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Community news from Fri. Aug. 23 to Thurs. Aug. 29, 2013

The Big Lake Public Library is offering the following programs at 790 Minnesota Ave., Big Lake: Great River Regional Library (GRRL) provides library services at 32 public libraries in Benton, Morrison, Sherburne, Stearns, Todd and Wright Counties. It provides Central Minnesota residents with nearly 1 million books, CDs and DVDs, 250 public computers, programs and information services. For more information about library programs and activities, contact the Big Lake Public Library at 263-6445. Big Lake Public Library • Hours Mon. 2-7, Tues. 10-1,Wed. 2-6, Thurs. 2-6, Fri. 10-5, Sat. 10-1. OPEN AA Meetings Mondays, 7pm At The Church of Mary of the Visitation Catholic Church, Big Lake, Big Book Study Handicap Accessable Questions? Contact: Dean 763-248-1969. Big Lake Al-Anon - Meetings held Mon., 7pm at The Church of Mary of the Visitation Catholic Church- 440 Lake Street N. (church basement) Contact Laurie at 763-263-7506. * No mail at this address * AA Meeting - SUNDAY NIGHT SOLUTIONS - 6pm at Saron Lutheran Church - 311 Lake Street S, Big Lake. Rotating Forums. Contact: Todd (320) 420-1429. The Big Lake Lions are looking for community minded people to join our organization. If interested in getting involved with our organization, please contact any Lion member or sent a note to Box 128, Big Lake, MN 55309 or 763-263-2218. Scrabble for Seniors at Keller Commons. Every Wednesday 1 p.m. Call Marci 763-263-2363 for information. Big Lake Senior Club Many of you may not be aware that the City of Big Lake has provided us with a lovely room with kitchen facilities, dining tables and chairs, where we meet every Tuesday. We play cards every Tues. 1 to 4 p.m. Come join us. We would love to have you join us so if you are interested, please call Darlene Lanz 763-263-7134. Big Lake Farmers Market Big Lake Beach Parking Lot Highway 10 • Big Lake Thursdays now through Oct 10, 2013 3 to 7 pm The Big Lake Farmers Market is a market in which farmers, growers, and producers sell their own products directly to the public, allowing consumers to have a direct relationship with the producer of the items they purchase. This market will emphasize quality and freshness. Anyone with handmade crafts are also welcome. Come to Sell or Come to Buy! If you are interested in being a vendor, contact BL Community Education at 763-262-2523. Music in the Park The Big Lake Legacy Foundation isexcited to present Music in the Park, a free family-friendly concert series each Thursday in June, July and August. The concerts will be held at Lakeside Park from 7-8:30 pm (immediately following the Farmers Market). The concert schedule is: Aug 29: Brat Pack Radio Schedule is subject to change. Concerts will be held rain or shine. G.A.L.A. Meetings G.A.L.A. stands for “Get A Life Again”. This is a group of widows and widowers. They meet twice a month to eat out and socialize. The events are held at different places around the surrounding counties. There are also different card groups that meet monthly. We would love to have you join us. If interested contact Lorraine Theis at (763)263-0202 or Gwen Chamberlin at (763)265-6105. “ANNA’S TEA” An invitation to widowed women of all area communities to join us for an afternoon tea. Come and enjoy several cups of various teas, light refreshments and an enjoyable time of laughter and fun. Our September Featured Event will be “The Laughing Clowns” Thurs, Sept 12, 2013, 3 p.m., Becker Baptist Church, 11951 Hancock Street, Becker. RSVP: Beverly: – 763-263-3308 by Sept 11 will be greatly appreciated. COST: Good Will Offering Moms in Prayer, formerly Moms In Touch, is an interdenominational, nonprofit ministry with groups of moms meeting to pray for children and schools in every state in the USA and in 130+ countries around the world. For more information, call Colene Stenberg at 263-6809 or visit Groups for every Big Lake school are forming now. Please, come join us! Hog and Chicken Roast Grace Lutheran Church 11185 27th Ave S.E, Becker Sun. Sept. 8 - outdoor service 10 a.m., dinner 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Games for children. FREE everyone invited. Living With Parkinson's Under The Age Of 60 If you or anyone you know is 60 or under and has been diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease, you are welcome to join a newly forming group. We will be meeting the 2nd Tuesday of each month from 6-7:30pm at Saron Lutheran Church in Big Lake, MN. Specific topics will be scheduled along with open forum. Any questions, please call Camille Johnson at 763-350-7401. Peace By Piece Quilt Guild Meeting: Tuesday, August 27, 2013. Note change of location: Wright Way Quilt and Sew at 206 Chelsea Road, Monticello. 763-314-0445 Directions From Buffalo, take Hwy. 25 north, in Monticello turn right on Chelsea Road (a little before I-94.) From Big Lake, take Hwy. 25. South, turn left on Chelsea Road (a little after I-94.) Go about ½ mile after turning onto Chelsea Road. The owner, Shelly Garvey, is looking forward to showing us her shop, and the products and services available. Shelly will open her shop at 9:30 for us. Men of Faith Non-denominational bible study for all men. Meet every Wed. 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Monticello Community Center. For more information call Dave Lindberg 763-878-2619. Celebrate Recovery Become free from life's hurts, hang-ups and habits. By working through the 8 recovery principles found in the Beatitudes, and inviting Jesus Christ into your life you can and will change! You will begin to experience the true peace and serenity you have been seeking and you will no longer have to rely on dysfunctional, compulsive and addictive behaviors as a temporary "fix" for your pain. Women's group meets Monday's at 7 at Riverside Church. For more information, please call 763.263.2410 or visit Current 55 Join other adults 55+ for breakfast each month for fun events designed with you in mind. For more information, please call Riverside Church at 763.263.6809 or visit www.myriverside BIG LAKE WOMEN OF TODAY MONTHLY MEETING ON 2nd TUESDAY OF THE MONTH AT 7 P.M. • Want to meet your neighbors? • How about doing great things for the community you live in? • Making new friends is always fun. • Come check out the Big Lake Women of Today! The Big Lake Women of Today are pleased to be making an impact in our community through their volunteer efforts with Spudfest, Sherburne Co. Fair, Big Lake Block Party, 1st annual 5K Walk/Run for Hope, to name a few. If you’d like to find out what else we do then come to a meeting, contact us on the web or give us a call. We’d love to hear from you. The Big Lake Women of Today will hold a monthly general meeting at Senior Activity Center located in the Big Lake City Office Building on the 2nd TUESDAY of the month @ 7p.m. We are growing and would like to show YOU how YOU can help with YOUR community and have fun while doing it. Why not date us for awhile; if you like us, then join us! We’d love to have you. If you are interested in coming to a meeting or a super fun event or maybe becoming a member please contact Natalie @ 612.518.3504 or find us at Facebook or Come on! What have you got to loose, check us out and see what YOU can do for your community. Big Lake Food Shelf You can help your fellow neighbor and your community by volunteering at the food shelf. We’re open Mon and Thurs evenings from 5:30 to 7:30pm; Wed mornings from 9 to 11am and the second and fourth Sat’s from 9 to 11am. To become a volunteer simply call the food shelf at 763.263.2432 and leave your name and number. Orientation to various duties of your choice at the food shelf will take approximately 45 minutes. Self scheduling is the key to our success and yours! Won’t you join us? Come on! What have you got to loose, check us out and see what YOU can do for your community. MOPS - Mothers of Preschoolers program: 2nd & 4th Tuesday Mornings 10 to 11:30 Sept 11 through April 23rd (only one meeting in November and December) Next to the library, across from Independence Elem. Contact: Amanda Holm, 763-691-4730 or Shawna Wicksall, 763-234-7789 Website: or Circle of Parents - Sharing Ideas - Sharing Support. You are not alone, parenting success, friendships, mutual self-helf. Weekly free time away from your children where you can share concerns and learn how to be a better parent. Lord of Glory Lutheran Church, 15550 190th Ave, NW, Elk River. Open to the public, child care included, no registration needed. Tuesday evenings 2nd and 4th of each month 6 to 7 p.m. For more information, contact Chris Powell 763-516-4835. Compassionate Crafters, a gathering of knitters, crocheters, quilters, etc. meet the 2nd & 4th Monday of every month, 6:30 - 8 p.m. at Keller Lakes Commons, Dining Room. I CAN Prevent Diabetes! CentraCare Health – Monticello is offering I CAN Prevent Diabetes!, a community-based lifestyle change program that provides diabetes prevention education and support for people with pre-diabetes. This 16-week series takes place every Tuesday from Sept. 3 through Dec. 17, 2013. Classes are held from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. in the lower level of the hospital. Cost to attend this 16-week course is $160. Wright County Area United Way Scholarships are also available to those who qualify. For more information on the program, contact Jennifer Femrite at 763-271-2405. The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) of Minnesota provides support groups for families of children with mental illness. Parent resource groups meet in Elk River on the first Thurs of the month, from 10 to 11:30 a.m., and on the third Thursday of the month, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Both groups meet at the YMCA, 13337 Business Center Drive in Community Room B. For more information contact Sue at 763-633-0894, or call NAMI at 651-645-2948. Women, Infants and Children (WIC): is a federally-funded health and nutrition education program that provides free supplemental foods to promote good health for pregnant, breastfeeding and postpartum women, infants, and children up to age five. Clinics are located in Becker and Elk River. Clinic dates and hours vary, and appointments are required. You will need to bring proof of identity, address, and income to determine your eligibility. The food packages are prescribed based on the nutritional needs of the participant and the age and feeding status of your children. Children in foster care or children receiving SSI or TEFRA are eligible. You or your children may be eligible for WIC. Please call 763-765-4116 or 1-800-433-5239 or fill out an application at the Health and Human Services office or on-line at Kids Klinic: provides health maintenance checkups and immunizations for children from birth through 20 years of age. Clinic hours are 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Tues and Thurs. Fees are based on Medicaid eligibility but services are not denied due to inability to pay. If your insurance does not cover well child care and immunizations, if you have a high deductible, or if you have no health insurance for your children, we offer a sliding fee for physicals and a $5 donation per immunization. We do not do sports physicals or ill child checks. Please call for an appointment or more information 763-765-4000 or 1-800-433-5239. The Ronald McDonald Care Mobile provides preventive and restorative dental services. A full range of care is offered including cleanings, fluoride, exams, x-rays, sealants, fillings, and extractions. Eligibility requirements: ages 0-21, pregnant women of any age, uninsured and fall within 200% of the Federal Poverty Guidelines, enrolled in State Public Assistance Programs. Please call for an appointment or more information 763-765-4000 or 1-800-433-5239. Big Lake Running Club. Come out Wed. nights 6 p.m. and run around the lakes, or less! Everyone runs or walks at their own pace. All runners and walkers are welcome. Meet in the High School parking lot (by door H2). If you have any questions, contact John Bruns 763-263-3316. Sherburne Co. program dates WIC Sherb. Co. Govt. Center and Becker City Hall: Call for dates, times. KIDS KLINIC: Every T & Th by appointment: Times: 9 am-4:30 pm Sherb. Co. Govt. Center IMMUNIZATION CLINIC: Immunization Clinics are now offered through the Kids Klinic (every Tuesday and Thursday between 9 am-4:30 pm). Call 763.765.4000 or 1.800.433.5239 for an appointment. Adopt a family. Brighten the holidays for survivors of family violence in Wright and Sherburne Counties! Call to receive a wish list for a specific familiy. You buy as much or as little as you want, and we get them under the tree on time! P.O. Box 511, Monticello, MN 55362. Central MN Sexual Assault Center Support Group: Monticello Lamp-lighter’s. For more information, contact Julie at Central MN Sexual Assault Center, 320-251-4357 or 800-237-5090. Monticello location: Resurrection Lutheran Church, 9300 Jason Ave, NE, Monticello. 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of each month at 6 p.m. Come learn computers and more. Do you want to take a refresher course or learn more about computers? Come into the ABE Computer Lab at the Monticello Workforce Center to learn keyboarding, word processing, spreadsheets, P owerPoint and databases. We also offer preparation for the Special Boilers License Examination and GED pretesting and preparation. All services are open to the public and provided free of cost. You do not have to be unemployed to use these services. Call to get started. 763-271-3768. Catholic Charities Big Lake Senior Dining is in need of volunteer drivers for Meals on Wheels route and also to help package meals in the kitchen. It takes 45 minutes to an hour for the route and about one to two hours in the kitchen. If intereested please call LouAnn Denny at 263-0058. Adult Literacy Tutors. Enthusiastic individuals needed to tutor immigrants, refugees and life-long Minnesotans in reading, writing and English. Help students achieve life’s necessities like completing job applications, helping their children with homework or understanding medicine labels. Training and ongoing support provided by the Minnesota Literacy Council. For opportunities throughout the Metro area or Greater Minnesota, contact Allison atarun chey@the or 651-645-2277, Ext 219.

