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Story highlights
- Witness says ISIS members told people to return to "liberated" Mosul
- Top Shiite cleric urges national unity "to stand up to the terrorists"
- Residents: Most government forces have pulled back from Falluja
- Iraqi Prime Minister calls on men to volunteer to fight, promising to provide weapons
As security forces ran out, militants overran Iraq's second-largest city on Tuesday -- a stunning collapse that heightened questions about Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's ability to hold onto not only Mosul, but his entire country.
Militants seized Mosul's airport, TV stations, the governor's office and other parts, if not all, of the northern Iraqi city.
"I only ... saw armed people, but not Iraqi military," said resident Firas al-Maslawi of his drive through Mosul on Tuesday. "There was no presence of any government forces on the streets, the majority of their posts destroyed and manned by (Islamist militants)."
Other witnesses painted similar scenes, of buildings and boulevards manned not by Iraqi soldiers or police but rather by men they say are members of the extremist group the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, an al Qaeda splinter group also known by its acronym ISIS.
Mosul wasn't the only place in the country beset by violence Tuesday, including some focused closer to the capital of Baghdad. Still, what's happening in this northern Iraqi city is the most serious, given its size, the bloodshed's scope and the brewing humanitarian situation tied to it.
The numerous reports of police and soldiers running from their posts in Mosul raised the prospect that the Iraqi government did not either have the will or resources to win this and other fights.
In perhaps a sign of just how serious the threat is, al-Maliki took to the airwaves to urge all men to volunteer to fight, promising to provide weapons and equipment. The Prime Minister also urged parliament to declare a state of emergency as part of an effort " to confront this ferocious attack that harms all Iraqis."
"We will not allow for the remainder of the ... province and the city to fall," he said in a live speech broadcast on Iraqi state TV.
Already, hundreds in Mosul have been killed since the fighting began five days ago. Tens of thousands more have fled in vehicles and on foot, some of them carrying only what they could in plastic bags. This rush has contributed to bottlenecks at checkpoints as people tried to get to safety in nearby Erbil.
Within Mosul, militants managed to take control of security checkpoints, military bases and a prison, where they freed up to 1,000 prisoners, authorities said. They did so after apparently overrunning Iraqi security forces, whose bodies -- some of them mutilated -- littered the streets, a Reuters journalist on the ground in Mosul reported.
Some police took off their uniforms, dropped their weapons and ran, according to the journalist.
A journalist with Agence France-Presse, who was fleeing the city with his family, reported security forces had abandoned vehicles and a police station was set on fire.
"We can't beat them. We can't. They are well-trained in street fighting, and we're not," one officer, whose identity was withheld, told Reuters. "We need a whole army to drive them out of Mosul."
Fighting elsewhere around Iraq
Political and sectarian violence have wracked Iraq for months, often pitting minority Sunnis against majority Shiite Muslims, who came to dominate the government after Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was overthrown in 2003.
Tensions are fueled by widespread discontent among the Sunnis, who say they are marginalized by the Shiite-led government and unfairly targeted by heavy-handed security tactics.
Militants also believed to be from ISIS have also taken control of two villages in Kirkuk province and one in Salaheddin province, Iraqi police officials told CNN on Tuesday.
The move into Salaheddin province -- the capital of which, Tikrit, was Saddam's hometown -- shows how close the major fighting is getting to Baghdad. Video posted on YouTube purportedly shows all jail cells in a police station in Beiji in the province abandoned, though CNN could confirm the authenticity of the footage.
On Tuesday night, Iraqi security forces were clashing with dozens of gunmen attempting to storm the Baiji oil refinery about 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of the capital, police officials in Tikrit said.
Closer to Baghdad, at least 31 people were killed and 28 others injured in a series of roadside bombs detonated at a cemetery on the outskirts of the central city of Baquba, according to police officials.
Two residents of Falluja, which is in Sunni-dominated Anbar province and controlled by militants, say a majority of government forces have pulled back from that city to focus on securing Baghdad's perimeter.
This violence is significant but hardly new in Iraq, which has been beset by instability for years.
That includes bloodshed in the years immediately after Saddam's capture over a decade ago. Still, one difference between then and now is the Iraqi government had help from U.S.-led forces at that time.
Now, after a brief lull, the unrest has picked up. The United Nations has said 2013 was the deadliest year in Iraq since 2008, with more than 8,800 people killed -- most of them civilians. Nearly 500,000 people are estimated to have been displaced this year in fighting, primarily in Anbar province.
Radical Islamists on the move
While sectarian strife is largely to blame, there's no doubt that radical Islamists increasingly flexed their muscles and expanded their reach in recent months.
Formost among them is ISIS, which has wrested control of Iraqi cities like Falluja and parts of Ramadi as well as of Syrian towns just over the border. It has done so by exploiting the weakness of Iraq's central Shiite-dominated government, says CNN's Nic Robertson, as it has done in Mosul.
"It is considered too radical even for al Qaeda and, in the past months, has withstood and emerged from a jihadist backlash from its erstwhile radical Islamist allies in Syria's civil war," Robertson said. "Mosul ... has made them the single most dangerous, destabilizing radical group in the region, something al-Maliki's government seems ill-equipped to deal with."
The fall of Mosul -- a predominantly Sunni city with a population of about 1.6 million -- would be a blow to the central government, which is already struggling to contain an insurgency in central Anbar province.
Mosul, about 560 kilometers (350 miles) northwest of Baghdad, was once called the last stronghold of al Qaeda in Iraq by the U.S. military, and at the height of the Iraq war, it was considered one of the main entry points for foreign fighters coming into the country by way of Syria.
The security forces, particularly police, have not always been trusted in Mosul. In 2004, thousands of police officers fled their posts amid the Sunni insurgency, leaving U.S. and Kurdish forces to fight to keep control of the city.
This time around, Jala Abdulrahman saw no sign of government authorities in his Mosul neighborhood, prompting him to flee along with his wife, three children and other family members.
"Gunmen are everywhere in my neighborhood," he told CNN by telephone. "...Where are the Iraqi army and police? Where are the politicians that we trusted and voted for?"
By late Tuesday, Abdulrahman and his family were among hundreds waiting at a checkpoint on the road between Mosul and the Erbil, the capital of Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdish region.
Um Ahmed decided to drive out of Mosul at dawn with her three daughters and two sons. She wasn't taking any chances, especially knowing how gunmen killed her husband outside of a mosque in Mosul a few years ago.
"I left everything behind, and I don't know how long it will take to return back to our home," she said.
Al-Maslawi, the Mosul resident, said that while government forces were absent, ISIS fighters seemed to be in control. Members of the group even urged mobs trying to flee toward Kurdistan to go back home, he said.
"'We will not hurt anyone,'" al-Maslawi said of what ISIS members were saying. "'We have liberated the city of Mosul from al-Maliki forces ... We are running this city, and tomorrow all (businesses) need to be reopened.'
Speaker points finger at security forces
Turkey has become part of the story in Mosul as well, with the Turkish Foreign Ministry reporting fighting near its consulate in the city and noting reports that militants abducted 28 Turkish truck drivers hauling fuel.
The drivers were en route from Iskenderun, Turkey, to an electrical plant outside of Mosul. According to the Turkish Foreign Ministry, when the drivers arrived at the plant, ISIS fighters grabbed them.
Earlier, the speaker of Iraq's parliament said that a "foreign invasion" of the country was under way by "terrorist groups" and that the northern province of Nineveh, of which Mosul is the capital, was under "total occupation."
Speaking at a news conference in Baghdad, Osama al-Nujaifi appeared to point the finger at the central government, accusing security forces of abandoning Mosul when the fighting began.
Al-Nujaifi said security forces "abandoned their weapons, their tanks and their bases and left them to terrorist groups, even Mosul airport." He also said gunmen had taken over ammunition storage facilities.
The speaker, whose brother Atheel al-Nujaifi is the governor of Nineveh province, said the central government had been warned over the past few weeks that militant groups were gathering but had taken no preventive action.
"It will not stop at the borders of Nineveh but will reach all of Iraq," he said.
Also criticizing the central government was Nechirvan Barzani, the prime minister of Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region, who blamed security forces for allowing militants to take control of portions of Mosul.
"Over the last two days, we tried extremely hard to establish cooperation with the Iraqi security forces in order to protect the city of Mosul. Tragically, Baghdad adopted a position which has prevented the establishment of this cooperation," he said in a written statement.
While Iraq's defense and interior ministries didn't release statements Tuesday about the situation in Mosul, the country's most influential Shiite cleric expressed support for their efforts.
"Religious authority stresses that Iraqi government and other political leaders need to unify and strengthen its efforts to stand up to the terrorists and to provide protection to citizens," said Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani.


