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A week after the Fox River overflowed its banks and sent water crashing into his house, Antonio Gualtieri still was cleaning up.
"There is still a little film left on the floor from the Fox River," said Gualtieri, who lives on Tuscola Avenue in the Valley View area of St. Charles Township, facing the Fox River.
He estimated six inches of water entered his house as heavy rains fell April 18, representing the worst flooding Gualtieri has seen since he has lived there for the past six or seven years.
"The water's been up before, but it never got into the house," he said. "It never got this bad."
Those living near the river face the risk of such flooding during heavy rain events. And the area took a hard hit in April, with some suffering damage to their property. Despite that, some residents say they still enjoy the benefits and that they can live with the downside.
Gualtieri doesn't plan to move. He loves the area too much.
"The sunsets are unbelievable," he said. "Nobody bothers you out here. It is real quiet."
One of his neighbors, Gina Settipani, also has memories of flooding in the neighborhood. But she wouldn't trade the quiet beauty her neighborhood provides.
"It's pretty peaceful out here for the most part," Settipani said.
Gualtieri still is assessing how much damage the flooding caused. His garage is full of thousands of dollars of woodworking equipment, and he didn't have flood insurance.
"Flood insurance is $200 a month. Who can afford that?" asked Gualtieri, who is a disabled veteran living on a limited income. He makes a few extra dollars by selling items such as custom made pens that he makes out of tropical wood.
"It's how I survive," he said. "What am I supposed to do now?"
Settipani fared much better.
"Water only got into the crawl space," she said. "We had sandbagged in front of the house. The water completely covered the front yard."
This isn't the first time that Settipani, who has lived in her house for more than 10 years, has seen flooding in her neighborhood.
"In 2007, it seemed worse," she said. "It can be scary."
The Kane County Supervisor of Assessments' office is beginning the process of reassessing property damaged during the storms. Kane County Board Chairman Chris Lauzen and Gov. Pat Quinn have declared Kane County to be a major disaster area, which triggers the disaster area reassessment provisions of the Illinois Property Tax Code.
The Natural Disaster Homestead Exemption covers residential structures occupied by an owner that is rebuilt after the flooding. This exemption was enacted in 2012 by the General Assembly and is available this year for the first time. To be eligible, the residential structure must be rebuilt within two years and have a square footage of no more than 110 percent of the prior structure. Information is available by calling the Kane County Assessment Office at 630-208-3818 or visiting Kane County's website, www.countyofkane.org.
According to the National Weather Service, the Chicago area received 8.65 inches of rain in April, making it the wettest April on record for Chicago, breaking the previous record of 8.33 inches of rain set in April 1947.
"The last time we had this much flooding was in 2008," said Don Bryant, director of the Kane County Office of Emergency Management.
His office helped 940 homes affected by the April 18 flooding, about as many as it helped in 2008.
"We distributed sandbags and cleanup kits to those affected residents, along with connecting them to social service agencies that can help," Bryant said.
Bryant is keeping an eye on forecasts that call for more rain Thursday and Friday. Conditions right now are improving, he said.
"We are seeing the Fox River recede," he said. "It is down to 11.5 feet in Algonquin. It is down about a foot."
He cautioned residents, especially those living along the Fox River, that they always need to be prepared for the possibility of flooding after heavy rains.
"They need to be aware of their situation," Bryant said. "If they live by the river, they should be aware that the river will flood."
Two subdivisions in Sugar Grove that have been long plagued by flooding – Mallard Point and Rolling Oaks subdivisions – did not experience problems this time around after recent improvements were made.
"They did not experience any flooding from the reports I heard," said Paul Schuch, director of water resources for Kane County. "We are quite pleased with the drainage improvements they made."
But he said some homes in Aurora Township were hard hit by the flooding.
"These are homes in older subdivisions that were built prior to the current regulations regarding stormwater improvement," Schuch said.
Those who were affected are dealing with the issues. And despite what happened to his home, Gualtieri is trying to remain optimistic.
"Tomorrow is another day," he said.


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I used a tasty, firm, local black pepper tofu, but any good tofu will work well.
1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
1/4 cup fresh oregano
1/4 cup fresh parsley
1 large garlic clove
scant 1/4 teaspoon fine grain sea salt
1/4 cup chopped hazelnuts, toasted
1 cup cooked brown rice, cold
6 ounces pan-fried tofu, cut into thin strips
1 medium, ripe avocado, thinly sliced
6-8 rice paper wrappers
First, make the oregano sauce by combining the olive oil oregano, parsley, garlic, and salt in a food processor. Pulse until smooth. Transfer to a jar, any you don't use in the rolls, you can use on eggs, rice, or pasta later. Combine the hazelnuts and rice.
Assemble the spring rolls: In bowl of hot water, dip each rice paper wrapper for just 3 seconds. Resist over-soaking, even if the paper is a bit stiff it will continue to absorb water as you assemble the wrap. Place on a flat work surface, and in the bottom third of the wrapper, arrange a bit of rice, a smear of the oregano sauce, a few tofu strips, and a few slices of avocado (see lead photo). Then, tuck and roll, folding in the edges mid-wrap.
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Recorded phone calls lead to ex-husband's sex charge
A 39-year-old man was arrested Tuesday after his ex-wife provided recordings of phone calls in which the man admitted sexually assaulting her several years ago, according to the Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office.
Deputies said the woman had an order of protection against her ex-husband and was separated from him when he sexually assaulted her in April 2008.
The arrest warrant said the woman was also a victim of kidnapping, robbery, extortion and burglary.
The ex-husband, whose name is not being released to protect the identity of the victim, was arrested after the woman made a statement and provided the recorded calls that were then copied by the Sheriff's Office.


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Eleven murder cases stemming from crimes committed as far back as 2009 are currently making their way through the criminal justice system. Six of the killings were committed in 2012.
Man found dead in Bat Cave
Co-workers of Walter Cleveland Davis, 52, found him dead in his home at 27 Minihaha Drive in Bat Cave on Oct. 11. They went to check on him after he failed to show up to work at the Esmeralda Inn Wednesday and Thursday, which they told officers was unusual for Davis.
Davis was bludgeoned to death, said Capt. Frank Stout of the Henderson County Sheriff's Office. Investigators are waiting on autopsy reports to confirm how long Davis had been deceased.
Twenty-nine-year-old Daniel Clay Moore, a houseguest of the deceased, was found with personal property belonging to Davis. He has been charged with first-degree murder, larceny and possession of stolen goods. He is set to appear in Henderson County Superior Court on Dec. 17.
Police: Woman runs over boyfriend
Morgan Elizabeth Bishop, 24, of Summit Knoll Park, was charged with first-degree murder after police say she killed Roger Stuart Moody, 45, of the same address, with her car at about 11:30 p.m. June 29 on U.S. Highway 176 in East Flat Rock.
Investigators found Bishop's Honda, the vehicle they believe struck Moody, while they were notifying Moody's next of kin of his death. Police say the couple had a history of domestic violence.
Bishop is being held in lieu of $500,000 bond. Attorney Greg Newman requested a mental health evaluation conducted Aug. 17, which found that his client "was capable of proceeding," according to court records. Bishop is set to appear in front of a grand jury on June 24.
Man dies after motel brawl
Roy Franklyn Fisher, 50, was charged with second-degree murder after a fight at Bonaire Motel on May 10 ended in the death of 53-year-old Randal Honeycutt.
An autopsy revealed that Honeycutt died from blunt force trauma to his head. He was pronounced dead at Pardee Hospital. A toxicology report showed Honeycutt's blood alcohol level at the time of his death was .29, three times the legal limit for driving.
Relatives say a hospital turned Fisher away when he came to the hospital the night before the shooting in need of mental health treatment.
Fisher was being held in the Henderson County Detention Center in lieu of a $200,000 secured bond. He is set to appear in Superior Court on June 24.
