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The Fuyu, round and squat and rather tomato-shaped, is they kind you can eat raw. You want to buy the ones that have turned truly orange (if they are greenish-gold, let them ripen for a few days), then peel them and slice them. The flesh is firm but sweet. Eat them plain, in the Japanese fashion, with a pot of tea. Fuyus persimmons make wonderful salads, too.
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Just days before Burbank voters went to the polls, Mike Gatto was the star attraction for a Napa Valley retreat at a five-star hotel where, for $5,000 each, guests could schmooze with the assemblyman and four of his legislative pals.
The event was organized by Dan Weitzman, a Sacramento political consultant who was on Gatto's campaign payroll for $3,000 a month the last two years and helped raise a $1-million campaign war chest for the assemblyman.
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The beneficiary of the money raised at the retreat was a political action committee called Prosperity led by Weitzman with Stacey Brenner, Gatto's political director, serving as a fundraising consultant.
Gatto has no role in Prosperity, Weitzman says, but critics suspect he is the central figure in a tangled web of political relationships that have brought at least three PACs into Burbank city elections where most candidates normally raise only a few thousand dollars, and special interests from outside rarely get involved.
It is a mystery filled with contradictions, but important to explore with school board and City Council control on the line in Burbank and the likelihood Glendale will also become a super PAC battleground.
Gatto's role is particularly curious since he has so publicly and passionately pushed for a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court ruling that opened the door to unlimited special interest financing of campaigns through super PACs.
"Voters are fed up with the notion that money is speech and that big money can drown out the speech of average citizens," Gatto declared last spring in introducing a joint resolution backing a constitutional amendment.
He introduced it again on the first day of the new session in December as Joint Resolution No. 1 to emphasize its importance.
Yet, his own political consultant, Sacramento-based Mike Shimpock, is the spokesman for a political action committee set up to defeat Councilman Jess Talamantes, supposedly over a bailout of the DeBell Golf Club and cuts in reserve officers. Shimpock denies any connection to Gatto in the PAC's campaign, noting that his relationship with the union pre-dates working for the assemblyman.
The United Food and Commercial Workers Union couldn't care less about golf or city finances, but it does want to keep Walmart out of Burbank and put up $20,000 — a huge sum in a local election — solely to beat Talamantes, although fellow council members David Gordon and Dave Golonski also supported approving the permits.
One anti-Talamantes mailer with a picture of a golfer and paramedics rushing someone into an emergency room asked: "What's more important … Golf or your life?"
"I don't know why they have gone after me, but I can't help wondering who is behind this. There has to be somebody," Talamantes says, as he rattles off endorsements from various unions and prominent city and Democratic politicians, including Gatto. "We've never seen anything like this before in Burbank."
Maybe it is just a coincidence that Prosperity had no hesitation accepting a $5,000 contribution from Walmart, or that it gave $250 to school board candidate David Dobson, who is heavily backed by another super PAC, or that Glendale Councilwoman Laura Friedman got a $1,000 contribution after Prosperity accepted $2,000 from the Glendale Firefighters for Better Government.
"I have no idea who they are. They have not communicated with me," Friedman says. "I honestly don't know. But it could be they saw Mike endorsed me and decided if he likes her, we'll support her."
The super PAC StudentsFirst — run by former Washington, D.C., Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee, wife of Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson and a strong advocate for charter schools — got involved in the Burbank school board race in support of Charlene Tabet and Dobson, who had also received $250 from Prosperity.
StudentsFirst spent $6,675 on mailers for each of them with Tabet finishing second and Dobson fourth, qualifying them for the runoff against Steve Ferguson and incumbent Larry Applebaum, the candidates endorsed by the teachers union.
"This local campaigning is just out of control. It all just ties to Mike Gatto," Ferguson said. "You really have to pay attention when people get this kind of money and wonder what the motives are unless it's an exchange of political favors."
As of Friday, Gatto had not responded to a request for comment.
Lori Adams, head of the Burbank Teachers Assn., is just as mystified, saying: "Charters aren't an issue. Our schools are doing well, and none of the candidates have raised that issue. It's hard to understand what's going on."
The bulk of Prosperity's money comes from Indian casinos, and the biggest chunk of its largesse has gone to a federal super PAC called Citizens for Prosperity and Good Government.
It is presumably no coincidence that the super PAC backed Brad Sherman, Gatto's political mentor, over Howard Berman in a costly and bitter congressional campaign. What is less clear is why it helped fund three Republican candidates, including freshman Oroville Republican Rep. Doug LaMalfa, who is pro-gun, anti-abortion and anti-gay marriage.
Yet another federal super PAC with ties to Gatto is Californians for Integrity in Government, which paid for a controversial anti-Berman mailer last fall.
It was targeted to Republican voters using mugs of Rep. Maxine Waters (black), Rep. Barney Frank (gay) and Sen. Barbara Boxer (Jewish) with the overline "If you love these politicians, then vote for Howard Berman."
County Democratic Party leaders denounced it as "despicable" and "divisive;" Berman called it "offensive to women, minorities, the LGBT community and Valley voters."
It was a trifecta of offenses that the Jewish Journal tied to Sherman's former district director, none other than Mike Gatto, who worked for the congressman for five years.
Gatto's response in the article in an email from a staffer: "Mr. Gatto has no official relationship with the entity…"
The operative word is "official" — a pretty fine-line distinction when so many threads of this web of intrigue and money tie together.
Friedman and L.A. City Council candidate Jose Sigala say they don't know anything about the Prosperity super PAC or how they got contributions from it.
Weitzman insists Prosperity has nothing to do with Gatto or the anti-Talamantes campaign or StudentsFirst, that all they are trying to do is support good local Democratic candidates and help them move up the political ladder.
It's a beautiful system — for special interests and professional politicians. Nobody knows nothin'. Nobody is responsible for nothin'. And the people get nothin'.
RON KAYE can be reached at email@example.com. Share your thoughts and stories with him.
FOR THE RECORD: A column that ran on March 2 ("Ron Kaye: Wishing PACs would pack it in") contained several errors. Stacey Brenner is no longer Mike Gatto's political director; Mike Shimprock, a political consultant, is based in Pasadena, not Sacramento; and the Burbank Teachers Association endorsed Steve Ferguson and Armond Aghakhanian in the primary, not Larry Applebaum.


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Lead author Stephanie Spielmann, a post-doctoral researcher in the University of Toronto's Department of Psychology, said the research team surveyed several samples of North American adults, consisting of University of Toronto undergraduates and community members from Canada and the United States. The samples included a wide range of ages.
