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I think the integration of music in a movie plays one of the key roles in producing a great movie. I have also seen some movies like the award-winning "A Separation" which did not have any background music at all! So my question is how is it decided which parts of a movie need background music integration? Is there any rule for that? Or does it just depend on how the director (or music composer) feels about the movie?
As there are no hard and fast rules for the use of music in filmmaking, this question runs the risk of becoming conversational rather than providing a succinct answer.
That said, I am in the middle of finalizing the score on my latest short animated film - so I'll share my reasoning for the inclusion of the background music in the hope that it answers your question.

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7 Pieces of Good News Nobody Is Reporting
#3. Teen Pregnancy Is Also at a Record Low
It seems like you can't turn on the TV without getting exposed to teenage girls with babies on their hips living their everyday lives for our entertainment and scathing critiques. If you believe Teen Mom, 16 and Pregnant or Teen Trailer Trash and the Sticky Faced Babies Who Live With Them, juvenile moms have taken the nation by storm. The lucky ones like Bristol and Whale Rider girl seem to be making out all right. The rest are usually all right, too, on account of the fact that having a baby before you hit 20 isn't exactly bone cancer.
A young mother (blue bathing suit) gives birth to a healthy girl.
The Good News
Just like traffic fatalities and Amelia Earhart sightings, teen motherhood is at the lowest it's been in over 70 years.
So, the last time the number of knocked up adolescents was this low, Joseph Stalin was Time magazine's Man of the Year and Bugs Bunny had finally found his legs. In other words, if you're a teen today, you just earned some major bragging rights over your great-great grandmother (who was probably dishing it out back in the day).
You don't show some shoulder without whipping out some ass.
So to what do we owe this good fortune? Abstinence education? All those rainbow parties Oprah said everyone kept having but no one invited us to? Literally no one knows. Some experts credit the stress of living in a recession -- as if teens are suddenly hyperaware of how hard it sucks to try to make a living with a baby. In California, they're thanking the reality shows themselves, because apparently kids had NO IDEA how hard motherhood sucked until they saw it on television.
Personally, we think generations raised on No Glove No Love finally got it through their thick skulls (and private parts) that unprotected sex has consequences.
Horrifying, toothless consequences.
#2. People Get Happier as They Get Older
For those of us raised on never-ending loops of Grumpy Old Men, Cocoon, Grumpy Old Men 2 and Bob Hope U.S.O. specials, we know that old people are the worst. They're mean, they're snippy and in the end you just end up feeling sorry for them. Their bodies are breaking down, their friends are dropping like flies and their skin looks like a coat made of Shar-Pei. What on earth is there in this scenario to be not-depressed about?
Just look at it. LOOK AT IT!
The Good News
What is there to be happy about? Lots, apparently.
At least according to a nationwide survey involving over 340,000 people between the ages of 18 and 85. Participants were asked a range of questions covering everything from their sex lives to health and finance, but the interesting part came when asked six simple yes-or-no questions: "Did you experience the following feelings during a large part of the day yesterday: enjoyment, happiness, stress, worry, anger, sadness?"
"We experienced all of that just 10 minutes ago during sex!"
Notice the survey is only covering your emotional state yesterday, not last year, not as a child or during the college years, because they didn't want respondents to look back with gin-colored glasses. Now, think about the answer for yourself. What if you answer might depend as much on your age as it does on your circumstances? Each emotion, it turned out, had its own trend. And every single trend pointed toward happier 85-year-olds than 50-year-olds. For example:
- Enjoyment and Happiness: Decreased every year until about age 50, then rose steadily until age 75.
- Stress: Declined every year from age 22 and reached its absolute lowest at age 85.
- Worry: Held steady between 18 and 50, then sharply dropped off.
- Anger: Decreases every year from 18 on.
- Sadness: Peaked at 50, hit its low point at 73.
But the sexiness never ends.
Either the Greatest Generation should be redubbed the Fakest Generation (of Liars), or life seems to get better and better for everyone.
#1. We're ALL Living Longer, Better
The fact that we can even have a discussion about the quality of life for the elderly is in itself a triumph of spectacular proportions. Because through most of human history, making it to age 40 without dying of the runs was once a feat reserved for witches and Bible heroes.
Via Gordanandthewhale.com
"And all the days of Methuselah numbered nine hundred and sixty-nine years, with nary a case of the poops."
The fact that people with access to medicine, food and a lot more food are living longer is about as surprising as a wheezing jack-in-the-box. But that's not the good news. The good news is that, on average, everyone is better off than they were 200 years ago. And here's what's crazy: All those things that we've come to see as the villains of the last century -- globalization, corporate farming, consumerism, the rise of multinational corporations, the shift of tech jobs and the decline of American manufacturing jobs -- have been exactly what has made life better for those of us alive today.
The Good News
The numbers don't lie, according to statistician Hans Rosling. In 1810, for example, the average lifespan was below 40 in every country on the planet, and if you lived in Asia or Africa you were lucky to make it to 25. The wealth gap was a little wider, but not by much. It's like everyone was pretty much in the same boat, and that boat was called the S.S. Suck.
"You won't be needing your bags."
Then the Industrial Revolution happened and the Western nations surged ahead, in both life expectancy and income, while most of Africa, the Middle East and Asia were stuck in the suck boat. By 1915, the poorest countries in the world were exactly where they were a hundred years before, and the inhabitants of the richest countries were making thousands of dollars a year and squeaking into their mid-'50s. Thirty years later, the gap between the rich and healthy and the poor and sick was so wide you could launch a planet through it.
For what happens next, watch this:
Over the last 60 years, something extraordinary happened. Advances in agricultural output, medicine and emerging economies all converged to give the poorest countries in the world a huge boost. So, by the time we get to the last year that data was available, 2009, the gap was still pretty wide, but most countries were living in the middle, not the on the poor end. And people on the poor end (sub-Saharan Africa) were living significantly longer than they were 100 years ago, despite battling the AIDS epidemic, civil wars, drought and unannounced visits from Bono.
Obviously, we're not suggesting that life in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is super duper right now. Or, maybe it is, who are we to judge? What we are saying is that the trend, according to Rosling, is upward and onward, and there's no reason to think that we can't all be fabulously rich and pathetically ancient some day.
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I just reached the part in Dragon Quest IX where you get th ability to change occupations. The thing is, I can't figure out why I would want to. I feel like I should max out all the skills on the occupations I already have before I would even think about changing. Am I correct, or is there another reason to switch that I'm not getting?
A big reason to try out different vocations is to farm skill points.
For example, if you have a character who is a priest and you want him/her to learn wands. You could spend points you get from leveling up as a priest on your wand skill, but then it would be tougher to level up your priest vocation skill.
Instead you could make your character a mage, point all those points you get into wands, then switch back to priest. Then you could use all your priest points on your vocation.
A second reason is because maxing out an equipment skill at 100 points lets you use that skill on any class, even if they don't have it available. Martial artists for example cannot use shields, but you could level your martial artist as a class that can, get shields up to 100, then when you switch back to martial artist you will be able to use shields.
You have to know that when switching from one occupation to the other, you first lose all spells relative to the former occupation (e.g. switching from priest to mage, you will lose all the priest spells). Then, you will lose all the abilities unlocked by a skill that isn't in the new occupation (e.g. if you maxed your sword capabilities but your new occupation doesn't have sword skills, you will lose all the special attacks learned via this skill). But if both professions share a skill list, points in this one will be kept (e.g. if you put points in magic wand skill while a priest, switching to mage will keep these points).
But, all characteristic bonuses earned via the skill relative to your old profession will be kept. E.g. if you switch from priest to mage and you've acquired the +10 to healing spells in the priest skills, when switching to mage, you'll still have those +10 (useless in this case, but that's just an example) while losing your spells acquired in this list.
