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Exotic animal found after Mequon police respond to reports of 'unusual cat'
Mequon police who responded to reports of an "unusual looking cat" in the 11000 block of North Kensington Drive last week discovered the creature was actually a serval, classified as an exotic animal, purchased in Kentucky.
According to the police report:
The serval, about 2 feet tall and looking somewhat like a cheetah, was owned by residents of the 10600 block of North Wauwatosa Road.
Those residents, a 42-year-old man and a 57-year-old woman, had both been cited for animal at large in the last few weeks after neighbors reported seeing the animal running around and being concerned for the safety of children and pets.
The serval was later found dead after being hit by a truck July 25.» Read Full Article
Mequon residents support residential development, oppose big name retailers
Mequon — A recent city-wide survey found that residents generally support residential development and oppose big-name retailers like Target, Home Depot and Kohl's coming into the city.
Almost 4,000 residents filled out surveys since mid-April, a 45 percent response rate among almost 8,700 Mequon households — an exceptional turnout, said survey facilitators from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Center for Urban Initiatives and Research. UWM researchers presented the findings of the survey to the Common Council last week.
In the wake of recent elections centering around the crucial question of if and how much development should occur in the city, the Common Council commissioned the survey to both poll residents and guide upcoming decisions when it comes to development issues throughout the city.
"It gives us a reference," Mayor Dan Abendroth said. "We agreed that as we proceed with the development initiatives, that we would use the results of the survey as one of the tools as we go forward."
Residential development favored» Read Full Article
Developer pitching luxury downtown Thiensville apartments
Thiensville — Minnesota-based developer MSP Real Estate is pitching a 60-unit luxury apartment complex at the former M&I Bank site at Green Bay Road and Riverview Drive.
The developer held an informal informational hearing July 24, and will bring plans before a joint meeting of the Historical Preservation Committee, Plan Commission and Village Board Aug. 6 for the first round of consideration by village officials.
In an email, Village President Van Mobley said village officials will "shoot to give (MSP) a yes or no on the plan they presented, or mutually agree on some modified plan, by the time construction season will begin in earnest in 2014."
In order to accommodate MSP's plan, the village would have to rezone the property, which is currently zoned commercial.
MSP has completed a number of projects in the Milwakee area in recent years, including an assisted living facility in Elm Grove and the controversial lower-income housing which, when contested by New Berlin city officials, landed the city in court over an alleged violation of federal fair housing laws. The 2011 lawsuit between New Berlin, MSP, and the federal Department of Justice eventually compelled New Berlin to allow the construction of 102 affordable units.» Read Full Article
Mequon police nab alleged thief selling $3,500 Porsche on Craigslist
Craigslist deal gone bad after the man fled from officers while trying to sell a Porsche Cayenne he allegedly stole from a Greenfield auto dealer.Mequon police arrested a 24-year-old Milwaukee man in a
According to the Mequon police report:
The Milwaukee man was arrested about 2 p.m. July 22 in the 11500 block of North Port Washington Road and charged with driving a motor vehicle without the owner's consent, driving without a valid license, unauthorized registration, five counts of recklessly endangering safety, possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia, bail jumping and a warrant.
The man, out on bail for theft, had taken a 2006 Porsche Cayenne, valued at more than $22,000, from a Greenfield auto dealer and advertised it for sale on Craigslist for $3,500.
The ad was answered and a meeting was set up to purchase it in Mequon. The suspect arrived in the Porsche and when he saw a police drove into and accelerated through a car wash damaging equipment and then hit a squad car.» Read Full Article
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Milwaukee man charged in Shorewood man's murder
Shorewood — Homer D. Washington, a 21-year-old Milwaukee man, has confessed to and been charged with the murder of Clarence W. Charles, who was found dead in his Shorewood apartment July 16.
The murder is the first in Shorewood in 20 years.
Washington is also charged with stealing Charles' 2002 Chevrolet Blazer. The theft charge carries a maximum fine of $10,000, six-year sentence, or both.
The first degree murder charge carries a life sentence.
According to a criminal complaint filed by the District Attorney's office Friday afternoon:» Read Full Article
Shorewood murder suspect in custody
Shorewood — Police have arrested a suspect in the murder of 57-year-old Clarence W. Charles, who was found dead in his Shorewood apartment July 16.
A Shorewood police officer said the department will refer charges to the District Attorney Friday afternoon. The murder is Shorewood's first in 20 years.
Shorewood police are asking for help locating Charles' car, which they say the suspect stole. The vehicle is described as a silver, two-door, 2002 Chevrolet Blazer Sport Utility Vehicle, with the license plate 109-UWE.
Police are requesting that anyone who sights the vehicle not approach it or contact the driver, but rather contact the Shorewood Police Department immediately at (414) 847-2610.
Suspect in custody in Shorewood homicide
A suspect has been taken into custody in connection with the death of a man in Shorewood, police said Thursday.
The body of Clarence W. Charles, 57, was found Tuesday evening in an apartment at 4460 N. Oakland Ave., and his death was ruled a homicide the next day. Charles had been reported missing.
Shorewood police have have released no further information on the case, including how Charles died.
Brown Deer schools to examine dress code throughout fall semester
Brown Deer — The decision to institute a stepped-up dress code at the least, and school uniforms at the most, will be put off until after the coming fall semester.
At the behest of Superintendent Deb Kerr, the School Board in recent meetings has considered district-wide school uniforms, an idea which has been met with mixed feedback from the board and district residents.
At a Tuesday meeting, the board considered a dress code policy with a list of suggested outfits which, while not a school uniform policy, was too close for comfort.
Though board members agreed among themselves to strike the suggested outfits from the policy altogether, and thereby remove any semblance of a uniform requirement, they later decided to put the whole policy on the backburner until the district can poll students and parents throughout the fall semester and administrators can come up with a way to enforce the current dress code.
"Last month we said we were going to have conversations with all the stakeholders, and we didn't," said board member Kevin Klimek. "I'm hesitant of even talking about this until we have the conversation."» Read Full Article
Brown Deer principal to lead Messmer Catholic Schools
The principal of Brown Deer High School, James Piatt, will become the new leader of Messmer Catholic Schools and its more than 1,600 students, the urban Catholic school system announced Wednesday.
As president of Messmer, Piatt will replace popular former CEO Brother Bob Smith, who resigned in November 2012 after growing the Catholic high school into a K-8 program and secondary school on three campuses. Messmer participates in the Milwaukee private school voucher program, and of the 1,645 students enrolled at the three campuses in fall 2012, 83% were attending with the help of a taxpayer-funded voucher.
Piatt worked at Messmer in the 1990s as a math and computer teacher and girls basketball coach. He was an associate principal at Franklin High School and then principal of Dominican High School before joining Brown Deer High School as principal in 2004, according to a news release.
The release said Messmer's search committee liked Piatt's experience working in urban education. Brown Deer has a large black population, and the committee noted Piatt's "aggressive literacy program" had helped to boost achievement for black students in the district.
Messmer reports a 95% attendance rate at all of its schools, and reports that 85% of graduates go to college, according to a news release.» Read Full Article
Columbia St. Mary's sells Glendale building
Columbia St. Mary's Inc. has sold a Glendale medical office building to a Milwaukee investors group for $1.75 million, according to state real estate records.
The 70,758-square-foot building, 575 W. River Woods Parkway, was sold to a 575 Riverwoods Partners LLC. That group is affiliated with Phoenix Investors LLC, led by David Marks and Frank P. Crivello.
The building, known as Glendale Medical Commons, is in a business park east of N. Port Washington Road and south of W. Hampton Ave. The sale was brokered by C.B. Richard Ellis Inc.
Smalley accepted into prestigious superintendents group
Glendale — Larry Smalley is off to do some learning of his own.
Smalley, superintendent of the Glendale-River Hills School District for the last 10 years, was recently accepted into an exclusive, invite-only organization called the Suburban School Superintendents. The 100-member group, consisting of superintendents curated from distinguished districts across the nation, meets once each year to discuss the state of education, to share ideas and the decisions that have made their districts successful.
"It's a sharing opportunity, a think tank, where we can talk," Smalley said, "and then go back and try different things."
Representing Wisconsin at the SSS are Sussex Hamilton Superintendent Kathleen Cooke, Pewaukee School District Superintendent JoAnn Sternke, the 2013 Wisconsin Superintendent of the Year according to the Wisconsin Association of School District Administrators, and retired Whitefish Bay Superintendent Jim Rickabaugh, who was once Smalley's mentor. Cooke and Sternke were the ones who nominated Smalley for induction into the group.
