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LOS ANGELES — Bruce G. Willison, chairman of the G. and R. Loeb Foundation, Inc. and dean of The Anderson School at UCLA, today announced the finalists of the 2003 Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism. He also announced the recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award and the Lawrence Minard Editor Award.
The Anderson School at UCLA is celebrating its 30th anniversary presenting the Loeb Awards, which are the highest honors in business journalism. The Loeb Awards recognize writers, editors and producers of both print and broadcast media for significant contributions they make to business, financial and economic journalism.
The 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient is Floyd Norris, chief financial correspondent of The New York Times. This annual award recognizes an individual whose career exemplifies the consistent and superior insight and professional skills necessary to further the understanding of business, financial and economic issues.
Glenn Kramon, business editor of The New York Times, will receive the 2003 Lawrence Minard Editor Award, named in memory of Laury Minard, founding editor of Forbes Global and a former final judge for the Loeb Awards. This award honors excellence in business, financial and economic journalism editing and recognizes an editor whose work does not receive a byline or whose face does not appear on the air for the work covered.
Norris and Kramon will receive their career achievement awards at the Loeb Awards banquet and presentation ceremony, at which the 2003 Loeb Award winners in the 10 competition categories will be announced. The event will be held Monday, June 30, 2003, at The Plaza in New York City. Lou Dobbs, host of CNN's "Lou Dobbs Moneyline," will serve as master of ceremonies.
"The finalists in this year's Loeb Awards were selected from a near record number of entries," said Willison. "We received a total of 383 entries, just two away from the all time high."
The finalists for the 2003 Loeb Awards in the print and broadcast categories are as follows:
Large Newspapers Category
The finalists in the large newspapers category (circulation of more than 400,000) are:
- David Migoya for "Meat Series" in The Denver Post
- Walt Bogdanich, Barry Meier and Mary Williams Walsh for "Bad Medicine 'Medicine's Middlemen'" in The New York Times
- David Cay Johnston, Geraldine Fabrikant, Gretchen Morgenson, David Barboza, Alex Berenson and Stephen Labaton for "Corporate Greed" in The New York Times
- David Cay Johnston for "Tax Dodgers" in The New York Times
- Alec Klein for "AOL's Advertising Deals" in The Washington Post
Medium Newspapers Category
The finalists in the medium newspapers category (circulation between 150,000 and 400,000) are:
- Becky Yerak, Karen Talaski, Hawke Fracassa, Francis X. Donnelly, David Shepardson, Bill Vlasic and Mark Truby for "Kmart's Road to Bankruptcy" in The Detroit News
- Brent Walth and Kim Christensen for "PERS" in The Oregonian (Portland, OR)
- Karl Schoenberger for "Where Computers Go to Die" in the San Jose Mercury News
- Deborah O'Neil and Jeff Harrington for "The CEO and His Church" in the St. Petersburg (FL) Times
Small Newspapers Category
The finalists in the small newspapers category (circulation of less than 150,000) are:
- Wesley Loy for "On the Rocks" in the Anchorage Daily News
- Cadence Mertz for "Anatomy of a Scandal" in The Burlington (VT) Free Press
- Paul Goldberg for "ImClone Data Insufficient to Evaluate Cancer Drug" in The Cancer Letter (Washington, DC)
- Eric Eyre and Scott Finn for "A License to Steal" in The Charleston (WV) Gazette
Magazines Category
The finalists in the magazines category are:
- Charles Fishman for "Your 401k is Making a Statement" in Fast Company
- Daniel Lyons for "Bad Boys" in Forbes
- David Whitford for "Back from the Brink" in Fortune Small Business
- Hal Lux for "Nationalities of Convenience" in Institutional Investor
Commentary Category
The finalists in the commentary category are:
- Graef 'Bud' Crystal for "Sweetening the Corporate Suite" in Bloomberg News
- Mathew Bishop for "Finance and Economics Commentary" in The Economist
- Jerry Flint for "Auto Industry Commentary" in Forbes
- Robert J. Samuelson for "Series of 2002 Columns" in Newsweek
Deadline Writing Category
The finalists in the deadline writing category are:
- John Schmeltzer for "Bankruptcy of United Airlines" in the Chicago Tribune
- Becky Yerak, Karen Talaski, Hawke Fracassa, Francis X. Donnelly, David Shepardson, Bill Vlasic and Mark Truby for "Kmart's Road to Bankruptcy" in The Detroit News
- David Colker. James Flanigan, James Granelli, Jon Healey, Glenda McCarthy, Joseph Menn and Jube Shiver Jr. for "The Microsoft Antitrust Case Settlement" in the Los Angeles Times
- Rebecca Blumenstein, Gregory Zuckerman, Jared Sandberg, Shawn Young, Susan Pulliam, Deborah Solomon and Carrick Mollenkamp for "WorldCom's Whirlwind Demise" in The Wall Street Journal
Beat Writing Category
The finalists in the beat writing category are:
- Stephen Labaton for "Inside the S.E.C." in The New York Times
- David Cay Johnston for "Tax Dodgers" in The New York Times
- Mark Maremont and Laurie P. Cohen for "Executive Privilege at Tyco" in The Wall Street Journal
- Ellen E. Schultz and Theo Francis for "Insurance: Who Benefits?" in The Wall Street Journal
- Alec Klein for "AOL's Advertising Deals" in The Washington Post
News Services or Online Content Category
The finalists in the news services or online content category are:
- Steve Scherer, Art Pine, Will Edwards, Helmuth Tromm, Gregory Viscusi and Tom Giles for "Lagging Europe" on Bloomberg News
- Jon D. Markman for "SuperModels" on CNBC on MSN Money
- Mike Ricciuti for "A Mortal Microsoft" on CNET News.com
