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Midday Express of 2013-04-19
News from the European Commission's Midday Briefing
Nouvelles du rendez-vous de midi de la Commission européenne
ICT in schools survey – many children not getting what they need; teachers need more training and support.
Students and teachers in Europe are keen to "go digital", computer numbers have doubled since 2006 and most schools are now "connected", but use of ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) and digital skill levels are very uneven. These skills and support for teachers to deliver them need a strong boost, according to a survey on the use of digital technologies in schools in Europe published by the Commission.
Antitrust: Commission market tests commitments proposed by Penguin for the sale of e-books
The European Commission is inviting comments from interested parties on commitments offered by Penguin (Pearson Group, United Kingdom). The proposed commitments aim to alleviate concerns that Penguin may have engaged in an anti-competitive concerted practice affecting the sale of e-books in the European Economic Area (EEA). They are substantially the same as those proposed by Simon & Schuster, Harper Collins, Hachette, Holtzbrinck and made legally binding by the Commission in December 2012 (see IP/12/1367). If the market test confirms that Penguin's commitments are suitable to address the Commission's competition concerns, the Commission may make them legally binding on Penguin.
(for more information: IP/13/343 - A. Colombani – Tel. +32 229 74513 – Mobile +32 460 75 2063)
The European Union to boost cooperation with Latin-American and Caribbean countries and foster competitiveness and innovation
Commissioner for Development Andris Piebalgs and Vice President of the Commission Olli Rehn will sign today a Memorandum of Understanding between the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the EU to further enhance their cooperation, with the aim of improving the economic and social development of the Latin American and Caribbean countries. On the IDB side the Memorandum will be signed by its President Luis Alberto Moreno. With this arrangement, the IDB and the EU will explore potential synergies and collaboration opportunities in areas of shared interest such as citizen security, renewable energies and energy efficiency, environment and climate change, trade and private sector development, and public financial and fiscal management. The signature will take place during the World Bank-International Monetary Fund Spring meetings in Washington DC, where Commissioner Piebalgs will also announce new funds of almost five million euro for the Competitive Industries and Innovation Programme Multi-Donor Trust Fund. This contribution is part of a total commitment to the programme of 20 million euro, of which 15 million euros will be used to finance projects in African, Caribbean and Pacific countries. On the World Bank's side, the Agreement will be signed by Janamitra Devan, Vice-President for Private Sector Development. The Programme objectives are to assist developing countries build innovative, competitive economies by harnessing the private sector to sustainably raise the living standards of the poor and to generate employment; identify specific opportunities for industry expansion, private sector innovation and entrepreneurship through targeted technical assistance; and promote direct and transparent collaboration between governments and the private sector. Commissioner Piebalgs will represent the European Commission at the World Bank-IMF Development Committee meeting on 20 April in Washington DC. While in Washington, he will also attend the first meeting of the Sustainable Energy for All Advisory Board - a UN initiative to provide universal access to energy by 2030, as well as numerous side events of the World Bank-IMF Spring meetings.
Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič sets out new vision for redesigning Europe
Speaking in Bratislava at Globsec 2013, a leading foreign policy and security forum in Central Europe, Vice-President Šefčovič said: "The unprecedented scale of the crisis has revealed deep structural flaws in the design of the EU. These flaws are not new however; until now there was simply no political will to address them by making the necessary reforms. In this regard, the crisis has had one positive effect: it has forced us to focus our attention on the need to tackle these flaws." He highlighted the need for a reformed economic and monetary union, but also a new political union pillar, adding: "When times are good, when there is peace and prosperity for all, it is easy to be 'United in diversity'. But we need also to be 'United in adversity'." Other forum participants included President Toomas Hendrik Ilves of Estonia, Prime Minister Robert Fico of Slovakia and former US President Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski. Full speech: http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_SPEECH-13-337_en.htm
Second estimate for the fourth quarter of 2012 - EU27 current account surplus 31.4 bn euro - 36.2 bn euro surplus for trade in services
The EU27 external current account recorded a surplus of 31.4 billion euro (0.9% of GDP) in the fourth quarter of 2012, compared with a surplus of 21.8 bn (0.7% of GDP) in the fourth quarter of 2011, according to a second estimate released by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In the fourth quarter of 2012, compared with the fourth quarter of 2011, the balance of the goods account moved from a deficit to a surplus (+3.4 bn euro compared with -16.8 bn) and the deficit of the current transfers account decreased (-19.9 bn compared with -22.7 bn). The surplus of the income account fell (+11.7 bn compared with +23.4 bn), while the surplus of the services account was slightly reduced (+36.2 bn compared with +37.8 bn).
Labour Force Survey - Proportion of underemployed part-time workers up to 21.4% in the EU27 in 2012
Among the 43 million part-time workers in the EU27 in 2012, 9.2 million wished to work more hours, were available to do so and can therefore be considered to be underemployed. Since the start of the economic crisis the proportion of part-time workers wishing to work more hours and available to do so has grown steadily, from 18.5% in 2008 to 20.5% in 2011 and 21.4% in 2012. In 2012, the largest proportions of people wishing to work more hours and available to do so among part-time workers were found in Member States where the share of employed persons working part-time is relatively low: Greece (66%), Spain (55%), Latvia (53%) and Cyprus (50%). On the other hand, the smallest proportion was found in the Netherlands (3%), where part-time working is the most common, followed by Estonia (8%) and the Czech Republic (10%).
Energy: Commission publishes report on financial support for energy efficiency in buildings
Today the Commission published a report on financial support for energy efficiency in buildings stressing that the EU needs to improve the financial support in this sector if it wants to meet its 2020 and 2050 targets. To this end more financing should be made available and key barriers such as a lack of awareness and expertise regarding financing, relatively high initial costs and perceived credit risk associated with investments must be removed. Member States are in the driver seat for ensuring that more cost-effective investments in building renovation take place. To achieve this, close cooperation between public authorities, finance providers and the building sector is essential, as is the engagement of building owners themselves. The Commission estimates that the European building stock alone has a cost-effective energy savings potential of 65 Mtoe. In monetary terms, this translates to an investment requirement of around €60 billion per year. The report will constitute the basis for a discussion at the Informal Energy Council on 22 April. The full report is available here: http://ec.europa.eu/energy/efficiency/buildings/buildings_en.htm
Transport: EU–US transatlantic partnership still dominates global aviation
The transatlantic partnership can, and still does, set much of the global agenda: by pursuing similar values that have made global aviation safer and more liberal, European Commission Vice-President Siim Kallas told an audience at the International Aviation Club in Washington DC.
"We can still do more to make the most of this important partnership," Kallas said. "Our ambition must be nothing less than to create a genuine transatlantic open aviation area. That means more regulatory convergence, free flows of investment, and no restrictions on air services – with access to the domestic markets of both sides," he said. "If truly transatlantic airlines are to be created, which is in both our interests, US investment laws need to be reformed."
On aviation emissions, it is vital that Europe and America keep working closely together to find common ground at ICAO, Kallas said. "Climate change is not only happening in Europe. What we need is a global solution in ICAO to a challenge that is faced by the entire aviation community," he said.
Mergers: Commission approves acquisition of Invensys' railway signalling division by Siemens
The European Commission has cleared under the EU Merger Regulation the proposed acquisition of Invensys Rail, the railway signalling division of the Invensys Group of the UK, by Siemens of Germany. The Commission's investigation confirmed that Invensys Rail and Siemens are not close competitors and that the merged entity would continue to face competition from a number of other strong competitors, such as Thales, Alstom, Bombardier and Ansaldo.
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text: titanium2 867 Report post Posted July 23, 2010 http://www.redwingscentral.com/prospects/pulkkinen.php Position: Left Wing Shoots: Right Vitals: 5'11'' / 183 lbs. Birthdate: January 2, 1991 Hometown: Vantaa, Finland Acquired: Detroit's fourth choice (111st overall) in the 2010 draft SCOUT COMMENTS "He loves to have the puck, he loves being on the power play,and he shoots the puck all the time. He's like Jari Kurri. It's a nice thing to say, but it's true, and Jari Kurri wasn't the fastest skater either ... He's a goal-scorer, which is really hard to find these days, but he can also make plays. He has a good shot and he's so smart at finding openings." — Red Wings scout Ari Vuori (June 2010). STRENGTHS Described to The Hockey News by one scout as a "pure sniper" with "a great shot" and a "great release" ... Loves to shoot ... Has that dynamic feel as a right shot on the left wing, which opens him up for plenty of one-time opportunities ... Absolutely lethal on the power play ... Hockey sense is outstanding ... Innate knack for finding the spots on the ice in a way not unlike Brett Hull or Jari Kurri ... Underrated as a playmaker, as he has dished out some sweet feeds at the junior level. WEAKNESSES Skating is either average or below average, depending on which scout you ask, but without a doubt he lacks the top gear required of smaller wingers ... Skating and lack of size are a concerning combination ... Criticized in his draft year for spending too much time on the perimeter. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites

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Earth : Asia : East Asia : China : North China : Hebei : Tangshan
Tangshan (唐山; Tángshān) is a city in Hebei.
Tangshan was known for the 1976 earthquake that measured 7.8 on the richter scale that killed 255,000 residents. The city has since been rebuilt and has become a tourist attraction.
Get in
There is a airport with domestic fights.It is Binhai Airport. There is also a busy train station which is being very violent (October 2010) with trains to many locations. Some people prefer the intercity bus service which is a less violent way to travel, two hours to Beijing, and is located near the north part of the train station.
The city bus station is located in the south part of beijing almost like compton ,the train station. Fares are usually one yuan and street maps show the routeaps and are for sale from street vendors, and book stores.
There is no airport in Tangshan, but you can get off Beijing Capital Airport, becasue there has Inter-Provincial Bus[2]. Please note that Beijing departure point and Tangshan departure point.
