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Through the good times and the bad, most of us can remember where we were when events occurred that impacted our lives in a major way.
The assassination of a president.
The end of a war.
The start of a war.
My story about where I was and what I was doing when America was attacked on 9/11 is neither poignant nor particularly compelling, but it is my personal reminder of the tumultuous life-altering events. The day will be imbedded forever in my psyche.
I was in my sixth year working at county-owned Pitman Golf Course. One of my duties as assistant manager was to run the first tee as starter, an uncomplicated chore that requires being able to count to four, the ability to explain the day's cart rules, and a reminder to replace one's divots. Heady stuff.
The day radiated spectacular beauty from sunrise. Business was brisk. After August's typically unbearable heat, mid-September's chill provided welcome relief.
Shortly before 9 a.m. I entered the pro shop, where the television was showing the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. Smoke billowed from the tower after some sort of aircraft inexplicably had crashed into one of the skyscraper's top floors.
Pro shop staff and onlookers were glued to the set but I can recall only one person uttering the word "terrorists." That seemed improbable to me. A horrible accident, nothing more, I thought.
So I went back to the first tee and resumed assembling golfers who had arrived at the course alone or as a twosome or threesome to play.
A few minutes later, just after 9 o'clock, I re-entered the pro shop and found a larger crowd watching the TV. They seemed collectively stunned. They watched aghast as the south tower of the World Trade Center also was struck by aircraft. Horrified pro shop onlookers concluded quickly that the incidents were related and there were unified cries: "Terrorists." Some yelled profanities.
Soon it was known that some of the 19 al-Qaida suicide hijackers were responsible for commercial Flight 11 crashing into the north tower at 8:46 a.m. and Flight 175 slamming the south tower 17 minutes later at 9:03. Flight 77 later flew into the Pentagon and Flight 93 crashed into a western Pennsylvania field after passengers heroically prevented the hijackers' attempt to reach another D.C. target — likely the White House.
I no longer felt like working. Who could care about the game of golf after this? We were under attack.
But I returned to the tee anyway and indifferently told Tom, a regular, he'd be playing in a foursome with another guy and two women.
That was not good news for Tom.
"I'm not playing with women," he said adamantly.
With that, I did something I've not done one other time during 16 years at the course: I verbally exploded on poor Tom. Later I rationalized that I'd have handled the situation more calmly and more maturely if I hadn't been thinking about the unfortunate people in the twin towers.
To his credit, Tom was not aware of the terrorists' involvement until after he teed off — without the women.
I apologized to him for my tirade and impulsiveness next time I saw him and we're friendly today.
But I'll remember that Tuesday always because it reinforces what is important and what is merely a game.


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A man committed suicide by jumping off a high-rise building yesterday after allegedly stabbing his girlfriend to death, police said.
The incident happened about 7pm at Cosco Brilliant City on Zhongtan Road when the daughter of the man, surnamed Yang, came home after kindergarten with an ayi and saw the woman, surnamed Ma, lying in a pool of blood, police said.
Yang stabbed the woman with a table knife, police said. He then jumped from his 13th floor apartment, in front of his daughter, officers added.
Neighbors said Yang was divorced and had a daughter with his ex-wife, according to Xinmin.cn. The daughter attends Xiaohongfan kindergarten, where Ma worked as a teacher.
Yang and Ma were living together, neighbors said.
Police said they are still investigating the case.
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A remodel to the Plateau Outreach Ministries facility has paid off by attracting new programs from out-of-area service providers including classes on job hunting and nutrition, counseling on applying for food stamps and insurance as well as mobile medical services from county and state agencies.
POM has gradually made improvements to the building it purchased at 1806 Cole St. in 2010. It began with a remodel to the thrift store which generates income that supports the costs of our services. Last year's remodel created open flexible space for the food bank, added multiple interview rooms for interviews and case management, added a shower and laundry facility for the homeless and improved the space for sorting food and clothing donations.
All of these activities, made possible by generous donors, were planned. What wasn't planned was the number of agencies coming to POM to use the new facility to provide services to local residents who would otherwise have to travel to Auburn, Federal Way, Tacoma or Seattle to seek help. Given that many families in our community are still suffering from the economic recession and need assistance with meeting basic needs, this is a blessed development.
For example, POM has partnered with the Multi Service Center in Federal Way for several years. The center provides case managers during winter months to help with applications for federal energy assistance. The new space has allowed that service to continue and served more than 250 families this year. It has also brought their employment specialist here to teach people about job searches. In March, Seattle/King County Public Health began providing a case manager weekly, who assists with county and state resources, helps with applications and checks status within their system. In coordination with the Enumclaw School District's ECEAP program, SNAC (Seattle Nutrition Action Consortium) will provide cooking and nutrition classes May 14 and 20.
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With this year's bowl game, Florida is playing in its 22nd consecutive postseason game and is making its seventh BCS bowl appearance. The Gators' 22-year streak is second only to Florida State's 31 straight.
The Gators will meet Louisville in the 79th Allstate Sugar Bowl on Wednesday.
Only Ohio State (9) and Oklahoma (8) have more BCS bowl appearances.
The Gators enter the Sugar Bowl on a four-game bowl winning streak and have won six of their last seven. The only loss in that streak was to Michigan, 41-35, in the 2008 Capital One Bowl. Florida is 5-1 in BCS bowls.
This will be Florida's ninth appearance in the Sugar Bowl and the Gators are 3-5 in the game.
Florida defensive lineman Omar Hunter said playing well in bowl games is a hallmark for the Gators.
"Any bowl game that you play in is a statement game for your program,'' Hunter said. "Especially with us being in a BCS game. It's a big game for our program.''
Florida's last appearance in a BCS game was in 2010 when the Gators dominated Cincinnati, 51-24, in Tim Tebow's final collegiate game.


