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Bonadventure's Jiggs
Congrats to Team Milligan, Mike and Steve.
Congrats to Ryan on the win.
'I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.' - Bear Bryant / Alabama
congrats don and betty, great weekend for primrose. love to see blue's babies doing good.
Way to go, Bettye and Wendy!!! Agh! That's wonderful!!
CONGRATULATIONS!!! To O\David Aul DVM, H\Paul Sletten & Magic Trick's Delbert "Doc" for earning the 2nd in the Derby at The South Louisiana RC on Fri. 2\22\13. Doc has 8pts in three trials. Way to Go Pine Edge!
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Anyone have the call backs for the 4th at the Q?
11 called back to the fourth in the Q. Four dogs picked it up clean.
Smith won with Cheif.
I believe Milligan took second and Brasseaux got third.
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[Photovoltaics, PV, Solar Electricity]
5-Day Class (three days of classroom and two days of hands-on installation)
Class Size: 20 students (Min 18)
Dates: October 28-30, November 5-6, 2011 (Fri-Sat-Sun-Sat-Sun; 8am to 5pm)
Tuition: $750 per person; NMSEA members - $725
Location: Santa Fe Girls' School, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Photovoltaic Class Brochure (4Mb)
Photovoltaic Class Brochure (B&W, 2.5Mb)
See also our PV Design class.
Are you interested in learning more about solar electricity? Would you like to learn about siting, sizing and safely installing a PV system?
Basic topics of this class include PV components (modules, arrays, inverters, batteries, charge controllers, wire), the configuration of stand-alone (off-grid) and grid-tie (utility-connected) systems, site analysis, load analysis, design and sizing. Other topics include ampacity and voltage drop, the National Electric Code (NEC), safety, commissioning, job prep, tools and energy efficiency.
This class is particularly good for certified electricians who are interested in the hands-on component as well as the classroom information. It is also good for homeowners who are considering installing their own systems as well as students and job seekers who are interested in fieldwork.
The design portion of the class contains lecture, interaction in the classroom and hands-on labs of series-parallel configurations and to wire a meter. Students will design a system, given physical parameters and a customer's lifestyle and desires, using classroom materials and the NEC book.
Students spend an additional weekend installing a 1-3kw solar electric system. The Oct/Nov class will install a 2kW system at Santa Fe Girls School.
Lunches and snacks are included in the class fee. Dress for classroom the first weekend. Dress for physical labor, with sturdy shoes (no sandals) on the second weekend.
Students must attend all 5 days of the class to receive a Certificate of Completion.
Electricians who complete the class may receive continuing education units through New Mexico's Construction Industries Division (CID). A grant through McCune Charitable Foundation provides tuition for four electrical inspectors for either photovoltaic class on a first-come, first-served basis. Please note this correction:Though NMSEA will seek approval by the North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners (NABCEP), students who take this class will not be eligible to sit for the NABCEP Entry Level Exam.
Our instructors are Randy Sadewic and Marlene Brown.
Randy Sadewic is a graduate of San Juan College, co-owns Positive Energy, Inc., a company that designs and installs PV systems and is certified by the North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners (NABCEP). Randy is a NMSEA SunChaser Instructor and Advisory Board Member. He was a Vice President during his term as Voting Board Member.
Marlene Brown has worked with PV for over 15 years, has been teaching for over 10 years and has installed 100s of systems in the U.S. and developing world. Marlene is an Advisory Board Member and was President for two of her terms on the Voting Board.
Tanya Stickford and Conor Black of Positive Energy will be directing the installation. Mary McArthur is the Workshop Coordinator. She is on the Advisory Board, is Editor of the Solar and Sustainable Directory and managed the Solar Fiesta for five years.
The classroom location for both the PV Design and PV Design and Installation classes will be at the Santa Fe Girls School (directions to come). The installation location for the PV Design and Installation class will be at the Santa Fe Girls School as well.
Payment must be received before the class. Checks, Visa, Mastercard and cash are accepted. When registering, please give your name, company, mailing address, phone, e-mail, and dietary or other special needs. For PV classes: If you are an electrician, please give us your Journeyman's License number.
With a credit card: Please call the NMSEA office:
Albuquerque phone: 505-246-0400
Toll free: 888-88-NMSOL (888-886-6765)
By mail: Send the information with a check for payment, to arrive before the class, to:
New Mexico Solar Energy Association
1009 Bradbury Dr SE, Ste. 35
Albuquerque, NM 87106

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Zippy Black Bean Dip
Makes 2˝ cups
Prep time: 5 min.
Total time: 10 min.
2 cans (15.5 oz. each) GOYA® Black Beans or Low-Sodium Black Beans, drained and rinsed
Ľ small red onion, finely chopped (about Ľ cup)
Ľ medium tomato, finely chopped (about Ľ cup)
Ľ cup packed fresh cilantro
1 tbsp. GOYA® Minced Garlic
1 GOYA® Pickled Jalapeńo, seeded and finely chopped (about 1 tbsp.), (optional)
ľ tsp. GOYA® Ground Cumin
2 tbsp. GOYA® Extra Virgin Olive Oil
1 tbsp. GOYA® Lemon Juice
GOYA® Adobo All-Purpose Seasoning with Pepper, to taste
Assorted cut vegetables, for serving
1. In bowl of blender or food processor, combine beans, onions, tomatoes cilantro, garlic, jalapeńo, if desired, cumin, olive oil and lemon juice.Puree until smooth, about 2 minutes; season with adobo.
2. Transfer bean dip to bowl; season with Adobo, to taste. Serve with vegetables.
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There is a story running in a Japanese magazine that Nintendo will unleash a mega announcement on the public close to the end of this year. I can only wonder what this such announcement would be concerned with. Perhaps Nintendo will announce something in the area of its online gaming plans. I hope the announcement is bigger than this, though. I hope the announcement concerns the world of single player/playing with your friends at home sort of situations. I understand online gaming on the three consoles is big for some people, but I prefer doing some things alone, and can only hope this announcement is not going to be in the area of that. But most likely, this announcement will be concerned with online gaming, and that is my most logical guess.


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Krush.15 Results: Takiya KOs Terado in 1st, Urabe and Ishikawa Draw, TaCa Leads WILDRUSH League
- Written by Dave Walsh
Krush held its first event of 2012, Krush.15 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo earlier yesterday. In the headlining bouts, 55kg champ Shota Takiya and 60kg champ Hirotaka Urabe defended their titles against Nobuchika Terado and Naoki Ishikawa, respectively. Krush.15 also kicked off the -63kg WILDRUSH League which is a 6-man round-robin to determine the next 63kg title challenger.
In the main event, 55kg champ Shota Takiya continued his reign of terror, stopping Nobuchika Terado just 71 seconds into the first round, scoring 3 downs with a pair of left hooks and a flying knee. The win is Takiya's (18-4, 12 KO) first defense and moves his win-streak to 9. With possible opponents KENJI and Ryuya Kusakabe busy with prior engagements, expect Takiya to take a super fight before taking a trilogy fight with either man. The quick loss is disappointing for Terado (27-8-1, 12 KO), who had a good shot at being the man to stop Takiya's current streak, but he never got into his rhythm and was stopped right away. Should Kusakabe be Takiya's next opponent, Krush would be well-served in organizing a fight between Terado and KENJI in Krush or RISE to see if KENJI is ready to take a step up in the division and challenge the top fighters in Japan.
