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New York City-based Clearbrook Village Apartments LLC has financed the apartment complex of the same name at 3516 Tall Oaks Circle for $3.8 million through Wells Fargo Bank NA.
The Class C Clearbrook Village complex was built in the mid-1970s and has about 150 one- and two-bedroom units totaling 120,000 square feet. It is situated on 10.4 acres on the north side of Winchester Road between Tall Oaks Circle to the west and Clearbrook Street to the east. The Shelby County Assessor of Property's 2012 appraisal is $2.2 million, up from a 2011 appraisal of $1.9 million.
Clearbrook Village Apartments LLC bought the complex about a year ago for $2.7 million, financing it for $1.4 million through Confidential Lending LLC.
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– Daily News staff
RVC Outdoor Destinations – a Memphis-based owner and operator of upscale, resort-like campgrounds – is expanding west with its acquisition of the Garden of the Gods Campground in Colorado Springs, Colo.
The 200-site property is located near the entrance of the Garden of the Gods Visitor Center, with views of Pikes Peak, the most visited mountain in North America. The property has been the top RV and outdoor lodging destination in the region but has been under bank ownership since 2010.
RVC has begun stabilizing operations and will begin renovating the property immediately. Renovations will include an overall upgrade of the property and its amenities, including enhancing tent sites and incorporating them into current on-property cabins for a unique camping experience, resurfacing pools, improving existing RV sites and adding eight new, concrete RV sites. In the coming weeks, RVC will rebrand the property from Garden of the Gods Campground to Garden of the Gods RV Resort, and will re-flag it as an RVC Outdoor Destination by the start of 2013.
– Sarah Baker
FedEx has donated $2.5 million to the University of Memphis to complete renovation of the video scoreboard and sound system at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium.
The school said in a news release Monday there is an August deadline for the project, in time for the Tigers' first home game Sept. 1 against the University of Tennessee-Martin.
Athletic Director R.C. Johnson said the renovation will result in a state-of-the-art video and sound system to rival the top scoreboards in the country.
Capturion Network of Laurel, Miss., will do the work.
– The Associated Press
The American Café in Germantown's The Shops of Saddle Creek shopping center has closed its doors.
A spokeswoman for the Maryville, Tenn.-based chain confirmed Monday, April 30, that the lease had expired for the casual sit-down and take-out eatery at 2055 West St., suite 20.
The last day of business for the 4,700-square-foot restaurant was Sunday, April 29. American Café opened in Saddle Creek in September 1989, under the name Silver Spoon.
"At this point, we have just started to actively pursue a replacement tenant," said The Shops of Saddle Creek specialty/short-term leasing specialist Kenneth Taylor.
The American Café is owned and operated by Specialty Restaurant Group LLC. The chain operates in Alabama, Florida, Tennessee and Virginia.
The American Café once operated a location in Wolfchase Galleria, which is also no longer open.
Lucas Parris has been promoted to vice president at Memphis-based Mercer Capital.
Parris joined Mercer in 2004 and is a senior member of the valuation firm's Financial Statement Reporting Valuation Group.
Mercer president Matt Crow said Lucas has played a key role in developing the firm's financial statement reporting practice and insurance industry expertise.
Mercer is a full-service business valuation firm that offers financial advisory services and expert testimony for clients in every industry.
– Andy Meek
Delta Air Lines has bought on oil refinery near Philadelphia in a $150 million deal that the airline with a Memphis hub said should help stabilize the price of jet fuel that airline executives have cited as a major factor in its fare hikes and cuts in capacity.
The Delta subsidiary Monroe Energy LLC has an agreement to buy the Trainer oiler refinery south of Philadelphia from Phillips 66 for a $150 million investment. The deal includes pipeline and transportation assets that will provide jet fuel to Delta's northeast U.S. hubs including its operations at LaGuardia and JFK airports in New York. The rest of the deal is a three-year pact in which BP will supply the crude oil to the refiner.
Distribution to other parts of Delta's network in the U.S. would come through exchanges of oil products from Trainer for jet fuel made by Phillips 66 and BP elsewhere in the country.
Delta CEO Richard Anderson said Monday, April 30, buying the refinery is "an innovative approach to managing our largest expense" and estimated the set of agreements including those for the pipeline and transportation assets to carry the product will provide 80 percent of Delta's fuel needs in the U.S.
"This modest investment, the equivalent of the list price of a new widebody aircraft, will allow Delta to reduce its fuel expense by $300 million annually and ensure jet fuel availability in the northeast," Anderson said in a written statement.
– Bill Dries
Dr. Mitchell Watsky, professor in the Department of Physiology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), has received a grant totaling nearly $1.5 million from the National Eye Institute, a subsidiary of the National Institutes of Health, the nation's medical research agency
The award will fund a four-year study called "Vitamin D Metabolism and Function in the Cornea and Anterior Segment," which will study the cornea.
The major source of vitamin D is from skin exposure to sunlight. Because the eye is also exposed to sunlight, Watsky wants to determine if vitamin D can also be synthesized by the eye, if it plays a role in how the eye functions, and whether pathologically low levels of vitamin D are harmful to the eye.
It's estimated that more than 50 percent of the U.S. population has vitamin D insufficiency. Of the thousands of published studies devoted to reviewing vitamin D, less than a handful have examined vitamin D in the cornea and front part of the eye.
Research will be used to determine how vitamin D finds its way to the anterior segment and will also examine its physiological role in the eye. To date, initial findings from Watsky's laboratory indicate vitamin D is important for the normal function of the cornea, and that vitamin D deficiency may play a role in ophthalmic diseases such as glaucoma.
– Aisling Maki
A proposal that would allow Tennessee to join an interstate compact challenging the federal health care law has been approved by the House after the chamber approved several changes sponsored by Democrats.
The measure sponsored by Republican Rep. Mark Pody of Lebanon was approved on a 63-27 vote on Tuesday.
The companion bill passed the Senate 22-9 last year, but the upper chamber would have to agree to the changes before the measure could head for the governor's consideration.
The legislation would provide a waiver for each participating state to create its own health care system. Sponsors say the proposal is intended to give Tennesseans more choices concerning health care if the compact were approved by Congress.
The main change approved Tuesday would make Tennessee's participation in the compact optional.
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On Monday, the bombs exploded. On Friday, the city was put on lockdown, and on Sunday I boarded a plane to fly across the country to a place I'd never been.
It was a trip I'd planned for a long time to a place – Portland, Oregon – that I'd long wanted to visit. At the same time, as I finished up my packing and managed a last few errands, I found myself wishing that I wasn't going anywhere at all. What I wanted was normality – a return to the usual routines of writing, work, and friends. It was then that I realized, with some surprise, that this place I've been living since September has come to feel like home.
For my friend Jan, the Boston/Cambridge area has felt, from the very beginning, like where she was meant to be. "Cambridge is the first and only place I've felt like I belong and where I'm entirely comfortable in my own skin," she wrote last week, in the dizzying days after law enforcement staked out the Cambridge residence of the alleged marathon bombers.
My own relationship with the area has been both slightly longer and far more fraught. It began back in 1978, when I arrived on the Harvard campus at the age of 18, a serious, shy Midwesterner abruptly catapulted into a foreign land. In the 20th-century intellectual history class I took freshman year, our professor lectured on the 1897 novel Les Déracinés, about seven young provincials who lose their way after arriving in Paris, the price of having been torn away from their native traditions. That word stayed with me— déraciné, unrooted. I certainly wasn't living in France at the turn of the century. Still, I knew what it felt like to be alone and unmoored.
I did not cope especially well. I went to a lot of parties, and I began a drinking career that would last through my mid-30s. I recall a couple of half-hearted visits to Harvard University health services with no notable results. Some two decades later, Melanie Thernstrom's Halfway Heaven would chronicle a murder-suicide in one of Harvard's undergraduate houses. An Ethiopian student, lonely and unstable, stabbed her Vietnamese-born roommate to death then hung herself. Reading Thernstrom's account of the systemic failings of Harvard's psychological services, I would nod my head thinking, yes, this is what it was like.
