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One of the most difficult confirmation hearings in US Supreme Court history has returned 19 years later in a story involving race, gender, and today's highly contentious political scene.
To most people, Virginia Thomas is not a well-known figure. But as the wife of Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas she has the capacity to make news – whether she wants to or not. And she certainly is making news these days.
Ms. Thomas recently left a voice mail for Anita Hill asking Ms. Hill "to consider an apology … and some full explanation of why you did what you did with my husband."
During Justice Thomas's confirmation hearing in 1991, Hill accused him of sexual harassment when she worked for him at the US Department of Education and the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Hill, now a professor at Brandeis University, at first thought the voice mail message was prank. She reported it to the university's security office, which turned it over to the FBI. Ms. Thomas has acknowledged that the voice mail was from her.
The recent voice mail to Anita Hill is not the only reason for recent interest in "Ginni" Thomas, as she's known.
Virginia Thomas, tea party activist
Ms. Thomas's very overt advocacy on behalf of conservative and tea party organizations and causes – including harsh criticism of President Obama and Democratic lawmakers – has prompted questions about whether this is unseemly for the spouse of a US Supreme Court justice. For someone in her unique position, where is the line between free speech and association and the need to avoid the appearance of politics in the federal judiciary?
Many political spouses (and they are usually wives) have causes, and they do engage in overt politicking. This week, Michelle Obama, whose approval ratings are higher than her husband's, is stumping for Democratic candidates facing rough midterm elections.
Some spouses, like Hillary Clinton, get right into the political machinery (as she did on health care during her husband's administration) even though they have no elected status whatsoever.
But usually, their advocacy is on behalf of noncontroversial, apolitical issues: Lady Bird Johnson on highway beautification, Laura Bush on kids' reading skills, Ms. Obama on military families.
Ms. Thomas, on the other hand, has been the keynote speaker at large tea party events, most recently in Virginia. She's the founder and head of "Liberty Central," a nonprofit organization "designed to promote education, civil discourse, and activism focused on protecting core founding principles of the United States," according to its mission statement.
On Liberty Central's web site, Ms. Thomas is described as "a fan of Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, and Laura Ingraham and other talk radio hosts. She is intrigued by Glenn Beck and listening carefully."
A conflict of interest?
Questions about Ms. Thomas's political activity have to do with the appearance of conflict of interest close to the federal judiciary. (Although given his voting record, it's hard to see how Justice Thomas could be any more conservative.)
But Justice Thomas might have to recuse himself from decisions that appear to favor his wife's organization – regarding fundraising, for example. This has happened with other federal judges whose spouses were key figures in political organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union.
While Liberty Central is not required to report the identity of its donors, Sarah Field, the organization's chief operating officer and general counsel, said in a written statement to the New York Times that the group has "internal reviews and protections to ensure that no donor causes a conflict of interest for either Ginni or her husband."
In any case, political spouses – including those whose husbands or wives are judges elected or appointed as part of the political process – have the same rights as anyone else.
"I may not agree with Ginni Thomas on any policy issue, but what she's doing seems – if I can't say utterly commendable one could certainly say utterly proper in a democracy," Cambridge University historian David Garrow told Newsweek.
"This is a really ironic place for liberals to be," SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein said in the same article. "They're giving the impression that a woman can't have her own independent standing."
The call: Why now?
But the call to Hill struck many observers as odd, and it's hard to see any particular reason for it other than some deep, lingering, personal hurt and the felt need to cleanse this part of her husband's reputation.
Hill's she-said-he-said accusations of sexual harassment against Justice Thomas were shocking at the time, and they aroused equally harsh accusations against Hill. There were sordid allegations involving mental state, sex, and race. (Both Justice Thomas and Hill are African-American.)
In the most infamous comment at the time, conservative writer David Brock suggested that Hill was "a bit nutty and a bit slutty."
Brock has since disavowed the charges he further wrote about in his 1993 book "The Real Anita Hill," and he has apologized to Hill.
Following the 1991 confirmation hearings, Hill returned to academia, although she has not been able to exit the limelight entirely – as when Justice Thomas published his autobiography in 2007. Her own autobiography, published in 1998, is titled "Speaking Truth to Power."
In response to Ms. Thomas's voice mail, Hill said in a statement: "I have no intention of apologizing because I testified truthfully about my experience, and I stand by that testimony."


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- This article is about the location. For other similar uses, see Boiling Rock (disambiguation). For other locations used for imprisonment, see Prisons (disambiguation).
|"The highest security prison in the Fire Nation. It's on an island in the middle of a boiling lake. It's inescapable."
|— Zuko to Sokka.[1]
The Boiling Rock is an extremely secure Fire Nation prison known for its history of unsuccessful escape attempts. The prison is situated on a volcanic island in the middle of a boiling lake, hence its name.[2] The most dangerous criminals, both domestic and foreign alike, are sent here; these prisoners included thieves, traitors, and prisoners of war.
The prison was once run by a cruel warden who took great pride in the prison's reputation as an inescapable fortress; to maintain this reputation, the Boiling Rock was guarded by an army of firebenders, and the only way on and off the volcanic island was by traveling over the boiling water on one of the two gondolas.
The Boiling Rock was created relatively late in the Hundred Year War by Fire Lord Ozai, who spared no expense in the construction of the prison.[2] There were hundreds of prisoners there, of whom more than half were convicted firebenders. In all of its years of operation, nobody had ever escaped the prison.
After the failed invasion of the Fire Nation on the Day of Black Sun, dozens of prisoners from the Water Tribes and the Earth Kingdom were captured and imprisoned. However, only their leader, Hakoda of the Southern Water Tribe, was sent to the Boiling Rock due to his role as the leader of the invasion. All of the others were imprisoned at the Capital City Prison. Hakoda's son, Sokka, who had escaped the Fire Nation, was desperate to save his father. He and his new ally, Prince Zuko, traveled to the Boiling Rock to save him. They took Zuko's war balloon, but had to abandon it after it was wrecked in a failed landing. After penetrating the prison, Sokka and Zuko disguised themselves as guards and searched for Hakoda. They could not find Hakoda, but they did find Sokka's long-lost girlfriend, Suki, leader of the Kyoshi Warriors. After they had reunited for the first time since the Serpent's Pass, they and Zuko planned an escape. They were joined by Chit Sang, a prominent prisoner who was on bad terms with the warden and had overheard their escape plot. He and two of his friends tried to escape with the group by converting one of the coolers into a boat, which would allow them to cross the lake. However, Sokka, Suki, and Zuko stayed behind to find Hakoda as he might have been part of a new shipment of prisoners.[1]
Chit Sang and his friends blew their cover and were promptly rearrested. Zuko posed as a prisoner while Sokka went to find his dad. Much to Sokka's happiness, Hakoda was at the prison, so he reunited with him and planned a new escape. Much to Zuko's shock, his girlfriend Mai was there, as the warden was her uncle. She demanded that Zuko tell her the reason behind his decision to leave her, and Zuko explained without much success. The warden later tortured Chit Sang into revealing that one of their guards helped him escape, endangering Sokka's life. However, Chit Sang framed the guard that had bullied him before instead of Sokka and asked to join in Sokka's second escape in return for protecting him.
Much to the shock of the warden and the prison staff, Princess Azula and Ty Lee showed up, immediately suspecting that Zuko and the Avatar's friends were the actual culprits. After Sokka freed the prisoners, they started a riot, and the group made their escape. Zuko also managed to escape from Mai and rejoin his group. The group captured the warden in order to use him as a bargaining chip for their escape, before hijacking a gondola and attempting to flee to shore, only to be confronted by Ty Lee and Azula. The group managed to hold them off, but at the warden's insistence, the guards were cutting the gondola lines, which would send the entire group plunging to their death into the lake. While Azula was confident she had foiled the escape, Mai elected to "save the jerk who dumped [her]" and attacked the guards, allowing the stalled gondola to reach the outer station so Zuko and his friends could flee. They left the warden in the gondola and proceeded to hijack Azula's airship, with which they flew to the Western Air Temple.
