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A Bethlehem woman allegedly shoplifted from a city pharmacy, where police say she also tried to pass off an altered prescription for painkillers.
Brianne Bassler, 24, was seen by employees on April 29 slipping cosmetics and other items into her purse at the Walgreens Pharmacy at 2979 Linden Street, police said.
Bassler, of the 1700 block of Falcon Drive, then gave the purse to an unidentified man, who left the store with it, according to court documents.
Bassler was identified because she had dropped off a prescription earlier that day for 15 milligrams of Oxycodone, according to records.
Upon further investigation, police confirmed Bassler changed the prescription, which had been written for only five milligrams, police said.
When later questioned by police, Bassler admitted to the shoplifting and eventually returned the items to the pharmacy, according to records.
She stole $84.60 of items, including deodorant, hair product, eye liner, lip gloss, mousse, skin products and hand sanitizer, police said.
Bassler was charged with criminal attempt to obtain a controlled substance, as well as forgery and retail theft.
She was committed to Northampton County Prison on Saturday in lieu of 10 percent of $25,000 bail, according to court documents.
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While credit card data is kept relatively secure, most of the Information Systems team can get at any records in the production database. The woman who threatened to kill my daughter has access to any of the many personal details you tell your agent, through her position as a programmer for SelectQuote Life. Even though Michelle Tan threatened to harm a little girl, she is apparently beyond reproach.
SelectQuote Insurance Services did not see fit to even ask for my version of events. I gave IT Director Ian Kirwan, of Oakland Hills, CA, some names of who or what might corroborate my story. They were blown off. If SelectQuote had any reason to believe that my accusations were untrue, they could have heard what I had to stay, and challenged my evidence.
|Director Ian Kirwan
Given their callous attitude towards the safety of children, do you really want to buy your life insurance from SelectQuote? You can trust your agent, but someone down in Information Systems might be mining data for targeted threats or off-loading to the highest bidder.
While such data would make for good spam, you can't assume that the threat isn't real just because it involves techies. For example, Los Zetas cartel has effective technical capability. They also kill people quite well.
I'm not doing this just to complain about SelectQuote. I see dangerous behavior being rewarded. Michelle got additional perks right after the incident involving my daughter. She received significantly more time working from home than anyone else in IT or Engineering, and later she would be financially rewarded, as well. Some individuals involved really seem to enjoy harming others, but they are well-compensated for it, too.
Why wouldn't they do the same thing to you and yours? You might feel the risk is small, but it is still a differentiator. Remember, you can get the same policy, at the same price, from another term life broker. Don't risk your child's safety.

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Despite an industry downturn, Esco said it's generating enough cash to meet its needs without selling stock to the public.
"We've made a decision to remain a private company, and that's primarily a result of strong financial performance that we've seen recently," said chief executive Cal Collins.
"That's put us in a position where we're able to internally generate cash from operations and be able to internally fund growth and operations," he said.
Esco's decision to pull its IPO registration coincides with a sharp downturn in the market for mining equipment, which would surely have deflated the value of its stock offering. But the company said the two events were unrelated.
Esco filed to go public two years ago, planning to raise $175 million to fund acquisitions and other expansion opportunities, but the IPO never materialized.
It was a relatively small deal, by Wall Street standards. The fact that Esco's registration sat on the shelf that long might suggest that New York investment bankers weren't excited about buying into an old economy company out in Oregon.
Esco's sales topped $1.1 billion in 2011, the last year the company reported full-year financial results. By staying private, Esco won't have to disclose financial results in the future and Collins would only say that "We saw good, solid growth in 2012."
Since then, though, the market has weakened. Caterpillar, the world's largest maker of mining equipment, said last month that sales of its products fell 9 percent in April.
"Mining equipment demand is very weak," said Eli Lustgarten, who follows the sector for Longbow Research. He said that reflects falling demand for some natural resources.
"Coal is the big driver of the downturn," he said.
Last month, Esco announced plans to reorganize the company into three divisions. Cornilles said the goal is to bring the company closer to its customers, and to assure them that Esco is planning to meet their needs beyond the ups and downs of any given business cycle.
"I don't think anyone would try to deny that markets are soft right now in the mining sector," Cornilles said. "We obviously feel very confident still, in the long-term future."
IPOs are rare in Oregon, which has few large companies -- just two on the Fortune 500. It's been decades since any really large company has emerged in the state, so few young companies have reached the scale where an IPO was a realistic proposition.
A year ago, Erickson Air Crane held a small, $32 million IPO, bringing in less than half the cash it had hoped to generate.
In 2011, Portland network security company Tripwire pulled its own IPO plans after its growth rate slowed. The company instead sold to a private equity firm, which is funding acquisitions to accelerate Tripwire's growth.
In Esco's case, though, the company said its decision to stay private reflects solid financial performance and patient ownership by the family of the company's founder, Charles F. Swigert.
Esco's last regulatory filing from 2011 indicates that board member Henry "Hank" Swigert, grandson of the founder, is the largest single shareholder with more than 16 percent of its stock.
The filing lists more than 150 other shareholders, most of them holding relatively tiny stakes. Esco paid dividends of more than $26 million in 2009 and 2010, and about $6 million in 2011.
"We have a shareholder base that takes a long-term perspective," said Collins, the CEO, "and they're able to enjoy an annual dividend that we pay."
Note: This article has been updated with additional comment on the industry and perspective from Esco.
-- Mike Rogoway; twitter: @rogoway; phone: 503-294-7699


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Posts Tagged 'david beckham'
David Beckham's Passes, Assists and Goals in Manchester United's 1998/99 Treble Winning Season0
August 8, 2013 by Sean Charles
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David Beckham announces retirement0
May 17, 2013 by Sean Charles
Beckham is a player that is often said to be overrated, a product of the hype machine etc. For me, Beckham was one of the most gifted players of his generation and he can lay claim to having arguably the best right foot to ever play the game. He ends his career leaving us with many spectacular moments, but this single pass for Ronaldo illustrates beautifully Beckham's ability to produce the near impossible:
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Sir Alex is the difference in quality…0
April 24, 2013 by Sean Charles
Manchester United cantered to their 20th league title on Monday night, ending the foregone conclusion the title race had become towards the final third of the season. The emphatic gap between United and City stands as a testament to the frightening consistency Ferguson's side displayed this season. This in itself is an ode to the seemingly unending ability Sir Alex has of breeding winning teams time and time again. When you compare the two squads of the Manchester teams, there is no obvious difference in quality between the two. The difference lies only in the managers.
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Nineties women are cosmopolitan, eighties women have mellowed with age, and we all love Beckham.1
April 21, 2012 by Jenni Hutchinson
First of all, I would like to thank the wonderful admins of Kickette for sharing the link to the survey that was used to create this article on their Twitter page, which quadrupled the number of responses.
96 different women (and one male Facebook friend, being silly) answered seven questions about the men and boys they liked when they were teenagers, those they like now, and their favourite footballers. There are many things I wanted to get a handle on by running this survey. I wanted to do it about football because I like football. You could do it with anything. Perhaps a parallel survey could tell us about how those of us who like footballers differ from those who like boy-bands, although, reading the aforementioned Kickette and puzzling over why anyone would drool over Gareth Bale or Joe Hart, I suspect the results would be similar. Without further ado, here's what we found.
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Robert Anae has revamped a formerly hindered offense and turned it into a high-tempo unit. The offense should show much improvement, but it is not possible to have a successful team without good players.
BYU boasts some very talented athletes on the offensive side of the ball this year and could turn their talents into something special. They may not be Heisman candidates or potential top-5 picks, but they will have a big impact on the Cougar team, and here are a few of them.


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My dad gave me this mower that he'd been holding on to, which is just cool. It is human-powered, makes a clean cut, and is much easier to push around than a standard gas-powered push mower. I don't have much need for it at the moment, but I was more than willing to take it.
Breaking ground for the garden
I spent the better part of this morning plowing the garden with my new 16″ rear-tine Huskee tiller. It's a little late in Alabama for the usual planting season to start, but we've had a late winter with wildly fluctuating weather. I'm excited about the months to come and the tasty homegrown food that awaits.
Tavern-style pickled eggs
Homemade tortillas
I tried my hand at making some tortillas tonight. My car battery died, which meant I couldn't drive to town to get any pre-packaged ones. I had already made some bean/rice mix and guacamole on Sunday. So, I just threw them on my first ever homemade tortillas. They were not perfect, but they'll beat store-bought ones any day.
Peanut butter and watermelon rind
Homemade dill pickles
The first fruit of my garden
Birthday breakfast of champions
Deer Burger
One of my soon-to-be neighbors was kind enough to pass along about 6 lbs. of deer burger meat to me. Awesome guy.
Of course, I made some burger patties with it. I added a little cheese, some bacon slices, and a few tomato chunks. Then, I topped it off with some homemade mayo. Yum!


