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Obituary: Sylvester Pace / Helped disadvantaged youth achieve dreams via education
June 13, 2012
Obituary: Sylvester Pace / Helped disadvantaged youth achieve dreams via education
June 10, 2012 12:25 am By Ann Rodgers / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Sylvester Pace, whose gratitude for a college scholarship led him to help thousands of disadvantaged black Pittsburgh youths attend college through his leadership of NEED, died Friday from non-Hodgkins lymphoma. The Penn Hills resident was 58.
"He is one of the fiercest advocates for education ever to have lived in this city," said former city councilman Sala Udin. "There are thousands of young people in college today from the inner city who would not have been there were it not for the inspiration and resources provided by NEED under the guidance of Sylvester Pace."
He grew up in the Hill District, migrating from the lower Hill to public housing. Later his family bought a home in Schenley Heights.
Although he never thought of himself as poor, he qualified for a needs-based scholarship from NEED to attend Cheyney University. NEED was founded as the Negro Educational Emergency Drive a decade earlier by two Pittsburgh women, one black and one white, to help black students who were academically qualified for college but couldn't pay for it.
After college Mr. Pace worked for the Pressley Ridge School for troubled children, starting as a residential counselor at its wilderness program in Ohiopyle.
"Sylvester was the consummate scholar and gentleman," said Randy Brockington of Penn Hills, who became a close friend through a shared fraternity. "He could relate to anyone about anything, no matter their age or ethnicity. He had a genuine love for education. He knew how to laugh, and to laugh at himself as well as others."
His gentlemanly ways won the heart of his future wife, Rhonda, who met him on a blind date in 1976. They married three years later and had two daughters.
Pressley Ridge promoted him several times. Then Abraxas Youth & Family Services hired him to lead an expansion into West Virginia, Mrs. Pace said. Along the way he continued his own education, earning a master's degree in counseling education and a certificate in marketing from the University of Pittsburgh. When he died, he was working on a doctorate in education at Duquesne University.
To support his growing family, he took a lucrative job as a pharmaceutical salesman. But he continued to help youths as a leader of 10-state bus tours to historically black colleges. That caught the attention of Herman Reid Jr., the longtime executive director of NEED, who saw in him a beneficiary of the program who had remained committed to educating black students and who had a background in marketing. He hand-picked Mr. Pace to be his successor, grooming him as an assistant for 18 months before handing over the reins in 2001.
Taking the post with NEED "meant a lot to him. He was able to be a role model to a lot of students and reach back and help other people," Mrs. Pace said.
"He had a gentleness about his spirit that helped him to manage. He was a good administrator. He always knew how to interact with people in a way that was not confrontational."
He was aided by a tremendous facility for remembering people's names, Mr. Brockington said. Whenever they were out together, in any city, people who had taken his college tours would see him and greet him "and he would remember their names," he said. "It was absolutely astounding to me. But it showed how much he cared. He really got to know people."
He built on his predecessors' foundation to transform NEED into a full-service college access program. It didn't only provide scholarships, but mentored students to prepare them for college and provided internships to let them experience career possibilities.
NEED has provided about $20 million in grants to more than 19,000 needy students over its 49-year history. One of his final projects was to launch a campaign, The Fund for the 50th, to support and expand its work.
"Sylvester loved education. He knew it was the key to success," Mr. Brockington said.
But that didn't just mean material success.
"Sylvester wanted to encourage young people to help others as well," Mr. Brockington said. "He not only encouraged them to dream and achieve more than they realized, but he offered them a spiritual foundation."
Mr. Pace was a devout Christian. "He wasn't overbearing, but he encouraged young people to attend church, to become a member and be active in their church community. Every event he sponsored had some kind of church connection," Mr. Brockington said. NEED offered a 50 percent match to any scholarship that nine predominantly black churches raised for their high school graduates.
Mr. Udin, who is president emeritus of the Coro Center for Civic Leadership, had traveled the same path through the projects. CORO worked with NEED to find internships for students and they served together on the board of A+ Schools. Years ago NEED provided a college scholarship for Mr. Udin's son Bomani Howze, who is now advising a White House project on urban economic revitalization.
"It's very difficult to get anything done in our community without making enemies. He was one of the few people I know where you never hear anyone say anything bad about him," Mr. Udin said. "Everybody loved him and he loved everybody. If he had any ill feelings toward anyone, he kept them to himself and treated them with dignity and respect."
In addition to his wife, Mr. Pace is survived by two daughters, Rachel Pace and Stephanie Pace, both of Washington, D.C.; a brother, John, and a sister, Tawanda Moye, both of the Hill District.
Visitation will be Wednesday in Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church, East Liberty, though the hours have not been finalized. The funeral will be 11 a.m. Thursday, also in Sixth Mount Zion.
Ann Rodgers: firstname.lastname@example.com or 412-263-1416.
First Published June 10, 2012 12:00 am
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By Robyn Collins
The late King of Pop's Neverland Ranch is up for sale again, with a ticket price of $67 million.
This is a huge cut from the $100 million it was on the market for last year, but a definite increase from the $22.5 million it was purchased for before Jackson's death.
Related: Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' Keeps Beating Its Own Record
The property has been renamed Sycamore Valley Ranch and sits on 2,700 acres of land near Santa Barbara, California. There is a 12,000 square foot main residence and a 3,700 square foot pool house.
Other features include a 50-seat theater and dance studio, as well as a train station, firehouse, and barn.
Jackson sold the ranch in 2009 to Colony Capital, which is headed by Trump fundraiser Thomas Barrack, reports USA Today.

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On March 26, the Lower North Fork Fire broke out near Conifer, just west of the Denver metro area. I happened to be at the Mile High Chapter of the American Red Cross in Denver for a meeting and was quickly recruited into working at the incident.
This fire resulted in the evacuation of more than 900 homes in Jefferson County. The Red Cross quickly opened two evacuation centers and then transitioned into one shelter that evening. Red Cross workers operated the shelter all week, as residents remained displaced from their homes and firefighters battled the blaze.
I witnessed firsthand what the Red Cross means to someone affected by a disaster.
Many people think of a shelter as just that: a roof, some cots and a hot meal. But a Red Cross shelter offers much more.
Many times, residents who have been evacuated from their homes come to a Red Cross shelter but dont stay the night. They often stay with friends or family but turn to us for a meal, a hot cup of coffee, much-needed information and sometimes a shoulder to cry on.
During the Lower North Fork Fire, that proved especially true. Each day, well more than 100 residents visited the shelter for food, information, support and to connect with friends and neighbors.
During a wildfire, uncertainty rules: From hour to hour, residents dont know if their homes are still in the path of danger or even if theyve been destroyed. The Red Cross always has mental-health workers at its shelters to help support people through the fear and uncertainty. Also, fellow evacuees often find comfort in each others presence, which makes a Red Cross shelter a gathering place, a town hall and a second home.
I saw firsthand the compassionate service that Red Cross volunteers provide to anyone affected by a disaster. Our community saw this same compassion during the Missionary Ridge fire in 2002, when hundreds of local residents were displaced for weeks. Our community should be secure in the knowledge that the Red Cross would step up again in the face of another disaster. We have agreements in place with many facilities in Southwest Colorado that would allow us to open a shelter quickly and provide a safe place to evacuate to.
Even after most residents were allowed to return home, the Red Cross maintained a presence by transitioning to a recovery center. Side by side with other organizations providing resources and assistance for recovery, Red Cross workers helped residents develop recovery plans, tended to their emotional needs and helped connect them with community resources.
The Lower North Fork Fire provided me with the opportunity to see the positive impact the Red Cross has in communities across Colorado. All of our services are made possible by the generosity of our donors. We depend on you to allow us to continue to serve during a disaster whether it is in our local community, our state or around the nation.
