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THURSDAY, Nov. 10 (HealthDay News) -- All the color variations seen in prehistoric cave paintings of horses actually existed in pre-domestic horse populations, which indicates that the ancient human artists accurately depicted their natural environment, according to a new study.
The research is also the first to provide DNA evidence of spotted horses in the Paleolithic period. Previous DNA studies produced evidence only for bay (reddish brown) and black horses.
In the study, an international team of researchers conducted DNA analyses of the bones and teeth of 31 pre-domestic horses found in 15 locations including Siberia and Europe. Some dated as far back as 35,000 years.
The results showed that 18 horses were bay, seven were black, and four had distinctive "leopard" spotting.
Cave paintings showing horses with leopard spotting have been controversial, such as a cave painting in France that's more than 25,000 years old and shows a white horse with dark spots.
Some experts believed it was unlikely that ancient horses had the genetic programming for a spotted coat and some have suggested the cave painting depictions of spotted horses were symbolic or abstract.
But this study shows that the cave paintings were realistic.
The study appears in the Nov. 7 online issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"Our findings lend support to hypotheses that argue that cave paintings constitute reflections of the natural environment of humans at the time and may contain less of a symbolic or transcendental connotation than often assumed," Michi Hofreiter, of the department of biology at the University of York in England, said in a university news release.
More information
The American Museum of Natural History has more about the evolution of horses.


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Pakistan's decision to convict a doctor who helped the U.S. track down Osama bin Laden was met with outrage in the U.S. NBC's Andrea Mitchell reports.
WASHINGTON — A Senate panel expressed its outrage Thursday over Pakistan's conviction of a doctor who helped the United States track down Osama bin Laden, voting to cut aid to Islamabad by $33 million — $1 million for every year of the physician's 33-year sentence for high treason.
"It's arbitrary, but the hope is that Pakistan will realize we are serious," said Senator Richard Durbin after the unanimous 30-0 vote by the Senate Appropriations Committee.
"It's outrageous that they (the Pakistanis) would say a man who helped us find Osama bin Laden is a traitor," said Durbin, the Senate's number two Democrat.
Pakistan jails doctor who helped CIA find Osama bin Laden
The sentencing on Wednesday of Dr Shakil Afridi for 33 years on treason charges added to U.S. frustrations with Pakistan over what Washington sees as its reluctance to help combat Islamist militants fighting the Afghan government and the closure of supply routes to NATO troops in Afghanistan.
'A schizophrenic ally'
The punitive move came on top of deep reductions the Appropriations Committee already had made to President Barack Obama's budget request for Pakistan, a reflection of the growing congressional anger over its cooperation in combatting terrorism. The overall foreign aid budget for next year had slashed more than half of the proposed assistance and threatened further reductions if Islamabad failed to open the overland supply routes.
"We need Pakistan, Pakistan needs us, but we don't need Pakistan double-dealing and not seeing the justice in bringing Osama bin Laden to an end," said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who pushed for the additional cut in aid.
Fuel tankers sit idle during Pakistan-US dispute over supply routes
He called Pakistan "a schizophrenic ally," helping the United States at one turn, but then aiding the Haqqani network which has claimed responsibility for several attacks on Americans. The group also has ties to al-Qaida and the Taliban.
It's been a tough year for Pakistan U.S. relations. Crucial NATO supply routes have been shuttered since November, there is tension over drone strikes and now the countries are at odds over the treason conviction of the Pakistani doctor who helped the U.S. locate Osama Bin Laden.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the jailing of the doctor was "unjust and unwarranted" and vowed to continue to press the case with Islamabad. "The United States does not believe there is any basis for holding Dr. Afridi."
Afridi was accused of running a fake vaccination campaign, in which he collected DNA samples, that is believed to have helped the American intelligence agency track down bin Laden in a Pakistani town last year.
Aid workers become targets as Pakistan faces new crisis
The al-Qaida leader was killed in the town of Abbottabad a year ago in a unilateral U.S. special forces raid that heavily damaged ties between Islamabad and Washington. Since then, there have been growing calls in the U.S. Congress to cut off some or all of U.S. aid.
Senator John McCain, top Republican on the Armed Services Committee, said lawmakers had agreed to withhold certain military aid for Pakistan until the defense secretary certifies that Pakistan is not detaining people like Afridi.
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Images of daily life, political pursuits, religious rites and deadly violence.
"All of us are outraged at the imprisonment and sentencing of some 33 years — virtually a death sentence — to the doctor in Pakistan who was instrumental ... in the removal of Osama bin Laden," McCain said, adding that Afridi was innocent of any wrongdoing. "That has frankly outraged all of us."
McCain criticizes Pakistan for jailing of doctor
The Senate Appropriations Committee's action docking Pakistan's aid came after a subcommittee earlier in the week slashed assistance to Islamabad -- and warned it would withhold even more cash if Pakistan does not reopen supply routes for NATO soldiers in neighboring Afghanistan.
Members of the committee complained about mafia-style extortion by Pakistan in seeking truck fees in exchange for opening the supply lines. The cost had been $250 per truck prior to the attack. Pakistan is now demanding $5,000 per truck. The United States has countered at $500.
Pakistan has been one of the leading recipients of U.S. foreign aid in recent years. Even after the cuts voted this week it still would receive about $1 billion in fiscal 2013, if the full Senate and House of Representatives approve. That figure includes $184 million for State Department operations and $800 million for foreign assistance. Counterinsurgency money for Pakistan would be limited to $50 million.
Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Thomas McNamara's goal with 8:39 left in the second half snapped a 1-1 tie and lifted Brown to a 2-1 victory over Yale before a big crowd on a chilly night at Reese Stadium. Freshman Scott Armbrust scored for the Bulldogs.
"This game mirrored our other Ivy games this season," said Yale head coach Brian Tompkins. "It was very competitive and we more than held our own. We were able to find a goal, but we're not quite experienced enough to make it stick."
All four of the Bulldogs' Ivy losses have come by one goal, including two in overtime.
Yale (5-8-3, 2-4 Ivy) jumped out to a 1-0 lead at 4:12 when Armbrust was left all alone in front and knocked in an Andy Shorten cross from point-blank range.
The Bears, who have been nationally ranked for much of the season, tied it midway through the first half with a beautiful goal. T.J. Popolizio dove to head in a David Walls' header at 22:52.
Brad Rose nearly gave the Bulldogs the lead early in the second half, but his header clanked off the crossbar.
"Both teams fought tooth and nail," Tompkins said. "We weren't able to create enough opportunities to get that critical second goal."
Brown (9-2-5, 4-2 Ivy) tallied the game-winner at 81:21. It came when a loose ball found its way to McNamara in the box, and he drilled it home.
Travis Chulick made one save in goal for the Bulldogs. Bears' goalkeeper Paul Grandstrand also stopped one shot.
Brown outshot Yale 10-3 and also had a 10-3 edge in corner kicks.
Seniors Jon Carlos, Travis Chulick, Jordan Raybould, Kevin Pope and Justin Song, who were playing their final game at Reese Stadium, were honored prior to kickoff.
"It's always hard to lose good players, but it's especially hard when they are such good people," Tompkins said. "They've been tremendous servants to the program."
Yale closes out the season next Friday at Princeton. Kickoff is slated for 8 p.m. and the game will be televised live on the Fox Soccer Channel.
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Mass Effect Wish List
BioWare Montreal studio director Yanick Roy confirmed that a new Mass Effect game is being developed by his studio. Although he couldn't say much aside from the concrete fact that the game is in development, that doesn't stop our imaginations from running wild with the potential the Mass Effect universe has for future installments. Here are some of the things we'd love to see.
Playable Alien Races
The Mass Effect franchise followed the path of famed Commander Shepard, the first human Spectre, during the discovery of and defense against the aggressive Reapers. Throughout the journey, the Commander's multifarious party was made up of several different alien races, with dozens more filling out NPC roles throughout the games. Why not let us play as one of these races?
Mass Effect 3's multiplayer gave us a taste of what it would be like to use an Asari's biotic powers or a Turian's military training, but the characterization was all cosmetic. Imagine if more protagonists were added to the single-player game; the possibilities would increase the replay values of each installment tenfold. BioWare has proved beyond any doubt that they can infuse a story with excellent characterization, so tackling a new trilogy as a renegade Batarian or passive-aggressive Salarian would vary the Mass Effect experience extensively.
Expand The Multiplayer
As previously mentioned, BioWare Montreal worked on Mass Effect 3's addictive multiplayer. As the lead team on a new franchise entry, it wouldn't surprise us to see the multiplayer fleshed out even more. How about local split-screen co-op? The wave-based battles against different factions kept players returning in Mass Effect 3, but adding the ability to play together in the same room presents a host of potential thrills.
Mass Effect 3 multiplayer tied into the single-player story by allowing progress in the former to contribute to Commander Shepard's galactic readiness against the Reapers. As well as that worked, we can't help but imagine how great it would be to have a standalone multiplayer story. The aforementioned cooperative play could allow for missions within the context of a parallel story, much like Assassin's Creed multiplayer or Halo 4's Spartan Ops. These added narratives not only fit in great within the context of their overarching games, but also supply more useful information to supplement single-player modes.
New Character Classes, Or Maybe None At All
The three major Mass Effect classes focused on combat, biotic, and tech-based abilities. With another three that combined two of each of these, it seemed like every play style was catered to. The purpose of this wish list is to dream up what would make an ideal Mass Effect game though, so why not ask for more classes? Even adding one more specialization would supply us with a slew of new combination classes. For instance, if we added a melee-based class that used omni-tool weapons, the total number of possible classes would increase to 10 (the new class plus three possible combos with each of the others).
On the other hand, what if character classes were ditched completely? If new playable races were added to the roster, Mass Effect could take the route the Elder Scrolls did with Skyrim and shrug off any presets. This freedom would allow us to shape our chosen character however we want from an expansive skill tree. Imagine a Geth who develops sniper skills alongside heavy biotic powers, but also dabbles in sentry turret upgrades and active camouflage? The possibilities are almost endless, so we'll try not to get our hopes up.
Other Genres
Even if you're not normally a big RPG gamer, the chances of Mass Effect catching your eye are high. Because of the sheer number of fans the franchise attracts, it's easy to see new genres the franchise could branch into. With the multitude of different races, cultures, and characters present in the Mass Effect universe, it's hard not to look at MMOs for possible future territory. The progression, characterization, and cooperation of the genre seem easy to adapt to a universe already permeated with lore and background information. BioWare tried their hand with The Old Republic, which had a storytelling focus, so why not attempt the same with Mass Effect?
The Mass Effect games are already easy to get lost in, but imagine if we had a vast world to explore with no boundaries, much like the previously mentioned Elder Scrolls games? For a universe so full of life and diversity, exploring every inch of it could clear our schedules for months. Even the lauded storytelling of BioWare could take a backseat to water cooler moments, secret areas, and expansive side missions filling out this open world.
To deviate from the original mass Effect trilogy completely, maybe an RTS would suit the property well. A plethora of factions and their alliances are already fleshed out in detail; couldn't these translate over to a genre centered on war?
What Do You Want?
The news is official: a new Mass Effect game is being developed. Whether we have much say in the process or not, it's still fun to dream up ideas for new titles in franchises we're already fond of. So what do you want from the new Mass Effect game? What could the new game do better than the original trilogy? Are there any new genres you'd like to see BioWare explore?


