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Bottoms up for Red Sox in win over OriolesBy MIKE SHALIN
The Sports Xchange
April 19. 2014 8:07PM
BOSTON - The bottom of Boston's lineup came through in a big way in the seventh inning to lead the Red Sox to a 4-2 victory over the Baltimore Orioles on Saturday.
Third baseman Brock Holt, the No. 7 hitter summoned from Triple-A Pawtucket on Friday, broke a 2-2 tie with an RBI triple and infielder Jonathan Herrera followed with a successful safety squeeze.
The Red Sox, in last place in the AL East coming in, won for the third time in their last four games.
The hit made a loser of Baltimore starter Bud Norris (0-2) and gave the win to reliever Junichi Tazawa (1-0). Tazawa had replaced starter Felix Doubront with two out in the top of the seventh and got four straight outs before Koji Uehara picked up his fourth save as Boston improved to 8-10.
It was Uehara's 27th straight save conversion, counting postseason, dating back to last year. He issued his first walk of the season to start the ninth, but then struck out three straight to end the game.
The triple was Holt's second hit of the game, his fourth in the two games since his recall.
Designated hitter David Ortiz hit a solo homer (his third of the season) for the Red Sox, while left fielder Nelson Cruz had a pair of RBI singles for Baltimore (8-8). Cruz's second RBI hit, which tied the game in the sixth inning, came after his manager, Buck Showalter, successfully challenged a call at first base.
Ortiz and second baseman Dustin Pedroia also had two hits each for Boston, while right fielder Nick Markakis had a pair of hits for the Orioles.
In his first start against the Orioles, in the opening series, Doubront, who won that game, threw 33 pitches over the first three innings. Saturday, he threw 33 in a rocky first that saw him strike out three but also give up a run. But he then threw only 34 pitches in retiring 12 straight batters over the next four innings.
Markakis opened the sixth with his second single. But Doubront got a double play before a close two-strike pitch to outfielder Adam Jones did not go the pitcher's way. Jones doubled and stole third before Davis was hit by a pitch.
Cruz then hit a grounder to deep third and appeared to beat Holt's throw. Umpire Ted Barrett called Cruz out, Showalter came out (the review took just 49 seconds) and Cruz had his second RBI hit of the game.
An error by Holt loaded the bases but shortstop J.J. Hardy flied to center to drop to 0-for-3 on the day, 3-for-21 against Doubront.
With one out in the bottom of the first, second baseman Dustin Pedroia walked and rode to third when Ortiz singled off the wall in left field. First baseman Mike Napoli then hit what looked like a double-play grounder to third baseman Jonathan Schoop, who made his third error of his rookie season.
A discussion between the game's catchers - after Boston catcher David Ross was buzzed up and in on a bunt attempt in the seventh - led to the benches (not the bullpens) emptying. Nothing came of it except Showalter in a spirited discussion with plate umpire Mark Carlson.
Ross struck out but Holt then came through.
NOTES: Baltimore RF Nick Markakis went 2-for-3 with a walk against LHP Felix Doubront and is 8-for-16 lifetime against him. ... ESPN grabbing Sunday's game between the teams created a 7 p.m. ET start prior to Monday morning's Patriots' Day game at 11. ... RHP Ubaldo Jimenez takes an 0-3 record and 7.31 ERA to the mound for the Orioles Sunday night, while RHP Jake Peavy, 0-0 despite a 1.93 ERA, pitches for Boston. Jimenez is 1-3 with a 10.27 ERA in five lifetime starts against Boston and was shelled in his only Fenway Park start. .


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Federal offices in DC to close due to winter storm
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government says its offices in the Washington area will be closed Monday due to the winter storm moving into the Mid-Atlantic states.
The Office of Personnel Management says non-emergency personnel in and around Washington are granted excused absences for the day. Emergency employees and telework-ready employees are expected to follow agency policies.
A winter storm warning is in effect for the Washington area from midnight through 6 p.m. Monday. The National Weather Service is predicting 6 to 10 inches of snow is possible. Forecasters say rain will change to freezing rain and sleet overnight. Then heavy snow will fall through Monday.
The federal government's closure will keep tens of thousands of commuters off the roads and rails.
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Dr. Koo always treats me like a member of his family. When i was being worked up for Lasik and they discovered my corneas were thinner than they had originally measured, he sat me down and said, "If you were my daughter I wouldn't do the surgery on you. It's simply too risky" His associate, Dr. Chern, is also very kind and caring. Amy who does the scheduling knows the constraints of my work schedule and always works extra hard to fit me in. And lastly, one of the other optometrists (whose name escapes me at the moment) went absolutely above and beyond the call of duty. I traveled to Mexico and did not bring an extra set of contacts. When I lost one she overnighted a pair to me so that my vacation wouldn't be ruined. That to me was the most impressive thing any one has ever done for me. I highly recommend Dr. Koo and his team and will never go to another ophthalmology office again.
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Manchester CrimeWatch: City teens arrested for stealing wire from McIntyre Ski Area
September 17. 2013 10:08PM
MANCHESTER — Two teens were arraigned Tuesday in Circuit Court-Manchester District Division on felony charges stemming from the theft of wire from the McIntyre Ski Area.
Xavier Cintron, 18, of 24 Hamblet St., could enter no plea in Circuit Court to felony charges of theft by unauthorized taking, criminal mischief and falsifying physical evidence, so a probable cause hearing was set for Oct. 1.
Cintron had been scheduled to enter a plea Tuesday to an operating after suspension charge, but that will now be addressed Oct. 1.
Police prosecutor Carrissa Pelletier sought $25,000 cash/surety bail for Cintron, who is under the umbrella of a six-month sentence, suspended for two years of good behavior, on a June drug possession conviction.
Judge Gregory Michael set bail for Cintron at $10,000 cash/surety, with conditions barring contact with several other people, including Sara Debonis, 18, of 44 Notre Dame Ave.
Debonis could enter no plea to a felony charge of criminal liability to theft by unauthorized taking, in connection with the ski area theft of wire valued at about $1,500.
Pelletier sought $5,000 cash/surety bail for Debonis, but because she has no prior convictions, Michael set her bail at $2,500 cash/surety.
A probable cause hearing on the criminal liability charge was set for Oct. 1.
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William Fortin, 25, of 58 Orchard Hill Road, Weare, was arrested Monday evening in the parking lot of Rite Aid, 1631 Elm St., after street crime unit officers approached Fortin's vehicle and saw what they said was an illegal drug transaction in progress.
Police said Fortin currency, an open prescription bottle with a plastic baggy and 20 oxycodone pills in his lap. He also had in his possession two suboxone films, to put under the tongue, and one pill.
