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December 21. 2012 10:00PM
In Kerry, Obama picks foreign policy leader, loyal stalwart
By Patricia Zengerle
WASHINGTON - John Kerry gave up his presidential dreams after a narrow loss to Republican George W. Bush in the 2004 election, but forged a new identity as a congressional leader on foreign policy - and dutiful supporter of President Barack Obama.
Obama rewarded the five-term Massachusetts senator on Friday by nominating him to succeed Hillary Clinton as secretary of state.
If approved, Kerry, a patrician Yankee, will confront a raft of policy problems as the United States' top diplomat, ranging from the Syria crisis and impasse over Iran's nuclear program to mapping out the next phase of U.S. relations with prickly powers such as China and Russia.
He also will face the personal challenge of succeeding Clinton, who has become one of Obama's most popular and most visible Cabinet secretaries during her four years in office.
Obama's choice of Kerry comes after Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations who had been the front-runner for the job, withdrew from consideration amid scathing Republican criticism of her handling of the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
Even Republicans in Congress said they expect Kerry to sail through the confirmation process.
Kerry has sometimes served as Obama's special emissary in times of crisis. He flew to Afghanistan in 2009, when he helped talk President Hamid Karzai into agreeing to a runoff election, and to Pakistan in 2011 amid an uproar over a U.S. government employee who was arrested for killing two people allegedly trying to rob him.
But Obama has centralized national security decision-making in the White House and analysts say Kerry's selection could signal an even firmer White House hand in Obama's second term.
Kerry, known as an able negotiator and cautious public speaker, is likely to be put to the test soon after taking over at the State Department as two major U.S. foreign policy challenges move to the fore.
The 21-month uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad appears to be nearing a tipping point as rebels advance, leaving Washington scrambling to map out policies to deal with everything from a power vacuum to the potential use of chemical weapons as a last-ditch defense by Damascus.
As senator, Kerry visited Damascus repeatedly prior to the outbreak of protests and was a proponent of U.S. re-engagement with Assad, partly in hopes of nudging Syria toward peace talks with Israel. He later joined the chorus calling for Assad to step down, saying he had been wrong in his earlier view of the Syrian president as a potential reformer.
On another issue, the United States and other major powers may soon start new talks with Tehran about its nuclear program, hoping to breathe life into thus-far fruitless negotiations aimed at heading off a wider confrontation that could draw in key U.S. ally Israel and wreak havoc on the global economy.
Republicans criticized Rice for being more of an Obama ally than a statesman. But Kerry, 69, has his own close ties to the Democratic President and little of the personal celebrity wattage that Clinton used to bolster her term in office.
Kerry supported Obama, then a Senate colleague, early in his 2008 presidential campaign and was thought to be a leading contender for his first secretary of state before Obama made the surprise choice of Clinton, his erstwhile rival for the Democratic nomination.
Despite losing out to Clinton, Kerry has been an important Obama ally in the Senate and a strong defender of administration policies on everything from the need to keep funding foreign aid to stepping up sanctions on Iran.
This year, the senior senator from Massachusetts helped the President prepare for his campaign debates with Mitt Romney, standing in for the Republican as Obama practiced for their three head-to-head encounters.
Kerry became chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in early 2009, replacing Vice President Joe Biden. But he has been a specialist in foreign affairs for years, both boosting and damaging his political career.
The Yale-educated son of foreign service officer Richard John Kerry, he differed from most of well-heeled peers in the 1960s by enlisting in the U.S. Navy and serving two tours of duty during the Vietnam War.
But he broke from - and enraged - the military establishment by becoming a prominent antiwar demonstrator after he returned home, testifying before Congress and even famously throwing away some of his medals.
Foreign policy also helped deal the biggest blow of Kerry's political life - his narrow loss to Republican incumbent Bush in the 2004 presidential election.
Kerry centered his campaign on his opposition to the Iraq war, but Bush's team was able to paint Kerry as a "flip-flopper" for switching policy positions, including his stance on that conflict.
After losing a race for the U.S. House in 1972, Kerry went to Boston College Law School, became a county prosecutor and worked his way up the political ladder before winning his Senate seat in 1984.
He spent his early Senate career in the shadow of his senior Senate counterpart, the late Edward Kennedy. Kerry's background is solidly patrician, like Kennedy's. He can trace his roots back to the first Massachusetts governor, John Winthrop.
He also is one of the Senate's richest members, thanks to his second wife's fortune. Ketchup heiress and philanthropist Teresa Heinz Kerry was the widow of the late Pennsylvania Republican Sen. John Heinz.


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by Kathleen Duff
Monday evening the Grand Island Board of Education worked through a lengthy agenda of approvals, reports and tabling of items.
The board also had a new look, which included new Interim Superintendent of Schools Paul Hashem, Vice President Paul Krull presiding and trustee Tak Nobumoto in attendance via Skype. Trustee Joan Droit was absent due to a medical problem, and the board is functioning without a president since David Goris' resignation earlier in the month.
Hashem spoke about his start in the district on Jan. 10, saying that he spent time with outgoing Interim Superintendent Robert Christmann on his last day with the district.
"The welcoming has been outstanding," Hashem stated, detailing his meetings with administrators and other staff. He has toured all five school buildings and talked extensively with the staff at buildings and grounds and at the bus garage. He is encouraging an "open door" policy at his office. He has also talked at length with Grand Island Town Supervisor Mary Cooke.
Monday's agenda included a capital project update from Assistant Superintendent for Business and Finance Joe Giarrizzo. He told the board that he expects a February approval from the State Education Department on the district's plans for the technology wing and other improvements at Grand Island High School. Some parts of the high school "will come off-line mid-April," Giarrizzo said. Rooms will be emptied and people relocated to accommodate the construction. Over the summer, only office staff will be in the Ransom Road complex. Extensive auditorium improvements at the high school will begin January of 2014 and continue through August of that year. The district will be a construction site in one location or another for the next three years.
Under items for approval, the board said, "yes" to the purchase of a new bus routing software suite called Versatrans. Recommended by district Transportation Director Jack Burns, the new system, according to Giarrizzo, is "very efficient and easily intuitive." It is also fully aidable through the state. The board also approved $19,500 in travel expenses for International Baccalaureate teachers to receive level 2 training. Assistant High School Principal Andres Arroyo told trustees that all IB teachers must complete their training this year so all students in the program can complete their requirements.
Regarding the 2013-14 school district budget, Giarrizzo reported that Grand Island faces a $1,514,000 gap between revenue and expenditures. The figure comes in the wake of the state numbers presented by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the executive budget proposal. Giarrizzo had expected more money from Albany than may actually be coming. (Cuomo proposes an increase in state aid of $141,000 whereas $197,000 was expected.) Giarrizzo and Hashem both emphasized that the Teacher Retirement System and the Employee Retirement System are state-mandated lines in the local school budget with TRS being around 12 percent of the total budget for the coming year. Giarrizzo said that he is looking at the Erie 1 BOCES budget "line by line," and that with any budget, school officials and the Board of Education must look at personnel, program and savings accounts carefully each year.
In an update on the superintendent search, Krull told trustees that to date 39 people have applied to the district. Ten are considered candidates, and nine have had preliminary interviews. From this, three or four will be final candidates to be interviewed by a 12-person search committee. The district hopes to have the new superintendent in place by July 1.
To fill the vacant seat left by the resignation of Goris, the board has a few options:
•Hold a special election for the seat,
•The superintendent could appoint someone for 90 days, or
•Leave the position open.
The board decided to table the decision until the next meeting.
Also tabled was a policy decision on high school hallwalking. The evening activity was a paid-for community education course for many years, but was made free and unsupervised in recent months with lockers assigned to those wishing to participate. Hashem said there have been concerns about the lack of supervision and about giving out locker space to anyone simply calling on the phone. As such, he has suspended giving out lockers, and, at the next board meeting, trustees will decide on a final policy.
The next meeting of the Grand Island Board of Education is Monday, Feb. 11, in the Veronica Connor Middle School Little Theater, 1100 Ransom Road.
