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Greene County moves up in the economic tier rankings, but it comes at a cost
SNOW HILL � A slight drop in the poverty rate is pushing Greene County into a higher tier level, but officials believe it will prevent the low-wealth, rural county from receiving needed funding.
�A lot of the money we get is based on our tier status,� said Misty Chase, county coordinator for economic development, planning and grant opportunities.
The county was notified by phone, followed by a letter dated Nov. 30 from Dale B. Carroll, N.C. deputy commerce secretary.
As of Jan. 1, Greene County's status will move from a Tier 1 to a Tier 2 level, the letter states. Tier rankings, published each year, establish economic well-being with Tier 1 being most economically distressed. N.C. Commerce Secretary Keith Crisco announced the 2013 rankings Nov. 30.
�These tier rankings provide important tools that help attract and retain businesses in all parts of North Carolina,� Crisco stated.
A statutory formula is used to classify counties into three tier levels making tax credits available for economic development.
A number of factors are taken into consideration in establishing a county's tier status.
The county ranks 39 out 100 counties � with No. 1 being the most economically distressed � based on four factors: adjusted property tax base per capita, population growth, median household income and 12-month unemployment rate average.
According to the letter, Greene's property tax base and household income changed little in the last year. But, the unemployment rate worsened, while the population increased, moving the state to rank 39.
However, Greene's poverty rate was calculated for 2013 at 18.4 percent, less than the 19 percent that automatically qualifies counties with a population rate of less than 50,000 for Tier 1 status.
The poverty and population rates have kept the county in a Tier 1 status since 2007. This year, it ranked 38. But the poverty rate dropped from 20.2 percent to 18.4 percent, thereby increasing the county�s overall rank to 45 and moving it into Tier 2.
The tier system is used by a number of state programs to promote economic activity in low-wealth areas of the state.
Greene County Schools Superintendent Patrick Miller said the tier status, for the most part, doesn�t affect the school system.
�It doesn�t really eliminate any funding,� he said. �It eliminates us from being considered for (certain) grants.�
It could affect future Golden LEAF Foundation grants, such as the grants the school received for the Twilight and Young Scholars programs, which have ended or are ending shortly.
But district has $1 million of federal dollars to continue the Twilight program in the high school, Miller said.
�We�ll have to find dollars in our own budget to (extend Young Scholars),� he said.
The constant tier ratio is 40 counties in Tiers 1-2 and 20 counties in Tier 3. So if one county moves up, another has to move down.
�I just think it should be based on a standard,� Miller said. �It shouldn�t be a fixed number.�
The fixed numbers of counties in each tier create unrealistic status designations, he said.
Lenoir and Jones counties and 38 other counties remain or will qualify for Tier 1 status in January. There will be 40 counties in Tier 2 status, including Beaufort, Craven, Currituck, Dare, Duplin, Nash, Onslow and Pitt counties.
Twelve counties will change tier designations. Beaufort, Cleveland and Surry will move from Tier 1 to 2. Two counties are moving from Tier 2 to 3, while six counties are decreasing in tier status.
Chase said the county has asked the Commerce Department if there is an appeal process and was told there is none.
�It�s hard to comprehend that we�re not � I mean, I look at it that we�re rural and it�s hard to believe we�re not a Tier 1,� she said.
Tier rankings
Each year, on or before Nov. 30, the Secretary of Commerce shall assign to each county in the State a development factor that is the sum of the following. The counties rank by:
Average rate of unemployment from lowest to highest, for the most recent 12 months for which data are available
Median household income from highest to lowest, for the most recent 12 months for which data are available
Percentage growth in population from highest to lowest, for the most recent 36 months for which data are available
Adjusted assessed property value per capita as published by the Department of Public Instruction, from highest to lowest, for the most recent taxable year
In addition, counties with a poverty rate of 19 percent or above and a population below 50,000 are automatically designated as Tier 1
Source: N.C. General Statutes
Benefits to counties under the tier designations:
Level Tax credit $ per job Job creation requirement Tax credit for eligible businesses
Tier 1 $12,500 5 7 percent
Tier 2 $5,000 10 5 percent (expenditures >$1 million)
Tier 3 $750 15 3.5 percent (expenditures >$2 million)
Source: N.C. Department of Commerce
Article 3J tax credits benefits:
Creating jobs � meet minimum of new full-time jobs
Investing in business property � based on percentage of person property costs
Investment in real property � invest at least $10 million within three years with 200 jobs within two years in tier 1 counties can qualify for 30 percent of the eligible investment
Source: N.C. Department of Commerce
Margaret Fisher can be reached at 252-559-1082 or email@example.com.


text: Last week, we discussed how seven U.S. solar manufacturers filed a petition with the Department of Commerce and the International Trade Commission for the U.S. government to raise duties on Chinese solar imports by more than 100%. In their petition, these solar manufacturers argued that they have been injured by Chinese manufacturers' dumping of crystalline solar cells on the U.S. market at prices below production costs. China Energy News reported today that this was a foolish, misguided attempt at trade protectionism driven by jealousy.

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I had no idea all these animals could make these sounds. Some aren't so surprising—goats screaming videos have been floating around the web this week. And some, like the frogs—the frogs!! What the heck!?
The screams. So many screams. "Thanks" for the video, CompilarizTV.
Okay, that's a weird send-off to the weekend in this open thread. I'd apologize but after a long week, listening to these feels strangely cathartic!
Regardless, maybe you've got some cool plans this weekend? I think I'm gonna get my ears re-pierced but mostly I hope to make some headway on some cool stories. What about you?
Feel free to talk about THE SCREAMS, animals being weird, weekend plans, or just about anything else here or in our Talk Amongst Yourselves forums.
See you next week, Kotaku readers.
Screaming Animals Compilation [CompilarizTV]


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VNC on other platforms & environments
Linux RPMs & Debian packages
Linux RPMs & Debian packagesOther people have kindly packaged VNC up in RPM and Debian package form; see for example under 'V' at the RPM archive http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/ and at www.debian.org . Note that these may not be identical to the standard AT&T distributions, and may not be updated as frequently, so you should check the main VNC site frequently.
AIXWe've been told you can get VNC for AIX from http://www.bull.de/pub/aix432_frame.html.
Also IBM is including AIX 4.3.3 and AIX5L VNC binaries and source in it's AIX Toolbox for Linux applications at http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/aix/products/aixos/linux/index.html
Acorn RISC OSWe know of two viewers for RISC OS.
The first, created by email@example.com, is available from http://www.bigblue.demon.co.uk/VNC.html .
The second, by Leo White <firstname.lastname@example.com> is at http://www.brighteyes.u-net.com/ .
A server for RISC OS is also available from http://www.corkes.net/vnc/
AmigaVVA - a VNC viewer for the Amiga. which was started by Jörg Dietrich is now being maintained by Denis Spach
Stéphane Guillard - firstname.lastname@example.com writes:
I have set up a (incomplete, but usable) Amiga VNC server, which can be found on Aminet (http://de.aminet.net), as comm/tcp/AmiVNC.lha (ie. here).
This is a work in progress.
BeOSAndreas F. Bobak writes:
Yesterday, I made a first port of the VNC viewer to the BeOS. I mixed together the Win32 viewer and the Unix viewer and added a bunch of BeOS specific stuff. It basically works but perfomance does scream. RRE encoding is broken and Hextile encoding has a strange bug, but it's usable with just CoRRE and CopyRect.