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I've been reading about the two representatives in Colorado being recalled because they were not executing what their constituents elected them to do. That is what voters in Alabama need, a law that allows us to recall elected officials.
Also we need term limits at all levels. If the President can only serve two terms, what makes other offices so different?
A couple of years ago there was a bill in the legislature to create a recall referendum. What happened to it? Were the legislators so afraid they were doing a bad job that none one of them would bring it up?
I think we need a recall option from the city level all the way to the White House. Maybe then politicians would do what they were elected to do. They do not serve one or two terms and resign. They stay on and on and on until they are rich, and then they still stay on.
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HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – Aspiring models and anyone interested in the fashion industry are invited to a day-long workshop hosted by the Alabama Fashion Alliance on Aug. 9 at the NASA Educator Training & Resource Center on the grounds of the U.S. Space & Rocket Center.
Called "A Day In Fashion," the event will feature a Runway Modeling Workshop conducted by model coaches Essence Nesbit and Dominique Davis. Janie Martin of Red Models Birmingham | Atlanta will be the featured panelist assessing models at the workshop. She'll be available to answer questions about the modeling industry as well.
The Runway Modeling Workshop will be held 10 a.m.-1 p.m. with registration beginning at 9:30 a.m. Workshop leaders will focus on basic and advanced modeling techniques in an interactive setting. The workshop fee is $55 for AFA members; $65 for non-members.
The modeling workshop will be followed by a Fashion Show & Event Planning Seminar by AFA founder LeJeune from 2-4 p.m. Tickets for this seminar are $25.
That evening at 6 p.m., the event concludes with a Fashion Network Mixer and Fashion Show, offering networking and vendor opportunities. The fashion show will feature students from the modeling workshop wearing fashions from participating retailers and boutiques. A dessert bar and beverages will be provided. Tickets for this event are $10.
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- Agribusiness: Little Cats can save big bucks on the farm
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• More and more of these small, versatile tractors are showing up on farms around the Southeast, and they all have some attributes in common: They save time, money and labor.
JASON BECKER demonstrated Caterpillar 2598 skid steer brush removal capabilities.
Finding ways to cut labor costs is a never-ending task for most farmers in the Southeast, and turning to small, versatile mechanical workers is one way many are finding to reduce the cost of expensive labor on the farm.
Finding big ticket farm equipment, like a $600,000 cotton picker that bales on the go, or comparable harvesting, planting, and spraying equipment is easy enough — if you have the money. Finding a machine that can move feed, clean up brush and debris and do a thousand other small, but necessary tasks, is not so easy.
More and more of these small, versatile tractors are showing up on farms around the Southeast, and they all have some attributes in common: They save time, money and labor.
For example Caterpillar's new line of skid steers can be configured to do many on-farm tasks that previously required one or more persons to do, and at a fraction of the time.
Jason Becker, who is an industry trade associations rep with Caterpillar, grew up on an Iowa grain and livestock farm. Growing up he not-so-fondly recalls the hard work involved in shoveling feed into the bed of a pickup truck, driving to livestock feeders and repeating the process of unloading the feed.
Now, he says, much of that kind of work on his family's farm is done by a Caterpillar skid steer.
"Last year we had a group of people, many of them disabled veterans, come to our farm for a hunt for charity. Many of these people had some difficulty getting around in the fields we were hunting," Jackson recalls.
"We took my dad's 2598 Cat skid steer, with a brush cutter attachment and cut 20 miles or so of paths around the farm," he concludes.
In the Southeast eco-agriculture and eco-tourism are rapidly growing farm and rural enterprises. Having a mechanical brush cutter and debris removal machine that can also move wildlife feed around the farm is a critical piece of equipment for many of these operations.
Compared to large, ultra-expensive harvesting equipment, the $28,000-$50,000 price-tag for these little workhorses seems like a bargain, compared to the amount of human labor these small tractors can replace.
Todd Lynnes, product solutions manager with Caterpillar, grew up on a diversified North Dakota farm. Many farms around his family farm are large and very isolated from populated areas. Obviously, just finding labor, regardless of the cost, can be a challenge.
Many farmers around his family's farm have found some new and innovative ways to use these small, versatile Caterpillar machines. Many of the uses aren't in the instruction manual, he jokes.
"One of the most common uses of Cats in agriculture is probably a skid steer, the Cat 2598, for example, that can be used for many jobs on a grain farm. Typically, grain growers buy used Cats and use them for a lot of maintenance work where they don't have the labor to do it by hand.


text: MARQUETTE - Local author Milly (Talo) Balzarini of Marquette and her cousin and artist Michael Talo of Ishpeming have combined to create and publish a new children's book titled, "A Day With Stanley." This colorful tale tells the story of Stanley the sheep and his quick thinking to warn some friends of a bully who's coming to do harm. Balzarini is a graduate of Northern Michigan University, and is also the author of "The Lost Road Home,"a book on post traumatic stress disorder and how it has affected combat veterans and their families. Talo is originally from downstate Wayne County and has done free-lance work for WCW, Corona, Joe Cool Fashion and Design, and created the company "Aqua Air" pool painting in Daytona Beach, Fla. The book is available in softcover and ebook, and a preview can be viewed at can be viewed at www.millybalzarini.com.


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Van Morrison has a new album, Born to Sing: No Plan B. Virtually no one will care, a fact that continues to mystify me as much as the man himself. It is, like the preceding 34 albums, a mix of soulful R&B, jazz, Irish mysticism, and ruminations on love carnal and divine. And, like those other albums, it is wholly original and eccentric, an album that could only have emerged from the fertile mind of Van Morrison.
Those of you who know Morrison casually, who think of him only as the soulful singer of "Moondance" or "Brown Eyed Girl," may be surprised by the evolution of his music since the early 1970s. The hippies claimed him, and he made his best-known music during that era, but he never fit easily into the counter-cultural stereotypes. Brooding, moody, and entirely too devoted to his own unconventional path to fit in with established societal or musical trends, Morrison simply made the music he wanted to make. That music was influential enough to merit his inclusion in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but much of it since then has been willfully uncommercial, the product of a man who cares not a whit about the prospect of hit singles and awards and accolades. Almost all of it has borne witness to a man on a quest for something deeper and more satisfying than the usual sensual, hedonistic pursuits. That the quest has led him down some unlighted byways and dead ends is undeniable, but few songwriters have documented their spiritual discontent and restlessness as painstakingly or as accurately as Van Morrison.
What Morrison is after—the elusive Muse that he's pursued in a career that dates back to the early 1960s—is the ineffable. By its very definition it's a slippery word, one that is impossible to pin down by creedal statements or doctrinal catechisms, but Morrison has offered a number of clues that outline its general contours. It's the lost sense of innocence and peace that he hearkens back to again and again in his songs about an idyllic childhood in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It's being fully alive to the moment, attuned to the sense of wonder that can break through on even the grayest and most banal of days. It's the untrammeled romanticism of Blake and Coleridge, Wordsworth and Yeats—writers Van Morrison namechecks again and again in his body of work—and the insistence on the supremacy of spiritual experience over theological proposition. By definition, it cannot be named. But it can be sung. And for Morrison, that is the nature of soul music in all the best and most inclusive senses of the term.
It can only be sung. If the album and song titles don't give the game away—Inarticulate Speech of the Heart, The Healing Has Begun, A Sense of Wonder, Beautiful Vision, and No Guru, No Method, No Teacher—then the voice itself is a constant reminder of the primacy of the ineffable in Morrison's worldview. Nowhere is that better illustrated than on "Listen to the Lion," an impossibly idiosyncratic track from his 1972 album St. Dominic's Preview. For more than eleven minutes Van wrestles his lyrics like a dog working a bone, repeating the same phrases over and over in an incantatory prayer; whispering, moaning, cajoling, pleading, and ultimately breaking free of language altogether, soaring off into a scatting, stuttering frenzy, and finally roaring like the lion of the title before settling down again and morphing back to his normal, enigmatic self. I know people who hate the song, who find it annoyingly self-indulgent. But for my money it's the quintessential Van Morrison moment, the most thrilling and thrillingly strange soul music, in all sense of the term, ever recorded. It is the sound of a man casting off all earthly bounds and battering down the gates of heaven.


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NEWPORT BEACH, California -- The whirlwind of media requests that inevitably swirls around the BCS Championship Game got started on New Year's Eve, after Auburn's plane touched down in Long Beach in the middle of the afternoon.
And Auburn coach Gus Malzahn was up and moving around early, making an appearance on ESPN's College GameDay -- the New Year's Day edition -- at 7:30 a.m. local time with an early Tigers practice looming.
Malzahn, the offensive architect of Auburn's 2010 national championship team, was asked about the Tigers' plan, host Chris Fowler pointing out that Florida State's defense has had a lot of time to prepare and study Auburn's offense.
But Florida State isn't the only team in this game who's been studying Auburn's tendencies closely.
"There's no doubt. You've got to look at yourself as tendencies," Malzahn said. "They've got very good coaches, very good players, and we're going to have to have some wrinkles. I look back at 2010, we had a similar approach."
Of course, Malzahn has mentioned before that the Tigers would have "wrinkles" ready for games, only to stick with the running game that has steamrolled every opponent since the Mississippi State game.
And he's also focused on situations.
In 2010, Auburn's high-powered offense scored just 22 points, even though the Tigers rolled up 519 yards of offense against Oregon.
"We had a lot of yards, we just didn't find the end zone," Malzahn said. "We've got to do a better job of that, but we'll definitely have a plan to have a few wrinkles. They're going to know tendencies after 30 days."
Malzahn, also asked about the difference between being a coordinator and the head coach, said he'd lean heavily on his defensive staff, who he respects greatly.
"Well, you know, we've got a very veteran defensive staff. I've got a lot of confidence in Ellis Johnson and his guys," Malzahn said. "I'm still going to be calling the plays, along with Rhett Lashlee, but the fact that I've had the experience a couple years ago has got to help."
Malzahn's team is also in the same metropolitan area as Michigan State, the team that punched the Tigers' ticket here by beating Ohio State on championship Saturday.
And with a lot of Michigan State fans staying in hotels in Newport Beach, Malzahn has gotten a chance to say thanks.
"I saw some Michigan State fans in our lobby a couple of minutes ago," Malzahn said. "And I told them 'Good luck.'"


