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(CNN)  -- Typhoon Morakot dumped heavy rain on Taiwan early Saturday and threatened to further soak the recently drought-stricken island.

A man fights against strong winds in Hsintien, Taipei county, Taiwan, on Friday.

As of 3 a.m. local time, the storm's eye was over the northern part of the island, CNN forecaster Kevin Corriveau reported, although he noted that slow-moving Morakot is so large it encompassed the entire island.

Journalist Andrew Lee in Taipei, citing local media, said the storm had blown off roofs and washed out some bridges.

Corriveau said the island has received more than 39 inches (99 centimeters) of rain from the storm, which he said was expected to dump another 39 to 47 inches (99 to 119 centimeters) of rain on Taiwan.

The storm made landfall carrying winds of up to 92 mph (148 km/h), with gusts up to 115 mph (185 km/h), the Joint Typhoon Warning Center said. iReport.com: See balcony view of heavy rains

Corriveau said the storm was expected to linger over the island for several more hours, and the southern portion of Morakot would likely be passing over Taiwan for hours after that.

The storm's impact had already been felt by Friday morning, with mudslides and landslides occurring on the island.

The area has been severely affected by drought in recent months, leaving the ground so hard that it does not absorb the rainfall, Corriveau said.

Taiwan's Central News Agency, acknowledging the drought, cited the Water Resources Agency as saying that the storm had replenished the island's reservoirs and would put an end to water rationing in several areas.  Watch more about the typhoon's impact Â»

The storm prompted airlines to cancel flights. Schools and government offices were closed ahead of Morakot's arrival, according to Taiwan's Central News Agency.

Trading at the Taiwan Stock Exchange was also postponed until Monday, the news agency reported.

In China, state-run Xinhua News Agency reported that governments in coastal provinces were readying themselves for the storm and had ordered fishing boats to seek shelter before Thursday night.

In Fujian province, about 8.4 million text messages had been sent to citizens warning them to prepare for the typhoon, Xinhua reported.

More than 900 people, including Chinese and foreign tourists, have been evacuated from the resort of Nanji Island off east China, the news agency reported.

CNN's Brandon Miller contributed to this report.

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(Tribune Media Services) -- Virginia Pozo buys a first-class ticket to Peru on TACA. But it turns out the ticket is in economy class. When she tries to get a refund on the fare difference, her online agency offers her a $400 voucher. Is that enough? And is she entitled to more?

A passenger bought first-class tickets to Peru, but learned they were economy-class seats.

Q: We bought two first-class airline tickets to Peru on TACA through Cheaptickets.com. But we soon found out they were economy-class seats.

We've asked the airline for a $1,100 refund -- the price difference between first-class and economy-class tickets -- but it won't budge. Cheaptickets.com sent a $400 voucher that we don't want.

We've disputed the ticket charges with American Express, but it has denied our claim. It's obvious to us we didn't receive what we paid for.

We've never sued anyone and I would rather not have to go there. Do you have any other suggestions?

-- Virginia Pozo, San Francisco, California

A: If you didn't get a first-class seat, you shouldn't have to pay for one.

TACA owes you a refund of the fare difference between the two classes. And your online travel agency, Cheaptickets.com, should help you. At the very least, you would expect American Express to take your side in a dispute.

So what happened?

From what I can tell, you booked what you thought was a first-class ticket through your online agent. But the airline only delivered a seat in economy class. In fact, it never treated this as a first-class reservation in the first place. Was there a miscommunication between the agent and the airline? Or between your agent and you? Maybe.

As far as I can tell, Cheaptickets doesn't have a service guarantee comparable to the other big online travel agencies, which promises everything about your trip will be perfect. But it's reasonable to expect that the products it sells will be on the up-and-up, and that if there's something wrong, it will fix it.

Cheaptickets' $400 voucher was a nice gesture, but not enough. Why? Two reasons: First, it requires you to buy another ticket or hotel room, and second, it doesn't come close to making up the price difference between the two tickets.

As I read your letter, it seems as if you spent some time on the phone with Cheaptickets and TACA. Writing to the two companies might have yielded a more favorable result. This is one of the rare times when you should have considered sending either a paper letter that included your confirmation and your boarding pass, or, if you're good with a PC and a scanner, an email with documents attached.

Receipts are important to resolving this dispute. You need to prove you didn't get what you paid for.

Since you were doing business with an American company -- Cheaptickets -- American Express should have sided with you. Invoking the Fair Credit Billing Act, the federal law that protects you from charges for goods and services you didn't accept or weren't delivered as agreed, might have encouraged American Express to see things your way.

I think TACA, Cheaptickets and American Express failed to meet their customer-service obligations.

But who's responsible for your refund? The correct answer is: The online travel agent who took your money and acted as an intermediary for the transaction.