SHERBURNE COUNTY FAIR BOARD MEMBER Irene Kostreba, pictured here showing a very old poster advertising a Sherwin Linton concert, is still looking for items to display in the county fair history center. Items could be given on loan or donated to the fair board. (Photo by Jennifer Edwards).

FRESH FLAME BURGER serves up fast food with its own flair on Hwy. 10 in Big Lake. Clara Henderson, Kari Luckey and Jamall Whitelaw ordered their food to go from restaurant owner Gus Afrooz. (Photo by Jennifer Edwards).

SHERBURNE COUNTY 4-H’ers got some hands-on experience working at the 4-H foodstand at the fairgrounds Wednesday evening in preparation for the Sherburne County Fair, which starts Wednesday. About 60 kids from six different 4-H clubs learned how to grill burgers, cook fries and hot dogs and serve customers during the orientation event. Above are Big Lakers Katie Olson (left), Kirsten Olson and Taylor Muehlbauer cooking fries and Bailey Muehlbauer (right) getting hamburger buns ready. (Photo by Ken Francis.)

GRAND KNIGHT DENNIS NAGORSKI of the Knights of Columbus presented Big Lake Chief of Police Joel Scharf and Becker Chief of Police Brent Baloun with a donation of prescription drug drop-boxes for each city. Along with marijuana, prescription drugs are often abused because of easy access. Keeping them out of the water system is important to protect the environment. Now our residents have a safe way to dispose of their unwanted or out-dated medications. (Photo by Jennifer Edwards).


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Tim Supple’s epic re-interpretation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream will play six weeks at Camden’s Roundhouse, which reopened in June as a state-of-the-art performing arts complex after a £29.7 million refurbishment (See News, 1 Feb 2006).

The so-called “Indian Dream” had its UK premiere this summer, for 12 sell-out performances only, as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s year-long Complete Works festival in Stratford-upon-Avon (See News, 21 Apr 2006). Its London premiere – running from 13 March to 14 April 2007 (previews from 8 March) – precedes a major UK tour and international tour.

Created in India with Indian and Sri Lankan performers, the production is the culmination of a project that began in autumn 2004 as a British Council commission. A diverse company of 23 dancers, musicians and actors initially came together for a seven-week rehearsal process to create the piece, performed – originally in outdoor venues – in English, Tamil, Malaysian, Sinhalese, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi and Sanskrit. The result casts aside familiar traditions of performing Shakespeare and replaces them with a highly “visceral and emotional power”.

A note from Tim Supple in the press material explains: “This production arose from the extraordinary artistry and range of contemporary Indian theatre. Only in India does one find 2,000-year-old traditions alive alongside an entirely modern approach to performance. Over a year of travel, the actors, musicians, dancers and street performers were gradually found as were the designers, composer and production team.

“We chose to work on Shakespeare' s Dream because we knew that modern India would illuminate and refresh the experience of this most famous play for audiences in India, the UK and across the world. Myth and urban reality; lovers' trials and workers’ struggles; the supernatural, the spiritual and the joyously earthbound; soaring beauty and filthy truth. All this is thrillingly alive in India and Indian theatre today.”

Supple’s production is presented by Dash Arts, a company the director founded with Josephine Burton in 2005 to produce new theatre, music, dance and visual art in collaboration with artists and companies from abroad. Dash Arts produced its first season of work, Dash 05, in London last autumn.

At the Roundhouse, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is co-produced by Roger Chapman, Matthew Byam Shaw and ACT Productions. Following its UK dates, the Dash Arts Dream will return to India before launching itself worldwide.

- by Terri Paddock

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Your Favorite Toddler Milestones

Any toddler milestone makes a parent proud, but which achievement pulls hardest at WTE members' heartstrings? Read on to find out.

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Did your darling just hit the wonderful one-year mark? Get ready for more reasons to celebrate because some special toddler triumphs are on the way. From first words to first steps to even those first tantrums, your sweetie is in for a lot of firsts. Although all of them are amazing, some are extra magical. After all, who can forget when a toddler says “I love you” for the first time? Get the scoop on other toddler milestones you can expect from your small fry, and find out which milestone WTE members loved the most.