Cindi Shank is executive director of the Southwest Colorado chapter of the American Red Cross.


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You Hate Global Warming? Man, Chipotle, Like, Totally Agrees With You!
Do you, like, care about the environment? Yeah, cool, me too. And you eat organic, yeah? Right, right. But sometimes you just want a burrito, man, like, a big fat flour roll of stuff, and Chipotle's the place, yeah? Oh hey, did you see the news yesterday? Global warming may ruin their guacamole!
Chipotle—the 800-pound burrito in the room that somehow manages to ingratiate itself to campus hacky-sack kickers, competitive eaters, Sbarro-eating teens, and fake liberal pseudo-economists alike—got viral publicity yesterday after the corporate chain announced that it agrees with settled science and every branding analyst that global warming is, like, totally a thing, according to a
press release post by ThinkProgress:
"Increasing weather volatility or other long-term changes in global weather patterns, including any changes associated with global climate change, could have a significant impact on the price or availability of some of our ingredients," the popular chain, whose Sofritas vegan tofu dish recently went national, said in its annual report released last month. "In the event of cost increases with respect to one or more of our raw ingredients we may choose to temporarily suspend serving menu items, such as guacamole or one or more of our salsas, rather than paying the increased cost for the ingredients."...
Chipotle's commitment to organic, local, and sustainable farming practices is also one of the reasons why it may be more susceptible to unexpected climate shifts. As the company notes, its food markets "are generally smaller and more concentrated than the markets for commodity food products," meaning Chipotle buys from producers that are less able to survive bad farming conditions without raising prices.
Oh, the tragic humanity. The rise in aggregate temperatures from people's runaway mass consumption may doom organic local agriculture and the growers whose livelihoods depend on it. AND THAT MAY MEAN I CAN'T HAVE GUAC ON MY SEVEN-DOLLAR FREE-RANGE CHICKEN BURRITO.
There is a school of economic and cultural thought that says the way you get people to care about issues of great global import is to personalize them: This isn't just bad, it's bad for you and the things you like. But it's not really much of a social revolution if the things you like are provided by mass-producers, like $3.2 billion-a-year fast-food companies in any one of their 900-plus stores—even "benign" fast-food companies "with integrity."
Note that Chipotle isn't actually saying it will take additional affirmative measures to reverse man-made climate change. It isn't looking for a new way to bolster local growing. It's not hinting that the company will reduce its carbon-coughing transportation volumes, or ratchet back its energy consumption, or stop serving corporate soda.
It is simply saying: Environmental degradation may make produce harder to grow, which might make it more expensive, and at the point where our consumers won't pay more for that commodified dirt-grown sustenance, we'll simply stopping buying and selling it.
Ball's in your court, Empowered Consumer. Eat a corporate burrito, or don't. You may not get any guacamole on it. But rest assured, there will be quirky life-affirming messages just for you on your mass-produced soda cup!
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MHS News
In Death Lamented: The Tradition of Anglo-American Mourning Jewelry
The exhibition features some of the most exemplary types of mourning jewelry from early gold bands with death's head iconography to jeweled brooches and intricately woven hairwork pieces
Mourning jewels, tangible expressions of love and sorrow, are the focus of In Death Lamented on view at the MHS 28 September 2012 through 31 January 2013. The exhibition features more than 80 objects representing some of the best examples of this type of jewelry. Drawn from the collections of the MHS and Guest Curator Sarah Nehama as well as loans from the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Historic New England in Boston, and the Adams National Historical Park in Quincy, exhibition highlights include the Society's Adams-Winthrop commemorative seal ring containing the braided hair of John Quincy Adams and a gold memorial ring for Queen Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach from the collections of Sarah Nehama.
The jewelry included in the exhibition illustrates some of the most exemplary types, from early gold bands with death's head iconography to bejeweled brooches and the intricately woven hairwork pieces of the Civil War era. Two examples in the exhibition are the Society's double heart locket made to commemorate the death of Mary (Partridge) Belcher in 1736 and Sarah Nehama's Jonathan Deare Brooch/Pendant from 1796. Displayed within the larger context of the mourning rites that our New England ancestors brought with them, these relics attest to the basic human emotion of grief and the need to remain connected to those gone before.
Guest Curator Sarah Nehama, a Boston jeweler and mourning jewelry collector, describes her personal connection to the exhibition: "I've been collecting mourning and sentimental jewelry since 2005, focusing primarily on examples from the 18th and early 19th centuries." She continues, "My experience as a volunteer at the MHS photographing and cataloging its extensive mourning jewelry collection inspired me to propose this collaboration with the Society to showcase both collections and place them in a historical and cultural context."
A full-color companion book, In Death Lamented: The Tradition of Anglo-American Mourning Jewelry, available for sale at the MHS, will feature photographs and descriptions of all of the Nehama and MHS pieces, along with historical and stylistic backgrounds and essays pertaining to cultural practices around death and mourning in England and America.
About the Guest Curator and Author
Sarah Nehama is a designer/jeweler who works in precious metals and gemstones. She sells her work through galleries, at juried shows, and to private customers. Sarah has a degree in art history and studied jewelry making in Boston and New York. She is a collector of antique mourning and sentimental jewelry and currently resides in Boston.


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Barneys New York gray jacket from The Hundred-Foot Journey seen with Om Puri (Papa)
As Seen on Papa (Om Puri) in The Hundred-Foot Journey
Force of Nature: A Michelin star restaurant led by Madam Mallory (Helen Mirren) gets some unexpected competition when a homey Indian restaurant opens up 100 feet away. While the impossibly chic Mallory butts heads with the new restaurant's owner, she notices amazing potential in the owner's son, Hassan Haji (Manish Dayal). Dressed in casual clothes as a chef, Hassan soon becomes bewitches by Mallory's French cuisine and kitchen. Of course, the cute Parisian sous chef is also partly to blame.
Optimistic and always eager, Papa Kadam (Om Puri) has a flair for bright decorations and cozy outfits. Although he favors patterned knits and windbreakers in various colors, he can bust out a sleek outfit or two, from taupe suits with silver ties to blinged-out traditional Indian wear. This kind of wardrobe versatility is, of course, hugely important in sleepy rural areas of France.
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Fun and Functional Techie Finds For Kids
As much as I go ga ga for techie products targeted for adults, there are certainly some accessories for kids that make me drool just as much. It's a given that kids today are going to be exposed to all sorts of technology, so it's only fitting that they be included in all the gadget frenzy fun. Here are some of my favorite child friendly tech toys.
The Sansa Shaker by Sandisk is a fun mp3 player that kids can shake to change the songs. They can also go wild customizing their players with the included colorful stickers. Each shaker comes with its own lanyard and a SD memory card slot so they can rock out to their fave tunes. And if they're not comfortable the earphones, there's a built-in speaker so they can blast their music for everyone to enjoy! Only $40 at Amazon.
Ok if your child is spoiled and has a 30, 40, or 80GB video iPod, or if you just want to protect yours, the iFrogz tadpole will provide you with comfortable grip handles to help make viewing easy and fun! The only exposed parts of the iPod are the click wheel, the screen and hold button. There are also headphones to go with the cases and are compatible with all iPod's. Cases are available in cool colors like mandrin orange, purple parade, pink panther, royal blue, lymon green and bright red. Price is $20 for the wrap or $25 with the headphones.
Techie Diva posted this adorable HANNspree bright red apple 10 inch LCD television- a perfect accessory for a playroom or kids bedroom. Just open the doors to reveal the TV as the speakers are right inside. Check out the site for more super cute styles. Price is around $400.


