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A US government response to the International Committee of the Red Cross study Customary International Humanitarian Law
30-06-2007 Article, International Review of the Red Cross, No. 866, by John B. Bellinger III, William J. Haynes II
This document has also been published under the title ''Joint letter from John Bellinger and William Haynes to Jakob Kellenberger on Customary International Law Study'', in International Legal Materials, 46 ILM 514 (2007). Jean-Marie Henckaerts and Louise Doswald-Beck, Customary International Humanitarian Law, Cambridge University Press/ICRC, Cambridge 2005 (hereinafter, ''Study''). On November 11, 2006, the General Counsel of the Department of Defense and the Legal Adviser for the Department of State transmitted a letter to the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Dr. Jakob Kellenberger, providing the U.S. Government's initial reactions to the Study. This article reflects the contents of that letter, which is available at, http://www.state.gov/s/l/rls/82630.htm. and, http://www.defenselink.mil/home/pdf/Customary_International_Humanitiarian_Law.pdf.
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But it was the gentle, spiritual side of his nature that I related to most.
spiritual gurus who use their power to facilitate sexual encounters with their students are something of a cliché.
Think of it as a frequent buyer program for personal karma, or a spiritual band-aid.
As the project progressed, I felt a subtle change happening to me, as though I was picking up some of his spiritual magnetism.
They have had a spiritual or numinous or paranormal experience at some point in their own lives.
Armstrong spoke of him in later years as his spiritual father.
My mother, caring little for this life, lived in and for the spiritual.
That, again, is primarily and essentially a spiritual unity.
The newness consists in moral and spiritual characteristics.
Her spiritual energy was like her physical energy that night on the mountain.
"of or concerning the spirit" (especially in religious aspects), c.1300, from Old French spirituel (12c.), from Latin spiritualis, from spiritus "of breathing, of the spirit" (see spirit (n.)). Meaning "of or concerning the church" is attested from mid-14c. The noun sense of "African-American religious song" first recorded 1866.

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A masseuse and her boyfriend have been charged with trying to extort money from Hermosa Beach City Treasurer David Cohn after allegedly stealing an iPad from his home.
Police would not discuss what was stored inside Cohn's iPad that could be used in an extortion attempt, but said it contained no city-related information.
"There's stuff on there I can't discuss," Johnson said. "There's information in there that allowed the suspects to try to extort Mr. Cohn."
The masseuse, Yuritsi Maria Garcia, 26, and her boyfriend, Gustavo Ceron, 29, were arrested in Maywood on Tuesday after detectives used a "Find my iPad" app to locate the tablet, Hermosa Beach Police Chief Steve Johnson said.
Cohn, who is not married, invited Garcia to his Sixth Street home on Nov. 9. She arrived with Ceron.
Johnson would not disclose how Cohn knew her. He said she is not a licensed massage therapist.
"He hired the lady to come over and the guy came with her," Johnson said. "He did call them over."
Cohn received his massage, but at some point a conflict developed. During the dispute, the woman took his iPad.
Cohn did not report the theft to police until he began receiving calls a day or two later threatening him in an effort to extort money, Johnson said.
Cohn did not return phone calls or an email on Friday.
Prosecutors charged Ceron and Garcia on Thursday with attempted extortion. According to the California Penal Code section under which they were charged, the pair is accused of extortion through fear, either to "do an unlawful injury to the person or property of the individual threatened or of a third person, to accuse the individual threatened, or any relative of his, or member of his family, of any crime; to expose, or to impute to him or them any deformity, disgrace or crime; or to expose any secret affecting him or them."
Police have recovered video not related to the actual massage, but Johnson declined to disclose any information about it.
City Manager Tom Bakaly briefed the City Council on the incident this week. On Thursday, he referred questions to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.
Mayor Jeff Duclos said he had few details about the incident.
"This incident occurred, the iPad was recovered and no city information was compromised," he said.
Laura Mecoy, a city-hired public relations consultant, said the iPad did not contain any city-related correspondence or documents, and no resident account information was compromised.
Cohn was elected treasurer in November 2011 after a fiercely contested campaign against John Workman, who served as city treasurer for 18 years. Workman died of a sudden heart attack three days after losing the election.
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Connecticut accountant Erin Brady was named "Miss USA" on Sunday in Las Vegas. In the pageant's final minutes, she answered without hesitation a question about the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to uphold widespread DNA tests. "If someone is being prosecuted and committed a crime, it should happen. There are so many crimes that if that's one step closer to stopping them, then we should be able to do so," Brady said.
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The Merton Conservative manifesto has been launched today with bold promises of building schools, opening a recycling centre and building homes for residents.
With the local elections looming in May, the group is keen to set out its objectives if it gets voted into power this summer.
However one of the manifesto promises, to open a new recycling centre, does not seem to have gone beyond the idea stage.
The pledge under the 'greener environment' heading stated the Conservatives will open a new recycling centre, to make recycling easier and cut down on car journeys across the borough.
When questioned by the Wimbledon Guardian, Conservative leader Councillor Oonagh Moulton said they hoped to re-open the Weir Road site closed by Labour in 2011.
Now people go to Garth Road in Morden to dispose of their waste.
However the group had not approached the company who lease the site from Merton Council, and had not identified any alternative sites for a recycling centre if that fell through.
Coun Moulton said: "The closure caused a huge amount of upset in the borough and across the area."
Councillor Henry Nelless added: "We want people to recycle more.
"We will be looking to reverse the decision [to close the Weir Road site.]"
Merton Council said the site was closed because of financial reasons.
When asked about the cost of the project to re-open the site, opposition councillors were unable to provide figures.
Coun Moulton said: "It wasn't a huge saving."
The group claims in its manifesto that they will build a new school, and "invest in a first class careers service."
When asked where the school would be and for what age group, Coun Moulton and Coun Nelless stated they would monitor birth rates and decide whether there was a greater need for primary or secondary schools.
The promised school could either be in the west or the east of the borough - no site has been identified yet, the group said.
Coun Moulton said: "We are looking at not just one school but all our schools becoming better."
A promise to build new homes was not specific, although the councillors pledged to get residents more involved in the planning process.
Coun Nelless said: "People don't have any objection to the new homes it is the design and quality.
"We will support more quality homes being built.
"We will involve residents in developing neighbourhood plans."
Other pledges include giving Merton residents a permit to park in council car parks for free for one hour, abolishing evening car parking charges and introducing a minimum of 20 minutes free parking for all local shopping parades.
A ten per cent reduction in council tax over a four year term, investing in parks and green spaces and investing in cleaner streets by sweeping up after rubbish and recycling is collected and increase enforcement for persistent fly-tippers.
The manifesto was launched on Saturday, March 22, with a visit from home secretary Theresa May, a former Merton councillor.


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From Chuck Colson:
Your question is absolutely critical. If the Bible is not accurate and reliable, then nothing we Christians believe about ourselves, the world around us, or even God, has any ultimate foundation.
The question is so critical, that I devoted an entire chapter (chapter 3) of my latest book, The Faith, on the reliability of Scripture. The Faith is available at our bookstore here at BreakPoint.
So, how about it? Is this collection of ancient documents which we received through millennia of transcription and translation really the Word of God?
To start off, you're right in saying that the Bible was not given at a specific point in time. The chain of authors which penned what we now know as the Scriptures spanned three continents and some 1,500 years. The majority of this time represents the formation of the Old Testament, which, (aside from the addition of new books) remained basically unchanged for over a thousand years.
How do we know this? Well, the Levitical priests who copied and maintained the Torah went to unbelievable lengths to preserve its integrity. 19th Century Bible scholars Samuel Davidson and E. W. Bullinger describe in their commentaries some of the Jewish scribes' painstaking procedures, which included precise records of the syntax in each line, page geometry, word count and even letter-by-letter comparisons between the work of multiple scribes.
