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Auto Insurance Reviews
Best auto insurance company
Cheap car insurance
Best auto insurance for military families
Best auto insurance for risky drivers
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Shop around for the best protection and value
Turn on your TV for 5 minutes and you'll probably see a commercial for car insurance. Some of them are more entertaining than the shows they interrupt. The reason there are so many ads is because it's very easy for people to change car insurance companies; and when you do, they want you to remember their jingle, spokesman or woman, Or lizard.
The fact is that you absolutely should shop around for car insurance. What we've learned in preparing this report is that once a company has you, they're more than happy to raise your rates, a bit here and a bit there, or maybe even quite a bit. They're hoping you won't notice, won't question, or they're relying on inertia — that you'll just sort of let things slide and stick with the status quo. Car insurance companies also will not check your premiums on a regular basis to see if changes in the industry or pricing algorithm (which happen with surprising frequency) might result in a lower rate if applied to your circumstances. That means you have to do your own homework. At least once a year, at a minimum, experts say, you should get auto insurance quotes. The ideal time to do so is shortly after a birthday, as your age is an important factor in how much you are charged. If you find a lower rate elsewhere, see if your current insurer will match it. Chances are that they will. It costs you absolutely nothing but time, and with the plethora of online quotes sites, it won't take much of that either.
There are a variety of factors that will determine what you pay for car insurance, including where you live, your age, driving history, type of vehicle and your credit score. You may also qualify for various discounts, or benefit from bundling — that is buying other policies from the same company, such as home, boat, motorcycle or life insurance.
Types of auto insurance
The most basic kind of car insurance is liability coverage. If you're at fault in an accident, this pays for the damage you do to others, both bodily and property. All states require licensed car owners to carry some level of liability coverage (with the exception of NH, which allows you to opt out if you can prove you have sufficient financial resources).
Collision insurance covers the cost to fix your own car after an accident, but may not always be necessary if your car is fully paid for and has a low resale value. You can save money if you can opt out of this, but you can only do so if there's no lien on your car.
Comprehensive insurance covers non-accident-related catastrophes, such as vehicle theft or storm damage. It also covers lesser incidents, such as if a rock flies up and breaks your windshield; however, if your policy has a high deductible, that type of claim might not be worth filing.
Uninsured/underinsured insurance can protect you if you get into an accident with someone who has no insurance — or not enough — and lacks the money to pay out of pocket.
Medical and personal-injury insurance can pay for injuries sustained in an accident.
There are many extras you can purchase as well, often for very little, such as reimbursement for a rental car while your vehicle sits in the shop, towing, or roadside assistance.
Some tips when looking for insurance
For good drivers, smaller companies may be a better bet. Policyholders say these companies offer a more personal approach than big insurers, especially if you form a relationship with a local agent, and smaller insurance companies often are rated more highly. However, many smaller insurers only do business in certain states. They may also be pickier about their policyholders, accepting only those with sterling driving records.
If your driving record isn't spotless, big companies are worth a look. National insurance companies typically offer a wider variety of policies, so they can take on riskier drivers — though your rates will be higher than drivers with a clean record. That last part is especially true of drivers that companies are required to cover under state assigned risk programs, which secure insurance coverage for anyone legally eligible to drive. On the plus side, bigger companies tend to have higher financial ratings, meaning they're most likely to have the cash on hand to pay all their obligations, and representatives are often available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Drivers in military families have additional options. A handful of companies cater exclusively to active-duty military, veterans and their families. Some insurers also offer coverage options and discounts exclusively for servicemen and women. For instance, companies may offer breaks on rates during deployments, saving you from canceling your insurance and creating a lapse in coverage, which can make getting new insurance tricky.
How we found the best car insurance companies
Comparing auto insurance companies isn't quite like looking at physical products, like vacuums, simply because there are so many variables. Customer reviews aren't easy to come by, and many people only post complaints, not compliments. However, J.D. Power and Associates conduct several large satisfaction surveys that are helpful in choosing the best car insurance companies. ConsumerReports.org has a similar survey-based roundup, rating auto insurance companies on claims satisfaction, price and service. Insure.com is the best, most recently updated source of consumer reviews; and Viewpoints.com has reviews going back several years that also provide a helpful snapshot. The result of our research is a wide range of choices in your car insurance coverage. We recommend taking a look at our recommended companies, comparing them to each other, to find the perfect coverage for your car and your budget.
Elsewhere in this report:
Best Auto Insurance Company: There are some car insurance companies that just stand head and shoulders above the rest for claims settlements and customer service. We also found a highly affordable option.
Best Auto Insurance for Military Families: Military families sacrifice a lot for their country, and these are the car insurance companies who go the extra mile to make their lives just a bit easier.
Best Car Insurance for Risky Drivers: You may be considered high risk based upon your driving history or where you live. These companies are willing to work with you even if some others won't.
