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EFFECTIVE FEBRUARY 5, 2019, the HTSA board meetings are now the 1st and 3rd TUESDAYS of each month. The meetings have relocated to the sewer plant at 533 Bavington Road, Burgettstown. The meeting start time remains 7pm. Please verify that the meeting on the 3rd Tuesday will still be held, as this meeting is prone to be canceled.
The board meeting scheduled for November 19, 2019, has been canceled. The next regular board meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, December 3, 2019, at the HTSA sewer treatment plant located at 533 Bavington Road, Burgettstown, PA at 7 p.m.
Municipal Lien Statement – $35.00 per Property
For your convenience, a locking payment drop box has been installed at the Hanover Township Building on Municipal Drive to accept sewer payments, forms, or other correspondence for the sewer authority. In an effort to increase security, HTSA has installed a locking mailbox in the driveway at the sewer plant. Hand-delivered payments can be dropped in this box also. Once the bridge replacement project is finished, the mailbox will be moved back out to the end of the driveway for your convenience.
HTSA has a customer portal for customers to view their account and payment histories, sign up for e-billing, or make payments on accounts. The link to the portal is on every page of this website. Payments with an e-check, credit, or debit card still accepted through the "Pay My Bill" link. There is a fee to make payments using the "Pay My Bill" link. Payments made with your checking account through the customer portal are free of charge, while the credit/debit card charges are still subject to the fees. The reference number that the online payment systems are looking for is your account number. HTSA also offers Auto-pay at no charge. Information on this service can be found in Payment Information.
Before the sale of any property connected to the HTSA sewer system, a Dye Test Certification dated within the past 12 months is required to be submitted before a Sewer Lien Letter will be released to a closing company or attorney. This form can be found under "Forms and Information." Contact the Hanover Township Municipal office with any questions regarding Ordinance 116 requirements.
Under Forms and Information are articles concerning baby/flushable wipes and a chart on the disposal of household waste. Because HTSA maintains a low-pressure system with grinder pumps, these articles are especially important.
TIP: If you have a water leak, call PA American Water Company (PAWC) and ask them for a credit. If they give you a credit for that water leak, HTSA will give you an equal credit in gallons on your sewer bill. The customer service number for PAWC is 1-800-565-7292.
Delinquencies lists can be found in Payment Information. It can be expensive to have water service terminated for non-payment of sewer charges. Some of the fees that will be added to the bill are: priority letter charges of $15.00 each, site visit fee for posting the notice on the door of $100 each, PAW shut off/turn on fees of $30 each, HTSA shut off and turn-on fees of $250 each, PAW lost revenue fee as determined by PAW, and legal fees, if necessary.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION: Only those who have completed the mandatory training session are authorized by HTSA to pick up the grinder pumps and are approved to install the connections. If you need a contractor to install your connection to the sewer system, HTSA is providing a list of the contractors it has authorized to install for Phase 2. The list of contractors can be found on this site under "Forms and Information." Please be aware that HTSA cannot and does not endorse any contractor, but provides the list only for your information and convenience. You enter into a contract with them at your own risk, so please make sure you understand the contract before signing it. If our office receives complaints about a particular contractor, they may be flagged and/or removed from the list. If you have any questions, please contact the office at 724-899-5055.


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A downloadable game for Windows
!! - This game is in early access - !!
Currently at version 0.9B. Be warned, game has been made free due to massive development issues caused by updating the project to the newest version of unity, requiring me to (atleast by the looks of it) redo almost every single piece of code.:(
The current version downloadable here is the latest working version from BEFORE the issues.
It's therefore uncertain at this point if I will actually be able to finish developing the game. -
-Lasse Bührmann
About the game:
Looteratum (formerly Kids dungeon) is a first person, light RPG dungeon running game, where the brave player steps thru a portal, and into the endless (or is it?) void where monsters and tons of loot awaits!
Current Features:
- Customizable town, with randomised NPC's and vendors
- Character customisation
- Randomised Loot
- Editable levels (.txt files, later level editor will be released)
- 101 unique ingame items that can be consumed or equipped.
- 18 dungeon levels
- A giant island to explore, search for loot etc. (still WIP as of 0.9)
- Color grading (change the tone of the game via the ingame menu at any time. Normal, horror or cinematic)
- cheats! (cause, who doesn't love cheating?!)
- Saving / loading of course.
Upcoming features:
- Ingame Options <- Already in progress.
- Vendors in town. (If you build their store that is..)
- Blocking attacks
- more item types
- More levels
- more loot!
About half the ingame enemies, and 25% of the equipment is drawn by 5th graders from the school i work at! The rest by me, Lasse Bührmann, the developer.
For 20$ You can get the game, support the developer AND get your name in the game. :)
NOTE: The game is made to run at 1024 x 768. The UI may be weird in other resolutions, but some should still work. :)
I personally run it at 1024 x 768 windowed.
I will of course try to make the UI so it works for all resolutions.
24th March 2017: V0.9B:
The Island:
- * The tops of the tallest mountains now has snow.
- * ADJUSTMENT: Dialog UI has been resized a bit, to allow for more text. + A tiny bit of design change.
- * BUGFIX: Apparently the dialogs were only working inside the editor. They should now actually work in the build.
22nd March 2017: V0.9A:
- * FEATURE: NPCs talk! Sort of. Press E to talk to them. There are currently 5 different things they "say" when you talk to them. Randomly selected each time ofc.
- * ADDED: Captain Smash, a NPC whose armor can also be found in the game, now stands guard near the spawnvillage on the island.
- * TWEAK: Adjusted colliders on cow/pig enclosures, so now they hopefully cant escape! (muhahaha)
- * BUGFIX: NPC's had some issues with arms & heads clipping and generally doing weird stuff. They don't any more:)
- * BUGFIX: UI now works on the island.
- * BUGFIX: Jumping can no longer be used to fly . Sorry:(
- * TEMP BUGFIX: Main menu button, messed with the saves. The buttons has temporarily been removed, until the save system has been looked over.
17th March 2017: V0.9 !
- * HEALTH BARS! All enemies now have healthbars that appear when you get close to them. Making it a bit easier to determine how powerful and enemy you're up against.
- * BLOCKING!!! Attacks can now be blocked (if you time your blocks..) by right clicking ! which will temporarily decrease your damage taken by 2/3 if you time it right.
- An icon appearing on the UI shows you when you are blocking. It might look like you can attack while blocking, but YOU CAN'T Deal damage while you do.
- * JUMPING! Yes, you read it! You can now jump using the spacebar
- * THE ISLAND ! Players can now take a new portal from their village, to...well a Very large island, with villages aswell as enemies and places to explore.
- Enemies here are harder than in the void portal, and they can see you from further away.
- Look for the portal in your village:)
- * TONS of new items added! Game now has 101 unique items!
- * Buildables now have different icons depending on type in buildmenu.
- * Added a lil' thank you in menu to those doing early access!:)
2nd March 2017: V0.8A!:
- Added lvl 18!
- Added 3 new weapons - All of them 1H spears! Steel Spear, Guards Spear & Golden Spear.
- Added 1 new wearable: The metal mask! 8% Protection + 25% Fire protection
- Added the 3 NPC faces to faces to choose for your player. Making the total of available faces for player 19!
- Added 2 more buildables: Tiny House, and Brazier Light
- BUGFIX: Buildings should no longer be able to build on top of each other.
28th Febuary 2017: V0.8 !:
- * VENDOR! A vendor, named Mr. Mox can be built in town, allowing you to purchase 16 randomly selected objects.
The 10 objects will change each time you come back to your village. HE DOES NOT SELL ARMOR THO, Buuhuuu.:(
- * PIGS AND COWS! You can now build a cow or pig enclosure in your village.
- * Portal skill does no longer work in town.
- * Saving has been tinkered with so game saves when you step INTO the portal, and again a couple seconds after you've portaled back.
- * Building Icons, are temporarily set to same icon. Read texts on buttons to know what is what.
- * Reduced Size of NPC names
- * Added Alot of new names, 3 new Faces, and 2 new bodies for NPC's
- * BUGFIX: The deathfields that make the player die when he falls off the level has been killing players at random, when entering a level. I've added a 5 second delay, to prevent them from triggering before the player has been moved to the level start.
23rd Febuary 2017: V0.7F:
- * Level names now appear on UI - top right corner
- * EXP bar has been moved to bottom of UI, instead of the top of the screen.
- * Lvl 17 Has been added!
