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A Church of England bishop is urging parents to slow down because he believes that their lives are too fast-paced to allow them to spend enough time with their children.
The Bishop of Oxford, the Right Rev John Pritchard, says that parents must pause to learn how to "play, laugh and be a child again" before it is too late and their children have grown up.
Bishop Pritchard, who in spite of having two adult daughters and four grandchildren believes that the problem of hyperactivity lies more with the parents than the children, has written a prayer in an attempt


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This is the second of two parts. Read Part 1 here
My daughters will tell you that this is their favorite Christmas story.
This event took place several years ago on a gray morning after Christmas. All the McGlynns get together the Saturday after Christmas to exchange gifts. This particular Christmas was the first one since the girls' father and I had separated. It was not easy going to my mother's without him.
Traditionally, each McGlynn contributes a dish to the large buffet. I always make the pot of corn chowder. It is a family favorite. This time the chowder was riding in the back of the pickup truck with the luggage.
We had not traveled one hour of our 2½-hour trip to Syracuse when we heard a loud bang from the engine. I pulled over and saw oil pouring out from under the truck. The Thruway was busy and the tractor trailers rattled our vehicle. I raised the hood to signal our distress. A couple stopped and allowed us to use their cell phone to call a tow truck.
I soon learned that the truck had thrown a rod. It was under warranty and would have to be towed back to the dealer in Albany. The two girls and I, carrying the chowder, climbed into the tow truck with the driver. He would stop by his local garage before taking the truck back to Albany. Once at his garage, I called my family in Syracuse and told them we would not be coming out and what had happened.
The family said, "It won't be Christmas if we aren't all together, we are coming to get you." The tow truck driver said the garage was closed and we would not be able to wait inside. There was a McDonald's about a mile away. The girls and I grabbed our bags and our chowder and headed off in to the wet snow and wind. We walked through the town, across the river and up a long hill to a small plaza. Our clothes became soaked. All the while the girls chattered about being rescued by my brother and sister. Christmas would be saved.
My brother, Lance, and my sister, Micky, arrived about an hour after we landed at the McDonald's. The girls were so excited. They told their aunt and uncle that this was like an old-time movie where things look bleak and then things happen that bring about the happy ending. They compared the rescue to the cavalry charging in and saving Christmas.
We laughed all the way back to grandma's. The girls talked about the movie they would make from this experience. Micky wanted Connie Sellecca to play her role; Lance said he wanted George Clooney and I selected Meryl Streep. We decided the movie would be called "Chowder Happens." By the time we arrived at my mom's, my other sister had traveled to the airport and brought us back a rental car. Everything had been rectified.
It is funny to me what children remember and how they interpret events. What my daughters remember is how loved and special they felt when the whole family rallied to save their Christmas. I tried to tell them they just wanted the chowder. The family would not let a broken car interfere with tradition.
This day could have had a disastrous ending, no holiday, truck ruined, dad not there and no family. Instead it turned into their favorite story. Without a doubt, no one remembers what they received for Christmas that year, only that we were surrounded by love and family amongthe sounds and tastes of Christmas.
Patricia McGlynn
December, 1942, found our country deeply involved in a new and fearful world war. As with most industries in the country, the maker of Lionel trains was 97 percent committed to the production of essential war material.
Mr. Sperry, the local year-round Lionel train dealer, stated the chances of obtaining that Lionel coal loader that I, as an 11-year old, wanted more than anything, were somewhere between slim and nil.
Imagine the shock and surprise when the one and only coal loader that arrived in Syracuse that Christmas season showed up under our tree that Christmas morning. I never really found out how my parents managed to pull that one off.
Richard Rosenberger
The best memories of Christmas for me were spending time with my parents, brothers and sisters.
Mom, dad and the five of us would start out the Christmas season piling into the station wagon and driving up to 86th Street and 13th Avenue in Brooklyn to pick out a Christmas tree. No matter how cold it was, Dad would dutifully pull out a tree one at a time, shake it and watch six heads moving up and down or from side to side. We must have judged at least 25 trees.
Mom always had the last say. It was always the tallest and bushiest tree. The tree would then be strapped to the top of the station wagon for a slow drive home. Dragging the tree up the staircase to the second floor of a narrow, three-story house was a feat. Pine needles would be scattered all over the staircase and the floor, but the smell was wonderful.
Christmas morning was even better. I was always the first person up. After waking everyone up, we would all race down the stairs hoping to be the first one to dive into the sea of presents under the tree. Wrapping paper was everywhere. Then we all dressed up in our new clothes and went to Christmas morning Mass.
I have continued some of these traditions for my own family but on a smaller scale. I hope my children have had similar memories of our Christmas together.
Shelley Gilroy
When I was around 4 years old, in the very early 1950s, I would listen to the radio with my mother. Around five minutes to five, as I remember, WHEN radio had a five-minute-long program that started out with a real mousy voice saying, "Santa Claauus ... Santa Claauus?"
The voice would drag out Santa's last name ever so slightly. A deeper voice, probably Gordon Alderman, who was doing a lot of voice-overs then, would answer, "Yes, Wee One?" I surmise now that Wee One was an elf. I have no idea what they were selling or how the program got to be only five minutes long. With my mother being 85 this January, she doesn't remember either. We both agree it was probably the first infomercial.
But over the years, and especially at Christmas, either I or my mother will say, "Remember when we used to listen to Santa and Wee One?" That's our cue to repeat the lines that Wee One and Santa Claus had. It's our Christmas memory that we share and I cherish.
Dan Stith
In 1966, my husband and I were married. For our first Christmas, my dad gave us a Santa's sleigh and reindeer set, including Rudolph.
Growing up I remember going to my grandfather's house on a Saturday morning, when he and my father would cut out the pieces of wood on a saw. Then they would paint and glitter the pieces. When they assembled the set together they used pipe cleaners for the reins and pearls for their eyes.
As the years passed on, my father was unable to use the saw so my husband would cut out the sets for him and then my father would complete them by himself.
Before his death in 2004 (he was 87), he made sure that his nine grandchildren would have a complete set.
And a big surprise to come. I have four more completed sets for his growing great-grandchildren.
They all remember him quite vividly and will cherish them forever as I do.
Donna Graser Scutt
It was 2004 and by far the best Christmas I've ever had. My brother, Ben, had leukemia and after receiving a bone marrow transplant from his brother, he was coming home for good!
I remember the exact day, and it was the day before his and my birthday. My brother, Jack, and I decorated the hallway with balloons and streamers. I remember the feeling of security when I saw Ben and my parents walk inside. That night we all went sledding in the glow of the floodlights and laughed till our stomachs hurt.
On our birthday, we all went and got our Christmas tree at Critz Farms. Because we couldn't do normal activities like going to the mall or going out to eat, this Christmas was about being together and being a family. So instead of going anywhere, we spent Christmas Eve by the fire.
Once Christmas morning came, everyone was smiling and laughing! I remember looking at Ben and hugging him. All the while thinking to myself that this is what Christmas is, being with family. This Christmas brought me more than presents; this Christmas brought me my brother. And that was the best gift I could ever get. As time goes on, every Christmas gets better and better. Each new year is something to be thankful for; for each year, strikes another year my brother is cancer-free.
Lily Delmarsh
I attended a Christmas party this year that absolutely amazed me. It is one that I'll remember. It was sponsored by a woman in her 60's who is physically limited. Her name is Linda Bettis, known as "Irda Bird!" She has a Christmas party every year.
There were 40 guests of all ages — 90 years and down. Though her home is relatively modest, all 40 guests were accommodated and the Christmas atmosphere was joyous.
Linda was able to display her collection of furnished doll houses for us to see. The buffet luncheon was prepared by relatives and friends. No restaurant food there.
