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Water Restored, Safe to Drink on Barrier Island
Jersey Shore — Barrier island residents who are customers of New Jersey American Water can once again use their home's water supply for drinking and cooking.
The company announced Thursday that a "Do Not Consume" order had been lifted after testing showed the water was safe to drink.
Read more on Brick Patch.
Oceanic Bridge Closed: Navesink Banks Slope Failure to Blame
Rumson — When it comes to the Oceanic Bridge closure, there are two separate issues that officials say have been somehow lumped together: the present emergency closure; and a coming closure to address what have been "long scheduled upgrades."
"They are two entirely separate matters; and, one has nothing to do with the other," Monmouth County Spokeswoman Laura Kirkpatrick said on Friday afternoon. "The present closure is an emergency closure not related to the span itself. Another closure has been slated for Jan. 7 and has been in the works for some time. During that distinctly different closure, safety upgrades will be made, such as the replacement of barrier gates. The timetable (of roughly three weeks) is dependent upon weather conditions."
Following a Thursday morning mudslide, notices on both Rumson and Middletown's websites mistakenly said that the Oceanic Bridge will be closed for three weeks to allow for the installation of safety upgrades on the span itself.
Read more on Rumson-Fair Haven Patch.
Nonviolent Crime Rose in Shrewsbury in 2011
Shrewsbury — Overall crime in Shrewsbury Borough increased in 2011 from 2010, according to data released with the state's 2011 Uniform Crime Report.
The increase was owed almost entirely to a jump in the number of nonviolent crimes recorded in the borough, bucking statistics found in greater Monmouth County, where crime was on the wane from 2010 to 2011.
Read more on Red Bank-Shrewsbury Patch.
City May Require Flood Zone Homes to be Rebuilt 2 Feet Above Base Elevation
Long Branch — A revised ordinance would require Long Branch residents within the city's newly expanded flood zone to rebuild their homes two feet above the base flood elevation.
Long Branch Code Enforcement Officer Kevin Hayes explained the revised flood prevention ordinance during Thursday night's council meeting and said raising the requirement to two feet was the best option for the city.
Read more on Long Branch-Eatontown Patch.
Township: Public Meeting on Beach Easements Would Be 'Counterproductive'
Toms River — Some residents want a public meeting to discuss the possibility of granting easements on their private property, allowing taxpayer funds to be spent on the replenishment of dunes wiped out by Hurricane Sandy.
Township officials, however, do not favor such a forum.
"To have one big open meeting would be counterproductive with 500 people," Council President Mo Hill said Wednesday night when a resident asked why township officials wouldn't talk about the issue in public.
Read more on Toms River Patch.
'Shore Shots' Calendar Sports Pre-Sandy Glory
Jersey Shore- The annual "Shore Shots" calendar put out by the New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium garners much attention - and praise - each year. But it holds special meaning for 2013.
This year, the computer desktop calendar, which features shots of picturesque coastal places from Sandy Hook to Cape May, should "help us all us all remember what a true treasure the Jersey Shore is and hopefully motivate us to all work together to restore the shore to its pre-Sandy glory," said Kim Kosko, NJSGC spokeswoman.
Read more on Ocean City Patch.
Rumson OKs $5M for Sandy Expenses
Rumson — It was a measure of standard protocol taken in Rumson to cut through some red tape and get damage done from Hurricane Sandy abated and paid for pre-funding.
Two resolutions have been passed in tandem to take care of an estimated $3 million in Hurricane Sandy-related expenses.
Read more on Rumson-Fair Haven Patch.
MONDAY UPDATE: Manahawkin Man Flying Plane is Commercial Pilot
Bay Head — A Manahawkin man used his professional piloting experience to land a small, rented plane on a Bay Head beach as it rapidly lost power Sunday afternoon, police said on Monday.
Christopher McMenamy, 31, who is a commercial pilot flying DC-10s, had rented the Cessna Skyhawk II from an airport in Princeton, said Bay Head Lt. Geoff Barger. McMenamy was shooting aerial photography before he had engine trouble and landed on the beach near East Avenue and Johnson Street at about 3:40 p.m., said Barger.
Read more on Point Pleasant Patch.
Out of Time: Abandoned Clock Factory Demolition Resumes
Howell — Since work began to take down the old Harris & Mallow Clock Factory on Route 9 the process has been interrupted by asbestos cleanup before resuming in recent weeks.
In the rain on Thursday crews worked to take down the bulk of the main building which has been abandoned for close to two decades. A structure which once stood at the intersection of Route 9 and Georgia Tavern Road is now mostly a pile of rubble with a few walls still standing.
Read more on Howell Patch.
Township Council Postpones Adoption Of New FEMA Flood Elevation Guidelines
Berkeley — Township Council members voted unanimously to table the public hearing and adoption of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's new Advisory Base Flood Elevation maps at the Dec. 27 meeting.
"We want the planner and the engineer to review the maps and make sure the data is accurate," Mayor Carmen F. Amato Jr. said. "Residents have expressed concerns."
Read more on Berkeley Patch.
Manasquan Approves $13.5M in Rebuilding Spending
Manasquan- What Manasquan Borough calls its "Emergency Protection and Recovery Plan" was approved for $13.5M over three ordinances, to address damaged beachfront and other infrastructure impacted by Hurricane Sandy.
Borough Administrator Joe DeIorio explained at the previous borough council meeting that the three ordinances — $7.4 million in beach rebuilding, $5.548 million in water and sewer costs and another half million in other capital improvements — is both to rebuild and improve gaps in emergency operations.
Read more on Manasquan Patch.
Forked River Beach Residents 'Just Targets' After Sandy, Winter Storm
Forked River — The shoreline at the Forked River Beach crept up to the yards of Lacey residents Thursday after a winter storm battered the coast with wind and rain.
"We've been going through a lot since Superstorm Sandy. We all got the shock of our life after last night's storm. The north part of the beach is wiped out up to the fence lines. It's a very bad situation," Beach Boulevard resident Pat Doyle said, pleading to the Township Committee to act fast.
Read more on Lacey Patch.
Obituary: Taylor Ruane Patrick Delepine, 19, of Middletown
Hazlet — Taylor Ruane Patrick Delepine, 19, of Middletown, died Monday morning following a car accident on Route 35.
