LONDON (AP) — A town famous for honoring dead British soldiers as they are repatriated from Afghanistan will gain the rare honor of receiving a royal title, Britain's prime minister said Wednesday.David Cameron told lawmakers that the town — where people line the streets each time a soldier's cortege passes by — will officially be renamed Royal Wootton Bassett, recognizing its efforts to honor the U.K.'s war dead.The move marks the first time in more than 100 years that a town has been granted the title of "royal" — an honor reserved for the very few."Their deeply moving and dignified demonstrations of respect and mourning have shown the deep bond between the public and our armed forces," Cameron told the House of Commons www.topjamesshoes.com.Cameron said Queen Elizabeth II bestowed the honor on the town of Wootton Bassett, 85 miles (135 kilometers) west of London, as tribute to the "enduring symbol of the nation's admiration and our gratitude to the people of that town."After repatriation to a nearby air base, the flag-draped coffins of fallen soldiers are taken on a solemn journey through the town of about 11,000 people and on to a coroner's office in Oxford. Each time, residents shut the doors of their businesses, and line the sidewalks of the quiet market town to salute the procession.Veterans and soldiers in uniform stand at attention, police outriders escort the hearse and stop in the town center, giving families a chance to lay flowers on the vehicle's roof, over the coffin. A bell tolls Adidas Clima 360 Low.The moment has been replayed for television cameras hundreds of times. Though a mark of respect, it has also become an uncomfortable reminder of the war's terrible cost. The announcement of the royal honor accompanies the news that bodies will now be repatriated through another air base, since the one near Wootton Bassett is scheduled for closure.Since the beginning of hostilities in October 2001, 359 British forces personnel have died in Afghanistan.The town's residents began their efforts with only the humblest organization. Local shops post notices in their windows, while the local Royal British Legion, a veterans' charity, telephones and e-mails to spread the word. The local pub sets aside a room, so that family and friends of the slain troops can have privacy while they await the cortege."It is such spontaneous public support that captures the spirit of the British people, and I am very grateful for those who have participated," Defense Secretary Liam Fox said in a statement. "Such gestures do not go unnoticed by those deployed on operations."Wootton Bassett's mayor, Mary Champion, said in a statement that the town was a bit taken aback Manolo Blahnik Shoes, as they had never sought the recognition."I am certain that this will serve to reinforce the pride and gratitude we feel for the members of our armed services who will always be in our thoughts," Champion said.Wootton Bassett will join two other royal towns in England — Leamington Spa was granted the title in 1838 by Queen Victoria and Tunbridge Wells received the title in 1909 from King Edward II. Both of the towns had petitioned for the honor in recognition of their antiquity and royal patronage of their spa facilities.A third town, Caernarvon in Wales, is a royal town of a different sort — it was made a Royal Borough by the Queen in 1963 and allowed to retain the honor when it ceased to be a borough in 1974.Greenwich is one of a number of Royal Boroughs in England.

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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Two hospital and one physician group announced Tuesday they are withdrawing from a coalition formed over concerns about Gov. Bobby Jindal's proposed health care delivery system for the poor. The groups cited changes made that make Jindal's original plan more palatable as their reason for resigning from the Coalition to Protect Louisiana's Healthcare. Staying in the coalition are groups that represent pediatricians, obstetricians and family practice physicians, who provide most of the care in the Medicaid system Jindal wants to change. Jindal's plan affects two-thirds of the state's 1.2 million Medicaid recipients 686,000 of them children. Under the plan, private insurance companies or other entities would be responsible for delivering health care through what is called " Gianmarco Lorenzi Shoes;coordinated care networks" Keen Bags; of physicians, hospitals and other providers. The Louisiana Hospital Association, the Metropolitan Hospital Council of New Orleans and the Louisiana State Medical Society said they dropped their objections to Jindal's plan to privatize taxpayer-funded health care for the poor. However, the Medical Society added that an alternative plan developed for the coalition involving a state-based partnership with providers and patients should be considered as a third option. Proponents of the plan contend it would keep some $­300 million in health care delivery instead of it being diverted to private insurance companies and others for administrative overhead and profits. "The Coalition's alternative model affords physicians another pathway to participate as a Medicaid provider," said Medical Society executive vice president Jeff Williams Keen Girls. "Physicians can now research the plans available and choose the option that best suits their practice." LHA president John Matessino and Paul Salles, chief executive officer of the Hospital Council pledged to work with the administration, legislature and other health care providers to make Jindal's "coordinated care networked" program successful.They also noted the concessions the Jindal administration has made in recent weeks, including accelerating a program that puts more money into hospital coffers to help offset prior cuts. In a news release issued late Tuesday, state health Secretary Bruce Greenstein said the development "marks significant progress in our efforts to transform the state's broken Medicaid program." (Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press.  All Rights Reserved.)