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Its Halloween weekend again, and after last years zombie-doings, its a wonder town hasnt canceled Halloween altogether and initiated a weekend-long mandatory curfew.
With all the recent political action in town, Ill jump in and preach to the choir just like Paul Ryan and the first lady. We all know there are a few people out there who are going to go out of their way to act like jerks on Main Avenue at some point between tonight and Wednesday. Please dont.
I have friends who own businesses along Main. Theyd rather not have the trash cans in front of their businesses tipped over or the benches dragged into the road or worse. Im not a police officer, but if I were, Id much rather spend my Halloween weekend watching people have fun and then watch them walk home. If youre one of the many people who are capable of doing this and will practice good behavior, thank you. If you do see people doing otherwise, tell them to stop.
As always, there is plenty to do for Halloween well before and on the actual day. Those of you waiting patiently for the actual holiday on Wednesday can count on local rock band Aftergrass playing its annual Halloween show at The Summit. Aftergrass shows these days are rare. Bass player Bob Demmon is now a Denver resident, but hell be down for the bands annual gig. Joining Demmon in Aftergrass are Eric Kiefer on drums and vocals, Jesse Mattice on guitar and vocals, Kelly Hill on electric mandolin and Josh Arnold on vocals.
KDURs Transvestite Ball moves to the Lost Dog on Saturday and will feature the electro-music stylings of Mr. Anderson, Mykal Dark and Brian Ess. Lightning Communications will provide lighting and thumping sound.
A Halloween tradition will continue tonight at the Abbey Theatre with Euforquestras annual tribute show. This time around, the Colorado band takes on the catalog of Beck. Tonights stop is part of a tour that will finish in Albuquerque.
Waiting On Trial will hold court at The Summit on Saturday. Fresh off recording the bands last show for a possible live release, the local bluegrass quartet also may be heading into the studio soon. Bass player Ryan Zernis was in my home recently taking terrible costume suggestions; maybe hell follow through with my advice and dress up as me. Which means hell also be dressed up and looking like Bobby Hill.
Local old-time quartet Six Dollar String Band will perform on Halloween night at Carver Brewing Co.
The Rocky Horror Show on stage has gathered some speed since becoming a regular addition to the Halloween landscape a few years back. It is truly a local production, encompassing open auditions, and casting friends and neighbors in the show. It will run twice tonight and tomorrow and again on Wednesday.
And thats just a smattering of whats going on for Halloween in Durango. Take all that in and then some, and thanks in advance for your good behavior.
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First with the admission, yes, I thought the Knicks should have kept Jeremy Lin, and was extremely upset when they didn't. I think I sighed deeply and had a drink. Cue the "You're an idiot! REAL Fans knew they made the right move! I hate you and your family!"
But putting Lin aside -- which at this point, we all should, even if after eight games, I'm personally not ready to write off his entire career -- I think these were the things I most underestimated about the duo that has had as much to do with the Knicks' torrid start as anyone.
To my mind, it was underappreciated how much of an improvement over last year's point guards the combo of Kidd and Felton would be. This really shouldn't have been missed, as aside from those 25 games from Lin, the combination of Shump playing out of position, Toney Douglas doing what Tony do, Baron Davis doing whatever exactly that was and Mike Bibby just ... uh ... something, the Knicks were completely dysfunctional at point guard. Felton-Kidd was a MASSIVE improvement and you're seeing it night in and night out.
I think like most Knicks fans, despite the whole Lin hullabaloo, I was eager to see Felton return. I know the Portland faithful came to loathe him in a deep place in their souls, but during his time in New York he was an absolute pleasure. When he was included in the trade for Melo, I was genuinely sad to see him go. But I think one of the things that I didn't think about at the time, is that having Felton as opposed to Lin was just going to be much less of a headache.
In Felton, the Knicks just have a professional, a guy that's expected to play well, but not expected to live up to some insane hype machine. He wasn't the leader of a movement. Let's face it, had Lin started the season in New York like he has in Houston, the media would be all over him. The Carmelo/Lin relationship would be getting dissected ad nauseam, with the body language police out in full force to see who was ruining who. It could easily have dissolved into the type of nightmare New York is famous for.
With Felton, there's none of that noise. He's just a solid player, playing very well and that's all he needs to be.
Aside from that, I suppose I should have known how quickly any misgivings about Jason Kidd would wash away. I've always admired his game, but given all those years he torched the Knicks in Jersey, he was a player I'd developed a certain distaste for, so watching him at the tail end of his career was not something I was eager to do.
Those hesitations lasted all of ten minutes, before the reality of watching the guy play washed away any ill will. Kidd is just one of those guys with such a perfect feel for the game it really is awesome to watch. Naturally, I should have seen this coming, I'm a sports fan, by definition I have no integrity. Latrell Sprewell literally strangled a coach, and I welcomed him lovingly, certain that the new uniform had made him a changed man. And so it was.
So the combination of Raymond Felton and Jason Kidd may not be as popular with headline writers, but maybe we'd had enough Lin-inspired puns to last us a lifetime anyway.
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September 19. 2013 9:20PM
Dartmouth College helps in a study that finds most drug ads could be misleading
By MELANIE PLENDA
Special to the Union Leader
The next time a woman of a certain age comes on television to say an osteoporosis pill will make a marathoner out of you or that cold medicine will hardly be noticeable in a cup of tea, consumers may want to view those ads with a healthy dose of skepticism.
A recent study conducted in part by the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice reports that six out of 10 television ads for pharmaceuticals could be misleading.
The study, conducted by Dartmouth researcher Adrienne E. Faerber and David H. Kreling of The University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy, was recently published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
"I want consumers to be able to get access to high-quality information on the drugs that they take," Faerber said. "And what we're doing with this research is showing that maybe TV is not the best place to be going to get information about their drugs."
Persuasion vs. information
The idea for the study came out of a 15-year debate among policymakers and researchers who wondered whether television ads were more persuasion than information. To underscore the relationship between advertising and pharmaceutical companies, the researchers pointed out that in 2009, these companies spent $4.8 billion on advertising. In comparison, only $3 billion was spent that year on nonprescription products.
To gauge the veracity of the commercials, researchers gathered data from the Vanderbilt TV News Archive, an indexed archive of recordings of the nightly news broadcasts and commercials shown on ABC, CBS and NBC since 1968 and on CNN since 1992.
Faerber said they chose this time slot because the nightly news is a prime time for advertisers to reach both a large and an older audience, their biggest consumer.
In all, the researchers had trained analysts look at 168 TV advertisements for prescription and over-the-counter drugs broadcast between 2008 and 2010. Their job was to identify statements that were strongly emphasized in the ad and then decide if those claims were truthful, potentially misleading or false.
Misleading claims
At the end of the study, they found all-out falsehoods in prescription drug commercials happened only one in 10 times, likely because false advertising is illegal. However, potentially misleading claims occurred six out of 10 times. These are described by researchers as, "claims (that) left out important information, exaggerated information, provided opinions, or made meaningless associations with lifestyles."
A commercial for an osteoporosis medication depicts several healthy older women as extremely active. Faerber said women who are active don't generally have osteoporosis and that even those who take an osteoporosis drug, if they aren't already active, won't be no matter what the drug.
"That kind of association, I think as people become more aware, they may see (these ads) the next time and view them with a more skeptical eye," Faerber said.
Commercials for over-the-counter drugs played a little more fast and loose with the truth, according to the research. In those ads, eight of 10 claims were misleading or false.
One example was an ad for a usually fizzy and strong-tasting cold medicine. The ad claimed this new product was tasteless and didn't fizz and, so, could be added to any drink. However, the second ingredient in the product was sucrose — basically sugar — which means the product likely has a taste.
One reason such commercials exist, Faerber said, is because the Food and Drug Administration oversees prescription drug advertising while the Federal Trade Commission oversees advertising for nonprescription drugs. The two agencies have different definitions of false and misleading claims. For example, the FDA interpretation says prescription drug advertising must include information about the harms of the drug, but information on harms is left out of most over-the-counter drug ads, according to the researchers.
