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The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), transportation secretariat has approved a new date of October 1 for the commencement of enforcement of the policy on mini-bus feeder route operations.
This was contained in a statement by the Public Relations Officer of the secretariat, Mrs. Stella Ojeme, which was made available to LEADERSHIP yesterday.
Recall that the administration had earlier disclosed that mini-bus operations would be limited to specific feeder routes and said the new policy would take effect from August.
Efforts by the administration to sensitise members of National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) Wuse Unit, Zone 5 about a fortnight ago were met with stiff resistance as the drivers accused the FCT administration of pushing them out of business systematically as all lucrative routes had been taken away from them.
The statement noted that the secretary of transportation, Engr. Jonathan Ivoke who disclosed the extension in a meeting with licensed operators in his office said the extension became necessary following appeals from the operators especially the mini- bus operators under the aegis of the NURTW that they needed more time to sensitise their drivers on the new policy.
The Secretary, according to the statement, expressed displeasure at the behaviour of members of NURTW at the Mombassa Motor Park, saying though the administration of Senator Bala Mohammed was a listening one, any licensed operator that attacks an official of the FCTA who is assigned the responsibilities to sensitise the drivers and the public would have their parks closed down.
He advised members of the mini-bus union to come together to migrate to high capacity buses for their operations as the FCT intends to reduce drastically the number of mini buses operating within the city, adding that the FCTA would facilitate their access to soft loans from the Urban Development Bank (UDB ) and private financiers.
Ivoke, the statement added, also reminded them that the biometric data capturing of every driver operating in the FCT was on course noting that it was imperative that every bus and taxi driver is captured for the safety and security of both the drivers and the public.
He enjoined the operators to be law abiding adding that the FCTA is not out to pursue anybody earning their legitimate livelihood from FCT but that the secretariat was just out to sanitise the transportation sector according to its mandate.
He further stated that when the bus mass transit is fully implemented, the congestion in the city would be drastically reduced.
The statement added that the Secretary NURTW FCT Chapter, Alhaji Umar Abubakar commended the administration for its response to the plight of the drivers and pledged the members continuous support for the policy of the administration.


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Sometimes I need to pinch myself to make sure I'm really living this life. Standing on the edge of an island surrounded by water and mountains, under giant trees and perfect skies, I heard seven foot waves crash nearby and watched Kenny wipe away tears from Yvonne's cheeks as she spoke her vows. And I had to pinch myself again. I honestly couldn't imagine a better life calling. Yes, it's great to be in Maui, but what drives Dave & I more than beautiful people, beautiful location and beautiful things is this one small, and kind of embarrassing fact: we love our clients. Like, not love them because they pay us money, but *really* l.o.v.e. them. For example, we love that Yvonne is a huge NKOTB fan (though we can't share in that passion), she unapologetically attends their concerts…and TWEETS about it! We also love that Kenny loves to play Uno, and could or could not be known to geekily play it on iPhones at work…. even going the distance and bringing the real deal to play in Maui. These are the little things that make our clients special and makes us want to work at 110% to create imagery like noone else we've ever photographed. Enjoy Yvonne & Kenny's wedding, and stay tuned for more gorgeousness from their Us Session…. coming soon!
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This immaculate home is across from a great Rocklin park with lots of open space and playground. The sellers are the original owners and maintain the home very well. It is better than new! The had a new roof installed in 2004 with 50 yr transferable warranty. New Trane air conditioner was installed 2008. New Furnace installed 2011. Carpet and linoleum is newer, and they do not wear shoes in the house. Water heater installed 2001. They installed a gas Vermont Castings Fire place with a remote control, for efficiency and comfort. The upstairs Master bedroom has a sunken tub, shower and double sinks with mirrored walk in closets. There are three upstairs bedrooms and they had the downstairs bedroom converted to an office. There is a full bathroom downstairs next to the office if someone wanted to convert it back. This home is turn the key and you are home. Here are a couple teaser pictures. I am listing this home on April 2nd, 2013 for $359,000.00.


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I am mixed. I used for journaling several methods through life. I used a tape recorder for journaling and professional notations. I use to keep a spiral notebook in a satchel for awhile, a briefcase, and just loose in the car.
Today, I journal more from remembering the day at the time of late evening or early AM with a PC folder and word documents. I usually string a document for a week's time period. I begin by month date rather than as a week to week transition.
I prefer electronic because with honesty I cannot read my own handwriting these days. Journal entries can be almost anything too - notes, introspection, reflection, prose, poetry, and documentation. It varies with mood, emotions, and happiness as variables.
Thanks for your elaborate answer. That handwriting bit sounds familiar. It may become a thing of the past. I do most of mine electronically too. Have a paper one available as sometime I enjoy brainstorming with it.
I think it depends on if you like writing or prefer to type and how long you want it to last. If you think your family will save it and pass it along to the next generations, electronic is now the way to go. The drawback is we don't know where technology will be even a few years from now and whether or not we'll be able to retrieve what we've saved on a disk or other device. If you're going to write it on paper, I'd suggest a notebook with acid free paper.
Some good points here. As far as technology goes what is the standard today can be obsolete in the (near) future. Paper has been around for ages. But i agree with you the choice depends for a large part on how long you want it to last. Thanks!


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If a diva gains weight on the sly, it is Lesley C. Weston's duty to discreetly ensure that her costume expands in sync with her rib cage when she sings that big aria on opening night. Ms. Weston, 57, is head of costumes for the Metropolitan Opera. A graduate of the drama division at Juilliard, she gave up performing at 26 after opening Ethel's Feathers, a vintage clothing shop in Chelsea, and worked three years for a Broadway costumer before joining the Met in 1985. Sidelined by an aneurysm in 2003, she took up writing and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2008. She lives on the Upper West Side with her husband, a retired antiques dealer.
