New Years Eve Masked Ball - Paradise By Way Of Kensal Green, London, GB

Following the unparalleled success of last years New Years Eve party, once again the entire venue will be opened up to host a masquerade extravaganza.

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Music will be supplied by some of London?s finest DJs playing the greatest party sets across both floors of the venue.

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Adding to the magic of the evening, all guests will be masked as befitting to the theme of the party. Masks can be home-made, elaborate and elegant or anything you can think of.

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Beginning at 8pm and continuing through to 4am, Paradise will be the ultimate New Years Eve party destination. All ticketholders arriving before 9.30pm will receive a complementary cocktail.?

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No mask, no entry

Source: http://theparadise.ticketabc.com/events/new-years-eve-masked/

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Metro New Orleans area community meetings for Friday, Dec. 30

These government and community meetings are open to the public. To have meetings considered for inclusion, send an email to citydesk@tpmail.com with "Meetings" in the subject line, or send a fax to 504.826.3007.

BAYOU HEALTH PUBLIC MEETINGS

The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals is holding a series of public meetings to explain a new way for Medicaid and LaCHIP recipients to receive health care services with one of five different health plans. Information is also available at www.BAYOUHEALTH.com or 1.855.BAYOU.4U. Local meetings include:

Tuesday, 5:30-7:30 p.m., at John McDonogh High School, 2426 Esplanade Ave.

Wednesday, 5:30-7:30 p.m., at KIPP Central City Charter School, 2625 Thalia St.

Thursday, 5:30-7:30 p.m., at Sarah Reed High School, 5316 Michoud Blvd.

Jan. 8, 1:30-3:30 p.m., at the East Jefferson Family YMCA, 691 Riverside Drive, Metairie.

Jan. 10, 5-7 p.m., at Bridge City Elementary School, 1805 Bridge City Ave., Westwego.

Jan. 10, 5:30-7:30 p.m., at Mandeville High School, 1 Skipper Drive, Mandeville.

Jan. 11, 5:30-7:30 p.m., at Slidell High School, 1 Tiger Drive, Slidell.

Jan. 12, 5:30-7:30 p.m., at West Jefferson High School, 2200 Eighth St., Harvey.

Jan. 12, 5:30-7:30 p.m., at Salmen High School, 300 Spartan Drive, Slidell.

Jan. 14, 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m., at Delgado Community College, 615 City Park Ave.

Jan. 14, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., at Covington High School, 73030 Lion Drive, Covington.

Jan. 17, 5-7 p.m., at Grace King High School, 4301 Grace King Place, Metairie.

Jan. 19, 5:30-7:30 p.m., at Riverdale High School, 240 Riverdale Drive, Metairie.

Jan. 22, 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m., at Miller-McCoy Academy, 7301 Dwyer Road, New Orleans.

Jan. 23, 5:30-7:30 p.m., at John Ehret High School, 4300 Patriot St., Marrero.

Jan. 24, 5:30-7:30 p.m., at Alfred Bonnabel High School, 2801 Bruin Drive, Kenner.

Jan. 25, 5:30-7:30 p.m., at Helen Cox High School, 2200 Lapalco Blvd., Gretna.

CITYWIDE PARENT MEETING ON SCHOOL ENROLLMENT

Thursday, 6 p.m., at Sarah T. Reed High School, 5316 Michoud Blvd. Topic: the Recovery School District's new public school enrollment system.

LEGAL SEMINAR ON FEMA DISASTER FUNDING REVOCATIONS

Jan. 7, 1-5 p.m., in the Lavin-Bernick Center's Qatar Ballroom on Tulane University's uptown campus, McAlister Drive. Southeast Louisiana Legal Services and the Tulane Law School will provide information and direction for residents on drafting appeals of FEMA efforts to revoke homeowner disaster relief provided after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

SEABROOK NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION

Jan. 9, 6 p.m., at Gentilly Terrace School cafeteria, 4720 Painters St.

PUBLIC HEARING ON NEW ORLEANS MASTER PLAN AMENDMENTS

Jan. 10, 6-8 p.m., at the City Council chamber in City Hall, 1300 Perdido St. The City Planning Commission will hold a second hearing to gather comments on proposed amendments to the city's master plan. View the plan at cpc.nola.gov. For information, call 504.658.7033 or email cpcinfo@nola.gov.

BLIGHTSTAT

Jan. 12, 8-9 a.m., in the Homeland Security Conference Room on the eighth floor of City Hall, 1300 Perdido St. Regular monthly meeting to discuss the city's progress against blight.

Source: http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2011/12/metro_new_orleans_area_communi_183.html

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UUP, CSEA, other unions suing state over insurance hikes (updated ...

