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TONAWANDA, NEW YORK -- I've had an M&T account for the last 5 years. It's been nothing but problems this entire time. 3 years ago I had unauthorized charges to my account, along with several legit pending charges. The unauthorized charged was for nearly $500 and happened after my legit charges. M&T pushed that charge through first causing a $38.50 fee for each of the 5 charges I made. I called customer service and tried explaining the company who charged me had no right to do so, and that they were sending me a refund for the money they had taken, in 3 to 5 business days.
I asked to freeze my account until I received the refund, as I had made a deposit that day and all my money had went to the charges (also you get charged all over again in 5 days). She told me the local branch could do that for me. I went to the branch and the manager Dana completely refused to hear my complaints, basically blamed me for the unauthorized charged. When I pointed out that charge went through first, even though I had others pending before that one, she said there was nothing she could do.
I asked to freeze my account, she said no, I asked for a copy of the contract I signed for the overdraft policy, as I didn't remember signing one, and she said the paperwork wasn't available. She then waved me away and went to talk to someone else. I told my fiancé what happened, (he's white) and he said that sounded like prejudice. He went down to speak to her himself the next day, lo and behold her attitude was completely different. She even managed to sound pleasant and even smile. She did exactly what I had asked the previous day, even waived 3 of the fees. I submitted a complaint against her and M&T with the BBB and they returned all of my money.
I see recently M&T has been hit with various lawsuits that mirror my exact complaints. Customers charged overdraft fees for protection they never signed up for, discriminatory lending and hiring practices, charges rearranged to collect the most fees, the list goes on. I have since closed my account and would never use M&T Bank ever again. Sorry to the people who lost homes and businesses due to these crooks. If you read this, do not patronize M&T bank in any way, do not trust them with home or business loans. They will lie to you and steal from you.
CULPEPER, VIRGINIA -- I've been with this terrible excuse for a financial institution for five years. I had some disputed charges on my account which I started the process on and told to wait for an affidavit which I NEVER RECEIVED. So what do they do? Reverse the damn charges putting me at a negative balance. So I call customer service and was on hold for THIRTY MINUTES! Just to be told that there is nothing they can do because they never got back the form I NEVER RECEIVED! (They claim it was mailed. Yeah right, I check my mail everyday and I always get my mail. They had the audacity to blame the US mail service.) Always nothing they can do and they refuse to work with customers.
I'm switching banks as soon as this business is done with. Atrocious customer service that treats long standing customers like garbage. Way to treat a Navy Yard shooting survivor! The most helpful reviews and complaints are factually correct, include details from your firsthand experience, and have photos.
CORPORATION, MARYLAND -- My account was compromised. M&T allowed 6 fraudulent charges to process and after each one sent an email telling me there was suspected fraudulent activity on my account. They never stopped the charge, they just allowed it then sent me an email after each one. They allowed the criminal to drain all the positive cash in my account and take the account in to a negative by the amount of over 1500.00.
It's two weeks before Christmas. I have two children to buy gifts for and bills due. I have called everyday for 4 days now and after navigating a 5 minute phone tree that runs you in circles hoping you'll just hang up every representative I finally get in touch with is as robotic, uncaring and complacent as the next. They just keep saying we have 10 days to issue you a provisional credit almost bragging. I explain that "I understand that you have 10 days but is there anything anyone can do to speed up that process." They just repeat the script in front of them.
Funny how they allow a criminal to take money out of my account instantly but when it comes time to put it back in it takes 10 days. Please save yourself this nightmare and go to a bank that understands basic customer service.
I will start by saying that I NEVER write reviews. Good, bad or indifferent, I never write them. I have no good reason or excuse, I just don't take the time. However, this time I have pushed to the point that I think people need to know before they sign on with this bank. I opened a car loan with M&T this past June and have had nothing but headaches since. The first month's payment was made at my local branch. I had to wait in line for almost 30 minutes to make this payment (with no apologies for the wait) so I decided I would make the payments through my bank's online bill pay.
I sent the September payment out a few days before it was due and did not think about it again. I received a past due notice yesterday and immediately called M&T. The customer service representative was shockingly rude and totally unwilling to help. I told her my story and she said, "Well, the payment is not here." I asked her to investigate a little to make sure that there were no errors made. She just kept repeating that the payment wasn't there. Infuriated, I hung up. I called my bank this morning and they confirmed that payment in the form of a bank check was sent out on the 8th.
I called M&T back and explained again the situation. This woman told me the same thing the lady last night did, "Gee, the payment isn't here." I told her that I understand that but I am looking for some basic customer service help. I asked her if my bank sends proof of payment can they waive the $49(!!) late fee. She said proof of payment does not mean anything to them because the payment has not been received. I then asked if they would waive the outrageous fee if, when the payment arrives, they see that it is dated 9/8/11. Her response was that a machine processes the incoming payments and nobody will see or note the check date.
I suggested that there is a possibility of an error on their end and maybe my payment was mishandled by "the machine." She told me that was not possible and that she was not able to go to Maryland from Delaware to hand check all the mail to find my payment (yes, she really said this to me). I have not been this furious or disgusted with "customer service" in a long time. I reminded her that this debacle is affecting my credit rating. She assured me that this issue would not be reported for another 14 days. I am speechless.
Customer service 101 would suggest that you tell the customer you will notate the account that payment is on the way and when it arrives we will verify the payment date and adjust the fee accordingly. I have worked in CS for many years and treating customers that are spending their hard earned money with you like they are liars is the fastest way to lose respect and their business. So, this weekend I am moving my business to a different bank. STAY AWAY FROM M&T!
I don't recommend M&T at all. I called in for a stop loan payment on my checking account that is automatically withdrawn 2 weeks in advance and to have some kind of payment book or mail delivered to me so I can get them the money. This is all because that I'm vacationing in California for a while and M&T doesn't exist out here. So the customer service gentleman told me everything was cool after I gave him the information he asked for to complete the task. Down the road I hadn't received any mail and went online to check. Sure enough there's a overdraft of $81.92 and the loan payment normally of $45.71.