Azula confronted Mai and demanded an explanation. Mai explained that she still loved Zuko, more than she feared Azula. Enraged, Azula tried to attack Mai, but Ty Lee blocked her chi energy and paralyzed her before she could even attack. The two girls were arrested on Azula's orders and imprisoned.[3]
However, after the Hundred Year War ended with the defeats of Azula and Ozai, as well as the liberation of Ba Sing Se by the Order of the White Lotus, Mai and Ty Lee were released and allowed to return home.[4]
The Boiling Rock is a maximum-security prison located within a boiling lake in the middle of a seemingly lifeless island. The steam that rises from the lake and accumulates within the sky above it makes it impossible for airborne crafts operating with hot air to maneuver above the prison because the heat eliminates the temperature differential, making it impossible to fly. The prison was constructed during the later months of the War, making it a modern, state of the art facility. Its walls are extremely thick and made of the most up-to-date indestructible metal. Among its features are the gondola system which is the only way on and off the prison island and the isolation chambers called "coolers". Prisoners cannot escape by swimming in the lake, as they would be severely burned. Those who try to escape in any other way, or firebend, are thrown into one of the coolers.
The prison is far more advanced than the Capital City Prison. It is equipped with hundreds of cells that can all be opened simultaneously from a control room located above the cell blocks. The prisoners are all kept behind bars during lockdown hours and let outside when it best suits the prison staff. Anyone who disobeys prison orders or misbehaves is thrown into specially-designed coolers, small one-man chambers designed to chill traitorous firebenders into submission.
The warden in charge of the prison was a cruel man who took great pride in the prison's reputation as an impenetrable fortress. He often verbally or physically abused his prisoners and only went easy on them if they did what he demanded. He and his army of guards often resorted to cruel practices to punish the prisoners, such as locking them in coolers and hanging them upside-down to create physical pain.
Interrogation room
The Boiling Rock, in the vein of most other top-notch Fire Nation prison complexes, had an interrogation room that the warden wanted the prisoners to fear. To accomplish this, the warden established the first interrogation room in a cooler. That, however, turned out to be a problem, as the room proved to be too small and the extreme cold had a negative effect on the interrogator. Following this, a new interrogation room was devised, which included a dimly lit metal room with metal bars and a chair to restrain the person being interrogated.[5]
These isolation chambers were installed to punish prisoners who dared to firebend or step out of line in the Boiling Rock. The coolers were kept at freezing temperatures, with insulation to seal in the cool air. When a prisoner was locked in there, they were not able to feel even a wisp of the warm air outside. Within the cooler, firebending was impossible; after just a day inside, it rendered a person unable to bend for a full week. When Zuko was in the cooler, he stayed warm using his "breath of fire" technique, thus allowing him to firebend once he got out.[6] The coolers were integral to Sokka's plans as they were they were perfectly insulated: they would resist the overwhelming heat of the volcano and boiling lake and float away from the prison of its own accord. With Zuko's help, Sokka used a cooler as a makeshift boat to escape the prison. This plan failed because of the involvement and hastiness of Chit Sang, who tried to make the cooler move faster once in the water and burned himself, screaming in pain and alerting the guards.
Notable inmates
- Chit Sang (escaped)
- Chit Sang's friend
- Chit Sang's girlfriend
- Hakoda (escaped)
- Mai (released)
- Suki (escaped)
- Tough criminal
- Ty Lee (released)
- Zuko (escaped)
Notable personnel
- Bully guard
- Female prison guard
- Gondola guards
- Lowly guard
- Sokka (incognito)
- Warden
- Zuko (incognito)
- The name and design of the prison is very similar to Alcatraz Island, a real-world island prison which was nicknamed "The Rock". As with the Boiling Rock, Alcatraz boasts a history of no successful escapes, with the surrounding freezing water providing an impediment much like the boiling lake around the Boiling Rock.
- An attempt by three inmates to escape Alcatraz using a raft that would drift with the current resembles Sokka's original plan to take one of the coolers and drift with the current to the other side of the lake.
- It also bears some resemblance to Stalag Luft III as depicted in the 1963 film The Great Escape, with solitary confinement cells known as "Coolers" and a similar escape attempt using the blind spot between two guard towers, and Stalag 13 from the 1960s television series Hogan's Heroes, which has a similar inescapable reputation and a confinement cell also referred to as "The Cooler".
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chan, May (writer) & Dos Santos, Joaquim (director). (July 16, 2008). "The Boiling Rock, Part 1". Avatar: The Last Airbender. Season 3. Episode 14. Nickelodeon.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 From older Avatar: The Last Airbender official site, originally on Nick.com. Encyclopedia now broken, archived at The Lost Lore of Avatar Aang - Location: Boiling Rock Prison.
- ↑ Hamilton, Joshua (writer) & Spaulding, Ethan (director). (July 16, 2008). "The Boiling Rock, Part 2". Avatar: The Last Airbender. Season 3. Episode 15. Nickelodeon.
- ↑ DiMartino, Michael Dante, Konietzko, Bryan (writers) & Dos Santos, Joaquim (director). (July 19, 2008). "Sozin's Comet, Part 4: Avatar Aang". Avatar: The Last Airbender. Season 3. Episode 21. Nickelodeon.
- ↑ From older Avatar: The Last Airbender official site, originally on Nick.com. Encyclopedia now broken, archived at The Lost Lore of Avatar Aang - Location: Interrogation Room.
- ↑ From older Avatar: The Last Airbender official site, originally on Nick.com. Encyclopedia now broken, archived at The Lost Lore of Avatar Aang - Location: Coolers.

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I know alot of people are sick of the whole Tebow thing and his religious beliefs......but, on ESPN today they had him mic'd up for the Bears/Broncos game......it was a very good piece and definitely worth seeing....it may be on ESPN's website, but if you get a chance to see it, you won't be disappointed....I like the guy....his mental toughness is what makes him what he is.......I know some think he is phony, but I just feel he is so real, and that is just him!!!!!!!!!
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Posted 18 December 2011 - 01:46 PM
No way I'm going to mock anyone that believes and uses the power of Prayer. I never did like the Gators so I really don't have an opinion on Tebow one way or the other but I've seen the power of Prayer work in many ways. If he wants to use it, I can respect him for that.
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This month the Movie Club will be screening Sunday Too Far Away, directed by Ken Hannam and starring Jack Thompson, Peter Cummins and Reg Lye.
The film follows Folley, a gun (champion) shearer, who joins a new shearing time despite having left the biz. His plan is to lay off the booze, save up some money and move down the coast and buy a prawning boat. He quickly picks up his old habits and is once again immersed in the hard working and hard drinking lifestyle. At the same time, Folley and the other shearers face having a bonus taken away, with 'scab' (non-unionised) workers coming into town and undermining their labour strike.
The film is considered one of the leading films of the Australian New Wave Cinema of the 1970s. These films were publicly funded, and one of the conditions of this arrangement was that they feature themes of Australian life. But film makers often used this opportunity to question assumed elements in national myths and icons, and Sunday Too Far Away is no different. The masculinity and mateship, the drinking and the larrikins are all on show, and often not in a redeeming light.
Sunday Too Far Away will be showing on Wednesday 9 September @ Narellan Library (corner of Queen and Elyard Street, Narellan) @ 6pm. Tea, coffee, and biscuits provided, but you are more than welcome to bring your own snacks and beverages.
Stay after the screening and join the discussion about the film and its portrayal of life on a shearing station. Share your thoughts or use the discussion questions.


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Hello everyone,
I would like to put the longer mirrors from a 1970s or early '80s" boxer on my K75. Can this be done as a straight swap or do I have to do something else?
Hello everyone,
I would like to put the longer mirrors from a 1970s or early '80s" boxer on my K75. Can this be done as a straight swap or do I have to do something else?
I put Yamaha mirrors on my K75c. Had to build new stems to adapt to the K mounting. Took a little machining but it worked out well. I had always ridden Yamahas and I liked their mirrors. The rectangle shape just seemed better than BMW Mickey Mouse ears. I am sure it can be done. If a big block Chevy can be put into a cycle, surely mirrors can be changed.
