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Judge Orders Two More Weeks Of Mental Evaluation For Amanda Bynes
July 26th, 2013 1:02pm EDT
Amanda Bynes attended a court hearing on Thursday to find out if she would be walking free or staying at a psychiatric hospital, where she's currently being evaluated for mental illness, for two more weeks.
Doctors suggested that the actress be detained for observation for a longer period of time after she exhibited signs of schizophrenia earlier this week, and they've asked the court to extend the 72-hour stay as mandated under the California Welfare and Institutions Code's 5150 section.
Amanda's lawyer argued that she should be set free, but the judge granted the request during a hearing at the psychiatric hospital where she's currently confined.
Amanda was detained by police following an incident where she set a woman's driveway on fire with a can of gasoline Monday evening. Afterward, eyewitnesses said she ended up with a pant leg on fire, which was extinguished quickly, and then she ran into a liquor store's 'employees only' area to wash off her dog, which she claims got burned. A store employee kicked her out and said the dog smelled like gasoline. Police then found her and committed her under the 5150 code instead of filing any charges against her.
According to TMZ.com, a hospital insider said that Amanda was fine for most of the day Wednesday, even seeming so when she was asked about setting the fire, although she would "shut down."
After about 10 hours her mental state reportedly changed dramatically, and started asking about the whereabouts of her dog.
Staff told her it was safe and being cared for by her parents, but she flipped out for an hour, saying things like, "They'll kill it, just like they tried to kill me."
Her parents will be in court on Friday to ask the judge to grant them control of her personal and financial affairs.
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ASTORE, Pakistan — The caravan pulled away, leaving behind 19 bullet-riddled bodies in a muddy ditch. Inside the three buses, those spared quietly wept.
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Arthur Benson opened Frontier Town in North Hudson on July 4, 1952, as a Wild West theme park filled with exciting cowboys, Indians, Cavalry charges, train robberies and rodeos.
For 46 years, it not only attracted thousands of visitors who got off the Adirondack Northway at Exit 29, but provided summer employment for many in the surrounding area.
Then, losing money in an era that saw fewer and fewer Western movies and books produced amid declining interest in the genre, it closed in 1998.
Nothing much has happened there since, except that most of its 267 acres are now owned by Essex County after forfeitures for unpaid back taxes, and may soon be offered for sale at the county's scheduled April 30, 2014, tax auction.
Its contents — costumes, stagecoaches, saddles and so on — were already sold in a 2004 auction down the road at Gokey's Auctions in North Hudson.
Frontier Town's last animals, two black bears named Dolly and Molly, went to a Florida wildlife sanctuary in 2004.
The entrance building is owned by George Moore of Keeseville, and those taxes are fully paid, but taxes have gone unpaid on sections owned by the previous operator, Panther Mountain Water Park, and a company, Sunrise Land Development of Westchester, that bought parcels in a 2007 tax sale.
The Town of North Hudson has asked the Essex County Board of Supervisors for the parcels that are due to be placed in the sale, but no decision has been made on whether to do that. The sections for the sale include the Frontier Town motel, restaurant and gas station.
Benson, who died in 1988, has been remembered fondly as a kind man who treated his employees well.
Doug Benson of Schroon is Arthur Benson's nephew and spent his childhood at Frontier Town.
"I grew up about a mile and a half north of Frontier Town, and starting at about age 6, I was at Frontier Town any day I wasn't in school. I would dress Western, in jeans, hat and boots, and try to blend in with the staff."


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BELLINGHAM A bomb threat at Walmart caused the store to be evacuated Saturday afternoon, Nov. 16, according to the Bellingham Police Department and witnesses at the store.
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Ashlea Cottages is a purpose-built 'Clachan' of 7 self -catering holiday cottages established in 1981 by the Houston Family. The present owners, Gail and Tom Houston have been involved in the business for 28 years and are committed to continuing to provide good quality, comfortable accommodation at a reasonable price and to the standard of the NITB rating of 4 star which the cottages have attained since they were built in 1981.
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BOISE, Idaho — Five inmates at the Idaho State Correctional Institution south of Boise are suing a handful of major beer and wine companies, contending that alcohol led to their crimes and that they should have been warned that the beverages can be addictive.
The Idaho Statesman reports Keith Allen Brown, Steven J. Thompson, Woodrow J. Grant, Cory A. Baugh and Jeremy J. Brown filed the lawsuit in Boise's U.S. District Court last month.
The inmates say Miller Brewing Company, Anheuser-Busch, E. and J. Gallo Winery and other alcohol companies should put warning labels on their products to inform consumers that they are habit forming and addictive, and they're asking for $1 billion in damages. They don't have an attorney, and the beer and wine companies have not responded to the lawsuit.
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The following incident report is based on Brookline Police Department reports for Sept 21 through 23. Look for weekday incident reports each Saturday, weekend reports each Monday, and arrest logs each Tuesday on Brookline Patch. Suspects are innocent until proven guilty.
Breaking and Entering, Theft and Larceny
- Police received a report of an attempted larceny at about 1:30 a.m. from 210 Harvard Street on Friday.
- At around 2:15 a.m., Transit Police responded to the --likely due to the large set of bolt cutters tucked down his pants, along with a pair of work gloves. Searching the area, MBTA police found copper wire cut into five-foot lengths nearby, and a witness--who saw something and said something--reported that they had seen the man cutting what appeared to be wire on the track bed.
- Attempted breaking-and-entering at 94 Griggs Road, Friday a little before 11:15 a.m.
- 341 St. Paul Street recorded a larceny report at about 4:30 p.m. on Friday.
- 400 Heath Street, about 6:45 p.m. Friday, theft reported.
- Before midnight on Friday, 73 Parkman Street reported a vehicle had been broken into and entered. The owner said that her window had been smashed, and a phone was missing.
- Police received a call about suspicious activity at the Commonwealth Avenue CVS location, about 1:30 p.m. When officers responded to the scene, they were told of two suspects, one of whom had left the store already, and Agane. Staff say the two attempted to return facial cleaners and toiletries without a receipt. During a pat frisk, police found eleven syringes, of which four were used. He was arrested and charged with shoplifting, and told police that he only knew the first name of the other subject.