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Unlike the Super Bowl, when the lights go out in "The Birthday Party," the play goes on.
And if you think that makes it tough to tell what exactly is happening in Harold Pinter's deliberately disjointed drama, it doesn't get much easier in the full bright lights of the new center-placed stage at Steppenwolf's Upstairs Theatre.
"The Birthday Party"★ ★ ★
Location: Steppenwolf's Upstairs Theatre, 1650 N. Halsted St., Chicago, (312) 335-1650, steppenwolf.org
Showtimes: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday, 3 p.m. Sunday; through April 28
Tickets: $20-$78
Parking: Metered street parking and a pay garage.
Rating: For adults; features suggestive language and sophisticated themes
Yet Pinter's work has been a constant at Steppenwolf over the years, as the theater company's physicality has served to complement the playwright's head games, and that goes for the current production of Pinter's first full-length play as well.
This drama doesn't have a plot, nor the time shuffling of his later works, so much as it deals in emotional states, both in the characters and in their effect on the audience. It rings of Beckett in that regard, so it's apropos that Ian Barford and Francis Guinan are reunited from their earlier teaming in "Endgame."
Things get started with Steppenwolf stalwarts John Mahoney and Moira Harris as Petey and Meg, who run a humdrum boardinghouse in a British seaside resort. Unaffectionate as their relationship might seem, with the batty Meg serving a makeshift breakfast to Petey on his way out to work as a deck-chair attendant, they form something of a family unit with Barford's Stanley, a former concert pianist (or is that just one of his many delusions?) who's been holed up with them for a year.
Stanley is one of Barford's trademark lantern-jawed louts, and his relationship with Meg is never really clear, never more so than when he's calling her "succulent."
Yet things only get creepier when Guinan's Goldberg arrives with Marc Grapey's McCann, saying, "This is the house." The air of disturbing, disquieting menace is hardly tempered by Sophia Sinise's Lulu, who tells Stanley he could use a wash, only to have him reply, "It wouldn't make any difference."
The play keeps hinting that Stanley is headed for death. He has a hard time waking up in the first act, and in the second, which contains the title event, Goldberg says of the unpleasant waking hours: "What are you but a corpse waiting to be washed?" When he later asks Stanley what name he's going under now, Stanley replies, "Joe Soap."
Nothing ever really adds up in this play. It's just moments and characters played for effect. Even the familiar trope of an interrogation scene between Goldberg and McCann on one side and Stanley on the other is disjointed. Stanley can't even get off a reply to, "Why did the chicken cross the road?"
"I trust you," Lulu later tells Goldberg.
"Gesundheit," he replies.
Somehow, however, this play packs a punch, especially as delivered by Steppenwolf. Guinan is smoothly sinister in a Sydney Greenstreet manner as Goldberg, and Grapey has a rodent's profile that suits his predatory character well. Mahoney is excellent as ever, and even Harris' distant demeanor seems right for Meg. Steppenwolf baby Sinise (yes, daughter of Gary and playing alongside her mother, Harris) is born to the stage. If Barford's Stanley doesn't quite hold the play together at the center, perhaps that's because Pinter doesn't intend it to hold together and denies it has a true center at all.
Again unlike the Super Bowl, when the play ends there is no clear winner or loser, no tangible tally of a final score. It's simply over, with nothing but "Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral" to comfort the audience. It's small solace.

