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It's that time of year again. Managers, who have seen their meticulous pre-season plans unravel after just a few games, will be pleading with their chairmen to sign the missing piece in their jigsaw.
Or managers, who have seen their side fly out of the blocks, might have an easier task persuading a glory-hunting star player to join the ranks.
Either way, the hours are ticking away and Transfer Deadline Day Summer 2014 is upon us.
Join our team of football writers as we keep a close eye and ear on the activity at Aston Villa, Birmingham City, West Bromwich Albion, Wolverhampton Wanderers and Walsall.
We'll also be announcing any of the big money or big name moves in European football and the Premier League.
Follow the action below.
Wolves could well be ready to dip into the market before the deadline. Two free transfers and a young midfielder from Chelsea is the sum of Kenny Jackett's work so far. Tours FC have given them a little hope in their pursuit of striker Andy Delort by insisting they are yet to reach an agreement with Wigan. That is despite Dave Whelan parading the 22 year-old on the pitch prior to their game with Blues. Wigan appear confident they will wrap things up today... but we will see. Elsewhere, Bakary Sako looks set to snub any last minute offers from the Premier League: "I want to play in the Premier League, but I want to get promoted again with Wolves. am happy here, I am enjoying my football." Is he just trying to see out of his contract? Or can Wolves actually get him to sign another deal?
Good morning football fans.
Jonny Greatrex here in the Birmingham Mail newsroom, I'll be running our live updates on the Villa, Blues, West Brom and Wolves transfer swirlings.
Our writers are poised to bring you the latest information on any wheeling and dealing.
Or pour informed scorn on the plethora of unfounded rumours which will spring up through the course of the day.
The Baggies are done, according to boss Alan Irvine.
Villa are in the hunt for Tom Cleverley, with Everton and Valencia their main rivals.
Blues won't be signing Newcastle's Hatem Ben Arfa, more on that very soon.
And Wolves have been given a sniff of Andy Delort by Tour FC who claim his final destination is not decided yet.
This would upset Wigan considerably as they paraded him before the fans prior to handing Blues a 4-0 walloping on Saturday.
It is customary to begin any live updates feed with the phrase "off we go".
"Off we go."
And here is that Hatem Ben Arfa (non)news, just in from Colin Tattum. He is staying on the Toon:
Hatem Ben Arfa has rejected a loan move to Birmingham City.
Lee Clark wanted the French international for the Blues ranks, to add a dash of extra quality.
But the 27-year-old playmaker, who is out of favour at Newcastle United, doesn't want to play Championship football.
Ben Arfa has also rejected other proposed moves set up by the Magpies, Turkish side Besiktas being one.
Despite being overlooked by manager Alan Pardew, and criticisms by his lawyer about his Newcastle treatment, Ben Arfa is prepared to stay and fight for his place.
Hello Villa fans. I'm expecting plenty of you will be reminding your work-mates about your team's fine start to the season this morning. A couple of new signings today would really enhance the feel-good factor, wouldn't it?
In Coventry, we'll be hearing from manager Steven Pressley this morning as he tries to recruit one new striker and a centre-back before today's deadline.
The long-term futures of out-of-favour midfield pair Carl Baker and Adam Barton may also be decided at some point today.
And is there any truth in the surprise rumours linking John Fleck with Reading? Find out here...
As for talk linking Christian Benteke with a move today, I'd forget you even read that. I'd be extremely surprised if he departed today. Those close to him also back this up. I'm told he will remain a Villa player which is good news because the sooner he's back from injury the better.
WOLVES: And now for Wolves. Here is Bill Howell's assessment of the final day shenanigans:
Wolves could well be ready to dip into the market before the deadline. Two free transfers and a young midfielder from Chelsea is the sum of Kenny Jackett's work so far.
Tours FC have given them a little hope in their pursuit of striker Andy Delort by insisting they are yet to reach an agreement with Wigan.
That is despite Dave Whelan parading the 22 year-old on the pitch prior to their game with Blues. Wigan appear confident they will wrap things up today... but we will see.
Elsewhere, Bakary Sako looks set to snub any last minute offers from the Premier League: "I want to play in the Premier League, but I want to get promoted again with Wolves. am happy here, I am enjoying my football." Is he just trying to see out of his contract? Or can Wolves actually get him to sign another deal?
WEST BROM: Brian Dick is covering West Brom today. Which may be quite quiet IF you believe Alan Irvine. Surely he'll be tempted, at some point?
Brian says: West Brom fans don't need to get too excited about goings on today after Alan Irvine said on Saturday: "We're done now, the work has been done," said Irvine.
"The positions that were being targeted at the start have now been filled so that will be our squad going forward."
Which means Baggies supporters can sit back and enjoy other clubs dizzying themselves on a heady cocktail of rumour, speculation and wishful thinking.
Hopefully a quiet day at #wba be nice to see other clubs panic buying naff players for massive prices #victoranichabe #transferdeadlineday— Michael Davis (@MDavis1414) September 1, 2014
We already have some crest-fallen Blues fans out there:
Ben Arfa rejects a loan move to Blues. Day has already been ruined. #BCFC #KRO— Olly Howarth (@BCFC_Olly_KRO) September 1, 2014
Come on Jackett, let's make another singing. Hopefully a striker! We never make signings on deadline day! #transferdeadlineday #wwfc— Will Gardner (@WillOJGardner) September 1, 2014
Villa have looked at Tottenham's Lewis Holtby in the past. He looks like he's heading back to Germany today to join Hamburg. Shame he's leaving the Premier League, I still think he'd be a valuable player for most teams in the top flight.
Aston Villa. Stan is spewing forth. Vlaar to Arsenal?
Reports Ron Vlaar has taken Arsenal interest. @SportsYapper @talkSPORT— Stan Collymore (@StanCollymore) September 1, 2014
The view from the Holte End is fairly categorical:
Do not sell vlarr #avfc— adam #VTID (@adam1988avfc) September 1, 2014
John Cross from the Mirror is reporting that Arsenal are looking at Ron Vlaar as a possible option today. They want a new centre-half and Vlaar is simply one of the options. Only a big bid will prize him away.
COVENTRY: Manager Steven Pressley has spoken to Andy Turner this morning telling him: "I wouldn't say definitely do any business today but nothing imminent in transfer window."
Pressley also says he hopes to bring a striker in but will use the loan window if he cannot complete the deal today.
The future of Baker and Barton has also been discussed with Pressley stating that if something would to happen in the window today both could move on but there's a chance they could now stay with the club for the rest of the season.
Neither player will be part of the team that takes on Wycombe tomorrow but Barton is set to return to training for the first time today.
Regarding the defender on trial (Premier League experience) he's due to play for the Under 21s at Brentford today as he tries to earn a contract. A decision will be made later in the week but he's a free agent so club in no rush to get him tied down within the window.
This update on Blues from Colin Tattum:
Lee Clark will, perhaps, be seeking an addition on loan for Birmingham City.
A week or so back he insisted he was all done in the transfer market, but the failed attempt for Hatem Ben Arfa suggests otherwise now.
It seems that the Blues boss is seeking a top quality 'name' to enhance what he has already got.
Sourcing such an available talent, with the budget at his disposal, is easier said than done, though.
Here is Blues summer transfer window business (incomings) to date:
Jonathan Grounds (Oldham), free.
David Edgar (Burnley), free.
David Cotterill (Doncaster), free.
Mark Duffy (Doncaster), free.
Stephen Gleeson (MK Dons), free.
Wes Thomas (Rotherham), free.
Clayton Donaldson (Brentford), free.
Gavin Gunning (Dundee United), free.
Grant Hall (Spurs), loan.
Navid Nasseri (Bury), free.
Denny Johnstone (Celtic), undisclosed compensation.
Luke Armstrong (Middlesbrough), free.
WOLVES: A cheeky tweet from Wolves fan Tom Morgan here...whatever does he mean?
Gent fans await the signing of roger johnson #wwfc pic.twitter.com/nTlyYvmNKh— Morgan (@Tom_morgan75) September 1, 2014
VILLA: A fond farewell from Brian Dougan, head of media at Aston Villa, to Karim El Ahmadi:
Good luck to Karim El Ahmadi who has re-signed for Feyenoord on a 3-year deal #avfc @AVFCOfficial @premierleague pic.twitter.com/ekHaddXJBJ— Brian Doogan (@doogan_brian) September 1, 2014
VILLA: Aston Villa are hoping to sign Tom Cleverley on Monday as fellow midfielder Karim El Ahmadi rejoins Feyenoord.
The Manchester United ace is an £8 million target for Paul Lambert, who aims to wrap up the deal before the transfer window closes at 11pm tonight.
El Ahmadi's £750,000 exit is confirmed and Lambert wants a replacement despite signing Colombian Carlos Sanchez a fortnight ago.


