive medical care. Even if our legislators are forced to call a special session this year, they must be forced to act on the expansion of Medicaid and the implementation of the Health Insurance Marketplace. Floridians are disappointed in our representatives and we must let them know.


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Welcome to the Historic Conley Hills Neighborhood Association Website.
The Office of Government Operations and the Core Staff of the Capital Improvement Team ask you to SAVE THE DATE for two upcoming community meetings – Saturday, July 25th and Tuesday, July 28th.
City of East Point
Sewer System Evaluation Survey
Join the Office of Government Operations and the Capital Improvement Program Teams for two community meetings to discuss:
- Sanitary sewer repairs completed to date.
- Brief reporting of the next phase of construction.
- Delineation of the work areas (who are the impacted homeowners).
- Projected construction schedule.
Two meetings are being offered to provide opportunity for all to attend. We hope that you will join us for one or both of the meetings.
Saturday, July 25, 11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. St Stephens Missionary Baptist Church, 2670 Hogan Rd., East Point, GA 30344
Tuesday, July 28, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm, HJC Bowden Sr. Multipurpose Center, 2885 Church St., East Point, GA 30344
Isabel Jeffares, President


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Hoffman Auto Showroom
The Hoffman Auto Showroom was a New York City automobile dealership office designed in 1954 by the celebrated U.S. architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The 3,600-square-foot (330 m2) space, which was located on the ground floor of 430 Park Avenue, an office tower at Park Avenue between East 55th and 56th Streets, was designed in glass and steel with a circular and sloping ramp for the automobile display; due to its limited floor space, it could only accommodate up to five automobiles at a time. Wright was commissioned to design the showroom by Max Hoffman, an importer of European luxury automobiles. When the building was commissioned its owner, Max Hoffmann, the son of a Vienna Rolls-Royce dealer, had intended to use it for his Jaguar dealership, but by the time it was completed he had moved on to Mercedes Benz and a large model of a leaping Jaguar had to be sent back to Coventry, the English manufacturer's home base. Since 1957, the space had been the home of Mercedes-Benz Manhattan.[1][2]
In early April 2013, the building's owners, Midwood Investment & Management and Oestreicher Properties, demolished the showroom to make way for a TD Bank branch office.[3]
- ^ William Allin Storrer (2002). The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright: A Complete Catalog. University of Chicago Press. p. 384.
- ^ Arlene Sanderson (2001). Wright Sites: A Guide to Frank Lloyd Wright Public Places. Princeton Architectural Press. p. 88.
- ^ Allison Meier (April 16, 2013). "Frank Lloyd Wright's auto showroom is no more". Hyperallergic. Retrieved June 4, 2013.


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About a month back a we had a HUGE local meet out in Burbank California. A good 700 cars were in attendance that night. I rode the Ruckus around and skimmed the parking lot. There was a lot of really dope rides but what really caught my eye was this OG Cressida parked right next to us. JP's Cressida was most definetly one of the most popular that night and personally my favorite car at the meet. I definitely had to set up a date to shoot this car and share it with everyone. Overall very clean ride, Sitting on air, Running strong & riding on a nice shiny set of BBS RS mesh.
Tonight we finally had the chance to met up and shoot. We met at Illest Boutique Los Angeles. Shot the car near Little Tokyo. Hope you enjoy this as much as I did shooting it. Thanks to JP for coming out! Specs will be posted later.


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Firms Ponder Ethics of Computer Usage
Rifkin, Glenn, THE JOURNAL RECORD
When Alana Shoars arrived for work at Epson America Inc. one morning in January 1990, she discovered her supervisor reading and printing out electronic mail messages between other employees.
As electronic mail administrator, Shoars was appalled. When she had trained employees to use the computerized system, Shoars told them their mail was private. Now a company manager was violating that trust.
When she questioned the practice, Shoars said, she was told to mind her own business. A day later, she was fired for insubordination. She has since filed a $1 million wrongful termination suit.
A spokesman for Epson America, which is based in Torrance, Calif., refused to discuss Shoars' account of the monitoring episode and insisted that her dismissal had nothing to do with her questioning of the electronic mail practice. He denied that Epson America, the United States marketing arm of a Japanese company, had a policy of monitoring electronic mail.
