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Would you like free insurance with that?
If you're buying a GM car in Washington or Oregon these days, you might hear those exact words from your dealer.
It's part of a new crop of aggressive incentives that also includes Hyundai's trade-in guarantee and Chrysler's no-payments-for-90-days plan.
Experts say we're seeing these incentives now because the marketplace has become so competitive, and cash back or special financing offers no longer resonate with buyers.
"That's an old message. That's a tired message that a lot of companies have been doing for a long time, since Lee Iacocca said 'buy a car, get a check'," said Joe Kyriakoza, general manager of automotive for Colorado-based Datalogix, which offers data and analysis on a number of industries.
In fact, traditional incentives have gone down this year. Kyriakoza said incentives have gone down in March, April, May and June, and June's levels were the lowest since October 2005, citing data from the data-tracking website TrueCar(truecar.com).
Philip Reed of Edmunds.com said that has happened in part because inventory has been down due to the major earthquake earlier this year in Japan.
"It's not been a typical summer," said Reed, senior consumer advice editor at Edmunds.com.
We are also seeing the more aggressive incentives now because sales have not been strong, said Reed. U.S. sales were at almost 7.4 million through July, which meant they were running about 10 percent higher than in 2010 but still below historically high levels.
Whatever the reason, we've read the fine print on four programs that may help you.
How it works: Depending on which car you buy, Hyundai gives you a percentage of the purchase price that you are guaranteed to receive at trade-in. If the actual trade-in value is higher, you get the higher amount.
What you need to do: Buy a new Hyundai, trade it in on another new Hyundai within two to four years, drive less than 15,000 miles a year and have all service performed at a Hyundai delaership. Charges are assessed for miles higher than 15,000 a year and for damages to the car.
Hyundai spokesman Jim Trainor said the service stipulation is necessary to ensure the car is maintained properly. "Who's to say that Joe's garage at the end of the street is doing things to the company's specifications," he said.
Reed and Kyriakoza saw no issues with the stipulation; Reed said he advises new-car owners to have the vehicles serviced at a dealer anyway. Both said the details of the deal are similar to the details of a lease deal — including an upfront statement of value after a period of years.
"The biggest caveat to the whole thing is you have to buy another Hyundai," Reed said.
The verdict: Kyriakoza was very high on the program, calling it a "game-changer" for people buying a car. Reed felt it was more of a tie-breaker if you're considering a Hyundai anyway but looking at competing models as well.
Last word: "If you are a parent and you're going to buy your 16-year-old a Hyundai Accent because you don't care if he trashes it because you know you are going to get your $12,000, you have to be wary of that," Kyriakoza said.
How it works: If you buy a new 2011 or 2012 Chrysler, Dodge or Jeep vehicle, your first payment is deferred 90 days. Chrysler spokesman Ralph Kisiel said the program may help people who want a new car, but have other bills, such as medical expenses or student loans, that will expire soon.
What you need to do: Buy by Sept. 6, when the offer ends, and finance the car through Ally Financial, which is Chrysler's preferred lender. Kisiel said you may be able to finance through Chase bank as well.
The verdict: Kyriakoza gave the program a "lukewarm" recommendation, while Reed said he would not recommend it.
"This kind of thing is a little dangerous because, first of all, it will make people buy who can't afford it. There's a psychology that says 'I'll buy and things will get better'," he said.
"You're very excited about a new car when you get it, and then as time goes on, your motivation to make the payments diminishes."
Last word: "You still have to pay. What do you get by deferring? I don't see any benefit to the responsible consumer," Reed said.
How it works: Buy a new GM and get a year of insurance at no charge. GM spokesman Tom Henderson said the cost is born by GM, although he acknowledged that it may be rolled into the price of the car.
What you need to do: Live in Oregon or Washington and buy a car that will be titled in either state, by Sept. 6, when the offer ends.
The verdict: Reed advised buyers to check out the insurance and make sure it's adequate. Kyriakoza cautioned buyers to read the fine print and make sure they will not get hit with a balloon payment, but again gave a tepid endorsement.
"People get comfortable with their insurance providers, and switching is something consumers hate to do. But if it's technically free, I guess there is a value there," Kyriakoza said.
Last word: "Anecdotally, very few customers are declining the insurance, so it seems to be well-accepted," Henderson said.
How they work: At least 15 different auto brands offer some form of free maintenance, some lasting for as long as four years. Different brands offer different levels of coverage; among luxury brands, it's common to receive full coverage, even on wearable parts like brake pads.
What you need to do: Buy a car that qualifies for coverage. Some automakers offer coverage on only some of their cars.
The verdict: Kyriakoza and Reed both said the programs can be good for the right buyer.
"A lot of luxury buyers are older. They aren't going to work on their cars; they'd much rather have someone pick it up at the house," Kyriakoza said.
Last word: Reed said the programs also take away buyers' concerns that dealers may try to fix more than what a buyer came to the shop for, at additional cost. "They don't add stuff on. You're in and out, and you know you're not going to spend extra money."
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Johnny McCain's Childhood: The Strangest Lie of All
You'd think John McCain would feel a twinge of shame when he hears Sarah Palin gush patriotic over the "pro-American" areas of the country, as opposed to, say, Washington, D.C. – a sentiment she clarified with these words:
We believe that the best of America is not all in Washington, D.C. We believe – we believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, um, very, um, pro-America areas of this great nation. This is where we find the kindness and the goodness and the courage of everyday Americans. (1)
Just a twinge. After all, John McCain spent nearly half of his childhood — ages nine through his early twenties — living in Washington D.C., (2) in that very hotbed of elitist anti-Americanism. Of course, you'd never know it, since John McCain's life histories skim over his entire childhood, as if he were born, then didn't exist again until the age of fifteen.
John McCain's Boyhood Years: The Google Bio vs. A More Accurate Bio
I'm not the first to google McCain's childhood bio and find only this, scattered with a few stories about his scrappy temperament:
- Born in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936
- For the next 15 years, he "moved around the US to various naval stations as a result of his father's career and ended up attending approximately twenty different schools."."
- In 1951, at the age of 15, he began attending Episcopal High School, a prep school located in Alexandria, Virginia, a suburb 10 minutes outside of Washington D.C.
