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Mr Roy Lichtenstein seems like the odd man out in the story of how 20th-century US art conquered the world. He was not a charismatic, troubled painter, like Mr Jackson Pollock, or an intense, spiritual force of nature such as Mr Mark Rothko, both of whom burnt brightly before snuffing themselves out - Mr Pollock in a car crash after drink-driving in 1956, while Mr Rothko committed suicide in his kitchen in 1970. Neither was Mr Lichtenstein as wilfully insouciant or as instantly recognisable as the shock-headed Mr Andy Warhol, who was almost killed by a bullet in 1968 before succumbing to various ailments after two decades of fame in 1987.
Instead, Mr Lichtenstein became the bridge between two movements - 1950s abstract expressionism and 1960s pop art. Not only did he outlive many of his contemporaries, but he also managed to outlast them stylistically, maintaining his signature dot-matrix painting technique until the very end. "The dots can have a purely decorative meaning," said Mr Lichtenstein of his trademark, "or they can mean an industrial way of extending the colour, or data information, or that the image is a fake."
In London, a new Tate Modern retrospective dedicated to Mr Lichtenstein, the first since his peaceful death in 1997, aims to prove that he was not, however, a one-hit (or a one-dot) wonder. It comprises more than 125 works, ranging from his familiar comic-book frames to huge Chinese-style landscapes, versions of paintings by Mr Piet Mondrian and Mr Claude Monet and some salacious late nudes that were roundly dismissed at the time of their making. The only elements of his oeuvre that aren't represented in the show are the steel sculptures. The exhibition, which has already been seen in Chicago and Washington and will eventually travel to Paris, aims to position Mr Lichtenstein as "one of the great American artists of the 20th century".
Mr Lichtenstein in front of his painting "Whaam!" at Tate Gallery, London, January 1968
Although the vast range of Mr Lichtenstein's production and subject matter goes some way to answering the question as to why we can't simply pin him down as the guy who painted cartoon characters in dots, it doesn't explain why we might still struggle to pick him out of a line-up of great US artists or relate to him as readily as we can his better-known colleagues. The reason is that unlike his headline-grabbing contemporaries, Mr Lichtenstein's rather tame biography can't begin to rival his output as a painter.
Born in 1923 to a Jewish family on the Upper West Side of New York, Mr Lichtenstein grew up intensely serious about art. He devoted himself to his studies and, after being drafted into the US army, returned from war in Europe to teach and practise as an artist. By the mid-1950s he had set up a studio and a family home in Ohio with his two sons and wife, but when the family moved to New Jersey it was his art, rather than his life, that took a dramatic turn.
Mr Lichtenstein's experimentation with images found in his children's books, images of Popeye, Bugs Bunny, Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse (the latter two appearing in what is regarded as his first comic-strip picture, "Look Mickey", in 1961), was, perhaps unsurprisingly, met with critical scorn. While Mr Pollock was featured in a Life magazine spread of 1949 headlined, "Is He the Greatest Living Painter in the United States?", Mr Lichtenstein was profiled by the same publication in 1964 with the headline, "Is He the Worst Artist in the US?"
However, his seemingly rash decision to ditch the gestural spill-and-splatter style of the New York School, in favour of almost mechanically precise renderings of illustrations from magazines, would soon be vindicated. Mr Lichtenstein's lowbrow reference matter, culled from throwaway sources such as newspaper advertisements or pulp-fiction picture books, chimed with the optimism of the new consumerist era and the new pop culture of television. His work, frequently onomatopoeically titled (including "Varoom!", "Whaam!" and "Bratatat"), was every bit as exciting and new as the Action Painting (AKA abstract expressionism) that he'd just metaphorically gunned down.
From left: Messrs Robert Rauschenberg, Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol at a party at Mr Rauschenberg's studio, New York City, 1965. © Bob Adelman/Magnum Photos
Mr Lichtenstein soon found a gallery, commercial success and a like-minded group of pop artists to share the limelight with. And yet, after all the accolades, auction records (his highest hammer price, for "Sleeping Girl" of 1964, came in 2012 at just below $45m) and a career that spanned nearly half a century, he's still something of the invisible man of post-war US art. This situation is neatly captured in his 1978 "Self-Portrait", in which Mr Lichtenstein depicts a white T-shirt, with only a blank mirror where his face should be.
But if the artist remains elusive, his work neatly reflects our own desires, whether that is to be the military hero, shooting up enemy planes (in famous panels such as "As I Opened Fire" of 1964) or the object of someone else's romantic affection (as in "Oh, Jeff... I Love You, Too... But" also of 1964). Mr Lichtenstein is hidden behind these characters and remains hard to spot amid his all-over, stencilled dot pattern - the slick surfaces barely register any sign of authorial interference. "I want my painting to look as if it has been programmed," he said in 1967. "I want to hide the record of my hand."
But rather than denigrating himself or his profession, this light touch shows Mr Lichtenstein's humour and humility. As a student, Mr Lichtenstein had aped and copied the works of Mr Pablo Picasso, who he acknowledged as his lifelong artistic hero, not out of spite, but out of begrudging respect: "The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire and I really don't know what the implication of that is," he said. And, when his own reputation rose and his stock soared, Mr Lichtenstein preferred to half-jokingly paint himself out of the picture, rather than present himself as the all-conquering artistic hero.
That Mr Lichtenstein is not as famous as Mr Warhol, who similarly borrowed from comics and adverts, and hired assistants to paint his pictures for him at much the same time, is not because he was merely a slavish copyist or a graphic arranger - traits that many artists today have latched on to. Rather, it was his decision to put the work in the foreground and let his artistic ego remain the background that ensures his pictures, and not his personality, stand out from the crowd.
Lichtenstein - A Retrospective runs from 21 February to 27 May at Tate Modern, London. tate.org.uk


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GALESBURG — A judge set bond at $250,000 Monday for a volunteer Williamsfield firefighter charged with arson.
Blake T. Walsh, 24, is charged in Knox County with five counts of arson and criminal damage to property. He is accused of a series of garbage container and brush fires throughout the region dating back to November. The arson charges are Class 2 felonies, which means Walsh could face up to seven years in prison if convicted.
Walsh was arrested April 16 for allegedly starting a fire in a large garbage container behind The Shoe Department on Volunteer Drive.
Officers responded to calls of smoke coming from the container behind the store, the third in a series of reports over the past few weeks. Witnesses reported seeing Walsh near the container when the fire is said to have broken out, although some reports indicate Walsh was trying to put it out.
As the result of investigations between the Knox County Sheriff's Office and Galesburg and Williamsfield fire departments, Walsh was accused of setting fire to more than 20 hay bales in a series of incidents between November 2013 and April this year.
Assistant State's Attorney Sabrina Stroops told Judge Stephen Mathers on Monday that Walsh, who remains in jail, admitted starting the fires.
Bond set for Williamsfield firefighter in arson case
GALESBURG — A judge set bond at $250,000 Monday for a volunteer Williamsfield firefighter charged with arson.