United University Professions, which represents 35,000 academic and professional faculty on 29 State University of New York?state-operated campuses, announced this afternoon that it is suing the state over an extra 2 percent hike in health-insurance rates for nearly 4,000 retirees. The union filed the lawsuit in federal court in Albany today and seeks a reversal of the hikes, which took effect in October.

A number of other unions also filed complaints in federal court, including the Civil Service Employees Association, the Public Employees Federation, the New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association, New York State Troopers PBA, New York State Police Investigators Association and AFSCME Council 82. Together, the unions represent nearly all state employees.

?What the Cuomo Administration is trying to do is pull the rug out from under state retirees, many of whom planned their retirements based on when they felt they could afford to retire,? PEF President Ken Brynien said in a statement. ?These decisions were based on a promise and expectation of what their health insurance costs would be. Changing the rules after the fact is outright wrong.?

A spokesman for the governor could not immediately be reached for comment.

UUP retirees had been paying 10 percent of the cost of premiums for individual coverage and 25 percent for family plans. The state increase is on top of annual hikes in premium rates imposed by health-insurance carriers, according to UUP.

?The state?s action to unilaterally raise the level of?contributions retirees pay for their health insurance is?unconstitutional, arbitrary and capricious, and amounts to a breach of?our contract,? UUP President Phil Smith said in a statement. ?It?s totally wrong?to saddle our retirees who are on fixed incomes with this unexpected?increase in their health insurance costs.?

The union is charging that the state violated a federal law that prohibits states from impairing contracts. The lawsuit claims the action was ?arbitrary and capricious? on the grounds that the state ?extended a change intended for retirees not covered by a union contract. UUP?s retirees have contractual protection.?

?These individuals served the public with distinction for years, only?to be ambushed by such an increase,? Smith said.

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'W.E' Composer Talks Golden Globes, Making Music With Madonna

In talking about mainstream award shows and the predictability of their annual nominees lists, the Golden Globes are often the hardest to predict in that their nominees always include a few unexpected surprises. This year, no one was perhaps more pleasantly surprised at hearing the 2012 nominations than composer Abel Korzeniowski, who scored a Best [...]

Source: http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2011/12/28/we-composer-talks-golden-globes-making-music-with-madonna/

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BYU football: Cougars are expecting Tulsa?s tricks in Armed Forces Bowl.

Fort Worth, Texas ? BYU coach Bronco Mendenhall, who doubles as the football team?s defensive coordinator, probably watches less football on television than any coach in the country.

But even Mendenhall has noticed the abundance of trick plays in the dozen or so bowl games played so far this bowl season.

?When you have extra preparation [time] ? normally after a week or a week and a half, you are looking for things to do ? I think that?s why you will see more plays that are a little bit unusual, just because of the extra time,? he said.

Which brings the Cougars to their opponent in Friday?s Armed Forces Bowl (10 a.m., ESPN), the Tulsa Golden Hurricane. BYU is expecting a lot of trickery from the Conference USA team and not just because Tulsa used several ?gadget plays? in 2007, when it rolled up 595 yards and 55 points on the Cougars.

?Especially when they get to what most people refer to as the red zone, or the blue zone, that?s kind of part of their identity already,? Mendenhall said after the Cougars? practice on Wednesday. ?My guess is we will see some we haven?t seen yet. ? No way can we predict which one it is going to be, but we have put an emphasis on it and hopefully that will be enough.?

As for the Cougars? offense, expect business as usual, said running back JJ Di Luigi.

?We are going to run our basic stuff,? he said. ?No need to change it now. It has been working, so why change??

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Slowly sinking in

Approximately 16 seniors will be playing their final games as Cougars on Friday, including Di Luigi. Linebacker Jordan Pendleton is also with the team but won?t play after having had season-ending knee surgery last month.

?It is a little weird, a little surreal right now,? said Di Luigi, who graduated earlier this month. ?I think it will set in after the game. ? I mean, it is a sad time, and it is a happy time at the same time.?

More problems for Putnam

Senior Matt Putnam?s college football career is over. The BYU defensive end will not play in Friday?s game because he is academically ineligible, Mendenhall announced after Wednesday?s practice. Putnam apparently failed to improve an incomplete grade in one class dating back to last summer when academic struggles kept him from playing in the first five games of the season.

Putnam recently had surgery on a broken finger but that was after learning he would not be eligible for the game.

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Source: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/cougars/53195144-88/cougars-football-byu-tulsa.html.csp

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Murray Postell, 85, Port Charlotte, Florida

Murray was born on March 16, 1926 and passed away on Sunday, December 25, 2011.

