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Hampton's Dog Constable
Hampton's Dog Control Officer is Darin Clarke. He is reachable 24 hours a day at 643-0095.
Dog Registration and Licensing
Dog owners like to believe that their dogs will never go missing, but chances are that your dog will wander off at some point in its life. Responsible dog owners protect their pets by registering their dogs annually and ensuring that their dogs are wearing their dog license tag at all times. A Town of Hampton dog license tag tells everyone that a roaming dog is a lost pet that is missed by its loving family and makes it easier for the Dog Control Officer or concerned residents to track down the owner of a lost dog.
Dog owners can register their dogs IN PERSON at the Town Hall located at 648 Main Street. between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. Fee is twenty dollars ($20.00), or
BY MAIL: by printing and completing the downloadable application form and mailing it along with a cheque for seventeen dollars ($23.00). Mail to: Town of Hampton c/o Dog Registration, P.O. Box 1066, 648 Main Street, Hampton, NB, E5N 8H1.
A license tag which is lost after it has been issued, may be replaced at the Town Office upon application by the owner, and the payment of fifteen ($10.00) dollars.
Running at Large
All dogs enjoy running and playing. In fact, it is necessary for their physical and mental well being. The best and safest place for a dog to run and play is in its owner's yard.
"Running at Large" means that a dog is off the premises of its owner and is not on a leash held by its owner or another person. Dog owners are responsible for the actions of their dogs at all times. Make sure your dog is unable to escape from your property and keep your dog on a leash when off of your property.
Running at Large puts your dog at increased risk of
being injured in traffic accidents and fights with other animals, inhumane treatment by people, becoming lost and contracting disease.
Dogs running at large may create a nuisance for others by frightening people who are not comfortable around dogs, defecating on property other than that of their owner, behaving in a destructive manner such as digging in gardens, ripping open garbage bags, or posing a risk to other pets and wild animals.
If your dog is found running at large, it may be picked up by the Dog Control Officer. Prior to retrieving your dog, you must pay an impound fee, daily boarding fee, any veterinary expenses, and a dog registration fee if your dog is not licensed.
Residents who see a dog running at large should contact the owner if they recognize the dog or contact the Dog Control Officer Darin Clarke on his cell phone at (506)643-0095 if the dog is posing a safety hazard to itself or others, they do not recognize the dog, they are unable/unwilling to contact the dog's owner, or they have spoken with the owner but there has been no attempt to address the issue.
Barking Excessively
Barking is natural behaviour for a dog. It's one way a dog communicates with people and other animals. Though it may be desirable for a dog to bark in certain situations, for example to warn that a threat is present, excessive barking is a sign of a problem and may create a nuisance. Excessive barking is barking that is persistent and occurs for an extended period of time or on a repeated basis.
Dealing with a Barking Nuisance
Residents who are experiencing issues with a dog barking excessively should determine if the barking is excessive, contact the dog's owner. The owner may not be aware that the dog is causing a nuisance. Contact the Dog Control Officer Darin Clarke on his cell phone at (506)643-0095 if they are unable/unwilling to contact the dog's owner or they have spoken with the owner but there has been no attempt to address the issue.
When reporting barking nuisance, residents must provide the location where the dog lives, the dates, times and duration of the barking. A printable copy of a barking dog log is available below.
Dog owners are responsible for the actions of their dogs at all times.Responsible dog owners prevent their dogs from barking excessively by training their dog to respond to a "quiet" command, contacting neighbours to determine if barking is a problem, and taking steps to reduce barking reducing Excessive Barking.
The only way to reduce excessive barking is to determine what is causing the dog to bark. Once you know why your dog is barking, you will be able to devise a plan to reduce the barking. With a little patience and time, most dogs will stop barking excessively.
Causes and solutions to excessive barking include:
Provide toys to keep your dog entertained.
Exercise and play with your dog on a daily basis.
Take your dog to obedience classes and practise regularly to reinforce lessons and provide mental stimulation.
Leave a radio or TV on at low volume.
Separation Anxiety Barking:
Consult a professional trainer, an animal behaviourist or your veterinarian.
Territorial Barking
Block your dog's view with a fence or hedge
Keep curtains or shades drawn. A dog won't bark at what it can't see.
Leave a radio or TV on at low volume.
Introduce your dog to service people that regularly visit your property, i.e. mailman, paper carrier.
Physical Discomfort Barking
Ensure that your dog's area is comfortable by providing adequate shelter from weather conditions if outside, and adequate space if inside.