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Tokyo Disney Resort
Chiba (prefecture) : Tokyo Disney Resort
Tokyo Disney Resort (東京ディズニーリゾート) [15] in Chiba, Japan, was the first Disney theme park resort to open outside of the United States. It is by far the third most annually-visited theme park complex in the world, behind Walt Disney World and the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California. It is noteworthy that it is not owned by Disney but by the Oriental Land Co., Ltd.
Tokyo Disney Resort consists of two theme parks. Tokyo Disneyland (東京ディズニーランド), a "Magic Kingdom" park just like all the others, was the first Disney theme park to be built on non-U.S. territory. The park opened in April 1983 (but had been finished for a few months and the company waited for better weather) and was an instant success. Tokyo Disneyland's sister park Tokyo DisneySea (東京ディズニーシー), which opened in September 2001, is an ocean-themed park exclusive to Japan. With 17.3 million visits in 2014, Tokyo Disneyland is the second most visited theme park in the world behind Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom; DisneySea follows in fourth place behind the original Disneyland with 14.1 million visits.
Tokyo Disney Resort also includes the Ikspiari (イクスピアリ) shopping and entertainment complex. On October 1, 2008, Montreal-based Cirque du Soleil unveiled ZED, its first permanent show in Japan, at Tokyo Disney Resort.
Tokyo Disney Resort is something different from all the other Disney parks. People are more friendly, but you notice all the time that you are in the largest city on Earth when you are wandering, amazed at the fantastic shows and rides in both parks, as it is very crowded and you can expect huge queues even for the smallest attraction on a normal day.
This is no Walt Disney World; in other words, it is small and can be easily tackled in about two or three days, maybe more. Still, whatever effort you place into coming here is well worth it if you like Disney stuff.
Japanese is the primary language spoken here. However, assistance for English speakers is also widely available, because of the presence of American and other foreign cast members. Chinese and Korean are also spoken to a lesser extent. Still, English is not very popular in Japan, even here.
Do not expect all cast members (ride attendants) to speak English. Most communication when getting on and off rides is done by finger symbols, which seem to be standardised across all attractions.
Maps are available in Japanese, English, Korean, and Chinese. (The English map will work fine.) All the maps do a very good job of letting you know how to get around. The Japanese maps, however, are a little bit more informative. They include highlights on some of the special events going on in the park, including special food menus and merchandise, most of which can be had for only a limited amount of time.
They also sort the restaurants, shops and shows into different categories. If you know katakana, hiragana, and a little bit of kanji, this might also be a helpful resource. Nearly any park attendant should have maps available if you lose your map or forget to pick one up.
Some rides like the Jungle Cruise are rendered almost meaningless to non-Japanese speakers. You can try and laugh along to avoid embarrassment if you like. Some other attractions, like MicroAdventure! (known as "Honey, I Shrunk The Audience" at Disney's American parks) have English translations with headphones in the back row: make sure you get to the front of the queue or you may miss out on yours.
Special stage shows may be entirely in Japanese, entirely in English, or in a mixture of both. It is difficult to ascertain what language a show will be in or whether translations are provided before you get to see it. Signs in English outside a show are no guarantee that it will be in English or that translations will be provided.
Get in[edit]
By plane[edit]
Most international visitors would probably land at Narita International Airport (IATA: NRT) [16]. If you have a Mickey Mouse urge right upon landing, there are buses operated by Airport Limousine [17], albeit infrequent, that will bring you to Tokyo Disney Resort in 60-90 min at a cost of ¥2400 (children ¥1200). The alternative by rail is to take the Narita Express to Tokyo and transfer to the JR Keiyo Line. The ride takes 90-100 min and costs ¥2570 or can be boarded free with the Japan Rail Pass.
Tokyo International Airport (IATA: HND) [18], also known as Haneda Airport, is the closest airport to Tokyo Disney Resort and mainly serves domestic flights. Haneda also has a few international flights to Seoul-Gimpo, Shanghai-Hongqiao, Beijing, and Hong Kong. There are more buses [19], also operated by Airport Limousine, that run to the resort 3 to 5 times per hour. The one-way cost is ¥810 (children ¥405) and the ride takes 50-70 min.
The rail alternative from Haneda is cheaper than the bus, but you will need to take three trains: Keikyu Express Line (from Haneda Airport to Shinagawa) or the Tokyo Monorail (from Haneda Airport to Hamamatsucho), JR Yamanote Line (from Shinagawa/Hamamatsucho to Tokyo), and finally JR Keiyo Line (from Tokyo to Maihama). This costs ¥690 via Keikyu, or ¥760 via the Tokyo Monorail, and will take about 1 hour.
By train[edit]
As with virtually all of the rest of Japan, the most practical way of getting to Tokyo Disney Resort is by train. Tokyo Station is the western terminus of the JR Keiyo Line, and Maihama (舞浜), which is adjacent to the park, is the sixth stop east. The ride costs ¥210 and takes about 15 min on an express train.
As you exit JR Maihama Station, the Tokyo Disney Resort Welcome Center is immediately to your left. If you will be staying at one of the Disney Hotels or the Tokyo Disney Resort Official Hotels (see Sleep below), this is where you check in, and your luggage will be shipped straight to your room for free while you enjoy the parks. The Welcome Center is also the place to purchase park tickets, the Resort Gateway Station of the Disney Resort Line monorail (see Get around below) is located above the center, and the entrance to Ikspiari is nearby.
By car[edit]
From the Tokyo/Yokohama region, follow the coast of Tokyo Bay to Chiba, exit at the Urayasu ramp and then go out at Route 357, go straight on the road about 1 km, and make a U-turn at Mihama Rittai Road (美浜立体道路). There are signs in both Japanese and English from the freeway and surrounding roads.
Tokyo Disney Resort has ample parking spaces, but be aware that parking at the two theme parks is ¥2,000 per day for passenger cars, ¥4,500 for buses, and ¥500 for motorcycles. For more information about the car park and traffic in the surrounding area, call the Tokyo Disney Resort information line: 81-045-683-3011.
Parking at the Ikspiari shopping, dining, and entertainment complex is ¥500 for the first hour and ¥250 for each additional half-hour. You will get two hours of free parking with a purchase of ¥3,000 or more at any Ikspiari shop or restaurant and three hours of free parking if you see a movie at AMC Ikspiari.
The three Disney Hotels charge a per-night fee for the use of their parking facilities, costing ¥1,000 per night at Disney Ambassador Hotel, and ¥1,500 per night at Tokyo Disneyland Hotel and Tokyo DisneySea Hotel MiraCosta.
By bus[edit]
Most visitors will have little reason to travel to Tokyo Disney Resort by bus, due to the more convenient JR Keiyo Line. However, some hotels around Tokyo Disney Resort have free transportation service to the resort.
Long-distance bus services come here from all over Japan, but the Shinkansen is much easier to use by non-native speakers of Japanese or persons who do not understand the language and also much faster.
Ticket prices seem decent by Japanese standards, but visiting Tokyo Disney Resort is really about as equally expensive as visiting any of the other Disney theme parks around the world. Children aged 3 and under are admitted free.
Get around[edit]
A car is not necessary for visiting Tokyo Disney Resort. The resort has a well-developed transit system of buses and monorails. As with the rest of Japan, expect the transportation to be punctual.
By monorail[edit]
The four-station Disney Resort Line monorail, with its spacious interiors and Mickey Mouse-shaped windows and pull straps, travels in a counterclockwise circle around the two theme parks. The stops are, in order, Resort Gateway Station (between JR Maihama Station and Ikspiari), Tokyo Disneyland, Bayside Station (gateway to the Tokyo Disney Resort Official Hotels), and Tokyo DisneySea.
The fares are listed in the chart below; children age 5 and under ride free. Suica and PASMO farecards can also be used.
By foot[edit]
If you are going straight to the parks from Maihama Station, it is probably easier and faster (and best of all, free) to just walk from the station. There is an elevated walkway, about 1,090 ft (330 m) long, linking the station with the Tokyo Disneyland entrance. To get to Tokyo DisneySea, it is about a fifteen minute walk in the opposite direction. Simply walk along the wide tree-lined footpath in front of Ikspiari, then turn right and follow the monorail line after you pass under it, and enter via the pedestrian entrance to the bus dropoff area.
By bus[edit]
The Disney Resort Cruiser is a free bus service.
See and Do[edit]
If you can, it is a good idea to get a map ahead of time and plan out what rides and attractions you would like to get to first. Like any other large amusement park, Tokyo Disney Resort can be quite crowded. Even on weekdays, there can be a large amount of people in the park and if you want to maximize your experience, it's best to have at least an idea of what you would like to do before you get there. It may even get you on one or two more attractions. If a physical map cannot be had ahead of time, the park website is just as good, if not better.
The Parks[edit]
The two theme parks, Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea, complement each other. The two major symbols, Cinderella Castle at Disneyland and Mount Prometheus at DisneySea, are exactly the same height, and from Ikspiari you can see them both.
Before you reach the ticket counters, your bag will be inspected by a clerk, but you do not need to show your ID card. Generally, the check is very brief and not at all thorough. At the ticket counter, you will not need to show any ID either. While not everyone speaks English fluently, most employees understand enough to get you the basics. You will receive a receipt, your passport (ticket) and a map.
Tokyo Disney Resort uses a time-saving tool called FastPass, available only for the most popular rides. Simply insert your ticket into a machine at the ride, and you'll get a FastPass ticket with a return time printed on it. If you return to the ride during the time on the FastPass (usually a time frame of an hour), you will have a shorter wait for the ride. You can have only one FastPass at a time, you can't FastPass another ride until two hours after you received your last FastPass. It's a good idea to always get your next FastPass when it becomes available. If you wish to use FastPass, you need to do so as early as possible. Even on regular working days most attractions have given away all FastPasses for the day around noon. They cover the machines afterward and then you will have no choice but to stand in the long lines.
Visit the Screening Room [21] on Tokyo Disney Resort's website for a collection of short videos showing all of the attractions in both parks.
Tokyo Disneyland[edit]
Tokyo Disneyland [22] is a "Magic Kingdom" park just like all the others. Fans of Walt Disney World Resort's Magic Kingdom may be a little bit disappointed, as the layout is nearly identical, right down to Cinderella Castle.
The seven theme lands of Tokyo Disneyland are, starting from the main entrance and going clockwise around Cinderella Castle, World Bazaar (it's known as Main Street, USA everywhere else; and this version is covered by a Victorian-style iron-and-glass canopy), Adventureland, Westernland, Critter Country, Fantasyland, Toontown, and Tomorrowland. With just a solitary exception, the attractions are essentially the same as those found everywhere else.
Tokyo DisneySea[edit]
Tokyo DisneySea [23], which opened in 2001, is an ocean-themed park exclusive to Japan. Like Tokyo Disneyland, it is arranged in a circle around a central landmark, in this case Mount Prometheus, an artificial volcano that "erupts" intermittently. There are a couple of rides that have a water spray, but you shouldn't expect to get too wet.
Starting from the main entrance and going clockwise around Mount Prometheus, the seven theme "ports of call" are Meditterranean Harbor (a reproduction of Venice), American Waterfront (a reproduction of the Eastern Seaboard of the United States), Port Discovery (a science-themed area), Lost River Delta (a reproduction of a tropical rain forest), Arabian Coast (based on Disney's Aladdin), Mermaid Lagoon (based on Disney's The Little Mermaid) and Mysterious Island (based on the books of Jules Verne).
Aside from the Tower of Terror (which can also be found at Disney's Hollywood Studios, Disney's California Adventure, and Walt Disney Studios Paris) in American Waterfront and the Indiana Jones Adventure (which can also be found at the original Disneyland in California) in Lost River Delta, all of the attractions in DisneySea are unique to Japan.
Cirque du Soleil Theatre Tokyo[edit]
Zed was retired December 2011. [24] Located between Disney Ambassador Hotel and the beamway of the Disney Resort Line monorail, the theatre is home to ZED [25], Cirque du Soleil's first permanent show in Japan.
ZED ticket prices[edit]
Seating chart: [26]
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The World Bazaar, Tokyo Disneyland's entrance area, is anchored by the Grand Emporium, which can be seen to your right immediately after you have entered the park. This is the largest store in the park with over 3,000 different types of merchandise.
The largest store in Tokyo DisneySea is Emporio which anchors Mediterranean Harbor. Other notable shops are McDuck's Department Store in American Waterfront; and The Sleepy Whale Shoppe, Mermaid Treasures, and Kiss de Girl Fashions, three interconnecting shops in Mermaid Lagoon.
Ikspiari [27], pronounced like "experience" without the last syllable, is Japan's answer to Walt Disney World's Downtown Disney, with more than 140 stores and restaurants, and a 16-screen movie theatre. It's no surprise that there is a Disney Store here, by the way.
Bon Voyage, shaped like a giant suitcase and hatbox and conveniently located on the elevated walkway linking JR Maihama Station with Tokyo Disneyland's entrance, is the answer to the World of Disney stores in Florida and California, which essentially are Disney Stores on steroids. Inside, you'll find the grandest selection of Disney merchandise available under one roof anywhere in Japan.
Major credit cards are accepted nearly everywhere. Remember that American cards allow only a one charge purchase, meaning that a ¥10,000 purchase will be charged once, instead of ¥5,000 now and ¥5,000 next month. (This system allows the Japanese to keep their interest low.) Employees will ask you (sometimes) if you want to be charged once. Say yes and the transaction will go smoothly, but say no and you will double your time at the counter.
If you haven't brought enough money, there is one ATM at each park entrance (at the information desk). But only Japanese cards will work in these ATMs. At Ikspiari, there is an international ATM on level 2F near "Local Motion".
Eat[edit][add listing]
If you are arriving by car/bus you may consider having a cooler in the car and having a picnic. If you decide to eat in the park, scout out the restaurants before you intend on eating. This will give you a better idea of their menus and the fastest way to get there when it is time to eat.
In the parks[edit]
Most dining opportunities in the two theme parks are counter service restaurants, most of which serve Western, Japanese, or Chinese cuisine. If you really want to save cash, though, your best bet may be to stick to the many snack carts scattered all throughout the parks.
Table service restaurants are also found in the parks but are far less common than counter service restaurants. The finest in-park table service can perhaps be found on board the SS Columbia, the fake ocean liner in Tokyo DisneySea's American Waterfront.
The Crystal Palace, located on the World Bazaar/Adventureland walkway, is the only buffet in Tokyo Disneyland. Its Tokyo DisneySea counterpart is the Sailing Day Buffet, located in the "cargo terminal" adjacent to the SS Columbia.
Tokyo Disneyland has one buffeteria (Queen of Hearts Banquet Hall in Fantasyland), and Tokyo DisneySea has three (Cafe Portofino in Mediterreanean Harbor, Horizon Bay in Port Discovery, and Vulcania in Mysterious Island).
Priority Seating[edit]
Tokyo Disney Resort's restaurants do not accept reservations per se. A Priority Seating booking is essentially a restaurant FastPass. When you make a Priority Seating booking, you will receive a designated time to return to the restaurant, and you will then be seated with a minimal wait. Note that waiting times may vary, especially during peak periods.
Keep in mind that Priority Seating bookings will be held for no more than 15 min past your designated time frame for a restaurant in either of the two theme parks and no more than 10 min for a restaurant in any one of the three Disney Hotels. Also, that capacity is limited and bookings tend to fill up early, and that there may be times when Priority Seating bookings are not available.
Priority Seating may be booked through the Tokyo Disney Resort Reservation Center at +81-45-683-3333.
Priority Seating is accepted at the following in-park restaurants:
Tokyo Disneyland[edit]
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At Ikspiari[edit]
Ikspiari has a broad range of dining options, one of which is Japan's only Rainforest Cafe.
Drink[edit][add listing]
Most drinks are soft drinks. Coca-Cola and Kirin sponsor attractions, and are the main soft drinks to be found. Mets (Kirin's "diet" brand) beverages may also be found, in a few limited cases.
Alcoholic beverages are available at 16 restaurants in Tokyo DisneySea. [30] Keep in mind that, under Japanese law, persons under 20 and those who plan to drive a car are prohibited from consuming alcohol.
Sleep[edit][add listing]
Tokyo Disney Resort's combined reservations number is 81-045-683-3333, and is open 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM (visit TimeAndDate.com to find the local time in Tokyo: [31]).
Online reservations and contact information are available at official websites.
Within the resort[edit]
There are nine hotels within the resort, all rather expensive.
Disney Hotels[edit]
Official Hotels[edit]
These hotels are accessed by taking the free Disney Resort Cruiser bus service from Bayside Station on the Disney Resort Line monorail (see Get around above).
Outside the resort[edit]
Because of the excellent connection to Tokyo Station, you do not necessarily need to stay in an on-site hotel. Cheaper accommodations off-site do exist, and arriving at the park when it opens is still easily possible.
Partner Hotels[edit]
The Tokyo Disney Resort Partner Hotels Program is made up of five hotels located in the Shin-Urayasu area right next to the resort. All of these hotels are located within 1-2 km of JR Shin-Urayasu Station, from which Maihama is the first stop in the direction of Tokyo Station. For some it may be easier to get the complimentary shuttle service that runs frequently to and from the Disneyland park entrance.
Good Neighbor Hotels[edit]
There are 15 designated Good Neighbor Hotels [32] around Tokyo and Chiba that offer free shuttle bus transfers to and from Tokyo Disney Resort.
Stay safe[edit]
Get out[edit]
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KLRU and the Center for Public Policy Priorities present an evening focusing on families and the economy
DATE: Thursday, December 6th
TIMES: 6:30 pm doors; 7pm documentary screening; 7:30 pm townhall discussion/taping
LOCATION: KLRU's Studio 6A (map)
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First watch the documentary "Fighting Chance" and then participate in a community discussion about families and poverty to be broadcast on KLRU Decmeber 13 at 8:30 pm.
What does it take for a family to survive and thrive in Texas? "Fighting Chance" follows the lives of five families and shows the tough choices they must make — sacrifices that most Texans could not imagine. Their journeys are chronicled as they fight to meet their most basic needs. The realities of poverty are exposed and common assumptions are challenged as to what it takes to survive.
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- Frances Deviney, Ph.D. Senior Research Associate, Center for Public Policy Priorities
- Moderated by Sherri Greenberg Director, Center for Politics and Governance at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin
- Garnet Coleman, State Representative from Houston and Chairman of the County Affairs Committee
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Pacific Investment Management Co.'s short-term junk-bond exchange-traded fund reported a record volume of deposits the same day State Street Corp.'s $11.6 billion ETF saw a $378 million outflow.
Pimco's 0-5 Year High Yield Corporate Bond ETF, which has amassed $1.2 billion of assets since its June 2011 inception, reported $204.1 million of inflows on April 8, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. That's the same day the SPDR Barclays High Yield Bond ETF recorded its second-biggest daily redemption since its inception more than five years ago, equal to about $378 million worth of shares.
Pimco, manager of the world's biggest bond fund, is attracting investors to its ETF, which focuses on debt that's less sensitive to rising interest rates, with high-yield bonds that mature in five or fewer years poised to outperform dollar- denominated notes on average for the first time since 2008.
Institutional investors are using the funds to make wagers on a market that typically trades off exchanges in over-the- counter transactions as they seek to insulate their investments from interest rates rising from record lows.
"You're going to see more of these block trades happening here because it's replacing the credit-default swaps to some degree," said Peter Tchir, founder of New York-based TF Market Advisors. "People are starting to use it as a way to short blocks of ETFs and then do the exchange."
The biggest withdrawal from State Street's fund, which trades under the ticker JNK, happened in May 2012, when an investor used the fund to anonymously obtain almost $780 million of speculative-grade bonds without moving prices in the secondary market.
The investor on May 10 exchanged as much as 19.7 million shares in State Street's ETF for the equivalent of about $779.3 million in bonds held by the fund, Bloomberg data show.
Investors withdrew 9.25 million shares from the SPDR Barclays High Yield Bond ETF, according to data reported on April 8 compiled by Bloomberg. The fund's share price has declined 0.44 percent this month, while the average price on the Bank of America Merrill Lynch U.S. High Yield index rose 0.04 percent.
ETF shares trade like stocks on exchanges, allowing investors from hedge funds to retirees to slip in and out of dollar-denominated junk bonds that have gained an annual average of 21 percent since 2008.
The funds generally don't buy securities directly when they receive inflows or sell them to meet outflow requests. Instead, an authorized participant receives cash from investors and uses it to buy securities in exchange for ETF shares. With redemption requests, the approved participant returns shares to an ETF's fund manager and receives securities.
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UEFA president Michel Platini says he has no regrets about supporting Qatar's bid for the 2022 World Cup - but says there should be a re-vote and sanctions if corruption is proved.
Platini's name has been dragged into the furore surrounding payments authorised by former FIFA member Mohamed Bin Hammam to officials in Africa, allegedly to gain support for Qatar's bid.
The UEFA chief however believes he is the target of a plot to discredit him and said he has been hurt by some reports.
He said in an interview with French newspaper L'Equipe: "I have no regrets at all (voting for Qatar). I think it was the right choice for FIFA and world football. But if corruption is proven, there will need to be a new vote and sanctions."
Asked about the attacks on him, he added: "Behind it all, there is someone, something, people who are organising all this. I can sense it. But I don't work like that. I think about football. Some people think about something else."
Asked if FIFA might be behind these attacks - he is deciding whether to run for the FIFA presidency next year, Platini added: "I don't have any proof whatsoever. Especially as I don't play at that level. I'm not corrupt, my aim is not to hurt people. I don't know who is behind it all.
"But I think there are lots of interests at stake, for people at FIFA, for people who want to go there and for people who are hoping to be there one day. And no doubt there are also interests of some parties who sell and buy TV rights who want to review the awarding of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar. I seem to be the person who is upsetting them. And who can upset them. It's getting a bit much.
"But when I am under attack, I become much stronger and more determined. But that won't affect my decision. I said I would make an announcement after the World Cup and I will stick to that."
Platini added that he did not believe any FIFA members were paid to vote for Qatar but that he would wait for the outcome of ethics investigator Michael Garcia's investigation.
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In-form Leicester made it four wins in their last five npower Championship matches as skipper Andy King's 11th goal of the season gave them a 1-0 win at Sheffield United.
Wales midfielder King scored the only goal of the game at struggling Sheffield United to ensure boss Sven-Goran Eriksson's target of achieving automatic promotion might not be as optimistic as it first sounded.
Defeat was harsh on the Blades, who were on top for the majority of the game but were once again made to pay for some poor finishing, with Foxes goalkeeper Chris Weale also in outstanding form.
United boss Micky Adams is still yet to taste victory since being appointed in December but he will take heart from this performance against his former club.
Leicester stunned the Bramall Lane faithful by open the scoring just three minutes in when Ayegbeni Yakubu slipped but prodded the ball into the path of the onrushing King, who lifted the ball over Steve Simonsen with a neat left-foot finish.
The Blades responded and skipper Nick Montgomerie must have thought his venomous long-range drive was heading for the top corner until Weale intervened with a fine fingertip save.
There was a blow for United 28 minutes in when former Foxes left-back Joe Mattock appeared to get his left foot stuck in the turf and went down in agony.
Mattock, who was given a rough ride by the travelling supporters before sustaining the injury and while he was receiving treatment, was carried off with what appeared to be a serious injury.
The home side could count themselves unfortunate not to be level when midfielder Lee Williamson's measured free-kick came back off the post five minutes before half-time.
Elian Parrino also came close just before the break as United pressed for an equaliser.
Marcus Bent missed a golden opportunity to score his first goal since rejoining the Blades nine minutes into the second half, with the much-travelled striker blazing over the crossbar from just six yards out.
Leicester were riding their luck and the Blades felt they should have been awarded a penalty when the ball appeared to strike Yuki Abe's arm but the referee waved play on.
United remained on the front foot and the unmarked Shane Lowry rose to meet a Mark Yeates corner but headed wastefully over the bar from eight yards out.
It was all one-way traffic and Lowry fired over the bar when the ball fell nicely for him 12 minutes from time.
Parrino had a header cleared off the line a minute from time and Weale made an outstanding defender to deny Parrino once again in stoppage time as the Foxes somehow hung on for all three points.
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360-FAAR (Firewall Analysis Audit and Repair) is an offline, command line, Perl firewall policy manipulation tool to filter, compare to logs, merge, translate, and output firewall commands for new policies, in Checkpoint dbedit, Cisco ASA, or ScreenOS commands. It is all contained in one file. It can read policy and logs for: Checkpoint FW1 (in odumper.csv / logexport format), Netscreen ScreenOS (in get config / syslog format), and Cisco ASA (show run / syslog format). It uses both inclusive and exclusive CIDR and text filters, permitting you to split large policies into smaller ones for virutalization at the same time as removing unused connectivity. It supports policy to log association, object translation, rulebase reordering and simplification, rule moves, and duplicate matching automatically. It allows you to seamlessly move rules to where you need them. 'print' mode creates a spreadsheet for your audit needs with one command.
The Analysis Console for Intrusion Databases (ACID) is a PHP-based analysis engine to search and process a database of incidents generated by security-related software such as IDSes and firewalls (e.g., Snort or ipchains). It provides a search interface for finding alerts matching practically any criteria. This includes arrival time, signature time, source/dest address/port, flags, payload, etc. ACID also provides the ability to annotate and logically group related events, delete false positives, or archive alerts among databases. Finally, a variety of statistics and graphs can be generated based on time, IP address, ports, alert classification, and sensor.
This is a set of Linux drivers for the ACP modem (Mwave), a WinModem. It is composed of a loadable kernel module and a user level application. Together these components support direct attachment to public switched telephone networks (PSTNs) and support selected world wide countries. This driver provides support for the IBM ThinkPad 600E. The modem also supports the standard communications port interface (ttySx) and is compatible with the Hayes AT Command Set.
ADMLogger is a log analyzing engine. Using this core, users could easily build upon it with plugins. With very little Perl programming knowledge, it may become a powerful tool in a System Administrator's toolbox. ADMLogger creates email reports that can be formatted plain text or full HTML, which is up to the plugin designers to support. The main system has an HTML preference, so if your plugin ignores it, so be it. ADMLogger will also remove all filtered entries from the main syslog file into a second file so your other entries are more noticable.