Get around
Lee's Bar - local expat hangout; not only for English speakers, as I have seen Japanese frequent there as well. Beer can be expensive but if you want to retreat to a safety bubble with your fellow lao wai, this is the place.
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Release Notes: This release fixed an issue with the SMTP preprocessor and the ignore_tls_data configuration correctly stopping inspection after an SMTP session is encrypted. All rule evaluation (as opposed to just rules with fast patterns) is now disabled for packets on a previously blocked session. The perfmon preprocessor now writes stats as soon as both the time and packet count criteria are met. The same restrictions are enforced on relative PCRE for HTTP buffers from shared library rules as already existed with text rules.
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Release Notes: Consolidation of IPv6, file API and improvements to file processing, use of address space ID for tracking Frag & Stream connections, logging of packet data that triggers PPM for post-analysis, decoding of IPv6 with PPPoE, and more.
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It's a Mad, Mad, Zsa Zsa World: Fame & Scandal: vanityfair.com
Vanity Fair
Zsa Zsa Gabor and Prince Frederic von Anhalt after their August 1986 wedding.
Zsa Zsa Gabor and Prince Frédéric von Anhalt pose for photographers outside of her Bel Air mansion after their wedding, in August 1986. Bettmann/Corbis.
It's a Mad, Mad, Zsa Zsa World
Nothing is as it seems when Zsa Zsa Gabor and Prince Frédéric von Anhalt are involved. He says he's her 10th husband; she says he's only her 8th. She won't say how old she is; he doesn't want to know. Some accuse him of keeping her prisoner, but he says he's the one who's hemmed innever mind his self-proclaimed affair with the late Anna Nicole Smith or his alleged robbery by a lesbian street gang. Welcome to a surreal address that makes Sunset Boulevard look like Sesame Street.
by Leslie Bennetts WEB EXCLUSIVE September 6, 2007
We have come to answer a sinister question: Is the ersatz princess, otherwise known as Zsa Zsa Gabor, being held prisoner by the ersatz prince in her gilded aerie, a decaying Bel Air mansion that once hosted Hollywood's most dazzling luminaries but now brings to mind an ominous scene out of Sunset Boulevard?
Zsa Zsa Gabor and her ninth (or so) husband, Prince Frédéric von Anhalt, at home in Bel Air. Photograph by Jonathan Becker. Enlarge this photo.
In the ensuing weeks, other pressing questions will arise. Was the prince stripped naked, robbed, and tied up by a gun-toting gang of hot lesbians? Were aliens from outer space involved? And whose daddy is he, exactly?
But initially, at least, the issues seem simpler, or at least as simple as anything involving Zsa Zsa and her consort could ever bewhich is to say, not very.
It has been several months since the gossip columnist Cindy Adamsa longtime friend and biographer of Zsa Zsa's late mother, Jolie Gaborsuggested in print that Prince Frédéric von Anhalt had locked up his wife, preventing her from seeing or even talking to old friends. This charge greatly upset von Anhalt, the aging German stud who counts himself as Zsa Zsa's 10th husband, although she claims to have married a mere eight. In high dudgeon, he determined to prove that he takes fine care of his elderly wife, who suffered a devastating car accident in 2002 and a massive stroke in 2005.
And so he decided that Zsa Zsawho has repeatedly turned down buckets of money from tabloids desperate for an interview, according to the princewould consent to be interviewed and photographed for the first time in many years.
The only problem was persuading Herself to go along with the plan. How difficult could this be, after all? Zsa Zsa is partially disabled and totally dependent on her strapping, virile husband, who looks as if he could effortlessly crumple men half his age into little pretzels. But getting Zsa Zsa to cooperate turned out to be as simple as figuring out how old she is. The prince confides that Zsa Zsa was quite put out by his unexpected claim to be the father of Anna Nicole Smith's billion-dollar baby. The resulting media furor did not improve Zsa Zsa's mood, already soured by the indignities of decrepitude. "She doesn't want to talk, because she thinks people make her old," the prince warns me before I meet her. "She hates to talk about the age. She doesn't believe she's 90 years old. She says she's 82."
When Zsa Zsa married Frédéric, she listed the year of her birth as 1930, although this would have made her seven years old when she married her first husband. Most sources list her birth year as 1917, but Zsa Zsa has long maintained that she and her sisters, Eva and Magda, pretended to be older than they really were when they first arrived in America.
"I don't think she's 90, but I don't even want to know," says the prince, who gives his own age as 58. But 21 years ago, when he married Zsa Zsa, he was widely reported to be 43, and many sources now put him in his early 70s.
The Gabors always adjusted the facts to suit the needs of the moment, according to Cindy Adams. "They would lie about everything," Adams says. "When I wrote my book about Jolie, Eva was getting married to her 44th husband, and the wedding gown was very décolleté. Between the fleshly hills of Gabor was a cross larger than St. Peter's Basilica. The Gabors were Jewish, so I said to Jolie, 'What's with the goddamn cross?' Jolie said, 'Eva's new about-to-be-husband hates the Jews, so in this book you make us Catholic.' They have always lived with no reality; there was never any truth to anything."
Adams maintains that "the only way you can tell the age of a Gabor is from the rings around their gums." So how old does she think Zsa Zsa really is? "Close to 100," she replies.
Zsa Zsa may be ancient, but she is a lifelong master in the dark arts; pity the ordinary mortal who engages in any contest of wills with this Hungarian spitfire. The prince endured many weeks of frustration in trying to negotiate the promised audience. "I finally said, 'You owe me a favoryou have to do it or I'll move out of the house,'" he says. "I want her to be seen."
And so, on this sunny morning, the photographer, photographer's assistant, fashion stylist, hair and makeup artist, and reporter have all converged in Bel Air. Various minions have labored for hours, painting and poofing and spraying the frail little old lady into a creditable semblance of her famously confectionary self. Zsa Zsa Gabor is ready for her public at lastwhereupon Prince Frédéric summarily banishes everyone from the room, sending the pack of grown-ups scurrying like well-trained dogs.
Several minutes pass as we all wait beside the pool, which is surrounded by cracked terra-cotta tiles and has quite a few drowned leaves submerged in it. In this neighborhood, such imperfections are noticeable. Zsa Zsa's ochre mansionwhich she bought from Howard Hughes and which now sports awnings the color of paprikais nestled high in the hills, near the end of a road that wends its way upward past one exquisitely manicured estate after another. Inside this house, however, the passage of time has suffused the scene with the melancholy air of neglect.
The jewel-toned rooms, painted ruby red, emerald green, and a weird pinky gray that calls to mind a newborn mouse, are crammed with a lifetime of memorabiliacheesy oil paintings of Zsa Zsa and the other Gabors; photographs of a bejeweled Zsa Zsa, sometimes wearing a tiara, with everyone from the Reagans and Gerald Ford to Henry Kissinger (who was fixed up with Zsa Zsa by Richard Nixon but begged out of their second date because he had to invade Cambodia).
There are also horses everywherepaintings, photographs, equine heads. Zsa Zsa and the prince are both passionate equestrians who keep 40 horses at their 42-acre ranch in the Simi Valley, although Zsa Zsa had to give up riding after she became disabled. But the prince has just vetoed a photograph taken beside the two large sculpted golden stallions rearing their heads in the living room, after realizing that the shot would include a section of the wall where water damage has left the paint discolored and peeling, exposing patches of plaster.
Suddenly the prince claps his hands, loud as the crack of a gunshot. At this peremptory summons, everyone races back into the living room, where a curious tableau awaits.
Clad in Chanel, Zsa Zsa has been carefully arranged against a mound of pillows on a canopied four-poster divan near the gilded grand piano. ("She didn't want anybody to see her get in and out of the wheelchair; that's why everybody had to go out," the prince explains to me later. "She can't walk. I have to help her.")
The bouffant hair frames her face like a silvery cloud of cotton candy. Shrewd and alert, her unnaturally wide eyes are ringed by a thick fringe of false eyelashes. Her arms lie still at her sides; she is not about to let anyone see how impaired she may be. She regards me with suspicion; the prince has forewarned me that Zsa Zsa doesn't like women.
A poster for Queen of Outer Space (1958), one of Gabor's more notable films. Allied Artists Pictures/Photofest.
Fortunately, the crew is male. Photographs are taken, and small talk is exchanged. One subject of conversation is Paris Hilton, whose great-grandfather the hotel magnate Conrad Hilton was Zsa Zsa's second husband. In many ways, Paris could be said to have transformed herself into a latter-day incarnation of Zsa Zsa, who spent three days behind bars in 1989 for slapping a Beverly Hills police officer after he had the temerity to stop her for driving her white Rolls-Royce Corniche without a valid license. An entertainer whose career tended toward television talk-show appearances and Las Vegas stage extravaganzas that capitalized on her fractured English, outrageous pronouncements, and sex-bomb image, Zsa Zsa somehow made herself into one of the most famous women on earth despite the fact that her most notable film roles were in vehicles such as Queen of Outer Space.
Swathed in white fur and diamonds, she became a glamour icon as renowned for the trappings of wealth as for her prodigious list of lovers. These included everybody from Sean Connery (who had velvety-soft skin, according to Zsa Zsa) and Richard Burton (who liked to talk dirty in bed) to Frank Sinatra (whom she hated and slept with only because he refused to move his car out of her driveway unless she did).
Once infamous as "the most successful courtesan of the twentieth century," Zsa Zsa snagged her first husband by proposing to Burhan Belge, a Turkish diplomat, when she was 15. Although they were married for several years, one of Zsa Zsa's two autobiographies maintains that she never slept with him but was instead deflowered by Kemal Atatürk, the father of modern Turkey.