- A man who had driven someone to Beacon Street told police that his wallet was missing after dropping him off. He told police that, before noting it gone at about 2:45 p.m. Saturday, he had left it in the center console. The suspect was described as a white man in his twenties or thirties, with black hair and beard, wearing a black hoodie, blue jeans, and dark sneakers, and he was carrying a tan back pack.
- A Vernon Street woman told police that her bag had been opened, and her wallet was missing when she looked at about 6:30 p.m. She had been in the Coolidge Corner area earlier in the day, and that two fraudulent charges were made to her card.
- At about 3 a.m. on Sunday, two Boston University students were walking home along Hamilton Road when two men stopped them and relieved them of their phones at gunpoint. Brookline Police say the suspects took a wallet and an iPhone from one and cash from the other, after showing a black semi-automatic weapon to them. The descriptions released on the Brookline police blog indicate there were two suspects. One described as a black male about 5'4" to 5'5" tall and about 16-years-old, wearing a white zippered swearshirt, blue jeans and a red baseball cap. The other is said to be a black man in his early 20s, about 5'8" to 5'9" tall, wearing a blue vertical-striped polo shirt with long sleeves, blue jeans and a dark blue baseball cap.
Editor's Note: Boston University and Brookline police say it is still too early to tell whether this incident is connected to the similar incident reported on Tuesday.
- Some time between 6 p.m. on Saturday and 6 a.m. on Sunday, a Plowgate Road man learned that someone had cut the cable lock off of his bike with bolt cutters and taken it in the overnight hours.
- 41 Alton Place, Sunday at about 11:30 a.m., larceny report taken.
- Some time between Friday and Sunday, a St. Paul Street woman reported past vandalism at around 1 p.m. on Sunday. The victim says she returned to find a broken window on the first floor of her house. No one saw anything suspicious in the area.
- Following a bike crash at the Sewall Avenue intersection with Longwood Avenue, papers were exchanged by those involved at about 5:30 p.m. Friday.
- Bike crash ended in hospital transport from Horace James Circle at about 11:15 a.m. on Sunday.
Animal Reports
- People in the Sumner Road/Buchminster Road area reported a tukey complaint about 7:30 p.m. on Friday evening.
- Police issued bylaw citations to two parties, one just after midnight on Saturday morning, at 33 Summit Avenue, and the other after 1 a.m. at 29 St. Mary's Street.
- Police were sent to a monastery on Warren Street at about 10 a.m. Saturday, where a man was reportedly inside, waving a flashlight threateningly, yelling and demanding his money--according to a witness. When police tried to speak with him, he refused to put his flashlight down, and started walking toward one of the two officers. Perceiving the approach as aggressive, the officer struck the man in the hand with his baton, knocking the flashlight to the ground. Police then took control of him and walked him out of the monastery. Officers learned he had been at the church earlier in the week and donated some money, a large gift which was initially turned down, but ultimately accepted by the church. He was arrested and charged with home invasion, armed robbery, three counts of assault with a dangerous weapon (the flashlight), and was transported to Beth Israel hospital for treatment to his hand.
- An Amoy Street man reported that someone broke the rear window of his car at about 10 p.m. on Saturday night. He was in his car at the time, turning onto the street when he heard a loud bang from the back of the car. He did not see anyone before or after the break.
- Police arrested a man, charged with assault-and-battery, from 32 Centre Street at about 10 p.m. on Sunday. The suspect was described as a 6' tall blonde white man with brown eyes, wearing a short-sleeved shirt and navy basketball shorts.
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Among Pulpo's many career trimuphs on the salsa circuit, he's served as musical director for FANIA all-star vocalist Hector Lavoe for 16 years. He's also played with the 'Big 3' bands in that form of music: the Tito Puente Orchestra, the Tito Rodriguez Orchestra, and the Machito Orchestra. He continues to play and tour with the Big 3 Palladium Orchestra.
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Edwards leverages his positive energy, attention to detail, and eye for the big picture as an industry leader in healthcare and mission critical project management and engineering. He is a family man who expands his knowledge well beyond his engineering trade, and he lives as a steward in a world of creation and providence, which serves as the foundation of all his intentions and motivations. He is an expert in healthcare facility design and has a long-standing client relationship with the Baylor Health Care System. Edwards' mission critical project experience began right out of college, when he worked with the lead engineer to create a design for a facility that tests nuclear weapons through supercomputers. Among his subsequent mission critical projects, he designed the HVAC system for a nuclear warhead research center that obtained U.S. Green Building Council LEED Silver certification. Edwards was also the lead mechanical engineer for the first LEED accredited hospital in the area, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Flower Mound, built down the street from his house. When he isn't putting in extra hours at the office, Edwards enjoys hunting, fishing, conversation and wine with his wife, and reading and singing with their children. Good food is a staple of Edwards' life, from enjoying ethnic restaurants with the family to entertaining friends with seafood boils and smoked meats.
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Archive for September 2008
The Universal Socialisation of Banking Risk
In a move which instantly multiplies the moral hazards and inefficiencies associated with our banking system, the Irish government has guaranteed the deposits and borrowings, estimated at around €500 billion, in Irish banks. The cover has an expiry date two years from now, but the probability of Ireland making a swift recovery from this crisis is now significantly lower.
The critical function of banks is to allocate capital according to where it can be used most productively, as expressed through the interest rates which people are willing to pay and the likelihood of these people to repay their loans. Banks should balance their desire to earn interest from making loans with the need to ensure that they have sufficient reserves to meet the current demands of their depositors and indeed pay interest to their depositors. These functions are hampered by interference with the interest rate and the enforcement of a government monopoly on the supply of money through the mechanisms of central banking. Yet so long as private, competitive banks exist within the structure imposed by the central bank, there can still be some degree of economic calculation performed by these banks.
Now that all private bank risk has been socialised by the explicit guarantee of bailouts, the need for banks and bank customers to calculate these risks accurately has just been thrown away. All mistakes will be paid for by the government. The implications for the efficient allocation of Ireland's productive resources are simply awful.
If indeed we witness bank failures which require the Irish government to start coming up with some of this €500 billion, it could mean the bankruptcy of the State. We could be facing higher taxes for many years to come or, if the ECB is kind enough to print enough money to bail out the Eurozone financial sector, a hyperinflationary depression.
