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Attorney General Martha Coakley's Office Announces Arraignments of Six People in Elaborate Mortgage Fraud Scheme
Joshua Brown (Boston Equity Investments, aka BEI)
Larceny over $250 (78 Counts)
Making or Publishing False or Exaggerated Statements (26 counts)
Attempt to Make or Publish a False or Exaggerated Statement (2 counts)
Brian Frank (BEI)
Larceny over $250 (78 Counts)
Making or Publishing False or Exaggerated Statements (26 counts)
Attempt to Make or Publish a False or Exaggerated Statement (2 counts)
John Sweetland (BEI)
Larceny over $250 (33 Counts)
Making or Publishing False or Exaggerated Statements (11 counts)
Attempt to Make or Publish a False or Exaggerated Statement (3 counts)
Brian Arrington (mortgage broker)
Larceny over $250 (24 counts)
Attempted Larceny Over $250
Making a False or Exaggerated Statement (13 counts)
Linda Defeo (mortgage broker)
Larceny over $250 (10 counts)
Making a False or Exaggerated Statement (6 counts)
Attempted Larceny Over $250
Bruce Namenson (former attorney)
Larceny over $250 (18 Counts)
Making or Publishing False or Exaggerated Statements (9 Counts)
False Written Reports by Public Officer or Employee (4 Counts)
The Attorney General's Office began an investigation into the defendants' alleged activities in April 2008, after receiving complaints from homebuyers. Investigators discovered that Brown operated Boston Equity Investments ("BEI") in Boston, while Frank operated Freedom Equity Investments (FEI) in Hillsborough, NJ. Authorities allege that FEI recruited persons interested in investing in multi-family homes through BEI. These investors unknowingly assisted BEI commit this fraud. In addition, Sweetland operated Boston Investment Marketing (BIM), another BEI recruitment wing in Canton, which would identify potential investors. BEI advertised itself as a real estate investment company, although BEI and its employees were not licensed real estate brokers. BEI advertised online and at real estate conventions in several states.
Authorities allege that Brown, Frank and Sweetland identified owners of multi-family properties who had properties for sale for long periods of time. They would approach the property owners and convince them to give BEI an "option" to sell these properties at prices below the current list price. BEI simultaneously recruited homebuyers to buy the same properties as "investments," promising them that in return for their purchasing properties through BEI, BEI would renovate, rent and resell the properties. BEI told the homebuyers that their investments would help revitalize neighborhoods in the Greater Boston area. BEI acquired inflated property appraisals for the sellers' properties. The appraisals were consistently well above the list prices that the sellers could not sell the homes for.
Authorities allege that BEI obtained false purchase and sale agreements between the homebuyers and sellers. Unbeknownst to the homebuyers and lenders, BEI arranged for the sellers to receive much less money for the property sales than the maximum amount of financing that BEI was able to fraudulently extract from the lenders in the homebuyers' names. In the end, authorities allege, at the home sale closings, BEI would, unbeknownst to the homebuyers and lenders, pocket the difference, which was usually between $50,000 and $100,000 and sometimes as much as $150,000.
Investigators also discovered that Brown, Frank and Sweetland conspired with mortgage brokers Linda Defeo and Brian Arrington to submit loan applications to financial lending institutions with false information in order to secure 100% financing for the homebuyers' purchases. Authorities believe that BEI, with Arrington's assistance, inflated borrowers' incomes and savings, misrepresented where and for how long the borrowers had been employed (if the borrowers were employed at all), and falsely stated that the borrowers intended to use the properties as primary residences instead of as investment properties (many of the borrowers lived out of state). BEI also allegedly deposited money into some of the homebuyers' bank accounts to make it appear as if they qualified for mortgage loans. Several homebuyers acquired mortgage loans through Defeo and Arrington to buy several properties through BEI. In these instances Defeo and Arrington, in conspiracy with BEI, did not disclose the homebuyers' new debts to the lenders thereby misrepresenting the extent of the homebuyers' debts on their loan applications. Defeo and Arrington allegedly rushed the homebuyers through the loan application process and told them that they did not have to disclose all of their debts to the lenders.
BEI allegedly submitted the inflated property appraisals and false purchase and sale agreements to the lenders through Arrington and Defeo. Arrington and Defeo, on behalf of BEI, did not disclose to the lenders that BEI had an option to sell the properties at lower prices. In these agreements, the sellers agreed to receive far less for the sales of their properties than the amounts the financial institutions were lending to the borrowers to purchase the properties. Instead, on the homebuyers' loan applications, Arrington and Defeo falsely claimed that there were true, contracted purchase and sale agreements between the homebuyers and sellers for the larger amount of money. The lenders relied on these misrepresentations submitted in the loan applications and other documents to approve loans for the homebuyers.
After the homebuyers purchased the properties, BEI intentionally did not fulfill the promises it made, including renovating and reselling the properties. The homebuyers and lenders were left with properties not worth the loans the borrowers obtained to purchase the properties. The homebuyers' credit was ruined, and they were severely financially injured. Almost all of the homes were foreclosed at a great loss to the homebuyers and lenders.
The lenders required that the homebuyers bring cash, sometimes tens of thousands of dollars, to the real estate closings. Former attorney Bruce Namenson, in conspiracy with BEI, misrepresented on closing settlement statements that the home buyers brought cash to the closings, when he and BEI knew that the borrowers did not do so. Namenson allegedly, in conspiracy with BEI, sent a business associate to several states to obtain homebuyers' signatures on documents critical to the real estate closings. Later, Namenson allegedly notarized the documents claiming that the homebuyers had signed the documents in Namenson's presence in Massachusetts. In addition, the lenders required that Namenson purchase title insurance for the closings. Namenson represented to the lenders that he was using the borrowers' money to do so. Authorities believe that Namenson did not purchase title insurance and retained the borrowers' premiums for himself instead.
A Suffolk County Grand Jury returned indictments against all six defendants on December 21, 2009. Brown was arrested the same day and was arraigned in South Boston District Court and subsequently released on $75,000 bail. Frank was arrested on December 19, 2009, in New York and was subsequently brought back to Massachusetts by Massachusetts State Police. Sweetland surrendered himself to authorities today at arraignment.
Yesterday all six defendants were arraigned in Suffolk Superior Court where they entered pleas of not guilty. Arrington, Defeo and Sweetland were released on personal recognizance. Brown is currently released on $75,000 bail, while Frank remains in custody on $100,000 bail. Nameson is currently in prison on an unrelated matter. All defendants are scheduled to appear in court on April 12, 2010, for a pre-trial hearing.
The case is being prosecuted by Assistant Attorney General Brendan O'Shea with the assistance of Investigator Scott Gisetto. Massachusetts State Police assigned to the Attorney General's Office and the Attorney General's Financial Investigations Division also assisted in the investigation.


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At home with Toni Morrison
GRAND VIEW-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. (AP) - The Hudson River extends like the sun from the back of Toni Morrison's house, illuminated and infinite, undimmed by an unseasonably drab spring afternoon.
"It's interesting and soothing, and it changes constantly," she says from the comfort of a white armchair in her living room. "And at night, with the stars and the moon ..."
The Nobel laureate has lived in this converted boathouse since the late 1970s, when she spotted a "For Sale" sign while driving by and soon agreed to pay the then-impractical sum of $120,000. Her commitment was tested, then confirmed, after the house burned down in 1993, destroying everything from private letters to her sons' report cards. But she had the house rebuilt and upgraded and so enjoys a setting both spacious and personal, with bookcases and paintings, plants and carvings, a patio and private dock.
It's Saturday and the 81-year-old Morrison is in a relaxed, informal mood, wearing a gray blouse and slacks and dark slippers, a purple bandanna tied over her gray corn rows, her laugh easy and husky with a pinch of "Can-you-believe-this?" You might mistake her for an ordinary neighbor ready for gardening until you see the pictures of her with James Baldwin, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Elie Wiesel among others, or learn that the low, wooden table by her chair was a prop from the film version of "Beloved," her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
Morrison does not need to worry about recognition in her lifetime. Nobel judges have honored her, and so has Oprah Winfrey, whose book club picks have helped Morrison's novels sell millions. A Toni Morrison Society organizes conferences about her work and sponsors a Toni Morrison Book Prize. She not only has written children's stories, but has been the subject of one, Douglas Century's "Toni Morrison." Two presidential contenders, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, sought her support in 2008 and Obama will soon present her with a Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country's highest civilian honor. Her play "Desdemona," a collaboration with director Peter Sellars and the Malian singer-songwriter Rokia Traore, will be staged in London during the Summer Olympics.
