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About 150 participants from Georgia, Florida, Alabama, North and South Carolina showed up before dawn at the new Chick-fil-A restaurant on Victory Drive in Savannah Wednesday morning for their chance to win a year's worth of free meals.
100 were chosen from the group in a lottery drawing, plus 10 alternates. If participants can camp out for 24 hours (until 6 a.m. Thursday), they will receive meal vouchers to the restaurant for 52 weeks.
View a slideshow of photos from the event.


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It be Friday…
No loving sponsor today.
For the BIG Friday show, Leigh is joined by Ginger Steve and Daniel Bell once again to chat about rubbish and get up to mischief. Danny boi is playing hookie from school – which Leigh only learning LIVE on air… Meanwhile, Ginger Steve has had a plumber round. [For those who DON'T know what a Henry Vacuum cleaner is image]. Leigh was set a challenge for working out how much it would cost to get a train from Gilwell Park to London and back. In other news, Skiing maybe cancelled cause of SNOW?! We are also joined by Hello_Kelli and Tony the Batty Boy Tony!
Grammar school teacher streaked across garden in front of his pupils: MBE holder found guilty of misconduct. Vanilla sex is OUT, porn addiction is IN: Disturbing survey reveals how porn is damaging our relationships. King of the cub scouts Tristan, 10, bags all 54 badges in just two years [image]. Cross-Dressing Carjacker Busted. Matthew Rader, Oregon Man, Allegedly Tattooed Name Near Underage Girl's Vagina. 'Bathroom Bandit' Stealing Toilet Parts Throughout Milwaukee.

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Montana Safety and Former Washignton High School Standout Matt Hermanson Arrested
Montana Grizzlies safety and former Washington Warriors standout Matt Hermanson was arrested Sunday morning on a charge of misdemeanor criminal mischief.
According to police reports, Hermanson, 21, was arrested at 2:30 a.m. Sunday morning and booked into the Missoula County Jail. He was released on bond later that morning.
The charges stem from damage to two signs in the Fort Missoula area, according to Sheriff Sergeant Jeremiah Peterson in a story in the Missoulian:
It looks like one sign was broken and another was bent.
Peterson said he was 'fairly positive' alcohol was involved.
After the arrest, authorities discovered a warrant for Hermanson from the City of Missoula for a $114 speeding ticket.
Montana Athletic Director Kent Haslam:
I don't know all particulars. He had a speeding ticket from a few years back that he never resolved and last night he was cited for criminal mischief. We'll find out more about it and get together as the athletic conduct team and decide what we'll do.
Hermanson will serve a one-game suspension this Saturday, when Montana takes on Northern Arizona.
The former Warriors standout is a junior for the Grizzlies and is the second leading tackler on Montana's squad with 17 through three games.
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The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division is investigating a suspicious fire that destroyed the former Shoney's in Hardeeville on Friday morning.
Hardeeville Fire Chief Daniel Morgan said the building had been abandoned for about a year and was boarded and chained. No active power or gas line was hooked to the building.
The Hardeeville Fire Department, Bluffton Township Fire Department and Jasper County Fire Department responded to the scene of the fire at 5:40 a.m.
First responders on the scene reported heavy smoke from the back of the building. They found the roof had already collapsed. Morgan said the fire crews got the blaze under control in about an hour. It was fully extinguished several hours later, he said.
The building is located at 1134 Hummingbird Lane, which is just off of Interstate 95's South Carolina Exit 5 at Hwy 17. Hummingbird Lane was closed during the incident but no major thoroughfares were blocked.
One firefighter suffered a heat illness due to overexertion during the blaze. He was treated on the scene and is back to work, Morgan said.


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The appearance Thursday of a severely burned cat at the Best Friends Animal Hospital was enough to bring several staff members to tears.
The orange, year-old feline, named Meshach by clinic staffers, was found in Eagle Point at about 4 p.m. Thursday.
Meshach, named after a biblical character thrown into a fire, was brought to the veterinary clinic for severe burns on his face and beneath his tail, his fur blackened in several spots and his eyes swollen almost shut.
Those who have examined the injuries don't think they were from a house fire. The pads on Meshach's paws were untouched, and he had no respiratory issues, making it appear the attack was intentional.
"Some kind of a flammable liquid got on him and then ignited," said Lori Slate, Best Friends manager.
The injured cat showed up on the porch of Eagle Point resident Michael Finn. It was a stray Finn described as very affectionate that had been coming and going for several weeks.
"It was the sweetest cat. It was just horrifying to think someone could do something like that," Finn said.
Finn's wife, Summer, called Jackson County Animal Control, which picked Meshach up and transported him to Best Friends.
"We were crying, pretty much. We gathered around him," Slate said. "We all just sort of started talking, 'How could this happen?' "
The veterinarians cleaned Meshach's wounds, spread ointment on his swollen eyes and gave him pain medication and antibiotics.
After resting and eating, Meshach has responded to the treatments.
"He eats like a horse," said veterinarian Margarita Garcia, adding that Meshach can now clean himself and hold his head up.
He has a good chance at survival, Garcia said. "Right now I think he's fine."
Meshach is the second animal to be named by Best Friends staff after a biblical character tossed into a furnace who survived. Shadrach, a mixed-breed dog that was blinded by a wildfire last year, also was treated there. Shadrach was later adopted.
Veterinary staffers are hopeful a similarly happy ending is in sight for Meshach. They believe they already have found a place for him.
Until then, they said, he just needs to keep healing.
Reach reporter Ryan Pfeil at 541-776-4468 or by email at email@example.com.
Meshach fights for recovery
The appearance Thursday of a severely burned cat at the Best Friends Animal Hospital was enough to bring several staff members to tears.


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A Smyrna woman was arrested Saturday night on theft charges after allegedly stealing jewelry from a home.
On Saturday at approximately 7 p.m. the Smyrna Police Department apprehended Charron "Krissy" Deskiewicz, 38, of the 300 block of N. High St. in Smyrna, after a theft investigation.Police said Deskiewicz was taken into custody at her residence without incident.
Deskiewicz was charged with one count of theft under $1,500 after an investigation into a theft that occurred on April 10. Police said the victim alleged that Deskiewicz was allowed into the home to conduct a home blessing as part of her business, Blessings Bright, and allegedly took jewelry belonging to the victim while inside.
Deskiewicz was arraigned in the Justice of Peace Court 7 via videophone and released on $500 unsecured bond pending a future court date.


