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BAYSIDE — Two women whose purses were stolen Friday got some satisfaction after police arrested two suspects, authorities said.
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OAKLAND GARDENS — A homeowner on the 53rd Avenue block of 206th Street was the victim of a daytime burglary, police said.
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BAYSIDE — A man who stopped to use the restroom in the park at 46th Avenue at 211th Street got an unpleasant surprise when a gun was pointed at him, police said.
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JAMAICA — Police caught a man suspected of robbing a bank at gunpoint Tuesday just blocks from the 103rd Precinct, authorities said.
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ROCKAWAY PARK — Paramedics called to attend to a victim who had fallen last weekend had to don isolation suits to carry her out of a bedbug-infested room in Rockaway Park, the FDNY said.
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BROOKLYN — An Ozone Park woman was arrested on a range of charges after striking a pedestrian with her car in Brooklyn Saturday night, authorities said.
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JAMAICA — A New Jersey man was arrested on a range of charges after he ran through a Long Island Rail Road train at Jamaica station last week while allegedly making a bomb threat, the Queens district attorney's office said.
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JAMAICA — A Jamaica man allegedly smashed the windshield of a car standing in front of his house last week, the district attorney's office said.
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City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein trots out the word "accountability" to justify every "reform" he has hatched. Well, more people are no longer equating the word with the concept behind it.
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A letter to city Department for the Aging Commissioner Edwin Mendez-Santiago.
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A Citizens Committee for Children of New York City report confirms what we knew already: Bayside, Rego Park and Forest Hills are great places to raise a kid. The study concludes that conditions for children have improved in recent years. That alone is an accomplishment.
'A Crime Epidemic'
It comes as small surprise that the police suspect that the shooting of five people on Roosevelt Avenue in Elmhurst was gang-related. It is a miracle no one was killed. Three of the people were grazed. A 45-year-old man was shot in the back and a 21-year-old woman in the torso.
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Showing a friend from Toronto the New York Public Library on 42nd Street, I came across a photography display entitled "Eminent Domain." I found it interesting because in Queens and other boroughs city officials want to give private property to developers using eminent domain if necessary. This display concerns eminent domain of the visual realm; my interest in Willets Point's Iron Triangle concerns protecting private real estate ownership.
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As the seemingly unending 2008 presidential campaign continues into the pre-convention stage, U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is now turning attention to his Republican vice presidential choice. Over Memorial Day weekend, McCain held a social get-together of prospective nominees at his Arizona ranch. Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani was not invited; those who were included former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Florida Gov. Charles Crist and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal.
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Up until the early 1960s, there was in our area of Queens little or no interest in preservation, so buildings and sites which should have been cited for preservation were not rescued from oblivion. One of these was the Bell homestead, which stood on the corner of 38th Avenue and Bell Boulevard. It was named for the family which had been influential in Bayside's early history.
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As this column is being written on Armed Forces Day, the 40th anniversary of Rosedale's Vietnam Monument is approaching. The weather was not dry enough to paint the benches for guests, so I tuned the radio to WNYC and, appropriately enough, "Selected Shorts" had a reading of "A Memoir," authored by a Marine's son who fought and was wounded in Vietnam.
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A former colleague of mine suggested after reading my April 23 return column that I give readers more of my thoughts about health care.
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Writer Nathaniel Willis wrote: "It is the month of June, the month of leaves and roses. When pleasant sights salute the eyes and pleasant scents inhabit the noses."
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By Philip Newman
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, under pressure from state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, has ended its policy of handing out free E-ZPasses and MetroCards to MTA board members.
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Harvard to honor Queens Hospital physician
By Ivan Pereira
For the last seven years Dr. M. Margaret Kemeny has worked to help low-income Queens residents gain access to top-notch cancer treatment at the Queens Hospital's Queens Cancer Center.
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City Councilman James Gennaro (D-Fresh Meadows) moderated a breakfast meeting of private and public sector leaders Friday to kick off the planning for spreading his environmental green vision throughout his home borough.
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Allen AME lauds TimesLedger photographer
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A TimesLedger photographer will be among those honored during a special Father's Day ceremony at the Greater Allen AME Cathedral.
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Air travel slump expected to affect Queens' economy
By Ivan Pereira
As soaring fuel oil prices weigh down the global airline industry, fewer flights could affect the borough's economy this summer and Queens' business experts are urging companies to redirect their focus to customers close to home.
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Woodhaven doc gives GIs a year of free care
By Howard Koplowitz
When soldiers return to Queens after ending their tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, they will have more to look forward to than reuniting with their families and getting back to civilian life.
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Slain man was ex-bodyguard for rapper
By Howard Koplowitz
A man found dead inside a truck in South Ozone Park last week was identified Friday as a former bodyguard for rapper Busta Rhymes, police said.
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Richmond Hill High teacher arrested on rape charge
By Howard Koplowitz
A Richmond Hill High School teacher was arrested last Thursday on charges of having sex with a 15-year-old and his two cousins, a spokeswoman for Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes said.
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Painting a calendar of hope
By Nathan Duke
A Middle Village high school teacher is hoping a calendar of his paintings will raise enough money to provide relief to a hospital he visited during a trip to Ecuador with his son two years ago that treats leprosy.
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Monserrate opens Senate bid
By Jeremy Walsh
A week after receiving the endorsement from the Queens Democratic Party, City Councilman Hiram Monserrate (D-East Elmhurst) officially announced his candidacy for the state Senate seat currently held by John Sabini (D-Jackson Heights).
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Jax Heights restaurant shorted workers: Feds
By Jeremy Walsh
Federal Labor Department officials are suing a Jackson Heights restaurant for underpaying its employees, court records show.