District's come a long way» Read Full Article
Mequon voters to decide between Holtz, Strzelczyk
Mequon — An upcoming Sept. 10 special election will decide what the Common Council could not, whether Rob Holtz or Robert Strzelczyk will fill the vacant District 1 council seat.
The seat has been vacant since April, when longtime District 1 alderman Dan Abendroth unseated incumbent Mayor Curt Gielow in a neck-and-neck contest, at the same time beating Strzelczyk for the District 1 spot. Abendroth chose the mayoral post and created the vacancy.
Since then the council has failed on numerous votes — almost resorting to a coin flip at one point — to appoint either Holtz or Strzelczyk by the required five-vote majority. Each vote has produced the same 4-3 gridlock, with aldermen Ken Zganjar, John Leszczynski, John Hawkins and Andrew Nerbun voting for Strzelczyk, and aldermen Pam Adams, Dale Mayr, and Mark Seider voting for Holtz.
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Mequon-Thiensville passes increased budget, levy
Mequon — On a 61-3 vote, residents of the Mequon-Thiensville School District approved an increased budget and tax levy for the coming 2013-14 school year at the district's annual meeting Monday.
The district's total budget will increase by 3.2 percent, while the total local tax levy will increase by 1 percent.
Extrapolating the recent trend of decreasing home values to include another 3 percent decrease, business director Gail Grieger estimates the district tax rate to increase 60 cents from last year to $9.28 per $1,000 of assessed property value, a 6.9 percent increase. Should property values remain flat, Grieger estimates the tax rate to increase to $9 per $1,000 of assessed value, a 3.6 percent increase.
For someone with a $300,000 home, a 6.9 percent increase would mean an extra $180 on the district tax bill compared to last year, while a 3.6 percent increase would mean an extra $96.
Driving the increased budget are several strategic plan items the School Board has approved in recent months, including a human resources director, communications director, expansion of advanced placement classes at Homestead and increased staff training on data collection.» Read Full Article
Outpost breaks ground on new Mequon store
Outpost Natural Foods Cooperative officially breaks ground Tuesday for its new Mequon store, at the northeast corner of Mequon and Wauwatosa roads.
The $6.3 million project, which includes $3.2 million in development costs, is expected to be completed by late spring 2014. The 16,000-square-foot store will create around 80 full- and part-time jobs, and will be the fourth grocery store for Milwaukee-based Outpost.
Mequon is providing $229,241 in assistance for the development. That cash will be provided through the city's tax incremental financing district along Mequon Road between Wauwatosa Road and the Milwaukee River. A portion of Outpost's annual property tax bill will be rebated to the cooperative over four years.
Neroli Salon and Spa opening new location in Mequon
Neroli Salon and Spa will open its fifth Milwaukee-area location this fall in Mequon, the company has announced.
The 4,000-square-foot salon and spa will be in the Mequon Pavilions shopping center, 10930 N. Port Washington Road, just southwest of Sendik's Food Market.
Neroli was founded in 1993 by Susan Haise in Milwaukee's Historic Third Ward. It has over 200 employees, with locations in the Third Ward, Milwaukee's east side, Glendale and Brookfield.
Shorewood police investigating first murder in 20 years
Shorewood police are investigating the murder of 57-year-old Clarence W. Charles, who was found dead in his Oakland Avenue apartment Tuesday evening.
Charles had been reported missing, prompting police to check his apartment, according to a Shorewood police news release.
The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office conducted an autopsy and ruled the death a homicide, the first to happen in Shorewood in 20 years.
Shorewood police have requested assistance from the Wisconsin Crime Lab and the Wisconsin Department of Justice's Division of Criminal Investigations.
"We are currently investigating the incident and several possible leads in the case," Shorewood police said in the release. "We do not believe that this was a random act and do not believe that the residents of Shorewood are in danger."» Read Full Article
River Hills creates ordinance to handle chronic nuisance properties
The River Hills Police Department will now have enforcement authority over residents whose properties are deemed a chronic nuisance, village officials decided Wednesday.
Village Attorney William Dineen said though there are few issues with properties in the village, the chief of police asked him to draft an ordinance that gives the police department the authority to deal with premises that have recurring issues. Dineen drafted a similar ordinance for Shorewood.
According to the ordinance, any property that generates three or more citations by the police department, building inspector or health department for "nuisance activities" in one year authorizes the chief of police to take action. The chief of police can then issue a notice requiring the property owner to come up with a plan to curb the problems.
If they do not comply with the "nuisance abatement plan," the property owner can be issued a citation, according to the ordinance. The citation amount is based on an assessment that determines how much it cost the village to continuously visit the property.
There are 18 items listed in the ordinance that would be considered "nuisance activity." This includes an act of harassment, disorderly conduct, battery, lewd behavior, violation of village codes, and alcohol violations.
Whitefish Bay commissions study on teacher compensation
Whitefish Bay — Administrators and elected officials of the Whitefish Bay School District are looking for a new way to compensate teachers.
Last week the School Board commissioned a study on teacher compensation to address the problems and concerns resulting from Act 10, which in 2011 took away the union's ability to bargain over anything more than a relatively small pay increase.
In the last four years, Bay teachers had their salaries frozen before receiving a 1.25 percent pay increase in the 2011-12 year and 1.35 percent in the 2012-13 year, while the administration also reduced benefits.
"(The study) stems from our experience last year, from bargaining, from staff coming in worried about salaries," said Business Manager Shawn Yde, adding that any new compensation model would have to strike a balance between "attracting and retaining quality staff while having cost-effective education."
Board can increase pay» Read Full Article
Shorewood officials eye plans for senior living facility
Shorewood — The Shorewood Plan Commission on Tuesday had its first glimpse of a proposed senior living facility on the former Pig N' Whistle and Sherburn Place Apartments sites on Capitol Drive at the village's western edge.
Florida-based senior living firm Harbor Retirement Associates presented a preliminary site plan for a combined 96-unit assisted living and memory-care facility in Shorewood's third tax incremental financing district.
This was the first of three meetings at which the Plan Commission will discuss the project. At the third meeting, the Plan Commission will vote on it. Because the site lies in a planned development district, both the Plan Commission and the Village Board have to give the project a green light by approving a conditional use permit and crafting a development agreement with HRA.
Village Manager Chris Swartz said they hope to complete this process by August or September. Before that can happen, however, additional questions that came up at the first Plan Commission meeting need to be answered and details hammered out.
If all goes well, the senior living facility could be constructed as early as mid-2015, said Charles Jennings, HRA's chief development officer.» Read Full Article
Lack of liquor could threaten Brown Deer Walmart
Brown Deer — Stunning village officials, Wal-Mart representatives and community members in attendance, the Village Board voted 4-3 Monday to deny liquor sales at the incoming Walmart Supercenter at the former Lowe's site at Brown Deer Road and 60th Street.
"No" votes came from trustees Andrea Weddle-Henning, a vocal opponent of the Walmart project, Tim Schilz, who voted against liquor at the Plan Commission last week, Terry Boschert and Bob Oates. Trustees Jeff Baker, Gary Springman, and Village President Carl Krueger voted for a one-aisle liquor section in the store.
Unknown at this point is whether the liquor prohibition will kill the entire project. Already Wal-Mart has made a number of concessions to conform to Brown Deer standards.
A Wal-Mart spokesperson did not respond to requests for comment Tuesday morning.
"We're very focused on being succcessful for the long term," Deborah Tomczyk, an attorney representing Wal-Mart, said at the meeting Monday. "We think having a minor liquor store component is critical to that."» Read Full Article
West Bend West edges Nicolet for WIAA state baseball berth
The Nicolet baseball team pulled all out all the stops on Monday in the WIAA sectional at Cedarburg.
Team ace Hunter Crass won his third game in less than week pitching on just two days rest in the 5-3 sectional semifinal victory over West Bend East, after just two days prior to that, doing the very same thing in a regional final victory over Cedarburg.
"Man, that's hard on the body," he said after putting ice on his shoulder. "That's a lot of pitching and a lot of pitches."
The Knights also had three generations of coaches on hand Dick Huxtable, Dick Sykes and current leader Jason Grodsky. Former CNI NOW Player of the Year Sam Sivilotti, who was the star of the last Knight team to maker state in 2006, was around too for awhile.