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“By far, my favorite milestone is talking. Hearing my toddler put words together is both funny and amazing. The way he went from crying to get what he needs to actually telling me is an awesome milestone for any child to achieve.”

— Jessica Porntono Currin

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Jumping for Joy

“My favorite toddler milestone was when my daughter finally learned how to jump with both feet at a time. She had been working hard on it, and sure enough, she did it! She was so proud of herself, which made me even happier.”

— Ana

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Clapping Hands

“All of my toddler’s milestones make my heart melt, but the best one would have to be when she laughs and gives me a round of applause when I walk into the room. Nothing makes a stressful day better than your little ones showing you how much you mean to them.”

— Christine

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Celebrating His Own Successes

“It’s great seeing how excited my son gets when he masters a new skill. He recently learned how to button and zip up his pants by himself. When he did it, he started jumping up and down screaming, 'I did it, I did it!' He wanted a high five from Daddy and Mommy, and he proceeded to share his good news with everyone he met (the sales clerk, the babysitter, grandma).”

— Mrs. Stallworth

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Imitating Grown-Ups

“My favorite milestone so far is when my son imitates behaviors. He carries on complete conversations on his toy cell phone. I love hearing him use the catch phrases his dad and I use like, ‘You're kidding’ and ‘Oh, really.’”

— Lori H.

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Figuring Out How Things Work

“I love watching my daughter investigate new toys and test how sturdy they are. You can see her mind working even when she watches her dad blow up the pool. Currently, she's trying to figure out how the water cooler works. So far, she knows where the water comes from and how to make it come out. Thankfully, we have a safety lock on ours.”

— Arthurine Johnson

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Giving Hugs and Kisses

“My favorite toddler milestone has definitely been receiving hugs and kisses. Even though my 17-month-old hasn't started talking yet, a hug and kiss is her way of telling me, ‘I love you, Mom.’”

— Hanan

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Making Music

“All of her milestones are wonderful, but I've been most amazed by her musical interest and her dancing. She loves classical, rap, jazz, rock, and even punk music. Since she was around nine or ten months old, she’s been able to actually keep up with the beat and rhythm. She even sings along, too!”

— Chaeng Saltz

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Showing Empathy

"My favorite toddler milestone is when my toddler learned empathy. It's the most amazing thing ever! It's an ‘aha’ moment for a toddler."

— Kyla


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Up until now, there have only been three major hologram moments in our lives--the cartoon Jem, Alexander McQueen's F/W 06 show featuring a Kate Moss hologram, and Tupac's "appearance" at Coachella this year--but suddenly, we can't get enough of them. The reason for our sudden obsession is simple: we're seeing the iridescent, rainbow-like sheen on everything from puffy outerwear to chic party clutches right now, and simply love the look. This resurgence of holograms is in perfect keeping with the season's sci-fi trend, as the kaleidoscope of colors change with every move and lend a hypnotizing, futuristic look to your daily ensembles. These items are a simple and surefire way to give your wardrobe a fashion-forward spin, so check out our favorite prismatic pieces in today's Look We Love.

On the Runway
Though the use of holograms is more prominent in Resort 13 collections--more on that in a moment--we first took notice of the trend at Marc Jacobs' eccentric F/W 12 show. As if the collection's exaggerated silhouettes, oversized paisley prints, and large furry hats weren't awe-inspiring enough, the designer adorned his dresses, including the Green Shetland Wool and Faux Fur Dress ($3200, 212.343.1490), with hologram appliques, adding even more visual intrigue to his overall looks. Skipping ahead to Resort, at Marios Schwab, iridescent sequins embellished on the Double Layer Chiffon Pencil Skirt ($1557) translated into pixelated patterns with an almost liquid-like appearance.

On Celebs
A handful of stylish celebs are embracing holograms too. We spotted Kate Moss carrying a hologram bag from Stella McCartney's Resort 13 collection while shopping in Paris last month. The lustrous carrier is a knockout addition to her chic all-noir look. Opting for a touch more sheen, German actress Eva Padberg turned up at the 2012 GQ Men of the Year awards in Berlin a few weeks ago wearing a teal dress with a hologram belt and strap. And finally, no hologram story is complete without mentioning the look Kate Bosworth wore to celebrate her new role as SK-II ambassador in Australia early last month. The actress quite literally shined in a Stella McCartney sequined dress from the S/S 13 collection paired with a Proenza Schouler gold metallic clutch and Giuseppe Zanotti glitter sandals. We love how the busy sequins are perfectly balanced by the frock's sleek column shape.

On You/Clothing
Whether you enjoy a bold or subtle take on the hologram look, we've got plenty of options for you to try this season. On the clothing front, one of our favorite pieces is Topshop's Puffer Coat ($180, available mid November). Be a standout on the ski slopes or style it with a sleek LBD; either way, we can promise you'll love this piece all winter long. Our more daring readers will surely appreciate Hussein Chalayan's Holographic Leggings ($965), especially since they offer double duty in the trend department, hitting on the season's metallic look too. We've also got our eye on Mulberry's adorable Navy T-Shirt with Monster Hologram ($233), a weekend-ready pick that pairs perfectly with cuffed jeans and boyish oxfords.

On You/Accessories
If you'd prefer to go the accessories route, make sure to put these next items on your must-have list. For those of you dying to snag Kate Moss' covetable clutch, but can't bear the wait, Stella McCartney's Olegram Hologram Square Clutch ($590) is a similar style that is available now. Your best bet for footwear is definitely Proenza Schouler's High Heel Ankle Strap Sandals ($695); though the hologram finish offers a playful touch, the minimal design keeps them feeling chic. There are a few jewelry items we'd like to mention too, like KG Kurt Geiger's Joey Glass Necklace ($80), which has holiday soiree written all over it, and Eddie Borgo's Eden Cuff ($1125, available late November), an investment piece that will draw attention to your stylish sensibilities. To up your outfit's cool factor, be sure to grab Westward Leaning's N°9.6 Color Revolution Sunglasses ($165). The mirrored shades feature ultra-reflective, neon-coated lenses, plus when you buy a pair, the brand donates $10 to the Reporters Without Borders charity, so it's a purchase you can feel good about.

On You/Beauty
Perhaps the easiest way to address the hologram look is with Layla's Hologram Effect Nail Polish ($16). With just a few coats, the glittery lacquer creates a rainbow sheen that changes color depending on how the light hits it. Available in 14 hologram effect shades, be sure to check them all out today.--Jessica Baker

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VRE sets hearings on proposed fare rate increase

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The Virginia Railway Express is holding public hearings next month on a proposed 4 percent fare increase.

Hearings are set for March 7 in Stafford and March 27 in Fredericksburg to discuss the possible rate hike for the commuter rail service.

Officials say the increase would be used to offset increases in costs, including fuel and track access fees, as well as facilities maintenance.

According to the VRE, the proposed fare increase could add an estimated $1.4 million in annual revenue.

If approved, the increase would take effect in July. The fare increase would come on the heels of a 3 percent hike that went into effect last July.

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James Madison Men’s Basketball Picked to Finish Sixth at CAA Media Day

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ARLINGTON, Va. – James Madison men’s basketball has been selected to finish sixth in the 11-team Colonial Athletic Association it was announced on Tuesday at the league’s annual media day at Champps-Pentagon Row in Arlington, Va. The annual preseason poll is based on votes from the league’s coaches, sports information directors and media members.

Drexel, returning all but one player from last year’s 29-7 team, was picked to finish first in the CAA for the second straight season. The defending regular-season champions were followed by Delaware, George Mason, Old Dominion, Northeastern, JMU, Hofstra, Georgia State, William and Mary, Towson and UNCW. For the 2012-13 season, Old Dominion, Towson, Georgia State and UNCW have been ruled ineligible for the CAA tournament for various reasons.

In 2011-12, the Dukes finished eighth in the CAA after going 12-20 on the season with a 5-13 record in conference play. JMU was predicted to finish fifth in the preseason polls last year, but was unable to overcome significant injuries throughout the lineup.

Senior A.J. Davis (Columbus, Ohio/Harmony Community), JMU’s top returning-scorer, was named to the preseason All-CAA Second Team in his final season with the Dukes. The 6-6 guard averaged 15.9 points per game to finish fourth in the CAA, including a career-high 30-point performance against Delaware on Feb. 4 during his junior season. On the defensive end, Davis tied for seventh in the league with an average of 1.7 steals per game. He owns the second-place slot in JMU record books for season steals, having committed 54 thefts during the 2011-12 campaign.

