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As winter approaches and snow begins to fall, contractors are moving forward to build basic roads to provide access into the canyons in western Boulder County that have been largely isolated since September's flooding.
George Gerstle, Boulder County's transportation director, said the county is hoping to have accessible roads through most of Boulder's canyons by Christmas.
"We're working hard to have winter roads complete or at least under way for all of the canyons," he said.
Gerstle said that means focusing on basic two-lane roads that can be plowed through the winter months when it snows.
In the next few days, contractors will begin working on the roads through Lefthand Canyon going up to Ward and will have 30 days from the start of the construction to finish.
The road up James Canyon into Jamestown is about two weeks behind Lefthand Canyon and should start in November.
Gerstle said work on roads in Fourmile Canyon is already under way, and despite snow overnight, crews were still working Wednesday to build the road all the way up to Salina.
The county is still asking people who do not need to be up in the canyons to avoid the area while crews are working to speed up the construction.
"We have a lot of work going on in all the canyons," Gerstle said. "We want people to know we're working hard to get them back home in a safe way, and if people can stay off the roads that will speed things up."
The Colorado Department of Transportation also said recent weather has not delayed any construction projects or repairs on any of its roads -- such as Boulder Canyon Drive or U.S. 36 to Lyons -- damaged by the flood.
"When we opened these roads, one of the things is we said it had to be safe, it had to be passable and it had to be maintainable because of the snow over the winters," said CDOT spokeswoman Amy Ford. "Moving forward, the roads are very safe to plow."
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NIWOT -- Members of this community flocked to Mountain View Fire Rescue's "grand reopening" of its expanded and renovated Niwot fire station on Saturday.
Construction of the rural fire district's $800,000 project to build a two-story, 1,940-square-foot addition to Mountain View's Station No. 4 at 8500 Niwot Road -- along with the remodeling of the existing station's interior, a complete repainting of the exterior, replacements of the station's roof and outdoor patio deck and grading to improve storm drainage on the property -- began in August and was completed in early December, according to deputy fire chief Steven Pischke.
Niwot residents Jill and Bill Whitener were among the people who showed up to see and applaud the results at Saturday's open house.
"I think it's great," Bill Whitener said.
He said that when he and his wife moved to this area about 26 years ago, the first vehicle to show up at a fire from what then was an almost-all-volunteer department would sometimes be "a Ford Maverick with lights on it."
Jill Whitener said she wants next to arrange to go on a ride-along with a Mountain View crew.
The Niwot station can now house and staff an engine, a water tender, a brush truck and an ambulance, Pischke said, along with the bedrooms and more comfortable living accommodations for the three to four professional ambulance and firefighting crew members who'll be based there at any given time.
Mountain View Fire Rescue has been covering Niwot-area emergencies from its other stations while construction was under way at its Niwot Road facility, and the district resumed operations from the Niwot station just this past week.
The original building was constructed in 1982 and had four fire apparatus bays, a bathroom, a kitchen and a storage and meeting room. A 1993 addition provided a training room and what later became an increasingly cramped upper-level day room that -- until the latest project -- included only two small bedrooms and a coffee bar.
The expanded upper-level living quarters has four bedrooms, two bathrooms and a kitchenette. A ground-floor area that once was crowded with desks and office equipment has been converted to an open area that the Niwot Community Association now plans to use for its monthly meetings, Pischke said.
There's now a ground level room with weights and exercise equipment that's allowed Mountain View staffers to move their workouts out of the building's truck bay area where they formerly had to sometimes cope with diesel fuel fumes from the vehicles stationed there -- fumes that Pischke said "weren't really conducive to working out."
For personnel assigned to 48-hour shifts in the pre-expansion facility's crowded space, "it was like working out of a trailer," Pischke said. Now that the upgrades and additions have been completed, Mountain View firefighters "love it. This is like coming to a brand new station."
Golden Triangle Construction Inc. was the general contractor for the project.
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Their mission is to identify potential problems and trouble spots that could compromise the structural integrity of the Missouri River levee system in western Mills County.
Working in teams of two, soldiers from the Iowa Army National Guard have been patrolling Mills County's 26 miles of levee since mid-June. Most of the soldiers assigned to Mills County are members of the 1168th Transportation Co., based out of Audubon, Perry and Marshalltown.
At any given time, the county's levees are in the hands of 20 – 30 soldiers.
"The soldiers that are on levee patrol come down and they have a rotational system where they will walk the levee and identify any boils that are coming up or any areas that they feel are soft," said Lt. Col. Joni Ernst of Red Oak. "They go through a training class when they're put on the levees so they know what to look for. They'll flag those and radio those in to the EOC (Emergency Operations Center) so that they can be checked by the levee managers."
Ernst, who is in charge of critical infrastructure assessment for both Mills and Fremont counties, said the soldiers assigned to levee patrol are on active duty and will be in place as long as the river remains a threat to western Iowans.
"They will stay on as long as needed or as long as this mission continues," Ernst said. "They do rotate units, so if we see this is going to stretch through the fall, we may start rotating people."
Most of the soldiers are working daily eight-hour shifts. Each shift begins with the soldiers meeting at the Bluff View / BP convenience store and fuel station, located west of the U.S. Highway 34 – Interstate 29 interchange. From there, the soldiers learn their levee assignment for the day and are briefed and alerted to potential issues they might encounter.
Most of the soldiers conduct their inspections on foot, but the National Guard personnel also have use of John Deere Gator utility vehicles to make their way up and down the levee.
Mills County Emergency Management Director Larry Hurst said the soldiers have identified dozens of trouble spots on both sides of the levee. In addition to the boils, which occur when water under pressure starts bubbling or sprouting up through the soil of the levee, the soldiers are also looking for "varmint holes" created by gophers and badgers. Gopher or badger holes are believed to have been a cause for a major levee breach last month in Fremont County near Hamburg.
Hurst said the soldiers' efforts, combined with the work of levee managers and volunteers, have helped the county maintain its levee system through six weeks of high waters on the Missouri.
"It's a very significant team effort," he said. "We have three major levee districts along the river in Mills County. All three of those levee districts are made up of volunteers, individuals that volunteer to maintain the levee, inspect the levee, to repair it and to acquire money (both federally and locally) to repair it. It's been a real long, hard effort to maintain the integrity of the levee system."
The soldiers on the levee also have security responsibilities. Only authorized personnel are allowed on the federally-owned levee. Trespassers face a $500 fine.
"Every night, we usually have someone come up and ask if they can see the levee," Cadet Curtis Nielsen said. "For obvious reasons, we can't allow them to go on the levee."
Hurst said he's pleased Mills County's levee system has held up to this point, but cautioned that water levels in the Missouri River are expected to stay high for several more weeks.
"We're not through this yet," Hurst said. "I have high confidence in the structural integrity of the levees in Mills County based on the work I've seen done thus far, but you never know with Mother Nature."
Mills County public information officer Sheri Bowen reported Monday that a large levee repair project south of Highway 370 has been completed and three areas north of 370 were being fixed this week for seepage water detected inside the levee.
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An overall downward trend in demand for specialty bar products has greatly changed the mood of steel distributors when it comes to inventory control and expectations of mill price changes. Players in the special bar quality (SBQ) market also are keeping their eyes on imported products, and many are divided over what impact imports have had on the domestic market.
Although domestic SBQ demand was remarkably strong in 2011 and pushed mill lead times and prices up dramatically, it has slowly melted away this year, with most cold finishers and end-users saying they hope the midyear point marked the bottom of the market.
Announced price increases for SBQ products appeared to have stuck in large part in September, although buyer sources questioned how long prices will hold up in the second half of the year, given increased supply and lackluster demand.
Demand moving into year-end looks weak. And customers think scrap will go down so theyll wait for the price to go down, especially if they dont need material now, said one bar distributor, who cited lead times of six to eight weeks.
