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Former Northampton County Solicitor Anthony J. Martino faces charges after a grand jury concluded that he committed thefts and theft-related offenses while working as an attorney in Bangor.
Northampton County District Attorney John Morganelli held a press conference Monday morning to announce the grand jury results regarding Martino, who faces charges of theft by unlawful taking or disposition, theft by deception, receiving stolen property, theft by failure to make required disposition of funds received, forgery and misapplication of entrusted property.
According to a criminal complaint obtained by Patch.com, Martino -- working for a law firm in Bangor -- was named executor of the estate of John L. Farace, who died March 3, 2008.
Farace's will listed Moravian College as the sole beneficiary of his estate, valued at $184,183.53, court papers state.
Starting March 21, 2008, Martino wrote 96 checks to himself from the estate and one check to cash, all totaling $237,306.94.
He wrote out two checks to Moravian Collage -- one for $70,000 in May 2009 and another for $80,000 in late June 2010.
When Moravian was due $34,183.53 in September 2011, the estate's checking account was empty and was in fact carrying a negative balance, court records state.
The criminal complaint also states that the Roseto resident signed over to himself a $75,000 check that was intended to be held for Richard Bartolacci of Fairfield Development Associates.
Martino is also being linked to an outstanding tax deficiency for Allstate Septic Systems in January 2010.
The company was informed about a tax deficiency of $100,421.49. It brought on Martino as counsel and Allstate Septic wrote Martino a check for $87,250.25, believing that it would resolve the tax deficiency.
When it was announced in July 2012 that Martino was starting his own firm, Allstate partner Bruce E. Fox inquired about the check he paid into escrow and was told by Martino that the money was tied up.
Court papers indicated that Martino had deposited those funds into the Farace estate checking account.
The grand jury has been investigating Martino since Sept. 6, court papers indicate.


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Whitey movie eerie experience for 'Black Mass' coauthor
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Lawmakers agree on deal to tighten Mass. gun laws
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Letting loose in the city gives 'Opera Guy' stability
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Martha Coakley, Steve Grossman step up dispute
Sniping between the gubernatorial candidates – and the PAC that backs Grossman – has intensified.
Walsh's weaselly defense of O'Brien
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'Boston Mob' by Marc Songini
In "Boston Mob: The Rise and Fall of the New England Mob and Its Most Notorious Killer,'' Songini recounts the saga of organized crime in Boston and Providence in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Spring rebound after harsh winter for Mass., US economies
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Immigration issues may get shelved
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LOS ANGELES, Calif. ( Ivanhoe Newswire) - Four out of five people will suffer back pain at some point in their lives. It can be debilitating and life altering. Now, a new procedure can ease the pain faster than ever before.
He was a surfer, a rodeo rider and a big game hunter, but when back pain struck, Jeff Pellisier was desperate for relief.
"I remember I was on the strongest opium patch you can have," Jeff Pellisier, told Ivanhoe.
So he tried a new surgery.
"I was not ready to give up any activities, much less all of them at age 50," Jeff said.
His problem along with a million others who suffer from lower back pain us the sacroiliac or SI joint.
"It's a really strong joint that keeps us standing," Dr. Neel Anand, director of spine trauma minimally invasive spine surgery at Cedars-Sinai spine Center in Los Angeles, explained.
Doctor Neel Anand is one of the first to perform a minimally invasive procedure that uses titanium implants bolted into the pelvis to stabilize the joint.
"In the past we use to open up and go down. Today we have three pins through a small incision of about an inch," Dr. Anand said.
Another difference is recovery time. For traditional fusion surgery it's 6 months, for the minimally invasive procedure it's two weeks. In fact with the new technique patients can go home the next day.
"We basically put in three pins right through the pelvis and lock it into place," Dr. Anand said.
The pins are covered with a plasma spray to help the bone grow around and into the implant for more stability. The day after surgery, Jeff was up and walking. One year out from his operation and he's moving on to more adventurous things
"I've been doing some surfing and some dog sledding," Jeff said.
The implants are not a first line of defense for SI joint sufferers. First steroid shots are used, and then radio frequency ablation then the surgery. The implants will most likely last for life.