A police prosecutor requested $7,500 cash/surety bail for Fortin, who asked for a break on bail, saying he is unemployed. He also told Judge Gregory Michael: "I've never had any criminal priors."Michael set bail at $1,500 cash/surety, with conditions that include no contact with Wayne Graham, 31, of 40 Cartier St., who was arrested with Fortin.
Graham, who could enter no plea to a felony charge of possession of a controlled drug, allegedly had a percocet pill and $30 at his feet in the car.
A police prosecutor requested $1,500 cash/surety bail for Graham, but Graham, who works full time, said: "This is my first offense."
Michael declined to set personal recognizance bail, but reduced the amount to $1,000 cash/surety, with conditions that include no contact with Fortin. A probable cause hearing was set for Oct. 1.
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Because she was out on bail on a simple assault charge involving her brother, Kyle, 23, with bail conditions barring her from his and her former residence at 131 Parker St., she was charged with stalking for going to the Parker Street address twice, once while police officers were there.
Berlinguette complained that because her brother is in jail, and wouldn't be at the Parker Street address, she assumed she could go there. Besides, she said, her brother is dropping the charges. But it is the state that brings charges and Berlinguette is scheduled for trial on the assault charge Oct. 7.
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Boehner could face rocky vote for speakership amid Republican angst
John Boehner could be in for a fight Thursday when the newly seated House votes for the next speaker, with conservatives grumbling about his leadership and a report surfacing about a supposed plan to challenge him.
The 11-term congressman, who's endured his share of political turbulence, presumably enters the election with the upper hand. So far, a single viable Republican challenger has not emerged and the rules of the vote tend to work in Boehner's favor.
But Boehner's potential troubles were compounded by a late-night flare up with outraged Northeast lawmakers over a decision by the speaker to postpone a vote on an aid package for Superstorm Sandy victims.
For the near term, the speaker appears to have weathered those complaints, assuring members in a closed-door meeting Wednesday afternoon they will vote by Jan. 15. Rep. Michael Grimm, R-N.Y., who initially described the postponement as a "betrayal" and threatened to abstain from voting for Boehner, said after the meeting he would back Boehner.
Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., who earlier lashed out at the GOP leadership in a string of interviews and remarks, said the same.
But a spate of other flare-ups over the past several days and weeks among House Republicans has stoked threats about resistance -- or at least some drama -- Thursday. Conservatives were already miffed that Boehner, early on in talks over the fiscal crisis, had agreed to new revenue. Boehner suffered another blow two weeks ago when his "Plan B" fiscal bill failed to garner enough Republican backers. But the final fiscal-crisis bill, which arrived from the Senate early Tuesday morning, ultimately garnered thin support from the GOP ranks. While Boehner and 84 other Republicans voted for it, 151 Republicans opposed it -- more Democrats than Republicans voted for the bill.
Amid the angst, a draft plan was supposedly circulating on Capitol Hill laying out a possible path for challenging Boehner. Ron Meyer, press secretary for the anti-Boehner group American Majority Action, told FoxNews.com that the document is legitimate, though he wasn't sure who started circulating it.
"I've talked to members who've seen it," he said.
A copy of the supposed plan posted by Breitbart.com lays out a two-stage process for challenging Boehner. First, it calls for somebody coming forward to urge a vote by secret ballot -- which would allow members to vote without fear of retaliation. Then, the document suggests, challengers could emerge.
The process for the vote is a bit complicated. For the time being, the only candidates for nomination would be Boehner and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi.
The only way for someone to win the speakership is to win a majority (more than 50 percent) of all votes cast. If everybody votes, that means the winner must ultimately attract 218 votes. There are 234 Republicans in the new Congress, but if Boehner loses 17 of them, it's enough to kick the vote to a second ballot -- something that hasn't happened since 1923.
Pelosi could conceivably win the speakership, but only if Republicans cross over to vote for her or if enough Republicans actually abstain from voting. More likely, if there are enough defections, is that the vote would move into multiple rounds of ballots, with anti-Boehner conservative members basically trying to drum up a viable Republican challenger to Boehner on the spot.
Some on Capitol Hill, in both parties, were stoking the idea Wednesday that there was a rift emerging in the GOP leadership.
King claimed that Boehner and House Republican Leader Eric Cantor, who opposed the fiscal package Tuesday, were not on speaking terms. He said Cantor, who apparently had been pushing for a vote on the Sandy aid bill, did not find out about Boehner's decision to scratch it until Boehner's staff informed Republican lawmakers, who then told Cantor.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie also repeatedly referenced "palace intrigue" among the House GOP leadership, during a press conference Wednesday blasting Boehner over the Sandy bill delay.
Cantor's office voiced support for Boehner in a statement to Fox News.
"They remain in contact and have meetings together today. The majority leader supports the speaker," Cantor's office said in a statement.
FoxNews.com's Judson Berger and Fox News' Chad Pergram, Doug McKelway and Shannon Bream contributed to this report.


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The sharp workplace comedy "Price Check" is a you-are-there slip-and-slide that follows a supermarket chain's pricing department exec whose life gets upended by a whirlwind new boss.
Pete Cozy (Eric Mabius) would rather 9-to-5 it and spend time with his homemaker wife, Sara (Annie Parisse), and toddler son than climb the corporate ladder. But when live-wire — and uncensored toughie — Susan Felders (Parker Posey, flat-out terrific) swoops in from corporate to recharge the firm's ailing Long Island division, this not-quite "devil in Prada" promotes a reluctant Pete to be her trusty second.
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July 3, 2012 -- The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission tentatively approved proposed duck hunting dates for the 2012-2013 season at their July 2 meeting.
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The sea has played an important role in transportation and commerce throughout our nation's history. Unfortunately, dependence on water transportation inevitably resulted in shipwrecks, causing the death of sailors and passengers and the loss of cargo in the 18th and 19th centuries. New York Harbor provided a safe haven for vessels during bad weather. Its geographic location also was ideal for taking advantage of transatlantic, coastal, and inland trade. The colony of New York took action in 1764 to improve access to New York Harbor, already a busy and dangerous shipping area. It conducted a lottery and raised funds to build Sandy Hook Lighthouse. In 1789, the newly established federal government took over responsibility for constructing, operating, and maintaining lighthouses, buoys, markers, and other "aids to navigation" nationwide.
Traffic through the port of New York continued to increase, with hundreds of vessels entering and departing daily. By 1797, New York Harbor was the nation's leading port, surpassing both Boston and Philadelphia in both cargo and passenger traffic. After the Erie Canal opened in 1824, the volume of goods and the number of people passing through New York on the way to and from the nation's interior grew rapidly. New York also served as the distribution point for goods arriving from European and southern markets. More than a third of the world's foreign trade passed through the Narrows, the tidal strait connecting Upper New York Bay and Lower New York Bay.