Jesus Himself had full confidence in the Old Testament. Few Christians appreciate just how many of the words Christ spoke during His earthy ministry were verbatim quotations from previous Scripture. The phrase "it is written" alone appears twenty-eight times in the Gospels, and represents only a fraction of His references to the Law and prophets.
More support for the accuracy of the Old Testament comes increasingly from the science of archaeology. Renowned historian Paul Johnson has said, in fact, that evidence for scriptural accuracy is mounting—so much so that the skeptics, not the Christians, must fear the further course of scientific discovery.
I'd invite you to read the text of a remarkable speech that Johnson gave several years ago called, "A Historian Looks at Jesus." It's one of the best pieces on the accuracy of Scripture I've ever read. The link is here.
As for the New Testament, it was almost certainly finished within the first fifty years following Christ's ministry. Each of the several authors either walked with Jesus in person or consulted eyewitness. All but a few of the twenty-seven books were widely recognized as inspired before their ink had dried. Nearly all of them were quoted by Christian writers such as Justin Martyr and Irenaeus as early as the middle of the Second Century.
Nonetheless, it took some 300 years of prayer, debate, research, and deliberations by the Church to determine the final Canon of the New Testament. In the year 270, the bishop Eusebius (who is often called the "Father of Church History") listed all twenty-seven books of today's New Testament. The Council of Carthage did the same in 397, officially recognizing these books, which had long been accepted throughout the Church.
Now, a lot of time has passed since all of this happened. Couldn't the Scriptures have been corrupted since the days of the Church Fathers?
It might surprise you, but we can answer this question with almost absolute certainty.
First, the sheer number and quality of our manuscripts provides stunning evidence for the Bible's accuracy. Consider another influential body of literature from antiquity—the writings of Plato and Aristotle. Today, we possess a mere twelve manuscripts which represent the entire life's work of both of these ancient philosophers. On top of that, these manuscripts have undergone countless transcriptions and are separated from their originals by a gap of more than 1,300 years.
Not so with the New Testament. Today, we possess around 24,000 manuscripts representing the Christian Bible. Hundreds of these were compiled before 600 A.D. and a handful of them date to within fifty years of the originals!
In reality, our evidence for the accuracy of the New Testament is far better than our evidence for the most influential secular philosophers of Western Civilization.
Dr. Ravi Zacharias summarized it this way: "In real terms, the New Testament is easily the best attested ancient writing in terms of the sheer number of documents, the time span between the events and the documents, and the variety of documents available to sustain or contradict it. There is nothing in ancient manuscript evidence to match such textual availability and integrity."
Despite this overwhelming evidence, skeptics continue to question Scripture—especially the Old Testament and its seemingly impossible prophecies.
But in 1947, many of those skeptics were forced to reconsider their conclusions. In a remote area of the
Gleason Archer, one of the most respected Old Testament scholars of the Twentieth Century, examined and commented on the scrolls:
"Even though the two copies of Isaiah …were a thousand years earlier than the oldest dated manuscript previously known (A.D. 980), they proved to be word for word identical with our standard Hebrew Bible in more than 95 percent of the text. The five percent of variation consisted chiefly of obvious slips of the pen and variations in spelling."
The Dead Sea Scrolls are just one more piece of evidence which compel me (and millions of others) to an inescapable conclusion: The Bible we have today really is the Bible which God inspired thousands of years ago.
For me, it's not a matter of blind faith. I believe in the Bible and the earth-shattering claims it makes because the sheer weight of the evidence is impossible to ignore! When you understand this, you will understand why I could never rank Scripture, or choose between the sections I like and the sections I don't like. I have no right to do so, because the Bible doesn't rest on the authority of Chuck Colson. It rests of the authority of God. And because God never changes, I believe with all of my heart and mind that His Word never changes, either.
"The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever." –Isaiah 40:8Chuck Colson


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What can be said about a painting of a girl washing dishes? We barely think about the act of dish washing. We barely contemplate this familiar experience at all. Standing in a room called a kitchen; the dirty sink, the brightly lit lamp. This is the space we inhabit as we eat, drink and wash. This is the space in which we accomplish the task of living. And it's instinctive to us.
However unassuming the subjects of her paintings may be, Victoria Macmillan's series Private Inscape calls us to attend to our "spaces of life" in a unique and sober way. As in the painting above, Macmillan transposes scenes from the places of our adolescence—where our most basic and instinctual understanding of the world is fostered—and paints them on common fabrics. In each piece, the fabric bleeds into the scene, reminding us of a memory or thought that is called to our minds in the present. We are made aware that it's a memory because of the material that surrounds it.
As a true contemporary artist, Macmillan does not have a particular intention for the way she wants her art to be interpreted. Yet the work encourages viewers to recall their former living spaces, and builds upon these memories a sense of the transitory nature of growing up. Fabrics serve to remind us of the "stuff" we keep in storage or in our musty childhood bedrooms. Similarly, in Joy Okagawa's Obasan, dust covering antiques in her aunt's attic induces the main character to think of the brokenness of her family. Likewise, the "physical," as we interact with the material in the present, grabs hold of our attention and our associations, which helps us as we recall the past.
The physical world has the capacity to cause us to remember, our relationships, our childhood perceptions, and the very prosaic experiences of our upbringing, and set us in motion towards something else entirely. Rather than merely sifting through our ordinary experiences and assigning meaning to them, what if the purpose of our ordinary experiences were to direct our attention to the divine?
In a recent interview in Books and Culture, poet Adam Zagajewski noted this transitory and transitional nature of what we consider familiar. In his poem, "Ordinary Life" he remarks:
Ordinary life, ordinary days and cares,
a concert, a conversation,
strolls on the town's outskirts,
good news, bad—
but objects and thoughts
were unfinished somehow,
rough drafts.
In contemporary poetry, as with contemporary art, there is a tendency to create and depict the prosaic experience as simply what it is. The intention of a work of art is not made clear for us. Simply depicting what's "real" is the point. This view of art has a tendency to predispose us to materialism, to want to view the world as less than it is. Materialists continuously endeavor to hold the world as they would any physical object. Rather than seeing meaning and purpose, they stop with the object, as though that were all that existed.
Fans of G.K. Chesterton will recall his adamant opposition to this view. He argues that such a viewpoint cultivates a spirit of "smallness;" resulting in skepticism and austere minimalism:
As an explanation of the world, materialism has a sort of insane simplicity. It has just the quality of the madman's argument; we have at once the sense of it covering everything and the sense of it leaving everything out. …His cosmos may be complete in every rivet and cog-wheel, but still his cosmos is smaller than our world.
Zagajewski falls in a similar camp with Chesterton when he argues that our physical experience doesn't stop with itself. The ordinary world, along with the transitory memories of childhood and the physical objects of our youth, all serve to point us elsewhere:
Many people, including some friends of mine, have a tendency to celebrate the quotidian. It seems to me that the quotidian doesn't want to be celebrated. It has to be completed. It's open to new adventures. It's not something we can put on a pedestal, to which we should pray. It prays itself for something else; how can we pray to it?
Modern life often forces us to view the world as objectively limited. Zagajewski is deeply aware of this disposition, both in his culture and within himself:
For me it's a constant battle between this dream of an ecstatic, religious poem and the heavy burden of skepticism that pulls me down. I sometimes think that in being implicated in this conflict, I'm not a bad representative of our time. This is one of the main struggles today not just in poetry but also in the spiritual realm.
When we hold within our hands the objects that once filled our childhood living spaces, we find ourselves in the midst of this tension. We are stuck between two poles—a tendency to view ordinary life materialistically and the "ecstatic" faith which would allow us the space to view our lives as a narrative.