In the co-main event, Hirotaka Urabe and Naoki Ishikawa proved to be evenly matched after the two fought to a unanimous draw after 3 rounds on scores of 29-29 and 28-28(x2). Urabe seems to have gotten the better of rounds 1 and 2, but a cut above Urabe's eye caused by a flying knee allowed Ishikawa to win the 3rd and bring the fight to a draw. Despite the draw, Urabe (13-5-2, 5 KO) defends his title and is now on a 7-fight unbeaten streak. It's hard to guess what is next for Urabe, should it be FIKA at 63kg or fighting in Krush. If he stays in Krush, matchups with Masaaki Noiri, Kosuke Komiyama or Kejiro Miyakoshi could provide a good test for any of the fighters involved. After his last bout, Ishikawa (33-18-5, 18 KO) talked about retirement, but I do not believe he mentioned it after this bout and according to Boutreview, he seemed pleased with his performance against Urabe. Ishikawa has his ups and downs, but with a win over Yuji Takeuchi followed by this draw against Urabe, Ishikawa is proving to still be a top fighter as he ages and could find success over the next couple of years should he continue to fight.
In a super-fight, flashy K-1 veteran Keiji Ozaki scored a 2nd round KO at 37 seconds into the round over Hironori Hattori. The win is a good bounce-back for Ozaki (24-15-1, 10 KO) who was coming off back to back losses to foreign fighters Thomas Adamandopoulous and Romain Mailov.
Krush.15 also marked the beginning of the -63kg WILDRUSH League which features 6 fighters in a round robin where the fighter with the most points after 5 fights will earn the right to challenge for the Krush -63kg title. Fighters receive 3 points for a KO win, 2 points for a decision win and 1 point for a draw.
Tournament favorite and member of Team Dragon Hideaki Yamazaki(12-1, 6 KO) started off strong with a clear unanimous decision victory over Silver Wolf's Hitoshi Tsukagoshi (9-2, 5 KO) on scores of 30-29 and 30-28(x2). The win gives Yamazaki two points, however Triple-Y's TaCa(record N/A) earned himself a 1st round lead with a quick knockout of Naoki Terasaki(8-4, 2 KO) at 1:34 into the 1st round, giving TaCa 3 points. In the final WILDRUSH League fight, Supernova tournament semifinalist Yukimitsu Takahashi(11-4-2, 4 KO) and Krush regular NOMAN(record N/A) fought to a split draw on scores of 30-30, 29-30 and 30-29, giving each man a point and 3rd place in the standings. The lead is nice for TaCa, but it is just the first round and Hideaki Yamazaki has only gotten better as his career as progressed. The draw is tough for Takahashi who will likely need to defeat both TaCa and Yamazaki if he wants to win this tournament.
Finally, in a clash between J-Girls champions, Featherweight champion and Team Dragon's Kimiko Sasaki defeated Bantamweight champion Shiho Mizuno by unanimous decision on scores of 30-29, 30-28 and 30-27.
Quick results after the break:
-55kg Title Fight: Shota Takiya(c) def. Nobuchika Terado by 1st round KO at 1:11.
-60gk Title Fight: Hirotaka Urabe(c) and Naoki Ishikawa fought to a 3rd round Unanimous Draw (29-29, 28-28 and 28-28).
64kg Superfight: Keiji Ozaki def. Hironori Hattori by 2nd round KO at 0:37.
-63kg WILDRUSH League Fight: Hideaki Yamazaki def. Hitoshi Tsukagoshi by 3rd round Unanimous Decision (30-29, 30-28, 30-28).
-63kg WILDRUSH League Fight: TaCa def. Naoki Terasaki by 1st round KO at 1:34.
-63kg WILDRUSH League Fight: Yukimitsu Takahashi and NOMAN fought to a 3rd round Split Draw (30-29, 30-30, 29-30).
55kg Fight: Takeru def. Kazunori by 1st round KO at 2:58.
57kg Women's Fight: Kimiko Sasaki def. Shiho Mizuno by 3rd round Unanimous Decision (30-29, 30-28, 30-27).
52kg Women's Fight: Akari def. Mitsuhori "SMILE" Miyako by 3rd round Majority Decision (29-28, 29-29, 29-28).
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Cowboy Beans in Twenty MinutesFrijoles Charros (Cowboy Beans) is a rustic, soupy stew of pinto beans, simmered in a flavorful tomato sauce with bacon and chile. An authentic Mexican dish, it gets its name from the traditional Mexican horsemen called charros, who cooked their frijoles a la charra on the range, over an open fire.
Here we create the same delicious effect much more quickly, with tender, canned GOYA® Pinto Beans. Enjoy this chipotle-spiced, open-air feast at your own table tonight!
Serves 6
Prep time: 10 min.
Total time: 30 min.
˝ lb. bacon cut in ˝-inch pieces
1 cup onion, diced
1 tsp. GOYA® Minced Garlic or 2 cloves garlic, minced
1 rounded tbsp. GOYA® Recaito
1 Chipotle Chile from 1 can (7 oz.) GOYA® Chipotle Chiles in Adobo Sauce, or to taste
1 packet Sazón GOYA® without Annatto
1 can (8 oz.) GOYA® Tomato Sauce
1 packet GOYA® Chicken Bouillon
2 cups water
2 cans (15.5 oz. each) GOYA® Pinto Beans, drained and rinsed
GOYA® Adobo All-Purpose Seasoning with Pepper to taste
|In a 4-quart saucepan over medium heat, cook bacon until browned. Drain off all but 1 tbsp. of fat.
|Stir in onion and garlic, and cook until onions are translucent.
|Stir in recaito, chipotle, sazón, tomato sauce, bouillon, water and beans and bring to a boil. Lower heat and simmer, uncovered, for 10 minutes or until thick, but still soupy, stirring occasionally. Season with adobo.
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In the early months of 1965 Olitski began to use a spray-gun to apply paint to his canvases. He had previously been using sponges and paint rollers to put down broad areas of colour, but found that overlapping layers of colour tended to neutralise each other. By spraying the paint Olitski preserved the richness and purity of colour and gained an expansive and seamless surface. In these paintings he continued and developed his compositional practice of confining incident to the periphery of the canvas, usually by defining an edge, or edges, with a stripe of paint or a line of pastel in a different colour.
During the winter of 1965-66 Olitski began to mask out areas of the painting along two or sometimes there sides during the painting process, thus creating borders like internal frames within the painting. He would also cut more than one work from the same role of sprayed canvas, using the process of stretching as a kind of editing to achieve the desired effect. Prince Patutsky's command, painted in the winter of 1965-66, is typical of this group of paintings, with its ghost-like border across the lower and left sides of the canvas. It was cut from the same stretch of sprayed canvas as the painting Unlocked (collection Robert Eichholz, Washington DC).1
Olitski used the name Patutsky in the titles of several of his paintings in the mid-1960s. He remembers being called 'Prince Patutsky' but his stepfather as a child, and believes that it was in reference to Sanislaw Felix Potocki (1752-1805).2 In the eighteenth century the Potocki family were among the most prominent 'republicans' opposing Kings Augustus II and Augustus III. Stanislaw Potocki dreamed of transforming Poland into a federal republic following the example of the United States. Olitski recalls that his stepfather's manner of calling him Prince Patutsky conjured up an image of 'aristocratic bearing, courtly manner, excessive fastidiousness'.3
Michael Lloyd & Michael Desmond European and American Paintings and Sculptures 1870-1970 in the Australian National Gallery 1992 p.364.


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TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) — Armed robbers on New Year's Eve got away with what initial reports said was some $1.3 million of products from an Apple Inc. store in Paris.
Barron's: Apple and January effect
Did Apple sell off because investors were taking gains before the tax hike? Perhaps, but that's not the reason to buy the stock. Barron's senior editor Jack Hough previews that and other top stories in this week's Barron's magazine.
The robbery, carried out by four or five armed and masked individuals, occurred in the late evening, about three hours after the store had closed, the reports say.
According to Dow Jones Newswires, an iPhone 5 in France costs about $900.
The reports say they loaded boxes of Apple AAPL, -0.23% products onto a truck and escaped.