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I liked this story because Arthur was going to be happy because the Teacher was moving in at Muffy's house. My favorite part was when the roof broke and the Teacher had to move in with Arthur.
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February 02. 2013 2:16PM
Derry voters will decide on proposed $800k increase in school budget
By ADAM SWIFT
Union Leader correspondent
DERRY – Voters at Saturday morning's school district deliberative session approved an amendment increasing the proposed 2013-14 budget by $800,000.
During the town election on Tuesday, March 12, residents will be voting on an $81,903,691 budget.
The amended budget was approved by a vote of 49-34.
Derry Education Association president Meg Morse-Barry made the motion to increase the budget, noting the adverse effect she believed the proposed trimming of 14 positions would have on the school district.
Those proposed cuts included 7.5 teaching positions, mainly in the unified arts departments. Superintendent Laura Nelson said those proposed cuts would not impact the services provided by the school district.
"Each of the programs impacted remain in the School Board guidelines for class size," said Nelson.
School Board member Ken Linehan noted that the cuts were not made lightly, and that the school board's goal was to abide by the mission to provide a quality education to all the district's students.
However, Barry said she couldn't believe that the district could continue with more cuts to its staff.
"I'm afraid that with all the cuts in the past we are now going to be turning the highest standards to just adequate standards," she said.
However, some residents against the proposed addition to the budget said they were not against education for children, but against increasing pay and benefits for employees.
"It's time for public employees to bite the bullet like everyone else," said Joseph DiChiaro. "It's not about the children, it's about salaries for the public employees."
The budget as originally presented by the School Board was a $1.3 million, or 1.65 percent, increase over the current school year budget.
Voters also approved the placement of two other articles on the town election warrant, one for a new three-year contract for educational assistants and the other which allows the district to maintain an unreserved fund balance.


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Title: Black Heart
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Cassel Sharpe knows he's been used as an assassin, but he's trying to put all that behind him. He's trying to be good, even though he grew up in a family of con artists and cheating comes as easily as breathing to him. He's trying to do the right thing, even though the girl he loves is inextricably connected with crime. And he's trying to convince himself that working for the Feds is smart, even though he's been raised to believe the government is the enemy.
But with a mother on the lam, the girl he loves about to take her place in the Mob, and new secrets coming to light, the line between what's right and what's wrong becomes increasingly blurred. When the Feds ask Cassel to do the one thing he said he would never do again, he needs to sort out what's a con and what's truth. In a dangerous game and with his life on the line, Cassel may have to make his biggest gamble yet—this time on love.
I am so sad that Cassel's adventures have come to an end. I have loved the Curse Workers from the beginning of the series to the end. Cassel is a great character because while he is sincere and open with his thoughts and feelings, I never know whether or not I'm being played. A consummate con artist, Cassel has been running scams since he could crawl. His entire family is comprised of criminals; none of them can let an easy mark go. Only Cassel is looking for a different future, one with a high school diploma and the freedom from being thrown in jail. Too bad the fates are conspiring against him. When all is said and done, even Cassel is incapable of leaving the life of cons and shysters behind him.
I think Black Heart was the best outing of the series to date. It kept me guessing, as Cassel attempts to keep himself out of trouble with the Feds, the deadly crime boss Zacharov, and a psychopathic governor. His real problem is that he just can't ignore a challenge. He just can't let go of his connections with the crime world, and he is too smart for his own good. His love for Lily, Zacharov's daughter, also guarantees that he'll have a complicated time whether he wants it or not. The victim of his mother's good intentions, Lily and Cassel are on the outs, and it seems as though they will never be able to reconcile their rocky relationship. Added to everything else, Cassel is still torn up with guilt over turning Lily into a cat. Yeah, I can see why this romance might not work out.
In the world of the curse workers, Cassel is the ultimate badass. He is a transformation worker, and he can turn anyone into anything. He is the perfect assassin. He is the perfect spy. Too bad he isn't interested in being someone else's weapon. Even though twisted, Cassel has a strict set of ethics. His brothers were able to get past this handicap by altering his memories. Stop for a moment and think about that. His brothers used him to commit murder, at their whim. I wish I could say that only his brothers used him for their personal gain. Cassel's mother exploited him, too. His family is so dysfunctional that it's a wonder he isn't more messed up than he already is. He doesn't even know if his memories are his own!
Cassel gets himself into all kinds of trouble, starting with the very poor decision to steal a gun from a hitman. If he could have only seen into the future, I bet that he would have left that gun right where it was. But no, he thinks that he's a Fed in training, and he has to show off. That's the funny thing about Cassel. He takes these stupid risks, he plays against the most outrageous odds, and most of the time, nobody is even aware of what he's done. Then later, when the poop hits the fan, he has put on his dancing shoes to get himself out of even more trouble that he has brought on himself by doing inadvisable. That's what I love about these books – little things build on each other, and before you know it, Cassel is up to his neck in trouble, mostly of his own making. Because he's trying to be a good guy instead of a bad guy. Maybe he should just stick with being a bad guy; at least he understands most of the rules when he's running a con.
I don't want to give any of the plot away, so I'll just urge you to take a chance on this series if you haven't already. Go check White Cat out from your local library. You won't be able to put it down! Then you will have to read Red Glove and Black Heart, so you might as well check them all out at the same time. Fans of mystery and suspense will eat these up. There's a great romance in these books, too. I love the world building and the concept that every curse worker has to pay a price for using their ability. Most of all I love the characters. They are flawed and likable at the same time, and after getting to know them so well, I will miss Cassel and crew.
Grade: A
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Bob Hastings Dead - 'McHale's Navy' Actor Dies at 89
Bob Hastings has passed away at the age of 89 following a fight with prostate cancer.
The actor was best known for his work on the hit sitcom McHale's Navy as Lt. Elroy Carpenter. He died on Monday (June 30) at his home in Burbank, Calif.
Other projects that Bob was well known for include All in the Family as the bar owner Kelsey, The Munsters as The Raven, and various roles on the series Dennis The Menace.
Most recently, Bob has done voiceover work for Batman: The Animated Series and The New Batman Adventures, as well as some Batman video games.
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INDIO A man was stabbed about 3 p.m. Sunday in the Sahara tent at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.Medical staff at the festival rushed the man to Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs with injuries that were not life-threatening.
The man, whose name and age were not released, spoke with detectives but said he did not want any charges filed, Indio police spokesman Ben Guitron said.
The victim and the other people involved are from Woodland Hills, Guitron said.
