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The Middletown Main Street program sponsored "Music on Main" Friday evening in downtown Middletown.
"Music on Main" Friday evening in downtown Middletown featured music by a live band and a DJ, along with a balloon sculpture, vendors, and extended hours at downtown stores.
Free ice cream was provided by Coleman's Tree Farm, while Herr's supplied free potato chips.
The event was sponsored by the Middletown Main Street Program.
The next "Music on Main" night will be Friday, Aug. 16.
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Ken Burns' latest work, "The Dust Bowl," a two-part documentary that wrapped up Monday night on PBS, told a familiar story to any of us who read John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" in high school, or whose personal histories are tied up in those calamitous Depression-era years when America's Great Plains states were ravaged by drought and soil erosion that prompted an exodus to California and other coastal states. I might not be here if not for that exodus -- my mother was an Okie. That is to say, she came to California as an infant in the back seat of a jalopy piloted by her father, an alcohol-abusing farmhand who like thousands of others was drawn here by the lure of seasonal work.
That much of the story I knew. What I didn't know until watching Burns' documentary is the extent to which the Dust Bowl was a man-made environmental catastrophe. The almost-biblical scale of the crisis -- complete with hordes of locusts descending on fields, horizon-blotting dust clouds that witnesses described as touched with "evil" intent, and rich croplands turned to deserts -- has contributed to a common narrative that the whole thing was a product of the wrath of God or nature. Actually, it was the result of two decades of irresponsible land use. And that's cause for reflection as humanity continues to fuel a future environmental disaster whose scale will dwarf the Dust Bowl.

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NSA Leaks Bring New Attention To DOJ Piling On Charges Against Barrett Brown
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With the focus on Ed Snowden suddenly drawing a lot more attention to the role that Booz Allen and other contractors play within and around our intelligence community, some are once again remembering Barrett Brown, and how he was associated with a bunch of hacks that helped expose some of that way before all of this broke -- but mainly because all Brown really seems to have done was help draw the attention of the world to the results of those hacks. And now people are wondering why he's been sitting in prison all this time.
Ahmed Ghappour, attorney for Brown, calls the charges "prosecutorial overreach", and maintains most are related to legitimate journalistic practices, such as cutting-and-pasting a link and refusing to give the FBI access to his sources on a laptop, "a modern-day notebook". In contrast to the FBI's aggressive pursuit of Brown, no probe of the Team Themis project was launched – despite a call from 17 US House representatives to investigate a possible conspiracy to violate federal laws, including forgery, mail and wire fraud, and fraud and related activity in connection with computers. Ghappour asks:Obviously, there are many who will argue that Brown was not a "journalist" and that he must have been much more involved, but it's not clear if that's the case at all. What is clear is that he did help draw attention to a problem that is just now getting a bit more sunlight, and the response of the feds was to throw every possible book they could find at him.
"What length will the government go to prosecute journalists reporting on intelligence contractors? Brown was one of the first to report on the plan to take down Glenn Greenwald.
"It was clear Booz Allen Hamilton [whistleblower Edward Snowden's former employer] was consulting with the NSA, at least supporting their mass-surveillance program, and this was one of the leads Barrett was chasing at the time of the arrest."


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Deane Smalley bagged both goals as Chesterfield stretched their lead at the League Two summit to six points with a 2-0 win at Gillingham.
Smalley, on loan from Oldham, struck in each half as the Spireites stretched their recent unbeaten streak to seven games.
Despite the hosts having the majority of possession, Chesterfield were happy to play on the break and took the lead with a well-worked goal on 13 minutes when Javan Vidal's cross was headed home by Smalley.
The Gills continued to press and the visitors had keeper Tommy Lee to thank for two smart stops from Cody McDonald within a matter of seconds.
Having soaked up the pressure, the Spireites doubled their advantage five minutes after the break and it was Smalley again, skipping round keeper Alan Julian and sliding home.
Gillingham stayed on the front foot, but both Luke Rooney and Adebayo Akinfenwa wasted late opportunities to cut the deficit.
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NORAD fighter jets intercept plane over SC
NORAD fighter jets intercept plane over SC
A private plane that was not sticking with its flight plan was intercepted by fighter jets near Charleston late Friday morning.
Under the direction of North American Aerospace Defense Command, two F-16 fighters intercepted a Cessna 337 at about 11:20 a.m.
A discrepancy in the plane's flight plan and its actual track raised suspicions, according to a NORAD release.
Once the plane was identified and intercepted, the aircraft landed at the Charleston Executive Airport without further incident.
The pilot was directed to contact the Federal Aviation Administration for follow-up.


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In this dish, the mint pesto says spring every bit as much as the carrots do.
- Yield
- Makes 4 servings
- Pesto
- 1/4 cup (packed) fresh mint leaves
- 1/4 cup lightly toasted shelled unsalted natural pistachios
- 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 garlic clove, peeled
- Coarse kosher salt
- Fish
- 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh mint
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh thyme
- 4 (6- to 8-ounce) striped bass fillets (with or without skin)
- Spiced carrots
- 1/2 teaspoon coriander seeds
- 1/2 teaspoon cumin seeds
- 1/2 teaspoon fennel seeds
- 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided
- 12 ounces medium carrots, peeled, thinly sliced into rounds
- 1/8 teaspoon dried crushed red pepper
- 1 cup low-salt chicken broth
- 3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- For pesto:
- Blend mint leaves, pistachios, olive oil, and garlic in processor until coarse puree forms. Season with coarse salt. DO AHEAD Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and chill. Bring pesto to room temperature and stir before using.
- For fish:
- Combine olive oil, mint, and thyme in small bowl. Spread herb mixture all over both sides of fish fillets. Cover and refrigerate fish at least 3 hours and up to 5 hours.
- For spiced carrots:
- Stir all seeds in small dry skillet over medium heat until fragrant, about 2 minutes. Transfer seeds to spice mill or mortar and grind coarsely.
- Heat 1 tablespoon oil in heavy large skillet over medium-high heat. Add carrots, crushed red pepper, and ground seeds; sauté until carrots begin to brown in spots, about 5 minutes. Add broth and lemon juice and bring to boil. Reduce heat to medium-low, cover, and simmer until carrots are tender, about 6 minutes. Season to taste with salt and pepper. DO AHEAD Can be made 2 hours ahead. Let stand at room temperature.
- Sprinkle fish with salt and pepper. Heat 1 tablespoon oil in each of 2 large nonstick skillets over medium-high heat. Add fish and cook until browned on both sides and just opaque in center, about 5 minutes total.
- Rewarm carrots just until heated through. Divide carrots and any juices among 4 plates. Top each serving with 1 fish fillet. Spoon pesto over and serve.
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Nutritional Info
- Calories530
- Carbohydrates13 g(4%)
- Fat36 g(55%)
- Protein39 g(79%)
- Saturated Fat5 g(27%)
- Sodium927 mg(39%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat6 g
- Fiber4 g(17%)
- Monounsaturated Fat23 g
- Cholesterol159 mg(53%)


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Fourteen minutes.
That's how often the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say someone in the United States commits suicide.
And like many throughout the country, families in McHenry County often are left with immeasurable grief after loved ones take their own life.
Despite a slew of services designed to curb suicides, the county's suicide rate remains too high, mental health professionals say.
In 2012, 40 people committed suicide in McHenry County, outpacing the 37 in 2010, when the McHenry County Suicide Prevention Task Force was created.
The task force – made up of mental health care professionals, survivors of suicide and a deputy coroner – is aimed at preventing suicides by promoting education and awareness.
The rate dropped in 2011 with 29 suicides, but this year is on pace to surpass last year's figure. There have been 13 suicides in the country through May 29, according to the McHenry County Coroner's Office. There were nine suicides in the county during the same time period in 2012.
The profile of those who take their own lives also is changing. Traditionally, prevention efforts have focused on youths and older adults. But a CDC study found that the suicide rate has risen among middle-aged adults.
Between 1999 and 2010, the study found, the suicide rate in Illinois among those ages 35 to 64 climbed nearly 19 percent. The rate rose from 11 suicides per 100,000 to 12 suicides per 100,000.
The national suicide rate for the same age group rose by 28 percent.
For the most part, McHenry County falls in line with that trend. But the number of young people who choose suicide is no less alarming.
In the past two years, six suicides in McHenry County have been people 21 years old or younger.
"We hadn't experienced an adolescent or child suicide in a while, so when we have a couple, it really raises a flag for us," said Despina McBride, clinical manager of the McHenry County Crisis Program and member of the task force.
Rick Kirchoff is the president of the local chapter of National Alliance on Mental Illness. His son, Ryan, committed suicide when he was 18.
"Many parents have no clue what's going on," Kirchoff said. "Some of Ryan's behavior we thought was normal teenage behavior."
A theory for the increase is that younger children are more impulsive and don't think about the consequences, McBride said. Others say it's major hormonal changes in young people's lives.
"In any family's growth, that time period between 14 and 18 is a very stressful period with your children as they're acquiring their own independence and at 18 becoming legal," Kirchoff said.
All numbers aside, one person who chooses suicide is one person too many, mental health professionals say.
• Northwest Herald reporter Joseph Bustos and The Associated Press contributed to this article.