Buying Guide: Shopping for car insurance can be like trying to steer an out-of-control car. We answer many of your questions and offer tips for shopping here.
Our Sources: These are the expert sources and customer reviews we used to determine the best auto insurance. They are ranked in order of their credibility and usefulness.


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Monday, September 13, 2010
Talk about Losers!
When I see Oswalt I wonder what would have happened if we got him. But ...Not even he can win a game where and offense scores no runs for him.
Niese was good...Oswalt was better!
Let's clean house. I don't care how many games are left. I want to see a firing!
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Set in rural South India, 15 year old Vanaja goes to work for the local Landlady in hopes of learning Kuchipudi Dance. Initial chemistry with the Landlady's son turns ugly, pitching her into a battle of Caste and Animus.
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"Vanaja" (more...) Chinnaiah Jangam, Department of History, Wagner College, Staten Island, USA, Journal of Visual Anthropology
"This issue of failed representation is reminiscent of Spivak's influential essay, "Can the Subaltern Speak" Spivak argues that discursive attempts to speak for the subaltern often benefit the causes and interests of the supposed advocate, while reinforcing the subjectivity of the subaltern figure (Spivak 1985: 120-130)." (more...) Rajiv Kanan Menon, UNHEARD SCREAMS AND SILENT ACCEPTANCE: MODERN INDIAN CINEMATIC REPRESENTATIONS OF SUBALTERN WOMEN, in Widescreen Journal, Vol 1, No 1 (2009)


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One guy in an office sat on Tea Party tax-exempt applications for 13 months after they were improperly selected for review.
The Treasury Inspector General report on the IRS mishandling of conservative advocacy group applications for tax exempt status between March 2010 and February 2012 was released Tuesday, and it is a doozy.
The report, conveniently titled "Inappropriate Criteria Were Used to Identify Tax-Exempt Applications for Review" -- in case you had any question as to its conclusions -- points the finger at "ineffective management" as the cause of the improper selection of groups using the words "Tea Party," "Patriot" and "9/12" for additional review and questioning.
The report fills in some important blanks in our knowledge about how the groups were selected and how their applications were managed. Most intriguing to me is the apparent case of this one guy in an office in Cincinnati who sat on the selected applications for 13 months because he or she was waiting for assistance from the Washington, D.C., office, which took forever to arrive. Talk about your bureaucratic cul-de-sacs!


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WASHINGTON — High school never ends.
Chris Christie has given us proof of that, as though we needed it.
Still, anyone who clings to high school the way the 51-year-old governor of New Jersey does makes me nervous.
In his hilariously lame attempt to demonize his old schoolmate and handpicked point man at the Port Authority, David Wildstein, by dredging up stuff Wildstein did as a teenager 35 years ago at Livingston High, Christie has confirmed the biographical, metaphysical and psychological primacy of high school.
On Saturday, Politico published some leaked talking points from Christie's office with these nyah-nyah complaints about Wildstein: "As a 16-year-old kid, he sued over a local school board election." And, "He was publicly accused by his high school social studies teacher of deceptive behavior."
As Shawn Boburg of The Record of Bergen County has reported, Wildstein unsuccessfully sued at 16 to get on the ballot for the county Republican committee and then ran for the local school board at 17, even though he was below the legal age requirement. His social studies teacher charged Wildstein with tricking him into signing an endorsement letter for that race.
Wait, this is supposed to be good for Christie? That he gave a $150,000-a-year job to a guy he knew was a wayward, duplicitous teen?
The Washington Post reported this week that Christie wasn't always so scornful of silly adolescent litigation. When Christie was a senior, he and his family considered suing to stop a transfer student from co-opting his role as catcher — even if it meant that the team, which went on to win the state championship, would have to forfeit the spring season. But he thought better of it.
The Record compared the yearbook profiles of Christie with the not-so-wild Wildstein: "Christie, a year younger, was a perennial class president and baseball player who wrote in his senior yearbook in 1980 about high school sweethearts and going to concerts. There are no remembrances, school clubs or sports teams next to Wildstein's 1979 senior picture. The space is blank."
It's risible but sort of alarming that, decades later, Christie is boasting that he was more of a big shot than Wildstein in high school, putting down the guy he created a job for, and going out of his way to say they were not even friends back when they were both connected to the Livingston Lancers — Christie as an ebullient, trim catcher; Wildstein as a quiet, bespectacled statistician.
"Well, let me just clear something up, O.K., about my childhood friend David Wildstein," Christie said at his marathon press conference in January, a month after Wildstein had fallen on his sword for the governor. "It is true that I met David in 1977 in high school. He's a year older than me. David and I were not friends in high school. We were not even acquaintances in high school."