Police did not release further details and considered it an informational report only, not a criminal report.
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Chicago Teachers Strike 2012 Hits Latino Communities Hard
Thousands of teachers at Chicago's public schools took part in strike efforts earlier this week, after failing to reach an agreement with the school board over teacher evaluations as well as other issues.
The strike left hundreds of thousands of students without school, with nearly 44 percent of the students being Latinos, according to Fox News Latino.
The situation forced many Latino immigrant parents into choosing between leaving their children home alone, or trying to take days off work to stay back with their kids.
According to school officials, more than 140 schools remained open as contingency locations for parents to drop off their children. Churches also stepped up to help the city's children, and provided childcare centers and several "Safe Haven" sites.
Yaritza and Jasmine Rodríguez were two of the roughly 348,000 CPS students displaced by the strike. Their mom, Patricia Rodríguez, was forced to take them along to work with her.
"I'm lucky that I can take them to work with me because they can sit in the chairs, but I know that families had to leave kids home alone today or stay home and miss work to be with them and that's not fair," said Patricia Rodríguez, according to Fox News Latino.
"The teachers want more and more money and while they fight for that, it's us, the parents, that are spending money today that we don't have either. It's not a big thing today but what about tomorrow and next week if they don't go back?"
Rodríguez expressed anger at the affect the strikes were having on children. "To tell you the truth, I don't really know what the things are that the teachers are asking for right now. But what could be so important that they thought the best decision was to strike?"
Other parents also disapproved of the strike calling it "irresponsibility" of the teachers.
"There was no reason to do this when they just got situated. All the teachers should be let go for their irresponsibility to the children and their families," Rachelle Cirrintano said, according to the Chicago Tribune.


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A painter of portraits, still lifes and landscapes, Joy Thomas is proficient in watercolor, pastel and oil. Her paintings have been selected for many juried shows, including the historic Salmagundi Club and the National Arts Club of New York City where she has been honored with numerous awards. In 1996, Thomas received the First Place Prize for Portrait Painting from the American Society of Portrait Artists. In 1998, she traveled to Sydney, Australia to serve as guest lecturer/instructor and to accept the Honorary Lifetime Achievement and Membership award from the Australian Society of Portrait Artists.
Thomas won the first place prize "The Best Paintings of 2000" competition, sponsored by The Artist's Magazine, the winning painting was selected from among 13,800 entries and was featured in the December 2000 issue. Her career has been featured in American Artist magazine (Nov. 1996), The Artist's Magazine (April 1997), International Artist magazine (January 1999), in the books; The Best of Portrait Painting by North Light Books and in Portrait Highlights published by Watson-Gupthill. She is the author of the book, The Art of Portrait Drawing published by North Light Books, a division of F&W Publishing, in 2006.
Thomas has completed portrait commissions for leaders of business, government, academia and finance. In 2001, she was commissioned to paint the official portrait of the Secretary of the U.S. Navy, Richard Danzig, for the Pentagon. In 2004, she traveled to New York City to paint New York Jets owner, Robert Wood Johnson, philanthropist and heir to Johnson & Johnson pharmaceuticals. Joy Thomas recently completed the official portrait of the Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard; it was unveiled in 2006 in Washington D.C.
A fine arts major in college at Murray State University, she continued her training at the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts in Connecticut, The Loveland Academy of Fine Arts in Colorado and the Fechin Institute of New Mexico. Thomas received merit scholarships from the Pastel Society of America and the Scottsdale Gallery Association to study at the Woodstock School of Art in New York and the Scottsdale Artist's School in Arizona.
Joy Thomas has served as guest artist/instructor for the Minnesota River School of Fine Arts, the Loveland Academy of Fine Arts in Colorado, the Dallas Association of Creative Artists, the St. Louis Artist's Guild, the Cincinnati Art Club and the Australian Society of Portrait Artists in Sydney. Advertisements for her paintings have appeared in Southern Accents and Veranda magazines.
Ms. Thomas lives with her husband, Kentucky native Fredrick Thomas. They have three grown children and one grandchild. Fred Thomas designs and creates hand carved museum quality frames, specializing in gold and silver leafing.
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Round One at Bethpage resumed on a wet-but-playable course this morning.
Play began in driving rain on Thursday morning, but the accumulation of water all over Bethpage Black made the course unplayable by 10 a.m. or so. There was standing water all over the course, but the USGA brought in helicopters to help dry the course for play on Friday morning.
Their efforts worked and the 78 players who were on the course when play was halted on Thursday resumed their rounds around 7:30 a.m. The players who hadn't teed off on Thursday are set to get underway at 10 a.m., and they'll immediately start playing the second round when they complete their first 18 holes. There aren't tee times set for the players who were supposed to start play in the second round on Friday afternoon.
The biggest losers on Thursday are the fans who took the day off work or scheduled vacations to take in the day at Bethpage. The USGA will not refund or exchange their tickets for another day, simply because one player teed off on Thursday morning. It's tough spot to allow exchanges because there's a finite amount of space for spectators, but you'd think there'd be at least a partial refund considering it was only a partial round of golf.
As of 9:30 a.m., Graeme McDowell led the field at two under par through 14 holes. Ben Martin is one under thru eight holes and five players are at even par, including Justin Leonard.
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The SCISA state track championships were held last week, and the High School League's state meet will be held this weekend.
That makes it a good time to look back and ahead.
And something to definitely look back on was the performance by Pinewood Prep distance runner Maryah Nasir at the SCISA meet held at Porter-Gaud.
While Porter-Gaud junior Brent Demarest set a state record of 9 minutes, 43.92 seconds in the 3,200 meters en route to four gold medals, and teammate Travis Barnett heaved the discus a state record 151-9½, the top single-event performance arguably belonged to Nasir.
She set a state record of 11:15.86 in the 3,200, one of six national elite times and distances turned in at the event. It was the third fastest time in the state this year, regardless of classification.
The 3,200 was the most exciting race of the day as Nasir edged Heathwood Hall's Brook Grice, who also turned in a national elite time of 11:17.68.
Nasir also is a SCISA region champion in the 1,600 with a time of 5:15.8, which is fifth fastest in the state.
Perhaps the most amazing aspect of Nasir's performance is that she is in seventh grade.
Kate Niehuas of Spring Valley owns the overall state record in the 3,200, turning in a time of 10:47.75 in 2005.
If Nasir continues to work hard and stay injury free, the record could be hers by the time she graduates in 2018.
West Ashley, which won its first outright Region 7-AAAA baseball championship in school history, leads the way on the region all-star team.
Wildcats selected include Jonathan Sabo, David Allen, Taylor Oden and John Michael Gibbons. The Wildcats' Mitch Miggenburg is coach of the year.