Delepine was traveling on Route 35 North at Poole Avenue when the 2003 Honda Accord he was driving struck the center median and then slid across the roadway where it struck a utility pole, breaking the pole into several sections at 7:58 a.m., according to Hazlet Police.
Read more on Middletown Patch.
Jersey Shore's Own Sandy Benefit Concert
Jersey Shore — Suffice it to say, On the Beach: A Sandy Relief Concert is no 12-12-12 Concert for Sandy Relief. Perhaps that's not such a bad thing.
On the Beach, scheduled for Jan. 2 and being held at the Paramount Theatre in Asbury Park, won't command anywhere near the same kind of ticket prices and it won't boast the unprecedented musical lineup as its Sandy relief forbearer – though be assured it's got its own roster of music legends – but unlike 12-12-12, it's for the Jersey Shore.
Read more on Little Silver-Oceanport Patch.
Fire Companies Battle Oceanfront Blaze in Surf City
Long Beach Island — Fire companies from throughout Long Beach Island and neighboring towns spent about an hour battling a fire on a three-story oceanfront summer home in Surf City Wednesday evening.
The fire, located on 1st Street, was first reported around 5 p.m., according to Surf City Volunteer Fire Co. Chief Brian Stasik. No one was in the home, Stasik said, adding that the cause of the fire remains under investigation. He said officials from the Ocean County Fire Marshall's Office are investigating.
Read more on Barnegat-Manahawkin Patch.


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Bird-voiced Treefrog
Photo Credit: Scott Boback
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Hyla avivoca
DESCRIPTION: The bird-voiced treefrog is a small slender treefrog with adults ranging from 1 1/8 inches – 1 3/4 inches in length. However, this species is dimorphic, which means females are generally larger in size than males. The dorsal, or back, coloring is generally gray, brown, or green. Like many treefrogs this may change with moisture, background coloration, fluctuating temperatures, and seasonal activity. The skin of the bird-voiced treefrog will be warty with one or more dark blotches on its back. It also has light white spots with black borders below each eye. The bird-voiced treefrog has large toe pads with adhesive, or sticky, disks on the tips of their toes. The hidden surfaces of the thighs usually range from light green to white with dark bars on their hind legs.
The bird-voiced treefrog bear
DISTRIBUTION: Bird-voiced treefrogs are found throughout the southeastern United States. They range from extreme southern Illinois south through Louisiana. They are also found in central and south Alabama, extending as far south as the Florida panhandle. Additionally they are found in South Carolina and throughout central Georgia.
HABITAT AND FEEDING HABITS: Bird-voiced treefrogs are residents of wooded swamps, river valleys, beaver ponds, and lake shores with flooded vegetation. They are a highly arboreal species climbing high into trees such as tupelo, bald cypress, and birch. Bird-voiced treefrogs are opportunistic feeders. Their diet consists mainly of spiders and small insects. Being arboreal and nocturnal they will forage primarily in trees at night time.
LIFE HISTORY: Bird-voiced treefrogs primarily breed from April to July. Males will perch on stems or limbs 2 to 8 feet high, near or above water to perform their mating calls. Preferred breeding sites are brush edged semi-permanent to permanent pools and brush edged shores of larger ponds. Females lay packets of 6 to 15 eggs in shallow water; with an average total production of 500 to 650 eggs. Tadpoles will hatch within a few days and develop into adults within a month. Their transform size is approximately one-half inch (1.3 cm). Breeding tends to be increased with heavy rains. Bird-voiced treefrog populations are classified as threatened in their northernmost range. In Alabama populations remain stable with low conservation concern.
Conant, Roger. A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America. 2nd edition ed. Houghton Mifflin Company Boston, 1958, 1975.
Short. Lester et al. Harper and Row's Complete Guide to North American Wildlife. Eastern Edition. New York: Harper and Row, 1981.
Underwood, J. 2003. "Hyla avivoca" (On-line), Animal Diversity Web. Accessed January 21, 2009 at httpp://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information /Hyla_avivoca.html.
United States Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey. http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/herps/amphibid/species/hylaaviv.htm
United States Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey.
United States Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey
University of Georgia, Frogs and Toads of Georgia and South Carolina.
University of Illinois, Institute of Natural Resource Sustainability.
AUTHOR: Barry Baird, Wildlife Biologist, Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Division.

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CLAYTON — Sterling Johnson already has college scholarships from some of the top college football programs in the country and before he signs next year experts believe he'll have 30 or 40 offers.
Clemson made the first offer last November. This winter there has been a steady parade of college coaches visiting the school and making offers.
Johnson, 6-foot-5, 275 pounds, has gotten offers from Ohio State, South Carolina and national champion Florida State within the past two weeks. They joined Florida, N.C. State, Virginia Tech and Wake Forest.
"It all built slowly after the Clemson offer," Johnson said. "We'd start to get a couple of coaches in there a week about mid-December and it's really picked up in the last few weeks."
The explosion of interest is nothing new when it comes to top prospects from North Carolina, according to Michael Clark, the Atlantic recruiting analyst for scout.com, which has Johnson rated as the No. 20 defensive line prospect nationally in the class of 2015.
"Sterling is a great player," Clark said. "It just sometimes takes guys a little bit longer for the word to get out and their tape to make the rounds. … North Carolina talent is growing, with this year's class and a 2015 class that is loaded, but it still takes some time for word to get out that these elite guys in the state can play on a national level."
Johnson has tried to take the attention in stride and Cleveland coach Marc Morris raves about how level-headed Johnson has stayed through the process.
The junior standout used to spend about two hours a day playing a college football video game or watching TV. Now he spends that time juggling phone calls, texts, in-person visits and mail from the top football programs in the nation.
Johnson knows it is important that the analytical side take over as he prepares to make the biggest decision of his life. That's why he's started to watch and follow college teams differently with an eye on how he would fit in there.
"I watch the defensive schemes a lot more and how coaches coach during a game," Johnson said. "I like seeing how teams react in a game. Like the Clemson comeback against Ohio State in the Orange Bowl when they were about to get blown out. Clemson responded well."
When Clark looks at Johnson on tape he sees a player who will only get better.
"You watch so much film of big guys, but here's a legit, 6-5, 270-ish-pound young man with a great frame, one you could put more weight on easily," Clark said. "Sometimes you watch linemen on tape and they're just big, but Sterling has that dominating size and he makes big plays consistently. The blend of size, quickness and his great hands set Sterling apart."