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"A couple of his friends came running by and told me he was stuck," said Yakim's stricken mother, Doris Chase. "When I got here, he [was] rolled up in the fence. He already looked dead."
Neighbors said Yakim and four other restless boys were at the Lott Avenue parking facility playing a challenge game.
Under the rules, the players would hitch a ride on the gate as it goes up, then they jump off. The jump gets more difficult as the gate rises. The last one to jump off wins .
Witnesses said Yakim hung on too long and appeared afraid to jump from the high height. The gate kept moving upward — until it stopped with Yakim's head got caught in the wedge opening 20 feet above the sidewalk and his feet dangled below.
"He got scared," said neighbor Sean Spencer, 32. "He was too high. He couldn't jump."
Spencer said the boy was dangling for nearly 20 minutes while the gate was still on, until firefighters were able to disable the mechanism, cut through the metal and get him down.
He was rushed to Brookdale Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
"My son yelled, 'Daddy, look at the boy. he's stuck!' " said Spencer, who lives across the street. "So I ran out. He was like rolled up at the top and he was shaking, like convulsing. He did that for 5 or 10 minutes and just stopped.
"We were yelling, 'Can you say something? Are you all right?' But he wasn't saying nothing, just shaking. Then he stopped all of a sudden. You could tell.
"So they brought the saws in and cut the cover off and then cut through the gate. The boy's arms were above his head, wrapped up in the fence. His neck was cocked to one side. No blood but no expression. He just looked lifeless hanging there."
Chase, surrounded by several of her other children, said she wondered why it took so long for rescuers to free her oldest son.
"The cops could have saved him," she said.
City councilman Charles Barron said the death underlined the need for recreational facilities in East New York.
He said the apartment complex should have provided a place for children to play.
"We have met with them on several occasions to talk about how the children don't have a decent place to play," Barron said.
"They told us they didn't want to be responsible for a recreation area. They are responsible for this death. We want these g-ddamn gates taken down now. if they don't take them down, we're going to pull them down."
A representative for the building's owner could not be reached for comment.


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NORTH DARTMOUTH, MA-The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's field hockey team is back in their usual position-hosting a first-round game in the Little East Conference tournament.
The third-seeded Corsairs will host a first round match for the third year in a row and fourth time in five years when they play sixth-seeded Worcester State at 6:30 Wednesday evening at Cressy Field.
UMass Dartmouth brings a 9-9 record into the match, while the Lancers are 10-7. The Corsairs defeated WSU on the road in their regular season match, 7-3.
"I'm happy for us to have a fresh start for what I consider to be a new season," said UMass Dartmouth Head Coach Nicole Castonguay. "It's a clean slate, and it's a place we've been before and a place where we are comfortable being. It comes down to talent and coaching, and I feel that we have what it takes to be a strong contender for the conference championship. We have to take it one game at a time, and take advantage of our opportunities."
The time between games is short, with the tournament champion having to win three times in five days, but Castonguay isn't concerned. "I feel that physically, we're ready for that, and mentally, it might be better for us," said Castonguay. "We don't need a lot of time between games; it's just a matter of tweaking w couple of things. It's going to take 11 players at a time on the field plus our depth to step up in order for us to be successful."
The winner of Wednesday's game plays the winner of the match between Western Connecticut State and Plymouth State Friday, with the higher-seeded team hosting. The championship will be held Sunday at the site of the highest remaining seed. The winner will earn the LEC's automatic berth in the NCAA Division III Championships.


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Sorry for the appalling picture. I simply don't understand my camera and it occasionally has a kind of spontaneous fit and if it agrees to take a picture at all, it's a bad one, despite the machine costing several hundred pounds (of someone else's money).
So last night I made this out of Jamie's 30-Minute Meals because I LOVE JAMIE OLIVER in the way only a trembling, slightly tearful frightened pregnant lady can. Every time I turn to my recordings on the V+ box there is just a long list of Jamie Oliver programmes. It's quite embarrassing when my husband's in the room because it's like he can see into my head and it's going: "Jamie Oliver Jamie Oliver Jamie Oliver Jamie Oliver." But I think my husband's got a weeny little crush on JO as well so that's okay.
This jerk chicken is very exciting, but I think there might be a small mistake in the sauce quantities. I only think, though, I'm probably wrong. But it specifies 6 tablespoons EACH of vinegar and rum, which makes the sauce quite wet, and it gets wetter on cooking, which I'm not sure can be right.
Feel free to make this as it stands, or to do what I would do if I were making this again, which would be to add only three tablespoons each of the vinegar and rum to make six tablespoons of wet stuff in total.
A little bird, okay it's my friend AC... who actually is quite little and a bird so very apt description... says that she thought this sauce was a bit wet, too - and something else Jamie did with plums was also wet. So, it's still a mystery, but at least IT'S NOT JUST ME.
[N.B - I made this again the other day with half-quantities of the wet stuff and it turned out much, much better - so do that, I'd say.]
The ingredients list below is exactly as it is in the book. The method is a bit different.
Jamie's jerk chicken
4 chicken breasts
4 spring onions
small bunch fresh thyme
3 fresh bay leaves
ground cloves
ground nutmeg
ground allspice
6 tbs rum (!) - I say use only 3
6 tbs cider/red wine vinegar (!) - ditto
1 tbs runny honey
1 Scotch bonnet chilli (I used 2 red chillies from Waitrose, one seeds in, one seeds out - worked v well)
4 cloves garlic
1 Turn your oven to 220C. Oil a griddle pan, or a normal pan if you haven't got a griddle, and get it roasting hot. Cut the chicken in two at the fattest part so it's still in one piece at the thinnest part but then divides like a sort of cloven hoof (does that make sense?). This helps it cook quicker.
Put the chicken skin-side down in the hot pan and then leave it alone for about 5-6 minutes. Don't poke it about because you want the skin to go crispy and a bit charred and you've got a better chance of that happening (this goes for steak, too) if you just let it get on with it.
2 Chop up the spring onions a bit and put in a whizzer with all the other sauce ingredients. If you haven't got the spices ground, as I didn't, smash about half a teaspoon of each in a pestle and mortar and grate in a big pinch of nutmeg. If using ground, take a big pinch of each spice.