The tension between materialism and faith is a strong one. And we do not have to dismiss the physical world in order to reasonably affirm the mystery and complexity of the divine. To challenge the smallness of materialism, however, we must be inclusive in our view of life. To reject cynicism and exclusivity, we must be open to mystery and faith. '


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Just Dance 4 is for people who want to keep fit or enjoy dancing, if this is your thing then this game will solve a basic need.
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Just Dance 4 with the Kinect is a dance game in which the users have to mimic the dance moves that appear on the screen and they are scored on how well they can accurately repeat these dance moves during any given track supplied in the game. At times this is challenging, especially during the initial start of the game when you have had no practice, but after a little practice it becomes far easier to get a higher score and mimicking the dance moves becomes a breeze.
There are numerous problems associated with the menu screen where you use the Kinect in order to select the track, this is tedious and can at times become very frustrating as you often find times where you hover your hand over selected tracks and end up selecting the wrong track due to the awful menu screen. That and the limited number of tracks that have been assigned to the game make it really not everyoneÂ's cup of tea. A good alternative would be Dance Central which compared to this title is a far better choice of dance game.
Depending on the song in question, you can at some points have up to four players in what is known as a dance off, where you and your friends can have a competition, but to be honest it still gets a bit boring without integrating the option to have more players and different dance offs.
There is a downside also to playing with a friend, as for some unknown reason tracking is much harder for the Kinect to keep of more than one person, why this is so I have no idea, but it adds to the overall frustration with the game. The other problem is the addition of a category associated with keeping fit. Again this does not make sense either, as when one or more players are using the workout the calories of each player following a routine with the same rating shows different calories.
Within the track listing you are able to play over 50 tracks from an array of artists, these include One Direction, Rick Astley, 2 Unlimited, Barry White, Will Smith and other artists to boot. All the tracks come from different artists and I feel they did this to try and reach a larger audience by making it more of a karaoke style setup.
For people who want to keep fit or who enjoy dancing this will solve a basic need, but personally I would go with Dance Central 3. The problems associated with this game and the lack of direction or finalization has made this more of an annoyance rather than a dance game which is fun to play.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, directed to convey to local town or city officials or to school authorities in the Territory of Alaska, all the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to any parcel or tract of land and the improvements thereon for school or other public purposes whenever he shall determine that such land and improvements are no longer required by the Alaska Native Service for school purposes: Provided, That any conveyance made pursuant to this Act shall be subject to all valid existing rights and claims, shall reserve to the United States all mineral deposits in the lands and the right to prospect for and remove the deposits under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, and shall provide that the lands and improvements conveyed shall be used for school or other public purposes only and that the school facilities maintained thereon or therein shall be available to all of the native children of the town, city, or other school district concerned on the same terms as to other children of such town, city, or district. The Secretary of the Interior, if at any time he determines that the grantee of any such lands and improvements has violated or failed to observe the foregoing provisions and that such violation or failure has continued for a period of at least one year, may declare a forfeiture of the grant. Such determination by the Secretary shall be final, and thereupon the lands and improvements covered thereby shall revert to the United States and become a part of the public domain subject to administration and disposal under the public land laws.
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Here are a few tasks you should consider maintaining on a regular schedule:
1. Check furnace filters: The purpose of the filter on a forced-air furnace is to keep dust, soot and other contaminants from collecting on the interior workings of your furnace. In addition, a high-quality filter will cut down on airborne dust and particulate matter that is blown into your living area.
Once the filter has been sufficiently coated with this grime, it causes the furnace blower to work harder, making it more costly to operate and shortening its life span. A clean filter will help the furnace run more efficiently and save on operating costs.
Corrugated replacement filters offer more filtration surface area and thus can be denser without impairing furnace operation. Never use a furnace filter that will allow salt to pass through. Buying replacement filters by the case will cut down on the unit price.
2. Check water filters and softeners: Water filters are a great means of improving water quality (smell and taste). The secret to keeping water quality high is replacing filters regularly. The frequency depends upon the type of system and the condition of the water.
Whole house filters, point-of-use dispensers and icemaker water supplies can each be changed in a matter of minutes. Besides providing better quality water, a clean filter will improve flow.
Although a water-softening system is reasonably maintenance-free, every now and again the brine solution becomes clogged at the base of the brine tank, preventing the solution from being siphoned into the resin tank.
You know this is the case when your brine tank is full of salt and your water doesn't have that slick feel. Check your owner's manual for information on how to flush the brine tank, or call a service person to do it for you.
3. Clean the dryer duct and filter: Clean the lint screen thoroughly after every load. If it's filled and clogged with lint, the air won't circulate and the clothes won't dry. The dryer runs far longer, which wears it out faster and wastes energy dollars.
Use a duct cleaning brush to clean the dryer duct at least twice annually. Oh, and never open your dryer door in the middle of a cycle. It could trigger a heat fuse that can only be reset by an appliance repairperson.
4. Clean and freshen sink drains: Foul odors from a sink drain can make your home both unpleasant and uninviting. To keep sink drains in your home running freely — and absent of odor — try these methods: 1) Run hot water through the sink after each use; 2) Throw a handful of baking soda into the drain and follow it with hot water; 3) Pour a cup of vinegar into the drain and let is sit for a half-hour. Then chase it down with very hot water.
For the disposal, grind a half of a lemon.
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Use canned smoke twice a year to thoroughly check your detector, no ladder needed. Once a month, use a broom handle to push the test button. If you don't hear anything, replace your battery. Once every year or two brush or vacuum the detector surface to keep dust out of the mechanism.
Replace your smoke detector — working or not — after 10 years. By the way, test your carbon monoxide detectors each and every time that you check your smoke detectors.
6. Water heater maintenance: Check the pressure and temperature relief valve (PTR valve) every few months. The PTR valve opens to release pressure buildup in the water heater when the temperature or the pressure gets dangerously high, thus preventing a possible explosion.
To test the valve, simply raise and lower the test lever, at the top of the valve. Hot water should rush out of the end of the drainpipe. If no water flows through the pipe or you get just a trickle, replace the valve.
Mineral deposits and sediment at the valve seat may prevent the valve from seating after a test. This will allow water to continue to leak from the water heater until the PTR valve is replaced. Don't be disappointed if you discover that replacement is necessary.
You have discovered that a device that is supposed to protect you from an explosion wasn't working. Clean and flush your gas water heater every other year. Use a chemical such as mag-erad to dissolve sediment. Simply draining the water heater will not properly flush the sediment unless the sediment is first dissolved.
7. Test GFCI receptacles: The ground fault circuit interrupter (GFCI) was developed to prevent electrical shocks. All GFCI receptacles have test buttons. You should test each receptacle in your home at least once a month. If the test doesn't trip the breaker, replace the GFCI immediately.
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Regardless of the tumultuous season that has unfolded, the Lakers maintain no regrets on hiring Mike D'Antoni as coach instead of Phil Jackson.
But if Jackson had returned for his third stint with the Lakers, it at least remains clear he'd use the personnel differently. Particularly Dwight Howard.
"They just don't put the ball in the post," Jackson told Sports Illustrated. "They'll use a screen-roll to get the guy in the post. But there's no consistent plan to do it.
"Yes, Kobe (Bryant) will go in there. But Dwight just doesn't get any touches. They've basically eliminated his assets."
Howard entered the Lakers' game Tuesday averaging 16.3 points and 8.5 rebounds per game, his lowest marks since the 2005-06 season. Part of that reflects his 10-month old surgery, a torn labrum in his right shoulder and a reduced offensive role compared to his eight seasons with the Orlando Magic.
"I don't have a lot of comment on that," D'Antoni said about Jackson's comments. "That's fine. Everybody has got an opinion."
Jackson's obviously carries more weight. He won five of his 11 NBA championships in two separate stints with the Lakers (2000-2002, 2009-10).
"I can do more for this team and I can do more and it starts with me," Howard said. "I'm working on a daily basis trying to get into better shape so I can do more. It is tough coming off one major injury. I don't want anybody to feel sorry for me.