A Christmas party with the Christmas spirit was enjoyed by all thanks to the effort of the loving, caring Linda "Irda Bird." A Christmas to remember.
E. Jane Love
When my dad wasn't disabled, we weren't facing losing our home or car. We sure took a lot for granted.
I guess we were just kids and younger and didn't understand the true meaning of being thankful no matter how hard a time we're having.
One thing we still have is each other with wonderful memories of my mom baking cookies. Dad and us decorating the tree, singing, playing Christmas music, visiting my papa who died. There's still faith that gets you through it all. We'll pray and God will listen and somehow make it through.
Christmas this year really is about appreciating what you have — the ones you love. My prayer is for a miracle that we stay in our home and dad stays healthy and with us. Cherish the time we have together. Live each day like it's your last. Thank you. God bless to all this Christmas season.
Elizabeth Taddeo
When we were kids, our mom made Christmas magic. She scraped money each week for the "Christmas Club" so Santa would be sure to come. It meant so much to provide us with gifts she never had. Somehow she always came up with what we really wanted — except for one Christmas when I was 9 and Wayne was 6.
It was Christmas Eve. Mom was in her glory, happy that she could give the gifts we asked Santa for. We hung our stockings on the paper chimney and Wayne began to hop around singing, "I'm gonna get a yo-yo, Santa's gonna bring me a yo-yo." Panic on mom's face ... "that wasn't on your list!"
He replied, "He'll know, Santa knows everything!" Mom explained that Santa might not know about the yo-yo. He insisted it was all he wanted, and even thanked Santa for the yo-yo in his prayers. Mom was almost in tears tucking him in, not wanting him to be disappointed on Christmas morning.
At 6 a.m., we ran downstairs to see if Santa had really come! We were thrilled with our treasures. After a while we remembered our stockings and Wayne announced that his new yo-yo would be in there. Mom winced hoping he had forgotten the darn yo-yo. As he reached into the toe of his stocking, didn't he pull out a big, red yo-yo! Mom looked faint. She blurted out, "Oh my God, how did that yo-yo get in there?" Wayne grinned with six-year-old delight and said, "Because I put it there last night, Momma; I told you I was getting a yo-yo for Christmas!"
Cindy Squillace
As a child growing up on South Main Street in the village of Central Square, it was as if I had my own Bedford Falls from Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."
Christmas with my dad made this season truly magical for me and left me with the memory and conviction that Santa Claus is real, if not as Kris Kringle, surely as Cecil Warner. My dad was a "shop teacher" at the Main Street School and during the Christmas season he brought the heart of a child to my child's heart and the wonderment and innocence of a child at Christmas I owe to my dad.
At no other time of the year did my dad cook in the kitchen, but at Christmas my dad made popcorn balls. My dad rang sleigh bells on Christmas Eve to mark Santa's arrival. He woke our neighbors but not me. My dad took my runner sleigh to the roof and told me, "Clarke, those runner sled tracks on the roof were made by Santa's sleigh."
Dad made toys for me in his shop at school. Dad gave me my train set and had it all "broken in" from playing with it with our neighbor, Sid Lane, on Christmas Eve after I had gone to bed. My dad was in the parade with Sid Lane and I as we marched on South Main Street on Christmas morning when I got my bass drum set and my dad convinced me I would, at 5-years-old, be the next John Phillip Sousa.
At Christmas, my dad gave me the gift of play. He gave me the gift of making fantasy real and most of all he gave the gift of joy and laughter to his son.
My dad has been in heaven now some 50 years and it is with much love and devotion that I would tell my dad at Christmas — thanks for the memories.
Clarke Warner-Long
It was December, 1964, and the due date for our first child was quickly approaching. The doctor said he or she would arrive on Dec. 31, New Year's Eve. Back then we didn't know if we were going to have a boy or a girl. We liked it that way.
About a week early, labor began in the evening hours of Dec. 23. With my husband timing the contractions, it was decided we should go to Auburn Memorial Hospital, a seven-mile drive from our home in Weedsport. It was then about 2 a.m., the early hours of Dec. 24.
As we had been told, labor for the first child could go on for many hours, and so it did.
Finally, at 8:43 p.m. on Christmas Eve, our baby girl, Kathryn Margaret, was born. What a wonderful Christmas gift we had received. Indeed, it was a special Christmas.
Irene Ackers
It's very hard to choose my favorite Christmas memory. My mother loved Christmas and made every Christmas special. She loved Santa and she collected many of them. Her favorite was a postcard she received from a relative in Germany as a child — a German Santa with a child's face.
She displayed this every year. When she passed away, I was given this treasure as the eldest child. I, in turn, display it every year.
Christmas was never about the gifts, but always about family, laughter, good food and togetherness. Every Christmas Day, we would all gather at my parent's house. Mom would make a traditional dinner with all the trimmings and we would eat at a huge table with lot of noise and laughing.
Sometime during the day we would to ask mom to do "her dance" for us. We'd have to ask a few times and eventually she'd give up and start to sing "dum de dum dum dum de dum dum dum ... and do her little tap dance and salute to the Tin Soldier that she did as a child in school. We would laugh and cheer for her every year. Of all the wonderful Christmas memories, this is my favorite memory — Mom dancing the Tin Soldier. Mom has been gone for 12 Christmases now and every Christmas I envision her "dum de dum dum dum ...
Patricia Coffin
A Beach Road Christmas.
Life was good!
I was healthy, working three jobs and after 28 years of marital bliss, I found myself alone.
I had two adult children who had moved out, so the empty nest was completely empty, except for this one bird (me).
We had lived on Beach Road for 10 years and you could expect flooding every season. At this time it was normal to paddle in a canoe down the road to reach our car. Except for the winters, we walked through the floating little icebergs with high boots while carrying a shovel to get to the car ... but life was good.
I made that trek every morning in the dark. I often wondered what would be floating by me. But it was still my home-sweet-home to me.
The holiday season was upon me again but with a big change — I was alone in my own frozen zone. I had to buy a tree for the stable, to show how grateful to God I will always be because I did not lose me!
The temperature to preserve the tree would not be a problem because the house was as cold as cold could be. By the time I arrived from my work day (at night), always to my delight, the fire that was started in the morning would be out, all right, but I wouldn't let that get the best of me. I would crank up my electric blanket, leave on my hat and was as warm as I could be.
Morning was pure drudgery. Even with my four-minute shower, the ice on the bathroom window never melted till spring. I would get dressed in record time because, after all, I didn't want the icicles to form on me.
So what to do, what to do. I still have that Christmas spirit that God so greatly planted in me — so I will get that tree all for me, all for me. Because there was only so much cash on hand, I decided to buy a tree at Mr. Seconds. I think you understand. So after my first job I decided to stop at Mr. Seconds on my way to my second job. I said to the salesman outside in that deep freeze, "what will $6 buy me?"
Well, he laughed and picked me out a frozen solid tree. Oh what a deal! I'm happy for me. So I sped off with that beautiful tree tied in my trunk thinking, I hope no one steals this tree while I'm working, but to my great surprise it was still there waiting for me.
So I started half way down Beach Road, parked my car and untied that tree. There was me dragging that frozen tree down the road, with slips and slides but I finally reached my humble abode. I called my closest friend, Pam, and said you have to help me, I have gotten a tree. Excited for me she arrived very soon with all the things we would need — a saw, an ax, ropes and a bottle of wine for me... to do what we had to do to master that perfect tree.
One hour led into four hours of axing and trying to level out that tree. Every time we stood the tree up, it would not stay and we would laugh hysterically. So the rope came into play.
We had the perfect corner, my best friend and me, and with a big smile I held up that tree. Pam nailed it to the wall for this tree was never going to fall. The icicles flew, puddles everywhere but me and my friend did not feel despair. We both stood back and looked at that tree, what a job we did; we were as pleased as could be. We gave each other a hug and said "good-night." It was two in the morning and it was worth that great fight.