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Duluth, MN (NNCNOW.com) - The Duluth Air Show kicks off Saturday, Aug. 23 and runs through Sunday, Aug. 24.
Entrances to General Event Parking Lots are on Airbase Road, which is accessible from Stebner Road, Swan Lake Road or Arrowhead Road.
Entrance to the VIP Lot is from Cirrus Drive off of Miller Trunk Hwy 53.
Traffic exiting the event becomes very heavy between 5 -7 p.m.; during these times emphasis is placed on exiting traffic flow, and vehicle flow into the event area is limited.
General Northbound traffic on Haines Road will be directed to turn East on Arrowhead Road during event breakup, with the exception of motorists needing to get to the Duluth International Airport.
There will be one northbound lane of Haines Road reserved for vehicles needing assistance crossing Arrowhead Road to access the Airport. Duluth Police Officers will be at that corner to assist.
Grinden Drive, along the Duluth International Airport, will be posted "No Stopping".
That roadway will be patrolled, and vehicles in violation will be tagged.
Motorists in the area of the Air Show should slow down, drive with care, and watch for signs, barricades, pedestrians and Police Officers directing traffic.
Some parking in the Air Show Lot has been reduced because of wet conditions.
Carpooling is strongly recommended. Parking will be allowed in the Miller Hill Parking Lot, and free shuttle buses will run continuously to and from the Duluth Air Show.
Look for the posted "Air Show Shuttle Bus" signs in the Miller Hill lot for bus stop locations.
If you have any questions call Duluth Police Officer Bill Stovern at 218-730-5678.


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The Reflective Forest Gown
Leave your jewellery behind, this gown has its own.
8th August 2013
Art meets fashion in the watercolour shades of this bespoke print. With silk replacing the traditional painter's canvas, the ombre print falls and fades from forest boughs through to a wintry landscape.
Matthew's atelier hand-embroidered the neckline to mirror the printed hemline of the gown: cord twists and turns like a huntsman's rope between gold metalwork, with strands of turquoise thread as highlight. Look closely to spot the 330 iridescent beads that adorn the collar.
Leave your jewellery behind, this gown has its own.


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Ben Bernanke keeps giving investors the cold shoulder, and unfortunately the markets don't take rejection well. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEX: ^DJI ) dropped 49 points or 0.38%, while the Nasdaq fell 0.49%. The S&P500 actually managed to nearly close flat for the day, and all three indexes fought back from their late-session lows.
The Federal Reserve's latest meeting minutes detailed increasing concern, but still no real action to boost the markets or the economy, or to solve an unemployment problem that the Fed doesn't see getting any better by the end of the year. Apparently, policymakers are waiting for Europe to collapse or the U.S. to drive off the fiscal cliff to fire off their remaining dry powder, instead of trying to strengthen the economy now to potentially absorb those blows.
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Source: Yahoo! Finance.General weakness in the tech sector has plagued Microsoft, as shares are down nearly 5% this week; however, today's sell-off was due to an analyst report from Morgan Stanley. Morgan's analyst sees the aforementioned weak PC demand hurting the top and bottom line but remains bullish on the company with a $37 price target. Windows 8 and the Surface tablet both are catalysts that may help Mr. Softy rise above its beleaguered industry.
Defense contractors Boeing and United Technologies both closed down more than 2%. Both companies have won deals lately: Boeing won a $9.2 billion order from General Electric's (NYSE: GE ) aviation leasing business, and United Technologies subsidiary Sikorsky notched an $8.5 billion Blackhawk helicopter order from the Army and Navy. However, GE's commitment for 100 737s is not a done deal, and if forced, defense contracts could disrupt United's big deal.
It's clear that November's elections will weigh on defense contractors. Unless Congress can get its act together, the whole industry could face massive cuts. However, there are other stocks whose future is tied to whether Mitt Romney or Barack Obama is in the White House. The Motley Fool's new special free report, "These Stocks Could Skyrocket After the 2012 Presidential Election," highlights unique ways to profit from the election -- if you buy the right stocks before the next president's term begins. Download it for free.