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By Peter Becker
Managing Editor
HAWLEY - In lieu of raising property taxes, Hawley Council is weighing the option of enacting an earned income tax.
Council discussed the topic at the May 8th Council meeting.
Councilman Joseph Faubel, who chairs the Finance Committee, said that 93 percent of Pennsylvania municipalities use an earned income tax.
Mary Sanders, Council Vice-President, asked to see if an earned income tax would raise or lower the amount residents pay. The earned income tax would not eliminate the property tax, but would be meant to give an alternative to raising property taxes paid by all the property owners.
Faubel said he did not like adding an additional burden to employers who would need to garnish wages, but said it was a more fair distribution of the tax burden. Those who work would pay the tax.
Sanders, who is employed in another locality that imposes the earned income tax, said she would rather see her tax money come back to the Borough.
Most municipalities set the tax at one percent; Faubel has found some that use a half percent. The tax can be as low as a quarter percent.
Further details of how the taxing system would apply will be investigated. Faubel said he will be doing more research.
Memorial Parade
• The Hawley Memorial Weekend Parade is on schedule, Sunday, May 26 starting at 1 p.m. Lineup is at 12 noon on both Park Place and Columbus Avenue.
The parade follows an American Legion ceremony held at the Veteran's Monument on Park Place next to the Senior Center, by Bingham Park (gather at about 12:30 p.m.). The parade heads down Main Avenue and down Church Street where there is a wreath dropped from the Eddy Bridge. The parade then goes up Hudson Street and concludes at the park.
• Deputy Fire Chief Eugene Krause and his wife Wendy, also a firefighter, canvassed the Borough in one weekend, noting homes and businesses lacking street address numbers. He said that 95 locations were not displaying numbers, which are important aids for emergency response. He is seeking mailing addresses to contact them; 22 letters have gone out. He plans to return and in late May/early June to see how many have complied and posted numbers.
• Mike Rizzi asked for an update on dealing with the problem of feral cats. Councilwoman Elaine Herzog noted that there is an agency in Bartonsville, PA, the Eastern PA Animal Alliance, that has a mobile cat spay/neuter clinic. Visit epaaonline.com or call (570)994-5846 for more information.
• Proposed changes to the Hawley Zoning Ordinance will be reviewed at a public hearing Tuesday, June 4 at 6:30 p.m., at Borough Hall. The Planning Commission meeting follows. The final draft of the zoning changes will be posted online at www.hawleyborough.org.
• Council agreed to send a letter to the PA Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) opposing their proposed on-lot septic system policy. It would restrict construction and require costly measures to keep nitrates from the water. The policy is viewed as unnecessary in the Wayne/Pike region where water is of high quality, and highly detrimental to the local economy.
• Planning Commission asked more time and more input from Council regarding proposed off-premise signs, before making any recommendations.
• Councilman John Robertson, who chairs the Streets & Roads Committee, asked that residents contact him directly with any concerns or questions.
• Hawley residents are also invited to attend the Borough Planning Commission meetings on the first Tuesday of the month at 7 p.m., where the public can receive recommendations and suggestions.
• Mayor Kevin Hawk participated in an exercise hosted by PPL to go over emergency procedures should the Wallenpaupack dam ever fail. As part of the drill, Hawley Fire Department on May 1st practiced closing the flood gate at the Eddy Bridge and on the tracks off Paupack Street. Hawley said the gate drill went very well. "We can sleep comfortably in Hawley if we had a major incident," Hawk said.
• The Mayor performed four weddings in April.
• Solicitor Robert Bernathy and Police Officer Aaron Bertholf served an injunction notice at 406 Hudson Street, requiring the residents to vacate. Bernathy said that a violation notice was sent on April 18 due to untreated sewage being dumped on the ground and the water service being cut off for a year due to lack of payment. An injunction was granted by the Wayne County Court. Bernathy said that the residents have vacated the premises, and it must remain vacated until the issues are addressed.
• Morristown & Erie Railroad Company has requested Hawley Police to stop any persons using personal, motorized railroad cars on the tracks at Hawley. Although railroad traffic is currently suspended, the company is seeking enforcement of illegal trespass on the tracks.
• Council approved ordering new street name signs to replace ones that are missing. The same maroon color scheme will be used but to meet new state standards, the lettering will be both upper and lower case. About a dozen signs are needed, said Robertson.
• Bids will be sought to repaint 34 crosswalks and seven stop bars on the streets.
• Delinquent sewer accounts totaled $59,233.95 as of April 25, down from $61,417.74 on March 28. The Hawley Area Authority sewer plant was reported to be functioning efficiently, Robertson related.
Matters concerning the bridge project, water mains and parking meters were reported separately.
Hawley Council meets on the second Wednesday at 7 p.m. at Borough Hall. The office may be reached at 226-9545.


