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Once it was reintroduced into the American market in 2009 the latest-generation Chevrolet Camaro began selling faster than party pills. Now the Camaro model line can celebrate a milestone that spans all the way back to its original 1967 version.
General Motors has just built the five-millionth example of its Camaro, but surprisingly few of the total amount of cars produced are the current generation. Only 225,844 of the total 5 million sales come from the 2010-2011 model. The remaining 4,774,156 models arrived in the years between 1967 and 2002.
As for the landmark five millionth vehicle, it's a fairly modest example. Built at GM's Oshawa plant the Camaro is a 1LS Coupe in black with the 3.6-litre V6 engine, a six-speed manual trans and steel wheels. The owner of this special machine is located in Kentucky, USA and paid $24,700 USD for the car.

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The Lady Bears opened the second half with a 9-0 run to pull away from visiting Fairhope and finished with a 54-41 victory Tuesday night.
"Surviving (was the key)," Robertsdale coach Scott Harville said. "Getting a win this late in the season gives us an advantage. Any time you can host the area tournament, in our scenario, it automatically gives us a playoff berth from a three-team area. Just being able to host the area tournament gives you the advantage."
At 6 p.m. Friday, the Lady Bears (12-11 overall, 4-0 area) will travel to Baldwin County High, while the Lady Pirates (6-12, 1-2) will play host to Foley High.
"I thought our kids played better than they have in awhile," Fairhope coach Jessica Webb said.
Sheila Daily scored 19 points, KiKi McMillian added 14, Shelby Trotter eight, CiCi McMillian seven and Kellen Shirley five for Robertsdale.
Megan Dowdy scored 15 points, Raven Priolo 10, Luci Crutcher seven and Anna Railey three for Fairhope.
At the free-throw line, the Lady Bears went 6-of-12, while the Lady Pirates were 13-of-20.
Robertsdale built a 15-8 lead after one quarter and took a 26-19 advantage into the halftime break.
After the Lady Bears started the third quarter with a scoring run that built a double-digit lead, Robertsdale held a comfortable 43-28 advantage heading into the final eight minutes of play.
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UH-MC participating in pilot efforts to improve accountability
National and local attention on accountability of institutions of higher education continues to deepen.
Seeking transparency and evidence, the Western Association of Schools and Colleges Senior College and University Commission continues to refine its accreditation process. UH-Maui College is one of 28 Hawaii and California institutions participating in pilot efforts to streamline and improve institutional accountability to students, parents, communities, legislators and other contributors. The process has been self-reflective and includes program advisory committee members from the community. This continuing self-examination will influence positive changes that affect learners.
As part of this new process, institutions are asked to submit four documents: a financial report, an analysis of the college's retention and graduation data, an in-depth and directed self-study, and a follow-up report. Maui College has just submitted the final of four documents in this new process and awaits the April on-campus visit from the accreditation team.
Each of the reports has required a careful analysis of the college and exploration of the evidence presented. It has been an opportunity for program coordinators, faculty, community program partners, and administrators to collectively examine UH-MC institutional outcomes related to our students and community. The central questions from the process have been: What do we expect Maui College graduates to learn? How do we know that they have learned what we expect? What can we do to improve student learning? Where would we like to see the college in the future? How can we plan for these outcomes and goals?
Through this reflective process we have been able to share our strengths as a college, review our assumptions, identify areas for improvement, examine emerging developments, identify near- and longer-term goals, and lay out strategies for achieving them.
In the initial off-site review by the accreditation team last spring, UH-MC was commended by the WASC Sr. team for the college's partnership with its community, the college's ability to voice its unique context, and its process for assessing student learning. It was important for us to highlight both our commitment to the community of Maui County as well as to explain the college's unique historical and geographical context for our accreditors. The college was also recognized for our commitment to an in-depth, campuswide assessment process.
During the past few years, the college began to "close the loop on assessment," which means the college has not only identified areas for improving student learning but has implemented changes and is now seeing and reviewing the results for even more improvement. To begin these discussions of assessment, every program uses examples or evidence of student work to determine how well the program is achieving its goals. Then the program asks, "What are our students learning and are they learning at an acceptable level?" In addition to program coordinators, faculty and administrators, the process includes community members, students, and workforce representatives in the discussion to identify the relevance and effectiveness of specific learning skills. To then close the loop on assessment, programs then make changes in response to these analyses, whether in the requirements of the program, prerequisites of classes or modifications to assignments in current courses. This ongoing loop of assessment helps our college explain what it means to earn a degree or certificate at Maui College and helps our college to continuously improve learning.
In addition to commendations, the accreditation team asked for more information in a few areas, including the college's strategic plans for the future as well as the college's strategies for handling budget shortfalls. The accreditation team framed these as "lines of inquiry" to prompt further reflection, discussion, responses and actions.
As we look to the future, one thing is for certain, our faculty and staff will continue these cycles of reflection and work to continuously improve student learning.
To learn more or to read UH Maui College's Institutional Reaccreditation Report, the WASC Off-Site Review Summary of Findings and to follow the process, visit the college's website at maui.hawaii.edu/accreditation.
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I read with amusement today at the NY Times web page that the Government is now changing the terms of the $700 billion dollar effort to save this economy. I for one say, "yeehaa." Greed is an awful thing, and to see these banks and companies beg for help is sad. Its' even sadder when the consumer/taxpayer loses once again. Banks hording money when they are supposed to helping consumers with those funds is out and out wrong. AGI "Plush Execs" make me sick, and I hope Congress has the good sense to sick a guard dog on any and all companies who abuse this bailout. Here is another article from the Times as to who is lining up for the cash.
No sooner did the money water valve get turned off, then we have banks/companies claiming that, "Yes, we are using the money for what it was intended, really, " as reported by the Associated Press. The banks could care less about the little guys, and really dislike the little guys who continue to pay the mortgage, no matter what they have to sacrifice in order to MAKE THAT PAYMENT!
Am I really angry about this? You bet I am. This whole mortgage crisis doesn't sit well with me at all either. How many people have I seen on the evening news, being interviewed about losing their homes, while sucking down a Starbucks Latte. Hmmm, interesting. When we bought our home, we took out a small mortgage. Even with an 800+ credit score, we were still charged the higher interest rate, mostly due in part to self-employment. We paid our mortgage even when there was no money to pay. We did without, we cut cable, we cut going out, we cut down with the gas, the groceries, etc.. It was really hard, but we made it.
I personally don't believe in a government bailout plan that would reward anyone who purchased a home they never should have been in, in the first place. Hey, if you make $3500.00 a month, do you really think a $2000.00 mortgage payment is a good idea? I understand getting ill, losing your job, etc. and I truly do have sympathy for those individuals. But I do have a few friends who are upside down in their homes because of the "Keeping up with the Joneses," maxing out their credit cards, spending all the equity they have built up, making really bad choices.
So, should those persons be saved from foreclosure? Should anyone be saved from home foreclosure by the Government? By the taxpayers, particularly, the frugal ones?
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A lot of the "venues" listed are leagues.[edit]
This template seems to need some work. For example, Suburbia Roller Derby. Going to their web site one note that they play at two (and now three?) public venues in their area, one of them being the Yonkers Police Athletic League and another being the E.J. Murray Memorial Skating Center. Not terribly difficult to dig this info up by perusing league web sites.
Another issue, how is the list to be sorted? It would appear that someone took an older version of the list of leagues and gradually replaced wiki-links to league articles with wiki-links to venue articles. Without including info on the leagues there seems to be no easy way to keep the list sorted appropriately in this manner. I'd suggest switching to alphabetical, ignoring articles like "the." TimBRoy (talk) 07:29, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
- With so many leagues not having dedicated venues, is this template worth having? Or is it maybe better to delete the entries for leagues that don't have permanent venues, and only include those that do? For example, Montreal uses different venues depending on time of year, but I believe they always use the two, do they get listed? Toronto uses the same venue year-round, but it is a warehouse space on an old air base, and the building itself does not have an article to link to, and is only mentioned in brief on the park's article. Minnesota uses Roy Wilkins Auditorium, and THAT is a significant venue. Not sure what criteria are best used here. Echoedmyron (talk) 22:58, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
- Why not let Wikipedia be the judge? In other words, don't create links to venues that don't have articles. I don't imagine Toronto Roller Derby's "Bunker" would get an article that would "make it" on Wikipedia. I don't see a major problem with multiple venues per league, so long as those venues have articles (preferably articles that reference the league in some way). If someone wants to create an article for a venue, that article would need to meet the usual standards for notability and have citations.
- Otherwise we've either got to list EVERY venue used by any WFTDA league (NOT easy to do) or arbitrarily decide which ones merit listing and which don't. TimBRoy (talk) 04:41, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
- My point was that having a template that can only be used for less than an quarter of the venues out there didn't seem worthwhile. And that a league by definition is not a venue. You're right, many venues, the Bunker included, are not worthy of their own articles. I only link to venues when I can find a an existing article, or if I'm able to create one. I'm just wondering if this amounts to clutter. We certainly can have multiple venues listed for leagues, but I'm inclined to think that the place for those listings is within the league articles themselves. I've proposed in the past that there be some sort of wikiproject or guideline for how roller derby league articles are structured, but there did not seem to be interest. There's already a lot of inconsistency when one compares league articles - and I've seen people outside of the derby world confused that we treat leagues and their charter travel teams almost interchangeably; for instance, there's an article on Gotham, but not a separate article on their travel team. Any other sport focuses on the teams. It's tricky to apply wiki guidelines to a sport that has none of its own (in wiki terms, that is) and to one that is operated so differently from professional sport.
- I'm willing to help you out with this template if you like, to find a way to make it more useful and find a consistent way to use it. I'd be interested in feedback from other editors though. I'm always loathe to post for input on roller derby related articles on any of the wiki boards for fear some admin will look at things and start deciding that the merit is not there. Echoedmyron (talk) 14:35, 11 April 2012 (UTC)