I woke up at 6 in the morning for a new day. It was the dead of winter but I could feel that awesome sun. The first thing I did was run down those steep steps, with visions of a glorious tree. The tree was leaning almost down to the floor, but it was ok. I'll adjust it some more.
As I positioned the rope I was amazed to see there simply was no back, no back to my tree. No wonder it couldn't stand but I'll fix it anyway because life has still been good to me and it's a beautiful day.
That night I decorated that bright green half a tree — what a beautiful sight, it lasted that Christmas season for me!
As I placed the Baby Jesus in his crib under that tree, I gave thanks. I didn't have much so all alone, but I still had me!
Life is still very good for me.
Linda McCaffrey Militi
North Syracuse
Whenever I look at this photo that my husband took 53 years ago, I can still hear our son Matt's "oh, no!"
We are of Austrian and German tradition, which means you may bring the Christmas tree into the house before Christmas, but it waits until Santa comes to decorate it.
The photo shows Matt's first look at the tree, all lit up and decorated. He ran out of the room, ran back, shouted "oh, no!" again and once more ran into the kitchen. The third time he did quiet down and let us show him what Santa brought him. His reaction made all those late hours fussing with lights and putting garages and trikes and wagons together well worth the lost sleep.
Betty K. Belge
My most wonderful holiday memory started the night before Thanksgiving, 2004.
My oldest son, Russell, was away at college at Saint Cloud State University in Saint Cloud, Minn. He was a swimmer for the college and they only had a four-day break so he was going to stay out there. He wasn't coming home for Christmas since he knew money was tight.
His swim team had different ideas. They collected enough money to get him a round-trip ticket home as a surprise for him.
His younger brother was in a fight for his life. He had stage 3 testicular cancer and was getting ready to go into very touchy surgery on Dec. 22 at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester. It was such a wonderful thing when he walked in the door that night. It was like Christmas for me to have all my three men there for Thanksgiving.
The rest of that memory was my son, Zackary, and that surgery. He went under the knife at 9:30 for what was to be about a five- to six-hour operation . It was 10:30 that night when they called down to my husband and I and said he was on his way to recovery. They let us in to see him at about 11 that night; it was the longest day of our life.
Our son came through the operation with flying colors and the doctors were so amazed with his recovery that on Christmas eve they said he could go home. We weren't able to because by the time they told us my husband and Russell were on there way to church. Russ was standing in for Zack in the bell choir. Zack and I were all right with going home on Christmas morning, after all, we really did not expect to be going home before the new year.
We were excited to be calling my husband and saying "come get us first thing in the morning; we're coming home!" Zack was only 17 years old, and now he will be graduating from college this spring and embarking on a wonderful life.
It is a holiday season that I will never forget, never want to forget. Christ gave us the most wonderful gifts — love, life, happiness. What more could anyone have asked for.
Lou Ann Daniels
On Christmas Eve mommy got us ready for the big event while daddy took out the Kodak movie camera with those horrible, large blinding lights. In our nightgowns and combed hair, he would film us, once again, hanging our stockings.
On Christmas morning we waited in our room til they were "ready." I now know they were "staging" for yet another family movie. It was "lights, camera, action." We would come tentatively around the corner and there, to greet us first, were those dreaded bright lights.
As our eyes adjusted we turned toward that magical tree with excitement. Items that weren't wrapped like the dollhouse or the EasyBake oven brought huge shouts of excitement before we sat down to open our stockings. They usually had practical things like toothpaste, shampoo or socks, not many toys. (However, I do think Santa had an arrangement with Green Hills because there were many bananas and oranges.)
Daddy played Santa's "helper" and gave out the gifts, which we opened one at a time — no crazy madness of multiple openings at once. It was very orchestrated so when we opened those "special" gifts the excitement could be captured on that movie camera.
Those mornings seem so long ago. Sadly, mom and dad are gone. However, we now think fondly of those blinding lights and how lucky we are to have family movies to share because they captured not just us on camera ... but Mom and Dad as well. Merry Christmas and don't forget to press "RECORD"!
Debra Woodman
This particular Christmas, many years ago, my parents did not have much money to buy gifts for the rest of the family, and as a fairly new bride, my husband and I could not afford too much either.
My parents asked what I'd like for Christmas and I replied that a Pyrex tea pot would be great. Christmas morning arrived and presents were being opened, each responded to with happiness and surprise.
When I opened the present from my mom and dad, inside the box was the most beautiful teapot ever made. It was purchased especially for me, from Johnson's China, an exquisite china shop in Binghamton, since closed. It was made in England, and was signed, noted and numbered on the bottom.
I was so awed, I cried with love and appreciation. A most memorable Christmas, with my deepest love for my mom and dad and the sacrifices they made for me.
Willie Colleen Branagan
Christmas, 1951.
As youngsters, my sister and I lived in a small town in the Plattsburgh area. Each December, Santa would read his letters on WIRY, a Plattsburgh radio station, and we would listen to his program until our "letter to Santa" was read.
We always left Santa a peanut butter sandwich, and in 1951, we included a cup of sugar for Rudolph. The cup we used was from our mother's sugar canister. Being the good cook that she was, and never measuring, she used an old white tea cup with a red pattern around the lip whose handle was broken off. Indeed, it was a very distinctive cup.
Christmas morning, when we arose, the empty plate remained on the dining table but the cup was gone. "Ma, Santa took the cup." She replied "Next year in your letter ask him to return the cup."
The following December we waited with anticipation the reading of our letter. Would Santa admit he kept the cup and would he read the portion of our letter asking him to return it? He did. And on that Christmas morning, sitting on the dining table in all its glory was our mother's sugar cup.
Susan Turon
North Syracuse
In April 1996, we celebrated my father's 70th birthday. Little did we know it would be our last. The celebration was with my husband, John, and our children, Justin, 10, Amber-Leigh, 7, and my siblings, Charlene and Chris.
"Papa," as my children called him, came on the weekends with a brown paper bag. No one ever knew what the bag held, but Justin and Amber-Leigh always knew it held loose change and a gift.
That year, Papa suffered a stroke. While in the hospital, I would drive from Syracuse to Rome to visit him every day. One weekend. John, Justin, Amber-Leigh and I stopped to buy him some balloons. We bought a bag of mixed Jelly Belly jelly beans to tie them to.
Papa enjoyed our gift. We tied the balloons to his bed and passed the bag of jelly beans. We all had fun picking and choosing what we thought were our "favorites" only to end up with "coffee and jalapeno" together! We all laughed as we spit them into the trash. It only got worse when someone got the "buttered popcorn and watermelon!" The laughter continued until the five of us could stand no more.
Papa passed away that year. Every Christmas we keep his memory alive by having jelly beans under the Christmas tree. We all remember our special memories of him. It's funny even now as the box always has the coffee, jalapeno and buttered popcorn as the last ones left in the box.
Sam Moziak
East Syracuse
Years ago when I was a child (born in 1963), my family and all the relatives would gather at grandma and grandpa's house on Christmas Eve to observe grandma's birthday, which was Dec. 24.
I can recall between 20 to 30 of us celebrating her birthday and anticipating Christmas to begin. One Christmas Eve that I remember (1970-1975 — I'm not sure of the year), there was no snow on the ground. I was upset because I thought for sure St. Nick would not be coming that night.
My grandmother told my sister and me to say a prayer for snow. Well we did pray hard, and within the hour, the snow was coming down harder than you could imagine. I'm pretty sure there was a foot on the ground within a two-hour period. Nonetheless, we had a hard time getting home.