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Jackson Heights cops, pols meet to discuss crime spree
By Jeremy Walsh
Jackson Heights residents alarmed by the midday shooting of five people on Roosevelt Avenue two weeks ago, turned out in force last Thursday to hear what police and elected officials were doing to crack down on crime in the corridor.
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Falcons return to boro bridge
By Philip Newman
Like the swallows of Capistrano and the buzzards of Hinckley, Ohio, the falcons have returned once again to their lofty perch on the Queens side of the Marine Parkway Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge.
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Fake condoms, items seized in Ridgewood
By Nathan Duke
Federal agents raided a Ridgewood building and several other sites in New York and New Jersey last week, seizing millions of counterfeit condoms and other fake goods manufactured in China, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney for New York's Eastern District said. Nine people were arrested.
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Educator brings Queens experience to the Middle East
By Alex Christodoulides
At first glance, Queens and Egypt do not have much in common, but a former headmaster of a Forest Hills private school swears there are links.
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Como leads by 70 votes in Council special election
By Nathan Duke
Republican Anthony Como led Democrat Elizabeth Crowley by a mere 70 votes in the special election to replace Councilman Dennis Gallagher after all precincts had reported their numbers Tuesday night, a spokeswoman with the city's Elections Board said.
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Borukhova's sister faces trial in July
By Ivan Pereira
Queens Criminal Court could be gearing up for a summer showdown between the siblings of slain Forest Hills dentist Daniel Malakov and his estranged wife, Mazoltuv Borukhova, who is charged with plotting his murder outside a playground.
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Astoria cop halts attack in Chinatown
By Nathan Duke
An off-duty detective from Astoria's 114th Precinct came to the rescue of a 26-year-old Manhattan woman last week after two razor-wielding men attacked her in a Chinatown apartment building where she worked as a desk clerk, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said.
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Activists, CB 2 want lower Qns West rents
By Nathan Duke
Western Queens community activists and Community Board 2 members said they are concerned that provisions for affordable housing at the city's portion of the massive Queens West development project are not affordable enough.
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A gift of Warhol
By Aaron Davis
Queens College's Godwin-Ternbach Museum has received 150 original Polaroid snapshots and gelatin silver prints from acclaimed pop artist Andy Warhol, a gift from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
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The Play's The Thing
By Ronald B. Hellman
In the beginning was the word, and Fred Rohan Vargas has lots of them. Chatting at my office, overlooking the LIRR Douglaston station, it was hard to tell who was doing the interviewing. But since it's my column, we decided it should be me, especially since Fred, now age 59, has done so many things that most people never get to do. "I'm just starting the second act of my life," he proclaims.
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Movies, panelists galore at second Rockaway Lit Fest
By Arlene McKanic
The second Rockaway Literary Festival will be held June 7-8 at Fort Tilden in Far Rockaway, in sTudios 6 & 7. The brainchild of author Stuart Mirsky, it will again feature panels of writers and filmmakers and Mirsky promises a bigger, better event this time around.
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"This is one of the silliest things I've ever seen," the reviewer thought halfway through the BroadHollow Theatre's gloriously dopey production of Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart's "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum."
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Class action lawsuits filed against natural gas producers have become increasingly common. For example, in Pennsylvania over the last several years, royalty owners have filed a number of royalty and bonus-payment class action lawsuits in state and federal court, which have caused producers to incur significant time and expense to defend. In light of the costs and risks involved in class action litigation, producers have begun contemplating the use of arbitration clauses in their oil and gas leases, which would require all disputes to be resolved in a private and confidential arbitration setting and would prevent a royalty owner from combining his claim with hundreds or thousands of other similar claims by pursuing a class action lawsuit or class arbitration. While such arbitration/class waiver clauses had been declared by certain courts to be unenforceable in the past, two recent decisions from the Supreme Court have endorsed the use of arbitration/class waiver clauses.
In AT & T Mobility, LLC v. Concepcion[1] and American Express Co. v. Italian Colors Restaurant,[2] the Supreme Court recently issued two decisions holding that arbitration/class waiver clauses in consumer contracts can effectively prevent plaintiffs from bringing class actions. As a result of these decisions, parties to oil and gas leases in Pennsylvania have begun considering what effect, if any, arbitration/class waiver provisions would have in their oil and gas leases, and whether, for example, Concepcion and Italian Colors Restaurant would prevent royalty owners from bringing the increasingly common royalty and bonus-payment class actions being filed in Pennsylvania.
In short and as discussed below, it appears likely that Concepcion and Italian Colors Restaurant will apply to oil and gas leases, and thus, in light of these decisions, a well-drafted arbitration clause in an oil and gas lease may potentially be used to preclude class-wide dispute resolution arising out of lease disputes.
How does an arbitration clause preclude the right to pursue a class-wide dispute resolution?
An arbitration clause can be used to essentially "contract out" of class action litigation. Indeed, by their very nature, most arbitration clauses preclude litigation entirely, including class action litigation, arising out of disputes covered by the arbitration clause. Instead, most typical arbitration clauses mandate that defined disputes between the parties will proceed through private arbitration, where the parties select one or more privately retained arbitrators to resolve their disputes in a confidential and less formal setting. What is less clear, however, is whether class arbitration is permitted when the parties include an arbitration clause in the contract.
Class arbitration is a relatively new phenomenon in the United States, and is neither addressed in the Federal Arbitration Act ("FAA"),[3] nor was contemplated by the FAA's drafters. Class arbitration operates similarly to class action litigation. Thus, if class arbitration is permitted in a contract or lease that has an arbitration clause, the efficiency of bilateral arbitration is typically lost. For example, class arbitration, similar to class action litigation, can require class member notices, application of formal rules of evidence, including unwieldy class-wide discovery, and formal approval and notice of any class settlement.