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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The NFL stuck to its Super Bowl schedule Tuesday despite an ice storm that struck the Dallas area.NFL spokesman Greg Aiello sent out a Twitter message saying media activities at Cowboys Stadium in suburban Arlington would go on as planned. Both the Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers were scheduled to be available for one hour each for the hundreds of reporters in town for this weekend's game.Aiello tweeted: "The show goes on. Media day is on schedule. Drive carefully Converse Low Tops. The stadium roof is closed."The news was a little more tenuous for travelers: Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport was closed for about an hour due to the storm, and primary tenant American Airlines canceled 800 flights — about half its daily service.The wintry blast of ice, blustery winds and plummeting temperatures also closed schools and snarled traffic. Walkways outside Cowboys Stadium in Arlington were a sheet of ice and a temporary building set up on the grounds had a hole in it, curtains flapping in the stiff wind.Super Bowl week in Texas isn't turning out to be all that much different for the Green Bay Packers: They might even practice indoors leading to Sunday's game against the Pittsburgh Steelers Jimmy Choo shoes."Sorry we brought the weather with us," Green Bay coach Mike McCarthy said Monday after his team arrived in the Dallas area.The storm was expected to dump more than a foot of snow on parts of the Midwest, and it brought a small accumulation of freezing rain and bone-chilling cold to parts of Texas. The National Weather Service says freezing temperatures will stick around at least through Thursday. There's a chance of light snow as late as Friday.The forecast for Sunday is much better — highs in the 50s — but Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers didn't want to take any chances. He said he hoped the roof of Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, the billion-dollar showplace of Jerry Jones, would be closed for the game. The NFL decided a long time ago that it will be."I'm hoping they put the top on Jerry World, and I think they will," Rodgers said.The National Weather Service advised Wisconsin travelers bound for Texas to wait until Wednesday evening, with up to 20 inches of snow forecast for the Milwaukee area.One Packers fan actually moved up his departure. John O'Neill, known as St. Vince because he wears a green bishop's outfit and a mitre with Vince Lombardi's face on it to home games, was driving to Dallas this week because of the weather warnings."If you're going to make the journey the worst thing you can do is shortchange yourself," said O'Neill, 58.Don Zuidmulder of Green Bay said he wasn't worried about weather affecting his flight Thursday."As long as I have 18 hours I'm going to get there," said Zuidmulder, 68 nike air max 180, undaunted by the 950-mile trip. "I'll crawl if I have to."Weather service meteorologist Jesse Moore said the sharpest cold, driven by northern winds up to 25 mph that could drop wind chill readings below zero, will come Wednesday."I'm keeping my fingers crossed and hoping for the best," said Tracy Gilmour, spokeswoman for Sundance Square, an outdoor venue in downtown Fort Worth that is one of the broadcasting hubs and just a few blocks from the Steelers' hotel. "We're going to keep the party going as best we can."Most Super Bowl trips are sold in four-day packages, and forecasts for Thursday are better in Texas and the participating cities. One travel agent in Pittsburgh said her agency had no weather-related changes among about 20 bookings because the forecast was good for Thursday, Friday and Saturday, when most clients were leaving."If that changes, we're in trouble," said Nancy Buncher of Gulliver's Travels.The Texas Department of Transportation brought in extra equipment from around the state for road work, including snow plows that are normally busy in the colder Texas Panhandle, said Val Lopez, an agency spokesman."It's really not any different than if we had a hurricane," Lopez said. "In past years, with hurricanes we've been asked to help the coastal areas. This is kind of the reverse of that."___Associated Press writers Carrie Antlfinger in Milwaukee, Dinesh Ramde in Green Bay, Wis., Patrick Walters in Philadelphia and AP Sports Writers Barry Wilner and Chris Jenkins in Dallas contributed to this report.

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