So I called their very rude customer service and explained things very rationally and calmly tho no lie I was extremely pissed when they were telling me there was no record of anything and there was nothing they could do. I spoke to the woman very nicely even tho she was a very rude customer service representative about the situation and I just wanted to reverse the charge that was made and have the paperwork that I needed to make the payments sent to me to California from Pennsylvania so they could get their money. I just didn't want the overdraft charge due to MAYBE SOMEONE POSSIBLY HADN'T DONE THEIR JOB???
I eventually spoke to a supervisor and explained it to her. She was even more nasty. I talked to her about the gentleman who possible hadn't done his job but she would not have any of my side of the story. Throwing bank regulations and policies at me raising her voice every time I would try to get a word in. As there was no proof except the time I called it in which should be proof enough that I DID speak to this gentleman. There are many things they could have done for me and we could've worked it out but M&T throws a fit over a small $37 overdraft fee that they lost my business once I pay them the $81 I "owe" them.
Most customer service centers and bank personnel respect those customers who try to understand the banks side and not scream at employees when something goes wrong. Most bank employees will try to help you and do what they can if you present your case nicely... Not M&T. My advice I was being responsible with the knowledge I was given. I was respectful and courteous to the staff because if I was them I wouldn't want someone screaming at me either. In the end you just get stepped on by M&T. Worst bank experience but it's just my opinion.
Aside from the above statement, very nasty customer service, tons of hidden fees and fine print, takes forever for a check or transaction to clear, employees don't have any compassion or common sense; they are a slave to the bank and will spew the regulations at you till they pass out. M&T is by far the worst bank I've ever dealt with and this experience is just one of many problems M&T has given me. Save the trouble and go elsewhere.
SAYRE -- My wife is disabled and needed to find a bank for everyday use, nothing special, we are all forced to use banks in this day and age and should not be subjected to unreasonable NSF fees. She had kept at least $40 in the balance since 12/2/2009 and on 12/24/2009 she had a balance of $47 and made a deposit of $61. When the deposit was made the receipt given had the balance blacked out by the teller, and no explanation was given.
Then she wanted to get some groceries and the card was $0. I went online and got a copy of the account for the past 30 days and found not one substantiated NSF fee and the balance was $108. There were no debits and she uses no checks, only the card. So the first NSF fee was on 12/24/09 with a balance of $90, then another at $18 fee with a balance of $72 then another for $18 with a balance of $54, and yet another $18 with a balance of $36.
Then on 12/26/09 a PayPal direct payment was in the bank of $80, and the bank did not post it until 12/28/09 at 5:00 pm. No word from them at any time that the account was being drained out of nowhere, until I found out about it from the printout from the online banking. They refused to waive the fees, and said that everyone does this at the holidays. Yeah right I really spent a lot for Christmas after they took every cent I had plus all my deposits and are still charging fees for checking the account.
They said I tried to get money from their ATM when I could not even get a balance without incurring a $37 fee. Who the hell do you banks think you are? If I went into someone's account and stole funds I would be prosecuted, but the banks are above the law and so is the Fed. They are all in the game of bankrupting the people for control of them. Do the research about banks and all the filthy tricks with the books to make it look like you were spending the money, and they are innocent of wrongdoing.
My daughter tried suicide on the 23 of Dec, and was sent to a hospital 155 miles away, and we could not even visit her for Christmas Day, and as far as any presents or food for Christmas? Well we had to beg at the Salvation Army for a box of food. All because of banks illegally taking fees from anyone that they can set up the figures to gain the maximum fees.
We should all do the same thing to them, we all should put a run on the banks in one day, and close them all down. That's right we all should go to the bank on the same day, and close your account out, where would they be then??? Sounds like a plan to me, how about you? This bank is not the only bank doing us in, all the banks are set up to control all the money they handle, and when they cry that they are losing money, who bailed them out with our money??? Obama of course, he's the head of Wall Street and does what Wall Street tells him to do.
BUFFALO, NEW YORK -- My bank was taken over by M&T Bank. They advised me if I have my payroll check direct deposited in my account they will credit the account $150.00. Never happened. A service charge of 24.95 for the month appeared. Talk to the branch the called the main office no credit. What did happen. I closed the account. Don't use this bank thieves.
NEW YORK -- The worst bank I ever dealt with. They charge ATM fees at their own branches. Statement fees without any notification of being charged. Called to have fees refunded waited 30 minutes on the phone and they were rude and said, "Absolutely not." I am closing account and filing complaint with Better Business Bureau and consumer complaints.
When I opened my account last year, the way things were explained to me, and the way it appears in the papers that came with my account is that if I accidentally overdraw my account by less than $10 I won't be charged a fee. However I accidentally overdrew my account by $3.80 because 2 checks I had written months ago and forgotten about finally came out of my account. But the checks were for $15 each. That's what overdrew my account by $3.80. Then I saw the overdraft fee of $37.
So I called to ask why that was applied and see what they could do about it. I don't have a problem paying a fee for ODing my account, but $37 on $3.80 seems a bit extreme and it was a mistake and I admit that. Hell I offered because of how my paper work is to pay half of the fee for my mistake, even though my paper work makes it seem like I have a $10 grace.
It's now been explained to me that "no, that's not how it is. If the purchase that overdrew your account was less than $10 you won't be charged." (Again, this is NOT what is in my paperwork. It can't even be twisted that way in the paperwork I have from when I opened my account.) So as long as you have $.01 in your account you can still make a $9.99 purchase and be fine. How is that fair?
Anyway, I thought that everyone else that banks with M&T and has a "My Choice" Checking account should know this. It was a nasty surprise for me and yes, I know, I made a mistake and I know this is how they make their money. But I'd be so much better if they'd only charge a fee of whatever you overdrew your account by. Because $37 on $3.80 means I'm going to go without grocery shopping for 2 weeks until I get paid again.