Being young, confused, and far from home, bereft of support structures—it's never been a recipe for happiness. Yet why do some triumph against all odds, while others self-destruct, while still others lash out violently with tragically horrific results?
By all accounts, the ethnic Chechen Tsarnaev brothers were considered friendly and well-liked. What series of events led to them to mutate from seemingly assimilated immigrants to murderous bombers? While the answers may never be fully known, a history of uncertainty and dislocation is unlikely to have helped.
Wherever you go there you are. The more I reflect on that neat aphorism, the less true it seems. For many of us, and for many different reasons, home is not a place to which we return, it is something we create, and that act of creation takes energy, resources, and support, along with that undefinable and elusive thing called luck. When I moved back to Boston this last time, I had all of these. I know what it's like not to: It's really, really hard.
Perhaps the most iconic photo to emerge from the marathon bombings is the image of a man in a cowboy hat leaping to the aid of a critically injured victim, having beaten down flames and tied a tourniquet to one of his partially severed legs. We now know that the rescuer is Carlos Arredondo, a 52-year-old peace activist who'd already faced more than his share of personal tragedy. Nine years ago, on learning that his 20-year-old son had been killed by Iraqi snipers, he doused himself with gasoline and set himself on fire. Two years, ago a second son committed suicide, having never recovered from his brother's death and father's resulting meltdown.
How do we account for this sort of gorgeous alchemy? If Arredondo had become a terrorist, we would have no shortage of ready explanations. But instead his anguish fueled a passion to save and rescue. "Cities are not resilient, people are. And, sometimes, they are not," wrote Boston journalist Elaine McNamara. The journey from despair and loss is both profoundly personal and unpredictable. Wrong turns happen. Not everyone makes it back.


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Mohegan Sun credit ratings lowered over financial woes
Moody's Investors Service downgraded its bond ratings Tuesday on the Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority and raised doubt about whether the authority can avoid a financial restructuring.
The agency lowered its corporate and probability-of-default ratings on the authority from "B3" to "Caa2," a designation reserved for high-risk debt.
The Moody's downgrade followed similar action last week by Standard & Poor's, another credit-rating agency, which lowered its rating on the authority from "B" to "CCC."
The gaming authority operates the Mohegan Sun casino in Uncasville and Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Leo Chupaska, the authority's chief financial officer, said the downgrades were not unexpected.
"We thought it would happen," he said. "Since we announced we're working with Blackstone (a major corporate advisory firm), there's been a lot of speculation about how we're going to deal with our (debt) maturities. Right now, we're in a refinancing mode. We haven't talked about restructuring. We really haven't said anything. We're still talking about refinancing."
In a refinancing, a debtor typically negotiates better loan terms, including extending maturity dates, while a restructuring often involves a creditor receiving less money than it is owed.
In a Nov. 12 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the authority announced that Blackstone Advisory Partners LP was providing help with "strategic planning and analysis in connection with its business and financial goals, including operational improvements, contemplated hotel projects and … bank and bond maturities."
Authority executives declined to elaborate on Blackstone's involvement during a Nov. 23 conference call with investors and gaming industry analysts.
During the call, Mitchell Etess, chief executive officer of the authority and of Mohegan Sun, announced that as of Jan. 1 he will turn over responsibility for the day-to-day operation of the casino to Jeffrey Hartmann, executive vice president and chief operating officer, who will succeed him as CEO of the casino. Etess said he will concentrate on developing new business opportunities as CEO of the authority.
MTGA executives also discussed the authority's financial results for the quarter and fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, reporting a net loss of $26.3 million for the quarter and a profit of $9.7 million for the fiscal year.
Standard & Poor's, which announced its ratings downgrade the day after the call, noted that the gaming authority also reported a 6.5 percent decline in adjusted EBITDA - earnings before interest, income taxes, depreciation and amortization - for the fiscal year.
"We had previously cited our expectation that EBITDA would be relatively flat in fiscal 2010," Standard & Poor's said. The agency also placed the gaming authority on "CreditWatch" with negative implications.
"The ratings downgrade and CreditWatch listing reflect weaker-than-expected operating performance in the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, 2010, in addition to substantial refinancing needs beginning in 2012, when MTGA's $675 million bank credit facility and $250 million senior subordinated notes mature," Melissa Long, a Standard & Poor's credit analyst, said in a statement.
Moody's lowered its rating on each of six layers of the authority's outstanding bonds. In announcing the downgrades late Tuesday afternoon, it said the authority could have trouble refinancing upcoming maturities "without some impairment to bondholders given its high leverage … limited near-term growth prospects for Mohegan Sun Casino, the likely continuation of weak consumer gaming demand trends in the Northeastern U.S., and the strong possibility of gaming in Massachusetts."
Moody's said its "negative ratings outlook" for the authority reflects the short time frame in which MTGA has to address "a significant capital structure issue." If the authority is unable to refinance by March 2011, its $675 million revolving bank loan will become due, Moody's said. The same holds true for the authority's $250 million senior subordinated notes if they are not refinanced by April 2011.
Moody's had placed the authority on review for a possible downgrade in September, after layoffs of hundreds of Mohegan Sun employees. Both rating agencies warned that they could lower their ratings further if the authority proceeds with a restructuring plan that results in bondholders being offered less than they are owed.
Mohegan Sun's neighboring competitor, Foxwoods Resort Casino, has been seeking to restructure more than $2 billion in debt for more than a year. It has defaulted on a $700 million revolving bank loan and a series of bond interest payments.
Casinos across the country have faced financial difficulties brought on by the recession, which has curtailed gamblers' spending and, consequently, casino revenues.
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Texas' own 2011 State Poet Laureate, Dave Parsons, is sharing his poetry knowledge with Lone Star College-Montgomery students this spring through a poetry-based English class, Poetry Workshop (English 2308).
Texas State Poet Laureate (2011) Dave Parsons is sharing his poetry knowledge with Lone Star College-Montgomery students this spring through a poetry-based English class, Poetry Workshop (English 2308), which begins Thursday January 17
This credit class is an introduction to the art of writing and editing poetry. Guest poets are scheduled to speak each month, and students will participate in encouraging and informative discussions of contemporary poetry.
"Students will create and present their own work, as well as discuss current publishing standards, trends, and editing techniques," said Parsons, who has been an adjunct faculty member at LSC-Montgomery since the college opened in 1993. "It's the first purely poetry class I have taught since my Poet Laureate award, and I'm excited to share with students the art of poetry."
Poetry Workshop will meet weekly on Thursday evenings from 6-8:50 p.m., beginning Thursday, January 17. Registration for the spring 2013 semester has already begun; however, students may register for this class up until the day the class begins. Payment is due at the time of registration.
For more information, contact David Parsons at email@example.com.
LSC-Montgomery is located at 3200 College Park Drive, one-half mile west of Interstate 45, between Conroe and The Woodlands. For more information about the college, call 936.273.7000, or visit www.LoneStar.edu/montgomery.
With 78,000 students in credit classes, and a total enrollment of more than 90,000, Lone Star College System is the largest institution of higher education in the Houston area and the fastest-growing community college system in the nation. Dr. Richard Carpenter is the chancellor of LSCS, which consists of six colleges including LSC-CyFair, LSC-Kingwood, LSC-Montgomery, LSC-North Harris, LSC-Tomball and LSC-University Park, five centers, LSC-University Center at Montgomery, LSC-University Center at University Park, Lone Star Corporate College, and LSC-Online. To learn more visit LoneStar.edu.


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GPG needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 128 designs submitted by 35 freelance designers.
Great Plains Geeks LLC
I am a IT professional with over six years in the IT field. I will provide excellent service and advice to my customers. I have experience with many different technologies including networking, email, Windows, Linux, firewall configuration, etc. I want to put a friendly face on IT. Many people find IT professionals unfriendly and are intimidated by technology. I want to help people by offering classes and explaining what they see on the screen. I enjoy the IT world and helping people get beyond the technology intimidation factor.