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Skip to comments.Mayor Bloomberg Tees Off, Hints Gov. Cuomo Partly To Blame For Circus In Albany
Posted on 04/05/2013 4:09:02 PM PDT by Biggirl
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) It was the ultimate putdown of state lawmakers caught in the corruption spotlight. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said theyre not qualified to get real jobs.
The circus has returned to Albany.
(Excerpt) Read more at newyork.cbslocal.com ...
This is just my opinion mind you, but Bloomberg is Ringmaster of his own Circus.
Crazy gun laws, Soda's that are too big, No salt on your French Fries.
Bloomberg has a lot of Chutzpah making fun of anyone
By the way, what real job has Bloomberg ever had?
As long as Neu Yawksters continue to elect a bunch of commie lib clowns, they going to have nothing but a circus for a government. Elections do have consequences. Something that the low information voter crowd hasn't figured out yet.
I read that Bloomie wanted Hillary! to succeed him as MONYC but that was too small potatoes for her.
He's just friggin' filthy rich. He can buy all the power he wants.
Pot, Meet Kettle! New York's only hope is if they lock them all in the statehouse and set fire to it! They would get rid of the cockroaches too!
For Shame... For Shame... whats'a matter with you? What do you have against cockaroaches?
He started as a boy from the middle class and made of fortune of billions of dollars. That sort of thing usually requires a substantial amount of work.
Napolean Doomberg is mad that Albany won't grab guns and ban big slurpees.
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MCLEAN, Va. — A federal program that awards U.S. citizenship to foreigners in exchange for business investments is under increasing scrutiny as the assets of a Chicago company were frozen by the Securities and Exchange Commission
A Watchdog investigation found that Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe and a brother of Hillary Clinton used a similar EB-5 operation to raise cash from foreigners in order to launch a new automobile manufacturing company. A financial adviser calls the McAuliffe operation a fraud.
While McAuliffe and Anthony Rodham dodged questions about their business, SEC officials last month shut down a Chicago financier on charges of defrauding more than 250 foreign investors.
The federal agents said Anshoo Sethi created A Chicago Convention Center (ACCC) and Intercontinental Regional Center Trust of Chicago, and fraudulently sold more than $145 million in securities and collected $11 million in administrative fees from investors, primarily from China.
According to the SEC, Sethi and his companies duped investors into believing that by purchasing interests in ACCC, they would be financing construction of the World's First Zero Carbon Emission Platinum LEED certified hotel and conference center near Chicago's O'Hare Airport.
Investors were misled by Sethi's regional center to believe their investments were purchasing U.S. citizenship through the EB-5 immigrant investor program, the SEC said.
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service has approved 226 regional centers to serve as conduits for EB-5 investments. USCIS says that since the program's inception in 1990, the centers have attracted $6.8 billion in foreign funds to create 49,000 U.S. jobs.
But as Watchdog.org reported this week, EB-5 investments dont necessarily produce employment or success.
Officials in Mississippi say up to $20 million reputedly raised through the Rodham-led Gulf Coast Funds Management have yet to be delivered to GreenTech Automotive, an electric-car company founded by McAuliffe.
Rodham, one of Hillary Clintons brothers, is president and CEO of Gulf Coast. A group of political associates of Bill Clinton, including his former IRS commissioner, serve on its board of directors.
McAuliffe is a former chairman of theDemocratic National Committee and was a chief fund-raiser for Mrs. Clintons 2008 presidential bid.
A second regional center Virginia Center for Foreign Investment and Job Creation lists Rodham as its registered agent. Both EB-5 centers, and GreenTech, share the same address in McAuliffes adopted hometown of McLean, Va.
No officials at Gulf Coast, VCFIJC or GreenTech responded to Watchdogs multiple requests for interviews over the past two weeks.
GreenTech, which in 2010 announced plans to build an assembly plant in Tunica County, Miss., has not specified how many vehicles it has actually built or sold. The firm has issued just one press release this year, announcing a European distributor to handle a projected volume of 12,000 cars.
A Watchdog reporter on Tuesday went to the Tysons Boulevard address listed by GreenTech and Rodhams two regional centers as their headquarters. The doors were locked, the nameplate was stripped off, and the office was dark and empty. A phone call elicited another address at a nearby, less-prestigious building.
Tucked anonymously into a hallway corner like a broom closet, the new office is much smaller. The interior walls are adorned with a couple of pictures of McAuliffes MyCar and display the names: GreenTech Automotive and Gulf Coast Funds Management.
The office was occupied by a lone receptionist who curtly and repeatedly declared that no one was available to be interviewed.
This is a private company. I know nothing, said the woman who declined to give her name.Because the companies are private, the Virginia Department of Taxation said their financial records are exempt from Freedom of Information Act disclosure.
But the Fairfax County Department of Tax Administration said neither regional center had yet paid its business license fees for 2013. GCFM was delinquent on its 2012 license, as well.
County tax director Kevin Greenlief said his staff was looking into the situation.Michael Gibson, managing partner with U.S. Advisors, which administers EB-5 investment ventures across the country, said GreenTechs funding program smacks of fraud.
More broadly, Eric Ruark, director of research at the Federation for American Immigration Reform, told Watchdog: The main problem with the EB-5 program is the almost total lack of oversight by USCIS.
The regional centers, which are set up to facilitate the investment of EB-5 monies in domestic companies, are largely unregulated and there is little transparency about where the money has gone or how many jobs have been created. (See report here.)
Like GreenTechs EB-5 hook-up, the Chicago scheme was all show, and very little go.The SEC alleged that Sethi, 29, and his companies falsely boasted that all necessary building permits had been acquired and that several major hotel chains had signed on.Investigators found that Sethi and his associates had spent more than 90 percent of the administrative fees collected from investors, despite promises to return the money if visa applications were denied.
More than $2.5 million of the funds were directed to Sethis personal bank account in Hong Kong, the SEC said.According to USCIS, only four EB-5 regional centers have been shut down by the feds in the 23-year history of the program.
Amid rising criticism, USCIS denied more regional center applications in the past year. Some credit agency director Alejandro Mayorkas with tightening accountability over EB-5 and its regional fund collectors.
A government report shows that in fiscal 2012, USCIS approved 35 regional-center applications while rejecting 63. That reversed historic patterns. In 2011, 123 were approved and 58 were denied.
Yet critics have questioned EB-5s job-creation claims, which are calculated through a complex formula that includes indirect employment. David North of the enforcement-oriented Center for Immigration Studies says the formula was invented to meet the statutory requirement of creating 10 new jobs per $500,000 investment.
GreenTech, in its agreement with Mississippi, pledged to hire 350 full-time workers by the end of 2014. Neither the company, nor the two regional centers, have said how many employees are currently at the car company.
In 2005, the Government Accountability Office reported it could not determine how many jobs immigrant investors had established because of the way USCIS credits the number of jobs created by an investors business.
If there are non-EB-5 investors involved or the investment is part of a greater overall business expansion, USCIS credits the single EB-5 investor with the total of all jobs created even though many of the jobs are not the result of his portion of the investment, the GAO report stated.
"In one such example, USCIS credited a single immigrant investor with creating 1,143 jobs based on a $1.5 million investment.
Four years later, USCIS own ombudsman noted that long-standing concerns over abuse, misrepresentation and fraud led to prosecutions of immigration fraud, wire fraud, money laundering and conspiracy against the principals and officers of one EB-5 investment business.
FAIRs Ruark says thats just the tip of a growing iceberg.The reaction by USCIS has been to more heavily promote the program, while ignoring the obvious fraud and abuse, he told Watchdog this week.
USCIS does not provide a center-by-center breakdown of jobs created, or the financial status of the 226 centers listed on its website. A disclaimer states that a regional centers appearance on the roster does not guarantee compliance with U.S. securities laws, or minimize or eliminate risk to the investor.