Nicolet also had guts, heart and character rallying back from deficits in both games. They had some astounding defense at times too (rightfielder Zach Pagel throwing out a runner trying to take third on a single in the East win and first baseman Brett Keiper and catcher Kyle Brahm combining to make a great play to snuff out a West Bend West squeeze play attempt in the title game).» Read Full Article
Kennel owner takes gamble on dog business
Glendale — Downsized and downtrodden, Susan Taylor was in life's doghouse.
Decades ago, she had been in the prosperous business of supplying ingredients to Milwaukee's brewers. As that business began to taper off in the 80s and 90s, Taylor was one of many shown the door when her employer was snapped up by a larger company.
Suddenly outside an industry for which she had cultivated a particular skill set, Taylor went on a 15-year "journey to find out what to do with my life" — a long and difficult journey that cost her a marriage. As time wore on, she bounced between trades, at times working as a micro-lender, recruiter and eventually a fast food worker and a maid.
"I ended up going down the food chain as the years went along," Taylor said. "I did whatever it took to pay the bills."
New opportunity» Read Full Article
Falls' six-run first leads to 9-3 regional win over Brown Deer
An early lead in baseball is everything, and getting a big early advantage in a state playoff game is almost worth the price of gold.
The Menomonee Falls baseball team pounced on Brown Deer starter Drew Worth's four consecutive walks to start the game Wednesday night in a WIAA regional semifinal contest and parlayed that advantage into a six-run first inning, never looking back in earning a 9-3 victory.
"You hate to see that, especially for the kid," said Falls coach Pat Hansen, "but that being said, we needed an inning like that to gain some confidence. ..Scoring runs like that early is the best thing we can do for ourselves."
Falcon coach Mike Donahue, who had to pull his senior ace after the four free passes, was flummoxed at the turn of events.
"That is so very unlike him," said Donahue of Worth, "because at times this year he has been dominating. He just couldn't find it (the plate)."» Read Full Article
NSFD surveying ways to reduce liability
Administrators and board members at the North Shore Fire Department are considering ways to reduce the department's looming retirement liability.
A recent study by actuarial firm Milliman Incorporated projects the department will pay about $44 million in benefits to retirees over the next 30 years, $30.4 million of which is presently unfunded.
That sum, said Fire Chief Robert Whitaker, is in part the legacy of labor agreements struck before the department consolidated in the mid-1990s, as well as more recent agreements. NSFD's post employment benefit, paid to firefighters who are allowed to retire at 50 at the earliest, comprises a health insurance benefit that lasts until Medicare eligibility and payouts for accrued unused sick leave.
"Benefits go back to the start of the organization," Whitaker said at a board of directors meetings Tuesday. "It's a blend of how the benefit was administered."
At present the department spends about $900,000 on retirement benefits, about $400,000 of which is an amount the board decided last year to begin putting away to fund the benefit in the long term. Though the $400,000 does help to mitigate periods where more retirees are drawing benefits, Whitaker said, it's a far cry from the nearly $3 million Milliman estimates the department would need to sock away every year to fully fund the $30.4 million.» Read Full Article
Nicolet starts fast, ends Bay's season with regional rout
"If you had to win only one (against Bay), it was good to win this one."
That happy shout from the Nicolet side of the throng in place at Aaron Field Tuesday night told the tale of a remarkably one-sided WIAA regional semifinal baseball battle, as Nicolet stunned its higher-seeded North Shore archrival Whitefish Bay with a fast start and never looked back in a 14-2 six-inning rout.
The Blue Dukes, who had beaten the Knights twice already this season (12-0 and 7-6), were no match for the inspired Nicolet team, which improved 14-15 and advanced to a Friday regional final at second-seeded Cedarburg (5:30 p.m.) while Bay's up-and-down season ended at 16-15
Nicolet coach Jason Grodsky pointed to sophomore second baseman Alex Braun's bullet double to the left-centerfield fence with the bases-loaded in the first. It gave the Knights a 3-0 lead and they never trailed after that.
"We talked about having a fast start," said Grodsky, "about attacking the strike zone. This was just a night where we put in place and executed everything we've been trying all season. It all came together."» Read Full Article
State aid estimates vary for 2013-14 school year
Recent estimates from the state Department of Public Instruction show state aid figures varying among North Shore districts.
Brown Deer School District Finance Director Emily Koczela said Brown Deer's estimated 10 percent increase in general state aid is an unexpected windfall.
Aid estimates for other North Shore districts range from Nicolet's decrease of 10.6 percent — the biggest drop among North Shore districts — to Glendale River Hill's North Shore-leading 19.77 percent increase.
The general aid numbers are in-part products of the 2013-15 biennial budget recently signed into law by Gov. Scott Walker. Precise state aid amounts aren't approved by the DPI until October.
Brown Deer holding to village standards on 'North Shore Walmart'
Brown Deer — Plan Commissioners on Monday continued to tighten regulations on the incoming Walmart Supercenter at the former Lowe's location at 60th Street and Brown Deer Road, saying the retailer needs to hold to Brown Deer's standards if it wants to play nice with neighbors and attract the sought after "North Shore customer."
Notable conditions added to the Walmart development agreement by the Plan Commission, which the Village Board will consider next week, include rolling back Walmart's standard 24-hour availability to match the village ordinance of 6 a.m. to 11 p.m.; a complete prohibition on gun, weaponry and ammunition sales; requirements for additional parking lot landscaping work, a new pedestrian way connecting the store to Brown Deer Road, twice-yearly cleanings of nearby Beaver Creek, and permanent cart corrals; and a sound-retaining wall spanning the entire length of the north side of the building.
After some debate between residents, commissioners and Walmart representatives, the commission on a 5-2 vote approved a conditional use permit for a one-aisle liquor section. The liquor store permit, as well as approved permits for a garden center and grocery store, will also come before the Village Board next week.
Since the Village Board has already approved the financial agreements that compel Lowe's to pay off a good share of the village's $2.4 million investment in the site, and locks in a minimum property value for Walmart to pay taxes on, the remaining work and agreements beyond what was approved Monday will mostly consist of details, said Planning and Zoning Director Nate Piotrowski.
Marketing to the North Shore» Read Full Article
Police investigating armed robberies near North Maryland Avenue in Shorewood
Shorewood and Milwaukee police are investigating a pair of armed robberies that occurred on North Maryland Avenue this month.
According to the Shorewood police report:
An armed robbery was reported in the 3500 block of North Maryland Avenue about 11:45 p.m. July 1.
The victim said two males, each holding a gun, approached him and took his cellphone valued at $450 and his wallet with $70 cash.
The case is under investigation and no description of the robbers was available.» Read Full Article
Barber Nicólo Randazzo made Shorewood and Sicily his home
Nicólo Randazzo left his Sicilian town after the end of World War II and headed for Venezuela.
He'd been a barber since age 16 — he'd finished the eighth grade and chose a trade because that's what you did then, his son Tony said. Randazzo went to Venezuela for a while because he wanted to be just a little different from his brothers, who had set off for Brazil.
"He didn't want to copy them, at least that's the story," Tony Randazzo said of his father, a longtime barber in Shorewood. He died July 4 of natural causes at a Milwaukee-area hospital. He was 84.
Randazzo worked as a barber in Venezuela for a while, then headed to Milwaukee — drawn here because he had family nearby, in Springfield, Ill.
He worked at barber shops, including one run by a barber who would become his father-in-law, before opening his own place, Lakeview Barber Shop on E. Capitol Drive in Shorewood.» Read Full Article
Shorewood principal to join Mequon-Thiensville administration
Shorewood High School Principal Matt Joynt will become the new assistant superintendent of educational services in the
Joynt will leave the Shorewood
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Milwaukeeans Chill on the Hill with social media
Music filled Humboldt Park once again in Bay View's latest Chill on the Hill concert, even if it was a little chilly for summer.
But photos, videos and tweets filled the social media sphere as musicgoers shared their experiences. Read our social media story of last night's Chill on the Hill, which featured American Legion Band.
Germantown baseball team closer to NSC title after 6-5 rally over Bay
When a conference title is on the line, style points, lovely plays and awe-inspiring effort sometimes don't mean a darn thing.
Sometimes, as in the case with the Germantown baseball team and its quest for a second straight North Shore Conference crown and the the less than striking 6-5 victory it pulled out over visiting Whitefish Bay Tuesday night, ugly is good too.
Because in the fifth inning, the Warhawks did everything they could to throw away this game, but eventually they rallied to win, when Ben Eggert scored on a wild pitch in the bottom of the seventh.
"I have so much respect for Coach (Jay) Wojcinski (of Bay)" said Germantown coach Jeff Wolf. "You just hate to win that way, but given the circumstances, we'll certainly take it."