Christmas Eves were so magical back then, waking up in the middle of the night, sneaking down the stairs, and seeing the wonder under the tree. I still believe in St. Nick, but Jesus is the true reason for the season. Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.
John C. Backenstross
Christmas morning, 1948, at the Ackenback home in Amsterdam, NY.
Known as Margaret Ann back then, I was 8 years old and my brother Edmund was 5. What a wonderful Christmas it was! We received almost everything on our lists, from my toy kitchen set to the cash register my brother wanted.
Our puppy, Tags, had arrived early so he could get settled in. Those were the days when the tree was fresh and unpruned, tinsel was heavy because it was made of real lead, the tree lights were hot and when one went out they all did.
Margaret Ackenback-Villanova
Christmas, 2006. Busy — very busy — in the kitchen preparing an array of American and Italian delights.
I gave strict orders that no one use the phone because our grandson, Marine Cpl. Ryan J. Woodruff, was going to try and call us from Iraq. The family noises distracted me while I cooked and waited and hoped to hear the phone ring.
It was his first of what would become two deployments. As an infantry squad leader, we had good cause for the stress and worry. I kept wondering if my latest batch of homemade cookies arrived and knew that it would be a welcome addition to the MRE (meals ready to eat) he ate in the field.
The family chided and pleaded with me to come to the living room and give Ryan's brother, also a Marine, a Christmas hug. I yelled back at them "Wait, the gnocchi are in the pot and don't touch the phone!" They persisted. I left the gnocchi and standing rib roast and dashed into the living room, and there he stood. Ryan. In my living room on Christmas Day. Home early from Iraq. With "that smile" that's just like Grandpa's. Tears. Relief. Love. Merry Christmas. God Bless America.
Marcia Patitucci Waffner

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Oswego, NY -- Good morning and happy Hump Day.
Here's what we have for you in today's Post-Standard:
A man from Fulton who was missing for two days in the Adirondacks was found alive and well Tuesday.
The Democratic party's nominees for state Supreme Court have been challenged by a party member. Both nominees are from Oswego County.
No one was hurt in a fire in Hastings Tuesday morning.
A teen was arrested for selling drugs at Birdlebough High School Tuesday morning.
And finally, an audit done by Oswego County has found no evidence of fraud in the billing done by the town of Scriba highway department for snow plowing done by the town for the county.
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The Augusta Commission voted 8-1-1 Tuesday, with Commissioner J.R. Hatney abstaining and Commissioner Bill Lockett opposed, to approve the licensing required to allow Sunday packaged alcohol sales to begin April 1 with no additional fee for retailers.
"I hate to see people leaving the church on Sunday and their first stop is the liquor store," Lockett said.
On March 12, the commission's Public Services Committee voted 4-0 on that licensing requirement.
Voters approved a referendum on Super Tuesday earlier this month, making Augusta-Richmond County the largest jurisdiction in the area to allow Sunday packaged alcohol sales. Grovetown voters approved a Sunday sales referendum in November. The city of Aiken holds a South Carolina permit for retail beer and wine sales on Sundays.
Voters in Columbia County and the city of Harlem will get their chance on decide on the referendum on July 31.


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The Producers Guild of America, which in recent years has had a spot-on track record for picking the eventual Oscar winner, offered up a split decision this year, giving the Daryl F. Zanuck producer of the year Award to the producers of "Gravity" and "12 Years a Slave."
"American Hustle," which has scooped up a Golden Globe and a Critics' Choice for best comedy and SAG Award for best ensemble, was left out in the cold. "Hustle," the David O. Russell film loosely based on the infamous late '70s Abscam sting, opened in December and has been riding a wave of Oscar buzz ever since.
"Gravity" has been failed to score any major awards other than those for director Alfonso Cuaron, and "Slave"'s acting ensemble and director Steve McQueen had been similarly shut-out until Lupita Nyong'o earned Critics' Choice and SAG Awards for best supporting actress last week. But the Producers Guild award signals that there's a real three-way race underway for best picture.
On the television side, "Breaking Bad," which has picked up an Emmy and a Golden Globe for best drama and a SAG Award for best ensemble, scored again with best drama, which the producers of "Modern Family" won best comedy.
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A Madisonville-area firefighter allegedly used his fire-district fuel card to pay for about $2,600 worth of gas for his personal vehicles over the course of a year.
Carl Hinton, a three-year veteran of the department, was fired after an internal investigation revealed he had been using several fuel cards from St. Tammany Parish's 2nd Fire Protection District during a 13-month period, Chief Michael Stein said this week.
Hinton was able to get away with the scam for so long because officials with the district had not been carefully reviewing the charges on the cards, which are supposed to be used only to keep department vehicles fueled up. Since the alleged fraud was discovered, additional measures have been put in place to monitor the use of the cards.
"This is our fault, we didn't catch it," Stein said. "We're definitely on top of it now."
Stein said he began investigating the use of the fire district's fuel cards last winter, after noticing charges for gas well outside the area covered by the district. Some of those charges were made as far away as Slidell and Pearl River and a later review showed that, in some cases, several suspicious fuel charges were racked up on the same day, he said.
The alleged fraud was noted in an audit of the department released this week.
After noticing the problematic charges, Stein went to several of the gas stations where they had been made and asked to see surveillance video taken during the fueling. From these videos, he was able to narrow in on the 23-year-old Hinton.
The investigation was somewhat complicated by the fact that Hinton allegedly used PIN numbers assigned to other members of the department when he made some of the charges and used several different cards while he was allegedly running the scam. Each of the department's vehicles has its own card, which is supposed to be kept inside that vehicle. While Hinton apparently removed the card to buy his own gas, Stein said the cards had always been in their proper place when officials made periodic checks on them.
The other firefighters whose pin numbers were used by Hinton have since been cleared of making any inappropriate charges, Stein said.
Once Stein completed his investigation, Hinton was put on paid leave while the department's Civil Service Board considered his case. The administrative hearings, during which Hinton confessed to using the cards inappropriately, took about three months and he was fired in February.
The Fire District has recouped some of the costs Hinton racked up by withholding about $1,400 he should have received for unused vacation time, Stein said. Both the pay-out for the unused vacation time and the paid leave Hinton received during his hearings are standard policies of the district's Civil Service Board, he said.
Stein said the rest of the money Hinton allegedly took from the department will likely come from court-ordered restitution.
During the administrative hearings, Hinton told Fire District officials that he had used the department's cards because he had a gambling problem.
Stein said Hinton, of Slidell, had been a good firefighter and no one had known he was facing any sort of monetary problems.
"I'm really surprised and just wonder why would anybody do that," Stein said.
Hinton was arrested after his firing and booked into the St. Tammany Parish jail with unauthorized use of an access card, a felony. He is currently awaiting trial.
Stein said that, in the wake of the alleged fraud, he has tried to ensure that fuel purchases are more thoroughly reviewed. Both he and the district's bookkeeper now look through each charge, a level of scrutiny that had not been in place last year.
Stein said the alleged fraud was an uncommon issue for the 28-member department but worried that as the agency grows to keep up with development in the Madisonville area it will have to deal with more issues with its employees.
"We've always been a quiet department, a good little department," he said. "We're trying to keep it that way but we're going to run into some of these problems because we're a growing department."


