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U.S. Forest Service crews from the Ozark-St. Francis National Forest in Russellville have helped fight the summer outbreak of wildfires in the west.

“When they have needs, we send our resources to help and when we have needs, they send theirs,” Scott Swendsen, dispatch center manager at the Arkansas-Oklahoma Interagency Coordinator Center in Hot Springs, said.

Arkansas’ unusual weather this summer allowed the state to be in a position to help.

“The reason we can do this right now is because we have lots of resources available,” Swendsen said. “We’ve had lots of rain and high humidity this summer, which creates a low fire risk.”

Swendsen said selection of what crews will go help is a “full circle process.”

He said someone at the local level determines a need and requests state and national support. If national support is appropriate, the state and local levels will decide what resources they can provide.

“All national fire directors are based at the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise [Idaho],” he said. “They make decisions where the help comes from and send down resource orders to each local level. For example, a local dispatch center will decide to send X amount of firefighters and X amount of fire engines. They need equipment as well as people. Their resources are maxed out.”

Swendsen isn’t allowed to release information about crews still in the field, but he did release the names of five crewmen who returned home Aug. 28.

Bradley Taylor, Odis Robertson, Stuart Brasel, Ben Gentry and Brandon Bush landed in Fort Smith in a charter aircraft Wednesday night.

The returning crew members were each a part of a 20-man crew for either the Buffalo River NPS, the FS Tribal Caddo Nation or the FS Tribal Cherokee Firedancers. They were dispatched Aug. 13 from Fort Smith on a charter 737 that departed with 100 firefighters from Oklahoma, Mississippi and Arkansas.

All three crews the returning men were a part of were initially assigned to the Beaver Creek fire near Sun Valley, Idaho and then to the Kelly fire in the Sawtooth National Forest in Idaho.

“They were working on the fire lines and increasing containment,” Swendsen said. “These crews go around the perimeter to make sure no hot spots are left.”
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It has been said that dynamite comes in small packages. If that is the case, former Russellville Cyclone Jerome Thompson is walking TNT.

Thompson, who measures in under 6 foot tall, will represent Russellville and the Arkansas River Valley next week in the Arkansas High School Coaches Association football All-Star game.

"It was one of my goals this past season to make the All-Star team and to represent Russellville," Thompson said. "It's an honor to play with some of the best athletes in the state of Arkansas."

Opponents of Thompson shouldn't let his physical stature fool them. Cyclone head coach Jeff Holt said the true size of Thompson comes out in the way he plays.

"He's a great role model for younger kids and he is a great teammate," Holt said. "He always plays hard and has a lot of heart. He loves the game and leaves a lasting impression."

Thompson will report to Fayetteville on Sunday to begin practicing. Thompson said he would play linebacker in the All-Star game as he did at RHS.

"Linebacker is my natural position. It is the one that I have played the longest and I enjoy it," Thompson said. "I will be playing for the East squad in the All-Star game. I look forward to playing with these guys that I have played against."

Thompson said he learned of the opportunity form Holt at a banquet after last season. Thompson said while he was a little surprised by the opportunity, he had worked hard to earn it.

"Like I said, it had been one of my goals, but it did come as a surprise," Thompson said. "It was something that I had been hoping and praying for."

Thompson said the chance to represent Russellville was very important to him, and he didn't want to let anybody down.

"It means a lot, but I couldn't get anywhere without my teammates," Thompson said. "I think my them for helping me with my accomplishments."

Holt said Thompson's appearance in the All-Star game gave Russellville a sense of pride after finishing last season 2-8.

"It's a sense of pride for our program to have Jerome named to the All-Star team. He will be competing with the best of the best up there," Holt said. "It is a great time for those kids. It's a special week for Jerome and a special week for Russellville."

Thompson said he was looking forward to playing in next week's game. It would give him a chance to make new friends and allow him to play one more game as a Cyclone.

"I am really looking forward to it. I am happy to represent my family and my team," Thompson said. "I get a chance to play with people I have competed against and a chance to make friends. The most important thing to me, though, is to play my best."

Holt said Thompson would have a great All-Star appearance.

"I think he will be great," Holt said. "He always has a nose for the football and always plays hard. He will also be a good citizen up there. He is a young man who does everything the right way."

Thompson said he had already started working out in preparation for the All-Star game.

"I have been working out at Arkansas Tech," Thompson said. "I'm going to walk on at Tech, so I have been working out already this summer."

The football All-Star will be played at 7 p.m. June 22 at Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville.
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Rugby was not under specific threat, although a flood watch warning was issued by the Environment Agency, which means people should be aware of potential flooding.

The River Anker at Nuneaton burst its banks and areas along the rivers Severn and Wye were on high alert as rain continued to batter the area.

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Is your company is downsizing, merging, or restructuring? Do you want to offer employees being laid off a career coaching process to help them in their career transition? Would you, at the same time, like to preserve engagement and retention of remaining employees? Then you need the assistance of an outplacement firm.

Once your company makes the decision to use a professional outplacement provider, how do you choose one that best fits the needs of your workforce and your organization?

Below is a checklist for HR managers who have to make decisions on which outplacement consultancy to use:

  • How to Choose an Excellent Outplacement FirmAre their consultants experts in the field of outplacement? Do they have references and tangible examples of their program’s effectiveness?
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  • Do the consultants working with our transitioning employees have the expertise and experience their firm claims they have, and do these claims help produce results?
  • Does the outplacement firm understand our organization’s goals, and does it know how to support employee engagement and retention among those remaining while transitioning our other employees?
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  • Does the outplacement firm work on many other projects in parallel industries to ensure a high level of effectiveness with our project?
  • Do the consultants have a powerful network of business connections that can help our employees successfully transition?
  • Does the outplacement firm belong to a global network that enables it to meet my talent transition needs wherever they may be?
  • Does the outplacement firm understand the current and developing trends in new, digital, and creative professions?
  • Does the project leader effectively communicate with our organization and understand the frustrations we may be dealing with?

Once you have found an outplacement services provider that meets all of the requirements in the above checklist, you have found the firm that will best enable your employees to transition to a new point in their careers, while simultaneously preserving the engagement and retention of those employees who remain. This will further enable your organization to reach business success while also developing goodwill among past and current workers.

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Note that such a complex animation would be an arduous process without such a reference materials, which prove valuable when your budget is limited and time is pressing. As usual, all the relevant files are provided.

As a final flourish, you'll learn how to duplicate and set each figure within a 3D space with an animated background. The imagery used in this particular piece comes from an animatic created for a London-based advertising agency. Animatics are proving very popular in film production and advertising, because they're a quick way to see how well ideas work - and relatively cheap to make. Ad agencies often use them to pitch to potential clients. Before an inch of film is shot or a dab of paint added to an animation cel, the client can see clearly how the piece will look, and make changes accordingly.

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RESTON, VA -- (Marketwire) -- 02/08/12 -- ScienceLogic™ Inc. CEO David Link will address the Cloud Performance Summit at Cloud Connect 2012 taking place on Feb. 13 in Santa Clara, Calif. During his session, he will discuss the complexity of managing cloud computing environments and how service providers and enterprises can help ensure optimal cloud service delivery.

