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FORT WAYNE (Indiana's NewsCenter) - Saint Francis senior guard Q Owens has been named the Cougars 2011-12 Most Valuable Player while senior teammate Kevin Dawson received two team awards at the season ending USF men's basketball awards banquet at Hutzell Athletic Center on Sunday.
Owens led USF in scoring in 2011-12, finished No. 3 on the USF career scoring list with 1,862 points. He led USF in scoring (19.6 ppg) and finished No. 4 in NAIA DII scoring with 706 points, No. 16 in scoring average. He also led USF in assists (3.4 apg) and steals (1.4 spg
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Sophomore forward Scott Kohne eas named USF Most Improved Player after finished No. 3 behind Owens and Dawson in scoring with a 12.2 average and shooting 56 percent from the field in 36 games including 27 starts.
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GOWRIE - A semi tractor caught fire in a machine shed on a farm south of Gowrie Thursday evening.
The truck was destroyed, but the building at 3791 Indiana Ave. sustained only minor damage, according to Gowrie Fire Chief Greg Benson.
No injuries were reported.
The fire was reported at about 6:15 p.m.
Benson said the truck was fully engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived. After the fire was under control, a farmer used a tractor to pull it out of the building.
The snowstorm slowed the firefighters' response, according to Benson.
''It was real slow going out there, and while we were out there the wind came up so it was even worse coming back,'' he said. ''It's treacherous to haul water to rural fires in those conditions.''
He identified the property owner as Don Rasmussen.
Gowrie and Harcourt firefighters were on the scene until about 7:30 p.m.


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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Former Eltingville resident Dorothy Albano, 63, of Toms River, N.J., a loving wife, mother and grandmother, died Tuesday at home.
Born Dorothy Smith in Brooklyn, she lived in her native borough until 1972, when she moved to Eltingville. She relocated to Toms River in 2006.
While on the Island, Mrs. Albano was a parishioner of St. Clare's R.C. Church, Great Kills,
She took great delight in time spent with her family, especially her grandsons.
Surviving are her husband of 42 years, Louis; her daughter, Roseanne Luca; two brothers, Jack and Eugene (Pet) Smith; two sisters, Cookie Steffen and Joyce Honig, and two grandsons.
The funeral will be Saturday from the John Vincent Scalia Home for Funerals, Eltingville, with a mass at 9:45 a.m. in St. Clare's Church. Burial will follow in Resurrection Cemetery, Pleasant Plains.


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There has been much talk and congressional attention lately over the IRS gumming up the works of tax-exempt applications from conservative groups. Perhaps more of that should be directed toward the groups that are already exempt.
One that might deserve some scrutiny is the Restaurant Opportunity Center, a hard-left union front that models itself as a warm-hearted community group and is recognized, despite some of its overtly political work, as a 501c(3) non-profit by the IRS.
ROC has been quite successful at this game. In the last few months, it's had a seat at a private White House strategy meeting on boosting the minimum wage, and it scored $200,000 in public money to push "healthy menu options" for Pacific Island and Asian-American restaurant workers in New Orleans.
The acronym gumbo behind the $200,000 grant is proof, as if any were needed, that government spends large sums on arcane things. The dollar trail began with $3 million in Centers for Disease Control (CDC) funds that were then dished out to 15 different groups. ROC New Orleans got its slice through a STRIVE - "Strategies to Research and Implement the Vision of Health Equity" -- program, in which the Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF) made the sub-grant to ROC New Orleans.
It's not clear just how many Asian-American and Pacific Islander restaurant workers there are in New Orleans, and hardly any program reaches every one of its target audience anyway. Yet, extrapolating from census data and the like, ROC Exposed, a Washington group questioning ROC's tax-exempt status and activities, puts the figure at 1,500.
That figure isn't precise, and it's possible the actual number is a bit higher given New Orleans' large Vietnamese population. Regardless, this is a nice pot of money being spent on a dubious proposition affecting a sliver of folks.
If, in fact, that's what it's spent on. Not long after landing the cash, ROC New Orleans advertised for a "High Road Coordinator" -- someone who will "engage restaurant owners who employ Asian American workers to 1) sign a pledge to provide healthier food for the workers 'family meal' or staff meal, and 2) join RAISE."
Another acronym! In this case, RAISE (Restaurants Advancing Industry Standards in Employment) is a national association that lobbies for "living wages" and the like. In other words, it acts just like a union.
The strong bond between ROC and unions has been clear for years. A local hotel workers union in New York City birthed ROC after 9/11 as a group devoted to helping former workers at the Windows on the World restaurant that sat atop the southern World Trade Center tower.
ROC-NY came under the leadership of Saru Jayaraman, an activist with impeccable left-wing credentials (Berkeley, Yale Law, fawning New York Times profile) and set about "organizing workers to take collective action in defense of their rights," according to Dollars & Sense, "The Magazine of Economic Justice."
ROC also formed a restaurant, COLORS, that trumpeted itself as a model co-operative that would be owned by the workers. The restaurant has been plagued with problems, however, including a lawsuit by the original workers who accused Jayaraman and other ROC bigwigs of treating them like proletarian scum (the lawsuit was dismissed on technical grounds, though the court did not dispute the facts).
Here in New Orleans, ROC has been a low-key player thus far. It proclaimed victory last year following a legal settlement with Tony Moran's Restaurant, but critics look askance at its intentions. ROC United's history suggests it's more concerned about labor agitation than healthy menu options for restaurant workers.
"They should not interfere with other businesses here in New Orleans," The Pelican Institute's Kevin Kane wrote in New Orleans City Business. "We already have an industry characterized by innovation, service, diversity, value and opportunity. Owners, employees and customers benefit from this flexibility and we should be wary of union advocates who seek to restrict it."
APIAHF officials insist they have made it clear none of their money is to be spent on such overtly political work, but money is fungible. The same is true for ROC overall, which is why ROC Exposed has filed an IRS complaint against the group's charitable status.
"We can all go to Congress and talk to lawmakers, but ROC is specifically set up as a charity," ROC Exposed spokesman Mike Paranzino said. "They lobby for specific legislation and go to Congress seeking cosponsors of bills -- the definition of lobbying -- and they don't disclose it."
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New York Shomrim in neighbourhood feud
The Shomrim patrol Jewish neighbourhoods
A dispute has broken out in New York between an Orthodox Jewish security force and a man arrested for hitting a rabbi.
Dwight Chaparro was charged with felony assault after battering the 57-year-old Rabbi Mordechai Stern over the head with a wooden shelf. The attack was said to be because of a parking space.
But according to the New York Daily News Mr Chaparro's mother has now criticised members of the Shomrim, a private security organisation, over how they responded to the situation.
She accused them of leaving her son "black and blue" after the incident.
The founder of one Shomrim group said the criticism was misplaced. He told the Daily News: "People think we go around trying to beat people up. We don't do that."


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Woman in the check out ahead of me... Piles of bread, pastries, wheat wraps, several cakes, toaster poptart thingies, sausage rolls, english muffins, butteries.... & 1 pack of gluten free sausages
"Imagine all the people, living life in peace..."
"Nothing will work unless you do."
Woman in the check out ahead of me... Piles of bread, pastries, wheat wraps, several cakes, toaster poptart thingies, sausage rolls, english muffins, butteries.... & 1 pack of gluten free sausages
Every time I hear the dirty word 'exercise', I wash my mouth out with chocolate.
I wish I liked to eat liver.
I babysit a lot, and most parents are sweet enough to either let me raid their fridge while I'm there, or even buy stuff for me to eat. Thing is, it's almost always pizza. I guess that's what college kids are supposed to eat. I finally spoke up to one mom about my lactose intolerance and gluten sensitivity. I thanked her for the thought and said I'd probably just bring my own food for extended nanny stays since I can't have dairy or wheat and I don't want her to go out of her way to buy me food. Her response: "so what CAN you eat??" I told her meat, veggies, fruit, etc, and she looked at me with such pity, it almost made me laugh. She really felt sorry for me. (I had about 7 bacon-wrapped scallops in butter, and roasted root vegetables for dinner that night. Super pitiful, I know.) It was like that scene in "This Is 40" where the Ayurveda pediatrician tells them their daughter shouldn't eat wheat or dairy, and Paul Rudd is like, "what else is there? Everything is wheat and dairy!"