Truly, this cure is worse than the disease.
The Unnatural Highs of Government "Stimulus"
The Construction Industry Federation is looking for the government to "re-stimulate" the property sector. Less kindly, it seems like they want the corpse of Irish house prices to be propped back up.
The Government should help first-time buyers to purchase the estimated 40,000 houses lying unsold in the country, it was claimed today…
CIF urged the Government to take an equity share in first-time buyers' homes to boost affordability.
The low level of deal activity at the moment is explained by the currently high spread between what developers are asking for and what potential buyers are willing to bid. Considering the extent to which house prices have already fallen (CIF estimates roughly 25-30%) and the rapidly deteriorating state of credit markets, it seems clear that bids aren't going to be increased any time soon.
This means that without government aid, builders are going to be forced to offer lower and lower asking prices in order to move their stock. But if you agree that house prices were artificially inflated during the credit boom, this seems like an utterly appropriate development. Lower prices mean a return to normalcy and the chance for a more balanced and sustainable economy. Far from being a disaster, it is the real "correction" which puts the economy back on the right track.
Not that it won't be painful for some – many people are going to have to adjust their lifestyles. What it does mean for homebuyers, though, it that houses are going to become affordable again. Without the money funnelled by the stimulants of artificially low interest rates and irresponsible banking practices into the housing markets, homebuyers won't need to take on mountains of debt just to get a foot on the property ladder.
Just as the unusually large amounts of credit provided to homebuyers during the boom forced them to bid up house prices and stimulate too much construction, government "aid" to homebuyers now will simply permit builders to keep house prices at artificially elevated levels and delay the rebalancing of our economy. Far from helping homebuyers, it will slow down the onset of genuine affordability and at the expense of the ordinary taxpayer.
Price-fixing is the very last thing the government should be doing at a time like this. The sooner we recover from the boom, the better. This means that house prices should be allowed to fall by as much as is necessary.
US Rank-and-File Politicians Bow to Public Pressure
…lawmakers on both sides pointed to an outpouring of opposition from deeply hostile constituents just five weeks before every seat in the House was up for election as a fundamental reason that the measure was defeated. House members in potentially tough races and those seeking Senate seats fled from the plan in droves.
So it appears that constituents have, at least temporarily, succeeded in protecting themselves from a comprehensive bailout of financial elites. With an election around the corner, any incumbent who gave a blank cheque to Hank Paulson for the nationalisation of Wall Street's problems should have feared being unceremoniously dumped out of office.
And reluctant though I am to stray into party politics, it is noteworthy that only one-third of voting Republicans supported the plan. In contrast, over 60 percent of Democrats attempted to pass what would have been one of the greatest acts of corporate welfare in world history.
Where to from here? We can now be slightly more optimistic about the US economy recovering from its problems without imposing on itself something far worse than the business cycle. Only slightly though. This bailout was a particularly offensive intervention, but of course its failure does not mean that the general trend to interventionism will be reversed. The final phases of the business cycle will now be reached sooner, and it's hard to predict what could happen in that revolutionary atmosphere.
While we're on the subject of democracy, it's clear that the two major parties require extraordinary encouragement from voters to resist intervening. As you could easily predict, both presidential nominees supported this massively unpopular plan.
FDIC Dodges WaMu's Bullet
Washington Mutual, with $307 billion in assets, is by far the biggest bank failure in history, eclipsing the 1984 failure of Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust in Chicago, an event that presaged the savings and loan crisis. IndyMac, which was seized by regulators in July, was one-tenth the size of WaMu.
The one bright spot for US taxpayers is the buyout by JPMorgan, which saves them from insuring WaMu's accounts through the FDIC. Ironically, the FDIC, what was supposed to be the US deposit insurer of last resort, will probably itself need a bailout in the near future. According to a research firm quoted by Bloomberg, the $45 billion fund will need about $200 billion to cover the 100 banks which are estimated to fail from now through 2009. A WaMu bailout alone would have cost $30 billion.
Of course, the activities of the FDIC will seem positively quaint if the $700bn Paulson bailout is passed.
The Fragility of Modern Banking
A major bank in Hong Kong has successfully managed to survive a run, but the article in today's International Herald Tribune recalls how another bank was not so lucky, back in 1991:
A long line at a bus stop then in front of a branch of the troubled Bank of Credit & Commerce International was mistaken by passersby for a bank run. What followed was a frenzied effort by Hong Kong residents to pull their money out of the bank, which quickly collapsed and set off runs at other Hong Kong banks, which survived.
That's correct: a queue at a bus stop was enough to topple the bank and threaten the entire Hong Kong banking sector. People correctly understood that the failing bank did not have enough reserves to pay each depositor; their only mistake was in believing that other depositors had already begun to exit.
It is indeed a problem of collective action. If we trust other depositors not to move, then we don't need to move. If we don't trust them not to move, then we may be tempted to move, thus forcing them to move also.
It's a classic dilemma, but a perverse way to run a banking system. It means that nervous deposit holders must forever be on the lookout for unusually long queues at bus stops.
Short-Selling Ban Blamed for Bank Freefall
Hate to say I told you so, but read today's news:
Dublin's ISEQ index slumped 7.7% to stand at 3,6871 by 1pm – down 305 points. The banking shares were in freefall with their losses being blamed on the ban of 'short selling' of financial stocks, which was announced last week. Traders said the ban prevents speculators from balancing out investment risks and resulted in far fewer people willing to buy bank shares as a result.
US Takeovers Dwarf my Nationalisations: Chavez
Reported in the Gulf Times (via Max Keiser):
Socialist President Hugo Chavez has said the $900bn being spent by the US government to bail out failing financial companies dwarfed his bill for nationalising a big chunk of Venezuela's economy…
"They have criticised me, especially in the US, for nationalising a great (telecom) company, CANTV, that didn't even cost $1.5bn," Chavez said at a ceremony that included representatives of US oil company Chevron.
"The US has spent $900bn, four times what the Venezuela produces in a year, to try to boost the troubled finance system and housing market."
The Moral Hazard of Bank Deposit Guarantees
Fears of a banking meltdown have paved the way for the Irish government to increase bank deposit guarantees to a massive €100,000. But as Patricia A. McKoy (2006) wrote for the IMF, socialising deposit risk fosters even more irresponsible activity.