The legend gets the glory; the real person works. Morrison has a new novel out, "Home," a brief, poetic story of Frank Money, a traumatized Korean War veteran who returns to the states in the 1950s. Morrison has long used fiction as a private and alternative history, whether the Civil War ("Beloved"), the 1920s ("Jazz") or colonial times ("A Mercy"). With "Home," she wanted to add some truth - about war, about racism - to the standard '50s narrative.
"I was really trying to take off that scab, or that veil, or whatever it is off the '50s," she says. "We're told that it was good times, post-war, GI Bill, people had jobs and the television was full of happy stories and so on, and that's it."
Like "Beloved," "Song of Solomon" and other Morrison novels, the book is a journey and a reckoning. Using bus money given to him by a pastor, Money travels from the Pacific Northwest to Chicago to his dreaded hometown, Lotus, Ga., "the worst place in the world," where nobody "knew anything or wanted to learn anything." Warned from the start that the North is no less racist than the South, he encounters violence and segregation and the lawlessness of police. Once in Georgia, he is almost relieved. At least the pace is "human," Money observes, there was "time to instruct one another, pray for one another, and chastise children in the pews of a hundred churches."
Morrison, a native of Lorain, Ohio, never lived in Georgia. But for "Home" she drew upon stories from her father, a native of Cartersville, Ga., and from her memories of the South when she was an undergraduate at Howard University, based in Washington, D.C. She was on tour with fellow theater students in the early '50s and was moved by how blacks took care of her and each other, a bond dramatized in "Home" and many of her works. She knew what to expect from the whites in the South, but the revelation was how "lovely and generous and capable" the blacks were.
"If we arrived at a town where the faculty had made arrangements to spend the night and either the place we thought was nice, wasn't, or they didn't want the students to stay there, one of them would go into a phone booth. They would check the yellow pages for a black church and then call up a minister and say, 'We're from Howard University and we're a little chagrined because we don't have a place to say,"' Morrison says. "And the pastor would say, 'Call me back in 10 minutes.' And in 10 or 15 minutes he had rounded up his parishioners to take us in. We would go into these houses. And the women, they just fed us, took care of us, put us on these sweet-smelling sheets and cooked, and wouldn't take any money. We had to slip money under their pillows.
"And that happened everywhere. 'Where do we eat in this town that has no places where blacks can eat?' And somebody would say, 'Here is a man who was a chef at the Waldorf Astoria, but he's retired and he cooks sometimes for visitors.' And you go to his house and get the best meal of your life. But that was within the community. There really was a community, there really was a neighborhood."
Morrison has spent much of her life in the North. After graduating from Howard, she worked for years as an editor for Random House, then debuted as an author with "The Bluest Eye," published in 1970. Her breakthrough came in 1977 with "Song of Solomon," a Book-of-the-Month Club selection praised by New York Times critic John Leonard as a masterpiece akin to music. Her name reached ever higher. "Beloved" won the Pulitzer in 1988. The Nobel came five years later.
As she gets older, Morrison says, the world becomes more interesting and more distressing. She is appalled at some of the remarks about Obama and the speculation that he was not an American citizen. But nature, and its mysteries, she responds to more than ever - the water, mountains, her garden. She watches "Planet Earth" on the Discovery Channel and marvels how it took "millions of years" for humans to evolve from "that thingy down there at the bottom of the sea."
Saying that her writing process was unchanged by the Nobel - after a "few mental tricks" cleared the fog of success from her mind - Morrison tries to challenge herself with every book. In "Home," she has Frank Money speak directly to the author, admitting that he has not been honest about his story. For her next novel, she wants to write about a black intellectual, a break from the uneducated characters who usually appear in her work.
"When I'm not thinking about a novel, or not actually writing it, it's not very good; the 21st century is not a very nice place. I need it (writing) to just stay steady, emotionally," she says.
"When I finished 'The Bluest Eye,' ... I was not pleased. I remember feeling sad. And then I thought, 'Oh, you know, everybody's talking about "sisterhood," ' I wanted to write about what women friends are really like. (The inspiration for "Sula," her second novel). All of a sudden the whole world was a real interesting place. Everything in it was something I could use or discard. It had shape. The thing is - that's how I live here."
"I guess that's home."


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BETTR Betters Education Through Preparation for Serving Underrepresented Students
Growing up in Spring Valley, NY, Kevin Frison often dreamed of becoming a physician. When he was in elementary school, his mother, a nurse at a nearby hospital, would bring home her nursing books and magazines, and pamphlets left behind by pharmaceutical reps. "I read everything," recalled Mr. Frison, now a second-year student at Einstein.
Hitting the booksWhen his parents divorced when he was 10, Kevin and his younger brother went to live with their father, a social worker. Since both parents worked full time, his mother would bring Kevin to the hospital after school, where he would watch the nurses and doctors work.
Throughout grade school and high school, he excelled at academics. "Everything seemed to come easy for me," he said. He also made the basketball team and played saxophone in the all-district and all-county bands.
One day, Mr. Frison, who is African-American, noticed an application in his guidance counselor's office for the State Pre-College Enrichment Program, better known as S-PREP—one of many government-funded "pipeline" programs that encourage economically and educationally disadvantaged students who are underrepresented in the healthcare professions, to pursue health-related careers. He applied and was accepted. He also was excused from weekend basketball and band practices so he could attend anatomy and physiology class every Saturday morning.
"S-PREP opened the door to my passion for medicine and increased my desire to become a doctor," he said.
Mr. Frison also plays his sax in the Einstein Jazz EnsembleLater, as an undergraduate at SUNY Albany, he joined the Collegiate Science and Technology Entry Program, or C-STEP. "Through C-STEP, I got my first laboratory research experience and gained a greater appreciation for the sciences," he noted.
Following college, Mr. Frison planned to work and study for the MCAT. But life had other plans. One morning, his father woke up in excruciating pain, and had difficulty getting out of bed, walking and standing.
"Everything went downhill from there," said Mr. Frison. For months, he drove his father to the hospital for MRIs and X-rays. The diagnosis: lumbar osteomyelitis. His dad could no longer work.
Because Medicaid would only pay for a part-time aide, Mr. Frison became his father's primary caregiver. When his dad developed a sacral pressure ulcer, he cleaned and packed it daily. And he assisted his father in dealing with other medical issues, including diabetes, kidney disease, prostate cancer and high cholesterol. He managed his father's meds, bathing and dressing him, and driving him to dialysis three times a week.
"It was a very stressful time," he recalled. "But my mom was there for me emotionally and financially. She understood the challenges of getting into medical school."
To help make ends meet, Mr. Frison worked as a substitute science teacher for two years at Ramapo High School, his alma mater. During that time, a local physician introduced him to Dr. Lynne Holden, associate professor of clinical emergency medicine at Einstein and founder/ director of Mentoring in Medicine (MiM), a program whose aim is to improve diversity in medicine.
Through MiM's 20-week Medical Pathways Program, Mr. Frison learned effective study and test-taking techniques and gained hands-on experience at Montefiore Medical Center, Einstein's University Hospital, and Jacobi Medical Center. Dr. Holden, who he considers a key mentor, recalled, "Kevin stood out. His sensitivity and compassion really struck me."
Dr. Holden introduced Mr. Frison to Dr. Irwin Dannis, who recently retired as a co-chair of admissions at Einstein, and to Nilda I. Soto, assistant dean for diversity enhancement. "They were very supportive," he recalled. "And, through them, I learned how awesome Einstein is."
After interviewing at Einstein, Mr. Frison was invited to attend Associated Medical Schools of New York's Post Baccalaureate Program in Buffalo, NY. "Before the post-bac, I thought I was ready for medical school," he said. "After the post-bac, I knew I was ready."
"Einstein is about humanism and collaboration," said Dr. Holden. "Kevin exudes those qualities. He's a leader who's also a team player. Whenever he has time, he comes and speaks to our MiM students about his journey and how he handled challenges."
Last spring his peers recognized his leadership and commitment by electing him president of Einstein's chapter of the Student National Medical Association. "Kevin is someone who wants to make a difference as a physician, who will advocate for his patients," noted Ms. Soto.
While he is currently undecided about what his specialty will be, Mr. Frison's future looks bright. "The pipeline process was a blessing in my life," he said. "My mentors have given me the confidence I needed to succeed."
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lets hope the design of the changing rooms in wick are better than those in portree high as it was discovered after the school opened that you could see in to the female changing area from the carpark
Plans presented for new Primary School, Wick High and Community Facilities
Plans for a new schools and community school complex next to the existing Wick High School and Pulteneytown Academy has taken another step forward with the submission of a detailed planning application for the project.