- * Monne now appears in the later levels also, instead of only the first couple ones.
- * Revamped the buildmenu. Changed window position to bottom of screen, and buttons now shot price and name of object.
- * Enemies now all have corpses. (Except devil. He vanishes. Cause.. hes the devil.)
22nd Febuary 2017: V0.7E:
- * New RANGED enemy! Flower, that shoots magic.
- * New MAGIC IMMUNE enemy! Ralph Monne is his name, is a mob that only believes in science and biology, so magic wont work on him! and he plays the harmonica!
- * Added some buttons to UI and hotbar, to remind you of some of the keys.
- * Added visual aid on lootmachine, to show if you've won or lost. Happy smiley for a win, angry smiley for a loss.
- * Purplar, Hotdawger, Squildar & Ralph Monne mobs now leave corpses. The rest will have them in the next update!
- *BUGFIX : Lighting was f'ed in lvl 14. Its been fixed.
- *BUGFIX : Sounds for lootmachine wheren't playing. They are now.
20th Febuary 2017: V0.7D:
- * I have chosen to force the game to windowed at 1024x768 for the time being. Only temporary tho.
- * BUG FIXED: LVL 14 Had no end portal, making it impossible to progress. Portal has been added
- *BUG FIXED: Portal into dungeon was broken after loading a save. It should now work normally again.
- *BUG FIXED: Main Menu button in pause menu, apparently didn't work. It works now.
16th Febuary 2017: V0.7C:
- NPCs now have names, and are randomised in their appearence. The names are all in a .txt file in your saves folder, so you can add your own!:)
- LOOT MACHINE! A machine can now be built in town, where you pay 50 gold to take a chance and win random loot. :)
15th Febuary 2017: V0.7B
- BASIC NPC'S! Building a house in village, gets you a npc that walks around.
- 2 New Levels! Making it a total of 16 levels!
- Removed the return portal from village. Making it a harder decision to portal home, since it will make you have go again from level 1.
- BUGFIX: There was a bug with the loading of your built buildings, so they were in the wrong places. It is now fixed.
- BUGFIX: The portal home button was gone somehow. Don't know why, but its been returned!
|Role Playing
|3D, Casual, Character Customization, Dungeon Crawler, First-Person, kids, Loot, Low-poly, Moddable, Pixel Art
|Average session
|A few minutes
|Keyboard, Mouse
|Homepage, Indie DB
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The reward of doing so is my eternal gratitude, aswell as your name in a special thank you window in the games menu.

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I'm takin' it back. For those who know (& love) me you know I love me some hip hop. Today I want to share some of my favorites with you. Don't listen alone, or do, but know that these will be RumpShakin'.
Check It
- Summertime – DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
- In The Ayer – Flo Rida
- Dazzey Dukes – Dulce
- Hey Ya! – OutKast
- Come Baby Come – K7
- Feedback – Janet Jackson
- Boom Boom Boom – The Outhere Brothers
- The Anthem – Pitbull
- Beggin' – Madcon
- It Takes Two – Rob Base
- We Run This – Missy Elliott
- Ain't Nobody – Mary J. Blige
- Shake Your Thing – Salt-N-Pepa
- Take It to Da House – Trick Daddy
- Check Check Mix Your Body – Jungle Style
Make sure that when you're rockin' out to these awesome tunes that you stay hydrated. Keep drinking all the water during these steamy summer days.
Sending you love!
I can see you GETTING FIERCE!
Today's Meal Plan: Tuesday, August 14th
- 5:30AM coffee with skim
- 7:30AM egg white omelet with Swiss, spinach, peppers, onion
- 8:30AM mango
- 2:30PM salad with beets, cucumbers, walnuts, carrots and balsamic vinegrette
- 7:30PM tuna with broccoli and glass of rose (maybe 2…)


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SYNOPSIS:Growing up as the poor daughter of a gifted painter in early 19th century London, Becky Sharp (Reese Witherspoon) defies her poverty-stricken background as she ascends the social ladder alongside her best friend, Amelia (Romola Garai). She starts as a governess for the low grade Sir Pitt Crawley (Bob Hoskins) and secretly marries his son Rawddon (James Purefoy). Eventually she finds the door to high society through one of her father's patrons, the Marquess of Steyne (Gabriel Byrne), but as he predicts, it's a door that leads nowhere nice. Always ambitious, Becky finds the price of her ambitions rather high.
Review by Louise Keller:Infused with the richness of underlying flavours and textures from India, Mira Nair's Vanity Fair is a handsome and lavishly produced period drama about love, ambition and happiness. Vibrant colours, sumptuous settings, beautiful costumes and a lyrical score complement Oscar winner Julian Fellowes' (Gosford Park) immaculately structured and intelligent adaptation (from William Makepeace Thackeray's acclaimed novel), as we observe the challenging steep climb up the social ladder by Reece Witherspoon's ambitious, manipulative and penniless Becky.Set at the turn of the 19th century, when birthright and wealth represent the key that opens society's door, Vanity Fair displays only too well the differences between the classes, the perceptions, the privileges, the taboos. We, like Becky, lurch to and from the world of the privileged so quickly that we become dizzy. As fortunes turn, so do attitudes. 'The chief advantage of being born into society is knowing how tawdry it is,' says Gabriel Byrne's wealthy, titled society ace tells Becky with a tired expression. And how tawdry it is, we discover through Becky's calculated journey, as she is adapts, changes tack and puts her ambition above anything and anyone.Witherspoon is splendid as the bright, determined young English woman intent on becoming a society rose, oblivious to the thorns. When she finds love with the dashing heir Rawdon Crawley (James Purefoy, charismatic), she is undeterred when he is disinherited, but heartlessly discards her chance at happiness, in pursuit of her dream. There's a poignant scene when Rawdon asks Becky if she is sure she knows what she is doing, when it is clear that their future happiness together is what is at risk. After Becky overcomes the challenge of passing 'through the door' that opens acceptance in the world of the upper class, it is too late to consider the consequences. 'Once goods have been taken, it is too late to complain about the price,' muses Byrne's The Marquess. And Byrne brings much to the role, with a performance filled with gravitas.Nair has gathered a sterling ensemble cast including Bob Hoskins as the eccentric Sir Pitt Crawley, Jonathan Rhys Meyers as the rebelliously arrogant George Osborne, Rhys Ifans almost recognisable as the serious, unselfish, unlucky in love William Dobbin, Jim Broadbent, Dame Eileen Atkins (in a role that could have been played by Maggie Smith) and more.Nair guides us through the Becky's emotional journey with grace and skill, and when Becky tells her friend Amelia 'Some follies can be remedied,' we know the journey has not been in vain.Review by Andrew L. Urban:Mira Nair's cinematic language is a visual feast of colour, detail, depth and mood. (Mississippi Masala, Monsoon Wedding). She pours great passion into her films, finds it in her actors and tells a good story. Vanity Fair is an exception. She still commands cinematic language with great skill, but the film's uneven performances and clunky structure suggest Nair has been seduced by a novel that can't be tamed on screen as a feature film. Perhaps a mini series could capture the work, but as a film - even at almost two and a half hours - the adaptation is episodic and laboured. The adaptation robs the work of much of its context; devoid of the gradual development, it seems oddly incoherent.There are some great moments, and some strangely awful ones. The film is filled with outstanding acting talent, but they are not always handed matching dialogue. The story of a headstrong young woman who tries to make her way upwards in early 19th century English society is risky territory to start with. The importance and relevance of social standing and the nuances of 19th century English society no longer resonate in our contemporary world. Nevertheless, the themes of loyalty, friendship, love and social structures are universal and timeless. But this screenplay doesn't bring them close to us. Or clear to us.Kept enthralled in the first half by the performance of Eileen Atkins as wealthy and outspoken Matilda Crawley, and in a later chapter by Gabriel Byrne as the Marquess of Steyne, the script is often confusing and characters (who we calmly get to know and place if reading the novel) jump out onto the screen - sometimes in scenes that are jarringly juxtaposed.Bob Hoskins and Rhys Ifans turn in nicely balanced work in fresh characterisations, as does Romola Garai, but I don't feel Reese Witherspoon is stretched at all in an unsympathetic role. Her performance belongs in a different film.This ambitious but flawed work permits caricatures next to real characterisations, its meaningful themes are often dismembered by cliché, and its visual power is obscured by wrongfooted dramatic direction.