Few, if any, arbitration clauses expressly provide for class arbitration. Thus, the key question becomes: In the absence of a class arbitration provision, does the arbitration clause alone open the door to a class arbitration procedure? Courts are somewhat divided on this issue, but most have held that where an arbitration clause is silent as to the permissibility of class arbitration, class arbitration is not permitted.
Nevertheless, to avoid any doubt as to whether an arbitration provision in an oil and gas lease authorizes class arbitration, a carefully crafted arbitration clause should expressly preclude or waive class arbitration.
How have Concepcion and Italian Colors Restaurant affected the limitations on class waivers?
Under the FAA, an arbitration clause is presumed to be valid and enforceable, "save upon such grounds as exist at law or in equity for the revocation of any contract."[4] Therefore, to be enforceable, an arbitration provision that waives class arbitrations and class actions cannot be considered "unconscionable" under the relevant state contract law.
In the past, courts would oftentimes hold that arbitration provisions that waived the right to class arbitration or class action litigation were unconscionable because the parties had unequal bargaining power, the arbitration provision was in buried boilerplate, or the absence of a class remedy would effectively prevent the plaintiff from pursuing relief (i.e., the amount at issue was too small to pursue except on a class-wide basis). Concepcion and Italian Colors Restaurant, however, eviscerated this line of reasoning.
In Concepcion, at issue was a judicially crafted rule in California that class arbitration waivers in contracts of adhesion governing disputes over small amounts of money were unconscionable and could not be enforced. The Supreme Court held that the California state law interfered with the core attributes of arbitration and created a scheme that is inconsistent with the FAA—i.e., in other words, that the FAA's presumption in favor of enforcing arbitration clauses preempted California state law.
In Italian Colors Restaurant, the Supreme Court considered American Express's arbitration agreement with merchants that contained a class arbitration waiver. The merchants brought an antitrust class action and opposed American Express's motion to compel arbitration, arguing that the class arbitration waiver was unconscionable because the cost of arbitrating a single claim far exceeded the potential recovery. Following its decision in Concepcion, the Supreme Court rejected this argument, refused to create such an exception to the FAA's presumption in favor of enforcing arbitration clauses, and held that contractual waivers of class arbitration are enforceable even if the cost of proving an individual claim in arbitration exceeds the potential recovery of the plaintiff.
Concepcion and Italian Colors Restaurant make clear that arbitration clauses/class waivers governed by the FAA will be strictly enforced, and that contentions that such clauses are unconscionable or otherwise unenforceable are unlikely to prevail.[5]
Do Concepcion and Italian Colors Restaurant apply to oil and gas leases?
In light of Concepcion and Italian Colors Restaurant, the question remains whether those decisions—which concerned consumer contracts—apply to oil and gas leases that have arbitration/class waiver provisions. While there have yet to be any reported decisions to consider the applicability of Concepcion and Italian Colors Restaurant to the oil and gas lease context, it appears likely that those decisions will apply for at least two reasons.
First, the more supported view is that most, if not all, oil and gas leases containing arbitration clauses are governed by the FAA. This is important because the Court's decisions in Concepcion and Italian Colors Restaurant were predicated on the FAA and the fact that the FAA essentially preempted state unconscionability laws. Thus, if a contract is not governed by the FAA, those decisions may arguably not apply. Oil and gas leases should be considered to be covered by the FAA because the FAA applies to any contract involving interstate commerce.[6] Like the Supreme Court's interstate commerce jurisprudence, the interstate commerce nexus that governs the applicability of the FAA is extraordinarily broad. Thus, where the parties to the oil and gas lease are located in multiple states, or the contemplated scope of development under the oil and gas lease is through interstate channels (even where development has not yet occurred), courts have held that the interstate commerce nexus will likely be deemed to be sufficient for the FAA to apply.[7] If the FAA applies, Concepcion and Italian Colors Restaurant apply as well.[8]
Second, Concepcion's holding has already been extended to the non-consumer contract context. For instance, the Supreme Court relied on Concepcion in Italian Colors Restaurant in an antitrust context. The holding in Concepcion has also been extended to real property,[9] employment discrimination,[10] and employment contract[11] cases by various courts. Thus, it appears that there is no reason why Concepcion and Italian Colors Restaurant would be considered limited to consumer contracts and would not apply to any contract, including oil and gas leases.
After Concepcion and Italian Colors Restaurant, the use of carefully crafted arbitration clauses in oil and gas leases may be an effective way to preclude class arbitrations and class action litigation. As courts continue to apply Concepcion and Italian Colors Restaurant, parties to oil and gas leases may consider reviewing or redrafting their arbitration clauses in such a way as to immunize them from further challenge.
[1] 131 S. Ct. 1740 (2011).
[2] 133 S. Ct. 2304 (2013).
[3] 9 U.S.C. § 1 et seq.
[5] Since Concepcion and Italian Colors Restaurant, the Third Circuit has similarly upheld the enforceability of an arbitration/class waiver clause. See Homa v. Am. Express Co., 494 F. App'x 191 (3d Cir. 2012).
[6] Allied-Bruce Terminex Cos., Inc. v. Dobson, 513 U.S. 265 (1995).
[7] See Alexander v. Chesapeake Appalachia, LLC, 839 F. Supp. 2d 544, 550 (N.D.N.Y. 2012) (holding that FAA applies because "[a]lthough the oil and gas leases at issue involve real property only in New York, the plaintiff landowners in New York negotiated the subject leases with CAP, an Ohio company and CNR, a Delaware limited liability company. Those leases have since been acquired by Chesapeake, an Oklahoma limited liability company, and Statoil, a Delaware corporation"); accord In re Chevron, --S.W.3d--, 2010 WL 299149, at *5 (Tex. Ct. App. 2010) (finding that FAA applied because "[i]t is a matter of common knowledge that the oil industry involves interstate commerce").
