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WASHINGTON — One day during training camp, Washington Wizards owner Ted Leonsis was shooting standing-still jump shots with face-of-the-franchise John Wall. Leonsis used the moment to educate the point guard about Sam Jones, the Hall of Fame guard who could make a bank shot from just about anywhere on the court.
"I was just spending a little bit of time with John," Leonsis said after leaving the court. "And his body's changed. He's thicker and bigger. His voice is deeper. He's becoming a man.
"And then you realize he should be in college. He'd be a senior."
Wall has indeed grown up a bit, having turned 22 last month as he begins his third season in the NBA. He figured this would be the year that would substantially define his career, the year he would show that he was fully worthy of being the No. 1 overall pick by the Wizards in 2010.
It still might happen, but the launch has been postponed.
Wall can only shoot stationary jumpers because he's hurt, expected to miss the first month of the season after being diagnosed with the early stages of a stress injury to his left knee cap.
That should be all the heartbreak available to the Wizards, who have missed the playoffs in pitiable fashion for four straight years. They've finished more than 25 games under .500 each time during the drought, including the lockout-shortened season of 2011-12.
But there's more. Their second-best player, Nene, has been idle as he deals with plantar fasciitis in his left foot. There's no certainty he'll be ready in time for the regular season opener against Cleveland on Oct. 30. Nene played only 11 games with the team after he was acquired in a trade late last season, but that was more than enough for coaches and teammates to be wowed by his skills and leadership.
As if that weren't enough, preseason has consisted of one mishap after another, from Kevin Seraphin's strained right calf to Trevor Booker's nagging left hamstring to Emeka Okafor's bout with food poisoning. Those aren't long-term injuries, but they've wrecked any plans coach Randy Wittman had for establishing some sort of lineup continuity leading up to the games that count.
Wittman is in his first full season as Washington's coach, having taken over from Flip Saunders in January, and he's done more than his share of sighing and head-shaking as he's answered questions about the health of his players. From the Department of Silver Linings, he came up with this explanation on how the adversity will help the team in the long run.
"You anticipate that when everybody gets back healthy, that the guys here that have gotten more playing time than they probably would are going to be better prepared to be playing," Wittman said. "You hope when we're all healthy that we're a better team because of this happening."
Still, it's a stretch to expect the Wizards to end their lottery run this season. Not that such a turnaround isn't possible, but it would require the team's top players to perform up to their draft expectations. The team has no fewer than six players who were taken in the top seven overall: Wall, Jan Vesely, Bradley Beal, Martell Webster, Okafor and Nene.
Wall is correct when he says it's time to elevate his game. He's been a productive, exciting player over two seasons, but not yet worth No. 1 overall value. Vesely, taken No. 6 by the Wizards in 2011, will be a role player until he can prove he can make something other than a dunk. Beal, selection No. 3 by Washington this year, is just 19 and will need time to adjust to the NBA.
Leonsis, who directed team president Ernie Grunfeld to rebuild the team through the draft, is pinning much of his hopes on those three players.
"We had three years with a lot of picks, high picks," Leonsis said. "And we're hoping to see those picks grow before our eyes."
Okafor (No. 2 overall in 2004) and Webster (No. 6 in 2005) were offseason additions, both having played for two other teams before landing in Washington. They have helped complete a stunningly quick makeover of the roster: The longest tenured player is now Cartier Martin, who was on the court for eight games for the Wizards at the end of the 2009-10 season.
As he and Grunfeld dismantled the rest of the pieces from the circus-like days of the Gilbert Arenas era, Leonsis repeatedly said that the Wizards had to get really bad before they could get really good. This year he thought they would start to be good, having said on draft day that another appearance in the lottery would be "unacceptable."
Now he's backed off, saying only that "the second- or third-worst record in the NBA" would be unacceptable. Nevertheless, he likes where the team is headed.
"We're in a much better position. We will get better because our young players have now been seasoned," Leonsis said. "There are a lot of players here that really want to do what's necessary to win. I find that refreshing. I don't hear a lot about, 'Me, my contract, my free agent year.' I hear, 'What can we do to contribute? What's expected of me? What will be the definitions of success for the team?' That to me is a big cultural step that we've taken."
"Why not try to make the playoffs?" the owner added. "Just a couple games over .500 seems to get you there, and that's how the guys are looking at it. So who am I to argue to with the players and the coaches? They feel upbeat, so that's why I feel upbeat."


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By Amy Kent Herald Staff Writer
The Clinton Herald
---- — CLINTON Big news hit the Gateway area Tuesday regarding the Thomson, Ill., Correctional Center, but local government and city leaders aren't banking on it just yet.
After Congressional negotiators announced that a massive spending bill would include funding to activate the Thomson prison as a federal facility, the news received mixed reviews from local officials.
"It'll mean a lot to us from a morale standpoint and there will be a big sigh of relief," Village of Thomson President Vicky Trager said. "But I don't know when they'll get around to it."
Although money has been set aside to fund the prison's opening, the spending bill still needs to pass through both the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate and gain approval from President Obama before being signed into the federal budget.
"I think right now a lot of businesses and developers are a little gun shy until they see that money is actually allocated," Clinton Mayor Mark Vulich said. "I'll be more excited when I see the president has actually signed the bill."
If the bill is passed, the prison won't be fully operational until after renovations that are expected to cost $25 million and take two years are complete.
In addition to the $25 million renovation costs, another $170 million will be needed for equipment and staffing the prison, which brings up concern of how much money is being set aside in the spending bill.
"What's not revealed in there is how much money they are talking about," Clinton Regional Development Corp. President and CEO Mike Kirchhoff said.
According to a press release from U.S. Senator Dick Durbin and U.S. Rep. Cheri Bustos, the bill does not detail how the money will be spent, but both feel confident that funding for the facility's activation remains a top priority for the Obama Administration.
There is still speculation as to whether the bill will pass, but the possibility has some local officials feeling positive that at least the conversation is moving forward.
"There are a number of developments that have been pending activity of the prison," Fulton Mayor Larry Russell said. "So this progress is good news for the real-estate turnaround, those developments and, of course, our schools."