A more accurate bio looks like this, with two years unaccounted for, during which time his father completed three different submarine missions. Did McCain attend 20 different schools between 1949-1951?
- America's Panama Canal Zone: August – December 1936 (ages birth to 3 months)
- New London, Connecticut: 1936 – 1938 (ages 3 months to 2 years)
- (possibly) Annapolis, Maryland (1938-1940) (ages 2 years to 4 years)
- New London, Connecticut 1940-1945/1946 (ages 4 years to 9 years)
- Attended St. Stephen's School, Alexandria Va. 1946-1949 (10 years to 13 years)
- Unaccounted for: 1949-1951
- Attended Episcopal High School, Alexandria, Va: 1951 – 1954
- U.S. Naval Academy: 1954 – 1958
A Lie is Born
McCain's childhood resume wouldn't really bear mentioning at all, had he not spent the past 25 years lying about it, and then spent the past two months lying about Barack Obama's childhood resume. Did John McCain really go to 20 different schools? And was Hanoi really the longest he'd lived any one place up until the age of 46, as he's asserted so many times over the years?
Listen, pal, I spent 22 years in the Navy. My father was in the Navy. My grandfather was in the Navy. We in the military service tend to move a lot. I wish I could have had the luxury, like you, of growing up and living and spending my entire life in a place like the First District of Arizona, but I was doing other things. As a matter of fact, when I think about it now, the place I lived longest in my life was Hanoi. — John McCain, 1982, defending himself against accusations that he was a big-moneyed, carpetbagger opportunist during his first political campaign, as a new Arizona resident, running for an open seat in Arizona's 1st congressional district.
According to historian, Mary Hershberger, "After that dramatic claim, raising the carpetbagger issue seemed unpatriotic. It worked like magic and he said it showed him that his time as a POW was 'a good first story to sell' on the campaign trail. He's been selling it ever since. The problem, of course, is that it's far from the truth, at least if he lived with his parents while growing up. With the exception of two years, from the time that John was nine until he was in his twenties, they lived in Washington, D.C. They had a house on Capitol Hill where Congressional leaders regularly dropped by for meals. When he returned from Vietnam in 1973, he lived and worked in Washington, D.C, four more years. So, when he made his political claim in 1982 about living longest in Hanoi, he surely knew that it wasn't true, but nobody checked it out and he kept saying it." (2)
McCain most recently incanted the Hanoi claim in late Sept. 2008, in a 60 Mintues interview on CBS:
Pelley: You were born in the Panama Canal Zone because your father was stationed there. Where'd you live as a kid?
McCain: Well, we lived in San Diego, we lived in Norfolk, Virginia. We lived in the Washington D.C. area. We lived in New London, Connecticut. My dad was a submariner.
Pelley: Longest you've lived any one place?
McCain: Hanoi. Hanoi was the longest- I lived any place, five and a half years.
Pelley: When you were in prison?
McCain: Yup, yeah, I certainly don't wanna call that my hometown. (3)
If John McCain lived in Norfolk outside of his Navy pilot days, as an adult, there's no paper trail to prove it. There is mention of him staying with his aunt Rowena in Windsor Square, Ca, and briefly attending Third Street School during the time the family still lived in New London (time period unknown), but if young John ever even visited San Diego as a child, much less lived there, there's no trail to prove that either since — unlike his campaign opponent, Barack Obama — John McCain's life history has not been well-documented, and can only be gathered piecemeal by scrutinizing various documents and biographies (e.g. 4, 7). Which makes particularly odd his frequent attacks (spoken before jeering audiences, perhaps in the hope of reinforcing his campaign's ploy to paint Obama as a Muslim terrorist) as McCain wages accusations that the details on Barack Obama's life are unknown and unknowable:
Even at this late hour in the campaign, there are essential things we don't know about Senator Obama or the record that he brings to this campaign….For a guy who's already authored two memoirs, he's not exactly an open book. (5)
You all, America knows me…. You know my story, my convictions. You need to know who you're putting in the White House and where that candidate came from and what he or she believes in. …. In short, who is the real Barack Obama? My friends, you ask such questions and all you get is another angry barrage of insults. (link here)
The question is: Why would anyone need to ask Obama 'where he came from and what he believes in,' since Obama has already told us over and over and over? Obama has been an open book on this –both literally and figuratively –having published his life story, and having repeatedly stated these things outright while on the campaign trail. And, for anyone who missed hearing the details of Obama's childhood, a simple google of the term, "Barack Obama's childhood" will deliver his entire childhood resume to you at the touch of a button. It's so simple, actually, that it can be condensed into one sentence: Barack Obama was born in Hawaii, where he spent his entire childhood, except through the ages of 6 through 10, when he lived in Indonesia with his sister, his mother, and her new husband.
It's not so easy for John McCain.
But, then — as John McCain will be the first to tell you — nothing has ever been so easy for John McCain, beginning with his boyhood school days, which he's repeatedy described in detail. Here's one such version, provided by the Hoover Institution:
McCain calls the base schools "substandard." Sometimes the schoolhouse was "nothing more than a converted aircraft hangar," he writes. "The classes mixed children of varying ages. We might have one teacher on Monday and a different one on Tuesday. On other days, we lacked the services of any teacher at all." Needless to say, he was "often required in a new school to study things I had already learned. Other times, the curriculum assumed knowledge I had not yet acquired."
If the accommodations and scheduling were not idiosyncratic enough, the frequent moves, says McCain, were the "chief obstacle to a decent education…. As soon as I had begun to settle into a school, my father would be reassigned." Though McCain says that such a "transient childhood" was simply a way of life, it was not a life lived by most Americans. "Seldom if ever did I see again the friends I left behind," he says. (6)
Convincing stuff. Kinda tugs at your heartstrings, don't it? Makes for good copy, too — much like his Hanoi claim, which is pure bunk. Given what is known about John McCain's actual boyhood history, plus his propensity for, uh, stretching the truth, his 20-schools-in-2 years story is dubious — even if one is extremely generous, taking into account his visit(s) to his aunt Rowena in California. Again, McCain's childhood resume wouldn't bear mentioning, had he not spent the past 25 years lying about it, and then spent the past two months lying about Barack Obama's childhood resume. Here, a few questions beg answers: What's true and what's not? And why does McCain feel compelled to lie about any of his boyhood history? What's to be gained? Did he simply get caught up in a small lie, that turned into a big lie, which he's now doomed to forever repeat?