CRITICAL COUNTFavourable: 1Unfavourable: 1Mixed: 0
CAST: Reese Witherspoon, James Purefoy, Romola Garai, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Gabriel Byrne, Jim Broadbent, Bob Hoskins, Rhys Ifans
PRODUCER: Janette Day, Lydia Dean Pilcher, Donna Gigliotti
DIRECTOR: Mira Nair
SCRIPT: Matthew Faulk, Julian Fellowes, Mark Skeet (novel by William Makepeace Thackeray)
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Declan Quinn
EDITOR: Allyson C Johnson
MUSIC: Mychael Danna
PRODUCTION DESIGN: Maria Djurkovic
RUNNING TIME: 142 minutes
AUSTRALIAN DISTRIBUTOR: Icon
AUSTRALIAN RELEASE: September 30, 2004


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Lepidium limenophylax
Lepidium: scale-shaped (pods)limenophylax: Strictly speaking derived from the Greek name for a 'lake watcher' - but used in this sense to refer to 'coast watchers'. The name being in allusion to the habitat of the plant (coastal headlands) which were used in World War II by coast watchers keeping an eye out for enemy shipping (see de Lange et al. 2013)
Snares Island scurvy grass
2012 - Threatened - Nationally Critical
Lepidium limenophylax de Lange, B.D.Rance et D.A.Norton
Long-lived perennial herb arising from stout tap-root. Plants with sprawling, leafy branches. Leaves dark green to yellow green, with finely toothed margins, smelling of cress when crushed. Inflorescences at branch tips, Flowers white with two stamens. Fruits elliptic or rhomboid, apically notched or entire, splitting cleanly into two valves, seeds red-brown to orange-brown.
Vascular - Native
Dicotyledonous Herbs other than Composites
None (first described in 2013)
Endemic. South-western Titi Islands, Snares and Auckland Islands
On exposed coastal headlands in and around bird roosts and nesting grounds.
Tap-rooted, strongly pungent smelling, summer-green, perennial herb, arising from stout rootstock 7.3–10.0 mm diameter. Plants dying down to rootstock and previous season's stem nodes during winter. Stems decumbent, bases often very stout, ± spherical, somewhat woody when mature 10–15 × 10–12 mm, composed of numerous old leaf and stem bases, sometimes producing roots, new season's grow decumbent, spreading 10–300 × 3–10 mm, glabrous, sometimes with very sparse, appressed, caducous, silky 0.5–1.0 mm long, hairs near stem apices, at fruiting, often devoid of foliage from much of length. Leaves glabrous, firmly fleshy to succulent, usually dark green to green, sometimes yellow-green. Rosette and stem leaves usually withering at fruiting but sometimes with a few long persistent. Petiole distinct, 20–40 × 2–4 mm lamina 50–100 × 5–15 mm, lanceolate, narrowly lanceolate to linear lanceolate; distal one third – two thirds finely but sharply serrated or crenate, teeth in 10–20 pairs running to and including subacute, obtuse to rounded apex (teeth not extending beyond leaf outline), base cuneate to narrowly cuneate. Middle stems leaves with petiole indistinct, lamina narrowly linear lanceolate to linear, often recurved to falcate in the distal one third - one half of leaf length, 50–120 × 3–6 mm; upper two thirds or occasionally the entire leaf finely but sharply serrated; teeth in 12–30 pairs running to and including the apex, and not extending beyond leaf outline, lamina base tapered, very narrowly cuneate. Upper stem leaves with or without a distinct petiole, petiole if present 40–60 mm, linear to linear-spathulate, occasionally narrowly lanceolate, often recurved or falcate from one half of leaf length, 30–100 × 2.0–30.0 mm, margins finely but sharply serrated. Racemes 5–15 mm long, terminal and axillary; rachis glabrous; pedicels glabrous, erecto-patent, 2–8 mm long at fruiting. Flowers c. 0.4–1.0 mm diam. Sepals 4, saccate, overlapping at base, green with pale-green to white thickened margin, apex broadly obtuse, shape and size dimorphic; lateral sepals c.0.6–1.0 × 0.6–1.2 mm, broadly ovate to oval, mostly glabrous, sometimes sparsely hairy, hairs 0.2–0.4 mm long, caducous; median sepals 0.9–1.2 × 0.5–1.2 mm, elliptic to obovate, abaxial surface sparsely hairy, hairs 0.2–0.4 mm long, caducous. Petals white to off-white, 1.5–2.0 × 0.3–1 mm, erecto-patent to somewhat spreading, clawed; limb narrowly obovate, apex obtuse, occasionally emarginated. Stamens 2, equal. Nectaries 2, subulate, 0.35 mm long. Silicles cartilaginous when fresh, coriaceous when dry, 2.5–3.5 × 1.5–3.3 mm, elliptic or rhomboid, not winged, apex usually notched (rarely truncate), valves green maturing yellow-green, glabrous; style 0.1–0.3 mm long, exceeding the shallow notch (if notch present); stigma 0.3–0.5 mm diameter. Seeds 2, narrowly ovoid, brown, red-brown to orange-brown, not winged, 1.25–1.3 × 0.35–0.60 mm.
Lepidium limenophylax is recognised by the decumbent growth habit, with plants developing a distinct woody network of branches. New season's growth arises from the nodes left from the previous season's growth. In this species, the leaves are consistently lanceolate, narrowly lanceolate, linear lanceolate or linear, though slightly broader in seedlings and basal rosettes. The flowers have two stamens. Despite its long inclusion within Lepidium oleraceum DNA data reveals that L. limenophylax is the most diverged of all the L. oleraceum complex, and it has little relationship with any of the species (see de Lange et al. 2013).
November - February
Difficult. All attempts at cultivation have so far failed. Plants dislike humidity, and are prone to a range of garden pests and diseases.
Outside the Snares Island group the status of this species is unclear. On the Snares recent surveys have found it to be locally common in a few sites (Lake & Ewans 2011) totalling an area of just under 1 ha. While field evidence suggests that this species is secure in its habitat on the Snares, the small area of occupancy qualifies the species for 'Threatened / Nationally Critical' status (see Townsend et al. 2008).
P.J. de Lange (22 August 2013). Description from de Lange et al. (2013) - see references for free download link for that paper. Threats information from Fletcher et al. (2009).
de Lange, P.J.; Heenan, P.B.; Houliston, G.; Rolfe, J.R.; Mitchell, A.D. 2013: New Lepidium (Brassicaceae) from New Zealand. Phytokeys 24:1-147pp. , doi: 10.3897/phytokeys.24.4375.
Lake S, Evans R (2011) Population census and monitoring of Lepidium aff. oleraceum (c) (CANU 5995; Snares Islands) on Snares Islands, October 2010. Department of Conservation File note, Invercargill.
Townsend AJ, de Lange PJ, Norton DA, Molloy J, Miskelly C, Duffy C (2008) The New Zealand Threat Classification System manual. Department of Conservation: Wellington. http://www.doc.govt.nz/publications/conservation/nz-threat-classification-system/nz-threat-classification-system-manual-2008/
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Is there a doomsday for analog type TVs? Seems that I read that on January 1st, 2006, that 8 to 10 million televisions will go blank due to new FCC rules and all TVs have to be high definition/integrated type and our analog TV will turn into a piece of useless junk. Millions of people will be without television because they will not be able to afford to buy a new HDTV. Any truth to this?
-- Jerry Lee Phillips, La Mesa
Let's all cram into the laundry room here and keep our voices down. We don't want Pa Alice to hear this. He's dead set against getting a new TV. He's convinced his 15-year-old Magnavox with the rabbit ears is good enough for anybody. But eventually he'll be looking at a blank screen and wondering why. Doom isn't quite as imminent as you fear, Jerry, but it's coming, and apparently most people don't have a clue.
See, since 1996 the feds have been fooling around with the idea of taking back the VHF frequencies devoted now to analog television signals-- channels 2 through 13. They want to reassign them to public safety communication and, rumor has it, to sell the rest to the wireless industry for newer, even more annoying applications than they've already thought up. (Think your garage door opener problem is irritating? Just wait�) Think of it as a farmer looking at his 100 acres and realizing he could buy a classier brand of bib overalls by selling out to condo builders. The VHF freeks are valuable.
So, by a certain date (possibly some time in 2009-- formerly 2008, formerly 2006-- the date changes from month to month) all TV stations must be broadcasting a digital signal to clear out the current VHF bands. Digital is transmitted in 1-0-1-0 format, unreadable by an analog set. When that happens, if you don't have a TV with a digital tuner, your screen will go blank. Manufacturers have until March of 2007 to install digital tuners in all the new TVs they offer for sale. On paper this much is true.