I had both business and personal accounts with a local bank, and was very happy with both the service and the lack of fees (free checking) that I had. My bank was purchased by M&T (or as I pronounce it "empty") and everything went downhill fast. The second time that I went to the "new" bank (they actually closed the branch that I had been dealing with because they had an existing one nearby) to make deposits into both my personal and business accounts, they messed it up. They put money into my personal account that should have been put into the business account. That lead to overdrafts on my business account which they paid, but charged a fee to do.
When I went back to the bank to find out where my deposit was, they told me that it was my error, and I had deposited the funds into the wrong account, even though I gave them copies of the deposit slip. They agreed to give me a "courtesy credit" on my account for the fees. I had to write a personal check to the business account to cover the money that was supposed to have been originally deposited into the business account.
When I asked for the copies of the deposit slips back, the woman mysteriously could not find them. They wanted to destroy the evidence of their error. I am not stupid enough to bring my only copy of anything to a dispute, and I told her that it was not a big deal, I had additional copies that I would be sending to the corporate headquarters. Her face dropped, which told me that I could not trust the employees there.
I went the same day and opened a new business account at a different local bank. As soon as that was done, I wrote a business check on the M&T account, leaving a balance of under $5.00. I also went to my credit union, and opened a checking account there for personal use. (They do not offer business accounts.)
Before the end of the statement cycle, I went into the "empty" bank and closed my accounts. Three weeks later I got a notice that I owe fees on my business account, that they had not posted when I had closed the account. For six months I got letters and phone calls demanding payment. A letter from my lawyer seems to have gotten it straight, but in any case they will never see another dime of my money.


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Johnson also talked about immigrants, reiterating that Britain must regain control of immigration through the split form the EU.Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson told the BBC on Sunday wrote: I think the crucial thing is that obviously we are not going to do it before Christmas and I think we've got to do a lot of work to get our ducks in order and that is going on.
I think ... what everybody wants ... is clarity and getting on with it. And not letting the process drag on is the key phrase I would use.
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson told the BBC on Sunday wrote:I want skilled and talented people to come to the UK if they want ... to fulfill their dreams in our country. Then I have no problem with that provided that we have control.
I think for 25 years UK business and industry have been mainlining immigration like a kind of drug without actually investing enough, or caring enough frankly, about the skills and the training of young people in our country.


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NHIAA Baseball: Londonderry's Corey escapes seventh-inning jam in winBy ROGER BROWN
New Hampshire Union Leader
April 19. 2014 8:09PM
LONDONDERRY - Starting pitcher Tom Corey was at his best when his Londonderry High School teammates needed him the most during Saturday's 4-2 victory over Pinkerton Academy of Derry.
Corey, who will play for Franklin Pierce University next season, limited the Astros to one hit through the first six innings, but three singles and a walk cut Pinkerton's deficit to two runs and filled the bases with no one out in the seventh.
Corey struck out the next two batters before Ryan Day hit a soft grounder to first for a 3-1 putout that ended the game.
"He was amazing today," Londonderry coach Brent Demas said when asked about Corey. "He was on top of his game. The biggest change with him is he doesn't get rattled. Couple years ago a lot of of the chirping would have gotten to him and really affected his game. Instead of folding when it got tough, that's when he stepped it up."
Left fielder Brett Evangelista, Londonderry's leadoff hitter, had two hits and scored two runs in the victory, which improved Londonderry's Division I record to 3-0. Londonderry second baseman Mike Ryan also had two hits in the game.
"One hit away," Pinkerton coach Steve Campo said. "We shoot a gap we're up one. Londonderry is not going to hand you a win. You have to go take it from them."
Corey struck out eight, walked two and hit one batter. One of Pinkerton's two runs was unearned.
Pinkerton received six strong innings from sophomore pitcher John Polichetti, who has committed to play baseball at Boston College. Polichetti gave up nine hits, struck out five and walked two.
Polichetti, Riley Cahill, Connor Donahue and Tom Diskin collected Pinkerton's hits. The Astros scored when Cahill doubled in Joe Murphy in the third, and when Cahill drew a bases-loaded walk in the seventh.
The loss dropped Pinkerton's record to 2-1.
Londonderry took a 3-1 lead by scoring twice in the fifth. A single by Rob Del Signore drove in Evangelista, and a Ryan single scored Geoff Kayo. Londonderry added to its lead in the sixth, when a Zach Tavano single drove in pinch-runner Jordan Tutt.
The Lancers also scored in the first. Kayo's sacrifice fly to center allowed Evangelista to tag and score.
Corey, who was 6-3 with a 1.13 ERA last season, threw 110 pitches in the game.
"I don't think are bats are where they're going to be, but I can't complain about the pitching," Demas said.
Windham 5, Merrimack Valley 0: At Penacook, Rachael Vafides and Emily Comtois each collected two hits to help Windham raise its Division II record to 3-0. Windham's Rachel Rogers had her bid for a no-hitter broken up when Brittany Fisher singled with two outs in the bottom of the sixth. Merrimack Valley slipped to 0-2.


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HOUSTON - Two people died when a small helicopter crashed in northeast Harris County on Monday.
Harris County sheriff's deputies said the crash happened at a steel yard near the intersection of the Crosby Freeway near Miller Road #3 about 3:30 p.m.
The helicopter exploded shortly after impact, officials said.
"When it hit, smoke came up. I ran about 20 feet and then it exploded," witness Jose Escamilla said. "The guys I talked to, when it hit, they were still breathing, the were moving around and then it exploded. That's the information that I got. By the time that I got to it, they were already engulfed in flames already."
According to the Federal Aviation Administration, two people were killed. They were identified as Christopher Yeager, 40, of Houston, and Joyce Ates, 60, of Midwest City, Oklahoma.
