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Piazza d'Oro, a rental townhouse project off state Route 78 in Oceanside, has been sold for $81 million, setting a local record of $366,516 cost per unit, according to CBRE Group.
The seller was an affiliate of ConAm Group, and the buyer was a Los Angeles investment firm, TruAmerica Multifamily, in partnership with Guardian Life Insurance.
"In my opinion, it's the best rental property in all of Oceanside and perhaps the 78 Corridor," said CBRE's Kevin Mulhern.
Located at 3402 Piazza de Oro Way, the 14.4-acre project was developed by K. Hovnanian Homes as a for-sale project. But when the recession hit, the company sold the property, including 32 partially completed units, to ConAm, which completed the construction and began leasing in 2011. The sale closed about two weeks ago.
A property manager said the rents range from $2,250 to $2,550 on units of 1,586 to 1,704 square feet. Ten units are currently vacant.
Mulhern said TruAmerica and Guardian's purchase represents a "big statement" for Oceanside's prospects as an attractive housing market for investors.
"(The sale) shows how far it's come in terms of morphing into what I think generally is a much more coastal-acceptable market," he said.
However, he did not predict other apartment developers will build similar projects, since Piazza benefited from an oversized models rented at submarket rates. The typical apartment in the county is usually less than 1,000 square feet, while rents on Piazza-type layouts normally would command monthly rates of up to $5,000.
Besides more space, Piazza tenants are getting granite countertops and other upgrades not always available in rental units.
"The finish levels are arguably probably even nicer than in most nice apartment projects," Mulhern added.
Ultimately, the project could convert to condo sales, he said, depending on market demand.
For now, renters can enjoy amenities befitting a condo complex — big pool and spa, upscale fitness center, tot-lot with climbing wall and a dog run. The units carry Italian-themed names, such as "Venice," Tuscany" and "Capri" and there are touches such as Renaissance-styled fountains and an Egyptian-like obelisk, like those relocated to Italy by ancient Roman emperors.
Mulhern said the buyers benefited from a brief window of low-cost financing. CBRE's debt and equity finance group arranged a $50.5 million, seven-year loan at 3.85 percent, interest-only for the first three years. The rates had been going up and money availability was tightening when the loan closed.
"It was a fabulous loan," he said, arranged by CBRE's Bill Chiles, Scott Peterson and Troy Tegeler.

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Officials in a Connecticut town still reeling from an alleged embezzlement scheme, are considering seeking a loan from a bank and raising taxes in a last-ditch effort to keep all three Winchester public schools from closing their doors in December.
Tonight, the Board of Selectmen will vote whether to support the plan to borrow $2.5 million from a bank to hold the town over until April, when it receives $4 million in grant money from the state.
Part of the problems stems from the disappearance of $2.5 million.
Former Winchester Finance Director Henry Centrella is accused of embezzling the money over a period of five years and was arrested earlier this year.
Centrella, who was finance director for 32 years, is due in court this morning and the town is scrambling to replace the missing money.
"The stuff that we're seeing is a result of poor decisions and bad management for several years," Bryan Sundie, of Winchester, said.
Town officials addressed the crisis at a Board of Selectmen meeting on Monday night and the most popular solution was to borrow from a bank and levy a supplement tax to pay off the loan.
Bank of America has agreed to loan the town the money, according to the town manager, who said this is just a short-term solution and there are some long-term financial woes to tackle.
"Something has to be done," Lisa Steeves, of Winchester, said. "Do we like it? No, but unfortunately we've put ourselves in this position. And that's where we have to go. Whatever happens, happens."
The loan is no guarantee, however.
Unlike the supplemental tax, voters will need to approve the loan in a referendum.
"Our audits have been routinely late," said Town Manager Dale Martin. "In fact, we just completed our 2010-to-2011 audit in May of this year."
Martin said the problem has been a long time coming.
"The former finance director put a lot of holes in our boat, and we were sinking. And now all the holes are plugged, and what we're doing now is we're bailing," she said.
However, residents said their troubles stem from more than just one person.
"These hijinks have been going on for years with infighting, bickering, you name it, and it brought us to where we are today," Sundie said.
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St. Charles East product Chris Niemiec typically grabs an 8- or 9-iron when he's about to address a shot 150 yards from the pin.
His math and muscle changed during last week's trip to the Wyoming Open, where a sand wedge did the trick from that distance.
"With the altitude, it took awhile to adjust to that two-, three-, four-club difference, especially when the pins are tucked in difficult places," Niemiec said. "I obviously enjoy playing out there, but you definitely need to be prepared for a different kind of golf."
Niemiec welcomed elevation when he played recreationally as a student at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He hopes to see more of it as an aspiring professional.
Until then, he's out to make a bigger name for himself closer to home, beginning with next week's Illinois Open at The Glen Club in Glenview.
Niemiec, Milo French (Sugar Grove) and Matthew Triplett (St. Charles) earned berths into the Open at last month's qualifier at Royal Hawk Country Club in St. Charles. Royal Hawk associate golf professional Brian Carroll and Royal Hawk/Royal Fox director of golf and player development Brian Groszek received exemptions into the three-day, stroke-play event that begins Monday.
Outside of an Illinois PGA event at Ravinia Green in Riverwoods earlier this month, Carroll admits "I haven't been playing much" because of his job description.
"As a golf pro, you don't get to practice and play much," Carroll said. "You're doing a lot of running the club, teaching lessons. Running the golf operation is the major part of my day."
Carroll doesn't fret considering his past open experience. He tied for 14th in last year's tournament, shooting 2-under par at The Glen Club, a frequent recent host.
"It's a longer, more open, kind of newer links-style course, but it's always in good shape," Carroll said. "It used to host a Web.com Tour event, so it's a really good course."
Niemiec noticed the same years ago, when he caddied for his father, Ed, in opens at The Glen Club.
These days, the roles are reversed, and Niemiec will happily have his father on his bag and at his side.
"The course is pretty favorable to me, and I'm looking forward to it," said Niemiec, who tied for 25th at the Wyoming Open.
That tournament was held at Airport Golf Club in Cheyenne, a long way from home, and from sea level.
• Kevin Druley is a sportswriter for the Kane County Chronicle. He can be reached at 630-845-5347 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter at @kevindruley.
What heat?
This week's heat wave has not deterred players from heading to Bliss Creek Golf Club in Sugar Grove.
"I have not seen it," pro shop chief Ralph Drendel said. "It'll be interesting to see what happens. Saturday it's supped to break, so it could be OK."
Drendel said sales of July rounds are slightly ahead of those in July 2012 as the month reaches its final week-plus.
In addition, he said players in the course's many afternoon leagues have rolled with the weather, as well.
"Those guys and gals get off work and drive down, play golf and have a cocktail or something," he said, "so it's also social."
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Dallas-based Eagle Golf has announced that 26 of its 31 public, private and municipal golf courses have extended a 2-for-1 women's promotion through the rest of the season. Mill Creek Golf Club in Geneva is among the list that allows two women's players to play for the cost of one round.
"Our company has a responsibility to help grow the game of golf, and we see this program as an important part of our efforts moving forward," Eagle Golf CEO Joe Munsch said in a statement.
Yorkville's Whitetail Ridge Golf Course and Fresh Meadow Golf Club in Hillside are the other participating Illinois courses. The deal initially encompassed the first two months of the season.
Eagle Golf also offers a Kids Play Free promotion in which children 15-and-younger can play alongside an adult at certain times.


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Emmanuel's innovative academic programs, dedicated career development and Boston location lay the foundation for successful careers.
A double major in international studies and Spanish, Kelsey Ryan will spend the 2014-2015 academic year as an English Teaching Assistant at Athens College, an independent private high school in Pyschiko, Greece.
In August 2014, Kelsey Ryan '14 will make her third trip to Greece-this time, as a Fulbright U.S. Student Grant recipient. Ryan's award marks the fourth-consecutive year that Emmanuel College has had a Fulbright winner.
