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Cerro Gordo County, IA - Local law enforcement is making an effort to keep ammunition out of the wrong hands. On Saturday, Cerro Gordo County hosted an ammunition collection day. Folks are encouraged to drop off their unused, unwanted or expired ammunition. Officers said not only will this help keep the ammunition out of the wrong hands, but it will also help keep your home safe. "It's very explosive, so if there is fire in your house it can go off and then we're putting our friends at the fire department and our neighbors at risk," said Officer David Studder...

Today’s column is not for members of “tithing parishes,” or for those who attend the kind of churches and temples that collect an annual standard pre-arranged amount from their members. Feel free to skip it and read something about politics! But if you belong to a house of worship that passes the collection basket every week, this one’s for you. Most worship communities depend on a mix of just a few types of collections to finance their operations: the regular weekly collections at Sabbath or Sunday services, the collection at a couple of high holidays, and perhaps one or two...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has proposed to begin collecting data on the race, gender identity, ethnicity, disability status, primary language, sex and sexual orientation of every patient and every citizen. The federal government needs to hear from you! DEADLINE - The deadline for your public comments is this coming Monday, August 1st at 11:59 p.m. EDT. However, if you plan to mail your comment by U.S. Post, it must be postmarked today, Wed, July 27.

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​Robert Vee, a highway construction worker from Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, got boned not once but twice. If it wasn't bad enough that late last winter he was tossed into a local county clink -- the result of missing a court hearing over an unpaid credit card... ​The truly below-the-belt shot came when he found out his bail was the exact amount he owed the creditor: $1,875.06. It was not coincidence. In various parts of the country, collections agencies -- fueled by a sideways economy and a growing industry that buys bad debt -- are hijacking law enforcement and the legal...

NEW YORK – A striking black-and-white photograph of the majestic Bridalveil waterfall is among numerous that landscape photographer Ansel Adams took with Polaroid film — a technology many celebrated artists embraced to produce innovative and surprising works. ... The image is among 1,000 Polaroid and gelatin silver prints by some of the biggest names in 20th-century photography being offered at Sotheby's on June 21-22 as part of a bankruptcy court-approved sale. The prints are being sold by PBE Corp., a previous owner of the Polaroid brand. The Polaroid camera was the invention of Edwin H. Land, whose revolutionary 1948 technology...

The American people should rise up and refuse to pay for Obamacare, whether it is through withholding, social security or whatever. We need to start a giant tax revolt, throw the government spending programs into a tizzy.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California wage earners will soon notice a little less money in their paychecks. Starting Monday, employers in the cash-strapped state are required to withhold 10 percent more in state income taxes to help ease the budget problems. It's part of a plan to artificially inflate state revenue by $1.7 billion through next June. Brenda Voet, a spokeswoman for the state Franchise Tax Board, says it's technically not a tax increase since workers will get their money back after April 15.

ISLAMABAD — It's 8 o'clock on a Sunday night in the Pakistani capital, but collection cowboy Sharoon Hermoon is living on U.S. time. Headset in place, feet on his desk, he aims his speed dialer at a debtor in Fort Worth. "Hello, ma'am, how ya doin' today?" he says in a convincing American accent. "My name is James Harold, and you owe us $11,000." There's a deer-in-the-headlights moment at the other end, a deep breath, a torrent of excuses. "I don't know what you're talking about," she says. "It's someone else. My husband's identity was stolen." After several minutes of...

One can measure the failures of the film American Beauty in so many ways, but perhaps the best is to realize that the screenwriter was so unsure of his audience’s ability to spot a creep that he had to make Kevin Spacey’s next-door neighbor not just a sadist and a closet case but also a collector of Nazi memorabilia. I bring this up because a fetish for the baubles of fascism is generally thought to be a good way of alienating civilized company. The auction house Christie’s refuses to sell the stuff. And whatever the interpretative fallacies of the late...

Hitler's record collection from his Berlin bunker By Petra Krischok Last Updated: 1:16pm BST 06/08/2007 A collection of gramaphone records from Adolf Hitler's headquarters in Berlin has appeared, giving an insight into the Führer's musical tastes. Hitler was a music enthusiast The record collection was in possession of Russian military intelligence officer Lew Besymenski, who examined the Führerbunker in Berlin following Germany's defeat in 1945. Mr Besymenski kept his haul secret but after he died in June this year his daughter revealed the find to German magazine Der Spiegel. Surprisingly, the music Hitler and his entourage listened to featured Russian...