When Johnson looks ahead to next season he wants to be better at making plays down the line of scrimmage.
"Like against Orange (a 59-50 loss in the second round of the 3AA playoffs), I was lined up at nose guard (across from the center) and I wasn't quick enough to get to the edge to tackle guys on sweeps, around the end of the line," Johnson said. "If my closing speed gets better, I'll tackle better."
Johnson's goals for the 2014 high school season are simple: help lead Cleveland to a state championship and play in one of the All-American football games next January. If he reaches the second goal, Johnson says he will announce his college choice then.
Clark expects that to be quite a decision.
"I think his ranking is going to go up," Clark said. "He's a really high three-star guy but that could go up and up and up. He's a great kid, student – like nine out of 10 of the guys in North Carolina are – so I'd fully expect him to have easily 30-40 scholarship offers."
So Johnson has started to see how schools fit into his career path as well. He wants to go into sports broadcasting and seems to have the voice for it: a deep, confident but measured tone.
"I always felt like I'd play in college growing up," Johnson said. "So if I could play in college, then end up working on 'College GameDay' once football's over, that would be ideal."
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Smokescreen Turns Flash into JavaScript
Conversion tool plans to go open source sometime soon.
As the war between Flash and HTML5 wages on, developers are finding all kinds of workarounds to get Flash-based advertising content onto the slew of mobile devices that can't or in some cases won't support Adobe's format. Chris Smoak's Smokescreen skips the Flash plugin and instead uses JavaScript and HTML5 to decode the media.
This is great news for banner ads, but for those of us looking forward to watching Hulu at the gym, Smokescreen is more than lacking, as video is hardly watchable on most mobile devices. What's more, in its current state, Smokescreen is 175KB and about 8,000 lines of JavaScript. There are bugs to be fixed, addition Flash support and improved performance also need to be achieved. To do this, Smokescreen is going open source later this month.
For previews and news on Smokescreen, head to smokescreen.us. We'll update the story when the tool becomes open.
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Password Management Services Vulnerable to Attack
Should you trust an online service to store your online passwords?
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New B+ board lets you build cool things without the complication of a powered USB hub.
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New cloud combines worldwide access with local attention to data security.
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A first cousin of the recent Heartbleed attack affects EAP-based wireless and peer-to-peer authentication.
Geeks Petition for Free Lenovo BIOS
FOSS community acts to protect freedom of choice for laptop devices.
Firefox Says Yes to DRM
Quintessential open source browser shores up its market share with a step toward the proprietary dark side.
Webcam Hijackers Busted
Authorities in 16 countries take action against users of the imfamous BlackShades malware tool.


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Quote:I finally received everything I ordered to setup the C102 GT. I bought a Vixen style 11" dovetail bar, two 4 in rings to mount the scope in, a Williams Optics 9X50 correct image finder, a GSO Crayford Dual Speed focuser and rings that fit the focuser for 50mm finder scopes, and the iOptron Cube Pro mount. The dovetail bar and rings put the scope far enough away from the legs so that the tube misses the legs (just barely) when in the vertical alignment position. I have to turn the focuser so the knobs are to the outside of the scope tube. Once the alignment is done then I can turn them to the correct position for observing. The scope rings make balancing the tube much easier. I mounted the rings about 9" apart to help eliminate tube flexing. With the 2" diagonal the tube weighs about 10.25 lbs and with the 1.25" diagonal it weighs about 9.75 lbs. So even with my heaviest eyepiece the OTA weight is still under 12 lbs and the mount does just fine with the weight. The manual that came with the mount still list the payload as 12 lbs. The Cube Pro is pretty much maxed out with the 102 tube but will work fine for a grab and go scope. The red thing on top of the mount is a 2 way spirit level that I got at Lowe's. I mounted it with some double sided taped foam squares. Should make leveling a whole lot easier than using the bullseye level that comes on the mount. The mount has to be level to get the best goto pointing out of it.I haven't had a chance to get it out and observe with it but tomorrow night is supposed to be clear again so I'm hoping to get some time at the eyepiece then.
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DANVILLE — Company's comin' and the people who live in this small, central Kentucky hamlet of 16,000 can hardly wait.
On Thursday evening, the town's cultural epicenter - private Centre College, enrollment 1,340 - will be host to the only debate between vice presidential candidates Republican Paul Ryan and incumbent Democrat Joe Biden.
"Absolutely! We're thrilled," exclaimed Jan Nallinger when asked outside the Maple Tree Gallery on Main Street if the community welcomed the influx of visitors and hordes of media. "Why wouldn't we be? This is grand and we're just tickled to death!"
Like any hospitable host, Danville is sprucing up. Behind Nallinger the Maple Tree Gallery's windows were decked out in red, white and blue bunting, merchandise and an official debate poster – "The Thrill in the 'Ville."
Next door at Karamel Kreations Gourmet Caramel and Gifts, owner Beth King and her husband, Jeff, are dipping caramel covered apples in red, then white and finally blue chocolate.
Down the block, Chris Corman and another worker are carefully painting an overhead street sign supporting structure black.
"We're trying to clean everything up and make it look real pretty for our visitors," Corman said.
On street corners are pots of mums with small American flags and fire hydrants have been painted red, white and blue. Some sidewalk curbs have been painted and several businesses have new coats of paint.
Maple Tree Gallery owner Julie Nelson happily shows customers "loaves' of Primal Element Soap in red, white and blue colors. For $8 she'll slice a bar of soap and customers can choose one with a donkey or one with an elephant.
"It's our soap poll," Nelson laughed. "The Republicans are ahead. We're on our second loaf of Republican soap but we've sold just half a loaf of Democratic soap." The "poll' supports Kentucky's recent Republican trend and Barack Obama's poor showing here in the 2008 primary and general elections. He's expected to lose the state to Republican Mitt Romney by a large margin.


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In January 1791, President George Washington's Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton proposed a seemingly innocuous excise tax "upon spirits distilled within the United States, and for appropriating the same."1 What Congress failed to predict was the vehement rejection of this tax by Americans living on the frontier of Western Pennsylvania. By 1794, the Whiskey Rebellion threatened the stability of the nascent United States and forced President Washington to personally lead the United States militia westward to stop the rebels.