- Carol S. Remond for "In the Money/Investco" on Dow Jones Newswires
Television: Short Form Category
The finalists in the short form television category are:
- Brian Ross for "Enron Investigation" on ABC News
- Ed Forgotson Jr., Robin Skeete and Joie Chen for "Derailed" on CBS News Sunday Morning
- David Faber for "David Faber Breaks WorldCom" on CNBC
- Terence Smith, Lester M. Crystal, Anne Davenport and Ilyse Veron for "Cable News Wars" on The News Hour with Jim Lehrer
- Paul Solman, Lester M. Crystal, Mary Jo Brooks, Lee Koromvokis, Merrill Schwerin and Jeffrey Brown for "Explaining Enron" on The News Hour with Jim Lehrer
Television: Long Form Category
The finalists in the long form television category are:
- Audrey Latman and Arnold Diaz for "Payola" on ABC News
- Scott Pelley and David Schneider for "Taken on Faith" on CBS News: 60 Minutes II
- Craig Cheatham, Mark Hadler and Andrea Torrance for "La Oroya, City of Lead" on KMOV-TV (CBS affiliate, St. Louis, MO)
- Dan Dare and George Mitchell for "Trashed Transactions" on WATE-TV (ABC affiliate, Knoxville, TN)
The judges select finalists and winners based on quality of reporting and writing, news and analytical value, originality and exclusivity, and in the broadcast categories, production value and visual impact. Forty preliminary judges representing academia and a broad spectrum of major media chose this year's finalists. The winners are then determined by the distinguished panel of final judges:
- Rance Crain, president and editorial director, Crain Communications, Inc.
- Lou Dobbs, host of "Lou Dobbs Moneyline," CNN
- Mary Anne Dolan, former editor, Los Angeles Herald Examiner
- Steve Forbes, president and editor-in-chief, Forbes
- Soma Golden Behr, assistant managing editor, The New York Times
- John Hillkirk, managing editor, Money section, USA Today
- John Huey, editorial director, Time, Inc
- Robert G. Kaiser, associate editor, The Washington Post
- Mark Morrison, managing editor, BusinessWeek
- Allan Sloan, Wall Street editor, Newsweek
- Paul E. Steiger, vice president and managing editor, The Wall Street Journal
- Richard C. Wald, consultant, ABC News
- Bruce G. Willison, dean, The Anderson School at UCLA
- Matthew Winkler, editor-in-chief, Bloomberg News
The Loeb Awards were established in 1957 by Gerald Loeb, a founding partner of E.F. Hutton, to encourage quality reporting in the areas of business, finance and the economy in order to inform and protect investors and the general public.
For more information about the Loeb Awards, please visit the Loeb Awards Web site at http://loeb.anderson.ucla.edu, or e-mail email@example.com, or call the Loeb Awards office at (310) 206-1877.


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FOI complaint leads Poquonnock Bridge board to rescind firefighter contract
Groton — The newly-expanded Poquonnock Bridge Fire District board of directors voted Thursday to rescind a contract with the firefighters union that had called for annual 3 percent wage increases over the next 10 years, along with an increase in staffing and a boost in benefits for retirees.
The unanimous vote came on the heels of a complaint filed with the state Freedom of information Commission by board clerk Nancy Beckwith. Beckwith and other board members questioned the legitimacy of the 2-1 vote on July 26. She claims the agenda did not contain information announcing the board would be discussing in executive session the contract and retiree payments.
Beckwith abstained from Thursday's vote and did not attend the executive session under advice from the district's attorney.
The five of the nine board members who voted Thursday to rescind the contract and other items taken up at the July 26 meeting said that not only was the vote improper, but the contract appeared to be overly generous in a time when taxpayers cannot afford it. The size of the board was increased from five to nine members after the July 26 vote.
"What company gives a 10-year contract?" board member Randy Ackley asked.
"The meeting wasn't legal in our opinion," board member Ron Yuhas added. "Now that we have a few more people involved, I'd like to think we can come back together as a group and start over."
Ackley and Yuhas joined the board after district voters petitioned to expand membership to nine on Aug. 1.
To add to what is already a contentious issue, Beckwith said she was notified Thursday of another Freedom of Information complaint — this time questioning the legitimacy of the Aug. 1 vote that expanded the board. She does not know who filed the complaint.
With the vote rescinded, Beckwith said she expected further contract negotiations with the union.
"We're willing to work with the union, but the contract that was signed is just too much," she said. "Ten years is ridiculous and might even hurt (firefighters)."
Also voting Thursday was former board president Alan Ackley and former vice president Peter Legnos. Both were ousted at the annual meeting in May and replaced by President Christopher Clark and new Vice President Kevin Czapla.
Czapla and board member Tom Wimler were not present at Thursday's meeting. Clark, as president, cannot vote. He was not available for comment after the meeting.
It was under Clark's leadership that the board approved the 10-year contract with the Poquonnock Bridge Professional Firefighters Association, Local 2704. The contract boosted salaries for new hires from $52,700 to a high of $70,000 in 2021. Union president and fire inspector Kale Kiely became a deputy fire marshal under the contact and received a $3,000 raise in pay. The fire marshal, who now makes $75,450, would see his salary increase to more than $100,000 by 2021. The wage increases affected 28 of 30 sworn members of the department. The fire chief and deputy chief are not included.
