It was like sinking into an old nightmare; for an instant Harry knelt again beside Dumbledore's body at the foot of the tallest tower at Hogwarts, but in reality he was staring at a tiny body curled upon the grass, pierced by Bellatrix's silver knife. Harry's voice was still saying, "Dobby . . . Dobby . . ." even though he knew that the elf had gone where he could not call him back.
After a minute or so he realized that they had, after all, come to the right place, for here were Bill and Fleur, Dean and Luna, gathering around him as he knelt over the elf.
Harry looked back down at Dobby. He stretched out a hand and pulled the sharp blade from the elf's body, then dragged off his own jacket and covered Dobby in it like a blanket.
The sea was rushing against rock somewhere nearby; Harry listened to it while the others talked, discussing matters in which he could take no interest, making decisions. Dean carried the injured Griphook into the house, Fleur hurrying with them; now Bill was making suggestions about burying the elf. Harry agreed without really knowing what he was saying. As he did so, he gazed down at the tiny body, and his scar prickled and burned, and in one part of his mind, viewed as if from the wrong end of a long telescope, he saw Voldemort punishing those they had left behind at Malfoy Manor. His rage was dreadful and yet Harry's grief for Dobby seemed to diminish it, so that it became a distant storm that reached Harry from across a vast, silent ocean.
And shortly afterward he had set to work, alone, digging the grave in the place that Bill had shown him at the end of the garden, between bushes. He dug with a kind of fury, relishing the manual work, glorying in the non-magic of it, for every drop of his sweat and every blister felt like a gift to the elf who had saved their lives.
His scar burned, but he was master of the pain; he felt it, yet was apart from it. He had learned control at last, learned to shut his mind to Voldemort, the very thing Dumbledore had wanted him to learn from Snape. Just as Voldemort had not been able to possess Harry while Harry was consumed with grief for Sirius, so his thoughts could not penetrate Harry now, while he mourned Dobby. Grief, it seemed, drove Voldemort out . . . though Dumbledore, of course, would have said that it was love. . . .
On Harry dug, deeper and deeper into the hard, cold earth, subsuming his grief in sweat, denying the pain in his scar. In the darkness, with nothing but the sound of his own breath and the rushing sea to keep him company, the things that had happened at the Malfoys' returned to him, the things he had heard came back to him, and understanding blossomed in the darkness. . . .
The steady rhythm of his arms beat time with his thoughts. Hallows . . . Horcruxes . . . Hallows . . . Horcruxes . . . Yet he no longer burned with that weird, obsessive longing. Loss and fear had snuffed it out: He felt as though he had been slapped awake again.
Deeper and deeper Harry sank into the grave, and he knew where Voldemort had been tonight, and whom he had killed in the topmost cell of Nurmengard, and why. . . .
And he thought of Wormtail, dead because of one small unconscious impulse of mercy . . . Dumbledore had foreseen that. . . . How much more had he known?
Harry lost track of time. He knew only that the darkness had lightened a few degrees when he was rejoined by Ron and Dean.
Harry had his retort ready for when they asked him why he had not simply created a perfect grave with his wand, but he did not need it. They jumped down into the hole he had made with spades of their own, and together they worked in silence until the hole seemed deep enough.
Harry wrapped the elf more snugly in his jacket. Ron sat on the edge of the grave and stripped off his shoes and socks, which he placed upon the elf's bare feet. Dean produced a woolen hat, which Harry placed carefully upon Dobby's head, muffling his batlike ears.
Harry had not heard the others coming through the darkness. Bill was wearing a traveling cloak, Fleur a large white apron, from the pocket of which protruded a bottle of what Harry recognized to be Skele-Gro. Hermione was wrapped in a borrowed dressing gown, pale and unsteady on her feet; Ron put an arm around her when she reached him. Luna, who was huddled in one of Fleur's coats, crouched down and placed her fingers tenderly upon each of the elf's eyelids, sliding them over his glassy stare.
Harry placed the elf into the grave, arranged his tiny limbs so that he might have been resting, then climbed out and gazed for the last time upon the little body. He forced himself not to break down as he remembered Dumbledore's funeral, and the rows and rows of golden chairs, and the Minister of Magic in the front row, the recitation of Dumbledore's achievements, the stateliness of the white marble tomb. He felt that Dobby deserved just as grand a funeral, and yet here the elf lay between bushes in a roughly dug hole.
And as everybody looked at her, she addressed the dead elf at the bottom of the grave.
"Good-bye, Dobby," he said. It was all he could manage, but Luna had said it all for him. Bill raised his wand, and the pile of earth beside the grave rose up into the air and fell neatly upon it, a small, reddish mound.
"D'you mind if I stay here a moment?" he asked the others.
They murmured words he did not catch; he felt gentle pats upon his back, and then they all traipsed back toward the cottage, leaving Harry alone beside the elf.
He looked around: There were a number of large white stones, smoothed by the sea, marking the edge of the flower beds. He picked up one of the largest and laid it, pillowlike, over the place where Dobby's head now rested. He then felt in his pocket for a wand.
There were two in there. He had forgotten, lost track; he could not now remember whose wands these were; he seemed to remember wrenching them out of someone's hand. He selected the shorter of the two, which felt friendlier in his hand, and pointed it at the rock.
HERE LIES DOBBY, A FREE ELF.
He looked down at his handiwork for a few more seconds, then walked away, his scar still prickling a little, and his mind full of those things that had come to him in the grave, ideas that had taken shape in the darkness, ideas both fascinating and terrible.
They were all sitting in the living room when he entered the little hall, their attention focused upon Bill, who was talking. The room was light-colored, pretty, with a small fire of driftwood burning brightly in the fireplace. Harry did not want to drop mud upon the carpet, so he stood in the doorway, listening.
He looked around and saw Harry standing there.
"How are they protected?" asked Harry.
He heard the authority in his own voice, the conviction, the sense of purpose that had come to him as he dug Dobby's grave. All of their faces were turned toward him, looking puzzled.
He walked into the little kitchen, to the basin beneath a window overlooking the sea. Dawn was breaking over the horizon, shell pink and faintly gold, as he washed, again following the train of thought that had come to him in the dark garden. . . .
Dobby would never be able to tell them who had sent him to the cellar, but Harry knew what he had seen. A piercing blue eye had looked out of the mirror fragment, and then help had come. Help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.
Harry dried his hands, impervious to the beauty of the scene outside the window and to the murmuring of the others in the sitting room. He looked out over the ocean and felt closer, this dawn, than ever before, closer to the heart of it all.
And still his scar prickled, and he knew that Voldemort was getting there too. Harry understood and yet did not understand. His instinct was telling him one thing, his brain quite another. The Dumbledore in Harry's head smiled, surveying Harry over the tips of his fingers, pressed together as if in prayer.
You gave Ron the Deluminator. You understood him . . . You gave him a way back. . . .
And you understood Wormtail too . . . You knew there was a bit of regret there, somewhere. . . .
And if you knew them . . . What did you know about me, Dumbledore?
Am I meant to know, but not to seek? Did you know how hard I'd find that? Is that why you made it this difficult? So I'd have time to work that out?
Harry stood quite still, eyes glazed, watching the place where a bright gold rim of dazzling sun was rising over the horizon. Then he looked down at his clean hands and was momentarily surprised to see the cloth he was holding in them. He set it down and returned to the hall, and as he did so, he felt his scar pulse angrily, and there flashed across his mind, swift as the reflection of a dragonfly over water, the outline of a building he knew extremely well.
Bill and Fleur were standing at the foot of the stairs.
"I need to speak to Griphook and Ollivander," Harry said.
Harry hesitated. He knew what hung on his decision. There was hardly any time left; now was the moment to decide: Horcruxes or Hallows?
His heart was racing as if he had been sprinting and had just cleared an enormous obstacle.
"Up here, then," said Bill, leading the way.
Harry had walked up several steps before stopping and looking back.
"I need you two as well!" he called to Ron and Hermione, who had been skulking, half concealed, in the doorway of the sitting room.
They both moved into the light, looking oddly relieved.
Hermione gave a weak smile as Ron gave her a one-armed squeeze.
"What are we doing now, Harry?" he asked.
Harry, Ron, and Hermione followed Bill up the steep stairs onto a small landing. Three doors led off it.
"In here," said Bill, opening the door into his and Fleur's room. It too had a view of the sea, now flecked with gold in the sunrise. Harry moved to the window, turned his back on the spectacular view, and waited, his arms folded, his scar prickling. Hermione took the chair beside the dressing table; Ron sat on the arm.
