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BDP's much-loved and soon-to-be-flattened bus station in Preston has been recreated in LEGO
The mini-masterpiece has emerged just days after the Twentieth Century Society made a last ditch bid to win listed building status for the Brutalist icon.
Preston resident, and architecture entuhsiast, Rob Hasker was inspired by the 1969 bus station's 'nice lines that translate well into LEGO' to recreate the iconic building.
Last month Preston City Council's made the controversial decision to bulldoze the Brutalist icon rather than spend £23 million on its refurbishment (AJ 18.12.2012).
English Heritage has twice recommended that the bus station, which has been under threat for more than 12 years, be given listed status in 2000 and 2009.
On both occasions the applications were turned down by the Secretary of State.
The bus station was also recreated in cake last year to celebrate the Preston Cake City event as part of Preston Guild 2012.
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Becky #7 Quilt Square – a square in the Quilted Ladies Series
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Architects look at thousands of buildings during their training, and study critiques of those buildings written by masters. In contrast, most software developers only ever get to know a handful of large programs well — usually programs they wrote themselves — and never study the great programs of history. As a result, they repeat one another's mistakes rather than building on one another's successes. This second volume of The Architecture of Open Source Applications aims to change that. In it, the authors of twenty-four open source applications explain how their software is structured, and why. What are each program's major components? How do they interact? And what did their builders learn during their development? In answering these questions, the contributors to this book provide unique insights into how they think.
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Now for happier subjects. We have 3 new sheep in our flock. Rosie the Finn, she is a lamb with a fleece to die for. 8 months old now, a sweetheart. She still acts like a lamb so she makes me smile quite often.
They there is Tomasina the Wensleydale 3 years old and Shira the Teeswater 3 year old. Tomasina is plain old sweet. Sweet as could be. She is a big girl with the biggest kindness eyes and lots of fleece. Accept for her size you wouldn't even know she was out there. Sweet. sweet, sweet. She allows me to pat her, give kisses and admire her curly fleece daily.
And Shira. Well I'm not sure how to explain Shira. She is a quick moving bull in a china cabinet!! A big sheep too, she makes me laugh daily with her crazy antics and her silly ways. But keep and eye on her. She'll knock you right over with her bull in the china cabinet movements. She doesn't mean it, its just who she is. Not a mean bone to her. She will allow kisses but at some point, enough is enough and she's done!
Both these girls are from an awesome breeder, Virginia from Yellow farm in NY
We visited her lovely farm, spent the night, talked fibery talk and enjoyed her critters including her Scotish Highlander cow, Bubbles! If you have the chance google Yellow farm. These sheep are taken sunch wonderful care of and her breeding program is tops! Not to mention Virginia's Fiber arts talent...
So now to talk about the 2 new goat kids. Tiny Tim and Mr. Bojangles. Tiny Tim has the best pygora goat fleece out there. He is giving Chip a run for best fleece!! Mr Bojangles, a character, a people person, a goat clown and sweet. They have added a lot of personality to the goat barn. Never a dull moment. My grandson Luke enjoys the goat games that they allow him to par take in.
So as you can see we've grown here at Dream Come True! Loving each and everyone of them I'm blessed to be among such beauty each day. My Babydoll sheep don't quite know what to make of all the new family members but they have adjusted just fine. The llamas love the new company. And the ponies just shake their heads. Mike my DH just goes along with it all smiling. Its a wonderful life.
Ive started an on line course through Spin Artiste and Wool Wench, called The Golden Fleece. Its a wonderful spinning and weaving course that is opening my mind and getting my creative juices flowing. Its for 10 months and I'm in month 1. Looking forward to the many assignments that will come. I'm meeting people from all over the world! All in the course too. I think there is about 100 of us. What a cool thing to be involved with. We are keeping a journal on the entire course with samples and photos. There is a workbook that we receive pages of for each assignment called Modules every 6 weeks. We network, we share, its awesome. Part of the course is a circular loom made especially for the course, logo and all. Lots of thought and planning went into this course and these ladies are very busy working with all of us. This will be a large part of my work over the winter months that I'm looking forward to. I'm grateful to be involved in such creativeness. Ill share as we go along some of my work.