In the deposit insurance context, moral hazard manifests itself in two ways. First, explicit deposit insurance gives insured banks incentives to pursue added risks because they can capture any profits but shift any losses to the government. Second, explicit deposit insurance reduces incentives by depositors and shareholders to monitor their banks. As Professor William Lovett put it, "If governments and modern nations do not allow most banks to [fail], how can the leaders and managements of banking institutions be disciplined and avoid unduly risky, negligent, or adventurous lending policies (or simply poor asset-liability management)?"
What exactly is the problem?
In a world with no deposit insurance, a bank that is considering making a risky loan knows that it will have to pay depositors more for taking on the added risk. Either the bank will pay the risk premium or it will not make the loan. In a world with deposit insurance, however, insured depositors will not demand a risk premium because they know that the government will insure their deposits up to the legal limit, regardless whether the bank makes the loan. Thus, deposit insurance gives banks incentives to take added risks – either by increasing their leverage or investing in riskier assets — thereby increasing the government's exposure to losses. These incentives are especially strong for undercapitalized banks. Moral hazard will exist so long as the total expected profits from a bank's asset portfolio exceed the explicit costs of deposit insurance (premiums) plus its implicit costs (the costs of regulation).
McKoy goes on to explain some techniques by which the moral hazards associated with bank deposit guarantees can be limited. She notes that in certain circumstances these measures have probably played a strong role in preventing bank runs.
I wouldn't disagree with those points, but it's still the case that bank failures and similar disaster scenarios, far from being the cause of economic crisis, are usually best thought of as symptoms, effects, and parts of the cure; in other words, that bank catastrophes teach important lessons which should, in the long run, help prevent the type of destructive bubble behaviour which brings them about in the first place.
How Short-Selling Reduces Volatility
Bank shares in Dublin have shot up today after the Financial Regulator introduced a ban on shorting them. The obvious interpretation is that short-sellers are now unwinding their positions and that traditional investors believe it is safer to return to the market.
While this price action is easily explicable, in the medium and long term the ban is unlikely to help the banks. Why? Because short-selling actually reduces market volatility. Let me explain how.
Suppose shares in Bank A are trading at €10 each. Suppose I take a look at their loan book and figure that the share price would be much closer to zero if it was being valued properly. So, for a small fee, I borrow some Bank A shares and sell them. This puts marginal downward pressure on the stock. If enough people do it with me and we run down the price, it might even upset some of the bank's executives, long-term shareholders, employees and customers.
What happens next? I wait to see if my view of the correct share price (<€10) becomes more widespread. If this happens then I get to buy back shares at some reduced price, say €1 each, and then return them to the lender. I gain €9 per share minus the cost of borrowing the shares and transaction costs.
If the share price rises, however, then I get drowned and face an unlimited loss.
The key fact here is that when I eventually buy back the shares I put upward pressure on the stock price. Just as my original selling of the shares dragged it downwards, my later action pushed it upwards. My profit is proportional to the intertemporal mispricing which I help to correct, and the social function I provide is to supply shares when demand for them is high, and a buyer when demand for them is low.
It might help to consider what would have happened if I had not acted. There would have been fewer sellers when Bank A was at €10 so the price would stay higher for longer. Assuming that sentiment eventually does turn against the bank, then when it reaches €1 there is one fewer buyer to lift it back up, so it falls even harder. Without me, the swing is from €10 to €1 is actually more wild.
This explains how short-sellers contribute to market efficiency by smoothing out stock price movements and thus removing volatility from the system.
There is an argument sometimes made that short-sellers can act in packs to collectively drive down stock prices. It is alleged that false rumours are spread which also help to intimidate normal shareholders. A downward trend is manipulated into existence, after which the short-sellers then cover their positions and take their unfair profits.
While this practice is theoretically possible, it would be extremely difficult for short-sellers to coordinate such activity. Also, the profits could not very be great unless a significant number of ordinary shareholders were scared away from their holdings. But in any case it is true that investors surrender to short-term trends and the rumour mill both when stocks rise and fall, so these issues, to the extent that they exist, are not unique to the shorts.
In terms of what is happening right now, it seems most likely that the bans on short selling the Irish, UK and US financials have been precipitated by a combination of political factors. These include the need for some to assign blame for recent disastrous share price declines, and the general trend for increased regulations and restrictions on trading activities.
The bans are understood to be temporary so it is to be hoped that they can be reversed as quickly as possible to restore one of the increasingly few forces for order in the financial markets.
A Lifetime Spent In Formal Non-Education
Year-on-year the leaving cert results come out and one finds the same newspaper headlines:
Standards falling across-the-board, exams being 'dumbed-down', curricula being shortened, increasing numbers failing mathematics and unable to continue in education, fewer and fewer students capable of entering into third level science courses, lack of engineering graduates etc. etc.
In a time called the Information Age where information is more freely available than ever before in human history how is this possible? The internet exists in a staggering number of households today, yet students today cannot solve simple geometry problems and are becoming more and more ignorant and indifferent.
Many criticise the government for lack of investment. However, the government spends €10 billion of tax payers money on education every year in the Republic of Ireland in supplement to the enormous amounts already paid by parents for private schools and extra lessons for their children. That's a '1' with ten '0's after it! Is more money really the answer? What is the government doing now that is so detrimental to education that it wasn't doing in the past?
Well, why were there higher standards in the past one might ask? What did the government do in the past that worked?
Funnily enough the State originally had nothing to do with education. It was through the work of the private and independent sector that Irish people became known internationally as having a high standard of education.
So in that case who exactly built our schools and universities then?
Take, for example, St. Ignatius Rice who was the founder of the Christian Brothers. In his early life he was a merchant-banker in Cork who amassed a fortune and then, upon the death of his wife, decided to spend his fortune establishing schools to educate the poor. He then became a priest, founded a religious order with his wealth and became the 'educator of Ireland', all entirely independent of any State interference.
Most Irish Universities were funded by charitable initiatives of philanthropic individuals like Cardinal John Henry Newman establishing UCD (obviously independently of the British Crown) or the Catholic Church founding a university at its seminary in Maynooth.
