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After killing off the first power play of the night, the Sound Tigers went up, 1-0, when Jon Landry slipped a pass to Aaron Ness and he beat Brad Thiessen with a wrist shot over the shoulder at 4:14 of the first.
Tom Kostopoulos deflected home the game-tying goal at 4:13 of the second on a Joe Morrow wrist shot from the point. With his first marker of the season, Kostopoulos adds to his impressive resume, notching his 98th career goal and 250th regular season point with the Penguins both all-time highs for the team.
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By LIBBY CLUETT
PALO PINTO – Join the Palo Pinto County Historical Association on Thursday to help celebrate its sixth annual Old Fashioned Frontier Christmas.
The event takes place 5-8 p.m. that evening.
Stroll among the historic buildings at the Old Jail Museum Complex and visit the historic Palo Pinto Christian Church, while enjoying holiday decorations from the period, caroling, surrey rides, stories, activities and treats for the taste buds.
The evening includes activities for all ages and a chance to see how people experienced Christmas long ago, before technological advances and modernization. Visitors are invited to come in period dress to this free evening event.
Again this year, there will be tasty fare, including frontier sweets. Wet the whistle with fire-brewed cowboy coffee, apple cider or hot chocolate near historic Fort Black Springs. Nearby, county musical talent will croon Christmas tunes and Buttermilk Junction musicians will perform historic Irish music in the historic First Christian Church.
Mule-drawn wagon rides will take visitors the few blocks from the jail to the church – the oldest standing church in the county.
As in past years, artisans will be on hand demonstrating crafts, such as yarn spinning, Victorian-era sewing, quilting and making corn-husk dolls. Several re-enactors will be on hand to inform guests about civilian life. Visitors can also hear stories of pioneer life in the fire-warmed comfort of Fort Black Springs.
Although the event is free, the PPCHA welcomes donations to help with the museum's permanent fund.
The Old Jail Museum's address is 231 S. 5th Ave. in Palo Pinto.

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Here are some comments from today's announcement that Ray Lewis will retire at season's end:
Ray Lewis
"I talked to my team today; I talked to them about life, life in general, and everything that starts has an end. It's just life. And for me, today I told my team that this would be my last ride. And I told them I was just at so much peace in where I am with my decision because of everything that I've done in this league. I've done it, I've done it, man. There's no accolade that I don't have individually. But, I've never played the game for individual stats. I've only played the game to make my team be a better team. And now, God is calling. God is calling in so many of the areas of life. And my children, my children have made the ultimate sacrifice for their father—the ultimate [sacrifice] for 17 years. Whether it was jumping on a plane, jump right back, go to school and … I don't want to see them do that anymore. I've done what I wanted to do in this business, and now it is my turn. It's my turn to give them back something. So, it's either hold on to the game and keep playing and let my kids miss out on times that we can be sharing together … I always promised my son that if he got a full-ride scholarship, Daddy was going to be there. And I can't miss that. I don't know if I could sit in a meeting room and fight that war. One of the hardest things in the world is to walk away from my teammates, because that's my brotherhood. The only thing I ever play for is to be right there [for my teammates], and to raise Ed [Reed] and be with Sizzle [Terrell Suggs] for so long and sit next to them … And we are so much on the same path. Does that part hurt? Absolutely. You can never rebuild those bonds. Those bonds are forever. But, the chapter is huge for me to now step into other areas of life. A good friend of my, Lady O, she told me that I may be gone now, but I'm not gone forever. I'm just going into another phase of life. And I think my fans, my city, they deserve it. They deserve that whenever this role stopped for me not just to walk away and just [say], 'I'm done.' I think we all get to enjoy what Sunday will feel like knowing that this will be the last time 52 plays in a uniform in Ravens stadium."
Running Back Ray Rice
On Lewis' retirement and the extra motivation it gives the team for the playoffs:
"No added motivation for the playoffs. This is a day where you really don't prepare for it. You come in, and it's something that we talk about it. He's never actually told me. He's always hinted that one day he is going to close the chapter on this game. But today, I definitely didn't prepare for it. Mentally, he has raised me over the last couple of years. My locker is right next to his, and I just can't picture Baltimore without him. He has kids, but I was one of his kids. It's like he's passing the torch down saying, 'I have to let you go.' But I know he is always going to be there. It's just one of those days where you just don't prepare for these kinds of things. Emotions, everything, we could talk about all that. No added pressure, but we will give all we've got Sunday for Ray. We owe it to him. We owe it to the organization. He's done it for 17 years. What he gave to this city, what he gave to his fans, what they've given back to him, it's something that I got to witness—not only got to witness it, [but] I was right inside. These moments that he always talks about that will never be again, finally it's real. Sunday will be Sunday, but this week will be a different kind of week, especially for me. I'm right there in the corner with him. I told him jokingly that I'm not speaking to him for a week. I'm a little upset at him."
Linebacker Terrell Suggs
On his thoughts on the announcement:
"It was sad. I'm not going to lie to you. It affected me, because for the past 10 years of my career, I've been sitting right next to the man and going to war on Sundays with the man. It definitely affected me a little bit. When he went up there [in the team meeting], I thought we were getting our 'let's go on a run to the playoffs' speech. Not that. Come Sunday, it will be the last time, potentially, he and I will be at M&T together. Like I said, it was very sad, but now the emphasis is on getting the job done. It's going to be one hard last ride, and we need to make it one to remember."
General Manager & Executive Vice President Ozzie Newsome
"Ray Lewis will not only be remembered as one of the greatest to play his position, he will also be thought of as one of the greatest players in NFL history. And, he is one of the greatest without a doubt.