Murray was a resident of Port Charlotte, Florida.

A Chapel services will be held on Wednesday December 28, 2011 at 10:00AM from Kays-Ponger Uselton Funeral Home 2405 Harbor Boulevard Port Charlotte Fl, Burial will follow after the service at Sarasota National Cemetery with military honors. A gathering of family and friends will be from 9:45Am until the time of the services.

Source: http://nbc2.tributes.com/show/Murray-Postell-93015802

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Review: 'New Year's Eve' drops the ball (AP)

"New Year's Eve" is the second in a remarkably shallow series of holiday-themed, celebrity-stuffed confections from director Garry Marshall and screenwriter Katherine Fugate, following their 2010 "Valentine's Day" collaboration. Of course, the really good stuff will come once they get to "Columbus Day," or maybe, just maybe, "Ash Wednesday."

Many of the elements are the same as they were for "Valentine's Day," just moved back on the calendar a few weeks, with the script again weaving together a dozen or so plot lines that crisscross a holiday prone to sentimentalizing.

If there is some kind of world record for schmaltz, this may have set it. Included here are first kisses, midnight rendezvous, dying fathers, newborn babies, husbands at war and trapped strangers. It's narcotic mawkishness, with notes played on heartstrings like a 12-string guitar.

Though it's pure, rosy fantasy on screen, this is cynical, paint-by-the-numbers entertainment, sold with a gaggle of stars spread across its movie poster like a telethon lineup.

The threads of romance emanate from ? where else? ? New York's Times Square. Hilary Swank plays a character running the ball drop festivities, at which a famous rocker (Jon Bon Jovi as "Jensen") is to perform, and where various police keep watch, including one played by Chris "Ludacris" Bridges.

Some of the footage from these scenes came from last year's New Year's in Times Square shot by cinematographer Charles Minsky. This, surely, is the film's biggest accomplishment: The atmosphere is very true to the Times Square celebration.

Katherine Heigl plays a chef catering a pre-party featuring Jensen, who happens to be her ex-boyfriend. Her sous chef is Sofia Vergara of "Modern Family."

Abigail Breslin, now a teenager, is hoping to join her friends in Times Square, but her mother (Sarah Jessica Parker) won't let her. Jessica Biel, with husband Seth Meyers, is going into labor, competing for the new year's first baby against a rival couple (Sarah Paulson, Til Schweiger).

Michelle Pfeiffer plays a meek office assistant who quits her job (John Lithgow plays her record-label executive boss, a good bit of casting that should have spawned laughs) and hires a courier (an ultra-confident Zac Efron) to help her accomplish a list of resolutions.

Ashton Kutcher, as a bearded grouch, gets stuck in an elevator for hours with backup singer Lea Michele. (I crossed my fingers that bathroom needs would spoil their budding romance, but alas.) Most incredulous, perhaps, is the pairing of nurse Halle Berry and dying Vietnam veteran Robert De Niro.

En route to love and new beginnings, the many characters run around familiar New York tourist attractions and pair off predictably.

Editor Michael Tronick deserves credit for stitching all of these corny story lines together smoothly. None of the characters are more than cardboard cliches, but the cast is likable and pretty enough (there are some rom-com pros here, including Heigl and Josh Duhamel) that most are able to swallow the pallid dialogue without causing inadvertent laughs.

The cameos keep coming until the end, with even Mayor Michael Bloomberg dropping by. After all, this is as much an ad for New York as it is a movie. And I'm pretty sure I spotted Knick Amare Stoudemire as the credits rolled. Obviously, the NBA lockout was very hard on players.

And it's during these lighthearted extras and outtakes at the end of "New Year's Eve" where the first and only honest moment of the film occurs. Carla Gugino, who plays the OB/GYN delivering the expected babies, hints at the crassness of the enterprise. In a gag, she emerges from between Biel's legs with not a child, but "Valentine's Day" DVDs.

Congratulations. It's dreck.

"New Year's Eve," a Warner Bros. Pictures release, is rated PG-13 for language, including some sexual references. Running time: 117 minutes. One and a half stars out of four.

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Motion Picture Association of America rating definitions:

G ? General audiences. All ages admitted.

PG ? Parental guidance suggested. Some material may not be suitable for children.

PG-13 ? Special parental guidance strongly suggested for children under 13. Some material may be inappropriate for young children.

R ? Restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.