I will be targeting small office/home office and residential customers. I will be offering computer support and networking/consulting services. Roaming users are those we call snow birds in the north that travel to AZ or FL, TX, etc., for the winter. I will provide reliable go to service for "roaming" users. When a computer problem strikes, I want to be who they think of first.
1. I want my logo to not only represent confidence/professionalism, but also a friendly, non-threatening picture. Many people find IT people unfriendly. I want to change that with my company.
2. I have been thinking of a buffalo wearing glasses. Not a cartoon. I will want to use the logo on my business cards as well. I want the logo to be friendly, but confident/professional. Why the bufallo? It's an animal known for roaming the Great Plains and ties in well with my company name. Does it have to be a buffalo? No, use your imagination.
3. No clip art or stock images.
4. The design should be able to be used on business cards, letterhead, website etc.
5. Preferred color scheme to include blue and orange.
6. Please provide high quality image files.
7. Please ask questions!
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Since 1943, Junior Achievement of Greater St. Louis, Inc. has been dedicated to educating students about entrepreneurship, work readiness, and financial literacy through experiential, hands-on programs. These activities supplement and reinforce the regular classroom curriculum. Junior Achievement's programs empower students by helping them discover tools to succeed in the adult world.
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January 29, 2009
Grilled Lemon Herb Pork Chops with Parmesan Roasted Potatoes
I made this the other night and even though it's not from the weight watchers cookbook, it's definitely low fat (the pork is anyway) and it's quite flavorful. I have some other WW recipes I need to post, but I'm having some technical issues, mainly that I'm having trouble getting good pictures in my horribly lit new kitchen (as you can see from the pic above, which I wouldn't normally post, but it's the best I had)*. I'm thinking about getting one of those table top lighting systems, possibly this one (mostly because it's under $100, and I'm cheap) . Anyone have experiences with these things like this? Recommendations? It really takes the fun out of it when I make something really good that I want to share and all my pics look like monkeyass (™ Fabio from Top Chef).
*Update: Made this again and got some much better pics to replace bad ones on here before. I wound up getting the lamp mentioned above and I like it a …
January 19, 2009
Mulligatawny (Indian Curry Soup) with Naan
So I'm finally back. We moved in to the new apartment about a week and half ago and I got the last few things unpacked and my pictures hung this weekend so I guess we're officially settled in. After looking through my cookbooks I went on a grocery shopping spree last week and restocked my new kitchen (LOVE my brand new oven and dishwasher) and I've been cooking up a storm since then. Because, seriously, for the two weeks while we were moving, ALL we did was eat at restaurants and fast food places. I was sooooo tired of greasy food by the end of it and I think I've had my fill for the foreseeable future.
So for the next month (up until my birthday, exactly a month away), my goal is try as many recipes as possible from my Weight Watchers cookbook. I'm not going to be doing the whole point counting thing (though I have in the past and lost a substantial amount of weight) but I definitely want to concentrate on eating better (more vegetables, whole grains, etc.) and trying to be healthier …
December 30, 2008
Black and White Cupcakes
It's still December (barely), so that means one last sweet treat until diet month! Actually, this will probably be my last post for a few weeks anyway because I'm moving to a new city and I don't imagine I'll have time for much posting until we get settled in our new apartment. Plus I need time to look though all my cookbooks and find new, heathly(-ish) recipes to make!
Anyway, back to today's recipe. I had so much fun making Black and White Cheesecake that I decided to try that method with regular cake. I'm listing yellow and chocolate cake recipes that I like, (been using them for years, so I don't even remember where I got one of them…) but really, this is all about the method. If you have a better yellow or chocolate cake recipe in your arsenal, use that instead. You can even just buy some boxed cake mixes to make things even simpler.
December 23, 2008
No Bake Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies
In January I promise to post some low fat recipes to get in the New Year's resolution diet mood, but until then it's still December and I'm baking like there's no tomorrow! The cookies come to me courtesy of my boyfriend's grandma from Tennessee who I like to think of as the quintessential southern woman. Almost every time I've been over to her house she has a feast prepared, even if she's only expecting a few people to come over! Brandon compares my cooking to hers all the time (That's not how my grandmother makes it…), but that's ok because she's a great cook, so if I could be as good as her one day that would be a great compliment.
I'd never had these cookies until the first time I went over to her house and I think I must have eaten about 50 of them that day because now every time I go back she'll tell me that she made my favorite cookies. She's even sent us a big batch of them for Christmas in years past. But since Brandon had forgotten to send …
December 16, 2008
Chocolate-Filled Mexican Wedding Cookies
I think Mexican Wedding Cookies are one of the quintessential Christmas cookies out there*. Besides decorated sugar cookies and gingerbread men, they are definitely what come to my mind when I think of holiday sweets. I've also seen them called Mexican Wedding Cakes or Russian Teacakes. I remember my mom would make them for Christmas parties and she'd always have to make special ones for me because I don't like nuts.
*Update 5/1/2009: A commenter said she was making these for Cinco De Mayo, too. Great idea!
Last month I thought about these cookies, which I haven't had in years, and decided to whip some up. They are so easy to make and just as good as I remember. I still don't like nuts and I think these cookies taste just fine without 'em. The recipes I looked at instructed me to make them into balls, but I always remember that my mom made hers into crescent shapes. I obviously didn't have her technique down because mine weren't as nicely shaped as I remember hers to be. I guess that's why …
December 9, 2008
Irresistible Peanut Butter Cookies
So I guess December is the official cookie baking month, right? I don't feel so bad about making/eating cookies in November and December. Diets are what January is for. I consider myself quite the cookie connoisseur but I realized last month that despite my love for all things peanut butter, that I've never made peanut butter cookies from scratch. Of course, I had to remedy this immediately. Brandon had a cookie craving one night and didn't want to wait the requisite 36 hours for chocolate chip cookies so I found this recipe and whipped it up. I LOVED how fast and easy these were to make. This recipe also had more peanut butter in it than any others I found, and I don't think you can go wrong with more peanut butter.
While I liked these cookies a lot, I couldn't help but think that peanut butter always tastes better with chocolate. I remembered a cookie recipe I saw where they dipped the cookies in melted chocolate and then let it set. I tried this with some of the batch I made and …
December 4, 2008
Black and White Chocolate Cheesecake Supreme
I decided to buck tradition this year and I made a cheesecake for Thanksgiving instead of apple or pumpkin pie. Brandon and I both LOVE cheesecake and he insists that it's more pie than cake, so in his mind I still made the traditional pie. I used my previous cheesecake recipe, (which IMHO is the best) but modified it by adding melted white and dark chocolate, a method I've seen in a bunch of other recipes. If you remember from my previous sojourn into cheesecake baking I had some issues getting it right (it looked undercooked, though it really wasn't). I baked it a bit differently this time and found this is definitely the right way to do it. Plus I think this new method makes it much more like a real New York cheesecake (or so I've heard) because it browns the top and sides slightly. While this method made the top kind of flaky looking (nothing you notice when you are eating it), the cake itself didn't crack.
December 1, 2008
Easy Chili with Honey Cornbread
Who's tired of turkey? I am, I am! I've eaten nothing but turkey and leftovers since Thursday and I'm ready for something new. The problem is that after preparing such a big meal last week, I am not in the mood to make anything complicated or time consuming. For times like this, I have my two old standbys: my mom's spaghetti and chili. It was rainy and cold all day, so that translates to the perfect weather for some chili.
Now, I'll be the first to tell you that this is not some mind-blowing recipe for chili. There are probably tons of more creative recipes out there. But I've been making this stuff forever and it tastes great and gets the job done. I like it because I can make it up in 10 minutes in the afternoon and let it simmer until dinner time or if I didn't remember to make it early I can whip it up, cook for less than 30 minutes and it's still good. For my money, it's better if you let it simmer for at …


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Howard Karno was so many things to so many people: Angelino, born and bred; a student and scholar of Latin America; an innovative and resourceful bookseller; and a husband, father and friend. Howard was forever a boy trapped in a man's body; he never lost the capacity for spontaneity and impish behavior.