But, you protest, some TV stations are already offering digital signals, and you can still see those CSI idiots big as life even though your TV doesn't have a digital tuner. So what's up with that, Matthew? That's because those stations broadcast both digital and analog, and your old TV is reading the analog. And the feds say the stations can continue to do this until 85 percent of their viewing audience has digital capability, which theoretically could extend past the 2009 deadline. This 85 percent thing is one of many, many fuzzy details yet to be clarified by the FCC and Congress. Or it could be because you receive your signal via cable or satellite, and the carrier translates the signal for you. It's likely that cable or satellite service will insulate you from this digital tuner problem for a long time, but not necessarily forever.
But what about soreheads like Pa Alice who are still getting an over-the-air, antenna-style signal after the cutoff date? Well, they'll need to buy set-top digital-to-analog translator boxes to keep their nostalgic sets.
All in all, it doesn't seem necessary to rush out and glom onto a digital TV. Which is a good thing, actually, because manufacturers seem to have started with the high-end, big, expensive digital sets. The plasmas and rear projections and that kind of thing. Virtually no manufacturer has yet to offer a plain old TV with digital capability. (By the way, HDTV has to do with the way the picture is displayed on the screen, in hi-def and surround sound. The incoming digital signal is what the new laws are about. You're not required to have one of those wide-ass HDTV sets to receive a digital signal. An ordinary non-hi-def TV with a digital tuner would work just as well. But we'll have to wait and see if manufacturers offer plain digital-tuner models.)
Confused? It looks like the FCC, manufacturers, broadcasters, and Congress are too. Dates and rules seem to change weekly, so stay tuned. Things are likely to be different in six months. But in the meantime, turn on your old analog, sit back, and don't worry. Just don't tell Pa Alice.
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S. Korea president vows 'stern' response to any North provocation
South Korean President Park Geun-Hye on Friday promised a harsh response to any military provocation by North Korea, after its leader Kim Jong-Un ordered the country's nuclear arsenal on standby.
"If North Korea launches a provocation, we must respond with stern punishment to clearly show the price North Korea has to pay and our determination to protect our nation," Park said in a televised speech at a ceremony for newly commissioned military officers.
Following the adoption late Wednesday of unprecedentedly harsh sanctions against Pyongyang by the UN Security Council, Park warned of a "fiercer" North Korean backlash than normal.
Hours after the sanctions resolution was unanimously passed, the North fired six short-range rockets into the sea off its eastern coast — an almost routine response to condemnation by the international community.
The rocket launches were personally monitored by Kim Jong-Un who, according to state media, also ordered North Korea's nuclear warheads to be deployed "on standby so as to be fired at any moment".
Park said the South would stick to its strategy of squeezing Pyongyang into submission over the issue of denuclearisation.
"We must make North Korea realise that its regime will not survive if it does not give up its nuclear programme," she said, adding that success would be major step towards the eventual unification of the two Koreas.
"Just as it is darkest just before the dawn, I think we are entering the final, the most difficult crucial stage towards the peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula," she said.
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You should be watching The Fall.
David Duchovny's birthday was Wednesday and today it's the natal celebration of Gillian Anderson. Will some gossip astrologist look into this TV-star-crossed pairing? The former Agent Scully has luckily having a bit of a TV renaissance, with her guest appearances in the NBC show Hannibal but also starring in an amazing BBC series you should be watching: The Fall.
Anderson plays Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson, who's brought in to Belfast to investigate a stalled murder investigation. This is not a whodunit – the audience is introduced to the serial killer straightaway, watching him work, seeing how closely he gets to being caught while managing to elude both the cops and his live-in family from suspecting his 'hobby'. Gibson is less of a Scully and more of a Tennison (i.e. La Mirren in Prime Suspect) from the later years when she's already been around the block several times about your sexist assumptions and has no time for your judgments about her banging a local detective.
For those of us who've loved Anderson pretty madly since X-Files and have been waiting for the next amazing vehicle for her to drive all over our hearts, this is it. There's only 5 episodes of the BBC drama, but luckily it's already been renewed for a second season. Those of us in the States can watch them all on Netflix. If you're a fan of the above-mentioned shows, or Top of the Lake, or even the remake of Prime Suspect with Maria Bello (don't judge), you won't be disappointed in The Fall.


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Listening : ironomi "niji"
January 26 " bleak"
A bleak and bitter end in late January. After dank foggy and cold days comes the bitter cold. But with a good warm coat the cold brings her own delights and we spend a great afternoon in Bradford Dale. We are greeted at the dale head by a flock of Goldfinches with the odd Greenfinch mixed in for good measure. Down the dale the river level is surprisingly and worryingly low . Coots ,moorhens and Mallards are around as usual along with one or two "dabchicks" who seem very happy. I wonder about herons having seen four near the A6 earlier in the week. Sure enough we come across a beauty near the village. Turning for the return walk back to Middleton we are entertained by a pair of dippers who are completely unaware of our presence. The crowning moment of the walk is yet to happen. There is movement in the undergrowth at the river's edge .At first we agree that this is a wren. To our delight this turns out to be a Goldcrest. He is foraging on old thistle heads and dead grass really close to us.My attempts at a photograph come to nothing but a delightful moment. Back home tea and oar biscuits warm us up !
Listening : Sonicbrat "murmerations"
January 19
Five days ant not a sign of the sun! Picnic packed today we decide to walk around the Derwent and Bowden Reservoirs. Yes it is grey and dull but there are herons by the waterside and squirrels looking for food! We meet others who seemed like us undeterred by the encompassing gloom. From nowhere an R.A.F. Hercules swoops over the waters taking everyone by surprise. He soon disappears and the thick silence returns . Later we explore "Slippery Stones" . A Brilliant day out.
Picnic View.
Listening :William Basinki " Disintegration Tapes".
January 17
The Peak District is still becalmed under damp low cloud and a clinging mist .The effect is of a Ghost World . Out on the Monsal Trail walking through the re claimed tunnels is surreal .Outside the light is eerie and strange .With a little imagination you can catch the echoes of the old rail men and tunnellers calling to each other.Quite a special experience to wander in this otherworldly atmosphere.
Listening : The Stone Tapes
Monday 16
The Peaks are shrouded in low cloud and mists . Visibility is very poor and there is not much daylight. Yet even in these murky conditions it's worth getting the right gear on and experiencing the conditions! We head west and take the Hurdlow trail that takes in part of another bridleway. Everywhere is still.Only an occasional croak from a hidden crow or room breaks the silence. It's pretty cool and mysterious.The landscape is very early Dr Who or if a "Hammer" movie had been filmed in the Peak District . Back home the stove gives a welcoming glow along with tea and I am inclineded to listen to Steve Roach "structures from silence"
Listening : Steve Roach "structures from silence"
January 14 kingfishers
Peakland journal in Yorkshire! After a week of horrendous gales ,rain and snow we sojourned in Yorkshire walking along the canal at Saltaire.The day was still and fresh with some warmish sunshine. We met at lovely couple of birdwatchers who pointed out a kingfisher preening himself on a barge on the opposite bank. My phone camera could not get a decent picture. An added bonus and a surprise was to catch another pair of kingfisher s further along ! Three in one day . Result!
Listening : "The Delaware Road"
January 4
A glorious day in the Peaks encouraged us to pack a picnic and head beyond the borders into Cheshire to Wildboarclough to climber up the Cheshire Matterhorn. After finding a car park we undertook the reasonably short walk to the base of the "mountain" .To be fair it was higher than we thought and quite a hard ascent no doubt down the the fact we lost the path!There were spectacular views from the summit !
Listening : A Year in the Country "fractures"
January 2
The festive season has quietly past and January has arrived bringing winter .Today is crisp and bright .At this time of year the sun rises over Stanton Moor and breakfasts and coffee are illuminated by fantastic light. Often low cloud and mists make for a dramatic and atmospheric light show.We take an afternoon walk in the cold on one of the "Rivendell Round" walks we invented. It is a beautiful day and we are completely taken by surprise by an incredible Starling murmeration that has made its home not 1/2 mile from our front door.The show is not only a surprise but also spectacular in the dying orange light.A great start to the year!
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Newfoundland senior hockey: Caribous ground Eagles in Clarenville
Cats, Flyers split in central; Blues easily knock off Caps
The Clarenville Caribous swept a pair of contests from the Northeast Eagles, and the Gander Flyers and Grand Falls-Windsor Cataracts split a weekend series as provincial senior hockey resumed its schedule over the weekend following the Christmas break.
