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Blooms need to be bug-free
Updated 11:02 pm, Friday, February 10, 2012
LAREDO — Roses are red, violets are blue and chrysomelidae are gold, green and brown with spots.
Getting a bouquet of red roses infested with gold chrysomelidae, also known as tortoise beetles, could ruin Valentine's Day.
In recent weeks, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists at Laredo's Colombia-Solidarity International Bridge, the No. 4 port in the country for floral imports, have been kept busy looking for tortoise beetles and other creepy crawly hitchhikers on flowers from Mexico that are being brought into the U.S. in daily truckloads.
"This week we crossed about 15 trailers," said Gabriel Saldaña, a dispatcher for a customs broker who handles most of the floral shipments into Laredo. "Last Friday, we had about nine trailers. It's been a busy season."
Busier than last year, which already was a booming year for flowers — booming to the tune of $881 million, according to the Society of American Florists.
Flower imports during the Jan. 1 to Feb. 14 Valentine's Day season increased by 150 percent from 2010 to 2011, climbing to 320.8 million stems, according to CBP. Of those, more than 80 percent came through Miami, and most of those came from Colombia. Ecuador is the second-largest supplier of flowers and Mexico is third.
Laredo handled 2.3 percent of the total Valentine's Day flowers imported last year. But the 18.6 million flower stems that came through this border city, the largest port on the Mexican border, made it one of the top import points in the nation.
This year in Laredo, the shipment volume peaked last week.
The three to four trailers crossing almost every weekday exceeds the two or three trailers a day, three days a week, that the port handled this time last year.
A truck full of flowers, including Valentine's Day favorites roses and lilies, that crossed into the U.S. here Friday was the last of the season. The flowers were headed to Dallas, Chicago, Milwaukee and cities in Canada.
"More people are in love," Saldaña said.
For agriculture specialists, the increase meant more time looking for beetles, slugs, snails and moth larvae hidden in the flowers. Inspectors take about 2 percent of each truckload — more for high-risk commodities like gladiolas, which are known to carry pests — and shake them out onto tables covered in white butcher paper.
If a pest falls out, inspectors have to quickly get the bug in a vial before it escapes, said David Gonzalez, CBP's chief agriculture specialist in Laredo. Inspectors for the U.S. Agriculture Department examine the pests and determine if the shipment can be fumigated, or if it needs to go back to Mexico.
"If it's coming in from one environment to a different environment where the pest may not have natural enemies, it could reproduce exponentially and we will have an outbreak on our hands," Gonzalez said.
In a city where federal agents focus on the drug war, even the floral import business is subject to corruption. In 2008, FBI agents here arrested three USDA inspectors and a local exterminator and charged them with importing floral greens that had not been properly fumigated.
Friday's load was clean. Inspectors didn't find any pests and sent the truck on its way.
Most of the flowers imported through Laredo come from Villa Guerrero, a city in a mountainous area of central Mexico.
Villa Guerrero is perfect for flower growing because it has warm days, cool evenings, plenty of rain and various elevations that allow farmers to grow different species, said Kim Pacanins, manager at San Antonio-based Continental Floral Greens.
Continental is the largest greens grower in the U.S., importing flowers and greens from Mexico as well, Pacanins said. In the weeks leading up to Valentine's Day, Continental's imports increase from about five or six trucks a week to 15 or 16, she said.
"We also have farms in California and Florida as well, but we do huge volumes out of Mexico," Pacanins said.

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Europe stepped up support Tuesday for thousands of people fleeing Islamic militant forces in northern Iraq, pledging helicopters, more air drops, money and equipment to ease suffering and bolster fighters battling the Sunni insurgents. Britain promised to send a small number of Chinook helicopters to the region to use for humanitarian relief options. Prime Minister David Cameron's Downing Street office also said it was taking up urgent planning with the United States and Kurdish leaders on getting those trapped on Mount Sinjar to safety.
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Climate change may be global, but it is already changing local North Carolina ecosystems in myriad ways. Beaches are eroding, shorelines are retreating, and birds are shifting their winter ranges. Even insects, fish, and frogs are changing behavior.
Bruce Henderson reports a three-part feature series for the Charlotte Observer January 28-May 1, 2011.
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Strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian and disaster relief assistance of the United Nations, including special economic assistance
21-11-1996 Statement
United Nations, General Assembly 51st session, Plenary, Agenda item 21 – Statement by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) New York, 21 November 1996
Mr. President,
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been closely following the ongoing debate on Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations in emergency situations and welcomes the opportunity of again sharing a few observations on this topic.
In our opinion, the main issues at stake with regard to humanitarian coordination are how best to serve the interests of victims in an effective and coherent way and how to make the best use of donor funding. Accordingly, the ICRC's practical approach to humanitarian coordination is primarily guided by its focus on victims and by its own accountability to donors.
In our experience, effective humanitarian coordination has mostly occurred at field level and has usually been a process initiated by the humanitarian organization which has been the first and/or the prime operational actor in an emergency. During the current year, the ICRC has played this role in such places as Chechnya, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka and certain areas of Somalia, Sudan and Sierra Leone. It has also continued to perform its leading role in tracing missing people and re-establishing family links, coordinating its large-scale operations in this domain in places such as the Great Lakes region of Africa and the former Yugoslavia with those of other organizations which have been concerned with such matters.
The ICRC feels that field coordination works best when humanitarian organizations accept a common set of ethical and operational standards, such as those laid down in the Code of conduct for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), and when they aim at achieving true complementarity with due respect for each other's mandates and roles. A good example of effective field coordination has been set in Angola, where humanitarian organizations have established sound coordination mechanisms and mutually complement their respective activities. Such efforts, aimed at pragmatic cooperation in the field and founded on a common humanitarian approach, deserve to be pursued and developed in all emergency or post-conflict situations where a multitude of humanitarian agencies are responding to the needs of victims.
Parallel to operational coordination in the field, the ICRC is also paying increasing attention to coordination and consultations at headquarters level. In the course of this year, it has held several very useful senior management meetings with some of its main operational humanitarian partners. In addition to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, such meetings took place with UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP and the High Commissioner for Human Rights, as well as some major international NGOs.
In early September, an exchange of correspondence took place between ICRC President Sommaruga and Ms Bertini, Executive Director of WFP, on the terms of cooperation between the two organizations and on guiding principles for relief operations in emergency situations due to conflict. Earlier in the year, the ICRC delegation in Rwanda signed a field-level agreement with the country office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, defining the respective responsibilities of the two institutions with regard to protection and visits to detainees in that country.
This bilateral approach has not only served to enhance mutual understanding, but has also been instrumental in paving the way for closer institutional relations and sectorial coordination and cooperation. The ICRC will pursue this approach with its operational partners as an important component of its coordination efforts.
At the multilateral level, the ICRC's prime focus lies in assuming its role and responsibilities within the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and in closely liaising and coordinating with the National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and their Federation. It also participates actively in the United Nations coordination mechanisms with a view to contributing to synergy and coherence amongst the wider humanitarian community.
At this juncture we should like to touch briefly on the important role assigned to the DHA as the UN humanitarian advocate and facilitator of UN operational coordination. Its efforts in bringing forward within the United Nations system such issues as the humanitarian impact of economic sanctions or respect for humanitarian mandates, and its activities in areas such as demining or information-gathering and sharing on humanitarian operations and issues, are examples of DHA functions that deserve special recognition.
We also wish to refer to the issue of anti-personnel landmines as an example of commendable inter-agency cooperation. The ICRC has indeed been greatly encouraged to see that its worldwide campaign for a total ban of these dreadful weapons has contributed to increased and concerted humanitarian advocacy and mobilization on this issue on the part of a large number of organizations.
Mr. President,
Some of the recent emergencies, such as those in Liberia, Burundi or currently in eastern Zaire, have underscored the importance of the relationship and clearly-defined allocation of tasks between humanitarian organizations and international or regional political bodies. In this area, the international community sometimes appears to be at a loss, trying to push humanitarian agencies to the forefront rather than seeking political solutions.
The ICRC feels that it is urgent today to go beyond coordination among humanitarian partners in emergency situations and particularly to enhance consultation with the appropriate political bodies as well as with other bodies in pre- or post-conflict situations. The ICRC thus maintains regular bilateral contacts with the UN Security Council and with major regional political and security organizations, such as the Organization for African Unity (OAU), the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the Organization of American States (OAC) and the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC).
The aforesaid examples of recent emergencies have again unmistakably demonstrated that in many instances the respective responsibilities and operations of humanitarian agencies on the one hand and political bodies on the other need to be defined more clearly, and that the necessary political and financial support for both sets of activities should be better ensured.
In this same context we should like to reiterate that humanitarian operations cannot take the place of political action. Humanitarian agencies can neither address the underlying root causes of conflict nor bring about peace settlements nor establish law and order and the kind of security environment essential for humanitarian activities to be carried out successfully and without undue risks to beneficiaries and to personnel of humanitarian organizations. Humanitarian work in such situations therefore largely depends on determined and decisive action undertaken on the political front.