"It is tough. It's not as easy as I expected it to be. But I did come back early, doing the best I can. I'll continue to give more."
Guest list
The Lakers will honor Dr. Buss with a private memorial scheduled for 3 p.m. today at Nokia Theatre. It will be broadcast on Time Warner Cable SportsNet.
CBS-Channel 2's Jim Hill will emcee the event, which is expected to include plenty of speakers. They include Timothy Leiweke (President and CEO of Anschutz Entertainment Group), Johnny Buss, Frank Mariani (Dr. Buss' longtime business partner), NBA Commissioner David Stern, former Lakers executive Jerry West, former Lakers center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Jackson, former Lakers center Shaquille O'Neal, Lakers forward Pau Gasol (who will speak only in Spanish), former Lakers coach Pat Riley, Bryant and former Lakers guard Magic Johnson.
The memorial also will feature musical performances from Randy Newman, Davis Gaines and the USC band.
Buss' other five children Jeanie, Jim, Joey, Jesse and Janie Drexel declined to speak, according to a team spokesperson, but they plan to attend.
Rival's respect
Nothing pleased Buss more than the Lakers beating the Celtics. Their 16 championships fall one short of Boston, but the Lakers still went 3-2 against the Celtics in the NBA Finals under Buss.
"One of the greatest owners in team sports," Celtics coach Doc Rivers said. "The Lakers went through a long dry spell before he got here in the Jerry West years. (Buss) made this a cool place.
"This is where everybody wanted to go and wanted to play. He created the Lakers girls and the whole thing.
"Players take note of that."


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Jon's Restaurant Pet Peeve – No Coasters for Cold Drinks
Saturday night my wife and I went out to dinner at a place we frequent and love and decided to sit outside. My only problem with this restaurant and a few others in town is the lack of coasters for the cold drinks and that just drives me nuts! I usually get a tall draft beer that comes in some sort of frozen glass or mug that becomes a liquidy mess on the table once it begins to thaw...I hate that!!


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The university's campus services department implemented the discount at the beginning of the fall semester to help offset its first price hike on snacks and drinks in four years. Drink prices increased by a quarter, and snack items cost 5¢ to 10¢ more.
Officials said Georgia Tech's vending provider, Old Fashion Foods (Austell, GA), was forced to raise prices in order to pass along increased costs from product suppliers.
They emphasized that even despite the increase, vending items remain less expensive than those sold at other venues on campus.
The school's focus now is to get the word out by placing static clings on machines to inform students of the discount. Many students are unaware of the new promotion because the BuzzCard readers, reportedly cannot be programmed to show the discount at the time of purchase. Students can see the adjustment if they go online and check their BuzzCard account.
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Pettitte in vintage form for Tampa
Veteran tosses four shutout innings, gets seven groundouts
By Daren Smith / MLB.com | April 15, 2012 4:30 PM ET
The veteran left-hander pitched four scoreless innings in his second Minor League start Sunday afternoon as he works his way back to the Bronx.
"Obviously, you know at this stage for me, any setback would cost you a month, maybe, or so," Pettitte told MLB.com after allowing a pair of singles and striking out three in Class A Advanced Tampa's 6-1 victory over the Clearwater Threshers.
"I'm just happy that I'm progressing the way I am. I don't want to start talking too much about how great I feel or whatever. I just want to get back up there, get ready and get back up there with the guys and start going to battle with them."
Pettitte used his trademark sinker to record seven ground-ball outs. The Threshers hit just one ball in the air, a popup by Jeremy Barnes that was fielded in shallow right field by second baseman Kelvin Castro.
The 39-year-old southpaw fanned two in a 16-pitch first inning, then needed only 14 combined pitches to get through the next two frames. Carlos Alonso and Brandon Tripp singled with one out in the fourth, but Pettitte ended his day by getting Jim Murphy to hit a comebacker that the three-time All-Star turned into a double play.
"Everything feels pretty good," Pettitte said. "Unless every pitch is perfect, I kind of get frustrated with that. I felt like I cut a couple pitches off and, of course, you know at the big league level when you do that and balls come back over the plate, that could cost you a little more than it could down here."
In his season debut on April 9, also against Clearwater, Pettitte yielded a run on two hits over three innings. Projected to return to New York next month, he said he expects to make some starts for Double-A Trenton.
A five-time World Series champion as part of the Yankees' "Core Four," Pettitte announced his retirement following the 2010 season. He signed a Minor League contract in March and made one appearance in a Spring Training game before joining Tampa.
Tampa manager Luis Sojo, who was Pettitte's Major League teammate from 1996-'99 and 2000-'03, told MLB.com he looks like the "same guy."
"For a guy who hasn't pitched in a year, that's very impressive," Sojo said. "He's throwing strikes. Every pitch has worked. He's been confident. I would be surprised if that was somebody else. Andy is a very dedicated guy. He's very professional and he wants to come back for a reason. The reason is that he's feeling good."
Pettitte exited with the Yankees leading, 1-0. Clearwater tied it in the fifth on Edgar Duran's two-out RBI single, but Tampa's Neil Medchill answered with a solo homer in the sixth and Jose Mojica delivered a two-RBI single in a four-run eighth.
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By David Krueger Herald Writer
John Clark missed four games earlier this year for the Marysville Getchell baseball team.
But his coach wasn't upset about it. He had a good excuse.
Clark, a sophomore right fielder/first baseman, was on a nine-day trip to Haiti to help out at a children's home in Williamson, a small village about an hour north of Port-au-Prince, the island country's capital. Clark was part of a group that included his mother, father, brother and a friend.
"It's a really life-changing experience to see such a different lifestyle than the one we have here" in the U.S.), Clark said. "It's pretty crazy. The people pretty much make due with basically nothing and they're the happiest people alive. It really makes you feel thankful for all the blessings we have here."
Clark went with a program called "Lifting Up Haiti," which is a non-profit venture based in Bellingham that works on "projects that focus on sustainability and foster independence and promote dignity," according to the mission statement on the group's website.
Carole Clark, John's mother, is on the board of directors and recruited her family to go with her to Haiti. A nurse practitioner at the Everett Clinic, she has been going to the island nation each of the last three years.
She has taken her daughter Rachel in the past, and John has gone before. This year, John, his father Dale, his brother Randy and friend Patrick Berry, who attends Lakewood High School, went along. Together they worked building a fence around property that Lifting Up Haiti purchased for a children's home in Williamson.
While there, the group also worked with the kids. Carole Clark thought this was her son John's favorite part of the trip.
"I think they're a little attached to some of the kids," Carole Clark said. "The kids are cute and their fun. The kids at the orphanage really love John."
Carole Clark says the village where they were in Haiti wasn't dangerous at all. The residents are thankful of the American involvement, she said. While the Clark group was there, a University of Washington dental team arrived to serve the Haitian community. Lifting Up Haiti also helps supply basic medical healthcare there as well.
Working in the children's home, which has 17-20 children depending on the time, really makes him thankful for everything he has in his life back home, including his Chargers' teammates, John Clark said.
"There's really no comparison. We're really blessed here," Clark said. "You don't really realize it till you see what other people are living with. It's great to have with my friends and my teammates."
The two-year varsity starter's presence was missed by his team when he was in Haiti. The Chargers went 1-3 in the four games they played without their No. 3 hitter, but head coach Gerry Klep understands there are higher priorities in life than baseball.
"Obviously for the wins and losses part of the game and what he provides to the team we missed him greatly, but as we build our program there's more important things," Klep said. "Those type of things the kids are doing definitely feed into what we provide in the program."
Clark missed baseball while working in Haiti, and before he left for the country, he stayed on the diamond as long as he possibly could.