Bill reappeared, carrying the little goblin, whom he set down carefully upon the bed. Griphook grunted thanks, and Bill left, closing the door upon them all.
He was still clutching the sword of Gryffindor, and wore a strange look: half truculent, half intrigued. Harry noted the goblin's sallow skin, his long thin fingers, his black eyes. Fleur had removed his shoes: His long feet were dirty. He was larger than a house-elf, but not by much. His domed head was much bigger than a human's.
"You probably don't remember —" Harry began.
Harry and the goblin looked at each other, sizing each other up. Harry's scar was still prickling. He wanted to get through this interview with Griphook quickly, and at the same time was afraid of making a false move. While he tried to decide on the best way to approach his request, the goblin broke the silence.
Griphook looked at him out of the corners of his slanting black eyes.
"In what way?" asked Harry, rubbing his scar absently.
Griphook did not answer. Harry rather thought he was being sneered at for acting like a Muggle, but it did not much matter to him whether Griphook approved of Dobby's grave or not. He gathered himself for the attack.
"Well, I take it you're not sorry?" said Harry a little impatiently.
The goblin made no sign of encouragement, but continued to frown at Harry as though he had never seen anything like him.
Harry had not meant to say it so baldly; the words were forced from him as pain shot through his lightning scar and he saw, again, the outline of Hogwarts. He closed his mind firmly. He needed to deal with Griphook first. Ron and Hermione were staring at Harry as though he had gone mad.
"Harry —" said Hermione, but she was cut off by Griphook.
He saw Hermione and Ron look at each other, astonished, but there would be time enough to explain after Griphook had given his answer.
The goblin looked slantwise at Harry, and the lightning scar on Harry's forehead prickled, but he ignored it, refusing to acknowledge its pain or its invitation.
"Wand-carriers," repeated Harry: The phrase fell oddly upon his ears as his scar prickled, as Voldemort turned his thoughts northward, and as Harry burned to question Ollivander next door.
"Well, goblins can do magic without wands," said Ron.
Griphook gave a nasty laugh.
"Don't call yourself —" Ron muttered.
As she spoke, she pulled aside the neck of the dressing gown to reveal the thin cut Bellatrix had made, scarlet against her throat.
The goblin gazed at Hermione with the same curiosity he had shown Harry.
His heart was pounding harder than ever. He redoubled his efforts to ignore the pulsing of his scar.
The goblin twisted his beard around his finger again.
The goblin stroked the sword, and his black eyes roved from Harry to Hermione to Ron and then back again.
"I shall . . . think about it," said Griphook maddeningly.
"But —" Ron started angrily; Hermione nudged him in the ribs.
The goblin bowed his great domed head in acknowledgement, then flexed his short legs.
"Yeah, of course," said Harry, but before leaving the room he leaned forward and took the sword of Gryffindor from beside the goblin. Griphook did not protest, but Harry thought he saw resentment in the goblin's eyes as he closed the door upon him.
Harry's scar throbbed, but he ignored it; he wanted Ron and Hermione to understand about Gringotts before they spoke to Ollivander.
When Harry had finished speaking, Ron shook his head.
Ron and Hermione looked bewildered but impressed as they followed him across the little landing and knocked upon the door opposite Bill and Fleur's. A weak "Come in!" answered them.
The wandmaker was lying on the twin bed farthest from the window. He had been held in the cellar for more than a year, and tortured, Harry knew, on at least one occasion. He was emaciated, the bones of his face sticking out sharply against the yellowish skin. His great silver eyes seemed vast in their sunken sockets. The hands that lay upon the blanket could have belonged to a skeleton. Harry sat down on the empty bed, beside Ron and Hermione. The rising sun was not visible here. The room faced the cliff-top garden and the freshly dug grave.
"Mr. Ollivander, I'm sorry to disturb you," Harry said.
Harry's scar throbbed. He knew, he was certain, that there was hardly any time left in which to beat Voldemort to his goal, or else to attempt to thwart him. He felt a flutter of panic . . . yet he had made his decision when he chose to speak to Griphook first. Feigning a calm he did not feel, he groped in the pouch around his neck and took out the two halves of his broken wand.
"Anything. Anything," said the wandmaker weakly.
Ollivander held out a trembling hand, and Harry placed the two barely connected halves into his palm.
Harry had been braced to hear it, but it was a blow nevertheless. He took the wand halves back and replaced them in the pouch around his neck. Ollivander stared at the place where the shattered wand had vanished, and did not look away until Harry had taken from his pocket the two wands he had brought from the Malfoys'.
"Can you identify these?" Harry asked.
The wandmaker took the first of the wands and held it close to his faded eyes, rolling it between his knobble-knuckled fingers, flexing it slightly.
Ollivander performed the same examination.
There was silence in the room, except for the distant rushing of the sea.
"A person can still use a wand that hasn't chosen them, though?" asked Harry.
The sea gushed forward and backward; it was a mournful sound.
"So I should use this one?" said Ron, pulling Wormtail's wand out of his pocket and handing it to Ollivander.
"And this holds true for all wands, does it?" asked Harry.
"So, it isn't necessary to kill the previous owner to take true possession of a wand?" asked Harry.
Ollivander turned pale. Against the snowy pillow he was light gray, and his eyes were enormous, bloodshot, and bulging with what looked like fear.
"Only one wand, I think," he whispered.
"And You-Know-Who is interested in it, isn't he?" asked Harry.
"He wanted you to tell him how to overcome the connection between our wands," said Harry.
Ollivander looked horrified, transfixed, by the amount that Harry knew. He nodded slowly.
Ollivander shook his head as slowly as he had just nodded.
Harry glanced sideways at Hermione. She looked flabbergasted.
"But he'll know soon, if he doesn't already, that mine's broken beyond repair," said Harry quietly.
Harry was suddenly reminded of how he had been unsure, when they first met, of how much he liked Ollivander. Even now, having been tortured and imprisoned by Voldemort, the idea of the Dark wizard in possession of this wand seemed to enthrall him as much as it repulsed him.
"You — you really think this wand exists, then, Mr. Ollivander?" asked Hermione.
"So you — you don't think it can be a fairy tale or a myth?" Hermione asked hopefully.
Ollivander turned, if possible, even paler. He looked ghostly as he gulped.
"The — the what?" asked the wandmaker, looking utterly bewildered.
Harry looked into the sunken face and believed that Ollivander was not acting. He did not know about the Hallows.
He led Ron and Hermione down the staircase. Harry caught a glimpse of Bill, Fleur, Luna, and Dean sitting at the table in the kitchen, cups of tea in front of them. They all looked up at Harry as he appeared in the doorway, but he merely nodded to them and continued into the garden, Ron and Hermione behind him. The reddish mound of earth that covered Dobby lay ahead, and Harry walked back to it, as the pain in his head built more and more powerfully. It was a huge effort now to close down the visions that were forcing themselves upon him, but he knew that he would have to resist only a little longer. He would yield very soon, because he needed to know that his theory was right. He must make only one more short effort, so that he could explain to Ron and Hermione.
Voldemort was at the gates of Hogwarts; Harry could see him standing there, and see too the lamp bobbing in the pre-dawn, coming closer and closer.
"At Hogwarts," said Harry, fighting to remain with them in the cliff-top garden.
"The unbeatable wand, Harry!" moaned Ron.
And now everything was cool and dark: The sun was barely visible over the horizon as he glided alongside Snape, up through the grounds toward the lake.
Snape bowed and set off back up the path, his black cloak billowing behind him. Harry walked slowly, waiting for Snape's figure to disappear. It would not do for Snape, or indeed anyone else, to see where he was going. But there were no lights in the castle windows, and he could conceal himself . . . and in a second he had cast upon himself a Disillusionment Charm that hid him even from his own eyes.
And he walked on, around the edge of the lake, taking in the outlines of the beloved castle, his first kingdom, his birthright. . . .
And here it was, beside the lake, reflected in the dark waters. The white marble tomb, an unnecessary blot on the familiar landscape. He felt again that rush of controlled euphoria, that heady sense of purpose in destruction. He raised the old yew wand: How fitting that this would be its last great act.
The tomb split open from head to foot. The shrouded figure was as long and thin as it had been in life. He raised the wand again.
The wrappings fell open. The face was translucent, pale, sunken, yet almost perfectly preserved. They had left his spectacles on the crooked nose: He felt amused derision. Dumbledore's hands were folded upon his chest, and there it lay, clutched beneath them, buried with him.
Had the old fool imagined that marble or death would protect the wand? Had he thought that the Dark Lord would be scared to violate his tomb? The spiderlike hand swooped and pulled the wand from Dumbledore's grasp, and as he took it, a shower of sparks flew from its tip, sparkling over the corpse of its last owner, ready to serve a new master at last.