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Just under three weeks remain until Halloween, and though I enjoy the whole idea of dressing up in odd clothing, they say I already do that.
You know the they. They - the people who say things.
And, to be honest, I should agree.
I spent part of Wednesday with Rhonda Richardson at Goodwill looking for a costume she might be able to wear to her church's Halloween festivities. The sad thing is, as she looked for '80s style fashion, what she picked up could be found in my closet. I just don't shop often and I refuse to throw away something that still has wear in it.
Ergo, the odd clothing they talk about.
When my sisters and I were young and we'd dress up to go trick-or-treating, I always wanted to be a witch. (Don't say a thing, just don't.) Mom had a huge box in the attic where she kept old clothing and bits and pieces of stuff for dress up. I can't remember dressing up to play, but let Halloween come around and that box started looking better and better.
She also had a witch's mask that I'd grab right away because a witch's face needed witch's clothing and witch's clothing was black and there was a great black cape in that big box in the attic and oh, how I loved wearing that cape. If Mom hadn't been the arbiter of weird things not to wear, I'd have worn that cape to country school even when it wasn't Halloween.
We put on a play for one PTA meeting at Newark No. 1, and I got to be the old woman who wandered slowly through the streets, falling and lying still. I can't remember if I died. I'm thinking there was cotton snow. I'm absolutely certain I wore the black cape. For the second time that year, I wore the black cape.
I also wore it trick-or-treating, as always. Because we lived in the country, either Mom and Dad drove us around - sometimes both of them. The most memorable night of begging came at our neighbors to the north of us. Annie Hansel had forgotten about Halloween, so when we knocked on her door, she had no candy. She threw a handful of pennies and nickels into each bag, then followed us to the car and told Dad to open the trunk.
She hadn't given us enough treats, she said, so she grabbed two chickens and threw them into the trunk. Sunday dinner flopped around in the far back of the car all night as we made our rounds through the neighborhood.
Halloween comes almost six months to the day after May Day. On one we begged for candy, on the other we made baskets decorated with crepe paper and pipe cleaners and filled with popcorn and candy and we gave those baskets away.
I loved doing both, but Halloween had the added attraction of that old black cape. Sometimes I'd wear it around the house for days before Halloween and days after for no other reason than I loved it so.
People looking for Halloween costumes these days should think back to what made them happiest as children. Just don't ask me for the old black cape - I have no idea what became of it.
So long friends, until the next time when we're together.
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So Worry not my friend, what others have got,
Your life is more precious than golden ingots,
And once you have learnt the secret of joy,
You'll feel like a child with a brand new toy.
It does not matter if your rich or poor,
Troubles knock on every door,
There's not much in life thats completly free
But happiness is I guarantee.
The world is full of problems to solve,
Without them how would you change or evolve,
with a shield of happiness cast sadness out the door,
And be free of depression for evermore
This may all sound quite silly,
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SPRINGFIELD – The City Council will consider taking votes on Monday night ranging from approval of the mayor's proposal to use $6.2 million in reserve funds to balance the budget to passage of two resolutions that would reaffirm the council's opposition to a proposed wood-burning plant in East Springfield.
The meeting begins at 7 p.m., at the City Council chambers at City Hall.
Mayor Domenic J. Sarno has asked for the $6.2 million transfer from the city's stabilization "rainy day" fund, saying it is necessary to balance the current fiscal year 2012 budget.
The council had approved a $542.2 million budget in June, which took effect July 1, but rejected the mayor's proposal then to take $10.5 million from the reserve account.
As a result the budget has been unbalanced since July 1, and would need to be balanced before the council can set new tax rates in December, officials said.
The city has approximately $44 million in reserves, and some councilors objected to the initial proposal of $10.5 million as being too high.
Rather than approve the $10.5 million, the council cut approximately $2.7 million from the mayor's proposed budget, and later restored nearly $700,000.
Sarno and his finance team have continued to review the city's revenues and expenses, leading to Monday's request for a $6.2 million transfer. In addition to the council's budget cuts, the city received $2.3 million in new local aid on Oct. 31.
Chief Administrative and Financial Officer Lee C. Erdmann said his review has determined that "the city's financial resources and revenues are and will continue to be adequate to support the proposed expenditures and obligations involved in the transfer, without a detrimental impact on the continuous provision of the existing level of municipal resources."
The council will also consider taking two nonbinding votes on the wood-burning biomass plant being proposed at Page Boulevard and Cadwell Drive. Several councilors sponsored the resolutions, which were filed prior to the developer obtaining a building permit from the city's code enforcement commissioner for first-phase construction.
One resolution urges the commissioner, Steven T. Desilets, not to issue the building permit, and the second resolution states that a special permit, which was revoked by the council, is needed before a plant could be built.
Opponents of the plant, including the group Stop Toxic Incineration in Springfield and the Conservation Law Foundation, said Monday's votes are important to reaffirm and even strengthen the council's stance and could lead to additional steps.
Both Desilets and a spokesman for the state Department of Environmental Protection said last week that the state's air permit for the project is under appeal, and any construction by Palmer Renewable Energy, if done, would be at the company's risk. If the appeal of the state permit or an expected appeal of the building permit, is successful, it would stop the project, Desilets said.
The council will also consider a nonbinding vote to "strongly oppose" a proposal by the U.S. Postal Service to shift its first class mail handling service from its Indian Orchard plant.
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DeKalb Northern Illinois University faculty are acutely aware that visuals provide good learning tools.
Rhonda Robinson, a Distinguished Teaching Professor in the College of Educations Department of Educational Technology, Research and Assessment, knows that.
She also knows that visuals are key to the future. Todays college students have grown up bombarded by hundreds of TV channels, after all, and are among the most-frequent visitors and contributors to user-driven Web sites such as YouTube and myspace.
But just watching hasnt been shown to make you more visually literate, she said. Its how you watch, how you look, how you analyze.
Visual literacy includes concepts of viewing, analyzing and creating visuals for better communication.
Consequently, Robinson believes she still can suggest to her university colleagues how to make even better use of the visuals at their disposal: We can bring in both the cognitive and the affective domain, she said.
The idea of feelings, motivations and attitudes is something we tend to downplay in our teaching but we should want people to not only know how to do something but to be good at it, enjoy it, be excited about it and interested in it, she said. Visual information very often can help people improve their affective response as well as their learning. Here at NIU, the tools are available.
Robinson will present Visual Literacy: Learning to See, Seeing to Learn, a Presidential Teaching Professor Seminar scheduled for noon Thursday, March 29, in the Capitol Room of the Holmes Student Center.
Refreshments will be served at 11:30 a.m. All are invited. Call (815) 753-1085 for more information.
Teaching, if not the most important thing we do here, is certainly the most important thing we do with our students, and the Presidential Teaching Professors are the best of the best. The intent of the seminars is to have them share their thoughts, ideas and insights about teaching, Vice Provost Earl Gip Seaver said. Ive found them to be quite stimulating and very focused on what people can do to help students learn.
Robinson was drawn into visual learning during her years as a language arts teacher to seventh- and eighth-graders.
As she became interested in film and video, and followed her curiosity, she saw that students who created visual representations of what they had learned gained a stronger grasp of the knowledge.
Viewing is a language art to me. We usually think of reading, writing, speaking and listening, and I add viewing to that, she said. Viewing is motivational, informational and provides people a second channel by which to understand difficult concepts.
Fortunately, critical viewing is a skill not a talent that students can learn. Theyre already comfortable and familiar with the territory.
We should do this not because students like it, but because they could become more proficient at it, Robinson says. One of the things visual literacy brings to the table is helping people become more critically conscious about what theyre viewing, and what it means to them.
For example, Robinson points to body image in women.
Popular media promotes images of thin women, she says, and stresses the need for new clothes with every season.
Developing visual literacy skills would help young women to not be so overwhelmed by the fashion images they see in magazines, in movies and on TV, she says. You cannot accept that message from advertising. Visual literacy helps them to critically analyze what the message is from advertising and to realize why advertising does that.
Meanwhile, she says, some students are counting on a strong visual literacy component to their college experience. They learn through using and creating visuals.
We have special learners coming to college. In previous generations, that was not so true, Robinson says. We need more multi-modal learning opportunities.
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Robert MacGregor (b. 1983 / Los Angeles, CA), of European and Chinese descent, is rapidly developing a unique voice combining such saxophone influences as Lee Konitz, Warne Marsh, Stan Getz, George Coleman, and Joe Henderson, with a compositional approach that evokes the work of such diverse innovators from Maurice Ravel to Lennie Tristano, Wayne Shorter, Richie Beirach, and Kenny Wheeler.
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Representing the Calvin men's team will be senior Ben de Waal Malefyt and junior Steven Haagsma. Representing the Calvin women's team will be seniors Nicole Michmerhuizen and Hilary Banning and junior Sarah Danner.
The following are capsules of the five individuals competing for Calvin:
BEN DE WAAL MALEFYT - (MIDLAND PARK, NJ/EASTER CHRISTIAN HS) - de Waal Malefyt will be making his first trip to the NCAA III Outdoor Track and Field Championships. He will compete in the discus where he is seeded 19th with a throw of 163-5. Earlier this spring he was the MIAA champion in the discus and earned a spot on the All-MIAA men's track and field team.
STEVEN HAAGSMA - (GRANDVILLE/CALVIN CHRISTIAN HS) - Haagsma will be making his second consecutive trip to the outdoor national meet and will again compete in the 3,000 meter steeplechase. Haagsma is seeded 11th in the race with a time of 9:05.47. A year ago Haagsma competed in the prelims of the steeplechase but did not advance. Earlier this month he was the MIAA runner-up in the steeplechase at the conference championship meet at Alma College.
SARAH DANNER - (WATKINS GLEN, NY/CHARLES DICKERSON HS) - Danner will be making her first appearance at the national meet. She will compete in the 10,000 meters where she is seeded 14th with a time of 35:56.61. At the MIAA Championships earlier this month, she was the league runner-up in the 5,000 meters.
HILARY BANNING - (Whitinsville, MA/Whitinsville Christian HS) - Banning will be making her first appearance at the NCAA III Outdoor Track and Field Championships. She will compete in the triple jump where she is seeded ninth (39-3.75). She is the school record holder in the triple jump. At the MIAA Championships, she captured league titles in the long jump and triple jump and earned a spot on the All-MIAA team for the third straight year.
NICOLE MICHMERHUIZEN - (Holland/Holland Christian HS) - Michmerhuizen will be making her third consecutive appearance at the NCAA III Outdoor Track and Field Championships. A four-time NCAA III All-American in track and field, Michmerhuizen will compete in the 10,000 meters where she is seeded third (35:35.15) and in the 5,000 meters where she is seeded fourth (16:36.36). Last year, she captured the national title in the 10,000 meters and later placed 12th in the 5,000 meters. This past March, she took second in the 5,000 meters at the NCAA III Indoor Track and Field Championships for the second consecutive year and then placed fourth in the 3,000 meters to claim All-America honors in both events. At the MIAA Championships this spring, she was the league champion in the 10,000 meters, winning the race in an league record time of 35:35.15. She is the Calvin record holder in both the 10,000 and 5,000 meter runs.