If the massive spending bill is passed, it could mean major economic gain for Thomson and surrounding municipalities like Fulton and Clinton, which have relied heavily on its pending activation since 2001, when the prison was built.
Lack of funding opportunities however, have delayed that process time and time again, and it wasn't until the federal government purchased the facility from the state of Illinois in 2012 that city officials began to feel confidence once more.
But since that purchase, little has been done to activate the prison, causing speculation to again surface.
"It's about every 12 to 18 months that they have a little blurb about activating the prison," Vulich said. "But this is the first positive comment that we have seen money being talked about so at least it's in some bill that's going to be voted on."
Despite that speculation, city leaders are feeling "cautiously optimistic" and are holding onto hope that this time around the spending bill will be approved, and the Thomson prison will finally be activated.
"When and if that happens, we hope sooner rather than later, the village will immediately see more activity." Trager said. "I'm happy, I'm encouraged and I continue to be positive. That's really all we can do at this point."


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By Jennie Wong
The Charlotte Observer (MCT)
One of the best things about owning your own business is the ability to work from home. Some would add that it's also one of the worst things about owning your own business. Love it or hate it, working from home has become more and more common as technology improves, making the idea of going into an office seem almost quaint.
So whether you're doing a startup in your garage, launching a business out of the extra bedroom or simply telecommuting to your Fortune 500 job, here are some tips to ensure you succeed.
-Start strong: Start your workday with a repeatable routine that puts you in "business mode." Make a commitment to be at your desk by a certain time and hold yourself accountable for completing all necessary preparations by that time, including getting dressed and grabbing your coffee and breakfast. One home-based entrepreneur I know swears by putting on shoes as the signal that he's ready to tackle the day.
-Stay on task: It may be helpful to have a weekly meeting or check-in with a fellow entrepreneur to plan your goals and actions, as well as to celebrate your completed tasks from the previous week. There's nothing like having a deadline to help maintain focus, especially when you're doing something out of your comfort zone. I also recommend writing down your key goals each week and placing the list within easy view of your desk.
-Avoid distractions: When you work in an office, you have the temptation of the vending machine. When you work from home, you have the temptation of your entire refrigerator, freezer, pantry and the unwashed dishes from last night. Don't give in. Your working time is serious business, and it needs to take priority over a dusty bookshelf or an uneaten lasagna.
One easy trick for avoiding distractions is to check your sightlines. When you are seated at your desk, what objects are in your field of vision? Some people like to set up against a blank wall to cut down on visual noise, while others like to hang up soothing nature scenes or inspirational quotes. If you have distractions in your sightline, the solution may be as simple as putting up a folding screen or changing the orientation of your computer and chair.
-Take breaks: Interestingly, one of the best ways you can manage distractions is to take regular breaks. Give yourself permission to take a "coffee break" mid-morning and you'll actually find it easier to hold off on switching that load of laundry until breaktime rolls around. Taking a couple of breaks each day is also good for the body, so make sure you get up, walk around and do a few stretches to counteract the hours of sitting and computer work.
-Get out of the house: When you really need to put your head down and crank, consider getting out of the house. A local coffee shop may be the perfect place to plow through a thick report or bang out a first draft. There are also co-working spaces popping up in many cities where you can simply show up with your laptop, plug in and get to work.
If your calendar isn't regularly peppered with meetings, find a local small-business group or professional association for both the camaraderie and the networking. Check Meetup.com or local newspapers and business publications to find such events, and take advantage of the chance to meet similarly situated folks.
-Turn it off: Finally, don't forget to shut it off at the end of the day. Owning your own business and working from home can feel like an "always-on" proposition. Consider an end-of-day routine that does the reverse of your morning drill, something that puts you into relaxation mode. This might be as simple as changing your shirt or shutting down your monitors. Busy times may call for pulling some long hours, but we all need time to rest, renew and relate to people outside of our professional identities. Your friends and family just might insist on it.
Jennie Wong is an executive coach, author of the e-book "Ask the Mompreneur" and the founder of the social shopping website CartCentric.com. Email her at TheJennieWonggmail.com.


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Professor Arnold M. Eisen, Chancellor of The Jewish Theological Seminary, will keynote the annual Waxman Memorial Lecture at 8:15 p.m. on October 24 at Temple Israel of Great Neck, 108 Old Mill Road, Great Neck.
Chancellor Eisen will discuss "Community, Mitzvah and the Future of Conservative Judaism." The Waxman Memorial Lecture is in memory of Rabbi Mordecai Waxman, who served as religious leader of Temple Israel for more than fifty years. A leading figure in the Conservative Movement, Rabbi Waxman was editor of Tradition and Change (1958), the definitive anthology of writings on the views and philosophy of Conservative Judaism.
Arnold M. Eisen is the seventh chancellor of JTS. One of the world's foremost experts on American Judaism, Chancellor Eisen has worked closely for the past twenty years with synagogue and federation leadership around the country to analyze and address the issues of Jewish identity, the revitalization of Jewish tradition, and the redefinition of the American Jewish community.
A product of the Conservative Movement, Chancellor Eisen has regularly served as a faculty member of the Wexner Heritage Program, the Wexner Fellowship, and the Nahum Goldmann Fellowship of the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. He has served, and is now serving again, as a member of the Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency and has long been known as a passionate advocate of strengthening the connection between American Jews and Israel.
Chancellor Eisen's publications include a personal essay, Taking Hold of Torah: Jewish Commitment and Community in America (1997); a historical work entitled Rethinking Modern Judaism: Ritual, Commandment, Community (1998); and The Jew Within: Self, Family and Community in America (2000), co-authored with sociologist Steven M. Cohen. He is currently at work on a book that probes new possibilities for the meaning of Zionism.
Chancellor Eisen received a PhD in the History of Jewish Thought from Hebrew University; a BPhil in the Sociology of Religion at Oxford University; and a BA in Religious Thought from the University of Pennsylvania. Before assuming his role as chancellor, he was the Koshland Professor of Jewish Culture and Religion at Stanford University. He previously served as senior lecturer in the Department of Jewish Philosophy at Tel Aviv University, and assistant professor in the Department of Religion at Columbia University.