Planned is:-
· a new Wick High School;
· a new primary school to replace Pulteneytown Academy Primary and South Primary; and
· the East Caithness Community Facility featuring a new swimming pool, fitness suite and library.
The Highland Council is developing the new campus in conjunction with Hub North Scotland Ltd, who will be responsible for the design, construction and maintenance of the facilities. The application has been submitted by Hub North Scotland Ltd.
Miller Construction are the preferred contractor for the construction of the complex. It is proposed that work starts before the end of this year with completion by August 2015. The project is being funded by The Highland Council and the Scottish Government as part of the Scotlands Schools for the Future programme.
Plans for a new primary school serving the north of Wick will proceed separately, but with the same completion date of August 2015.
It is proposed to build a new North of the River Primary School , combining North and Hillhead primary schools, within the grounds of the existing North Primary School. This project will also be delivered by the Hub North Scotland Ltd, with Miller Construction as the preferred contractor.
The total value of the all the Wick projects is £53 million.
Councillor Alasdair Christie, Chairman, Adult and Childrens Services Committee, said: I am absolutely delighted that we are maintaining momentum with this hugely important project for East Caithness with the submission of the detailed planning application for the Wick High School site. These are exciting times for the people of Wick and surrounding communities.
Councillor Gail Ross, the Councils Caithness Civic Leader, said: Hugely excited at this new milestone in the preparation for the new community campus. This, along with the artists impression, floor plans etc are actual tangible things that make it feel real. We've been talking about it for so long, its great to see this important step."
Councillor Deirdre Mackay, Leader of the Councils Caithness and Sutherland Area Committee, said: This level of investment has been long overdue in Wick and it is hugely uplifting to see this major programme move steadily forward. Processes by their nature take time but it great to see this take shape and become a reality.
Angus Macfarlane, Chief Executive for hub North Scotland Ltd, added: We are delighted to be involved in such a significant project which will undoubtedly enhance the lives of not only pupils but the local community as a whole.
See the full planning application at -
Date &time: 17th June 2013
Venue: Wick High School
Contracttitle: Wick High School
ContractNo: 3511443A/NMW
Purpose: Wick StakeholderGroup
Attendees: Ron Mackenzie The Highland Council Bill Fernie Elected member Mike Felton Hub North Scotland Lilian Wark Pulteneytown Academy Ewen Pearson Hillhead Primary School Parent Council Pat Bowers South Primary School Gordon Murray GMA Ryder Architects Tom McIntyre Wick High School Sheona Henderson Wick High School Catherine Patterson Tannach & District Community Council Graeme Ross Highlife Highland Gail Ross (Chair) The Highland Council Sindy Rudhall Pulteneytown Academy & Wick High
School Parent Councils
Ruan Peat Highlife Highland Brenda Jones Parsons Brinckerhoff Linda Shearer Hub North Scotland Eric Baijal South Primary Parent Council Elena Koponen-Baikie Wick High School / Pulteneytown Academy Heather Sharkey Miller Construction Allan Farquhar Royal Burgh of Wick Community Council John Wiley Library Stakeholder Group Iain Maciver North Primary School Apologies Alison Forrest Highlife Highland (Libraries) Garry Macleod
Willie Mackay
Highlife Highland (Active Schools
Elected member
Ken Allan The Highland Council Carole Begg Hillhead Primary School Matt Haggerty GMA Ryder Architects Philip Shannon The Highland Council
Item 1 Introductions Everyone introduced themselves. 2 Progress update 2.1 Update on Joint Campus design GM advised that the planning application has been submitted. GM went over the site plan and landscape plan. The Architects are working on the Listed Building Consent application. GM showed the floor plans and elevations. The detailed design of the elevations and interior is progressing.
PB advised that the Safe Routes to School group is keen to emphasize that pupils should use the entrance that is closest to their home.
EB asked about the roof structure for the teaching wings. GM advised that the design is still being refined, but the roof structure will be designed to allow daylight into the centre of the teaching wings and natural ventilation.
GM advised that the design of the interiors is being progressed. The general configuration of the building will remain as it is.
LW asked whether there would be another opportunity to review the Room Data Sheets. BJ advised that the schools will be able to review the room layouts. EB expressed concern that the Head Teachers had not seen final versions of the Room Data Sheets. Ken Allan to contact LW to discuss.
BF asked how rainwater would be shed from the centre of the roofs. GM and MF advised that this is being looked at, with a view to designing out risks of water penetration.
GM advised that the design team is now looking at the detail of the interiors.
BF asked about rainwater run-off from the surface. BJ advised that the development will not increase the rate of flow of rainwater into the drainage system. There will be permeable paving to the car park spaces and an attenuation tank to reduce the flow. A flood risk analysis has also been done.
BJ advised that the project does not include for grey water recycling as this is expensive in both capital and maintenance costs. Water butts will be provided for gardening use as a teaching aid.
2.2 Next steps and key milestones for the Joint campus
MF gave an update on key dates. 80% of the works will be tendered competitively. Hubco is progressing the selection of a Facilities Management contractor in consultation with the Council.
Another key activity is to appoint a funder, who will provide finance for the proportion of the project being financed by the Scottish Government on a revenue funding basis.
An enabling works phase is planned to start in October; this will allow the main works to start in January 2014.
TM asked for clarification of the completion date (summer 2014). MF advised that the detail of this is still being developed. TM advised that moving in July/August will be quite disruptive to teaching. RM advised that the Council will set up a Transition Group to manage the move process and develop a detailed plan.
RP advised that the library and pool are heavily used in the summer. RM advised that Highlife Highland Will be involved in the Transition Group.
LW asked about temporary play facilities during the demolition of the Pulteneytown Academy Primary School. BJ advised that a phasing plan will be developed in more detail by Miller Construction.
AF asked which software programme Hubco uses. MF advised that the software produces a Gantt chart
RM advised that the overall capital cost of the Wick Schools project is approximately £53m.
AM asked how long people had to make representations about the planning application.
POST MEETING NOTE: The planning application will be advertised in the local press week commencing 24th June. People will then have 21 days to make representations to the Planning Dept.
3 Update on engagement with local contractors
HS advised that Miller Construction is now in the process of dividing up the project into work packages (e.g. roofing, mechanical & electrical). Some of these packages have design elements.
MC has collected details of the local companies who attended the Meet the Buyer day and entered these onto its database.
The majority of the work packages are likely to be let to companies who are already on Miller's supply chain. The role for local companies is likely to be in working for these companies. Millers will pass on details of interested local companies to these sub-contractors.
4 Communication matters
RM presented a draft communication matrix. The Council proposes to issue a newsletter every two months to capture updates from the whole project. This will include issues raised at Parent Council meetings, the Project Board and stakeholder meetings.
The Council will put information on its website to show the detailed design as it develops, in particular where there is any change to the design. The Council website will hold all the project newsletters.
Weblink to project site is on the Highland Council website:
RM advised that hard copies of the newsletter will be available in public places.
HS advised that Miller Construction will issue monthly newsletters during the construction period. These will be available on the Council website.
The project programme will be on the Council website once it has been finalised.
There was a request for the Wick project site be made more prominent on the Council website. There will also be a link project site on the High School website.
There was a discussion as to whether the press should be invited to this meeting. RM advised that project newsletters will be issued to the press; press releases will be issued at key milestones. The HS Rector will also give updates in his monthly article in the John O'Groat.
5 Naming process for the new schools
RM outlined the proposed process (copy attached to minutes). He asked for suggestions as to how the short list of names should be selected. LW, TM and PB recommended that pupils be given a strong voice in the process.
It was agreed that anyone within the community could make suggestions. Each school would take responsibility for drawing up a short list and selecting the preferred name. The Area Committee would be responsible for final approval of the name.
The Head Teachers agreed to prepare a paper setting out the details of the process.
HS suggested that pupils studying graphic communication could be involved in the design of logos for the new school names. Also, consideration to be given to High School pupils mentoring primary school pupils in the selection process. TM to review.
6 Disposal strategy for buildings to be vacated
RM presented a schedule showing pre-disposal actions. Title checks have been done for four out of the five properties. Schedule to be published on website and updated regularly. RM advised that marketing of these buildings will begin shortly.
7 North of the river Primary School
BJ gave an update on feedback from the pre-planning application process. Generally people were happy with the proposals for the school but had concerns about traffic routes. These will be addressed through the Safe Routes to School group and in consultation with the Council's Roads team.
7 Any other business 7.1 Construction progress BF asked whether the site hoarding would accommodate viewing panels so people could see progress. HS advised that Miller often put in viewing panels in the hoarding so that people can see in. Miller will look at the layout of the site and evaluate how this can best be accommodated. A webcam can also be considered.