Hmmmmm, what else! as if this is not enough. I had over night guests that were passing through on their way to shows.Shepherdess Kelly from Romney Ridge Farm in Maine. Who I call Master Dyer of yarns. You should see her work. She stayed a night on her way from a show. Girls night of yakking and wine drinking! Very Late! It was nice to share some time with her. Check her yarns out on the net. She always has some awesome ideas for her yarns, patterns etc. Oh and did I mention her adorable artistic needle felting kits! Romney Ridge Farm, Maine
And there was Kathy Withers from Creative Designs by Kathy. She is an angora goat breeder. She was on her way to a show and spent the good part of a day and over night here. We spun, shared ideas, spun some more, spread her wonderful goat fleeces out all over my kitchen in bags, invited some of the girls over to make some fiber purchases! Great time, great angora fiber and a new friend for sure!
Earlier this year I participated in Spin Quest in VA. While there I visited a FB friend Candy and Bill. Calluna Farm. Candy is Shepherdess to Navajo Churro sheep, alpaca, horses a mini donkey and some beautiful chickens. AND soon, Navajo goats will join her farm. She is a talented fiber artist who shared her home, farm, ideas and fleece with such joy. We had an awesomely special time.
Our farm is having our annual OPEN HOUSE December 1 12-4pm. You can meet all the new critters and visit with the old one's, have a cup of hot cider, visit and meet new friends around the camp fire, shop our farm shop and visit with Mr. and Mrs Claus. Yes, I said Mr. and Mrs. Claus!! Santa will be be here once again making a list and sitting for photos. Come on out and enjoy some good old fashioned farm fun. A gathering of friends to bring in the holiday season. What could be better. We need gatherings like this just to remind us of the simple things in life that should be cheerished.
My weaving has taken off in a big way. That and my spinning are daily activities for me that I thoroughly enjoy. Lots of both in the farm shop. Oh and Ashly from Ashlyannshands has brought me an entire new line of pottery for the shop. The shop is surely full with holiday gifts for all. Mike has some woodworking in it, I have woven wall hangings, shawls, scarves, hats, mittens, art yarn lariats, cowls are my big thing this year. Of course handspun yarns galore! So much color and texture when that shop door opens. So come take a peek. Call anytime, email or FB for an appointment. Or come to the open house. 12-1 12-4pm. We will also be open most Sundays through Christmas, but give a call to make sure we will be here. 203-218-0508
I took a saori weaving class that was awesome. I learned so much. It was so freeing to weave the saori style. I'm taking another in 3 weeks. Cant wait.
My studio is organized for the winter, so that is where you will find me most days. Spinning, weaving, creating, reflecting and enjoying life while I look out of the studio window on the second floor over the entire barnyard. A room with a view for sure.
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About Our ClubOn our layout we have not attempted to model any particular real-life scenes, but rather, typical railroad trackage and places, adapting them to fit the space we have available. And we do not attempt to model any one railroad exclusively. The locomotives and cars are lettered to represent real railroadsthough many no longer existas well as fictitious railroads. We call our miniature railroad the Rancocas Valley Lines, which is appropriate for this area. The original idea for this layout is to represent portions of a railroad that goes from tidewater to mountains, running through the typical station and industrial area of a large city, then countryside, while serving those industries that would use rail shipments.
We do not model a specific time period. This allows us to run steam locomotives and the latest diesels. But we try to run cars and locomotives of an era together, avoiding 1990s era cars being pulled by a steam locomotive. (And by the way, theyre engines or locomotives, not "choo-choos".) We try to keep 4 trains running at all times on the main line and regularly send trains into siding or yards and bring out different ones. This requires 4 operators and a dispatcher for the main line operation, plus one operator at the freight yard, and one at the coal dumper.
The locomotives and cars are owned by the individual members, and the layoutthe bench work, track, and sceneryare owned by the club. Each member contributes his/her effort according to personal talents and what phase of the hobby most appeals to that member. For example, the rotary coal dumper was custom built by a member who has much mechanical abilities. The electrical wiring and control panels are done by members who understand such things, and would rather do that than create trees and mountains. Generally, the building are constructed from kits and some have slight adaptations to better fit their location on the layout.If you would like to be part of this exciting hobby please join us. No matter what talents you may have or level of interest you have in model railroading, there's a place for you. Stop by and visit us on Monday or Thursday evenings, chat with our members, look around at our existing layout and see the work in progress for the new layout. Email us with any questions you may have.
