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Drop-in fitness classes at Hart House are free for U of T students and Hart House Fitness Centre members. Try something new or push yourself to a new level of strength and health. Our energetic instructors make classes fun, welcoming and suitable for every level.
Looking to get a little more out of your exercise program?
Try our Personal Training and Fitness Consultations.
Interested in Pilates, yoga, martial arts or dance? Download our Hart House Classes & Workshops guide and schedule.
Drop-In Fitness Schedules and Descriptions:
Drop-in Fitness Schedule: July 5–August 10, 2014
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Extended absences or service changes will be posted here as needed. Check this section regularly for any updates to our posted Drop-In Fitness class schedule. Also, please remember to check our class schedules posted daily, outside of the lower gym, for any last-minute changes or updates to our class schedules, content or instructors.
July 26 to August 9, 2014: POOL CLOSURE.
There will be no Aqua-Fit classes from Monday, August 28, 2014 to Friday, August 8, 2014. The regular Aqua-Fit schedule will resume on Monday, August 11, 2014.
Wedensday, July 30, 2014: 7:10 a.m. Super Circuit.
Daniella will be filling in for Amanda.
Thursday, July 31, 2014: 7:10 p.m. Step IV.
Angela will be filling in for Martin.
Friday, August 1, 2014: 1:10 p.m. Core Plus.
Dione will be filling in for Martin.
Saturday, August 2 to Monday August 4: Simcoe Day long weekend.
Classes are cancelled for the long weekend.
Tuesday, August 5, 2014: 12:10 p.m. Moving Muscle.
Debbie will be filling in for Martin.
Tuesday, August 5, 2014: 4:30 p.m. Core Fusion Balance.
Sheela will be filling in for Amanda.
Tuesday, August 5, 2014: 8:10 p.m. Flexibility Fusion.
Debbie will be filling in for Martin.
Saturday, August 9, 2014: 10:10 a.m. Boot Camp.
Greg will be filling in for Sheela.
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Even in 2014, sexual orientation is a touchy subject in the workplace. The Merit Systems Protection Board has just finished taking a comprehensive look at workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and published the results in a report. MSPB's General Counsel Bryan Polisuk and Project Manager Doug Nierle discussed the findings with Federal Drive hosts Tom Temin and Emily Kopp.
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Debra Roth hosts a roundtable discussion of how sequestration has affected the judicial branch, justice, and the rule of law.
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The Southland's major criminal and civil cases heard in Cook County and Will County courts this week.
Cook County
OAK FOREST - Case Continues for Man Charged with First-Degree Murder
Norberto Rodriguez, the former Chicago police officer remains in custody and appeared in a Markham courtroom for a status hearing this week. Rodriguez is accused of shooting and killing Irma Rodriguez. Her body was found in the trunk of her car in June 2009.
Attorneys for both sides said the discovery phase is complete and another status hearing has been set for Sept. 13.
OAK LAWN - Woman Pleads Guilty to Lesser Charge in Teen Solicitation Case, Gets Probation
Lauren Papiez, 21, pleaded guilty Friday, Aug. 10 to a misdemeanor harmful materials charge after being accused of soliciting a 16-year-old girl for sex.
Papiez James West and pleaded guilty to a lesser charge Friday, Aug. 10 and received 24 months of probation, ordered to stay away from the victim and to pay court costs.
Judge Peter Felice set bail at $500,000 for an Orland Park man accused of kicking an 88-year-old woman in a Walgreens parking lot and stealing her car in court Monday morning.
Felice also set a $100,000 bail for Peter Sousan, 24, for an unrelated criminal trespass of vehicle case.
Sam Cafi, 28, of Justice pleaded not guilty this week to more than 100 charges of aggravated DUI near Palos Hills in March. The new case has 132 counts total, including one count of reckless homicide, while the previous case had 61 felony charges of aggravated DUI.
Cafi was charged in connection to the March 10 crash that killed 28-year-old Ryan Osowski of Darien and injured three others. He is scheduled to be back in court on Sept. 12.
The case against Dazzle's Painted Pastures Animal Rescue and Sanctuary owner Dawn Hamill is creeping toward trial, with attorneys for both sides exchanging pre-trial motions in a Markham courtroom Thursday, Aug. 9.
Neither side elaborated on the motions recently filed, but the attorneys agreed to make their arguments before Judge Anna Helen Demacopoulous on Tuesday, Aug. 14.
TINLEY PARK - Case continued for Florida man charged with unlawful possession of weapons
Francis Gilroy of Florida appeared briefly in court on an unlawful possession of weapons by a felon after the .
Gilroy, 65, was reportedly a victim in the attack but was arrested on the weapons charges. He is scheduled to be back in court on Sept. 27.
A Cook County judge ruled Monday that sufficient evidence exists to try a Texas man accused of placing a video camera in the women's bathroom at the .
Brent C. Faulk, 27, of Houston, TX, is charged with felony unlawful video recording for allegedly planting a camera in Starbucks, 1243 State St., with intent to sell the images on the Internet.
The incident reportedly happened May 15, when a Starbucks employee found the cup and camera while she was cleaning the bathroom, prosecutors said.
Will County
Andrew Henderson, 24, of Palos Park pleaded not guilty Wednesday to two counts of aggravated DUI in connection with a July 14 crash that killed a Minooka man and sent a family of four to the hospital.
He has a Sept. 5 pretrial date on charges that he was drunk when his Dodge Durango SUV rear-ended another vehicle at the intersection of Route 126 and County Line Road, pushing the car into the path of an oncoming motorcycle.
A Chicago man's request to suppress interrogation room evidence was denied Wednesday in his trial, where he's charged with the murder of New Lenox Township resident Dwight Jones.
Earlier this summer, Julun and assistant public defender Mike Renzi called the interrogation "psychologically coercive," noting that "the defendant was so shaken and confused … he cried and frequently asked to go home." The defense asked Will County Judge Daniel Rozak to throw out any statements Julun made during his interrogation, but after watching the interrogation room footage for himself, Rozak struck down the motion filed the suppress the evidence during the trial.
The aggravated battery case of New Lenox resident Joseph Messina, 24, who was accused three years ago on his 21st birthday of punching a Joliet man into a coma during a bar fight in Mokena, got a bit theatrical Monday at Will County Circuit Court in Joliet.
Will County Circuit Judge Sarah Jones said she would review the case and return Aug. 13 with a decision in regard to the motion for mistrial with prejudice.
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will be leaving the corner location it got its name from in Sag Harbor.
Tracy Mitchell, the executive director, made the announcement at a Sag Harbor Village Board meeting on Tuesday night, saying the theater won't be renewing its lease, which ends in May 2013.
"It's been our home for 20 years. Now, we're looking toward the next 20," Mitchell said by phone on Wednesday.
Theater administrators don't want it to move far. "We'd love to stay in Sag Harbor. That's the goal," Mitchell said. "It's been a great boon to be on a Main Street, to have the walk-by traffic from the and the yachts."
"Lots of places and businesses are having a difficult time, and Bay Street is one of them," said Mayor Brian Gilbride. "Certainly, Bay Street Theatre has become a great part of the village. I would like to see them stay there."
But Mitchell explained that there are actually a number of reasons for the decision to move. Administrators recently heard from Pat Malloy, the building owner, someone Mitchell describes as a supporter, who said the rent will go up once again, bringing the rent up to $200,000 per year. "If it was just that fact alone, it wouln't be so bad," Mitchell said.