All of these institutions provided a service that was to a large degree free for the poor with high educational standards that led Irish people to rise rapidly in other industrial countries, especially the United States. Under these Irish educational institutions, STANDARDS ACTUALLY ROSE!
So what happened?
Why is the State involved in schooling now and why are standards now falling?
Why on earth is education free and compulsory today if it was of higher standard and more effective at schooling the poor in the past when it was neither free nor compulsory?
In the book 'Education: Free and Compulsory', Murray Rothbard explains,
'A tax supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state'. Obviously the state and the political class want obedient and docile citizens that will believe whatever they are told and not question their masters. But there is an even deeper and more sinister agenda at play as well. Why was it that free and compulsory education was one of the essential ten tenets in Karl Marx's 'Communist Manifesto'?
One of the most important facts about human nature is the great diversity among individuals. The development of individual variety tends to be both the cause and the effect of the progress of civilisation. As civilisation progresses, there is more opportunity for the development of an individuals reasoning and tastes in a growing variety of fields.
The record of the development of compulsory education is a record of State usurpation of parental control over children on behalf of its own; an imposition of uniformity and equality to repress individual growth; and the development of techniques to hinder the growth of reasoning power and independent thought among the children. To understand this one must first recognise the underlying intentions of free and compulsory schooling at the hands of the State is a 'drive towards savage uniformity' and egalitarianism for as Rothbard says 'the creed of equality and uniformity is a creed of death and destruction'.
The modern school is not far different from Sparta where the children were seized by State and educated in barracks to the ideal of State obedience. When one thinks about it, school is essentially as much a prison today as it was back then, a place where you are no longer in the protection of your family, but, in many cases at the mercy of those who now control and order you around. Interestingly, lying was considered a proper instrument of the State to use in its indoctrination of the people in Sparta.
Fascism, Nazism and Communism: it is a grave and unanswerable indictment of compulsory State education that these modern totalitarianisms were eager to institute public State schooling in their regimes. There is no need to discuss the mind-numbing State propaganda that melted the minds of these countries' inhabitants and reduced them to helpless dependency upon the State. In time, they all became savages as civilisation was erased in the classroom and in the minds of the citizens and replaced with State idolatry.
At the basis of totalitarianism and compulsory education is the idea that children belong to the State rather than their parents. One of the leading promoters of that idea in Europe was the infamous Marquis de Sade, who insisted that children are the property of the State. For it is essential for the growth of State power that habits and minds and feelings of all the children be molded into absolute equality, and then the nation will be ripe for the final of equalisation of property and incomes by means of State coercion. Throughout the plans of these State 'educators' run hatred of human diversity, particularly of the higher standard of living of the rich as compared to the poor. Their agenda is not only one of promoting State Absolutism and 'Absolute Equality'- to which the system is admirably suited- but to educate the 'whole child' and create the 'New Socialist Man'. A man of no thoughts of his own but who simply acts in obedience to his masters.
Now in Ireland, the fact of the matter is that with the exiting of the Catholic Church and other religious groups from the management of schools we have seen the final total nationalisation of the educational system.
Now the system was always somewhat nationalised since the founding of the State. The State and the Church were always in battle over the control of the minds of the people but in many cases they came to mutually beneficial arrangements. By paying the wages of the teachers whilst allowing the schools themselves to be 'nominally private' under the Church, the state found a way to induce the private schools to teach state supremacy without outlawing private schools, as was done in some other countries.
Thus, Plato's ideal of full State communistic control over the children has now finally been realised.
The idea that there is any need for a Department of Education is absurd. These meddlers have ruined the entire educational experience for generations of Irish people. By enforcing certification for minimum standards, the State effectively, though subtly dominates the private schools, and makes them, in effect, extensions of the public school system. Aside from all these underlying intentions, the State still wants scientists to develop the technologies necessary to fully control the human mind and engineers to man the nuclear power stations that will power the bureaus of statistics where the mathematicians develop their projected growth models of future food rations.
However, further education in civilisation cannot be obtained at all under full political control of the schools. It is possible only to a certain frame of mind in which knowledge is pursued voluntarily. Furthermore, in a State system there are no competing curricula. There is no way of know how best to teach subjects because the State does not have other curricula to compare against. The Irish Curricula is essentially an enclosed system. The requirements to be learned shall always fall. In the UK now universities are no longer accepting the A levels but are introducing their own standardised examination for applicant students. In this case, the British government have managed to devalue the once impressive and comprehensive A levels such that not even their own public universities will accept the results anymore but demand the private sector to supply them with an adequate testing system!!!!
To the Statist who is convinced that unless there is compulsory education parents will neglect their children and not send them to school 'Do you think nobody would entrust his children to you to pay you for teaching them? Why do you have to collect your pupils by compulsion?' The spirit of schools has changed from philanthropy to the poor to something which all children are induced to attend.
One of the most damning indictments of the schooling system is that teachers are under the Civil Service. As a result, once a formal examination is passed, which has little relation to actual teaching competence, and a little time elapses the teacher is on the public payroll, and foisted on the children for the rest of his working life.
Tyranny by majority vote may be unpleasant enough, but at least if the rulers are subject to democratic checks, they have to please the majority of the voters. But government officials who cannot be voted out at the next election are not subject to any democratic check whatsoever. They are permanent tyrants. "Taking something out of politics" by putting it into the Civil Service certainly does increase the 'morale' of the bureaucracy. It elevates it into near perpetual absolute rulers in their sphere of activity. The fact that teachers are under the Civil Service is one of the most damning indictments against the Irish compulsory system of today.
In summary:
The effect of progressive education is to destroy independent thought in the child, indeed to repress any thought whatsoever. Instead the children learn to revere certain heroic emblems and to follow the domination of the "group". Thus, subjects are taught as little as possible and the child has little chance to develop any systematic reasoning powers in the study of definite courses. This is evident where school is seen by many to be a chore when in fact learning is the most exciting and natural pleasure for humans! We are beings who learn constantly from the moment we come into existence so when learning becomes a horrible chore it is because the system has squeezed all creativity, inspiration and humanity out of the learning process.
Equality and uniformity are pursued more than ever, even under the guise of letting individuals do whatever they like. The plan is to abolish grades, by which better and worse children know the extent of their progress, and instead to grade "subjectively" or not at all. This is clear in the Irish educational system where they are gradually replacing the Leaving Cert exam with continual assessments. Even in the UK they are now considering abolishing the GCSE exams and replacing them with a new syllabus revolving around 'team work'.