[8] There is limited authority from the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania concluding that an oil and gas lease covering only property in a single state renders state law, not the FAA, applicable. This line of authority, however, is based on one largely unsupported slip opinion. See Ulmer v. Chesapeake Appalachia, LLC, No: 4:08–cv–2062, slip op. at 2 (M.D. Pa. Jan. 16, 2009) (citing no authority, but finding that "[t]he oil and gas lease at issue in this case involved property only in Pennsylvania, and therefore, the FAA does not apply"); Eisenberger v. Chesapeake Appalachia, LLC, No. 3:09-cv-1415, 2010 WL 1816646, at *2 (M.D. Pa. May 5, 2009) (citing only Ulmer for the finding that "this Court will apply Pennsylvania law in this case, as it involves a gas and oil lease for a property located entirely in Pennsylvania"); Roman v. Chesapeake Appalachia, LLC, No. 11-1614, 2012 WL 2076846, at *3 n.1 (M.D. Pa. June 7, 2012) (citing Ulmer, but not deciding whether state law or FAA applied); Vosburg v. Chesapeake Appalachia, LLC, No. 11-1615, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 155364, at *6-7 n.2 (M.D. Pa. Nov. 16, 2011) (citing Ulmer, but not deciding whether state law or FAA applied).
[9] A-1 A-Lectrician, Inc. v. Commonwealth Reit, No. 12-00607 ACK-BMK, 2013 WL 1817688 (D. Haw. Apr. 26, 2013).
[10] Wallace v. Red Bull Distribution Co., No. 5:12-CV-02431, 2013 WL 3823130 (N.D. Ohio July 23, 2013).
[11] D'Antuono v. Service Road Corp., 789 F. Supp. 2d 308 (D. Conn. 2011).
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Foreclosure Activity Decreases by 8% in Nov.
Irvine, CA-November was the fourth straight month that foreclosure activity declined after hitting an all-time high in July, according to the latest data from RealtyTrac here, which said November foreclosures were at their lowest level since February.
Based on its November U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, foreclosure filings, including default notices, scheduled foreclosure auctions and bank repossessions, were reported on 306,627 properties during the month, a decrease of 8% from October but still up 18% from November 2008.
Default notices nationwide were down 8% from October but rose 22% from a year ago, while scheduled foreclosure auctions were down 12% but still up 32% from November 2008. Bank repossessions were flat compared to October and down 2% from the same time last year.
"Loan modifications, along with the recently extended and expanded homebuyer tax credit, are keeping a lid on the most visible symptoms of the nation's ailing housing market - foreclosures and home value depreciation," said RealtyTrac CEO James Saccacio.
"A full recovery will only come when unemployment recedes to normal, healthy levels and when availability of credit reaches a more rational balance between the extremes of the past few years."
For the second month in a row, the same four states accounted for 52% of the nation's total foreclosure activity: California, Florida, Illinois and Michigan.
While there was a 13% decrease in foreclosures, California posted the highest total of any state with 73,995 properties receiving a filing in November, up 22% from a year ago and down nearly 32% from its July peak of 108,104. November marked the fourth straight month that California foreclosure activity has declined on a month-over-month basis.
After two straight month-over-month decreases, Florida foreclosures increased slightly. A total of 52,935 Florida homes received a filing, a rise of nearly 2% from October and up nearly 8% from November 2008.
Foreclosures in Illinois plummeted nearly 18% from a record high in October, but the state's 16,422 properties receiving filings in November was 108% higher than November 2008 and third highest in the country.
Las Vegas dropped from the top metropolitan area with a population of at least 200,000 to No. 5 thanks to a 33% decrease in foreclosures.
The top three metro foreclosure rates were in California. Merced took the top spot, with one in every 83 housing units receiving a filing in November thanks in part to a 21% increase in activity from the previous month.
In Stockton foreclosure activity went up 37% and the city documented the nation's second highest metro foreclosure rate with one in every 85 housing units receiving a filing.
Despite a 7% decrease in foreclosure activity from October, Modesto saw the nation's third highest metro foreclosure rate, with one in every 87 housing units receiving a filing in November.
Other California metro areas with foreclosure rates in the top 10 were Riverside-San Bernardino at No. 6 (one in every 102 housing units), Bakersfield at No. 7 (one in 111), Vallejo-Fairfield at No. 9 (one in 126) and Sacramento at No. 10 (one in 132).
Florida accounted for two of the top 10 metro foreclosure rates: Cape Coral-Fort Myers at No. 4 and Orlando-Kissimmee at No. 8.
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2002 World Series: Giants
The best seat in the cove
By Chris Colston, USA TODAY Baseball Weekly
Giants' family of batboys
WRIGLEY FIELD HAS ITS BROWNSTONES. Camden Yards has The
And beyond right field in San Francisco you have ... salt
Clean water, about 18-25 feet deep. Scuba divers say there
isn't much to see in the small inlet now called McCovey Cove, but it doesn't
matter. All the action takes place on the surface.
Watch this week when Fox's World Series cameras pan over
Pac Bell Park. The Cove will likely be packed with kayaks, Zodiacs, dinghies,
powerboats, inner tubes, rafts pretty much anything that will float.
One year, a grubby-looking guy was out there on a 6-foot-square piece of plywood,
drinking Olde English 500 and smoking cigarettes.
You can't see the game from there; you can barely see the
scoreboard. But that's not why they come. The Covers hang out for adventure.
They hang out for camaraderie. They hang out to get their mugs on TV.
And they hang out to maybe make a little money.