The store is located behind the Paris Opera House, while the police were largely deployed around the Champs Elysees, the traditional gathering place for New Year's Eve, the reports say.


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Hopefully that's an EARLY prototype, there are some good things about it like the cartoon-derived head, but the scope seems too large and the legs are too thin. But it's a good start. I hope he's at least as big as MP Prime, anything smaller will be a disappointment.
A review with new photos of Classics OP vs Megs 2pack:
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Reading on Yahoo that Chi-town just registered it's 500th homicide for the year which will put this year in 2nd place to 2008 when they registered 512!!!!!!!!!
Some related facts - Chicago is a Democratic controlled town, has been for decades, the POTUS is from there, many of his staff are also. Can any of you lefty's who are in the tank for this POTUS explain why you would trust this administration to solve any problem related to guns & the related homicides? Just asking .


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Family: Fringillidae, Finches view all from this family
Description ADULT MALE Has mostly deep red plumage overall, darkest and brownest on wings and tail. Note, some birds show indistinct pale wing bars (cf. White-winged). ADULT FEMALE Has dull yellow-green plumage overall, darkest and brownest on wings and tail. JUVENILE Brown and heavily streaked, paler below than above. First-year male recalls adult female, but plumage is yellow-orange. First-year female is similar to adult female.
Dimensions Length: 5 1/4-6 1/2" (13-17 cm)
Habitat Locally common resident of mature coniferous forests. Irruptive and wandering behavior make precise occurrence hard to predict.
Observation Tips Listen for its distinctive call.
Range Great Lakes, California, Southeast, Texas, Eastern Canada, Southwest, Northwest, Mid-Atlantic, Alaska, Plains, Western Canada, New England, Rocky Mountains
Voice Song begins with, and includes, several flight call-like kip-kip notes, and often ends in a buzzing trill. Experts can discern differences in calls among separate populations.
Discussion Plump-bodied finch whose bill has cross-tipped mandibles (feature shared only with White-winged); used to extract seeds from between scales of conifer cones. Precise size and shape of bill varies subtly across region and several forms (possibly even species) occur, each adapted to feed on different conifer species. Forms nomadic flocks outside breeding season. Sexes are dissimilar.


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Alesis QS8
The QS8 came out on the heels of the QS7 and was an even more professional quality version - it was Alesis' flagship model! It featured a full 88-note weighted keyboard with piano style hammer-action and a strong all-metal chassis with black solid oak end-pieces. Otherwise, it's identical to the QS7, with 16 MegaBytes of sample/synthesis ROM (expandable to 32 MegaBytes), 4 stereo outputs, 4 control sliders, discrete MIDI OUT and THRU ports, a third Expression Pedal input, ADAT optical digital output, 48kHz clock input, and a second PCMCIA expansion card slot.
The QS8 is undoubtedly a powerful and flexible synthesizer capable of creating rich sounds - both acoustic and electronic. There's 64 voices of polyphony and 16 parts multitimbrality and tons of memory and expand-ability! The QS8 uses digital additive/subtractive sample playback synthesis to create high quality stereo grand pianos, organs, strings, drums/percussion, brass, woodwinds, new and classic synth textures, General MIDI, and rhythmic/sonic loops. Most of them sound pretty darn great too! Keith Emerson wrote the demo for it, as well as some patches.
As a master synth, the QS excels in it's price range, except for that tiny LCD display which makes navigating through the pages and pages of program settings pretty tedious. The QS8 implements the powerful QS Modulation Matrix, allowing users to assign virtually any controller source to any modulation parameter. There's an onboard multi-effects processor (based on the QuadraVerb 2) with four totally discrete effects busses that include reverb, delay, rotary speaker simulation, distortion, chorus and much more. With a direct Mac or PC hook-up, loading patches and editing via software is a snap! QS synths shipped with Alesis' Sound Bridge software for Mac/PC which lets you write AIFF and WAV samples, Standard MIDI Files and Program data to PCMCIA Flash or SRAM cards. It can play Standard MIDI file sequences from the expansion cards without the use of an external sequencer. For a top-quality synthesizer that isn't focused just on dance or trance, be sure to consider the QS8.
The QS7 is a mid-sized 76-note keyboard version with semi-weighted keys for players who need that realistic feel at a more affordable price. The QSR is identical to the QS7 and QS8, except that it is a keyboard-less rackmount version. 1999 saw the release of the updated QS8.1 which was a vast improvement over this original.
Lookup Alesis QS8 Prices
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- Demos & Media
Audio Clip 1 - Here are a bunch of demo patches from the QS7, displaying the QS-synth's wide range of excellent contemporary, acoustic, and electronic synth sounds & textures. From the Future Music CD, issue 51.
Manual - Alesis have made manuals and program charts for many of their products available on-line, for free download as .PDF files.
- Specifications
- Polyphony - 64 voices
- Oscillators - 48kHz Linear samples.
16MB, expandable to 32MB using 2 PCMCIA ROM and RAM cards
- Multitimbral - 16 parts
- Effects - 4 On-board effects, based on the Alesis QuadraVerb 2 FX processor
- Arpeg/Seq - None
- Keyboard - 88 velocity and aftertouch sensitive, weighted, hammer-action
- Memory - 512 preset 128 user programs, 400 preset and 100 user mixes, expandable using PCMCIA cards
- Control - MIDI IN/OUT/THRU (16-parts), RS232/RS422 computer serial port for Macintosh or PC
- Date Produced - 1996
- Websites of Interest
- Shop for Keyboards, MIDI & Gear
Guitar Center: Synths and MIDI
Sweetwater: Hot items in Keyboars section
The Musician's Friend: Keyboard gear
AMS: Brand synths and accessories
The Woodwind & Brasswind Store
music123.com: Synth Blow Out Deal Section
zZounds: Keyboards and MIDI equipment
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Before embarking on construction of protective structures out of osmium, it would be advisable to have a plan to counteract the metal's distressing tendency to contaminate proximate air via cumulatively-toxic heavy-metal outgassing. Yes, osmium evaporates at room temperature: more precisely, it oxidizes, and the oxide is gaseous.
Iridium is almost as dense as osmium (and might be more dense), is not known to evaporate in air, and is much cheaper. Gold, though less dense, is overwhelmingly more ductile, and more prone to be made off with than to evaporate. Little has been openly published about gold-iridium alloys.


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Okay, today I was at a collectors store. While I was browsing through the selections, I came across the Riddell helmets of Boba Fett, and a Stormtrooper. I asked the clerk how much the helmets were going for. She told me that the Stormtrooper was $35 and the Boba Fett was $45. I had paid over $100 on eBay for the Stormtrooper. I told the clerk this, and she said that the ones they had their were a second release, that were released about 2 years ago. She asked if I knew which version of the Stormtrooper helmet I had. My question is, how do I tell which version I have? I mean it's not like I can send the Riddell Stormtrooper helmet I have for a full refund, then buy the one at the store, but I would like to know if I have one from the original release. I did pick up the Boba Fett, but I put it on Lay Away. I put $11 down on it, and still have a balance, and I do intend on picking it up later next month. After all, if I change my mind, they have a no refund policy.
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Ackerman tosses five-inning no-hitter
Pine River-Backus pitcher Autumn Ackerman tossed a five-inning no-hitter in a 19-0 win in the second game of an Upper Mississippi Conference doubleheader against the Laporte Wildcats on Monday, May 13.
The Tigers, who are 8-0 in the conference, are scheduled to play a doubleheader against Pequot Lakes and Pillager in Pequot Lakes on Thursday, May 16. PR-B will then play a night game against the Huskies on Saturday, May 18.
PR-B sweeps Laporte
Ackerman struck out four batters and walked three, and the fielders did the rest of the work for her. The Tigers got everybody in on the action as all but two players got to bat at least twice. Kendra Brasel went 2-2 with a double and two RBIs. Howard went 2-3 with a triple. Liz Downie and Carlee Staples each double.