The idea that the school should not simply teach subjects, but should educate the "whole child" in all phases of life, is obviously an attempt to arrogate to the State all the functions of the home. The idea that the State can re-engineer man is a hang-up from Marxism that has become blurred into the supposed 'essential' functions of the State. In the end, this egalitarianism is as Rothbard put it 'A Revolt Against Nature Itself'.


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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Humane Society and a national egg farmer cooperative say they will jointly propose federal legislation that would phase out the use of battery cages for egg-laying hens and establish other treatment standards.
The United Egg Producers and the Humane Society of the United States announced their agreement Thursday.
The proposed bill would phase-out battery cages and gradually require cages that would give many hens more space and allow hens to express natural behaviors. It would also require companies to indicate on carton labels how the hens that produced their eggs were treated.
Industry officials say a national standard would be better than a "patchwork of state laws and regulations."
The Humane Society says the bill would improve the lives of hundreds of millions of hens.
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The saying is 'you get what you pay for' and although I do feel that 900 odd rupees is not cheap, this toaster resides at the bottom of the price table in terms of price. Having said that, I picked it because I simply wanted a slice of toasted bread. Nothing fancy. Just useful. And I picked the one from Philips because I had faith in the brand.
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I think I should sue Philips. They haven't specified anywhere that the outside body will get as hot as inside. I burnt my fingers in the very first use. If I ever catch hold of a Philips toaster engineer, I will tie his/her hands to the toaster side after I have just finished toasting. That should stop them from manufacturing crappy products.
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Tuesday, July 16, 2013 —
It was about 1981 when I bought my first computer. It was bought for my farm business and used there. It cost $2,900 plus the cost of some programs needed to use it. Mostly it was used for the business financial records and farm production records. It proved to be worth the cost.
By 1990, that computer had been replaced with a newer, better and cheaper one. In 1996, when I went to Russia for a month as a consultant with the Agency of International Development, I bought my first laptop computer to send and receive emails from home while I was there. It was obvious that electronics were going to be a part of our future. Many people were predicting computers would enable us to produce much more. By becoming much more productive, the total amount of goods and services we could enjoy would substantially increase in the coming years. Now fast forward more than 20 years to the present. How are we doing?
If the electronics are going to enable us to produce a lot more, it is time to see the production. When we look at our economy, there isn't much of an increase to see. Unemployment is too high, the Gross Domestic Product is increasing too slowly and our situations haven't improved that much. Is the promise of production increases not being kept? The answer seems to be "Yes". But why?
The problem may be how we are using the electronics available to us. While computing may increase our ability to produce products and services, it may also increase our ability to produce the same amount with less time and leave us with more non-productive time. In other words, we aren't using our time and labor as productively as we used to do.
Let's look at schools. They all start again in August. For the upper grades and college the class is frequently led by a teacher who talks, writes on the board, shows some slides and/or leads a discussion. But with Wi-Fi in all classrooms enabling students to connect to the internet, it also means everyone can use their smart phone to text their friends everywhere. In many classes the dominate activity is texting – not taking notes or listening to the teacher. This doesn't improve our education.
Now leave the classroom and go to the workplace away from schools. How are the workers doing? They are getting their work done more quickly with a computer. Then they spend time surfing the internet. Some of the time is spent looking for another job, most say they visit recreational sites, they send personal emails and more than half spend time on the job shopping online while at work. Some spend time looking at cats playing or models wearing swimwear. In any case, studies are showing most employees are using the electronics on the job to do things which are not related to the job and which do not increase their productivity.
The morning I was writing this, I was driving and met a woman walking on the shoulder of the road texting. She never looked up as my car approached. Thankfully, my car was on the road and under control otherwise she would never have known what hit her. On Sundays I often see someone in church during the service texting. Do you think they are sending a message to God?
My point is this. We have never had so many opportunities to communicate with friends anywhere in the world. However, we are reducing our individual productivity by spending so much of our time communicating with others when we could be productive. Only when millions of us become more interested being productive and start spending less time being social will we receive the full productive benefits of the electronic revolution.
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Szczytkowski, J.L., Fuchs, R.A., & Lysle, D.T. (2011). Ventral tegmental area-basolateral amygdala-nucleus accumbens shell neurocircuitry controls the expression of heroin-conditioned immunomodulation. Journal of Neuroimmunology, 237, 47-56.
Szczytkowski, J.L., & Lysle, D.T. (2011). Conditioned Immunomodulation. In T. Schachtman & S. Reilly (Eds.), Associative Learning and Conditioning: Human and Animal Applications. (pp. 191-212). New York: Oxford University Press.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says that although the federal funds rate will remain low, facilities created by the Federal Reserve to aid the U.S. economy through a recession will be closed.
Bernanke presented his Semiannual Monetary Report to the Congress on Wednesday. The chairman's statements indicated that the Federal Reserve will continue to, "normalize its lending to commercial banks through the discount window."
Just last week, the Fed raised its discount rate to 0.75% from 0.50%. This rate is what commercial banks pay to borrow from the Federal Reserve. For individuals and businesses, any change in this rate would affect the interest terms of their loan at signing (Think: Uncle Sam(the Fed) has a soda that costs $1.00, sells it to his big brother(commercial bank) for $1.75, then you(individual or business) agree to buy it for $2.00 and sign on the x).
The chairman testified that on February 1 the Federal Reserve began to close down special liquidity facilities, all of which are scheduled to be closed by the end of June 2010. According to Bernanke, the only program among these facilities that is still operating is the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility. This facility was created during the deepest slump of the recession as an emergency lending program.
Bernanke did state however that these changes are not indicative of stricter monetary conditions for businesses and households. Instead, says the chairman, the Federal Reserve is acting in response to an improvement in financial markets, however inconsistent certain market gains may be.
For individuals and businesses, this means that staying above deep water in this economy will require a conservative budget. Most gains across financial markets have been modest, and there have yet to be indications that this trend will continue. If these modest gains have been profitable to you, whether the margin be small or not, now would be a great time to add to your nest egg.
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Joe Webb's breakout game in the Vikings' shocking win over the Eagles apparently is not enough to impress head coach Leslie Frazier.