HE LOOKS LIKE A CROSS between a California seal and Punchy,
the Hawaiian Punch cartoon character. Eugene Pointer, 46, of Penta Luma is wearing
a pair of blue jeans over a black wet suit. The lid of his straw hat is worn
out, revealing a black scarf tied around his head. His freckled face is tanned
a dark brown, and you can tell from the little bit of spittle in the corners
of his mouth that he's slightly parched.
When asked what he does for a living, he's evasive. "Just
write that I'm in the convention business," he says.
Come on, just a one-word job description?
"Laborer," he allows.
But his job does not define him; his lifestyle does. He
labors, he surfs, he loves his H�agen-Dazs ice cream. On Giants game days, he
paddles the Cove (named for former Giants slugger Willie McCovey, he of the
521 career homers).
"If I wasn't here," he says on a bright Saturday afternoon
in June, "I'd be on Highway One, hanging out, looking for a beach to surf."
Pointer has had his heart broken in the Cove. The night
Barry Bonds hit home run No. 500 April 18, 2001 he was on his
surfboard. By 9:30 p.m., his hands were freezing from paddling in the water.
He couldn't take it any more. As he was driving across the Golden Gate Bridge,
he heard the home run on the radio.
It was a "splash landing" at 9:55 p.m.
The guy who snared it was Giants groundskeeper Joe Figone,
who had been hanging out near Pointer for much of the night. That could have
been Pointer's ball.
But he'd left.
Pointer has had a run-in with the law in the Cove. One
night he was in his Zodiac kayak, and he hadn't yet hooked up his safety light.
Aw, it wasn't even dark yet. The water patrol ordered him to hook it up, now.
"Give me a break!" he implored. "Barry Bonds is at bat!"
Wrong answer.
On this sunny June afternoon there is no need for a safety
light. A foul ball plops into the water, and Pointer zips off, paddling smoothly.
His speed is amazing. There's a guy on the promenade with a fish net. It's a
race! He dips the pole in the water but misses the ball. That was his one shot.
Pointer is on the ball in a flash and nets it cleanly.
A crowd on the promenade cheers.
"Who hit it?" Pointer yells up.
The Giants!
"Which player?"
He waves them off. He doesn't believe them. Then he examines
the ball.
"Rawlings official," he says, rolling it in his palm. "That's
what you look for." He peeks up at the scoreboard. "But it's not Bonds."
The Giants' official double-decker party boat powers past.
There is a wedding reception on board.
"Any balls come out?" yells a man in a black tuxedo.
"One," Pointer says. "Foul."
"Hold it up!" says a woman in a long dress.
He obliges. Now you see where he gets the speed. His shoulder
muscles bulge beneath the wet suit. The man in the tuxedo takes Pointer's picture.
"Every day in the Cove is a good day," Pointer says, paddling
back into position. "One afternoon, some girls from Boston fed me chocolate
cake from the window of their party boat. They wanted me to take them kayaking
the next day."
Did you take them?
"Naw, I had to pass," he says. He won't elaborate.
There is a prime area behind the right field wall where
most of Bonds' homers splash down. The Port of San Francisco marked it with
two buoys, about 20 yards apart, that read "5 mph." It is a no-motor zone. Pointer
likes to position himself about 20 feet in front of the buoys, a little to the
"Bonds' balls usually veer that way," he explains. "It
throws you off."
He learned how to play the angles from Hoynes, whom Pointer
speaks of reverentially. "Tom Hoynes," he says, "is the Dean."
But Hoynes isn't here now. "On days like this," he smiles,
"I feel like a dog in the backyard, alone with a bone."
Although 33 balls have ended up in McCovey Cove, the
Giants' organization keeps count of only regular-season balls hit by Giants
players on the fly. Of those 23, Barry Bonds has hit 21, and of those,
Tom Hoynes, 53, of Alameda, has recovered seven, while Steve Jackson,
44, of Alameda, has six.
Hoynes' seven rules for snaring
a "splash landing":
1. "Bring a radio. You have
to know what's going on. Plus, I love Joe Angel. He enunciates so well,
he's easy to hear over the crowd noise."
2. "When you're in the kayak,
start rowing before the pitch to build up a little momentum."
3. "When there is a long fly
ball, watch fans' heads and listen to the crowd. They'll tell you if one
is coming out."
4. "When you see the ball up
there high in the sky, above the lights, it's kind of mesmerizing. Don't
get mesmerized."
5. "Balls will float for only
three or four minutes before they sink. So be quick."
6. "Use a salmon net that allows
you to reach up to 7 feet from either side."
7. "Keep your head in the game.
Don't fall for dork balls."
FIFTY YARDS FROM POINTER, two guys drop anchor on their
powerboat and pop open a couple of Molsons. "We have tickets," says Keith Harris,
34, a surviving dot-commer from San Francisco. "We just don't know how to scalp
But if you have a powerboat, and it's a sunny Saturday
in late June, you can't sit in the stands. The water beckons.
"We'll try to watch the game through the cheapskate windows,"
says Matt Clark, 34, an investment banker from San Francisco.
A ridiculous, huge, triple-decker cabin cruiser comes rumbling
into the Cove.
"Hey, look, it's Rodney Dangerfield!" Clark jokes.
Clark takes a sip of beer and lets the sun warm his face.
"The first year the park opened, in 2000, I heard there was this one guy who
took all his vacation days just to come out here all summer. That's real commitment."
"Commitment?" Harris laughs. "He should be committed."
The things people do, just to catch a home run ball.
A lean man with a shaved head wearing a slick black wet
suit motors past them in a small outboard.
"That guy looks like a ringer," Clark says. "Hey, is that
a scuba tank on his back?"
THE "RINGER" IS Greg Hughey, 44, of Fremont, a former cross-country
runner at Oregon State who has run past the pyramids in Egypt and surfed with
a great white shark at Monterrey. The former was by design; the latter was not.