By 1791 the United States suffered from significant debt incurred during the Revolutionary War. Secretary Hamilton, a Federalist supporting increased federal authority, intended to use the excise tax to lessen this financial burden. Despite resistance from Anti-Federalists like Thomas Jefferson, Congress passed the legislation. When news of the tax spread to Western Pennsylvania, individuals immediately voiced their displeasure by refusing to pay the tax. Residents viewed this tax as yet another instance of unfair policies dictated by the eastern elite that negatively affected American citizens on the frontier.
Western farmers felt the tax was an abuse of federal authority wrongly targeting a demographic that relied on crops such as corn, rye, and grain to earn a profit. However, shipping this harvest east was dangerous because of poor storage and dangerous roads. As a result, farmers frequently distilled their grain into liquor which was easier to ship and preserve. While large-scale farmers easily incurred the financial strain of an additional tax, indigent farmers were less able to do so without falling into dire financial straits.
President Washington sought to resolve this dispute peacefully. In 1792, he issued a national proclamation admonishing westerners for their resistance to the "operation of the laws of the United States for raising revenue upon spirits distilled within the same."2 However, by 1794 the protests became violent. In July, nearly 400 whiskey rebels near Pittsburgh set fire to the home of John Neville, the regional tax collection supervisor. Left with little recourse and at the urgings of Secretary Hamilton, Washington organized a militia force of 12,950 men and led them towards Western Pennsylvania, warning locals "not to abet, aid, or comfort the Insurgents aforesaid, as they will answer the contrary at their peril."3
Famous Whiskey Insurrection in Pennsylvania, from Our first century : being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country. (Springfield, Mass. : Nichols, 1882). Image via New York Public Library Digital Gallery.
The calling of the militia had the desired effect of essentially ending the Whiskey Rebellion. By the time the militia reached Pittsburgh, the rebels had dispersed and could not be found. The militia apprehended approximately 150 men and tried them for treason. A paucity of evidence and the inability to obtain witnesses hampered the trials. Two men, John Mitchell and Philip Weigel, were found guilty of treason, though both were pardoned by President Washington. By 1802, then President Thomas Jefferson repealed the excise tax on whiskey. Under the eye of President Washington, the nascent United States survived the first true challenge to federal authority.
Peter Kotowski
Loyola University Chicago
1. "28 January 1791," Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, 1789-1793. A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875.
2. National Gazette, 29 September 1792.
3. Gazette of the United States, 25 September 1794.
Baldwin, Leland. Whiskey Rebels: The Story of a Frontier Uprising. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1939.
Hogeland, William. The Whiskey Rebellion: George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and the Frontier Rebels who Challenged America's Newfound Sovereignty. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2006.
Slaughter, Thomas. The Whiskey Rebellion: Frontier Epilogue to the American Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
Mount Vernon's library holdings on the Whiskey Rebellion
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By BRAD KELLAR
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A chilly fall weekend is in store, and Greenville could see its first freeze of the season by early Sunday morning.
It is not expected to be a hard freeze and the National Weather Service had not placed Hunt County under any freeze advisories or warnings as of Friday evening.
Conditions are expect to start warming a little by the start of next week.
The forecast was calling for mostly clear skies overnight and a low around 38 degrees by this morning. Winds gusting out of the north at up to 20 mph were predicted to subside.
It was expected to be sunny with a high temperature of around 61 degrees this afternoon, with winds out of the north at 5 to 10 mph.
The low tonight was forecast to dip right to the freezing mark of 32 degrees before dawn Sunday, which was expected to also have a sunny afternoon and a high in the mid-60s.
It may be a while before we get to the really cold, as in freezing, temperatures. The first freeze in Greenville last year came on November 28 and on November 6 in 2010. The first freeze locally in 2009 didn't arrive until December 6.
The National Weather Service reported that the average first freeze in the North Texas area is November 22, with the average last freeze on March 13.


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Dunkin' Brands said U.S. sales were a bit weak due to the weather. Really? That seems like an excuse. Tough competition from Starbucks and others may be the real culprit.
Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook had a 'good' second quarter. That's a massive understatement. The company is firing on all cylinders and the stock is soaring. Even Janet Yellen might approve.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella continues to impress Wall Street with his new cloud strategy and investors are excited about new Apple products. Apple's $164.5 billion in cash doesn't hurt either.
A lot of people hate their cable company and talk about cutting the cord. But are they just ditching video and still using broadband access to watch Netflix? It looks that way from Comcast earnings.
A Florida jury wants R.J. Reynolds to pay more than$23.5 billion in damages to a widow of a smoker. That number will likely be reduced. But it highlights a risk for cigarette companies just as Reynolds and Lorillard look to merge.
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Day 185, that's what today is, with no answers as to who took my precious baby sister, Kellyann's life. I think of the what ifs, the whys and what could have been. I think of her smiling face, her big blue eyes, the sarcasm we shared and our childhood memories.
The question I have is what kind of person could do something like this and not come forward? Do they not have a sister, must not, otherwise why does the guilt of taking mine not compel them to tell the truth?
To the person who did this, you took the life of someone who was so full of life it carried over to everyone around her. Kellyann was a daughter, sister, wife, aunt and great friend to many. Losing her has left a hole in many hearts. I ask you to take responsibility for your actions. My sister deserves that and so does her family and friends.
I ask if you know something to please come forward. Wouldn't you want the same if it was your family member this happened to?
To everyone else, "Remember to love."
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The writer is the sister of hit-and-run victim Kelly Ann Boyce


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On Wednesday, April 11, a twelve-year collaboration between Stephen King and John Mellencamp came to fruition with the premiere of Ghost Brothers of Darkland County at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta. King and Mellencamp were both in attendance, along with musical director, the legendary record producer T Bone Burnett.
I wrote about the as-yet unnamed musical in my first News from the Dead Zone column for Cemetery Dance in March 2001. Billboard reported at the time that King and Mellencamp were collaborating on a "macabre rock opera that will feature a haunted house and rapping ghosts."
While shopping for a lakeside cabin in Indiana in the early 1990s, Mellencamp heard about a murder that had taken place fifty years earlier. Two brothers got into a fight over a girl. The younger brother killed his older brother with a fireplace poker. When he and the girl tried to escape, they accidentally drove their car into the lake and drowned. Mellencamp was so fascinated by the tale that he decided to turn it into a musical ghost story. His original concept was about two brothers with a strong, mutual hatred who visit a cabin haunted by two uncles who had a similarly dysfunctional relationship. Seeking a collaborator to flesh out the story, he suggested King to his agent at CAA, who also happened to represent King.