Other market sources, some of whom said demand had declined markedly since July, said lead times for SBQ were as low as four to six weeks, a far cry from the 13 months quoted during the first half of 2011.
July was poor, said a source at a distributor in the upper Great Lakes region. Volume was down and price was down significantly, related to the reduction in scrap surcharges. August (did) not really change much, but for the most part the discounting stopped.
Most buyer sources contacted by AMM said the September raw materials surcharge increase for SBQ had been accepted, at least in part, by the market. But some sources also predicted that prices would decline in the second half on lower scrap tags and slowing business activity. Sectors that had shown strengthsuch as automotive, energy, and heavy truck and equipmentwere showing signs of having peaked, some said.
One distributor, for example, questioned how long buyers might be willing to pay most or all of the scrap increases, especially given what he said was an SBQ market characterized by too much inventory, allowing buyers to shop around for deals. If order books were stronger, people would not take that risk, he said. But there is a lot of uncertainty in the market and people are very apprehensive about placing orders.
Chief among the uncertainties facing the U.S. market is the upcoming presidential election, market sources said. But other worries, including the European economic crisis and a slowdown in China, also are dragging down the market, they said.
A bar service center source said weak markets in Europe and the situation in China were resulting in increased imports into Houston ports, sometimes unsold and available at low prices. But he said U.S. companies also are to blame for the current soft market, with discounts perhaps more readily available than they had been in the past.
Spot market pricing for SBQ products so far this year has followed the trajectory set by the AMM consumer buying price for shredded automotive scrap and No. 1 busheling, used as the basis for certain mills surcharges. The SBQ products tracked by AMM declined by $45 per ton in August, based on how far mills raw material surcharges had fallen. Charlotte, N.C.-based steelmaker Nucor Corp. said it would lower its raw material surcharge on SBQ to $217 per ton ($10.85 per hundredweight), a decrease of $33 per ton ($1.65 per cwt), effective with shipments Oct. 1, according to a Sept. 12 letter. Some sources said the decrease was less than they had expected, and they had not seen any immediate changes in the market as a result of the move.
But another service center source said his company had seen a pickup in business activity after a sharp slowdown in July. The turnaround had not been as robust as his firm might like, he said, and it was not clear what was driving it.
He agreed that the current SBQ market was plagued by too much inventory and not enough demand, but he reasoned that the situation could change quickly if the market were to regain a sense of direction, something he said might be possible once the presidential election is over. Nothing is really happening until after the elections, he said. But at some point, people have to jump back in the market and buy.
Most people have talked about it: 2012 just didnt happen, a national bar sales executive said. There were great expectations. Now there is a lot of apprehension. A lot of markets are slow, as are a lot of customers. Mining, automotive, heavy equipment is said to be goodbut really, where the hell is it? There is quoting activity, but orders are still slower than earlier in the year, and the volume of opportunity is lower.
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Today's Blind Items - She Is In Deep
This actress used to be B list. Her talent was probably a D list. I guess she can still be called an actress, but honestly it has been awhile since she has been on screen. She is A list in lots of things though, including name recognition. She has been dating a guy for awhile. She fell in love, harder than she ever has. She has not been in love very often. By her own count just once or twice. Despite what you may think about her though, she did date one of the hottest guys on the planet at the time. Even got pregnant by him, but lost the baby. That would have been a headline maker. Anyway, after that she did not date for a very long time. The guy she is with now has her wrapped around his finger and she has loaned him millions of dollars. What started out as a $100K favor has turned into millions and there does not seem to be any end in sight. The fact that he is using the money for some questionable investments and to support a mistress and his ex and also to pay off other investors for some failed enterprises should have her worried. It has her family worried, but they can;t tell her what to do with her money. They can and have had her sign documents to make sure that the boyfriend can't get his hands on any of the family money.


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As requested, a status update on my progress:
I've been using .Net now for just over a week, and I have to say that I'm
enjoying most of it.
I still take 30mins sometimes to look up some obscure information, and I
haven't attacked the ADO.Net stuff yet (saving that - erk), but I'm whizzing
along happily on most of the other stuff.
One difficulty I experience is knowing whether or not there is a simpler way
of implementing something.
For example, I have some classes that contain collections of other types of
objects, and I first used an ArrayList. I began to implement an interface to
an XML file usng XMLDocument so that each class could read its own subtree,
and spawn child classes when required.
I then discovered (when reading the Professional VB.Net 2nd Edition - an
_excellent_ book) that the XMLSerializer would do this for me.
I changed all my ArrayLists to Dictionary class (better suited to my
requirements)... then discovered that they can't be XMLSerialized :/
This too and fro process is a bit of a pain, but at least once you have
discovered these issues once, they have similarities throughout the
Reading (and answering) the questions in these technical forums helps a
great deal. Spending 20mins coding a solution to a question is a brilliant
way to force yourself to learn a new area, and I was chuffed (English word)
today to find that I not only managed to get delegates down to a 'T', but
also came up with a nifty way of dynamically triggering events from
dynamically created timers.
However, my overall appraisal of VB.Net and its complexity remains
unaltered. I still think it is a very tricky thing for conventional VB
developers to come to terms with, and I'm now experiencing that first hand
as one of my friends (who has programmed VB and VBA for about 8 years)
struggles to grasp many of the concepts of the strong object usage in .Net.
I am convinced that the only reason I am able to pick it up quickly is
because of my experience in Java and C++. I now frequently find my mindset s
witching into the OO design mode where I consider subclassing existing
objects to solve a problem, and I'm at the point where the decision to
subclass no longer fills me with dread as it did when I first started
("Damnit, where's that example code with all the syntax I need in the
Moron's Guide to VB.Net?")
As a genuine comment (and this is _not_ flame bait), I would suggest that
while strong VB developers with a little OO experience could probably pick
this up and run with it in relatively short time, it is a thought process
modification (or 'paradigm shift' as they sometimes call it) that will
almost certainly defeat any weak developers, so that rules out about 50%-70%
of the VB6 people out there :/
Just read some of the support questions to get an idea of what I mean. It's
not the questions about specific bugs that are worrying (we all miss the
obvious problems sometimes), it's the descriptions of what people are trying
to do that shows how little people actually _think_ about the problem they
have to solve, and hence the solution they are creating.
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Kevin McCarthy "deeply saddened and troubled by news of the shooting."
Thursday's school shooting at Taft Union High School prompted immediate reactions from the elected and appointed officials representing Taft.
Mayor Paul Linder was at the scene of the shooting Thursday morning, along with councilmen Dave Noerr and Orchel Krier.
"It's shocking," Linder said. "You don't expect something like this to happen here."
Linder spoke briefly to the Midway Driller after a press conference that attracted national media attention.
He said he things the community will rally and come through the tragic event.
"Taft is very resilient," he said.
Congressman Kevin McCarthy came to Taft after the shooting, too.
Before he came though, he released this statement.
"I am deeply saddened and troubled by news of the shooting. Judy and I offer our prayers to the victims, their families and the entire Taft community," McCarthy said.
Reactions came in from state officials, too.
•Senator Jean Fuller (R-Bakersfield) said this after hearing of the shooting:
"My thoughts and prayers are with the students, faculty, families and first responders at Taft Union High School this morning. At this moment, their safety and well-being is paramount.
Let me be absolutely clear. Violence directed at our children and teachers in schools is unacceptable.
Not more than a month ago, the nation turned its attention to the horrific violence that occurred in Newtown. As a local resident and community member, elected official and former educator, I know Taft well. It's a community also made up of proud and hard-working residents who send their children to schools to learn.
Those responsible for the deplorable action today must be prosecuted to the full extent of the law."
•Assemblywoman Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield) released the following statement:
"Tragedies like this remind us of the value of every single human life. I commend the quick thinking of the faculty and compassion of the first responders, and my thoughts and prayers are with the students and families of Taft Union High School."