"All of us are just looking for the facts. What are the facts of what we document the damage to the aircraft," said Tom Latson of the NTSB.
He told Local 2, "We will do a complete wreckage examination. We will probably remove the wreckage, including the engine, to a secure storage location probably up to the Dallas area."
Latson said the helicopter is operated by Helicopter Services Incorporated out of Hooks Airport in Spring. Latson said it was possibly on a photography flight.
Latson said he will return to the crash site to continue his investigation Tuesday morning.
Investigators said the single-engine Robinson R-22 helicopter was flying from the Baytown area to the Houston area when the crash happened.
The cause of the crash is under investigation.
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Aksadjuak, Roger; Aksadjuak, Laurent
Canadian/Canadian, 1972–; 20
Spring Celebration, 1996
hand-built earthenware, terra sigilata, clay, ceramic
54 x 48.3 x 47.2 cm
Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; Acquired with funds from George William Battershill in memory of his wife Helen Battershill
In 1963 a ceramics project was begun in Rankin Inlet and a number of established carvers turned their skills to this new medium. The project was discontinued by the Territorial Government in 1975, but it was revived in the community in 1993 by the privately owned Matchbox Gallery using the expertise of veteran ceramists Yvo Samgushak and Laurent Aksadjuak. Younger artists, such as Roger Aksadjuak, were trained and are now established artists in the clay medium. The WAG piece is the result of a father and son collaboration, using coil and slab techniques as well as sculptural appliqués. Laurent Aksadjuak created the images on the surfaces of the pot and his son, Roger Aksadjuak, made the body of the vessel. The work expresses a longing for the self-sufficiency of the past, a theme in much of the elder Aksadjuak's work.
Gallery Hours
- Tuesday 11am-5pm
- Wednesday 11am-5pm
- Thursday 11am-5pm
- Friday 11am-9pm
- Saturday 11am-5pm
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LONDON, ON, – As people along the U.S. coastline work to clean up after Superstorm Sandy, thousands of flooded vehicles will be pulled out of the water, most of which will likely be declared flood-damaged. This means that a vehicle will be given a 'flood car' status on its vehicle title and from that point on, this status will be visible to anyone who searches the history of that car. As was the case with previous storms like Hurricane Katrina, there's a chance that some of these used cars could be transported out of the region and across the border to Canada, where potential buyers might not know to check for or ask about a flood status.
CarProof Vehicle History Reports, Canada's most trusted vehicle history report provider, is offering a free Flood Damage Check on its website. By entering your vehicle identification number or VIN, CarProof's Flood Damage Check will tell you whether or not a used car has ever sustained water damage in the United States and if the car has been registered in an area that's been affected by a significant storm. CarProof searches its extensive database in the U.S. to look for flood titles and storm area registration.
Checking for water damage is an important part of buying a used car as it can be difficult to tell if a vehicle has water damage as a result of an accident, heavy rainfall or a natural event like a hurricane. Water damage, in particular saltwater damage, can have a lasting effect on a vehicle if it goes unrepaired – the engine, transmission, drive train, fuel, brake and power steering systems are most susceptible to the dirt and contaminants that accompany a flood and corrosion can continue to cause damage months, and even years later.
Visit CarProof's website to use the Free Flood Damage Check. You can also check out CarProof's extensive Car Advice section, where you can find tips to help you navigate the used car buying process, learn how to sell your vehicle and access vehicle maintenance information and more.
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Constraints and Agents: Confronting Ignorance
Research on constraints and agents is emerging at the intersection of the communities studying constraint computation and software agents. Constraint- based reasoning systems can be enhanced by using agents with multiple problem-solving approaches or diverse problem representations. The constraint computation paradigm can be used to model agent consultation, cooperation, and competition. An interesting theme in agent interaction, which is studied here in constraint-based terms, is confronting ignorance: the agent's own ignorance or its ignorance of other agents.
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What: Planetary Shoe-Shine
When: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday
Where: First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder
Cost: Donations
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Some of Boulder's biggest brains will be on the Pearl Street Mall this weekend -- shining shoes.
Local gurus of the cosmos will join their astro-brethren across the country on Saturday for the "Planetary Car Wash & Bake Sale," an event organized by Alan Stern, associate vice president of the Southwest Research Institute's Space Science and Engineering Division in Boulder, to call attention to the deep budget cuts being proposed for NASA's planetary science program.
President Barack Obama's proposed 2013 budget calls for cutting the program by $309 million, a decrease of more than 20 percent. The proposed cuts have spurred planetary scientists into action -- writing letters and testifying before Congress -- but Stern wanted to get the word out to the general public in a way they'd remember.
"I was looking for something that was different from what we normally do; I wanted it to be fun but attention-getting," Stern said. "The idea of all these Ph.D.s in all these locations around the country, and graduate students, out there doing things for the public just to get the message out, it gives the right impression.
Researchers in Arizona, Texas, California, Utah, Florida, Maryland, Nevada, Georgia and Pennsylvania all plan to spend their Saturday mornings washing cars and selling baked goods for a nominal fee. The idea, Stern said, is less about actually raising money than about raising awareness.
In Boulder, Stern looked into washing cars and selling homemade treats, but he was stymied on both accounts by local regulations. There are environmental rules that apply to suds getting washed into storm drains and vendor permits that apply to selling baked goods. In fact, even giving away homemade treats on the Pearl Street Mall requires a visit from a health inspector, Stern said.
So Stern chose the next-best thing: shoe shining. (Although he acknowledges that the number of Birkenstock-wearing mall visitors in Boulder may somewhat flummox even that plan.)
The actual shoe-shining operation will be set up a block off of Pearl Street outside the First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St.
But local scientists and graduate students, including folks from the University of Colorado, SwRI and Ball Aerospace, will also man a booth on the mall, directing those with dull-looking shoes -- or an interest in chatting about the wonders of the universe with planetary experts -- over to the church.