Answer: It Was Invented in Increments
I'm not the first to wonder about John McCain's childhood history. The internet is riddled with unanswered questions about the most rudimentary aspects of his elementary years. One such inquiry turned humorous, when one googler attempted to locate childhood photos of McCain and — turning up nothing — decided to google, "When was the camera invented?" Interestingly, there are no childhood photos of John McCain on the internet — not that I could find, anyway — while there are a wealth of Barack Obama's childhood photos, which easily substantiate Obama's stated life story.
A similar body of McCain's boyhood photos from infancy through age 15 would surely substantiate the stories he's repeated throughout his political career, regarding his "transient childhood" and the geographical whereabouts of at least some of the 20 schools he attended. Or not.
Perhaps these photos simply don't exist. Odd as this theory may seem, it is plausible, given that his mother, Roberta McCain, couldn't produce a single photo of John from the dozens of family photos displayed on her dresser-top (see video, below, starting at 2:35) during a tour of her Washington, D.C. apartment, (although she did allow that there are boxes containing some of his childhood photos, which she's been meaning to dig out). Perhaps one day we'll see them. Or not.
- Huffington Post: Palin Explains What Parts of Country Not "Pro-American"
- John Dean Interview: Reflections on Historian Mary Hershberger's Piece on McCain's War Record, and a Q&A with the Author
- CBS 60 Minutes Interview, Sept. 21, 2008
- John McCain: An American Odyssey, by Robert Timberg (p. 23): At Saint Stephen's, an exclusive private school in the Washington, D.C. area, [McCain] had begun to display a defiant, unruly streak. But it was not until a few years later when he entered Episcopal High School, a boys' boarding school in Alexandria, Virginia, that those qualities emerged with a vengeance. (pg. 29): During this period, [McCain's dad] took on two jobs that some feel jump-started a career on the verge of stalling. As the Navy's first chief of information, a public relations post, he cultivated influential Washington correspondents. A short time later he became the Navy's senior congressional lobbyist. Soon many of the nation's most powerful politicians were streaming to the spacious McCain town house at First and C., S.E., now the Capitol Hill Club, the GOP's official watering hole. (pg. 87, on McCain's conversations with his POW cellmate, Bud Day): Day was ten years older, but McCain was the more worldly, regaling his cellmate with tales of youthful carousing and womanizing. He was also more politically sophisticated, having kept an ear to the wall when his parents entertained senators, congressmen, and other big-wigs at their Capitol Hill home. Day said McCain helped him understand how Washington really worked, with emphasis on the human dimension.
- New York Times: McCain: 'Who is the real Barack Obama?"
- Hoover Institution: The Early Education of Our Next President
- Man of the People by Paul Alexander
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Both Washington's Initiative 502 and Colorado's Amendment 64 passed muster during last night's election garnering 56 and 53 percent of the vote, respectively. Detroit's Proposal M passed with a whopping 63 percent approval and Massachusetts legalized MMJ by a 2-to-1 margin! WOOT! CELEBRATOKES FOR EVERYBODY! However, residents of Oregon voted down their full-legalization Measure 80 and Arkansas narrowly defeated it's medical marijuana initiative. To their credit, neither of these states will be subject to the oncoming Federal vs States Rights shitstorm. [WPD 1, 2 - Oregon Live - Detroit News - Image: Shutterstock]
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BWF Shares LA's Deadly Secret of Santee Alley
UNWEANED BABY BUNNIES, taken from their mothers and sold in Santee Alley are 10 – 14 DAY OLD. They should stay with their mothers a minimum of 8 weeks. They can ONLY survive on MILK. Most DIE within 2-5 days of purchase. They are NOT MINIATURE OR DWARF bunnies as claimed by the ILLEGAL profit-hungry vendors. DO NOT BUY THESE BUNNIES!
Take a walk down Santee Alley, the garment district of downtown Los Angeles, and you will unveil horrors of the seemingly innocent animal trade. "They" are breeding them under the worst possible conditions, and discarding their mothers after they are unable to "produce" any more. Snake food? Bulldog training? Gift for a laboratory testing? Food? We don't know, but what we do know is that the babies are supposed to stay with their mothers for at least 8 weeks. Instead, "They" snatch them when they are 8 - 10 days old, eyes closed, chances of survival minimal, and sell them in Santee Alley for a pittance as "pets." "They" feed the babies lettuce and carrots which gives them diarrhea and, after hours of seizures, causes a slow and painful death. During the summer, babies are put in miserable bird cages, dehydrated, starved and kept in filthy conditions. During the winter, they freeze and die before they even reach the shelter. These babies are being sold as pets for children. Those who buy them typically end up with a dead bunny the next day.
At times, the LAPD impound the animals, chase "Them" away and call animal control to pick them up. Since "They" are not penalized, "They" come back the next day and it's the same atrocity all over again. The LA Fashion BID (Business Improvement District) trucks come and pick up the animals (bunnies, birds, turtles, etc.) take them to their field office, and keep them there for LA Animal Control to pick up. In the past, once the animals were taken to "safety" at the North LA Animal shelter, they were euthanized the very same day they were "rescued." However, since June 15th, 2008, BTW has been in the trenches with LA Fashion BID staff fighting against this problem. Not only have we brought the attention of the authorities to this illegal and cruel activity, but we have also begun rescuing these bunnies so that they are not sent to a certain death through LA Animal Control. Once rescued, we pick them up, de-worm them, de-flea them, give them medicine and wean them for two months until they are strong enough to live on hay, veggies and pellets. Then we look for good homes where they can live happy and safe.
While the LAPD consider this atrocious act a simple misdemeanor, we think of it as animal cruelty. Not only is this an issue of animal cruelty, but it is an issue of public health and safety. The CDC warns against catching salmonella from turtles that can also spread other diseases, such as TB, chlamydiosis, arizonosis, and colibacillosis. The sale of turtles smaller than 4 inches has been banned since 1975; but this doesn't stop "Them" from selling those babies. IT IS A HEALTH ISSUE, AN ANIMAL CRUELTY ISSUE, A TAXPAYER ISSUE.