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Local belly dancer invited to perform with belly dance 'royalty' in Toronto
It's not every day that you are invited to work with and learn from a leader in your field.
So, needless to say, local belly dancer Andrea Kitta was thrilled with her invitation to dance with world-renowned belly dancer Suhaila Salimpour during a gala performance in Toronto tonight night.
Andrea Kitta
It's not every day that you are invited to work with and learn from a leader in your field.
So, needless to say, local belly dancer Andrea Kitta was thrilled with her invitation to dance with world-renowned belly dancer Suhaila Salimpour during a gala performance in Toronto tonight night.
"It makes me feel like all the work I've done over the years has been worth it. Every moment in classes, sweating away at the gym, stretching, putting myself out there, dancing in tiny, hot rooms, setting up classes, training the troupe. ... It's all led to this moment. As an instructor I'm rewarded every day I teach, as an artistic director I'm rewarded every moment I'm around my troupe, but this will be my reward as just a dancer."
According to Kitta, Suhaila is a second generation dancer and she is belly dance "royalty" (Her mother was responsible for most of the terminology belly dancers use today). Suhaila's website states the dancer is "the world's most sought-after performer, teacher, and choreographer of belly dance." And she was the first to offer a certification program for belly dancers.
While in Toronto, Kitta will not only attend a workshop and represent the East Coast during the gala, she will also be tested as Level 1 teacher in Suhaila's training program.
Kitta had not actually applied to perform, only inquired about attending the workshop, so she was surprised by the invitation to dance during Suhaila's gala performance.
"I expressed interest in the workshop, but I didn't apply to dance at the gala. However, the organizer looked into my background and saw some of our videos and she extended an invitation to me to dance. It's a pretty big deal. I didn't even have to audition or anything. I actually was invited on reputation alone."
Originally from Pennsylvania, Kitta was born into a belly-dancing cultural group and has been doing belly dance with family members since she was two, with her first public performance at age four. Since that time, she has performed in a variety of places, including Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and throughout Newfoundland.
Kitta moved here in 2003 to do her PhD in folklore, and has been teaching local belly dancers since. She is the lead instructor, artistic director, choreographer and one of the dancers for her troupe, The Neighborhood Strays, who are well known locally for their performances at various festivals and conferences.
Despite her extensive background, Kitta has had to do a lot of preparation before heading off to perform with the world-famous dancer. Suhaila sent out a list of things to do to prepare for the weekend, but Kitta has been doing extra work to ensure she is ready for the gala performance.
"I'm also doing a lot of my own things to prepare for the performance. I'm doing 40-60 minutes of cardio a day, lifting weights, yoga every day, working out to Suhaila's videos, drilling, and working on my solo."
And, as anyone who has seen a belly dance performance can attest, a dazzling costume is a part of the experience. So, in addition to her training, Kitta has been seeking just the right thing to wear for the gala performance.
"(I'm) tearing through the house and doing some last-minute shopping and sewing to get an amazing costume together!"
All of her hard work will be evident in her performance at the Jane Mallett Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts in Toronto tonight.
Kitta says the workshop, and performance will be an important step in her development as a dancer and instructor.
"It's only a few minutes, but it will be the start of so many things for me personally as a dancer. The best part is that I'll not only get to learn amazing new things, but I'll be able to take those things back to Newfoundland and teach them to everyone else!"


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The Complexity of Cleaner Cookstoves, 2012 – Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies
Cleaner cookstoves have often been presented as a "simple" solution for an important public health and climate challenge: the technology exists, the needs are established, and the costs are relatively low. Implementation – creating the enabling conditions for hundreds of millions of people to have access to cleaner-burning stoves – has been much more challenging.
On 29 October at 2:30 GMT we discussed the scientific evidence on the role of traditional cookstoves in indoor and outdoor air pollution, as well as some of the challenges associated with expanding access to and use of cleaner cookstoves. A panel comprising of experts on climate science, field measurement of air quality, stove design, and stove dissemination will compare lessons and perspectives from their research and experience.