A double major in international studies and Spanish, Ryan will spend the 2014-2015 academic year as an English Teaching Assistant (ETA) at Athens College, an independent private high school in Pyschiko, Greece, a suburb just north of the country's capital. Through the Fulbright program, ETAs are placed in classrooms abroad to provide assistance to teachers of English to non-native English speakers.
Ryan's interest in Greece began during the spring 2012 semester, when she traveled to the island of Crete through Emmanuel's Eastern Mediterranean Security Studies Program with Associate Professor of Political Science Petros Vamvakas.
"I fell in love with Greek culture," Ryan said. "I felt really comfortable there."
The trip influenced her academic experience at Emmanuel, and her research focus turned to Greece and the Eurozone crisis. Then, after spending the spring 2013 semester studying in Spain, she was able to return to Crete on her way back to the United States, visiting friends she had made and kept in touch with from the previous summer.
With guidance from Assistant Professor of Theology + Religious Studies and Director of Fellowships Laurie Johnston, Ryan began searching for opportunities to follow her May 2014 graduation.
"The Fulbright to Greece really stood out to me," Ryan said. "In addition to the English-teaching component, there's an administrative component that will let me work in the school's library, serving as a research resource for the students."
Ryan gained some teaching experience during her time at Emmanuel, serving as an instructional assistant for First-Year Seminar and as an Academic Resource Center peer tutor for comparative politics and Spanish.
During her final semester, Ryan is interning at the Greek Consulate in Boston, serving as an assistant to the Consul General Ifigenia Kanara. In addition to drafting correspondence and preparing speeches, Ryan is involved with the planning of the Consulate's annual, pre-Boston Marathon wreath ceremony, during which handmade olive wreaths from Marathon, Greece, are presented to the Boston Athletic Association. The event, which has traditionally been held at the Consulate, will be held in the Great Hall of the Massachusetts State House in front of more than 700 guests.
Ryan hopes to supplement her limited knowledge of the Greek language before her departure in August. In addition to fluency in Spanish, the self-described "language nerd" took three semester of Arabic while at Emmanuel.
The Fulbright program provides housing for its 10 international fellows on the Athens College campus. If her schedule allows, Ryan hopes to continue her research independently over the next year, in preparation for her return to the United States. While her post-Fulbright plans are largely up in the air, Ryan plans to look at graduate programs in comparative politics, with the possibility of continuing her teaching career. She has also been inspired by her time at the Greek Consulate, and has not ruled out taking the Foreign Service exam.
"This award reaffirms how thankful I am that I've had such a supportive network while at Emmanuel," Ryan said. "Professor Johnston nudged me in the direction of the Fulbright and kept encouraging me when I would get frustrated with the application process and wanted to quit. Professor Vamvakas was helpful in showing me more about the region of Greece that I'm interested in.
"I feel like I'm accepting an Oscar," she laughed.
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Mitsubishi is struggling, as it faces an uncertain future in the hyper-competitive U.S. automotive market. The Japanese automaker lost its identity as a maker of sporty, affordable cars and SUVs with the cancellation of the Eclipse, Montero SUV, and likely the Lancer Evolution. Mitsubishi president Osamu Masuko recently announced his intent to instead prioritize mass-market hybrid SUVs and crossovers for U.S. sale. Until enough batteries are available to introduce plug-in hybrids like the Outlander Sport crossover and Montero SUV, the 2014 Mitsubishi Mirage will need to help keep the Japanese automaker afloat.
Our 2014 Mitsubishi Mirage ES is powered by 1.2-liter, three-cylinder engine that produces a modest 74 hp and 74 lb-ft of torque. It features a continuously variable transmission (CVT), a $1000 option that helps the hatch achieve ratings of 44 mpg on the highway and 37 mpg in the city. A five-speed manual is also available, although it yields poorer efficiency at 34/42/37 mpg city/highway/combined. While the 2014 Mitsubishi Mirage can claim to be the most fuel-efficient non-hybrid in the country, we're dubious that this fact alone will enable this car to compete against many rivals that offer more features. At a $1200 premium over the standard CVT-equipped Mirage DE (which starts at $14,790 after destination), the ES trim includes Bluetooth connectivity, keyless entry, cruise control, and 14-inch alloy wheels. Our Mirage also included a $900 navigation system which comes with a rear-view camera. As tested, this Mirage costs $16,890 including destination fees.
When the last Mitsubishi Mirage was discontinued twelve years ago, few buyers wanted a small, fuel-efficient runabout. Now you can find well-made, generously equipped subcompact cars here in America under the banner of almost every brand. The Chevrolet Spark, Ford Fiesta, Mazda 2 and Nissan Versa Note offer not only fuel efficiency at an affordable price but also a selection of technical features and convenience items previously unavailable to buyers in this most humble of market segments. And while the Mitsubishi Mirage sets itself apart with keyless entry and a rear-view camera, the rubber touchpad to open the door resembles a doorstop, and the rear-view camera looks like it was tacked onto the hatch lid with Krazy Glue.
Moreover, the Mirage doesn't drive very well compared to its competition. "I get that Mitsubishi is packing a lot of equipment into this car, because the hope is that budget car shoppers care more about GPS and an iPod hookup than anything else," says associate web editor Joey Capparella. "But I'd like to think that there is a threshold for unpleasant driving dynamics that even the most clueless car shopper would notice. It seems to me that this noisy, uncomfortable and skittish car would get anyone's attention."
We did manage to get an impressive 39 mpg average during our two weeks with the Mitsubishi Mirage ES, so the car delivered as promised. There is enough power to make the car usable around the city, but the three-cylinder engine drones like a coffee shop guitarist. We've driven good three-cylinder engines (notably the one offered by the Ford Fiesta), but this is not one of them, as it combines a conspicuous lack of power with lots of noise and vibration.
When you're driving in stop-and-go traffic, all you seem to hear is clanking, clattering, and rattling. Even the brakes squeak as you take your foot off the pedal. Meanwhile, the task of merging onto a freeway with just 74 hp and a CVT working for you is a predictably unnerving affair, and the Mirage struggles to gather speed as the traffic whooshes by. When the car did manage to exceed the speed limit, a friendly digital female voice alerted us to our transgression, although at that point it seemed like a congratulation, not a warning.
The Mirage's short wheelbase doesn't deliver much straightline stability on the road, and the weak suspension damping doesn't provide much body control in corners. Sadly, the Mirage not only performs like a subcompact of the past but also looks like one, without a trace of the award-winning style found in the electric-powered Mitsubishi i-MiEV hatchback. Instead, the Mirage looks like it's left over from the mid-1990s, although no Smashmouth album in the Mirage's CD player could be recovered to confirm this suspicion.
On the upside, comfortable cloth seats and plenty of cargo space (47 cubic feet with the rear seats folded) make the Mirage livable and functional. And since the little hatchback measures just 96.5-inches in overall length, it's easy to maneuver into tight on-street parking spaces. The touchscreen infotainment system is simple and usable, and the rear-view camera and Bluetooth connectivity work well. As a city runabout, the Mirage reminds us of equally urban-oriented cars like the Fiat 500 and Scion iQ.
Unfortunately, this fully optioned Mirage ES's asking price of $17,000 is a deal-breaker, due to its lack of performance, refinement, and style. Staff photographer Patrick Hoey says, "The Mirage might make sense as a stripped-down, bare-bones budget car with a manual gearbox, but when it's optioned up, I can't help but turn to the Fiesta." While the cheapest Mirage DE can be had for just $13,790 with a five-speed manual transmission, we think few buyers will settle for it, because at that price point buyers are better served by the Chevrolet Spark and Nissan Versa Note, which deliver far more performance and refinement.
On the surface, the 2014 Mitsubishi Mirage ES seems like a car for the times, since it's all about 40 mpg and high-tech electronic connectivity. But it reminds us that it's harder to build a great small car than a great big car, because performance, refinement and style still matter even when the package is small and the price is cheap. It's hard to know what the future holds for Mitsubishi in the U.S., but we suspect it will be shaped by the Mitsubishi Outlander and Outlander Sport, not the Mirage.