Cane Bay and Wando both had three selections. The Cobras' selections include Austin Timm, B.J. Thompson and Blaine Peck. Wando's picks include Michael Carpin, Babe Thomas and Oliver Hill.
Chris Singleton and Cody Smith of Goose Creek, and Michael Punteney and J.D. Davis of Stratford round out the team.
Wando, which finished No. 2 in the state during the softball regular season, leads the way with four all-region picks: Danica Newton, Kayla Bannister, Emily Stafford and Brooke Gilbert.
West Ashley and Stratford both had three picks. The Wildcats' selections include Whitney Williams, Ashton Coker and Katie Stovall. Stratford's picks include Megan Johnson, Kali Rose and Jessica Palmer.
Traci Howell and Crista Natividad of Cane Bay, and Bailey Craven and Ashlyn Ryan of Goose Creek round out the team.
Bobby Marion of West Ashley is coach of the year.
Two Lowcountry football players — Stratford quarterback Jacob Park and Goose Creek tight end Kalan Ritchie — are among the 400 players nationwide who were nominated to play in the 2014 U.S. Army All-American Bowl.
The game is Jan. 4 at the Alamodome in San Antonio.
Other Palmetto State players nominated include: Kwamel Barnes, OL, Saluda; Kevin Crosby, LB, Bamberg-Ehrhardt; Shaquille Davidson, WR, Gaffney; Christian Miller, LB, Spring Valley; Jae'lon Oggelsby, RB, Daniel; Naquez Pringle, DL, Carvers Bay; Cannon Smith, TE, Hammond; Donnell Stanley, OL, Latta and Dexter Wideman, DL, Saluda.
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2012: Two-year-old Arcade Maniragarura plays with his mother, Domitile Nahimana, during a cooking session at the UNICEF-supported Positive Deviance site in the commune of Matongo, Kayanza province, northern Burundi. Credit: UNICEF Burundi/Pawel Krzysiek
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Two-year-old Arcade Maniragarura is one of many children affected by malnutrition in Burundi. Until May this year, Arcade, who has eight older siblings, was too weak to walk.
In Burundi, nearly 1 million children under age 5 are chronically malnourished. According to UNICEF figures, Burundi has the world's second-highest stunting rates after Afghanistan; half the country's children under age 5 suffer from stunting due to chronic nutritional deficiencies.
Food shortages in Burundi began when heavy rains at the end of 2011 damaged two successive harvests, affecting some 750,000 people. The deficit has made it difficult for mothers and children to access nutritious meals.
In response to this crisis, the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) allocated US$2 million to UN agencies, including UNICEF, in May 2012. The funds were used to help save the lives of 150,000 people, including 8,000 children under age 5.
"The CERF funding continues to help UNICEF in support of Government efforts, and contribute to reducing child death and illness among communities impacted by food insecurity," says UNICEF's Representative in Burundi, Johannes Wedenig.
With $535,000 from CERF, UNICEF launched a Community-Based Management of Acute Malnutrition project, which helped provide treatment and improve the health-care system. Before the project, the children in Arcade's village often had to wait several days to be treated for malnutrition at health centres. The tracking and referral system was very weak.
The project allows children without any medical complications to be treated at home with ready-to-use therapeutic foods, which provides the nutrients they need.
"When I first came to see the boy, he was very weak," said a community member who first screened Arcade for malnutrition. "Look at him now! He's the most active one in the group!"
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One of the most intriguing books about popular culture in a while went on sale last month. Richard Weight's Mod: A Very British Style is not a rose-tinted, nostalgic romp through the history of a movement that has had profound impact on British culture, but a serious academic (yet still very readable) study of what Mod is and was and how the 60s Mods have influenced British society. It scope – which goes way beyond most books about Mods -has already attracted criticism from hardcore …
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Raf Simons x Fred Perry – more 80's than Betamax porn
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Love The Look: Ewan's Down With Love
Ewan McGregor, Brandish fave and actor extraordinaire, has made it as this week's 'Love The Look' style icon. While not actually a look he created himself, McGregor's get-ups in the film 'Down With Love' were unbelievable.
Tasselled loafers and madras at J Simons
After reading Dave Walker's comment on my tassel loafers post I had a look a the J.Simons website and what a treat it is! You really get a feel for his commitment to style and passion, and John himself has some really great stories from his youth:
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You can probably tell from this poor man's expression that when I approached him to take a picture he thought I was taking the piss, but his highly shined loafers caught my eye like a silver spoon to a magpie.
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Bobby Grindrod of Friends of the Bride was telling the Metro this morning about his love of dressing smart and dandyism. "I look at record covers mainly from the early '70s" he said "They're my influences, really; people such as Frank Sinatra and Bobby Gentry". The trendy young thing used to be a mod but found the rules of the …


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Greetings. This is my first post/question - many more to follow, I'm sure.
I live in a rental house that has radiant floor heat and a heat recovery ventilator that pulls warm, moist air out of the baths, kitchen, and laundry room and blows outdoor air warmed through the heat exchanger into the living spaces of the house.
The fan started making a high pitched noise this week, so I called and they sent out a service guy (plumber). The air exchange unit is located in the attic against a south facing wall. The attic is not heated, but the attic is included within the building envelope (insulation against the roof).
The plumber, after a bit of effort, pulled out the central core of the exchanger - it looks like a pentagon or hexagon prism with zig-zag filter around the perimeter (not the fan or fan motor). It was frozen - obviously moisture had gotten in and then the cold make up air froze it. It's been well under freezing here for several weeks. The plumber said the ice was restricting the airflow causing the fan motor to work harder.
The plumber changed two small rectangular air filters where the ductwork enters the HRV, put everything back together, turned the fan on, and the sound was gone. He said the system would be fine. After he left, I checked the air blowing into the house, and it felt like air conditioning - which I really don't need in the dead of winter.
My concern: When the ice melts, and the water sits within the HRV, will I have a mold problem?
The system looks like it has a light to show that it is frosted up and might auto shut off, but obviously that didn't work.
Thoughts? Should I pull the ice core out and let it thaw and dry and reinsert it? I can live without the air circulation for a couple of days.
Many thanks.
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Quote from: NATHAN on May 08, 2012, 01:57:01 PMI do not believe there are medical teams evolved. So, in other words, it's just a magic show with a theme. That's not very convincing. Quote It is open to the public and anyone can come observe the person's healing ....People are very private.....Yes, people are so "very private" about their medical conditions that they go to an event that "is open to the public and anyone can come observe the person's healing". Yes, very private indeed. In other words, they are in on the scam, and any attempts to expose it as a scam will be considered "disruption". Awfully convenient.