Common sense tells us that this "revelation" would bring about a concerted effort by the city and County, but the LAPD claim that they are unable to stop this cruelty. Our emails with the City of LA are answered but not acted upon. They tell us how difficult it is to increase the fines, how difficult it is to stop the vendors, how difficult it is to change the law and how difficult it is to consider this act of animal cruelty a crime — not misdemeanor. We have written to the District Attorney's Office, the Mayor's Office and the Governor, but we were ignored! We even risked our lives to take photos of the criminals and supply them to LAPD. Fifty photos and a video have been supplied to the LAPD but they still haven't processed a police report, let alone prosecute these vendors.
In June of 2008, our Founder, Lejla Hadzimuratovic, almost lost her life by confronting these vendors... but no one cared. Even PETA, which originally sent her there as a volunteer, washed their hands of this case, and advised her that these animals should be euthanized and that they were "sorry" that she was attacked. Los Angeles Downtown News published a story by Anna Scott, who ironically captured the very same vendors' faces on her camera who were still standing on the very same corner and selling more bunnies, salmonella-infected turtles and little birds.
As of today, "They" are untouchable. "Their" photos sit on LAPD's desk. "They" rule the streets of LA and no one wants / dares to stop this cruelty. PLEASE HELP US PUT A STOP TO THE CRUEL AND ILLEGAL SALES OF ANIMALS AT SANTEE ALLEY! Write a letter to your local representative and say that you care.


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LU represented at Chick-fil-A dodgeball tournament in Richmond, VA
A team representing Liberty University placed ninth among 200 teams in a Chick-fil-A-sponsored dodgeball tournament in Richmond on Saturday.
The team, comprised of four current resident assistants, one former resident assistant and two resident directors competed under the name "Jerry Jr.'s Boys."
The team included Danny Lamonte, Tom Hinkley, Ben Baxley, Charley Peele, Kyle Mullett, Glenn Housden, and Josh Geisler.
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The Over 18 division of the tournament, one of the 10 largest in the United States, played on 23 separate courts.
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"While we were thrilled with our finish and had an incredible time, we were blessed even more by the opportunity to share our testimony directly on two separate occasions and by our encouragement throughout the day," wrote Tom Hinkley, a member of the team, in an e-mail to LU Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr.


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Paper seems such an ordinary product today, but it has been fundemental to modern civilisation. 1,100 years ago people were manufacturing paper in Baghdad in Muslim Civilisation.
It is believed that the secrets of Chinese paper making were passed on to the people of Baghdad around the year 751.
Very quickly, the art of paper-making was refined and transformed into mass production by the mills of Baghdad. Some of the techniques employed in Baghdad included the use of linen as a substitute for thr bark of the mulberry which the Chinese used. This involved a more refined and improved method of production.
This development facilitated the build of many paper mills in Baghdad from where the industry spread to Damascus which became the major source of supply of paper to Europe; and various other places around the world.
After the industry fllourished in Iraq, Syria and Palestine, it spread west. The first paper mill in Africa was built in Egypt around 850; then a paper mill was built in Morocco from where it reached Spain in 950. In 1293 the first paper mill in Bologna was set up. The first use of paper in England did not come until 1309, then Germany in the late stages of the 14th century.
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The tools and technique of making paper leaf depicted in a volume illustrating crafts and trades, Kashmir (Source) - British Library: "Making Islamic-style paper"
Two folio pages (239b - 241b ) of the manuscript Or. 298 at Leiden University Library, which is probably the oldest known Arabic manuscript on paper (dated Dhu al-Qa`da 252 (866 CE). Arabic, paper, 241 ff., upright script (with application of ihmal), bound in a full-leather standard binding. The present volume contains an incomplete copy of Gharib al-Hadith, by Abu `Ubayd al-Qasim b. Sallam al-Baghdadi (d. 223 H/837 CE). (Source) Muslim Heritage: "Filling the Gap in the History of Pre-Modern Industry: 1000 Years of Missing Islamic Industry" by Professor Salim Al-Hassani
[Perron, Nicolas.] Al-Azhar al-badi'a fi 'ilm al-tabi'a. Translated by Yuhanna 'Anturi. Bulaq, 1254 [1838]. Muslim Heritage: "Manuscripts and printing in the spread of Muslim science" by Geoffrey Roper
Another interesting book published by Ibrahim Muteferrika Press, was a history of the discovery of America. Printed towards the beginning of April, 1730, it is the first Islamic printed book with figural illustrations. Based partly on Latin sources, the History of the West Indies contains an introduction on the geographical views of ancient writers -showing their ignorance of the New World -and then gives an account of the Spanish discoveries, including fabulous stories of the flora and fauna of the New World, illustrated by 13 prints and four maps, engraved by Ibrahim. Muslim Heritage: "Arabic and the Art of Printing" by Saudi Aramco World Magazine
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Plácido Domingo talks about Italian and Neapolitan songs
Plácido Domingo has waited for almost forty years to demonstrate his affinities with a genre that is a self-evident part of the standard tenor repertory. Ever since the days of Enrico Caruso and Fernando de Lucia, Italian and Neapolitan songs have been the ideal way for every tenor of a Mediterranean stamp to win his public's hearts with their artless yet memorable melodies. Plácido Domingo's declaration of his love for Italy, Italia, ti amo, features sixteen songs in new orchestral arrangements, many of them rarities and all of them deeply moving songs telling of grand emotions with a sense of profoundly stirring melancholy.
Mr Domingo, your new CD Italia, ti amo is devoted to Italian songs. What is your personal connection with this repertory?
I got to know many of these songs at a very early age - I belong to a generation for whom these songs are inextricably associated with the voice of Mario Lanza, although I personally have always been more fascinated by the recordings made by Giuseppe di Stefano and the lesser-known Francesco Albanese. Albanese sings the Neapolitan songs in particular with an incomparable charm that goes straight to the heart.
In spite of your early acquaintance with these songs, you have waited for forty years to record an album of them.