I have a k75s and a 2004 R1100s and like the wide mirrors of the R1100s. So i found that the R1200ST has the same size mirror and the same threads so they attach with no modification. Will post pics later.
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Aargent Brick,
This is a case where without at least the model of your K75, it's tough to answer. If it's a plain K75 - no reason I can think of that different mirrors wouldn't work, provided the stems go into the holes in the controls.. if it's a K75RT - that's a different story, since the mirrors are mounted to the fairing.
Please read: http://forums.bmwmoa.org/showthread.php?t=46057 - that info in your thread title would be quite useful.. I can't add it to the title since I don't see it in your posting (aside from "K75"..)
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I have a 1995 naked K75.
On my old bike, 87 K75S, the dealer recommended a mirror which extended the mirrors out a good amount. I want to say they were for an airhead bike of similar year, but can't remember which exact model it was. Since the S used bar-mounted mirrors the went right on no problem. I should have a pic of the bike somewhere which would show the mirrors pretty well.
Also the mirror head was identical shape, so was hard to tell the difference when looking at the bike.
I think your later K75 had the rounder/more bulbous-looking mirror head though, the 87 had a flater looking mirror head.
The mirrors really helped, especially with an 87 S which had narrower bars than the later S's
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On Thursday and Friday, March 6 and 7, Hope College will sponsor its 36th annual Model United Nations Conference.
The event will include a keynote address by Congressman Pete Hoekstra that is open to the general public. Hoekstra, who represents Michigan's Second Congressional District, will speak during the closing awards ceremony on Friday, March 7, at 3:45 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel. Admission to the talk is free.
More than 800 students and faculty from approximately 30 high schools will be participating in this year's Model United Nations. Acting as delegates from the 192 members of the United Nations in two General Assemblies, 10 Security Councils, one International Court of Justice (ICJ), and one Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), the students will be taking part in simulated exercises focusing on important current international events.
Among the issues to be discussed are the international drug trade, global healthcare, free trade, worldwide education, racism and racial discrimination abolishment, global overpopulation, the legality of uranium enrichment, crises in Iran and East Timor, and an Emergency Crisis, as well as historic debates regarding the Falkland Islands and the United States' Invasion of Iraq.
Model United Nations is designed to give high school students an opportunity to take on the roles of professional diplomats with the goal of achieving a particular country's national objectives, while fostering a desired international consensus for real solutions to questions facing them. The department of political science at Hope College sponsors the event.
Participating students have been working with their high school advisors for several weeks in preparation for the conference, and have been identifying the current issue positions of countries they have chosen to represent. During the conference, they will share knowledge and actively engage with their peer delegates, striving to resolve pressing international problems.
ECOSOC, Security Council, and ICJ members begin their sessions on Thursday evening, continuing all day Friday. General Assembly members arrive on Friday morning, debating throughout the day.
In addition to their sessions, ECOSOC, Security Council and ICJ members also attend an opening banquet on Thursday.
The Hope College Model United Nations is organized by students in two political science courses aimed at developing an understanding of international politics and the United Nations' role in international disputes. The Hope students serve as session chairpersons and perform other administrative tasks throughout the planning and execution of the event.
The secretary generals for this year's conference are sophomores Ethan B. Morrical, a political science major with a pre-med focus from Yorktown, Ind., and Nate Clements, an international studies and Japanese double major from Lowell. The high school coordinator isKendall Ramsden, a recent Hope graduate from Grand Haven. Senior Stelios Alveraz, a French, Spanish and international studies major from Paris, France is serving as media coordinator.
Sophomore Alison Benoit of Muskegon is director of the Introductory General Assembly, while senior Stephanie Kirkham of Springfield, Ill., and sophomore Ally Veldermanof Hollandare directors of the Advanced General Assembly. Seniors Luke Heerema of Oak Park, Ill., and Colin Lawrence of Sterling, Ill., as well as sophomore Jordan Fullerof Leesburg, Ind., are the Security Council directors. Sophomore Megan Sweet of Salida, Calif., and junior Jeff Ichesco of Saline are directing the Economic/Social Council. Sophomore Stephanie Bogema of Kalamazoo is serving as the director of the International Court of Justice.
Students involved in theGeneral Assemblies are: junior Heather Esfandiari of Rochester, N.Y.; sophomore Sarah Burrichter of Batavia, Ill.; senior Quinn Nystrom of Baxter, Minn.; junior Chris Erickson of Madera, Calif.; and freshman Miriam Chaponniere of Holland.
Participating in the Security Council sessions are: freshman Maria Krebs of Orange City, Iowa; freshman Ali Bernard of Windsor, Calif.; freshman Sara Saavedra of Holland; senior Ben Walker of Summerville, S.C.; senior Brad Vanderlee of Grand Rapids; sophomore Joseph Rinkinen of Highland; freshman Laura Diez of Madrid, Spain; senior Kathleen Burkhardt of Muncie, Ind.; senior Brian Straw of Arlington, Va.; and freshman Kevin Haley of Lowell, Mass.
ECOSOC participants include: sophomore Alexander Martin of Holland; sophomore Kara Oakley of Douglas; junior Emily Donahue of Naperville, Ill.; and senior Jay Martello of Clarkston.
The following participants are involved with the International Court of Justice: junior Katelyn Lokker of Zeeland; and freshman Rylee Hartung of Adrian.
Dimnent Memorial Chapel is located at 277 College Ave., on College Avenue at 12th Street.


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If you weren't one of the lucky ones whose parents taught you how to swim or enrolled you into a swimming lesson program when you were younger, you are in a disadvantage, however, you can still learn to swim, so it is by far not a lost cause. There is never too late to start, so feel free to dig into our Novice swim lessons and go out there and get into your closest body of water and get wet.
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First thing to remember is that, a human body is naturally buoyant if the lungs are filled with air. What I mean by that is that if you take a deep breath of air, you will not sink :). Simple right? Yes, it is, until you have to take another breath which causes you to exhale the air that kept you buoyant and this moment of short sinking time could cause the panic and drowning if it ends in the worst case scenario. So, first thing to remember is that you will float if you keep breathing in air, so in a way, there is no reason to panic since we all breath many many times a day on a regular basis.
Second, the best way to take an air in the water is when you are on your back. If you are on your front, face in the water, it is much more difficult to raise your head and take the needed breath. Of course, it is possible. If you are on your front, make sure to take a breath to the side and not to the front. However, this is a skill you will learn later in your learn to swim endeavors. So, if you feel like you are out of breath and you start to panic that you will drown, just flip your body on your back, in the very same way you are when you sleep. Just lay your head back on the pillow (water) and relax.
head position will cause your legs to float to the surface or at least rise a little, so you are not vertically in the water. Then you are free to take as many breaths as you can, because your mouth is out of the water and it does not need to go back in. If you have troubles with sinking legs, you might want to try shinfin™ leg fins which do wonders with the sinking leg problem.
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If you are already swimming around with easy and you do a lot of open water swimming, do not dismiss the above guideline on how to prevent yourself from drowning. You never know what can happen. It happens even to the best of us as we saw in the FINA Open Water 10-kilometer World Cup in Fujairah, south of Dubai with the tragic death of an elite swimmer Fran Crippen. To make swimming a safer sport, the International Swimming Hall of Fame in Ft. Lauderdale, have came up with a specific swimming safety floating device Swim Safety Device, which you can attach to yourself while swimming. When you get tired, you can use the Swim Safety Device as a resting buoy. In addition to the swimming safety device being a floating device, it also is a dry bag to store your valuables and to top it off, it is designed not to slow you down when swimming, it just floats nicely in your wake behind you.
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How often have you looked in the mirror and thought, Damn, I need a haircut – by children? Well, friend, you're in luck. Today and several other days this month, kids aged 10-12 from Parkdale Public School will be offering free haircuts to the Toronto public.