He had many loves. He loved the beautiful home that he and Beverly created in the hills of Southern California. He loved good books, good conversation, good food, and good wine. He loved people – all sorts of people in more countries than most of us will ever visit. He remembered them; he kept up with them; he treasured them. Most of all, of course, he loved Beverly and his family. They were his greatest joy.
His involvement with Latin America began with graduate study at UCLA. Howard had the good fortune of doing field work in Peru at a time when the country hosted a number of young researchers from the United States, including Tom Davies, Jesus Chavarría and Peter Klaren, who became life-long friends. His work on Peruvian modernization resulted in a splendid dissertation but no job in the academy, which was a blessing in disguise.
Necessity being the mother of invention, Howard quickly found his footing in the book trade, establishing a business that combined his knowledge of bibliography with a garrulous personality and instinctive salesmanship. Enter SALALM.
The marvelous interview that Howard gave to Mark Grover in 2006 offers an account of the ups and downs of his career and memories of working with many SALALM alums. What he fails to mention is the important role that he and his family played in shaping our organization and building its community. Howard's mother, a great cook, even prepared and served a dinner for the UCLA SALALM, which jump-started the libreros' reception. Howard's enormous presence in the Latin American book trade led to the compilation of bookseller information in the various editions of Directory of Vendors of Latin American Library Materials. Howard never lost the curiosity of a scholar. He read voraciously and broadly. SALALM is fortunate that so many of its libreros are people who love books, read books, and learn from books. Surely, none did so more than Howard. He knew our libraries' collections and our interests and many of our institutions' treasures are a result of his knowledge and efforts.
His generosity was legendary. He was generous with his time, ready to listen to all. He made each of us feel he truly cared about our lives. When he saw or read a book that reminded him of someone, he would mail it along to share it. He never visited a bookstore without buying something as a way to support them. Howard made a room brighter when he entered it and filled it with more laughter and engaging conversation.
Howard's early Libros Latinos catalogs began with a lema: "As a former professor of Latin American history familiar with the bibliography and sources of out-of-print materials, I will give prompt attention to your requests." So he was, and so he did for four decades.
We miss you, Howard.
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Howard Karno was so many things to so many people: Angelino, born and bred; a student and scholar of Latin America; an innovative and resourceful bookseller; and a husband, father and friend. Howard was forever a boy trapped in a man's body; he never lost the capacity for spontaneity and impish behavior.


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When John Stagikas graduated high school in 1997 and enrolled at Assumption College in Worcester, Mass., he knew he wanted to pursue a career in professional wrestling. Just as important, however, was playing football and getting a degree. An operation to remove a cyst in his neck cut his football career short, and in 2001 it was off to a different type of school under the tutelage of Walter "Killer" Kowalski.
"I had sent out a number of letters to different schools, and his was the first to reply," Walters told SLAM! Wrestling. "Walter was the first guy I saw when I got to the school. His place was very old school, hot in the summer and no heat in the winter. I walked up the stairs and he was sitting there in his chair. I told him I wanted to start training, he told me the curriculum and costs, and a week later I brought my deposit and started training. When he first opened his school I am sure he did a lot more hands-on training, he was still very involved. He taught me a lot of things that I still use today that people haven't seen. As an older person he is impatient sometimes but he has so much knowledge, anyone who comes across him should pick his brain."
Kowalski has trained a number of aspiring grapplers, but in the past few years the most famous names have been Christopher Nowinski (who trained briefly before joining Tough Enough), A-Train and Perry Saturn. Two of his students who have arguably had the biggest impact are Joanie "Chyna" Laurer and Triple-H.
"Triple-H is at the top of the game right now, he does a lot of little things right. Everything he does is the fundamentals turned up," Walters said. "Chyna pretty much put women's wrestling on the mat. When you mention their names to Walter, he gets a grin on his face, you can tell he was proud to train them. I take a lot of pride in the fact that I am trained by Kowalski, and being from the same school as them is an honor as well."
In her book If They Only Knew Laurer did not speak highly of her trainer, depicting him as "scheming" and "nasty old man" who "would keep you down as long as you allowed it." Walters commented on the bad blood.
"I never asked him about it. Reading the book, I was shocked by some of it but I wasn't there so I don't know its accuracy," he said. "Regardless of what happened, he got her some breaks and she should have been a little more thankful and respectful to him. I was backstage at a couple of WWE shows that both of them were at, and they didn't do much communicating."
Driving an hour and a half each way four times a week prepared Walters for the travel that wrestlers have to endure, as well as the pressure of trying to balance life and wrestling. "It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. I was really focused on wrestling but I made time for my schoolwork. Junior year was easier then the first two years because I was adjusted. I balanced it as best I could."
Walters encourages anyone who wants to pursue the profession to get post-secondary education. "Nothing is guaranteed. You should absolutely go to college, even a small one, go to something. College courses are a backup, a piece of paper that you may not need, but it is better to have it and not need it then need it and not. If you can balance both do it but definitely focus on getting a degree."
Five months after starting, Stagikas took on the last name Walters as a tribute to his mentor and started working in battle royals and then on to singles matches.
"I worked the New England scene for two years, for promotions like NECW, WWA, and my first promotion where I was getting consistent work was North Andover's Chaotic Wrestling," he said. "They are still running today, and they were the first promotion to really give me the ball and run with it. They put belts on me, gave me mic time and let me show the fans what I could do. They put me on the map."
One of his college roommates suggested the "Hurricane" nickname. "It was simple and stuck. I have never talked to Shane Helms about the name. Chris Nowinski was wrestling for Chaotic for awhile, and whenever I see him backstage he calls me Hurricane. I say 'should you be calling me that?' It's just a name, not a shot at anyone."
When he felt that he had accomplished everything he could in New England, he moved to New Jersey for three months and concentrated on promotions like ECWA, and Jersey Championship Wrestling and Ring of Honor. It was difficult at first to break into the popular promotion.
"I had sent a tape to Ring of Honor when they first started and they never got back to me. That is understandable; I can only imagine how many tapes they get," Walters said. "In the back of my mind I wanted to work with them because I like the style. Gary Michael Capetta was on tour for his book, and he did a speaking engagement at the Chaotic Wrestling School. I got to know him and it came up that he worked with RoH doing backstage segments for their videos. I asked him what I could do to get there, and he had me send in my resume and tape again. Gary kept plugging away for me, and finally in May of 2003, [Ring of Honor booker] Gabe [Sapolsky] called Gary and told him he was going to give me a try out. I couldn't have done it without him, I owe him a great deal."
Walters' mat-based technical style has been embraced by many of the RoH faithful. He has had great matches in RoH and other promotions against wrestlers such as CM Punk, Christopher Daniels and Matt Stryker.
"The matches that stand out in my mind are the ones that got a crowd reaction with wrestling. When you bring weapons into a match it is easy to get a crowd reaction," he explained. "When you can get just as big of a pop with a submission hold or a wristlock that is impressive. My match with Rochester with Chris Daniels is one of my favorites; I watch it all the time. I had a match with Louis Ortiz last April, we went for 30 minutes and the crowd was on its feet. Matches like that I am more proud of than the weapons match. Getting a standing ovation after that match was really cool though."
Weapons were a big part of Walters' show-stealing "Fight Without Honor" on December 27, 2003 against Xavier. Some fans claim that Xavier carried Walters. "I don't agree with the phrase 'one wrestler carried another.' It takes two workers and a referee to make a good match. If anyone carries someone the fans are the last people to know, they don't have a clue some of the things that are involved. The only people who would know are the wrestlers themselves. Fans assume one guy is better so he carries the match, that isn't true at all. A wrestler may bring someone up to their level, that is a different story. When I first read the message boards Xavier was the guy they shit on all the time. He started having good matches so I guess they needed someone else to pick on and they chose me."