The nonprofit organization that runs the 299-seat theater also incurs $200,000 to $300,000 per year in additional rents for housing and storage.
Since Bay Street is a professional theater and governed by the rules of the Actors' Equity Association, the theater must provide housing for the actors and other crew. There is no housing space within the theater, so it must finding rentals at the height of summer. Plus, the housing has to be within a half-mile, according to the actors union, otherwise the theater has to foot the bill for transportation.
A shop in Riverhead is rented to store props and as a place to build sets, Mitchell said.
"We pay $400 to $500,000 just in rents," Mitchell said. As a non-profit organization, the theater applies for grants and underwriting opportunities. "They look at us like we have two heads when they see how much we're paying in rents," she said. While staff try to explain the expensive rental market in the Hamptons, she added, it's a difficult position to be in.
The annual budget is about $2.4 million, Mitchell said.
Attracting large donations has also proven difficult. "Big donors want to know we're still going to be here" in years to come, Mitchell said. "Since we don't own our home, there's no guarantee."
In the midst of the annual appeal, the goal is $375,000. So far, another $250,000 is still needed.
The ideal situation, she said, is that the theater could find a new home where the auditorium, box office and housing are on one property. "Other successful regional theaters do it that way," she said.
Bay Street has formed a venue and housing committee and is working with developers and real estate experts to explore what's available.
In Sag Harbor, the former property a few blocks away on Division Street is vacant since the . Mitchell said the owner, the Archdiocese of New York, is only interested in renting and shows would require the diocese's "blessing."
The group are looking at properties not utilized, Mitchell said, mentioning the building where La Superica is located and has several vacancies. "How great would it be to come over the bridge to Sag Harbor and, on your right, see a park and a building with a theater?," she said, referring to the former Professional Building on Ferry Road, where condos have been planned, next to the .
While there is still more than a year-and-a-half, and one summer season, left on the lease, "It's not that much time," Mitchell said.
And if the theater's new home hasn't been found or isn't ready in time? Mitchell said they are a creative bunch. "Maybe we're a theater without four walls for a while? Maybe we perform under a tent in ? Maybe on the beach? Who knows."


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- Game:
- Aliens vs. Predator
- AvP
- Genre:
- Action
- Sub Genre:
- Horror
- Release Date (US):
- February 16th, 2010
- Release Date (UK):
- February 19th, 2010
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- Also available on Xbox 360 and PC
About Aliens vs. Predator
The title is being developed by Rebellion, who coincidentally developed a similar title (AVP) in 1999.
Aliens vs. Predator News
SEGA not currently considering AvP sequel
A follow-up to 2010's Aliens vs. Predator isn't currently in the pipeline, SEGA's European CEO Mike Hayes has revealed. Speaking with Eurogamer in light of yesterday's unveiling of Creative Assembly's new Alien project, Hayes said he believes there's "a l...
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Aliens vs Predator console patch scrapped, says SEGA
SEGA has revealed that it has shelved plans to patch the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of Aliens Vs Predator. Posting on the company's official forums, assistant community manager Clumsyorchid said: "I've just received a mail this AM regarding patches for the console versi...
- Posted Jul 15th 2010
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New DLC heading to Aliens vs Predator
Sega has announced that the second downloadable content pack for Aliens vs Predator will be available on July 7, giving gamers a chance to play on the killing grounds of BG-386. This map pack includes four new maps and new weather types. The pack, dubbed the Bughunt Map Pack, consists of two new...
- Posted Jun 30th 2010
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SEGA confirms Aliens Vs Predator for February 2010
SEGA UK has announced via its official website that horror shooter Aliens Vs Predator will be hitting store shelves in February 2010. Currently in development for PlayStation 3, PC and Xbox 360, the game features three playable factions (Aliens, Predators and Colonial Marines), each containing it...
- Posted Aug 5th 2009
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Aliens vs. Predator screens, teaser, and details released
Aliens vs. Predator is back on our game radar -- with a vengeance. SEGA and Rebellion have released new media and details for their sci-fi shooter today, and the game is looking mighty sharp. You'll be able to play as a marine, an alien, or a predator (the three remind us of the Terran, Zerg, and...
- Posted May 20th 2009
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SEGA gets specific about Alien vs. Predator release
Last week, SEGA announced in very vague detail their plans to release a new Alien vs. Predator title across multiple platforms. Now, SEGA has finally narrowed down a broad release window for the game. Alien vs. Predator should show up on retail shelves sometime in early 2010. The title is ...
- Posted Feb 16th 2009
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Simulink 3D Animation
Simulink 3D Animation provides VRML viewers that display your virtual worlds and record scene data. It also provides Simulink blocks and MATLAB functions for user interaction and virtual prototyping with 3D input devices, including 3D mice and force-feedback joysticks.
Simulink 3D Animation includes viewers that let you navigate the virtual world by zooming, panning, moving sideways, and rotating about points of interest known as viewpoints. In the virtual world, you can establish viewpoints that emphasize areas of interest, guide visitors, or observe an object in motion from different positions. During a simulation, you can switch between these viewpoints.
The Simulink 3D Animation Viewer integrates with MATLAB figures so that you can combine virtual scenes with MATLAB Handle Graphics® and multiple views of one or more virtual worlds.
The Simulink 3D Animation Web Viewer works with HTML5-enabled web browsers to display virtual worlds on computers, phones, and tablets. You can open a virtual world on your computer then view it remotely in a web browser on a mobile device or a computer that does not have Simulink 3D Animation installed.


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Very shortly, the Affordable Care Act will be implemented. There has been a lot of discussion about it, but here is something very interesting: When it is described to people and is called "Affordable Care Act" most of the reaction is positive. The problem arises when it is called "Obamacare," then the more negative reactions.
Now why would that be? It is not like we haven't had a concerted effort in certain places to discredit and literally destroy this president. You can see similarities to an extent in what was done when Bill Clinton was in office and the negative publicity and fear mongering when Hillary Clinton headed a group to develop and alternative health care plan to what was available at that time.
In the intervening years, the costs of health care have become exorbitant. Maybe people can't afford it, or have been dropped for pre-existing conditions and have going into huge debt, losing virtually everything because of their health care costs.
This is the health care plan the right wing and the Tea Party want us to maintain? They are literally advocating the right to have no health care as absurd as that is.
Of course there is a lot of pandering to fear with outrageous distortions and out and out lies. The fines for not having health care is one thought often brought up and it is never correctly portrayed by the people who want to stop it.
However, compare a fine -- even a couple hundred dollars -- to the costs incurred in treatment and hospital stays. It isn't even close.
This is not government health care, it is very similar to the plan enacted by Mitt Romney when he was governor of Massachusetts. It is a law and this law will make sure that more of the money you pay for health care goes directly to your care.
It has been shown to cut paperwork from where it is now and has shown that cost-wise it will be, in most cases, more economical than what is available now. The blatant misrepresentation going on and appealing to the misinformed and uninformed is despicable and shameless.
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By Josef Federman and Deb Riechman
The Associated Press
TEL AVIV, Israel — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry completed a new round of shuttle diplomacy Sunday without a hoped-for breakthrough in relaunching Mideast peace talks, but optimistically said he had narrowed the gaps between Israel and the Palestinians and vowed to return to the region soon to complete his mission.
Kerry said he was working on an emerging "package" meant to bring the sides together, and said he would leave a team of aides in the region to continue the efforts.