Thank you, Mr. President.
Ref. UN(1996)37,b


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Psychotropic drug prescriptions for teens surge 250 percent over 7 year period
Psychotropic drug prescriptions for teenagers skyrocketed 250 percent between 1994 and 2001, rising particularly sharply after 1999, when the federal government allowed direct-to-consumer advertising and looser promotion of off-label use of prescription drugs, according to a new Brandeis University study in the journal Psychiatric Services.
This dramatic increase in adolescent visits to health care professionals which resulted in a prescription for a psychotropic drug occurred despite the fact that few psychotropic drugs, typically prescribed for ADHD, depression and other mood disorders, are approved for use in children under 18. The study is one of the first to focus on prescriptions to adolescents, rather than children in general.
The study shows that by 2001, one in every ten of all office visits by teenage boys led to a prescription for a psychotropic drug. Other findings in the study show that a diagnosis of ADHD was given in about one-third of office visits during the study period. Also, between 14 and 26 percent of visits in which psychotropic medications were prescribed did not have an associated mental health diagnosis, said lead author Professor Cindy Parks Thomas, an expert on prescription drug trends, at Brandeis University's Heller School for Social Policy and Management...
Teen Abuse of Painkiller OxyContin on the Rise
About 1 in 20 high school seniors now acknowledges taking OxyContin, a prescription drug for managing severe pain that, when abused, can be powerfully addictive.
In its annual survey of teen drug use, the National Institute on Drug Abuse reports that OxyContin use by 12th graders is up 40 percent nationwide in just three years. Five times as many 12th graders report using OxyContin than report using methamphetamine. The results have been tragic...
The school hasn't used the strap once during the two years Wayne Martel has been principal. But Harakal thinks its mere presence acts as a deterrent.
In her 10 years, the school has used the strap just three times, she said. "It's not something you take and wave around to scare the kids with."
Originally posted by Loam
You get the sense that something is terribly wrong?
Exactly who is out of control?
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Originally posted by Relentless
For example, an extremely concientious 7 year old who has volunteered for monitor duty. It causes her to be 10 minutes late for whatever follows in her schedule and she is being publicly shamed for tardiness. This is downright traumatizing for this child who prides herself on perfection in whatever she does. What the hey?
Here's another, a 13 year old who is being harrassed by another student. The child is ADD and has a hard time not defending himself (controlling retaliation). The parents report it for weeks and the school does nothing, meanwhile they are nightly having to drum it into his head he can't retaliate. When it finally becomes physical (by the harrasser) the victim gets hauled away for defending himself and the aggressor gets nothing. What the hey?
By the way, hauled away in this school means taken into custody by the "system", the parents get a phone call that their child is no longer under their jurisdiction and they will get a phone call when their child is processed so they can pick them up. No additional information is provided. The phone call usually comes in a around 3AM by which time their child has been in a cell with a bunch of god knows what, being subjected to god knows what.
Toddler's Talking Elmo Book Asks 'Who Wants To Die?'
A mother in Dallas is one of several parents complaining about a new interactive book for toddlers in which Sesame Street character Elmo asks "who wants to die?" according to a Local 6 News report...
The company that makes the book said it has had several complaints concerning the book, according to the report.
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"Before any one says anything bad about whipping there is a difference between whipping and beating a kid. A whipping does not leave marks nor hurt the butt any longer than a few min. "
Naw, it just teaches kids that if your big enough you can get away with beating the weak and defenseless, and if your frustrated with not getting thru to people you can always resort to violence, that's always a good lesson to teach kids early on.
Originally posted by loam
Here is a bizarre and disappointing story...
Toddler's Talking Elmo Book Asks 'Who Wants To Die?'
Is this sick, or what?
Originally posted by WyrdeOne
GREAT thread. IMO it's the most important one on ATS.
Teachers put on leave over classroom sex
McKeesport officials have hired a lawyer to investigate whether the school district should fire two fourth-grade teachers who had sex in a classroom several years ago while other teachers stood watch at the door, officials said Thursday.
The district placed Patrick Collins, 54, former teachers union president, and Angela DiBattista, 50, on paid leave Wednesday while attorney Carl Beard of Altoona conducts the investigation.
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Actually, my child was the victim of a different Perpertrator. GET THIS, Whitmore was the "Counselor " that supposedly was helping my son deal with all of the emotional trama he had endured. Whitmore was the driving force in my pressing charges. He pushed me every step of the way to prosecute. He kept telling me "How are you going to live with yourself when they do this to another child, and you didn't stop them". He even helped write the victim impact statement. AND THE WHOLE TIME, HE WAS A SICK PERVERT doing the same thing to other children.
So, as you see, he was actually "working" in the capacity of someone who counsels children that have been victims!!!!! (I HAVE NEVER SEEN THAT FACT MENTIONED IN ANY ARTICLES.)
YES, I was decieved by him, It never occured to me that a person counseling victims was indeed one of the "SICK PERVERTS".
What can I say, we are moving on with our lives. I NEED EVERY PARENT TO LEARN FROM MY EXPERIENCE!!!! TRUST NO-ONE, EVEN IN YOUR WEEKEST MOMENT, YOU HAVE TO PROTECT YOUR CHILD.
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Fla. Student Shot by SWAT Team Member
A SWAT team member shot and wounded an eighth-grader who appeared to be carrying a handgun at his middle school, leading to an evacuation of the school Friday morning.
Details of the shooting were sketchy, but Seminole County Sheriff's officials said no other students, teachers or school staff members at Milwee Middle School were injured.
Sheriff's officials had originally said the wounded boy had barricaded himself in a bathroom.
Penley was a loner who "told me he wanted to kill himself dozens of times."
the boy had run away from home several times. Her 11-year-old son, Jeffery Swofford, said Penley had said he had something planned.
"He said `I hope I die today because I don't really like my life,'" Jeffery Swofford said.


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As set out in the Charter of the United Nations, the functions and powers of the United Nations General Assembly are:
Pursuant to its "Uniting for Peace" resolution of November 1950 (resolution 377 (V)), the Assembly may also take action if the Security Council fails to act, owing to the negative vote of a permanent member, in a case where there appears to be a threat to the peace, breach of the peace or act of aggression. The Assembly can consider the matter immediately with a view to making recommendations to Members for collective measures to maintain or restore international peace and security.
While the Assembly is empowered to make only non-binding recommendations to States on international issues within its competence, it has, nonetheless, initiated actions, political, economic, humanitarian, social and legal,which have affected the lives of millions of people throughout the world. The landmark Millennium Declaration, adopted in 2000, reflects the commitment of Member States to reach specific goals spelled out in the Declaration to attain peace, security and disarmament along with development and poverty eradication, to protect our common environment, to meet the special needs of Africa and to strengthen the United Nations.


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Date: 03/06/2008 Category: Arts and Libraries
PART OF FUSE MEDWAY FESTIVAL - Saturday, 31 May to Saturday, 14 June Brigadier Ambrose, one of Medway's brightest young bands and current bastions of Radio One will headline The Brook Theatre, Chatham on Saturday, 14 June, 7.30pm. In the last 18 months the band has released three singles, which have attracted the attention of BBC DJs Huw Stephens, Stuart Marconie and Phil Jupitus, resulting in a session at the corporation's fabled Maida Vale studios. The four-piece have been called a merging of Pavement and Belle and Sebastian, although Syd Barrett, Super Furry Animals and The Kinks at their village green height equally spring to mind. Melodic, witty and refreshingly unconcerned about fame and fortune, Brigadier Ambrose is musically an ego-free zone, although swords are often raised when the conversation turns to science, cricket, cheese or Reeves and Mortimer. Tickets for the gig are £5, with support coming from another Medway-based band - Wait for Tomorrow. To book phone box office on 01634 338338, email email@example.com or visit www.fusefestival.org.uk. Fuse Medway Festival is a celebration of arts and creativity in Medway. Spanning three weekends of great live performances and exhibitions, the festival includes theatre, indoors and out, cabaret, music, visual arts, dance and a hamper-full of fun for families. Visit www.fusefestival.org.uk to download a free brochure and uncover the full line-up. Alternatively, call box office on 01634 338338 to request a hard copy.
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I am planning on travelling through Vietnam but want to fly to Bangkok and then get a flight to Saigon or Hanoi. I don't plan on leaving Bangkok airport so I presume I won't need a Thai visa? Is this right? Thanks
I am planning on travelling through Vietnam but want to fly to Bangkok and then get a flight to Saigon or Hanoi. I don't plan on leaving Bangkok airport so I presume I won't need a Thai visa? Is this right? Thanks
ok you can apply on line for an visa on arrival in to Vietnam i have loads of info for that place if you need help just let me know
If you already have your tickets out of BKK to Hanoi or Saigon AND your luggage is checked through to your final stop in Vietnam you won't need a visa for Thailand. I have passed through many airports overseas in transit and never had to get a visa.