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In the spring, our communities faced historic flooding in several central Illinois counties. Then came Nov. 17 when an EF-4 tornado destroyed block after block in the city of Washington, damaged several other communities and took two lives.
The year 2013 will be remembered as the year of disasters.
In the spring, our communities faced historic flooding in several central Illinois counties. Then came Nov. 17 when an EF-4 tornado destroyed block after block in the city of Washington, damaged several other communities and took two lives.
In perspective, those two experiences make the rest of the year's events seem minor. But it was a busy year.
Residents were frightened by brazen home invasions; the Riverfront Museum made it through the first year — with a few bruises along the way; two of the city's hospitals merged; Caterpillar Inc. made some painful adjustments; Peoria School District 150 debated selling Peoria Stadium; and we sadly saw the loss of some key leaders.
Here is our list of top 10 stories for 2013 as selected by Journal Star newsroom.
1. Tornado
On Nov. 17, a pair of twisters tore through Pekin, East Peoria, Washington and rural Roanoke leaving behind massive destruction and the loss of two lives in Washington.
What began as an unusually warm day with temperatures in the 60s, turned deadly when the warm humid air collided with a cold front causing thunderstorms that spawned tornadoes.
Fortunately for central Illinois, meteorologists foresaw the storms and issued warnings, tornado sirens wailed and television and radio stations issued reports alerting residents to find safe shelter — all of which greatly limited the loss of life.
However, those warnings could not stop the destruction. The EF-4 tornado did the greatest damage in Washington where entire neighborhoods were demolished. The community has more than 1,000 homes destroyed. Residents in East Peoria, Pekin and Roanoke also had damaged and destroyed homes. Damage estimates for the tornado is expected to be in the millions.
In the following weeks central Illinois witnessed an onslaught of kindness and compassion, not just locally, but from all over. Help has come by way of donations, food, clothing, Christmas toys and volunteers streaming to the community to help with the destruction. The fund-raisers and donations continue as the nation helps rebuild our communities.
2. Flood
A wetter than normal winter, record snowfall in late March and sizable rainstorms in April were more than the Illinois River, streams and creeks could contain, causing historic flooding throughout central Illinois.
The Illinois River crested at 29.35 feet on April 23, an all-time record. To protect the Downtown, the city coordinated the building of a 4-foot-high, 1,200-foot-long barrier in the middle of Water Street. The wall held and the buildings behind it were spared.
Some homeowners in Roanoke, London Mills, Edwards, Rome, Mossville, Chillicothe, Spring Bay and other communities had to evacuate their water-filled homes. A mud slide in East Peoria took out the backyards of three homes, making them uninhabitable.
In Peoria, Tazewell, Woodford, Marshall and Fulton counties, government bodies applied for an estimated $14.5 million in federal assistance for expenses to fight the floodwaters.
3. Home invasions
They snuck into homes in the middle of the night through unlocked doors, tied up sleeping residents at gunpoint and spent hours ransacking the houses, loading up valuables into cars that were then stolen and abandoned.
At least five times from July through November, a group of brazen robbers struck, mostly in affluent areas in Northwest Peoria, spreading fear of the next attack.
Peoria police established a task force to investigate the crimes. Residents reported signs of break-ins and suspicious vehicles in their neighborhoods. Home invasion attempts — real or imagined — drew the immediate attention of authorities.
But it was a Peoria patrolman's investigation of a domestic situation and a tip called in to CrimeStoppers that resulted in arrests that have curtailed the midnight robberies.
Perry Rosetto, 43, was the first suspect taken into custody a few days before Thanksgiving. Four other suspects were arrested the next day, though only two have been charged in connection with the case: Blair Johnson, 20, and Stefan Crayton, 19.
Rosetto, Johnson and Crayton have been charged with only one of the five home invasions.
4. Caterpillar sales dip in 2013
The year 2013 was a tough one for Caterpillar Inc. Sales slipped for 11 consecutive months through November. In the first nine months of 2013, Caterpillar's revenues dropped by 17 percent from the previous year to $41.2 billion.
The demand for mining equipment dipped at a time when Caterpillar had invested heavily in the mining sector.
It was a year that saw Caterpillar deal with rising inventories of unsold equipment, weak economic conditions and a slowdown of the Chinese economy, noteworthy because Caterpillar maintains 23 manufacturing facilities in that country.
Central Illinois Caterpillar production plants underwent rolling layoffs at the beginning of the year. In October, Caterpillar sent out additional layoff notifications to an undisclosed number of employees in the Peoria area.
The company's plants in Decatur and South Milwaukee also saw reductions in 2013.
5. Loss of leaders
Early in 2013, Peoria lost one of its best known mayors and city supporters with the death of Jim Maloof. Then last summer saw the death of Pete Vonachen, businessman and community supporter, and long-time city councilman Gary Sandberg.
Maloof's crowning achievement was his founding and support of the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Midwest Affiliate. He also found time to run businesses, serve as Peoria mayor for 12 years, serve on a number of business, civic and social groups and lead the Journal Star Christmas sing for four decades.
Restaurateur, veteran, hotelier, baseball team owner, businessman and avid supporter of Peoria, Vonachen left a gigantic imprint on central Illinois. Along with his business ventures including Vonachen's Old Place, he is known for bringing minor-league baseball to Peoria with the Peoria Chiefs. Through the years, Vonachen served the city by volunteering on countless boards and organizations.
Serving 24 years on the Peoria City Council, Sandberg was the senior member of the group and often the lone dissenter on council votes. He was known for his eccentricities including bringing a macaw to a council meeting, but also adamantly representing the people of the city with his basic services' agenda on the council.
6. Don't Shoot
The second year of an anti-gun violence initiative patterned after a program adopted by other cities around the country met mixed results — periods of relative calm were punctuated by stretches of explosive street violence.
Twice in 2013 — in April and September — three people were killed in a matter of days in connected incidents. When law enforcement leaders convened to mark the one-year anniversary of Don't Shoot Peoria at the end of September, at least one person had been shot every day in the week leading up to the event.
Those leaders promised changes at the time: more "call-ins" — the meetings with alleged gang members at the center of the program — and more opportunities for members of the community to get involved.
One such call-in was held in October, after a second round of federal conspiracy indictments of alleged members of the Zone 4 street gang. The community outreach effort, Peoria Community Against Violence (PCAV), however, has yet to emerge.
7. Trial moved to Peoria
The pictures were horrible and the testimony even more graphic as the Peoria County Courthouse was the scene of a monthlong trial in May into the deaths of five rural Logan County residents and the near slaying of a 3-year-old girl.
A Peoria County jury listened to evidence for a month but took only five hours to find Christopher Harris guilty of beating Rick and Ruth Gee to death with a tire iron, along with three of their children: Justina Constant, 16; Dillen Constant, 14; and Austin Gee, 11. Tabitha Gee, then 3, survived multiple blows to her head.
Harris, 34, was related to the Gees by marriage and told jurors that Dillen Constant, not him, brutally murdered the family. However, the gruesome testimony which showed the Gees' Beason home covered with blood and bodies lying where they fell, was too overwhelming.
The trial was moved from Logan County due to pretrial publicity and was the first in the courthouse' history to allow live blogging from inside a courtroom.
Harris was later sentenced to multiple life terms for the slaying. He continued to maintain his innocence.
8. Hospital merger
In a surprise twist, financially beleaguered Proctor Hospital affiliated with UnityPoint Health-Methodist in November, just months after negotiations broke down to sell major assets, such as physicians' practices and Proctor First Care Centers, to OSF Healthcare System.
Peoria's smallest hospital, founded in 1882, got a new name — UnityPoint Health-Proctor — and a new CEO. Officials described the arrangement as one hospital with two campuses and one management team, led by Methodist CEO Debbie Simon. The merger between Proctor and Methodist, Peoria's second largest hospital, increased the clout of Iowa-based UnityPoint Health in a market dominated by OSF Healthcare System.
Independent, stand-alone hospitals are becoming rare as hospitals strive to meet the demands of a changing health care market. Methodist joined the UnityPoint Health system in 2011, and OSF Healthcare has steadily added area hospitals to its system.
Peoria's two UnityPoint-Health facilities have about 4,000 employees and serve more than 100,000 patients through their physicians' practices. The affiliation also brought Proctor's Illinois Institute for Addiction Recovery and Hult Center for Healthy Living into the UnityPoint Health system.
9. Peoria Stadium
For an update on the fate of Peoria Stadium, check again in March.
That's when a sales-tax increase for school facilities is to be on Peoria County election ballots. Peoria School District 150 officials suggested there won't be a decision about the fate of the 82-acre stadium site until referendum results are known.
The tax could provide money to renovate Peoria Stadium, which has fallen into disrepair.
In spring 2013, a proposal surfaced to sell the District 150 property along War Memorial Drive to Walmart Stores Inc. Proceeds from a sale could have been used to develop outdoor athletics facilities at Manual Academy and Peoria High School, the stadium's primary tenants.
Public outcry regarding a sale was swift and sure in opposition.
"That has been a green space for as long as any of us can remember," 3rd District City Councilman Tim Riggenbach said. "Are we going to be the ones who give that up?"
10. Riverfront Museum
The Riverfront Museum's first year saw some growing pains such as lower-than-expected attendance, less revenue and the ousting of its CEO. Officials overseeing the facility remain upbeat about the museum's long-term prospects and made some changes to the facility's operations including a new leader. Sam Gappmayer, former president of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, was appointed museum CEO in December replacing Jim Richerson. Other changes include adding beer and wine sales for evening shows at the Giant Screen Theater, offering combined ticket options with the museum and theater and better utilization of the facility's outdoor space.
— Matt Buedel, Nick Vlahos, Pam Adams, Andy Kravetz, Steve Tarter and Sally McKee contributed to this report.