Obama's proposed budget cuts made headlines earlier this spring, largely because of the anticipated impacts to NASA's plans to further explore Mars. NASA has already backed away from a partnership with the European Space Agency to launch the Mars Trace Gas Orbiter in 2016 and the ExoMars rover in 2018.
NASA's Curiosity rover is already en route to the red planet. And NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission, or MAVEN -- which is being spearheaded by CU -- is still on track to launch next year. But scientists say the proposed cuts will diminish NASA's capacity to build on that momentum.
And while the threat to NASA's Mars ambitions is real, Stern -- the principal investigator on New Horizons NASA's mission to Pluto -- says that cuts to the planetary sciences program will be felt beyond Mars, impacting our ability to learn more about the other planets in our solar system.
This weighs on the mind of Kier Fortier, a member of the CU chapter of Students for the Exploration and Space who plans to participate in Saturday's planetary shoe shine.
"It worries me that the proposed planetary sciences funding is cut so much," said Fortier, a junior in aerospace engineering who wants to work on programs that put humans into space after graduation, and, maybe, head into space himself, in an email. "This would lead to the cancellation and reduction of many programs. This would seriously reduce the amount of science that we get back for the money already invested by taxpayers."
Fortier said he hopes that showing up Saturday will help demonstrate how important the funding issues are to him and his fellow students.
"I hope that when people see all of us shining shoes and essentially groveling on the street that they will see how much we care," he said. "Also, we will have letters written to members of congress that people can sign and mail. There are a bunch of similar events happening all across the country, and I think that is something that Congress cannot ignore."
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Could UT be looking at Juco ranks again
The Texas coaching staff stepped outside its comfort zone in the 2012 class, signing two junior college players, a practice that UT has rarely utilized under Mack Brown's watch.
Was it a one-year anomaly, or will the Longhorns continue to work the junior college ranks in search of top talent? It's too early to say there's a trend developing, but the Texas coaches have inquired about a top junior college prospect in the 2013 class.
Texas assistant coach Bo Davis recently communicated with members of the Dodge City (KS.) Community College coaching staff to get some background on rising prospect Marcus Hardison, a talented defensive end.
The 6-4, 290-pound Hardison has returned home to Florida for the summer, but it hasn't stopped college coaches from checking in. A few schools have made stops by his old high school, Port Charlotte H.S., to watch Hardison work out and the talented d-lineman is hoping Texas makes a trip of its own.
"It was Tuesday (of last week). I was talking to Texas A&M. My defensive line coach came in after A&M left and told me Texas was supposed to come down," Hardison said. "My coach and coach Davis are good friends. Coach Davis is supposed to call me and I think they're supposed to come down to Florida to see me.
"A couple schools have done that already, go to my high school. My coach from my high school tells me to come up there when they're coming but I'm always up there at the school lifting weights anyway. If they're coming to the high school, they'll usually tell me before so I'll make sure to be there."
Hardison said he's closing in on 25 scholarship offers and he lists Arizona State, Kansas, Baylor, Texas Tech, Texas A&M, TCU, La Tech, Southern Miss, Ole Miss, South Florida, West Virginia, Arkansas, Arkansas State, Memphis, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Kansas State, Kansas, Indiana and Toledo as schools that have extended formal offers.
Texas has not yet thrown it's name into the mix, but if the Longhorns do, Hardison said he'll give UT serious consideration.
"That's my favorite school, the first college team I ever liked. I think I flicked on a bowl game, it was Vince Young and Texas against Michigan in the Rose Bowl. Ever since then, I just liked Texas overall," Hardison said. "My grandmother put me on to Texas, bought me a Texas Longhorn shirt."
Hardison can play at either defensive end or defensive tackle, and he's had college coaches talk to him about playing both spots. He's not close-minded to the idea of playing inside, but if he has his choice, he'll stay at defensive end.
"I'm quick off the line, very quick off the line. I'm good in the open field. This spring that just passed, I got a lot better on my footwork and with my hands," Hardison said. "And I got better with my strength too. I have a lot to learn but think I'm very quick off the line.
"A lot of coaches want me to play inside our outside. A&M said they'd put me at D-end, but when they go to a different scheme I'd go inside. At my school now, I play regular defensive end, then when we switch to a fast d-line and the d-ends go in, I'll go inside. I can do both, but I like playing defensive end because I've gotten better at it and would like to stay at it."
Hardison may be able to graduate in December but he said he'll most likely finish his junior college schooling in May of 2013, allowing him to report to a Division I school the following month. He'll have three years to play two (one redshirt season if needed).


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17 year old Kasey Smith is woken one morning because of a moving truck frustrated she and next door and meet the one and only Harry Styles. They fall in love instintly but at a party she is attacked only to wake up 3 months later not remembering Harry and thinks she's in love with Niall. Harry tries to help but his words trigger bad memories and only the irish voice can get her out. Find out what happens next and read it!!!!!!A/N: This is my 1st fanfic so no rude comments plz........ Tanks :) ~Hope (Superman) Styhone :)
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Eighteen years ago this week I lost the person closest to me in the world.
That was my year-younger brother James. He died at age 47 of a brain aneurism in Eugene, Ore., where he was working and going to school.
We grew up together in Oklahoma City and Topeka. Until high school, we did most everything together. Shared a room. Caught snakes, lizards and baby raccoons. Fished. Rode bikes. Picked up sticks so the old man could mow the lawn. Read Tarzan and Captain Marvel comics and Classics Illustrated. Fought over encyclopedia books.
Wore Davy Crockett coonskin caps. Went to movies together (we thought maybe Fess Parker had somehow sneaked out of the Alamo right at the end of the Disney film). Served Mass as altar boys. Let Mickey the dog into the room when the other one was getting whipped by Mama (with a switch we had to cut ourselves) because the dog would bite Mama's ankles and make her stop.