Provide sufficient food and clean water.
Ensure your dog is in good health by taking it to the vet for regular checkups or when it is ill or in pain.
Fear Barking
Provide a safe place where the effects of the frightening event are minimized, i.e. during a thunder storm, leave your dog in a comfortable area in the basement or windowless room and turn on a radio, TV or noisy fan to mute the sounds of the storm.
If you are unsuccessful at curbing your dog's barking, you may want to consult your vet, a professional dog trainer, or an animal behaviourist.


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Yup! I've thought of 8 ways D&D can help you with a zombie outbreak...Yes it could happen one day!
An epidemic has occurred! A virus has been leaked from a nearby science lab that kills humans! Problem is they come back to life being mindless flesh eating zombies!
You're in your house with your housemates and you learn of this outbreak on the news...what do you do?
Teamwork would be essential for the survival of a zombie outbreak. Playing D&D has helped you learn how to get along with other people. How to distribute resources (such as food, guns and ammo), sharing and the ability to resolve conflicts in the group. This includes clear communication between other members so you can warn others the presence of the undead shuffling nearby, or in case you're suddenly in trouble!
You know about zombies
You've done this before! Your characters have battled hundreds of zombies to keep them away from your flesh! You've learnt about the behaviour, the sounds they make and how they detect you. Best of all, you know how to defeat them, just cut the head off and the body will follow! This gives you an obvious advantage to those who know nothing about the undead.
Quick evaluation
As your characters frequently encounter novel situations, you're constantly having to think about what to do and what will happen if you do what you do. You're aware of the consequences afterwards without a personal cost (but an obvious cost to your character!). All these experiences will add to your wisdom, so the next time you encounter a situation with hundreds of zombies...you may know what to do.
This quick evaluation ability can be applied to evaluating yourself. You can quickly know your (and others) strengths and weaknesses so you can increase your chances of a successful outcome.
Maybe pushing a bit to a stretch but after watching numerous D&D films and Lord of the Rings you'll be indirectly learning how to use weapons. You may have role played some scenes which involved weapons, or performed actions with a wooden sword. In the UK a gun could be hard to come by so you'll most likely have to use a kitchen knife. You could even try and equip two if you play the role of a ranger! With the use of this knowledge you are able to combat one or two zombies. If you use miniatures in a D&D game you can quickly plan tactics with others by imagining the position of the miniatures on a board. You can draw on tactics that you used before in the games that were successful, thus saving time planning and increasing your chance of survival. This would be an obvious advantage.
Knowing where to look
With my group, I always ask the players where they are exactly looking in a room before doing a search roll to see if they find anything. Over time, they have learnt key areas to search in to find goodies. If your group does this, you would have learnt key areas to look for. This can be applied for real life, if you need to look for something you'll most likely know where to look. You'll save time and this means less chance of being attacked by a group of zombies!
What do you guys think? Any other qualities and abilities D&D players have that could help?
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Mugged- Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama (Hardcover)
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"This isn't a story about black people—it's a story about the Left's agenda to patronize blacks and lie to everyone else." - Ann Coulter
For decades the left has been putting on a play starring themselves as heroes in an ongoing civil rights movement – from which they were mostly absent at the time. Long after pervasive racial discrimination ended, they kept pretending America was being run by the Klan and that liberals were black America's only protectors.
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The Obama candidacy allowed liberals to engage in self-righteousness about race and get a hard-core lefty in the White House at the same time. In 2008, we were told the only way for the nation to move past race was to elect him as president. And 53 percent of voters fell for it.
Now, Ann Coulter fearlessly explains the real history of race relations in this country, including how white liberals twist that history to spring the guilty, accuse the innocent and engender racial hatreds, all in order to win politically. You'll learn, for instance, how:
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- The entire Democratic elite, up to the Carter White House, coddled a black cult in San Francisco as hundreds of the cult members marched to their deaths in Guyana.
- New York City became a maelstrom of racial hatred, with black neighborhoods abandoned to criminals who were ferociously defended by a press that assessed guilt on the basis of race.
- Preposterous hoax hate crimes were always believed, never questioned. And when they turned out to be frauds, the stories would simply disappear from the news.
- Liberals quickly switched the focus of civil rights laws from the heirs of slavery and Jim Crow to white feminists, illegal immigrants and gays.
Subway vigilante Bernhard Goetz was surprisingly popular in black neighborhoods, despite hysterical denunciations of him by The New York Times.