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Chinese women, lured to Natick with a promise of a good job at a day spa, were instead held against their will to serve in the sex trade and even forced to pay to live as virtual prisoners.
The women were forced to live at the Oasis Spa at 10 Cochituate St.,�ordered to perform sexual acts on men and were charged to sleep on massage tables in what became their unwanted�homes, prosecutor Emily Walsh�alleged�in Framingham District Court on Tuesday.
Natick Police arrested two women, Shixin Zhang, 45, of Fresh Meadows, N.Y., and Li Zhou, 39, who lives at the spa, on Monday at�5:12 p.m. after an investigation, Walsh said.
Natick Police recently received a complaint from a former spa employee. She told police she had answered an advertisement in a Chinese language newspaper to work at the Oasis Spa. She was promised a job where she would be doing facials and nails, Walsh said.
However, when she arrived at the spa, she quickly learned that wasn�t true.
"She was told she was not allowed to leave," said Walsh. "She was only given bread and potatoes to eat."
Instead of doing normal spa work, the woman was ordered to perform massages and perform "happy endings," where she masturbated men who came into the massage parlor. The women were paid $20 per man, while the rest of the money went to the massage parlor, the prosecutor said.
The women "were then charged $10 a night to sleep on the massage tables," Walsh said.
On Monday, an undercover Natick Police officer went into the massage parlor. After being offered to have a sexual act performed on him by Zhou, which was witnessed by Zhang, both women were arrested.
Zhang, whose name is listed as the licensee in charge of the massage parlor, is charged with deriving support from sexual servitude. Zhou is only charged with sexual conduct for a fee.
Both women were scheduled to be arraigned in Framingham District Court on Tuesday, but no Mandarin language interpreter was�available. Walsh said she planned�to ask�for $100,000 bail for Zhang.
"There were people being forced to live there against their will," said Walsh. "This is a very serious case."
Zhou�s lawyer, Michael Perpall, argued against having an arraignment because Zhou did not speak English. He said he could not speak to her and she could not understand anything that was going on.
Judge Martine Carroll released Zhou without bail but ordered Zhang held without bail until today to be arraigned with the assistance of an interpreter.
Norman Miller can be reached at 508-626-3823 or email@example.com. For up-to-date crime news, follow Norman Miller on Twitter @Norman_MillerMW.
Police allege human trafficking at Natick spa
Chinese women, lured to Natick with a promise of a good job at a day spa, were instead held against their will to serve in the sex trade and even forced to pay to live as virtual prisoners.


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I talked to "Fringe" costar Mark Valley for a future piece I'm writing about the upcoming Fox series "Human Target" (which, I have to say, is going to be great, judging by my advance copy of pilot, shown in photo above) and the subject turned to Captain America. As you might recall, Valley was the No. 1 choice to play the star-spangled hero in an Internet poll of fans.
GB: Apparently you are the man that fanboys want to see carrying the famous red, white and blue shield of Captain America.
MV: Yeah, I know! Somebody showed me that. I was kind of blown away. The power of the Internet, you know? And there might be another reason: I've just been walking around in Captain America suits every once in a while on weekends. I didn't really think it would really go anywhere you know. That's just a personal hobby of mine.
GB: So you're taking a Sean Young approach to landing the role, the way she tried out for the Catwoman job in "Batman Returns."
MV: Oh she did, yeah. She made it herself or something. It didn't work out. Yeah, I made my Captain America costume at home too. I don't know if people recognize me as Captain America, though. It's kind of this weird Uncle Sam thing now, some guy wrapped in the American flag.
GB: After watching Robert Downey Jr., Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale take superhero roles to such success, it must be somewhat tempting to think of playing one of the truly iconic characters, especially since he hasn't been seen on the screen in a major Hollywood production … or is it a sector that holds no interest for you?
MV: Seriously, yeah, the whole thing — that's pretty flattering that my name comes up at all. That's kind of amazing with the names that pop up like that. I think sometimes 'Oh my gosh, wow that'd be fun.' But I don't think it's really a movie yet. I think it's just an idea for a movie.
GB: Well, actually, they have a director in place, it's Joe Johnston, who did "Jurassic Park III" and "Jumanji" and "The Rocketeer." I believe it's scheduled for 2011. I mean, you might want to have your agent call if you're serious…
MV: Oh, OK. We'll see, maybe I'll be too busy with "Human Target." But you never know how these things go…
— Geoff Boucher
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"Human Target" image: Fox. Captain America images: Marvel Comics.


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1. The factors a trial court should consider are applied in deciding whether dissatisfaction of an indigent defendant with court-appointed counsel warrants discharge of that counsel.
2. Under the facts of this case, the trial court did not err in refusing to discharge trial counsel and appoint substitute counsel.
3. Under the facts of this case, there was substantial competent evidence to support the jury's verdict finding the defendant guilty of robbery by the taking of property from the person of the victim.
Appeal from Sedgwick District Court; DAVID W. KENNEDY, judge. Opinion filed April 14, 2000. Affirmed.
Mary Curtis, assistant appellate defender, and Jessica R. Kunen, chief appellate defender, for appellant.
Lesley A. McFadden, assistant district attorney, Nola Foulston, district attorney, and Carla J. Stovall, attorney general, for appellee.
Before KNUDSON, P.J., GREEN, J., and BUCHELE, S.J.
KNUDSON, J.: Jarvis T. Collins appeals his jury trial convictions for rape and robbery after being sentenced to 342 months of imprisonment. On appeal, Collins contends the trial court erred in denying his pretrial motion for substitute counsel and that the robbery conviction is not supported by substantial competent evidence.
We affirm.
The sordid details of the events leading up to Collins' convictions need not be reiterated. The victim is a 58-year-old widow, B.F., who was raped and robbed in her apartment by Collins.
Collins' first contention is that the trial court erred in not appointing substitute counsel when Collins filed a pro se motion 7 days prior to trial. In his motion, Collins complained his attorney did not respond to Collins' attempts to contact him, had a lack of interest in his case, and waived a preliminary hearing in a different case. Collins alleged he would feel threatened and intimidated if the court allowed current counsel to continue assisting in his case.
"'As a general rule, whether the dissatisfaction of an indigent accused with court-appointed counsel warrants discharge of that counsel and appointment of new counsel is for the trial court, in its discretion, to decide.'" State v. Collier, 259 Kan. 346, 358, 913 P.2d 597 (1996) (quoting State v. Ferguson, 254 Kan. 62, Syl. ¶ 1, 864 P.2d 693 [1993]). "'"As long as the trial court has a reasonable basis for believing the attorney-client relation has not deteriorated to a point where appointed counsel can no longer give effective aid in the fair presentation of a defense, the court is justified in refusing to appoint new counsel [citation omitted]."'" Collier, 259 Kan. at 358 (quoting Ferguson, 254 Kan. at 70).
On February 5, 1999, a hearing was held. At the hearing, Collins reiterated the same issues set out in his motion and added that in October he had been sentenced to 13 months in the penitentiary. Collins was represented by the same counsel as in the present case in that proceeding. Collins stated he believed that if his attorney had handled things "accordingly and properly," he would not be spending time in the penitentiary. In closing, Collins stated he has "much more interest in this case," because it could cost him the rest of his life in prison. The judge found the reasons stated by Collins were legally insufficient and denied the motion.
In U.S. v. Gallop, 838 F.2d 105, 108 (4th Cir.), cert. denied 487 U.S. 1211 (1988), three factors were set out to be used when determining whether there was an abuse of discretion in denying a motion to discharge a court-appointed attorney. These factors are: (1) timeliness of the motion; (2) adequacy of the trial court's inquiry into the defendant's complaint; and (3) whether the conflict was so great that it resulted in total lack of communication and prevented an adequate defense. State v. Saeger, 13 Kan. App. 2d 723, 724, 779 P.2d 37 (1989).
First, we consider whether Collins' motion filed 7 days before the trial date was timely. Apparently, the trial court believed the motion to be timely as its decision was on the merits with no reference to this question. We will not substitute our judgment for that of the trial court.
A proper inquiry was made into Collins' dissatisfaction. Collins was given an opportunity to explain why he felt it necessary to have substitute counsel. Inquiry does not necessarily mean that the judge must engage in a question and answer period.
Finally, the conflict was not so great that it resulted in a total lack of communication and prevented an adequate defense. Collins' main complaint is that in an earlier case, he was sentenced to 13 months in the penitentiary. He offers no specific examples of why he believes his attorney did not handle the prior case correctly or how that case impacts the present case. Collins also claims he was intimidated, but again, he does not offer support for this assertion. "'An indigent criminal defendant may not demand a different appointed lawyer except for good cause.'" State v. Cuddy, 22 Kan. App. 2d 605, 607, 921 P.2d 219 (1996) (quoting State v. Banks, 216 Kan. 390, Syl. ¶ 1, 532 P.2d 1058 [1975]).
Accordingly, after applying the Gallop factors and noting a total absence of specificity that would suggest prejudice to Collins' fundamental rights at trial, we conclude the trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying Collins' motion for substitute counsel. However, we acknowledge this is a close question primarily because of the trial court's failure to make a detailed inquiry into the defendant's complaints and grievances. Although we have concluded the trial court's inquiry was adequate, we would urge the trial bench to go beyond mere adequacy when considering a defendant's dissatisfaction with or distrust of his or her attorney. For example, the better practice would be for the trial court to always identify and specifically address the Gallop factors. We believe a more searching inquiry would greatly assist a reviewing court and would also go a long way toward persuading a reasonable pro se defendant that his or her legitimate concerns are not being given short shrift by the trial court.
Next, Collins argues there was insufficient evidence to support a conviction for robbery.
The standard of review is whether, after review of all the evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to the prosecution, this court is convinced that a rational factfinder could have found the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. State v. Johnson, 266 Kan. 322, 326, 970 P.2d 990 (1998).
To establish that the crime of robbery occurred, the State must prove Collins took property from the person or presence of B.F. by force or threat of bodily harm. See K.S.A. 21-3426. The jury heard testimony from B.F. that Collins had choked her almost into unconsciousness when he was seeking possession of her checks and credit cards. The jury heard B.F. testify she had her PIN number written down on a piece of paper which she surrendered to Collins. Collins needed the PIN number in order to use B.F.'s credit cards. Clearly, there was evidence presented that Collins took B.F.'s PIN number from her person by force or threat of bodily harm.
The jury's function is to weigh the evidence and determine credibility, and its decision will not be disturbed on review if supported by substantial competent evidence. See State v. Borthwick, 255 Kan. 899, 904-05, 880 P.2d 1261 (1994). The jury received instructions on both robbery and theft. The jury determined the correct conviction was robbery. This determination was supported by substantial competent evidence.


