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For the 17th time this year, someone was murdered in the city of Fort Myers. Damarquis Blanks died in the hospital Friday after being shot near the intersection of Veronica Shoemaker and Michigan Avenue last week.
Since the rash of summer murders in Fort Myers, Police Chief Doug Baker assigned 30 additional officers to the agency's Violent Crime Task Force. Their goal is to monitor the city's top 25 offenders. Chief Baker says their biggest hurdle in cracking cases is the lack of witnesses coming forward with information.Blanks, 19, was shot Wednesday night on Lantana Street in Dunbar. He was rushed from the scene to the hospital, where he died days later.
Fort Myers Police Chief Doug Baker says while this latest killing wasn't random, it wasn't drug or gang related either.
"No, I don't believe this one was. From the early indications and early anonymous tips that we are receiving, it was not related to either one of those," Chief Baker said.
A van was seized from the scene and police do have a suspect, but need more evidence to make an arrest.
Chief Baker says they actually have suspects in all the homicides this year except for one. And like the Blanks murder, more evidence is needed in those cases as well.
Their biggest hurdle, Chief Baker says, is getting witnesses to testify and give statements – something many people refuse to do out of fear of retaliation, or because they're involved in criminal activity themselves.
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While the chief wouldn't go into detail about the suspected reason for this homicide, he says they are getting quite a few tips. And if you have any information, you're asked to call the Fort Myers Police Department or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-780-TIPS.
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Saying his lawyer misled him about the terms of a potential plea deal, the former CEO of LeNature's Inc. has moved to vacate his 20-year federal prison term and is seeking to unseal the transcript of a sidebar hearing at sentencing in the Pittsburgh case that he says will prove his contention.
Gregory Podlucky, 53, pleaded guilty in 2011 to federal bank, mail and wire fraud charges; conspiracy; and tax evasion in connection with the looting of some $800 million from the Latrobe, Pa.-based beverage company he used to head, the Tribune-Review reports.
His original lawyer, Tom Ceraso, died before the change of plea. Podlucky says the terms of the plea deal the government promised are different than the plea he was misled into accepting.
Attorney Alexander Lindsay Jr., who took over his defense after Ceraso's death, declined to comment.
Podlucky's wife and son also were sentenced to time for money laundering, as the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette detailed in an article last year.
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After appearing on the show for a decade Hasselbeck announced on Tuesday she would leave the daytime talk show to join Fox News Channel's "Fox and Friends."
Hasselbeck was known on the program as a conservative pundit and often traded barbs with her co-hosts about politics.
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Col. Denise Lind, the judge in the case, spared him the certainty of spending his entire life in jail Tuesday, when she acquitted him of the most grievous charge of aiding the enemy. Had she convicted him of that one charge, he could have spent life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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Choosing between radiation and surgery to treat organ-confined prostate cancer involves considerations of the patient's preference, age, and coexisting medical conditions (fitness for surgery), as well as of the extent of the cancer. Some patients with organ-confined prostate cancer are treated with radiation. Sometimes, oncologists combine radiation therapy with surgery or hormonal therapy in an effort to improve the long-term results of treatment in the early or later stages of prostate cancer.
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"There's a little more chatter the last few days than there has been because the deadline is coming," Holland said when we chatted on Tuesday afternoon. "Will we do something? We're going to explore. We have cap space; we structured it at the beginning of the year that way. We'd like to give our team a bit of a boost."
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on Jul 29, 2011 at 11:49 am
This convoluted argument and justification for bigger government is not worthy of a response.
Those that want big government are those that want to benefit from the wealth redistribution benefits of big government. Something Lakoff conveniently ignores.
on Jul 31, 2011 at 10:59 pm
Oh scary. What a naive foggy world for you. It's thinking like that that puts us all at risk.
on Aug 1, 2011 at 5:11 am
What's with all the reading and all the words? Why read 'Grapes of Wrath' or 'Moby Dick' when you can watch the movie? Have any of you seen Moby Dick 2010? It's so good. It's about a big submarine that goes after a big toothy whale. Why read George Lakoff when you can get all the political commentary you need from Fox News, and you don't even have to use the effort to turn any pages?
on Aug 1, 2011 at 9:16 am
Bob, this guy has no credibility at all. After all, you know what Lakoff rhymes with?