A snapshot of the sources and a x86 binary can be found under http://abstrakt.ch/be/
-- Andreas F. Bobak firstname.lastname@example.com
BSDIKurt Seel <email@example.com> writes:
vnc compiles cleanly on bsdi 3.0 (no patches) with the following
#ifdef __bsdi__
It seems to work fine. The switch to xfree 3.3.2 really did some good
Cygwin32Valery Tulnikov has built the server and viewer under Cygwin-32, based on the 3.3.1 patches by Sergey Okhapkin. This allows you to run the X viewer and server under Win32. Yes, there are some good reasons why you might want to do this! See http://www.dol.ru/users/valtul/ for more info.
DOSMarinos J. Yannikos <firstname.lastname@example.com> has written a VNC viewer which runs under DOS, using packet drivers and the Waterloo TCP/IP library along with the Allegro graphics library. The whole system including the IP stack fits comfortably on a floppy disk. You can get it from here. .
EPOC (Psion)We know of two versions of the java viewer to download for EPOC.
Steve Allam < firstname.lastname@example.com> writes:
Back in February, I first tried the VNC Java client on my Psion Netbook. It worked quite well, although you had to do nasty command line stuff,- on a psion that doesn't have a command line by default.
So, I have added two fields; one for the host and the other for the port. I've also added a help screen that tells you how to move the screen around - i.e the psion screen behaves like a window on the larger VNC screen.
The whole thing is packaged as an SIS file, and can be downloaded from:
http://www.imhotek.com in the downloads section, at the bottom.
The reason I have taken so long it that I've only just got around to rebuilding the SIS file using a proper psion UID number! I will be changing the host/port display to make this a combo box, that saves previous servers, at some point.
Starting from the Java 1.1 code for the VNC viewer, I packaged an EPOC application so that the viewer can be run easily from any palmtop which support a Java VM (Psion 5mx & compatibles). It was tested on the Psion Series 5mx, Series 7, Netbook, and the Ericsson MC218, and it works with any Internet connection. More information and a downloadable vncviewer.sis file at http://www.geocities.com/giulopresti/handhelds/vnc-epoc.html
FreeBSDJoe Evans <email@example.com> reports:
I compiled the VNC stuff on FreeBSD 2.2.5, and it seems to work fine. The only compile glitch was that you need to remove the gnumalloc library from the extra libraries list in order to do the link step.
Bruce Mah < firstname.lastname@example.com > adds:
vnc is now a part of the FreeBSD ports collection...on FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE or newer with an installed ports collection, the installation process is simply:
cd /usr/ports/net/vnc
Geos (eg. Nokia 9000)Marcus Groeber < firstname.lastname@example.com > writes:
I have just uploaded the first public version of the VNC Viewer for
It allows you to access VNC servers from machines running Geos 3.0,
GGISteve Cheng firstname.lastname@example.com writes:
libGGI is a portable graphics library with a flexible design. See <http://www.ggi-project.org> for details. The graphics application can betransparently "retargeted" to different types of displays including X11, Linux svgalib and fbcon. (Win32 soon to come.) The VNC targets adds the VNC protocol to this list. You can even run doom over VNC! :-)
Standand VNC clients can be used with the VNC target/GGI application as the server.
You can get it here: <http://shell.ipoline.com/~elmert/vnc.tar.gz>
Untar it under degas/lib/libggi of the GGI devel tree. (The stable GGI tree won't work because of namespace changes,etc.)
A long while ago someone wanted a "stripped-down version of the server part - one that skips listening/authentication phase and just uses stdin/stdout for the communication (run-once application)." This is not currently done yet, but I have made it easy to do so. The only problem is the libGGI application trying to use stdin/stdout.
[The VNC team] have asked me not to distribute this as part of libGGI
(yet). (It has GPL'd code; the other parts are LGPL as the rest of LibGGI).
So it won't be
Bug reports, fixes, and feedback welcome.
Several contributors here. We'll thin these out soon.
Stephen Walton <firstname.lastname@example.com> who previously posted a detailed message entitled Building VNC 3.3.3 on HP-UX 10.20 has now also provided some HP/UX binaries. These are available at: http://www.csun.edu/~swalton/VNC. Stephen sent us this README
Karl Hakimian <email@example.com> wrote about his experiences building 3.3.2:
HPUX did not go as smoothly as some of the other OS's that have been reported, but I did manage to get things to compile under hpux 10.20.
First I had to change Xvnc/config/cf/hp.cf
Same as for 3.3.1, I made sure the following were set
#define ExtensionOSDefines -DHPINPUT # -DXTESTEXT1
#define BuildPex NO
I also had to change the following to NO
That got things most of the way compiled. I then could not link Xvnc becuase of several missing objects
Turns out I just needed to include sys/resource.h to two files in the programs/Xserver/os directory, the following patch takes care of that. (Karl's short patch is here)
Karl Hakimian
And Mike Cooke writes:
Just to inform you I've managed to build the vnc suite on the following HP box HP-UX <name> B.10.20 E 9000/879
I had major problems trying to build it with the standard HP tools and after much head banging and source editing, I decided to forget it and switch to gcc which worked after about the 3'rd build. I applied the patches as advised in the contrib section on your site.
The only further problem I had was getting the Xvnc server to recognize the correct fonts - somehow the aliasing config here seems a bit odd, so to get around that problem I just ran the x font server and it solved all the problems.
And Ulrik Dickow <email@example.com> adds:
This evening I succesfully built vnc-3.3.2r3 on HP/UX 10.20 9000/712
with the
without any modifications to the source files, but this gave lots of
It would be even easier if the changes were permanently done to the
To complete the help for fellow HP/UX'ers, the second attached patch
a) start a CDE session if possible, otherwise fall back to the old code
b) set the `-fp' argument reasonably for HP/UX (the CDE script
will add
Due to b), the second patch should *not* be applied to the general
If somebody have problems with these plaintext unified diffs, I can
patch -p1 < vnc-3.3.2r3_unix.ukd-kh-hpux-patch
Long live GNU patch(1) (http://www.gnu.org/).
Thanks to ORL for conceiving a great product, and to Karl for finding
out how
B3393AA_APZ B.10.20.02 HP-UX Developer's Toolkit for 10.0 Series
Ulrik's patches are at
Ulrik also pointed out that some HPUX distributions don't include xmkmf and imake, but that you can get both source and binaries for them from http://hpux.csc.liv.ac.uk/hppd/hpux/X11/Core/imake-5.06/.
HP Jornada
See Windows CE below
Java VNC server
Tal Liron <firstname.lastname@example.com > has written a VNC *server* (not client) in Java, called VNCj. It is still in an early stage, but essentially works. Available at http://www.amherst.edu/~tliron/vncj.
firstname.lastname@example.com has built a version of the viewer which fits nicely into the X-based KDE environment.
See http://freshmeat.net/appindex/1998/08/29/904438704.html for details.
Richard Moore firstname.lastname@example.com writes:
I've just released the first version of Keystone, a VNC client for KDE 2. The program has a homepage at http://apps.cx/keystone It is currently available through the KDE CVS snapshots and will hopefully be included in the next KDE 2 beta release. It is in the kdenetwork package. This program supercedes the KDE 1 program kvncviewer which you already have listed on your site.
LinuxPPCYou can get source and binary RPMs for LinuxPPC from ftp://ppc.linux.or.jp/pub/JRPM/pre-R5/.
MacOS X VNC serverDan McGuirk <email@example.com> writes:
I've managed to hack together a VNC server for OS X, starting with the Xvnc code. (It's a native server--it reflects the OS X Aqua desktop over VNC.) It's still got a few rough spots, but mostly it works pretty well. I put up a web page for it at:
MacOS X XvncJeff Whitaker <email@example.com> writes:
I've created a patch that allows Xvnc to compile and run under MacOS X. Details at http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/~jsw/macosx_xvnc/.