Thread in the family: My mother was a couture-level seamstress, although not professionally, and so was my grandmother. My grandmother taught me how to embroider when I was 4. I first opened the shop so I could support myself while I was going on auditions, but when I got my hands on all those vintage dresses and started designing for the shop, I really got the clothing bug. A lot of my customers were costume designers. So that's how I wound up working for a costumer who did Broadway shows.
Being her own assistant: My first title at the Met was "the shopper." That meant I did all the purchasing for all of the productions: sourcing the materials, finding the trimmings, everything that had to do with the costumes. Usually, designers have assistants who do this, but back in the early days, I was it. I also set up the "bibles," which is the record of everything that's used to stage a performance. How much fabric, how much it costs, where to find it, whether it had to be dyed.
Engineering and architecture: A costume is not clothing. It is not fashion. It is couture, but not the kind of couture where one person wears an outfit three times. It's a combination of soft engineering and soft architecture. We take a pattern from the designer and build the costume with the expectation that it will last 25 to 30 years and withstand multiple alterations. This season we fitted and altered roughly 2,000 existing costumes. For the new production of "Carmen" alone, we built 550 costumes.
Custom costumes: Occasionally, we will build a set of costumes for a specific soloist; Denyce Graves's gown for "Samson et Dalila" was designed to fit her, but that was a design decision, not a star power decision. It was draped, with no seams to alter. We don't hear people having tantrums about their costumes, or not wanting to wear puce, or complaining that a neckline is too high. I've seen more divalike behavior in Starbucks over soy milk than I've seen backstage at the Metropolitan Opera.
The price tag: The costumes can range from $1,000 to $10,000. There's a hand-beaded 1920s-style dress that Renée Fleming will wear next season in "Capriccio" that's probably going to cost $10,000. It will take 300 hours to make it; 150 for the beading alone. By the way, I don't sew any of the costumes. I direct a crew of brilliant craftspeople, and some of the work we send out.Continue reading the main story
Wardrobe malfunctions? I don't know of any night when anybody's seams burst onstage, but if it did happen, it would be the wardrobe department's problem! But all soloists are fitted and fine-tuned before a production even if they've worn that particular costume in the past. It would be a very rare occasion when someone confesses to putting on weight, but we've got spies all over the building. We don't refer to it as putting on weight; we just say someone has "changed."Continue reading the main story


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Fried Pork Chops
Nicole Bredeweg
I give full credit to America's Test Kitchen for this simple, and delicious, recipe. But, unfortunately, I was just watching a video with no access to the recipe, so I quick jotted down some notes. My husband fears ATK recipes -- he thinks that they are too complex (since I insist on following them to the letter). Having said that, he LOVED this recipe. So much so that it's requested again and again!
- 4
- center cut pork chops, no more than 1" thick
- 1 Tbsp
- pork spice mix (your preferred)
- flour, as needed
- 1 scoop(s)
- lard
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- oil
How to Make Fried Pork Chops
- 1Make two slices in fat ridge -- this will help keep the meat from bowing.
- 2Sprinkle seasoning mix directly on pork chops, both sides. Immediately dredge through flour, shaking off loose flour. Set aside for ten minutes.
- 3About halfway through the wait period, heat lard and oil over medium-high heat. Once the oil mix is shimmering, re-dredge the chops through the flour again.
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Me at the Costa Book Awards!
Hey Gang,
Well, I went to the Costa Book Awards last night. There's something gloriously indulgent about going to a book award ceremony which you know you haven't won. You get to take photos of silly things for one thing (see below), get to feast on the delightful morsels of food without fear of them exploding in your hands and ruining your outfit moments before you know you have to make a speech, and you get to star spot.
I brought my mum along to this night (she's been asking…no, pleading…to go to somewhere with tasty awards morsels for months now) and we had fun. And reader, guess what, there were paparazzi present at this awards ceremony … although, when Mum and I left the event, there was a distinct lack of camera snapping going on. In fact, when they saw us coming, they decided to take their fag break. Nevermind, I rubbed a shoulder with Ian Hislop (on the way to reaching for another one of those delightful coffee mouse things), and Mum got a smile from Andrew Neil (which she's still pleased about!), and I got to spend some time with the ever-lovely Tim Bowler and his equally delightful wife. I also had some fab chats with the other shortlisted children's authors Sharon Dogar and Jonathan Stroud (what lovely people they both are!). In fact, my mum even invited Jonathan and his family for tea! And finally, of course, I congratulated Jason Wallace for his fabulous book, Out Of Shadows, which won the Children's Category. I met Jason about a year and a half ago where we were sharing a panel on teenage fiction – it was his first event and Out Of Shadows was still only in proofs. I knew it would be a powerful book even then, and couldn't wait to get my hands on it. It lived up to all my expectations. So, reader, if you haven't read Out of Shadows yet….get out there now to your friendly local bookshop and snaffle a copy quick. It's going to be a strong contender for this year's Branford Boase too, I'm sure.
Oh, and I almost forgot to tell you who won the overall Costa Book Award! Well, for the second year running the prize went to a poetry collection, this time to Jo Shapcott's Of Mutibility. I read this on the long train home back to South Wales and rather enjoyed it. So, while you're out there buying Out Of Shadows, perhaps pick this one up too.
Anyway, here's some pics so you can pretend you were there too. Sorry they aren't very brilliant – 'fraid we had to make do with camera phones. I did try for you though!
Wishing you morsels and magic,
Lucy x
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Ah! I love the first picture! Two of my favourite authors!!! :D


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My Life and Times.
By Vartan Gregorian.
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VARTAN GREGORIAN has had an enviably diverse and distinguished career. Born in 1934 to a poor family of Christian Armenians in Tabriz, Iran, he managed to overcome the resistance of his demanding and conservative father to study history at Beirut and then -- miraculously, it seemed -- at Stanford. From then on almost nobody could stop him. He taught at major American universities, worked his way up to the powerful post of provost at the University of Pennsylvania (only to be brutally, even treacherously, passed up for its presidency -- his single real disappointment, though a stinging one), served from 1981 to 1988 as president of the New York Public Library, went on to be appointed president of Brown University, and since 1997, has been president of the Carnegie Corporation. After decades of asking for money, he has reached the desirable point of giving it away.