NC-17 ? No one under 17 admitted.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111206/ap_en_re/us_film_review_new_year_s_eve

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Report: Sandusky talks about Paterno, case

FILE - This Nov. 5, 2011 file photo provided by the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General shows former Penn State football defensive coordinator Gerald "Jerry" Sandusky, who sexually abused a boy more than 100 times, then threatened his family to keep him quiet about the encounters, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011 that details new accusations not included in criminal charges against him. (AP Photo/Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General, File)

FILE - This Nov. 5, 2011 file photo provided by the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General shows former Penn State football defensive coordinator Gerald "Jerry" Sandusky, who sexually abused a boy more than 100 times, then threatened his family to keep him quiet about the encounters, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011 that details new accusations not included in criminal charges against him. (AP Photo/Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General, File)

NEW YORK (AP) ? Former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky said Joe Paterno never spoke to him about any suspected misconduct with minors, the New York Times reported Saturday.

Sandusky has been charged with 40 counts of molesting eight boys over 15 years and is free on bail while awaiting a preliminary hearing on Dec. 13 .

Penn State's board of trustees fired Paterno on Nov. 9 because it felt the football coach didn't go far enough in alerting authorities after an assistant coach said he told Paterno he saw Sandusky assaulting a young boy in the football building showers in March 2002.

During a lengthy interview at his lawyer's home, Sandusky told the newspaper he and Paterno never spoke about the alleged 2002 incident or a 1998 child molestation complaint investigated by the Penn State campus police.

"I never talked to him about either one," Sandusky said. "That's all I can say. I mean, I don't know." He worked for Paterno for nearly 30 years.

Sandusky said he never sexually abused any child and that prosecutors have misunderstood his work with children.

"They've taken everything that I ever did for any young person and twisted it to say that my motives were sexual or whatever," Sandusky told the Times. "I had kid after kid after kid who might say I was a father figure. And they just twisted that all."

He is accused of mining the ranks of his Second Mile charity to find underprivileged boys to abuse. Sandusky also said that the charity never restricted his access to children until he became the subject of a criminal investigation in 2008.

He said he regularly gave money to the disadvantaged boys at his charity, opened bank accounts for them and gave them gifts that had been donated to the charity.

"I tried to reward them sometimes with a little money in hand, just so that they could see something," he said. "But more often than not, I tried to set up, maybe get them to save the money, and I put it directly into a savings account established for them."

"I never bought a computer for any kid; I had a computer given to me to give to a kid. I never bought golf clubs. People gave things because they knew there would be kids. They wanted to get rid of things."

Asked about his physical interaction with children who were not his own, Sandusky said that aspect of the relationships "just happened that way."

"I think a lot of the kids really reached out" for wrestling and hugging, he said.

The paper said he grew most animated when talking about his relationships with children and most disconsolate when he spoke of Paterno and Penn State, and the upheaval caused by his indictment.

"I don't think it was fair," he is quoted as saying.

During the interview, Sandusky said his relationships and activities with Second Mile children did cause some strain with Paterno. He told the paper he worried that having some children with him at hotels before games or on the sideline during games, could have been regarded as a distraction by Paterno.

"I would have dreams of we being in a squad meeting and that door fly open and kids come running through chasing one another, and what was I going to do?" he said. "Because, I mean, Joe was serious about football."

Associated Press

Source: http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/347875155d53465d95cec892aeb06419/Article_2011-12-03-Penn%20State-Abuse-Sandusky/id-a8012bd871bb44faa89cea40c9da7035

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Watch: Obama: 'Now's the Time to Step on the Gas' (ABC News)

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Official: 13 hurt when fans storm Okla. St. field

Fans tear down a goal post, injuring some participants, after Oklahoma State defeated Oklahoma 44-10 in an NCAA college football game in Stillwater, Okla., Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Brody Schmidt)

Fans tear down a goal post, injuring some participants, after Oklahoma State defeated Oklahoma 44-10 in an NCAA college football game in Stillwater, Okla., Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Brody Schmidt)

Oklahoma State quarterback Brandon Weeden, center, celebrates with fans following a 44-10 victory over Oklahoma in an NCAA college football game in Stillwater, Okla., Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

A fan hangs from the goal post it was tore down in celebration of Oklahoma State's 44-10 win over Oklahoma in an NCAA college football game in Stillwater, Okla., Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Oklahoma State fans carry a goal post they tore down following the Cowboy's 44-10 win of rival Oklahoma in an NCAA college football game in Stillwater, Okla., Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Brody Schmidt)

Oklahoma State quarterback Brandon Weeden, center, celebrates with fans following a 44-10 victory over Oklahoma in an NCAA college football game in Stillwater, Okla., Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) ? Thousands of fans stormed the field and tore down goalposts after Oklahoma State's 44-10 victory over archrival Oklahoma, leaving at least 13 people injured, including two in critical condition, an emergency medical official said early Sunday.