With the win, the Warhawks' magic number at clinching a share of its second straight NSC title drops to one. They are 12-3 in league play and are two games up in the loss column over Cedarburg (12-5) which broke a tie for second in the league when it pulled out a 7-6 victory over Homestead.» Read Full Article
Eisenhower's Katie Lang named NOW All-Suburban Softball Player of the Year
New Berlin Eisenhower's Katie Lang led the Lions to a 16-4 mark this season while striking out 147 batters in 95 innings, hurling a pair of no-hitters and knocking in 19 runs from her spot in the middle of the order.
Those accomplishments led to a selection as the NOW All-Suburban Softball Player of the Year, as voted by the NOW Newspapers sports staff.
She is joined on the team by Menomonee Falls coach Nick Heiting, the All-Suburban Softball Coach of the Year. He led the Indians to a 19-5 mark after taking the team over on an interim basis.
You can see the rest of the team and more at the NOW 2013 All-Suburban Softball Team page.
Whitefish Bay Village Board strikes down costly sewer lateral lining project
Whitefish Bay — The people spoke, and the government listened.
After an hour-and-a-half-long tumult of criticism and outrage from residents, the Village Board on Monday unanimously struck down a project that would have repaired sewer laterals connected to nearly 400 homes on the southern end of Whitefish Bay. In total, the sewer rehab work would have cost about $1.6 million, with property owners paying for their own lateral repairs at an estimated individual cost of $2,500 to $7,000.
This first set of nearly 400 laterals, concentrated in what is called Milwaukee River basin 1203, would have been the first area to receive lateral repairs, after which the village would have repaired laterals across all of Whitefish Bay over the next 15 years. The board's actions Monday create a domino effect whereby village-wide lateral repairs are removed entirely from the village's 15-year capital improvement plan.
Public criticism
Though all trustees except Carl Fuda had come into the meeting expecting to approve the work, they eventually conceded to the standing-room-only crowd that criticized the project and urged the board to call it off, many times driving the criticisms home with thunderous applause.» Read Full Article
Fox Point-Bayside shortfall projected at $250,000
Fox Point — Citing a projected $250,000 budget deficit in the upcoming 2013-14 school year, the Fox Point-Bayside School Board last week chose a middle-ground middle school schedule which makes a modest impact on district finances.
District administrators and School Board members have come under fire since, in April, considering a schedule which would have altered programs like physical education, art, technology and music — known colloquially as "specials" — to accommodate state recommendations for increased math time and a federal requirement for increased one-on-one time between students and teachers. Since then, the board has rescinded seven of 10 potential layoffs for the coming year and backed off on the more controversial aspects of the schedule presented in April.
Of that schedule, only the "flex" period for increased one-on-one time remains; board members have decided to put a humanities-based, problem-solving program referred to as STEM on hold until next year.
The decision to finally settle on a schedule hinged largely on staffing costs. Board members opted for a plan which adds 0.3 of a full-time-equivalency of eighth-grade reading instruction to band teacher Stephanie Traska's teaching load instead of hiring a full-time person.
"It would be irresponsible," board member Tim Melchert said of adding a full-timer to a budget already in the red, "just making things worse in future years."» Read Full Article
Homestead's Poellinger runs streak to 40, Homestead blanks Grafton
"Have you ever seen a high school pitcher with a 40-inning scoreless streak?"
That was the casual aside that veteran Homestead baseball coach Ernie Millard threw out after finishing intereviews Monday night, after his ace Colten Poellinger shut out Grafton, 4-0, running his record to 7-0 and helping keep his team in the North Shore race in the final week of the regular season.
Poellinger has not been scored upon in the NSC campaign and has allowed only two runs all season.
But despite throwing six innings of two-hit ball with 11 strikeoutes, just two walks and just one hit batter, he was not impressed with himself this evening.
"It wasn't a pretty game," he said, "...I was losing a little control of the fastball, so I had to go to the off-speed pitches a little more so I could get back in (control of) the count."» Read Full Article
Bay to honor school's NFL football players at 4 p.m. Tuesday
The Whitefish Bay High School football program will honor Blue Duke players who have made the NFL with a ceremony at 4 p.m. Tuesday outside of the weightroom on the second floor of the fieldhouse.
Then and there the framed and professionally mounted jersies of Randy Dean (former quarterback of the New York Giants), Mike Schneck (former Pro Bowl long snapper who played with Pittsburgh, Buffalo and Atlanta); and current New York Jets linebacker Nick Bellore, will be unveiled.
It will henceforth be known as Bay's "Pro Football Wall of Fame."
Blue Duke football coach Jim Tietjen is hoping to have all three former Bay stars on hand for the ceremony that will include the high school team as well as players from the Blue Dukes' youth program.


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BURGETTSTOWN - During a single-day event, a local business raised more than $5,000 and obtained nearly 40 ponytails for Locks of Love, a nonprofit organization that provides wigs to children who have lost their own hair because of chronic illness.
Heaven hair salon raised $5,537, and the 10 volunteer stylists gave 89 cuts, with 36 participants donating ponytails of 10 inches or longer and the rest paying a $10 cover charge, which was donated to the charity.
The event, held Saturday at the Pepsi-Cola Roadhouse, is the eighth-annual event sponsored by the salon. Over the previous seven years, the event had raised a total of $12,800 and helped area residents donate 140 ponytails. A wig costs around $3,500 to make or requires between six and 10 ponytails.
"We're really busy right now - way busier than we were last year," said April Alexy, Heaven co-owner, Saturday.
The event also featured a Chinese auction, with prizes ranging from tickets to sporting events to overnight stays at hotels to fine dining, with nearly 60 regional businesses and individuals donating prizes. Many of those donating prizes were among Heaven's clientele, and several also volunteered to assist during the event.
"They're a lot of our volunteers," said April Alexy. "We couldn't pull this off without their help."
Those who attended the event and donated ponytails of 10 inches or longer received a free hair cut, and the person donating the longest ponytail received a special gift basket. The longest donated ponytail this year was 20 inches.
The event also included a free buffet and entertainment by Ryann Bartoletti and Friends and Iron Skillet. The Easter Bunny and Rainbow the Clown also were in attendance to interact with and entertain those children attending.
One little cancer survivor was among those children, and her mother attended the event to donate her own hair in honor of her daughter.
"That really touched me personally," said JoAnn Alexy, Heaven co-owner. "Her 2-year-old had cancer, and they spent about six months going back and forth for her treatments. Seeing things like that makes it all worth it."
Ghost in the Head and Many Voices, Huron American Indian educators, also attended the event. Ghost in the Head attended to "scalp" some of those donating their hair during the event.
"I'm very happy to be part of this program," he said.
Betty Smith also was in attendance to donate her hair, remarking she donates her hair every couple years.
"It's something I do because I've known a lot of kids who had cancer," she said.
Betsy Golden attended the event in celebrate seven years of being cancer free this week.
"I'm a survivor, and I'm here in support," said Golden.
Those who have had their hair cut elsewhere but would like to donate it to Locks of Love can drop off the bagged ponytail or braid at the salon during regular business hours through Monday.
Locks of Love organized as a nonprofit organization in 1997 under the direction of Madonna Coffman, a retired nurse who developed alopecia in her 20s after receiving a hepatitis vaccination. She was able to recover, but 15 years later, her 4-year-old daughter also developed alopecia and lost her hair. At that time, Coffman directed all her volunteer efforts toward Locks of Love. The organization has recipients in all 50 states and Canada.

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AMSTERDAM (CNN) -- A volunteer Dutch soccer official died on Monday after being beaten up by teenage players following a match the previous day.
Richard Nieuwenhuizen was pronounced dead at 5.30 p.m. local time in the hospital of Nieuwegein, according to his club Buitenboys.
The 41-year-old had been a linesman in an amateur game between Buitenboys and Amsterdam-based Nieuwe Sloten in the city of Almere. He was attacked after the match by three Nieuwe Sloten players, who were arrested at their homes in Amsterdam on Sunday according to the Dutch News website.
"The KNVB is deeply shocked ... After intervention of the police and the arrival of an ambulance, he was in critical condition and transported to a hospital. There he died Monday afternoon," reported the website of the Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB).
Its director of amateur football, Anton Binnenmars, added: "Let me, on behalf of the entire KNVB and all its members, offer my sympathy to the families and friends of the victim. It is outrageous that someone enjoying a hobby can be victim of such aggression."