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The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
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ST22SW TRULL CP CHURCH ROAD (North side)
9/165 Church of All Saints
Parish church. Late C13 tower, C14 North aisle, C15 South aisle and porch, restored 1862-3, 1890, and Early C20. Red sandstone and blue lias random rubble, rendered vestry, Ham stone dressings, quoins, slate roofs, coped verges. West tower, 3 bay nave, 3 bay North aisle, organ chamber, vestry 3 bay South aisle, South chapel, chancel, North and South porches. 2 stage crenellated tower with pinnacles,string course, 2-light louvred bell openings, lancet on South face obscured by clock, chamfered string course, C20 3-light West window, chamfered plinth, South door, one stage crenellated stair turret in South East corner, 3-light windows to crenellated 4 bay South aisle, stepped buttresses, between first and second bays single storey crenellated porch with flattened gable, plinth, trefoil headed lancet on left return, right return blue lias tablet to Elizabeth Cordwent, died 1812, C20 compartment ceiling, moulded arched inner doorframe, C19 double door, South wall of chancel 3-light cinquefoil headed mullioned window, diagonal buttresses, 3-light East window, arched door to vestry on East front and on North 3-light window, four 3-light windows to uncrenellated North aisle. Between third and fourth bays left shallow, lead roofed, gabled single storey porch with kneelers, chamfered arched opening, inset seats, 3-light West end window to aisle. Interior: rendered. Perpendicular 3 bay arcades, smaller Perpendicular crossing arches, no chancel arch but cambered rood beam, pointed tower arch, triple chamfered dying into imposts, C20 wooden gallery across at first stage. Nave and chancel, ribbed wagon roofs with bosses, enriched over sanctuary, moulded compartment ceilings to aisles. 3-light cinquefoil headed mullioned window on North wall of chancel fronting vestry, trefoil headed piscina on South wall, 2-light chamfered mullioned window in clerestorey on South wall of nave, blocked 4 centred arch doorway to stair turret on West wall of South aisle. Rood loft opening in North arcade. Richly carved cornice to fanvaulted 5 bay rood screen, late C15, painted in grey and blue on chancel side and partly renewed, 4 bay parclose screens, left with remains of painted decoration, right with inscription, partly renewed. Fine early C16 benches and bench ends with unusual collection on figures comprising a religious procession, linen fold-panelling at West ends of aisles, dated 1560. Remarkable survival of circa 1500 carved pulpit with undamaged figures of saints in canopied niches. Marble aedicule with broken pediment and armorial achievement to Robert Lucas, died 1722. Painted alabaster tablet to John Baker, died 1677, set in angle of South chapel wall, segmental pediment, armorial achievement and faces terminating in acanthus leaves flanking table covered with a cloth. Number of late C18 and early C19 marble and slate tablets. Important collection of C15 stained glass in chancel and North aisle, particularly in South window of chancel, depicting saints slaying dragons, West window of North aisle by Kemp, 1899. 4 notable collection of fittings. (Pevsner, Buildings of England South and West Somerset, 1958: Kelly's Directory, 1897; Photographs in NMR).
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Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset, (1958)
'Kelly's Directory' in Kelly's Directory, (1897)
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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Eric Berry is a young, star safety for the Kansas City Chiefs. He's also deathly afraid of horses. Seriously. The man suffers from equinophobia.
In a recent episode of Showtime's "Inside The NFL" -- first brought to the Internet's attention by Kissing Suzy Kolber -- Berry literally is scared off the field by a female Chiefs employee riding a horse.
"Aw, hell nah, there goes that horse. I don't f--- with that horse. That horse," Berry told Chiefs teammates. "I gotta wait 'til that horse pass. I don't mess with horses bro, straight up. He might come over and throw a tantrum."
Any doubts about Berry's sincerity are erased later, when he abruptly exits a team huddle when that woman on the horse returns to his sight line.
"Hold up coach, that horse out there. That horse. She needs to go on ahead with that horse," Berry said. "I don't fool with no horses, boy. She needs to go ahead and drive that thing away. I'm not worried about the chick; I'm worried about that horse."
I know we're all supposed to have our fun with Berry here, but let's be honest: Horses are kind of terrifying. We've had horror movies about sharks, dogs, alligators, spiders, dinosaurs, snakes, apes, and birds.
I feel like we're missing an opportunity here, Hollywood. Just don't invite poor Eric Berry to set.
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ROCKFORD — Nearly 70 percent of Rock River Valley schools were deemed failing this year under the federal No Child Left Behind Act and its standards. The results from the annual standardized tests, released today, are better than last year, when 73 percent of schools failed to reach Adequate Yearly Progress.
INSIDE: Need to know, bright spots, what's next
ROCKFORD — Nearly 70 percent of Rock River Valley schools failed this year under the federal No Child Left Behind Act and its standards.
The results from the annual standardized tests, released today, are better than last year, when 73 percent of schools failed to reach Adequate Yearly Progress.