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YouTube to introduce paid subscriptions
- From: news.com.au
- May 06, 2013
- YouTube to start charging to watch videos
- Subscriptions will initially be needed for 50 channels
- Google launches Siri rival
WOULD you pay to watch cat videos on YouTube?
The popular video-sharing website will reportedly announce it will introduce paid subscriptions as early as this week.
The subscription-only videos will include up to 50 YouTube channels, according to the Financial Times.
Users will reportedly pay $US1.99 a month to subscribe to particular channels, so most content will remain free, for now.
YouTube told the Financial Times it was "looking into creating a subscription platform that could bring even more great content to YouTube for our users to enjoy and provide our creators with another vehicle to generate revenue from their content, beyond the rental and ad-supported models we offer".
YouTube is also expected to release a music streaming service to rival Spotify later this year.
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This year, Pedal Pittsburgh features hard-won designs
Showing off good design is always the reason for the annual "Pedal Pittsburgh" event of the Community Design Center of Pittsburgh. But this year, the staff has chosen 10 examples of good design wrought from neighborhood input and consensus.
A fine built environment is good, but a fine built environment that attracts lots of input from people in the neighborhood is much better, even if people get bruised and torn in the process. (Just kidding.)
Bicyclists can choose from several courses between six and 60 miles. The points of interest will include stories about how the scuffling and hair-pulling it took to wrestle these design into place. (Not really. Most consensus building is pretty peaceful.)
Pedal Pittsburgh is May 17, a fund-raising event in its 16th year. It begins and ends at the SouthSide Works. Registration opens at 6:30 a.m., but there are different departure times for different tour lengths. It costs $25 if you register before May 8, $30 afterward.
Visit http://www.pedalpittsburgh.org/For_Riders.htm for more information, the stories about the tour sites and to register.
The tour sites include Point State Park Downtown, Morningside's business district, the Federal Hill townhouses in the Central Northside and East Liberty's row of new, "100-year" houses.
Most of these projects took a lot of planning and a lot of time.
Ken Doyno, the principal architect on the Federal Hill townhouses, said the first neighborhood meeting was in 1997, with lots of stagnant stretches before counstruction started last year.
"When we first started, we wanted the [Allegheny General] hospital side and the Mexican War Streets side to connect across Federal Street, and because the commercial properties were struggling, there needed to be the residential link," he said. "The question was: What is an appropriate link?"
The neighborhood came to consensus on the design because they knew the neighborhood's built character - "an amazingly consistent 20-foot wide housing stock," said Mr. Doyno. "The design challenge was to get a range of housing types within that same width." There are four housing types - from 1,400 square feet to 3,000 square-feet.
The residents insisted on trees and a planted median. The city originally balked. "But the city stuck its neck out and said 'We understand the neighborhood wants this,'" said Mr. Doyno. "If enough people stand up for the quality of a design and believe in the reasons for it, they can make it happen."
Point State Park's restoration involved 75-100 people at four community meetings, said Lisa Schroeder, executive director of the Riverlife Task Force.
"We reached out to a host of experts on critical issues of historical interpretation and restoring the landscape" which had been compacted by heavy vehicles and denuded in places, she said.
"What was controversial was the need to change our community habits when hosting big events and festivals."
More than 2,000 people have been taking part in Pedal Pittsburgh each year. Those who participate will support the design center's ability to make grants to projects when the projects are new, giving them the jump start they need to prove themselves to other investors.
In fact, many of the sites you will see en route started with CDCP grants.


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Consultants hired by the Town of Yarmouth are recommending changes to the rate structure used to pay for the town's sewage treatment plant and sanitary sewer system.
If they are accepted, over the next five years the costs of managing the system will move to a full cost-recovery model and heavy users will pay more.
A higher percentage of the costs will be collected from usage charges, increasing them from 50 percent, where are now, to 70 percent of the formula now used to calculate ratepayers' bills. The move will give individuals more control over the amount they pay, because the less they use water, the more they will save on their sewer bill.
Consultants also recommend moving the costs of debt repayment and depreciation on assets from property taxes to the sewer rate. Property taxpayers now fund those expenditures.
The changes would mean a significant increase in sewer rates, (for instance consultants calculate that the average residential customer's bill would increase just over 50 percent, from $242 a year to $372 a year) but consultants pointed out, it should correspond to an equivalent lowering of property taxes, all things being equal.
It would hit heavy users, especially some industrial and commercial users, very hard. The average commercial or industrial ratepayer with a two-inch water intake pipe could expect to see their rates increase 250 percent over the next five years.
The intent is that those increases would generally be offset by reductions in property taxes.
The results of the sewer rate study were presented to Yarmouth Town Council at a committee of the whole meeting last Thursday, Nov. 22.
In the presentation, the consultants, Gerry Isenor and Bill Gates repeatedly reiterated that the recommendations are not about increasing what is being paid to run the sewer system, it is about redistributing the burden of payment so that the costs are transparent and that those that use the system are those who pay for it.
"You are currently charging people for that service. You are collecting that money out of general revenues. If you take it out of there and say, 'I'm collecting it from you because you are generating wastewater', then therefore the tax burden should go down'," Isenor of G. Isenor Consulting Ltd, told the council in his presentation.
Council has deferred consideration of the recommendations until they have had an opportunity to study the report and have had their questions answered.


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Officers have released a few names of those involved in a three-vehicle crash Saturday evening northwest of Dallas, which killed one man and injured three others.
At around 6:30 p.m., Woodburn resident Marcos Antonio Luz, 41, was driving west on Oregon 22 in heavy fog and icy conditions when the van crossed the center line and crashed with an oncoming car driven by a 69-year-old man, according to Oregon State Police.
The car came to rest in a ditch off the highway while the van stopped in the westbound lane. A pickup heading west driven by Lonny Bryant, 51, then collided into the van, sending it off the highway.
The 69-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene. His 85-year-old female passenger was critically injured and taken by ambulance to a Salem hospital.
Luz suffered serious injuries and was taken to a Salem Hospital. Bryant and his passenger, Ruthann Bryant, 49, both suffered minor injuries and were taken to Willamette Valley Medical Center in McMinnville.
The highway was closed for several hours.
Oregon State Police are continuing to investigate the accident. It is still unclear who was wearing seat belts.


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A 58-year-old man is in serious but stable condition after being hit by a car during an altercation between the passengers of two vehicles overnight in Pasadena.
Police said Timothy Paul Schwoerer, of Pasadena, was taken to University of Maryland Shock Trauma by an Anne Arundel County medical unit after being hit by an Acura on Maryland Route 100 late Friday night.
Authorities said Andrew Charles Bennett, 25, of Cockeysville, Md., who was driving an Acura west on Paul T. Pitcher Memorial Highway (MD Rte. 100) at about 11:47 p.m. Friday, was trying to notify police regarding an SUV that was driving recklessly. The driver of the SUV blocked the Acura near the intersection of Magothy Beach Road, forcing the car to drive on the shoulder to get around, investigators said.
Two occupants of the SUV got out of the vehicle and approached the Acura, police said. Bennett attempted to avoid an altercation, and that's when he hit Schwoerer, who had also gotten out of the SUV.
Bennett left the scene in his Acura and called police from a nearby business. No charges have been filed, and the incident is under investigation.
Police are requesting anybody with information related to the incident to call 410-222-8610 or contact Eastern district at 410-222-6145.


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Pistons Have Genius Idea To Help You Avoid The Bathroom LineOur very own Detroit Pistons have come up with a way to revolutionize the way you use the restrooms at the Palace of Auburn Hills.
Technology Upgrades Immerse Fans Into The Action At The Palace (Video)The Palace of Auburn Hills has seen nearly $40 million in upgrades and enhancements in the past four years, and will see additional improvement in coming years with new seats and concessions.
'Disney On Ice Presents Frozen' This Weekend At The Palace Of Auburn HillsSee Elsa, Anna and Olaf (of course!) in person and on skates this weekend.
Usher Surprises Contest Winners With Tickets At Quicken Loans (Video)Pop star Usher toured downtown Detroit Monday, and surprised some Quicken Loans employees with tickets to his show at The Palace of Auburn Hills.
Palace Tech Upgrades Bring Pistons Fans Closer To The Action (VIDEO)Improved Wi-Fi, an enhanced mobile app for the Pistons and a new high-definition scoreboard are among $40 million in enhancements made to The Palace of Auburn Hills.
Palace Sports And Entertainment Completing Fourth And Final Stage Of $40 Miilion Renovation At The Palace Of Auburn HillsThe final phase, expected to be done by early November, will feature the installation of a new center court high-definition "Palace360" scoreboard system, upper-level endzone boards with game statistics, LED ribbon boards encircling the lower-level and upper-level fascia, arena tunnel entrance digital displays, and audio system enhancements.
Detroit Proud: Around Town - Weekend of 8/22
Pat Caputo: 3 Reasons The Pistons Should Remain At The PalaceThis week, the Pistons issued a statement saying they have no intention of moving into the new arena being built in Detroit.
Pat Caputo: 3 Reasons The Pistons Should Remain At The PalaceThe Palace of Auburn Hills has stood the test of time as a model, modern venue.
The Circus Is In Town! Ringling Bros' Dragons A Delight For All AgesRingling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey bring their latest show "Dragons" to the Palace of Auburn Hills this weekend.
Best Places To Eat Before The Show In DetroitWhether you're seeing a rock star at the Palace or a smaller show downtown, read this list before the show to find great places to eat in the area.
St. Jerome's Laneway Festival Makes its U.S. Debut in DetroitSt. Jerome's Laneway Festival is scheduled to make its U.S. debut – could you take a guess at which city it might be headed to? No, it's not the "typical" cities, New York City or Los Angeles – they've chosen Detroit. St. Jerome's annual Laneway Festival – that grew out of Australia and became one of the biggest musical festivals in the world – will celebrate this year here in Metro Detroit at the Meadow Brook Music Theater on Saturday, September 14th.