Seating is limited and reservations are requested. For more information and to RSVP, please contact the Temple Israel of Great Neck office at (516) 482-7800.
Editors/Reporters: To cover the event or schedule an interview with Chancellor Eisen please contact Sherry S. Kirschenbaum in the Department of Communications at (212) 678-8953.
Founded in 1886 as a rabbinical school, The Jewish Theological Seminary today is the academic and spiritual center of Conservative Judaism worldwide, encompassing a world-class library and five schools. JTS trains tomorrow's religious, educational, academic and lay leaders for the Jewish community and beyond.


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Wish you a very Happy New Year 2071.
On Tuesday April 15th, we learnt that a tragic accident in North Seattle took a 17 year old Nepali girl, Sandhya, away from us. She had come to the United States just a little less than a year ago after being separated from her father, Sahadev Khadka, for many many years. She was the only child of her parents. Her mom is still in Nepal with her grand parents.
She was one of the brightest students at North Seattle Community college and was close to finishing her Associate Degree in such a short time and was looking to go to one of the best colleges. She was beautiful, loving, caring and was liked by everyone who had ever interacted with. She had big dreams and wanted to accomplish lot in life. But, god had different plans for her and took her to a better place.
May her soul rest in peace. Our heartfelt condolences to the her family, may god give them the strength needed to cope with situation like this. It is time like this when our community needs to come together help each other. Please convey your condolences to the family. Nepal Seattle Society will do everything we can to help the family.
There is a vigil planned on Thrusday, April 17th, evening please attend if you can.
Please donate as much as you can, every penny counts.
The Filipino community put together an exceptional show consisting of opera and musical theatre performances by Seattle Opera, as well as performances by other artists including dancing, juggling, burlesque, and a drag show. The Filipino community was very delighted to have us - this was a great way to start friendship between Nepali and Filipino communities in Seattle.
Thank you everyone for your contribution.


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Cheap rent: A thing of the past
Surfed Craigslist for an apartment lately? Then you don't need us to tell you that rent in San Francisco is too damn high. But what are the broader implications of this becoming a city where median asking rent is above $3,000?
Here's an example. Today, District 11 Sup. John Avalos shared a story with the Guardian about his arrival to San Francisco in 1989. He had $1,000 to his name, enough to cover rent and a security deposit. He landed a job that paid just $8 an hour, but that was no big deal, since he split the rent for his $675-per-month, two-bedroom apartment in the Haight with a friend.
Translate those 1989 figures to 2013 dollars, and the dramatic rent increases the city has experienced really come into focus. With inflation factored in, that same two-bedroom apartment would cost $1,253 per month today. Noticed any Craigslist ads for two-bedroom apartments in the Haight going for $1,253 lately? (If so, be careful. It's probably a scam.) Rents for such units hover closer to $4,000 these days.
Avalos joined his colleagues on the Board of Supervisors in highlighting issues of affordability at Tuesday's meeting. "San Francisco needs to do something specifically to measure how people, particularly those on the bottom rung, are getting by in San Francisco," he commented just prior to the vote for board presidency.
District 9 Sup. David Campos echoed this sentiment. "I want a city that works, but I want a city that works for everyone," Campos said. "We have to work collectively to make sure that happens ... We have great wealth in the city, but many people are being pushed out."
I care about the tens of millions of people in the United States who exist without adequate access to health care.
It's not about who you care about. It's about factual sloppiness.
Why shouldn't poor people get free health care?
Bombs Not Bandaids.
arab terrorists than from the great unwashed at home.
you've made a passable argument for the increase in the minimum wage, have you not?
The effective withholding rate for Social Security was 15% since the early Eighties because every dollar of tax on the wage earners' labor transaction must be matched by the employer.
(Incidentally, the matching payments are sometimes portrayed as employer "largesse," but though at time of Social Security's first implemention the requirement for the employer to match payments amounted to a government-mandated raise for all workers, over time it has become a meaningless distinction: a tax on the wage earner's labor transaction is a tax on the worker. Employers can evade the tax by replacing workers with machines, but workers cannot evade the tax.)
The withholding rate was reduced to it's pre-1983 rate of 12% to cope with the economic downturn which coincided with 8 years of Republican economic policies.
Anyhow, the main step which needs to be taken to ensure Social Security's full liquidity is to eliminate the $110,100 cap on taxable income.
As for Medicare, I'm no expert, but I have a hunch that the biggest problem with Medicare is the rapacious for-profit health system which precedes it, and that works in a number of ways to feed the most gravely sick patients into it.
1) There is no cap for the employer contribution anyway
2) SSI is not welfare - it's an insurance contract. That means that the workers isn't paying a tax (even tho it gets called a payrolltax). The worker is paying a premium to buy insurance against getting disabled and not be able to work. And against the risk of retiring with no pension.
Contributions are capped because benefits are capped. And nobody is suggesting uncapping benefits because high earners should not be paid million dollar a year pensions from the public purse.
Then why do you keep referring to it as an entitlement?
The term "entitlement", as in "entitlement spending" or "entitlement program" is generally held to be any welfare benefit that is partly or wholely unrelated to contributions made.
With SS, there is a relationship between contributions and entitlement to benefits but it is not linear like, say, an IRA or 401K pension is. Rather your pension depends partly on your contributions but partly on other factors which are unearned.
Ditto for MediCare.
While MediCaid is 100% entitlement programs/
What all three have in common, however, is that there is no fund that under-writes them - they are "pay as you go" (AKA Ponzi.
And all three face stunning deficits in the future as our demographics change, and so they need to be addresses. Almost all politicians agree the current "promised" benefits cannot be sustained.
They never liked the program and this is their latest ploy to destroy it.
The problem is that they are stuck hinting around what needs to be done to achieve their goal.
The hints seems so justified, so reasonable, the way they are delivered; but the reality isn't justifiable or reasonable in the least.
They will have us dis-credit U.S. Treasury Notes. (Not all of em! -- just some!)
What would it mean? A one-for-ten devaluation only affecting one specific holder of T-bills? Why pick on Social Security?