3 Pour your whizzed jerk sauce into an oven dish. Then remove the chicken from the pan and place skin-side up in the pool of sauce. Drizzle over, if you like, an extra tablespoon of honey, more salt and pepper and sprigs of thyme and rosemary if you want it to look nice. Jamie's advice, which I always now follow (because it's love, after all) is that you should smush oil over herbs before scattering them on top of a dish like this so that they cook rather than frazz.
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The White House rolled out the red carpet for the Texas A&M women's basketball team this week–including personal congratulations from President Barack Obama in the White House Rose Garden.
The Aggies won their first women's basketball championship in April by defeating Notre Dame.
Obama, a huge college basketball fan, said winning a national title is a big deal for anyone, but it's an even bigger deal considering how far the team has come.
"Fifty years ago, Texas A&M didn't have any women — much less a women's basketball team," Obama said. "When they did finally put a team together, the story goes that players had to share uniforms. At one point, they had to use the men's locker room, which probably wasn't perfectly designed for your needs. Coach Blair here would be going door to door just to ask people to watch the games."
Coach Gary Blair presented Obama with a #12 Aggies jersey to honor the school's "Twelfth Man" and said he brought a #1 jersey for first lady Michelle Obama.
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Had some scrap red material in vinyl at work today. I had already redrawn the logo in adobe illustrator from SSH. Decided to cut just the red from the logo(excluding the drop shadow, the white edge, and so on) for my drawing kit. The overall size is about 6'' x 1.5''.
Just wanted to share. I may start doing some custom decals for a bunch of my stuff.
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This weekend offered one unconquerable truth to NFL teams with Lombardi dreams: run or die.
As our own Chris Wesseling pointed out Sunday night, power football carried the day for teams that advanced to next Sunday's conference title games. This trend did not escape Indianapolis Colts coach Chuck Pagano, who elaborated on the topic during his end-of-season news conference Monday.
"If you look at the games that were played this weekend, and you look at the amount of rushes, I think our game New England rushed 46 times," said Pagano, whose team was run over by the Patriots on Saturday night.
"So will we ever change? No," Pagano continued. "I don't think it's ever more prevalent -- the deeper you go, the farther you get in the playoffs. You have to be able to run the football and stop the run. And I think statistics alone from this past weekend are enough to continue to make me be a believer."
This is where Trent Richardson comes in. The running back was a non-factor since being acquired from the Cleveland Browns for a first-round draft pick in September. Pagano still believes Richardson can be a big part of Indy's future.
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"We all understand how he got here. He was thrown into the mix like that," Pagano said. "So now he has an opportunity to go through an offseason and be with us for a full year headed into 2014 campaign.
"He wants to be great," Pagano added. "He's got all the talent, he's got all the ability. We would never have done what we did if we didn't believe that. We look for him to have a great offseason and have a great 2014 campaign."
Pagano's hopes of having the power attack he craves is directly attached to Richardson's ability to resurrect a once-promising career. You have to wonder if the coach is as confident as he lets on.
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My "recuperation" or "recovery" has not been something I can talk about very easily, so when people ask how I'm doing, I've lapsed into a stock answer about being tired, and quickly change the subject. It's also why the blog has been spotty of late; god knows we all suffer from "trauma fatigue", and all I'm good for is wearing you out.
One of my doctors told me that you can't expect to feel anywhere near normal for three days times the number of days you were in the hospital. Mathematically, it looks like this:
3x = y, where x = number of days in hospital, and y = recuperative period
That puts me somewhere next week for the physical stuff, and indeed, I can make it up a flight of stairs without thinking about it anymore. But the emotional stuff is another matter, and it probably has less to do with the pneumonia than the mental state I brought into the hospital.
When I regained sanity after my Near-Death Experience, or whatever you want to call it, I remember sobbing uncontrollably while Tessa sat on the edge of the gurney. I told her many things, but among them was this:
I can't go home again. I can't go home to the same home.
I need to re-arrange our bedroom so that we're sleeping facing a different direction. I need my clothes to be in a different place.
I'm okay if you want to move. Ever. I'm okay with viciously rearranging our environment.
I can't be the same person I've always been. I can't make the same mistakes again, I can't fall into the same habits. All those self-definitions: "I'm a night person, I'm a person who blah blah blah", I want to throw them all away.
And there was such freedom in that, such a weight airlifted off my body, that I was allowed this chance to reinvent the things that had never worked, that I could scrape the bottom of my hull clean and glide unencumbered.
Yet the nature of physical recuperation demands your flesh be weak regardless of your mind's willingness. I'd find myself on the precipice of truly changing something meaningful, and then collapsing in exhaustion. Worst of all, I discovered that I'd never really left that place where I have spent all my life: believing deep-down that I was in trouble, that I had already forgotten something important, that I was not doing what I was supposed to do, and I was already late.
Tessa and I decided that I should take the summer off from work – our jobs allow a certain flexibility, and our script deadlines could be pushed another six weeks. Even if "not OFFICIALLY working" was an illusion (since I'm always thinking about it anyway), the illusion might help me relax.
But now it's the other things. It's the old sense of who I was before I glimpsed the underworld, the traits I've always hated, stuck to my window at night like bugs desperately trying to get in. I am still trying to figure this all out, as I start over.
Because something good has to come from this. It was too much fucking suffering, too torturesome an ordeal for me, Tessa, Lucy and the others who cared for me, to simply chalk it up to "one crazy spring". I was given a chance to wipe clean and rewrite sections of my life that weren't working, and if I don't do it, the only lesson I can take away from being that sick is "there is only to survive" – and that, my loved ones, is not remotely good enough.
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Top BlackBerry executives sold small blocks of the company's stock on the day that the smartphone maker warned of a huge quarterly operating loss and massive job cuts, according to Canadian regulatory filings.
The filings showed that Chief Executive Thorsten Heins and Chief Financial Officer Brian Bidulka sold about 51.1 percent of their batches of newly vested shares on September 20, netting C$121,107.68 ($117,600) and C$40,386.79 ($39,200), respectively.
There is no indication of any wrongdoing by the executives or the company.
The shares were sold automatically by the trustee of BlackBerry's restricted stock unit (RSU) plan to cover taxes owed by the two executives as a result of the vested RSUs, BlackBerry spokesman Adam Emery said by email.
RSUs are granted and then vest over three years on the anniversary date, said Emery, noting the details of the plan are disclosed in the management circular, available on BlackBerry's website.
In BlackBerry's fiscal 2013, that ended March 2, Heins received nearly $3 million in RSUs.