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Sounds terrifying to me, but a 17-year-old boy once came perilously close to cutting off my earlobe during a home haircut, so perhaps I'm biased.
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A couple of arrivals on my desk for review worth a look.
John Rentoul has been running the Questions To Which The Answer Is No! Awards for several years now. Celebrating the journalistic skill of basing an entire article on a fantastically far-fetched question-based headline and only admitting that the premise is extraordinarily unlikely in the final paragraph, his blog attracts large numbers of followers keen to submit their own favourites. This is a compilation featuring such journalistic gems as: Was JFK killed because of his interest in aliens? Can your dreams predict the future? Has Marilyn Monroe been reincarnated as a shop assistant called Chris?
Questions to Which the Answer is No!: Amazon.co.uk: John Rentoul: Books.
Actually, the second book is scheduled for a January release according to amazon – Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes: Amazon.co.uk: Maria Konnikova: It attempts to answer the question what is it that separates Sherlock Holmes from his long-suffering friend and side-kick Dr John Watson? What makes Holmes such a superior detective, able to piece together clues and solve problems that seem elementary to Watson only in hindsight? And can we – most of us, Watsons ourselves, ever hope to harness a bit of Holmes' extraordinary powers of mind, not to solve crimes, but simply to improve our lives at work and home? Well the answer to that questions may well be yes and psychologist Maria Konnikova shows us how.


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And in case you're confused: Everything Is Terrible is a comedy group that does live shows with found footage, like this Pokémon clip.
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Two not-for-profit wildlife organizations and a group of individuals have banded together and filed a lawsuit seeking to prevent a regional plan to cull deer with federal sharpshooters beginning this winter.
The Montauk-based East Hampton Group for the Wildlife and the Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center of the Hamptons in Hampton Bays, along with 15 residents, filed suit on in Supreme Court Thursday against East Hampton Town, East Hampton Village and the East Hampton Town Trustees. In the suit, they ask for a temporary restraining order against the town's comprehensive deer management plan, and specifically any proposal within that plan that calls for the organized culling of the whitetail deer.
While the lawsuit was served on the town last Thursday and the village on Friday, that same day, the East Hampton Village Board moved forward by passing a resolution to join the Long Island Farm Bureau's (LIFB) proposal to bring in federal sharpshooters to cull deer herds in municipalities across the East End.
The LIFB's plan, which it is coordinating with the New York Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC), entails bring United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) sharpshooters to the East End to cull the herd. The program will be funded by the LIFB through $200,000 in funding through the 2013 state budget.
The Farm Bureau has asked East End villages and towns to sign onto the program by committing $15,000 to $25,000, respectively, to have federal riflemen come to their municipalities. The cull will take place in a four or five week window beginning in February, timing Farm Bureau Executive Director Joe Gergela noted was designed to give local hunters a chance to cull the herd themselves during deer season, which runs through late January.
The goal, said Gergela in an interview earlier this month, is to cull 1,000 to 2,000 deer from across the East End. The meat from the culled deer will go to Island Harvest to feed the hungry on Long Island.
The USDA sharpshooters use suppressed rifles and depending on terrain, either trap deer with a drop net, work as a mobile team with a driver, spotter and shooter, or shoot from tree stands. The Farm Bureau will coordinate efforts with municipalities that sign onto the program to identify areas deer herds tend to populate the most.
East Hampton Village has agreed to pay $15,000 into the program and joins East Hampton and Southold town, who have both agreed to provide $25,000 in funding. Southampton Town has yet to decide on whether or not it will join the regional cull, and Sagaponack officials have said that village would wait until both towns sign on before making its own commitment. The Village of North Haven is pursuing its own organized cull.
While supporters of the plan point to the incidences of tick borne illnesses on the East End, public safety concerns connected to deer and motor vehicle accidents, as well as the financial impact on farms and on private landscaping, critics contend there has been little information provided to show the cull is truly necessary. Local hunters have also opposed the cull, arguing if New York State, and the towns and villages, opened up hunting restrictions, they could thin the deer population themselves.
"There is not enough proof that there is the kind of population that would warrant this," said Virginia Frati, the Executive Director and Founder of the Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center. "How can we do this without proof of that?"
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BALTIMORE – The Community College of Baltimore County will pay $50,000 and provide equitable relief to settle an age discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the employee's retaliation lawsuit, the agency announced today.
The EEOC charged in its suit that the Community College of Baltimore County failed to hire Sheri Chosak as a part-time English as a Second Language (ESOL) academic advisor at its Owings Mills campus because she was 60 years old. Chosak has worked for the college as a registration clerk since 2001 at its Owings Mills campus.
The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) prohibits employers from refusing to hire or promote individuals who are 40 or older because of age. The EEOC filed suit in U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, Northern District (Civil Action Number 1:08-cv-02563-CCB) after first attempting to reach a voluntary settlement out of court through its conciliation process.
In addition to the monetary relief to Chosak, the consent decree settling the lawsuit enjoins the college from further engaging in any employment practice which discriminates on the basis of age, including failing to hire or promote applicants or employees based on age. The college will provide at least two hours of mandatory training on preventing age discrimination and federal anti-discrimination laws to all managers at its Owings Mills campus. The college will also post a notice on the resolution of the lawsuit.
"Employers who refuse to hire qualified applicants based on age not only forgo the opportunity to hire talented workers, they also risk having to defend themselves against an EEOC lawsuit," said EEOC Regional Attorney Debra Lawrence of the agency's Philadelphia District Office, which oversees Pennsylvania, Delaware, West Virginia, Maryland and parts of New Jersey and Ohio.
In Fiscal Year 2009, age-based charges reached a total of 22,778, their second-highest level ever.
In July 2009, the EEOC held a public hearing on age discrimination and barriers to the employment of older workers. Additional information about the hearing can be found on the EEOC's web site at http://www.eeoc.gov/abouteeoc/meetings/7-15-09/index.cfm.
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the Commission is available at its web site at (www.eeoc.gov).


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Talk about saving face. The SEC approved a plan on Monday for Nasdaq to pay customers as much as $62 million for losses stemming from last year's controversial Facebook IPO. Despite the settlement, Wall Street firms will still be able to "pursue further legal action" if they so choose.
Dow Jones Business News reports (ironically posted to the Nasdaq website) that Wall Street banks are estimated to have lost around $500 million from the delay in the opening of Facebook trading and subsequent confusion over individual trades.
UBS has said the Facebook debut cost it $356 million, and said in a statement Monday that it intended to recover from Nasdaq "the full extent of our losses." Dow Jones says a spokeswoman said the bank has already filed a demand for arbitration against Nasdaq with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.
UBS on Monday said "the SEC's approval of the plan does not change our opinion," calling the payout "inadequate and insufficient." Citigroup, whose losses were estimated at about $20 million, had also urged regulators to reject Nasdaq's plan, calling the package too small, according to the news service.
Nasdaq's compensation plan has satisfied some of the firms damaged in the social network's rocky debut, including Knight Capital Group and Citadel, which lost around $35 million each trading the stock May 18, Dow Jones adds. UBS and Citigroup had also objected to Nasdaq's requirement, upheld by the SEC Monday, that any firms claiming compensation under the exchange's plan must waive legal claims against Nasdaq.
The social networking giant, Wall Street firms and the Nasdaq were all heavily criticized for what was largely seen as a disappointing debut last spring. At the time, AdvisorOne contributor Ron DeLegge said it was so bad, lead underwriter Morgan Stanley was forced to buy up FB shares to prevent them from dipping below its $38 offer price. The Wall Street Journal described Morgan Stanley as Facebook's "stabilization agent."
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NEW YORK, April 23 (UPI) -- The Broadway musical "Nice Work If You Can Get It," starring Matthew Broderick, is up for a leading nine Outer Critics Circle Awards, organizers said Monday.
Among the prizes the show was nominated for are Outstanding Book of a Musical, Director of a Musical, Choreography, Set Design and Costume Design.
The musicals "Newsies" and "Once" followed close behind "Work" with seven nominations apiece.