MacOS VNCThing (alternative viewer)Dair Grant <email@example.com> has written an alternative Macintosh viewer which supports the Appearance Manager and Navigation Services, which means it looks more attractive on recent versions of MacOS. You can find it at http://www.webthing.net/vncthing/
MacOS alternative VNC serverJonathan Morton < email@example.com> has written an alternative Macintosh server. You can find it at http://www.chromatix.uklinux.net/vnc/
NetBSDEra eriksson <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote to tell us that information about a NetBSD port for i386 is available at ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/net/vnc/README.html
NetWinderRalph Siemsen <email@example.com> writes:
I've "ported" the server and client portions of your VNC package to
our NetWinder platform (an ARM-based linux system). There are only
minor changes necessary that stem from the fact that your package tries
to rebuild "imake" itself - but is isn't aware of the arm platform.
I've attached the patch below; it is against vnc-3.3.2r3 for unix.
Ralph's patch is available at http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/contrib/netwinder-patch.txt
NewtonSteve Weyer <firstname.lastname@example.com> has created newtVNC (a Newton VNC viewer and server).
See http://members.home.net/saweyer/newton/vnc.htm or http://www.kagi.com/weyer/
John Stout and Andre Fischer wrote to tell us of an Oberon VNC viewer. Andre writes:
We have also written an Oberon VNC client that is now used on most of our laboratory PCs. A first glance can be taken from http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/native/vnc/ .
The software is at ftp://ftp.inf.ethz.ch/pub/Oberon/System3/Contrib/VNC/
Note: The VNC01.Arc is an (proprietary) Oberon archive to install in Oberon. You will find installation and usage instructions in http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/install.html.
And John said...
...it should give a reasonable system for low end machines. It needs what's called the Gadgets system so I don't think it would run off a single floppy, but certainly lower requirements than W95, MacOS, etc. There is a Native Oberon implementation for Linux so I assume it should work under that.
The link is at:http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/native/vnc/
OpenBSDJonathan Schneider <email@example.com> writes that he has built VNC successfully under OpenBSD 2.5 on both i386 and sparc by doing little more than creating a symbolic link from /usr/lib/X11 to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11. Either GNU make or BSD make will work. He needed a 'make -k' to get around the fact that there is no 'vncviewer.man' provided. He writes:
I've a slight gripe in that on the IPX at least, "make install" puts loads of stuff into /usr/lib/X11/config* which already existed in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config. I imagine that's desirable if there isn't already an X server installation but scary if there is (and it had used the correct directory).
OpenStep/MachDavid Young (firstname.lastname@example.com) writes:
I've written a client for OPENSTEP/Mach (that spiffy NeXT OS) for VNC.
It currently supports display at 24, 12, and 8 bpp, mouse and mostly-functional keyboard input (ASCII and control characters work; the mapping isn't yet complete and I'm looking for suggestions on how to complete it), and some other client-side niceties. Encodings other than raw are on their way, as is NSPasteboard integration.
I'm looking for users (preferably with VNC and OPENSTEP experience)
who can bang on this client on original NeXT boxes, Intel machines, or
SPARCstations running OPENSTEP 4.2, or just people who might find it useful
at this early state.
OS/2Akira Hatakeyama <firstname.lastname@example.com>is working on a native PM viewer. You can get it from http://www.sra.co.jp/people/akira/os2/vnc-pm/index.html
Bosse Nyström email@example.com has built the X viewer for OS/2 using XFree86. He writes:
I compiled the unix [3.3.1] sources with the attached diffs and got a working viewer under OS2 with XFree86 (and EMX).
I tested it with servers for OSF and Win32 (rev 16), some problems with National characters for the win server otherwise it works fine.
-- Bosse
You can get Bosse's version from his FTP server at ftp://bfs.riken.go.jp/pub/vnc/,
from ftp://unixos2.org/pub/unix/internet/vnc/
OSFWe used to have DEC Alpha OSF machines here, but they've all been switched off now, so we're unlikely to distribute any binaries for any more recent versions of VNC. Nirav Merchant email@example.com has made binaries for OSF 3.3.3 available. He writes:
I have put the OSF binaries, java classes along with the original copyright at:
Should work fine with Digital UNIX 4.0.
Since we will be using OSF, I will make sure that the lastest version of VNC OSF binaries are available at this URL.
Palm devices (PalmPilot, Palm III, etc)PalmVNC, a viewer for the Palm family of hand-held computers, is now being developed by Harakan Software - the homepage is at http://www.btinternet.com/~harakan/PalmVNC/
It was originally developed by Vladimir Minenko
You can still get his version from
RedHat Linux 6.x
If you have difficulties running vncserver on RH6, check at least the following:
SCO OpenServerBen Maizels <email@example.com> sent the patches he used to compile under SCO OpenServer 5.
You can find his message at http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/contrib/sco-openserver.txt
SGI Irix 6.2 and upwardsSee sgi freeware for pre-configured, pre-compiled and inst-packaged VNC server and viewer.
SGI Irix 6.2Wolfram Gloger <firstname.lastname@example.com> writes:
The following small patch was all that was necessary for me to successfully compile Xvnc on SGI Irix 6.2 with the N32 binary format. A binary is available at ftp://ftp.dent.med.uni-muenchen.de/pub/wmglo/.
Wolfram's patch is available at http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/contrib/vnc-irix6.2-patch.txt .
SGI Irix 6.4 and 6.5Charlie Bond told us that Xvnc compiles OK as long as you do:
cd ./Xvnc ; make BOOTSTRAPCFLAGS=-DFIXUP_CPP_WHITESPACE Worldand Ellis Golub posted some useful notes to the VNC mailing list: IRIX 6.5 Build Notes
SPARC LinuxJames Hall <email@example.com> writes:
Just thought I would let you know: VNC 3.3.2r2 compiles just fine on
Linux/SPARC. I am using it now to run Word and Lotus Notes without
To compile, I just ran the 'configure' script, then typed 'make'. I think I got a few warnings during the compile (mostly unused variables) but VNC runs fine. This was on Red Hat Linux/SPARC 4.x, so I didn't have glibc. Don't know if that makes a difference.
Shinji Hattori
I could not find a VNC package for Sparc Linux. So I made small patch and compiled on Redhat 5.2 sparc. Xvnc works fine.
You can download his patch here.
SunOS 4.1.3We've had reports that this buiilds without any problems if you use gcc.
SVGALIB (Linux without an X server) & Single-floppy Linux
One of the very first VNC viewer ports was done by Ganesh Varadarajan and Sitaram Iyer. They built a vncviewer which runs directly from a Linux console using the SVGALIB library. You will need to install svgalib and configure /etc/vga/libvga.config for your graphics card. This can be a bit fiddly - the vgatest program which comes with the svgalib distribution can sometimes help, and check the setup using another svgalib program such as zgv if you have problems with the viewer.
The viewer doesn't do any scaling or scrolling, so the desktop you connect to must be of a resolution supported by your SVGALIB setup. Try creating servers of different geometries and connecting to them - if your svgalib setup doesn't work for one resolution it may work for another. Persevere - this has a lot of potential. You can use it to make a very lightweight graphics terminal with reasonable performance on low-end hardware.
The current version will not generally be able to connect to Windows servers, because it requests a palette-based display which the Windows server cannot generate.