I contacted Cheaptickets on your behalf. A representative contacted you and said the company reviewed its phone transcripts and determined that it was at fault. The online agency refunded you $1,100 and let you keep the $400 voucher for the trouble.

Christopher Elliott is the ombudsman for National Geographic Traveler magazine. E-mail him at celliott@ngs.org.

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(CNN) -- If a bed and 14 other antiques up for sale in New York next week look familiar, it might be that you saw them in a movie.

An American Renaissance gilt, carved, inlaid and ebonized bed is expected to go for $500,000.

Pieces of furniture owned by two very rich 19th-century Americans were destined for a trash pile before they were rescued for the silver screen.

They will find new life on the auction block next week.

Made by the Herter Brothers in the 1870s, the furniture sat in Warner Brothers' Hollywood props department since 1942, when the studio bought it at an estate auction for a fraction of the original cost.

Warner Brothers, owned by CNN parent Time Warner Inc., could get $2 million from the auction, and it means valuable space will be cleared out in the props department storage.

One studio source said using such expensive -- although authentic -- props on movie sets doesn't make business sense.

Jon King, director of Bonham's, the New York auction house that will put the furniture on sale next Thursday, said he did not have the studio's permission to reveal in which movies the furniture might have been used.

You can watch post-1942 Warner Brothers period films to find them.

"You have to go slow-motion and stop and start an awful lot," King said.

"I would imagine that if any of these were in movies they might steal the scene away from the actors," said King, an expert in 19th-century furniture.

A New York Times article about the furniture, published in 1995, said it appeared in Warner Brother's "Saratoga Trunk," a 1945 movie starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman.

Few records were kept over the decades to track the pieces' appearances, a studio source said.

King said he saw Herter Brothers furniture from the same estate in Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho," filmed in 1960 on Universal's lots.

Universal bought its furniture at the same 1942 estate auction that Warner Brothers attended. The studio sold its collection years ago, King said.

The furniture -- in American Renaissance and American Aesthetic styles -- was made with "very exotic and very expensive materials" for two very rich California men -- Gov. Milton Slocum Latham and railroad magnate Mark Harper, King said.

The most dramatic piece is an ornate bed commissioned for the master bedroom at Latham's Menlo Park, California, home. It could sell for $500,000, King said.

"A lot of people in the field regard that as the finest bed ever made in the 19th century in America," King said. "Basically, the quality of carving and the number of things going on in there in the bed, it's just amazing."

Changing times and tastes made the furniture obsolete for anything but a period movie by 1942. Movie studios were scouring the country for cheap furniture for their props departments, King said.

But recent decades have see a steep rise in values for Herter Brothers craftwork, he said.

King said next week's sale is significant for collectors because "this is the last studio collection."

The Herter Brothers -- German immigrants who set up their furniture-making shop in New York City after the Civil War -- also made furniture for the White House, where some pieces remain.

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text: silver

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text: will

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text: new

text: life

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text: the

text: auction

text: block

text: next

text: week

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text: by

text: the

text: Herter

text: Brothers

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text: the

text: the

text: furniture

text: sat

text: in

text: Warner

text: Brothers

text: Hollywood

text: props

text: department

text: since

text: when

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text: studio

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text: it

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text: an

text: estate

text: auction

text: for

text: a

text: fraction

text: of

text: the

text: original

text: cost

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text: Brothers

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text: by

text: CNN

text: parent

text: Time

text: Warner

text: Inc.