There were bright spots:
All four schools in the Kinnikinnick School District in Roscoe ranked within the top 14 in the four-county (Winnebago, Boone, Ogle and Stephenson) region. Two of those schools — Kinnikinnick Elementary and Roscoe Middle — went from not making AYP last year to making it this year.
A dozen schools had at least 5 percent of students move into the meet or exceed category this year over last year.
East High School has nearly 40 percent of students meeting or exceeding standards in reading and math. That's not the ideal goal, but in 2010, 28 percent of students were meeting or exceeding standards.
State officials say a new system of measuring progress is in the works, but scores may get worse before they get better because they will be based on national benchmarks, which are more rigorous than Illinois' standards.
However, they add that students are not getting worse, but increased AYP standards are making it difficult to keep pace.
The expectation this year, according to AYP, is that 85 percent of students meet or exceed learning standards. That bar has steadily risen over the years, and by 2014, the expectation is that 100 percent of students will at least meet standards.
It's a problem across the state, and it's getting worse. In 2010, 51 percent of public schools were not making Adequate Yearly Progress. This year, it's at 66 percent of schools and 82 percent of districts.
State Superintendent Christopher Koch said it's time for a change in education and a change in how student achievement and growth are measured.
"We believe this is the last year we will be reporting (adequate yearly progress) results," he said.
No Child Left Behind benchmarks require schools to have more students meeting standards each year. Those benchmarks have outpaced student achievement, meaning that more and more schools, each year, aren't keeping pace.
Eliminating that measurement — and in turn, the "failing" label — is good news. This year, just 31 percent of schools are keeping pace with standardized test benchmarks.
By this time next year, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (No Child Left Behind) will be reauthorized, or Illinois will have a waiver, so AYP won't be measured the way it is today.
Koch expects test results to drop as early as next year when those new cut scores are set.
"Students are not getting worse. We're changing the expectations of their performance levels," said Matt Vanover, spokesman for the Illinois State Board of Education.
A new test will be better in the long run, and it will measure student progress over time and be offered more than just once each year to better show student growth, instead of a single snapshot in time that the annual tests show.
Koch said an overhaul of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act is long overdue: "It's no longer helping in terms of the conversation of how to improve schools."
The new measurement — and expected lower achievement as a result — isn't the end of the world. Instead, it'll be a new challenge, just as schools have adjusted to No Child Left Behind.
"It's going to push us again," Kinnikinnick Superintendent Keli Freedlund said. "We are going to have to adjust. ... But we'll get those scores and go at it the same way we look at our ISAT scores."
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Need to know
Public school students are tested each spring on state standardized tests, and those results are released to the public the next fall. Scores are tallied from the Illinois Standards Achievement Test, given to third- through eighth-graders, and from the Prairie State Achievement Exam, which tallies results from the ACT and WorkKeys Test that juniors take each spring. The Illinois State Board of Education released those results today.
Statewide, the average ISAT composite score for 2012 was 82.1 percent of students meeting or exceeding state standards. In our region, 60 elementary or middle schools surpassed the state average. The PSAE average composite score was 51.3; 14 of 25 area high schools topped the state average.
Bright spots
The four schools in the Kinnikinnick School District ranked within the top 14 schools in the four-county region. Two of those schools — Kinnikinnick Elementary and Roscoe Middle — went from not making AYP last year to making it this year.
A dozen schools had at least 5 percent of students move into the meet or exceed category this year over last year: Dakota Junior/Senior High School in the Dakota School District; North Boone Upper Elementary in the North Boone School District; Orangeville Junior High in the Orangeville School District; Taylor Park Elementary in the Freeport School District; West View Elementary, Galapagos Rockford Charter, Swan Hillman Elementary, Conklin Elementary and Rockford East High School, all in the Rockford School District; Stillman Valley High School in the Meridian School District; Byron High School in Byron; and Durand High School in Durand.
East High School has nearly 40 percent of students meeting or exceeding standards in both reading and math.
While that 40 percent isn't an ideal goal — the highest performing high school, Hononegah High School, is at 68.6 percent in reading and 74.8 percent in math — it's still growth for that school, said Rockford's Executive Director of Accountability Dan Woestman.
East has been making gains in math for the past three years. In 2010, just 28 percent of students were meeting or exceeding standards.
"That shows us, even though they haven't made AYP there, they're doing something. ... Every year what you're really looking for is year-over-year growth," Woestman said.
What's next
The state's waiver for No Child Left Behind is under review by the U.S. Department of Education. It's on hold because of the timeline state leaders want to implement for teacher evaluations. The state is asking for a progressive phase-in plan, while the feds are pushing all districts to implement the new evaluations in the 2014-15 school year.