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Governor's Race: Martha Dean is In, Toni Boucher is Out
Martha Dean, a former candidate for Attorney General criticized last year for posting a video alleging the Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax, is running for governor she confirmed over text message Tuesday.
Q Poll: Voters Say Malloy Rebate Plan is a 'Political Gimmick'
There's one positive thing Democrats and Republicans can agree in regard to Gov. Dannel P. Malloy—he's great at handling snowstorms.
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Just about twice as many Connecticut voters support assisted suicide/aid in dying legislation than those who oppose it according to a recent Quinnipiac University poll.
Connecticut Leaders Respond to Obama Speech
Connecticut leaders and legislators differed in their assessment of the call by President Barack Obama to raise the minimum wage.
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Before President Barack Obama makes a pitch to Connecticut, urging an increase in the minimum wage to $10.10, here are a few things to fill you in on his proposal and visit. 1. Obama is pushing for a federal minimum wage increase, and urging all states to adopt it. Obama first called for a $10.10 minimum wage during in his State of the Union address, when he also announced he had signed an executive order increasing the minimum wage for all new federal contract workers. 2. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy jumped on that plan, and suggested the legislature increase the minimum wage to $10.10 through a series of increases over the next three years. This would change the existing plans to increase minimum wage in the state....
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The summer of 2014, so far, seems to be in a bit of a slump. I have taken the most unscientific survey in the history of surveys; two merchants in Lake Placid and two in Saranac Lake tell me that retail is taking a fairly big hit this summer.
Observing the trend from my weekly stint at the Olympic Center in Lake Placid is that there are fewer people through the center on a daily basis than there have been in the past five years.
Can you imagine this? When I was editor of the Enterprise, all the banks would give us, after the weekend, a total of business deposits for the previous week - a pretty good indicator of what was going on with the local economy. That sort of information from banks is probably now against the law.
The Adirondack Daily Enterprise reported on Aug. 2, 1938, that summer business was really down. Here are excerpts:
"July saw a drop of more than 25 per cent in the volume of summer guest business in this section of the Adirondacks, according to leading hotel men and restaurant proprietors. The drop, it is understood, was pretty general in resort localities throughout the eastern states this year.
"There is a general belief among the hotel men that the better hotel business from summer guests will pick up decidedly during August. There was an expectation that a rise in the stock market might have resulted in improvements in room occupancy in the good hotels before midsummer, but so far this has not made itself apparent.
"The general belief is that the cost of the New Deal, which hit the rich first in taxes and in restricted business enterprise, is now being passed on to the middle and lower income brackets."
Plane lands on Lake Flower - low on fuel
The Enterprise, Aug. 4, 1938:
"Forced to alight because of a lack of fuel, a single-motor blue and gray Curtiss-Wright amphibian plane swooped down on Lake Flower at 11 o'clock this morning bringing with it three youths on a barn-storming tour.
"The plane was on a short hop from Tupper Lake when it was discovered that the fuel was low. It had started from Lake George yesterday from where it flew to Lake Champlain and then to Tupper Lake.
"Walter Rockwell of Syracuse piloted the plane which alighted near the armory (now the boat launch site) on River Street. The others of the crew are John Tierney of Albany and Sam Munden of Miami.
"Tierney said this morning that they are planning to take up passengers using the Crescent Bay camps on Lower Saranac Lake as a base."
Noted mask-maker exhibits here
The Enterprise, Aug. 2, 1938:
"Doane Powell, noted mask-maker of New York City, exhibited several pieces of his work before a group of artists and art lovers yesterday at the studio of Miss Anna Rice at 72 1/2 Algonquin Avenue.
"Mr. Powell, who practices his skill in plastic characterization at his Greenwich Village studio, has the varied career of a portrait painter, advertising art director, and a cartoonist for a newspaper in Omaha, Nebraska. He is now devoting all his time to creating character and portrait masks.
"The artist wore several of his grotesque false faces during the exhibition to the delight of the group and he explained how moustaches are needed for masks that do not cover the mouth because so much of the 'play' is located there.
"He has exhibited at conventions and night clubs and his masks have been shown in motion picture shorts and in a series of leading picture magazines.
"Life masks of such famous personages as Mussolini, Al Smith, Herbert Hoover, President Roosevelt, Wallace Beery, and O. O. McIntyre have been made by the artist."
Paving update, July 26, 2014
The state Department of Transportation has laid down a beautiful new black and yellow highway from the corner of Routes 86 and 186, better known as Donnelly's Corners, to the Lake Clear post office, about 4 miles in length. I was hoping that paving was not an ILOLF (in lieu of Lake Flower). Different DOT budgets are created by county: We are in Franklin; Lake Flower is in Essex County.
Mayor Clyde Rabideau, in the event you missed it, visited the Hotel Saranac renovation job last week with Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Fred Roedel, the developer of the property, gave them a tour and invited the governor to spend the first night there when the hotel opens, and the governor accepted.
Oh, I almost forgot. The mayor told me that Lake Flower Avenue will be paved this fall from the railroad tracks on Route 86 to the NBT Bank at the corner of River Street.


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X-Craft leaves Whidbey for Everett
At 262-feet in length, it took many hours Friday night for the X-Craft to inch its way out of the Nichols Brothers boat yard, across the road, onto the launching ramp and into the waters of Holmes Harbor, but a small crowd of onlookers enjoyed watching the boats progress.
The Navys Experimental Littoral Surface Craft was built at the Freeland boat yard and is now in Everett for evaluation trials. Its launch was delayed several days by an accident which killed one boatyard worker.
The vessel can achieve speeds in excess of 50 knots, range 4,000 nautical miles between refuelings and its mission bay will hold up to 12 containers, permitting rapid reconfiguration of the vessel to support a variety of potential missions including battle force protection, mine counter-measures, anti-submarine warfare, amphibious assault support and humanitarian support.
A multi-purpose stern ramp, with direct access to the mission bay, will allow X-Craft to launch and recover manned and unmanned surface and sub surface vehicles up to the size of an 11-meter rigid-hull inflatable boat while underway.
From its flight deck, X-Craft will be able to simultaneously operate two H-60 type helicopters and/or unmanned aerial vehicles. A prototype night vision goggle compatible lighting suite will be installed on the flight deck for NVG-assisted night landings.
X-Craft will be delivered at the end of April 2005. Operational control will then be assumed by the Navys 3rd Fleet with the ship operating out of its home port of San Diego.
Nichols Bros. had the contract to build the experimental vessel. If it works out, the company may be able to bid on additional models.
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Maybe he won't rule it out. But I will. The last thing the Republican Party needs is another President Bush.
(NOTE: Richard Viguerie has an excellent piece lampooning that notion here.)
If you doubt that, compare the situation in Washington to the situation in New Jersey.
As I watched our governor give that big budget speech last week, I felt a twinge of sympathy for Barbara Buono. The Democratic state senator from Metuchen and presumptive gubernatorial nominee has a tough task ahead of her. She's carved out a reputation as the best friend of the public-employee unions. And now she has to run for the job of negotiating on behalf of the taxpayer against those union bosses?
Christie exploited that weakness in his speech when he included a reference to the payouts public employees receive upon retirement for unused sick and vacation days. That puts Buono in a tight spot. Does she want to be on the side of the retirees who collect those checks? Or the homeowners whose property taxes pay them?
Unlike Washington, Trenton can't print money. What goes out to one person in benefits must come in from another person as taxes. Hammering that point home has helped Christie reach an approval rating of 72 percent in a recent Quinnipiac University poll.
Now let's turn to Washington, where the Republicans had a much worse week. President Obama beat them all over the Beltway with charges that they are stingy and hard-hearted for insisting not on cuts in the budget, but on a reduction in the rate of increase.
Many Republicans joined in the whining. Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham even went so far as to suggest the sequester will make it impossible for the military to conduct yet another pointless war in the Mideast. No wonder the congressional Republicans have a mere 19 percent approval rating, according to Quinnipiac.
The blame lies with the crowd that came to power in 2001. They had a chance to create the same dynamic in D.C. that we have in the state capitals. If they'd insisted on a balanced budget amendment, then President Obama couldn't get away with protesting the sequester. He'd need to cut about a trillion bucks more — or raises taxes by a trillion.
The reason he can get away with this is that the GOP still endorses what the first President Bush termed "voodoo economics" when he was running for the presidential nomination in 1980. Bush endorsed the traditional GOP view that revenues must match. The supply-siders argued that deficits don't matter. What does matter, they argued, is total spending as a percentage of gross domestic product.
That's an excellent point — but an academic one. Once Congress is free to spend, it spends freely. When the second President Bush took office, spending was 19 percent of GDP. When he left office, it was about 24 percent. That's where it has stayed under Obama — and is likely to stay even after the sequester.
The Republican alternative comes from Paul Ryan, the Wisconsin congressman who was on the losing ticket in last year's presidential election and who seems determined to keep up that losing tradition. Ryan just came out with a plan to balance the budget — in 10 years. But if 10 years of deficits are okay, why not 11? With math skills like that, you can see why it took Ryan four hours to run a three-hour marathon.
For a better example of how to handle this sort of thing, look at another Wisconsin Republican. Gov. Scott Walker did not have the option of running up a deficit, so he cut spending on public employees instead. The unions tried to paint him as tightfisted and tried to recall him. But the taxpayers realized it was their money he was holding in his tight fist. He beat back the recall by an even larger margin than his initial election victory.
Many Republicans are searching for the reason they do so much better on the state level than nationally. There's your reason. In a choice between two candidates who promise to spend without taxation, the Democrat is always a better choice. If deficits don't matter, then what's the difference between Obama and the second President Bush?
Or the third.
ALSO - Get your story straight, Jeb: According to this report on the Huffington Post, Jeb Bush just came out against his own position on citzenship for illegals:
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) walked back one of his new book's principles on immigration reform on the same day it was released, telling MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Tuesday that he would support a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants if it could be done without creating a magnet for more unauthorized immigration.