Rodhams Gulf Coast Funds Management, licensed by USCIS to serve targeted zones in Louisiana and Mississippi, boasts of covering the largest geographical area for a regional center in the United States. Its website touts McAuliffes GreenTech vehicle.
However, Gulf Coast, along with Rodhams Virginia Center for Foreign Investment and Job Creation, is headquartered in Northern Virginia.
VCFIJC, which was licensed last November, claims $100,000 in annual revenues, but the center has no website.
Immigration Daily, a newsletter that tracks EB-5 and other entry programs, reported last month that USCIS may be getting ready to issue Notices of Intent to Revoke to some regional centers within the coming few months.
Such NOIRs will likely be not just for inactivity, but will possibly include issues connected to securities compliance, the newsletter stated.
USCIS press secretary Christopher Bentley said the agency would not comment on speculation. But he provided data showing that EB-5 immigrants who fail to meet financial thresholds are dropped from the program.
Since the EB-5 program began, 4,895 immigrant investors received citizenship while 1,271 did not.And what happened to those 1,271?
It is our expectation that they will leave (the country), Bentley said, deferring further questions to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement division.
ICE did not respond to Watchdogs inquiries.
Ruark said, Foreigners can and do invest in the United States without the expectation of gaining permanent residency. In fact, the EB-5 has such a poor record of return on investment that it is probably the least best option for someone who is an informed foreign investor.
The high incidence of fraud and failed projects makes it likely that many foreign nationals have been bilked through participation in the EB-5 program. This is something our own government recognizes, yet fails to correct.
Sounds like bloomberg is running for the 2016 dem nomination, and preemptively knocking Cuomo out.
Either work or corruption and dirty dealings.
He's the nagging mommy of all the New York morons who put him in office.
He created bond trading software, and expanded into other financial information distribution. My boss back in the early '80s banking met with him on business and was very impressed.
Bloomberg said theyre not qualified to get real jobs.Well, he's not wrong. :') Pot-kettle-black ping.
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We are surrounded by beauty in the Lowcountry and Bluffton Today readers submit photos from the scenes they see in their everyday lives. Here are a few snapshots from readers and two BT staffers that in some way -- perhaps abstractly -- represent the colors and tones of today, Memorial Day.
At 3 p.m. today, stop wherever you are and take a moment to obverse a national moment of remembrance.
The poem "In Flanders Fields" was written by John McCrae after he witnessed the death, and presided over the funeral, of a friend, Lt. Alexis Helmer, during World War I.
This was released by the Beaufort Police Department early this morning:
The Beaufort County Sheriff's Office is searching for a Hilton Head Island man who has been named as a person of interest in the death of 52-year-old Leonard Green.
Green's body was found May 23 by Sheriff's deputies at Pinckney Island boat landing.
He had been shot to death.
Investigators are hunting for Jerry Lamont Scantling, 27, of Hilton Head Island. His last known address is 101 Sandlewood Terrace, although he is also knowns to have connection to the Spanish Trace Apartments on Southside Boulevard in Beaufort.
BEAUFORT - A Beaufort teenage girl was reported missing Tuesday afternoon, and the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office is seeking help finding her.
Fifteen-year-old Chante Ciara McCreary was last heard from by her family at about 11 p.m. Sunday, when she telephoned her mother and asked to be picked up in front of Beaufort Middle School. Earlier she had told her family she was going to spend Saturday night at a friend's house.
Competing in the difficult Gold Division of WordMasters Challenge, Bluffton Elementary School's fifth graders placed ninth in the nation in the year-end cumulative standings (after tying for third in the year's final meet) among 278 school teams participating at their grade level.
Two BLES students won highest honors for year-long individual achievement as well: Fifth-grader Juliet O'Riordan, who made only one mistake in the course of the year's three meets, was one of the seven highest-ranked fifth graders in the entire country.
A 17-year-old Bluffton teen has been charged with breaking into at least 13 vehicles in two subdivisions, the Bluffton Police Department said.
Jabe Lopez of 172 Simmonsville Road is accused of breaking into 11 cars parked within the Mill Creek subdivision on May 12 and another two on May 14 parked within the Hidden Lakes community, police said. He is also accused of stealing a vehicle from Mill Creek.
Police say a break in the case came Wednesday when officers responded to a possible burglary within Pine Ridge.
The Beaufort/Jasper Multi-Agency Drug Task Force (DTF) arrested nine people on various drug and other criminal charges Tuesday and Wednesday.
The arrests were the result of four search warrants executed in northern Beaufort and Jasper counties, according to a press release from Sgt. Robin McIntosh of the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office.
HILTON HEAD ISLAND - A composite sketch of the suspect in an early-Monday armed robbery and beating at the Red Roof Inn at mid-island was released Wednesday by the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office.
The suspect was described as a black man, between 22-27 years of age, about 5-feet, 6 inches tall, of medium build and weighing about 185 pounds. At the time of the crime, he was wearing a khaki-plum-and-white-striped polo shirt, and a dark colored baseball cap with a white emblem on the front, Sgt. Robin McIntosh said.
A "wanted" bulletin was issued Wednesday for a 17-year-old Bluffton man indentified as a suspect in a robbery and assault May 8 at Bluffton House Apartments on Simmonsville Road.
The suspect, Dustin Anthony Rushing, is white and about 5 feet, 9 inches tall, weighing about 165 pounds. He has brown hair and blue eyes. He has multiple tattoos, including on his arms and hand, according to a news release from the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office.
Sheriff's deputies responded at about 2 a.m. May 8 to a reported assault on a 31-year-old man minutes earlier in the parking lot.
Okatie Elementary School is among five county schools recognized for their family-friendly school environments by the state Department of Education on Monday.
Whale Branch Elementary, Whale Branch Middle, Beaufort Middle, Hilton Head Island High School and Okatie joined eight others who previously earned the awards. (Hilton Head High School won it this year for the second time.)
The 6th annual Bluffton Today Open Tennis Tournament wrapped up with finals matches Sunday morning.
More than 110 players hit the courts at Bluffton High School, Palmetto Bluff and Hampton Hall.
"I think our numbers were slightly up in participation, and we had some of the best competition that we've ever had," said Bob Brown, the event's organizer. "There were a lot of tie breakers and the weather was fantastic."
The tournament helped to raise about $1,250 through registration fees, donations and silent auction items for the Junior Benevolent Fund, Brown said.
Old Town Bluffton Gallery Walk
Visitors can walk through the galleries in Old Town Bluffton from 3-8 p.m. to view the work of over 200 artists at the SoBA Gallery (Society of Bluffton Artists), Pluff Mudd Gallery, Maye River Gallery, Four Corners Framing, The Filling Station, Vintage Posters and Jacob Preston's. Wine and refreshments will be served by each gallery, and there will be live music on Boundary and Calhoun Streets throughout the entire event.
Mötley Crüde at
BEAUFORT - A former Beaufort County Treasurer's Office employee has been arrested and charged with embezzlement in connection with an ongoing investigation into missing funds.
Casaundra White, 29, of Yemassee, was arrested by Beaufort County Sheriff's Office investigators Wednesday morning at her home, according to a press release from Sgt. Robin McIntosh.
White was charged with six counts of embezzlement and five counts of conspiracy. She is accused of stealing more than $210,000 while working at the Treasurer's Office from February 2008 to November 2009.
Rachael Bedosky, a 2007 Bluffton High School graduate, Heritage Scholar and rising senior in industrial engineering at Clemson University is readying to intern in marketing with Exxon Mobil in Fairfax, Virginia, for the summer.
"I love industrial engineering. It is what I thought it would be," Bedosky said. "We use our understanding of engineering so we can improve people's lives."
LADY'S ISLAND - The Beaufort County Sheriff's Office is investigating the disappearance of a 19-year old Lady's Island man reported missing by his family.