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The cameras thiefs made off with contained thousands of photos and video recordings of his son, Gregory Courtney, who died in a car crash in Allegan County's Trowbridge Township in September of 2011.
Joe Courtney said he had just about given up on having the stolen items returned to him. Then, he received a call from police Tuesday informing him that the video camera and tapes had been recovered, along with his son's military backpack and other personal items.
"I just cried," he said Wednesday. "I didn't think it was ever going to happen. I was so overwhelmed, so excited, so happy."
Courtney said the video camera that was returned included footage of his son's homecoming from his tour of duty in Afghanistan and footage of him on the U.S.S. Boxer assault ship.
According to an Allegan County Sheriff's Office press release, deputy Cory Harris followed leads and was able to track down the property.
Courtney said police told him that criminals often get rid of personal property like photos or video that don't have value to them.
"But all the publicity had them scared," Courtney said, referencing multiple media reports about the thefts. "They usually get rid of that kind of stuff, but they were sitting on everything."
Still missing, though, is the digital camera with some 3,000 photos of Gregory. Investigators have told Joe that they are still interviewing the suspects and might recover some of the other stolen items.
Phone calls to the Allegan County Sheriff's Office weren't immediately returned.
Aaron Mueller is a public safety reporter for the Kalamazoo Gazette. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com or 269-568-3867. Follow him on Twitter.


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Welcome. We do the best we can with what we have. Good luck on getting back in the groove.
A few days late in noticing that there was a new challenge, thus it will begin on 9/15. 3rd year resident ready to be a bit more accountable this month. Did a pretty solid Primal period from Jan to June for my wedding and ended up looking and feeling great, weighed about 177 lbs, not my best, but pretty happy, despite probably drifting towards only 60-70% primal at the end from all the wedding celebrations/honeymoon etc.
Post honeymoon and a new year in residency with 2 ICU rotations set me back....big time. No primal, no home cooked meals, nothing. Lunch and dinner every day was hospital food. Probably could have sacked up and made food daily, but it just wasnt going to happen with my schedule. Now Im 4 weeks from a vacation and just wanting to get back to feeling great again.
Starting: 186lbs
Hip: 37"
Waist: 36"
Bi: 14"
Upper thigh: 26"
Lower thigh: 20"
Calf: 15"
Neck: 16"
BF: coming soon
Pics: coming tomorrow
Follow along.....
Welcome. We do the best we can with what we have. Good luck on getting back in the groove.
Ancestral Health Info
I design websites and blogs for a living. If you would like a blog or website designed by someone who understands Primal, see my web page.
Primal Blueprint Explorer My blog for people who are not into the Grok thing. Since starting the blog, I have moved close to being Archevore instead of Primal. But Mark's Daily Apple is still the best source of information about living an ancestral lifestyle.
Great Day 1, as usual with PB. Generally work in a protein drink in the AM, had some sliced turkey with salsa for lunch, and a piece of grilled chicken with some red sauce for dinner. Full all day, no cravings, love it. Going to try and work in some IF early next week as well. Uploading some "before pics" ASAP.
On a workout note, Ive been nursing a calf strain for about 4 days. I had started up the Insanity workout vids and was doing great for week 1, and tweeked my calf on a Plyo move. Tried to get moving again yesterday only to feel a twinge. Guess my 31 year old body isnt as quick to recover. Did a butt load of pushups, pullups, and situps yesterday instead, and hitting the pool today. Getting old gets old. Time to feel young again with some PB!!
Day 6 in the books and doing pretty well. Probably around 70% primal right now, and working on improving that daily. Breakfast of an omllette with turkey sausage, lunch of a big ass salad and grilled chicken, dinner of steak kabobs and some broccoli. Glass of red with dinner. Havent been on the scale yet but probably havent moved too much. Had some beers this weekend while watching my Bills tear up the Raiders, and had a few drinks Saturday night at a concert. No excuses, but it was the first weekend off with the wife since June, so we wanted to live it up a bit. Back on track today and feeling good.
Good workout this morning. Did a full body workout of lifting at the gym then 10 minutes of interval stationary bike sprints (raining out). Keepin it goin!
It's great to see another person who works outrageous hours succeeding with the Primal Lifestyle!
I'm not working quite as much as you - but my job and my 70+ hour work weeks were definitely something that I used as a crutch for my weight gain for a long time. No more excuses though!
Grok on,
Back on board. Unfortunately not the way I wanted, however. things have been good, but not as primal as I may have liked. I can feel like the first 4-5 entries of Bane's posts, constantly fluctuating until taking some serious control. I cant kid myself and pretend that Ill be on here every single day posting, but things are starting to settle out and with a New year comes a New challenge for myself, and it all starts with attempting to get back to basics this year. I reread marks book, Im shooting for 80-90% primal, lifting heavy things, sprinting a few times a week, getting outdoors, and trying to love me some life!! While I dont really expect anyone to really follow, we'll see how it goes....
My numbers are.....the same as they were in September. Crap. Here we go!!
Getting into it....slowly.
Breakfast was ok...fairly large after a crazy overnight shift. Need to cut back on those. Included eggs, bacon, sausage, (some) potatoes, and a beer. Woke up today and have just had Think thin bar and a coffee....those think thin bars, while not primal, are low on the carbs and when the cupboards are empty, which they usually are, it seems to be an ok thing to fill up on. I need to cut back on them though.
Tonight should be ok food wise, but its inevitable that I end up having some beers....hockey game downtown with the fellas. Ill try and keep it under wraps.
Big lift and sprints tomorrow before another overnight shift for the next 2.
Some goals for the next 30 days:
No facebook- substituting my daily facebook with daily MDA
Lose 5-7 lbs Primally
Read one chapter of leisure reading per day
Read 3 chapters of medical lit per week
Workout 3-4 times per week
Cut back on the booze- probably a big issue in me staying healthy....if I can limit myself to drinking with the crew once a week, that will be awesome
No more breakfasts out after work, a COMPLETE sabatoge on the diet
Lets do this!
Hello all! Things are going well. Just sent in my new Challenge pics to Mark, hopefully he got them in time and he will take them. If not, Ill just load them up here and go from there. The Diet has been easy, as it previously has, as expected. Enjoying the goodness of Primal foods. Even out to eat! Went out tonight, had a great salad, nice steak with broccoli, and a glass of red. Not gonna lie, had 2 bites of a lava cake, but honestly, there were no cravings for it, and after 2 bites I was good. It felt great. I also dont feel all bloated and gross after a night out at dinner, and I got to spend some QT with the wife afterwards instead of getting that carb-y gross feeling and passing out on the couch. Good night all in all
Workouts have been intense and very good. As I said before, Im very much back into lifting heavy things, so much so that I do it 3 times a week; Im loving it. Still working in my treadmill and bike sprints when I can. The weight isnt really peeling off just yet, Im still hovering; but to be honest, I had a pretty big night on the town recently, that may have derailed me for a day. Im back on board though, thats why we shoot for 80%, right?
Things going well over the past week! Ive been doing well with Primal for the past week, and have been about 80/20. I have had a few lapses as Im getting back into things, mainly with just some occasional slips. Ive basically cut out the booze, only down to a few glasses of wine this week at some work socials. Ive been out to eat a few times with these work recruitment socials, and with the exceptions of a few fries at the last place, and a few chips at the first place, Ive been ok. These have ended (thankfully- not for work, because they are a good time, but for my waist), and the next few weeks should be a lot more consistent.
Ive been using myfitness pal to keep track of my carbs primarily- and I have been pretty good at keeping around 100g/day which is pretty good. The weight is not necessarily slipping off as I want (still 189), but again, diet definitely not perfect, and doing LOTS of lifting heavy things. I know that Mark only wants us to hit it 2x/week, and Im doing my best to keeping these things in line. I also add a kettlebell workout in for 2x/week as well, more for stamina/cardio/lifting, and bike sprinting (HIIT) 2x/week. While the weight is not necessarily coming off quickly, my body looks and feels great, and my wife will be the first to say so, which Im loving.
Until next time....
2 weeks since my last post, and things are....good. I have not lost much weight, but my body is transforming. I have become a little to addicted to lifting, im loving getting back into heavy lifting, which I think has transformed me from losing a lot just to shifting my body around, which my wife definitely appreciates so far. Current weight 187, but I FEEL great and and getting STRONG, which I love. until next time...
p.s. Arizona in 5 weeks. Get it done!