The Shoars case has brought attention not only to issues of technology and employee privacy, but also to broader questions of ethics among computer professionals. By taking a public stand, Shoars has become a visible exception in a profession that tends to ignore or avoid ethical issues, according to academicians and consultants who monitor the field.
Although Shoars has found a new job as electronic mail administrator at Warner Brothers in Burbank, Calif., she still bristles about Epson:
"You don't read other people's mail just as you don't listen to their phone conversations. Right is right, and wrong is wrong."
Michael Simmons, chief information officer at the Bank of Boston, disagrees totally.
"If the corporation owns the equipment and pays for the network, that asset belongs to the company, and it has a right to look and see if people are using it for purposes other than running the business," he said.
At a previous job, for example, Simmons discovered that one employee was using the computer system to handicap horse races and another was running his Amway business on his computer. Both were fired immediately.
"The guy handicapping horses was using 600 megabytes of memory,"
Simmons said.
Federal Express, American Airlines, Pacific Bell and United Parcel Service all have electronic-mail systems that automatically inform employees that the company reserves the right to monitor messages.
But many companies have yet to formulate clear policies or inform employees of those policies.
"It's highly irresponsible for an employer not to have a policy,"
said Mitchell Kapor, former chairman of the Lotus Development Corp., who left the company five years ago.
Some believe, however, that even if there is advance notice, the monitoring of electronic mail or searching through personal files is flat-out wrong. One who takes that position is Eugene Spafford, a computer science professor at Purdue University.
He said: "Even if a company does post notice, is that something it should do? The legal question may be answered, but is it ethical? The company may say it is, but the employees say it isn't, and there's a conflict."
Though they oversee the electronic mail networks, computer professionals have generally removed themselves from such debates. Simmons said that if ethics were the topic of a meeting of information systems experts, "it would be a very short meeting."
Technologists approach the information resource in a distinctive way, said Detmar Straub, assistant professor of management information services at the University of Minnesota.
"They say, `If the system can do it, let's do it,' rather than `should the system do it?' " Straub said. "I've talked to systems managers who say they wouldn't hire a programmer who couldn't break into any system."
But as computers and networks extend their reach into global business, such attitudes may no longer suffice. …


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How can Chamber members benefit from your company?
Members have access to the use of the community room at no cost, as does the rest of the community. Our awesome staff can help prepare you for your next adventure.
What are your primary responsibilities?
Day to day operations, hiring, training and helping the store achieve financial goals. Finding opportunities for involvement in the community in a way that supports our goal of getting people outdoors.
What do you love about your job?
Helping customers find just the right item for the their next great adventure. Whether that adventure is a walk down Main Street or hiking in The Whites. We live in such a beautiful area of the state--it's a joy to encourage people to enjoy it.
Name your favorite Chamber service, program or event.
I just attended my first Chamber meeting and enjoyed the opportunity to meet and chat with other members. Posting job opportunities on the site is also a great benefit.
What are some of your interests or hobbies?
Anytime I can spend outdoors--hiking, kayaking, biking or just hanging out in my hammock. Time spent with my children--now that they are grown men--is always precious!
What is your personal philosophy on how to be successful?
Break every goal up into small manageable parts and tackle one at a time. Find at least one highlight from every experience and celebrate it. Appreciating the small successes will lead to bigger successes. Not every success is defined in a monetary way. Being kind, generous and thoughtful are all characteristics I see in successful people.


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Over 200 temples in JK have suffered damage: govt
Jammu and Kashmir government on Thursday said over 200 temples in the Valley have suffered damage over the years but there were no encroachments on any of the temple lands.india Updated: Oct 04, 2012 14:40 IST
Jammu and Kashmir government on Thursday said over 200 temples in the Valley have suffered damage over the years but there were no encroachments on any of the temple lands.
In a written reply to MLA Chaman Lal Gupta's question in the state Assembly, the government said 208 of the 438 temples in the Valley had been damaged over the years.
The government said the highest number of 57 temples have been damaged in Srinagar, the summer capital of the state, followed by south Kashmir's Anantnag district where 56 temples have suffered damage.
However, the government, in its reply, did not elaborate as to how the temples were damaged.
The rest of the eight districts in the Valley account for the other damaged temples with Bandipora having only one such instance. The government said while a total of 63 hectares of land were under the 436 temples in the Valley, there was no case of encroachment on these lands so far.
Various Kashmiri Pandit organisations have been demanding passing of the bill for protection of Hindu Temples and Shrines in Kashmir.