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Alameda Storm Kiting?
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Alameda Storm Kiting?
With the south system coming through today might be a bit warmer and windy. If it clocks south and comes up and isn't pouring rain today could be a good day for a storm session. If conditions are good, maybe I'll see a couple of you there...
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I hope your feet get cold and wet...
Thanks for the card it brighten my day
Merry Happy to you and yours
where is that metal guy from.?
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Well, from looking outside it seems very still. normally these storms seem to kick in early but who knows what will happen. but the playground is all yours...I'm heading to Ventura in a few hours.
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update. Alameda is now kitable. ignore the East, its south.
might want to keep an eye on the cam though, seems up and down.
And now it looks dead
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Country Fence
Neal D. Hatcher 2/15/2012 3:18:51 AMThats beautiful-and makes me want spring to hurry up and get here #1443426
Jeff Robinson 2/15/2012 3:23:36 AMWonderful find and capture Amanda! #9983437
Monnie Ryan 2/15/2012 6:36:21 AMJust lovely, Amanda! Can't wait to see flowers again (and a little more sunshine would be nice, too)! #9983687
Reynaldo D. Reyes 2/16/2012 9:19:13 AMVery lovely indeed and it looks like Spring is just around the corner with this Country fence. #9985602
David Hurt 2/16/2012 11:26:54 AMSpring cannot come soon enough for me...
Amanda J. Tanner 2/17/2012 4:48:57 PMThank all of you so much for the kind comments #9988035
Robert R. Goodman 2/17/2012 8:12:40 PMHi Amanda,I sure would to visit the Smokey Mountains one these days.Absolutely beautiful!!! #9988330
Laura E. Swan 2/19/2012 12:13:03 PMThe photographer sees what many miss. So glad you captured this one. It's beautiful, Amanda.
-Laura :D #9990626
Patrick Rouzes 2/19/2012 12:26:31 PMCaptured & presented beautifully, Amanda! Love the fence, tones, textures, colors, clarity, comp & beauty captured here, Amanda! Exceptional image & work, my friend! #9990637
Mary Dimitriw 2/20/2012 4:26:55 AMJust so lovely Amanda! #9991639
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The Office of the Air Force Surgeon General (AF/SG) develops and implements medical programs and policies that provide for the health care of active duty and retired military personnel and their family members. AF/SG optimizes Air Force readiness potential to support national security strategies and defines and disseminates health care policy in support of the 43,000 personnel of the Air Force Medical Service and 74 medical treatment facilities. In addition, AF/SG ensures a quality, cost-effective, prevention-based health care continuum for 2.4 million beneficiaries worldwide.
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An Act of Congress established the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) as part of the Department of the Navy on August 31, 1842. BUMED is the central administrative organization of the Medical Department, located in Washington, D. C. The first Naval Medical Center occupied the site from 1931 to 1942, when it was moved to Bethesda, Maryland. BUMED has liaison activities with other bureaus and offices with respect to the design, sanitary conditions, and medical facilities aboard ships and in hospitals.
Review Date: Friday, March 30, 2012
The Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion's mission is to reduce disparities and promote equity in health and health care among vulnerable groups of veterans and other populations.
Review Date: Thursday, March 12, 2009
The National Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (NCHP) monitors and encourages Veterans Health Administration (VHA) activities that provide, evaluate and improve preventive medicine services. The Center serves as a resource for inquiry about health promotion strategies, VA policy and model programs, education of veterans, staff and trainees and as a source for data about VHA prevention programs.
Review Date: Tuesday, April 13, 2010
The National Center for PTSD is a program of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. The Center has 7 Divisions across the country and carries out a broad range of activities in research, education, and training on traumatic stress and PTSD. Advancing science and promoting understanding of traumatic stress, the NCPTSD works to understand, prevent, diagnose, and treat PTSD in veterans and others following exposure to traumatic stress. NCPTSD cooperates with other agencies and organizations concerned with the impact of traumatic events on mental health. A variety of information resources, for both the general public and health professionals, are produced and disseminated by the Center. See the NCPTSD website for further information.
Review Date: Monday, September 19, 2011
ODEP acts as a catalyst for job formation for people with disabilities through policy analysis and grants, outreach and education, technical assistance, and the promotion and development of best practices. The office works with other government agencies, the disability community, and employers, to coordinate policies and programs designed to increase employment opportunities for Americans with disabilities.
Review Date: Friday, November 21, 2008
The Rural Assistance Center (RAC) serves as a rural health and human services information portal which helps rural communities and other rural stakeholders access the full range of available programs, funding, and research that can enable them to provide quality health and human services to rural residents. Services provided include RAC's web site, electronic mailing lists, and a clearinghouse with customized assistance. RAC's website includes funding opportunities, topic-specific information guides, news and events, publications and maps, experts and organizations, publications and maps, and a success stories database.
Review Date: Thursday, October 13, 2011
The Department of Labor fosters and promotes the welfare of the job seekers, wage earners, and retirees of the United States by improving their working conditions, advancing their opportunities for profitable employment, protecting their retirement and health care benefits, helping employers find workers, strengthening free collective bargaining, and tracking changes in employment, prices, and other national economic measurements. In carrying out this mission, the Department administers a variety of Federal labor laws including those that guarantee workers' rights to safe and healthful working conditions; a minimum hourly wage and overtime pay; freedom from employment discrimination; unemployment insurance; and other income support.
Review Date: Tuesday, September 14, 2010
The Veterans Administration was established in 1930 and elevated to cabinet level on March 15, 1989, and is now the Department of Veterans Affairs. The VA provides a wide range of veterans' benefits in such areas as health care, education, housing, disability pensions, and life insurance. Through its network of hospitals, clinics, and nursing homes, the VA provides a full range of medical, long-term care, and patient support services. Veterans with service-related illnesses or injuries receive priority for VA medical services, and special consideration is also given to veterans who are in financial need, over 65 years old, or holders of the Congressional Medal of Honor. The VA is also involved in medical research and the training of health professionals. Training programs include graduate, undergraduate, and continuing education, a medical library, and assistance for health manpower training institutions. VA benefits are restricted to U.S. military veterans.
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USU has a worldwide reputation as a center of excellence for military and public health professions education and research. Programs are related directly to force health protection, tropical diseases, disaster medicine, military and public health medical readiness and adaptation to extreme environments. USU prepares outstanding scientists and health care practitioners for careers in service to the nation.
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The Blinded Veterans Association (BVA), founded in 1945, promotes the welfare of blind and visually impaired veterans. BVA helps veterans become oriented and readjusted to blindness and obtain vocational training, informs them of benefits and of the latest technical aids and developments in the field, and represents them at the national level. A field service program provides counseling to blinded and visually impaired veterans regarding their rights; explains benefits available from Federal, State, and local agencies; and provides assistance in obtaining benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). BVA's hours of operation are 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and voice mail is available 24 hours.There are 53 regional groups.
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Founded in 1975, Canine Companions for Independence (CCI) is a non-profit organization that enhances the lives of people with disabilities by providing highly trained assistance dogs and ongoing support to ensure quality partnerships. CCI is recognized worldwide for the excellence of its dogs, and the quality and longevity of the matches it makes between dogs and people. The result is a life full of increased independence and loving companionship.
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The Real Warriors Campaign is an initiative launched by the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (DCoE) to promote the processes of building resilience, facilitating recovery and supporting reintegration of returning service members, veterans and their families. The Real Warriors Campaign promotes help-seeking behavior among service members and veterans with invisible wounds and encourages service members to increase their awareness and use of these resources. To reach the broadest audience possible, the campaign features a variety of strategies including outreach and partnerships, print materials, media outreach, an interactive website and social media. The campaign features stories of real service members who have sought treatment and are continuing to maintain successful military or civilian careers. In addition, DCoE established the DCoE Outreach Center, a 24/7 call center staffed by health resource consultants to provide confidential answers, tools, tips and resources about psychological health and traumatic brain injury. The Outreach Center can be reached toll-free at 866-966-1020 or via e-mail at email@example.com.
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The Disabled American Veterans (DAV) was chartered by Congress in 1932 as the official voice of the disabled veteran; it is not an agency of the Federal government, nor does it receive government funding. The DAV is a nonprofit association of 1,000,000 wartime disabled veterans, serving 2.5 million disabled veterans and their families. The DAV's national service program is rooted in 68 United States cities where 300 national service officers work to provide counseling, employment services, and assistance in gaining health care, free of charge to all disabled veterans. Many also visit towns and cities throughout the country in service vans. Perhaps its most important function is counseling veterans in completing the paperwork of applying for benefits from the Veterans Administration. All veterans and members of their families are eligible for the DAV's services. However, membership is limited to service-connected disabled veterans only.
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A national nonprofit, 501(c)(3), organization established in 1967 by disabled Vietnam veterans to serve the war injured. DS/USA now offers nationwide sports rehabilitation programs to anyone with a permanent disability. Activities include winter skiing, water sports, summer and winter competitions, fitness and special sports events. Participants include those with visual impairments, amputations, spinal cord injury, dwarfism, multiple sclerosis, head injury, cerebral palsy, and other neuromuscular and orthopedic conditions. DS/USA's national office provides technical assistance to its local chapters and other recreation programs so they can better serve the disabled population in their communities. The organization has a nationwide network of community-based chapters. DS/USA conducts an annual "The Hartford Ski Spectacular" in Breckenridge, CO, the largest winter sports event for physically disabled people in the U.S. and "The International Challenge Track and Field" event.
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Los Angeles Mayor-elect Eric Garcetti and his wife, Amy Wakeland, attended Sunday morning services at First African Methodist Episcopal Church, the oldest black church in the city and a regular stop for local and national politicians.
Garcetti's inauguration ceremony is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. on the Spring Street steps outside City Hall. It's only ceremonial: Garcetti was officially sworn in Friday by City Clerk June Lagmay, and a power shift won't take place until midnight Sunday, when termed-out Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa officially leaves the post.
The public ceremony will start with the Pledge of Allegiance led by Lily Newman, a fifth-grader at Porter Ranch Community School.
There will be musical performances by Moby, Afghan American singer Ariana Delawari and two-time Grammy winner Melanie Fiona.
Oaths will be taken by City Atty.-elect Mike Feuer (administered by California Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris), City Controller-elect Ron Galperin (administered by state Controller John Chiang) and eight city council members, six of whom are newly elected.
Next will come the mayor-elect's oath. Yusef Robb, Garcetti's chief spokesman, said Garcetti didn't want to be sworn in by "a guy in a robe .... He said, 'Let's find someone who represents who I work for and what the city is all about.'"
That person will be Kenia Castillo, a Westlake eighth-grader who attends Luther Burbank Middle School in Highland Park. The mayor-elect met her when her mother, a janitor, was striking for better wages, and she went on to volunteer in his campaign, Robb said.
Ticket holders will be able to watch from bleachers on Spring Street or stand in a reserved section of the adjacent park.
After the oaths and speeches, the focus will shift to an entertainment stage in Grand Park just south of Broadway. DJ Canyon will kick things off, followed by L.A.-based acts Buyepongo, Lula Washington Dance Theatre, Jungle Fire and Moonlight Trio.
Food trucks and carnival booths sponsored by Two Bit Circus will be on hand.
The public can enter at 1st Street and Broadway, with gates opening at 5 p.m. Garcetti's staff is warning that parking will be limited and that people should arrive early.
To avoid traffic, people can take the Red Line subway to the Civic Center station, which has an exit near Grand Park.
Broadway and Spring have been closed between 1st and Temple streets since Friday night. Both streets will be reopened Monday morning.
The cost of the inauguration party is still be tallied and will be paid by donors to Garcetti's transition fund. Contributors have given $120,000 so far, including a dozen people at the $10,000 maximum, according to records provided by aides to City Controller Wendy Greuel.
Donors include Warner Bros. Chief Executive Barry Meyer, philanthropist and investor David Bohnett and San Pedro businessman Jayme Wilson, who unsuccessfully ran for city council in 2011. One $10,000 donation came from Fire Commissioner Steven Fazio, who also gave to Greuel, Garcetti's opponent in the mayoral race.
Another donor is Kenneth Sampson, who serves on the North Valley Area Planning Commission. Like Fazio, he also contributed to Greuel's campaign. Other San Fernando Valley contributors include former Police Commissioner Herbert F. Boeckmann and his wife, Jane Boeckmann.