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I have had the opportunity over the last 15 years to be part of some great conferences and also have seen some pretty average ones.

Over the last year, I have been involved with some great ones that still stick in my mind. I have sat through some real clangers as well. What made the great ones great?

I thought I would share some recent examples of conferences that stood out.

Conference 1

This was where delegates had won the right to be there from outstanding performance but was also an important avenue to drive key business messages to the delegates from across Australia. There was a large number of presentations and keynotes, (which can often be a conference downfall) but this was not the case. What made these presentations and keynotes great? The biggest thing was that the presentations were designed to give the delegates tools, tips and the right behaviours to grow their business. Everything was about the delegates and what the company could do to help them.  Because of this, everyone was tuned in and scribbling down as much information as possible. This made the Q and A great because there was real interest, not awkward silence. What’s more, the presentations were short and punchy. Everyone was able to stay tuned in and engaged, thus enabling the conference to have a nice finishing time.  PowerPoint slides were powerful points – pictures and videos only. What’s more, every presenter and senior leader was mixing and connecting with all of the delegates and available to chat. How often do you see that?

Key Learns

  • Make the content useful for your delegates
  • Make the conference about them not you
  • Make your PowerPoint slides “Powerful Points!” not bulleted lists and spreadsheets no one can see
  • Delegates have a short attention span. Short and punchy works. Do you need 60 minutes to say what you could in 30?

Conference 2: This was for a large team within a very large organisation. The team was made up of 10 – 12 smaller teams that made up a team of 120 people. Some of the teams were small, others around 25 people and they were spread far and wide with various roles, functions and locations. The key aim of the conference was to connect the teams on both a professional and personal level and to ensure that every team knew what the other teams were doing and how they contributed to that success of the larger team and organisation. This would enable all of the teams to work together better and to also enable greater sharing of information post conference.
What made this conference great? In the morning, each team gave a short presentation about what they did. The afternoon was about drilling down and giving greater detail about the teams and the services they provided.  With 12 separate presentations, this was a potential for disaster but it worked amazingly well.
The guidelines for the morning presentation were:

  • No more than 10 minutes long. This was timed with a 1 minute and a 30 second counter
  • No PowerPoint slides unless pictures or film
  • Engage all of the senses of the audience
  • Get all of the team involved in the presentation
  • Do something different and creative
  • Make it enjoyable for the people in the audience

The presentations were fantastic! There were skits, plays, game shows, talk shows, photos, documentaries, singing, comedy, animation, films, Most importantly each presentation told a story. Everyone loves a story. Everyone listened, everyone laughed. Messages were strong and clear.
In the afternoon each team set up a stall (as in a county fair) that told more about the work that they did. Each team had to make their stall as interesting and attractive as possible and get as many people as they could to visit. Budget for each team was $50.  Each team had giveaways, games, competitions, food, colour, music, lollies, banners, streamers and colour. The energy in the room was amazing! At the end of the day there was a vote for the best stall (any stall other than your own) which was a great experience as well.

Key Learns

  • Set the bar high with what you expect: We all have a great amount of creativity and drive once we get out of our comfort zones
  • Make the audience the centre of your conference. In this instance, the audience was the content.
  • Presentations don’t have to be a “I stand, I talk to slides, you sit, you sleep”
  • Movement and interaction: When people move, their energy rises

One of the true measures of a successful conference is how long people are talking about it AFTER the event. The buzz for both of these conferences are still through the organisation 9 – 12 months later. Everyone remembers them for the right reason and most importantly the key messages are still alive.

Conferences are such a huge investment of time and energy. It may be the only chance you may have in the year to get your key messages across. You need to make it impactful, interesting and engaging.

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Residents of the Canyonside area of La Crescenta attacked overgrown brush on Saturday morning in an effort to reduce fuel in the event of a future fire. Photos by Steve GOLDSWORTHY

One year after the Station Fire residents in the Canyonside area of La Crescenta gathered to remember the two Los Angeles County firefighters who lost their lives fighting the blaze and to apply lessons learned from the wildfire that cut a path through their mountainside neighborhood.

About 50 people began Saturday morning with a moment of silence for Fire Capt. Tedmund “Ted” Hall, 47, and Specialist Arnaldo “Arnie” Quinones, 34, who drove off the side of a mountainous road near inmate Camp 16 near Mt. Gleason and lost their lives on Aug. 30, 2009 while taking part in battling the fast moving fire.

After the moment of silence, talk turned to what has been done and what needs to be done in preparing for the next wildfire.

Residents grabbed shovels and rakes and donned work gloves and abatement began.

“Everybody is working together,” said Roger Young of the Crescenta Valley Fire Safe Council.

Young began the council over a year ago with the purpose of bringing awareness to locals of the fire danger and to work with officials and residents on a proactive plan in case of fire. Twenty five days before the Station Fire began Young was part of a Briggs Terrace evacuation drill. That exercise in proactive fire fighting proved to be invaluable when the hills began to burn. In the council’s continuing effort to help residents prepare for the worst a clean up day was planned for Saturday.

Allied Waste Company donated a large bin and residents and volunteers filled it to the top with dried branches and vegetation.

The work went from 8 a.m. to noon and at the end the land was clean, the debris tossed and residents relieved.

A crew from Gothic Landscape helps direct efforts. The company works with fire safe councils throughout the southland to help with abatement efforts according to J. Lopez, forester with the L.A. County Fire Department.

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Church v Accrington
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VenueBlackburn Road, Oswaldtwistle on 29th July 1911 (1-day single innings match)
Balls per over6
TossToss not known
ResultAccrington won by 25 runs
PointsChurch 0; Accrington 2

Accrington inningsRunsBallsMins4s6s
JA Moorec and b Parkin6
WJ Ormerodb Parkin6
CB Llewellyn (Pro)c Morley b Parkin21
J Pollardc and b Crawshaw5
T Seddonc Parkin b Edmundson11
W Brownc Isherwood b Parkin51
AW Chadwickc Mellody b Edmundson26
J Walshst Isherwood b Edmundson3
J Claytonc Harrison b Parkin11
+D Parkinsonb Crawshaw28
WH Ormerodnot out2
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Edmundson7   1443--
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R Savage hit wkt b Llewellyn10
A Greenc Brown b Llewellyn9
AE Edmundsonc Parkinson b Llewellyn27
WH Morleyb Llewellyn6
CH Parkin (Pro)c WJ Ormerod b Moore4
+J Isherwoodc WH Ormerod b Moore4
W Harrisonb Llewellyn40
W Entwistleb Llewellyn5
P Walmsleyc Parkinson b Llewellyn20
H Crawshawc Clayton b Llewellyn2
J Mellodynot out18
Total(all out, 46.2 overs)153
Fall of wickets:
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Moore5   1202--
WH Ormerod3   190--
Pollard5   0240--

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Cockermouth Take The Lead Over Millom

Cockermouth beat Carlisle by nine wickets to take a three-point lead over Millom at the top of the John Smith's North Lancashire and Cumbria League Premier Division.

Millom were held to a draw by Penrith, who are themselves now only seven points further back.

