Maineiacs reach radio deal

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LEWISTON ? The Lewiston Maineiacs have found a voice in the community again..

After initially believing there would be no radio feed for the team this season, the Maineiacs and Gleason Media Services reached an agreement this week which will broadcast the team's 68 regular- season games plus any playoff action across the region on the radio.

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The games, along with pre- and post-game shows, will air on WEZR/ AM 1240 (Auburn), WTME/AM 780 (Rumford), and WKTQ/AM 1450 (Paris). The games will also be available online at and at , and the feed will also continue to be available through the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League's Telus live video Webcasts.

"The Maineiacs are an important economic driver to the area and we all must do everything we can to unite behind them," station owner (and Auburn Mayor) Dick Gleason said in a news release Tuesday.

At his first news conference upon arriving in Lewiston, Maineiacs' managing consultant Bill Schurman was doubtful a radio deal would happen this season, which caused some grumbling among the gathered crowd at the Oxford Networks building.

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Schurman on Tuesday had much better news for radio listeners.

"The Gleason family of radio stations has been providing quality local news, information, and entertainment for decades," Schurman said in the release."We are proud that Gleason Media has teamed up with the Maineiacs to help share our excitement of the season ahead with our fans."

The Maineiacs and Gleason Media were partners once before. For the past four seasons, Lewiston's games have been available on WLAM/ AM 1470 and WLVP/AM 870, The Oldies Channel, owned by Nassau Broadcasting Partners.

soccer jerseys This announcement also means the return to the local airwaves for play-by-play man Alex Reed. A graduate of Marshall University in West Virginia, Reed will begin his fourth season behind the microphone for the Maineiacs, and he'll be joined in the booth again this season by D.J. Abisalih, who will again provide color commentary as well as work with the team's media relations department.

"I'm thrilled that we have a radio deal, and that I'm a part of it, and I'm excited to begin a new era in Lewiston Maineiacs hockey," Reed said.

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Mainland hosts have world cup

AUCKLAND MAY consider itself party central for next year's Accutron Watches Rugby World Cup but canny South Island property owners have their own plans to cash in on the tournament.

Despite the South Island securing only one quarterfinal there is high demand for accommodation in the Mainland. Some owners expect to fetch more than $1200 a night for their homes over the course of the competition.

A three-bedroom townhouse in Christchurch, opposite AMI Stadium, is being offered for $750 a night on the website, 80-Minute Game. The owners of a waterfront property in Sumner are asking $500 to $1250 a night. In the central city a small apartment is being offered for $400 a night. In Nelson, rentals for properties range from a comparatively cheap $120 to $500 a night.

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Sue Robinson, who along with her husband Paul runs the 80-Minute Game website, said there was strong international demand for accommodation throughout the South Island, both from fans who wanted to base themselves in one wholesale lingerie spot for the duration of the tournament and from those who wanted to experience as much as possible of the country while here.

"We're getting inquiries from people wanting everything from one night's accommodation to those who want to book out a place for 35 nights," she said.

For those thinking about renting out their homes for the Rugby World Cup, Inland Revenue has a simple message: any rental income is taxable.

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Oh, he's going to Barbados

HE MAY be donating his multi-million-pound earnings from his new biography to a good cause - but it seems Tony Blair and his wife Cherie still have enough money for a new home in the Caribbean.

The couple are house-hunting in Barbados for a villa to add to their already formidable property empire, The Sunday Telegraph understands. They have viewed properties with the intention of buying a holiday home to which they could eventually retire.

The Blairs are believed to have been looking for a house on the former British colony, which has long been their favoured holiday destination, for at least three months. According to sources, hundreds of digital photographs of for-sale properties have been emailed to the couple.

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A senior representative from one of the main estate agents said: "Tony has a lot of friends on the island and has looked at property but he has not purchased anything yet to the best of our knowledge."

A leading solicitor on the island said she expected the Blairs to buy a property through a company - rather than in their own names - in an attempt to disguise the purchase for security and privacy reasons.

A new villa on the island would be the Blairs' eighth property: it was disclosed this weekend that the former prime minister and his wife have spent Pounds 975,000 on a maisonette in west London for their only daughter, Kathryn, 22, a student, bringing the family's portfolio to seven homes worth up to Pounds 15million.

The couple are said to be open minded about whether they buy an existing house in Barbados or whether they buy a plot with planning permission for a new build.