HS advised that Miller will do safety talks in the adjoining schools to inform pupils about site safety and the importance of not going into the site.
PB advised that a webcam from an existing building would be a good idea. HS to discuss with TM closer to the site start date.
7.2 Project budget
AF asked for an update on the project budget and use of risk contingency. To be provided at next meeting.
7.3 Public feedback from the Joint Campus pre-application Elena asked whether there had been any concerns raised at the Joint Campus pre-application public consultation meeting. GM advised that the feedback was generally very positive. 9 Date of next meeting Monday 16th September, 7pm
It's great to see all this information about the school but what a disappointment to see the pool.
Another unimaginative standard rectangular pool and rectangular toddler pool.
How is that Invergordon has such a lovely, imaginative curved pool with water features and a flume, and we are getting a repeat of the boring design of pools that already exist in Wick and Thurso?
Hasn't it occurred to anyone involved in the design that you can still do lengths in curved pools like the one in Invergordon?
Any water features in this one?
A flume?
Any points of interest?
Missed opportunity?
Wick schools project update - 17 September 2013
The Wick Schools Stakeholders Group has been advised that the new £39 million Community Campus building will be handed over to The Highland Council in February 2016, with the campus opening from Easter 2016. The planned handover date had been summer 2015.
However, the new £14 million new Primary School north of the river remains on course to be handed over to the Council in June 2015. The new school will open in August 2015 as originally planned.
The revised date for the new secondary school was agreed with representatives with Hub North Scotland Limited and Miller Construction UK in Inverness late last week. The revised handover date will ensure that high quality facilities will be delivered.
The reasons for the programme slipping behind schedule were explained to the Group and were attributable to the following factors:
· Achieving a design that meets the authority's requirements in relation to natural ventilation and lighting which will result in the optimal learning and teaching environment within a very challenging project budget - planning approval was granted in mid- August which represented significant progress. Detailed design work is on-going, particularly in relation to the roof area;
· A complicated contract structure which involves significant legal and financial specialist input and which relies heavily on external funders. There will be significant due diligence carried out by the funder's advisers in advance of contract closure. There have also been extensive discussions with specialist advisers and the Scottish Futures Trust to arrive at a contract configuration that meets all relevant accounting and legal requirements;
· Ensuring that during the tendering of over 60 work packages local suppliers will be provided with every opportunity to bid for work across the community campus and north of the river projects. Local Members have consistently emphasised the importance of local contractors being provided with every opportunity to bid for work packages.
The Council, having considered all factors, decided that a handover date in February 2016 represents the best outcome for the school communities.
Councillor Gail Ross, the Chair of the Stakeholders Group, said: "It's well known that big build projects like this often encounter delays for one reason or another but that doesn't make this any less disappointing. It's worth pointing out that an Easter 2016 opening does give more leeway for teachers to get the classrooms ready and leaves the final term for more fun integration for the kids, instead of having to focus entirely on the curriculum.
I am satisfied that this new entry date will not cause interruption to the children's learning- that's what we need to focus on. We need to make sure we deliver a top quality school, not a rushed job with potential cut corners. The council will continue to work closely with Hub North and Miller Construction to ensure there are no further delays and that we deliver the building that our community expects."
Angus Macfarlane, Chief Executive of Hub North Scotland said: " A number of factors have combined to bring the revised schedule, however, hub North Scotland believes the schedule is now realistic and achievable and we look forward to delivering this much-needed Community Campus to the Wick area through our continued close partnership with The Highland Council."
I reckon summer 2016 .........and there's not even a spade in the ground yet.....
Three Irish firms got together and quoted for 6 schools in Outer Hebrides - they won contract and completed by dates, some earlier I understand.
There have been a few teething problems - understand mainly with windows and roofs leaking.
Went up as quick as a tescos building but will wait to see if it stands the test of time - observed pouring concrete foundations (clearly visible from Council offices next door) when it was the hardest frosts and ice for many years!
Only two people took the trouble of commenting on the plans submitted for planning.
I kent his faither
From the Adult and Children Services Committee - 13 November 2013
Wick High School and Primary Schools
The revised programme to construct the building to replace the existing Wick
High School, Pulteneytown Academy Primary School, South Primary School,
Wick Carnegie Public Library and Wick Swimming Pool, which will be known as
the Wick Community Campus, has been formally agreed with Hub North
Scotland Limited (HNSL) and Miller Construction UK (MCUK).
The key milestone dates are as follows:
• Stage 2 submission – 10/01/14
• Financial close and contract agreement - 07/02/14
• Construction start on site – 31/03/14
• Practical completion – 29/01/16
• Handover period – February to April 2016
• Completion of external works – August 2016
The construction work packages are currently being tendered in accordance with
the requirements of the Territory Partner Agreement (TPA) which includes a
significant proportion of the contracts being made available to local contractors.
The replacement school for Hillhead Primary School and North Primary School
remains on programme to open in August 2015. The Stage 1 submission has
been received and the Council's project team and specialist advisers are
considering the detail. It is proposed that, subject to the Stage 1 submission
being within the Affordability Cap approved at the New Project Request stage
(when adjusted for indexation), approval to allow the project to progress to Stage
2 is delegated to the Directors of Education, Culture and Sport and Finance and
the Interim Director of Housing and Property Services. This approach will ensure
that there are no delays to the programme as a result of waiting for the
appropriate Committee approval for the Stage 1 submission. The evaluation of
the Stage 1 submission should be completed by mid-November 2013. The key
programme dates are as follows:
• Enabling works commence – 20/01/14
• Contract award - 17/03/14
• Construction starts – 14/04/14
• School handover – 12/06/15
• Completion of all external works – 26/02/16
Planning go ahead for new Wick North Primary School


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Clone Trooper Tup
A rookie clone trooper in the 501st Legion, Tup acclimated well within the ranks of seasoned veterans. Unlike some of the newer clones, like Dogma, who seemed wound a little too tight, Tup was far more willing to learn from his brothers' experiences. Tup could be distinguished by the teardrop shaped tattoo on his face, and the matching markings on his helmet. He served during the grueling campaign to retake the shadowy planet Umbara, under the command of the fierce General Pong Krell.
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Clone Captain Rex
Clone Captain Rex served the Republic during the Clone Wars, often taking orders from Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano. He viewed military service as an honor, and he always completed his mission. Fond of using two blaster pistols at the same time, Rex customized his armor with distinctive blue markings. His loyalty to the Republic and his Jedi Generals was absolute, but even this dedicated veteran soldier found himself plagued by doubts as the Clone Wars claimed more lives and brought ruin to more worlds.
ARC Trooper Fives
Also known as CT-27-5555, Fives trained with Domino Squad on Kamino before being shipped out to the Rishi Moon listening outpost. He survived the Separatist attack on the station there, and was transferred to the 501st Legion alongside his squadmate and fellow survivor, Echo. Fives and Echo were promoted to ARC trooper status after the defense of Kamino from Separatist invaders. He and Echo were later assigned with the difficult mission of freeing Republic prisoners from the daunting Citadel prison installation on Lola Sayu. He and Echo were later part of a mission to free Republic prisoners from the Separatist prison called the Citadel. Echo fell in battle, leaving Fives as Domino Squad's sole survivor. Fives accompanied the clone trooper Tup to Kamino for medical testing, where he discovered a terrifying secret about the clones' origins and ultimate purpose.
General Pong Krell
This Besalisk Jedi is all about getting results and, indeed, his battlefield record lists many key victories in the Clone Wars. He has an unshakable confidence in his methods, and he will brook no insubordination among his charges. In personal combat, he can be ferocious -- his giant arms carry two double-ended lightsabers, making him extremely dangerous in close quarters. Pong Krell's reputation as a successful general is well known but so is the fact that the casualty rates of the clone troopers under his command are the highest.
Clone Trooper Hardcase
"Let me at 'em!" was Hardcase's typical reaction when presented with enemy forces, no matter how overwhelming the odds. Legend has it that his growth chamber sprung a leak during his formation on Kamino, resulting in his characteristic, somewhat aberrant, but nonetheless useful hyperactivity. When the blaster bolts fly, Hardcase loses all sense of self-preservation and returns fire with zeal, determined to wipe out the enemy with repeated sweeps of his rotary laser cannon.
Clone Troopers
At the time of their introduction, the Republic clone troopers represented the future of galactic warfare. Far superior to battle droids, the clone troopers formed the backbone of the Republic's new military that waged war against the forces of the Confederacy of Independent Systems. So symbolic were they of the times, the galaxy-wide conflict that saw their debut took its name from their ranks: the Clone Wars.
