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Of all the shopping-heavy days in the year, two robbers in Maplewood, Missouri picked Cyber Monday as the likeliest day to do their "shopping" at GameStop in person. With a weapon.
St. Louis news service KMOX News reports that two mean armed with a handgun held up the Maplewood GameStop in Maplewood Commons at about 10:30 this morning. Nobody was hurt and the robbers took only money from the store.
I'm trying to decide if the robbers were using a strategy or not. On the one hand, it's Cyber Monday — so there won't be as many people in the store to potentially foil the robbery. But on the other hand, all the money from Black Friday is probably gone from the store and safely in GameStop's bank account... so how much could they really make off with?
Either way, that's two people getting coal in their stockings this Christmas...
Masked men rob Maplewood video store [KMOX News - thanks, Jason!]


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Police are blocking Ireland's top four Olympic executives from leaving Brazil as their ticket scalping investigation expanded with a raid on the team on the final day of the Rio de Janeiro Games.
The Rio police force said it executed search warrants Sunday to seize passports and evidence from Ireland team leader Kevin Kilty, chief executive Stephen Martin and secretary general Dermot Henihan, who are accused of illegally selling Olympic tickets.
The trio, whose phones and laptops were taken by police, agreed to present themselves for questioning by police on Tuesday, the OCI said in an earlier statement.
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The new development in the investigation came as Olympic Council of Ireland president Patrick Hickey, who is also a top Olympic official, remained in jail following his arrest on Wednesday.
Irish officials were preparing for the closing ceremony when the OCI said that early Sunday police arrived at its offices in the Olympic Village and external accommodation.
Unused official tickets were taken from the Irish office in the Olympic Village, which the OCI said were for athletes' families and friends.
"We are continuing the investigation into the international scheme of ticket scalping," Rio police said. "Agents are conducting investigations since this morning which will continue until Tuesday."
Investigators say a company, Pro 10 Sports Management, was created to facilitate the transfer of tickets between the Irish Olympic committee and THG, an unauthorized ticket seller.
The investigation has been unfolding through the Olympics, with the first arrests made two weeks ago.
The highest-profile figure swept up by investigators is Hickey, the head of the umbrella organization for Europe's Olympic bodies. Hickey was due to be spending the closing ceremony of the Olympics on Sunday in Rio's Bangu prison complex after his lawyers failed to secure his release on bail.
"Mr. Hickey has been arrested due to suppositions that are not supported by any material evidence or proof of the alleged facts presented by the police," Hickey's lawyer, Arthur Lavigne, said in a statement. "His arrest has no legal support. The investigation did not bring one single slight indication that Mr. Hickey could be involved with the facts therein investigated, and his detention was required by the police authority under mere assumptions."

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Parkinson's patients get moving to ease symptoms
York, PA - While sitting in his wheelchair, Dale McCoy faced his son Craig in the family's Hellam Township living room.
"Hands out," Craig McCoy said while demonstrating the movements. "Down to the floor."
With wide, concentrated eyes and slow stiff movements, Dale McCoy, 81, extended his arms in front of his body, bent at his waist and lowered his hands to the floor. While still in his wheelchair, he returned his torso to an upright position.
Craig McCoy asked his dad to do it again.
Dale McCoy has Parkinson's disease, a progressive nervous system disorder that affects movement. The stretching exercise is one of many he does to help retain his mobility. In recent years, experts have started encouraging Parkinson's patients to move more because studies have shown that regular physical activity can improve their quality of life.
Jennifer Harlacher, senior therapist for HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital in West Manchester Township, said fear of falling, embarrassment and depression sometimes prevent people from staying active after they've been diagnosed.
"People stop doing what they enjoy," she said. Health care providers have become more adamant about recommending physical activity, along with medication and rehabilitation, as part of a patient's treatment.
"Generally, it's only been the last few years that it's become much more standard-of-care," said Dr. Anthony May of WellSpan Health Neurology. When in training and early in his practice, May said, the health care industry focused on medication when treating people with Parkinson's. Although medicine works, he said, it has side effects and it often becomes less effective after five years.
May said Parkinson's disease affects the speed, size and rhythm of movements, which are a combination of many individual movements. If the individual movements don't happen in the right sequence or in a rhythmic way, he said, the sequence deteriorates, and it becomes harder to move.
"The normal functioning person takes for granted the automatic way in which we make very complicated movements to get up and go walking or reach for something," he said.
May said such movements are behaviors learned over a lifetime, and that therapy and exercise could help patients retrain their brains to execute movements and function longer. And although exercise helps most patients, he said, it hasn't been proven to slow the progression of the disease. "It could be hard to distinguish whether it stalls the disease or improves the symptoms," May said.
Cindy Capresecco, program coordinator for WellSpan Neurology, said Parkinson's care has evolved in the last 10 years because of research.
She said exercise can suppress a patient's symptoms for four to six hours and that physical activity helps people sleep better. Also, exercise classes provide patients with a place to socialize. WellSpan offers free exercise, tai chi and dance classes weekly for people who have Parkinson's, and HealthSouth holds an exercise class once a month.
"There's so much they can do other than swallowing a pill," she said. Craig McCoy tries to get his dad to exercise every day. If Dale is having a good day, Craig might instruct him on exercises for an hour. Dale also attends a monthly exercise class for Parkinson's patients at HealthSouth. If Dale is tired, Craig doesn't force it, because he knows it might be more frustrating for his dad.
Dale, who formerly worked as a mason and woodcarver, lived an active life before he was diagnosed. He often went hiking and boating. His wife, Gladys, said she and his family started to notice problems with his walking. He shuffled his feet when he walked, and his gait had become shorter.
"The worse I felt, the more I tried to fight it," Dale said. One late-summer evening about 10 years ago, after taking his dog for a walk at Rocky Ridge County Park, he fell. About a month later, a neurologist diagnosed him with Parkinson's.
Dale said he had known something was wrong for a while. Craig said he saw the importance of exercise when his dad first worked with a therapist after he was diagnosed. "I hadn't seen him walking that good in years," he said.
Craig said when Dale isn't as active, such as after recovering from an illness or during the winter, his symptoms usually worsen.
Donald Neiman, 72, of York Township, had to learn to incorporate physical activity into his routines after he was diagnosed with Parkinson's about eight years ago. Neiman, who didn't exercise earlier in life, has attended classes up to three times a week.
Before he was diagnosed, he said, he needed a cane to walk. Now, he keeps the cane rested on a chair in his kitchen as a reminder to stay active. Neiman said he has seen some people with Parkinson's who haven't kept moving after being diagnosed.
"I've watched them decline," Neiman said. "I think their inability to face it reduced their life span."
However, May said, it can be difficult for patients to become active. Many patients might not have transportation or access to a safe exercise facility. Also, a patient who's skeptical of its benefits might not get as much out of it.