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson also commented:
"Our hearts go out to the family and the student who was critically injured today at Taft High School, as well as to the entire school community. I commend the heroic actions of the classroom teacher and the campus supervisor who risked their safety to protect students, no doubt saving lives in the process. I am also grateful for the swift arrival of police and their arrest of the suspect.
"Our schools must be safe places for students, and today's events remind us we have work to do—as a state and as a nation—to reach that goal."
•Christine Lizardi Frazier, Kern County Superintendent of Schools released a statement :
"Today's shooting at Taft High School reminds us that violence can happen anywhere and at any time.
I appreciate and applaud the excellent work of law enforcement, the school district and heroic individuals who helped to diffuse this situation quickly.
The Kern County Superintendent of Schools office and our school and community partners have and will continue to offer our resources to assist the Taft community.
My heart goes out to those injured in this shooting.
The safety of students is our number one priority, and we will continue to work together as a community to strengthen our safety efforts."
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TRAINING: Tired
When and why did you start training for fighting? I started training because I loved martial arts and the competitive aspect of it.
What ranks and titles have you held? None
Do you have any heroes? No
What does it mean for you to fight in the UFC? It means everything to be fighting for the biggest promotion in the world. It shows that if you work hard, dreams do come true
Did you go to college and if so what degree did you earn? I went to Golden West College and to Cal State Fullerton. I was studying for my business marketing degree
What was your job before you started fighting? I only worked for my parents at their liquor store in Santa Ana as a kid growing up.
Specific accomplishments in amateur competition? I took second at the So Cal Golden Gloves in Amateur Boxing and second at the jiu-jitsu Pan Americans in 2003
Ranks in any martial arts styles: Black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and karate
Favorite grappling technique: Sweeps
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I had a nice weekend, other than the fact that all four of my NFL teams lost and two of my fantasy hoops teams laid a complete egg on Sunday to give me a couple of excruciating losses. Oh, and I lost Kevin Love in a few leagues, as well. Jared Dudley, Jordan Crawford, Bradley Beal, Emeka Okafor and Rudy Gay were some of the guilty parties. Oh well, moving onto Week 11.
Before setting your lineup for Week 11, check out the Injury Report, Saturday Dose and Waiver Wired. And you can follow me on Twitter by clicking here.
Games Played Week 11
4 Games - Atlanta, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Houston, Indiana, L.A. Lakers, Memphis, Milwaukee, Minnesota, New Orleans, New York, Oklahoma City, Phoenix, Portland, San Antonio, Utah
3 Games – Boston, Brooklyn, Charlotte, Denver, Golden State, Miami, Orlando, Philadelphia, Sacramento, Toronto
2 Games – Detroit, L.A. Clippers, Washington
LeBron James had a monster week and fought off an ankle and knee injury. He plans on playing through it this week and the only bad news is that the Heat play just three games.
Timberwolves - Kevin Love made headlines on Saturday after news broke that he re-fractured the third metacarpal on his right hand. I'm guessing he'll miss at least a month and could need surgery, so I would be surprised to see him before the All-Star break. And yes, owners in daily leagues need to strongly consider dropping Love at this point. Derrick Williams had 18 points with six boards, two steals and two 3-pointers on Saturday, despite coming off the bench, and deserves a look in fantasy leagues with Love out. Starter Dante Cunningham had 10 points, 12 boards, two steals and three blocks in the start, and is also worth owning in many formats due to Love's injury. Nikola Pekovic was injured on Saturday, aggravating a hip injury, but said afterward that it's not serious. Watch for news on him Monday before sticking him in your lineup, but it sounds like he should be OK. Ricky Rubio is expected back from his back spasms on Tuesday, and his return could cool off J.J. Barea.
Lakers - Dwight Howard tied his career high with 26 rebounds on Sunday, but aggravated his shoulder injury, leaving owners in a bind for this week. He'll have an MRI on Monday, so we won't know his status for his four-game week until those results are in. He said he "couldn't even put his clothes on" on Saturday, so the fact he even played through the shoulder injury on Sunday is a bonus. If he misses time, expect Pau Gasol to suddenly look like Pau Gasol again, while Jordan Hill would also be worth a deep-league look.
Knicks - They play four games this week, but Amare Stoudemire is very iffy to play in both games of a back-to-back on Thursday and Friday. He had 11 points in 17 minutes on Sunday, and should be benched until he catches fire. Carmelo Anthony had 40 points and a monster line on Saturday as the dream season continues, and his owners will be tough to beat with Melo going four times this week.
Denver - Ty Lawson had 21 points and 10 dimes on Sunday and should be good to go after his Achilles' scare.
Suns - Jared Dudley was pretty poor last week, scoring seven or eight points in three of his four games, and only playing well in one of them. I'm still not ready to drop him, but will be benching him in weekly leagues until he A. gets it turned around, or B. loses his starting job. P.J. Tucker, who is starting at small forward for the Suns, had a career-high 17 points on Sunday with a full stat line, and is worth a deep-league look.
Heat - LeBron James had a monster four-game week and fought through ankle and knee injuries, but plans to keep chugging along. The only bad news for fantasy owners is that the Heat play three games this week instead of four.
Bobcats - Gerald Henderson came off the bench on Sunday and scored just six points, making him worth a spot on fantasy benches this week, while Ben Gordon went off for 18 points against his former team, the Pistons. Gordon is worth a look, but will be unreliable while coming off the bench. Bismack Biyombo racked up his second double-double of the season with 10 points and 17 boards, but didn't block a shot on Sunday. He hasn't blocked a shot in three straight games and six or fewer points in four of his last five games, so he's still a shaky fantasy start, at best. Tyrus Thomas started for the Cats on Sunday and had 13 points, five rebounds, a steal and a block in 38 minutes, and it's probably time to pick him up, and hope that his routine of teasing owners and then burning them, is over. Keep in mind that Hakim Warrick was out with the flu, adding to Thomas' heavy work load last night, while Byron Mullens appears to be nearing a return from his severely sprained ankle.
Pistons - Austin Daye backed up his season-high 20-point performance without a single point on Sunday and played just 11 minutes. Playing time will be an issue for Daye all season, and his hot streak might officially be over. Rodney Stuckey scored 18 for the Pistons, but appeared to aggravate his ankle injury, so watch for updates on his status on Monday.
Raptors - Jose Calderon double-doubled in another start, while Kyle Lowry had 10 points and eight dimes in 23 minutes. Both players are worth a start, but the timeshare is going to get old quickly. Ed Davis struggled on Sunday with four points and three boards, while Amir Johnson started in place of Aaron Gray (flu) and went off for 19 points, nine boards and three blocks for the Raptors. Alan Anderson had a career-best 27 points and a full stat line, and has played very well over the last week or so. As long as he's playing well, Terrence Ross is going to struggle. Additionally, Ross suffered an ankle sprain on Sunday and didn't return. If he's out, Anderson looks like a decent play this week, along with Calderon, Lowry, Davis and Johnson.
Clippers - Jamal Crawford hopes to play on Wednesday despite a foot injury, but with just two games this week, most Clippers should be benched anyway.
Mavericks - Despite coming off the bench due to Dirk Nowitzki's return to the starting lineup, Vince Carter had 17 points in overtime on Saturday with three 3-pointers, five boards, three dimes, two steals and two blocks, and it looks like he's still hot enough to start in all leagues. Especially with Dallas going four times this week. Dirk had 20 points in the start, and it looks like it should be safe to put him back in starting fantasy lineups, as well.
Spurs - Kawhi Leonard had just two points in 27 minutes on Saturday and if I owned him, I would have cut him long ago. Some of my colleagues don't agree with me on Leonard, but the fact of the matter is that he's been useless so far. Maybe he'll get hot at some point, but I don't have the patience to wait for it to happen.