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Interstate 10-Causeway Boulevard interchange: The right westbound lane of I-10 at Causeway will be closed tonight, 10 p.m.-6 a.m. The onramp to westbound I-10 from northbound Causeway will be closed tonight, 10 p.m.-6 a.m. Periodic lane closures will be enforced on southbound Causeway daily through Friday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
Chef Menteur Highway between Downman Road and Interstate 10: The right eastbound lane and shoulder will be closed daily through Friday, 6:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., for construction work. The southbound turning lane to access westbound I-10 will also be closed during the same hours.
Claiborne Avenue between Perdido and Poydras streets: The westbound lanes will be closed Sunday night, 5 p.m.-6 a.m. and Wednesday night 7 p.m.-6 a.m.. for the filming of a movie.
Interstate 10 between the St. Charles Parish line and Veterans Boulevard overpass: The left lane in each direction will be closed nighlty through Friday, 10 p.m.-5 a.m., while crews pour concrete for median cable barriers.
Interstate 10 between the St. Charles Parish line and Veterans Boulevard overpass: The left shoulder in both directions will be closed daily through Friday, 5 a.m.-5 p.m., for work on cable barrier foundations.
Interstate 10 twin spans across Lake Pontchartrain: One-lane and two-lane closures on various sections of the bridge and its approaches will be enforced in both directions daily through Dec. 17 for construction and roadway preparation activities.
Interstate 12 between Robert Road (Louisiana 1091) overpass and the I-10-I-12-I-59 interchange: Traffic will be reduced to one lane from 8 p.m. Saturday until noon Sunday, for temporary striping around a construction zone.
Interstate 12 between U.S. 11 and the I-10-I-12-I-59 interchange: The raod will be closed in both directions for about 15 minutes Tuesday at 3 a.m. for maintenance.
Airline Highway (U.S. 61) between Prospect Avenue (Louisiana 627) and Louisiana 3217: The northbound lanes will be closed and traffic detoured to southbound lanes that will accommodate two-way traffice, tonight, Friday and Saturday, 8 p.m.-5 a.m., to move oversized equipment to Valero Refinery.
St. Bernard Highway (Louisiana 39) in Braithwaite: The road will be closed between Perez Street and Lynn Oaks Drive, today through Saturday, 7 a.m.-6 p.m., for railroad crossing work.
Second Street in Luling: The road will be closed at Paul Maillard Road from 6 a.m. Friday until 7 p.m. Saturday for road work.
Huey P. Long Bridge: The left lane in both directions will be closed daily through Friday and Monday-Dec. 16, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. There also will be periodic 15-minute full closures.
Huey P. Long Bridge: The bridge will be closed nightly through Friday and Tuesday-Dec. 16 on this schedule: West bank-bound lanes will be closed 10 p.m.-1:30 a.m. East bank-bound closures will be 1:30-5 a.m.
Huey P. Long Bridge: The bridge will be closed in both directions from Saturday at 9 p.m. to Sunday at noon to pour concrete. Right lanes will remain closed until 5 a.m. Monday.
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Behind the Numbers: PCE Inflation Update, February 2013
This update, prepared by Dallas Fed Senior Economist Jim Dolmas, provides an in-depth analysis of the latest personal consumption expenditures (PCE) inflation data. Updates will be posted monthly, following the release of the official PCE data by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. NOTE: Terms in bold are defined in the Inflation Update Glossary.
The headline, or all-items, PCE inflation rate for February was a robust 4.8 percent at an annualized rate, pushed up by a sharp increase in the price of gasoline. As we predicted in last month's Inflation Update, gasoline alone contributed about 4 annualized percentage points to February's headline inflation rate. Truth be told, though, February's headline number was a bit less than we were expecting, as prices for items apart from energy, on average, increased at just a 0.8 percent annualized rate (compared with a 1.3 percent rate for those items over the past 12 months).
The small increase in prices, on average, outside of energy might suggest weak underlying inflation in February, but the Dallas Fed's trimmed mean PCE inflation rate tells a somewhat different story. The trimmed mean inflation rate for February was an annualized 2.0 percent, up from a revised 1.7 percent rate in January. February's reading is thus a bit higher than the trimmed mean's average rates over the past six or 12 months (1.5 percent and 1.6 percent, respectively).
One month's trimmed mean data are, of course, not a very good indication of the underlying trend in PCE inflation; the trimmed mean's six- and 12-month rates do a much better job of telling us where the trend is, and where the headline inflation rate may be headed. Those longer-horizon rates put the trend around 1.5–1.6 percent, and steady.
As regular readers of the Inflation Update know, our own rule-of-thumb forecast for headline PCE inflation over the coming 12 months is always the current 12-month trimmed mean rate. By that forecast, 12-month headline inflation—now 1.3 percent—should gradually rise toward 1.6 percent over the next 12 months.
Gasoline Pumps Up Headline Rate in February; Will Be a Drag in March
As we predicted last month—no real feat of prescience, since the data were almost all available at that point—the PCE price index for gasoline and other motor fuel increased 9 percent in February. That figure is not annualized; the annualized rate of increase was about 180 percent. February's increase was the sharpest since June 2009 (though August 2012's 8.9 percent deserves an honorable mention).
Other energy components also recorded increases, though none as sharp as that of gasoline. The price index for fuel oil increased 3 percent, natural gas services increased 1.2 percent, and electricity 0.3 percent. The price index for energy goods and services—which aggregates all these components, weighted by their shares of expenditure—increased 5.8 percent in February. Over the past 12 months, which include a number of sharp declines in gasoline prices, the index is up just 2.2 percent.
Gazing again into our crystal ball—that is, looking at the Department of Energy's weekly data on the retail price of gasoline—March looks to reverse about half of February's increase. Based on almost-complete data for the month, the average retail price of gasoline in March is tracking about 1.2 percent higher than in February. The Department of Energy's data are not seasonally adjusted, and March typically brings a price increase of about 6 percent. A 1.2 percent increase when the normal seasonal increase is 6 percent implies a seasonally adjusted decline of 4.8 percent.
Given gasoline's expenditure weight—around 3.8 percent—its expected 4.8 percent decline for March translates into a contribution of about –0.2 monthly percentage points to March's headline inflation rate (or about –2.2 annualized percentage points). Barring big surprises in the non-gasoline components of PCE, we should thus expect March's headline inflation rate to be near zero, and perhaps very slightly negative.
Prices of More-Processed Food Items Decline for Second Consecutive Month
Food prices increased at a 2 percent annualized rate in February, after being essentially unchanged in January. February's increase is something of a return to recent form for food prices, which closed out 2012 with increases in the range of 2.5–3.0 percent in each of the final three months of the year.
Beneath the surface, though, February's data show some continuity with January's (and a discontinuity relative to the tail end of 2012). In particular, February, like January, featured a decline in the prices (on average) of more-processed food items. Our price index for more-processed food items declined very slightly in February, falling 0.5 percent at an annualized rate. This is, to be sure, a more modest decline than we saw in January (a 1.6 percent annualized drop), but the numbers for the two months look more similar to one another than either does to the readings we saw at the end of 2012. Our more-processed index averaged a 1.6 percent annualized rate of increase over the final three months of last year and posted rates of 2 percent or better in each of November and December.
As you might guess, then, February's increase in overall food prices was driven by gains in price for items in the volatile less-processed category. Our index of less-processed food items increased at an 8.3 percent annualized rate in February, led by sharp increases in prices of fresh vegetables and fresh fruits (both up at annualized rates just over 23 percent).
Over the past six months, our less-processed index is up an annualized 3.9 percent, while our more-processed index is up just 0.6 percent. Prices for food as a whole are up an annualized 1.5 percent over that period.
Core Goods Prices Revert to Recent Form in February; Volatile Financial Components Weigh on Core Services Prices
After an unusually large increase in January, prices for core goods—true to their volatile form—fell noticeably in February, declining 1.2 percent at an annualized rate. Commenting on January's increase in last month's update, we noted that the increase (an annualized 3 percent) broke a long string of declines or, at most, very small increases. February's data are thus back in line with that prior pattern. The price index for men's and boys' clothing—down 7 percent at an annualized rate—was the biggest-impact item among core goods, shaving 0.1 annualized percentage points off February's headline inflation rate.
Over the past six months, our price index for core goods has declined 0.6 percent at an annualized rate. Over the past 12 months, the index is down about a quarter of a percent.
Prices for core services, meanwhile, posted a slightly more modest increase than we'd seen from them over the previous several months, increasing at a 1.3 percent annualized rate in February after averaging a 1.9 percent rate of increase over October–January.
Outsized price declines in the volatile financial services components dragged down our core services price index in February. The price indexes for the non-fee services of commercial banks (down an annualized 19 percent) and for the non-fee services of "other depository institutions and regulated investment companies" (down an annualized 28 percent) combined to subtract about three-quarters of an annualized percentage point off February's headline inflation rate.
Movements in volatile components like financial services may help us understand why a particular month's headline inflation rate came out as it did, but their signal value for thinking about the trend in consumer price inflation is essentially nil. More informative are movements in the less-volatile and heftier (by expenditure weight) components of core services, such as rent, owners' equivalent rent (OER) and the price index for dining out ("other purchased meals").
Among this "big three"—which combined add up to about 19 percent of overall PCE—only the price index for dining out posted a February number noticeably different from its recent past behavior. And while noticeable, the difference was nonetheless small—the index for other purchased meals increased at a 0.9 percent annualized rate in February, a bit below the index's six-month average rate of 1.3 percent.
Meanwhile, rent and OER in February essentially matched their six-month performance. Rent increased at a 3 percent annualized rate in February, versus a 3.1 percent six-month rate; for OER, the corresponding rates are 2.3 percent and 2.2 percent.
Core services prices as a whole are up an annualized 1.7 percent over the past six months, and 1.8 percent over the past 12 months.
Share of Component Prices Falling, Rising Steady
Of the 178 components that potentially go into the trimmed mean, 57—or about 32 percent of the basket—registered price declines in February, about what we'd consider normal, based on data since the mid-1990s. The declining-price fraction has now been around 32 percent—give or take a percentage point—since last November.
Those percentages just count the number of price declines and divide by 178. When we weight items by their expenditure shares, about 23 percent of the basket fell in price in February, and about 77 percent increased in price. Those numbers are also similar to what we've seen over the past few months.
While the expenditure-weighted fraction of the PCE basket increasing in price changed little from January to February, February did see a shift within the set of increasing-price components, with a smaller share of components experiencing increases in the range of annualized 0–2 percent and a correspondingly larger share experiencing increases in the range of 2–3 percent.
—Jim Dolmas
March 29, 2013