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Oh, yeah, and did I mention that this Lakoff guy's name rimes with another name?
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How interest rate swap deals are causing local government agencies to pay millions of dollars to the biggest banks
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Wall Street's massive taxpayer funded bailout, initiated by the Bush administration and carried forward under President Obama, never really ended — it just shifted from federal to local sources of funding. Even while local and state governments have been forced to cut back on crucial services, wealthy banks and investment firms are being padded with enormous cash flows sucked directly from the already strained budgets of cities, counties, and public agencies.
That's the message a growing chorus of activists in the Bay Area are bringing before the boards, councils, and commissions that entered into complex financial deals with Wall Street banks, deals that turned toxic in the crash of 2008. Activists want elected officials and the banks to cancel the contracts and refund the public.
The Bay Area is the epicenter of this renewed movement for financial justice. Last week, teachers from Peralta College, organizers with the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE), Oakland religious leaders, and Occupy Oakland activists organized four protests contesting what they say is bank predation on local communities.
At issue are arcane financial instruments called interest rate swaps. Sold by banks to virtually every sizable government and local agency in the US through the 2000s, rate swaps promised governments the ability to "swap" their potentially costly variable rate payments on bonds into a synthetic fixed rate. Seeking to protect local taxpayers during the volatile 2000s, when floating interest rates were rising, local leaders eagerly signed on.
But the economic meltdown turned those tools into golden handcuffs for local government agencies. Taxpayers are now forced to regularly pay millions to the banks simply because variable interest rates, at the urging of the Federal Reserve, have fallen far below the synthetic rates. These deals might seem numbingly complex, but the effects on local communities are clear and painful.
"The Metropolitan Transportation Commission is paying upwards of $53 million a year on rate swaps," said Alia Phelps of ACCE at a protest on Feb. 21 outside of the former Bank of America building at 555 California Street. "This is money that isn't going to keep routes in service, that isn't paying drivers, nor going to repair buses, or to keep fares lower. We need these swaps renegotiated."
That protest included visits to half a dozen banks. Activists demanded branch managers fax a letter to their corporate headquarters calling on the banks to voluntarily renegotiate swaps signed with the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), the Bay Area's regional transportation authority, which has lost over $100 million on toxic swap deals.
In 2002 the Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA), a state-level agency operated by the MTC, issued more than $1 billion in bonds to pay for repairs and seismic upgrades of regional toll bridges. Three financial giants stepped forward promising to lower MTC's long-term borrowing costs on these bonds by using interest rate swaps. Ambac, Solomon Smith Barney and Morgan Stanley signed deals with the MTC to cover $300 million in debt.
"With this transaction, we are getting the peace of mind of a fixed debt payment at a significant discount from traditional price levels," MTC's Chief Financial Officer Brian Mayhew said at the time of the deal.
Basically the swap agreement had the MTC paying a fixed interest rate of 4.1 percent to the banks, while the banks paid 65 percent of the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR), a key benchmark used in global financial markets. Whichever party's sum happened to be higher when payments came due would pay the difference. The advantage of the deal, in the eyes of the MTC's managers, was that it would lock-in a low interest rate on MTC's debt, potentially saving as much as $45 million.
Very nice piece. Could you follow up with a piece on what local and state
entitites are doing to prevent public officials from ever again promoting such
deals? With so many taxpayer dollars servicing debt and interest payments to
banks, it is little wonder fiscal crises are so widespread. It is high time for a
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that rates may decline and they would have been better off not taking out the insurance.
But that's like someone who takes out a fixed-rate 30-year mortgage only to see rates decline. You make your bets and have to live with the consequences. You can't have it both ways.
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If rates had gone up, Muni's would have made out like bandits. But they bet wrong and would have been better off not entering into the swaps contract.