Giving details of the damage to the private properties of migrants in the Valley, the government said nearly 75 per cent of the 1,234 structures in Srinagar district have been gutted while in south Kashmir Kulgam district nearly 85 per cent of the 754 structures have been damaged.
"In Srinagar district...most of the migrants have sold their property. However, the unsold properties have been protected in light of provisions of the J&K Migrant Immovable Property Preservation, Protection and Restrain on Distress Sale Act 1997," the government said.
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I have been doing lots of gardening chores, most of them were related to cleaning, trimming, removing the dead plants. After a long summer, lots of plants are either growing huge, or looking sad. However, there are lots of plants seem enjoying this cool weather as much as this gardener.
Here are some pictures from last month that I would like to post here for my own record keeping.
Roses perform much better in this cool weather than they were in the hot humid Florida summer.
|Josephine's Land
|Queen Elizabeth
|Belinda's Dream
|Belinda's Dream
|Firespike (Odontonema strictum)
|Pagoda Flower (Clerodendrum paniculatum)
|Bridal Bouquet (Plumeria pudica)
|Bromeliad Corner is now more filled in.
On the other side, Neoregelia Zoe could not take much sun. Too much sun will burn its leaves and fade the color. This clump is located in a partial shade area, and kept its showy color.
|Neoregelia Zoe
Aechmea gamsepala
'Matchstick Bromeliad'
|Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Brunfelsia pauciflora
|Mealycup sage
|Dwarf Mussaenda, White Wing
|Blue Butterfly
Clerodendrum ugandense


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PENTICTON - Mark your calendars, the Penticton Vees open their 2016-17 British Columbia Hockey League season on September 10th.
Penticton will head up to the Cariboo to open the schedule, as they pay a visit to the Prince George Spruce Kings on Saturday, September 10th. The Vees will be spending quite a bit of time on the iron lung in September, as their first seven games are all on the road.
The Vees make a trip down to the Sunshine Coast and Vancouver Island the following weekend, making stops in Powell River, Alberni Valley and Cowichan Valley, September 16th-18th. Then it's a trip to the Fraser Valley for the annual BCHL Bauer Showcase in Chilliwack, where the Vees play Langley and Prince George, on September 22nd and 23rd. The road odyssey ends with a game against the RBC Cup champion West Kelowna Warriors at Royal LePage Place on September 30th.
Penticton opens the doors at the SOEC on Saturday, October 1st when they face the Trail Smoke Eaters in their home opener. The Vees have 18 prime nights at home this season, six Friday games, 12 on Saturdays and nine "Wicked Wednesday" games, and they also have one Sunday matinee. Friday and Wednesday games will be at 7pm and Saturdays will once again be 6 pm face-offs.
Once again it's a 58-game regular season schedule, consisting of 28 home and 28 road games, plus two games at the annual BCHL Showcase in Chilliwack in September; the Vees play Langley and Prince George at that event. It's a full interlocking schedule, meaning the Vees play the other 16 BCHL teams at least twice, once at home and once on the road.
As mentioned, the Vees open the regular season September 10th in Prince George, with the regular season finale February 24th in Chilliwack. Penticton's last game before the Christmas break is December 17th in Salmon Arm, before returning to action December 30th against Merritt at the SOEC. Their final home game of the regular season is Sunday, February 19th, against Victoria; that's a 2 pm face-off.
Vernon makes their first visit to the SOEC on November 11th, West Kelowna on January 11th, Salmon Arm December 2nd and Merritt on October 7th. The two-time defending Island Division Champion Nanaimo Clippers pay a visit on October 15th and last season's Fred Page Cup finalist, the Chilliwack Chiefs, come to town on November 26th.
Single game ticket prices remain unchanged, adults are $13 and seniors are $11. Students 18 and under and children are free, courtesy of Peter Bros. Construction
For more information on the Penticton Vees, including the full 2016-17 schedule vist the Vee's website.


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Distance from Wilmot, NH to Wolfeboro, NH
Driving distance between Wilmot, NH and Wolfeboro, NH is 53.18 miles (or 85.59 kilometers). If you drove an average car (using about 3.6 gallons of gas per mile), the gas would cost you around $, since you would need about gallons of fuel.
Leaving from Wilmot, NH you would reach Wolfeboro, NH in about 1 hour 21 mins if you keep an average speed of miles per hour, assuming you don't make any breaks or get stuck in traffic.