May said it's human nature to go through lulls in exercise, but for someone with Parkinson's, those breaks can cause problems. "The point is to maintain that walking," he said. "There's no better way to do that than to actually walk."
About Parkinson's disease
--April marks Parkinson's Awareness Month.
--About 50,000 to 60,000 Americans are diagnosed with Parkinson's disease every year. The progressive nervous system disorder affects movement.
--Parkinson's disease typically affects people who are 50 and older. Men are more likely than women to develop the disease.
--The main symptoms include shaking or tremors, slowness of movement -- bradykinesia-- stiffness or rigidity of the arms, legs or trunk, and trouble with balance.
--Secondary symptoms include cramped handwriting, reduced arm swing, slight foot drag that creates shuffled walking, freezing when attempting to walk, loss of facial expression, low voice or muffled speech, and a decrease of ability in automatic reflexes such as blinking and swallowing.
--People who have Parkinson's are typically treated with medication that enhances dopamine production in the brain. Some patients who are in the advanced stages may undergo deep brain stimulation, a procedure during which surgeons implant electrodes into the brain.
--There is no cure.
-- National Parkinson Foundation, The Mayo Clinic


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CNBC recently compiled a list of the most expensive apartments in New York City and look whose car is parked outside of One57 and its $115,000,000 penthouse. Yes, it's the $8 million one-of-one Maybach Exelero perhaps owned by rapper/record exec Birdman.
We dug deeper and found that the Exelero is just a rendering issued by the renowned French architect Christian de Portzamparc's building. Also, the Prime Minister of Qatar has bought the penthouse already.
Moreover, it looks like Birdman never ended up taking delivery of that Exelero, which presumably remains in the possession of European entrepreneur Arnaud Massartic. So if Birdman is indeed apartment hunting for a penthouse in NYC, we don't know about it.
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The PBS NewsHour will profile the Iowa Electronic Markets (IEM) tonight as part of a feature looking at alternative ways to forecast an election.
The IEM, operated by the University of Iowa Tippie College of Business, is a political prediction market in which buyers and sellers trade contracts using real money to predict who will win an election. It operates in a way that's similar to any futures market, only instead of buying and selling contracts based on the future price of wheat or pork bellies or light sweet crude, the political markets use election outcomes.
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As of this morning on the Winner Take All market, Barack Obama contracts are selling for 65.5 cents, which means the IEM's traders believe Obama has a 65.5 percent probability of winning the popular vote. Contracts for Romney are selling for 35.5 cents, which means the market believes he has a 35.5 percent probability of winning the popular vote.
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I am no stranger when it comes to dealing with strange men. Working in a sex store for a few years you come across a few and have many stories to tell. Since transitioning out of stores and into sales for Evolved Novelties I don't really get those lovely interactions. I still travel and visit stores but don't really interact with the customers.
The other week I got a flashback to my strange men encounters. I was in West Virginia doing a store training in some remote town. The store I was at is a very big trucker stop since it is right off the Interstate. I had just finished my presentation and was in the back room getting gift bags together. My buddy from System JO was now doing her presentation for the staff and they were all occupied.
I noticed this guy walking back and forth by the door of the back room where I was. I kind of ignored him and kept working. I looked up at one point and caught a glimpse of him. He was your quintessential cowboy trucker. Tall, skinny and much older. Had on a cowboy hat, vest, light jeans, cowboy boots and a handlebar mustache. Here is what went down:
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Cowboy: Excuse me, do you guys have an arcade here?
Me: Oh I am not really sure. I don't actually work here; I just work for one of the toy companies. I don't think they do but you should check with one of the actual employees.
Cowboy: Oh ok. It looked like you worked here. (Walks away but comes right back) Because I was gunna say, you are just the cutest little thing I have even seen working in one of these places. You are delicious.
I smiled politely and said thank you. I have learned you don't really want to engage them and keep the conversation going but you also don't want to completely ignore them because then sometimes they get mean and I don't need that. So I gave him my normal smile and thank you routine to end the conversation.
I walked out of the back room to check out the store. I heard him walking behind me.
Cowboy: Man you have the cutest butt, just round and delicious. (He was a fan of the word delicious I guess)
Again a smile, a little laugh and I walked away and tried to look busy. He kept walking around the masturbator section and I walked around the store and into the back room again. I stayed in the back for a few minutes hoping he would get the hint.
I came out again and made my way towards where the other presentation was going on. He was on his way to the counter to check out and was behind me once again. I kind of ignored him but that didn't stop him from his best line yet.
Cowboy: mmmm, I would have such a hard time not following you around town. Man I just want to put my tongue in your ass!
I was not expecting that at all. But as shocked as I was I gave a small smile and walked over to the group of employees listening to the presentation until he was gone. I guess he told the manager when he was paying that he wanted to take me home too.
I find this all pretty hilarious. It's funny too because after he made his "ass" comment for a second in my mind I thought "aw that was sweet of him to say……. Wait no I don't want him thinking those things about me!" Leave it to me to take that as a compliment. Ah creepy men in sex stores, make life so much more interesting.
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I grabbed an early dinner with my sister Katie the other night at 75 Main, and was pleased to see that the doors along Southampton's Main Street were wide open to allow the cool-but-not-cold night air to waft in and mingle with all of the fabulous diners.
The ambience set, I decided to start my night off with a drink. Our waiter brought me the Gabriella, an Italian Pinot Grigio. Almost immediately, a basket of warm, homemade bread appeared. We indulged in the olive oil dip, which included a variety of seasonings, and chatted with owner Zach Erdem. Erdem had just gotten back from 75 Main's new location in Delray Beach, Fla., and he excitedly talked about its Amer-Med menu and laid back, chic atmosphere.
The word "chic" describes Southampton's 75 Main, too, and Erdem was quick to emphasize that the original location has also evolved, maintaining its status as a leader in Hamptons fine dining. Chef Victor Pastuizaca recently joined the 75 Main team. Pastuizaca previously spend six years at Nello's in Southampton, and he has an impressive 18 years of experience in the restaurant business. He brings his own flair to the menu while preserving the classic style that has come to define dining at 75 Main.
Katie and I were enjoying the conversation, and it took awhile for us to even glance at the menu. But, in true female fashion, once we did, we had a trying time deciding what to choose.
Erdem came around again to ask if we had any questions, and after observing our wide-eyed, ravenous looks, requested that the chef make up a special platter of appetizers.
We could not have been happier, as we indulged in tuna tartar, the 75 Main caprese, the lobster salad and calamari. As someone who is not a fan of watching my food swim in a sea of mayo, I was drawn to 75 Main's unique take on the traditional lobster salad. With endive, basil, tomato, big chunks of avocado, lemon and olive oil, the lobster salad does not skimp on the lobster, which is cooked to perfection and then chilled.