But that's a little like complaining about buying fire insurance after it turns out that your house never burned down. Muni's bought insurance and, in the end, turns out they didn't need it. Boo hoo.
municipalities have volunteered to pay more to the banks for their "lost profits"? Of course not. Municipalities made a financial bet and got it wrong. They wanted insurance and are now complaining that they'd have been better off without it. Well, boo freaking hoo. That's like trying to cancel your fire insurance after you didn't have a fire.
So fire the muni's CFO and move on. There are on one-way bets in the markets.
You're using the logic of capital, where people don't matter, what does is greed and profits for large corporations.
I think the Occupy moment is helping us see things differently: it doesn't have to be this way. Banks don't have to rob from people and cities, to profit. We can hold banks accountable and make sure our cities are able to fulfill their social purpose: to care for the people.
Sadly, the city of Oakland has been unable to do so. Again, Occupy Oakland has been picking up the slack, as documented in the Occupy Oakland Serves the People Fact Sheet. See: http://occupyresearch.net/oakland.
fraud, deception or a lack of consideration, then a swap is simply what it purports to be - a hedge or speculation that a muni CFO made that didn't work out.
You can't have it both ways. If the swap had worked out, would goldman Sachs have been able to walk away from it's obligation? Of course not.
Heads I win, tails you lose is not a sustainable scenario.
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Are those the values that our society should live by? "Heads I win, tails you lose."
The fact of the matter is: Goldman Sachs has been able to walk away from its debt obligation. As has other banks, such as JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, and Fannie & Freddie Mac.
Propublica maintains a great list of these bank and corporate bailouts, paid for by we the taxpayers: http://projects.propublica.org/bailout/list
Previous two comments are completely missing the point.
This absolutely isn't "like trying to cancel your fire insurance after you didn't have a fire." Rather, this is about justice.
When the big banks got stuck with billions in toxic derivatives (including interest rate swaps) what did the federal government do? Answer: they got bailed out.
When cities got stuck with billions in toxic derivatives, mostly interest rate swaps, what did the feds do? No help. Banks win.
If the commenters above can explain how this is "fair" and reasonable, my hat's off to them.
But just because the banks got bailed out doesn't mean that anyone and everyone should. This "me too - I want some" attitude is exactly the problem.
The simple fact is that muni's were speculating on interest rates when they should have been sticking to their knitting and - I don't know - maybe fix a street or something?
If you back a horse to win in a race and it loses, you can't ask for your stake back. If you bet on red and black comes up, you can't take your chip back. The world doesn't work like that, contracts are valid and if cities and counties made bad bets, then they should suffer.
And unlike banks, cities can raise taxes.
Wow: "just because the banks got bailed out doesn't mean that anyone and everyone should. This "me too - I want some" attitude is exactly the problem."
I'm not sure how to respond to this. It's an amazingly anti-democratic, indeed plutocratic comment. Unfortunately you've commented anonymously, but I wouldn't be surprised if you were an investment banker yourself. You've clearly shown what you value. You value bank profits and executive salaries over clean and safe streets, libraries, schools, and transit.
As to the finer points, again you're missing key facts; cities weren't speculating. Interest rate swaps were sold to governments as "hedges." A hedge is a risk mitigating instrument that was sold to reduce possible harms from interest rate fluctuations.
If you read San Francisco's (and Oakland's, and virtually all other Bay Area government agencies') policy on the use of rate swaps to finance borrowing, you'll find that government is explicitly barred from using rate swaps to speculate, or as an investment tool period.
Clearly you know very little about this subject, or you are simply trying to argue the point so as to confuse others.
Your last comment is unrealistic. Anyone and everyone in CA knows that cities can't just raise taxes.
You pay a bank to take away all your interest rate risk.
Goldman etc. absorbed that risk so the entity that bought that insurance can't just turn around and say "oh, turns out that risk never occured so we want to reverse the deal.
Society could not function if everyone could simply back out of every deal that didn't work out.
Fire the muni CFO's that made these dumb deals, but you can't blame the banks for delivering exactly what was asked of them.