text: could

text: get

text: million

text: from

text: the

text: auction

text: and

text: it

text: means

text: valuable

text: space

text: will

text: be

text: cleared

text: out

text: in

text: the

text: props

text: department

text: storage

text: One

text: studio

text: source

text: said

text: using

text: such

text: expensive

text: although

text: authentic

text: props

text: on

text: movie

text: sets

text: does

text: n't

text: make

text: business

text: sense

text: Jon

text: King

text: director

text: of

text: Bonham

text: 's

text: the

text: New

text: York

text: auction

text: house

text: that

text: will

text: put

text: the

text: furniture

text: on

text: sale

text: next

text: Thursday

text: said

text: he

text: did

text: not

text: have

text: the

text: studio

text: 's

text: permission

text: to

text: reveal

text: in

text: which

text: movies

text: the

text: furniture

text: might

text: have

text: been

text: used

text: You

text: can

text: watch

text: Warner

text: Brothers

text: period

text: films

text: to

text: find

text: them

text: You

text: have

text: to

text: go

text: slow

text: motion

text: and

text: stop

text: and

text: start

text: an

text: awful

text: lot

text: King

text: said

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text: would

text: imagine

text: that

text: if

text: any

text: of

text: these

text: were

text: in

text: movies

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text: scene

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text: actors

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text: century

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text: New

text: York

text: Times

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text: movie

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text: Cooper

text: and

text: Ingrid

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text: over

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text: decades

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text: pieces

text: appearances

text: a

text: studio

text: source

text: said

text: King

text: said

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text: saw

text: Herter

text: Brothers

text: furniture

text: from

text: the

text: same

text: estate

text: in

text: Alfred

text: Hitchcock

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text: Psycho

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text: lots

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text: furniture

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text: same

text: estate

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text: The

text: studio

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text: its

text: collection

text: years

text: ago

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text: furniture

text: in

text: American

text: Renaissance

text: and

text: American

text: Aesthetic

text: styles

text: was

text: made

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text: exotic

text: and

text: very

text: expensive

text: materials

text: for

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text: very

text: rich

text: California

text: men

text: Gov.

text: Milton

text: Slocum

text: Latham

text: and

text: railroad

text: magnate

text: Mark

text: Harper

text: King

text: said

text: The

text: most

text: dramatic

text: piece

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text: an

text: ornate

text: bed

text: commissioned

text: for

text: the

text: master

text: bedroom

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text: Latham

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text: Menlo

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text: for

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text: people

text: in

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text: field

text: regard

text: that

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text: finest

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text: quality

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text: carving

text: and

text: the

text: number

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text: on

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text: just

text: amazing

text: Changing

text: times

text: and

text: tastes

text: made

text: the

text: furniture

text: obsolete

text: for

text: anything

text: but

text: a

text: period

text: movie

text: by

text: Movie

text: studios

text: were

text: scouring

text: the

text: country

text: for

text: cheap

text: furniture

text: for

text: their

text: props

text: departments

text: King

text: said

text: But

text: recent

text: decades

text: have

text: see

text: a

text: steep

text: rise

text: in

text: values

text: for

text: Herter

text: Brothers

text: craftwork

text: he

text: said

text: King

text: said

text: next

text: week

text: 's

text: sale

text: is

text: significant

text: for

text: collectors

text: because

text: this

text: is

text: the

text: last

text: studio

text: collection

text: The

text: Herter

text: Brothers

text: German

text: immigrants

text: who

text: set

text: up

text: their

text: furniture

text: making

text: shop

text: in

text: New

text: York

text: City

text: after

text: the

text: Civil

text: War

text: also

text: made

text: furniture

text: for

text: the

text: White

text: House

text: where

text: some

text: pieces

text: remain

question: Who owned the furniture?

answer: Gov. Milton Slocum Latham and railroad magnate Mark Harper,

text: Gov. Milton Slocum Latham and railroad magnate Mark Harper,

question: What are auction houses not allowed to reveal?

answer: in which movies the furniture might have been used.

text: in which movies the furniture might have been used.

question: What year was it bought in?

answer: 1942,

question: When did the studio buy it?

answer: 1942,

question: What was owned by two wealthy americans?

answer: Pieces of furniture

text: Pieces of furniture

question: What period films can you watch?

answer: post-1942 Warner Brothers

text: post-1942 Warner Brothers


text:
Ruben Navarrette Jr. is a nationally syndicated columnist and a member of the editorial board of the San Diego Union-Tribune. Read his column here

Ruben Navarrette says Mexico isn't a failed state, but the fate of its drug war is important for US.

SAN DIEGO, California (CNN) -- You may have heard the rumor that, as a result of a bloody drug war that has claimed more than 7,000 lives since January 2007, Mexico is on the verge of being declared a "failed state."

Drawing a lot of its oxygen from cable demagogues and talk radio, the chatter intensified several weeks ago when the Pentagon issued a report warning that our neighbor -- along with Pakistan, no less -- could face a "rapid and sudden" collapse because "the government, its politicians, police and judicial infrastructure are all under sustained assault and pressure by criminal gangs and drug cartels."

How's this for pressure? The police chief in Ciudad Juarez resigned last week after drug traffickers began to make good on their promise to kill police officers in that city until the chief stepped down.

The Mexican drug war is the real deal, and so is the threat to both Mexico and the United States. The casualties are mounting. The killings are becoming more brutal, and now include the beheading of soldiers.

The cartels are essentially terrorizing the Mexican people in the hopes of convincing them to put pressure on the government to relent in its efforts to put the bad guys out of business.

Take it from someone who has known Mexican President Felipe Calderon since before he took the job -- back when we were in graduate school together nearly a decade ago -- that's not going to happen.

Calderon was brave enough to take on the drug cartels by arresting their leaders, confiscating their product, and -- most importantly -- seizing the large shipments of cash that they need to operate. And he's smart enough to know that letting up on the pressure before the task is done would only make matters worse and basically hand Mexico over to the drug lords

Meanwhile, there is no question that Americans will pay a price if the drug violence spills over the border. Just a few days ago, the U.S. State Department issued a blunt travel advisory warning Americans with plans to travel in Mexico to be extra careful.