Man gunned down at flea market
Police say Paul Allen Bradish, 59, of Asheville was gunned down at Smiley's Flea Market Feb. 26. Witnesses say the shooting happened after an argument Bradish had with Otha Ray Barefoot, 26, of Greer, S.C., over the prices of tools they were selling.
Bradish was shot five times, according to an autopsy, which found that he died from a non-exiting gunshot wound to the head.
Barefoot has been charged with murder. He was released from the Henderson County Detention Center on a $250,000 secured bond on May 3. He is scheduled to appear in Superior Court June 24.
Suspected suicide ends in murder charge
A Saluda man faces a murder charge in connection with the February death of his friend, Joshua William Lindsay, 23. According to investigative reports, Lindsay had been staying at a lake house with friends and was found dead in a bedroom.
Lindsay's death was initially reported as a self-inflicted gunshot wound at 2643 Macedonia Rd. in Saluda on Feb. 22. Brandon Cody-Lee Case, 23, was later charged with his murder.
An autopsy report revealed other injuries, including blunt force trauma with lacerations and abrasions on his forehead, nose, left cheek, left hand and contusions on his lower extremities. According to the autopsy, Lindsay died from a large caliber, non-exiting gunshot wound to the face and neck at an indeterminate range.
Case was released in June on a $500,000 bond and is set to appear before a grand jury June 24.
Man confesses to wife's killing
Shelby Wilkie had hired a divorce lawyer and was going to leave her husband, who had been charged with assaulting her in March, friends and family members said. But the 38-year-old new mother never got the chance.
Wilkie's body was found Dec. 29, 2011 and her husband, Michael Leroy Wilkie of Hendersonville, was arrested and charged with her murder. Police say he has confessed to the killing.
Search warrants state that Shelby Wilkie told family members she planned to leave her husband Jan. 4 and that "Michael had threatened to kill her if she tried to leave him."
The warrants state that a Luminol examination of the couple's Moody Street home indicates blood splatter, pooling and drag marks.
Investigators found Shelby Wilkie's remains in a 55-gallon barrel near the home of Michael Wilkie's parents off Kanuga Lake Road, where they said he fled with remnants of her body burned in the barrel behind the Moody Street residence.
Wilkie is set to appear in Henderson County Superior Court Dec. 17.
Man charged in strangulation death of girlfriend
A woman found dead in her Hendersonville home in January 2011 was bound and gagged, sexually assaulted and choked to death, according to an autopsy. Police said her three young children were in the home when authorities discovered her body.
Officers found Victoria Jon-Baptiste, 27, at 12:40 p.m. Jan. 12 at 1119 Park St. Her hands were bound with a telephone cord that extended from around her neck and back to her hands, according to the report.
The cause of death was listed as asphyxiation caused by strangulation.
Jon-Baptiste's boyfriend, Eric Cornell Wilson, has been charged with her murder. His address, according to court records, was the same as Jon-Baptiste's.
Wilson is being held in the Henderson County jail in lieu of a $250,000 secured bond. He was originally charged with the second-degree kidnapping of Jon-Baptiste and violating a restraining order, but those charges were upgraded to first-degree murder.
Jon-Baptiste was granted a domestic violence protective order against Wilson in November 2010, and that order was to remain in effect until Nov. 22, 2011, according to court records. Wilson is set to appear before a grand jury on Dec. 17.
Man shot and killed answering knock at motel door
Thomas Tinajero, 36, died of a gunshot wound to the head after answering a knock on his hotel room door in October at the Southern Aire Motel on Chimney Rock Road. He was taken to a hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.
The man charged with his murder had a clean record until the Oct. 4, 2011 shooting. Police arrested Jonathan Chad Walker, 34, of Fletcher shortly after the shooting when Walker's truck crashed through a nearby fence. Neighbors called 911 when they heard the collision and came out to investigate. They said that the suspect yelled, "They are chasing me, call the police!"
Walker has been charged with first-degree murder and discharging a weapon into an occupied dwelling. Prosecutors announced in November 2011 that they would not seek the death penalty because the case lacked necessary aggravating factors under the law and Walker had no prior criminal record.
Walker is set to appear in Henderson County Superior Court on June 24.
Man charged with murder after week on the lam
In April 2011, the Transylvania County Sheriff's Office led a nearly week-long manhunt to find Charles Richard O'Shields, who was charged with the first-degree murder in the shooting death of Toby Maxwell Mathis, 27, of Lake Toxaway.
The Sheriff's Office said O'Shields walked into the Dollar General in Rosman on April 6 and shot Mathis five times then fled in an SUV driven by his sister.
Investigators said the shooting was prompted by O'Shields' anger over Mathis' role in the death of O'Shields' son. Mathis had been charged with involuntary manslaughter after 20-year-old Joey Michael O'Shields fell to his death from the back of a pickup truck in December 2010. Mathis had been driving the truck at the time.
O'Shields is set to appear in Transylvania County Superior Court on April 15.
Former public servant charged in wife's murder
A former police officer with a long history of public service was charged with murder in 2011 after the death of his wife.
According to court records, Travis McGraw, 45, told a woman he was romantically involved with that he was planning to end his marriage to Vanessa Mintz, 53, the weekend Mintz was murdered.
McGraw is charged with the first-degree murder of Mintz, who died from a gunshot wound to the head on Feb. 19, 2011 at Saluda Mountain Lodge, a family business. McGraw, of Hendersonville, was arrested four days after Mintz's body was found.
McGraw had no prior criminal record or history of domestic violence, according to his attorney, Tony Dalton.
Dalton told the court that his client is "an EMT, firefighter and was in the U.S. Air Force until he was honorably discharged in the fall of last year. He is a disabled policeman from the Fletcher Police Department." He told the judge that McGraw "built his life doing public service."
Assistant District Attorney Beth Dierauf said McGraw had been given an ultimatum by his mistress to tell Mintz about the affair.
McGraw's most recent appearance in court was in October, when it was decided he would not face the death penalty and his bond was set at $750,000. He remains in Polk County jail. The next court date for McGraw has not been determined, according to the Polk County Clerk of Court's office.
Woman's charred remains found along Parkway
The charred remains of a pregnant Mountain Home woman were found by a passerby along the Blue Ridge Parkway near mile marker 395 in Buncombe County in October 2009.
An autopsy report showed 21-year-old Misty Lynn Carter died of chop wounds to the head. The North Henderson High School graduate was six weeks pregnant. A driver spotted her unclothed body on the side of the Parkway at 6:32 a.m. Oct. 19, 2009.
Investigators suspect Carter was not alive when her body was set on fire. According to investigative reports, Carter was found with a singed sheet and melted plastic wrapped around her head.
Jermaine Deprie Glover, 39, was indicted for first-degree murder by a grand jury and is being held in the Henderson County Detention Center under a $1 million bond. His address was listed as the same as Carter's, but he was not the father of her unborn child.
His public defender, Todd Williams, said that at the time of the crime, Glover had traveled to South Carolina and returned to Henderson County later that night.
Glover's next court date is set for Feb. 25.
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Black Market Serotonin is a three-piece Manchester-based electronic rock band. Combining smatterings of prog and some cerebral pop elements, their sound draws deeply upon 90s alternative bands like Nine Inch Nails, Deftones, Vex Red and Failure. Coming from varying musical backgrounds, but with a shared artistic and philosophical vision, the band came together to produce walls of noise and synth-laden soundscapes fueled by a passion for music and a frustration at the 21st Century's measures of happiness.
After forming in mid 2010 and working hard to refine their sound and live performance, the trio released the "DeadByFiveOClock" EP to rapturous online reviews. Dom Lawson from Classic Rock: Prog described it as "an important line drawn in the creative sand"; 2013 will see them make good on this promise, with the release of Something from Nothing through Manchester label Superstar Destroyer Records.