The 'pugs keep on hinting because the truth of their intent is insupportable.
backing up the liabilities. It is merely a government promise predicated on their hope that they can extract enough tax from enough people in the future to prevent the nation going bankrupt from paying impossibly generous benefits to anyone who happens to have had a job.
Nobody is seriously denying that the scheme has massive funding issues - they just quibble over how to fix that.
and we can continue by looking at spendthrift military and intelligence practices...
and after we address corporate tax giveaways and loopholes...
then we'll find it isn't necessary to follow the repugnicans' plan to reneg on the full faith and credit of the United States of America.
Which just leaves you, unshowered, unshaven, wearing shabby clothes, in your rent controlled hovel, hating on tomorrow when you're back to your minimum wage job at Losers Inc.
The two key things to remember about lilli is:
1) He wants a steadily expanding stream of government benefits directed at him.
2) He doesn't want to pay for any of it. You can pay for it.
are often the most wealthy. They go on to live many years collecting the benefit of Social Security.
And your claim about their being no cap on employer side of contributions is the sort of bold nonsense which in seemingly inexaustable supply here.
I agree that those who live long get more out of SS but to suggest that that is a deliberate policyd esigned to stiff the poor is disingenuous. Lifespan is a total lottery and many poor folks live to be 100.
To the other, what would you know about employing others?
... though it must seem important enough to you for you to go to the trouble of making up (an obvious) lie about it.
All I did is refute it.
There is clear statistical evidence that the rich live longer.
Go give your money away to the poor if your heart bleeds that much.
I pay my taxes and I don't whine about it.
pay more into Social Security than a poor person because they earn more, and so are reasonably entitled to take more from it.
If FDR had intended everyone to get the same benefit regardless of contributions, then he would presumably have designed it differently, as a universal benefit paid from taxation, rather than as an insurance benefit funded by the individual payment of premia.
I don't think the it was foreseen that the rich would get higher monthly payouts *and* receive those payouts for more months.
Well you're obviously OK with pricing out San Francisco's public school teachers which doesn't bode well for the future generation of San Franciscans, now does it? Nice that you automatically assume that anyone who can't afford well over $1,000 a month just for a ROOM, must be some homeless derelict that you don't want around. "Those we don't want around" seems to include public school teachers??!
cheap in any way, manner or form?
in the West Village and have a Sex and the City lifestyle while working as an intern. They sure get a rude shock.
Here's the clarion call my little artist/DJ/cupcake maker/writer friends - you need to consider moving out to the Excelsior, Outer Sunset, Oceanview, Portola, Sunnyside and Visitacion Valley and cede the neighborhoods which used to be affordable (like the Mission) to those who make more money. As a matter of fact you no longer have a choice - it's now a fact of life. Besides, I think "Excelsior Hipsters" has a much nicer ring to it than "Mission Hipsters."
You're so out of touch, you can't tell a real artist from a fake "hipster". Btw, I'm an artist, living very comfortably in a very nice rent-controlled apartment in the Mission.
It's no longer hip to be an artist in the Mission - Oakland is where it's at. You need to struggle - good art does not come from being "comfortable" and bourgeois.
...Guest isn't a good artist, just a financially successful one.
which most of us know by it's more common name: "bad art".
Art is a matter of taste. With your authoritarian, conformist personality, you would, of course, try to impose your tastes on others.
You don't like tattoos or lesbians with died hair either, we know.
people wouldn't pay millions for a Van Gogh but nothing for a scribble of mine.
There are objective measures for the worth of art.
That'll solve the problem!!!
Tim and Rebecca will be all for it.
Because every market fundamentalist knows that the best way to help tenants is to remove controls on landlords, just as the best way to help the poor is by concentrating wealth in the hands of the rich!
When landlords can charge whatever the hell they please, that's sure to drive down rents. That's why the landlord lobby wants to get rid of rent control -to lower rents so that they can make less money!!!
This is such insane tripe that it's hard to imagine anyone actually believes this... and yet they do.
Landlords can and some do charge whatever the rent market will bear and tenants offer to pay whatever the market will bear. The average length of tenancy in SF has historically been 5 years. It is probably less now due to the high rate of turnover in the speculative startups. Funny how the 70 hour work week is not sustainable.
Who'da thunk that a 5 day week of 8 hour days was a good idea?
you make a million in stock options after a couple of years.
Anyway, why do you care if people want to take a chance like that? How does that harm you?
The chances of cashing out in $1m in stock options is generously 1 in 100,000, somewhat better odds than the lottery. It is not the general case by any means and thus public policy should not be made as if it were.
What I'm seeing in my little corner of the Mission in the few remaining rentals on our block, all cleared of old timers by evictions, is a 9-18 month tenancy of fresh faced white kids moving in, living large and then spending an inordinate amount of time at home all day in their sweat pants and house coats, and then moving out, each time the rent rises. Now the rents next door are twice our mortgage for a railroad flat.
It may be dumb for people to chase unlikely odds, but why does it matter if they chosoe to anyway? It's simply not a public policy issue if people choose to work 70 hours a week in pursuit of a dream. In fact, many small business men and entreprenuers do that routinely. Hard work isn't a flaw we need the government to ban.
If the rental building near you are being cleared/Ellis'ed/TIC'ed, condo'ed or just re-rented, then my guess would be it is because the rents being paid on those untis are not economic for their owners.
Housing has to match the needs of the people who work here.
live here causing high housing prices; or is it real estate speculation?
How much is housing actually worth as "housing"?
Is it a gross fascination with "tulips" enabled and encouraged through tech boom (bust)?
If this is Willie Brown-style ethnic cleansing on steroids, then the future city will be bleak clown painting of its former self.
bubbly just once in the history of mankind, and in one small European nation, RE is has been in booms everywhere forever. In fact, the price of homes has remained fairly constant, long-term, compared with gold so housing is considered a relaible store of value even tho buildings do of course deteriorate. The land doesn't vanish, absent quakes and landslides.
In fact, looking at my property tax bill, more than half the assessed value is for the land and not the building, so trying merely to value a house is missing the bigger point.
SF is desirable for at least three reasons. It's booming, so sucks in well-iad workers. It's pretty, luring tourists, retirees, and those who have discretion over where they live. And, because it is liberal and tolerant (unless you're a white male conservative) it attracts misfits and oddballs, and they all want to live here as well.