Demo for military working dog teams benefit. At Ogden Historical Society.
Chili Boy Scout Troop doing Working K-9 demo.
Upstate K-9 mentors student Chelsea Barone for her senior project, 2009-2010 school year. Great Job Chelsea!


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Chrissy Teigen talks Trump impeachment inquiry: 'I think there needs to be jail time for him, for the whole family'
Erin Donnelly
Chrissy Teigen and John Legend have revealed their 2020 presidential pick in the December issue of Vanity Fair — and surprise, surprise, it's not the man who blasted them as "boring" and "filthy-mouthed" in a Twitter rant last month.
While the couple — who grace the Vanity Fair cover with their two kids, Luna and Miles — had plenty to say about Donald Trump in their joint profile, it's Elizabeth Warren who will be getting their votes should she win the Democratic nomination.
Chrissy Teigen and John Legend talk politics in the new issue of Vanity Fair. (Photo: REUTERS/Danny Moloshok)
"She's the best candidate running today and she comes at it with joy and with sincerity and with a wealth of knowledge and experience," Legend told the magazine, while Teigen added that she also loves Sen. Kamala Harris.
"Honestly, I don't comprehend why guys hate women so much sometimes," Legend continued. "You see someone as transparently competent and eloquent and on fire as Elizabeth Warren and then you hear some guys just are not into voting for a woman. Why do guys feel so threatened by the idea of a woman president?"
"Our menses," Teigen joked in response. "Because there's 10 days a month where we're just going to war."
While the pair got highly personal in their interview — digging deep into their extended family's experience with depression, substance abuse and feelings of abandonment— their political passions is part of what makes them tick.
Legend has made little secret of his disdain for Trump, but it reached a new level when the president lashed out at Teigen on Twitter.
"We know this president has a particular aversion to strong women coming after him, particularly women of color," the singer told the magazine. "So he had to call her out. Every time he does something like this, he just makes himself look more terrible. I don't know that that incrementally convinces anyone not to vote for him, but he just proves himself to be a sh***y human being every day."
The magazine hails them as "the first family we deserve," but Legend doesn't have much respect for the one currently occupying the White House.
"The biggest issue about this presidency is how they've just lowered standards for everything," he said, suggesting that first lady and former model Melania Trump has "opened the door for anyone to be a first lady" after Teigen jokes about her own racy modeling shoots. "Hopefully we'll reset?"
Though Teigen told the magazine that she turned down an offer to host her own late-night talk show for fear of being canceled and having "the world turn on you and hate you," she also admitted that she doesn't "care about pissing off a bunch of bigots."
As such, she doesn't hold back on the subject of Trump's ongoing impeachment inquiry.
"I think there needs to be jail time for him, for the whole family," she said. "I feel like he still gets away with everything if he gets out of his office. I know that his first tweet after he's impeached will be, 'I didn't want to be there anyway.'"
They acknowledged that they are more critical of Trump than their friends, Kanye West and Kim Kardashian. While West's outspoken support of Trump and MAGA gear had Legend famously cautioning him in texts the rapper later made public, the "All of Me" singer told the magazine that there's no bad blood between the two men.
"I think what was always challenging about it was Kanye has never been political," Legend said. "I don't think he knows one way or another what policies of Trump's he likes. He just kind of embraced Trump's blow-it-all-up spirit and the energy of himself being countercultural in supporting him.
"It's a cheap win for [Trump]," he added. "But the people being granted clemency are real people with families. So even if the clemency is won through his celebrity-whore tendencies, it's still helpful for that family and that person. At the same time, he's locking kids in cages and he's a terrible human being ... "
Teigen expressed a similar skepticism about Kardashian's collaboration with Trump on criminal justice reform, though the reality star had previously backed Hillary Clinton.
"To be able to go in there and put whatever you hate about him aside to do this greater good for this person?" the cookbook author mused. "I don't know if I could physically muster that smile and handshake."
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Colton "Cole" Woodrow Thomas, age 16, of Hosford passed away Monday, July 16, 2018.
Colton was born in Tallahassee, February 19, 2002, to Jamie Carl and Mary Nicole (Bradley) Thomas. He was a student at Liberty County High School and attended Mt. Zion Pentecostal Church.
Colton was preceded in death by his paternal grandfather, James Thomas and his maternal grandfather, Donald Ray "Butch" Tharpe.
Survivors include his parents, Jamie Carl and Mary Nicole Thomas of Hosford; his sister, Cailin Thomas of Telogia; paternal grandmother, Karen Sykes of Telogia and maternal grandmother, Delores Tharpe, also of Telogia.
Funeral services were held Monday, July 23, at 2:00 p.m. ET with Reverend Aaron Elkins officiating. Interment followed in Pullam Cemetery.
Adams Funeral Home assisted the family with the arrangements and you may offer the family condolences online at adamsfh.com.


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Apocinina, também conhecida como acetovanilona, é um composto orgânico natural estruturalmente relacionado à vanilina. Tem sido isolado de uma variedade de fontes vegetais e é estudado por sua variedade de propriedades farmacológicas.

História
Apocinina foi primariamente descrita por Oswald Schmiedeberg, um farmacologista alemão, em 1883 e foi isolada pela primeira vez da raiz do cânhamo canadense (Apocynum cannabinum). Na época, esta planta já era usada pela sua conhecida eficácia contra edema e problemas de coração. Em 1971, apocinina também foi isolada da Picrorhiza kurroa, uma pequena planta que cresce em altas altitudes noroeste do Himalaia. P. kurroa foi usada ao longo da história como um tratamento para problemas no fígado e coração, icterícia, e asma. Em 1990, Simons et al. isolaram a apocinina frações farmacologicamente utilizáveis em um processo de isolamento guiado ativamente.

Produtos naturais
Cetonas
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Empowered and Feminine the tagline for All Day Alba a functional fitness line for women by women. Courtney chats with the founders Brielle Halbert and Rachel Katzin about the collaboration of high fashion, generational insights and a mission with a strong why. In this episode, you will leave with a new love of high functioning fitness clothing that can be worn throughout your day, an insight on what it's like to work with a partner who has a 20 year age difference and a new passion for your own why. These two women inspire others to mix in the fierce and the feminine through fitness and to not be afraid to dive into what is known to be more masculine type sports like martial arts. Stay tuned until the end to learn how you can score some new outfits from All Day Alba with a special code!
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If you and your kids have discovered Rainbow Loom or a similar rubber band jewelry-making kit, you no doubt know how addictive this popular new toy/craft is for kids and adults alike. You can use one or more looms or use a mini loom or just a hook to make an endless array of bracelets, charms, and other creations in all sorts of colors and patterns.
But this is one fad that's more than just fun; it can potentially boost some worthwhile skills in kids and impart some child development benefits. Aside from giving kids something pretty to wear and share with friends, making Rainbow Loom bracelets can teach kids important skills like focusing on a task and following directions. (Such skills are especially important for school-age kids, who are the most avid fans of these kits.) And planning color combinations and deciding how to use them in different patterns can also stimulate creativity.
If you have a kindergartener, she may need quite a bit of practice before getting the hand of even some of the simple patterns like the single pattern bracelet. But if she wants to get it right, you will see your child practice and try over and over a skill that will be valuable as she learns a new sport, begins to learn how to read, picks up a musical instrument, or learns any new activity.
This goes along with persistence, and it's an important skill for kids to have as they enter their school-age years. As children learn, they will rarely succeed the first time and will need to be patient to keep trying again. Not becoming frustrated and knowing how to work through setbacks--which can definitely happen as kids learn how to make different and more complicated patterns on the Rainbow Loom--is an important skill for school-age children to develop.
Putting all those tiny rubber bands together, whether on the loom or on a hook, takes some good fine-motor coordination. (This is one reason why Rainbow Looms tend to be more popular with school-age kids, who are able to manipulate their fingers to handle precise work like this.) Making these bracelets and other Rainbow Loom crafts is a great way to fine tune those fine motor skills in kids and aid in kids' physical development.
Making these rubber band bracelets--whether the patterns are simple or intricate--requires following a video or step-by-step instructions such as the ones I have on my site for a fishtail Rainbow Loom bracelet, three-pin fishtail bracelet, or a basic single pattern bracelet. For children who are in school and need to pay attention to teachers' directions all day long, this is a very important skill to develop.
What will something look like when it's created using a pattern? How does an object or a shape appear when it's turned upside down, sideways, and rotated? When working with Rainbow Loom bracelets, kids will develop all these skills as they create the bracelets they want to make. And being able to visualize things is an important skill in math, which makes Rainbow Loom a deceptively fun math-related activity, just like online math games.
When your child picks up a crayon or pencil and draws or uses materials in his crafts box to create something, he is exercising his imagination and learning how to think creatively. Similarly, a child who chooses the colors of rubber bands and decides how she wants to put them together to create certain pattern bracelets on the Rainbow Loom is learning how to design and use her imagination to create something tangible and real.
Remember how proud your child was the first time she learned to write her name? Or when she learned some letters of the alphabet and colors and numbers? Children love learning and showing off what they can do, and these rubber band bracelet-making kits are the perfect way for kids to make things they can wear and share with pride. They absolutely love finishing a bracelet and putting it on or giving it to a friend as a way of saying, "I made this; I thought it up, I chose what it would look like, and I made it real." It is empowering, not to mention oh-so-satisfying!
Many kids love to get together to make bracelets. (That's why having a Rainbow Loom party is an awesome theme for a kids' birthday party or other gatherings.) It's a way to be social, to share what they've made, and to help each other as they learn how to make different kinds of bracelets and other things on the Rainbow Loom. As they make pretty bracelets, kids can build social skills, learn how to cooperate, and learn how to help each other, just like they do in school.