The Caribous got two goals from Brad Crann to beat the Eagles 6-2 Sunday at the Eastlink Events Centre in Clarenville. Saturday, the homestanding Caribous got goals from seven different players — Crann, Keith Delaney, Dustin Flight, Mike Dyke, Mason Reid, Dustin Russell and Ken Mahoney — to beat Northeast 7-3. Mike Halitzki, Justin David and Paul Cuff replied.
At the Steele Community Centre in Gander Sunday, Andew Ryan potted the winning shootout goal as the Flyers beat the visiting Cataracts 3-2. Andrew Paul and Paul Hutchings scored in regulation time for the Flyers, who had held a 2-0 lead. Alex Dalley and Sam Housell tallied for the visitors.
At the Joe Byrne Memorial Stadium Saturday, the Cataracts stoned the Flyers 5-0 with Kyle McGuirk scoring a pair of goals. Singles came from Brandon Bussey, Michael Brent and Danny Wicks.
In a Saturday evening game at the C.B.S. Arena, the Blues trimmed the St. John's Caps 9-1. Lucas Lush and Tyler Adams both scored twice for C.B.S.
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The agencies which make up a U.S. Government mission overseas are not merely an alphabet soup of acronyms along for the ride. Working long hours behind the scenes both before and after the mission itself, applying skill and expertise to complex international negotiations under deadline pressure, they provide the very substance that makes foreign policy real, and which might just make the world a little smaller and a little more interconnected.
For that reason, one such agency
– the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the U.S. Government's
development finance institution – appreciated Commerce Secretary Bryson's
shout-out during his remarks to the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce in Mumbai
last week.
"I have a good piece of news from OPIC," Secretary Bryson said. "I'm sure that many of you are familiar with India's Infrastructure Development Finance Corporation – IDFC. Yesterday (March 29), OPIC's Board approved $250 million in financing to help IDFC expand lending for renewable energy projects, including solar, wind and energy efficiency, as well as for infrastructure projects. This will help meet an important need for more long-term capital to support India's growing renewable energy sector."
Indeed, it will. IDFC is India's premier infrastructure lender, with an enviable track record in the sector. As a specialized financial institution, it provides end-to-end infrastructure financing and integrated project implementation services for India's most important priority sectors.
Under its "Go Green" initiative, IDFC aims to minimize the carbon footprint of its portfolio, by implementing comprehensive environmental management systems that will mitigate the social, environmental and carbon effects of its projects.
That's where the OPIC financing comes in. IDFC will use the OPIC guaranty to expand its lending to solar photovoltaic projects, energy efficiency projects, projects that reduce energy consumption and/or demand, and wind farm projects, among others.
OPIC's support will be a key component in the prospective success of the "Go Green" initiative, in large part because OPIC's financing will have a longer term than IDFC's existing financing. Simply put, OPIC expects that the term of the OPIC financing will lead to IDFC making longer term loans itself.
Some context: despite significant growth over the past few years, India's renewable energy sector remains underserved, primarily due to the inability of financial institutions to offer long-term lending. The lack of long-term funding options, especially given current financial market conditions, has made bi-lateral and multi-lateral support much more critical.
"India's renewable energy industry has grown by leaps and bounds these past few years, but in order for it to reach the next level and achieve the scale and sustainability we all wish to see, it must get long-term financing," said OPIC President and CEO Elizabeth Littlefield. "In a current environment of limited liquidity, this OPIC facility will provide IDFC with precisely the long-term funding it needs to serve India's vast capital needs for the renewable energy and infrastructure sectors."
Dr. Rajiv Lall, Managing Director and CEO of IDFC, seconded Ms. Littlefield's point: "Only about a sixth of India's renewable energy resources have been tapped so far, leaving huge potential for future market growth. The OPIC facility will provide valuable support for India's renewable energy strategy which aims not only to lower the carbon intensity of the country's growth, but also to address the need for energy security."
So, a good piece of news, indeed. Pull back the curtain on the alphabet soup of a U.S. Government mission and – mixed metaphors aside – you're bound to find quite a bit of good news.
For more information about OPIC, the U.S. Government's development finance institution, visit the OPIC website at www.opic.gov.
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Dcn. Ray and Wife Tyra Lamb
He is the oldest of three boys that God blessed his parents with. Ray's father was in the US Air Force so he spent most of his early years traveling the world with his family. After graduating High School in Stuttgart, Germany, Ray went to college, graduated and joined the US Army where he faithfully served his country for 30 years and retired as a Colonel in 2010.
Ray now does occasional contract work with the Department of the Navy. During Ray's career, he was transferred all over the world. The last move was to Hawaii and is now the place that the Lambs call home. Why … nowhere in the world have they found such an extraordinary group of loving people.
Ray met Tyra (Washington) Lamb in Fort Worth, Texas in 1981. They fell in love and four months later they were married. You could say that they each knew what they wanted in a spouse and it didn't take long for them to determine that they found it in each other. Thirty-six years later they are still going strong, thanks be to God, for without Him it would not have been possible!
Tyra is a career Licensed Social Worker having worked in nearly every field of social work for over 30 years. She is currently the U.S. Army's Pacific Region Lead (supervisor) for several programs to include Domestic Abuse and Victim
Advocacy. Her area of expertise includes Child Abuse prevention, working with families with special needs and working with new parents. Ray and Tyra have been blessed with 3 adult children and 3 grandchildren.
When Ray and Tyra were approached by their parish priest in 2012 and asked if they would consider entering the deaconate formation process, the answer was a resounding "yes". The ability to serve God and the Catholic community in ministry has been a constant calling in Ray's life. Apparently God was not ready for that to happen until he returned to Hawaii and retired. God has accomplished this work and Ray was ordained on January 18, 2018. Ray and Tyra are excited about serving the people of Our Lady of Good Council to the best of their ability and ask for your continued prayers and encouragement as they join their new community of faith.


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Released Monday, May 2, 2011 9:21am
"Finally… justice prevails as this mass murderer has been removed from this earth. God says, 'Vengeance is Mine, I will repay; in due time, their foot will slip' (Deut 32:35). It's been almost 10 years, but indeed it is 'due time' and I'm certain that Osama bin Laden is now facing God's vengeance and wrath.
As the widow of one of bin Laden's countless victims, I'm relieved to know that the mastermind of 9/11 has finally met his fate. This is a big crush for al-Qaida and a tremendous victory for our nation, our military, and the 9/11 families. I am so grateful for the brave US troops who risked their lives to complete this mission. I applaud and salute their skill, their passion, and their relentless determination to extinguish the forces of evil in this world. May God bless our nation and our military.
As a Bible-believing, evangelical Christian, I cannot rejoice in the death of a man who is now spending his eternity in hell. There's a big difference between being relieved about the death of your enemy... and rejoicing in the death of your enemy. Crowds of Americans were gathered in New York and Washington celebrating this victory. I understand their elation and I admire their unity and patriotism… but I can assure you that Jesus is not cheering right now. He died for bin Laden's sins just as He died for yours and mine… and bin Laden's harsh rejection of Christ is not something heaven celebrates, nor do I.
In fact, in Proverbs 24:17-18, it says: "Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles; or the LORD will see it and be displeased." And so I do not rejoice, but I do breathe a big sigh of relief... and I thank and praise God for giving our leaders and troops the wisdom, the resources, the opportunity, and the skill to eliminate this madman from the world.
Many have asked me if bin Laden's death has brought closure to 9/11. I cannot speak for the other families; I only know what's in my own heart: No, I do not have closure, but I do have peace. This may have closed a chapter of 9/11's history, but the rest of the book is still being written. The death of bin Laden does not bring Jim back, nor does it change how I feel about what happened on that horrific day. For some families, I suppose bin Laden's death may help them to move forward in their journey of grief. As for me, I have already moved forward – not by the death of Jim's murderer, but by the power of God's love. Through my trust in God's sovereignty, I have found peace that surpasses all understanding.
As we approach the 10thanniversary of September 11, I continue to mourn the collapse of the World Trade Center and I pray for the collapse of al-Qaida. I realize that bin Laden's death may fuel the fire and bring forth retaliation from other terrorists. Certainly his death does not make our country safe or free from terrorism – on the contrary, things may get worse before they get better, so we cannot let our guard down. But I believe in a God who is in complete control, who does love and care for us, even when the earthly evidence suggests otherwise."