King and Mellencamp met for the first time in Florida in 2000. Mellencamp marveled at King's ability to weave characters and subplots into a whole. King suggested adding booze and a roadhouse to the mix, taking what was essentially a short story idea and turning it into something Mellencamp described as a fully evolved tale of Americana with a Tennessee Williams feel. They relocated the setting to Louisiana because it seemed natural to turn the story into a Southern Gothic.
At that point, they could have gone in one of two directions. King's involvement could have ended after he created a simple treatment so Mellencamp could write songs that would tell the story, or they could write something in the vein of My Fair Lady, where the story is told via dialog, with the songs expanding on certain moments. Mellencamp favored the latter approach.
The backstory was advanced from the 1940s to 1967 and the setting moved from Louisiana to Mississippi. King wrote the narrative and inserted cues where he thought Mellencamp should create songs for certain characters. Once they were in place, King smoothed the transitions. The songs were in styles ranging from jazz to blues to bluegrass to country to zydeco, many of which Mellencamp said were out of character for him. After several years of working around their busy schedules, they ended up with a hundred pages of dialog and fifteen songs, which would have made for a five-hour production for a play with the working title Mississippi Ghost Brothers
The first run-through of the musical, which by then had its final title, took place in New York in March 2005 with the producers of Spamalot reportedly involved. King and Mellencamp both felt that the show was getting too much of a Broadway treatment there, which wasn't their vision for it. They didn't want a slick New York show with a forty-piece orchestra. They decided to aim for a format that would allow it to be produced in repertory, uncertain that they'd ever get it to a city as big as Atlanta, let alone Broadway.
Later that year, Mellencamp reported that he and King were looking for a director. The plan then was to workshop the play in someplace like Chicago to work out the kinks before taking it to Broadway. By 2008, they had selected the Alliance Theatre and an April 2009 opening date was announced. Liv Ullman entertained the possibility of directing. However, the launch was delayed because of "unanticipated scheduling problems."
T Bone Burnett became involved in 2009 when the play was recorded for a CD release. The all-star cast included Kris Kristofferson (Joe, the father), Rosanne Cash (Monique, the mother), Elvis Costello (The Shape), Neko Case (Anna) and Sheryl Crow (Jenna), with Will Daily and Dave Alvin performing as the sons. Boxing legend Joe Frazier played caretaker Dan Coker and King played Uncle Steve. The narrator was 24 star Glenn Morshower. The plan at the time was to issue a package that contained a book with the show's full text and song lyrics, a CD with the dialog and songs, and another disc with only the eighteen songs. At present, there is no word if or when this package will be released. The show has been reworked continuously in the interim, so the songs and dialog have changed significantly.
Susan V. Booth, the artistic director at the Alliance, came on board in 2011 as the director. King and Mellencamp have both proclaimed their admiration for the professionalism she brought to the production. King says she became the boss and was able to get both men to make changes. Things progressed rapidly after that. Previews started on April 4, 2012, during which the musical was tweaked even more, and Ghost Brothers of Darkland County premiered a week later to a sold-out audience.
How was the show? Check back here in a couple of days for my review.
Bev Vincent is the author of The Stephen King Illustrated Companion and The Road to the Dark Tower. He has been writing "News from the Dead Zone" for Cemetery Dance for over a decade. He can be found online at bevvincent.com. Friend him on Facebook or follow his Twitter feed.


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It seems counter-intuitive to have The Last Exorcism again, yet here we are. The new poster for The Last Exorcism 2 sheds little light on the continuing story except that it directly references the first, right down to the white dress and contorted pose. Look again and you'll see the possessed woman's body actually forms a number two. Pretty smart.
As I understand it, the new movie starts off where the original ended, right after Nell was forced to birth her baby in the middle of a Satanic ritual. Read the synopsis below and visit the Facebook page here.
Continuing where the first film left off, Nell Sweetzer (Ashley Bell) is found terrified and alone in rural Louisiana. Back in the relative safety of New Orleans, Nell realizes that she can't remember entire portions of the previous months only that she is the last surviving member of her family. Just as Nell begins the difficult process of starting a new life, the evil force that once possessed her is back with other, unimaginably horrific plans that mean her last exorcism was just the beginning.
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Director Ang Lee's "Life of Pi" has so far generated $570.9 million in worldwide ticket sales. That trumps its two highest-grossing Oscar competitors — "Les Misérables" at $359.7 million and "Django Unchained" with $342.6 million.


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If a black cat crosses your path you are probably standing in the Kitty Motel at LifeLine Animal Project.
The Kitty Motel is a cage-free, feline-friendly area where LifeLine houses homeless cats who are up for adoption at their Avondale Estates rescue. You can see the cats through the glass doors and window of the "motel" while sitting in the reception area of LifeLine's low-cost community spay and neuter clinic. The cats can see you, too.
There are cats of every size and color playing, eating and napping, but there seems to be a surplus of mostly black, or all-black, cats and kittens.
This is not unusual, according to Mickie Blair, who serves as LifeLine's field coordinator and cat adoption counselor.
"Black cats get adopted at a slower rate than any other color of cats, " she said, "They stay in the shelter an average of two-three years."
"It could be they often don't photograph well because they are so dark and people can't see their expression in pictures on the website, or because some people are superstitious and think they are unlucky," Blair said. "People just don't look at them.
"We have black cats with green eyes, black cats with gold eyes and more. There's nothing wrong with them! They are so pretty and in my experience, black cats often have the best personalities," she said, "They tend to be talkative and playful."
Take Ike, for instance.
Ike is a homeless black cat with a crooked tail and a lone white whisker nestled among his dark whiskers. Blair reports that Ike enjoys nibbling on people's feet.
Ike has a brother named Spike, another ink-colored and friendly fellow.
Daisy is a shy, sweet-natured black cat who came into LifeLine with a large gash under her front leg. She's healed now and ready for a home.
Salinger is a calm and curious cat, almost all black, with a broken line of white marking his nose. He likes to approach visitors and then sit and wait to be noticed -- and hopefully, petted.
Salinger was once an abandoned cat living with a colony of other outdoor cats. The management of an apartment complex where the colony lived decided to have all the stray and feral cats removed. It is thought the cats that they caught and took from the property were all destroyed. Salinger was captured with a rabies catch pole and he somehow escaped with the pole still tightly caught around his neck.