Nominated for Outstanding New Broadway Play are "The Lyons," "One Man, Two Guvnors," "Seminar" and "Stick Fly."
In the running for Outstanding New Broadway Musical are "Bonnie & Clyde," "Newsies," "Once" and "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark."
Shortlisted for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play are "Blood and Gifts," "The School for Lies," "Sons of the Prophet" and "Tribes."
The nominees for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical are "Death Takes a Holiday," "Lucky Guy," "Play It Cool" and "Queen of the Mist."
Vying for the title of Outstanding Revival of a Play are "The Best Man," "Death of a Salesman," "The Lady From Dubuque" and "Private Lives."
Up for the prize for Outstanding Revival of a Musical are "Carrie," "Evita," "Follies" and "Porgy and Bess."
Nominated for Outstanding Actor in a Play are
James Corden for "One Man, Two Guvnors,"
Santino Fontana for "Sons of the Prophet," Russell Harvard for "Tribes," Philip Seymour Hoffman for "Death of a Salesman" and Hamish Linklater for "The School for Lies."
Shortlisted for Outstanding Actress in a Play are
Tracie Bennett for "End of the Rainbow," Tyne Daly for "Master Class," Linda Lavin for "The Lyons," Nicole Ari Parker for "A Streetcar Named Desire" and Laila Robins for "The Lady From Dubuque."
In the running for Outstanding Actor in a Musical are Danny Burstein for "Follies," Raul Esparza for "Leap of Faith," Jeremy Jordan for "Newsies," Steve Kazee for "Once" and Norm Lewis for "Porgy and Bess."
Mentioned for Outstanding Actress in a Musical are Jan Maxwell for "Follies," Marin Mazzie for "Carrie," Audra McDonald for "Porgy and Bess," Cristin Milioti for "Once" and Kelli O'Hara for "Nice Work If You Can Get It."
The nominees for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play are Will Brill for "Tribes," Tom Edden for "One Man, Two Guvnors," Andrew Garfield for "Death of a Salesman," James Earl Jones for "The Best Man" and Jefferson Mays for "Blood and Gifts."
Up for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play are Joanna Gleason for "Sons of the Prophet," Spencer Kayden for "Don't Dress for Dinner," Angela Lansbury for "The Best Man," Judith Light for "Other Desert Cities" and Daphne Rubin-Vega for "A Streetcar Named Desire."
Nominated for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical are Phillip Boykin for "Porgy and Bess," Andrew Keenan-Bolger for "Newsies," Michael McGrath for "Nice Work If You Can Get It," Patrick Page for "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" and Chris Sullivan for "Nice Work If You Can Get It."
Vying for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical are Jayne Houdyshell for "Follies," Judy Kaye for "Nice Work If You Can Get It," Rebecca Luker for "Death Takes a Holiday," Da'Vine Joy Randolph for "Ghost: The Musical" and Melissa Van Der Schyff for "Bonnie & Clyde."
The Outer Critics Circle is an organization of writers and commentators covering New York theater for out-of-town newspapers, national publications and other media.
The winners of this year's awards will be announced May 14 and the prizes handed out at a ceremony May 24 at Sardi's Restaurant in Manhattan.


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Man charged in wife's death seeks insurance payout
A 39-year-old man who's been charged with killing his wife has been fighting with her estate for proceeds of her $250,000 life insurance policy.
Alexander Fazzino was arrested in Lee's Summit, Mo., and has been returned to Boone County, where's he's being held on $1.5 million bail.
He's accused of killing 32-year-old Emily Fazzino, on Jan. 29 last year.
The Des Moines Register says Alexander Fazzino filed an insurance claim in June. An insurance company says in a document filed with a Missouri court that Emily Fazzino bought the policy in 2003, naming her husband as beneficiary.
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- In this bracing, page-turning account of his stranger-than-fiction baptism into the corrupted ways of Washington, Neil Barofsky offers an irrefutable indictment, from an insider of the Bush and Obama administrations, of the mishandling of the $700 billion TARP bailout fund. In vivid behind-the-scenes detail, he reveals proof of the extreme degree to which our government officials bent over backward to serve the interests of Wall Street firms at the expense of the broader public--and at the expense of effective financial reform. During the height of the financial crisis in 2008, Barofsky gave up his job as a prosecutor in the esteemed U.S. Attorney's Office in New York City, where he had convicted drug kingpins, Wall Street executives, and perpetrators of mortgage fraud, to become the special inspector general in charge of oversight of the spending of the bailout money. From his first day on the job, his efforts to protect against fraud and to hold the big banks accountable for how they spent taxpayer money were met with outright hostility from the Treasury officials in charge of the bailouts. Barofsky discloses how, in serving the interests of the banks, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and his team worked with Wall Street executives to design programs that would funnel vast amounts of taxpayer money to their firms and would have allowed them to game the markets and make huge profits with almost no risk and no accountability, while repeatedly fighting Barofsky's efforts to put the necessary fraud protections in place. His investigations also uncovered abject mismanagement of the bailout of insurance giant AIG and Geithner's decision to allow the payment of millions of dollars in bonuses--including $7,700 to a kitchen worker and $7,000 to a mail room assistant--and that the Obama administration's "TARP czar" lobbied for the executives to retain their high pay. Providing stark details about how, meanwhile, the interests of homeowners and the broader public were betrayed, Barofsky recounts how Geithner and his team steadfastly failed to fix glaring flaws in the Obama administration's homeowner relief program pointed out by Barofsky and other bailout watchdogs, rejecting anti-fraud measures, which unleashed a wave of abuses by mortgage providers against homeowners, even causing some who would not have lost their homes otherwise to go into foreclosure. Ultimately only a small fraction (just $1.4 billion at the time he stepped down) of the $50 billion allocated to help homeowners was spent, while the funds expended to prop up the financial system--as Barofsky discloses--totaled $4.7 trillion. As Barofsky raised the alarm about the bailout failures, he met with obstruction of his investigations, and he recounts in blow-by-blow detail how an increasingly aggressive war was waged against his efforts, with even the White House launching a broadside against him. Bailout is a riveting account of his plunge into the political meat grinder of Washington, as well as a vital revelation of just how captured by Wall Street our political system is and why the too-big-to-fail banks have only become bigger and more dangerous in the wake of the crisis. *** FROM BAILOUT The further we dug into the way TARP was being administered, the more obvious it became that Treasury applied a consistent double standard. In the late fall of 2009, as I began receiving the results of two of our most important audits, the contradiction couldn't have been more glaring. When providing the largest financial institutions with bailout money, Treasury made almost no effort to hold them accountable, and the bounteous terms delivered by the government seemed to border on being corrupt. For those institutions, no effort was spared, with government officials often defending their generosity by kneeling at the altar of the "sanctity of contracts." Meanwhile, an entirely different set of rules applied for home- owners and businesses that were most assuredly small enough to fail. Nowhere was the favoritism toward Wall Street more evident than with the government's ap...
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On March 9, the Israeli army prevented a symbolic wedding from taking place near Hizma checkpoint, a checkpoint separating Ramallah from Jerusalem.
The groom from the West Bank attempted to make his way to the checkpoint to meet his bride, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, who was arriving from Nazareth, in the north of what is now called Israel.
The ceremony was organised by the "Love in the time of Apartheid" campaign. The campaign aims to expose an Israeli law that infringes on the right to Palestinian family reunification.
"This wedding was organized by Palestinians from '48 and '67 [territories] under the campaign of "Love in the time of Apartheid" to protest against the Israeli law which prevents the reunification of families if one partner holds Israeli citizenship and the other holds a Palestinian ID," said one activist taking part in the ceremony.
The initiative makes a stand against the "Citizenship and Entry into Israel law" which prohibits the automatic granting of Israeli citizenship and residency to nationals of certain Arab countries.
Protestors held up placards with slogans such as "In sickness and in health, till Israel do us part," written on them to the line of soldiers blocking their access to the checkpoint
Protestors held up placards with slogans such as "In sickness and in health, till Israel do us part," written on them to the line of soldiers blocking their access to the checkpoint
This law practically translates into spouses and families from the West Bank and Gaza being prevented from living with their partners residing in Israel.