Usually if you remain in transit and never leave the airport while waiting for your flight you don't need a visa. But if you have to retrieve luggage you usually have to pass through immigration!
For Thailand the passport you travel with determines if you need a visa or you can enter with out a visa and get by with a free Visa Exempt stamp in your passport good for 30 days.
What country passport are you traveling with? Right now tourist visas are free until March. http://thainews.prd.go.th/en/news.php?id=255304150019
Years ago, I flew into BKK at midnight and out to HAN in the early am. I thought I would just go to the transit lounge and wait for my flight. BUT, I was flying Air Asia: BKK-HAN and they did not have a ticket counter in the transit lounge. I had to enter Thailand via the visa waiver. Came back into the airport to kill 7 hours before my flight to HAN. Not a big deal, but one of the problems using discount airlines. Many of them do not have counters in the transit lounges. This was before Suvarnabhumi was built. Might be better now.
I suggest you use the 'visa on arrival system' when flying into VN. I wrote about my experience my blog.
Thanks for the replies. I have a British passport so hope that helps? Basically I can get a return flight to Bangkok for £400 then cheap flights to Vietnam and back...or pay £700 for return flights to Hanoi which is not ideal because its kinda hard to do a circle in Vietnam!
With a UK passport you get 30 days free entry! So, if you have to go through immigration to get your bags or to change airports or leave the transit area you pay nothing! You get a free 30 day "Visa Exemption" stamp in your passport. Knowing the passport you travel under is the important thing you left out of your first post.
You could even schedule a stay in Thailand for a few days and at your leisure return to the airport and fly on to VN. You could even purchase your flights in Bangkok for VN from one of the many travel agencies in the city.
You have schedule enough time between connecting flights if you have to pick up luggage or change locations.


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Being infatuated with chocolate really didn't become stylish until the gourmet foodie craze gained traction in the 1970s - at least not in America. I'm not certain when the term "chocoholic" was coined, but I sense the presence of marketers hoping to convince average Americans that a heart-shaped box of Russell Stovers would no longer pass muster on the Day of Love.
I certainly offered no resistance when chocolate was elevated to a status symbol. I had already joined the legion of chocolate obsessors, though I was something of a convert.
I spent much of my childhood in chocolate exile, the result of a food allergy trend that gripped America in the 1950s and early 1960s. The doctor who banished me from the land of chocolate convinced my mother that a single bite would be the end of me. I was forbidden to eat chocolate cake at other children's birthday parties and was restricted to the two-thirds of Neapolitan ice cream that wouldn't do me in.
It was living hell.
At some point, the allergy diagnosis evaporated, which is what happens with most food-based health scares. Whether I "outgrew" the allergy to chocolate, as the doctor insisted, or it had been a figment of his imagination to begin with, I'll never know. I am sure of just one thing: Once I figured out that chocolate wasn't lethal, I made eating it my favorite pastime.
As a newly emancipated chocolate eater, I discovered a passion for the combination of chocolate and caramel, whether it's in ice cream, candy or baked goods. To my way of thinking, this is dessert synergy perfected.
One of my first exposures to the chocolate-caramel combo was through a simple recipe that my mother latched onto during those early years when chocolate was once again allowed in the house. I still make these chocolate caramel bars every so often, when I have to come up with a dessert for a potluck or it's my turn to bring snacks. This is also the perfect dessert to share with friends on Valentine's Day.
Chocolate Caramelettes
14 ounces of caramel candy
1/2 cup evaporated milk
2 cups flour
2 cups quick oats
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
1 teaspoon soda
1 cup melted butter
16 ounces milk chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Heat the caramel and evaporated milk together in a double boiler or in a saucepan over low heat. Let cool slightly.
In a mixing bowl, thoroughly combine the flour, oats, brown sugar, soda and butter. Press enough of the mixture into a greased 9-by-13-inch pan to form a 1/2-inch crust, reserving 1 to 1 1/2 cups of the mixture.
Bake the crust for no more than 10 minutes.
Sprinkle the chocolate chips over the crust, then spread on the milk and caramel mixture. Sprinkle the reserved oat mixture over the top.
Return to oven and bake 15 to 20 minutes, until the chocolate and caramel melt.
Cool before cutting into squares.
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What is the hepatic portal circulation?
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Another name for the hepatic portal system is the portal venous system. The purpose of hepatic portal circulation is to deliver blood from some parts of the gastrointestinal tract to the liver. In other words, blood is drained from the digestive organs (and the spleen, gall bladder, and pancreas) and the blood is then delivered to the liver. The vein that is used for this process is the hepatic portal vein.
The hepatic portal vein also transports other things to the liver as well. It transports absorbed nutrients, white blood cells from the spleen, poisonous substances that were absorbed in the intestines, and waste products.
The hepatic portal vein and its tributaries comprise the hepatic portal system. It is also called the portal venous system which directs blood from different parts of the Gastro-intestinal tract to the liver. Hepatic portal circulation is mainly responsible for blood to be available for helping in the digestive process. The hepatic portal vein, located in the right upper abdomen, carries blood from the GI tract and the spleen to the liver, and this allows the liver to process the nutrients taken from the digestive system. Hepatic portal circulation helps the liver to eliminate the Toxins and convert glycogen to glucose, that provides energy.


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Beaumont Aryan shows he's no snitch
Published 3:01 am, Tuesday, May 21, 2013
An Aryan Brotherhood of Texas prison gang member and Beaumont native got his wish by showing the world he's no snitch.
U.S. District Judge Sim Lake, who is presiding over a major racketeering case in Houston involving dozens of members of the gang and its associates who are accused of murder, drug trafficking, kidnapping and other crimes, appears to have reversed course by ruling that a plea agreement in the case should not be sealed.
Sealing or unsealing court documents might seem about as boring as watching paint dry, but if you are a member of a gang in which snitching is an unforgivable sin, it is important to lay your cards on the table.
Records can easily be checked online, and there are numerous examples of gang members being beaten, shot or stabbed for betraying the gang.
For years, sealed filings in all kinds of cases involving prison gangs and drug cartels have been seen as an indicator of who is secretly cooperating with the government - especially when it comes to plea agreements that could detail the leniency that comes with cooperation. In this case, prosecutors have sought to have all the plea agreements sealed in order to protect defendants who are cooperating by telling authorities all they know about the gang in exchange for leniency.
It remains to be seen if the judge will unseal documents that have been sealed, as well as not seal future documents.
Charles Lee Roberts, known as "Jive" in the Aryan gang, pleaded guilty earlier this month to racketeering, but the judge agreed with an oral request by the Beaumont man's lawyer, Todd Dupont, that the plea agreement remain public.
When he is sentenced in September, Roberts, 67, could get life in prison.
Richard O. Ely, the lawyer for another defendant in the case, James "Dirty" Meldrum, has said the strategy of sealing all plea agreements so that those defendants who are cooperating or not cooperating look the same to anyone searching records is wrong - and turns them into human shields for informants.
"This is a strategy made to protect people who are cooperating," Ely said. "The problem is that it is putting at risk people who are not cooperating."
Ely is challenging the sealing of his client's plea agreement, arguing that "by sealing every plea in this complicated case it hopes to confuse those that would retaliate against informers.
"Mr. Meldrum has done nothing to justify this added risk to his safety" Ely wrote in a court filing. "He is, in effect, a human shield created by the United States to protect its informants."


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|Reviews for I Am Damned
| SaiMero chapter 13 . 8/14/2009
Mucho Gracias for the update I loved it. I think i'm starting to get addicted to your story. lol It's like witches blood to me. Once again WRITE MORE.
| Elevanya chapter 13 . 8/10/2009
love it like always
| Charades chapter 13 . 8/7/2009
I would have rathered the chapter been written without being underlined through the whole thing O.O it's rather distracting, but maybe that's my ADD talking. Anyway, Callie high was hilarious! I can't believe she tried to seduce Damien hahahaa, poor guy had to keep it in his pants even though he totally wanted to. Good chapter! Can't wait for the update! )
| Crimsonlotus chapter 12 . 5/25/2009
WOW...that waz interesting...update soon...!
| Carmel March chapter 12 . 4/13/2009
Still loving this. I am so sorry for taking so long to review! Just know that I haven't forgotten your story :)
Hope to read more soon!
| KT-ImmortalIncarnate chapter 12 . 3/3/2009
A spelling mistake. Feeing is not a word. Feeding is!
Least it's better than mine! _
| MaaliceLove chapter 12 . 2/27/2009
| Elevanya chapter 12 . 2/25/2009
hell yeah I rock the house! _
lol, high Callie is silly... she better be careful she doesn't become addicted to that stuff... hehehe
| Aiylish chapter 12 . 2/24/2009
Wow... wonderful story! After a recent lapse when it comes to this site i come back and casually flip through the stories and what do I find? A wonderful Vampire story! I think you've done very well when it comes to building your characters and making them seem real. I must say that Damien is hillarious and i really like him. Who can resist a charming, funny and very handsom vampire anyways? Especially with those mental capacities.