The first game was much the same as the second as the Tigers won 19-3. Aleckson took the win as she struck out five, walked five, and gave up three hits. DeGrote was the only batter with more than singles as she doubled. Felthous went 3-4 while Howard was 2-3 and Brasel had three RBI.
Tigers sweep Walker-H-A
PR-B team easily defeated the Walker-Hackensack-Akeley Wolves in a conference doubleheader in Walker on Saturday, May 11. The first game started with the Tigers batting and scoring six runs in the first inning. WHA was able to put two runs on the board in the bottom of the inning and they added one more in the bottom of the second to make the score 6-3.
The Tigers added another six runs in the top of the third to lengthen their lead 12-3, which was a good thing since they didn't score again and had to hold off the Wolves for the last two innings.
The Wolves came back with five runs in the bottom of the fourth to make the score 12-8, and the Tigers managed to hold them to one run in the bottom of the fifth to take the win 12-9.
Caitlyn Aleckson took the win for the Tigers with four strikeouts, six walks, and four hits. Autumn Ackerman went 1-3 with a triple and two RBIs and Journee Howard went 1-3 with a double and two RBI.
The second game was more of a blowout as the Tigers scored in every inning to win the game 19-4. The Tigers got four runs in the first, two runs in the second, five in the third, and eight in the fourth. Ackerman was the winning pitcher with five strikeouts, two walks, and seven hits.
Morgan Demars went 2-3 with a double and a triple, Downie went 2-3 with a double and three RBIs, Tatum Sheley went 1-2 with a double, Ackerman went 3-3 with three singles and three RBI, and Megan Felthous went 2-3 with a double and two RBIs.
Menahga 10, Tigers 4
PR-B's only loss of the early season came Friday, May 10 as they traveled to Menahga to play the Braves. The Tigers came out swinging in the top of the first as they got six hits and scored three runs. Menahga managed two runs in the bottom of the first to make the score 2-2.
The Braves switched pitchers in the top of the second inning and things went downhill from there for the Tigers. The Tigers didn't score again until the top of the fifth while the Braves took the lead in the bottom of the third with four runs. The Tigers managed one run in the fifth, but Menahga scored two runs in the bottom of the fifth and another two runs in the bottom of the sixth.
Ackerman took the loss as she struck out one, walked seven, and gave up nine hits. The Tigers also had five errors, but they did out hit the Braves 10-9. Sheley went 2-3 with a double and triple, and Demars and Ackerman each had a double.
Tigers beat Blackduck, N-K
On Thursday, May 9, PR-B played a conference double-header against two different teams as both the Blackduck Drakes and the Northome-Kelliher Mustangs came down to Pine River, and the Tigers came away with two easy wins. Their first game was against the Mustangs, and the Tigers allowed the Mustangs to score two runs in the top of the first before the Tigers took over, batted all the way through their lineup and halfway through again, and scored 10 runs.
The Mustangs didn't score again until the top of the fifth when they managed to get one run, while the Tigers scored three more runs in the second and two more in the fourth. Aleckson took the win with five strikeouts, two walks, and four hits. Demars went 1-1 with a double, and Downie, Cheryl Carlson, Ackerman, Howard, and Steph DeGrote added singles for the Tigers.
In the second game, against the Drakes, the Tigers jumped out to a 6-0 lead before the Drakes managed to score one run in the bottom of the second inning. The Tigers added two more runs in the top of the third, and the Drakes answered with three runs in the bottom. The Tigers scored one run in the top of the fourth and held the Drakes to one run in the bottom to make the score 9-5.
PR-B put up two more runs in the top of the fifth and made the Drakes strand two runners in scoring position to end the game 11-5. Ackerman took the win with three strikeouts, eight walks, and six hits.
Demars led the Tigers in batting by going 3-3 with three doubles and two RBI. Downie was 3-3 with one double and four RBI. Ackerman was 2-4 with two RBI and Felthous was 2-3.
Tigers pound CL-B, Red Lake
PR-B opened their season by blanking the Cass Lake-Bena Panthers 16-0 in a conference game up in Cass Lake Tuesday, May 7. The Tigers scored one run in the first and second innings and two runs in the third, but their blowout came in the fourth as they batted through their lineup twice and scored 12 runs before the Panthers could get them out.
Ackerman took the win by striking out three, walking seven and allowing only two hits. The Tigers had 10 hits, including an in-the-park home run by Demars at the beginning of the fourth inning. Demars also had a double. Ackerman had a triple, and Felthous added a double.
The Tigers crushed the Red Lake Warriors 37-3 in their second game up in Cass Lake as the Tigers got 32 hits and batted all the way through their lineup every inning. The Warriors runs came in the first and second innings. PR-B scored seven in the first, eight in the second, eight in the third, and 14 in the fourth. All but one of the Tigers' hitters had at least one hit.
Demars, Sheley and Olivia Davidson each had a triple. Brasel had two doubles, and Ackerman and Howard each had three doubles as they each went 4-6. Aleckson was the winning pitcher with seven strikeouts, six walks, and two hits.


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The XS has 2 voltage controlled oscillators that can be frequency modulated independently by internal and external signals for complex waveforms. A dedicated LFO can be used to modulate external or internal signals. The 2-pole multimode filter can be used as a lowpass, bandpass, highpass, or notch filter and is capable of self-oscillation. Velocity-sensitive ADSR envelopes can be used to alter filter and amp.
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PAKISTAN: Keeping the plight of the north-western displaced alive
In April this year, the Government of Pakistan said it was time for the residents of Jalozai camp to go home.
Jalozai is one of the largest camps for people displaced by conflict in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, in north western Pakistan. In late 2008, thousands of families were forced to flee from fighting between the government and militants in the tribal areas, creating one of the fastest displacement crises in history.
The situation has since calmed, however, and in April this year the Government of Pakistan announced it was time to return to Bajaur Agency - the smallest of the subdivisions of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), and a hub of militancy.
9,563 families have gone home. More than 2000 families, however, had nowhere to go, and remain in the camp. That includes 300 families from Kotki village, who discovered their former landlords did not want them back, and who have lost both their homes and their livelihoods.
Unfortunately, when the returns were announced, and Kotki declared safe, food aid to the families was stopped. Their future hung in the balance.
OCHA steps in, to keep displaced people's plight on the agenda
Shaista Atta Ullah, part of the UNOCHA team in Peshawar, decided something needed to be done. For the past decade, Ms Ullah – a woman from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, who understands the local language and culture - has dedicated her life to improving conditions for refugees and displaced people.
But over the past couple of years, she has seen the plight of Jalozai fall down the agenda, as other crises took centre stage. "The focus has shifted to other emergencies in Pakistan," she says. "But the families in Jalozai still need solutions, to help them to return to their homes, or to integrate locally."
Ms Ullah started calling for assistance for the stranded families in June, after the camp authorities brought their situation to her attention. OCHA has been in the camp since 2008, both coordinating assistance and taking part in regular community meetings.
"We are fortunate to be considered trustworthy by the camp administration, as well as the people living in the camp," says Ms Ullah. "This keeps us informed about such cases, so we can get them solved in time."
She discussed the situation in a series of meetings with the Government, camp authorities and the government, in Peshawar, the provincial capital, and in September 2011, food aid resumed to the struggling families of Jalozai.
Ms Ullah feels great pride in her accomplishment, especially as a woman in a male dominated culture. "It's often difficult for women to promote the rights of others in a place where the idea of working women has only just evolved," she says. "However, I must say, I am impressed by the level of respect I have been shown by the men I have been working with in Government, and humanitarian organizations, as well as the men living in the camps."