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'Oh, Here We Come A-Gay Bashin'
Generally, we just ignore Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church since "Do Not Feed the Trolls" is as good a strategy in real life as it is on the Internets, but this musical video holiday greeting from the church is so entertaining, we had to share. It's called "Santa Claus Will Take You to Hell" and boy, if you've ever wondered what a five year-old sounds like while singing lines like "Don't leave your kid with this red fright/ Just like a priest, he'll rape them at night", mystery solved.
View it after the jump.
I guess I should be really mad at all the nonsensical hate spewed here, but mainly I feel awful for the poor little blonde girl in the video whose recollections of the holidays will be "Oh, yeah– that was the time of year when Mom & Dad made me hold up a sign that read 'Fag Xmas' with a picture of Santa being sodomized by the Devil." These people are sad and misguided– and surprisingly good at harmonizing.
Yawn! Phelps & Co. are like the Bart Simpson of gay bashing protesters, jumping up and down on the sofa while the grown-ups talk and yelling "Look at me! Look at me!" They've actually managed to become boring.
That is JUST adorable. yo.
Wow, they look like they had so much fun with that. It just gets you into the spirit of things, doesn't it?
Happy Fag Christmas Phelpsies!
Hmmm…we both believe in mythical figures then…don't we?
Wow…I don't get it…
I think we must leave them to the tender mercies of their dark and hate-filled god.
Oh, I'm sorry..but doesn't your god teach you not to pass judgement on others? That that right is specifically left for him? Funny, you bunch of red-neck hypocrits.
INVOCATION of H8
Rick Warren is giving the Inaugeral INVOCATION
It feels like election night deja vu, all over again.
As LGBTs were celebrating with the rest of America Obama's VICTORY, at 11 pm we get a shiv shoved in our backs, courtesy of Rick Warren and the LDS Church…..prop 8
I hope every queer and our friends attending the inaugeral, TURN YOUR BACKS on Rick Warren, a single finger salute wouldn't hurt either.
I am so disappointed the president to bring America TOGETHER, takes the first opportunity to DIVIDE US!
Wow, Satan looks kinda sexxxy. Was that Reverend Flypaper's intent?
I watched this before reading the commentary, and I was convinced it was a rollicking gay parody. Guess not, eh? (On more objective grounds: splendid diction by the singers.)
Mark – yeah, it's really crappy news, and I hope people DO turn their backs on Warren, but I suspect that mostly they'll be too polite to do so.
But I don't really know how much of it is President-elect Obama's fault – the Inaugural Committee chose the guests, and while Obama is a member of that committee along with Joe Biden, its chairman is Dianne Feinstein & other members include Senator Bob Bennett, Ranking Member of the Senate Rules Committee; Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid; Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi; House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer; and House Republican Leader John Boehner.
While I would hope that the President-elect has veto power in this committee, I don't know if that's the case? It's a moot point anyway, because if he does, he didn't use it. Which sucks.
Was that video really meant to be so camp?
Social services should take the children away from these people and attempt to deprogram and save the minds of those poor things.
If these are the people I'd have to live with for eternity in Heaven, I choose Hell.
Well their having a gay old time now about this idol thing aren't they just replacing one idol with another? And I'm not talking about God or Jesus here – I mean their pastors, have you ever seen a far right group where they don't idolize the pastor's crap (metaphorically and otherwise)? Any who happy holidays to all – even the incredibly creepy real life Brady Bunch up there – Westboro is the one composed of 4-7 families right? I get the feeling they're not into marrying outside their faith.
What the fuck? These Christians/Baptist/Whatever they are really need to get their heads out of their asses. So Santa's not real. What makes them so certain God and Jesus are? A lot of those signs made me laugh "God hates Obama" why? I thought God loved everyone. And if you really think about it, all religions are worshiping the SAME "God". Religion is what causes wars and economy drops. Not the other way around.
I apologize to any of you who are extremely religious…
Does God love sickos?


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A former member of the New York Jets was among three men indicted today by a grand jury in Somerset County for their alleged roles in an Internet sports betting ring.
Todd Burger, 37, of Freehold, an offensive lineman who played for the Jets in 1998, was indicted along with Anthony Pecoraro, 44, of Colts Neck, and Stephen Barone, 45, of Jackson on charges of promoting gambling and conspiracy to promote gambling, according to court papers.
Two others, Peter Carfaro, 26, of Brooklyn, and Daniel Alaimo, 51, of Metuchen, previously pleaded guilty to the same charges, Somerset County Prosecutor Wayne Forrest said. The deal requires them to testify truthfully against the others, Forrest said.
The men were arrested in December after a four-month investigation by the prosecutor's Organized Crime and Narcotics Task Force and the State Police Organized Crime North Unit. They dubbed the investigation Operation "Net-Bet Blitz" because it dismantled an Internet sports betting ring that accepted thousands of dollars in illegal sports wagers monthly, Forrest said.
Burger, who played at Penn State, started all 16 games for the Jets in 1998. He also played for the Chicago Bears from 1993-97, starting 24 games during that span.