Bristling with narcissism and punitive aggression, he drove his point home: "We didn't travel in the same circles in high school. You know, I was the class president and athlete. I don't know what David was doing during that period of time."
This display makes you think that Christie must have liked lording it over peons even back then, an uncomfortable echo of his office contemptuously impressing its will on the mayor of Fort Lee.
Watching Christie throw Wildstein off the sled and then publicly belittle him, it's easy to imagine the deep gratification, deferred by decades, that Wildstein must have experienced turning on Christie.
It has become a cliché to portray candidates in their "Breakfast Club" cliques. But the funny thing about Christie's desperate attempt to mine the past to save his once shiny future is that it's not a metaphor.
It isn't that Trenton politics are like high school. They are actually about high school.
Livingston, I presume, is the Hotel California for Christie. He can never leave.
High school looks like the beginning of adulthood and feels like it, but it isn't adulthood. It's some kind of dress rehearsal. It's the first experience of a grown-up emotional and physical life, where you feel the rush of your powers and your vulnerability. Every reversal is gigantic. It's a perfect storm of potency and ignorance, power and inexperience.
High school is the place where people get wounded — somebody else does better, an endless source of injuries, slights and offenses. Everyone comes out of high school needing vindication or revenge or compensation. It's all about somebody else getting the pretty girl or the cute guy or the higher grade or the position on the sports team. Or the opposite: the Biffs, the quarterbacks who look back and realize they can never be that again.
The two kinds of people who never let go are the injured and the injurers, people who got slammed and the prom kings and queen bees who swanned at the top only in their teens. In a way, you could define adulthood as a passage into a time when you realize high school no longer matters.
Christie's senior yearbook quote was "Great Hopes make Great Men."
He's now learned another lesson: Great Heaps of vengeful traffic cones break the Hopes of Men who would be Great.


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Man tried to smuggle heroin into prison, with daughters in tow
It is (presumably) the lament of criminally inclined parents everywhere: While you're out there crime-ing it up, what do you do with the young 'uns? For one man who tried to smuggle a keistered ball of heroin into a federal prison, the answer was to bring the tykes along.
That's only one of the jaw-unhinging revelations in the case of a father and his imprisoned son who schemed to sneak heroin into the medium-security Federal Correctional Institution in Florence. The case wrapped up today when the son, Donald Lawrence Denny, was sentenced to an extra four years and three months in prison after pleading guilty to drug-distribution and contraband charges. Last year, Denny's dad, Donald Curtis Denney, was sentenced to 4 years and 4 months in prison for his role as the mule. (And, if you're wondering, court records do indeed consistently spell Denny's and Denney's last names differently, though it's not clear why.)
The scheme went down like this: Starting in July 2010, Denney and Denny began talking in phone calls about a plan to smuggle a golf ball-sized lump of heroin into the prison, according to court records. Denny, who was in prison for bank robbery, would then distribute it around to other inmates. The pair planned to make about $20,000 off the deal, courts records state.
Originally, the father and son planned to have a woman carry the heroin into the visitor's area at the prison and slip it to Denny during a kiss. That went haywire, according to a search warrant affidavit (PDF), when none of the women selected could pass the background check requirements to become an approved visitor. With that plan scrapped, in stepped Denney.


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Janet Williams prayed that her husband had gone jogging that morning.
If you go
What: 30th anniversary memorial of the bombing of the Marine Corps Barracks in Beirut
Where: Jacksonville/Camp Lejeune, N.C. The Beirut Memorial is at the intersection of Lejeune Boulevard and Montford Point Road.
When: 10:30 a.m. Wednesday
Events: This is the cooperative, base-and-town event that is open to the general public. Other groups are holding smaller, mostly closed memorials during the week as well.
She knew his habits, so it was still a possibility. Besides being a tough Marine master sergeant, Scipio C. Williams Jr. was an early riser and a dedicated distance runner.
By the numbers
On Oct. 23, 1983, a truck packed with explosives attacked U.S. barracks in Beirut, killing U.S. servicemen. The dead included:
220 Marines
18 sailors
3 soldiers
A list of the victims is available at defense.gov.
But the early images on her 1980s television set weren't giving her much hope. The video was a before-and-after shot of the four-story Marine Corps barracks in far-off Lebanon. The first scenes were of a fully intact building with guards out front. The cut-away was to dust rising from unrecognizable rubble.
Stretchers were lifting away bloody, wounded Marines.
For the next several days Williams watched and waited for any snippet of news of her husband — "so handsome, so good-looking," she said of the man everyone outside the military called "Scip."
Just after the children left for school, a station wagon pulled up in front of her James Island home. Four somber
officers, one of them a chaplain, stepped out.
"I was standing in this room here," she recalled from her dining room table. "And I heard the car doors slamming."
In the next hours, "MIA" would become "KIA" after Williams' body was recovered.