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It would be easy to be clever, and come up with some way to ease into a premise. From some writers you might get preachy and scolding.
Neither works here.
Instead, going to the straight to the heart of the matter works best.
No matter how deep the sting right now, no matter how frustrating and disappointing the ending was, the bottom-line for the LSU baseball season is easy to describe.
It was a marvelous season by the Tigers to get to the College World Series and two very subpar performances once they got there.
Trying to define the 2013 season as anything remotely resembling a failure is as ludicrous as pitching batting practice underhanded from 20 feet away with no net.
All the chatter about "getting there isn't good enough for LSU," and "winning the national championship is all that matters" -- those days are over. Not just for the Tigers but everybody else.
The game has evolved for the better in a lot of ways (for the worse in others), and dominating like the Tigers did from 1991-2000 won't happen again. Heck, the game has changed dramatically since LSU's last crown in 2009 because of watered-down bats and pitcher-friendly baseballs.
How deeply entrenched is parity? There were probably 40 teams in the 64-team NCAA Tournament field that could've wound up in Omaha and 14 to 18 of those 40 that legitimately could've won the national crown.
This was a special LSU season delivered by a special team composed of a lot of special kids who were managed well, and -- until the final few steps -- executed and played top-notch baseball. You don't get to 57-9 without all of the above.
Were there flaws? Well, heck yes, a few of them, but they weren't very big.
Was LSU at the top of its game from start to finish? Nope. Find me a team that is for 4-plus months. Doesn't happen.
Did anybody, player or coach, have a perfect season? No. Again, it doesn't happen in sports any more than it does in any walk of life.
All of those questions above were pretty moot for most of this season. Just about anybody and everybody that got in LSU's path from Feb. 15 until the final out of the Super Regional on June 8 didn't fare all that well.
Until the two letdowns in the CWS, the Tigers lost back-to-back games only once all season. The may have lost a few games when they played well, but they also found ways to prevail when they weren't at their best.
Anybody who chooses to throw out words like "overrated" or "undeserving" right now because of two straight losses on the biggest stage to very good teams is being sorely unrealistic and unfair.
Because of the 0-2 showing in Omaha, there is now - and will always be - a damper when the 2013 season is brought up, discussed, and rehashed. That's not just true of fans, but also of the players and coaches. That's a group of guys exponentially more devastated than anybody sitting in the stands.
Thing is, when some time goes by, the players and coaches will look back and understand just how special this season was. They lived it, bled it, sweated it. And they deserve to enjoy it once the pain subsides.
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The job of the graphic designer is interesting, because you are not tied down to a particular place. It doesn't matter in which part of the world, which county are you right now, you can do your job anywhere.
A while ago we showed our plans to the clients on paper. Today we don't need this, everything is digitalized. We send the website layouts in jpeg form, and the print design plans in pdf to the clients, via email. Nowadays we don't even need paper while doing books and periodicals, because with the help of Adobe Acrobat Professional our customers can comment the questionable parts of a book, and suggest changes.
There's no need for paper, it's enough if you take a reliable Macbook in your backpack and you can do your job anywhere, anytime.
But there's something, that you need to sustain this job and lifestyle. You need a dependable and fast internet connection. And there can be some problem and fatigue with this. It's practical to choose a place where the infrastructure is developed, which usually means frequented tourist centers – if you'd like to work in the sunshine, near the coast.
In Pattaya, Thailand – where I'm currently staying – there are many internet cafés, and moreover the traditional cafés and restaurants all have wifi connection. You'd think that you could just grab your laptop, sit inside a café and do your job all day. Obviously it's not that easy, you can't just sit in a café all day long. Most of the hotels also have wifi connection, but the one I'm staying at doesn't.
The real solution would be, if you could have access to your own mobile internet, but attaining this in an alien country is hard. But the other day I tried to go after this issue.
I went into the Hutch Communications store, located in the South Pattaya Road (Pattaya Tai), which is located near to the famous Tuk Com. "Yes" – they answered, they have a mobile internet service, a Huawei USB modem is 1750 baht (roughly $58), and the monthly subscriprion is 1000 baht ($33) – for unlimited internet usage. This sounded great, especially because I'm planning to stay for a couple of months. But… Here comes the obstacle: with a tourist visa you can't get it. Now what should I do? They said: find a thai friend, and buy the thing in his/her name.
It seems to me that this is the easiest way. You can always find a local friend, or with a little luck, you can just go in the other end of the store and ask the security guy, like I did.
The mobile internet guarantees a continuous internet connection, but the disadvantage of it is that it is slow. It's good for receiving and sending emails, but a bigger file is going to take up some time. It's expedient to get to the nearest internet café, if you have something big to send, and for an hourly rate of 20-30 baht ($0,66-1) you can do your job quickly.