The tuna tartar is made with ahi tuna and guacamole. Very fresh, the dish also had a little kick to it that went great with a sip of wine. It was at this point that I was made keenly aware that my glass would never go empty that night, and I appreciated the gracious gesture. 75 Main also offers the Bertaud Belieu rosé, an oft-requested wine from Provence, France.
Katie, who has been known to order calamari whenever available, was also nice enough to invite me to share "her" portion of the dish. Each bite was crispy and flavorful.
Then, it was on to the entrée. Again, we had a difficult time deciding what to order. 75 Main's menu includes a multitude of options that span the entire seafood-pasta-meat range. As we debated the merits of each item, the lights were turned down in what I'd imagine was a precursor to the upcoming night's lounge festivities.
More than a mainstay as a restaurant, 75 Main offers a popular night scene, especially on the weekends, with a DJ, full bar and table service. (I came back a few days later to indulge in some celebratory drinks with a friend who had just gotten a new job. In addition to the weekend entertainment, 75 Main also has a Hamptons employees night on Tuesdays.)
Ultimately, I went with the grilled salmon as a main course. The dish is served with balsamic nectar and spinach. The balsamic nectar dressing was the perfect complement to the salmon, and there was a light seasoning to enhance the flavor. I also enjoyed my sautéed spinach.
Katie ordered the penne primavera, which is tossed with a number of fresh veggies, including squash, roasted red pepper, plum tomatoes and roasted garlic, and extra virgin olive oil. She ordered hers with chicken, but seafood lovers might choose to have it with shrimp.
Erdem also recommended the Chilean sea bass, which is served with saffron rice and is topped with a leek and pesto sauce. I'll be sure to come back for that and the linguini vongole, which has manila clams tossed in a white wine sauce with garlic olive oil.
Though we were stuffed—I gladly enjoyed some of Katie's pasta for lunch the next day—we couldn't pass up the Tiramisu that Erdem brought to the table. Moist and full of coffee flavor, it was prepared in true Italian form. I think Katie's succinct, gut reaction summed it up best: "It's really good!"
75 Main, 75 Main Street, Southampton. 631-283-7575. www.75main.com.


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The Charlie Sheen Traveling Circus pulled up to the 2011 Emmy Awards, and his appearance was being contested right up to the eleventh hour. But the angst was for naught.
It's been a crazy year for Sheen, who's been plagued by personal and professional troubles throughout, and there were concerns that he might go off the rails yet again on live TV. But the TV veteran was the very essence of grace.
"Thank you. Good evening. Thank you, thank you," said Sheen. "Before I present Outstanding Lead Performance by Actor in a Comedy Series, my old category, I want to take a moment to get something off my chest and say a few words to everybody here from 2.5 men, from the bottom of my heart, I wish you nothing but the best for this upcoming season. We spent 8 wonderful years together, and I know you will continue to make great television."
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Sheen has been this year's most talked about TV star, both for his self-destructive appetites and his war of words with "Two and a Half Men" creator/producer Chuck Lorre. So naturally, producers of the Emmy broadcast invited Sheen to be on the show, allegedly to present the award for Outstanding Actor in a Comedy, a category for which the actor was eligible, but declined to make a bid for nomination.
This afternoon, Deadline reported that Lorre was furious about Sheen's possible involvement, and expressed his frustrations to TV Academy chairman John Shaffner, who also works as production designer for "Men" and "The Big Bang Theory," another one of Lorre's shows. Lorre wanted Sheen dropped from the show, and had others make calls on behalf of the cause.
Sheen would've been the second casualty of the night, joining Alec Baldwin, whose bit was dropped following a disagreement with Fox over a joke about News Corp's phone hacking scandal.
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But when DiS phoned lead man Johnny Borrell and interrupted his viewing of 'On The Waterfront', Razorlight were kinda in-between drummers. In fact, Christian had not officially stopped playing for the band and had a few gigs left to do. This didn't stop Mr Borrell, how do you say, 'going off on one'…
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DiS: Let's go back in time a bit… The vision you had for this band – how is it all panning out in the way you saw this band becoming? Is it going to plan?
Johnny: (Long pause) Ermmm… 80% (more silence).
Care to expand on that one?
Not really. It's a bit close to the bone, that one actually.
Close to the bone?
Yeah. Well, you know, you might have to get me drunk and warm me up a bit. Let's come back to it.
OK. I was looking through your biog and it said Steve Lillywhite was no longer involved in your album's production. What happened with that, or is that another close-to-the-bone one?
Yeah, you get right to the jugular! Steve is talentless and has got a reputation based on nothing – no, I didn't say that. That was a JOKE. The fact is, we did the singles with him and it wasn't really working. He had some personal shit going on and we reached a mutual decision not to do it with him. So we went and did it with John Cornfield.
How much difference was there between the two producers and how much input did you have into it yourself?
Well John Cornfield – it's an insult just to call him an engineer because he's such a fucking great engineer. He just sets up the mics and gets the sound. We've got such a fucking great band sound on this record; as good a band sound as I've heard for years, you know? And he did that and left and left all the arrangements and production side to me, and I did all that. A match made in heaven. With Steve it was just weird.
Did you try a few producers/engineers before settling on Cornfield?
Top of the list?
He was there or thereabouts. There was talk of American producers but I just didn't want to take that gamble with someone I hadn't met. The session was weird y'know 'cos we started doing it at Sphere and then his dad got ill and he had to Cornwall for a bit, so we had to take a bit of time off, then to get back into it we had to go down to Cornwall, which was an unbelievable nightmare. I don't want to bang on about adversity but there was a lot of it. It was a tough record to make, especially with Christian. You asked me about him leaving (no I didn't!) and it's kind of… I don't really know how I feel about it emotionally. He left. But he would've been kicked out if he didn't leave.
Absolutely. I read that thing in the NME about it being health differences. People say to me that it sounds bollocks, but (incredulously) it's absolutely true. The thing is, it's not that we're getting wrecked: we'd be doing live takes with the vocals and I'd say 'come on Christian, let's do a take,' and he'd turn round and go 'no.' Like… what the fuck? 'I've got to digest.' And he's sitting there eating strawberries. Right! So you kinda go 'OK, fine' and then if he's not 'digesting' he's 'resting.' He refuses to practise. He's good in certain ways; a very characteristic, original drummer, when he's good he's good and I like a lot of things about his drumming, but he just refuses to get better and doesn't have the passion for it. We had to mix the tracks. It's fucking difficult. I'm really fucking disappointed. Maybe people will get the impression I'm being difficult and he's being straight-up with it – I don't know why – but me and John were doing the album and pulling our hair out. We couldn't fucking believe it… just couldn't fucking believe it. He's going to do the next few gigs and then we're just going to do a tour. It won't the same without him, won't be the same dynamics.