Yet for all these resounding titles, all the academic honors and influential friends he has garnered, he has not lost his capacity for astonishment at the triumphant course of his life. With exemplary honesty and touching candor, he records his incredulousness at being singled out for eminent positions. When he gets a call inviting him to fly out to meet with the chairman of the search committee selecting a new chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, he is, he tell us, ''thunderstruck!''
Nor can he get over meeting all those New York social celebrities: in his ''awe'' at the festive dinner that Brooke Astor -- the legendary philanthropist with whom, of course, ''it was love at first sight'' -- gives in his honor upon his being appointed president of the New York Public Library, he provides in a long footnote a list of the guests complete with their honorifics.
In serene retrospect, reflecting in a postscript on his ''long voyage,'' he muses, still half disbelieving it: ''From Tabriz, Iran, to New York City, by way of Lebanon, California, Texas, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and numerous other places in between. A poor boy, yearning for knowledge, who -- I hope! -- became an educated man now at the helm of an organization dedicated to disseminating knowledge to all the world. A dreamer who learned to take action. A wandering Armenian who ended up on the society pages of The New York Times.''
This, he adds, ''is the life I could never have expected, the life it has been my privilege to lead.'' It is as though he has become an overachiever endowed with extraordinary, ever renewed energy, to prove to his father that his unquenchable campaign for learning and largely disinterested power has not been a waste.Continue reading the main story
Among Gregorian's posts, his seven-year presidency of the New York Public Library stands out as most spectacular and the one most likely to endure. My opinion may not be altogether unbiased, but the record bears me out. Old-timers will remember, and Gregorian reminds his readers with some depressing details, that before he assumed the presidency, the library and its branches were in sorry shape.
He quotes liberally, and pointedly, from ''Outsider, Insider,'' the autobiography of Andrew Heiskell, chairman of the library's board of trustees, with whom Gregorian would form a close, harmonious working alliance:
''The library was broke. The chandeliers and lighting fixtures all through the main building were dirty and had only two or three bulbs in each. The beautiful Celeste Bartos Forum, now the Library's most important meeting place, had been turned into a warehouse. The gorgeous Gottesman Exhibition Hall had been divided by Masonite partitions into tiny offices for personnel and accounting. The only decent room in the entire building was the boardroom, but even there the tall curtains fell apart if you touched them.''
Precious volumes were literally disintegrating, cataloging was painfully behind schedule, hours of service were shockingly few: the morale of the professional library staff, valiantly working against heavy odds, was at its nadir. Yet, bad as that was, Gregorian recalls: ''The conditions at the main research library appeared idyllic in comparison to the plight of the 83 branch libraries throughout Manhattan, Bronx and Staten Island. Buildings, some of them donated by Andrew Carnegie as a gift to the City of New York, were crumbling, their collections dwindling.''
What made the situation of the library almost hopeless was, as Gregorian frankly reports, that donors were reluctant, the board of trustees weak and the city government callously indifferent. The new president's task was, to put it mildly, daunting. He set about it with techniques honed in earlier positions -- though ''techniques'' falsely implies a certain calculation on Gregorian's part.
Actually, he worked as he did because it was natural to him: he acquainted himself with the state of the library, from its staff to its relation to the City of New York. He labored, successfully, to improve the librarians' working conditions. He sought the acquaintance of philanthropists and almost naïvely tried to infect them with his optimism, selling hope that he had to persuade himself he felt. He ran an open administration, talking to everyone and winning over his skeptical staff.
And he showed himself keenly aware of the side effects that physical appearance can have on productivity and potential donors. He promptly engaged the services of the gifted and humane architect Lewis Davis, whom he had known at Penn, and who more than a dozen years after Gregorian's departure continues to beautify the library; this physical rehabilitation is a living, highly visible legacy to a New York treasure that all too many visitors simply take for granted.
Vartan Gregorian is not a subtle stylist, sly ironist or probing searcher into human nature. His favorite adjective is ''great,'' and the tasks he feels compelled to undertake are all ''challenges.'' But such literary limitations actually work in his favor, for they permit his readers to trust him. What you see is what you get, and what you get is the full account of a worthwhile life that has rewarded thousands of students and more thousands of readers. If the word had not been so badly debased in our time, I would call him a civilian hero.Continue reading the main story


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A lighting and interior design company founded in Milan by Gino Sarfatti in the late 1930's. Sarfartti's approach to design was heavily influenced by his engineering background, which he used to merge functionality, simplicity and beauty into his lighting designs. Safartti's hard work and success led Arteluce to become highly respected for their contribution to the modern architecture movement in lighting design during the 1950's.
Arteluce's contributions earned the Compasso d'Oro awards in 1954 and 1955 respectively, for pieces designed by Sarfatti. This award was established by Gio Ponti, and represented the highest quality of innovation and design for the field of Industrial Design. Safartti's beloved company would later be absorbed by FLOS, a firm that honored the tradition and art of lighting design with innovation, in 1973. However, a number of Arteluce's original pieces are on display in the permanent collection at the MoMA in New York.


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- 37 years old
- Date of birth: Aug 19, 1977
- Date of passing: Dec 27, 2014
|Let the memory of Juan E. Nestito be with us forever
"El Cielo está de fiesta hoy por ser el Día de tu Santo, té queremos y extranamos mucho y celebramos contigo tus 40 años. Besos y abrazos desde acá hasta el cielo hacia ti. Te recuerda siempre tu Prima Madelline y Familia"
"It's been two years and it feels like it was yesterday. You are missed so much everyday but I know you are among us watching over us. We love you and miss you."
"Today its been a year and I still remember like today, you couldnt wait for me another 30 minutes.....I miss you so much, If I had the chance I would have trade mine for yours...I miss your How are you? and I love you....Miss you Titon and hope soon we see each other...."