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A week after former Saints safety Darren Sharper was arrested in Los Angeles on rape charges, New Orleans police are set to release a report on Friday that should reveal new details about accusations of sexual assault he faces locally.
New Orleans police have said a complaint was made against Sharper on Sept. 24, but few details have been made public about the claims against him. Sharper, an NFL Network analyst who was a key player in the Saints' 2009 Super Bowl-winning season, has not been arrested or charged in New Orleans.
News that Sharper was under investigation in New Orleans came after he was booked into a Los Angeles jail on Jan. 17, following two rape reports there, one in October and another earlier this month.
NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune made a formal request for the report on Saturday (Jan. 18). The NOPD says on its website initial reports are available within 20 business days of the incident, but the report made nearly four months ago had not yet been released by late Thursday.
NOPD spokeswoman Remi Braden said the delay was because "reports involving sexual assault allegations contain extremely sensitive information."
"The City Attorney's Office and the NOPD take such investigations very seriously and protect the identity of the person who filed the complaint. Following the public records request received, we consulted with the City Attorney as per policy, and the incident report will be released," Braden said.
It's unclear if Sharper, 38, has hired a lawyer. His agent has talked to several local attorneys, but those contacted this week said they could not confirm if they had been retained.
Immediately after Sharper's arrest in California, the NFL Network said he was suspended from his job, where he has been an in-studio analyst since 2012.
He was released from the Los Angeles County jail just before midnight last Friday after posting $200,000 bond. He is due in court there on Feb. 14.
Sharper spent two seasons with the Saints, from 2009-10. He helped lead the team to a 13-3 regular-season record and a Super Bowl XLIV win against the Indianapolis Colts in his first season in New Orleans with nine interceptions. In 2010, Sharper's last season in the NFL, he played in only eight of 16 games and didn't have any interceptions.
During his 14 seasons with the NFL from 1997 to 2010, he played on the Green Bay Packers for eight seasons and the Minnesota Vikings for four.
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Mailman 'snaps' at island driver
Police responded to a case of road rage gone postal when a mailman on Bainbridge Island decided to tell a driver exactly what he though of her driving habits.
Over the afternoon of Wednesday, Oct. 24, a postman screamed and cursed at a woman for talking on her cell phone while she was driving. The incident prompted the woman's husband to track down the mailman on his bicycle, leading to yet another confrontation.
The hostilities were sparked as the woman was driving on Battle Point Drive to pick up her 6-year-old daughter from a bus stop.
While en route, she passed a postal worker who was delivering mail on a narrow, tree-lined roadway.
The mailman told police that it was dark and the woman did not have her headlights on. He also said she did not honk her horn to let him know she was passing by.
The mailman said he did not see the passing car until it was right beside his delivery truck and it startled him. He also noticed that the woman was talking on her cell phone at the time.
The mailman encountered the woman again as she was returning home on Olallie Lane — still on her cell phone, according to the postal worker. He started to follow her, and the woman pulled over into a driveway to let the mailman pass.
Instead, he blocked her car in the driveway with his delivery truck and got out. The mailman gave the woman a piece of his mind, yelling and cursing at her in front of her daughter.
The woman admitted to police that she was on her cell phone at one point during her drive.
After the mailman left, the woman called her husband to tell him about the incident.
The husband was on his bicycle at the time and found the mailman on Tolo Road, and then stopped his bike directly in front of the mail truck.
The mailman slowly moved his truck forward to encourage the cyclist to move, but the husband held his ground. The mailman told police that he considered this "aggressive and threatening." The truck continued to inch forward until he bumped into the tire of the bicycle.
The bump ignited a yelling match between the two men. The mailman said he was sorry for losing his temper, but asked that the husband speak to his wife about her "bad driving."
Police contacted the mailman, and his supervisor at the Winslow Post Office, later that day.
He told police that he has observed his fair share of bad driving in his 14 years as a mailman, but he "just snapped" when he encountered the woman on her cell phone.
Police also asked why the mailman considered a bike rider threatening when he was in a two-ton truck.
"Well, I didn't know who it was," the mailman blurted at officers, according to police reports. "It could have been someone with a gun, or anything!"
The mailman concluded his interview with police by handing them a prewritten statement on both encounters.
The woman driver and her husband cyclist did not want to press charges or have any legal action taken against the mailman. Rather, they preferred that the post office handle his discipline.
They did want the police to be aware of his behavior, however, in case there were any future incidents.
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For the second consecutive year, the St. Tammany Parish public school system had the state's fourth-highest district performance score, according to results released Wednesday by the Louisiana Department of Education. And for the fourth consecutive year, the district increased its score, this time by 1.6 points to 111.3 and was one of 14 to attain a grade of B (a minimum score of 105) or better.
Zachary Community Schools -- with its seven schools -- was Louisiana's best of 70 districts for the sixth consecutive year with a score of 121.3 and the only Grade A school (120 or higher).
St. Tammany led the state with 12 schools in the top 100 of 1,592 in Louisiana, and was the only district with three high schools -- Mandeville, Northshore and Fontainebleau -- ranked in the overall top 50.
"We're very pleased. We saw some nice growth, and we're considered an 'Honor Roll school system' with a letter grade of B or better. You always want to have an A, and we're going to work on that," Superintendent Trey Folse said. "We're also realistic.
"While Zachary has the only A, and congratulations to them, but if you look at the size of our system and put us in relation to other school systems our size, it's pretty significant what we've been able to accomplish."
St. Tammany, the state's fourth-largest school district last year with an enrollment of 37,112, had more students than the other school systems in the top six combined. It scored nearly four points higher than any other district with an enrollment of more than 20,000.
The brightest area for the school system was not only the high marks for many of its high schools, but for improvement in those schools, as well. Mandeville's score jumped 11.2 percent to 137.3 (25th-best among all schools in the state), Northshore was up 9.9 percent to 132.4 (36th) and Fontainebleau rose 9.1 percent to 127.6 (50th).
Of St. Tammany's eight public high schools, only Salmen (from 90.2 to 88) and Lakeshore (110.2 to 108) declined.
Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction Cheryl Arabie said the increases at high schools can largely be attributed to the school system's strong push the past few years to raise the graduation rate, which is in line with recent state initiatives.
Forty-seven of St. Tammany's 52 schools -- and all of its high schools -- had scores in the top half of the state's rankings. Only Abney Elementary, Carolyn Park Middle, Bayou Lacombe Middle, Brock Elementary and Alton Elementary ranked in the bottom half.
"When you look at our need schools, and they're basically in the Salmen learning community for the most part ... we're seeing an influx of new students, and we're trying to do a more thorough job of assessing where they are," Folse said. "We're going to make sure they get what they need instead of just accepting what they've done from wherever they were in the past."
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Chris Medina impressed America with his bold and finely tuned vocal chords. But America was most taken with his touching love story.
Medina, a 26-year-old Illinoisian auditioned for "American Idol" Wednesday night in Milwaukee hoping his singing talents could land him a spot on the show and bring happiness to his fiancé of two years, Juliana Ramos.
Two weeks before Medina and Ramos were to tie the knot, Ramos suffered a traumatic brain injury that left her in a coma for over a month. The car accident's injuries damaged Ramos' brain permanently.
Medina, along with Ramos' mother, is Ramos' caretaker. Ramos came with Medina to support his audition, and the judges insisted upon meeting her after hearing Medina's singing.
While many viewers of the show were touched by Medina's audition, others question Medina's intentions, suggesting he may be exploiting Ramos' pain.
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Fall City Historical Society goodies go on sale
Fall City Historical Society shines a spotlight on the "Pillars of the Community" in its 2013 calendar, for sale in November.
The calendar will be available at the Dec. 1 Fall City Holiday Market.
The society is also selling its collectible glasses, including ones depicting the Falls City Masonic Hall (built in 1895) and the historic hop drying shed at Fall City Community Park. The society is also offering Jack Kelley's history of the community.
The Fall City Historical Society collects, preserves and interprets the history of the unincorporated town of Fall City and the surrounding area, from the arrival of the Native Americans until the present day, with special emphasis on the period since the first white explorers came through this area (1840). The society is a collection point for books, photographs, documents, artifacts, and other cultural objects that pertain to Fall City history and will strive to make local history visible and accessible in the community. You can contact the society at P.O. Box 293, Fall City, WA 98024 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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The early signing period for the 2014 college basketball recruiting class is almost upon us, and there are still several top prospects pondering their decisions.
While this year's seniors deliberate, some have younger teammates who are also drawing tremendous interest from college coaches. Certain schools are establishing themselves as required stops for top programs on the trail this winter.
These eight schools are among the most popular destinations for coaches seeking reinforcements for not only next season, but the classes of 2015 and 2016 as well.
This is in no way a complete list, so feel free to contribute more possibilities in the comments. Also, efforts have been made to exclude the factory prep schools such as Findlay Prep, Montverde Academy or Oak Hill.
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Another activist investor nominated three members to the Wilsonville company's board Monday, joining the three nominees billionaire Carl Icahn proposed Friday.
Together, the six outsiders could take control of Mentor's eight-member board and remake -- or, potentially, dismantle -- one of Oregon's biggest companies.
In practice, it's very difficult for activist investors to win a proxy fight. They could, however, use Icahn's high profile and reputation as a corporate rabble-rouser to make life hard on Mentor's current board and management.
If Mentor and its critics can't reach some kind of compromise, the two sides will wage a proxy fight over the next two months, competing for shareholders' votes ahead of Mentor's May 12 annual meeting.
Mentor has 4,600 employees, including 1,100 at its Wilsonville headquarters. Engineers use Mentor's tools to design semiconductors and other electronics.
The outsiders, minority investors who together hold about 20 percent of Mentor's stock, take issue with the company's financial performance and spending. Mentor hasn't posted big profits in many years, but Mentor forecast a return to profitability and record revenues in its most recent fiscal year. It reports year-end financial results next month.
The fracas had been simmering since Icahn began accumulating Mentor shares last spring. It boiled over a week ago when Icahn and Casablanca Capital chairman Donald Drapkin appeared on cable network CNBC.
Casablanca and Icahn say they were spurred to action when Mentor announced the date of its May annual meeting early this month.
The dissident investors say they were angry at the timing of the announcement, which left them just 10 days from Feb. 4 to nominate their own members to Mentor's board.
On CNBC, Drapkin and Icahn each said they would nominate their own candidates to Mentor's board by Monday's deadline. They denounced management and called for Mentor's sale.
"It's just a sleepy company," Drapkin said on TV, "run like a country club."
On Friday, Casablanca followed through and nominated Drapkin, 62, and two others to Mentor's board:
- Arthur Becker, 60: Former chief executive of a technology servicing company called NaviSite. Becker remains on NaviSite's board.
- Michael Barr, 46: CEO of an online advertising startup called 2KDirect.
Mentor declined comment Monday, except to say that both Icahn's and Casablanca's nominees will go to the company's nomination and governance committee for review. The committee consists of independent directors on Mentor's board.
Mentor's stock, which has been rising steadily for many months, bumped upward when Icahn and Drapkin spoke out last week. It fell 7 cents Monday to $14.29.
Generally speaking, investors buy stock in a company because they believe the company's value will appreciate over time. Often, that's because investors think management is making good decisions.
But sometimes, investors buy in because they think management is making bad decisions -- and that outside investors can force a change in strategy, or change in leadership.
While shareholders own the companies they invest in, their say in its direction and decisions is usually indirect. When relations are good, they meet with management and offer input on decisions and strategy.
Investors like Icahn are often hostile, though, acting as "corporate raiders" to force executives to change their strategy by nominating rivals to unseat the company' current board members.
That's what Icahn and others are trying to do at Mentor. Sometimes, activists can shake up a staid company and boost its performance. Other times, though, their steps increase short-term profits -- and the stock price -- but undermine the company's long-term strategy and viability.
Even if they're successful in boosting the company's results, that can comes at the expense of jobs and other local investment.
And sometimes companies ward off shareholders' demands and the activists just go away. In 2008, for example, Icahn bought a stake in Lake Oswego-based Greenbrier but failed in his bid to force a merger with another railcar company he owned.
Casablanca holds just 5.5 percent of Mentor's stock, and Icahn owns slightly under 15 percent. Mentor adopted a "poison pill" last year that effectively capped his ownership at that level.
So they can't force change by themselves, but they could rally other investors to their side -- or make so much noise that it would be easier for Mentor to accommodate their demands than fight.
-- Mike Rogoway; twitter: @rogoway; phone: 503-294-7699