"Running in the Middle East," he says, "is like
swimming with sharks. You have to constantly be on guard, and even then, you
can't predict what will happen."
Speaking of which, ahem, that great white?
"I've been surfing these waters for 35 years, and sharks
are ever-present," he says, adjusting the straps on his scuba tank. "Surfers
look out for each other. If someone spots a great white, we have a saying: 'The
landlord is looking for rent!' You hear that, you start paddling to shore. Fast."
"One day the Landlord was swimming alongside me, about
50 yards away. I guess he must have lost interest."
Hughey, an A's season ticketholder surrounded by Giants
fans, must relish danger. He's vociferous in his contempt for the orange-and-black
and doesn't care who knows it.
"I can't stand to hear the words, 'San Francisco Giants,'
he says. "It makes me want to puke. If Barry Bonds hit a homer out here, I'd
probably throw it back.
"Don't laugh, I'm serious!"
So why are you here, then?
"It's baseball!" he says, grinning.
And maybe there's still a ball or two underwater.
BACK ON THE POWERBOAT, Clark reaches into the cooler for
another Molson. "You can't see much," he says, "but there are advantages to
watching the game from here. Namely, a short beer line."
"All I want," Harris says, "is to see just one ball
come this way."
"If a ball comes near us," Clark says, "I'm diving in."
"Man, we really need to scalp these tickets," Harris says.
"Cold beer here!" Clark says. "Get your cold beer here!
Peanuts! Popcorn! Program!"
"I'm hungry," Harris says. "Let's call Domino's."
What ballhawk Moe Mullins is to Wrigley Field, Tom Hoynes,
53, of Alameda, is to McCovey Cove. Or should we say, Recovery Cove? Over the
last three summers he's snared all kind of detritus blown into the water from
Pac Bell: pennants, caps and tickets, plucking them from the Cove with his Cumings
salmon landing net. That stuff, he gives back.
The baseballs, he sells.
Since 2000, when Pac Bell Park opened, Hoynes has captured
15 balls, including eight Bonds homers. He sold seven, collecting close to $15,000.
"This pays almost as well as my day job," he says.
He works for the San Francisco Department of Public Health.
Hoynes snared the first home run ever hit in Pac Bell.
But since it came in a preseason game, the ball didn't have the market value
of a Bonds regular-season blast. So he keeps that one. He also got the first
splash ball of this season, May 13, his birthday.
Oh, the irony: It was Bonds' 13th homer of the season.
Hoynes is the Cove's resident celebrity. He has a bio on
the Web site McCovey-Cove.com. He has his own baseball card (Nets: Right).
Sports Illustrated's Rick Reilly once spent a day on Hoynes' dinghy.
Katie Couric, Matt Lauer and Al Roker have had him on Today.
What sets Hoynes apart from the regular schmoe is his ability
to discern real homers from what he calls "dork balls." When there is a long
fly ball, a mischievous fan will sometimes throw a ball into the Cove. You know
you've been had when you see the letters "dork" written in black marker.
"I've seen two dozen people fall for that trick, easy,"
Hoynes says.
While Pointer is more ballistic in his assault for splash
landings, Hoynes is more genteel. When you've made five figures selling seams,
maybe you can afford to be, but his focus this year has been on assisting BARK
(the Baseball Aquatic Retrieval Korps). Every Sunday the Jollypup, sponsored
by the animal adoption agency Pets In Need, floats in the Cove, loaded with
Portugese water dogs ready to leap into the drink if a ball comes their way.
The odds are against them. In three years, only 33 regular-season
balls have reached the water, by splash or bounce. The mighty Bonds has reached
the Cove 21 times. So going out one day a week? Fat chance. But even without
an official retrieval, the Cove exposure has helped agency adoptions rise from
450 in 1999 to 1,387 in April 2002.
They had their big chance this Sept. 8. The pooch had a
Bonds homer all lined up for retrieval when Pointer swooped in with his net
and snatched it away. (Think Seinfeld's George Costanza, elbowing grandma
as he bolts from the house screaming "Fire!") Pointer was roundly booed that
night and has caught ongoing grief from the pro-pets people.
This might all seem like petty shenanigans. Then you pick
up a copy of the Los Angeles Times and read where Doug Allen, president
of the sports memorabilia auction house MastroNet, says that a Bonds splash
landing typically sells for $3,000-$5,000 in auction.
That could buy a boatload of H�agen-Dazs.
Father Guido Sarducci (aka Don Novello), he of Saturday
Night Live (circa late '70s) fame, believes he has the perfect solution.
"If they had any respect for sportsmanship," he told The San Diego
Union Tribune, "they would agree to have one rule for Sundays. ... The ball
must be taken out of the water only by teeth, al dente."
BONDS REACHED THE COVE AGAIN May 24, 2001, with career
home run No. 519. After the game he was stuck in traffic on the Embarcadero
when he heard tapping on the tinted window of his black Lincoln Navigator.
Bonds buzzed down the window and there stood Eugene Pointer.
"Barry! I got the ball, man! I'm the guy who got the ball!"
Pointer had pulled his kayak out at the South Beach harbor,
hosed himself off and sloshed to the security gate leading to the Giants' locker
room, asking if Bonds could sign the soggy ball, and someone had told him he
was in luck, that Bonds' Navigator was right over there.
"Could you sign it for me?" Pointer handed Bonds the ball
and a ballpoint pen. The way Pointer tells it, Bonds tried to sign, but it wouldn't
take. "It's too wet," he said.
Pointer's brother, Steve, was in a car about three lengths
behind Bonds. Eugene returned, despondent.
"No, you gotta go back!" Steve said. "Use this pen!
Pointer went back, but the new pen didn't work either.
"Listen," Bonds said. "Come by tomorrow, and I'll give
you a signed ball."