March 13, 2004 was an important date for Ring of Honor. In the wake of the Rob Feinstein scandal, it was time for everyone to bring their best to the show in Elizabeth, NJ. "Everyone in the building had the same goal from the workers to the ring crew and sound guy. Nobody talked about the past, and you could see in everyones eyes that it was time to show what we were made of. With the positive response from the fans it proved that Ring of Honor is stronger than anything that had happened."
Walters squared off with Matt Stryker for the number one contender's trophy. It was an unique environment as the crowd held dueling chants of "Let's go Walters/Let's go Stryker." While trapped in the Strykerlock, the crowd pleaded with Walters to "Please don't tap."
"I look at it two different ways. Sometimes I think they do it just to please themselves. They feel like it was a match they could do that chant, without necessarily rooting for one guy. That being said it was a chant I had never experienced at an indy show before and was cool," he admitted. "The RoH crowd is a rabid bunch, a bit weird, but they definitely know and respect good wrestling. If you work hard you will get a reaction, and the more I wrestle, the more often it happens."
Walters has his sights on a number of wrestlers. Although he lost in his bid to be number one contender, he would love to get a shot at Ring of Honor champion Samoa Joe.
"I really like Samoa Joe's style, it is hard hitting and to the point. I would love to work him. I've been in a four-way with AJ Styles, but never a singles. Those two are the ones I definitely would like to face. It would be fun to face Chris Daniels again."
Many fans thought that match would happen in the finals of the annual ECWA Super 8 tournament on April 3. Walters defeated Nicho (formerly Psychosis) in the first round, but narrowly lost to Austin Aries in the semi-final. "I know I was the favorite by many people going into the tourney. I think the fact that I didn't made it even better. I don't know about you, but I like surprises and unpredictability in wrestling. I want to thank my two opponents, who are both tremendous wrestlers, everybody else in the Super 8, Jim Kettner and the entire ECWA. Also congrats to Chris Daniels because there isn't anybody more deserving than him. And as always, thanks to the fans who made it to the Super 8 and continue to support me."
Walters considered it an honor to be a part of the event, which in the past has included up and comers like AJ Styles, The Hardy Boys, Paul London, Spanky, and many others. "When Jim Kettner invited me I was thrilled. When I started wrestling, one of my goals was to be in the Super 8. That was a tournament that every indy fan knows about, so being invited told me I was doing something right and that Jim sees something in me. No matter how far I advanced, it was something I was proud of."
It isn't his first appearance with the company. "ECWA is one of the most organized promotions I have wrestled for. Often on the indy scene you don't know who you are wrestling or when you are on. A week before the show Jim tells you what your job is, who you will be wrestling, everything. A lot of promotions don't follow that pattern. I've had matches change 30 times from the time I got there, it doesn't give you a lot of time to prepare. Running so well is the reason Jim has been operating for so long."
Rumors have been floating around for months that the 24 year old is on the verge of joining the WWE. He has worked numerous matches for them, most recently losing a handicapped match to The Big Show on the Smackdown before Wrestlemania XX. His path to the WWE started when Dr. Tom Pritchard did a training camp at the Chaotic Training Center in 2003. He chose a few guys to start using on TV. The first few times Walters went to TV he didn't work, and then April he did his first dark match and the next night wrestled on Smackdown against Team Angle.
"My first one, against Aaron Stevens was my favorite match in WWE so far. It was the first time I wrestled in front of thousands of people, against someone I was comfortable with," Walters said. "It wasn't a squash match -- I got to show them what I had for five minutes. It is amazing how a crowd can have no clue who you are but they can get into you."
The night after RoH, Walters was privileged to be asked to participate in Wrestlemania, as a druid for the entrance of the returning Undertaker. "I had never been to Madison Square Garden or Wrestlemania so I said definitely and was pumped for that. It was a big weekend. You could tell it was Wrestlemania, with the legends and people there and how people seemed so focused. It really is the WWE's Super Bowl. It was a simple job, but the torches were a lot heavier than I thought and the fire was bright. A couple of guys' feet caught on fire in the back before we went out there. Watching The Undertaker come back and the place go bananas was an experience."
Walters took advantage of the opportunity to meet many of the legends that were in attendance.
"I talked to Bobby Heenan, Harley Race, Jesse Ventura, just small talk, tell them who I am and how much respect I had for them," he said.
SLAM! Wrestling asked Walters his status with the company. "Whenever they have been within driving distance over the past year they book me, I hope they continue too. I've been talked to about the writers having interest in me, they have taken pictures and had me cut promos, but no deal has been offered despite what the Internet blows out of proportion. I am just doing my thing."
Walters continued with his thoughts on how it influences his current style. "I try not to think about it too much. Some guys hear that the WWE is interested in them they slack in their indy matches and don't want to do as much for fear of being hurt. It's not my goal to get hurt but I am not going to half-ass it in the ring because I might get offered a deal somewhere down the line. If it comes I will deal with it then, but until that I love what I am doing now."
Some fans feel that Walters should have gotten a #1 contender trophy and could even a credible champion in RoH. However if WWE was interested in him they question why a promotion should put the belt on him.
"I don't know how much affect it has. Some bookers may look at it that way. I've told Gabe Sapolsky flat out 'Don't let this WWE talk affect how you use me.' That could affect my decision, the way a promotion is using on me. I hope the promoters don't focus on it, if someone has a belt it is easy to get it off them. I honor my commitments."
Fans are critical of how the WWE used former RoH stars Paul London and Spanky, and are concerned that someone as talented as Walters would also suffer the same fate.
"Fans have to realize it takes time to build somebody. They may not think Paul London is being used properly. He didn't spend a lot of time in Ohio Valley so Velocity is a step up, they could have had him down there for five years. He was put on TV a few months after he signed. For people to say he isn't being used properly, he has to show them what he has. As for Spanky, he did what he felt he had to do, it wasn't what he wanted, he preferred a different style and wanted to work in Japan. I respect the decision to leave if he wasn't happy. But he got himself on TV and I am sure that affects his paydays."
Going to the WWE is most wrestlers' goal to some degree, as in the majority of people's eyes it is the pinnacle of the sport. How does Walters feel about how it would tamper his creativity and ostensibly his art? This is a time when he keeps getting better and better; why would he choose now to go somewhere and possibly dilute that?
"If I could make a living wrestling the indies, I would," Walters, who works as a bartender and waiter at Applebees between shows said. "You kill yourself to make a living at pro wrestling and that is what I want to do. If I was offered a contract right now, I don't know if I would sign it. I would give it a lot of thought. Right now I am wrestling the way I want to, I don't do the same match for RoH as I do for ECWA because the crowd is different. In WWE it's a different fanbase and style as well and you just adjust them. With the two champions they have now it seems they are going more towards wrestling."
In style and look, many fans compare Walters to current WWE World Champion Chris Benoit. Walters is flattered by the compliment.
"I try to wrestle as myself. A month into my training, Walter said I remind him of Benoit, the way I walked and looked, little things. I started watching tapes, mostly old Japanese stuff. In WWE there is nobody more crisp or real then he. I pick up things from him, but also from 30 other wrestlers. I don't think I look like him, it doesn't bother me. When it is all said and done I want to be remembered as John Walters, not another Chris Benoit."
Now that he has a firm grasp of the North American style, Walters would like to try and broaden his horizons internationally.
"Japan is somewhere I would love to wrestle. Right now I am looking to wrestle in as many places as I can. I would like to go and learn in other countries like Mexico, England, Canada and Japan. Wherever I could learn something different I would go."
In the meantime, John Walters hopes fans will continue to support him and independent wrestling.
"Keep supporting the indies. We wrestle for fan reaction, if we don't get that, there is no point. If you continue supporting wrestling as a whole, well it's the fans that will bring wrestling back up. If you appreciate me, that is great but if you don't that is fine too. You guys pay your money to have an opinion, just make noise."