"This event highlights Israeli racist laws that forbid the two parts of Palestine to meet and fall in love and be together," Jasmin Saleh wrote on the event's Facebook page.
However during the ceremony neither party could make it to the checkpoint due to the Israeli army's interference. The bride was stopped in her traditional white gown whilst the groom and protestors peacefully marching to the wedding faced stun grenades and tear gas.
Protestors held up placards with slogans such as "In sickness and in health, till Israel do us part," written on them to the line of soldiers blocking their access to the checkpoint.
A bus carrying participants was prevented from attending the wedding by soldiers near the Jab'a checkpoint.
The groom, Hazem, told Wafa News Agency that the symbolic ceremony was an attempt "to resist Israel's racist laws which separate Palestinian couples and prevent the marriage between them." According to Hazem the couple who were originally planning to take part in the ceremony dropped out due to fears of permanent separation.
According to the campaign's Facebook page a man called Basel Mansour was arrested at the checkpoint. During the clashes on the West Bank side a youth was also arrested.
"Today we exposed an apartheid system. We tried to organize a wedding. As you have seen the Israeli army prevented the bride from coming. On the groom's side they attacked us with bombs, [and] used tear gas. This practice of apartheid should be stopped," said Dr Mustafa Barghouti, secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative, during the protest.
According to the United Nations Human Rights Committee, the law "suspends the possibility, with certain rare exceptions, of family reunification between an Israeli citizen and a person residing in the West Bank, East Jerusalem or the Gaza Strip, thus adversely affecting the lives of many families."
The Citizenship and Entry into Israel law
The Citizenship and Entry into Israel law is a highly controversial law which infringes on the basic human rights on both Israeli's and Palestinians.
The 2003 constitutional law was upheld in January 2012 by the Israeli Supreme Court. This was after the law was amended in 2007 to prohibit spouses from "enemy states" entering Israel for the purpose of family reunification. Enemy states are defined as distinctly Arab states, including Syria, Lebanon, Iran and Iraq.
The state of Israel justifies the law under the broad definition of "security reasons," pertaining that it does not have the means to undertake individual checks. The state based its claims on its right as a sovereign to permit or prohibit the entry of any foreigner into its territory.
The law is illegal on numerous grounds. Firstly it violates the right to family life, in addition to demonstrating a clearly discriminatory policy against people of Arab nationality and poses questions of racial equality, or rather the lack of.
The majority of the justices on the Supreme Court ruled that the potential security threat to the lives of Israelis must prevail over the right to family life.
Justice Asher Grunis ruled, "Human rights are not a prescription for national suicide."
This ignores the fact that statistics provided by the state show that from 1994 to 2008, out of 130,000 Palestinians who have entered Israel for the purpose of family unification, only seven of them were indicted, convicted and sentenced to imprisonment for charges related to terrorism.
Such a discriminatory law distinctly contradicts Israel's claim to be a "Jewish and democratic state." The debate between the meaning of the two claims comes down to the idea of a Jewish state needing to protect its "Jewishness" thus the law preserves the Jewish "race", whilst on the other side a sweeping ban on inter-ethnic marriage and their right to live within Israel undermines the democratic character of any state.
There is a debate that the real reason behind the law is to ensure a Jewish majority within the Green Line and to prevent Palestinians from residing within Israel.
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Jayne Mansfield
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" Marilyn Monroe."
Jayne Mansfield (born Agnes Bob Mandarin; April 19, 1933 – June 29, 1967) was one of the leading blonde sex symbols of the 1950s she was quite famous for her blonde curls, huge breasts and her potent body odour that in later life she bottled and sold as an aphrodisiac. She was not as fit as Marilyn Monroe.
Early Life[edit]
Jayne was born Agnes Bob Mandarin, she was born to pornography star Pearly Gates (1901-2001) and a boring stranger with the first name of Henry, Pearly met Henry briefly, she then became pregnant with her 81st child who grew up to be Jayne. Jayne was born in 1933 and spent a lot of her time on her own as her mother was always working. When Jayne was three they moved to Dallas, and Pearly had a brief stint in acting in the stage adaptation of Debbie Does Dallas in which she just had sex on stage for two hours. Jayne had always said this is when she became interested in acting, she often went to the theatre to watch her mother in the brilliant stage play.
Foot Modelling[edit]
Jayne was eighteen when she got her first acting gig, it was for the hit magazine Foot Dreams for the next year she modelled and did live shows, Jayne was well known to horney men all over the world and Jayne knew she had hit it big, her mother's career had slowed down by this point and Jayne's modelling salary could not support her so she by having a threesome with several hollywood producers and she was given a contract with 4th Decade Fox
Her So Called Acting[edit]
Jayne was cast in the infamous flop movie Pills In Frisco Bay (1955) were in a scene that leaked to the press showed Jayne's pussy that had an odd resemblance to a pussy.
The movie Pills In Frisco Bay was about a woman who popped pills.
Jayne followed this up with another flop Bisexual Jungle (1955, Alt. Title Jennifer Aniston) however despite these two flops the producer that she laid earlier still thought she had some more wear and tear so he continued to cast her in movies, and finally after all the sex she had a mediocre hit Pete Kelly's Poo (1955) and after the movie stopped selling tickets she eventually got off her then fat ass and sold some tickets on the street along with Pearly who had been supporting herself because Jayne had let her have a small part in her last two movies, she pleasured the director but as Jayne's star was on the rise and after her next film The Girl Can Help It, But She Won't (1956) which was a smash hit she dumped her mother and left her for dead (however she lived for another fiftey years).
Jayne had a series of of hits such as The Burglar (1957), The Wax Bust (1957), Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter's Lunch?(1957) and Kiss Them Feet For Me (1957), 1957 was one heck of a year, she was voted the most famous and skankiest actress of 1957. However in 1958 she took a break to go back into modelling her feet, when people said her feet hade turned hidious she ate millions of gallons of ice cream and became to fat to do anything, however in 1960 she sold her fat to warm families in Africa and she grabbed the last remnants of her career with her last financially successful movie To High To Grab (1960) and The Fat Ass Spy (1961). After that it was a succession of films where Jayne was asked to run around in a series of a peek-a-boo nude scenes. Her last listed film role is as a Cossack in Doctor Zhivago (1965) - but that might have been a misprint.
Screeching (music career)[edit]
Jayne knew her career was over and she look to other avenues of money, she thought she would join her now now famous in Finland stripper mother Pearly but she thought she'd better not. in 1963 she signed with Abstinence Records (later renamed Virgin Records)and she released her first record in (1964) I Slept With Shakespeare, FACE! in which she released her single called My Sweet Jayne in peaked at no.199 on the Billboard 200 Jayne had a number one hit with her second single Lick That Thang! her album did fantastically and after touring she cut a second album called Jayne Mansfield On Your Genitalia (1966)to which she had her last successful single Pussy......Cat (Time for Din-Dins) ! after that she was released from her record deal.
Polly what? (political career)[edit]
Jayne got bored easily so decided to work try her hand at politics. Unfortunately, it was soon evident which hand corrupt politicians were interested in receiving from Jayne so she went home and never accomplished the voting rights for frogs, a cause she had passionately believed in ever since reading the classic children's book The Princess and The Fugly Frog.
Retirement & Personal Life[edit]
Jayne tried to spend the remainder of her life in a retirement home when she celebrated her 33rd birthday. However the lure of celebrity and wish to keep her flagging career going persuaded her to go back on the casting couch. In 1957 she had married the director of Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter's Lunch? Eddie Iowa, she had two children too him...Peroni-Cherise (b.1958) and Bobman (b.1959-1989). Jayne and Eddie divorced in 1962 before she met with the penniless Austrian male model Arnold Schwarzenegger. However that ended pretty quickly and a distraught Jayne decided to drive her car into a muck spreader driven by journalists working for the National Enquirer. So ended a legend.