The sources for svncviewer are here: svnc-0.1.tgz Remember that you will need both X and the VNC sources on your machine to build it, though you won't need them to run it!
Single-floppy LinuxKarl Heinz Kremer firstname.lastname@example.com has created a single-floppy linux distribution which includes svncviewer. You can now use an old 486 without even a hard disk as an X display. See http://www.khk.net for details
VMSA new version of the VNC Viewer for OpenVMS VAX and Alpha is now available.
The VNC333R1VMS011 package contains V1.1 of the OpenVMS VNC Viewer, which is based on VNC V3.3.3r1. The port to VMS was performed by Hunter Goatley and David North. It comes as a VMSINSTAL kit, and provides VNCVIEWER and VNCPASSWD images for both VAX and Alpha. (Note that a VNC server for VMS is not included, though we hope to look into the possibility of adding it sometime.)
You can get the VMS VNC Viewer using one of the following URLs:
Windows CEThe Windows CE viewer is now released! See the Download Page and the Documentation. We don't currently have the compiler to build for the ARM platform, so if you have an HP Jornada or similar you may want to get a binary from http://www.conduits.com/ce.
Windows NT/AlphaTim Senecal has compiled version 3.3.3r1 for Windows NT/Alpha and made it available at: http://www.geocities.com/tim_senecal/
Previously John Ross Hunt wrote:
Binaries and VC++ project files are now available for Alpha NT WinVNC3.3.2. You can download them from: ftp://ftp.lawbulletin.com/vnc/ You will probably have better luck downloading with a standard FTP client instead of using a web browser (it's a firewall issue). We plan to upgrade soon, but until then, the old-fashioned way works best.
For comments, feedback, etc, please see the 'Keeping
in touch' page.


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We'd like to introduce you to the newest member of our family.
This is Oliver.
Oliver is a lemon beagle. We got him a week before Christmas and he was six weeks old when he came to live with us. He is very sweet and loveable. He likes to nibble on us and will cuddle up with us to take his puppy naps. We call him "Ollie" for short.
Bean was taking a kiddie nap in her car seat when Oliver first arrived. He couldn't believe that anyone could sleep through his introduction so he promptly woke her up. She first opened her eyes, looked right at Ollie and then threw her arm around his neck to put him in a headlock and rolled over with him tailing right behind - still in the headlock.
Once she woke up she warmed right up to him. "Puppy! Puppy! Puppy!" She was instantly in love.
Oliver has brought us tons of laughs and love already. His little personality is beginning to shine. The only challenge we've had so far is the same everyone has with a new puppy and that's house training. I haven't had to house train a doggie since 1997! I think I've forgotten all I ever learned. But we'll get there. I sure hope we get there. LOL


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A day after Washington receiver Pierre Garcon said quarterback Robert Griffin III isn't as fast as last year because he's wearing a knee brace now, Griffin responded by saying he'll race Garcon to show just how fast he is.
But Garcon isn't backing down, reiterating today that he thinks the brace is holding Griffin back.
"There's no knee issue," Griffin said. "I love my receiver. If he wants to race, then we can race."
Garcon, however, says it's obvious that you can't run as fast with a knee brace as you can without a knee brace.
"It's just like when you have extra equipment on," Garcon said. "You definitely can't move as fluid and as fast as you could if you didn't have it on. It's common sense, really. If you carry extra stuff on you, you're not gonna be as fast as you were without it."
Garcon also indicated that the decision not to play Griffin in the preseason has caused Washington's offense to be rusty at the start of the regular season.
"It's always tough to not have any actual preseason games and try to come into the full speed of the regular season," Garcon said. "That definitely didn't help us, as we can see now. But it's a situation that you have to deal with. You don't want to get hurt in the preseason. That'll cause more controversy and drama around here. But you've got to make a decision and live with it. We made the decision not to play him in preseason. Now we're living with it. We just have to get better."
There's no doubt about that last part: After starting the season 0-2, Washington needs to get better in a hurry.


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Citing investigation, Iowa police won't release cause of death in Iowa cousin case
EVANSDALE, Iowa – Authorities won't be releasing details anytime soon about what caused the deaths of two cousins whose bodies were found in a park about 25 miles from their homes in northeast Iowa.
Evansdale Police Chief Kent Smock told The Des Moines Register on Wednesday that the causes and other details about the deaths of Lyric Cook and Elizabeth Collins will be kept confidential in order to protect the investigation.
Smock says "the only people that are going to know this information are the people who are responsible."
He says tests on the girls' bodies aren't finished yet.
Lyric was 10 and Elizabeth was 8 when they disappeared from Evansdale on July 13. Their bodies were found on Dec. 5.
No arrests have been reported as the investigation continues.


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János Bándi
He graduated from Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in 1981 as a student of Ferencné Révhegyi. As a student and a scholarship-holder of the Hungarian State Opera House, he already sang some minor roles in the Opera. His first great success was the role of Prince Ramiro in Rossini's Cinderella. In 1981 he joined the Opera House, where he worked until 1987. Since then he has been a freelance singer. At the beginning of his career he mainly sang lyrical tenor roles, but later he gradually became a heroic tenor. Major roles: Hermann (Tchaikovsky: The Queen of Spades), Bánk ban (Erkel), Canio (Leoncavallo: Pagliacci), Calaf (Puccini: Turandot), Manrico (Verdi: Il trovatore), Radames (Verdi: Aida), Otello (Verdi: Otello). János Bándi sang the role of Jaquino at the 1985 revival of Fidelio conducted by Antal Doráti.


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Down to their final out, the Toronto Blue Jays got consecutive run-scoring singles from Jose Bautista and Edwin Encarnacion in the ninth inning Sunday to rally for a 6-5 win over the Angels, snapping the Angels' modest three-game winning streak and wiping out a solid pitching effort from left-hander C.J. Wilson.
Down, 5-2, entering the eighth, Toronto chased Wilson with one-out singles from Rajai Davis and Bautista, who combined for six of the Blue Jays' 12 hits. That knocked Wilson out of the game, but that wasn't the end of the Angels' bad luck because when Encarnacion greeted reliever J.C. Gutierrez with a ground ball to third that looked to be a potential inning-ending double play, Chris Nelson bounced his throw to second baseman Tommy Field for his second error of the day, allowing Davis to score.
After another pitching change, Jose Lind hit another potential double-play ball to Mark Trumbo at first but Trumbo also threw wild to second, forcing shortstop Erick Aybar to settle for just the forceout. Pinch-hitter Maicer Izturis then followed with an infield single to drive in another run and push the tying run into scoring position.
The Angels escaped that inning with the lead but they couldn't close it out in the ninth, with Brett Lawrie leading off with a single and closer Ernesto Frieri hitting the next batter. The Blue Jays appeared to catch a break when Angels catcher Chris Iannetta picked Lawrie off second, but after being trapped in a rundown, Lawrie dived back into second ahead of Aybar's tag, according to second base umpire Brian Knight.
Replays, however, appeared to show Aybar tagged Lawrie on the right shoulder before he touched the base.
Nonetheless, a pair of outs got the Angels within one batter of the win before Bautista and Encarnacion drove in the go-ahead and winning runs with consecutive singles.
Mike Trout and Trumbo each homered for the Angels, who built a 5-2 lead after four innings.
Toronto starter Mark Buehrle came into the game having gone 20 innings without giving up a run. But the Angels needed just two batters to end that streak with Trout homering with one out in the first inning.
The Blue Jays answered with a pair of runs of their own in the third, helped in large measure by a pair of Angels errors.