"Can't believe is already a year, We are forever going to miss you, that million dollar smile that will brighten up a room when you came in. Not a day goes by that we don't think of you and the fun memories we have of you, will never be forgotten! We will always love you, you are forever in hearts! Xoxo your cousin Madelline and Family."
"Estas de fiesta hoy en el cielo por ser el Día de tu Cumpleaños, aunque ya no estas con nosotros celebrando estas con el mejor de todos celebrando con Dios, te recordaremos siempre. De parte de tu Prima y Familia."
"Today is your Birthday and wish you will be here to celebrate but I know you making everyone up there happy while celebrating...I love you gordo!!!"
"Yesterday and today felt a little better, I was able to remember the good things we grew up doing, had a dream with you but can't remember it but later again couldnt stop crying and thinking where could anything have changed."
"Cada dia que pasa se me hace tan duro encontrar respuestas, lloro en LA ducha para que nadie me hoiga y preguntar y exigir el porque de tu partida..... I miss you mi gordo..."
"You will forever be missed! Not a day goes by that we don't remember all the fun things we did when we were kids! You are always in our mind and heart!"
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China Earthquake Death Toll Rises To 55,740
The known death toll from China's major earthquake increased by 4,589 overnight to 55,740 as of Friday noon, according to the Information Office of the State Council (cabinet).
Another 292,481 people were counted as injured and 24,960 were still listed as missing as a result of the 8.0-magnitude quake centered in the southwestern Sichuan Province on May 12.
Meanwhile, 11.37 million displaced quake survivors were relocated, the office said.
An elderly couple, aged 92 and 84, were rescued on Friday after they had been stranded in an isolated mountain in Sichuan for 11 days because of the devastating earthquake.
The childless couple, Tian Yueqing and Cao Shuyun, lost contact with their fellow villagers and were trapped in their cottage in Tai'an Village atop Qingcheng Mountain, which is close to Dujiangyan City.
An Armed Police rescue team found them during a large-scale search and carried them by stretcher to another village at the foot of the mountain.
The Ministry of Health said that 3,451 people injured in the quake had died in hospitals as of Friday at noon.
Hospitals have admitted 73,939 injured people since the quake. By noon on Friday, 38,683 people had been treated and discharged while 28,377 were still being treated, the ministry said.
Meanwhile, 3,428 patients have been transferred outside of Sichuan for further treatment and 86,517 medical staff from around the country were working in the quake areas.
As of Friday noon, domestic and foreign donations had reached 24.6 billion yuan (3.5 billion U.S. dollars), up 3.2 billion yuan overnight, according to the Information Office. So far, 3 billion yuan had been forwarded to the earthquake-affected areas.
Meanwhile, 443,340 tents, one of the most urgently needed relief supplies, had been delivered to quake regions, the office said.
The Chinese government had said it needs some 3 million tents to house the displaced. President Hu Jintao visited two tent manufacturers in east China's Zhejiang Province on Thursday, urging them to produce more qualified tents to meet the needs of the quake-hit zone.
The government has also appealed for more tents from international donors for the survivors.
At the same time, 18,334 makeshift houses, 2,319,347 quilts and3,074,526 garments had been sent to these regions.
About 315,000 tons of fuel and 679,000 tons of coal were sent to these regions as of Friday noon.
The government disaster relief fund reached 14.6 billion yuan as of 2 p.m. on Friday, up 654 million yuan from the previous day, according to the Finance Ministry. The fund included 10.826 billion yuan from the central budget and 3.8 billion yuan from local budgets.
A total of 175 aftershocks measuring above four on the Richter scale had been monitored in the quake areas by midday Friday, according to the China Seismological Bureau.
Of these, 27 measured above magnitude 5 and four above magnitude 6.
Power supply was restored in most areas, with Beichuan County (one of the worst-hit places) and Hongyuan County remaining blacked out. Lixian county had seen electricity cut off again due to aftershocks, while power had been fully restored in Jiuzhaigou, a tourist attraction, the State Electricity Regulatory Commission said in a statement.
On Friday, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) sent a helicopter and an airplane to Sichuan to help with the epidemic prevention work, and a 20-member medical team sent by the Macao SAR government flew to the quake area, bringing a large amount of medical material, said the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council.
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My identity bursts into tatters with a wink.
I am he, the one eyed, terrible deity.
He stares back into my eye and laughs.
How absurd that we are ever not one?
Lost in the dream of mere things, the tarrying-alongside of this life, absent-minded to the knowledge that every thing is all of the time what it is. Infinite.
And then my Lord shatters my mind with a wink and a laugh. My eyes return to ice when he rides me, ice and blood.
Colour shifts, sound becomes strangely rich, and the tang of taste has a different flavour when his experience arranges my senses.
His voice uses my throat differently to the way that I use my throat. It is uncomfortable at first, but I am grateful that my Lord laughs plentifully.
I am a suit of clothes, but when my wearer is absent I forget and think I am more than just a mantle.
I feel the cascading, coruscating light of his presence. It rides from my balls through my bones, a burning-white serpent that leaps from my crown an eagle, fermented honey in its mouth, jilted lover and raging giant in its wake.
He is so much more curious than I! Where I forget the spirit of things, he is engorged with the wealth around us.
Teaching me, reminding me, returning me to my memory.
See through my eye, he whispers, the eye in the Well. And you will recall the richness of the world.
Break, he laughs, and go under.
Go under and shatter the ring of the Valknut.
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Local Reality Check youth from Pittsford High School spoke as a part of national Kick Butts Day on March 16.
They joined youth from around the country to voice their concerns about tobacco marketing and the impact it has on their community.
"Tobacco use is still a big problem in New York state, and we want this generation to be the one that ends it," said Joseph Potter, Reality Check youth coordinator for Monroe County. "We know that tobacco marketing at retail locations is a primary cause of youth smoking, and we're asking for help from our community leaders to join with us and declare enough is enough."