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HOLYOKE – Holyoke police arrested a 27-year-old Beech Street resident late Monday night, moments after he reportedly broke into a residence on Oak Street, assaulted two female residents and threatened to shoot them, police said. Avon A. Bethel of 101 Beech St. was charged with numerous offenses, including assault and battery, assault with a dangerous weapon, a handgun, breaking and entering with intent to commit a felony, use of a firearm in commission of a felony, threatening to commit a crime, wantonly injuring real or personal property, and burglary, said Holyoke Police Chief Anthony R. Scott. He was also charged with possession of a firearm without a license, possession of a loaded firearm, and possession of ammunition without a firearms identification card, Scott said. Bethel was stopped on Oak Street moments at about 10:30 p.m., moments after after police were alerted about a home invasion robbery nearby, Scott said. Detective Kevin P. Whalen moved to stop Bethel because he matched a description of the suspect just broadcast on the police radio, Scott said. When stopped, Bethel was sweating and breathing heavily, and officers found a 9 mm semi-automatic pistol, loaded with 9 rounds of ammo, in the waistband of his pants, Scott said. He was arrested after the women at the Oak Street residence identified him as one of the men who broke in their home, Scott said. The second suspect remains at large, but Scott said the case remains under investigation. Scott called Bethel a "career criminal," with a lengthy criminal record who has previously served time in the Hampden County Correctional Center at Stony Brook for assault and battery and for breaking and entering. At his arraignment Tuesday, Bethel was ordered held on $50,000 cash bail or a $500,000 cash surety and is due back in court on Dec. 4.


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You might have found yourself whistling the holiday tune, "O Christmas Tree" if you were in downtown Jamestown on Tuesday morning.
Crews from the city Parks, Recreation and Conservation Department, the Jamestown Board of Public Utilities and Lake Shore Paving placed this year's city Christmas tree onto Tracy Plaza. The Christmas tree, a Norway spruce, was harvested from city-owned property on Camp Street, and was then transported through the city for display at Tracy Plaza.
Dan Stone, city arborist, said the city usually receives a donated tree from a local resident for the Christmas display. However, he said the tree for this year was noticed while working in the city.
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The Christmas tree is pictured above being hauled over the Washington Street Bridge on Tuesday. Crews from the city Parks, Recreation and Conservation Department, the Jamestown Board of Public Utilities and Lake Shore Paving are seen placing the Christmas tree onto Tracy Plaza on Tuesday.
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"We came upon a tree during a sewer repair project that needed to be done on the top of Camp Street," Stone said. "We saw the tree and knew it would have to come down. This way we were able to utilize the tree instead of just cutting it down."
Once downtown, a BPU crane was used to hoist the tree from a flatbed on Third Street on to Tracy Plaza. Stone said the tree was 65 feet tall, which they whittled down to 45 feet.
"They will start decorating it (today) using 2,500 LED lights, twinkle lights and a really big star," he said.


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Window 7 is my primary operating system at this moment.
I created a new partition and formatted that, then ive installed XP the normal way but onto the 2nd partition and now my computer gets past the motherboard logo screen with DEL and F2 options then just stops at a black screen with a flashing cursor.
If ive messed something up, is there a way to format that partition through any of the BIOS or other options?
There was also a guide on sevenforums saying that i need to install something on a floppy disk in order to install it on a SATA drive otherwise it wont show up.
My drive showed up straight away and it said SATA on it.
Actually now I come to think of it, I dont think i even installed XP fully.
I got to the stage of where it was extracting files on that blue screen and left it, come back and my computer was on that flashing cursor window.
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Sidney Berger Draws Curtain on Prolific CareerFormer School of Theatre & Dance Director and Houston Shakespeare Festival Founder to Retire This Spring
February 2, 2009-Houston-For four decades, Sidney Berger helped aspiring stage stars rise from the University of Houston's School of Theatre & Dance and ascend to professional heights. Some headed to Hollywood while others made their way to regional stages and classrooms. No matter where they went, Berger viewed each of his students as shining products of theater education at its finest.
Now, Berger, the John and Rebecca Moores Professor of Theatre and the school's former director, has decided to depart the university he has called home for 40 years. Berger will retire from UH at the conclusion of the spring semester. He will direct one last UH production, the Houston premiere of Edward Albee's "At Home at the Zoo," which runs Feb. 13 - 22 in the university's Jose Quintero Theatre. Albee, a former distinguished UH theater professor, is scheduled to attend the Feb. 21 performance.
"I have had a wonderful career here at the university," Berger said. "I could not think of another place I would have wanted to spend 40 years of my professional life. I have worked alongside so many wonderful people, but now, I feel that a new generation of artists needs to prepare tomorrow's great actors, writers and directors."
Berger is especially pleased that his final UH production will be a work from former colleague and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Albee.
"I once directed his play 'A Delicate Balance,' and he came to see it," Berger said. "After the performance, he put his arm around me and said, 'When are you going to do another one of mine?' Directing an Albee play is the best way to complete my career at UH. He is a true master of the craft, and I am honored to be part of this city premiere."
"At Home at the Zoo" is a two-act play that combines the playwright's 1959 debut production, "The Zoo Story," with a new act that was first produced in 2004, "Homelife."
When it debuted, "The Zoo Story" shocked audiences with its tale of a park bench encounter between the mild mannered Peter and volatile Jerry. "Homelife" provides a first act to this meeting and details an intense dialogue between Peter and his wife, Ann. Combined, the two acts have evolved into the current production "At Home at the Zoo." The play contains mature language that might not be suitable for young audiences.
"Since Sid is retiring now I think it's real nice that he's finishing with a play of mine," Albee said. "It was Sid who invited me to teach playwriting at his school, where I learned a lot about teaching and even some about playwriting."
Berger took the reins as School of Theatre & Dance's director in 1969 when it was just a small drama department. As director, he grew the small department into a nationally recognized theater program with celebrity faculty and soon-to-be celebrity students.
In addition to Albee, Berger brought noted faculty to campus including Royal Shakespeare Company founder Sir Peter Hall, Tony winner Jose Quintero and Pulitzer Prize winner Lanford Wilson. Broadway legend and Tony winner Stuart Ostrow was another Berger hire and remains on faculty.
"He ran a fine, humanistic ship, and his gentleness and his humor will be missed," Albee said. "There's much to be learned from Sid, whom I love dearly, and I hope those who follow him have the wisdom to learn it."
Among the students who shined under Berger's tutelage were Dennis and Randy Quaid, Loretta Devine ("Waiting to Exhale"), Robert Wuhl ("Batman," "Bull Durham"), Brent Spiner ("Star Trek: The Next Generation") and Jim Parsons (CBS' "Big Bang Theory).
Berger also was key in founding the Houston Shakespeare Festival, and he will remain the producing director for this event. A summertime tradition, the event has entertained tens of thousands of Houstonians each year with outdoor productions of the Bard's finest works starring professional cast members.
He also introduced children to the magic of theater through the annual Children's Theatre Festival (now Theatre for Young Audiences), which produced professional plays featuring the talents of Tony winners Jerry Bock ("Fiddler on the Roof") and Charles Strouse ("Annie").
Among Berger's accolades are the 1992 Esther Farfel Award, UH's highest faculty honor, and the 2007 Theatre Under the Stars Ruth Denney Award, which recognizes arts educators. In 2007, he also was recognized by U.S. Congressman Gene Green in the Congressional Record for his tireless efforts with the Houston Shakespeare Festival.
"I look forward to seeing more great things emerge from the school," Berger said. "I leave the university knowing that its commitment to theater is stronger than ever. I've had the best career one can ask for, and I will always be grateful to the students, faculty and community for making this school into what it is today."
The UH School of Theatre & Dance offers bachelor's and master's degrees in theater and teacher certifications in dance. Its graduate program consists of a master of arts in theater and masters of fine arts in theater with specializations in acting, directing and design. Each fall and spring, the school produces five plays performed in the Wortham Theatre and the Jose Quintero Theatre, two dance concerts, four graduate directing projects, one Theatre for Young Audiences play and the Houston Shakespeare Festival each summer. The school has benefitted from notable star faculty such as Edward Albee, Lanford Wilson, Sir Peter Hall and Jose Quintero. Among current faculty are Tony Award-winning playwright Mark Medoff ,Tony Award-winning producer Stuart Ostrow and Broadway dramaturg Mark Bly.