Michael Authement, who heads the command post at emergency medical provider LifeNet EMS, told The Associated Press that a throng so big took to the field as the game ended that some fans were trampled and one person fell at least 15 feet onto concrete during a wild celebration by Oklahoma State fans.

"They won the game and stormed the field and ripped down the goalposts and some were jumping off the stands and hit the field and others got trampled. It was a nasty deal," Authement said.

He said the crowd was so big it took police at least 45 minutes to clear the crowd from the field at Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater.

"There were thousands of people. Thousands of people stormed the field. You couldn't move there were so many people," he added.

Authement said nine ambulances, including six from LifeNet, rushed 11 of the injured away and the two in critical condition were flown to Oklahoma City hospitals. He said he knew of leg fractures but didn't have any details on the extent of the injuries, though two of the 13 had minor injuries and were treated at the scene and released.

An Oklahoma State University police central dispatcher said she had no immediate details to release when contacted by AP and the public information officer did not immediately return messages seeking comment. Stillwater police and the Oklahoma highway patrol also had no immediate comment.

Associated Press

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[OOC] Dieties of Rumble!

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FFFFFFFFFF BRO WELCOME BACK!

The hall Monitor has a good sense of smell though, and he'll be able to tell your character is a Djinn unless we can be clever about this...how about a magic necklace that hides your Djinn qualities?

so clever....

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Wouldn't it be kind of obvious that he was a Djinn though, considering they can all beat the living crap out of humans?

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Djinn vary in strength and ability. Some have powers some don't. Some are fast and others are strong. Spectrum's Djinn character is more of a spy type Djinn.

I think your character's ordeal as half Djinn could be that his Djinn parent was a rather strong Djinn and a huge tyrant, the headmaster could have saved him after finding his crib when he defeated your character's Djinn parent? All up to you on how to work that out.

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Well whatever's keeping him hidden he better not take it off at any time. And as a little plea before too many come, can we limit the number of people who can be Djinn/Half-Djinn?

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This will be it! The characters from the both of you are directly involved in the underlying plot of this rp and that's why you are allowed to be the way you are, but that's it. No one else gets to be a Djinn/half Djinn.

Aw look at you, being all Hall Monitor-y already!

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Well there's always a lot less to criticize when mystical stuff isn't open for everyone to abuse, so that means I don't have to deal with as many unreasonable people here.

And doesn't the icon need to be a square with 100x100 pixels? Other than that, the icons for roleplays and characters occasionally don't show changes until you clear your cache for some reason.

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....stupid photobucket is being stupid. I already cropped it and stuff. Why isn't it showing up properly!? And what's a cache?

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A Cache is where the internet saves the fact that your continuously logged into websites even if you close the browser. I'm not sure on the exact details but clearing it's like a more thorough form of clearing your history.

Edit: As a little side note towards Spectrum; we started elementalists a few days ago so if you want to make your post you should probably start before you have too large of a backlog to read through.

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so in order to fix that I would need to log out and log back in?

and I just realized that I gave the wrong picture up there....my bad (uniforms as icon wtf). Icon is below.

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I'm not 100% positive if it'll fix it but something similar happened before when I cleared it, but yeah you'll probably be logged out of anything you're currently logged into.

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@Life: *waves hand* Noooot to worry, ol' buddy, ol' pal, ol' friend. Trust me when I say, I'm well aware on how to contain my characters and keep them in check. I have never once modded and I don't intend to now. ^^ But, all in all, "unreasonable" is definitely not a word to describe me. >

@One: Sure, we can work that out! I re-read everything. Sorry, I kinda jumped ahead of myself because I really wanted to see about getting the same spot. >< I read the other stuff over, though. I can add in/change/take out anything you'd like me to do for my character. I don't want him to be over-bearing or under-bearing. In between and perfect in your eyes is what I'm going for! x3 Ah, the icon I see is a flowery thing.

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@Life: Oh! We did!? A few days ago!? Augh! I'm sorry! I hadn't even noticed! I forgot I joined that RP. X_x Sorry! I've been busy lately! And I'm in a few other RPs... Not that I can't keep up with this one or anything! Haha.. No, surely, I can.

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IT WORKED, you are a genius Lifecharacter!
And Spectrum here is an entertainer of minds, a weaver of pretty words and interesting sentences. You'll like her trust me ;)

Spectrum, I would accept your character as is anyway, but feel free to edit and do as you please. Submit the final draft and I'll look it over <3

Next on my list of things to do is to revise my own character and get her up. Then I must go help fly society by costructing a coven of witches and their history. But as it stands, the roleplay is officially open and ready for business!