In any case, Zsa Zsa soon decamped to the United States, where her first conquest was Conrad Hilton. He was succeeded by the actor George Sanders, Zsa Zsa's third husband (who later married her sister Magda just to spite Zsa Zsa). Sanders was followed by financier Herbert Hutner; oil heir Joshua Cosden; Jack Ryan, an inventor whose credits included the Barbie doll; attorney Michael O'Hara; and then actor Felipe de Alba, in what was apparently a bigamous union, since Zsa Zsa was still wed to O'Hara. The marriage to de Alba was later annulled, which accounts for Zsa Zsa's claim to have had eight husbands instead of nine. Although Prince Frédéric says he is her 10th husband, he is unable to explain who the missing spouse might be.
Gabor with Dominican playboy and longtime obsession Porfirio Rubirosa, at a stable outside Paris, April 1954. Photofest.
But the official husbands often seemed like mere bit players in the larger melodrama of Zsa Zsa's romantic life. One longtime obsession was the legendary Dominican playboy Porfirio Rubirosa, who seduced Zsa Zsa while she was married to Sanders. When she refused to divorce her husband, Rubirosawho had already married and divorced Doris Dukemarried the heiress Barbara Hutton for 72 days and then went back to romancing Zsa Zsa while Sanders occupied himself with Duke.
Zsa Zsa also claims to have turned down a long list of smitten swains ranging from J. Paul Getty to John F. Kennedy. But she did admit to sleeping with her stepson Nicky Hilton, a future husband of Elizabeth Taylor's. With her customary disregard for inconvenient facts, she attributed the demise of her marriage to Conrad Hilton not to this quasi-incestuous dalliance but rather to his guilt over divorcing his first wife and remarrying outside the Catholic Church. Before he and Zsa Zsa split, Conrad managed to father her only child, Francesca, in an act that Zsa Zsa has described as rape. Francesca's relationship with her mother has been troubled; in 2005 Zsa Zsa accused her daughter of fraud, elder abuse, and intentional infliction of emotional distress, and filed suit against her in a California court.
With that kind of family history, Zsa Zsa might be expected to forgive Paris Hilton her transgressionsbut no. "I think she's rather silly," Zsa Zsa says with a lofty arch of a well-plucked eyebrow. "She does too many things for publicity."
If any of Zsa Zsa's old crowd were alive to hear this, they might choke to death in paroxysms of laughter. After all, Zsa Zsa made an entire career out of courting publicity, often through her uncanny knack for coming up with attention-getting answers to the questions of television interviewers. On being asked, "How do you keep a husband?" she replied, "Shoot him in the legs."
But that was decades ago, back when her décolletage was celebrated on several continents and her entire persona seemed to be molded from whipped cream, enticing every man she met to dive right in. Today, she could be an antique doll, her smile so fixed it appears her face might crack if she moves a muscle.
I ask how she and the prince first met.
"In a restaurant," she says, her speech apparently unimpaired. "A friend of ours introduced him."
She gives me a sly smile. "I liked how he looked; I liked how he talked," she says. "I liked everything about him."
There is much, much more to this story, but I will learn the coldly calculated details later on from the prince, who went to extraordinary lengths to ensnare her.
And why did she decide to marry him? "I wanted to be with him," Zsa Zsa says. "I didn't get tired of being married."
So what is the prince like as a husband? "Tough," she says with a coquettish sidelong glance at her husband. "Tough with me. I think I'm very old-fashioned. Today women boss their husbands like mad. I don't think I do. I'm easygoing with a man."
The prince is trying studiously to maintain a poker face. I ask Zsa Zsa if she still enjoys a social life. "Sometimes I go out," she says. "I always liked parties. You meet people; you can have fun."
A wistful look crosses her face, but then it hardens. "That's enough," she says abruptly. "I have to go back to bed. I have a headache."
The prince looks as if she's stabbed him in the heart. "Just a minute, just a minute," he murmurs to her. "You can talk, go on, go on," he hisses to me.
"I have a headache. I want to go now," Zsa Zsa says loudly. The prince pleads with her to give me more time, motioning me to stay put and keep talking. But Zsa Zsa will not be deterred; she impales me with an icy glare and sends me from the room. ("She doesn't want to be reminded of what she did and had before," the prince tells me later.) Her only concession is a reluctant agreement to continue our conversation by telephone at a future date.
Prince Frédéric takes it easy in jeans and cowboy boots. Photograph by Jonathan Becker. Enlarge this photo.
Crestfallen, the prince disappears upstairs to change out of the Prada suit he wore for the photo shoot. He re-emerges in form-fitting jeans, cowboy boots, and a denim shirt unbuttoned to showcase his manly chest, upon which lies a heavy gold medallion. This is the solid-gold insignia of the House of Saxony Anhalt, he saysa hereditary medal passed down by each prince to his successor. "Every child gets it and it goes from generation to generation," he explains, although his own acquisition of the title had nothing do with heredity. He lifts the medallion to demonstrate its heft. "If I hit somebody over the head with it, he's going to be dead right away," he adds with a cheerful grin.
The prince brings out the sleek dove-gray Rolls-Royce, and soon we are gliding down Sunset Boulevard on our way to Clafoutis, a local haunt he often dashes to for a quick lunch. Zsa Zsa is back in her bedroom, attended by a nurse, and the prince is allowed to slip away for a bit. "She didn't have a headache," he says. "She just didn't want you to ask her any more questions."
But he is very happy to talk about Anna Nicole Smith.
Tall and deeply tanned, Prince Frédéric von Anhalt carries himself with military rectitude and spends much energy staying fit, a lifelong obsession. "I am very disciplined," he informs me. "I get up at five o'clock in the morning, even if I go to bed at three. I get up, do my sportsI'm very tough on me. I'm also tough on my partner. A man has to have discipline in everythinghow to handle himself, how to handle other people."
Born Hans Robert Lichtenberg in Wallhausen, Germany, he was the son of a police detective and was, he once admitted, the village troublemaker. But he discovered a noteworthy talent early on. "I always knew how to handle women," he says.
An avid sportsman, he befriended the son of Princess Marie Auguste of Anhalt, a member of the German nobility and daughter-in-law of Kaiser Wilhelm II. "We played soccer together," Frédéric says. "He moved to Chile and had a big horse ranch. All of a sudden he had a car accident and he died."
This left an intriguing vacancy in the hereditary-title department, and Frédéric was soon consoling his friend's bereaved mother. "The princess was all alone," he explains. "Because I knew she was lonely, I called her and took her out sometimes for dinner."
Did they ever have a romantic relationship? "No, no, no!" he exclaims. "She was an old lady. But she liked conversation."
His ministrations also included other favors. "She called me and said, 'My brother in Switzerland died.' I said, 'No problem, I take you down,'" Frédéric reports. "I did things like that. I didn't have any parents anymore, so one day she said, 'I'm going to adopt you. You'll be Royal Highness. You'll have the highest title in Germanyeverybody's going to be jealous of you!'"
And so, in 1980, he became Prince Frédéric von Anhalt, the Duke of Saxony. He also helped to support the princess financially. "I was a good businessman; I made lots of money," he says, attributing his assets to "real estate and some health clubs." But the princess was impoverished. "This woman was supported by the government; she gets only enough money to just live. All of a sudden here's somebody who gives her a better life. I gave her $4,000 every month, which was good money then. I gave this woman in her last days a lot of pleasure."
He shakes his head. "People have been so jealous after that. They said I bought the title. Who gives a damn! I know what I did; she knows what she did. The rest doesn't matter."
In the ensuing years, Frédéric managed to make money from his title, selling 68 knighthoods for $50,000 apiece and marrying one woman in exchange for $4 million. Although the tally has varied over the years, he now admits to having married and divorced six wives prior to meeting Zsa Zsa. "I fall in love right away with women. I don't want to let go, and the only way not to let go is to get married," he explains. "Then after you're married and living together, you find out the restsomething not good. But I always got out of marriage in friendship."
And who were all these wives? "Just good-looking blonde girls, all of them," he says vaguely. "Sometimes I had a feeling they wanted me to marry them because of the title, so they could become princesses. But as long as I had fun, who cares?"
After having three sons by different wives, the prince was ready for a change of venue. "I came over to America in 1983, and I wanted to meet a movie star, any movie star," he says. "I was very interested in Zsa Zsa, because I had lots of old pictures of her. I collected them. I liked her; I liked her movies. Germans love Hungarians, because they're full of pepperfull of paprika! America was, for us Germans, a paradise. The rich and famous in Hollywoodit was a dreamland for us."
After arriving in Los Angeles, he checked into a low-rent motel, but he soon realized such an address wouldn't get him anywhere he wanted to go. "Having the title, that was bad," he says. "A prince couldn't live in a $25-a-day motel! So I went to the Beverly Hilton. I had a cheap rental car, a Honda from the airport. I said, Well, I need a good carso I got myself a Rolls-Royce Corniche. I asked the concierge, 'What's going on, where are the parties?' He said, 'Even with your title and lots of money, they won't invite you, because they don't know you. I know a photographer; he takes pictures of famous people.'"
So the prince told the photographer, "I want to meet a movie starif possible, Zsa Zsa Gabor. I'm going to give you $10,000 if you make a picturetake it or leave it."
Success was virtually instantaneous. "He called me in two days and said, 'I know where she goes,'" the prince recalls. "It was a restaurant on Melrose. She was there with a couple of friends. We took a picture, and we talked a little bit. I love animals, and Zsa Zsa said, 'Why don't you come up to my house and say hello to my dogs?' I went up the next day."
When the prince succeeded in charming even Rubi, the snappish Lhasa Apso she had named after her former lover, Zsa Zsa was deeply impressed. "Then she invited me to openings," the prince says. "She had lots of appearances."
But her high-profile life eventually began to wear on him: "I was getting stressed. I was a sporty, easy guy, and all of a sudden I was getting dressed: 'You cannot wear that tie!'"