"Recent Mexican army and police confrontations with drug cartels have resembled small-unit combat, with cartels employing automatic weapons and grenades," the advisory reads. "Large firefights have taken place in towns and cities ... and during some of these incidents, U.S. citizens have been trapped and temporarily prevented from leaving the area."

Firefights will put a crimp in the tourist industry. But, Mexicans are quick to point out the irony. Here Americans are worried about their safety in Mexico when one of the reasons the Mexican government is having such a difficult time fighting the drug cartels is because the enemy has plenty of money and guns. And both are coming from the north.

According to most estimates, about 90 percent of all the cocaine flowing into the United States comes from Mexico and about 90 percent of the guns seized in drug-related violence come from the United States.

Former President George W. Bush and Congress deserve credit for pushing through $400 million in emergency aid in the Merida Initiative to help the Mexican government fight the cartels.

And even though Mexico is still waiting for delivery of most of those funds, there were signals this week that the Obama administration understands the stakes involved.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced new measures to prevent the violence from spreading to this side of the border and told Congress that the issue demands the "utmost attention." Attorney General Eric Holder called the drug cartels a "national security threat" to the United States and said Americans "simply can't afford to let down our guard."

Even so, this business about Mexico on its way to being a "failed state" is just a lot of hot air. The rumors of our neighbor's demise have been greatly exaggerated.

A country of 110 million people, Mexico is still a functioning democracy with press freedoms and bold leaders, like Calderon, who are tackling the issue of drug violence head on. There is plenty of reason for optimism.

Frankly, one reason the doomsday talk about Mexico catches on is because it distracts Americans from our own problems. I learned a long time ago that, for many of my countrymen, Mexico serves a purpose in tough times by providing something to which we can feel superior.

Even with the banking bailouts, mortgage crisis, a plummeting stock market and rising unemployment, the thinking goes, we can at least be grateful that we're not Mexico.

For Mexican-Americans like me, that's cold comfort. I expect a lot more of my country -- the United States -- than I do the country that my grandfather left behind a hundred years ago when he legally immigrated north.

And right now, what I expect is for all Americans to realize -- and for the Obama administration to never forget -- that it's impossible to feel safe when there is a wildfire in the neighborhood.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Ruben Navarrette.

text: Ruben

text: Navarrette

text: Jr.