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Samsung Galaxy S3 Dethrones iPhone as Best Device for 2012
Jan 12, 2013, 05:00 ET
LONDON, January 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
For around five years, only Apple's iPhone was even considered as the best smartphone money could buy. That is beginning to change, with competition from other manufacturers making headway in the battle for supremacy. 2012 may be seen as the turning point with CNET voting the Samsung Galaxy S III (S3) the Best Tech Product of 2012.
What's changed? How has Samsung managed to knock iPhone, and the iPhone 5 at that, Apple's latest and most inventive yet, off the mantle set aside for it: the best smartphone?
There are a few reasons. Firstly, Samsung took the bold step of working itself hard to ensure the S3 was realised well before iPhone 5, giving it a head start in marketing and sales. A phone needs to be popular to win any voting contests of course, and with the long gap between iPhone 4S and iPhone 5, many picked up the Galaxy S3. Samsung also ensured it aped all other phones in terms of features, convincing even more people to pick up a Samsung Galaxy S3.
The list of innovative and useful features on the S3 is large, and iPhone 5 doesn't always have an answer. The S3's S-Voice feature is a voice search much like Siri for iPhone, both are useful, but it's probably Siri that is the more advanced. Then the Galaxy S3 swings into action. The Pop up Play feature lets you pin a floating video window anywhere on the screen on top of other windows, such as the web browser or an email, so you can watch videos while doing something else. With Smart Stay, the S3 tracks your eye movements and keeps the screen bright when you're reading or watching, and then dims it before turning it off when you look away. Heard of Smart Alert? This is a feature that makes the phone vibrate whenever you've missed a call, text or email, so you'll know straight away when something's waiting for you. All cool features, all something iPhone 5 can't currently replicate.
Then there's the hardware. While iPhone 5 is unquestionably the better looking phone and more portable and pocketable, the Samsung Galaxy S3 fits in more with what people appear to want. The larger screen of the Samsung Galaxy S3 (4.8" to iPhone 5's 4", with iPhone 4S sporting a 3.5" display), the S3 is the better phone for YouTube™, reading and games - a bigger screen right now is more popular, which is why Apple made its iPhone's screen slightly bigger, too. The S3 has a larger battery, and while the battery life of iPhone 5 is similar, the S3 fared much better than the old iPhone 4S. The Galaxy S3 also has inside a special quad core processor. Without getting too technical, it was a headliner at launch and was more powerful than anything else. iPhone 5 has a dual core chip that's just as quick, but because it was released later, people expected more.
With the time advantage, superior feature list and some attractive hardware features, the Samsung Galaxy S3 was almost an easy pick for CNET. If you want to get in on the action, the S3 is available free at Carphone Warehouse from £26 per month.
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Illegal wildlife trade grows in India
India's illegal wildlife trade is growing with crime syndicates making millions of dollars from the killing, smuggling and selling of rare animals like tigers, the head of a wildlife watchdog said on Friday.india Updated: Aug 17, 2007 15:54 IST
India's illegal wildlife trade is growing with crime syndicates making millions of dollars from the killing, smuggling and selling of rare animals like tigers, the head of a wildlife watchdog said on Friday.
"The situation regarding the illegal trade in wildlife parts in India is very grim," Samir Sinha, head of TRAFFIC India, the wildlife trade monitoring arm of WWF and the World Conservation Union (IUCN), told Reuters in an interview.
"It is a vast, a varied trade ranging from smuggling of rare medicinal plants to butterflies to peafowls to tigers and it is difficult to predict how big it is, but the threats and dimensions suggest that the trade is increasing."
The tiger is facing the threat of extinction with early results from a new census suggesting there could be as few as 1,500 tigers left in India, compared to a century ago when there were around 40,000.
Leopards, rhinos, reptiles, birds and insects as well as rare species of trees and plants are also being smuggled into southeast Asian countries and China.
Wildlife experts say tiger and leopard parts are in great demand in China and other Asian countries. They are wanted for their skins, which are worn during festivals, as well as for their bones and body parts which are used in traditional medicines.Sinha said China's booming economy had led to more demand for such expensive products. Some experts estimate that a single tiger skin can cost $20,000 on the international market.
"I think it's fair to say that the demand for wildlife parts in China is one of the biggest threats to India's biodiversity," said Sinha.
One of the biggest seizures in India was made in 2000, said Sinha, when a truck was found to be carrying 18,000 leopard claws, 132 tiger claws, four tiger skins, 70 leopard skins, 221 blackbuck skins, 150 kg (330 lb) of leopard and tiger bones and a dried leopard penis.
But seizures were often accidental, said Sinha, and not driven by intelligence. Efforts to convict the culprits were often limited to the primary offender, he added.
"At the moment, our law enforcement role stops at the offender we catch with the goods. We need to look beyond that," said Sinha. "We need to step up our intelligence and we have to go after the big-wigs ... only then can we save our wildlife."
Those involved in the trade are mostly highly organised cross-border criminal syndicates and involve a large supply chain -- ranging from the forest dweller in India who kills the animal, to transporters, smugglers and ultimately the buyer.
According to Interpol, the trade in illegal wildlife products could be $12 billion a year globally.
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Excerpts from a lecture by Yogi Bhajan on January 5, 2000
It is the 5th of January, 2000. It is the change of the Age into another era. Today we are celebrating 3HO's birthday. Something which seeded deep into the consciousness of America and millions and millions of young people had an evolution of revolt. They wanted higher consciousness. And along with that struggle came the idea that drugs are a drag, where the consciousness can be altered. People don't believe (and they are very unfortunate), that they can develop the brain normally through meditation. Instead they alter and damage the body by extra activity of the brain and put pressure on it with drugs.
This is the story of the world from beginning to end—even today the same thing is happening. Every human wants an easy way to develop a realization for one's own self to have a high altitude and attitude of life to find the big horizon. That's the principal happiness, joy, and virtue of the body. But all can't do it.
Many years ago, we all started functioning toward one thing: we want to experience, we want to grow, we want to see. The nation revolted. The revolution was so powerful and the impact was so wonderful that everywhere in the United States and Europe people started flowering and blossoming and we started calling them flower kids. And from that we grew up and kept going and later on we became very successful citizens of every area.
3HO Foundation (Healthy, Happy, Holy Organization) came into existence and it started giving people power, projects of power, self-control with their own power. It was actually self-improvement, self-empowerment, self-knowledge and self-experience.
We are now marching forward to that era when this Information Age will broil down everybody to a reality, and every person will recognize that fact is to act for higher self. It will not be the fact now to build more earthly facilities, and just become isolated and corner yourself as much as you can. We have already crossed seven years of the cusp, 13 more years are left.
Technically speaking, this Information Age will be very difficult for a few people to handle because everybody knows everything. So there'll be no place but to control one's ego and one's projection and one's requirement in life.
One has to be "truth-bound" through the sense there's nothing wrong in the world if your mind does not tell you that you are wrong. There's nothing wrong in the world if your mind can dialogue and come to a mutual understanding. There's nothing wrong in this world if you do not hate somebody, undermine somebody, and you have no superiority conflict and put another person into inferiority complex. There's nothing wrong if you value yourself and price yourself gracefully. There's nothing wrong if you do not undermine your own grace, your own commitment, your own character. And there is nothing wrong if you understand Ang Sang Wahe Guru – God is with you. Then the Universe will come along with you.
Let beauty not become your enemy and make you a selling prostitute in the hands of those who have low-grade life. And all men of intelligence have to develop their mental capacity for meditative identity so they can see through what is coming in the time. We cannot undergo low-grade existence and call ourselves human. This is it. You have to be "to be," and you have to understand that's the way the Age of Aquarius is.
Today you have to sit and follow. You have to go to the subtlety of the deep meaning of the Shabad Guru to understand its personality. You have to act in your personality with such a vastness of brightness that everybody should recognize your reality as it is. You cannot blame your father and mother and environments; you walk on your own legs, too. Two legs make you walk. It's not the four legs of the parents walking with you.
Every person has his own destiny, distance, and destination. And we have to be healthy, happy, and holy. We have nine holes, but there's a tenth. "Tenth Gate" they call it. It must command your nine holes to see what you receive and how you operate. Just learn good manners and good behavior. Healthy manners and healthy behavior is the source of happiness. And nobody loses in this.
I have seen people blaming their parents. I have seen people blaming the environments, blaming their relationships, blaming everybody. So sorry to tell you, these people are just on a suicide track. You cannot blame anybody. You can claim everybody. You have to reach out and heal people; you have to reach out and touch people. You have to mend your relationships, you have to adjust yourself, you have to build in yourself the unisonness of the human mind—psychologically and sociologically give beautiful smiles and songs to each other. You have to come to grips with the reality of the coming time. You cannot avoid it. Therefore let us walk ahead of it. Be united, getting together please, holding each other's hands for the best of tomorrow. It is my prayer that you will brightly bridge the life into beauty, bounty, and bliss.
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Washington's minimum wage for next yearwill likely climb to over $9 an hour when the figure is...
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SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Gov. John Kitzhaber has signed a bill cutting pension benefits for some retired government workers. Kitzhaber signed the bill without fanfare yesterday. He had previously called it a good first step, but he's pushed for even steeper cuts to retirement benefits. Kitzhaber and legislators say the state must cut retirement costs in order to boost education funding.