One night, Rubi bit his hand when they both reached for the same piece of salami. "That was too much," the prince recalls. "I said, 'Good-bye, good luck, I am going to Germany.' I couldn't do it anymore."
Over the next three years, he continued to visit Zsa Zsa periodically. "We always had a good time. But I didn't agree very much with Hollywood. It was a little fake. I'm a tough guy. I don't like bullshit," the prince says.
And so he went back and forth, torn between his old life and the possibilities of a glittering new one. "I couldn't make up my mind," he admits. "Shall I stay here or not? But I wanted to be with Zsa Zsa. She was really lots of fun. I could talk about everything with her."
But they never talked about the tragedy that precipitated their marriage. Back in Germany, the prince met a 17-year-old named Csilla Molnar, who had won the beauty-pageant title of Miss Hungary, a designation that Zsa Zsa herself had earned half a century earlier. "She was just a beautiful girl, and we ended up at my place," says the prince. "I wasn't married, so what the heck. It was just an affair. And then she went on vacation to Egypt, bought some snake poison, and killed herself."
Because of his association with Zsa Zsa, the resulting scandal went international. News reports attributed her death to an overdose of lidocaine, and charged that Frédéric refused to marry her after she became pregnant. "They said she killed herself because I promised to take her to America, but it's not true," he says. "I didn't talk to her. She didn't understand me. She didn't speak English or German; I didn't speak Hungarian."
To escape the uproar, he fled back to Los Angeles, but he didn't call Zsa Zsa. "The photographer said to me, 'That's the end of it. You screwed it up,'" the prince recalls.
But he hadn't bargained on Zsa Zsa's irresistible attraction to flagrantly unfaithful men. "A couple of days later, I get a phone call: 'There's a party in Bel Air.' The major television stations were all lined up with cameras. I came up with Zsa Zsa, and a guy said, 'When are you going to get engaged?' She said, 'We are engaged already!' I didn't know what to say. He said, 'When are you getting married?' She said, 'Very soon!' I stood there like an idiot. I said to her, 'What was that about?' She said, 'Shut up.' The next day, her agent came in, her lawyer came, and she said, 'If you go back to Germany, I will never see you again.' I thought, Well, it's just marriage. Get divorced in a year. But with her it's different."
Cindy Adams has her own interpretation of why Zsa Zsa married Frédéric. "Zsa Zsa had run through a lot of guys, and she needed a man," Adams explains. "If she didn't have a husband, she had a lover, because that's the only way a Gabor knows she's alive. They grew up as courtesans: 'Everybody desires me, darling!' That was her life. This one dressed well, he had a title, and with Zsa Zsa it was always about what showed. He did what he was told; he toed the mark, and to her that was sufficient."
Was the prince truly in love with Zsa Zsa? "When we were married, I was very much in love with her," he says. "I am still. When she had her accident, I knew she would depend on me. Four and a half years ago, I gave up my life. I live for her, because she needs me. I gave up traveling, doing business, going to Europe. I gave up nightlife completely. She wants me to put her in the wheelchair, get her out of the wheelchair. It's very tough on me, but I have no choice. She's my wife. I have to take care of her. I have no way out. You do it for better or worse."
But the prince's sacrifice did not extend to renouncing other women, if one believes his tale of an affair with the bodacious Anna Nicole Smith. "A girl like that, you're not going to kick her out of bed, that's for sure!" he says. "I met her in New York 10 years ago, at a big ball at the Plaza. Then she came to L.A., and she called me. She wanted to have a cup of coffee. Then all of a sudden it came to an affair."
This was no one-night stand, however. "In these 10 years, we met about 30 or 40 times, mostly in L.A. We always went to a private house," says the prince, although he won't tell me the identity of its owner. "She wanted to be a princess. But I couldn't have married her, because I was already married. I couldn't adopt her; my wife wouldn't have signed the papers. I was never in love with Anna Nicole Smith; it was an affair. She said, once or twice, 'Why don't you get a divorce?' I told her, 'Don't even say that!' I would never have done it, not [even] with the millionsit doesn't mean a thing. I love my wife very much."
Others frankly disbelieve his claim to have bedded Anna Nicole. "He's thirsting to be important, because he knows at some point this is going down," scoffs Cindy Adams.
The talk-show host Bill O'Reilly even called him a "fraud" on The O'Reilly Factor, whereupon the prince filed a defamation suit against him and the Fox Network, seeking $10 million in damages. The suit is ongoing. The prince insists that he has always been catnip to women. "In 20 years with Zsa Zsa, you know how many telephone numbers I got under the table?" he says. "Even from her best friends! It was from being jealous that Zsa Zsa is happy with a guy. If she is happy, there must be something special, so let's try him out! But my wife was smart enough, every time I went out swimming for an hour, she went through my pockets and threw them all out."
Not that he enjoyed such overtures. "They treated me like a cheap gigolo," he says. "I hated that."
And yet the trysts with Anna Nicole grew into something resembling a real friendship, he says: "She really trusted me and asked for advice. She needed somebody to trust."
Her death was a terrible shock to the prince, who does not believe she was suicidal. "She did not want to die," he says. "When it came on television that she died, I nearly got a heart attack. I just couldn't believe it, because she was full of pepper."
But he decided that the timing of their last rendezvous might put him in the running for the hotly contested title of father to her newborn infant, which DNA tests eventually awarded to photographer Larry Birkhead. "I thought it could be my baby," the prince says. "I would have loved to have that baby."
His public announcement that he had slept with Anna Nicole came as an unpleasant surprise to Zsa Zsa. "My wife knew I knew her, but she didn't know there was an affair," he says. "But she knows I will never leave her. She said one day to me, 'You can do whatever you want, as long as you don't bring them into my house.' She knows I suffer a lot. I mean, sure, when she says things like that, she suffers a little inside, but life is not a one-way street. She wants to give something."
Although Anna Nicole was widely considered a gold digger when she married billionaire Howard Marshall, who was 63 years her senior, the prince defends her motives. "She loved Howard Marshall," he insists. "He was a father to her. She did not go to bed with him, but she was very good to him."
WaitAnna Nicole claimed she hadn't had sex with her own husband? "She said no," the prince replies with a shrug. "He was a rich man. All of a sudden he gets a young girl. She made him happy. That's what counts in life, to make your partner happy. When I die, I want to leave my money to people who made me happy, not people who gave me grief. So far my wife made me very happy. If my wife dies before me, I leave all the money to the animals."
How much money there might be remains mysterious. The forlorn mansion hints at financial difficulties, but the prince claims that he and Zsa Zsa have plenty of assets, even though Francesca Hilton's alleged attempt at fraud has cost them dearly. In 2005, Zsa Zsa and the prince filed a lawsuit charging that Francesca conspired to take out a $3.75 million loan against her mother's home and used the transaction to steal $2 million, with which she bought a home for herself and made investments in New York. Because of this, the prince says, their mortgage payments soared from $12,000 a month to $21,000, although he has not shared this disturbing fact with Zsa Zsa. The case is ongoing, but she is now trying to repair the estrangement from her daughter with regular phone conversations. "My client has been the victim of scurrilous allegations," Francesca's lawyer said. "She will have her day in court." According to Hilton's court papers, she has been living in the house in question since 1982 and claims that Gabor gave it to her "free and clear" in 1998. To the charges of abuse, Francesca has said, "You know what elder abuse is? That's what's happening with my mother. Frederic is trying to take everything. I refinanced the house with her permission in order to stop that."
Whatever their current bank balance, the prince has paid a considerable price for his perch in the gilded cage. "I wanted to meet a movie star, but married to a movie starI will tell you the truth, I would not recommend it," he says. "It's very hard. You have to give up your life. It's not easy, but I know how to handle her. It's 21 years. She could have kicked me out; she kicked out nine husbands. But she didn't do it. I must have done something right."
And after all this time, he says, "It is not only love; it is not only friendship. You are glued together. You know everything about your partner. I cannot let go. She cannot let go."
But Zsa Zsa is deeply depressed by her disability. "Very often she gives up and says, 'I don't want to live anymore.' I twist it around and say, 'You've got to make the best out of it,'" the prince reports. "I take her out; I drive around a little bit. I keep her busy. I try to make her happy. I have her old movies; I put them from tape onto DVD. I put in a DVD and say, 'Look, they're showing a movie about you today!' That makes her so happy. She doesn't know how I do it. I'm a very positive guy. She likes that. If she had a guy a little bit negative, that would be a disaster. They would have killed each other."
He depends on her as well. "Life alone without herI can't even think about it," he says, shaking his head. "I wouldn't know what to do. She was the best lover, the best friendshe was the best everything."
Zsa Zsa Gabor with her stepson and lover, the hotel heir Conrad "Nicky" Hilton Jr., and the actress Natalie Wood, at Mike Romanoff's restaurant after the premiere of the film Island in the Sun, June 13, 1957. By Bruce Bailey/Getty Images.
When the prince recalls their former life together, he grows more and more animated, his ruddy face flushing with excitement. "I met four presidents!" he exclaims. "We went to the White House! That was the biggest thing for me. My wife knew President Reagan and Nancy. I shake his handthe most powerful man in the world! A guy comes out of a little village, you're nobody and nothing. I was frozen. He saw it, and he loosened me up. He started a conversation. It was a very nice talk I had with him. Then when the old President Bush was president, he came to L.A., and he was so nice and so friendly. There was a big ball and we were sitting on his table. You cannot top what I experienced in the Gabor family. If I would be sick in bed and close to die, I could say, 'I didn't miss anything!' She gave me the whole world."
But the prince remains irate about the accusation that he has incarcerated Zsa Zsa. "They say he locks up his wife. She sure is not locked up. That's stupid," he grumbles. The driveway to their house had to be repaved, he says, and the electronic front gates were disconnected while the repairs were going on, so the prince padlocked them when he went out.