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On this bright and frosty morning I am in the middle of making a quilt as a wedding present for the daughter of a friend who is getting married in April.
I have known her since she was a baby, the daughter that is, not the friend, and she shares a birthday with me so that makes her extra-special.
Here is just a quick peep at the fabrics (mostly Peppered Cottons and a few tone on tones to fill in gaps in the range of colour) and the Bargello layout.
The top is going together really well and the colours make me happy. It looks a lot more complicated than it is - always better than the other way round...
Hope to show you a completed top quite soon.


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Stress and Weight Gain
In addition to unresolved depression causing real biological changes — which in turn cause weight gain — we now know that stress and anxiety do the same thing. Stress doesn't cause changes to our metabolism like depression does, but it does cause changes to the way our body decides to burn fat. When under stress, our brain releases a hormone called cortisol. This hormone sends a signal to our body to store fat rather than burn it (Björntorp & Rosmond, 2000). There's also evidence that not getting enough sleep can cause our brains to release cortisol (Cauter et al., 2005). The stress we experience about work, school, family, and relationships is literally making us fat.
In modern society it seems strange that our body would see weight gain as an antidote to stress. In order to understand this, we have to understand the type of world we were living in when our body evolved this response. Before modern agriculture and technology, if we were under stress it was probably due to famine or other environmental issues that could lead to our dying of starvation. Throughout much of human history, dying of starvation was the No. 1 stressor and No. 1 threat to our survival. It was thus essential to our species' survival that our bodies react to stress by conserving energy. The types of stressors we have now either didn't exist or weren't important enough to us back then.
Fortunately, there are ways that we can reduce cortisol. The most obvious way is to reduce stress levels. Talk therapy has been shown to be an effective way of reducing cortisol levels (Littrell, 2008). Other ways of reducing cortisol include exercise, meditation, and yoga. The important thing to take away from this is that so long as you are experiencing stress and anxiety, your body is going to do everything it can to prevent you from losing weight. This can be especially problematic if you are exercising and dieting in such a way that causes you stress and anxiety and keeps you up at night.
Feeling bad about the way you look and putting lots of pressure on yourself to lose weight simply isn't going to work. A lot of people decide that they want to lose a large amount of weight immediately and go through drastic measures to do it. What they don't understand is that those drastic measures are causing them loads of stress and anxiety, really the opposite of what you want to do to yourself in order to lose weight. You also can't expect to be able to successfully lose weight if you're living in a chaotic and stress-filled environment. If you truly want to be able to lose weight and keep it off, you need to work on your emotional health first.
Food as an Addiction
Whenever we are talking about addiction, we are talking about two things: tolerance and withdrawal. Tolerance simply means that over time it takes more "drug" in order to produce the same "high" you got the first time you used the "drug." Withdrawal refers to the unpleasant symptoms a person experiences when they try to wean themselves off of the "drug." Physical symptoms of withdrawal can include headaches, pain, nausea, and diarrhea. Emotional symptoms of withdrawal can include irritability, sadness, and anxiety. A good rule of thumb is that you can expect the withdrawal symptoms to be the opposite of what the "drug" does to you. So for instance, if a drug makes you feel less anxious, you can expect one of the withdrawal symptoms to be increased anxiety. If a drug causes you to fall asleep, you can expect insomnia to be a withdrawal symptom.
We experience tolerance and withdrawal because of very real changes in our brain. Your brain wants there to be a balance. When it senses too much of a certain chemical, it responds by decreasing its own production of that chemical. Drugs affect our brains because they mimic naturally occurring pleasure-inducing chemicals like dopamine, endorphins, serotonin, and norepinephrine. When the brain is artificially flooded with these chemicals, it doesn't like the imbalance, so it responds by producing fewer and fewer of these chemicals on its own. That is why addicts eventually gets to the point when they need to take drugs just to feel normal, because the brain has stopped producing these important chemicals on its own.
Due to advances in technology, scientists now know that these same processes of tolerance, withdrawal, and real chemical changes in the brain happen in food addiction just like they do in drug addiction (Gearhardt & Corbin, 2011). Tolerance is manifested in food addiction in a couple of different ways. One way it is manifested is when people need to eat more and more food in order to feel full or satisfied. Another way is when people are unable to derive pleasure from eating healthy foods. We are biologically wired to find fruits, vegetables, and whole grains pleasurable, and feeling like these foods are "tasteless" is a sure sign of tolerance. Withdrawal symptoms in food addiction typically results in feeling hungry even though you are already nourished, headaches, mood swings, irritability, depressed mood, and anxiety. No wonder people have such a hard time sticking to diets!