Nieuwe Sloten issued a statement on its website saying the club would help with the police investigation, and that anyone involved in the attack would be expelled.
"Violence should not be on the football fields. And certainly not against referees, linesmen and all those others who volunteer each year to over a million amateur footballers. We must do everything possible to eliminate these excesses," it said.


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A quality used merchandise store. Store owners find items that can be re-purposed including clothing. Open M - S 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
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Tommie's 6th Street Mini Mall
Antiques, crafts and collectibles are the main stays of this mini mall. Consignments are also welcomed. Many booths are available featuring a wide array of items. Also look for the collectible books on hand. Hours: Tuesday - Wednesday, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. and Thursday - Saturday, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
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This is a shop dedicated to the preservation of the art of quilting. From its 1800's reproduction quilting fabric available for sale to sharing the craftsmanship of quilting with customers, keeping the spark of this craft alive is the life force behind this cozy, friendly shop. Heirloom quilt patterns also available. Hours: Monday - Thursday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., Friday 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. and Saturday, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.
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Historic home with five rooms plus a garden area crafts, used furniture, candles, nick knacks, flavored coffees, old plows, wheel barrel and more. "Five rooms to browse".
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Gifts and accessories for hearth and home.
La Boutique
La Boutique has unique fashions for unique women.
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Saturdays, May through October, experience the Land of Goshen Community Market! The Market is your best source for locally grown, fresh, naturally ripened farm products; tasty baked goods with locally grown ingredients; and wonderful art and gift ideas.The selection changes weekly so plan to visit more than once to fully appreciate the wide selection available. Live entertainment and free demonstrations add to the festive atmosphere. A safe, wholesome environment for kids, so bring the family and stop on by! From 8:00 a.m. till Noon.
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The roadside market sells homegrown apples (20 varieties), peaches, nectarines, pears and plums. Choose to "Bag Your Own Apples" and mix varieties, or pick up cider and apple butter.
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Apples, peaches, strawberries, jam and a country store. Pick your own pumpkins, apples, peaches and strawberries. Special events in September and August. Our goal is to provide top-quality fruit that is freshly picked, along with a family atmosphere. We invite you and your family to come and experience our Festivals and Farm Market where your business is always appreciated!


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Carolina Lily
by Steven Case, 2007.
NC Government & Heritage Library.
In 2003, the General Assembly designated the Carolina Lily (Lilium michauxii) as the official State wildflower (Session Laws, 2003, c. 426).
Named for Andre Michaux, a noted eighteenth century naturalist and explorer, this flower grows throughout the state, from the forests and hills of Cherokee County to the coastal swamplands (pocosins) of Hyde and Pamlico Counties. The stem can grow up to 4 feet high, and can have up to 6 flowers at the summit, though 1-3 are more common. The petals are brilliant red-orange with brown spots, and arched back so that the tips overlap.
The Carolina Lily grows throughout the southeast, from West Virginia to Florida, and can bloom as late as October, though it is most prevalent in July and August.
References and additional resources:
Carolina Lily (USDA, NRCS. 2007. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 18 June 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.)
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Sutherland, Zen. 2008. "Carolina Lily - Lilium michauxii." Online at https://www.flickr.com/photos/zen/2780380397/.
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The AH deposit seems to be proportional to the duration you have an item up on the block for, and apparently 15/30/60% of the vendor cost of the item(?), but how does the AH fee work when an item sells? Is it a fixed portion of the final selling price? Is it affected by the duration?
If I remember correctly, the deposit gets returned to you when something sells, but the auction house itself takes 5% out of the winning bid as it's fee. I do know that it's a fixed portion, and not affected by duration.
The Neutral Auction house takes a larger cut -- 15%. Filthy goblins.
As a reminder, you don't get your deposit back if your item doesn't sell. The cost of the deposit itself varies with duration (as you noticed) but the vendor price of the item in question as well.
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A 'Blizzard of Garbage' On Wall Street
Given the media's overheated coverage of Black Friday and its hysterical approach to analyzing the market's reaction to the "fiscal cliff," it is probably not the best time to be asking the question.
But I'll ask it anyway: Is the Wall Street media, financial press, business journalism or whatever you want to call it getting better?
After all, we've just suffered through the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression. Are we doing a better job of informing investors and the public?
The answer, as you might guess, depends on whom you ask. Editors, media critics and consumers all have varying opinions.
If there was a single conclusion to be drawn, it is that the financial media are certainly more crowded, if not better.
Blogs and websites like Business Insider, Seeking Alpha and Yahoo Finance have bulked up and and emerged as players, while established media outlets have expanded. Some examples: Bloomberg View, Dow Jones FX Trader and the New York Times's Dealbook, to name a few.
Felix Salmon at Reuters and Joe Weisenthal at Business Insider carved out new audiences and inspired dozens of imitators.
In addition, social networks such as Twitter and Facebook FB -0.42 % have changed the way news is delivered. They have become an Everyman's wire service and front page, respectively. In this new world, trending, popular stories compete with the traditional "important" ones picked by editors.
Unfortunately, all of this has created a congested mess that readers must sift through. Former Wall Street Journal Managing Editor and current ProPublica Editor-In-Chief Paul Steiger calls it "a blizzard of garbage"
To me, that sums it up perfectly. There is a lot of great work. You just have to dig through a lot of waste to find it. Traditional Wall Street journalism continues to be too cozy with the industry. New Wall Street journalists treat readers shabbily. They are often willing to write or say anything to get attention.
"Wall Street journalism still has a long way to go," said Elle Kaplan, chief executive of Lexion Capital Management LLC, who argues that coverage is uneven at best. "Often, journalists do not explain things properly, and we have to often wonder whether or not the journalist even understands the subject matter."
Another take: Wall Street journalists "have become pawns in a game," said Richard Laermer, head of RLM Public Relations. He added most financial reporters don't do anything outside "the assignment."
Mr. Laermer also said in an email that today's "breed of reporter is always looking for what they can get from their work," such as a promotion or more high-profile or higher-paying job. "While they may publicly despise so much of what they think is corrupt, they, too, can be bought for a song."
The assessment may be a bit too harsh and broad, but what Mr. Laermer describes hints at what some call "access journalism." Many financial reporters criticize their sources among their colleagues, but when it comes to keeping those sources and scoops coming, they rarely challenge them.
If it's not stargazing, the financial media continue to be preoccupied with large public companies, said Chris Roush, senior associate dean at the University of North Carolina's journalism school and a longtime officer of the Society of Business Editors and Writers.
Mr. Roush noted that there are about 15,000 public companies but 22 million private ones. Most people are employed by or depend upon private companies that mostly go uncovered by business media.
Instead, the press focuses on minute movements of the markets.
"We seem to be so focused on the short term in business journalism," Mr. Roush said. "We're so focused on how the market is moving this hour. In the grand scheme of things how the market is moving this hour doesn't mean a whole lot."
More than one journalist or critic I spoke with argued that there wasn't any noticeable shift in 2008. They say there hasn't been a break in the way business journalism sees itself even though our central beat collapsed out from under us.
To be sure, Mr. Steiger, who was the top editor at the Journal from 1991 to 2007, said financial journalists have become less acquiescent since the crisis.
"It was a near collapse of the financial system," Mr. Steiger said, "and that made the skepticism greater.''
But the bigger changes in financial journalism in this era aren't necessarily linked to the financial crisis. The establishment media, Mr. Steiger said, was going through its own economic crisis—driven by the Internet—concurrent with Wall Street's panic. The traditional business model embodied by the daily newspaper has vanished. That's been good because the cost of entry is lower, and it has been bad because the revenue to support it has become harder to capture.
"What the rise of the web has done is empower a much broader range of voices," Mr. Steiger said. "There were influential voices back in the day and there are influential voices today, but many more of them."
So, there is more out there. Is it any better? Mr. Steiger believes it is.
"There's more disinformation, more dreck," he said, but there's more good journalism, too.
Further complicating the journalist's task is the complexity of today's markets. Ed Grebeck, a lecturer at New York University on derivatives and chief executive of Tempus Advisors, said. "It's much harder to understand sell-side structures and explain it to buy-side investors" than it was a few years ago. The learning curve is steeper.
Perhaps as a result, Mr. Roush says, "the audience is losing a lot of context and what [news] means to them. I don't see a lot of Wall Street and finance coverage that explains what the news means to their [readers'] wallet, what it means to their salary. That's what's bothersome."