"He had the one quality all of the best have: He made all the players, coaches and people around him better. It has been a privilege and a joy to be with him throughout his career. We in the Ravens have been very fortunate to be around this great man and player."
Gov. Martin O'Malley
"Ray Lewis is an outstanding football player who exhibits passion and leadership both on and off the field. His commitment to football has made him worthy of a place in the Hall of Fame, and his dedication to the City of Baltimore and incredible community spirit has made him a man of dignity, respect and character.
"We will always be grateful for his love of the people of Baltimore and fans everywhere. He has given football fans of all ages hope and inspired us all to reach beyond our dreams. Though we will miss him on the field, we wish him well in his future endeavors."
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GSA plans to stop providing HR shared services
Friday - 9/13/2013, 6:06am EDT
The General Services Administration is getting out of the human resources and payroll shared service provider business.
The decision came as part of the review by administrator Dan Tangherlini. He wants GSA to focus on its core missions: acquisition, real estate and some of the technology services, said Anne Rung, GSA's associate administrator in the Office of Governmentwide Policy.
She said HR services just don't fit into their plans anymore.
"We haven't yet finalized even the requirements, but it certainly is our intent to move the service out," Rung said after speaking on a panel at the Shared Services Forum sponsored by ACT-IAC in Washington Thursday. "We put out a request for information in the effort really to try to gain input and help us develop the requirements. It's still in those preliminary phases."
Multiple requests to GSA for a copy of the RFI were not returned, and Rung couldn't provide more details on the notice.
GSA's HR services provides payroll and other services to 40 agencies and about 25,000 employees of which 12,500 are its own employees. GSA services mostly small agencies, with the exception of the Office of Personnel Management.
Pressure to move commodity systems
GSA's decision comes as the Obama administration is applying more pressure on agencies to share resources.
The Office of Management and Budget issued a shared services strategy in May 2012, setting a series of deadlines. It followed in March with a memo requiring agencies to consider federal shared service providers first when it's time to upgrade their financial management systems. And OMB created Uncle Sam's List (USL) to have one place to promote the availability of shared services.
OMB is planning to launch version 1.1 of USL in a few weeks that will include a simplified user interface and an easier way to promote existing services, said Peter Warren, who is leading the effort for OMB.
Scott Bernard, OMB's chief architect, said version 2 of Uncle Sam's List is expected to be ready in 2014 and will take into account the findings of a recent survey of acquisition, technology and financial management workers.
HR services a loss leader?
Former government sources said GSA's decision is interesting on several levels. First, OMB rejected the agency's initial application to be a HR shared service provider in 2004. GSA reapplied a few years later and received approval.
Sources say one of the biggest issues GSA faced in being a provider is the cost per employee. Sources say GSA charged agencies up to $200 to $300 more per person than other federal HR providers. So if GSA was losing money on the venture, in this time of tight budgets, it makes sense for them to get out of the business, sources say.
With GSA bowing out of HR shared services, including payroll, that leaves only the Interior Business Center (IBC), the Agriculture Department's National Finance Center (NFC) and the Treasury Department's HRConnect as civilian agency providers. But only the IBC and the NFC are payroll providers.
The fifth provider, the Defense Finance and Accounting Service, serves only the Defense Department.
Some experts question whether GSA's leaving will impact competition among providers as OPM begins to pump some energy back in the initiative.
Looking for a suite of services
David Vargas, the director of human resources for IT transformation at OPM, said his office is making sure the technology to meet human capital policy can be sustained.
"What now agencies are looking for are suites of services. They don't want to be entering things 3, 4, 5 different times as it relates to personnel. They want a single point of entry. That's a critical component of what agencies are looking for," Vargas said. "For the shared service centers, I've been talking to them on what they are asking for in terms of how they communicate with OPM, OMB and other agencies. They are looking for standardization of data elements, and interoperability. Actually, we are looking also for interoperability among systems. Those are the key functions. Once you get past the initial set up of these lines of business, you have to keep improving the service delivery to agencies."
OPM also is looking to make small improvements and upgrades, what they're calling smart growth, to the existing HR LOB systems.
With GSA dropping out as a HR provider, it opens the door for the other providers.
"I think it makes sense that [GSA] would look to probably get out of the business," said Joe Ward, the director of the Interior Business Center. "Even though that will probably be the case, I think there will be enough competition in the payroll area where federal civil servants will not have to suffer and worry about a monopoly."


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A 19-year-old from Chicago who had been out on probation for other offenses has been charged with four counts of burglary in connection with break-ins at two Forest Park restaurants, police said.
Devon Lawery, of the 4600 block of Monroe Street in Chicago, stands accused of two burglaries each at JJ Fish and Subway over three days, Dep. Chief Tom Aftanas said.
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The teen was picked up Thursday in the office of his probation officer. He is currently in the lockup at the Forest Park police station awaiting a bond hearing Saturday morning in Maybrook Court, Aftanas said.
Tips from Oak Park police and other sources linked Lawery to the Forest Park break-ins, police said.
During the first incident at Subway, 321 Harlem Ave., police said Lawery took an untold amount of money from the cash register. It was reported to police around 5:25 a.m., and when officers arrived on the scene, they found that the cash register was open with $150 inside and a tip jar undisturbed on the counter. Entry was gained by prying the lower half of the door with a pry-type tool, shattering the glass.
In the first incident at JJ Fish, 319 Harlem Ave., police said Lawery had entered the business through the roof. An untold amount of cash also was taken from the cash register during the incident, which was reported at 9:54 a.m. An employee called police after finding ceiling tiles on the floor in the dining room and light coming from the roof. The suspect left the business through the front door.