It is that third category who are suffering. But they have the least power to change anything, except perhaps their location.
The Dutch wouldn't have allowed that "small nation" in a day when the Netherlands were contending as a world superpower.
Comparing the pricing stability of the *obviously* *unstable* commodity of housing against gold is droll.
Gold prices *used* to be rock stable when they were regulated by the government but have since become a perfect analog for housing in S.F.
Gold for the most part is not a *need*, but housing is a real need like food and health care.
I think most people think the housing market -- and medical care -- should be stable the way food is stable and the way banking is (supposed) to be stable.
In fact, I'd expect nearly all the people who don't think agree to either expect to get rich, etc., through real estate transactions; or are so fired up by internal demons that they freely serve as bootlicking cheerleaders for the above class.
Here's an interesting source of food prices:
in the private sector. So that's no argument for government control even tho it's a necessity.
Most medical provision is private, as is most transit, energy, utilities and other services deemed "essential". Just because something is important isn't a reason to let a bureaucrat run it - the exact opposite in fact, it's too important to give to a suit.
Oh, and governments cannot ultimately control gold - that's why investors love it. It cannot be printed, borrowed or faked like government spending.
Bubbles take care of themselves eventually, one way or the other. Governments cannot control them, evidently. Homes cost what they cost. Deal.
Food prices are indirectly controlled through agricultural subsidies and other means.
The VA is a *huge* public medical provider.
Having bureaucrats running things is *exactly* what you get when you hire a private corporation to provide health care,
The government used to control gold to within a penny of value -- as is manifestly obvious if you read the PDF page I cited.
Bubbles don't "take care" of *anything*. Bubbles pop and cause real hardship in the real world far out of proportion with the benefit they once provided.
Bubbles are a trouble which can be eradicated with proper planning and government action. That's what government controls are good for. That's *exactly* what government controls are good for. (I know you don't agree, though most people who read the SFBG would.)
and neither is a three-hour-each-way commute into the City or the immediate surrounding area because on your "salary" you can't afford to live anywhere closer than - not Sacramento, wait for it....Auburn. That may only be sustainable for, at most, 6 months.
so it doesn't surprise you that you don't get it. It hurts tenants in several ways:
1) The LL has no incentive to make repairs or improve the property
2) The LL has an incentive to find a way of evicting the TT, e.g. thru Ellis, Condo Conversion, OMI/RMI, TIC or merging/demolishing units
3) It leads to a confrontational relationship between LL and TT
4) It depresses turnover, decreasing the vacancy rate and therefore driving up rents at the margin
5) It deters new build, even tho in theory post-79 constriction is exempt. almost all new build is condo's.
RC doesn't help tenants. It rewards tenants who have squatted in a place for a long time at the expense of new arrivals. Just like Prop 13, except that I feel sure you feel that is completely different and undesirable
an earlier article that much, if not most, new residential construction in San Francisco is for rental units. Repeating the same falsehoods does not make them true.
I'll let Greg respond to the rest of your points, if he likes.
and there is little doubt that more rentals would be built but for rent control and NIMBY land use restrictions.
to be condos were switched to luxury rental. I provided numerous examples a couple of months ago. Too bad, you didn't process the information then.
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Looking for Milwaukee in New York's art fair season
NEW YORK—During the early days of March, the center of the art universe seems to be located on New York's far west side, between Piers 92 and 94. Hundreds of galleries, artists, curators and critics, and tens of thousands of collectors and viewers from all over the world converge for Armory Arts Week. In addition to the main Armory Show, satellite art fairs extend into neighborhoods, and museums and cultural institutions collaborate to achieve what amounts to a gigantic, week-long Gallery Night.
In order to navigate this vast network with any semblance of sanity, one needs a mission of sorts. What better guiding light than to search for signs of Milwaukee's influence on the contemporary art scene? This year, at least four noteworthy examples were easy to find.
Milwaukee artists were in raw venues like the Fountain Art Fair's unconventional exhibition space consisting of a rusty barge, a caboose and a formerly sunken tugboat, pieced together at pier 66 (see image, left). Milwaukee artists were in a huge empty warehouse in the West Village, where the Pulse Art Fair hosted 60 international and contemporary art exhibitors, and they were in the hallowed chambers of the Whitney Museum of American Art, too.
Crowds lined up around the block to see the Whitney Biennial, on view through May 30, the every-other-year exhibit that many consider to be the most important showcase for contemporary art in America. Proudly, we found two artists with Milwaukee ties included among the fifty-five artists showcased in the Biennial: Lesley Vance and Josh Brand.
Vance, who was born in Milwaukee and now lives in Los Angeles, paints luscious, soft, neo-cubist abstracts. In 2000, while she was still an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Wendy Cooper Gallery showed Vance's work in an exhibition called "Wendy's Wonderland." From that point on, Vance has continued to be celebrated as she emerged into a successful LA artist, written about in magazines such as Art in America and Artforum.
Vance's Biennial paintings (image, left) do not push the viewer to contemplate the more distasteful aspects of American life, they do not reference war or economic collapse, but this conspicuous absence of commentary speaks volumes about the contemporary anti-narrative. "Shhh," they seem to say, "I'm painting forms." The thick ribbons of paint, applied with pallet knives on a dark background over the course of one day, depict an abstraction of a photographed still life. The locus of broad strokes against the deep ground makes the central figures seem expressive and luminescent but not overly happy.
In an entirely different medium, another Wisconsin-born artist also made it into the biennial via bright colorful shapes on dark backgrounds. Now living in Brooklyn, Brand experiments with traditional photographic printmaking processes to create pictures of bright colored abstractions. Borrowing from the color field painters, Brand's photographs highlight form and color. He focuses on the fundamentals of the art making-process rather than on figural or narrative themes.
Lest one think they have begun to detect a pattern from these Wisconsin artists, be assured that the range of work being produced was as diverse as the city from which they hail.