That's simply because I'm Spanish, so that it was a point of honour for me to record the much less well-known Spanish repertory. I felt that there were already enough Italian tenors singing Italian songs. That's why in recent years I have recorded albums of zarzuela arias and Mexican and Cuban songs. The Italian and Neapolitan songs have played a marginal role in my concerts, so that the present project has evolved only slowly.
What is the distinction between Italian and Neapolitan songs? Is it a question of the language?
That plays a role, of course. The pronunciation is completely different, the articulation and vowels have completely different colours that are not so easy to learn. Fortunately I had a very good language coach for the album and I think I've managed to acquire an authentic Neapolitan accent. Quite apart from this, however, the atmosphere of these songs is very special - on the one hand it is very close to Italian, while on the other it is very remote from it. Most of these pieces have an incredible sense of melancholy that is deeply moving.
In spite of this, they are still regarded as "lightweight" in the world of classical music.
That's because of their wonderful melodies, which lodge in your head straightaway. In spite of this, there is often a great emotional depth to these songs, and as a singer you have to fill every single note with this passion. That is why these songs are by no means easy to sing.
But listeners will search this CD in vain for the best-known songs such as Torna a Surriento and O sole mio.
I think that audiences are rather tired of always hearing the same old pieces - also, the best-known songs are not always the best. The only really well-known song that I've included here is Core 'ngrato as I'm very fond of its underlying mood, which is wistful and ever so slightly sad. Most of the pieces that I sing are ones that I discovered only while researching this CD.
Is the Italy of these songs still with us, or is it already part of a nostalgic past?
You have only to go to Naples to see how much this music is still alive among the people. On the streets, in the port, in pizzerias, everywhere - people still sing these songs, especially the most famous ones.
The pieces that you have included in your album cover a wide chronological range from the 19th to the 21st century. Have Italian songs changed much during this period?
No. I see no real development between a canzone by Tosti and Nino Rota's What Is a Youth?, which he wrote for Zeffirelli's film of Romeo and Juliet: it's all entirely melodious music whose charm lies in its simple and deeply moving melodies. At the same time - and even with Tosti - there is an operatic side to the emotions that you don't find in Schubert and Brahms. It was in part to bring out this extrovert aspect that we decided to record these songs not with a piano accompaniment but in orchestral arrangements. And I think that these brighter colours are particularly well suited to a song like Tosti's Non t'amo piů.
You've spoken a great deal about the sadness and melancholy of these songs. Is the alternative, sun-drenched Italy also represented on your CD?
Certainly. Songs such as Chitarra romana and Mandolinate are all full of joy and high spirits. I think we've struck a very good balance between the different moods.
But one of the songs isn't by an Italian composer at all ...
You mean Quarant'anni by my son, Plácido Junior. He wrote this song for me and my wife on the occasion of our fortieth wedding anniversary last year, so that it's a source of great personal pleasure for me to offer this piece to a wider public.
Plácido Domingo has just turned 65 and - 30 years after his first solo album for Deutsche Grammophon - looks ahead to an extraordinary year: three complete opera recordings and a CD of Italian songs.
Recently, at a London airport, an elderly woman recognized him: "Why, you're Plácido Domingo, aren't you?" - "Yes", answered the tenor, "I am." "I'm so pleased to meet you. You are the greatest singer in the world!" said the woman, adding: "Please greet the others for me, too - Luciano Pavarotti, José Carreras. And give my special greetings to Maria Callas."
Plácido Domingo smiles as he tells this story. He's too wrapped up in living life to give much thought to the immortality of his voice. "I'll greet the two other gentlemen," he replies to the lady, "but with Callas I'd still like to wait for a bit." Before he enters the heaven that welcomes singers, this tenor still has some things left to accomplish here on earth.
On 21 January the artist celebrated his 65th birthday - and 2006 will be one of his most productive years ever. No fewer than three complete opera recordings starring Domingo will appear on Deutsche Grammophon: Wagner's Parsifal, Puccini's Edgar and Isaac Albéniz's Pepita Jiménez. In addition, he will release "Italia, ti amo", an Italian and Neapolitan songbook.
No tenor embodies classical music as fully as he does: singer, opera company director, conductor and impresario. Domingo was born in Madrid in 1941, but moved with his parents to Mexico, where his father directed a zarzuela company. "Singing for me," Domingo recalls, "was as natural as eating and drinking - as breathing." Before long he trod the boards for the first time, as Borsa in Verdi's Rigoletto.
Following early successes on the operatic stage, Domingo became a central figure in a new era of tenors - along with Luciano Pavarotti and José Carreras - taking over from Mario del Monaco, Giuseppe di Stefano and Franco Corelli. And the three singers reinvented classical music in 1990 when they appeared together for the first time at the football World Cup as "The Three Tenors". They thrilled a worldwide audience of millions.
"I still get letters where people write me that after our concert they bought an opera subscription for the first time in their lives." When Domingo receives such letters he's close to realizing his fondest dream: "Music should be possible for everyone."
"The world of opera has changed a lot since I started out," says the tenor. "On the one hand, there are many more opera houses, and the standard of singers has improved; but on the other hand, it's more difficult for singers of the next generation to establish themselves." Domingo has certainly established himself: he has sung over 120 roles in over 40 years on the stages of all the world's greatest opera houses. But he's not thinking about retiring. He devours new roles insatiably, discovers new works, and sings operas that he's never done before.
In recent years he's been devoting himself especially to the works of Richard Wagner. His appearances as Siegmund and Lohengrin at the Bayreuth Festival were highly acclaimed; last year Domingo recorded Tristan und Isolde (EMI). This year will witness another high-point of his Wagner cycle: Parsifal, live from the Vienna State Opera.
"Wagner is a composer of marathons," the tenor declares, "among the greatest challenges for a singer. And his Parsifal is a profound, wondrously beautiful confession of faith." Together with the conductor and Wagner specialist Christian Thielemann, Domingo achieved a breathtaking evening in the theatre, one that is now documented in a live recording.
"It's often said that record companies make live recordings to save money," he says, "but there are opera evenings when such recordings function brilliantly, because the CDs manage to convey the excitement on stage, the crackle of electricity in the air."