Coming this weekend
The Register Star will highlight some of the bright spots coming out of this year's state standardized test results. We'll also have data broken down by districts across Boone, Ogle, Stephenson and Winnebago counties.


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Investigators say they believe slave trade is happening in our own backyard. A Texas woman, who was a former sex slave, is speaking out to inform people of the growing problem.
In fact a Hollywood movie, Eden, is coming out next year based on her story.
What you see is sometimes hard to believe. For Chong Kim's story, it's what you don't see that might be harder.
She lives every day as normal as she knows. The Texas resident loves life now, something that was almost taken away.
"I got trafficked," said Kim.
She was an 18 year old freshman at DeVry University in Dallas. One night at a club she met, who she thought, was the man of her dreams.
"Here comes this guy who is wearing a Marine outfit, and I was like oh my God. My girlfriends were like he is checking you out," said Kim.
Fast forward after a few weeks of dating, it was an out of town road trip to Kim's now-boyfriend's parents' house that took a turn.
Instead of driving to Florida as planned, she was taken to Oklahoma. She found out her 'boyfriend' was really a recruiter. He was talking to traffickers from the Russian and Albanian mob.
"I was blind folded, I had a potato sack over my head, and I was bound by my wrists," said Kim.
She was thrown into the back of a truck and given instructions.
"We are going to sell you as a Japanese girl that is 14 and doesn't speak English. You pretend like you don't speak English…I would hear the other girls going, (sniff), and I was like oh my gosh, there's more than one."
The next four years she planned to work on a degree, was spent as a sex slave.
She was submerged in ice baths, bones were crush, she plotted an escape and succeeded.
But almost 15 years later, the scares remain.
"I am angry that they took my life that I can never get back," said Kim.
Kim moved back to Texas. Her fulltime job is telling her personal story, even though she fears the mob can retaliate.
"If something does ever happen to me, at least people will know that it is out there, and people will start to pay attention," said Kim.
"The FBI says Texas one of the top hotspots in the nation for domestic human trafficking because of large cities like Houston and Dallas, but investigators say sex slaves are in smaller towns as well."
"Being close to the south part of Texas, coming up through the border here, Bryan/College Station I would say absolutely," said Trooper Jimmy Morgan with the Department of Public Safety.
"I think the best thing to do especially here is to let people know that it does exist," said Morgan.
That's exactly what Kim is doing.
"I'm going to continue until I know the laws have changed for the better," said Kim.
She's now a mother and wife, moving forward.
What you see is a survivor, and her story is one she hopes no one will ever forget.
The movie based on Chong Kim's story, Eden, will be out in theatres in March.


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Abraham Orellana, the hip-hop producer known as AraabMUZIK, has been shot and is hospitalized.
Orellana's publicist said in a statement late Thursday that he is "currently alive and well" after being shot Wednesday night, noting he was in the wrong place at the wrong time while hanging out with friends. Police are investigating.
The statement said he was in his neighborhood when he was shot, but didn't specify a city. Orellana's hometown is Providence, R.I.
The producer's manager, George Moore, a record label executive and producer known as DukeDaGod posted on Twitter a picture of Orellana in a hospital bed Thursday with the words: "Everyone wish my brother (at)araabmuzik a healthy & pleasant recovery!!!!"
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Tottenham Hotspur will have been alerted to the news that Christopher Samba has handed in a transfer request at Blackburn Rovers.
The Rovers captain released a statement confirming his desire to leave just a day after manager Steve Kean said he would not be sold.
Spurs boss Harry Redknapp has voiced his admiration for the 27-year-old recently and Samba's move to force a transfer could pave the way for a switch to White Hart Lane.
"I have today officially requested a transfer from Blackburn Rovers Football Club," said Samba in an official statement.
"I have personally informed the owners, manager and executives at the club that I want to leave in this transfer window.
"In my five years at Blackburn I have always given 100% in every game I have played. I have had several opportunities to leave but I have always stayed.
"I have decided now is the right time for me to pursue a new challenge and I have asked the club to respect my decision and allow me to leave.
"I thank the fans for their support and I hope they feel I have served them and their club well."
This news will come as a blow to Kean, who had dismissed reports the Congolese defender was headed for the exit door at Ewood Park.
Tottenham have not made a formal move for the player, but Redknapp has indicated he would like to add to his squad and Spurs have shortages in central defence.