"It may be that these organizations need to talk more or to come up with a better standard," she said.


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by Susan Mikula Campbell
Wheatfield's annual tree lighting ceremony and holiday party at the town's Community Center will begin at 5:45 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, with the arrival of Santa aboard a St. Johnsburg Volunteer Fire Co. fire truck.
The man of the season will pick some helpers from the crowd to give him a hand with throwing the switch for the tree lighting at 6 p.m. Then, everyone will go inside for a concert, cookie decorating and visits with Santa and Mrs. Claus, according to town Recreation Director Ed Sturgeon.
Glenn Colton, author, songwriter and children's entertainer, will provide the concert. Colton has performed at Wheatfield a number of times in the past and wanted to include the town in his "farewell tour," Sturgeon said.
"The kids love him; he puts on a really good show," he said.
Sturgeon reminded residents about the free event at Monday's Town Board meeting.
Sturgeon also noted that he is looking for a new home for about 300 to 400 trophies in storage at the town's Youth Center. When he started working for the town in 2003, there were already boxes of trophies, primarily for baseball, softball and cheerleading.
Most are individual trophies that winning team members never picked up; others include team trophies, right up to grand championship. Trophies are displayed in the Youth Center's three trophy cases, but are rotated out as new ones are brought in by winning teams. A minimum of 30 to 35 new trophies arrive each year, Sturgeon said.
He's willing to give away the old trophies individually or in total at no charge. He's hoping some local group will be interested in reusing them.
"They can change the nameplates on them, rather than me just tossing them in a dumpster," he said. "It's almost like re-gifting."
Anyone interested in the old trophies can call 731-3942.
In other matters:
•Members of the Wheatfield Seniors interested in attending the annual Christmas party and installation of officers are reminded that reservations must be made by Dec. 7 by calling 694-8509 or coming to the Community Center for tickets. The event will be at noon Dec. 13 at Classics V on Niagara Falls Boulevard. Cost for members is $8 and for guests, $13.
•The board authorized Wendel Duchscherer Architects and Engineers to provide engineering services and support for a geotechnical evaluation on Craig Drive at a cost of up to $4,500. Three borings will be done to determine what is going on below the surface of the road. The first part of the road is deteriorating badly. Highway Superintendent Art Kroening said he believes the study is necessary. There have been cave-ins between the houses, which had to be repaired, so he has expected the worst in terms of the road, he said.
•The board gave final approval for three different plans developed by the Town Centre Focus Group for use of town-owned land off Witmer Road near Town Hall. For about three years, the volunteer group has been investigating ways the land might best be used. The next step will be to present the plans to interested developers.
•The board authorized the hiring of Alana Crossley as a recreation aide at the Youth Center.
•The next meeting of the Wheatfield Town Board will be at 7:25 p.m. Monday, Dec. 10, starting with a public hearing on the town's approval for Shawnee Volunteer Fire Co.'s purchasing and financing of a new ladder truck. There is no town cost or liability.
Unless it becomes necessary, there will be no second meeting in December due to the holiday. The board will take care of bill payment and any pressing items at its 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 2, reorganization meeting. Regular meetings in January will be on Mondays, Jan. 14 and 28.


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A zeal for life; a legacy
that calls us to love all God's children
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 --
Dr. Alveda King, niece of the late Coretta
Scott King, and Pastoral Associate of Priests for Life and Gospel of Life
Ministries, released the following statement today as memorial services begin
for her aunt.
"Aunt Coretta exemplified the strength and
beauty of Queen Esther as a devoted wife, loving mother, and cherished
servant-leader. One of her favorite songs, "Ain't Got Time to Die" gave true
expression to her zeal for life. She will live forever in the memory of her
beloved community."
Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests
for Life and Gospel of Life Ministries, said, "All of those who work with me in
the ministry of protecting unborn children join together today to express our
condolences and promise our prayers for Alveda and the entire King family. It is
an honor to have a member of the King family working with us to continue the
King legacy, which is about the equal dignity of every human life. As Coretta
Scott King is laid to rest this week, may our hearts remain restless until every
form of oppression is eliminated from our midst, and justice is secured for
everyone without exception."
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At least once every three years, sometimes more often, the union and the school district sit down to negotiate the terms for working in the district. CTA has more than 1,000 chapters across the state, and educators in each chapter bargain a contract defining the issues for all members of the bargaining unit: teachers, librarians, counselors, and all certificated staff.
On Sept. 22, 1975, then-Gov. Jerry Brown signed CTA-sponsored Senate Bill 160 by state Sen. Al Rodda, known as the Educational Employment Relations Act or the Rodda Act, to give California public school teachers collective bargaining rights. The legislation established an administrative body that became the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB).
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Not everything is negotiable. Critical job issues that are within the legal scope of bargaining include compensation, hours of work, safety matters, class size, evaluation and disciplinary procedures, health care, access to personnel files, preparation time, seniority, transfer rights, a grievance procedure with binding arbitration to settle major disputes, discrimination, job assignments, and early retirement.
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Bargaining law levels the playing field. Teachers sit down as equals with administrators and both sides start the process with initial proposals. Even without today's harsh economic climate, where many California school districts hit with cuts are trying to reduce health care benefits and salaries and impose furloughs or worse, the bargaining process has shown that teachers are willing to push back to protect their profession and their compensation.
There have been more than 170 California public school strikes, sickouts and other work stoppages since 1975. The most recent major showdown was the 10-day strike by the Hayward Education Association in April 2007, which earned teachers an 11 percent raise over two years.
Kathleen Crummey, a Hayward teacher for more than 30 years, led that strike. She died of cancer July 24 of this year and was taking union-related calls in the final weeks of her life, said her husband, former CTA Board member Dayton Crummey. He joined hundreds of East Bay CTA leaders, former CTA President Barbara E. Kerr, family and friends for a public memorial Sept. 12 at Hayward City Hall.
"Kathleen Crummey, working 12-hour days, coordinated that 10-day strike like the extraordinary labor leader she was," CTA President David A. Sanchez said at the memorial. "She now belongs to a much larger family of teachers who dedicated so much over the decades to fighting for the rights and dignity of their colleagues. By continuing her work, we honor her and our profession."
Some districts have embraced what is known as "interest-based" bargaining — a model that's generally less stressful than in other districts and can be effective if all parties have a sincere desire to make it work. The East Whittier City School District and the East Whittier Education Association (EWEA) successfully used this method earlier this year to reach an agreement.
In interest-based bargaining, the parties brainstorm to find a "win-win" solution that doesn't start with specific bargaining proposals. The focus is on developing mutually beneficial agreements based on the of the parties — the needs, desires and concerns important to each side. The goal is to keep the conversation flowing and avoid "stopping points."
"We started it last year and are pretty happy with it," said Madeline Shapiro, immediate past president of EWEA. "Instead of being adversarial, we all sit down together and talk about our interests and why they are important to us. Then we talk about different options for making this happen in our district — and our contract — and we can usually come to a compromise. It moves everybody's agenda along."
The result was that EWEA recently bargained a new contract that contained no concessions, which Shapiro believes is a victory in today's tough economic climate. Negotiators on both sides of the table agreed there would be no "reopeners" next year and felt good about the process. Fortunately, there were financial reserves set aside to help this district survive lean times.
Such cordial relations didn't happen overnight, said Shapiro. The EWEA worked for years to build a foundation that would allow interest-based bargaining. This included forming a political action committee, fundraising and getting involved in local campaigns. Chapter members were instrumental in electing school board members who were friends of education and willing to listen to their concerns.
Before the historic Rodda Act of 1975 gave teachers real bargaining rights, they suffered under the toothless Winton Act, passed by the California Legislature in 1965 to pacify restless educators across the state.
It allowed teachers to "meet and confer" with administrators on key issues, but little was accomplished as "meet and confer" degenerated into "meet and defer" as districts stonewalled. Districts were under no obligation to act on teachers' proposals, and school boards had the final say anyway to do as they wished.
Most contracts build on prior agreements, re-adopting some language over and over for years, but a new CTA chapter representing nearly 450 teachers in 19 Green Dot charter schools in Los Angeles County had to start from scratch several years ago.