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Not to be too straightforward, but... Since companies have started slapping "gluten free" on products that have never had gluten to cash in on suck...I mean, to benefit from the buzz surrounding gluten-free diets right now, the presence of "gluten free" sausage in a persons cart probably says more about the sausage maker than the shopper. Now if it was gluten free bread that would be funny.
Every time I hear the dirty word 'exercise', I wash my mouth out with chocolate.
(I explain that I am steadily losing 2 lbs a week)
Friend: "Reducing carbs and stuff works, but you'll gain it all back when you go back to eating normally."
Me: "That's true of any diet, though -- even WW. If you go back to eating what you ate before, you'll gain weight."
Friend (shocked): "So you're going to do this forever?!"
I've been eating bacon and eggs for lunch every day, mind you. Yeah, I'm really suffering.
Dudes had a houseparty yesterday. Good times. A bit of a cheat with some "battery-acid" quality cider. I didn't go for the cake, pizza or other junk food, and people didn't push any on me as it's generally accepted that "stabbing feelings in the gut" are NOT worth it for anyone's cake, no matter how "yummy" it is.
There WAS, however, some creme-fraiche. Everyone had some cake, some wine/cider/brandy... Despite there being over 9 people there at that point, only 100g of creme-fraiche had gone. I asked if I could have some. Owner said yea. Being tipsy, I proceeded to eat out the tub. Friend complained about germs, so I said I'd keep it for myself and pay her back. Apparently, everyone else thought it was "gross" that I'd eat it plain anyways. The stuff's damn delicious, in my mind. And all the females looked at me like I was about to suddenly grow fat before their eyes. To note: despite my muscle and everyone else's general lack thereof, I STILL had the smallest waist in the room and the only people with more muscled arms than me were my boyfriend and three of the other males.
People should get used to eating cream out the tub, in my opinion. Om, nom, nom.
Perfection is entirely individual. Any philosophy or pursuit that encourages individuality has merit in that it frees people. Any that encourages shackles only has merit in that it shows you how wrong and desperate the human mind can get in its pursuit of truth.
I get blunter and more narcissistic by the day.
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Thanks to a $650,000 reduction in the overall tax levy in the 2009-10 budget for the Morris School District, Morris Township taxpayers will see a decrease in their annual tax bill if voters approve the $101.9 million budget next week.
The same can't be said for Morristown, where owners of the averaged assessed home of $345,000 will pay an extra $225 year if voters approve the school budget next week.
By comparison, Morris Township taxpayers owning a home at the town average of $390,000 would pay $74 less in school taxes.
The total budget is about 2.5 percent, or $2.5 million, larger than last year's budget.
The reason for the disparate tax impact is an annual state calculation of equalized value of the two towns. Because the assessed valuation in Morristown increased at a greater rate than Morris Township, Morristown taxpayers become responsible for a greater percentage of the tax levy.
Next year, Morristown taxpayers will foot about 35.1 percent of the tax levy, as opposed to 33.9 percent for the 2008-09 school year.
Despite the increase in Morristown taxes, district Superintendent Thomas Ficarra said Monday the administration was proud that it had managed to decrease the overall tax levy in one of the toughest economic years.
The decrease comes partly as a result of a renegotiated health care plan for Morris teachers, who agreed to leave a private health care plan and go into a managed care plan, saving the district $1.9 million.
"That's a major source of reduction," Ficarra said.
The district will pay $300,000 less in salaries, mostly as a result of eliminating support staff positions.
Besides the tax levy, Morris schools anticipate about $750,000 in revenue from out-of-district students attending special education programs. The district also received $1.39 million in state aid.
There are several capital projects budgeted for the next school year, including roof renovation at Frelinghuysen Middle School and an upgrade to the heating and air conditional system at the high school.
About 4,500 students attend 10 schools in the Morris district. The district elementary, intermediate and middle schools are attended by students from Morristown and Morris Township. Students at Morristown High School come from Morristown, Morris Township and Morris Plains.


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Actress says character will remain long after she retires
[Elvira At The Atrox Factory 6:30 p.m. until midnight tonight and Saturday, Atrox Factory, U.S. 78 in Leeds. $15. www.atroxfactory.com
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Cassandra Peterson was about two months into a new gig in 1981 when she knew there would be no turning back from the character she had created to host a Los Angeles TV station's horror movie show.
"It started happening right around Halloween, about two weeks after the show had started," she recalls. "My phone started ringing off the hook, because at that time I had my name and number listed in the phone book. It wouldn't stop. We had to disconnect our phone. It was insane. I was like, you've got to be kidding."
But it was no joke. Elvira, the Mistress of the Dark, was going to make Peterson a star.
Nearly three decades later, the Elvira brand is as strong as ever, and Peterson will be in Birmingham this weekend to help open the Atrox Factory, a haunted warehouse attraction in Leeds.
"I can't wait to see it," she says. "I'll just park myself there, sign autographs and meet people."
And unlike some other upcoming Atrox guests (including Linda Blair from "The Exorcist" and Tony Moran from "Halloween"), Peterson will appear as her Halloween-ready character.
"Unlike a lot of these other folks, I own the character myself," Peterson says. "It's not owned by a big movie studio, so I'm able to do that. A lot of actors whose characters are owned by the studio can't appear in character unless they pay royalties."
"I do other movie roles when friends of mine call up and ask," says Peterson, who appeared in pal Paul Reuben's "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure." "But I don't have an agent and don't go on calls anymore. I spend most of my year licensing, merchandising, setting up appearances. It's a business for me."
Peterson comes by her Elvira character honestly, having grown up in a family where her mother and aunt owned a costume shop.
"I was always the queen of Halloween," she says. "In second grade, I dressed as Miss Kitty from 'Gunsmoke.' I always had the best costume every Halloween."
She also was a horror movie fan. Not slasher horror flicks, but the old horror films from her childhood.
"All of my friends were collecting Barbies, and I was collecting the werewolf and Dracula and the Creature from the Black Lagoon," Peterson says.
So Elvira - the B movie hostess with black hair and ample cleavage - came easily to Peterson, and that's meant that the actress has never been out of work.
"People always like to say, oh, horror is making a comeback," Peterson says. "But it's always there. You have the series of books by Anne Rice, and then R.L. Stine and Stephenie Meyer - they're just one after another - I don't see any gaps there."
Peterson's 13-year-old daughter is a fan of Meyer's "Twilight" books, but Peterson is just mom to the teen.
"She loves the books and stuff, but she's totally embarrassed about me, just like any 13-year-old," Peterson says. "She just doesn't see the value of Elvira right now. I told her that she's going to miss it someday."
Peterson, who is 57, says she can see a time when she may retire as the character, but she won't retire the character." I think the character has become iconic enough that she'll always be around," the actress says.
One thought? A feature film. And Peterson knows just the actress to play the Mistress of the Dark.
"Angelina Jolie could be Elvira," she says. "I actually met her when she was about 12 years old. I had a date with her dad. I remember seeing her and telling him, 'You're in for big trouble, mister.' I think I was right."
Still, she thinks that Jolie has the look to pull off Elvira, with one caveat.
"Honestly, the most important part of the character is not the cleavage," Peterson says. "It's the sense of humor, and I don't know if she's funny enough."
Alec Harvey is features editor for The Birmingham News. E-mail him at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Halloween Events
Atrox isn't the only thrill ride around these parts during Halloween. Here are a few other spooky options as the holiday approaches:
Sloss Fright Furnace is up and running at Sloss Furnaces through Nov. 1. Filled with frights and scares, the event also includes live music. Tickets are $15. More info at www.frightfurnace.com.