Samba did not feature in Rovers' ten-man 3-1 win over Fulham at the weekend and Kean told reporters it was due to sickness – the player phoned in with stomach cramps the previous day.News Now - Sport News


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I just learned from a couple of my friends of some interesting anime tidbits, that may just be rumor, but interesting nonetheless. Apparently, Funimation has gotten the rights to produce Tenchi Muyo! GXP and One Piece domestically. First off, I'm wondering if any of you out there can confirm this. And, second, what're your thoughts on this potential release.
Personally, I'm all for a domestic release of anime and I'm not exactly unhappy with Funimation. It's just, well, I'd rather have the rights go to just about any other company. With the Possible acception of Manga. God knows how long it'll be before they finally decide to put Read or Die on DVD. blah blah blah, disgruntled rumbling.
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Doctors are monitoring five patients who may have been exposed to Hepatitis B when they were treated at Boston Medical Center.
Hospital spokeswoman Jennifer Watson said Saturday that the hospital became aware that a small number of patients were potentially exposed to the hepatitis B virus and five patients are potentially at risk.
On Friday, Joan Cooper, 64, of Weymouth, told News Center 5 that she recently received a call from the hospital that she may have been exposed to hepatitis B. Cooper suffers from a rare kidney disease that required her to begin inpatient dialysis treatments at BMC in mid-March.
Cooper said she was told the previous patient on the machine she used had hepatitis B and it was not properly cleaned with bleach.
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The debate Wednesday could be compared to many things—a slow dance in which the partners are holding potato peelers to each other's throats, perhaps, or a restaurant in which you, the diner, get to watch a prep cook slow-spit on your burger before it's served—but of course everyone immediately turned to sports metaphors. After I calmed down enough to stop slinging 12-letter epithets at the TV, I told my assembled watch party that Barack Obama was like a football team ahead late and timidly calling two-yard runs up the middle while his opponent was still slinging passes downfield. A buddy said that strategy makes sense for Obama, because he is ahead, while Mitt Romney gets to keep chucking up three-pointers. Someone then complained that Americans use too many baseball metaphors.
Clearly nobody was communicating much of anything. But how else to explain how we got to the fourth quarter of this horse race with the bases loaded and a president trying to score a knockout with free throws? Everyone thought of sports Wednesday because everyone can remember a match in which one side, ahead late, tried to coast to the end while the other kept attacking. Only problem was, no one could agree, exactly, on which sport we were watching.
Boxing (Charles Pierce, for Esquire):
The thing is, if you're going to play rope-a-dope, sooner or later, you have to come off the ropes and throw a punch. You bounce off the ropes and land the left and then the right over the top, and then the other guy goes out of the ring in a blanket. Otherwise, it's just a way to get yourself punched in the stomach a lot.
Poker (Jeff Greenfield, for Yahoo):
When you argue as a Democrat that you and your Republican opponent share wide areas of agreement on Social Security-especially when recipients make up a chunk of Romney's "47 percent" of indolent spongers-you have thrown in a fistful of high cards.
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Football—no, basketball (Matt Yglesias, for Slate):
Barack Obama's timid approach to debating — I saw a lot of analogies to a prevent defense in football, but I think it was more like the four corners basketball offense that's so deadly boring it's now against the rules — was the most striking element of tonight's debate, but the most important one is probably that Mitt Romney finally shook the etch-a-sketch tonight and moved to the center.
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A California boy who was treated for leukemia and became famous as "Batkid'' got to spend time with another superhero after his planned appearance at the Academy Awards was cut.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences says Andrew Garfield, who plays Spider-Man on the big screen, spent time on Monday with 5-year-old Miles Scott and his family at Disneyland.
The two had been set to be on the Oscars the previous day, but the academy said segments sometimes have to be cut when producing a live show. It's unclear just what happened and why it was cut, but Make-A-Wish Foundation spokeswoman Jen Wilson told NBC Bay Area that Miles was disappointed that he didn't get to wear a new tuxedo.
Miles and his family decided to go to Disney instead.
Miles battled the Riddler and Joker as Batkid last November in San Francisco. His wish was made possible by the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
His family said Miles was diagnosed with leukemia when he was 18 months old and ended treatments in June.
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AMID a flurry of media criticism and his leadership being called into question, Guam police chief Paul Suba yesterday stepped down from his post after his meeting with acting Gov. Mike Cruz.
Suba's resignation was effective yesterday.
"I will take 20 days of administrative leave to ensure a smooth transition and exhaust my annual leave before retirement," Suba said in a press statement.
Cruz announced the appointment of Major Rick Leon Guerrero as acting chief of police. Leon Guerrero will also continue his role as acting police commander.