Terms of the contract also added four lieutenant positions and authorized a force of six firefighters per shift. Retirees would have received an automatic 3 percent increase in retirement payments.
With a $4.7 million budget, Poquonnock Bridge has the highest tax rate, 5.9 mills, of the town's nine fire districts.
Property owner Jay Dempsey, one of a handful of people to attend Thursday's special meeting at the Poquonnock Bridge Fire Department's Fort Hill station, said he was acting as a watchdog.
"You trust government to do the right thing and that doesn't always happen," Dempsey said. "What bothers me is two people making such a big financial decision for so many. It made me want to get more involved."
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A winner was selected from 77 designs submitted by 23 freelance designers.
Sustaining the Blue Planet: Global Water Education Conference
The Project WET Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to reaching children, parents, educators and communities around the world with water education. We are active in all 50 states and in 50+ countries around the world.
Please visit http://www.projectwet.org to learn more.
Most of the Project WET end users are teachers. However, we are also hoping to attract corporate sponsors and attendees as well as people from government agencies and other nonprofits. Our graphic identity needs to be very professional and understandable to a global audience for this event.
We want a logo that includes a graphical reference to the "Blue Planet", preferably using a realistic-looking depiction of Earth (please see examples) as well as incorporating water. Suspending the Earth within a water drop is one example that has been mentioned repeatedly as being an ideal representation. The logo must also include the name of the conference, "Sustaining the Blue Planet: Global Water Education Conference". In the attached samples, we used the Earth logo to replace the "o" in "global", but we don't require that. We will need final versions in layered Adobe Illustrator and .eps files - please provide both full color and gray scale versions.
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You can almost see the relief coming from the Superbot team. Not only because they had the opportunity to show off a project that they've spent the last few years working on, but because they can finally stop denying the existence of a game that has been rumored to be on the way for a while now.
So to the great relief of the beleaguered and besieged developers, Superbot has officially unveiled its four player brawler, PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale.
"We've literally been bursting at the seams with excitement and anticipation for this announcement," Chan Park, President of Superbot Entertainment announced with a smile.
The game is a fighter in the vein of the Smash Bros. series. That may not be an entirely fair comparison, but it is one that you will hear again and again, and there is a good reason for it. In a similar vein as the Nintendo hit, Battle Royale will feature characters drawn from the PlayStation universe, as well as a few unannounced third-party characters. It will also feature a combat system that pits up to four players against each other in a closed off area culled from famous PlayStation settings.
So far only six characters have been announced: Fat Princess of the PSN title of the same name, Kratos, PaRappa the Rappa, Sly Cooper, Sweet Tooth of Twisted Metal, and Colonel Radec from Killzone.
There will, of course, be many more characters in the final build, many of which will almost certainly seem like obvious inclusions once they are revealed, but for now they are being kept quiet. Regardless of where the characters hail, they will all feature the same lighthearted reimagining. Each will have a unique move set that will honor the characters and their histories, but they will also be balanced to make the combat fair. While no one doubts Fat Princess' moxy, she probably wouldn't fair too well against Kratos' homicidal rages and penchant for ripping the heads off of enemies. Balance is key.
Each of the six characters being shown had their own styles and strengths. Radec, for example, is a ranged character that attacks with a rifle, but he can also hit opponents with melee attacks and a pistol at close combat. PaRappa uses kung fu mixed with a skateboard and a boombox. Sweet Tooth spits fire and drops mines. Each of the characters is unique, and they all have pros and cons.
Despite these specialized attacks, the majority of the combat will be spent close up with fists and kicks (and the odd chain of Olympus). But the action is frantic, and the characters are strong enough that focusing on a single enemy won't work—you will need to keep moving, keep fighting, and keep mixing up the attacks.
In the demo that was on display at the official unveiling earlier this week, members of the press were given the opportunity to beat the snot out of each other for funsies. The game is still in a relatively early stage of development, but it is undeniably fun and addictive to pound on enemies, especially while wearing the skin of some of the most well-known characters ever to grace a PlayStation product.
After a few moments though, it became obvious that the game wasn't necessarily about combat—the combat was simply a means to an end. In some ways it feels more like a race.
The combat is what you need to do in order to fill up the characters' special attacks. Each character has three levels of special attacks, and each level offers a unique and devastating attack that can instantly kill off characters. When the bar is completely full, you can unleash a level three attack that can kill all the characters on the screen–in theory.
Characters can be killed through standard combat, but it is relatively rare and difficult compared to deaths that came through the specials. But with each character having a unique special attack, some characters will have an advantage over others. PaRappa can begin a rap that will kill everyone nearby, while Sly uses a camera-like view to focus on enemies and snap an image that ends them. Both are effective, but the PaRappa attack requires much less effort for a higher reward.
Of course, this was just one gametype of several that have yet to be announced. Battle Royale is an unfinished product, so balance can still easily be redressed.
On display along with the combat were a few of the many levels that will be available, which each have a connection to the world of PlayStation—usually more than one. One level, Metropolis, was taken from the Ratchet and Clank series. It, like all the levels, was a constantly changing selection of moving platforms, deadly gears, and shifting landscapes. Then halfway through the fight, a Hydra from the God of War series suddenly appeared and got into the action. And this was far from the only instance of mash-ups in the settings.