LifeLine rescued Salinger. Once the veterinarians fixed his neck wounds he moved into the Kitty Motel and is still a resident there, over two years later.
There are other black cat stories at LifeLine's Kitty Motel, about 15 of them at present. Blair is perplexed at how potential adopters can keep from falling in love with these unique, but much maligned, felines.
"They are just adorable!" she asserted, "They are just the best cats."
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Microsoft, stool and bucket at the ready, are primed to milk Epic's upcoming Gears of War 2 for all it's worth. Their next tie-in? A GoW2-themed Zune, emblazoned with the Crimson Omen (the skull-and-cog logo, if you didn't know) and loaded with about a gigabyte of GoW2 media including pictures, videos, and the original game's soundtrack. As an added bonus, combining the Gears of War 2 Zune with the Amazon.com replica Lancer will act like female Kryptonite, guaranteeing you will never know the touch of a woman again. Unless you are a woman, in which case my joke falls completely flat.
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The numbers are in – 2012 was a great year for auto dealers. After the uncertainty of the 2008 auto bailout, carmakers are enjoying this five-year high in sales records.
"We've been increasing (sales) every year, even during the recession," said Garrett Spangler, sales consultant at Spangler Subaru along Alvin Street in Richland Township. "We do expect an increase in sales in 2013."
The dealer posted a 26 percent sales increase for last year and it keeps getting better, apparently.
"Subaru's been a strong product," he said. "We've reached record sales each year for the last four years."
According to a recent study by Experian Automotive, the age of the average auto is 11 years old – it's no longer the sleek and clean machine driven off the lot more than 10 winters ago. Many motorists are just one blown head gasket or broken tie rod away from a trip to the local auto dealer.
But Matt Smith, co-owner of Laurel Auto Group, said there's much more to this windfall of new buyers than simply necessity.
"Interest rates are at an all-time low," he said. "Fuel economy on many of those cars (is good.) Many manufacturers are offering longer warranties and complimentary maintenance packages, which is allowing ownership costs to be more manageable."
Fuel economy was a big reason why Jenica Harshbarger of Richland stopped by Laurel Hyundai along Eisenhower Boulevard to trade in her Santa Fe for a newer, smaller Tucson.
The Harshbargers have been buying cars from Laurel sales consultant Harry Santichen since the late 1980s. She said she had been saving for seven years prior to plunking down for her new car.
A big concern heading into 2013 will be the American Taxpayer Relief Act, the last-minute legislation designed to avert the fiscal cliff, which was signed into law at the beginning of the year.
Smith said more tax dollars coming out of each check means less growth happening in the books, but it's too early to tell how it will affect business.
"I expect for sales rates to improve at a similar rate to what they have as recently as 2012," he said. "I don't think there's anything groundbreaking that will change."
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Fast and convenient shopping with Yapital in a SportScheck store has now become a reality throughout Germany. Europe's first cross-channel payment method has been successfully integrated in all 18 SportScheck stores, making SportScheck the first multi-channel retailer to use Yapital across all channels. No matter which channel is used, payment is always easy, fast and secure via a QR code scan with the Yapital app on the smartphone.
As one of the first major retailers, SportScheck integrated Yapital in July 2013 in their online shop. In December, payment by invoice via QR code scan was introduced. The pilot for the retail store started in January 2014 at the Hamburg branch in Mönckebergstraße. Today, it really doesn't matter where customers shop at SportScheck: They can always use Yapital as a payment method. The result is an even more coherent payment experience in multi-channel retail - a key criterion in Yapital's design. To protect customers' sensitive data, Yapital uses the latest encryption and security processes.
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UNCW Sweeps Bulldogs In Dual Meet Action
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WILMINGTON, North Carolina - UNCW won 10 events in the women's meet and C.J. Fiala and Michael Baric each won two events as the Seahawks swept visiting Wingate by scores of 154-108 and 134-110 in the women and men's meets, respectively, on Saturday at the Seahawk Natatorium.
UNCW improved its women's record to 9-6 while the men raised their mark to 8-4.
Ten different Seahawks won events in the women's meet as UNCW bolted out to an early lead by winning the first five events. Rachel Sears opened the meet with a win in the 100 yard Backstroke and was followed by Taylor Wilson's victory in the 100 Breaststroke.
UNCW completed a sweep of the 100 Backstroke when Nick Lowe won on the men's side with a time of 52.21 seconds.
Fiala won the 100 Breaststroke and later the 50 Freestyle. Baric, meanwhile, claimed first place in the 200 IM and 200 Backstroke.
The Seahawks close out their regular season next weekend with a split squad effort. The women's team will host Campbell on Saturday, while a select number of individuals compete at the Virginia Tech Invitational on Friday and Saturday.


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Two students plan to graduate from Buffalo's Burgard High School in just three years, giving them an early start on their college studies and career plans.
City school officials view that development as a positive not only for the students -- Kiara Taggart and Michael Conrath -- but for Burgard as well.
They say it reflects an expanded menu of course offerings there, an increase in instructional time, the elimination of study halls, the growth of extracurricular activities and higher expectations for students.
But while educators applaud the drive and determination of students like Kiara and Michael, they say careful thought should be given to the broader issue of early high school graduations.
Are individuals students mature enough to handle the demands of college or work a year earlier than normal? Are they better off staying in high school a fourth year to tackle extra courses and opportunities for career exploration? Is it worth missing out on senior prom, class trips and sharing graduation day with classmates?
When the issue arises in some of the area's larger suburban high schools, the advice from educators is often to stay for the fourth year.
Both Kiara and Michael are eager to graduate early, and Burgard Principal Florence Krieter said they are in a position to succeed.
"In the case of these two young people, we believe they're ready to go to college," she said. "They're prepared."
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Belle and her children
Lucy, Myrtle and Phillip
Digging in Belle's basement
after the fire
The following two photos are rather gruesome.
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Body of last victim
Andrew Helgelein
Decomposing head of
"Ole Budsberg",
poisoned by Belle
Belle Gunness display at the museum.
Shed siding in background is from the original building on Gunness property, carved with names and dates of the thousands of curious onlookers who viewed the excavation of bodies.
Woman in photo is a Helgelein descendant.
In 2008, on the 100th anniversary of the Gunness case, several lectures were presented at the museum, as well as a memorial service for the victims. Markers were placed on their graves. Click here to see photos from the events.