A secluded six-bedroom villa with a swimming pool would cost about $6.2million (Pounds 4 million), although Mr Blair is also believed to be keen to have a tennis court so he can play his favourite sport on his own land.

One of the locations the couple are said to favour is Apes Hill, where some 200 upmarket homes are being built on prime land about 1,000ft above sea level. Plots alone range wholesale lingerie in cost from $400,000 (Pounds 258,000) to $10 million (Pounds 6.4million) - before a brick has been laid.

In Britain, the Blairs' main homes are a Pounds 4.5million property near Hyde Park, bought for Pounds 3.7million in 2004, and a country house in Buckinghamshire, formerly owned by the actor Sir John Gielgud, now worth an estimated Pounds 6million and bought in 2008 for Pounds 5.75million. Including their latest purchase for their daughter, they have five other properties, some bought for their other children.

Mr Blair has had several conversations with Barbadians in which he has spoken of his fondness for the island and his hopes of buying a property there. "He told me he is a great admirer of our state education system and he would have liked his [four] children to have gone to school in Barbados," said one islander, who has become friendly with the former prime minister during his visits to Barbados.

Celebrities who own or have owned property on the island include Sir Cliff Richard, Oprah Winfrey, Gary Lineker and the golfer Ian Woosnam. Sir Cliff let Mr Blair stay at his six-bedroom villa on the Sugar Hill estate, situated close to the island's exclusive west coast, for three summers while the Labour politician was still prime minister.

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Byline: by Roy Hattersley

WE KNOW all good things must come to an end. But some of us had hoped fate would make an exception for Last of The Summer wine.

Its record life span -- 31 series spread over 37 years -- was, in itself, enough to make swiss army brand watch it seem as indestructible as the limestone landscape in which it was filmed.

And the idea it might go on for ever was encouraged by its consistent quality. Devotees of the series were also persuaded to believe in the immortality of its characters.

Last of The Summer wine, after all, was the story of a band of elderly Peter Pans who resolutely refused to grow up. now, however, it really is over. Compo, Clegg and nora Batty have passed into history.

Last night, after the last ever episode, we were left to contemplate, perhaps for the first time, what that evocative title really meant.

The programme was meant to entertain and we should not be too serious or solemn about its meanings and messages. But at its heart was a joyous idea: that age should never prevent life from being fun. we grow old. But we do not have to become bored or boring.

The poet Andrew Marvell made the same point 400 years ago: 'Thus, though we cannot make our sun stand still, yet we will make him run.' And so they did -- all the characters which Roy Clarke, the writer from start to finish, created to enthral the Sunday audiences which, at the peak of the series' popularity, numamorous. bered more than 20 million.

Only norman Clegg, played by Peter Sallis, was a genuine adult -- in his heart and mind, as well as on the evidence of his birth certificate. As the calm and careful Clegg -- rarely seen without his cardigan and cap -- he was always the fulcrum of the story. The elderly schoolboys he called his friends and confederates revolved around him.

Clegg's world-weary tolerance of their irresponsibility emphasised the mindless pleasure they found in simple things and the importance of making the most of every minute.

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She was the formidable and house-proud widow who became as famous for her wrinkled stockings as for the ferocity with which she repulsed the indomitable Compo's amorous advances.

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Now those steps are a place of pilgrimage for Last of The Summer wine fans when they visit Holmfirth, the west Yorkshire town where the series was filmed.

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Marshall University, in partnership with the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, will present the 2010 Sustainable Schools West Virginia Summit April 10-11.

The previously scheduled summit has been moved due to scheduling conflicts.

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The free event is designed to bring wholesale lingerie together educational leaders in elementary, secondary and higher education - both public and private - to discuss the roles schools, colleges and universities have in creating sustainable campuses across West Virginia. The summit will take place on Marshall's Huntington campus and is open to public and private higher education, as well as public and private K-12 schools.

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Online registration is available at registration. An agenda is also available at this site.

For more information, contact Margie Phillips at or 304-696-2992.

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TWO of Samuel Marsden Collegiate School's primary residents are usually too busy to go to classes.

Samantha and Daisy are the school's roving ambassadors, and on any day, the two teddy bears can be anywhere in New casio watch strap Zealand.

Already Daisy has visited workplaces around New Zealand, including the All Blacks' Training Camp, a veterinarian's clinic and an advertising agency, while Samantha has been whale watching in Tory Channel.

Onlookers take photographs of the bear to send to the children and emails arrive at the school with news and stories, allowing the junior students to follow the progress of the bears around New Zealand.