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Mayor Doug Findlater travelled to Victoria Monday to promote the goals of the District of West Kelowna with the provincial government.
On April 12, Mayor Findlater, Minister Stewart and Chief Administrative Officer Jason Johnson attended meetings with Hon. Steve Thomson, Minister of Agriculture and Lands, Hon. Bill Bennett, Minister of Community and Rural Development, Hon. Bill Barisoff (Speaker of the House), Hon. Pat Bell, Minister of Forests and Range, and Hon. Shirley Bond, Minister of Transportation.
The District's interests that are being pursued include:
- Potential funding for fuel management to reduce risk in high hazard interface forest areas and a curbside removal program for pine beetle infested trees
- Raise the issue of the Westbank couplet
- Options for turn signals on Highway 97
- Land and license transfers from the Regional District of Central Okanagan to West Kelowna
- Update on Regional District Task Force
- Grant support for planning of Upper Glenrosa water needs
- Updates on Crown Land applications – Houseboat issues
"Our meetings Monday were very beneficial," said Mayor Doug Findlater. "Direct meetings with provincial ministers have either answered my questions or left me with new information or directions to pursue for the District of West Kelowna."
MLA Ben Stewart, Minister of Citizens' Services and Minister Responsible for Multiculturalism and the Public Affairs Bureau, attended all meetings with Mayor Findlater and introduced the Mayor during question period in the gallery.West Kelowna Meets with Provincial Ministers
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They are free and open to the public. Spring is a great time to get out. Wildflowers, birds and other critters abound on most trail sections.
The Onondaga Chapter of the Adirondack Mountain Club's volunteers have designed, constructed by hand and maintain over 100 miles of the Finger Lakes Trail and North Country Trail, including the Onondaga section. The club's workers volunteer thousands of person hours annually making sure the trail stays in good hiking condition.
The FLT/NCT Onondaga section runs south of and roughly parallel to Route 80 near the hamlets of Cuyler, Apulia, Fabius and New Woodstock. Convenient trailheads allow one to hike for only an hour or all day.
Among the best known trailheads are those in Highland County Forest Park. Highland hosts five miles of the Onondaga FLT/NCT trail.
Other trailheads are near Labrador Pond and Tinkers Falls off Route 91, Route 13 in Cuyler and in New Woodstock, Shackham Road, West Keeney Road, Morgan Hill Road, West DeRutyer Lake Road, East DeRutyer Lake Road, Webber Road and Damon Road.
The trail consists of a 50-50 combination of state forest land and private property. To protect the environment and to keep the trails open to the public, please stay on the trail, practice "leave no trace" ethics, keep dogs on a leash, and travel by foot only. Our ability to keep these trails open is only through the generosity of private landowners and DEC's Adopt a Natural Resource Program in state forests.
Hiking during hunting season is not recommended for personal safety reasons. However, unless posted as closed during hunting season, licensed hunters are welcome to hike the trails.
The North Country National Scenic Trail is a premier hiking trail of national significance. We are fortunate to have easy access from the Syracuse area.
This fantastic trail spans 4,600 miles (including a number of temporary connections on roads) from North Dakota to Crown Point, N.Y. in the Adirondacks — and then into Vermont to connect with its sister trail, the Appalachian Trail. It is concurrent with the Finger Lakes Trail from Allegany State Park near the Pennslyvania state line to the Tioughnioga Wildlife management Area near New Woodstock.
From there the trail continues under the maintenance and sponsorship of the Central New York Chapter of the North Country Trail Association north to Cazenovia, then Canastota and is hosted by the Erie Canal tow path to Rome and on north toward the Adirondacks. The Adirondacks section is yet to be constructed.
The Finger Lakes Trail continues east to the Catskills and is nicknamed the Alley Cat Trail. The entire FLT trail system now boasts over 900 miles in NYS.
So take the family and get out on the trail this spring and thank the landowners and maintainers who make the trails possible.
Coffin, of Chittenango, is a trail team leader with the Onondaga chapter of the Adirondack Mountain Club.
If you go
See the Onondaga Chapter of the Adirondack Mountain Club web site for a schedule of locally led trips. Maps and more information are available on the Finger Lakes Trail and the North Country Trail.


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From The Associated Press:
NEW YORK (AP) — A Transportation Security Administration agent stole $5,000 in cash from a passenger's jacket as he was going through security at John F. Kennedy International Airport, authorities said Thursday, the latest in a string of thefts that has embarrassed the agency.
Alexandra Schmid took the cash from a Bangladeshi passenger's jacket as it went along an X-ray conveyor belt Wednesday night in Terminal 4, said Al Della Fave, spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey's police force. Surveillance video showed Schmid taking the money from a jacket pocket, wrapping the money in a plastic glove and taking it to a bathroom, Della Fave said.
The money hasn't been recovered, he said. Police are investigating whether Schmid gave it to another person in the bathroom. The 31-year-old Schmid was arrested on a charge of grand larceny and suspended pending an investigation. Her attorney's name wasn't immediately known.
Schmid, who lived in Brooklyn, had worked for the TSA for 4 1/2 years, TSA spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein said. "We do hold our officers to very high standards, and we have a zero tolerance policy for theft in the workplace," Farbstein said.
Wednesday's arrest came the same day that a federal judge sentenced former TSA screener Ricky German to eight months in prison for trying to steal a laptop from a passenger at the Memphis airport in December 2010. German was convicted of theft by a government employee, depriving a citizen of his rights and making false statements.
The cases are part of a series of recent theft allegations against TSA employees:
• Last month, an agent who worked searching checked luggage at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport was suspended after the owner of a stolen iPad used the tracking feature on the device to locate it at the agent's home. Police found seven other iPads there.
• On Jan. 10, former TSA agent Paul Yashou pleaded guilty to stealing a $15,000 watch from a passenger's belongings at Los Angeles International Airport in May. He is awaiting sentencing.
• Two other former TSA agents at JFK were sentenced on Jan. 10 to six months in jail and five years' probation for stealing $40,000 from a piece of luggage in January 2011. The agents, Coumar Persad and Davon Webb, had pleaded guilty to grand larceny, obstructing governmental administration and official misconduct.
• Also in January, authorities charged an agent at Miami International Airport with swiping items and luggage and smuggling them out of the airport in a hidden pocket of his work jacket. He was arrested after one of the items, an iPad, was spotted for sale on Craigslist. Another TSA employee was arrested in July at nearby Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport after an airline employee reported that the man slipped an iPad into his pants.
• In December, police charged a TSA screener at New York's LaGuardia Airport with lifting a laptop after a Detroit-bound passenger left it behind at the security station.
• Earlier last year, a TSA supervisor and one of his officers pleaded guilty in a scheme that lifted $10,000 to $30,000 from passengers' belongings at Newark Liberty International Airport. A federal judge sentenced the supervisor, Michael Arato, to 2½ years in prison and his subordinate, Al Raimi, to six months of home confinement.
In other news:
» Syracuse police officer cleared in Dec. 15 shooting of Adam Goodman [centrlny.ynn.com]
» State police charge Winthrop man with murder in 2010 disappearance of his friend [Watertown Daily Times]
» Say Yes, Say Maybe; Promises versus progress in education program [CNYcentral.com]
» Nearly 200 drivers ticketed for failing to move over for police [WSYR-TV Channel 9]
» Panetta comment about US dropping its combat role prompts questions, concerns in Afghanistan [The Washington Post]
» Auburn city lawyer refuses to release reports about crash involving Auburn police car [CNYcentral.com]
» Southern Tier sees increase in bobcat population [pressconnects.com]
» West Genesee to consider changes in school district [WSYR-TV Channel 9]
» Iran Atomic Tensions Ease After IAEA Books Return to Tehran [Bloomberg Businessweek]
» Wegmans recalls prepared foods over Listeria fear [WSYR-TV Channel 9]
» Newfound alien planet 'best candidate to support liquid water' [The Christian Science Monitor]