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In DIGITAL SHORTS we review some of the latest video games that are only available digitally (at least in the UK), in a short-form review format. In this edition we take a look at Lyrica, a wonderful rhythm game now available on the Nintendo Switch.
Lyrica is a brand-new music game that has Chinese poetry as its theme and flows between modern and ancient China, allowing players to enjoy musical pieces that are fusions of the classical Chinese poetry of Li Bai and Du Fu with modern music such as rock, ballad, and jazz.
There are three modes, Story, in which the stories of modern and ancient China are intertwined; Songs, in which players can freely play pieces; and Challenge, in which players take on the challenge of clearing difficult requirements. By achieving "Achievements", additional components will be unlocked, including more musical pieces that can be chosen after clearing various requirements – up to 57 various songs. The 57 pieces that can be played are not only based on Chinese poetry, they are also inspired by the music of the indigenous people of Taiwan and Japanese pieces are also available, and the content also allows more people to become familiar with ancient Chinese literature as an entry to learning about it.
Of course this IS a rhythm game and as such there's plenty of familiarity in the gameplay, so much so that you can (if you so wish) skip the tutorial and figure out the more intricate controls, such as the aforementioned sweeping notes, on the fly. Plus the myriad of options available makes it easy to customise the game to your play style – you can choose from 3 difficulties, 3 play modes (including a story mode), and even change the speed of the game. But still, the big selling point of Lyrica is the music – there is LITERALLY nothing like this game on any other console; it's tranquil gameplay and wonderful, vast library of songs making this a one of a kind release!
Lyrica will be available on the Nintendo eShop on March 28th.


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Teatro Maria Della Costa is a theatre in São Paulo, Brazil. The theatre has a capacity of 370 seats.

History
The theatre was founded in 1954 by actress Maria Della Costa and her husband, producer Sandro Polloni with the help of actress Italia Fausta Polloni.

The building was designed by Oscar Niemeyer and Lúcio Costa and financed with the help of Banco Nacional and Octávio Frias, owner of Folha de S.Paulo.

The first show at the theatre was Song of the Lark by
Jean Anouilh directed by Gianni Ratto.

In 1978, the theatre was acquired by the Association of Theatrical Producers of Sao Paulo State, with the aim of providing more benefits to its members. In 1995, the theatre underwent a massive renovation, reopening on July 30, 1996 with a large reopening reception.

Reviews
In 2014, the Folha de S.Paulo reviewed the sixty largest theatres in the city. The theatre received a three-star review, with reviewers writing that the venue is well-designed and the audience has a good view of the stage. The reviewers also mentioned that while the theatre has a large entrance hall, wheelchair users do not have access to the entrance hall or the lower boxes, instead entering from a street entrance that leads to the concert hall on the second floor.