text: is

text: a

text: nationally

text: syndicated

text: columnist

text: and

text: a

text: member

text: of

text: the

text: editorial

text: board

text: of

text: the

text: San

text: Diego

text: Union

text: Tribune

text: Read

text: his

text: column

text: here

text: Ruben

text: Navarrette

text: says

text: Mexico

text: is

text: n't

text: a

text: failed

text: state

text: but

text: the

text: fate

text: of

text: its

text: drug

text: war

text: is

text: important

text: for

text: US

text: SAN

text: DIEGO

text: California

text: CNN

text: You

text: may

text: have

text: heard

text: the

text: rumor

text: that

text: as

text: a

text: result

text: of

text: a

text: bloody

text: drug

text: war

text: that

text: has

text: claimed

text: more

text: than

text: lives

text: since

text: January

text: Mexico

text: is

text: on

text: the

text: verge

text: of

text: being

text: declared

text: a

text: failed

text: state

text: Drawing

text: a

text: lot

text: of

text: its

text: oxygen

text: from

text: cable

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text: the

text: chatter

text: intensified

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text: the

text: Pentagon

text: issued

text: a

text: report

text: warning

text: that

text: our

text: neighbor

text: along

text: with

text: Pakistan

text: no

text: less

text: could

text: face

text: a

text: rapid

text: and

text: sudden

text: collapse

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text: the

text: government

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text: politicians

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text: and

text: judicial

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text: all

text: under

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text: assault

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text: pressure

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text: drug

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text: The

text: police

text: chief

text: in

text: Ciudad

text: Juarez

text: resigned

text: last

text: week

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text: drug

text: traffickers

text: began

text: to

text: make

text: good

text: on

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text: promise

text: to

text: kill

text: police

text: officers

text: in

text: that

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text: until

text: the

text: chief

text: stepped

text: down

text: The

text: Mexican

text: drug

text: war

text: is

text: the

text: real

text: deal

text: and

text: so

text: is

text: the

text: threat

text: to

text: both

text: Mexico

text: and

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: The

text: casualties

text: are

text: mounting

text: The

text: killings

text: are

text: becoming

text: more

text: brutal

text: and

text: now

text: include

text: the

text: beheading

text: of

text: soldiers

text: The

text: cartels

text: are

text: essentially

text: terrorizing

text: the

text: Mexican

text: people

text: in

text: the

text: hopes

text: of

text: convincing

text: them

text: to

text: put

text: pressure

text: on

text: the

text: government

text: to

text: relent

text: in

text: its

text: efforts

text: to

text: put

text: the

text: bad

text: guys

text: out

text: of

text: business

text: Take

text: it

text: from

text: someone

text: who

text: has

text: known

text: Mexican

text: President

text: Felipe

text: Calderon

text: since

text: before

text: he

text: took

text: the

text: job

text: back

text: when

text: we

text: were

text: in

text: graduate

text: school

text: together

text: nearly

text: a

text: decade

text: ago

text: that

text: 's

text: not

text: going

text: to

text: happen

text: Calderon

text: was

text: brave

text: enough

text: to

text: take

text: on

text: the

text: drug

text: cartels

text: by

text: arresting

text: their

text: leaders

text: confiscating

text: their

text: product

text: and

text: most

text: importantly

text: seizing

text: the

text: large

text: shipments

text: of

text: cash

text: that

text: they

text: need

text: to

text: operate

text: And

text: he

text: 's

text: smart

text: enough

text: to

text: know

text: that

text: letting

text: up

text: on

text: the

text: pressure

text: before

text: the

text: task

text: is

text: done

text: would

text: only

text: make

text: matters

text: worse

text: and

text: basically

text: hand

text: Mexico

text: over

text: to

text: the

text: drug

text: lords

text: Meanwhile

text: there

text: is

text: no

text: question

text: that

text: Americans

text: will

text: pay

text: a

text: price

text: if

text: the

text: drug

text: violence

text: spills

text: over

text: the

text: border

text: Just

text: a

text: few

text: days

text: ago

text: the

text: U.S.

text: State

text: Department

text: issued

text: a

text: blunt

text: travel

text: advisory

text: warning

text: Americans

text: with

text: plans

text: to

text: travel

text: in

text: Mexico

text: to

text: be

text: extra

text: careful

text: Recent

text: Mexican

text: army

text: and

text: police

text: confrontations

text: with

text: drug

text: cartels

text: have

text: resembled

text: small

text: unit

text: combat

text: with

text: cartels

text: employing

text: automatic

text: weapons

text: and

text: grenades

text: the

text: advisory

text: reads

text: Large

text: firefights

text: have

text: taken

text: place

text: in

text: towns

text: and

text: cities

text: and

text: during

text: some

text: of

text: these

text: incidents

text: U.S.

text: citizens

text: have

text: been

text: trapped

text: and

text: temporarily

text: prevented

text: from

text: leaving

text: the

text: area

text: Firefights

text: will

text: put

text: a

text: crimp

text: in

text: the

text: tourist

text: industry

text: But

text: Mexicans

text: are

text: quick

text: to

text: point

text: out

text: the

text: irony

text: Here

text: Americans

text: are

text: worried

text: about

text: their

text: safety

text: in

text: Mexico

text: when

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: reasons

text: the

text: Mexican

text: government

text: is

text: having

text: such

text: a

text: difficult

text: time

text: fighting

text: the

text: drug

text: cartels

text: is

text: because

text: the

text: enemy

text: has

text: plenty

text: of

text: money

text: and

text: guns

text: And

text: both

text: are

text: coming

text: from

text: the

text: north

text: According

text: to

text: most

text: estimates

text: about

text: percent

text: of

text: all

text: the

text: cocaine

text: flowing

text: into

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: comes

text: from

text: Mexico

text: and

text: about

text: percent

text: of

text: the

text: guns

text: seized

text: in

text: drug

text: related

text: violence

text: come

text: from

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: Former

text: President

text: George

text: W.