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You've come a long way in a short time, from being an indie artist and writing for other artists to winning the Dove Award for New Artist of the Year. Ho do you account for the rapid growth?Brandon Heath I'm not sure I can account for anything other than the fact that timing and prayer had a lot to do with it. I could attribute a lot of the credit to my first audience, which was Young Life kids at camps, mainly across the West coast. They demanded the music and I happily delivered!But it was Dan Muckala, one of my close friends in Nashville and now my producer, who was responsible for recording my first record and bringing it to a label. I think that was a huge step for me.It took a lot of belief, on many levels, for me to think that being a recording artist was the right step. It takes a lot of time and hard work to pull it off. I've been blessed with great people to help me with all that.Has winning the Dove expanded your audience or increased your recognition?Quick takes:

Where are you from originally?
Nashville, Tennessee

Favorite place you've traveled to?
Malibu Club in British Columbia, Canada

Best meal you prepare?
Roasted veggie lasagna

Pet peeve?
People who eat while they drive

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I lose my keys constantly

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My friends

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Same Kind Of Different As Me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore with Lynn Vincent

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The Dark Knight

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The Swell Season (Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová of Once fame)

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Heath I can't say that I can tell it has yet. It's just not something you can really measure on a quantitative scale. It's probably helped me gain some credibility—something that, unfortunately, you just need to have to succeed. But I've always known this is what I am supposed to do and I've been proud of the music and choices I've made. So winning that award was just extra credit! And that little sticker on the CD sure looks nice too: "New Artist of the Year."Do you have any specific techniques as far as songwriting?Heath My techniques aren't real complicated. Mostly it involves the people around me, whether that's co-writing or just being inspired by conversations with friends.This record involved a lot of co-writing, which was the reason I got into the music business in the first place. Growing up in Nashville, I used to go to the Bluebird Cafe and see these huge country writers collaborate together and share their songs with whoever showed up that night. I've never been too stingy with my songs. For me, the more collaboration, the merrier.When writing, I think I'm at my best in a room without windows, because sometimes I need the discipline to look inside myself rather than out the window.The best songs usually come within an hour or two.How were you able to whittle down the original batch of 40 songs to the collection's final 11?Heath Dan and I work closely together when it's time for the final song list and we go with our gut most of the time. I'll always love the ones that got left behind too, and who knows—they may make the next record.In what ways have you grown stylistically between 2006's Don't Get Comfortable and now What If We?Heath In the beginning of working on this new record, I didn't want to stray too far from the first one stylistically. My producer really has a lot to do with my "sound" and I focus more on the lyrical content of the songs on the record. I'm a songwriter more than a producer, though Dan gives me plenty of freedom to speak into the songs stylistically. In the end, I think we've come up with something further from the first record than initially planned. It's very "American" feeling, meaning that the big influences were Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty with a little bit of hip-hop beat here and a little country & western there. The electrics might even be a bit Aussie sounding, compliments of my friend and guitarist Adam Lester.Do you have a favorite track on the CD?Heath I think my favorite is "Love Never Fails"—I've always liked ballads a bit more than up-tempo songs because they have more feeling to them. It was written with my friend Chad Cates from when we were in a Bible study together, and the focus of that group was 1 Corinthians 13. We dissected it for like 12 weeks, and it ended up impacting me on so many more levels, not just in understanding romantic love, but also loving in a more practical, everyday way. We are called to love the world, and [this passage] is about how it shouldlook.Is there an overall theme to the album that you hope listeners will take away?Heath I hope the title and the songs will challenge people to think about possibilities.The cool thing about knowing Jesus and knowing that God hears our prayers and desires is that he brings those things to fruition. If you seek his name, nothing is out of reach. So dream as big as you want; if it pleases him, it will be so.Read more about Brandon Heath by visiting our site's artist page. You can read our review of What If We by clicking here. Go to to listen to song clips and purchase Heath's music© Andy Argyrakis, subject to licensing agreement with Christianity Today International. All rights reserved. Click for reprint information.


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  • Annabelle Robertson Entertainment Critic
  • 2007 25 May
Ambling Plot Mars Brooding <i>Good German</i>

DVD Release Date: May 22, 2007
Theatrical Release Date: December 22, 2006
Rating: R (for language, violence some sensual content)
Genre: Drama
Run Time: 108 min.
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Actors: George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, Tobey Maguire, Beau Bridges, Ravil Issyanov, Christian Oliver, Leland Orser

Take a stroll into the past with director Steven Soderbergh’s latest art flick.  For those who enjoy nostalgia more than great storytelling, The Good German may be just the trick.

WWII has just ended, and Germany is reeling from the carnage.  Jack Geismer (George Clooney), an American journalist sporting a captain’s uniform (courtesy of the U.S. Army), has been sent to cover the victorious Allies’ Potsdam Conference, where Stalin, Churchill and Truman are meeting to divvy up Germany and Poland.  A wartime correspondent, Geismer speaks German and knows the ropes.  But an affair with another writer, Lena Brandt (Cate Blanchett), has left him vulnerable for the past three years.  Covering the conference is just an excuse to look for her.

He finds Lena in the arms of his driver, a young corporal named Tully (Tobey Maguire).  Like many German women, Lena has turned to prostitution to survive, and Tully, who schemes on the black market, is one of her pimps.  When Tully discovers that the Americans are looking for Lena’s husband, an SS scientist (Christian Oliver) who supposedly died during the war, he cuts a deal with a Russian general (Ravil Issykanov).  But the next day, Tully turns up dead.  Geismer sets out to find Lena, who has disappeared, and solve the mystery of Tully’s death.

What’s most striking about this film, which is based on the best-selling novel by author Joseph Kanon, is the frame-by-frame recreation of a 1940s film noir.  It’s dark, it’s brooding and it’s a mystery, although the plot ambles way too much for this critic.  Amazingly, Soderbergh used only equipment that was actually available during the ’40s–everything from the cameras and lenses to the black-and-white film stock and lights.  He throws in a melodramatic score to match, and even his frames are plucked from another era, with close-ups that hark back to Casablanca.  The whole film, in fact, seems to be a huge homage to that epic, especially the end.

It’s extremely authentic, so the audience has the distinct impression that they’re viewing a film from that era.  Soderbergh’s actors all give grandiose, larger than life performances which mimic those of that era, especially Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.  Clooney and Blanchett seem particularly adept at this.  Clooney holds his cigarettes between his thumb and forefingers, smoking from the side of his mouth, and enunciates every word.  (Cigarettes, by the way, are ubiquitous, and Soderbergh makes great use of their smoke.)  Blanchett is flawless as the fallen woman with too many secrets.  Squint just a bit and she’s pure Marlene Dietrich, with the razor-sharp cheekbones and inky-red lipstick to match.  The only actor who doesn’t live up to the charade is Maguire, who is too young and fresh-faced to play an opportunistic vet like Tully.

During the first third of the film, Tully narrates.  After his death, less than a third of the way through, Geismer picks up the story.  Then the perspective moves to Lena.  The problem with this shifting, triple viewpoint is that it ruins the continuity of the narrative–which is confusing to begin with.  Tully and Lena know things that Geismer doesn’t, but rather than learning information along with Geismer–or enjoying the moment when he is enlightened, from his own point of view–we’re onto it already.  This substantially lessens the impact of any suspense.