I do not believe there are medical teams evolved.
It is open to the public and anyone can come observe the person's healing ....People are very private.....
If/when the healing doesn't work, the pastor will look around and say, "My healing powers are blocked because there is an unbeliever present with underhanded motives." At which point the atheist should point at the pastor and say, "Yeah. And it's you."
*Religious healings* do happen. Whether or not God is involved is a completely different matter. My mom's friend had terminal cancer. He went to a faith healer, and he felt a burning sensation throughout his body. When he went back to the doctor for a check-up, the doctor told him that all of the cancer was completely gone. Now, was it God, psi, or just a monumental placebo effect? That's a different story, and I don't have the answer to that. However, religious healings are definitely real.
Now, was it God, psi, or just a monumental placebo effect?
My grandmother had MS, she was not healed though she was faithful.
QuoteMy grandmother had MS, she was not healed though she was faithful.Faith healing could well be a placebo effect and not only that, but coninscidences people convince themselves are miracles. Add things like reconstructive memory combined with personal beliefs, what people believe happened can also be inaccurate. For example, had this cancer patient been going through chemotherapy? And radiotherapy? My friend was given the all clear after going through it and my aunt is going through it right now. Another aunt of mine received the all-clear after she had breast cancer. This is all through treatment, not faith healing. I think we'd need the data to test whether or not it was the faith healing that saved Lola's mom's friend.Faith healings can be fraudulent, imagine a magic show. Also it's interesting to see what the mind can conjure up when somebody 'believes' something.


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For the 2012 holiday mailing season, the Post Office is emphasizing the color green over its traditional red, white and blue.
"The Postal Service is one of the greenest mailing and shipping companies in the world. We offer more than a half-billion eco-responsible mailing and shipping supplies, free package pickup, and almost everything you can do at the Post Office, you can do online (at usps.com). So skip the trip and save fuel this Yule," said Thomas Day, USPS's chief sustainability officer.
The Postal Service has established the following deadlines for mail and packages to reach their destination in time for Christmas:
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The Postal Service offers customers ways to help reduce their carbon footprints, just as it consistently seeks to reduce its own environmental impact, Day said. It receives no tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations.


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Bad Grandpa obviously is not for everyone, but Johnny Knoxville and "Jackass" fans will eat it up.
Rude, wrong and laugh-till-you-snort funny, Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa not only stands as the best installment (by bounds) of Johnny Knoxville's hidden-camera franchise; it's one of the sharpest comedies of the year.
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Parents need to know that Bad Grandpa is the latest comedy from Johnny Knoxville and the Jackass crew. Rather than unrelated stunts, this one has a loose story and characters upon which to hang its hidden-camera pranks. The overall tone is lighter, less offensive and with more heart, although parents should keep in mind that the level of vulgarity and sexual innuendo is still very high. There are a few "stunts," some arguing and fighting, and an old lady's supposed corpse that's dragged around throughout the movie. There are some sensitive, albeit fake rubber body parts shown and very strong, constant sexual innuendo (grandpa is forever trying and failing to pick up women). Language is strong and varied, but not constant; it includes "s--t," "f--k," and "p---y," as well as most other words. The eight year-old actor says some of these words and drinks beer in one scene ("Grandpa, I'm f--king wasted..."). Grandpa is shown drinking, and drunk, fairly often.
Messages: Firstly, this movie exposes (or seemingly exposes) an 8-year-old boy to all kinds of strong language, sex talk and sexual innuendo, stereotyping, alcohol, robbery, dead bodies, and all around bad behavior. But on the other hand, the grandpa and boy eventually do form a real family bond, and even though they continue their negative behavior to some extent at the end, they seem to have formed a strong unit.
Role models: The grandpa's behavior is constantly inappropriate with no consequences, and he exposes the little boy to all of it. Even though the grandpa and the boy love each other, you can't help thinking that the boy could do better.
Violence: This movie has less than the usual amount of dangerous "Jackass"-type stunts, though there are a few, such as when grandpa tries to fix a kiddie ride and finds himself catapulted through a store window. There's also some arguing and fighting, and some angry bystanders who don't know that they're being fooled. In one scene, a barroom full of "Hell's Angel"-types look about ready to beat up one of the actors. Grandpa's wife dies in the first scene, and her "corpse" (played by Spike Jonze) is carried around, dropped, stuffed in a trunk, and thrown off a bridge.
Sex: The movie shows Grandpa's fake, rubber penis stuck in a vending machine (it stretches as he tries to pull it out), as well as some fake, rubber testicles that hang down from beneath his tighty-whity underpants. A fake fish with human genitalia is shown. During the end credits, grandpa shows his rear from a car window. One scene takes place in a strip bar, with suggestive male dancers, but no nudity is shown. Mostly, the movie is filled with constant innuendo as grandpa tries (and fails) to pick up women. He uses all kinds of highly vulgar terms, pick-up lines, and stories. Many of these appear to be spoken in front of his eight year-old co-star. The characters also read magazines with ads and photos that feature strong sexual innuendo.
Language: Language isn't as constant as you might imagine, but it does include lots of uses of "f--k," "s--t," and "poontang," as well as one or two uses of "p---y," "dick," the "N" word, "c--k," "suck it," "prick," "God," "Jesus," "damn," "schmeckle," "cooter," "Jesus Christ," "camel toe," "jerkoff," "ass," "piss," and "a--hole." The middle finger gesture is used. The words "douche" and "faggot" are spelled out (the latter spelled wrong on purpose). The 8-year-old co-star says some of these words himself.
Consumerism: Most product names appear to be shown by accident. A Pepsi can is prominent in a couple of shots during a bingo game. One scene takes place in a convenience store, where many brand names are visible on the shelves.
Drinking, drugs and smoking: In one scene, grandpa drinks a six-pack of beer with the boy (trying to get a rise out of passersby). The boy spits out the beer but appears to drink more. At one point, he says, "Grandpa, I'm f--king wasted." In a few other scenes, grandpa is shown drinking, and drunk; his beverages include beer and margaritas. In an early scene, the boy's biological father is shown smoking a bong during a Skype chat.
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Jonathan Gold showed the world that restaurants are about so much more than the foods that appear on plates or in bowls. Restaurants are about the people who run them, their cultures and traditions, and their contributions to connected communities. His artistry went way beyond how he described the decor. He also dazzled readers with poetic context that set the scene by drawing from a bottomless well of pop culture references, geography and history lessons. I don't know whether it's my all-time favorite Jonathan Gold prose, but his Langer's Deli description was evocative in ways nobody else could have captured.