Filings on Canada's System for Electronic Disclosure by Insiders show that Heins and Bidulka have sold a similar percentage of BlackBerry shares around the same time over the last several quarters.
The executives sold a similar amount of stock at C$6.8517 a share on September 20 last year.
BlackBerry declined to make the executives available for comment.
Based on Friday's Toronto closing price of C$9.08 a share, the sale netted the two men a combined $22,325.31 more than they would have received had they sold after BlackBerry's warning at about 3:15 p.m. (1915 GMT) on Friday, September 20.
Trading in the shares was halted just before the announcement and resumed at about 3:27 p.m.
The company said it expected to report an operating loss of nearly $1 billion for the quarter to late August.
The filings showed that Heins sold 11,494 shares out of the 22,500 restricted stock units that vested on September 19 at C$10.5366 a share. Bidulka sold 3,833 shares of his 7,500 vested shares during the same period at the same price.
The shares fell almost 24 percent to C$8.25 after the warning on Friday, hitting their lowest level this year.
Both executives also sold 53.8 percent of 10,000 restricted stock units that vested on September 20 for C$8.51 a share on Monday, September 23, the same day the company announced it had agreed to go private in a $4.7 billion deal, led by its biggest shareholder. The shares closed at C$9.08 that day in Toronto.
Shares of BlackBerry finished at C$8.78 on Tuesday.
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Everyone's talking about Romney's "binder full of women" comment last night and it's clear that, once again, he lied. But I think it's worth taking a second look at it anyway:
ROMNEY: Thank you. And important topic, and one which I learned a great deal about, particularly as I was serving as governor of my state, because I had the chance to pull together a cabinet and all the applicants seemed to be men.
And I — and I went to my staff, and I said, "How come all the people for these jobs are — are all men." They said, "Well, these are the people that have the qualifications." And I said, "Well, gosh, can't we — can't we find some — some women that are also qualified?"
And — and so we — we took a concerted effort to go out and find women who had backgrounds that could be qualified to become members of our cabinet.
I went to a number of women's groups and said, "Can you help us find folks," and they brought us whole binders full of women.
I was proud of the fact that after I staffed my Cabinet and my senior staff, that the University of New York in Albany did a survey of all 50 states, and concluded that mine had more women in senior leadership positions than any other state in America.
Atrios make a very good point that I don't think I've heard from anyone else:
Jokes aside, the binders of women comment was basically the core of all of the mostly mythical affirmative action in this country. It's about recognizing that if you're a product of a good old white boy network, it's a good idea to make the effort to read those binders, to make the extra effort to look at qualified women and minorities.
This isn't a comment on what actually happened when Mitt was in office, just pointing out that if you embrace that story you embrace affirmative action, because aside from a teeny bit of minority business contracting and civil service hiring provisions, that's what affirmative action actually means in this country.
Romney made a great case for affirmative action, something his party adamantly opposes. But it's so common sense that he could say it in the debate and nobody even noticed. Not even Fox.


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Hannity's America, A Nation Of Right-Wing Smears
In a special edition of his Fox News show titled, Hannity's America: The Dirtiest Campaign Ever, that purportedly examined President Obama's reelection campaign, Sean Hannity reprised a succession of right-wing media smears against Obama, his administration, and progressives that ranged from tying them to the New Black Panthers to accusing them of class warfare.
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Fox Special, Hannity's America, Purportedly Exposed "Obama's Campaign Of Division And Class Warfare." On September 23, Fox News aired Hannity's America: The Dirtiest Campaign Ever, a Fox special that promised to expose "Obama's campaign of division and class warfare, and reveals the extreme bias of the mainstream media." [Fox News Insider, 9/21/12 [1]]
Hannity's America Stoked Fears Of Fox's New Black Panthers Bogeyman
Hannity's America Included New Black Panther Party In Examples Of Democrats' Purported "Racial Rhetoric." Hannity claimed the nation had "never seen racial rhetoric used to the extent that we have seen in recent years" and purported to showcase examples of such rhetoric by playing remarks by Vice President Joe Biden and Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, followed by comments from a New Black Panther Party (NBPP) spokeswoman. [Fox News, Hannity, 9/23/12 [2]]
SPLC: The NBPP Is A "Hate Group Based On The Anti-White, Anti-Gay And Anti-Semitic Views" Expressed By Its Leaders. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a civil rights group dedicated to fighting hate, has designated the New Black Panther Party a "hate group":
The New Black Panther Party (NBPP) -- which despite its name has no connection with the original Black Panther Party -- is a black separatist organization. The Southern Poverty Law Center identifies the NBPP as a hate group based on the anti-white, anti-gay and anti-Semitic views its leaders have repeatedly expressed. [Southern Poverty Law Center, 2009 [3]]
Original Black Panther Party Has Decried NBPP As "A Black Racist Hate Group" And A "Hateful And Unconstructive Group." According to the SPLC, members of the original Black Panther Party "have heavily criticized" the NBPP, decrying it as "a black racist hate group" and a "hateful and unconstructive group":
Members of the original Black Panther Party, which has no connection to the NBPP, have heavily criticized the New Black Panther Party. An open letter from the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation, which is run by members of the original Black Panther Party, decries the NBPP for being a hateful and unconstructive group. Bobby Seale, a famous founding member of the original Panthers, calls the organization "a black racist hate group." [Southern Poverty Law Center, accessed 9/24/12 [4]]
Fox, Hannity Have Repeatedly Tried To Link New Black Panthers To Obama, Democrats. Fox News, including Hannity, have relentlessly tried to link the New Black Panthers to the Democrats:
- Right-wing media accused the Obama administration of racially motivated decision-making in a civil case against the NBPP, with Fox devoting more than 95 segments and 8 hours to covering the manufactured scandal in a period of less than three weeks. [Media Matters, 9/10/12 [5]]
- Fox News has hosted the NBPP more than 50 times since 1998, providing a fringe hate group a national media platform. [Media Matters, 7/14/10 [6]]
- Hannity promised to "show a tape" of Obama "hanging out" with member of NBPP. On the October 3, 2011 edition of his Fox News show, Hannity promised to "show a tape" of Obama "hanging out during the campaign" with a member of the NBPP. [Fox News, Hannity, 10/3/11 [7]]
- Hannity falsely claimed "there's a picture" of Obama with the new Black Panthers. During a segment of his Fox News show devoted to attacking the Obama administration for its handling of the Trayvon Martin case, Hannity played clips of racist statements about the case that aired on New Black Panther Radio and falsely claimed "there's a picture" of Obama with the group in 2007. [Fox News, Hannity, 4/9/12 [8], via Media Matters]
- Fox Business host Lou Dobbs suggested NBPP is Obama's "Base." On the May 22 edition of Fox Business' Lou Dobbs Tonight, host Lou Dobbs suggested that the NBPP was Obama's "base." [Fox Business, Lou Dobbs Tonight, 5/22/12 [9], via Media Matters]
Hannity's America Adopted Fox Myth That Obama Has Engaged In Class Warfare
Hannity: "Class Warfare Is Now The President's Go-To Campaign Strategy" To Distract From The Economy. During his special, Hannity accused Obama of practicing "class warfare" in order to distract voters from the economy, claiming Obama is fostering an "us against them" and "haves versus the have-nots" mentality.