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For the 2015 season, the World Superbike Championship is to officially adopt the current EVO rules, in an effort to reduce costs within the premier production motorcycle racing series. Meeting this week at Catalunya though, the Superbike Commission has agreed to amend the 2015 "EVO" regulations, in order to ensure more parity amongst the variety of machines competing in the series.
As such, new stipulations regarding the 2015 World Superbike rules have been released. The new rules largely clarify what can be altered in a Superbike engine for 2015, as well as outline how OEMs can continue to develop their electronics packages (WSBK is the last World Championship to allow electronic development). For the full breakdown on rule changes, read after the jump.


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Far out! The first mental image this conjures up for me is pretty spectacular. Luminescent, tree lined suburban streets. But, the mental image that follows includes confused lightning bugs, trees in continual photosynthensis and other bizarre consequences for the entire tree ecosystem. Plus, what does this mean for backyard astronomers? Would it confuse airplane pilots? I'd like to see this trees-as-streetlights idea explored in a sci fi film, complete with stunning visual effects.
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Bale among the very best - Villas-Boas
Tottenham manager Andre Villas-Boas hailed Gareth Bale as one of best players in the world after the winger notched his first Barclays Premier League hat-trick in the 4-0 victory at Aston Villa.
Bale was the undoubted star of the show at Villa Park, twice going close to netting in a goalless first half and then, after Jermain Defoe had given Spurs the lead in the 57th minute, beating goalkeeper Brad Guzan in the 61st, 73rd and 84th to give the scoreline a look that more accurately reflected the visitors' dominance throughout the contest.
Asked if there were any better players in world football than Bale, Villas-Boas said: "He is up there with the best. He is showing tremendous skills and talent, I think he is improving every day - he is such a young player - and he is helping the team. He is one of our major assets."
He added: "His personality is wonderful, he is going through an excellent moment of his professional and personal life, and we are benefiting from that."
Asked if he thought Bale could get even better, Villas-Boas said: "I think so. You always expect that the team can make an individual even better.
"The team changes so much from one year to another, and as he keeps learning, he will feel even better and probably his performances will improve. His finishing is very accurate. He has been prolific in front of goal this season and I think he is enjoying getting into those positions.
"His left foot is wonderful and the power and direction he applies on the ball is wonderful too."
Villa boss Paul Lambert - whose team are 16th in the table, three points above the relegation zone - felt there had been a foul on his midfielder Fabian Delph in the build-up to the first goal.
Reflecting on the game, Lambert said: "We rode our luck massively in the first half - Spurs were very good in the first half. I thought we started the second half really well and were in the ascendancy, and I think with the first goal, there is a foul on Fabian in the first place - I think a free-kick should have been given.
"With the second goal we had a good chance to make it 1-1, but they go up the other end of the park and score again. That is what can happen when you are playing against these types of players."


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A new volume is here! And we're kicking it off with our Video Issue. Young Trunk Boy Raven Tershy graces the cover, the first cover shot by our own Trunk Boy, Sam Muller. Check out Sam's Pretty Sweet Memoirs, DGK's shocking 9 Frames takeover, and our History Of The Skate Video feature. Coming soon to twskate.com: Louie Barletta's Video Brainfloss, Kevin Lowry's Video Check Out, and more!
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Hear ye, hear ye. Be it known that "the 22nd day of January hereafter be observed as David Wark Griffith Day."
And so it has been since Wednesday, Jan. 22, 1975, in Oldham County when Judge Wendell Moore signed into affect a proclamation designating David Wark Griffith Day.
A new job is music to Amy Love's ears.
The Prospect resident was recently hired by St. Jude Children's Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., to begin a music therapy program.
Danielle and Stephen Sauerbeck love a good scavenger hunt.
So far, their love of such events has taken them to Chicago, Milwaukee, even Puerto Rico.
That's because the Sauerbeck's participate in events similar to CBS' The Amazing Race, which is a mix of scavenger hunts and travel, through two companies: Urban Race and Urban Dare.
Howls of praise will be ringing out this holiday season thanks to a local veterinary center.
The "Joy to the Woof" program sponsored by the Pewee Valley Veterinary Center has created 25 care packages for military service dogs. In its second year, the program provides specialty gear like goggles and protective booties for the four-legged soldiers.
"Unfortunately they are forgotten a lot of the time," Carolyne Tilford, a veterinary technician at the center said. "They go through a lot, it's not easy."
By Helen E. McKinney
Oldham County History Center
December is a time to make lasting memories and remember the ones we hold dear. We owe a great debt to our service men and women who cannot always be home with family during the holidays. Because of their protection we are able to live in a free country with family and friends to make memories that linger.
The South Oldham Rotary Club continues its tradition of giving back to the community.
At their Dec. 13 meeting the club presented a check to representatives from Camden Elementary, Crestwood Elementary, Kenwood Station and South Oldham Middle School. The funds will go to help students that need support and help.
Grace and beauty have led to scholarship money for one local teen.
Prospect resident Bailey Wharton was recently crowned Miss River City Outstanding Teen. This was the third pageant in which Bailey, 16, has ever competed. She won the first pageant she entered, the Miss Central Kentucky Outstanding Teen.
That crowning allowed her to compete in last year's Miss Kentucky Outstanding Teen, where she was third runner up.
With one state competition already under her belt, Wharton is ready for a bigger crown.
Several cities had their Christmas and holiday celebrations the first weekend of December, regardless of bad weather.
Photographer E. Ann Stroth knows no boundaries when she seeks to depict an image in the most creative way possible. After nearly 30 years in commercial photography, she is a master of the technical tools available to her but is always aware of the creative element.
"It really is a balancing act," she said. "I believe that some people get so involved in the technical details that they forget to enjoy the creative process."
With eight kids in the house, Debbie Lance needs two calendars to keep track of every appointment.
Foster parents Debbie and Roger Lance currently have 17 kids in their lives. Between the 10 biological children from previous marriages, the three adopted children and the four they are currently fostering, the Lance household in Centerfield is always busy.
Debbie has always known she wanted to be a foster mother. Before her marriage to Roger in 2005, she gave him an ultimatum.
Two local churches are helping make Christmas special for students at a school in the mountains of eastern Kentucky.
Pewee Valley Presbyterian and Crestwood Christian Church are taking donations for the Lotts Creek Settlement School, which is based in Knott County.
One shared member, Jill MacNiven, who leads mission trips to the school and collects donations year-round, is leading the church's Christmas time donations.
Traci Missun has become indispensable to the local farm community.
"Generally when I have a problem I call Traci, and if she doesn't have the answer, she finds it," Caldwell Willig, president of the Oldham County Cattlemen's Association, said. "She's done a lot for me as a farmer. She's very supportive in a lot of ways in terms of our farm."
Oldham County is a place many call home. Its history is steeped in a rich and colorful past that has been preserved through various court documents, diaries, old newspapers, letters and oral histories. Dr. Nancy Sterns Theiss, Ph. D. has taken these stories and compiled them into a book that takes a fascinating look at a county that has a strong connection to the Ohio River and has played an important role in shaping the state of Kentucky.
At first glance, it may not seem like Lisa Wells has struggled with health issues.
But the Crestwood resident has defeated two types of cancer before hitting her 40th birthday. Less than two years out from her latest diagnosis, Wells recently became a big fundraiser for an annual cancer walk in the area.
Betsy Lowe never thought her daughter, Jessica, would be halfway around the world.
Jessica is currently in Hermosa, Philippines on a mission trip through the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. A former track runner at North Oldham, Jessica was in her junior year of college at Brigham Young University in Utah when she received a letter saying she would be serving her mission trip in the Philippines.
"This is a test of faith, not only for us but for her," she said.
The Ballardsville Fire Department is set to build a second station in southern Oldham County after getting approval from the Oldham County Planning and Zoning Commission.