Thirty years ago this week, the United States became the victim of its first mass suicide bombing. Shortly after 6 a.m. on Oct. 23, 1983, a truck packed with thousands of pounds of explosives rammed into the U.S. barracks compound in Beirut, killing 241 U.S. servicemen, most of them Marines, and wounding many others.
At least four of the losses came from South Carolina, including Scipio Williams, 35, a lifelong resident of Charleston.
In the aftermath, Janet Williams tried to be tough. She had two children to raise: a son, Scipio Jason, 8, and a daughter, Keysha, 13, both of whom attended their father's funeral at the small Payne Reformed Methodist Church on rural James Island.
A photograph of young Scipio receiving a folded American flag that day would splash across newspapers and television screens. For years afterward, including at memorials for the families of the bombing victims — and during his own future career as a Marine — those who had served under Master Sgt. Scipio J. Williams would stare at the boy's face.
The likeness to his father was that strong.
Married on 9/11
In 1982, President Ronald Reagan ordered 1,800 Marines to Beirut. It was new territory for many in America as the nation's finest fighting force was sent to join a multinational peace-keeping mission in the sectarian-torn nation.
The goal was to stabilize Lebanon, by sheer presence of might, after years of fighting that had brought in factions from all over the Middle East, including Christian and Muslim militias, and the spillover between Israelis and Palestinians.
Not long into the mission, community anger began turning on the Marines, largely because Muslims began identifying their involvement as pro-Christian.
A first taste of what was to come surfaced in April 1983 when a van loaded with explosives struck the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, killing 46 people. The Marines slogged on, even as the rules of engagement prevented them from heavily fortifying their barracks at the international airport. The image was not to appear "warlike," according to media reports.
All that happened, though, long after Janet met Scip.
She was in high school at C.A. Brown on Charleston's East Side. He was stationed at Charleston Naval Base. The attraction was strong. They were married on Sept. 11, 1971.
True to the military life, they traveled the world. He was a fully committed Marine who had served two tours in Vietnam. What he thought would be his last assignment was stateside with other Marines at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. It was close enough that he could come home on weekends to the one-story brick ranch the couple bought off of Fort Johnson Road on James Island.
When word came that he was being shipped off to Lebanon, Scip saw it as just another duty station in a 16-year career. He told her and the kids not to get out of the car or give him a hug or make a scene when it was time to go. He was like that.
"I don't want you to tell me 'Bye,'" he said to her. "I don't want you to ever tell me bye. Just pull off."
She did just that. And she regrets it to this day.
Marines in Lebanon
The peacekeeping aspect of the mission in Lebanon didn't sit well with a lot of people. Marines would be limited on when they could carry weapons. In his letters home, Williams told his wife how uncomfortable the restrictions had made the men as they moved around outside the wire, seeing so many armed bands of militia members driving around on trucks and in a chanting frenzy.
He had been encouraged to wear street clothes in public. Photographs he sent hone showed him seated on the barracks roof dressed in a casual blue sweatshirt and pants, not his camos.
Eventually, the Marines became targets of rifle-toting snipers and attackers with other weapons. "I knew before the bombing he was ready to come home," Janet Williams said.
She has talked to Marines who survived the blast, but she never got a good fix on what Scip was doing in the last hours of his life. She does know he got up and sang "My Girl" at a USO show before his final days.
Historians would later declare the blast the deadliest attack on the Marines since the landing on Iwo Jima during World War II,
The attack was pegged to Iran and the terror group Hezbollah. But the Marine leadership also faced sharp criticism for allowing a state of poor security that led to their massive loss of life. Reagan pulled the U.S. forces out of Lebanon four months after the blast.
Still, nothing would stop young Scipio from following in his father's footsteps.
At James Island High School, the teen had been a member of the Air Force ROTC. But he admits the Air Force route didn't feel like the right fit.
At school he would carry his dad's Marine rucksack and wear his oversize combat boots. "They looked like clown shoes" on his smaller feet, he said. And he would sneak into his dad's closet and put on his dress blue uniform jacket. He enlisted in the Marines, serving 11 years on active duty and in the Reserve; he now lives and works in Charleston.
Marines he met who had been trained by his father were always eager to talk and unload. "They'd tell me stories like, 'I got the best ass-chewing of my life from him.'"
Keysha also felt drawn to serve but not in the Armed Forces. Today she is an assistant principal at Garrett Academy of Technology in North Charleston. The loss of her father is a story she tells students at the start of every school year.
'My heart bleeds'
All three Williamses say they went through bouts of emotion in the months and years afterward as they tried to stay disciplined and busy moving forward with life. Still, they had questions that were never answered.
Why were the Marines left so exposed? Why wasn't the terror threat immediately addressed with a heavy response force? Could the 9/11 terrorist attacks have been avoided if policies had gone in another direction because of the Marines' final sacrifices?