"It was kind of abrupt. I left in the third inning of a game (against Stanwood on March 26)," Clark said. "I just wanted to play as much as I could before I was gone. I missed baseball a lot. When we had down time, which wasn't very often, I'd think about it."
It was the second straight year Clark traveled to Haiti and missed baseball games. Last year, he was gone for a school milestone: the Chargers' lone win of the season, a 3-2 victory over Oak Harbor on March 30.
"We've improved a lot since last year," Clark said. "We've been working really hard. It's really showing and it's really paying off."
The Chargers are 5-9 in league and 6-10 overall going into today's home game against Everett.
Clark is a big reason for Marysville Getchell's improvement, Klep said.
"He bats third in our lineup. He solidifies our outfield. He gives us a threat that we don't have when he's not here," Klep said. "It's much easier to write a lineup when he's around."
Clark's leadership is just as important as his baseball skills on a team focused on making the district baseball playoffs in just the second year of the program, Klep said. Marysville Getchell is one game out of the playoffs with three league games to go.
"He's our vocal leader. He's already established," Klep said. "He's 6-4, 220. He's a big guy. He plays tight end on the football team. He's our vocal leader. He really is a good kid. He really is."
"I think John's a great role model for other young men, how he dedicates time to different avenues in life," Klep added. "He's a busy guy. He plays two sports, gets some extracurricular (activities) done and he's a model student."


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Pick up key parts at the hardware store before you start
Chances are, you'll need to make more than one trip to the hardware store for parts, but to give yourself a fighting shot at completing the job with one-stop shopping, consult this list.
- Shutoff valves: Before you shop for your new faucet (see "Selecting a Faucet" at the end of this article), take a look under the sink and make sure that there are shutoff valves feeding the faucet. If you don't have shutoff valves, add them. If you have them, confirm that they're in working order by turning on the hot and cold water at the faucet and shutting off the valves. If the faucet still drips, install new ones. Most likely you have 1/2-in. copper supply pipes. If so, add easy-to-install solderless "compression fitting" valves (Photos 9 and 10) to your shopping list. But if not, buy whichever valve type is compatible with your pipes.
- Supply tubes: Next, measure the existing supply tubes and buy new stainless steel–sleeved supply tubes (Photo 9). They're designed to give rupture-free service for years and can be routed around obstacles without kinking.
- Basin wrench: Also buy a basin wrench ($15; Photo 4). This weird little wrench is made specifically for removing and installing those hard-to-reach fasteners that clamp older faucet assemblies to the sink. (Newer faucets have plastic Wing-Nuts that can usually be loosened and tightened by hand.) A basin wrench's spring-loaded jaws pivot so you can either loosen or tighten nuts in tight spaces.
If you need to remove drain lines to access the faucet, get a pipe wrench or slip-joint pliers (Photo 1). For cutting copper tubes, buy a conventional tubing cutter. But if your copper supply lines are within a few inches of the back of the cabinet, buy a special mini tube cutter (Photo 3). You'll also need a set of open-end wrenches for disconnecting and hooking up the water lines.
Before disconnecting the drain lines, take a Polaroid snapshot or make a sketch of the layout to help you put it all back together.
Plan on replacing your faucet during store hours. Chances are better than 50/50 you'll need at least one more part.
Prop up a scrap of plywood on some 1-qt. paint cans in front of the cabinet. You'll be much more comfortable lying under the sink. Otherwise, the edge of the cabinet would be digging into your back
Gain access and remove the old faucet
Photo 2: Disconnect the garbage disposer
Unplug the garbage disposer, or shut off the circuit breaker in the main service panel if the disposer is directly wired. Disconnect the dishwasher discharge line and place a 1-gal. paint can under the garbage disposer with some rags on top to cushion the disposer when it drops free. Release the disposer by tapping the retaining ring with a hammer in a counterclockwise direction.
Photo 3: Cut the water supply lines, if you're replacing the valves
Shut off the water below the sink if you have valves, or shut off the main water supply valve if your old faucet is plumbed directly without valves. Open the kitchen faucet and another lower faucet to bleed off any pressure and to drain the water. If you're installing or replacing valves, cut the water lines directly below the fittings with a tube cutter or hacksaw.
After you pull out all of the cleansers, buckets and old vases from under the sink, go ahead and lie under there and see if you can easily access the faucet. If so, go right to Photo 3. If not, it's time to start dismantling the things blocking your path.
Most likely, the main obstacles will be the pipes and P-traps that drain the sinks. Don't be afraid to pull them out, but more important, don't be afraid to replace them with new ones. If you have older, chrome-plated drain lines, the pipe walls may be so corroded that they'll crush in the jaws of a pipe wrench or slip-joint pliers. After you remove them, throw all the parts in a box for matching them exactly at the store later. If you have plastic drain parts, be careful during removal—you'll probably be able to reuse them.
Sometimes a garbage disposer can be a 20-lb. roadblock. Don't be discouraged—it's easier than you think to remove it and then reinstall it after the faucet is in (Photo 2). Unplug it and pull it out of the cabinet to get it out of the way. If it's hard-wired, shut off the circuit breaker that controls the disposer, disconnect the disposer from the sink and set it aside inside the cabinet with the electrical cable still attached.
The first step in removing the old faucet is to disconnect the water supply lines (Photo 3). If there are no shutoff valves and the water pipes are hooked up directly to the faucet supply lines, or if you're replacing defective valves, turn off the main water supply valve to the house and cut off the pipes (Photo 3) below the connections with a hacksaw or tube cutter.
Make sure new valves are closed before turning the water back on to the house. Once the water lines are disconnected, use the basin wrench to loosen the old faucet and remove it (Photo 4).
Sometimes, in spite of all your best efforts, it's simply impossible to loosen the old faucet nuts. Calm down! Try soaking the threads with penetrating oil and try again. If that doesn't do it, it's time to pull out all the stops and pull the sink so you can get at the nuts. It's not that tough to do. Loosen the screws on the bottom of the sink rim for a clamp-down sink, or cut the caulk between a drop-in sink and countertop with a utility knife and lift out the sink. Then you'll be able to go after those nuts with a locking pliers or a pipe wrench to free the old faucet.
If you're replacing the kitchen sink along with a new faucet, install the faucet before setting the sink into the countertop.
Now install the new faucet
Photo 6: Tighten the faucet mounting nut.
Check the operation of the faucet and handle to confirm you're not putting it in backward, and thread the feeder lines through the flange and sink holes. Then slip on the faucet washer, and thread on and tighten the faucet-mounting nut from below, gently spreading the faucet supply tubes if necessary to gain tool clearance (sometimes manufacturers provide a special tool for this).
Photo 8: Attach the spray hose to the faucet supply tube.
Thread the spray nozzle line through the faucet body, then thread the spray hose fitting onto the faucet supply tube and tighten it. Pull the nozzle out of the faucet to make sure the hose under the sink operates freely, then attach the counterweight following the manufacturer's instructions.
Photo 10: Connect the supply tube to the supply lines.
Clean the copper tubing with fine sandpaper, then slip the nut, compression ring and valve body over the pipe and tighten. Close the valve, turn on the main water valve and check for leaks. Place a bucket under the faucet and turn the faucet on to check for leaks. Reassemble the garbage disposer, P-traps and drain lines.
Follow the manufacturer's directions to mount the new faucet, then remount the sink (with the new faucet) and hook up the water lines as we show
With most faucets, only three of the four holes are covered, so you'll either need to get a blank insert or use the extra hole for a liquid soap or instant hot water dispenser. Plan to do the installation while you're under the sink with everything torn apart.
Selecting a faucet
When you're buying a faucet (as with most other things), you get what you pay for. Faucets that cost less than $100 may be made of chrome-plated plastic arts with seals and valves that wear. They're okay for light-duty use but won't stand up long in a frequently used kitchen sink. Faucets that cost more than $100 generally have solid brass bodies with durable plating and washerless controls that'll give leak-free service for many, many years. Some even come with a lifetime warranty. Quality continues to improve up to about $200. Spend more than $200 and you're mostly paying for style and finish. Stick with brand name projects so replacement parts will be easier to find—in the unlikely event you'll ever need them.