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A representative for Sean "Diddy" Combs has denied reports suggesting the music mogul is engaged to his singer girlfriend, Cassie.
The 44-year-old rapper has dated the 27-year-old beauty on-and-off since 2007, and he sparked rumors they were set to wed on Sunday after posting a photo of a stunning diamond ring on Instagram.
The caption read, "Baby do you like it? I just want to get you wat (sic) you Like! I just wanna Mk (make) you smile!"
Fans grew curious as to whether he had actually proposed via the photo sharing site, but his publicist has now confirmed the pair is not heading down the aisle and that the bauble was merely a gift.
This isn't the first time Combs and Cassie have sparked engagement rumors – in April 2012, the R&B singer shared a picture of her new manicure while sporting a large sparkler on her ring finger.


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The R-C Morning Report for April 29
A man involved in a Genoa robbery faces sentencing this morning in Douglas County District Court. Miguel Rubio, 27, was accused of robbery and battery when he was arrested in July 2013. Codefendant Waylon Dondero was sentenced to 15 years in prison in October.
The Cooperative Extension is hosting a session on the drought 6 p.m. today at the CVIC Hall in Minden. This will be the third dry winter in a row.
The high temperature will climb back up to 70 degrees today on its way to 81 by Thursday. Expect sunny skies and clear with an east wind of 10 mph.


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The recent search for an autistic boy who wandered away from home was a heartbreaking challenge to rescuers who learned that calling out for him might send him deeper into the dark.
MILLS RIVER — The recent search for an autistic boy who wandered away from home was a heartbreaking challenge to rescuers who learned that calling out for him might send him deeper into the dark.
After a rash of recent national headlines of accidental drownings among wandering autistic children, rescue workers recognized the menace of the nearby Mills River as well as creeks and ponds.
Between 2009 and 2011, accidental drowning accounted for 91 percent of total U.S. deaths reported in children with autism prone to wandering, according to a 2012 report from the National Autism Association.
Rescuers knew there was a possibility that 9-year-old Airk Hamilton was in the water.
After four tense hours on Aug. 26, they found the boy wet and shivering under a pile of logs, but firefighters said it was a close call. In winter temperatures, the boy could have been in serious trouble.
Search begins
The sky had already soaked up the last few minutes of daylight when Airk Hamilton decided to go for a walk. His grandmother would have stopped him, but she had just stepped into another room when he went outside.
A swift-moving Mills River, swollen from a summer of heavy rain, flowed on its course to the French Broad less than 500 yards from his family's mobile home on Village Drive. Airk had been to the river several times with his family. This time, he went alone in the dark.
Frantic family members called 911 and reported Airk missing around 8:15 p.m. They told dispatchers that he is "very autistic" and would probably run if a search party started calling his name.
Airk is a whiz on computers, able to fix technological problems that stump adults, but his communication skills are lost in a fog of autistic disorder. Words do not come easily for Airk, making strangers that much scarier because he can't tell them to stay away. Nor can he ask for help.
Members of the Henderson County Sheriff's Office rushed to the scene and interviewed the family to get an idea of where Airk might go. They said he might go to the water.
Minutes later, a phone rang in the Mills River Fire & Rescue firehouse on School House Road. The band of firefighters had just settled into the routine of their regular meeting when they were called to assist in the search.
Deputies set up a command post at Mills River United Methodist Church on Old Turnpike Road. They began to form a plan, searching several possible hiding places around the area and nearby ponds. Mills River Fire Chief Rick Livingston and Capt. Tim Gordon of the Henderson County Sheriff's Office led the operation to find Airk as incident commanders.
"In any search, you plan for the worst and hope for the best," Livingston said.
His department is slightly familiar with autism since a family member of one of their rescuers has the disorder, but this was the first time they had ever searched for an autistic child.
"In most cases, the lost person or lost party is looking for us as much as we're looking for them, but we learned that he would most likely be trying to hide from us," Livingston said. "That was a huge challenge we don't normally encounter with searches."
Henderson County sheriff's deputies ventured out from the command post with search dogs. The N.C. State Highway Patrol helicopter flew over the area scanning the yards, woods and bodies of water below with a FLIR (Forward Looking Infrared) camera in search of body heat.
Not wanting to thwart the efforts of the other search parties, 25 firefighters from Mills River stood by in a holding pattern, ready to search.
While they prayed and waited, Harold Sitton, a 37-year member of Mills River Fire & Rescue, and Jason Davis, a member of two years, were deployed upstream at Mills River near Williamson Road, Livingston said.
They started walking downstream searching for an Airk, and they hoped to meet the child going upstream, he said.
"These two guys are very familiar with the area, and they're very methodical, which you need in a search," Livingston said.
When initial efforts to find the boy failed, Gordon and Livingston decided to do a grid search. Grid searches are more involved and require an abundance of manpower to look at every square foot of the rivers, ponds and woods before them.
"We knew he'd be hiding from us," Livingston said. "We called in the cavalry."
Every fire department in Henderson County sent reinforcements in the form of rescuers and their tools. The Henderson County Rescue Squad and Henderson County EMS were quickly on the scene. Firefighters from North Transylvania Fire Rescue and Skyland Fire & Rescue rushed to help in the search.
"We had about 100 searchers that we were getting ready to deploy when our two guys called in," Livingston said.
Sitton and Davis found Airk on the banks of Mills River, shivering from the onset of hypothermia, under the logs.
"He was drenched from head to toe. … He was shaking, and he was really cold," Livingston said. "Had it been a cold night, I'm fairly certain we would have lost him."
Autism spectrum disorders affect at least 152 people between the ages of 3 and 22 in Henderson County Public Schools alone. The disorders are defined as a range of conditions, present from early childhood, that often involve difficulty in communicating and forming relationships with others. Airk, however, bonded with his rescuers almost instantaneously.
They promised him a ride on their department's ATV (all-terrain vehicle), but first he agreed to let EMS technicians give him a checkup. Airk was transported by EMS to the hospital.
This past Thursday, he reunited with the two men who saved him from the dark and reminded them of the promise they made — to take him on that ATV ride. Airk beamed from the front seat of a large fire engine, whose lights were turned on especially for him.
He grinned from the front of the ATV as his rescuers laughed.
"Those two guys did an outstanding job in developing a bond with this kid," the chief said. "He just took to them right away."
Both Livingston and Gordon praised the community spirit among the departments who came together to find Airk.
I was proud "of our officers and the fire and rescue personnel working so closely together. It truly was a team effort, and we have been trying very hard to mesh our incident command abilities with everyone," Gordon said.
"I greatly appreciate y'all," Airk's mother, Sam Slaughter, told Livingston as she wiped the few hours of sleep from her eyes Wednesday afternoon, following a late night of work on a road crew.
Livingston invited the family back to the station.
"We're just thrilled that it turned out like it did," Livingston said.
Airk is a third-grader at Bruce Drysdale Elementary.
"If you give him a computer, he'll do pretty much anything with it," Slaughter said, grinning. "We had (technicians) come out here when he was about 5 years old because we had a computer tower that we couldn't get online. … They were out here for two-and-a-half hours and they finally go, 'I'm done. I can't do it. If you figure out how to do it, call us and let us know.' My son comes home from visiting his biological (father). Five minutes, he's on the computer and he's on his favorite website. We're still trying to figure out to this day, what did you do? He's smart as a whip."
Slaughter said she thought Airk must have been bored the night when he wandered off.
"They did an absolutely wonderful job," she said, thanking all of the men and women — an army of 100 — who rushed to help find her son.
"He's happy he's home. He stays close to home now."