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Top Gear's Speed Week: Chris Harris vs VW Golf GTI Clubsport S
"It's just one of those super-extreme cars that the world needs." Watch the video here
Our latest road tests of this car...
New engines debut in the big 500. Oh, and there's another called the 'Beats' Edition
Retains none of the charm of the 500 – it looks and feels like a bus. Fidgety ride plus noisy tyres and engine lose it points, too
Always wanted a Fiat 500, but couldn't reconcile your space needs with its tiny cabin? Deprive yourself no more… Fiat's answered your prayers.
Can Fiat's 500-badged 'minivan' maintain the charm of the original?
The big-brother to the regular Fiat 500 is roomier and more family-friendly. Nice work, Fiat
The original Fiat 500 was tiny. The reborn retro-look one is a lot larger, and now there's this: the grown-up sibling that's more mini-MPV than city-focused minicar. To put it into context: it's 500mm longer, more than 200mm wider and 120mm taller than a Fiat Panda. This is the Fiat 500 that dwarfs a Honda Jazz, and that's one of the biggest superminis on sale. Huh?
Well, there is a plan. This is the car 500 owners will grow into: a Fiat for young mums now encumbered with marauding off spring. Hey, if Mini can get away with the Countryman, a much larger car still, then why shouldn't Fiat be able to pull this off?
It's very good in town, that's for sure. The steering is calm and easy, perfect for city schlepping. There's even a dead patch around the straight ahead, so you don't have to keep making tiny corrections. This, of course, means it's also a bit woolly and unresponsive during keener driving, and this is where the Fiat 500L falls down.
Not literally: despite being a tall thing, Fiat's kept body roll reasonably well contained, so it doesn't wallow about so much as, er, change direction slowly and steadily. It's derived from a version of the Fiat Punto platform, so feels similar to that. Just a bit less enthusiastic. Pity.
The engines are good. The 1.6-litre diesel is very good but in this class, petrol is just as important: the 1.4 is so-so but the MultiAir is pleasingly fine. Not everyone is charmed by the oddball two-cylinder TwinAir it seems, because Fiat's deleted it from the range. But the bigger 1.4 turbo remains, and it's sprightlier than most.
It's anything but 500-squashed inside, with enough headroom to ensure even the baseball players Fiat showed us sitting in the back would be comfortable. The panoramic roof adds to the effect, as do the glassy side windows, although you'll watch the mpg plummet when it's sunny,because the air con will have to work hard.
Fiat's got the fundamentals right, including decent seats, a big boot and a welter of cubbyholes. But it's also added on some Mini-like personalisation, with 333 options including a sound system engineered by Dr Dre (you can celebrate this with a new bespoke Beats edition if you so wish, although Dre branding doesn't come cheap). Oh, and a built-in coffee machine. We kid you not. Is this THE single best new car option of 2016?
Fiat is up against some tough competition in this sector, including the Ford B-Max, the Hyundai ix20 and Kia Venga, even the Vauxhall Meriva and Citroen C3 Picasso. It's good, and different enough to stand out, but doesn't quite have the talent to beat the best. Even so, the £13k price tag should give it a chance – with the added intrigue of an SUV-look Trekking now, too.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - UAB's three weekend starting pitchers have been dominant heading into this weekend's home series against Middle Tennessee.
The Blazers' Chase Mallard, Johnny Lieske and Alex Luna - all righties - will be charged with getting UAB off to a good start in Conference USA play. The games are at Regions Field tonight at 6:30 p.m., Saturday at 2 p.m. and Sunday at 1 p.m.
Mallard hasn't allowed a run in 21.1 innings this year and leads the conference in strikeouts. He's 3-0. Lieske is 2-0 with an 0.54 ERA and Luna is 2-0 with an 0.56 ERA. UAB is 11-2 overall.
"They work ahead and they're working in the bottom of the zone with movement," UAB head coach Brian Shoop said. "That's the answer, in a nutshell."
Mallard took no-hitters through seven innings in his first two games. Lieske is in his first year at UAB after transferring from junior college. Luna showed flashes as a sophomore last year, including with his 3-hit shutout against Alabama State.
UAB had a 5.23 ERA last year as the Blazers battled injuries. UAB's ERA so far is 2.09. Freshman Thomas Lowery has an 0.79 ERA in 11.1 innings.
"I felt, going into the year, what what was a weakness last year, at least statistically, had the potential to turn into a strength," Shoop said. "We've really only had three bad innings all year."
UAB has a .302 batting average. Infielder Matthew Furuto is hitting .385. Catcher Mitch Williams is batting .355 with a team-best 10 RBIs. Outfielder Chase Davis is hitting .346 with eight RBIs.
"We've got a lot of guys up there giving us competitive at-bats," Shoop said. "That's what you have to do when you'll see good arms like we will this weekend."
Middle Tennessee is 4-7.


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13 Aug 2010 05:12 am
Intimidating Facts
13 Aug 2010 05:19 am
Today's a day of vengeance
I never really liked Staravia. Awful battle cry, goofy face, and he's absolutely everywhere. Staraptor makes for a good salvage, but his former stage really left me with plenty of spite during my D/P playthrough.
But as you guessed from the comic, it's Staravia's ability that made me laugh the first time. It's a bird. A small one. With a comical feather formation residing upon its head, complemented by his emotionless beak and eyes devoid of intelligence. And that's supposed to be intimidating?
Either way, this comic has allowed me to vent my frustration. My mind is at peace.
26 Aug 2010 07:32 pm
And the wierd thing is Arceus, Dialga, Palkia, Groudon, Rayquaza, Giratina, etc, etc. can be intimidated by it.
27 Sep 2010 05:54 pm
Reasoning I guess
No, see, under that extremely doopy look on his face, he's plotting your ultimate demise.
28 May 2011 03:05 am
Well maybe Staravia looks so ridiculous that the opponent is too busy laughing to put serious effort into battle. They just decided not to give a new name to the same effect
30 Jul 2011 12:16 am
Don't underestimate birds.
Birds are freaking SCARY! I'm actually intimidated by them. D:
13 Nov 2011 08:31 am
It also would have been hilarious if Shinx were there with the cute eyes, ROFL :3
13 Nov 2011 08:33 am
@Ohappy: Looking all cute with the cute eyes and stuff, XD
21 Dec 2011 02:33 pm
You know what else looks kind of dumb and not intimidating at all? Ducks. And Geese.
But holy shit, do not get near the things when they are nesting. IF THEY WERE TALL ENOUGH THEY'D AIM FOR YOUR EYES!
05 Feb 2012 05:53 pm
BIRDS run for your life
@PokemonGod777: Ever seen a Hitchcock movie? It's the vacant expression. Surely the sign of a horrible fate awaiting anything to actually arouse it's anger.
24 Feb 2013 04:49 pm
Oh god
Never underestimate a bird, they're the bringers of doom, specially water ones such as ducks, those things aim for the weak spots