HANNITY: Now in this election, the message of unity is gone, and class warfare is now the president's go-to campaign strategy.
HANNITY: In order to distract from his dismal job numbers and a terrible economy, the president has turned his reelection into us against them, the haves versus the have-nots. [Fox News, Hannity's America, 9/23/12]
Hannity Responded To Facts About Mitt Romney's Tax Plan: "Class Warfare, Class Warfare." On the August 11 edition of Hannity, Fox host Bob Beckel said Obama "wants to raise taxes on a small percentage of the American people, just like Bill Clinton did, and we had eight years of the best economic expansion in history after we raised taxes on rich people," adding: "This tax thing that Romney is talking about benefits overwhelmingly rich people and it hurts the middle class." Hannity responded to these facts by saying, "Class warfare, class warfare." [Fox News, Hannity, 8/11/12 [10], via Media Matters]
Hannity: Obama's Press Conference Continued "His Favorite Theme, Which Is Class Warfare." On the July 11, 2011 edition of his Fox News show, Hannity said that Obama held a press conference that continued "his favorite theme, which is class warfare." [Fox News, Hannity, 7/11/11 [11], via Media Matters]
Hannity: "Tonight, Instead Of Embracing An Opportunity To Bring America Together, [Obama] Elected To Invoke Class Warfare." On the January 24 edition of his Fox News show, which aired immediately after the State of the Union address, Hannity said, "Tonight instead of embracing an opportunity to bring America together the president elected to invoke class warfare and further split an already deeply divided nation by focusing on partisan issues rather than pressing ones." [Fox News, Hannity, 1/24/12 [12], via Media Matters]
Hannity: "Sticking With Tradition, President Obama Resorted To Using Some Good Ole-Fashioned Class-Warfare Rhetoric." Hannity introduced a segment by claiming that "President Obama resorted to using some good ole-fashioned class-warfare rhetoric" in a recent speech. Later on the show, Fox Business host Stuart Varney stated, "I'm listening to [Obama's speech] very carefully, and it reminds me of a British socialist, frankly, from the 1940s, 1950s." [Fox News, Hannity, 12/6/11 [13], via Media Matters]
Hannity: Obama "Could Not Help But Resort To Using The Same Kind Of Class Warfare." During the September 12, 2011 edition of his Fox News show, Hannity said: "And, as usual, the president could not help but resort to using the same kind of class warfare and false choices that we've gotten used to over the past two-and-a-half years." [Fox News, Hannity, 9/12/11 [14], via Media Matters]
Fox Also Routinely Labels Obama Initiatives "Class Warfare." Fox has labeled many of Obama's policy initiatives to be "class warfare":
- Obama's Push For The Buffett Rule Is "Class Warfare." Fox responded with outrage after Obama renewed his case for the Buffett Rule, which would set a minimum effective tax rate for millionaires, accusing Obama of waging "class warfare." [Media Matters, 4/13/12 [15]]
- Obama's Debt-Reduction Plan: "Class Warfare." In response to Obama's deficit-reduction plan, which called for increasing taxes on the wealthy, Fox responded by accusing Obama of engaging in "class warfare." [Media Matters, 9/19/11 [16]]
- Obama's Jobs Bill: "Class Warfare." Following Obama's September 2011 speech outlining his jobs plan, Fox figures accused him of engaging "class warfare" and "soak[ing] the rich." [Media Matters,9/13/11 [14]]
- Obama's Plan To Eliminate Tax Breaks On Corporate Jets: "Class Warfare." In June 2011, Fox figures, including Lou Dobbs and Eric Bolling, responded to Obama's call to eliminate tax breaks on corporate jets by accusing Obama of "class warfare." [Media Matters, 6/30/11 [17]]
For more on Fox's "class warfare" rhetoric, click here [18]
Hannity's America Ignored Fox's Own History Of Inflammatory Rhetoric
Michelle Malkin Claimed Obama Operatives Use "Inflammatory Rhetoric" Against "Well-Meaning And Good-Faithed Political Opponents." The Hannity's America special included a clip of Fox News contributor Michelle Malkin decrying what she called the "inflammatory rhetoric" of Obama operatives, which she said they use against their "well-meaning and good-faithed political opponents." Hannity and Malkin however ignore Fox's history of inflammatory rhetoric.