In high school we drifted apart some. I was a jock. James ran with a wilder crowd. But we shared a room till my senior year when our folks moved to a new place and we each got our own. And James threw a surprise party for me on my 18th birthday.
I gave him my '55 Ford when I went away to college. First weekend I came home, it was wrecked on the side of the driveway. Let's just say that for a year or so after he graduated high school, James rode 'er down to the rims, literally and figuratively. One night he climbed the wall of the zoo and dropped onto a bison. Rode it aways before he was bucked off. He enlisted in the Army instead of "smellin' cold iron," as Mama put it.
The Army changed him. (Not completely. During a weekend pass from basic training he wrestled a bear for two rounds outside Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.) He found his calling as a leader. Went to OCS as a tanker at Fort Knox, then spent a year in South Korea, another in Georgia when he returned. When I went to visit him after I got out of basic in Texas, he met me on the runway; you could do that back then. We were both in uniform.
I stuck out my hand. He stared at me. Then I got it. The first lieutenant younger brother was gonna make the private E-2 older brother lock his heels and salute. So I did. We hugged and cracked up.
After he got out of the service, he worked for the Santa Fe in Albuquerque; our dad helped him get the job as a special agent dog handler. I was in Dallas. We hooked up several times a year and always kicked out the jams. One of the best stories I ever wrote was about a Tewa Indian potter, Blue Corn. We found her after hanging out in the Land of Enchantment together for a week.
I was on a fast track in journalism. James was searching, trying to figure out what he wanted to do. We could and did talk about anything and everything to each other. Our family reunions in 1970 in Durango, Colo., and in 1973 in Sedona, Ariz., were planned by James after scouting the territory.
His first marriage went south. So did he, down to Las Cruces, where he tried his third or fourth college. Became a fire watcher for the Forest Service, which took him to northern California where he met Linda. After a tornado romance, they got hitched one Christmas Day in Topeka.
Papagene's and Mama's present to him was a blue denim shirt. "That's called a work shirt, James," Papa said. James just grinned. He and Linda wound up in Oakridge, Ore., where they both worked for the Forest Service. The folks and I went there several times in the late '70s because it was so peaceful and pretty and because it was family.
Papa called James' humor "wild and deep," and he could make me laugh my tail off in a heartbeat. But his wild streak also kept getting him in trouble, and Linda finally put her boot down. "Stop drinking or I'm gone."
So he stopped. A little later he joined the Oakridge police force, soon making sergeant. He was big -- 6 foot 3 inches, 240 and mostly muscle -- with a gunslinger mustache. He sure filled out a uniform. Linda and James had two daughters, Vanessa and Rachel. He was made chief.
(After he died Linda became happily remarried to Bob Holly, a high school math teacher and football coach. Vanessa teaches high school in Portland and Rachel's a hair stylist in Eugene.)
And as happens, the younger brother and the older brother switched roles. I was going through bad patches. James was the one person I could talk to. He never wavered in his love for me, but he'd ask the questions that got to the heart of my troubles. He wouldn't tell me what to do. Just listened and asked the right questions.
Our folks had moved to Oakridge from Topeka in 1982 to be closer to James and his family. Papa died in '84 and Linda took in Mama, till she died in 1990. Every summer in the early '90s, I'd drive from L.A. to Oregon with Nao, my son, visiting from Japan, and Dylann, my daughter. We'd camp out, go swimming in the lake, catch snakes and salamanders and go snipe hunting. They worshipped Uncle James.
James also took up basketball with a vengeance. We'd play games every night I was there. It was better if we were on the same team. If we were opponents, blood didn't count. Once after he fouled me hard, and I called it, he started moving toward me. "I'm gonna tell Mama!" I yelled. We laughed and went back to playing.
We sounded so much alike that when my boss called me from Washington while I was visiting Oakridge and James answered the phone, my boss started talking to him about my next assignment.
He introduced me to most of the music I still like -- the Beach Boys, Doors, Creedence, Temptations. He danced like a dream. He could shoot. When my Japanese journalist partner Kanabayashi came to America for the first time, James took him to the firing range. When he got back to Tokyo, my partner told me, "Around James I feel very safe."
My brother never left his Catholic religion. He went to Mass every Sunday. Didn't try to impose it on anybody else, but he kept the faith.
As a cop he was firm but fair. Once a guy with a shotgun threatened to commit suicide in back of a roadhouse in Oakridge. James stood out there for hours, his left hand on his holstered sidearm, talking the guy down. Finally, he handed over the shotgun to my brother. Afterwards, a newspaper photographer took a picture of him. James told me, "I'm glad they couldn't see the tears in my eyes."
Another time at another roadhouse on a freezing Saturday night in late January, his dispatcher called him to say it looked as if a big fight was breaking out in the parking lot. He drove up without lights or siren, put on his Smokey the Bear hat and in his body armor and winter jacket, he must have looked huge. The crowd parted as he walked through. Got to the middle and saw the combatants, both squared off. "Nobody here wants to be in jail tomorrow and miss the Super Bowl, do they?" the chief drawled. Dead silence. Then giggles. Then everybody drifted away. James went back on patrol.
That was one reason the funeral church was filled with law enforcement officers from all over the state. Later, Oakridge built a pedestrian bridge across the Middle Fork of the Willlamette River and named it the James Tharp Memorial Bridge.
The last two years of his life he decided to fight crime from the other end. He resigned as chief and became a counselor at a place called Serenity Lane in Eugene. He helped people -- some he'd once arrested -- with their addiction problems. (The center later named a hall after him.) He was finishing his college degree and was in class one Saturday when he collapsed. The college later gave him an honorary degree.
I traveled all night from L.A. to get to the hospital. He was alive but brain-dead. Linda and I had to make the call to pull the plug.
The last several years of our lives together, he and I had argued over who was taller. In countless photos we're trying to get an edge on each other.
As I leaned over and kissed his forehead that Sunday morning, I whispered, "You're taller, James."