76ers - Spencer Hawes had a season-high 22 points with six boards and a steal on Saturday and is worth a look in all leagues despite coming off the bench and some extreme inconsistency. Hawes shot 6-of-22 in his previous two games, scoring six points in each of them, but is averaging 11.4 points, 8.4 rebounds and 1.4 blocks over his last five games.
Hornets - Al-Farouq Aminu started on Saturday and had 10 points, 13 rebounds, three steals and a block, and has played well in two straight games. As long as he's out of the doghouse and starting, he's worth a look again, and I'm going to start him in my 30-team league.
Magic - Hedo Turkoglu had just one point and missed all five of his shots on Saturday, and is simply a mess right now, as expected. He's yet to hit double digits in scoring this season and has a lot of rust to shake off. He's hit just 7-of-27 shots in his four games and should be left on benches until he works out his issues. Arron Afflalo and Jameer Nelson both scored 29 points for the Magic on Saturday and Afflalo is feeling it, averaging 23 points and 1.6 3-pointers over his last five. Nelson is also hot despite missing a couple games with a hip injury, and is averaging nearly 26 points, seven assists and a whopping five 3-pointers over his last three games. The Magic play just three times this week, but both players should be in most lineups. As for which Orlando power forward to roll with, Andrew Nicholson and Josh McRoberts are sharing time, and I'd stay away from them, as well as Gustavo Ayon. Center Nikola Vucevic, on the other hand, remains hot and should be in lineups, averaging 13 points, 16 rebounds, 1.2 steals and 1.2 blocks over his last five.
Nets - Andray Blatche had 15 points, 11 boards and two blocks off the bench on Saturday and has now double-doubled in two straight games. With Reggie Evans older than dirt and Kris Humphries injured and struggling to find his place in the rotation, Blatche is suddenly relevant again. He's not must-own, but is worth a look if you need a big man. The Nets crushed the Kings in a blowout on Saturday, and rode their bench heavily, so it's hard to get too excited about Blatche or any of the other bench players who came to life in the blowout.
Kings - DeMarcus Cousins is on fire and had 28 points and 11 boards on Saturday for his fifth straight double-double. He's averaging 22 points, 14 rebounds, five assists and 1.6 steals over his last five games, and if there was ever a time to sell high, as well as get him in your lineup, it's right now. Tyreke Evans is hoping to return for the Kings on Monday and should come off the bench. His return will theoretically hurt John Salmons, but Evans may not be moving at full speed, either. I would not start him in a weekly league if you have options. Marcus Thornton was out again on Saturday and I'd bench him until you actually see him play in a game.
Hawks - Lou Williams exploded for a season-high 28 points and five 3-pointers on Saturday and is averaging 19 points, six dimes and 3.4 3-pointers over his last five. With four more games this week, he's obviously a must-start in any sized league.
Pacers - Roy Hibbert had 20 points, 15 rebounds on Saturday for his first double-double since Dec. 14, and owners have to be hoping this is means his terrible slump is over. He hit 8-of-16 shots in that one and is shooting 52% over his last three games, which is a great sign.
Wizards - John Wall is hoping to return in the next couple weeks, but don't expect him to blow up right off the bat. It's going to be baby steps with Wall. Jordan Crawford played just 15 minutes for two points on 1-of-7 shooting Sunday after scoring 20-plus points in his previous two games. There are no reports of an injury, so I'm just hoping it was a random benching. The Wiz only have two games this week, so most of them should be benched in weekly leagues.
Cavaliers - Anderson Varejao could return on Wednesday, but I wouldn't put him into starting lineups right now unless you're options are limited.


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People also gathered outside the military hospital where Chavez died. Soldiers in riot gear stood shoulder to shoulder guarding the complex.
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Andover High School graduate Laura Grimmer has written a novel loosely based on her experiences while caring for very ill burn patients.
Burnt is a fictional story "about a group of patients in a Burn ICU who embark on a grand adventure in a fantasy world," said Grimmer.
Grimmer, a 2003 graduate of AHS, attended Brown Medical School in Rhode Island and is currently a general surgery resident at Rush University in Chicago.
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"Because my novel is a little shorter than the typical novel, and because it is my first book, finding a traditional publisher would be difficult," Grimmer said. "I ended up publishing through CreateSpace, which is owned by Amazon. I knew that most of my sale would come through Amazon and Kindle sales, so I felt comfortable using this as the platform to release my novel."
She may not have had previous aspirations to write a book. But she now has the writing bug.
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A definite hooray for the ol' U.S. for advancing it to the Sucra 16 of the World Cup. And if our boys continue to advance, that's good news.
That said, the team I'm rooting strongest for is host Brazil, henceforth to be spelled Brasil in this column.
This is no case of frontrunning, choosing a perennially powerful team playing in its own country. Not at all.
I'm pulling for Brasil due to a fascination with these one-name athletes. A bunch of Brasil's players are not just known by one name – like we old-time Red Sox fans called Boston players Boomer or Yaz or Looie. We're talking names as they appear on the official World Cup/FIFA rosters.
It's certainly nothing new. Soccer's legend, Edson Arantes do Nascimento, went by one name: Pele. And a few years back, there was Colombian soccer standout, crazy-haired Valderrama. (To show you how of futbal out-of-touch I am, consider that a week ago I was asking if Valderrama was playing in this World Cup. He retired from soccer in 2004)
About half of the official Brasil roster consists of these one-namers. My favorites are the names that are uncool, the ones that lack the flair of Pele or Valderrama. We're talking about the Everyman one-namers.
You real soccer fans know them well. They are Oscar. Jo. And, of course, Fred.
Fred? Yes, Fred. How can you not pull for Fred? (Digression: This brings to mind of how a friend of mine years ago, excited to be going on his first horse ride, suffered a severe enthusiasm drop when he saw his horse was named Fred. Not Thunderbolt. Not Dynamite. Not SuperSonic. Fred.)
Back to soccer, the Brasilian one-namers also include Hulk. He's a forward. Another famous one-namer, Kaka, did not even make the Brasilian team this year. Guess Kaka played like it in tryouts.
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Sorry it took me so long, I read it when it first arrived, but forgot to send you a reply.
It's packed up and should be going out in a day or two.
For everyone else, still no word from YDNA.
At this point, there is no telling what is actually going on. Whatever it turns out to be, I'll post it up, and I will not be astonished in the least, even if it turns out he was abducted by aliens.
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Finally heard back from YDNA:
At least he's honest about it.Originally Posted by Email from YDNA
Got another update from YDNA this afternoon.
Nothing is ever as easy as it should be. . . . . . .Originally Posted by Email from YDNA
I'm already looking for new solenoids to fit the existing manifolds.
Sorry the news ain't better.
Just Checking in and see if anything new has happened!
YDNA is at a dead end with the Chaos boards.Originally Posted by manwe33
I have found a new solenoid with a smaller coil which the board is supposed to be able to shift.
I'll be sending it to him in the next day or two, and we'll see where it goes from there.
When I know more, I'll post it here ASAP.
I'm sorry this has dragged on for so long, but at this point, did you really expect it to go otherwise?
When it comes to this project, I've come to expect the worst, and plan for the inconceivable, 'cause it seems not matter how bad I expect the news to be, it's worse.
I may get ahead of it yet though, hang in there.
Well, YDNA has had some success with the new solenoids, but he's still not done yet.
Now I only need to find ~$875 to buy new solenoids with.
I also have eye covers here that were done by a machinist that works with Paintball4Me.
They look good, but I haven't measured them yet (no reason to suspect they're wrong, I just want to be sure, given my luck on this project thus far).
I will be including a set of them with every marker and frame kit. Raw, but I don't dare risk sending them to ano, for fear that they either won't return, or they'll take a year to be finished.