Drexel’s Frantz Massenat was chosen as the CAA Preseason Player of the Year. He is joined on the preseason All-Conference First Team by teammate Damion Lee, Delaware’s Jamelle Hagins and Devon Saddler, Northeastern’s Jonathan Lee and UNCW’s Keith Rendleman.

JMU will host an exhibition game against Philadelphia on Sunday, Oct. 28, in the Convocation Center at 2 p.m. Madison will then hit the road to open the 2012-13 campaign at UCLA as a part of the Progressive Legends Classic. Tip-off is scheduled for 11 p.m. (EST) in Los Angeles, Calif.

The CAA also unveiled its television package for the upcoming season with the Dukes slated to appear in a minimum of 12 televised games. The schedule is highlighted by JMU’s home contest vs. Drexel on Jan. 12, which will air nationally on the CAA’s new television partner, NBC Sports Network. The season opener at UCLA is scheduled for coverage on the Pac 12 Network. Following the Drexel game, the Dukes close the regular season with nine of 14 games airing on Comcast SportsNet. Those dates include Jan. 15 at George Mason, Jan. 24 vs. Delaware, Jan. 26 vs. Old Dominion, Feb. 2 vs. George Mason, Feb. 10 at Drexel, Feb. 12 vs. Towson, Feb. 17 at Delaware, Feb. 20 at Northeastern and March 2 at William and Mary. All three games of the CAA quarterfinals will air on Comcast SportsNet while the semifinals and championship will have national coverage on NBC Sports Network.

1. Drexel
2. Delaware
3. George Mason
4. Old Dominion
5. Northeastern
6. James Madison
7. Hofstra
8. Georgia State
9. William & Mary
10. Towson
11. UNCW

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The pure essences of zesty grapefruit and calming lavender create a crisp-clean fragrance that gently revitalizes your day. Our new Pure & Simple collection is a celebration of nature's power to cleanse and soothe—purely and simply. Gentle on hands but tough on dirty dishes, this natural dish soap is made wholly from the finest botanical essential oils blended with vegetable-based ingredients, with no harsh chemicals added*, so you can clean and refresh with peace of mind.

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Syrah/Shiraz from Barossa Valley, Australia

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"Another upgrade in the huge hierarchy at Yalumba, the Hand Picked selections are all impressive. The dramatic 2003 Shiraz/Viognier (95% Shiraz and 5% Viognier) is exotic and flamboyant. A dense purple color is accompanied by an exceptionally projected bouquet of honeysuckle, litchi nuts, black raspberries, black currants, and licorice. This layered, opulent, hedonistic Shiraz will be satisfying to drink over the next 5-6 years."
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Yalumba is one of Australia's oldest family-owned wineries and was founded in 1949 by Samuel Smith. From modest beginnings, the Yalumba Wine Company has grown to become one of Australia's most successful medium-sized wineries, owned by 6th generation Robert Hill Smith. Yalumba regularly receives accolateds for its distinctive wines, as well as for its leadership role in the...

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The Barossa zone consists of two sections - the Barossa Valley and the Eden Valley. Wines from the Eden Valley can be labelled Barossa or Barossa Valley. Situated just a bit east of the large city of Adelaide, Barossa is Australia's wine headquarters. Mega producers are based here, boutique wineries call it home and a majority of the habitants claim their income on the wine...

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NAPLES, Fla. -  The Country Jam Music Festival is coming back to Naples for the first time in four years. The Collier County Fairgrounds and Cat Country 107.1 have partnered to present the 2013 Country Jam Music Festival.

The show, headlined by Justin Moore, features a full day of music including rising Nashville artists Parmalee and Casey James.

Justin Moore currently has released two songs that have hit #1,"If Heaven Wasn't So Far Away" and "Small Town USA". His current
hit "Till My Last Day" sits at number 6 on the music charts.

The 2013 Country Jam Music Festival is an event for the entire family.

The gates open Saturday February 2nd at 3:00pm on the Collier County Fairgrounds. Once inside the gates the guest will enjoy the many different vendors that range from world champion barbeque, arts & crafts, to western apparel.

There will also be a kid's area that includes rides, games, rock walls, and a portable 165-ft. Zip Line.

Tickets are on sale for the event at and also at various business locations in Naples.

Kids 5 and under are free. The Collier County Fairgrounds are located 11 miles east of Interstate 75 and Exit 111.

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Audio Damage BigSeq2 coming soon.

Chris Randall from Audio Damage gave us a teaser of what the next version of BigSeq will look like. On his always fun to read blog Analog Industries he says:

“Development on BigSeq2 is proceeding at a break-neck pace; We’ve got the UI mostly done, and the sequencers themselves are mostly done. All the hard shit is done, essentially. Now it’s just a matter of putting things together, “tuning” all the DSP, then doing the ports. Click the image above for a full-sized version. Note that many of the placements are off, and this isn’t a done final UI. But since we’ve been fairly open about this particular product from the beginning of design, I thought I’d just go ahead and show you where we’re at.” –

Do you ever consider putting a plug-in like this on your master before you even start a creating a song? It can really help you create a song that’s quite different than your normal material.

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    It’s such a bad habit..I put a maximizer on the master within the first few minutes. All the old folks complain about it. I do use it responsibly though keeping my VSTi’s never higher than -11DB and my Master on 0 or less. For my style of beats LOUD is a factor.

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    That’s a really interesting idea. It would make a totally different working environment from the start. Looks like a great plug, i love sequenced FX :)

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Mired in eleventh place after day one, the Netherlands—considered by many to be the most talented National team in the tournament—looked to the booster draft format as their ticket to the top. Both Kamiel Cornellisen and Noah Boeken have had success on the Pro Tour in draft formats, and national champion Tom van de Logt is no slouch, either, having made the top 8 in World Championships twice before.

Cornelissen was the star of the team on Thursday, winning five of his six matches and getting a draw in the other. Boeken and van de Logt both put up respectable 4-2 marks, and combined the three did better in the format that any other national team.

Cornellisen said his strategy was to draft "white-blue a lot, and never draft black." The defensive nature of white-blue, combined with its fliers, are a lethal combination. And while black has plenty of good cards, the erratic nature of Torment means fighting for it is a risky proposition.

Even with all their success, the Netherlands still begin Day 3 a few points behind Ireland. Will they have what it takes to come out on top today? "We have a good mono-black deck," said van de Logt, "but it's hard to say just how good because all the decks are the same in this format."

The race to see which countries will play in the finals will heat up today, and culminate tomorrow with the team Rochester format.

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State officials say hunters took 13 percent more deer last year in Maine with bigger numbers reported across all of the state's wildlife management districts.

The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife reported Friday that hunters killed 21,365 deer, an increase from 18,839 the previous year.
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The approaching elections are a good occasion for us to reflect on the
deeper meaning of the act of choice we will make at the polls. Many of
the choices we will make in the privacy of the voting booth are vexedly
ambiguous and require all the prudence and common sense we can muster.
But the ritual of voting itself should always remind us that our entire
way of life depends on our national confidence that ordinary men and
women have the God-given capacity to make reasoned moral judgments for

Either we have a capacity for moral judgment or we don’t. And liberty
itself is meaningless unless we really have received from the hand of
God the capacity for moral judgment and the ability to make moral
choices. But if our liberty is based on a faith in our capacity to make
right judgments, then we it follows that we have a responsibility always
to be vigilant that our government respects our capacity to do what God
intends for us to do. In fact, this is the very reasoning that we
announced to the world in the Declaration that marked to the birth of
American independence. In America, political liberty is precious
because it is the opportunity for us to do our duty, to govern ourselves
according to justice before God and the world.

Because these things are true, the American political order can be
threatened not just by particular bad policies. It is most
fundamentally threatened when our leaders propose things to us that
entice us to acknowledge tacitly that we are no longer capable of
responsible freedom. The abortion agenda’s offer of the tyrannical
right to “choose” to annihilate our own offspring, the gun control and
condom distribution agendas with their implicit message that we can’t
control ourselves in the face of passion, and the pervasive implication
of the income tax and nanny-state spending regime that we cannot be
trusted to take care of ourselves with our own money, all present such a
threat. All are examples of the kind of policy that our politicians
turn to because they no longer understand or believe in the vision of an
American people filled with a quiet determination to lead responsible
lives of moral rectitude. Our elites increasingly do not believe in the
human capacity for moral judgment, and their policies show it.