So, why switch occupations? Example: you want to be a tough warrior! But you want to up your agility before that, you might want to start as a thief, and when you got your agility bonus, switch to warrior.
Sorry if I'm not clear :) You might want to read this thread on GameFAQS for more information : http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/937281-dragon-quest-ix-sentinels-of-the-starry-skies/55701585


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Is it true that a line bundle is relatively ample iff its restsriction to fibers is? If so, what would be the reference?
If you admit the map to be proper and the schemes to be reasonably good it is true. A reference I know is Lazarsfeld's book "Positivity in algebraic geometry", paragraph 1.7.
EDIT : my previous answer was wrong. Thanks to BConrad for pointing it out.
Here is a counterexample if the map is not proper. Let $X$ be the plane, let $Y$ be the blow-up of the plane in one point, and $U$ be $Y$ with one point of the exceptionnal divisor removed. Let $f|_U:U\to X$ be the projection and consider the line bundle $\mathcal{O}_U$.
Since the fibers of $f|_U$ are affine (either points or the affine line), $\mathcal{O}_U$ becomes ample when restricted to fibers of $f|_U$. However, $\mathcal{O}_U$ is not $f|_U$-ample. Indeed, if it were, $\mathcal{O}_U$ would be ample on $U$, but we can compute : $$H^0(U,\mathcal{O}_U^N)=H^0(U,\mathcal{O}_U)=H^0(Y,\mathcal{O}_Y)=H^0(X,\mathcal{O}_X),$$
where the second equality comes from property $S2$ and the third holds because $f_* \mathcal{O}_Y=\mathcal{O}_X$. Hence, $H^0(U,\mathcal{O}_U^N)$ cannot distinguish between two points of the exceptionnal divisor, and $\mathcal{O}_U$ cannot be ample on $U$.
Warning : what follows is false. I kept it here so that the comment below remains understandable.
Here is a counterexample if the map is not proper. Consider the inclusion $f$ of the plane minus a point $U$ in the plane $X$. The line bundle $\mathcal{O}_U$ is ample restricted to the fibers of $f$ (they're points...). However, it is not $f$-ample. Indeed, if it were, $\mathcal{O}_U$ would be ample on $U$. Choosing $N>>0$, we would get $$H^1(U,\mathcal{O}_U)=H^1(U,\mathcal{O}_U^N)=0.$$ But a simple computation via Cech cohomology shows that this cohomology group is not trivial (in fact, infinite).


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On Thursday, November 15, the Kentucky State Police responded to a drug complaint at 320 Campground Road in Bonnieville. An anonymous tip had come in through the KSP crime reporting form alleging meth related activity at that residence.
A search of the residence yielded items of meth and drug paraphernalia. Vanessa West (32) and Thomas Omar Dixon (39) were arrested. They were both charged with 1st Degree Possession of a Controlled Substance (drug unspecified) 1st offense, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, and Endangering the Welfare of a Minor for a 2 year old being present in the home. Complicity was added to all these charges.
In addition, Dixon was charged with giving a police officer a false name and being a persistent felony offender. They were both lodged in the Hart County Jail. Trooper Daniel White is the investigating officer, and he was assisted on the scene by Trooper Joel Huff.
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1) originally used to describe when someone coughs and a little barf comes up.
2) can also be used as a synonym for "cool".
2) can also be used as a synonym for "cool".
1)"damn I was laughing so hard I carfed."
2) "your shirt is so carf!"
2) "your shirt is so carf!"
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When you cough so much that you barf.
She was coughing so much after she smoked that she carfed!
by ericalynneykins November 14, 2006
The equivalent of "nomnomnom... etc" but specifically for crunchy food, such as macho nachos.
Ronni scared down a Nigeria-sized helping of macho nachos with extra beef like CARFCARFCARFCARFCARF.
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the act of wearing a scarf
Kid at Party: Yo, you see Difed and that scarf
Me: Yeah dude, that kid carfs all over the place
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by Absolute Specimen February 07, 2011
When you start coughing so hard you cant stop and you end up barfing.
When I had a cold, I got an itch in my throat that made me carf.
by KillaKay Ninja November 09, 2010
when a person coughs and farts simultaneously.
when joe was coughing up a hacker, he also farted.
jan started laughing and said did you just carf?
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text: Mr. and Mrs. William Colgan Sr. of Waterbury celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with a party given by their children at Coco Key in Waterbury. Mr. and Mrs. Colgan were married Aug. 25, 1962 at St. Michael's Church in Waterville. They have two children, Mary Colgan and William Colgan Jr. of Waterbury, and two grandchildren.


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Is there a universal standard height that people try to go for when building workbenches? Should DIY tabletops be tailor made to the height of the user and how does the ideal height of the tabletop correlate to the person?
There is a large body of information about what size furniture and tools should be. The field concerning sizing furniture to individuals and populations is called Anthropometrics and information about safety and ease of use is called Ergonomics.
If you are building your own workbench for your own use, then you should size it to yourself unless you expect others to use it. Why buy off the rack if you can get tailored for less?
Most furniture is optimized for the middle of the height distribution curve which is roughly 5'8". I got into woodworking in the first place because I am 6'4" tall and absolutely nothing fits. It's all literally 6" too short.
I used the "fall drop" rule to size my generic workshop surfaces. Just stand relaxed and let your hands fall down as if resting comfortably on a surface in front of you. It's the position you hands will just fall or drop to if you try to rest them on an imaginary surface. It gives a higher bench than the using the wrist line method above.
I suggest creating a mock-up first using whatever is available and easily resized. I used a chair, a sturdy box and books of various thicknesses. I swapped books and fiddled with the height of the mock-up until I found the most comfortable height. In my case, it was exactly 39".
You'll know it when you find your own ideal height because it just feels right.
However, shuffler is correct that different work requires different heights. The "fall drop" rule sizes a bench for use with modern power tools and precision hand tools but if you use other tools you might want a higher or lower bench e.g. heavy handsaws, chisels and planes usually require something like saw bench which is usually just under knee height.
I use a mini-bench on top of my main 39" surface if I have fiddling work like soldering.
Oh, and build yourself a custom stool and work supports at the same time. You'll be glad you did.
I don't think there is specific universal height as people aren't manufactured in a specific universal height.
Googling for "workbench height" returns many results asking the same thing: what is the best height for a workbench.
This page suggests the following method:
The page goes on to say that you should consider the type of work you'll be doing. If you're doing lots of detail work, you may want to sit (so the bench shouldn't be too low or too high to accommodate a chair). If you're standing and decide to put those foam mats down to make it more comfortable, you might want to add a half inch or so. The final suggestion is if you have the space for it, have more than one workbench.
There's no real answer to this - it depends on how tall you are, what you are using the bench for and if you are standing or sitting (and then, are you using a chair or stool?). The use for it might also play a role. Things like electrical soldering work require you to be a lot closer to the project then wood working.
The simple solution to this is to find a bench with adjustable legs. Mine is adjustable by about 16" - I started with it as high as it could go (I'm 6'), but eventually brought it down a couple inches; it's still pretty high which means I don't need to bend over to work on things. I find it comfortable like this, but you might hate it.
I am a Jack of All Trades. I think it is important to think about what projects you will be working on. Some benches I have are made to match up with my table saw height( to provide more surface). I am 5-10 and the saw height is 34 inches. I feel comfortable being over my work a little bit, I feel I have more control of my tools, etc.
I also have a bench 18 inches tall for upholstery work, this allows me to reach the upper and lower parts of a project. This bench is covered in carpet to protect my project.
Another reason I like a lower bench than most is to accommodate various jigs. Jigs for clamping steamed wood, Joining, & gluing can easily add a few inches to your work height.
It all seems to be personal in nature. Very important to look at all your tools and think about what you will be doing on your workbench. All my benches are on locking casters, this helps in utilizing my space.