Jennifer Sands
9/11 Widow, wife of James ("Jim") Sands, Jr. – Cantor Fitzgerald, 103rdFloor of Tower One
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Brinner: Eggy Eyeball.
Its time for dinner, but you want breakfast. It happens. We can take care of this problem quick and easy.
Uova Di Pomodoro (Eggs Baked in Tomatoes)
From the Silver Spoon Cookbook
- vine ripened tomatoes
- same number of eggs
- 1 tsp of olive oil for each tomato
- dried oregano
- salt and pepper
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees
Cut off the tops of the tomatoes and scoop out the seeds.
Sprinkle the inside of the tomatoes with salt and lay upside down on a paper towel to allow to drain for 10 minutes.
Put 1 tsp of olive oil in each tomato and sprinkle the insides with a pinch of oregano and pepper.
Bake tomatoes for 20 minutes. Remove from oven and add egg to the center of each tomato. The eggs will sizzle in the hot oil.
Place the tomatoes back in the oven for 5-7 minutes.
I sprinkled the tops with Parmesan cheese and dried dill. Don't they look like little eggy eyeballs? Is that unappetizing?
I sided the tomatoes with the left over potatoes and broccoli from our Easter Dinner. Boom, 30 minutes later and its brinner time.
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Area 294 square mi (754 square km)
Population 72,340 2014
Capital Roseau
Highest Point Morne Diablatins 4,775 ft (1,447 m)
Lowest Point 0 m
GDP $537.8 million 2014
Primary Natural Resources timber, hydropower.
THE LAST OF THE islands of the West Indies to be colonized, chiefly because of the fierce resistance of the native Carib population, the island of Dominica now retains the only pre-Columbian population in the eastern CARIBBEAN SEA. Dominica also maintains more of its original tropical vegetation, due to the roughness of its terrain—it is 66 percent forested, compared to 36 percent on SAINT VINCENT, and only 9 percent on GRENADA. The inability to establish large plantations thus served to preserve Dominica's natural riches, a fact that is now a blessing to the country's economy as a chief draw for tourism, supplemented by reserves of timber for export.
As with the other islands in the Windward group of the Antilles, Dominica is volcanic in origin. Morne Diablatins is the island's highest volcanic peak, but there is also considerable thermal activity and a large crater lake located only 7 mi (11 km) from the capital city of Roseau. The Caribs (approximately 3,000 in number) live mostly in a reservation set up for them in the northeastern part of the island. Many still farm small plots and are involved in weaving traditional baskets used all over the island and sold to tourists. Having richer and more luxuriant soil than its neighbors, Dominica grows most tropical products with ease but specializes in limes.
The island, named by Christopher Columbus on Sunday (Domingo), November 3, 1493, lies between the French departments of GUADELOUPE and MARTINIQUE and was itself a French colony until 1763. Among those many North American and Caribbean territories reassigned to the British by the Treaty of Paris, Dominica remained a British colony until independence in 1978.
Because of Carib resistance and the steepness of its volcanic slopes, Dominica was not developed as a major sugar producer like its neighbors. Small farmers continued to live much as they had done before the British takeover, and the island retains much of its French flavor, especially in its patois. Possibly as a result of this duality of loyalties, Dominica has chosen to become a republic while remaining a member of the British Commonwealth—in other words, unlike ANTIGUA or SAINT KITTS, the chief executive of Dominica is an elected president, not the hereditary British monarch. With one of the lowest per capita incomes in the Lesser Antilles, the population is increasingly young and urban, with nearly a third living in the capital of Roseau.


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A former Regional Security Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Libya, Eric Nordstrom, has told congressional investigators that security at their diplomatic post in Benghazi was "inappropriately low," according to a recent ABC report. Some officials are laying blame on Susan Rice while other have cited Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton's leadership at fault.
Clinton was among the first Obama administration officials to publicly condemn the attack and mourn the deaths of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. But as the State Department has weathered Republican-led criticism that it misread warning signs before the Sept. 11 attack, Clinton has been far less visible.
Clinton will not appear at a Wednesday oversight hearing on the Libya attack, where House Republicans have said they will question the State Department's security preparations and the administration's account of the attack. The State Department will instead send a trusted career diplomat along with three security officials.
Ahead of the hearing, State Department officials provided new details about the attack while asserting that there had been no way to predict or prevent the sustained assault.
Nordstrom and the commander of a 16-member Security Support Team, Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Wood, heard that foreign fighters were flowing across the Egyptian border and were making their way across the border to the Libyan city of Derna – which is to the east of Benghazi — and from there were making their way to Benghazi. But State Department officials seemed oblivious to their Benghazi post's vulnerability.
Nordstrom was worried -he did not know how much the Americans could rely on members of a local Libyan militia in Benghazi that provided security — the "17th of February Martyrs Brigade." Mostly merchants and shopkeepers before the war, they seemed eager, but they hadn't much experience and other than a daily $30 stipend for food from the U.S. Embassy, they hadn't been paid in months.
Nordstrom had "no idea if they would respond to an attack," he told investigators.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, led by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., will hold hearings on what went wrong today at noon ET. Nordstrom will testify at that hearing.
Nordstrom twice wrote to the State Department – in March and July 2012 — to beef up the presence of American security officers in Benghazi, but neither time was there a response. At no point from December 2011 through July 2012, when he left Libya, were more than three Diplomatic Security Service agents permanently and simultaneously stationed at the Benghazi post.
Nordstrom wanted at least five personnel to be stationed at Benghazi, but the State Department would not allow it. There were American security officers, however, at the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, including three Mobile Security Detachments, which were part of the DSS, and a 16-member Security Support Team detailed from Special Operations Command AFRICOM, commanded by Wood. But the State Department would not give him permission to deploy them to be stationed at Benghazi.
Deputy Assistant Secretary for international programs Charlene Lamb, in Nordstrom's view, wanted to keep the number of U.S. security personnel in Benghazi "artificially low," according to a memo for Democrats on the House Oversight Committee.
Wood, a former Green Beret, said that he and other members of the Security Support Team wanted to remain in Libya past their deployment was scheduled to end in August, and that Ambassador Stevens wanted them to remain as well, according to ABC news. Nordstrom has said that Lamb told him not to request for the Security Support Team to be extended again. (Its deployment had been previously extended in February 2012.)
Lamb will testify before the House committee later today.
"I do recall one conversation with her where she (Lamb) said that since we now had a residential safe haven in Benghazi that she didn't seem to have a problem with having no agents on the compound because if something happened then personnel could simply go to that residential safe haven," Nordstrom told investigators.
That safe haven proved a deathtrap. Situated inside the main residence in Benghazi, consisting of three bedrooms and a bathroom set aside from the rest of the building by metal grillwork and several locks, the safe haven is where Stevens and information officer Sean Smith suffered severe smoke inhalation after the attackers set the house on fire.
On Tuesday afternoon, State Department officials acknowledged that despite earlier explanations from the Obama administration, there was no protest outside the Benghazi compound at all. Only an hour before gunmen methodically and deliberately stormed the post, the streets were empty and everything seemed calm. Obama administration officials originally claimed the trouble began with demonstrations against an anti-Muslim video, a protest that, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice told ABC News' THIS WEEK on the Sunday after the attack, "seems to have been hijacked, let us say, by some individual clusters of extremists."
Rice and White House officials now say those initial accounts were based on early intelligence, since corrected. State Department officials now call the attack unprecedented given the number of gunman, weapons and lethal force used.
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The most successful scams are able to convince you they can't be replaced.
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The Indian rupee gained on Friday,rebounding from a one-month low hit earlier in the session,after the central bank was suspected of having intervened to prevent a bout of risk aversion hitting Asian currencies from also enveloping India. The Reserve Bank of India was seen selling dollars in the forex market from 62.50 rupee levels to support the rupee,three dealers told Reuters,after the currency had earlier fallen to as much as 62.56,its lowest since Nov. 29.
Caution is likely to prevail ahead of key economic indicators later this month. India is set to post November factory data on Jan. 10,followed by consumer and wholesale inflation for December later in the month.
The data will be key in determining whether the central bank raises interest rates at its policy review on Jan. 28.
"The U.S. yields have been rising which has caused a risk aversion scenario amongst markets on fears of further tapering. The Indian stock markets also fell but recovered towards the closing and nationalised banks sold dollars to check the depreciation of the rupee," said Anil Kumar Bhansali,vice president at Meclai Financial.