The commission unanimously approved the second station, which will be built at 2414 W. Highway 22 in Crestwood. It will also have a public entrance to the station from Montford Circle.
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Pink Announces She's the New CoverGirl + More
- She's a hot mama and now Pink's a CoverGirl too! The 'Blow Me (One Last Kiss),' singer revealed via Twitter that she would be joining the likes of Taylor Swift and Queen Latifah among others, as a face of the cosmetics company. A rep for CoverGirl told People, they chose Pink because she, "is a powerful and provocative role model, who has always been an advocate of individualism and making no apologies for who you are." [Twitter]
- Get excited all you Latin American Little Monsters! Lady Gaga is planning her first Latin American tour! She'll be hitting cities in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Argentina and Chile. [LadyGagaNow.net]
- Yikes. Game is being sued by a producer for $100K by producer Infamous. He is alleging the rapper used one of his beats on his song 'Skate On,' that was included on his mixtape 'California Republic,' which Game gave away for free. [All HipHop]
- See clearly with the help of Victoria Beckham! The very stylish Spice Girl has launched an eyewear line with Cutler & Gross. A pair of Posh Spice's specs will go for about $410. [WWD]
- The Lollapalooza Festival is extending their international reach as it will stage a concert in Tel Aviv, Israel come 2013. No word on the lineup yet. [Diffuser.fm]
Watch the Pink 'Blow Me (One Last Kiss)' Video


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Now that I've become a fitness junkie (or, okay, a person who works out more than I did before, which was never), I've been making some changes to my diet. I won't bore you with the details of my daily menu, because truthfully nothing I've been doing is all that extreme or groundbreaking. In addition to the usual More Protein and Vegetables, Less Crap, I started eating more like an adult, and no longer inhaling, say, a tubful of brownies at a sitting.
In addition to the various dietary change-ups, I decided to stop putting sugar in my coffee. I was using agave syrup, actually, and only half a teaspoon, but still, I wanted to see if I could. And the first few days of sugarless coffee, it was like I was drinking battery acid. Battery acid mixed with a squirt of bile. I winced and drank and winced some more. (Because I will never give up coffee, people, don't try to talk me into it. I have tried. Oh, I have tried. I have tried, and suffered, and concluded that life without coffee is not the kind of living I wish I engage in.) But then, on the third or fourth day, I...liked it. It tasted fine to me. A few days after that I accidentally took a swig of Scott's coffee, and it tasted like he had dumped a bowl of candy corn in his coffee.
After a few weeks I realized that not only was I not taking sugar in my coffee, I wasn't really eating sugar, period. I mean, I was still eating FRUIT, I am not CRAZY, but I wasn't squirting maple syrup into my smoothies because I HAD TO, as I had done in the past. Also my usual daily post-lunch cookie and post-dinner cookie and post-cookie cookie had not even occurred to me. Curiously, I was also no longer falling asleep in the middle of the day, nor did I have those weird episodes of shakiness and gnawing hunger that would drive me straight to the cupboard to stick my face in a box of Fig Newmans.
Fast forward to the holidays, during which I consumed my weight in my sister's holiday cookies, as is my tradition. We had also been given a tin to take home, so naturally I ate them for the next few days as well. I figured I might as well dispatch them as quickly as possible so I could revert to my usual asceticism. I mean, YOU try not eating chocolate covered toffee bars. Can't be done.
Actually I ate only, say, 2 or 3 cookies a day. (Okay, on Christmas, I probably had more like 5. Which is a huge improvement for me.) But the thing is, I felt terrible for days. Every time I sat down I would fall into a coma. I couldn't think clearly--it felt like my brain was had both sped up and halted. Like I could only think in sentence fragments. Hostile sentence fragments. My mood went into the toilet, and after I recovered from my initial hatred of all things human and good, I moved on to abject misery. I had no friends, and never would! It was cold and gray, and always would be! Life was torment, and would end only in death! Horrible! Aloneness! BoooOOOOOoooO!
I was a lot of fun, is what I'm saying.
ANY way, I never really intended on becoming one of those "sugar is evil" people, believe me, but you guys, sugar is evil. Now that I've seen what it does to me, I want it even less. I used to worry that eating better and exercising would turn me into a jerk, but now I see that the opposite is true: when I'm not taking care of myself, that's when I lose all sense of humor. I cannot believe it took me this long to figure it out.


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Jennifer Lopez Gets Her Old Hollywood Glam on With W Cover, Reveals She Was Once Homeless
Jennifer Lopez shows a very different side of her glam self on the August 2013 cover of W.
She also shared the fact that she was once homeless, which means she probably had a small, crappy apartment in a bad section of town while trying to get famous, and that she has mad Bronx pride.
First, about her look. She abandoned her signature bronzed skin, nude lip and overarching ultra sexy image in favor of a classic, Old Hollywood glam vibe, complete with big, dark waves and reddish pink lips. She kept the sexy part intact and subtle with a see-through mesh and peacock dress.
The interview took place near the singer/actress/designer/diva's childhood home in the Bronx, which made her nervous. Not because Jenny From the Block is ashamed of where she is from. In fact, she's quite the opposite, revealing her former love-hate relationship with L.A. and how it reminds her of her love for the home city, saying, "Now I love Los Angeles, but it doesn't give me strength the way the Bronx did. All the strength that I needed for life, I got from that neighborhood."
The reason it was tough to "go home" was because of her most recent memory affiliated with the borough. "The last time I was in there was when my mom and dad called us home to tell us they were separating after 33 years of marriage," she confessed. "I think that's why I was nervous about coming here today. It's like seeing someone from the past—you're afraid to run into them because you never know if it's going to be 'wow' or very difficult. This is a combination of both."
She also spoke of her relationship with her mother, a former Tupperware lady and school employee, saying, "My mom and I butted heads. I didn't want to go to college — I wanted to try dance full-time. I was homeless. But I told her 'This is what I have to do.'" From homeless to one of the world's biggest divas! While it's doubtful J. Lo slept on streets and had a cup in hand, she likely did struggle mightily when she was scratching and clawing her way to the top of the celebrity food chain.
As for her own children, twins Max and Emme, La Lopez wants to lead by example. "I think a lot about teaching my kids to work hard," she said. "I've learned something about kids — they don't do what you say; they do what you do. I watched my parents."
J to the Lo also shared how being the second of three children shaped her. "I'm the middle sister. All three of us girls shared a room. I was into sports and dancing. I ran track. I have a lot of stamina. I was built for the long run," she said.
The long run indeed.


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Many former athletes from Lipscomb have become successful coaches in a variety of sports on both the high school and college levels. The latest athlete to become a full-time coach is Mollie Mitchell, a former All-Atlantic Sun catcher for the Lady Bisons, who has been named the pitching coach at Harding University. Mitchell spent some time with Lipscombsports.com this week to talk about her new job.
What years did you play softball at Lipscomb? Who were your coaches?
"I played for Lipscomb from 2008-2012 for Coach Kristin (Peck) Ryman and assistant coach Lexi (Myers) Shrout.
"I was a graduate assistant coach in 2013."
Why did you decided to attend Lipscomb and play softball?
"As a kid growing up I always wanted to play softball in college. I wanted to go to Lipscomb. I had my heart stuck on Lipscomb. No matter what happened my mind was set that I was going to go to Lipscomb and play.
"My older brother, Brett, went to school there and graduated in 2010. I would visit him and I would go see Coach Peck. I pestered her all of the time. I sent her things about me all of the time. I would go down to her office and say, hi, every time I visited campus.
"Luckily, it worked out. I didn't really have any back-up options."
What is your fondest athletic memory at Lipscomb?
"In 2010 we won the Atlantic Sun Tournament Championship and went to the NCAA Regionals at Alabama. That was a really special team. That year was the most fun I ever had playing softball."
Who had the biggest influence on you during your athletic career at Lipscomb? How?
"Coach Peck (Ryman). Her patience with me was great. As a coach now I understand and appreciate her so much more than I did when I was there.