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The following is a letter to the editor that was sent to the Kalamazoo Gazette.
CHRISTOPHER J. SHOOK/Kalamazoo
Barb Miller has been a stalwart and dedicated commissioner, and I am voting for her to help ensure the solid leadership our next city commission needs. Her dedication to our community as a whole is wonderful. Being a downtowner, I am particularly impressed with her work on the committee to help fund the community police officer for downtown when it was threatened with being cut. She asks the tough questions and has a strong grasp of the issues affecting our town. Vote for Barb Miller.
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ANN ARBOR -- When Brady Hoke arrived on campus in 2011, fans anticipated a wide array of on-field philosophy changes.
High on those lists were a dominant defense, a downhill power running game and a big-play wide receiver who could stretch the field with consistency.
Greg Mattison has helped make strides with Michigan's defense, Fitz Toussaint and Hoke's recruitment of Derrick Green, De'Veon Smith and 2015 prospect Damien Harris have put the downhill power philosophy back on track.
But the elite wide receiver?
Entering the 2013 season, Michigan's certainties at wideout were slim. We all know Jeremy Gallon plays well above his 5-foot-8 frame, and we all know Drew Dileo is a valuable slot man.
But Hoke, Al Borges, Devin Gardner and basically every Michigan fan alive were hoping sophomore Amara Darboh could fill the third piece of that triangle. A 6-foot-2, 212-pound edge player with speed, power and hands -- Darboh, on paper, seemed to be the answer.
Teammates raved. Coaches raved more. Darboh stayed humble and waited his turn.
And now, he'll have to wait some more.
Michigan announced Wednesday that Darboh will miss the entire 2013 season with a foot injury. A crushing blow for the sophomore, and a seriously damaging blow for Michigan's wide receiving corps.
Hoke and company have applauded the growth of redshirt freshman Jehu Chesson this fall, during the spring and even last season when he was sitting out. But Darboh, by most accounts, was the player they were targeting for a breakout campaign.
Borges said as much Wednesday afternoon, and he seemed more heartbroken for the player than his offense in general.
The injury is devastating for Darboh, no doubt. But is it equally debilitating for Michigan?
Actually, we really don't know.
Darboh played last season as a true freshman, lining up at wide receiver and pitching in on special teams. But he never made a catch.
He had the look, build and speed to be everything Michigan's new pro-style offense wanted, to fill a need most recently filled by Junior Hemingway in 2011. Borges, Hoke and Gardner all said -- multiple times -- Darboh was exactly where he needed to be to make an impact.
They just needed to see what he could do in a game to be sure.
So while this injury hurts, it's nowhere near as severe as Jake Ryan's knee injury was this past spring. Ryan was a proven commodity. He was an All-Big Ten performer. You knew what you were getting.
With Darboh, we could speculate until we were red in the face, but we really wouldn't know until he lined up as a first-string wideout on Aug. 31.
Moving forward, Michigan's options appear to be rather clear.
Chesson is still healthy. He's still 6-foot-3. He still has track speed and he's still drawn similar praise from everyone inside the program.
But he's still a question mark
Borges pointed to senior wideouts Jeremy Jackson and Joe Reynolds as players who could potentially fill the empty flanker spot in Michigan's starting lineup. But, if we're being honest, they're also a bit of a stretch.
Both players have been on campus for a total of 90 games since 2009.
And between them, they've recorded 28 catches.
Borges was also asked about his group of freshmen wide receivers: Jaron Dukes, Csont'e York and Da'Mario Jones. Each player stands at least 6-foot-2, and each player was recruited to fill a size void on the edge at some point during their career.
But none of them, according to Borges, are ready to fill the role Darboh would have played for the team this season. Not yet anyway.
When the smoke clears from this, it's rather obvious that Michigan will rely heavily on Chesson early -- and hope he can have the breakout year they believed Darboh was on track for.
If he can't, Reynolds and Jackson will see extra time. But more than that, Michigan's switch to a downhill, pro-style offense also means the tight ends will see more time on the field this season.
Devin Funchess was electric, at times, last season. And entering fall camp, his main goal was to assert himself as a credible blocker so teams wouldn't be able to tip Michigan's plays every time he entered the huddle.
Fellow sophomore A.J. Williams is also a year older. And freshman tight end Jake Butt, who -- like Funchess -- is known more for his hands, participated (and caught a touchdown) in the spring game.
Michigan has options.
If this exact scenario had happened a year ago, the Wolverines would have been in serious trouble. Remember, the wide receiving depth was so thin, Michigan was forced to move Gardner outside just to have a viable option on the edge. And, for a few games, he seemed to be the best wide receiver the Wolverines had.
This season, the depth seems to be stronger, at least on paper. And the situation doesn't seem to be quite as dire.
It's a blow, no question. But it's not bad enough to where Michigan has to think about moving the likes of Shane Morris or Brian Cleary out on the edge just to have a few more warm bodies.
Michigan still has the potential to have everything it wants this season.
It can have that dominant defense. It has the capability to feature a powerful, downhill rush attack. And, despite the recent loss, there's still a chance someone could breakthrough at wide receiver.
Someone just has to go out and prove it.
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Twentysomething women are ditching traditional dating so that they can play the field on their own terms. That's the argument behind two controversial new books. In The Gaggle, Jessica Massa says that young women need to keep a posse of men in tow, while Hanna Rosin's The End of Men claims that casual sex can be liberating. But are they right? Barbara McMahon reports The ever changing rules
What has happened to twentysomething women and their search for love? Has romance gone or have the rules simply been rewritten? I ask this because I have just talked to two recent graduates who know an awful lot about young women and love (or more accurately, sex) and what they have to say is surprising, some would say refreshing.
Jessica Massa, a Harvard psychology graduate, and her childhood friend Rebecca Wiegand, a graduate of Yale, are the creators of a cult website called WTF Is Up With My Love Life?!, which charts their own and other women's adventures in New


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He has gone past Peter Brock and Craig Lowndes.
Equalled Allan Moffat.
Now only the great Dick Johnson, Mark Skaife and Ian Geoghegan possess more Australian touring car championship titles.
Jamie Whincup's fourth V8 Supercars crown lifts the 29-year-old Queensland-based driver into the sport's most rarefied air.
History always appears more legitimate and real when sepia-tinged.
But Whincup can and should now be considered one of Australia's motorsport greats - of this or any era.
He is as dominant as any driver has ever been in touring car racing, winning four of the past five V8 championships.
On average he has won a race every three starts since 2006.
Unusually, he has won championships driving both Fords and Holdens.
Critics point out a huge part of his success has been the quality of his Team Vodafone, the sport's benchmark outfit.
Their cars are brilliant. Their strategies rarely fail. Their dominance has been long-term.
Whether the team makes the driver or vice-versa is a chicken-and-egg argument.
What cannot be argued is that Whincup has come a long way both mentally and in his craft since a late season meltdown in 2007 which cost him the title by two points to Holden rival Garth Tander.
Accidents caused by driver error in Bahrain and the Gold Coast could have brought him undone permanently.
Already Whincup's career had stalled once when he was sacked by Garry Rogers Motorsport following his debut 2003 season.
But after a year out of the sport, he produced solid results with the small Tasman Motorsport outfit.
That won him a move to Team Vodafone where it was assumed he would be Robin to Lowndes' Batman.
Instead it was Whincup who took wings, soaring above the prodigiously talented Lowndes in terms of results and now titles.
His 2007 catastrophe was followed by instant recovery.
Back-to-back titles came in 2008 and 2009.
James Courtney pipped him in 2010 before Whincup won again.
Now he has claimed back-to-back titles once more, and showed his mental strength again to race his way to the championship following a pit lane penalty mid-race at Winton.
Lesser drivers could have been floored by that mistake, but Whincup drove his way from back to front of the field and grabbed third place to ensure he will collect the title after the season-ending event in Sydney in a fortnight.
Whincup's contract with Team Vodafone has one more year to go. Then, he has a big decision to make.
He can become a career V8 driver, like Brock, Skaife or Lowndes.
Stretch his championship and Bathurst record - he is a four-time winner at Mt Panorama - to unassailable levels.
Or try his hand at something else while he still can. NASCAR, or perhaps driving in another international category.
At 30, as he will be next year, the turning circle required is easier to negotiate.
He admitted prior to his championship-sealing weekend at Winton he would consider his options once his current deal expired.
Should Whincup win the title again in 2013 and equal the record of five championship wins, the most enticing option of all may be the chance to set a benchmark for the ages.