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Install ADO.NET Data Services to support data feed exports of SharePoint lists
ADO.NET Data Services is required for a data feed export of SharePoint lists. SharePoint 2010 does not include this component in the SharePoint Prerequisite Installer program, so you must install it manually.
Without this prerequisite, you will get the following error when you attempt to use a SharePoint list that was exported as a data feed: "For security reasons DTD is prohibited in this XML document. To enable DTD processing set the ProhibitDtd property on XmlReaderSettings to false and pass the settings into XmlReader.Create method."
Use the following instructions to install ADO.NET Data Services on every SharePoint server for which you want to allow lists to be exported as data feeds.
Download and install ADO.NET Data Services
Go to the hardware and software requirements documentation for SharePoint 2010, Hardware and Software Requirements (SharePoint 2010)
In Access to applicable software, find the link for ADO.NET Data Services 3.5 that corresponds to the operating system you are using (either Windows Server 2008 SP2 or Windows Server 2008 R2).
Click the link and run the setup program that installs the service.
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|2008-03-29, 11:11
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I want dreads...
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: a cardboard box
Age: 28
Deadman Wonderland
Spoiler for summary:
This is a pretty new manga that has proven itself worthy of it's own thread with the most recent chapter that has been released, read and you'll find out. Any of you interested in stuff like Gantz, Battle Royale, and other psychological screwers will love this series. Here's a link to manga update's page.
Don't let the shounen genre scare you away. The only reason why it is labeled as a shounen is because it's serialized by Shonen Ace. If anything, it has much more of a seinen feel to it. Of course it does consist of a few shounen elements, but that doesn't hinder the story any bit.
Anyway, on with the discussion... (If you read the most recent chapter you can look in the spoiler)
Spoiler for manga:
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|2008-03-29, 14:39
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Anime Snark
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Singapore
Age: 35
I got introduced to this manga from this blog article, and I'm very, VERY happy that I did.
Good gravy! This manga is overflowing with psycho-moe! This is probably one of the rare few occasions where I will actually say I get orgasmic just from reading it. I'm simply loving the insanity being portrayed.
About Ch0011's "twist", well... I kinda predicted/expected it early on. The Elfen Lied parallels kinda ruined the "reveal" for me, I guess.
Takami was also delicious... I look forward to her future appearances.
|2008-03-29, 19:48
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Le fou, c'est moi
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Las Vegas, NV, USA
Age: 29
The Eureka Seven art attracted me (well, the manga adaptation of E7 was made by these same people...) -- lol @ the new Anemone, as unhinged and mysterious as ever -- and I found it to be an exciting and very promising manga overall. Lots of mystery, lots of action, and lots of fun.
One caveat though: I sincerely, desperately, absolutely hate these stories where the conspirators are so powerful and omnipotent that the heroes keep suffering and suffering and suffering until they finally managed to deliver justice -- or in some cases not even that. The premise of this manga seems to be based on exactly that. It's really, really, -really- depressingly annoying.
I think I'll enjoy the manga in detail and forget about the big picture for my own peace of mind.
|2008-03-29, 20:19
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I want dreads...
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: a cardboard box
Age: 28
To be honest I didn't notice that this was a creation of the makers of Eureka 7 (probably because I never read the manga nor watched the anime). Though I always here good things about it and some bad, but more of the good. So it's nice to know we have some insurance of possibly how good the manga will be.
I agree with you that the conspirators are much more powerful than the protagonists, but only politically and financially. Also they aren't omnipotent, or at least I hope they aren't. I don't think they can match up to the freakish powers of the deadmen, but then again can't be too sure what they got up their sleeves either.
|2008-03-31, 10:44
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permanentely bored
the running man (movie not the steven king book) meets Eureka7. 9 months later deadman in wonderland was born.
the first few chapter appealed me when they got released, i enjoyed the survival games the total amorality of the prison, but the ring tournament with the apparition of superpower completely shut my interrest.
Cheesy dialogue/scene, wimpy maincharacter, typical shonenish "i will win doing the less possible damage to my opponent"...
i think it had potential but it just headed for the easy shonen goodigood way.
|2008-05-02, 06:10
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Le fou, c'est moi
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Las Vegas, NV, USA
Age: 29
A'ight, Chapter 12 is out for a bit now, so it's time for some good old necromancy with this chapter of blood feud, yandere fanservice, and premature hair loss.
The story changes its focus a bit this time with the introduction of -- finally! I can't say how happy I am with this -- allies who, like our hero, seem to, god knows why, dislike the idea of a bloody nightmarish gladiatorial lifestyle. And they even saved the day! ...until someone dangerous shows up.
The excitement is still as high as ever, though Ganta still doesn't have a clue that his beloved savior/best-friend-4-ever Weird Girl Whatshername is the real crazy one. And, as usual, his comrade the Normal Guy With A Sister got beat up again. I swear with all the beatings he's been through it must've been one real hard life.
This manga is shaping up to be one epic bloody mess.
|2008-11-25, 21:08
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Best of both worlds
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: A land far, far away... or very, very close, depends on where you live
If there's one thing I have to give this manga, it's props for having the most badass characters. You can't get much better than Senji-kun!
|2009-08-25, 03:57
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Somewhere between heaven and hell !
Ow surprising that there is few viewer for this manga who is very great ^^
Don't trust anyone , everyone are liar lol
Poor Ganta , everybody want to kill him .
Gotta like Minatsuki , she's damn sick XD cute too ^^
Senji is a badass
Seems that chapters takes so long to be released .
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James Club
Enjoy complimentary hospitality at The James Club, an all-glass architectural marvel overlooking the neighboring sculpture garden. It's a great place for guests to meet, relax and enjoy the hotel.
This space has been designed to transition from day to night. By day, a comfortable sanctuary offering complimentary snacks and refreshments. By night, indulge in a warm, welcoming cocktail mood.
- Art, architecture and New York books throughout
- Specifically designed greenery in the space
- Complimentary Wi-Fi is available to guests throughout the lobby
The one-of-a-kind furnishings and interiors were hand selected by Cristina Grajales, whose years of respected residential expertise brought her work with architecture buff Brad Pitt and his brood as well as Helmut Lang, one of the most incredible eyes for art and the avant.


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Taylor named CS Fullerton coach
Fullerton, CA – Cal State Fullerton has named Dedrique Taylor its head men's basketball coach.
Taylor was the associate head men's basketball coach at Arizona State and had spent the last seven years at the school.
He replaces interim coach Andy Newman, who led the Titans to a 14-18 overall record and a 6-12 mark in Big West Conference play in 2012-13.
"I think Dedrique is a perfect fit for the Cal State Fullerton program," Cal State Fullerton athletic director Jim Donovan said. "His ties to Southern California will help us immensely in our recruiting efforts and his experience in a major conference like the Pac-12 will serve him well in helping bring our program into the upper echelons of the Big West Conference and compete for championships."
Taylor also spent two seasons at Nevada, and also has coaching experience at Portland State (2002-04), Loyola Marymount (2001-02) and UC Davis (2000-01).


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I was not surprised to read about the 3.7 mill increase voted on recently by Seneca Valley school board. It seems we can expect these increases annually. It's just a shame we can't call the Social Security Administration and say, "We need an increase because our cost of living is going up and you are obligated to increase what you give me every month." Too bad it doesn't work that way. We have to make adjustments in our spending and cut back on unnecessary things so we stay within our budget.
This increase brings to mind two questions:
• With all the building going on, both residential and commercial in Cranberry Township alone, many millions of dollars woth, why doesn't the tax revenue more than cover what is needed to balance the budget? Or is there "tax forgiveness" being handed out, as was given to Westinghouse? Even the residential building should be generating enough tax dollars to cover budget increases. Not only is Cranberry Township growing, but growth is moving north to Jacksson and Lancaster townships as well. I realize with new homes being built, the number of pupils may increase as well, but still the taxes on these new homes should help.
• Exactly how much, if any, does Passavant Senior Life Community in Zelienople contribute to Seneca Valley School District and to borough and county treasuries? The Passavant Community has nonprofit status so it is tax-exempt. So is the Masonic Village at Sewickley; but the Masonic Village signed a "payment in lieu of taxes" agreement through which it makes annual payments to help keep local taxes down. Last year, it paid $441,596 to Quaker Valley School District, $217,313 to Aleppo Township and $141,622 to Allegheny County. In addition, the Masonic Village contributed $20,000 to the school for scholarships and $10,000 to Aleppo toward the purchase of a fire truck.
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Joe Adam has been on the Elmhurst staff since 2007
and was Tim Lester's top assistant.
Elmhurst has named Joe Adam its new head football coach. Adam becomes the 18th head coach in school history, taking over for Tim Lester, who resigned last week to become the quarterbacks coach at Syracuse.
Adam has spent the past six seasons as an assistant coach with the Bluejays, including the past five years as defensive coordinator and recruiting coordinator. He has also served as the team's assistant head coach.
Adam inherits an Elmhurst team that turned in the school's best season. In 2012, the Bluejays won a share of the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin championship for the first time since 1980 and earned the school's first trip to the playoffs.
Elmhurst scored an opening-round victory over Coe and finished the season with a school record for wins (10-2 overall). The Bluejays earned a top-10 national ranking in the final D3football.com poll.
"I'm very excited to lead the Elmhurst football program into uncharted territory," said Adam. "Obviously, the goal is to continue to build upon the success that we obtained last year and see how far we can take it."
"As this is a crucial time in the offseason, we felt that promptness had to play a role in our hiring process so that we could continue moving forward in player retention and recruiting," said Elmhurst athletic director Paul Krohn. "Fortunately, we didn't have to look far to find the right candidate. Joe was the right-hand man of Tim Lester and was highly endorsed by Tim for the job. As the team's recruiting coordinator, Joe was essential at bringing in the players that helped turn our program into a CCIW champion. I had noted in Joe's last performance review that he was going to be an excellent head coach and I'm pleased that it will be here at Elmhurst College. Joe is going to be an excellent fit for our institution and our football program."
Prior to joining the Bluejays' coaching staff in 2007, Adam spent a year at Western Michigan as a graduate assistant coach under the tutelage of Scott Shafer, the new head coach at Syracuse. Adam helped Western Michigan to a 7-4 record and their first bowl game in almost 20 years. Adam spent three seasons coaching at Grand Valley State where he was a part of two NCAA Division II Championship teams in 2003 and 2005. While at Grand Valley, Adam served one year under Brian Kelly, now head coach at Notre Dame and two seasons under Chuck Martin, now Kelly's offensive coordinator.
Adam began his collegiate coaching career at Harper Community College where he served as the defensive line coach and recruiting coordinator. During his five years at Harper, the squad made appearances in four junior college bowl games.
Adam knows that maintaining the team's recent success will not come easy, but he is ready for the challenges.
"We had a tremendous season in 2012 and we'll have our work cut out for us next season in replacing the production of 20 seniors, including one of the most prolific running backs in Division III history in Scottie Williams," he said. "We were excited to build a championship program last year, but the real challenge for any coach is building a program that can sustain success. Last year's group of seniors helped change the culture around our program in their four years at the college and they set the bar very high. Our challenge now is to build on that success and raise the bar even higher."