"Coaching from an outsider's perspective may not seem that difficult. But then you start dealing with the day-to-day aspects of it. You start dealing with stubborn players. I was that stubborn player and Coach Peck (Ryman) showed me how to handle those situations.
"I learned so much about coaching from her. She knew that I wanted to be a coach one day. She took the time to talk softball with me. I would go into her office all of the time and learn and learn and learn. She did the best she could to pour her knowledge into me while I was there. I appreciate that so much."
What is your fondest non-athletic memory from your time at Lipscomb?
"It is not a specific memory. It is more about the friends I made there and going out with them. When we had off days we would go bowling, play Frisbee or do fun things around Nashville. The bonds and the friendships I made there are so important to me.
"Softball is over. But those things stay with you and continue on. That is almost more important than playing softball."
What is the most valuable thing you gained or learned from your time at Lipscomb?
"I learned a lot at Lipscomb. You go to college at 18 and you grow up a lot while you are there for four years.
"I went there to play softball, but I left there with more than just softball. The spiritual examples that are set by people every day and the education I received there have made me who I am. I wouldn't be where I am now if it wasn't for Lipscomb and the people there who genuinely invested in me and cared and helped make me into the person I am now."
Who was your favorite professor? Why?
"Dr. Doy Hollman and Dr. Anna Rose Anderson.
"I was a math major my first year at Lipscomb and I had Dr. Hollman. He was my calculus teacher.
"He is the most spiritual man. We would do a devotional before class every day. He is such a great example.
"He genuinely cared about us. He went to so many softball games. He was the most supportive professor I had as far as softball goes. I only had class with him my freshman year, but throughout my career he was always there and always supporting me. He was like our No. 1 fan and that was really cool.
"Dr. Anderson was also my advisor in the physical education department. She was tough, but I appreciate that now. She made me do the work and made us do extra things. I learned so much from her. All of the things she taught me have helped me in graduate school. She does as much as she can to make her students the best they can be. I really appreciated that.
"I graduated from Lipscomb with a bachelor's degree in health and physical education. I went to graduate school at Lipscomb and at Harding. I went to my last class last week, but I won't graduate until December. I will have a Masters in both secondary education and kinesiology"
Where do you live now?
"Searcy, Arkansas."
Who is your employer? What is your occupation? What does your position entail?
"Harding University. I am the pitching coach.
"People ask me how I can be a pitching coach when I wasn't a pitcher. But Lexi (Myers) Shrout taught me so much when I played under her at Lipscomb. I had to catch in the bullpen every single day. I was there when she was teaching our pitchers. I listened and listened for four years in the bullpen. When you do that you are going to learn something.
"I was nervous at first to be a pitching coach, but the more I work at it the more I realize how much I actually know that I didn't know that I knew.
"Whitney Kiihnl (former Lipscomb star pitcher) was here with me last year. I worked with Whitney on pitching. I continue to learn things from Whitney. You don't get set in your ways as a coach for the rest of your career. I read a lot. I watch a lot of videos. I text and call other pitching coaches. I get information from all of the people I can and do the best I can."
Tell us about your family.
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Editor's Best Tips On How to Wear Wide-Leg Pants
Skinny pants have held court for years now, and while a slim leg will never go out of style, I'm making the case for a pant with a little more drama this spring. The wide-leg trouser may seem like an intimidating trend (how in the world could massive amounts of fabric be flattering?) especially if you're on the shorter side like myself. But I have a few key secrets to pulling it off with confidence, and I'm excited to share. Hint: it's all about the shoe.
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I stand by the rule that you can wear anything to a cocktail party, even office staples like a pair of wide-leg trousers, if you accessorize the right way. It's all about swapping out your subtle daytime jewelry for statement pieces—the more the merrier!
What I Wore:
H&M Top ($40, 855.466.7467); H&M Wide Pants ($60); Tory Burch Aimee Pumps ($421); Tila March Romy Clutch ($595, available in black); Dannijo Kendall Earrings ($495); Dannijo Genevieve Cuff ($495, 646.755.8909), Dannijo Riggs Bracelet ($295); Lizzie Fortunato Jewels Sacred Valley Peach Bracelet ($188); Tiffany Chou 44th + 9th Bracelet ($66).
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It wouldn't be a cocktail ensemble without at least one element of allure. This off-the-shoulder button-down is an unexpected way to show a little skin.
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A delightful mix of jewel-encrusted bangles paired with one large statement cuff ensures the look is evening-appropriate.
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When you think of office basics—wide-leg trousers, button-down shirts, tailored vests—your eyes most likely glaze over with boredom. However, there are ways to inject a little personality into your look while remaining completely polished: think charming accessories (viva the pocket square!) and subtle mixed prints.
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Gap New Tailored Dot Shirt ($50) in Optic White; April, May Quest Mix Vest ($440,18.104.22.168.25.78.60); H&M Wide Pants ($60); AllSaints Kara Pump Heel ($335); Tory Burch 797 Medium Satchel ($575) in Natural Raffia/Natural Snake; Massimo Dutti Basic Leather Belt ($56, 212.371.2555) in Black; Sarah Chloe Lana Oval Signet Ring ($98); O'Harrow Clothiers Japanese Family Crest Pocket Square ($32, similar style here).
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Wearing a shoe with an exposed top of foot is a must for pulling off a voluminous trouser. It elongates the leg, which is key, especially for petite girls like me!
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From afar my outfit looks as if it's comprised of solid colors, but up close the subtle pattern mix takes the outfit to the next level. You wouldn't think a polka dot shirt would go with a pinstripe and plaid vest, but it completely works when limited to a neutral palette.
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Between infidelity and love, we always have our choice in any given moment.
Where is this love? I can't see it, I can't touch it. I can't feel it. I can hear it. I can hear some words, but I can't do anything with your easy words. – Alice, portrayed by Natalie Portman in Closer 2004 film
I cannot help but like the movie "Closer" for its honesty in portraying a dysfunctional relationship relating to infidelity and love. It portrays the consequence of breaking moral laws. Lies and deceits make a messy relationship.
However, a reader sent me an email which gives a positive outlook in all our human frailties. This person does not accept the moral chaos as a "fact of life" but strongly believes that love is more important than faith, trust and infidelity.
I am publishing his email in his response to my post "I love you it's over"…
"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence." – Eric Fromm
What is the essence of a good relationship? I guess the greatest need in a relationship would be trust. I mean, there wouldn't be any developments in a relationship without it. It simply just wouldn't work out. Without it, everything would mean nothing. This so called "trust" is a really valuable thing. When gained, one should take care of it, nurture it like a child until it grows strong. It's easily broken, and hard to fix. It would be like going through hell just to get it back, it's that hard. There are a lot of ways to break trust, one of which is cheating on your girlfriend or your boyfriend.
This is my story… Me, my girl and our relationship. We enjoy each other's company, no fights! One day, I found out that my girlfriend, the one I trust, the one that I love, was cheating on me. At first, I was infuriated and at the same time confused. I waited for her to tell me, but nothing! Thoughts like "does she still love me? keep taunting me, not telling me that she loves another guy, hurt!
But I just couldn't tell her what I know, because if I tell her, there will be a fight, we'd break up, and I'll be left alone. Months passed by, days faded away, the sun rises, then the sun sets… still, nothing changed. I tried to be sweeter and be more attentive. Even after I tried to be a better partner, she continued her secret life with the same guy. "Should I tell her? or shouldn't I?"
It wasn't really easy to decide. I'm being a total fool, blinding myself. I already know she's with someone else, so why keep on living with her? Why keep tolerating what she's doing? She is not aware of the pain she is causing me. I wanted to be greedy, I even thought about confronting the other guy, but I just couldn't. That guy was really getting on my nerves! Makes me just want to take a picture of him, stick it to a dart board then throw as many darts at his face! Which is exactly what I did.
Then it hit me. This very subtle, humble and deep meaning… "Love". I couldn't take any risks of telling her or even just showing her that I knew because I love her. I love simply because I love. She is not my property to give her limitations and exert my rights as her partner!