As Jayne was bankrupt, the FBI claimed her body in the name of National Prurience - and kept it a deep freeze for their boss Edgar.J.Hoover to show off to important guests. Eventually Jayne was given a decent burial - except her famous rack. That is now preserved in the Smithsonian museum in Washington D.O.A.
- (1955) Pills In Frisco Bay - Tara Silcox
- (1955) Bisexual Jungle - Bjorna Slover
- (1955) Pete Kelly's Poo - Elaine
- (1956) The Girl Can Help It, But She Won't - Normas Dix
- (1957) The Burglar - Letty Mor
- (1957) The Wax Bust - Bustie St. Claire
- (1957) Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter's Lunch?- Lucy Lee-Lee
- (1957) Kiss Them Feet For Me - Mysterious Foot Lover
- (1960) To High To Grab - Missy Dee
- (1961) The Fat Ass Spy - Fat Ass Spy
- (1962) Jayne Does Dallas - Jayne Harvey Oswald
- (1962) Doctor Yes! Yes!! Yes!!! - Jayne Bond
- (1963) The Best Rack In Your Life - Jayne Rack
- (1965) Doctor Zhivago - A cossack.
- (1964) I Slept With Shakespeare, FACE!
- (1966) Jayne Mansfield On Your Genitalia
- (1964) My Sweet Jayne - peaked: 199 (Billboard 200)-I Slept With Shakespeare, FACE!
- (1964) Lick That Thang! - peaked 1 (Hot Tracks Yal)-I Slept With Shakespeare, FACE!
- (1966) Pussy.........Cat(Time for Din-Dins) - peaked 1: (redneck tracks-o-rama)- Jayne Mansfield On Your Genitallia


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Its old news now,but for the benefit of those who think we should get Chinooks,Havocs or R22s, Here is the Actual tender.
Competition for the supply of Light Utility and Utility Military Helicopters
(with an option for Two (2) additional Utility Military Helicopters)
Reference: CON/117/2004
NB: The term "must" in this document means that the requirement is essential. The term "should" in this document means that the requirement is desirable.
1. The following is a Request for Tenders (RFT) for the supply of Two (2) new twin-engine, IFR certified, light utility military helicopters and Four (4) new twin-engine, IFR certified, utility military helicopters (with an option for two (2) additional utility military helicopters) to the Department of Defence, Ireland. The helicopters should be available for operational service at the earliest possible date.
An option for the supply of interim helicopter(s) by the successful tenderer(s) will also be considered pending the delivery of the selected helicopter(s). The interim helicopter(s) should be the same type as that offered in the tender competition.
2. Tenders (one original and three copies) for the supply of the helicopter(s) clearly marked "Request for Tenders for the supply of twin-engine light utility and utility military helicopters" and addressed in a sealed envelope to:
Contracts Manager,
Ref. No. Con/117/2004
Department of Defence,
Contracts Branch,
Colaiste Caoimhin,
Mobhi Road,
Dublin 9,
must be delivered to the above address not later than
12 Noon (local time) on Friday 23rd July 2004
3. Tenders received after the above closing time and date will not be considered. Tenderers, hand-delivering tenders, which will only be accepted at the above address, should obtain a receipt detailing the time and date of delivery.
4. Before a contract will be awarded, a tenderer must provide:-
a. If an Irish Resident - a valid Tax Clearance Certificate from the Revenue Commissioners.
b. If a non Irish Resident - a statement from the Irish Revenue Commissioners that he/she has satisfied them as to his/her suitability on tax grounds to be awarded the contract.
5. The tender competition for the supply of the new helicopters consists of a single stage, in the form of a written tender submission. Tenderers may tender for both types of helicopter or for either the Light Utility Helicopter or the Utility Helicopter. Tenderers may join together to submit a tender for a total package (see Section 14 on Legal Form/Status). Tenderers should note that no prototypes or second user aircraft will be accepted in this competition. The proposed helicopter(s) must be in full production.
6. All prices quoted in tender documentation submitted in relation to this tender competition must be expressed in Euro. Tenders containing prices expressed in other currencies will not be considered.
7. In their tender responses, tenderers must clearly demonstrate their financial, technical and organisational capacity to fulfil all the requirements of this tender competition.
8. As part of the evaluation procedure, tenderers may be required to attend meetings and / or make presentations. The Evaluation Team may, at its absolute discretion, short-list the tenders received on the basis of the viability of the tender proposals received. All tenderers or only short- listed tenderers may be invited to attend for interview / presentation.
9. Award Criteria
The contract will be awarded on the basis of the most economically advantageous tender applying the following award criteria, which are listed in order of priority:
a. Functional characteristics, operational suitability and technical merit of the helicopter(s)
b. Maintenance, technical support and after sales service
c. Tender prices
d. Life Cycle Costs over 20 years
e. Training packages offered
f. Warranties offered
g. Delivery period
10. Conditions
The Minister for Defence reserves the following rights in respect of the tender competition:
a. Not to award any contract.
b. To award a contract, even if only one tender is received.
c. To award a contract for any part of any tender received, provided a separate price is tendered for that part, and that the tenderer has not stipulated that the relevant part cannot be contracted without one or more other parts.
d. To alter the specification(s) before the award of contract, subject to appropriate adjustment of the applicable terms.
e. To update or alter any information contained in this document at any time. In the event that any additions or amendments to this document be deemed necessary prior to the closing date for the receipt of tenders, these will be issued to applicants in the form of supplementary documents and will form part of the RFT.
Tenderers to whom any of the circumstances listed in paragraph 1 of Article 20 of EU Council Directive 93/36/EEC (co-ordinating procedures for the award of public supply contracts) apply will be excluded from this competition (See Annex G).
11. Tenderers shall not be entitled to any compensation whatsoever in respect of costs incurred in preparing a tender, or in facilitating the evaluation of such tenders, in this tender competition.
12. Prompt Payment of Accounts Act, 1997
The provisions of the Prompt Payment of Accounts Act, 1997 shall apply in respect of this tender competition. The successful contractor (and /or agent, where appropriate), will be required to comply with the payment provisions of the Act where the contractor subcontracts or obtains goods or services from a supplier in respect of this tender.
13. Information:
Information supplied by tenderers will be treated as contractually binding. However, the Department reserves the right to seek clarification or verification of any such information. Any clarifications / verifications supplied will also be deemed to be contractually binding.
14. Legal Form/ Status:
The successful tenderer is not required to adopt any particular form. However, in the event of a consortium or group bid or where some of the services contemplated in respect of the tender are delivered by subcontractors, one member of the consortium or group must assume the responsibility of prime contractor and will be responsible for the delivery of all services, including services to be delivered by other consortium or group members or subcontractors and must assume all contractual and legal responsibilities in this regard.
Any contract arising from this tender competition will be governed by the laws of Ireland and subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Irish Courts. Any conflict of interpretation arising from differences between the wording used in this RFT and in any tender accepted will be resolved by giving priority to this RFT and then to any conditions imposed by the Department in writing when accepting the tender.
15. Conflict of Interest:
Any conflicts of interest involving a contractor (or contractors in the event of a consortium bid) must be fully disclosed to the Department. Any registerable interest involving the contractor(s) or any subcontractors and the Minister for Defence, members of the Government, members of the Oireachtas or employees of the Department of Defence or members of the Defence Forces or their relatives must be fully disclosed in the response to the RFT. In the event of such information only coming to their notice after the submission of a bid and prior to the award of the contract, it must be communicated to the Department immediately upon it becoming known to the tenderer. The term "registerable interest" and "relative" shall be interpreted as per Section 2 of the Ethics in Public Office Act, 1995.
16. Freedom of Information:
The Department of Defence undertakes to use its best endeavours to hold confidential any information provided by you in this tender subject to the Department's obligations under law, including the Freedom of Information Act 1997 and the Freedom of Information Amendment Act 2003. Should you wish that any of the information supplied by you in this tender not be disclosed because of its sensitivity, you should, when providing the information, identify same and specify the reasons for its sensitivity. The Department will consult with you about this sensitive information before making a decision on any Freedom of Information request received. However, the Department can give no guarantee on the final outcome of any FOI request in any instance. If you consider that none of the information supplied by you is sensitive, please make a statement to that effect. Such information may be released in response to a Freedom of Information request.