Then three days later, on Oct. 18, police said Lawery hit both businesses again.
At Subway, it appears nothing was taken during the incident, which was reported at 7:09 a.m.
About the same time police were at Subway, employees at JJ Fish said someone had left the store through a rear door and gone into the alley. The officer on the scene noticed broken ceiling tiles on the floor of the dining room and recalled that this was the same way someone had gotten into the business previously. Officers on the scene noticed that the suspect poured two bottles of juice in the hard drive of the security system to make it useless. A microwave was taken in that incident, police said.
Lawery was connected to the burglaries because he had attempted to enter a bakery in Oak Park through the roof, a method of entry Aftanas described as unusual. During that incident, he was charged after he was spotted on the roof of Laury's Bakery, 12 Madison St., police said.
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A wrong address can lead the staunchest of travelers to a dead end. Just ask Precinct 3 Commissioner Katherine Pinotti.
Pinotti believes numerous roads currently depicted on Cherokee County's map need corrections. They contain mismashed letters and numbers she says have transformed known streets such as Mount Selman's "Horse Shoe Lane" into "Dream Lane" and "County Road 3396" into "CR 3427" on street signs.
Monday wasn't the first time Pinotti has asked her fellow commissioners to change the addresses on the map and certainly not the first time they've effectively said "no," by dismissing her motion.
But on Monday, commissioners opted to consider the matter a bit longer and review it more officially.
"I want to help you fix it, but I think we should review some kind of form of documentation," said Byron Underwood, Precinct 4 Commissioner.
Pinotti's map quest at one point landed her in front of a Cherokee County grand jury. That dilemma took place around March 2010 when she argued with other county commissioners about whether Patterson Lane was a county or privately-owned road.
Pinotti was accused of misuse of county funds and investigated by the Cherokee County Sheriff's Department for resurfacing Patterson Lane in Mt. Selman in August 2010. She authorized more than $26,000 to be spent on those renovations, which included dirt, gravel, a new culvert, use of county equipment and employee hours to pave the road because she contends it belongs to the county.
In September 2010, her case went before a grand jury, but the jury declined to prosecute her for abuse of official capacity of more than $20,000, which would have been a third-degree felony had she been indicted.
In a recent, written communication with her constituents, Pinotti seemed upbeat, saying she hopes to convince the Cherokee County Commissioners court to fix this county map problem soon. She emphasized many county residents do not know their correct addresses aren't listed on the map.
"We may never determine what actually happened to cause all the confusion, but I, for one, choose to believe it was just a combination of things, honest mistakes, and was really no one's fault," Pinotti said in her letter. "Over the past couple of months, the court has demonstrated a sincere desire to get our map corrected, and take actions that benefit the residents of the county, so I have faith that they will continue to do the right thing."
The county's map book that is missing several county roads was made by Austin-based law firm Allison, Bass & Associates in 2007.
After Monday's meeting, Pinotti said this issue is important to her because of the effect it has on her constituents. Right after she took office in April 2009 a 7-year-old boy died in her precinct, she said.
"He died of smoke inhalation and I could hear the fire departments on the radio talking about they could see the smoke but they couldn't find the house and later on I found out the road signs in that area were incorrect," she said in a previous interview. "There wasn't even a road sign on that road."
Still trying to get to the bottom of why the roads were misnamed on Monday, Pinotti said she believes a portion of 3403 that was no longer accessible was incorrectly deleted – probably contributing to the confusion. Records clearly indicate Patterson used to be 3427 and why it is no longer remains a mystery.
Pinotti said Patterson Lane should be named CR 3427 – a county road number formerly assigned to the road but now assigned to what was once known as CR 3403.
For reasons unknown to commissioners, County Road 3403 was changed to CR 3427, leaving 3427, or Patterson, without a road sign.


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The Master of Arts in Education: Concentration in Elementary Education
The Department of Elementary Education is currently revising the MA "Concentration in Elementary Education" to better meet the needs of early career teachers. We will accept applications to this program in Winter/Spring of 2013 for admission for Fall 2013. More information will be posted soon.
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- MA in Elementary Education: Concentration in Early Childhood Education
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This degree provides elementary and middle school teachers with advanced knowledge of research, theory, and practice in reading and language arts with a particular emphasis on the needs of English learners.
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The Master of Arts in Education: Concentration in Early Childhood
The degree provides early childhood educators with advanced knowledge and training in research, theory, and practice for working with children and families in multicultural and multilingual early childhood settings. This degree provides infant, toddler, preschool, primary grade, community college educators, and early childhood administrators with the skills and knowledge for teaching and leadership positions in the field of early childhood education. Courses taken for the program can qualify for Teacher and Administrator levels of the California Child Development Matrix.
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The Master of Arts in Education: Concentration in Mathematics Education
This degree provides elementary and middle school teachers with advanced knowledge of research, theory, and practice in the teaching and learning of school mathematics and expands their knowledge of mathematics content. Teachers holding multiple subject credentials will be eligible to apply for a supplementary authorization in mathematics for middle school teaching. This degree also prepares teachers to assume leadership roles in their schools and districts.
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The Masters of Arts, Concentration in Language and Literacy Program and the Reading Language Arts Specialist Programs admits in the FALL SEMESTER only.
All other Masters of Arts concentrations are open for admission in the Fall and Spring semester.
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A. You must apply to the university by filling out the regular CSU Graduate Applicaiton. You may complete it either online at http://www.sfsu.edu/~gradstdy/ or you can pick up a copy at the One Stop Student Service Center.