For now, Walters works towards his ambition of earning a living doing what he loves full time and hopes he can leave a lasting impression.
"I want to be known as someone who gave his all. That guy that people say 'His match was good, he really made it look realistic.' A lot of the realism is missing in wrestling today and I am trying to bring that back. I realize it is entertainment, but I don't see the point of doing a couple of flips to land an elbow when you could just land the elbow. I have a reason for every move I do. I hope wherever I wrestle, I made it a little more real."
For more on John Walters, including his upcoming schedule and commentary, visit his official website at www.hurricanejohnwalters.com.
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Latest Fairfield property transfers: $2.56M Sasco Hill sale
The following Fairfield property transfers were recorded by the Town Clerk's office Aug. 26-30:
Cynthia B. Philpott to Elizabeth A. Duncan, 90 Ryegate Road, $609,000
Diane N. Fisk to Thomas M. and Jamie S. Kronzer, 1360 Galloping Hill Road, $819,000
Stephanie B. Frost to Brian M. Micena, 33 Flower House Drive, $685,000
Estate of Elizabeth M. Gyor to Beachside Estates LLC, 217 Lalley Blvd., $700,000
M&R Assoc. LLC to Justin Lundbye, 4 Nelson Place, $785,000
Robert W. and Pamela P. Lavoie to Liam O'Driscoll, 146 School St., $375,000
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Kevin J. and Heather F. Crepeau to Thomas S. and Adilia D. Douglas, 15 Flora Blvd., $960,000
James and Renee Push to Gordon C. MacKenzie Jr., 11 Palmer Bridge, $664,500
Marianna M. Adamo to John L. and Catherine L. Lynch, 814 Knapps Highway, $332,000
Jeffrey W. and Kimberly M. Keener to Jack Day and Grace Houghton, 120 Crane St., Unit 120, $425,000
Love Where You Live Homes LLC to Tae Chul Ho and Hee Eun Son, 824 Riverside Drive, $949,000
John M. and Jeanne M. Sullivan to 115 Ruane Street LLC, 115-117 Ruane St., $528,937.50
Anthony A. and Elizabeth P. Bosco to Malik Awais, 112 Sunnyridge Ave., $448,000
Patricia Campbell to Roshan Polepalli and Vipra Sharma, 160 Fairfield Woods Road, Unit 1, $230,500
Olivia H. Dunn to Jeffrey R. and Alexandra W. Currie, 580 Sasco Hill Road, $2,560,194
T. Randolph Harris, trustee, Jeffrey R. and Alexandra W. Currie, 580 Sasco Hill Road, $1,639,806
Jack A. and Jeffry Grosberg to Donald and Norma Branson, 245 Sunnyridge Ave., No. 30, $210,000
Charles F.T. and Signe W. Merritt to Michael F. and Wendy McCaffery, 178 Mill Hill Terrace, $1,130,000
Deutsche Bank National Trust to Ellen V. Chikarova, 27 Hulls Highway, $211,299
Anthony Holdampf to Olivia H. Dunn, 60 Christmas Tree Lane, $1,300,000
Bradley and Kristy Evans to Heidi Leatherman, 200 Melody Lane, $329,000
Sand Dollar Development LLC to Michael V. and Michele Kutsch, 1024 Unquowa Road, $1,005,500
ETrade Bank to Pedro A. Losa and Sarah Elizabeth Bergemann, 100 Pease Ave., $482,500
Beth K. and Frank B. Abrahams to Thomas and Paula Langmuir, 102 Barry Scott Drive, $334,000
Darin Ingels to Bradley C. Evans, 7 Stillson Place, $602,000
MTM Classic Home Builders Ltd to Sridevi Vuppala, 40 Southport Ridge, $760,000
Jordan F. Reber and Andrea Melvin to Maureen A. Mooney to Brian M. Maccallum, to 76 Beaumont St., $760,000
Maralyn F. Abbott to Geoffrey and Jennifer Stowell, 401 Buena Vista Road, $470,000
Marline R. Polak, executrix, to David Ian Karpel, 37 Greenleigh Road, $422,500
Theresa C. Angotto to Christopher R. and Amanda Wormald, 451 Lockwood Road, $680,000
Estate of Ira Waks to Laura R. Nash, 32 Fleming Lane, $580,000
Elisabeth H. Saxe to Jon C. and Anna-Lees Estes, trustees, 136 Roberton Crossing, $557,500
Pine Creek Beach LLC to Brian Silvestro, trustee, 17-182 Pine Creek Ave., $1,150,000
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Former City Clerk In Havana, KSSentenced For Embezzlement
WICHITA, KAN. A former city clerk for the city of Havana, Kan., was sentenced Wednesday to two years supervised release, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said. She also was ordered to pay a total of more than $59,000 in restitution to the city of Havana, Cross Point Baptist Church and an insurance company
Diana L. Cox, 67, Havana, Kan., pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud and one count of wire fraud. In her plea, she admitted embezzling $14,658 from the city of Havana while she was working as city clerk. On Aug. 18, 2011, she presented documents to the Arvest Bank in Caney, Kan., falsely stating that the Havana City Council had voted to change its policy to require only one signature on checks written for city business.
She also admitted that while she was treasurer of the Cross Point Baptist Church she devised a scheme to defraud the church of approximately $44,568. On Dec. 30, 2011, she caused the church to electronically transfer approximately $2,536 to Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance to make a mortgage payment due on her daughter's home.
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Smart Investments in Early Learning
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Remarks of U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan at an Early Learning Event with HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius at Rolling Terrace Elementary School, Takoma Park, MD
Rolling Terrace Elementary School represents so much of what we want our country to be like and aspire to. Many of the students at Rolling Terrace grow up in poverty and the children speak as many as 35 different languagesit's a baby United Nations! But the children are thriving. They have great adults who take care of them and are excited to work with them.
I talked to a lot of kids during our classroom visits and asked them if they like coming to school. Luckily, they all said "yes!"
They want to be here, and they are coming to an environment where they are going to be successful, where they are going to be prepared to take on the challenges of poverty and assimilating to children from around the globe. So to the collective adult leadership hereboard members, the superintendent, teachers, principals, and staffthank you. It's fun to see.
The best part of my job is getting out into classrooms to talk to children, teachers, parents, and school leaders. If you want to see how government can make smart investments in support of committed and talented educators, come to Rolling Terrace Elementary School. Go sit in the preschool and Head Start classrooms that Secretary Sebelius and I just visited.
In those classrooms, children are learning to read and exploring in math and science centers. Their health, social, and emotional development is being shaped in ways that can benefit them for decades to come.
Governmentfederal, state, and district governmentinvested in the education and development of those toddlers and young children. And it's one of the best investments we, as a nation, can make in the future.
I am tremendously excited about the President's landmark plan to create a new partnership with states to provide universal access to high-quality preschool for all four-year olds.
It would provide the biggest expansion of educational opportunity in America in the twenty-first century.
Parents who hunger for affordable, high-quality early learning programs, teachers who work tirelessly to provide our children with opportunities, and business leaders who seek well-prepared workers all want children to have access to high-quality preschool.
The biggest beneficiaries of all would be our childrenparticularly disadvantaged children, English learners, and children with disabilities.
Dramatically expanding high-quality early learning is a win-win proposition. It would make America more productive, more competitive, and save untold millions in taxpayer dollars. And it's past time that we get our public schools out of the educational catch-up business. America can't win the race for the future by cheating children at the starting line.
I hope everyone here today appreciates that this is an extraordinary moment. It is not often that you find two government departments, with overlapping responsibilities, working together hand-in-hand.
I am so grateful to my friend and partner Secretary Sebelius for her leadership. With vision and courage, she has worked tirelessly to put the interests of children first and to do the right thing. We have together on everything from the H1N1 flu to our Opportunity Agenda to thisand our Early Childhood work has been the most rewarding and fun.