Another problem is that the shifting viewpoints also prevent us from getting to know these characters, which means we don’t really care about them.  The most challenging plot point is the main one–Geismer’s enduring love for Lena.  Because she is so [BRIEF SPOILER HERE] thoroughly corrupt, we can’t understand why he loves her.  Geismer is warned, again and again, but he doesn’t believe it.  He didn’t even know that she was married, when they were together.  [END OF SPOILER]  So their relationship seems superficial, and Geismer far too naïve, for much credibility.  I also had a hard time with the fact that Geismer wanted to solve the mystery of Tully’s death.  He had already found Lena (several times), and Tully was an evil character.

The fact remains that although Soderbergh has created a 1940s film from a visual standpoint, he operates from a twenty-first century mindset.  As a result, The Good German has numerous (strong) profanities, some nudity and a very graphic sex scene–things that would never have been allowed back then.  It also lacks the moral certitude so inherent in film noir.  Intrigue is necessary, and it’s not a problem for the leading man to be a patsy.  But he still needs to be ethically and morally bound.  Here, we don’t admire Geismer for loving Lena or solving the mystery.  We just shake our heads in wonder.

It’s an impressive effort, from an artistic point of view, but one which will probably be most appreciated by film students–who can enjoy the technique–and the G.I. generation–who will be thrilled with the walk down memory lane.

AUDIENCE: Adults only

  • Drugs/Alcohol: Characters drink and smoke throughout film, including extensive close-ups of cigarettes, ashes and smoking.  In many scenes, cigarette smoking appears very glamorous.
  • Language/Profanity: Numerous obscenities, many of which are strong.
  • Sexual Content/Nudity: Upper female nudity; lengthy, graphic sex scene (without nudity) between a prostitute and client; various discussions about sex and prostitution, including two characters who are prostitutes.
  • Violence: Wartime violence including military officers who spy, shoot  and/or attack one another; brief rape scene after which one character kills another; man punches woman in stomach; various scenes in which main character is viciously beaten.


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  • Susan K. Stewart Contributing Writer
  • 2005 30 Mar
Chemistry - Everywhere Around the House

The laughter died down, John continued his tales of being a teenaged science geek. Again, he delighted everyone with stories of blowing up something in the basement and setting it on fire. Twenty years after the fact, it evokes laughter and John is an engineer for NASA developing new sub-space aircraft. To home educators, these stories bring trepidation about teaching laboratory science in general and chemistry in particular at home.

Chemistry textbooks are also fearsome, because they appear to be written in a foreign language. Often these books are written for science majors rather than for general science knowledge. And, our own understanding of the subject is discouraging. We were baffled in high school and we feel even more baffled now.

If the idea of a chemistry lab in your kitchen seems unrealistic, remember each time you cook a meal; you are applying principles of chemistry.

What Exactly is Chemistry?

Chemistry is the scientific study of the substances that make up the universe. Chemists investigate the characteristics of these substances, how they behave under different conditions, and seek to understand chemical changes.  Basic chemistry, then, is about kinds of substances, composition, structure, properties, and interaction of material substances.

How Chemistry is Studied?

The chemist investigates. Meaning the study of chemistry is active and is best studied through experimentation. Most experimentation involves taking substances, making changes, and recording the reaction.

Experimentation, or testing, is used to prove statements that have been made about a substance. The statement iron will rust in water can be made. Then the statement is tested to be proven true or false. Many of the lab projects in high school chemistry books are these kinds of test.

Some statements are not practical to test. They just need to be accepted because of the expense or danger to test. Acceptance of science statements can lead to a discussion about faith in God. Not all things can be proven, but can be accepted.

Basic mathematics is necessary. Your student should know simple algebra and be familiar with the metric system. If you are using common household measurements, teach your student how to make conversions. Most chemistry books include a short chapter on these formulas. Study guides, such as Cliff Notes, will also have the formulas needed.

Chemistry Things Around the House

A medium-sized chemistry set purchased at a toy store will provide many of the items needed to teach a well-rounded chemistry course including chemicals required in your chem lab books. The chemicals are relatively safe when directions are followed. A lab book is generally included with sequential projects and can be the basis for a general chemistry course.

You will need a source of gas fire.  Temperatures can’t be regulated with electric heat sources. Some experiments can be done on a regular gas-cooking stove.

You may be more comfortable with experiments that use a candle or micro-burner. In most case any small candle will work for a micro-burner. Micro-burners are available at school supply companies.

Any laboratory brings to mind test tubes, beakers, culture dishes, and graduated cylinders. That’s because chemicals should be mixed in glass utensils. Household glassware will often fill the bill.

Pyrex® custard dishes are great for growing cultures. Small juice glass can be used for mixing.

Test tubes are in the chemistry set purchased at a toy store.

A cooking thermometer works in most cases where temperature changes are being recorded. A glass Celsius thermometer will help your student begin thinking as a scientist.

Eye droppers are used to transfer small amounts of chemicals. I save glass dropper bottles that come with medication. Although these are getting harder to come by, you can ask a pharmacist.

Don't use plastic in the place of glass. First, glass is neutral and won’t react with the chemicals. Plastic gives off molecules that can alter the reaction of your experiment. Second, the chemical mixture can melt the plastic, making a mess to be cleaned up. Third, glass can be boiled to assure that you are using clean equipment.

Store all of your science glass items away from the kitchen. You don’t want to use a “culture” dish for pudding.

Kitchen Chemicals

The very word “chemicals” can bring fear to the heart of the most stalwart home educator. Actually most chemicals used in high school labs are already in your home.

You don’t need to spend a lot of money or use anything that concerns you. If you look at a lab and are uncomfortable with what is used or the outcome, don't do it.

This list of chemicals, along with their common names, is taken from chemistry textbooks.

Sodium bicarbonate - baking soda
H4Al2Si2O9 - cement
Acetic acid (HC2H3O2) - vinegar
NH4OH - ammonia
H2O2 - hydrogen peroxide
Sodium chloride - salt
Citric acid - lemon juice
Sodium hydroxide - lye (Drano)
Carbon dioxide - soda pop
Magnesium hydroxide - milk of magnesium
Na4 B4 O7 - borax
Boric acid

Any of these chemicals can be purchased at drug stores or grocery stores.

Chemistry at Home

Careful reading of the instructions by you and your students is the starting point of chemistry labs. If expected results are given, you can assess any danger. Remember that it’s not necessary to do every experiment in the textbook.

Models illustrate the unseen. A model of an atom or molecule will teach the basic structure and demonstrate how atoms join together to form molecules. Or, some students prefer to draw the atoms and molecules.

To test how chemicals react, they need to be mixed. Mixtures can be made with items you have at home.

Remember the volcano that we built in elementary school? The lava flow can be the foundation for testing. We know mixing baking soda with vinegar makes the lava flow. Your student can test other concoctions to make a lava flow.

Begin by learning why baking soda and vinegar react the way they do. With this information, your student can make an educated guess, a hypothesis, about other chemicals that may react the same way.

