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Kf Hero of the Day: Gov. Strickland of Ohio, who commits a classic Kinsley gaffe, foolishly telling the truth about Iowa ... and about New Hampshire. In an interview with The Dispatch last week, Strickland said the Iowa caucuses make "no sense." He called the GOP and Democratic caucuses "hugely undemocratic," because the process "excludes so many people." Anyone who happens to be working or is sick or too old to get out for a few hours Thursday night won't be able to participate, Strickland said. "I'd like to see both parties say, 'We're going to bring this to an end,'" Strickland said, adding that he has no problem with the New Hampshire primary Jan. 8, because "at least it's an election." [E.A.] Letting the presidential nominee be picked by the Iowa caucusers is like letting your antiwar tactics be picked by the last people left at the end of a 4-hour SDS meeting in 1970.
Critic's corner
This sounds like the prequel series to "Bridezillas." In this new reality show, we don't just follow brides on the path to designing absolutely perfect wedding days. The ladies on this show undergo a six-week boot camp in order to lose weight for their big day. .
Winter/Spring 2008 Arts Preview Calendar
Ladysmith Black Mambazo. $30, $27. 8 p.m. Feb. 29: Quartet San Francisco's Whirled Chamber Music with Tango; dancers Sandor and Parissa. $29, $25. 8 p.m. April 12: Leo Kottke. $29, $26. 8 p.m. April 17: Ricky Skaggs and Bruce Hornsby with Kentucky Thunder. $48, $42. 8 p,m. Valentine's. 17 New Scotland Ave, Albany. 432-6572. www.valentinesalbany.com Jan. 16: The Deadbeats. 10 p.m. Jan 17: Ramming Speed, Dangur, and Anal Warhead. 8 p.m. Jan. 18: Ben Karis-Nix, 28N, and the Spike Emerson Society. 9 p.m. Jan 19: Metroland Feedback featuring Ashley Pond, Scientific Maps, Sean Rowe, knotworking, Sgt. Dunbar and the Hobo Banned, the Sarah Pedinotti Band (upstairs), and The Troy Dance Freak Out featuring Jesse Stiles 3000, Back from Japan, SKFL, and LNMOPF (downstairs) Jan.
Shooting prompts state probe of Don Juan restaurant
Had cops been notified that a Westbury night club planned to hold a "teen night" Nassau police said they likely would have intensified patrols the night a teenager was fatally shot and three others critically wounded outside the club.
Now, the State Liquor Authority is scrutinizing Don Juan Mexican Restaurant's Club La Boom, where the four young men had been partying before they were shot Sunday, an agency spokesman said Thursday.
The scrutiny comes after police investigating the shooting found patrons as young as 12, a Nassau police spokesman said.
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A disability terminology makeover for Wyoming?
Please delete the term "mental retardation" from your lexicon.This is the goal of a House joint resolution to update agency documents with terms that are more respectful to people with disabilities.A similar, more comprehensive Senate file seeks to rewrite existing state statute to remove a number of medical terms considered archaic.And it's time these hurtful words were removed, said Aurelia Lemus, a Laramie resident and member of the self-advocacy group People First of Wyoming."Who likes to be called (mentally retarded)?" she said. "It's not a nice word."Sen. Mike Massie, D-Laramie, who is a co-sponsor for both measures, said the changes reflect the way today's society views and describes people with disabilities."The motive behind the People First Language (legislation) is to notice that you are talking to a person first," he added.
Georgia lifts emergency, sacks PM
GEORGIA has lifted a nine-day state of emergency and President Mikhail Saakashvili is preparing to sack his prime minister ahead of presidential elections in the former Soviet state. Mr Saakashvili also promised not to impede opposition parties in the run up to the January 5 presidential vote despite ordering police last week to violently crush anti-government protesters and then raid a strongly critical television station. Mr Saakashvili's Western allies have been pressing him to lift the restrictions on media and demonstrations since the crackdown, when police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at opposition supporters. An official in the presidential press service said Mr Saakashvili, after a specially-convened cabinet meeting, would remove prime minister Zurab Nogaideli and appoint a replacement.