After two quick outs Jose Reyes reached on an infield single and continued to second on third baseman Nelson's poor throw. Davis followed with a run-scoring single, then stole second and continued to third when first baseman Trumbo threw the ball into left field on a pickoff play.
One pitch later Bautista singled, scoring Davis.
Trumbo more than made up for his mistake an inning later though, golfing a 0-2 pitch into the stands near the left-field foul pole for a three-run home run, his 25th of the season. And when Aybar and Iannetta followed with doubles, the Angels led, 5-2.
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A host of major awards contenders will make their world premieres at this year's Toronto International Film Festival, including John Wells' family drama "August: Osage County," Jean-Marc Vallee's period AIDS film "The Dallas Buyers Club" and Jason Reitman's literary adaptation "Labor Day."
The movies will be joined by a number of fall hopefuls making their North American debuts north of the border, including Ron Howard's Formula 1 drama "Rush," Stephen Frears' adoption tale "Philomena" and Alfonso Cuaron science-fiction pic "Gravity." Those movies will play the Venice film Festival or another global venue before coming to the Canadian confab. (Both North American and world premieres, it should be noted, can sometimes play a sneak screening at the Telluride Film Festival a week or so before Toronto.)
Among the other world premieres with a high interest value are Steve McQueen's "Twelve Years a Slave," the Brad Pitt-produced tale of a free Northern man taken into slavery; "Enough Said," the Nicole Holofcener romantic dramedy that marks one of James Gandolfini's last role; and "Prisoners," Denis Villenueve's revenge drama starring Hugh Jackman that serves as the director's follow-up to his foreign-film sensation "Incendies." Justin Chadwick's "Mandela," about the iconic Civil Rights leader, will also world-premiere.
The Canadian festival announced its selection of galas and special presentation on Tuesday morning; a second round of announcements is planned for next week.
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The festival also announced Bill Condon's "The Fifth Estate" as the opening night film and Daniel Schechter's "Life of Crime" as its closing picture. "Estate" examines the life of and controversy around WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, with Benedict Cumberbatch as the polarizing figure. "Information is the most potent currency of our time, and we've found a film that charts just how volatile it can be," Cameron Bailey, the festival's artistic director, said in a statement. "Crime," meanwhile, is based on Elmore Leonard's novel "The Switch" and stars Jennifer Aniston and John Hawkes.
Tuesday's slate also included premieres for a number of other titles of note, including Matthew Weiner's slacker tale "You Are Here;" "Can A Song Save Your Life?," "Once director John Carney's romance co-starring Adam Levine; Kristen Wiig's dramatic debut in "Hateship Loveship," Liza Johnson's adaptation of an Alice Munro work; and "The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby," Ned Benson's two-film project that stars Jessica Chastain and James McAvoy and tells separately of a romance from a male and female perspective. The movies can be viewed together or apart, and in any order.
The slate will mean the usual cavalcade of stars at Toronto, with the festival showcasing movies featuring Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts ("August"), Matthew McConaughey, Jared Leto and Jennifer Garner ("Dallas Buyers") George Clooney and Sandra Bullock ("Gravity" and, for Clooney, "Osage County," which he produced), Jude Law (whose British gangster pic "Dom Hemingway" is heading to the festival despite a release from Fox Searchlight the following April), Julia-Louis Dreyfus ("Enough Said") and Scarlett Johansson (as an alien, in Jonathan Glazer's "Under the Skin").
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The world premieres each come with one or two juicy story lines. "Osage County," which Weinstein Co. will bring out Dec. 25, is Tracy Letts' adaptation of his own Pulitzer-Prize winning play and could return Roberts to the thick of the awards race for the first time in more than a decade.
"Dallas Buyers" is the latest and perhaps most serious bid for Oscar credibility for McConaughey, who lost a significant amount of weight to play a real-life Texas hustler who in the 1980's smuggled AIDS drugs from Mexico. The project had been in development for years with everyone from Brad Pitt to Ryan Gosling attached, before getting off the ground last fall. Focus Features has set a Dec. 6 release date.
And Josh Brolin and Kate Winslet star in "Labor Day," Reitman's adaptation of a Joyce Maynard novel. Reitman — a favored son in Toronto who has seen splashy unveilings of "Up in the Air" and "Juno" there —will mark his return to the festival after bypassing it with his 2011 homecoming drama "Young Adult." Paramount brings out the new movie Dec. 25.
Meanwhile, with "Skin," "Gravity" and Richard Ayoade's' "The Double," an adaptation of an otherworldly Dostoyevsky work starring Jesse Eisenberg, the festival will have a sci-fi/surrealist bent that picks up where "Looper," last year's opening-night film, left off.
Toronto will also give an unusually large number of actors a platform to unveil their directorial efforts, including Jason Bateman for his spelling-bee comedy "Bad Words;" Ralph Fiennes for his Charles Dickens romance "The Invisible Woman;" Keanu Reeves for his multilingual martial-arts film "Man of Tai Chi;" and Mike Myers for his talent-manager documentary "Supermensch." Joseph Gordon-Levitt will also bring his Sundance hit "Don Jon's Addiction" to the festival.
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All told, about 65 galas and special presentations were announced on Tuesday, including a number of pictures that played the Sundance and Cannes film festivals. The 11-day gathering kicks off on Sept. 5.
With its place at the head of the awards calendar and an abundance of North American media in attendance, Toronto is an important launch pad for fall movies both commercially and on the Oscar front.
Last year "Argo" began its successful ride to the Dolby podium there after a sneak at Telluride, following a similar trajectory for "The King's Speech in 2010. Among the other award-decorated movies that received a critical boost at Toronto in recent years were "The Silver Linings Playbook," "Black Swan," "Atonement" "Moneyball" and "Shame."
Not on the 2013 list Tuesday were Nicole Kidman-toplined royals saga "Grace of Monaco," Clooney's WWII art-rescue pic "The Monuments Men," ; Spike Lee's revenge remake "Oldboy," Martin Scorsese's greed drama "The Wolf of Wall Street" and Ridley Scott's legal epic "The Counselor," though one or more could yet end up in future announcements.
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Somewhere in the ancient scrolls of American media and telecommunications two truths are written:
1. cable companies shall not pay broadcasters to carry their signal
2. manufacturers of mobile devices will sign exclusive distribution agreements with phone networks
By the end of the first full week of the decade we will know if Fox will have forced Time Warner's hand on carriage fees and if Google will really launch the unlocked Nexus in a challenge to Apple, AT&T, Verizon and the rest.
These two events along with potential charging for online content from News Corp, Hulu and others, the publishing industry's e reader initiatives, Apple's tablet, the continued drive to addressable television and the FTC's decisions on Net Neutrality suggest that a broad ranging exploration of the economics of content, devices and distribution will dominate the media news of early 2010.
For the most part advertisers will sit on the sidelines of these issues which is not to say that they won't be impacted by the outcome. As the economics of communications change so does the way consumers receive and interact with content and that includes advertising.


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By JOHN FLOWERS
NEW HAVEN — Almost three years ago Jeffrey New sustained a back injury that put him on long-term disability. Faced with the prospect of long, lonely days at home, he thought he'd get a cat to keep him company.
Let's just say he now has more feline friendship than he and his wife, Alice, can handle.
The one animal has mushroomed into a veritable cat commune of 43 felines of various ages and sizes, all ensconced in the News' home, ironically located on Dog Team Road.
"We haven't had the heart to get rid of them," Jeffrey New said on Monday as the cats played, lazed, sunned and perched themselves on any surface they could find in the couple's home. "But we're at a point now where we have to let some of them go."