BACKGROUND: Low back pain is the fifth most common reason for all physician visits in the United States. The sacroiliac joint (or SI joint for short) is the second most common area where people experience back pain. Many people mistakenly refer to it as their "hip", but the SI joint is part of the spine. The joints form the connection between the spine and the pelvis. The pain forms if the Sacroiliac joint is rotated or tilted out of place causing the back to become less stable. This can lead to pain higher up in the back due to compensation. (Source:acatoday.org)CAUSES: As with most other joints in the body, the SI joints have a cartilage layer covering the bone. The cartilage allows for some movement and acts as a shock absorber between the bones. When this cartilage is damaged or worn away, the bones begin to rub on each other, and degenerative arthritis (osteoarthritis) occurs. This is the most common cause of SI joint dysfunction. Another common cause of SI joint dysfunction is pregnancy. During pregnancy, hormones are released in the woman's body that allows ligaments to relax. This prepares the body for childbirth. Relaxation of the ligaments holding the SI joints together allows for increased motion in the joints and can lead to increased stresses and abnormal wear. The additional weight and walking pattern associated with pregnancy also places additional stress on the SI joints. Really, any condition that alters the normal walking pattern places increased stress on the SI joints. (Source: http://www.medicinenet.com)TREATMENT: Surgery for SI dysfunction involves a fusion of the SI joints. In this invasive surgery, the cartilage covering the surfaces of the SI joints is removed and the bones are held together with plates and screws until they grow together (fuse). This eliminates all motion at the SI joints and typically relieves the pain. The recovery time for this type of surgery is generally around 6 months. (Source: http://www.medicinenet.com)NEW TECHNOLOGY: Dr. Neel Anand, Director of Spine Trauma at Cedars-Sinai Spine Center in Los Angeles is breaking ground on a new surgery to ease back pain. The procedure is called iFuse. This MIS procedure requires a smaller incision and uses a guide pin to place the titanium implants across the sacroiliac joint. These small implants are designed to fix the sacroiliac (SI) joint and allow stable healing through minimization of micromotion. Typically three iFuse implants are used in an iFuse procedure. (Source: http://si-bone.com and http://www.infospine.net)
Dr. Neel Anand, Director of Spine Trauma, Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery at Cedars-Sinai Spine Center in Los Angeles, talks about a new procedure that can ease pain faster than ever before.
How many people do you see that have SI joint problems?
Dr. Anand: We probably under diagnose it more than we actually see it. We're seeing more and more today than we saw before only because we're more aware.
Is it because it presents itself as lower back pain?
Dr. Anand: Yes, it presents itself just like any other lower back pain.
What are the symptoms that would say it is not a disc problem but it's a joint problem?
Dr. Anand: The pain is actually pretty similar, but it may be in a different location, maybe closer to the SI joint. You can get back pain that also causes pain near the SI joint. There are tests we do that may confirm or not confirm the problem.
What kind of tests?
Dr. Anand: Most tests are designed to stress the SI joint and produce pain We rotate the hips and do a figure of four crossover test. We stress the SI joint applying vertical pressure to see if that's producing pain, tenderness directly on the SI joint is also a sign.
Where is the SI joint?
Dr. Anand: It's actually the joint that articulates your spine to your pelvis. The SI joint is the joint between the end of the tail bone and the wings of your pelvis and there is one on each side.
It's probably not uncommon that they wear out?
Dr. Anand: It's different in that it doesn't move as much. It moves very little compared to a hip or a knee or a shoulder. The range of motion is extremely limited but it does move. It is a regular joint and is a synovial joint and we can develop arthritis like any other joint can.
What was traditional treatment for this?
Dr. Anand: Traditionally it was injections, physical therapy and eventually if it ever came to a point you do an open fusion of the SI joint.
What's the difference now with the iFuse Implant System?
Dr. Anand: What the iFuse Implant System does is it helps us do the fusion of the SI joint and stabilize it in a totally minimally invasive way. In the past we used to open up the entire pelvis go down the inside and do open surgery. Today, literally three triangular rods are placed across the joint through a small incision about an inch in size. We can literally go in and stabilize the joint and fix it. It's made the entire procedure minimally invasive and totally tolerable and acceptable.
How long is the traditional incision?
Dr. Anand: Six to eight inches.
What is the recovery time?
Dr. Anand: With the iFuse Implant System, recovery time is a lot less.
Can you explain the difference?
Dr. Anand: Open surgery is big and it pretty much became out of vogue, which is why SI joint problems were never diagnosed. Now that we have a solution we are looking at it more easily, today we can make them go home in about six hours. The next day they can get up and start ambulating. They may not be able to put full weight on their leg but we've got different people do differently. Some people walk right away some people take some time to put weight on it. The open surgery took about six weeks.
What are the risks?
Dr. Anand: With any procedure there are risks, there's always risks. It's way less risky than the open procedure that we did.
With a lot of implants they wear out, will these be for life for most people?
Dr. Anand: It stabilizes the joint and hopefully fuses around it. So yes it could be there for life without any problem.
Is there a risk of fusing it in the wrong area?
Dr. Anand: If you don't put it in the right spot then yeah the implant will be in the wrong place.
What would happen?
Dr. Anand: The implant can get loose and will have to be taken out.
Is it hard to get it in the right place?
Dr. Anand: Normally it's all done under Xray control. If you know the anatomy and study the x-rays it's not difficult at all. It takes about an hour to do.
Can you tell me about the implant?
Dr. Anand: The reason you do plasma spray coating is to allow ingrowth of bone. That's again been shown from hips and knee technologies where if you plasma spray coat the implant, the bone has an affinity to grow towards it and bond to it. That's the idea behind it. By putting the implant in we can allow bone to grow and fuse the joint.