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64th session of the General Assembly - Preliminary list of items (A/64/50)
Immunity of State officials from foreign criminal jurisdiction (A/CN.4/596)
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PROCTOR — The Caliche High School Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) chapter celebrated the end of a successful year at a jungle-themed Parent/Member and Business Appreciation Banquet on Monday.
Hannah Yahn, chapter president, welcomed family and friends to the banquet.
"As Caliche FBLA continues to fire up the future, we obtain continuous accomplishments," she said. "Through each activity performed throughout the year, our goal is to bring service, education and progress to our school and community, by being a strong FBLA chapter."
Helping her welcome family and friends to the event and introduce guests were her fellow chapter officers: Taylor Weingardt and Angelie Ring, vice presidents; Sami Morgan, secretary; Eric Etl, treasurer; Jenna Zink and Cecilia Caro, reporters; Megan Pierce and Jayden Stieb, historians; Chase Debus, parliamentarian; and Mitch Davison, student council representative.
Following dinner, adviser Jeanett Lambrecht shared some of the chapter's accomplishments this year. With 60 chapter members, approximately 71 percent of CHS students are a part of the organization.
"I'm very proud of our FBLA chapter," she said.
This year approximately 90 percent of members went to the Colorado Fall Leadership Conference at Northeastern Junior College and 97 percent attended the District IV Leadership Conference in February. Out of those students that went, Caliche was up on stage for placing top 10 in competitive events 77 times, by 52 students in 39 events.
Additionally, 52 percent of the chapter went to the State FBLA Conference and 68 percent of those students placed in the top 10 in their events. Three students, Hannah Yahn, Austin Yahn and Jenna Zink, qualified to compete at the National Leadership Conference this summer.
Lambrecht also talked about the two fundraisers the chapter did. They sold See's Candies right before Christmas and now they're selling mini baskets — so far they've sold 302 baskets.
Following the Friend of FBLA Awards, which were given to supporters of the chapter, Achievement Awards went to a number of students.
Freshman receiving awards included: Austin Beckner, Emily Bournia, Laci Burtard, Sammy Chartier, Kyle Dowis, Colby Duncan, Kyle Etl, Zandra Jones, Jaedyn Lambrecht, Rylie Lewis, Sheila McCabe, Jordan Nelson, Derrick Pierce, Isabel Resendiz, Marissa Ritter and Bruce Taylor.
Sophomore award winners were: Cade County, Cole Debus, Rachael Edler, Shayln Johnson, Karah Karg, Leanna LeBlanc, Christine Rivera, Jessica Taylor, Parker Troester, Ryan Walther, Austin Yahn and Timothy Zink.
Juniors who received awards included: Day Briscoe, Ryan Burmester, Cecilia Caro, Luke Chartier, Mitchell Davison, Chase Debus, Eric Etl, Selena Granillo, Whitney Meier, Sami Morgan, Megan Pierce, Bret Quint, Angelie Ring, Tevin Ruiz, Jayden Stieb, Jerrod Thompson, Alek Vickers, Taylor Weingardt, Austin Zink and Jenna Zink.
Senior award recipients were: Sara Bournia, Levis Doris, Kyle Gandee, Austin Johnson, Kaylie Lewis, Abigail McWhorter, Cassandra Monge, Kelli Monheiser, Shaney Stumpf, Jordan Troester, Jared Wagner and Hannah Yahn.
Awards were also given out to the officer team and the committee chair persons – Kelli Monheiser (programs committee), Rachael Edler (promotions committee) and Whitney Meier (social committee) – were recognized.
After the officer team recognized their adviser, the president gave her retiring address.
"FBLA has taught me many skills, such as leadership and teamwork," Yahn said. "It has been an honor serving as FBLA president this year. I've enjoyed working with the officer team and Mrs. Lambrecht. It has been a great experience for me."
She told her classmates who haven't stepped up to be an officer yet, to "just do it, because you will regret it if you don't."
"Being a leader is not just a position it's a lifestyle."
Following her speech, Kristy Willis, dean of students at Caliche, talked about what it means to be in FBLA and then announced the 2013-14 chapter officers. They include: Day Briscoe, president; Taylor Weingardt and Jenna Zink, vice presidents; Sami Morgan, secretary; Eric Etl, treasurer; Megan Pierce, Jayden Lambrecht and Austin Zink, reporters; Whitney Meier and Austin Yahn, historians; Chase Debus, parliamentarian; and Cecilia Caro, student council representative.
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Hotel Melia Santiago de Cuba
"The most hospitable" and "the most Caribbean"… so they call Santiago de Cuba; the country's second-most important city. And right at center of this beautiful city rises a majestic hotel that bears the city's name: Melia Santiago de Cuba.
Hotel Melia Santiago has wide and modern rooms with every comfort; business center; three pools; beauty parlor, sauna, tennis court, and gym. You can choose from four different restaurants, where to enjoy the specialties of Cuban and international cuisine. These are some of the options that we offer make your stay in Santiago an unforgettable memory. Here, the traveler will have the opportunity to become familiar with its history and beautiful traditions by visiting the "Ruta del Esclavo", in the Gran Piedra area; the French ruins, an example of trace of the French-Haitian immigration, and the city's neighborhoods.
You will be amazed by the unequaled hospitality and the impressive warmth of the santiagueros, which will catch you forever. Keeping in mind all these reasons, the chain Melia bet firmly on this wonderful destination.
© 2017 Nigel Hunt
Reviewed on 03 Dec 2015 by Manuel E from United States
Reviewed on 25 Aug 2010 by David W from Canada
The top hotel in Santiago. A modern but gaudy building that is well situated in the city. Car and scooter rentals, large pool area, rooftop drinking lounge, nice modern rooms and an assortment of restaurants, bars, & shops are on the premises. Also the most expensive hotel in Santiago.
Average rating from 2 review(s) of this hotel
Air conditioning
Barber / men's hair-stylist
Business centre
Cafe / snack bar
Car rental desk
Children's swimming pool
Conference halls & rooms
Daily newspapers
Disabled facilities
Ecological excursions programme
Elevators / lifts
Evening entertainment - cabarets
Field sports
Games room
Gym & fitness centre
Health & Beauty salon
International cuisine
Internet on hotel's PCs
Laundry & Ironing Service
Lobby bar
Mastercard & Visa (not USA bank issued) accepted
Modern building
Money exchange
Motor scooter / moped rentals
Pool bar
Post office
Reception staff speak Spanish, English, French, German, Italian
Safety - doctor in hotel - on call 24hrs
Safety - hotel built of fire-proof materials
Safety - smoke detectors, fire alarms, strobes, extinguishers, sprinklers
Safety - staff trained in first aid & CPR
Safety - uniformed security personnel 24hrs
Secretarial services
Shoe cleaning
Shop(s) with basic supplies, souvenirs & gifts
Snacks and drinks 24 hours a day
Swimming pool
Taxis desk
Telephone - national & international calls
Tennis court(s)
Tours & tourist information desk
TV room/bar (international channels & videos)
Voltage 110/120
Voltage 220/240
The property has a total of 268 Double Standard rooms, all with a fantastic panoramic view of the city. Ideal for business trips or holidays!
© 2017 Nigel Hunt
110 volt outlets
220 volt outlets
Air conditioning
Baby's cot (on request)
Bathroom (ensuite)
Double bed
Electronic key cards
Hot & cold water
In-room safe
King size bed
Minibar / Fridge
Room service
Satellite TV
Twin beds
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More Hotels in Santiago de Cuba City:
UK Sales :: Audrey :: +44 20 7498 8555 or 0800 298 9555
USA & Canada Sales :: Jeffery or Bastien :: Toll Free 888 361 9555
Havana Tourist Center :: Idelsis :: +53 7 863 9555
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