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Assigning Blame Only Makes Obesity and Diabetes More Difficult To Deal With
Do overweight people with diabetes have themselves to blame? Yes! Just like almost every other disease, obesity and type 2 diabetes are at least in part caused by what we do. As examples, behaviors like smoking, exposure to stress and what we eat contribute to whether we suffer heart disease, infections and many forms of cancer. In fact, even not getting eight hours of sleep each night affects health. So yes, overweight people with diabetes have themselves to blame, in part. But, is there any point to assigning that blame? Is anyone helped by that blame? Do we typically blame the smoker dying of lung cancer, or do we as neighbors and friends try to help the patient and his or her family? Do we usually blame the rock-climber who was injured—after all, she chose that dangerous activity—or do we as neighbors and friends help her take care of her young children until she is better? In most situations, we have sympathy and empathy in regard to those suffering from illnesses and injuries. We can see ourselves in that person's shoes. We can see that blame is pointless. It helps no one. And so it should be with obesity and type 2 diabetes. But it often is not the case. In fact, overweight people are often blamed and ostracized and shunned. It happens on playgrounds, in schools and in hiring for jobs. Enough. In more than 20 years, I have treated people with diabetes. I have seen thousands of overweight patients, and none of them could keep weight off with ease. Why is that? Why can't people just eat less and exercise more? Because overweight and diabetes are not just caused by what we choose, but also by our genes, the behaviors of our mothers before we were born, our jobs and the society that we live in. This may be hard to understand. After all, nobody makes me eat a second helping at dinner. Or do they? While there is a lot more to it, whether I have that second helping is in part a function of how hungry I feel and how much willpower I have. And guess what—both are affected by my genes and my upbringing. We each understand this much better with smoking. Both how addicting cigarettes are and how strong willpower is to quit vary from person to person, based on genes and upbringing. Society can also have an influence, whether it's the allure of advertising making smoking seem desirable or an individual's surrounding environment, which if it includes smokers might induce some individuals to smoke themselves. Considering all these factors, some people can just quit, while others cannot quit even after they have had a heart attack. So again, do overweight people with diabetes have themselves to blame? Yes! So let's all try as hard as we can to live healthier. We do have the personal responsibility to exercise our willpower as best as we can. But, also, let's stop blaming those among us who have health problems related to obesity. Instead, let's support each other in trying to make healthier choices in all that we do. And let's work together with our politicians on making our towns, schools and work places healthier in many ways. Jan Ulbrecht, MD, is one of the diabetes physicians at Centre Medical and Surgical Associates and is credentialed at Mount Nittany Medical Center. He is also one of the four co-directors of the Penn State Diabetes Center.


text: Thanks to Steve Roberts for his entertainling blog and photos from the Road of Bones Expedition...Steve has been blogging for one month now so the future posts I will be updating for 5 days in a row to catch up...Enjoy! Road of Bones Itinerary Behold the 2012 ROAD OF BONES expedition, led by Compass Expeditions, London (May 20) to Magadan (Sept 1) by motorbike. 15 motorbikes, two 4WDs and 3 ride leaders. We will have about 75 nights in nice hotels and about 25 nights in bush camps. Our route subject to changes if we encounter problems is: London, Rouen, Lauterbrunnen, Salzburg, Budapest, Timisoara, Sighisoara, Bucharest, Nessebar, Istanbul, Goreme, Trabzon, Sochi, Krasnodar, Rostov-on-Don, Volgograd, Moscow, Suzdal, Kazan, Samara, Aqtobe, Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara, Ferghana, Bishkek, Karakol, Almaty, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Khovsgul, Tsaguun Nuur, Tsetserleg, Ulan Baatar, Chita, Neryungri, Yakutsk, Magadan, then fly to Vladivostok, and home to Melbourne. The Road of Bones is the 1200-km stretch between Yakutsk & Magadan. We will do that over 7 days, much of it in bottom gear (I see it was 6 days in the first draft of the itinerary). So this trip is very like the Long Way Round trip done by Ewan Macgregor & Charley Boorman in 2004, but it has been made into a sort of guided tour by Compass Expeditions Ltd, who run it every 2 years. The journey is about 28,000 km in length, covering 12 countries, and thus giving rise to numerous hassles with visas, which Compass Expeditions have ably sorted out. Apart from re-visiting Istanbul, Moscow and Ulan Bataar I will see very many wonderful new places: Sighisoara, Volgograd, Suzdal, Samarkand, Tashkent, Ferghana, Bukhara, the Aral Sea, Irkutsk, Chita, Yakutsk and finally Magadan, which lies resplendent on the northern shore of the Sea of Okhotsk (Ive been on the southern shore, in Japan). I was in Moscow in 1970 for a few days, I have some rudimentary Russian, and Ive already done the entire 13-day Mongolia segment on a 4WD trip in 2006, including the National Games on July 11-13 each year an amazing spectacle. Among hundreds of web pages about the places on this trip, you can search on Magadan or Road of Bones in Wikipedia. I will return home in mid September after a week in Vladivostok. Um, yes, there is rather a lot of it I have drawn most of it in the post Map of Russia but I want to jam this trip in while I am still young. I will compose, and add to, a list of personal Trip Highlights as I go along. Most of the 15 bikes are 1200cc BMW GS, but my own bike is a new BMW F650GS (800cc twin water-coooled engine), unmodified but with numerous accessories. Day 1 of 104 May 21, 2012 So we had breakfast at the Ace Cafe, and took off at 9am it was 10*C but 13*C at Folkestone. The Channel Tunnel train is interesting, very well organised and we were in France by mid afternoon but it was 10*C and windy! We stopped for a late lunch, I was shivering with cold so I raided the long-term storage bag and took out some Siberian clothing. We stood there in full motorbike gear (warmer) clutching our sandwiches thinking that there will be colder lunches than this one Spectacular new road from Calais down to Abbeville, then on to Rouen which has a magnificent cathedral. . Tomorrow 8am start, on to a little town in the east of France. Day 1, here we are at the Ace Cafe ready to ride out:


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Yes, I know Quebec speaks French as a first language, and yes, I know it was French to begin with, and yes I know they try to seperate from Canada every once and a while. What I was trying to say is I don't think that wizards are so far behind in times that they still think it as a French colony. Also, culturally, Quebec is kinda differenct from France. If they considered Quebec a French colony, would they also consider New Brunswick and parts of Ontario as French, as they were also French colonies? Regardless of their history, they are technically still under British rule (because Canada has a weird government system - constitutional monarchy). However, if they stopped changing their borders after the Statute of Secrecy, it would be French as Britain gained Canada after 1689. This, however, doesn't fit canon, as then there would be no United States, and she clearly mentions it in GoF and Quiddich Through the Ages.
As much as people want to think that the wizarding world is very much seperate from the Muggle world, it really isn't that seperate at all. Wizards are very in touch with Muggles, as many of them are Muggleborn, or have Muggle parents, relatives, etc. As well, if they did have different geography, all the Muggleborns would have to learn a completely different globe. The idea of Uganda makes sense to me, in the fact that she mentioned it to show that wizards do keep up with geography. For me, there doesn't seem to be any reason for wizards to have different geography. It would just make a lot more trouble for them.


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So here we are staring at two Game 6s in the NBA playoffs, with the Oklahoma City Thunder and Boston Celtics looking to close things out after emotionally wrenching, threshold-crossing, series-tiebreaking road wins.
We'll have our NBA Finals pairing by midnight Thursday, right?
The entirety of NBA history would beg to differ.
It has been said so many times, it's now in cliché territory, but there really isn't anything harder in this sport and all the others that winning that clinching game.
We live in a world of premature coronation (yet another way social media has enriched our lives), and never has that been more risky than right now.