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Update 3 p.m.: Syracuse police release details and suspect descriptions in Little Caesar's robbery.
Syracuse, NY -- Syracuse police are investigating an apparent armed robbery of a Wolf Street pizza shop this morning.
Police were called just about 10 a.m. to the Little Caesar's pizza shop at 802 Wolf St., where witnesses said two armed men entered and held up the establishment, according to Onondaga County 911 Center broadcasts.
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North Jersey Federal Credit Union, Totowa, N.J., welcomed Patricia Ours as their new branch sales manager. Ours formerly held the position of assistant vice president and sales manager at Washington Mutual. NJFCU also announced the promotion of Maya Mirzayev to the position of electronic services manager. Mirazyev joined the credit union in the summer of 2007 as an electronic services team leader.
Teachers Federal Credit Union, Farmingville, N.Y., announced that Albert Tamer has been designated assistant vice president of retail support. Tamer has been working in the banking and credit union industry for almost 25 years.
First Financial Federal Credit Union, Wall N.J., recently announced the appointment of Diane Ingenito as a volunteer supervisory committee member. Ingenito was appointed a committee member to assist with overall strategic development. She is currently the director of internal audit for Meridian Health.
New York Credit Union Foundation, Albany, N.Y., at a board meeting this past December, elected three officers: Chair Vicki O'Neill, president/CEO, ACMG FCU, Solvey, N.Y.; Vice Chair Bruno Sementilli, president/CEO, Quorm FCU, Purchase, N.Y.; and Secretary/Treasurer Brian Clarke, chief financial officer, Bethpage FCU, Bethpage N.Y. O'Neill is new to the chair position, while both Sementilli and Clarke begin a second year in their respective officer positions.
Financial Resources Federal Credit Union, Bridgewater, N.J., broad of directors recently elected former Chairman Peter J. Brouno to chairman emeritus for his long history of dedicated service and hard work. Financial Resources Federal's board also elected retiring Director Frank J. Culley to director emeritus. Culley retired as vice president of human resources for Ethicon Inc. in 1995.
AmeriCU Credit Union, Rome, N.Y., announced that the Vice President of Human Resources Lorraine McCormick recently earned certification as a senior professional in human resources (SPHR). The certification indicates that McCormick has the theoretical understanding and useful experience in human resource management exhibiting superior echelons of knowledge in the field.
Clarence Community & Schools Federal Credit Union, Clarence, N.Y., recently employed Simone Fancher-Rowan as the director of marketing/public relations. Fancher-Rowan has formerly worked with the Girl Scouts of WNY as camp director, senior program aide and program coordinator.
El Paso Employees Federal Union, El Paso, Texas, announced the promotion of Mike O. Arzate to branch manager at the credit unions Northeast branch. He joined El Paso FCU in 2008. Jaime Ceballos was promoted to manager of the Westside branch. Ceballos has a degree in business accounting and over 17 years of experience in banking, finance management, business development, sales and customer service.
Five Star Credit Union, Dothan, Ala., announced the addition of Mike Stewart to the credit union as indirect lending manager. Stewart has been hired to head the vehicle loan department. He brings nearly 12 years of experience to Five Star in vehicle financing.
Randolph Brooks Federal Credit Union, Live Oaks, Texas, announced six new members to its thrift institutions advisory council. Randy M. Smith, president/CEO of RBFCU, is one of the council's newest members.
1st Advantage Federal Credit Union, Yorktown, Va., announced the appointment of Leasa Swittenberg as an additional mortgage specialist, who will serve the credit union's members and qualified nonmembers in Hampton Roads. Swittenberg began as a loan consultant for Member Advantage Mortgage in November of 2008 and is now headquartered out of the credit union's main office in Yorktown.
Local Government Federal Credit Union, Raleigh, N.C., announced the addition of 11 new advisory council associates to eight of its 22 councils throughout the state. Serving as liaisons between credit union members/non-members and LGFCU management the new members contribute their time without compensation. The new appointees are: Pamela Brame, Onslow County human resources director, Coastal Plain; Timothy Johnson, Hoke County county manager, Eastern Sandhills; Sarah McGinnis, Cleveland County benefits coordinator, Foothills; John Younts, Warrenton Police Department chief of police, North Triangle; Robert Ward, City of Wilson environmental services department and Winston Harris, City of Wilson police department senior police officer, Tar River; Diane Shepherd, Orange County benefits manager and Wilbert McAdoo, Orange County public works director, Triangle; Anthony Atkinson, Town of Clayton fire marshal, East Triangle; Fred Held, Town of Cary inspector, Wake; and Susan O'Brien, City of King director of finance and personnel, West Piedmont.
SECU, Linthicum, Md., recently announced the election of its President/CEO Rod Staatz to CUNA's board of directors.
UT Federal Credit Union, Knoxville, Tenn., announced the addition of Bridgette Williams as branch manager of the Franklin Square branch. Williams formerly served as assistant manager with another area credit union.
First Community Federal Credit Union, Parchment, Mich., recently promoted Joseph Diani as branch manger of the credit union's Mattawan branch. Diani held the title of assistant branch manager at the West Main location prior to accepting his new position. Keith Easterday has also joined the FCFCU team as branch supervisor for the United Savers-Battle Creek branch office. Prior to accepting this position, Easterday worked for Bank of America.
USA One Credit Union, Matteson, Ill., promoted Karen G. Brown to the position of vice president/chief financial officer after joining the credit union's staff one year ago. Brown previously served as a vice president for LaSalle Bank/ABN AMRO, where she gained valuable experience and knowledge in many key aspects of the credit industry.
Altura Credit Union, Riverside, Calif., recently named Edgar Barraza assistant vice president of finance. Barraza most recently left the California Credit Union to join the Altura Credit Union team.
DeLeon & Stang Certified Public Accountants and Advisors, Gaithersburg, Md., announced that Stan Berger, senior manager, was named an honorary member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. The firm also announced the promotion of Sweta Shah to senior accountant. Shah joined DeLeon & Stang in 2003 and formerly acted as an in-charge accountant. Ryan Crabbs was recently promoted to in-charge accountant. Crabbs, previously a staff account, joined the firm in 2007.
Alaska USA Trust Company, Anchorage, Alaska, named Leanna D. Dreher as a trust officer. Dreher has over 25 years of experience in general legal practice, and 10 years of experience in estate planning in Alaska. Dreher will be responsible for interacting with attorneys, financial planners, insurance agents and others.
Affinity Federal Credit Union, Basking Ridge, N.J., announced the appointment of Jean-Albert Maisonneuve to vice president, marketing and e-commerce. Maisonneuve was recently vice president, crossborder banking, at JP Morgan Chase. In his new role, Maisonneuve will develop marketing initiatives to deal with a diverse cultural mix.
First Financial Federal Credit Union, Wall, N.J., announced that Kathleen Zimmer has been hired as branch manager at the credit union's Howell branch. Zimmer has over 20 years of experience in banking. She most recently served as vice president, part-time compliance officer and branch manager at Manasquan Savings Bank. Zimmer will be responsible for managing the day-to-day activities at the branch. The credit union also announced that Gordon Holder has been appointed to the board of directors. Holder has been a member of the supervisory committee since 2006.
AOD Federal Credit Union, Bynum, Ala., announced that Kenneth Reynolds, president and chief executive officer of the credit union has been appointed for a two-year term to NAFCU's Region III advisory committee.
Langley Federal Credit Union, Newport News, Va., announced the addition of Susan L. Burns to the credit union. Burns will work as the business relationship manager and she will be responsible for developing and managing the business accounts at the credit union. Burns has over 30 years of experience in commercial banking.
Community Trust Credit Union, Gurnee, Ill., hired Bettina Golwitzer as human resources manager. Golwitzer will be responsible for the hiring and training of new employees at the credit union. Golwitzer has held various human resources positions in northern Illinois over the last eight years.
Seven Seventeen Credit Union, Warren, Ohio, named Chris Graham to the position of business partner sales representative. Graham will be responsible for providing a wide range of services to businesses and their employees in the surrounding area. Graham has over 20 years of sales and customer service experience.
Consumers Credit Union, Waukegan Ill., recently held its third-annual employee awards and recognition banquet where the credit union announced the 2008 employees of the year. The credit union has six categories for employee of the year. The award for counter service representative was given to Patricia Ramirez. The contact center representative award was given to Michelle Wiatr. The lending department award was given to Alex Garcia. The office award was given to Paula Tobey and manager of the year award was given to Jim Eisert.
Consumers Credit Union, Kalamazoo, Mich., announced that Chris Schermerhorn has been promoted to office manager of the credit union's Stadium Drive office. Schermerhorn recently held the position of office manager for a large regional bank. He will replace Matt Quardokus. Quardokus has been promoted to office manger of the credit union's Cambridge Drive office.
American 1 Federal Credit Union, Jackson, Mich., was recognized by The Jackson Citizen Patriot for its commitment to community involvement and nonprofit support with the paper's 2008 corporate citizen of the year award. American 1 FCU was nominated by members of the community.
Royal Credit Union, Eau Claire, Wis., announced that Gina Gladwell has joined the credit union's investment and insurance services team as a registered representative with Financial Network Investment Corp. Gladwell will be responsible for assisting clients with a variety of investment options. Gladwell has been working for the credit union since 2004 when she started as a financial sales representative.
Wauna Federal Credit Union, Clatskanie, Ore., has selected Josh Musgrave as the employee of the quarter.
Cyprus Credit Union, West Jordan, Utah, named Michael Walters vice president of human resources and training. Walters has been with the credit union for seven years. Prior to his promotion, he served as the director of human resources and training.
CO-OP Financial Services, Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., has named Lynn Kneebone director of sales eastern U.S. In her new position, Kneebone will be responsible for maintaining relationships with member credit unions as well as managing the CO-OP's sales force on the East Coast. Kneebone has been in the financial services industry for 19 years.