Some levels will have a deeper level of interaction, including the odd quiz, which appears on screen and asks you to answer by jumping on the platform with the correct answer or risk taking damage. Of course, you will have to make sure no one knocks you off when you do have the right answer. Oddly though, there is no way to knock enemies off of a level to their death, but each level does have certain items like a spear or a defensive bubble which can tilt the balance.
It is a daunting task for any developer to be handed the keys to the PlayStation cupboard and then tasked with creating a game that can emulate, and hopefully surpass a massively popular franchise on another system, but that is exactly the task given to Superbot Entertainment.
If you are wondering why the name Superbot doesn't ring any bells, that's because it is a new and independent company born out of Sony Santa Monica Studio in the same way that Journey developer Thatgamecompany came about. And it is a heavy burden that this new developer carries. The PlayStation pantheon of characters is a deep and storied one, and the task of respectfully adapting disparate characters is not a simple or easy mission.
The early build shows a great deal of promise. It is still rough around the edges, there are balance issues that still need to be dealt with, and a health bar would be nice, but the potential is obvious. Beyond the characters that will appeal to PlayStation fans, the brawler-style title will call out to anyone looking for a good party game.
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Hugh Hewitt "does the math" for Super Tuesday and concludes that the Republican race is "far, far from over." Hugh shows that even if Romney doesn't do very well on Super Tuesday, McCain's likely delegate count at the end of that night will still fall well short of what he needs to capture the nomination.
The problem I see, though, is that unless Romney makes major strides in delegate collection he's doomed because Mike Huckabee would gleefully throw in with McCain in exchange for the vice presidency, and a majority of his delegates would likely follow. It would be unfortunate if Romney did just well enough to induce McCain to pick Huckabee (of whom McCain has often spoken kindly) for the number two spot.
That said, I hope that Romney perseveres. McCain should not be coronated based on winning three of the five races he competed in, and never with even 40 percent of the vote. The less than overwhelming wins in New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Florida should be ratified on a large scale before McCain becomes the Republican standard bearer.
In all likelihood they will be. Absent some sort of McCain meltdown, Romney's one hope is that conservatives (including many Huckabee voters) recoil at the prospect of nominating McCain, now that he's on the doorstep. That hasn't happened yet, I think because McCain appeals to a decent fraction of the conservative base — e.g. those who think character is most important, those (including many vets) who emphasize national security, and those concerned about electability. For his part, Romney simply turns off some in the base due to some combination of his wealth, his flip-flops, and perhaps his religion.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Nine goals in the second period helped lead MIT to a 17-7 victory over Pilgrim Lacrosse League foe Clark University on Wednesday. Carter Powers, Tyler Sorba, and Jonathan Stolmeier paced the Engineers' attack with five points each.
Stolmeier tallied the first of his three goals by connecting on pass from Paul Steiner 4:26 into the contest. The Cougars tied the game at 7:52. A man-up goal from Scott Purchase put Tech (2-2, 1-0 Pilgrim) ahead almost two minutes later. Clark countered with the equalizer with 5:44 remaining. MIT took the lead for good on an unassisted goal by Purchase with 45 seconds on the clock.
The Engineers carried the momentum over into the second period as they scored twice during the opening minute. A goal from Stolmeier set up by Powers was followed by an unassisted goal from Isaac Taylor 28 seconds later. The Cougars scored at the 13:11 mark, cutting the lead to 5-3. Tech responded with seven unanswered goals, resulting in a 12-3 advantage at halftime. Taylor added two more goals, giving him a hat-trick for the period. Powers contributed a goal and an assist as Steiner scored twice. Purchase and Stefano Young each notched a goal while Clinton Cain and Devin Dersh each earned an assist.
MIT continued its run in the third frame, with Stolmeier playing a role in both goals. He earned an assist for Powers' goal and then connected on a pass from Cain. Clark ended a 20-minute scoring drought with a man-up goal at the 7:14 mark. The Cougars scored the last goal of the period a minute later.
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In the last 10 years, I have had four head and neck surgeries for malignant tumors, two courses of head and neck radiation and one lung surgery to remove two nodules, which turned out to be benign. I had two face and neck reconstruction surgeries, too, and 30 hyperbaric oxygen treatments for a broken jaw due to osteoradionecrosis. They wired my jaw closed for six months to try and get some healing. But it is the details of the first surgery that stick in my mind.
In my Philadelphia hospital, they allowed me to walk with my wife Susan from the prep area to the elevator for the ride up to pre-op. The nurse escorted us. I pulled along the wheeled stand that had my IV bag swinging to the rhythms of our steps. I held Susan's hand and assured her that everything would be OK. She was allowed to come with me into the elevator. When we arrived at the O.R. floor, though, she had to stay put.
I kissed her and walked out of the elevator and turned right toward the doors to pre-op, pushing the IV pole along. I heard the elevator doors close behind me and, for the first time, I was filled with fear. I felt alone and scared witless. I choked up. But I pulled myself together by thinking, "It's O.K. It's time. This is right. Do this." The nurse opened the doors to pre-op and I walked in. I climbed onto a gurney and became another sheeted figure in a room full of sheeted figures, each with an IV tree standing nearby like a stainless-steel sentinel. I awaited my turn.
That was in November, 2002. About three years before this event, my internist, whom I saw annually for a physical, was so concerned about my lively drinking and smoking lifestyle (even though I had quit both in 1995) that he recommended an otorhinolaryngologist for me to see twice a year. He knew I had the classic profile for head and neck cancer. And so began my long relationship with the head and neck surgeon who saved my life numerous times.