"If more attention had been paid to these groups early on, maybe it wouldn't be where it is now," the married Keysha Williams Tolliver said of the confrontational state of the Middle East.
On Tuesday and Wednesday this week, the Williams family will attend 30th anniversary remembrances in and around Jacksonville, N.C., home to Camp Lejeune and the Beirut Memorial. Thousands are expected to attend.
Janet Williams still thinks about her former husband daily, even as she has moved on with her life, going to college and becoming a Charleston County teacher. And she sometimes sees glimpses of her younger self in the faces of today's war widows whenever U.S. service dead come home.
"I sympathize with them a lot," she said. "Anytime something like this happens and there's a loss of life, and someone is left with a child, my heart bleeds. I walk with them."
Reach Schuyler Kropf at 947-5551.


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The S243HL is thin and light but delivers sharp text and quality images
As LED backlit LCD monitors become increasingly popular, more and more manufacturers are jumping on the bandwagon to churn them out. Although many can produce bright images, some are horrible for text viewing or have colors that are far from true. It can be hard to find a good mix of qualities while the dust of this market segment is still settling.
The S243HL LCD Monitor from Acer is a 24-inch widescreen monitor with a 16:9 aspect ratio. We were really impressed to discover that the monitor part is a very tiny 0.56 inches thick. This is one advantage of LED backlighting that Acer really used well. The other is the weight. The entire monitor with stand weighed a mere 9 pounds, 6 ounces. This would make it quite easy to move from one desk to another if that becomes necessary. Its stand not only has a rather small footprint but also makes the monitor look really cool and science fiction-like.
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The Acer has two HDMI ports as well as a VGA port. This makes it highly versatile in that it can receive signals from high-definition digital sources such as a DVD player, but it can also be connected to an older system. This is great for an office that has a mix of newer and older equipment. We ran our video tests through one of the HDMI ports.
In our video tests, the Acer S243HL performed fairly well, with only a few minor weak points. We measured the brightness in the center of the screen to be 166 lumens. This is somewhat dimmer than we would have liked, but it's still adequate for use with most office lighting. While there was no appreciable decrease in brightness in the two right-hand corners; the two left corners were less bright by 30 lumens. While this isn't discernible by the eyes of humans (people can't detect changes of less than 100 lumens), we felt this lopsided brightness was significant enough to point out.
There was a bit of light bleed creeping out from the left and right sides, which means there might be a problem viewing exceptionally dark images in the way they were intended. However, the contrast for dark images was very good, which would help mitigate this problem somewhat.
We found the red, greens and blues to be bright and about as close to true as you can get. The blue was especially vibrant, which comes in handy when viewing movies. In our gradient scale, all colors looked smooth in the transition from dark to light, though the red gradients consistently looked darker at the top and bottom than in the middle. This is not unusual in an LCD monitor, but the Acer did this to a greater degree than most.
Where the S243HL really excelled was in an area that we did not expect it to do well: displaying text. For white text on a black background, Arial font was perfectly legible down to 7-point typeface. When viewing black text on white, we found it clear down to 6-point Arial. This was a pleasant surprise, considering other monitors in this Acer series hadn't performed nearly as well with this test. This makes the S243HL ideally suited for office work, which of course is primarily occupied with reading and typing text.
The Acer has a single, 2-watt speaker inside the base. It's perfectly positioned in relation to most users because it was able to put out great sound that seemed like it was in stereo. This is a great choice in a unit that is trying to maintain the smaller power requirements of LED backlit monitors. Of course, if the S143HL were used for viewing video, it might be necessary to add a set of external speakers to boost the volume.
Acer has set the retail price for the S243HL LCD Monitor at $240. This is a great bargain for a monitor that does pretty well in nearly all categories. It's priced less than many same-sized monitors on the market.
This monitor would do well in nearly any office environment and is well-suited for most common tasks.
Acer, www.acer.com
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The Clippers loaded up the news conference stage Wednesday afternoon, showcasing new head coach and senior vice president Doc Rivers -- flanked by a pair of front-office executives -- and all six of the players who have either been brought in from elsewhere or re-signed with the team this summer.
That crowded stage? All part of the plan.
"I thought it was important that we did this together," Rivers said. "We have to try to learn how to win together. This is not boxing, this is basketball."
Chris Paul, Matt Barnes, and Ryan Hollins -- the re-signed -- took up three chairs. Darren Collison, Jared Dudley and J.J. Redick -- the acquired -- occupied the other three. Chemistry appears to be a key point of emphasis heading into a season that will feature so many fresh faces.
"Being able to gel before playing together is so huge," said Barnes, who re-upped with the Clippers for three years last week and said he and Paul were talking about leading a retreat for the players before the season begins to hopefully do just that.