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BOONEVILLE – Former Northeast Mississippi Community College standout cornerback Deion Belue of Tuscumbia, Ala., now has a Southeastern Conference (SEC) championship on his resume with hopes of adding a Bowl Champion Series (BCS) National Championship on January 7 in Miami Gardens, Fla.
Belue and the rest of the Crimson Tide will take on the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame at 8:30 EST on ESPN on national championship night to culminate the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) bowl season.
Belue, a junior at the University of Alabama, has found success in his first year under head coach Nick Saban for the Crimson Tide.
During his initial season in Tuscaloosa, Belue has started 13 games and tallied 36 total tackles (24 solos and 12 assists) to go along with two interceptions, six pass break ups, and a fumble recovery for a 57-yard touchdown return.
In the SEC Championship game against the Georgia Bulldogs, Belue accounted for five tackles in his effort to help secure the victory for the Tide.
"It's just really great to be here and to have success," Belue said. "There's a lot more pressure that comes with being here and being the starting cornerback at Alabama. It is something I look forward to because I am a competitor."
Before Belue donned the Crimson and White, he was a member of the Northeast Tiger football program for a pair of seasons — 2010 and 2011 — under head coach Ricky Smither.
Under Smither's guidance, Belue learned to excel on the field and in the classroom and helped lead the Tigers to two successful seasons.
"Northeast was a big help for me," explained Belue. "Coach Smither and his coaching staff had a plan for me to execute going into my time at Northeast and kept telling me if I go to class and keep my grades up and do my part, they would take care of me and they did."
While at Northeast, Belue was a two-year standout and was named an National Junior College Athletic Association's (NJCAA) 2011 All-American as a second-team honoree at defensive back and helped lead the Tigers to a perfect 5-0 start at the beginning of his sophomore year.
During the 2011 season, Belue was a 'Mr. Do-Everything' for the Tiger football team.
Belue hauled in passes on offense, helped lead one of the best defenses in the league and was ranked nationally in punt and kick returns.
In addition to his 2011 All-American award, Belue was also named to the NJCAA Region XXIII team and was also honored with the Most Valuable Defensive Back award for the North Division of the Mississippi Association of Community & Junior Colleges (MACJC).
Belue had a 58-yard interception return for a score against Northwest, brought back an 80-yard kickoff return against MACJC State Champion East Mississippi and then turned the trick a week later with a 90-yard return against Coahoma.
Belue averaged 28.9 yards per kick return on the season and 10.1 yards per return on his 14 punt returns during the 2011 season.
During his sophomore campaign, Belue broke the 100-yard plateau in kick returns twice – 127 versus East Mississippi and 105 against Copiah-Lincoln and registered 90-yard games.
"I would highly recommend Northeast because without their help and without them emphasizing the academic side of being a student-athlete I would have never made it here," Belue said. "They helped me realize that its more than just about sports but that it was alsoabout my academics. I didn't qualify out of high school to sign with Alabama, so I chose Northeast and they prepared me for where I am today."


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Once the new city hall is completed, the city will renovate its former home for the police department. Renovations are expected to be completed in 2016.
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There's a place in my town with "Rent A Harley." I don't have a motorcycle license, but I bet they take people for rides or train them.
I was thinking about taking a friend and treating them, both of us doing this, and feeling like real prospects for Sam Crow.
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Wednesday, June 09, 2004
House of Commons debates - Friday, 23 April 2004 - Protective Headgear for Young Cyclists Bill
Lots of debate between MPs here, some of which makes you wonder how old they are. Basically, this is a debate about a Private Member's Bill to make wearing of helmets while cycling compulsory for under 16s.
Personally, I always wear a helmet while riding my bike, but I'm sure this bill would have reduce participation in cycling in under 16s if made law. I'm also fairly sure it would be pretty difficult to enforce.
There are better ways of reducing road deaths among cyclists: traffic calming, awareness, tougher penalties for drivers and improved road layouts to name a few.
Do you wear a helmet while riding your bike? Do you support this bill? Would you support extending the bill to cover all cyclists?
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- 12:41 pm, June 10, 2004
- Andrew Urquhart said...
Damn, thought the anonymous white circle button would be an edit button not a delete button. Nasty interface design. Grrr!
Haven't read the linked page but I heard that the bill was unlikely to make it through to law due to one of those arcane House of Commons rules such as 'lack of parliamentary time'.
"Do you wear a helmet while riding your bike?"
Not yet but I plan to buy one in the next week or so.
"Do you support this bill?"
No. There has been quite of bit of material bounded around about this but I have no links at the moment. However, I believe that countering arguments have ranged from 'the disuasion to young people to ride a bike would lead to greater ill health through lack of exercise than that which is currently (but debatably) inflicted through not wearing a helmet', 'riding with a helmet induces a false sense of safety and has been shown to increase risk taking' and 'a helmet is unlikely to help significantly if you are hit by a road vehicle at speed'. Reminds me of this article: Polystyrene: the wonder material that can deflect speeding juggernauts
"Would you support extending the bill to cover all cyclists?"
No. Education of the benefits of cycle helmets in conjunction with road safety advice and free training where desired plus road improvement schemes and dedicated cycle routes would be more effective IMHO.
- 12:45 pm, June 10, 2004
- Andrew Urquhart said...
How do you edit a comment? I thought I'd made this link before but apparently not so here it is again: Polystyrene: the wonder material that can deflect speeding juggernauts
- 6:40 pm, June 10, 2004


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Andrew Cuomo's $2 Million Man
The most important man in Andrew Cuomo's personal and political life, topping even his ex-governor father, is obscure, 46-year-old developer Andrew Farkas, who's ponied up over $2 million for the front-running attorney general candidate in recent years.
That includes $1.2 million in salary that Farkas's firm, Island Capital, paid Cuomo in 2004 and 2005, as well as over $800,000 in identifiable campaign contributions from varied Farkas companies, family members, and business associates. It does not include an undisclosed amount Island paid Cuomo up to June 2006, when Cuomo finally left the company, which specializes in Dubai and Caribbean luxury marinas. Cuomo's earnings tripled when he went to work at Island, where he's made more money than at any other time in his life.
Cuomo wants to become the state's highest law enforcement officer, but that hasn't stopped him from attaching himself at the hip to a onetime scandal-scarred kingpin of a housing empire he denounced himself when he was Bill Clinton's secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Cuomo personally authorized the filing of a civil suit by federal prosecutors in 1997 that accused Farkas's then company, Insignia Financial Services, of paying $7.6 million in kickbacks to the owners of 17 federally subsidized projects that Insignia managed.
The publicity-driven HUD chief so hyperventilated at press conferences about the scam that a federal judge had to put a stop to all the heavy breathing. Before the gag order was issued, however, Cuomo had already called the case "the largest ever brought by HUD" and denounced "the abysmal conditions" that he said tenants were forced to live with in the "poorly maintained" projects then managed by Farkas. Cuomo's press release said HUD's mission was to provide housing for the needy"not to provide lives of luxury for con artists stealing from our programs."
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The complaint, which the Justice Department filed "on behalf of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development," charged that Insignia "submitted false statements" to HUD certifying that apartments in one project, Sierra Nevada Arms in Las Vegas, "had been inspected and were decent, safe, and sanitary, when in fact, the units were not decent, safe, and sanitary." Cuomo had visited that project in 1994 while an assistant secretary at HUD, and been so appalled by conditions that he says now he resolved that he "was not going to leave HUD without doing something" to hold those responsible accountable. In 1995, fueled by inspectors' reports, HUD seized control of the project, replacing Farkas's management firm and offering tenants vouchers to leave. When Cuomo announced the lawsuit two years later, he recalled the visit to Sierra Nevada, claiming he "saw a broken pipe literally spewing human waste on the children's playground." He said he saw children playing in it.