text: Bush

text: and

text: Congress

text: deserve

text: credit

text: for

text: pushing

text: through

text: million

text: in

text: emergency

text: aid

text: in

text: the

text: Merida

text: Initiative

text: to

text: help

text: the

text: Mexican

text: government

text: fight

text: the

text: cartels

text: And

text: even

text: though

text: Mexico

text: is

text: still

text: waiting

text: for

text: delivery

text: of

text: most

text: of

text: those

text: funds

text: there

text: were

text: signals

text: this

text: week

text: that

text: the

text: Obama

text: administration

text: understands

text: the

text: stakes

text: involved

text: Homeland

text: Security

text: Secretary

text: Janet

text: Napolitano

text: announced

text: new

text: measures

text: to

text: prevent

text: the

text: violence

text: from

text: spreading

text: to

text: this

text: side

text: of

text: the

text: border

text: and

text: told

text: Congress

text: that

text: the

text: issue

text: demands

text: the

text: utmost

text: attention

text: Attorney

text: General

text: Eric

text: Holder

text: called

text: the

text: drug

text: cartels

text: a

text: national

text: security

text: threat

text: to

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: and

text: said

text: Americans

text: simply

text: ca

text: n't

text: afford

text: to

text: let

text: down

text: our

text: guard

text: Even

text: so

text: this

text: business

text: about

text: Mexico

text: on

text: its

text: way

text: to

text: being

text: a

text: failed

text: state

text: is

text: just

text: a

text: lot

text: of

text: hot

text: air

text: The

text: rumors

text: of

text: our

text: neighbor

text: 's

text: demise

text: have

text: been

text: greatly

text: exaggerated

text: A

text: country

text: of

text: million

text: people

text: Mexico

text: is

text: still

text: a

text: functioning

text: democracy

text: with

text: press

text: freedoms

text: and

text: bold

text: leaders

text: like

text: Calderon

text: who

text: are

text: tackling

text: the

text: issue

text: of

text: drug

text: violence

text: head

text: on

text: There

text: is

text: plenty

text: of

text: reason

text: for

text: optimism

text: Frankly

text: one

text: reason

text: the

text: doomsday

text: talk

text: about

text: Mexico

text: catches

text: on

text: is

text: because

text: it

text: distracts

text: Americans

text: from

text: our

text: own

text: problems

text: I

text: learned

text: a

text: long

text: time

text: ago

text: that

text: for

text: many

text: of

text: my

text: countrymen

text: Mexico

text: serves

text: a

text: purpose

text: in

text: tough

text: times

text: by

text: providing

text: something

text: to

text: which

text: we

text: can

text: feel

text: superior

text: Even

text: with

text: the

text: banking

text: bailouts

text: mortgage

text: crisis

text: a

text: plummeting

text: stock

text: market

text: and

text: rising

text: unemployment

text: the

text: thinking

text: goes

text: we

text: can

text: at

text: least

text: be

text: grateful

text: that

text: we

text: 're

text: not

text: Mexico

text: For

text: Mexican

text: Americans

text: like

text: me

text: that

text: 's

text: cold

text: comfort

text: I

text: expect

text: a

text: lot

text: more

text: of

text: my

text: country

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: than

text: I

text: do

text: the

text: country

text: that

text: my

text: grandfather

text: left

text: behind

text: a

text: hundred

text: years

text: ago

text: when

text: he

text: legally

text: immigrated

text: north

text: And

text: right

text: now

text: what

text: I

text: expect

text: is

text: for

text: all

text: Americans

text: to

text: realize

text: and

text: for

text: the

text: Obama

text: administration

text: to

text: never

text: forget

text: that

text: it

text: 's

text: impossible

text: to

text: feel

text: safe

text: when

text: there

text: is

text: a

text: wildfire

text: in

text: the

text: neighborhood

text: The

text: opinions

text: expressed

text: in

text: this

text: commentary

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(CNN) -- The City of Brotherly Love isn't exactly embracing the news that one-time quarterback phenom and convicted dogfighter Michael Vick is joining their Philadelphia Eagles.

Former Atlanta Falcon Michael Vick, right, was known more for his elusiveness than his throwing prowess.

Vick's agent announced Thursday that the former Atlanta Falcon signed a two-year deal with the Eagles, which reportedly could be worth more than $6 million. He won't be able to play a regular season game until week six in October, and then, only if the National Football League fully reinstates him.

"Too bad they don't have him for the whole year," Eagles fan Charles James told CNN affiliate philly.com.

The NFL indefinitely suspended Vick in August 2007 after he pleaded guilty to a federal charge of bankrolling a dogfighting operation in Virginia. Vick, 29, left a Kansas prison in May to serve the last two months of his 23-month sentence in home confinement.

Some Eagles fans don't think Vick's punishment was sufficient and were trying to unload their game and season tickets on craigslist.com, making it clear they were less than eager to see Vick in Philly green. iReport.com: What do you think of Vick's return?

A post from one irked fan looking to peddle two lower-level season tickets said: "The last thing my son and I want to see is Michael Vick in an Eagles jersey. We made up our mind to sell the tickets ... $3000 cash gets the tickets. Any info feel free to ask, serious buyers only, I want the deal done fast."

Lower-level season tickets were selling on an unrelated auction site for as much as $10,000 a pair.

Bob Jenkins of northeast Philadelphia predicted most Eagles fans -- known to be some of the nation's most demanding -- won't be badmouthing the decision.

"The only people who won't be quiet are the people who don't like the Eagles," Jenkins told philly.com. "Of course, they're going to be talking because he's going to be throwing some touchdowns."

Despite Jenkins' assumption, it's unclear what role Vick will play on the team. A gifted athlete known more for his dazzling runs than his pinpoint throws, Vick's last season in 2006 was a bit of a disappointment to Atlanta fans.