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Years ago, Paige Hall was the outdoor deck of the Inn and enclosed in the 1960's to create a large ballroom. During the great depression, repairs to the aging Inn were sorely needed, almost closing its doors. But thankfully a gentleman named Richard Paige saved the Inn by purchasing it with a win in a card game, keeping the chain of the Inn's hospitality alive.


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The side project of Beach Fossils' Zachary Cole Smith, DIIV has the nectar of its predecessors running through its lo-fi veins. Shoegaze with a retro twist, it becomes clear early into Oshin's first track "(Druun)" that Z.C. Smith is well studied in the career of Robert Smith. But while successfully appropriating The Cure's guitar-driven melancholy, DIIV takes the sound to a much more introspective place. Titled after a Japanese television drama that ran for a year and featured the life of its character from childhood to middle age, Oshin covers almost as much ground as its namesake. The album's emotional pendulum swings wildly. Standout single "How Long Have You Known?" features a driving beat and hazy vocals—proving the The Radio Dept. doesn't own the market on partially cloudy bliss. On the flip side, Smith dials down his cautious optimism to low boil on the sinister title track, swapping perky beats for haunted-house-style vocal swells. In all, a dreamy plunge.


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A reeling team needed someone to step forward and make a difference Monday night.
That's exactly what Peter Forsberg did in handing the Blackhawks their fifth straight loss and their third straight shutout. Forsberg had a pair of goals and was a dominant presence throughout the game in Philadelphia's 3-0 victory.
The Hawks have now gone 205 minutes 10 seconds since their last goal, the kind of streak normally associated with soccer. They are a long way from their team record of 621:42 set in 1929, but the way things are going, who knows?
"I don't know how you manufacture offense in this league," Hawks coach Trent Yawney said. "That's why every July in free agency some of the most offensively gifted players are the ones that usually go first."
The Flyers were embarrassed at home Saturday night in an 8-2 loss to Pittsburgh, and it was clear Forsberg was not going to let that happen again.
"We have five games at home, and we have to grab some points," Forsberg said.
The Flyers are last in the Eastern Conference.
"I thought we played well," Forsberg said. "We weren't playing the best team in the league."
Unlike Forsberg, no one on the Hawks is stepping up and taking the initiative, and Forsberg's counterpart as captain, Adrian Aucoin, contributed to the Flyers' first goal with a poor pass to Brent Seabrook's feet that led to Forsberg's first goal of the night.
That came midway through a first period in which the Hawks were outshot 17-5 and would have been blown out if not for the play of goaltender Brian Boucher.
"I thought we came out a little unprepared at the start," Boucher said. "But we had a great second period and were right there."
The Hawks outshot the Flyers 15-5 in the second but didn't take advantage of prime scoring chances. On a power play, Denis Arkhipov fanned with an open net and Radim Vrbata, with another open net, had his shot deflected by a Flyers defenseman.
What shots did get through were stopped by Robert Esche, who came into the game with a .785 save percentage. The shutout was the first this season for the Flyers.
In the third period, with the Hawks still down 1-0, Patrick Sharp had a breakaway but failed to get a shot off as a sliding Denis Gauthier knocked it off his stick.
Forsberg put the game away 12 minutes into the third with a brilliant move, putting the puck between Sharp's legs, then sliding a backhander past Boucher.
"Your leaders have to take the lead in creating a winning attitude," Yawney said. "It's times like this when your best players have to step up."
One team's did, the other's is still waiting, with time quickly slipping away.
Tuomo Ruutu played 17:08 on left wing, had no shots on goal and was credited with four hits in his season debut. After playing less than nine minutes in each of the last two games, Jeff Hamilton was scratched Monday, along with Reed Low and Danny Richmond. Yawney said rookie Adam Burish looked like "he didn't want the puck anymore," and that it was time for him to rebuild his confidence in the AHL. Burish was sent to Norfolk on Sunday along with defenseman Cam Barker and center Dave Bolland, and the Hawks recalled center Craig McDonald. General manager Dale Tallon said goaltender Nikolai Khabibulin may be back when the Hawks face New Jersey on Nov. 9.