In early September, the Asociación de Maestros Unidos was bargaining its fourth contract, keeping its binding arbitration language and other gains intact, and being watched by charter school teachers across the nation, said chapter President Abby Garcia, a teacher at Animo Leadership Charter High School in Inglewood.
"Now our contract has been used as a model contract by charter schools across the country," said Garcia, in her sixth year with Green Dot. "We are helping to dispel the myth that teachers only stay at charters a few years and move on. This contract gives us rights we can depend on. It's our union work, and it's exciting."
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Engine #73
Along the White Pass
circa 2011
I have been to Skagway numerous times since 1974 and have never taken the train trip on the White Pass and Yukon Route Railroad.
January 27, 2012, December 23, 2011,
Jeff Smith
Engine #73
Along the White Pass
circa 2011
Really Jeff, you should! I daresay they would comp you...
So these two engines look similar because they are both Baldwins, but No. 73 was built in 1947. White Pass runs it only once or twice a week now, I love to hear the steam whistle in the morning - it is quite distinctive from the other engines. Once in awhile they have both steam engines - No. 69 and 73 out and you can tell the difference between those two whistles.
Very interesting! The sounds in Skagway, natural and man-made, are awesome.Delete
Thank you for leaving your comment and/or question on my blog. I always read, and will answer all questions left here. Please know that they are greatly appreciated. -Jeff Smith


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Wommer. Greer. Short. McCluer. Ludwig. Fassbinder. Frazier. Mason.
Many of the families that formed the backbone of La Plata County in its first few decades came West following the American dream: to own their own land. This dream was possible in large part because of the Homestead Act signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln in 1862.
President John F. Kennedy, in 1962, called the law probably the single greatest stimulus to national development ever enacted.
The act, with additional versions Congress approved over the next 50 years, allowed people to homestead anywhere from 160 acres to 640 acres by improving the land and building a small dwelling.
By and large, people were coming for opportunity; they were coming to establish their families, said Ruth Lambert, the cultural program director for the San Juan Mountains Association, who has done studies in the county documenting older buildings. They were not speculators.
It was a grueling task at best.
James Frazier homesteaded on the Florida Mesa in 1899, when the Ute Strip was opened for staking, and two people were killed in disputes about conflicting claims and boundaries.
He kept a diary for several years, and excerpts are included in Pioneers of the San Juan Country, a history of the areas early settlers.
It might appear to some that homesteading would be an interesting experience and adventure, he wrote in 1904. I do not think anyone who has been through the racket and privations would want another homestead on the same terms. To be shot at and cussed at and to fight a case of protest and worry, working and starving on a place that might all go to another fellow, is not an enjoyable condition.
The early years
I think it was just terrible, said Barbara Jefferies. Her family has several branches that earned homestead patents, or deeds, including the Wommers, who date back to the late 1870s in the Pine River Valley. Everything was hard. They dug ditches by hand and wells by hand.
The Wommer Ditch, which still carries water from the Pine River to farms and ranches in the valley, was dug in 1879 by several homesteaders, including Nicholas Wommer, who started the original homestead with his wife, Elizabeth.
He wasnt getting any water down the ditch, Jefferies said about her great-grandfather Nicholas. So he rode up to see what was happening. Another homesteader shot him in the head and killed him.
Elizabeth was left a widow with six children in July 1882, and was still able to file final papers for her homestead the next year and earn her patent. The area was originally part of the summer hunting grounds of the Ute Indian Tribe.
Jefferies sister, LaVina Mars, still lives on the Wommer homestead, although the original house is no longer standing.
When they tore that down, it had bullet holes in it from the Indians, Mars said. When there were hostilities, Elizabeth would take her children down by the river and hide them in pairs in the willows, so that if some were found and killed, she wouldnt lose all of them.
The Ludwig branch of the family had its own fatality over water: Henry Ludwig killed himself after killing his neighbor Abner Lowell in a shootout when Lowell blocked the water in the ditch.
The family, Jefferies said, thought it would have been considered self-defense.
The Wommer family can now claim seven generations in La Plata County.
On his 21st birthday
Based in the southwestern part of La Plata County, the Greer family can trace its roots in La Plata County back to the Baker Party of 1860-61, the first European Americans who came to the southern San Juan Mountains. But it was the third generation, Pat Greers father Frank, who homesteaded in the Marvel area in 1903.
Pat Greer, who will celebrate his 80th birthday in 2013, and his wife, Lila, still live on the homestead at Greer Corner.
My father staked this homestead on his 21st birthday, Pat Greer said. He took odd jobs, but was pretty big in cattle. He lost virtually everything during the Depression.
The homestead didnt get electricity until 1942 or refrigeration until 1952.
We would butcher five or six hogs, Pat Greer said, pointing out the smokehouse that is still standing. We would smoke hams and bacon, then my mother would can the fresh pork. We didnt waste anything.
Except for the nine months he lived in Durango while studying at the high school, he has always lived on the homestead where he was born. But Greer spent 33 years as an engineer for the highway department to support his family.
Its a hard area to make a living, but a good place to raise kids, he said, looking across the acreage he knows so well.
Sense of community
The isolation was so magnified in those past times, said Lambert, with the San Juan Mountains Association. It was an all-day trip to Durango to get supplies for most of them.
But one thing in particular struck Lambert in her research into the early days of La Plata Countys homesteaders, who had to depend on their neighbors in times of need, and their descendants, who still today are quick to help.
The thing that really came through was the fact that these people have grown up together, gone through school together, tended to marry each other, she said. They seem to have grown up with a sense of community and an understanding thats how you treat people.


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Food Truck Association Says: "Proposed Food Truck Regulations Would Make Food Trucks Illegal in Most of Downtown"
From a press release:
Food trucks will become illegal in most of downtown if Mayor Vincent Gray's proposed new regulations are passed, said the Food Truck Association of Metropolitan of Washington, who today released a map showing the impact of the proposed regulations.
"The proposed regulations have one outcome – less choice and competition for District resident's dollars and less food trucks just where residents want them the most," said Doug Povich, chairman of the Board of Directors of the Food Truck Association and Co-owner of Red Hook Lobster Pound-DC. "The proposed parking restrictions have little to do with protecting public health and safety, and everything to do with restricting competition and consumer choice."
Mayor Gray has proposed severe restrictions on where food trucks can serve customers, including:
Restricting food trucks in the most popular locations – with the exception of a limited number of lottery-assigned designated spaces;
Banning food trucks from serving from within 500 feet of lottery-assigned spaces;
Banning food trucks from serving where there is less than 10 feet of unobstructed sidewalk.
A map by the Food Truck Association shows the proposed regulations would make most of the Central Business District off-limits to food trucks – highlighted in red on the map.
"Red means dead." "Food trucks who do not win a lottery spot will have few places to go," said Povich. "The bottom line is that, if enacted, the proposed regulations will severely limit consumer choice, force many food trucks out of business, and put many food-truck employees out of work.
"Simply put, these regulations will hurt the city, " Povich said. "The District will lose hundreds of jobs and millions of dollars in tax revenue. And DC residents and workers will be left with fewer choices and less opportunities for their dollars."


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KWINTER firstname.lastname@example.com_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-08-05 published
Michael Iain PRENTICE
By Joel KWINTER, Barry ALPER, Doug ADLAM Tuesday, August 5, 2003 - Page A16
Father, husband, son, friend, television producer. Born October 21, 1964, in Toronto. Died May in Toronto, of natural causes, aged 38.
Michael PRENTICE was a Big Manitoba He was physically big, but also big in so many other ways. He had a big charming personality, a big collection of Friends and he was a big reader. He also had a big appetite for adventure, travel, exotic food, fine wines and unique liquors; he told big stories, had big adventures and hosted big parties. He was really a big loveable guy.
His Friends had several nicknames for Michael, including Big Country, Large and in Charge, the Country Squire, and occasionally and only playfully, the Big Baby.