The Falcons finished 7-9, and Vick had a completion percentage of 52.6. He also threw for 2,474 yards, more than 1,000 fewer yards than the Patriots' Tom Brady, who completed 62 percent of his passes, and almost 2,000 yards behind the Colts' Peyton Manning, who completed 65 percent of his tosses.

However, Vick also ran for 1,039 yards, the most ever by a quarterback.

Mike Giunta of Tabernacle, New Jersey, told CNN affiliate WPVI-TV in Philadelphia that signing Vick would spawn "dissension" among the Eagles, who made it to their conference championship last season, losing to the Arizona Cardinals.

Giunta  predicted the move would create consternation between Vick and five-time Pro Bowl quarterback Donovan McNabb.

"McNabb's going to be looking over his shoulder constantly now," Giunta said.

McNabb said in a Thursday news conference that he welcomed the addition of Vick and he "pretty much lobbied to get him here because everybody deserves a second chance."

Several Eagles fans concur. One of them, Leroy Emerson of north Philadelphia, told philly.com, "That was the best move the Eagles ever made, one of the best."

Some fans, however, were licking their wounds and pointing to the most severe dogfighting allegations leveled against Vick: that he hanged dogs from trees, electrocuted and drowned them.

The Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have both skewered Vick. The latter alluded to Vick being a "psychopath" earlier this year and released a statement Friday saying, "Millions of decent football fans around the world are disappointed" in the Eagles.

"PETA certainly hopes that Vick has learned his lesson and feels truly remorseful for his crimes -- but since he's given no public indication that that's the case, only time will tell," the statement said.

Upon being conditionally reinstated to the NFL last month, Vick acknowledged making "terrible mistakes" and said he had used the past two years to re-evaluate his life.

The Humane Society of the United States has said Vick also offered to work with the organization on its anti-dogfighting campaign.

To some Eagles fans, though, the nature of Vick's crimes is too much to forgive.

"I'm just a little upset with it because I'm such an animal lover," Susan Wilson of Pitman, New Jersey, told WPVI.

Kelley Williams of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, told the station that she, too, had trouble accepting Vick's signing.

"I think he should be out of the NFL altogether," she said.

Sports talk shows already are predicting that Vick can redeem himself only by making big plays, and at least some of the Philadelphia faithful concur he can shut up his critics on the field.

"If they keep him," fan James told philly.com, "he'll be the man."

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question: Michael Vick signs deal with what team?

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PALMETTO, Georgia (CNN) -- The idea of investing in new home construction and high-end restaurant businesses would send most entrepreneurs running these days, but developers in a small community in rural Georgia say they're still growing.

The community of Serenbe in rural Georgia is surrounded by 40,000 acres of dense forest.

At first glance Serenbe is a bucolic scene of horses and stables ringed by 40,000 acres of dense oak and pine forest, but as you drive around the first bend, a collection of look-alike white houses emerges, giving the distinct impression of a conventional high-end housing development.

But a 21st century high-tech eco-village soon emerges from the mists.

There are paths leading to water recycling facilities, composting, recycling, and 25 acres of organic-certified farmland, four of which are planted with anything from hops for beer making to sweet peas. A silver sign is prominently displayed in recognition of Serenbe's ecologically sound construction, proving that Serenbe is not the average cookie-cutter housing development.

Serenbe, a community founded on principles of farm-to-table cooking and environmentally conscious building techniques, has seen its fortunes rise while the rest of the country struggles. The development's founders have sold four homes and five building lots at the development since January alone, and they believe that innovation may be just the thing the economy needs.

Founders Marie and Steve Nygren say they're running their business the old-fashioned way: looking back to what they call a "village model," where people shop and dine locally, helping to sustain each other's business while also creating less waste.

"People are looking for what's important, quality of life, for them and their children. Many of the residents want to know their neighbors, and we're creating public spaces where they can interact," Steve says.

The community started small: the Nygrens bought a farmhouse and 90 acres of land back in 1991. At first they used it as a weekend retreat from nearby Atlanta, but three years later they made it their permanent residence and workplace. Soon the 90 acres became 1000, the farmhouse became an inn, and the Nygrens developed a vision of community.

"We're intentional in the way that we respect the environment. It's about the way you live, the way you interact, the way you eat," says Marie. It has also been a business success: today Serenbe is a four-year-old upscale housing development, where the starting price for a house is $350,000.