The next day, Pointer went down to the Giants' locker room
and related his story. After cooling his heels, he was greeted by Giants manager
Dusty Baker.
In the end, Pointer got his signed baseball and
became a lifelong Bonds fan.
"I'm thumbs-up for Bonds," Pointer says. "He made my 15
seconds of fame the greatest."
The ball now sits in a hallowed place of honor:
Next to a lamp in Pointer's living room.


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Back to School Sponsorship Drive Aug 15 - Sept 15, 2016
Friends of the East African Center,
When we asked the Takaungu community how we could best help them, they asked us to start a school.
That's because education changes lives. It fosters peace, increases household income, reduces the prevalence of child marriage and HIV/AIDS, helps prevent the marginalization of women, and more.
As an organization focused on creating a framework for future success, we at the EAC strive to make education high quality and available to all. This is where we need your help. This month, we are hosting our annual Back to School Student Sponsorship drive. Student sponsorships account for over 25% of our operating budget.
By September 17th, we will have 30 new student sponsors, if we reach our goal of one sponsor a day.
Our Vutakaka Junior School in Takaungu, Kenya opened in 2004. Our teachers are highly qualified local community members, and our students consistently rank the highest in their district. Vutukaka plays an instrumental role in our students' future lives by preparing them for high school entrance exams, bringing them closer to opportunities around the country.
Of course, running a school carries significant costs that many students could not afford without our donors. Your sponsorship enables us to keep educating children that would otherwise not have the opportunity. Just $30 a month or $325 a year helps a student succeed at Vutakaka and beyond. You can make the difference.
With gratitude,
Jen Hill
No Show Event
Help us raise $10,000 by donating $5,000 by April 23rd, 2016
It's a Saturday evening. Wouldn't you like to spend it with friends or at home, but still manage to help an amazing cause at the same time!? Then we invite you to participate in our No Show Event on April 23rd. At this non-event, the EAC will not rent a venue; we will not set up a projector or hang lights; we will not prepare speeches…
Instead, the EAC welcomes you to follow along as we share updates on our Facebook page of funds raised, how that translates to impact on the ground, and maybe share a few fun facts about team EAC.
So, please do not DRESS UP! Do not HIRE A BABYSITTER! Do not LEAVE YOUR COUCH! Please DO purchase a ticket or make a donation in lieu of going out on the town Saturday, April 23rd. 100% of every donation goes directly to quality education and health programs in rural Kenya.
We have a generous matching donor who will match every dollar donated to this non-event up to $5,000! By "attending" our No Show Event, you will enjoy your night on your terms, but still give back at the same time!
Purchase your "tickets" and donate today.
We look forward to not seeing you on April 23rd and we thank you for your continued support. Asante Sana.
Please help us spread the word by sharing this non-invitation with friends and family. This may be a non-event, but you can still make a BIG impact.
Celebrate Kenya: Report and Thanks
Celebrate Kenya | NYC | Dec 10, 2015
Holiday Party & Silent Auction to benefit East African Center for the Empowerment of Women and Children.
Open to the public, free entrance, food, and beverage.
Silent auction items from Kenya and the US, including a week stay at a condo in Florida, a fishing trip, jewelry, pieces by well-known artists, and items from high-end ethical fashion lines.
Kenyan Program Director, Kate Crowley, will be in attendance as well as Executive Director, Jen Hill.
Special guest Brenna Britton will have photography from her recent trip to Kenya on display.
Music by DJ Resy and Candy.
Sponsored by Harmony Vineyards and Lagunitas Brewing.
If you can not join us, please donate to support the important work being done. Our goal is to raise $10,000 this evening. That will get us through the first two months of 2016. Join us!
Annual Student Sponsorship Campaign
60 Students in 30 Days
2nd Annual Student Sponsorship Drive
We know the value of education goes well beyond the classroom. A more educated individual is a more fulfilled individual with the confidence to make better choices for their family and community. Studies show that a solid education helps to build awareness of individual rights, the law and each person's responsibilities to their community. Indeed, an educated world is a more peaceful world.
Sign up today and be a part of our "60 Students in 30 Days Campaign". Sponsoring a student is easy. You can choose between an annual donation of $285 to cover the entire school year or schedule a monthly reoccurring donation of only $24.
1. Sign up | 2. Get matched | 3. Receive email with electronic photo | 4. Check your mail | 5. Follow the progress of one student
How does sponsorship work? Can I communicate with my student? These questions and more answered on the East African Center's webpage FAQs webpage.
"Yussaf has the best smile. In his photos and in his writings. And, watching his sense of humor and outlook on life grow through the years has been amazing. Being a sponsor feels a little selfish sometimes, because of the joy this small gift brings to me. Yussaf loves soccer and reading and prides himself on being punctual - thank you EAC for giving Yussaf a platform for his opinions and dreams."
North Carolina
"We sponsor students through the EAC program because I believe that education is the foundation for building stronger communities and countries. "
New York
"I have worked in schools for most of my career, so I know how important education is for putting children on a path for success. I also know that in many parts of the world, children especially girls, don't have the same educational opportunities we have here in the US. I support the EAC because I believe every child deserves a chance to succeed at school and the EAC makes high quality education available in a chronically under served rural area. It makes me feel really good to know that for under $300 per year I can make a lasting impact on a student in Kenya. The EAC may be a small organization, but their impact is huge!"
Darien for Kenya II
You are invited. Save the date, share with your friends, give from the heart.
What: Our 2nd annual social event
hosted by the East African Center Board of Directors
When: Wednesday, April 22nd, 2015 | 6 - 9pm
Where: Darien Social, 10 Center St, Darien, Connecticut 06820
(an hour outside the city on the North-Metro Railroad & just across the street from the train station!)