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SOMETHING FOR NOTHING (from the archives)
There are certainly exceptions to every rule; Fly Anglers OnLine (FAOL) is free.
You are welcome to share information you find here, to print out fly patterns, the instructions from various Fly Tying series and have them for your own use ? or for your club's newsletter (provided you give us proper credit) and you may also use them for a fly tying or rod building class. However; here's the 'but': if you are doing the classes for profit you can't use the material. As long as it's free, feel free to use it.


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Ryan Rodriguez's alarm clock at his grandparents' home in Yonkers was set for 4:45 a.m. Friday morning.
Ryan Rodriguez's alarm clock at his grandparents' home in Yonkers was set for 4:45 a.m. Friday morning.
As soon as it went off — before dawn — Rodriguez was up and at 'em, jumping right out of bed. He felt fresh, confident, sharp. Rodriguez felt that this was going to be a good day.
He was right.
Rodriguez, a Cornwall sophomore, won the prestigious Metropolitan Golf Association Boys' Championship final at Bedford Golf and Tennis Club on Friday. He defeated Katonah's Bear Carlson 6 and 5 in the championship.
Earlier in the day, Rodriguez put away Rye's James McHugh 4 and 2 in the semifinals. Rodriguez is the first area player to win the MGA boys' title since Mark Constanza of Tuxedo Club in 2003. Taylor Walsh, a 1998 Ellenville graduate, won the championship in 1995.
"This is No. 1 for me, this is big," said Rodriguez, who became the first freshman to win the Section 9 boys' golf title in May. "I played real well today, I hit some good shots. I hit a lot of fairways, which is always good. You always feel different in golf, but today I felt good. I was hitting the ball well during my practice round."
Rodriguez, 15, never trailed Carlson, putting on an impressive display. The champion jumped out to a quick 3 up advantage, thanks to a few early birdies, and cruised from there. During one stretch, Rodriguez won seven of eight holes. He won four matches over two days.
For his lights-out performance, Rodriguez, who lives in Highland Mills, has earned exemptions into the Met Junior and Carter Cup (MGA's junior stroke play championship held annually at Baltusrol Golf Club) for the rest of his junior career.
"It's really cool to see some of the names on the side of the trophy," Rodriguez said. "It's an honor. Playing in this tournament was a lot of fun. It was a great day for me."


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Gray foxes (Urocyon cinereoargentus) are smaller than a red fox, are 31 to 44 inches long (nose to tail) and weigh 7 to 10 lbs. Body color ranges from dark gray to reddish-gray and have no white on their tail tip.
Foxes generally pose little threat to humans, their property or pets. Large red foxes have been known, in some cases, to prey on small cats. It is always advisable to feed pets indoors and to keep small pets inside or securely penned at night.
Foxes are primarily nocturnal. Foxes are highly adaptive and can become increasingly active during the day in urban areas.
Foxes establish bonded pairs to breed in January or February and raise young together. Gestation is 7 to 8 weeks. Gray foxes establish maternity dens in hollow logs, rock piles, or small caves. Dens are only used to rear young. Young foxes become independent by 6 months of age.
Foxes are omnivores. A natural diet includes berries, plants, insects and small mammals. A modified diet can include pet food, garbage, and bird feeder seeds.
Foxes help control rodent populations by preying on rats and mice.
Foxes inhabit wooded, suburban and urban areas of Fairfax County. The red fox is more common and highly adaptive in urban environments than are gray foxes.


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WonkeyDonkey needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 47 designs submitted by 4 freelance designers.
Sales Pipe
SalesPipe is a startup venture to allow small business owners to track their sales pipeline in a simple, interactive and highly usable way.
The key concept is an online application that provides a dashboard that shows their sales over the next few months in a graphical way. Under the graph, a table shows aggregated sales analytics for the month, and a list of follow ups is listed underneath.
Clicking on each follow-up table entry will popup a lightbox-style form to update and change various details about the followed up sales opportunity (e.g. update the status, schedule a new follow up, etc).
Small business owners
To design only (no coding) the dashboard page and corresponding look of the lightbox form.
Notes about forms/pages
I am looking for a 2.0, clean, light, and interactive look very much like those used for the http://www.37signals.com suite of web apps – obviously your own take on this. I quite like their use of block colors and lines/grid without the rounding of corners - lots of whitespace - avoid boxing in graphs and tables as this will not get good feedback.
Here's some reference web apps that I've referred other designers to who have entered this competition - I will be basing comparison feedback to these:
1. See the dashboard wireframe for a good overview of the components this page has to support
2. Lots of options for styling the graph, see here for examples http://code.google.com/p/flot/wiki/FlotUsage. (scroll down the page)
3. Support for a date picker to pick date ranges for the graph
4. Feel free to put some interpretation into the sales analytics section especially where I've use highlighting in the wireframe.
5. The sales follow-ups list needs to show overdue, those due this week, and upcoming follow-ups – please see uploaded wireframe for contents and layout for this table.
Lightbox Popup Form
1. See the form popup wireframe for a good overview of the components this page has to support - keep everything white/grey and use big fonts for the labels/data - keep the fields and layout very close to my wireframe interpretation.
2. Show in your popup design form validation errors on this form so overall message and individual problem fields.


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Phone Repair in Newry
Where's the best place to get your phone repaired in Newry?
We often get customers in Newry asking us this, so we thought we'd just let you know the best solution here.
As we're in the cell phone industry we constantly need phones repaired, and every time we use iMend.
Click below to visit their site, book the repair you need and they'll come to you and repair your phone right there and then!
Why iMend?
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But with iMend they'll actually come to you, at your home, place of work or a local cafe in Newry to repair your phone, right there in front of you.
They're really good at what they do, and they back it up with a 12 MONTH WARRANTY on repairs, which I think is just crazy, and they're the only ones I've seen who do that.
They're also the most cost effective option for a quality mobile phone repair in Newry we've come across. We highly recommend them.
All you do is click the button below to take you to their site, select your phone model and the repair it needs, and it'll show the cost.
Reasons to get your mobile phone repaired with iMend.
- Really easy, you can get a price for your repair right now by following the simple steps on their site.
- The best prices, you will not find a better price for a quality phone repair.
- The whole process is designed around what suits you, you don't have to travel or worry about time management, it's all done when and where it suits you.
- 12 month warranty, the only repair service we've seen in the country that does this, most offer 1-2 months warranty
- They only use 100% original parts, we've had issues with other services using fake or second hand parts.
- Free no obligation quote, just fill out the pricing form here.
- They're well established and very popular, having fixed thousands of phones.
- Expert technicians, these guys really know what they're doing.
- They can repair any issue. Not just phone screen repairs, they are able to fix pretty much anything that needs repaired with your phone.
So with all that in mind, it's pretty obvious why we use them all the time, best price, best service, best repairs, so in future when people from Newry ask us where to get their phone repaired, we'll just send them to this page. 🙂
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Hey again. Thanx so much for replying to me.
Yeah I mean he has txt and said he is so sorry for everything. That he can see he caused it all because of his behaviour. He brought his issues with his ex into our lives. He now sees that he was so bang out of order and if I go back then I will b free to go where I want when I want and he will fully support everything I do. Saying he fell in love with the real me and shouldn't never try to change me because he is so lucky to b with me. I do genuinely think he means it but I really don't know if he would ever b able to. He seems adamant he will but I just can't see it right now. I think he does now get that i need space. I havnt heard anything today at all. Yeah I'm 29 and he's 38 with 3 boys, a dog and now 2 guinae pigs lol
There has been so much more said but yeah he has taken responsibility for it all.
I also really want to and well have it out with him and talk about every little thing but I'm scared I will just cave and go straight back


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CERF provides US$9.9 million for flood-affected people in Pakistan
25 October 2012: According to Government estimates, almost 5 million people have been affected by the 2012 flooding in southern Pakistan.
Many of these people were still recovering from Pakistan's unprecedented floods of 2010 and the severe 2011 flooding. They are among the poorest and most vulnerable people in Pakistan.
In response, the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has allocated US$9.9 million to help UN agencies and humanitarian partners provide water, food, shelter and health care to thousands of families devastated by this year's floods.
Read more about this allocation >>
CERF provides $12 million in rapid response funding for Pakistan
2 April 2012: Pakistan's north-western areas of Khyber-Pakhtunkwa Province (KP) and Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) have experienced significant population movements over the past few years as a result of generalized violence.
In response to urgent humanitarian needs in 2012, the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) provided $11,970,485 to six United Nations agencies in Pakistan.
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) received the largest allocation of $4.3 million to provide protection and critical assistance, including shelter and non food items, for 112,000 people in KP and FATA. The World Food Programme (WFP) received $3.6 million to support emergency food assistance for some 16,000 families or 112,000 people during in three months.
CERF in Action - Rapid Response
CERF provides $15 million in underfunded grants to UN agencies in Pakistan
The Central Emergency Response Fund provided $14,845,730 in underfunded grants to six UN agencies and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Pakistan. The grants will target affected populations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA.
The World Food Programme (WFP) received the largest underfunded grant of $4.7 million to provide food assistance to 126,000 affected people in KP and FATA. Five projects of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) were funded by CERF in the amount of $4.4 million to support quality education, water, hygiene and sanitation services, nutrition assistance and education for affected people.
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) received a grant of $2.8 million to support camp management, emergency shelter, non-food items and protection assistance for 67,000 people. IOM received $1.4 million from the Fund for a project which will provide non-food items and ensure transport and emergency communication support for affected communities. A $1.1 million grant to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) will help support the livelihoods of some 170,000 people through preservation of livestock and poultry assets; improvement of quantity and quality of livestock through veterinary treatments and improved animal health practices; and diversification of diet and nutritional intake through distribution of milking tools and milk preservation containers.
CERF in Action - Underfunded Emergencies


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How to Move On When a Service You Love Shuts Down
Nothing's more heartbreaking than when one of your favorite services—one you rely on every day—announces it's shutting down. It's a pain, but you don't have to just accept it. Here's how you can find a replacement that doesn't suck.