MALKIN: When Obama asks are we better off than we were four years ago, we certainly are not. I think if you look at the inflammatory rhetoric that Obama's operatives have used against their well-meaning and good-faithed political opponents, things have gotten way worse. [Fox News, Hannity's America, 9/23/12]
Fox Personalities Have A Long History Of Inflammatory Rhetoric. Fox News' hosts and contributors have often resorted to inflammatory rhetoric in order to attack president Obama and Democrats:
- Malkin Accused Michelle Obama Of Being The "Bitter Half Of The Obama Administration." On Fox News' Hannity, Malkin said that Michelle Obama has "earned" the designation as "the bitter half of the Obama administration." [Fox News, Hannity, 5/30/12 [19]]
- Malkin Called Obama The "Thug In Chief." On the July 21, 2010 edition of Fox News' Hannity, Malkin called Obama the "thug in chief" and accused the administration of having the "boots on the necks of American small business owners." [Fox News, Hannity, 7/21/10 [20]]
- Fox's Bolling Compared Obama To A Drug Dealer Who Opens "Barry's Pot And Coke Emporium." On February 7, 2012, during a discussion of Obama's position on super PACs, Bolling compared Obama to a drug dealer, saying: "What if a guy spends the better part of two years saying he's against drugs, he hates drugs, drugs kill kids, drugs are bad for you. And then the next day he says you know what, I'm opening up Barry's pot and coke emporium." [Fox News, The Five, 2/7/12 [21] via Media Matters]
- Fox's O'Reilly Accused Liberals Who Supported Gun Control Of Being "Totalitarians" Like Hitler. On the March 2, 2010, edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly attacked a New York Times editorial by comparing proponents of gun control to dictators such as Hitler and Mussolini. [Fox News, The O'Reilly Factor, 3/2/10 [22], via Media Matters]
- Fox's Hannity On "Demoniz[ing]" Hillary Clinton: "That's My Job." On the August 25, 2008, edition of Fox News' Hannity, Hannity responded to Fox News contributor Juan Williams claim that he "demonized Hillary [Clinton]" by saying "That's my job. I led - I led the "Stop Hillary Express." By the way, now it's the "Stop Obama Express." [Media Matters, 8/26/08 [23]]
Hannity's America Whitewashed Vicious Right-Wing Attacks On Michelle Obama
Hannity: Michelle Obama Gets "The Royal Treatment" From The Press. Hannity complained that Mitt Romney's wife, Ann Romney, has received critical media coverage in the press, as opposed to Michelle Obama, who he said has gotten the "royal treatment":
HANNITY: How is First Lady Michelle Obama treated by the press? Well she gets the royal treatment. And the media flat out ignores her pricey attire. She wore sneakers that cost over five-hundred bucks to a food bank event. A two-thousand dollar sundress during a Hawaii vacation. And to top it all off, a six-thousand dollar jacket to an event at Buckingham palace. So where's the outrage there? [Fox News, Hannity's America, 9/23/12]
Conservative Media Have Spent The Past Four Years Smearing, Attacking, And Hurling Insults At Michelle Obama. Conservative media attacks have included criticizing her appearance and her clothes, her efforts to fight childhood obesity; claiming she is unpatriotic; and launching sexist and racially charged attacks against her, among other things:
- Hannity distorted a passage from Michelle Obama's 1985 Princeton senior thesis to claim she is unpatriotic.
- Appearing on Fox Business Network, conservative author and radio host Jason Mattera called Michelle Obama a "dietary dominatrix."
- Discussing President Obama's limousine on his radio show, Rush Limbaugh stated that the limousine "weighs eight tons without Michelle in it."
- Appearing as a guest on CNN contributor Dana Loesch's radio show, commentator Tony Katz said if President Obama actually "liked women he'd buy Michelle Obama better clothes. Why doesn't she wear anything that fits?"
- The right-wing media attacked Michelle Obama for wearing a red dress to a White House state dinner, suggesting she did so to honor "Commie Red China." [Media Matters, 9/4/12 [24]]
Hannity's America Pushed Distorted View Of Medicare
Hannity: "Medicare Plan That Paul Ryan Has Presented Would Not Apply To People Over The Age Of 55." Hannity accused Democrats of "twisting and distorting" the facts on vice presidential candidate Congressman Paul Ryan's Medicare plan, claiming that "the Medicare plan that Paul Ryan has presented would not apply to people over the age of 55":
HANNITY: These desperate Democrats are twisting and distorting the facts in order to terrify seniors into believing that the Romney-Ryan White House would eliminate Medicare as we know it.
However, the Medicare plan that Paul Ryan has presented would not apply to people over the age of 55, meaning that Medicare would stay exactly as it is for today's seniors, a fact that liberals fail to mention. [Fox News, Hannity's America, 9/23/12]
CBPP: Voucher Systems That Includes Medicare Option Could "Threaten Traditional Medicare's Long-Term Viability." In a report titled, "Converting Medicare to Premium Support Would Likely Lead to Two-Tier Health Care System," the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) explained that "inadequate risk adjustment" could lead to healthier seniors abandoning traditional Medicare for private plans, leaving only the less healthy in the program, which could "drive up its costs and threaten traditional Medicare's long-term viability." [Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 9/26/11 [25]]
CBPP: Ryan Budget Medicaid Block Grant "Would Cut Medicaid By One-Third By 2022." In a March 27 report, the CBPP explained that the block grants proposed in Ryan's budget would "cut federal Medicaid funding by 34 percent by 2022." The CBPP report concluded:
[T]here can be no question that the block grant proposal would result in severe cuts in federal funding for state Medicaid programs. To compensate for funding cuts of this magnitude, states would have little choice but to institute deep cuts to eligibility, benefit coverage and/or provider payment rates. The almost inevitable result would be that millions more low-income individuals and families would end up uninsured or underinsured, with reduced access to needed medical care. [Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 3/27/12 [26]]
Jonathan Cohn: "Ryan Really Believes In Ending Medicare As We Know It." Journalist Jonathan Cohn wrote that Ryan's plan would end Medicare in its current form by eliminating the program's guarantee of comprehensive medical benefits while raising the eligibility age and producing vouchers that will quickly prove inadequate to allow seniors to purchase the care they need:
The essential promise of Medicare, ever since its establishment in 1965, is that every senior citizen is entitled to a comprehensive set of medical benefits that will protect him or her from financial ruin. The government provides these benefits directly, through a public insurance program, although seniors have the right to enroll in comparable private plans if they choose. But the key is that guarantee of benefits, and it's what Ryan would take away. He would replace it with a voucher, whose value would rise at a pre-determined formula unlikely to keep up with actual medical expenses.
Ryan's early proposals had no safeguards to make sure the voucher was adequate. His most recent one has safeguards, a more reasonable spending line, and preserves the government-run plan as an option. But the safeguards are weak, at best, and the government-run program would struggle to survive. Over time, more and more seniors would find the voucher too small to buy the insurance they need. [The New Republic, 8/11/12 [27]]
For more analysis of Ryan's Medicare proposals, click here [28]
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Sarah Wulchak, described as Steve Bolin's on-again, off-again girlfriend, bit off half of Bolin's left ear, deputies said.
A Volusia County woman bit off half of her boyfriend's left ear during a fight at their home, deputies said.
Sarah E. Wulchak, 32, of DeLand, was arrested and charged with aggravated battery causing bodily harm/disability, an arrest report shows.
Deputies responded to 8 Satsuma Court near DeLand on Tuesday where they met with Steve Bolin. Bolin, 53, reported Wulchak had attacked him in his bedroom and bit off the top of his left ear Monday, a report shows.
Bolin said he waited overnight to report the incident because he was thinking about whether to press charges. Bolin said he decided to report Wulchak because "he couldn't stand how his ear looked," deputies said.