I wonder why more attention wasn't paid to this sooner? Instead, we got treated to all that brouhaha over public workers as we turned a blind eye to systemic corruption and financial schemes like this one. The real problem is that the system is rotten to the core. The financial elites and their lobbyists write the laws that affect them, and impose rules on the rest of us that has led to a system of financial apartheid. Max Keiser, who hosts the Keiser Report, explains how it works~
"In America, they have financial Jim Crow laws. If you're a white Goldman Sachs partner, you can borrow money at zero percent or less than zero percent. Anyone else, you're borrowing money at 16%, 20%, 35% – payday loans annualizing at 300%. So they're using interest rates to create a two class society. Fellas who are on the inside who get zero percent interest charged to them and everyone else who is basically an underclass, a permanent underclass in the United States and around the world who are charged exorbitant fees to borrow money. That's almost a financial apartheid if you will and it is orchestrated on purpose to create this huge social divide for profiteering purposes."
It's much more like buying fire insurance because you are worried about a fire. You don't get your premium back if there turns out to be no fire.
The rest of your post is just the usual hopeless left-wing doggerel.
Anonymous poster: you keep using these analogies that are completely inappropriate and incapable of explaining the problem. IR swaps aren't like "fire insurance" for individual homeowners. They're complex derivative products used by major institutions to hedge risks against normal market fluctuations.
Had the market not crashed and capitalism not almost died in 2008, and had the Federal Reserve Bank no dropped interest rates to virtually zero, and had the US Treasury not bailed out the biggest banks with trillions of dollars of taxpayer money... then you might have a point about why cities should be expected to stick with their IR swaps. After all, we would be living under normal market conditions.
However, none of this is true. Instead we underwent a world historical crisis and there was unprecedented government and central bank intervention in the markets to bail out private capital. These political interventions in turn have made municipal IR swaps into toxic assets, yet the cities are not bailed out.
Your repeated attempts to avoid the factual/contextual basis of an IR swap with the "fire insurance" analogy reeks of bad faith and a purposeful attempt to obscure the issue. It echoes the politicians' obsession with the "national debt is like household debt" analogy. It's appealing to people because it breaks the issue down into everyday troubles they can understand, but the problem is that such analogies are enormously deceptive.
If my cat was a dog it would bark.
The city insured against a risk. That risk never happened and so obviously things worked out such that the insurance proved to be expensive.
Boo freaking hoo.
The cities took one side of a bet that misfired. The bansk that sold the insurance kept their word and honoured their commitments.
Your only legit complaints are against near-sighted muni bosses and the federal government. So go ask for a bailout. But you won't get one.
We don't have capitalism. What you saw was a failure of Croni-capitalism or a form of socialism/communism with a fiat currency that's you saw and it did fail. Been brewing for a long time and it's just starting.
Completely dismissing reality and appealing to abstractions and false comparisons.
Cities certainly made a "bet," but they did so making the perfectly reasonable assumption that there wouldn't be a once-in-a-lifetime market rupture and near collapse of the global financial system. What began in 2008 changes everything. What don't you get about that?
It changed everything enough to cause the Fed to bail out the banks. They were "too big to fail," remember?
Are cities not "too big to fail"? Are cities, local communities something you want to fail?
Local government is currently failing. Children are suffering. Schools get closed. Transit cut. Parks and buildings and streets fall apart. Budget cuts are harming our communities because local government is working with smaller revenues, and has to pay higher percentages of tax dollars to the banks under these onerous deals.
There is a solution that would simply involve extending the privileges given to the bankers to the masses of people through their local governments, and it would partly involve canceling these toxic swap deals.
You're arguing for an unfair, plutocratic system. Don't be surprised when the vast majority of Americans disagree with you. We want to live in a democracy, where our federal government and the economic system works for everyone.
have hedged that instead.
And don't forget that low rates are great for muni's - they enable cheap borrowing and refinancing. It's high rates that's the concern they wanted to insure against. Markets could have gone either way - that's why you hedge.