The partially convertible rupee closed at 62.16/17 per dollar compared with 62.26/27 on Thursday.
For the week,the rupee dropped 0.5 percent,its second weekly fall in four.
Indian shares fell on Friday to mark their biggest weekly decline in eight as profit-taking hit blue chips such as Reliance Industries for a third consecutive day,extending the weak start to 2014.
The rupee has already shed 0.6 percent in the new year,tracking weaker emerging Asian currencies such as the Indonesian rupiah as hopes of a recovery in the United States have strengthened the dollar.
In the offshore non-deliverable forwards,the one-month contract was at 62.66,while the three-month was at 63.53.
* Yen firms vs dlr and euro as investors shun risk
* Rupiah leads slide on China PMIs; Philippine peso at 4-mth low
* Europe holds ground after risk aversion roils Asia
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Thursday, July 4, 2002
Here are the beginnings of an essay I'm writing to answer the question "How much freedom should we give up for security?" These are only the first fleshings-out of my thoughts on the subject. This is what spilled out the first time I sat down to write. Ideas. Confusion. No real logical flow to it and many digressions. But I thought it might give you folks something to chew on. I'll appreciate any discussion you give me on it. You know the address.
Are freedom and security inherently opposed?
Is the freedom to choose the amount of freedom you forfeit for security the ultimate freedom?
If freedom is an "inalienable right" how can it ever be abridged in order to produce heightened security? Wouldn't the act of abridgement automatically reduce our freedom's, and therefore our own, security?
These must be questions that have been posed since the realization of birth rights. In every area of the world in every era these questions must have been recognized as immediate by thinking people. They are not questions peculiar to these United States at the dawn of the 21st Century.
By the mere abridgement of the legal instruments of these "rights" during earlier periods of war (Lincoln during the Civil War; Wilson's Espionage & Sedition Act during World War I), we must assume that these questions have presented themselves prior to our day. Indeed, the oft-quoted statement by Benjamin Franklin in the Historical Review of Pennsylvania in 1759, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety," proves that the importance of freedom and security was revelant even at the beginnings of our young country. Perhaps the perceived immediacy of the trade-off between freedom and security is only a mark of the newest generations — those untouched by large-scale warfare and the authoritarian policies often adopted during those periods.
Do increased citizen searches by civil and military police forces add to societal and individual security? Can you be secure in your person while also being subject to random search and seizure, heightened government surveillance of formerly secure modes of communication and the imposition of detention without judicial oversight? How does individual "security in self" affect societal (national) security? Is it a bane or the bedrock? Is individual security the same thing as freedom?
Ethnic conflict in the former Soviet states has indicated that the enforced peace and security with which various ethnicities lived together under the centralized control of Moscow merely subdued hatred and violence for the time being. Those same "evils" burned within and lurked just outside the gates. Ultimately, the fears and prejudices still led to conflict after the totalitarian power structure and its attendant control mechanisms fell. Does freedom improve these situations?
Possibly. Institutional transparency, freedom of information and improved education both horizontally and vertically (the amount of educated citizens and the depth of their knowledge) might lead to calmer, more logic-based interaction among ethnic groups, as it has shown itself to do increasingly in industrialized countries where the vertical sector of the spectrum continues to deepen our knowledge of those we live with. (This isn't to say that we're perfect, though.)
Beyond education focusing on improved relations within and without a country, educated discourse, research, and opinions regarding government strategies and tactics increase citizen involvement in government decision-making. Had, at the onset of the Gulf War, the American public known (or had the freedom to know) that the true aim of the war was increased American infuence in the oil-producing states of the Middle East and not as a simple humanitarian-minded mission to protect the sovereignty of small Kuwait and other states bordering Iraq, would the support of the war been quite so great? Would the war have ever happened? And, assuming Al Qaeda's stated strategic objectives are honest, had the war and placement of foreign troops on Saudi Arabian soil not happened, would September 11th have happened? These questions cannot be answered. Maybe in a parallel universe.
The question may also be: Do we have enough freedom now to begin giving any up in the name of security? Do we have too little security that it needs the abridgement of freedom to intensify itself? And, if, as the Bush Administration says, the objective of "Islamic" terrorism is the destruction of American and/or Western freedom, is not even the smallest diminishment of freedom, even for the sake of security, an automatic "win" for "the terrorists" aided and abetted by our own national governments?
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MOON TOWNSHIP (KDKA) — Amy Brisco, a Moon Township mother of three, says she was surprised to see a $10.99 charge from her debit card on her recent online PNC account.
"I thought it was my fault. I probably swiped it, didn't even think about it and forgot to put it in my checkbook," she said. "But then I looked at the place, and I thought, 'It's not right, something's not right.'"
A call to her bank and some online investigation determined she was the victim of fraud from something called the New Sport Shop.
She's not alone. Scambook.com found complaints from more than 80 people already involving Bank Of America, Regions Bank and PNC Bank.
"When I realized that it was something that I didn't do and it didn't have anything to do with my purchases, I called my bank and they knew immediately what it was from," Brisco said. "They said they had a lot of complaints from the same company."
You don't have to lose your debit or credit card to be the victim of fraud. That's why PNC Bank says check those statements very, very carefully and if you see something that's wrong, call them right away.
With the prevalence of online banking, finding something wrong on your bank statement seems to be growing trend.
In Market Square, several people said they too have been victims of banking crimes.
Lloyd Stackhouse of Mt. Lebanon says it pays to be aware of your account activity.
"A lot of times I would blame my wife, but once I asked her and she said, 'No.'
"I was wondering, 'Did the bank do it or did somebody else do it?' And I found out it was actually coming from somebody else," he said.
Julie Waight of Jeannette says she was also was a victim.
"It was like an international charge from the United Kingdom, so they stopped my debit card and the transaction didn't go through."
Brisco found the scammer's phone number was fake, but she searched the New Sport Shop online, concluding the theft was from Nigeria by way of Michigan and California.
But her best news was when her bank made good the loss.
"PNC Bank had no problem covering it," she said. "They apologized and said they were going to try to investigate it."
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Sapporo, Japan, August 31, 2013 – China and Brazil both posted their fourth straight victory at the 2013 FIVB World Grand Prix Finals here on Saturday to make their meeting in the last round on Sunday the title contention of the tournament.
Sheilla Castro scored 19 points and Gabriela Braga Guimaraes and Fernanda Rodrigues added 14 and 13 respectively to help Brazil claim their fourth win in a row in the 2013 FIVB World Grand Prix Finals. Beating Serbia 27-25, 25-21 and 25-22 in less than one hour and a half, the Brazilian women have yet to drop a set in four matches.
China outlasted Japan 3-2 in a five-set thirller later on Saturday to extend their winning streak in this year's World Grand Prix to a record 13. Zhu Ting scored 33 as the Chinese women took a sweet revenge on their 3-2 loss to the Japanese in the London Olympic quarter-finals last year.
In a match between two teams sharing an 0-3 record before Saturday's action, Italy beat off four match points to rally past the United State 3-2 for their first victory in the 2013 FIVB World Grand Prix Finals. With the 19-25, 25-22, 23-25, 25-18 and 16-14 triumph in two hours and seven minutes, the Italian women snapped a five-match losing streak to the USA team in the World Grand Prix while the three-time defending World Grand Prix champions fell to 0-4. Converting on 25 of 51 spiking opportunities, Valentina Diouf of Italy finished with 31 points for Italy.
With only the last round of action left in the six-team round-robin Finals, Brazil led the standings with 12 points from four 3-0 wins, followed by China on 10 points. Brazil will play China Sunday afternoon for their first World Grand Prix title since 2009 while Serbia and Japan face Italy and the winless USA respectively.