One thing i did notice through, in chapter 9 you ended up repeating a line about dealing with his hurt in the third or fourth paragraph. I tend to notice silly things like that lol. And you're missing a few other little things but i know that we never notice when we first post them up. I do it all the time.
Sadly though... Im done this chapter and - pardon the pun - im thirsting for more! You sure know how to captivate someone and pull them into the story. Im just sad that i read too fast and finished this in no time at all. I'll be waiting for the next chapter though and i cant wait to see what you have in store for us next.
| HeatherLee chapter 11 . 12/10/2008
you know, the only reason why i can remember this story and its details and characters is because i know this is the story that i HAVE TO REMEMBER! i already had to read it all over once! we need more updates! i need more action and relationship between Callie and Damien! i need that to go somewhere SOON! anyway, good job, and post more soon!
| KT-ImmortalIncarnate chapter 11 . 11/19/2008
Hey! I enjoyed your story, and have very much enjoyed reading it. I'm writing a vampire book thing myself and got stuck on a part, but fortunately, I found reading other books for ideas help, just twist the idea a little.
Need to work on some grammar I think (Not the best checker in the world, but I'm pretty nice.)
I'll publish my chapter of my novel as I finish the first draft, but I have my own story.
Good luck with your story, because I really enjoyed it.
I cannot wait for the next chapter, because I'll probably review it, and gobble it up!
Thank You!
| servatis-a-maleficum chapter 11 . 11/19/2008
hello. I love your story. I think the awesomness of the story kind of speaks for my reaction itself though D. Soo, my the power of randomness vested in me, I command you to update soon! OR I SHALL ERASE YOU WITH MY ERASER OF GEEKINESS!XD On second thought, no, cause then I wouldn't hear the end. So please update soon. Now would be preferable, but I would feel guilty and obnoxious to ask for that, so as soon as possible. please0:)?
| Elevanya chapter 11 . 11/19/2008
| Charades chapter 6 . 10/19/2008
Um...Hello..? To the rubber duckie... hilarious! That had me chuckling !
This is extremely well written, I love Callie's potty-mouth! xDD
Keep going. I'll keep reviewing!
| Carmel March chapter 10 . 9/14/2008
This story always manages to make me a happy happy person, with each and every update :) Great chapter. Can't wait for the next bit! And sorry I took so long to review!


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> > the question is not whether this will work, but whether it's better to > > put stuff in DNS or to vector it to a separate lookup service. ... this is a very old discussion, and in general the opinion was DNS works well, but it is also the fundamental glue between addresses and services, names etc, thus overloading it with new stuff IS WRONG. More over I believe that DNS is OK for machine driven quick lookups, i.e. domain name to server address or server name. > protocol? The dreadful question IMHO seems to be where do you stop touching > DNS? Also, where to start and stop using directory services like LDAP? One of the main resons for using DNS is often said to be "it works, it is everywhere". But: - this is no nore exectly true: it "seems to be everywhere", but virtual hosting often makes the DNS server not under control of the domain name users - it works, but it is defintly not suited for an "information lookup service". IMHO the major disaster that DNS has ever made was the attempt to identify it with a trademark and distighushed names database. :-) - currently, and finally, due to a number of application seriously needing real directory services in order to work (GRID computing, mobile users authorisations - AAA, on-line phone books, X.509 Government issued certificates to citizens,...) the LDAP / Directory infrastructure is being deployed (often non hyerarchically, but the directory bridge concept seems to overcome the problem). This infrastructure is not at all in the same places and same hands than DNS servers, but it seems much more suitable to the needs expressed in your document. It is just a personal view, of course, but I woul prefer efforts being aimed to coordinate LDAP servers and define the relevant OIDs. :-) ClaudioReceived on Friday, 16 November 2001 04:23:11 UTC
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Nomis Solutions the leading provider of Pricing and Profitability Management solutions for financial services companies attended FinovateSpring, 2012 on May 9th, in San Francisco. Frank Rohde (CEO) and Prashant Balepur (VP of Product Development) presented their new Deposits platform, NPO 4.0 to over 1100 attendees. Nomis was one of 64 companies who unveiled their latest and greatest financial technology at the Conference.
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Altered Sphingolipid Metabolism in Patients with Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer
AbstractAlthough numerous genetic mutations and amplifications have been identified in pancreatic cancer, much of the molecular pathogenesis of the disease remains undefined. While proteomic and transcriptomic analyses have been utilized to probe and characterize pancreatic tumors, lipidomic analyses have not been applied to identify perturbations in pancreatic cancer patient samples. Thus, we utilized a mass spectrometry-based lipidomic approach, focused towards the sphingolipid class of lipids, to quantify changes in human pancreatic cancer tumor and plasma specimens. Subgroup analysis revealed that patients with positive lymph node metastasis have a markedly higher level of ceramide species (C16:0 and C24:1) in their tumor specimens compared to pancreatic cancer patients without nodal disease or to patients with pancreatitis. Also of interest, ceramide metabolites, including phosphorylated (sphingosine- and sphinganine-1-phosphate) and glycosylated (cerebroside) species were elevated in the plasma, but not the pancreas, of pancreatic cancer patients with nodal disease. Analysis of plasma level of cytokine and growth factors revealed that IL-6, IL-8, CCL11 (eotaxin), EGF and IP10 (interferon inducible protein 10, CXCL10) were elevated in patients with positive lymph nodes metastasis, but that only IP10 and EGF directly correlated with several sphingolipid changes. Taken together, these data indicate that sphingolipid metabolism is altered in human pancreatic cancer and associated with advanced disease. Assessing plasma and/or tissue sphingolipids could potentially risk stratify patients in the clinical setting. View Full-Text
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Clementi Six Sonatinas For Piano
Piano - Intermediate
Composed by Muzio Clementi (1752-1832). Edited by Keith Snell. Neil A. Kjos Master Composer Library. Sheet music. Published by Neil A. Kjos Music Company (KJ.GP379).
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This performance edited edition is now the best choice for your students. Clementi, regarded as the originator of the proper technique for the modern pianoforte, used these pieces to focus directly on the most important aspects of piano playing: felicitous fingering, lucid phrasing, and developing a legato touch. Based upon practical teaching experience, the editorial suggestions convey musical ideas ensuring successful musical performance by your students.
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FM transmitter is discussed in this article is to set the FM transmitter with a power of 12 Watt.Sirkit consists of 3 parts, yaknik oscillators, first-degree buffer (buffer 1) and second-level Buffer (buffer 2). After a try, oscillator result was quite satisfactory, in addition to stable oscillator produces a strong signal. Therefore, the oscillator is used without modification. Transistor at the first level buffer (buffer 1) the original use C1970 transistors, the value of R6 was changed to 10K, to provide the appropriate bias for the transistor C1970. 33pF capacitor on the collector C8 buffer replaced with the value for 5-60pF Trimmer tuning easier. Transistor level in the second buffer (Buffer 2), using the C1971, and also kolektornya Trimmer kapastor in C11 with a value of 5-60 pF. At the second level of output given the additional inductor and capacitor that serves as an impedance tuning, so the buffer output impedance less than the end of it changed to 380 Ohm 50 Ohm. Here is a schematic drawing:
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12(1)A claim for interest under a relevant paragraph must be made in such form and manner, and contain such matters, as the Commissioners may prescribe by regulations.
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This is absolutely the kind of marketing gimmick I can get behind. It combines two of my favorite hobbies, heavy metal and zombie killin'...no wait, I mean gaming.
Shoot all the zombies you want
I gotta admit, I'm not usually one for gimmick marketing, but the shooter is plenty competant, a pleasant distraction from work, and shockingly addictive (and oddly challenging.) If you feel compelled, and can stop shooting zombies long enough, the album can be preordered through the iTunes store. I wish more metal bands would do something like this.


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Main Topics
Important Dates and Discoveries
Important Scientists
Cosmological Theories Through History
The Universe By Numbers
Glossary of Terms
A Few Random Facts
Alexander Oparin was a Russian biochemist, notable for his contributions to the theory of the origin of life on Earth, and particularly for the "primordial soup" theory of the evolution of life from carbon-based molecules. Oparin also devoted considerable effort to enzymology and helped to develop the foundations of industrial biochemistry in the USSR. He received numerous decorations and awards for his work, and has been called "the Darwin of the 20th Century".
Alexander (or Aleksandr) Ivanovich Oparin was born on 2 March 1894 in Uglich, Russia. When he was nine years old, his family moved to Moscow because there was no secondary school in their village. He attended Moscow State University, majoring in plant physiology, where he was influenced by K. A. Timiryazev, a Russian plant physiologist who had known the English naturalist Charles Darwin, and Darwin's work was to greatly influence Oparin's later ideas. He graduated from the Moscow State University in 1917, and became a professor of biochemistry there in 1927.