Tell me about Jeff.
Dr. Anand: He was a really interesting patient. He was in agony for years and could not do anything he wanted to do. He had seen many doctors. He had gone through the whole sequence of treatments including different shoes, back doctors, pain management and actually by the time he saw me he already had I believe two or three SI injections. Each one of them had given him relief. I also believe he had radio frequency oblation that had given him relief but just came back. After three or four months it will come right back. So he was getting to a point he was getting tired of getting these injections. I examined him and he really fit the criteria clinically and his history and with all the successful injections it really proved it was the SI joint. He did spectacularly well, post surgery and recovered really well and he is very pleased. It's a great technology it's been definitely proven to work in selective patients and its helped us a lot.
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Nickelback have featured in a few music themed video games. In the Rock Band store, there is two Nickelback track packs, which I bought and have played a lot on Rock Band 3. 'How You Remind Me' is also on 'Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock'. Nickelback also have one song on the Guitar Hero store. The song on the Guitar Hero store is their song, 'Because of You' from their 2003 album, 'The Long Road'. They also have their own 'Tap Tap' game for iPod Touch/iPhone, which is really fun and has an amazing set of songs.


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New shots of the truck.
I took my dogs down to the river today and figured I'd snap a few shots of the Chevy. Here's a couple shots of the truck and my dogs.
And the most annoying rock chip ever.
It's right in the up and down center of the windshield straight in front of the drivers seat. I have to lean to either the left or the right side to drive, lol
I think I'm gonna work on getting those last couple of chrome pieces off this weekend, and then probably sand my back bumper down and get it ready for paint. Not sure what to go with yet... maybe the same black that I used on my tool box and headache rack.2005 Chevy Silverado W/T
4X4|4.8 with some mods (has only slightly more pull than a 5.3)|Auto|4 door ex cab|Cooper Discoverer AT/3's in 285-75/17's on Helo 842's|Cooper Discover M+S 265-75/17's on Devino DV349's|Flowmaster 40 Single in Dual out with custom bent pipe from the end of the cats back|2" Procomp leveling kit|Custom made center console|Custom dyno tunes|Air Raid CAI|Air Raid Throttle Body Spacer|Apex brand topper|Kenwood Head Unit with Kenwood speakers|Painted mirrors/grille|Debadged except front emblem|Bilsteins front and rear
Planned mods not in order
2 inch lift|Custom front/rear bumper|hitch tire carrier|roof basket on topper, bars on cab|finish center console build|install Midland CB|Power options|Tint|Custom made raised bed in the bed of the truck|Lund LunarVisor
Also have a 1992 Ford Ranger with a lot of stuff done to it. Currently waiting for a bit of a rebuild.
"The only woman I'm pimping from now on is Sweet Lady Propane. And I'm tricking her out all over this town."
Hey man what river is that? Also was your back bumper painted to match looks like it was painted white? I think it would look good painted white to match the mirrors and if you wanted to paint the door handles also would look really clean then!
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It's the Flathead river. I live about 5 minutes away from it. And it wasn't painted to match, it's just a gray painted work truck bumper. I don't think I am going to paint it white because I plan on repainting my mirrors anyway doing a black/white thing.
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It goes from somewhere up in Glacier Park to Bigfork, Montana and into Flathead Lake (largest freshwater lake on the western side of the Mississippi River).
Looks good, can't complain when you are that close to water.
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oh okay man. I live right at the Mississippi/Louisiana line right by the Mississippi river maybe 2 or 3 miles from it..
I have a pond.:cool:
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Your dogs look like they got a workout.
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The Legislative Box and the Economic Straightjacket
by Charles Lemos, Wed Aug 18, 2010 at 06:34:28 PM EDT
Former Clinton Chief of Staff John Podesta has a theory on why the President's poll numbers continue to sag. In an article by Matt Bai in the New York Times, John Podesta, who now runs the liberal think tank Center for American Progress, finds that the President who came into power facing an economic meltdown faced a "legislative box." Mr. Podesta believes that Obama's most consequential decisions on domestic policy stemmed from "one overarching conviction — that the President's most important job in a crisis, requiring nearly single-minded attention, was to pass" monumental once in a generation type legislation.
"By focusing on getting big legislative accomplishments, which was understandable, they necessarily gave up a larger image of him as president," Mr. Podesta said, referring to White House advisers. "They cast him as the prime minister. They were kind of locked into the day-to-day workings on the Hill."
This was not a given. All presidents have laws they want to pass, but they have broader thematic priorities, too. Ronald Reagan saw a renewal of American optimism as a vital goal. Bill Clinton publicly hammered away at his ideas about economic transformation and "reinventing government."