I love her… So I just went on with my martyrdom. Acting like everything was ok, like nothing was wrong. What kept me going was the thought of her, still being there for me, even though she found another person to admire and love. All I could tell her was I couldn't lose her.
I know I'm being a fool, a martyr, and stupid. They say people do stupid things for the people they love, it's true. Actually I think I'm a perfect example of that kind of person but I don't regret what I am doing. Until now she's still cheating on me, but hey, she's still mine right? I will love her for a thousand years more!
The cruelest lies are often told in silence. – Robert Louis Stevenson
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
Thomas Paine
We're all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you've been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there's no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some complementary way. But it takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own wrongness. And it isn't until you finally run up against your deepest demons, your unsolvable problems—the ones that make you truly who you are—that we're ready to find a lifelong mate. Only then do you finally know what you're looking for. You're looking for the wrong person. But not just any wrong person: the right wrong person—someone you lovingly gaze upon and think, "This is the problem I want to have."
I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.
Let our scars fall in love." Galway Kinnells
If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity. –Jean Baudrillard
The nurse of infidelity is sensuality.- Lord David Cecil
When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself. – Isaac Bashevis Singer
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust."
– Samuel Johnson
Cheating is not an accident. It's a choice." – Raffy from 'A Secret Affair
When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on–series polygamy–until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter." – Tom Robbins
"I think you still love me, but we can't escape the fact that I'm not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I'm not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I'm not angry, either. I should be, but I'm not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong." – Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
Fuck You for cheating on me. Fuck you for reducing it to the word cheating. As if this were a card game, and you sneaked a look at my hand. Who came up with the term cheating, anyway? A cheater, I imagine. Someone who thought liar was too harsh. Someone who thought devastator was too emotional. The same person who thought, oops, he'd gotten caught with his hand in the cookie jar. Fuck you. This isn't about slipping yourself an extra twenty dollars of Monopoly money. These are our lives. You went and broke our lives. You are so much worse than a cheater. You killed something. And you killed it when its back was turned." – David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary
"It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted. It confuses you, because you think that your feelings were wrong and it makes you feel so small because it's so hard to keep it inside when you let it out and it doesn't coma back. You're left so alone that you can't explain. Damn, there's nothing like that, is there? I've been there and you have too. You're nodding your head." – Henry Rollins, The Portable Henry Rollins
"Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away… and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast…. be happy about your growth, in which of course you can't take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind; be confident and calm in front of them and don't torment them with your doubts and don't frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn't be able to comprehend. Seek out some simple and true feeling of what you have in common with them, which doesn't necessarily have to alter when you yourself change again and again; when you see them, love life in a form that is not your own and be indulgent toward those who are growing old, who are afraid of the aloneness that you trust…. and don't expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it."
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
People generally didn't cheat in good relationships." – Emily Giffin, Something Blue
Don't stop loving me. I can see it draining out of you. It's me, remember? It was a stupid thing to do and it meant nothing. If you love me enough, you'll forgive me. – Anna, portrayed by Julia Roberts in Closer, 2004
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Some of the quotes are quite funny and hash… but in all… I think they are sweet.


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The staff of Friends of the High Line was deeply saddened to learn of the death of Clare Weiss, the Parks Department's Curator of Public Art, on January 11, 2010. During her tenure at Parks from 2005 to 2009, Clare helped organize 128 outdoor public art exhibitions, as well as 36 exhibits at the Arsenal Gallery in Central Park. She was a charter member of the High Line's Public Art Advisory Committee, which selected the High Line's first public art installation—Spencer Finch's The River That Flows Both Ways. Clare worked tirelessly behind the scenes to make this city culturally richer and more dynamic. Her contributions and her spirit will be sorely missed.
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A series of free tax clinic workshops will be offered in Georgetown and Milford on Thursday.
A series of free tax clinic workshops will be offered in Georgetown and Milford on Thursday.
Sponsored by the Delaware Community Reinvestment Action Council (DCRAC) and La Exitosa 930 AM, the free clinics will provide experts to answer questions such as what should you do about IRS notices, what should you do if you failed to file last year's tax returns and are you are required file tax returns this year.
The first clinic will be held at the Milford Public Library, 11 Southeast Front St., from noon to 1:45 p.m., followed by an on-air call-in clinic on La Exitosa at 2:30 p.m. and an in-person event at DCRAC's Georgetown office in the Georgetown Professional Park at 20127 Office Circle from 5 to 6:45 p.m.
The call-in number for the on-air clinic is (302) 422-2428. To register for either in-person clinics, call (877) 825-0750, ext. 102.
The clinics are intended to serve low-income, limited English proficiency and ESL taxpayers in Delaware.


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Apple has released another update for the Apple TV which takes it from version 4.4 to version 4.4.1. The update claims to fix issues with a small number of Apple TV units that needed to be connected a computer running iTunes after last week'siOS 5 update.
Addresses an issue that required a small number of Apple TV units to be connected to iTunes in order to complete the update.
A word of warning before you update, there are widespread reports that this update is causing more connect to iTunes issues than the original update. It may be wise to hold off updating until more information is available.
UPDATE: Rene's Apple TV, which he didn't try to update until last night, ran both 4.4 and then 4.4.1 without success, still resulting in the image you see up top. He's trying again and we'll keep you posted.
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The following crimes are from the week of August 26 to September 1.
Aug. 26. 7800 block Winston Road. A car owner states that between 8 p.m. on August 25 and 6 a.m. on August 26, someone smashed the driver's side window of a 2008 Toyota FJ Cruiser and stole an Apple iPod.
Aug. 26. 100 block W. Springfield Ave. A car owner states that someone broke the driver's side window of a 2009 Volkswagon and stole a black carry-on bag, one green wallet with a Legacy debit card, one red wallet containing passport, one camera and an iPhone.
Aug. 27. 8400 block Seminole Street. Handyman called police to investigate broken back door window. The homeowner states that the following items were taken: one Nikon digital camera, 80" Samsung, 46" Samsung and 32"Samsung television sets.
Aug. 27. 7700 block Crittenden Street. An employee observed someone trying to leave store with six cans of Gerber Formula K and one can of peanuts.
Aug. 28. 7600 block Germantown Ave. A complainant states that he had a verbal altercation with another man over "relationship issues." The other man then grabbed the complainant, injuring his shoulder and arm. He then struck the complainant in the head with a blackjack. Complainant was transferred to Albert Einstein Medical Center.
Aug. 29. 8800 block Germantown Ave. A woman reported that someone took items from the bag she carries to work. Taken was a floral change purse, driver's license and a Freedom Federal credit card.
Aug. 28. 8300 block Stenton Ave. Complainant states she had a verbal altercation with offender over living arrangements. Offender became irate, came to driver's side window of complainant's vehicle and pulled her out of her car. Complainant states the offender then took out a black handgun and fired a shot into the air. He then fled the scene in an unknown direction. Reported at 6:35 p.m.
Aug. 30. Unit block Norman Lane. Complainant states that between 4:30 p.m. on Aug. 29 and 8:30 a.m. on Aug. 30, someone broke into a vehicle and took car keys from inside the center console.
Aug. 31. 8900 block Crefeld Street. Between 3 p.m. on Aug. 24 and 10:20 a.m. on Aug. 31, someone broke a kitchen window, entered a home and ransacked some bedrooms, stealing a gold bracelet with initials "VF" engraved, a number of half-dollar coins and $1 bills in two piggy banks.
Aug. 31. 8800 block Germantown Ave. Someone stole a woman's purse containing two Visa cards.
Summary – 10 crimes for week: two aggravated assaults, two burglaries, one retail theft, one other theft and four thefts from vehicles.
If you have been the victim or a crime and would like information, service or support, call Northwest Victims Service, 6301 Germantown Ave., Second Floor, Suite One, 215-438-4410. The service is free.


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On this week's Around The League Debate Club, we traveled team-by-team through the AFC West to unpack the division's most pressing questions heading into training camp.