Galactic Republic
For over a thousand years, the Galactic Republic stood firm as a democratic union that governed the galaxy. The Republic was governed by the Galactic Senate, consisting of elected officials from each system and world, and Jedi Knights served as peacekeepers. With the rise of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, however, the Galactic Republic -- and democracy -- would crumble.


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"When I set up Cath Kidston in a small shop in Holland Park in 1993 I had no idea what a journey the company would take me on."
Starting out from a small curtain shop in a sleepy suburb of London, Cath Kidston has become a British design classic of international renown. Evoking quintessential scenes like the English garden, tea time, street parties and picnics, the brand's playful patterns brighten up everyday journeys. Marking the company's 20th birthday is a custom-made Moleskine notebook, which accompanies a variety of other tools for daily life as part of a special limited edition range.
Classic design with a modern twist applied to essential tools for contemporary living. In the same dark red tone that characterizes the Cath Kidston style, the hard cover is debossed with the company's logo. The paperband around it is printed with a quote from Cath Kidston herself. Once the elastic band is released and the notebook is opened, the distinctive "antique rose" print jumps out from the flyleaves.
Documenting and sharing our lives is done on a much larger scale now than 20 years ago, when Cath Kidston first came into being. Yet more than ever we rely on analog objects to help us record our experiences and express our personalities in the digital realm. The birthday range by Cath Kidston celebrates their twenty-year journey through these essential everyday companions.
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BRISTOL, Tenn. – King University took home three Conference Carolinas weekly awards last week when the league announced their winners on Monday. Softball's Chrissy Melcher andMariana Hosomi and Rodrigo Avila of the Tornado tennis teams were named Conference Carolinas Players of the Week for the week ending Monday, March 3.
Because of logistical issues with hosting the Conference Carolinas Basketball Tournament and widespread power outages in the High Point, N.C., area, the conference office was delayed in announcing the awards until this afternoon.
Melcher raised her season batting average to .538 during a 1-4 week for the Tornado. Her best game came during King's 9-2 win at Erskine on Saturday, when she went 3-for-3 with three runs scored, two walks, and an RBI. She was 10-for-17 at the plate overall in the five games, hitting two doubles and a home run and slugging 1.000. Her hitting streak stood at a career-high 17 games dating back to King's third game of the season at the time of the award. She had recorded hits in 25 of her last 26 contests dating back to last season and led the conference in batting average by exactly .100 points.
Hosomi went 3-1 in singles play this week, falling to Mars Hill's Lucy McLauren before winning her final three matches, two in conference play, to close out the week. She and partner Naomi Reyes swept through doubles play at the second flight on the week, including a sweep of Belmont Abbey's Lydia Schellenberg and Paige French, helping King to a 2-2 record.
Avila's 7-1 record this week helped King to a 2-2 week. He did not lose in singles play all week, including a pair of dominant wins over Juan Vargas and Juan Baez of North Greenville and Belmont Abbey in conference play. Avila won three of his four matches at the second flight in straight sets. At No. 1 doubles, Avila and Leo Brigato went 3-1, picking up a pair of conference wins and a victory over Mars Hill's top duo.
The Tornado softball team is scheduled to be in action again on Wednesday and Thursday when they host Carson-Newman University and Tusculum College. The King tennis teams return to action on March 18 when they host Lees-McRae College.


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Actress starring as Sheila Hammond
They're ordinary husband and wife realtors until she undergoes a dramatic change that sends them down a road of death and destruction. In a good way.
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Flower Beauty was the brainchild and mission of Drew Barrymore and her straightforward, no-nonsense philosophy of empowerment: that women everwhere deserve the best quality, most efficacious products at an affordable price.
Drew's gift to everyone, FLOWER empowers women by developing products that help you look and feel great in your OWN skin, and to embrace your individual beauty with the support of inspired, luxurious products made with you in mind.
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Production company Drew co-owns with friend Nancy Juvonen.
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Drew partnered with Amazon Fashion to launch her first fashion line. The line includes apparel, accessories (including jewelry, scarves and handbags), hair tools and luggage, with prices ranging from $28 to $248.
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Wine is all about the journey. The discovery of new wines, new regions and new vintages is what keeps wine exciting to novices and enthusiasts alike. For Drew Barrymore, the allure of that journey and the chance to create an offering to share with her family and friends propelled her to delve into the world of wine.
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Wine is all about the journey. The discovery of new wines, new regions and new vintages is what keeps wine exciting to novices and enthusiasts alike. For Drew Barrymore, the allure of that journey and the chance to create an offering to share with her family and friends propelled her to delve into the world of wine.
One of the world's most recognized actresses and successful directors, Drew Barrymore was appointed WFP Ambassador Against Hunger in 2007. Assisting 80 million people in around 80 countries each year, the World Food Programme (WFP) is the leading humanitarian organization fighting hunger worldwide, delivering food assistance in emergencies and working with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience. As the international community has committed to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition by 2030, one in nine people worldwide still do not have enough to eat. Food and food-related assistance lie at the heart of the struggle to break the cycle of hunger and poverty.
As the first and largest pediatric hospital in Southern California, CHLA relies on the generosity of philanthropists in the community to support compassionate patient care, leading-edge education of the caregivers of tomorrow and innovative research efforts that impact children at thier hospital and around the world. Drew talks about why she got involved with CHLA "We wanted to get involved with CHLA, and really did our homework on what we could do that would be the most impactful. After many conversations, the one thing that kept resonating with me was how dedicated these parents were to their sick children and how often they forget to do anything for themselves. We got inspired to do something the kids could do with their mom on Mother's Day."
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Norman Mailer, subversive conservative
Since Norman Mailer's death two weeks ago there's been an outpouring of eulogies about the "passing of the sixties generation." As a Catholic, I've always been attracted to Mailer because he perfectly embodied the contradictions of that era. Part drunken orgy, part moral crusade, the sixties at times was like a distorted, bizarro… READ MORE >
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Man of Sorrow and Strife
If, in his early days, middle-class Minnesotan Bob Zimmerman playacted the persona of hobo troubador Bob Dylan, he has since evolved into the genuine article, an authentic Elder Statesman of American music. Dylan's late-career flowering, which began with 1997's death-haunted, Time Out of Mind (though 1989's Oh Mercy had its… READ MORE >
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|2012-11-15, 17:29
|Link #822
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To be fair though, we didn't actually get that guy's name yet. Nonetheless there are many of us (myself included) who does indeed believe that he is none other than Komatsu's second childhood friend, Ume.
Anyways, though the Bishokukai will inevitably invade the festival, there's no way I see most of those chefs getting captured without a struggle. We already know some of them are quite capable of defending themselves well enough (like Setsuno). Personally, I'm interested in seeing Zaus and that Ramen Master guy kick some ass.
Also, I think it's safe to say at this point that this cooking festival arc will be the last major storyline to take place in the human world. After this one's over, Shima may very well shift the focus completely on the Gourmet World....
|2012-11-15, 22:13
|Link #823
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: 幻想郷
Age: 30
Yeah that guy who look like Komatsu is his childhood friend, Ume. Also he sooo resembles to Komatsu and makes me think that are they brother?! If they turn out to be brother then I'd be no suprised since their appearance and their temparement, behavior looks alike :3
Anyways so there total 49 festival that held so far and Zaus and Setsuna are the ones who dominates the whole competetion as expected but I also like to know who are the rest 6 guy who held the champion title in the past too. I don't think this festival will be delivering good results due to Bishokukai's interruption. Even they don't interfere with the festival until it's end I don't think Komatsu going to get first place or would get first top ten since he is up againist the world class chief. He is young but yeah he is skilled and bleesed with food luck but moreover he will be up againist Ume too. This festival really going to be interesting and it's a shame that the manga will be on hiatus in the next week :<
|2012-12-01, 08:29
|Link #826
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Location: 幻想郷
Age: 30
And I also spoted two cute and sexy looking female cooking chief at the last page of this page. Hope we get closer view in the upcoming chapters. Anyways this is going to be interesting. Triathlon cooking, huh? Komatsu sure seem to be have no chance of winning but I bet he will find some rare ingrident by using his food luck where he will be able accsess it easily and made really delicious tasting food at the end. Hope he makes some nakama chief during the festival and meet Ume as soon as possible :3
|2012-12-01, 17:12
|Link #827
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Huh, I forgot to comment on the chapter earlier.....