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A revolutionary NEW source of funding to sweep across the internet in droves is crowdfunding! According to Growthink.com, $100 million USD was pledged in 2011 on the site www.Kickstarter.comalone, launching over 27,000 projects at a 46% success rate. Now that's impressive!
When you are starting or growing a small business, it typically comes down to lack of resources to raise that much needed capital! Funding is a very important element to the success of any business remaining relevant in a competitive marketplace. If you've applied for a traditional loan; SBA Micro Loan; Unsecured Line of Credit; or even a Credit Card to no avail, then consider the HOT new trend in financing…CROWDFUNDING!
What is Crowdfunding?
Crowdfunding is a cutting edge way of raising the much needed money required by businesses to sustain. A group of investors share their resources to support endeavors initiated by individuals or organizations. Many industries can take advantage of crowdfunding; from political campaigns; service or product based businesses; artist; scientific researchers to software development.
3 Business Preparation Tips for Crowdfunding
3 ways that Crowdfunding can help you:
Independence from Banking Institutions
Banks are sitting on their cash and aren't lending to start up or small businesses that need capital. At a recent lecture at George Washington University, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke innocuously remarked that lately "small businesses have … found it difficult to get credit." Most banks have high unreachable expectations along with a daunting process. Indeed crowdfunding offers a more realistic approach to funding.
Free Publicity
An opportunity to publicly raise funds for your business idea or existing company to a gazillions of potential investors by way of the internet is astounding! Many entrepreneurs yearn for a chance to receive the type of publicity crowdfunding offers. If well handled, the publicity can greatly catapult your business to immense success.
Validation of your business idea is important. To know that there are people globally who believe in your concept is empowering. People will generally invest in opportunities that are viable. So every contribution you receive from people simply means that they believe in the validity of it!
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In conclusion, businesses can gain a lot by embracing the benefits of crowdfunding. It is a very unique way of raising funds for businesses and can greatly impact positively on the success of a startup making them more vibrant and competitive.
About Author: Sylvia Browder is a small business consultant, trainer and author. She is founder of National Association Women on the Rise, a virtual community for aspiring and established women entrepreneurs. For the past 6 years, she has worked as Project Director of the Women's Business Center; and served as an online volunteer SCORE counselor since 2004. For FREE weekly articles go to Sylvia Browder's Blog for Women Entrepreneurs, http://www.sylviabrowder.com.
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Version 2.1 "L10N or 'Ich kann Deutsch'"
Please upgrade!
As the API key has been changed you'll need to reauthorize if you haven't installed 220.127.116.11 before.
Recent Changes
v2.1 (2009-10-11)
- started localization, first additional locale is German
- ipernityFox jetzt auch auf Deutsch!
- additional language can be added easily
- slight layout changes
What is this?
IpernityFox was inspired by FlickrFox to show you a quick overview what's going on in the photostream of your contacts, friends, and other ipernitians using the sidebar of Firefox.
What does it do (and what not)?
Currently it can do:
- show the most recent uploads for all ipernitians (up to 100 items)
- show the most popular documents
- show the most recent uploads for all your contacts (up to 50)
- show the most recent uploads for your friends (up to 50)
- show your favourites
- show squared (75x75) or in 100px fitted thumbs
- updates the selected stream each 5 minutes to keep you up to date (can be change to update less often)
But it can't (yet?) compared to FlickrFox:
- show your pictures
- show the groups
How do I install it?
Click on the link above. It will take you to addons.mozilla.org. Firefox will notify you if an update is available (if you didn't disable this feature).
Whom to blame?
Well even though I reused flickrfox code: me :(. If you find bugs post them here. And wishes for features too, though this isn't a promise that I'll implement them... ;)
Many Thanks!
First to the team of Ipernity. It is always a risk to let someone play with an API that is work in progress. They implemented the needed features of the API really quickly (or at least the flickr compatibility layer which saved me much work ;) and responded very fast. Thanks a lot quys!
And then of course to Phil for his flickrfox because else I would have had to write much more code ;)
Well I thank you for using and would be very pleased if you could spread the word: blog about it, etc. so that not only people of my network find it...
v22.214.171.124 (2009-10-06)
- new API key
- shows the account used on the options page
v2.0.2 (2009-10-04)
- internal change on how to reload when preferences change, really elegant code now ;)
v2.0.1 (2009-09-20)
- no longer pre-release
- streams work as expected
- about dialog exchanged with a nice HTML page
v1.9.2 (2009-08-20)
- better security, should now be able to pass AMO
v1.9.1 (2009-08-20)
- compatible with Firefox 3.5 (not tested with older versions)
- uses the new Ipernity API
- code completely restructured and 50% rewritten
v1.1.1 (2008-07-21)
- new "Homepage", this way the Ipernity Refer Comment will hopefully show "Comming from IpernityFox" ;)
v1.1.0 (2008-07-08)
- fixed the refreshing (works again)
- activated "Your Favorites": now you can browse all your favorites with IpernityFox!
v1.0.0 (2008-07-08)
- Complete code-refactoring, so please download and install!
- Chances should be better now, to get this addon out of the sandbox at addons.mozilla.org, so that everyone can easily download it from there without needing a login.
v0.9.3.2 (2008-06-01)
v0.9.2.1 (2008-03-27)/v0.9.3 (2008-03-28):
- tested with Firefox 3.0 Beta 4
- installation moved to addons.mozilla.org completely (sorry, you still need an account on AMO)
v0.9.2 (2007-07-07):
- added an installation page to my site to make installation easier
v0.9.1.2 (2007-07-05):
- added flock to compatibility list (> v0.7)
v0.9.0.1 (2007-07-05):
- initial upload toaddons.mozilla.org: it is still in the sandbox, that means you need an account to get it from there. But if you have an account anyway please install it from there and maybe even give reviews. If you install it from there, you should get automatic updates and activity there may make it easier to get it out of the sandbox!
v0.9.0 (2007-07-04):
- inital release
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Long View offers BCNET members smart value in IT Licensing and Contract Management
November 22, 2012
VANCOUVER, Canada (November 22, 2012) — A higher-education network in British Columbia will now be able to enjoy lower IT costs, thanks to a new partnership agreement with Long View.
One of North America's foremost providers of IT consulting, outsourcing solutions, and cloud services, Long View (www.longviewsystems.com) is pleased to announce that it has entered into a Master Service Agreement (MSA) with BCNET, a not-for-profit shared IT services consortium for higher education in B.C.
Thanks to Long View's expertise and strategic partnerships with technology vendors, the MSA offers BCNET members a pre-negotiated price and service contract for cost-effective software licensing and hardware support.
Put simply, the MSA allows BCNET's higher-education member institutions to reduce software licensing costs, simplify the buying process, and deliver more value for every dollar spent, thanks to Long View's ability to optimize vendor prices by acting as a broker on behalf of BCNET members to negotiate and procure contracts with market-leading technology vendors such as Microsoft, HP, NetApp, IBM, Red Hat, Symantec, VMware, Adobe, and others.
BCNET serves 12 higher-education member institutions in B.C., while its high-speed, high-capacity fiber optic advanced network interconnects 65 of the province's higher-education and research institution sites, plus 72 colleges, schools, and universities, through the Provincial Learning Network (PLNet).
"Long View is honoured to be collaborating with BCNET, a leader in shared technology services in B.C., to help drive down member costs and save the membership time and energy in managing licensing and support contracts," says Sarah Malcolm-Morreau, Long View's Director of Licensing and Contracts.
Long View's pre-negotiated contracts will ensure BCNET members receive the lowest price available, and maintain an efficient, streamlined buying process for higher-education institutions in B.C.
"We are very excited to partner with true industry leaders that have years of experience in effectively managing client software licensing, compliance, and assets," says Michael Hrybyk, BCNET's President and CEO. "Long View's highly trained vendor team will enable our higher-education member institutions to simplify the purchase and audit process, and maximize the value of every dollar invested in software licensing."
Adds Michael Thorson, the University of British Columbia's Director Infrastructure, Information Technology: "Last year, UBC signed a contract with Long View for contract and license management, and Long View has been able to produce significant cost savings without reducing the volume of software purchased. UBC will participate in the BCNET and Long View MSA to ensure we receive the lowest price available for software licensing and hardware maintenance."
ABOUT LONG VIEW: Long View, a true Canadian success story and one of North America's foremost providers of IT consulting, outsourcing solutions, and cloud services, began 13 years ago in Western Canada. Recently recognized as one of Canada's 50 Best Managed Companies and ranked 7th on the 2011 CDN Top 100, Long View is now beginning its push across Canada into the Toronto market and as always will focus on providing great people with terrific careers and delivering great value to clients.
Long View is one of the most powerful IT solutions and services companies in North America, with offices across the continent. With a clear focus on combining business and technology in key areas such as cloud, data center infrastructure, user support, and IT outsourcing, Long View is able to define and customize what the future of IT looks like. Innovative, flexible, cost-effective, and business focused . . . that's Long View.
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Asked about a request from a group of senators for the administration to consider re-designating North Korea a terrorism sponsor, Hillary Clinton says the administration will look at it.
The Obama administration will consider putting North Korea back on the list of state sponsors of terrorism, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Sunday.
Clinton, appearing on ABC's "This Week," called North Korea's latest actions "very provocative and belligerent." The communist regime performed a nuclear test last month and has conducted a series of short-range missile tests.
The actions have triggered condemnation from the international community, but little concrete action. Asked about a request from a group of senators for the administration to consider re-designating North Korea a terrorism sponsor, Clinton said, "Well, we're going to look at it."
"There's a process for it," she said. "Obviously we would want to see recent evidence of their support for international terrorism."
North Korea was taken off the list in October, as the regime appeared to make concessions on its nuclear program. Clinton said Sunday North Korea is undermining that agreement.
"We take it very seriously," she said. "I mean, obviously they were taken off of the list for a purpose and that purpose is being thwarted by their actions."
Clinton said she's also looking for additional sanctions against the country in the United Nations, and potentially an arms embargo or other measures. She called for a "very strong resolution with teeth that will have consequences for the North Korean regime."
The secretary of state also suggested she's concerned the trial of two American journalists in North Korea could become too intertwined with the diplomatic and political standoff between North Korea and the international community.
"Clearly, we don't want this pulled into the political issues that we have with North Korea, or the concerns that are being expressed in the United Nations Security Council," she said.
"This is separate. It is a humanitarian issue and the girls should be let go."
Calling the charges "absolutely without merit or foundation," Clinton said she's been directly involved in talks over the trial and that she hopes the two young women are sent home quickly.
Why would N Korea even be removed from the terrorist list in the first place.? -- alh1020
Clinton: U.S. Will Consider Putting North Korea Back on Terror List - Political News - FOXNews.com
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South Dakota State to Unveil New Uniforms For Hobo Day
It will be a very familiar sight Saturday in Brookings, a South Dakota State football team taking the field for a Hobo Day game for the 100th time in school history.
But these aren't your father's Jackrabbits.
SDSU will be decked out in all-new gold uniforms for the homecoming game against Southern Illinois.
The school has produced a video detailing the new look:
Kickoff is 2:00pm Satruday at Coughlin-Alumni Stadium in Brookings.