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Hi brittongr,
I am trying to make the administration section which has 2 panels. left and center.
on left panel the accordian will be there which will create menus and submenus inside. On click on submenus link, the content will open in the center content panel.
Is that really complex? Can you suggest me any open source example on internet.?
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TomatoCart v2.0 is becoming a cutting edge ecommerce solution in the opensource world.
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2. The controllers, models and views are separated respectively. Optimized SQL queries abstracted into models so that the data is separated from the other system components.
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Extending Project WebSynergy's Tables
By Ganesh Ram on May 14, 2008
We had recently started work on semantic enabling Project WebSynergy's community feature.
Read my blog on that.
For doing this we had to extend the existing table structure by adding new columns
and also creating new tables.
In this blog I will show how easy it is do this using
Project WebSynergy's ServiceBuilder framework
The use case for this example will be to add an ontologyId column
to the existing BlogsEntry table.
We would also create a new BlogsEntryOntologyMapping Table.
Open the
in your favorite IDE (we would recommend NetBeans)
Each <entity> tag corresponds to a table in the DB.
To add "OntologyId" column to the BlogsEntry table
add the following in <entity name="BlogsEntry"> </entity> tag
<column name="ontologyId" type="String" />
We can also add a finder method corresponding to the column that we have just added.
Using this the callers can get the blog entries corresponding to an ontologyId.
<finder name="OntologyId" return-type="Collection">
<finder-column name="ontologyId" />
This would generate a findByOntologyId() in the BlogsEntryPersistence
and BlogsEntryPersistenceImpl.
To add a new BlogsEntryOntlogyMapping table add the following
<entity name="BlogsEntryOntlogyMapping" local-service="true" remote-service="true">
<column name="entryId" type="long" primary="true" />
<column name="ontologyId" type="long" />
Next we need to add getBlogEntriesByOntologyId() to the BlogsEntryLocalServiceImpl class.
public List getBlogEntriesByOntologyId(String ontologyId) throws SystemException{
List blogtnriesList = blogsEntryPersistence.findByOntologyId(ontologyId);
return blogtnriesList;
You will get a compilation error on the blogsEntryPersistence.findByOntologyId(ontologyId) line.
This is because the method is still not added to the BlogsEntryPersistence interface.
But dont mind that as of now :)
After making these changes,
cd to <synergy-workspace>\\e2demo\\synergy\\liferay\\portal\\portal-impl
in the command prompt and run the following ant script.
ant build-service-portlet-blogs
This generates all the service, util, persistence and factory classes that are relevant to Blogs.
Open the <synergy-workspace>\\e2demo\\synergy\\liferay\\portal\\portal-service\\src\\com\\liferay\\portlet\\blogs \\service\\persistence\\BlogsEntryPersistence, you will find that the findByOntologyId() is newly generated.
Open the <synergy-workspace>\\e2demo\\synergy\\liferay\\portal\\portal-service\\src\\com\\liferay\\portlet\\blogs\\ service\\BlogsEntryLocalService and BlogsEntryLocalServiceUtil, you will find that the getBlogEntriesByOntologyId() is newly generated.
Now you can call the BlogsEntryLocalServiceUtil .getBlogEntriesByOntologyId() from any portlet class or jsp,
you will get the blog entries that the specific ontologyId applied to that.
Next the changes have to be made in the db scripts.
For this run ant build-db in the command prompt that you opened before.
Open the <synergy-workspace>\\e2demo\\synergy\\liferay\\portal\\sql\\portal-tables.sql and <synergy-workspace>\\e2demo\\synergy\\liferay\\portal\\sql\\create-\*.sql.
You will find that the scripts have been suitably modifled.
For the changes to be reflected on the DB (could be MySQL, HSQL, etc),
drop the existing tables under lPortal database if any, and re-start the server.
The ontologyId column would be added to the BlogsEntry Table and BlogsEntryOntologyMapping table would have been created.
Extending Project WebSynergy's tables is as simple as this. You can extend this example to any other feature like wiki, bookmarks, etc.


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In Harvest Moon: Magical Melody, there are two caves, and there's rumoured to be something good at the bottom of each. However, the lower you go, the more holes there are that send you back up to earlier sublevels, rather than down.
I've used several in-game days trying to get to the bottom of these mines, without success, and it's starting to get annoying! The lowest level I've reached before being kicked back home is 91.
So is there any kind of pattern to the holes, or some other strategy that could help me proceed deeper? Or is it really just a case of dumb luck and a lot of patience?


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Crown Prince chairs Cabinet session
January 31, 2011
Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz began the Cabinet session at Al-Yamamah Palace in Riyadh today with a briefing on the latest foreign contacts of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, including conversations with Moroccan King Mohammed VI, U.S. President Barack Obama and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
The Cabinet focused on the deadly rains and flooding that hit Jeddah last Wednesday, urging all relevant government bodies to heed the order of King Abdullah to provide urgent relief and support for victims of the natural disaster. The ministers listened to a number of reports on the progress of flood relief efforts, including a briefing by Second Deputy Prime Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz on the outcome of the coordination meeting he chaired yesterday in Riyadh.
After reviewing the latest regional and global developments, the Cabinet reiterated the Kingdom's support for the stability, safety and security of Egypt, a country it characterized as central to the Arab and Islamic worlds. The Cabinet also welcomed the outcome of the 10th session of the Saudi-Turkish joint committee, which was held in Riyadh last week.
Addressing its weekly agenda, the Cabinet authorized Crown Prince Sultan to sign the Charter of the Marine Forum of the Indian Ocean; approved a memorandum of scientific and educational cooperation between the Saudi Ministry of Higher Education and New Zealand's Ministry of Education; authorized the Minister of Finance to sign a draft agreement on customs cooperation with Jordan; authorized the Minister of Commerce and Industry to sign a draft mutual agreement on the Convention of Basic Cooperation between the Kingdom and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization; and approved a decision to enable the Ministry of Social Affairs to supervise childcare centers, research centers and social centers and to issue licenses for social affairs to the private sector.


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After 19 years with Sony, Jack Tretton steps down as SCEA president and CEOWritten by: / / 4 Comments
After nineteen years with the company, and after joining Sony Computer Entertainment America in 1995, Jack Tretton will be stepping down from his roles as president and CEO of SCEA as a result of "a mutual agreement between Mr. Tretton and SCEA not to renew their contractual relationship."
Tretton has of course been with SCEA since the beginning, having played "a pivotal role" in the launch of the original PlayStation, as well as the PlayStation 2, PSP, PlayStation 3, PS Vita and the PlayStation 4.
"During his tenure," a statement from SCEA reads, "Tretton was also responsible for achieving several industry milestones, including surpassing 50 million units sold of PlayStation 2 in North America, and aggressively growing the PlayStation business in Canada and Latin America." Tretton write in a statement:
"Working at SCEA for the past 19 years has been the most rewarding experience of my career. Although I will deeply miss the talented team at SCEA and the passion demonstrated every day by our fans, I'm very excited about starting the next chapter of my career.
"I want to thank the employees, partners and customers for their tireless commitment to the PlayStation brand and, of course, to our fans who have pushed us to new heights of innovation and entertainment over the past two decades. I leave PlayStation in a position of considerable strength and the future will only get brighter for PlayStation Nation."
Big Shoes to Fill
As Tretton steps down from his roles at SCEA, current executive vice president and COO of Sony Network Entertainment International (and a fifteen year veteran of PlayStation), Shawn Layden, will step into the role of president and CEO of SCEA starting April 1st, 2014. Layden wrote:
"It's an honor and privilege to join Sony Computer Entertainment America and be a part of the team that is leading the next generation of gaming and entertainment. SCEA is committed to delivering breakthrough gaming experiences that inspire fans and exceed their wildest expectations.