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BP Sprays Residents and Workers with Corexit, Teaches Students That Dispersant Is Fine
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October 2, 2010
New revelations have surfaced that back up the early claims that dispersant was sprayed on the population. Multiple BP cleanup workers and residents have confirmed that they were indeed sprayed with Corexit. In early June we reported on the multiple calls we had received from concerned residents who were being hosed by dispersant yet most people just didn't believe it. After four months of proof it has become an undeniable truth.
In a recent interview, Karen Hopkins described some very startling information that she had received from a family of BP clean up workers. A husband and wife, tired after working all day for the Vessel of Opportunity Program, went to sleep on their boat with the windows open and to their surprise awoke dripping wet. Not only were they soaked with Corexit, they had numerous health problems, including irritation and itching that turned to sores and what they call the BP cough. Karen reported that rather than cease, these problems continued to get worse.
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I have been seeing this very randomly and rarely in my logs during WOT pulls. The trigger indicator boxes go red above 5500 rpm and stay read until rpms drop more off throttle or I shift and pull again. It's sort of rare and very intermittently.
I have new bellhousing sensors but they are eBay ones on the cheaper end. As far as I know the machinist DID NOT balance the new rods lol. He says "oh it's so minute it doesn't matter and also carbon buildup throws it off eventually anyway" and this is the guy who's crew destroyed my oil check valve and left me no pressure reading after the engine refresh!
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MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- A Minneapolis-area man charged with having a homemade tattoo threatening a police officer wants to get it removed, his lawyer says.
Cindy McCollum, who represents Antonio Jenkins Jr., asked a judge Tuesday to reduce his bail to $5,000 from $60,000, the St. Paul Pioneer-Press reported. She said state funding for the removal of gang-related tattoos has been exhausted, but Fraser, if he is freed from jail, could go back to work at a pretzel shop and raise the money.
Jenkins, who lives in the suburb of St. Louis Park, was arrested in November after he posted a photograph of the tattoo on Facebook. The tattoo shows a man holding a gun into the mouth of a pig dressed in a police uniform with the badge number of a Minneapolis officer assigned to an anti-gang squad.
"Tattoo iz a pig get'n his brains blew out," the Facebook caption said.
Jenkins, a reputed member of the Bloods gang, was on probation after a short sentence for armed robbery when he was arrested.
Assistant Hennepin County Attorney Michael Radmer argued against bail reduction, arguing that Jenkins remains active in a gang. The judge is expected to rule in a few days.