My sons often used the “Let’s see what happens” method. They’d state a hypothesis such as “Cola mixed with baking soda will create a lava flow.” (Although not an educated guess, it was a guess.)

When this hypothesis didn’t work quite right, they then studied the vinegar and baking soda chemical reaction, including the chemical make-up of vinegar and cola. With this knowledge they were able change to “chemicals” that were similar to vinegar and test the reactions.

My boys learned the chemical make-up of various substances, how they react to each other and under what conditions, and some chemical formulas used to design further tests.

Some household chemicals mixtures can be dangerous, so only mix combinations that you know the outcome. For example: bleach and ammonia mixed create a poisonous gas.

Chemistry is an everyday science. With a little adventurous sprit, some common sense, and a few household items, you too can teach chemistry in your kitchen.

Susan K. Stewart is the author of Science in the Kitchen, Fearless Science for All Ages. She presents workshops on teaching science at home including high school lab sciences. Susan and her husband Bob began teaching their three children in 1981 graduating all of them from home school. She can be reached at [email protected] or visit her web site


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27th April 2009, 12:04
Stuck on last one.

9a Bump on the head; Rhymes with wing (5)

I have I - I - U

I from EDINBURGH, I from SPIED and U from SHUN ?

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27th April 2009, 12:51
Hi Geordie Kermit,

The INION is the most prominent projection of the occipital bone at the posterioinferior [lower part] of the skull. Impressed? I'll come clean - it turned up in the Telegraph GK crossword on Saturday!

As I don't have the crossword in front of me, I can only surmise that 'shun' isn't correct.

Best wishes,

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27th April 2009, 12:56
INION has to be correct - it rhymes with 'pinion' which is the outer part of a bird's wing, which includes the flight feathers.
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geordie kermit

28th April 2009, 10:19
Cheers for the answer. It was DENY not SHUN.... I had made a very early mistake with SELF CONFESSED as CONFESSES. D'oh !

INION is a bit of a stinker. Not in my electronic Concise OED...... and saying "rhymes with wing", meaning even more stinky !

I do the Times and Times2 every day......and that clue was like Times1.5 !
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28th April 2009, 10:25
Hi Geordie Kermit,

We must be kindred spirits because I suspect that I have the same electronic OED! And, no, it wasn't there. Thank you Google!

By the way, I don't think that one point against Portsmouth was enough was it?

Best wishes,

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28th April 2009, 11:05
You are right.... I watched last night's match and we sooooo needed all 3 ! Looks like Hull, Sunderland or Us in the exciting 3rd bottom spot! Newcastle often do better against "bigger" I wouldn't be surprised if we get something at Liverpool....though I aint holding my breath !

It was my birthday on Sat and my wife got me the fantastic Seiko ER6100 from Amazon - 35 quid (Argos 58!!). Love being able to search the dictionary definitions for key words.....and the knowledge lists are great too (birds, capital cities, composers etc etc)
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I'm happy to see that the moderators don't jump into this battle. This topic gets very volatile on CruisCritic and the threads get shut down fast cause they get insulted with the whole situation.

It's too bad we have to resort to the term "sneaking". Most of us like to enjoy a drink back in the room between showering and dinner...and trying to arrange a bottle, or carrying back drinks from the bar (hoping they stay frozen or cold) is at the least a real hassle...not to mention ultra expensive.

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Aloha everyone,
Sorry about all your terrible experiences. My wife, 15 year old son, and I are going on the NCL Wind 11 day cruise departing Xmas day December 25th, 2004. Anyone else going on this particular trip, anyone have teen agers?
Has anyone beeen on this ship recently? Any reviews, goood- or bad? Any tips on excursions we should sign up for or avoid?
We have one of the Superior Ocean View Staterooms facing the front of the ship with no obstructions, think Titanic "I'm King of the World".
We will be on for Xmas and New Years both and are hoping it will be a festive, upscale event with superior class food. My wife and I have both traveled on NCL but more than a decade ago and everything was perfection, room service, sanitation, quality of food, quality of people, but again that was a decade ago both times thru the Carribean for 10 days each.
With the NCL Wind being a foreign flagged vessel , can anyone tell me if this will make a difference in the problems the two American flagged vessels have been experiencing. Are they a seperate entities?
Anybody that has any information of any kind we would really appreciate it.
Anyone take out Vacation Protection Insurance thru like American Express, etc. Would that help in the reimbursement part if our cruise turns out as bad as some of the postings you all have experienced?

Aloha and thanks so much for this web site and all your postings it is truly a help to those of us who are about to either experience paradise or hell.

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Hi Scott, my husband & I are going on this same cruise that you & your family is going on. We have never sailed with NCL (we've been on Carnival and I've been on RCCL). Both of those experiences were terrific. We chose NCL/Wind this time b/c of a big discount for the cruise, plus we like to try different cruise companies.
We've booked our shore excursions already, especially the Fanning Island day beach trip. We're flying into Oahu 2 days earlier to go see Pearl Harbor and the USS Arizona, plus maybe parasailing/skydiving, etc. Plus, we live in Kansas and the weather in KS in December is always changing and you never know what can happen.
I've been out of the loop on the whole POA/NCL problems, too. I'm calling my travel agent tomorrow and ask her if the problems are just with that ship (since it's brand new), or is it an entire NCL problem.
We took the trip insurance through AAA--it covers more problems that can arise and is actually about $30.00 cheaper than what the cruise line offers.
We're staying on deck 5 (the Biscayne deck, I think), with an oceanview.
We're also hoping that New Year's Eve celebrations will be fun and festive and a chance for us to dress up--other year's we've just stayed home in our p.j.'s and watched the ball drop!! EXCITING!! (not)
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Thanks kjudge. I checked the A-Z Jamaica Planners website and there are a couple of tours we might be interested in. The one to Mayfields Falls does sound nice. How long does it take to get there? My 17 yr. old is a girl. Who knows, maybe they'll get together!
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Please let Ji Won be okay, I prayed to myself silently. Hopefully my prayers will be answered. So is this the end? My heart never changed because it was still the same one I loved Ji Won with. I couldn’t bear the thought of trading it with someone else. I was so confused. Had I finished what I had really come for? What will happen to my love for Ji Won? I didn’t know these answers.

I felt weaker and my pen fell from my fingers. I stopped my story right there. Truth is, I didn’t know how to end it so I might as well leave it unfinished. I took off my cap and clothes. I was wearing a long white flowing dress underneath. It was the kind I always wanted to wear when I thought I was going to marry Ji Won.

My hair had grew out a little bit. It grazed my chin. I started to put on some light make up and combed my hair. I don’t know why I’m getting dressed up for but I knew I wanted to die looking like Nam Mina, and not Ahn Min Sung. I looked at my reflection again. At least I look like a girl now, I thought with a little laugh.

When I was done, I leaned against the hard rock and wrapped my arms around it, pretending it was Ji Won. Then I heard a voice yelling out my name. “Mina!” I recognized the voice. Ji Won. I smiled, knowing at least he’ll be the last person I’ll see before I go.

Ji Won looked around the beach and saw a figure in a white dress. ‘Mina,’ he thought as he ran towards her. It was Mina. He lifted her into his arms and onto his lap as he sat down on the rocks. ‘Mina,’ he whispered to her and kissed her on the neck and face. Tears began to fall down his face.