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Award-winning journalist and author John Carlin speaks on the principle set out by the 18th-century British writer Samuel Johnson: "the purpose is to instruct by pleasing." Shunning dullness as a cardinal sin, his presentations blend a wealth of rich, emotive anecdotes with a deep seriousness of purpose. He offers enduring lessons on the art of leadership and the resolution of conflict while provoking from his audiences smiles, laughter and, not infrequently, tears.
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Taking a break from your everyday life is important for your physical and mental wellbeing.
As employees all over the world are working longer hours and accumulating more and more unused holiday leave this adversely affects the physical and mental health of those employees who do not take a holiday and choose to keep working instead.
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Every now and then on the Agora weather thread I want to say things like "today its hot but I'm cold" etc.
I know in German it would be "I have hot" and in Serbo Croat it would be "It's hot to me"(ie dative).
None of my reading so far has been of Greeks chatting about the weather so I have not
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Unemployment is high, and the jobs that don't require a high school diploma or a GED are few and far between.
Unemployment is high, and the jobs that don't require a high school diploma or a GED are few and far between.
So when GED Testing Service unveiled its more rigorous and expensive test coming in January 2014, the unemployed individual's ability to obtain the GED just became a touch more difficult. Not only is the coming test more difficult and expensive, but anyone on the current track who doesn't complete it by the end of the year will have to start all over.
"Each time they have redone the GED test, any student with a partial score, not completed by the start of the new test, is required to start over. Scores are not transferable and in this situation, the content areas do not align," said Sandra Thompson, director of college and career readiness at Davidson County Community College.
The new test will feature four content areas instead of five. The current five areas of the GED test are reading, writing, social studies, science and mathematics. The current test was put into place in 2002.
Under the coming 2014 test, the content areas have been changed to merge the writing and reading section into a literacy portion. The other three sections of the test fall under similar categories, social studies, science and mathematics, although the test will become more difficult overall.
"The content of the new test will be more rigorous, and it will be a computer-based test instead of pencil and paper," Thompson said.
The community college is already merging technology skills into their programs, preparing students for this pending change.
The GED Testing Service website reads that the new test will be seen as a start for further education, training and better-paying jobs instead of an end point.
"The new (GED) test is based on Common Core standards, and it will be able to help identify if students are college ready," Thompson said.
A spokesman for the Lexington office of the North Carolina Department of Commerce, Division of Employment Security said they always recommend obtaining a GED if the client does not have a high school diploma. In addition, they also point individuals toward the community college because it is an accredited test, and there are unaccredited GED tests available.
Not only will the requirements become more demanding, but the new test will also place a heavier financial burden on households.
"Currently the test is a one-time fee of $35 for all five sections," Thompson said. "If you are not successful on any part of the test, you don't have to pay an additional fee. The $35 includes retests. When the new test is rolled out, the cost will be approximately $120, and each time you have to retake a portion, there will be an additional fee. Obviously I think the new fees are going to be a factor in students being able to take the new test."
But there is a bit of silver lining to this cloud. Even though every student's situation is different, a GED test can be finished before the change takes effect.
"The GED test is possible to complete by the end of the year," Thompson said. "It all depends on the student's level. Some students come in and just need a review while others need more intensive work."
Thompson requested anyone with a partial GED score who wants to complete their certification by the end of the year contact Teresa Lowe at 224-4571. The community college takes new students every Monday as the enrollment for the GED classes are on an ongoing basis.
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NEMA Responds to Energy and Water Appropriations bill.
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NEMA Vice President of Government Relations Kyle Pitsor responded to passage of H.R. 5325, fiscal year 2013 Energy and Water Appropriations bill, by House of Representatives. After noting how the House has made investments in programs critical to electroindustry, Pitsor expressed disappointment concerning adoption of Burgess (R-TX) Amendment, reduction in ARPA-E, and failure to place sufficient value on benefits on energy efficiency.
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NEMA Responds to House Passage of Energy and Water Appropriations Bill
ROSSLYN, Va.-The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) responded today to the House of Representatives' passage of H.R. 5325, the fiscal year 2013 Energy and Water Appropriations bill.
"In a difficult budget environment, the House has made investments in a number of programs that are critical to innovation, competitiveness, and jobs in the electroindustry," said NEMA Vice President of Government Relations Kyle Pitsor. "At the same time, NEMA is particularly disappointed with the House's adoption of the Burgess Amendment, the reduction in ARPA-E, and the failure to place sufficient value on the benefits on energy efficiency."
The Burgess (R-TX) Amendment prohibits funding for enforcement of national energy efficiency standards for certain light bulbs. These standards, supported by U.S. lighting manufacturers in the bipartisan Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, save consumers money while preserving customer choice in lighting technologies.
The inability of the Department of Energy to enforce the standards would allow those who do not respect the rule of law to sell inefficient light bulbs in the U.S. without fear of enforcement, which threatens U.S. jobs and creates a competitive disadvantage for compliant manufacturers.
Separately, NEMA supports the Gardner (R-CO)-Welch (D-VT) Amendment as a way to help save energy and taxpayer dollars. It requires that funds shall be made available for agencies to comply with a previous congressional directive to perform energy audits on federal facilities.
Opportunities for energy savings can then be realized through energy savings performance contracts (ESPCs) at no cost to the taxpayer. The House's investments in some programs reflect the advice of NEMA.
· $83 million is provided for existing research and development programs in the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability as requested by the Administration. These investments drive new technologies in such areas as Smart Grid, energy storage, and electric transmission in partnership with electrical manufacturers.
· EERE's Solid State Lighting Program would receive $26 million under the bill for its research, development and commercialization of next-generation U.S.-made lighting, including $12 million for research into reduction of manufacturing costs, a key challenge in retaining and building U.S. manufacturing capacity and competitiveness in this 21st century industry.
· NEMA is pleased that DOE would continue to have adequate funding to encourage communities to invest in electric vehicle infrastructure; enhance collaboration among governments, businesses, and utilities; remove regulatory barriers to EV adoption; and develop a set of best practices for other communities to use. $26.5 million is provided to the Vehicle Technologies Program's Outreach, Deployment, and Analysis activities. In other accounts, the amounts proposed fall short of the NEMA-recommended levels.
· Despite broad bipartisan support for the work being done at the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to develop promising future energy technologies, the House reduces its funding from last year by 27% to $200 million. These high-risk, highreward research projects are essential to making major technological advancements in the energy sector and to increasing American competitiveness.
· NEMA recommended $31 million for Technical Assistance activities at EERE's Advanced Manufacturing Office (formerly the Industrial Technologies Program) to speed deployment of energy- and cost-saving industrial technologies through its various industry-collaborating programs, but the House provides $15 million.
"We look forward to working with the House and Senate to achieve funding levels essential to the electroindustry's priorities as well as to remove the misguided Burgess Amendment," said Pitsor. NEMA is the association of electrical equipment and medical imaging manufacturers, founded in 1926 and headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. Its member companies manufacture a diverse set of products including power transmission and distribution equipment, lighting systems, factory automation and control systems, and medical diagnostic imaging systems. Worldwide annual sales of NEMA-scope products exceed $120 billion.
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Summerfest will allow carry-in water Wednesday
Summerfest will allow carry-in water Wednesday
Summerfest is offering patrons some relief from the heat on Wednesday.
Because of the heat advisory, festivalgoers will be allowed to carry in unopened clear bottles of water, empty camel backs or empty collapsible, refillable water bottles.
Additional services have also been put in place, including:
- Misting stations will be located on the north, mid and south end of the grounds.
- Increased staff on site to handle medical emergencies.
- Air-conditioned buses will be located on the north, nid and south end of the grounds for patrons in need of medical services.
- Air-conditioned exhibitor areas are also available including Playstation Experience on the North end of the grounds and Dental Health Spa by Sensodyne & ProNamel at the Mid Gate grass.
Summerfest asks patrons to remember to dress appropriately and wear light colored clothing, to hydrate before attending the festival and while they are on the Summerfest grounds.