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It was one nation under a groove at Barack Obama's victory celebration Tuesday night in Chicago.
Classic soul, R&B, funk, disco and Motown provided the soundtrack for the president's post-reelection bash, as throngs of Democratic Party faithful swayed to Al Green's "Let's Stay Together," Bill Withers' "Lovely Day," Marvin Gaye's "Got to Give It Up," Michael Jackson's "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'," McFadden & Whitehead's "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now," KC and the Sunshine Band's "Boogie Shoes" and Jean Knight's "Mr. Big Stuff."
And when the commander in chief mounted the stage with the First Family in tow, he did it to the ebullient, jangly opening chords of Stevie Wonder's "Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours," which topped the charts for six weeks in 1970.
The upbeat, gospel-tinged pop-R&B tune, about the blessings of receiving a second chance, was a fitting choice as a sonic backdrop for Obama's reelection night frenzy. It's a secular hymn about the redemptive joys of rising above one's previous mistakes -- a suitable sentiment for a lover pleading for a fresh start, or a politician seeking a reboot from the U.S. electorate.
In it, the singer plays the part of a repentant lover expressing remorse for his past misdeeds, as well as his hopes of being admitted back into his beloved's embrace.
It begins with a confession and a flicker of doubt, which Wonder delivers with his customary earnest clarity:
Like a fool I went and stayed too long/Now I'm wondering if your love's still strong
After the chorus, he admits:
I've done a lot of foolish things that I really didn't mean.
As the song builds emotionally and musically, contrition gives way to ecstatic relief, as the singer pledges his eternal devotion to his lover:
Here I am baby, signed, sealed, delivered -- I'm yours
As if overcome with joy, Wonder's voice erupts in Little Richard-like yelps of pleasure, the backup singers join the amen chorus of approval, and the brilliantly tight drumming propels the track upward toward a higher plane. In the context of the African American church and gospel tradition, "Signed, Sealed, Delivered" is about the soul's aspirations toward spiritual enlightenment. It's also one hell of a pop song.
The president has called the Wonder his "musical hero," and Wonder performed the same tune at the Democratic National Convention. His 42-year-old song delivered again Tuesday night, as the president sealed his victory.
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It's easy to get around Denmark by public transport. Distances between places are small, so you can get from one end of the country to the other relatively quickly.
Domestic flights in Denmark
There are several daily flights from Copenhagen to cities around Denmark. SAS have direct flights to Aarhus, Aalborg and Billund. Norwegian flies direct to Aalborg, Billund and Karup. Not sure where to fly to in Denmark? Here's a handy list of airports in Denmark to help you decide!
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The Danish national rail operator DSB operates regular train services between Copenhagen and towns across Denmark and southern Sweden. A train from Copenhagen to Aarhus will take three hours, to Aalborg four hours and to Odense an hour and a half. You can see train routes, find times and book train tickets with DSB by calling +45 70 13 14 15. There is also the option of booking via the DSB website, where they have a handy tutorial for how to use their Danish booking system.
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- For foreigner graduates it is increasingly hard to find jobs and develop careers
- Guangzhou's annual jobs fairs for foreigners attracts hundreds from overseas looking for employment
- Around 7 million Chinese graduates enter the jobs market each year
- Still lots of opportunities for those expats with established skills
Italian explorer Marco Polo spent 17 years working in the court of Kublai Khan's China, but today most foreigners seeking to live and work in the country aren't looking for the same time-invested cultural exchange.
"It's the place to make money," explained Aynura Askerova, a Russian who has lived in the southern Chinese metropolis of Guangzhou for four years.
Work as a fashion model has taken Askerova across China and the rest of Asia, but "now it's time to find a real career," she said last month, in an overly-illuminated hotel conference room in the city's China Marriott Hotel.
Like hundreds of other visitors from across the world, the graduate in software development from Kazan State University was there for the Jobs Fair for Foreigners; one of three annual events organized by the Chinese government, where expats get a rare chance to meet prospective employers face-to-face.
The events have been a honeypot for job-seeking expats, particularly since the global economic crisis of 2008. While economic growth in China has slowed in the last year, the 7% to 8% predicted growth is positively booming compared to Europe and the United States, leading many to believe their prospects there might be better than at home.
However the perception that expats, particularly from western countries, can just walk into a job or career in China is now out of date.
"The novelty of being a foreigner has worn off," said Shanghai-based Simon Lance, regional director in China for recruitment firm Hays. "Employers are seeking value. Demonstrating a genuine commitment to China is key."
That can include language skills and being willing to spend more than just one or two years in the country, he added.
According to a report by the state-run Xinhua news agency, nearly 7 million new Chinese graduates entered the jobs market last year. It's a figure that is set to increase in the coming years as China expands its number of higher education institutions, adding to the challenge for foreigners embarking on their careers in the country.
"That side of the workforce there's almost an oversupply of junior end candidates," said Lance. "So it's hard for expats to compete. Without Mandarin or local language skills I'd say it's almost impossible."
Nick Cucinella, CEO at CareerBuilder China, advises graduates to have a CV in both English and Chinese, even if they don't speak the language, and that taking the initiative and targeting prospective employers and Chinese companies is the best path to a job.
"Not many people do that, but if they do they will be very well received. Too many just use jobs sites and search engines," he said.
However for those with established careers and particular skill-sets, demand exceeds supply in many industries.
Big infrastructure projects in China mean that recruitment companies are seeing a desire for experienced architects and design engineers, plus a strong demand for those in the pharmaceutical industry, as local and international companies invest in R&D facilities in the country.
"Chinese companies realize they have to offer more than just a job, but show that the city is good place to live, raise children and there's enough going on," said Cucinella.
The recruitment process in China could also seem quite strange to many westerners.
"At a market in China you're expected to haggle and that applies in some way to job negotiations. Westerners don't want to feel like they're haggling over their life, they want to feel wanted," said Cucinella.
However a larger trend is localizing the workforce across positions, believes Lance.
If the employers he recruits for have a wish-list it is usually for a Chinese national who has gained many years of experience studying or working abroad.
These "haigui," or sea turtles as they are called in China, hit the employment sweet spot with "both the cultural connection and the language skills," according to Lance.
"They provide a pretty good compromise between being able to connect and communicate with local Chinese staff, but have a good understanding of western business and management practice. They bridge the two worlds quite well."
For those expats at the Guangzhou event swimming against the rising tide of competition, employing a number of techniques is necessary to make it in China -- local connections being one of the most useful.
"Having a connection, or 'guanxi,' is important," said German national Max Storz, who found a sales job in Guangzhou through a contact of his girlfriend. "It helps a lot to find a job and get things done in general."
It's worked for Askerova, too. With business partners she met in China, she has been able to register a trading company in Hong Kong alongside developing a modeling career.
"There are cultural differences to work out, and it was hard for me at first (living in Guangzhou), very different," she said. "But there is really nowhere else like it."


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New Child Care Center Director, March 4, 1999
by Kathleen Hedges
SOCORRO, N.M., March 4, 1999 -- Terri Hunter, New Mexico Tech's new Child Care Center director, bubbles over with laughter when she talks about her new job.
"I've been in the position since January 4," she says. "There's never a dull day, and that's how I like it. I'm delighted to have the opportunity to work here. I have a very strong feeling that this is where I'm supposed to be. I was looking for a small community, and I regard this as a permanent commitment."
Hunter trained in child care at the University of Northern Colorado (UNC) in Greeley. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education/Early Childhood and a Master of Arts in Early Childhood Education. She has done additional graduate course work in Early Childhood Special Education.
She also has a wide variety of experience in child care. She was employed at UNC at their early childhood center (similar to Tech's Child Care Center) while she was a student there, working with children aged six weeks through five years. She has owned a private preschool kindergarten in Greeley, which was accredited by the National Association for Education of Young Children (NAEYC). She has worked as a private nanny, taught at the university level as a part-time instructor at UNC, and worked in the public school system in Colorado.
Hunter came to New Mexico five years ago, "because I didn't want to shovel any more snow," she says. "I had lived everywhere as an Air Force child, and I have always loved New Mexico when I visited it. I've felt drawn here because of the people -- they're very friendly and welcoming."
She started an early childhood program at Tomé Elementary School. She currently lives in Los Lunas, but is looking forward to moving to Socorro after she sells her house in Los Lunas.
Hunter has some exciting plans for New Mexico Tech's Child Care Center. "We're gradually introducing an educational approach called High/Scope into our programming," she says. "High/Scope is an educational model that involves children in direct, hands-on experiences that enrich their intellectual, physical, social, and emotional development. Many places have adopted High/Scope because it works so well. I myself have been using it for 10 years."
Hunter emphasizes that High/Scope doesn't end at the end of the school day. "Many of the activities that High/Scope teachers do in the classroom can also be done at home," she adds. "The child is never in isolation but always is part of the family unit. Through parents's visits to the preschool and teachers's visits to children's homes, parents and teachers learn from one another and become partners in their children's success."
Hunter's other big goal for Tech's Child Care Center is to apply for accreditation from NAEYC, the same organization that accredited her preschool. "It takes about a year to prepare well and feel you're ready to be accredited," she says. "The validation team from NAEYC looks at everything, from our physical plant to our books. They interview parents and observe our staff interacting with students. When you're done with the accreditation process, you know you're providing the best for children and families."
Hunter relates that the Tech Child Care Center has some openings available for children aged two-and-a-half to six. "Our priorities are Tech students, then Tech faculty and staff, then community, but we do have openings for community members. Parents who are interested should call me at 835-5240."
Hunter concludes by adding that she looks forward to moving to Socorro. "I have yet to meet an unfriendly person. This is a community that allows me to do what I want and be where I want to be."