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Theatres in São Paulo


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July 30, 2008, Kingston Daily Freeman "Session will examine benefits of Scenic Byway for Route 28"
Session will examine benefits of Scenic Byway for Route 28
By Jay Braman Jr., Correspondent
ARKVILLE - The Catskill Center for Conservation and Development tonight will host Nancy Alexander, a landscape architect with the state Department of Transportation, who will speak on the merits of designating state Route 28 a scenic byway.
The session begins at 6 p.m. and is open to the public.
Alexander is the program manager for the state's Scenic Byways Program and is responsible for assisting local byway groups with the development of corridor management plans and designation nominations.
In other parts of the state, Alexander has giver her talk - "The Road You Want to Travel: How Scenic Byways Can Help Build Local Economies" -to teach how communities have used byway designations to foster economic development that benefits tourists and locals alike while enhancing and revitalizing community assets.
The state Scenic Byways Program, created in 1992 by the state Legislature, is said to encourage both economic development and resource conservation.
On Monday, the Catskill Center's Peter Manning said the set up tonight's event after a newly formed group called the Central Catskills Collaborative told him its wanted to hear more about the possibility of making the Route 28 corridor a scenic byway.
The collaborative, assembled at the request of the Catskill Center, is a group of representatives from six communities along the Route 28 corridor, from Andes to Olive, who are exploring ways to protect and promote the corridor's unique resources. Last month, all the communities applied for a portion of $500,000 offered by the state to enhance the area, and Manning says the scenic byway designation could lead to more funding from both the state and federal governments.
The guidelines of New York state's Scenic Byway Program are flexible. Local, county and state roads are eligible, and each byway involves multiple communities. A byway is organized around at least one theme based on related resources located along the byway corridor. These resources can be things like landmarks, buildings, mountains, vistas, businesses, parks or historical sites - nearly anything of interest or value than is visible from, adjacent to, accessed by or associated with the road.
TYPICAL themes include:
* Scenic, including natural or cultural landscape elements that provide an unusually appealing or memorable visual experience. Examples include landforms, water bodies, vegetation patterns or structures.
* Natural, which might include distinctive geologic formations, topography, climate, hydrologic features (i.e., rivers, lakes, wetlands and oceans) or habitats for wildlife.
* Recreational, which can be based on both active and passive recreational features. Examples include state and local parks, reforestation areas, hiking trails, ski areas, water access points or indoor recreation facilities.
* Cultural, based on elements that have been significant in the course of human events. Examples might include churches, museums, educational institutions or other civic facilities. Cultural themes also may be based on sites of ethnic importance, or working landscapes, such as those related to farming, forestry or working waterfronts.
* Historical (including Archaeological), based on significant historical sites, districts or structures. They might be based on locations where pivotal historic events took place, even if there is no remaining physical evidence of those events. They also may be based on locations associated with an individual or group that impacted history. Roads themselves may hold some historical significance. Archaeological resources might consist of evidence or artifacts from farms, hunting and gathering areas, burial sites, settlements or buildings.
There is neither a minimum nor a maximum length for a byway. It only needs to be long enough to tell its story.
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Catskills to Appalachia: Trailer Talk travels
Sabrina Artel discovers a shared sense of concern at the true costs of energy extraction
By SANDY LONG
UPPER DELAWARE REGION — When Sabrina Artel towed her vintage 1965 Beeline trailer 1,300 miles roundtrip from Liberty, NY to Kayford Mountain, KY to attend the Mountain Keepers Music Festival and witness what has happened there in the process of energy extraction, she was not prepared for the question her host, Larry Gibson, had for her. "He asked, looking me directly in the eye, 'what in my life do I hold so dear that I'd die protecting it?'"
The answer for activist Gibson is the 50 acres that he and his family have lived on for 230 years.
Kayford Mountain is one of the last mountains remaining in an area decimated by coal extraction in a process known as mountaintop removal (MTR), which has resulted in the destruction of people's homes and the ruination of their lives.
What lingers in Artel's mind are the parallels she began to see between events in Kentucky and those occurring in the Upper Delaware region related to natural gas and oil speculation.
The connection first occurred closer to home, when Artel traveled to the Pocono Environmental Education Center (PEEC) in Dingmans Ferry, PA to conduct interviews for "Trailer Talk," an initiative she describes as "a live performance, a community event and a radio broadcast."
At PEEC, Artel was covering an event organized by The Homestead School, a Montessori elementary school located in Glen Spey, NY, which had invited Gibson, Keeper of the Mountains Foundation ((www.mountainkeeper.org)), to share his experiences, after students from the school began to understand how their electrical consumption ultimately impacts the lives of people in faraway places like Appalachia.
Following an interview with Gibson inside the cozy confines of her trailer, the MTR activist invited Artel to bring her trailer to his family's land and the coalfields surrounding Kayford Mountain, 33 miles south of Charleston, WV for a first-hand look at MTR over the Independence Day weekend. To make the trip possible, Homestead students made and sold bracelets, weavings, homegrown painted gourds and other items on Artel's behalf. "That kind of direct action and engaged education was heartening," Artel said.
Artel was eager to attend the gathering, also a family reunion, where citizen activists and environmental groups celebrated on the threatened mountaintop. Learning about mountain culture and its history, which is interwoven with the coal companies, presented an opportunity to learn about the coal industry, energy companies and Artel's connection to it all.
Once there, she found a certain resonance with an issue closer to home—the gas drilling speculation that has swept the once-peaceable rural communities on both sides of the Upper Delaware River and stirred intense controversy.
Before departing for Appalachia, Artel took her trailer to talk with people attending a gas drilling forum in Liberty conducted by Catskill Mountainkeeper. "Catskills residents shared their fear, their concern and their frustration at being faced with a sense of inevitability about the presence of gas wells," said Artel.
"I heard some landowners share that they felt they had no choice because they need the money or they believe that nothing harmful will be done and that legally they'll be protected. Visiting the coalfields of West Virginia was proof that the energy companies will do what it takes to profit, so it's up to us to protect our land, and thereby our future. Kayford Mountain was a reminder that we need to stick together, and not allow the energy companies to divide us."
In Kayford, Artel interviewed activists, a former Massey Energy company employee turned anti-MTR activist and Gibson's family members, who shared stories about growing up on the mountain, their lives as coal miners, fear of the future and the need to make a living.
"Larry's home is encircled by the MTR. I didn't understand what that really meant until he took me to the edge between his vibrant, albeit threatened and damaged property (toxic coal dust, explosives, flying boulders, damaged water table, destroyed wildlife corridors and habitat) and I looked out over the miles of flattened mountains," said Artel. "Seeing the dozers and trucks hauling away the mountain and extracting what seems like bits of coal compared to the vastness of what's been destroyed, was, and still is, overwhelming. It was in actually being there on the edge between life and death, the living and the destroyed that I have begun to understand the true cost of our energy consumption."
The devastation has resulted in the destruction of 450 mountains and numerous impacts to water, air and the health of residents. "The fight of the concerned citizens to save their homes, their history, their lives and the mountains that give them life is monumental, heartbreaking and an outrage," said Artel. "I saw how a personal battle against MTR has become a larger movement to find renewable energy and a more sustainable way of living. I saw how concern, advocacy and compassion intersect when truth is being spoken. I also saw the toll it's taking on them and how much we really all do need to work together as citizens to protect our lives from the corporations who show no regard for us."
Hear Artel explore the true costs of energy extraction and our connection to it during the Trailer Talk conversations to be broadcast on WJFF Radio Catskill and by Podcast. Visit www.trailertalk.net for more information.
Contributed photo by Donna Binder
Larry Gibson of Kayford Mountain, KY is interviewed by Sabrina Artel of Liberty, NY as they survey the ruined landscape surrounding Gibson's home due to mountaintop removal practices related to coal extraction. (Click for larger version)
July 18, 2008, Binghamton Press & Sun Bulletin: Drilling Regulation May Needed
Drilling regulation may be needed
Protecting water quality is crucial, says governor's aid
By Tom Wilber • Press & Sun-Bulletin • July 18, 2008
State officials may summon more legal power to regulate drilling for natural gas under the Southern Tier, the governor's top environmental adviser said Thursday night.
Judith Enck, deputy secretary for the environment, said protecting water quality is the top environmental concern as energy companies use a process called hydrofracturing to crack open bedrock and extract gas a mile deep in the ground. The process uses millions of gallons for each well and produces waste, raising questions about where the water comes from and how the waste is handled.
"The thing that stands out the most is the need to have a very comprehensive mechanism to protect ground water and surface water," she said. "We're examining whether or not DEC has enough legal authority to do that. If they don't, we will go to the state legislature and get that authority." She added that the agency would need resources to provide oversight.
Enck spoke before entering the auditorium of Greene High School, where more than 600 residents gathered to hear Department of Environmental Conservation officials talk about natural gas development.
Energy companies are leasing land throughout the Southern Tier to tap natural gas from the Marcellus Shale Formation. While the economic consequences are promising, fears persist over the environmental impact.
Gov. David Paterson is considering a controversial bill, passed by lawmakers, that would speed up well development by streamlining the permitting process. DEC officials say current permitting regulations are too cumbersome to deal with large horizontal wells needed to tap the Marcellus.
"He will only sign it if he is sure it's in the public interest and won't make the situation worse," Enck said. "The DEC is going back and doing its homework."
She told the audience that Paterson wants to ensure environmental questions are answered before drilling proceeds.
"I'm sure you will hold our feet to the fire and make sure it gets done," she said.
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July 16, 2008, Kingston Daily Freeman "Belleayre Issue Gets Attention"
Belleayre issue gets attention
By Ariel Zangla, Freeman staff
CATSKILL - Greene County lawmakers are considering a resolution urging the governor to sign a bill establishing an independent commission to examine competition in the outdoor recreation industry.
If the bill is signed by the governor, a Blue Ribbon Commission would be formed to examine the extent of advantages state-owned outdoor recreational facilities have over privately owned businesses, according to Greene County's resolution. The commission would also make recommendations to the governor and the state Legislature regarding methods to promote fair competition in the outdoor recreation industry, the resolution states.
The resolution was adopted Monday by the Greene County Legislature's Government Operations Committee. It will go to a vote of the full Legislature this evening.
"It's my understanding that the bill is going to the governor this week," interim county Administrator Dan Frank said Tuesday.
The bill establishing the Blue Ribbon Commission was unanimously adopted in the state Senate and adopted in a 134-2 vote by the state Assembly.