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5 major NSA spying task force recommendations
Five major recommendations from the 46 proposals by the Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technology to change National Security Agency surveillance programs and other intelligence and counterterrorism operations:
— The White House and Congress should pass new legislation that would end the NSA's massive, daily collection and storage of telephone data from American users and instead keep the phone data either with the major telephone companies or with a "private third party." The NSA could only seek the data by federal court order.
— Surveillance of foreign leaders would be subject to high-level scrutiny by the president and senior national security officials before any approval is given.
— National Security letters, which previously allowed authorities to seize financial and phone records without court approval, would now be issued only with prior "judicial finding."
— Creation of a public interest advocate who would represent civil liberties interests before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court, which oversees NSA programs in secret sessions.
— Stop the NSA's weakening of secure encryption standards used by tech companies and businesses globally to store their confidential data.


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AN important part of the district's history has finally received the recognition it deserves with the Towrang Stockade site officially added to the State Heritage Register on Tuesday.
Member of the Towrang Reserve Trust, Mick Studdert, told the Post it was a good thing that the area had been recognised at such a level.
"Things like this are worth preserving, and I think it will mean that we will receive more funding to carry out improvements to the stockade. Our brief at the Towrang Reserve Trust is to conserve and maintain the area."
In declaring the site worthy of the register, the NSW Department of Environment and Heritage said the stockade, associated sites and road formations had "outstanding significance as a rare, partially intact convict stockade and road side site unaffected by significant development."
"It reflects the culmination of Governor Darling's systematic identification of roadwork as a form of secondary punishment," the statement said.
The stockade, which was constructed in the early 1830s, is located around the Derrick Rest Area and on farmland between Towrang and Carrick Roads beside the Hume Highway.
The site includes a powder magazine, a small cemetery containing the graves of Elizabeth Whiticker who died at the age of 33 in 1841, Private John Moxxey of the 80th Regiment, who died in 1838 at the age of 38 after having served in the British Army for 22 years, and Mary Brown, who died at the age of just four. Across the other side of the highway in the rest area is the Towrang Bridge, built as part of Surveyor Thomas Mitchell's Great South Road in 1839, and six stone culverts, two of which are still in very good condition.
The stockade was believed to have held about 100 convicts in 10 four metre by three metre cells, known as 'elephant boxes,' according to John Jervis from National Parks and Wildlife in Canberra, who has recently conducted tours around Goulburn and the Towrang area.
Goulburn MP Pru Goward welcomed the announcement, and said locals should highlight the importance of preserving historical sites such as these for future generations.
"The Towrang Stockade is very much part of the history and development of southern NSW," she said.
"Knowing that the site has been added to the State Heritage Register will help ensure that it will be available to future generations who wish to visit a small part of our region's history."
Inclusion on the register means that any future development or management of the site will be supported with the best advice from the Heritage Council of NSW.
Mr Jervis also welcomed the announcement. He will be conducting a history tour of the Towrang area which will include the stockade itself, the restored woolshed, a farm-stay that handles rare breeds, plus much more to coincide with the 150th birthday of Goulburn on March 14.
The tour costs $40, and includes travel to and from Towrang Hall and morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea. For more details on the tour call Jean Morrison on 4829 8273.


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UH Hilo renews Semester at Sea scholarship agreementUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Hilo
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The University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo and the Institute for Shipboard Education (ISE) are marking this year's 50th anniversary of the popular Semester at Sea (SAS) program by extending their scholarship agreement.
A renewal agreement was signed on Friday, January 17 by ISE/SAS Vice President Michael Zoll and UH Hilo Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Matthew Platz aboard the MV Explorer during a visit to Hilo. Under the open-ended agreement, UH Hilo and ISE plan to award a total of 10 scholarships each year.
Among the students receiving a scholarship for the current voyage is Kyle Davis, a student in the UH Hilo College of Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resource Management (CAFNRM). Davis will visit 16 cities and 12 countries around the world during his voyage.
Since 2009, 21 UH Hilo students have benefited from the program.
For more information, contact the Center for Global Education and Exchange at (808) 932-7488 or visit: hilo.hawaii.edu/studyabroad.


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KALAMAZOO—Two Western Michigan University students have won a total of $8,500 in scholarships to study foreign languages overseas during the 2013-14 academic year.
Brad Baughman of New Buffalo, Mich., and Rebecca Dubord of Escanaba, Mich., were among 1,000 students selected from a nationwide pool of nearly 2,000 applicants to receive awards from the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program.
Since its inception in 2001, more than 13,000 students from across the nation have received the prestigious Gilman Scholarship, which provides up to $5,000 for American students to pursue overseas study for college credit. To date, nine WMU students have received the award.
The scholarship program helps diversify the kinds of students who study abroad and the countries and regions where they go. It is administered by the Institute of International Education and sponsored by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
Brad Baughman
Baughman received a $4,000 Gilman Scholarship. A graduate of New Buffalo High School, he is a senior majoring in global and international studies and minoring in Arabic. He plans to study Arabic language at WMU's newest study abroad partner, the American University of Sharjah in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Baughman is the treasurer of WMU's Arabic Language Club.
Rebecca Dubord
Dubord received a $4,500 Gilman Scholarship. A graduate of Escanaba Area Public High School, she is a junior majoring in French and minoring in global and international studies as well as Canadian studies. She plans to study French language and culture at the Centre de Linguistique Appliquée, Université de Franche-Comté in Besançon, France. Dubord is former president of WMU's French Club and a member of the Alpha Lamda Delta honor society and the National Society of Collegiate Scholars.
Benefits of overseas study
Living and learning in a vastly different environment of another nation is a special experience for every student who participates, says retired U.S. Rep. Benjamin A. Gilman of New York, who sponsored the legislation creating the scholarship program that now bears his name.
"(It) not only exposes our students to alternate views, but also adds an enriching social and cultural experience," Gilman says. "It also provides our students with the opportunity to return home with a deeper understanding of their place in the world, encouraging them to be a contributor, rather than a spectator in the international community."
Allan Goodman, president of the Institute of International Education, adds that the returning students are better prepared to assume leadership roles within government and the private sector.
"It is critical to the success of American diplomacy and business," Goodman says, "and the lasting ties that Americans make during their international studies are important to our country in times of conflict as well as times of peace."
Assistance provided by WMU
Baughman and Dubord were advised and supported in applying for the Gilman Scholarship by Anastasia Kaml and Ann Ganz, their WMU study abroad specialists, and Dr. Michelle Metro-Roland, WMU advisor for the Gilman program and director of faculty and global program development in the University's Haenicke Institute for Global Education.
Students receiving a federal Pell Grant who are planning to study abroad are encouraged to visit iie.org/gilman to learn more about the scholarship. Eligible students interested in applying should first contact the WMU Gilman advisor at firstname.lastname@example.com or (269) 387-5890.
For more information about WMU's study abroad programs and scholarships, visit wmich.edu/studyabroad or call (269) 387-5890.