Melissa Cooke's meticulously rendered self-portraits from her series "You Know Me Better Than I Know Myself" were on view at Pulse Art Fair (and are now up at Koplin Del Rio in Culver City, California, through April 10). Cooke's unselfconscious exploration of gender play, sexuality, persona and performance take her self-portrait series well beyond the notion of the static self. Extraordinary drafting skills earn Cooke a place in the "darn-she-can-draw" pantheon.
Cooke, who was born in Oconomowoc and lives in Madison, completed her master's degree in art at UW-Madison in 2008. Her work will be included in the Wisconsin Triennial at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, which opens on May 22 as well as a show of contemporary portraiture at the Museum of Wisconsin Art in West Bend, which opens on June 2.
The Fountain Art Fair, founded in 2006 by David Kesting and John Leo as an avant-garde alternative to the larger art fairs, allows smaller galleries and emerging artists greater access to the collectors and critics.
Milwaukee-born artist Nina Bednarski showed work at the Fountain Art Fair with the Leo Kesting Gallery. She creates mixed media works by painting with enamel on old factory or farm windows and sometimes adding a collaged under layering. The windows, lit from behind, have the feel of nostalgia and blur the line between the urban and the bucolic.
In one piece, black birds in silhouette gather on branches and wires on the surfaces of old farm house windows, creating imagery that deals with ideas of migration, location and time.
In another, Bednarski used an actual Milwaukee map as a layer (see image, left), paying homage to the city she knows as home.
Bednarski is a product of the Art Satellite program at the Milwaukee Art Museum, a year residency that she participated in as a high school student.
This was the first, major art fair (other than the more manageable Art Chicago) for both of us, and it was encouraging to find evidence of Milwaukee's unique provincial urbanism in the international art market.
We wished we had discovered more evidence of Milwaukee artists, in fact. Though we hunted for them, we found no Milwaukee artists in the Armory show itself. And we can't help but wonder what we may have missed in the overwhelming array of art we saw during Armory Arts Week.
Special note from Mary Louise: Rise Christesen and Karin Wolf volunteered to share their virgin experiences of the New York art fairs with the readers of Art City. Anyone who's been to these mammoth affairs will appreciate the epic adventure they went on to pull this piece together. I am particularly delighted to share their insights with you. This is, incidentally, the second non-Milwaukee dateline from an Art City contributor in recent weeks. The last was Pegi Christiansen's review of the "Rust Spot" show in LA. Rise is a sculptor and musician based in Madison, and Karin is the arts program administrator for the City of Madison.
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Thanks for this travelogue. I wish I could have gone with you!
I agree with Deb at the Portrait Society! So fun to read.
One thing: I wanted to see the image of how Bednarski used an actual
Milwaukee map as a layer, but wonder if the image you posted is the right
one. If so, where is the map?
Melissa Cooke, a friend of mine for twenty years, is an amazing and talented Wisconsin based artist on the verge of major international success. She plays with a wide array of mediums including drawing, photography, video and performance art. Check out her websites: http://www.melissacookeart.com/ and http://dressupwednesdays.com/.
The Milwaukee Map is under the pigeon's tail. The artist didn't have a detail image of that work, but if you zoom in to the pigeon on the bottom right you will see Milwaukee and Lake Michigan.
Great article, Karin and Rise!
I just got back from NY myself. The biennial was wonderful--and on Saturday I didn't have to wait in line to get in.
I too was struck by Lesley Vance's luscious paintings. They were a delightfully fresh take on the push-pull of abstraction and space. I found the dark boundaries to pull forward and the "still life" objects, rather than standing out against the dark ground, to become windows into a deeper space. Her brush/palette knife technique of applying paint was amazing.
My own personal favorite was titled "After the Dust, Second View (Beirut)" by Curtis Mann. It was a collage of photographic prints. Most of the surface and image on most of the prints had been bleached and torn away, leaving scattered bits of image, like the aftermath of an explosion.
Thank you so much for the write up, Rise and Karin! It was delightful to have you join us at Fountain and we are psyched to continue to carry the work of Nina Bednarski. She has been a wonderful addition to the gallery's stable of artists. We hope you will come to Miami this year and see the 5th incarnation of Fountain Miami!


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Maria Kelso, owner of Magnolia's Fudge, said she previously had a kiosk at the mall during holiday seasons, and she accepted the mall manager's invitation to open a store.
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Kelso, who is chairwoman of the Delaware County Republican Committee and chairwoman of the Davenport Town Planning Board, among other civic activities, said state Sen. James Seward, R-Milford, and Assemblyman Clifford Crouch, R-Guilford, are expected to attend today's opening.
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The restaurant is open from 5 to 9 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and from 3 to 7 p.m. on Sundays. The Horned Dorset is on state Route 8, less then 25 miles from Cooperstown. For more information, call (315) 855-7898. The restaurant will close Oct. 28 and re-open in May.
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Visitation for Robert "Bobby Dale" Genet, 60, of Clarksville, will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday, June 21, at Legacy Funeral Center, Jeffersonville, with cremation to follow. He died Monday, June 17, 2013, surrounded by his family.
He was born in New Albany, previously worked for 18 years at Kentucky Center for the Arts but most recently as a stage hand for Union 17 and was a member of the Knights of Columbus in Jeffersonville.
He is survived by his loving wife, Linda Kleiber Genet; a son, Nicholas Genet and his wife, Jennifer; a sister, Sherry Hack and her husband, Tony; his mother, Mildred Hall Genet; a sister-in-law, Sherry Genet; a brother-in-law, David Lindsay; and two grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his father, James Genet; a brother, Michael Genet; and a sister, Rebecca Lindsay.
Memorial contributions can be made to Hosparus of Southern Indiana. Envelopes will be available at the funeral home.
To leave a special message for the family, please visit www.legacyindiana.com.


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By Samantha Pidde
Herald Staff Writer
With phase one of the DeWitt annex project nearing completion, the Clinton County Board of Supervisors are working on plans for the second phase.
County Maintenance Director Corey Johnson on Wednesday informed the board that the project is running on schedule for its December deadline.
All interior walls are up, electrical conduit is in building and the doors are framed in.
He hopes to have sheet rock up by the end of next week and have the flooring company come in the week after Thanksgiving.