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The University of Texas at Arlington will celebrate its first Pride Week this week with several events, activities and speakers planning to attend.
The festivities kick off tonight at 6 p.m. in the university center with gay bingo.
Campus Pride Executive Director Shane Windmeyer will speak Tuesday afternoon about ways colleges can meet the needs of their LGBT students.
Windmeyer will also speak Tuesday night as the week's keynote speaker, addressing challenges facing LGBT youth and ways to provide safer and more welcoming communities.
Gay Fort Worth City Councilman Joel Burns will talk about bullying on Wednesday afternoon, followed by a Thursday National Coming Out Day event on campus with a pink door and the college's Safe Zone training in the afternoon.
Most events are free and open to the public. For more information, go here.
UTA has planned events around National Coming Out Day before but funded a $42,000-initiative this summer for the planning of LGBT events and activities on campus. Leaders of the new program said they wanted to have larger events, a Pride Week and even a drag show eventually in the coming months.
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WHITESBORO — As it says in the first line of "A Tale of Two Cities," "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ..."That phrase could sum up the feelings of the Whitesboro High School basketball teams and fans at Saturday night's Class B District Tournament title games at Steve Linker Gymnasium.The Bulldogs won their title game, beating the Eagletown Eagles 63-50. However, the Lady Eagles spoiled the Lady Bulldogs' title hopes with a 54-36 victory.However, both Whitesboro teams will advance to this week's Class B Regional Tournament, which will begin Thursday at Leflore before moving to the Wilburton High School gym on Friday and Saturday.The Bulldogs will play the Kinta Eagles at 8 p.m. Thursday at Leflore for the right to get to Saturday night's title game against the Stringtown-Red Oak winner at 8 p.m. Saturday in Wilburton. Thursday night's loser will still be alive, but must win on Friday and Saturday at Wilburton to make it to the Class B Area Tournament next week at Kingston.The Lady Bulldogs will play Graham (Weleetka) at 1:30 p.m. Thursday in Leflore in the consolation side of the regional tournament. They must win three times in three days to advance to the area tournament.


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Immediately, Bryan Clauson relates, he felt at home at the Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing shop. And that was important last fall as the reigning USAC National Driver Championship title-holder was seeking to transition from short tracks and Firestone Indy Lights ovals to the IZOD IndyCar Series and Indianapolis 500.
"You could tell there was something different about the group and the level of comfort there was instantaneous," Clauson said of the Indianapolis-based team that was formed in 2008. "It was a place I could see I could call home for a long time. It reminds me a lot of what we've tried to do on the USAC side of things.
"Having Sarah, who's made the transition like I'm trying to do, there to help me through it is going to be huge."
Fisher was Clauson's spotter on Opening Day at the Speedway as the rookie posted the third-quickest lap (40.9776 seconds; 219.632 mph) of the session. He followed with another strong outing May 13 by being second quick (40.6922 seconds; 221.173 mph).
Sebastian Saavedra of Team AFS, who will pull double duty for the second time by competing in the Firestone Freedom 100 and Indy 500, topped the speed chart on the 2.5-mile oval with a lap of 40.6272 seconds (221.526 mph) with a tow from teammates.
Clauson, who started from the pole in the Firestone Freedom 100 at the Speedway last year, was the recipient of the USAC Scholarship, which provided some of the backing to enter the 500 Mile Race. He and fellow rookie and teammate Josef Newgarden tested at Texas Motor Speedway in April – their first exposure to high-banked ovals in an IZOD IndyCar Series car. Both zipped through the Rookie Orientation Program on May 10.
Clauson, who acknowledged "we're fairly close to doing at least another oval," said the speed didn't come as a surprise though "Turn 1 looks like it's 2 inches wide when you're crossing the start-finish line."
He'll keep listening and learning each session, pointing to Pole Day qualifications on May 19. Then, and only then, will he focus on the race.
"The great part about the position we're in is there's not a lot of expectations," said Clauson, who turns 23 on June 15. "We have a good shot to be there at the end of 500 miles and who knows what can happen then. It's been an exciting time and a lot of people have worked extremely hard to make this happen."
Saavedra, who welcomed his mother from Colombia to the track on Mother's Day, relayed a similar message.
"I have to take the guys out for dinner," said Saavedra, who competed in the IZOD IndyCar Series with Conquest Racing in 2011. "More than anything, (Ryan) Hunter-Reay and (James Hinchcliffe) who were in the front. It's exciting, we've been struggling the past couple of years and so starting the Month of May this way, it's a very satisfying feeling."
Newgarden was third quick on the time sheet in the No. 67 Dollar General car (221.158 mph), while 2008 race winner Scott Dixon (220.829) of Target Chip Ganassi Racing and Justin Wilson (220.615) of Dale Coyne Racing also were in the top five.


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One of Shenandoah National Park's most popular destinations is Whiteoak Canyon and its six waterfalls, with heights from 35 to 86 feet. There are swimming holes at the bottom of each waterfall, but do not expect much privacy because they are quite popular. The Skyline Drive Trailhead for this hike is at mile 42.6 near Skyland.
The adventurous, physically fit hikers can take the steep 4.6 miles hike to the Upper Falls, Whiteoak's highest waterfall at 86 feet. Return trip is very steep. Consider your physical condition and available time before continuing past the upper falls. Add an additional 2.7 miles round trip (1100' elevation change) to lower falls and return.
Those who love to push themselves may enjoy the strenuous hike around the Cedar Run/ Whiteoak Circuit, which provides views of a few of the waterfalls. (Mile 45.6) – very strenuous 8.2-mile circuit hike. From Hawksbill Gap, take Cedar Run-Link-Whiteoak-Whiteoak Fire Road-Horse Trail. Be sure to bring water.
Whiteoak Canyon can also be accessed from the Park boundary at the base of the mountains with an easy two mile hike up to the first waterfall.