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Norwich alderwoman announces bid for mayor
Norwich — Democratic Alderwoman Deberey Hinchey hopes to make history next fall by being elected the first female mayor in the city.
She might have broken ground already Tuesday with her official announcement as a mayoral candidate, as longtime local political activists and local historians could not recall any female mayoral candidate in city history.
"It was pretty much a male preserve," city Historian Dale Plummer said of early 20th century mayoral races.
During the years when Norwich did not have a mayor, however, Bonnie Hong won the top elected spot as City Council president.
Hinchey, 60, a clinical social worker for VNA-East in Mansfield, said Tuesday she would leave her full-time job if she wins the mayoral seat next November, saying the city needs a mayor who is available during the day.
Current Republican Mayor Peter Nystrom has not yet announced whether he will run for a second term, but he has said he is leaning toward seeking re-election. Nystrom works for United Parcel Service.
Hinchey said she would work to better coordinate city agencies to work for economic development. Hinchey said currently, 53 percent of the city's tax base is from property taxes. During the recent unsuccessful campaign to build a $33 million police station, Hinchey said many residents she talked to supported the project, as she did, but decided they just couldn't afford another tax burden.
She said it shouldn't be a difficult job to market the city of Norwich to businesses, given assets such as Norwich Free Academy, Mohegan Park, the waterfront, the Thomas J. Dodd Memorial Stadium and the financially struggling Norwich Municipal Ice Rink that she worked to save last spring.
"I have great faith that we in Norwich are on the cusp of great change," Hinchey said.
Hinchey made her announcement in a crowded conference room at her husband Lloyd Hinchey's law office at 120 Broadway with about 15 family members, friends, supporters and party leaders.
Democratic Town Committee Chairman Frank Manfredi and fellow Alderman Francois "Pete" Desaulniers, council president pro tempore, attended, along with other town committee members.
Manfredi said no other Democrats have contacted the town committee to express interest.
"I wanted to get behind Deb early and let people know she is the best candidate for the city," Manfredi said.
The party nominating convention will be held in May.
Several supporters said they worked with Hinchey in recent years on political campaigns and other issues. Hinchey referred to herself and Desaulniers as "a duo" who worked together to try to rescue the ice rink and on other projects.
"The charter says the mayor is the official representative of the city, and that's what I intend to be," Hinchey said.
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Review: Apple iPod nano (Seventh-Generation)
Company: Apple Computer
Website: www.Apple.com
Model: iPod nano (seventh-generation)
Price: $149 (16GB)
Compatible: PC/Mac
Pros: A return to the tall and thin form factor that was most popular in past iPod nanos, including eight different color options, the first 2.5" screen on an iPod nano, and a touchscreen interface. The first nano to include Bluetooth, with excellent wireless range, audio and limited non-audio accessory compatibility, and support for new Bluetooth 4 devices. Once again capable of playing videos and usefully rendering photos on its display, with small audio and radio improvements, plus newly packed-in EarPod earphones. Includes Nike+ Sensor support without the need for a dongle. Improved audio playback time versus predecessor.
Cons: Despite small resolution improvements, screen quality is mediocre by comparison with other screened iPods and iPhones, and multi-touch functionality is extremely limited. Apart from Bluetooth support, most features were executed just as well if not better in 2009 fifth-generation model; battery life for video playback is now markedly lower. Loses prior watch-ready size and shape that were popular with some users, as well as many clock faces, while omitting a number of features found on the fifth-generation nano, apparently including TV-out functionality. Use of Lightning connector breaks compatibility with some past accessories, and nano sits unusually on Apple's Lightning to 30-Pin Adapter, which isn't included.
The prior collection of apps represented the seventh-generation iPod nano's core features, but there are a handful of other capabilities, all carried over from the sixth-generation model. Most are similar if not better, but some have seen old features removed or reduced, as well.
Photos: The sixth-generation iPod nano's Photos mode was nearly a joke, thanks to the tiny square screen and truly horrible quality TV output of the images. Apple has fixed these issues in two ways: by returning the screen to a more natural shape, and by removing the nano's ability to output photos to a television. Photographs more naturally fit the new screen, automatically rotate based on the device's orientation, and can be pinch- or tap-zoomed at least a little. They look reasonable given the small screen, but not great, and nowhere near as impressive as on any iPod touch.
It's worth noting that iTunes has to process photos before they reach the nano, which radically reduces their file sizes while preserving enough fidelity to make the images viewable without complaints on the smaller screen. Lists leading to 3x5 grids of images let you choose from whatever you've synchronized, preserving the event or folder organization from your favorite image library program. Currently available iTunes 10.7 becomes extremely sluggish when processing photos for the nano, dragging out simple synchronizations even when no new images are being added to the device; hopefully Apple will improve the speed in a forthcoming iTunes update.
As with prior iPod nanos, there's a very limited slideshow mode to automatically display pictures in sequence on the screen. Apple now provides zero control over transitions—images just fade in, overlapping whatever was last on the screen; you can only change the duration of the images. This is a step backwards from the fifth-generation iPod nano, and again, there's no TV output for slideshows, another step back, though the number of people displaying iPod nano photos on TVs has likely dropped considerably over the past few years. Regardless of these changes, the device's improved screen makes for a better overall photo viewing experience.
Radio: As has been the case with earlier FM radio-equipped iPod nanos, Apple requires you to connect any pair of wired earphones to this model in order to tune in stations. The earphones are actually used as the nano's antenna, creating much greater surface area for picking up radio signals than any internal FM antenna it could have squeezed inside. Without wired earphones attached, the nano's Radio app will be inactive and light gray; notably, current Bluetooth headphones are not capable of serving as an antenna.
The new Radio interface is nearly identical to the fifth-generation nano's. Large numbers in the center of the screen tell you the current station, with RDS text appearing above them when available. You can now scroll through channels with a tuner, or use seek buttons to change stations. Additional buttons can be called up to activate TiVo-like time-shifting effects, including a pause button, a scrubber bar to move through temporarily recorded radio audio, and buttons to skip forward or back in the audio.
A settings button brings up options to automatically locate local stations, create favorites, tag songs that interest you for later purchase on iTunes, and look at lists of recently played songs. These features are now accessible via a couple of taps on the screen rather than holding down a Click Wheel button—not hugely different. Apple appears to have quietly improved the radio tuner in the new nano, however, as stations tend to have a little less static than on the prior model, and a crisper overall presentation, even when using the exact same pair of earphones on both devices. If you're still a fan of radio, the new nano is a better performer than before: a little easier to use, with better sound.
Clock: One area in which the iPod nano has taken a marked step down is in clock functionality. Initially mentioned at an Apple special event with a wink from Steve Jobs, the idea of using the prior square iPod nano as a wristwatch quickly took off with some people, and wristbands quickly became the primary accessory for the new device. Apple supported the idea by stocking wristbands, and then adding additional clock features in a 2011 software update, creating a total of 18 different alternative watch faces that could appear as the first thing seen when the nano woke up from a power-saving mode.
The new nano doesn't work as a watch, so Apple has unceremoniously dumped almost all of its prior clock designs. Now, there are six, all but one color-matched to whichever metal skin you've chosen for your nano. They're all solely for portrait orientation use, without the ability to rotate into widescreen mode. Three look to have been hastily cobbled together, while the other three are very similar to one another, including a three-face world clock—in the Settings menu, you can choose two additional cities besides your own to display on the screen. Apple also includes Stopwatch and Timer features from the prior iPod nano, each only modestly reformatted to fit the new display.
Overall, the new Clock application feels like a step back from the last version, and while this isn't surprising given the changes to the new nano's form factor, it would have been great to see Apple find some way to advance a new feature that people enjoyed last time around.