Liberals slander Republicans by endlessly repeating a bizarro-world history in which Democrats defended black America and Republicans appealed to segregationists. The truth has always been exactly the opposite.
Going where few authors would dare, Coulter explores the racial demagoguery that has mugged America since the early '70s. She shines the light of truth on cases ranging from Tawana Brawley, Lemrick Nelson and Howard Beach, N.Y., to the Los Angeles riots and the Duke lacrosse scandal. And she shows how the 2012 Obama campaign is going to inspire the greatest racial guilt mongering of all time.
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I am standing in front of one of the newest exhibits at the German Historical Museum, trying to understand why I feel so deeply troubled. Titled "Hitler and the Germans: Nation and Crime," it is the first official exhibition in Berlin to focus on Hitler's fascist ideology and his effect on the German people.
The exhibit is an outstanding presentation of rarely seen imagery, propaganda and documents that catapulted Adolph Hitler to power. It is a sharp display of a horrific marketing machine that turned Hitler from an ordinary street thug into a folksy super leader. Posters of proper Aryan men, women and children stand in contrast to Hitler's own appearance; for Germans of the time, his looks were irrelevant.
The exhibit shows how Hitler was portrayed as the ultimate statesman as he addressed thousands of well-dressed Germans at rallies; photographs reveal a leader loved, almost worshipped by the people he lead down a path of unimaginable evil. On display are Nazi uniforms, hats, knives, pins and flags – the kind of memorabilia easily purchased on eBay these days. Several versions of Mein Kampf were displayed – sealed in a glass case, of course, because the book is illegal to purchase in Germany. When probed, our guide informed us the book can be acquired by other means.
So I ask myself, why do I feel so uneasy? Perhaps because I'm concerned that many of the people visiting this temporary exhibit will not interpret it in the way it was intended. For me, the exhibit is a demonstration of a sick society that rose to power along with the criminal mind it venerated.
But what will it mean to thousands of others who may not be intimately familiar with the Holocaust? Will it be, to some, a glorification of Hitler? As our guide noted when talking about German pop culture, Hitler sells. Hitler still sells because people are fascinated by him and the iconic imagery of the Nazis. This is not a trivial concern: the idea of creating an exhibit similar to "Hitler and the Germans" was dismissed by Museum officials several years ago for exactly this reason.
My travelling companions advise giving people the benefit of the doubt, arguing that Hitler has come to embody the idea of evil and the point the Museum is making is a fairly obvious one. This is true – despite what I believe is insufficient evidence about the devastation and tragedy wrought by this common little man; the information is presented almost without context. In a world filled with increasing Holocaust denial, context seems so very significant.
Is it out of context in Berlin which has a prominent Holocaust monument, a Jewish Museum, an outdoor Holocaust Exhibit as well as the German Historical Museum (where this exhibit is being held) which deals with the Holocaust? I'm not sure, although I would hope anyone living in or visiting Berlin will have been exposed to Holocaust education at some point.
As for the exhibit itself, I am thankful the curators included the word "crime" in the title.
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Ashley Pruett says it happened Tuesday afternoon, the second day of kindergarten. She says her 4-year-old daughter was placed on the wrong school bus on her ride home from Sunset Vista Elementary in Glendale, and then dropped off at the wrong address.
"I waited and waited. The bus came, but she wasn't on the bus," said Pruett.
Pruett says little Brynn was suppose to be dropped off near the house at 67th Lane and Diana, but instead she was dropped off at 71st Avenue and Grand.
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Host an amazing superhero birthday party! We'll give you tons of ideas sure to save the day. Check out these suggestions for invitations, decorations, food, party games, and lots more.
Superhero Birthday Party Invitations
Holy cake and ice cream, Batman! It's a superparty!
Whether your party focuses on one particular hero or covers a range of the good guys, send some invitations that will get your guests ready for action! You can either find invitations online, or get creative and make your own. Here's how:
Mask Invitations — Write your party information on the back of a half mask. Ask your guests to wear their masks to the party so they can decorate them and become their favorite superhero.
Cartoon Strip Invitations — Draw a cartoon of the guest of honor in superhero form on the front of your invitation. Write a catchy headline such as, "Come Defeat the Bad Guys and Celebrate with Cake at _____'s Superhero Birthday Party!"