In 1924, Oparin officially put forward his influential theory that life on Earth developed through gradual chemical evolution of carbon-based molecules in a "primordial soup", at just about the same time as the British biologist J. B. S. Haldane was independently proposing a similar theory. As early as 1922, at a meeting of the Russian Botanical Society, he had first introduced his concept of a primordial organism arising in a brew of already-formed organic compounds. He asserted the following tenets:
Oparin showed how organic chemicals in solution may spontaneously form droplets and layers, and outlined a way in which basic organic chemicals might form into microscopic localized systems (possible precursors of cells) from which primitive living things could develop. He suggested that different types of coacervates might have formed in the Earth's primordial ocean and, subsequently, been subject to a selection process, eventually leading to life.
He effectively extended Charles Darwin's theory of evolution backwards in time to explain how simple organic and inorganic materials might have combined into more complex organic compounds, which could then have formed primordial organisms. His proposal that life developed effectively by chance, through a progression from simple to complex self-duplicating organic compounds, initially met with strong opposition, but has since received experimental support (such as the famous 1953 experiments of Stanley Miller and Harold Urey at the University of Chicago), and has been accepted as a legitimate hypothesis by the scientific community.
In 1935, Oparin helped found the A. N. Bakh Institute of Biochemistry (part of the USSR Academy of Sciences). His definitive work, "The Origin of Life", was first published in 1936. He became a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1939, and a full member in 1946, and he served as director of the Institute of Biochemistry from 1946 until his death. In the 1940s and 1950s, he supported the pseudo-scientific theories of Trofim Lysenko and Olga Lepeshinskaya, seen by some as a cynical effort to "take the party line" and thereby to advance his own career.
Oparin organized the first international meeting on the origin of life in Moscow in 1957, which was to be followed by other meetings in 1963 and in 1970. He was nominated as a Hero of Socialist Labour in 1969 and, the next year, was elected President of the International Society for the Study of the Origins of Life. He received the Lenin Prize in 1974 and the Lomonosov Gold Medal in 1979 "for outstanding achievements in biochemistry". He was also awarded five Orders of Lenin, the highest decoration bestowed by the Soviet Union.
Oparin died on 21 April 1980 in Moscow, and was interred in Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.
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MAY 29 [1877]. Went to London Library (12 St. James's Square). A meeting of members was being held up-stairs . . . I stood by the door while Gladstone was speaking near the fire place. Gladstone, a dusky-complexioned spare middle-sized man, with grey hair, thin and straggling; eyes very black and rather bright; earnest expression; with a sort of approach to a slouch in his manner and bearing. He spoke fluently but not at all rapidly; sentences rather winding and long drawn out like honey you must twist the spoon to break off. When he had spoken, an old benevolent looking aquiline-nosed stooping man (the Archbishop of Dublin) made a few remarks, in the course of which, Gladstone quietly took his hat and sloped out stealing close by me to the door. — Alfred Domett, Diary, 227
Gladstone: Four times British Prime Minister, grand old man of the liberal party, scholar, financier, theologian, orator, humanitarian, and thorn in the side of Benjamin Disraeli, who, when asked to define the difference between a misfortune and a calamity, replied, "If Mr. Gladstone were to fall into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out, it would be a calamity." — Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, 140
- Biography
- A Gladstone Chronology
- Gladstone — the right man at the right time in British history
- Gladstone's rescue work with 'fallen women'
- Government of Ireland Bill, 1886
- Accomplishments of the Administration, 1871
- "Robert Elsmere and the battle of belief" — Gladstone's review of Ward's novel
- Gladstone's letter of proposal to Catherine Glynne
Portraits of Gladstone: Monuments, Paintings, Caricature
- The Right Honourable W. E. Gladstone (painting by J. E. Millias)
- Gladstone (bust by J. Acton-Adams)
- Gladstone memorial (full-length bronze by W. H. Thornycroft, London)
- Gladstone (full-length bronze by W. H. Thornycroft, Glasgow)
- Gladstone (full-length marble by T. Brock, Westminster Abbey)
- Gladstone (full-length bronze by T. Brock, Liverpool)
- Gladstone (bust by E. Onslow Ford, Lady Lever Art Gallery)
- Gladstone (bust by H. C. Fehr, Hotel Russell, London)
- Gladstone (medal by A. Legros)
- Gladstone (bust by T. Woolner)
- Rt Hon. William Ewart Gladstone (photograph by Mayall)
- Punch caricatures
Recommended Reading
Feuchtwanger, EJ. Gladstone. London, 1989.
Magnus, P. Gladstone: a biography. London, John Murray, 1954.
Matthew, HCG. Gladstone 1809-1898. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1996.
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chaise longue
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a couchlike chair with a back support and a seat long enough to support outstretched legs
Origin of chaise longueFr, literally , long chair
chaise longue
or chaise lounge
nounpl. chaise longues, or chaises longues or chaise lounges
A usually upholstered reclining chair with a long seat that supports the outstretched legs.
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- A reclining chair with a long seat, which can support the outstretched legs of a sitter normally with one armrest.
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The East Lindsey Branch of the federation of small businesses welcomes local businesses to attend its fifth free Business and Networking Fair at Kenwick Park Hotel on Wednesday, September 25 at 6.30pm.
The event features stands from various government and authority bodies including UK Trade and Industry, Growth Accelerator and MAS, East Lindsey District Council, Lindsey & Coastal Action Zones, Lincoln University Business and Innovation support and NBV.
There will also be FSB service provider and member stands.
Neil Sharpley, local FSB branch chair said: "this is an excellent opportunity for local business people to access a lot of grant, support and general business information in one place at one time, as well as to network with others and promote their own businesses.
"We hope for a record turnout as the County starts to move forward in terms of economic activity after the last five years of stagnation."
For further information contact Neil Sharpley on 01507 606371 or email email@example.com.
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|Oracle® Fusion Middleware Developer's Guide for Oracle SOA Suite
11g Release 1 (22.214.171.124.0)
Part Number E10224-09
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This chapter describes how to use multiple part (multipart) messages with the Oracle Mediator service component.
This chapter includes the following sections:
Section 20.1, "Introduction to Oracle Mediator Multipart Message Support"
Oracle Mediator includes support for importing multipart WSDL files in the Mediator Editor.
Oracle Mediator supports working with multipart source and target messages, which include multipart filter expression building, multipart schema validation, and transformations between multipart source and target messages for requests, replies, faults, and callbacks.
The Mediator Editor with a multipart source appears as shown in Figure 20-1.
Figure 20-1 Mediator Editor for a Multipart Source
This section describes how to work with different types of multipart messages.
This section describes multipart request messages.
If you specify a filter expression for a multipart message, then the Expression Builder displays all message parts under the in variable, as shown in Figure 20-2:
Figure 20-2 Expression Builder for a Multipart Request Source
If you add a validation for a multiple part message, then the Add Validation dialog displays a list of parts from which you can choose one part, as shown in Figure 20-3. You specify a Schematron file for each request message part. Oracle Mediator then processes the Schematron files for the parts.
Figure 20-3 Add Validation Dialog for a Multipart Request Source
If you create a new mapper file for a multipart message, then the generated mapper file shows multiple source parts in the XSLT Mapper, as shown in Figure 20-4:
Figure 20-4 XSLT Mapper for a Multipart Request Source
If you assign values using a source expression, then the Expression Builder shows an in variable for each message part. This is the same as specifying filter expressions.
The method to create transformations and assign values to multipart reply, fault, and callback source messages is the same as working with request source messages.
Note:You cannot specify filter expressions or add validations for reply, fault, and callback messages.
If a routing target (that is, a request, reply, fault, or callback) has a multipart message, then the transformation is handled in a slightly different way. This is because the XSLT Mapper does not support multipart targets. In such a case, the Oracle Mediator creates and coordinates a separate mapper file for each target part, as shown in Figure 20-5:
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Nick lost his wife on The Young and the Restless.
It was a rough year for Nick, who lost both his son and his wife within a matter of months. Surrounded by friends and family at Sage's memorial service, Nick was forced to say a final, tearful goodbye.
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Company Website: sedeair
Personal Link: http://www.sedeair.com
Shenzhen Deere technology co., LTD. Was established in 2009, the number of employees 150 people, plant area of 1500 square meters. With rich production experience, strong technical force, perfect management. With advanced equipment; Carved CNC cutting machine, automatic screen printing machine, UV oven, automatic tablet back plating machine, automatic laminating machine, automatic ultrasonic cleaning machine, etc. Is (acrylic), PET, PC, PMMA composite board professional manufacturers.