"With a little more work, the start of final status negotiations could be within reach," he told reporters, shortly before leaving Israel for an Asian security conference in Brunei.
It was not clear how much progress Kerry had truly made. He refused to provide details of the package he is working on, and Israeli and Palestinian officials, at Kerry's request, remained mum.
Even before negotiations have begun, the gaps remain wide on simply establishing the ground rules.
Negotiations have been stalled since 2008, in large part due to Israeli settlement policies in the West Bank and east Jerusalem.
The Palestinians claim both areas, captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war, for a future independent state alongside Israel and have demanded that Israel stop building settlements on occupied lands before talks resume. More than 500,000 Jewish settlers now live in areas sought by the Palestinians, making it increasingly difficult to partition the land into two states.
The Palestinians also say Israel's pre-1967 frontiers should be the baseline for the final borders between Israel and a future Palestine. Previous Israeli leaders have accepted the 1967 lines as a starting point for talks. But Israel's current prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, while endorsing the idea of a Palestinian state, has refused the Palestinian demands, saying talks should begin immediately without any preconditions.
Netanyahu has ruled out a return to the 1967 lines, saying it would threaten Israel's security.


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Blendtek blender for juices instead of juicer?
I'm considering buying a blendtek blender to make juices rather a juicer. Like the idea of getting the health benefits of the whole fruit or vegtable. What will happen though if I toss a few carrots and some apples in? Will it make a juice that is comparable tastewise to a juicer? Thanks!
No, although I second the kudos for the Vitamix. Real juice is a lot more concentrated and much more flavorful than what Vitamix calls "total juice." Blended fruit and ice will almost certainly require added sweetener to make it taste like anything and even then, the texture will be various degrees of pulpy depending on how much it's diluted. I prefer to get my fiber from smoothies and enjoy my juice fiber-free (juice is, after all, the liquid part of produce). If you want juice and think you'll keep up with juicing, get yourself a Champion or run Vita-pureed produce through a nut milk bag (lots of work).
I'm also a VitaMix lover, but you might want to check out blenders that come with a steel mesh screen insert if you're truly looking for just juice. Here are some of the common ones in China, where practically every blender/mixer/thing comes with a juicer/soya option.


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If you have any questions or concerns regarding these regulations for exporting animals or animal products to a foreign country, you should contact the APHIS-VS Area Office in the State from which the animals or products will be exported.
Egypt - Summary of Requirements
The following protocols for exporting animals to Egypt are available through the International Regulations Retrieval System (IRRS).
Small Ruminants
Sheep - April 1993 (pdf 6kb)
The following requirements are those listed in the ASPCA booklet entitled "Traveling With Your Pet".
Cats and dogs must be accompanied by a valid government veterinary good health certificate issued at the point of origin (validity means 2 week from date of issue). This certificate does not exempt the pets from examination by an Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture doctor on arrival. If disease is suspected, quarantine will last no longer than 15 days. In the case of a quarantine period, the owner will be charged for the care and feeding of the animal.
Other Information
For species not listed, the requirements are not known. However, exporters wanting to ship livestock or germplasm whose requirements are not listed in the IRRS, should have the interested party (importer/buyer) in the country of destination apply for an Import Permit at the appropriate ministry. This Import Permit will most likely outline the specific requirements.


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Please stop down to the Stratford Animal Control Facility, 225 Beacon Point Road on Saturday Feb. 9 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
We will be hosting a Pet Adoption Event & Boutique. There will be many volunteers on hand to help you meet the wonderful pets available for adoption.
In addition, we will have our boutique items for sale. Come by and pick up some pet odor eliminator candles/sprays, T-shirts, collars, leashes, knickknacks and more. All proceeds benefit Stratford's homeless animals.
For more information: www.stratfordanimalrescue.com


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Former D.C. Mayor Marion Barry Alleges 'The FBI Tried to Kill Me'
'The Mayor' says crack cocaine bust was actually a murder plot with poison.
Washington Councilman and former Mayor Marion Barry attends the HBO screening of 'Nine Lives of Marion Barry' in New York City, Aug. 6, 2009.
Marion Barry told U.S. News this week that he believes the FBI attempted to murder him on Jan. 18, 1990, when he was arrested for crack cocaine possession in a sting operation.
During his third term as mayor of Washington, D.C., Barry was videotaped smoking crack cocaine in a hotel room with ex-girlfriend Rasheeda Moore. Moore received the drug from an undercover police officer and was cooperating with the FBI.
"The FBI had a mind to entrap me, also the FBI tried to kill me by having some substance that wasn't proven to be crack," Barry told U.S. News in a phone interview.
"They had an EMT on the spot, which is not only unusual but rare in history of the FBI," Barry noted as he offered evidence to support his claim that the FBI attempted to kill him. "Why would they have an EMT on the scene if they weren't trying?"
"When we went to the lab they couldn't say what it was," he added.
[FLASHBACK: 'B-tch Set Me Up!']
Bill Baker, who oversaw the sting operation as the assistant FBI director in charge of the Criminal Investigative Division, told U.S. News that he found Barry's accusation "absurd and disappointing."
Baker said that he personally approved the use of EMTs for the operation.
"I had been briefed on and approved the scenario including the use of EMTs," said Baker. "The purpose of the medical standby was to provide potential medical attention to Marion Barry should his criminal activities require it. We had to let him inhale because that was one of the charges."
According to Baker, "it was not standard procedure" for FBI sting operations to involve medical personnel, but Barry's case was unique.
"We were really looking after his health," Baker explained. "The arrest was on or near the celebration of Martin Luther King's birthday and we didn't want to have anything go wrong from a procedural standpoint."
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"It was one of the most scrubbed and scrutinized arrests because of the target," said Baker, who briefed the attorney general and other prominent officials on the plans.
Baker said he doesn't know how exactly D.C. police—who conducted the sting in cooperation with the FBI—acquired the crack cocaine smoked by Barry, but he described the murder allegation as "absolutely ridiculous" and "an absurd conclusion on Mr. Barry's part."
Barry—who is now 76 —first alleged that the FBI attempted to kill him shortly after his 1990 arrest. Unlike his current allegation—that poison was disguised as crack—Barry's earlier statement focused on the strength of the cocaine.
"They had me ingest cocaine, crack cocaine, which could have killed me. ... I could have been dead now with 70, 80, 90 percent pure cocaine," Barry said in 1990.
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An FBI chemist testified at Barry's trial that the rocks collected as evidence were 93 percent pure crack cocaine.
Barry's jury deadlocked on 12 of 14 charges, finding him guilty of just one count of cocaine possession that occurred before the sting.
According to a Washington Post article describing jury deliberations, one juror told the others that crack rocks seized as evidence didn't look like the drug to her, emboldening a bloc of jurors that refused to accept the popular mayor's guilt.
After serving six months in prison, Barry—who served as mayor from 1979 to 1991—was elected to another four-year term as mayor in 1994. He is currently a member of the D.C. city council.
"I think that the FBI spent 10 or 15 years trying to entrap me and incidentally I was never ever convicted of crack cocaine—never ever," Barry told U.S. News.
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Tonawanda News — Despite a last-minute court ordered stay over the sale of a prominent Webster Street property once home to Ava's Place, the North Tonawanda city council on Tuesday gave Mayor Rob Ortt its blessing to proceed with the transaction.