Unlike his recent predecessors, however, Mr. Obama had spent his entire political career in legislative posts, and he seemed determined, above all else, to clear the Congressional hurdles that had thwarted the others. He chose a vice president and a chief of staff who were masters of the legislative arena, and he filled his most senior posts (aside from those occupied by longtime advisers) with former Congressional aides.
Mr. Obama's central strategy was to concentrate on cajoling Democratic lawmakers into passing a series of bills — the stimulus package, the health care overhaul, a new set of financial regulations.
Mr. Podesta finds that the necessity of pursuing an intense, wide-ranging legislative agenda had other implications for President Obama's image.
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A more national, outward-looking strategy for creating a "postpartisan" dynamic might have included White House partnerships with Republican governors or even with conservative foundations or industry groups. Because the president effectively boxed himself in to a Capitol Hill-only strategy, though, he handed the Republican minorities in Congress the power to sabotage his goal.
"Once you became a legislative president, which is arguably what you needed to do, you couldn't deliver on the nonpartisanship promise," Mr. Podesta said. "And it's something people wanted."
It's not hard to extend Mr. Podesta's theory about the legislative box to other areas in which the administration has faltered. One of the real surprises of the Obama era, for instance, has been the president's sharp break with the business community. Perhaps it shouldn't be so surprising, though, when you consider that Mr. Obama's focus on legislation has forced him to be responsive, above all else, to the shifting tides of populist sentiment in Congress.
Think of it this way: if your singular goal is to pass bills, and Democratic lawmakers are in a frenzy this week over A.I.G.'s bonuses or Goldman Sachs's investments, then you might feel forced to castigate big business, too.
Much of Mr. Obama's anticorporate rhetoric was probably calibrated more to lawmakers than to business leaders, but what the executives heard were declarations of war against American industry.
Perhaps the most damaging consequence of the legislative box is that it left Mr. Obama, who still regards himself as an outsider and a reformer, looking like a Congressional insider — which is about the last thing voters, and independent voters in particular, wanted him to be.
Mr. Podesta argues that part of the President's significant appeal to voters, especially independents, in 2008 — "a big part of the secret sauce of getting him elected" — was his promise to transcend perennial partisanship and change the way Washington works. "Let's put the animosities behind us. Let's not have old arguments. Let's not have tired ideological arguments," implored candidate Obama.
Then, as now, such was a hopelessly naïve stance. To engage in rational discussion and empirical debate requires rational actors who live in a fact-based universe. Much, but not all, of the GOP lives in a world based on a failed faith in free markets with tax cuts über alles for the über-wealthy. Their worldview largely is largely surmised with the empty platitudes of limited government and that the private sector knows best. How does one engage in a debate with Iowa's Steve King or Minnesota's Michele Bachmann both of whom believe the President to be a shade to the left of Karl Marx?
To be fair to the President, his rhetoric has also included statements like these said at various points during the 2008 campaign:
"You got a problem with health care: tax cuts. You got problem with education: tax cuts. You got a problem with the economy: tax cuts. Poverty: tax cuts. That's not a policy, it's a dogma, a tired and cynical philosophy."
"At a moment like this, the last thing we can afford is four more years of the tired, old theory that says we should give more to billionaires and big corporations and hope that prosperity trickles down to everyone else."
"It's not because John McCain doesn't care. It's because John McCain doesn't get it. For over two decades, he's subscribed to that old, discredited Republican philosophy -- give more and more to those with the most and hope that prosperity trickles down to everyone else."
But while Obama fought hard to get himself elected in 2008, once in office Barack Obama has displayed a bizarre indifference to hard knuckled politics and challenging on a consistent basis that discredited dogma. He has demonstrated this strange aversion to confrontational politics with those on the opposite side of the aisle. One wonders, at this point, if it is some sort of a congenital defect. The left, professional or otherwise, members of his team are more willingly to demonize.
Part of what doomed Obama politically, as John Judis noted this week in The New Republic, was the way he dealt with the financial crisis during the first six months of his Presidency. In "an atmosphere primed for a populist backlash," he allowed the right wing, people from Dick Armey and Glenn Beck to Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich to define him and frame his agenda as some sort of radical Marxist enterprise. It is significant that the only populist movement spawned in the Age of Obama was the Tea Party Movement, a movement that largely appeals to a nativist crowd in the South and West.
But there's another problem with Barack Obama. Just what are his core convictions? He's like the weather here in San Francisco, wait fifteen minutes and it will change. One minute Obama is drenched in glorious delicious sunlight, the next he is lost in a cold bone-chilling fog.
On this note, just what is the President's take on the Córdoba Islamic Cultural Center? One day, he's forcefully making the argument for religious liberty and the rights of all Americans; the next day, he's backtracking saying that he was not commenting and will not comment on the wisdom of making the decision to put a mosque there. Why wade into that debate at all then? Either stand firmly on principle or allow yourself to be dragged in political quicksand by Sarah Palin on Twitter. From the Judis piece:
As Obama was delivering his inaugural address, the financial crisis was already in full swing; and it was already apparent that financial speculation, outright fraud, and irresponsible and sometimes illegal housing-loan practices had played a very large role in precipitating the crisis. The public was up in arms. But, instead of rallying the public against the "money changers," as Roosevelt had done in his first inaugural, Obama, taking a leaf from Jimmy Carter's infamous "malaise" speech, put the blame on the public as a whole. "Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age," he declared.