Reality Check Members of Pittsford High School tabled, spreading awareness about this national tobacco holiday, along with important facts during their lunch periods on March 31. Members created signs for Kick Butts Day with #NotAReplacement and then hung them and took pictures to upload to social media.
If current smoking rates continue, 5.6 million Americans younger than 18 who are alive today are projected to die prematurely from smoking-related disease, according to the 2014 Surgeon General's Report.
"Smoking kills, and we've got to protect kids from the cause," said Potter. "Tobacco displays in convenient stores are geared toward kids, which is a huge problem."
In New York State, 82 percent of retailers including pharmacies, convenience stores and bodegas dedicate at least half of the space behind the checkout counter to openly visible tobacco products.
Kick Butts Day is a national day of activism. More than 1,000 events in schools and communities across the U.S. were held on or around March 16.
For more information: campaignfortobaccofreekids.org; KickButtsDay.org.
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The Walking Dead 3×10 "Home" wasn't for the faint hearted. Daryl showed his scars, Rick faced his insanity, and there was another death. Warning, spoilers!
Episode 10 in season three of The Walking Dead titled 'Home' was as much about confrontation as anything else. Glenn, Maggie, Rick, the Governor, Daryl and Merle all showed their spots in this non-stop, hard hitting instalment of the series; and there's a lot of ground to cover.
The Prison
This episode delved deeper into Rick's mind as his hallucinations about Lori from the midseason premiere continued. Following the vision of a woman in a white bridal dress out of the prison's safety, Rick sees Lori and is comforted by her when she cradles his face in her hands. Michonne having witnessed Rick caressing thin air, looks on at the solitary man almost pityingly.
Glenn, consumed by rage plotted and planned with the rest of the prison survivors how to attack the Governor and Woodbury, but also on how to fortify the prison should they be overrun by walkers, or should the Governor attack first. Hershel suggests that they flee as they're sitting ducks in the prison.
In the contention, Maggie storms out of the main room to her cell where we later find her crying when Glenn goes to see her following a discussion with Hershel. We then find out Maggie was not raped by the Governor, but completely shamed and humiliated, and Glenn seems almost relieved, which spurs on Maggie's anger when she asks him to go.
Carol and Axel spend time together up on the prison catwalk where they create a wall which they could duck behind out of metal sheeting and wood pallets. Following Daryl's desertion of the group, could Carol have found her match?
Glenn filled with frustration following his spat with Maggie, and Hershel's attempt to calm him down fruitless, jumps into a car a speeds off into the distance. Hershel then hobbles over to the fence to call Rick over. Rick reveals to him that he's been seeing Lori, but that he knows "it's not really her, but there's got to be a reason." Hershel begs Rick to listen, telling him that the group needs him now more than ever, but Rick unwaveringly walks back to the woods.
Meanwhile, Andrea was once again fooled by the Governor's smooth talking. His insincere plea for her to take over control of Woodbury as he was not longer fit as leader, and his promise to live and let live left Andrea looking doubtful but almost grateful to him for his magnanimousness. However, she soon susses out that all is not that meets the eye when he's unreachable, and a few of his best fighters are out of Woodbury too. She demands Milton to let her know where the Governor has gone when she can't find him. Milton having previously sworn his allegiance to the Governor and promising to keeps tabs on Andrea, dodges her questioning and Andrea is left fearing the worst.
In the woods
Alongside all of this, Daryl and Merle are left walking through the woods with nothing but "mosquitos and ants." Merle suggests they fish, and so the brothers make their way to the nearby creek. Merle chides Daryl for having lost his sense of direction as Daryl belives it to be 'Yellow Jacket creek' up ahead; but before they can carry on arguing about it, Daryl hears a baby's cry and a family are stuck on the bridge surrounded by walkers, including a mother and her baby stuck in a car.
Jumping to the rescue, against Merle's wishes, Daryl saves the family from the zombie horde (including some pretty brutal zombie head trunk smashing manoeuvres!) and Merle helps half-heartedly. Once all the walkers have been killed, Merle started rummaging through the family's car, and Daryl, disgusted by his brother's behaviour, aims his crossbow at Merle's head and threatens him. Once the family are safely away, Daryl strides off, leaving Merle behind (also, Daryl was right, it was 'Yellow Jacket creek')
Merle then follows Daryl into the woods, and ridicules him for his show of courage, despite the chance that he could have been killed for the benefit of strangers. Sparking an argument, the brother's tussle, and Daryl's shirt is torn, revealing to Merle the scars of their father's abuse. Merle is taken aback and apologises to Daryl for having left him when he was a child, but Daryl is furious, and tells Merle that he is going "back to where I belong." Merle moans that he won't be accepted by the prison survivors, but Daryl unmoved says, "I may be the one that's walkin' away, but you're the one that's leavin'."
The Governor's Revenge
In the prison's courtyard, Carol and Axel chat idlely. Axel is then shot and killed instantly, and all hell breaks loose. The Governor, at the tree line, raises his weapon to continue the bloodshed.
Whilst everyone at the prison runs for cover, the Governor and his men shoot persistently at the survivors. Then, a truck breaks through the prison gates and stops. The Governor smiles as he watches the back open and the undead stream out. Hershel, trapped in the area, is left to fend for himself as the Governor and his crew leave. Glenn arrives just as the Governor has left and collects Hershel and Michonne from the field, driving them to safety.
Rick, stuck outside the prison fences, is surrounded by walkers. Facing almost certain death he grapples with a biter, when luckily a crossbow arrow pieces straight through the walkers head. Daryl and Merle then emerge from the treeline and wipe out the remaining walkers. Rick acknowledges Daryl but ignores Merle, walks to the fences and stares toward the prison with a dark and dangerous look in his eyes; the yard swarming with walkers.
What do you think is next for Rick and co? Will the Governor be back to wreak havoc?
The Walking Dead 3×11 "I Ain't a Judas" will be on AMC this Sunday, Feb 24 9/8 ET/PT.