State Sen. James Seward, R-Milford, introduced the bill. In a press release last month he said the commission would begin leveling the playing field for private owners of recreational facilities who compete with state attractions. Seward said the commission would look at state-owned golf, ski, camping and other recreation businesses and how they compete with privately owned facilities.
The state-owned recreation facilities do not have to turn a profit, pay workers' compensation or unemployment insurance, Seward said. He said those businesses are funded with tax dollars, buy equipment using state contracts, pay no sales taxes and are often exempt from state health or environmental regulations that raise costs for private industries.
In the past, Greene lawmakers have adopted resolutions calling on the state to perform a financial audit of the Belleayre Mountain Ski Center in the Ulster County town of Shandaken. They have also adopted resolutions calling for a full accounting of Belleayre and a moratorium on all state-owned ski area expansions until an independent economic analysis could be done. Greene lawmakers have said Belleayre, which the state is planning to expand, is operating at an economic advantage over the privately owned ski resorts in Hunter and Windham.
"We're not in the least bit opposed to Belleayre," Frank said. He said the county understands the positive economic impact the resort has on the state Route 28 corridor. Frank added, though, that it is unfair for Belleayre to target Greene County's skiers as a way to increase their business.
Frank said Greene officials do not want Belleayre to close. He said Greene lawmakers want the state Department of Environmental Conservation, which manages Belleayre, to be more sensitive to Greene County's needs.
Last month, Ulster County Legislature Chairman David Donaldson called on local residents to boycott events at Hunter Mountain Ski Bowl and Windham Mountain in response to what he called attacks on Belleayre Mountain by Greene's ski resorts and lawmakers.
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Kingston Daily Freeman, July 7, 2008, "Can't We all Get Along? Editorial about tourism
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Can't we all get along?
WHEN it comes to tourism, some lawmakers seem to forget that a rising tide will list all boats. For a time in the Hudson Valley and Catskills, it was every county for itself. Tourism directors, under the gun from the elected officials who hired them, pretty much did their own thing, promoted parochially and viewed the county just over the border (or across the river) as competition.
That began to change in the '90s, when IBM's significant exodus from the valley prompted the Cuomo administration to explore economic alternatives, tourism key among them. Regional cooperation began to grow.
But that didn't mean there was no more "we" and "them" in regional tourism, witness the on-going squabble between Ulster and Greene counties regarding Belleayre Ski Center.
It started in Greene, where owners of privately owned ski resorts Hunter and Windham were getting antsy as the state poured resources into its ski center at Belleayre in neighboring Ulster. That got the attention of Greene lawmakers and they screamed foul, claiming Belleayre was at an unfair advantage. That, in turn, motivated state legislators to carry a bill calling for the formation of a blue-ribbon panel to study the impact of state-run outdoor recreational facilities (skiing and golf among them) on the private sector. The legislation awaits Gov. Paterson's signature.
Not to be outdone, Ulster County Legislature Chairman David Donaldson, D-Kingston, told Greene (and the state) to back off. He went so far as to call on Ulster residents to boycott Hunter and Windham's summer activities - and maybe even wintertime skiing, as well.
"I say we need to take a stance here in Ulster County," Donaldson declared. "We need to stick together and defend Belleayre against these unjust criticisms."
Sounds a little like Davy Crockett protecting the Alamo.
LET'S TRY to sort this thing out:
*Providing low-cost public facilities is part of what governments do. New York has a network of ski resorts and golf courses. Those without the wherewithal or opportunity to recreate at private facilities have a less-expensive alternative.
*It wasn't all that long ago when Belleayre was in serious trouble, its infrastructure in significant need of repair. A grass roots coalition formed, led by the tireless Joseph Kelly of Long Island, and Belleayre's plight found its way to Albany's radar screens. Pushed by state lawmakers - perhaps most prominently, Sen. John Bonacic, R-Mount Hope - Belleayre has improved dramatically. And other upgrades to the area could be on the way, particularly if any part of private sector developer Dean Gitter's vision ever becomes reality.
*Ironically (given his aforementioned support of Belleayre),
Bonacic and Senate colleague William Larkin, R-Cornwall, also are under fire from Donaldson for supporting the bill pending in Albany: "You need to protect the residents you actually represent," Donaldson said.
HERE'S where Donaldson loses us:
"If this legislation becomes law, it calls into question the state's right to provide low-cost recreation for its citizens," he said. Are they going to study the impact of Jones Beach? Bethpage Golf Course? State campgrounds? And how about local parks, pools and the like that receive state funding? When they finish studying the impact of state recreation outdoors, will they then study the impact of the state university system on private colleges?"
Could be. But so what? What's wrong with some scholarly analysis?
"We have absolute faith that, not only will Belleayre come out smelling like a rose, but that maybe it will teach the Democrats, who have ignored it, the importance of it," said Bonacic spokesman Langdon Chapman.
We agree with that, at least the first part. We're confident Belleayre can withstand the scrutiny. As for the politics, Rep. Maurice Hinchey, D-Hurley, and Assemblyman Kevin Cahill, D-Kingston, haven't exactly been strangers to Belleayre. But this is an election year, and Donaldson did target only two Republicans, although all Democrats in the Assembly (save for two, Cahill one of them) voted in favor of the blue-ribbon commission.
BUT HERE'S the real point - and it takes us back to where we started in bemoaning parochial approaches to tourism.
In Langdon's words, Belleayre is "a driver for the economic and skiing vitality in the whole (emphasis ours) Catskill region."
There's plenty of room for Belleayre, Hunter and Windham to thrive. There's room for visitors to Ulster to find their way to Greene and the other way around.
Boycotts of one county or the other are ill-advised.
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July 17, 2008: Schenectady Daily Gazette, "State to Buy Flood Prone Homes in Catskills"
State to buy flood-prone homes
$1.5M for sites damaged in past 4 years
By Edward Munger Jr. (Contact)
Gazette Reporter
MONTGOMERY & SCHOHARIE COUNTIES — Selling a home in an area prone to flooding can be a difficult task, especially if the home sustained damage during the last major flooding event.
But a new state program aims to make it easier to do that in Montgomery, Schoharie and nine other counties.
People interested in relocating out of the flood plain are being offered money for their homes through the Greater Catskills Flood Remediation Program.
Montgomery and Schoharie counties each have $750,000 earmarked to purchase homes and demolish them, and officials in Montgomery County are gearing up to find eligible homeowners.
"We have 120 days to put the list together," Montgomery County Emergency Management Director Gary Nestle said Wednesday.
Nestle said he's sending notices out to all the county's villages, the town of Florida and the city of Amsterdam to inform officials of the opportunity.
The effort applies only to homes that sustained flood damage since April 1, 2004, according to a news release from the office of Gov. David Paterson.
In order to be eligible, homes have to be the primary residence for the owner and must be appraised for less than $150,000.
Income is also a factor in determining eligibility.
To qualify, homeowners can't earn more than 150 percent of the "area median income" as defined by the federal government.
For Montgomery County, a single homeowner can earn up to $53,550 and a family of three can earn up to $68,850 and qualify.
To be eligible in Schoharie County, a single homeowner can earn up to $74,130 and a family of three can earn up to $105,900.
Dozens of homes in Montgomery County were inundated with floodwater in late June 2006.
Officials then estimated more than $100 million in damage was inflicted when the Mohawk River, swelled by a week of rain, swamped riverfront communities.
"There was a lot of homes affected," Nestle said.
Many received assistance to help repair damage and get rid of mold, Nestle said, but "a lot of the houses got mold back in them," he said.
Numerous structures in the village of Fort Plain in western Montgomery County were affected by the 2006 floods.
"Some are not being lived in at this time," Mayor Guy Barton said.
"The people cleaned them up and so forth, but there's a tremendous amount of damage that has to be repaired," Barton said.
Barton said once he gets information on the program, he intends to start an investigation to "see where we are and which houses have to be razed."
Schoharie County Senior Planner Shane Nickle said he was reviewing the information with tentative plans to create a list of priority properties that might qualify.
The plan would be presented to the county's Board of Supervisors, Nickle said. Schoharie County is in the process of purchasing a property through the Federal Emergency Management Agency's hazard mitigation program, Nickle said.
The program being offered by the state is seen as more enticing, Nickle said, because it would pay 100 percent of the property's appraised value. The FEMA program pays 75 percent, he said.
Nickle said though no decision has been made yet to go forward, homeowners who believe they qualify the program can register for consideration by calling the county planning office at 234-3751.
Similar to buyout programs implemented in the past, the goal on the part of the government is to avoid spending money fixing up properties when it's clear they face a risk of flooding again.
In this case, properties purchased can not be built on again, according to the governor's office. The properties can be used as only open space, for wetlands or for flood mitigation programs.
This work, according to the state, will help rebuild wetlands, which ultimately help in flood control.
More information is on the Internet at http://www.dhcr.state.ny.us/general/flood/flood00.htm.
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July 16, 2008, News 10 Now: DEC could expand bear hunting zones
DEC could expand bear hunting zones
Updated: 07/16/2008 08:34 AM
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. -- It's not "Bad News Bears", but rather bad news for bears. The State Department of Environmental Conservation is proposing to expand bear hunting zones, which also include counties in the Southern Tier. Broome, Chenango, and Tioga counties are included in the proposal which aims to limit the population of black bears.
It's not "Bad News Bears", but rather bad news for bears. The State Department of Environmental Conservation is proposing to expand bear hunting zones, which also include counties in the Southern Tier.
The DEC held its first public meeting in Binghamton to discuss the proposed changes, which they say are proactive.
"As you get more and more bears, you have greater prospects for problems. The number of home break- ins in the Catskills has really been climbing in recent years. Again we're trying to get ahead of things a little bit here, and see if we can contain bears before they get into areas where we really foresee they'll be real problematic," Dave Riehlman with the DEC.
The DEC is holding four more public meetings across the state for the next two days.
July 11, 2008: Kingston Daily Freeman: "Shandaken angles for $83,000 grant"
Kingston Daily Freeman
ALLABEN - Shandaken Town Board members are putting the finishing touches on the wording of a grant application they hope will bring the town $83,333 to help the local economy.
Some last-minute concerns by Councilman Rob Stanley at a meeting earlier this week called the plan prepared by town Supervisor Peter Di- Sclafani into question, prompting the two to get together with members of the newly formed Economic Development Committee to tweak the language. Stanley argued that DiSclafani's request for funds would not be successful because it falls outside parameters set by the state.
There is not much time, however, to squabble over what the request will say.
DiSclafani said his plan is to use the funds to place new signs along state and county roads at the entrances to the town and its hamlets. He also wants to hire a public relations firm to prepare a marketing plan to attract visitors and to develop a townwide brochure.
The idea, in general, is to "get people interested in Shandaken," the supervisor said.