Domingo is a singing actor, a stage animal, but he's also a "recording artist", who knows how to put his whole physical being into his voice when he stands before a microphone. You can hear that on his other two new opera recordings from Deutsche Grammophon.
As opera company director and as conductor, the tenor is constantly occupying himself with neglected works in the repertoire. "It's a tragedy that most opera houses concentrate on barely 100 pieces. There's so much music that we haven't heard yet." One of these pieces is Isaac Albéniz's lyric-comic opera Pepita Jiménez. Albéniz (1860-1909) became known as a Spanish piano virtuoso, but this cosmopolitan composer, who lived for many years in London, also wrote five zarzuelas and four operas. These works have long been forgotten, but thanks to historically minded musicians like Domingo, the composer, who brought a fresh breeze into the post-Wagner era, is now enjoying a renaissance - especially on the Spanish opera stage.
Pepita Jiménez tells the amusing and morally contentious story of an Andalusian widow who falls in love with a young seminarian. The work, which had its premiere in 1896, marks an important step in the development of Spanish national opera. Yet, despite its significance, this recording with Jane Henschel and Carol Vaness, conducted by José de Eusebio, is the opera's first.
Puccini's Edgar is another opera that has languished outside of the standard repertoire, and yet this early work about the amorous escapades of a young soldier is brimming with invention. Puccini was inspired by the success of Bizet's Carmen and wrote an opera that allows the tenor, in particular, to display his lyrical powers to the full. "I love Puccini", the singer declares. "He lets you revel in the sheer sound of the vocal writing. Joining him are soprano Adriana Damato and bass Juan Pons. Alberto Veronesi conducts the Santa Cecilia Orchestra.
In addition to the three complete operas, Domingo this year is presenting a further album that's also something rather special: in it he pays homage to "the land that has given us some of the most beautiful of all melodies". It has been long overdue for Domingo to turn his attention to Neapolitan and other Italian songs - this new recording marks the first time for that in his career of more than 40 years. "I love the dynamism, the emotionality and the exuberance of these songs." Alongside some discoveries, Domingo has also recorded classics like "Core 'ngrato" - the only song on the CD that he's released before: that, in fact, was on his very first solo recording for Deutsche Grammophon, made 30 years ago. He understands the fine line that separates performing large-scale operas and small-scale songs, as did his great predecessor Enrico Caruso. For both, every kind of singing was and is always a matter of serious art.
"Italia, ti amo" is a declaration of love - and further evidence of the versatility of this incomparable artist, who is equally at home in Wagner and zarzuela, Puccini's lyricism, Spanish opera and the life-affirming Italian sunshine.
Someone who achieves immortality on earth with his voice can even expect one day to greet Maria Callas.
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Everyone should serve jury duty — like any patriotic American I believe this.
But when I got the summons, I — like many Americans — wasn't ready to take an extended leave from work, so I started looking for a way out of it.
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Simple enough, but I learned of another trick from a lawyer friend. Mention the term "jury nullification," he said, and the lawyers won't want anything to do with you. This term refers to the ability of a juror to decline to convict based on a law he disagrees with — no matter the evidence. This sounded like a great idea.
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If we had any sort of bias, he said, we should tell them now so we could be excused. If we were biased against a plaintiff who was a former drug addict, we should tell them so we could be excused. If we had a problem with New York tort law or workplace safety law, then we should let them know so we could be excused. The lawyers only got three vetoes each, he said, so they would prefer we tell them upfront if we wouldn't be good jurors. Also if we weren't available on February 26, then we should excuse ourselves.
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In a word, no. As a tablet the Vox is woefully underpowered. Kobo has equipped it with an aged 800MHz Freescale i.MX51 processor and partnered it with 512MB RAM. Even with the phone friendly Android 2.3 Gingerbread at its core the Vox is sluggish in the extreme. Every action involves a delay, scrolling stutters and even turning eBook pages has a frustrating lag, despite the lack of any transitional animation. The unresponsive FFS panel doesn't help, but regardless of the main culprit it all adds up to an unacceptably substandard user experience.
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back which – while pleasant to the eye – is prone to picking up every bump or scuff and will not wear well long term. Meanwhile build quality as a whole feels cheap with squeaks and creaks as you use the Vox which hardly inspires confidence.
This is all something of shame. Rather than lambasting the Vox for being so disappointing we are frustrated at an opportunity missed. Kobo has an excellent, wide ranging eBook store with over two million titles and it has teamed with Zinio to bring with it a further 4,000 magazines. Pricing is reasonable, keeping inline with Amazon for the most part, and there are thousands of royalty free literary classics to be had. The Vox also supports the popular ePub standard (absent for Kindles) and in a rare example of hardware prowess, Kobo has also equipped the Vox with 8GB of storage (plus a microSD slot) so the potential is there for all to see.
Kobo has thought about the software too. As is often the case with custom Android builds, Android Marketplace has been removed, but there is a basic third party app store and reader "Awards" are available to encourage your blood shot eyes to keep going. At £169.99 the Vox is reasonably priced too costing as much as an 8GB iPod touch and little more than e-ink eReaders did a few years ago.
Despite this our sympathy is short lived as the Vox's battery life hammered a final nail into an already industrially-sealed coffin. Kobo claims the Vox will provide seven hours of usage, but we found that optimistic with it dead inside five hours. When running standard definition YouTube videos on loop (it is not capable of HD) we were able to kill the Vox in well under four hours. Web browsing is a similarly sad tale draining the battery almost as quickly as video playback and notably grinding to a stuttering halt when navigating complex web pages. At least Android 2.3 means the Vox is detected as a mobile device which means less challenging website versions are loaded most of the time. This is a minor plus point however and with the Kindle Fire tipped to dominate Android tablet/eReader sales next year a cheap, credible alternative is needed. Sadly, even with the most forgiving eyes, it is impossible to see the Kobo Vox as it.
With the Amazon Kindle Fire currently US-only, Kobo has missed a great opportunity with the Vox. As the only prominent LCD eBook reader in the run up to Christmas it will no doubt sell well, but satisfied customers will be few and far between. Navigation is tortuously sluggish, the display is second rate and the design materials lack thought. There is much promise in Kobo's innovate take on eBook reading rewards and the Kobo store is very well stocked, but we can't imagine any scenario where you'd want to use the Vox for long enough to enjoy either.