Settings: Apple has slightly streamlined this menu, while carrying over a long-awaited iOS change to the nano: a menu for Bluetooth is up at the top, and easy to access, with General, Music, Video, Radio, and Photos options below.
Continuing what it started with the sixth-generation nano, Apple has pared down options in the seventh-generation model, eliminating the ability to change the length of time the screen remains bright while inactive, amongst a number of other features. While music and radio settings are the same as before, video options have been removed relative to the fifth-generation nano, including the absence of TV-out functionality, though Apple preserves toggles for alternate audio, captions, and subtitles, plus the ability to start videos from the beginning or last played point. Similarly, photo choices have been cut down, including the elimination of transitions and TV-out functionality.
Voice Memos: Hidden unless you plug in an accessory with a microphone—such as the standard version of EarPods—this application does away with the handsome classical microphone image found on the fifth-generation iPod nano, and the more functional VU meter found on the sixth-generation model, in favor of a boring screen with a prominent numeric timer, a simple green audio level meter, and two buttons: one to start and stop recording, the other to let you access a timestamped list of your prior recordings.
Memos can be heard on the nano immediately after they've been recorded, and are automatically transferred to your iTunes library during synchronization. Just like the prior-generation model, they're encoded as 44.1kHz AAC files at 128kbps, in stereo despite the fact that the audio is actually monaural, and requiring roughly 1MB per minute of recording time. The nano remains just fine as a voice recorder, though the absence of a built-in or included microphone practically limits the utility of this feature relative to the fifth-generation model, and the lack of Lightning microphone accessories doesn't help, either. Two different Blue Mikeys we tested with a Lightning to 30-Pin Adapter failed to even bring up the Voice Memos icon; one raised a persistent "unsupported accessory" dialogue box, and the other did nothing at all.
While that wraps up the built-in apps, it's worth a brief mention that a variety of other software features from the fifth-generation nano that disappeared in the last model remain absent here. Alarms, Cover Flow, games, calendars, contacts, and notes are all missing from the nano, and though none of these features is critically important, some users will notice their absence.
Editors' Note: iLounge only reviews products in "final" form, but many companies now change their offerings - sometimes several times - after our reviews have been published. This iLounge article provides more information on this practice, known as revving.


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Ninon Völkers, President of the Engel & Völkers Charity e.V., spent a week in September visiting pupils at the "L'école privée Engel & Völkers" in Togo. She took the opportunity on her trip to sit down with school headmaster Robert Nyagbe and other project members including her mother Ingrid van Aalst to discuss the future prospects of the children in detail. "In around one year from now, the first children will be finishing their education at our primary school. Our plans for a secondary school are becoming more and more definite. During my stay we managed to find a plot for the new school building. This land has been provided to us by Elias Ahadzi, who originally brought the Engel & Völkers Charity's school project to life together with my mother," said Ninon Völkers.
In Togo the new school year begins in October. Ninon Völkers reported as follows: "Once again this year, another 20 children in Agbetiko have been lucky enough to start attending school. Now every single place in our two school buildings is occupied with 140 children attending altogether."
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A few days ago, with just a few minutes to play online and for no good reason, I ran a search for 'Causier Astmore', the surnames of my 6th-great-grandparents Sacheverell CAUSIER and Betty ASTMORE. Only a few results came up and one was to a Facebook page.
Wow! It's entitled 'Family Causier' and has about 81 members as of today. The 'officer' is cousin John Causier, apparently of the UK. There're a lot of wonderful photos, other info, and contacts with Causier cousins (only a handful with whom I've had previous contact). It seems to be a serious genealogy group and not just a social group. Photos include one of Charles & Catherine Causier with their children.
It has a link to the fine website "Causier Family of Dunchurch, Dodderhill & Droitwich" by cousin Martin. I've used this site before, but not for a while and this was a good reminder.
Great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents Sacheverell Causier & Betty Astmore apparently married in 1744, possibly in Droitwich, Worcester, England. My line of descent from them is:
Sacheverell Causier = Betty Astmore
Sacheverell Causier = Elizabeth Wood
Sacheverell Causier = Sarah Hunt
William Causier = Ann Tolley
Charles Causier = Catherine Hughes
Ann Matilda Causier = John Henry Carr
Bertha Maud Carr, my grandmother
Who knows what other great things I may find if I join Facebook or otherwise contact all these new cousins?!


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For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.—Acts 4:20
There is a large amount of ineffective Christian testimony among us today. Much of it is well-intended, I am sure—honest and sincere. We do the best we can with what we have. But our performance turns out to be something like that of the salesman promoting fountain pens. He tries to make a case for his product, but his would-be customers know he really thinks ballpoints are far more practical.
Too much of our Christian witnessing is unconvincing because we have not been convinced. We are ineffectual because we have not yet capitulated to the Lord from glory. It is like the proselyte making proselytes....
Perhaps this is happening because we are trying to plan how everything should happen. Everyone of us reads a little how-to book on witnessing. We try to do it the way we have been taught. But it is perfunctory and without any contagious element. If angels can weep, they must weep salty tears upon seeing a proselyte who has never really met the Lord making another proselyte who will also never meet the Lord. Faith Beyond Reason, pp. 101-102
"Out of the abundance of a heart filled with love for You let me speak today. Let me see You this morning in a way that will cause me to leave this prayer time with a renewed passion to minister. Amen."
Reprinted from Tozer on Christian Leadership by A.W. Tozer, copyright © 2001 by Zur Ltd. Used by permission of WingSpread Publishers, a division of Zur Ltd.
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"Dear God,
Despite the fact that making it rain in Texas was too much to ask you for, even though it would have saved lives, eliminated suffering for tens of thousands of your biggest and most devoted fans, and, let's face it, been nothing but a simple wave of the hand for your supreme awesomeness. I mean, come on, a little rain? For the guy who created, you know, light? The Heavens and the Earth? All the living things that walk and crawl upon it and fly above it and swim in the big blue sea? You made, what? Volcanoes and Earthquakes and cats? I mean how goddamned – excuse me – hard could a little rain be? But never mind that, praise Jesus."
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He was praying that nobody finds out about his college transcript.
yea, but the course was certainly taught by "no nothing" liberal professors. If they were any good with economics they would be on wallstreet, not teaching a bunch of rednecks in texas.
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Growth of Composting Strains Oversight of Industry
by William Harless, California Watch
California's next big step in recycling – composting its meat scraps, broken egg shells, coffee grounds and other detritus of eating – is straining the state's ability to effectively manage the ever-growing and sometimes dangerous industry.
In October, 16-year-old Armando Ramirez and his brother, 22-year-old Heladio Ramirez, died of poisoning after Armando had been cleaning out a stormwater drain at the Community Recycling & Resource Recovery composting facility near Bakersfield. Heladio had gone down a hole and into the drain to rescue his brother.
The two undocumented workers inhaled hydrogen sulfide, a poisonous gas that sewage can generate. According to county documents, the facility near Lamont used discharged sewage water from an adjacent utility district to moisten its composting piles.
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The brothers' mother, Faustina Ramirez, filed a lawsuit in January against Community Recycling & Resource Recovery seeking at least $25,000 in damages, including funeral and burial expenses. She said she believes the company should have hired a professional service to clean the stormwater drains.
"What happened with my children was negligence – because they didn't give them protection and because they knew what was going on in that site, and they sent them," she said in an interview.
The private facility where the brothers were working is the largest of the more than 97 active, permitted composting facilities scattered across the state. Despite years of land-use violations, trash complaints, an order by Kern County to cease operations and a $2.3 million fine, a judge has allowed the Community Recycling site to remain open as it battles the county in court.
The facility had been taking food scraps from Los Angeles, Beverly Hills and other Southern California cities, but Los Angeles stopped sending residential food scraps to Community Recycling in 2010, when Kern County informed the city that the company didn't have a permit to accept the scraps.