In the course of the half-block walk from the Alvarado Blue Line station you will smell the food from a half-dozen Central American countries, pass within sight of Mexican street murals and be offered the opportunity to buy fresh mangoes, counterfeit green cards and cut-rate cumbia compilations. Within the deli itself, you may wait for a table with customers speaking Spanish, Korean or Chiapin dialect, though probably not Yiddish.
This is all before he even bothers to mention the inevitable payoff: "Langer's pastrami sandwich," followed by a tantalizing description that would make any reader want to eat there immediately. Masterful.
Jonathan Gold's Five Rules For Dining In Los Angeles may have just been an Instagram post, but the short-and-sweet post has evidence of all of his best work: he's not just telling truths about food, he's telling the story of the city he lives in. He's talking not just in general terms, but — if you knew the scene well enough — about certain restaurants; it's like we all belonged in the same club knowing that that rule was about Baroo.
Gold wasn't just a food writer, he was a Los Angeles writer. How anyone will know where to eat anymore is a mystery.
Do you remember the week when you suddenly realized that club DJs had become exponentially more important than the musicians who made the records they played, or the day when everyone decided that bacon belonged in dessert? This is the Cocktail Moment in Los Angeles, the moment when the appletini is finally replaced by a well-made Jack Rose, and the Jack and Coke by a properly made old-fashioned, when people started to realize that the $40 vodka endorsed by the famous rappers didn't taste any better than the $4 stuff from the back shelf of Trader Joe's. In some of the best restaurants in town now, the bartender may be as well-known as the chef and even more creative; it is no longer considered odd even in places like Sona and Anisette to accompany your meal with carefully made cocktails instead of wine.
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Black women fought long and hard for desegregation—as well as housing, health, justice, jobs, schools—and benefited from the abolition of Jim Crow. But as discussed below, the anti-discrimination law failed to recognize them as such, requiring them to be either 'women' or 'black', but not both, for the purposes of the court.
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European slave plantations, situated thousands of miles from the home country, were external to the metropolitan social order. In the Caribbean, blacks constituted a large enough proportion of the population to fight for their own sovereign rule. Perhaps the nearest New World equivalent to the us as a former slave-plantation society was Brazil. But there—quite unlike the hardened wasp ideology of American white supremacy—the landowning class was itself the product of centuries of miscegenation. In contrast to the ruthless dynamism of American industrial capitalism, it presided over a stagnant agrarian economy, where manumission into a semi-free poverty was relatively common, especially for women and mulatto children; with the result that, twenty years before the formal abolition of slavery, almost half the Brazilian population consisted of free blacks and mulattos , some of them owning slaves themselves. Post-abolition racial oppression was characterized by informality, the unlegislated correlation of lightness or darkness to socio-economic status, in contrast to the rigid legal proscriptions and spatial demarcations of Jim Crow. In the us , African-Americans, at 12–15 per cent of the population, had insufficient numbers to impose concessions without the help of allies, while the weapon of their labour was spiked by a permanent stream of Old World immigrants. At the same time, they were too numerous and, after the ideologization of skin colour and brutalizations of slavery, too culturally distinct to be as easily digested as the mass of European newcomers.
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[20] Conceding the fepc 's toothless post factum inquiry into racist hiring practices at Boeing, Standard Steel, etc., Roosevelt stoutly defended segregation in the ww2 American military.
[21] Mary Dudziak, Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy , Princeton 2000, 2nd ed. 2011, pp. 3–4, 29, 109, 178–9. Dudziak has mined the diplomatic archives to provide an indispensable account of the international context of us civil-rights reform.
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The society author Veronica Roth created in Divergent is a complicated one, with five very different ideologies pieced together to create factions of humans who dress together, eat together and don't really have much in common with outsiders. There is abnegation, a faction of selfless individuals who look to help others and run the government. Erudite is for the smarty pants. Candor is for the honest. Amity, the lighthearted and Dauntless is for the brave and selfish, the protectors of the city. It's where our heroine, Beatrice, wants to be, but does she really fit in?
Director Neil Burger's big screen take on Veronica Roth's story does diverge in some ways, but often attempts to keep the integral portions of the novel intact, changing details and dialogue to suit its own needs and whims. The biggest changes then, mostly stem from Lionsgate's need to keep the movie at a PG-13 level when some of the dystopian content from the book is harrowing and ultimately unsettling. Most of the changes work, but fans of the novel might be a bit surprised when they first watch certain scenes play out.
Following are the ten biggest changes I noticed in my screening of Divergent. Feel free to remark on any changes you feel may have been more noticeable. There are many spoilers in the Divergent book to movie comparison. Do not delve in if you want the film to be a surprise.
No one fails out of Dauntless on the first day. While Burger's vision still makes it clear that Dauntless is a tough faction, there are no recruits who become factionless. Additionally, there is no recruit who misses the building and plummets to her death.
Peter is less vicious and adds a tinge of humor to the movie. In the novel, he is a monster, cheating and using violence to ascertain his high ranking in Dauntless. At one point, he even stabs another trainee in the eye to keep his place in the rankings. In the movie, he is still despicable, but he has humor and an attitude that makes him a more complicated villain.


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Thought that New Year's resolution was going to stick? Well, think again.
DineLA's winter season is already underway with more than 300 restaurants participating in the popular restaurant week that showcases greater Los Angeles' premier eateries. The event kicked off Monday and runs through Jan. 31.
An extra treat, however, is the restaurant week's new $85 tasting menu offered at CUT, mar'sel, Melisse, Patina Restaurant, Spago Beverly Hills and Valentino Restaurant that organizers say makes high-end dining a little more accessible to the average foodie on a budget.
"The overall goal of the dineLA program is to introduce new diners to restaurants and by piloting the $85 tasting menus, this gives diners access to experience higher-end restaurants at a better value," said Stacey Sun, dineLA director. "It's a win-win for both sides because diners can experience a five-course dinner at a restaurant such as Melisse for only $85 — normally $125 for four-courses — and restaurants are able to attract new diners that will most likely return, based on their elevated experience."
For Rebecca Merhej, Chef de Cuisine at mar'sel, the program may just be the thing to get new diners out of their comfort zone and into the a fine-dining restaurant that overlooks the ocean off the cliffs of Rancho Palos Verdes at Terranea Resort.
The prix-fixe menu, which includes a choice of six small dishes — from the rich Pate de Champagne with crunchy yet airy ciabatta toast to a creamy Caramel Pudding and a new, savory Maple Leaf Farms Crispy Duck Confit dish — helps to keep the dining experience less intimidating as it limits diners to the dishes hand-picked by Merhej.
"It's really meant to be a fun, not stuffy, experience," she said. "Here I encourage people to share because, really, it's the way I like to eat."