Comic Book Invitations — If your party is focusing on one hero, such as Spiderman or Wonder Woman, send your party information along with a comic book featuring that character. You might roll up the comic and tie it with a bow, adding a decorative tag with all your party information written on it. Send these in mailing tubes or hand deliver them to your guests.
**General Invitation Tips** — If you want your guests to come dressed as a superhero, be sure to let them know on your invitations. Also, don't forget to include the date, location, and time of your event. It's also helpful to put the host's name, RSVP by date, and either your phone number or email.
Here are some invitations that would be perfect for a superhero birthday party:
Super Powers Personalized Invitations
Superhero Comics Invitations
Superhero Girl Party Invitations
Superhero Birthday Party Decorations
Greet your guests with lots of and a "Welcome, Superheroes!" banner hung across your entry.
Turn your guest of honor into a superhero — Paste a photo of the guest of honor onto a large cardboard superhero standup. Set this by your party entrance for a fun touch.
Get the Hosts into the Act — If you are hosting the party, be sure to dress for the occasion. How often do you get to become a superhero? Or, let your alter ego out and add some mischief to the event by dressing as a villain.
Action Word Bubbles — Make your own colorful "Bam!" "Pow!" "Zip!" word bubbles on stiff cardboard and set them all around the party to transform your space into a 3D comic book. You might stick them to the walls, hang them at different heights from the ceiling, or set them into the lawn on garden stakes. You can also use this idea to label party areas with smaller action bubbles such as, "Snacks!" or "Gifts!"Put a sign on your bathroom door labeling it "Secret Headquarters.
"Make a Mini Gotham City — Paint different sized cardboard boxes in primary colors and add black windows to look like skyscrapers. Set them up on a table or the mantle to create a small cityscape. If you have any superhero action figures, add them to the mix for a unique superhero centerpiece.
Make a Lifesize Telephone Booth — Make a refrigerator box look like Superman's dressing room by painting it bright red and cutting a door flap on one side. You can usually pick up a big cardboard box at your local Home Depot or other appliance store.
Set a Super Table — Another idea for a superhero birthday party centerpiece is to anchor a balloon bouquet in a glass jar full of jelly beans in your party colors. Add to this some small action word bubbles on skewers and some pictures (you can download these from your computer) of your favorite superheroes. Surround the centerpiece(s) with toy superhero action figures (these can later be slipped into goody bags for your guests).
Superhero Place Settings — Hang a colorful cape from the back of each guest's chair. Then, at each place, set out a superhero style mask, a Ring Pop (power ring), a set of snap on plastic wrist cuffs, and a "kryptonite" light stick necklace.
Here are some complete superhero birthday party supply kits that can be a great addition to your decorations:
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DC Super Hero Girls Party Supplies
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Superhero Mask & Cuff Set
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Superhero Birthday Party Games and Activities
Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound…Devise your own tests of speed, skill, and teamwork for your junior superheroes. Here are some fun party games you might include:
Villain Knockout — Line up a series of stuffed animals on a wall or table. You can make them seem a little bit evil by adding sunglasses, masks, or bandannas tied around their faces. Have your superheroes take turns seeing how many animals they can knock down by throwing beanbags or soft balls at them.
Hula Hoop Superteam Relay — See how well your heroes can work as a team to complete this challenge. Split your guests into two teams and have each team stand in a line, holding hands. Place a hoop in front of each line. When you say, "go" the first child in line picks up the hoop without letting go of her teammate's hand. Each child should then pass the hoop over her head and shoulders, step through, and pass it onto the arm of the next child in line still without letting go. If at any time a team becomes disconnected they must start over. The team that gets the hoop passed down the entire line and onto the ground behind the last teammate wins!
A Heroic Obstacle Course — Hop through ladders, crawl through tunnels, jump over a series of boxes, climb trees…create your own obstacle course appropriate to the age and skill level of your guests.
Kryptonite Games — Here are two superhero party games with the same theme. Use a glow in the dark ball or a large ball of tinfoil to play a game of Pass the Kryptonite. Have your guests sit in a circle. Turn on your favorite music and have them pass the ball around. When the music stops, whoever is holding the ball is out until the next game. You could also have a Kryptonite Toss using green water balloons.
Diffuse the Bombs — Have your superheroes form 2 teams for a balloon stomp relay race. At the end of a hallway or other open space, place two large garbage bags filled with black balloons (enough for 2 balloons per child). Divide the group into two teams and have them line up at the other end of the hall. At the starting sign, send one child from each team down to grab a balloon "bomb" and pop it either by bouncing on it or stomping it (your choice). Then have them race back to their team, touch the next person's hand, and send that runner off. The first team with all of its members back and sitting quietly wins.