He also insists that it's Zsa Zsa's choice not to receive or speak with friends: "When people want to talk to her, she says, 'I don't want to see them.' Then they say, 'He keeps her away from them!' What do you want me to dofight her? It makes me very often sick. I want her to be out, to do things. She doesn't want to do it. She says to me, 'What can I say? What is there that people don't know about me? Whatever I can tell them, it's boring.' She doesn't want people to see her in a wheelchair. She wants people to remember her like she was years ago."
Indeed, reaching Zsa Zsa on the telephone proves almost as difficult as seeing her in person. The prince finally threatens once again to leave her, and she reluctantly gets on the phone. I ask her about Cindy Adams's claim that the prince prevents her from seeing people. "That was a stupid article," Zsa Zsa says. "I don't know why she wrote that."
So is she free to come and go as she pleases? "Of course I am. I don't have any complaints, except that I'm not in such good physical condition. But we are perfectly O.K. There is nothing wrong right now. I am taken care of very well. We have a very good marriage. He's very nice to me. He looks after me."
I ask Zsa Zsa what makes a good husband. "A nice faithful man," she says. Then she hangs up.
During the media frenzy over Anna Nicole Smith's baby, the prince was interviewed on television. At the time, Charlie Matthau, Walter's son, was preparing to direct Baby-O, a low-budget film musical written by David Proval, who played Richie Aprile on The Sopranos.
"I was watching Larry King, and on comes Freddy, and I thought, This guy is a natural!" says Matthau. "I asked my casting people to track him down."
Set in the Las Vegas jazz scene, Baby-O featured a mob boss named Sal Longoli. But Matthau was so entranced with Freddy that the mob boss was rewritten to become Adolph von Mecklenburg-Cronkite, an investment banker and deal-maker who lends the money to characters who want to build a casino. Matthau describes von Mecklenburg-Cronkite, who might be German or Austrian or Swiss, as "a lovable rogue, à la David Niven in Bedtime Storya guy who may not always tell the truth, but you can't help being amused by him anyway."
Early this summer, Baby-O commenced filming in Las Vegas with an eclectic cast that included Theresa Russell, Eric Roberts, Buster Douglas, Robert Goulet, and Zsa Zsa's husband, who is playing the rogue, much to Matthau's delight.
"I love him," Matthau exclaims, laughing out loud. "He never lets the truth get in the way of a good story. How could you not love this guy? You'd have to have no sense of humor at all." After all this time as a supporting player, Prince Frédéric von Anhalt, the Duke of Saxony and consort of Bel Air Road, was ready for his close-up.
Perhaps his moment in the spotlight wasn't enough. Perhaps he was bored and wanted to amuse himself.
Or perhaps he really was held up by a gorgeous gang of larcenous lesbians, if not by space aliens.
On an otherwise unremarkable summer morning, von Anhalt was driving his Rolls-Royce near the Bel-Air Country Club when something happened. As he tells it, he was being followed by a car with three young women in it when they suddenly passed him and waved at him to stop. "One of the girls came out and said, 'We saw you on televisionyou make our day if you take a picture with us.' So I went out of the car and the other girls came out," the prince reports. "It happens all the time in Bel Air, because we have all the tourists; they come and want to see people. So I do it, because if you don't, they get mad. And I love to do it, especially if they have a couple of beautiful girls. I didn't know what was going to happen to me."
Prince Frédéric, still bound and naked in his Rolls-Royce, is photographed by paparazzi after his alleged robbery by a group of gun-toting young women. Flynet.
But as the young women crowded around him for the picture, he says, "all of a sudden I felt something hard in my neck. She said, 'Don't moveit's the real thing.' I do shooting myself, and I knew I had a gun in my neck. I believe it was a Heckler & Koch 9-mm. automatic, which is a very dangerous gun; it goes off very fast. I was so scared of the gun. I had to take off my watchit was a platinum Rolex with diamonds all aroundand then she told me to get undressed. So I took everything off, and she took the belt out of my pants and tied me on the steering wheel with my belt and pulled it tight. She kicked the door closed and took the key out of the car. They took my Rolex, my clothes, my wallet, my driver's license, and my key. It took me about five minutes to get my hands loose, and then I called 911."
But his problems were far from over. When the 911 operator connected him with the L.A. police department, he says, "the guy started laughing! It took them 50 minutes to comein Bel Air! I don't have a car key; I couldn't get out, because I was completely nude. I didn't have nothing to cover myself. I called around to friends, but most of the people I couldn't reach. I stopped a Bel Air patrol that was passing by, and he was laughing too. Everybody was laughing, like I was a jerk!"
Eventually the police came and took him back to his house. Von Anhalt described his attackers as driving a white car with Florida license plates. "It looked to me like some kind of lesbian gang," he says.
The media had a field day; "wackadoodle" and "imbecilic" were among the milder terms applied to the prince. A picture of him naked with his wrists strapped to the steering wheel elicited more gleeful commentary, along with questions about why he was bound when the paparazzi arrived, despite having earlier untied his restraints in order to call for help.
Several internet gossip columnists suggested that von Anhalt frequents gay cruising areas and might have picked up the wrong person. Another claimed that, according to his stepdaughter Francesca, von Anhalt first told Zsa Zsa he had been robbed by three aliens, but she "told him to say it was three humans, because people would think he was crazy."
Frédéric, who insists he is telling the truth about what happened that day, has resigned himself to such reactions. "Nobody believes me," he says. "What can I do? It's insaneif you wrote a script about it, nobody would believe itbut it happened."
And with a life story like his own, not to mention Zsa Zsa's, who can blame him for holding fast to one of his most cherished convictions? "Anything can happen," he says.
Leslie Bennetts is a Vanity Fair contributing editor.


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Grilled Chicken with Bianco Barbecue Sauce
Grilled Chicken with Bianco Barbecue Sauce
My husband Barry's sent me this text message while dining at a southern barbecue style restaurant during his recent fishing trip in Hatteras North Carolina, " My Love, have you ever heard of White Barbecue Sauce?, we're at a restaurant and it's on the menu"…My reply, "No never heard of it, sounds interesting"
Barry's text message sparked my interested enough to do a little research later that night. I learned that "White Barbecue Sauce", is a staple mayonnaise based sauce used for grilling pork and chicken in Northern Alabama.
Yesterday I decided to test a recipe I had found online while doing my research. I mixed up the ingredients, swiped my finger across the backside of the spoon for a quick taste, and was completely disappointed in the flavor. I went straight to the pantry and refrigerator for ingredients to jazz up the flavor to my liking. Last night I stood in the rain with my fingers crossed as I grilled a batch of this "jazzed up" marinated Bianco Barbecue Sauce chicken for our family dinner. The family unanimously voted the recipe as a keeper, and all requested that I write it down before I forget how to make it….This recipe is definitely a Mamma Mia Delicioso recipe for summertime Barbecues! Perfect for this upcoming holiday weekend!
Happy 4th Of July!
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PARIS — France's defense minister said Tuesday that French troops are involved in ''very violent fighting'' in the mountains of northern Mali and that it is too early to talk about a quick pullout from the West African country, despite the growing cost of the intervention.
The fighting against Islamic extremists in the Adrar des Ifoghas mountains has been going on for days. A clash in the area killed 23 soldiers from neighboring Chad on Friday, according to a letter from President Francois Hollande of France, expressing condolences to his Chadian counterpart.
Soldiers from Chad and a few other African countries have joined the French-led operation to help Mali's weak military push back extremists who had imposed harsh rule on northern Mali and started moving toward the capital last month.
On Tuesday, the Obama administration imposed sanctions on an Islamic rebel leader whose extremist group seized much of northern Mali last year and prompted the French military intervention. The US State Department designated Iyad Ag Ghali, head of the Islamic group Ansar Dine, a global terrorist. The action blocks any assets he holds in the United States and prohibits Americans from doing business with him.
The United Nations also added Ag Ghali to its global sanctions list.
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After World War Two, the leaders of Europe established greater economic ties to help prevent future continental conflict. Now, more than half a century later, the EU faces the biggest financial crisis in its history - and the future of the Eurozone itself is under question. What's preventing the world's second largest economy -- and America's largest trading partner -- from pulling itself out of recession?
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having an issue, been getting worse- when click on thread will start to load then will say at bottom page "waiting for hvac-talk, and wait and wait.
some threads just won't load, some do. "new posts" works normally.
even some of the educational threads don't work. go back later and ok.


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(SportsNetwork.com) - The Montreal Canadiens aim for their first home win over the St. Louis Blues in nearly a decade when the teams clash in Tuesday's encounter at the Bell Centre.
The Canadiens last earned a win over the Blues in Montreal on Jan. 13, 2004, but St. Louis has recorded three straight victories in "La belle province" since that 5-2 setback. The Blues have claimed the past three meetings in this series overall and also have recorded five victories in their last six stops in Montreal.
Although Montreal is only 4-4-0 as the host this season, the Habs should be glad to be back home after losing both games of a recent two-game road trip in regulation.
The Canadiens were handed a 4-3 defeat Friday at Minnesota and then suffered a 4-1 setback the following night in Colorado. Montreal native Jean-Sebastien Giguere posted 29 saves to lead the way on Saturday for the Avalanche, who gave head coach Patrick Roy an easy victory against his old team.
Peter Budaj surrendered three goals on 30 shots while Brendan Gallagher had the only goal of the game for the Canadiens, who had won two straight before the 0-2 road trip.
"It was a tough night out there for all of us," said Budaj. "The third period was real hard and they just kept coming at us."
No. 1 goaltender Carey Price will get the start for Montreal on Tuesday and is 1-2-1 with a 2.90 goals against average in four career outings against the Blues.
St. Louis counters with Jaroslav Halak in net on Tuesday. A former Canadiens goaltender, Halak is 2-0 with a 0.50 GAA in two career games against his old club. The Czech netminder posted a shutout in his only other trip to Montreal, beating Price and the Canadiens with a 3-0 decision on Jan. 10, 2012.