Over the next month, Obama would periodically criticize bankers after embarrassing revelations–at various times calling the bonuses they gave themselves "shameful" and an "outrage"–but, after hearing complaints about his rhetoric from the bankers, he would back off. At a private meeting on March 28 with 13 Wall Street CEOs, the president, his spokesman Robert Gibbs said, "emphasized that Wall Street needs Main Street and Main Street needs Wall Street." And, in his Georgetown speech, Obama returned to his theme of collective responsibility. The recession, Obama said, "was caused by a perfect storm of irresponsibility and poor decision-making that stretched from Wall Street to Washington to Main Street."
Obama's policy followed the same swerving course as his rhetoric. One week, he would favor harsh restrictions on bank and insurance-company bonuses, but, the next week, he would waver; one week, he would support legislation allowing bankruptcy judges to reduce the amount that homeowners threatened with foreclosure owed the banks; the next week, he would fail to protest when bank lobbyists pressured the Senate to kill these provisions. But, more importantly, Obama–in sharp contrast to Roosevelt in his first months–failed to push Congress to immediately enact new financial regulations or even to set up a commission to investigate fraud. (When Congress finally appointed a commission in July 2009, Obama and his party put a milquetoast Democratic politician, former California State Treasurer Philip Angelides, in charge of it.)
Obama's appointments also conveyed an impression that he wanted to let Wall Street off the hook. He appointed Timothy Geithner to be treasury secretary. Geithner claimed that he was not part of Wall Street, but, in his capacity as president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, he had served under a board of directors headed by JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon. As New York Fed president, Geithner had been partly responsible for the decision to let Lehman Brothers go under, for the unpopular tarp program, and for American International Group (AIG) paying back its Wall Street creditors with government money. Geithner chose as his chief of staff a former lobbyist for Goldman Sachs. Retiring Democratic Senator Byron Dorgan told me, "Most Americans were reading about the massive compensations and bailouts, and the administration largely hired people from the culture of Wall Street."
The appointment of the Rubinite acolytes Lawrence "DE Shaw Hedge Fund Paid Me $5.2 Million" Summers and Timothy "Welcome to the Recovery" Geithner have been a disaster from the start. Summers failed to properly take stock of the gravity of the situation while dismissing those who were arguing for a more forceful response and Geithner has been nothing but the servile lapdog of Wall Street interests even going as far as intervening to save $165 million dollars in bonus money for AIG employees.
Rep. David Obey, the third-most senior member of the House and chairman of the Appropriations Committee, told The Fiscal Times in an interview that Obama's Treasury Department asked initially for a $1.4 trillion bill. We know that the now soon to depart Christina Romer, the head of the Council of Economic Advisors, initially proposed a $1.2 trillion Keynesian jolt to the economy. Instead, the Administration in its quest for bipartisanship proposed a stimulus between $700 and $800 billion that included large tax cuts that were more likely to stimulate saving than consumption–and spending that would be unlikely to produce many jobs until the end of Obama's first term. In the stimulus's first year, the Administration spent only $17 billion of the $139 billion allocated for infrastructure spending.
Why? In the Fiscal Times interview, Rep. Obey points to the answer:
The problem for Obama, he wasn't as lucky as Roosevelt, because when Obama took over we were still in the middle of a free fall. So his Treasury people came in and his other economic people came in and said "Hey, we need a package of $1.4 trillion." We started sending suggestions down to OMB waiting for a call back. After two and a half weeks, we started getting feedback. We put together a package that by then the target had been trimmed to $1.2 trillion. And then [White House Chief of Staff] Rahm Emanuel said to me, "Geez, do you really think we can afford to come in with a package that big, isn't it going to scare people?" I said, "Rahm, you will need that shock value so that people understand just how serious this problem is." They wanted to hold it to less than $1 trillion. Then [Pennsylvania Senator Arlen] Specter and the two crown princesses from Maine [Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins] took it down to less than $800 billion. Spread over two and a half years, that's a hell of a lot of money, but spread over two and a half years in an economy this large, it doesn't have a lot of fiscal power.
In the Bai piece today in the Times, Mr. Podesta notes one other point, an assumption made by Obama and his team of advisors. The strategy for political success "was built on the no-economic-stall option." Mr. Podesta said, "In other words, the idea was that you didn't have to get the unemployment rate to a certain number, but you had to get unemployment going in the right direction, and people would feel that, and it would be palpable."