Lions' run game, defense show marked improvement
The Lions have won three games in a row for the first time since 2007, and the improved run game and defense have had a lot to do with it.
Lions hand Dolphins seventh home loss
The Lions took advantage of two interceptions to score 17 points in the final 4:37 Sunday and rally past the reeling Dolphins 34-27.
Lions' Stanton raising profile with play
Lions No. 3 QB Drew Stanton has played beyond expectations, and he could seek a better opportunity elsewhere next season.
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The Lions have reportedly placed QB Matthew Stafford on injured reserve.
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Head coach Jim Schwartz did not say Monday who his starting QB would be in Week 16, as all three primary quarterbacks are dealing with injuries.
Lions top Bucs, finally win one on the road
Dave Rayner's third field goal, a 34-yarder with 9:51 left in overtime gave the Lions a 23-20 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and ended the longest road losing streak in league history at 26 games on Sunday.
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The consensus among Lions fans is that ORT Gosder Cherilus needs to be replaced, but he was having his best season before landing on injured reserve.
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When Detroit GM Martin Mayhew signed Stefan Logan off waivers from Pittsburgh in September, it proved to be an astute move, according to NFC North Whispers.
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Drew Stanton threw a 13-yard touchdown pass to Will Heller midway through the fourth quarter, and the Packers couldn't come back without an injured Aaron Rodgers in the Lions' 7-3 win Sunday.
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NFL Network's Jason LaCanfora is reporting that QB Brett Favre is telling his teammates that, even with the Vikings' game being delayed a day and moved to Detroit, he doesn't think he can play Monday.
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The Detroit Lions have added Akers one day after Jason Hanson retired.||||||| San Francisco released Akers a month ago after he slumped during the 2012 season. The six-time Pro Bowl kicker made 73 of 94 field goals over two seasons for the 49ers. He underwent double hernia surgery in February 2012 then aggravated the area during the season when he slipped on the field during practice. Akers has made 367 of 453 field goals in his career with Washington, Philadelphia and San Francisco.
Six-time Pro Bowl kicker David Akers has been released by the San Francisco 49ers after two seasons filled with record-breaking highs and incredible lows. General Manager Trent Baalke thanked Akers in a statement Wednesday, calling him a "true professional who represented himself and this organization with class." Akers appeared in all 32 regular-season games and five playoff contests the past two seasons. He connected on 73 of 94 field goal attempts and all 78 PATs.||||||| In 2011, Akers set NFL records with 44 field goals made and 52 attempted. He also tied the league mark for the longest made when he kicked from 63 yards in last season's opener at Green Bay. But Akers made just 29 of 44 attempts last season, his lowest percentage since 1999. The 49ers even brought in Billy Cundiff to compete against Akers before the divisional-round playoff and NFC championship game.
Akers calls his struggles this season a "head scratcher" and says if the 49ers win the Super Bowl it will erase all of his 14 misses this season.||||||| Akers missed an NFL-worst 13 field goals this season and then hit the upright on a 38-yarder in last week's NFC championship game at Atlanta. He says he feels like he is kicking the ball well and he's off by a matter of inches, which is frustrating because "an inch is a mile in our game."
Akers is keeping his job as San Francisco's starting kicker. For now, anyway.||||||| Jim Harbaugh made the announcement after practice Thursday, two days ahead of the 49ers' NFC divisional playoff game against the Green Bay Packers (12-5) at Candlestick Park. The 49ers signed Billy Cundiff on Jan. 1 to compete with Akers, a 15-year veteran who has struggled this season while making only 29 of 42 field-goal attempts. Akers revealed last week he underwent double hernia surgery last February.
Akers and Billy Cundiff were taking their competition to be San Francisco's playoff kicker to Candlestick Park on Monday.||||||| Coach Jim Harbaugh says there's a "good chance" both kickers will be on the roster for Saturday's NFC divisional playoff game against the Green Bay Packers, though he didn't specify whether each would be active. Harbaugh indicated "we have a leader in the clubhouse," but wouldn't say who it is.


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2.7. First Person Shooter (aka FPS)
What light through yonder window breaks? It must be the flash of the double barreled shotgun! We have a long and twisted history with FPS games which started when id Software open sourced code for Doom. The code base has forked and merged numerous times. Other previously closed engines opened up, many engines are playable via emulators, many commercial FPS games were released for Linux and there are quite a number of FPS engines which started life as open source projects. Although you may not be able to play your favorite FPS under Linux (Half-Life plays great under winex) Linux definitely has no deficiency here!
First person shooters are characterized by two things. First, you pretty much blow up everything you see. Second, the action takes place in first person. That is, through the eyes of the character who's doing all the shooting. You may even see your hands or weapon at the bottom of the screen. They can be set in fantasy (Hexen), science fiction (Quake II), present day 'real world' (Soldier Of Fortune) and many other settings.
Like text adventures, FPS fit the engine/datafile format. The engine refers to the actual game itself (Doom, Quake, Heretic2) and plays out the maps and bad guys outlined by the datafile (doom2.wad , pak0.pak , etc). Many FPS games allow people to write their own non-commercial datafile. There are hundreds, even thousands of non-commercial Doom datafiles that you can download for free off the net. Often, companies release their engines to the open source community so we can hack and improve them. However, the original data files are kept proprietary. To this day, you still have to purchase doom.wad .
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Niagara Gazette
March 25, 2013
BLOTTER: Police reports published March 25
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Repairman for Buffalo business accused of stealing
An East Canal Road woman had $7,000 worth of jewelry stolen from her last month, but she didn't even know about the theft until she received a recent phone call from Amherst police.
According to the Niagara County Sheriff's Office, the victim on March 15 had a message on her answering machine asking her to contact Amherst Police Detective Herb Leising.
When she called the detective, he asked her if she had recently had work done inside of her residence by Zenner and Ritter Home Services.
The victim said she did have an employee from Zenner and Ritter inside her residence on Feb. 20 to repair an electrical circuit breaker from a generator that they had installed.
She was then was advised by Leising to check for any missing jewelry or china because the employee that was inside her residence was caught stealing from a home in Amherst while on a service call.