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@One: Me? All that stuff? Hahaha! I've never been complimented so nicely before! xD But at least I'm awesome-approved. I might be able to have the character up tonight...like, late. I'm currently working on two other character sheets for two other RPs.. Then I need to post in one place. But after that, I'll be good to remake Kenver's character sheet for you. ^^ I really hope more people sign up, though! If not, I know enough people I can drag along if you really wanted. But anyway, hooray for being open~! I'm excited all over again.

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November chilled retailers stuck in a rut (Reuters)

(Reuters) ? Earlier hours and bigger promotions were the keys to success for several U.S. retailers in November, while chains that held fast to their same old holiday season strategies were dealt a blow.

Among retailers that reported monthly tallies there were clear winners, including Macy's Inc and Saks Inc, and clear losers, such as Kohl's Corp and J.C. Penney Co Inc.

Overall, sales at stores open at least a year rose, as was expected, during a critical month for the industry.

Retailers must now show whether they can keep driving profitable sales or if deep discounting and consumer disinterest beyond Black Friday weekend bargains will lead to a repeat of 2010's November boom and December bust that many experienced.

"Our concern is that deep discounting in November pulled forward sales out of December," said Ken Perkins, president of Retail Metrics.

Retailers rolled out midnight door-buster sales Thanksgiving night, free shipping for online orders and other special deals to entice those who may have been reluctant in the face of economic pressure, although some chains, such as J.C. Penney, decided not to go too crazy with changes this year.

"It's definitely a mixed bag," said Matt Arnold, a consumer analyst at Edward Jones in St. Louis. "It almost seems like the chains that were catering to a higher-income consumer seemed to be more the winners and more discount-oriented chains, in many instances, got off to a weaker start."

Kohl's 6.2 percent drop in same-store sales was the steepest decline among retailers and missed analysts' expectations by the widest margin. Its shares fell 7 percent.

Penney said its decision to open at 4 a.m. on Black Friday, rather than at midnight as Macy's, Kohl's and others did, hurt its performance on that day and its in-store stores remained soft throughout the holiday weekend. However, traffic on its website was strong over the weekend, but those sales will not be reported until the company's December tally.

The 20 chains that had reported monthly same-store sales as of Thursday morning posted an average increase of 3.1 percent, according to Thomson Reuters. In November 2010, such sales jumped 5.5 percent.

Click here for a graphic: http://link.reuters.com/zeb45s

The tally provides just a glimpse into total spending, as major chains such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc and Best Buy Co Inc do not issue monthly reports.

PROMOTIONS RULE

Retailers now must do what they can to see profitable gains for the rest of the holiday season -- a difficult task as many industry watchers expect that shoppers under financial stress will hold back after their weekend binge.

"Clearly, retailers bent over backwards to juice sales up for the holiday weekend," said Kurt Salmon retail strategist John Long.

He plans to watch traffic at stores this weekend to see if Black Friday was a sustainable trend or just an anomaly.

Macy's shares rose to their highest level since October 2007 after the chain said quarterly same-store sales could surpass its expectations if November's trends continue.

Meanwhile, weaker-than-expected same-store sales at Target Corp and Gap Inc showed that shoppers remained selective.

"The consumer has become insanely focused on promotions," said David Bassuk, head of the global retail practice at AlixPartners. "The consumer is willing to spend money, that's the good news. But consumers needs to be convinced."

Gap's discounts were not as aggressive as analysts said they wanted to see.

"This is just the start of the holiday selling season and we expect December to remain fiercely competitive and highly promotional," said Glenn Murphy, chairman and chief executive officer of Gap.

Over at Target, people who bought did spend more, but fewer came out to buy. Toys was one of the worst performing categories, it said. Target said it expects a "competitive and promotional environment" to persist in December with the main focus still on value.

Women's clothing retailer Talbots Inc also expects a challenging and promotional holiday season. Its shares tumbled after a disappointing quarterly loss.

Michael Niemira, chief economist of the International Council of Shopping Centers, said a same-store sales gain of 3.2 percent in November came in slightly below his expectations of 3.5 percent to 4 percent. The ICSC expects December will be stronger, with same-store sales up 3.5 percent to 4 percent.

Analysts cautioned that investors need to look at the full holiday season, not just Black Friday weekend. Those total weekend sales soared to $52.4 billion, according to the National Retail Federation, which expects full holiday season sales to rise 2.8 percent.

"Until the entire holiday season is over there is really no verdict that you can render," said Edward Jones' Arnold.