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(CBS News) President Obama will meet today with Congressional leaders of both parties to stage a last-ditch effort at averting the imminent "fiscal cliff", which lands in four days and brings with it a host of automatic tax hikes and spending cuts.
Despite a "nation exhausted by seemingly endless fiscal cliff negotiations," CBS News Chief White House correspondent Major Garrett said, "With a meeting comes a glimmer of hope."
Sen. Bob Corker feels otherwise.
The Tennessee Republican shared his grim forecast Friday on "CBS This Morning," calling the Friday afternoon meeting "optics to make it look like we're doing something."
Corker was choleric on the broader state of the "fiscal cliff" negotiations, scalding President Obama and Congressional leaders for a "total dereliction of duty at every level" and a "lack of courage to deal with the spending issues."
"I'm very surprised that the President has not laid out a very specific plan to deal with this," said Corker, admitting, "Candidly, Congress could have done the same. And I think the American people should be disgusted."
While Corker granted that "98 percent of the people in our country can be assured...their income taxes are going to be the same," he argued, "We here in Washington are going to hurt the American economy, we're going to hurt Americans at every level, and to me it's just a travesty that we've not been willing to deal with this issue."
And Corker did not predict much progress from today's meeting between the President and congressional leaders, predicting a "worst case scenario" in which "We'll kick the can down the road...we'll do some small deal, and we'll create another fiscal cliff to deal with this fiscal cliff."
"Again, a total lack of courage, lack of leadership," Corker insisted.
Still, some analysts remain hopeful that the imminent deadline and the specter of a very angry American public will force leaders in Washington to act swiftly as the "fiscal cliff" endgame play out in real time.
"I think we could get some form of a deal," predicted Politico's Maggie Haberman, citing "a bit of panic now on both sides" as the deadline approaches.
And if a deal does not emerge? President Obama may get the tax hikes on high earners that he's seeking, and "It is worse for Republicans in the longer term," said Haberman, "But I don't think it's great for anybody, I just don't."


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There was a time when Silicon Valley despaired of Twitter ever making money.
With advertising products that are winning raves, estimated 2012 revenues of $350 million set to nearly triple to $1 billion this year, and nonstop talk of an IPO, that's no longer the question: It's whether Twitter is turning a profit.
And early Twitter investor Fred Wilson has all but settled that one.
"I would bet you that Twitter makes more profit this year than most newspapers," Wilson said in an exchange on Twitter with Los Angeles Times reporter Chris O'Brien.
When O'Brien pressed Wilson for details, Wilson suggested that O'Brien should be asking not whether Twitter will turn a profit this year, but whether it's already currently turning a profit.
Twitter's U.K. subsidiary recently reported a modest profit for its business there.
Business Insider ran some rough calculations in 2011 and figured that the company could be profitable even then. Of course, it's since expanded at breakneck speed, growing past 1,000 employees and moving into a new headquarters on San Francisco's Market Street.
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City Releases $70+ Million in Bond Funds for Affordable Housing Projects
The solicitation is the first to make Bond funds available to private entities.Read More…
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421 SW 6th Avenue, Suite 500, Portland, OR 97204
Christen Goodknight says she always dreamed of being a homeowner.
At 30 years old, this Army National Guard veteran craved the space and freedom that comes with homeownership. "I wanted to have a place to call my own," she said. "Growing up, we always had a house. We were lucky."
Christen turned to the Portland Housing Bureau's Mortgage Credit Certificate (MCC) program for more support through the process. MCC is a federal tax credit worth 20 percent of the mortgage interest paid annually during the life of the loan.
"The MCC program allows homebuyers to more comfortably afford a home by giving them an income tax credit. Sometimes the credit is used by lenders to help a buyer qualify who otherwise wouldn't have," said Dory Van Bockel, who administers the program at the Portland Housing Bureau. "The program works for a broad range of incomes and is available citywide; the more generous income cap and availability citywide makes it a good alternative to our down payment assistance program."
Christen learned about the MCC Program when she took a homebuyer education class at Native American Youth and Family Center (NAYA).
"The class helped me raise some good questions about what to look for," she said. "And it's saving me money in the long run."
Christen took out a loan with a 3.375 percent interest rate. The MCC Program saves her roughly $80 a month on her mortgage right now.
Christen, who is Native American, says that homeownership fits into her cultural identity. "I like more space and I like to get my hands dirty in the yard." Since moving into her Southeast Portland home in March, Christen has started a vegetable garden.
Dory hopes that more people from communities of color will utilize the MCC program to help close a homeownership gap.
"Home ownership is a powerful wealth and stability building tool. Rates of home ownership within the Native American community and other communities of color both in Portland and nationwide are much lower than for the overall population," said Dory. "PHB is making an effort to better connect the resources we have available to the Native community through outreach efforts."
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Sumter, S.C. – It was lucky number seven for the Coker women's basketball team on Tuesday night, as the Lady Cobras defeated Morris College 67-58 for their first win of the season in their seventh game of the season.
The win brings the Lady Cobras record to 1-6 overall.
Lotta Aaltonen (Rauma, Finland) paced the Coke women with 21 points and three rebounds, while fellow country woman Henna Koponen (Vantaa, Finland) had 10 points and seven rebounds. Jasmine Alston (Sumter, S.C.) had eight points and three assists in her return to her hometown.
Coker will now break for the holiday season. They will return to the floor on January 7, when they host Conference Carolinas foe St. Andrews Presbyterian College at 5:30 p.m. in the Timberlake-Lawton Gymnasium.


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Why You Need To Install A New Gas Tank In Your Vintage Car
We're tooling over to Tampa, crossing the bay on the Sunshine Skyway bridge in the wife's '50s car on a beautiful Sunday afternoon. We're on our way to a nephew's second birthday party, and we've got the full compliment of family members aboard-wife, young 'un, and mom-in-law, just to make things perfect. Everything's fine until we get to about the middle of the bridge and the car starts chugging. We've done this dance before, so at the first sign of a problem we started angling for the shoulder, more out of reflex than anything else.
We can now tell you, first hand, that the Skyway Bridge in Tampa, Florida, sways from side to side about a foot or two on center. Even on a relatively calm day. Did we mention that we're also not real fond of unstable heights? Up until then, the car ran fine. It'd made the do-si-do to and from work more times than we can count. It'd been to Tampa twice before, and even made the nearly three hundred mile round trip to Daytona Beach and back. Never a problem. That's because we didn't have the mother-in-law along for any of those cruises.
The car got to the party, eventually (and we do mean eventually). It finally got back home under its own power, too. But now the wife refers to it as The SS Minnow (think "three hour tour"), and I'm stuck driving it because she doesn't trust it. That's not all bad, but I'd really like her to be driving a vintage car on a daily basis.
We've done more than our share of little roadside repairs on the car, both before and after what's since become known simply as "That Day on the Bridge." All have been the usual things one would expect from a vintage car, and none have been a big deal. But we've got to admit we were blind-sided by what shouldered us that day on the bridge-it was the gas tank. Purchased from the second owner, the car had only 25,000 miles on the clock when we added our name to the title. The seller told us he'd drained the gas tank and rebuilt the carb, and it ran pretty well during the test drive. After trailering it home, we did a quick inspection of what needed to be addressed for road worthiness, made the fixes, and started driving.
Learn from our mistake.
After driving the car for a couple of months, the tank started leaking a little bit. Pin holes in vintage tanks are common, so we dropped the tank to make what we thought would be an easy repair. Thanks to the EPA, it's hard to find a shop that will "boil out" a gas tank, so not being of the nature to let a little environmental catastrophe stand in our way, we proceeded to clean out the tank in our own driveway with several gallons of muratic acid. What fun that was.
The sediment we removed from the gas tank can best be described as scary. We're not sure what it was, but there was several pounds of it, and it had the consistency of Silly Putty gone bad. It came out in chunks and sheets, the biggest of which weighed about a pound. We pulled it all out of the sending unit hole in the top of the tank with a screwdriver and a mechanic's retrieval tool, both of which died because of the acid.
Then we put a do-it-yourself gas tank repair kit in and re-installed the tank, thinking we were good to go. And we were-for six weeks. Then the baffles in the tank inexplicably detached (probably from the acid we'd immersed them in for a day) and started sloshing around, scraping up the repair stuff we'd coated the inside of the tank with. The repair stuff then got sucked into the fuel line and, well, the nightmare just wouldn't end. We ended up doing what we should have done in the first place-we bought a new gas tank. But not before the car lost any image of reliability it once had, due to the fuel lines plugging and stalling the car regularly.
On the Paddock Project '69 Charger, Mike Peramski immediately made the decision to just replace the gas tank in the Charger with a brand new reproduction, even though the car ran fine and had low mileage. While he was replacing the gas tank, he also made the decision to replace the fuel lines at the same time.
You never know what's inside your fuel lines. Besides gas tank debris, fuel lines often have rust and scale in them which will plug your fuel filter as it comes free, now that you're running gas through the system on a regular basis. We cut the Charger's original gas tank open, just to see what was inside, and found about an inch of hardened crud at the bottom of the tank. However, the tank had been emptied for quite a while and stored outside, allowing the deposits to dry and "set up." We suspect that the stuff in the bottom of that tank was probably soft when immersed in gasoline (much like what we pulled out of the wife's car), which could let it find its way to the fuel pick up, and then to the filter.
Reproduction gas tanks aren't available for all makes and models, but take it from us-if you can get a new tank for your car, do it. Even if you've never had a problem before, it's cheap insurance, because you never know what might be swimming around in your tank now. And believe us, if it's going to leave you stranded, it'll pick the worst time and the worst location to do it!