Cruz told the media that if Paul Suba had not tendered his resignation, he would have fired him.
Paul Suba came under fire last week as a result of GPD's search on KUAM studios, where investigators confiscated a document related to the polygraph test for spokesman John Edwards.
Difficult decision
Governor Felix Camacho is currently off island. Last week, Cruz urged the governor to replace Suba, saying his lack of leadership has diminished the confidence of the people in the police department.
Cruz said he accepted Suba's request for retirement after consulting with the governor.
Although Suba's resignation will mean a change in leadership at GPD, Cruz said he will not lose his faith in the men and women of that department.
Cruz said the decision was difficult for him since he considers Paul Suba a friend.
"Sometimes friends are difficult to part with and for me, it was an issue of making sure our departments are going to be able to do the job that they're created to do," Cruz said.
"And so, that was my decision. We needed to find somebody else to do it," the acting governor said, noting his lack of confidence in Suba's effective leadership.
Cruz said the governor was aware of his decision to meet with Paul Suba yesterday.
"Obviously, [the governor] is also a friend of the chief's and I think that he was obviously sad about the fact that we were seeing a friend depart as one of our leaders," Cruz said. "Hopefully we can restore the public's confidence in the police department with new leadership."
Cruz clarified that although the governor said last week he needed more time before deciding on Suba's fate, the governor never stated that letting go of Suba was a decision he wouldn't make.
"It was a little bit uncomfortable but the governor never stated that it was not the decision he wanted to make. It was just a matter of getting some investigation and a better understanding of the situation," Cruz said. "And in my discussions with him earlier, he understood that this was a matter that needed to take place."
Cruz said yesterday he was confident that Leon Guerrero will restore public confidence in the police department. "We served together in the Guam Army National Guard. He's a long time veteran of the police force. And at least in my discussions with the rank and file, he's respected and fair," the acting governor said.
"The process takes some time and he will be on administrative leave for a period of time as he starts the process of retiring," Cruz said.
Public safety committee chairman Sen. Adolpho Palacios Sr. said he respected Cruz's actions on Suba's resignation, saying the new development at the police force will now allow officials to focus on moving ahead with what needs to be done at GPD.
"There are many distractions that don't have much to do with police work and GPD needs to move beyond that," said Palacios.
Palacios said that his oversight hearing scheduled for May 24, 9 a.m. in the public hearing room to discuss the hiring practices at GPD and search warrant application by GPD will be held since it doesn't particularly focus on Paul Suba, but rather issues that pertain to the department.
Palacios said that he expects last Wednesday's issued search warrant of KUAM will be a topic of discussion, but Palacios said he will not call into question Superior Court Judge Anita Sukola's decision to issue one.
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Skype is just a few months away from its 10th birthday, and according to a new report the Microsoft subsidiary has achieved something worth celebrating. Analyst firm Telegeography Skype now represents a third of all global calling each month, an impressive milestone for the company.
According to Telegeography, Skype's free voice and video calling services represented a whopping 167 billion minutes in 2012, up 51 billion minutes from the year before. In fact, if you were to listen to every conversation on Skype last year alone, it'd take you more than 300,000 years to finish. The 167 billion minutes may be only a fraction of the 490 billion minutes overall, but it's more than any other telecom company out there. This is a truly remarkable milestone for Skype, and a sign that, while still young, Skype has a lot going on, and is certainly no longer the small, up-and-coming VoIP service it was a few years ago. It also poses questions as to the challenges Skype will face in the coming years as it continues to grow and attract users from all over the world.
Telegeography also reported something less astonishing: the dwindling strength of traditional telecom companies. While the majority of carriers outside the America saw an increase in minutes served, Verizon is continuing to see a drop as Americans drop traditional phone lines in favor of cell phones and VoIP services like Google Talk and Skype. 2012 was certainly a victory for Skype, and yet another reminder that telecom companies need to transition away from traditional landline phones and toward new, innovative ways of thinking.
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Somewhere, an exchange like the following has to have occurred. We're sure of it.
Mother A: "Is that…is that an amputated finger in your pocket?"
Mother B: "No, of course not. I'm just happy to see you. Can I interest you in a good used stroller?"
(No, it's not the car company. But things named along these lines seem to have a nasty habit of trying to kill/maim you and yours. Just sayin'.)
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Actress Anne Hathaway, currently the subject of Oscar buzz for her role as struggling mother Fantine in the film adaptation of "Les Misérables," will now star in a movie adaptation of the Shakespeare comedy "The Taming of the Shrew," according to TheWrap.com.