Italy save four match points before beating USA 3-2
Italy saved four match points before edging USA 3-2 (19-25, 25-22, 23-25, 25-18, 16-14) on the fourth day of the FIVB World Grand Prix Finals at Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center on Saturday. It was Italy's first win of this year's Finals, while defending champions USA fell to 0-4. Both were out of the running for the title following losses in the opening three days. Valentina Diouf had a match-high 31 points for Italy, while USA were led by Kristin Hildebrand with 18 points. The teams were level on blocking points with 12 each, while USA had the edge in service points 6-2. Before Saturday's match, USA had won their last five World Grand Prix matches against Italy. More
We thought we had won the match: USA coach
USA coach Karch Kiraly said it was an extremely disappointing loss. "Our team was in a great position to win and we thought we did win on the play the referee called the other way. Then we weren't able to close the match out after working hard to put ourselves in that position," he said. "Congratulations to Italy for staying with it and coming back from a deficit at the end." Italy captain Martina Guiggi was delighted with the come-from-behind victory. "I'm really happy about the result. We never gave up and because we didn't give up something changed at the end of the game," she said. "We were able to handle difficult balls and we could spike well and we had better reception than yesterday." More
Brazil maintain perfect record
Tournament leaders Brazil maintained their 100 per cent record in the FIVB World Grand Prix Finals on Saturday with a 3-0 (27-25, 25-21, 25-22) win over Serbia at Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center. It was Brazil's fourth straight 3-0 win. Serbia dropped to 2-2. Brazil were led by Sheilla Castro with 19 points, while Serbia's top scorer was Ana Bjelic, also with 19 points.Brazil came up with 15 blocking points to Serbia's six. Serbia had the edge on service aces 4-3. More
Zoran changed all my plans: Ze Roberto
Brazil coach Ze Roberto was satisfied with how his team responded to the change of Serbia's starting line-up. "I'm very happy about the game. Zoran changed all my plans. We studied to play with another seven players but he changed all the players, so in the beginning we were a bit confused, but after that we adjusted and I was very happy with our block," he said. "It was important to win this match and to come to the final match against China. We have a very important match tomorrow. I think China are stronger than at the Olympic Games. I think the key for China is the No. 2 Zhu Ting. The left-handed player (Zeng Chunlei) played very well, too. And the setter and the middle blockers did a good job. They have a very strong team right now. It's going to be difficult to beat them but we have to try." More
China stay second after thrilling 3-2 win over Japan
China had to fight hard to maintain their unbeaten record in the FIVB World Grand Prix Finals on Saturday as Japan fought them all the way. China won 3-2 (25-16, 18-25, 26-24, 21-25, 15-13) at Hokkaido Prefectural Sports Center and now face a showdown with Brazil on Sunday for the title. China are 4-0 and have 10 points, while Brazil have 12 points from a similar record. Serbia are third on six points and Japan fourth on four points. Italy are fifth with three points and USA bottom with one point. It was China's 19th win over Japan in the World Grand Prix in 20 meetings. China set a team record for consecutive wins in the World Grand Prix at 13. Yukiko Ebata was the top scorer in the match with 36 points, while the top scorer for China was Zhu Ting with 33. Japan had the advantage in blocking points 10-9 and in service points 8-7. Japan made 23 errors to China's 15. More
We can learn a lot from Japan: China coach Lang Ping
China coach Lang Ping said her team had a lot to learn from Japan. "We prepared for a game like this. Japan is a great team, is very well organized, fast and have great ball control," she said. "They have many good things that we don't have. I think we were looking forward to this game. I told my players Japan are a great team and it's their home court and there will be a lot of noise. I said, 'You must concentrate on the game.' I want to learn from this game. We need to learn many things from Japan. It was a great performance from all the fans and I want to thank the fans for cheering all the athletes." More
Video interviews
Brazilian players on China match
Top Scoring Performances
36 – Yukiko Ebata of Japan v China (August 31)
33 – Zhu Ting of China v Japan (August 31)
31 – Valentina Diouf of Italy v USA (August 31)
Top Blocking Performances
7 – Xu Yunli of China v Serbia (August 28)
6 – Thaisa Menezes of Brazil v Italy (August 30)
6 – Thaisa Menezes of Brazil v Japan (August 29)
5 – Thaisa Menezes of Brazil v Serbia (August 31)
5 – Valentina Diouf of Italy v USA (August 31)
5 – Iwasaka Nana of Japan v Italy (August 28)
5 – Maja Ognjenovic of Serbia v USA (August 29)
Top Blocking Performances by team
15 – Brazil v Serbia (August 31)
15 – Brazil v Japan (August 29)
15 – China v Serbia (August 28)
14 – Brazil v Italy (August 30)
13 – Brazil v USA (August 28)
Top Serving Performance
5 – Haruka Miyashita of Japan v China (August 31)
5 – Thaisa Menezes of Brazil v Italy (August 30)
3 – Shen Jingsi of China v Japan (August 31)
3 – Jovana Brakocevic of Serbia v USA (August 29)
3 – Yang Junjing of China v Italy (August 29)
3 – Valentina Diouf of Italy v China (August 29)
3 – Miyashita Haruka of Japan v Brazil (August 29)
3 – Xu Yunli of China v Serbia (August 28)
3 – Kimura Saori of Japan v Italy (August 28)
Top Serving Performances by team
13 – Brazil v Italy (August 30)
8 – Japan v China (August 31)
8 – China v Italy (August 29)
8 – Japan v Italy (August 28)
7 – China v Japan (August 31)
7 – Serbia v USA (August 29)
7 – Japan v Brazil (August 29)
Highest Scorer by week
Week 1: Katarzyna Skowronska-Dolata of Poland, 41 v Russia (August 4)
Week 2: Yukiko Ebata of Japan, 28 v Kazakhstan (August 10)
Week 3: Nataliya Goncharova of Russia, 31 v Thailand (August 18)
Finals: Yukiko Ebata of Japan, 36 v China (August 31)
Highest Set Score
Week 1: Poland v Russia, 30-28 (August 4)
Japan v Turkey, 30-28 (August 4)
Week 2: Argentina v Turkey, 36-34 (August 9)
Week 3: Japan v Bulgaria, 29-31 (August 16)
Week 3: Italy v Dominican Republic, 30-32 (August 17)
Finals: Italy v China, 30-28 (August 29)
Italy v China, 28-26 (August 29)
Highest Scoring Matches
Week 1: Russia v Poland, 3-2 (25-21, 22-25, 29-27, 28-30, 15-13) – 235 points
Week 2: Bulgaria v Dominican Republic, 2-3 (22-25, 25-18, 23-25, 30-28, 14-16) - 226 points
Week 3: Italy v Dominican Republic, 3-2 (25-21, 25-19, 30-32, 24-26, 11-15) - 228 points
Finals: Italy v China 2-3 (30-28, 22-25, 28-26, 13-25, 10-15) – 222 points
2013 World Grand Prix Finals page
2013 World Grand Prix Finals Live Scorebox
2013 World Grand Prix Finals Schedule
FIVB World Rankings
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VolleyWorld reviews spectacular World Grand Prix
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A joyful homecoming for World Grand Prix title holders
Sao Paulo, Brazil, September 3, 2013 - Brazil's victorious women's team have returned home after a tiring 30 hour journey from Sapporo, Japan bringi... More...
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Lang Ping setting China on right path
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World Grand Prix FIVB Web TV highlights
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It was a tough week but good experience: USA coach Karch Kiraly
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Brazil clinch ninth World Grand Prix title with perfect record
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USA defeat Japan 3-2 for first win in World Grand Prix Finals
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01.09.2013 11:30:13
The World Grand Prix is very valuable for us: Ze Roberto
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Monday, November 30, 2009
Starting to see signs of the winter holidays coming...
Hi There Again My Friend,
Just starting to see signs of the winter holidays coming about lately. I live right down the street from the prep school Choate Rosemary Hall. The lit up tree, in the photo below,is from their campus. I love looking at it when I pass it. It always looked incredibly beautiful on a snowy day or evening in past years. I'll let the snow takes its time though.
Where I work, in New Haven, CT; we put up one Christmas Tree today. My clients did most of the work. Its not quite Martha Stewart, but I think this one has a lot more charm!! I can appreciate the color coordinated and planned out trees, but I am always most charmed by a handmade, homemade ornamented tree. You know, an eclectic mix of things new, but moreso of things collected and handmade in the past.
Below here is a wonderful gingerbread building on display in a window in the midst of Yale University. I apologize for the reflection, it is not the best shot. I will try to get a better one in the near future. You can click on the photo to get a larger view and then you can see actual details much more clearly! I wonder how they got the huge pieces of gingerbread not to fall apart! I have never made one from scratch, but have used those kits that they sell for about $10.00 and bought extra candy and frosting to add my own creative touches to it. When I put one of those together I will put it on display here.
At the top of this page is the fireplace, where I work, which we decorated up. I think that it came out nice.
I will be on the lookout for many more delightful things to share here.
Thanks for stopping by!
Til next time,
Mary Ellen
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Why start the fireworks almost 30 minutes early? We mean, 8:50? The sun was still up. All the late arrivals weren't even at their spots yet and the show was over before 9:15?
We think we know the answer. We're pretty sure the Department brass does, too. Does Richie?
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