Yes, I was going to ask that at some point.
(Sighs) Fuck, I don't know. This is the only band I've been in, really (despite being tagged as 'ex-Libertines', he was in the Libertines for a grand total of 10 days). I don't know! DoyouknowwhatImean?
At least he was eating strawberries and not injecting smack. I don't want to talk much about that because he's not here to speak for himself obviously, but when he was in Stony Sleep there were all these stories about their drug-intake.
Yeah, Lee (RIP) took a lot of heroin but he liked playing the bass! That was his fucking passion. I don't really think that's the worst thing in the world. If you're tired in the studio, you do what you can – you have a cup of coffee, a fag and a couple of beers, whatever it fucking takes to get there but Christian can't fucking do that. He'll get set up then say 'I've got to go rest now.' It's just bullshit. The clock's ticking. This album's taken a fuck of a lot of time and a lot of it is to do with Christian. He's just a weird guy. You try and level with him but there's just no fucking comeback.
What response have you had from the wanted ad in the NME?
Pretty good. We're just going to try them out (they eventually hired a chap called Andy Burrows). I think I'm due a bit of luck, y'know. I think there will be somebody who's fucking ideal. My soulmate is out there. I've never had that in a band.
A soulmate?
Yeah, but like a real partner. Most bands have that and are built on an axis like that. God knows. Maybe I'm incapable of it. But no, I've never had that… fuck, it's weird, because you shoulder all the pressure yourself. You get this album, all songs written and produced by Johnny Borrell and it's so fucking… you know?
I see what you're getting at.
I produced, arranged, wrote and fucking recorded this record! And Bjorn's a wonderful guitar player and Carl is a great bass player and I love them both but… maybe I'll find the drummer that's a genius and can write fantastic songs.
The press and the way you're presented to the press – well, the bio says "Johnny is about to release his debut album" – it all kinda centres round…
Well it is and it isn't. It's a BAND. That's why when you ask if it's my vision it's not – it's 80% of it and 20% is taken another way, in a way I wouldn't necessarily have taken it but I think it's a good way.
How would you prefer for your band to be presented?
A bit more leftfield. I don't like following rules but I've learnt all the rules and I stuck to them for years. I fucking spent years writing songs and listening to the blues and soul and everything and I've learnt the rules, and now I want to break them – but you can only break them once you've learnt them. I am the WORST person to ask about this! I'm so fucking subjective on it. What the fuck do I know?! Really! What do I know? I just write these songs and try and make them sound good. Hehe.
What has your experiences with the music industry been for you apart from this album? Was it more fighting against adversity?
What like our label and stuff?
Welllll, the label, and you've got an ex-NME writer as a manager…
Well Roger (Morton, manager) is a really good friend and I've known him for years and… he is what he is. The label: there's times when you get really pissed off with them just for incompetence or something, but they're pretty cool.
Were you wined and dined by several labels?
Yeahhhhh. I think we made the right choice. But the grass is always greener. I'm not just talking about the label, I'm talking in general. But the reason the grass is greener is because you're creative and you want to get on with making things. The trouble is, you have to start talking about making things and, as everybody knows, the more you talk about something, the less it happens. I could sit here and talk about writing songs but it's not going to help me write songs.
I think I read in the last DiS interview that you've got tapes and tapes of things, and you've already written the second album.
I've written a very, very fucking beautiful album. And God knows when it'll come out. I'm going to try and record it in the next couple of weeks (!). Or after the tour. It'll be quick.
Have you thought about writing for other people?
I write for every side of my personality every day. So it's not really any different! We'll see, if I get any offers.
So you're not too attached to them then and want to keep them for yourself?
Once you've written a song, it's done and it's public property anyway. But I think about the industry and also the nature of songs – you get offers to sell your songs to adverts and shit, and I was totalling up the amount of money we've turned down this year, and it's fucking staggering. I think that's important. I don't get it. I don't get Jet. What's that one? 'Are You Gonna Be My Girl'. I heard it at the club we played at the other night and it sounded great and obviously it's doing its job, but shouldn't they get fucking lynched for selling that song to an advert? We were offered that and I just told them to fuck off straight away. I don't know, man. Sometimes you just think everything is just so the cult of celebrity and the kids just don't fucking get it, they just think 'fair play, you're making even more money.' Sorry, I don't mean to use 'the kids' in a patronising, inverted commas way.
Maybe they just don't think about it in that way, they just think 'oh, it's a song on an advert.'
Yeah but where do people get their facts from, man? The NME obviously don't care.
You played SXSW recently. How was that?
Well… it was an industry festival. How much fun do you think that can be? A thousand pissed off guitarist, a thousand pissed off singers, a thousand pissed off door managers, a thousand roadies, a thousand managers, a thousand press agents – (in mock delight) wa-heh-hey!
Sounds great!
A thousand A&R… no, TEN thousand A&R men, and a thousand A&R assistants and a thousand fucking record label bosses.
But it sounds like heaven, Johnny.
For music to exist, it needs to interact with something, and the performance interacts with the audience – that's what makes the gig.
Did you feel a little out of place?
Yeah, we did a good gig, but the whole thing is rubbish. We did what we had to do to get interest and blah blah blah but it's a pretty fucking cynical part of the job. You've got to just do it a couple of times and bite the bullet. It was cool going to America. New York was great. I wanted to go and see Texas but it (SXSW, held in Austin) wasn't Texas, it was a town that just doubled in population with a load of industry people in it. It's shit.
Do you feel like a London-centric band sometimes, or do you think you've passed that play-the-Barfly-on-a-regular-basis level?
I think we passed that quite a long time ago (ironic – they're due to play Camden Barfly on July 15th). Yes… breaking out of England. No! England and Japan, then we'll see what happens after that. You can't really torture yourself by thinking what's going to happen to your band. I just got a new guitar! And I got a new amp, so I've now got two amps onstage and two guitars exactly the same. And they're very rare – not expensive, but very rare. It's a Gibson L6S and they were only made for about five years in the '70s, and now I have two of them. So my life is fucking great! Hehehe. I've got a Marshal stack, a fucking Vox, and two beautiful guitars. KnowwhatImean? What more could I want? I've got a fucking kicking band and we're great. Conversely you could do it from all sorts of angles and screw yourself up about it, which obviously I do, relentlessly.
Aww. Are you still addicted to Teletext?
I can't get a good enough reception on my screen. I just tried it now and all I get is this flashing nonsense. I miss 'Words Of Wisdom' the most (that's Ceefax. Never mind). It's amazing how a meaningless championship match can occupy your thoughts for a whole 90 seconds and alleviate your mind from the darker recesses of your soul.
How do you do that now then?