Instead, the quickest route to successful financial journalism seems to be in capturing page views. This is where people such as Mr. Weisenthal have succeeded. His voice out shouts rivals, in part, because he writes or aggregates what people want to read as much or more than what people need to read.
Dean Starkman, the head of Columbia Journalism Review's business journalism blog "The Audit," said that along with popularity, "digital publishing rewards volume and productivity and it's having an effect on the actual content."
Readers, in turn, are not happy. But they are not turning away, either.
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A new report cites the tax incentive battle between Kansas and Missouri as a prime example of how states are squandering taxpayer dollars in the name of job creation.
The report by the Washington, D.C.-based group Good Jobs First recommends that states stop providing subsidies for companies that move existing jobs to new locations across state lines.
It cites the battle between Kansas and Missouri over businesses in the Kansas City area as the most intense "jobs border war" in the nation. The two states have offered hundreds of millions of dollars of tax incentives for businesses to locate in the Kansas City area. But sometimes those businesses have moved just a few miles across the border.
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Seriously tate, larceny larsen who backstabbed his fellow senators for his leadership position, hahahahahahahaha, for govennor??hahahahahahahaha and our other choice was crybaby braca in his tite orange tshirt. Dems are really hurtin, screamin lenas got a better shot since she pulls the prejudiced low information voters
"When people hear our ideas, they like them, they match Wisconsin values"
No, we work hard and budget.Hide replies
Is that why Walker had to fill the hole in the budget with money that should've gone to people with foreclosures? Why he had to refinance the debt with bonds that will require a higher-than-normal interest to be paid back by the taxpayers after his term is over??
C'mon Rachel, he balanced the budget, remember?
No Rachel, that's because he inherited a budget that was in the negative. Remember Doyle liked to spend more than was brought in? That wasn't Walker, remember now? Remember when Doyle illegally took money from the malpractice fund and doctors had to sue to get their money back? Remember the bigger hole that created? Still blaming Walker for the debt? You should remember all of that if you voted for Doyle because you help created this debt you hate so much now.
Chuck Cecils tooth: Doyle inherited a budget deficit from Scott McCallum whom inherited a budget deficit from your buddy, Tommy Thompson. Tommy spent like a drunken sailor and we're still paying for it. Y'all seem to forget him. Vanished into the thin air like George W, Bush.
He just ran for Senate, Sherlock.
Interest rates are at all-time lows, whos blowing smoke here!!
She prefers the Obama method of just spend spend spend and let our grandkids figure it out if the country hasn't collapsed by then.
Good to see our tax dollars hard at work against our best interests (to borrow a phrase from Obama). Yes, our tax dollars, in that unions are like what, about 95% government workers.Hide replies
More like 160% when double dippers are counted ...
So much for any pretense of "working together for the people". Wow.Hide replies
I'm sure you gave the same reaction when JSOnline reported last week on Walker preparing for the 2014 election. Right?
They are "working together for the people". The union people.
Way to fulfill your elected duties, dems.Hide replies
I'm sure you gave the same reaction when JSOnline reported last week on Walker preparing for the 2014 election. Right?
Same group who ran to Illinois to hide when there was work to do....
Larson and Barca, is this an Onion article?
If recent history is any indicator, Scott Walker will win by an even bigger margin than he did in 2012 and 2010.
Great plan! Because the millions of dollars that the democrats and their union and left wing special interest cronies have spent in the last several years has yielded so much.
Why stop at $500k? Since you're going to waste many more millions, might as well double down now!
Keep them out of Washington, Ozaukee and Waukesha counties. We'll eat up tooth and nail.
I feel sorry for the stupid dem that steps one foot on my property!Hide replies
What;s you address?
come by and find out!
Are you OK with the smart dems stepping one foot on your property ... or are you only sorry for just the stupid ones?
Smart Dem, thats an Oxy moron, theres no such thing! Just the mean, angry, union funded, disruptor types. How much intelligence does it take to through public temper tantrums, blow horns and bang on their war drums at all hours?
Tell me your address and I will.
Or maybe you are just sorry for the really, really stupid ones that continually ask for your address after you've issued your threat?
It's probably condemned.
MV, you are a moron, RE, you are too and BH, there are no smart dems!
...and you're an anonymous blowhard on the internet, who apparently doesn't like having their bluff called.
YoWillSee is a pansy.
Just remember WIS has Castle Doctrine now ...
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So I'm very close to releasing an app I've been working on, and the server I integrate with allows me to register users. So I was wondering if I should require users to register with the app before they use it. The app wouldn't "need" the registration for any of the features (although I have some ideas about future updates where the user's data could be saved to their account in the cloud), but it would still be nice to have a list of registered users.
One reason I think I should require users to register is because when the app launches for the first time, the user must accept my privacy policy and terms of use; so if I made a registration screen, it might be an easier and more straightforward, rather than bombarding the user with the thick legal language.
But I'm afraid requiring the user to register will cost me some users. I once downloaded an app, and it wanted me to register, but I was lazy never did. Is that a legitimate fear with requiring registration?
Edit: To clearify, if I was to require registration, what info should I collect: name, email, password? other? And we wouldn't be spamming them with emails at all. We also have a very strong privacy policy and would store all data securely.


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When does the word solo have an accent (tilde) on the first o (sólo)? When does it not?
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You should never put an accent in "solo" if you want to follow RAE latest recommendations.
Following accentuation rules "solo" would never have an accent but the previous rules recommend it in cases ambiguity between the adverb and adjective meanings.
According to the RAE (which haven't updated the DPD yet) the ambiguity cases are very rare and can be solved using other words (solamente, únicamente...)
Solo has an accent when it means "only" and can be mistaken with "alone":
Compare these two sentences:
When I learnt the rule, I was told "si puede sustituirse por únicamente, lleva tilde", but the actual rule is, "si puede sustituirse por únicamente y puede confundirse con sin compañía, lleva tilde". That said, I usually put the accent whenever it means "only".
You can find the explanation by RAE in the DPD (Diccionario panhispánico de dudas).


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2nd CRM Incubation Week in Boston, MA, I took the opportunity to sit down with all startup teams to discuss their experiences and perspectives on Microsoft's investments (BizSpark,
XRM, Azure) to make them succeed in today's economy.
In this series, I am pleased to introduce FourthLink, Most Viable Business Award Winner.
Enjoy the VIDEO starring Scott Weiss, Ken Leeser, Michael Berlyn, Rich Crane, and Larry Gregory.
The solution demo starts at time 5:38.
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For NFL Coaches, Few Happy Returns
In his 14 seasons as coach of the Philadelphia Eagles, Andy Reid spent a lot of time at Lincoln Financial Field. But even after all those years, there is one place there that he has barely seen at all: the visitors' locker room.
That will change Thursday, when Reid (pictured), now the coach of the 2-0 Kansas City Chiefs, returns to Philadelphia for the first time since the Eagles (1-1) fired him last winter. When it happens, Reid will become the 10th person in NFL history to coach one team for at least a decade before facing that team as an opponent. Reid will be the first to do it in the very next season.
Historically, these types of reunions haven't gone well. Six of the nine previous coaches lost in their first game back, including a couple of all-time greats. Green Bay's Curly Lambeau (for whom Lambeau Field was later named) lost to his old team when he faced the Pack as coach of the Washington Redskins in 1952. Paul Brown, the longtime coach of the Cleveland Browns, couldn't beat his old team in 1970 after landing with the Cincinnati Bengals. Mike Ditka, returning to Chicago in 1997 with the Saints, was the most recent coach to beat a team he had led for at least 10 seasons.
Of course it remains to be seen how Reid, who went 130-93-1 in Philadelphia, will fare against the Eagles. But this much seems certain: He hasn't been gone long enough for the Philly faithful to have forgotten that the Eagles went 4-12 in his final season.
—Jared Diamond


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Leo Burns has been a familiar horseman on the southern Illinois harness racing circuit for years, and he was remembered before the start of the 2013 harness racing program Monday, July 22 at the Edwards County Fair in Albion. Burns, a native of Marshalltown, Iowa, recently passed away at the age of 98 following a career as an owner, trainer and driver through last year at the age of 97.
Burns made national headlines seven years ago at the age of 92 when he guided his two-year-old, Winsome Wyoming, to seven wins in nine starts. Burns commented in a story written for "Hoof Beats," the national trade magazine for harness racing, that he liked the bloodlines of a new stallion in the state of Illinois, being Wilson Wyoming, so at the age of 91, he went to the yearling sale and purchased the chestnut filly.