Anyways, I like how this chapter wasn't JUST character introductions this time around. Though I gotta say, some of the new people who appeared certainly did have some real unique designs (I especially like those Gourmet 7 guys). Also, the fact that half of the ranked chefs will be eliminated in the first round makes me think that it'll be chiefly the ones we were already introduced to who will go on to the later rounds. I'm not worried about Komatsu since he has his plot hax "Food Luck" to see him through the competition.
BTW, I wonder who's that chef lady in the bikini standing to Komatsu's right in that last spread? I kinda hope she survives the triathlon so she can have a proper introduction later on.....
|2012-12-06, 19:28
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I also agree the Tengu dude looks like a great match for Zebra. However, as I said in the spoiler.... Zebra might consider him too cocky for his own good.
That being said, I'm already liking this arc better than the Four Beast battle. Mainly because it's great to see that the chefs themselves are getting the spotlight for a change. So far I'm liking that oil user guy the most out of the newly introduced chefs but some of the others should start making more of an impression soon enough (aside from Tengu, I mean). I also find it interesting that not all of these top-ranked chefs have high-level courses in their menus (guess it just goes to show that their personal menu doesn't have to match their cooking rank). That being said, I'm kinda hoping that Shima will cover the ENTIRE chef competition before the Bishokukai's invasion starts.....
|2012-12-15, 17:42
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I was wondering how Komatsu going to handle the rest of the competition but it looks like Branchi going to help him and they even formed tag team and taking their sweet time but it looks like with the strenght of Branch they are going to take over other chiefs. Anyways I am really enjoying this arch simply because the idea itself. I wonder how and what kind of battle Zatsu and Setsuno going to put.
I also like how popular shounen mangas have long-nosed characters like Usopp from One Piece even though he is not Tengu, lol. I am really liking Branchi so far and I hope he make a cambo with Zebra in the future and the rest of the Heavenly Kings like Sani and Coco find their own cambos as well. Zebra and Branchi can get along well. Their temparement fits so well imo. And I hope Sani find someone who resembles to his own character like how he is rambling about this beauty and harmony stuff. That would be reall cool and hilarious, heh.
|2012-12-15, 19:47
|Link #836
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BTW, apparently the Tengu's name is supposed to be pronounced "Brunch", rather than Branch or Buranchi. While it certainly makes sense since at least it's a food-related name, I still find it somewhat questionable to name some monstrously powerful chef from the Gourmet World after one of the lesser-known daily meals.
Also, it seems there was another slight mistranslation this chapter as well: The part where Brunch says he heard that Zebra would rather die than partner with a chef? It was actually the opposite: Brunch was the one rejecting Zebra. So in short, both chef AND bishokuya were rejecting each other! Not that it matters in the end anyway.... at this point it's clear that they'll both be a part of Komatsu's harem eventually, anyway.
|2012-12-20, 17:53
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....Dang, Shima kinda rushed things again. I really wanted to see those other matches (especially that "Scale Death Cooking" match..... that looked awesome). Oh well, I at least hope we get to see Komatsu and Livebearer's matches before the bad guys show up.
Also, lol at a crocodile being a mammal beast.
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STOCKTON - The San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office apprehended three men suspected of opening fire on a central Stockton home early Tuesday, authorities said.
STOCKTON - The San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office apprehended three men suspected of opening fire on a central Stockton home early Tuesday, authorities said.
The drive-by shooting occurred about 2 a.m. in the 1400 block of North F Street, deputies said. A maroon Nissan Altima traveling east on East Francis Street drove slowly past the residence and someone inside the vehicle fired two shots, striking two windows on the north side of the home, authorities said.
Deputies attempted to stop the car moments later when they located it near North Sierra Lane and John Street, but the driver of the Altima refused to stop, the Sheriff's Office said. A 2.2-mile pursuit ended when the Altima became disabled on the railroad tracks near North B Street, officials said. During the pursuit, the suspects threw a .40-caliber firearm with an extended magazine out of the vehicle, authorities said.
The suspects, identified by the Sheriff's Office as Jaime Toscano, 29, Anthony Morones, 32, and Emmanuel Jessop, 27, attempted to flee on foot, deputies said. All three were taken into custody, authorities said. Inside the vehicle, deputies found a large quantity of marijuana, officials said.
Toscano, Morones and Jessop were arrested on suspicion of shooting at a dwelling, possession of a loaded firearm, shooting a firearm from a vehicle, possession of a large-capacity magazine, evading a peace officer, resisting arrest, drug possession and drug sales, authorities said.


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October 02. 2013 11:18PM
Manchester's "alternate school board" gets reshuffled
By TED SIEFER
New Hampshire Union Leader
MANCHESTER — School district officials have rescheduled for next Thursday a meeting of the "alternative school board" to conduct a closed-door hearing concerning a former district employee.
The board, which is to consist of nine people, will entirely replace the 14 elected members of the Board of School Committee, which has recused itself because it had already rendered a decision on the employee in question.
According to sources, the former employee is Lisa Tagalakis Fedor, a Central High art teacher arrested in February and charged with criminal liability for allegedly allowing a roommate to sell heroin and posses a stolen firearm in the apartment where she and her children lived.
The district's attorney, James O'Shaughnessy, said the "alternative board" was necessary in order to comply with a state law requiring that teachers subject to dismissal receive a "fair and impartial hearing."
The district scheduled a meeting of the "alternative board" for Monday, without explanation. The hearing never took place that evening because, after nearly an hour, it was determined that there weren't enough people for a quorum.
"Two people bowed out beforehand and when we got there, two didn't feel comfortable," Ward 4 Alderman Jim Roy, a member of the alternative board, said. "All that went on was lawyers talking in back rooms. We just sat around and waited, and then we were told we could go home."
Monday's meeting was closed to the public. Under the state's open meeting law, meetings of any public body can only go behind closed doors by a public vote of a quorum, and only for specified reasons, including personnel matters.
O'Shaughnessy said on Wednesday that he believed the nine members of the alternative board have been selected for the meeting next week, which will take place at the district's headquarters at 5:30 p.m. He said he could not identify all of the members because the list was "not finalized." At least four of the nine members are city aldermen: Roy, Pat Long, Tom Katsiantonis and Barbara Shaw.
Several school board members contacted this week said they understood the need to recuse themselves in the current case and that they supported the decision.
The hearing involves an employee who was dismissed last spring. The board had voted to back the recommendation of then superintendent Thomas Brennan to dismiss Fedor. Under state law, teachers can only be dismissed following a "full and fair hearing."
A hearing did not take place in the case of Fedor, who is now appealing the termination.
The identity of the former employee was not disclosed by O'Shaughnessy or school board members interviewed for this story.
O'Shaughnessy maintained that convening the alternative board was consistent with precedent and state law. He pointed to a 1994 case in which Ovide Lamontagne, then the chairman of the state Department of Education's review board, found that the school board of the Kearsarge Regional School District violated the rights of a teacher by deciding not to renew her contract before giving her a fair hearing, as required under RSA 189:13.
He ordered that the teacher be given a "mutually acceptable hearing process" in line with another state statute, RSA chapter 43.
That law states in part that when "the whole board is disqualified the selectmen shall, in writing, so inform some justice of the superior court, who shall ... appoint a new board for that case from qualified persons who have before holden the same office in the town, if such there be, otherwise from qualified persons, residents of another town, who have holden the same office."
O'Shaughnessy said the decision to ask aldermen, former school board members and those from other towns to form an alternative school board was based on these precedents and laws. "I know there's a gray area," he said. "Statutes don't explain every situation. When you to have to find a solution, and there's nothing spelled out for you, you look to common law, you try to find solutions guided by other legal principles, that are constitutional, that show good faith, and that have the public's best interests in mind."


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Nothing will enhance your gaming experience quite like a nice headset. The improved audio detail and surround sound creates an immersive atmosphere, and turns the footsteps of a foe into a dead giveaway of his location. Single player campaigns become journeys you won't want to back out of. Online, too, having a mic makes gaming into a social experience, letting you chat with your teammates and coordinate tactics on the fly.
The Astro A50 is this kind of game-changing headset – and at $300, it really should be. Thanks to the work of Dolby's Pro Logic IIx format, it can offer digitally mixed, 7.1 simulated surround sound. It's exactly what you need to truly feel enemy rockets rip past your face, and it's versatile enough you'll want to use it for watching movies or listening to music too. Finally, the fact that it's compatible right out of the box with the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and any PC or Mac with an optical port, makes it more versatile than the Tritton Warhead 7.1, a comparable $300 headset that's Xbox-only.