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As the world's most famous outdoor electronic music festival, ULTRA has won "Best Music Event" by the International Dance Music Awards (IDMA) six consecutive years, from 2005 to 2011, "Best International Dance Music Festival" by the Ibiza DJ Awards in 2008 and "Best Festival" by the Village Voice Media New Times consecutively five years running from 2005 through 2009. Originally created as a pure dance music festival in 1999, ULTRA has grown through the years to present not only the genre's hottest, biggest and best headline artists (The Prodigy, Swedish House Mafia, The Chemical Brothers, Tiësto, David Guetta, deadmau5, Underworld, Kraftwerk, Armin van Buuren, Moby, Fatboy Slim, Justice, Carl Cox and Avicii to name a few), but also crossover headline bands that incorporate dance music elements in their music and have a history or new beginning in the EDM community and culture (The Cure, The Killers, New Order, Duran Duran, The Black Eyed Peas, Erasure, M83, Santigold, The Ting Tings, Cut Copy, Empire of the Sun and Bloc Party).
In 2012, global pop icon Madonna appeared as a special surprise guest—the festival's gift to their fans—to introduce the main stage final headlining artist AVICII, joining him behind the decks to premiere his UMF remix of her new single "Girl Gone Wild". The year also was the subject of CAN U FEEL IT, a major documentary feature about the festival, which was shown in over 500 theatres nation-wide. Together with its signature, cutting-edge productions, ULTRA is unrivalled by consistently presenting the world's greatest, most diverse EDM line-ups year after year.
Now in 2013 we invite each and every one of you fans to join in as ULTRA celebrates its 15 year anniversary! The festival is also slated to become the first major EDM festival in the world to expand to two weekends with dates set for March 15, 16 and 17 and March 22, 23 and 24.
If for whatever reason you can't make it, you need not worry! ULTRA will also be broadcasting all the action straight from Miami to you via. ULTRA LIVE! All you need to do is follow the links below.
ULTRA LIVE (UMF MIAMI 2013) Weekend 1:
ULTRA LIVE (UMF MIAMI 2013) Weekend 2:
You can also stream via ultramusicfestival.com


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Age Group: Teens
4/1/2014 • 3 p.m. - 5 p.m.Centennial Hills Library
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Come use our computers and cameras to learn how to shoot and edit a short digital movie! Space is limited and preregistration is required. Please call 702-507-6114 to register.


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BOSTON – Jon Lester's schizophrenic season continued on Friday night, and it appears that his bad side is once again reigning supreme.
The Boston lefty gave up a bunch of home runs and effectively killed its hopes of improving above .500 for the first time this season before most fans were able to make it back to the Fenway concourse for their second round, as the Red Sox (22-23) fell to the Tampa Bay Rays, 7-4.
"We worked so hard to get back to .500, playing good baseball, and I come out and have a performance like this," Lester said. "It's unacceptable."
It was the fifth time that Boston has squandered an opportunity to get over .500.
Lester appeared to be in the midst of a renaissance after a rough start to the season that saw him compile 6.00 ERA over his first four starts. He turned it around over his next four and posted a 1.67 ERA with 18 strikeouts and five walks, but he's slipped back into the hole in his last two outings.
After giving up four runs in six innings during his last appearance against Philadelphia, a Tampa Bay (28-18) team that is currently without Evan Longoria and Desmond Jennings made it appear as if Lester throwing soft toss by taxing him for seven runs over four innings.
"It wasn't good, I didn't locate. I felt like I had to the ball in a keyhole," Lester said. "Just one of those nights."
Lester looked good out of the gate Friday night, but things started to unravel in the third inning when the Rays exploited his inability to command the zone and charged him for four runs.
After inducing a groundout to start the frame, he walked two batters and gave up a single before surrendering a grand slam to left fielder Matt Joyce on a ball that appeared to find its second wind at the warning track before falling gently into the Boston bullpen.
The carnage continued in the fourth when second baseman Elliot Johnson and first baseman Carlos Pena hit back-to-back homers on a pair of Lester curveballs to bring home three additional runs, putting Tampa up and out of reach at 7-1.
"It looked like he had pretty good stuff going in," manager Bobby Valentine said. "Game got away from him, obviously."
Lester walked off the field with his head hung following the inning and did not return after throwing 81 pitches, 48 for strikes. He also struck out four and walked three.
Boston struggled to get much going against Rays starter Alex Cobb, but threatened to get back into the game in the sixth inning after scoring a pair of runs on a pair of sacrifices off of J.P. Howell that made it 7-4. However, after getting two men on, Rays relief pitcher Jake McGee got designated hitter David Ortiz to fly out to left field to end the inning.
Tempers finally flared in the ninth inning and the benches cleared after relief pitcher Franklin Morales hit Tampa Bay designated hitter Luke Scott, who called Fenway Park a "dump" and the Boston fans "vulgar" last month, in leg.
Boston pitching coach Bob McClure was the first out of the dugout and had a heated exchange with the Rays' Carlos Pena. Red Sox bench coach Tim Bogar also appeared to serve as an instigator.
Valentine had an interesting explanation for the cause of the scrum following the game.
"Maybe it was the Ghost of Fenway Past remembering that he badmouthed all of our fans and the stadium just directing the ball at his leg," he said.
As things wound down on the field, Tampa Bays' B.J. Upton had words with a fan as heading back to the dugout. Only the fan was ejected following the episode.
Valentine is hoping the incident galvanizes his players moving forward.
"I liked the spirit of the guys going out there," Valentine said.


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A missing vehicle belonging to the victim of an October homicide in Faulkner County was located recently in the parking lot of a West Little Rock Kroger store, officials say.
Capt. Matt Rice, public information officer with the Faulkner County Sheriff's Office, said the 2007 Nissan Titan belonging to the late Larry Billings was found abandoned in the lot on Nov. 13 by the Arkansas State Police.
The vehicle has been sent to the Arkansas State Crime Lab for processing, Rice said.
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DETROIT – Detroit Red Wings coach Mike Babcock is tired of talking about all his injured players, but that remains the prevailing theme surrounding the team.
After practice Tuesday at City ICE, Babcock said he won't until after Wednesday's skate whether any of the injured players will return for Thursday's game at the New York Rangers (7 p.m., Fox Sports Detroit).
"I know what we have available to us, so that's how I look at it," Babcock said. "We spent the whole year talking about this (injuries); to me it's a waste of energy. Let's just talk about the guys that are playing."
First, let's update the injured players.
Johan Franzen (concussion) skated hard again and experienced quite a bit of contact, particularly in front of the net during power-play drills.
"He did the same in L.A.; I don't know when he gets cleared," Babcock said. "He's been dealing with the doctor on a daily basis so we'll see how that goes."
It didn't sound promising for Thursday.
"Didn't feel great today," Franzen said. "Get a little dizzy from all the movement, hard time focusing and stuff like that.
"Going to keep practicing and hopefully one day it's going to be gone."
Pavel Datsyuk (lower body injury) skated hard again – he has several times now – but left practice early.
Unlike Franzen and Datsyuk, Darren Helm (groin) did not participate in line rushes.
"Not bad, not great, not good enough," Helm said. "Getting better."
"Just making sure I don't have any more setbacks. … I need to get a couple good skates under my belt; one really good one and then I'll go. I don't know when that's going to be."
Jimmy Howard shared a net with Jonas Gustavsson (groin) in practice while Petr Mrazek had the other net to himself.
Howard believes he'll be ready to play Thursday. Babcock wasn't sure.
"I don't see why not," Howard said. "Practiced today, so it was fine out there."
Babcock said after Saturday's 3-1 win in Los Angeles that he was told Howard had a hip flexor. Howard said, "No, nothing. It was probably just more fatigue than anything else."
Gustavsson said, "It's just about getting better and better now and taking the next step. It's good to be able to skate a little bit with the team today and that felt good but I don't know if I'm going to be back Thursday or this weekend or when it is."
Defenseman Jonathan Ericsson (broken ribs) said he felt good after his first full practice since getting injured on Dec. 23. He hopes to return Saturday at home against Los Angeles, but that remains to be seen.
"I think I'm going to feel some discomfort for a while, but it's just a matter making sure it goes forward," Ericsson said. "I don't want to get any setbacks and have to drag along with that for the rest of the year. I guess there's no rush."
He added, "I think it healed up pretty well. I feel a lot better now. I can do pretty much everything on the ice. It's just a matter of seeing if it's good enough for battling in the corners and stuff like that. I haven't really done much of that yet."
Henrik Zetterberg didn't practice Tuesday but general manager Ken Holland said he will play Thursday.
"Maintenance day," Babcock said. "He's had a lot of them."
Daniel Alfredsson (back spasms) did not practice.
Tomas Tatar traveled back home to Slovakia for his father's funeral. He will miss Thursday's game but should be back for Saturday.