When I get some pics of them taken, I'll post them here.
Until then, that's all I've got. Hope that's enough.
Have a good 4th of July everyone.
Great news. So your back on doing the eye covers. I like the sound of thatOriginally Posted by CoolHand
Any news on the Super ULE rails?Originally Posted by manwe33
Originally Posted by manwe33
If I had anything to tell you, I'd post it up, but I haven't heard back from YDNA.Originally Posted by going_home
I poked him a couple of days ago, but I haven't heard back yet.
Sorry, no dice.
When I hear back from him, you all will be the first to know.
Ouch, that's a heavy price.. To bad they still aren't ready.. I'll wait for you to sell a bunch and for the price to come down
Also the trigger runs on a bit after you stop, that's an issue I would like to see addressed before I'd get one.. 'Sorry I shot you 12 times man, my marker doesn't stop shooting till it wants to.. I have no control" hehe..
Seriously?Originally Posted by Tym
You post to bag on a project that's going as ****tily as this one is, posing as a potential customer?
Go away.
To the guys stuck in this thing with me - I have been unable to raise YDNA for a month or better now. I do not know what is going on. Hopefully he is just busy. If he hoses me too, I'm not sure where we'll go from there.
If/When I hear from him, I will post it here.
Originally Posted by Tym
Thats nothing to do with the trigger,.... its the code that TAG was famous for.
IE: adding shots you didnt actually pull the trigger for.
Ryan said it was in PSP ramp,... and he said it was in "hard ramp".
That means in TAG code ----> 15BPS from the minimum trigger pulls (3),.. then 15bps from then there out (which is what he was pulling),... then adding shots (bank 14 in the code),.... then an ultra low debounce setting (anything less than 5 adds 5 shots on TAG code)
Taken right from the manual,........ minus the "this is cheater code" part
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Coolhand, it looks like you've had all the luck of a two legged, one eyed dog named Joab wiht this project.
And before anyone says it or anyone gets titchy, that wasn't a knock on coolhand. Something tells me if I was going to trash him, he wouldn't have been the first and only machinist I discussed custom milling my evil-m with at length. I don't have a place inline, though I wish I could afford to buy one and have one of his frames. He and I have had words in the past, but I like the guy from my dealings with him, I like his products, and was just offering some levity in the thread.
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He's incredibly busy designing the new Quest for FEP's comeback. Here's what he's got so far:Originally Posted by CoolHand
Right you are on that one, I have had crap luck on this one.Originally Posted by txaggie08
If nothing else, it has taught me this: If it cannot be done in-house, it cannot be counted on to get done at all.
Warbeak - Hmmmmmmm. . . . .
That frame looks awful familiar, doesn't it? That might explain why he's not talking to me anymore. I wonder if I can find anyone else to work on these boards that can screw me as well?
I hate this industry, I really do.
I hope the whole thing drowns in Chinese junk, preferably sooner rather than later.
Hey Ryan, Im not sure if I have asked you this, but have you tried to get the noids to work with a Scenario Dreams UTB board? They seem pretty versatile .
I'd give you whatever help I can when I get back to the states. how much souldering has to be done and what is it on? I can do wiring cleanly and pretty quickly(and would be willing to work in exchange for a break on design work for milling) but I'm not setup to do work on actual PCB's at this point.
Lemme know if you need help with wiring harnesses or something, I'll be back in the states in a little over a month from today.
I'm curious about the UTB as well. if it's wiring mess, I'm pretty sure we could kick a harness up that's pretty clean.
Andy has my EM Ripper frame, my Devil Mag frame, a morlock board, and an Ego frame.
He said he sent it in the mail,... but of course he didnt insure it for the $1,000 I did when I sent it all to him.
,.. and it hasnt ever shown up @ my door.
Good Luck Ryan
Not insuring packages is bad business, especially for that kind of money, whether it's the fourteen year old PBN kiddie or a proper business. 5$ saves you your reputation and the customer hundreds of $$$$
I've not tried a T-Board, but if it works or not, I can't afford to buy 15 new boards now anyway (anymore than I can afford to buy 15 new solenoids).
My awesome paying day job stopped paying altogether (to say nothing of paying awesomely) over a year ago.
The only money I have coming in, is what I can drum up selling products I've invented and built myself, and the labor I make off the occasional custom pistol or rifle I get to build.
No one is loaning money right now, so I couldn't finance a big project if I wanted to, and I cannot spare the $1,000-$1,500 it would take to start from scratch on the electronics for these things.
The problem I have, is that it takes time to build them, and I can't find a company that will stay in business long enough for me to get them all out the door.
TAG sold me a bill of goods and bailed, AFTER I'd designed the entire thing around their boards. I redesigned things to work with the Chaos boards, and THEY went out of business 15 mins after they sent me an entire batch of defective boards.
Given my track record, SD will go tits up about two hours after I place my order (which would be fine, 'cause I don't have the money to pay them if they did somehow miraculously deliver a perfect product anyway).
Now YDNA has ALL the Chaos boards, ALL the solenoids, ALL the harnesses, and ALL the components that I have already bought, and I haven't heard a peep out of him in well over a month, despite repeated attempts to raise him. I appear to be well and properly hosed.
I have the actual mechanical stuff here, anodized and finished, waiting to be assembled. That stuff has been done for over a year now.
I simply CANNOT get this damned electronic monkey off my back.
AND, even better, if I could find a magical white knight to save my ***, I don't have the money to pay the guy anyway, so I'm hosed either way.
I'll say it again.
I hate this industry.
You guys have been better than great. You've been unbelievably patient, so don't take this rant as any way directed at you all. I'm just grumpy, and broke, and still no closer to finishing this @#$%^*!@$$# project, so I'm venting.
Sorry I offended you man, I was just giving my opinion.. I would totally be interested in buying one, but as I said after the price comes down and the kinks are worked out.. I'm not bagging on anything. Just thought the entire point of posting this in a forum was to get feed back..Originally Posted by CoolHand
I hope it all works out, Sorry again.
That's just it, the price is never coming down, the options are never changing. I'm not doing any more of these cursed things, and the ones I've already made the parts for are long past the point of making changes. That die is cast.Originally Posted by Tym
This wasn't an R&D thread, it was a BST thread, and when the preorders are finally delivered (just shortly before hell freezes over, and fools stop running our government), I will sell the remaining parts in kit form and be done with the whole debacle forever.
The things work flawlessly, when I have boards to run them.
Without boards, they are expensive paperweights.
At this point criticism, constructive or otherwise, is entirely useless, 'cause if I had boards, the product would have already been delivered. The time for implementing "tweaks" has long, long, long, long since passed.
They are what they are, and if I get them done before I die, I will do a damned happy dance (even if it means breaking my hip).
Also, don't worry, I'm going to put a clause in my will that if I should kick it before you guys get your stuff, the executor of my estate will be given the task of being forever jerked around by the board suppliers.
No, really, if I kick it, I'll have them send what I've got done to the owners (you guys), and cut you a refund out of my life insurance money or something.
If I happen to invent something wonderful and lucrative in the mean time, I will divert the cash to re-do the boards, solenoids, harnesses, and daughter boards once again.
Until then, I have to hope that YDNA has a crisis of conscience and finishes the stuff up so he can send it all back to me.
I'm not holding my breath though . . . . . . .
Hey CoolHand, all I can say is ouch!
And I wish you better luck with this.
You have an important PM waiting for you
~ P8nt
Coolhand, if I can find a used UTB I'll grab it and send it your way to test. (p8nt may already have a solution though). I had one in my hands a few months ago and sold it to a friend or I'd let you have that one. Maybe y'all can figure something out with SD on pricing enough to get them running...dunno. Hopefully YDNA will get off his backside and fess up or finish up.
Dumb question, will a bushy board run this bugger? I bet those could be had DIRT CHEAP.