Mar'sel, as with others participating in the new $85 tasting menu program like Wolfgang Puck's Spago Beverly Hills, has participated in dineLA in the past at a lower price point. But Merhej added that this new menu option allows the restaurant to serve bigger portions and elevate its offerings.
"The duck confit or even the pate, which we take our time to make in-house, aren't cheap," said Merhej, adding that produce is purchased weekly at the Santa Monica Farmers Market and harvested from the resort's own garden. "A lot goes into this menu because we wanted to make sure our diners see — and taste — the added value."
There also are plenty of worthwhile meals as low as $15 for lunch or $25 for dinner at other popular eateries including acclaimed chef Susan Feniger's latest endeavor Mud Hen Tavern, Govind Armstrong's Post & Beam at Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza and Wolfgang Puck L.A. Bistro in Universal City.
DineLA is just one of the restaurant week programs that are part of a statewide California Restaurant Month campaign, which aims to promote other community-focused dining events such as Avalon Restaurant Week on Catalina Island and Downtown Long Beach Pepper Week that both run through Sunday.
For a full list of dineLA participating restaurants, locations and menus, go to discoverlosangeles.com.


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Saigon Asian Market deal in Manchester may be scuttledBy MICHAEL COUSINEAU
New Hampshire Union Leader
May 01. 2014 9:38PM
MANCHESTER — The Saigon Asian Market, forced by its landlord to leave its south Manchester location last summer, emerged the high bidder to buy the current unemployment office building for sale on Hanover Street.
But a recent negative decision by the Zoning Board of Adjustment is threatening to scuttle the deal.
Under state law, the city of Manchester also faces a Monday deadline on whether to match the roughly $1.5 million bid to buy the property. Mayor Ted Gatsas said he would love for the city to get the property for free as a donation from the state to use for a city school, perhaps for pre-schoolers.
Also at stake is about $34,000 in yearly local property taxes if the property shifts into private hands.
"There's a lot of moving pieces," said Richard Lavers, deputy commissioner of the state Department of Employment Security.
The reason for the sale is because the department plans to consolidate four offices under one roof on the State Hospital campus in Concord, with plans to transfer 35 Manchester workers and leave 20 to run the local unemployment office at a new location, he said.
But plans could be delayed if the state needs to put the building at 300 Hanover St. back on the market.
The high bidder, Thanh Ho, said he is appealing the ZBA decision.
"The building is good, the location is good, the parking looks good," Ho said Wednesday.
He wants to re-establish his family's Saigon Asian Market in Manchester. The market spent 11 years on South Maple Street until its landlord forced it to close in August 2013.
"There are no other people who carry the stuff we do," said Ho, whose family operates a similar store in Nashua.
Max Sink, deputy director in charge of building regulations for Manchester, said Ho has 30 days to ask for a rehearing of the April 15 ZBA decision. The board said no to two variance requests: for an oversize sign and to operate a loading area too close to houses. The board also rejected a request for a special exception to operate a store larger than 8,000 square feet, he said.
Ho said he planned to operate a market in about 13,000 square feet.
Last fall, the state put up for sale two Manchester buildings: the local unemployment office at 300 Hanover St. and the building next door, at 298 Hanover St., where the appeals unit works.
"Our local office will be obviously staying in Manchester," Lavers said.
The state also put out a public appeal asking to lease 10,000 square feet of space to relocate the unemployment office. The request produced two offers, neither of which officials deemed suitable, he said.
The state will soon put out a similar request again. It could be possible that whoever buys the 300 Hanover St. building could lease a portion of it back to the state, he said.
Last January, the state received three offers for 300 Hanover St., selecting Ho and negotiating a purchase and sale agreement.
Ho offered $1,510,100.
"The deal was contingent on getting the necessary relief to conduct an Asian food market on the property," Lavers said.
The 300 Hanover St. building offers 22,000 square feet and 55 surface parking spots, but the department needs only 10,000 square feet. The adjacent building offers 8,000 square feet. A parking lot south of Hanover Street will be sold separately, Lavers said.
Lavers said the property was appraised for $1.5 million, the asking price. Three bidders pushed the price higher.
The other bidders were New Hampshire Catholic Charities at $1.25 million and the Gospel Baptist Church in Manchester at $750,000.


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Louisiana's latest public high school graduation rate is 72 percent, Gov. Bobby Jindal said Thursday.
The rate is up from 71 percent in 2011, which was 47th in the nation.
It has risen from 61 percent in 2001, a gain of more than 10 percentage points.
"We made great progress ... But we've got more work to do," Jindal told reporters.
"Until we get 100 percent, we're not going to rest," he said.
The latest results apply to students who were high school freshmen in 2008.
The figure is 66 percent for the East Baton Rouge Parish school district, up from 64 percent the previous year; 87 percent in Ascension Parish, up from 81 percent the previous year and 76 percent in Livingston Parish, down from 79 percent in 2010-11.
The rate for Zachary Community Schools is 88 percent, down from 93 percent in the previous year; Central Community Schools is 80 percent, down from 81 percent the previous year and 71 percent in the City of Baker School District, which is unchanged.
In West Baton Rouge Parish 64 percent of students graduated, down from 70 percent previously.
The Orleans Parish School District, which oversees five high schools, has a graduation rate of 89 percent, tops in the state.
The Recovery School District/New Orleans rate is 68 percent, up from 59 percent.
Jindal said improvements show the impact of several public school changes while students went through high school, including letter grades for public schools, the elimination of ineffective dropout programs and tougher standards for students to prepare for college and careers.
"Graduation rates have reached an all-time high and more students than ever before are better prepared for higher education or a job in the workforce," the governor said in a prepared statement.
Jindal made the announcement at Ascension's Dutchtown High School in Geismar, where the graduation rate is 94 percent, up 4.5 points and more than 20 points above the state average.
"This great parish is indicative of great things that are happening across this state," state Superintendent of Education John White said.
Improving the number of high school graduates has been a top state priority for several years.
Under a 2009 state law, the rate is supposed to reach 80 percent by 2014.
However, state education officials have long said that is an ambitious target.
State Sen. Ben Nevers, D-Bogalusa and sponsor of that measure, said he is pleased by the latest figures.
"I am very encouraged," Nevers said. "We are making progress."
He added, "The goal of 80 percent was certainly an aggressive goal at the time we set it."
A report issued last year by the Southern Regional Education Board said Louisiana's high school graduation rate rose faster than the rest of the nation.
It increased by 6 percentage points between 1999 and 2009 compared with 5 percentage points nationwide.
Michelle Millhollon of the Capitol news bureau contributed to this report.