The victim discovered that she was missing a Swarovski crystal necklace valued at $1,000; a 7 carat gold ring valued at $5,000 that her husband gave her and a sapphire ring worth $1,000.
Leising told a sheriff's deputy that Richard A. Donovan Jr. was caught stealing china from a china cabinet during the Amherst service call. The detective added he is in the process of tracking all the service calls that Donovan was on while working for Buffalo-based Zenner and Ritter.
Leising added that he spoke to the owner of a pawn shop in Erie County and learned that Donovan did pawn jewelry on the day that he did services at the East Canal Road residence.
Leising was able to recover some of the jewelry that Donovan pawned and that he was going to have the victim come in and see if any of the jewelry belonged to her.
The Niagara County Sheriff's Criminal Investigation Bureau is planning its own investigation.
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• ARREST: A reported homeless man was arrested after causing a disturbance at a local homeless shelter at 9:40 p.m. Friday in the 1500 block of Buffalo Avenue. James Hayes, 41, of no known permanent address, was charged with disorderly conduct and obstruction of justice after he was allegedly intoxicated and yelling and cursing at employees and other clients at the shelter. After several minutes of aggressive behavior, he was reportedly taken into custody. Once at the station, he allegedly became combative during the booking process and attempted to fight police officers. He was reportedly subjected to a Taser and taken to the hospital for injuries. But he reportedly refused treatment and was again transported back to the police station.
• ARREST: A Falls woman was arrested following a shoplifting incident at 4:28 a.m. Saturday from a store in the 7200 block of Niagara Falls Boulevard. Nicole Franquie, 42, 421 20th Street, was charged with petit larceny after a store employee told police she took $51.18 of unspecified merchandise from store shelves and tried to conceal it in her jacket and leave without paying. When confronted by police, she reportedly told officers she didn't know why she attempted to take the merchandise.
Town of Niagara
• THEFT: Niagara County Sheriff's deputies were called to the Fashion Outlet of Niagara Falls Saturday night for the theft of a purse. A Canadian woman said the purse was sitting on a table in the food court about 6:30 p.m. when it was taken. It contained $20 and her driver's license and passport. A deputy issued the woman a form as proof her driver's license had been taken.
• RECOVERED PROPERTY: Niagara County Sheriff's deputies were called to a Lake Street home Friday by a woman who said she found a pistol while going through her deceased parents' belongings. A deputy examined the pistol and could not identify it but deemed it to be unserviceable and nonfunctioning. The gun was taken by the deputy who informed the woman she could retrieve it when she obtained a pistol permit.
• THEFT: Niagara County Sheriff's deputies are looking for a Culpepper Drive resident suspected in the theft of two 18-packs of Budweiser beer from a store on the corner of Ward Road and Niagara Falls Boulevard about 1:15 a.m. Sunday. A store clerk said a man came into the store, grabbed the two 18-packs and left without paying for them. The clerk was able to get the license plate of the vehicle the suspect left in and deputies tracked the car to the suspect's father who reported his son was spending the night with a friend. Deputies eventually found the car parked on Trails End but the suspect, his friend and two girls had fled on foot. A search of the area came up empty. The suspect's car was towed by police.
Town of Lockport
• DWI: Gary S. Diel, 4540 Van Dusen Road, was charged with DWI and driving at a speed not reasonable and prudent late Thursday. Diel's vehicle collided with a tree in the 6200 block of Old Niagara Road about 11:15 p.m., according to the sheriff's report. Diel was sent to Eastern Niagara Hospital, Newfane, for treatment of cuts on his face and neck. At the hospital, the deputy determined Diel showed signs of alcohol intoxication and levied the charges.
• CONTRABAND: Pierce L. Abrams, 22, last address Printup Road, Sanborn, was charged with second-degree promoting prison contraband Friday at Niagara County Jail. Abrams, a new inmate, was being processed and a pouch was taken from him that contained cigarette tobacco mixed with an unknown green leafy substance, the arrest report said.
• CONTRABAND: Tierra D. Bradberry, 24, 1013 Fairfield Ave., Niagara Falls, was charged with second-degree promoting prison contraband and endangering the welfare of a child Friday at Niagara County Jail. Bradberry, a visitor, was seen taking an uninflated balloon from the pocket of a 4-year-old girl in her company. The balloon held cigarette tobacco, the arrest report said.


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Former Kimberly Mayor Ralph Lindsey has had enough of waiting for a local developer to finish work on streets in the Liberty Crossings subdivision.
"The excuse that the city doesn't have the money to go [after him] doesn't cut it," Lindsey told the Kimberly City Council in regular session last Tuesday, as he spoke to complain about developer Clint Singletary.
The council has addressed the issue of unfinished work by Singletary on multiple occasions going back to 2011. Several times, he was scheduled to address the issues before the council but failed to appear, despite threats by two different mayors to call in performance bonds to pay for having the work done.
Councilman Lance Shivers said that the city had looked at calling in the bonds in the past, but did not do so because the proceeds would not be enough to do the work required. The issue is in large part why Shivers ended up running for the council. "If there's a solution, then I'm all for it," Shivers said.
"The solution is to call in the bonds and sue him [Singletary] for the rest," Lindsey replied.
In other business, the council voted to purchase a new master-key system for fire and rescue trucks, which would secure the "Knox Box" keys used to gain emergency access to schools and some businesses.


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A milonga is an Argentine Tango social dance. People come as singles or with a partner and they wear their best tango finery. Music can be live or recorded, and is usually played in tandas, or sets of 3-4 songs. When the tanda ends there will be a cortina, a short interlude of non-tango music when dancers return to their seats and look for a new partner. Milonga is also a style of dance, played and danced on the 2/4 beat rather than the standard 4/4. Alma Del Tango holds a milonga on the 4th Friday of every month.


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Fairlawn's Summer Concert Series kicks off at 7 p.m. tonight at with a performance by the ReBeats.
The ReBeats is a 1960s tribute band that is influence by the sounds of The Beatles, Dave Clark Five, the Hollies and Paul Revere and the Raiders.
The band has performed at several local festivals including the Cuyahoga Falls Italian Festival, Norton's Cider Festival and in Copley's Summer Concert Series.
The Fairlawn Parks and Recreation Department asks guests to bring their own blankets, chairs and snacks. The concert is free.


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