Issues over the building — which closed in early December and was seized by the city in late January for delinquent tax payments — will be resolved in Niagara County Court next week before state Supreme Court Judge Frank Caruso, who allowed the city to take possession of the property in the first place.
Randy Siford, who owned Ava's with his mother, entered City Hall with his attorney just after 4 p.m. on Tuesday and handed the stay to clerk/treasurer Scott Kiedrowski.
"We have to go back to court with the city to settle the agreement and to find out why they wouldn't take our payment in a timely fashion," Siford said.
Siford and his mother owed the city, the county and the school district $50,000 in back taxes, but paid half of it in November. He said when he attempted to pay the city the remainder of the taxes in late January, which included fines, the city wouldn't accept the money and moved toward acquiring the building instead.
The city had planned to sell the 88 Webster St. building to Jay Soemann for $95,000 — the same individual that Siford said he had planned to sell it to for $140,000 prior to the city taking ownership of the building.
"The city is standing firm on this," Nickerson said. "We're just temporarily holding off on completing the sale."
Siford said that the bar had had been in the family for 36 years, when financial difficulties related to his mother's illness caused unpaid tax bills to pile up. He and his attorney will now move to show cause that the city "wouldn't take our money" prior to the deadline.
"We just haven't been able to make ends meet," he said. "We've been trying to sell it for three years and we finally closed on it. I don't think the city had anything to lose by letting us pay it off."
The hearing will take place at 9:30 a.m. Feb. 28.
In other council news:
• North Tonawanda Police Officer Daryl Truty was recognized with a proclamation of heroism for rescuing a drowning swimmer from the Niagara River in July while off duty.
"We come to work every day knowing that Officer Truty has our back," said police Chief Randy Szukala.Contact reporter Michael Regan at 693-1000, ext. 4115.


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|Madame Bovary
|Emma Bovary
|Ruby Gentry
|Ruby Corey/Ruby Gentry
|Love Letters
|Singleton/Victoria Remington
|We Were Strangers
|China Valdes
|Since You Went Away
|Jane Hilton
|Dick Tracy's G-Men
|The Song of Bernadette
|Angel, Angel Down We Go
|Astrid Steele
|Indiscretion of an American Wife
|Good Morning, Miss Dove
|Miss Dove
|Portrait of Jennie
|Tender Is the Night
|Nicole Diver
|Duel in the Sun
|The Barretts of Wimpole Street
|Gone to Earth
|Hazel Woodus
|The Idol
|Love Is a Many Splendored Thing
|Han Suyin
|Beat the Devil
|Gwendolen Chelm
|A Farewell to Arms
|Nurse Catherine Berkley
|Cluny Brown
|The New Frontier
|The American Film Institute Salute to Gregory Peck
|1989 1988 - 1989
|The American Film Institute Salute to Lillian Gish
|1984 1983 - 1984
|The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
|The Towering Inferno
|The 59th Annual Academy Awards Presentation
|1987 1986 - 1987
|Going Hollywood: The War Years
|(archival footage)
|Boardwalk Empire
|2013 2013
|Onyx Club Dancer 7
|The 70th Annual Academy Awards
|1998 1997 - 1998
|Earned fifth Academy Award nomination for leading role in "Love Is a Many Splendored Thing"
|Moved to NYC to attend the American Academy of Dramatic Arts
|Changed name to Jennifer Jones in January
|Acted on stage in Santa Barbara in "Hello Out There"; billed as Phylis Walker
|Played title role of "Carrie", based on Theodore Dreiser's novel
|Had purchased the screen rights to Larry McMurtry's "Terms of Endearment"; relinquished them when she was told she was too old for the role of Aurora Greenway
|Signed contract with Republic Pictures
|As a child, assisted parents at their theater company, selling tickets and refreshments
|Last film for five years, the dreadful "Angel, Angel Down We Go"
|Earned second Best Actress Academy Award nomination as an amnesiac in "Love Letters", co-starring Joseph Cotten
|After marriage to Robert Walker, moved to California
|With Walker, moved to NYC
|Achieved star status with her performance in the title role of "The Song of Bernadette", a film biography of the young woman who claimed to see a vision of the Virgin Mary; received Best Actress Oscar
|Reportedly offered title role in "Laura"; Selznick declined it
|Made a number of films abroad during the 1950s: "Gone to Earth" (1950) in England with the filmmaking team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger; "Indiscretion of an American Wife" (1953) with director Vittorio de Sica; "Beat the Devil" (1953; various
|After Selznick's death, returned to filmmaking following a four-year absence in "The Idol"
|Raised in Oklahoma
|Starred in "Duel in the Sun"; garnered third Best Actress Oscar nomination
|Reteamed with Joseph Cotton in the romantic "Portrait of Jennie"
|First film produced personally by David O. Selznick, "Since You Went Away"; starred opposite Robert Walker; received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination
|Film acting debut alongside John Wayne in "New Frontier"; made second film "Dick Tracy's G-Men"; billed as Phylis Isley
|Returned to films after a five-year absence to play the leading role in "Tender Is the Night"
|While in college, wrote letter to actress Katharine Cornell soliciting her advice; Cornell suggested broadening her background
|Played "Madame Bovary"
|Hosted own local radio program in Tulsa, Oklahoma, "The Phylis Isley Radio Theater"; ran for 13 weeks
|Autioned for the film version of "Claudia", to be produced by David O Selznick; offered personal seven-year contract
|Last film for five years, "A Farewell to Arms", produced by David O. Selznick
|Took an accidental overdose of sleeping pills following the 1967 death of Charles Bickford
|Cast as Elizabeth Barrett Browning in "The Barretts of Wimpole Street"
|Played a supporting role as Fred Astaire's love interest in the all-star "The Towering Inferno"; final film role
Jones was born Phylis Lee Isley on March 2, 1919 in Tulsa, OK, to Phil and Flora Mae Isley, operators of a regional theatrical troupe, the Isley Stock Company. The family business afforded Phylis her first work in show business selling tickets on her non-school days and did well enough by the time the Depression struck that Phil Isley could begin buying up movie theaters and equipping them with sound for the "talkies" coming out of Hollywood as of the early 1930s. The Isley theater chain soon stretched into Texas, giving Phylis, who had decided she wanted to act at age 4, unfettered access to the latest movies and spurring dreams of stardom. Upon graduating high school, she briefly attended Monte Cassino, a local Catholic junior college, then went on to Northwestern University, but soon found herself restless and unenthusiastic about the curriculum. She was accepted into the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City, matriculating in fall 1937.
She began a relationship with fellow student Robert Walker, who, after a year at the Academy, grew eager get out into the job market, and Phylis agreed to go with him. Phil Isley arranged for his daughter to star in her own eponymous radio show back in Tulsa, Walker joining her on the air for a13-week run, but the couple married in early 1939 and decided to seek their fortunes in Hollywood. It would be a brief and uneventful sojourn. While she signed on with minor studio Republic for which she did a B-Western in its "Three Mesquiteers" series and the matinee serial "Dick Tracy's G-Men" (1939), Walker fielded better opportunities in radio in New York and the couple moved east again. Phylis did some modeling but found little acting work, in the meantime bearing two children, Robert Jr. and Michael. She auditioned for a production of the play "Claudia," and, though she didn't get the part, playwright Rose Franken was impressed enough that she recommended the young actress for possible casting in the film adaptation then in the works by independent über-producer David Selznick.