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NEW YORK (AP) - The Tony Awards committee largely favored tried-and-true stage veterans over flashy visitors Tuesday when announcing this year's Tony nominations, with Hollywood stars such as Bette Midler, Jessica Chastain, Al Pacino, Katie Holmes and Scarlett Johansson never hearing their names called.
With the exception of Broadway debutant Tom Hanks, the acting categories were mostly filled by established theater creatures such as Laurie Metcalf, Amy Morton, Laura Osnes, Nathan Lane, Tracy Letts, David Hyde Pierce and Kristine Nielsen.
Hanks, who earned a best actor nod playing gutsy New York City newspaper columnist Mike McAlary in the late Nora Ephron's "Lucky Guy," joked that he was out of his league and that to win he'd have to beat Lane and Pierce.
"Olivier and Gielgud!" Hanks exclaimed. "It's such a thrill and a delight to be included with these guys." He added: "This makes me both giddy and nervous, and it could not be more special."
The awards will be broadcast on CBS from Radio City Music Hall on June 9. The snubs of big-name actors may mean a less starry telecast.
Stage veterans littered the play and musical categories, including the tight race to be crowned best musical. The leading contenders - "Kinky Boots" and "Matilda: The Musical" - are both stories that celebrate the little guy.
"Kinky Boots" is based on the 2005 British movie about a real-life shoe factory that struggles until it finds new life making fetish footwear. Cyndi Lauper's songs and a story by Harvey Fierstein - both nominated - have made it a crowd-pleaser.
"When we were writing this, I kept thinking "I don't know if this show is going to be any good, but at the very least I think I've discovered a new Broadway composer,'" Fierstein said of Lauper, who was writing songs for the stage for the first time. "I could hear it. My feeling is Cyndi's going to be around for a while."
The show earned a leading 13 nominations, including sets by David Rockwell, directing and choreography by Jerry Mitchell, and nominations for its two leading men, Billy Porter and Stark Sands. Annaleigh Ashford earned a featured role nomination.
Close behind with 12 nominations is "Matilda: The Musical," the witty, dark musical adaptation of the novel by Roald Dahl that is still running in London.
"Matilda" earned nominations for Peter Darling's choreography, Matthew Warchus' directing, Chris Nightingale's orchestrations, Dennis Kelly's book, Tim Minchin's lyrics and songs, and Bertie Carvel for best leading role in a musical.
Carvel, who also played the evil headmistress Miss Trunchbull in London, said he is enjoying his time in New York, although he did admit to being nervous about how Americans would react. "I feel like I've landed on happy shores," he said. "The show is in great shape. People are loving it."
"Matilda" was one nomination shy of "Kinky Boots" and could have caught up if the four girls who rotate as the lead - Sophia Gennusa, Oona Laurence, Bailey Ryon and Milly Shapiro - landed a best actress nod. But they were deemed ineligible.
Both "Kinky Boots" and "Matilda" will duke it out for the best musical prize with the acrobatic "Bring It On: The Musical" and "A Christmas Story, The Musical," adapted from the beloved holiday movie.
The nominations Tuesday proved that recognition for theater work is not easy for stars. Midler, appearing on Broadway for the first time in 30 years, got nothing despite being in a one-woman show. And Johansson and Chastain, Hollywood princesses, were greeted with a Broadway shrug.
The best play nominees are Richard Greenberg's "The Assembled Parties," Ephron's "Lucky Guy," Colm Toibin's "The Testament of Mary" and Christopher Durang's "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike."
In addition to Hanks, nominees for leading actor in a play are Lane for "The Nance," Pierce from "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike," Tom Sturridge from "Orphans," and Letts from "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
"Lucky Guy" got six nominations, including a best featured actor nod for Courtney B. Vance. He and Hanks were among the few actors in the production to work with Ephron before her death last year. "She'd be ecstatic. She'd be grinning ear to ear," Vance said. "And she is, right now."
The best musical revival candidates are "Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella," "Annie," "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" and "Pippin," which nabbed 10 nominations.
Patina Miller, last on Broadway as the heroine of "Sister Act," stepped into the Ben Vereen role of Leading Player in "Pippin" and earned her second straight nomination.
The first time, she said, "I was so nervous about saying and doing the right things. This time, I've enjoyed it, I've been given a great opportunity and I want to keep enjoying it. Not a lot of people get to experience something like this."
The producers of "Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella" saw both their Cinderella - Laura Osnes - and her prince - Santino Fontana - nominated for leading roles in a musical.
"I'm floating on air! I think I am over the tears now," said Osnes. "I started crying when Santino's name was called. So I was already crying when they called mine. I am just so thrilled, so excited."
Candidates for best leading actress in a play include Metcalf of "The Other Place," Morton in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Nielsen of "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike," Holland Taylor in her one-woman show, "Ann," and Cicely Tyson in "The Trip to Bountiful." With such talent on show, notably squeezed out were Fiona Shaw of "The Testament of Mary" and Jessica Hecht in "The Assembled Parties."
Durang, the playwright of "Vanya and Sonia," wrote parts in it for both Nielsen and Weaver.
"We're both really lucky to have someone of his caliber that would even think of putting words in our mouth," Nielsen said. "I wish he were here to put words in my mouth today!"
The revival of Clifford Odets' "Golden Boy," a play about a young man torn between his natural talent as a violinist and the fast money and fame of being a boxer, earned eight nominations, the most for any play.
Richard Greenberg's "The Assembled Parties," a New York City drama concerning the power of familial bonds, earned three nominations, including ones for Judith Light, scenic design and best play.
"It's been so luxuriously treated by this production," the playwright said. "It was given such care and attention. I think you only get something that unblemished once. And so I'm relishing it."
Kenneth Posner had a great morning. The lighting designer got three of four slots - for "Kinky Boots," "Pippin" and "Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella." He will face off against Hugh Vanstone, the lighting designer for "Matilda: The Musical."
Playwright Douglas Carter Beane earned a best book nomination for the lush, big musical "Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella," but not for his more intimate play "The Nance," although it earned five nods. A veteran, he rolled with it Tuesday morning.
"You just have to really enjoy it when you get nominated and you have to just not care when you're not," he said. "It's one of those little rules you learn. Like, only read the reviews that they put outside the theater."
The hit-stuffed "Motown: The Musical," about Motown Records under founder Berry Gordy, earned four nominations, including Valisia LeKae as Diana Ross and Charl Brown as Smokey Robinson.
LeKae, who was an understudy or swing in four other Broadway shows, is making her Broadway debut as a leading lady and said everything in her life has prepared her for the role. She grew up listening to Ross and performing her songs.
"It's very interesting the way life works out. I left "The Book of Mormon' last year in March and I was a swing for the show," she said. "It's amazing how life can change in a matter of a year's time. You can be swinging one year and be nominated the next."
Shalita Grant, who plays a housekeeper convinced she can see the future in "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike," was woken by her publicist with the news that she's landed a features actress nomination. Unlike her character, she never expected it.
"I did not think this was going to happen with all of the people, with all of the shows, with all of the names. I've only been on Broadway for like two months. I'm like, "I don't see this in my future,'" she said, laughing. "You know what? We'll just hope for the best. There's a quote that I love, which is, "If you shoot for the moon, you can usually clear the trees.'"


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A private dining room inside the Bellagio in Las Vegas has been transformed into the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing. Later this week, the casino resort will be hosting Chinese New Year dinners here for $500 a plate. (There are still a few openings so don't delay!)