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In Search of the Trojan War. ART/CNE 430 10/28/04. Gallery at Tiryns. Excerpt from the Mycenae-Epidaurus tourist guidebook. Heinrich Schliemann & the Rediscovery of Troy. The Evidence for Troy. Homeric epic Trojan War Cycle Wood recounts the story and introduces the major players.
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Lofty gates
Fine towers
Wide streets
Sacred, steep, very windy
"They say Achilles in the darkness stirred . . And Priam and his fifty sons
Wake all amazed, and hear the guns,
And shake for Troy again."
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And I from three days' peace.
Was it so hard, Achilles,
So very hard to die?
Thou knowest and I know not -
So much the happier I.
I will go back this morning
From Imbros over the sea;
Stand in the trench, Achilles,
Flame-capped, and fight for me.'Patrick Shaw-Stewart
"It is precisely its power as a myth which has excited belief in its historicity - the story moves us so much that it must be true. Many archaeologists, professed scientists, have neverthless been able to encompass this within their scientific 'truth'!" (p. 36)


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Ted Cruz's pick for Tennessee chairman draws fire from Islamic activists
by Andy Sher
Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz has named former Williamson County GOP chairman Kevin Kookogey, a critic of Sharia law, as his Tennessee chairman.
Now, the U.S. senator is drawing fire from the Council on American-Islamic Relations which on Tuesday urged Cruz to drop Kookogey because of what the group called "his longstanding support for anti-Muslim and Islamophobic causes."
In announcing Kookogey's appointment, Cruz on Monday called him "a consistently strong voice for conservative principles and an active member of our party for a number of years.
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Max McNeil and Jo Williams were the star performers for Lothian RC in the Scottish Short Course XC Championships at Bellahouston Park, Glasgow.
The club fielded six runners in a high quality men's race, and were led home by Max McNeil who produced a fine performance to finish in 17th place.
He covered the frosty and muddy 4k course in 12 minutes and 40 seconds – only 43 seconds behind race winner Alistair Hay, Central AC.
Following Max home were club mates 82nd Malcolm Lang [14.23], 109th Euan McInnes [15.02], 112th Colin Partridge [15.05], 126th Owen Williams [15.29] and 170th Stephen Malcolm [17.07].
In the team competition LRC finished in 14th place. 204 runners completed the course.
Jo Williams was the club's only entrant in an equally competitive women's race.
And she maintained her recent good form to finish well up in 21st place of the 97 finishers in 15 minutes 35 seconds.
The race was won by Laura Muir, Dundee Hawkhill, who represented Gt Britain at the World Athletics Championships.
The Lothian Club had three runners among the 231 finishers in Saturday's Tinto Hill Race.
First home, and bettering his 2012 time by almost two and a half minutes was John Malcolm who finished 22nd in 38 minutes 04 seconds.
Chloe Cox produced a fine run to finish in an excellent second place in the female category with her time of 42 mins 38 secs placing her 66th overall.
Chloe was the leading lady at the summit, but was beaten on the descent by Charlotte Morgan from Carnethy.
Club veteran and experienced hill racer Tosh Brannan completed in 44 minutes and 22 seconds for 93rd place.
Despite it not being one of her better runs of the 2013 cross country season, Sarah Inglis' 29th place finish at the Canadian Inter-university Sport [CIS] National Championships in London, Ontario on Saturday went a long way in assisting the Trinity Western Spartans women's cross country team capturing the Canada West Conference Championship for the first time in the event's history.
Sarah covered the 6km course at the Thames Valley Golf Course in 22.46.9 which also placed her eighth in the Canada West Championship. The LRC member was also named in the Canada West Second Team All Stars.
The Spartans top five women's runners all finished amongst the top 14 athletes in Canada West as the team won TWU's first ever conference banner in either cross country or track and field.
Overall, the women's team finished a program-best fourth in the CIS with 129 points.
Last year the team finished 13th overall and fourth in the conference. In her previous outings, Sarah has finished 1st twice and 5th.
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I received this book for free from Author in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Planning for Love by Christi Barth
Series: Aisle Bound #1
Published by Carina Press Genres: Contemporary Romance
Format: eARC
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Hopeless romantic Ivy Rhodes and anti-Cupid Bennett Westcott request the pleasure of your company for their disaster of a courtship. Wedding planner Ivy Rhodes is the best in the business, and she's not about to let a personal problem stop her from getting ahead. So when she's asked to star in the reality TV show Planning for Love, it doesn't matter that the show's videographer happens to be a recent—and heartbreaking—one-night stand.
Bennett Westcott admits he didn't handle his encounter with Ivy very well. But looking at her beautiful smile—and great body—through a camera lens every day? He can't be faulted for suggesting they have some no-strings fun.
The more time they spend together, the more Ben realizes Ivy isn't the wedding-crazed bridezilla he'd imagined. But if he doesn't trust himself to make a relationship last, how can he convince Ivy to give him another chance?
At the beginning of this story, I was pretty certain that Ivy Rhodes, all pink and girly and glass waaaaay half full, was going to eventually get on my nerves. She is in love with love and is committed to having her brides get the most perfect experience on their wedding days. But, it eventually became clear that, while she seemed a bit starry-eyed and simplistic, Ivy lives what she speaks. Behind all that froth is a woman who is extraordinary at what she does because she believes in herself and would do anything to have her brides' days be perfection.
Ben Westcott has plenty of reason to be cynical and his pairing with Ivy at first seemed headed for eventual disaster. But, even he couldn't resist her pull as she was a real force to be reckoned with. Eventually, he could see the grit and determination of Ivy underneath the girly exterior and you had to admire how she was a stand for her beliefs. Their group of friends, all somewhat connected to the business, added comic relief as well as intrigue for coming stories.
I couldn't believe that Ivy had won me over in the end and she will you if look closely and see what really lies beneath. She handled Ben and his cynicism about love and romance, their banter being one of the highlights of the story. I enjoyed the story, the romance and being slain by Ivy.