All of my energy seemed to have been drained as I forced myself to open my eyes. My face felt wet but it wasn’t from my tears and it wasn’t raining either. My vision was kind of blurred and I couldn’t see Ji Won too well. I reached up to touch his face. It was wet. “Ji Won,” I whispered to him. “Please don’t cry. You’re scaring me. I’ve never seen you cry before.”

Ji Won looked down at Mina, through his tear-filled eyes. “I’m so sorry Mina.” “Don’t say you’re sorry,” she whispered back to him. “You’ve done nothing wrong.” Ji Won shook his head. “I’m so sorry. You’ve done so much for me and I haven’t even realized it. I haven’t done anything for you except put you through a lot of pain.”

I reached up wipe away Ji Won’s tears. “I didn’t expect anything back from you oppa. But I want to know why did you leave me in Hawaii? I could have called the wedding off if you didn’t want to marry me.” I felt Ji Won’s grip on me tighten.

“I didn’t mean to leave you Mina,” answered Ji Won, his voice shaking. “I couldn’t take my dad anymore. My grandpa had given me his inheritance and I planned on taking you and Sung Hoon with me. I didn’t tell you about it because I was afraid you wouldn’t leave your family for me. When I came to your house to get you, my uncle’s men were there waiting for me and chased me to the docks. I escaped but I wanted to go back but couldn’t. I could have put your life in danger. This isn’t the first time I’ve cried Mina. I cried when I knew I was going to be separated from you.”

Despite the pain, I managed to smile. Ji Won didn’t want to leave me, I thought. “Look Ji Wonee, I’m wearing the dress I always wanted to wear if we had gotten married.” Ji Won looked at me. “You’re beautiful Mina,” he said to me. “If everything would have gone as planned, we could have been married here in Korea.”

One thing was still bothering me. I think I managed to hold onto my life this long because of this question. “Ji Wonee, do you love me? I mean romantically, and not as your dongsang.”

Ji Won looked down at Mina. She was beautiful. His heart ached when he saw how pale she was. He realized she never did knew that he had loved her all along. “Yes, Mina,” he told her. “I loved you since the first day we met. I loved you then and I had never stopped loving you.” He bent down to kiss her.

My heart was deepened to a warm bliss. Ji Won said he loved me, I told myself as I felt him kiss me. Then a cold realization washed over me but I didn’t really care. I always thought that I was hurt when I didn’t receive Ji Won’s love. Instead, I found out my pain came from when I didn’t give Ji Won enough love. I haven’t told Ji Won I loved him yet.

“Ji Won,” I said to him as he looked down at me. “Thank you for making my dream come true by saying that you love me. I know you’re lying and just saying it to repay me but you didn’t have to. I did it all because I—I—“

I was losing my voice. Not now, please, I prayed as tears fell down my face. I need to tell him before I go. I reached into my pocket and pulled out the white marble stone Ji Won had given to me when I was Min Sung. I pointed towards the ocean to make Ji Won look. I threw the stone with all my remaining strength. It skipped 3 times. ‘Perfect,’ I thought as I closed my eyes for the last time.

As Ji Won listened to what Mina was saying, he was stunned still. He couldn’t believe his ears. She thought he was saying he loved her as payment of what she had done for him. More tears fell down his face as he shook his head. Then when Mina pointed out to the ocean, Ji Won saw her throw the stone he had given her. It skipped 3 times. I love you. Ji Won smiled, knowing that Mina loved him too. He had known that she had loved him all along but she never told it to him either. “Mina, you don’t understand. I do love you!” he shouted. Then Ji Won looked down at her. She had passed on. “Mina?” He shook her gently. Her body was still and completely lifeless. “Mina!” he screamed in pain. He held onto her tightly, burying his face into her neck. He was crying so loudly and painfully that both their bodies shook.

Sung Hoon and the others finally made it to where Ji Won and Mina was. They circled Ji Won, who was bent over holding someone they couldn’t see. “Hyung,” said Sung Hoon as he put his hand on Ji Won’s shoulder. “Are you okay? Where’s Min Sung?” Ji Won lifted his head up and Sung Hoon saw who Ji Won was holding. He fell back into the sand shocked. “M…Mina?” he asked in disbelief.

“Mina?” the others repeated.

“Min Sung is Mina?” asked Ji Yong.

Ji Won nodded his head. “She dressed up as a guy to join SechsKies to be with me.”

“You’re right, Mickey. Mina did love Matthew hyung,” said Jae Duc quietly.

Sung Hoon got up and hugged both Ji Won’s and Mina’s bodies tightly. “Why?” he asked crying. Everyone remained silent. Ji Won shook his head. He moved away from Sung Hoon and turned to face all of them. “SechsKies is my family. You guys are all like my brothers. Please be my witness as I make this promise to Mina.” They nodded their heads sadly and listened.

“Mina,” Ji Won began. “When you were alive, I was never able to tell you that I loved you. Now that you’re gone, you don’t believe I love you. Even though I never showed you the kind of love you wanted me to, it doesn’t mean I didn’t love you with all I have.” Ji Won paused and yanked off the ring around his necklace. “With SechsKies here as my witnesses, I, Eun Ji Won, take Nam Mina as my wife ‘til eternity. I have nothing to give you Mina except my heart, which belonged to you from the first day we met.”

He kissed her lips as he slipped on the ring. The others watched him in silence. They were surprised when because of all the time Ji Won had been their leader, he had never used his real name Ji Won before. They knew he was serious. When it was over, Ji Won lifted Mina up into his arms as he stood up. “As your leader, I have a final announcement to make. I am quitting SechsKies.”

“What?” they all asked in disbelief.

“Hyung,” said Su Won. “Please reconsider.”

Ji Won shook his head. “This is the second time Mina left me. I really can’t go on as your leader. The person I loved the most is taken away from me too soon and she died not knowing that I truly do love her.”

The others understood what Ji Won meant. Jae Jin walked up to Ji Won. “What do you plan to do then Matthew?”

“I don’t know,” he answered. I’ll be somewhere where I’ll always be with Mina and constantly remind her that I love her. And as for SechsKies, with all the money and businesses we have, I don’t see any reason why we have to commit any more crimes. We each have enough money to spend for the rest of our lives already.”

They all nodded.

Ji Won placed a hand on Sung Hoon’s shoulder. “Sung Hoon,” said Ji Won.

“Yes hyung?” asked Sung Hoon. “If you do love Kyung Hee, tell her before it’s too late.”

Sung Hoon nodded. “I will.”

Ji Won looked at his 5 brothers for the last time. “This final meeting of SechsKies is now adjourned. I wish you all the best and hope you do find your true love because I have. Good bye.”

Ji Won picked up Mina’s book and scribbled something into it. When he was done, he placed it down back on the rock. Then Ji Won lifted Mina’s body up into his arms as he walked away.

“Hyung!” shouted Sung Hoon. “Where are you going?”

Ji Won continued walking and didn’t answer him. The 5 Kies watched their leader walk towards the sunset carrying his bride and disappeared. They picked up the book to see what Ji Won had written. The last entry of Mina’s story was,

“True love never has an ending.”