Muni's haven't lost anything other than the premia they paid for the insurance. And they are saving a bundle from lower rates. Save your aympathy for someone worthy of it, not some bureaucrat in a cheap suit who thought he was being a smartass.
The swaps are contracts and there is no legal basis to overturn them. If you think differently, then sue.
Wall Street argues that derivatives are not insurance or like insurance, because if they were, they'd be required to submit to regulation and meet reinsurance and capital requirements, amongst other onerous burdens.
deemed to be sophisticated financially. These bozo's at the city were clueless, I'd agree, and should be fired. But they made a one-way bet which could have gotten huge rewards. They just happened to be wrong.
But now muni's can borrow at record low rates, so what they lost on one side, they gained on the other.
Swap derivatives are not regulated like insurance.
CFO's are assumed to be more financially aware, sophisticated and responsible. If they foul up, it's their head. They can't whine: "boo hoo, it's not fair".
You're using the logic of capital, where people don't matter, what does is greed and profits for large corporations.
I think the Occupy moment is helping us see things differently: it doesn't have to be this way. Banks don't have to rob from people and cities, to profit. We can hold banks accountable and make sure our cities are able to fulfill their social purpose: to care for the people.
Sadly, the city of Oakland has been unable to do so. Again, Occupy Oakland has been picking up the slack, as documented in the Occupy Oakland Serves the People Fact Sheet. See: http://occupyresearch.net/oakland.
"The Oakland City Council has voted unanimously to end a contract with Goldman Sachs that locked it into a financial deal called an high interest rate swap. The city signed on with the bank in 1998 on the premise it would reduce costs of its bonds amid rising interest rates. But after the 2008 financial meltdown, the Federal Reserve cut interest rates to near zero. As a result, Goldman's rate dropped to 0.15 percent — even as it continued to require Oakland to pay a rate of almost 6 percent. The city council is calling on the city to refuse to do business with Goldman Sachs unless it ends the deal without requiring a $15 million payout. The vote comes after a long campaign by city workers, unions, the Occupy movement and local clergy members. "It's really been through direct action and public pressure that we've been able to build for this," says Alysabeth Alexander, political action chair for SEIU Local 1021, who helped organize the Oakland community and present testimony to the council members. "This is actually the second swap that SEIU 1021 has taken on and we're going to continue to do this with our community partners and take on Wall Street. It's not right that, in this fiscal crisis, that they're profiting off of our local governments."
renege on it without ruining their credit rating, which in turn means they won't be able to borrow or issue bonds.
And nowhere needs to borrow like Oakland.
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At the O'Neill Institute, Jason worked with faculty and fellows at both the Law Center and the School of Nursing & Health Studies. He contributed to health law and policy projects on a range of topics, such as infectious and chronic disease prevention, primary care workforce capacity building, and global and domestic health care and reform. Jason earned a BA from the University of Virginia and a MS in Physiology from Georgetown University.


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"Our team name is the Phightin' Phlapjacks. Our sponsor was IHOP so we all put breakfast names on the back of our shirts like Hotcakes, Babycakes, and Sticky Buns. This team picture is after our last softball game of the season in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia. Working with CustomInk was so easy and fun! We will be using them for next year's shirts! Thank you!"


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If you have a cutting machine, you have what it takes to express your love with the personal touch. And Craft-e-corner is here to help with the cutting accessories.
For Silhouette owners, use the sweeping elegance of four alphabet styles in the Sweetheart Design Portfolio to script your words of tenderness. Add a stylized or softly curving heart - set off by rich chocolate kisses and forever slogans of love.
Quickutz borders of hearts can embellish your cards with streamers of solid, cut out and chic heart shapes. Or give a year round loving theme to a room - framing a window, a doorway or even a light switch with small outlines of endearment.
Slice owners can get that perfect heart silhouette from Tag Maker. But if you want a little zing, how about the sassy slogans and images of Just Chillin? Or lift the Valentine's heart off of the Calendar Design Card...then spread the images out through the rest of the year on either your calendar or seasonal cards.