After the deaths of the Ramirez brothers, Los Angeles then suspended a roughly $5 million yearly contract with Community Recycling for disposing yard trimmings, which also were dumped in Kern County.
Other California cities have faced problems with the regulation of composting operations. At least four composting facilities other than Community Recycling have been cited for serious health and safety violations between 2006 and 2008, according to federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration documents. The state agency Cal/OSHA, however, does not maintain a compilation of workplace injuries specific to composting facilities because the agency does not classify the industry as high-hazard.
Mark Oldfield, a spokesman for the state Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, better known as CalRecycle, said none of the local agencies charged with enforcing state waste regulations have ever shut down a composting facility, but one facility in San Luis Obispo voluntarily shuttered when it could not resolve its odor problems.
In 2010, Solano County ordered the city of San Francisco's private compost hauler, Recology, to cut roughly in half the amount of compost it sends to a facility in Vacaville. Nearby residents had complained of a stench, despite advanced technology at the plant to reduce odors: vacuums that suck air from above covered piles of composting material. Recology says the smell was the result of an initial, faulty installation of the technology, which the company says it has corrected.
In San Francisco, trucks now pick up about 570 tons of food waste daily from homes, restaurants, apartment buildings, grocery stores and other facilities and haul much of it about 75 miles away to two facilities south of the city, in Modesto and Gilroy. Some of it still goes to Vacaville.
Recology said it has taken steps to improve the smell at the Vacaville facility, but county officials say some odor still exists. According to Solano County staff, in 2011, the county health department received 75 complaints from 15 households about odor at the site, though not all of the complaints were verified.
Jack Macy, a waste coordinator for the City and County of San Francisco, said, however, he is concerned that just a few odor complaints could so significantly affect the operation.
"That honestly is a real problem with the way that compost facilities are regulated in the state ... the fact that you can have somebody complain and effectively shut down or roll back a facility," Macy said in an interview. "I've been on that site many times over the years, and there's less odor at that site now than there has been in the past, and if you're standing at the site, it barely smells."
In the southern Central Valley, the situation was more hazardous.
Drive east along a desolate strip of two-lane road about 20 miles south of central Bakersfield, and odors of garbage, sewage and cow manure hit you hard. Trash litters the road, the air is hazy, and the odors vary from a strong acidic smell to something like rancid beer. Bordering the road are grape fields, two dairies, property belonging to a local sewage treatment agency, and the Community Recycling & Resource Recovery facility.
Armando Ramirez was cleaning out a stormwater drain with a high-pressure hose on Oct. 12 when he was overcome with fumes and lost consciousness. Trying to rescue his brother from the drain, Heladio Ramirez then lost consciousness. Armando died that day, and his brother was taken off life support a few days later.
Armando died in an industrial accident, making a civil suit for his death difficult to win under the law. Faustina Ramirez's lawsuit against Community Recycling only mentions the older brother, Heladio, because he worked for A & B Harvesting. Her lawsuit argues that Community Recycling created unsafe conditions for Heladio while he was working on Community Recycling property.
Faustina Ramirez was in King City, where she worked in celery and lettuce fields, when she received the call that her children had been injured.
"I was screaming. I didn't even know what to do. I wanted to just start running to get here, and it was impossible to get here," said Faustina Ramirez, speaking at the office of Salvador Partida, a tax preparer and activist in Arvin, near the Community Recycling facility. Partida's office is a meeting ground for many of the Mexican immigrants who live in the area and work in agricultural fields.
Faustina Ramirez moved to the United States from Mexico 10 years ago. Her sons crossed the border two years ago. She has one other child, an 18-year-old daughter, and a granddaughter who still live in Mexico. In Oaxaca, before she moved to the U.S. to earn more money, Faustina Ramirez made hand-woven baskets.
In 1993, when the Community Recycling facility opened, the company had to go through a California Environmental Quality Act review and submitted paperwork indicating the composting facility would cause no significant environmental harm, according to Charles Collins, deputy county counsel in Kern County. An environmental impact report was finally ordered in 2010.
No government agency was regularly monitoring the facility for hydrogen sulfide, the gas that killed the Ramirez brothers. State investigators have yet to release their findings about how exactly the hydrogen sulfide was generated.
Lorelei Oviatt, director of the Kern County Planning and Community Development Department, told the county's Board of Supervisors at a meeting after the brothers' deaths that "our files do not show any evidence of a detailed analysis of the possibilities of these types of gases. Therefore, we would not have made any recommendations, and your board would not have knowledge of them."
Cal/OSHA, which oversees workplace safety regulations in California, issued an order barring entry into the drain soon after the brothers died, but Community Recycling then hired a professional company to clean the drain in violation of the order, according to Cal/OSHA.
Ellen Widess, chief of Cal/OSHA, which is investigating the Ramirezes' deaths, said the 190-acre Community Recycling site wasn't on the agency's radar. "This place was unknown to us," Widess said in a phone interview.
Community Recycling is the sister company of Crown Disposal, based in Sun Valley. According to Beverly Hills officials, Crown Disposal has a $5.5 million waste disposal contract with that city. Los Angeles has a three-year, $1 million annual contract with Crown Disposal for removal of construction debris from public projects and, until November, maintained a contract with Community Recycling for yard waste disposal.
Crown Disposal and Community Recycling representatives did not return calls for comment.
The deaths of the Ramirez brothers highlight the dangerous side of the waste industry. In 2009, three men died of hydrogen sulfide poisoning at a recycling facility in New York that also had been cited by OSHA for prior violations.
David Utterback, a coordinator for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, which makes recommendations for worker safety regulations for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, lamented that even facilities with prior violations are allowed to operate with potential substantial hazards.
"OSHA has far too few inspectors to keep on top of each facility," Utterback said. "It does prioritize inspections, and re-inspection of serious offenders is a factor. Still, that is likely to occur months to a few years after the initial inspection unless they receive a complaint."
At the Community Recycling site where the Ramirez brothers died, other problems have arisen over the past few years.
In early 2008, Kern County Code Compliance staff found that "residual plastic bags and wrapping material leftover from the composting process had blown around the site and onto adjacent sites and agricultural crops," according to a county report. "The perimeter screening fence had also accumulated excessive amounts of trash and debris."
According to Mark de Bie, deputy director of the waste permitting, compliance and mitigation division of CalRecycle, fully permitted composting facilities such as Community Recycling are subject to monthly, unannounced inspections by the local waste enforcement agency – in this case, Kern County's Environmental Health Services Division – to ensure they aren't accepting hazardous waste and other inappropriate materials. The state's Integrated Waste Management Act doesn't classify plastic or approved compostable material as hazardous.
But Denny Larson, executive director of the El Cerrito environmental group Global Community Monitor, said he believes composting facilities, in general, are under-regulated.
"It appears that it's a very good environmentally friendly thing – the compost," Larson said. But, "I just don't think we really know what's really brought into these facilities. ... They take anything from anybody from anywhere."
Residents continue to complain about plastic litter from the site. And an ill wind still runs through Kern County. Faustina Ramirez said she thinks of her children when, on warm days, a foul stench enters the trailer where she lives as she awaits the results of her lawsuit against the company.
"No one could stand that smell, that stench," she said. And her children "were right there. Can you imagine how they suffered?"
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This story was produced as part of a collaboration between California Watch, part of the independent, nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting, and the Investigative Reporting Project at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.
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Welcome to the Top 10 Events in Texas
Explore the selection of the top 10 annual events and festivals, fairs and celebrations (listed in calendar priority) across the State of Texas, including events in Dallas, Grapevine, San Antonio and Houston.
Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo
Houston, Texas
Since the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo was established in 1931, it has made an impressive footprint on the livestock and entertainment industries and in the sport of rodeo.
Today it is the world's largest livestock exhibition, world's largest rodeo and premier entertainment event with no less than 19,000 volunteers who annually contribute their time to take part in what is known as "The heartbeat of the Southwest".