"The 13th Friday: Ready, Set, Die!" is an original horror spoof opening Thursday at the Playhouse, 1816 Third Ave. North. Written by Billy Ray Brewton, it's being performed by his Theatre Downtown. Tickets are $17. Call 306-1470 for more info.
Boo at the Zoo runs at the Birmingham Zoo Oct. 10-26. Features games and safe trick-or-treating for kids, who are urged to come in costume. $7. www.birminghamzoo.com.
"Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde" will be presented by the Alabama Ballet Oct. 30-Nov. 2. The haunting story is brought to life by the dancers. $20-$55. www.alabamaballet.org.


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Bergen County's indicted Democratic party chairman announced today that he will resign, according to a report on northjersey.com
Democratic Chairman Joseph Ferriero's decision to resign, effective Jan. 22, comes after months of pressure from fellow Democrats to step down.
Ferriero and Dennis Oury, counsel for the party organization, were indicted in the fall by a federal grand jury on charges of conspiracy to commit fraud. Ferriero's trial has been scheduled for September.


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Stipends halted; changes in staffing
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With the conclusion of the 2012-2013 school year just in the rear-view mirror, the Warren County School District is already looking ahead to next fal....
Well no one is disagreeing with that so I still don't get your point.
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Not the last two years, longer range.
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No I'm saying the teacher and support staff cuts have been well beyond the reduction percentage of students over the past two years. Administrative staff cuts have been negligible and as you or someone else put it is more of just a shell game. Our Board has been a lap dog for the Administration. Also I'm not sure we've put any buildings out of commission over the past two years.
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No, not quid pro quo, but when you have less students graduating from all four schools that you have previously had graduating from just one, there has to be some correlation. Same goes with closing many of the elementary schools in Warren. Do you mean to say that we still need the same administration with fewer buildings open? The janitorial staff has been reduced.
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MTOMTO - I'm trying to understand the relevance to the situation at WCSD. Class sizes have increased across the board. Other areas are stretched thin to the boneThat is not a quid pro quo adjustment reaction based on student numbers dropping or building square footage. As far as the accountant I certainly mentioned it in my comments. They should make do with what they have. Many other businesses have done it during tough times and found a way to get reports out etc. Places get 20% of their workforce cut but still have to get out required reports. They figure a way to do it. It might mean salaried staff working a longer work day. That's reality in the real world.
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I understand Brazil...I understand
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Brazil, IMHO maintaing current staff with less students, educators, faciliteis, and even janitorial staff is an increase in itself. Did everyone just forget about the additional accountant?
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I don't disagree SOS but I have been so depressed over the actions of this Board and their Lemming like approach (and the vote is 9-0, 9-0, 9-0, 9-0 that I wanted to give them some credit for something. Now I'm just going to sit back and watch how many Pine Grove exceptions are approved by the Superintendent for rich kids going to school outside their geographic area while middle income and poor kids are denied for a multitude of presented reasons. I look forward to the first lawsuit being filed against the District.
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Brazil, I think you gave them too much credit for last nights actions because they may have gave those away but where they gave away they added in other places. For example, why does our online/alt end principal need to be a made a 260 when at one time our previous superintendent said she was going to have to justify her salary as she has the least seniority and would have been cut. One of her tasks is to try to gain back cyber charter or charter students through our online services available but yet this year tccs is almost at total building capacity. Wonder how much that will cost our district?
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If there is a stipend that one could at least build a case to justify it would be Ms. Stewarts. I'm not ready to say even that stipend was correct for the times we live in but at least a non-farcical case could be built to justify it.The Board should have a simple rule and that be that they won't require any burden or sacrifice from the students and staff that they don't equally apply to administrative staff. I have taken the whole teachers pension and other issues to task in the past but when you do what this Board did and does in the case of stipends and other areas where by all appearances they appear to bend over backwards to avert administrative staff from feeling any pain you lose all credibility at the negotiating table. We know the savings in Administration won't have the financial impact of other areas due to the smaller base costs but this is about appearances, about fairness, about…..oh yeah, the students.
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The School Board has acted a much like a wide slice of Corporate America of late which means its strategy for motivating the vast majority of its staff is through the threat of pink slips, increased workloads, increased staff sizes, and reduced tools to be able to effectively complete their work. On the other hand Executive staff is provided with new technology, massive stipends to help them deal with demands of the Superintendent staffing vacancy, and new staff if they happen to have lost positions comparative to another period of time. We'd like to assume some of the well deserved public embarrassment they have suffered resulted in the changes made to the bonus stipend program at last night's Board meeting. We know we would never hear them actually admit that. CONTINUED
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Brazil, the minutes wouldn't be posted from last night but if you look on last nights agenda you will see all of the votes that passed. The principals that went to 260 were not the only raises. We also gave an administrator a raise for a certification that he was required to have and we paid for him to get the certification too.
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Brazil, look at last nights agenda. They get raises when principals go from 220 to 260.
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What is the exact section in the Board minutes that discusses raises to Administrative staff?
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Conversion charter, that's something that no one is talking about....the board was warned. For those who don't understand, yes it is possible and we will continue to get the bill. Problem? At this point, to protect the education of my youngest child, I may be willing to consider looking at it if it doesn't copy and paste wcsd curriculum. Looks like TCCS will hit full building capacity this year too. Not just waiting lists for specific grades but when I called at was told that they are only a dozen students away from building capacity. Maybe wcsd needs to look internally at why people are looking for alternatives.
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Good points saveourschools. Pretty sure they are setting the table so they can argue later that there were administrative concessions. While some on this board are good, the lot of them are allowing the tail to wag the dog.
They are not only setting the table for an easy reason to strike, they are also hand delivering a conversion charter to a newly rennovated Ike. In all liklihood, Sheffield too.
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100% MTO! Even if a strike happens our teachers should stand up to the board. I was in high school in another city during one of the longest pa teacher strikes in history. It changed pa laws on teacher strikes. The students recognized the importance of the teachers to education and when everyone was force back, me and a group of friends organized a student strike. Teachers morale and resources have been put through the shredder in our district. I hope the see their importance just as I recognized it when I was 16 years old. We keep protecting administrators and directors but they don't provide what our kids need - education.
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It sounds a lot like a shell game to me. Round and round it goes, where it stops, nobody knows. Good luck with the next teacher's contract negotiations.
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There was more too and all you have to do is go on the esb to see it. Don't expect to see it here.
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What's the point anymore? I mean really? You print this like as if something good happened but yet last nights agenda had raises being given to administrators. First we had a director who when moved into the current position was given a raise above his step according to the act 93 plan and last night he got another for attaining his letter of superintendent. Since he received a higher discretionary amount in the first place, that raise was irresponsible when we can barely pay for necessities. Then we had another principal going from a 220 to a 260. Higher pay and more vacation time just to oversee online education and the small alt end program.....
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Animal Donation Advocate, Inc is a non profit organization supporting low income families, help them with medical bills. Our organization has no tie to any timeshare sale organization. any one that would like more information and how we help the public can contact us. we work with many veterinarian and veterinary animal hospitals around orange county and as far as Santa Maria, San Diego and the state om MN.
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Allentown ice hockey team unveils name, logo
The puck won't drop at the hockey arena in Allentown for awhile, but we now know what the team's official name will be.
The minor league team announced Wednesday that it will be called "The Lehigh Valley Phantoms."
"We are excited to play in Allentown and proud to be a part of the city's revitalization, which will enhance the entire region," said team co-owner Rob Brooks. "We feel strongly that we will be the home team for the entire Lehigh Valley. That commitment is reflected in our development of Phantoms Charities with Air Products to benefit the whole Lehigh Valley, the launch of our G.O.A.L. program throughout Lehigh Valley's schools, and now in our official team name."