If your strategy for success was built on a no economic stall, the folly of listening to Rahm Emanuel's political advice over the economic advice of the Treasury Department and other notables that included Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz is self-evident. The Obama Administration put politics of placating the unappeasable before the necessity of tackling the harsh economic environment bequeathed to him by the Bush Administration. It's bizarre that the Obama Administration choose so willingly to place themselves in an economic straightjacket.
Now it seems we are all headed for the asylum where insanity shall rule.
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Have you ever noticed how warm weather makes people seem more happy and more open? I think that is partly a charm of the Sydney, most of the time even when it is raining it is warm, so you can just enjoy a nice summer rain.
Last weekend was all about rest, beach and voting.
As you may have heard, there was a referendum in Latvia last Saturday if we should have Russian language as second language in Latvia. I generally did not pay too much attention to this up till I saw a dream of my mother and brother voting for and me being very angry. Maybe it was a sign, but I did found out it is possible to vote in Sydney. And turns out there is a Latvian house in Sydney. Seems that there could be around 300 Latvians in Sydney who can vote, at least according to the rumors I heard in this Latvian house.
So I was done with my vote around 11am on Saturday so it was a perfect timing to catch 12:15 ferry to Manly and spend some time on the beach. It was very crowded as there was surfing competition. I managed to escape the crowds by moving to "not so interesting" part of the beach.
I did get some tan and got a bit sunburnt. And managed to buy a book that kept me busy all weekend. If you like fantasy, I recommend Brandon Sanderson's book Warbreaker. If I happen to get a good book in my hands, I just cannot put it down till I am done with it. Same happened with this one. But it was all worth it. And I must say, books in Sydney are crazy expensive.
And yes, I got a certificate today, all because I put peanut butter in my oatmeal. Don't think it is so crazy though, I like peanut butter. And it goes well with oatmeal and blueberries. You should try :)
I have been wondering, is it possible to prove the fact that the more kilometers you run the happier you get? I think there is a connection there. :)


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The Old Line Statesmen Chorus Meetings are open to men of all ages who like to sing. Our members come from all walks of life and all levels of singing ability. Some read music, but most learn their music with the benefit of learning CDs. We put it all together on meeting nights.
We sing for civic, business and private events or churches, at retirement communities or nursing homes. We can supply a chorus or a quartet to meet the needs of almost any event.
If you can sing 'Happy Birthday,' you've most likely got what it takes to be a member of the Statesmen. We'll teach you to sing as we go along. If you aren't comfortable singing in public, but enjoy singing with friends, this is the place for you. The members all work together for the good of the chapter and the community. Visit us on Facebook or our website for more information.


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ECU and Central Florida can join Tulsa and become the league's second and third bowl-eligible teams with victories Saturday.
Neither is a sure thing.
ECU faces a 4-3 Navy team that, surprise, surprise, ranks in the top 15 nationally in rushing. Quarterback Keenan Reynolds, who kept the job after replacing injured starter Trey Miller, leads Navy's triple option attack. Nine players have at least one rush for 20 or more yards this season.
Navy ran for 257 yards in a 31-30 victory over Indiana last week.
UCF plays at Marshall, which is better than its 3-4 record suggests. Marshall scored 34 points in an opening loss at West Virginia, pushed a now-ranked Ohio team, scored 41 against the Big Ten's Purdue and lost a shootout against West division leader Tulsa. The combined record of those four opponents is 22-6.
Marshall needs a victory to improve its bowl odds.
Houston and SMU, tied for second in the West with identical 3-4, 2-1 records, can take another step in that direction against UTEP (2-6, 1-3) and Memphis (1-6, 1-2), respectively.


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Rideshare Thursday
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By BRADEN LAMMERS
Amendments to two bond resolutions were again approved by the Jeffersonville Redevelopment Commission.
The bond resolutions were previously approved by the commission in December and updated the bond for the Falls Landing TIF to total $3.5 million, and for the Inner City Roads TIF, the bond amendment totaled $9.5 million. The resolutions also updated the bonds to allow funding to be used for a new police station planned on 10th Street and for the city's stormwater conveyance system.
Redevelopment Commission Attorney Les Merkley explained the process to amend the bond required approval by the redevelopment commission, the city council and then required a second approval by the redevelopment commission.
Resolutions 2013-R-1 and 2 were both approved 4-0 Wednesday night.
New tenant on Court Avenue
The redevelopment commission has determined the value of a vacant property at 214 Court Ave. that it plans to offer in a lease-purchase deal to a cafe owner.
After a presentation was made by Nicole Ruddell to turn a former Italian restaurant at the site into a vintage cafe and coffee shop, the redevelopment commission asked for a new appraisal be done on the property.
The new appraisal amount was the same as the value formerly placed on the building, totaling $510,000.
The redevelopment commission agreed to move forward with drafting a leas-purchase agreement and to negotiate with Ruddell to finalize a deal.
Dust up over projects list
Frustrations boiled over when a project list was not initially presented at Wednesday's meeting.