It all started off with one solitary cat, named Maggie, who they adopted from an acquaintance. The home's pet population doubled a short time later, however, when the News agreed to look after Maggie's sister, Misty. But Misty's stay would become permanent.
"We talked (Misty's owner) into letting us adopt her, too," New recalled.
Little did they know, those original two were just a kitty starter kit.
News of the News' love for cats spread throughout the area, to the point they would become a repository for unwanted and stray felines. People would drop off pregnant cats — kittens and adults — some with disabilities.
They just couldn't say "no."
And they have taken in the cats at great personal expense.
New estimates the couple spends upwards of $300 monthly for food, vet bills and kitty litter to regularly replenish the seven boxes maintained in the home.
MIDDLEBURY — Local lawmakers on Monday served notice that they continue to try and reconcile their own fiscal year 2009 spending priorities with those prescribed by Gov. James Douglas.
Douglas in January unveiled his proposed fiscal year 2009 budget calling for spending and raising $4.3 billion in state and federal funds. Lawmakers, during a legislative breakfast at the Bristol American Legion Hall, voiced concerns that the governor's budget includes some significant financial shortfalls in some areas.
"I think we know the budget we received is sort of a 'credit card budget,'" Rep. David Sharpe, D-Bristol, said of the Douglas's spending plan. "It shorts (state employee) retirement funds by $8 million; it shorts the hospitals by $8 million; it shorts the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board fund by $5 million."
Sharpe, a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, said his panel has been struggling to find ways to shore up the programs he said have been shorted.
"How much of that can we restore? I don't know. But our committee has been asked to come up with $5 million, and even coming up with that is going to be extraordinarily difficult," Sharpe said.
It will be difficult because lawmakers concede they aren't keen on raising taxes. Coincidentally, Vermont House Speaker Gaye Symington, D-Jericho, made a "no-new-taxes" pledge on Tuesday.
Lawmakers have, however, supported some proposed fee increases. Sen. Harold Giard, D-Addison County and Brandon, said he and other lawmakers endorsed a measure to increase revenues for the state's court system.
By CYRUS LEVESQUE
ADDISON COUNTY — Sugaring season has begun, and while it's never easy to predict how the season will go, some Addison County sugarmakers say they expect a good season.
"We're off to a good start," said Maurice Rheaume of his own sugarmaking operation. "Most everybody's pretty optimistic."
The Middlebury resident is president of the Addison County Sugarmakers Association. He said that he began boiling sap on March 8, five days earlier than last year. Temperatures this spring have been relatively cold, which Rheaume said is ideal for sugaring.
"Cold is always better than warm. The weather is favorable," he said. On Tuesday, Rheaume was looking forward to the ice and freezing rain forecasted for that night, and he probably wasn't disappointed.
Don Dolliver of Starksboro agreed. "I think it's a favorable sign that we keep getting these storms," he said. He first boiled sap on March 8, but declined to predict how long the season would last. "It takes a few 70-degree days in a row, and that's it."
Modern sugarmaking operations usually use pipes running from tree to tree to collect sap. That's easier than the traditional method of hanging buckets on each tree in some ways, but it requires maintenance when a pipe gets weighted down by ice or pulled down under a fallen branch or tree.
But according to Bill Scott of Vergennes, the former forestry teacher at the Patricia A. Hannaford Career Center and a sugarmaker himself, that hasn't been much of a problem, despite the frequent icy weather this year.
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By next year, kayakers will have a new access point to reach Wilmington's Smith Creek.
By next year, kayakers will have a new access point to reach Wilmington's Smith Creek. Earlier this month, the city council voted to spend $232,435 on a project to build a parking area, boardwalk and kayak launch near the intersection of McRae Street and Cornelius Harnett Drive.
"We need more," said George Bland, a kayaker and assistant manager of Great Outdoor Provision Co. "We need them all over the city."
Amy Beatty, the city's recreation superintendant, wouldn't dispute that.
"Our community is greatly underserved in the amount of non-motorized boat launches we have," she said.
Once it is completed, the new kayak launch will be the first on Smith Creek, Beatty said. The city does have a nearby launch on Burnt Mill Creek at Archie Blue Community Park in Love Grove.
Bland said the new project will help more people access Smith Creek. "You can get there, but sometimes it can be muddy," Bland said.
Chris Tryon, the co-owner and vice president of Hook Line and Paddle, said the kayak launch, when completed, will be used often.
"You always want to paddle a piece of water when you see it," he said. Although drivers can pass over Smith Creek twice if they drive the Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway, Tryon said you only see a portion of it. "That's a tiny sliver of that whole creek system," he said. The serpentine creek, which starts at the Northeast Cape Fear River, is navigable up to the North College Road area.
"It's an interesting creek to paddle," Tryon said, noting it narrows near Wilmington International Airport and has plenty of fish. Although it abuts the parkway, many areas of the creek are more secluded, he said.
The creek winds past industrial areas closer to the river and passes under the swing bridge on Castle Hayne Road built in 1931. It also meanders under a railroad bridge, by EUE/Screen Gems Studios, the airport and through tree-lined banks.
A state grant will pay for the bulk of the cost of the launch. The N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources' Division of Coastal Management awarded the city $175,000 to help pay for the project. The city provided a $57,435 cash match along with a $28,774 of in-kind work by city staffers.
Before construction can start, city officials need to complete negotiations with the property owner and obtain permits, though Beatty said the grant requires the project to be completed by October 2014.
Ultimately, the city wants to create a network of paddle trails, also called blueways, that can be marketed to residents and visitors alike. Along the way, the trails can have amenities like parking, bathrooms and signs, Beatty said. The paddle trails were part of the Wilmington/New Hanover County Comprehensive Greenway Plan adopted this year.
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When Dorothy "Buffy" Chandler went to Los Angeles County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn to get his support for the construction of the Music Center in 1959, she got it. But Hahn asked for a favor in return.
His request — that one day each year be set aside for the community to enjoy a free performing arts event.
And what is now the L.A. County Holiday Celebration was born.
This "gift to the community" celebrates its 54th year with a show at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion featuring more than 20 handpicked choirs, dance companies and musical groups that represent L.A.'s rich and varied cultural tapestry.
"What the Los Angeles County Holiday Celebration is about is celebrating the artists and the cultures of Los Angeles on that stage, and we do that," says Adam Davis, who has been producing the holiday celebration for the last eight years.
Highlights include the vocal ensemble ArteMusica's performance of seasonal classics in the baroque style, Gypsy Allstars' (featuring the sons of the internationally renowned Gipsy Kings) fusion of Spanish rhythms with Eastern sounds, and Sarah Reich and Tap Music Project's moves to live holiday music.
The Harana Men's Chorus under the direction of L.A. Master Chorale singer Ed Nepomuceno will perform seasonal repertoire in English and Tagalog; Aditya Prakash Ensemble brings a blend of classical Indian music with jazz and Latin rhythms; Grammy-winning Chicano rock outfit Quetzal will appear; and the Ate9 Dance Company, under the direction of former Batsheva dancer Danielle Agami, will premiere a modern dance piece.
"It's a hot ticket," Davis adds. "We've been told it's like the Rose Parade because it owns Christmas Eve" the way the parade owns New Year's Day.
"We know we're always going to have a full house. But if you don't get there early, it's going to be tough to get a seat because people start lining up at 9:30 for the 3 p.m. start time."