Our Board is providing the drinks and appetizers, our Kenya Program Director Kate Crowley will brief you on our work in Kenya and you can enjoy being a part of a global community.
Not able to come? You can still be a part of the night's success and donate by clicking the big orange button below.
Going? Join the invite on Facebook and invite your friends!
Become an Advocate on #GivingTuesday
Donations made on Tuesday, December 2, 2014 will be matched by our generous partners Network for Good. Thank you for your attention to our message and support of our campaign.
We are excited to announce that after 14 years we are closer to realizing our goal of becoming a self-sustaining organization. Five years ago, the East African Center ("EAC") laid out a vision of transitioning to an organization run by Kenyans for Kenyans. While the EAC will always be fully accountable to the Takaungu community, its Board of Directors and donors feel it is essential for the EAC's long-term success for its daily operations to be overseen by Kenyan staff. This vision is now becoming a reality!
In 2015, Kate Crowley, our Kenya Program Director, will transition from her current role to an EAC Board Member. Over the past 7 years, Kate has guided the EAC's operations in Kenya with a steady hand, implementing efficient and proven programming and practices. As our Kenyan staff and Parent & Teachers' Association takes over operations of the Vutakaka Sschool, we are confident that Kate has laid out a path for continued success!
The EAC has made amazing progress. Since the initial team cleared the tall grass at the site that would become the Vutakaka School, we have built a new classroom every year, secured secondary schooling for our graduating students, started a farm to grow healthy food for lunch for our 300+ students, and are currently completing our brand new computer lab, The Harmony Resource Center. The lab will be outfitted with 15 desktop computerss and an office for our teachers to use for meetings and lesson planning. This progress and programming is possible due to the immense support of donors like you, and we thank you for partnering with the EAC to make a difference in education and health.
While our yearly student sponsorships are the roots that make up the Bobab tree of the EAC, we are looking to expand our fundraising to ensure the EAC's continued success for years to come. We are introducing four new levels of sponsorship to build lasting partnerships below:
Vutakaka Advocate - $10,000+ annually
Vutakaka Ally - $5,000 annually
Neighbor of Vutakaka - $2,500 annually
Friend of Vutakaka - $1,000 annually
Though our operating budget is small relative to our impact (averaging approximately $100,000 annually), we aim to boost general contributions to help us continue to meet the high level of education and community health outreach that has proved so valuable to the Takaungu community.
We urge you to accept the challenge of one of these new levels of sponsorship and help us spread the word about the EAC. Powerful testimonials from donors like you are the EAC's best avenue to grow our community of supporters. Please, share this letter with your friends and family, and reach out to your employer or colleagues to see if they will match your donations so that together we can ensure the brightest future for the EAC.
To sponsor the EAC, you can send a check made payable to "EAC" to PO Box 1590, New York, NY 10276, donate online at www.eastafricancenter.org, or by calling Executive Director Jen Hill at 919-864-0293.
Asante Sana,
Warm fuzzies this holiday season
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2013 Annual Report Launched
Who does a Prezi for their annual report? We do! Enjoy our year 2013 in a beautiful visual format and join us in doing more with less in 2014. (55% less than in 2011).
Sacramento High School Students for Kenya
As a part of the project-based learning at New Technology High School in Sacramento, 90 students broke in to small groups and developed their own projects based on the needs of the Takaungu community. Some of the groups sold items from the Sewing Cooperative while others educated local Junior High School Students about health in Kenya. There were bake sales and online fundraisers. In the end, they raised nearly $1,000 for the East African Center.
Students Nick Johnson, Trevor McKenzie, Nicky Rahman, Brandy Ramos, and Maliyah Renteria produced a fantastic, high-quality video that provides both awareness about the need in Kenya and support for the East African Center's work. We are impressed and inspired by their work.
Thank you to their aMaZInG teacher team of Peter Newman and Christine Baker for their leadership and guidance. We all learned and grew from this project.
Sponsoring a student in Kenya
Now funded resource center has broken ground
With 5 days to go, and a major donation from Harmony Vineyards & Art Gallery, we reached our financial goal for the resource center and teacher's office!
Here is how you can get us 100% of the way there. Help us find 7 more student sponsors.
Tomorrow is International Day of the Girl and we are celebrating by spotlighting some of the girls at Vutakaka Junior School. This is your chance to support their education.
Back to school
It is back to school time and we invite you to join us in building an office for the teachers at Vutakaka Junior School in Takaungu. Until now, teachers have managed to grade papers, hold meetings, and tutor students under a pop-up tent. After ten years, they deserve a space that matches the quality of their work and will allow them to be the best teachers they can be.
Watch our video, donate what you can, share it with your friends, and follow along with the progress. CLICK HERE
Thank you for the difference you make for the students AND teachers in Kenya.
2012 Annual Report
2012 was a milestone year for the East African Center as our first class of 8th graders graduated from our Junior School. Our report details the progress we made and the challenges we face.
In your words...
"It's truly incredible to see how this organization has grown all the while maintaining its
high ethical standards. Finances are used efficiently and accountably, and the EAC works
in true participatory partnership with the Takaungu community. You get the sense, when
visiting the EAC, that not only is the organization 100% dedicated to the people of
Takaungu and its surrounding areas, but that the community is also dedicated to the
organization. I think that the EAC gives the community a sense of pride."
Katherine C. Spencer and the Broadwaters Foundation
"Will you sign my yearbook?"
North Canton, Ohio's Hoover High School Yearbook Club students designed and published a yearbook for Vutakaka Junior School's 8th grade class in 2012. The books are beautiful and commemorate an important year for these students and our school as they are the first graduating 8th grade class. We are proud to report that 100% of the students went on to high school and that we assisted in placing them in quality schools and supporting those who needed it ourselves or by matching them with student sponsors. You can view each page in our photo album.