B. Two copies of official transcript(s) from every College of University attended
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Mrs. Nannie Florence Frazier, age 97, of Barbourville, KY, passed away on
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Corbin, KY. She was the widow of Clyde Frazier, and the daughter of the
late James Nelson Shelton and Bertha Reynolds Shelton, born to them on
November 18, 1915, in Knox County, KY. Mrs. Frazier was a member of the
Heidrick Holiness Church. She was also preceded in death by four brothers,
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Survivors of Mrs. Frazier include one son. Rev. Thomas Frazier, and wife
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Shelley, Gerald Shelton, June Bug, Tommy Frazier, Drake Frazier, and
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ARLINGTON – Officer Bryan Graham doesn't look like a man who was shot in the head 80 days ago.
Even he jokes about it –– there's a mild scar where the bullet entered above his eyebrow. The hair's grown back over the portion of skull that the bullet rumbled along beneath his scalp, somehow never managing to penetrate to a –– likely fatal –– point beyond.
And so, standing in front of a gaggle of media gathered at department headquarters Thursday, he jokingly reassured the room that all were in the right place.
"Obviously you can't see anything now, there's not much to show for it," he said, half-smirking, "but it was me, it was me. It wasn't someone else."
The 11-year veteran is light-hearted and humble about the incident, but those were long, harrowing seconds for the Arlington Police Department's SWAT Team.
On June 5, Graham was at the front of a line of his teammates who were approaching an apartment in the 600 block of East Arkansas Lane alongside units from Fort Worth. Alexzander Coan, 23, was barricaded inside, hiding from warrants related to at least five armed robberies in Fort Worth and a few more in surrounding cities.
For police, serving a warrant had morphed into something more volatile.
It ws about 7:15 p.m. and Graham was going to lead the way. As the tactical squad got into place, gunshots rang out from the residence.
One caught Graham in the head, but not before it met his protective helmet.
"From what we believe, yes, it did hit the lip of my helmet, which caused it to slow down and then fragment before it hit me," he said.
The bullet entered above his right eyebrow and exited behind his ear, lacerating the ear canal on its way out of the officer's head. Press reports following the shooting would later say the 35-year-old was mere centimeters away from dying.
Instead he was unconscious for 10 seconds and rushed to the hospital. Coan was shot and secured. Amazingly, Graham would spend less than 24 hours at John Peter Smith Hospital before being released. Coan died from his injuries.
Speaking about the incident now, Graham says it was more difficult for his family and his colleagues than it was for him.
"I kinda joke about it, but I had the easiest part to deal with," he said. "I knew I was OK, it was everyone else getting the phone calls. Family, friends, especially (his wife) Lauren; as bad as it sounds, I had the easiest part of everybody."
For 30 minutes after the shooting, Graham said his wife thought the worst: Husband, on duty, shot in the head. Rushed to the hospital. Status unknown.
"It was a tough experience as you can imagine," Lauren Graham said. "It doesn't even have to be a police officer, I mean, for you to get information that your loved one, that this has happened; it was anybody's worst nightmare."
"She had the toughest time of all, actually, I would say," Bryan replied. "She knew what had happened, but she didn't know how well I was doing."
The reality, though, was that Graham would miss just 20 days of work. Four days after his return, he'd be back to serving warrants and performing the same duties he was three-and-a-half months ago, he said.
And on Thursday after he finished speaking with local media, he would head south on Interstate 35W to Austin, where Gov. Rick Perry would present him with the Star of Texas, a heroism award reserved for officers critically wounded while wearing the shield.
And so, as Graham's supervisor would later say, a "horrible, absolutely horrible" situation would only last a blink, all things considered. Graham would be OK, likely saved by his protective gear.
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Binty wrote:Perhaps units disband automatically after a number of turns?
Three score years and ten in our world = about 25,550 turns in Erfworld.
This would give another motivation for Overlords to have heirs.
joosy wrote:Quadruple the arrows and they hit a precious Archon but miss the red-headed decrypted former Unaroyal Warlord??
<shrug> Okay - I guess I will have to increase my sacrifices to the Erfworld Titans or hire a luckamancer.
BLANDCorporatio wrote:"Bring croakamancy to the Life axis"- lamest reason for rejection ever, but in tune with the way things go. Old orders don't age gracefully.
Kaed wrote:I find the idea that Stagemancers (the only school of magic with all three elements represented) are upset at the idea that a Croakamancer is using the Life axis interesting.
Glenn wrote:The fact that it's the Stage-a-mancers who strongly disliked the suggestion that Wanda was extending Croakamancy into the Life Axis is interesting, because according to the existing understanding of the nature of Magic,
BLANDCorporatio wrote:To be fair to me too though, it looks like their thinking is hampered by lack of information and prejudice and is not so clearly "correct" in its results. I'd be pretty un-reasonable too if a change like Erf decryption started popping round, but since we have a broader view than Erf's casters (in some aspects, anyway) we can ask whether their fears are founded or not.
I'm willing to play DA here and say they aren't.
joosy wrote:They woud rather have a Dirtamancer do the work but apparently it CAN be done by hand - they would just rather pay the Rands or the concept of doing it themselves is too alien or beneath them.
Quadruple the arrows and they hit a precious Archon but miss the red-headed decrypted former Unaroyal Warlord??
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1981 Cadillac Fleetwood coupe
Hi I was looking for some information on a 1981 Fleetwood coupe. I have owned many cadillacs my past but have not seen one like this. It has a Rolls Royce style grille and landau bars on vinyle roof and a continental kit and a moonroof. Now I owned a 1984 seville roadster with similar features but would the fleetwood be called a roadster also or was there a different name for this model? Any help would be appreciated thanks
what that 1984 Seville looked like? I've seen custom jobs on 1979-85 Eldorados, and 1975-79 and 1980-85 Sevilles, but the only thing I've ever seen done to the downsized DeVilles and Fleetwoods was limo conversions, an occasional 4-door convertible, and a rare station wagon.