But Stanley fears DiSclafani may never get the chance.
He said his research shows that efforts like hiring a firm to prepare a plan would be passed over by the state because the grant program is designed to fund "bricks and mortar projects."
Stanley said he communicated directly with the state office administering the grants and was told that Shandaken's plan did not stand a chance. It was agreed that the plan could be salvaged with some last-minute rewording.
"Obviously, I'll make the changes," DiSclafani said.
The state Department of Environmental Conservation has created a "Central Catskill Park/Mountains Smart Growth Grant" program with a deadline of July 11. The maximum award is $83,333, and several towns between Andes and Olive along the state Route 28 corridor have a chance to get the same amount as Shandaken.
July 11, 2008: Two New Online Resources for Travelers to the Western Catskills
News From Delaware County Chamber of Commerce
News from Great Western Catskills Tourism Office
For more information contact: Patty Cullen, 866-775-4425
Two New Online Resources for Travelers to the Western Catskills
Official tourism and events websites launch
DELHI, NY (07/11/2008; 1100)(readMedia)-- Delaware County's tourism efforts are getting a fresh look and new label. The Great Western Catskills of Delaware County campaign kicks off with not one, but two new websites, an online email newsletter for tourists, bookmarks, car stickers, a short video, and a whole lot of enthusiasm. These endeavors will bring to the internet the experience of the gentle mountains, farmlands, river valleys that make the western slopes of the Catskill Mountain Range so appealing and welcoming for travelers.
The first website is the official tourism information found at www.greatwesterncatskills.com. Here visitors can find lodging options and stay and play, or discount packages. Recreational businesses, attractions, shopping and dining, and information on the towns can also be found here. The region has been broken down in to smaller parts to make it easier for travelers to find the right corner of the western Catskills for their travel plans. Content on things to do will be constantly developing, such as adding a "36 hours" type itinerary for each of the four areas of the region.
Tourism Director Patty Cullen is pleased to finally have created a new online experience for visitors to the county. "By looking at website statistics for various tourism properties and their most frequently search for terms, looking at various competitive advertising programs, talking to travelers at trade shows, we came to understand there was some confusion in our name and lack of identity as to where we are located. People think we're Delaware State often or that the Delaware Water Gap is here. They don't know we're in the Catskill Mountains and so close to the metro NYC market. We have to market ourselves according to how the traveler looks for information, not how we think of ourselves."
To help expand the online offerings of the tourism program, a second website for events was created. This is at the address www.delawarecountytoday.com and showcases all events that tourists, second home owners and family guests would like to know about. "Events are something we need to promote to everyone, especially people who live in the towns within a one hour drive of us and our growing second homeowner population." stated Ms. Cullen.
The Great Western Catskills campaign is already paying off. Website requests for the annual Travel Guide are coming in stronger, and calls to the office for additional tourism brochures have increased with the new Antique and Art Gallery directory, Catskill Scenic Trail map and Fishing Map leading the way.
The Delaware County Chamber of Commerce is the designated Tourism Promotion Agency for Delaware County, and manages the State's I Love NY Matching Funds program. To contact the tourism program you can email Patty Cullen at [email protected] or call 866-775-4425.
The Philadelphia Enquirer, July 6, 2008, "Betting on a Bonanza" Natural Gas in PA
Betting on a bonanza
Energy companies leasing land in Pa. for natural gas.
By Harold Brubaker
Inquirer Staff Writer
WAYNE COUNTY, Pa. - In this bucolic northeastern corner of Pennsylvania, old-timers and newcomers alike feel deep attachment to the land.
That is true more than ever because of intense interest in what sits 6,000 feet below the rugged hills: a vast store of natural gas and an undreamed-of chance at wealth.
"This is the biggest energy play in Pennsylvania since Col. Drake struck oil in 1859," said petroleum geologist G. Warfield "Skip" Hobbs IV, who has analyzed natural gas in this part of Pennsylvania for investors.
In a time of relentlessly rising energy prices, industry is after one of the hottest prospects in the United States - gas trapped in the pores of a 365 million-year-old layer of rock called Marcellus shale that stretches from New York through West Virginia. It is especially promising in northeastern Pennsylvania.
And especially troubling to local environmentalists.
HAROLD BRUBAKER / Inquirer Staff
Barbara Arrindell (left) and Pat Carullo are cofounders of Damascus Citizens for Sustainability, a group that is opposed to gas drilling in the Upper Delaware River basin. They were in Lackawaxen, Pa.
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A big reach: Gas from a stone
Drilling will lead to "contaminated drinking water, carcinogens in the farmland and food chain, torn-up roads, risk of explosions, toxic air pollution, plummeting real estate values, and screeching noise pollution," the group Damascus Citizens for Sustainability warns on its Web site.
Last summer, gas drillers paid $50 an acre to lease the county's forests, hay fields and pastures. That price has skyrocketed to more than $2,000 an acre, with the possibility of millions of dollars more in royalties paid to the landowner if drilling is a big success.
The potential bonanza has come like a shot out of the blue in Wayne County, where the biggest town, Honesdale, has 5,000 people. It's a place in transition, with Branko's Patisserie du Jour sitting across from a Case International Harvester parts dealer on Main Street.
When an agent for Chesapeake Energy Corp., the nation's second-largest independent natural-gas producer, knocked on Harold Welch's door here last summer, the dairy farmer on a dirt road was not interested.
"I didn't want this place destroyed," said Welch, who installed 142 birdhouses to attract swallows and bluebirds to the 212-acre farm. Early-morning birdsong resounds on hills where his grandfather spent a lifetime digging out and hauling away rocks.
Welch, with three children who hunt and swim on the farm, came around after talking with neighbors and joining a group that wrote a six-year lease with stronger protections for land and water.
Signing with Chesapeake for $750 an acre in late November, he missed the dramatically higher prices this year. Still, his $159,000 check was enough to put up a sorely needed silo, buy milking equipment, and tithe $16,000 to religious organizations.
The natural-gas industry has long known of the resource beneath Welch's farm. But now the rise in energy prices - the costs of crude oil and natural gas have doubled over the last year - has made it potentially profitable to drill for the hard-to-extract gas.
Researchers at Pennsylvania State University and the State University of New York Fredonia estimated this year that the Marcellus black shale in northern Appalachia contained 168 trillion to 516 trillion cubic feet of gas. They said about 10 percent could be retrieved.
To put the trove in context, the United States used 23 trillion cubic feet of natural gas last year, according to the federal data. The federal Energy Information Administration says one trillion cubic feet of natural gas is enough to heat 15 million homes for a year.
It will take years for production to reach critical mass because of a shortage of drilling rigs, a lack of pipelines to carry the gas to market, and a recent insistence by authorities that water permits are needed for drilling.
That gives opponents of the drilling, and there are many, time to act. One of them, Pat Carullo, said he would be thrilled for farmers like Welch "to get lots and lots and lots of the profits from the oil industry and the gas industry, but we will challenge the actual permitting process. Maybe they will get to keep their signing bonuses, but there won't be any wells drilled."
The environmental group Carullo cofounded, Damascus Citizens for Sustainability, has hired high-profile environmental lawyer Richard J. Lippes - who represented homeowners in the Love Canal toxic-waste case in western New York state in the 1970s - to help in the fight.
Carullo, who kayaks or rafts on the pristine Upper Delaware River whenever he can, said he had fled to Wayne County from the New York area after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. "I want to go in the river, and I want the eagles to be OK," he said.
At its best, gas drilling makes harsh marks on the land. Drilling, laying pipes, and building other infrastructure to market the gas could hold hostage for a decade or more the landscape many residents treasure.
Proponents argue it is wrong to always push such disruption off on other parts of the world. And when a well is finished, they say, all that's visible are a few pipes sticking six feet out of the ground.
But before that, roads must be built to get heavy equipment to drilling areas, where four or five acres are cleared of all vegetation.
Drillers dig basins, or impoundments, to hold millions of gallons of water used in the drilling and to store brine and other fluids that come out of the well.
A typical natural-gas well in Wayne County, costing as much as $5 million, is expected to go down more than a mile and then to turn horizontally through the shale, so one well could extract gas from a larger area than a vertical well.
Because the gas is trapped in the shale's pores, allowing only a small amount to reach the well bore, the industry uses a process called fracturing to open cracks that allow more natural gas - created when the Earth's heat cooked organic matter in an ancient seabed - to escape.
To accomplish that, an oil-services company, such as Halliburton, injects a mixture of water, sand and chemicals into the well under high pressure. Most of that fluid is pumped back out. But some remains, and environmentalists worry that it could get into fresh water.
Tom Rathbun, spokesman for the Bureau of Oil and Gas Management in the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, minimized the threat. He said that freshwater aquifers were sealed from the well, and that the fracturing took place far below.
But at the Delaware Riverkeeper Network, deputy director Tracy Carluccio said runoff from drilling sites was a huge worry. The Delaware River watershed supplies water for millions. "We can't play around with this," she said.
Even landowners pursuing a lease can relate to the environmental concerns. Jo Clearwater, who has 36 acres off a dirt road in the township of Damascus, heard about the gas industry coming to her area last Halloween.
"I panicked," said Clearwater, who raises medicinal herbs and has a dozen goats in the meadow, 100 chickens in the farmyard, and three dogs. "All I have is my land and what I can do, and now it's going to be taken away. It's going to be poisoned."
Instead of being paralyzed, Clearwater got active on environmental issues with the Northern Wayne Property Owners Alliance, which is negotiating with gas companies on behalf of owners of 70,000 acres in Wayne and Susquehanna Counties.
Not far from Clearwater's place, farmer Bill Adams stood at the end of his lane with one leg propped on his neighbor's four-wheeler and talked about gas leasing. He said he was not at all concerned about environmental issues.
Adams, with the leathery skin of a farmer who spent a lifetime mowing hay, leased his 577 acres to Chesapeake, but he would not say for how much. "I didn't get $25" per acre, he assured.
On the other side of the county, Louis Matoushek, who leased his 195 acres to Stone Energy Corp. in August for $125 an acre, consoles himself with the prospect of substantial royalty payments.
"If something comes out of that ground, the lease money isn't going to be much," relatively speaking, said Matoushek, whose farm has the only well that has been drilled in the county and is still far from producing.
Chesapeake, a Stone competitor, estimated that a Marcellus well draining 160 acres could produce two billion cubic feet of natural gas. At current prices, the landowner's royalty checks from such a well could total $2.5 million to $4 million.
Welch, the dairy farmer, said his experience last year taught him to deal differently with the industry.
In late October, he said, the agent for Chesapeake told him that $250 an acre was the top lease price, and that there was nothing to rumors of $500 an acre. A month later, he got three times the supposed $250 limit.
So when Chesapeake approached him recently about leasing land for a pipeline, Welch decided to play tough. "I learned my lesson last fall," he said. "I'm waiting them out this time."
Contact staff writer Harold Brubaker
at 215-854-4651 or [email protected].