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LESUEUR - LeSueur-Henderson defeated Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop 21-6 Tuesday night in Section 2AA football action.
Tony Weber led the Thunderbirds both defensively and offensively. He had seven tackles and one fumble recovery defensively and he rushed for 43 yards and had 13 yards passing with one touchdown offensively. Dominic Metzger had 12 tackles for the Thunderbirds.
GFW finishes its season 2-7.
LAMBERTON-Wabasso scored 22 points in the third quarter en route to a 38-28, Section 5A win over Red Rock Central Tuesday night in prep football action.
Blake Altermatt led the Rabbits with 134 yards rushing and two touchdowns. He also returned a punt 85 yards for a touchdown. Tanner Rohlik had 59 yards rushing and two touchdowns.
Red Rock Central was led by Jeff Decock, who had 146 yards rushing on 23 carries and one touchdown. Jesse Rogotzke caught the ball three times for 34 yards and one touchdown.
Wabasso (5-4) will play at Minneota at 3 p.m. Saturday.
LESTER PRAIRIE - Lester Prairie/Holy Trinity defeated Buffalo Lake-Hector-Stewart in Section 4A football action Tuesday.
Mason Clark threw for 240 yards and two touchdowns for the Mustangs. Ryan Coulter had 113 yards receiving and a touchdown and Kyle Kubesh had 82 yards receiving and a touchdown.
Chris Schmidt had 11 tackles and Mason Clark had nine tackles for the Mustangs, who end their season at 1-9.
Nicollet 63,
Alden-Conger 28
NICOLLET - Nicollet quarterback Dalton Elliott led the Raiders to a win over Alden-Conger Tueaday night in Section 2, Nine-man playoff football action.
Elliott completed 25-of-44 passes for 471 yards and eight touchdown passes.
Evan Guffey had eight catches for 267 yards and five touchdowns. Tanner Elliott had 14 catches for 107 yards and one touchdown.
Nicollet (9-0) will host Madelia (7-2) Saturday afternoon in the second round.
Madelia 42, JWP 34
MADELIA - Madelia defeated Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton in Section 2, Nine-man playoff action Tuesday.
For Madelia, Adam Cooling had 239 yards rushing and 135 yards passing. He threw two touchdown passes and rushed four three touchdowns.
For JWP, Sawyer Gahler had 309 yards passing and four touchdown passes.
Madelia (7-2) is at Nicollet Saturday and JWP ends the season at 3-6.


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A man was injured and a woman's licence suspended after a May 25 ATV crash in Canning.
Kings RCMP were called to the scene around 4 a.m. after the pair's vehicle flipped over into a ditch. The driver, a 20-year-old woman, had her licence suspended for 24 hours and her passenger, a 26-year-old man, required medical attention.


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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — An emergency is unexpected and usually involves some measure of danger or risk. While we cannot avoid emergencies completely, there are steps we can take to minimize their impact on us while we maximize our own control over that which is unexpected.
Often, if the emergency was the cause of someone's injury, illness, or fatality, there are individuals and organizations whose job it is to analyze what happened and come up with recommendations so that it can be avoided.
For example, the auto and sporting goods industries examine accident-related injuries within their field of expertise so that those emergencies won't happen again.
This week's column focuses on safety recommendations of the auto industry and related governing agencies.
*Seat belts. They do no good if you don't use them. Most accidents are not fatal. Most accidents do not involve high speed. But accidents involving low to moderate speed can cause injuries that are very painful, expensive, disfiguring, and disabling. Seatbelts save lives and prevent 22,000 injuries a year, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
In addition to wearing your seat belt, wear it properly. If a shoulder/lap belt doesn't fit properly, don't tuck the shoulder strap behind your back. Instead, invest a few dollars in a seat belt adjuster. If you go online and do a search for "seat belt adjusters," you will come up with several brands of devices that help keep the seat belt where it belongs. My favorite is the large triangular padded adjuster that fits over the lower part. These adjusters are easily applied and removed and can be stored in the glove compartment until you need them.
*Adjust the headrest. It's actually a head restraint. A properly adjusted head rest will help prevent hyperextension of the head and, at the very least, minimize or prevent whiplash, which is a painful overstretching of the neck muscles. It can also help prevent a fractured bone in the neck portion of the spine. An injury this high on the spinal cord can mean permanent paralysis from the neck down.
The head restraints in your car need to be adjusted for each person. According to the National Safety Council, the top of the head restraint should be level with the top of your head or, when leaning back, the first point of contact with the head restraint should be no lower than your eyes.
Additionally, the gap between the back of your head and the front of the head restraint should be no more than four inches when you are sitting in a normal upright position. Driving with the seat back too far gives way too much room for your head to whip back if you get hit — even at low speed.
*Check your tires. In addition to having good tread on the tires, you need to check the tire pressure often. Over time and over temperature change, the pressure will change.
Check the tires when they're cool (not right after driving) and follow the manufacturers recommendations found in the owner's manual of your car. If your tires are underinflated or overinflated, you will not get the proper traction. You may skid more easily, have longer braking-to-stopping time, hydroplane more easily, increase the risk of a tire blowout and have less overall control of your vehicle.
Hot weather increases the pressure in tires; very cold weather decreases the pressure (the air becomes more compact or dense, thus the pressure drops). In addition, altitude affects tire pressure.
If your tires are the perfect pressure while driving to Colorado for instance, once your car reaches an elevation of 6,000 feet, the tires will be overinflated. As you increase your altitude, the outside air pressure drops. This drop in air pressure allows the pressure inside the tire to increase — about .5 psi for every 1,000 feet.
Taking a few basic steps now to increase your margin of preparedness in a driving emergency can mean the difference between a disaster and a close call. Choose wisely.
(Next week, we'll look at safety equipment used in sports.)


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PORTAGE, MI -- A year after Portage high schools saw a disappointing dip in results on the Michigan Merit Exam, scores have popped up again.
In fact, Portage Central is the region's top-performing high school, based on the latest results, and Portage Northern ranked in the top five in every category.
Districtwide, Portage Public Schools improved its MME passages rates by an average of 6.6 percentage points, more than twice the state average, in the five subjects tested: English, math, science, social studies and writing.
The MME was administered to Michigan 11th-graders in March. The results were released Monday by the Michigan Department of Education.
"We are certainly happy with these results, yet we are cautious to make judgments from one data point," Larry Killips, Portage assistant superintendent of K-12 instruction and assessment, said in a written statement.
"Our teachers and administrators have worked very hard on curricular and assessment alignment during the past few years. This work is ongoing across all grade levels and is a focus area in our professional learning communities and multi-tiered systems of support," he said.
"We're certainly hopeful that our collective efforts result in a positive, long-term trend."
Districtwide, passage rates went up by 11 points in social studies, 10 points in science, 7 points in reading, 4 points in math and 1 point in writing.
Students also took the ACT college-entrance exam as part of the MME. Monday's data release included an analysis of ACT scores that determined the percentage of test-takers who are academically prepared for college-level courses in English, math, science and social studies.
The analysis found 28 percent in the Class of 2015 are college-ready in all four subjects, up from 26 percent for the Class of 2014. Seventy percent of Portage test-takers were college ready in English, 54 percent in social studies, 47 percent in math and 35 percent in science, all well above state averages.
However, the district continues to have significant achievement gaps between its middle-class white and Asian students compared to other minorities and students who qualify for the subsidized lunch program.
Of the 37 African-American students tested in Portage, less than 20 percent were proficient in math and/or science; less than 25 percent tested as proficient in reading and social studies, and less than two-thirds were proficient in writing.
Low-income students of all races also performed significantly below the results posted by middle-class and affluent students.
Sociodemographics help explain the difference between the results at Central and Northern, the latter of which has more low-income and minority students.
Sociodemographics also help explain the dismal scores at Portage Community High School, Portage's alternative education program, where three-quarters of the 40 or so takers are from low-income families and half are minorities.
Community High's best results was in writing, where seven of 45 students tested as proficient in writing. None of the Community High test-takers scored as proficient in math or science.
Below is an online database of results for every district in Michigan. Also, the photo gallery at the top of this post includes charts ranking the 35 area high schools in each category.
Julie Mack covers K-12 education and writes a column for Kalamazoo Gazette. Email her at firstname.lastname@example.com, call her at 269-350-0277 or follow her on Twitter @kzjuliemack.