Those who don't get into the 2,500-seat venue can watch the show on screens in the Music Center plaza. Those who decide to stay home can always catch the broadcast live on KCET-TV and www.kcet.org live from 3 to 6 p.m. and again from 8 to 11 p.m.
Among the performers are Invertigo Dance Theatre, a dance troupe returning to Holiday Celebration.
"It's a dream for us to be able to join these incredible L.A. groups and celebrate our year and the year that Los Angeles has had," says Laura Karlin, the company's artistic director and choreographer who was honeymooning in Cambodia during last year's performance.
This time she'll be in the thick of it as one of seven dancers.
Karlin will premiere her new work, "Mishpachah" (Hebrew for "Family"). Based on her Jewish heritage and upbringing, the work that opens and closes with a family portrait session is injected with humor, celebration and reflection. It also features music by her brother, Toby Karlin.
"In doing research, I found mishpachah can mean the family you create and the connections that tie you together, which I love because I have strong ties with those kinds of families," says Karlin, a Brit who grew up stateside surrounded by an extended family.
Among the members of the extended family is Linda Berghoff, a lifelong dance hobbyist with whom Karlin founded a therapeutic dance class for people with Parkinson's disease and their loved ones. Berghoff was diagnosed with Parkinson's eight years ago and now leads Dancing Through Parkinson's classes at the Electric Lodge dance studio in Venice on Monday afternoons.
"She is my mishpachah," Karlin says of her former neighbor. "She was one of the first people to encourage my dance career. So for her to dance with me on the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion stage is very special."


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I bought 2 fresh crabs from the seafood market and was planning on making my favorite dish: tamarind crab. But as I was prepping the ingredients, we had surprise guests for lunch. So I improvised a crab salad with what we had available in the kitchen. All the extra ingredients and flavors in the salad help stretch the number of servings you can get out of 2 crabs, which is perfect when you're entertaining.
To begin with, I boiled the crabs, removed the crab meat and drizzled it with lime juice. I added roasted green bell pepper, tomatoes, avocado and grilled eggplant. I served the crab salad with a flavorful wasabi-coconut salad dressing and toasted bread on the side.
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I never thought my personal hero would be younger than me. But I've come to believe that Trent Roleau, 21, is either Addison County's incarnation of Achilles or a modern day Perseus. I'm not quite sure which.
Back in the day he led the Mount Abe basketball team to a state championship. More recently, I profiled him as part of my Making a Life in Addison County series, and he told me about his plans to start a small-scale diversified farm in Lincoln. Intrepid stuff.
For the print edition of the paper, I also wrote about his family's life on their Lincoln homestead, and their involvement in draft horse competitions around New England. It turns out that a few years ago, Trent acted as a more conventional hero — and possibly saved lives — at a draft horse competition in Maine.
During a competition, four horses got spooked and bolted through a fence. As they were heading towards an open gate leading into the fair grounds, Trent ran the horses down, and corralled them by pulling on the lead horse's bridle. In the words of the fair director, Roy Andrews:
Trent saved the day. His quick thinking and decisive actions prevented what could have been a terrible situation. These horses had already shown that fences weren't going to stop them.
If you don't believe Andrews, watch for yourself:
For the record, the Freyburg fair (where this took place) gave consent for us to post this video, which is illegal to reproduce without consent. This was a rare accident; the Freyburg fair and draft horse competitions around New England have excellent safety records and no one was seriously injured in this event.
Oh, and Trent also won the two horse team class at this fair. William Wallace has nothing on this guy.


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PERILS OF PARKING: A city on the hook
More than 90,000 cars are towed away in Boston each year. A Globe review finds the hot spots for losing your wheels.
To Lydia and Daniel Wee, heading into Allston for dinner one evening last spring, it looked like a dream come true in a city where it can be hell to park - an almost empty lot close to the restaurant, fronting a nearly deserted strip mall.
Signs warned that parking is for customers only, but there were so many empty spaces. Dinner would only last an hour. And this is Boston, where, when it comes to driving, rules can seem proudly optional.
Wrong move. The Allston strip mall lot has become Boston's black hole for illegally parked cars - and a cash machine for one local towing company.
The Wees returned to find a crew from Robert's Towing hauling away their silver Toyota Solara, even after Lydia, 28, sat down in the passenger seat and said she wouldn't move until police arrived.
"The men then stepped into their truck and began driving off with my wife still halfway in the car and the door still wide [open]!'' Daniel Wee, 31, wrote in a complaint to the state.
The Wees unwittingly picked perhaps the worst place to park in a city where street spots are painfully limited and snagging one in a private lot sometimes seems like the only solution. It is an inherently risky move - trespassing in fact - but also a risk that varies enormously from lot to lot, a Globe review of city towing records shows.
Some lots are virtual snares, and none more so than the one the Wees wandered into: More than twice as many cars have been towed for illegally using the 63-spot lot shared by a Rite Aid and a Dunkin' Donuts than at any other address in Boston, according to the Globe review. The second-leading location was the South Bay mall in Dorchester, a vast lot with more than 2,000 parking spots.
Also on the top 10 list of towing hot spots are three other pharmacy parking lots in Allston, South Boston, and the South End; Commercial Wharf West, a block-long private street near the North End; the Whole Foods near the Boston-Brookline border; Blanchard's liquor store in Allston, a Stop & Shop in Brigham Circle, and a strip mall lot in Fields Corner.
But the extraordinary number of tows from the one small Allston strip mall - roughly 3,550 vehicles over 31 months, generating an estimated $465,000 in cash for Robert's if they collected $131 per tow - does more than illustrate the tactics of one company.
It casts a light on an industry that in Boston legally impounds roughly 90,000 vehicles a year. Tow companies, nearly all of them privately owned, have almost no government oversight, even though they use heavy equipment to seize private property, carry tools for prying open cars, and often demand cash on the street.
And they aren't just hauling away vehicles in response to complaints. Outside the Rite Aid in Allston, Robert's trucks patrol the customer-only parking lot, hiding with their lights off behind a building as they hunt for cars to tow - and the $131 fee that owners must pay to liberate their vehicles from the impound lot.
Disputes about whether someone is a trespasser or a store customer almost always come down to the word of a tow-truck driver against the word of a car owner. But tow-truck drivers have one significant advantage: They have your car.
Robert Kopelman, owner of the towing company, acknowledges that he pays some of his drivers on commission, giving them incentive to patrol the lot at 177 Brighton Ave., where drivers tend to park illegally before heading off to bustling restaurants and bars nearby.
"I know we are the big, bad wolf,'' Kopelman said, defending the practice. "We tow illegally parked cars. Nobody wants to get towed.''
Drivers whose cars are hauled away have fewer rights and less legal protection in Massachusetts than in other states.
The state Department of Public Utilities handles many of the consumer complaints about alleged towing abuses, but it has little authority and routinely sides with tow truck companies, according to a review of the department's complaint files.
Robert's isn't the only company to draw complaints. Casey's Towing seized a gray Dodge Neon in January 2010, allegedly leaving a family with a 2-year-old standing in the 19-degree cold outside Flour Bakery on Farnsworth Street, a private way in South Boston.
It wasn't the first time.
"Officers have on numerous occasions observed Casey's Towing['s] predatory practice of towing vehicles on Farnsworth St.,'' a Boston police officer wrote in a report included in the complaint filed with the DPU.
Kevin Walsh, owner of Casey's Towing, said he had no memory of a family left in the cold. Casey's tow truck drivers are contracted to patrol Farnsworth Street, Walsh said, towing cars that don't belong.
"I don't know if that's predatory,'' Walsh said.