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A lawmaker who's been critical of the North Dakota University System chancellor says Hamid Shirvani has resolved questions about a Grand Forks building.
But Fargo Sen. Tony Grindberg hasn't changed his mind about a proposal to provide money to buy out Shirvani's contract.
Shirvani has been criticized for a proposal to create office space in a new information technology building on the University of North Dakota campus. He and Board of Higher Education President Duaine Espegard told a legislative committee Thursday that the office was never planned as a private executive suite, and doesn't affect the size or cost of the building.
Grindberg has criticized Shirvani as being a questionable leader who has created an environment of fear and retaliation. Shirvani says he's doing what he was hired to do.
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Scenes from 2012 "Safe Halloween."
COLUMBIA, Ky. -- Area children will have an opportunity to
be delighted, entertained and scared a little at this year's
Lindsey Wilson College "Safe Halloween."
The annual trick-or-treat affair trip the college's
residence halls will be held from 6-8 p.m. CT on Tuesday, Oct. 29,
in the Cralle Student Union Building, 420 Helen Flatt Drive. The
event, which is sponsored by the LWC Office of Residence Life, is
free and open to the public.
Last year's "Safe Halloween" drew a record number
of participants as more than 700 area children collected candy from
LWC students.
LWC residence life officials hope that record will
be broken this fall, the 20th annual year LWC has offered the event
to the region's children.
"We really saw our program catapult last year, and
we're really excited about that -- and we're hoping to see that
same kind of improvement this year," said LWC Director of Residence
Life Jordan Willis.
LWC students will escort children and their family
members through residence halls. The four residence halls featured
in this year's "Safe Halloween" will include the Horton Hall Complex, Jerry and Kendrick McCandless Hall and Phillips Hall. The residence halls will be
decorated in themes that include a tribute to Disney and Pixar
films and a haunted hall.
"We try to be very creative in how we decorate the
hallways, and I think it's always interesting to just see how much
we can spark a child's imagination through our decorations," said
McCandless Hall Resident Director Khyati Patel.
Children will receive store-bought, packaged candy
from student residents. The tour will take less than an
"Bring a big bag, because we're going to try to
fill you up with candy," Willis said.
Willis said younger children -- and squeamish
adults -- can avoid touring the scarier residence halls.
"A lot of the older kids really enjoy the scarier
hall, so we try to give them at least one scarier hall," he
In addition to trick-or-treating through the
residence halls, games and activities will be offered in the Cralle
SUB and on the Campus Quadrangle, including pictures with Blue
Raider Bob.
Willis, who has been involved with "Safe Halloween"
for a decade as a student and as an LWC staff members, said the
annual fall event is a great example of LWC's commitment to the
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community members on campus," he said. "It's not every day that we
have 700 members on campus. … It's just an awesome
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store-bought candy to the LWC Office of Residence Life, Patel
"It does take a lot of work and a lot of money to
fund this, but it's always worth it," she said.
LWC's 20th-annual "Safe Halloween" will be from
6-8 p.m. CT on Tuesday, Oct. 29. The tour begins in the Cralle
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Australians think of Adelaide as a city of churches, but Adelaide has outgrown its reputation as a sleepy country town dotted with cathedrals and spires. The Adelaide of this millennium is infinitely more complex, with a large, multiethnic population and thriving urban art and music scenes.
Bright and clean, leafy and beautiful Adelaide is a breeze to explore, with a grid pattern of streets encircled by parkland. The heart of the greenbelt is divided by the meandering River Torrens, which passes the Festival Centre in its prettiest stretch.


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Solutions Overview
This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2016 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
Synopsis :
The remote Mac OS X host contains a web browser that is potentially
affected by multiple vulnerabilities.
Description :
The installed version of Firefox is earlier than 26.0 and is,
therefore, potentially affected by multiple vulnerabilities :
- Memory issues exist in the browser engine that could
result in a denial of service or arbitrary code
execution. (CVE-2013-5609, CVE-2013-5610)
- An issue exists where the notification for a Web App
installation could persist from one website to another
website. This could be used by a malicious website to
trick a user into installing an application from one
website while making it appear to come from another
website. (CVE-2013-5611)
- Cross-site scripting filtering evasion may be possible
due to character encodings being inherited from a
previously visited website when character set encoding
is missing from the current website. (CVE-2013-5612)
- Two use-after-free vulnerabilities exist in the
functions for synthetic mouse movement handling.
- Sandbox restrictions may be bypassed because 'iframe
sandbox' restrictions are not properly applied to
'object' elements in sandboxed iframes. (CVE-2013-5614)
- An issue exists in which 'GetElementIC' typed array
stubs can be generated outside observed typesets. This
could lead to unpredictable behavior with a potential
security impact. (CVE-2013-5615)
- A use-after-free vulnerability exists when
interacting with event listeners from the mListeners
array. This could result in a denial of service or
arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2013-5616)
- A use-after-free vulnerability exists in the table
editing user interface of the editor during garbage
collection. This could result in a denial of service or
arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2013-5618)
- Memory issues exist in the binary search algorithms in
the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine that could result in
a denial of service or arbitrary code execution.
- Issues exist with the JPEG format image processing with
Start Of Scan (SOS) and Define Huffman Table (DHT)
markers in the 'libjpeg' library. This could allow
attackers to read arbitrary memory content as well as
cross-domain image theft. (CVE-2013-6629, CVE-2013-6630)
- A memory issue exists when inserting an ordered list
into a document through a script that could result in a
denial of service or arbitrary code execution.
- Trust settings for built-in root certificates are
ignored during extended validation (EV) certificate
validation. This removes the ability of users to
explicitly untrust root certificates from specific
certificate authorities. (CVE-2013-6673)
- An intermediate certificate that is used by a man-in-
the-middle (MITM) traffic management device exists in
Mozilla's root certificate authorities. Reportedly,
this certificate has been misused.
See also :
Solution :
Upgrade to Firefox 26.0 or later.
Risk factor :
High / CVSS Base Score : 9.3
CVSS Temporal Score : 8.4
Public Exploit Available : true
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WATCH: Snoop Lion & Major Lazer unveil nostalgic video game-inspired music video
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Appearing on Snoop Lion's album Reincarnated, the Major Lazer-produced track "Get Away" featuring Angela Hunte has received a rather nostalgic music video, especially if you were a '90s child attached-at-the-hip to your Super Nintendo/Gameboy/Sega Genesis, etc.
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Dance Immersion Presents TRIBUTE: A MOVING HISTORY OF CANADIAN BLACKS IN DANCE, 2/1-2
Vivine Scarlett, Program Director/Founder of dance Immersion, proudly announces the company's eighteenth annual Showcase Presentation, TRIBUTE: A Moving History of Canadian Blacks in Dance. This landmark, multi-media event launches Black History Month with two performances running tonight, February 1 and Saturday, February 2 at 8pm at Fleck Dance Theatre as part of Harbourfront Centre's NextSteps.
TRIBUTE honours nine iconic dance artists from across Canada - pioneers who have enriched the Canadian and global dance ecology: Len Gibson, Dr. Jeni Legon, Dindi Lidge, Zab Maboungou, Paul Pettiford, Kevin Pugh, George Randolph, Jean Sheen and Sharlene Thomas.
TRIBUTE highlights various dance disciplines - from folkloric to traditional to contemporary - and features leading artists and companies performing the work of those honoured: Zab Maboungou's dynamite Compagnie Danse Nyata Nyata perform Montreal by Night. Ronald Taylor and Tamla Matthews direct remounts of works by Jean Sheen (Mood of Zenzi) and Paul Pettiford (Pieces of Paul). Canadian modern dance icon Danny Grossman directs a remount of his piece Inching, a work that Dindi Lidge performed in.