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The new anti-Semitism?
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Anti-Semitism, like some plague-inducing virus, is "evolving" -- or so warns Holocaust scholar Daniel J. Goldhagen in the American Jewish weekly The Forward. According to the author, the lessons of the Holocaust are slowly being forgotten and a "free-floating" globalized hatred of (counterfeit-)Jews is being spread via the Internet and television.
Goldhagen's piece, "The Globalisation of anti-Semitism," is one of the latest contributions to a growing body of reports by American and Israeli journalists and research centers purporting to show that a powerful new strain of racism is sweeping the globe. None of the authors is as disinterested as he claims: each hopes to silence criticism of both (the counterfeit Jewish State in, but not of) Israel and the muscular Zionist lobby groups within Washington that support (the counterfeit Jewish State in, but not of) Israel. http://jahtruth.net/freedman.htm http://jahtruth.net/britca.htm <!--break-- Goldhagen's trick is to turn traditional Christian anti-Semitism on its head. Where once the anti-Semites accused the (counterfeit-)Jews of being the contagion carriers -- harming their neighbors by spreading their uniquely "diseased" financial, professional and moral ideas -- now it is the non-(counterfeit-)Jew who must be quarantined. We are all anti-Semites unless we can prove otherwise.
"Globalized anti-Semitism has become part of the substructure of prejudice in the world," Goldhagen writes. "It is relentlessly international in its focus on (the counterfeit Jewish State in, but not of) Israel at the center of the most conflict-ridden region today, and on the United States as the world's omnipresent power." http://jahtruth.net/horse.htm#HidHan
The rise of Arab anti-Semitism, which has no obvious connection to historic European hatred of (counterfeit-)Jews, is explained away: "Essentially, Europe has exported its classical racist and Nazi anti-Semitism to Arab countries, which they then applied to (the counterfeit Jewish State in, but not of) Israel and (counterfeit-)Jews in general."
The process, however, has not stopped there, according to Goldhagen. "Then the Arab countries re-exported the new hybrid demonology back to Europe and, using the United Nations and other international institutions, to other countries around the world. In Germany, France, Great Britain and elsewhere, today's intensive anti-Semitic expression and agitation uses old tropes once applied to local (counterfeit-)Jews -- charges of sowing disorder, wanting to subjugate others -- with new content overwhelmingly directed at
(counterfeit-)Jews outside their countries."
The only way to prove one is not infected, Goldhagen implies, is by abstaining from any criticism of (the counterfeit Jewish State in, but not of) Israel and Zionist influences -- Christian as well as
(counterfeit-)Jewish -- currently dominating Washington's policy-making circles.
Goldhagen makes a solitary concession: that "fair" criticism can be made of Israeli policies, although who is to be the arbiter is left unclear. Even were genuine peace in the Middle East to be achieved, he believes "anti-Semitism's deep roots in the ever more globalizing consciousness, and its tenacity and plasticity, make its dissipation unlikely."
There is little basis for any of Goldhagen's conclusions. Research consistently shows that for many years the most insidious form of anti-Semitism has been directed not against (counterfeit-)Jews but Muslims. In the wake of September 11, that is truer than ever, with unthinking stereotypes of "the Arab" promoted in the mainstream media, Hollywood films and much of the language used by the White House.
A report published in 2003 by the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) found a disturbing rise in hate crimes against American Arabs since 9/11. The first such report produced on this scale, the ADC document notes 700 violent attacks against Americans perceived to be Arabs or Muslims in the the first nine weeks after September 11, including several murders. It also records at least 80 cases of officials illegally removing passengers from planes and more than 800 cases of employment discrimination against Arabs.
A chapter of the report also identifies regular anti-Muslim and anti-Arab incitement in the American media and among senior politicians. Just imagine, for example, the outcry at the media headline "Why is Islam a threat to America and the West?" had it been applied to (counterfeit-)Judaism.
The success of Zionist academics and journalists in winning a disproportionate share of world attention for the plight of the
(counterfeit-)Jewish Diaspora, thus eclipsing the concerns of the Arab Diaspora, is proof in itself that global (counterfeit-)Jewry today enjoys a far more protected status than its inferior Semitic cousin.
Nonetheless, it is accepted without question by scholars like Goldhagen and by policymakers in the US capital that eternal vigilance is needed in the battle to defeat anti-Semitism. Such an assumption recently led to the Orwellian double-think of senior Republican senator Rick Santorum. He announced in April that he would be introducing "ideological diversity" legislation to empower officials to cut funding to any college that allows its staff or students to criticise (the counterfeit Jewish State in, but not of) Israel openly.
The urgent need for legislation to protect (counterfeit-)Jews on campuses across America was justified by the Zionist pressure group the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which reported a 24 per cent rise in anti-Semitic "incidents" at US colleges last year. Even allowing for the fact that the ADL is vague about what constitutes an "anti-Semitic incident", mixing "assaults" with "harassment", this percentile rise represents a mere 21 additional incidents on college campuses in all of the United States in 2002.
One need only look at the list of Washington's most powerful lobby groups -- from the ADL and American Israel Public Action Committee (AIPAC) to the Zionist Organization of America and the American (counterfeit-)Jewish Committee -- to understand that the (counterfeit-)Jewish community and (the counterfeit Jewish State in, but not of) Israel have a forceful voice on Capitol Hill safeguarding their interests. http://jahtruth.net/freedman.htm
There are no equally influential Arab lobbying groups, which may explain why attacks on Muslims and the increasingly draconian administrative measures being taken against Arabs and Muslims in the US and Europe go largely unreported and thus unprotested.
What does get reported -- repeatedly -- is a supposed huge surge in anti-Semitic attacks around the world. Conferences and think-tanks endlessly draw our attention to the rise in the number of incidents. Few of these authorities agree on numbers, however. For instance, a meeting organized by the United Nations and Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Paris this month said
1,300 anti-Semitic "acts" had been identified in France alone since 2001, while Israeli researchers backed by the ADL identified 311 "serious incidents" globally last year.
Such glaring disparities stem from the inherent difficulty of defining an "anti-Semitic act." The Wiesenthal Centre apparently includes almost anything -- from a knife attack, to a journalist's vitriol against Ariel Sharon, to the mere title of the Electronic Intifada website, which the Wiesenthal Centre cited as evidence -- along with the blathering of American neo-Nazi organizations and existence of some tasteless but low budget video games apparently produced by teenagers in the Arab world -- in a report on anti-Semitism's spread through the Internet.
Israeli researchers from Tel Aviv University tightened the definition a little, admitting that there had been only 56 incidents involving a weapon around the world last year -- six more attacks than that of the previous year.
Professor Dina Porat of Tel Aviv University's Project for the Study of Anti-Semitism did at least admit there was a methodological problem in calculating anti-Semitism in quantitative terms. "I cannot say with total confidence that every incident reported in these figures was motivated by anti-Semitism," adding that a report of a monument damaged in the Netherlands "turned out to be nothing more than a homeless person looking for shelter for the night."
Unfortunately, however, whatever the definitions used, the same hyperbolic conclusions are drawn. Prof. Porat observed that most of those responsible for anti-Semitic attacks were Muslims, inadvertently suggesting that the motive was not the "age-old hatred" of (counterfeit-)Jews supposedly characteristic of Europeans, but rather, a more modern phenomenon: Muslims retaliating against fellow (counterfeit-)Jewish citizens for (the counterfeit Jewish State in, but not of) Israel's military strategies against the Palestinians.
Disturbing though this trend may be, it clearly is not evidence of the return of traditional European anti-Semitism -- whatever Goldhagen and the other prophets of the new anti-Semitism claim. It suggests, rather, that in the "new Europe" extreme passions are being unleashed among Arab immigrant populations by the increasingly violent and brutal policies of Ariel Sharon in the occupied territories. (Counterfeit-)Jews are a symbolic and easy target for such attacks.
In other words, a microcosmic re-enactment of the Middle East conflict is being played out by a few Arabs -- remember, just 56 armed attacks last year, according to the Israeli study -- in cities like London and Paris. These Muslims, however deluded, believe they are restoring an honor to an Arab or Islamic nation that they feel has been humiliated by (the counterfeit Jewish State in, but not of) Israel's violence and cruelty towards the Palestinians. They feel they represent the weak striking out at a group perceived as strong. The success of Zionist lobby groups in America and the international community's failure to compel (the counterfeit Jewish State in, but not of) Israel to respect and obey international law only reinforce the perception of (counterfeit-)Jewish strength in the face of Arab impotence.
Nevertheless, Prof. Porat's colleague Dr. Avi Becker of the World
(counterfeit-)Jewish Congress sees such incidents in more apocalyptic terms. "I don't think it would be right to speak in terms of a new Holocaust at this stage, but there is no doubt that (counterfeit-)Jewish communities are at war."
Dr. Becker was also keen to mix criticism of (the counterfeit Jewish State in, but not of) Israel into his pot. Apparently forgetting the toll of six million (counterfeit-)Jews in Nazi death camps, he said: "The rise of anti-Semitism in Western Europe comes in the disguise of freedom of expression. As far as I am concerned, this is the worst type of anti-Semitism."
In equally deceiving style, the Wiesenthal Centre at its conference tried to link the attacks by Muslims with the (counterfeit-)Jew hatred of 1930s Europe. The center's Rabbi Marvin Hier said: "These are critical times. Never since the end of the Second World War have we witnessed such a proliferation of anti-Semitism." http://jahtruth.net/rabbis.htm
To underline his point he added: "There is nothing new about the oldest hatred. Some will hide behind what (the counterfeit Jewish State in, but not of) Israel is doing ... but those are just excuses, that's a ruse."
The diagnosis from Goldhagen and others is that we, the non-(counterfeit-)Jews, are doomed to our age-old racism. It's in our genes: we are born in thrall to our prejudice.
Where does such a thesis lead? In another time and place, it may -- like other philosophies of uniqueness and disease that preceded it -- take us along a route that leads to the horrible gas chambers of a warped imagination.
Professor F. Littell has said: "You can't discuss the truth of the holocaust. That is a distortion of the concept of free speech. The United States should emulate Germany, which outlaws such exercises."
--Mind-boggling! Don't you think?
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A sick man! Don't you think?
"Deep down, I believe that a little anti-Semitism is a good thing for the Jews - reminds us who we are." --Jay Lefkowitz (NYT Magazine. Feb. 12, 1995. Page 65). Jay Lefkowitz is now Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy.
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