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The sky above St. Charles Parish may be brighter and neighborhood noise a bit louder today. That's because for the first time in more than three decades residents will be able to legally pop firecrackers to help ring in the New Year.
Starting at 9 a.m. today, Dec. 31, residents can deploy the pyrotechnics through Jan. 1.
The Parish Council in June lifted the 37-year-old ban prohibiting the discharge of fireworks to allow residents to shoot them during the July 4th and New Year's holidays.
The ordinance was passed too late for residents to take advantage of in July, so today will be the first holiday that the fireworks can be legally deployed.
However, officials at the St. Charles Parish Sheriff's Office say they already have issued citations and received complaints about early starters. They are urging residents to adhere to the parish law, which restricts the use of fireworks to Dec. 31 from 9 a.m. to 1 a.m. and on Jan. 1 from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
The sale of fireworks is still prohibited in St. Charles Parish.
The restrictions include:
- No fireworks can be discharged within one thousand (1,000) feet of a gas station or industrial facility, church,hospital, asylum, school, public building, or fireworks retail location.
- No person shall ignite or discharge fireworks in a motor vehicle or throw fireworks from a motor vehicle.
- No person shall place an ignited article of fireworks in or throw an ignited article of fireworks at a motor vehicle.
In neighboring St. John the Baptist Parish the sale is legal, but the parish regulates the hours that residents can pop them.
On Dec. 31, fireworks can be discharged starting at dusk until 1 a.m. On New Year's Day fireworks can be popped from dusk until 10 p.m.
The St. John Parish ordinance requires that anyone under age 15 must have adult supervision to shoot fireworks.


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Blackmagic Design says many current generation video cameras suffer from a "video look" due to a limited contrast range, a maximum HD resolution sensor, poor quality optics and lenses, the use of heavy video compression for file recording, and poor integration with NLE software metadata management. "With these limitations, they cannot be used for high-end work or feature films," the company says.
Its new Blackmagic Cinema Camera "has been designed to eliminate these problems so customers get a true feature film look, and at an affordable cost can shoot high end television commercials, episodic television programming and feature films."
The Cinema Camera is billed as a "revolutionary digital cinema camera" with a "super wide" 13 stops of dynamic range, and a reasonable price of just $2,995. The dynamic range allows for feature film quality images, the company says. "Commonly people focus on more pixels. However, often this just creates higher resolution "video" looking images that suffer from highlight and black clipping that limits details." The new camera's wide dynamic range provides dramatically more detail in the black and white areas in the image, Blackmagic says.
The 16.64 by 14.04 mm sensor has a 2592 by 2192 pixel resolution. To eliminate the damage that low bit depth and high compression video storage creates, the company says, the solid state recorder captures the full sensor detail in 12 bit Log RAW files in the open standard CinemaDNG format. "The full 2.5K sensor data is stored in the files completely uncompressed, because the SSD has the speed to store video data at the required rate," Blackmagic adds.
The camera has a large capacitive touchscreen, microphone, external mic/line level jack, speaker, and headphone jack.


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The Michigan football team finalized its 2013 recruiting class on Wednesday, officially unveiling all 27 of its commitments on National Signing Day.
Derrick Green, Shane Morris and the rest are all in tow, as Michigan now turns its focus to spring practice (and more recruiting), which begins in March.
On the basketball front, the third-ranked Wolverines dropped Ohio State in overtime on Tuesday (just barely), but seemed to leave the game with a handful of question marks.
It doesn't get any easier from here, as Michigan visits Wisconsin on Saturday before traveling to Michigan State on Tuesday.
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After last week's big snow storm my son Joey found a way to enjoy this big snow pile while at his Grammie and Appie's house by climbing to the top. Joey loves playing in the snow and is hoping for another big snow storm so he can add to his big pile of snow.
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The rules of the mythical Keepers Union dictates that all goalkeepers stick together when it comes to comments in the press, but it seems that some shot stoppers have taken the idea of solidarity a step too far this weekend.
Joe Hart left his defence in no-man's land last week with a blooper that gifted Fernando Torres and Chelsea a winning goal, yet judging by some of the recent attempts to deter strikers from across the globe, the Englishman is far from alone when it comes to making reckless and costly mishaps.
Some of the examples in this slideshow will lead you to question whether the offending players were on a mission to cover up Hart's embarrassment by trying to top the Manchester City custodian's midsummer themselves.
Unfortunately for their teams, a few even succeeded.
Elsewhere in this week's list you'll find violence in the Northern League, a fiery atmosphere in Belgrade and more bad misses from the English Premier League and Brazilian Serie A.
If you missed last week's batch of blunders, featuring Hart against Chelsea and Jurgen Klopp versus the fourth official, click here.
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|Russian Counted Cross-stitch Artist to Show her Works In Winchester
Virginia National Bank (186 North Loudoun Street, Winchester, VA 22601) will open a unique exhibition featuring counted cross-stitch artist Nina Vassallo on December 7 at 4 pm, on view until February 2013. Nina Vassallo was born in Russia, where she graduated from medical school and served for several years as a physician in a clinic in Moscow. She and her husband live in Winchester, Virginia. Twenty-one beautiful cross-stitch works adorn Nina's home. She has a tradition: after finishing each design, she brings it to the International Club so her friends can share her joy in another masterpiece. She calls it The One Picture Show. Finally she decided to put a proper show together, so everyone could see the beauty otherwise hidden inside her home. When Nina's sister Lyuba heard about The Art of Cross Stitch exhibition, she brought over from Moscow (Russia) three new works of her own, featuring sights from her recent trips to Italy and The Czech Republic.
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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has sponsored a Grant, Analysis of CRM Procedures in a Regional Air Carrier, conducted by a team including George Mason University and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) from a regional airline, a major airline, and other research organizations. The Grant is in the process of evaluating the effectiveness of CRM procedures in a regional airline environment. Both the airline and the FAA are interested in determining whether the implementation of CRM procedures can improve overall crew performance. Under the Grant, the regional airline's key CRM principles were translated into procedures that have been implemented through ACRM training. The regional airline involved in this Grant was authorized to develop an innovative approach to crew training and assessment under the Advanced Qualification Program (AQP).
The results of this Grant have significant ramifications for flight crew training, specifically in the area of integrated CRM and technical skill training. The airlines have not had the capability to perform detailed assessments of CRM skill training, nor have they had the ability to assess different forms of CRM training. The results of this Grant provide guidelines for the training of CRM procedures (see Appendix A for a complete list of the guidelines) as well as a framework for the assessment of skill-based crew performance. With this capability to train and assess CRM performance, airlines can become proactive and improve training based on the assessment data rather than having to rely exclusively on accident and incident information.


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Editor's note: The more things change, the more they remain the same: Tim Wakefield will be back next season and the Red Sox will still conduct spring training in Fort Myers, Fla. Let's move on to This Week in Bloggernets, Red Sox Monster's weekly look at some of the most interesting and bizarre things on the Web.
-- Chase Utley seems a bit excited about winning the world championship. Also, Philadelphia fans appear pretty excited about him using the "f" word. (World of Isaac)
-- Life lesson: When partying after your favorite team wins a world championship, don't stand a bus stop. Bad stuff can happen. (Awful Announcing)
-- Mustaches for cancer research. Just because. (Hugging Harold Reynolds)
-- Not much to it here, but how about a new name for those Red Sox hot stove rumors: Prince Fielder. (FanNation)
-- So, do you think Jim Rice will ever post on his blog again? His last entry came on Oct. 17... before Game 6 of the ALCS. (Ask 14)
-- Jonathan Papelbon and his brothers say the dumbest things. Especially when they really didn't. (FanHouse's The Dugout)
-- John McCain's appearance on Saturday Night Live last night was absolutely epic. (Sox & Dawgs)
-- Yes, ESPN's "Mike and Mike" dressed up as Batman and Robin for Halloween. (Deadspin)
-- More Red Sox trade rumors discussed. (Over the Monster)
-- A look at baseball's Winter Meetings. Best line: "The Red Sox are in far better shape than their rivals in the Bronx." (Newsday)
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Corcoran High School is the first and only city school to have its mascot formally displayed outside, thanks to a summer effort to beautify the West Side campus.
The annual CNY Works six-week summer student employment program ended Friday with a cookout, presentation of new student artwork at the school and the unveiling of a stone-and-concrete cougar that weighs 8.5 tons, said Paul Grace, a Corcoran alumnus who has helped organize school beautification efforts.
The efforts also included a cleanup of the Ted Grace Reading Grove area, along Furnace Brook, and the installation of a student-created multi-colored totem pole, a mosaic flower pot and a five-panel mosaic mural. Students also covered up graffiti on the school walls using brown paint stains, Corcoran art teacher Christina Sikorski said.
The reading grove cleanup began last year, and is ongoing, but the artwork was all completed this summer.
"Sixteen months ago, you couldn't see any of this. It was just so overgrown," said Paul Grace, who is not related to Ted Grace. "This is the most beautiful school in the entire state."
The cougar was created by professional sculptor John Kennedy, of Delphi Falls, Grace said.
About 45 students from the Syracuse district spent the summer working through CNY Works with community groups and agencies. Several students who helped create the mural and totem pole said they are excited their classmates and school visitors will forever see their work as they enter the building.
"I never worked on a big art project like this before," said junior Lashea Jones. "I'm glad I did. Everyone's going to see it. It's cool."