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Just six months ago a royal yacht was nothing but a fond memory for the Queen. Now, 15 years after Britannia was decommissioned, there are no fewer than three plans to raise money for a replacement, The Times can reveal.
An appeal is launched today to raise £60 million from the public to buy a yacht for the Queen by the end of the year. That coincides with the launch of another project, to build a flagship for the Commonwealth which will also be available for use by the Queen.
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No possibility to eat or have a drink in the hotel after 8PM. Hotel incl. front gate was closed at 10PM, no staff around. We had to climb the fence to get in. Furthermore our keys to the room lay on the front desk, open to everyone to take. We received neither an explanation nor a discount offer from the hotel's direction, our only "compensation" by initiative of the waitress was cake & ice-cream.
There was no a real restaurant at the hotel. They do not have a normal menu but a choice of two salads and main cources. In addition, the so called "restaurant" on the day we arrived was actually fully booked for a birthday party and we had a chance to eat only outside where there was a lot of flyes and masquitous. Lastly, it was not allowed to pay for the food by credit card.
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It was a little bit noisy at the room because of the highway. It would be great if the hotel management put coffee\tea stations in the rooms!
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Donnie Webb had it on the football blog, but it bears mentioning here, too.
There will be a significant Syracuse University presence at the 10th annual Mountain Goat this Sunday in Syracuse.
Syracuse football coach Greg Robinson and executive senior associate director of athletics Mark Jackson are scheduled to run in the race. Robinson's living up to a promise he made last year. While making an appearance at the 2005 Mountain Goat, Robinson said he'd be back to run it in 2006. They're going to give away a pair of SU football season tickets as well as sideline passes to one game.
But the main reason this is on the basketball blog is that Gerry McNamara is also scheduled to appear. He'll be there from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI – A 66-year-old Rockford man faces life in prison when he is sentenced next week for the savage beating of his wife following a Valentine's Day dinner.
Marshall Brabo was found guilty of attempted murder by a Kent County Circuit Court jury, which heard evidence that convinced them the man had abused 58-year-old Pamela Brabo on Feb. 15.
According to Pamela Brabo, she was estranged from her husband due to his increasingly unnerving behavior, which included verbal abuse. Before Feb. 15, he reportedly had never been physically abusive.
However, she agreed to his repeated requests for a late Valentine's Day dinner in the hopes that their relationship could remain amicable despite their separation.
Pamela Brabo drove from her home in Wyoming to the Rockford home where her husband was residing. She prepared his favorite meal of pork chops and mashed potatoes and they had sex.
Pamela Brabo said she agreed to dinner and sex in order to "play nice."
Suddenly, in a seemingly unprovoked attack, Marshall Brabo grabbed a crowbar and began striking his wife.
She said he choked her and told her he was going to kill her.
"He said, 'It doesn't matter, you're going to die tonight,'" Pamela Brabo testified in Kent County Circuit Court Thursday, Nov. 14, as part of her civil case against her husband.
Related: 'We are going to die tonight,' Rockford area man says before hitting wife with crowbar, records show
The criminal case was argued last week before Judge Dennis Leiber.
Brabo told the jury she pleaded for her life and begged her husband to consider the impact his actions would have on their children and grandchildren.
Brabo said she held her breath, faking death until her husband left her alone.
Some two hours later, she managed to crawl out a door after Marshall Brabo allegedly took medication in an apparent suicide attempt.
She managed to reach a nearby McDonald's restaurant from which 911 was called.
Pamela Brabo was treated at Spectrum Health Butterworth Hospital and released but the injuries, both physical and psychological, continue to plague her.
She has since filed for divorce and engaged a civil suit against her husband to recover medical costs resulting from the assault.
The non-criminal cases will have to continue for Marshall Brabo from a prison cell as he is set to be sentenced on Dec. 19 by Leiber.
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I am a white 44-year-old female who was raised Catholic. Through the years I've studied many different religions, cultures and their histories.
On a daily basis, through the years, I've experienced how other races treat one another in public and within their own groups. I guess you could call me a people watcher.
In the United States, we all seem to focus on not hurting each others' feelings, yet it happens all day long.
Concerning the letter, "Kid Rock shouldn't fly Confederate flag at Saginaw concert," I don't see anything wrong with it. He's just a redneck wannabe. It doesn't mean he's a member of the KKK. Is he?
Looking back into my heritage, I've discovered rednecks, hillbillies, Chippewa Indian, English and possibly Jewish ancestors. Most of us are a mixed breed, aren't we?
My point is I don't get offended much about anything that comes my way, because our country is filled with many different people, races, religions, cultures and especially opinions.
Respecting others is one thing, but crying about someone pushing buttons or using code words? Ridiculous! Words are words.
As a human race, I think we need to get on with it and look around. People are people. No one race or religion is better than the other. We all have differences, and we all have histories and futures.
Those who say they are offended by this or that; or what he said, she said — boo hoo! What are you? Five years old? Grow up! Get mature and realize that being offended all the time is just saying "feel sorry for me and mine." Well, we all have feelings. Being sensitive only feeds a fire. Let others be who they are. It may seem ignorant, or supposedly offensive, but that's OK. Everyone should have the right to express themselves.
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New York -- General Motors stock began trading on Wall Street again Thursday, signaling the rebirth of an American corporate icon that collapsed into bankruptcy and was rescued with a $50 billion infusion from taxpayers.
The stock rose sharply in its first minutes of buying and selling, going for nearly $36 per share — almost $3 more than the price GM set for the initial public offering. The stock pulled back slightly by early afternoon and closed at $34.19. It had traded for less than a dollar when the old company filed for bankruptcy last year.
On the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, a crowd eight deep jostled around the company's trading post, adorned with its familiar blue-square logo with an underlined "GM." CEO Dan Akerson rang the opening bell as raucous cheers went up and the sound of a Chevrolet Camaro's revving engine echoed through the room.
The government hopes that the stock offering will be the first step toward ultimately breaking even on the bailout. For that to happen, it needs to sell its remaining GM holdings for an average of roughly $50 a share over the next several years.
President Barack Obama said GM's return to trading shows the "tough decisions that we made" during the financial crisis were paying off. He said Americans are positioned to recover the money his administration put into GM.
Ron Bloom, Obama's senior adviser for the auto industry, refused to predict whether taxpayers would get all $50 billion money back. "We're obviously eager to get the rest of it back as much as we can," he said Thursday.
The GM IPO could wind up as the largest in history. Earlier this week, GM raised the high end of its initial price range from $29 to $33 and increased the number of shares it was offering from 365 million to 478 million common shares because investor demand was so high. Counting preferred stock issued by the company, the deal's value could top $23 billion.
At the market's close, GM shares had changed hands more than 456 million times, almost matching the number of shares sold in the IPO.
Such volume is not unusual following a high-profile offering. It's a sign that big institutional investors such as mutual and hedge funds are taking profits and smaller investors who were shut out of the IPO are now buying, said David Whiston, an auto equity analyst with Morningstar Inc. "Often the way the world is, the Wall Street institutions get in at the lower price and the Main Street investor gets in at the higher price," he said.
The increased selling price, though, means the market is judging the GM rescue as a success, Bloom said. "Almost $20 billion in private capital voted that they wanted to be part of General Motors. So we do think this is a good day," he said.
In the initial offering, the government reduced its ownership stake from 61 percent to about 36 percent. The federal treasury sold 358 million shares of the resurrected GM — which is smaller, profitable and cleansed of most of its debt. If bankers exercise options to buy and resell more shares, the government will wind up selling more than 400 million shares, reducing the stake to 33 percent of GM.
"There's a lot of work to do, but today is the beginning of the new company," said Mark Reuss, GM's North American president.
The reduced government stake should help repair the company's image, which had been tarnished by accepting the bailout money, Akerson told reporters. "They have taken their ownership down by roughly half," he said. "I would say that the average taxpayer in the United States would look at this particular transaction as very positive."
The stock offering is the latest in a series of head-spinning developments over the past two years for the American corporate icon. In September 2008, to mark its 100th birthday, GM celebrated in the grand three-story atrium on the ground floor of its Detroit headquarters.
Two months later, then-CEO Rick Wagoner found himself in front of members of Congress, begging for money to keep GM alive. Four months after that, he was ousted by Obama.
By June 2009, GM had filed for bankruptcy. It emerged with 92 percent of its debt erased, but the company was mostly owned by the government and saddled with a damaging nickname: "Government Motors." The value of its old stock was wiped out, along with $27 billion in bond value.
Now GM is a publicly traded company again with the familiar stock symbol "GM." GM set aside 5 percent of its new stock for employees, retirees and car dealers to buy at the offering price. The company has not revealed how many people took the offer.
Early Thursday, GM's main joint venture partner in China, SAIC Motor Corp., said it has bought a nearly 1 percent stake in GM, buying shares being offered in the IPO at a cost of nearly $500 million. SAIC, based in Shanghai and run by the state, said the purchase is meant to enhance cooperation with GM in China, the world's biggest auto market.
GM Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell said there was high interest in the IPO from sovereign wealth funds, which are pools of money from reserves of foreign governments. In the end, 90 percent or more of the shares were sold in North America, he said.
About $4 billion worth of shares went to smaller retail investors, the most of any IPO in history, Liddell said. But many retail investors are high net worth clients of Wall Street brokerage houses.
Senior Obama administration officials said Wednesday that the Treasury Department sought a balance between getting a return for taxpayers and exiting government ownership as soon as practical. The government has agreed that it will not sell shares outside the IPO for six months after the sale.
In the stock offering, the government made $11.8 billion by selling 358 million shares at $33 apiece. It stands to make $13.6 billion if bankers exercise options for 54 million more. The government would still have about 500 million shares, a one-third stake. It would have to sell those shares over the next two to three years at about $53 a share for taxpayers to come out even.
The government's strategy in retaining shares is to wait for GM's finances to improve and push the stock price up the next couple of years. GM has already paid or agreed to repay the government $9.5 billion. That comes from cash and preferred stock held by the government.
Reuss said he knows there's pressure to keep performing well and boost the stock price. "I can't control share prices," he said. "I'll just go right back to designing and building and selling the world's best vehicles. That's what we can control."
The GM debut comes when auto stocks are performing well generally. The stock of GM's crosstown rival, Ford, has risen steadily this year, from about $10 in January to about $16.50 as the GM IPO approached. The stock traded for a dollar in November 2008. Ford never took bailout money.
As for GM, whether bankruptcy fixed the company remains a question, but it is far healthier in its new form. The company closed 14 of its 47 plants, shuttered or sold its Hummer, Saturn, Saab and Pontiac brands, and slashed its debt 92 percent to about $8 billion.
Union retiree health care costs are now the United Auto Workers' responsibility, and a controversial jobs program that paid idled workers almost a full salary has been scaled back dramatically. GM employs 209,000 people worldwide today, down from 324,000 in 2004. Before bankruptcy, GM lost about $4,000 per car. Now it makes about $2,000 each.