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Twins Study of Gene Therapy for HIV Infection
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00001535
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : November 4, 1999
Last Update Posted : February 8, 2008
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This study will test the safety and effectiveness of genetically altered T lymphocytes (white blood cells of the immune system) in reducing viral load in patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The lymphocytes will have two genes inserted into them; a laboratory-manufactured anti-HIV gene designed to inhibit HIV reproduction (either the RevTD or Rev-TD-antiTAR gene), and a "marker" gene that will show whether or not the inserted genes have gotten into the cells.
Identical twin pairs 18 years of age and older- one of whom is HIV-positive (infected with the human immunodeficiency virus) and the other HIV-negative (not infected) may be eligible for this study.
All participants will have a complete medical history and physical examination, blood tests and a tetanus booster shot, if indicated. The non HIV-infected twin will then undergo lymphapheresis to collect lymphocytes. In this procedure, whole blood is collected through a needle placed in an arm vein. The blood circulates through a machine that separates it into its components. The lymphocytes are then removed, and the red cells and plasma are returned to the donor, either through the same needle or through a second needle placed in the other arm.
The donor cells are grown in the laboratory for a few days, and then the new genes are inserted into them. The genetically altered cells are grown in the laboratory for several days until their numbers increase approximately a thousand-fold. They are then infused intravenously (through a vein) into the infected twin. These procedures-lymphapheresis, gene modification and infusion-will be repeated at approximately 2-month intervals up to four times.
Each lymphocyte infusion takes about 60 minutes. The patient's vital signs (temperature, pulse, blood pressure and breathing) are monitored frequently during the infusion and hourly for 4 hours after the infusion. Blood samples are taken the day of the infusion, 3 days later, and then weekly to monitor the gene-modified cells, immune status, viral activity, and other factors. These tests may be done less often as the study progresses and more is learned about the safety of the infusions. The infusions are done on an outpatient basis unless side effects require that they be done in the hospital with post-infusion monitoring for at least 24 hours.
Patients will be followed for long-term effects of treatment monthly for the first 3 months, once a month for the next 9 months and yearly from then on.
This study will contribute information about the use and side effects of gene therapy in HIV infection that may lead to new treatment strategies. A potential direct benefit to HIV-infected individuals participating in this study is reduced viral load; in laboratory studies, the RevTD and Rev-TD-antiTAR genes have inhibited HIV spread in the test tube. However, this is an early phase of study, and the likelihood of receiving this benefit is unknown.
|Condition or disease
|Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome HIV Infection Kaposi's Sarcoma
|Drug: Syngeneic Lymphocytes (CD4+) Cultured with OKT3 (Ortho) and Interleukin-2 (Chiro
|Phase 1
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Enrollment :
|48 participants
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Gene Therapy for AIDS Using Retroviral Mediated Gene Transfer to Deliver HIV-1 Anti-Sense TAR and Transdominant Rev Protein Genes to Syngeneic Lymphocytes in HIV-1 Infected Identical Twins
|Study Start Date :
|March 1996
|Study Completion Date :
|March 2002
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
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|Sexes Eligible for Study:
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- An identical twin pair, one of whom is seropositive for HIV-1, the other twin seronegative, by standard ELISA and Western blot testing.
- Patients with Kaposi's sarcoma limited to the skin and/or mucous membranes are eligible for this study, but must not have received any systemic therapy for
- KS within 4 weeks prior to entry. The diagnosis of KS must have been confirmed by biopsy.
- Free from serious psychological or emotional illness and able to provide written informed consent.
- Anticipated survival greater than 3 months.
- 18 years of age or older.
- Treatment with FDA-approved and/or expanded access antiretroviral agent(s) for patients with baseline CD4 counts below 500 cells/mm(3). Patients with baseline CD4 counts above 500 cells/mm(3) are eligible to receive cell therapy on this protocol, but must be treated with antiretroviral therapy if evidence of significant and persistent viral activation occurs in association with a cell infusion. "Significant and persistent viral activation" is defined as a 50 percent or greater increase above baseline in any virologic parameter for at least 2 consecutive weeks.
- Recipient's CD4 count greater than 50 cells/mm(3).
- Recipient and Donor willing to have samples stored and undergo HLA testing.
EXCLUSION CRITERIA (Donor and Recipient):
- Lymphomas.
- Unwillingness to comply with current NIH Clinical Center guidelines concerning appropriate notification of all current sexual partners of an individual regarding his or her HIV-1 positive sero-status and the risk of transmission of HIV-1 infection.
- Recent history of substance abuse unless evidence is provided of an ongoing therapeutic intervention (i.e. medical therapy or counseling) to control such abuse.
- Pregnant at entry or unwillingness to practice barrier birth control or abstinence during the study.
- No experimental therapy within 4 weeks of study participation. Antiretroviral agents available on an FDA-sanctioned, expanded access basis are permitted.
EXCLUSION CRITERIA (Donor):
- Untreated or inadequately treated medical condition (e.g., cardiopulmonary disease, acute infection) which, in the judgement of the Principal Investigator, precludes apheresis.
- Serologic positivity for Epstein Barr virus, Cytomegalovirus, Hepatitis B or Hepatitis C, if and only if the recipient twin tests seronegative for the corresponding virus.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00001535
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|National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
|Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20892
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|First Posted:
|November 4, 1999 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|February 8, 2008
|Last Verified:
|March 2002
Keywords provided by National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC):
Intracellular Immunization
Immune Based Therapy
Ex Vivo Cell Processing
Identical Twins
Kaposi's Sarcoma
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Sarcoma, Kaposi
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immune System Diseases
Slow Virus Diseases
Neoplasms, Connective and Soft Tissue
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Herpesviridae Infections
DNA Virus Infections
Neoplasms, Vascular Tissue
Antineoplastic Agents
Analgesics, Non-Narcotic
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Convicted Indian Spy Dies After Attack in Pakistani Prison (New Delhi)
NEW DELHI — A convicted Indian spy who was on death row in Pakistan has died from head injuries sustained in a jail attack by fellow prisoners, an incident that threatens to further strain relations between the nuclear-armed neighbors.
Sarabjit Singh was arrested in 1990 and later found guilty of spying and involvement in deadly bomb blasts in Pakistani cities. His family has said he hails from a border village in the northern Indian state of Punjab and had crossed the countries' frontier by mistake.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called Singh a "brave son of India who bore his tribulations with valiant fortitude." In a statement, the premier criticized Pakistan for ignoring pleas to release Singh on humanitarian grounds and called for justice for his killers.
"This will inflame tensions between the countries," said S. Chandrasekharan, director of the South Asia Analysis Group, based in New Delhi. "There is little chance now of meaningful progress in peace talks before the next Indian elections in 2014, when there will probably be a new prime minister."
Pakistan will hold a parliamentary election on May 11. The Pakistani government said in a statement that Singh died after being given the best possible treatment and arrangements would be made to return his body at soon as possible.
The incident comes after Pakistan and India engaged in some of their most serious cross-border skirmishes in almost a decade in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir in January and February. The fighting strained efforts to repair ties shattered by the Mumbai terrorist strike in 2008.
Singh sustained several injuries, including a fractured skull, when attacked by prisoners in Lahore's Kot Lakhpat prison on April 26. He died shortly after midnight local time, Awais Sheikh, Singh's lawyer said in a phone interview from Lahore. Sheikh said Singh had been in a deep coma.
"The relationship has been hurt by this terrible tragedy," India's foreign minister, Salman Khurshid, told reporters in New Delhi. "It is a terrible psychological and emotional setback."
Police are investigating two prisoners over the attack, the Times of India reported. The men told investigators they attacked Singh because he carried out a bomb attack in Lahore, the newspaper said, without saying where it got the information.
India and Pakistan resumed peace talks in 2011 more than two years after they were broken off following the attack by Pakistani militants on Mumbai that killed 166 people.
The border clashes in Kashmir in January undermined a sustained bid to improve trade and ease travel restrictions. For more than a week the two countries' governments and their militaries traded accusations of deadly raids across the de facto frontier.
India last year executed the only one of 10 Pakistan gunmen to be captured alive during the Mumbai attack. It has since executed a Kashmiri man found guilty of playing a role in a 2001 raid on India's parliament.
— With assistance from Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi.