In Denver, the most compelling positional battle for the Broncos will unfold in the backfield, where Ronnie Hillman, Knowshon Moreno and rookie Montee Ball will battle for snaps. The ATL gang agreed the most likely outcome is a committee approach, but the second-year Hillman isn't in the mood to share.
"Come the opener, I want to be the guy back there," Hillman told The Denver Post. "I can't lie. I want it to be me and I'm pushing to be that guy."
His resolve is noted, but I'd rank Hillman as the least likely of the three to see featured-back duties. Before Willis McGahee was released, Hillman struggled to be viewed as an every-down back, largely because his game was incomplete as a rookie. Despite speed and moves, Hillman proved a liability in pass protection. His weight also plummeted below 180 pounds by season's end. He's up to 195 heading into camp, but Hillman isn't a natural between-the-tackles runner.
"I know it's about production, that I have to produce to be in there," Hillman said. "That's how they'll decide: who's producing."
Hillman spent plenty of time with the first-team offense this spring, but it's Ball who stands out to me as the eventual workhorse for the Broncos. Moreno's durability issues make him a risk, but Ball's 663 carries at Wisconsin over the past two seasons suggest a guy who can grind. Either way, the Broncos were an honorable mention on this week's deep backfield list, and that's not a bad problem to have.
You can listen to this week's Debate Club above or by clicking here.
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Junior Seau, among the greatest linebackers in NFL history, suffered from degenerative brain disease when he fatally shot himself in May, the National Institutes of Health said in a study released Thursday, another blow to a league whose former players say they were never warned about the dangers of head injuries.
More than 2,000 former players are suing the NFL, contending the league never properly addressed the problems with head injuries and in many cases withheld information about the long-term effects associated with them.
Tissue samples of Seau's brain showed the 12-time All-Pro player had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, a progressive disease diagnosed after death.
CTE is a fairly new name for a degenerative brain syndrome caused by mild, repetitive brain trauma. Anatomically, it is characterized by clumps of a protein called tau that build up in brain cells, damaging and even killing them, said Dr. Ann McKee, a neuropathologist at the VA Boston Healthcare System and Boston University who studies CTE.
Behaviorally, CTE is linked to an array of symptoms including mood swings, depression, irritability, insomnia and poor attention — and, in later stages, to memory problems and dementia, McKee said.
McKee was first author of a December report that found signs of CTE in 68 out of 85 brains of adult males — 64 of them athletes — with a history of repeated mild traumas to the brain. One of the early brain regions affected is the locus coeruleus, known to be linked to depression.
"That would be one of our hypotheses, that damage to these centers in the brain may provoke depression in these individuals," McKee said.
Similar brain injuries were discovered in the autopsies of former players who also killed themselves: Dave Duerson, a onetime Chicago Bears defensive back who shot himself in the chest, specifically so that his brain might be studied; and Andre Waters, a former Philadelphia Eagles defensive back who shot himself in the head.
Seau died at his beachfront home in Oceanside on May 2, having shot himself in the chest. Two months later, his family allowed researchers to study his brain.
"While the NIH's findings have provided a measure of comfort, we remain heartbroken that Junior is no longer with us," his family said in a written statement, "and are deeply saddened to receive confirmation that he suffered from such a debilitating condition."
The findings were jarring to former NFL linebacker Gary Plummer, who played with Seau for four seasons with the San Diego Chargers.
"At the time when he killed himself, I was thinking [concussions] contributed maybe 10% to 20% to what he did," Plummer said. "Now, you have to say to yourself: Was it more than that? Was it 25% to 50%? You just don't know."
Plummer is a plaintiff in one of more than 80 concussion lawsuits against the NFL, legal actions that could potentially devastate a league that generates $9 billion in annual income. Other plaintiffs include Super Bowl-winning quarterback Jim McMahon of the Bears, and the family of former Atlanta Falcons safety Ray Easterling, who shot and killed himself two weeks before Seau.
"I used to think, you made your bed, just lay in it," Plummer said. "But you start thinking, wait a second, these guys [in the league] were not forthcoming ever when I had a concussion. They'd put up two fingers and say, 'How many fingers do I have up? OK, get back in the game.' So it makes you think, makes you say to yourself, 'What were these guys hiding? And did they know it?'"
CTE, though its recognition is growing, is still a somewhat debated condition, said Dr. Patrick Lyden, a neurologist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. For one thing, its frequency among football players is unknown because it is only diagnosable upon death through autopsy reports. It also is not yet clear what degree of trauma to the head is needed to set it off, Lyden said.
"It's certainly real in the handful of cases that have been examined pathologically. It's certainly real in Seau's case — the changes are there in the brain," he said.
But Seau, he added, "was an incredibly aggressive player — he would put his head down and drive his helmet into another player."
The NFL said that the Seau finding underscores the need for additional research to better understand CTE, and that the league, working with the NIH and other leading organizations, is "committed to supporting a wide range of independent medical and scientific research that will both address CTE and promote the long-term health and safety of athletes at all levels."
League spokesman Greg Aiello said NFL clubs have already committed a $30-million research grant to the NIH, and, along with the NFL Players Assn., plans to invest $100 million more for medical research on head injuries.
"We have work to do, and we're doing it," Aiello said.
It's conceivable that damages as part of concussion lawsuits could soar into the billions of dollars. Even if the NFL were able to withstand that, lower levels of football, from Pop Warner through college, would be hard-pressed to cover the insurance premiums to keep programs going.
The resolution of head-injury cases could fundamentally change the sport, and not just the nation's most popular professional sports league.
Already, the NFL has made significant rules changes designed to protect players from head injuries, and has increased the frequency and amount of fines issued to players who hit opponents in the head. The league is even flirting with the idea of taking kickoffs out of the game, reasoning that an inordinate percentage of injuries occur on that play.
The measures that have been taken are not uniformly embraced by fans, and in fact are derided by many as the watering down of the game. That surprises Orin Starn, professor of cultural anthropology at Duke University.
"One wonders what it would take to get America's attention on this," Starn said. "Boxing kind of got redefined from a mainstream American sport into something that a lot of Americans thought was too bloody and too brutal to sit down in the living room and watch with their kids. One wonders if this could happen with the NFL.
"Thirty years from now, will we wonder how it is that we could have taken such great pleasure in watching people hit each other at very high speeds, causing brain injuries that then lead to suicide and other things?"


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These are some of the views and reports relevant to our readers that caught our attention this week.
Infographic: The Decline of Global Internet Freedom
PC Mag
Two years after the Internet went dark in protest of a proposed U.S. Internet censorship bill, four out of five people worldwide still don't have access to an uncensored Web. In celebration of the second annual Internet Freedom Day, Golden Frog released an infographic (below) chronicling the worldwide struggle for Internet freedom. "Everything you love about the Internet is at risk," the software firm said, painting a bleak picture of global Web sovereignty. Few countries can claim "mostly unrestricted" access; the U.S., U.K., Australia, and bits of South America, Western Europe, Africa, and Asia (specifically Japan) can freely roam the World Wide Web, without fear of government oppression or censorship. Almost half of the world, however, falls under heavy restrictions READ MORE
Rescuers Sift Through Social-Media Noise to Direct Typhoon Response
Wall Street Journal
In disasters like the typhoon that slammed into the Philippines, sifting through a barrage of confusing and conflicting on-the-ground reports is one of the first problems facing rescue teams. Social-media sites such as Twitter and Facebook can make matters worse. All too often, users recycle what others have posted or retweeted without adding any fresh information. Sorting through all the noise is too much for individual agencies to handle on their own. So Swiss-born Patrick Meier is gearing up to attack the problem with a new approach called social mapping: Using a combination of volunteers and algorithms to filter the chaos and to provide rescue teams with a detailed, data-driven map of what they should be doing, and where. READ MORE
3 reasons 'governance' should not only be a stand-alone development goal
Lowy Interpreter
Better governance is increasingly recognised as a key driver of development. So much so that a number of organisations and states are lobbying for a 'stand-alone' governance goal to be included in the next global development framework after the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) expire in 2015. To support the call for such a stand-alone goal, a fierce debate is under way, including at the Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals meeting in New York this week, about how governance can possibly be measured. I have concluded that focusing all efforts on a 'stand-alone' goal risks missing the point. READ MORE
Africa: A 'Wikipedia' of Cheap Tech to Get a Facelift
All Africa
A Wikipedia-style site that gets people to upload information on sustainable technologies and has received more than 50 million page views since its launch in 2006 is going through a raft of changes aimed at improving it further. The site, called Appropedia, is built on open-source wiki software and allows information to be shared on technologies that could help improve lives in the developing world. "We focus on sustainable technologies and how to use them in resource-poor settings," says Lonny Grafman, founder and president of Appropedia. As is the case with Wikipedia, anyone can edit Appropedia pages that currently hold close to 6,000 articles on topics including agriculture, energy, water and transport. READ MORE
Which Voices Are Heard & By Whom?