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Vasant's trip to Washington presented him with two rare opportunities: making a presentation to the speaker of the house and meeting the president of the United States.
Recounting his meeting with President Obama, Vasant said, "First I said, 'Hi,' then I presented him with a card to make him an honorary member of the Boy Scouts."
Vasant recalled that Obama said, 'Thank you very much, I really appreciate it.' I thought he was nice and kind of cool."
According to the Boy Scouts of America, Vasant was chosen to deliver the report because he exemplifies the Scouting program.
Vasant's delegation arrived in Washington on Feb. 12 and spent the week visiting the Cabinet, House and Senate leadership, the White House, CIA, Pentagon, Supreme Court and Secret Service.
On Feb. 14, Vasant delivered the Boy Scouts' Report to the Nation, which told of the Boy Scout's achievements during its milestone 100th anniversary year in 2010.
"Meeting the president was my first favorite thing. My second favorite thing was when I met the CIA director," said Vasant. "I'm thinking about being a CIA scientist."
For the immediate future, Vasant will continue his Boy Scout activities and will work toward becoming an Eagle Scout.
Vasant is a fourth-grader at Mountain Park Elementary School in Berkeley Heights.
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Nintendo of Japan has confirmed that it is phasing out the original black Wii U console, as well as several bundles that include the black console. The current models available in Japan are the original 8GB model that was phased out in the rest of the world, and a 32GB white Wii Sports Club bundle.
Bundles that are getting the axe in Japan include the Wii Party U bundle, New Super Mario Bros. U bundle, Dragon Quest X bundle, and the Monster Hunter 3G bundle. It interesting to see the color disparity between Japan and the rest of the world, as Nintendo has all but phased out the 8GB white console in North America and Europe. It's not likely that the black console is disappearing entirely since it's been included in the Mario Kart 8 bundle in the West, but perhaps Japanese gamers prefer the white color.
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It seems like all anyone wants to talk about is the 2013 Honda Civic, and in all the hype we have forgotten something. There are AMAZING deals available on the 2012 Honda Civic with 7 still in stock at Checkered Flag Honda. Your Norfolk Honda dealer is looking out for you. Your kind sales managers have offered the deal of a lifetime on a new Honda Civic.
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There are only 7 remaining in stock.
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Ever since switching to OS X there has been one tiny annoyance bugging me, and it really is a small one: My SSH sessions will hang whenever my VPN times out, and then I have to close out of the Terminal to get it to disconnect, because SSH takes forever to time out for some reason.
Just out of curiosity... what about "exit" and/or "logout"?
EDIT: Nevermind, I just saw this is what you use when your are timed out.
I had the same problem, and then started using mosh, works perfectly and auto reconnects.
So mosh is basically screen + ssh together... but still uses SSH to connect?
My primary concern would be that the new protocol hasn't been tested much at all, so it's possible there are security holes in it. The SSH protocol is pretty solid at this point.
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HOLYOKE – Forty-five minutes before Gov. Deval L. Patrick was to arrive, about a dozen girls in the Girls Inc. of Holyoke Eureka! program were practicing what they were going to say.
"It's exciting," said Emahnie Maldonado of Springfield. "I'm a little nervous." But the 14-year-old said, "I want to show him what we've learned."
A five-year collaboration with the University of Massachusetts and hosted by UMass College of Natural Sciences, the program exposes the girls to science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields.
Patrick, who created the STEM Advisory Council to ensure that all students receive a STEM education and are able to pursue post-secondary degrees or careers in STEM fields, was an eager participant.
To open the program, UMass professor Lisa M. Minter led a discussion on fluorescence and what a flow cytometer is with the girls answering questions. Then they performed an experiment showing how it worked.
The governor eagerly marked his candy – a stand-in for cells - with a highlighter then illuminating the markings with a black light.
A group led by Jill Isabell, assistant director for fitness/wellness, asked the audience questions such as what is the healthier snack - Doritos or an avocado given both have the same calories and Doritos had fewer grams of fat. The answer was avocado because it has essential fatty acids.
"Oh there are prizes, I've got to focus," the governor said when he saw T-shirts were being awarded to those who offered the right answer. He was given a T-shirt but said he wanted to earn it.
The visit here capped a day when the governor signed the $36.5 billion state budget and announced the launch of a joint advanced manufacturing training program between Springfield Technical Community College and Holyoke Community College to train unemployed individuals for entry level jobs as production technicians at local manufacturers.
But he said all of what he did "is quite consistent...it's about the young people," he said.
He likes that the Eureka! program is a collaboration with UMass and was impressed with what the girls have learned.
What they're learning "is important for the future of the Commonwealth, the future of the country. I hope they know I'm proud of them."
Suzanne Parker, Girls Inc. of Holyoke executive director said they were thrilled to have the governor come.
"It's a testament to the girls" and demonstrates to them the importance of what they are doing. "He's taking time out of his schedule (to visit.) It's a validation of the work they're doing."
And when it was all over, and the governor had gone, the girls munched on fruit and said they thought it went well. Maldonado said she was relieved.


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Washington, DC -- Central New York hospitals and nursing homes will be able to move forward with more than $60 million worth of expansion projects that were in jeopardy of losing federal financial aid, according to New York's two U.S. senators.
At least a dozen Syracuse-area projects were at risk because the state was too slow to distribute the federal aid ahead of a Sept. 30 deadline for construction to be completed. Now U.S. Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., say they have succeeded in convincing federal officials to extend the deadline until March 2014.
The decision affects $2.5 billion the federal government awarded to New York in 2006 as part of a five-year pilot project. The goal was to help reduce the state's health-care costs by paying to modernize and consolidate hospitals, nursing homes and outpatient centers.
The Federal-State Health Reform Program required construction at 470 projects across New York to be completed by Sept. 30, 2011. But many of those projects would not have been completed in time because the state was slow to distribute the federal aid.
At least one local project was halted because of the problem. This winter, St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center in Syracuse put on hold a planned $6.6 million project to renovate a building on James Street. The hospital wanted to consolidate outpatient primary care and mental-health services for low-income children in the building.
The extension granted by two federal agencies this week could help put the project back on track, said Kathryn Ruscitto, the hospital's president and chief executive officer. But she wants assurances from state officials, as well.
"Our team will meet in the coming weeks to review our plan going forward, which will depend on the guidance we receive from New York state," Ruscitto said Friday.
The $6.6 million federal grant was the largest that St. Joseph's had received in its history. It would pay 100 percent of the costs of purchasing, renovating and furnishing the James Street building, which is now vacant.
Among the other projects at risk of not meeting the original deadline was Oswego Hospital's $17.8 million conversion of the former A.L. Lee Memorial Hospital in Fulton.
Oswego Hospital broke ground in January to convert the Fulton hospital into an urgent-care, medical imaging and physical therapy center.
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Eat & Drink
Toronto Restaurant Openings: The Greek, Bindia, Mr. Mike's Pizza, Kintori, Bar Buca (yet again)
Toronto Restaurant Openings highlights the latest restaurant openings and closings in Toronto and also gives a preview of what's coming soon. Find us here every Thursday morning.
- King West has a new takeout counter, The Greek is now open at 567 King Street serving up salads, pita wraps and skewers. Oh, and fried halloumi!
- Bindia at 16 Market Street is now open and serving up a menu that majors in kebabs, tandoori and curries. (via The Grid)
- Albion's Pizza Shawarma is now open at 1030 Bloor Street West in Bloorcourt Village.
- Newly opened Mr. Mike's Pizza Company at 269 Morningside Avenue is serving up pizzas, wings, poutines and panzerotti.
- After lots of false starts, it looks like Bar Buca (75 Portland Street) is finally set to open in a week and a half. (via Spotlight City)
- Kintori, a yaktori bar from the team behind Guu, Kinton Ramen and JaBistro, is slated to open next month above the newly opened noodle shop at 668 Bloor Street West.
- As reported earlier this week, Left Field Brewery is making 36 Wagstaff Drive in Leslieville it's new home base and retail outlet.
- KO Burgers at 366 Bloor is closing at the end of the month.
Have you seen restaurants opening or closing in your neighbourhood? Email tips to email@example.com
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