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Club Dragon Eight, 1151 Folsom; 431-1151. 9pm-3am. A gay Asian dance club. Club Hide 9pm-2am, free. Live music. Club NV 10pm-3:30am. Hip-hop and salsa. Club Six 9pm-2am, $10. Dance and hip-hop with various DJs. Desire Fluid Ultra Lounge, 662 Mission; 615-6888, www.fluidsf.com. 10pm, $10-15. Hip-hop, mashups, and rock with rotating DJs. Directions In Stereo Dalva. 9pm-2am. DJs Circuit73, Dave Aju, Wrong?, and Subtext spin everything from punk to disco. Dragon Bar 473 Broadway; 834-9383. 8pm-2am, $10. House, hip-hop, Latin, jazz, and classic dance mixes with DJ Daymetrius. The Dream Queen's Revue Aunt's Charlie's, 133 Turk; 441-2922. 10pm. Drag cabaret hosted by Ruby Slippers and DeeDee La Femme. Element Fridays Element Lounge.
Sarkozy, Rudd visit Afghanistan
Kevin Rudd and French President Nicolas Sarkozy flew into the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Saturday to meet with Karzai and visit their respective country's troops participating in the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force. In a morning meeting, Sarkozy "assured President Karzai of his government's long term political and military support with the people of Afghanistan," according to a statement from the Afghan president's office. Rudd, who was elected in a landslide victory Nov. 24, appeared with Karzai at a news conference, where he repeatedly said that the Australian commitment to Afghanistan is strong. "We will be, as I said before, in this country, Afghanistan, for the long haul. It's important for us to be here in partnership with NATO countries," Rudd said.
More than lives taken by NIU shooting
But last year I remarked to myself that the commons looked no different from my long-ago college days there. Everything seemed the same. That changed forever Thursday. Everything changed forever Thursday at Northern Illinois University. The slaughter occurred just off the busy commons - named for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - at Cole Hall. I can't begin to count the number of lectures I had there. Most of the time, my sleep-deprived eyes fought to stay open as I rued the boredom of classes. In the aftermath of Thursday, such quietude at Cole Hall sounds so sweet, so wonderful - and, now in our minds, so perpetually elusive. I can't claim to be what most people would call a good alumnus. I don't get up to NIU much, and I no longer go to Homecoming. Certainly, I'm not the type of heavy hitter whom a university would seek to help fund big, new academic buildings.
Canoe found search goes on for boy missing on Eagle Mountain Lake
The Azle teen missing since a canoe capsized late Monday on Eagle Mountain Lake is known as popular, athletic boy, a family friend said. Searchers early this morning found the canoe that capsized but not 16-year-old Joe Barnett who was paddling it with a 16-year-old girl, said Chad Lorance, spokesman for the Tarrant County Regional Water District. Barnett and the girl, who is a friend from his neighborhood, were last seen about 5 p.m. pushing off from Shady Grove Park on the Azle side of the lake. Debra Willis, a family friend, said teens loaded the 16-foot canoe with two bicycles they planned to ride on the Pelican Bay side of the lake. The canoeists headed east along shore toward Pelican Bay, but the canoe capsized in rough, wind-swept water, according to reports.
'Mr. Floyd' Culver, delivered DN, Inky
NOBODY AT the Daily News or Inquirer ever called Floyd Culver anything but "Mr. Floyd." "That's the kind of respect we had for him," said Bob Palmo, district circulation manager for the papers as he talked about a man who had been selling the papers in the streets of the city since 1947. He was still selling them through helpers until a few weeks ago. After all, he was only 100 years old. "He still wanted to be involved," Palmo said. "But about five weeks ago, he called me and said, 'I can't do it anymore.'" Mr. Floyd, who began his working life on a pecan farm in Alabama, served as a cook in the Navy in World War II, and had been a loyal ambassador for the Daily News and Inquirer for six decades, died yesterday. He had turned 100 on Oct. 3. Well into his 90s, Floyd loaded up the sturdy bicycle he bought in 1954 with newspapers, along with his cane, and would ply the streets of Center City and South Philadelphia, delivering hundreds of papers to the customers he loved.
Missing man found: Police say 81-year-old wandered into Juarez
Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia.
Alzheimer's disease is expected to grow from the current 5.1 million cases nationally to 16 million by 2050 as the population ages.
Symptoms include forgetfulness and losing the ability to do common functions. For example, a person may forget how to cook, how to dress themselves and other skills. Symptoms come and go.
For more information and advice on Alzheimer's disease, call the Alzheimer's Association 24-hour help line at 800-272-3900 or online at www.alz.org/txstar Help is available in Spanish.
Source: Alzheimer's Association. .
Homicide update
Faulkner County prosecutors charged a Searcy man with Internet stalking of a child on Tuesday in the third stalking case investigated in recent weeks by Conway Police Department. Michael E. Jackson, 27, of the 2000 block of Silver Springs was taken into CPD custody at 5:02 p.m., Monday after a sting conducted that afternoon, in which a detective was logged on as a 14-year-old female. Police say Jackson arranged a meeting with the 14-year-old persona with the intention of having sex, and shortly after showed up to a location designated by Jackson. On Oct. 3, CPD officers arrested Ivan Flores, 24, of the 400 block of East Robins on two counts of rape and a single count of Internet stalking after hearing statements from a 13-year-old female victim who said Flores sexually abused her in person after meeting her on myearbook.com.
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