The team is the American Hockey League's top development team of the NHL's Philadelphia Flyers.
The Phantoms have made a 30-year commitment to play at Allentown's new arena, whose founding partners include Air Products, Lehigh Valley Health Network and Service Electric Cable TV and Communications.
Arena seats are now on sale, and fans are encouraged to visit the team website at www.phantomsarena.com or call 610.224.GOAL (4625).
The team is expected to take the ice at the arena in 2014.
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AUBURN, Alabama – It took Auburn 10 days to hire Gene Chizik in December of 2008. We're two days into the latest football coaching search and one name that appeared then and now is TCU coach Gary Patterson.
Auburn interviewed Patterson in 2008.
Is he on the top of the list? Nobody is saying. But probably not.
The names being bandied about are Patterson, former Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino, Alabama defensive coordinator Kirby Smart, Arkansas State coach Gus Malzahn, Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher, Boise State coach Chris Petersen and, likely, Louisville coach Charlie Strong.
Are there others? Could be. Chizik seemed to be a late entry in 2008.
Can history teach us anything from the last coaching search? Maybe. The principals who were charged with hiring the last coach are still on board, mainly Athletics Director Jay Jacobs and President Jay Gogue.
These are the ones, with the schools they were at, who very much part of the process ate in 2008:
Gene Chizik
Iowa State
Won a national championship at Auburn in 2010…Was 33-19 overall and 15-17 in SEC…went 3-9 overall and 0-8 in the SEC this season…will receive $7-million-plus parting gift from Auburn.
Derek Dooley
Louisiana Tech
Went 4-8 at Louisiana Tech in 2009…hired as head coach at Tennessee, where he went 6-7, 5-7 and 4-7 before being fired before season's end this year…was 4-19 in the SEC. Got the interview, in part, because he's the son of former Auburn QB and SEC legend Vince Dooley.
Turner Gill
Charles Barkley made him a player in the coaching search, at least after the fact…went 5-7 at Buffalo in 2009…was hired by Kansas where he went 3-9 and 2-10, was fired and got a $6 million buyout…6-5 at Liberty this season
Todd Graham
Has been at three schools since… Last four years he's gone 28-21 as head coach at Tulsa, Pittsburgh and Arizona State
Brady Hoke
Ball State
Was hired by San Diego State where he went 4-8 and 9-4 the next two years…hired as head coach at Michigan, where he's gone 11-2 and 8-4. Overall 32-18 since.
Gary Patterson
Interviewed then, on the list now… went 12-1 in 2009, 13-0 in 2010, 11-2 in 2011 and 7-4 this season…is 116-34 record at TCU in 13 seasons.
Rodney Garner
Former Auburn player and assistant…Like 2009, the assistant head coach, defensive line coach and recruiting coordinator at Georgia.
Patrick Nix
Former Auburn player was offensive coordinator at Miami back then…didn't coach in 2009…has been at Charleston Southern the last three years, lately as the offensive coordinator.
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No doubt such proposals are politically popular. But the overwhelming body of evidence suggests that increasing the minimum wage would do little to reduce poverty or inequality. On the other hand it would almost certainly reduce employment opportunities, especially for those low skilled, entry level workers for whom a job represents the first rungs on the ladder of opportunity.
Over the last several years, Cato scholars have written on the pitfalls of raising the minimum wage.
- Mark Wilson, "The Negative Effects of Minimum Wage Laws," Policy Analysis No. 701, June 21, 2012.
- Richard V. Burkhauser and T. Aldrich Finegan, "The Economics of Minimum Wage Legislation Revisited," Cato Journal, Vol. 13, no1 (Spring/Summer 1993).
- Clifford Thies, "The First Minimum Wage Laws," Cato Journal, Vol. 10, No. 3 (Winter 1991).
Additional Commentary
- Jim Dorn, "Mr. President, Increasing the Minimum Wage is Wrong Medicine for Ailing Economy" Cato-at-Liberty, January 22, 2014
- William Poole, "Minimum Wage and Unemployment," Cato-at-Liberty, January 15, 2014
- Doug Bandow, "The Minimum Wage: Immoral and Inefficient," Cato-at-Liberty, January 14, 2014
- Mark Calabria, "Pay Should Be Tied to Productivity," Orange County Register, December 13, 2013
- Michael Tanner, "Raising the Minimum Wage Is Not the Answer," Cato-at-Liberty, August 30, 2013
- James Dorn, "The Minimum Wage Is Cruelest to Those Who Can't Find a Job," Forbes, July 22, 2013
- James Dorn, "The Minimum Wage Delusion, and the Death of Common Sense," Forbes, May 7, 2013
- Doug Bandow, "The Minimum Wage Typifies Much That is Wrong with Washington," Forbes, April 1, 2013
Downsize the Department of Labor
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Peter Van Doren: An Economist's View on the Minimum Wage
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Jesse Joyce started his comedy career in Pittsburgh in 1998. In 2001 he made the move to New York City and has been earning a reputation as a rising star on the comedy scene with performances loved by crowds around the world, and a writing style admired and respected by comedians at every level.
In television, Joyce has made appearances on Comedy Central's hit shows Comedy Underground with Dave Attell, the inaugural season of Live at Gotham and is a frequent guest on @Midnight with Chris Hardwick. He was a recurring panelist on History Channel's I Love The 1880's, hosted Date Night for AMC, Entertainment Tonight, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno's "Pass The Mic", VH1's Morning Buzz, Talk of The Fest from The Just For Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival, Stand-Up 360 with Caroline Rhea and Gotham Comedy Live on the AXS network. In 2010 he was a top 20 Semi-Finalist on NBC's Last Comic Standing. Currently, Joyce can be seen regularly on @Midnight on Comedy Central and RedEye on the Fox News Network.
In 2011 Stags was released, a feature film produced by Ben Barenholz of Raising Arizona, Barton Fink and Requiem for a Dream and starring Joyce, the dark comedy is about four New York City permanent bachelors, and is currently available on NetFlix.
An accomplished writer as well, Jesse currently writes for the hit Comedy Central show @Midnight. Also in 2014, in addition to performing on the show, he helped Dave Attell write his late night comedy series Comedy Underground with Dave Attell. Jesse also wrote for the 85th Annual Academy Awards on ABC hosted by Seth MacFarlane, The 2014 BET Awards hosted by Chris Rock, The 2013 Guys Choice Awards on Spike TV and he's a writer and consulting producer on The Jim Norton Show for Vice.com. But Jesse's writing is probably best known as a veteran of the last 10 consecutive Comedy Central Roasts. Starting in 2007, Jesse was the behind-the-scenes half of the long time Comedy Central Roast writing partnership with the late, great Greg Giraldo including the Comedy Central Roasts of David Hasselhoff, Joan Rivers, Larry the Cable Guy, Bob Saget and Flavor Flav. His roast writing talents were also utilized for the TBS Celebrity Roast of Cheech and Chong and success writing for the Comedy Central programs led to his being requested to write Comedy Central's Burned! The Roast's Most Outrageous Moments and for The Comedy Central Roasts of Trump, Charlie Sheen, Roseanne, James Franco and Justin Bieber. Joyce's writing has been utilized by Joan Rivers on TV Land's How'd You Get So Rich? and in 2012-2013 he was a staff writer for both seasons of the popular The Burn with Jeff Ross on Comedy Central. His work in TV, Radio and Print advertising has won him several American Advertising Awards as far back as 2001. Jesse can be heard on the XM and Sirius Satellite Radio where his acclaimed CD Joyce To The World is part of regular rotation. His reoccurring appearances on the The Opie and Anthony Show now The Opie with Jim Norton Show and the nationally syndicated Bob and Tom Morning Show, have become listener favorites and led to a featured performance on Bob and Tom's CD As Big As A Hat.