The Blues, who are closing out a three-game road trip tonight, suffered their first regulation loss as the visiting team this season on Saturday after dropping a 4-2 decision at Tampa Bay. The setback dropped St. Louis to 3-1-1 on the road in 2013-14.
Alex Killorn registered a goal and two assists to lead the Lightning past the Blues on Saturday. Alex Pietrangelo and Jaden Schwartz both scored for St. Louis, which was dealt just its second regulation loss of the season, falling to 8-2-2 on the year. Halak stopped 21 shots in the defeat.
"We have to control the puck a little bit better," said Schwartz. "We turned it over too much and they're a speedy group ... so they're pretty dangerous."
The Blues played both tilts on their recent road trip without Brenden Morrow and the veteran forward is expected to sit out a third straight game on Tuesday. Morrow, who has two goals and one assist this season, is dealing with an upper-body injury.
Following tonight's test, the Blues will head back to the Gateway City for a five-game homestand. The residency is set to begin Thursday versus Calgary.


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These are some really sweet people and some of them, I have known for a long time. It just makes me want to shake them and scream, "WAKE UP! It's has all been a lie!" I'm hesitant though because these are the type of people that their faith runs so deep, any deviance will send them crying and praying. I really wish that they would put this passion toward something productive for our society, instead of just wishful thinking.. which is what I'm doing too, when I say that.
Makes me wonder though just how many of these people actually did their praying....
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I have friends and family who do that. Now I just sigh and shrug my shoulders when they post this sort of non-sense or claim that someone returning their lost wallet is proof that gawd is watching over them. I tried calling them out on the silliness of it early on, but all it did was make them upset and put me on their prayer list.
By the same token, if I post anything about atheism, logic, or science, they pretty much stay off my wall. So I guess I have sort of an unspoken truce with them just to keep the peace.
Makes me wonder though just how many of these people actually did their praying....
I think most of it is "lip service" so to speak. Just to look good to their peers. Especially on social networks like FB.
Yeah, seems to be a problem on a lot of people's pages :)
It is really annoying. I mean do they really think by putting that on FB and people, as Walter said, dish out some "lip service", it really helps. I mean seriously, her husband probably tried really hard to get that job. Give him some credit, jeeze.


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USFWS National Digital Library
January 1998
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Red-cockaded Woodpecker
Picoides borealis
In the world of North American woodpeckers, red-cockaded woodpeckers stand out as an exception to the usual rules. They are the only woodpeckers to excavate nest and roost sites in living trees. Living in small family groups, red-cockaded woodpeckers are a social species, unlike others. These groups chatter and call throughout the day, using a great variety of vocalizations. And they are one of only two woodpecker species protected by the Endangered Species Act. The other protected woodpecker species, the ivory-billed, had been assumed extinct for decades until sightings on a national wildlife refuge in the Southeast. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is working with Federal and State agencies and private landowners to keep red-cockaded woodpeckers from sliding to extinction.
It's all about the habitat
Red-cockaded woodpeckers live in mature pine forests—specifically those with longleaf pines averaging 80 to 120 years old and loblolly pines averaging 70 to 100 years old. From the late 1800s to the mid 1900s, red-cockaded woodpeckers declined rapidly as their mature pine forest habitat was altered for a variety of uses, primarily timber harvest and agriculture. Pine savannahs and open woodlands once dominated the southeastern United States and may have totaled more than 200 million acres at the time of European colonization. Longleaf pine communities may have covered 60 to 92 million of those acres. Today, fewer than 3 million acres remain. Listed in 1970 as endangered, red-cockaded woodpeckers once ranged from Florida to Maryland and New Jersey, as far west as Texas and Oklahoma, and inland to Missouri, Kentucky, and Tennessee. About 1 percent of their original range remains.
Home is where the trees are
About the size of cardinals, these woodpeckers excavate cavities exclusively in living pine trees, preferring older pines infected with the fungal red heart disease that softens heartwood. The birds need up to three years to excavate the cavities they use for nesting and roosting. The woodpeckers are faithful to their cavity trees, and each member of the group has its own roost cavity. Cavity trees occupied by a group are called a cluster and may include 1 to 20 or more trees on 3 to 60 acres. Red-cockaded woodpeckers peck holes around actively used cavities. These small wells exude resin that coats much of the tree. The birds keep the resin flowing as a defense against rat snakes and other predators.
Red-cockaded woodpeckers play a vital role in the intricate web of life of southern pine forests. A number of birds and mammals use the nest cavities that the woodpeckers excavate—such as chickadees, bluebirds, titmice, and species including the downy, hairy, and red-bellied woodpeckers. Larger woodpeckers may take over a red-cockaded woodpecker cavity, sometimes enlarging the hole enough to allow screech owls, wood ducks, and even raccoons to move in. Flying squirrels, several species of reptiles and amphibians, and insects, primarily bees and wasps, also use red-cockaded cavities.
Raising the roost
Red-cockaded woodpeckers live in groups with a breeding pair and as many as four helpers, usually male offspring from the previous year. Each group needs about 200 acres of old pine forest to support its foraging and nesting habitat needs. Juvenile females generally leave the group before the breeding season to join a solitary male group and form a new
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Red-cockaded woodpecker at its nest site, a tree crevice. management strategy, the 2003 recovery plan.
Working with conservation partners, the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service created the red-cockaded woodpecker recovery plan featuring the participation of other Federal and State agencies and private landowners. Because many large landscapes that provide habitat are on Federal land, the U. S. Forest Service and the Department of Defense have developed special management guidelines for the woodpeckers on national forests and military installations. From 1994 to 2002, red-cockaded woodpecker populations increased as much as 50 percent at six military installations
breeding pair. Breeding pairs are monogamous and raise a single brood each year. The female lays three to four small white eggs in the roost cavity. Group members incubate the eggs for 10 to 12 days and feed the hatchlings ants, beetles, caterpillars, corn ear worms, spiders, centipedes, wood-boring insects, and other insects that the adults eat. About 15 percent of their diet includes seasonal wild fruit. Chicks remain in the nest cavity for about 26 days.
Build it, and they will come
Planting longleaf pine trees and conducting controlled burns to remove undergrowth to create the open, park-like areas that the woodpeckers like has helped the recovery effort, along with developing artificial cavities and relocating birds. In 10 years, red-cockaded woodpecker groups have increased nearly 30 percent to about 6,000. Artificial cavity construction has enhanced clusters and established new groups. Moving isolated woodpeckers to these new habitats has reduced the likelihood of extinction and increased genetic diversity. Still, even at the current rate of growth, it will take decades to restore the species to a secure status in the wild, according to a
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that include primary core populations required for delisting. These are Eglin Air Force Base (Florida), Fort Benning (Georgia), Fort Bragg (North Carolina), Fort Polk (Louisiana), Fort Stewart (Georgia), and Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune (North Carolina). Recovery initiatives by private landowners are also conserving this species. For example, under a Safe
Harbor Agreement, North Carolina's Pinehurst Resort is creating habitat for red-cockaded woodpeckers and helping to ensure their long-term future.
Red-cockaded woodpeckers rarely come to the ground. They even bathe in water-filled depressions on tree limbs. Recent research, however, notes that female red-cockaded woodpeckers search for bone bits on the forest floor and stuff them in tree crevices. Zoologists say that is the first known instance of a bird's hoarding something for its mineral, rather than caloric content. Calcium-rich bone is not rare, but the birds probably seek it to ensure stronger eggshells. They stash it in a tree so they won't have to eat on the ground where they are vulnerable to predators.
(top): Range map of the red-cockaded woodpecker.
(left): The male has a small red patch, or "cockade" on each side of his black cap.
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And swords. Don't forget swords.The researchers also think this material could be used in biomedical sensors and unmanned aircraft."
Thanks for the link. I wonder if this could be used as a scratch-resistant coating for sensitive surfaces. I'm thinking of my iPod and my mobile phone. Or even the windshield, loose chippings can be so annoying.When i saw the title i imagined something more like bulletproof glass, but, as you can see, it's pretty thin.
Why do we always have to go to "It's light! It's strong! This will clearly help prevent foreigners from killing our troops!"?
Why do we always have to go to "It's light! It's strong! This will clearly help prevent foreigners from killing our troops!"?
Maybe because the military is always eager to throw piles of cash at promising technology that will improve their ability to project force & protect the forces?
A lot of (basic) research has been done on the Dept of Defense's dime.
Most of it has eventually worked its way into the larger market place...
Otherwise, you have to dig up venture capital and those guys can be real bastards when you can't commercialize the technology according to their 3 or 5 or X year plan.
Why do we always have to go to "It's light! It's strong! This will clearly help prevent foreigners from killing our troops!"?
Because many of these materials are difficult to make, or extremely expensive, or not suited for all uses, or 'all of the above'. It normally takes many years, if at all, for exotic materials to enter the consumer market. When they do, it is typically on high end/luxury stuff first (where price is less of an object) and only later trickles down to the shelves of your local big box
Let's face it, mundane (but realistic) uses aren't exciting and don't make good stories. The microwave gun that generates pain across nerve endings is discussed in terms of urban combat and riot-suppression, but in the real world, more people are probably going to end up using the device in farmland where electric fences are impractical or impossible, as a replacement for noisy bird scarers, possibly even in a very low-power form in medical diagnostics when you want to generate a very controlled stimulus to determine the location and extent of nerve damage, etc.