(Reporting by Jessica Wohl and Brad Dorfman in Chicago, Phil Wahba and Dhanya Skariachan in New York and Nivedita Bhattacharjee in Bangalore; Editing by Maureen Bavdek)

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Slowdown sparks scramble to shore up China growth (AP)

SHANGHAI ? China's leaders are reversing their two-year effort to cool the economy, seeking to counter slowdowns in manufacturing and property that are dragging growth lower and threatening to spur unrest.

In the latest sign the world's No. 2 economy is weakening faster than thought, business surveys released Thursday showed manufacturing contracted in November for the first time in nearly three years.

That news came a day after Beijing moved to invigorate business activity by easing credit curbs, ending a long campaign to take some fizz out of rapidy expanding economy. China's leaders had resisted easing lending curbs out of fear that opening the spigots might revive an outright investment boom and re-ignite inflation.

High living costs are risky for China's communist leaders because they erode the economic gains that underpin the ruling party's claim to power. But slowing growth is another peril: already news of labor unrest at factories in the south suggests that workers are being squeezed as exporters juggle tight credit and slowing demand.

The decision by the People's Bank of China to reduce the amount of money that China's commercial lenders must hold in reserve by 0.5 percent of their deposits "is a clear signal that Beijing now sees the balance of risks as lying with growth rather than inflation," said Stephen Green, an economist with Standard Chartered in Shanghai.

The European debt crisis and feeble U.S. recovery have weakened demand in China's biggest export market, while at home efforts to curb inflation by cooling the property market are hurting a wide range of industries heavily dependent on housing and other construction.

The worsening conditions are no surprise to Chen Xiaoyan, a saleswoman at the Cangnan Qianku Qingfeng Pet Supplies Craft Factory in Wenzhou, a manufacturing base that has been hit especially hard by tight credit policies, leaving many factories short of operating cash.

"It was hard enough to do business last year. This year is the hardest," said Chen. "Our profit was 30 percent lower last year and it will be down another 10 percent this year," she said. Materials costs have come down in recent months, but labor costs have not, said Chen.

Worries over erring on the side of too fast growth are being overshadowed by greater alarm over a deeper slump as conditions worsen overseas.

"They're stuck," Patrick Chovanec, an associate professor at Tsinghua University's School of Economics and Management in Beijing said of China's policymakers.

That explains a comment by Vice Premier Wang Qishan to U.S. trade negotiators last week that "an unbalanced recovery is better than a balanced recession," he said.

The Chinese economy is one of the few still growing at a respectable pace, and Beijing's leaders intend to keep it that way.

China's economic growth eased to a still-robust 9.1 percent in the quarter ending in September from 9.5 the previous quarter. But indicators showing export industries and some other areas of the economy were cooling more sharply raised fears of job losses and possible unrest.

In the manufacturing sector, the activity gauge of the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing fell an greater-than-expected 1.4 percentage points to 49 in November, well below the 50-level that signifies expansion. That was the first contraction in manufacturing activity since early 2009.

Another manufacturing survey by HSBC showed an even steeper decline, with its PMI dropping to 47.7 in November from 51.0 in October.

The property market also appears to have reached a turning point, at least in the biggest cities. New home sales fell 17 percent by transaction volume in China's top 20 cities in July-September compared with a year earlier.

Sharp discounts by some property developers have angered home buyers who bought when the market was at its peak, with some staging protests or storming real estate company offices.

"They promised us the price of our apartment would never go down, that it would only increase," complained Zhu Hongxia, a property owner in Shanghai who was standing with others outside the office of China Vanke, the country's biggest developer.

"You can't decrease the price suddenly by such a big amount," Zhu said.

While many homeowners have been angered by the drop, the government is seeking to prevent prices from surging further out of reach of most families. Leaders say property curbs will stay in place despite signs the effort to deflate the bubble is reverberating throughout an economy that already was slowing.

The construction slowdown has prompted builders to cut jobs ? losses that have fallen heavily on unskilled migrant laborers.

Beijing Xuanyu Construction Co. in Shunyi on the outskirts of Beijing, a subcontractor on apartment projects, has cut its workforce of construction site laborers from 100 a year ago to about 70, according to Liu Jun, a manager.

The core staff of about 200 engineers, project managers and administrators so far is unaffected, Liu said. He said bricklayers are paid about 200 yuan ($32) a day and lower-skilled workers at least 140 yuan ($23).

"The volume of business has declined," Liu said. "Our workforce costs are too high."

China is striving to shift its economy toward greater dependence on consumer demand, rather than construction investment and exports. But they remain key drivers in this developing economy, and the job-scarce U.S. recovery and Europe's recent upheavals do not bode well: export growth has fallen steadily since hitting a peak of nearly 36 percent in March.