Jesse has entertained audiences across America as well as in 15 countries on 4 continents with his live show at clubs, colleges, and festivals. An established performer with the USO, he has performed overseas on numerous occasions. In addition to his busy club and college schedule, Joyce has appeared at the 2013 Just For Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival, the TBS Comedy Festival in Las Vegas and in 2008 was selected to participate in the Great American Comedy Festival a festival sprung of Johnny Carson's legacy. When not headlining clubs or performing all around New York City he can be seen in theaters as part of The Comedy Addiction Tour where comics bring humor and poignancy to the struggles of addiction.
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WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, July 3 (Thomson Reuters Accelus) – A U.S. regulator's case against Barclays revealed significant failures with the bank's internal controls as well as failures with its corporate governance.
By Emmanuel Olaoye
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, July 3 (Thomson Reuters Accelus) – A U.S. regulator's case against Barclays revealed significant failures with the bank's internal controls as well as failures with its corporate governance.
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NEW YORK/LONDON, June 28 (Thomson Reuters Accelus) – The $453 million settlement Wednesday between Barclays and UK and U.S. officials over the manipulation of a global interest-rate setting formula may be the first in a series of big-money settlements, and those who strike a deal later may face steeper terms.
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NEW YORK, May 31 (Business Law Currents) – Electric utilities and natural gas companies are facing new regulatory uncertainties involving the jurisdictional reaches of two agencies overseeing futures and derivatives trading as well as wholesale energy transactions: the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Recent rulemaking efforts and litigation have raised questions as to the overlap and division of powers of these two entities over certain financial transactions and enforcement actions of interest to the energy industry. (more…)
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NEW YORK, May 29 (Thomson Reuters Accelus) – U.S. regulators are looking to use new their oversight authority over foreign derivatives trades to reduce the chances of new shocks such as JPMorgan Chase & Co's trading loss of at least $2 billion.
By Nick Paraskeva, Thomson Reuters Accelus contributing author
NEW YORK, May 18 (Thomson Reuters Accelus) – The SEC has new priorities in its 2012 exam program, including verifying firms' holding of client funds and their net capital calculations.
By Emmanuel Olaoye
NEW YORK, Feb. 9 (Thomson Reuters Accelus) – Two vivid reminders of the job-security perils faced by compliance officers and others who sound alarms at company practices were provided last week by a congressional hearing into the MF Global bankruptcy and a federal appeals court ruling on whistleblower law.
Jan. 10 (Business Law Currents) — Global regulators have been anything but idle in 2011. Predictably, the U.S. regulatory landscape was dominated by the 800-lb. statutory gorilla, the Dodd-Frank Act. Canada busied itself trying to accommodate Basel III's coming capital requirements. Anti-bribery regulation managed to elbow its way into UK headlines in spite of a phone hacking scandal and a royal wedding. China cracked down on loopholes for variable interest entities, while Australia's new tax regime found few friends in the mining sector down under. (more…)
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NEW YORK, Dec. 16 (Thomson Reuters Accelus) – Several recently adopted rules in the U.S. are going into effect for specific types of firms in 2012. These rules include ones released by the Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Federal Reserve, issued to implement the Dodd-Frank Act and as a response to market developments.
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NEW YORK/WASHINGTON, (Thomson Reuters Accelus) — A financial industry lawsuit seeking to block new U.S. rules on commodity position limits on the grounds that they lack an adequate cost-benefit analysis could cause regulators to slow their implementation of the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory overhaul and be an indicator of more such challenges. Meanwhile, the Obama administration is saying it will resist efforts to block the law. (more…)
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Accelus) – Charges that hundreds of millions of dollars are missing from the accounts of MF Global's clients raise the question of whether powerful executives at the firm influenced the independence of internal auditors as the futures brokerage scrambled for survival.


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I recently had the pleasure of attending a Persian-style, high school graduation party.
Our friends, Jewish emigres from Iran who fled the revolution in 1979, used their son's graduation as an opportunity to invite some 80 fellow Iranians, both family and friends, as well as an impressive number of non-Iranian friends, to an overflow celebration at their home. Such gatherings are held often within the New Jersey Persian community and serve to reinforce ties to ancestral home and culture.
Now a private party is not something that I would ordinarily comment on. But there were a few remarkable scenes that unfolded at this event. First, although our hosts were Jewish, their Iranian guests were Muslim, Christian, Jew and free-thinker, suggesting to me the possibilities for reconciliation that living in a more tolerant society like the US offers.
It brought to mind the many Asian Indians and Pakistanis in New Jersey who have turned their backs on past hatreds and learned to live and work together in peace and friendship; and the Americans of Irish descent who opened their homes to Protestant and Catholic young people from northern Ireland and planted the seeds of peace that are now flourishing in that previously troubled country. It's in these kinds of contacts and peaceful exchanges that, I think, give the United States its true distinction in the world.
Another spectacle was also occurring in the backyard, where special barbecue pits had been set up by the hired caterer to prepare the distinctive Iranian beef and chicken kebabs. To say that their preparation is something of an art is no exaggeration. A group of us wandered over to the pits and asked the chef to give a demonstration of his art. What a surprise to discover that the chef was a Salvadoran immigrant who learned the art as an apprentice to a kosher Persian butcher and then went out to establish his own hugely successful Persian food catering service. So comfortable was he operating within a Persian milieu that he had even learned many words and phrases in Persian. Another example of how we Americans, immigrant and non-immigrant alike, are adept at crossing social boundaries and turning that ability into profit!
This kind of creative and peaceful exchange is built on a foundation of respect and trust between people that must be maintained by our leaders and institutions. When any social group, even "illegals" as current code for Mexican, Guatemalan, or Salvadoran, is castigated and denied equal opportunities, we all pay a price in the long run, a price as high as our way of life.


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Vashon Tech Support under new ownership
Vashon Tech Support has recently re-opened under the new ownership of Islander Terry Peters.
The store, located in downtown Vashon, offers computer servicing, consulting, classes on a variety of subjects and a small retail section. In keeping with the history of the business, it also offers house calls. New services Peters has added are conversion of VHS to DVD and video editing.
"Our philosophy here is necessary service at a reasonable price," he said.
Peters first began working with computers in 1995 and is entirely self-taught, the best way to learn about computers, he said.
His computer skills led him to run Serious Gamers, an online game review web- site, for five years, as well as provide computer-related contract work for individuals and businesses on the Island.
"I love working on computers," he said. "It is something I am passionate about."
The business had belonged to recent high school graduate Jordan Soltman and partners. Peters had not had plans to buy the business, he said, but when its expected sale to other people fell through, his wife Gillian Callison asked him if he was going to buy it. He said no, but she countered quickly, "Oh, yes you are," Peters recalled.
"This is something I have always wanted to do," he added.
Vashon Tech Support will be open for people to bring their computers from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays and 11 am. to 4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. The store is closed Mondays.
Rates are $60 per hour with a half-hour minimum for repairs and 15 minutes for consultations.
In the future, he hopes to expand to selling refurbished computers and building high-end custom computers.
Peters' first day as Vashon Tech Support's new owner was Saturday, Oct. 9, and so far, business has been good.
"If the last couple of days have been any indication, I think we are going to be quite busy," he said.
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Ruthless Cats driven to dominate Tipp by the one that got away
Published 07/05/2014 | 02:30
Death, taxes and Kilkenny beating Tipp. The older you get, the more you appreciate life's certainties.
It was no major shock to see Kilkenny win another National League final against Tipp on Sunday, though at least the manner of the victory was novel.
The extra 20 minutes must have made some Kilkenny fans sweat, but the well-worked TJ Reid winner provided an exclamation mark on a match that felt both riveting and superfluous to the real drama to be woven in the championship.
The only aberration in the recent trend between these rivals was the match that hurt the Cats the most – the 2010 All-Ireland.
The scoreline still provides shivers. Kilkenny leaked 4-17. It was the one that got away. Does Brian Cody lie awake wondering how things could have been different if the hype had been toned down or if Shefflin's Messiah act managed differently?