"As PS4 shows us every day, there has never been a better time to be part of the PlayStation community and I look forward to working with our retail, development, publishing and network partners to further demonstrate why PlayStation is the best place to play."
While we'll definitely miss Tretton's press conference addresses in the future, we wish him all the best with his future endeavours.
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Kirby the dog hailed as hero in discovering Greendale church fire
If every dog has its day, then Kirby's was Christmas.
That's the day the 10-year-old pooch, part border collie and part Australian cattle dog, became a hero - if an unassuming one.
Kirby, a rescue dog who belongs to Fred Saunders of Greendale, was just doing what he does naturally. It was early morning and nature called.
Saunders took him to the backyard, and that's when Saunders noticed the flashing fire alarms inside St. Alphonsus Parish and School. There was no smoke and no fire, but Saunders nonetheless called the Police Department's nonemergency number. Within minutes, Saunders said, squads and fire trucks were on the scene, fighting what ended up being a blaze that caused $200,000 in damage to the building. No cause has been determined.
Saunders isn't sure Kirby is deserving of the attention he's been getting from church officials and staff, which gave him a bag of biscuits and a chew toy when Kirby visited the scene Thursday. "He didn't want to go out," Saunders said.» Read Full Article
St. Alphonsus students will return to school Jan. 6
St. Alphonsus School students will not return to class until Jan. 6, due to an early morning Christmas fire that caused extensive smoke damage to 17 classrooms. They were to have reported back from winter break Jan. 3, explained Principal Pat Wadzinski.
Teachers will report back to the Catholic school Jan. 5.
The fire caused $200,000 in damage to St. Alphonsus Parish and School, Greendale, and its cause is undetermined. No one was in the church, where the fire started, and no injuries were reported.
Wadzinski said two-thirds of the West Loomis Road school was damaged by smoke, and the classrooms need to be cleaned from top to bottom. Two restoration crews have been working in shifts to do so.
About 400 students attend the school.» Read Full Article
Gray and defense lead Nicolet past Franklin, 52-44, in Rathke
Like Nicolet girls basketball coach Corey Wolf said, every team's identity is different than that of the previous year's team's team, no matter how few or in the case of the Knights, how many have graduated.
"That's because everybody brings a little something different to the table,' she said.
And in the case of the Knights on Tuesday afternoon, the difference was junior forward Briana Gray, a transfer who arrived from Mississippi, with a great deal of humility (lots of 'yes, sir's' and 'no ma'am's'), a steep learning curve and a tremendous amount of talent.
Gray demonstrated a great deal of all three qualities in the Knights' 52-44 quarterfinal win over host Franklin in the Christine Rathke Memorial Tournament.
That was especially true in the second half, when she and veteran guards Brittney Fair and Courtney Smith kick-started an 11-2 run to begin the third quarter that eliminated a 22-21 half-time deficit and put the Knights ahead for good.» Read Full Article
From Miss St. Francis to Mrs. Claus, relive the year in pictures
News Photos of the Year and Sports Photos of the Year as selected by NOW staff photojournalists C.T. Kruger and Peter Zuzga.We have just posted our collection of
Browse the galleries to see images from some of the most newsworthy events of the past 12 months. You will also find some of the quieter, but no less photogenic events captured by our award-winning staff.
We also invite you to visit the links below to take a look back at the five most popular NOW photo galleries of 2011:
2011 Track and Field State Meet» Read Full Article
Overnight fire damages St. Alphonsus Church in Greendale
Greendale - On a normal Christmas Day, Father Alan Jurkus would deliver a spirited homily inside St. Alphonsus Catholic Church.
But Sunday, Jurkus was in the parking lot telling parishioners that two morning Masses were canceled because of a fire overnight that caused smoke and water damage in the church. No one was injured.
"We'll be in business next week," Jurkus assured one parishioner. "We'll have a new decorating committee."
The fire broke out about 12:30 a.m. Sunday inside the church, 6060 W. Loomis Road, according to the Greendale Fire Department.
The state fire marshal's office was at the scene Sunday morning investigating the cause.» Read Full Article
Franklin handyman enters Milwaukee County exec race
A Franklin handyman is challenging Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele.
Steven Hogan, 65, is the first challenger to register his candidacy with the County Election Commission. He still needs to file nominating petitions with a sufficient number of valid signatures by Jan. 3 to win a place on the April 3 ballot.
Hogan, a retired U.S. Navy officer, did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
In the early 1990s, Hogan ran unsuccessfully for Oak Creek municipal judge, Oak Creek alderman, Oak Creek-Franklin School Board member and Franklin municipal judge. His 1990 judicial candidacy led the Oak Creek Common Council to adopt an ordinance requiring law degrees for municipal judges.
Hogan holds a bachelor's degree in geography from the University of New Mexico.
Basil Ryan loses appeal over value of condemned river side land
The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that trial judges have discretion to allow testimony about environmental contamination and remediation costs in property condemnation proceedings.
The decision affirmed rulings in the case of former Franklin alderman Basil Ryan, who got a payment of about $650,000 for property along the Menonomee River he claimed was worth almost $3.5 million, taken by the state for use during the Marquette Interchange reconstruction.
The state had offered Ryan about $1.3 million for the land, along the Menomonee River. Because he thought it was worth more, he challenged the value at trial, where a jury concluded in 2008 he deserved about $2 million, and he was awarded the difference between the verdict amount and the state's earlier offer, which amounted to about $654,000.
The case has been in appeals ever since. Ryan challenged the court's decisions to allow evidence of the property's environmental contamination, and block testimony of his own experts and use of his proposed jury instructions
The court held that evidence of contamination and the costs to remediate contaminated property are clearly admissible in state condemnation proceedings, so long as they are relevant to the property's fair market value.» Read Full Article
Shoplifter claims, unsuccessfully, she was accidentally locked in store
Kmart employees who arrived early to open the store at 5600 S. 108th St. in Hales Corners last week found something quite unexpected: A woman with a cart full of merchandise who claimed to have been locked in the store overnight.
According to a police report, Kmart employees found the suspect, a 37-year-old Oak Creek woman, when they opened the store at 4:45 a.m. Dec. 15.
The suspect had a shopping cart full of clothing, cosmetics, handbags and other items, valued at $516.
Price tags were removed from some of the items, and some packaged items were opened.
The woman was also wearing brand new clothes taken from the store.» Read Full Article
Citations in death of Oak Creek bicyclist add to push for vulnerable user law
killed a bicyclist in Oak Creek has been cited for two traffic violations, after a Milwaukee County prosecutor declined to pursue criminal charges in the case.The driver who crossed the center line and
The decision follows similar actions by district attorneys across the state, who have declined to prosecute motorists in crashes that kill bicyclists and pedestrians.
Attorneys have based their decisions on the difficulty of making a case for homicide by negligent use of a vehicle in crashes resulting from illegal actions by motorists. In response, cycling advocates have begun lobbying for a vulnerable user law that would increase the penalties in collisions that kill cyclists, pedestrians and highway workers.
The law would apply directly to the deaths of people like Sam Ferrito.
The 56-year-old was out for an early evening ride on July 17, when Joshua Chomicki, then 18, drove his 2000 Pontiac Sunfire into Ferrito, from behind.» Read Full Article
Eisenhower girls use balance, defense to whip Cudahy, 64-40
The unbeaten New Berlin Eisenhower girls were hoping to get tested Tuesday night, but instead they rolled to a 64-40 victory over previously-unbeaten Cudahy at Ike.
The win improved the Lions' record to 7-0, 6-0 in the Woodland Conference Black Division, while the Packers, leaders of the Blue Division, fell to 5-1, 4-1 in conference play.
In a game that had two of the better players in the state squaring off - Nicole Bauman of Ike, the University of Wisconsin result, and Taylor Gradinjan of Cudahy, it was the supporting players who made the difference.