The players sang the praises of Rivers, who carries a reputation around the league for being outstanding in the areas of motivation and chemistry.
"Doc's thing is about winning, about putting the team first," Redick said. "That's what I'm all about."
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If you feel like exploring this amazing Island on foot, grab a copy of the Walking and Snorkelling Trails map. There are two very different walks for you to consider; the Discovery Walking Trail and the Eco Walking Trail.
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The Eco Walking Trail incorporates the Climate Change Trail developed by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) and Lady Elliot Island Eco Resort. The Lady Elliot Climate Change Trail guides visitors through the island's varied ecosystems, including coastal, rainforest, coral reef, and wetland and features a series of interpretive signs to enhance the island's existing walking track.
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- Gender bender – Impacts of increased sand temperature on sea turtle sex ratio
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Guinea hens are much more popular in France than in the United States. Aficionados find the bird's flavor very similar to pheasant. Since Guinea hens are very lean, this method of cooking ensures a moist bird. And what's even better, the recipe is versatile: Two pigeons may be used instead of the two partridges, or two 1-pound Rock Cornish game hens instead of the guinea hen.–Paul Bocuse
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- 1 green savoy cabbage
- 3 carrots, peeled and quartered
- 5 1/4 ounces salt pork or bacon, diced
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- 2 thin slices fatty bacon or salt pork
- Salt and pepper
- 7 tablespoons butter
- 1/2 cup hot water
- 1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).
- 2. Cut out the base of the cabbage and discard, and then cut the cabbage into quarters. Wash it under cold running water, then boil for 15 to 20 minutes in a large pot of lightly salted boiling water with the carrots, diced salt pork or bacon, and the bouquet garni. Drain in a colander. Discard the bouquet garni.
- 3. Place just the cabbage in a roasting pan in the oven to dry out for 10 minutes, then remove from the oven and reserve with the salt pork and carrots.
- 4. Clean the bird(s); if using freshly killed partridges, pluck them just before cooking. Cover the thighs and breast of each bird with the slices of salt pork or bacon and attach with kitchen string. Sprinkle generously with pepper, but salt lightly because of the pork.
- 5. Melt 4 tablespoons of the butter in a pot large enough to hold comfortably the bird(s), and cook for 10 minutes, turning frequently to brown evenly. Cover the pot and finish cooking, 20 to 25 minutes for the partridges, or 35 minutes for a guinea hen, turning from time to time. Remove the pot from the heat but leave the bird(s) inside, covered, for 5 minutes more.
- 6. Meanwhile, reheat the cabbage, carrots, and diced salt pork by sauteing them together in a frying pan with the 3 remaining tablespoons of butter.
- 7. To serve, lift the bird(s) out of the pot, discard the bacon, and carve. Place on a hot platter, surrounded by the vegetables and diced salt pork, and keep warm. Pour any carving juices into the pot, add the hot water, bring to a boil, season with a little pepper, then pour the sauce into a sauceboat and serve.
- Bouquet garni is an aromatic bunch of herbs that's bundled together at the last minute before being added to the pot. In France it's made by tying together a sprig of thyme, a bit of bay leaf, and some parsley. (Sometimes celery and leek are included in the bouquet). The bouquet garni is always removed before serving the dish it's cooked with. It's never large — often no more than a thumb-sized bundle of herbs — but it subtly flavors liquids in which it cooks. If fresh sprigs of thyme are unavailable, you can make a bouquet by placing dried thyme leaves and a bay leaf inside a little square of muslin or doubled-over cheesecloth, tying it closed, and tying this to the parsley, leek, or celery.
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BEIRUT (AP) A broad range of estimates has been offered on how many Syrians were killed in the suspected chemical weapons attack near Damascus on Aug. 21 that seems poised to drag the U.S. into Syria's two-and-a-half-year civil war. Here's a look at who is saying what and on what basis.
The U.S. government says its preliminary figures show 1,429 people were killed, including 426 children, but that this "will certainly evolve" as more information is obtained. Secretary of State John Kerry presented the death toll as part of the administration's overall intelligence assessment of what happened during the attacks, based on satellite and signal intelligence as well as information from activists, regime sources and social media. Kerry did not say specifically how the death toll was compiled, but cited it as he made the case for punishing the Syrian regime the U.S. blames for the attack.
The Syrian National Coalition, the main Western-backed political opposition group, says at least 1,460 people were killed in the strikes on rebel-held western and eastern suburbs of Damascus. The coalition and Majed Abu Ali, who said he is a spokesman for 17 clinics and field hospitals east of Damascus, provided a list of 395 names of people killed. On that list, some of the victims were only identified by their first name or said to be members of a certain family.