These conditions were directly connected to what the complaint called "the kickback scheme" involving Insignia, because "the money that changed hands was supposed to be used for reasonable operating expenses of HUD projects" but was instead diverted by Insignia to the owners, "who provided no services." Cuomo said the projects, which included Hill Manor in Newark, "were allowed to deteriorate into disrepair because funds were not spent on needed capital improvements and maintenance"a consequence of the kickback diversion of a third of all the management fees HUD paid Insignia for these projects over six years.
The government briefs also contended that "the management certifications" submitted by Farkas's firm "did not disclose the fact that the management fee for each of the projects included a payback" to the owners. In fact, the government charged that the Farkas payments were "disguised" because they were actually made to entities set by the chief financial officer of the ownership entity, Associated Financial Corporation (AFC). Because of the "knowing" omission of these costly kickbacks from budgets Insignia sent to HUD, the complaint charged that the agency approved 15 rent increases that the company sought that were unrelated to the true expenditures at the projects.
Confronted with this history in a two-hour Voice interview, Cuomo said he'd told Farkas "numerous times," as they've grown close in recent years, that he "bought a disgusting portfolio" when he acquired the Sierra Nevada and other management contracts with AFC owners Bruce Rozet and Deane Earl Ross in 1990. "I believe that when he found out what he got into, the first thing he wanted to do was get out of it," Cuomo said, acknowledging that Farkas held onto the management deals until 1998, even entering into a new contract with AFC in 1993. "It was despicable," Cuomo conceded, referring to "the physical conditions" in the Rozet/Farkas projects generally, calling U.S. Shelter, the management company that Farkas acquired to get the Rozet contracts, "a garbage company."
Cuomo repeatedly mentioned that Farkas is "a financial guy" who he believes "never saw one of the properties he managed," suggesting that this distance made him less responsible for the conditions. "He doesn't do any management of anything. He's a roll-up guy who just acquires management deals," Cuomo explained. Pressed about why he would have such a close relationship with the manager of projects that galled him and compelled a signature lawsuit during his tenure as HUD secretary, Cuomo insisted: "If he ever walked into the Sierra Nevada, he would've had the same revulsion I had." Cuomo said his own focus was "all Rozet," a notorious landlord pursued by HUD for years before Cuomo was named secretary in late 1996. HUD had already forced Rozet to turn over the management of 79 properties to an independent firm, initially U.S. Shelter. Farkas's Insignia bought Shelter two months after the company signed its deal with Rozet, assuming the management of the properties.
In a brief Voice interview, Farkas acknowledged that he "was consulted" by Shelter officials before they cut the deal with Rozet and that he was told about the payback arrangement, because he was already finalizing his acquisition of the company. He said he "approved" of the Rozet arrangement before it was executed, insisting that he still does not believe it was illegal or that the payment of it "had anything to do with the physical conditions of the properties." Farkas contends that other federal subsidies, not the management fee, were supposed to be used for project maintenance. "Andrew was wrong," he claimed, referring to the HUD and Justice Department contention in the lawsuit that the "kickbacks" shortchanged tenant services. Farkas refused to take any responsibility for the conditions in the projects, saying, "We inherited them and did everything we could about them" within the constraints of federal funding. He said Cuomo was right that he never visited them.
Cuomo, too, appeared uninformed about what the lawsuit and his own public statements said about the direct linkage between the alleged kickbackswhich drained millions from the actual maintenance of the projects where thousands livedand the conditions. All he would say was Farkas "thought it was OK legally" to participate in the fee-splitting arrangement, believing that "HUD had approved it" previously, which Farkas certainly reiterated. Despite authorizing the suit that challenged the practice as secretary, Cuomo now refers repeatedly to a court decision that he says occurred after he left HUD in 2001 and that apparently found similar payments made by another management firm legal. Ironically, he seemed to prefer that precedent to the Rozet case, which affirmed Cuomo's onetime opinion that the fee-splitting was illegal, and was also resolved after he left office, ending in a settlement that vindicated the government's position on the payments. Farkas pointed to the same case, though neither he nor Cuomo knew any specifics about it.
As remarkable as Cuomo's subsequent relationship with Farkas is in view of the prior accusations, what's also disturbing is that he approved an out-of-court settlement with Insignia that allowed the company to complete a billion-dollar sale of its residential portfolio only five days later.
Shortly before the government filed the kickback lawsuit that May, it sent a "pre- filing letter" to Farkas and the Rozet and Ross companies, which were based in California. Farkas and government attorneys immediately began negotiating a cooperation agreement and settlement. So when the U.S. Attorney in San Francisco announced the case, which also mostly involved California projects, Insignia was not named as a defendant. Its role as what the government called "a joint tortfeasor" was, however, spelled out, with prosecutors contending that it jointly committed the alleged misconduct with Ross and Rozet.
Farkas personally signed a preliminary settlement that August, agreeing to repay HUD $5 million of the management fees it had diverted. In March 1998, the final settlement required the company to pay another $2.4 million, still $200,000 less than the amount the government said Insignia had diverted. The company admitted no wrongdoing, paid no penalties, and was explicitly not required to surrender any of its HUD contracts. HUD even said in the 21-page agreement, also signed by Cuomo's top counsel Howard Glaser, that it would not in any way seek "to limit Insignia's participation" in agency programs. By contrast, the Ross and Rozet firms eventually paid $10.2 million in restitution and fines, gave up all their properties, and were barred from doing any further HUD business.
The alleged bribe payer, Insignia, was thus able to go ahead immediately with a sale of its rental residential portfolio, which Farkas's attorney Adam Gilbert told the Voice attracted a "fantastic price"of $910 million, while the Rozet entities that received the paymentsled by AFCwere driven out of business. Gilbert conceded that had no settlement been reached and Insignia been named as a defendant by the government, "it would have had an effect" on the sale, though he insisted the case only involved "a handful of projects," constituting a small percent of Insignia's business. The lawyer, who has contributed $1,000 to Cuomo's campaign in addition to the $7,100 donated by his law firm and would not talk to the Voice until he cleared it with Cuomo, said Farkas "thanks his lucky stars he did what he did." Gilbert left his law firm and became Insignia's in-house counsel in 1998, shortly before the signing of the final HUD agreement.
Gilbert said the deal was "a way to take a potentially horrible situation"which Insignia partially ascribed to Cuomo since he approved the proposed lawsuit that would've named the company"and get rid of it." Farkas attributed it to an attempt to avoid "very negative publicity," which he says would have been costly to shareholders after Insignia went public in 1993.
Farkas and Cuomo, who say they did not meet at the time of the case, have told reporters they crossed paths accidentally during a visit with a "big guy in the real estate business" in 2001, that Farkas initially regarded him as a "sworn enemy" because of the 1997 charges, but that they quickly patched things up. After this initial "bonding" session, as Gilbert described it, Farkas told him and other senior staff that he was "bringing Cuomo up to Insignia offices" and that he wanted them to "hear Andrew out." The purpose of the meeting, said Gilbert, was for Cuomo "to talk about fee-splitting," to prove that "he didn't have it in for Insignia per se," to explain that he was dealing with a supposedly "industry-wide" issue, and to convince the key executives that they "shouldn't hate him." Cuomo declined to tell the Voice who introduced him to Farkas, and would not describe the discussion.
Whatever the magic-tongued Cuomo said, Insignia entities began immediately donating to Cuomo, launching an avalanche of Farkas-tied contributions that has continued right up to the most recent filing. The first Insignia contributions$5,000 apiece from two entitiesoccurred in August 2001, just months after Cuomo left HUD, and were among the very first donations to his newborn gubernatorial campaign committee. They were hardly the first Farkas contributions to a Cuomo; other members of the Farkas family, which used to own the Alexander's department store chain, had contributed to the campaigns of Cuomo's father, Mario, when he was governor. Mario Cuomo actually appointed Farkas's father to the board of the state's powerful Dormitory Authority in his final year in office in 1994, and Robin Farkas became its chairman in 1995.