Meanwhile, on Sunday evening, Clare beat Galway by 12 points in a challenge match, fielding a different team in each half. Hurling's real battles lie just beyond the horizon.
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RATE capping is the ultimate sanction if local authorities don't make efficiency savings to absorb extra costs of services that are being passed on from central government.
But Infrastructure Minister David Cretney MHK insisted any extra costs resulting from the phased withdrawal of the government's waste disposal subsidy was not as onerous as has been made out.
His comments came as Douglas Council set a 2.1 per cent increase in rates with town hall leader David Christian saying the increase could have been much higher if £371,330 in savings had not been made to offset a 64 per cent increase in gate fee charges levied on domestic and commercial waste disposal.
That increase will add £297,000 to the existing £467,000 to the rate borne budget - while further annual increases over the next five years will reach what Councillor Christian said was an 'alarming total rate borne cost of at least £2,147,660 for 2018-19, a whopping 360 per cent increase.'
Mr Christian said the council's message to central government was authority for authorities. 'Don't just pass on the costs. Give us full and absolute authority so we can deliver a full service to our customers and create a more streamlined and cost-effective system of local government.'
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Mr Cretney described rate capping as the 'ultimate sanction' but did not believe it would need to be employed if local authorities did work together to make savings and cut costs.
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i have a shack camera to watch my tower, but i keep the control out back by a door so I can actually hear the motor drive... i really want to know that it sounds right as it goes up or down The concept of a dropout really for power loss is a great idea,,,, ...and maybe set it to go down if power is lost ,,,,, especially if when I get the WX station hooked up to the tower remote ( 35mph auto drop) always use some delay relays to control,,,as was pointed out earlier this year... you always want a 2-3 second delay to make certain the motor is stopped before you tell it to go up or down.....as you are swapping the LIMIT SWITCHES when you flip that switch.... bill /3 At 02:58 PM 10/14/2010, jimlux wrote: >Fred Serota wrote: > > Has anyone wired the control box of a US Towers MD750 to control > the lowering of the tower from the house(shack). Although the > company sells a remote control, they do not seem to want to sell > it, impressing on me the necessity to change over the original box, > wire new "relays" and how they have never sold one after the fact > of the tower sale. > > > > It seems to me that one should be able to simply wire a DPDT > switch in parallel to the one on the tower and run the switch to > the house. What am I missing? > > > >Two issues arise: >1) I haven't seen the wiring diagram, but wiring switches in parallel >might result in the possibility of a short circuit. There are ways to >do multiple reversing switches that don't do this. >2) Maybe they're worried about remote control devices that can injure or >kill, so they discourage their use. The factory version might have >interlocks, etc. to make it safer. >_______________________________________________ > > > >_______________________________________________ >TowerTalk mailing list >firstname.lastname@example.com >http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list email@example.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk
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FLINT, MI--A Flint-bred Hollywood star is on one of the most anticipated about revived TV shows, and his character is modeled after a former presidential candidate.
Actor Terry Crews portrays Herbert Love on the new fourth season of "Arrested Development," a TV show that was recently revived on Netflix after gaining a cult following from a three-season run on Fox.
The show is about the Bluths - a formerly wealthy, dysfunctional family. Love is a California Republican congressional candidate modeled after Herman Cain, a former 2012 U.S. Republican presidential candidate.
According to a report on Mother Jones, "Arrested Development" creator and executive producer Michael Hurwitz had already planned to draw from the Republican presidential field for satire. Cain, Hurwitz said, was a great source for the role.
"Any black man on any on any news show (during that election) was a Republican! If you looked at the spin, it was a 90 percent African American party," Hurwitz said, according to the report. "...(Cain) was such a charismatic...[and kind of] adorable guy. So funny, so interesting, it just felt like a rich area for comedy. And it also just felt politically incorrect enough."
In an interview with SpikeTV, Crews said he hopes the show's resurrection on Netflix can help it gain leverage into a feature film.
"I have never seen a show brought back to life in this way, because it's really an eight-hour movie in itself," Crews said. "The natural progression would be a movie in the theaters. I'm down. I think this is going to be the catalyst that gets a movie made, and I'm ready for it."
The show has been well-received since Netflix released the full fourth season on Netflix on Sunday, May 26. The show has a ranking of 71 out of 100 on Metacritic, garnering positive reviews from San Francisco Chronicle, New York Post, The Hollywood Reporter and others.
Crews has also received tweets complimenting his performance on the show.
"Terry Crews on #ArrestedDevelopment, this is an instant WIN!" tweeted @Avenuewriter.
"OMG Terry Crews, #arresteddevelopment can't stop laughing," tweeted @GoblinRaset.
Crews was born and raised in Flint, graduating from Flint Academy before attending Western Michigan University, where playing as an all-conference defensive end for the school's football team helped him land a six-season career in the National Football League.
He would go on to nab memorable roles in films and TV shows such as "White Chicks," "Everybody Hates Chris," and "Friday After Next." His role on "Arrested Development" comes after an eventful 2012 that included performances in HBO's "The Newsroom," "Expendables 2" alongside Sylvester Stallone and Bruce Willis, and more.
In an interview with Flint Journal, Crews said that he attributes most of the skills he uses in his films - namely, comedy and dancing - to his upbringing in Flint. His lack of professional training, he said, helps him make strong auditions, creating a versatile portfolio and keeping him busy.
"A lot of actors in Hollywood have a teacher, or whoever was their drama coach back in the day, who is judging them on every decision they make. ...My parents weren't in entertainment, they didn't really care," he said. "So I wasn't trying to impress my parents, or my coach, or a bunch of my actor friends. There were really no rules. ... I've created a brand that keeps me everywhere, and I like it, I'm glad."
In April, Crews finished shooting his scenes in a film with Kevin Costner a day early and came back to Flint to be a celebrity guest at McLaren Foundation's "Cruise For A Cause." The event, a fundraiser for the hospital's Hospitality House that will provide housing for cancer patients and their families, raised $100,000.


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CHAGRIN FALLS, Ohio – Harassing Communication, Elm Street – A man threatened a woman on the phone 9:30 p.m. June 22. He claimed she hit his car and left her phone number on his car. She said she did not.
He said if she did not give him her insurance information he was going to hurt her. The man refused to give the woman any of his information.
When an officer tried to call he man's phone number, it appeared to be disconnected.
Police believe it was a telephone scam and the subject was using a masking program to disguise his actual telephone number.
Assist Fire Department, North Main Street –An officer assisted with an infant burned by hot coffee outside the Starbucks store 9 a.m. June 22. The child was transported to Hillcrest Hospital by a Chagrin Falls rescue squad.
The child's father accidentally spilled coffee purchased for his wife while he was pushing the stroller with the infant.
Lost Animal, Willow Lane – After reporting her black standard poodle lost June 21, a Falls Road man called police to report finding a black dog hanging around with his dogs in his yard.
When told where the visiting dog lives, the man offered to walk it home, around the corner.
Theft, West Orange – Winds of Change experienced a theft when a woman tucked a $48 white tank top in her purse and exited the store without paying for it 1:15 p.m. June 18.
The store owner has the theft on video. The subject and her friend had also shopped at White Magnolia. Police attempted to track them from purchases made there, but they paid cash and used a prepaid credit card.
Theft, West Washington Street – After agreeing to exchange basketball shoes with a man on eBay, a Chagrin Falls man sent a pair of Air Jordon shoes valued at $162 to the agreed upon address. The next day he shipped another pair of shoes valued at $100.
The victim did not receive any shoes in return, and the subject will not respond to email and text messages.
An officer advised the victim to contact eBay's fraud department.


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Posts Tagged 'William Gaddis'
An Emotional Performance
June 23, 2016 | by Wei Tchou
How the Internet makes memoirists of us all.