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(CBS/AP) HARRISBURG, Pa. - Pennsylvania's public employee pension system says it won't be able to say if Jerry Sandusky will lose his retirement benefits until after he's sentenced, a proceeding expected in about three months.
Sandusky's $59,000 per year state pension is still being paid out, even after being convicted on 45 criminal counts for sexually abusing 10 boys, reports CBS affiliate KYW in Philadelphia. As he sits in the Centre County prison now, Sandusky is currently collecting monthly pension checks totaling $4,908.17.
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Offenses that trigger forfeiture are generally along the lines of theft, obstruction and perjury. A pension system document says forfeiture can also occur when a school employee commits certain sex offenses against a student.
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Cleveland residents Brenda and Gerald Moran are experienced cruisers and big fans of Royal Caribbean. They were so happy with the cruise line they averaged two cruises a year for the past three years. They even bought the company's stock.
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Still, the Morans encountered problems on each cruise — everything from a plumbing problem to being locked out of their cabins — which they itemized and detailed in correspondence to the cruise line. Royal Caribbean worked with the couple to solve problems and offered discounts and onboard credits to keep the couple's business.
Until it decided it no longer wanted the Morans' business.
Last November, Royal Caribbean abruptly notified the couple that they were no longer welcome on any Royal Caribbean International ship, including the company's subsidiaries Celebrity and Azamara. Ever.
What on earth did they do to get lifetime ban? They complained, and they complained loudly.
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Feisty Brenda Moran is certainly one not to hold back her opinion. Over the course of three years sailing on Royal Caribbean and Celebrity, she documented many problems during her cruises that ran the gamut from her birthday greeting being delivered to the wrong stateroom to her husband being locked out on the balcony for three hours because the door latch jammed.
Last September, during a 14-night Alaska and Northwest sailing onboard Radiance of the Seas, their stateroom had a plumbing problem that ended up with sewage all over the bathroom that overflowed onto the room's carpet. Even with cleaning, the room wasn't acceptable. The Morans asked repeatedly to be moved to another stateroom, but was told the ship was full.
The couple did the best they could to cope. "We had to keep the balcony door open in 40-degree weather the entire cruise just so we could breathe and not smell the horrible odors," says Brenda.
Then on the last night the couple received a letter from the ship's hotel director apologizing for the inconvenience and offered the couple a 20 percent discount on their next cruise. The Morans felt that was fair compensation and went and booked their next cruise with the line.
When Brenda returned home she wrote her usual post-cruise review on Cruise Critic and posted notes on their forums that started vigorous feedback from fellow cruisers.
Two weeks after returning home, the Morans received a phone call from Bill Weeks, an executive assistant in customer service. Weeks apologized for the couple's treatment and offered an additional $500 to their 20 percent discount, the Morans were very happy with the offer. Again, Brenda posted her experience with Weeks on Cruise Critic's forums.
Some board members felt the Morans had complained their way to an unfair discount and posted their displeasure. They felt that the Morans were teaching others how to "scam" Royal Caribbean. Some went so far as to contact Royal Caribbean's president and chief executive, Adam Goldstein to complain about the Morans getting any compensation at all.
A few weeks later the Morans received a phone call from a man named Sebastian who identified himself as Bill Weeks' boss. Sebastian was unhappy that Brenda had posted a negative review and had shared the compensation information on Cruise Critic's boards. He asked Brenda to take down her review "at once." Brenda refused and cited her right to free speech.
The following day the Morans received another phone call from Sebastian stating the couple was banned forever from the cruise line. The Morans were stunned. They didn't believe it was true until an official letter was delivered citing the ban. It also contained a $500 check — their additional promised cruise credit.
Royal Caribbean speaks
I contacted Michael Sheehan, Royal Caribbean's associate vice president of corporate communications, to get the cruise line's side of the story. Sheehan says since 2004, the Morans sailed six voyages with two of the company's lines. "On all but one of those sailing the Morans felt there were a variety of service failures they experienced," he said. "In a small number of cases we agreed and compensated them appropriately. In most cases, however, we disagreed. Having concluded that we are unable to meet the expectations of the Morans, we have told them that they would be best served by sailing with another company."
Cruising the message boards
Royal Caribbean is certainly entitled to ban whomever from their ships. Nevertheless, to ban someone for posting their cruise experience on an Internet message board raises serious questions about the lengths the company is going to keep negative reviews from public consumption. When I asked Sheehan if Royal Caribbean has an official policy on asking negative posts to be removed from Internet forums, he denied there was a policy.
Still, Internet postings are on the mind of Royal Caribbean's top executives. In an e-mail obtained by Tripso, one Celebrity executive cites Cruise Critic's message boards. "They love finding fault with Azamara even when things go great," the executive complains. "How do we get over that?"
It appears that one step the company is taking to "get over that" is to intimidate posters of negative reviews and in some cases even going so far as to contact the publishers. Paul Motter, editor of Cruise Mates, was contacted by a Royal Caribbean staffer last November to have a negative review removed or at least amended.
In the e-mail, the staffer tells him the issue with the customer was resolved and asks if he can "make changes" to the posting. Motter did not take down or amend the review.
I spoke with Laura Sterling, Cruise Critic's chief board moderator. Sterling says in her 13 years of moderating she's never been approached by a cruise line to remove a review. She adds, "It is our policy to not entertain requests to remove negative reviews, at the request of cruise lines or anyone else."
I asked other cruise lines about their rules and most said they have no policy at all toward Internet posts. A Carnival spokesperson, Jennifer de la Cruz, says the line has never banned someone for posting negative reviews. But the company pays attention to online discussions. "As a company we do like to maintain a feel for what's being discussed online," she says. "The message boards are a great source of consumer feedback."
Indeed, Internet feedback is a hot commodity. Last year, Carnival started its own online community with message boards along with cruise director, John Heald's popular blog. Just two weeks ago, Royal Caribbean launched its own online community called RoyalConnect with message boards for past cruisers of the line.