One issue that has occurred concerns a hole found in the heat exchanger in one of the roof-top units. Johnson and IIW Representative Mike Ruden explained to the board that the issue needs to be handled quickly. However, they also wanted to make sure the board considers how this could affect plans to replace mechanical units in phase two of the project. Ruden said they may not want to spend $1,800 repairing the unit to turn around and replace it. However they also had to make sure if they replaced it now, that it fit in with plans for the mechanical units.
"If we're going to spend your dollars wisely over the long run, we would want this thing designed so you're not throwing anything away," Ruben said.
Ruben recommended they spend $4,500 to have the unit evaluated and for a design to decide what to do. The board will vote Monday on a resolution to authorize Arnold & O'Sheridan Consulting Engineers to perform engineering services on the mechanical unit for phase one.
The board also discussed what projects need to go into phase two. The major issues include the roof, mechanical units, the northwest corner, the treasurer's office, a meeting room and a handicap ramp. The board also discussed space for the Information Technology department.
Supervisor Jill Davisson expressed feelings that the community needs a meeting hall.
County Treasurer Rhonda McIntyre wanted to make sure that her staff had a second way out of the building.
Johnson spoke about some work that needs to be done in the parking lot. He said they will need to dig up the lot, re-gravel and re-lay the black top.
"So the second phase is going to be the expensive phase, is what you're telling us," Davisson said.
Currently, the schedule for the project is to have phase one done and the Sheriff's Office in by the end of this year. Phase two is planned to be done by the end of 2013 and phase three will be done by the end of 2014. Phase three will include the zoning offices and the exterior facades.
Monday's meeting will be held at 9:15 a.m. at Lincolnway Villa Assisted Living, 320 E. Lincoln Way, Wheatland.
The board is trying to hold a meeting in another Clinton County community at least once every quarter to allow those in the county to attend.


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With all the superstars in the league defecting to the East, we seem to have forgotten that the Western Conference is still home to the leagues best teams. Everyone is busy debating which team will come out of the East, well look at the West! It's arguably more competitive, and holds the best teams in the league.
Now, I know the Celtics, Heat and Bulls are good teams, and I guess you can throw the Magic in there too, but look at the West. The Spurs are quietly the best team in the league. So much so, that people can't refer to the Spurs without saying they are quietly the best team in the league. The Mavericks are pretty good as well. If Dirk Nowitzki wasn't injured early in the year, they might have a better record than the Spurs. Even with their poor play when Dirk was out, they still have more wins than any team in the East. The Spurs and Mavericks may be the two top teams in the West, but the Lakers are still favored to reach the NBA Finals. Continue Reading


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RETURN TO DAEMON HALL by Andrew Nance, Coleman PolhemusKirkus Book ReviewsRead the Kirkus Review of RETURN TO DAEMON HALL Evil Roots. Despite the terrible events at Daemon Hall last year, horror writer Ian Tremblin is repeating his contest to discover and publish a talented young writer (Daemon Hall, 2007).- Kirkus Reviews
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Choosing the correct structure for your veterinary practice is an important decision with consequences reaching far into the
future. Selecting your practice structure is definitely not a "do it yourself" project. Substantial tax, legal and accounting
expertise is required. Veterinarians nevertheless need to stay active in the process to ensure the experts' narrow technical
proposals get folded into a coherent plan that reflects your needs and goals.
• It's Mostly About Tax. Tax considerations are the primary drivers in choosing a legal structure for a veterinary practice. The two key aspects are
taxation of income/profits and taxation upon the sale or transformation of the practice. Don't paint yourself into a corner
by choosing a business structure without establishing a succession or exit strategy. Exit strategies should focus not only
on your richly deserved retirement, but also on contingencies such as death or disability). Since the transformation of an
existing business structures in anticipation of a sale or the buy-in of a new partner usually triggers adverse tax consequences,
it is usually better to choose an initial structure with the necessary flexibility to handle new arrivals, departures and
divestitures at minimum fiscal cost.
Liability Shield. In some structures such as partnerships, the owners are personally liable on their individual assets for the debts of the
business. In others their personal assets generally are not at risk. Business structures, however, do not insulate veterinarians
from liability arising from malpractice claims. But the shield works for almost all other claims, which in our litigious society
are increasingly frequent. Unless you are an equine or food animal veterinarian, you generally have greater exposure to claims
from your client's "slipping and falling" in your hallway, than malpractice.
Flexibility and Formalities. Some structures allow more management flexibility and/or are less burdensome to administer than others. Veterinarians generally
tend to ignore formalities which is a serious mistake. Courts regularly have looked past the liability shield and held owners
personally liable when the owners have failed to observe the formalities separating their personal affairs from those of the
practice entity.
An Overview
The accompanying table compares the more common business structures from a liability, management and formality perspective
(in simplified form). Following is a brief and much simplified overview of the tax characteristics of each entity.
Upon the sale of the sole proprietorship practice's assets, the IRS will recapture all depreciation/amortization deductions
taken by the owner/seller thereof and tax such amount at the seller's ordinary income tax rates. In the unlikely event that
any gain remains on the assets (after adding back any depreciation/amortization to their respective "bases" ) they will be taxed at the lower 20% long term capital gains rate (assuming the relevant holding period is met).
The buyer receives a "step-up" (increase) in his basis in the assets proportional to the amount of (purchase price allocated
thereto) allowing him to re-depreciate/amortize them. Thus, asset sales usually are a better deal tax-wise for the buyer
than for the seller, and all other things being equal, buyers will prefer to purchase assets rather than stock (in a C corp).
2. Partnerships. Partnerships are "pass-through" or "flow-through" entities for tax purposes, meaning that each partner includes in his own
taxable income the profits (or losses) of the partnership, which are taxed as ordinary income at the partner's individual
rate (much like the owner of a sole proprietorship). Note that each partner's share of partnership income is taxable each
year, whether such share was distributed to the partner or retained in the partnership. If the latter, then the partner may
not have the cash to pay the tax.