Redevelopment Commissioner Rob Stevens questioned Redevelopment Director Rob Waiz about a project list for 2013 that he said would be provided during the December meeting.
"Rob, I just want to say I'm disappointed, because at our last meeting you did state that you would have a list for us and we still don't have it," Stevens said. "I think it's critically important that we have a projects list and we understand what it is; and when you tell us you're going to do something, it's your responsibility to do it."
Waiz said he would have a list available at a workshop that had also been requested by the redevelopment commission.
"Every board member wanted a projects list," Stevens said.
"I'll get you a list; let's cut out the theatrics and move on with the meeting," Waiz said in response.
Waiz produced a projects list during the meeting and presented it to the redevelopment commissioners before the end of the meeting. A workshop to review the list was scheduled for noon Tuesday, Jan. 29, in the mayor's conference room in City Hall.
Culver's tax abatement
A 10-year tax abatement for a Culver's restaurant on Veterans Parkway was approved by the redevelopment commission.
Before the abatement was approved, Waiz explained that an abatement of this type is somewhat unusual, but he also said it may provide a needed benefit to the area.
"I don't think we do too many restaurants actually for a tax abatement, but this would just be a great shot in the arm for Veterans Parkway," Waiz said. "This would be something to get things jump-started"
Culver's Owner Frank Spanopoulos said the investment to open the restaurant will be about $2.2 million. When it is operational, Culver's will employ between 40 and 60 people and have a payroll of $400,000 to $500,000.
The abatement on the Culver's property only was unanimously approved.


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How long have you been playing: 7 years
How did you get involved in the sport? I started playing with my father.
Your best victory or tournament? Highest Rating to date? 2012 US Open, 2491
What are your Goals in the sport? To be the World Champion and to put United States on the top of world table tennis map
Who is your Favorite Player? Why? Jan-Ove Waldner, because he is a skilled player who could beat everyone.
Describe your game or playing philosophy. Two winged looper, with third ball attack, work hard on the table and have fun.
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Yeeah! We hit our GOAL! Thanks to all our DONORS! You DID IT!
Ariel Hsing and Timothy Wang had an amazing August representing TEAM USA. Honorable mentions go to junior Kunal Chodri and para junior Nolan Weber.
Tina Lin, Ariel Hsing, and Kunal Chodri at the Double Fish 2013 Canadian Junior & Cadet Open in North Vancouver, CAN. Image courtesy of TTCAN/Thor.
The ITTF present the best kids in the world from Vancouver!
Kunal Chodri and Kanak Jha are the respective top seeds in the Cadet Boys' Singles event; the event that lights the torch for the action to begin in earnest.
Match play at the ITTF North America Championships goes from 9:30 to approx. 20:30 on each of the competition days. There will be Event Finals on each of the three days of competition.
Two-Time Open Champion Eugene Wang will lead a strong Canadian team at the ITTF North American Championships in Vancouver on August 25-27. Live Streaming of the event courtesy of ITTF.
Capilano University in North Vancouver will be the home of the Double Fish Canadian Junior and Cadet Open to be staged from Thursday 29th August to Sunday 1st September.
15 Aug 2013 - 18 Aug 2013, Noumea, NCL
US Media Intern Colin McIllece has cataloged all the featured US Open Matches for easy viewing!
Second place in his group one day earlier, Kunal Chodri from the United States caused one of year's biggest upsets on the ITTF Junior Circuit by beating Brazil's Hugo Calderano, the top seed, in the first round of the Junior Boys' Singles event at the Korea Junior and Cadet Open in Daejeon on Saturday 3rd August 2013.
North Korea takes Mixed Doubles. Taiwan wins Men's Doubles. China dominates Women's Singles and Doubles play.
Stefan along with Michael Nyitray (bowling) and Shannon Pohl (badminton) will vie for the honor of USOC Developmental Coach of the Year to be named on 6/21 in Colorado Springs.
Thoughts from the US Men's Coach after Korea beat the US Men's Team 3-0 in Guangzhou.


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Game details
- Game:
- The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
- Oblivion
- Genre:
- Role Playing Game
- Sub Genre:
- Fantasy
- Release Date (US):
- March 20th, 2007
- Release Date (UK):
- April 27th, 2007
- Players:
- 1
- Online Players:
- Developers:
- Bethesda Softworks
- Publisher:
- Ubisoft
- Rating:
- M [Mature]
- PSU Rank:
- 77 of 1166 Games
- PSU Rank on PS3:
- 74 of 0 Games
- Additional Information:
- Also available on Xbox 360, PSP, and PC
About The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is the most open-ended RPG yet. After the king is assassinated, you must shut closed the gates to Oblivion to save the world.
- PSU Review Score
- 9.0
- Avg. user review score:
- 9.5
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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is possibly the most immersive RPG to date.
We like
- Open-ended design is awesome and combat is AAA.