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— Eastern Conference finals: Garnett shines for Celts | Golden opportunity for Boston | LeBron defined by Game 5 performances | Recap: Celtics 94, Heat 90 | Celtics-Heat news archive
— Western Conference finals: Thunder roll players making big noise | Preview: Spurs at Thunder, 9 p.m. ET | OKC a win away from Finals | Multiple titles away Kevin Durant | Spurs-Thunder news archive
So, Oklahoma City, beware. Don't clear your schedules for next Tuesday and Thursday just yet.
Boston? A better reason to book a flight. At least these Celtics have been down this road before. It's uncharted territory for the Thunder. The next step seems so simple and so inevitable. They wouldn't be the first ones to hear that, or think that, or believe that.
"Nope, they sure wouldn't," say the 1994 Indiana Pacers.
"No way," add the 2002 Sacramento Kings.
"Uh-uh," grumble the Cleveland Cavaliers from just a few years ago.
To be fair, the Cavs weren't victims of the sure-thing closeout game, just the sure-thing next-great-era. Think counting the number of rings LeBron James hasn't won since taking his talents to South Beach is a scream? Remember what set the stage for all of that: the three seasons following his Game 5 breakthrough against Detroit (addressed here recently) and ensuing trip to the Finals in '07.
"They're here!" everyone proclaimed.
They weren't. By July of 2010, neither was LeBron.
More apropos to the Thunder dilemma—almost an exact match—is the Reggie Miller fourth-quarter choke-sign-to-Spike-Lee game at Madison Square Garden in 1994. Ironically, Miller was sitting courtside with the TNT crew Monday night as the Thunder shocked the Spurs in San Antonio in a pivotal fifth game. Not coincidentally, probably, Miller never uttered a word on-air about the trap being set.
The forgotten piece of history from that classic Reggie game, of course, is that the Pacers paraded back into their building for Game 6 against a Knicks team described by all as dead men walking—only to lose that game, lose Game 7 back in New York at the scene of Reggie's outburst, and not surface in the Finals until six years later, then never again.
Finishing it off, closing it out, was easier said than done.
Chris Webber, Vlade Divac and the Kings didn't have home court on their side in Game 6 against the Lakers in 2002. That also happens to be the one game the whole planet is sure was stolen by the refs, and the numbers back that up, and ... let's move on.
The Kings did have Game 7 on their home floor, in front of what's still the craziest crowd I'll ever see in my lifetime (yes, Oklahoma City, you've got work to do to match that cowbell-clanging bunch)—and lost in overtime.
Sacramento never got that one win. A decade later, it may not keep its team. Finish that series, and the history of the NBA in that city is different from that moment on.
Not too much pressure, though, Thunder.
Also, OKC faithful, try not to think about the other almost-but-never-weres in the last few decades. The late-1980s Hawks of Dominique Wilkins, Kevin Willis and a guard named Doc Rivers, who seemed just as poised as that era's Pistons to surpass the Celtics.
The Mavericks teams of that same era that kept finding ways to lose to Magic's Lakers. ... the 1990s Knicks teams that had Michael Jordan's Bulls on the ropes so many times. (paging Charles Smith) ... the Clyde Drexler-Buck Williams Trail Blazers.
Heck, these Miami Heat are one loss away from joining that esteemed group. In their defense, though, they're not facing some novices. The Celtics climbed through that window four years ago.
The Spurs, facing elimination, have the Celtics' pedigree, and more. They also have history on their side.
The Thunder better have learned that history. They haven't won anything ... until they've actually won it.


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Authorities on Tuesday identified the 16-year-old boy who was killed Saturday in a single-car rollover near Lemon Reservoir as Andrew Rodriguez, a student at Durango High School.
An announcement of Rodriguez's death was made Tuesday at the high school, said Marty Kay Hutton, spokeswoman for Durango School District 9-R. A moment of silence was observed in his honor, and counselors were on hand to talk with students, she said.
The crash occurred shortly before 8 p.m. Saturday on Forest Service Road 596, near the north end of Lemon Reservoir.
Jacob Bridges, 15, of Durango, was driving a 1992 Ford Explorer southbound when he lost control, went off the right side of the road and rolled the vehicle at least once down a steep embankment, said Trooper Jonathan Silver, with the Colorado State Patrol.
The boy was driving about 30 to 35 mph on the dirt road, which has a speed limit of 20 mph, Silver said.
Both boys were ejected from the vehicle; neither wore a seat belt.
Rodriguez died at the scene, Silver said.
The driver was taken to Mercy Regional Medical Center, where he was listed Tuesday in fair condition, said David Bruzzese, spokesman for the hospital.
Neither boy had a driver's license or a permit, Silver said.
The driver was cited with driving without a valid driver's license and careless driving causing death.
Drugs and alcohol are not suspected factors.
"It's just really unfortunate to see a couple of young lives so permanently affected," Silver said. "There's a reason why young drivers are at risk, and we require driver's licenses."
This article has been corrected since its original publication.


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Those of you who have been following this blog for some time know that I'm, more or less, a one man operation. I write the books/stories, I do the interior formatting for both e-books (Kindle, Smashwords) and print books, I design the covers, and stuff like that.
What you don't know is that sometimes I do these things for other writers. It's not something I've been advertising, so I don't have an impressive portfolio, but let me show you my latest work.
Black Soul by Odessa Gillespie Black.
For this title I did the following:
- Book cover for print and e-book editions.
- Interior formatting for print and e-book.
I use Createspace for all my books, simply because the production cost is significantly lower than Lulu (which in turn means cheaper author copies, higher royalties, and a lower price on Amazon.com and other retailers.)
Overall, the quality of the paper and cover, the binding, all that is really good.
The paperback's interior formatting. I chose Adobe Jenson as the font for the text, while chapter headers are typeset in Adobe Devanagari. Also, I used a nice glyph to mark text breaks within a certain chapter.
To be honest, I do enjoy this type of work. Sometimes I design covers for books I have yet to begin writing. That way I get motivated… strange thing.


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She's so annoying. She needs to shut up.
looks like eva mendes
Oh dear that cocks a bit limp for most of the time for such a pretty girl
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if she could just stop narrating it....
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She gets verrrry wet and hell yeah. She needs to shut her fucking mouth
she talks too much - really!
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not realistic no girl is going to just lay there while some guy is poking her with his finger, unless she was totally passed out from drinking or drugs. However, I have been involved in waking up a girl in the girl's dorn, but they were quick to come awake as soon as they were touched. We didn't get out of bed for quite a while tho
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Amusing name for the video too.
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Chick need some serious othodonistry to fix that major gap in her front teeth. She also needs to talk less and lose that stupid tattoo.
she is just so cool (:
lol am i the only one who thinks she look aaaa lot like eva mendez ? x'd
If you'd have watched the video, PussyLicker, you would've heard AND seen her name.. It's Charlene Aspen.
I would eat her all night long. I love that latin purple pussy.
"Huston we have a problem" Yeah the gap between your two front teeth is very distracting
Whats her name? Do somebody know her from other clips or films?
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Bill Stone's got one thing on his mind these daysgoing where no one has gone before. Until April, Stone and 40 international teammates will dive, rappel, hike, and dodge razor-sharp karst in hopes of breaking into Cheve Cave, deep in Mexico's Sierra de Juárez region. Its main system may have tunnels deeper than 6,500 feet (2,000 meters). If the team breaks into them, they could establish Cheve as the world's deepest known cave, bypassing Krubera Cave, in the Republic of Georgia. It currently holds the world record at 5,610 feet (1,710 meters). Check on the team's progress every week for the next eight weeks through dispatches and photographs (below) from the field. Then find out what Stone has to say about his seventh expedition to Cheve in a Question & Answer session.Hear why Stone wants to go deeper than anyone before.