Hot Box: Television to talk about
Great White Web: The inroads we have started to make into the American TV landscape are nothing compared to what we're doing on the Net. For example, last week, three episodes of CBC's The Border were among the Top 30 downloads on iTunes Canadaand this week's numbers look to top 800,000. The phenomenon also encompasses YouTube, with Comedy Inc. and Air Farce scribe Renée Percy's hilarious viral video, Sure Lock: A True Poo Story, already up to 4.8 million hits, and on the verge of being the second most watched clip by Canadian websters. This after being unceremoniously pulled for five days, then put back online with an unlikely mea culpa from the YouTube legal department, stating that "non-sexually graphic dramatized urination or fecal matter is approved" for their site. Trust me, it's not as gross as it sounds.
Lowering expectations
We wish him luck with that but to get several hundred residents to agree to let hunters prowl their back yards is a task easier said than done. Schleifer wants to model the hunt after one that has been ongoing in Morris Township for three years. However, all aspects of the two hunts are as different as night and day. In Morris Township, which actually does manage to cull about 200 deer a year, vast amounts of open space are available for a hunt, so much so, in fact, that Morris has never even had to consider asking residents for the use of their own property. All hunting is conducted on Morris Township-owned land.The need for a hunt is also thought of differently in the two townships. In Hanover Township, a very vocal contingent from the Country Woods and Trail Wood sections of the township have been pleading with the Township Committee for an aggressive hunt, but few elsewhere in the community find the need that pressing.
The Tuesday DiScussion: MySpace or MyFarce?
If I read one more feature about the revolution of social networking I'm gonna buy an anti-gravity machine to send me up to the stars and then belly flop on every journalist who has bought in to the 'revolution' three years late. Then I'm gonna fly face-first, Rocketeer-stylee, into Rupert Murdoch's grinning Aussie face. Why? Because the ways in which people perceive this farce are completely detached from the reality... Let's begin with a few well known and seemingly obvious facts which appear to be overlooked: Everyone Wants to Be Famous
The Reality TV fame, which fits with the average 30-second attention span, proves this. Having your own self-obsessed profile on the web and having more friends is the DIY equivalent of fame, with the debateably hawt t'n'a-midget, Tila Tequila (pictured) as the queen of internet celebrity, despite the fact, to my knowledge, she doesn't play stadiums or have a million selling album.
Australian share market up on open
The share market has started the first Tuesday of November slightly up despite a poor lead from the US overnight. Yesterday Australian shares ended down for the second straight session after continuing concerns about the global credit crunch. Today is expected to be a quiet day with focus on the Melbourne Cup and the Reserve Bank's monthly meeting on interest rates. The RBA is expected to raise official cash rates tomorrow. At 10.15am AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 27.8 points higher to 6610.1, while the All Ordinaries gained 23.7 points to 6643.8. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index contract was up 33 points to 6641 on a volume of 8125 contracts. ABN AMRO director of equities Bill Chatterton had expected the market to rebound after yesterday. "We had a pretty nasty day yesterday," Mr Chatterton said, "so I would have expected a slight bounce today and that is what we are getting." Mr Chatterton expected a quiet day due to the Melbourne Cup.
DVD Roundup: 2.5.08
"Disney's adorable talking puppies are back, and this time they venture to the frosty arctic and team up with new friends in a thrilling dogsled race across Alaska. Join your favorite pups food-lovin' Budderball, rappin' B-Dawg, stylish RoseBud, mellow Buddha and messy MudBud for more fun, more action and more excitement in a heartwarming family film about the power of teamwork and following your dreams. As Buddha says, "Sometimes the greatest journeys start accidentally." When the going gets tough, the daring dogs have to band together with their new friends, Talon and Shasta, and muster up the courage to face the hair-raising challenges ahead. But will they have what it takes to win the race and find their way back home? Find out and fetch big fun for you and your family with this all-new film, featuring the all-star voice talents of Dylan Sprouse (The Suite Life Of Zack And Cody) and Jim Belushi (According To Jim) and exclusive bonus features!" "Snow Buddies" is rated G.
Tending the tapestry
Joan Ozanne rang me and explained that the idea of a tapestry had been raised at the forum and wondered if I was interested in becoming involved. I thought it was a terrific idea and put Valerie Chandler's name forward as a possible designer and things moved fairly rapidly from there.'
Technically, the panels are canvas work, rather than tapestry, stitched not woven. Sally has experience of working with both and had already undertaken another major local project - the conservation of the beautiful tapestries at Sausmarez Manor.
'With the millennium project, we had to work within the constraints of what materials were actually available for us to use.' She investigated the technical side of working with panels. The final size, of 4ft by 3ft, proved the most economical use of canvas and mounting material.
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