Behind his big, tough exterior, was a sentimental, loving man. His love for his wife Janet, and daughters Emma and Margot, as well as his love of cooking, gardening, collecting first edition books, and spending time at the cottage, often eclipsed his tough exterior.
Michael played to win and often tested the boundaries. He appeared to have the ability to pick up new activities or new interests effortlessly. Michael simply put his mind to excelling at something, and he did. He lived his life the way he played tennis -- after the first serve, he would always charge the net and go for the "smash."
Michael introduced many of his Friends to golf, eventually establishing a tradition of Wednesday night golf. Week after week, no one could beat Michael -- his Friends affectionately called his winning streak "the reign of terror." Michael diligently kept score at every round he played, sometimes keeping better track of other people's strokes than his own.
Michael hosted an annual boys' weekend, where he'd make a pot of spicy chili and loaves of homemade bread. The veterans of the boys' weekend knew to approach the bread with caution, because it was even spicier than the chili. Every year, a good laugh would be had as we watched the uninitiated try to put the spice-fire out of his mouth, by eating more and more of the spicy bread.
Michael was proud of his upbringing, and was close to his parents Ralph and Mary, and his sister Carolyn. Michael was in his element at the family cottage near Bancroft, Ontario He extended open invitations to all his Friends, and used the cottage to build new relationships and strengthen existing ones. He expended great effort so that everyone would have a good time.
Michael loved to tell stories. They often started with "When I was living in England", or "When I was living in India", or "When I was living in Australia." His life in many ways was a search for great stories, and he relished telling them as much as his Friends loved hearing them.
Though born and raised Presbyterian, he was a practicing contrarian. In the spirit of debate, he was prepared to take different sides on the same issue. He loved the role of devil's advocate, and because he was so smart and such a voracious reader, his arguments were convincing, even when he was arguing against a point he had made previously. This was sport for Michael, and he played it well.
Michael had a traveller's attitude to life. He turned everyday activities into events, and opportunities for new experiences. Often, he would playfully push his companion into an awkward moment or toward a new challenge, thus heightening the experience and further building his portfolio of stories.
Michael has left a big hole in our lives, but he has left us with such rich memories, traditions, and stories, that his spirit will always be with us. To quote the lyrics from one of Michael's favorite songs by Bryan Ferry, "These ties that bind us, they still surround us".
Joel KWINTER, ALPER and Doug ADLAM are Michael's Friends.
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Select Sires Is Home to the No. 1 TPI and Type Sires and Strengthens Lineup with 15 New Graduates
PLAIN CITY, Ohio, August 11, 2011 -Select Sires' Holstein lineup is stronger than ever, featuring elite sires with diverse pedigrees. Lineup highlights include the No. 1 Total Performance IndexSM (TPISM) sire, 7HO8081 Ensenada Taboo PLANET-ET (EX-90-GM), the breed leader for Type, 7HO9165 Regancrest S BRAXTON-ET (EX-94), and the addition of 15 new Holstein graduates that offer sires for every breeder's needs.
"Select Sires is the No. 1 source in the industry for a sire for every desire," said Charlie Will, manager Holstein sire program for Select Sires. "In fact, Select Sires is home to the most elite TPI sires, breed-leading Type bulls, and many major-league profitability sires."
Breed Leaders from Select Sires
PLANET climbed to the top of the Official Top 100 TPI list with a GTPI of +2222 with 1,747 daughters in 553 herds. The epitome of second-crop success, this FeedPRO® sire continues to exhibit profitability with high volumes of milk (+2,368) and breed leading Net Merit dollar value (+726 NM$). He also leads Select Sires' lineup for components (+80 Fat and +68 Protein). PLANET builds cows with functional type (+2.18 PTAT) that last (+5.9 Productive Life, PL). He can be used in the heifer pens with his low calving difficulty (6% Calving Ease, CE) and is available with gender SELECTed™ semen.
As the No.1 sire in the breed for Type at +3.89 PTAT, BRAXTON excels in all composite scores: +2.25 Udder Composite (UDC), +2.46 Feet and Leg Composite (FLC), + 4.44 Body Composite (BD) and +3.48 Dairy Composite (D). As a Showcase Selections™ sire, he makes daughters with show-winning style, and he is available with gender SELECTed semen. In addition to his type, he increases production (+1,104 Milk) in his daughters to create complete cows, earning him the DIAMOND SELECTion™ designation.
Elite Total Performance New Graduates
Entering Active A.I. as the No. 1 Holstein for Udder Composite (+3.79 UDC) is 7HO9545 Siemers Toys HERO 9701-ET (EX-92). This elite type sire is the No. 2 sire in the breed for Type (+3.60 PTAT), and ranks among the top 20 sires of the breed on Holstein Association USA's Official Top 100 TPI list (+2073 GTPI). Earning the DIAMOND SELECTion logo, he combines production, type and fitness traits to create the kind of cattle that many dairy producers desire. HERO sires daughters that are tall with a great combination of dairyness, strength, body depth and width, great mobility (+2.53 FLC) and improves all udders traits. As a HealthMark™ sire, he offers positive fitness traits to produce profitable, long-lasting daughters. He also earns the Superior Settler™ designation with semen of the highest quality and is an ideal choice for managing summer heat stress.
7HO9501 UFM-Dubs OLEGANT-ET (EX-90), Select's first 7HO7156 Honeycrest ELEGANT-ET son, tops Select Sires' new graduates for GTPI at +2167. A Program for Genetic Advancement Canada™ (PGAC™) graduate, OLEGANT offers the complete package as a solid production sire (+1,131 Milk) with positive components, elite Net Merit dollar value (+615 NM$), strong conformation (+2.21 PTAT, +2.19 UDC and +1.72 FLC) and excels in health traits (+5.1 PL and +2.0 DPR). OLEGANT verifies his credentials with a number of designations including DIAMOND SELECTion, FeedPRO, HealthMark and Superior Settler. OLEGANT also stands out at 4% Calving Ease.
Profitability Makers
DIAMOND SELECTion and FeedPRO sires 7HO9754 Matt-Dari Sharky DAYTON-ET (EX-92), 7HO9446 Ronelee RSVP DREAMER-ET (VG-88) and 7HO9502 UFM-Dubs OMAR-ET (EX-93) will meet the needs of any breeder due to their diverse offerings. Like other FeedPRO sires, DAYTON's, DREAMER's and OMAR's genetic credentials fit the FeedPRO index that predicts a sire's ability to sire offspring that can provide greater income over feed costs.
A Jeweled-Acres Sharky-ET son, DAYTON will add profitability to any herd with an elite GTPI (+2021), volumes of milk (+1,485), high components (+76 Fat and +46 Protein) and high Net Merit dollar value (+539 NM$). He produces daughters that are built to last (+1.72 PTAT and +3.0 PL). Another unique pedigreed graduate sired by 7HO6960 Kamps-Hollow Convcd RSVP-ET is DREAMER, a maternal brother to the popular Red Carrier 7HO9107 Ronelee SS DURABLE. Ranking on Holstein Association USA's Official Top 100 TPI list (+1940 GTPI), DREAMER combines conformation (+1.73 Type) and production (+1,726 Milk) to create breeder satisfaction cows. With their unique lineage, both DAYTON and DREAMER are natural matings for Picston Shottle-ET, Braedale Goldwyn and 7HO6417 O-Bee MANfred Justice-ET bloodlines.
OMAR is a maternal brother to fellow new graduate OLEGANT and is sired by customer satisfaction sire 7HO7011 Pasen MARSH-ET. OMAR exhibits strong production (+1,501 Milk and +57 Fat), improves Net Merit dollar value (+400 NM$) and adds functional type (+1.82 PTAT). He also reduces Somatic Cell Score (+2.62 SCS) and lowers calving difficulty (6% CE).