She would not get the role, but her audition did garner the personal attention of Selznick, who almost immediately offered the "big-eyed girl," as he called her in memos, a seven-year contract with his company. Even before Selznick found a part for her, he brought her to Los Angeles and introduced her as his latest discovery under the stage-name Jennifer Jones, in the meantime securing a contract with MGM for Walker, who brought the family out. Selznick found the ideal launch pad for Jones in an upcoming 20th Century Fox project, "The Song of Bernadette," the tale of an earnest French peasant girl who has pastoral visions and eventually is canonized a saint. The New York Times' review averred that Jones' "large, sad eyes and soft face, her wistful mouth and luminous smile are a thoroughly appealing exterior for the innocence which shines from within." Upon the next year's Academy Awards, the newcomer won the Oscar for Best Actress; Jones was distracted enough the evening of the ceremony that she left her statue in the cab she took home. Walker also saw his fortunes on the rise with notices for his first credited role in the film "Bataan" (1943), but the marriage was faring worse. Selznick, himself married to MGM honcho Louis B. Mayer's daughter Irene, pursued Jones, and they had begun an affair at least by the time production began on the somber homefront drama "Since You Went Away" (1944), the production fraught with problems owing to the fact that Selznick had cast Walker as Jones' love interest. The couple separated, to be divorced the next year - initiating a downward spiral of mental instability and alcohol abuse for Walker, eventually resulting in his untimely death in 1951 - and Jones and Selznick's relationship became an open secret in Hollywood.
"Since You Went Away" scored Jones another Oscar nomination early the next year, and she reunited with that film's co-star Joseph Cotten in Paramount's romantic psychological drama "Love Letters" (1945), which brought her another nomination. She showed a flair for comedy in "Cluny Brown" (1946), playing an apprentice plumber caught up in society hijinx. Selznick began his pattern of micromanaging Jones' career, selecting only projects that might forward his deific image of her. His would-be Western epic "Duel In the Sun" (1946) had her as a half-Native American bad-girl torn between two wealthy Texan brothers (Cotten and Gregory Peck), her lusty desires and her conscience. Selznick hoped to make it his next "Gone With the Wind," and though the picture survived scathing reviews to do well at the box-office - and earn Jones a fourth Oscar nomination - the then-astronomical $6 million he poured into the production and over-ambitious marketing expenses reputedly winnowed profits to almost nothing.
Next, the pricey melodrama "Portrait of Jennie" (1948), had her as an ethereal, spectral muse to Cotten's artist and highlighted Selznick's imperative to directors to feature idealized close-ups of Jones at every opportunity, which proved insufficient to make the film a hit. After an odd turn as a Cuban revolutionary opposite John Garfield in John Huston's 1949 curiosity "We Were Strangers," she shone in Vincente Minnelli's adaptation of "Madame Bovary" (1949), a lavish period piece that allowed Jones to realize a more textured title character through her rags-to-riches arc. Jones and Selznick wed that year, but he became even more intrusive in her work, her next film, the U.K.-made Michael Powell-directed Victorian melodrama "Gone to Earth" (1950), eliciting a more uninhibited performance by Jones, but not until two years later would Selznick release the film in the U.S., redubbed "The Wild Heart" (1952) and re-cut to add more Jones close-ups and excise plot-points. She would settle into a run of illicit-romance fare: "Carrie" (1952), with Jones as the object of affection and ruination of Laurence Olivier; "Ruby Gentry" (1952), with Vidor coaxing some spirit out of her as a lower-class Southern woman wooed by three men from the proper side of the tracks; and "Terminal Station" (1953), which had her as a married American woman ending an Italian holiday and affair with a young man (Montgomery Clift). The Italian production of the latter came as Jones dealt with guilt over Walker's recent death and a difficult period with Selznick, who meddled from afar and would again denude the finished product into a 63-minute cut retitled "Indiscretion of an American Wife."
She was next set to star in "The Country Girl" (1954), but discovered she was pregnant, the part going to Grace Kelly, whose performance would win the Oscar. Jones bore Selznick a daughter, Mary Jennifer, in 1954. She put together a sequence of off-the-beaten-path roles, a disarmingly plucky con-woman in Huston's "Beat the Devil" (1954); a dowdy, bed-ridden spinster in "Good Morning, Miss Dove" (1954); a short-lived, poorly reviewed Broadway stint in "Portrait of a Lady" in late 1954; and a Chinese doctor wooed by William Holden in the period's canonical bittersweet romance, "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" (1955). Under the helm of "Bernadette" director Henry King, the latter became a major hit and earned Jones her fifth Oscar nomination. Jones returned in the examination of post-war middle-class suburban angst, "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit," reuniting with Peck in the role of his over-ambitious but ultimately angelic wife. But the end of the decade saw her fortunes ebb, first with MGM's gaudy "The Barretts of Wimpole Street" (1957), then more infamously in Selznick's own slogging adaptation of Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms" (1957). The movie drew such critical fire and so few box-office receipts that it would prompt Selznick to effectively retire, and he and Jones sought to avoid the fallout by bolting the U.S. on what turned out to be an extended tour of Europe and India, with which Jones became particularly enamored, adopting yoga into her regimen.
She did not do another film until 1961, working with King again in Fox's adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Tender Is the Night," but it fared poorly and she retreated from the public eye. Her son, Robert Walker, Jr., in the meantime would pick up a Golden Globe award as "most promising newcomer" for his performance in the film "The Ceremony" (1963). Selznick died in 1965, and to cope, Jones decided to work again, taking a role in "The Idol" (1966) as a middle-aged mother seduced by her son's temperamental artist friend. She followed that with a turn in a stage revival of "The Country Girl" at New York City Center, but she remained mired in depression over Selznick, which only went compounded upon the death of her friend and "Bernadette" and "Duel In the Sun" co-star Charles Bickford, who had supporting. On Nov. 9, 1967, Jones checked into a Malibu motel, took an overdose of barbiturates and was later found unconscious on the beach. She would recover, claiming the overdose accidental, not a suicide attempt. Eerily, her daughter by Selznick, Mary Jennifer, would also deal badly, experimenting with drugs and eventually suffering a breakdown.
Jones went back to work in the 1969 oddity "Angel, Angel, Down We Go" (1969), a trippy mod-ish outing in which she played the mother of a daughter whose rockstar boyfriend winds up seducing every member of the family, Jones' character revealing her past in the camp-classic line, "I made 30 stag films and never faked an orgasm!" In 1971, at a party thrown by media mogul and art collector Walter Annenberg, she met Annenberg's fellow collector Norton Simon, the multimillionaire corporate raider who had most famously made Hunt Foods into a major packaged-goods company. A month after their meeting, Simon and Jones wed. Within a few years, Simon convinced her to emerge from retirement once again, which she did in Irwin Allen's all-star disaster opus "The Towering Inferno" (1974), playing a doomed tenant. In 1976, Mary Jennifer committed suicide, jumping from a 22-story building in L.A., while Jennifer was visiting her ailing father in Oklahoma. Phil Isley died not long after. Jones and Simon, who had lost a son to suicide in 1970, began dedicating time and money to fight mental illness, in 1980 endowing the Jennifer Jones Simon Foundation for Mental Health and Education. Jones flirted with another return to show business the next year, purchasing the film rights to Larry McMurtry's novel Terms of Endearment, but producer/director James L. Brooks considered her too old for the part of the steadfast mother of the piece, Shirley MacLaine eventually winning the Best Actress Oscar for the role, Brooks the best screenplay, picture and director statues. Jones became reclusive, helping to take care of Simon when a few years later he was diagnosed with the incapacitating Guillain-Barré Syndrome in 1984, eventually taking over executive control of his art empire via the Norton Simon Foundation and the Norton Simon Museum, which he had endowed in Pasadena in 1978. She lived in Malibu with son Robert Walker, Jr. and his family until her death from natural causes on Dec. 17, 2009.