Real belief in liberty requires respect for its divine Author, because
at the end of the day the ground for our free will is God’s will. If
God’s authority is not there to support it then we have no choice, and
no immutable reference point either for moral judgment or for our claim
to freedom.

Without this foundation, democratic politics becomes merely a useful
fiction that helps to keep us docile. It becomes a game, a sham, a
manipulative structure, and since there is no ultimate ground for it,
why would ambitious politicians participate in the rituals of political
liberty? It is to get power by being the one who most successfully
dupes people — most successfully manipulates them with lies and false
promises. That means that the best liar will be the most successful
politician. He’ll be the one praised and honored.

And so Bill Clinton, the best liar, becomes the paradigm of the
successful politician in a system based on a concept of freedom without
ground or substance. This is the real significance both of Bill Clinton
and of our time — Clinton is the model of the one who believes that
there is no truth and who therefore lies with the greatest brazenness,
the greatest conviction, and the greatest success.

So as you go to the polls to make your free choice — to do your duty —
you should ask yourself why politicians willing to permit a man like
Bill Clinton to remain president still have the nerve to talk to us as
though they value liberty and the duties of citizenship.

They do so because the rhetoric of a false idea of freedom enables them
to construct a system that encourages people to hand power to them, and
they will thus get that power in an easier fashion than if they had to
use coercion in order to get it out of our hands. The false rhetoric of
“freedom” is simply aimed at putting people in a mood to surrender
voluntarily the power that can be used to oppress them. The power grab
is conducted under the rubric of a liberty that we cannot really believe
in once we have denied the basic premise of that liberty, which is God’s
existence and our own moral capacity. Led by such politicians today, we
face the real danger that our whole way of life is becoming an elaborate
game, the shell of self-government having become simply a vehicle for
the ambitious folks among us to seek power.

This issue goes all the way back to our founding. Alexander Hamilton
gave a wonderful speech at the Constitutional Convention — it lasted six
hours — in which he talked about certain permanent classes of people in
the human race. He referred to them as the princes and the people. The
princes are that class of ambitious individuals who, by their very
nature, seek power over others. And it so happens that these people can
be very dangerous; they have been the class from which come the tyrants
and the oligarchs and the oppressors of humanity.

They also happen to be very important, however, because that kind of
ambition can also be the source of great enterprises, great improvements
to human life, and the leadership that forges courage on the battlefield
and initiative in business enterprises and great discoveries in science.

And so one challenge of the statesman, when putting together a good
constitution, is how to harness that ambition and yet at the same time
prevent it from becoming oppressive to the people as a whole. The
Founders intended our Constitution to be put together in such a way as
to achieve that. But there is always the danger at any given moment
that any constitution, including ours, will be manipulated by the
ambitious people because it provides a way that is easier than direct
force to achieve their ultimate goal, which is to have absolute power
over us and oppress us. If we permit the ambitious and energetic men
among us to believe that we are a people tired of our liberty, the
temptation to take it from us will be irresistible.

The only real safeguard is for the citizens to participate in politics
on an entirely different basis, always showing that we actually believe
that human beings are capable of liberty, and that there is a ground for
moral choice and judgement. We must insist that our political leaders
really try to persuade us of the superiority of their policies in the
light of the immutable principles of truth and rationality that God has
established and that we ought to respect. We must insist that
politicians pay their respects to the truth that the real purpose of
campaigns is to try to move people’s hearts and minds so that they will
choose as God has given it them to choose, on a right basis.

Our behavior in recent decades, and perhaps culminating in the present
Clinton crisis, calls into question our ability to make such choices —
to govern ourselves by truly moral choice. This is one of the reasons
that we must all have such urgency about the moral crisis our nation
faces, and why we must resolve to make our politicians face this
question, and face it now. If we in act in such a way as to confirm our
lack of moral character, then whether or not God gives us the capacity,
we’re not using it, and so we will lose our freedom. A people no
longer confident in its capacity for self-government is just waiting for
a tyrant to show up.

The act of voting is one opportunity for us to remember that our whole
way of life is predicated on the capacity of ordinary people to judge
carefully and well. Whatever particular decisions we face as we decide
how to vote, we must always remember that politicians who encourage us
to think that regular people are not up the task of moral deliberation
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Is green the new red (communism)?

Posted By Ellis Washington On 10/16/2010 @ 12:00 am In Commentary | Comments Disabled

Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudo-scientific fraud I have seen in my long life.

~ Dr. Harold Lewis

Ten days ago, Harold Lewis, Ph.D., emeritus professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, tendered his letter of resignation to Curtis G. Callan Jr., Princeton University, president of the American Physical Society, because Dr. Lewis finally realized that he could no longer support what he called the “successful pseudo-scientific fraud” of global warming.

Communist Chinese dictator Mao Zedong (1893-1976)

Remember, to the Democratic Party and RINO Republicans, truth doesn’t matter, because to them truth is relative. All that matters to liberals and progressives is Nietzsche’s “Will to Power” and control over the people. Like the Islamic doctrine Taqiyya, which sanctions deceit to further Islam, to progressives the end justifies the means; therefore, lying, stealing, killing and perverting the Constitution and science is acceptable to utopian socialists as long as they “change the world.”

Recall the words of New Deal brain-truster Stuart Chase who, after visiting the Soviet Union in the 1920s, asked with incredulity, “Why should Russians have all the fun remaking the world?” Progressives are very resilient, so when Soviet communism finally collapsed after 70 years of world wide tyranny, progressives and liberal Democrats pushed the existential green movement to the forefront, which was in reality the same old exhausted red communism in a new disguise.

Green is now the new red (communism).

I realize it’s hard to accept that progressives and liberals, our fellow Americans, or anti-Americans, are so hell-bent on remaking the world while destroying society and allowing our minds, intellect, soul and spirit to degenerate into the abyss of socialism.

See the full documentation explaining how your life could be changed by climate-related laws, taxes and regulations: “Climategate: A Veteran Meteorologist Exposes The Global Warming Scam”

Leon Trotsky called this tactic “perpetual revolution.” Always keep the revolution going; always have a crisis before the face of the people; always keep society in a controlled state of chaos. Saul Alinsky, Hillary Clinton and Obama’s intellectual mentor, furthered Trotskyite tactics in his book, “Rules for Radicals”(1971), and now President Obama is forcing America to live out the Democrats’ green socialist nightmare, which stopped the Reagan economic revolution dead in its tracks while plunging America into a second Great Depression.

Liberalism isn’t new. It’s been called by different names over time. Note some of the sophistic ideas liberal Democrats and progressives have used to control and denigrate society over the past 250 years:

  • The Age of Enlightenment (humanism, atheism, skepticism)

  • Karl Marx (socialism, communism)
  • Charles Darwin (evolution, eugenics, separation of Christianity and science)
  • Jeremy Bentham, John Austin (advent of positive law, end of natural law)
  • Sigmund Freud, Alfred Kinsey, Benjamin Spock (sexual promiscuity, family deconstruction)
  • Woodrow Wilson, FDR, LBJ, Obama (welfare state)
  • Walter Lippmann, Herbert Croly, John Dewey, H.G. Wells, Margaret Sanger, George Bernard Shaw (education propaganda, progressivism, moral relativism)
  • Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao (state socialism, totalitarianism)
  • Rachel Carson (“Silent Spring” [1962]), Ira Einhorn, Al Gore, Van Jones (“Green New Deal”)

Why did it take 40 years for Dr. Lewis, a man of superior academic credentials, who has dedicated his entire life to the pursuit of scientifically verified truths, to speak out publicly against the radical environmentalist movement and the Big Lie of manmade global warming, a diabolical collusion between science and politics that dates back to the first Earth Day, April 16-22, 1970, the advent of the modern environmentalist movement?

Could the reason Dr. Lewis remained a member of the American Physical Society for 67 years be because as a young scientist in the 1940s he didn’t want to rock the boat or ruin the career he had worked so hard to achieve by speaking against the fraudulent collusion between science and government in its myriad forms, which always produces bad science and terrible policy? After all, Dr. Lewis could have rationalized, “I am just one man.” What difference could I make? Who would believe my ideas about the numerous factual errors of climate change verses the peer-reviewed studies by thousands of scientists all over the world attesting to manmade global warming?

Green is now the new red (communism).

I don’t know Dr. Lewis personally, and I’m not attacking him. I simply am using him as a metaphor against green lobbying groups, like Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection, which are making millions peddling lies to useful idiots – people who are too cowardly to stand up and speak truth to power.