Spidey Web Game — Have guests stand in a circle with the guest of honor in the middle. The middle child takes a large ball of yarn and wraps it once around his body. He then tosses it to someone on the circle. That person repeats the process, tossing the ball of yarn to someone new. Keep going until a yarn web is created between all the children. After the web is complete, toss a large rubber spider onto the web. Let the players wiggle and squirm to try to get the spider to fall through the net.
Superman Dress Relay — Have a relay race where two teams of players start at one end and race to put on a hat, blazer, glasses, and men's shoes. They then race to the opposite end of the course and change into a mask, cape, and boots. (You can make this even more exciting by having players change in a refrigerator box "phone booth".) The first team with all its players back and seated wins.
Capture the Villain — If you have a willing accomplice, i.e. dad or an older sibling, have them play the role of the villain. Play a game of tag/hide and seek where the superheroes have to capture the bad guy. If your party is outdoors, you might arm your superheroes with "Spidey Web" (Silly String). An indoor option is to catch the villain and tie him up using rolls of toilet paper. Guaranteed giggles.
Superhero Creation Station — A fun superhero birthday party idea is to let each guest come up with their own super identity. Have them decorate their own mask (offer stick on gems and permanent markers) and cape (set out fabric patches shaped like stars, lightning bolts, shields, and the first letter of each guest's name, along with fabric glue). Then have a makeup station complete with facepaint and a big mirror. Some of the best superheroes are those in the imaginations of children.
Superhero Birthday Party Food
Serve some foods that pack a punch! An easy way to give your party food superpower is by labeling it a "super" name. For example, plain old pizza gets some pow as "Peter Parker Pizza." Use small signs on skewers that look like comic strip action word bubbles to label your party foods. Here are some more suggestions:
Hero Sandwiches — A 6-foot sub sandwich, otherwise known as a hero, can go a long way toward satisfying the hungriest gang of super powers.
Lightning Snacks — A smaller, yet also very cool option is to use a lightning bolt cookie cutter to prepare a platter of supercharged sandwiches.
Virtuous Veggies — A veggie and fruit tray makes a great sidekick to your sandwiches.
Power Punch — Serve your favorite flavor of juice or punch and call it power punch.
Rocket Pops — These All-American red, white and blue frozen popsicles match the superhero party theme to a tee!
Superhero Cake — Your imagination is the only limit when it comes to designing a cake for your superhero birthday party. You could use small plastic superhero figurines to create an action scene, cut the bottom corners off a large rectangular sheet cake to form a shield with your own personal hero logo on top, or make some classic spiderweb cupcakes by drawing circles on the tops with decorator icing and dragging a toothpick through them to form a web effect. Also, local supermarkets and bakeries almost always offer a range of fabulous superhero themed birthday cakes.
Hope you've found some helpful ideas on this page. Enjoy the party!
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Stephen Amell shows off his body transformation over the past month in these shirtless photos posted to his Facebook page.
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You can find all kinds of things on the web.
For instance, a promotional video featuring interviews with Dr. Larson and OCC faculty praising all things Pearson Learning Studio. It includes a commitment to increase enrollment of online students from 7,000 to 21,000 by 2017.
Where will these students come from?
Right now, the majority of our online students are in county. Of course, since I'm not a business minded person, I don't understand how poaching off on campus students and moving them online – where I believe Pearson skims a percentage off the tuition dollars – amounts to a sound financial strategy.
Yet I am a media literacy person, and as such was able to appreciate the high production values of the YouTube puff piece and understand that many will be fooled into thinking that such polish confers legitimacy.
Pearson's ability to achieve the same "values" in print media was on display at a recent board meeting where a DL administrator handed out glossy trifold pamphlets extolling the success of OCC's online remedial offerings. It is a land where data points rule and apparently, everything is rosy. Dogs and cats live in harmony, manna falls from the sky, and the streets are paved with gold.
Of course to students it's a great class. They can retake tests until they pass them and, as a bonus, readily find answers online to these tests: a quick web search for "mylab pearson answers" found several sites with . . . answers to MyLab questions. And if that doesn't work, there are phone apps that allow you to take a picture of an equation on your screen and get the correct answer in seconds (I learned that hack from a high school student). Confession time. I exaggerated in the previous paragraph: the streets aren't paved with gold in online classes; they're paved with easily found answers.