The Chaos boards were Bushmaster replacements, but they only output 5V to the coil (when operating correctly, as I got them, they mostly put out ~1.2V), which isn't enough to shift the coils on my solenoids.Originally Posted by txaggie08
I'm talking to P8nt, and I will rattle YDNA's cage over and over until he gets me my stuff back.
I feel better than I did last night, there is still some hope, but I don't want to gin up a bunch of hope and then have to dash it again, so don't anyone get worked up yet.
When/If there really is good news, I'll post and lay it on you all.
Until then, hang in there, I haven't scuttled the ship yet.
It's actually an exact copy of the original Quest frame from back in 2006 with the exception of the new style trigger guard and .45 grips (although that's not final at all). And I sure hope it doesn't go under lol, this is my next gun. Quests are amazing! Good luck getting a hold of him though. All us Quest fanatics are screaming for this gun to come out. Hopefully we haven't derailed your project.Originally Posted by CoolHand
YDNA GOT BACK TO ME TODAY!!!!!Originally Posted by warbeak2099
He was busy with this project you're talking about.
It looks like I'm going to need to go with different solenoids, but that seems to be the fix we need.
He still needs to do some more testing, but we're getting closer.


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Selectman John George Jr. was arrested Wednesday and charged with embezzlement and conspiracy as the owner of the Union Street Bus Co., which ran the local SRTA contract for 17 years and received federal funds, the U.S. Attorney's office announced.
DARTMOUTH — Selectman John George Jr. was arrested Wednesday and charged with embezzlement and conspiracy as the owner of the Union Street Bus Co., which ran the local SRTA contract for 17 years and received federal funds, the U.S. Attorney's office announced.
George, a former state representative and owner of John George Farm and a neighboring Slocum Road ice cream stand, denied the charges when contacted Wednesday night.
"It's not true, and the word that best describes this is bull----," he said.
George also said he will not resign from the town's select board.
Word of his arrest stunned residents of the town where George has long been a prominent businessman and community leader.
"I'm shocked," said Selectman Stanley Mickelson. "He's one of the nicest people I have ever met and someone I could trust with my children, for crying out loud."
From roughly 1994 to 2011, George's Union Street Bus Co. held the Southeastern Regional Transit Authority contract to run the SRTA bus system serving the New Bedford and Fall River region.
The federal indictment alleges that George, 68, conspired with others to have his bus company employees work at his North Dartmouth farm and home and perform farm-related work at SRTA facilities during regular working hours, according to the U.S. Attorney's office.
"Such farm work included plowing, loading produce and operating a produce stand at JG (John George) Farm, all during USBC (Union Street Bus Company) business hours," the U.S. Attorney's office said in a news release.
As part of the conspiracy, George allegedly deployed USBC workers to his farm to repair George's farm equipment; used USBC equipment and labor to provide personal out-of-state roadside assistance; and inflated his final yearly salary from $75,000 to $275,000 in an attempt to fraudulently boost his SRTA pension, the U.S. Attorney's office said in the release.
The government also charges that in 2010, George advised the then SRTA administrator to limit public advertisement for the SRTA contract bidding process to reduce competition in its bid for the 5-year contract; and that same year he directed certain USBC managers and employees to attend a $100-per-person political fundraiser to assist him in his efforts to get the SRTA contract renewed, according to the affidavit.
In September 2011, the SRTA Advisory Board named First Transit of Cincinnati, the low bidder, as its new bus provider. First Transit bid $953,736 for a five-year contract. Union Street Bus Co., which held the contract for 20 years, bid $1,503,555.
In November of that same year, George was bypassed for the position of SRTA administrator by the Advisory Board in place of the current administrator.
The charge of embezzlement from an organization that receives federal funds carries a sentence of up to 10 years in prison with three years of supervised release and a fine of $250,000, the U.S. Attorney's office said.
The charge of conspiracy to defraud the U.S. carries a possible sentence up to five years in prison, three years of supervised release and a fine of $250,000, although sentences are typically less than the maximum, the news release said.
George's attorney, Thomas R. Kiley of Boston, said they only learned of the charges on Wednesday.
"He will be pleading not guilty because he is not guilty and we intend to vigorously defend against the charges," Kiley said.
Except for Mickelson, George's colleagues on the Select Board had little to say about the indictment.
"That's news to me," said Select Board Chairman Michael P. Watson.
Asked whether George should resign from the board, both Watson and Shawn D. McDonald declined to comment.
Mickelson said he would rather not answer the question, saying it is "too early" to think about it.


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Classes and Starting Attributes
|Starting Attributes
Racial Traits
Arcane Torrent (Instant cast, 2 minute cooldown)
Silence all enemies within 8 yards for 2 seconds. In addition, you regain 6% of your mana. Death Knights and Rogues restore 15 runic power/energy instead.
Arcane Affinity (Passive)
10 point skill bonus to Enchanting Profession
Magic Resistance (Passive)
Reduces the chance to be hit by spells by 2%
General Assessments
Here I go over each class with an analysis based purely on stats. A lot of people on forums like to ask what race their should pick for a certain class, and the answer they receive is always the same, "go for whichever race appeals to you most visibly". But these people aren't asking which race looks the prettiest, they are asking which one will help them the most with the character. The answer they receive is pretty valid, it really doesn't matter. But, that doesn't mean it can't help as well.
While your race does not make a huge difference in the overall scheme of how powerful your character will be at end game, it can impact how well you do early on. Oftentimes a player will start a character and then decide within the first 10 levels whether or not they like the character. So, it's important to start off with a solid race/class combination if you're not one for sticking it out for a while to really give the character a chance.
If you ignore the long term and start out looking just at the base starting attributes then I find the following.
If you ask me, Arcane Torrent is clearly the winner for the Blood Elf's racial traits. It's good no matter what level you are. Every class relies on some form of energy (mana, energy, runic power, rage), and this ability gives you a percentage of that back instantly an for free. In addition to that it interrupts spell casting in an area around you. This is one of the few racial traits in the game that is beneficial to every class that is available for the race to play.
Having Arcane Affinity is great if you happen to be an enchanter, basically allowing you to level the skill up with fewer mats early on and then letting you get a little further ahead before having to get more expensive or harder to find materials later in your levels. Obviously situational as it does nothing at all for you if you do not have the profession, but it's good if you do have it.
Out of all of racial resistances in the game, Magic Resistance is probably the best one all around as it affects every type of spell rather than a single type and is essentially a 2% Dodge versus spells. You will face casters more and more as you move up in your levels, so it plays a larger role later than it does early on, but it's a nice passive bonus to have.
Class Analysis
Mage: Your 27 Intellect puts you right in line with the Gnome with the two highest Int scores in the game starting out. The 18 Stam is still decent though it could be higher, but 21 Spirit will help with your regen. Enchanting is one of the most common professions for a mage, so if that happen to be the route you prefer to take then Arcane Affinity will be a nice bonus for you. And of course you have the mini-Evocation known as Arcane Torrent that will restore 6% of your mana when used.
Rogue: The 25 Agility helps make you a solid choice for a Rogue with 18 Strength and 19 Stam backing you up. The high agility makes up for the somewhat lower strength score, and Arcane Torrent allows you to not only shut down one of your worst opponents (spell casters), but also gives you a 15 point boost to your energy every 2 minutes.
Warlock: Just below the Mage at 26 Intellect you too will have a great start on your mana pool. The 19 Stam could certainly be higher for a class that sacrifices their hit points for more mana, but 19 is still a great start. The 21 Spirit will help with your regen early on and Warlocks are eventually able to convert Spirit into additional Spell Power to make their spells stronger as well. The extra mana from Arcane Torrent will help you just as well, allowing you to get mana back without having to lose your hit points as you do with Life Tap. Warlocks also frequently take Enchanting as one of their professions making you a bit more likely to make use of Arcane Affinity than some of the other classes.