China's monthly trade surplus with the 27-nation European Union fell 10.3 percent from a year earlier to $13 billion in October as countries that use the euro common currency struggle to contain a sovereign debt crisis.

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China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing (in Chinese): http://www.cflp.org.cn

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Business Writer Joe McDonald contributed from Beijing and researcher Fu Ting from Shanghai.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111201/ap_on_bi_ge/as_china_economy

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Canada 'won the War of 1812,' forging nationhood: U.S. author

In a relatively rare admission for an American scholar, a leading U.S. historian who authored a provocative new tome about North American military conflicts states bluntly that Canada won the War of 1812.

Johns Hopkins University professor Eliot Cohen, a senior adviser to former U.S. secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, writes in his just-published book Conquered Into Liberty that, ?ultimately, Canada and Canadians won the War of 1812.?

And Cohen acknowledges that, ?Americans at the time, and, by and large, since, did not see matters that way.?

The book also echoes a key message trumpeted by the federal Conservative government in recent weeks as it unveiled ambitious plans to commemorate the bicentennial of the War of 1812 over the next three years: that the successful fight by British, English- and French-Canadian and First Nations allies to resist would-be American conquerors ? at battles such as Queenston Heights in Upper Canada and Chateauguay in Lower Canada ? set the stage for the creation of a unified and independent Canada a half-century later.

?If the conquest of (Canada) had not been an American objective when the war began, it surely had become such shortly after it opened,? Cohen argues in the book. ?Not only did the colony remain intact: It had acquired heroes, British and French, and a narrative of plucky defense against foreign invasion, that helped carry it to nationhood.?

In an interview with Postmedia News, Cohen observed that, ?all countries have to have these myths ? not in the sense of falsehoods, but really compelling stories that are, in fact, rooted in some kind of truth, even if they?re not the complete truth.

?And the War of 1812 gives Canada that,? he continued. ?It gives you some foundation myths. It gives you Laura Secord. It gives you heroes.?

Cohen, who advised the Bush Administration on geopolitical strategy from 2007 to 2009, said the War of 1812 ?was the last point at which the United States thought really seriously about trying to take Canada by force of arms.?

It?s clear, he added, that ?there were a lot of senior American leaders who thought the outcome of the war would be the forcible annexation of Canada ? thinking, not entirely without reason, that there would be some segment of the (Canadian) population that would welcome that.?

There were, in fact, deep roots for such thinking in the U.S. Rebel forces during the American War of Independence had launched a northward invasion ? ultimately unsuccessful ? nearly four decades before the War of 1812.

In 1775, a rebel pamphlet distributed among Canadians in present-day Quebec warned that they would be ?conquered into liberty? by the invading revolutionaries from the South, an oxymoronic appeal to join in the revolt against British rule, and which Cohen captured in the title of his book as a sentiment which still echoes in contemporary U.S. foreign policy.

Subtitled ?Two Centuries of Battles Along the Great Warpath that Made the American Way of War,? the 400-page survey of North American history from 1690 to 1871 contends that the national mindsets of the U.S. and Canada were profoundly and enduringly shaped by struggles over the land and water routes between Montreal and New York City, principally Lake Champlain, Lake George and the Hudson River.

And while Cohen?s book highlights the fact that the U.S. won the principal War of 1812 clash in that crucial corridor ? the Battle of Plattsburgh in September 1814 ? he concludes that ?the nominal causes for which (the Americans) had fought the war had advanced not an iota? by the time a peace treaty had been signed and hostilities ended in early 1815.

U.S. forces ?had failed in their objective of conquering Canada,? Cohen writes. ?They had suffered humiliating defeats at the hands of numerically inferior enemies; the Royal Navy had driven American commerce from the seas; and American national finance had suffered severely.?

But like Canada, which emerged victorious from the War of 1812 and more aware of itself as a potential nation, the U.S. salvaged a solid ? even strengthened ? sense of national identity, Cohen argues.

?Some of this has to do with myth, understood as powerful stories that frame a deeper conception of one?s history,? he writes. ?They clung to the victorious naval duels of the USS Constitution, the ?bombs bursting in air? over Fort McHenry, the fleet action on Lake Erie, the Battle of New Orleans . . . and ? very much ? Plattsburgh.?

Even as late as the U.S. Civil War in the 1860s, Cohen said in the interview, a ?substantial body of opinion? persisted among American political leaders ?that sooner or later, Canadians will decide that they want to join the United States.?

But, added Cohen, even the most ardent annexationists in the U.S. had come to believe by then that the absorption of the Canadian colonies by the United States would only happen ?on the initiative of Canadians.?

rboswell@postmedia.com

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