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St. Bonaventure University will host its annual high school Communications Day competition from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 18, in the Dresser Auditorium of the John J. Murphy Professional Building.
Nearly 175 students from nine Western New York high schools will be on campus to present their competition entries.
The students have created their entries through a variety of media — including videos, advertising campaigns, features, news stories and web pages — to fit this year's theme of anti-bullying. Each student will have five minutes to present his or her campaign.
This year's panel of judges includes Emily Sinsabaugh, vice president for university relations; Chris Michel, '10, reporter for the Olean Times Herald; Erin Haskell, '07, senior media planner for Crowley Webb; and Lauren Adams, '11, producer/reporter for WICU12/WSEE in Erie, Pa.
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First it was a cross on public land. Now Middleboro is under scrutiny for approving public funds to repair an historic church organ.
The debate about separation of church and state in Middleboro has broadened to include funding for restoration of an antique church organ.
April town meeting agreed to give the First Unitarian Universalist Society of Middleboro $5,000 to restore a 123-year-old pipe organ. The restoration is expected to cost about $10,000.
The funding was presented as a historic preservation project, and the money came from the town's Community Preservation fund, raised through a 1 percent surcharge on property taxes.
But the decision is just now causing debate within the community and drawing the attention of national organizations on both sides of the issue.
At issue is whether religious organizations, which are exempt from paying local taxes, should be allowed to tap into these local preservation funds for a range of historical restoration projects.
That practice has come under scrutiny by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Freedom From Religion Foundation, a Wisconsin organization supporting separation of church and state.
In recent years the matter has come up with a number of historically significant local churches, including Quincy's landmark Church of the Presidents.
Jeff Stevens, a member of the Unitarian Church in Middleboro, and originally made the request for taxpayer funding to restore the 123-year-old organ.
"We have an historic instrument, deemed historic by the historical commission," Stevens said. The restoration met the historic preservation guidelines and was a "perfectly valid use" of taxpayer's funds, he said.
The state Community Preservation Coalition approves using taxpayers' money to preserve historic religious objects and institutions if the project has a secular purpose.
But constitutional law experts disagree.
"It's unconstitutional; it violates the federal constitution," said Andrew Seidel, an attorney with the Freedom From Religion Foundation. "This is a new violation, one that has just started cropping up. We're working on it."
Sarah Wunsch, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, said the use of community funds to restore the organ may be a problem. Typically the funds are used to restore exteriors of old churches, not, she said, "integral objects in a religious service."
Edd Doerr is a bit more blunt: "If the church can't afford to repair the organ, that's tough."
Doerr, chief executive officer of Americans for Religious Liberty, a national nonprofit organization based in Maryland, sees this request as a Constitutional violation.
The Unitarians' organ is the latest in a number of restoration projects in the area to be funded with CPA money. Plymouth used some of its funds to restore a Paul Revere bell that hangs in the bell tower of First Parish Church.
Braintree's town council this year used $39,500 to construct a John Adams Memorial Plaza in front of the First Congregational Church, which was started on the same site in 1707. In 2012, $80,000 of Quincy's community preservation funds plus another $40,000 from the city went toward a $700,000 renovation of the bell and bell tower of the Church of the Presidents. The church owns the tower, but because the bell once signaled both public and church meetings, the city owns the bell.
Kingston used $72,000 to rehabilitate the exterior of the historic First Congregational Church.
But the status of the Middleboro church's organ is less clear.
"I think it's terrible ... Frankly the members of the church should be the ones to maintain it, or take it out and sell it," said Andrew D. Epstein, a lawyer with the Boston firm of Barker, Epstein & Loscocco of the Middleboro organ repair.
Epstein questioned the town's adherence to separation of church and state last year when he saw a large brick cross, erected 50 years ago by the Kiwanis Club on Route 28 in town.. Across the top of the cross is the word, "WORSHIP."
He and others contented that the decision by Middleboro town meeting to transfer ownership of land where the 7-foot cross stands into private hands was an effort to skirt the First Amendment's Establishment Clause. The religious symbol should be removed from public land, he said.
Town meeting voted overwhelmingly to try to protect the brick cross and avoid a lawsuit by turning over its rights to the land. The issue is not yet settled.
Stevens, who drew the ire of town meeting when he opposed transferring the cross site, is now also embroiled in the organ repair controversy.
"I didn't know we couldn't do it; none of us knew it was a constitutional problem," said selectmen Chairman Stephen J. McKinnon said of current flap around funding the church organ. The approval didn't get much attention in April because officials were focused on balancing the budget, he said.
McKinnon says he will direct the local Community Preservation Committee to withhold granting the funds to the Unitarian Church until the matter can be reviewed by an a lawyer. He is also prepared to gather signatures for a warrant article in the spring to take back the money if it doesn't pass constitutional muster, he said.


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How to Contour Your Face With Makeup
Want to highlight your cheeks? Or make your face look more symmetrical in pictures? Contouring is the trick. Don't let the concept scare you off, because it's easier than you think. (Promise.) Smashbox Cosmetics Lead Makeup Artist Lori Taylor shows us how to contour your face using bronzer, blush, and a highlighter. Plus, she spills the secrets of contouring the faces of leading ladies like Sandra Bullock and Rosario Dawson. Watch now!


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The Oakland Athletics have an agreement with team president Michael Crowley, extending his contract through the 2019 season, according to a team spokesman. The deal should be finalized within 30 days.
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A short time ago, Ruben Amaro Jr. spoke to reporters for about 10 minutes.
The key points:
1) The Phillies will fill John Lannan's roster spot tomorrow, likely with a reliever. Lannan went on the disabled list today with a strained quad, and the initial word is that he could miss between six and eight weeks. The Phillies do not need to call up a starter until Monday, when Lannan's turn in the rotation arrives. Amaro said the starter will be chosen from the four young members of the Triple-A rotation: Tyler Cloyd, Jonathan Pettibone, Ethan Martin and Adam Morgan. Morgan threw 100 pitches today. If he was an option, the Phillies would not have allowed him to do that. He has pitched the best of all of them, although he has only made nine starts above Class A in his career. Also, he is not on the 40-man roster. That means the choice is likely between Cloyd, Martin and Pettibone. I would guess Cloyd gets the call because of his experience in the majors last year.
2) The Phillies opted against having a player fly back from Lehigh Valley's series in Pawtucket to join the team tonight. The relievers who have pitched well for the IronPigs who are on the 40-man roster include Justin De Fratus and Joe Savery. I would have De Fratus as the frontrunner at this point.
3) Domonic Brown had an X-Ray on his back that was negative and is available to play tonight, although he is not in the lineup. Amaro said the team did not consider calling up Darin Ruf to serve as another right-handed bat against the Cardinals, who will send lefty Jaime Garcia to the mound on Friday. The Cardinals also feature lefties Randy Choate and Marc Rzepczynski.
4) Delmon Young continues to progress but the Phillies have yet to provide an indication of when they expect him to be ready to play in the majors.
5) Amaro on the Phillies' failure to draw a single walk in their three-game series against the Reds: "I think it's ridiculous that we've had no walks in three days. I cannot believe it. More importantly, it's about not just walks, but producing, and we haven't done that. We haven't gotten hits, period. We haven't gotten hits with runners in scoring position, we haven't gotten hits to lead off innings. We need more people on base and more offensive production. You've got to give some credit to the pitchers, but not all of it. We just need to be better. It's as simple as that. Right now we're not."


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Stocks rose amid speculation the Federal Reserve will expand policy measures and as lawmakers continued talks on the budget. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index climbed 0.3 percent to 1,431.77 at 9:37 a.m. in New York.
Elsewhere today, U.K. jobless claims unexpectedly fell in November and a wider measure of unemployment dropped the most in 11 years, underlining the resilience of the labor market in the face of a weak recovery.
A pickup in U.S. capital spending will benefit companies including Caterpillar Inc., the world's largest maker of construction and mining equipment, and Deere & Co., the biggest global agricultural equipment maker, said James Paulsen, chief investment strategist in Minneapolis for Wells Capital Management, which oversees about $325 billion.
Growth "is again reaccelerating," Paulsen said. That "should do wonders in accentuating animal spirits and boosting capital spending."
Global Growth
The world economy will expand 3.6 percent next year, compared to 3.3 percent this year, the least since the 2009 recession, the International Monetary Fund projected in October.
Citigroup Inc.'s economic surprise index for China, a measure of how data are beating or trailing median forecasts, rose on Nov. 29 to 30.80, the highest level since March 8. German investor confidence jumped more than economists forecast in December, reaching a seven-month high, on speculation Europe's largest economy will gather momentum, according to a report yesterday.
For now, business confidence in the U.S. is shaky because of concern lawmakers will fail to reach a budget deal to avert more than $600 billion in spending cuts and tax increases slated to take effect next year, which the Congressional Budget Office projects would tilt the economy into a recession.
Business Roundtable, an association of chief executive officers of U.S. companies with more than $7.3 trillion in annual revenue, warned last month that fiscal inaction "is stifling business investment and hiring." Small business optimism fell in November to the lowest level since March 2010, according to the National Federation of Independent Business's optimism index released yesterday.
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We talk a little MLB Draft and reveal our preliminary big boards. Safe to say, its chock full of prep pitchers.
To close, well, we answer a myriad of listener questions, since we failed to do so last week (thanks, Jared).
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Teachers in the Neshaminy School District will go on strike Monday for the second time this year, their union announced Thursday, canceling classes and extending the school year.
"We told the district that the June 4 strike could be averted if they had an attitude adjustment and agreed to negotiate throughout the weekend, and they flatly rejected our offer," said Louise Boyd, president of the Neshaminy Federation of Teachers, in a written statement.
The district rejected weekend talks because "they wouldn't get us anywhere," school board President Ritchie Webb said Friday. He cited union negotiators' "insults, innuendo, and useless platitudes" at Thursday's closed negotiating session with two state mediators.
The district and the union have been locked in a bitter contract dispute for four years – the longest current impasse in the state. The union's 633 teachers, guidance counselors, librarians and nurses have not received a raise since 2008, working under the terms of the expired contract.
The strike, like the eight-day walkout in January, will cancel classes for the district's 7,000 students. High school seniors, who were scheduled to take final exams next week, will be exempt from each test missed because of the strike, according to the district's website. Their June 13 graduation will proceed as scheduled, according to the website.
By state law, the 180-day school year must be completed by June 30, without weekend classes. That means teachers could stay out about 10 days.
The union notified the district on May 25 that it might strike Monday, depending on Thursday's negotiating session, which both sides characterized as unproductive. The talks had been suspended since December because of the strike and a state-required arbitration that followed.
The findings from the nonbinding arbitration, issued last month, would cost the district $20 million for items including retroactive pay and continued bonuses for early retirement, Webb said. The school board uanimously rejected the findings, while union members approved them "with reservations."
The next negotiating session is scheduled for June 12, but it will be canceled if teachers are on strike, Webb said.
Before Thursday's session at Maple Point Middle School, about 55 residents -- including a handful of students -- held signs to show their support for the school board and opposition to the union's tactics.
"This is really to show the NFT that they don't have the upper hand," said Michele Fay, one of the organizers of the demonstration. "They should just leave our kids out of it."
After the January strike, Fay's son, an honors student, told her he was struggling with his 10th-grade classes, she said.
"He has a 3.65 GPA," Fay said, "and I don't want the strike to affect it."
Sue Hoch, another organizer, said the impasse has dragged on so long that "we don't know what to do any more. This is all we have left."