With a livestock competitions, shopping, food, carnival, action-packed rodeo events and superstars in concert, there is something for the whole family.
For more information visit: 2009 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo™ - Home
South by Southwest Multimedia Conference
Austin, Texas
In little more than two decades, the South by Southwest (SXSW) Multimedia Conference in Austin has grown from a tiny music festival into one of the biggest conferences and festivals in the nation.
Offering the latest and greatest in the music, film and interactive worlds, as well as performances by about 1,000 bands from across the globe, this event takes place at the Austin Convention Center and more than 50 other venues.
For more information visit: Welcome to South by Southwest 2009 | SXSW.com
Dallas Blooms
Dallas, Texas
Dallas Blooms is a celebration of spring at the Dallas Arboretum, arguably one of top five floral display gardens in North America.
The gardens feature more than 400,000 spring-blooming bulbs, 6,000 azaleas and thousands of annuals and perennials spread throughout the 66-acre garden.
Included in the festivities are music, food, celebrities, poetry and rich history.
For more information visit: Dallas Arboretum Home Page
Azalea & Spring Flower Trail
Tyler, Texas
Officially certified as an Azalea City in 2007, Tyler is the perfect host for this celebration of the Azalea that has been a tradition here for 50 years,
Visitors can enjoy miles of azaleas, dogwoods and spring flowers amidst beautiful historic homes as they tour residential gardens, enjoy plant sales, arts and crafts shows, historic home tours and living history exhibits set in a backdrop of vibrant azaleas.
For more information visit: Tyler Azalea Trail Homepage
Texas Sandfest
Port Aransas, Texas
With 24 master sculptors competing, the Texas Sandfest is the largest master sand competition in the USA, drawing over 100,000 visitors each year.
The three-day festival includes both a Solo and Duo Master's Contests, over 200 amateur sand sculptors, 5 different sand competitions, free sand sculpting demonstrations and lessons, music, games, food and craft booths.
For more information visit: Texas SandFest
Fiesta San Antonio
San Antonio, Texas
Going strong for nearly 120 years, the San Antonio Fiesta began as a way to honor the memory of the heroes of the Alamo and the Battle of San Jacinto. Since then the fiesta has grown into a celebration of the wide diversity and multicultural history of San Antonio and is today one of the largest festivals in the county.
3.5 million visitors attend more than 100 events at various locations over 10 days. Attractions include a broad spectrum of food, musical genres, the arts, athletic events, parades, parties and more.
For more information visit: Fiesta 2008 Official Website
June - August
Palo Duro Canyon State Park, Texas
This family-friendly, outdoor musical drama by Paul Green, over 42 years in production, is touted as the most spectacular outdoor musical drama in the world.
Set in the 1800s, the show's fictional characters bring to life the stories, struggles and triumphs of the settlers of the Texas Panhandle - complete with a cast of more than 60 actors, singers and dancers, spellbinding lighting, special effects and fireworks.
The Amphitheatre, 25 mile from Amarillo, is carved out of and nestled into a natural basin in the majestic Palo Duro Canyon
The evening's entertainment is preceded by a catered steak dinner by the world famous Big Texan Steak Ranch.
For more information visit: Texas Musical Drama
Grapevine, Texas
Wine novices and connoisseurs alike flock to Grapefest, the largest wine festival in the Southwest and ABA 2008 Top 100 Event in North America!
Highlight of the event is the People's Choice Wine Tasting Classic – the largest consumer-judged wine competition in the nation featuring some of Texas' finest wines.
Other attractions include the International Wine Garden featuring wines from around the world and live music on stages located throughout Historic Downtown Grapevine. Also on offer are Grapevine winery tasting room tours, a grape-stomping competition, arts & crafts booths and a carnival.
For more information visit: Home
State Fair of Dallas
Dallas, Texas
The roots of the State Fair of Texas can be traced all the way back to 1886.
Today, is a 24-day celebration of the state with over 70 amusement rides, Texas Star (the tallest Ferris wheel in North America), 8000 livestock entries, 7,000 creative arts entries, about 200 food service locations, the largest new car show in the Southwest. and of course, Big Tex, the world's best-known 52-foot-tall cowboy who made his first State Fair appearance in 1952.
For more information visit: BigTex.com
Terlingua International Chili Championship
late October
On the first Saturday of November the Chili Appreciation Society International holds the ultimate celebration of Chili at the Rancho CASI de los Chisos in Terlingua. The four day celebration culminates on Saturday with the Terlingua International Chili Championship.
It is a Texas tradition of epic proportion - complete with an annual proclamation from the Governor declaring "Chili Appreciation Society International Day" in Texas, and nightly stage entertainment
For more information visit: Chili Appreciation Society International
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Philadelphia: The lights are going out for Peter Parker, the high school student bitten by a radioactive spider whose wall-crawling and web-slinging antics have made him a touchstone of Marvel Comics` universe of heroes and villains.
The publisher said Tuesday that Parker`s alter ego, Spider-Man, will finally succumb to one of his most pernicious foes in the final issue of "Ultimate Comics Spider-Man" due out Wednesday.
Fans of Spider-Man need not worry much, though, because the Ultimates imprint is separate from Marvel`s bigger universe. Whatever fate may befall Ultimate Spider-Man won`t count in the pages of the other series, including Amazing Spider-Man.
The death, while dramatic, is not entirely unexpected. In November, Marvel said that the Ultimate Spider-Man was going to face an uncertain fate in the latest storyline by writer Brian Michael Bendis fittingly titled "The Death of Spider-Man," an eight-issue arc that saw the return of original series artist Mark Bagley. Bendis and Bagley had worked together on the series for 111 issues.
Bendis told The Associated Press that in issue No. 160 Parker fights valiantly but will pass on, heroically, in a pitched fight. To whom?
"He will pass heroically, but he will die at the hands of the Green Goblin," Bendis said, recalling his nearly 11 years writing the title, which debuted in October 2000.
The death is real and in Marvel`s Ultimate Comics imprint, death is not something taken lightly. Characters in that universe are dead and gone, never to return. The roll of the deceased already includes Magneto, Wasp and Wolverine, among others.
"Ten years ago, Brian Bendis and Mark Millar changed the way people saw super heroes with the birth of the Ultimate Universe. With `Death of Spider-Man` the two have done it again, creating a story just as big, and something that would really resonate with fans," said Mark Paniccia, Marvel senior editor. "But Peter`s death doesn`t signal the end of their larger plan - it`s the start of one of the most ambitious stories you`ve ever read in comics."
Bendis said that Parker`s death won`t be in vain and hinted that the Ultimate Spider-Man may not be gone forever. But what exactly is to come, that`s something he`s not willing to share, at least not yet.
He likened the death to that of Parker`s Uncle Ben, whose demise catapulted Peter into being a superhero and crime fighter, and called it an emotionally ripping decision to end Parker`s life.
"I won`t lie to you, it`s embarrassing to say this out loud . tears were rolling down my face, I was very emotional in writing it," Bendis told AP. "This is a character that I have stayed with the entire time, that I have been almost solely responsible for. It represents such a great deal of my life."
Axel Alonso, Marvel`s editor-in-chief, said there`s never been a Marvel Universe without a Spider-Man, so killing the character is a big step.
"We`ve never seen a world without Spider-Man, a world without Peter Parker, so his death is a significant event for the Ultimate Comics universe and we`re going to see how quickly it changes everything," he said, adding that the fallout from Parker`s death will play out in the upcoming "Ultimate Comics Fallout" as the company retools its Ultimate universe.