Astro Studios is well known in the design space. In 2006 it spun off Astro Gaming, which has been competing with the likes of Turtle Beach and the Tritton brand from Mad Catz to produce the premiere gaming headset/home stereo alternative. While the Astro A50 isn't perfect, it's damn close, and the wide range of products it works with makes it a solid investment for tech fans with crowded entertainment centers.
The Astro A50 offers deep bass, crisp highs, and thanks to that Dolby Pro Logic IIx capability, software enabled sound mixing as good as any 7.1 headset on the market. Its only real flaws are a bulky design and a somewhat clumsy interface. You'll also need to pick up an adapter or two if you plan to connect to anything without an optical port, like a MacBook Pro. We also found that Astro's estimated 12-hours of battery life was a bit too generous, making a $7.99 Play and Charge Cable a must.
Also, there's an essential firmware update that fixes an issue with the A50s that causes an intermittent "pop" in the audio. If you purchased the A50s, make sure to download the update and install it.
With great audio power comes a plus-sized headset; the Astro A50 is big and bulky, but still manages to be surprisingly comfortable. Every piece of the headset that comes in contact with your head, meaning the earpieces and the underside of the headband, is covered in soft, foam-like cloth. You'll definitely notice the weight of the A50s sitting on your head, but the gentle points of contact make it easy to wear. During long gaming sessions or while watching a movie we eventually forgot we were wearing it. You'd have to wear the A50 for a truly extended amount of time for it to become uncomfortable or tiring.
The fit of the A50s is not as snug as some headphones we've tested. It might feel a bit loose if you're used to something tighter, but we quickly go used to it. A more relaxed fit makes it easier on your ears, but it does mean the audio bleeds a bit. If you're cranking the sound, people around you will be able to hear it faintly. Just don't listen to any secret messages with enemy spies around.
Since the unit is large, Astro made a good choice in giving it a stealthy color scheme. The matte black finish is attractive and subdued; no need to draw any more attention to the oversized A50s. Red, semi-exposed cables running up the sides of the headband serve as an eye-catching highlight.
The microphone is super bendy and durable, and has one clever feature: pointing it straight up locks it in place and mutes it. It's a neat and convenient bit of design, but we still would have appreciated to option to simply remove the mic. Being able to tuck it straight up is a great feature for LAN parties or long gaming sessions, but makes you look like an unemployed cosmonaut when you're watching a movie. It would be nice if we could just take it off.


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A gun shop in Tucson, Ariz., has canceled an effort by retired astronaut Mark Kelly, an outspoken gun-control advocate, to buy a semiautomatic rifle as a way of demonstrating how easy it is to buy powerful weapons.
Kelly, the husband of former Rep. Gabby Giffords, who was one of the targets of a mass shooting near Tucson on Jan. 8, 2011, had sought to purchase the Sig Sauer M400, a type of AR-15 assault weapon, to demonstrate how easy or hard it would be to buy such a rifle. Kelly and his wife have become active figures in current gun-control efforts after the shooting that left Giffords recovering from head wounds. Six people were killed and 13 injured in the attack by Jared Loughner, who is serving life in prison without parole.
But Kelly's purchase has been rescinded, according to Doug MacKinlay, owner of Diamondback Police Supply. MacKinley was not immediately available by telephone, but he announced the cancellation in a Facebook posting.
"While I support and respect Mark Kelly's 2nd Amendment rights to purchase, possess, and use firearms in a safe and responsible manner, his recent statements to the media made it clear that his intent in purchasing the Sig Sauer M400 5.56mm rifle from us was for reasons other then for his personal use. In light of this fact, I determined that it was in my company's best interest to terminate this transaction prior to his returning to my store to complete the Federal Form 4473 and NICS [National Instant Criminal Background Check System] background check required of Mr. Kelly before he could take possession of this firearm. A full refund was sent to Mr. Kelly, via express mail, on Thursday of last week."


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There isn't much to the characters in this morose thriller.
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Deadfall suffers most obviously from a sense of not being adequately developed.
Tonally, Deadfall seems to be aiming somewhere between Sam Raimi's "A Simple Plan" and the brilliant Pine Barrens episode of "The Sopranos," with a classic Western showdown at its climax. But the pedestrian writing holds it back.
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Iffy for 16+
Violent Thanksgiving-set thriller isn't family friendly.
What Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that Deadfall is a thriller with some strong violence and sexual situations. Though it's set over the Thanksgiving holiday, it isn't family-friendly entertainment: Many characters are morally ambiguous, and the story deals with troubled family relationships. The main female character has sex twice and is briefly seen topless, and there are some bloody killings/injuries, guns and shootings, stabbings, and severed fingers. Language is strong and includes several uses of "f--k" and "s--t" throughout. There's some background drinking and smoking, and one character is shown to be a mean, intimidating drunk.
Messages: Many characters are morally ambiguous, and the story deals with troubled family relationships. But a character gets out from under the influence of her bad-news brother and learns that she might be capable of -- and deserve -- a more positive and hopeful life. A few moments of families taking care of one another.
Role models: The main character, a robber, is mostly terrible, though he does try to help out a family in need in his own way. And his sister comes to realize that she might be worth more than she thought. Characters in smaller roles are generally kind and helpful, even if they have their assorted flaws, problems, and bad luck.
Violence: The main character is a bank robber who kills at least three people over the course of the movie. Another of the major characters accidentally kills a man during a fight. A character dies in a car crash. Guns are fired. People are stabbed. Some blood is shown. There's a fight that results in fingers being chopped off; the victim cauterizes the wound on a hot snowmobile engine. A man's neck is sliced on a barbed-wire fence.
Sex: The main female character has sex twice with a man she has just met. During the second scene, she's briefly shown topless. The man's naked bottom is shown.
Language: "F--k" and "s--t" are used several times, as are "a--hole," "hell," and "bitch."
Consumerism: Not an issue
Drinking, drugs and smoking: A minor character is shown to be a mean drunk, frightening his wife and stepchildren. The main character takes a few swigs from bottles of booze. Main characters occasionally smoke cigarettes. Other characters drink socially in a bar.
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BYU-Idaho sponsors several academic societies on campus. Student academic societies exist to:
Extend and enhance the learning experience;
Improve professional opportunities;
Provide a forum for dialogue and interaction among faculty, students, and professionals;
Provide leadership opportunities;
Create bonds of friendship among students with similar professional or academic interest.
It is recommended that student academic societies affiliate with some national or regional professional society associated with the discipline. In many cases, these national or regional professional societies will have a mechanism for the organization and governance of student chapters. For example, a student academic society of Psychology majors could affiliate with the American Psychological Association.
*Student academic societies are not primarily organized for recreational activities, parties, community service, or student support and well being. These may be an incidental part of what a student academic society might do, but not their primary focus. Student organizations whose primary purpose is recreational, social, or community service should be organized under the auspices of the BYU-Idaho Activities Program. Student organizations whose primary purpose is student well-being and support should be organized under the auspices of the BYU-Idaho Dean of Students.


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Biological control is the cheapest and easiest means of controlling pests, but it is not always successful, according to Bill Chaney, Monterey County farm advisor.
Nevertheless, Chaney and others have been evaluating syrphid flies as a control for lettuce aphid, a persistent pest in coastal lettuce, especially romaine. The lettuce aphid is tough to control with insecticides because it colonizes deep in the lettuce head.
The use of various flowering plants, some of them common ornamentals, to support a number of syrphid species, natural enemies of the aphid, originated as a control for organically grown lettuce, but Chaney sees a potential application of it in conventionally farmed lettuce fields.
At a recent meeting of growers and PCAs in Salinas, Chaney said the lettuce aphid appeared in Salinas Valley lettuce
in 1989 and has since become a serious pest.
Classical biological control, or the use of any natural enemy to reduce a pest population – while not always a smash success – does have noteworthy accomplishments to its credit, Chaney said.
The prime example in California was the release of the Vedalia beetle more than 100 years ago to control cottony cushion scale which, at the time was devastating citrus groves. The Vedalia, a lady-beetle species introduced from Australia, was credited with saving the California citrus industry from the scale.
More recently, about 10 years ago, Chaney said bluegum psyllids threatened the $30 million, floral eucalyptus industry in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties. The psyllids' feeding deformed branches of the eucalyptus and left spots were the branches and foliage would not accept dyes. Multiple sprays required for control of the psyllid damage were not economical, but a parasitic wasp from Australia was introduced and cleaned up the pest in two years.
Chaney said the campaign against lettuce aphid, however, mostly employs what is termed conservation biological control, or conserving the natural enemies that exist locally.
In 2001, he said, lettuce aphid populations in lettuce in the Hollister area were observed to reach a peak and then suddenly disappear without a trace. Investigation showed the presence of syrphid fly nymphs, which had devoured the aphids deep in the lettuce heads.