The President's plan would create a new federal-state partnership to enable states to provide high-quality preschool for four-year olds from low- and moderate-income families, up to 200 percent of the poverty line. And it would provide incentives for states to cover all families who want to send their children to preschool.
But it would not be a new federal entitlement programit would be an investment in states to jumpstart access to high-quality preschool and to take the leading states to the next level.
States would use federal funds from our Department to create or expand high-quality, state-run preschool programs, administered in partnership with local school-based and community providers.
The urgent need for greater access to high-quality preschool for low- and moderate-income students is not in dispute today.
Just ask a parent or kindergarten teacher if there are gaps in learning and development when a child walks through that kindergarten door.
We know that, on average, children from low-income families start kindergarten 12 to 14 months behind their peers in pre-reading and language skills.
And we know that fewer than 30 percent of four-year olds todayless than three in tenare enrolled in high-quality preschool programs.
Our theory of action in expanding high-quality preschool is going to be the same as it was in the first term. The federal role in public education is to support and partner with states, incentivize innovation, and help identify what works to strengthen education.
That means that at the federal level, we should be tight on ends but loose on means. The Department should set a high bar. But it should leave it to state and local leaders to choose the means for reaching that bar.
Under the President's plan, states would be required to meet quality benchmarks linked to better outcomes for childrenlike having high-quality state-level standards for early learning; qualified and well-compensated teachers in all preschool classrooms; and a plan to implement comprehensive assessment and data systems.
The President has pledged to fully offset the cost of his early learning plan so it does not add a dime to the deficit. But some skeptics question if we should make a major investment in preschool in a period of fiscal austerity.
In the end, that is a false choice. In fact, I would suggest to you that we really can't afford not to make these investments in the future of our babies, toddlers, and four-year olds.
As President Obama has pointed out, "if you are looking for a good bang for your educational buck," high-quality preschool is the place to look. If we want to invest wisely, and save taxpayers' money over the long haul, this is the best play we can make.
I wish that some of our lawmakers on the Hill could have been with us here todayor would talk to the governorsmany of whom are Republicanswho are expanding high-quality preschool programs in their states.
I wish they could have sat with Secretary Sebelius and me, and watched children learn and engage, with excitement and curiosity. We're in the real world here today, seeing a glimpse of the children that could be hurt by sequestration.
Sadly, many members of Congress are out-of-touch with the concerns of parents, students, and teachersthey are out of touch with the real-world consequences of their actions.
Remember, school districts spend about 80 percent of their annual budgets on personnel, so sequestration will have a big impact on teachers and school staff.
Sequestration would cut Title I by $725 million. That blanket cut could affect 1.2 million disadvantaged studentsand it would require states and districts to cover the costs of about 10,000 teachers and aides.
If that budget cut was translated into furloughs, it would be equivalent to furloughing 541,000 teachers and other staff for five daysa whole week of work.
Other cuts include $600 million in special education. That would require states and districts to cover the cost of approximately 7,200 teachers, aides, and other staff.
The furlough equivalent in special education would be 433,000 teachers and other staff missing a week of work. And Secretary Sebelius can tell you about the impact that sequestration could have in Head Start.
Cutting programs for our most vulnerable children is economically foolish. And it is morally indefensible.
In his State of the Union, President Obama called for "smarter government." Sequestrationwith its indiscriminate approach to slashing the budgetis an example of dumb government at its finest.
It is mind boggling that Washington has manufactured a crisis when educators and parents are facing real challenges every day.
These across-the-board budget cuts were not caused by a hurricane or natural disaster. They are a man-made mess. And they can be fixed now by men and women who act with courage, commitment, and a willingness to compromise.
They can be fixed by lawmakers who come to the table to do the right thing for children and to keep growing America's middle class. This is not rocket science, this is not an intellectually difficult challenge to resolveand it must be done.
And now I'd like to turn this over to Secretary Sebelius.


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Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez will reportedly be charged with obstruction of justice in connection with the death of Odin Lloyd.
WBZ NewsRadio 1030, citing an unnamed law enforcement source, reports that an arrest warrant has been issued on a charge of obstruction of justice. The report added that additional charges against Hernandez are possible.
Police reportedly believe that Hernandez destroyed footage from his home security system, broke his camera into pieces and had his home professionally cleaned shortly after the death of Lloyd, a 27-year-old man who has been described as an "associate" of Hernandez.
The WBZ report comes on the heels of a Sports Illustrated report on Thursday that said Hernandez is likely to be arrested. It is still not clear when or where the arrest would take place.
UPDATE 10:42 a.m. ET: The Boston Globe reports that no arrest warrant has been issued.


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Resources >> Browse Articles >> Utilizing Technology
Homework Done Faster
Kelly Tenkely | Teaching.monster.com
Dweeber is a social networking site for students that encourages kids to get their homework done faster and with more understanding by working with their school friends online. Dweeber was created to help students understand their strengths and talents, and help them work together more effectively with parents, mentors, and each other. The goal is to get students working together to help them learn, study and do research. Working together collaboratively this way is an important 21st century skill that we should be fostering in our classrooms.
Students can invite each other to study sessions where they can work in a collaborative whiteboard type space, chat with fellow students, post successes, and send friends thank you cards for helping out. Students can learn about their unique learning style and will receive tips for working more effectively (SMART profile) these profiles can be shared among friends. Students can also earn 'guru' points by sharing and voting on favorite websites, helping others get homework done, and pointing out successes of other students.
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How to integrate Dweeber into the classroom: I really like the idea behind Dweeber. This site helps students to understand their own learning, and support fellow students in their learning. I love the way in encourages students to work collaboratively outside the classroom and celebrate each other's successes. This site is easy to use and will make homework less painful. It has the added bonus of preparing students for the real world where they won't always be able to work with others face to face. Encourage the use of this site in your classroom. Using a site like Dweeber will build a community of learners in your classroom.
Students will support each other in learning and each will be able to shine in their areas of expertise. Statistically, homework doesn't generally increase learning. Often it is a mindless practice that is easy for those who get it and painful for those who don't. Those who understood the concept probably didn't need hours of extra practice and those who didn't get it just practiced the wrong way for hours. Why not allow students to collaborate and truly learn the material? This is a great way to keep learning and discussions going outside of the classroom.
Tips: Dweeber is designed for students ages 13 to 18. Students must be at least 13 according to the Dweeber terms of use to sign up for the service.


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Sarah Hyland got a hilarious diss from Rihanna at Good Morning America, while Zach Braff struggled when he mixed up two very different dating sites: See Us Weekly's roundup of the top 10 celebrity tweets from Jan. 29!
1. Sarah Hyland: "So @rihanna just walked by my room at @gma. I started singing 'Stay' to her… She didn't."
2. Zach Braff: "I hate it when I accidentally use my Grindr password for my Christian Mingle account."
3. Kim Kardashian: "Good morning http://instagram.com/p/jwn_wzOS7e/."
4. Max George: "Lots of stories guys…. I can't wait for tour, I love the boys and I love you guys. It won't be the end, just a chapter x."
5. Lena Dunham: "Dreamed my father died & left one of his arms to @nickkroll and the other to @bjnovak. I refuse to even bring this up with my therapist."
6. John Stamos: "Finally met my childhood crush- rihanna – wait, strike that reverse it. #hot."
7. Ramona Singer: "Thank you all for the love & support! For my daughter's sake, I would appreciate everyone respecting our privacy during this difficult time."
8. Lauren Conrad: "I love a healthy version of super bowl snacks. I make yummy cauliflower baked in hot sauce in lieu of hot wings #LCChatsWithUS."
9. Miley Cyrus: "ITS WE WHO BOUT THAT LIFE! http://instagram.com/p/jvRNCtmEQx/"
10. Chrissy Teigen: "here's to all the women that were never a carrie, miranda, samantha or charlotte. here's to the elaines."