|Phil Isley
|with wife ran the Isley Stock Company; after 1929, bought several movie theaters
|Flora Isley
|with husband operated the Isley Stock Company
|David O Selznick
|Married from July 1949 until his death on June 22, 1965
|Mary Selznick
|born on August 12, 1954; committed suicide on May 11, 1976
|Norton Simon
|born on February 5, 1907; Married from May 1971 until his death on June 1, 1993
|Robert Walker
|Met in 1938 when they were fellow students at AADA
|Michael Walker
|born on March 13, 1941
|Robert Walker
|born on April 15, 1940; father Robert Walker
|American Academy of Dramatic Arts
|Group Theater
|Northwestern University
|Edgemore Public School
|Monte Cassino Junior College
|Founder, The Jennifer Jones Simon Foundation for Mental Health and Education
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US House Undermines State Wage Laws for Tipped Workers
Matt Singer on August 3, 2006 - 10:07am
Thursday, August 03, 2006
In Today's Dispatch:
State Policy Briefings, Estate Taxes v. Minimum Wage Hikes, Welfare Rules, and Election Access and Integrity
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US House Undermines State Wage Laws for Tipped Workers
Last Friday, in an act of perverse cynicism, the US House ostensibly passed a $2 per hour increase in the federal minimum wage, but conditioned its passage on handing out hundreds of billions of dollars in budget-busting cuts in the estate tax and other special tax breaks for the rich.
But even the increase in the minimum wage is poisoned by an additional provision, Sec. 402, that would preempt state laws that provide for a higher minimum wage for tipped workers. If enacted, this would be the first time in American history that the federal government has used its authority to undercut state wage laws.
Expanding The Tip Penalty: The federal minimum wage is explicit that states and local governments are free to create higher minimum wage rates than the federal level for any and all groups of workers. While the federal minimum wage allows employers to pay a lower wage to tipped workers, seven states have eliminated this "tip penalty" on the assumption that consumers pay tips not to subsidize low-wage employers but to actually reward service.
But the new provision, which the National Restaurant Association admits was enacted as a special interest favor, would immediately cut wages for up to a million tipped workers in states that eliminate the "tip penalty," creating a wage cut of as much as $5.50 an hour for those tipped workers. Those seven states can only restore those lost wages to tipped workers if they enact new legislation barring any increase for those tipped workers in future laws-- and all other states would be barred from eliminating the tip penalty in the future.
Ignoring Federalism: This law is a dangerous precedent for rightwing politicians to try to preempt all state minimum wage rates higher than the federal level and parallels rightwing state lawmakers enacting laws banning local governments from enforcing local minimum wages higher than the federal wage level. Backed by the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council, these "minimum wage repeal acts" are the model for the national conservative leadership going further and preempting state minimum wage laws, just as they recently preempted state class action laws and just as they have preempted state health care and environmental regulation.
Activists around the country are calling on the US Senate to reject this cynical undermining of state minimum wage laws and start over with a new bill that improves the lives of working families without special interest giveaways.
To see how the rightwing American Legislative Exchange Council is handling this legislation, be sure to check out today's Eye on the Right in today's Dispatch.
Instant Runoff Proposals Advance Coast-to-Coast
Voting reform advocates secured a series of victories in recent week as proposals to embrace "instant runoff" voting advanced in North Carolina and California -- with more proposals moving forward in Washington and Minnesota this fall.
Background on Instant Runoff Voting (IRV): One of the biggest problems in American elections is the so-called spoiler factor -- since a majority is not required to win, ideological allies can quickly become fierce foes in three-way elections where splitting the vote can have harsh consequences. The frequent historical solution to this situation is the so-called French or Louisiana model -- an open field and a runoff with the top two vote getters.
But runoffs have their own problems. Crowded primary fields can create weird outcomes. In 2002, the far rightwing Jean-Marie Le Pen unexpectedly outperformed the mainstream left-of-center candidate Lionel Jospin (Le Pen received 17% of the vote to Jospin's 16%), leaving French voters a choice between a right-of-center and far-right candidate in their general election. Additionally, runoff elections historically suffer from low turnout.
Instant Runoff Voting addresses these issues by compressing multiple rounds of runoff comparisons into a single election through the use of ranked ballots. Ballots for first-choice candidates are tabulated. Less popular candidates are eliminated and votes are transferred to next choices until, eventually, the winner has received support of a majority of the electorate. The system is already being successfully used in San Francisco and Burlington, VT, where it saves costs by eliminating runoff election expenses.
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Illinois Judge Upholds Hotel Workers Rest Breaks Law
Last year, the Illinois legislature enacted Public Act 094-0593, a law that requires hotels to provide hotel attendants in the Chicago area with two 15-minute breaks and a half-hour paid lunch period, a response to increased workloads imposed in recent years on workers who make up hotel beds, workloads which have led to increased injury among hotel workers.
After its passage, the Illinois Hotel & Lodging Association filed suit challenging the law, hauling out the usual corporate argument that legislation regulating individual industries or particular regional areas are somehow illegal. Last week, the lawsuit was defeated and the law will be going into effect.
Illinois judge Judge James R. Henry rejected the industry argument and upheld the law, arguing, ""The Amendment targets an evil, i.e., the intense workload of hotel room attendants, in an area with the largest concentration of those workers...The amendment is simply another law to protect a sector of hotel workers who need such protections due to the strenuous nature of their work and the competitive industry they work in."
While workers in other regions or other industries would benefit from similar protections -- and the Illinois law is a good model for extending paid rest periods beyond current state laws -- the judge made clear that incremental laws that extend innovative laws to particular industries or regions are valid and reasonable approaches to public policy.
The decision also reinforces legal analysis that the Chicago ordinance raising wages for large retail workers will also be upheld in court if enacted.
State Policy Briefings, Estate Taxes v. Minimum Wage Hikes, Welfare Rules, and Election Access and Integrity
The Center for American Progress has prepared 20 public policy briefs for current elected officials and candidates at national, state and local levels of government and for any interested advocacy groups around the nation, including key facts, the current state of play, public opinion and the progressive plan of action.
Highlighting the cynicism of linking estate tax cuts to a minimum wage increase, the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities contrasts the 6.6 million workers in states across the country who would benefit from a minimum wage increase versus the 30,000 multi-millionaires who would get estate tax benefits.
In Getting On, Staying On, and Getting Off Welfare: The Complexity of State-by-State Policy Choices, the Urban Institute reviews the varied rules in different states for those receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)-- and how they may need to change in light of new federal rules.
The Century Foundation has published Balancing Access and Integrity outlines reforms that can improve implementation of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA), including ways to improve voter registration, manage provisional ballots and registration databases, test voting machines, and promote early voting.