In the last three years Serenbe has grown to a community of 160 residents, mostly young families who work in the Atlanta area, the self-employed or retired. So far, 102 freshly built environmentally friendly homes and business spaces have been rented and sold, a small collection of boutiques and galleries has popped up, and at the heart of the community, three restaurants are thriving.  See photos of what the community looks like Â»

Hilary White is the latest chef to join Serenbe's community, and her 18-month-old restaurant, The Hil on the Hill, is now the centerpiece of the community's small commercial block. White came to Serenbe for the four-acre organic farm that is now steps away from her kitchen. She gets her kale there in the winter, her fruit in summer, and for most of the year enough produce for all of her cooking at the restaurant.

Not only does she save fuel and energy by minimizing the products she has to have shipped in, but diners near and far are drawn to the freshness of farm-to-table cuisine.

"The winter is a smaller menu, but in the summer it's endless," she says.

Harvesting the last delicate bundles of this season's spinach for tonight's dinner, she already knows how to use them: "We like these leaves, nice and crinkly, holds the vinaigrette really well, and it's just got a real good flavor."

In colder months she makes her culinary creations with hearty winter vegetables like shitake mushrooms, cabbage and Kohlrabi, a water chestnut-textured turnip.

But what's driving the restaurant's success in these cold economic climes? Jim White, Hilary's husband and business partner, says it's the alternative nature of their business that has saved them from going under.

"We don't have as much of a roller coaster ride, people are traveling to see us, and they come from the city because of the whole farm-to-table concept."  Watch a farm-to-table cooking demo Â»

Hilary and Jim admit that the restaurant's sales have slowed recently, but business is brisk enough that they have no plans to scale back.

And Serenbe is also bucking some of the national trends, especially when it comes to real estate. According to the National Association of Realtors, new home sales in 2008 were down nearly 37 percent, and it is projected that in 2009 sales could fall another 39 percent. The figures have scared developers away from investing in new types of property, but Steve Nygren says that Serenbe is maintaining sales even now.

"We still have consistent movement," Steve says, "and considering the current environment we're really pleased."

Shelton Stanfill was one of Serenbe's first full-time residents. Before moving to the development in 2006 he ran Atlanta's Woodruff Arts Center. He says he was attracted to Serenbe because he saw it as a "poster child for the anti-sprawl mentality."

Like many other residents, Stanfill was also drawn to the communal feel of the development. "We lived in Atlanta for 11 years and within four months of being at Serenbe I knew more people by first name than I ever did in my old neighborhood," he says.

When Steve Nygren started building his vision of an eco-community, conventional developers were skeptical about Serenbe, but now Steve says that "a lot of those developers are coming out now with tape measures and cameras to see what we're doing. They're realizing that high-quality environmental developments sell."

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answer: 40,000 acres of dense forest.

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question: What do rural Georgia's community developers say?

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question: On what principles was Serenbe founded?

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Paris (CNN) -- The mayor of a French town where students were held hostage for more than four hours Monday wants to reassure parents that "schools in France are safe."

"We do not want to create an environment of terror in the classroom," Mayor Jean-Louis Fousseret said. "We shouldn't focus on this issue."

About 20 children, aged 4 to 6, were in a classroom when the incident began; five children and their teacher were held until the incident was resolved, Besancon police said.

The hostage-taker is about 17 years old, according to the French Ministry of Education. He was armed with two swords and had "demands," the ministry said, without specifying what they were.

He has been arrested, the mayor said.

"We were dealing with someone who was suicidal and wanted us to give him a weapon," Fousseret said. "There is no specific danger in Besancon."

The father of one of the hostages said that he was "very afraid" for his child but that the students had confidence in their teacher.

"The teacher was very, very calm and confident. She helped them," Babacar Kebe told BFM. "I have not asked them questions because they are very young, and I don't want them to get upset."

A security cordon was placed around the school, and police marksmen took positions outside, pictures from the scene showed. They did not enter the school during the incident, the mayor said.

The incident started at 8:30 a.m. at the Charles Fourier school in the borough of Planoise and ended about four and a half hours later.

France last had a high-profile school hostage incident 17 years ago.

Six girls and their teacher were held hostage for two days in the suburbs of Paris in 1993.

A man calling himself "the Human Bomb" strapped explosives to his body and demanded about $18 million to release them.

He was killed by police marksmen using guns with silencers, press reports said.

CNN's Nina Dos Santos, Isa Soares, Vicky Bennett and Alex Mohacs contributed to this report.

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question: what did Mayor Jean-Louis Fousseret say?

answer: "We do not want to create an environment of terror in the classroom,"

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question: who gives security to these schools

answer: police marksmen

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question: what was the suspect armed with?

answer: two swords

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question: Is there danger in Besancon?

answer: "There is no specific

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question: who were held at a nursery school on Monday?

answer: 20 children, aged 4 to 6,

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question: What does the mayor say about schools in France?

answer: are safe."

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question: How many people were held at a nursery school on Monday?

answer: five children and their teacher

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