I can't recall the last time I didn't know a writer's face. See me pasting bylines into Facebook to find an essayist's profile picture. Watch as I dive through tagged photographs to find out which school a reporter attended, what his partner looks like. Is his Twitter account verified? Is he famous enough to justify being verified? Usually I'm less interested in the plain fact of, say, a writer's ethnicity or what kind of pet she owns than I am in her presentation of those facts. Of course sometimes I'm just nosy, but more often, I'm looking for reasons to trust or distrust a writer's work. I don't really believe in objective narrators anymore, but I still care to look for reliable ones. Read More »
August 21, 2014 | by Dan Piepenbring
In The Recognitions, his brilliant novel about an art forger, William Gaddis wrote, "Originality is a device that untalented people use to impress other untalented people to protect themselves from talented people … Most original people are forced to devote all their time to plagiarizing. Their only difficulty is that if they have a spark of wit or wisdom themselves, they're given no credit. The curse of cleverness."
Art and Craft, a new documentary, is a similarly vexed study of authenticity and creativity: it tells the story of Mark Landis, an art forger who is, as the design site Colossal puts it,
arguably one of the most prolific art forgers in U.S. history, having tricked over sixty museums in twenty states into believing his masterfully created replicas are authentic artworks. The catch: so far, it appears Landis, who has been diagnosed as schizophrenic, has yet to commit a crime. While he's caused headaches, confusion, and multi-year investigations, he has never sought to benefit or profit from his forgeries in any way. Instead, he enjoys the performative act of pretending to be a philanthropist who makes donations of obscure artwork to art institutions, many of which unknowingly exhibited the fakes, allowing Landis the secret thrill of seeing his work on display.
On the other end of the spectrum is Matthew Leininger, a righteous curator whom the Times calls "a kind of Javert to Mr. Landis's Valjean." Leininger has made it his mission to put a halt to Landis's ruse; he "maintains a database of all known contacts with Mr. Landis, sightings of him and works he has copied … he uses a dry-erase marker to update a laminated map in his office."
But has the man really done anything wrong—is he really a kind of failure? Certainly Gaddis would say so—"I tried to make clear," he says of The Recognitions in his Art of Fiction interview, "that Wyatt [the forger] was the very height of a talent but not a genius—quite a different thing. Which is why he shrinks from going ahead in, say, works of originality. He shrinks from this and takes refuge in what is already there, which he can handle, manipulate. He can do quite perfect forgeries, because the parameters of perfection are already there."
Maybe the same could be said of Landis, but that seems to give short shrift to his project. A 2012 article elaborates on the remarkable scope of his talents (or, if you remain skeptical of the validity of such things, his "talents"):
Landis creates works in oil, watercolor, pastels, chalk, ink and pencil, making most of his copies from museum or auction catalogs that provide dimensions and information on the originals.
He sometimes bestows gifts under different names, such as the Father Arthur Scott alias used at Hilliard. In that case, he told officials that his dead mother had left works including Curran's oil-on-wood painting "Three Women" and that he was donating it in her memory … To convince museums he is a philanthropist, he also concocts elaborate stories about health concerns, said Cincinnati exhibit co-curator Matthew Leininger.
"He has been having heart surgery for almost thirty years," Leininger said with a frustrated laugh. "This is the strangest case the museum realm has known in years."
Landis, fifty-seven, acknowledges what he's up to. He told The Associated Press in a phone interview from his home in Laurel, Miss., that he made his first forgery donation to a California museum in 1985.
"They were so nice. I just got used to that, and one thing led to another," he said. "It never occurred to me that anyone would think it was wrong."
There's no release date for Art and Craft yet, but you can see the trailer, which brings to life Landis's eccentricities, here. "The art world is a very strange place," says one of its interviewees, in what may be the understatement of the year.
The Best Christmas Card Ever
December 25, 2013 | by Sadie Stein
At the Paris Review offices, several of us were lucky enough to receive, in recent days, a mailing from a friend and contributor to these pages. It was a plain cream Christmas card on which was printed,
"'Merry Christmas!' the man threatened." —William Gaddis
We all agreed it was quite the best Christmas card we had ever seen.
The quote comes from Gaddis's first novel, 1955's The Recognitions, which, like the rest of his work, is noted for being challenging. (In his Art of Fiction interview, Gaddis objects to this characterization, preferring to think of the labor involved as "a collaboration between the reader and what is on the pages.")
And while he may not seem the most festive of authors, Gaddis might have approved: in a letter he sent his mother from Harvard in 1943, young "Bill" writes,
Have got Christmas cards—fifty—do you know where that plate I had for engraving is? It must be perhaps in my desk or somewhere—I'd like to have them done and mailed from here if possible—would appreciate it if you should run across to send it up—
Merry Christmas, Bill!
Mysterious Skin: The Realia of William Gaddis
December 24, 2013 | by Matthew Erickson
Most people with scholarly inclinations will visit a novelist's literary archive to follow the paper trails, as manifested through gathered correspondence, stray postcards, marked-upon stationery, and scattered drafts. A couple of months before the recent publication of his collected letters, I visited the William Gaddis Papers at Washington University in Saint Louis in search of something near the polar opposite.
I had harbored a minor obsession with the novelist for years, even before reading a single word of his writing, probably due his reputation as a writer who crafted a string of unapologetically dense works while almost entirely avoiding the fickleness of the literary limelight. I had bought a used hardcover of Carpenter's Gothic, one of Gaddis's shorter novels, at a library booksale just after my early-twenties Pynchon obsession had tapered off a bit. That book sat unread on a shelf for a few years until I decided to make the plunge into Gaddis's work after seeing his specter, both his name and the titles of his books, floating through David Markson's great anecdote—and allusion-heavy novels.
More dilettante than scholar, I was on the hunt for certain pieces of the novelist's realia, that archival category of physical, three-dimensional objects rather than the usual rectangular flatland of manuscripts. Gaddis—who wrote "only" five books over the course of a forty-odd-year career (though amounting to around 2,640 pages in total), with each tome encompassing every possible spectrum of American vernacular and obsession; who won a MacArthur Award and two National Book Awards; and who was famous, as Cynthia Ozick once put it, for not being famous enough—had one object in his collection that I had never seen in a library catalog before. I found this particular entry buried deep within the online finding aid for the Gaddis Papers:
"Box 166.2/- : Zebra Skin, (1 item), Stored in oversize; box on order."
After scanning across this listing while doing cursory research for something else, I instantly became obsessed with the idea of the zebra skin in the library. What, exactly, did it look like? How was it stored among Gaddis's papers? Why had he owned it? What was it doing in the special collections of an academic library? Read More »
A Tsunami of Pages, #OccupyGaddis
June 20, 2012 | by The Paris Review
A cultural news roundup.
- Want to know the books Whitey Bulger would have taken to the grave?
- Paper landscapes, a tsunami of pages—this is extreme editing.
- Be Kind to Books Club. Some propaganda never gets old.
- Self-promotion knows no boundaries.
- "You can't turn Infinite Jest into a two-hour play. You can't put it on a conventional stage. And you can't send your audience away without at least a small dose of pain."
- A giant squid invades Paris in Fiona Apple's new music video.
- R.I.P. Gitta Sereny.
- The conspiracy is alive: find a Thomas Pynchon "Trystero" near you.
- Twilight is not an acceptable nomination.
- Paging Jonathan Franzen. #OccupyGaddis begins now!
- Flannery O'Connor reads "A Good Man is Hard to Find" in a rare 1959 recording.
- What happens when you leave a group of boys around art? The sculptor Eva Rothschild finds out.
Reading in New York; Reading of London
April 20, 2012 | by Lorin Stein
My apartment is infested with evil roommates and sad vibes. Being unemployed, I have no refuge. But I refuse to be depressed! Mornings I pack a small bag of books, take to the streets, wander around. But one can only sit on so many benches. Am curious about comfy food places where the management smiles kindly (or just not unkindly) on quiet, unassuming customers who occupy space for many hours, ordering only coffee, or perhaps (eventually) some delicious pie ... Suggestions?