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I've been waiting for the right moment to get a modelled photo of K wearing his new pants. But it has been rain, rain, rain here so I'll catch up with this a little down the track, and also when it is not so warm here. There there hasn't been much opportunity to wear long pants (and we have been spending alot of time at home too).
The suspenders won me over for this pattern - The Henry Pants by Brownie-Goose but in the end I left them off. They aren't really Mr K's style.
The welted pocket though is a LOVE! It was so easy to do and adds a professional-looking touch. Great for the boys.There is a flare down the bottom of the pants but once on it doesn't look so extreme. All in all these were easy to sew but next time I think I'll add a fake fly to the front. I made the size five but next time I might make a size six and shorten the length.
There is a pocket down near the bottom hem.
The back view
I'll be back with other photos showing them in action a little down the track.
Pattern: Brown-Goose Henry Pants
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the new windows-installer hydrogen0.9.6_snapshot-1 is out.
available on our source forge download page http://sourceforge.net/projects/hydrogen/files/.
this hydrogen win32 version comes with:
* Support for the Low-Latency-Jack-Audio-Soundserver which can use your sound-card asio drivers
* Portaudio ( default audio driver )
* Portmidi ( midi driver )
* ladspa support (the installer included ~90 ladspa plugins)
* export audio to wav, flac, ogg and aiff files
* export audio into single instrument tracks (e.g. to import separate tracks into a cubase session )
* export to midi file
* export drumkits to *.h2drumkit libraries. ( e.g. to share drumkits with friends )
* internet drumkit installer ( import drumkits direct from our source-forge drumkit sever )
* save and manage single pattern beside whole songs
* use rubberband to fit sample lengths to tempo and beats without pitch effect
* undo/redo for song- and pattern-editor
* sample-editor to modify and cut/fit sound samples
* director ( display a metronome and song position tags in a big window. simplify song orientation and works also as visual metronome )
* playlist function
* and and and
known bug:
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Meet Erik Regan, U-Haul Marketing Company President of the new U-Haul Company of Los Angeles South
Mar 13, 2014, 19:04 ET from U-Haul
LOS ANGELES, March 13, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Erik Regan's "can-do" attitude and fun spirit helped steer him to his recent promotion: marketing company president (MCP) of the new U-Haul Company of Los Angeles South. Regan is looking forward to working with many of the long-time team members in his marketing company. With almost nine years of U-Haul service himself, Regan knows he has a great team in place to do their part in bringing success to the company.
Regan began his U-Haul career in August 2005 as a customer service representative (CSR) for U-Haul Moving and Storage of Santa Rosa. In November, he was promoted to assistant general manager (GM), and then GM in January 2008. Regan also served as GM at U-Haul Moving and Storage of Point Loma before being promoted to area field manager (AFM) for U-Haul Company of San Diego in February 2011, the position he held until his recent promotion. As marketing company president of U-Haul Company of Los Angeles South, Regan will oversee all operations including truck, trailer and storage rentals.
"Even though this is a new company within the U-Haul organization," Regan explained, "I believe we have a strong management team in place. I look forward to building on current strengths and finding ways to expand and grow this new company."
Regan's can-do attitude means he will be looking for many different ways to expand the company – specifically by increasing dealer presence in the south Los Angeles area. He puts much emphasis on making sure that U-Haul customers are taken care of. With a long list of things he would like to achieve, Regan is thrilled about working on new projects and challenges.
When asked what he most wants people to know about him, Regan said, "I enjoy my job and I want my team to enjoy coming to work every day while having positive impacts on our customers' lives."
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Ricky Ho [mailto:email@example.com] > Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 9:12 AM > To: Assaf Arkin; firstname.lastname@example.com > Subject: RE: RM and Intermediaries > > > Regarding the difficulty in setting "retry-timeout" value not only exist > when multi-protocol segments are involved. Even when all intermediaries > are talking the same transport protocol, there is an intermediary > processing step involve, how long it takes is always unpredictable. > > Lets go back to (A->X->Y->B) ... > > 1) Are the intermediary processing (e.g. at X and Y) required to be > idempotent ? (I haven't seen duplication elimination at the intermediary > level being mentioned in Assaf and David's mail). Does the > point-to-point > ACK have the same "5-level" of RM sophistication as David > describe earlier ? We need to distinguish between two types of intermediatries. Stateless intermediaries who just forward the message. If X is a stateless intermediary then X does not ack, B and possibly Y before B would. You can decide to send through X and resend through Z. Stateful intermediaries (in effect queues) both forward and ack (node-to-node ack, not end-to-end ack). If they give you the same level of reliability (e.g. by persisting) then you don't need to resend (since they will eventually deliver = send to the next node). But you can resend and again you can send through X and resend through Z. Whichever way you get the ack form B does not matter, but B will have to eliminate duplicate messages. That is why in RM you send a message only once but you may receive multiple times. Because from sending to receiving you can use multiple paths alternatively, but even in parallel (sending through X and Z at the same time is acceptable). You can get level 4 reliability between A and B even if A-X only does level 1, X-Y only does level 0 and Y->B have no RM whatsoever. > 2) If A doesn't get an end-to-end ACK from B. In its retry, can A pick a > different path (A->M->N->B) when resend ? (Point-to-point > ACK/NACK helps A > here to provide information about fail nodes so that A can quickly choose > how to bypass the failure node, again another performance optimization) Yes. The specification talks about A->B (end-to-end) so whatever happens inbetween needs to conform to that, and the only way it can conform is if you can elect to use different paths. And because duplicate messages are eliminated you can use multiple paths at the same time. > 3) If a different path in RM is allowed, then just intermediary level > duplicate detection cannot provide "at-most-once" semantics for the > intermediary processing. Does this mean the intermediary > processing has to > be idempotent ? If the same message is sent twice through the same intermediary the intermediary may choose to eliminate the duplicate, or forward the duplicate, and may by itself introduce duplicates (by resending). If idempotent means the intermediary forwards the same message only once then no, the intermediary does not have to be idempotent. It may forward the message as many times as it wants on its own accord. If idempotent means the intermediary forwards the message as if it has never seen if before then no, the intermediary does not have to be idempotent. The intermediary may detect duplications and forward a message only once (e.g. if it received an ack at the same time as it was asked to retransmit). > 4) If the intermediary processing is NOT idempotent, does it mean a > co-ordination protocol is required to guarantee the atomicity of > intermediary processing and end-point processing ? It is the responsibility of the end node to deliver at-most-once, so you don't need a coordination protocol to make sure the message is forwarded only once. Though, you may want an RM or coordination protocol to determine if the intermediary will attempt to forward the message. For example, X and Y could be queues and they could use transactional protocols to get message from A to X, X to Y, and Y to B, but in different transactions, hence allowing for time independence of send and deliver. arkin > > Best regards, > Ricky > > At 05:06 PM 1/25/2003 -0800, Assaf Arkin wrote: > > >How about message encapsulation? > > > >If service A sends a message to service B through intermediaries X and Y > >(A->X->Y->B), then service A is only interested in getting an ack from > >service B (end-to-end). > > > >However, the RM at A may be interested in getting an ack from X, > and the RM > >at X may be interested in getting an ack from Y. In that way if A > >successfully delivers to X, then A gets one ack from X, does not > attempt to > >resend and waits for ack from B. > > > >If X successfully delivers to Y then X gets an ack from Y but never waits > >for anything else. (For X, the ack coming back from B is a > different message > >that needs to be acknowledged in its own right). > > > >If Y successfully delivers to B then Y gets an ack for that > delivery, which > >means it can stop resending to B. The ack the B sends to A is a different > >message (as far as Y is concerned), and may go directly to A or > travel back > >through Y->X with acks going back from A->X->Y->B to confirm delivery of > >ack. > > > >Whether A->X->Y->B do that is dependent on the protocol they use. Whether > >A->B do acks is dependent on the use of a WS RM. > > > >A may talk to X using HTTP and not require any protocol-level ack. X may > >talk to Y using UDP and may require protocol-level ack. X may talk to Y > >using some MOM and have absolutely no clue whether the MOM does > or does not > >use ack. Some implementations have different ways of doing acks without > >sending ack messages at all (e.g. a reliable multicast may send nacks and > >piggyback acks into data packets). > > > >However, at its discretion X may decide to wrap the message sent > by A into a > >larger message and then use WS RM to send that message to Y > getting a WS RM > >ack from Y for the message sent by X, indicating successful > delivery from X > >to Y (in effect encapsulating one message inside another). Y > then extracts > >the underlying message, wraps it again and delivers to B. > > > >I think that is consistent with what David has been saying, it > just proposes > >multiple strategies for protocol-level acks that do not change > the semantics > >of the WS ack. It also highlights that using the reverse path is > optional. > > > >You could have a path A->X->Y->B and reverse path for the ack B->Z->A. > >However, if X gives you some feature you want to retain for all messages > >(e.g. validating the certificate) you would want to include X in > the reverse > >path. In that case you will need some header to indicate which > nodes should > >be part of the reverse path (e.g. WS-Routing). > > > >arkin > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: firstname.lastname@example.com [mailto:email@example.com]On > > > Behalf Of Ugo Corda > > > Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 4:50 PM > > > To: Ricky Ho; email@example.com > > > Subject: RE: RM and Intermediaries > > > > > > > > > > > > Last month I raised a similar issue, and I got an extensive > > > response from David Burdett at [1], which you might want to look at. > > > > > > Ugo > > > > > > [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-ws-arch/2002Dec/0095.html > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Ricky Ho [mailto:email@example.com] > > > > Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 7:50 AM > > > > To: email@example.com > > > > Subject: RM and Intermediaries > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Lets say S is the sender endpoint, R is the receiver > > > > endpoint, and i1, i2 > > > > are intermediaries that pre-process the message. > > > > > > > > S --> i1 --> i2 --> R > > > > > > > > Do i1 and i2 have to understand RM ? or RM is just an end-to-end > > > > handshaking between S and R ? If so, can S pick a different > > > > path in its > > > > message resend ? > > > > > > > > Rgds, Ricky > > > > > > > >Received on Sunday, 26 January 2003 17:13:01 UTC
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Planet Ill Chats With The Sports Guy…About Everything. (@sportsguy33)April 30, 2010
If you like sports then you probably know who Bill SImmons is. He's the "Sports Guy" and his exploits can be read on ESPN, in his bestseller books, and on radio. Simmons, a Bostonian and Red Sox homer is not only a champion of all sports New England (Patriots, Celtics, Bruins, Sox) but the proud owner of *gasp* LA Clippers season tickets.