"Organic growers recognized what was going on here with biological control and began setting out strips of insectary plants with their lettuce and other crops," Chaney said.
Insectary plants are annuals, such as alyssum, clovers, or mixes of species, placed either across a field at intervals or around the edges.
The flowering plants supplied syrphids, also known as hover flies or flower flies, with nectar and pollen to support adult and younger stages, which in turn overcame the aphids.
"We call this habitat manipulation, or supplying these resources in the field in a way to reduce lettuce aphid populations before the harvest date of the crop. We do not yet have the answers, but we are trying to learn more about it." One question is which of the many species of syrphid flies are impacting the pest.
There are additional beneficial insects that might be potential "players" against lettuce aphid, he said. Among them are green lacewings, minute pirate bugs, bigeyed bugs and others.
However, the downside with biological control, Chaney cautioned, is the possibility of small-seed-feeding lygus or other pests that could also be drawn to the lettuce by flowering insectary strips.
Chaney said the early data was taken to the EPA, which funded the current project of further investigations of ways of suppressing lettuce aphid begun in February 2005.
Hugh Smith, a University of California Cooperative Extension entomologist assigned to the Monterey County office, has been conducting the research.
Smith said the Salinas Valley has abundant floral resources of mustard, radish, and other wild plants that support syrphids. Many other weeds, including poison hemlock, are also favored habitat for the insects.
He sampled syrphid species most common in romaine throughout the valley. He found about a dozen are present, and he is studying the egg-laying and other behaviors of the main seven species.
The key to the conservation biological control approach, Smith said, is that several species prey on other aphid species and lay eggs in lettuce before the lettuce aphid appears. Other syrphids, however, appear only when lettuce aphid infestation is high.
"We learned is that conservation biological control is probably successful here because we are not relying on one or two species. There is a mixture of syrphid species and they are taking advantage of different situations," Smith said.
This year, he continued observations of the role of syrphids. By excluding them from lettuce plants with covers or spray treatments to kill only syrphid larvae, he wanted to learn if other predators also go to the aphids. He is also monitoring use of a fungus and a lady-beetle predator that attack lettuce aphid.
Smith said much is to be learned, since individual organic growers use several different patterns and species of insectary strips to sustain syrphids.
"We can't just tweak a certain system, such as changing insectary strips from one every eight rows to every 12 rows. We found that growers are doing some very different things with very similar levels of success.
"That's why it is important for us to think about all the large, naturally-occurring areas of insectaries we have. Syrphids are very mobile and can come from far away as well as next door."
Smith's work has been funded by EPA's Region 9 for another year to research similar ways to control insect pests of celery and cole crops.


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Ron Hamilton, 60 - December 05, 2007
Ron Hamilton, 60, of Chaska, MN, formerly of Gothenburg, died Saturday, Nov. 24, 2007, at Fairview Southdale Hospital.
A service celebrating his life was held Wednesday, Nov. 28, at Wooddale Church at Eden Prairie with the Rev. Frank Doten officiating. Burial took place at Mount Pleasant Cemetery at Chaska.
Hamilton was born on Nov. 10, 1947, at Gothenburg to Willard and Genevieve (Appleyard) Hamilton.
He grew up in McCook, playing ball, hunting pheasants and working with his father.
Hamilton served in the United States Navy during the Vietnam Era from 1968-1972, receiving an honorable discharge.
He attended the Western Bible College at Morrison, CO.
On May 29, 1976, he was united in marriage to Mary at Conifer, CO.
Hamilton was a devoted husband and father, having coached his sons on the Chaska baseball teams for several years and rarely missing a game from grade school through college, according to family members.
?His work ethic was exemplary for his sons and all those around him. He also had a strong personal relationship with his Lord and Savior, said family members.
He was preceded in death by his father, Willard Hamilton
Survivors include: his wife of 31 years, Mary; his sons—Josh (Sharon) and Isaac; his mother, Genevieve Hamilton of Gothenburg; sisters—Jan Janssen of Gothenburg, Carol Brown of Estes Park, CO, and Joy Wigle of Chaska.
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May 15, 2012by Carolyn Szczepanski(Helen Ho is the co-founder of POW! People on Wheels and the Development Director for Recycle-A-Bicycle, in New York City.)
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Written by Gothenburg Times Friday, 29 March 2013 13:28
Taken from the news columns of area newspapers.
Lex school considers grade-level centers
COZAD—Lexington Public Schools is considering changing from neighborhood-based elementary schools to grade-level attendance centers. According to the proposal Sandoz Elementary would be the site for all of the district's kindergarten and first grade students, Morton Elementary would have second and third grade students and Pershing Elementary would have fourth and fifth grade students. The Bryan Elementary, site of the dual language program, would remain unchanged. Although details of a reconfiguration plan would need more input, school officials agree this needs to be a community decision.—reported in the Tri-City Trib.
New fairgrounds manager appointed
BROKEN BOW—There is a new face at the Custer County Fairgrounds, albeit a familiar one to the area. Toby Kinderknecht officially began his duties as Custer County Fairgrounds manager on Monday, March 18. Kinderknecht will be taking over for previous fairground manager Leon Meyer who announced his retirement in January. While Kinderknecht has never actually lived in Broken Bow, he was a regular at the horse track in 1980 working first as an assistant horse trainer and then head trainer.—reported in the Custer County Chief.
Revitalization project grows in scope
OGALLALA—The Downtown Revitalization Project, which is more that three years in the making, has grown in scope and, while hoped to be completed in time for this year's Ogallala Indian Summer Rendezvous, may be completed after the annual mid-September city celebration. Committee members are in the final stages of completing a grant application for additional funding for the project. The Downtown Revitalization project includes resurfacing and a pedestrian pathway as well as a proposed downtown pavilion.—reported in the Keith County News.
Chili Cook-off welcomes surprise guest, 13 teams
ARNOLD—Over 250 people recently packed into the Arnold Community Center to attend the annual Chamber-sponsored Chili Cook-off. The crowd was surprised with an unexpected appearance of Edward Mukusha who walked in the door playing bagpipes, entertaining contestants and members of the public. Mukusha, who had played for an event in Thedford that day, heard about the cook-off and stopped in Arnold on his way back to Lincoln. Thirteen teams competed in the cook-off with first place going to "Big Bucks Chili," sponsored by the Arnold Funeral Home.—reported in the Arnold Sentinel.
Local hospital jumping into digital data stream
CALLAWAY—Callaway District Hospital and Medical Clinics (CDH) administration and staff have been working to install and activate a new information web that will lead towards digitizing medical records and storing them where they can be accessed wherever needed. The CDH is utilizing a federal grant to buy and implement a complex integrated information system that will involve just about any staff with a need to access or modify medical records and other data. The goal of digitized records is to make them accessible by medical providers anywhere in the world such as if a patient was vacationing in a foreign land and developed a medical problem, the information would be readily available.—reported in the Callaway Courier.


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Monarchs Report For Preseason Camp Aug. 13
By ODU Athletics
Aug. 7, 2008
Norfolk, Va. - A new era of Old Dominion University football will begin on Wednesday, Aug. 13 when head coach Bobby Wilder and his staff welcomes an anticipated 82 players to campus for preseason camp. The Monarchs, who last fielded a team in 1940, will practice this season in preparation for a full slate of games in 2009.
Players will check in to their dorms, receive physicals and participate in team meetings on Wednesday. Thursday morning will consist of getting fitted for equipment, fitness testing and taking photos and the Monarchs will hit the field in the afternoon at 3 p.m. for the first of 13 preseason practice sessions before the start of classes on Aug. 25. Beginning Friday at 9:05 a.m. the team will practice once a day through Monday, then hold two-a-day sessions on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, Aug. 23. Single sessions will begin at 9:05 a.m., while two-a-day practices will be held at 8 a.m. and 3:35 p.m.
All practice sessions will be open to the media throughout preseason camp and during the season, however members of the media are asked to contact Jamar Ross or Carol Hudson in the Athletic Public Relations Office at 757-683-3372 if they plan on attending. Coach Wilder and requested student-athletes are available for interviews at the conclusion of practice or by special arrangement.


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Caprial and John's Kitchen: Cooking for Family and Friends "Chinese Favorites" The Pences offer tips for cooking international specialties as they fix spicy chili noodles topped with orange-glazed chicken, and crab spring rolls.G
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Rick Steves' Europe "Portugal's Heartland" Rick eats barnacles in an old fishing town, marches with pilgrims, and views riches of the country's Golden Age.G
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