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Whenever the Trenton politicians start yapping about property-tax reform, the subject soon turns to municipal consolidation. Surely we could save money if we could merge some of the 566 municipalities in New Jersey, they say.
Often mentioned are two towns in Morris County -- Morristown and Morris Township. The township surrounds the town like a doughnut surrounds a hole. Wouldn't it be great if the two were one?
No, says Assemblyman Mike Carroll, a Republican who lives in the township and represents both towns. The township is run more efficiently, he argues. If the two were merged, taxes would go up in the township and down in the town. For that reason, township residents would never agree to the merger unless the state made up the difference.
"If we're going to do it, the state's going to have to come up with the scratch," the Republican said yesterday at a hearing in Trenton on a municipal consolidation bill. "And at this point I don't see us having the money to do it."
That may be why the bill in question mandates the merger of every doughnut-and-hole combination in the state, a total of 60 towns. It was sponsored by Reid Gusciora, a Democrat from Princeton who's also sponsoring a similar bill mandating mergers on the two stretches of beach in Ocean County.
That bill wasn't up for discussion yesterday, but Carroll has an interest there as well. He has a summer home in Lavallette. Lavallette would be merged under the bill into a new "Seaside Township" that would run from Mantoloking all the way down to Seaside Park.
Luis Taveras lives just a bit down the beach from Carroll's summer place. And Taveras is one guy who would really, really, really like to see the state force his community to merge with its neighbors.
That's because Taveras is a resident of Ortley Beach, which is sandwiched between Lavallette and Seaside Heights but is part of Toms River Township. Most of Toms River is on the mainland on the other side of Barnegat Bay. Thanks to a recent revaluation in the township, property taxes in Ortley Beach have skyrocketed.
"I was talking to a neighbor the other day and his property taxes are going up from $4,000 a year to more than $12,000 a year," said Taveras, who is president of a taxpayers' group in Ortley.
The taxes rose because houses along the ocean have risen in value much more than houses in the mainland part of Toms River. That means Ortley homeowners pay a premium for services that come from far away. They even have to bus their school kids across the bridge while Lavallette Elementary School is within walking distance.
As we spoke on the phone, Taveras started to think out loud about how great it would be to combine services with the adjacent towns.
"Imagine if when they were raking the beach, they'd just rake the entire beach instead of having three different organizations rake three beaches," he said. "And now the street sweeper comes down from Lavallette and stops at the town line. He could just keep going and do our streets."
Yes, he could. And when it comes to Long Beach Island to the south, the bill would turn all six towns on the strip into one big township. I doubt if that would save much, since those towns already share schools. But if the concept is to eliminate arbitrary boundaries between small towns, then it should apply equally to the Ortley-Lavallette area.
It doesn't. The Gusciora bill leaves out Ortley Beach, Chadwick Beach and the other parts of the strip that belong to Toms River. It also leaves out the stretches that belong to two other mainland townships, Brick and Berkeley. It includes only the four small towns on the strip -- none of whose residents has ever uttered any desire to merge with their neighbors.
In other words, the bill leaves out just about everyone who would like to be included in it. Even by Trenton standards, that seems a bit nutty.
After that hearing yesterday I asked Gusciora why he left out the very people who most desire a merger. "My bill is a work in progress," he replied. "I've actually heard from constituents in Ortley. They're e-mailing me. The bill can certainly be expanded."
But will it be? I have my doubts. That might be a win-win situation for the people on the oceanfront. Taxes could be cut by the millions.
But those millions would be lost to those towns on the mainland. And those towns have more votes, and more clout in Trenton.
So much for that merger plan. It will never happen. We could indeed save a lot of money if the Legislature would let homeowners secede from high-tax towns and join low-tax towns. But for some strange reason, all of the consolidation plans I've ever seen are designed to do the exact opposite.


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Documents recently released by the Christie administration show the state's distribution of Hurricane Sandy disaster aid has been disorganized and may have unfairly excluded certain groups, housing advocates said today.
State officials called those claims inaccurate and misleading.
The Fair Share Housing Center sued the administration in September for failing to release information through an open public records request about housing recovery programs supported by federal grants. The state began releasing thousands of documents to the center more than a week ago in response to that litigation, according to the center's staff attorney, Adam Gordon.
Gordon said his group is still sifting through the massive mound of paperwork but he said the documents show management of the recovery programs has been "totally chaotic and it really seems like they were making up the rules as they were going along."
There are two major housing initiatives funded by the roughly $1.83 billion in Community Development Block Grants the state has received so far from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development: the Housing Resettlement grant and the Reconstruction, Rehabilitation, Elevation and Mitigation, or RREM, program.
The resettlement grant offers up to $10,000 for homeowners who vow to stay for at least three years in the county where they lived when the storm hit on Oct. 29, 2012. The RREM program provides residents with up to $150,000 to fix their Sandy-damaged properties.
The Fair Share Housing Center claims the documents show the policies for both of those grant programs changed several times without public notice. The center also said the state refused to award resettlement grants to low- and moderate-income families and African-Americans and Latinos who applied to the programs were disproportionately rejected, among other charges.
Richard Constable, the commissioner of the state Department of Community Affairs, the agency overseeing the housing recovery efforts, contested those claims in a lengthy statement.
He said the application selection process and eligibility guidelines for the recovery programs have not changed since the initiatives launch at the end of May.
He said that every low- and moderate-income family that applied for a resettlement grant and met the program's requirements has been approved. He also noted that the state has asked the federal government to shift an additional $35 million into the resettlement grant program. If that proposal is approved, Constable said "literally every eligible family who applied to the resettlement program before the August 1 application deadline will get a $10,000 grant award."
Constable also said that the applicants to both of the major housing programs were selected at random through an automated process and then homeowners with the most damage and financial need in the most impacted areas were prioritized. "Race and ethnicity absolutely did not factor in to the application processing." he said.
The Fair Share Housing Center today posted on their website training materials given to call center employees handling questions and concerns about Sandy aid applications the the center received in response to its litigation. Gordon, who faulted the Christie administration for a lack of transparency about the recovery efforts, said the center will continue to post documents as it sorts through them. He said the center plans to make another round of documents available to the public early next week.
• State says 34 percent of federal Sandy aid for housing assistance has been distributed
• Opinion: Christie administration must show Sandy homeowners that rebuilding aid is fair
• Housing advocates sue Christie administration to get copies of Sandy contract


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The New York Knicks held a workout yesterday to get another look at Marshon Brooks (Providence), Josh Selby (Kansas), Darius Morris (Michigan), Jeremy Tyler (Tokyo Apache basketball team) and Nikola Vucevic (USC), ESPN New York is reporting.
The secret practice also featured Mississippi State's Ravern Johnson, a senior who converted more than 40 percent of his 3-point attempts the last two seasons.
The Knicks tested several potential second-round draft picks last week and plan to bring in center Bismarck Biyambo to see him in action, ESPN reported.