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Painted in the searing heat in the village Erriadh, on the island of Djerba, Tunisa. Organised by Galerie Itinerrance. Some fun experiments with placing windows and doors in old abandoned buildings i found hidden away in the back streets.
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Saturday, August 02, 2014
Totems - Moss, Norway
I just painted this huge wall in the coastal town of Moss, Norway. It's organised by Urban Samtidskunst. Also helped along the way by Galleri Lauritzen. It's painted in an old abandoned paper factory that closed two years ago. Now being used for creative events, music and some really great Upcycling projects.
Also a big thanks to Viktor who helped me paint the white base. It really saved my crooked neck.
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Sunday, July 20, 2014
bird catcher
Still been having time off painting while my neck injury heals. It's now healed enough to work my etching press, so i've been getting on with the last of that edition i've been working on. Almost there.
I'm not around my computer as much these days so my posts have got a little late. I've joined instagram to keep an up to date log of what i'm painting and drawing. I'll still use the blog for all my final photos. phlegm_art
Saturday, July 05, 2014
Skull illusion.
cranium stockpile compiled by kev Grey.
Friday, June 20, 2014
Malmö - Sweden.
Sorry i've been quiet on the blog for a while. I've had an injury so i've had to take some time to rest up. Things should start to get back to normal now.
I painted this for Artscape festival 2014 in Malmö sweden.
Thursday, May 08, 2014
Second beach, St Clair, Dunedin - New Zealand.
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Habitat for Humanity wraps up 'United We Serve' with National Day of Service and Remembrance
WASHINGTON (Sept. 11, 2009) –Habitat for Humanity affiliates around the country wrapped up the "United We Serve" initiative today and hosted special build events with volunteers in observance of the first-ever National Day of Service and Remembrance.
Habitat for Humanity organizations and campus chapters commemorated the day by hosting events in their local communities.
President Obama signed federal legislation on Apr. 21, 2009, that established the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks as a National Day of Service and Remembrance. The purpose of the day is to encourage acts of service on Sept.11 each year.
During the United We Serve initiative, Habitat for Humanity helped more than 21,000 volunteers serve their communities through 335 volunteer projects. This summer, Habitat volunteers from across the country participated in Habitat for Humanity's Collegiate Challenge, an alternative school break program that offers youth a way to help build homes. Thousands of volunteers also joined United We Serve through Habitat's "A Brush with Kindness," a renovation program focusing on home repairs such as painting, landscaping and weatherization, and exterior clean-up.
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Habitat for Humanity International is an ecumenical Christian ministry that welcomes to its work all people dedicated to the cause of eliminating poverty housing. Since its founding in 1976, Habitat has built more than 300,000 houses worldwide, providing simple, decent and affordable shelter for more than 1.5 million people. For more information, visit www.habitat.org .


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A researcher is appealing for help to trace the history of this 'ghost sign' in Otley.
John Rymer is photographing and documenting old painted advertising signs on buildings across the country – and reckons this example on Boroughgate is "probably the best I have ever seen".
The sign is a full wall advert for cigarettes and tobacco, but Mr Rymer, from Saltburn by the Sea, has been struggling to find out anything more about its past.
He said: "I have a project to photograph and document ghost signs and, where possible, I try to post the history of the business as well as of the photograph.
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A poster created for the predecessor to the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau 35 years ago is still too risqué for some media outlets including Facebook.
In 1979, Miami advertising firm Beber Silverstein & Partners created the iconic poster, Miami. See it like a native, which depicted the naked back of a female snorkeler. The Dade County Commission censored the poster for its nudity and perceived sexism, and in 1981, paid $100 to shred 18,000 of 22,000 copies. Some posters, mailed before the ruling, have become collectors items on eBay and currently fetch up to $700.
It helped put us on the map back in the day, said Christine Bucan, senior vice president at the ad agency, now called Beber Silverstein Group.
As part of its self-promotion efforts, Beber Silverstein posted a photo of the poster Thursday on its Facebook page during the sites Throwback Thursday initiative. The agency planned to pay $30 a day as a boost post on Facebook, to advertise the posting to a wider audience beyond its fan base.