Hathaway already has some Shakespeare under her belt – she appeared as Viola in the Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park's performance of "Twelfth Night" in New York's Central Park in 2009. In "The Taming of the Shrew," Hathaway will presumably play Katherine, the rebellious daughter who is married off to a man who is sure he can make her a "biddable" wife.
Abi Morgan, who penned the script for "Iron Lady," will write the screenplay, and the movie will be produced by Working Title and producer Debra Hayward. "The Taming of the Shrew" will be updated to a modern setting for the film (as in the 1999 romantic comedy "10 Things I Hate About You," which starred Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger).
There is no set release date for the film.
It will be interesting to see how the adaptation is handled. "The Taming of the Shrew" has long been controversial in modern theater circles for what some view as its themes of spousal abuse and misogyny. In order to break Katherine's spirit, her new husband Petruchio denies her food. The play ends with a speech by Katherine in which she declares her intent to be an obedient wife from then on and suggests that all wives should do the same.


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The Saloon of Mt. Lebanon opened its doors on November 1st, 1976 Similar to Cheers, the Saloon quickly grew a reputation for being the place in the South Hills where everybody knows your name. The Saloon has attracted many of the same patrons over the years, while at the same time inviting a new generation who are eager to pull up a bar stool as well. We pride ourselves in maintaining an atmosphere that our loyal customers have come to expect, and our new customers will be excited about.
With a relaxed and casual atmosphere, The Saloon of Mt. Lebanon has been quenching thirsts for more than 38 years. Our beer selections can be mind boggling, we have expanded our draft beers to 30 and over 50 bottled beers. Of course, we also have a fully stocked bar with liquor and wine. As for food, our menu consists of a wide variety of appetizers, sandwiches, wraps and salads. Favorites include our buffalo-style chicken wings and burgers. We have our own special recipe sauce for the wings. Once you try our wings you won't want any others.
We have 15 large HDTVs televisions where you will see many sporting events through Direct TV. The TV's surround the bar and are along the perimeter. Included in the Direct TV package is the always popular NFL ticket, so you will be able to follow all the NFL games at once. If there is a sporting event that you want to see, chances are that you can view it at The Saloon.
We are easy to reach and just 3 ½ miles from Downtown Pittsburgh (South). Drive or take a short trip by public transportation (LRT or bus) to get to us on Washington Road in Mt. Lebanon. The Saloon is a great place to take a break, see friends, and have some fun. We hope to see you soon!
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Column: Walmart's Record is Worrisome
On Tuesday, Sioux Falls' City Council ignored the outcry of area residents and voted to annex the land on which Walmart has set its sights. By the time you read this, it is very likely that the planning commission will have also disregarded the concerns of Walmart's future neighbors and voted to rezone the land as commercial.
If you aren't one of the people who lives in that area, you must be thinking to yourself that this doesn't really concern you, right? However, there are some pretty good reasons to be worried about more Walmart stores coming to town.
The first is that their net effect on jobs is spotty at best. There are studies that find that for every two jobs created at a new Walmart, three are lost at surrounding businesses. To be fair, there are also studies that suggest an overall positive number, but even they conclude that overall the effect is negligible.
If you think about it, Walmart having a negative impact on existing local businesses is not an accident, it is by design. The major selling point of Walmart is that they have a wide variety of products under one roof, much more than any smaller store could offer. They would not be able to offer lower prices than their smaller competitors if they employed the same number of people as are currently working at all those other stores combined.
Well that is just the nature of business though, isn't it? If they can undercut their competition that means lower prices, which is better for everyone, right? Even if you are not concerned about the loss of variety and personal service that comes with the elimination of mom and pop type stores, there is reason to believe those low prices are fool's gold.
Walmart has had labor advocates in an uproar for years. They have a terrible track record of taking advantage of their employees, and what is worse for every taxpayer; they simply do not pay enough, which is why so many of their employees receive health care and nutritional assistance from the government.
Walmart is well aware of this, and in some stores its managers actually offer tutoring and aid in filling out the forms and negotiating the bureaucracy necessary to receive government assistance. Those low prices don't come from nowhere folks. In part they come from having the taxpayer supplement the unsustainably low wages that Walmart pays.
It might already be too late to prevent the City Council from giving Walmart whatever it wants, although it is certainly worth speaking up about and letting them know how you feel. After all, this isn't just about future traffic in what is now a rural residential area; if Walmart's record doesn't worry you, then you aren't paying close enough attention.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of John Gossom and do not reflect Results Radio, Townsquare Media, its sponsors or subsidiaries.


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