Anywya, I'm pretty sure it was some kind of aftermarket conversion, and not a factory job.
Hi I would agree it may be a dealer package to make profit but all pars are cadillac factory options that could have been ordered such as the continental kit the grill and the landau bars have to be as cadillac emblems are placed on them and not like an after thought type thing these are placed in deeper and look to be factory. I never in all my years seen one like this but was curious cause it is such a wierd one. Thanks for the help.
if cars like that SeVille "Roadster" and the '81 Fleetwood "Roadster" were authorized by Cadillac, even though they were outside, aftermarket conversions? It's quite possible that Cadillac either manufactured the unique trim pieces or authorized an outside supplier to fabricate them using their logo.
I dunno, just taking some wild guesses here.
isellhondas Issaquah WashingtonPosts: 17,599And it's not a good one.
All of that stuff is aftermarket and unless you happen to like that look, this will only detract from the desirability of that car.
There used to be a shop in Compton California that did things to Cadillacs and Lincolns that cost thousands of dollars.
And 1981 was the year of the infamous 4-6-8 engine!
To everyone I appreciate all the help and I have decided not to move on that car as I have also thought it was to goughti and would not be a good idea for resale so I have therefore decided against it. Personally I am more for the stock cadillacs without all the stupid unnecisarry crap on it. But again thanks for all the info it is truely appreciated. :shades:
An unmolested Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham coupe is a drop-dead gorgeous car. I remember a used car dealer back in the mid-late '80s who sold a lot of these cars. Too bad they had such crappy engines in those years. I remember looking at a 1978 Sedan DeVille and a 1980 Sedan DeVille at his lot back in the day. One beautiful car that got away was a gorgeous white 1979 Sedan DeVille with only 37K miles on it.
I agree, Lemko...I love the style of the 1980-85 Fleetwood coupe and Coupe DeVille. Unfortunately, the only "good" year to get is the 1980, with the Caddy 368. Although I guess if you got an '81 with the V-8-6-4 and it was acting up, you could just disable the variable displacement thing. Supposedly it was add-on enough that it wa fairly simple to work around. But the '82-85 models had that dreadful 4.1, and the Olds Diesel 350 was available all years, so I'd imagine that the "good" ones are few and far between!
It's easier to find a '77-79 Coupe Deville or Fleetwood coupe, because they were made in larger numbers, and overwhelmingly they had the Caddy 425. I think the 1980 restyle really spruced these cars up though. Too bad you can't get the smoother '80-85 look with the 425. :-(
My Two Minute History of Cadillac, with the usual prejudices
1930s--Cadillac Golden Age
1940s -- quality but old-fashioned
1950s-- Cadillac renaissance to 1957
1958-59---wretched excess
Early 1960s--cleaner lines, good quality cars
late 60s--still okay, starting to lose their market and vision.
1970s--years of struggle and corporate confusion and quality issues
1980s--best left forgotten, new signs of life near the end
1990s--crawling back up but quality control a nagging issue
2000s --on a comeback roll to credibility and respect
Cadillac in one sentence: the luxury car empire GM built, literally destroyed, and is now trying to rebuild again.
If he's really interested in Cadillacs, he ought to join the Cadillac-LaSalle Club. It's been around since 1958 and annual dues are only $40. You get a great monthly magazine called the Self-Starter and there are a lot of ads on the last few pages of people selling their nice old Cadillacs and LaSalles. I, myself, am always hunting for a #1 Condition 1969 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham.
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How do I write a strong thesis statement?
Most of the assignments you'll receive in the accounting department will include a question or problem the professor is asking you to address. Answering this question is the first step toward developing a strong thesis statement. For example, you might receive the following assignment from a professor:
Find an article in any accounting or business periodical that you believe is of interest to an auditor. Write a letter to a hypothetical partner synthesizing and analyzing the content of the article. Explain why you think the subject matter is important to the auditor's firm and the auditing industry.
What kind of thesis statement will come out of this assignment? It's simple—"explain why the subject matter is important." If you've done that, you're on your way to a good thesis statement.
In addition, a good thesis statement will do the following:
1. Identify a specific, narrow topic. Your thesis statement should give a clear and simple summary of the most important ideas or facts in your essay. It should not be vague ("Sometime around the Paleozoic era, life became abundant on earth"), overly general ("Everyone can appreciate the importance of life"), or obvious ("The Paleozoic era was a long time before our own").
2. Present a clear and original opinion about the topic. As well as offering your reader a summary of the facts you are going to explore, your thesis statement should also make clear what your argument will be regarding those facts. That argument should be specific and narrow to avoid broad generalizations.
- "Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in response to widespread accounting abuses" is a statement of fact.
- "Congress's passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was an important first step toward creating a more responsible accounting profession" is an opinion. It suggests that more steps are still necessary and will follow in the future. It is not fact, because someone else could take the opposite view and argue that the passage of Sarbanes-Oxley was unnecessary and cumbersome. It is not an argument because it does not establish a specific claim as to why passage of SOX was a first step toward more responsible behavior among accountants.
- "Congress's passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was an important first step toward creating a more responsible accounting profession because__________" is an argument. It delineates a clear, specific, and narrow claim that the remainder of the paper will attempt to substantiate.
3. Establish a tone appropriate to the topic, purpose, and audience. The purpose of the paper is not only to summarize information from the article concisely but to organize and analyze it. In your paper, even if you want to convey a strong opinion about the material you're discussing, you must avoid exclamation points, rhetorical questions, and slang. In letters and memos, you may use personal address and use "I" or "we."