Bauman scored 19 points and Gradinjan had 16 to lead their respective teams, while Jenna Jagler and Emily Wiltzius added 10 each for the Pack.
But Bauman had more support, as Jenny Weiland had 15 points and Erin Ganzke added 14, while Katie Lang had 12. Jessa Hahn came off the bench to score a bucket and grabbed some big rebounds and Kristin Hesselbach and Taylor McArthur also played a good floor game and helped key the defense.» Read Full Article
Foeckler named to fill Bolender's mayoral term
Al Foeckler, a former Common Council president and alderman, is the new mayor of Oak Creek.
He will take office on Thursday and serve the duration of the late Mayor Dick Bolender's term, which ends April 16.
Foeckler, a personal injury attorney with Cannon & Dunphy SC, was appointed mayor Tuesday night on a 3-2 vote, receiving the minimum number of votes to succeed Bolender, who died unexpectedly Dec. 10. Acting Mayor Stephen Scaffidi received two votes, and former Mayor Dale Richards didn't garner any votes, though he was nominated.
Foeckler, a 13-year resident of the city, served on the council from 1999 to 2008, leaving after his fourth son was born. He received his bachelor's and law degrees from Marquette University.
He said he asked to be appointed out of respect to Bolender, who he served under, and because he was familiar with issues facing Oak Creek.» Read Full Article
Authorities identify victim in Washington County crash
The Washington County Sheriff's Department has released the name of the Cudahy man killed in a crash early Saturday.
Henry Burazin, 78, died at a hospital after being involved in the crash, authorities said. He was driving north on U.S. Highway 41 in the Town of Wayne about 8 a.m. Saturday when his car slipped on an ice patch. It crossed into the southbound lanes near County Highway D, and struck a tractor-trailer truck, authorities said.
Three passengers in Burazin's vehicle also were injured. They were identified as Burazin's wife, Colleen, 75; Jeanne Burazin, 56, of Milwaukee; and Katy Jager, 29, of Milwaukee. No information on their conditions was available.
The truck driver, George Pinter, 60, of Hickory Hills, Ill., was not injured.
Report: Associated branches in Waukesha, Brookfield, Greendale to close
a report Saturday in the Wisconsin State Journal.Associated Bank branches in Waukesha, Brookfield and Greendale are among the locations that will close as part of a consolidation announced Friday, the according to
Associated, the largest bank based in Wisconsin, said Friday it was closing 21 branches in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Illinois, but officials did not disclose with branches were closing.
An employee with the Green Bay-based bank provided the State Journal with a list of the branches that are slated to close, including two in Madison. A company spokeswoman on Saturday would not confirm the list.
Cudahy man dies after car hits truck in Washington County
A Cudahy man died Saturday morning when a car he was driving slipped on an ice patch and collided with a semitrailer truck in Washington County.
The crash happened just after 8 a.m. on southbound U.S. 41 in the Town of Wayne, according to the Washington County Sheriff's Department.
The 78-year-old driver from Cudahy and three passengers were heading north when the car slipped and crossed into the southbound lanes near County Highway D and crashed into the semitrailer, the sheriff's department said.
The driver died after he was flown to a hospital. The driver's wife, 75, and two other passengers also were hospitalized.
The truck driver, 60, from Illinois was not hurt.» Read Full Article
Verhalen, Michalski join race to be mayor
Two more candidates for Oak Creek mayor have emerged: Alderman Thomas Michalski and Oak Creek-Franklin School Board Member Mark Verhalen.
They join acting Mayor Stephen Scaffidi in the race for the city's top leadership position. Scaffidi replaces Mayor Dick Bolender, who died Saturday but had indicated he would not seek a fourth term.
People interested in running for the mayoral post have until 5 p.m. Jan. 3 to file their candidacy paperwork, which can be obtained at City Hall.
Scaffidi's aldermanic seat is not up for re-election in April, but Michalski's is. He told NOW that he would run for both positions.
"If I were to win both elections, I wouldn't take alderman," Michalski said. So far, he is the only candidate for the aldermanic position.» Read Full Article
Greendale schools pull Hindu song from winter concerts
The Greendale School District removed a Hindu devotional song from a series of elementary school seasonal concerts this week after parents objected to the song.
The song, Raghupati Ragava Raja Ram, was a favorite of Mahatma Gandhi, sung on his famous Salt March to the sea. An online translation of its lyrics referred to Hindu deities Sita and Rama and said: "God or Allah is your name."
Anna Madden, spokeswoman for the district, said the song was going to be performed at three elementary schools this week along with other holiday songs.
Here's a statement she put out about the controversy:
"The decision to change the program for this year's winter concerts was made after a final review of the songs that would be included. Replacing this song was based on concerns from some parents and was among other changes made to the program. The elementary school principals in the District made the recommendation to omit this song and District Superintendent William Hughes, who made the final decision, supported the change.» Read Full Article
Man, 74, calls police after being shortchanged by 'escort'
A 74-year-old Milwaukee man called police to report a theft of $50 after two women failed to give him $50 back in change for "escort services" he received at an Oak Creek hotel Monday.
According to the police report:
The man told police he had contracted for one of the women, known as "LaDonna," to give him a $50 back massage from 1:13 a.m. to 1:43 a.m. in his room at Days Inn, 1201 W. College Ave.
The man told the women he only had a $100 bill, and the women agreed to provide him with change in the morning, but he never received it.
Police questioned LaDonna, a 22-year-old Illinois man dressed as a woman, who told police he was an escort who had his own website advertising LaDonna's services.» Read Full Article
Man wearing Santa hat spits on people in church parking lot
Churchgoers were welcomed to an unusual sight Sunday when an intoxicated man who was wearing a Santa Claus hat was spitting on people in the church parking lot.
According to the Oak Creek police report:
Police responded to a report of an intoxicated man wearing a Santa Claus hat and spitting on people in the parking lot at Oak Creek Assembly of God, 7311 S. 13th St., at 7:45 p.m. Dec. 11.
The suspect, a 74-year-old Milwaukee man, had been banned from the property due to past disorderly incidents at the church.
The church declined to file charges and the man was taken to the Days Inn, where he was a registered guest.» Read Full Article
Good Samaritan ends up victim of car theft
A man who stopped to offer aid to a person thrown from a car became the victim in an apparent strong-armed car theft on North Root River Parkway on Dec. 9.
According to a Greendale police report:
The man was driving on South 76th Street near the Timber Wolf Preserve shortly before 8:30 p.m. when he observed a vehicle in front of him pull to the side of the road and throw a person out the passenger side door.
The man stated he pulled over and got out of his vehicle to see if the passenger needed help when someone suddenly came up behind him and began choking him.
While the victim was wrestling with his attacker, the passenger who was "thrown" from the car got up from the side of the road and got into the victim's vehicle, and his assailant got into his vehicle.» Read Full Article
Lamb on the lam causes headaches on Rawson Avenue
An Oak Creek police officer who responded to a report of a goat running loose in traffic discovered two things: the goat was actually a lamb, and a lamb on the lam is hard to corral.
According to Oak Creek police, a caller reported that a goat was running northbound in traffic on South Ash Street and East Rawson Avenue around 12:40 p.m. Dec. 9.
The officer responding to the call reported the animal was actually a lamb, and believed it belonged to the petting zoo at Mega Discount Nursery, 1901 Rawson Ave.
The officer tried to assist nursery employees who were trying to corral the lamb, but he was unable to secure it before leaving the area.
Employees at the nursery continued to follow the lamb, who led them on a two-hour chase through yards, over fences and across streets.» Read Full Article
Franklin girls turn back Oak Creek rally, 41-32
Can a team that has made the state tournament field four times in the last 11 years really fly under the radar?
If you're the Franklin girls basketball squad that is the perception as despite three easy wins in a row the Sabers were getting no love from area pundits.