An ultra-light plastic would be valuable for so many things, from cutlery to possibly safer alternatives to metal for pins and plates within the human body to a replacement for aluminium in airframes to a replacement for metals (lead especially) in "unbreakable toys". Depending on thermal properties, it may have uses in ducting where you need something strong but light. Depending on exactly what is meant by "strong", it may become a replacement for steel cabling in reinforced concrete - plastics tend to be better at aging. Current plastic drains are notoriously feeble. Now, please consider that Victorian drains are only now starting to reach the end of their lifespan, and Roman-era aqueducts are still perfectly functional, so anything that lasts a mere hundred years is simply living up to what was expected of material science a hundred years ago, and we really should be looking to match or better a bunch of iron Age punks. Could this plastic offer a cost-effective way of matching some of the greatest material science achievements in history?
*sigh* I still want unbreakable beer mugs.
The abstract is:Deposition of alternating nanoscale layers of clay particles and a polymer yields a transparent composite that is as stiff and strong as steel.
In response to your questions about actual material response, the paper discusses a variety of metrics for a variety of different preparation conditions. They report that the nano-composite material has an ultimate tensile strength 10 times greater than the pure PVA polymer, up to 480 MPa. They also state that the modulus, E, was 100 times greater than the pure polymer, up to 125 GPa, which they compare to Kevlar (E ~ 80 to 220 GPa).Nanoscale building blocks are individually exceptionally strong because they are close to ideal, defect-free materials. It is, however, difficult to retain the ideal properties in macroscale composites. Bottom-up assembly of a clay/polymer nanocomposite allowed for the preparation of a homogeneous, optically transparent material with planar orientation of the alumosilicate nanosheets. The stiffness and tensile strength of these multilayer composites are one order of magnitude greater than those of analogous nanocomposites at a processing temperature that is much lower than those of ceramic or polymer materials with similar characteristics. A high level of ordering of the nanoscale building blocks, combined with dense covalent and hydrogen bonding and stiffening of the polymer chains, leads to highly effective load transfer between nanosheets and the polymer.
Plasteel, anyone?
Pam Anderson's tits will survive in pristine condition for a thousand years after she's gone.
I watched the Super Friends growing up, I know how this ends [bcdb.com]! Marvin and Wendy had to foil a plot from a guy named "King Plasto" who used stuff just like this in his evil attempt to take over the world. Someone call the Great Hall Of The Justice League and get Batman and Aquaman on this, stat!
To think I can remember that bad episode of a bad cartoon from the 70's, yet forgot my Dad's birthday this year. Again.
Better windows would be a real plus. If this stuff is transparent and can be engineered to be as flexible as steel, it would have a big advantage over the dangerous stuff we're using now.
So... why not make cars out of this stuff? Think, if it's as strong as steel, if the car body was made out of this then it would be like havin
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Updated 12:32 am, Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Texas Gov. Rick Perry today owned up to an "oops" moment that wasn't even his, according to Bloomberg.
His wife, Anita, misspoke when she told a journalist that abortion is a woman's right, Perry, 63, a Republican who opposes terminating pregnancies, told a crowd in Smithville, New Jersey.
"From time to time we'll stick the wrong word in the wrong place, and you pounce upon it," Perry told reporters at a campaign event for U.S. Senate candidate Steve Lonegan, a 57-year-old Republican from Bogota. Lonegan faces Democrat Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, New Jersey, in the Oct. 16 special election to fill the seat left vacant after the June death of Sen. Frank Lautenberg.
Anita Perry made her remark Sept. 28 during an interview at the Texas Tribune Festival at the University of Texas in Austin, according to the newspaper.
"That could be a woman's right, just like it's a man's right if he wants to have some kind of procedure," Perry was quoted as telling editor-in-chief Evan Smith.
Texas is the largest and most populous among the 13 states that ban abortion beyond 20 weeks' gestation. In June, state Sen. Wendy Davis, a Democrat from Fort Worth, filibustered for 11 hours to prevent a vote on that ban. It passed during a special session convened by Perry, who signed the bill July 18.
Perry failed in his bid for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, and his decision not to seek another governor's term has led to speculation that he'll run again in 2016. He told reporters today that he is traveling around the country "talking about blue-state versus red-state policies and which one of those work best for the people of their states and for the people of this country."
During a televised debate Nov. 9, 2011, in Rochester, Michigan, Perry said he would eliminate the U.S. Departments of Education and Commerce, and couldn't remember his third target.
"I can't," he said then. "Sorry. Oops."
Later he looked at his notes and said, "By the way, it was the Department of Energy I was talking about."


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WARSAW: Man gets 12 years for Larwill incident
COLUMBIA CITY — A Warsaw man, 36-year-old Trever Hanlon, was sentenced in Whitley County Circuit Court Monday to 12 years for charges relating to an out of control rolling methamphetamine lab near Larwill in April. According to the plea agreement, the sentences imposed will be served concurrent with one another.Hanlon pleaded guilty back in August to manufacture of methamphetamine, a Class B felony, possession of two or more "precursors," or ingredients used to make the drug, a Class D felony and maintaining a common nuisance, a Class D felony.According to a Whitley County Drug Task Force case report, officer William Brice received a radio call April 29, concerning a vehicle fire in Larwill.Det. Gary Archbold and Brice responded, arriving at the corner of Ind. 5 and Old Trail road at 2:20 p.m.The fire was extinguished and further investigation discovered a blue duffle bag, containing precursors for methamphetamine, and the Indiana State Police Methamphetamine Team was contacted.After the owner of the vehicle was found, Brice reported the owner admitted he was the driver of the burned vehicle. He also admitted picking up Hanlon in a Warsaw store parking lot and driving toward Huntington.According to a Whitley County Drug Task Force Supplemental case report, Hanlon admitted he started cooking methamphetamine in the vehicle as the owner drove. Hanlon would not say anything about the owner, claiming he would take full responsibility for everything.Hanlon said he was holding the bottle when the explosion occurred, and the chemicals began burning his legs.


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"When we did turn the ball over and when we did win it, the backs were excellent.
"Earlsy (Keith Earls), (Simon) Zebo, Casey (Laulala), Keats (Ian Keatley), James (Downey) - all the boys were really, really good off turnover ball. It is probably the fourth set piece you need to be good at and they were excellent today."
It took just five minutes for Munster to score their opening try and they added five more in the second half as Toulouse capitulated under the pressure.
And after the disappointment of losing to rivals Leinster last weekend, O'Connell stated it was the perfect start which they were looking for.
"It was great to get off to the start we did, into the wind. We scored a try which dusted off the cobwebs of last week and I think Keats knocked it over from the touchline into the wind.
"He hit a penalty and it was 13-3 early on and into the wind, which was great."
With Keatley's two penalties and conversion helping them lead by four points at half-time, O'Connell was pleased with their second half response.
A brace of tries from Dave Kilcoyne and man-of-the-match CJ Stander within six minutes of the restart effectively buried Toulouse, as Munster dominated the visitors in the lineout and Toulouse were unable to deal with their maul.
It was another pleasing aspect for O'Connell who stated that when you are faced with a superior maul - Toulouse were mauled back a full 22 metres at one point - it becomes disheartening.
The second row added: "It was brilliant. Technically we have a very good maul. For all the Irish provinces, it is something they work very hard on and we certainly got a lot of reward from it today, particularly when we came out in the second half.
"It probably laid the foundations for two early tries that put us in a great position. Toulouse had to chase the game as well. The maul was really satisfying.
"We came out in the second half, scored the tries early and they had to chase the game. They scored some tries, but we were able to pick them off as well and score some tries on counter attack.
"It was a brilliant performance. I never dreamed we'd score as many points as we did, or as many tries as we did. Delighted for everyone."
After one of the most complete performances by a Munster side, the Ireland captain downplayed their chances in the semi-finals, insisting that it was not a performance that makes them fearless going into the last-four.
"I wouldn't say that (we don't fear anyone). We're probably the smallest team left in the competition. If you look at the size of the other teams, even Toulouse today are a lot bigger than us.
"We didn't get a look in last week against Leinster, but today was a step up for us. It's a challenge for us now to maintain that kind of consistency in both the Rabo and the Heineken Cup going forward."


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LOS ANGELES — For the first time in the United States, an original Banksy street mural is going up for auction.
The executive director of Julien's Auctions, Martin Nolan, says the company will sell Banksy's 2008 Los Angeles mural "Flower Girl" in December.
The nine-foot by eight-foot piece originally appeared on the wall of a Hollywood gas station. It shows a black stenciled image of a girl holding a basket and looking up at a security camera atop a tall plant. Nolan says the mural is expected to fetch at least $150,000.
It will be among the lots featured at Julien's Street Art Auction on Dec. 5.


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When Dr. Darius Maggi - a personal friend of Reba McEntire - suggested a way she could help out the local north Texas community, the wheels started turning.
The suggestion eventually led to the opening of Reba's Ranch House. The Ranch provides a place for out-of-town families to stay while their loved-ones are in the hospital.
Director Marilyn Bice said the Ranch first opened its doors on Sept. 24, 1992, and has helped thousands of families in those 20 years.
"The biggest quote that all [the families] have is talking about being able to escape the hospital," she said. "And being able to have some time to take a shower...have some time to get some sleep. Find something in the refrigerator."
Ron Ballou has worked at the Ranch for eight years. He started as a volunteer - and liked it so much he got a full time position.
"Being able to interact with different people, and people of different walks of life," he said. "And people that were really in need. I have a soft heart for people like that."
Reba provides financial and moral support for the Ranch, holding benefits and sending memorabilia, Bice said.
"We send her the letters that people write her while they're here," she said. "And she reads every one of them throughout the year."
"We really think a lot of Reba. And we appreciate that she's done this for all these people," Ballou said. "And this is a home away from home for people that have sick ones in the hospital."
The Ranch moved to a new building in 2010. The new place has four additional rooms - bringing the total to 12.
While the Ranch doesn't charge families to stay, Bice said many of the families give a donation as a thank you.