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Radical Muslim mentor influenced older bomb suspect, uncle says
WASHINGTON -- Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the older of the two brothers accused in the deadly Boston Marathon bombings, was influenced by a mentor who espoused radical Islamist beliefs, according to one of the suspects' uncles.
Tsarnaev, 26, became acquainted with the mentor, an Armenian convert to Islam known as Misha, as early as 2007 while living in Cambridge, Mass., according to the uncle, Ruslan Tsarni. Tsarni described his now-deceased nephew's shift toward fundamentalist Muslim beliefs.
"He said, 'I'm now doing bigger things, Inshallah,' something like that," Tsarni said yesterday in an interview at his home in a Washington suburb, recalling a 2009 conversation with Tamerlan.
Authorities investigating the April 15 blasts are trying to determine a motive and examining whether the accused bombers had any support. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, Tamerlan's brother, has communicated to investigators that the pair acted alone in the attack, which killed three people and injured more than 260.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed in a gun battle with police on April 19 hours before his brother's capture, spent six months in Russia last year, visiting the republics of Dagestan and Chechnya, which have been roiled by Islamic separatist movements. U.S. investigators traveled Tuesday to the capital of Dagestan to interview the parents of the suspected bombers, an American Embassy official in Moscow said, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with official policy.
Ruslan Tsarni said he'd never known his nephews to take much of an interest in religion, so when he reconnected with Tamerlan in 2009 after a family falling out a few years earlier, the young man's rhetoric about Islam left him uneasy. He said he learned more about Misha only recently, in talking with the ex- husband of one of the brothers' two sisters.
At the time of the 2009 conversation, Tsarni said, he didn't think his nephew posed a threat. He thought Tamerlan was acting like a disaffected young man struggling to assimilate in American society and unwilling to stick with college or start a career.
"Radicalized?" Tsarni said. "He sounded like a jerk, a person who didn't want to work. Hiding behind words."
Tsarni said his relationship with his brother, Anzor -- the suspects' father -- was strained several years ago, largely because of tensions with Anzor's wife, Zubeidat. He said that he had a falling out with Tamerlan after urging his nephew to stand up to his mother.
In an interview with CNN yesterday, Zubeidat Tsarnaev said her sons were being "killed just because they're Muslims" and that they were being framed in the bombing case.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev faces federal charges that include using a weapon of mass destruction that resulted in death. He may face the death penalty if convicted.
Tsarni said the suspects' former brother-in-law, Elmirza Khozhugov, told him that the Islamist mentor Misha, who would be in his mid-30s now and was affiliated with a local mosque, had often preached in the family's home and claimed to be an exorcist. Khozhugov didn't respond to an email sent to an address provided by Tsarni.
Federal investigators believe Tamerlan may have learned how to build the devices by reading jihadist websites, including an online magazine affiliated with al-Qaida called Inspire, according to an official briefed on the investigation who asked not to be identified because of government policy.
Tamerlan, described as a talented piano player, abandoned plans to study music at an arts college, Tsarni said, because Misha told him that such a pursuit wasn't in the spirit of Islam. Tamerlan, a two-time New England Golden Gloves champion, also stopped boxing and became engaged in community work at Misha's direction, Tsarni said.
"He was pretty much occupied with this guy," Tsarni said, adding that he doesn't know the man's full identity. Efforts by Bloomberg reporters to track down Misha in the Boston area failed.
Over the same period of time, Zubeidat shifted her dress from Western clothes to wearing a hijab, a head covering worn by some Muslim womenTsarni said. He first noticed the change in pictures of her in 2007 and then saw her in person in 2009 in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
"Where was that coming from?" Tsarni said. "It was a tremendous change." He said he thinks his brother and his wife moved back to Dagestan from Massachusetts within the last year although he learned about their move after the fact.
Tsarni said it wasn't until after the Boston Marathon bombings that he began to piece together the possible influence that Misha, and the suspects' mother, might have had on his nephew's views.
Another of Tamerlan's uncles is in Massachusetts, preparing to make burial arrangements once authorities release his dead nephew's body, Tsarni said.
Tsarni said he's received almost two dozen letters written by people from across the U.S. in response to an impromptu news briefing he gave April 19, in which he professed his love for America, denounced his suspect-nephews as "losers" and urged the younger of the pair to surrender.
"You may get 'hate mail,' so please consider this 'love mail,' " read one letter, from Colorado Springs, Colo., that Tsarni showed to a reporter. "Thank you for your courage in coming forward."
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Volkswagen's California Van Marking 25th Year
April 15, 2013 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on Volkswagen's California Van Marking 25th Year
Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles celebrates in April 25 years since the California was launched – an exotic name for a dedicated camper van. For many, according to a press release, this type of vehicle has meant freedom to travel and explore new places, and California has marked an important point in the construction of recreational vehicles dedicated to those families who want to spend their vacation on wheels.
In the 80s, air travel was not within everyone's reach, and the tent was no longer fashionable. Those people interested in holidays, from Western Europe, were seeking an alternative to these two options. Towed caravans or traveling by train were not appreciated and not flexible enough, so the European tourists, especially those wishing to explore the southern European have turned to motor homes or camper vans.
Volkswagen had taken advantage of this new trend and created a new model: the California. It was not a totally new idea. A number of independent manufacturers existed which altered commercial vehicles to suit this purpose. The Westphalia, for example, was a manufacturer that already had a history in this area and even one related to the Volkswagen.
The Volkswagen Westfalia was the official partner in the recreational vehicles segment. The first model was modified in 1962. It was the SO34, a modified original VW Transporter for the holidays. This was followed by the Westfalia SO42, based on the same design, but with a greater number of specific features. The model SO42 was very popular in the United States. Westafalia continued to produce models dedicated to the holidays in the 70s using the base vans and from other brands too. They carried the names of explorers like James Cook, Sven Hedin and Marco Polo.
In the early 80s, Westphalia was to have a major success with the Joker model, based on the Transporter T3. The Joker was basically a modified transporter, the rear seat could be converted into a bed and a small kitchen with a fridge, gas hob and sink were located inside. Thus the Volkswagen California was born, which the folks at Volkswagen for 25 years.
The most important element that debuted on the California and was preserved until today is that it can raise the ceiling to create additional sleeping space inside. The previous models were modified to have a super fixed ceiling, an element that could affect vehicle stability and its ability to pass under low areas.
Over their 25 years of existence, Volkswagen produced 100,000 copies of the California, which covered three generations of the model. The current VW California is available in a variety of engines, with two 2.0 TSI developing 150 and 204 hp, and five TDI engine (84, 102, 114, 140 and 180 hp).
Some of these engines can be associated with the automatic DSG transmission and 4Motion all-wheel drive. To celebrate 25 years of the California model, Volkswagen has launched an anniversary version, based on the Multivan, named Edition25 .