Simmons is known to go off on just about any topic, sports related and his use of pop culture to mix with sports is second to none. We were able to catch up with Simmons at ESPN The Magazine's NFL 2010 Pre Draft Party last week and were able to go all over the place with questions as he was very gracious with his time. We talked bad GM mistakes, the Dallas Mavericks, Lebron James, his new book, NBA Coaches Don Nelson and Phil Jackson, his frustration with Kobe Bryant as a player, and of course, the beloved Red Sox.
Mr. Simmons rarely speaks with outlets outside of ESPN so it's an honor and a privilege that we got to chop it up and for so long. Hope you all enjoy the video. Bill Simmons. Planet Ill. Let's go.
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2011 NFL Draft: Cameron Heyward Could Solidify the Patriots' Front SevenApril 23, 2011
The New England Patriots have all the right pieces to build a strong defense in the upcoming years with players like Vince Wilfork, Jerod Mayo and Devin McCourty.
During the Patriots dynasty years, their defensive front seven was their strong point on defense, and they have the potential to regain the lost strength.
By just glancing at New England's defensive line, which is anchored by Wilfork, they are just one player away from having a terrifying defensive line—assuming Ty Warren will be healthy entering the 2011 season after suffering a season ending hip injury 2010.
That one player that New England could look for at the end of the first round in the 2011 NFL draft this next week is Ohio State's defensive end Cameron Heyward.
Cameron Heyward is one of the most underrated defensive ends in the 2011 draft class. He is very athletic, powerful and explosive off of the ball.
Heyward has been overshadowed by other defensive ends like Cameron Jordan, J.J. Watt, and Aldon Smith for mid-first round selections. It's almost like he's under the radar, but he's certainly on New England's radar.
At the snap of the ball, Heyward uses his hands very well to engage into the blocker and has a very violent punch to incorporate in his bull rush.
Due to his very acceptable leverage, Heyward, at times, is unblockable and can require a double team.
Heyward is a very well-rounded defender: he's a decent pass rusher—very good at deflecting passes—and he is stout against the run and can clog holes and gets off blockers very well.
He was very productive at Ohio State in the Big Ten as he was selected to the All-Big Ten first team in 2010. Heyward played four seasons at Ohio State, and put up some nice numbers. He recorded a career total of 163 tackles, 37.5 tackles for a loss, and 14.5 sacks—pretty respectable.
Heyward's only major glare is that he can be inconsistent. Some games, it's almost like he's not there. But then there are some games when he simply dominants—he needs to find a happy median.
His lone pass rush move is the bull rush; he needs to expand his aresenal of moves in order to excel at the next level.
When you look at Heyward's natural talent and how he's physically gifted (6'5" 294 lbs.), you may say he's an underachiever.
Assuming that New England will stay put at 28th overall, which is unlikley, Heyward could be a quality, smart selection.
He's got a lot of potential due to his freakish size and athleticism—Heyward is someone Bill Belichick couldn't pass on.
Heyward would be an ideal fit in New England's 3-4 defensive line, as he'd be inserted opposite of Warren and alongside Wilfork—New England's defensive line would escalate their strength.
This article was first seen at PatriotsPlus.net. Be sure to follow Tony Santorsa on Twitter @ TonySantorsa.


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Originally posted on Vikings Digital Diaries | Last updated 3/13/13
In what has been a busy week for the Minnesota Vikings, one noteworthy item has more or less slid unnoticed under the table. This item is a hard one to discuss, but Purple Jesus Diaries holds steadfast to our journalistic integrity and understand we must report this to you. And so today, we are prepared to share that our inside sources have indicated the Minnesota Vikings have resorted to physical violence when dealing with their star players this offseason. Namely, they've recently been known to physically assault their star running back and face of the franchise, Adrian Peterson, by repeatedly kicking him in the stomach. Most shocking? This isn't the first time. Purple Jesus Diaries has learned through trusted sources that the NFL franchise, Minnesota Vikings, has a long history of assaulting their star players. It apparently started during the 2011 off-season, after the NFL lockout, when the team allowed blossoming star wide receiver, and great friend to running back Adrian Peterson, walk into free agency. Rice ended up signing with the Seattle Seahawks on a free agent contract, dealing a devastating blow to the Vikings' running back, one so hurtful it was felt deep in his gut. Certainly, this was an act of violence, one that left lasting scars on Adrian Peterson. Clearly, he was devastated: But the assaults didn't stop then. Throughout Peterson's career, he has been subjugated to horrifying beatings that would kill most mortal men. The following list only scrapes the surface of some of the physical and mental injustice he's had to fight through: Surviving being coached by Brad Childress for four years Having to smile and call Naufahu Tahi a teammate Standing idly by as talented teammates like Sidney Rice and Percy Harvin were allowed to walk or were traded Being asked to play in meaningless games during a 3-13 season in which he almost suffered a career ending injury Forced into sharing a backfield with Donovan McNabb and Toby Gerhart Running plays to the left side of the field where his primary blocker is supposed to be Charlie Johnson Any other football player, or human for that matter, having to live through these affronts would crumble into a life altering depression. But somehow, Peterson has prevailed. He has picked himself up time and time again and put on a smile, pretending that nothing is wrong, that he fell down on the treadmill, that the wounds the public sees are his own fault, not the mark of a monster. But no more. With this latest affront, where the team kicked Peterson in the stomach - several times! - while simultaneously trading Percy Harvin to the Seattle Seahawks, is the last straw. To have the community stand by and not do anything to help Peterson is a crime itself. So I propose we save this gentle giant, this gift from God, and help him escape. Maybe to another team where he can play with coaches and players that smile, care, hug, and respect your body. Maybe back to Heaven where he belongs, sitting at the right hand of God. Either way, this man has taken too much abuse in his life, and we ask ... No, DEMAND ... that he be let free from his domestic bonds and escape the abuse of the team. FOR ADRIAN PETERSON! [follow]
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Topic: birthday (05/23/05)
TITLE: The Birthday Lady
Maud was a late-in-life child for her natural parents, they were more like her grand-parents than her parents, and when muscular dystrophy attacked Maud, in spite of their love for her, they were ill equipped, financially, mentally, physically or emotionally to provide for her many needs: Doctors, therapists, special equipment—it was all beyond them. They turned to that special resource: prayer. God heard their prayers and it wasn't long before Maud's mother's sister, Phyllis took Maud into her home.
Phyllis is a retired nurse and a widow; she is also an active and loving member of our church. As a caregiver Phyllis is always in the forefront for anyone in need. This example has surely not been wasted on Maud. Within her limitations she has become the favorite care visitor in our congregation. As a matter of fact Maud found her niche as "The Birthday Lady" because she felt so much compassion for others and did not dwell on her own malady.
Many of our congregation are elderly home bound, hospitalized or in assisted living homes. Before Maud became more home-bound herself she accompanied Phyllis on many of her caring visits, building endearing and enduring friendships with all she met. As the years went by Maud built quite a dossier on her incapacitated friends, she kept a card file on birthdays, favorite flowers, candy, fruits, stuffed animals, and other special interests
Another interest of Maud's was the computer, which she mastered to a superior degree. There's not much that Maud couldn't do on the computer; her specialty though was producing beautiful birthday cards. Maud just sort of slid into her new name," The Birthday Lady", her card file contained all the ammunition she needed to create a special card for that special person with all the special sentiments. Every day some member of the infirmed or home-bound receives one of "The Birthday Lady's" creations.