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Volume 16 Issue 50 | May 7 - 13, 2004
VILLAGE GATE AT TRIBECA PERFORMING ARTS Saxophonist Jane Bunnett & The Spirits of Havana are playing Friday, May 7 and All-Star Latin Jazz Descarga featuring saxophonist Sonny Fortune will be bringing back memories of the Gate on May 21, both events start at 8 p.m., $35. 199 Chambers St. (212) 220.1460. Pictured above is Art DLugoff, owner of the Village Gate.
SEAPORT PERFORMANCES Masque, portrays the history of the Octoroon Balls and the story of slavery, class, caste and color. Southstreet Seaports Shooting Star Theatre, 40 Peck Slip, Fri. March 12 at 7. 212-581-7216
BAGGOT INN, 82 W. Third St., 473-6658: Live Music Nightly, call for schedule, free-$5; Wed.Bluegrass Session, 8 p.m., no cover.
THE CAJUN, 129 Eighth Ave., 691-6174: Mon. & Thur.Vince Giordanos Night Hawks, New Yorks favorite foxtrot orchestra feat. Big Band music of the 1920s, 30s & 40s, 8-11 p.m; Tue.Stanleys Washboard Kings, 8-11 p.m; Wed.Eddy Davis & His New Jazz Band, 8-11 p.m; Thur.Vince Giordanos Nighthawks, 8-11 p.m.; Fri.Canal Street Dixieland Jazz & Blues Band, 8:30-11:30 p.m.; Sat.Red Onion Jazz Band feat. New Atlantic Jazz, 8:30 p.m.- mid; Sun. BrunchFriends of Jimmy Butts feat. Doc Pittman, noon-4 p.m; Sun.The Peter Ecklund Jazz Quartet, 7:30- 10:30 p.m.
Greenwich village bistro, 13 Carmine St., 212-206-9777: Call for Whirled Music performance information & times.
Housing works used book cafe, 126 Crosby St., 212-334-3324: Call for details about the next Monthly Benefit Concert, 7:30 p.m., $20.
Joes Pub, 425 Lafayette St., 212-239-6200: Call about current Live Music.
national arts club, 15 Gramercy Park South, 212-222-3569: Call about current Live Music.
Pen and brush, 16 E. 10th St., 212-475-3669: Call for information about upcoming concerts..
Renee weiler concert hall, 46 Barrow St., 212-242-4770: Jan. 29-Lukas Ligeti, Electronic Percussion, 8 p.m., $10-$15.
The schneider concerts, 66 W. 12th St., 212-243-9937: Call about upcoming concert schedule.
St. Marks Church, 131 E. 10th St., 212-674-6377: Call about upcoming concert schedule.
THIRD STREET MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT, 235 E. 11th St., 212-777-3240: Call about upcoming Winter 2003 concerts.
Washington irving auditorium, 40 Irving Place, 212-580-4177: The Greenwich Village Orchstra performing through Summer 2004; Call for upcoming performance information.
Washington square united methodist church, 135 W. 4th St., 212-998-3950: Call about upcoming Blarney Star Irish Traditional Music Concert Series.
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SOURCE: La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company
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SAN DIEGO, CA--(Marketwired - Apr 18, 2013) - La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company (OTCQB: LJPC) ("La Jolla"), a leader in the development of therapeutics targeting galectin proteins, announced today that the FDA Office of Orphan Products Development has granted an "Orphan Drug" designation to La Jolla's drug candidate LJPC-6417 for fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva ("FOP").
"We are pleased that the FDA has granted an Orphan Drug designation to LJPC-6417," said George Tidmarsh, M.D. Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer of La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company. "FOP causes progressive debilitation eventually leading to early death through the replacement of skeletal muscle and soft connective tissues with bone. There are no known treatments, and we are excited about the potential of LJPC-6417 to help long suffering FOP patients and treat other forms of heterotopic ossification."
LJPC-6417 is a kinase inhibitor targeting the bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) type-1 receptor, which is mutated in FOP. FOP is a progressive and debilitating genetic disorder characterized by heterotopic ossification. The defining sign present at birth is a malformation of the great toes. In early childhood, afflicted individuals develop soft tissue swellings that transform into bone. Development of such lesions is exacerbated by trauma, and surgical intervention leads to dramatic and explosive new bone growth. The median survival of FOP patients is approximately 45 years, and death often results from complications of thoracic insufficiency syndrome.
FOP is an extremely rare condition affecting 1 in 2,000,000 people. According to the International Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva Association, there are 185 individuals with FOP in the United States. In addition to FOP, over activity of the BMP receptors causes heterotopic ossification as a result of trauma. In particular, soldiers who suffer combat injuries are prone to heterotopic ossification, a severely debilitating complication that is increasing significantly in prevalence. It is estimated that 64% of soldiers with blast injuries to the extremities develop heterotypic ossification, compromising functional mobility and prosthesis use.
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Celebrated shoe designer Manolo Blahnik is setting up shop in Harrods thanks to a business partnership with Kurt Geiger.
BY Olivia Lidbury | 14 May 2012
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He might be 69 years old, but Manolo Blahnik's bourgeoning shoe business shows no sign of slowing down.
The Spanish design maverick is expanding his empire by opening a 300 sq ft concession in Harrods this July. Until February, when Blahnik opened his first ever pop-up shop in Liberty, his creations were only available from his boutique in Chelsea, London.
READ: Bath time with Manolo Blahnik
Loved by Hollywood stars including Sarah Jessica Parker, Charlize Theron and Rihanna, as well as the late Diana, Princess of Wales, Blahnik's shoes are being made more readily available thanks to a commercial partnership with high street shoe retailer Kurt Geiger. Geiger will be responsible for conceiving and managing the new Harrods boutique as it has done with the Liberty concession, which is now open permanently.
"The Liberty opening has been very successful, and with Harrods being a store full of incredible heritage, seeing my shoes there in the next couple of months will be a special moment" said the designer, who resides in Bath.
WATCH: Manolo Blahnik: "This is what I try to do, make women feel like princesses"
So expect to see many more pin-thin heels treading the cobbles of the capital (Blahnik famously hates platformed soles), as the notion of swapping shoe design for a nice round of golf is not one he's palnning on entertaining any time soon.
"In a year's time I'll be 70. And it makes me happy that Armani is 80 because I'm not going to be retiring!" he told us earlier this year.


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For comparison purposes: the USA TODAY coaches' poll; the AP media poll.
At the core of the True Top Ten is the concept of a Good Win. You get no credit in the TTT for a 55-0 win over a team you paid to take the beating. That's an open-book test. We value essay questions, preferably taken on the road, with sweaty 275-pound proctors, and 80,000 people screaming at you to change your answer. We also might have stretched the analogy a bit too far there. But you get the idea.
The teams that rise to the top of the TTT have scored multiple Good Wins already; if you've beaten two good teams by Week 3, you're ahead of the game. The hard part right now is parsing which wins are better than others. But it's still a more worthy task than propping up undeserving teams. Wisconsin is still in the coaches' top 25 despite losing to Oregon State and barely scraping by Utah State at home. Wisconsin might not be in the top 25 of Wisconsin.
On to Week 3 of the Wisconsin-less True Top Ten:
1. Florida (3-0)
LAST WEEK: Def. Tennessee 37-20.
2. Alabama (3-0)
LAST WEEK: Def. Arkansas 52-0.
Alabama is No. 1 in both traditional polls after blasting Arkansas halfway across the Ozarks and leading Arkansas Karaoke Woman back to the microphone. (I picture her in Week 12 with a bottle of gin and the Tom Waits songbook.) But I think Florida has had a more impressive season. Let's rank both teams' wins so far:
1. Florida over Tennessee on the road
2. Alabama over Michigan, neutral field
3. Florida over Texas A&M on the road
4. Alabama over Arkansas on the road
5. Alabama over Western Kentucky at home
6. Florida over Bowling Green at home
No doubt Alabama has been more dominant. But those A&M and Tennessee crowds were jacked (A&M because it was its first SEC game, Tennessee because its fans sense that the Vols might be good again). Florida beat them both, and came back in the second half to do it. The best stretch of football I saw all weekend was after Tennessee stuffed Florida on a fake punt and took the ball up 20-13 at 5:00 in the third quarter. The Vols had all the momentum. But Florida forced a three-and-out, Trey Burton went 80 yards for a TD on the next play, and even though it was tied, it was over. The score over the last 20 minutes: Gators, 24-0.