4. Appear near the beginning of the paper. A strong thesis statement can be one sentence or two (though not more than two). It should appear near the beginning of your paper, either at the end of the first paragraph or the beginning of the second paragraph. Placing your thesis statement at the beginning of your paper will highlight the argument you're going to make before you make it, not unlike a lawyer arguing a case before a jury: you want to tell your audience what you're going to argue and how you will set about proving your argument.
Don't wait until your conclusion to make your argument clear. Your thesis statement should convey the general tone that your essay will take, so the reader can be prepared to agree, disagree, or suspend judgment.
Which of the following is an example of a strong thesis statement?
- Recently, I have reviewed an article that may be of importance to your company on the topic of corporate sustainability.
- Because corporate sustainability reporting may be the wave of the future, the opportunity to provide assurance services to add credibility to those reports could be enormous.
- Corporate sustainability reporting is the best thing that could happen to the accounting profession.
The first sentence merely states the obvious; the third is vague and judgmental. Is sustainability reporting really "the best thing" that could happen to the accounting profession? Perhaps, but because the reader could answer the thesis with a "yes" or "no," the statement is not really as strong as it could be.
The second sentence is the one that truly stresses not only what the topic will be but why the reader should keep reading: "because the opportunity…will be enormous." It has a definable argument, one that you can back up with facts. If your thesis statement can specifically answer the question "this topic is important because…" then chances are good it will be a strong and useful thesis statement for your paper.
How Do I Avoid Plagiarism and "Borrowed Language"? What Is "Borrowed Language"?
Plagiarism is one of the most serious charges a student can face in the course of his or her academic career. At best it can result in failing an assignment; at worst it can end in failing the course, having the incident written up for the student's file in the Tippie College of Business, or even expulsion from the university.
What is plagiarism?
The Tippie College of Business Honor Code defines plagiarism as:
- presenting the work of others without proper acknowledgement
- claiming the words and ideas of others as one's own
- failure to properly cite and specifically credit the source of both text and web materials in papers, projects, and other assignments
- copying of source codes, graphs, programs, and spreadsheets
- copying answer keys and solution manuals without the authorization of the course instructor
To protect yourself from charges of plagiarism, you should carefully prepare your sources before and during the writing of your paper. Any time you need to use source material, whether in the form of journals or newspaper articles, websites, or database articles, you should begin to take steps to avoid plagiarizing your sources.
How to avoid plagiarism in your paper
Pre-writing is one technique you can use to avoid plagiarizing another's words. As you read your source material, and before you start trying to imagine the shape of your assignment, make notes about important points in the text in your own words. By making the switch to your own language at this early stage, you are more likely to "digest" the sources and their connections to each other and therefore to write an assignment that is cohesive, with a logical progression of ideas. You are also less likely to cut and paste sections of the sources into your writing, a tactic that creates a choppy document consisting of fragments of language from several writers in several styles, none of them quite connected. As the writer, your job is not simply to restate your source material; you must integrate it into a consistent and convincing whole. Also remember in this early stage that your research focus is on a topic and not just on single sources. If you think more broadly than one source at a time, then your writing is likely to reflect the thoughtfulness and inclusiveness of this approach.
For writing that is based on research, you must strike an appropriate balance in how you use your outside material. On the one hand, you should not make unsupported assertions: if there is a point you wish to make, back it up with a supporting reference from your sources. On the other hand, do not overly rely on your research materials. Your task, after all, is to write something original, with strong indications of your own voice. Too many citations of the source texts will leave little room for your voice to come through.
What is "borrowed language"? How can I avoid it?
"Borrowed language" is a kind of plagiarism in which you use the actual language of the source material (without attribution) instead of your own.
For example, here is the original source material you might use for a paper:
Illegitimate tax shelters, however, often arise when sections of the tax code, or multiple sections of the code, are used for purposes not originally intended by Congress or the IRS. In that way, illegitimate shelters may conform "technically" with the code, and yet violate the "spirit" of the code. As the tax code has become more and more complex, "technical" manipulation of the code has become more and more problematic.
Source: "Frontline: Tax Me If You Can," Frequently Asked Questions. Retrieved on April 10, 2007, from
And here is what a "borrowed" version might look like in a student's paper:
The problem is that illegitimate tax shelters often arise when sections of the tax code are used for purposes not originally intended by Congress or the IRS. Such shelters may conform technically with the tax code and yet violate the spirit of the code.
Notice the student in the above example has lifted the language almost word for word from the original source. It's not a 100 percent exact match, but it's pretty close. Without attributing the statement to the original source, the student has plagiarized the original source, even if he didn't mean to do so. Attributing the source in the above example would help, but even better would be for the student to rewrite the original idea in his own words.
Here is an example of how to distill the original source material into an original expression:
As the tax code grows increasingly complex, tax professionals have learned to exploit the loopholes in our tax laws to create illegitimate tax shelters. Although these tax shelters are not technically illegal, tax professionals should work to avoid them to satisfy the intent of the law.
In the above example, the student has expressed the idea in a fresh, original way, making the information relevant to his topic without borrowing the exact sentences from the original source. He also uses them as a call to action—"tax professionals should work to avoid them in the future"—which is not at all in the original source. It is now his idea and his expression of the idea that is coming through in the above statement.
To avoid the pitfall of borrowed language when writing, try to change verbs and sentence structures from the source material; nouns may stay the same. (See How to Cite Sources in the Text for examples.)


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Kim and Kris Kardashian, along with pal Jonathan Cheban faced off against Bruce, Kylie and Kendall Jenner and Kourtney Kardashian in Miami's Dragon Boat Festival race, on Saturday.