Why would the college/Pearson spend the time and money to promote a particular format of teaching remedial classes? Why was what amounted to an advertisement for Pearson handed out at a board meeting? There was no equivalent handout from the administration for the good work our students do in on campus classes.
Yet on campus remedial work did get a more appropriate shout out; instead of empty gloss, the board received something much more substantial: a copy of PEN, OCC's magazine of student writing, which included several works from our 091 and 095 English classes. And that's the way it should be. Instead of the college posing as a shill for a media conglomerate, we should be celebrating our student's actual accomplishments.
And I'm still not sure how a data point, given the open nature of learning, really shows much. How is it research? Where's the control group? Where's the equivalency?
What's your take on Pearson, a Mad Men approach to higher education, and opportunities to praise the work we and our students accomplish?
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- The dark main event after last night's WWE SmackDown tapings in Cleveland saw Sheamus defeat World Heavyweight Champion Big Show by DQ. Sheamus wrestled in his street clothes.
- WWE's website has a new "Where Are They Now?" article up on former WWE Tag Team Champion Matt "Rosey" Anoa'i, son of Hall of Famer Sika. These days he is preparing to open up a Samoan barbecue restaurant in Cincinnati, Ohio called Island Boi BBQ. The restaurant is scheduled to open the first week of December.
- John Cena appeared at a Florida elementary school on Tuesday to surprise 9 year old Gary Patterson with a brand new, state of the art $32,000 wheelchair. Cena surprised the boy during lunch time in the cafeteria at his school. The wheelchair was not donated by WWE but it does feature a built-in WWE Title belt.
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6-9 Demetrius Henry of Bradenton, FL Tuesday released a final three and USC made the cut.
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Kim Kardashian has settled a lawsuit against Old Navy claiming the clothing retailer violated her publicity rights by using a lookalike in an ad.
Kardashian sued over the spot in July 2011, claiming the company's use of a model who looked like her might confuse consumers about her actual endorsements, which include a clothing store and shoe line.
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Twenty-three Rhodes students are in the Dominican Republic for a week of service work as part of Rhodes' annual Alternative Spring Break trip. Students have travelled to the town of Cruz Verde to assist on a variety of service projects including constructing houses, working with local children and helping to develop irrigation and sustainability initiatives.
"The variety of work that we do means that students can do the type of work that fits them best," says Tracie West '14. "On top of that, this is an opportunity to get Rhodes students who may not have known each other before to come together to do service work and really bond as a team."
West has gone on all the Cruz Verde trips, and now on her second year as a member of the steering committee, she had led the fundraising efforts and worked in tandem with Sister Island Project, the non-profit organization that works to organize the trip. Other than Erik Klingbeil '13 and fellow steering committee members Rene Sanchez '14 and Shawnecca Burke '14, this is the first Alternative Spring Break trip for all the Rhodes volunteers.
"We limit the number of students who return each year so that the trip is available to as many new people as possible," says West. "This is something the college has encouraged us to do so that more people get the chance to have this experience."
West says that one of the most rewarding things about the trip is getting to see the combined efforts of everyone.
"My freshman year, we built houses and watered trees that had just been planted. When I went back last year, I got to see how much those trees have grown, which was great. I know that this year we'll see a lot of similar progress."
Students work alongside the residents of the town, many of whom have designed the different projects. In addition, the Rhodes volunteers live in groups of two in homestays with local families. Different families rotate hosting dinners for the group, and nights are spent listening to live music, learning dances like the merengue and bachata, and spending time with local residents.
"It is a very interactive experience," says West. "And it's never really planned. I think that is the experience that a lot of the Rhodes students are going for, and one of the best parts about the trip is getting to experience an entirely new culture."
Student travelers are chosen in October based on their application essays, and then the group begins the fundraising process. Although each student is responsible for his/her individual costs, West says the goal is to raise money as a team.
"Fundraising can be a challenge, but once you get to the Dominican Republic, you forget about all that. It is completely worth it in the end."
West says that for her, the trip means so much more than just building houses and completing service work.
"Even though our standards of living are so different, the people I have met in Cruz Verde enjoy life just as much as I do, and they appreciate everything that they have, even if they only have a little. I think that is why I have continued to go back. The interaction, and the perspective I've gained on my own life just from being there is what has really been rewarding."