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Garden Tortellini Primavera Recipe
This is a great dish which uses delicious summer squash and zucchini from the garden. It is very easy to make and tastes wonderful.—Mary Ann Dell, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
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- 1 package (9 ounces) refrigerated cheese tortellini
- 2 medium yellow summer squash, chopped
- 2 medium zucchini, chopped
- 2 teaspoons olive oil
- 1 pint cherry tomatoes, halved
- 1/2 cup chopped green onions
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1/2 cup fat-free creamy Caesar salad dressing
- 1/4 cup shredded Parmesan cheese
- 1/4 cup sliced almonds, toasted
- Cook tortellini according to package directions. Meanwhile, in a large skillet, saute yellow squash and zucchini in oil for 4-6 minutes or until crisp-tender.
- Drain tortellini; transfer to a large bowl. Add the squash mixture, tomatoes, onions and pepper. Drizzle with salad dressing; toss to coat. Sprinkle with cheese and almonds. Yield: 6 servings.
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No more military action. As much as I love this country and love what it used to stand for, we cannot be the world's police; it is a system that is unsustainable (i.e., ancient Rome).
We can, however, once again become the world's best example for freedom – the country that, just to get here, men and women in places like Cuba get on a raft and risk getting eaten by sharks.
It is time for America to lead by example, not by might.