"Going for the gold," Kylie Jenner Tweeted early yesterday morning. Kim followed up with: "Ready to row #teamDASH."
So who came out on top? Team Jenner took top prize ... not much of a surprise -- after all, Bruce IS an Olympic gold medal winner!
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Real Housewives of Atlanta star Cynthia Bailey cozies up to the camera with these fashion finds.
Internationally acclaimed supermodel Cynthia Bailey is establishing new roots in the A-T-L. With a brand new hubby and a hot new gig as the newest addition to Bravo's hit series The Real Housewives of Atlanta, she's feeling right at home. But just in case we need a reminder of where she came from, here, she lays down her New York City swagger wearing high-fashion fit for low temperatures.
1. Skirtin Around long black wool skirt ($175): Ginger Howard Boutique, Atlanta; Sisters ombre stripe turtleneck and Scarf ($115): Nordstrom; Hat: San Diego Hat Company


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Teen Photo Scavenger Hunt
Pick up a copy of the instructions at the Info desk or on our website starting July 2. Take photos to match the clues and submit them using our online form before the deadline. Entries will be judged by library staff on creativity. You could win a $25 Coles gift card! For ages 11-18.
Aspiring Authors
Do you love to write? Meet other aspiring authors, participate in some writing activities and find out about resources for writers. You can even share some of your work and get feedback. Drop in.
Library Closed - Civic Holiday
All locations of the Brantford Public Library will be closed on Civic Day. Our book drops are always open for your convenience.
Mr. Chris & The Gassy Bubbles Band
Mr. Chris and the Gassy Bubbles Band will be at the Main Library with a fun, exciting, and interactive show featuring new songs and twists on old favourites! Join us for music, puppets, and a fun craft activity for you to take home! This is a ticketed event. Tickets will be available for this show at 9:00 a.m. the day of the event. If you obtain tickets but have a change of plans and can't attend, please call us at 519-756-2220 to let us know so that other children will have the chance to attend the show.


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In remembrance of those who have past before us, St. John's Episcopal Church is organizing a bagpipe procession on Christmas Eve through the streets of Georgetown.
This "new tradition" also draws upon Georgetown's Scottish roots. According to a brochure published by the church, "Dunbartonshire was a part of Georgetown where many a Scotsman and Scotswoman came to become citizens and to help build this great City & Nation!"
The bagpipe player will begin the procession at dusk at Oak Hill Cemetery on R Street. He will then travel down Wisconsin Avenue to O Street. The procession will end at St. John's Episcopal Church shortly after 5 p.m. A few Christmas songs will be played at the church at the end of the procession.


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ORANGE — Senor Toro Mexican Restaurant located at 2308 Lutcher Drive in Orange, received a 70 out of a possible 100 during a recent health code inspection. The demerits are for cooling rice/sauce on top of the counter, cheese enchiladas, rice and shredded cheese at unsafe temperatures, storing food on the floor in the walk-in coolers, a cooler in the kitchen not keeping proper temperature, towels needed at the hand-washing sink, several gnats and dead roaches found, and several 'clean' dishes found to still have old foods on them. The dishes were pulled to be rewashed.
Other scores include:
• Kim's Donut Palace located at 3041 Highway 12 in Vidor. Score: 96. Demerits are for a child found in the back prep area.
• Nolan Food Store located at 585 Interstate 10 West in Vidor. Score: 90. Demerits are for storing raw beef above drinks inside a walk-in cooler, reach-in cooler was not at proper temperatures, and several gnats were found.
• Little Ceasar's Pizza located at 3715 North 16th Street in Orange. Score: 90. Demerits are for several areas in need of repair. The report includes a note of a plumber was at the restaurant the day of inspection and a follow-up inspection would be needed.
• Avila's Mexican Restaurant located at 2615 Western Ave. in West Orange. Score: 92. Demerits are for in need of dating and labeling all food inside coolers and freezers and for storing raw beef on top shelf of the reach-in cooler.
• Wendy's #50 located at 3113 Edgar Brown Drive in Orange. Score: 97. Demerits are for several gnats found near the prep station.
• Popeye's Chicken #2873 located at 1604 West Link Street in Orange. Score: 97. Demerits are for several gnats found in the back storage area.
The following locations had zero violations and received a perfect score of 100:
• Suzie's Concessions located at 985 North Main Street in Vidor.
• Kid's and Company located at 4034 West Park Ave.. in Orange.
• Star and Crescent Moon located at 2201 West Park Ave. in Orange.


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The Daily Star
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Four Oneonta boys won titles during the NFL Punt, Pass and Kick local qualifier Friday at Ted Christman Field in Oneonta.
Brady Carr (ages 6-7), Cameron Sitts (8-9), Jarod Card (10-11) and Evan Sitts (12-13) won their respective age-groups to advance to sectional competition Oct. 20 at Damaschke Field.
Milford's Luke Courter won the boys 14-15 division with the best total score, at 323 feet, 11 inches.
Girls winners were Otego's Jenna Cartelli (6-7) and Kayla Grabo (14-15) of Mount Upton.
Sectional winners will advance to compete at the Buffalo Bills Team Championships on Nov. 3 at Ralph Wilson Stadium in Orchard Park. The Team Championship will be held before the Bills' game against the Kansas City Chiefs that day. Participants will be part of an exhibition during the halftime show.
PPK Local Qualifier
Results of the NFL Punt, Pass and Kick local qualifier Friday at Ted Christman Field in Oneonta. Age-groups followed by name, residence, punt score, pass score, kick score and total score.
Boys 6-7: Brady Carr, Oneonta (19-9, 24-10, 26-4) 70-11.