But Franklin put on a good lobbying effort Tuesday night, as it blew a 15-2 first quarter lead, but rallied and held off visiting Oak Creek, 41-32.
"I think we just told everyone that we're for real," said Franklin coach Tony Kathrens. "Oak Creek is the measuring stick that verifies where we are in a given season, where we need to be. We've been to state four times, we've been an established program in the area, but sometimes I think that gets forgotten."
Junior guard Jenny Eickhorst, whose two breakaway lay-ups, including a three-point play in the last 45 seconds clinched the game, also thinks so.» Read Full Article
Funeral services set for Dick Bolender
Funeral services for Oak Creek Mayor Dick Bolender, who died Saturday at age 68, will be Wednesday.
Visitation will be from noon to 5:45 p.m. at St. Stephen Catholic Church, 1441 W. Oakwood Road, Oak Creek, with a funeral Mass to follow at 6 p.m.
Bolender died unexpectedly at home Saturday, and the cause of death is not known. No autopsy will be performed, said his daughter, Lisa Reid.
The Oak Creek Police Department will honor the mayor with a 21-gun salute; Bolender's son, Michael, is a captain on the force.
Bolender served the city for 10 years, first as an alderman and then as a three-term mayor. He had just last Tuesday announced he would not seek a fourth term.» Read Full Article
Oak Creek coal plant to remain shut for months
The first of two new coal-fired power plants that We Energies opened in Oak Creek in recent years will be out of service for several months after an inspection revealed a problem that could lead to turbine corrosion over the long term.
The problem was detected after the plant was taken offline for inspections and maintenance. The plant remains under warranty to the contractor that built it, Bechtel Power Corp.
Utility spokesman Brian Manthey said deposits were found on blades of the coal plant's steam turbine. Most of the blades that have deposits are being cleaned but some need to be replaced, a process that will take months.
"It's likely that we will have it back in the spring," he said.
The second plant, which opened this year, remains in operation, as does the original Oak Creek coal plant, built in the 1950s and 1960s.» Read Full Article
Roundball Rankings is back with a list of the area's best basketball squads
Which squads are the best basketball teams in the area?
You'll find the answers at our Roundball Rankings page, home to a rundown of the top 20 boys and girls teams, the player of the week, photo of the week, area scoring leaders, a fan forum and more.
Germantown (4-0) is the top team in the boys rankings this week while Dominican (3-0) is rated the best girls squad.
Marcus Theatres buying Showtime Cinema in Franklin
Marcus Theatres is buying the 12-screen Showtime Cinema, in Franklin, for an undisclosed price--giving Marcus its first theater in that community, the company announced Monday.
Marcus is buying the theater out of receivership after submitting the highest bid in a Dec. 8 auction, the company said. Showtime, which opened in 2003, is at 8910 S. 102nd St., just west of Highway 100 on W. Loomis Road.
The purchase is expected to close on Wednesday. Plans are for the cinema to be closed on Thursday, and then reopen on Friday as a Marcus Theatres location.
There are no immediate plans for remodeling, but the theater will receive some cosmetic changes, including new digital projection and sound systems, in the coming months, said Bruce Olson, president of Marcus Theatres.
Oak Creek mayor Bolender dies at 68
Dick Bolender, who announced just last week that he would not seek a fourth term as Oak Creek mayor, died unexpectedly Saturday night.
He was 68.
"He wasn't just a mayor to me or a co-worker. He was a personal friend, and I'm really going to miss the guy," said Ald. Michael Toman, who took over Bolender's seat in the 4th Aldermanic District after Bolender was elected mayor.
"His legacy in the city is, he's probably one of the most honest politicians I've known in my life. A good honest city servant and a good family man. Those are the things I'll remember," Toman said Sunday. "He said what he believed and he believed what he said. You never had to question where he stood on issues. Whether you agreed with him or not, he took a stand. He was that kind of man. He wasn't wishy-washy."
A proud Republican, Bolender wasn't afraid to speak his mind but still listened to other people speak theirs at regular "Meet the Mayor" sessions at City Hall. He started the tradition in 2003 as a way to get residents more involved in the community and to find out what's on their minds. He had taken a similar approach when he was first elected as an alderman in 2000, meeting residents in their living rooms to talk over coffee.» Read Full Article
Let There Be Light! captures sounds of the season
Let there be light. And also music.
Let There Be Light! is the name of the musical presentation by David HB Drake on Saturday evening at the Beulah Brinton House, 2590 S. Superior St., in the Bay View neighborhood.
Drake will play seasonal music that runs from the first carol sung in North America to English wassails, French carols and the spice of singalongs on mountain banjo, mountain dulcimer, concertina, American Indian flute and guitar. He performs from 4 to 5 p.m. as part of the Beulah Brinton open house celebration.
Admission is free.
- Kathy Flanigan
Oak Creek mayor's sudden death shocks family and city
Oak Creek Mayor Dick Bolender died Saturday night. He was 68.
The cause of death was not immediately known, although a heart attack is suspected, according to Alderman Steve Scaffidi. He had been taken to St. Luke's in Milwaukee late Saturday, Scaffidi said, where he was pronounced dead.
The mayor just last Tuesday announced that he would not seek a fourth term as mayor, saying that after 10 years, it was time to "really retire." Before becoming mayor, Bolender served one year as alderman.
Bolender's daughter, Lisa Reid, said her father was not ill prior to his death and looking forward to the holidays and retirement. "He was so excited for Christmas," she said. "He was excited for the future of not having all those (city) meetings."
Bolender's daughter-in-law said Sunday that prior to joining politics, he worked for American Family Insurance Co., where he was a fire and theft investigator for 36 years. Reid said her father served in the U.S. Air Force Reserve during college; he was a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.» Read Full Article
County will allow golfers to play on chilly (but snow-free) courses
Snow and freezing temperatures are supposed to be par for the course this time of year in southeastern Wisconsin, but with nary a snowflake to be found, Milwaukee County Parks has decided to reopen several golf courses.
That includes Whitnall Park, Franklin. Tee times will be taken that day by calling (414) 425-7931.
The other courses that will be open for play this weekend are Currie Park, Wauwatosa; Grant Park, South Milwaukee; and Lincoln Park, Milwaukee.
Six years in the making OC grapplers finally beat Franklin, 40-34
There was no grand celebration or mobbing of the mat after the Oak Creek wrestlers beat their archrivals from Franklin Thursday night for the first time in six years, 40-34.
But there was a big broad smile that no one could wipe off the face of Oak Creek coach Matt Sommerville.
"It's big, there's no doubt about it," he said. "We'd been hoping to get a win over these guys for a long time now. It'd always be that we'd get them on their backs but we could never keep them there. This time, for the first time in awhile, we got them on their backs and we kept them there."
The Southeast Conference win improved the Knights to 2-0 in league match-ups while the defending dual meet champion Sabers fell to 1-1.
Franklin coach Chad Phillippi was realistic in his assessment of the match. He was working with a line-up that had graduated 14 seniors last spring and he was also handicapped by the fact that he didn't have heavyweight Kyle Orlinski available for this meet due to an injury.» Read Full Article
Police sergeant charged after gun goes off at mall
A Milwaukee police sergeant whose gun went off inside Southridge Mall in Greendale on Nov. 2 was charged Thursday with endangering safety by use of a dangerous weapon, a misdemeanor.
Michael A. Edwards, 45, has been on the force since 1986. He also is the president of the Milwaukee Police Supervisors' Organization, the union that represents sergeants, lieutenants and captains, according to the organization's website.
If convicted, Edwards faces a maximum possible penalty of nine months in jail and a fine of $10,000.
According to a criminal complaint released Thursday, Edwards was in line at Auntie Anne's pretzel shop when he reached into his back pocket for his wallet. As he did, his gun slid out of his waistband and down his pants. As he reached for the weapon, it went off, blowing a hole through his pants. The gun was not in a holster and did not have a safety, the complaint says.