Critics of food addiction point out that if food has addictive qualities, why is food addiction such a new phenomenon? And why is it just humans who seem to be susceptible to it? After all, all animals eat and we're the only ones who seem to have a problem with obesity and food. Well, the reason is because the food we are eating today is drastically different from the food people have eaten throughout most of human history.
Genetically modified foods have only been around since the 1980s. Highly processed foods and so-called "convenience foods" are also a relatively new phenomenon. They didn't come on the market until around the 1960s, and that is also when researchers started noticing an increase in rates of obesity. These processed "convenience foods" are loaded in salt, sugar, and fat. And it's not just convenience foods that are to blame. For instance, the meat found in wild game (the type of meat that our ancestors used to eat) only contains about 10 percent fat. Compare that to a slab of meat you buy in the grocery store that is as high as 50 percent fat.
Our bodies are no different than they were a hundred years ago, but the food we are eating is. And when we're eating these highly processed foods, it's been shown, the reward centers of our brains light up just as if we had ingested cocaine (Lenoir, Serre, Cantin, & Ahmed, 2007). When we eat such unnatural foods, our bodies have an unnatural reaction.
The prevailing attitude toward obesity is that people just need to straighten up and take responsibility for their own behavior. Society used to have that attitude towards alcoholism and drug addiction and it was that same attitude that held back the recovery movement for a very long time. We need to have the same attitude shift in regards to food addiction and obesity. There's no such thing as "eating in moderation" and "just practice self-restraint" when it comes to addictive foods. That attitude hasn't worked for alcoholics and it won't work for food addicts either.
So at this point you might be wondering, "So what do you do if you're addicted to food?" Unfortunately, you have to do many of the same things a drug addict would have to do in order to recover. You first have to accept that you can't eat even a little of the addictive foods. You are going to have to practice abstinence when it comes to these foods and unfortunately deal with the withdrawal symptoms until your brain chemistry becomes normal again. A therapist can teach you tricks and techniques for lessening these withdrawals and avoiding relapse.
Weight Loss and the Placebo Effect
A placebo typically refers to a "sugar pill," or fake medical intervention. When researchers are testing the effectiveness of a new drug, they'll assign half of their volunteers to receive the actual medication and the other half will receive the placebo. The researchers won't tell the participants whether they received the real medication or the placebo until the study is over, so during this time the participants taking the placebo think that they are taking the real medication.
The interesting thing about this is that in these studies, even though the participants aren't actually receiving any real treatment, they still get better simply because they believe that the placebo is a real medication. The fact that these people are able to benefit simply by believing they will is known as the placebo effect. Again: The placebo effect is when people experience real biochemical changes in their body simply because they believe that they will.
We know that the weight loss people experience when they take over-the-counter diet pills is entirely due to the placebo effect, and yet people do lose weight simply because they believe they will. A lot of people take the attitude that "hey, I'll do whatever works." So if diet pills "work," even if it is just by placebo, people will see no harm in taking them anyway. The problem with this is that diet pills can be quite harmful. Diet pills have been known to cause liver failure, strokes, seizures, and even death. Researchers have found that there are safer ways of producing placebo-driven weight loss.
In one famous study, a Harvard psychologist proved that people can actually think themselves thin. The psychologist enlisted the help of 80 hotel maids. Half of the maids were randomly assigned to a control group, meaning that they received no treatment. She met individually with the other 40 maids and went over what they did on a daily basis for exercise and how many calories they ate a day. The psychologist then told these women that they were burning more calories than they were eating, so she expected that they should lose weight without having to make any changes. The psychologist was actually lying when she said this, but she wanted to know if the women would lose weight simply because they believed they would.
As it turned out, they did. She asked the participants to keep a log of their daily exercise and calorie intake to make sure that they simply hadn't changed their behavior and that that was causing the weight loss. The only thing that had changed was the maids' mindset. Amazingly, the participants not only lost weight but they lost inches off their waist and even had a drop in blood pressure (Shea, 2007).