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Discussion in 'UPS Discussions' started by dilligaf, Mar 8, 2012.
What happened to our AEPU's? I was told today that there aren't any anymore.
One of mine just switched to whatever they call it when you call in only when you have a pick up. I wouldn't be surprised if they are trying to get them all to switch to this.
Oh well. Pull me in the office for missing my +/- 15 minute window I guess.
I will have to check my P/U log today. I only have one AEPU and I always pick it up within the +/- 15 so it is not an issue.
Brownslave, the term you are looking for is smart pickup. I have two of those and am looking to convert another pickup.
the smart pick ups really help you plan the day. If they want a pick up at 450,( they have to pick a time and it stays that time). Your board "should" alert you at 350. If they did not process anything by 350, it will be canceled from your log. I have 3, I love it>
I had a pickup that rarely if ever sent out anything. I mentioned the smart pickup and the cost savings ($10/week rather than $20) and offered to make the phone call to start the conversion. I love hitting "accept".
So do I, especially on Friday, have a great weekend!
I have 4 pickups. 3 were already smart pu's. The 4th one I just got switched over to a smart pu. Sweet. What I REALLY needed was AEPU's on all 4 of these. Not to be. It helps having them as smart pu's. I'm with iruh, I'll get there when I get there.
So, what I'm not finding out is WHY we aren't doing AEPU's anymore. One of you IE guys, any answers?
There are still three AEPU's in my DIAD as of yesterday.
One in mine.
And we have rte's that have them as well.
OK, now I know what you are asking. You want to know why you can't have an AEPU on a Smart P/U. This would defeat the purpose of the Smart P/U.
Wouldn't it be easier to have the pickups changed to pickup and delivery or is that not an option? I have two pickups that are picked up when I make their delivery. They are both on campus (library and bookstore) and I do go back to the bookstore in the afternoon when they are shipping out their book orders at the beginning of each semester.
When we first started the Smart Pickups we were told that we couldn't pick them up prior to the hour time limit but after that we could. Now I'm being told that I still have to make compliance (15 min window before/after). The Smart pickup, in and of itself, is beneficial to me since I can pretty much judge who is going to have pickups, early on in the day. The 15 minute window just screwed me. 3 of the 4 of my pickups are rural and not easy to make compliance on. If I try to maintain compliance then I am juggling sections of my rte, what areas I can deliver and what areas I need to skip to be there in the window. Plus balancing my business deliveries in the same areas. Now I am back to the IDGAF mode.
Hate to sound like a moron, but what is an AEPU?
Authorized Early Pick Up. It's supposed to be like on-rte pickups.
We call those Make in Trace, but the crazy thing is you still have to close them during the compliance window to keep everyone happy. Smoke & Mirrors......
They'll get closed when I get there. I don't trust the sumbeaches to close them at any other location.
We call them on area pick ups, I was also confused, but that happens alot.............
Anyhoo, I have given these people my phone number, my choice to keep them happy. To me it is worth it, so I pick them up when in area, and close them out, at the 15 +/- window. Everyone is happy with that. Since these people seldom ship, but want to use us when they do, they are more than happy if I cant get back as their hours are irregular, and sometimes non existent, in which case they are more than happy to meet me somewhere. It works. I dont trust them either, but Im servicing the customer, they are playing with the customer.
I have already made the PU prior to closing it in the board, so I don't have a problem with it. If I have not gotten to them before the assigned window (even though it's make in trace) I will close it out in real time. (Late)
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ANZA – The Anza Valley Municipal Advisory Council (AVMAC) will meet Wednesday, Jan. 11, at 7 p.m. at the Anza Community Hall in Anza.
The meeting will include updates from Riverside County Supervisor Chuck Washington's Office and Riverside County counsel regarding water issues effecting local housing and commercial development in the Anza Valley.
The meeting will also reintroduce the Anza Visions and Goals document that was approved in 2006. This document was a collaboration between the community on what they envisioned for the Anza Valley. The committee believes that with the passage of 10 years, it would be beneficial for members of the community to see the document again and comment on changes they might like to see.
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Last week I wrote about my dearly-departed uncle; this week I'm reaching out for help with some of his belongings.
Some of this will make its way into my uncle's online obituary, but the best bits are here…
Let the record show that for 46 years yours truly carried himself through life without ever having to engage in fisticuffs of any kind. That is, until last night.
I'm going to put a fair amount of work into this, as I generally don't want it to suck.
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DALLAS — Ed Feulner is ebullient. And that's — if you please — when people around him are saying things like, "We are witnessing the greatest wave of collectivism since the New Deal."
From the rostrum in a Dallas hotel ballroom, the founder and president of the Heritage Foundation surveys a charged-up crowd of 600. Not just a little charged-up; on the contrary, a lot charged-up. These are people who mean business.
It shouldn't, theoretically, be this way. Aren't these people conservatives, broadly defined, and hasn't the president of the United States just signed into law a manifestly un-conservative health care "reform" bill, one that clamps the federal vise — hard — on 17 percent of the U.S. economy, at an estimated cost of $2.4 trillion? That would be the point. The president has done precisely that. The right is revved up — ready to rumble. That would go far toward explaining Feulner's ebullience.
An aging newsman is sitting at a front-row table at a Heritage event. The crowd, on a mid-week morning, has come to hear Wisconsin Republican Congressman Paul Ryan and see whether he can shine some light through the gloom and dismay. The newsman trades observations with all kinds of people who never thought it would come to this, but now that it's come to this, have no intention of sitting back to see what course the gods of Olympus have set for America. To hell with Olympus. We've got people here ready to part with cash and leisure hours to set Congress and the administration straight concerning their, shall we say, misjudgments on health care and other fine points of policy.
A nationally known merchandising executive and his wife are on my right. They'd never heard of Heritage until after the 2008 elections. They've thrown in their lot with the growing number who can't see how health care squeaked by but, now that it's done so, want to start over and do the job right.