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World Diabetes Day 2009
People are gathering, talking, celebrating...
Blue is everywhere.
Once again, I'd like to add my son's voice to the chorus as he shares some of his thoughts about managing Type 1 diabetes and how he educates/involves his friends.
(We had a lot of fun doing this... our own mini WDD celebration.)
*Note: The blog stays blue until the end of the month in honor of Diabetes Awareness Month, returning to the usual orange-red hue on December 1st. :-)


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Feds Finally Realize That AT&T Has Been Enabling Scammers To Abuse IP Fraud... Financed By Taxpayers
from the took-'em-long-enough dept
The fact that all of this was obvious eight years ago but it was only just now that feds decided to sue AT&T for abusing the system is pretty incredible. To be fair, the FCC passed rules in 2008 that required telcos try to register users to verify who they were (to take away some of the anonymity of the system). The key issue with this lawsuit is the claim that AT&T intentionally implemented an authentication system that wouldn't work. In other words, it purposely scammed taxpayers out of a ton of money:
The United States alleges that AT&T violated the False Claims Act by facilitating and seeking federal payment for IP Relay calls by international callers who were ineligible for the service and sought to use it for fraudulent purposes. The complaint alleges that, out of fears that fraudulent call volume would drop after the registration deadline, AT&T knowingly adopted a non-compliant registration system that did not verify whether the user was located within the United States. The complaint further contends that AT&T continued to employ this system even with the knowledge that it facilitated use of IP Relay by fraudulent foreign callers, which accounted for up to 95 percent of AT&T's call volume. The government's complaint alleges that AT&T improperly billed the TRS Fund for reimbursement of these calls and received millions of dollars in federal payments as a result.As Karl Bode at Broadband Reports notes, if you start doing the math, the claim that this is about "millions of dollars" may be a "severe under-estimate." We're talking about 95% of all of these calls, done for many years, being fraudulent, with AT&T having no incentive to cut them out, and scammers having tremendous incentive to use the service as well. Again, all of this done with taxpayers footing the bill. While AT&T definitely deserves scorn for allegedly purposely choosing to set up a bogus registration system, a ton of blame has to go to the government for letting all of this happen for so damn long, and not recognizing just how much AT&T was fleecing taxpayers for under the system (not to mention all of the scams this probably helped enable).


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It's been a slow few months in the world of real estate lending. For example, Steven J. Lurie, partner in the real estate practice group of Greenberg Glusker, a Los Angeles-based law firm, has handled only one retail financing since Sept. 15, when the investment banking giant Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, taking with it whatever was left of the scant confidence in the global credit markets. The deal, which funded a $65 million purchase of the 173,000-square-foot Larkspur Landing Shopping Center in Marin County, Calif., was arranged through City National Bank and featured a five-year term, an interest rate in the 6 percent range, a loan-to-value ratio of 50 percent and a recourse requirement. Plus, the bank felt comfortable with the borrower, James Rosenfield, principal of J.S.
Rosenfield & Co., with whom it has been doing business for the past 20 years. Considering current market conditions, if the terms were any less stringent or if the lender did not have absolute faith in the borrower, it would be unlikely for even that deal to go through, Lurie notes.
"Certain banks are being very difficult with their customers: trying to get loans paid off, not making new loans, not renewing loans," Lurie says. "Senior debt is not available on terms anything like what was available before the meltdown, except when you have very low loan-to-value and very good credit behind the guarantee."
In fact, in the fourth quarter of 2008, real estate lending activity on commercial/multifamily transactions by commercial banks fell 86 percent compared to the same period in 2007. On an index where 100 equals the 2001 quarterly average, origination volume by commercial banks on all commercial/multifamily loans in the fourth quarter of 2008 fell to 74—down from 521 during the fourth quarter of 2007, reports the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), an industry trade group. On retail properties, the index fell to 47, down from 264 a year ago. For all lenders, the index fell to 54 down from 275 a year ago.
Since the beginning of the year, the average loan size contracted by more than 46 percent, to just $6.0 million from $11.2 million. Lending activity by life insurance companies fell 27 percent year-over-year, to 163 deals from 222, though the average loan size increased by approximately 6.9 percent, to $13.9 million from $13.0 million. Originations for all of 2008 were down approximately 60 percent from 2007 levels, according to the MBA.
"In a normal market you have a run-off, where people can refinance [with new lenders] so there is always money turning," says Andrew Oliver, executive vice president and principal with Cushman & Wakefield Sonnenblick Goldman, a global real estate financial services firm. "Now, there is just stagnation."
Here and there, it's still possible to get loans, notes Oliver. But those loans tend to be small in size, are granted only to good credit existing customers and feature very tight underwriting standards. What's more, retail properties tend to be out of favor because of the high potential for tenant bankruptcy, he adds.
"Lenders are very cautious on retail," Oliver says. "If it's a grocery-anchored center in a prime location, there is money for it. But if it's a power center, the tenancy is very important because some of those tenants are having financial problems, so the underwriting is very conservative."
Size matters
Part of the difficulty is that the profile of the senior lenders active in the market has changed. As recently as June 2008, the bank with the highest profile of mortgage servicing transactions was Wachovia Securities, which had more than $434 million in mortgage collateral, according to MBA data. But in October of last year, Wachovia had to agree to a takeover by Wells Fargo when it became clear that the bank's $312 million mortgage portfolio could destroy the company.
Many of the larger commercial banks are in a similar position, still trying to work though the losses they incurred in their exposure to sub-prime mortgages. As a result, they will likely not take any new risky bets on commercial real estate lending for a while, notes David Akeman, director of capital markets with Stan Johnson Co., a Tulsa, Okla.-based commercial real estate investment firm.
Lurie, for example, recalls a recent conversation with a retail broker who told him his client managed to line up eight different bids for a refinancing loan in the summer of 2008. But by the time the owner made a decision, all eight offers disappeared in the wake of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy and the subsequent market meltdown.
Meanwhile, many life insurance companies, which serve as another major source of senior debt, have not yet finalized their allocations to real estate for the 2009 fiscal year, according to Oliver. When they do, the amount they lend might turn out to be significantly below the 2008 commercial mortgage allocations, according to Ryan Krauch, principal with Mesa West Capital, a Los Angeles-based institutional commercial real estate lender. "Their balance sheets had so badly deteriorated that they just don't have money right now," he says.
Life insurers' mortgage commitments fell 26 percent from the first to the third quarter of 2008, according to the MBA, to approximately $7.0 billion, from $9.7 billion. By contrast, during the third quarter of 2006, at the height of the commercial real estate boom, their commercial mortgage commitments totaled almost $34.0 billion. As a result, most of the senior lenders active in the market right now happen to be smaller regional banks, according to Akeman.
But since the smaller banks' lending capacity is limited, that means that the loans getting closed today tend to be relatively small—typically, under $5 million. Recently, for example, Akeman closed loans in that range on two Walgreens-anchored properties. The biggest deal he is working on right now is an $11 million loan for a BJ's Wholesale Club.
"It's the larger loans that are hard," says Oliver. "Lenders don't want a larger loan on their books. They want to diversify."
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Current deals are also getting done under much tighter underwriting terms. Loans on properties in secondary and tertiary markets, where most of the distress is expected to occur, have become virtually nonexistent, says Oliver. The lenders want a top quality asset in an urban location and, in many cases, they will lend only to existing clients, he notes.
But even then, with scant new transactions happening in the investment sales sector, it's extremely difficult to assess the true value of a given property, so lenders tend to be conservative, says Craig Carbrey, president and chief credit officer with EnviroFinance Group, LLC, a Sacramento, Calif.-based brownfield lending specialist. In November, the most recent month for which data is available, investment sales in the retail sector totaled $600 million and involved fewer than 50 properties, according to Real Capital Analytics, a New York City-based real estate information provider. The volume was 83 percent below that of November 2007, when roughly $2.6 billion in significant retail transactions closed.
To get a mortgage closed now loan-to-value ratios on retail transactions have to range between 50 percent and 70 percent, according to Oliver and Krauch, with interest rates of 7.5 percent to 9.5 percent. Securing financing from senior lenders will continue to be difficult for a while, says Akeman, as it will take at least until the second quarter of this year for the U.S. financial system to recover from the shocks it had received in 2008.
"To date, we have seen absolutely no movement [in the credit markets]," says Krauch. "It was bad six months ago, even worse two or three months ago, and it continues to be bad. The banks are having their own issues right now in terms of mergers and their balance sheets, so they are not going to be playing any time soon. There are very, very few lenders that are looking at deals today."
Related articles from National Real Estate Investor:
Commercial/Multifamily Mortgage Originations Plunge 80% from Fourth Quarter 2007 (2/10)
Dismal U.S. Employment Outlook Dampens Mood of Mortgage Bankers (2/10)
More Questions Than Answers As Mortgage Bankers Kick Off Convention (2/9)
Wachovia Tops List of Commercial/Multifamily Loan Servicers (2/9)