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New HIV Messaging Launches For National HIV Testing Day
BTL Staff
Originally printed 6/26/2014 (Issue 2226 - Between The Lines News)
LANSING - AIDS Service Organizations including Michigan AIDS Coalition, Wellness and Lansing Area AIDS Network, The Red Project, Between The Lines and community activists launched a new online social media campaign this week to increase testing among gay and bisexual men as well as transgender women across the state.
With the moniker "The rEVOLUTION Has Begun," the campaign will focus on the revolutionary prevention science as well as the medicine that makes HIV a chronic, manageable disease. Transgender women and gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men account for nearly two-thirds of new HIV infections nationally and statewide.
"If you are negative, there are options to stay negative," Todd Heywood, a designer of the program who has been living with HIV since 2007, said. "If you are positive, you have options to live a long, healthy life and prevent transmitting the virus to anyone else. Facing the HIV epidemic requires a completely new vision, voice and strategy."
In May, the CDC announced new clinical guidance for medical providers to prescribe PrEP. Studies have shown that when PrEP is taken daily, it is 99 percent effective in prevention of HIV transmission for those who are HIV negative. That's more effective than any other option in the United States.
In the 2012 National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Creating Change Conference in Atlanta, Gregory Millet, an employee of the CDC tasked to the White House Office of National AIDS Police, released HIV prevalence predictions. The numbers showed that the current cohort of 20-year-old men who have sex with men have a 10 percent HIV-positive prevalence already. Black men in the same demographic have 20 percent prevalence.
Once this group reaches 50 years of age, half of all gay and bisexual men will be infected with HIV, while 70 percent of the black community in the same demographic will be infected. Transgender women are 50 percent more likely to be HIV positive than any other group of women.
Changing The Game
Innovations in prevention options have the potential to change the game with HIV.
For those that are HIV-positive, treatment of a few combined anti-HIV drugs can reduce the viral load in that person's blood to less than 28 viral particles per milliliter of blood. This reduces the potential to transmit HIV by 96 percent.
The first step in utilizing this new science is to get tested. With just a pinprick of blood and a wait time of 20 minutes, people can know their HIV status.
"This is essential to the health and well-being of the LGBT community" BTL's own publisher Susan Horowitz said. "The science is sound and convincing. We can stop those prevalence predictions from becoming our reality. We can stop HIV's march through this community."
The new campaign will feature tweets, Facebook memes and videos to drive traffic to PrEP4ITNow.com. The site will host pages to explore why testing is important, what science has taught about HIV transmission and what works to prevent new transmissions.
In honor of National HIV Testing Day on June 27th, the Lansing Area AIDS Network will sponsor a series of fun activities in Old Town including Bingo at the Esquire Club, rEVOLUTION Trivia and performances of Lansing's own drag stars at Spiral Dance Club.
Free HIV testing on a walk-in basis will be available from 4 p.m. to midnight at 1310 Turner St. in Lansing. Participants will also have the option of seeing if PrEP may be a prevention option for them.
"Outside of Detroit, Ingham county has been the highest prevalence of HIV cases in the state of Michigan," Dwayne Riley, prevention manager at the Lansing Area AIDS Network, said. "But with the advent of prevention options like pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a new understanding of HIV transmission and the science of caring for those already infected, we know that we can slow this virus down."
Join the rEvolution and get tested. Available testing sites can be found below. To find a location not listed here call the Michigan HIV/STD Hotline at 800-872-2437.
Testing Information
State HIV/STD Hotline
Metro Detroit
290 W. Nine Mile, Ferndale
Every Monday and Wednesday from 6-9 p.m. MSM only. Provided by MAC.
Every Thursday from 5:30-8p.m. for everyone.
Every Saturday from 1-5 p.m. for everyone, including youth. Provided by AIDS Partnership Michigan.
Michigan AIDS Coalition (MAC)
429 Livernois St., Ferndale
Call to make an appointment.
Flint Wellness National HIV Testing Day
311 E. Court St., Flint
Syphilis and STI screenings also available.
June 27 from 12-6 p.m.
Flint Gay Pride in the Park
U of M Rink and Flint Riverbank
STI screenings also available.
June 28 from 1-6 p.m.
Ann Arbor
S3 Safe Sex Store
1209 S. University, Ann Arbor
Every Thursday from 5-8 p.m.
The Lansing Area AIDS Network at Old Town Lansing
1310 Turner St., Lansing
517-394-3560 ext. 30
Every Wednesday and Thursday from 6-8 p.m. and June 27 at 4 p.m.
West Michigan
Planned Parenthood
425 Cherry St. SE, Grand Rapids
All Week for National HIV Testing Day
Rumors Night Club
69 Division Ave. S, Grand Rapids
June 26
Diversions Night Club
10 Fountain St. NW, Grand Rapids
June 28Go to http://www.PrEP4ITNow.com to utilize what the site has to offer and get more information on how and where community members can get tested for HIV. The Lansing Area AIDS Network is located at 913 W. Holmes Road, Lansing Charter Township.
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Hi All Just to clarify another msg on the reflectors, Here are the 2 companies who bought AEA. 1. For AEA antennas and antenna related products, the new company is: Tempo Research Vista, Ca. 619-598-9677 2. For all other AEA type products: Timewave Technology 612-452-5939 E-Mail email@example.com Website: www.timewave.com The recording at the AEA number sort of garbles the second company info so I had to throw in the narrow filter and offtune a bit. 73, John K1RC -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.html Submissions: firstname.lastname@example.com Administrative requests: email@example.com Problems: email@example.com Sponsored by: Akorn Access, Inc. & N4VJ / K4AAA
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VANDERCOOK LAKE, MI – The halls at Vandercook Lake High School were a little darker and a whole lot quieter Monday.
The bright, contagious laughter and never-say-quit attitude of Brooke Ramey were missing.
The 16-year-old, who courageously fought a rare immunodeficiency disease, died Saturday.
"Brooke touched everybody in this school district," said Cathy Wilson, a long-term substitute teacher in Brenda Cavanaugh's special education classroom, which Brooke attended when her health permitted. "She had an infectious smile that made everyone light up. Watching Brooke and seeing her smile through all of this changed me. It touched people in a way they can't explain."
Visitation is set for 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at Wetherby Funeral Home, 402 Wildwood Ave. Funeral services are set for 4 p.m. Wednesday at Jackson Free Methodist Church, 2829 Park Drive.
Brooke was diagnosed at age 8 with ataxia telangiectasia (A-T), a rare genetic disease that causes the immune system to break down and make people more susceptible to other illnesses, such as pneumonia. It only affects one in every 40,000 to 100,000 people.
The signs of the disease, which can include delayed motor skill development, unstable balance and slurred speech, usually begin at an early age. Brooke was in a wheelchair, but that didn't stop her.
"Even when she was mad, she always had a smile in her eyes," said Nicole Wollcott, a Vandercook Lake High junior. "I miss her a lot already. My mom said we were like sisters."
Brooke loved to race around the school in her wheelchair, make jokes and share a laugh that made everyone else laugh along with her, said Jamie Radford, high school secretary.
"She had a real quick wit and was just a joy to be around," Radford said.
Despite her challenges, Brooke always had a positive attitude and didn't focus on her own situation, said high school counselor Roschenne Parmalee. Last December, Brooke even organized a Christmas dance at Jackson's Rocket Nightclub to collect food, clothing and money for needy people in the community.
Brooke also loved "The Hunger Games," a trilogy of books for young adults written by Suzanne Collins that has recently been made into a blockbuster movie. She starred as the flamboyant character Effie Trinket in a YouTube video Vandercook Lake students made about the books.
"You could just see this whole school light up when she was here," Parmalee said.
Brooke's classroom at Vandercook Lake was feeling especially empty Monday without her in it.
"I've been with Brooke since kindergarten," said Emily Grzesikowski, 16. "We talked all the time on Facebook. I miss her very much. I love her."


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The Texas Higher Education Coordinating BoardThe board oversees the curriculum at all institutions of higher education in the state of Texas.
Texas Higher Education DataUse this link to access reports and statistics regarding higher education in the state.
Texas Higher Education Data Classification of Instructional Programs Use this site to locate the appropriate CIP code for your programs and courses. The Texas CIP codes are used to identify degree and certificate programs, courses, and declared majors on the reports and inventories of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. The first six digits of each code are identical to those in "A Classification of Instructional Programs," published by the National Center for Education Statistics. The seventh and eighth digits are the Texas suffixes, which identify the CIP codes created for the diversity of courses and program offerings in Texas. The two digits following the CIP code are the formula funding code.
THECB Table of ProgramsUse this site to identify the programs UTB/TSC has authority to offer. Consult the footnotes carefully to determine if the institution has full authority or partial authority in a particular area. Planning authority must be sought for programs not currently approved.
How often can a program of study be revised?
UTB/TSC will be moving toward a two-year program of study revision cycle. An academic department may request an exception to this cycle by submitting a request to the appropriate dean. The dean would then gain approval from the vice president for academic affairs or designee before submitting the paperwork to the University Undergraduate Curriculum Committee.
This change in procedure is in an effort to stabilize the curriculum on our campus. This change affects only programs of study and does not affect changes made to the course inventory.
What rules govern the General Education Core?
The 48-hour General Education Core is required in all academic associate degrees and all bachelor's degrees. A 15-hour General Education Core is required in all Associate of Applied Science degrees. The lower-division "Academic Course Guide Manual" is the official list of courses approved for general academic transfer that may be offered by public community and technical colleges in Texas for state funding. Courses in the General Education Core must be selected from the ACGM; however, in very special circumstances, an institution can request to offer a course that satisfies unique needs. Both are described in the ACGM.
In general, the General Education Core should not be prescriptive in terms of the specific courses needed to complete the component areas. Students should be allowed freedom to select their courses as often as possible. This will help students who transfer and will help students find seats in general education sections.
In addition, a program of study cannot specify a specific course as part of the General Education Core to satisfy a requirement of the major. If a specific course is required as part of the major or as a prerequisite to courses in the major, then that course must be listed outside of the General Education Core as part of the major.
Who approves a curriculum change?
All changes to a major must be approved at all levels internally as described by "Handbook of Operating Procedures" section 7.6.3. New majors and significant (substantive) changes to an existing major must also be processed externally by the VPAA's office. This processing includes approval by The University Of Texas System's Division of Academic Affairs and the THECB. A new major is not considered approved until all approvals have been received by the VPAA.
Associate of Science, Associate of Arts, and Associate of Applied Science degrees are approved internally and then must be submitted to the THECB for final approval.
What is the difference between a major, a minor and a concentration?
The institution requires that all majors and minors be reviewed and assessed by the department according to the program review calendar published by the Office of Institutional Effectiveness.
What constitutes a major?
Number of hours in a major: A minimum number of scheduled credit hours is required for an academic major (required courses and prescribed electives):
Number of hours in a degree program: The number of SCHs for the degree shall be comparable to the number the SCHs required for similar degrees in the state. A minimum number of SCHs are required to complete a degree:
What is a support area, minor or concentration?
Number of hours in a minor: A minimum number of SCHs is required for an academic minor (required courses and prescribed electives):
New minors and concentrations and changes to existing minors and concentrations are processed internally only. Minors and concentrations are only appropriate if they address a unique need of the university's population. New minors or concentrations must be accompanied by a justification statement.
As of September 2007, minors will no longer be required for any of the programs of study. Programs of study that currently offer a minor will be designed to have blocks of courses. Through advising, students will select the most appropriate support area. The current inventory of minors will become the master list of Support Areas for existing programs of study.
How do I add or modify the "Advising List" of concentration areas?
To add a new Support Area to the "Advising List," complete the Request to Add a Support Area form.
To modify an existing support area, complete the Request to Modify a Support Area form.
For processing and eventual approval of the minor, please follow the section titled "What must be submitted for new programs of study."
How many upper-division hours are required in a program of study?
A bachelor's degree must have a minimum of 36 hours of upper-division courses. A BAT or BAAS degree must have a minimum of 30 hours of upper-division courses.
What CIP code do I use for a new major/minor/concentration?
Visit the "Texas CIP Codes" site to find the correct classification for your proposed curriculum.
What CIP code do I use for a new course?
If the course is a lower-division course (WECM or ACGM), use the CIP code listed in the "Workforce Education Course Manual, 2009-2010."
If the course is an upper-division course, find the correct classification at the "Texas CIP Codes" site.
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Resilient. That's the best word to describe the broad U.S. stock market, which is on track today for its 26th record close of the year despite a recent string of bad headlines.
In early trading Wednesday, the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index is up more than 5 points to 1,988.67, which is above its last closing high — and its 25th of the year — of 1,985.44 from July 3.
Stocks have overcome a great deal of negativity in recent weeks to shoot to fresh new-high territory. It has shrugged off the downing of a passenger jet and resulting crisis in Ukraine, renewed political angst involving Russia and its leader Vladimir Putin, continued fighting in Gaza, and a warning from the Federal Reserve that some pockets of the stock market are overvalued.
"Markets have already begun to disentangle themselves from the big news events of the last few weeks," says Paul Hickey, co-founder of Bespoke Investment Group.
The market has gotten a boost from a solid start to the second-quarter earnings season, with a better-than-expected 68% of companies in the S&P 500 that have reported earnings so far topping expectations. S&P 500 earnings are coming in now at a 5.4% growth rate. Before the opening bell, Boeing, Pepsico and Delta Air Lines all topped forecasts.
Investors have also been betting on a re-acceleration of economic growth after a dismal first three months of the year, due in large part to wintry weather.
Still, Hickey won't rule out a return to volatility in the days ahead.
"Perhaps (the lull) is temporary," he told clients in market update Wednesday. "Putin's shenanigans will remain a possible shadow over the market indefinitely, although likely a minor one, in our view."