US House Undermines State Wage Laws for Tipped Workers
ACORN: Action Center to Contact Senators to Vote No on Law
Instant Runoff Proposals Advance Coast-to-Coast
FairVote, IRV America; IRV in Your State
Illinois Judge Upholds Hotel Workers Rest Breaks Law
Illinois Public Act 094-0593
Eye on the Right
The rightwing, corporate-financed American Legislative Exchange Council is trying to mobilize its legislative members on behalf of the federal bill to cut the estate tax and gut state minimum wage laws, despite the negative consequences for workers and state authority. ALEC recently invited rightwing legislators on to a conference call with White House staff encouraging these legislators to contact their Senators to urge them to vote for the measure (Progressive States managed to join the call). Amazingly, the biggest point of contention on the call was that several rightwing legislators were upset that -- having gone to bat to defeat minimum wage bills in their state -- the White House was now endorsing a minimum wage hike at all. No concerns were raised at all that the corporate conservative in Washington, D.C., were usurping state authority.
Upcoming Events
Friday, Aug. 4 -- Washington, DC, The Center for American Progress hosts Can States Override the Stem Cell Veto: Advancing Stem Cell Research in the Face of Federal Inaction from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM. The event is at CAP's offices in Washington and features U.S. Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa and Governor Jim Doyle of Wisconsin. RSVP
Monday, Aug. 14 -- Nashville, TN, Progressive States is partnering with the AFL-CIO and American Federation of Teachers to host the annual meeting and reception of the National Labor Caucus of State Legislators in Nashville, TN. Details
Three Steps Forward
1. ME, VT, IA: States Form Pact to Lower Medicaid Drug Costs
2. IL: Illinois Public Gets Online Option for Reporting Corruption
3. MA: Legislature Unanimously Approves Minimum Wage Hike to $8/hour
Two Steps Back
1. WA: Paris Hilton Estate Tax Repeal Qualifies for Ballot
2. GA: Conservatives Claim Partisan Gerrymandering Encourages Accountability
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World War II aviator's Purple Heart comes homeBy MICHAEL RUBINKAM
The Associated Press | November 10,2013Gordon H. Yates was a tall, skinny redhead who joined the Navy during World War II when he was 17. Two years later, the young aviator was dead, beheaded by the enemy after his patrol bomber was shot down in waters off southeast Asia.
Saturday, Purple Hearts Reunited presented the medal he was awarded decades ago to his sister in southeastern Pennsylvania. Yates family had lost track of the medal at least as far back as 1979 when his father died.
Yates 80-year-old sister, Alva Brickner, now afflicted with Parkinsons disease, cant communicate very well, but her son said her reaction was unmistakable when he told her the medal had been found.
She teared up, Daniel Brickner said. She just kept writing, Thank you.
Yates was aboard a patrol bomber flying its 36th mission when it was shot down, according to an account provided by Purple Hearts Reunited.
The crew made it to shore and hid in the jungle aided by French Resistance fighters but Yates and his mates eventually fell into Japanese hands.
While some of Yates comrades were shot, Yates was beheaded on April 27, 1945. He was 19.
Zachariah Fike, founder of Purple Hearts Reunited, surmised that Yates was either defiant or perhaps his captors believed they were according him an honor by killing him with a sword.
No one will ever know why, said Fike.
Daniel Brickner said he believes the Purple Heart a combat decoration awarded to those wounded or killed in action was likely in the possession of his grandfather, then inadvertently sold at an estate sale following his 1979 death.
The medal wound up with a woman in Ashland, Va., who had it for more than 30 years. The woman recently told the adjutant of the Richmond chapter of the Military Order of the Purple Heart that she couldnt remember where she got it, but had always planned to find its rightful owner.
At some point, the Purple Heart was misplaced. But the woman recently located it in her home again and turned it in, according to Fike, whose nonprofit has returned 60 lost or stolen medals. Fike presided over Saturdays ceremony in Narvon, Lancaster County, where Alva Brickner lives in a nursing home.
It was probably one of the most heartwarming events Ive been to, with the family dynamic, Fike said afterward. There were about 20 family members in attendance. It was an awesome event.MORE IN Wire NewsUNITED NATIONS Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned the attack on a U.N. Full StoryWASHINGTON Republicans pushed a divided House Wednesday toward a campaign-season lawsuit... Full StoryMOSCOW U.S. Full Story
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Breakfast, Wifi, friendly staff were great! Location and facilities were very budget. You get exactly what you pay for, plus a great view of Nairobi skyline from the rooftop.
Khweza Bed and Breakfast Nairobi is a homely, African decorated, budget B&B, located 5 minutes from Nairobi city center, offering magnificent views of the city skyline and a warm welcome by our friendly staff.
We offer complimentary full breakfast, with a selection of fresh fruit, sausages, eggs, toast, fresh juice, sweet potatoes, arrow roots, tea or coffee, etc. We are able to cater for special diets.
Khweza Bed and Breakfast Nairobi, also offers complimentary wireless internet and can arrange for airport transfers.
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Three days after a leak at the Patoka Tank Farm, Marathon Pipeline operations are "pretty much back to normal," according to a company spokesperson.
Participants in the Summer Reading Program at Evans Public Library in Vandalia were recently treated to a program on Heidanes Hidden Timbers and their therapy dogs.
Pool open 1-5 p.m. on Fourth of July
The Vandalia Swimming Pool will be open from 1-5 p.m. this Friday, the Fourth of July.
Take garage sales signs down after sales
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✔ TOPS IL 2490 will meet from 9:30-10:30 a.m. at First Baptist Church in Ramsey. Weigh-in is from 9-9:30 a.m. For more information, contact Dovie Heaton-Bergin at 283-1729.
✔ CenterPointe Church, located at 1616 Veterans Ave. in Vandalia, is holding free Weekly Fit Club sessions at 6 p.m. every Thursday.
✔ TOPS IL 1872, Ramsey, will meet at the Christian Church in Ramsey. Weigh-in is at 6:20 p.m., and the meeting is at 7 p.m.
✔ The Vandalia Lions Club's Fourth of July carnival is in the Vandalia Lake campgrounds.
An Ohio man was airlifted to a Springfield hospital with serious injuries sustained in a Tuesday afternoon accident that halted traffic on a section of Interstate 70 near Vandalia.
In recent years, members of the Fayette County Board have said that they have got to stop using money set aside for capital improvements to meet payroll and other expenses.
On Tuesday night, they voted to do just that … at least for the time being.
After a 45-minute discussion, the board voted 8-4 to reject a plan to transfer $250,000 from the capital improvement fund for regular expenses.
The Fourth of July is being celebrated in three area communities.
The Vandalia Lions Club is again providing a carnival in the Vandalia Lake marina campgrounds. This year, the carnival is available on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
On Saturday evening, at dusk, the Lions will again provide the community's fireworks display over the lake.
The village of Farina's Fourth of July celebration begins in the middle of Friday afternoon and runs until late that evening.
A Brownstown youth returned home on Monday after being treated in a St. Louis hospital for injuries sustained in a car-bicycle accident last Thursday evening.
Shelby R. Orechovesky, 7, of Brownstown, was taken to Fayette County Hospital in Vandalia, then transferred to St. Louis Children's Hospital.
Dawson Sikma feeds a goat as he and other participants in the summer reading program at Evans Public Library in Vandalia enjoy Anna Taylor's petting zoo.
Five of six individuals riding in a van that crashed on Interstate 70 at Vandalia last Wednesday required medical treatment.