LONDON - Imagine looking at Leonardo da Vinci's heart sketch while listening to Hank Williams' "Your Cheatin Heart," or viewing a sculpture of an HIV-positive woman in a cast made from wax laced with the retroviral drugs she took to stay alive. This is London's newest museum, where science, medicine and art meet. Artifacts stand side-by-side with medical technology at the Wellcome Collection, a nine-story building that opened Thursday that houses more than 1,500 exhibits in three galleries, including a special exhibition examining the heart's role in medicine and culture. "It's not science for the scientists," said Ken Arnold, head...

Eunuchs in eastern India were drafted by authorities to sing outside the homes of tax evaders to embarrass them into paying up, a report has said. EunuchsSari-clad eunuchs were out in force with municipal tax collectors Wednesday in Patna, capital of Bihar, India's most lawless state, the Indian Express reported. "Pay the tax, pay the Patna Municipal Corporation tax," chorused the eunuchs on the doorstep of their first target, Ram Sagar Singh, who owed 100,000 rupees (2,240 dollars). A mortified Singh promised to pay within a week, the report said. The municipality netted 400,000 rupees Wednesday using the eunuchs, who...

Possenti Society Blasts Vatican UN Gun Grabbers for 4th of July Insult to American Gun Owners; Urges Church Collection ProtestsContact: John Snyder, 703-212-9863 ARLINGTON, Va., June 29 /Christian Newswire/ -- John Snyder, Founder/Chairman of the St. Gabriel Possenti Society, issued the following statement today: As we approach next week’s 230th commemoration of the signing of our Nation’s Declaration of Independence, we face the reality of three institutional insults to our country’s Fourth of July celebration of freedom. The first insult comes from a United Nations group meeting in New York, taking place now through July 7, to undermine the traditional,...

WASHINGTON - President Bush did not confirm or deny a newspaper report Thursday that the National Security Agency was collecting records of tens of millions of ordinary Americans' phone calls. "Our intelligence activities strictly target al-Qaida and their known affiliates," Bush said. "We're not mining or trolling through the personal lives of millions of innocent Americans." USA Today, based on anonymous sources it said had direct knowledge of the arrangement, reported that AT&T Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., and BellSouth Corp. began turning over records of Americans' phone calls to the NSA shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Bush...

SIERRA VISTA — A hugely successful drive to help Cochise County’s foster children has received nationwide recognition. USA Weekend Magazine has chosen the Herald/Review and the Fort Huachuca Community Spouses’ Club as honorees in its Make A Difference Day Awards. It follows the amazing support given by our readers to an appeal for luggage for youngsters who often have to throw their belongings into a trash bag when they leave home. The campaign culminated in a one-day collection last October of more than 1,000 suitcases and travel bags — making a difference in the lives of more than 1,000 children....

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A woman who was obsessed with collecting animals and kept 271 pets crammed in her cottage has been jailed for three months. Rosalind Gregson, 55, showed no emotion as she was jailed and disqualified from keeping animals for life, after pleading guilty to nine specimen counts of causing unreasonable suffering to animals at a hearing last month. The animals, mostly dogs, were emaciated, often covered in faeces and urine, and suffering from infections and injuries. Nine of the animals had to be put down shortly after RSPCA inspectors removed them from her home off Lindeth Road in Silverdale, Lancashire. Gregson,...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Since being founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743, the American Philosophical Society has collected just about every kind of trinket, piece of Americana and oddity imaginable. The problem is, much of it has never been on display. So after trolling through its vast collections, the group has assembled and put on exhibit a broad array of artifacts, historical documents, inventions and other items, many of which have been tucked away for decades. "It's extremely broad in that way," curator Sue Ann Prince said of "Treasures Revealed: 260 Years of Collecting at the American Philosophical Society," which opened...

LONDON - Nestled in cellars tunneled deep into a Crimean mountainside, they survived revolution, war and decades of communism. Hundreds of bottles of wine selected for the pleasure of Czar Nicholas II and preserved on the orders of Josef Stalin were auctioned by Sotheby's in London on Friday — the latest in a slew of Russian collectibles being snapped up at ever-rising prices. Several dozen Russian and European collectors gathered at Sotheby's showrooms to bid on bottles, some more than 150 years old and valued at several thousand dollars, from the imperial Massandra winery near Yalta on Ukraine's Black Sea...