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Anderson completes undefeated fall season at Rev3 Triathlon
October 7, 2012 | Columbia, Md.
Joseph Anderson won the Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Triathlon Conference championship on Sunday, as he took first place in the collegiate division at the Revolution3 Half Full Triathlon in Columbia, Md., leading the Liberty Flames men's triathlon team to a third place team finish.
Flames Head Coach Beth Frackleton said the race conditions were some of the worst she has ever seen.
"Many of the competitors didn't finish and you could see everyone feeling the effects of the weather."
Anderson, a sophomore from Washington, D.C., finished the wet course in 2 hours, 26 minutes, 40 seconds, good for a two-minute victory over Christopher Brahm from the Naval Academy.
"The conditions were tough, but I had a good race," Anderson said. "It was good to get another win and help Liberty to a good finish."
Christopher Williams finished 29th for the Flames in 2:49:27.4.
Lane Ruchte led the Lady Flames, finishing sixth with a time of 3:05:32.5. Katherine Mullaly finished eighth and Jeannette Larsen finished 18th, helping Liberty to a fourth place finish.
"I am so proud of my team and how they were able to compete in the very miserable condition," Frackleton said.
This was the final race of the fall season, but Anderson along with former team member Parker Spencer and coach Frackleton will be heading to Auckland, New Zealand to compete in the International Triathlon Union Age Group World Championships, part of the ITU Barfoot & Thompson World Triathlon Series Grand Final, Oct. 14-23.


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MOBILE, Ala. — It did not take long for Tony Sparano to find work.
The former Jets offensive coordinator was hired by the Raiders as assistant head coach/offensive line, according to a source.
Sparano spent one season with the Jets with dismal results. The Jets ranked 30th in yards per game in the NFL, quarterback Mark Sanchez regressed and Sparano never utilized Tim Tebow in the offense.
The Jets fired Sparano two weeks ago. Sparano was the head coach of the Dolphins from 2008-11. He now joins Dennis Allen's staff in Oakland.
The Jets have replaced Sparano with Marty Mornhinweg, according to a source, but the team has not announced his hiring yet.
The Jets' coaching staff is nearly complete. They added Tim McDonald as defensive backs coach, according to a source, to replace Dennis Thurman, who has been promoted to defensive coordinator. The team has not announced those moves yet either.


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The Guardian has a little supplement today in which various writers reflect on the main characters and themes of the Bush years. The novelist Richard Ford gets the big one, and claims to have learnt three things from the 43rd President. (He also earns his billing with a fantastic quote from Wallace Stevens: "We gulp down evil, choke at good.")
We must not elect a stubborn man again. Stubbornness is the eighth deadly sin (or it ought to be), since it so easily disguises itself as firm, even admirable, resolve… Second, many Americans love to fantasise that it's smart to elect a rich guy, since (the thinking goes) a rich guy won't need to steal from us. But that's just wrong. He just steals different things. … Third – and last – we have to quit electing these guys (and gals) who say they hate government, but then can't wait to get into the government so they can "fix" it.
Donald Rumsfeld gets it, deservedly, for his role in manipulating 9/11 to use it to implement the PNAC ambition in the Middle East:
The highest indictment to be made against the Bush administration is that it used America's greatest national tragedy as an excuse to accomplish a long-held neoconservative geopolitical aim. That was a venal lie, and Rummy was in the thick of it.
There's a depressing list of his other crimes and foolishness, but space precludes mention of Rumsfeld's role in creating the culture of torture at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib and other unidentifed detention centre.
Condoleezza Rice comes across as someone whose "real ideology was succeeding." (I hadn't known before – maybe I wasn't paying attention – that her father opposed the collective activism of Martin Luther King, believing in self-advancement through individual excellence.) But there's a touch of sadness at the wasted talent:
For all her culpability, there's an element of pathos to her story as well. Had she attached herself to a better person than Bush, her knowledge, drive and poise might have been put to good use. She might have bettered the world along with herself.
The most surprising thing in the piece about Cheney is that he's been going on the radio telling people how nice he is (definitely a hard sell): 'He told a radio interviewer: "I think all of that's been pretty dramatically overdone. I'm actually a warm, lovable sort."' More to the point though, he seems to have forgotten nothing and learned nothing from his days in the Nixon Administration:
When in late 2005 the Bush administration's wiretapping programme was revealed, the vice-president pointed immediately back to that dark time: "Watergate and a lot of the things around Watergate and Vietnam served, I think, to erode the authority I think the president needs to be effective, especially in the national security area."
Finally, and this is a genuine surprise, the supplement ends with one huge positive achievement; the substantial impact of the President's PEPFAR programme against AIDS in Africa, apparently partly a legacy of Colin Powell's time in the State Department ("a shining moment in George Bush's rule, but he rarely talks about it').
Dr Francois Venter, head of the HIV Clinicians Society in South Africa, is one of a number of Aids doctors who is almost disbelieving in his praise of Bush. He said: "I look at all the blood this man has on his hands in Iraq and I can't quite believe myself but I would say it's a bold experiment from the last people in the world I would expect to do it, and it is saving a lot of lives. You give these tablets to people and they resurrect themselves. To intervene on such a scale and make such a difference is huge."
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California Department of Transportation
Date: October 9, 2013
District: 05-Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Monterey, San Benito and Santa Cruz Counties
Contact: Laurie Baima or Jim Shivers
Phone: (805) 549-3237 or (805) 549-3189
Bay Area gets $140 million from high-speed rail bond
Santa Barbara – The California Transportation Commission (CTC) today allocated $359 million to 36 projects, an investment that will create jobs bolstering the state's economy, reduce traffic congestion, repair highways and bridges, and improve rail service.
"These projects allow millions of dollars to flow into construction and produce enormous economic benefits for California," said Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty.
Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) received $140 million from Proposition 1A, the high-speed rail bond, to purchase 46 new rail cars that will provide new service from the BART/Caltrain Millbrae Station directly to San Francisco International Airport.
The Millbrae facility is one of several key regional connectivity points California's High-Speed Rail Authority has identified that will link BART and high-speed rail, creating a "blended" rail system. To handle additional transferring of passengers at Millbrae from the blended system longer trains will be needed. The $140 million will help pay to lengthen all three rail storage tracks at the south end of the station, enabling the facility to handle BART's maximum train length of 10 cars and make it possible to run longer trains from the East Bay to the airport.
Today's allocations also included $44 million from Proposition 1B, a 2006 voter-approved transportation bond. To date, nearly $17 billion in Proposition 1B funds have been put to work statewide for transportation purposes. The remaining $175 million in allocations today came from various state and federal transportation accounts
Other highlights of the CTC funding allocations include:
- $503,000 for Highway 1 between Freedom Boulevard and Ocean Street in Santa Cruz County to install eight closed circuit television cameras (CCTV) to monitor traffic conditions and improve incidence response time.
- $560,000 for the Highway 1 Salinas Road Interchange near Watsonville in Monterey County to construct new interchange and convert 2-lane highway to 2-lane expressway.
- $755,000 for Highway 246 between Edison Street and Meadowvale Lane near Santa Ynez in Santa Barbara County to widen the road and provide left-turn channelization.
For information about all projects that received allocations today please see the attached file.
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NEW YORK/TOKYO (Reuters) - Nintendo Co's Wii U will hit U.S. store shelves November 18 starting at just under $300, as the creator of Super Mario looks to regain the lead in gaming from Sony and Microsoft, and fend off tablet and smartphone makers led by Apple Inc.
The new version of the console that took the industry by storm six years ago comes with a built-in DVR that will allow users to watch and record live television like a cable set-top box.
It will go on sale in Japan on December 8 for about $340 (26,250 yen).
Executives have said it will stream video from Netflix Inc, Amazon.com Inc, Google Inc's YouTube, and Hulu. It will also come with touch-screen controllers - helping to push its price tag above rival consoles.
Nintendo is fielding the successor to the Wii in the busy year-end holiday shopping season, going up against Sony's PlayStation 3 and Microsoft's Xbox 360. They start at $250 and $200, respectively.
The original Wii became the world's biggest selling home console shortly after its 2006 launch, with motion-controlled gaming and a slew of software titles that appealed to users beyond traditional gamers.
What became a 100 million-machine bonanza for Nintendo is waning. In the three months to June 30, sales of its Wii more than halved to 710,000 from 1.56 million a year earlier.
Supporting two "GamePad" controllers designed to look and function like tablets, the first new console from Nintendo in six years will come with a gamer's social network function called "Miiverse." It will be its first machine in 16 years to launch with a dedicated "Super Mario" game title.
In addition to the basic 8 gigabyte model costing $299.99, Nintendo will sell a "deluxe" 32 GB version for $349.99 in the United States and 31,500 yen in Japan.
Repeating the Wii's success, however, will be tough as Nintendo battles not only with Microsoft and Sony, but tackles tablet and smartphone makers led by Apple that are eating into the $78 billion gaming market.
Apple on Wednesday revealed its latest iPhone with a bigger screen, better definition and a wireless function that allows users to view their smartphone images and games on TVs equipped with an Apple TV receiver.
For now, Nintendo, which began in 1889 making playing cards in the back streets of Kyoto, has a big enough cash pile built up during the Wii boom — about $14 billion — to stick with its hardware strategy.
However, if the Wii U fails to win over gamers amid a flood of tablets and smartphones, it may, analysts say, have to consider leveraging its software assets by letting Super Mario roam across devices built by other companies.
The console, unveiled in June, is available in black and white and has a 6.2-inch touch screen that includes a stylus. The GamePad controller has traditional buttons with left and right analog sticks.
Nintendo has said 23 new Wii U titles, including Nintendo Land, are in development. Third-party titles include Mass Effect 3 from Electronic Arts, Darksiders II from THQ and Ubisoft's exclusive Wii U title Zombi.
($1 = 77.8700 Japanese yen)
Reporting by Tim Kelly in Tokyo and Nayak Malathi in New York; Editing by Michael Watson and Maureen Bavdek