So, what does all this mean for you? Simply put, when you post a cruise review on a Web site, your post is likely being read by someone at the cruise line. Most cruise lines welcome feedback, even Royal Caribbean.
But if you go too far don't be surprised if you end up with an e-mail or phone call from the cruise line.
As for the Morans, it appears there was a light at the end of walking Royal Caribbean's plank. They've discovered "Freestyle Cruising" on Norwegian Cruise Line. "They are so much better than Royal Caribbean," says Brenda.
Sound off! Do you have a comment, an idea, a complaint or a problem for Anita to solve? Send her an e-mail and you might find yourself in her next column. And check out her blog, ExpertCruiser.com.


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Mr. Krause, you have some serious issues that need to be addressed here. First I would just like to point out the flagrant absurdity of your most recent post entitled A Saucerful of Beagle; but before I do, let me announce that it is by no means any secret that I am quite fond of the beagle breed. Anyone who knows me knows that Ms. Missy holds a very special place in my heart:
So I am not quite sure what you were going for with the Uno reference, or the Best in Show reference for that matter. Interesting? Perhaps, but nothing in those first two paragraphs made any sense, going from Steinbrenner to popular film to the world's finest canine breed to admitting you didn't know what you were really talking about, which I might add, was the most truthful statement of the entire entry. This odd self-reflection was a blaring alarm warning the reader to disbelieve your extremely biased analysis of the AL Central. Sure, there is no argument that it's going to be interesting; it will be. But please know, Al, I don't make BOLD predictions without thinking them through and I am sure that the White Sox will cause the Tigers and Indians all kinds of fits. This being said, it is obvious that you were on a different planet when you made your most egregious error and blasphemed the superior intelligence of a Grand Cardinal Nation by saying we'd finish the Central in last place while equal with the Royals in losses.
This statement alone proves two things:
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**If anyone knows who the pizza man is, the pizza man that took over the errant Detroit Tigers of the 90's and early 2000's, please let us know by posting a comment with a clear, detailed explanation. This monstrous pizza man who ruined the formative years of Allen's life by running an historic ball-club into the ground with overspending must pay for his sins.
So, Al, excuse me, Mr. Krause, until you A) find out who this abstruse pizza man who has been causing you so much misery during your life is and B) see that mighty World Championship flag wafting in the winds of your home ballpark, you really have no business making such erratic statements.
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Mark became cancer-free when they removed his second kidney in November 2006, and will be eligible for a donated kidney once he has been cancer-free for a year. Mark and thousands of children like him need and deserve your voice. And any political leader who says they can't find the time or the money to help the millions of Marks who are uninsured this year should not get your vote next year.
Chronic budget shortfalls, often confusing enrollment processes, and dramatic variation in eligibility and coverage from state to state prevent millions of children currently eligible for Medicaid and for the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) from living healthy and realizing their full potential in school and life.
The Children's Defense Fund (CDF) is fighting to make health coverage for all children a reality in America in 2007.
As Congress prepares to consider renewal of funding for SCHIP in 2007, CDF believes there is a special opportunity and responsibility for our nation and leaders in all parties to take the next logical, incremental, smart and just steps to ensure health and mental health coverage for all children and pregnant women in America as a significant down payment on health coverage for all.
What our leaders do this year will likely determine child health policy for the next five years. We must not let the more than nine million uninsured children including Katrina's children be left behind. We must give them health and mental health coverage now.
How do families who need health coverage for their children cope now? CDF has talked to families across the country about their struggles, including a Columbus, Ohio family who's been forced to fight the health care bureaucracy and their toddler's childhood cancer at the same time.
Mark was diagnosed with malignant Wilms tumors in his kidneys when he was just 11 months old. Fortunately, he and his older brother were covered by SCHIP when his condition was originally diagnosed. But it was the beginning of a long and difficult journey for his single mother, Deanna, who was forced to quit her job to take care of Mark full-time.
In October 2006, Deanna discovered that Mark had been eligible for Medicaid since April 2006, so she set out to enroll him in the Medicaid program—a process that turned into a frustrating, time-consuming ordeal. For three weeks, Deanna spent three days a week for four hours at a time at the Department of Jobs and Family Services, bringing her ill child along each time. It then took six months of waiting, but Mark was finally approved for Medicaid. Deanna also learned that Mark qualified for assistance from the Bureau for Children with Medical Handicaps (BCMH), a state-administered program, and for Medicare under their disability coverage.
Although Mark's cancer is now in remission, he is in end-stage renal failure after losing both kidneys and is on dialysis for ten hours each day. Because his appetite is very poor, he needs Suplena, a special nutritional shake made for dialysis patients.
These shakes are the only nourishment standing between this 21-month-old and a feeding tube. Suplena is covered under Medicaid and BCMH, but Mark's mother is still waiting for the paperwork to be processed. In the meantime, she has to pay out of pocket for the expensive supplements. This is a particular hardship because the family lives on the $627 per month that Mark receives from Supplemental Security Income, a federal program designed to help disabled people. Not only is Suplena expensive, but it's difficult to get the supplements.
Medicaid has its own vendor and isn't a local supplier. A local grocer has begun carrying the supplement, but it is considered a non-food item, so Deanna can't purchase the shakes with food stamps. After many conversations and getting bumped from one agency to another, Deanna is hopeful the issue will be resolved soon.
Mark became cancer-free when they removed his second kidney in November 2006, and will be eligible for a donated kidney once he has been cancer-free for a year. It has been one uphill battle after another for this mother and her son, but they continue to struggle through the system and the illness.
But wouldn't it be better if the family could devote all its energy to fighting his cancer, instead of spending so much of it fighting their paperwork? If you believe our nation can do better for children, then you need to tell your elected officials that we and they must do better and make health coverage for all children with a streamlined enrollment process a reality this year.
Mark and thousands of children like him need and deserve your voice. And any political leader who says they can't find the time or the money to help the millions of Marks who are uninsured this year should not get your vote next year.
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I am writing a short fiction of old age and need suitable words for the following stuff - archaic. These words would be used heavily through out and hence nice to have multiple synonyms to use.
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canteen service area - something like the space in a self serviced garden restaurant, between the kitchen and the stalls, where service guys/girls roam to refill the dishes
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You could also use simply hall.
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