A successful, middle-aged white dude from the "right" part of town tells about the hours he and his wife have put in walking the "wrong" part of town in behalf of a conservative, yes conservative, African-American candidate for Congress. I ask if they haven't gotten some stares. Quite a few, he replies. Too bad — when his son gets home from college this summer, Sonny will be enlisting in the same cause.
Tea Party people, or sympathizers with the movement, are there in abundance, brewing abundant pots of trouble for the liberal agenda on this warm pre-Easter day. There might be a cynic or two or ten in the audience. Let 'em alone. People Power is flexing its muscles and its enterprise.
YOU CAN'T TELL ABOUT A PRESIDENT who plays his emotional cards close the vest. How confident is he, really, in his ability to ram through Congress the rest of his program, from financial regulation to cap and trade to immigration reform? On signing Obamacare into law, Barack Obama was exultant and nothing like conciliatory to his supposedly soggy, washed-up opponents. The so-called Party of No and Congressman Ryan have few rewards to dangle before prospective recruits: save perhaps the reward of helping make the world safe for human freedom. No other enticement, seemingly, has much purchase on the minds of those whom Heritage has brought together for confabulation.>
Matthew Spalding, Heritage official and author of the best-seller We Still Hold These Truths, puts it to a pre-lunch session that "We are at a turning point in our constitutional history…We don't know what is going to happen." The "deep debate" going on isn't about health care or cap and trade, it's about "America and where we are going." We have to "go back to principle — it's as simple as that, because things that have been true up to now are still true." Americans sense that they "don't govern themselves any more." "It's late in the game, but it's not too late to get involved. I think things are set up in almost a perfect way and that a major shift could occur."
Paul Ryan, a hero already to the audience on account of his unsparing assaults on the premises of health care reform, Obama-style, has no doubt a momentous choice lies ahead of Americans — to continue in the progressive rut being worn in the soil, or…wait a minute, that's no choice.
"We are quickly approaching a debt crisis in this country." Our present trajectory endangers our fiscal stability, such as it is. In a few decades, to pay for the government we've ordered up, the bottom — bottom! — tax bracket will be 25 percent, the highest bracket 88 percent. This, according to Congressional Budget Office calculations. Climate legislation alone, as contemplated by the administration, would require another $1 trillion in spending. And this on top of stupendous shortfalls in our ability to finance Social Security and Medicare without reconfiguration of the pay-in, pay-out scheme.
"We are reaching a tipping point in this country." The figures cascade from Ryan's fluent tongue. Right now 20 percent of Americans get 75 percent of their income from the federal government. An additional 20 percent get 40 percent of their income from the government. Sixty percent get more services in dollar value than they pay in taxes. If things don't change, "we're going to be a different kind of country" — to wit, "a European-style cradle-to-grave" society, wherein "more people depend on the welfare state than on themselves."
None of which is set in concrete. Barack Obama and the Democrats, it seems clear, poked a hornet's nest when they said boo-hiss to alternative ideas for making health care coverage more general and more affordable. "They were not interested," Ryan says, "in setting up a true market for health care." It's not about health care, you see. "It's about ideology" — the ideology of state control. Want more state control? Sit back; watch it happen.
Ryan offers few hard and fast predictions as to what the upcoming, pre-election months may hold, save for struggle. He doesn't think the Democrats are prepared to muscle through cap and trade, as they muscled through Obamacare. Card check? Nope. Immigration "reform"? They'll try.
Ebullient Ed Feulner bounces back to the microphone to sum up. He's "selling" Heritage: which means selling what Heritage has ever been about, namely, liberty and limited government. He foresees an expanding marketplace for those commodities as Americans, like the 600 seated before him, latch onto the challenges and perils just ahead. New supporters and donors are falling all over themselves as it were to help Heritage help The Cause. Someone else — lots of someones — must have figured out the "tipping-point" business.
A newsman whose memories of political conflict go back, to the '60s thinks to himself this kind of occasion doesn't bear the hallmark of past conservative slumps, say, '74 and '76: partly because the health care came conspicuously in defiance of public opinion; partly because of the energy in the room; partly because so much energy (no government intervention necessary) flows from the tall, young, astoundingly articulate congressman invited to highlight the stakes in the game.
Paul Ryan, to the newsman whose memories of political figures go back to LBJ and Goldwater, looks very much like the real article: the leader conspicuously missing from Republican, much less conservative, affairs this past decade or so. It hurts not a bit that he started in politics as a staffer for Jack Kemp, the king of supply-side economics.
We'll see how it all shakes out. Meanwhile, in the newsman's judgment, the last word belongs to, of all people, Rahm Emanuel — a crisis is a terrible thing to waste. Yes. Here's one American crisis, the battle against the welfare state, to which volunteers are flocking, hoping to waste not a minute; trying to turn things around while there's time. Which there still is.


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Taz Kelpies will swap the farm for the showground this weekend as the Mullaley working dogs prepare for demonstrations at the 2017 Gunnedah Show.
The dog display is one of a range of first-time show performances including model aeroplane aerial displays, a showcase by Totally Dance and stunt motorcycle demonstrations.
Taz Kelpies owner-operator Bruce Bell has been in the working dog business for about 7-8 years but said this weekend will be one of the first "official" appearances as their own stud.
On display this weekend will be experienced dogs and rookies to demonstrate the value of their on-farm contribution.
"It's a bit of exposure so people can witness the brains of the dog and just what a sheepdog can do," Mr Bell said.
The Taz Kelpies Facebook page encouraged locals to stop by for a chat.
"We will be demonstrating our sheepdogs at the Gunnedah show this year at the Gunnedah showgrounds Saturday at 4pm," the post read.
"We will be there all day so please come on over and say g'day and learn all you need to know about training and working kelpies on sheep."
The Gunnedah Show program starts Friday with showjumping events. Sideshow alley opens later that afternoon.
The program continues all day Saturday and into the evening before finishing up lunch-time Sunday.
The show rodeo and annual wife-carrying competition are scheduled for 8.30pm Saturday.