While TRIBUTE offers a theatrical peek into the history and artistry of "Canadian Blacks in Dance," it also highlights how these groundbreakers have inspired a whole new generation of dance artists and movement.
Talented choreographer Kevin Ormsby, Artistic Director of KasheDance, directs the TRIBUTE Crew, an ensemble cast of gifted youth from COBA and the Children and Youth Dance Theatre of Toronto who embody this new generation. The TRIBUTE Crew anchor the evening and appear throughout to weave the various elements of the show together for a fresh and contemporary spin on how traditional forms have steered today's popular culture.
Visionary Len D. Henry is the Creative Director for the evening. Henry has won various awards from BravoFACT!, VideoFACT and the MMVAs and is the founder and a principal at fashcam - a fashion/music new-media Production Company.
dance Immersion is a Toronto-based organization that produces and promotes dancers and dances of the African Diaspora while providing skill development and networking through workshops, youth arts programs, collaborative projects and forums.
Honorees Biographies:
Alberta-born Len Gibson (1926-2008) had a versatile career that spanned over six decades. He choreographed and appeared in Bamboula in 1954, the first musical variety television series produced by the CBC from Vancouver and one of the first programs to feature an interracial cast. During the 1960s, Gibson pursued international opportunities and returned to Canada in the 1970s where he opened his legendary Len Gibson Dance Ensemble in Toronto and touched the lives of many with his passion for artistic excellence.
Chicago-born Dr. Jeni LeGon (1916 -2012) was one of the top tap dancers of the '30s, '40s and '50s. At 16, she was dancing in the Count Basie Orchestra's chorus line and went on to perform with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson and Fats Waller, whom she worked with throughout her career. She was the first black woman to sign an extended contract with a Hollywood studio (MGM) and appeared in Hooray for Love, and Birth of the Blues, among others. In 1969, LeGon settled in Vancouver where she taught tap and point.


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Well received by ten year old!
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As a Christmas gift given on 27th. Well received by the 10 yr old grandson. We'll know later how it stands up to exstream use..
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KENNESAW, GEORGIA -- Today is Veterans Day so my granddaughter and I decided since Olive Garden was, honoring the Veterans with a free meal, we took up the offer. We were seated, no wait time. I was given a pre made menu that was made for the Veterans to select from, not good at all, it was very limited. Your company says "we are honoring our veterans" then we were placed off to the side. I guess because I wasn't a paying patron, but I did PAY, with my SERVICE to MY COUNTRY. The server was very gracious but the limited menu was horrendous. Never again will I visit this establishment neither on Veterans Day nor any other day.
EAUCLAIRE, WISCONSIN -- My daughter took me out for my birthday. We ordered chicken alfredo which came with unlimited bread sticks & all the salad you want. When they brought our salad, it was just a big thick bowl of lettuce for us to help ourselves with 4 small slivers of tomato in it. When we asked for dressing, we were informed that they only had two kinds of dressing & one diet.
How can anyone be known primary for their salad, pasta & bread sticks when you get a salad that's nothing but a bowl of lettuce. She brought us 3 bread sticks to share & when we asked for more, we got 2. The pasta was not a very large dish of it & nothing to brag about. These meals were about $16.99 each. We had water to drink & with tax & tip, it was a $40 lunch. I have seen on tv the commercials show all this food, tons of bread sticks & all kinds of things in the salad including big red rings of red onions. What a joke & a lie to the public. I will never recommend or eat at Olive Garden again!
WEST HILLS, CALIFORNIA -- My friends and I had a miserable experience on August 10, 2016 at the West Hills Store. I made reservations, we were seated and the hostess brought us water. Server did not show up, we had to get the manager. We ordered drinks and she provided (Melissa) 2 sampler plates. It took almost an hour to get our drinks (mostly wine). We had more than 2 servers come up and seemed confused. We ordered and it took over 1 hour to get the food and the servers were not very attentive. We had been to that store before and had the same treatment. The manager did comp our dinners, and the food was great, but the service was terrible.
I don't understand how this could happen. The restaurant was busy, but it seemed like the staff was inattentive, they walked by us and ignore us for the most part. I was very unhappy and I am a Red Hat Society Queen and I have the capability of referring many people to this restaurant. I hesitate in doing so. Although they were very apologetic, it was not an acceptable time. We were in the restaurant over 2 1/2 hours and most of that time was waiting for service. Please correct this as soon as possible. I will return to test it out in the near future. Thank you.
SPRING HILL, TENNESSEE -- The managers are idiots that allow their cooks to harass the new employees like it is a game. I walked out on a Saturday night after working there 4 months and putting up with too much rudeness and harassment from a coworker on the line that I quit.
I told ** about the harassment from my coworker but the GM didn't care, he has no balls, and no backbone. He allows this distasteful, harassing behavior to go on at his restaurant and than wants to act like an **, calling me on my cell after I walked out on a busy Saturday night telling me I'd better get back in and work or I may be fired if I don't. Gee that really makes me want to come back in and work with another ** on the line that you refuse to talk to about getting in my face and cussing at me, putting me down by treating me like a **.
I am 6 years older than him, and he isn't going to treat me like dirt, because he is good at what he does and feels like boasting his ego. Well, I know he just didn't like the fact that I am an awesome worker, smarter and more efficient and just better at my job than him, and he been there 3 years. I don't and encourage others to never put up with harassment of any kind from anybody at any job EVER! I don't care if you have bills, a house payment, 10 kids, 8 baby mommas, and 5 child support payments, QUIT the job and find a better one!
Don't allow yourself to be degraded or put down, or harassed! I am so glad I quit, **, the general manager, or should I say the general **, has no integrity, no balls, and desperately needs a tic-tac. Not trying to be mean but seriously dude, you talk to guests all day and night, freshen your breath. And teach your veteran employees, one in particular that I won't mention his name because all in all I actually like and respect him despite how mean he was to me, I believe in forgiveness and second chances.
But for the management to not give me my job back and not address the issues at hand... just shows what kind of managers run that restaurant... the kind that have no compassion and no people skills whatsoever. I told them about the issues I had, they tried to bury it and act like they like me working there so it be best to just let the dude harass me, because they don't stand by the true Darden code of conduct like they are supposed to! I hope justice gets served someday and they realize the sins they have committed and the pain they put my family and me through now that I have to look for another job, instead of them handling the hostile employee, they let me go.
PORT RICHEY, FLORIDA -- Going on and off to this Olive Garden over the years. Never really had a problem before until the last 2 times. I had ordered a lite fare meal and it came with so much salt on it. I sent it back and ordered something else. Gave it another try yesterday. We waited a bit for a table. We rec'd our drinks, salad, soup and breadsticks quickly. Waiting... waiting for our main meals. The waitress (who was very nice) came over and asked if the manager had come to talk to us. We said "NO". She explained about a backup in the kitchen and to please be patient stating it wasn't her fault (which it wasn't). She also said we would be getting free desserts.
So our food finally comes. We both had dishes with Alfredo sauce. It was lukewarm, dried out looking all around the edges. We didn't say anything more as we just wanted out of the restaurant. We doggy-bagged it, got our free desserts to go and left. I feel the service and food have gone down over the years. I don't think we'll be going back there again.
INVERNESS, FLORIDA -- Went to Olive Garden for dinner. It was somewhat busy but we were seated right away and there were other empty tables. Got drinks right away and ordered food. An hour later it came. Cold. Literally stuck to the plate. The manager was mortified. He had it redone to our satisfaction. Getting pretty late by now. He chased us into the parking lot and gave us a gift card. We returned about a year later with our gift card and everything was just fine.