The bears are dressed in the dark-green uniform of Samuel Marsden Collegiate School in Karori, made by school nurse Mrs Lyn Crutchley from old pieces of discarded uniform.

Celia McCarthy, the director of Marsden Primary School, says the children love reading about the bears.

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Teachers from Learnz look after Samantha and make sure messages and photos go back to the children at Marsden. In this way, the youngsters, aged five to seven, learn about whale watching, conservation, geography, fish farming and life in the Marlborough Sounds with an emotional interest in what their bear is up to, Ms McCarthy says.

Other Learnz field trips include Maori rock art, wind power, Canterbury dairy farming, fresh water ecology and the performing arts in Wellington.

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Report finds TXA could be life

LONDON -- An inexpensive genetic medication that can stop bleeding in recently injured accident patients could save tens of thousands of lives worldwide, a new report says.

Researchers studied the effects of tranexamic acid (TXA) in over 10,000 adult trauma patients in 40 nations who received the drug within eight hours of being injured. They compared the patients' outcomes with those of more than 10,000 accident victims given a placebo treatment. Doctors found that patients who received TXA had a 15% lower chance of dying from a hemorrhage than those who didn't get it. They also had a 10% lower chance of dying from any other Gucci Watches cause, including organ failure and a head injury, versus patients who didn't get TXA.

The study, published online in the medical journal Lancet, was paid for by the British government.

TXA is commonly used in wealthy countries during elective surgeries to stop bleeding, but it isn't prescribed for accident victims. The drug is off-patent, and it is manufactured by many generic pharmaceutical companies. It costs about $4.50 per gram, and a typical dose is two grams. It is usually given via an injection and would be relatively easy to soccer jerseys introduce, even in poor countries, experts say.

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Report For Pa.'s Table Games R

Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs in Plains Township reported the lowest gross revenue from table games among the state's nine casinos for July, according to a report released Thursday by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board.

According to the report, Mohegan Sun brought in $1,260,653 in gross revenue from 62 table games in July, the first month that table games debuted. The casino added 20 more table games in a non- smoking room outside the new Penny Grove slot room and Bar Louie last Thursday.

Bobby Soper, president and CEO of Mohegan Sun, said the lower citizen diving watch numbers were caused by having "some big winners at our property during July, which is bad luck for us but good luck for our players."

"That's the nature of table games," Soper said.

Slots play increased at Mohegan Sun about 6 percent in July amid the addition of table games, Soper said. According to the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board, slots revenue increased from about $19.78 million in July last year to nearly 21.16 million in July this year at Mohegan Sun.

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"We are very pleased that table games have exceeded our revenue expectations and projections at Mount Airy Casino Resort," said John Culetsu, Mount Airy Casino Resort Executive Vice President and General Manager.

"In the wake of the introduction of table games, Mount Airy Casino Resort has also witnessed an incremental increase in slot, food and beverage, and hotel room revenues," he said. "This resulting economic ripple effect spells more jobs for the community, more tourism traffic for the Poconos and increased financial viability for our beautiful resort."

Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh brought in the most gross revenue of the nine table games in the state in July: $3,052,531 for its 85 table games. Parx Casino in Bensalem ranked second with $2,328,599 in gross revenue.

The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board released the revenue report on its Web site. It represents just a partial month of revenue since implementation of table games did not occur until the middle and later parts of July.

In addition to providing gross revenue figures, the report also includes taxes generated during each casino's test period monitored by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board and held two days prior to the opening of table games.

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The test periods provided an opportunity for the nine casinos to donate revenue to charities. Mohegan Sun donated $12,069.54 to the United Way of Wyoming Valley and Mount Airy Casino Resort donated $9,431.52 to Friendship House and St. Joseph Center.

Statewide, the 624 table games at the nine casinos across the state generated $17,539 in gross revenue, according to the report.

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Byrds passing should be an opp

THE "C" stood for Carlyle, and 19th century Scottish poet Thomas Carlyle penned an appropriate verse to fit this occasion:

"Out of Eternity

This new Day is born;

Into Eternity,

At night, will return."

The tributes to Robert Carlyle Byrd, 1917-2010, are numerous and reflect for the most part a genuine love of the man.

There is much to admire about a man who came from the Depression- era backwaters of West Virginia to lead the Democrats in the U.S. Senate for 12 years.

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As Booker T. Washington once said: "I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed."