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Kim Kardashian’s Former Publicist Says She’s A Fake With ‘A Mass Craving For Attention’

Kim Kardashian‘s former publicist Jonathan Jaxson just made a smart PR move for himself: He’s given RadarOnline a an exclusive interview in which he rips his former client a new one. Considering that he started working with Kim when her sex tape debacle happened in 2007, he’s got plenty of dirt on the reality star. Assuming, of course, that he isn’t lying.

Let us preface this by saying that even before Jonathan and Kim became estranged, he was not the perfect publicist. This Gawker takedown from 2008 illustrates his simultaneous inability to spin his client’s (former Cheetah Girl Adrienne Bailon) nude photo scandal into something positive, as well as his lack of ethics when he tried to get Perez Hilton to promote his personal blog. So, with that in mind…

Jonathan says that when he first met Kim, “she was the sweetest, down-to-earth person” but that she soon became obsessed with spinning out a positive image. And with her sex tape with Ray J, Jonathan had his work cut out for him. Soon it went from running damage control to fabricating the dramatic situations that got Kim tabloid and blog coverage: “I staged so many paparazzi moments for her,” he said. “I arranged for her to be coming out of a jewelry store and made it look like Reggie [Bush, her then-boyfriend] was planning to propose to her.”

But while Kim and Jonathan were gleefully spinning their straw into gold, Reggie got turned off to attention-whoring really quickly. Jonathan says that both of Kim’s famous exes were uncomfortable with Kim’s need for notoreity. Reggie “couldn’t handle the fame” and her estranged husband Kris Humphries “just wanted a wife.”

So what does he have to say about Kim’s decision to file for divorce after only 72 days of wedded bliss? “She knew marriage was a bad PR move as her value has dropped since the wedding,” he said. “She’s very selfish and she knows what she wants her image to be.”

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The US Justice Department is handing out $20 million in grant money to 106 state, city, municipal, and tribal police departments hoping to implement or expand body camera programs.

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Following a pattern of police shootings of minorities, including recent shootings in Tulsa, Okla., and Charlotte, N.C., the United States Justice Department announced that it will award $20 million to police departments that wish to introduce body camera policies.

The Justice Department's Monday announcement affects 106 state, city, municipal, and tribal law enforcement agencies in 32 states, and will help those departments institute and implement body camera programs.

"These grants will help more than 100 law enforcement agencies promote transparency and ensure accountability, clearing the way for the closer cooperation between residents and officers that is so vital to public safety," said Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Monday.

The Department of Justice launched its Body Worn Camera program last year, after a recommendation by the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing. Enthusiasm for body cameras has been high in some quarters, where advocates say they could reduce violence. Others, however, caution that cameras are effective only when the proper policies are in place.

"Everyone behaves better" when body cameras are in use, according to a report released by the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing in March 2015. That report showed evidence that uses of force by both officers and citizens was reduced when body cameras were present.

Based on this evidence and the conviction that this is the direction in which policing is moving, several cities have already instituted body camera programs or have obtained funding in order to implement them in the future.

Police officers in Ferguson, Mo., now wear cameras, for example, as do those in Colorado Springs and Los Angeles. In Boston, the city's Police Patrolman's Association pushed back against Mayor Marty Walsh's plans for a pilot program this year. Mr. Walsh responded by making the program mandatory.

Tulsa, one of the cities involved in the most recent police violence scandals, obtained a $600,000 grant last year to implement a body camera program, although there are not yet equipped with the cameras.

Yet despite the benefits of body-worn cameras, critics say that the wrong policies can negate the cameras' usefulness.

In early August, a study of several US police departments found that unless there are clear and specific policies that regulate body camera use, the cameras can be less than useful, as The Christian Science Monitor reported:

A new study of 50 US police departments concludes that even more important than simply using cameras are the rules that govern their use – and particularly who sees the videos produced. Currently, body cameras are liable to be abused due to unclear policies in many jurisdictions, says the study by Upturn, a Washington, D.C., consulting group. But the study also found examples of police departments modeling best practices.

'Body cameras are only a step in the right direction,' Chad Marlow of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) tells The Christian Science Monitor by phone, 'if their use is governed by principles.'

In Charlotte, for example, the police department's $7 million body camera program neither prevented the death of Keith Scott nor provided evidence around the circumstances leading up to the shooting. Footage from the event is inconclusive, given that the officer involved only turned on his camera after the shooting. Body camera policy critics say that in order for such programs to be effective, cameras must be on at all times.

The Justice Department required all grant applicants to agree to refine body camera use and use of force policies as part of their application, a measure that could reduce controversy and promote transparency.

"As we strive to support local leaders and law enforcement officials in their work to protect their communities, we are mindful that effective public safety requires more than arrests and prosecutions," said Ms. Lynch.  "It also requires winning – and keeping – the trust and confidence of the citizens we serve."

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Water Bubbles Up

A push for healthier options is a driving force in packaged beverages, and no drink compares to water in its reputation for promoting wellness.

C-store sales of bottled water totaled $3.1 billion in the 52 weeks ending Dec. 30, 2012, representing a 4.7% volume increase over 2011, according to SymphonyIRI Group.

Gary Hemphill, senior vice president of marketing services for Beverage MarketingCorp. of New York, says the emergence of strong private-label companies has given bottled water a price advantage.

In c-stores, some of the biggest growth came in premium bottled water, such as The Coca-Cola Co.’s Glacéau smartwater and Fiji Water’s self-named brand. While enhanced waters abound, consumers also are embracing the trend of turning bottled water practically bespoke.

Dasani Drops from Coca-Cola and MiO from Kraft Foods give consumers the chance to add flavors themselves. MiO’s Fit line offers to turn water into a sports drink that includes electrolytes and B vitamins, and MiO Energy gives water both flavor and a caffeinated kick.

“People really like tailoring products to how they want them,” Hemphill says.“Drops are playing to that consumer demand, and they’ve been fairly successful.”

Unsticking CSDs

CSDs have struggled in the face of competing products that consumers perceive as healthier. Sales volumes across all channels declined for the eighth consecutive year in 2012, says Hemphill of Beverage Marketing Corp. And while volumes fell by 1.6% in convenience stores last year, according to SymphonyIRI, the category remained an industry stalwart, totaling $8.8 billion in sales.

“I think it’s important for marketers to realize [CSDs] are still the No. 1 [beverage]category and likely to be the No. 1 category for quite a few years to come,” Hemphill says.

The potential of new all-natural, no calorie sweeteners such as stevia coming into the marketplace could help bolster sales of CSDs.

“We’re likely to see some innovation in the not-too-distant future along those lines. It may not be the magical silver bullet that will turn things around, but I do think it will help the performance of the category twosome extent,” he says.

Mid-calorie products created with a mix of sweeteners, such as Dr Pepper’s 10-calorie Dr Pepper 10 and PepsiCo’s 60-calorie Pepsi Next, all reflect the ongoing effort to improve taste in reduced-calorie beverages, he says.

Energy Spikes

Energy drinks, which rang up $7.2 billion in c-store sales last year, ended 2012 under the cloud of questions about their safety and a looming inquiry by the Food and Drug Administration.