A consequence of the pass-through principle is that the sale of partnership interests are treated for tax purposes similarly
to the sale of the underlying assets of the partnership (i.e., the assets are subject to depreciation recapture as in sole
3. Corporations. All corporations must file separate tax returns. • "S" Corporations. "S" corporations are corporations that elect to be taxed as a partnership. As "pass-through"
entities, profits will be taxed in the hands of the shareholders whether distributed or not. An advantage of S corporations
is that shareholders may take a portion of their profits as "S corporation profit," free of payroll or self-employment tax
(i.e., subject only to income tax). Profit corresponding to what the veterinarian shareholder would have earned as an employee
is subject to payroll taxes in addition to income tax. (Sole proprietorships on the other hand must pay self-employment tax
on all profits.) S corps are popular with veterinarians for this reason.
• "C" Corporations. "Plain vanilla" corporations (called "C" corporations to distinguish them from "S" corps)
are not "pass-through" entities and are subject to corporate income tax, usually at the 35% rate for veterinary practices. Distributed profits (dividends) are taxed as ordinary income in the hands of the shareholders. This "double taxation" discourages
the distribution of C corporation profits. On the plus side, C corp profits are not taxed until distributed, pension plan
contributions are not subject to the S corp limits, and employee-shareholders' health benefits are not taxed. Veterinarians
wishing to maximize their benefits will choose a C corp over an S corp.
If the holding period requirement has been met, the sale of C corporation stock is taxed at the favorable 20% long term capital
gains rate. The buyer does not receive a step-up in the basis of the underlying assets since he is buying the corporation
stock. (The buyer can under certain circumstances elect to treat the transaction as an asset sale for tax purposes (a.k.a.
a Section 338 election).)
4. Limited Liability Companies. Limited Liability Companies are very quite tax-wise. Single member LLCs can elect to be taxed either as a C corp or a sole
proprietorship. Multi-member LLCs can elect to be taxed either as a C Corp or a partnership. Unfortunately, not every state
allows veterinarians for form LLC (ie, California).
5. A Word Regarding Real Estate. If the practice owns its own real estate it's better placed in a separate entity held by the owner(s) or held individually
by the practices owner(s). This allows the owners to receive rent (which will be deductible from the practice's income). Moreover,
placing the real estate and the practice in the same legal entity frequently leads to problems because the buyer can't afford
to buy the real estate in addition to the practice.
***Choosing the correct business structure for your practice is important. Don't treat it lightly.


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A fire at about 11 p.m. Sunday damaged a liquor store and a massage parlor near the corner of Moorpark Street and Laurel Canyon Boulevard. No one was injured.
Brian Humphrey of the Los Angeles City Fire Department said it took 34 minutes for 55 firefighters to put out the blaze at 4407 N. Laurel Canyon Blvd.
That is the site of Laurel Park Liquors and the Oasis Thai Spa, where signs criticizing Los Angeles City Councilman Paul Krekorian and city officials are stored in the back.
Fire officials are investigating the fire, which at one point in the scanner reports was described as a "stubborn fire" as flames came through the roof. Arson investigators, who said the fire started in the attic above the spa, were searching through the 100-square-foot area on Monday.
The fire started in the massage parlor in the north part of the building, said Battalion Chief Randy Beaty. City News Service reported that Beaty said the flames were largely contained to the massage parlor, but the fire extended slightly into the liquor store next door.
A manager sweeping out the liquor store said the fire officials told him the store would have to remain closed during the investigation, but that the liquor store did not sustain much damage. Smoke poured into the shop through the ceiling from the neighboring spa, he said. The shop is expected to open again within a week.
Stay tuned to Patch for more information as it develops.
Local resident Rick McClure took photos of the incident that are shown in the gallery.


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Bowness sheep attack prompts National Park ranger to call for pet owners to take more control of their dogs
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A LAKE District National Park ranger is calling for better control of dogs following a 'savage' attack on two pregnant ewes at Bowness. The incident, reported last week, has prompted Steve Tatlock to call for pet owners to take more control of their canines when out and about in the countryside. "Police are asking for information and in turn we are appealing to dog owners to take special care of their pets near sheep," he said. "Most walkers are sensitive to the needs of wildlife when out with their dogs, but the thoughtless minority can and do cause havoc. "This is a very sensitive and important time. A dog chasing lambing sheep can cause them to abort and, in the worst cases, kill the ewe. "Farmers have reported some sickening cases over the years and ultimately they have a defence for shooting dogs in the protection of their animals. "This is obviously a last resort, but sometimes they have no other choice." The incident in Bowness occurred when dogs tore the ears off a pair of ewes and left their faces gashed. And Mr Tatlock said sheep are not the only animals at risk. "Lambing time coincides with ground nesting birds producing their offspring, which are also at great risk from attack," continued Mr Tatlock. "Species such as curlew, lapwing, snipe and grouse have nests disturbed by dogs and their chicks scattered. "And once away from the nest, their chances of survival plummet. We've seen a worrying decline in numbers and must do all we can to protect them." He explained that by law dogs must be controlled so that they do not scare or disturb livestock or wildlife. On open access land they have to be kept on short leads between March 1 and July 31. This extends to cover the whole year when dogs are near sheep. Anyone with information about the Bowness incident is asked to report it to Cumbria Police on 101 or anonymously through Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111. Advice on dog control can be found on www.countrysideaccess.gov.uk or www.thekennelclub.org.uk
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I think this method of removal is a bit harsh though, even for someone as outspoken as him.
3:01pm Thu 6 Feb 14
lakesailor says...
It's away-dayers who, generally, do these atrocious things and the only way to let them know it's not right is to have notices warning them their dogs may be legally shot.
I confronted a man and his family who were having great fun letting their terrier chase sheep in the meadow next to the Steam Boat Museum.
"He is only letting off steam." he said. When I pointed out the farmer was entitled to shoot his dog, their attitude changed.
Some people think a National Park is for their own selfish enjoyment.
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Madison residents, business leaders and government officials will discuss ways to help challenged neighborhoods.
Mayor Paul Soglin made the announcement, Thursday at the Meet and Eat in the Meadowood neighborhood, of the upcoming conference. The conference will be held on October 13th from 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Several community leaders joined the Mayor in his announcement inviting community members to attend.
"Place is real important, in terms of neighborhood, having places like this where folks can gather," said Mayor Paul Soglin.


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