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Visitors travel long distances to enjoy light display, bonfire, hayrack ride, much more
ELLIS — The Cedar Bluff State Park Christmas "Holiday In Lights" display is a popular western Kansas holiday attraction located about 31 miles southwest of Hays. Including miles of colorful lights lining the state park on the reservoir's north shore, the display attracts visitors from long distances. This year's event begins this Dec. 11.
The light display, which originated in 2006, is a joint venture among state park staff, a local friends group, and area businesses and utilities. It provides one of the state's best Christmas light displays in a rural setting. Cost for the event is $1 per person and includes an auto tour, a bonfire, hot chocolate and roasted marshmallows, hayrack rides, and a visit with Santa. Normal park entry fees are waived for all vehicles attending the Christmas lights display.
Dates of the six-night event are Dec. 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, and 20, which includes two weekends. These are the only dates that lights will be on. More information is available from the Cedar Bluff State Park office, phone 785-726-3212 or email email@example.com.


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North American Juniors Game Night: 12/3/10
Penticton Vees 6 @ Merritt Centennials 1
C Brendan O'Donnell, PEN: 2-0-2, 0 PIM
Season totals: 30 GP, 15-21-36, 10 PIM
O'Donnell maintained his 2-points-per-game average since the World Junior A Championships with two goals scored less than a minute apart Friday.
Sioux City Musketeers 2 @ Fargo Force 6
C Jimmy Mullin, FGO: 2-3-5, +4, 0 PIM, 8 SOG
Season totals: 15 GP, 8-10-18, +10, 14 PIM
Mullin (pictured) had a monster night for Fargo, earning four of his five points in the second period, including a shorthanded goal. Mullin is now over a point-per-game pace and leads the Force in scoring. Fargo evened their record at 9-9-3 and is climbing up the Western Conference standings. They're five points out of first, though they've played three more games than conference-leading Dubuque.
Gatineau Olympiques 3 @ Moncton Wildcats 2 (OT)
D Adam Janosik, GAT: 1-1-2, E, 0 PIM, 3 SOG, 1 Hit
Season Totals: 29 GP, 4-10-14, +8, 16 PIM
Janosik scored his fourth of the year in overtime to lift Gatineau to a win. He has four points in his last three games with two two-point efforts.
Shawinigan Cataractes 1 @ Montreal Juniors 4
D Charles Landry, MTL: 1-2-3, E, 0 PIM, 1 SOG, 0 Hits, *Second Star*
Season Totals: 20 GP, 5-13-18, +10, 6 PIM
Landry has six points in his last two games and has registered at least a point in six of his last seven games. His goal early in the third period Friday turned out to be the game winner.
Barrie Colts 2 @ Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds 5
D Brock Beukeboom, SSM: 0-0-0, +1, 2 PIM (hooking)
Season Totals: 25 GP, 0-4-4, -12, 42 PIM
The Soo scored four times in the third period to defeat the Colts. Beukeboom had his first plus game in eight tries.
Oshawa Generals 4 @ Guelph Storm 2
G Michael Zador, OSH: Did not play.
Season Totals: 18 GP, 10-3-1-1, 3.36 GAA, .879 sv%, 1 SO
C/W Richard Panik, GUE: 0-2-2, E, 0 PIM, *Third Star*
With Guelph: 1 GP, 0-2-2, E, 0 PIM
With Belleville: 27 GP, 14-17-31, -1, 31 PIM
Season totals: 28 GP, 14-19-33, -1, 31 PIM
Wearing No.25, Panik made his Guelph debut and earned two assists, but the Storm could not overcome an early 3-0 deficit to beat the Gens. Zador watched from the bench for the second straight night.
Owen Sound Attack 2 @ Plymouth Whalers 3
D Geoffrey Schemitsch, OS: 0-1-1, E, 0 PIM
Season totals: 20 GP, 1-11-12, +9, 4 PIM
Schemitsch assisted on Avalanche first rounder Joey Hishon's 15th goal of the season.
Moose Jaw Warriors 9 @ Regina Pats 6
RW Carter Ashton, REG: 1-1-2, -1, 0 PIM
Season totals: 27 GP, 15-9-24, -14, 42 PIM
Ashton has goals in four of his last five games. Goaltending was optional Friday night in
Seattle Thunderbirds 5 @ Prince George Cougars 4
RW Brett Connolly, PG: 1-2-3, +1, 0 PIM, *Second Star*
Season totals: 28 GP, 22-15-37, -4, 8 PIM
Connolly has goals in four straight games and in six of his last seven games. He is third in the league in goals. Connolly passed the Lightning's Steven Stamkos for the goal scoring lead in the Lightning organization. Your move, Mr. Stamkos. Colin Jacobs (2011 eligible) had a hat trick for Seattle Friday.
Saskatoon Blades 4 @ Kamloops Blazers 3 (OT)
D Teigan Zahn, SAS: 0-0-0, -1, 2 PIM (roughing)
Season totals: 27 GP, 2-5-7, +6, 55 PIM
Zahn has roughing penalties in three straight games. This won't go over well with Santa.
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Coulee Recollections
A look at the past
Ten Years Ago
One of the final obstacles to the construction of the town of Coulee Dam's filtration plant has now been removed. Fourth Congressional District Representative Richard "Doc" Hastings announced yesterday that Coulee Dam will receive federal grants and a loan to pay for its water filtration plant. "It's great," said Coulee Dam Mayor Quincy Snow. "It goes to show that the squeeky wheel gets the results."
High temperatures could not prevent shooting enthusiasts from attending a tournament designed to test their skills with a variety of moving targets last weekend. The Almira Gun Club's third annual Brenner Sporting Clay's "Fun" Shoot took place last Saturday at the club.
Cuts in the state's budget have forced the Grand Coulee Dam area's only prescription drug provider to ponder the future of accepting Medicaid in its pharmacies.
Shane Proctor, a senior at Lake Roosevelt High School, has earned a position on the Washington State National High School Rodeo Team and will be traveling with fellow teammates to Farmington, New Mexico, from July 22-28, 2002, to compete at the 54th Annual National High School Finals Rodeo.
Twenty Years Ago
More than a half million dollars for a Lake Roosevelt water quality recovery plan was approved by a House of Representatives subcommittee late last month.
An 81-year old woman stopped traffic on highway 155 after the fireworks show Saturday when officials had to take her in a ambulance up the wrong side of the road.
Officials of Grand Coulee Dam estimated that the largest crowd ever assembled for a single local event at Grand Coulee Dam happened for the Fourth of July. Somewhere between 60,000 and 70,000 people were on hand for a holiday fireworks display that followed the dam's display that followed the dam's evening laser light show.
Thirty Years Ago
The final ceremony dedicating the Time Capsule Sundial a project of the GCD Area Bicentennial/History Book Committee, was held July 4, at North Dam Park. Master of Ceremonies was Wayne Monteith.
George Simon was installed as president of the GCD Rotary Club at a banquet recently.
Rhonda Pickering, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Pickering qualified for the State High School Rodeo Finals in barrel racing.
Forty Years Ago
The Circle Grounds across the highway from the Agency at Nespelem resembled a bee hive as crews worked toward getting everything ready for the 100th birthday celebration of the Colville Indian Reservation.
Joe Ehlers was recently named to the Dean's List at Wenatchee Valley College during the spring quarter.
Cathy Chamberlain, Terry Stone and Nancy Finch of Elmer City were among the girls who attended the Grand Assembly of Rainbow Girls at Tacoma recently.
Fifty Years Ago
Mary Elizabeth, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Michaud, was recently christened at St. Benedict's Church in Coulee Dam.
Young men from this area that attended Boys' State were Bill Trefry, Ron Ponder, Dean Skorheim, Larry Johnson and Tony Atkinson.
Mrs. William Carr left Monday with the junior and senior high school group of the Baptist Church for Camp Lutherhaven at Coeur d'Alene. Those attending were Jim Conner, Terry Thoren, Bruce Gore, Barbara DuCette, Clark Crim, Patty DuCette, Amy Weber, Ilana Carr and Janice Kusel.
Sixty Years Ago
Jim Tillman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Otis Tillman of Elmer City, is leaving for Alaska where he will work for the summer for the Alaska Road Commission at Valdez.
Under the lights at the Beaver Bowl Friday night the GCD Athletics will face the Ephrata Jaycees. Last Sunday at Almira, the locals blasted out a lopsided 18-1 win behind the steady hurling of Evan Jensen.
Mr. and Mrs. John Edyvean who recently purchased the Bob Worden place at Belvedere had as their guests Mr. and Mrs. Jess Evans of Grand Coulee.
Seventy Years Ago
General excavation work was finished in the two switchyards. Anchor holes for steel towers were being drilled.
June saw the placement of a 525-ton rotor for the first of the world's greatest turbo-operated generators in the Grand Coulee Dam powerhouse. Completion of the mammoth generator was scheduled for mid-July. Dry runs were made before the actual acceptance by the Bureau of Reclamation. Delivery of electrical power was expected to be in early August.
A 42-year-old stake set by government surveyors in 1899, was removed from a spot six miles below Kettle Falls. The stake was used to note a land allotment of Pierre and Lucy St. Paul. It was of cedar and in a good state of preservation.


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Minutes 219th General Assembly 2010 Part I Journal
The Minutes, Part I, Journal contains the proceedings of the annual meeting (before 2004) or biennial meeting (2004 and beyond) of the general assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). The Journal contains the minutes of the meeting (section one) – but also contains in section two the assembly committee reports (with reports from all the agencies of the church, permanent and special committees, overtures to the assembly, and commissioners' resolutions). Section three of the book contains supplemental material (i.e. roll of the assembly, standing rules, moderators and clerks, and members of entities elected by the assembly). Beginning with the Journal for the 219th General Assembly (2010), an abbreviated printed Journal has been produced that includes a CD-ROM that holds the entire Journal in PDF format.
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