In January, 2002, one of our adult sons, Ben, died unexpectedly. It broke my heart and Susan's too. Our other son, Adam, was devastated. It changed things forever. My internist told me that carrying a heavy burden of grief can sometimes stress the human system in difficult ways, and he encouraged me to be especially vigilant for anything going wrong in the coming months.
In the spring, around the time of my 61st birthday, I found two swollen lymph nodes in my left neck. My surgeon needle-biopsied both and found that the swelling was caused by infection. He prescribed a course of powerful antibiotics, and the swelling subsided. But that summer, I never really felt well. It was as if I had a low-grade fever. My energy was sagging. In October, the two nodules swelled up again, and open biopsy was recommended.
The November, 2002, surgery was fairly straightforward. The surgeon removed the nodules, and while I was still open, they found that the infections in both of them were encased in malignant shells. The needle-biopsy had pierced through the shells and had extracted only infected material — missing the malignant cells in the casing around the nodules. With this information in hand, he continued the surgery by removing a dozen nearby lymph nodes to make sure the area was clear of cancer. Then he sewed me up: a neat, now barely visible six-inch scar on the left side of my neck. The diagnosis was squamous cell cancer of unknown origin.
Thirty radiation treatments were recommended, and I completed them on Jan. 31, 2003. I was asked if I wanted to have a feeding tube inserted because the inside of my mouth would be burned and irritated by the radiation. I said no, and for weeks I ate nothing but a liquid product called Resource 2.0, which provides perfect medical nutrition. I lost my sense of taste, and for a few months I ate no solid food other than ice cream, scrambled eggs and smoothies. It hurt to swallow anything and everything. It was, I am told, a very heavy dose of radiation. The fatigue I experienced for months after the treatment was unlike anything I had known before.
That spring of 2003 my energy was limited, but I had an idea for a good project. My wife and I bought a deteriorating 30-year-old, 19-foot sailboat. We named her Moonshadow. And while I lacked the wellness to be on my feet working for hours, I found that I could work on her quite well on my hands and knees: sanding, painting and varnishing. I had never done anything like this before. It's amazing what you can learn by reading the directions on cans of paint and varnish. It gave me a real sense of purpose and accomplishment and made me feel alive. How I loved Moonshadow. She was beautiful when she was finished, and I sailed her every minute I could that summer.
The burns in the lining of my mouth and esophagus healed in about six to eight months. It is odd how that happens. The eating disabilities diminished so slowly that I often did not recognize how much progress I was making. One day late in the summer I realized I was pretty close to normal again. My energy was much better, and I knew that some working out would get me back to where I had been. It was still hard to tolerate hotly spiced food, but otherwise I knew that I had recovered well. My sense of taste was back. I could swallow solid food with only occasional difficulty by lubricating it with water. Meat was always difficult, though, so I gave it up. I was already used to carrying a water bottle with me to help with the dry mouth, and I was eating a fairly healthy diet.
I was cancer free for what seemed a long time except that I had many early stage skin cancers removed. It reminded me that all of those wonderful shirtless, shoeless summers I spent along the Toms River in New Jersey when I was a boy may not have been quite as healthy as my mom thought. But I did learn to sail a little eight-foot boat, and that led me to Moonshadow and more adventures later on. What a great gift from those summers.
Three years after that first surgery, I was diagnosed with a squamous cell tumor on the right side near the parotid gland. Surgery was scheduled for Dec. 23, 2005, which included a partial parotidectomy. The diagnosis was the same: squamous cell cancer of undetermined origin. No further therapy was recommended, and recovery was less arduous, but I had a greater saliva deficit because my parotid was partially gone. I knew what to do about that. Never forget to bring the water bottle.
Bob Brecht was born in Glenside in 1941 and graduated from Abington High School in 1959. He graduated from Brown University in 1963 and taught German, Latin and English at schools here and in Puerto Rico. He worked for the Philadelphia Urban Coalition, ran his own live lobster company and helped start the International Technology Exchange Center at the University City Science Center. He is now retired and living with his wife of 42 years on the Toms River in Pine Beach, N.J. Bob's father, Raymond C. Brecht, was a reporter for the Philadelphia Bulletin and was Time Magazine's White House reporter during World War II.
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A manure fork was an essential tool on a farm for cleaning out barns and spreading manure for fertilizer. Manure is heavy and laced with straw and the forks work better than a shovel. Young boys living on a farm quickly learned from older male relatives how to use this indispensable tool. The owner of this fork, Consider Dickinson (1761-1854) burned his initials into the handle. Although the fields were owned by individual farmers, the men often cared for them collectively; branding one's tools with initials was a practical way to assure their return at the end of a day.
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In the cobwebs of my mind, I recall the wonderment of the old school playground. The sun would brightly reflect off the shimmering surface of the giant slide, the wind would gently sway the long, taut ropes of the swings, the fingers of the teeter-totters would point upward toward the sky, and the merry-go-round would merrily beckon its riders for a go 'round.
Back in the day, a visit to the playground was not without its jeopardies. Yes, the slide's surface could approach egg-frying temperatures in the heat of the day, but that just made us want to get down it faster. Besides, there was always the possibility of missing a step on the long climb to the top and tumbling down, only to have your fall cushioned by the three other kids climbing up behind you.
The feeling of the G-forces on the merry-go-round was truly worth the risk of flying headlong off into space. And who didn't enjoy the beguiling dizziness as our feet desperately struggled to keep up with the world spinning around us, not to mention the glorious onslaught of nausea as we crawled back for another spin.