Rozet died in 2003, but his partner Ross, informed by the Voice of the extensive new relationship between Farkas and Andrew Cuomo, said it was "interesting that Cuomo is so tied to someone who had these kinds of dealings with HUD," adding that it "might raise some eyebrows." Ross said he had put the litigation behind him once it ended in 2001, but added that "it was selective," observing that "Andy [Farkas] wasn't a pain in the ass" to HUD, but he and Rozet were. AFC, whose 235 projects and 21,000 units topped the HUD ownership list, was derided by Cuomo for using HUD "like a personal ATM." But AFC countered in 1998 court papers that it was Insignia that was "at the very center of this case" and should have been charged, contending that Insignia had "represented" to AFC that "it had properly disclosed all relevant information" to HUD, including, "specifically," the fee-splitting arrangement. This AFC attempt to pin the false-claims charge at the core of the complaint squarely on Farkas was never expressly addressed by the government. In addition to Gilbert, a host of attorneys tied to Farkas have become major donors to Cuomo's campaign. Since most did not return Voice calls, it's unclear if they contacted Cuomo or his key staff on Farkas's behalf. Cuomo says he never talked to any of them, though he adds, "I can't say what lawyers my staff was talking to." Arnold Jacobs, a Proskauer Rose attorney who has long represented the Farkas family and sat in on Insignia board meetings at the time of the settlement, gave $5,000, and his wife another $5,000. Jacobs attended one pre-settlement meeting at HUD with Cuomo staff. Cuomo says he didn't meet Jacobs, whom he identifies as Farkas's "main adviser," until he went to work for Island Capital. Gilbert and Jacobs were partners at the now defunct Shea Gould until 1994, where a Cuomo daughter also worked.
Insignia was also represented by a powerhouse Washington lobbying firm in the '90s, Akin Gump, which Cuomo says he did not know at the time. Robert Koen, a director of Insignia at the time and an attorney at Akin, donated $25,000. The head of Akin Gump's Washington lobbying unit, Joel Jankowsky, gave another $7,500. Jankowsky and Dan Glickman, the agriculture secretary in the Clinton administration, have been close personal friends for decades, and Glickman eventually joined the firm. Glickman's wife, Rhoda, was Cuomo's deputy chief of staff, and Cuomo wound up working for Glickman at a Harvard think tank he ran. The Glickmans, who appeared with Farkas at an intimate birthday party for Cuomo at the Alex Hotel last year, have given $36,900 to Cuomo. Another Akin partner, Kirk O'Donnell, who died in late 1998, was an unofficial adviser to Cuomo. Of course, Akin Gump was wired into the Clinton White House, since its senior partner, Vernon Jordan, was the president's top confidant.
Gilbert returned to his firm, Nixon Peabody, in 2003, when Farkas sold the remaining divisions of Insignia and formed Island Capital. The firm still represents Farkas and now includes two partners with Cuomo ties from the '90s. Monica Sussman, a deputy general counsel at HUD who helped author an internal 1995 memo at the agency opposing the fee-splitting case, left the agency in 1996 to join a precursor to the Nixon Peabody firm, Peabody Brown, which represented Rozet. That firm merged with Gilbert's in 1999. Sussman is one of the partners who contributed a share of the firm's $5,000 Cuomo contribution. Gary Eisenman, who was described by a federal prosecutor as one of the key Cuomo aides involved in the Rozet/Farkas case, is also now a partner there. Eisenman ran the nonprofit housing project Cuomo founded in New York, H.E.L.P., after leaving HUD. He has given $2,500 to Cuomo and was described in news stories as a key volunteer in Cuomo's unsuccessful 2002 campaign. Even Holland Knight, another Farkas law firm involved in the fee-splitting probe, kicked in $1,000 to Cuomo.
As multi-layered as this intertwine was, it's impossible to determine, this many years later, if any of these connections had an effect at HUD. Cuomo accurately and insistently points out that the Justice Department and the independent HUD inspector general's office approved the Farkas settlement as well, suggesting that all HUD did was sign off on it at the end. But several sources knowledgeable about the five-month talks say HUD was deeply involved. Ross, who eventually signed his own settlement with Justice officials, said, "When we negotiated, we did it primarily with HUD," expressing the firm belief that "HUD was involved" with the Farkas deal as well.
Susan Gaffney, the HUD inspector general whose office initially uncovered the Farkas/Rozet payback arrangement in 1995, filed an affidavit detailing "a series of discussions" involving her office, Cuomo's Office of Housing, and Justice that "focused around the facts of the AFC/Insignia trans- action." She said "these discussions culminated in the pursuit of enforcement action against the parties, including the filing of the instant lawsuit and a negotiated settlement with Insignia." Gaffney's affidavit said that internal HUD and IG memos contained "recommendations regarding policy and enforcement options" that were "both complex and controversial" because fee-splitting was "a matter of first impression." Cuomo's general counsel Gail Laster also filed an affidavit, which echoed Gaffney's.
One federal prosecutor, who asked not to be identified, said that three close aides to CuomoEisenman, Glaser, and Cuomo political attaché Chris Lehanewere "very encouraging of a settlement" and certainly never took the position, which agency officials sometimes do in similar circumstances, to "take this guy off to jail." Cuomo acknowledged that the three aides were involved and said, "I don't know if they encouraged a settlement." The prosecutor acknowledged that Justice and the IG agreed. "We were generally on the same page," he said. Even Farkas's Gilbert said the Justice lawyers he talked to were "consulting with people from HUD" continuously.
Cuomo derides any notion that he should be criticized for a settlement that Gaffney and Justice supported. Invoking the same language he used to describe Farkas's contracts with Rozet, he called it a "garbage charge."
"I believed the settlement was helping to get Rozet, which is what everybody was telling me," he recalls. In fact, when the government amended the complaint against Rozet seven months after Insignia began cooperating, it didn't change a comma in the charges involving the Farkas/Rozet payments. All it added was that Insignia had also made one-third payments to another developer, Vincent Lane, the longtime head of the Chicago Housing Authority who wound up sentenced to two and a half years in federal prison on charges unrelated to this kickback scheme.
Of course, neither Gaffney nor anyone on the Justice side of the case wound up showered in Farkas largesse years after the settlement, making their decision uncontaminated by the questions that surround Cuomo's judgment. And none of them are now trying to use their HUD record as the rationale for becoming the state's top cop. The question is not whether the government should have cut this deal with Farkas, but whether a key player who approved it should subsequently make Farkas a personal ATM, as Cuomo himself might put it.
There are even indications that after the settlement, Cuomo may have taken actions that could have indirectly benefited Farkas and even the despised Rozet. What's beyond dispute is that in 1998, Cuomo recommended that the Justice Department grant amnesty to managers and owners of subsidized projects who voluntarily admitted to having participated in similar fee-splitting arrangements. The department wound up rejecting Cuomo's amnesty proposal, which, strangely enough, originated with Monica Sussman, the former Rozet and HUD attorney who's now with Gilbert's firm.
Sussman has conceded in a published letter that Cuomo called her in Juneshortly after the final settlement with Farkasand that, during a chitchat about ideas that might improve the department, she raised the "amnesty concept" with him. Sussman, who'd left the agency two years earlier, was still at Peabody Brown, which would merge with Gilbert's firm a few months later. Cuomo asked for more details and her firm sent a detailed draft a week later. Sussman says that the proposal would've required any owners who came forward to repay HUD half of the split fee while managers paid back the other half.
Gaffney was so upset about this amnesty effort that she cited it as the prime example of Cuomo's efforts to "undermine" her investigations in testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs in September 1998, a charge that generated supportive comments from Republican and Democratic members of the committee. She said "an aide to the secretary"later identified as Glaser, the signatory on the Farkas agreementwrote Justice "proposing an amnesty program for the persons who were engaging in this behavior that had been the subject of our six-year investigation," referring to fee-splitting probes that preceded the Sierra Nevada discovery.