Sincerely, Ex Libris
(oh and Manhattan only please)
Dear Ex, We have one of the world's great reading rooms–at least for now–at the Forty-second Street Library. Having spent years in tiny, often overcrowded apartments, I promise that you will sit longer and read more there than in any café. If you get hungry, there's a Pret à Manger across the street, not to mention the restaurant and sandwich kiosks in Bryant Park. Enjoy it while you can. Other good reading places—on weekdays especially—are the side room at Cafe Pick Me Up on Avenue A, the Hungarian Pastry Shop in Morningside Heights, and Tarralucci e Vino, either the one off Union Square or the one on East Tenth Street. For weekends, I highly recommend the bar at Vandaag on Second Avenue. No pies, but excellent coffee, strupwafels, and poached eggs.


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The controversy is over Simon's new application for mobile phones that allows users to access information about shopping malls and merchandise. NorthMobileTech is the owner of patent no. 7,805,130, which has been issued by the US Patent Office. This patented technology is a mobile phone application that allows shopping store and merchandise information to be transmitted to a wireless phone. According to an exhibit attached to Simon's Complaint, a patent attorney for Fenwick Corporation, which has assigned its patent rights to NorthMobileTech, has sent a letter to Simon alleging that Simon's mobile phone application infringes its patent. Simon's application is called "Simon Malls - more choices."
In its complaint, Simon seeks a declaratory judgment declaring the '130 patent invalid as failing to comply with the conditions of patentability under the Patent Act. In the alternative, Simon seeks a declaratory judgment that Simon is not infringing the '130 patent. NorthMobileTech's Complaint seeks a judgment declaring that Simon's app infringes its patent and an injunction, damages, and attorneys' fees.
This case has been assigned to Judge Tanya Walton Pratt and Magistrate Judge Debra McVicker Lynch in the Southern District of Indiana, and assigned case no. 1:11-cv-00527-TWP-DML. In the Western District of Wisconsin, the case has been assigned to Judge William N. Conley and Magistrate Stephen L. Crocker, and assigned case no. 3:11-cv-00287-wmc.
Practice Tip: In this case, Simon filed in the Southern District of Indiana and NorthMobileTech filed in the Western District of Wisconsin on the same date making the claims about the same controversy. It is inevitable that the two cases will be consolidated in one of the two courts through a petition to transfer venue. Both parties will seek to have the court they filed in be the court to hear the controversy. 28 U.S.C. § 1404 governs change of venue in federal courts. The factors considered are the convenience of the parties and witnesses and the interests of justice.Complaint - Simon Properties v North Mobile Tech
Further information about this case is as follows:
Filed: April 20, 2011 as 1:2011cv00527 Updated: April 27, 2011 21:00:15
Presiding Judge:Judge Tanya Walton Pratt
Referring Judge:Magistrate Judge Debra McVicker Lynch
Cause Of Action: Patent Infringement
Court:Seventh Circuit > Indiana > Southern District CourtType:Intellectual Property > Patent


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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - The Old Farmer's Almanac, the familiar, 223-year-old chronicler of climate, folksy advice and fun facts, is predicting a colder winter and warmer summer for much of the nation.
Published Wednesday, the New Hampshire-based almanac predicts a "super-cold" winter in the eastern two-thirds of the country. The west will remain a little bit warmer than normal.
"Colder is just almost too familiar a term," Editor Janice Stillman said. "Think of it as a refriger-nation."
More bad news for those who can't stand snow: Most of the Northeast is expected to get more snowfall than normal, though it will be below normal in New England.
Before unpacking the parka, however, remember that "colder than average" is still only about 2 to 5 degrees difference.
Some other regional highlights:
For loyal readers of an almanac that also tracks to the minute every sunrise and sunset for the year, the timing of this year's publication may come as a surprise. Normally, it hits the stands in mid-September.
"We've found that folks want the almanac as soon as the issue is done up, right as the growing season is done," she said. "It's also time to order oil, wood, salt for roads. We've had so many inquiries we just decided to get it into people's hands earlier."
The almanac, which has about an 80 percent success rate in its forecasts, employs modern technology but still uses the "secret formula" that founder Robert Thomas devised in 1792. By combining the study of sunspots, prevailing weather patterns and basic meteorology, the almanac's weather staff comes up with a long-range forecast. The temperature deviations are based on 30-year averages compiled by government forecasters.
The almanac also provides advice on planting, astronomy, food, love and trends.


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At the New Orleans Jazz Fest today, Michelle Shocked took the stage with an up-front caveat.
"Raise your hand if you haven't seen me before," she told the packed Fais Do Do crowd.
"Okay," she continued. "If you have seen me before, turn to a new kid and warn 'em, 'She talks a lot.'"
It's true; she does. The long and lanky folk-rock singer treated the crowd to a spoken autobiography that lasted at least five minutes before her first song, "It's 5 a.m. in Amsterdam," off of her bootlegged 1986 first album "The Texas Campfire Tapes." Shocked took the crowd from her East Texas childhood through her days as a runaway and a radical in San Francisco, in and out of an acid flashback-induced stay in a mental hospital, over to Amsterdam where the album was recorded unbeknownst to her on a Sony Walkman, back Stateside to New York City and finally to Kerrville, Texas, where she first heard tell of the project and finally into the real intro to the song.
"And this," she finished, "is the first song I heard off the album I didn't know I had."
In a lot of ways, Michelle Shocked is a female analog to first Fest weekend performer Arlo Guthrie; a skilled raconteur whose shaggy-dog stories take up at least as much time as the actual singing. Fans were happy to go along with her. She played a set that stuck largely to her earliest releases, "Campfire Tapes" and "Short Sharp Shocked," with songs including "Fogtown," "Patcheye," "Incomplete Image," and "Memories Of East Texas." (Though I left early to catch Cyndi Lauper, so Festers, do chime in if she got more current in the last 20 minutes of the show.) Throughout, she told tales, cracked jokes, and even did some good old-fashioned folksinger union-boosting to precede the coal-miners' lament "The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore."
New Orleanians Paul Sanchez, Holley Bendtsen, Washboard Chaz and Amasa Miller served as her band for most of the show. Sanchez' blues solos were intense, particularly on the mournful "L&N;" he also apparently saved the day after Shocked snapped a string. ("Paul!" she said. "I need you to play your guitar right now!")
Unlike Guthrie, though, Michelle Shocked is happy to break the fourth wall. Before the song "Incomplete Image/ Fourth Floor Troubadour," she explained the sleight of hand necessary for storytelling.
"The problem of storytelling is that it's a two-way street," she said. "Once you tell your story, it's only half done. It's like the magicians who make jet planes disappear. You have to have people saying, 'She didn't say that... but I heard it."
"When you finish your story, you're finished, but the listener hasn't filled in the rest of it yet."


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John San Filippo, industry journalist and former Symitar marketer, will cover technology and business development.
Friends, Friday, Aug. 3 will be my final day as publisher of Credit Union Times. The time has come to move on to new challenges and make room for the next generation of professionals.
When UniWyo Federal Credit Union learned that its members, many of whom are college students, liked to manage their money online using sites like Mint.com, the credit union took matters into its own hands.
The sheer speed with which the iPad has become a household name has been remarkable, analysts and industry observers said, and that success has
CUSOs and vendors agree that mergers in the credit union industry continue to have an impact on their business models, but it's not necessarily a negative one.
As the person interviewed for your online story of March 23 ("Symitar Eyeing CUs Unwilling to Recapitalize"),
Problems at corporate credit unions aren't driving a mass exodus of members seeking other providers.
Symitar is comparing its product menu to what corporate credit unions currently offer and determining where it might fill the gaps after the NCUA issues final corporate regulations, the core processor's marketing director said.