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On Thursday, Feb. 9, from 7 to 8 p.m., the Friends of the Jamestown Library will host "High Blood Pressure: How to Beat the Silent Killer" presented by Lifespan Community Health Center.
According to the American Heart Association, one in three adult Americans have high blood pressure also known as hypertension. Nearly one third of these people do not even know they have it. In the program, participants will learn about risk factors, prevention, and treatment of high blood pressure. Sarah M. Freelove, a registered nurse and program co-ordinator for Lifespan's Community Cardiac Initiative, will also discuss a new phenomenon called pre-hypertension. Free blood pressure screening will be available before the presentation.
The program is free and open to the public. For more information, call the Jamestown library at 423-7280.
Teen program on civil rights today
Dr. Bernard LaFayette Jr. will be at the Jamestown library on Thursday, Feb. 9, at 7 p.m. to talk with teens about his experiences in the U.S. civil rights movement.
LaFayette has been an activist in the civil rights movement, as well as a minister, educator, lecturer, and he is an authority on the strategy for non-violent social change.
Among his many accolades and titles, LaFayette was a trusted friend of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a co-founder of the Student Nonviolent Co-ordinating Committee in 1960, and a leader of the Nashville Movement in 1960. He was involved in the Freedom Rides of 1961, and the 1965 Selma Movement. He is chairman of the International Non-violence Executive Planning Board and has been reappointed by Governor Carcieri as the chairman of the Rhode Island Select Commission on Race and Police-Community Relations.
LaFayette is currently a Distinguished-Scholarin Residence and director of the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies at the University of Rhode Island.
Free and open to the public, registration is not required for this library program that will take place in the building's meeting hall.
Kids can make Valentine's cards
Kids can make Valentine's Day cards for friends and family at the library on Friday, Feb. 10, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.
The valentine card workshop will be for children ages 5, and over and all materials will be supplied. Registration is not required for this free program, which will take place in the library meeting hall at 26 North Main Rd. For more information, call Rowena Burke, the children's and young adults' librarian, at 423-7280.
Teens workshop on beadcraft at library
On Wednesday, Feb. 8, from 3 to 4:30 p.m., there will be a Valentine's Day Beading Workshop at the Jamestown library.
Deb Goyette, owner of the Purple Door bead shop on Conanicus Avenue, will lead the workshop. Materials will be supplied to create earrings, necklaces and bracelets — perfect for Valentine's Day presents.
Funded by the Friends of Jamestown Library, this program is for students in sixth grade and over. Registration is not required for this free program, which will take place in the library meeting hall at 26 North Main Road. For more information, call Rowena Burke, the children's and young adults' librarian, at 423-7280.
Enter to win spaying or neutering for pets
The Humane Society of Jamestown is offering several chances to win a free spaying or neutering for local pets.
On Feb. 12, forms and collection boxes will be available at town businesses and public buildings. Those interested should fill out the form. The winners will be announced later in the month.
The humane society wants to end animal overpopulation, and since 1973 it has assisted with the altering of more than 1,000 animals.


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Video: Ferrari shows F70 chassis at Paris motor show: Enzo replacement will use most advanced Ferrari chassis yet
September 26, 2012
Ferrari brought its entire model lineup to the Paris motor show, but the bare carbon-fiber chassis set to underpin the successor to the Enzo was the obvious highlight.
Ferrari called the car its "new hybrid model, which will be produced in a limited-edition special series." They also refer to the car as a GT, though it appears to be a two-seater.
The Modena firm claimed that the tub was created using techniques similar to those used in the construction of their Formula 1 race cars. Four distinct types of carbon fiber were used, and the floor is reinforced with Kevlar.
Ferrari claims that this chassis is "20 percent lighter than the Enzo Ferrari," but we assume that they mean it's lighter than the chassis of the Enzo Ferrari. Torsional rigidity is up 27 percent, and beam stiffness has been increased by 22 percent over the Enzo.
Ferrari showed the F70's 12-cylinder engine and HY-KERS system at at last year's Beijing auto show, but there's been no word on when we might see a fully assembled Enzo successor.
The 2012 Paris motor show—or Mondial de l'Automobile, as it is officially known––will take place Sept. 27 through Oct. 14. It occurs every two years, alternating with the Frankfurt motor show in Germany. Paris is a showcase for the latest in design, but automakers will also be showing off their latest concept cars, green cars and supercars.


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Cigarette tax increase seen as deterrent to youth smokingUnion Leader State House Bureau
April 09. 2013 8:55PM
CONCORD - A 20 cents-a-pack cigarette tax hike, passed by the House last month, was praised during a Senate committee hearing Tuesday as a step toward lowering the state's high rate of youth smoking.
But equally vocal were the state grocers association and several convenience store owners and groups warning of potentially dire consequences for their businesses and employees if lawmakers allow the tax to increase.
Despite the fact that even with the increase, the price of a pack of cigarettes in New Hampshire would still be far lower than neighboring states, opponents warned that the narrowed margin, coupled with the high price of gasoline, will keep out of staters from driving to New Hampshire border stores that heavily rely on cigarette sales.
The Senate Ways and Means committee took nearly two hours of testimony on House Bill 659, which passed the House 193-167 on March 20.
The bill seeks to counter a 10 cents cut in the cigarette tax enacted in the last legislative session. That law says that if certain revenue projections are not met, the cut would be reversed on July 1.
Gov. Maggie Hassan wanted to add a 20 cents hike on top of that, for a total of 30 cents, but the House cut the increase to a total of 20 cents, from $1.68 to $1.88-a-pack.
It faces a rocky road in the Senate, where Republicans hold a 13-11 advantage.
Still, said, Ways and Means Vice Chairman Lou D'Allesandro, a Manchester Democrat, it is not out of the question that the bill will pass the Senate.
D'Allesandro said that he supports the increase because of potential "health benefits and we're looking to reduce health care costs."
Bill sponsor Rep. Cindy Rosenwald, D-Nashua, told the senators that raising the cigarette tax "is both good public health and fiscal policy. On the revenue side, we look at an increase of almost $10 million per year" with every 10-cent increase in the tax.
On the public health side, she said, "tobacco-related illness is "incredibly expensive.
"We should be doing everything we can to discourage smoking," Rosenwald said.
Committee chairman Sen. Bob Odell, R-Lempster, questioned whether small increases truly influence people's behavior when it comes to smoking.
But Rep. Susan Almy, D-Lebanon, chair of the House Ways and Means Committee said that even with the tax hike, New Hampshire cigarette prices would still be significantly lower than other states.
The hearing saw business owners and their representatives warn that their businesses will suffer if the tax increases, while health advocates pressed the benefits of making tobacco products more difficult to purchase, especially for young people.
Peter Potenza, owner of the Rose Bell Motor Mart in Concord, said a 20 cents hike "will potentially destroy my small business."
He said tobacco products are 22 percent of his gross sales but only 10 percent of revenue because the profit margin is so small.
He said his store is surrounded on Concord's Main Street by "corporate stores," which are far more able to absorb a tax hike without passing all of it on to consumers. He said he cannot do that, and, Potenza said, "because tobacco buyers are going to smoke no matter what, they'll go to the corporate stores where the prices will be cheaper."
"I'll have to pass on 80 percent" of the increase to customers, said Potenza, and "I'll be on the long list of small business owners who go out of business because government got in my way."
Scott Colby, executive vice president of the New Hampshire Medical Society, said smoking "basically costs the state $55 million a year in medical costs."
While cigarette tax hike opponents say it is a regressive tax that hurts the poor the most, Colby said low-income Granite staters disproportionately suffer from smoking-related illnesses because they have a higher rate of smoking.
Colby said, for instance, that 57 percent of New Hampshire Medicaid beneficiaries smoke.
He said the medical society proposed a 68 cents increase in the tax, which, he said, has been shown to be an effective deterrent.
"Unless you make a significant increase, you're not going to incentivize people to stop," he said.
Marie Mulroy, president of Tobacco-Free New Hampshire, a coalition of 18 health associations, hospitals and activist groups, said New Hampshire does not fund youth tobacco prevention programs and overall ranks 50th among states on tobacco prevention.
She said she hoped that some of the increase will fund such programs.
But John Dumais, president of the New Hampshire Grocers Association, said that with grocers working on "a slim net profit" of "one penny for every dollar of sales, the only ones who are realizing large profit gains"from higher cigarette taxes "are the federal and state governments."
Dumais said a tax hike also hits the "floor tax," which is levied on unsold cigarette inventory.
"A 10-cent tax increase means a 10-cent surcharge on already-paid inventory," he said. "For many small store retailers who have high volume tobacco sales, this can equal over $10,000 in immediate additional expense."
Dumais also noted that cigarette buyers also often purchase products such as beer, lottery tickets, gasoline and sandwiches.
"Our argument has always been that while the Legislature considers a tax solely on the revenue it generates, that thinking ignores the reality of how an increase, or decrease, affects other state revenues," Dumais said.
Cindy Gagnon, area sales manager for Cumberland Farms, said the chain has 47 stores in the state with about 600 employees and has recently invested in newly remodeled stores.
She said the proposed increase "only reinforces the increasing tax environment in New Hampshire and gives residents more reason to look elsewhere for buying cigarettes rather than their local store.
"As we have seen with other states that have increased their excise tax, customers look for alternatives to purchase cheaper cigarettes, such as the Internet," said Gagnon.
Steve Ryan, executive director of the New England Convenience Store Association, said the group, with 850 stores employing more than 10,000 people in New Hampshire, would be hurt by the hike.
Greg Moore, state director of the issues advocacy group Americans for Prosperity, said the hike would be damaging to the "New Hampshire advantage."
Moore said that although the cost of cigarettes would still be lower than neighboring states even with the 10-cent increase, "the disparity between the price in the states next to us is what determines the distance, or pull, from which consumers from other states will come to buy tobacco products."