You have to get a paper. Every morning, I have to go and get a fucking paper, rotating between The Guardian and The Independent. I don't know why I don't just get them to fucking deliver it!
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Actually I don't feel that old. I feel lucky. 30 was the best year yet, so here's to 31!
Terry bought me a new sewing machine. It's beautiful. It's my first computerized sewing machine. It even has this foot that you place the button you want in, and it makes the buttonhole all by itself. The perfect size and everything. I don't even have to press the peddle. It can go automatically by pressing one button! I'm so spoiled.
That would be the Brother CS-6000. Bad Ass! For those of you who are nerdy about sewing machines, here as the stats:
Anyway in other news, we fed Logan some chocolate cake. He loved it. The first thing he did when we put the piece in front of him was to put both hands into the cake and squeezed. Ew!!!!
He didn't realize it was edible for awhile, but once he did, he started shuffling it in. He even got some up his nose! We had to swipe a q-tip up his nose afterwards hehehe. Gotta love it.
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5 to know after Chargers beat Bengals
CINCINNATI (AP) — Philip Rivers completed only a dozen passes all day, by far his season low. The Chargers knew they didn't need their highly efficient quarterback to do anything dramatic for a playoff win.
Just let the defense get to Andy Dalton and watch him unravel.
San Diego put the pressure on Dalton in the second half and forced three turnovers that allowed the Chargers to pull away for a 27-10 victory on Sunday, extending the Bengals' playoff drought to record levels.
The Chargers (10-7) get a rematch with the Broncos in Denver next Sunday. They've split a pair of close games with the AFC's top seed, losing 28-20 in San Diego on Nov. 10 and beating the Broncos 27-20 in Denver on Dec. 12.
That win helped boost San Diego on its current five-game winning streak.
"It's going to be a great game," safety Eric Weddle said. "We held them to 28 points and 20 points. You never know."
Fans of the Bengals (11-6) know what happens every time they reach the playoffs. They haven't won in the postseason since the 1990 season, now tied for the sixth-longest stretch of futility in NFL history.
They've lost in the first round each of the last three seasons, tying the league record. They're the ninth team in history to drop three straight.
"This one's the most disappointing in the whole time I've been here," center Kyle Cook said. "Obviously with this group, we thought we'd go really far."
They hit another dead end in the second half, when the Chargers sacked Dalton three times. The third-year quarterback fumbled and threw a pair of interceptions, leaving him with one touchdown and six interceptions in his three playoff losses.
"When things don't go right, the quarterback is going to get the blame," Dalton said. "I'm willing to take every shot at me. You've got to have thick skin."
Five things learned from the Chargers' win:
RUN WITH IT: The Chargers have won five straight by running the ball. They had a season-high 196 yards on the ground Sunday, including Ronnie Brown's clinching 58-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter. Rivers threw the ball less than he had all season, completing 12 of 16 for 128 yards and a touchdown. The Chargers have run for at least 144 yards in each of the last five games.
"The way our defense was playing, as long as we didn't have a disaster and we made plays when they were there, we were going to win this game," Rivers said.
ROAD WIN: The Chargers hadn't won a playoff game on the road in an open-air stadium since the 1994 season, when they won the AFC title in Pittsburgh, 17-13. They got a bit of a break on the weather — in the 40s with rain in the second half, but not too bad. Certainly not like the time they came to Cincinnati for a playoff game — the "Freezer Bowl" with a minus-59 wind chill on Jan. 10, 1982. The Bengals won that one 27-7.
SIXTH SEEDS: Combined with New Orleans' win in Philadelphia on Saturday night, the two No. 6 seeds both won for the first time since 2010, when Green Bay went on to the Super Bowl title. The Chargers to back to a place where they won only a few weeks ago, giving them some confidence.
ALL ABOUT DALTON: The third-year quarterback has completed 57 percent of his passes in three playoff games for 718 yards with one touchdown, six interceptions, one fumble, nine sacks and a way-below-average 56.2 passer rating. With the pressure on Sunday, he unraveled in the second half. Rookie Giovani Bernard also fumbled at the San Diego 3-yard line after a catch.
WHAT NOW? Coach Marvin Lewis slipped to 0-5 in the playoffs during his 11 seasons with Cincinnati. He's expected to keep his job and get another chance under patient owner Mike Brown. Dalton set club records for touchdown passes and yards in a season, but has played poorly in the games that matter most. Do the Bengals start to question Dalton's role long-term?
"I don't have any questions about Andy's role in this thing," Lewis said. "We just have to keep working it. We've got to make sure we're doing everything to help Andy all the time. He's going to be very disappointed in himself today, obviously."
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However, there is one big problem. The program was developed and hosted by The Creation Truth Foundation (CTF), an organization whose purpose is to help bring about "a return to all of realities of Biblical Creation" through education. According to its mission statement, the non-profit's goal is to combat what founder Dr. Thomas Sharp repeatedly labels a growing "paganistic" lifestyle in America. "The West has become Pagan," he warns, using the term pagan as a synonym for secular. Together with his colleagues, Dr. Sharp has produced "a host of support materials and services to aid your delivery of a sound science curriculum based in Biblical Creation."
A week prior to the Hugoton assemblies, the ACLU of Kansas and Western Missouri received a complaint from a concerned Hugoton citizen whose identity has never been publicly revealed. Shortly after, the ACLU's Legal Director Doug Bonney and Attorney Heather Weaver sent a letter to Superintendent Mark Crawford calling for the immediate cancellation of CTF program.
Based on the review of the website of the Creation Truth Foundation, the ACLU is concerned that these mandatory school assemblies will spread creationism to the Hugoton Public Schools in violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the Unites States Constitution…
We respectfully request that the District take immediate and concrete steps to remedy these problems. The first step would be to cancel the planned mandatory school assemblies now set for next week.
Despite the ACLU's strongly worded request, the Board did not cancel the assemblies. CTF arrived in Hugoton that weekend, made some local Church appearances and set up its mobile museum. On Monday and Tuesday, CTF ran the school assemblies in the morning, and then in the evening opened the auditorium up for public presentations.
It appears that Superintendant Crawford was undaunted by the ACLU's threat. In fact, he fired back telling the Topeka-Capital Journal that, "he had a duty to show his students 'how to handle a bully." He also corrected the ACLU saying that the events were not mandatory but not one student or faculty opted out.
The Hugoton controversy has attracted a good-deal of media coverage much to the displeasure of the School Board. Crawford insists that the Board has nothing to hide. He explains that CTF's presenter, Matt Miles was instructed to avoid mention of "creationism or any topics related to the age of the Earth or the Bible, according to district officials" and has signed a memorandum as such. However, he did confirm that the public evening programs would indeed have Biblically-based content.