Look, I went to Georgia. I'd be thrilled if Florida went 0-12 every year. But it's had the best season of any team in the country so far. (I had to twist my own arm halfway out of the socket to say that.) Next up for Florida: Kentucky. Next up for Alabama: Florida Atlantic.
3. Notre Dame (3-0)
LAST WEEK: Def. Michigan State 20-3.
I'm never sure if sports -- playing them or watching them -- is an escape from the rest of the world, a reflection of what the world is like or some mysterious blend of all that and some other things. Sometimes all I'm sure of is a few facts. Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o lost his girlfriend to leukemia last week, the day after his grandmother died. Against Michigan State on Saturday, he had 12 tackles and picked off a fourth-quarter lateral to seal the win. After the game he said, "At the end of the day, families are forever."
Love is complicated. Sports are complicated. I love sports. Next up: Michigan.
4. Stanford
LAST WEEK: Def. USC 21-14.
You probably could've found a lot of people willing to bet that no one would hold USC to 14 points this year. This was one of the best clash-of-styles games I can remember -- USC wanted to fling and dance, Stanford wanted to grind and punch. By USC's last drive, it was all danced out, and Stanford kept punching. So does this mean that David Shaw is a great coach? After all, he's not just the Stanford head coach -- he's the Bradford M. Freeman director of football, too. I suspect Bradford M. Freeman was proud on Saturday night. Next up: Washington (Sept. 27).
5. Northwestern (3-0)
LAST WEEK: Def. Boston College 22-13.
I heard somebody say over the weekend that Northwestern is the only school to beat three BCS conference teams this year. OK, BC might be terrible. But Syracuse is at least decent, and I'm riding the Vandy bandwagon for another week or two. Plus, in a week that showed how many teams have a fatal flaw at kicker, Northwestern's Jeff Budzien went 5 for 5 on field goals. He's 8 for 8 this season. Cal fans are weeping now. Next up: South Dakota.
6. Oregon State (1-0)
LAST WEEK: Idle.
A weird schedule so far for the Beavs: Their first game against Nicholls State got postponed because of Hurricane Isaac (Nicholls is in Louisiana and couldn't make the trip to Oregon). And after beating Wisconsin in Week 2, they got a pre-arranged week off. They drop a spot in the TTT because that Wisconsin win doesn't look so hot now. Next up: at UCLA.
7. Florida State (3-0)
LAST WEEK: Def. Wake Forest 52-0.
Gritting my teeth putting them in here, because I hate rewarding marshmallow schedules, and FSU went the full Stay-Puft by opening with Murray State and Savannah State. But it's hard to ignore the pounding that the Seminoles put on Wake, which beat North Carolina the week before. And in a weird way, this might have been a revenge game. ACC football fans (all six of you!) remember one of the most jaw-dropping results in conference history: Wake 30, FSU 0 at Tallahassee in 2006. Pretty sure Jimbo Fisher hadn't forgotten. Next up: Clemson.
8. Rutgers (3-0)
LAST WEEK: Def. South Florida 23-13.
Because conference wins on the road mean something, especially against a team whose quarterback (B.J. Daniels) is in what I believe is his 15th year of eligibility. If Rutgers beats Arkansas this week, everything north and east of Little Rock might just implode. Next up: at Arkansas.
9. Louisville (3-0)
LAST WEEK: Def. North Carolina 39-34.
Some credit for a three-quarter beatdown of UNC before the Tar Heels made a run at the end. Full credit for QB Teddy Bridgewater, who can really play and has the coolest name in football. No credit for the rest of their schedule -- go take a look, The Cardinals could go 12-0 and we still might not know for sure if they're any good. This is probably their one and only week in the TTT. Next up: at Florida International.
LAST WEEK: Def. Houston 37-6.
Edges out Arizona on strength of schedule; Arizona beat South Carolina State last week. Although, to be honest, I'm not sure Houston is a lot better than South Carolina State at this point. I believe this means that Kevin Sumlin is a good coach, and you should beat Texas A&M while you still can. Next up: Oregon State.
Dropping out of the TTT: Arizona, Louisiana-Monroe (but you'll always be in our hearts, Warhawks), Georgia, Michigan State, Kansas State.


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First weekend without booze
OK – this isn't the first time I've quit drinking before. But knowing that I need to wait nearly a year when I fancy a glass of wine, rather than a month or a week is hard!!
However, this weekend was so good, I didn't even think about drinking. Went to the Leonardo Da Vinci Exhibition at the National Gallery in London. It was fascinating. Although I've seen quite a bit of his work when visiting Rome and Florence, I have never had the priviledge of seeing his sketches. Looking at them made me realise how much time he must have spent perfecting his talents and practising his skills. Seeing where he's gone wrong or experimented in his drawings was inspiring and reminded me how important the process is in a great pieces of art work. Thanks Da Vinci.
Afterwards we crossed the road to St. Martins in the Field to do brass rubbing. I highly recommend it – very therapeutic and a nice thing to sit down and do after a mind blowing exhibition, rather than a typical trip to a local bar (always v. expensive) on Trafalgar Square.
Spending the weekend with friends who are more interested in stimulating conversation and challenging each other with good board games was far more fun then nursing a hangover for 36 hours of the weekend. It also meant there was no pier pressure to get pissed.


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English professor receives prestigious career enhancement fellowship
Loyola press release - April 24, 2012
Trimiko Melancon, Ph.D., assistant professor of English and faculty in African and African-American Studies at Loyola University New Orleans, was recently awarded a prestigious career enhancement fellowship by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.
Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the fellowship provides a year-long sabbatical, financial support, mentoring and a fall retreat of fellows. The award is designed to aid the scholarly growth of fellows, thereby improving their success in attaining tenure. Annually, 20 fellowships are awarded in a nationwide competition to talented, promising junior faculty "committed to eradicating racial disparities in core fields in the arts and sciences."
During the fellowship period, Melancon will complete the final revisions of her book "Unbought and Unbossed: Transgressive Black Women, Sexuality, and the Politics of Representation" for publication. It is an examination, through the trope of sexuality, of post-civil rights representations of black women in the American literary and cultural imagination. The award will also enable her to make continued progress on her second project, which examines race, representations and the global politics of exclusion in literature and cultural production.
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Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.... Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.—Matthew 5:5-8
We have but to become acquainted with, or even listen to, the big names of our times to discover how wretchedly inferior most of them are. Many appear to have arrived at their present eminence by pull, brass, nerve, gall and lucky accident. We turn away from them sick to our stomach and wonder for a discouraged moment if this is the best the human race can produce. But we gain our self-possession again by the simple expedient of recalling some of the plain men we know, who live unheralded and unsung, and who are made of stuff infinitely finer than the hoarse-voiced braggarts who occupy too many of the highest offices in the land. . . .
. . . the church also suffers from this evil notion. Christians have fallen into the habit of accepting the noisiest and most notorious among them as the best and the greatest. They too have learned to equate popularity with excellence, and in open defiance of the Sermon on the Mount they have given their approval not to the meek but to the self-assertive; not to the mourner but to the self-assured; not to the pure in heart who see God but to the publicity hunter who seeks headlines. Man: The Dwelling Place of God, 96-97.
"Lord, I thank You this morning for all the unknown but faithful pastors serving churches in quiet places. We do place a lot of emphasis on the 'personalities' and big-church leaders. Thank You for the 'quiet heroes' and their faithful service; give them great encouragement today. Amen."
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