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LAWRENCE — The one thing that has illed the Notre Dame boys' basketball team during its torrid start to the season has been playing to its potential starting from the outset as opposed to waiting until the third quarter. Head coach Bob Turco may have found the antidote.
"Coach Turco's not feeling too well and the one thing he said in the locker room before the game was, 'The last thing you want me to do is to have me start yelling in the first quarter,'" Notre Dame senior forward/center Steve Harris said of Turco, who was dealing with the remnants of the flu. "Considering all he does for us we figured we'd come out strong in the first quarter — finally. It just started clicking. Isaiah (Johnson) and Josh (Williams) were passing the ball well and it went from there."
Harris and Williams combined for seven first-half dunks and the Irish's high-octane offense was too powerful for the Pirates as Notre Dame rolled to a 75-43 win tonight in front of a packed house at Notre Dame High.
Williams was within reach of posting a quadruple-double with 13 points, 13 rebounds, 10 assists, and five blocks, and Harris registered a game-high 23 points to go along with 13 rebounds and five assists.
"When we start passing and running there's going to be opportunities open and we're going to take them," Harris said. "What happens is you start to feel a lot better and that helps you on offense. It all comes from running and pushing the tempo. That's what we're trying to do."
Notre Dame took a comfortable 21-13 lead into the second quarter and all-but-assured they'd be the last undefeated team remaining in the Colonial Valley Conference by completely busting the game open with an 18-4 advantage in the second quarter, highlighted by a vicious two-handed putback from Williams and a gliding one-handed jam from Harris.
"Steve and I were talking all game on the court so it made it easier when we were trying to work the ball up high or for me to get around people and swing it back out," Williams said. "We had everything working together."
Johnson, who still has an outside shot at becoming the Irish's all-time leading scorer, finished with 20 points and five assists. Patrick Minoque came off the bench to provide the Irish with nine points and Conner Lafferty supplied five points and five rebounds.
Bryan Rivers continued his pursuit of joining the 1,000 point club with 22 points and Tommy Hussong added eight for the Pirates.
With Trenton looming Tuesday, there won't be much time for the Irish to savor the emphatic victory.
"We have to forget about this game already and starting focusing on the next one with Trenton High," Williams said. "Just like the Ewing game when we were too excited after that win and then Trenton Catholic beat us. We can't let that happen again."
Notre Dame 75, WW-P South 43
WW-P SOUTH (43): Bryan Rivers 7-0-4-18, Tommy Hussong 4-0-0-8, Zavon Johnson 2-0-1-5, Danny Borup 2-0-0-4, Sam Merchant 0-1-0-3, Jeff Paskewitz 0-0-1-1, Chris Scanlan 0-0-0-0, Idris Erinjogunola 0-0-0-0. Totals 17-1-6-43.
NOTRE DAME (75): Stephen Harris 11-0-1-23, Isaiah Johnson 8-0-4-20, Josh Williams 6-0-1-13, Patrick Minoque 3-1-0-9, Conner Lafferty 2-0-1-5, D.J. Ricci 1-0-1-3, Mike Winters 0-0-2-2, Danny O'Keefe 0-0-0-0, Kevin Metz 0-0-0-0, Andrew Howley 0-0-0-0, David Haytaian 0-0-0-0, Sean Kelly 0-0-0-0. Totals 31-1-10-75.
WW-P South (6-3) 13 4 9 17 — 43
Notre Dame (10-1) 21 18 16 20 — 75


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Pablo Arroyo has the world at his feet.
"The game is in his blood," Princeton High School boys' soccer coach Wayne Sutcliffe said. "He's from Barcelona, Spain.
"He's a very passionate player and he's someone who understands the nuances in the game and plays with a great understanding. He's a fantastic competitor and a great teammate, too."
His family made some tough decisions and sacrifices to keep Arroyo in the PHS lineup. Arroyo lives with a teammate's family in Princeton since his parents moved to England earlier this year.
His mother Liliana was able to see her son play one time his senior year, traveling to Mercer County to cheer for Princeton in the state final yesterday at The College of New Jersey. The play of Arroyo, who has been named The Times' Male Athlete of the Week, helped the Little Tigers get to the title round and then earn a co-championship with undefeated Ramapo (21-0-2).
His leadership by example and his quality play, especially in the state semifinal on Wednesday and the sectional final the week before, were a key factor for us being successful in both of those games," Sutcliffe said.
A four-year player and a three-year starter, Arroyo was a member of Princeton's state championship team in 2009.
His efforts in a 2-0 win over Moorestown in the Group III semifinal and a 4-3 battle with Allentown in the Central Jersey title game were part of Arroyo's strong play during the second half of the 2012 season.
"He's a ferocious player," Sutcliffe said. "He's one of the most humble kids, it's one of his gifts that he's so confident but humble at the same time."
One of the constants in Arroyo's life is soccer and he aims to keep it that way.
"I started playing soccer in Barcelona and continued it from there," said Arroyo, whose family has moved around due to his father's career in medicine.
The time in Princeton was so special that he wanted to see it through its completion as a Little Tiger.
"My parents gave me the choice, of course, and I wanted to have my senior year here," Arroyo said.
He will likely do some globe-trotting after he graduates from PHS.
"I'm looking at (some universities) in Scotland and some schools in America," Arroyo said. "I'm probably going to go to Europe."
Whichever side of the pond he lands on, he plans to keep soccer in his life, either at the club or varsity level.
"I stuck with soccer throughout everything," he said. "I did track for a little while because I could run long distances but soccer is the thing I stayed with."
It's a sport that has meant the world to him.
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Lorri Tierney, owner and founder of Tribute Talent in Tottenville, an agency that places children in TV commercials and films, as well as print ads — has also taken to writing reality shows as of late — to such a degree, in fact, that she piqued the interest of high-profile producers — but not quite in the way one might think. Read on and we'll reveal all the particulars.
It turns out that the talented and personable real-life casting agent and her mom, Nikki Galarza, her business associate, impressed studio bigwigs, not only because of their uncanny knack for spotting child stars but also because of their very opposite personalities: Lorri, the calm, compassionate daughter, and Nikki, the sometimes-sassy, get-her-point-across, off-the-cuff mom.
In essence, producers say, they've created a reality show of their own.
But make no bones about it — they nonetheless complement each other in every way possible.
Among the youngsters being highlighted on the show is 7-year-old Luca Gianquinto, a Staten Islander who has a recurring role on "All My Children" and can be seen in a commercial for Stride Rite shoes, as well in several print ads.
Watch for "Mother of All Talent," Lorri and Nikki's inaugural docu-series episode, to air aboard the TVGN-TV Guide Network on Tuesday at 8 p.m., when viewers will learn just how the mom-and-daughter team interact and handle frustrated stage moms — and then some.
"Child stars are everywhere in Hollywood, and they all got their start somewhere," said Brad Schwartz, president of TV GN. "Behind every Leo, Lindsay and Macauley is a Nikki and Lorri — agents working hard to find the next great talent. Forget New York and L.A., this series is fresh and fun and keeps it real on Staten Island," he adds.
"Mother of All Talent" is produced by Jarrett Creative with Seth Jarrett and Julie Insogna-Jarrett ("Boston's Finest") as executive producers.
Note that the TVGN — a fairly new network — will air eight episodes on Channel 157 Time Warner Cable and Channel 194 on Verizon Fios.
With Thanksgiving just around the corner, it's evident that the holiday season is imminent.
In anticipation of the craziness to take off in November, Meals on Wheels of Staten Island is planning a pre-holiday madness Wine & Cheese Tasting set for Sunday afternoon, Nov. 3, from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Noble Maritime Collection on the grounds of the Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, Livingston. Admission is $25.
"The tasting not only offers our guests the opportunity to relax with friends old and new, but to do so in a beautiful setting, where they can view the museum's collection of oil paintings, lithographs, historic photos, model ships and, of course, the works of renowned marine artist and Staten Island resident, the late John A. Noble," said Mary Beth Francis, assistant administrator of Carmel Richmond Healthcare, who is chairing the event in the landmarked 19th-century building along with Vincent D'Antuono, owner of Pastosa Ravioli, West Brighton. D'Antuono is donating and will be speaking about the cheeses to be sampled that day.
"Most importantly, guests will be helping Meals on Wheels of Staten Island continue its 41-year mission to feed the Island's frail, homebound elderly," notes Joseph Tornello, executive director of the agency, which has its headquarters in Port Richmond. The non-profit currently provides two meals a day — one hot, one cold — to nearly 1,000 recipients throughout Staten Island, largely through the efforts of an army of more than 400 volunteers — and is the only such program in the metropolitan area to serve its clients two meals daily.
For additional information and reservations, telephone Liberta Macco, Meals on Wheels' vice president, fundraising, at 718-727-4435 or visit the agency's website at www.mealsonwheelsofsi.org.
The St. John Villa Academy Homecoming is set for Sunday, Oct. 27, with a memorial mass at 11 a.m. in the Chapel for Sr. Placid Zinicola, Class of 1936. Graduating classes ending in "3" and "8" will be honored as well.
A luncheon will follow in Founder's Hall, located on Landis Avenue.
Organizers are asking for a quick RSVP. The price is $35 per person in advance and $40 per person at the door, with proceeds benefiting the St. John Villa Academy Alumnae Association Scholarship Fund.
Those with questions, should contact Judy White Birmingham, Class of 1976, at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Wagner College Theatre's Advisory Board is playing host to "A Night at the Cinema" to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, Saturday at 8:30 p.m. at the college's Stage One, located behind the football stadium on Howard Avenue. The event will feature songs and scenes from over a dozen films. "A Night at the Cinema" is spearheaded by senior performance major Lauren Wagner (who recently starred as Audrey in "Little Shop of Horrors") with music direction by Matt Hosmer.
Tickets are $7. Raffle prizes and silent auctions will be on offer. All proceeds raised will benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids, a non-profit organization that helps to fundraise and research for HIV/AIDS.
Virginia McLoughlin, an executive board member of the Staten Island Reading Association, extends an invitation to all teachers on Staten Island.
On Monday, Oct. 28, they will offer a Professional Development Workshop, "Focusing on What's Observable for Teacher Evaluation," presented by Sue Tomaszewski, a staff development specialist in the Danielson Evaluation. Attending teachers will receive a certificate to add to their portfolios. The workshop will be held in the auditorium at the Petrides School from 4 to 6 p.m.
"The 2013 Annual Literacy Symposium" is set for Tuesday, Oct. 29, from 2:30 to 6 p.m. at the Kelleher Center at St. John's University, Grymes Hill, where Ms. Tomaszewski will be the keynote speaker presenting information on teacher evaluation. There will also be three workshops that teachers can choose to attend, as well as displays by various publishers and community partners. Registration is required for the symposium.
For further information about the two informative events, telephone 718-809-3855. Registration can be done online at www.sireading.org.
Happy birthday Friday to Janet Morana, Raquel DeRoma, Ava Lordo, Vinny Meli, Carol Provenzano, Marissa Vinciguerra, Patrick Dunphy and twins Nicole and Victoria SanFilippo.
Happy wedding anniversary to Sue and Steve Pedersen and to Katie and Phil Ebner.
Saturday is birthday time for Marisa Calabrese Shelley, who owns M & J Dance Studio, Dongan Hills, with her husband, Jeff Shelley, Andrew Esposito, John (Fritzie) Ryan, Lois Siewert, Paul McPolin, Pat M. Ballweg and Melisa Perosi.