For details on UH's School of Theatre & Dance, visit www.theatredance.uh.edu.
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NEWARK EAST SIDE (16-5) vs. NEWARK TECH (14-6)
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East Side defeated Bloomfield Tech 59-35 in the first round and Montclair 59-46 in the quarterfinals.
Newark Tech defeated Newark Vocational 83-60 in the first round and Columbia 68-50 in the quarterfinals.
Newark Tech defeated East Side, 61-57, in overtime, on Jan. 15 at Newark Tech.
East Side: Ismael Sanogo, Junior, Forward
Sanogo and fellow big Abdul Lewis give East Side a formidable one-two combination up front. Sanogo, a 6-5 junior, has scored 9.9 per games, but his greatest impact is on the glass. A relentless forward, Sanogo has averaged 11 rebounds a contest and is often the guy who will start the Newark school's transition offense.
Others to Watch: Jamar Gilbert (Jr. G); Ahmad Harrison (So. G); Akbar Hoffman (Jr. G); William Joyce (Sr. F); Abdul Lewis (Jr. F); Stephen McNair (Sr. G).
Newark Tech: Rakwan Kelly, Senior, Guard
The 6-4 senior has made an instant impact after transferring from Hudson Catholic before the season. Kelly, who is capable of playing virtually any position on the floor, leads the team in scoring at 14.1 points per game. A skilled slasher, Kelly is also a factor on the glass and can play the point if needed. His size allows his to be one Essex County's most versatile defenders.
Others to Watch: Al-Tariq Halsey (Jr. G); Mustafa Lawrence (Fr. G); Dwyan Murrill (Sr. G); Tyree Sykes (Jr. F); Kemoko Turay (Sr. F); Nasir White (Sr. G).
East Side: Akbar Hoffman, Junior, Guard
Hoffman has been a much-needed source of perimeter scoring in recent weeks. The 5-10 junior has averaged 13.6 points per game over his past five contests, highlighted by a 22-point effort in a quarterfinal victory over Montclair on Sunday. When Hoffman's outside shooting is on point, the East Side offense is tough to stop.
Newark Tech: Kemoko Turay, Senior, Forward
A Rutgers commit for football, Turay has the size and athleticism to be a dominant force on the interior. The 6-6 forward has been doing just that in the Essex County Tournament as he posted 11 points and 12 rebounds in the first round against Newark Vocational and 17 points and 13 rebounds in the quarterfinals against Columbia. Turay and Tyree Sykes can control a game on the glass for Newark Tech.
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Sony Tablet S and Tablet P set to receive Ice Cream Sandwich in April
At the end of January, we told you that new reports suggested Sony was aiming for a Spring-time roll-out of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to their pair of Android-powered tablets, the Tablet S and Tablet P. While we didn't have an exact date, or even a month to give you back then, it looks like The Verge has nailed down a month to get ready for if you own the tablets: April.
That falls right in line with Sony's confirmation that they would be aiming for a Spring debut of the new software, so it's good that Sony is aiming to keep to their schedules. Of course, while the update will add the latest version of Android to the pair of tablets, Sony is making sure to add a few tweaks to make their tablets stand out amongst the crowd. Specifically, you'll be able to take panoramic photos with your tablets. Additional features will include the ability to edit photos from the Gallery application, and owners will be able to activate the camera right from the lockscreen if they so choose.
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The decision to convert downtown streets from one-way to two-way traffic has been the most contentious issue in recent Hillsboro City Council history. Mayor Jerry Willey had to use his vote for the first time in over five years in office – mayors only vote in the event of a tie among the city councilors. The second and final reading of the ordinance passed 4-3 earlier this month.
But if not for charter amendments approved by Hillsboro voters in 2007, the ordinance may not have passed at all.
Under Hillsboro's 1923 charter, which the city used until 2007, the mayor "shall not have a vote upon any question, except in the case of a tie, in which event the Mayor shall have the deciding vote; provided, however, that upon the final passage of an ordinance the Mayor shall in no event have any vote."
That language appears to allow the mayor a vote to break a tie on a first reading of an ordinance – as Willey did with the two-way streets on May 6 – and to break a tie on other votes, such as approval of a contract. But it also appears to forbid the mayor's breaking a tie on the second and final reading of an ordinance, as Willey did for the two-way streets on May 20.
No matter – under Hillsboro's new charter, approved by nearly 77 percent of voters in 2007, that language is simpler: the mayor "has no vote on council matters unless there is a tie vote."
Hillsboro City Attorney Chad Jacobs said the new charter allows Willey to vote as he did on May 20. Jacobs added that he could not be sure if the same ordinance would have died before the 2007 change.
The discrepancy between the two charters was pointed out by Walt Hellman – a member of Hillsboro's Planning and Zoning Hearings Board and a regular contributor to OregonLive.com – because language on the "Council Meetings" portion of the city's website reflected the 1923 charter as of Thursday.
Design and permitting for the two-way conversion will proceed this year.
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Congress and constituents
The article by Yuxing Zheng ("The shutdown in real life," Oct. 11) about the most vulnerable people in the Hillsboro area who have been hit hardest by the government shutdown stands for every city, town or hamlet in the United States: Everywhere one can find people who live in extreme poverty — in the richest country on Earth.
How can lawmakers in Washington, D.C. manage to have a good sleep at night? Maybe a pillow stuffed with currency gives them sweet dreams, while countless others have sleepless nights, not knowing how to feed their children and themselves the next day or how to keep their home warm in the upcoming winter (if they have a home). Did any of the "representatives of the people" — elected by the people and supposedly working for all people in the USA — ever experience how hard it is not having the means to afford food, heating and a roof over one's head — in short, the basic necessities of life?
Did they ever have to send their children to school without breakfast? Did they ever live in a car? Do they know how humiliating it can be to get annoyed looks or even comments at the grocery when they pay with food stamps? What they seem to know perfectly well is how to play their political games on the backs of those people whose majority has sunk into poverty, not of their own doing but due to circumstances beyond their control.
When will we wake up and elect our representatives not for their promises, the paid advertisements and the accompanying dirt-slinging, but for their proven honesty and integrity?
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Men and women's liberation
Since the advent of women's liberation some 40 years ago, I've been waiting patiently for men to step up and demand theirs, too. I find Richard Settersten overlooked the fact that, in many instances, men themselves have blocked each other ("We need to invest in men (and get men to 'woman up')," Oct. 6).
For decades, primarily male-dominated legislatures and corporations fought equal pay and social policies that would have benefited men, women and families. Let's face it, it's easier for a man to opt out of the workplace if his wife is being paid equally to her male counterparts. New babies are easier to care for if both mom and dad take parental leave.
If Settersten wants things to get better for men, to "actively design social policies to move men's lives" in the direction of women's, then he needs to actively work to get more women in government and tell people to act more like women libbers.
Barbara Craig
Northwest Portland
Bikes and roads
Ridge Taylor writes a letter saying bicyclists pay no fees to support the infrastucture they use ("Bikes on roads, sidewalks," Oct. 11). I'd like to point out the error, but I'm not sure it will make any difference, as this idea pops up regularly in the letters to the editor.
Weather and schedule permitting, I ride my bike to work three days a week. I'm a normal middle-aged citizen. My household has two cars. I pay car registration fees, gas taxes, property taxes and income taxes just like everybody else. Being a business owner, I probably pay more than most since I also pay corporate taxes, payroll taxes, unemployment taxes and TriMet taxes.
And three days a week my car's not on the road. I get a nice bike ride and you get an easier commute and parking. We're even.
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AKRON, Ohio -- A Twinsburg man was convicted Friday of stabbing his wife 103 times during a heated argument last year.