Burns, always known for his success with trotters, continued to drive and train Winsome Wyoming through her eight-year-old season last year, winning both her starts with himself aboard and the last one coming at his home fair in a time of 2:05.1. As Burns made his way to the winner's circle in front of the grandstand, he was welcomed with a standing ovation and broke his own record as the oldest driver to ever win a race in the history of harness racing.
To date, Winsome Wyoming has won 31 of her 48 career starts. She was a winner earlier this summer at Martinsville in a time of 2:05 and although he was there to watch, failing health had caused Burns to give the mare to his longtime friend Leroy Moore, who drove the mare to victory at the age of 78. She is scheduled to race Tuesday, July 23 at the Edwards County Fair.
Burns' final drive was the victory on his home track at Albion in 2012, following up a victory at the Wayne County Fair in Fairfield the prior week. He ended his driving career with 254 wins and $301,933, according to the U.S. Trotting Association. However, complete records prior to that time were not kept and many more wins would be added to that tally.
To help celebrate Burns life and career, drivers and trainers involved in Monday's races at the Edwards County Fair came together in front of the grandstand for the National Anthem as well as a special tribute to Burns. Moore walked Winsome Wyoming down the track for the ceremony.
TJ Marche of Albion has also made t-shirts in honor of Burns. The shirts are available at the Edwards County Fair and depict a headshot of Burns along with a racing shot on the front. Shirts may be purchased during the fair from the fair office.
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Tom Crean is set to tip off his fifth season as the head basketball coach at Indiana University.
The Hoosiers are loaded, led by preseason National Player of the Year Cody Zeller. IU tips off the 2012-13 hosting Bryant University on Friday, Nov. 9. The Hoosiers made it to the NCAA tournament Sweet 16 last season, with wins over No. 1 Kentucky, No. 2 Ohio State and No. 5 Michigan State. Crean spent four seasons on Tom Izzo's staff at Michigan State before getting his first head coaching job at Marquette. He also was an assistant under Ralph Willard at Western Kentucky and Pittsburgh.
Kent Taylor: Most of the preseason prognosticators have your team No. 1 in the country. Are you going to tell me that the expectations within the program are the same as always?
Tom Crean: No, the program is growing up. That's different, the program, it's a continual process. If you learn anything, you learn that it really is a process, and the truer you stay to it, the better you're going to be. The bottom line is that you don't want to back off the process.
When you're building up and you're getting deeper and they're getting older, they're becoming better leaders, yes, that changes. As far as where expectations tie into that, we've never tried to coach a game, even when we were first starting this out, where we coached based on what people thought was going to happen, based on what the line said, you never do.
We can be a little more versatile, we can do a few different things, we have a deeper team, we have a better team, better talent, but the bottom line is that they have to work every day to be better, and it comes down to what kind of consistency they're going to have.
K.T.: How much more is Remy Abell ready to contribute as a sophomore?
T.C.: He got better in the spring, but he really got better when he went home. He got in the gym with Joe Rogers, and I know Joe, so I know he got him better. He came back here in great shape, and he's had an excellent summer.
I view him, this team is not about a starting five, it's about a starting eight, starting nine potentially. There is no question that he's got to become one of those guys for us.
K.T.: How much do you expect from the talented freshmen class?
T.C.: I think because the talent around them is pretty good, it's going to be easier for them. They'll have to understand that there are roles to this. This team has really got to be caught up in believing in the quality of their play and not the quantity of their minutes.
K.T.: There are pictures of Christian Watford's game-winning shot against Kentucky all over Cook Hall. How important was that shot, that game, in the process of rebuilding this program?
T.C.: I think about that and I've used the term monumental, and huge, and I think what it was, was program turning. For a program this powerful, that's a big statement.
As a coach, we wanted to win by 20, we were up 10, mad because we didn't put it on, and I thought we could have that day. We weren't mature enough to win by that much, because we thought we were going to win the game by ourselves. At the end of the game, it came down to a very unselfish play by Verdell Jones to throw that ball back and for Christian to be in a perfect line, and that consistent jump shot that he put in. It was program changing, because everybody here needed that. We needed something.
K.T.: Most preseason polls have Indiana, Louisville and Kentucky all in the top five – does that just feel right?
T.C.: I think it's great. Growing up, and I didn't grow up in this region, but growing up, Tobacco Road is Tobacco Road, but they weren't always. N.C. State wasn't always where it needed to be and sometimes it was, but I didn't grow up in that region, so I don't have an appreciation for it.
You have an appreciation for when Indiana, Louisville and Kentucky are top five, because for a long time they were. Look at the National Championships that are in there. We've got five, Louisville has two, Kentucky has eight, you put that region together. Duke has four, North Carolina has five, N.C. State has two, we're pretty strong now, I think it's fantastic.
K.T.: Did you get a championship ring from Michigan State in 2000?
T.C.: I did, absolutely.
K.T.: Do you ever wear that?
T.C.: It doesn't fit anymore, I guess I've lost weight, but I have it, absolutely. I pulled it out last week actually.
K.T.: Did you show it to your players?
T.C.: No, I haven't done that, there will be a time and a place for that, but I haven't done that. I don't wear it in recruiting, I'm proud of it.
K.T.: When you are the head coach of a program at this level, it is all-encompassing. How does Tom Crean get away – is it time with the family?
T.C.: I think it's that, it's their events – I love my kids' events. I don't have a lot of outside hobbies. There's no question, it's the family. We took the longest vacation we've taken in years, this year, because we really hadn't done that. There wasn't any time off, but we went to Florida. We were dealing with recruiting issues and all those things, but it was time away. For Joani and me, I wish there were a few more date nights, but it's home with them, it's at their events, that stuff is fun.
K.T.: What did you tell Dwyane Wade when he visited you during the Eastern Conference semifinals series against the Pacers last year?
T.C.: It was really the time spent. We had a great day and he needed it. We had one rule when he got here – I said no internet, and no sports on your TVs. We had a great time from about 3:30 until I dropped him off about quarter to 12. It was great for the team, it was great for me, and it was good for him. It was a way to help him get his confidence back.


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Calling all urban cowboys and city slickers! The 13th annual Blue Jean Ball, hosted by the Auburn University and Auburn University at Montgomery Schools of Nursing, will take place in Montgomery for the first time on Oct. 4, 5-11 p.m., on the AUM campus.
Guests will enjoy live music, dancing, meet-and-greets with mascots Aubie and Curtiss, photo opportunities with birds of prey from the AU College of Veterinary Medicine's Southeastern Raptor Center, a live auction emceed by legendary Auburn football coach Pat Dye, a silent auction, tours of AUM's School of Nursing and new Wellness Center, and dinner catered by Dreamland Barbeque.
One-of-a-kind auction items up for grabs at the ball include:
Since 2001, the Blue Jean Ball has entertained hundreds of faculty, staff, students, friends and supporters of AU and AUM's nursing programs. Net proceeds support programs and initiatives benefitting the schools' students and faculty. To date, more than 450 nursing students from AU and AUM have received scholarships from funds raised at the ball.
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Kenny Rogers: 'I Take Great Pride In Not Writing Hits'
In the mid-1970s, a man approached singer Kenny Rogers after a performance in the lounge at the Las Vegas Hilton. The mysterious stranger simply said, "Hey, man, I really like your music." Rogers learned later that the fan at the dressing-room door had been Elvis Presley.
It's the type of story Rogers shares in his new memoir, which comes out this week. It's titled Luck or Something Like It — a play on his 1978 hit "Love or Something Like It." In the book, he connects the dots from his youth in Houston, Texas, public housing to his stints as a jazz musician and folksinger — and, eventually, his emergence as a solo star. He recently spoke with NPR's Steve Inskeep about his enduring career, his early days fronting the country-rock band The First Edition and what fans expect of him after all this time.
Interview Highlights
On what makes a Kenny Rogers song
"All the songs I record fall into one of two categories, as a rule. One is ballads that say what every man would like to say and every woman would like to hear. The other is story-songs that have social significance. 'Reuben James' was about a black man who raised a white child. 'Coward of the County' was about a rape. 'Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town' was about a guy who came home from war. That's really what I love to do: songs that you love before you realize what they're about, but you get the message vicariously."
On choosing to be a vocalist, rather than a songwriter
"I take great pride in not writing hits. I write from time to time, but I think great writers have a need to write, and I don't really have that need. I can write if someone sits me down and says, 'Hey let's write a song about this.' I can contribute, and I can carry my weight."