Thank God for Martin Niemoller (1892-1984), that great German Protestant minister who for years suffered in Nazi concentration camps for his outspoken Christian beliefs in the face of Hitler’s genocidal madness and Aryan supremacy. Recalling the cowardice of silence from his fellow clergymen as Hitler’s Nazism progressed, Niemoller wrote these poignant lines for the ages:

When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.

Then they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
I did not speak out;
I was not a Jew.

When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out for me.

During the Age of Obama and FDR’s welfare state, part 2, Niemoller is one of my heroes, and that’s why we must speak out against this 40-year-old green movement, which is fascist in conception and a cynical backdoor attempt by the Democratic Party to destroy liberty of contract, free-market capitalism and to subvert society gradually through Fabian socialism.

I appeal to you Dr. Harold Lewis, and to the entire academy to follow Niemoller’s courageous stance against Nazism, tyranny and socialism in all its guises. Don’t wait until you are an old man, financially secure with tenure from the university; sacrifice careerism and speak truth to power! If you don’t, then the new green movement, which is the old red communist menace, will continue to eradicate our natural rights to the downfall of liberty, truth and civilization.

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Let's see, kids … what's on TV?

Posted By Pat Boone On 05/14/2011 @ 12:00 am In Commentary | Comments Disabled

Are you old enough to remember what it was like for the family to gather in front of the TV set, in the living room or den, and watch television … together? Remember when there were only three or four choices on that many networks, and parents and kids watched all at the same time … together?

Sometimes the parents decided, and the kids just watched, finding out a little more about what these adults were like; and sometimes the parents watched what the kids wanted, enjoying their kids even more than they enjoyed the kids’ choice. That’s when TV brought the family together, and everybody benefited.

This phenomenon called television was a family thing, often dramatic or educational, always entertaining, even fascinating. And through the content of our biggest shows, the whole world learned about America. The whole world envied and wanted to be like us.

Is any of the above true today? ‘Fraid not.

There are hundreds of choices now. Some are aimed at “adults,” which too often means extreme violence, rampant sex and dark, sordid themes. Some are aimed at women, which usually includes unreal “romance” and increasingly, more sex. There are still programs for children, usually insipid cartoons, or a new category – animated programs filled with adult references and questionable humor that mostly goes over the head of the kids, even blasphemy and immorality, like “South Park.” There’s something seditious about programs that look like kid shows, that kids may be attracted to, but which reflect the rebellious, irreligious attitudes of the creators.

And then there are the shows targeting the most desired market, teens. Actually, these shows are aimed at the 12 to 24 age viewers. They are the most impressionable, most likely to emulate the characters in the shows and most likely to buy the sponsors’ products.

Year by year, even month by month, these shows in general are becoming at least as intentionally dirty, immoral and “adult” in content and portrayal as what the movies rate as “R,” and sometimes even “X.” And now there are separate TVs for the kids, the teens and the parents.

The phenomenon that used to bring families together is now separating them into different rooms and vastly different worldviews and personal habits. In many cases, the parents are oblivious to what their kids are watching in another room – and they’re stunned when they find a teenage daughter is sexually active, maybe pregnant; a well brought up son is on drugs or becoming an alcoholic. And from time to time, the nation is shocked when a kid brings guns to school and kills a teacher or other students.

And the parents find out, through counseling, that too much of this unexpected behavior was directly influenced by what the kids were watching in the other room.

I proudly, even gratefully, serve as a board member of the Parents Television Council, the leading organization devoted to saving our country and its traditional values by cleaning up television. Yes, I know that sounds presumptuous, even impossible. Once Pandora’s box is opened, you can’t get the demonic imps back in, can you? Once the barriers are broken, you can’t raise them again – can you?

If the American people, the families that once benefited from television, are properly informed, they will be motivated to action. We’ve proved it. And if big companies that sponsor TV shows, hoping viewers will buy their products, learn that they are funding the corruption and downfall of America, and that angry families will cease buying what they’re selling, the companies will withdraw their sponsorship of vile programs. We’ve proved it.

I myself, as part of a campaign by the PTC, wrote personal letters to the CEO of Toyota/America and the official in the U.S. Army responsible for sponsorship of “Nip/Tuck,” one of the most sordid shows ever on television. I asked Toyota, “Do you really want your hoped-for customer to watch this depraved filth and think of your cars?” I asked the Army, “Do you really think young men and women watching the macabre sexual actions depicted on ‘Nip/Tuck’ will want to get up and enlist in our Army?”

My letters and hundreds of thousands of others like mine caused the sponsors to run from the decadent show. It’s gone.

And this result has been achieved over and over. WE CAN CLEAN UP TV … if Americans still have moral values and the backbone to defend them.

Lately, Tim Winter and the PTC have been alerting parents to the scabrous MTV show “Skins.” Heard of it? If you’re older than 24, probably not. But your children, even early teens, most likely are well aware of it, and discuss the latest episode with their friends at school. The creators at MTV claim the show is “realistic” and true to life. But most teenagers have nothing resembling the experiences of the characters on “Skins.” Do yours?

In 2009, the Centers for Disease Control reported that less than half of teens had sex during high school; but only one of the eight main characters on “Skins” is a virgin, and they’re all high schoolers.

A study by the University of Michigan found that only a third of high-school seniors have smoked marijuana, and under 10 percent had tried hard drugs. But on “Skins,” half the characters use drugs, continually, and more than half are shown smoking marijuana almost incessantly.

And the U.S. Department of Health states that only a quarter of minors 12 to 20 have consumed alcohol – but every teen on “Skins” indulges in illegal underage drinking. So much for “realism” and being “true to life.”

PTC mounted the viewer-response campaign and publicized the show’s graphic and harmful content. Clearasil dropped the show. And in short order, so did Taco Bell, General Motors, Subway, H&R Block, Schick and L’Oreal. It suddenly occurred to them that sleazy, irrational and immoral programs might not be the best way to market their products. The program is now a total failure for the network – but you’re still funding it.

Yep, every cable or satellite subscriber contributes about $1 a month to MTV in the subscription fee. There are 100 million subscribers in the U.S, which means that MTV is collecting a billion dollars a year from parents and families.

Friend, please visit www.ParentsTV.org and see how they’re valiantly defending your kids, their character, their future lives. We’re trying to save America – and we seek your help.

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(Business Insider) Israeli military leaders have conducted a war game simulating a strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, three days after the US Presidential elections. They concluded such an operation could be pulled off without plunging the whole region into war. Iranian experts disagree. David Patrikarakos reports.

On the 24 September at Israel’s National Institute of Security Studies, an obdurately dull building off a main road in Tel Aviv, three dozen men and women drawn from the top echelons of Israel’s political and military elite met to play a war-game, the outcome of which could help decide whether Israel goes to war with Iran.