Glenn Wong, 51, grabbed two large kitchen knives the night of Feb. 24, 2013 and butchered Tami Wong in their bedroom. The couple's 10-year-old daughter heard her mother's screams and called 911. Tami died en route to the Cleveland Clinic in Twinsburg.
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Which football team is better right now? Michigan or Michigan State?
Great question. I know Michigan State has, by far, the best defense in the Big Ten Conference, and at least top-five in America.
The Spartans defense could take them to the Rose Bowl. It seems kind of crazy to think that way right now, but with their schedule, the Spartans could accomplish bigger things than most are expecting from this team.
Like I said before the season, I thought any team on Michigan State's schedule would have a tough time scoring three touchdowns in a game. The defense is that good.
Offense has questions
The Spartans offense has gotten through the first five games without doing anything creative to knock your socks off. I'm still not sold on it.
I keep telling myself I need to see them play against a solid defense to truly get a read on them.
Then, I look at their remaining schedule and see no defense they have to fear for the rest of the regular season.
If the Michigan State offense doesn't give away points or field position, and the Spartans beat Michigan at home and lose only one road game at either Northwestern or Nebraska, that should get them to the Big Ten title game. That is doable, because Nebraska and Northwestern have horrible defenses. As far as winning the Big Ten, Ohio State looks capable of losing games this season. They're not that good.
What about Michigan?
Thank the football gods that Michigan decided to throw to their talented tight end in the second half of Saturday's game against Minnesota. If they hadn't, it would have been another fourth-quarter nail-biter against a bottom feeder at the Big House.
That second half finally gave Michigan fans a chance to think their team actually is good enough to get to the Big Ten title game.
The Wolverines might be 5-0 and ranked in the Top 25, but they still are a major work in progress.
I'm concerned about Michigan's offensive and defensive lines. When a Big Ten doormat team such as Minnesota rushes for more yards than Michigan, that's all you need to know.
Like Michigan State, Michigan has the luxury of not playing against a lot of tough defenses this year. If the Wolverines can beat Penn State on the road and Michigan State in East Lansing, I think you can start talking about Michigan as a championship caliber team.
They still will have to take care of business at Iowa and Northwestern and at home against Nebraska and Ohio State, but that game in Spartan Stadium will decide who is the better team this year.
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Bruce Campbell, who worked in the Fayetteville-Manlius Music Department from 1974 to 2007, will take on an interim role in the district this year.
The school board has approved hiring Campbell to take on the high school choral responsibilities, which are currently held by David Brown, the district's coordinator of K-12 music. The district will hire another person to direct the school's annual musical.
Brown, who also has directed the school's musicals and served as music theory teacher, recently notified F-M he is leaving later this month to take an administrative job with the Ithaca City School District.
The board also approved hiring John Jeanneret, who has worked with the F-M High School jazz ensemble, as teacher of advanced placement theory.
Both jobs are one-year appointments which will allow the district to search for a replacement for Brown.
District officials said they were worried searching after the school year has begun might preclude some candidates from applying who may have other commitments this school year.


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Two people have been arrested in connection with Tuesday morning's multiple vehicle vandalism investigation in Marrero, according to Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office.
Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand announced the two arrests Tuesday night (Dec. 24). The Sheriff's Office identified the two people arrested as Christopher Flanagan, 19, and Dacotah Hamilton, 20, both of Marrero.
Residents early Tuesday afternoon reported 166 vehicles with windows shot in several West Bank neighborhoods, including Hillcrest, Oak Cove and Oak Forest, according to Col. John Fortunato, a spokesman for the JPSO.
"Those victims who were vandalized had to wake up and face having to get their vehicles fixed the day before Christmas," Fortunato said.
The suspects shattered windows. No one was injured and residents did not report any stolen property. Authorities aren't sure when the shootings occurred, but most residents discovered the damage at daybreak.
The Sheriff's Office said detectives Chad Dear and Travis Eserman, using surveillance video from area residents, identified the vehicle used in the vandalism as a Ford Escape and tracked a Ford Escape to 1745 Robin Drive in Marrero.
At that residence, Flanagan admitted to using a BB pistol to shoot at vehicles on three occasions: Dec. 11, Dec. 18 and Tuesday morning, authorities said. Flanagan surrendered a BB pistol and a search of his vehicle turned up several spent CO2 cartridges and 50-100 loose BBs, the Sheriff's Office said.
Flanagan identified Hamilton as his accomplice, authorities said. Hamilton also confessed, authorities said.
Hamilton and Flanagan were booked on 42 counts of misdemeanor and felony criminal damage. Additional counts could be forthcoming as the investigation continues, authorities said.
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Drinking in public led to a West Brighton man's arrest on grand larceny, weapon and pot-possession charges, authorities say.
Cops approached Tomas Rosado, 34, around 9:40 p.m. Tuesday on Broadway and Forest Avenue in his home community when they saw him drinking a 24-ounce can of beer, said police.
The suspect, who lives on the 200 block of Myrtle Avenue, had a gravity knife in his possession, along with a marijuana cigarette, police said.
As officers tried to handcuff him, Rosado pushed one and flailed his arms, court papers said.
After his arrest, cops allegedly found 10 credit, debit and banking cards on the suspect, whose first name also appears in court papers as "Thomas."
Eight cards had been stolen Aug. 8 from inside a Jeep parked on Brookfield Avenue, Great Kills, said court papers.
Two other cards belonged to two different people, said cops.
Rosado admitted to snatching a wallet from the Jeep, whose window was open, court papers said.
The suspect was charged with felony counts of grand larceny and stolen-property possession, said a spokesman for District Attorney Daniel Donovan.
He's also accused of misdemeanor counts of petit larceny, stolen-property possession, weapon possession and resisting arrest, along with a lesser count of marijuana possession.


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The three cinemas getting made over for IMAX goodness – Entertainment Quarter at Fox Studios in Sydney, Highpoint in Melbourne and Carousel in Perth – will all be bringing the IMAX experience on Boxing Day with the release of Keanu Reeves' latest, The Day the Earth Stood Still. On top of that, the Hoyts cinemas will be showing typical IMAX documentaries, plus a selection of 3D entertainment, complete with stupid glasses.
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KALAMAZOO -- About 20 people, some holding signs saying "Economic Emergency" or "Walk in my shoes," demonstrated outside Congressman Fred Upton's downtown Kalamazoo office at noon Friday in support of extending jobless benefits without restrictions to Michigan residents.
The demonstration on the Kalamazoo Mall was organized by Michigan Citizen Action.
Some participants, like Jim Yonkman of Kalamazoo, are themselves unemployed.
Others, such as Pat Ingalls of Bangor, were advocating for others. Ingalls said a friend, who was laid off from a job in the manufacturing industry, is becoming desperate as his unemployment benefits run out. "He doesn't know what he is going to do," Ingalls said.
Upton told the Kalamazoo Gazette earlier this year that he favored extending the benefits, but the problem now is how to pay for it. He said he is in favor of restrictions on the benefits, including a requirement for drug testing and programs to help people obtain a GED.
On Thursday, Senate Democrats put forward a proposal that would cap the number of weeks someone could receive benefits at 93 — down from 99.
Ingalls and other demonstrators spoke with Ed Sackley, district director at Upton's office, to send a message to the congressman to vote to extend unemployment benefits without exceptions.
Sackley explained that Michigan residents will no longer be able to collect extended unemployment benefits of 20 weeks under a federal program, since the state's unemployment rate last month dropped to 9.9 percent, below the required level.
"It's not the fault of the millions of workers who are in the fight for their lives right now," responded Dennis Moore of Cooper Township.
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Hollywood is regularly charged with all sorts of biases, and a reasonable person would have to admit that most of the charges stick.