But Robert's Towing has been the target of more complaints to the state; grievances to the attorney general's consumer protection office; gripes to the Better Business Bureau; and negative online reviews than any other tow company in Boston.
At the Allston strip mall last May, a driver from Robert's Towing forced open a silver Saab 9-3 and, according to a complaint, damaged the door and emergency brake. The Saab's owner, Benjamin Hale, arrived on the scene and won release of his car by agreeing to pay $131 - more than he should have been charged under state law.
Hale complained, and Robert's issued a partial refund of $35 but did not address the damage. He may have been entitled to a larger reimbursement, but like most drivers, he was unaware of his rights. Robert's told regulators that the complaint had been closed, and the state took no further action.
On a Saturday night in August, Globe reporters observed Robert's tow trucks on patrol, two at a time, in the strip mall parking lot. The trucks drove beside a building, turned off their headlights, and lay in wait for unsuspecting drivers. Robert's seized three cars in four hours.
The catch included a BMW that a Robert's tow truck driver forced open to access the emergency brake by inserting a flexible, wire-type tool through the top of the closed passenger side window. On one Saturday in March, records show, Robert's snagged 23 cars.
"It's like legal robbery,'' said Cindy Nguyen, who has owned a hair salon across the street from the parking lot for more than 20 years. "Tow trucks sit there like dogs waiting for a bone.''
Any time a vehicle is towed in Boston, it must be "cleared'' by the Police Department to make sure it is not stolen. Before clamping onto cars, tow truck operators are required to call a hot line and report license plates. Dispatchers don't assess whether the tow was fair; they just check the status and record the information.
Under the Freedom of Information Act, the Globe requested all the towing data the City of Boston had on file from April 8, 2009, to Oct. 31, 2011. The Globe used the information to build a database that included the time, date, location, and other details of roughly 246,300 vehicles cleared for towing.
Tow companies insist their drivers don't tow all the vehicles cleared by police. But the data show that the vast majority were seized.
Certain patterns were expected. Towing spiked during snowstorms, when the city removes vehicles from major thoroughfares to make way for plows. Another surge occurred in early April, when the Public Works Department begins its street cleaning program and contracts with private tow companies to haul away cars.
During the 31 months, the Boston Transportation Department impounded about 32,800 cars and trucks for parking in front of a hydrant or in a crosswalk or handicapped space. The Transportation Department, which has a fleet of 27 tow trucks, also clears main arteries where parking is banned during commuting hours, which is why the greatest number of cars were towed between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m.
But the overwhelming majority of towing in Boston is done by dozens of privately owned companies.
Private tow companies are authorized to haul away vehicles for Boston police, public works, schools, and the Boston Housing Authority. Towing for the city's street sweeping program alone accounts for more than a third of towing in the city and is done entirely by private companies.
City contracts can include safeguards for consumers, but the requirements are sometimes ignored by towing firms and government officials. A contract authorizing Robert's to impound cars from Boston public school parking lots, for example, requires them to take credit cards, something the company has refused to do for those tows. And the schools, for their part, have done nothing to enforce it.
But tow companies are also hired by the owners of parking lots and other private facilities to clear vehicles of trespassers who park illegally.
For Robert's, the most lucrative work is a mile from its impound yard at the privately owned strip mall in Allston.
The property is owned by a limited liability company whose principals include two prominent developers, according to records at the registry of deeds and the secretary of state.
One of the owners is John L. Hall II, president of Suffolk Downs race track. Another is Richard L. Friedman, whose company transformed the former Charles Street Jail into the luxury Liberty Hotel. Friedman regularly hosted President Clinton and his family at his estate on Martha's Vineyard in the 1990s.
Neither Hall nor Friedman returned phone messages about the staggering number of vehicles towed from their property. The tenants, Rite Aid and Dunkin' Donuts, said through spokesmen that they do not request that cars be towed.
On April 23, 2011, Robert's impounded a dozen cars from the strip mall, including a 1996 Acura that belonged to Hyacinth Leavitt of Fitchburg. Leavitt and her husband chased the tow truck as it drove away.
"At that point we noticed the whole operation going on,'' Leavitt wrote in a complaint dismissed by state regulators. "Four tow trucks positioned in the back lot ready to do duty; I really hope you will investigate the operations going on at this location. Go and see for yourself the amount of towing going on; Someone is making thousands off this setup every night!''
Some states have taken significant steps to protect consumers from so-called "patrol towing.'' The practice allows tow trucks to act as bounty hunters, contracting with parking lot owners to seize cars at will. But in California, Washington, D.C., and other areas, tow truck drivers must receive written authorization from the owner of a parking lot for each individual car they seize.
In New York City, California, and many other locales, a tow truck driver is legally required to release a vehicle if the owner arrives on the scene. In Massachusetts, state law leaves the decision "up to the discretion'' of the tow truck drivers. They can choose to collect a "drop fee,'' unhooking the vehicle on the spot for half the price of a $90 tow, plus fees, often required in cash.
"I felt like I was completely at [Robert's] mercy,'' Wee, the driver whose wife had the run-in with the driver in the Allston strip mall lot, said in an interview. He ultimately handed over $50 cash for his car but sought recourse by complaining to state regulators. "Robert's had a different story, so it was my word against theirs. They said there was nothing they could do about it.''
Across Massachusetts, the state sets maximum fees: $90 per tow, plus a $35-a-day storage fee, a $3-per-mile round-trip charge for all tows over 5 miles, and a fuel surcharge that can add $5 to $6. That means a basic tow will cost roughly $130. The law requires itemized receipts that break down the charges, something that tow companies including Robert's don't always do.
Enforcement falls to the DPU.
"We have very, very limited authority,'' said Ann G. Berwick, chairwoman of the state agency. "Our authority has only to do with fees - that's it.''
Complaint records on file with the DPU show that the agency rarely challenges those fees and ignores some of the few regulations it has the authority to enforce. Since the Globe began its towing inquiry, the department said it has begun to make changes to step up enforcement.
In all, Robert's has had 22 complaints in the last three years.
"It's pretty damn good for the amount of work we do,'' Kopelman said. "Twenty [two] complaints over 25,000 tows is a joke.''
But that is still far more complaints than any other tow company in Boston. Casey's Towing, for example, had only one complaint in the last three years.
By any measure, Robert's has drawn more criticism than other firms. Drivers have also turned to the attorney general's consumer protection division (13 complaints since 2006) or the Better Business Bureau (22 complaints in the last three years).
Robert's is so aggressive, the records show, that one woman filed a complaint after a tow truck driver hooked up her car as she leaned against it chatting with a friend. A man sued in small claims court after he said Robert's removed his car from a 15-minute parking spot after just 12 minutes.
Some drivers did more than complain. In May 2004, a 29-year-old Duxbury resident sneaked into the impound lot at Robert's Towing on Goodenough Street, reclaimed his 1992 Honda Accord, and drove through a wooden gate to escape without paying, according to a lawsuit filed in Brighton District Court. Several others drivers have resorted to the same tactic, small claims court records show, including Charles Tippe, 47, of Providence, whose 1992 Toyota Camry was towed by Roberts in March 2005.
"There was no way in hell I was going to give up even a nickel,'' said Tippe, who in a recent interview denied smashing through the gate but acknowledged driving off without paying. "They wanted $130 in cash. Can you imagine that?
"I never did pay them,'' Tippe said. "How do you like that?''
Tom Giratikanon of the Globe staff contributed to this report. Andrew Ryan can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com Follow him on Twitter @globeandrewryan.


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