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ATLANTA - A 7,000-piece collection of the writings of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., which spent four decades in his widow's basement, is ready for sale after being on exhibit for two weeks at a New York auction house. The items - appraised at $30 million - went on display Aug. 26, and hundreds of people have strolled through Sotheby's in Manhattan to get a glimpse into King's literary mind. Sotheby's said several potential buyers have come forward, but officials would not reveal them. The collection includes speeches, letters, sermon notes and even King's college transcripts. The King estate,...

Harassment and Heartache Being hounded by Bank of America over an already-paid loan moves local couple to sue the financial giant. By Betty Brink The Elkouris in front of their Benbrook home. Henry: 'There were never any apologies.' Fort Worth's lovefest with Annika Sorenstam is over, and so is the press madness that surrounded her entry last week in the traditionally all-male Bank of America Colonial PGA tournament. The worldwide coverage of her historic attempt at qualifying brought a windfall of free publicity to the bank that was the tournament's named sponsor, along with immeasurable amounts of goodwill. But when...

Surrealist's collection to be sold despite outcry 02 Apr 2003 12:02 By Caroline Brothers PARIS (Reuters) - Some 5,500 objects considered talismans of the French Surrealist movement from Breton to Magritte will go on sale in Paris this month despite an outcry from artists opposed to splitting up the works. The entire contents of poet Andre Breton's 70-square-metre workshop, except for a wall of "primitive" art objects which has been donated to Paris's Pompidou Centre, are going under the hammer because his descendants can no longer manage the legacy. The sale at famed auction house Drouot is expected to fetch...

MERRIMACK – Parishioners of St. John Neumann Church, gathered in small groups as they prepared to go home from their regular church activities Sunday evening, weren’t in the mood to express how they felt about their pastor, the Rev. Steven M. Kucharski, being at the center of an investigation into missing funds from a Christmas Eve collection. Kucharski resigned his post, effective last Wednesday, after he became the target of an investigation into the theft of money from the Christmas Eve collection box. The Diocese of Manchester said in a news release Sunday night that it accepted his resignation and...

University of Smith and Wesson Ted Kennedy killed more people with his car than I have with my handgun. Cum catapult proscript erat, tum soli poscript catapultas habebunt.(If catapults are outlawed, only outlaws will have catapults) Greenpiece (with a picture of a green handgun) Body piercing by Smith & Wesson If Atlatls were outlawed, only outlaws would have Atlatls.An atlatl is a primitive weapon, a "spear thrower." I don't have a license to kill. I have a learner's permit. Honk If You've Never Seen An Uzi Fired From A Car Window My President is Charlton Heston If you love...

Scrolls, Scripts & Stelae A Norwegian Collector Shows BAR His Rare Inscriptions Hershel Shanks If you have a Dead Sea Scroll for sale, you should get in touch with Martin Schøyen (pronounced Skoo-yen) in Oslo. He is a prime prospect. He already owns several Dead Sea Scroll fragments—making him one of the few individuals in the world (I can think of only one other) who own Dead Sea Scroll material. In his spacious London pied-à-terre, Schøyen also has one of the unusual pottery jars from Qumran in which the Bedouin found the first intact scrolls in 1947 or 1948....

ST. LOUIS -- The budget deficit is huge. Tax collection has been unexpectedly skimpy. And the treasury is all but tapped out. So the state of Missouri has stopped sending out income tax refunds. And there are no plans to put the checks in the mail any time soon. Here is the balance of the article

This section of MEMRI's website documents Arabic newspaper reports, editorials, and other media sources which are primarily based upon antisemitic themes. During recent years, Arab antisemitism has become a main catalyst of antisemitic incidents throughout the world. Special Dispatch Series - No. 375 - Arab Antisemitism Documentation Project, May 3, 2002Columnist for Egyptian Government Daily to Hitler:'If Only You Had Done It, Brother' Inquiry and Analysis Series - No. 93 - Arab Antisemitism Documentation Project, May 1, 2002Arab Christian Clergymen Against Western Christians, Jews, and Israel Special Dispatch Series - No. 370 - Arab Antisemitism Documentation Project, April 17,...

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