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FAO Director-General meets with Iran's Minister for Jihad-e-Agriculture
27 February 2014, Rome – FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva met with Iran's Minister for Jihad-e-Agriculture, Mahmoud Hojjati, at FAO headquarters today.
The two leaders discussed issues of mutual interest for FAO and the country and agreed to step up the implementation phase of a range of projects. "Iran has great expertise in many areas that it could share with the region," said the FAO chief.
Graziano da Silva highlighted the fisheries sector and South-South Cooperation as two of the main areas of collaboration to explore. Minister Hojjati noted that he shares the Director-General's view on South-South Cooperation and explained that he would be interested in setting up a centre for knowledge transfer.
"Iran has inmense experience and great achievements and I have offered Iran's support to FAO in implementing regional priorities," the Minister added.
The Minister especially thanked FAO for its response to the critical issue of oak dieback in Zagros forest in Iran, where the Organization's expertise played a fundamental role.
The principals also discussed the peaceful use of nuclear power in agriculture, namely for insect sterilization purposes and for drought resistance enhancement.
The Minister underlined that the joint work of FAO, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) would be a significant contribution to agricultural development.
The Minister also advocated for an efficient use of fresh water resources. In that respect, Minister Hojjati expressed his hope for concrete resolutions on water scarcity initiatives from FAO's Near East Regional Conference, which was held in Rome. .
The Islamic Republic of Iran is one of the countries most affected by water scarcity, where fresh water represents only 1% of the available hydrological resources.
In the context of the International Year of Family Farming, the Minister mentioned that Iranian agriculture is mainly composed of family farms and underlined the need for concerted approaches to support them.
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SUDBURY — A fund has been established at a local bank to help the family of a local man stricken with Eastern Equine Encephalitis who was hospitalized and remains in critical condition.
The Scott Sgorbati Family Aid Fund was established last Friday at the National Bank of Middlebury to help the family of Sgorbati, one of two local men to contract EEE last month as the first human cases in the state. The other man, 87-year-old Richard Breen of Brandon, died of the disease on Sept. 4.
They were the first two EEE cases in Vermont.
MIDDLEBURY — The Addison County Regional Planning Commission will host a panel discussion on the threat posed by mosquito-borne diseases on Wednesday, Sept. 12, as part of its September monthly meeting.
WHITING/BRANDON — After lightning and bad weather forced Vermont Department of Health officials to cut short an effort last Thursday to spray pesticide over parts of Whiting and Brandon to kill mosquitoes carrying a deadly disease, they finished the job on Friday evening.
UPDATED: Spraying times announced.
WHITING/BRANDON — Vermont Department of Health officials this morning said that lightning and poor visibility made it impossible for them to fully complete the mosquito aerial spraying operation in Brandon and Whiting on Thursday evening.
Spraying of the pesticide Anvil 10+10 will continue tonight between 7:30 and 11 p.m. Officials hope to complete all spraying tonight.
BRANDON — One man is dead and another remains hospitalized after the first human cases of Eastern Equine Encephalitis virus in Vermont were detected in Brandon and Whiting on Saturday, and state officials are on the offensive.
Richard Hollis Breen, 87, of Brandon died Tuesday from the disease and a man from Sudbury remains hospitalized on Wednesday. Breen lived on the emu farm in Brandon where at least 16 emus died from the disease last September when EEE was for the first time detected in animals in the state.
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Today 25yrs ago I married my best friend in that time we have raised our family first and most important to us! loved, laughed & cried together, come though many tough and joyful times to discover who we are and what we mean to each other.... Dave you have always been there for me through everything, I know you have always thought the world of me even when I have struggled to think the world of myself. Ive lost count of the many bunches of red roses you have given me over the years but I'm sure if I'd saved them all it would of made one mad huge bag of potpourri! LOL
A few years back now I asked God in earnest why and how could you loved me so much..... and he said back to me clear as day, "because I gave him to you"! you are God given! and will always be the love of my life and my many words will never be able to describe how I truly feel towards you... I love you.... yours forever xxx
PS a little cake I made for the occasion:-)
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"Haven't you read," he replied, "that at the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female,' and said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh' ? So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate."
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The Luther women's tennis team continued its difficult schedule this spring with another match-up against a highly ranked foe. The Carleton Knights, ranked No. 5 in the Central Region and No. 25 in the nation, came to Decorah and defeated the Norse 9-0.
Cami Czech and Katie Howe played the closest match in doubles, falling (8-4) at No. 1 doubles to Kathryn Schmidt and Erin Gudul. Elise Allen and Katy Lindstrom dropped an (8-3) decision at No. 2 doubles to Bridget Doyle and Anne Lombardi. Both Knight duos are ranked in the top 15 of the latest Central Region Poll.
Carleton was also strong in singles, but the Norse received some positive showings along the way. Allen fought back from a 2-5 deficit in the second set, eventually losing to Doyle at No. 2 singles (6-1, 7-5). Howe performed well at No. 4, but lost (6-4, 6-2) to Gudul. Lindstrom had the longest singles match of the day, trading breaks with Molly Hemes throughout the match before losing (7-5, 6-4).
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VALUING DIVERSITY: Winifred Williams, MD, chair of the Diversity Awards Advisory Committee, Styer and Cho(Photo courtesy of Jeff Thiebauth)
Three MGHers have been awarded Harvard Medical School's Harold Amos Faculty Diversity Award: Aaron Styer, MD, associate director of the Basic Science Research Program for the Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Fellowship, Marcela del Carmen, MD, gynecologic oncologist – both in the MGH Vincent Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology – and Tracey Cho, MD, associate director of the Neurology-Infectious Diseases Program in the Department of Neurology.
The award is named for Professor Harold Amos, a renowned microbiologist, who was the first African-American department chair at Harvard Medical School and taught at the school for nearly 50 years. It was established to recognize individuals who promote diversity and have made significant achievements in moving the institution toward being a diverse and inclusive community.
"It is indeed an honor to be one of the recipients of the Amos Award," said del Carmen following the March 13 awards ceremony at Harvard Medical School. "I am grateful to Dr. Isaac Schiff (chief of the Vincent Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the department's leadership in their support of our diversity program and efforts."
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The Minnesota Timberwolves named Milt Newton their new general manager on Friday.
Newton succeeds Flip Saunders, and became the seventh man to hold the post in the 24-year history of the franchise. He will be formally introduced at a Tuesday press conference.
"We are pleased to add Milt Newton to our organization." said Saunders, Timberwolves president of basketball operations. "I have followed Milt closely during his career and have always been impressed with his basketball knowledge, work ethic and professionalism. His front office experience in the NBA, as well as his ability to combine analytics evaluation with his basketball playing and scouting background will greatly benefit our organization."
Newton spent the last 10 seasons with the Washington Wizards, most recently as the team's vice president of player personnel. Prior to that, he was instrumental in spearheading the creation of the NBA Developmental League, served for one year as a scout with the Philadelphia 76ers and was also the assistant director for the USA Basketball Men's National Team programs from 1995-99.
The native of the U.S. Virgin Islands who was raised in Washington DC, played at Kansas as a forward from 1985-89 and was a starter for the national champion squad in 1988. He played for Rockford and Grand Rapids in the Continental Basketball Association.