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Elisabeth Shue will topline Dimension Films' "Piranha 3D," which starts shooting in May.
Horror redo helmed by Alexandre Aja ("The Hills Have Eyes") is set for a March 19 release.
Shue plays the town sheriff trying to save the lake and her family from being devoured by the sharp-toothed fish. Adam Scott will star as a diver for the U.S. Geological Service who helps discover the piranha outbreak.
Shue spoofed herself in 2008 comedy "Hamlet 2."


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Whether you're looking for the right tires and wheels package or think there's something wrong with your shocks, we can help. Stop by or call ahead for an appointment for trustworthy service that gets you in and out quickly. Every tire sale is backed by our world-class warranty including free inspections, free flat repairs, free rotations and rebalancing, and other services worth hundreds of dollars. It's part of doing the right thing for our customers, since we opened our first store in 1952.
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We Care About McCall
Employees of the Deinhard Ln. Les Schwab store believe in giving back to the community where we live and work. We sponsor activities large and small, supporting youth programs, helping families in need, and raising funds for good causes—because these are values we believe in.
For over 62 years, Les Schwab has been an active member of every community it serves, earning the trust of people all over the West. Here are some of the causes we proudly support in our neighborhood.
We're just east of ID-55/S 3rd St on Deinhard Ln, across from the US Post Office and Ridley's Family Market.
McCall Auto Club & McCall CAR RENTAL
McCall Auto Club – Automotive services.
Classic cars, new and used auto sales, Idaho Auto Dealer.
Car restoration, buy and sell, vintage, classics, hot rods. Daily Drivers.
McCall Auto Rentals:
We are pleased to offer our clients daily, weekly or longer term rentals. Our rates are very competitive and we are happy to work with your insurance company should that need arise. Our cars are clean and ready to drive, and can be delivered to you if needed. McCall car rental rates start at $45/day with 50 miles/day allowed. Our current vehicles include a Volvo S80 Sedan, Subaru Forrester, Dodge Grand Caravan, and Chevy 1500 pick up. Please visit our website http://www.mccallautoclub.com/contact-us/ to complete a contact form should you wish to schedule a reservation. We will get right back to you with a quote and, or, a confirmation.
Secure Boat & Auto Storage:
We have over 10,000 sq.ft. of secure heated storage for your classic car, boat, or motorcycle. Video surveillance 24/7 assures an even higher level of protection for your prized possessions.
Whether commissioning a sale or storing your vehicles, we check them on a daily basis. Want the very best, we can periodically run your vehicle to ensure the best condition for your engine. Additionally, battery maintenance, detailing, and basic maintenance are all available as well.
Our Valet and 'Concierge' Service allows you to maximize your time with family and friends, or meeting your commitments with busy work schedules. Flying in or out of town? No problem! We will ensure your car is picked up or dropped off.
Club members who store their vehicles can contact us for pick up and drop offs should that need arise. When you need our services, just call 208-634-AUTO.
A full range of detailing services can be delivered to your home or work place. Our Mobile Van can handle any detailing need for your vehicles, and we also clean decks and provide outside services. Call us for a quote! We will be happy to assist you!
No need to haul your boat for cleaning! Just call us and we can arrange a convenient time for cleaning your boat, whether on the water or sitting in your driveway. We can coordinate servicing before you put in for the season, or after the season and prior to winter storage.
We also provide wrap services for your boat for the season as well.
Auto dealership, sales, consignment. Temperature controlled storage. Classics Restoration. Daily car rentals. McCall Auto Club is here for your vehicle needs! Check out our website for complete details! http://www.mccallautoclub.com
McCall Boat Works is a full service boat shop to include boat services, repair, sales, storage, concierge services and classic/antique wooden boat restoration. Our restorations are internationally recognized. Drop by the shop anytime. Location: 1 block north of the Shore Lodge behind the Brundage Inn at 1304 Boydstun Lane.
McCall Quick Lube offers a wide variety of vehicle maintenance services for autos, trucks, motor homes, motorcycles, heavy equipment and more. Stop in for your regular oil change!
From lube & oil to transmission flushes, power steering, and serpentine belt services; your satisfaction and safety is our main concern.
Hours: Monday through Friday: 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Owner Ryan Grinde grew up in McCall and has been in customer service, specifically automotive and power sports, for over 12 years. McCall Upholstery understands the needs of the mountain community along with the wear and tear of the elements on our equipment. With strong work ethic and honesty, McCall Upholstery can help you with your sewing needs for your home, auto, boat, and more.
ONE STOP… FUN SHOP for all your ATV, SideXSide, Snowmobile, Motorcycle, Boating, Personal Watercraft and Trailer needs.
Mile High Power Sports is a FULL-SERVICE Power Sports Dealer for POLARIS, SKI-DOO, TIMBERSLED, YAMAHA, HONDA, SEA-DOO, CAN-AM, SUNCATCHER PONTOON & G-3 BOATS. We sell NEW & USED.
Ride before you buy! Located on 20 acres, DEMO DAY is everyday! Test ride all the leading manufacturers all at one location.
Our growth is fueled by our power sports passionate team and local owner/manager, Bryan Hill, who brings over 42 years experience to the motor sports industry in the McCall area. We know the area, we know our products and we know how to deliver what you want. Our selection impressive and prices competitive. We offer a large inventory of units, parts, accessories, riding gear, apparel, safety equipment and more. BEAUTIFUL KLIM Superstore, as well as other leading brands in Apparel, Riding Gear & Safety Equipment.
Our FULL power Sports & Marine service and repair facility is impressive. With over 65 years experience combined, trust your machine to our FACTORY CERTIFIED TECH's using Genuine OEM parts. Experienced and well stocked PARTS & ACCESSORY Dept. Specialized service & professional delivery of expedient quality work.
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Located at 13924 Hwy 55, McCall, ID. 3 miles south of town (Look for the Pond).
OPEN Mon.- Fri. 9-6 pm and Saturday 9-5 pm.
Professional Auto & Boat Detailing — Car & Boat Audio — Custom Accessories
We offer a wide range of services from a basic hand wash to interior and exterior detailing and complete paint correction services. We have been in business here in beautiful McCall since 2007.
Stor-It Self Storage has been operating in Boise and The Treasure Valley since 1972. Stor-It's 10 sites comprised of over 1,600,000 sq. ft. of storage and totaling 8,000 storage units and 70+ acres of property are located in Boise, Meridian, Caldwell, and McCall Idaho. Stor-It prides itself on having "A Size & Price" to meet our customer's needs. We provide "Affordable Storage". Stor-It is about more than "buildings and property". It is even about more than "profits and growing". Stor-It is a team of people working and living together for the betterment of our community – one customer at a time. We share ideas, problems, and celebrate our achievements together. Motto: As a space for living and working becomes a more highly valued commodity more people will start utilizing their space more effectively by storing with Stor-It Self Storage. You have to read our Motto a couple of times to get to the heart of it – but what it says is that Stor-It really serves a NEED in this community. We are trying to fill that need in the most professional, most cheerful way we can.