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Emiliano Grillo, a 20-year-old Qualifying School graduate from Argentina holds a four shot halfway lead at the ISPS Handa International which is being contested at Lake Karrinyup Country Club in Perth, after a second round of -5 under par, 67. Emiliano is just playing shot by shot, he is desperate to keep his card for next year;
"I think I hit it better yesterday than today but a couple eagles and a hole-out from the bunker helped a lot. Just go shot by shot, that's the main goal. You cannot think about the third hole when you're playing the second hole. It's the hardest thing in golf probably, but it's the best thing to do. I had a lot of people following today and I was fine with it. I kind of like the golf course, and it seems to suit my game. I just want to have a good week. My goal this week was having a good one to keep my card for next year. If I can win, awesome."
Emiliano received congratulatory Tweets from the youngest winner in European Tour history, Italian Matteo Manassero. It is these victorious exploits at such a young age that has inspired Emiliano to play well;
"We try to spend as much time as I can with him because he already won twice on the Tour and he's the youngest player on the Tour. Everybody wants to have him as a mirror, and he's one of the few guys that I have as a mirror. I try to copy his putting and his short game. He's an amazing player and a very good friend. It's hard for the first win but he's already done it twice, so why not me?"
Tied in second spot is American Bo Van Pelt, and Jason Scrivener of Australia. Jason had a -3 under par 69 for his total of -7 under par. Bo matched the leader with a second round of -5 under par 67, but is four shots adrift of Emiliano, Bo said of his round;
"It was a solid day, I would say the biggest difference from today from yesterday, I think I played the par fives five under. I think I only missed three greens, so I was driving the ball in play, and was able to take advantage of the par fives.
All in all, seven under, I'm very pleased. I haven't played a tournament in a few weeks, so I like the golf course a lot. I'm just excited about the opportunity. Last time I was in Australia, I didn't get to play the weekend, so nice to get to play the weekend. There are a lot of great players here, but I think I was five back going into today, and whenever you're that far back, you try to shrink it going into the weekend. So hopefully I'll be closer than five back when the day ends and hopefully after tomorrow do the same thing, get a little bit closer. You try to have a chance to win with nine holes to go on Sunday. That's something my caddie and I always talk about is just trying to give ourselves a chance on Sunday, and then you just never know what will happen."
There are four players currently tied in fourth place; Max McMardle, Jason Dufner, and the two first round leaders Michael Hendry and Alejandro Canizares, who both had second rounds of +1 over par 73.


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Seven days a week, beginning most of the time around 7 a.m., Larry Schofer translates. He translates contracts, leases, patents and medical reports among other things from German, Polish, Hebrew and French into English. When he is lucky, he translates books, and when he is especially lucky, he is chosen to translate something historical. But Schofer jokes that his favorite thing to translate is whatever he is translating at the moment, with the exception of certain medical reports, which from time to time send him on time-consuming research journeys to uncover the meanings of esoteric medical procedures.
Until Schofer, 72, who has lived in Mt. Airy for the past 40 years, was nearing the end of his second career as a medical administrator, he had never thought about working as a translator. But his transition to that field has as much to do with his perseverance as with his facility for languages and the emphasis his schooling placed on languages, beginning with Hebrew, a language he began studying in the first grade. Schofer was raised by his parents in a row-house neighborhood in Baltimore among blue-collar families with the shared goal of sending their children to college. Schofer's parents were no different. But several challenging years at a Jewish elementary school, where teachers spoke to Schofer in then-incomprehensible Yiddish (he has since learned that language) prompted his parents to transfer him to public school to provide him with the best chance of getting into college.
In public school Schofer was a pudgy, lonely, only child who sought solace in a history book he read while sitting alone at lunch. The 8th grade proved to be a significant year in his life. A charismatic teacher introduced him to the world of ideas in a way that resonated with Schofer. At the same time Habonim, a Zionist group Schofer joined at the goading of his mother, threw open his social life, finding for him companionship and acceptance on hikes, in games and dances with outsiders like himself whom the "in-crowd" had shunned. That group forged for him an identity accented by learning, organized activities and community. He also continued studying Hebrew at the Baltimore Hebrew College.
Languages were emphasized at the magnet high school he attended, and Schofer excelled at them. Students were mandated to take two years of French, German and Latin. Schofer also immersed himself in the school newspaper, eventually becoming the editor, an experience that cultivated his love of writing and capacity for administration.
In college, at John Hopkins University, a few bus stops from his home, the university had discontinued a core curriculum, permitting Schofer to focus on languages and other courses that interested him, including history. After studying abroad at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in his junior year, he returned with an even greater passion for history and the intention to become a history professor.
Graduate school at the University of Berkeley was rigorous and dynamic. His attendance there in the 1960s coincided with the student protest movement in which he participated sporadically, preoccupied as he was with his dissertation topic and the belief that the movement by the late 1960s had lost sight of its goals. Before choosing a topic, he applied for a grant to study Polish and selected a research topic that enabled him to use his knowledge of German and Polish for his research that culminated in his dissertation and book, "The Formation of a Modern Labor Force: Upper Silesia, 1865-1914."
"I was interested in how people who are not industrial become industrial workers," Schofer said. "It (the project) paid homage to an interest in the labor force." By time he completed his dissertation, Schofer had become more interested in Jewish history. While working at the University of Pennsylvania as an assistant professor of European history, he taught a course on Jewish history and hoped to develop a Jewish history program at Penn until he learned in the mid 1970s, while conducting research on a grant in Germany, that Penn had denied him tenure.
Schofer's career in academia wound down by the end of the 1970s. To restructure his professional life, Schofer earned a master's degree in business administration from Temple University and began a 25-year career in medical administration, a lengthy professional departure from his use of foreign languages for his research. But Schofer maintained his fluency in Hebrew, German and French by reading novels in the original languages.
In the late 1990s, while still working as a medical administrator for a private medical practice, Schofer was asked to serve as editor and translator of a Polish newsletter, which served as his foray into translation as a profession. "It was all volunteer," Schofer says. "You weren't punished for making errors because it was free. It developed my skills."
In 2005, when he was 65, and when several of the doctors he worked for were approaching retirement age, Schofer had no desire to retire along with them, and plunged full-time into his third career as a translator. "It required a lot of discipline, but eventually I began to enjoy, it, Schofer says. "I have been busy all of the time since the day I left the medical practice. Either people are desperate, or they like my work. Part of the process of translating is learning to write a text that reads like English but is faithful to the original. It's an art. "
As a translator, Schofer draws from time to time on his knowledge gained during his two prior careers as a historian and the knowledge he gained in cardiology and physiology as a medical administrator. In the last seven years, between mostly short-term translation of commercial materials, he has translated three books. "The Girl That Could not be Called Esther," a book he translated from German approximately three years ago, was written by Winfried Siebert, a lawyer, in the 1980s.
It is a true story about Jewish names in 1938 at the height of the Nazi regime and centers on a minister who wanted to name his daughter Esther. He was prohibited by German law because the name was judged to be characteristically Jewish. The book also examines the minister's encounters with the Nazi legal system. Published in German in 1996, the book has enjoyed success in Germany and Israel and was recently published in English in 2011 and is available on Amazon.com.
"This is a whole book about anti-Semitism, and yet the characters are not Jewish. I learned that the Nazis and Germans became so hung up on questions of names in 1938 that they published a list of acceptable names, and Hitler was so interested he personally revised that list three times before it was allowed to be published."
Schofer has also translated a book on German eugenics, for which he is seeking a publisher.
His love of language and the challenge of remaining as true as possible to an original text are what he enjoys most about translating. "I am fascinated by language and the twists and turns that (translation) involves," Schofer says. "I feel great when I can find idioms that correspond to the other language, but are not word-for-word translations."
This fall, Schofer, who has been married for 45 years and has two adult sons, hopes he is selected to translate a book on German politics and economics. In the meantime, he has the short-term translation work, his Yiddish and French book clubs, his chairmanship of the Weaver's Way education committee, a singing group, his involvement in the Chestnut Hill Rotary Club, exercise, possible resumption of a watercolor painting class and travel to keep him busy.
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