Belle Gunness was born in Selbu, Norway in 1858, and emigrated to the United States about 1886. She married Mads Sorenson in 1893. They owned a Chicago store that only turned a profit after it burned and they collected the insurance. In 1900 Sorenson died of convulsions and Belle received about $8,000 from his life insurance.
By 1902 Belle was in La Porte. On April Fool's Day of that year she married Peter Gunness. They worked a farm on McClung Road. Peter died after a coffee grinder fell from a shelf and hit him on the head. The insurance company reluctantly paid on his policy. Belle began advertising in Norwegian language newspapers, "Widow, with mortgaged farm, seeks marriage. Triflers need not apply."
Apparently many answered her letters. Belle would introduce them as relatives. Belle's pretty, 18 year old niece, Jenny Olson, got suspicious because the suitors always left the farm during the night. Soon Jenny was away at school in California, according to Belle.
Andrew Helgelein was the last to answer one of Belle's advertisements. She urged him to sell all he had, and then bring the cash to La Porte. For good measure she included a four leaf clover in her letter. He arrived with $3,000 in 1908.
The lack of letters from Andrew prompted his brother, Asa, to write to Belle and inquire about the suitor's whereabouts. Belle's answers were insufficient and Asa came to La Porte. He was too late.
On the morning of April 28, 1908 the Gunness farmhouse burned. In the ashes were found the bodies of the Gunness children, and the headless body of a woman of a smaller stature than Belle's substantial size. Dental work, purported to be that of Belle, was found as well. When Asa arrived several days later he prompted the sheriff to investigate further. It was then that the full horror of the events at the Gunness farm began to emerge.
The body of Andrew Helgelein was the first to be uncovered in a shallow grave in the garden. Jenny Olson was discovered nearby. At least 12 other bodies were recovered, and some estimated that Belle had buried 40 men on the farm. Curious crowds, numbering in the thousands, visited the scene of the crime.
Ray Lamphere, Belle's hired hand, was eventually charged with murder and arson. He was convicted only on the later charge. Before dying in prison, he maintained that Belle had escaped. For years afterwards there were numerous sightings of the murderess across the country, but none were confirmed.
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LAUREL COUNTY, Ky. —
I have two large bird feeders with suet cages on two sides of each feeder at my house.
One feeder is at the side of the house where the carport is so that I can watch birds through a full-length glass storm door. I had put in the glass door several years ago so that the cats could watch birds. The other bird feeder is in the back of the house under an apple tree. I can see the birds in back through a double kitchen window.
A couple of Saturdays ago I heard unusual bird noises outside. I thought a chicken hawk was in the area and had frightened the birds. When I went to the storm door to scare the hawk away, there were two blue jays making a quivering call and jumping up and down. They looked just like two bobble head dolls. They had their feet firmly around the limbs but they were jumping up and down, shouting, and bobbing their heads. They would do this for a few seconds, then they would stop and look around. Then they would start and stop again and look around. I laughed and watched for several minutes until the two birds finally flew away. I assumed they were males and the noise and the weird movements were to attract females, but the ritual must of not worked because I didn't see any blue jays come toward them.
I see all kinds of birds at my feeders including blue jays, tufted titmice, a red-bellied woodpecker, black-capped chickadees, red-winged blackbirds, mockingbirds, a red-headed woodpecker, European starlings, a pair of Eastern bluebirds, wrens, sparrows, downy woodpeckers, cardinals, an Eastern Towhee, and white-breasted nuthatches. The mourning doves eat the seeds that fall to the ground from the feeders.
I have a dwarf Mutsu apple tree in the backyard that has had over three dozen mourning doves in it a one time. For some reason they think they own that tree.
At work a couple of Fridays ago my co-worker Nita spotted two birds building a nest in a tree next to the Sentinel-Echo's building. She came and got me and we watched two mourning doves from a window inside the building. One dove, a male I assumed, would fly out of the nest to go get a twig and when it flew back, it would land on the back of the bird in the nest, probably a female, and gingerly give her the twig from around her shoulders. She would then arrange it in the nest like she wanted it while the male would fly away to get another twig.
At one point the male was bringing back twigs faster than the female could weave them in her nest, so the male laid the twigs at the edge of the nest. After a couple of minutes I went back to work, but when I left work that evening, I looked out the window to see how far along the next was coming, and both birds were gone. I thought they had just left to find food, but when I came back to work on Monday, they still hadn't come back. I guess they didn't like it where they were and they went somewhere else to build their nest. I thought it awfully strange to see two mourning doves in the middle of town. I was hoping to see them finish the nest, to watch the mother incubate the eggs, to watch the babies crack through their shells, and to see the mother feed her young. It just wasn't meant to be.


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Be Our Voice Blog
Friday, January 28th, 2011
Eat 'Em Like Junk Food? New Approaches to Marketing Healthy Snacks
It's no secret that Americans struggle to get their two or more fruit servings and three or more vegetables servings per day. In fact, the latest CDC statistics from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System show that only 32.5% of adults are eating the recommended daily servings of fruit and only 26.3% are eating the daily recommended servings of vegetables. But what are concerned individuals to do? In the end, unhealthy snacks are just more readily available and cheaper for adults and kids than are healthy snacks.
Some private companies are out to change that imbalance. The Wall Street Journal Health Blog reported last Halloween that A Bunch of Carrot Farmers™ (led by Bolthouse Farms) launched an ambitious campaign to rebrand baby carrots. The "Eat 'Em Like Junk Food" campaign was taken nationwide with the release of Scarrots, "a new kind of Halloween treat." Carrots came in mini-packages and included glow-in-the-dark tattoos. But did kids go for it? "We've been blown away by the response to this campaign," said Jeff Dunn, chief executive officer, Bolthouse Farms. The company is following up the success of Scarrots with Super Bowl-themed packaging. More pictures and information can be found on their website, BabyCarrots.com. And if this packaging is not available in your area, the website offers a place where you can write Bolthouse Farms and "tell [them] why [they] should bring 'em to your city."
But carrots aren't the only thing getting a makeover in the snack world. As the Wall Street Journal reported last October, "Fresh Del Monte Produce and a vending-machine maker, the Wittern Group, collaborated on a machine specially engineered to dispense fresh-cut fruits and veggies — even easily bruised bananas." The machine—which went on the market in 2010—has two temperature zones. The top is loaded with bananas kept at about 57 degrees. The bottom zone—kept at about 34 degrees—holds packages of fresh-cut fruit and vegetables. The vending machine is already in some schools and sells for more than $5,000 compared to about $3,000 for a typical machine.