Hunter: The 25 Agility sets you up with a strong base of ranged attack power and the Hunter is able to take advantage of the 24 Intellect you start with as well. Hunter damage falls way behind when there is no mana to back you up, so Arcane Torrent can be a real benefit to you.
Paladin: The 19 Strength starts you off a bit lower than the other choices for Paladin, but considering you are the only option for Horde until Cataclysm is released, that's something you just have to deal with. Luckily you have 22 Agility to help with dodging and melee crits, a 20 Stamina to keep your hit points high, and 24 Intellect gives you the mana you need to keep on going. A Paladin without mana might as well be dead, so having not only a high base Int but also Arcane Torrent allows you to somewhat overcome that problem. Your biggest threat is spell casters, so being about to silence them with Arcane Torrent as well as being 2% harder to hit thanks to Magic Resistance .
Priest: Much like the other casters 26 Intellect along with 22 Spirit will help with your mana issues, and your 18 Stam is decent though it could use a boost. Again you can make excellent use of Arcane Torrent to get your mana back when you need it. And Priests also frequently take Enchanting as one of their professions if you want to make use of Arcane Affinity as well.
Psynister Preferences
My personal preference for the Blood Elf is the Paladin. The benefits of this race cover the weaknesses of the Paladin class making it an almost perfect match. Following that I would go Mage, Rogue, and then all of the rest. Considering the racial traits offered by other Horde races, Hunter is not the best choice for you, but there's certainly nothing wrong with being a BElf Hunter.


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In Jersey City, the administration of Mayor Steven Fulop had been in office for less than a month when City Council President Rolando Lavarro Jr., a Fulop ally, publicly asked his colleagues to end health benefits for board members and commissioners who sit on the city's Municipal Utilities Authority (MUA) and the Jersey City Incinerator Authority (JCIA).
The intent was to phase out costly perks often given to political insiders.
The move was something of a symbolic gesture, only affecting two MUA commissioners, since the council had already passed a law in 2010 at Fulop's behest, requiring that new MUA and JCIA commissioners be barred from receiving city health benefits.
The trend toward curtailing perks like government cars and large sick banks has reached from city halls to Gov. Christopher Christie, who has called on state legislators to end these benefits and lower property taxes.
"This is a trend that was really borne out of the Great Recession," said Stevens Institute of Technology Assistant Professor Jonathan Wharton recently. "The cost of running government increased, due to rising health care and retirement costs, at a time when regular working people couldn't afford tax increases to pay for those escalating costs."
Since many of these perks have been phased out in recent years, taxpayers have focused more attention to the ones that remain in place.
There are numerous bodies in Hudson County that still give out benefits and small stipends for various positions – sometimes warranted for hours of work, sometimes not, depending on whom one asks. But even the smallest stipend or benefits package can become a lucrative reward for a loyal political ally.
County freeholders
Hudson County's nine part-time county freeholders vote on policy and budgets for the county. They earn an average salary $39,147 and are eligible to receive a county-owned car, although not all freeholders accept the cars. In addition, each freeholder is given a budget of $20,000 to hire part-time aides for constituent services and legislative research.
Each freeholder has about two to four aides, who earn different stipends depending on their experience, the number of hours they work, and other factors. The aides can earn as much as $7,000 or as little as $1,000.
The trend is to end such political perks as government-owned take home cars and cashing out sick days.
"I couldn't tell you how many people took advantage of the county health care plan," said County Spokesman Jim Kennelly. "Since a lot of these people were eligible to receive benefits from other jobs, a lot of them took health care from their full-time employers or from a spouse. Just because they were eligible for the benefit does not automatically mean they used it."
Under pressure to end health benefits for part-time aides, the freeholders voted in 2011 to end health benefits for any new aides hired in the future. Current aides who had health benefits before this change were granted permission to continue to receive benefits.
Due to turnover, many aides who were working then since have left.
At present, only one freeholder aide, Carmelo Garcia, who also serves full-time as Hoboken Housing Authority director and is running for state Assembly, is still eligible to receive county health benefits under the old law. Garcia, an aide to Freeholder Anthony Romano, receives a $1,500 per year annual stipend. But Garcia said last week that he has always declined the county's health plan.
"I have always been eligible, but have always refused to use that benefit," he said. "I don't think that any part-timer should get health benefits."
As for the stipend he received for being Romano's aide, Garcia said it is fair, given the number of hours he gives to the freeholder. He said that on paper, he is supposed to work 15 hours a week, but said he typically puts in more than the required hours, despite having a demanding full-time job at the Hoboken Housing Authority.
"At the end of the day I believe I give the county more hours in service than what I'm being paid," he said.
In previous years he made as much as $3,000 annually as a freeholder aide.
Garcia said that if elected to the state Assembly, he would like to work with other legislators to end health care benefits for part-time workers and public volunteers who sit on boards.
"Everyone is aware that health care costs continue to rise," he said. "I think we have to be conscientious of the present state of affairs, which means if I can save taxpayers and permanent full-time employees money within public organizations, then that would be more prudent."
If elected, he said, he also would resign as Romano's aide.
Aides to city council members
In Jersey City, the nine members of the City Council are considered part time. They earn a salary of $33,430 and each get one full-time aide who earns $15,000. The aides are entitled to receive city health benefits.
Even within the reform-oriented Fulop administration, questions have been raised about these benefits and who gets them.
In July, at-large City Councilwoman Joyce Watterman raised eyebrows when she tried to hire her daughter Jennifer Watterman as her aide. She reversed course after Lavarro and others criticized her for the planned hire.
Ward B City Councilman Khemraj "Chico" Ramchal was until recently an aide to Freeholder William O'Dea. He has, however, resigned from this position.
Prior to Fulop's election, members of the City Council were also eligible to receive a municipal car and one free tank of gas each week from the municipal gas station along Route 440. Fulop was the only City Council person who refused to accept this perk. Once elected mayor, Fulop ended the use of municipal cars for nonemergency workers, a plan that went into effect on Aug. 1.
In North Bergen, the five part-time city commissioners receive salaries and health benefits and are given financial resources to hire part-time aides, if they wish. In their form of government, the commissioners also help oversee a city department. The amount of money they get for aides varies depending on their needs.
According to North Bergen Spokesman Phil Swibinski, the commissioners each receive $14,500 as a part-time salary, and Mayor Nicholas Sacco, who is one of the commissioners, receives only $15,000 as a salary. As for aides, two of the commissioners have hired two aides, and one has no aides.
"One difference between the commissioner form of government and the city council form of government (as in Jersey City) is that in North Bergen, the commissioners serve a quasi legislative function," Swibinski explained. "Each of the commissioners serves on the commission, but they each also manage a [municipal] department."
Next door, in West New York, the commissioners are also part-time, but the members do not get health care or aides.
In Secaucus, the council members are eligible for health care but no aides.
In Hoboken, the nine part-time City Council members are eligible for benefits, but do not have paid aides.
Union City represents an interesting case. Because the city receives transitional aid from the state, its part-time officials, elected or otherwise, are supposed to be barred from receiving health benefits. However, sources said that Union City's five commissioners, including Mayor Brian Stack, receive health benefits anyway.
When the Reporter inquired about this in August of last year, both the state Department of Community Affairs and Mayor Stack declined to speak on the matter or even answer the question of whether the commissioners were getting health benefits.
Sources said that Stack's administration applied for and got an exemption from Trenton.
Benefits divide reformers
"Where you see the most anger of these benefits is in places where there have been tax increases, allegations of financial mismanagement, or where a reform-oriented administration is not keeping to the principles on which it ran," said Assistant Professor Wharton.