On connecting with a live audience
"If I were going out doing all new music like some of these young guys do, where they go out and they have one hit, that would scare me. But I've been lucky since The First Edition. I've had a minimum or four or five major hits to do, and now I've got like 25 No. 1 records, and I try to do them all. When you do a new song, the audience has to work very hard. They have to decide subconsciously, 'Do I like the song? Do I agree with what it says? Do I like the way he sings it?' But when you do a hit, they're a part of the show. They just relax and enjoy it."
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I ask about ElGamal algorithm. Is ElGamal algorithm used new key for each encryption process. in other word it should we use new key for each chunk? For example, if we have message that has four block each block less than $P$. Where $P$ is the prime number used in ElGamal. How many keys should be used to encrypt this message?
If you have the setting of $G$ being a prime order $p$ group (written multiplicatively) generated by $g$ and your public-secret key pair is $(pk,sk)=(y=g^x,x)$, then encrypting a single message $m\in Z_p$ amounts to choosing $k\in_R Z_p$ and computing $(c_1,c_2)=(g^k,my^k)$.
If you have a message $m=(m_1,\ldots,m_l) \in Z_p^l$, then the ciphertext would be $((g^{k_1},m_1y^{k_1}),\ldots,(g^{k_l},m_ly^{k_l}))$ with the $k_i$'s being distinct (but the public key $y$ is the same, since it is intended for one receiver).
Observe, that when using the same $k$ for two messages, say $m_1$ and $m_2$, then you can infer non-trivial information about the messages from the ciphertexts $(g^k,m_1y^k)$ and $(g^k,m_2y^k)$, since computing $m_1y^k(m_2y^k)^{-1}$ gives you $m_1(m_2)^{-1}$. Consequently, choosing a fresh randomizer $k_i$ for every block is essential.
Nevertheless, if you have to encrypt multiple blocks in practice, you would use KEM/DEM style hybrid encryption for the sake of more efficiency.
A side note: if you encrypt a message $m\in Z_p$ under distinct public-keys $y_1,\ldots,y_n$, then you can re-use the randomness $k$. This means, that instead of choosing $k_1,\ldots,k_n \in_R Z_p$ and sending $((g^{k_1},my_1^{k_1}),\ldots,(g^{k_n},my_n^{k_n}))$, you can choose $k\in_R Z_p$ and send $(g^k,my_1^k,\ldots,my_n^k)$ which saves you computation and bandwidth. You may look here for a general treatment of this so called randomness re-use in multi-recipient encryption: journal paper or the previous paper versions paper1, paper2 for further details.


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|Amid the beautiful eastern sea,
Sea View Resort and Spa Koh Chang,
the resort for sea - lovers harmoniously blends modernity and convenience
among peaceful shady lines of coconut trees and several kinds of local
plants, along powdery white sand beach. Enjoy fresh seafood directly
obtained from the sea, taste several kinds of famous fruit of Trat Province,
tour with pleasure, take rest on small and large islands of the Koh
Chang National Park. Spend your valuable time for a favorable vacation
with our warm service created by us for your real - paradise at Sea
View Resort and Spa Koh Change.
Superior RoomRelax in our spacious and warm 35 sq.m rooms, overlooking the pool and beautiful gardens of the hotel. Sit and unwind on your private balcony, and enjoy our peaceful surroundings.
Room Amenities:
Deluxe Sea View Room
The rooms are fully equipped, beautifully furnished and designed to provide spacious accommodation.
All rooms are overlooking the sea and have a bathroom with bathtub/shower,
plus separate shower.
Room amenities
Grand Deluxe Sea View RoomStep into our welcoming Grand Deluxe Sea View situated on cliff top of secluded resort and discover spectacular sea view across the bay. These spacious rooms are artfully designed in contemporary Thai style with beautiful silks and wood decoration and comes with en suite bathroom and large private balcony where you can enjoy stunning Koh Chang sunset while savoring a cocktail and intimate conversations with your loved one.
Room amenities
Panorama SuitePanorama Suite are located at the very top of secluded 25 acre resort, and offers great panoramic ocean view. Relax in our spacious and warm 60 sq.m rooms, overlooking the sea and beautiful gardens of the hotel.
Room amenities
Ocean SuiteOcean Suite gives you more privacy and recreation by providing a private spa room and whirlpool (Jacuzzi). The rooms feature a large bedroom, spa room, and balcony with sea view and have a classy Thai-style décor.
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Junior Family Room
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Deluxe Family Room
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Honeymoon SuiteEnjoy spectacular sunsets over a white sandy beach from Honeymoon Suite. The room featuring a herbal steam room and a whirlpool (Jacuzzi) overlooking the sea. Honeymoon Suite is only metres away from the beach and the resort's beachfront pool.
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Sunset Terrace Restaurant
The beach front restaurant is the one you can see "Mun Mai" Island. Which away from our beach just 500 meters, that will make you calm like sitting alone in the Island. Hang out with the cool drink or full body wine and enjoy the BBQ Seafood fresh from the sea while watching for Sunset. Service hour 11.00 - 23.00 hrs.
Light House Cuisine
Overlooking the sea, the open-air restaurant lets you enjoy stunning sunsets while dining or just having a drink. Let our chefs spoil you with a great selection of excellent Thai and international cuisine. The restaurant is open all day letting you savour our chefs' delicacies whenever you feel like it.
Breakfast: 7.00 - 10.00 (daily), Opening hours: 10.00 - 23.00 (daily)
Next to the restaurant is the hotel's bar where a vast variety of drinks, including fresh fruit shakes and tempting cocktails will delight you especially during amazing sunsets or after dinner.
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|Sunset Terrace Restaurant
|Light House Cuisine
Swimming Pool
Swimming Pool 1: Nestled among beautiful tropical plants the beachfront, freeform swimming pool is a great place to unwind. The beach as well as the swimming pool area are equipped with comfortable sun beds and umbrellas.
Swimming Pool 2: Located among beautiful tropical plants on the top of the hill, freeform swimming pool is a great place to relax. The swimming pool area are equipped with comfortable sunbeds and umbrellas especially with slider for more fun.
Pool Service
Provides you with beach towels, snacks and beverages and a variety of swimming utensils. You can also rent kayaks and snorkeling equipment there.
P.N.N. Beauty Home Spa offers the perfect combination of exquisite treatments, professional caring service, beautiful settings and tranquil ambience and high-quality natural products, all put together to give you an exceptional spa experience. The Spa is situated amidst our lush tropical gardens and offers a complete programme of delightfully indulging treatments, including Thai herbal steam and soak treatments, a variety of massage therapies, facial treatments and more.
Cooking Classes
Learn how to cook your favorite Thai dish from the experts! Our chefs will give you all hints and tips for successful results.
Tour Service
A tour operator on the premises helps you select and organize your leisure activities: from snorkeling and diving tours or island-hopping trips to jungle trekking on elephants plus many more exciting adventures. They also offer motorbike and car rental.
Internet Service
We wireless broadband hi-speed internet access is available at a cost next to the spacious lobby lounge as well as in an air-conditioned Internet Cafe' which also hosts a library.
Golf Cart Service
For free transportation within the premises.
Hotel-Owned Shuttle Service on Request
For transportation to locations on the island by hotel-owned cars at nominal fee.
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|Swimming pool (top of the hill)
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|Sea View Resort and Spa Koh Chang
is located on the island of Koh Chang, near the viewpoint on the southern end of Kai Bae Beach.
The resort is majestically situated on a cliff that descends to its
private beach with clear waters. The beach area is large enough to cater
for beach parties, a romantic wedding and even sports activities.
|By Bus
Daily air-conditioned bus departing from the Ekkamai Bus Terminal at 7.45 a.m. directly to the pier (Ao Thammachat pier) and frequently from the Northern Bus Terminal (Mo Chit) to Trat.
Alternatively, the visitors can take a minibus or full-sized bus service with pick-up from Khao San Road. This service can be booked by travel agents in this area. It costs around 250-300 THB. It may include ferry crossing. This is a good choice if you stay in a guesthouse at Khao San Road
By Car
There are three ways on road from Bangkok to Trat
By Air
By Bangkok Airways.
From Trat to Koh Chang :
Ferry to Koh Chang from Ao thammachart (Trat) to Ao Sapparod (Koh Chang) a ferry depart every 45 minutes. Travel time is about 25 minutes.
Ferry Koh Chang "Koh Chang International" Tel : 0-3959-7143, 0-1943-5872
Transportation service from Ao Sapparod pier (Koh Chang) to Sea View Resort and Spa Koh Chang upon request.