New Showcase Selections Graduate
Showcase Selections sire 7HO9552 Scientific DEBONAIR-RED-ETS (EX-91) is tailor-made to cross with 7HO7872 KHW Kite ADVENT-RED-ET to create the next show champions. As the leading Red sire for type (+2.94 PTAT), he displays a near perfect linear and creates daughters with frames that are made for the colored shavings, with snuggly attached udders and great rear udder height and width (+2.04 UDC) and good feet and legs (+1.58 FLC). His exceptional semen quality and high Sire Conception Rate (+3.6 SCR) qualifies him as a Superior Settler. The PGAC graduate DEBONAIR-RED now has gender SELECTed semen available, so dairy producers can create even more of his stylish daughters.
Based in Plain City, Ohio, Select Sires Inc., is North America's largest A.I. organization and is comprised of 10 farmer-owned and -controlled cooperatives. As the industry leader, it provides highly fertile semen as well as excellence in service and programs to achieve its basic objective of supplying dairy and beef producers with North America's best genetics at a reasonable price.
Source: 08/11 USDA Genomic Evaluation, USDA/HA Genomic Type Evaluation and Interbull. Holstein Association USA's Top 100 TPI List and Top 50 Lists with at least 75% Domestic U.S. Reliability for PTA Type and Udder Composite. 08/11 Rel: PLANET Yield 99%, NM$ 93%, Type 97%, PL 84%, CE 99%; BRAXTON Type 92%, Yield 95%; HERO Type 85%, PL 73%, DPR 70%; OLEGANT Yield 85%, NM$ 78% Type 79%, PL 74%, DPR 66%, CE 81%; DAYTON Yield 89%, NM$ 80%, Type 81%, PL 73%; DREAMER Type 87%, Yield 89%; OMAR Yield 86%, NM$ 77%, Type 83%, PL 70%, SCS 77%, CE 74%; DEBONAIR-RED Type 92%, SCR 97%.SMTotal Performance Index and TPI are service marks of Holstein Association USA. ™gender SELECTed, Showcase Selections, DIAMOND SELECTion, HealthMark, Superior Settler, Program for Genetic Advancement Canada and PGAC are trademarks of Select Sires Inc.; ®FeedPRO is a registered trademark of Select Sires Inc.


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Washington's floral greens industry falters as beleaguered harvesters leave
On a cold weekday morning in mid-November, three Hispanic men stand behind a hedge at the Forest Service's Quilcene Ranger Station, waiting to buy permits to harvest floral greens in the Olympic National Forest. A white unmarked Bronco screeches into the parking lot and a giant bald man gets out, wearing a plain white T-shirt, jeans and two pistols at his belt. He surprises the men and asks, in Spanish, "Are you from Guatemala?" They run, but he grabs one by the arm. The bald man identifies himself as a U.S. Border Patrol officer, asks the Guatemalan if he wants to fight, forces him into the back seat of the Bronco, and drives off.
It's the second time in three months that the Border Patrol has arrested suspected illegal immigrants at this ranger station on permit day. In the past, as many as 200 people have shown up at the bimonthly lottery to buy the 50 permits available. But at the November lottery, the Forest Service sold only a dozen or so -- mostly to women protected from arrest by the babies on their hips.
Here in the Pacific Northwest, non-timber resources such as mushrooms, evergreen boughs, floral greens and specialty woods have long been harvested for profit. In the 1980s, however, the harvest boomed as global markets opened up and Hispanics joined the workforce. For decades, "brush" wholesalers relied on abundant immigrant labor to stay competitive in a global floral market, while immigrants flocked to the industry because it didn't require English language skills or legal documents. By some estimates, the brush industry now generates around $250 million a year in Oregon and Washington, mainly through sales of floral greens and evergreen boughs. Most of the big wholesale brush sheds are located around south Puget Sound and the Olympic Peninsula, where easy access to markets combines with the perfect temperature and forest type for growing salal, a woody understory shrub that is the poster species for the floral greens industry. If you've ever received a bouquet of roses, chances are good that it contained salal picked from forests on the Olympic Peninsula by an immigrant from Mexico or Guatemala.
For the most part, the immigrants and wholesalers, both fearful of more regulation and inspection, have kept a low profile. But now the increased Border Patrol presence has attracted public attention to the Peninsula's immigrant communities. And the recent immigration crackdown -- together with declining natural resources and a weakening economy -- has left both those immigrants and the industry itself facing an uncertain future.
After 9/11, the Bush administration pumped more money and manpower into efforts to secure the Canadian border. In 2001, there were only 340 Border Patrol agents along the entire Northern border; today, there are over 1,500. On the Olympic Peninsula, the number of agents increased dramatically after 2007, as Southern-border agents transferred to Port Angeles under a voluntary relocation program. Since then, the number of agents in Port Angeles has increased from four to 24.
Last August, the agency began conducting random checkpoints on major highways at the north end of the Peninsula. The intensity of the checkpoints took residents by surprise. Over the next two months, in five separate checkpoints, agents stopped nearly 5,000 vehicles and detained around two dozen people, including 15 suspected illegal immigrants. In September, an 18-year-old Forks High School honor student and wrestling star named Edgar Ayala was detained at a checkpoint and deported to Mexico, where he hadn't lived since he was a toddler.
Ayala's arrest sparked protests across the Peninsula. At a November town meeting in Chimacum, about 350 people showed up to protest the checkpoints. "Everybody (is) opposed to immigration stops because they're taking away our individual rights," says Mike Gurling, visitor's center manager for the Forks Chamber of Commerce. Last February, Congressman Norm Dicks, D-Wash., a member of the Homeland Security Committee, wrote a letter to Janet Napolitano, secretary of Homeland Security, asking her to review the use of checkpoints. The checkpoints have stopped, at least for now.
But for undocumented immigrants on the Olympic Peninsula -- particularly in towns like Forks that have large immigrant populations -- the checkpoints are only part of the story. Immigrants have been detained in their homes, at gas stations, at traffic stops, at the Hispanic grocery store and out in the woods. According to Lesley Hoare, whose University of Washington master's thesis concerns the local immigrant community, at least 60 people have been arrested in Forks alone since last fall. Across the Peninsula, 187 people were detained by the Border Patrol last year, says Michael Bermudez, Border Patrol spokesman for the Blaine, Wash., sector.


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Jan 12, 2012
Alan Jennings:The epitome of Self-Righteousness
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"$600 million development downtown"
where do these numbers come from?
- January 12, 2012 at 2:57 PM
Grace. Mrs. Beck Pooley, having been ungraciously asked to leave a very important city post, still uses her intellect and care for this city to support an important zoning decision.
- January 13, 2012 at 6:56 AM
- Monkey Momma said...
What is the status of Rite-Aid now? What will their next step be?
- January 13, 2012 at 7:16 AM
- michael molovinsky said...
monkey momma, according to alan jennings, they're going to file suit against allentown, and end western civilization as we know it. i believe that they will instead build an urban designed building on their 7th street parcel.
- January 13, 2012 at 7:21 AM
I read Beck-Pooley's letter and found it laughable. In her letter, she pointed out how in Allentown we're starting to realize that our historic architecture is a key asset.
I guess she didn't drive a little further south to Seventh and Hamilton to see the demolition of an entire block of historic buildings for the hockey arena. Or maybe I just missed her letter protesting the city's actions there.
- January 13, 2012 at 7:41 AM
Shouldnt be such a big deal.To peters credit his opposition to the rite-aid was only about the design.Developers/stores have at their disposal multiple designs to fit locations.The box type being the most used in open areas.If you drive down 100 past pottstown at Eagle Pa. youll see CVS and other retailers that cluster in a village design non shopping center.Respectfully Allan should keep his nose out of this,Peter is doing his job.Let Alan address the bigger reason retailers wont locate in downtowns,High shrink/theft.
- January 13, 2012 at 11:15 AM
- michael molovinsky said...
guy, although i addressed jennings' distortion of karen's letter, i avoided one of the real gorilla's, that you just mentioned. jenning's own man, pete lewnes, had previously spoke against the rite-aid suburban plan. jennings conveniently overlooks that sore spot in his blog.
- January 13, 2012 at 11:26 AM
Interesting how Alan Jennings speaks loudly about his passion of helping people in poverty. The question should be how many employees has he terminated and placed in poverty! Shame on you Alan Jennings I believe you glorify yourself too much and have people believe fairy tales rather facts!