Oh, and who didn't relish being held hostage, trapped on the up position of the teeter-totter, holding on for dear life as your partner tried to bounce you off to send you crashing to the ground, shouting, "Hey, hey Buster Brown … whad'ya give me if I let you down?"
Yep, back then we kids knew what a bump felt like and understood the soreness of a bruise. A black eye was a badge of honor, and stitches made you a hero. We learned that when you fell, you just got up and kept playing. If the other kids laughed at you, you laughed along with them. Sure, we sometimes had hurt feelings and scraped knees, but we were being trained to understand that the world was not made of fluff and feathers and people were not always kind.
When we went home our parents patched us up, gave us a pat on the butt and sent us out again. They knew that accidents happen, and that kids were simply mishaps with legs. They believed in gravity and its related consequences, and they didn't sue a swing for willful criminal negligence because it viciously attacked their innocent, unsuspecting child and broke his arm.
But thankfully, current parents do not have to worry about the possible calamities of giant slides, swings, teeter-totters and merry-go-rounds, for they have all but been eliminated from the modern-day playground. And you PTAs, don't even think about bake sales to raise funds to buy playground equipment that carries kids above ground level. A parent group from Virginia found its recent $35,000 purchase of equipment suddenly wrapped in yellow caution tape like a police crime scene as the school board stepped in to save the children from certain monkey bar carnage.
And for those of you who have been scratching your heads wondering why in the world they are letting kids run and chase each other playing tag, not to worry. Tag and other similar activities now are referred to as "Human Target Games" that prey on the slower and less athletic children. These games are increasingly being banned from schools. And breathe a big sigh of relief, because the dreaded game of dodgeball, even in Nerf form, finally is being recognized as the evil that it is.
So let's stop all of this running and climbing and playing on the playgrounds. We'll just send the kids outside to walk around. And let's get all lawyered up for when they trip over their own feet and fall to the ground. Then we can sue the Earth for planetary negligence and gravity for quantum theoretical nonsupport. And to that kid who wouldn't let me down on that teeter-totter … have you ever heard of Frivolous Leveraged Extortion?
• Michael Penkava is a retired teacher who taught for 35 years at West Elementary School in Crystal Lake. He challenges all you old teeter-totterers to a game of non-Nerf dodgeball … no fair throwing at his photo. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Revealed: The Secret Life Kate Middleton Really Wanted
While many people would kill to be in her shoes, The Duchess of Cambridge has recently revealed the truth about what she'd rather be doing.
They say the grass is always greener, right? Well, this rings true for our future Queen, who would rather be...getting her hands dirty.
Forget about the glitz, glamour, royal duties and schmoozing with celebs.
According to People Magazine, on a recent outing in Cornwell, Kate confessed to Bea Hodge from the local group Wadebridge Young Farmers that "she'd secretly like to be a farmer".
Hodge told reporters that Kate "was teaching George and Charlotte all about the farm at Sandringham," and that she wants to encourage them to learn the land at their country home in Norfolk.
"She's been teaching George the difference between barley and wheat and everything they grow on the farm there..."
Well, we guess she has a backup plan if the whole 'royal' thing doesn't work out.
Can you picture the Duchess of Cambridge in overalls?
Source: People
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Back in February, I was invited to join the Quiksilver team down under as they continued their Roam campaign. You can see all of Mike O'Meally's photos in the Roam Issue #4 zine right here. I wrote the accompanying story and shot some photos and video of my own I'll be posting in installments here. Enjoy this first part:
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Day 1: February 8, 2009
Quiksilver planned this trip as part of its Roam campaign that will carry on throughout 2009. You probably already saw the crew do it down in Brazil. Now we're back in the Southern Hemisphere, roadtripping from Sydney to Canberra, and finally to Melbourne to really get a taste of the people, places, and of course skateboarding from the land Down Under. For many of us, these spots and cities will be a first-time experience.
The crew consisting of Kyle Leeper, Reese Forbes, Quik's art director Scott Richards and myself touched down in Sydney at 9 a.m. after a 14-hour nonstop flight from LAX. Aussie photographer Mike O'Meally was waiting for us at the airport and took us straight to Bondi Beach where it was already 90 degrees and bustling with tourists. Remember it's summer down in Oz right now. After an amazing Italian lunch overlooking the whole of Bondi Beach, the crew took a dip in the chilly water then walked up the sand to the world famous Bondi skatepark that sits right on the beach. It was scorching hot so only a few locals were zigzagging around, but it's sure to be our go-to warm up spot in the next few mornings to come.
After the air cooled a few degrees, we hit downtown Sydney to run amok on its myriad spots. The main plaza was going off with Sydney locals and Australian skaters from other cities basking in the long daylight hours of summer and the comraderie of having the metropolis to themselves on a Sunday afternoon. Lewis Marnell was in town from Melbourne, Sammy Winter from Brisbane, Shane "Nugget" O'Neill, Dane Burman, Sydney's own Chima Ferguson and many more were simply killing it, having a great time. O'Meally took Kyle and Reese away from the meeting plaza to show just a small sample of the spots nearby. We bombed hills, Reese ollied a tall handrail off a four-block, we sessioned more smooth plazas, all en route to the picturesque Sydney harbor. Again there was more smooth flatground to be had, not to mention plenty of benches and traffic barriers for the guys to ollie. The hoards of tourists getting off the Manly Ferry were treated to a show of Reese's insane pop and Kyle's technical flatground wizardry.