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It's really hard to catch Yosemite National Park covered in snow. Storms dump plenty of the white stuff on the park most winters, but because of the Yosemite Valley's relatively low elevation, it seldom sticks around. In December, 2006, I was headed for Yosemite to attend the fabulous Bracebridge Dinner. As luck would have it, I drove into the valley on Sunday afternoon on the heels of a snowstorm. Photographing like mad while trying to keep fingers, toes and other body parts warm, I captured these images that afternoon and the following morning. By Monday when I left, it was almost gone.
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Beeckman says it looks like Walbridge thinks that Parker can get to the mayor through Ferguson.
Beeckman says this is evidence that the mayor couldn't get a meeting with the mayor at this particular time.
11:10AM Rataj introduces from the mayor's calendar on February 10 2007. Meeting scheduled at 6pm with Rakolta at Manoogian Mansion.
Rataj says Beeckman asked Parker specifically about the text message. Rataj said that he was trying to help Rakolta get meeting with the mayor. Beeckman agrees.
Rataj says that Walbridge is large corporation that has been around for a long time. Beeckman agrees.
Beeckman confirming that Walbridge worked on the Compuware building.
Rataj listing people like Peter Karmanos and Ted Gatzaros who had access to the mayor.
Rataj saying that relationships a big part of business.
Soave had friendships with former mayors Coleman Young and Archer. Beeckman agrees.
Rataj says that Soave testified that it was a good feeling to have relationships with politicians. Beeckman says he recalls Soave saying something like that.
Rataj says steering of relationships is a function of relationships. Beeckman questions that.
Rataj brings up Avinash Rachmale of Lakeshore Engineering having relationships within the DWSD.
"We need to confine this," says Judge Edmunds about line of questioning.
Rataj says Soave testified that construction is not for the faint of heart. Beeckman agrees with that. But doesn't recall when Rataj says he said about sharpening elbows to get people out of the way.
Rataj is done.
11:19AM Chutkow redirects.
Text between Bobby and Kwame.
Ferguson: Yes he is. Bernard Parker work for walbridge now basically because of them not being able to talk to you they think he can help the situation, we can use this to our advantage. he call me to say rakolta secretary can get a re...
Beeckman says that "we" is Ferguson and Kwame.
Looking at the internal Walbridge document ranking sub-contractor bids. this is the document that Rataj wouldn't hand him. Beeckman says if you take sewer work and mass excavation pages and add it together and comes up with number at the bottom of the page. That total bid number is 23% higher than WPM's like Cruickshank said in his letter.
Cruickshank was project manager on Baby Creek. In his letter he had said that Ferguson was 4th lowest responsive bidder, 23% higher than the lowest WPM.
Again, reading Cruickshank's letter saying that they gave Ferguson work at the urging of "highly-placed city officials" and that if anyone should complain it's WPM who saw their work shrink by 31% due to work given to Ferguson Enterprises.
Parker testified that as a result of his conversation with Derrick miller urging them to use Ferguson, they drew up the unsusual handwritten agreement from Valentine's Day 2003.
Beeckman says that the standard percentage that the manager would get is 5% but Walbridge got more like 3.5%.
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Eastern Michigan 30, UB 17
Game Analysis: The Bulls accomplished their main mission by containing Eastern Michigan's potent running game. But UB's defense of the pass was something out of a Twilight Zone episode. And that's how it was that Eagles QB Alex Gillett completed 10 of 15 throws for 234 yards and his second straight four-TD game. Meanwhile, the Bulls yielded five sacks and couldn't get their offense back in gear after a 14-point third quarter.
Turning Point: UB had taken their second lead when a mix-up between CBs Najja Johnson and Cortney Lester freed WR Demarius Reed for the11-yard TD reception that put the Eagles ahead to stay late in the third quarter.
Player of the Game: EMU's Gillett validated his new reputation as a dual threat. He threw for four TDs last week and he did it again to Bulls. In addition to his 234 passing yards, he ran for 89.
Play of the Game: Wideout Marcus Rivers and tight end Aaron Connacher helped create the lane that sprang Bo Oliver for a career-best 68-yard run for UB's final touchdown. Once Oliver gets in the open field he's a runaway train.
Stat of the Game I: UB was 1 of 13 on third-down conversions.
Stat of the Game II: The Bulls were 3 of 4 on fourth-down attempts.
He Said It: "I think what we have to do, myself included, is make football important. Until football is important to us, we're going to struggle to be consistent."" – UB QB Chazz Anderson.
In the House: Senior day at Eastern Michigan attracted all of 3,830. Apparently if it's not Michigan it's not relevant.
Next Up: Bulls finish out with two division games at home, the first of them Saturday against Akron.
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Gilford Engineer Steven Smith explains the latest conception of a new development along Tenney Mountain Highway in Plymouth on Thursday. (DAN SEUFERT/Union Leader Correspondent)
Board Chairman Mike Ahern and Vice Chairman John Randlett volunteered to recuse themselves from the presentation as official board members at the request of resident Gunnar Baldwin, despite the fact that the presentation by engineer Steven Smith of Gilford was a brief update on the plans that didn't require any board action.
At the beginning of the meeting, Baldwin made a request that town officials who had publicly voiced their support for the proposed development at Riverside Landing remove themselves from any town proceedings on the proposals.
Town Planner Sharon Penney accepted Baldwin's request and agreed that town officials will consider it. In case it is accepted, Ahern and Randlett stepped out of the presentation without discussion.
"They have both been very vocal in favor of the project," Baldwin said later. Neither board member disputed Baldwin's contention.
Town boards have not officially taken positions on the proposed 86,380-square-foot shopping center. McDonald's and Bank of New Hampshire have already received all but their final permits from the town to build in the two front lots of the property.
Gilford developer Mike McGinley, who is representing businesses who may want to build in Riverside Landing, said Market Basket has expressed strong interest in building a 60,000-square-foot store. At this point, there are two other retail spaces open in the development's plan, a 12,000-square-foot space and a 6,880-square-foot space.
McGinley said he has had conversations with several potential tenants for the other two spaces. He would not divulge the potential tenants' identities. "I will say I have had discussions with the state Liquor Commission," he said. There is already a liquor store on Tenney Mountain Highway at the end of a small mall.
There are no construction dates yet established for stores at Riverside Landing, as the plans are still preliminary, McGinley said.
Baldwin later said he is one of many in town against the development, in part because it is so near the Baker River, an "environmentally sensitive" part of town, he said. He and others sponsored warrant articles at town elections this year that might have slowed or stopped the development, but residents voted the articles down.
"I also don't think there's enough business here for two supermarkets there. There's already a Hannaford across the street," he said. "And I don't think we should be moving forward by taking business away from stores down the highway in Tilton."
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This is Picasso's major Cubist print in an exceptionally brilliant and well-contrasted impression. With large margins of at least 3 ¾ inches on each side, and with a deckle edge above and slight trimming elsewhere. Picasso's dealer Daniel Henry Kahnweiler published this work in 1912 in an edition of 100 plus a few artists' proofs, which is why this drypoint often is dated 1912, the year of its publication. Baer dates the execution of this work as either August 1911 (in Ceret) or autumn, 1911 (in Paris).


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NEWPORT — A 5-run sixth inning was what it took to put the game out of reach for the Mustangs, as the Newport Buffaloes took the nonleague victory on Tuesday, 10-4.
The Lady Mustangs are 0-2 (0-1 HAC-I).
Adrianne Gesselman recorded just one strikeout and one walk for Midd-West (0-2) as Newport collected 15 hits, including a two-run home run by Megan Reeser in the sixth.
Newport's Tessa Campbell struck out 10.