- January 14, 2012 at 10:52 PM


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NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock futures rose Thursday as the government released its latest jobs report and U.S. corporations continued to post strong quarterly earnings.
A broad spectrum of companies from different sectors, Verizon, Morgan Stanley and PepsiCo, topped Wall Street expectations for the first quarter before the opening bell.
Dow Jones industrial futures rose 37 points to 14,592. The broader S&P futures added 4.9 points to 1,551. Nasdaq futures gained 10.75 points to 2,785.25.
The Labor Department said Thursday that applications for unemployment benefits ticked up slightly last week, but number of applications, 352,000 in all, was seen as more evidence that a terrible jobs report for March was an anomaly.
After the closing bell, the tech sector weighs in with earnings from IBM, Google and Microsoft.
The sector has been rattled this week by some unsettling data. Shares of Apple Inc. tumbled to a 52-week low Wednesday after a forecast from one of its suppliers hinted at a slowdown in demand for iPhones and iPads.
After the market closed Wednesday, eBay posted strong quarterly earnings, but its outlook sent shares of the e-commerce company sliding. Shares of eBay fell more than 3 percent in premarket trading Thursday, but it's still close to an all-time high.


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He founded Readers' Club of Canada
Nationalist visionary struggled financially to publish Canadian writers
By Carol COOPER Special to The Globe and Mail Tuesday, April 22, 2003 - Page R7
In the early 1960s, when writers asked Peter and Carol MARTIN where to publish their manuscripts on Canada, the couple realized how few choices there were. Inspired, the Martins, both voracious readers, staunch nationalists and founders of the Readers' Club of Canada, decided to start their own press. In 1965, Peter Martin Associates came into being. Last month, Peter MARTIN died of lung cancer in Ottawa.
In an industry overshadowed by American companies, Peter MARTIN Associates was among the first in a wave of independent publishing houses to open during a time of rising Canadian nationalism.
Launched in a downtown Toronto basement on a shoestring budget, skeleton staff, idealism and enthusiasm, the company flew by the seat of its pants. Its employees were often young and new to the business. But many, including Peter CARVER, Michael SOLOMON and Valerie WYATT, went on to become Canadian mainstays.
"It really was a time of Canadian nationalism and those of us who believed in that cause could see what Peter and Carol were doing," said Ms. WYATT, a children's editor who spent four years with the company in the seventies.
During the 16 years before its sale in 1981, Peter Martin Associates published approximately 170 works, mainly non-fiction. Its presses put out I, Nuligak, the autobiography of an Inuit man; The Boyd Gang by Marjorie LAMB and Barry PEARSON; Trapping is My Life by John TETSO; and the Handbook of Canadian Film by Eleanor BEATTIE. Others who came through their doors included Hugh HOOD, Robert FULFORD, John Robert COLOMBO, Douglas FETHERLING and Mary Alice DOWNIE -- all to have their works published.
Started with small amounts of seed money from private investors and no government funding, Peter Martin Associates constantly struggled financially. At one point, for a bit of extra cash, the office became the designated nuclear-fallout shelter for the street. Pat DACEY, once the firm's book designer, lugged suitcases of books up the street to sell at Britnell's bookstore with summer employee Bronwyn DRAINIE.
Working at Peter Martin Associates was always fun, Ms. WYATT said. "You went in to work happy and you stayed happy all day."
Still, in a time when Canadian works received little recognition, she remembers finding it difficult to get media interviews for the author of Martin-published book.
Yet another title caused trouble with its subject. The company was putting out a collection of previously published sayings of former prime minister John DIEFENBAKER, called I Never Say Anything Provocative, edited by Margaret WENTE. Mr. DIEFENBAKER heard about the project, called Mr. MARTIN and threatened to sue. Mr. MARTIN stood firm.
"He handled it with such élan," said writer Tim WYNNE- JONES, then in the art department. "He was suitably dutiful, but not in awe. Mr. DIEFENBAKER was just over the top, as was his wont."
The book went to press and Mr. DIEFENBAKER did not go to court.
Once listed along with Peter GZOWSKI in a Maclean's magazine article on "Young Men to Watch," Mr. MARTIN was born on April 26, 1934 in Ottawa to a dentist father and a mother who drove an ambulance in the First World War. The younger of two sons, he attended Trinity College School in Port Hope, Ontario and the University of Toronto, where he earned a degree in philosophy.
During a year in Ottawa as the president of the National Federation of University Students, Mr. MARTIN met his first wife Carol. They married in 1956 and moved to Toronto. Three years later, they founded the Readers' Club in Featuring one Canadian book a month, it distributed works by Mordecai RICHLER, Irving LAYTON, Morley CALLAGHAN and Brian MOORE among others, and supplied its members with coupons. While continuing to run the Readers' Club (sold in 1978 to Saturday Night Magazine and closed in 1981), the MARTINs started Peter Martin Associates.
Throughout his career, Mr. MARTIN spoke out for Canadian publishing. Alarmed by the sale of Ryerson Press and Gage Educational Press in 1970 to American firms, he called a meeting of publishers to discuss problems in the industry. Named the Independent Publishers Association, the group started in 1971 with 16 members and with Mr. MARTIN as its first president. In 1976, it was renamed the Association of Canadian Publishers and continues today with 140 members. As a result of the group's efforts, Canadian publishing began to receive federal and provincial funding.
In the late 1970s, the MARTINs went their separate ways. Afterward, Mr. MARTIN published a small newspaper, The Downtowner, and owned a cookbook store with his second wife, Maggie NIEMI. In 1983, they moved near Sudbury, Ontario, where Mr. MARTIN did freelance book and theatre reviews, then moved to Ottawa in 1985 to work as president for Balmuir Books, publisher of the magazine International Perspectives and consulting editor for the University of Ottawa Press.
After a spinal-cord injury in 1997, Mr. MARTIN was left a quadriplegic, except for limited use of his left arm. Even so, he remained active, maintained a heavy e-mail correspondence and spent time in the park reading while seated in a bright-yellow wheelchair.
Mr. MARTIN leaves his children Pamela, Christopher and Jeremy and his wife Maggie NIEMI. He died on March 15.
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Three Oregon State Police (OSP) troopers were honored Friday for rescuing a fishing party after their boat capsized in the Columbia River last spring.
OSP Superintendent Ronald Ruecker arrived at the Hood River County Courthouse on Sept. 28 to present a special award to OSP Sergeant Julie Wilcox and two OSP Fish and Wildlife officers, David Anderson and Craig Gunderson.
"The swift and professional action by these three officers substantially contributed to saving the lives of these three men," said Lieutenant Michael Davidson, station commander at the OSP headquarters in The Dalles
Wilcox, Anderson and Gunderson were given the Harold R. Berg Lifesaving Award, a top OSP honor. The award was established in memory of the lieutenant who was washed out to sea in 1975 while searching a cave at Cape Lookout State Park to find a lost boy scout. It is intended to recognize the contributions of OSP officers who have distinguished themselves by performing or reacting to a situation in a positive and professional manner which saves lives or prevents serious injury from occurring.
On the morning of March 6, a 9-1-1 emergency call was placed by Patricia Combs, a distraught fisherman's wife. She reported from the shoreline that her husband, Edward Combs, 44, and two friends, Anthony Catron, 18, and Billy Patton, 22, had just capsized their small boat in the choppy, icy waters of the Columbia about 10 miles west of Hood River.
Wilcox, who was on patrol in the area, overhead the radio dispatch and sped to the scene after calling for aid from Anderson and Gunderson, who had just been preparing to take off on a regular patrol of the river from the Hood River marina.
When Wilcox arrived at the location where Patricia Combs was waiting, she observed that the three men were not wearing life vests and were clinging to the overturned boat about 50 yards off shore. Since they had already been in the 41-degree water for about 20 minutes, Wilcox advised ambulance personnel, who were already enroute, that the trio would most likely be suffering from hypothermia.