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Kristeva, Julia
Kristeva, Julia, 1941–, French critic, psychoanalyst, semiotician, and writer, b. Sliven, Bulgaria. Writing in French, she has explored many subjects including structuralist linguistics and semiotics, psychoanalysis, and contemporary feminism many of her books have been translated into English. She studied at the Univ. of Sofia and settled (1966) in Paris, where she received (1973) a doctorate in linguistics from the École Pratique des Hautes Études. Kristeva, who became a psychoanalyst at 40, is also a professor of linguistics at the Univ. of Paris. In general, she takes a poststructuralist approach, analyzing the relationships among language, society, and the self with its individual psychology and sexuality. Her books include Semeiotiké (1969), Revolution in Poetic Language (1974, tr. 1984), Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia (1987, tr. 1992), Time and Sense: Proust and the Experience of Literature (1994, tr. 1996), and The Sense and Non-Sense of Revolt (1996, tr. 2000). The subjects of her early 21st-century trilogy on
female geniusare Hannah Arendt (tr. 2001), Melanie Klein (tr. 2002), and Colette (tr. 2005). She has also written several novels.
See T. Moi, ed., The Kristeva Reader (1986) and K. Oliver, The Portable Kristeva (1997) R. M. Guberman, ed., Julia Kristeva Interviews (1996) studies by J. Lechte (1990), J. Fletcher and A. Benjamin, ed. (1990), D. R. Crownfield (1992), K. Oliver (1983 and 1993), A.-M. Smith (1998), and J. Lechte and M. Zournazi, ed. (1998) bibliography by J. Nordquist (1995).
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West Bromwich Albion defender Shaun Donnellan has joined League Two side Stevenage on loan until January.
The 19-year-old has not played a first-team game for the Baggies since coming through their ranks, but has captained the Premier League side's Under-21s.
The Republic of Ireland Under-19 international spent some of last season playing for National League North side Worcester City alongside brother Leo.
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OXFORD, MS (WAFB) - The question is where do you start after another disaster in Oxford?
With five starters out on defense, the chances of Ole Miss beating LSU looked to be slim to none. But the Rebels came together as a young defense that was hungry to beat a superior Tiger team and they ended doing just that.
LSU was held scoreless in the first half, helped in part by two Zach Mettenberger interceptions in the end zone. LSU was down 10-0 at half and at 17-0 in the 3rd period before the offense woke up and scored to make it a 17-7 game.
LSU continued its late game comeback and tied the score at 24 with just over three minutes left.
Ole Miss faced a crucial third down and long and Beau Wallace escaped two Tiger tackles for first down yardage and the dagger-to-the-heart drive for LSU fans continued for the Rebels ending with the game winning field goal.
Missed tackles continue to haunt the LSU defense. Ole Miss ran the ball at will for 176 yards on 43 carries. Wallace added 349 passing yards, completing 30 of the 39 passes. Total yardage for the Rebs, a whopping 525 yards. Did I mention that the Ole Miss offense was without starting running back Jeff Scott?
What is baffling is that a decimated Ole Miss defense gave up a total of 388 yards to a potent and superior Tiger offense.
Tiger fans continue to be told about a young defense getting stronger in the past two games. While holding struggling Miss. State and Florida to no touchdowns in the last six quarters played, let's face it, it was Miss. State and Florida.
The Tiger defense might take a look at how freshman after freshman stepped up against LSU and held the Tigers to 24 points, just enough to allow a mediocre offense to run up and down the field and score 27 points and pull off the upset.
Last question is about the timeout called with six seconds left in the game. Les Miles said he wanted to make sure the block was setup for the field goal.
But why not call a timeout when there was 20-25 seconds left in the game, giving Mettenberger, Odell Beckham and Jarvis Landry a chance to make a big play? Instead the kick was good, the game was over, and the Tigers came home with their second three point defeat of the season. The end of the game was a cruel reminder of the last minute debacle against Georgia "Between the Hedges" in Athens.
Oh, and it isn't good timing for LSU to lose with an increase in ticket prices on the horizon and lowly Furman coming to Tiger Stadium Saturday.
And speaking of what's on the horizon, LSU still has to play Texas A&M, Alabama and Arkansas after sleeping through the Furman game.
The Tigers need to win out for a 10 win season, but could just as easy finish with a four loss season.
It's time for LSU to put a complete game together and prepare in a way that will have the offense and defense ready to beat Johnny Manziel and AJ McCarron. Does that plan include a bigger role for players like Kendell Beckwith, Lamar Louis and Rickey Jefferson?
Who knows, with the way Auburn is playing a two loss team might very well end up in the SEC Championship and that could include LSU, if the team can hold up its end of the bargain.
Let that late season run start with spreading the offense and blitzing and tackling on defense and playing like an LSU team should play.
As badly as LSU played, the Tigers had a realistic shot of winning the game against Ole Miss in the fourth quarter and it just makes you wonder what might have been if the first half would not have not been another disaster in Oxford.
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Special powers used by Queensland's Crime and Corruption Commission have led to the arrest of a man over the 2013 murder of Mackay woman Shandee Blackburn.
The 32-year-old unemployed man from Mackay was arrested in Brisbane and charged with murder and robbery on Thursday afternoon.
Ms Blackburn, 23, was walking home from work in the early hours of February 9, 2013, when she was stabbed multiple times.
Early in the investigation, it was revealed Ms Blackburn had been planning a trip to the United States with her boyfriend in the days leading up to her death.
Exactly one week after the attack, Mackay detectives retraced Ms Blackburn's steps in a late night re-enactment.
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He was also known to Ms Blackburn, but Detective Inspector Karyn Murphy wouldn't explain the exact nature of their relationship.
"He certainly came to light early in the investigation," she told reporters in Brisbane.
The 32-year-old man also appeared before coercive hearings at the Crime and Corruption Commission in the past six months, she said.
Coercive hearings give the commission power to compel witnesses to appear and to override the right to silence and the privilege against self-incrimination.
Det Insp Murphy paid tribute to the work of dozens of officers who've been involved in the "long and intense" investigation.
She said police had followed hundreds of lines of inquiry.
Det Insp Murphy also acknowledged the "terrible offence" has had an impact on the Mackay community and said her thoughts were with Ms Blackburn's family.
"I don't think I can explain the range of emotions that go through your mind and your body," her mother Vicki told a media conference.
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Earlier this year, police offered a reward of $250,000 for information that led to the conviction of Ms Blackburn's killer.
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Shandee Blackburn's accused murderer will appear in the Brisbane magistrates court on Friday.