Despite his confidence, Crawford refused to allow any non-school personnel into the school day assemblies to verify his account. As a result, the ACLU remains unconvinced. Bonney stated, "The opportunity for a constitutional violation is too high because their whole evangelical reason for being is to promote Biblical creationism." Now, the ACLU is requesting all communication, documents and CTF materials in order to assess the legality of the situation. Did the school system violate the Constitution? The ACLU wrote:
Even if Miles never overtly mentions the Bible or creationism…public schools are not permitted to present students with false information, which the legitimate scientific community has universally rejected, as part of an anti-evolution, pro-creationist effort.
Can a Christian missionary – a passionate believer in and teacher of creationism – lecture public school students on dinosaurs without crossing the line? Yes, it is possible for someone to keep from spewing religious rhetoric in inappropriate situations. I can talk about herbs, for example, without discussing their magickal properties. However, it is not my personal mission, nor the mission of my employers to teach about herbs. So the question remains: did Matt Miles, a man whose life and career are focused on the promotion of creationism, censor himself?
To date, Hugoton's Superintendent has done an impeccable job of holding his position with the public. However, he did make one statement that feeds the cynically-minded. Of the school assemblies, Crawford remarked, "… parents and citizens here in this community want their children to also be curious about other viewpoints of creation and origin." Did the assembly mention these other viewpoints?
Hugoton is a small close-knit rural town. After scanning online comments from locals, I do believe that Crawford has strong community support. CTF Pastor Matt Miles himself was in fact a resident of the city at one time. However, whether or not Hugoton citizens believe in creationism is not the point. The teaching of any Biblical-based concepts violates the establishment clause of the U.S. Constitution. While CTF is perfectly within its right to share its material, its fantastic mobile museum, and its beliefs within the private sector, the organization cannot do so in the public schools.
Fortunately for Kansas and similar states who have been struggling with this issue for decades, America's public education curriculum is undergoing a national change. Over the last few years, an organization made up of educators and administrators has created something called the "Common Core Standards. (CCS)." The goal is to strengthen American education by developing consistency across the country in the basic disciplines of language and math. Its popularity has led to several independent organizations creating additional "tack on" programs for science, art and world languages. Individual states can elect to adopt the programs. To date, Kansas is one of the 45 states* that has indeed adopted the CCC as well as the science program, which, incidentally, teaches evolution and not intelligent design.
I'm personally undecided as to the overall merits of the CCS from an educational standpoint. However, such a program does shift the center of accountability. As such, the new national standards may help to curtail the attempts of these radicals to push religion into the public schools under the pretense of science. CCS won't stop the extra-curricular activities like the Creation Truth Foundations assemblies. But it may make it easier for a wolf to be called a wolf no matter what clothes he is wearing.
lt is important for Pagan parents or anyone who supports religious equality in the schools to remain vigilant and to be aware of these smaller religious freedom cases. I will be watching as the Hugoton situation plays out.
*The five states that have not adopted the CCS are Texas, Alaska, Minnesota, Virginia, and Nebraska.


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- The prime minister has denied the allegations involving taking kickbacks
- The case has been pending for about a year
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan's anti-corruption chief refused a Supreme Court order to arrest the prime minister on Thursday, citing a lack of evidence in a graft case that sparked the latest clash between the government and the country's top court.
The arrest order issued earlier this week intensified political turmoil in Pakistan where a firebrand Muslim cleric has been leading thousands in an anti-government protest in the capital, Islamabad, for the past four days.
The cleric, Tahir-ul-Qadri, said Thursday would be the last day of the protest, but said he would let the protesters decide how to respond if officials didn't meet his demands. That warning prompted the government to send a high-level delegation to meet him.
The growing instability is a concern for the United States, which relies on Pakistan to help it fight Islamic militants and stabilize neighboring Afghanistan.
Fasih Bokhari, chief of the government's anti-corruption unit called the National Accountability Bureau, told the Supreme Court that the initial investigation into the corruption case against Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf and more than a dozen others was flawed. He said he needed more time to determine whether the premier should be arrested.
The case involves kickbacks that Ashraf allegedly took when he was minister of water and power. They were related to projects to build private power stations to provide electricity to energy-starved Pakistan. The prime minister has denied the allegations.
The investigating officers "were not able to bring incriminating evidence but relied on oral statements which are not warranted in the court of law," said Bokhari, who was appointed to his post by President Asif Ali Zardari.
Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry questioned why the anti-corruption chief needed more time since the case against the prime minister has been pending for about a year. He grilled Bokhari and eventually demanded that he deliver a detailed report that includes what evidence exists in the case, when the hearing resumes on Jan. 23.
"There may be some who consider themselves above the law, but let me make it clear there is no one above the law," Chaudhry said.
Another judge, Sheikh Azmat Saeed, chided Bokhari, saying he was acting more like a defense lawyer than a government prosecutor.
The Supreme Court has clashed repeatedly with the government during the past year, especially over an old corruption case against Pakistan's president in Swiss court. Pakistan's Supreme Court convicted Ashraf's predecessor, Yousuf Raza Gilani, of contempt of court for refusing to reopen the case and ousted him from office.
Critics of the court have accused the chief justice of hounding the government because of bad blood between him and the president. Some have also suggested he is working in concert with the cleric who has paralyzed key areas of Islamabad in recent days with his anti-government protest. Both men have denied the allegations.
Qadri has galvanized many Pakistanis with his message that the nation's politicians are corrupt thieves who care more about lining their pockets than dealing with the country's pressing problems, such as electricity shortages, high unemployment and deadly attacks by Islamic militants.
Despite heavy rain, thousands of Qadri's supporters remained camped out on the main avenue running through Islamabad for the fourth day Thursday after spending a chilly night wrapped in blankets on the street or sleeping in rows of tents.
Qadri is demanding the government be dissolved and replaced with a caretaker administration formed in consultation with the judiciary and the military. He also wants electoral reform to weed out corrupt politicians.
The government has refused his demands, calling them unconstitutional. The cleric's critics accuse him of working with the country's powerful army to delay elections expected this spring. Qadri has denied the allegations.
The cleric delivered a new deadline for the government to comply with his demands by Thursday afternoon and warned that if it failed to do so, the crowd would take matters into its own hands.
"We gave a chance to law, we gave a chance to democracy, and now we are giving the last chance to peace," said Qadri, who spoke from inside his bulletproof container, sheltered from the driving rain.
The government sent a high-level delegation to hold talks with Qadri after he delivered his latest warning. The delegation arrived to cheering crowds and climbed up into the cleric's container to meet with him.
Elsewhere in the country, army helicopters pounded three homes in a northwestern tribal region, killing two women and two children, said local resident Sajid Khan. The attack in Khasu Khel village in the North Waziristan tribal area also wounded six people.