Both men are wisely honored at our state Capitol. There is a statue inside of the senator, and a plaque outside for the freed slave who was the first leader of the new Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.

Yet as admirable as Byrd's rise was, quite a few West Virginians - a third of the electorate in his last election - were not following where he was leading.

We, too, have a duty to state our case.

My take is that Byrd's rise to power was all about him and not his home state.

Byrd turned favors into chits and cashed them in to become first the majority whip and then the majority leader, besting Ted Kennedy.

And then he curried favor with Kennedy.

It was only after his own party rose and ousted him from power, at age 71, that Byrd assumed the role Jennings Randolph had as the procurer of federal funds for the homeland.

Byrd did well. He was always an over-achiever.

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But again, it seemed to be more about him than his constituents. A modest man would not have allowed 40 things to be named in his honor back home.

His passing provides an opportunity for change. He died in time to add his unexpired term to the offices to be decided in November's general election.

Democrat Natalie Tennant, secretary of state, ruled basically that it's too late to have a special election this year.

How convenient.

In 1958, Byrd swept into office in one of the biggest reversals in Senate fortunes in U.S. history.

Democrats gained 16 Senate seats, including both of West Virginia's.

This year could see Republicans make major gains.

Democrats do not wish to add West Virginia to the states flipping from blue to red. And so Tennant ruled out an election in November.

Her decision enhances the chances of Gov. Joe Manchin's election to the seat in 2012, which could help boost Tennant's chances for governor if that indeed is her goal.

The argument that there is no time to hold a primary is laughable. The parties have the ability to appoint candidates as well as elect them.

But that might mean a Sen. Nick Joe Rahall or Sen. John Raese seeking re-election in 2012.

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Byrd staffers must sort throug

WASHINGTON - Robert C. Byrd was known for many things - his mastery of Senate rules, his oratorical skills, his ability to quote long passages of poetry from memory. At one time, he was apparently also considered quite the looker. "If you ever decide you've had enough of the Senate (which would be the country's loss) you can always model men's wear for Brooks Brothers," one female admirer wrote Byrd in April 1978. "What a super model you'd make."

Byrd's correspondent was none other than Abigail "Dear Abby" Van Buren, who wrote to Byrd, then 61, to compliment his "perfectly stunning" photograph in Time magazine.

The Dear Abby mash note is one of thousands of letters, photographs and other memorabilia that fill drawers and closets and filing cabinets in Byrd's cluttered office in the Hart Senate Office Building and his hideaway in the Capitol.

In the coming days, his staff will embark on the long task of sorting through it all to archive what is one of the largest collections in congressional history.

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Staffers sorting through the files have unearthed a country music set list from Byrd's 1977 recording session at the Library of Congress (he was an accomplished fiddler), his handwritten notes on the history of the Roman Senate, countless drafts of legislation, floor speeches, videocassettes, recipes from his late wife, Erma, and mementos from every hollow of West Virginia.

By law, aides have just two months to close the office of a senator who resigns or dies in office. This week Byrd's aides received instructions from the secretary of the Senate and sergeant at arms laying out every detail of the job, including how to scan and save papers, close state offices, dispose of the office's potted plants and determine what gets shipped to West Virginia before his offices in the U.S. Capitol and Hart Building are made available to other members. (No word yet on who will get the space. The competition - especially for Byrd's Capitol digs - is likely to be fierce.)

"It's a pretty big process," said Senate Archivist Karen Paul. "We've developed checklists to help manage aspects of this. It isn't like 30 years ago when people could just put papers in a box and just ship it off."

Byrd's office declined to comment, citing the emotional toll on the senator's family and staff in the past 10 days. But Capitol Hill staffers familiar with the process of closing congressional offices describe a grueling 60 days packed with memories of their boss, mentor and friend and uncertainty about their own future.

"You're dismantling a lifetime of work," said Ray Smock, a former House historian. "You could be working very hard, and doing very well in the course of moving things around and all of seiko replica a sudden you come across a photograph and you'll pause and start to look at it, and you'll start to reflect and you're overwhelmed with emotion."

As House historian, Smock helped close several offices in the 1980s and 1990s. He's now executive director of the Robert C. Byrd Center for Legislative Studies at Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, which the senator established to house his records. A four-member staff has already amassed 800 cubic feet of boxes and anticipates another 2,000 cubic feet to arrive by September.

The daily grind of congressional work leaves little time for staff to think of the potential future value of a lawmaker's documents, Smock said. "That's when people like me come in," he said.

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