Boys 8-9: Cameron Sitts, Oneonta (50-8, 36-5, 43-7) 130-8.
Boys 10-11: Jarod Card, Oneonta (68-11, 65-9, 58-0) 192-8.
Boys 12-13: Evan Sitts, Oneonta (92-2, 73-4, 72-3) 237-9.
Boys 14-15: Luke Courter, Milford (116-8, 119-0, 88-3) 323-11.
Girls 6-7: Jenna Cartelli, Otego (7-9, 12-5, 3-9) 23-11.
Girls 14-15: Kayla Grabo, Mount Upton (18-11, 31-7, 19-7) 70-1.
Volleyball league starts soon
The Oneonta Family YMCA is accepting registrations for its Fall Co-Ed Volleyball League.
The A League will play Tuesday evenings and the B League will compete Wednesday evenings.
Play for the 10-week league begins the week of Oct. 8.
Instructional meetings will run Oct. 1 at 6 p.m. for the A League and at 7:15 p.m. for the B League.
Sign-up sheets are available at the YMCA or by calling 607-432-0010.
Clinton Regatta meeting Oct. 1
The General Clinton Canoe Regatta committee will hold a kickoff meeting for the 2014 event at 7 p.m. Oct. 1 at the Highway 7 Bar & Grill in Bainbridge.
The meeting is open to the public and is intended to begin planning for the 2014 Regatta.


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A group of Colorado airmen departed for a four-month deployment in Tuesday. They are going to provide airlift and aerial delivery support to Southwest Asia, including Afghanistan.
The deployment includes both active duty and Air Force reservists from the 302nd Airlift Wing and the active duty C-130 flying squadron, the 52nd Airlift Squadron. They've been training and deploying together since October of 2009.
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Girls push boundaries, test limits, and look at the world around them with inquisitive eyes. They're natural engineers and scientists! Through participation in Girl Scouts, girls of every age are introduced to STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) activities that are relevant to everyday life. Whether they're discovering how a car's engine runs, becoming math whizzes, or learning about careers in STEM fields, girls are surrounded by STEM every day.
Our overall goal is to emphasize the STEM concepts and to help the Girl Scout participants make connections to those concepts, even in areas they traditionally do not think of as STEM. We strongly want to encourage girls to STEM areas where they are uncommonly seen to dispel the myth that girls are not as good or interested in STEM. Often, one of the biggest barriers we see to STEM is the feeling that you have to have a degree in STEM in order to effectively lead or participate in STEM activities. To overcome this fear, we have identified the STEM Seal of Approval to allow girls and leaders to identify STEM concepts in everything they do.
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Companies/organizations who offer programs for our members are invited to complete the STEM Seal of Approval. If they have 10 or more of the required criteria, they will be listed on the GPS Program Provider page with the STEM Seal next to their listing. To find one of these vendors,
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GREEN: A group planning a gourmet restaurant, winery and other amenities within Southgate Park has pulled out of a deal with the city — but only for the moment, according to gourmet chef Kent Welsh of Table of Life LLC.
His comments came several hours after Mayor Dick Norton announced Wednesday that the deal had fallen apart because some of the Table of Life investors had withdrawn their support.
He said some investors had stated that estimated costs to renovate the site's Belden Lodge and almost 8 acres of surrounding land surpassed original estimates.
Norton said several other entrepreneurs have shown similar interest in the property since the Welsh deal hadn't been completed.
In a phone interview late Wednesday afternoon, however, Welsh said emphatically: "We're doing this. There are no ifs, ands or buts about it."
He said there were several components to the pullout at this time, but he vowed that "we now are regrouping financially and looking forward to getting back into talks with the city at that site."
"We have a lot of time and money invested in this plan, and we are coming to Green," Welsh said.
"The city has been wonderful to us. They have been gracious to us, and they've been very cooperative. Service Director Randall Monteith has been a godsend."
Welsh said the project "was way bigger than we thought once we began digging into it."
He cited the problem of whether a wet area on the property is a wetland, adding that it could take up to a year for the Ohio EPA and Army Corps of Engineers to resolve.
He also noted that from April 14 through Sept. 30 "you can't do any clearing [of land] due to the national migration of the Indiana brown bat at the site."
Welsh said that despite those issues, "We believe the demographics of Green and the way the city is going makes this a great fit for us."
He said 11 culinary arts school students are waiting to intern at The Table restaurant and 17 others are waiting to conduct weddings at the facility.
Welsh said that should the Belden Lodge site not be available when financing is arranged, he has at least one other Green site under consideration.
Norton confirmed Wednesday that two other potential buyers are interested in creating a restaurant/winery — Welsh's initial proposal — at the site, while another is talking about converting the lodge into a banquet facility.
A fourth has visions of renovating the lodge into a residence and office, the mayor said.
On Jan. 8, City Council approved the Belden Lodge sale, noting that the city had agreed to finance the $600,000 sale price for the investors at a "very low" interest rate.
The city has owned the lodge since 2006, but had been unable to use the site for public purposes due to inability to comply with fire codes and Americans with Disabilities Act guidelines.
Cost to renovate the lodge was estimated in the range of $1 million. To maintain the vacant structure costs the city about $12,000 a month.
Reached Wednesday at his Stark County home, Fred Tuttle, an investor in the Welsh project and friend of the gourmet chef, said he felt a lot of the problem and final backing out of the project had to do with the time it took.
"We worked on it for over a year," said Tuttle who voiced disappointment at the collapse. "At some point, I believe, it [the time] wore on some of the investors. And we weren't aware of the wetlands issue [and cost to build a road without disturbing the wetlands].
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