It's unclear why the helicopters attacked the homes. North Waziristan is the main sanctuary for al-Qaida and Taliban militants in Pakistan.
Hundreds of villagers took the victims' bodies to one of the main towns in North Waziristan, Mir Ali, and displayed them on the road in protest, said Khan.
Pakistani intelligence officials confirmed helicopter shelling, but could not confirm whether women and children were killed in the attacks. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
The protest comes on the heels of two similar demonstrations in Pakistan in recent days in which citizens angry about deadly attacks — one by Islamic militants and one allegedly by security forces — displayed the bodies of the dead and demanded justice. Islamic custom dictates the dead should be buried as soon possible.
In the southern city of Karachi, gunmen riding on a motorcycle killed a provincial lawmaker from the city's most powerful party, the Muttahida Quami Movement, and one of his police guards, said police spokesman Imran Shaukat. Pakistani Taliban spokesman Ahsanullah Ahsan claimed responsibility for the shooting by telephone to The Associated Press and warned of more such attacks in the future.


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The Los Angeles Dodgers today acquired infielder/outfielder Skip Schumaker from St. Louis in exchange for minor league infielder Jake Lemmerman. General Manager Ned Colletti made the announcement.
The eight-year Major League veteran had spent his entire career with the Cardinals, compiling a .288 batting average with 23 home runs and 211 RBI in 810 big league games from 2005-2012. Schumaker, who bats left-handed, has a .305 career batting average against right-handed pitchers and has hit well in the clutch, batting .295 with runners in scoring position and hitting .359 with the bases loaded.
Schumaker has primarily split time between second base (412 games) and the outfield (389 games) in his career, appearing at all three outfield positions. Last season, he played 61 games at second base (.984 fielding percentage), 15 games in center field (1.000 fielding percentage), 10 games in right field (1.000 fielding percentage) and one game in left field (1.000 fielding percentage).
Schumaker has appeared in 22 career postseason games, batting .278 with three doubles and six RBI, and played for the Cardinals' World Series winning clubs in 2006 and 2011.
In 2012, the 32-year-old batted .276 with a homer and 28 RBI in 107 games, including a .295 batting average against right-handers and a .300 mark with runners in scoring position (21-for-70).
Schumaker, who was born in Torrance, attended Aliso Niguel High School (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) and the University of California, Santa Barbara before being selected by St. Louis in the fifth round of the 2001 First-Year Player Draft. He and his wife, Lindsey, have a son, Brody, and a daughter, Presley.
Lemmerman, 23, batted .233 with seven home runs and 46 RBI in 116 games with Double-A Chattanooga last season. The Newport Beach, CA native was originally selected by the Dodgers in the fifth round of the 2010 First-Year Player Draft out of Duke University.
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Dodgers acquired Skip Schumaker from the Cardinals for Minor Leaguer Jake Lemmerman
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Great pick up Colletti. Welcome back home Skip
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WORK on a new £270,000 skate park in Winchester starts on Monday (April 7).
The park, at North Walls, will be made of spray concrete rather than prefabricated ramps which is said to be more sustainable.
In 2012 over 50 young people put forward their ideas at a public meeting, and the design was developed and launched by Winchester City Council in January 2013.
The funding is made up of £170,000 from Town Forum open space funds, £100,000 from the Veolia Environmental Trust, £10,000 from Headbourne Worthy Parish Council and £240 from Tichbourne Parish Council.
The executive director of the Veolia Environmental Trust, Paul Taylor, said: "This new skate park will provide young people with a place where they can meet up and have fun outdoors. It is great news that work starts next Monday and I look forward to seeing it take shape over the coming months."
The work will be carried out by Maverick Skateparks, and is expected to be finished in August.


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Kyle Hutterite Colony (Elrose, Saskatchewan, Canada)
Kyle Hutterite Colony near Elrose, Saskatchewan, was founded in 1970 as a division from the Rosedale Hutterite Colony (Alberta). In 2012 the Kyle Hutterite Colony was a Lehrerleut colony. The minister was Michael J. Hofer and the manager was Eli J. Hofer.
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Location: Elrose, Saskatchewan (coordinates: 51.026111, -108.056111 [51° 01' 34" N, 108° 03' 22" W])
Address: Box 250, Kyle, SK S0L 1T0
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During Part I, an interesting DIY theme arose… players thought that DIYbio and other citizen science groups could create a new class of researchers that would combat future, humanity-threatening diseases. See more – including what problems face CitSci and novel player solutions – here
For those who missed Part I, you still have a chance to get in on the game. Part II starts at 9am Tuesday November 9th and will run for the next 24 hours. Register here.
What to expect
In Breakthroughs, you are launched into the future and asked how you would prevent major health catastrophes if you had unlimited resources and support from the President of the good ol' U.S. of A. Players are asked to not only come up with solutions to big problems, but also to challenge other players suggestions and defend their own ideas.
If you've ever had an idea for how individuals can get more involved in global health – and really make a difference – let your voice be heard in Part II. Join the Myelin Repair Foundation, Institute for the Future, and BioCurious' own Eri Gentry (who who will be on the site as a Game Guide from 5-7pm PT) on the quest for a cure November 9th. Eri will be blogging standout ideas throughout, so put on your thinking caps!


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From Ubuntu Terminal screen (Applications > Accessories > Terminal), type:
taufanlubis@toshiba:~$ sudo apt-get install xchat
[sudo] password for taufanlubis:
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
Suggested packages:
Recommended packages:
The following NEW packages will be installed:
xchat xchat-common
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 1358kB of archives.
After unpacking 3928kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/universe xchat-common 2.8.4-0ubuntu5 [1050kB]
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/universe xchat 2.8.4-0ubuntu5 [308kB]
Fetched 1358kB in 39s (34.7kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package xchat-common.
(Reading database … 143945 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking xchat-common (from …/xchat-common_2.8.4-0ubuntu5_all.deb) …
Selecting previously deselected package xchat.
Unpacking xchat (from …/xchat_2.8.4-0ubuntu5_i386.deb) …
Setting up xchat-common (2.8.4-0ubuntu5) …
Setting up xchat (2.8.4-0ubuntu5) …
How to run?
Open Applications > Internet > XChat IRC
First you have to create your Nick Name and User Name.
Select a Network (for example, 'FreeNode') then click 'Connect' button.
After you are connected with FreeNode server, there are 3 options that you can choose. If you are a new, I suggest to select 'Open the Channel-List Window'.
There will be thousands channels displayed. You can filter the list. Type your key words in Find text box and click search button.
Choose a channel that you want to join and click 'Join Channel'.
You will get Welcome Words and it's ready to use.