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I hope everyone had a great weekend. I had a very quiet weekend. Ran errands and trying new recipes. I guess it's also the start of football season. That's all I saw on Facebook for everyone. I wish I was a sports fan, but alas I am not. But don't get me wrong, I don't turn down any invites to any type of sports parties. I like the food and the company!
Summer is winding down and I am grateful. The weather is still a little crazy, hot one day and cooler the next.
I find that red cabbage is one of the vegetables that nobody know what do do with. How about throwing it in the oven?
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Roasted Red Cabbage with Homemade Ranch Dressing
- 1 red cabbage, cut into wedges
- Olive oil for drizzling
- Salt for sprinkling
- 1/2 cup homemade ranch dressing
Preheat the oven to 400.
Ranch Dressing Mix
- 2 Tbsp dried parsley
- 1 tsp dried dill
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp onion powder
- 1/2 tsp dried basil
- 1/2 tsp pepper
- Add each of the dried spices to a bowl and gently stir.
- Store in a resealable plastic baggie or small jar with tight-fitting lid in your spice cabinet.
- To make the ranch dressing, whisk together 1/3 cup mayonnaise with 1/4 cup milk (more or less depending on the consistency you want) with 1 Tbsp of the homemade ranch dressing seasoning mix. Season with salt, to taste. Use immediately and can refrigerate for up to 3 days.
- Makes about 4 Tbsp worth of mix. Or use the ratios above and mix up however much you'll need!If you prefer to grill these, be sure to place them over indirect heat on the grill. Depending on the temperature of the grill, they would take between 15-20 minutes to cook.
If you prefer to grill these, be sure to place them over indirect heat on the grill. Depending on the temperature of the grill, they would take between 15-20 minutes to cook.
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Japanese researchers use laser light to turn motorNovember 28th, 2007 - 5:12 pm ICT by admin
London, November 28 (ANI): Japanese researchers have become the first to use laser light to turn a motor.
The researchers are working on a laser-driven motor that may, in future, provide pinpoint mechanical control even in places where electric motors normally do not work.
Hideki Okamura, a physicist at the International Christian University in Tokyo, says that he conceived the idea of making this motor after using laser "tweezers" to move microscopic objects around.
Although the new motor is relatively inefficient in manoeuvring larger things and lacks a reverse gear, Okamura believes that it may find novel applications.
The motor consists of a copper disc with a hole at its centre. A green laser light with a wavelength of 532 nanometres heats up the metal and causes it to expand, producing tiny fast-moving elastic waves on its surface.
The waves move in a circular motion around the centre of the ring. As the ring touches another surface, this motion causes it to move, and when the disc is mounted on a spindle, the movement becomes rotational.
As of now, the motor only turns in one direction. However, the researchers are trying to improve it by using a material that responds differently to two different laser frequencies.
"By changing the timings between the two (pulses), one could reverse the laser motor," Okamura said.
According to him, laser drive could be useful in environments with strong magnetic fields because, unlike conventional electric motors, the laser motor is unaffected by strong electromagnetism.
He further said that the new motor could be used inside MRI scanners or other scientific instruments.
The researchers are now researching into new materials that respond more strongly to laser light. (ANI)
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Hastings to celebrate 39th Rivertown Days
The 39th annual Rivertown Days put on by the Hastings Area Chamber of Commerce and its volunteer committee will be July 21-23. Kristy Barse, chamber president, said the event has evolved greatly over the past four decades.
"It started out as a community celebration," Barse said. "It was really for the Hastings residents, just a time in the summer to do a community festival. As it continued to grow, it gained a lot of attention from visitors and it became a visitor event, too, because it's right on the river — it's a beautiful location."
As its size and scope grew, Rivertown Days also increased its meaning to Hastings.
"It's a time to celebrate the town," Barse explained. "It takes, just during the weekend alone, over a 100 volunteers to pull off. So it's a huge opportunity for community organizations to come together. It's also an opportunity for people to notice that we are here, we are at this beautiful location, that we're a part of Dakota County but we're also this hidden gem.
"Rivertown Days is also important to our local economy. It fills our restaurants and stores around town with visitors and former residents returning home for the weekend."
There are two new additions to Rivertown Days this year that Barse said that have chamber members very excited.
"The Twin City Power Boat Association is doing high-speed power boat races on the river," she said. "They are doing races from 2-5 p.m. on Friday and then Saturday are the finals, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Those boats can get up to 135 mph, so it's going to be really, really cool because the city has just recently finished the Hastings RiverWalk, and that's going to be the best viewing area," he said.