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The Oklahoma City (Okla.) Douglass scorer made the decision at his school to pick the Cowboys over strong interest from Baylor. The decision was made at his school.
Oklahoma State recruited Clark the hardest of any of the schools on his list, and that eventually led to the decision to stay close to home and select the school.
This gives Oklahoma State one of the highest scoring duos in the 2013 class. Clark, who is considered maybe the best scorer from the point guard position, will be joined by fellow four-star Detrick Mostella who committed to the school during the early signing period.
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Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for 9/11 Truth
"The Important Thing is, Not to Stop Questioning" –
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Dr. James K. Powell II, a colleague of Kevin Barrett's in the Languages and Cultures of Asia and Religious Studies departments at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has bravely offered a ringing endorsement of the 9/11 truth movement and its contention that the World Trade Center was destroyed by controlled demolitions.
Until now, Barrett has been almost the lone public voice of 9/11 skepticism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. While U.W. Folklore professor Jim Leary has admitted to the press that he has doubts about the veracity of the 9/11 Commission Report, none of Barrett's other colleagues has been willing to publicly voice their skepticism about the official conspiracy theory that 19 Arab hijackers with box cutters brought down three World Trade Center skyscrapers. (Nor have any of the more than 2,000 professors at U.W.-Madison been willing to accept Barrett's challenge and defend the 9/11 Commission Report in a public debate.)
"Dr. Powell is not the first U.W. colleague of mine who has revealed to me that he or she shares my interpretation of 9/11," Barrett said. "But he is apparently the bravest."
Dr. Powell's endorsement of the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for 9/11 Truth (http://mujca.com) is part of a move to broaden the Alliance beyond the monotheistic Abrahamic faiths. MUJCA is dedicated to building bridges between the faiths and defusing the crusade-jihad that has torn the great Abrahamic traditions since 9/11. It welcomes support from those of all faith traditions and worldviews who oppose religious hatred and would like to see the monotheists stop killing each other, whatever their interpretation of the facts and meaning of 9/11.
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Dr. James K. Powell II, Visiting Asst. Professor from MATC, Buddhist Studies, UW - Madison, Dept. of the Languages and Cultures of Asia, writes:
The idea of a /pretextus/ - a pretext or reason to go to war, is far older than the Romans who used it self-consciously. Without a free press, a proclamation could be read aloud to the public to inspire their emotions to offer their lives in order to expand the boundaries of capitalism and empire. I have heard Kevin Barrett enumerate the many "pretexts" offered as frauds to motivate "the masses" (you and me) to greed, hatred, fear and murder.
I have now seen two 911 documentaries thanks to the thoughtful presentations by Dr. Barrett. In the first we found the connections to republican contributors as owners of the very flight school at which the 911 hijackers allegedly studied. I was half but not entirely convinced. Always more than suspicious anyway, my thoughts were, but how does one prove it? Where is the clear evidence?
It is in this regard that having seen some 12 times the collapse of Building 7 throughout these videos, it has dawned upon me what a dupe I have been. Everyone has been. The DVD captures news anchors and experts at the time commenting at how like a demolition job the destruction seemed. In the videos we see an official deciding whether to "pull it" meaning Building 7. From whatever source, I urge skeptics to watch building 7 just make a free fall. Compare the destruction of these buildings with that of the Madrid Hotel that raged with fires but still did not fall.
It is up to citizens to investigate the smoke that points to the fire. As Franklin indicated, those who would trade freedom for security deserve neither.
This is not a Muslim - Christian issue only. Writing as a Buddhist who is also a Buddhist scholar, the implications of proving these facts to the public are tremendous, and hold sway for everyone in the world.
The last superpower has spent itself, and the tremendous fraud will have /karmic/ consequences, truth will out.
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Safflower offers another alternative crop possibility. "Safflower has a long growing season, 130 to 180 days and is well-suited for dry conditions," Duncan said.
"But we have few herbicide options and some disease and insect pest issues."
He said mean yields in research and extension trials have been around 1,000 pounds per acre with a maximum of 1,750 pounds.
Flax, another oilseed, was grown in Texas back in the late 40s. "We currently have no production," Duncan said. "It's similar to canola but we have limited weed control options and a limited number of varieties." A weed-free seedbed is critical for stand establishment. "It also should be established before freezing temperatures occur."
Average production has been near 1700 pounds per acre in College Station trials with a maximum of 2421 pounds per acre and 39.8 percent oil content.
"The market is not as well-developed (as canola)," Duncan said.
Camelina trials have not produced good yields, only about 400 pounds per acre. Advantages include drought resistance, frost tolerance, a short growing season and minimal insect and disease pressure.
"Unfortunately, the yield is just not there," Duncan said.
He recommended that growers looking for alternative crops evaluate yield potential, adaptability and market access before committing to acreage.


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ROCHESTER, MI -- A strong day from junior Madison Umberger and sophomore Natalie Criswell propelled the Portage Central Mustangs to a fourth place finish at the MHSAA Division 2 girls swimming and diving finals at Oakland University Saturday.
"They had a great day today. Yesterday we had some ups and downs, but today they just responded and just had great swims today," said head coach Jim Schafer. "I'm very proud of them."
Umberger turned in a second place finish in the 200-yard IM to go along with a third place finish in the 100-yard backstroke. Criswell took second in the 500-yard freestyle for Central.
"Every practice, we put all of our effort into it and it paid off in the end," said Umberger.
The Mustangs got important points from the 200-yard freestyle relay team that took fourth place. Madison Carlson chipped in with a fourth place finish in the 100-yard butterfly and Emma Weber contributed with a sixth place finish in the 100-yard freestyle.
Criswell was very happy with how positive her team was all day long, even though the team didn't win any individual events.
"Our effort today, we all gave 110 percent and did what we could," Criswell said. "We're lucky to be part of a team that is so happy for us and I think that's what is so great about it.
"They are just so supportive of us that I don't think we could have placed this well without them.
Schafer says his team always gets excited when individuals have success and in turnt hat motivates the entire team during meets.
"Swims like that, they fire us up. For us, we get really excited if a kid swims well," Schafer said.
"The energy of the team is what makes us go fast," Umberger said. "It pumps you up, it makes you want to just get in there and tear it up."
Portage Northern finished in 25th place with 16 points. Colleen Orwin took sixth place in the 100 butterfly with a time of 58.54.


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WASHINGTON TWP. -- A youth minister at a Washington Township church was charged Friday with having a two-year sexual relationship with a teenage girl.
Paul D. Glover, 33, of Georgetown Road, Glassboro, has been the youth minister at the Church of Christ, 115 East Holly Avenue, since 2000, authorities said.
He surrendered to investigators at the Gloucester County Prosecutor's Office and was charged with first-degree aggravated sexual assault, two counts of second-degree sexual assault and one count of third-degree endangering the welfare of a child, said authorities.
Glover allegedly started the sexual relationship two years ago when she was 15. The relationship ended in recent weeks, authorities said.
Encounters between Glover and the girl took place in several municipalities in Gloucester County, including Glover's home, said authorities.
The more serious first-degree charge reflects the fact that Glover had a supervisory role over the girl as the leader of a church group in which she participated, authorities said.
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AUBURN, Alabama – MVP awards are nothing new for Madison Academy's Johnson family. Sophomore running back Kerryon was selected this year's Class 3A MVP after his two interceptions – one for a 68-yard touchdown – and two scoring runs.
Older brother Kerron earned MVP awards twice when the Mustangs captured basketball championships in 2007 and 2008. Kerron was selected Mr. Basketball in 2009.
Sister Nyla was selected MVP after the Mustangs won the girls basketball title in 2011.
Super 6 records for Class 3A title game
Madison Academy's Chandler Trach booted a 43-yard field goal for the first points of the Class 3A championship, setting a new Super 6 record. Trach's kick broke the old record of 41 yards by Clay County's Win Knight against Cordova in 2007.
MVP Kerryon Johnson tied the class record for interceptions with two, including a 68-yard touchdown return, and the Mustangs' three total interceptions also tied the class record.
Still only two father-son champions
With the loss, Fayette County's Lance Tucker failed to become part of the third duo of father-son coaches to win football state championships. Waldon Tucker, who serves as son Lance's offensive coordinator, guided the Tigers to the 1996 Class 4A title and Gordo to the 1980 Class 2A crown.
Don and Allen Creasy became the first father-son duo to win titles when Don coached Colbert County to a co-championship with Jackson following a scoreless game in 1979 and won the title in 1985. Son Allen guided Athens to the 2006 Class 5A championship.
Jack Hankins Sr. and Jack Jr. became the second title-winning duo when Jack Jr. led Class 4A Thomasville to the title in 2010. Jack Sr. guided Millport to titles in 1983 and 1984.
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The Tigers band performed a version of "Can't take my eyes off of you" that included marching to the sidelines and singing a verse of the 1960s Frankie Valli hit while the majorettes swayed on the field.


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Summer reading program and more at Nevada County Library
July 17, 2013
This summer the library is hosting a range of free activities including programs, crafts, and storytimes that encourage and support a love of reading. Participants also can win prizes for reaching their reading goals. The 2013 Summer Reading Program is absolutely free and is open to young people of all ages.
New this year is the Teen Summer Reading Program. For every 5 books or 10 hours of reading done, teens can enter into a drawing for a chance to win a Kindle Fire HD. The Nevada County Libraries will continue their collaboration with the Nevada County Fair. Children are encouraged to decorate paper peanuts that will be displayed in the library branches during the summer and then incorporated into a display in the children¹s pavilion at the fair. The Nevada County Fair is also providing bookmarks and a voucher for two free carnival rides for each child who signs up for the summer reading program.
Sign up for the summer reading program at the Madelyn Helling Library, Grass Valley Library, Penn Valley Station, and Bear River Station. Stop in anytime during the summer for a sign-up packet.
Other highlights include:
July 11, Madelyn Helling Library: Magician "Uncle Al" Skinner brings high energy, fast paced, laugh-out-loud fun for the whole family.
July 18, Grass Valley Library: Magic, ventriloquism, and puppets with Tony Borders. July 25, Madelyn Helling Library: Wild Things will bring their animals from around the world.
Stuffed Animal Sleepover and Midnight Snack: What happens in a library after it closes at night? The stuffed animals have a sleepover!
Bring your stuffed animal to the Madelyn Helling Library on July 11 and the Grass Valley Library on July 18 and let them stay overnight. Check-ins accepted all day and animals are returned the following day with a souvenir of their stay.
Preschool Storytimes: Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m. through July 30, Madelyn Helling Library. Regularly-scheduled preschool storytimes will follow the summer's theme, "Reading is So Delicious" with a different focus each week.
Celebration parties: 11 a.m. on Wednesday, July 31 in Grass Valley Library and 2 p.m. in Madelyn Helling Library. Izzi Tooinsky will entertain with storytelling, juggling and comedy. Refreshments will be served and children will be able to pick up their prizes for participation.
The summer reading programming is sponsored by Friends of the Nevada County Libraries. For details, visit http://www.mynevadacounty.com/nc/library, or call the Madelyn Helling Library children's room at 530-265-1538 or the Grass Valley Library children's room at 530-477-5790.