In fact, Catron registered a core temperature reading of just 78 degrees when he was pulled from the water about 20 minutes later by Anderson and Gunderson. All three men recovered from the incident which reportedly occurred when they took off in the small craft, which was loaded with extra clothing and equipment, to fish for sturgeon. However, they were unable to navigate the heavy swells created by wind gusts of between 15-20 knots.
Wilcox is a 14-year veteran of the OSP currently assigned to The Dalles office. Anderson has been assigned to the Fish & Wildlife Division out of Hood River since joining the OSP four-and-one-half years ago. Gunderson had been an OSP trooper for two-and-a-half years and currently works out of The Dalles office.
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LONDON (AP) — Disgraced BBC entertainer Jimmy Savile was investigated in the 1980s over an allegation of indecent assault, police said Thursday as they announced that 300 potential victims had come forward so far with abuse accusations against the late TV host.
The twin announcements showed how a sex abuse scandal that is engulfing one of Britain's most venerable news organizations was showing no signs of abating.
Officers have interviewed 130 of the 300 potential victims so far and even more are expected to contact authorities, Commander Peter Spindler, leader of the Scotland Yard inquiry, said Thursday.
The well-known children's television and radio presenter is accused of using his fame to coerce vulnerable teens into having sex with him in his car, in his camper van, and even in dressing rooms on BBC premises.
The police commander acknowledged he had been stunned by the volume of abuse allegations reported to his team of 30 officers in the three weeks since details about Savile's activities first came to public attention.
"It is quite staggering, the number of women ... and this is primarily women, we have only got two men in the system so far," Spindler said.
Spindler said Savile, who died last October at age 84, was "undoubtedly" one of the worst sex offenders in recent British history.
Since the allegations aired on British television this month, London police have received three times the usual number of calls about allegations of past sexual abuse. The NSPCC, a leading British children's charity, said it had received 60 percent more calls about abuse cases.
"I have no doubt that we are in a watershed moment for child abuse investigations," Spindler said.
Previously feted for his charity work at hospitals and homes for children, Savile is alleged to have deliberately supported such causes to target troubled youths whose credibility would be questioned if they reported the alleged sexual abuse.
Spindler said although the majority of cases related to Savile alone, some involved the former television presenter and other unidentified suspects acting together. In addition, some potential victims who had reported abuse by Savile also told police about separate allegations against the unidentified men that did not involve the BBC entertainer.
He confirmed that police could seek to prosecute any suspects who are still living but said no one has been arrested or questioned so far.
Spindler also disclosed for the first time that a retired London police officer had contacted Scotland Yard to confirm that he investigated Savile in the 1980s after a young woman alleged he indecently assaulted her inside his trailer while it was parked on BBC premises. The ex-officer explained there hadn't been sufficient evidence to prosecute Savile at the time, Spindler said.
Police have also discovered that a woman contacted Scotland Yard in 2003 to allege Savile had touched her inappropriately in the 1970s but did not seek to press charges. Surrey Police also have acknowledged they questioned Savile in 2007 over an allegation tied to the Duncroft school but prosecutors declined to bring charges.
The Savile scandal has rocked the BBC and prompted disbelief that the presenter's crimes could have gone unnoticed or unreported by colleagues or managers.
Executives are facing sharp questions about what they knew and an internal inquiry is reviewing why a posthumous BBC investigation about Savile's sex crimes was shelved. The report was scrapped weeks before the broadcaster aired a series of tribute shows.
Mark Thompson, BBC director-general from 2004 until last month who is now the incoming CEO of the New York Times, is among those facing questions from U.K. lawmakers. Thompson has insisted that he never met Savile, was unaware of rumors about his behavior and had little knowledge of the cancelled expose.
In a letter to The New York Times staff Thursday, chairman and publisher Arthur Sulzberger said Thompson had thoroughly explained his handling of the issue.
"Mark has provided a detailed account of that matter, and I am satisfied that he played no role in the cancellation of the segment," Sulzberger wrote.
"Our opinion was then and remains now that he possesses high ethical standards and is the ideal person to lead our company," the letter said.
Savile was the original presenter of the music countdown program "Top of the Pops," which ran on BBC television from 1964 to 2006, featuring performances by everyone from The Rolling Stones to the Sex Pistols. For almost 20 years from 1975, Savile also made children's dreams come true on "Jim'll Fix It," a TV show.
Savile championed a host of good causes, frequently running marathons to raise money. He helped to collect millions for the creation of a national spinal injuries center at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in southern England and bequeathed money for a heart unit at Leeds infirmary named the Savile Institute.
He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to charity and entertainment and received a papal knighthood from the Vatican.
Prince Charles was among those who paid tribute when Savile died last year.
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History could have been different if Phil Jackson had said he was ready to coach the Lakers while meeting informally with two team executives on Saturday morning.
He might be the Lakers' coach right now, Lakers General Manager Mitch Kupchak said Tuesday.
"We would have gone back immediately and gone back and holed up with Dr. [Jerry] Buss and decided what we were going to do that day," Kupchak said.
Instead, Jackson asked Kupchak and team executive Jim Buss for two more days to think about a return after an 18-month layoff. The Lakers waited about 30 hours, didn't hear from him, and decided to hire Mike D'Antoni on Sunday night.
"There was no agreement to wait for [Jackson's] response on Monday," Kupchak said. "He told us that's when he would get back to us. I could see where he might interpret that as 'You guys would wait for me.' But I thought when I said I had to go on and interview other candidates that it was clear I had a job to do."


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I'm currently reading Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning by George Monbiot and on page 55 -I'm far from comforted.
Monbiot has published many books on politics, travel and environment. His work on environmental issues includes; Heat: how to stop the planet burning; The Age of Consent: a manifesto for a new world order and Captive State: the corporate takeover of Britain; he's also a blogger at the Guardian. In 1995 he was awarded the United Nations Global 500 Award for outstanding environmental achievement presented to him by Nelson Mandela.
Heat claims to hold the key strategies to finding the politically effective means of both cutting our energy use and reducing its carbon content. I've come across a powerful statement and a somewhat obscene suggestion in our global consumerism ridden society, which gave me the title for this post.
Monbiot rightfully claims: 'The market created by carbon rationing will automatically stimulate demand for low-carbon technologies, such as public transport and renewable energy."
This is nothing like the carbon market currently in place for industries, in fact it is for you and me and our friends, family and neighbors. The average person's consumption in a country has to do with their standard of living and almost very little, to nothing, to do with the GDP. I'm certain many will disagrees, but how come when we calculated our footprints in my Environmental Politics class at the American University in Cairo, did the average student get 8 tons per year?
Perhaps what we need to do now is put a strict limit on how much Carbon an individual can emit per year. We did cover this in our DEMENA course last March, but Monbiot suggests we calculate this tackling only electricity consumption and transportation. As in, these two factors can determine if someone is above their limit or not, and similar to the carbon market in place now, people can buy and sell their credits in a carbon brokerage.
Some people will afford to buy (endlessly?) and thus emit (endlessly!). Though, really, how many of these can we have at such a time in history when the economy is in the toilet and political instability isn't confined to one or two regions anymore. Unfortunately, for the same reasons perhaps, optimism is futile when lobbying for such measures at such times.
I'm eager and desperate to learn about the practical solutions that can be lobbied here in Egypt, as in England – Monbiot claims his solutions will work anywhere – and I hope he'll deliver them somewhere around page 60!


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1909-1911 T206 Cy Young - Portrait - SGC EX 60
Starting Bid - $500, Sold For - $1,410
Graded EX 60 by SGC. A very attractive T206 portrait of Cy Young set against a dark green background. This is one of Cy Young's most striking cards and one of the most popular cards in the entire T206 set. The colors are bright and Young's image is perfectly focused. The deep, rich green background gives this card particularly strong eye-appeal. The centering is virtually perfect and all four corners have light, even wear. There is a very thin factory print line above Young's head. The Piedmont reverse has bold blue print against an off-white background. A very attractive high-grade example of one of Cy Young's most striking cards from the premier tobacco-card set of the era. Reserve $500. Estimate $1,000+. SOLD FOR $1,410
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