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Works: 326 works in 1,063 publications in 7 languages and 39,518 library holdings
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X2 X-men united by Bryan Singer( visu )
24 editions published between 2000 and 2011 in English and Spanish and held by 2,755 libraries worldwide
An assassination attempt is made on the life of the president by a teleporting mutant. This act upsets the entire world and entices the president to begin the mutant-human war as predicted by Charles Xavier earlier. In an effort to get to the bottom of the attack and prevent world-wide war, Xavier sends out Storm and Dr. Jean Grey to search for the teleporting mutant and discover the truth behind the assassination attempt
Die another day by Neal Purvis( visu )
63 editions published between 2001 and 2012 in 3 languages and held by 2,615 libraries worldwide
While on assignment in North Korea, Bond is captured by government agents, where he's imprisoned and tortured for over a year. When Bond is exchanged for another prisoner, not everyone is certain 007 is still capable of doing the job. After an unscrupulous entrepreneur is discovered to be in cahoots with the other prisoner, Bond is back on the case, and he finds the two men have sinister plans which could decide the fate of the world
Robots by Chris Wedge( visu )
27 editions published between 2005 and 2013 in English and Spanish and held by 2,556 libraries worldwide
With the help of his misfit mechanical friends, a small-town robot named Rodney embarks on the adventure of a lifetime as he heads for the big city to pursue his dreams and ultimately proves that anyone can shine no matter what they're made of. Bonus features included
X-Men by Bryan Singer( visu )
53 editions published between 2000 and 2013 in 5 languages and held by 2,517 libraries worldwide
A war is brewing between those with special powers ("mutants") and the rest of humanity-- and the only ones who can save the humans from certain destruction are a special group of mutants: the "X-Men." (Based on the comic series)
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35 editions published between 2006 and 2012 in English and German and held by 2,234 libraries worldwide
With the help of their new recruits, The Beast and Angel, the X-Men must face evolution itself in the form of their former teammate, Jean Grey. Possessed with the cosmic power of the Dark Phoenix, the resurrected Jean Grey has become a danger to herself, her mutant comrades, and the entire planet. A potential cure is discovered and processed to treat and ultimately eliminate the genetic mutations, once and for all. As the battle lines are drawn, the X-Men must contend with both Jean Grey's world-consuming powers, as well as the malevolent Brotherhood
Monster's ball by Marc Forster( visu )
57 editions published between 2001 and 2012 in 5 languages and held by 1,976 libraries worldwide
Hank and Leticia inhabit stark, queasy realities of the contemporary South, he as a death row corrections officer and she as the soon-to-be widow of an inmate whose execution Hank helps conduct. In the aftermath of the execution, both lose their children to tragic deaths and they form an unlikely bond
Cloud atlas by Tom Tykwer( visu )
23 editions published between 2012 and 2013 in English and Italian and held by 1,824 libraries worldwide
An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution. The story is a time-shifting weave of six interlinking narratives, with diverse settings from the savagery of a Pacific Island in the 1850s to a dystopian Korea of the near future
Catwoman by Pitof( visu )
30 editions published between 2004 and 2010 in 5 languages and held by 1,499 libraries worldwide
Sensitive and shy artist Patience Philips is a woman who can't seem to stop apologizing for her own existence. She works as a graphic designer for Hedare Beauty, a mammouth cosmetics company on the verge of releasing a revolutionary anti-aging product. When Patience inadvertently happens upon a dark secret her employer is hiding, she finds herself in the middle of a corporate conspiracy. What happens next changes Patience forever. In a mystical twist of fate, she is transformed into a woman with the strength, speed, agility and ultra-keen senses of a cat
New Year's Eve by Michelle Pfeiffer( visu )
25 editions published between 2011 and 2012 in 4 languages and held by 1,430 libraries worldwide
A stellar ensemble cast celebrates love, hope, forgiveness, second chances and fresh starts, in intertwining stories told amidst the pulse and promise of New York City on the most dazzling night of the year
Their eyes were watching God ( visu )
10 editions published between 2005 and 2012 in English and held by 1,243 libraries worldwide
A drama set in the 1920s, where free-spirited Janie Crawford's search for happiness leads her through several different marriages, challenging the mores of her small town
Swordfish by Dominic Sena( visu )
27 editions published between 2001 and 2009 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,237 libraries worldwide
When the DEA shuts down a dummy corporation operation code named SWORDFISH, they had generated $400 million which they let sit around; years of compound interest has swelled it to $9.5 billion. A covert counter-terrorist unit called Black Cell, headed by Gabriel, wants the money to help finance their war against international terrorism, but it's all locked away behind super-encryption. He brings in convicted hacker Stanley, who only wants to see his daughter Holly again but can't afford the legal fees, to slice into the government mainframes and get the money
Perfect stranger by James Foley( visu )
23 editions published between 2007 and 2008 in 4 languages and held by 1,216 libraries worldwide
Rowena is a journalist dedicated to uncovering greed and corruption among people in positions of power. She does this with the help of her tech-savvy partner in crime, Miles. Grace is a friend and seems to know all about Rowena's secret writing identity, and hands Rowena evidence of adultery as a story. Grace is involved with Harrison Hill, the owner of the largest advertising agency in New York, H2A. Grace met Hill in an Internet chat room and became sexually involved with him. Hill is a married man and breaks off their affair, but Grace refuses to go away quietly. Rowena takes Grace's evidence, but does not immediately agree to do the story. When Grace turns up dead a week later, Rowena decides to investigate. She goes undercover at H2A, with Miles's help, and poses as a temp to get closer to Hill
Gothika by Mathieu Kassovitz( visu )
29 editions published between 2003 and 2009 in 5 languages and held by 1,186 libraries worldwide
A criminal psychologist is accused of the murder of her husband, a charge she is unable to defend herself against due to her deteriorating sanity
Things we lost in the fire by DreamWorks Home Entertainment( visu )
19 editions published between 2007 and 2009 in 4 languages and held by 1,119 libraries worldwide
Audrey Burke is reeling from the shock of the news that has just been delivered to her door by the local police - her husband, Brian, had been killed in a random act of violence. Once anchored by the love and comforts of their marriage, Audrey is now adrift. Impulsively, she turns to Jerry, a down-and-out addict who has been her husband's close friend since childhood. Desperate to fill the painful void caused by her husband's death, Audrey invites Jerry to move into the room adjacent to their garage in the hope that he can help her and her children cope with their sudden loss. Now, in facing a daily battle to stay off drugs and his unexpected role as surrogate parent and friend to Audrey's son and daughter, he finds a core of inner resilience. As Jerry and Audrey navigate grief and denial, their fragile bonds are constantly tested. Together, they discover the strength to move forward
Bulworth by Warren Beatty( visu )
23 editions published between 1998 and 2005 in 4 languages and held by 1,110 libraries worldwide
Believing his career is over, Senator Jay Bulworth takes out an enormous insurance policy and a contract on his own life. His impending death fills him with an outrageous desire to break the rules and tell it like it is
The call ( visu )
15 editions published between 2013 and 2014 in English and held by 1,094 libraries worldwide
When a veteran 911 operator takes a life-altering call from a teenage girl who has just been abducted, she realizes that she must confront a killer from her past in order to save the girl's life
For love of liberty the story of America's black patriots ( visu )
11 editions published between 2009 and 2014 in English and held by 920 libraries worldwide
Gain an unprecedented look at the experiences and accomplishments of African Americans in the military, and learn why such a group of heroic men and women would fight for the freedom of others that they themselves weren't able to enjoy
Executive decision ( visu )
17 editions published between 1996 and 2012 in English and German and held by 856 libraries worldwide
A team must board a hijacked 747 in mid-air, disable a nerve-toxin bomb that could kill the U.S. eastern seaboard, and rescue the passengers
Queen ( visu )
4 editions published between 1997 and 2008 in English and held by 846 libraries worldwide
The remarkable history of Alex Haley's paternal side. Queen is the daughter of a slave and a plantation owner. During the turbulent decades of the antebellum South, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and beyond, she searches for a home in the two cultures and at times is shunned by both. Rejection and hate are no match for her unconquerable will
Losing Isaiah by Stephen Gyllenhaal( visu )
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A woman who has adopted an abandoned child to give it a new life has to fight for him when his birth mother shows up and wants him back
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UPDATE: Kanawha County School Board Approves Redistricting

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By: Jennifer Rizzi, Brooks Jarosz, Anna Baxter Email

UPDATE 3/21/2013@10:45p.m.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- The controversial topic of redistricting took over the Kanawha County board of education's meeting Thursday.

A handful of schools will now have new district boundaries.

The board voted to redistrict Flynn and Sissonville elementary schools.

Mary C. Snow West Side Elementary also made the list. Officials say this was in an effort to reduce overcrowding.

The board decided not to redistrict Overbrook and Holz Elementary Schools.

UPDATE 2/21/2012@11:15 p.m.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- School board members in Kanawha County continued to discuss overcrowding problems in several schools, and examined redistricting as a possible solution at Thursday night's meeting.

About six months ago, parent and PTO president Eugenie Taylor went in front of the board asking for help with what she called a serious overcrowding situation at Overbrook Elementary.

"It had just reached a crescendo with over 500 students and four overage classrooms," she said.

This week, Taylor was back in front of the board - but with a very different message. Now, she says parents and staff have handled the problem on their own by coming up with an alternative solution that could push redistricting to the side - at least for now.

The solution moves special education classes to Holz Elementary and suggests moving the library into the computer lab to free up classroom space.

"That leaves two open classrooms, which is like manna from heaven for our school and would absolutely address the problem," she said.

But parents and board members agree that solution may only be temporary.

"The trends show us that the schools are going to continue to be overcrowded," school board president, Pete Thaw said.

The board also discussed redistricting at Flynn Elementary and the new Mary C. Snow West Side Elementary. They say the west side school is already overcrowded a year-and-a-half after being built due to a high number of transfer students.

No decisions were made at Thursday's meeting. Board members say they'll revisit the issue next month.

UPDATE 9/11/12 @ 6:30 p.m.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- Parents are taking aim at the Kanawha County School Board, criticizing a policy they say leads to massive overcrowding at Overbrook Elementary.

School officials admit there are some loopholes and say every policy that's in place has someone trying to take advantage of it.

Parents say the overcrowding at Overbrook has gone overboard and plagued the school for years, so we launched a investigation to find out why.