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"All," the title of the Maurizio Cattelan exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, could be taken to mean that the entirety of the Italian artist's oeuvre is on view. While that's not true, it's close enough: the 128 objects in the exhibition (which is up through January 22) constitute the greater part of the work Cattelan has made since his artistic career began in 1989. The title also calls attention to a single work, one of the artist's recent pieces, likewise titled All (2007). It consists of a group of marble sculptures—like all of Cattelan's sculptures, they were made by commissioned artisans—depicting recumbent figures, corpses presumably, covered by shrouds. All evokes mortality and mourning, surprising themes for an artist widely acclaimed or disdained, according to taste, as the art world's court jester, a slinger of provocative but ultimately ephemeral visual one-liners. Cattelan has always been something more than that, but given his announced intention of retiring from art-making after this exhibition, the meaning of All could be something like Porky Pig's "Th-th-th-that's all, folks!"
Cattelan wouldn't be the first artist to stage a dubious disappearing act. Marcel Duchamp renounced art in favor of a more gentlemanly pursuit, chess, but it turned out that he spent the last two decades of his life tinkering with a single bizarre anti-masterpiece, Étant donnés: 1° la chute d'eau, 2° le gaz d'éclairage (1946–66). Looked at coolly, the exit strategy certainly worked for Duchamp. "The great artist of tomorrow will go underground," he declared toward the end of his life, long after he had done just that. His absence from the scene having been a most noticeable one, reticence only added to his mystique, which the posthumous revelation of his hidden labors only deepened. "The silence of Marcel Duchamp is overrated," was the judgment of Joseph Beuys; in retrospect, Duchamp's reserve seems more powerful than Beuys's prolixity, which was always most effective when it revealed itself as just another, more actively dramatic form of muteness. Explaining pictures to a dead hare, as Beuys did in a renowned 1965 performance, is surely another way of speaking into the void, letting circumstance convert speech into silence.
As for Cattelan, some observers—among them Roberta Smith of the New York Times—think he is running out of ideas, but a close look at the exhibition's checklist suggests otherwise. His production has not slowed down of late, and while his efforts have always been hit or miss, the misses have not become more noticeably numerous. Besides, a work like his 2010 public sculpture L.O.V.E.—a thirty-six-foot-tall marble hand giving the middle finger, originally installed facing Milan's Stock Exchange—seems timely enough, if that's what you're after. Cattelan occupied the Piazza degli Affari before anyone had ever thought of occupying Wall Street. Besides, what could be more astute than the way Cattelan has installed his show at the Guggenheim? Instead of following convention and installing his sculptures along the museum's ramp, he has hung them all from its ceiling, like a galaxy of marble mobiles. The potential metaphorical upshot of this gesture can be parsed in many ways, but notice what Cattelan has done: he has made literal, with simplicity and elegance, the everyday word—hang—for putting up an exhibition.
In doing so, Cattelan has also turned his life's work into a single great sculptural group, showing in the most obvious way possible that his oeuvre is more than the sum of its parts. It's a theatrical coup, of sorts, but even more, a truly sculptural one. To circle around the installation in the Guggenheim's corkscrew interior is always to see it from a different height; the individual pieces as well as the totality present a diversity of angles, not only from many sides but from below and above as well as straight on. The arrangement constantly shows you unexpected aspects; you always see it differently.


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Glad to see you're back! I've been super busy myself, but I have a few songs I'm planning on tackling still. Not to mention THE NEW ALBUM DROPPED LAST NIGHT! Hopefully we can get some stuff done on it soon!
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Wanted to continue the work form Barry's start. Here's what I got. Strumming pattern NOT tabbed out, so you'll have to figure it out by playing along. Repeat sections as necessary. Also, a video walking through the tab, showing some of the chords and such: https://youtu.be/KekzxPy2lfU Tuning: Standa...
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This one's a bit tricky to tab out because the main instrument is a piano. I just made a kind of acoustic guitar arrangement for it that I feel works pretty well. I used some more simple chords to kind of emulate the sound of the original song's piano. Also, you can fiddle with a few strings while s...
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Lighting consumes more than 10% of electric energy used in homes, presenting a substantial opportunity for lowering residential energy consumption. The International Code Council recently passed a code change that will appear in the 2009 International Energy Conservation Code and the International Residential Code requiring that half of the permanent lighting in a new home have high-efficacy lamps.
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U.S. regulators face renewed pressure from congressional lawmakers to ease Dodd-Frank Act derivatives requirements amid mounting criticism from Wall Street and overseas officials that the rules overreach.
The House Financial Services Committee is scheduled to vote on nine measures that would allow more swaps to be traded in units of banks such as JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Citigroup Inc. that hold government-insured deposits. One measure would force U.S. regulators to determine the cost of new Basel III capital charges on banks' swaps with corporate clients.
The measures, which would need approval from the House and Senate before heading to President Barack Obama, are part of an effort by big banks and their congressional supporters to amend or limit the regulatory overhaul the president signed into law less than three years ago. Dodd-Frank requires the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Securities and Exchange Commission to create swap-market rules after largely unregulated trades helped fuel the 2008 credit crisis.
"In many cases, legislation is premature and aspects would be disruptive and harmful to the implementation of key reforms," Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew wrote in a letter dated yesterday to Representative Jeb Hensarling, the Texas Republican who leads the House panel. "We should allow the regulators to complete their ongoing rulemakings, and then determine what changes, if any, might be necessary."
Failed Efforts
Congressional efforts to change the law have so far failed to win passage as the CFTC and other regulators seek to finish writing regulations. Representative Jim Himes, a Connecticut Democrat who wrote legislation that would alter Dodd-Frank, said the bills probably won't become law.
"If I were betting, I would say none of these bills will become law," Himes said at a Bloomberg Government breakfast in Washington on April 25. "I don't think there's a lot of appetite in the Senate to get into which of these bills make sense and how are they balanced."
One measure calls for altering a requirement that banks with access to deposit insurance and the Federal Reserve's discount window move some derivatives trades to affiliates that have their own capital. Commodity, equity and structured swaps tied to some asset-backed securities would be allowed in such banks under the legislation.
Representative Maxine Waters, the top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, said last year that "legitimate concerns have been raised about whether pushing a significant portion of swaps out of banks is the best way to mitigate against future systemic risk."
Americans for Financial Reform, a coalition including the AFL-CIO labor federation as well as other unions and consumer groups, has opposed changes to the so-called push-out rule.
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