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Salsa Dance, Gargoyles Coffee Bar, Aquia Towne Center, North Stafford. Beginner lessons 7 p.m., intermediates 8 p.m. $2. Dance until 10 p.m. 540/659-0404. CONCERT Barrage, Spotsylvania Middle School, 8801 Courthouse Road. Nine-member fiddle band from Canada. 7:30 p.m. Adults $20, students $10 (advance ticket purchase suggested; a limited number of tickets might be available at the door). 540/ 582-6341, ext. 1102. THEATER "Smoke on the Mountain," Barksdale Theatre at Hanover Tavern, 13181 Hanover Courthouse Road. Set in the 1930s, this bluegrass gospel musical introduces the singing Sanders family, who perform their traditional and original gospel songs for the members of Mount Pleasant Baptist Church in North Carolina. 8 p.m. Adults $38, students/seniors $34.
Propane supplies tight in Northeast N.E.
PORTLAND, Maine -- Propane suppliers are delivering less than full loads to some northern New England customers because of a railroad strike in Canada and the storm-delayed arrival of a tanker in New Hampshire, an industry official said Thursday.
A tanker's arrival with 16 million gallons of propane Thursday morning in Newington, N.H., will help the situation but supplies will remain tight for the next week, Jamie Py of the Maine Oil Dealers Association said.
"You're going to have suppliers rationing and prioritizing," Py said.
For the time being, he said, supplies were sufficient to keep customers from running out.
In Augusta, Gov. John Baldacci met with the director of the Maine Emergency Management Agency on Thursday to assess the situation.
Ditch the smelly sleeping bag and go 'glamping'
NEW YORK (AP) -- Did a bad experience turn you off camping? Maybe your tent leaked in a rainstorm or you shivered all night in a borrowed, smelly sleeping bag. Or that thin foam pad you were trying to sleep on didn't do much to protect your back from the rocky, uneven ground beneath your tent. It doesn't have to be that way. Tour companies and resorts now offer luxury camping, and the term "glamping" -- shorthand for glamorous camping -- is starting to turn up in reports from the United Kingdom and Canada. The New York Post recently mentioned "glamping" in an article on a new Web site for luxury travel, http://www.globorati.com. (The story also referred to "jetrosexuals" as a globetrotting jetsetter who thinks nothing of hopping on a plane to Asia for a shopping spree.) In British Columbia, Canada, the Clayoquot Wilderness Resort, a 30-minute boat ride from the town of Tofino, is offering "glamping" on a fjord on the west coast of Vancouver Island.
Sexed-up images hurt young girls
WASHINGTON: Inescapable media images of sexed-up girls and women posing as adolescents can cause psychological and even physical harm to adolescents and young women, a study in the US has warned.
The pressure of what experts call sexualisation can lead to depression, eating disorders, and poor academic performance, said the report, released on Tuesday by the American Psychological Association. Sexualisation of girls is a broad and increasing problem and is harmful to girls, it concluded.
Adult women dressed as school girls in music videos, bikini-clad dolls in hot tubs, and sexually-charged advertisements featuring teenagers were among the many examples cited. Such omnipresent imageson television and the Internet, in movies and magazinescan also have a negative effect on a young girls sexual development, the study cautioned.
History repeating
PASADENA - Twenty-six years after its landmark 1926 building was razed to make way for Plaza Pasadena, the rebuilt Pasadena Athletic Club is itself slated to be torn down for a proposed hotel, condo and retail development on the fringe of Old Pasadena. Plans are for the 2,500-member club at 25 W. Walnut St., a business run by the Richards family since 1940, to be replaced by a six-story, mixed-use project now in preliminary development. The 2.63-acre site, including a parcel at 233 N. Fair Oaks Ave. formerly used by Bank of America, has been bought by developer David Golkar of the Orange County-based Somerset Group. It was a "family decision" to sell, said John Richards, 63, a club owner and its general manager; escrow is expected to close in late June, he said. "Obviously it's sad for everyone involved," Richards said.
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