This year, inside Overbrook Elementary, the principal says nearly 500 students are enrolled. That's 40 more kids than last year.

The issues took center stage at the school board meeting Monday. Concerns were raised over shortened lunch time, crowded classrooms, sharing of textbooks and limited playground use. It had parents calling for a policy change.

"We believe that such policies as described above actually weaken other schools," PTO President Eugenie Taylor said. "Because those other schools need those families to strengthen them."

Parents requested the board to create a stricter transfer policy. As it stands now, if a family moves, their child can continue to attend the same elementary school. Also, any younger siblings would also be allowed to go to that school.

"You might consider that a loop hole," James Withrow, General Counsel for Kanawha County School said. "You know, we've always considered it an accommodation to the parents so that they don't have kids enrolled in two or three different schools."

It may be the price of convenience but for nearly a dozen parents at the meeting, the policy to them is unfair and puts students who actually live in the district at a disadvantage.

"Please consider eliminating this policy immediately," Taylor said. "This problem has been pushed to the side for two long."

"I don't know that we want to change a policy because one school may be adversely affected by it," Withrow said. "The policy works pretty well in 64 other schools."

Overbrook's principal admits there are larger classroom sizes compared to other school. However, extra teachers are assigned to those classes.

The principal says all students get 20 minutes for lunch.

Any student transferring in must have a parent's proof of residency. With recent complaints, the board plans to find a more long-term solution to deal with a problem that parents say is bursting at the seams.

Superintendent Ron Duerring suspects about a dozen families may have violated the policy. School officials admit there's a perception the schools in South Hills are better than others in the county, to which is said to be untrue.

Officials already have asked parents voluntarily to move their kids to other schools and help alleviate the overcrowding problem.

School leaders hope to find a fix and an overall solution in the next couple of months.

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- Some parents in Kanawha County are concerned about overcrowding issues at their children's school.

During the Kanawha County School Board meeting Monday, parents spoke out about the county's residency policy. Many of the parents believe that it's not strict enough to prevent overcrowding issues at area schools, in particular Overbrook Elementary School, in the South Hills area of Charleston.

According to the school's principal, 480 students are enrolled at Overbrook this year. That is an increase from last year when the school had 436 enrolled.

The increase is mostly in the Kindergarten classrooms.

Principal Barbara Floren tells the school follows the county-wide policy by enrolling students where a parent has provided proof of residency.

During Monday's meeting, parents expressed concerns how the overcrowding issues have created limited lunch time, crowded classrooms, sharing of textbooks and students aren't getting to use the school's playground frequently.

Principal Floren assures parents that the school is following all county school policies.

School policy requires 20 minutes for lunch and 10 minutes for breakfast for students to sit and eat their meal, according to Mrs. Floren. Some students at Overbrook begin to line up at 10:45 for lunch and the schedule continues until about 1 p.m.

Floren also says students are given the proper amount of time to enjoy their breakfast or lunch.

Floren does admit there are larger classroom sizes in some of the grades, but extra teachers have been assigned to these classes. In regards to sharing textbooks, Floren says the school has four 4th grade classrooms this year, instead of the usual three classes.

The school has worked to get enough textbooks for most of the subjects, but there is still some sharing of textbooks, according to Floren.

Overbrook Elementary expanded its facility in 2007 with SBA funds.

Parents told board members they want changes to be made to the current residency policy.

Right now, if a student is enrolled in a school and his/her family moves out of the district, the student doesn't have to transfer to a new school. The policy also allows that student's younger siblings the option to enroll at that school, despite the current residency of the family.

Board members admitted there is an overcrowding issue at Overbrook. Board members say they will continue to look at this issue.

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A new housing and office complex has been proposed for a site east of the State Capitol.

It would be along Kanawha Boulevard and Washington Street East, between Cheasapeke Avenue and East Street.

There would be about 60 units for housing, including condominiums and apartments for seniors and possibly students from the University of Charleston.

Several of the buildings will be taller the 35 foot maximum and will need a variance.

A date has not been set for the Charleston Planning Commission to vote on the project.

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NEW INFO: Spring Valley Residents Win Lawsuit Against City of Huntington

UPDATE 2/1/13 @ 10:50 a.m.
WAYNE COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- A jury has ordered the city of Huntington pay more than $1 million to 18 families whose homes were hit by flooding.

The Wayne County jurors decided the City of Huntington did not properly maintain the Krouts Creek storm water control system along Spring Valley Drive. They decided that the failure to maintain that system led to a big back up on May 10, 2011 -- flooding more than a dozen homes.

This is the second verdict against the city in three years.

Mayor Steve Williams expects the payout to be closer to half a million dollars -- but admits the problem needs to be fixed.

"This isn't acceptable. It adds costs to our insurance premiums. As we pay more in premiums because of these lawsuits, that means there are people who can't be hired. There are raises that can't be given. There are potholes that can't be fixed," said Mayor Steve Williams.

In 2010, a jury verdict awarded 22 families nearly $775,000.

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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- Chronic flooding is displacing more than a dozen families in a Wayne county neighborhood.

Not the weather this time, but the government who says "enough's enough!"

FEMA is buying people out in parts of Spring Valley. A bittersweet announcement that means having to start all over again.

Marguerite Webb's dad built her house and she's lived on this street 60 years. Moving day was tough and she remembers it like it was yesterday .

"I thought I'd never move again until I went to heaven, because that was a job," Webb said.

But, Mrs. Webb and more than a dozen of her neighbors in Spring Valley will move again. FEMA's come up with more than $1 million to buy them out.

Tim Keaton says all residents who applied for funding and who were eligible were approved.

Walter Boyle, on the other hand, said he's worried he'll end up living in a ghost town. In the last flood he had nearly 18 inches of water in the house, but his home is not on the buyout list.

"My furniture's floated down the creek, I've had cars moved over towards the creek in my driveway," Boyle said.

"The last time it flooded, it would have been over my head in the basement, it was 59" tall," Webb said.

For Mrs. Webb the day is bittersweet. The fear of flooding -- now erased by the fear of starting over. At 88 years old, she says it won't be easy.

"I feel sad, I really do," Webb said. "We had something that was ours and now they're going to just shove it over. That's tough to think about."

Boyle, conversely, is worried about staying.

"If they're going to buy part of it out, they need to buy it all out," Boyle said. "I think FEMA needs to come in and take a good hard look at all this and re-assess it. It's turning into not only a nuisance now, but it's also a health hazard."

A lot of people in that neighborhood blame an Army Corps of Engineers project more than 6 years ago for many of the current problems.

Now there is a pending lawsuit filed on behalf of all these people claiming the City of Huntington has neglected it's effort to help clear the flood prone area.

The latest development on all that could happen next week in court.

ORIGINAL STORY 7/711 @3:15 a.m.
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- New hope for more than a dozen homeowners in the Spring Valley area of Huntington that suffer from repeated flooding.

Rep. Nick Rahall announced Wednesday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will be buying and then demolishing 14 homes in the flood prone area.

The homes are along both Waco Road and Spring Valley Road just south of the Spring Valley Bridge.

“I am glad this funding has finally arrived and will help families move into safer, healthier homes,” said Rahall. “The water left but the heartache continues; now these citizens have the means to restore their life.”

$1.7 million is being spent on the project. Once the homes are bought and demolished the area will be returned to an open space.

The funding includes a $1.2 million Hazard Mitigation Grant from FEMA to the State of West Virginia, with the State providing the remaining $500,000.

The assistance was authorized under a major disaster declaration issued in May 2009, which makes federal funding available on a cost-sharing basis for hazard mitigation measures for all counties within the state.

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USFilter Corporation announces that it will increase its rates by three percent beginning July 1, 2005 for mobile demineralization, clarification, filtration and reverse osmosis systems. This increase reflects the rising costs of labor, chemicals, transportation and environmental requirements. All mobile water treatment contracts that were in place before this date will be honored at the current price structure through the expiration date.
"USFilter has been providing mobile treatment for over 30 years to a broad range of customers, and this is the first increase in over five years," said Pete Sesing, USFilter's vice president for mobile and onsite services. "Improved operations and productivity have allowed us to maintain pricing over this time period, despite inflationary pressure. This adjustment is timely and measured, and it maintains our competitive position in the marketplace."
An uninterrupted supply of high quality water safeguards the availability, capability and efficiency of the industrial and utility customers that depend upon USFilter's service during temporary and emergency outages. The cost of temporary water is small considering the process and production value delivered to the customer.
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