According to deputies, Bolin said he was eating a bowl of spaghetti at his home when an argument started.
Bolin said that when the argument turned physical, he went to his room. Wulchak entered his bedroom and started attacking him from behind. Wulchak jumped on his back and started hitting him. Bolin stated he felt a sharp pain in his left ear and tried to pull away, the report states.
Bolin said he may have hit Wulchak when he was pulling away but was unsure. Bolin walked away from the altercation and assessed his injuries. He noticed the top half of his ear was missing and had severe scratches on his face, deputies said.
Deputies saw the injuries on Bolin's face and that part of Bolin's ear was gone, the report said. He could not be reached Wednesday.
Wulchak was arrested at a local hotel where she had gone after the fight, deputies said.


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The Hope College Concert Series will host Ag Silver on Tuesday, April 1, at 8 p.m. at the Park Theatre.
Tickets are $5 for the general public and free with a Hope College ID, and are available at the ticket office in the main lobby of the DeVos Fieldhouse.
West Michigan-based Ag Silver consists of Jon Ornee, lead singer, piano and guitar; Chris McKellar, guitars; Craig Vanderwier, drums; and Aaron Cowan, bass.
After winning Michigan's largest Battle of the Bands competition in December 2003, Ag Silver spent most of the next two years working on its music. "We really felt like we were just beginning to scrape the tip of the iceberg with our songwriting," Ornee said. "Even though we were beginning to gain some regional attention from our live show, we decided to step back, trash most of our music and re-dream the whole thing."
The result was 2006's 13-track "Wake Up and Smell Reality." Most of the songs deal with common human themes of doubt, love and hope. "We really strive to make music that, in its nature, regardless of the lyrics, moves the listener," Ornee said.
Sampler CDs featuring four tracks from "Wake Up and Smell Reality" are available for free at the Student Union Desk in the college's DeWittCenter, as well as at Lemonjello's and The Full Circle.
The April 1 concert will be recorded for a DVD that Ag Silver is making to promote the group's "Clean Water for Africa Tour." The effort is being conducted in conjunction with "Blood: Water Mission," a non-profit organization founded by Jars of Clay to promote clean blood and clean water initiatives in sub-Saharan Africa.
The college's ticket office is open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and can be called at (616) 395-7890. Any remaining tickets will be sold at the door.
The DeWitt Center is located at 141 E. 12th St., facing Columbia Avenue at 12th Street. The DeVos Fieldhouse is located at 222 Fairbanks Ave., between Ninth and 11th streets. The Park Theatre is located on River Avenue between 10th and 11th streets.


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Ticket #2048: WBOD when changing shelf config
A lot of things about changing shelf config are still not ideal, but at least now it's less likely to crash.
Ticket #2049: SIGABRT when changing Language settings dialog from Advanced to Basic
Uninitialized variables are bad, mmk?
Ticket #2046: Wallpaper Module image bug
A bit of a confusing bug: why does the "Go up a directory" button exist? Joke's on the people who use it, you can't set jpg/gifs as your background anymore.
Ticket 2042: EFM – Set as Background
As suggested, "Set As Background" action now sets default wallpaper for all desks, not just current.
Ticket #2043: Emodule – Wallpaper
For whatever reason, the e_scrollframe widget has its own key grabs and does its own scrolling with arrow keys. Confusing as hell.
Ticket #2044: EFM goes to home upon focus.
Damn that toolbar and its constant stream of bugs!
Ticket #2051: Autohide -> Show on mouse click doesn't work
The only thing producing more bugs than the EFM toolbar is shelf autohiding. I'm fairly certain that it's the only thing which takes up more of my time than DND.
Ticket #1914: Enlightenment leaves lots of open fds for processes it starts
This is finally fixed for the 1.7 branch.
Other Improvements Today:
- Quickaccess "hide instead of raise" option works again
- Filemanager border icons are now present more frequently


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With its record-breaking number of merit scholars and outstanding SAT test scores, the Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD) does not seem terribly vulnerable to California's public education funding crisis.
But the numbers tell a different story. Enrollment is up, but local tax revenue is flat and state programs are again on the chopping block. As a result, the district's resources have fallen almost $1,000 per student. Superintendent Kevin Skelly has no easy options to shield Palo Alto schools from serious budget cuts.
Let's not be shortsighted about the need to support our local schools, which help support an economically viable Palo Alto. Here are a couple of ways we can minimize the impact of looming funding cuts facing PAUSD. Instead of imperiling core class sizes as the school district adds students while risking teachers, electives and programs, we can invest in our local kids. By donating to the local education foundation known as Partners in Education (PiE), giving up our senior parcel tax exemptions and supporting our children's education, we are making "living" gifts that are guaranteed to leave Palo Alto better than we found it. And that's as good a new year's resolution as we are ever going to make.
Schools are the biggest expense of any community and based on the grim news about school district revenues and state cuts unveiled at a recent school board meeting, PAUSD projects a large structural deficit this year and for the next five years, which will deplete its carefully-planned, unrestricted reserves of approximately $12 million in four years. Then the serious cuts of teaching jobs, programs, staff and the complete elimination of class-size reduction may begin as the district resets its priorities and makes very difficult choices.
Our city's demographics make clear that despite the foresight of thoughtful parents who created a public/private partnership to fund the schools through PiE, the parent population alone is too small to absorb the size and scope of the PAUSD's looming structural budget deficits solely through its donations. Local businesses, parents, seniors, retirees and young professionals need to work together to make up this lost funding. A recent article in the Weekly listed Palo Alto as California's most educated city, where nearly 80 percent of residents have bachelor's degrees and almost 50 percent have graduate degrees. It is not surprising, then, that the other California cities on the list also have the most active private education foundations supporting the public schools.
I grew up in Jonesboro, Ark., in the 1940s and '50s. Those who read John Grisham's novel A Painted House will recognize the time and place. I thought my 400-student high school was great until I reached my senior year and discovered that the school couldn't afford to offer Algebra II, which I needed for college, unless I could convince enough of my classmates to sign up. We came up one short and I learned firsthand what it's like to not be able to take the courses you have a passion for. In the flat, global economy of the 21st century, we can't afford to short-change our kids. We need to ensure they get the best education they can to compete and thrive, including a wide range of courses, languages and experiences. Their prosperity will generate more demand for goods and services and therefore more jobs and healthier communities, including Palo Alto.