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"Baby Callen's" Festive Ferris Wheel
Name: Baby Callen (due August)
Location: Clarksville, TN
We are a military family and move often, but I could not pass up the opportunity to design a nursery for our first baby girl. I used the ferris wheel mural as my inspiration for the nursery, though I did not want a themed room.
I drew colors from the mural, and highlighted the turquoise throughout the room. With the use of the mural and removable wallpaper, I avoided having to paint the room.
Source List:
• Mural: A Fun Ride from Murals Your Way
• Wallpaper: Marrakesh Honey Wallpaper from Urban Outfitters
• Moroccan pouf: Moroccan Artisans through Amazon.com
• Rocking chair: Vinnie Cradle Chair from Overstock.com
• Curtains: Marrakech Curtains from Anthropologie
• Dresser: Hemnes from IKEA
• Wall shelves and bookcase: Lack from IKEA
• Canvas art: Drooz Studio from Layla Grace
• Crib bedding: Modified Tot through Etsy
• Elephant pillow: Cecil & Clyde through Etsy
• Doorknob: Flora Forever Doorknob from Anthropologie
Well done - thanks Asheley!
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Changes can be seen within the Sheriff's department walls. Inmates were given the chance to show off their talents while beautifying the plain brown and white walls that line the jail.
Former inmate, Johnathan Jansky, who was a member of the notorious MS 13 Gang, was housed in the Lincoln County Jail and while he was there he was able to spread his wings and learned to channel his energy into something positive. Jansky was able to paint a massive mural dedicated to veterans. Sheriff John Cottle and Captain David Curtis both were in the military and did tours together in Afghanistan. "This was something that was really neat to see and any veteran is more than welcome to come to the jail to see it in person. It represents so much from all different times in American history," said Captain David Curtis. Jansky also painted several other paintings that can be seen around the jail.
Jansky was given the chance to teach a few local inmates, Bryan Celary and Samuel Whiddon, how to make a difference by painting. He taught them to shade and all the fundamentals of painting. Jansky was relocated to California before he could finish all the work that the department had planned for him, but Celany and Whiddon are picking up the pace and are currently working on "Runaway" by Norman Rockwell. This painting can be seen just behind the front desk at the Sheriff's office.
Captain David Curtis provides all the paint and brushes for the inmates while they are working on making the building more inviting. All inmates that are allowed to paint are supervised while out of their pods.
(Story provided by Lincoln County Journal)
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Catfish: Story of Notre Dame's Linebacker Manti Te'o Fake Internet Girlfriend A Hoax! (A Girlfriend He Thought Was Real But Who Never Existed)
" Notre Dame says a story about Manti Te'o's girlfriend dying, which he said inspired him to play better as he helped the Fighting Irish get to the Discover BCS National Championship, turned out to be a hoax apparently perpetrated against the linebacker. " To realize that I was the victim of what was apparently someone's sick joke and constant lies was, and is, painful and humiliating. " -- Manti Te'o statement The university issued a news release Wednesday after Deadspin.com reported it could find no record of Lennay Kekua existing. Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick said in a news conference Wednesday night that coaches were informed by Te'o and his parents on Dec. 26 that Te'o had been the victim of what appeared to be a hoax. Someone using a fictitious name "apparently ingratiated herself" with Te'o, the school said, then conspired with others to lead him to believe she had died of leukemia. "On the morning of Dec. 26, very early morning, Manti called his coaches to inform them that while he was in attendance at the ESPN awards show in Orlando, he received a phone call from a number he recognized as having been that he associated with Lennay Kekua," Swarbrick said. "When he answered it, it was a person whose voice sounded like the same person he had talked to, who told him that she was, in fact, not dead. Manti was very unnerved by that, as you might imagine."" - ESPN
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Baselayout provides a basic set of files that are necessary for all systems to
function properly, such as
OpenRC is a dependency-based rc system that works with whatever init is provided
by the system, normally
Originally Gentoo's rc system was built into baselayout 1 and written entirely in bash. This led to several limitations. For example, certain system calls need to be accessed during boot and this required C-based callouts to be added. These callouts were each statically linked, causing the rc system to bloat over time.
Additionally, as Gentoo expanded to other platforms like Gentoo/FreeBSD and Gentoo Embedded, it became impossible to require a bash-based rc system. This led to a development of baselayout 2, which is written in C and only requires a POSIX-compliant shell. During the development of baselayout 2, it was determined that it was a better fit if baselayout merely provided the base files and filesystem layout for Gentoo and the rc system was broken off into its own package. Thus we have OpenRC.
OpenRC is primarily developed by
Migration to OpenRC is fairly straightforward; it will be pulled in as part of
your regular upgrade process by your package manager. The most important step
actually comes after you install the new
Once you've finished updating your config files, there are a few things to verify prior to rebooting.
Normally, when you want certain kernel modules automatically loaded at boot, you
place them into
An example old style configuration would be:
ivtv cx88_dvb video_br=2
Converting the above example would result in the following:
# Modules autoloaded at bootmodules_2_6="ivtv cx88_dvb" # Module parametersmodule_cx88_dvb_args_2_6="video_br=2"
In the above examples, the modules and their parameters would only be passed to 2.6.x series kernels. The new configuration allows for fine grained control over the modules and parameters based on kernel version.
An in-depth example would be:
# Only load ivtv for 2.6.23-gentoo-r5modules_2_6_23_gentoo_r5="ivtv" # Only load cx88_dvb for 2.6.23 kernels (other than -gentoo-r5)modules_2_6_23="cx88_dvb" # Only load tun and usbserial for 2.6.x series kernels where x != 23modules_2_6="tun usbserial" # Otherwise load ochi1394 and ieee1394modules="ohci1394 ieee1394" # For 2.6.23-gentoo-r5, pass video_br=2 to cx88_dvbmodule_cx88_dvb_args_2_6_23_gentoo_r5="video_br=2" # For 2.6.x series kernels, always pass vendor and productmodule_usbserial_args_2_6="vendor=0x1410 product=0x2110" # Always pass debug to ieee1394module_ieee1394_args="debug"
With OpenRC, volume management services for your block storage devices are no
longer run automatically at boot. This includes lvm, raid, swap, device-mapper
(dm), dm-crypt, evms, and the like. You must ensure the appropriate initscript
for these services is in the
While the OpenRC ebuild will attempt to do this migration for you, you should verify that it migrated all the volume management services properly:
# ls -l /etc/runlevels/boot/
If you don't see root, procfs, mtab, swap, and fsck in the above listing,
perform the following to add them to the
# rc-update add root boot # rc-update add procfs boot # rc-update add mtab boot # rc-update add fsck boot # rc-update add swap boot
If you know you use mdraid and lvm but do not see them above, you would run
the following to add initscripts to the
# rc-update add mdraid boot # rc-update add lvm boot
OpenRC no longer starts
# ls -l /etc/runlevels/sysinit lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 2009-01-29 08:00 /etc/runlevels/sysinit/udev -> \ /etc/init.d/udev
# rc-update add udev sysinit
Due to baselayout and OpenRC being broken into two different packages, your net.eth0 initscript may disappear during the upgrade process. To replace this initscript and re-add it to the default runlevel, please perform the following:
# cd /etc/init.d # ln -s net.lo net.eth0 # rc-update add net.edh0 default
If you are missing any other network initscripts, follow the instructions above
to re-add them. Simply replace
config_eth0=( "192.168.1.37 netmask 255.255.255.0 brd 192.168.1.255" ) routes_eth0=( "default via 192.168.1.100" "10.0.0.0/8 via 192.168.1.2" )
config_eth0="192.168.1.37 netmask 255.255.255.0 brd 192.168.1.255" routes_eth0="default via 192.168.1.100 10.0.0.0/8 via 192.168.1.2"
Clock settings have been renamed from
Additionally, the
The proper value for this file is the path relative to your timezone from
The XSESSION variable is no longer found in
Here's an example of setting XSESSION for the whole system:
# echo 'XSESSION="Xfce4"' > /etc/env.d/90xsession
The EDITOR variable is no longer found in
Previously, you could log the boot process by using
With OpenRC,
In the early versions of OpenRC, we explictly detected multiple types of virtualization, and used that detection to note when certain init scripts should be skipped, using the keyword call in the depend functions.
However, as of the 0.7.0 release, you are required to explicitly configure the
sub-type using the rc_sys variable in
The detection algorithm had to be replaced with manual configuration due to the introduction of new sub-types and changes to the kernel that made prior detection unreliable.
Once you've finished updating your config files and initscripts, the last thing to do is reboot. This is necessary because system state information is not preserved during the upgrade, so you'll need to provide it with a fresh boot.
Previously it was possible to temporarily stop a service without taking down all
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I think the I stands for International, not Independent. While I don't doubt that's how insurance companies think, my guess was that they just aren't familiar with IBCLCs. They're allowing RNs because that's a standard qualification they've dealt with before (and is licensed and regulated by states). Plus, lots of LCs who were RNs were able to bill insurance before. They just treated it similarly to when you go to the pediatrician for something routine and all you see is a nurse.
FYI...I filled out the insurance information and picked up my pump on Saturday. I got it from a medical supply company and was surprised that the Medela PISA pumps there don't come with the "stylish" backpack or shoulder bags which saves you $45 off the retail price. They do come in a bag but it kind of looks like a tan soft sided cooler. Another way to save some money if insurance isn't paying and you're on a budget.
Trying to keep up with a busy 3.5 year old Morgan Alexis born 11/5/09 at 6 lbs 5 oz and proud retired 1 year EP'er!
Nursing our new addition Jordan Catherine born 10/21/12 at 7 lbs 14 oz.
Total donated milk so far - 1,368 ounces!
I agree that those bags aren't stylish. And anyone who has ever pumped will agree that it is obvious what is in them.
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The more than 35,000 people calling on the Obama administration to fire the U.S. District Attorney in charge of prosecuting Aaron Swartz might have new ammunition in their fight.The 26-year-old Reddit co-founder killed himself last week in his New York City apartment.
His family has blamed the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and federal prosecutors for his death, claiming the pending criminal hacking charges against him caused Swartz to take his own life.
And now Swartz's former lawyer Andy Good has claimed in an interview with The Boston Globe that prosecutor Steve Heymann knew the Internet activist was a suicide risk but wouldn't relent.
"The thing that galls me is that I told Heymann the kid was a suicide risk," Good told the Globe. "His reaction was a standard reaction in that office, not unique to Steve. He said, 'Fine, we'll lock him up.' I'm not saying they made Aaron kill himself. Aaron might have done this anyway. I'm saying they were aware of the risk, and they were heedless."
Elliot Peters, Swartz's lawyer at the time of his death, said he encountered that same hardball attitude when prosecutors refused to negotiate a plea deal that would have resulted in no prison time for the 26-year-old, the Globe reported.
Peters says prosecutors demanded that Swartz plead guilty to 13 felonies and spend six months behind bars.
"There was such rigidity with the people we were dealing with," Peters told the Globe. "I couldn't find anyone in that office to talk about proportionality and humanity. It was driven by a desire to turn this into a significant case, so that some prosecutor could put it in his portfolio."
Previously, Peters told Business Insider he believes he would have won the case, in part because the government didn't get a search warrant until 34 days after it seized his laptop.
"The gov was really in trouble there," Peters wrote in an email.
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Unauthorized withdrawals made from Falls woman's account
NIAGARA FALLS – A 27th Street woman told police on Sunday that someone has been using her bank account information to make unauthorized withdrawals at area convenience stores.
The victim learned that $743 had been withdrawn from her account at 7-Eleven stores on Niagara Street and Pine Avenue in recent days. She said she was not missing any bank cards and did not know how anyone could have accessed her private information.


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Sitting in dusty file cabinets at Connecticut's environmental agency are tens of thousands of reports by licensed landscapers, lawn-care professionals and farmers about how much pesticide they are putting down each year.
No one is reading them. No one has ever read them or totaled the numbers since the reporting law was first passed in the 1980s. Which means no one has any idea how much pesticide is actually being used in this state on lawns, school grounds, in parks and on agricultural land.
"No one's adding the figures up," says Dr. Jerome Silbert, executive director of the Watershed Partnership. "There's no way to know what the trends are."