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text: TROY – Troy voters are being asked to vote in November for a $1.38 million bond to renovate the aging school building. "The school was built in 1978 and we're still dealing with that technology here in 2012," said board chair Jennifer Daigle. "As a school board, it's our responsibility to address any concerns and safety issues of our school and bring it to community members' attention and hopefully get their feedback and support on correcting those items."The school will have code violations if the community doesn't address them, said Daigle. However, she doesn't think the building inspector would go as far as to close the building for the violations. "It's more likely we're going to be faced with fines rather than faced with closure," said principal Chris Young. "Every year we're issued a deficiency report primarily on the sprinkler system. We spent a lot of money trying to get those deficiencies addressed." Last February voters rejected a $2.2 million bond. During the spring and summer, school board members worked at reducing the cost. The difference is over $800,000. School board members eliminated a new library from the initial project, work to the back of the building and the additions. Now work includes moving the administration office and moving the student and public entrance and from Silver Ridge Design. Work also includes installing a drain swale, installing gables on the east and south entrances, bringing the doors to fire code compliance, updating the electrical system, and installing a new sprinkler system. Other work includes insulating the walls and roof, installing a new heating system to replace one that is aging and inefficient, new doors, and new windows; and putting on new siding.Glenn Hankinson, director of business for the North Country Supervisory Union, outlined what would happen to the tax rate if residents approved about a $1.4 million bond. He was careful to point out he used the current year's numbers because he knows what the budget is and what the tax rate is. This year, if voters agreed to a 20-year $1.4 million bond, the overall tax rate would increase just over five cents. The overall rate for 15 years would have been just over a six cent increase, and for 10 years the rate would have been just over eight cents.The actual interest rate will be determined when and if voters decide to take bond. Hankinson said the Vermont Municipal Bond Bank projected the future combined interest rate yield for a 10-year bond to be 2.41 percent. The interest rate for 20 years is projected to be about 3.21 percent. The prevailing interest will determine the rate next July."You don't get to set the rate up front," Hankinson said. The less than half dozen or so residents who attended the meeting seemed displeased that they were not aware of the meeting until an article came out in the newspaper. Daigle said the board posted the meeting notices in the three required places and that children took home notices. Resident Betty Mason insisted the board's communication skills need improvement."If you want to get things passed, people need to be informed about what's going on," said Mason. "The school board should have known there are people without kids and don't come to school."A couple of community members requested the informational meeting, said principal Chris Young. The law requires the board hold another meeting 10 days before the bond vote. Everybody needs to have the opportunity to give input, Mason said. Jerome Rondeau, who agreed with Mason, said the board needs to make an effort to tell people what's going on. He said the majority of the people at the meeting either were school personnel or involved with the project."This is a big project," said Rondeau. "It's not going to be easy to make people understand this thing by just two couples at this board meeting."


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Grab your green and get ready for some corned beef, cabbage, fine Irish culture, music and dancing, and Irish beverages this weekend. St. Patrick's Day is upon us. There are a host of events going on throughout Niagara and Erie counties where you can celebrate the "luck of the Irish" this weekend.
Some good ones to check out:
•The Village of Youngstown's Business and Professional Association will host its second annual St. Patrick's Celebration Saturday, March 16, beginning at noon in honor of the late Neil Riordan, beloved former mayor of the village. The community is welcomed to watch a community parade as the Youngstown Board of Trustees and members of the YBPA dressed in "green garb" meet on the corner of Lockport and Main streets to kick off a "very green weekend" in the village.
Old Fort Niagara's Robert Emerson, serving as sergeant at arms, will lead off a contingent of Revolutionary British soldiers and area musicians in a presentation of arms tribute to Riordan. Members of the village board, the Riordan family and local business members will join with the McKenzie Highlanders, who will be marching in the parade wearing traditional Scottish kilts, playing bagpipes and drums in procession from the Ontario House to Brennan's Irish Pub in a celebration of green.
Area businesses will be offering St. Patrick's Day specials and all are invited for the celebration.
•The Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Men's Division 1 of the Ancient Order of the Hibernians Niagara Falls, NY, will celebrate its 31st annual St. Patrick's Day Party Sunday at the Conference Center - Niagara Falls, 101 Falls St., in Niagara Falls.
The event begins with the "world's shortest parade" at 4:45 p.m. and continues with what's billed as "Western New York's Biggest St. Patrick's Day Celebration" from 5 to 10 p.m. Tickets for the event are $7 in advance and $8 at the door. There will be music by The Blarney Bunch, dancing by the McCarthy School of Irish Dance, corned beef and cabbage served and, of course, Irish beer and other beverages. AOH organizers will be collecting non-perishable food items to be donated to the Love, Heart and Soul Pantry in memory of On Gorta Mór, the Great Irish Famine of 1845-1850.
"This is truly the largest annual party of its kind in Western New York," said Jason Murgia, director of events at the Conference & Event Center Niagara Falls. "Since this year St. Patrick's Day falls on a weekend, we are expecting even larger crowds than usual."
Advance sale tickets are being sold at B&B Cigars on Main Street and McCloud's Pharmacy on Buffalo Avenue in Niagara Falls; Always a Party on Military Road in the Town on Niagara; Cheri Amour on Center Street in Lewiston; and at McNerney's Irish Imports inside the Eastern Hills Mall.
•In Buffalo, there's two parades to enjoy. On Saturday, March 16, the Valley Community Association's "Old Neighborhood" St. Patrick's Day Parade begins at noon and proceeds along streets in the Old First Ward area of South Buffalo.
The procession will wind through the streets of the historic Buffalo River community with the participation of more than 100 marching units, making the "Old Neighborhood" St. Patrick's Day Parade one of the largest in WNY. Marching contingents will include bands, clowns, community floats, social clubs, classic cars, Irish dancers, family clans, sports groups, fire and police departments, and much more. Viewing of the parade is available along South Park Avenue (between Hamburg and Smith streets), Smith Street (between South Park Avenue and Elk Street), Elk Street (between Smith Street and South Park Avenue), Hamburg Street (between South Park and O'Connell avenues), and O'Connell Avenue (between Hamburg and Louisiana streets).
A grand "Irish Hooley" will follow from 1 to 6 p.m. at the Valley Community Association, 91 Leddy St., Buffalo. The event is open to the public. For more information, visit www.thevalleycenter.com.
•On Sunday, The United Irish American Association of Erie County will host its 73rd annual St. Patrick's Day Parade along Delaware Avenue in downtown Buffalo.
An area favorite, the parade gets under way at 2 p.m. and is expected to feature dozens of units. Mass will be celebrated that morning by newly installed Bishop Richard J. Malone at St. Joseph's Cathedral at 10:30 a.m. before the lineup for the parade that begins in Niagara Square. The Association announced that Mark R. O'Neill of Hamburg would serve as grand marshal of the 2013 St. Patrick's Day Parade, which continues along Delaware Avenue to 4 p.m. For more visit www.buffalostpatricksdayparade.com.
Still more activities:
•The Williamsville Business Association's St. Patrick's Day week, featuring indoor and outdoor activities, continues to Sunday, March 17, along Main Street in the Village of Williamsville. For more, visit www.willvill.com.
•St. Patrick's Day at the Lewiston Village Pub, 840 Center St., kicks off at 8 a.m., today, March 16, with Irish food and drink specials, Irish dancers, music and more, continuing both Saturday and Sunday. For more, visit www.lewistonvillagepub.com.
•St. Patrick's Day weekend celebrations will be held at the Buffalo Irish Center, 245 Abbott Road, Buffalo. For more, visit www.buffaloirishcenter.com.
•A special St. Patrick's "Celtic Art Show," presented by Niagara Falls artist Mary Grace O will be held at Wine on Third, 501 Third St., Niagara Falls, on Thursday, March 21, from 6 to 10 p.m. The showing will feature Celtic art and Celtic entertainment.
"Join us for another great 'Thursday on Third' event! This is a group show and we will have Celtic-inspired artwork from a very talented group of local artists, says Mary Grace. "Please join us for another night of art, food, fun ... oh, and wine." For more, contact Wine on Third at 716-245-4147.