- Incredible animations, fantastic physics, and a breathtaking world.
- 100+ hours gameplay.
We dislike
- Occasional glitches are a little bothersome.
- There are minor framerate issues.
- Lip-syncing is hilariously off.
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The launch of PlayStation 3 touted a decent line-up of titles, though it was sorely lacking one genre. The only RPG available, Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom, was a flawed, last-generation experience. That's why PlayStation gamers were so ecstatic for the recent launch of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion for the PS3. The developers of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Bethesda Softworks, aspired to create the perfect RPG, and they...
- Posted Apr 14th 2007
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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion 5th Anniversary Edition coming to Europe
Bethesda's confirmed that the 5th Anniversary Edition of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion will be released in PAL territories on September 23, 2011. Previously released in the U.S., the bundle will retail for £19.99/€29.99, and includes a copy of the critically lauded fantasy RPG, al...
- Posted Sep 16th 2011
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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion 5th Anniversary Edition now in stores
Bethesda has released The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion 5th Anniversary Edition to North American retailers today. This new version of Oblivion comes packed with both DLC packs previously released for the game. Retailing for $29.99, the Anniversay Edition packs: * The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion...
- Posted Jul 13th 2011
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Bethesda unveils Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion 5th Anniversary Edition
Bethesda is set to release a special 5th Anniversary Edition of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, preparing devoted fans of the series for the release the fifth instalment in the franchise, Skyrim, which is due at the end of the year. The 5th anniversary edition will include the game itself, Collec...
- Posted May 23rd 2011
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Don't rule out Elder Scrolls V, afterall
As we reported a couple days ago, Todd Howard's comments at QuakeCon seemed to indicate that Bethesda was not working on a follow-up to The Elder Scrolls IV. Those comments have since been clarified by Bethesda's head of marketing, Pete Hines, who says the company does in fact have plans...
- Posted Aug 18th 2009
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Bethesda confirms two Elder Scrolls novels in the works
Bethesda has announced it will be releasing two novels based on its highly successful Elder Scrolls franchise later this year. Both works are being penned by New York Times' Greg Keyes, the first of which coming in the form of The Infernal City, due out this autumn. Set after the events ...
- Posted Apr 28th 2009
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Bethesda increases funds for MMOs
Bethesda has long been known for their deep RPGs such as The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Currently the company is working on the highly anticipated title, Fallout 3 for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC platforms. However Bethesda as recently made a few moves ...
- Posted Oct 26th 2007
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Bethesda Announces Shivering Isles Stand Alone for PS3
Bethesda Softworks announced today that it will release The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles for PlayStation 3 as a stand alone disc for retail. This new title will allow gamers who already own The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion to experience the award-winning expansion. The game follows the Octobe...
- Posted Oct 24th 2007
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Bethesda ships Oblivion GOTY edition for PS3
Bethesda Softworks, a ZeniMax Media company, announced today that The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition (GotY) for the PlayStation 3 has begun shipping to retail stores throughout North America. Oblivion GotY includes the original version of the award-winning RPG, Oblivion, alon...
- Posted Oct 16th 2007
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Bethesda launches Blog
Bethesda, developers of the fantastic Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, have launched their very own blog. The team aims to discuss everything from development and games to life outside work. One of the most interesting posts available at the moment is a Q&A with the lead designer of Fallout 3...
- Posted Jun 30th 2007
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It may not have been a banner year for the Valley's boys basketball teams in the 2012-13 state playoffs, but three players still received honors as the Pennsylvania Sports Writers selected their all-state teams.
Shikellamy's Ernie Tyler was named to the Class AAA third team, while Lewisburg's Travis Conrad and East Juniata's Nick Lorenz were placed on the Class AA third team.
A 6-foot-3 senior guard, Tyler averaged 13.2 points per game and he led the Braves in scoring with 344 points.
Tyler also recorded 43 3-pointers and he scored at least 20 points three times this season for a Shikellamy team that finished second in District 4 before bowing out in the first round of the PIAA playoffs to Abington Heights.
Conrad's Lewisburg team defeated Lorenz's East Juniata squad in the District 4 consolation game to qualify for states.
A 5-10 senior guard, Conrad averaged 15.0 points per game this season and finished with a team-leading 420 points. He also knocked down the area's second-most 3-pointers (53).
Conrad scored 20 or more points in a game three times this season, including a career-high 29 in Lewisburg's loss to Holy Cross in the first round of states.
Lorenz, a 6-1 junior guard, scored 475 points this year (21.0 ppg) and he was the only area player to average 20 points per game. He also hit 43 3-pointers this season.
Elsewhere from District 4, Loyalsock 6-5 senior Roger Wilson (15.0 ppg) was named to the Class AA first team. Wilson's teammate, 5-10 sophomore guard Kyle Datres (9.9 ppg), earned a spot on the third team for the Lancers.


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