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In several months of reporting about allegations of sexual abuse at Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women, I've written several dozen articles and received hundreds of phone calls and emails.
I've spoken to many women who have spent time within the prison's walls as they recount their months or years behind bars and reflect on the decisions – fueled by addiction or desperation or poor judgment – that led them there.
In a segment that aired Wednesday morning, I spoke with NPR station WBHM's Rachel Lindley about those conversations, prison conditions and what AL.com reporters are working on next.
You can listen to the piece here, or hear it when it airs again at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday on 90.3 WBHM in the Birmingham area. The station's programming also can be heard in North Central Alabama on WSGN 91.5 FM and on 104.7 FM in Fort Payne.
A team of AL.com reporters, collaborating with the Center for Investigative Reporting and WBHM, are taking a closer look at the state prison system as part of the Alabama Investigative Journalism Lab.
Share your experience with us here:
What's your experience with Alabama's prison system? We want to hear your story


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Warrior Dash will be held this Saturday, December 3, for the most fearless athletes and party-goers. The race is called a "mud-crawling, fire-leaping, extreme run from hell" and that may be an understatement. The dash is 3.1 miles of extreme terrain and perilous obstacles. Roughly 10,000 runners are scheduled to take part.
What obstacles will the runners face?
Oh, just a scrap yard of rusted vehicle wreckage, thick mud pits, hurdles of scorching flames, massive tangled cargo nets, and X-shaped barricades with barbed wire. (Don't worry-- there will be paramedics and an ambulance on site in case of emergency.)
The race begins at 8 a.m., followed by waves of 500 racers every half hour until 4 p.m.
Racers are strongly encouraged to wear their 'best Warrior attire" and are crowned with fuzzy Warrior helmets before they begin.
The event also features superb Warrior grub, like turkey legs and beer, as well as live entertainment.
For more information, visit www.warriordash.com. If we don't see you in Miami, we'll assume you are getting dirty in Deerfield.


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Intellectual (a.) Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.
Intellectual (a.) Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding; having capacity for the higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or mental capacity; as, an intellectual person.
Intellectual (a.) Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect; as, intellectual employments.
Intellectual (a.) Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as, intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy.
Intellectual (n.) The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.


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Irondale under boil order through Saturday
David A. Boyuk
BOYUK, David A., 34, of Mingo Junction, OH, passed away suddenly on Wednesday October 30, 2013, in the emergency room at Trinity Medical Center West in Steubenville, OH.
He was born September 26, 1979 in Steubenville, OH, a son of James J. and Rhonda C. (Thompson) Boyuk, Sr. of Mingo Junction, OH.
Dave graduated from Indian Creek High School in 1998. He was an equipment operator for International Union of Operating Engineers Local 132. Dave enjoyed chopping wood and cooking, he was a very good cook.
In addition to his parents, he is survived by his wife, Kerri L. (Sivert) Boyuk, whom he married on February 14, 2013; a daughter, Gabriella Boyuk of the home; a brother, James J. Boyuk, Jr. of Mingo Junction; a sister, Bonnie Boyuk of New York, NY; his two cats, Ding Dong and Patches; and numerous aunts, uncles, cousins and friends.
Friends will be received on Saturday at the Wheeler Funeral Home, 101 Longview Ave., Mingo Junction, from 2 p.m. until the time of his funeral services at 5 p.m. with Nick Lamatrice, officiating.
Memorial contributions may be directed in David's memory to a trust fund for his daughter, Huntington Bank, 200 Main St., Wintersville, OH 43953, memo line Gabriella Boyuk.
Offer condolences at www.wheelerfuneralhomes.com.


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What is Inbound Marketing?
Inbound Marketing is the name for a process of driving revenue growth by acquiring a steady stream of qualified leads who convert into profitable customers by:
1. Driving Free Traffic
Increasing the visibility and "search-ability" of your website to drive increased organic website traffic through:
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO) - On-Page and Off-Page SEO, Local, National and Global
- Organic Link Building - the currency of the web
- Search Engine Optimized News Releases (SEO-NR) - powerful for link-building and driving awareness
- Blogging - Business Blogging is essential for every business online
- Social Media Growth, Engagement & Optimization (SMGEO) - Social Media Marketing can be the greatest source of organic links, creating community, educating and creating awareness
2. Driving Profitable Paid Search and Social
Dramatically improve the results you're getting from Google AdWords and other networks with a PPC Audit or a Paid Social Pilot – created with a sharp eye on ROI to take advantage of opportunities identified.
3. Lead Generation Effectiveness
We help clients build out the middle of the sales & marketing funnel by creating and testing sales-stage-appropriate content, high performing landing pages, compelling offers, and a proven testing methodology that can help optimize conversion rates from visitors to leads.
4. Landing Page Optimization
We work on improving the match between paid media sources and the resulting landing pages with a process that uses testing and best practices implementation.
5. Marketing Automation, LifeCycle Marketing
Using powerful new tools in our software platform we'll be able to help you increase return visits, relevancy and ultimately drive more conversions to quote requests by focusing on site user behavior and triggering appropriate messaging through LifeCycle Marketing.
6. Online Video
We help clients create more engaging web experiences through online video, and help them get their videos watched, rated and shared to increase visibility and dramatically increase average time on site.
7. Continual Improvement Process
We help clients create an ongoing Inbound Marketing program complete with regular blogging, link building, social media growth, engagement and optimization, SEO-News Releases and guidance on online marketing strategy and program development/execution that is manageable, measurable, proves profitable and is sustainable over the long-term.