Our church publishes a monthly newsletter and it has a Thank You column. You can be sure that many parishioners give "The Birthday Lady" their thanks for her remembrances.
Maud wasn't just one of "Jerry's Kids", she was also one of Jesus' kids. Her birthday falls in December, not on the 25th, but we are not sure that Jesus' did either. About this time the national rage of WWJD was in full swing, and within her handicap Maud was living "What Would Jesus Do". Maud's MS had been inactive for several years, but recently she has required much more bed time than before. We don't know how much longer Maud will be with us, but two things are certain: She will have a mansion in God's kingdom and she will be our "Birthday Lady" as long as anyone remembers.
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Outdoor recliner seating provides wonderful views of Sarasota Bay in front of the cottage, and out the back sliding door a canal leads to the Bay. It's a nonstop nature show with pelicans and osprey diving for fish, dolphins swim by from time to time and fish jump throughout the day.
To get to beautiful Longboat Beach on the Gulf of Mexico side we have a deeded beach access path that is 0.4 miles away (a 10 minute walk, or a quick bike or drive) See Gulf Beach pics 17,18,19). All beach gear provided: chairs, mats, towels, umbrellas, beach wagon/cart for rolling supplies down access path to beach.
The cottage is attached to another unit - so it could be described as a townhouse. It is part of a small 8 unit (cottage/townhouse) condo association. It's at the end of a private road, so there is no traffic.
***Here's a Virtual Tour***
*Note - new pavers have since been added in front as seen in vrbo photos
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There are granite counters throughout (kitchen, bar, bathrooms), all the comforts of home, king-size master with en-suite bathroom - large bedroom windows open for ocean breeze. Second bedroom with very comfortable and new comfort top queen size bed... a queen size futon in living room area is stylish as a couch and folds down flat for extra bed.
Nearby restaurants are excellent - just a short walk to restaurants at the end of St.Judes Drive (or a short drive/bike ride for waterfront view restaurants). Bikes and Kayaks can be rented nearby.
One parking spot (but you can fit 2 cars nose to tail under carport).
We love to get away from it all and that's why we love Longboat Key. We chose this location because we fell in love with the view. We have done a lot of traveling and now we're finding it tough to go anywhere else. We enjoy coming here to breathe in the fresh ocean air and experience the local cuisine. The nature preserve/park (with boardwalks along the water) next door is a bonus. We love walking to the beach, biking on the trails and enjoying ocean sunsets and bay sunrises. The people on Longboat Key are warm, friendly and fun.
Colin Trethewey purchased this cottage in 2013
When you cross the bridge to Longboat Key you leave everything behind and enter a peaceful paradise. It's beautiful, quiet and peaceful here. Water out your back door (canal to Sarasota Bay) and front door (Sarasota Bay). Spectacular views of sunrises, sunsets, wildlife (birds, jumping fish and dolphins). A wonderful park is right next door with nature trails, boardwalks and water lookouts. The beach on the Gulf is at the end of our street - with a private access across Gulf of Mexico drive.
I recommend brewing a pot of coffee (ground coffee from Harry's on our street - which we will provide) and waking up to catch the most amazing sunrises one step out your front door. Longboat is wonderful for cycling and walking and great dining is available within walking distance or a 5 minute drive for waterfront dining options.
We are at the end of a private road that has virtually no traffic (just the 6 residents who live beyond us) Longboat is a peaceful place that you may never want to leave, but at the same, it's just a 10 minute drive from the popular St. Armand's Circle if you are looking for nightlife and great shopping... and Sarasota is about 15 minutes away. Historic Bridge Street with more great restaurants and waterfront views is 10 minutes north. So you have many options for relaxing and recharging your batteries and you have activities very close if you wish.
We enjoyed our stay very much. The view of Sarasota Bay was stunning. It was quiet and peaceful. The neighbors Tom and Brooke O'Malley were absolutely wonderful. The only regret we have is that our stay was not longer. Thank you Colin and Cyndi for letting us rent your cottage. Dave and Dianne
Whether you're looking for a quiet place to get off the grid or getting out and having some fun, this is a great location for it. My wife, youngest daughter, oldest daughter (who's in college now) and myself met up in Long Boat Key for a long weekend. First, the cottage (bay overlook) was fantastic and slept us all comfortably. It had all the amenities of home.
The location is also good for exploring Lido Key, Long Boat Key and Siesta Key.
We visited the beach access just a few blocks from the cottage then cooked out our first night and played cards, then spent the day at Siesta Key on Saturday -- with plenty of time to get back and clean up for a dinner out at the Salty Dog -- very good dockside seafood just a couple of miles south that was very reasonably priced and had a great vibe. We also got to do some shopping in and around Siesta Village, which was a very cool place.
In addition to beach-going, my wife and I really enjoyed taking a leisurely walk through the Durante Park and marshes footsteps from the cottage...and the amount of flora they had there.
There's a lot of other things - boat and jet ski rentals, etc. - that we didn't have time to do, but we'll definitely be back soon. It was a lot of fun and the living arrangements couldn't have been better!
My wife, 2 adult daughters and I spent 10 wonderful days here in mid May. Colin is a great owner. He met us at the cottage and took the time to make sure we knew where everything was in the cottage. He supplies almost everything you could ever want. Inside there are plenty of sheets, pillows, towels, pots, pans, utensils etc. Outside there are patio chairs and umbrellas, beach chairs and umbrellas, kayaks, bikes, etc.
We went kayaking twice. The second time we kayaked around the point early in the morning and saw several dolphins.
We especially liked sitting on the front patio under an umbrella reading a book or just looking out at the bay. It was pretty warm (about 90 degrees) every day, but the breeze off the bay made it feel great. The gulf side beach is about half a mile away. I ran to the beach, then along the beach, every morning. If you are a runner you will love it. We also walked or drove to the beach a few times for sunbathing and swimming. The water was the perfect temperature (not hot or cold, I'd estimate it to be about 80-82 degrees).
I also recommend Coquina Beach, which is only a few minutes drive away. It is a beautiful beach with plenty of free parking, restrooms, picnic tables. It looked a bit busy on the weekends but we went there during the week and it was empty. If you want to do a little Sarasota sightseeing I recommend the Ringling Museum, especially the circus museum and the $5 tour of the mansion. When you exit the mansion make sure to sit out on the waterfront patio under an umbrella. What a life!
Overall, it was a great vacation and I would highly recommend renting this cottage from Colin.
My husband and I spent two months in this adorable cottage and I loved it!
It is updated with fun decor and has a view of Sarasota Bay from the back door
and a view of a waterway with boats moving along from the front windows.
Also it has wonderful north light to paint if you steal part of the dining nook.
Efficient use of space in a very private neighborhood. Loved biking and walking the beach
every day and wish I'd had the nerve to kayak! Our only problem was that we are golfers
and our favorite courses were 35 minutes + away, often fighting traffic getting on and off LBK.
Just stay on the island with all those REAL restaurants, no franchises, and enjoy!
This house is a gem and was perfect for our needs. We wanted someplace quiet where we could explore both Bay and Gulf without having to drive. We also wanted to be near trees and other greenery, with plenty of wildlife. Having the Bay beach was great because there are little crustaceans and fish to find at the water's edge, as well as many different seabirds. The walk to the Gulf side beach was easy and made extra convenient by a beach cart with all the beach paraphernalia one could want. The bikes were excellent and the bike shop nearby provided inexpensive rentals for the kids. Durante Park is beautiful, as is the view over the Bay. The neighbors were so nice and made our stay that much better. Finally, the house itself is clean and comfortable. The website describes it very well. There were no unpleasant surprises and the owners were a pleasure to deal with. Highly recommended!
This place deserves five stars. Very clean,no musty odors or cleaning fluid odors for that matter. It,s small but very well layed out. Great bay access for canoe or kayak. Quiet neighborhood with no thru traffic. I recommend this place for nature lovers who don,t mind being four blocks from the beach.
Beautiful, quiet and peaceful. Water out your back door (canal to Sarasota Bay) and front door (Sarasota Bay). Spectacular views of sunrises, sunsets, wildlife (birds, jumping fish and dolphins). A wonderful park is right next door with nature trails, boardwalks and water lookouts. The beach on the Gulf is at the end of our street - with a private access across Gulf of Mexico drive. Longboat is a peaceful place that you may never want to leave, but, it's just a 10 minute drive of the famous St. Armand's Circle if you are looking for nightlife and great shopping... and Sarasota is about 15 minutes away.
I recommend brewing a pot of coffee (ground coffee from Harry's on our street - which we will provide) and waking up to catch the most amazing sunrises one step out your front door. Longboat is wonderful for cycling and walking and great dining is available within walking distance or a 5 minute drive for waterfront dining options.
Carport parking and additional parking in front of cottage.
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