Making All Voices Count
Voices: the expression of citizen engagement with the state or corporate actors on issues related to transparency and accountability Voice at different scales: 'Voice' can be articulated at several different scales, ranging from conversations between individuals to political organisations at a global scale. Different voices will be articulated at different scales, and the extent to which voice travels between scales depends on the context and power dynamics. READ MORE
Michael Bloomberg Funds African Media Initiative
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It's called The Bloomberg Media Initiative Africa. It's set to run at least three years and, per a report by SouthAfrica.info, the intent of the $10 million program is to underwrite financial journalism across the continent and advance transparency, accountability and governance within that discpline. Michael Bloomberg announced the initiative Monday in Johannesburg at the C40 Cities Committee annual conference: The initiative will provide cross-disciplinary education programs and mid-career fellowships to increase the number of highly trained business and financial journalists, convene pan-African forums to examine worldwide media best practices and support research to stimulate media innovations. READ MORE
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Thursday, October 04, 2012
Review: Possibilities
[David Graeber. Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire. Oakland CA: AK Press, 2007.]
I read this book mostly by accident. There were a couple of points during my recent sojourn into graduate school when my eyes were bigger than my stomach, so to speak, and I now own a small stack of books that I either read excerpts from for a course but feel I should read in their entirety, or that I bought for use in a piece of writing and didn't end up touching. This eclectic collection of essays by anarchist anthropologist David Graeber is part of the latter category -- I knew his name and he had been on my lengthy "kinda maybe sorta want to read sometime" list for awhile, and that made me jump too soon when it looked like one of the essays in here might be useful for a piece of writing I was doing that ended up going in a very different direction.
The up-side of choosing this particular book by him to read is that it gives a sense of the breadth of his work. Pretty much all of the essays are in some way related to his academic disciplinary home of anthropology and also related to his commitments to both explicitly anarchist politics and to the global justice movement. However, some are clearly academic papers produced for and I suspect originally published in professional journals. Others are clearly movement-based publications that touch upon anthropology more as sensibility than as discipline.
While that breadth is a strength when it comes to using the book to understand Graeber's work, it means that my reactions to the book's contents are extremely varied and complicated. The most obvious example of this is my uncertainty about how to relate to the more explicitly anthropological entries, which were mostly based on his graduate field work in Madagascar in the 1990s. While I appreciate that anthropology as a discipline has probably done more internal reflection on the implications of knowledge production across differences in power than pretty much any other discipline, except perhaps women's studies, and I have occasionally read pieces that participate in that ongoing discussion, I don't feel that I know enough about it to have a firm position of my own in the debates and therefore on Graeber's choices and practices. I am sure that Graeber cannot help but have thought and read and written extensively on such questions. Certainly the few occasions in which writing in the present volume touch upon them are interesting -- the eighth essay in the book, for example, presents Graeber's attempt to escape from the bind of imperial imposition versus disguised imposition through one flavour relativism versus loss of any ability to make judgements through another flavour of relativism. While his suggestion to combine opposition to empire with a commitment to dialogical knowledge production is interesting and attractive-to-me, to be entirely convincing it would, I think, require that he engage much more thoroughly with the anti- and postcolonial writers who might not share that position. And stepping back again to think of the collection as a whole, the relative lack of material reflecting on the ethics and politics of anthropological engagement makes me wary -- again, I'm sure he has done this, but it isn't in this volume. So I found myself eager to learn about the people he lived with in Madagascar, and deeply uneasy at my own eagerness and what it might imply in terms of left versions of appropriation and objectification. Given that the audience for this book, based on the press that issued it, is North American anarchists who are unlikely to have any particular familiarity with debates within anthropology and may or may not have any awareness of the various anti-colonial, postcolonial, feminist, and anti-racist writings that deal with the discipline or with other forms of knowledge production across differences in power, I am wary of the relative absence of this discussion.
Questions of knowledge production and difference are also part of my unease with some of the essays in this volume that do not fall so clearly within the disciplinary bounds of anthropology. The book doesn't always do this, but there are moments where it falls into (or appears to fall into) the common white-lefty-boy trap of treating only marxism and anarchism as possible lineages for revolutionary thought and practice, ignoring important revolutionary histories in various strands of anti-colonial, feminist, anti-racist, and queer uprising that cannot be reduced to either. Even when it isn't as stark as that in the book, and it often isn't, I think there are still lots of valid questions to be asked about whose work is worth serious engagement and whose is passed over -- I'm not saying it's a simple question, but I think my answers would not always be the same as Graeber's.
I should point out that this unease is not at all to say that there are not useful and important ideas in the mix. I think some of his insights in some of the essays are quite important. Often what makes them so interesting is that he contributes them from a grounding in anthropology and anarchism, whereas many (white male) left academics are more likely to be sociologists or historians, not to mention marxists. For instance, Graber's account of the origins of capitalism that focuses on the role of the imposition of manners within and beyond Europe, through a combination of historical and anthropological argument, is worth reading, though the lack of reference to the marxist-derived literature on moral regulation and state formation surprised me. His provisional genealogy of "consumption" is also pretty interesting, not least because it advances an argument that the ways the term is often used in political economy and cultural studies discourse amounts to a form of reification that obscures how many things that get so labelled, particularly in the cultural arena, are actually much more complex, creative, and social processes than "consumption" allows. His engagement with the marxist idea of "mode of production" is interesting, and certainly his focus on social relations being primarily about producing people rather than objects and his overall anti-reificatory stance are both things I like, though again there are other people who have done somewhat related work in heterodox marxist traditions that he doesn't really engage with. I think his observation of the similarities between how differences of analysis are handled in academia and how they are handled in the context of marxist grouplets, pre-party formations, and parties is bang on, and he makes some tentative steps towards an approach to theory in both contexts that deal differently with difference. I don't particularly like his simplistic take on "postmodernism" and "fragmentation" -- not only is there more value in some (not all!) of the material that falls under the over-general blanket of the postmodern than such dismissals generally allow, provided it is mixed and matched appropriately with other things, but often such dismissals shade far too easily into dismissing things that are actually quite useful, from ways of relating to fragmentation along the lines of John Holloway to various ways of understanding difference elaborated by politically diverse radical women of colour. Finally, I do think the final essay of the collection is quite useful -- it looks at the dynamics that have existed between movements and police in North American manifestations of the global justice movement, and it has some important useful insights.
I'm not sure who I might recommend this book to, except perhaps to people whose interest has been caught with one of the specific topics I've mentioned. If you are doing work in one of those areas, by all means check out the appropriate essay. But if your goal is to become familiar with Graeber's contribution to contemporary anti-authoritarian left thought, I suspect it might make more sense to start with one of his single-focus books rather than with this collection.
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Currently taking lessons after not playing for 3 years. Would like to practice during the day. Close to Arroyo de Seco and Montgomery Park.
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Thanks for your reply. Does sound good, but will have to play next week.
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Wed. the 9th is good. Not an morning person, so would 10 work? Thanks. Diane
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