A woman standing nearby heard a loud bang and felt a stinging sensation on her leg, where she suffered a welt, the complaint says.» Read Full Article
City hall and library will be discussed in joint Oak Creek meeting
The Common Council and the Oak Creek-Franklin School Board will hold a joint meeting to discuss a site for a new city hall and library at 7 p.m. Dec. 19 at the Community Center, 8580 S. Howell Ave.
At the insistence of Mayor Dick Bolender, the meeting will be televised.
The date was set after a lengthy discussion on whether the council should meet with all the interested parties separately, as Alderman Stephen Scaffidi recommended, or as one large group, favored by Bolender, who remarked: "Divide and conquer - that's what that's about."
The mayor also said meeting individually with groups would slow the decision process down. "You're going to drag it out for another six, eight meetings."
In the end, the council voted in favor of a larger meeting, and city staff assured the aldermen that results of a resident survey seeking input on the location of a new civic center would be available before that meeting for their review.
Oak Creek approves change in postal building that may never be built
The Oak Creek Common Council on Tuesday approved a change in plans that called for a 900,000-square-foot processing and distribution site for the U.S. Postal Service - at the same time acknowledging the facility may never materialize.
The site, 2201 E. College Ave., is adjacent to the Chapel Hills subdivision, and residents there objected to the revised conceptual plans that would decrease the size of the post office building dramatically, to about 200,000 square feet, but add retail and two- and multi-family housing.
Specifically, residents said the proposed rental properties would increase traffic in the area.
With that in mind, aldermen agreed to add a 50-foot buffer between the rental units and the subdivision, and they gave assurances that a USPS building would likely never be built, given recent reports of the program closing offices and reducing its workforce. They said the plans needed to be modified so that the developer working with the USPS could market the property.
"Part of this driven by the nature of this economy," said City Attorney Lawrence Haskins. "Things are quite stagnant and they need to market the plan."» Read Full Article
Bolender won't seek re-election to Oak Creek mayoral seat
Oak Creek Mayor Dick Bolender will not seek a fourth term this spring.
"I love this community," Bolender said Tuesday night. "But there comes a time when you need to really retire."
He was first elected mayor in 2003, having served as an alderman for one year prior.
He said the decision not to run was hard, made only after "I had a long discussion with my wife."
Meanwhile, Alderman Stephen Scaffidi, who serves as council president, indicated he would run for mayor.» Read Full Article
West Allis, Franklin car dealerships expanding
Two separate car dealerships along state Highway 100, in West Allis and Franklin, have expansion plans.
In West Allis, International Autos has proposed to expand its Audi dealership to 10606 W. Arthur Ave., where Boucher Nissan previously operated, according to a report filed with the city Plan Commission. The Audi dealership is at a neighboring property, at 2400 S. 108th St.
International Autos plans to remodel the former Boucher building, and add around 5,600 square feet of showroom and service space. The entire building would have 22,682 square feet when completed.
Meanwhile, the Boucher Volkswagen dealership, at 6420 S. 108th St., would add 13,884 square feet under a proposal filed with the Franklin Plan Commission.
That building, which would be renovated, now has 16,060 square feet.
Group needs funds to ship cookies to soldiers
The Friends of the Franklin Library's Books for Soldiers group is in immediate need of funds to help ship half of more than 300 boxes of homemade cookies and cards from children to soldiers in Afghanistan.
More than 25 volunteers are packing boxes of cookie "six-packs," candy, hot beverage mix and Christmas cards (made by the children), then filling the voids with popped popcorn as packing material at the Franklin Library.
The Christmas boxes are one of the Books for Soldier's group ongoing support activities, Coordinator Karen Grochowski explained. The boxes are destined for individual soldiers and small units, plus one request of a six-pack per soldier for a 5,000-man group.
It costs about $13 to ship one box, and the group has funds to ship about half. By late Friday afternoon, one load of boxes were in the mail, Grochowski said, adding that volunteers should finish packing by about noon Saturday.
Any contribution towards shipping can be made at the library's Circulation Desk.
NOW honor rolls updated
honor roll page with the most recent lists of outstanding students, including first-quarter results from Forest Park Middle School, Greendale High School, Kennedy Middle School, Muskego High School, Whitnall High School and more.We've just updated our
Congratulations to all the hard-working students and their parents.
You'll always find archived and the most recent honor rolls at www.mycommunitynow.com/honors.
What is your favorite holiday song? Tell us in our online forum
Do you have a favorite holiday song? We'd love to hear which ones you most enjoy and why.
Just visit our forum and let us know which songs you find yourself listening to again and again. It might be a a tune that reminds you of your childhood, or maybe a certain song that brings to mind a lost loved one or family tradition.
We'll be keeping an eye on the comments and will use some as part of a special feature that will appear this holiday season online and in your local NOW newspaper.
If you are looking to get into the holiday spirit, you might want to check out our photo gallery of recent holiday-themed activities.


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Reflections on Funeralsby Thomas Lynch
-excerpts from Limning the Rites of Death in
The Life of Meaning, Seven Stories Press,
www.sevenstories.com, 2007.
A funeral is a way we get through a death. It has not changed fundamentally since the species began doing it forty thousand years ago. The fashions have changed, but the fundamental obligation of a funeral is to bear witness to a death in the family and to initiate remembrance-that's pretty much the same. In some cultures they do that with fire, other places with graves. Some places use caskets. Some places use old doors. Some people leave their dead on the tops of mountains to be eaten by scavenger birds. Some people put them in vaults in veterans' cemeteries. Those are fashions. But the fundamental obligation of a funeral is to provide an opportunity for the living to confront their dead and to dispose of them in a way that's other than the way we dispose of a rock or a rhododendron-that's not changed.
The funerals in my own family-the doing of them, just as the large-muscled involvement in them-give us a chance to say what's happened, and to whom, and how it is, and how we're going to manage. Think of the people who must be there to get a funeral going. You have to have someone who agrees to quit breathing, forever, and then you have to have someone to whom that death matters, and then you have to have someone who tries to make some sense of it. This doesn't seem to change. We have the dead guy, and we have the people to whom the death matters, and someone-shaman, rabbi, priest, a holy one, a witch, whatever it happens to be-comes in and says, "This is what happened and why."
The fashions are constantly in flux, but I do think that we are returning to a time when people see their obligations to take part in these things in a way that for three of four decades we were trying to get away from. Through the 1970s and 1980s, people were getting comfortable with "disappearing" their dead and then having a memorial service or gathering afterward-weeks, months, years afterward-to talk about it. This follows the same sort of progress with other things-with birth and sickness and age. We have, in some ways, the women of the baby-boom generation to thank for the hospice movement. They refused to see their parents die surrounded by the machinery of intensive care and said that they would, as an alternative, bring their people home where they could really take care of them. Even though the medicine had to be downsized, humanity was upsized in that transaction, and I think all to the good. In the same way, men of my generation absolutely refused-for reasons that I'm not entirely sure of-to sit out in the waiting room with a handful of cigars, waiting to be declared a parent by some health care professional. They wanted to be there. They wanted to witness it. They weren't of much use, apparently. All they said was, "Breathe, honey. Breathe." But being there was important. And in the same way, funerals are more a matter of presence and attendance and witness than they were, say, twenty years ago.
People are more serious about their own obligations to tend to these things. Anybody can get on their cell phone and get out their gold card and have their dead parent or grandparent "disappeared" from the face of the earth by someone like me. We can handle that. But, more and more, people are identifying a death in the family as a time when the object is not to get around it, but to get through it. And so they are, in a sense, reinventing funerals. They are reinventing liturgies and ceremonies and metaphors and symbols that speak in a new generation's language to this old, human predicament. Because this is the signature of our species. We die. We don't all pay taxes. We won't all sleep with another member of our species. But we will all die. The numbers are convincing on this, you know. One hundred percent. They hover there-all the time.