At one point a passing group of 20-somethings called out, "Hi, Reese!" Reese waved back and one of the guys, an obvious skate fan insisted Reese frontside 180 ollie over him. The kid sat down and Reese obliged—twice. The two guys and their girlfriends were beyond stoked.
The day wound down back at the central plaza and we found ourselves driving back to Bondi as the enormous fruit bats migrated across the city overhead. It was a surreal scene—a full moon, slightly cloudy, and bats with three-foot wingspans gliding overhead, all in the warm summer night air.
This long day finally ended at an amazing Thai spot on Curlewis Street that O'Meally recommended. Not a bad start to the trip!
Day Two—Sydney
With jetlag still an obvious factor, Kyle, Scott, and I were up at 6 a.m. walking around Bondi, drinking coffee and checking out the empty beach.
With cloudy skies and cooler temperatures, we took to the city and it's skatespots earlier today. O'Meally has the town wired. We're now also joined with Australian filmer Choi, a super nice guy with a ton of knowledge about the local scene. The crew warmed up at the Waterloo Oval skatepark, which is basically an amazing concrete plaza. It's important to note that Australia probably has the best skateparks in the world. They're expertly built and free of any monetary fee or being enclosed by fences. Kyle was loving it and will most likely lobby for a Waterloo Oval replica in his hometown of Carlsbad, California when he gets home. Reese was clocking high speed laps around the park mixing in huge ollies and even a no comply to fakie manual up onto a high manual pad.
With the crew warmed up we hit the raw streets, it was rad to see a lot of permission graffiti pieces on many of the buildings we drove by. Kyle and Reese sessioned a tall bump to bar, that wasn't easy to get up on, and both came away with rad tricks. We then went to a spot that consisted of a bump to a wooden post which was dubbed "the bump to stump," and Kyle proceeded to 180 ollie it frontside and backside, despite a surging afterschool crowd and dog turds in the landing zone. It's only Kyle's second day ever in Australia and he's on fire.
A couple more spots got sussed out, then as the day faded (it stays light until about 8 p.m.) we regrouped at Bondi's Italian restaurant from the day before and toasted to a well-spent day.
Day Three, Sydney To Canberra
Due to rain today—all day—we decided to head to Canberra. Danny Garcia flew in this morning to join us for the rest of the trip. After amazing BLTs at The Shop in Bondi, we hit up Deus Ex Machinas, a famed motorcycle store, to browse the classic bikes and grab a bite in the café next door. Alongside classic Triumphs and Yamaha motorcycles, Deus also has DVDs, zines, art, and memorabilia that goes along with its timeless ambiance. A stop at a Sydney guitar shop to purchase a nice Gibson for Danny was in order. He's got to keep up on his riffs and scales for his bandmates back home, and we'll all be getting free performances—not a bad deal. After a few beers and some fish and chips at a local pub, we hit the road for the three hour drive to Australia's capital, Canberra.
In the middle of nowhere, O'Meally had us pull over to check out a skatepark he knew of. Sure enough, next to a barn, seemingly in a cow pasture laid a nice capsule shaped concrete pool. Stiff legs from the car ride didn't stop Reese from carving around in the near darkness. Mike said there are random parks just like this in the middle of nowhere all over New South Wales.


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Officials for Fate Brewing Co., one of at least five Boulder craft breweries in the planning stages, today announced plans to open a full-service restaurant and full-production brewery in the late fall.
Fate Brewing is expected to open at 1600 38th St. in a 7,000-square-foot space formerly occupied by Playa Azul and Jose Muldoon's.
Mike Lawinski, who has worked for Big Red F Restaurant Group for 10 years, founded Fate Brewing, which is expected to operate a full-service restaurant in addition to being a full-production brewery.
Fate Brewing intends to distribute its beer to liquor stores, restaurants and bars throughout Colorado in addition to providing beer at its restaurant.
Fate Brewing has plans to produce five core beers in addition to "numerous special releases." The restaurant, which will have 30 tap lines, also is expected to serve other craft beers.
Lawinski could not be immediately reached for comment.


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2011-12: Made the first team All-Ivy after finishing in outright third spot at the Ivy League Championships ... Runner-up at Macdonald Cup ... Tied for fourth place at the Adams Cup and Northeast Invitational.
2010-11: Ivy League Rookie of the Year … Selected for second team All-Ivy … Won Princeton Invitational … Medaled at Yale vs. Notre Dame Challenge … Runner-up at George Washington Invitational … Achieved five top-10 finishes … Played at the NCAA Virginia Tech Regional … Averaged 74.7 over 10 tournaments with a low round of 67.
Before Yale: 2010 AJGA CorseMax/Philadelphia Runner Junior Champion ... 2009 AJGA Rolex Junior All-American Honorable Mention ... 2009 AJGA HP Junior Scholastic All-American and Essay Contest Winner ... 2009 AJGA Nemacolin Junior Classic Champion ... Low amateur, low score (67), first round Leader, and T7 at the 2009/94th Met Open Championship ... Five Top 15 AJGA Finishes (1, 1, T3, T13, 14) ... 2008 Long Island Junior Champion ... 2008 IJGT @ Crystal Springs Champion ... 2007 New York State Independent Schools Champion.
Notes: Founded Harlem Children's Zone Golf Program ... Worked with The First Tee for two years ... Father, Tom Bernstein '74, was a member of Ezra Styles College and graduated Yale Law in 1977 ... Mother, Andi Bernstein, is a 1980 Princeton grad ... Sister, Lee Bernstein, is a senior at the Fieldston School and will be attending Brown in 2011 ... Brother, Will Bernstein, is a freshman at the Fieldston School.