"No one, neither the aide nor the secretary, ever discussed this amnesty program with me," she testified. "I just got a copy of another memo that was written by an attorney for a law firm that has in the past represented some of these players, and the letter saidwell, it is to Secretary Cuomo'As a follow-up to our conversation last week, here is the amnesty program I am proposing,' and it was point by point, the amnesty program, then, that the aide had transmitted to the Department of Justice. I should also tell you that the secretary previously had made public statements about how this case demonstrated his get-tough policy." Gaffney convinced Clinton Justice officials to kill the Cuomo amnesty plan.
Cuomo sees no irony in the fact that he was pushing an amnesty plan suggested by a onetime lawyer for what he says were "a lot of the owners" possibly implicated in the payback schemes, including Rozet. He insists that the amnesty scheme "excluded people who were already caught," meaning it could not have applied to either Rozet or Farkas. Copies of the quickly rejected plan are unavailable, but sources then in the IG's office say it excluded schemes already charged, not individuals who may have been involved in fee-splitting that had yet to be specified in any court action.
The settlement with Farkas has several loopholes, including one that says that Insignia's failure to disclose "a particular transaction" during its cooperation with the government "will not be grounds for breach of the agreement." It also "expressly reserves the right" of the government "to take appropriate civil or other action" regarding anything Insignia didn't disclose. Gilbert concedes that Insignia was involved in fee-splitting not specified in the Rozet complaint, insisting, however, that they disclosed all of it to the government as part of its cooperation. But these loopholes, as well as the fact that Insignia repaid almost 100 percent of the diverted funds, not half, leave open the possibility that it could have been affected by the proposal. Similarly, though the proposal could not protect Rozet from the already pending lawsuit, it could prove helpful if Rozet, or owners he transferred properties to, stepped forward and revealed other prior kickbacks.
Cuomo says he "got the industry's proposal" and just sent it over to Justice asking "what do you think," not proposing it himself. He says he wanted a "much broader" amnesty plan, like one for tax cheats, and that he doesn't remember "the dialogue with Justice." Even though Peabody's letter proposal was addressed to him in response to a conversation he had with Sussman, he says he didn't know Glaser, one of his closest associates who's also a donor to his campaigns, sent any such proposal to Justice.
Glaser takes a different tack altogether, saying he thinks that his staff sent a brief amnesty concept note to Justice before the Peabody proposal arrived and that it was a by-product of discussions he had with Justice.
The federal prosecutor involved with the Farkas/Rozet case remembered the proposal far better than Cuomo and thought it clearly would have damaged their position. "The backdrop to the entire prosecution from the beginning was the contention that HUD approved this arrangement," he said. "Insignia and Rozet told us that. HUD made life difficult for the Justice Department in terms of how it dealt with issues like this. If it made amnesty its official position, how would that have played with the trial judge? It would never be good for either a criminal or civil case."
Research assistance: Brian Colgan, Matt Foglino, Mordy Shinefield, and Gina Vasselli
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Post old pictures of you or friends/family playing with or showing off vintage Star Wars stuff
I took this pic in 83' (I was 6) to catalog my HUGE collection!
Post old pictures of you or friends/family playing with or showing off vintage Star Wars stuff
I took this pic in 83' (I was 6) to catalog my HUGE collection!
My Brother Showing off Our Star Wars Stuff on Christmas in 79' or 80'
Looks like one of your brothers got screwed that Xmas. You got a cool mego Batman and your other brother got 4 great star wars figurs, and the brother sitting behind you got some corny mini guitar. Pretty crappy if you ask me .
This is a cool thread, I'll have to dig up my old photos. I had a R2 D2 cake one year and my brother had a Darth Vader cake. Very cool birthdays .
Where did you get a red power droid from? I don't remember haveing that one .
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[B]Looks like one of your brothers got screwed that Xmas. You got a cool mego Batman and your other brother got 4 great star wars figurs, and the brother sitting behind you got some corny mini guitar.
That Guitar was mine. Xmas DID suck for him! WOW!
By the way..that C3-P0 (in Xmas Pic) fell down the air return in our house like 5 min. after we opened it.....And, it stayed ther for years...we forgot about it....life went on.....THEN.....in 96' when I started gitting into Star Wars again we rembered it was down there.
SO, we got a long stick poked around and found it!
It Is In My Collection Today. And, its like new (the arm and leg joints are still sealed with the gold paint job...hes stiff as a board). Because it was never played with!
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Cool! I know I have some shots of my sister and I with our Ewok village, and I might even find a pic of my Chewie/Vader birthday cake.
Nice pics, Darth Vellner. :happy:
What a great way to insure mint toys for the future, down the air return. Too bad that houses now-a-days don't have the ventilation systems of older houses. It's really tough to cram a figure through those little vents.
"No one helped me so why should I help you?" - College professor circa 1999
By choosing not to decide you still have made a choice.
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Darn my failing computer monitor! I can't see your photos, Darth Vellner, and I'm sure they're great! As a self-proclaimer Master of Nostalgia, I weep with sadness...
I have several pictures that've survived time, that since I can't download (no scanner, above monitor issue), so I'll describe them:
-Me holding a Greedo by his head, glued onto a school-made Father's Day tie
-Me and my friends in the garage (with much too-short shorts on! ) setting up a Bespin scene
-Me and my friends playing in the sandbox, HAVING FUN AND NOT CARING IF WE GOT SAND IN OUR TOYS!
-A cheap LEGO carbon freeze diorama with Kenner figs
-Me and my friends (yes, I know "my friends and I" is correct, but I like the sound of the other way right now) posing on the front porch and holding various ESB figs
I predict that the upcoming Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi film will include the word "and." Multiple times.
Darth Vellners story about finding the C-3P0 in the heating duct make me want to go back home and search the backyard for all those figures I left out there. I am sure that there is an X-wing Luke from Empire buried behind my Dad's storage shed. It makes me wonder where I left all my other vintage figures.
I love all of the old stories of people misplacing their Star Wars figures. I think it was Gus Lopez who said that he accidentally threw his out of his car window on a highway?
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Werribee Gorge State Park became one Williams's favourite painting places in the mid-1970s. A photograph of the Werribee Gorge site in his diary reveals his ability to transform an unremarkable scene into a major motif in his paintings. In 1976 during the driest period experienced in the region in over half a century, he made numerous sketching trips to the Gorge. Over several weeks he completed around thirty-three paintings of the area that led to a number of studio oils. The arid nature of the country tempts us to think they depict some remote desert location. Williams often expressed his interest in parallels between the local and the general, indicating his feeling for the underlying unity of the environment.
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Colorado state Senator Angela Giron (D-Pueblo) says that democracy in our republic is racist. Colorado citizens, angry over her votes to further restrict their Second Amendment civil liberties, have gathered thousands of signatures to force a recall election.The group working to recall state Sen. Angela Giron, D-Pueblo, delivered more than 13,000 signatures to the Colorado Secretary of States office in Denver on Monday.Colorado Peak Politics revokes Girons race card:
Pueblo Freedom and Rights needed 11,285 signatures from registered voters in Senate District 3 to force a recall election. The group said it returned 13,570 signatures. Victor Head, a founder of the group, said the names were all collected by volunteers and were reliable.
Giron said she wasnt surprised that the group was able to deliver boxes full of petitions. But she said she was surprised at the racial undertones taken by some of the groups supporters.
I know its partially about me being a Latina and being in this position of authority, said Giron.Carefully ignored is the fact that three other Hispanics, both Republican and Democrat, male and female, opposed a number of gun bills this session.According to Girons logic, its racist then that she wants to disarm these Hispanics.
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