And even though adults seem more reluctant to pick fruits and veggies over chips and soda, recent research shows that children may be more likely to choose healthy snacks as long as the packaging features familiar cartoon characters. Using characters to market healthy foods was perhaps more prevalent in the pop culture of years past (remember Popeye and his spinach?), but it's seeing a comeback today in characters like those from Veggie Tales. Of course, the implications of character marketing to kids make some parents and experts uncomfortable, which is why fun packaging like the kind used for these baby carrots—that doesn't feature popular cartoon characters—is being met with such applause.
In the end, every child may not be getting the recommended daily servings of fruit and veggies yet, but innovations like these may help combat the stereotype that snacks have to be unhealthy to be fun and tasty.
Pushing Fruits and Veggies With Junk Food Tactics
The Great Banana Challenge—How to Dispense Healthy Snacks From A Vending Machine
State-Specific Trends in Fruit and Vegetable Consumption Among Adults --- United States, 2000-2009
Influence of Licensed Characters on Children's Taste and Snack Preferences
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August 1, 2014
Another NewsChannel 7 Share Your Holidays Food Drive and Fundraiser is in the books. We're happy to report it was a very successful year.
On Friday alone, we received more than $6,000 in donations. The last of the day was from The Brickner Family Auto Group and its employees. They gave $5,000!
Thanks to all of your donations and matching funds, we raised more than $43,000 for the Neighbor's Place and Salvation Army Food Pantries.
River Valley Bank Chairman Todd Nicklaus and Sunrise 7's Jeff Thelen made the check presentation Friday at the Grand Theater.
The Wausau Community Theater is donating a portion of all tickets sold to Share Your Holidays.
The account at the bank will stay open until the end of the year.
You also donated more food than ever before.
Thanks to all of you for Sharing Your Holidays!
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By Ronald D. Orol, MarketWatch
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Taxpayers are still owed $119 billion in outstanding Troubled Asset Relief Program funds, a watchdog for the government crisis response program said Wednesday in a quarterly report to Congress.
That number is down from $133 billion in TARP funds owed as of January, according to the author of the report, the Office of the Special Inspector General for the TARP. The government expects TARP to lose $60 billion.
Tampa, Charlotte among gainers.
• U.S. homeownership at 18-year low
The program was set up during the height of the financial crisis of 2008 to stem a growing credit contagion by providing taxpayer-funded capital injections into big and smaller banks.
Most of the remaining costs come from investments including taxpayer-funded stakes in American International Group Inc. /quotes/zigman/557836/delayed/quotes/nls/aig AIG -2.02% , General Motors Co. /quotes/zigman/1466682/delayed/quotes/nls/gm GM -1.43% and Ally Financial, as well as $18 billion from banks that still must repay their TARP injections, and another $15 billion in costs come from the public-private investment program, in which the government matched private investment into mortgage securities.
The reduction in money owed to taxpayers comes partly from banks repaying their TARP and exiting the program. Regions Financial Corp. /quotes/zigman/351634/delayed/quotes/nls/rf RF -1.55% repaid TARP $3.5 billion on April 4 and exited the program. Until it paid back the Treasury, Regions was the largest bank remaining in the TARP program, the report noted.
AIG, through a combination of buy-backs from Treasury and Treasury sales of the troubled insurer's shares on the open market, repaid about $7 billion. Treasury still has a 70% stake in AIG following the transactions, according to the report.
The report added that a key reason for the costs is that many community banks have an uphill battle to exit TARP because they cannot find new capital. It noted that community banks with less than $1.5 billion in assets typically don't have access to capital from private equity firms, mutual funds, foundations, and other institutional investors.
The report said that of 351 banks remaining in the TARP program as of March 31, 163 were not current on dividend payments they are obliged to make to the Treasury Department. Over a hundred banks have missed five or more dividend payments and dozens more face formal enforcement actions by their federal regulator, the report added.
However, the report notes that Treasury has already written off or realized losses of $14 billion in TARP investments.
The report noted that most regional mid-sized banks remaining in TARP have taken steps to issue new stock or debt or selling assets as part of plans to repay the government.
Ten regional banks remained in the program as of April, including Cathay General Bancorp. /quotes/zigman/69525/delayed/quotes/nls/caty CATY -1.31% , First Bancorp. /quotes/zigman/110381/delayed/quotes/nls/fnlc FNLC -0.67% , Flagstar Bancorp, Inc. /quotes/zigman/12231963/delayed/quotes/nls/fbc FBC -1.13% , International Bancshares Corp. /quotes/zigman/58558/delayed/quotes/nls/iboc IBOC -3.02% , M&T Bank Corp. /quotes/zigman/220191/delayed/quotes/nls/mtb MTB -0.99% , New York Private Bank & Trust Corporation, Popular Inc. /quotes/zigman/10295343/delayed/quotes/nls/bpop BPOP -2.15% , PrivateBancorp Inc. /quotes/zigman/65535/delayed/quotes/nls/pvtb PVTB -2.21% , Synovus Financial Corp. /quotes/zigman/33906724/delayed/quotes/nls/snv SNV -2.12% , and Zions Bancorp. /quotes/zigman/80277/delayed/quotes/nls/zion ZION -0.83% .
New costs are expected to hit banks beginning in late 2013, when banks still in the program will face a significant rise in dividend payments they are obliged to make to the government from 5% to 9%.
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"Getting the community banks left in TARP back on their feet without government assistance must be a high priority for Treasury and the federal banking regulators," said Special Inspector General Christy Romero.
Banks receiving TARP capital injections must initially pay a 5% dividend per year, with payment to Treasury due four times a year. Five years after signing a contract to receive those funds, TARP recipients must pay dividends of 9%, based on a provision to encourage banks to pay back the funds they have received.


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NORMAN — Gaythia Scott, 55, of Lexington, died Sunday, Nov. 25, 2012, at the Lexington Nursing Home. Services will be 10 a.m. Friday at First Baptist Church in Lexington. Arrangements are by Wilson-Little Funeral Home.
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It's usually figured as a percentage of the total charge for the service. In most cases, you'll pay coinsurance plus your deductible.
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