In Hoboken, where current Mayor Dawn Zimmer ran and won office as a reformer, her supporters were divided after the City Council majority voted in 2010 to appoint Tony Soares to the nine-member North Hudson Sewerage Authority board.
That board helps oversee the sewerage authority, which manages sewer lines in Hoboken, Weehawken, Union City, and West New York. Members get a $5,000 stipend and health benefits.
The Sewerage Authority has often come under scrutiny for alleged double-dipping by public officials. Its commission – Frank Raia, Libero Morotta, Harold Schroeder, Patleo Spaccavento, Alex Velazquez, Brian Kappock, Count Wiley, Erica Zucconi, and Soares – includes a commissioner in West New York and three well-connected political operatives.
Soares, a former city councilman allied with Hoboken's reformer coalition, already was serving in a volunteer position on the city's nine-member Zoning Board. According to media reports at the time, he specifically lobbied for the sewerage appointment because of the stipend and health benefits that would come with the position.
Zimmer and some of her allies on the council, specifically Ravi Bhalla and David Mello, refused to support Soares, even though he had been an ally in the past. They said he should not have positions on two boards at once.
Other reformers supported Soares.
The matter spilled onto local Zimmer-allied blogs, where many angry comments were exchanged, with some saying that it was against reform to put Soares on two boards.
"It isn't about whether or not he is qualified to sit on a board or whether or not he will fight on the issues or not," wrote one blogger in a long post, resulting in 80 comments back and forth.
In the end, Soares received the votes needed to be appointed to the Sewerage Authority, a body on which he continues to sit today. He continues to receive his stipend and health benefits. He has since left the Hoboken Zoning Board.
Most boards in Hudson County are all-volunteer, and they vary in the time commitment. Some zoning or planning board members may spend hours listening to development applications and other matters. Some boards may be particularly important in helping push through a certain mayor's agenda. So even positions that are not financially lucrative may politically powerful.
No more cars in the 'D'
In Detroit, which filed for bankruptcy earlier this year, the city's emergency fiscal manager has been calling on the City Council there to give up their municipally-paid for cars, gasoline, and cell phones to scale back what has been described as a "bloated" local government.
Assistant Professor Wharton said that taxpayers are demanding that governments be run more like the private sector.
In the private sector, he said, employees may declare work-related expenses on tax returns rather than for the company to pay for these expenses. Also, part-time workers rarely get health benefits, and even full-time employees typically make a contribution for health benefits.
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The Jewish holiday observing the Biblical Story of the Exodus from Egypt and the freeing of the Hebrew slaves and also celebrating the coming of Spring will begin on the evening of Monday March 25
thcorresponding to the Hebrew date of the 15th Day of the Month of Nisan. The Festival is observed with celebratory meals on the First and Second Evening. These are called Seder, meaning Order, because the meal and ritual surrounding it consists of 14 parts. The story of the Exodus is retold. Prayers of praise to God before and after the meal are recited. The eating of special symbolic foods symbolizing slavery and then freedom are eaten. The Bible proclaims that for seven days no leavened bread is eaten, only Matzah.
Numbers play an important role in the Seder. There are Four Cups of Wine celebrating Redemption, Four questions that are asked by the younger children concerning the reasons for the celebration; there is an anecdote of how to respond to each of fourtypes of people. The Seder concludes with a symbolic welcoming of the Prophet of Elijah and a special Cup of Wine called ElijahÆs cup, the singing of songs and the childrenÆs search for a piece of Matzah, unleavened bread, called the Afikomen.
This year, as the Congregation has done for many years past, the Seder Meal will be observed at SettlerÆs Inn in Hawley on the Second Night of Passover, Tuesday, March 26. Anyone interested in attending should call Nina Lassley in order to procure reservations.
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DURHAM, N.C. – The 15th-ranked Duke volleyball team clinched the 2013 ACC Championship outright in dramatic fashion, rallying for a five-set (17-25, 25-23, 22-25, 25-23, 21-19) victory over No. 14 North Carolina Friday afternoon in Cameron Indoor Stadium.
Down 2-1 overall, the Blue Devils faced a daunting eight-point deficit late in the fourth frame before rallying to send the match to a fifth stanza. The Tar Heels set up match point at 14-12 in the fifth before the Blue Devils again fought off defeat to earn the ACC's automatic bid to the 2013 NCAA Championship and remain undefeated at 15-0 on their home court.
"It's awesome," said senior Ali McCurdy, "It was a great overall team effort to be able to finish that fifth set point-for-point, back-and-forth between us and UNC. It was great to be able to come out on top and just shows the team effort that's been consistent all year."
Sophomore Elizabeth Campbell led all players with 17 kills while also picking up 18 digs in her fourth double-double of the year. Freshman Jordan Tucker turned in one of the best performances of her young career, amassing a career-high 16 kills to go along with six blocks. The Prairie Village, Kan., native was one of Duke's most consistent targets, hitting .353 on the afternoon.
Sophomore Emily Sklar poured in her ninth double-double, racking up 14 kills and 12 digs, while junior Maggie Deichmeister tossed up 59 assists to go along with 17 digs, marking her ninth double-double of the season as well. Senior Chelsea Cook added seven kills to her team-leading seven block total, and junior Jeme Obeime was the fourth Blue Devil with 10 or more kills, adding 13.
McCurdy once again paced Duke's defense, accumulating 28 digs to lead all players. Freshman Sasha Karelov added 14 to round out a contingent of five Blue Devils in double-digit digs.
"I couldn't be more proud of them because I thought they just stuck together, kept trying to make plays," said head coach Jolene Nagel. "I'm happy for our whole team because they've been a true team this year. [They] really pushed each other every single day, and yet supported each other, and I think that's what got us through today. North Carolina played really well. They're an excellent team. I feel very fortunate to be able to get out of here today with a win."
North Carolina's defense plagued Duke (27-4, 18-2 ACC) to start the match as the Tar Heels picked up the first set, 25-17. UNC posted a .297 hitting percentage to Duke's .064 clip in the opening game.
Despite the early setback, Duke ground out a victory in the second game behind six kills from Campbell. Tied at 22-all, Campbell put down the kill to edge Duke ahead, and a pair of UNC errors ended the set.
Miscues haunted both squads in the third, but North Carolina utilized five Haley McCorkle kills to find a way to come out on top.
North Carolina (27-4, 16-4 ACC) appeared to have the match well in hand following a 25-22 win in the third and a 17-10 lead in the fourth. The Tar Heels' advantage ballooned to 22-14, but the ever-resilient Blue Devils put together a 5-0 run, culminating in a Tucker kill. UNC countered with a Paige Neuenfedlt tally, but the Tar Heels would not register a point the rest of the way as Duke rattled off six straight to complete the comeback. Tucker and Campbell teamed up on the block to narrow the margin to one before Obeime and Tucker combined for Duke's second straight stop to tie the score. Campbell finished off the rally, dropping two consecutive kills to tie the match at 2-2.
"Especially being down that much, it was important not to worry about the score," McCurdy added. "We really just needed to play point-by-point … just forget the score and know it was going to take hard work. Everyone on the floor as well as our bench communicated and we were able to pull it off."
Duke built a 12-10 lead in the final stanza before North Carolina set up match point with a 4-0 spurt. Undeterred, Campbell knocked down the kill and a UNC attack error knotted the score. The two rivals proceeded to trade blows over the next 10 points, resulting in a 19-19 stalemate deep in the fifth. Duke sealed it's the win with a kill from Obeime followed by Campbell's 17th of the afternoon.
The title marks the Blue Devils' 11th conference crown in program history and first since 2010. Nagel has now guided the Blue Devils to four ACC titles – three outright (2006, 2010, 2013) and one co-championship (2008) – during her 15 years in Durham.
The complete, 64-team field for the 2013 NCAA Volleyball Championships will be announced live on ESPNU Sunday, Dec. 1 at 9:30 p.m.