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- The genealogy conference I would most like to attend is... this is a tossup EITHER Jamboree 2012 OR RootsTech 2013 (the bloggers make them sound like so much fun and the presentations sound so informative)
- The genealogy speaker I would most like to hear and see is... Elizabeth Shown Mills - she is the real deal, I saw her once and she packed so much information into the 3 talks that my brain almost exploded. But seriously, I heard so many great tips that my research improved, I finally understood citations, I started grouping families with cluster research, and I had a new lease on life (okay three of four). I am now ready for another helping of her knowledge – oh and she was incredibly personable and so genuine.
- The geneablogger I would most like to meet in person is... this is a tossup between Jennifer Geraghty of 'On a flesh and bone foundation – she is an amazing writer/photographer and her blog simply makes my soul sing! OR Thomas MacEntee – I want to find out how he does it - we all have the same number of hours in the day, so I'm wondering if he made a deal with the devil?
- The genealogy writer I would most like to have dinner with is... John Grenham, I want to pick his brain about my Irish research and he wrote the definitive book Tracing Your Irish Ancestors – it would be a long dinner, a late night and several fingers of Redbreast.
- The genealogy lecture I would most like to present is... Hooking the Next Generation & Reeling Them In – the future of genealogy is our youth and we need to encourage them to learn about their families, their history, the countries their ancestors originally came from, the religion, politics, geography and culture that make them unique and part of this bigger community.
- I would like to go on a genealogy cruise that visits... Slovenia & Italy – the nice warm Adriatic Sea for me!
- The photo I would most like to find is... a family photo of Andrew Kough & Catherine Aylward taken in 1850 (this way I would have Andrew & Catherine as well as all their children, some of them already married with families of their own – oh and I want a family tree with all their information handwritten on the back – not asking too much am I?).
- The repository in a foreign land I would most like to visit is... The Rooms (The Archives in St. John's, Newfoundland – and I need a summer – that way I can get through a portion of their amazing collection and I want retired professor Dr. John Mannion (geography at Memorial University) to be at my side giving me pointers.
- The place of worship I would most like to visit is...The church in County Carlow where my ancestors were born, married, and buried (together with the church records noting all their names, dates and places together with extended and affiliated families).
- The cemetery I would most like to visit is.... the Roman Catholic Cemetery in St. Mullins (if that is where all those family members are buried).
- The ancestral town or village I would most like to visit is.... St. Mullins, County Carlow, IRELAND.
- The brick wall I most want to smash is... crossing the pond to find Michael Daniel O'Murphy and Honora Agnes Butler's origins – I want to find those families in County Kerry and County Cork, IRELAND before Michael and Honora each came to the USA.
- The piece of software I most want to buy is... Legacy Family Tree 8.0 – still contains all the great stuff it has now but also includes a Research Manager/To Do section that is coordinated and an improved group attachment for sources & events/facts (go ahead and cherry pick from RootsMagic, I won't tell).
- The tech toy I want to purchase next is ... a tablet – not sure if that is an iPad or something else, the jury is still out.
- The expensive book I would most like to buy is... hmmm, I will need to give this some thought.
- The library I would most like to visit is... this one is a tie – and I want both the Family History Library, hey it's the genealogy mecca; and the Library of Congress – scads of great stuff, oh and I want John Philip Colletta as my personal tour guide!
- The genealogy related book I would most like to write is... The Irish, Norwegian, Slovenian, and Swedish Genealogy Pie that is my Keough, Murphy, Kocevar & Lidman Families – with all the information found and cited, with great stories and photographs!
- The genealogy blog I would most like to start would be about... I have two blogs (The Keough Corner and Scandia Musings & More) so I'm good!
- The journal article I would most like to write would be about... The Families of Plate Cove, Newfoundland and Surrounding Villages – from Ireland to Newfoundland – who they were and what became of them.
- The ancestor I most want to meet in the afterlife is... Catherine Alyward – who are your people and why isn't there a Catholic marriage record for you and Andrew until after your fifth child? Where is an earlier marriage recorded (perhaps in the Protestant church). Please tell me all about who your children married, those sons and daughters-in law's people, and all your grandchildren. Oh, and where is your tombstone? An enquiring mind (mine) wants to know!!
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Why yes Jill – there are a few things more things on my Genealogy Bucket List (thanks for asking - can you grant wishes?).
Be the first non-celebrity on Who Do You Think You Are? Please help me with my research let's get some of those questions answered!
Get a grant to model a national program for the schools Genealogy in the Classroom (using the great program by the Victoria Genealogical Society) AND Ask Granny (or Granddad) to help seniors and youth connect with family history – use local, state and national genealogical organizations, libraries and archives to encourage our youth to learn and our seniors to share our history – it would make us all better citizens of the world.


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In this short film, Indigenous youth test their inherently tolerant philosophy against the more pragmatic ideas of Saul Alinsky. The Indians argue for a revision of the hundred-year-old Indian Act by peaceful persuasion. Alinsky advocates a more direct development of power to bring about the changes they seek.
Encounter with Saul Alinsky – Part 2: Rama Indian Reserve is one of three CFC films shot with U.S. political organizer Saul Alinsky in advance of the five-part series Organizing for Power: The Alinsky Approach (directed by Bonnie Sherr Klein). In this film, a group of First Nations youth challenge the relevance of Alinsky's ideas within the context of the Indian Act and its disenfranchising effects within reserves and across the national Aboriginal community. The film is noteworthy for the appearance of a young Duke Redbird, a member of the Saugeen First Nation Territory, who would go on to a life of social activism and education as an Ojibwa elder. He is perhaps best known for his poetry and a command performance for Queen Elizabeth for her Silver Jubilee in 1978.Thomas Waugh, Ezra Winton, Michael Baker
From the playlist: Challenge for Change
Interesting discussion. I first read of this encounter in MacLean's. His experience with these people is similar to later experiences that AIM leaders had with Canadian Natives. They want change, they blame their government for the status quo but at the same time, they expect the government to bring about change.SaloonSinger, 6 May 2011