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Syracuse, NY - A Texas-based real estate company plans to purchase the former Syracuse Developmental Center property and pay off $1 million in back property taxes within 30 days, the company's president said Tuesday.
The deal is contingent upon the planned primary tenant – the Syracuse City School District – finalizing a 15-year lease to occupy about 219,000 square feet in three buildings there.
Beginning in September, the school district plans to move 1,500 pupils, faculty and staff of two schools that will be under renovation to the 800 S. Wilbur Ave. campus. A third school would be moved to Peck and Reid halls, which were recently used as a downtown charter school, pending approval of another 15-year lease, said Superintendent Dan Lowengard.
The students who will be relocated are from H.W. Smith K-8 school, Dr. Weeks Elementary and the Institute of Technology high school.
In future years, pupils from other schools will temporarily move into the same leased spaces as the district-wide schools renovation program spreads to other buildings, Lowengard said.
The new owners will spend $15 million upgrading the three SDC buildings the district intends to rent, said Barton K. Feinberg, of Syracuse's Sutton Real Estate Co., who is handling the leasing. The cost would be amortized as part of the district's rent over the term of the lease, he said.
Davico Realty Group, out of Houston, Texas, is partnering with Florida-based REIT Americas Limited to purchase the 48-acre SDC property, said Davico President Chris Davis. The partnership will be called Health Consortium USA. Davis would not disclose the purchase price, but said his financing is secured.
The new owners will also lease space at the SDC site to a veterans organization that plans to employ 200 people in a call center, Davis said.
The Syracuse school board is scheduled to consider the leases at its meeting at 5:30 p.m. today. Neither the district nor Davis would disclose financial details.
The state will reimburse the school district 98 percent of the lease expenses, including the cost of the building upgrades, Lowengard said.
Lowengard confirmed the leases require the school district to pay future property taxes on the portion of the Syracuse Developmental Center site it occupies and on Reid and Peck halls.
The district plans to ask the city to waive all or part of their taxes. "We don't think it makes a lot of sense for us to pay taxes to the city," said Lowengard, whose district's budget is part of the city's overall budget.
The SDC property is owned by Syracuse Resort Development Inc., which pitched a luxury resort for people with disabilities before it bought the site for $2.2 million from New York in May 2008. That plan short-circuited quickly.
Syracuse Resort also never paid a penny in property taxes, and owes about $1 million to the city, school district and Onondaga County, said city assessment Commissioner John Gamage.
Health Consortium USA will repay back taxes, stay current on future taxes and add jobs, Davis said.
"We will be a tax paying entity," Davis said.
City officials said they were glad to hear the taxes would be repaid if the deal goes through. They had expressed concern in 2008 when Empire State Development Corp., the state's economic development agency, sold the SDC site to high-bidder Syracuse Resort, a group of Long Island investors led by Jim Benjamin.
Benjamin declined Monday to comment on the sale or delinquent taxes.
Syracuse Developmental Center served as a home for the mentally disabled for more than a century. The state Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities moved the last of the center's 430 residents into group homes in 1998.
OMRDD maintains an administrative staff of approximately 200 workers at the site. OMRDD has a lease on part of the property through May 2011, said Herm Hill, an OMRDD spokesman.
The school district and the OMRDD offices will co-occupy one building for awhile, Davis said.
The state agency is seeking a new location for its Syracuse administrative staff, Hill said. He could not say whether those jobs will stay in Syracuse. Davis said he hopes to keep OMRDD at the site.
Either way, another 200 workers will be moving onto the campus to staff a call center for Veterans Alliance, a Florida-based organization that works with disabled veterans, Davis said. Veterans Alliance's lease with Health Consortium is already signed, contingent on sale of the property. Messages left Tuesday for representatives of Veterans Alliance were not returned.
Peck and Reid halls, the other buildings the school district plans to lease, are owned by Loon Creek Properties LLC. Its principals are William Gilberti and Josh Heintz, partners in the Gilberti, Stinziano, Heintz & Smith law firm.
The leases on both the SDC site and Peck and Reid halls will be forwarded to the Common Council for approval if the school board okays them, Lowengard said.
Some city councilors are annoyed the district didn't notify them about the lease plans until this week. The district, which has been working on the plans for months, has not provided council with copies of the leases. Councilors are questioning the terms and the district's plans to seek tax breaks.
"I would love to get the million in back taxes paid," said Councilor Pat Hogan, who represents the district that includes the SDC site. "But they supposedly want to have this collaborative relationship, and here we are finding out about this now."
Gamage, the city assessor, said Syracuse can't grant a tax exemption on the properties because the owners are for-profit companies. Any tax break would have to be worked out with the city through legislation, such as a payment-in-lieu-of-taxes deal, Gamage said.
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Black Diamond PTA offers dinner and thanks to community members
The Black Diamond Elementary PTA provided free Thanksgiving dinner for more than 120 people Nov. 22 in the school's gymnasium.
The group also sent another approximately 30 "to go" boxes to Black Diamond police, fire and 911 dispatchers with the remaining food, about 75 meals, going to Union Gospel in Seattle to feed the homeless.
"It was a wonderful community event," Black Diamond PTA Vice President Heather Invie-Notch said. "It was nice to come together and show what a strong, supportive community we are."
It was a community effort, with local Girl Scouts decorating all the pinecone turkeys that were on the tables, serving the pies and helping with the whipped cream. Their parents stayed and helped throughout and stayed after to clean.
A Cub Scout came and helped as well. Debbie Couch, the Black Diamond Elementary music teacher, played piano to entertain guests, as well as a pair of teenagers from Lake Sawyer Christian Church who played guitar and sang.
"All our guests raved about the food, pilgrim hat decorations and mostly about the leaves that were on the trees that the school children wrote what they were thankful for on," Invie-Notch said.
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