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Rolland Zimmerman, 90
Rolland Zimmerman, 90, of 3820 Hone-Weir Road in Celina, passed away at 1:55 p.m. Thursday, June 13, 2013, at Miller House, Celina. He was born on Jan. 19, 1923, in Celina, to the late Ralph and Elsie (Eichenauer) Zimmerman. On Sept. 14, 1945, he married Betty Lou Hays, who lives in Celina.
Also surviving are his son and daughter-in-law Craig and Carol Zimmerman, of Celina, three grandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his three brothers and sister-in-law, and his sister and brother-in-law.
He served his country in the United States Army during World War II with Company K Twenty Second Infantry Regiment Fourth Division.
Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday at the Lehman-Hogenkamp-Dzendzel Funeral Home in Celina with the Rev. John Exman officiating. Burial will follow in Swamp College Cemetery in Celina with military honors by the Celina American Legion Post #210 and the Celina VFW Post #5713.
Friends may call from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday and before 10:30 a.m. Monday at the Lehman-Hogenkamp-Dzendzel Funeral Home in Celina.
Memorial contribution may be made to the Bethany United Methodist Church Building Fund or State of the Heart Home Health and Hospice.
Condolences may be made at LHDFuneralHome.com.


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Swansea manager Michael Laudrup delighted to reach Capital One Cup final
Swansea manager Michael Laudrup was a happy man after guiding his side into the final of the Capital One Cup.
Last Updated: 24/01/13 8:28am
The Swans reached their first ever major final after drawing 0-0 with Chelsea in the second leg of their semi-final at the Liberty Stadium to win 2-0 on aggregate.
They will now take on League Two giantkillers Bradford City at Wembley on 24 February.
Laudrup said: "Over two legs we just beat the European champions from last season, not conceding even one goal. I think it is absolutely fantastic.
"It was a game that I expected. There were moments when we had possession and moments when they had it. There were moments when we had to defend deep because of their quality and moments of counter attacking.
"But actually I think we came very well into the game and had the first two chances. Wayne Routledge had the first one and the second was quite a big chance for Michu but Petr Cech is a very good goalkeeper so he saved that one.
"It was very nice and that gave me the confidence and belief that we were on the right track because we started so well.
"We can say that this final is between the small fairytale and the huge fairytale. If our position and place in the final is a small fairytale what can you say about Bradford?"
The game was overshadowed by the sending off of Chelsea winger Eden Hazard for kicking out at a ballboy, but Laudrup denied claims that the ballboy was acting on instructions from the club to hold up play.
"No, no. Definitely not," said the Dane. "I think he was pushed and on top of the ball. I can understand all the frustrations when you are behind.
"I saw it from a very big distance from the bench. I've since seen it after the game. Hazard is a great player. When he sees the images I think he will regret it."


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LAMAR - Colorado Parks and Wildlife is offering several free fishing clinics this spring in southeast Colorado.
"These events are a great way to get kids outside and trying something new," said Kevin Mahan, District Wildlife Manager in Lamar. "And who knows? It just might become a favorite hobby of theirs."
The fishing clinics are for those 15 years and younger. No registration is required and kids participating will receive a free fishing pole.
The clinics will cover tips on casting, bait fishing, water safety, fish identification and strategies for catching more fish.
Fishing clinics will be held at the following dates and locations:
Sat., May 31: 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. La Junta City Pond
Remember to pack snacks, water, a lawn chair, sunscreen and a hat.
For more information contact the Parks and Wildlife Lamar Service Center at (719) 336-6600.