Sales of energy drinks slowed a bit in the fourth quarter of 2012, but Hemphill of Beverage Marketing Corp. says the threat of regulatory action has largely had little to no effect on the category. “But obviously, it’s something that bears watching if there are more regulatory hurdles for energy-drink marketers to jump,” he says.

Innovations from the top three brands—Red Bull, Monster Energy and Rockstar—continue to garner attention. Mintel has forecasted continued growth among these top performers in part because of the consumer connection with the brands.

Getting Crafty

C-store sales of craft beer jumped nearly 22% in the 52 weeks ending Dec. 30,2012, the second greatest increase among the main beer segments, according to SymphonyIRI.

Despite all the attention given to craft’s rise, c-stores should tread with caution, or at least with real strategy, when it comes to embracing the trend, says Joe Vonder Haar, managing partner of beverage consulting firm iSEE StoreInnovations, St. Louis, and a formerAnheuser-Busch exec.

“Over infatuation with [craft beer] for a c-store is a very dangerous proposition. It can’t be a casual romance,” he says.“You had better be prepared to dedicate space and inventory to products that don’t turn at the same rate that you’re used to turning in this category.”

Even with growing sales of craft beer, the segment still accounts for only a small slice of overall beer sales in c-stores, Vonder Haar says—or 2.2% of dollar sales, according to SymphonyIRI.

Some high-end grocers, such as Whole Foods Market, are seizing upon the popularity of craft beers to create stores-within stores that offer walls of craft selections. With their space limitations, c-stores face a much tighter squeeze when it comes to offering the necessary variety.

“It’s difficult to have strong cash flow driven by turnovers that, instead of being an inch wide and a mile deep, are an inch deep and a mile wide,” he says.

Vonder Haar suggests retailers either invest in the necessary space to offer a wide craft selection in addition to their core beers, or create a shelf or two featuring a rotation of craft choices that gives customers the perception of variety.

A Healthy Reputation

Innovation across the beverage category will continue to focus on health and wellness aspects, Hemphill of Beverage Marketing Corp. predicts, with products such as coconut water, and oat- and chia-based beverages in the mix.

“Coconut water has done well, but I think the question is: How high is that probably going to get? Obviously it’s an expensive product and has some other hurdles. But it’s a category that has seen a lot of growth,” he says

RTD tea is another area likely to get a boost from its healthy reputation. The fact that tea appeals to casual as well as more sophisticated tea drinkers also opens it to a range of innovations, Hemphill says. C-store sales of canned and bottled RTD tea rose 8.2% in the 52 weeks ending Dec. 30,2012, according to SymphonyIR.

Flavor, relaxation, health benefits

According to consumer research by Mintel, nearly 75% of all tea drinkers say that flavors are the major reason for drinking tea, which is why flavor innovation is helping drive growth in the RTD tea segment, the firm says.

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OTTAWA -- Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Patrick Brown says he's in favour of putting a price on carbon to help deal with climate change, but he's still no fan of the Liberals' cap-and-trade plan.

In his keynote address to more than 1,600 PC convention delegates Saturday, Brown said the official opposition party must change if it wants to form government in 2018, and told delegates he became a Progressive Conservative because of the environment.

"Climate change is a fact, It is a threat. It is man made," he told the party faithful.

"We have to do something about it, and that something includes putting a price on carbon."

The line earned only muted applause from the Conservative audience and even some calls of "no."

Unlike the Liberals' cap-and-trade plan, which is expected to pull in $1.9 billion in revenues in its first full year, Brown said any price on carbon should be revenue neutral.

"Here in Ontario, we have a cap-and-trade cash grab that is simply another Liberal slush fund," he said.

Brown, who won the PC leadership in May, 2014, vowed not to repeat the election campaign mistakes of previous party leaders, whom he did not name.

"Never again will our candidates and volunteers have to defend faith-based funding or 100,000 job cuts at the front doors of Ontario voters," he said. "There is one thing Kathleen Wynne fears more than anything else: a Progressive Conservative party that has the courage to change."

Brown also moved to dispel Liberal attacks that he is too right wing for mainstream Ontario.

"It doesn't matter who you love. It doesn't matter where you worship. It doesn't matter if you belong to a union," he said.

Earlier Saturday, the Tories laid out their plans to change tactics for the 2018 election and campaign hard in every riding instead of focusing only on ridings they feel they can win.

The once-mighty Conservatives abandoned wide swaths of the province and alienated would-be Conservative voters simply by targeting only "winnable" ridings in the last election, campaign organizer Walied Soliman told delegates .

"Patrick Brown does not believe in target seats," he said. "Under our plan there is no Liberal safe seat in Ontario. We have 122 target seats in 2018."

Soliman told the PC delegates that the party that last held power in 2003 had lost its way and needed to take a new approach to winning the next election.

"Ethnic and faith-based communities ... didn't even know if we were interested in their votes," said Soliman. "Party members were disillusioned by fake policy processes, and most disturbingly, by a feeling that we were not winners."

The PC party also announced an extensive consultation of members to develop their platform for the 2018 Ontario election, and said they would open nominations in January 2017, about 18 months ahead of voting day.

The Liberals said they weren't worried about the Conservatives' new election strategy under Brown.

"I look at what he's been trying to do for the past 18 months and the radical group he surrounded himself for his leadership campaign, and now trying to bring a moderate approach ... I'm sorry, not at all," said Liberal MPP Marie-France Lalonde.

The Progressive Conservatives also unveiled a new party logo Saturday, which merges a red P and a blue C with a green leaf joining the two letters.

The delegates also heard a rambling, 35-minute motivational speech by former Toronto Argonauts player and coach Mike "Pinball" Clemons, who party officials said declined his speaking fee as an endorsement of Brown. Clemons left the Ottawa convention centre before reporters could ask if he plans to run for the Tories in the 2018 election.


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Discover what it was like to live in a 19th Century Lancashire mill town. From the Visitor Centre, walk through the Weavers' Triangle - a unique Victorian industrial landscape. The Visitor Centre is located in the former Canal Toll Office and Wharfmaster's House at Burnley Wharf by the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.

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* Displays about the Weavers' Triangle and Leeds and Liverpool Canal.
* Find out how cotton was made and try your hand at weaving.
* Burnley Fair Display - Discover how workers spent their holidays. Includes a working model fairground.
* A Victorian parlour and recreated Victorian schoolroom.
* Weavers' Dwelling - Discover home life a century ago.
* Oak Mount Mill Engine House - restored steam engine operated by electric motor.

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  • Power loom
  • Cross-compound steam engine
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Carlton Hotel

Key Highlights

Venue Type Hotel
Brand Independent
Distance From Airport 15 Kilometers
Number of Sleeping Rooms 75

Carlton Hotel is a distinguished hotel among the historical heritages of Istanbul. It is 500 m. away from the Grand Bazaar and Suleymaniye mosque, 1 km away from Blue Mosque, St. Sophia, Topkapi Palace, Saint Sophia Museum and other worldwide famous museums.

Carlton Hotel has 75 rooms and 150 be...
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Awards and Ratings

  • Northstar Rating Information
  • 2 Stars

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