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Sullinger is my boy. He's gonna make a lot of people eat their words. I want no part of Jones III, Robinson or Henson or Zeller (the last three because we have a log jam at the 4 and 5 positions)
Sullinger is my boy. He's gonna make a lot of people eat their words. I want no part of Jones III, Robinson or Henson or Zeller (the last three because we have a log jam at the 4 and 5 positions)
yeah I'm gonna be pissed if we draft the consensus number 1 guy... come on people
although if we pick 1st I would understand if we drafted MKG
Don't need a point guard or a small forward, as demonstrated in the games against Boston or Atlanta.
Shooting Guard.
I also suspect he grew too quickly and will be an injury case as soon as he faces the rigors of 82 games plus the deep playoff run we are going to make next year
We NEED a point guard and OR a small forward most definitely.
Small Forward - Linas Kleiza has been as inconsistent as the weather in Vancouver. Which most of you wouldn't know. You experience all 4 seasons in one day.
James Johnson has been consistent all season until his internal affair with coach Casey, and his only good game since was against the Hawks tonight in garbage minutes... He seems to have a good future, but I see him fit best as a sixth man, who comes in and gives great energy on both ends of the floor.
Point Guard - Jose Calderon and his injury issues and age are going to be a problem in terms of moving forward, and there has been a large discussion on him being able to stay healthy throughout a whole entire 82 game season. Not a 66 game season that only comes around once every couple lifetimes.
Jerryd Bayless? I'm way too unsure about him. I like Jerryd Bayless, but I just don't see him as a future starting point guard.
Twitter: @ReubenJRD NBA, Raptors writer for Daily Hive Vancouver, Toronto.
I'm not advocating that the Raptors should draft Sullinger, but the kid is smart and he uses his talents to the best of his abilities. He doesn't cheat himself. That's why he'll have a better and longer career than Jones. He's a kid that won player of the year as a freshman and pretty much singlehandedly led his team to a final-4 as a sophmore. He didn't get handled by Robinson in his matchup as you so put it. Robinson out scored Sullinger, sure. But Sullinger had more boards and blocks.
Adding any of the players on that list would improve our roster. If I had to chose someone that I wouldn't want on the list I would go with Zeller, but that is only because JV is coming over next season. Drummond is the guy people want to see on this team the least? He's going top 5 and for good reason. There aren't a lot of bigs as athletic as this kid is. Sullinger is Elton Brand 2.0
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Elk Mountains > Capitol Peak > Climber's Log
Capitol Peak Climber's Log
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|First difficult CO 14er
Date Climbed: Jul 22, 2007
|I had a blast on Capitol. The knife edge really wasn't the crux of the route...there were several more intimidating spots...overall a great day.
|Posted Jul 24, 2007 7:51 pm
|Final 14'er
Date Climbed: Jul 2, 2007
|Had the route to myself. Excellent weather, great snow, as spectacular as anticipated.
|Posted Jul 2, 2007 11:52 pm
|First in Colorado
Date Climbed: Aug 8, 2006
|But it won't be my last! One of the most enjoyable climbs ever. Great Daddy-daughter date.
|Posted Jul 1, 2007 2:29 am
|3rd try
Date Climbed: Aug 2, 1989
|Took three tries and finally summited in the fog. Great approach with the peak in view. Climbing back up to the trailhead at the end is no fun. The scrambling was pretty good
|Posted Dec 17, 2006 4:56 pm
|Capitol PEak
|Even though we climbed Capitol Peak a long while ago, it is clear in my memory as an awesome trip. Nate and I spent the night surrounded by high winds and we were worried that a storm would stop out climb. But, as dawn broke, the sky was clear and we had a fantastic day scrambling around, and looking over the knife ridge. I peed my pants. just kidding. we summited and walked back to the car same day. A great memory to have with such a wonderful friend...
|Posted Nov 13, 2006 1:47 am
|One of the Best
Date Climbed: Aug 28, 2005
|One of my favorite mountains. It was my first class 4 climb and still I consider it to be one of the best.
P.S. my friend walked across the knife edge...I got a picture.
|Posted Sep 9, 2006 9:26 pm
|NE Ridge Direct
Date Climbed: Sep 3, 2006
|3/14/14- andean-like climb(AD+/D-) with matt, greg and jason. simul-climbed the majority of the route. i thought we weren't going to summit, but we pulled through as a team! hiked out afterwards and got to the car at 2am! a 20-hour day. #60/100 winter
7/14/07- late start with jamie after hiking into camp after dark and arriving at 1:30am. all good with bluebird skies the entire weekend, love camping near capitol lake!
9/3/06- climbed with chicagotransplant and we had an excellent adventure! we stayed on the ridge direct after the knife except for one overhanging spot. it probably went 5.0, maybe low 5th class. i'll come back for this route some other time.
|Posted Sep 6, 2006 7:55 pm
|NE Ridge - Direct Variation
Date Climbed: Sep 3, 2006
|Climbed with Shanahan96, we decided to stick to the ridge crest above the knife edge instead of skirting and following the standard route. Great ridge, as solid as the knife with some good low 5th class moves and a couple more knife sections to get the blood pumping. Perfect day, no clouds, not too cold and not to breezy.
|Posted Sep 5, 2006 2:27 pm
|ditch trail
Date Climbed: Jul 23, 2006
|This was the toughest 14er for me as I did it as a dayhike. The knife edge was pretty much as expected for me. I choose the grab ridge and look for footholds method. A very long day as a dayhike with spectacular views.
|Posted Sep 5, 2006 4:10 am
|Standard route
|Nice summit and awesome sunrise on the way in. Climbed with good old cp0915, who had the grace not to complain about my lack of speed as I limped pitifully out after slipping and bonking the smack out of my knee on the way up. Moral: you need to watch your step on all terrain, not just the 4th class stuff.
|Posted Aug 28, 2006 5:34 am
|K2 - Knife Edge
Date Climbed: Aug 18, 2006
|What a fantastic day! Our (climbed together with 2 other Danish guys) first class 4 climb so we were a little slow. We did the Class 4 traverse from Daly saddle and sort of lost our way on the way back on the Ditch trail, so it was a 16h day form TH and back!
But absolutely a fantastic day and very nice weather except for the last hour or so.
|Posted Aug 22, 2006 12:53 pm
|big one
Date Climbed: Jul 28, 2005
|Did teh 4x4 drive to the car park. Sattled up our gear and headed in for the overnight. Slept at the base of the beast and listened to an intense thunderstorm that we thought would push us away from the summit. By early morning it had cleared up. Made summit a bit late, then hiked all the way back to the car. So tired, had to sleep for an hour before i could drive. Loved it.
|Posted Aug 19, 2006 9:37 am
|K2 - Knife Edge
Date Climbed: Aug 7, 2006
|Packed into West Snowmass drainage, below Moon lake, went over top of K2, good weather, lots of people up there.
|Posted Aug 10, 2006 5:24 pm
|Testy with snow, truly Alpine and stunning
Date Climbed: Aug 17, 1994
|This was the biggest snow year that I recall. VW size boulders were stll on the icy Lake in late August! Dirk almost surfed a huge rock off near the summit. I got a bit nervous on the snow on K2 on the way down, someone broke out a rope which I was glad for. probably not a big deal dry...Hear about the ski off the South/West Face! holy nut balls...
|Posted Jul 25, 2006 5:00 pm
|Brad Snider
|Standard Route--Awesome Climb!