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ST. CLAIRSVILLE - A strong second half along with some key contributions from the bench helped Big Red pass its first Division II sectional test Saturday.
Mike Haney's fourth-seeded cagers shot a torrid 53 percent from the floor during the final 16 minutes, scored 40 points and cruised to a 69-42 victory over East Liverpool.
Thanks to the win, Big Red (16-6) will return to Ohio University's Eastern Campus Wednesday for a second round 8 p.m. bout with Minerva. The youthful Potters (Nate Conley had just one senior on his roster) drop the curtain at 6-16.
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SATURDAY VICTORY — Steubenville Big Red's Chris Smith goes up for two points during Saturday's 69-42 victory over East Liverpool in a Division II?sectonal game at Ohio University-Eastern. Steubenville will meet Minerva at 8 p.m. Wednesday on the same floor.
Up 29-24 at the break, Big Red scored seven straight early in the third stanza to break things open. Brandon Herring-Hill, who saw considerable playing time for foul-plagued starters Tajuan Lawson and John Linn, accounted for four of the seven. Adam Sterling also came off Haney's bench to play a key role in the burst, grabbing four offensive rebounds.
Another Herring-Hill hoop (he nailed all three of his field goal attempts) combined with points from Periogn West, Chris Smith and Mylik Young gave Haney's troops a 49-34 lead heading into the final quarter.
Sophomore Lucas Herrington got the winners started in the fourth when he drained a triple. A 10-0 run (Herring-Hill started the burst and Linn finished things) put the tournament win on ice for Big Red.
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Big Red 21 8 20 20 - 69
EAST LIVERPOOL (6-16): Thompson 0 0-1 0; Cunningham 2 3-5 8; Long 6 1-2 13; Emmerling 2 1-2 5; Austin 3 0-0 6; Rickerd 0 1-4 1; Burson 1 0-0 2; Hilditch 0 0-0 0; Reynolds 1 2-4 4; Crawford 0 0-0 0; Bickerton 0 0-0 0; Davidson 1 0-0 2; Adkins 0 1-2 0. TOTALS: 16 9-19 42. 3-pointers: Cunningham; Rebounds 39 (Thompson 8); Turnovers 24.
BIG RED (16-6): West 4 4-6 14; Linn 3 0-0 7; Herring-Hill 4 0-0 8; Bailey 1 0-0 2; Lawson 2 0-0 5; Herrington 1 0-0 3; Young 5 8-8-11 18; Sterling 1 1-3 3; Redman 0 0-0 0; Smith 4 0-2 8; Purdue 0 1-2 1. TOTALS: 25 14-26 69. 3-pointers: West (2), Lawson, Herrington); Rebounds: 45 (Young 12, Sterling 9); Turnovers 9.
The winners were 9 of 15 from the field during the third period and 7 for 15 during the fourth.
"We did a great job of taking the ball to the bucket in the second half," Haney said. "We picked up our defensive intensity at the same time and that made a difference. Once we started to hit some shots in close, then a couple of threes fell for us."
For Conley, the second half was all about intensity.
"We matched their intensity in the first half, then their intensity got to us in the second," he pointed out. "We fought hard in the first half but we couldn't keep it going.
"In the first half, we did a good job of controlling the rebounding. In the second half, we didn't. We allowed them to get way too many second chance shots."
Big Red, which earned two wins over East Liverpool during the regular season, appeared poised to blow the Potters off the Health and Physical Education Building floor early. A West three put Haney's club up 17-4 midway through the opening stanza. The Potters, to their credit, just kept chipping away. Hoops by Austin Emmerling, Aaron Long and Hayden Cunningham allowed East Liverpool to close within seven (21-14) after one.
Early in the second, two Cunningham free throw makes put the score at 21-18. Big Red then reeled off six straight. A hoop at the horn by Ryian Burson made it 29-24 at the half.
During the opening half, the two teams were whistled for 22 fouls, resulting in 28 free throws.
"We were able to build that nice lead early then we had a couple of lulls when we were pressing," Haney noted. "We gave up some easy buckets and had way too many fouls. Fortunately, they weren't shooting well from the line (the Potters were just six of 14) but the ball was bouncing back to them."
Young had a huge game for Big Red, getting 18 points, 12 rebounds (the winners had 45 as a team) and six steals. He also dished out five assists. West finished with 14 while Herring-Hill and Smith evenly divided 16.
"With the foul trouble we were having, the guys off the bench did a good job for us," Haney, whose team recorded 13 steals, continued. "They basically had to finish the second quarter and play most of the third. Herring-Hill, Sterling (he suffered an ankle injury during the third stanza) and Herrington all stepped up for us."
Long had 13 to pace the Potters. He also rejected three Big Red shots. Cunningham added eight. Derek Thompson, East Liverpool's lone senior, grabbed eight of the 39 Potter rebounds.
"We have the foundation for the future and we have to continue to build on it," Conley said. "You can't buy experience like we got here tonight. Our goal next year is to come down here and win the whole thing."
Earlier in the season, Big Red earned a 54-46 victory at Minerva.
"We played a tight game at their place and we didn't shoot well against their zone," Haney noted. "We'll work on our shooting in practice, focus working against a zone and come ready to play Wednesday."


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AP: Applying for ObamaCare benefits could be as daunting as doing your taxes
posted at 4:41 pm on March 12, 2013 by Erika Johnsen
So, apparently, we had to "pass it to find out what's in it," but finding out what's in it first requires hiring an "army of counselors" to help everyone figure it all out. Awesome.
The Associated Press reports that, as the state exchanges through which all Americans will soon need to purchase insurance (if they don't already have it) continue to develop, it's increasingly clear that the process is going to be neither as fast nor as simple as the administration claimed. You don't say:
The government's draft application runs 15 pages for a three-person family. An outline of the online version has 21 steps, some with additional questions.
Seven months before the Oct. 1 start of enrollment season for millions of uninsured Americans, the idea that getting health insurance could be as easy as shopping online at Amazon or Travelocity is starting to look like wishful thinking.
At least three major federal agencies, including the IRS, will scrutinize your application. …
"When you combine those two processes, it is enormously time consuming and complex," added Pollack. He's calling for the government to simplify the form and, more important, for an army of counselors to help uninsured people navigate the new system. It's unclear who would pay for these navigators.
Drafts of the paper application and a 60-page description of the online version were quietly posted online by the Health and Human Services Department, seeking feedback from industry and consumer groups. Those materials, along with a recent HHS presentation to insurers, run counter to the vision of simplicity promoted by administration officials.
Remember, by the way, that this is not optional. Anyone that doesn't have insurance already must either get it or pay the penalty.
As Guy already pointed out today in the Green Room via Mitch McConnell's office, the administration recently released 800 new pages of ObamaCare regulations, adding to a grand total of 20,000 pages — and they're nowhere near finished. What about this did the Obama administration ever think was going to be simple or easy for anyone?
And, just in case you were worried, have no fear: Sequestration will not impact the collection of ObamaCare's many new taxes and fees, because no way could the administration allow anything to jeopardize the image or implementation of their crowning legislative jewel, could they?
Implementation of the taxes and fees from President Obama's healthcare law is on track despite the cutbacks at the IRS from sequestration.
The Affordable Care Act (ACA), enacted in 2010 and derided by Republicans as "ObamaCare," contains the broadest set of tax changes enacted in some two decades — more than 40 alterations in all, including penalties on people who choose not to purchase insurance.
But while IRS and Treasury officials have warned of reduced services as employees are furloughed under the sequester, neither agency has expressed any concern that the automatic spending cuts would delay the rollout of the healthcare overhaul.
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