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If Facebook was invented at NC State instead of Harvard, and the Winklevoss twins raced NASCAR instead of crew, then Fincher's famous regatta "Henley sequence" would look like this awesome bit of footage cinematographer Eric B. Shanks shared with us.
"I brought a couple cameras and tilt shift lenses to a NASCAR event this past Sunday," Shanks told us. "I went to help a friend shoot some behind the scenes footage for a side project. I bypassed his project and cut a piece to resemble the regatta race from The Social Network."
It was totally worth it.
To quote this alternate reality Sorkin-written Mark Zuckerberg character: "If y'all were the inventors of Facebook y'all would have invented Facebook!"


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In reply to an earlier question, you had stated that "the vowels on the tafkheem letter also have tafkheem and this is a very good question. The sound of a voweled letter comes out with the vowel, so the vowel must have all of the characteristics that the letter has, otherwise it will not have the true sound required. This is most notable when a letter has a shaddah on it."
My question is, how would we pronounce "mustaqeem" (surah Fatihah). Thinking of the yaa madda ('ee' sound) as two kasrahs combined together, then going by the above rule, would we pronounce the "first kasrah" with tafkheem and "second kasrah" with tarqeeq?
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Wa alaikum assalaam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh,
The kasrah on the qaaf in the word al- mustaqeem would be read with the same level of tafkheem as the the qaaf, and the ya' meddiyyah, or the ya' saakinah would not be read with tafkheem and instead it would be read with tarqeeq. It is another letter than the vowel on the qaaf, even though the kasrah is required for it to be a medd letter, it is not influenced by the tafkheem letter preceding it.
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Remember those days? Me neither. Yet for a good chunk of the Cold War period Alsop was the consummate Washington insider, a proud member of the Harvard-educated WASP elite and a pundit who wrote as much to influence heads of state as he did to sway public opinion.
Alsop had a secret, however, that made him vulnerable to the many enemies he had formed during his career — he couldn't resist a pretty young man in bed. And during one of his trips to the Soviet Union, he was set up by the KGB, which obtained photographic proof of his proclivities. Never one to back down from a fight, especially one involving the Red Menace, Alsop refused to fall victim to blackmail, but the strain of leading a double life took its toll on him and those in his regal orbit.
The story begins in a hotel room in Moscow in the 1950s. Alsop is savoring a post-coital cigarette as Andrei (Brian J. Smith), a handsome young Russian he has just met in a bar, is getting dressed. The repercussion of this encounter won't be felt for some time, but the audience is made privy to what Alsop, an assiduous custodian of his privilege and power, was careful always to keep under wraps.
The next scene takes place on the night of John F. Kennedy's inauguration, when Alsop's star was never higher. He is at home with his wife, Susan Mary (Margaret Colin), stepdaughter Abigail (Grace Gummer) and brother, Stewart (Boyd Gaines), with whom he used to share a column. Although it's after midnight, he's confident that D.C. power brokers will soon be arriving, and just as everyone but Alsop is ready to throw in the towel, the new president's motorcade pulls up at the door.
As the play systematically points out, however, history, wasn't on Alsop's side. The assassination of JFK, the growing antiwar movement (Alsop was an unwavering supporter of the Vietnam War effort) and the emergence of a new generation of journalists set on challenging the establishment all have a diminishing effect on Alsop's standing.
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Have you ever heard the expression, "A picture is worth a thousand words"? That is definitely true for family history work. You can learn lots of valuable information from family and historical photographs . . . as long as you interpret them correctly.
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This example illustrates how important family photographs can be. Not only do they give us an image of our ancestors, but important clues about the past can be found in the details surrounding them. Clothing, hairstyles, pins, military awards, automobiles, even rocks and plants can all help tell our ancestors' stories, even if they have not left a lot of written information for us. Some of these details are easily identified; others are more difficult and may need a specialist's eye in order to be fully understood. Regardless, a picture may be worth a thousand words of an ancestor's life story, so don't delay! Pull out those old pictures and see what they may tell you about the lives of your loved ones.
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In our ongoing efforts to think up new ways to expand Power Line further and offer more content (new things coming soon!), we float ideas and experiment from time to time. It's amazing how many people read Power Line in the middle of the night (perhaps our overseas readers?), because we heard from a lot of you when we experimented briefly in the middle of the night a few days ago with a survey widget, which is one of the new things being tried on websites. It's quite obtrusive, asking you to answer a question before getting access to an article.
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"I am apologizing for insensitive remarks made during the postgame press conference after our victory over Miami Saturday night," said Hibbert in a statement released by the Pacers.
"They were disrespectful and offensive and not a reflection of my personal views. I used a slang term that is not appropriate in any setting, private or public, and the language I used definitely has no place in a public forum, especially over live television. I apologize to those who I have offended, to our fans and to the Pacers' organization. I sincerely have deep regret over my choice of words last night."
Hibbert also cursed when asked why he finished so low in the Defensive Player of the Year award voting.
"Y'all (expletive) don't watch us play throughout the year, to tell you the truth," Hibbert said Saturday night. "That's fine. I'm going to be real with you. And I don't care if I get fined. You know what, we play, we're not on TV all the time. Reporters are the ones that are voting. And it is what it is. If I don't make it, that's fine. I'm still going to do what I have to do."
Hibbert, who had 24 points and 11 boards in Saturday's game, could face further discipline from the league, likely in the form of a fine, for his comments.