Abu Ali said the overall death toll is based on reports received from the clinics, but would not elaborate or provide a breakdown of the number of dead counted at each clinic. He said the total could be off slightly due to possible double-counting as victims were being moved. Three other senior anti-regime activists referred questions to Abu Ali.
The coalition did not respond to requests to provide further explanation.
The Britain-based group, which draws its information from a network of anti-regime activists in Syria, says it only counts victims identified by name, and that the current total stands at 502. The list is based on interviews with hospital officials and activists in the affected areas, said Rami Abdel-Rahman, the head of the Observatory.
Abdel-Rahman said he was not asked by U.S. officials to share his information. He questioned the claims of more than 1,400 killed and urged the Obama administration to release the information its figure is based on.
The humanitarian aid group says it has not been able to update its initial Aug. 24 estimate of 355 killed because communication with people on the ground in the Damascus area is difficult. That estimate was based on reports by doctors in three clinics in the Damascus area that are supported by the group.
Doctors Without Borders does not have a list of the names of the dead and won't say from which three hospitals the data came, citing security reasons.
The New York-based group received reports from doctors and activists from clinics in four Damascus suburbs three in the east and one on the west on the day of the attack. Based on these reports, the group says the death toll is "at least in the hundreds," but that it is unable to give an exact figure.
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A Bohemian Wedding with Tropical Accents at Birdsong Nature Center in Thomasville, Georgia
Amber Trim (25 and a veterinary technician) and Chance Lunn (25 and a grocery stockman and student), who met in middle school, wanted a wedding that "would speak to who we are and what we love," Amber says. The couple filled their lush venue with tropical flowers, macramé accents and colorful centerpieces made from stacks of recycled magazines. With the help of Amber's mother, the couple's concept of an open-air, bohemian bash came to life in just nine months. Amber's oversize bouquet, filled with orchids, palm fronds, thistle and monstera leaves, complemented the nature preserve's existing greenery. Ceramic planters and tribal rugs lined the length of the outdoor aisle, leading up to the place where Amber and Chance exchanged vows while Amber's stepdad officiated. Afterward, guests showered the newlyweds with dried flower petals that were contained in paper cones made from photocopies of the couple's love notes. Staying true to the boho aesthetic, tables were topped with a miscellaneous collection of preserved ferns, vintage glassware and DIY dreamcatchers. Scattered café lights and tiki torches made for an intimate evening among the trees, and partygoers roasted marshmallows when they weren't dancing in the grass.


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Proplems persist at Ridgewood Retirement Community
When William Dennis Foster Jr. came to the Ridgewood Retirement Community in 2007, his family said the facility was a welcoming and attractive alternative to many assisted living centers around Beaumont.
"When he first went there, that was a real good place," said Reggie Stevenson, Foster's brother in-law. "They had good food. They had games and stuff."
But within a few months, Foster was having problems adjusting to his surroundings. Part of the problem is the nature of Foster's illness. Foster — a paranoid schizophrenic with 100 percent disability after his service in the Vietnam War — must have a constant and supervised regiment of psychotic drugs. To ensure his timely dosage, Foster's family said they wrote manager Tera Windt a check of $200 every month on top of their monthly rent.
"I'd write a $200 check and just leave it blank," Stevenson said.
Foster would eventually have a seizure, prompting his family to rush to his aid. But when they approached Windt for Foster's medications, the Stevensons would be surprised to find no medications were there.
"Tera said that she had his medicine at her house and that she had been dispensing his medicine to him," Stevenson said. "There was a big blow-up."
Eventually, Windt brought the medications back after the verbal argument between Foster's family and Windt.
"Her husband brought his medications back up to Ridgewood and we went and got them and pulled him out the next day," Stevenson said.
Windt was later fired, along with her husband, after Foster's family said she had Ridgewood's cook and/or the maintenance man disperse Foster's medication.
But unlicensed dispersal of medication isn't the only problem at Ridgewood.
In May, The Examiner first exposed conditions at Ridgewood the city's health department found to be substandard. During the health inspections, officials found the kitchen, pool and other amenities to be completely unsanitary and unsafe, prompting a letter to the owner of Ridgewood — Samuel Pinter of New York — that addressed the infractions.
Former Houston Mayor Bill White called Pinter a "slum landlord" after the city ordered Pinter to pay $100,000 concerning a property later condemned by the city for plumbing, electrical and structural problems, and $44.8 million for federal mortgage fraud in July 2010 in a U.S. District Court in New York.
Closer to home, according to health inspectors, Ridgewood had a kitchen that was "in very bad condition and very dirty. Coolers and refrigerators were not working properly and mold was found on the food left inside these coolers."
The walk-in cooler was at 80 degrees and had spoiled food inside.
"Front refrigerator, 70 degrees; pork in front refrigerator, 96 degrees," the health inspector states.