Another study on the effects of positive thinking on weight loss found similarly positively results. In the study, participants were asked to do daily visualizations where they imagined themselves having more positive interactions with food and being able to successfully resist temptation. Those using positive thinking lost an average of 26 pounds more than the control group after a year (Oettingen & Wadden, 1991). It is becoming more and more clear that you can lose weight simply by changing the way you think.
If you are still not convinced that you can lose weight simply by changing your thinking, let me tell you about another study. Ghrelin is the biochemical responsible for making us feel hungry. When levels of ghrelin are low, we feel satiated. When they are high, we want to eat more. In this study, when researchers told participants that the milkshake they were about to eat had a lot of calories in it, the participants' ghrelin levels dropped. When participants were told that the number of calories in the milkshake was very low, ghrelin levels increased. The chemical that causes us to feel hungry is not regulated by the number of calories we eat, but rather our perception of how many calories we eat (Wang, 2012). You can see why mindless eating can cause someone to become obese. Not being aware of how many calories we are consuming can cause us to feel hungry even though we've already eaten plenty.


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Daniel asks the following in the You Choose the Blog comments – FNH-USA: when to expect FNS compact from FHN USA. Erik Lund says that yes indeed, there will be an FNS compact, and that the development team is putting the new firearm through its paces. Unfortunately, he could not provide an eta, though when I said "soon" he agreed.
FNS Compact On the Horizon?
thanks for asking!
At least now we know that there's at least a prototype out there being tested.
Soon sounds good enough for me.
Hopefully they're as easily obtainable as the regular FNS.


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OUE TWIN PEAKS is a 99-year Leasehold condominium located at 33 Leonie Hill Road in District 9 (Central - Orchard / River Valley) - Core Central Region in Singapore, OUE TWIN PEAKS comprises of 462 units the highest block in OUE TWIN PEAKS has 36 floors. It has a land size of approximately 130981 sqft.
The nearest MRT/LRT station for OUE TWIN PEAKS is NS22 Orchard which is about 0.54 km away. There is also an upcoming MRT TE14 orchard 0.48km away. There are 17 bus stops near OUE TWIN PEAKS. There are 2 taxi stands near OUE TWIN PEAKS.
There are 5 supermarkets near OUE TWIN PEAKS, the nearest is at 391a orchard road #b2-01-1 ngee ann city s(238872) by Cold Storage, around 0.39 km away. 2 convinence stores are around the corner. Nearest shopping mall for OUE TWIN PEAKS is Knightsbridge, Grand Park Hotel, around 0.54 km away.
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On average, an officer somewhere in America is killed in the line of duty every fifty-three hours. This page honors just a few of those officers from our history in an effort to insure that they will never be forgotten.They all had a life, family, and a story and we want to make sure that their stories are told here. Thank you for visiting this page. It will be developed further in the near future.
Deputy Griffith wore this very badge when he was murdered. He also carried these handcuffs then but never had a chance to get them onto his arrestee. The group photo below shows Earl Griffith in a suit before he left for military service.
Jacob Earl Griffith joined the Washoe County, Nevada, Sheriff's Office in the 1930s as a deputy sheriff assigned to motorcycle traffic enforcement. He was promoted to chief deputy at one point before he left in the 1940s to serve his country in the United States Military. Griffith returned to the Washoe County Sheriff's Office as a deputy sheriff assigned to patrol duties.
On April 28, 1947, Griffith was assigned to the night shift and was doubled up in a patrol car with Deputy Tom Lambert as they patrolled the areas north of Reno. At the same time, a team of two were busy committing armed robberies near the city of Susanville, only an hour north into California along the east slope of the Sierra. The suspects were known last southbound toward Reno and a broadcast was given to units in the Reno area to be on the lookout.
Griffith and Lambert drove out the the California Agricultural Inspection Station just across the state line and made contact with the on duty inspector there. The inspector pointed south and advised that he observed a car pass his location and move off of the road nearby. The deputies went to investigate.
As the investigation played out, the deputies did encounter two suspects in the car. Unfortunately, Deputy Earl Griffith was ambushed by one suspect and was shot and killed by him as the other took on Deputy Lambert. Lambert was shot several times with at least one round striking his badge, deflecting what would have been a deadly blow to him. The suspects then sped off in the darkness, leaving both deputies for dead.
Lambert, seriously injured, made his way to the highway and called for help. Responding officers encountered the suspect vehicle abandoned miles from the scene on the way to Reno. Although one suspect surrendered a short time later, the other most dangerous of them was on the run out into a very wild and rough country.