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Sally filed for legal separation from the Precious star in May (14) after three years of marriage, and asked a judge to grant him full legal and physical custody of the unborn child they had been expecting together through a surrogate.
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Chondrostoma soetta
|Scope: Global & Europe
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Chondrostoma soetta Bonaparte, 1840
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|Endangered B2ab(i,ii,iii,iv,v) ver 3.1
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|Crivelli, A.J.
|Bianco, G. & Darwall, W. (Mediterranean Workshop, Dec. 2004)
The lake populations have increasing difficulty in reaching the spawning places in the tributaries. Although the introduced subpopulations are thriving, the threat to the remaining severely fragmented natural population and spawning areas is high due to dam construction, pollution, water extraction and predation by cormorants and Silurus glanis. The area of occupancy (AOO) (based on the spawning grounds) is estimated at less than 500 km². It is locally extinct in Slovenia and the Isonzo river basin in Italy due to the introduction of Chondrostoma nasus, a practice still implemented.
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|Range Description:
|Restricted to northern Italy, the southern part of Switzerland. It has been introduced in some Italian lakes. It is locally extinct in Slovenia and the Isonzo river basin in Italy due to the introduction of Chondrostoma nasus, a practice still implemented.Recorded introductions into the rivers of central Italy were often a misidentification for C. genei. Several present records for C. soetta are probably a misidentification for C. nasus, due to similarities between these two species. As an example of how the alien species are spread now in Italy, in rivers from the Rovigo Province in eastern Italy, where C. soetta is still reported, the biomass of all native species was found to be about 22% of whole ichthyofauna.
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Regionally extinct:Slovenia
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|Very different from one locality to another. It is locally extinct in Slovenia but still thriving in other parts of its range. This species is now becoming quite rare in the lakes of northern Italy and Switzerland (Lugano, Maggiore, Como, Iseo, Garda) mainly as result of interaction with alien species, especially Rutilus rutilus, which was introduced around 1990 and has become very common and is the subject of commercial fishing in several of these lakes. (Bianco, P. pers. comm). This species is also rarely found in rivers and has nearly disappeared in the main stretch of the Po basin, in the other rivers it forms very small populations and spawning occurs only in a few areas of each river (except in the Po).
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|A deepwater lacustrine species that also inhabits large rivers. It migrates from the lake to its tributaries for spawning in spring.
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|Dams, water pollution and extraction, and introduction of alien species as Rutilus rutilus, Silurus glanis and Chondrostoma nasus. The reduction in suitable spawning places due to pollution (agriculture) and to water extraction is of major concern.Other threats to the species are predation by cormorants, where in several places of Italy have become a serious pest and destroyed a large amount of fishes, especially in torrents or small river were the fishes migrate to for reproduction. (Compiled by C.esare Puzzi from GRAIA, and P.G. Bianco pers comm.).
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|Listed in Annex II of the European Union Habitats Directive and in the Appendix III of the Bern Convention.
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By Nancy Hastings
HILLSDALE � As a Hillsdale salon enjoys its new surroundings, patrons are benefiting from its new look while receiving some style of their own.
Kelly Dunlop, owner of Volume Salon and Spa in Hillsdale, moved her team of 12 to a new location at 8 E. Bacon after having served clientele in the former Lewis St. location for the past three years.
A few of the stylists worked at the former location when it was called Hair Zone, before Dunlop changed the name and owned the salon. She has been a stylist for nine years.
�Three of us started out at Hair Zone and have worked together for six-and-a half years,� Dunlop said.
The two longtime stylists Dunlop has worked with include Kim Holtz and Bridget Prater. Others on the team include Shannon Martin, Lanette Esterline, Candi Lennox, Mindy Shoemaker, Morgan Page, Shannon Parker, Nikki Tiller, Cindy Holbrook and Teresa Crippen.
�We all work well together so that makes us a good team,� Dunlop said.
With all new equipment, the salon boasts a crisp look with black stations and furniture, complimented with blue and brown hues on walls and floors.
�I chose the calm colors because they provide a relaxed atmosphere,� Dunlop said.
Her husband, Bryan, a carpenter by trade, gutted the former doctor�s office, doing everything but the electrical and plumbing. Working 10-hour days, seven days a week was necessary to put the salon in business on the first Monday after Father�s Day. Walls were removed with a complete interior remake, including a new roof.
Painting the exterior came next and was something Dunlop wanted to see accomplished before the open house. The event is set for 5:30 p.m. Aug. 13, at which time a ribbon cutting will take place, followed by the open house until 7 p.m.
�I really appreciate my dads for putting in the extra works so we could open,� Dunlop said.
Her father, Kevin Klingler and Bryan�s step-dad, Dave Dubois, were instrumental in the process, as was Bryan�s uncle, Gary Ferro. The project took two months to complete after deciding on the location, one of two Dunlop was considering.
�I like this location because it�s by the schools, churches and is almost downtown,� Dunlop said. �It also has more space, even though from the outside you wouldn�t think so.�
Plenty of windows offer natural lighting, along with ample lighting already in place from the former patient examining rooms when the building was a doctor�s office.
�We like the natural light necessary for makeup application,� Dunlop said.
Additional services offered include haircuts, waxing, colors, foils, perms, manicures and pedicures, as well as artificial nails. Massages, body waxing and facials are done in the newly finished basement for more client privacy.
�Those services are what make us a spa as well as a salon,� Dunlop said. �We want this to be a place were clients can relax and enjoy themselves.�
Special occasion parties for brides and princess birthday parties are featured. Men are always welcome, along with children. Walk-ins are welcome as well. Hours vary by appointment, but stylists are available from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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My rotation was something like this: From the side, Bootshine → Twin Snake → Snap Punch → Switch to back → Bootshine → switch to side → Twin Snake (repeat)
At some point in there I must reapply Tough of Death.
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Also worried about parses and all that.
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