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5:40 PM: We have a winner. Kyle Busch earns his 6th Nationwide win of the season, fending off Brad Keselowski by 0.645-second. For the first time in 24 NNS races at NHMS, we have a repeat winner, as Kyle won here last June.
5:32 PM: Busch with another solid restart, but Logano was passed by both Keselowski and Edwards. 15 laps left for Rowdy to break the streak of no repeat Nationwide winners here.
5:25 PM: 4th caution of the afternoon, Mark Green slams the wall in turn 2 on lap 176. Logano needs a Kyle Busch restart to, well, pass Kyle Busch.
5:20 PM: Kyle Busch has now led 8,083 career laps (and counting) in the Nationwide Series, passing Mark Martin for most in series history - in a heck of a lot fewer races. Congrats, Rowdy!
5:07 PM: I said earlier there were 7 cautions, I meant "second." This is now the third. Kyle's 0.305-second lead over Logano is now moot. Here come what could be final pit stops. Kyle and Joey both take 2 tires and the Joe Gibbs Racing teammates win the race off pit road. 52 laps to go.
4:55 PM: Lap 122: Kyle Busch back in the lead, Logano in second now, with Keselowski in third. Logano would be a popular victor, being a native of Middletown, Conn.
4:47 PM: We're past the halfway point, so if we get rain, it's an official race. Fresher tires are giving Brad Keselowski the edge, as he has a near-2-second lead over Kyle Busch, with Logano hanging on in third.
4:37 PM: Caution is out for an incident involving Tayler Malsam and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Leaders coming down pit road now. Joey Logano easily exits pits in first, took only two tires. Could he be banking on rain, like he did in winning last year's Cup race here?
4:27 PM: Green flag pit stops underway. Leaders in, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. scored as the leader until he pits and everything cycles around. Kyle Busch had a 4-plus-second lead until pitting.
4:15 PM: Kyle Busch is out front, and needs to lead 91 laps to become the Nationwide Series all-time leader in laps led.
4:10 PM: Harvick gets by Kesolowski for the race lead, which TV viewers missed until they showed the replay. Meanwhile, Danica's latest tirade is "I'm not trying to be an (bleep) out there." Very ladylike, eh?
4:05 PM: Brad Keselowski leads Kevin Harvick and Kyle Busch through 34 laps, but the story continues to be Danica - at least on Twitter, where her radio transmissions are popular topics.
Ms. Patrick seems to be a bit of a potty mouth, as she said to her crew chief, "Too much (bleeping) understeer" when complaining about the car. Want some cheese with that whine?
3:50 PM: Only eight laps in, and Danica brings out the first yellow flag. Well, it was really due to Morgan Shepherd's car getting loose and making contact with Patrick's. Danica spun and tagged the wall. Doesn't look like a ton of damage, but it's not a good way to start if she wants a top 15-20 finish.
Danica to her crew on the radio: "Doesn't he get some sort of penalty for that or something?" Wahhhhhhhhh!!!!
3:10 PM: Danica Patrick received a great ovation, as expected, during driver intros for the Nationwide Series New England 200. Danica will start 25th in the GoDaddy.com No. 7. Enough photographers surrounding the car to make pit road seem like the red carpet instead.
2:25 PM: This one did not disappoint!! Newman and Christopher exchanged the lead a few times over the final three laps, and the two cars basically drag-raced to the finish. Newman had just enough for the win, holding off TC by 0.125-second. Congrats to the Rocket Man for his first WMT victory!!
2:20 PM: Newman leads with 8 laps to go, TC moves up to second.
2:15 PM: Ryan Newman to the lead on the tail end of lap 79. Next lap, caution goes out for an L.W. Miller crash in turn 2. Newman, Silk, Preece, Santos, James Civali the top 5.
2:05 PM: This only gets better. Silk to the lead on lap 73 now, with Ssantos, Coby, Newman, Christopher and Preece challenging. Any one of these top six cars could win here, realistically. This is why the Mods are so popular here.
Boo, caution again on lap 74. No. 68 car of Johnny Bush in the wall between turn 1 and 2.
1:55 PM: Now this is more like it. TC slingshots to the lead in turn 1 on lap 58, bringing Coby and Newman with him for second and third, shuffling Santos to fourth. Coby to the front on lap 60. Too much action to call here. Suddenly your top three is TC, Santos and Ryan Preece.
Caution out on lap 62 for spins by Szegedy and 2008 winner Chuck Hossfeld. Top five is TC, Santos, Preece, Coby, Newman.
1:45 PM: Santos grabs the lead from Coby on lap 46. But here comes TC with another of his patented bottom shots, but he can't pass either car. Coby drafts Santos down the straightaways but can't slingshot past.
Hold on, we have another caution on lap 50. Running order is Santos, Coby, Christopher out front.
1:35 PM: Caution out for the No. 1 car of Rob Summers. Leaders pit, and Doug Coby leads the race off pits, followed by Woody Pitkat.
1:30 PM: Ever since Christopher's pass for the lead, there hasn't been much excitement. Santos still second, followed by Szegedy, Newman and Ronnie Silk. Still 68 laps left to have some of the stellar racing that made the last two June races here so memorable.
1:20 PM: Second caution of the day. Prior to that, Ted Christopher made an amazing move past Newman for the lead in turn 3. Newman is now mired in 8th, with TC leading Santos through 14 laps.
1:12 PM: Only three laps in, and we have our first caution of the race. Rick Fuller's car hits the wall in turn 4, and mechanical problems for former Wilbraham resident Mike Stefanik. Current Wilbrahamian (is that even a word) Glen Reen takes the No. 17 car to pit road. Newman still leads, with three-time winner Bobby Santos on his bumper.
1:10 PM: The No. 25 Nationwide Series car of Peyton Sellers was disqualified from today's race after tech inspectors found illegal fuel in the vehicle. As a result, Charles Lewandoski's No. 39 team will take that spot in the field for the New England 200 later today.
On the track now, Sprint Cup star Ryan Newman leads the field to take the green flag in the Whelen Modified Tour New England 100. Newman is driving the No. 7 mod owned by Kevin "Bono" Manion, Cup crew chief for Jamie McMurray.
12:45 PM: Final Sprint Cup practice almost over. Going to pack up and head toward the press box for the Whelen Modified Tour race. JJ leads final practice. Polesitter Juan Pablo Montoya is now eighth and second-place starter Kasey Kahne is seventh.
12:25 PM: Went out to take a few pictures with my cell phone of the scene in the garage area ... nothing has changed on the track. Jimmie is still the fastest, Jeff Burton second. Hmmm, might make my decision on who to pick a little more interesting.
11:50 AM: Jimmie Johnson is blazing through final Sprint Cup practice, again putting the No. 48 at the top of the charts. And it's not just a single-lap speed. JJ led the first practice in 5-lap, 10-lap, 15-lap and 20-lap averages. Like him or not, Johnson is just a darn good race car driver, and his crew knows how to prepare a rocketship. (Gulp, I can't believe I just said that)
11:25 AM: Ricky Stenhouse Jr. wraps up qualifying with a 10th-place lap, by far the best of the "go or go home" drivers. Danica Patrick will start 25th. Your front row is Brad Keselowski and Carl Edwards. Race time at 3:30.
Final Cup practice in 20 minutes, Whelen Modified Tour race at 1:10.


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"Our vision is a city centre with only electric vehicles"
In the Scottish capital, Edinburgh, Lothian Buses transports 350,000 passengers a day. Many of them come from nearby towns and villages around the city and travel to the centre to work, while others want transport to the airport outside Edinburgh. Lothian Buses is one of the largest bus transport companies in the UK, with a total of 700 buses in its fleet, 595 of which carry the Volvo brand name.
Edinburgh is famous, among other things, for its beautiful architecture and its well-preserved buildings from the Middle Ages. Some parts of the city are listed among UNESCO's world heritage sites.
"We have so much that needs preserving here. This is a wonderful city," says Bill Devlin, engineering director at Lothian Buses.
Volvo Buses recently delivered 10 hybrid buses to Edinburgh and more are in the pipeline.
"We have had an excellent partnership with Volvo Buses since 1999. Volvo Buses offers us the complete package, with high-quality vehicles and new technology. At the same time, it has a well-developed service network," explains Bill Devlin.
Lothian Buses has made large-scale investments during the past few years and modernised its bus fleet. The inhabitants of Edinburgh like travelling by bus – especially now that there are hybrid buses on the streets.
"It gave us a great deal of pleasure to note an increase in passenger numbers of around 15 to 20 per cent when we introduced the hybrid buses," says Bill Devlin.
However, Lothian Buses is now looking to go one step further by starting to use electric buses.
"It's our vision to have a city centre with nothing but electric vehicles in the future. It's necessary for the city and its inhabitants," adds Bill Devlin.
Some time ago, he and his colleagues visited Gothenburg and travelled on one of Volvo Buses' plug-in hybrids. These buses are participating in an EU project that will run until September. In a hybrid bus, the batteries are charged when the bus brakes. The electric motor only runs for short periods, at a bus stop, for example. In plug-in hybrid, the charge comes from the mains network and the diesel engine acts as back-up rather than the other way round. The plug-in hybrid also requires an infrastructure with special charging stations.
As Bill Devlin and his colleagues travelled along the streets of Gothenburg, speaking to drivers and studying the charging station, they discussed how they could introduce something similar in Edinburgh.
However, in order to invest fully and realise this aim, it was also necessary to convince politicians and civil servants in Edinburgh. As a result, representatives from Volvo Buses' City Mobility Team are going to travel to the Scottish capital to meet the city's rulers, together with Lothian Buses.
"We need help to describe the benefits of electricity and how the logistics, including charging stations and bus stops, are organised," explains Bill Devlin.
This is precisely the way the City Mobility Team is expected to work.
It is designed to act as a resource in contact with authorities and traffic managers and, instead of selling a vehicle, the plan is to sell a complete system.
"This is not really anything new. Volvo Buses has been working in this way for quite some time. However, we have now systematised everything," says Jessica Sandström, head of the Volvo Buses City Mobility Team, and she goes on to explain the importance of being able to influence and reach decision-makers.
"They are ultimately responsible for the way public transport is organised and how it is developed," she says.
Some members of the team recently had a meeting similar to the one planned in Edinburgh in Montreal in Canada.
"We gathered all the stakeholders for a joint presentation. This was the first time they had been in the same room together. So, while we had an opportunity to tell them about our concept, they also had the chance to discuss things with one another. Dialogue and consensus are incredibly important and this is an area in which we can make a difference," she says.


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Thursday November 1, 2012
I am grateful to Michelle Gillett for reminding us eloquently and forcefully of the importance of the women's vote, recalling the courage and determination it took to obtain it nearly 100 years ago. ("Once again women are under attack," Eagle op-ed, October 30). Let us listen and not lose this privilege.
More than ever our voices need to be heard on Nov. 6 if we are to have control over our own lives and secure women's integrity, dignity and independence in society.
The writer is a former director, New York Office of the World Health Organization, with the United Nations.