While Deputy Lambert fought for his life in the local hospital, Deputy Earl Griffith's body was found at the scene and a dedicated lawman had lost his life at the hands of two viscous criminals.
For the next several days, a widespread search took place in an effort to catch the suspect. Two Native American men from nearby Fallon, Nevada were called into action to assist with their mantracking skills. The outstanding suspect had stolen a car from a fisherman along the Truckee River near Verdi and had managed to get away, at least for a short time.
Several days passed when a California Highway Patrol Officer encountered the suspect and took him into custody on the Grapevine in Southern California.
Deputy Lambert survived and finished out his career. Deputy Earl Griffith was buried near Sacramento, leaving three sons and a new bride behind.
Both suspects would die in custody, one in the execution chamber and the other at the sharp end of a knife by the hands of another inmate in prison.
Earl Griffith lost his life in what was the first known line of duty death of a Washoe County Sheriff's Office member. However, since then, the agency has lost more of their own including Lieutenant Glenn Barnes and Deputies Frank Minnie and John Wiberg. Since then though, it was discovered that Deputy Harry Swaney was killed in a vehicle crash in 1935.
San Francisco Police Officer John B. Hurd was the 30th SFPD officer to die in the line of duty. Sadly, line of duty losses today total 103 officers gone much sooner than they should be because they were willing to give their lives for their community.
Officer Herman F. Vogel of the St. Joseph, Missouri Police Department was born in 1876 and was a salesman before entering law enforcement in 1904 at the age of 28 years. Department records indicate that Officer Vogel dropped dead while on duty, wearing this very badge, at the age of 51 in 1927. (photo courtesy of St. Joseph PD).
Ernie May was a Las Vegas, Nevada Police Officer assigned to patrol duties when he was shot and killed on scene of a dispute at a local motel. May unfortunately has the distinction of being the first LVPD officer to die in the line of duty. His own brother, also a member of the LVPD, responded to the call to find his own brother slain.


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Maven is based in the beautiful red brick Reid Memorial Hall down a little side street off the bustling Lisburn Road in Belfast. In the shop you'll be sure to receive a warm welcome and can browse our ever-expanding selection of furniture and homewares at your leisure.
Find us at
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Shoreline Master Program Update
City of Enumclaw SMP Request for Proposal
The City of Enumclaw (city) has developed its 1st Shoreline Master Program (SMP), as required under the Washington State Shoreline Management Act (SMA).
- Final Shoreline Master Program Document (PDF)
- Ordinance No. 2509 - Shoreline Master Program (PDF)
- Shoreline Environmental Designation Figure 1A
- Shoreline Environmental Designation Figure 1B
- City Zoning Designation Figure 2
- Appendix A - Critical Areas Ordinance
- Appendix B - Restoration Plan
- Appendix C - Shoreline Public Access Plan
- Appendix D - Cumulative Impacts Analysis
Shoreline Management Act
The SMA was adopted in 1972 "to prevent the inherent harm in an uncoordinated and piecemeal development of the state's shorelines," and has 3 broad policies:
- Encourage water-dependent uses: "uses shall be preferred which are consistent with control of pollution and prevention of damage to the natural environment, or are unique to or dependent upon use of the states' shorelines…"
- Protect shoreline natural resources, including "…the land and its vegetation and wildlife, and the water of the state and their aquatic life…"
- Promote public access: "the public's opportunity to enjoy the physical and aesthetic qualities of natural shorelines of the state shall be preserved to the greatest extent feasible consistent with the overall best interest of the state and the people generally."
Shoreline Jurisdiction
Under the Shoreline Management Act (WAC 173-18 and WAC 173-20), the shoreline jurisdiction includes uplands, which are 200 feet landward of the ordinary high water mark (OHWM) of waters that have been designated as shorelines of the state, and associated floodplains and wetlands, as defined below.
Shorelines of the State
All marine shorelines and shorelines of all other streams or rivers having a mean annual flow of 20 CFS or greater and lakes with a surface area 20 acres or greater.
- Those lands extending landward for 200 ft. in all directions as measured on a horizontal plane from the OHWM
- Floodways and contiguous floodplain areas landward 200 ft. from such floodways
- All associated wetlands and river deltas
Associated Wetlands
Wetlands that are in proximity to and either influence or are influenced by tidal waters or a lake or stream subject to the SMA. These are typically identified as wetlands that physically extend into the shoreline jurisdiction, or wetlands that are functionally related to the shorelines of the state.