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Milford, Conn. Window and Siding Company to Pay Fine for Lead Notification Violations
Release date: 03/23/2011
A Milford, Conn. company has agreed to pay $30,702 to settle claims by EPA that it failed to provide lead hazard information to home owners or occupants before doing renovations that may have disturbed surfaces coated with lead-based paint.
The settlement resolves claims made by EPA's New England office that Permanent Siding and Windows, a contractor specializing in spray-on vinyl siding and replacing windows and doors, failed to provide EPA's lead hazard information pamphlet to at least 17 owners or occupants before the company began renovation activities. This pamphlet is required by the federal Pre-Renovation Rule and helps educate home owners or occupants on how to minimize their exposure to hazardous lead dust that is often generated during sanding, cutting, demolition or other renovation activities. The pamphlet also provides resources for more information about lead. The violations in this case took place during renovation work done between January 2006 and March 2009.
Permanent Siding has certified that it is now in compliance with EPA's Pre-Renovation rule and will submit a report to EPA later this year to demonstrate their continued compliance with this Rule.
"EPA requires companies to provide these pamphlets in order to protect families from health and safety hazards in the home," said Curt Spalding, regional administrator of EPA's New England office. "Property owners and occupants have a right to know about the dangers posed by renovations that involve lead."
The federal lead law applies to all pre-1978 housing since, without testing, homes built before 1978 are presumed to contain lead-based paint. The settlement stems from a March 2009 EPA inspection and documentation Permanent Siding provided to the EPA.
More information: Lead Paint Assistance/Enforcement in New England (http://www.epa.gov/region1/enforcement/leadpaint/index.html)
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March's True Madness: Butler, Gonzaga Bulldogs Miss Razor-Thin Shots At Glory
A well-designed inbounds defense helped Marquette survive Butler and live on to see another day. (AP)
After hour upon hour of blowout basketball that brought revelry to places like Ann Arbor and East Lansing but induced yawns across the rest of the nation, the quartet of Marquette, Butler, Wichita State and Gonzaga stepped up to save Saturday. We got a wild ending with the Golden Eagles advancing and then the "big" upset the day was craving, even though the Zags and Shockers were much closer in quality than their eight-seed spread suggested. The dose of madness after a run of competitive badness was exhilarating, but the finishes of those two games also underscore just how variable success in March can be.
Butler coach Brad Stevens is well renowned for his inbounds play success, and he once again showed why against Marquette. With the Bulldogs down four with just over five seconds left, he inserted Emerson Kampen, who hadn't yet played in the tournament. Why? Because Kampen is the Bulldogs' best long inbounds passer. He proceeded to throw an 85-foot dart, right on the money, that led to a quick layup. It was an exceptional play under any circumstances, and especially these.
After Marquette threw away the ensuing inbounds pass, the Bulldogs, remarkably, were still in business and Stevens gleefully dug back into his bag of inbounds tricks. Everyone on Twitter assumed Butler would at least tie the game, and more likely stick a game-winning three. According to Jeremiah Johnson (@JJFOX59SPORTS), an Indianapolis TV reporter, Stevens said afterward that the Bulldogs were given both a play to run against man-to-man defense and another one to run against zone. They were totally prepared. So what happened? The Bulldogs got confused by Marquette's defense and ended up running the wrong play. It blew up, they barely got a shot off, and the Golden Eagles advanced. Oh, by the way, Buzz Williams also spends an inordinate amount of time on inbounds plays. He won this encounter and moves on.
Then everyone's focus switched to the Gonzaga game, where the Zags had taken a six-point lead on the seemingly fading Shockers. Gonzaga was crushing Wichita State on the glass and seemed like it was in fairly decent control. A team that seemed to be feeling the pressure to live up to its No. 1 seed was starting to find its footing. The Sweet 16 was beckoning, and while those games would carry their own pressure, especially since the next foe would be Mississippi or La Salle, it would be more rooted in competition instead of perception.
So what happened? The Shockers, a 33 percent three-point shooting team for the season, went unconscious for a seven-minute span. Tekele Cotton (33.9 percent on threes) ripped a triple to bring the Shockers back within four. Cleanthony Early (29.8 percent) did the same on the following possession. The next trip down, it was Ron Baker's (30.9 percent) turn. Bang, one-point game. Carl Hall made a jumper. Baker made two free throws to give Wichita State the lead. Then he nailed another three and the Shockers led by four. After a couple of Gonzaga free throws, Fred Van Vleet (42.1 percent, but on just 38 attempts) stuck the dagger in with yet another three-ball, this one highly contested, and tacked on two more free throws on the trip after that.
Nine consecutive possessions down the stretch yielded 23 points. It was absolutely sick. Wichita State finished the game 14-of-28 from the arc and the Bulldogs were sent packing, once again considered failures on the biggest stage. Instead of saluting a good team that played an impossibly great stretch of basketball in a huge spot, the story will be that Gonzaga choked.
This is what March is all about. Drama. Pressure. Individual moments that decide not only games, but reputations and legacies. But as today's two good games showed, the margin between greatness and gackness is extremely thin. That goes double for a season like this, where every team has proven beatable. Marquette is on its way to a third straight Sweet 16, so everyone will forget Davidson's cave-in (and Vander Blue's heroics) in the final minute in the Round of 64. The Golden Eagles were dead, and yet here they are, moving on to Washington, D.C. They, winners of two games by three points, are clutch, and Gonzaga, victimized by outlier three-point shooting, is a bunch of gaggers. Or so the narrative will go.
Maybe both sets of Bulldogs shouldn't have put themselves in these spots? After all, we're pretty certain Michigan is better than VCU, at least when the two are matched up. Louisville has done nothing so far to stanch the tide of national title predictions. The Fighting Izzos are looking like their normal March selves. Arizona has found its mojo (and a fortunate draw so far) at the right time of the year. That's fair, but many teams, including future national champions, find themselves right on the brink at least once in the dance. Butler's own run to the 2011 title game came by the grace of a crazy ending in the Round of 32 against Pitt. Tyus Edney's "Yeah, baby" dash against Missouri in 1995 is immortal because of the four wins that came after. We nearly had Davidson in the 2008 Final Four. Instead, Kansas swiped a national title from Memphis a week and a day later.


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The host of hit U.S. TV show "America's Got Talent" is getting behind a new campaign to end modern-day slavery.
Actor-comedian Nick Cannon told CNN he wanted to use his celebrity to encourage others to join the anti-slavery fight.
Seven non-profits formed the End It Movement to fight modern-day slavery all over the world.
End It and Cannon hope people will join the campaign on social media and agree to put an X on their hands as part of the organization's 'Shine a light on slavery day' on April 9.
Great to have him on our side. I hope more celebrities and public figures like President Obama join the fight.
Thank you Nick Cannon. I wish you much success in bringing more people to an awareness and understanding of this plight. And may your decision lead others to join the fight to end slavery.
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