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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- Talladega is getting another auto supplier that will one day employ nearly 200 people, according to the Daily Home.
The newspaper said the City Council voted unanimously Monday evening to approve tax abatements for M-Tek, which will make parts for the Honda plant in Lincoln.
The plant is expected to be fully operational by the end of the year. Read the story.
>>>According to the Tuscaloosa News, the Warner Foundation is suing the Westervelt Co. over ownership of items including artworks. The foundation is tied to Jack Warner, the founder and former chairman and CEO of Gulf States Paper, which now operates as Westervelt. Read the story.
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Police are searching for the gunman who shot a 56-year-old jitney driver in Oakland in Allegheny County on Thursday night.
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WEST WINDSOR — Three people were hurt in a chain-reaction crash yesterday that began when one vehicle was rear-ended in an intersection, police said.
Susan Abbey, a 58-year-old township resident, was driving east on Route 571 approaching the intersection with South Mill Road just before 3 p.m. Her car was rear-ended by an SUV driven by 77-year-old Monroe resident Joel Somer just before the intersection, police said.
"They have the green light, so basically the crash pushes them to continue into the intersection," Sgt. Tom Tarr said last night.
In the intersection, Abbey's car veered toward South Mill Road and struck two cars stopped for a red light. Allentown resident Carolyn Terry, 82, had her car pushed into the car behind it, which was occupied by 18-year-old township resident Payal Marathe, Tarr said.
Somer and Terry were taken to Capital Health Regional Medical Center with unknown injuries, and Abbey went to the University Medical Center at Princeton and was released later in the day, police said. Both Somer and Terry were conscious after the crash, but because of their ages, police sent them to the hospital and called the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office as a precaution.
Police closed one lane of Route 571 and all of South Mill Road near the intersection for about 90 minutes. The accident remained under investigation last night, Tarr said.


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While North Warren was on its way to a 48-0 victory over Pingry and registering an unprecedented 4-0 start for the school from Blairstown, the team nearly wiped out its cheerleading squad.
The North Warren cheerleaders do push-ups after each of its team's scores. The amount of push-ups must equal the score on the scoreboard after each touchdown or field goal. So, when North Warren scored its last touchdown of the first half on Friday, the girls had to do 41 push-ups.
That brought the cheerleaders' total push-ups for the night to 145. The North Warren crowd enthusiastically counted out all of the push-ups. North Warren scored once more in the second half, but, by then, the NJSIAA push-up mercy rule had been invoked and the Patriots cheerleaders were spared 48 more push-ups.
Lenape Valley coach Don Smolyn had some words of wisdom and some intelligent directions for his players in the post-game discussion after the Stanhope school nipped Wallkill Valley, 22-21, on Saturday.
"This games is over. Forget about it. It's in the past," said Smolyn. "We're thinking about Chatham now. Now go enjoy the rest of your weekend. You deserve it. You've worked hard. And make sure you kiss your mothers."
So, you Lenape Valley moms who received what seemed like unprovoked kisses from your sons on Saturday afternoon, maybe you should give old coach Smolyn a smooch for his gentle reminder to your son. And, you sons who didn't follow the coach's instructions may consider doubling up after the Chatham game.
Hunterdon Central has had a rash of injuries that has left the team scrambling much of the season for viable parts. The latest casualty is defensive tackle Gary Smith, who suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament in the team's 23-7 victory over Hillsborough.
The good news is the team is getting some of the walking wounded back. Defensive lineman Chris Reed, tailback Brandon Brocklehurst and placekicker/punter/wideout Matt Perkins are expected to be closer to 100 percent than they've been in weeks for the team's home game against arch rival North Hunterdon.
Belvidere tailback Steven Mottola continues to rock and roll his way to a very big season. Mottola has rushed for 890 yards and nine touchdowns already as his team is off to a 4-0 start. Though its opponent this week, Voorhees, is just 1-3, the Vikings have played much better defensively of late. The Group 3 school represents a much bigger test for Group 1 Belvidere than it appears on paper.
Bob Stem became Phillipsburg's all-time victories leader, last Friday, when his team defeated Ridge 30-7. Stem passed the school's first coach, Mike Maloney, when he won his 107th career game at the school. Stem, in the sixth year of his second term at Phillipsburg, sits at 107-41-4 in his Phillipsburg career. He was 56-30-4 during his first stint with the school (1973-1981) and is 51-11 since his return in 2005.
Maloney, for which Phillipsburg's football stadium is named, was 106-77-17 in a career that spanned 1905-'31.
Stem's coaching success story is one of the longest running in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He posted a 173-53-1 record and won two state titles while the mentor at Bethlehem Catholic in Pennsylvania in the 1980s and '90s. He's won four sectional crowns at Phillipsburg (1977, '05, '08 and '09).
Stem's career record sits at a staggering 280-94-5.
Phillipsburg (4-0) is host to Montgomery (0-4) on Friday. The Stateliners, ranked No. 8 in The Star-Ledger Top 20, follow that with a bye next week before traveling to Hunterdon Central, a team it has lost to three straight times. You can bet the Stateliners are already thinking about the Red Devils.
Montgomery and the rest of the Mid-State 29 Conference must contend with four Phillipsburg players capable of carrying a team in any given week. Quarterback Justin Scuorzo, wideout Matt Deery, fullback Gerald VanDeCruz and tailback Dana Lee are a defensive coordinator's nightmare individually. The real problem is you get the four of them on the field together, all the time. Thanks for playing the Feud.
High Point (3-1) erupted offensively on Saturday after scoring a total of 26 points in its first three games, two of them wins. Quarterback Kevin Fasano steered High Point to a 47-17 victory over Morris Hills.
As solid as the High Point defense has been, it will need its offense to continue to play well if it hopes to set itself up for a favorable NJSIAA playoff seed in North Jersey, Section 1, Group 3. This Saturday's game at Sparta (2-2), a perennial Sussex County nemesis, represents another opportunity for High Point to send a message to the rest of the NJAC's American Division.
Since a 31-0 opening day loss to perennial powerhouse Mountain Lakes, Hopatcong has shown it can put up some points, too.
Quarterback Tom Vicedomini directs an offense that has piled up 103 points in the team's last three games, all victories for Hopatcong. Next up is a home game Friday night against a tough Pequannock squad.
POPE JOHN's ALL MIGHTY
The Lions are 4-0 and have outscored their opponents 152-27 and Mount Olive is visiting on Saturday. It's starting to look like there simply isn't anyone on the Pope John schedule that will strike fear in the Sparta school.
After Mount Olive, which has played very well, road games at Sparta and Jefferson follow. Then it finishes the regular season with a home game against Montville and it travels to Delbarton on Nov. 6. Even mighty Delbarton is an ordinary 2-2.
So figure a continuation of the big yardage totals for Pope John backs Kyle McGrath and Matt Pepe as Pope John prepares to gear up for what will be a big step-up in talent come the post-season in the rugged Non-Public, Group 3 playoffs.
The Wallkill Valley program has come a long way and coach Daryl Jones and his staff should be commended for the improvements to the program.
Wallkill Valley lost a tough, 22-21, decision to Lenape Valley on Saturday but not without answering every Lenape Valley punch with a counter punch. It was a thoroughly enjoyable game to watch but, of course, not the desired result from a Wallkill Valley perspective.
The backfield combination of Kevin Cook and Kaje Cowans was quite a handful for Lenape Valley and the line blocking on both sides of the ball by Wallkill Valley was impressive as well.
Whether the team can continue to improve and set itself up for a playoff berth in Section 1, Group 2 is yet to be determined, but having watched the Rangers for four quarters, I'm in their camp as one who expects big things from the program this season.


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