Returned today for lunch and we are back to being forgotten about. Got drinks (tea and water) after about fifteen minutes and never saw our server, Anna, again. Don't know if she died, quit, or what. After about a half hour people that came after us were getting bread and drinks so we went up to pay for our drinks and go get a meal somewhere. The manager was horrified and would not let us pay for our drinks. She gave us a gift card but I won't be returning to this place.
YORK, PENNSYLVANIA -- Went today 6/17/2015 to Olive Garden for dinner at 4 P.M. We ordered the Lasagna Classico after we were told we could not order the duo (2) meals on one plate... That is only for lunch... FALSE ADVERTISEMENT. We got our salad and there was 1 slice of tomato in the whole big bowl. We got our meal and it was a small serving (LOOKED LIKE A CHILD'S MEAL, NOT ADULT'S MEAL).
We started to eat and we both looked at each other. The meat sauce is terrible... sour tasting. And the garlic sticks were just that... so much garlic we could not eat them. And when it came time to pay we had to figure out how to operate some card swipe machine that was on the tables. We gave our two gift cards to people on our way out. We will not be back. Someone needs to change the taste of their meat sauce. We said something to the waiter and he told us we were not the only people that complained about the taste of the sauce. HORRIBLE.
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA -- Date of Incident: 10/17/2010. Time of Incident: around 10 pm to 10:05 pm. Location: Olive Garden restaurant on 1545 Flamingo Road Las Vegas, NV 89119. 702-735-0082.
On the night of 10/17/2010, our party of six arrived at Olive Garden restaurant around 9:20 PM. There were very few people in their waiting area and the Hostess came and talk to our group at least 3 times to let us know that they have not forgotten about us and they are preparing our table. We asked them if we can go ahead and order our food even before we got seated, and the Hostess proceeded to take our order which was great. Our party of six (we are all Filipinos) was the only one in their waiting area and finally we got seated after 15 minutes.
We got our main entree and appetizer served in our table after another 20 minutes. Our waiter was a gentleman who is either Hawaiian or Asian descent. We just now got our hot food and proceeded to eat. My sister in Law (**) now decided she needed to get a sweater in the car because she was cold. It was taking awhile for her to come back and my other sister in Law (**) received a call from ** stating that she is outside the front entrance of the restaurant and the staff would not let her back in.
** went to the front entrance to talk to the staff and she returned angry because they will not let her sister back in. **'s boyfriend also went to the front entrance to talk to the staff and he also came back angry because they would not allow ** back in. I finally went to the front to talk to the General Manager and hostesses. The Hostess kept apologizing to me.
The General Manager proceeded to tell me that he cannot let ** back in because it's Olive Garden's policy that they do not let anyone in after 10 PM for employee safety. I tried to reason to the manager that she did not know this but all he kept saying was it's for employee safety and that if he lets her in then he would have to shut down the whole restaurant. He said this with such an uncaring attitude.
I would like to make a comment regarding Employee Safety. Are Olive Garden employees safer at 8pm, 9pm, 9:30pm, 10pm, 10:01pm etc. I don't remember anyone asking me whether I was carrying a weapon on me when I walked in the restaurant. How do they know that they were safe? Are the Olive Garden employees walked to their car after they get off from work for safety or is the INSIDE of the restaurant considered the "HOLY GROUND"! I have eaten in a lot of Olive Garden restaurants even in different states and not once have I seen security in the premises.
The General Manager never once mentioned Customer Safety which makes it more apparent that Customer Safety is not important to Olive Garden! He also told me that I shouldn't be rude to him. I guess locking someone outside the restaurant while her hot food was waiting on the table WAS NOT RUDE! I was so distraught I told the manager that Olive Garden wasted my time to have dinner with my family that they should pay me for coming to Olive Garden instead of me paying them.
I told the manager that I want all the food on the table packed and I am not paying for a single penny. I saw one of the Hostess whispered something to our waiter. Apparently the manager OK'd it because our waiter packed up all our food. We all left the restaurant very upset, distraught, humiliated, and emotionally stressed.
I can't believe that this is Olive Garden's policy? Where is the Safety of the Consumer? A young lady locked outside the door of the restaurant by herself at night-- it was also misting outside. My 10 yo daughter was with us. What if I had asked her to get something in the car then this young girl would also be locked outside the door due to employee safety. What if I forgot my wallet in the car? I don't think Olive Garden will have a problem then of me stepping out of the restaurant to get my wallet so I can pay them. Oh but I can't go back in the restaurant to pay due to employee safety.
Wow what a novel idea to get free meals at Olive Garden (wouldn't the WWW love to know about this!) Now--maybe you're seeing how stupid this policy is. It's unbelievable that this is happening in this century and this country. I served over 8 years active duty Air Force and several years as a reservist and I have never had this emotional trauma of disrespect, injustice, stupidity, and uncaring attitude towards another fellow human being. It is false advertisement for Olive Garden to promote the concept of Family Dining. How can you have Family dining when your family member is locked out of the restaurant in the parking lot while her hot food is on the table!
Other details of this incident: I recorded every detail right outside the restaurant parking lot in my Iphone because I don't want to forget any specific detail of what happened and I want an accurate description of the incident. ** states that as she was going out of the door there were other customers that was also going out of the door. ** states that one of the Hostess asked her if she is done with her dinner and she said "No, I'm not done, I just have to get something out of the car" then she stepped outside the door. No one stopped her nor told her of the restaurant policy. They knew we just got our food, otherwise, why would they bother to ask her that question.
If this is a strict policy they should have told us while we were sitting in the waiting area for 15 minutes since they know we are late customers and there is a possibility that one of us would step outside the door after 10 PM. If this is a strict policy - why is the Manager now standing by the door of the restaurant to make sure that I do not let ** in but he didn't bother stopping her as she was going out. Was he just waiting to whip out his Olive Garden Policy and enforce his power! He must get a kick out of this.
Now you might say, what is the big deal--it's only food. Well, put yourself in this situation. You go to Olive Garden to have a nice dinner with your family and your starving because it is already late at night-- then your sister, your mother, your brother, your daughter/son, or yourself steps out door at 10:01 pm to smoke or get something in the car, well, guess what-- YOU'RE SCREWED!
Where is Consumer's Rights? Olive Garden lets me order my food but I can't eat it? Olive Garden enforces a policy but not inform customers about it! Olive Garden only cares about employee safety but totally ignores Customer Safety! Olive Garden promotes Family Dining BUT without your Family! What went wrong? No Common Sense!!! If you don't have one, then you shouldn't manage anything!!! You should not be a Manager. Otherwise just put a robot by the door to spit out policies and see how many customers comes back for more. It is time to wake up Olive Garden. Your Garden needs to grow Common Sense! Very Peeved Ex-Customer!
LAKE. WORTH, FLORIDA -- 7/3 Olive garden. Lake Worth FL, host was Richard, he couldn't have been nicer, I am disabled with service dog, he was kind, helpful, and went out of his way because he is genuinely nice man. Our waiter was Robert. He was the best, never had to ask for anything. He was the best waiter I have seen in a long long time, even the high end restaurants we go to, Robert was terrific. These two people should be commended or rewarded for excellent service. You can tell they are kind and love their job, I had to take the time to let you know. I will definitely continue to go to that location because these two men made us have a nice evening out.
CLARKSVILLE, TENNESSEE -- The woman who answered the phone Jennifer was very rude. She did not have very good customer service and was not knowledgeable about their menu. The food was disgusting. I don't know how you can mess up soup and salad, but they did. The chicken gnocchi was very thick and under flavored, it tasted like salted flour. The salad had limp lettuce and the tomatoes were soggy, they should not have even been put in the salad. The bread sticks were stale and the other two orders of the chicken Alfredo was cold. I will never go to this Olive Garden ever. My sister told me that they sucked when she worked. I should have listened.