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A gun shot was fired into a Hamburg home Saturday, and authorities are looking for a vehicle reported leaving the scene.
A gun shot was fired into a Hamburg home Saturday.
Fremont County Sheriff's Office received a 911 call from 3048 250th Ave., Hamburg shortly after midnight April 12 that shots had been fired at the residence.
The occupants of the home were sleeping when a bullet was fired from outside their home, entering the bedroom window and landing at the foot of their bed. A fired bullet was recovered from the home.
No injuries were reported.
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IN the world of pop music, no one cares about the backing band.
Who are those guys playing the instruments in the background while some popstar gets all the adulation? No one knows, but they're doing a lot of the hard work.
And every so often, the backing band goes on to big things or they're already a big thing.
Here are five famous bands who worked as backing bands at some point in their career.
The Flaming Lips
WHEN Beck released the album Sea Change in 2002, it was another curveball from the eclectic artist best known for the slacker anthem Loser and the classic cut-and-paste pop album Odelay. Sea Change dispensed with the oddball lyricism, threw away the funk of previous album MidniteVultures, and repainted indie icon as a sincere songwriter. To take the reinvention further, Beck decided to hire fellow alt-rock heroes The Flaming Lips as both his opening act and backing band on the US tour to promote the album. The performances were very well received, even if Beck was in danger of being out-personalitied by main Lips man Wayne Coyne. Although everyone looked to be having fun, Coyne was honest about Beck's diva-ish behaviour. "I don't really need people to drive me around town, when I check into a hotel I don't check out because of the way the pillows smell," NME reported Coyne saying. "He would take limousines when he could have just got in the van." Esquire Magazine, who followed the line-up on the road said it thusly: "Beck is the kind of guy who takes a limo and then worries about people knowing he takes a limo. Beck is the kind of guy who worries about this hotel room and walks out if he doesn't like the color of the walls."
But there is no bad blood, according to a Coyne interview with Contactmusic. "Beck didn't treat people badly, he was just so oblivious to other people's lives," he said. "None of it's horrible. He's not a Nazi or anything. He's just a little inconsiderate. To be considerate you have to have some idea of what's going on. I mean, we'd be set to rehearse from noon till midnight every day. And there'd be days when he wouldn't show up at all, and he doesn't call. I mean, we have cellphones. I still love his music and I still admire him, but there were days when you'd be like, 'if he does it one more time, we're all going home'."
FOR one show only, at Disneyland of all places, Eagles were the backing band for Linda Ronstadt. They weren't quite Eagles at that stage, but Ronstadt inadvertantly brought the four original members - Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Randy Meisner and Bernie Leadon - together to form that band, which would go on to become one of the biggest acts of the '70s. All four members played on Ronstadt's self-titled debut album, which was recorded in 1971, with Henley on drums and Frey on guitar, and Meisner and Leadon guesting as session musos. During their time as part of Ronstadt's huge revolving backing band and studio line-up (25 people played or sang on her record, not counting Ronstadt), the quartet formed a group and signed with David Geffen's fledling Asylum Records at Ronstadt's urgings. That Disneyland gig proved to be a defining moment and convinced Frey, Henley, Meisner and Leadon to form Eagles. They rehearsed for two weeks, went to see David Geffen, and he signed them to his fledgling label Asylum Records.
The Beatles
THIS year saw the 50th anniversary of the first Beatles single, Love Me Do, and while it may be the first record credited to the band, it's not the first single the Fab Four played on. That honour goes to the 1961 single My Bonnie, which featured The Beatles as the backing band for Tony Sheridan. During 1960 and 1961, The Beatles played regularly residencies in Hamburg, Germany, where they met English singer/guitarist Sheridan. As their friendship grew, The Beatles would occasionally back Sheridan at his gigs, or Sheridan would jump up and do a couple of songs with The Beatles at their gigs. In mid-1961, at the urging of the German arm of Polydor Records, The Beatles (then with Pete Best on drums) and Sheridan teamed up for a recording session. They cut seven tracks (five backing Sheridan and two without him), including a ramped-up version of the standard My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean. Released initially as My Bonnie by Tony Sheridan & The Beat Brothers ('Beatles' was apparently too close to a German slang word for 'penis') it was later re-released under The Beatles name to cash in on their increasing fame. The single made it into the top 30 in Australia, the top 5 in Germany and the top 50 in the UK. The Beatles would play as Tony Sheridan's backing band one more time - in April 1962 - to fulfil their contractual obligations with German Polydor, but there is some debate as to which songs recorded in that session The Beatles are actually playing on.
The Band
BEST known as Bob Dylan's backing group, The Band were already experienced sidemen before the artist formerly known as Robert Zimmerman came calling. Drummer/singer Levon Helm was originally a member of Canadian rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkins' backing band The Hawks, and one by one, Helm's future Band-mates became Hawks - bassist Rick Danko, keyboardist Garth Hudson, pianist Richard Manuel and guitarist Robbie Robertson were all poached from other bands to join Hawkins.
In 1964, they tired of Hawkins and went off to form their own group, known variously as Levon & The Hawks or Canadian Squires, but their time as a backing band was far from over because in mid-'65 Dylan came knockin' on their door. Most of The Hawks who were with Dylan on his debut electric world tour, including when he was famously called "Judas!" by the audience in Manchester. After the tour, Dylan was in a bad motorcycle accident and in the wake of his recovery, The Hawks moved nearby to Dylan and began making what became known as The Basement Tapes. Renaming themselves The Band (Dylan's tour was promoted as "Bob Dylan and the Band"), they struck out on their own and made a string of excellent albums including Music From Big Pink, The Band, and Cahoots. They would reteam with Dylan to make the record Planet Waves in 1974 and then conducted a joint tour. The Band officially bid farewell with The Last Waltz concert in 1976 (released as an album/film in 1978) which saw them return to their roots by backing such luminaries as Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Neil Diamond, and Muddy Waters, as well as playing their own amazing compositions.
The Meters
NEW Orleans band The Meters had a huge influence on music, helping to give birth to funk and going on to be one of the most sampled bands in hip hop history. From 1969 to 1972, they were the house band for Allen Toussaint's label Sansu Enterprises, churning out hits while backing vocalists such as Earl King, Lee Dorsey, and Betty Harris. In between they recorded their own hits (they regularly cracked the Billboard R&B chart top 40), including such early funk staples as Sophisticated Cissy, Cissy Strut, Look-Ka Py Py, and Chicken Strut. From '69 'til their initial break-up in '77, they recorded eight of their own albums and became well known in their own right, but were still highly sought as a backing group. Despite officially ending their house band days in '72, they went on after that to join Paul McCartney on the b-side My Carnival, Robert Palmer on his debut album Sneakin' Sally Through The Alley (which also featured Little Feat's Lowell George), and Dr John on the record Desitively Bonnaroo. The latter album inspired the name of the Bonnaroo Festival in Tennessee, which re-united The Meters and Dr John to play the album in full in 2011 - 37 years after its release.


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The Baldwin-Seaford merger, the final installment of the county's plan to reduce the number of precincts in the department from eight to four, had been postponed several times in the fall and winter of 2012. Lack attributed other delays to the high demands on the department before and after last October's presidential debate at Hofstra and several deaths of officers in the line of duty, in addition to issues associated with Sandy.
The 5th Precinct, in Elmont, was absorbed by the 4th, in Hewlett, on Sept. 14. The first merger was completed last May 1, when Levittown's 8th Precinct moved into Woodbury's 2nd. The 3rd Precinct, in Williston Park, was absorbed by the 6th, in Manhasset, on July 1.
Lack said that the merger of the 1st and 7th precincts has only been suspended, and that an official decision on the status of the 1st Precinct would be made within a year. He explained that because county officials are considering aligning the South Shore under three precincts rather than two, they are exploring the option of building a new precinct house at another location. Such construction could take up to a year, he said, but he did not say where it might take place.
In their re-evaluation process, Lack said officials are also considering renovating the current 1st Precinct, at 900 Merrick Road in Baldwin, or building a new station house at property on Harrison Avenue and Merrick Road that Nassau County lawmakers purchased in 2010. James Carver, president of the Police Benevolent Association, said he expects to sit down with County Executive Ed Mangano in the coming weeks to discuss the future of the 1st.
Carver added that hopes the county executive will also reconsider mergers that have already been completed, but Mangano has said he feels that the consolidation plan has proven to be fiscally successful. In spite of this, he said, the final merger has been suspended indefinitely.