Has there been a drama in the last 20 years that saw the suburbs as anything but a soul-sapping hypocritical hell? Or starred an honest big businessman, a low-pressure real-estate agent or a principled politician? At the very least it's lazy writing; at its worst, it's stubborn stereotyping.
But does anyone get a tougher time of it onscreen than writers?
Last week brought "Smart People" and "The Visitor," two dissimilar movies about fairly similar men - middle-aged, widowed professors who were busy writing (or rather, busy trying to look like they were writing) new textbooks. The first film, a comedy, starred Dennis Quaid; the second, a quieter slice of life, featured Richard Jenkins.
One is a literary critic, the other an economist, but in both cases, these men of academia are closed-off, cooled-down loners who've lost the interest or ability to relate to old friends or make new connections, and who wall themselves off behind high-brow pleasures - Victorian novels, string quartets.
The confluence might just seem like a coincidence - except that the image of the icy intellectual has been Hollywood's go-to cliche for several years.
Think of the brother/sister team of Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney in "The Savages" - he a scholar hiding behind his own living version of Brechtian distance, she an avant-garde playwright who saves most of her creativity for grant applications. Or Frank Langella in "Starting Out in the Evening," an aging legend unable to discern his adult daughter's needy quest for approval, or the real interests of the young student come to interview him. They can all explicate a classic text, but not one of them understands life.
When they're not simply fumbling their relations with friends and family, writers in the movies are actively sabotaging them. Think of Nicole Kidman in "Margot at the Wedding," a short-story author skilled at developing characters but even defter at reflexively hurting and undermining her sister. Or Jeff Daniels in "The Squid and the Whale," a bearded passive-aggressive bully whose chief achievement in recent years seems to have been ensuring years of therapy bills for both of his wounded, vulnerable sons.
Add these misanthropes to the misfits of "Smart People" and "The Visitor" - not to mention other relatively recent movies like "The Door in the Floor," "A Song for Bobby Long," "Wonder Boys," "The Human Stain" and "Finding Forrester" - and the cliche calcifies into a commandment: Want a grouchy depressive for your hero, make him a writer.
All of these fictional writers came, of course, from the laptops of real ones - so there may be some truth in their portrayal of their protagonists as withdrawn observers. Those that originally began as characters in novels may reveal some self-pity and self-loathing, too, on the part of their creators, or a backhanded kind of self-congratulation (at least, the novelist thinks, I'm not as bad as my hero!)
But these literary losers also seem to show a lurking distrust of high-brows among screenwriters, a suspicion that intellect is synonymous with inhumanity. What kind of writer, after all, works alone, putting together a manuscript without input from studio heads, producers, directors, stars? They must not even like people. Don't these hermits know that writing is a collaborative process?
Of course, really great writing isn't about consensus, but one person putting his or her thoughts down on paper, and knowing that every word on that paper is his or hers, exclusively. Nakedly revealing, guiltlessly selfish, hugely satisfying, it's like shouting your name to the world.
But screenwriters barely whisper theirs, and when they do it's often drowned out in the din of rewrites and revisions. Even if they direct their own scripts (as most of the writers of the films mentioned above did) their vision is still bound to be changed, altered by a star's reading of (or refusal to read) a line, a cinematographer's idea for a camera movement, an editor's suggestion for a cut. It's the nature of filmmaking that many different artists have a hand in it.
But that's not the nature of writing, and I think it leaves screenwriters - on some level - slightly envious and even resentful of those print writers who escape it.
And so the writers we meet on screen are failed and forgotten novelists, inconsequential intellectuals, tenuously tenured academics. They chase sloppily after their students, neglect their children, alienate their siblings and consistently forget to put the alimony check in the mail. They're removed and remote, drunken and double-chinned. They have absolutely none of the comforts of their Hollywood brethren.
Except the sacrosanct nature of their own, inviolate work. And that's the one thing that their counterparts in a consensus-driven, compromise-riddled movie business can't quite stand.


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No. 2 on the list of "The top 11 things you will never hear a real Portlander say": Sam Bowie was the right choice.
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Jake O'Donnell is my favorite ref of all time. He was really fair to Clyde Drexler.
I'm so glad they traded Brian Grant.
Rip City? What does that mean?
Maurice Lucas was soft.
Dr. Jack who?
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I really relate to Paul Allen.
Moda Center, that has a nice ring to it.
I (HEART) Kobe Bryant.
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La Rana Hawaii, LLC, doing business as Señor Frog's, settles a sexual harassment lawsuit for $350,000. The discrimination lawsuit was filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") on behalf of 13 female employees. So even though this case settled for a large amount, there were many employees who shared in the settlement. According to published accounts, the females were allegedly sexually harassed or retaliated against between during a five-year period. Retaliation is a legal term and it occurs when an employee has a negative job action taken against her because she either rejects sexual harassment or reports it.
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- 01-06-2013, 01:58 AM Thread Author #1
Touch Screen Stylus Pen
There are many on amazon: Amazon.com: Touch Screen Stylus Pen: Cell Phones & Accessories
Does anyone have one that they really like? I got one with my Fintie case and I find it very nice to use compared to my (apparently pudgy) fingers. But I'm sure I'll eventually misplace it and would like to have a backup for when that day arrives.
- 01-06-2013, 02:01 AM Thread Author #2
Re: Touch Screen Stylus Pen
This one looks like it might be a safe purchase; lots of positive reviews:
Amazon.com: New Trent IMP68B Extendable Stylus/Styli Touch Screen Cell phone Tablet Pen with Micro-Knit Technology Capacitive Stylus for iPhone 5 4 4s, iPod touch, new , iPad (4th gen) with Retina display, the New iPad(third gen), iPad 2, iPad (1st g
- 01-06-2013, 02:07 AM Thread Author #3
Re: Touch Screen Stylus Pen
This one might be even better than the New Trent one. Same price.
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- 01-06-2013, 02:10 AM Thread Author #4
Re: Touch Screen Stylus Pen
Yet another one with lots of high reviews. I have all 3 in my cart on Amazon and now that I'm over $25 I'll get free shipping. What the heck, why not.
Amazon.com: BoxWave EverTouch Capacitive Stylus - (Newest Technology) Touchscreen iPad 3 Stylus with Ultra Durable FiberMesh Fabric Tip for Apple iPad 3, iPad 2, iPhone 5, iPhone 4S / 4, Nexus 7, Galaxy S3, All Touch Screen Tablets (Lunar Blue): Kind
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So what is everyone using these for on their n10's? I just can't think of much except for maybe using them on a drawing app.
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You don't have to spend big bucks on a stylus. I got four (4) rubber tipped styluses for only $2.99 on eBay (the price included free US Postal shipping as well). The bodies are metal with a pocket clip; they look and feel like a metal ball point pen with a rounded rubber end instead of an ink refill. They work great with my Nexus 10; much better than my finger. And, at that price if i lose one it's no big deal.
I got red ones; there are hundreds more on eBay to choose from...long ones, ones with built in ink cartridges, ones that are on keychains, etc etc.
- 01-09-2013, 11:53 PM Thread Author #8
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Transtang asked what people use styluses (stylii?) for. Simply put, EVERTHING. Anything you do with your finger you can do easier and with more precision using a stylus. My experiences have been that it allows me to be more precise and work more quickly, on everything from tapping a letter on the keyboard to selecting a url to open up. When I'm reading an e-book using the Nook app and want to highlight a particular word to look up in the dictionary, the stylus works much, much better. Before I got the stylus no matter how careful I was, my finger seemed to select several words in a row. Now, I just touch down on the word and it pops up in the dictionary. I would hate to think about having to do without my stylus and just use my fingers, now that I've tried a stylus for a few days and gotten hooked on using it. As As the old commercial used to say, "try it, you'll like it".
- 01-12-2013, 12:45 AM Thread Author #12
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