The course will start at the public docks in Jaycee Park, then they'll race to the train bridge and back.
"We also have a ninja warrior course in Jaycee Park. Conquer Ninja Warrior from Woodbury is coming down and they are setting up a big obstacle course for the whole weekend. It's $2 to try out, or you can buy a $15 wristband, and the wristband also gets you into a competition on Saturday, there will be a youth and adult competition."
Barse said that each year the chamber's goals including raising a set amount of sponsorship money that organizers know it will take to hold the event. They also try and sell 10,000 Rivertown Days buttons each year.
After the event is done, the chamber and volunteer committee evaluates how the event went and what improvements need to be made. They then take August off before starting back up again in September.
Despite the massive logistics that go into holding Rivertown Days, Barse said that the biggest challenge she, the chamber and the committee face is keeping things fresh.
"There's a lot of communities that do a summer celebration and we are competing with a lot of them, especially around this area," she said.
The vast majority of activities will take place at Jaycee Park and Levee Park Friday to Sunday, July 21-23, with others events scattered throughout the city. Rivertown Days will be kicked off by Edina Realty's Medallion Hunt that will start on Monday, July 17, as well as an amateur photography contest sponsored by Mac McGoon Portrait Design Studio where submissions are due July 12.
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Taunton Cricket Club made the perfect start to their league season on Saturday when they thrashed Old Bristolians by 148 runs at Gypsy Lane.
Tom Abell started the season as he left off in 2013 with a well-made 62 at the top of the order, while his former schoolmate George Cook bludgeoned his way to an unbeaten 47 at the death of the Taunton innings.
Skipper Jack Cooper helped himself to a four-wicket haul in his first game in charge and there were also a pair of wickets apiece of Cook and debutant Graham Fitt.
On Sunday, vice-captain Ben Orr was nursing a slightly sore head but still managed to hail a fantastic all-round team performance.
"A fantastic start to the new season. Really chuffed for all the guys as it has been a while since we started the first game of the season with a win," he said.
"With a number of debutants in the side this victory really is the perfect spring board for our league season.
"Special mention to the performances of George Cook, Tom Abell, the skipper and this year's overseas Chris Davenport, who seems to have settled really well.
"Hopefully we can take this momentum into week two at Knowle, and then beyond."
Captain Cooper's reign got off to the worst possible start when he lost the toss and saw debutant George Webber removed for a duck with no score on the board.
But that was the to be worst of the afternoon for the hosts as Abell and Australian Davenport set about rebuilding the innings on slightly greener than usual Gypsy Lane pitch.
The pair made batting look easy considering the extremely wet weather that had around for the past couple of weeks, as they added 80 runs for the second wicket, and it was perhaps a touch surprising when Davenport fell to Rupert Swetman for a well-made 44 on debut.
Abell brought up his half-century before departing for a handy 62, but with skipper Cooper (12), Si Stewart (12) and Rob Hake (14) all perishing as they looked to up the run rate, the home side's innings needed some late impetus at 156 for six with eight overs to go.
And that is exactly what they got from distance runner Cook who struck a couple of lusty blows on way to 47 not out to leave Taunton with a respectable 216 for eight at the halfway stage.
The home side carried this momentum into the second innings as they blew away their opponents who managed to muster little more than a whimper in response.
Cook (2-14) and Abell (1-11) took the new ball and quickly had OBs reeling at 30 for three before Cooper introduced himself into the attack and ripped through the middle order.
Taunton's skipper helped himself to an impressive four for 11, dismissing his opposite number James King when 'veteran' wicket-keeper and part-time philosopher Jon Kerslake rolled back the years to take a superb one-handed grab diving away to his right.
At 37 for seven the game was over as a contest, but there was still time for debutant number three Graham Fitt to make his mark with a pair of late wickets, while Matt Dare also got in on the act to dismiss the visitors for 68.
This was an unusually limp showing for the boys from Bristol, but that should not detract from a magnificent showing by the home side.
A 148-run win was certainly the perfect start to the season for the Taunton outfit, but they are sure to face much sterner tests than this as the weeks go by.
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Our antiquated hard rock mining law is a hurtful reminder of the worst of 19th century thinking
Some things, like the US Constitution, embody timeless principles. The General Mining Law of 1872, which celebrated its 114th birthday on May 10, is not one of those things. Instead it is a hurtful and embarrassing reminder of the worst of nineteenth-century…
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