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Release Notes: This is a bug fix release, but it also includes a new, experimental, Win64 installer binary.
Release Notes: This is primarily a bugfix release over 4.00. However, it does include an experimental Lua scripting module and a few other enhancements.
Release Notes: This is a major code restructuring and features release. The biggest changes are support for the ext4 and btrfs filesystems, GPT partition tables, disks larger than 2 TiB, and the ability to list disk contents from the command line.
Release Notes: This release adds support for emulating CD-ROM images from .ISO files using MEMDISK, support for arbitrary screen resolutions in the VESA menu, video mode setting for Multiboot, and future support for PM operating system drivers in MEMDISK. It also adds a number of bugfixes, including fixing the DOS installer for MS-DOS 7.x/8.x and fixing PC-DOS images in MEMDISK.
Release Notes: This release adds some minor new features, including the ability to add overrides to DHCP options in the pxelinux binary, a new version of the Hardware Detection Tool, and some fixes to the Gfxboot module. It also includes some additional workarounds for broken BIOSes.
Release Notes: This is primarily a bugfix release. The main new features are halt-on-idle support and some features in isohybrid, including the ability to boot from an image written to a partition.
Release Notes: This is a bugfix and internal restructuring release. The main difference is a completely rewritten shuffler engine and Multiboot module. Other changes include a bugfix for large ISO 9660 directories, isohybrid support for images larger than 2 GB, some fixes to the gfxboot module, and a new poweroff module.
Release Notes: This is a collection of fixes over the 3.74 release. The most important ones are fixing the geometry detection in MEMDISK and fixing the PXELINUX "keeppxe" option, which was broken in 3.74. The MENU SAVE behavior has been improved, gPXELINUX no longer disables interrupts when it shouldn't, and a lockup bug in the Hardware Detection Tool has been addressed.
Release Notes: This release adds a new "Hardware Detection Tool" to display hardware information before booting. It adds preliminary integration with the Gfxboot project, support for quiet kernel loading, and support for memorizing the last booted selection. Keyboard selection can now be done dynamically. MEMDISK now can autodetect superfloppy formats. Additionally, a large number of bugs have been fixed.
Release Notes: This release is primarily a collection of fixes. It adds support for passing DHCP information to a Solaris kernel. It adds support for systems that use the incompatible E820 definition from ACPI 3. MEMDISK now defaults to "safeint".


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I am currently in school for web development, and I am working on a simple Arena style RPG game written in JavaScript.
the URL for the game is Arena RPG Game
The layout is pretty self explanatory, so please check it out a bit before replying.
Now, on to the issue.
After the character, and beast are created, when I click on "Fight!" an alert will display the damage done by my character, and the beast. Say for example that my character does 7 Damage, and the beast does 1 damage. The result will leave my HP at -23, and the beast HP at -11(hypothetically). I have placed if statements that are supposed to set the Damage to 0 if the result is a negative number, and the fight should end when either the character's HP, or beast's HP reaches 0. The way the it is playing out though, one or both of them are a negative number after one round, and I know that the math is wrong. Please help. I've been working for days to get this fixed so I can move on to adding experience, and gold when the fight is won. I just don't see where the logic error is.
Here is the fight function where all the problems are. If you want to see more of the code, just visit the link, and view source.
function startFight()
charFightHP = charHP;
beastFightHP = beastHP;
fightTrue = 1;
charDmg = charStr - beastDef;
beastDmg = beastStr - charDef;
beastName = document.getElementById("theBName").innerHTML;
if (charDmg < 0)
charDmg = 0;
else if (beastDmg < 0)
beastDmg = 0;
while (fightTrue != 0)
if (charFightHP > 0 && beastFightHP > 0)
charFightHP = beastDmg - charFightHP;
beastFightHP = charDmg - beastFightHP;
alert("You do "+charDmg+" damage to "+beastName+". "+beastName+" does "+beastDmg+" damage to you.");
document.getElementById("theHP").innerHTML = charFightHP;
document.getElementById("theBHP").innerHTML = beastFightHP;
fightTrue = 0;
if (beastFightHP < 0 && charFightHP > 0)
if (charFightHP < 0)
alert("You are dead");
All the variables for the stats are defined in the full program so that's not the issue. The numbers display correctly, until the math operation for the fight is executed.
Thank you in advance to anyone willing to help me debug this.


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Elliot wrote::D
This issue really steams me up. Let me give you an example of why:
I was in the bank, standing in line, and there were three tellers working. That is, they were supposed to be working. But all three customers were jabbering on cell phones, keeping the tellers twiddling their thumbs.
"My kingdom for a pocket-size jammer!"
you just havent tried the new chip and lens combo pack from DARPA yet..
Augmented Reality Rocks, IMHO.


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Maybe General Motors' minivans aren't extinct. They still live in China and are about to get a makeover. Could GM also be planning a reintroduction of the boxy people movers in the U.S.?
GM isn't talking about U.S. plans for GL8 minivan, which it continued to offer in China, even after it stopped building them for the American market in 2008.
GM offered just two paragraphs about its planned Nov. 28 introduction of the next-generation GL8, but it's the pictures that tell the story.


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Nursing homes across the Volunteer State are planning a variety of events in honor of National Nursing Home Week, which begins on Mother's Day, May 12, and continues through May 18.
Gov. Bill Haslam also has proclaimed May 12-18 Nursing Home Week in Tennessee and encourages all Tennesseans to join in celebrating this special week.
From cookouts and carnivals to field trips and talent shows, Nursing Home Week is fun for residents, family, staff and volunteers. The week's activities also provide opportunities for socializing, reminiscing and volunteering.
The 2013 National Nursing Home Week theme, "Team Care: Everyone Pitches In," recognizes the team effort and dedication required to provide quality care to the elderly and disabled.
"We hope you will join us in celebrating this special week with the team that takes care of the elders at your local nursing home," said Jesse Samples, executive director of the Tennessee Health Care Association (THCA), which is co-sponsoring the annual event along with the American Health Care Association (AHCA). "It is a great time to visit nursing homes, participate in activities and thank the caregivers and volunteers for their hard work and dedication to providing quality care to the residents."
THCA is a nonprofit organization representing long-term care facilities located throughout the state. For more information about long-term care in Tennessee, contact THCA at (615) 834-6520 or visit www.thca.org. For more information on National Nursing Home Week, visit www.nnhw.org.


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Barry Canton Bio
3rd Year PhD candidate in the Biological Engineering Department, working with Drew Endy.
- BE in Mechanical Engineering, University College Dublin 2002
- MEngSc in Mechanical Engineering, University College Dublin 2003
- Barry's Wiki - I can provide a username/password for this. Its where I keep my electronic lab notebook.
"The right to search for the truth implies also a duty: one must not conceal any part of what one has recognised to be true." - Albert Einstein
- Modeling
I'd like to see a centralized and standardized source of models for biological parts and devices. A good framework for this would be the registry of standard biological parts. Each part and device should have a simple ODE model of its behavior accompanying it. In fact, this registry of models would operate identically and confer all the same advantages as a registry of parts. Namely, it would produce simple standard models of parts that could be reliably and rapidly combined to form models of more complex devices. If everyone building models was drawing from the same pool of part models, we could be more sure that those models were reliable. Again, just as with the registry of physical parts, everytime I wanted to build a model, I wouldn't have to start from scratch, I could start from well tried parts.
For example a constitutive promoter has a model with no inputs (ignoring polymerase and sigma levels) and one output, PoPS. In Matlab, this would be a simple function with no inputs that returns a scalar output which is the PoPS output of the device -
PoPS_out = R0040;
A protein generator would have a model with a PoPS input and a protein production rate as output. For example -
dP = E0240(PoPS_in);
Note that E0240 might actually be a collection of part models for an RBS, coding region, and terminator -
function dp = E0240(PoPS_in) RiPS = B0032(PoPS_in); translation_rate = E0040(RiPS); dp = B0015(translation_rate);
The part models for R0040 and E0240 could be put together in an obvious way to form a model of a reporter device.
We already have models for many of our simple parts that could be combined easily if only steady state conditions were considered. Some more organization would be required to allow each model to represent the time varying behavior of a device as combining devices would require the assembly of ODE's from different files. It should still be very possible though.


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- Iron Angels Mountain Bike Race (3/05/06)
- Glory Hole MTB Race (4/23/06)
UPDATE (2/23/06): The Iron Angels race has been cancelled !
UPDATE (04/18/06): The Iron Angels / Glory Hole race have been combined and scheduled for 4/23/06.
Any updates for the 4/23 race..glory hole?
I've contacted them via email, but I haven't heard anything . . . I'm a little concerned because the first race (Iron Angels) got cancelled at the last minute. I'll make sure that we get something posted on Monday or Tuesday as to the status, even if I have to call them up.
The 4/23 Iron Angels (the moved Glory Hole race) is on. See http://norcalmtnbikeracing.blogspot.com/2006/04/iron-angels-is-on.html for details.


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Reviewed By Sandra M (West Milford, NJ) Reviewed for a 2005 Nissan Titan —6/28/2006 1:36 AM
I brought the Covercraft Multibond Car Cover for my boyfriend's new Nissan Titan. The fabric is breathable so there is no condensation, since in the garage, however it keeps the dust off his new baby. He absolutely loves it!!!