Date Climbed: Jul 23, 2006
|Great trip started at 2 AM / summit 9:30 w/ shknbke. One of the best 14ers!
|Posted Jul 24, 2006 4:00 am
|Knife Ridge via West Snowmass Creek
Date Climbed: Jul 15, 2006
|Beautiful day! Little hot, major buggy...forgot the DEET. Had to chase off cows, a little bushwhacking through the tarn. We saw no one until we reached the Daly saddle. Glad we brought the rope in case of storms. Glad I brought the helmet as many people were knocking things loose. Wish I had more water. Glissade down was sweet and nice break on the knees.
|Posted Jul 17, 2006 7:32 pm
|knife ridge
|Had to turn back due to bad weather, can't wait to get back to it.
|Posted Jun 22, 2006 2:34 pm
|Sketchy Weather
Date Climbed: Aug 23, 2002
|Had to turn around because of sketchy weather. Travesed in across the Boulder field from the N. to avoid the Moon lake approach.
|Posted May 9, 2006 3:14 pm
|Mountain Jim
|Standard Route
|Total ascents = 3. Great Mountain !!!
|Posted Mar 20, 2006 2:23 am
|Knife Edge
Date Climbed: Aug 26, 2005
|Very fun day!
|Posted Mar 6, 2006 4:38 pm


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MPs have raised concerns that the BBC employs up to 25,000 people a year who do not pay tax at source.
The cross-party Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said it was "shocked" to discover how many off-payroll contracts, under which individuals must make their own tax and national insurance payments, were provided by the BBC.
According to the committee, that number includes 13,000 people who appear on television and radio - so-called on-air "talent" - and another 12,000 off-air staff. Some 3,000 are paid via private companies, potentially allowing them to limit their tax liabilities.
But the BBC insisted that actual number of people employed on this basis was far fewer than 25,000 as "in many cases an individual - such as an occasional contributor to programmes - could be issued with a contract each time he or she is booked to appear".
PAC chairwoman Margaret Hodge, a Labour MP, warned that the use of off-payroll arrangements gave rise to "suspicions of complicity in tax avoidance".
The figures emerged as part of a PAC inquiry set up after controversy over Student Loans Company boss Ed Lester's employment through a personal service company without tax being deducted.
The Treasury disclosed in May, after conducting its own review of the practice in Whitehall, that more than 2,400 staff, each earning more than £58,200 a year, were being paid directly and without PAYE deductions. But the PAC warned that the Treasury's review of off-payroll arrangements had been "limited" because it did not cover the wider public sector like local government, the NHS or the BBC.
Mrs Hodge said the committee suspected "many individuals and employers in local government and in the health service do not pay their proper tax and national insurance contributions". The corporation told the PAC inquiry that its off-payroll staff were "freelance workers" and that the arrangements were "a pretty standard model" in the media industry and "important to the economics of the BBC".
It is conducting a detailed review of the practice. But, in a report published on Friday, the PAC stressed that the BBC could not provide "any assurance" that those employed on such contracts were paying the appropriate tax.
A Treasury spokeswoman said: "The Government acted quickly earlier this year to tighten the rules on off-payroll appointments in central government departments. The BBC is wholly independent and local government pay is not controlled by central government. However, the Government has raised this issue with both the BBC and the LGA and we look forward to seeing the results of the BBC's own review, which is now under way. We will study the PAC's report and respond formally in due course."


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Kellerhals, who has warrants out of Van Buren and Pope counties for missing court, said he was also unaware the truck was stolen.
• Glen Overturf, 42, possession of controlled substances with the intent to deliver, fleeing — $7,500.
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Police also found two marijuana joints in a cigarette package of Overturf's.
Overturf was arrested for possession of controlled substances with the intent to deliver, driving on a suspended driver's license, ficticious tags, reckless driving, no proof of insurance and felony fleeing.
• Jonathan Cossey, 23, possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia — $10,000.
• Katelyn Briscoe, 21, possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia — $5,000.
Cossey and Briscoe were arrested on a warrant filed Aug. 16 after police allegedly found one Clonazepam pill in a plastic bag underneath the passenger seat of Briscoe's car, where Cossey was sitting, and another in Briscoes wallet during a March 26 traffic stop.
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Back in 2002, the town's historic preservation plan included a brief but stinging rebuke of the biggest resident in the southern side of the historic, Rte. 9-bisected Town Center.
Back in 2002, the town's historic preservation plan included a brief but stinging rebuke of the biggest resident in the southern side of the historic, Rte. 9-bisected Town Center.
"Framingham State College's aggressive expansion, including demolition and intrusive new construction," the authors, which included the town's Historical Commission, wrote at the time, had contributed to "an erosion of (the area's) historic value."
Over the past decade, the campus's footprint has only grown bigger. A year and a half ago, the school, which has since become a university, opened a new 410-bed dormitory situated prominently on the edge of Rte. 9. This month, Framingham State finalized a purchase of an historic property at the base of the new residence hall that it plans to turn into a parking lot.
As in 2002, not everybody is happy today with the university's approach.
"The charge that the college has is obviously different from the charge the neighborhood would like," said Rep. Chris Walsh, whose architecture company's office is across Rte. 9 from the campus.
Walsh had been a vocal critic of the way the school several years ago handled the North Hall project, the plans for which he and other neighbors had complained were not sufficiently explained to them. Still, today he said has concerns about the university's level of communication with nearby residents.
"What's really important is that there's an overall planning process that the neighbors can understand, and have input in," he said.
Dale Hamel, Framingham's executive vice president of Administration, Finance and Information Technology, said that's exactly what happened with the school's latest $15 million parking lot project. After initially considering building a tiered garage on campus, he said the university scrapped that plan based partly on complaints from residents.
Framingham State officials are sensitive to the campus's impact on the surrounding community, Hamel added, and have tried to develop a master plan that keeps new construction away from the residential neighborhoods to the south of campus and proportional with existing buildings in the area.
"We're not like a lot of our sister institutions where we have a lot of undeveloped space," he said, which has made land acquisition a necessary part of the FSU's efforts to accommodate its historic enrollment increases over the past few years.
Even the interior campus is changing because of upcoming construction; the school is currently taking down several trees near Hemenway Hall and the McCarthy College Center to make way for upcoming expansions. New trees and shrubs will be planted elsewhere on the property over the next few years to make up for the loss of greenery, according to Framingham State spokesman Dan Magazu.
Ultimately, Hamel said he sees the university, recent construction projects and all, as a positive aesthetic component of the scenery around Town Center.
"I see it more as a nice compliment," he said.
Beth Greeley, who lives on nearby Pleasant Street, doesn't exactly agree.
"If you look at North Hall, it's so out of proportion, so homely," she said. "This is the gateway to Framingham, and they put these monstrosities up."
Greeley added that she is particularly worried about the fate of the 1812 House at the 1000 Worcester Road site the university recently acquired. While the building isn't much to look at now, it would look even worse as a parking lot, she said, especially in an area that is very visible on Rte. 9.
The university will first have to go through the town's demolition delay bylaw process before tearing down the structure, and has indicated that any work on the property wouldn't begin until late fall at the earliest.
Fred Wallace, chairman of the town's Historical Commission, which administers the demolition delay bylaw, couldn't be reached for comment this past week, but left a message for the Daily News saying his board had not received any applications for the site yet and thus did not want to comment on it specifically.
Framingham Selectmen Chairman Charles Sisitsky said he "needs more information" before opining on the university's plans for the property, adding the demolition delay process would "give everybody an opportunity to weigh in on it."
While he also believes Framingham State should have more conversations with the town and campus neighbors about its development plans, Sisitsky said he appreciates the university's presence.
"I think there's a lot of benefit to having Framingham State in town - they have such a good reputation," he said. "I think they're trying hard to be a good neighbor."
Walsh, too, said he supports the university's mission overall.
"I'd like the (university) to be very successful in what it does - I always have," he said. "But what's important is that it's not at the expense of the community around it."
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