The inspectors found at least two kitchen employees were not certified to handle food. The city's health department also cited Ridgewood for mold in numerous locations, especially near areas where a leaky roof has inundated parts of the facility.
Since the May inspections, which provided a deadline to have the problems resolved, it seems the health department's warnings have fallen on deaf ears. According to a July 3 inspection record recently obtained by The Examiner, health inspectors noted that "German cockroaches were still present in the food preparation facility and that the overall condition of the kitchen had declined since the last inspection (June 18). The pool is also not yet completed."
If Ridgewood has been unable, or unwilling, to fix its health citation until now, it seems the city is ready to do its part to hold Ridgewood accountable.
In an interview with Community Development Director Chris Boone, the city's top building code enforcement official said Wednesday that building inspectors outside the jurisdiction of the health department had inspected the facility the week of July 22 and found it to be unacceptable.
Boone said the city's next move is to give Ridgewood a warning letter outlining the dangerous conditions and a timeline to fix them, adding that Ridgewood would have five to seven business days to have the pool, kitchen, leaky roof and possible mold remediated.
If Ridgewood has still not complied with the city's warning within five to seven days, "We'll turn around and file a complaint with the Municipal Court and it will be a court action," Boone said.
Although Boone would not comment directly on when the city's legal department would draft and cite Ridgewood with a warning, he hinted the warning forcing Ridgewood to address the infractions could come in a matter of days.
Looking back on his brother in-law's plight, Stevenson said the signs were there that Ridgewood was deteriorating.
"It was a real good place at first, but then this new guy bought it and it has started to go downhill," Stevenson said. "Dennis would call and tell us that, and I would believe about half of what he was saying. I should have paid more attention."


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First Baptist Church of Monterey was founded by a small group of Christians who were hungry to have their own local church. In the past they had traveled to Salinas to attend a church that fit their convictions, but this grew taxing on their time and resources, and so they began to meet together for prayer right here in their own city! The group began to grow, and by April of 1910, a young lady named Bessie McKim decided to organize a Sunday School to care for and teach the young children of those who attended the prayer meetings. God continued to bless the group and more and more members were added to their numbers. With that in mind the group decided to take the next logical step: They held their first service! That was ….
At First Baptist Monterey we have a number of ways that you and your family can connect with the church family. Our warm hearts and hands invite you to join us in one of the weekly Bible studies or fellowship activities. Take a look at the News and Events calendar to see what's going on in the upcoming days. Review the list of ministries and worship activities to discover your place to belong.
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With the holiday season in full swing, Missourians will gather for a wide variety of family meals, office parties, community banquets and other events where food will be a main attraction. While these events are central to holiday celebration, if the food is not handled safely, there is an increased risk for foodborne illness.
"Food is and has always been such an important part of gatherings, whether they are family Christmas dinners, holiday office lunches, or Super Bowl parties with friends. Nothing brings people together like food," said Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services director Margaret Donnelly. "We want to make sure people know the proper steps to take to celebrate safely."
The U.S. food supply is among the safest in the world, yet the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that more than 48 million foodborne illnesses occur annually in the United States, and more than 128,000 people are hospitalized every year after consuming food contaminated by harmful bacteria.
"The holidays should be remembered for the good time that everyone had, not for an illness that could have been prevented," said Donnelly.
The following basic food safety tips can help prevent a holiday celebration from turning into a trip to the hospital.
Holiday Food Safety Tips
- Clean - Wash hands and surfaces often. When preparing food, wash hands thoroughly by scrubbing them with soap and warm water for 15 seconds. Keep food preparation surfaces clean, as well, by washing with warm soapy water.
- Separate - Don't cross-contaminate. Keep raw meat, poultry, fish, and their juices away from other foods. After cutting raw meats, wash cutting boards, utensils and countertops with hot, soapy water. These items can be sanitized using a solution of 1 tablespoon of ordinary liquid chlorine bleach in 1 gallon of water after washing and rinsing.
- Cook - Cook foods to proper temperatures to assure that bacteria present in raw foods, which can cause food-borne illness, are eliminated in the cooking process. A chart for guidance on minimum cooking temperatures for foods from the USDA can be found at http://www.foodsafety.gov/keep/charts/mintemp.html.
- Keep Hot Foods Hot---When serving, use chafing dishes, crock pots and warming trays to keep hot food hot. Use a food thermometer to make sure the internal temperature of the food is 135° F or higher and stir the food frequently to maintain a uniform temperature.
- Keep Cold Foods Cold: Store cold foods in the refrigerator until serving time. On the buffet table, place plates or bowls of cold food on ice. If food has been sitting out at room temperature for more than two hours, throw it out. After two hours, bacteria can easily multiply and cause food-borne illness.
More information about food safety can be found at www.foodsafety.gov/ or by contacting your local public health agency.
For more food safety information, watch DHSS's Healthy Living podcast.


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