Shorelines of the State Present Within the City
Within the city and its associated Urban Growth Area (UGA), 2 streams are considered "shorelines of the state," Boise Creek and Newaukum Creek. Both creeks begin in the Cascade foothills above the Enumclaw plateau. Newaukum Creek drains into the Green River, which is the largest tributary stream to the Duwamish River, the largest river in Watershed Resource Inventory Area (WRIA) 9. Boise Creek drains into the White River, which becomes the Puyallup River, and flows into Puget Sound in the City of Tacoma, WRIA 10.


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Sagittarius (November 22 – December 21)
Sagittarius is the symbol of the archer, which is half man and half horse born under the sign of Fire. The Sagittarius girl is a resourceful individual she is the real adventurer of the zodiac and this girl is highly charged with creative fire she is very strong, to the extreme independent, kindhearted, giving, cautious, optimistic, athletic, loves to travel loves her freedom and enjoys extravagant living.
Some may not be able to handle a Sagittarius woman because of her lack of tack statements she sees it exactly as it is an says what she see her bluntness may cost her heavily at times, even to the point of ending relationships.
The word 'marriage' makes a Sagittarian female a little nervous and you will need to tempt her in order to make her settle down. She is a little hard to catch and tends to be one of the boys all the time. That doesn't mean she looks or acts like a man! Infact, she is as female as any other girl is. She is just the type of girl that will can step out of her high heel shoes and fix the roof if needed this quality can be very intimidating to men. If you're dating a Sagittarius girl she may test your firmness; be firm she does not like weak wishy- washy men. She has no intention on giving up her individuality for any man, however she does want you to see her as a girl. If you are old fashion and you prefer evasiveness and timidity in your girl look for another lady this is not the girl for you.
When it comes to family the Sagittarius has a strange aloofness to family ties and she is able to detach herself from family.
She will brighten your life with her resources and optimism she will encourage you to see your dream and go out of her way to help your dreams come true.
More about Sagittarius
How to make a Sagittarius Fall in love with you
How to get a Sagittarius to fall in love with you-Value her freedom, Curb her demands, Be adventurous, know how to have a good time, talk well and get her interested, Give into Luxury ever once in a while, Give her space
Best Signs for Sagittarius to date: Aires, Leo, Aquarius and Libra
Best Careers for Sagittarius: They make good preachers, lawyers, teachers, doctors, public relations officers, sports, entertainment professionals, sales people, travel agents, landscapers, animal trainers and fitness coaches, designer/creative department, travel guide and Entrepreneur
Famous Female Sagittarius: Scarlett Johannson, Tina Turner, Caroline Kennedy, Bette Midler, Britney Spears, Tyra Banks, Patty Duke, Katie Holmes, Christina Aguilera, Marisa Tomei, Kim Basinger, Julianne Moore, Christina Onassis, Taylor Swift, Austen, Mile Cyrus, Mo'Nique ,Lucy Liu,
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Find first-rate, year-round recreation at this northern Utah destination. During summer, fish, boat, and waterski on Rockport Reservoir. Tent or RV camp in one of five developed and primitive campgrounds. During winter, ice fish and access nearby snowmobile trails.
There is no trail here. We followed the line with the app and GPS, but it was all off trail hiking. There are a couple of barb wire fences to go over. The juniper/sage brush is easy to get though. It's a nice enough route if you like going off trail. But remember, THIS IS NOT A TRAIL.
as of July 2017 there is a padlocked gate with a no trespassing sign blocking the trail
Rockport has good camping and swimming and is only a short drive from the SLC area. The water was great and even though it was the middle of June it wasn't too crowded. The hiking trail was easy except for the face that it was almost 90 degrees. I gave it 4 stars because there wasn't really a summit view and then there was a band playing by one of the sights by the lake which you could hear all the way over on the hiking trail and I feel like it kind of ruined the serenity and peace I look for when I go to the outdoors.
Heather M. on Rockport Lake Trail
Rockport recieves a 5 star review due to the amazing camping and camp sites. We camped right on the lake and watched the stars at night. We went in late June and were the only people camping there during the week. Clean out houses and each campsite has its own covered picnic table, a firepit and a place to BBQ. Plus, the drive out was gorgous!