My wife Eve and I settled here after I got my MBA from Stanford. We were fortunate to buy a home here in 1967, when prices were much lower and our three kids got a high quality public education for free. With our children grown and out of the area and retirement looming in 1998 our view widened. We thought we might want to leave Palo Alto and for the next two years devoted ourselves to finding a new place to call home. We explored other communities up and down the West Coast from Puget Sound to Santa Barbara. We even looked at towns in Eve's home state of Maine. Long story short, we decided to stay put. We couldn't find any place we liked better. In evaluating other communities we looked at weather and location, but also ambience and values, civic engagement and the degree to which people helped one another, especially the children.
One thing that has always stood out about Palo Alto is the enormous civic pride in our great schools. In spite of the fact that the city is named after an historic redwood tree, the schools are its real crown jewel. For that reason, it's not too late to avert a crisis in Palo Alto public education if the community, and particularly my generation, becomes part of the solution. Start by donating to PiE each year, which is set up exclusively to accept donations for schools to fund and help protect academic electives, technology, music, art, guidance and staff positions from budget cuts. In addition, seniors who can afford it can give up their school parcel tax exemption and pay the parcel tax like everyone else who owns property here. Palo Altans, especially seniors, recognize the boost in property values they get from investing in our schools, making our community such a desirable to live.
The "senior" exemption to the parcel tax that supports Palo Alto schools amounts to a $1.6 million annual gift to our seniors, who claim the exemption on 12 percent of the parcels in our city. The exemption was designed to alleviate the threat of senior poverty, and there are seniors living here struggling to buy food, medicine and necessities. They should keep their exemption. However, some seniors living here don't need it. They are sitting on significant wealth in their Proposition 13-protected homes while enjoying retirement in this wonderful city, but they claim the exemption because they can. My plea to seniors who don't need the exemption is to give this gift back to the children in our community.


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Accidents reported
K-15 north of U.S. 56
Cheryl Matthews, 67, 1501 Wreath Ave., Manhattan, over-corrected while driving south on K-15 and struck a culvert and fence to the right of the road at 10:20 a.m. Jan. 3. Matthews was taken to Hillsboro Community Hospital by Marion County EMS by 11:31 a.m. Matthews was driving a 1992 Chrysler passenger car registered to Roger Matthews, same address.
190th Road east of Oldmill Road
Jenae Koontz, 20, 304 S. Main St., Hillsboro, left the road for an unknown reason while driving west on 190th, struck a tree, and her vehicle overturned at 10:30 a.m. Dec. 28. Bentley Shafer, 11, months was a passenger in the vehicle. Koontz and Shafer were taken to HCH by Marion Ambulance. Koontz was driving her 2000 Pontiac passenger car.
U.S. 77 and 110th Road
Driving a Florence ambulance, Brian Clay, 62, 127 W. 7th St., Florence, struck Leslie Riggs, 19, who was partially parked in the southbound lane of U.S. 77 at 7:35 a.m. Dec. 23. Eric Clay, 41, 1023 Marion St., Florence, reported he stepped out of the vehicle to check Riggs when the ambulance pulled forward, trapping him between vehicles. He was taken to St. Luke Hospital by Marion County EMS by 8:53 a.m. Riggs was driving her 1997 Ford passenger car. The 2005 Ford ambulance is registered to Marion County.
900 block of 330th Road
Shelley Kaiser, 36, 408 Topeka St., Lincolnville, lost control of her vehicle on the icy roadway, east on 330th, and struck an embankment at 2:10 p.m. Dec. 31. No injuries were reported in the accident. Kaiser was driving her 2008 Honda sport utility vehicle.
Quail Creek Road north of 290th Road
April Bell, 29, 210 E. 4th St., Ramona, lost control of her vehicle and slid into the southbound ditch of Quail Creek Road at 12:48 p.m. Dec. 31. Stephen Biller, 28, 210 E. 4th St., Ramona, was a passenger in the vehicle. No injuries were reported in the accident. Bell was driving her 2003 Chevrolet passenger car.
Milepost 302 of U.S. 56
Dennis Hamm, 49, 604 S. Washington St., Hillsboro, struck a deer while driving east on U.S. 56 at 5:25 p.m. Dec. 30. Hamm was driving his 2008 Dodge passenger car.
U.S. 50 east of Old Mill Road
Cecelia Schmidt-McLeod, 51, 256 N. Shefford St., Wichita, struck Lloyd Ballou, 64, 1920 Commanche Court, Junction City, driving west on U.S. 50 after falling asleep at the wheel at 11 p.m. Dec. 29. No injuries were reported in the accident. Schmidt-McLeod was driving her 2006 Honda sport utility vehicle. Ballou was driving a 2007 tractor-trailer registered to Titus transport, 1635 W. First St., Granite City, Ill.
Nighthawk Road north of 160th Road
Ashley Shaft, 18, struck a culvert after leaving Nighthawk Road for an unknown reason at 3:30 p.m. Dec. 28. The car then caught on fire from the impact. Shaft was transported to St. Luke by Marion ambulance. Shaft was driving her 2000 Chevrolet passenger car.
U.S. 56 west of Remington Road
Robert Hamilton, 46, 1311 Avenue E., Dodge City, struck a deer while driving east on U.S. 56 at 11 p.m. Dec. 28. Hamilston was driving a 2012 Volvo truck and trailer registered to Decker Truck Line, 4000 5th Ave., Fort Dodge, Iowa.
U.S. 50 and Mustang Road
Brandon Marple, 23, 407 Maple St., Peabody, struck Kenneth Koslowsky, 65, 114 S. Adams St., Hillsboro, at 6:45 p.m. Dec. 31. Koslowsky was making a left turn onto Mustang when Marple struck the rear end of his vehicle. No injuries were reported as a result of the accident. Marple was driving his 1999 Dodge passenger car. Koslowsky was driving his 1999 Chevrolet passenger car.
1200 block of Indigo Road
Jeffrey Liebegott, 34, 415 S. Ash St., Hillsboro, lost control of his vehicle driving north on an icy Indigo Road and struck a tree, fence, and culvert at 1:30 a.m. Dec. 20. Liebegott was driving his 1996 Pontiac passenger car. No injuries were reported as a result of the accident.
Milepost 306 of U.S. 50
Paulino Torres, 32, 3012 S. 10th St., Kansas City, struck a deer driving west on U.S. 50 at 12:30 a.m. Dec. 23. Torres was driving his 2004 Chevrolet passenger car.
Last modified Jan. 10, 2013


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