It helps get new fans and get the word out there, said Joe Perz, the agencys creative director. We use it to show older ads and show our history. Last week, he posted a Leona Helmsley ad, and before that, one from a Sofia Loren cologne campaign.
But this time, Facebook rejected the paid advertising, saying it did not meet its guidelines. Your ad wasnt approved because your image is overly sexual, implies nudity, shows excessive amounts of skin or cleavage, or focuses unnecessarily on body parts, Facebooks ads team wrote. It still allowed Beber Silverstein to keep the photo on its own page.
Elaine Silverstein, the agencys founder and chairman, said she finds it bizarre, when you see so much more flagrant displays of female flesh. And there is not even anyone at Facebook to call to discuss it, she said.
It was the right message then and it is the right message now, and it is crazy, just surreal, that some unknown person sits in an office somewhere and says No, that is something that is prurient, Silverstein said. I dont get it. I didnt get it 35 years ago, and I certainly dont get it now.


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NEW ORLEANS -- In all, 115 faculty members and staff at Delgado Community College will soon be without a job after the Louisiana Technical and Community College System Board of Supervisors approved Delgado's cost-cutting plan Wednesday.
It's the school's second round of layoffs this year. In February, 46 staff members were laid off.
For everyone involved in the campus, it's an end to the school year that no one wanted or expected.
Charlie Hoffacker is a painter by hobby, but he's a student at Delgado Community College to change that.
"I'm kind of in limbo right now. Definitely in a state of shock," he said.
Hoffacker said he's wondering what the campus will look like next year after hearing Wednesday that 115 people, 64 faculty and 51 staff are getting laid off.
"The real reason I came here was because of the faculty. Because the faculty wants to be here," he said.
On Wednesday, classes had already wrapped up for the semester, but students on campus for exams all seemed shocked by the news that so many are losing their jobs.
None of the laid off faculty members would do an interview with us on camera, but many told us they're wondering how administrators decided who to cut.
"We looked to maintain those faculty members who had the broadest range of the courses that they could teach," said Dr. Monty Sullivan, chancellor of Delgado Community College, in a phone interview Wednesday after the board had approved his plan for cost reductions.
The school had to plug an $8 million mid-year hole in its budget.
Dr. Phillips said the state doubled the school's mandatory contribution for employees' retirement and benefits, adding $10 million in expenses.
"Four years ago, Delgado's budget was two-thirds funded by the state of Louisiana and one third funded by tuition. In the current fiscal year, we are two-thirds funded by tuition," Sullivan said.
The whole thing still has students like Hoffacker wondering why changes to higher education in Louisiana and to Delgado have to be done with such a broad brush.
"If you're getting rid of the faculty as well, that's the reason you go here. There's really no reason to go here at a certain point," Hoffacker said.
The school is also cutting 15 degree and certificate programs from its curriculum.
The programs that are on the chopping block include:
Technical Study Certificate Programs:
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- Diesel Power Technology
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A letter from Delgado's Chancellor Monty Sullivan laid out the cost savings measure that he said were necessary.
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3) Continue with freeze of non-essential expenditures, and
4) Offer an additional retirement incentive package for employees
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6) Reduce the athletics budget, and
7) Eliminate 115 positions (64 faculty and 51 administrative/staff) effective June 3, 2013.
"Our heartfelt thoughts and prayers are with each employee impacted," said Sullivan's statement. "Their service to Delgado Community College and our students is deeply appreciated and will not soon be forgotten."
Faculty members whose jobs are being eliminated were notified in person starting late last week, according to the Chancellor.


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TIFTON -- Responding to a Cadillac crash into a tractor-trailer in the dark at 6:40 a.m. Tuesday on I-75 near Moultrie Technical College led three Tift County Sheriff's deputies in three patrol cars to crash into each other.
According to information from the Tift County Sheriff's Office spokesman, David Haire, the deputies suffered bumps and bruises and were not admitted to a hospital. Haire said there could have been either a gas tank or oil tank rupture that contributed to the conditions leading to the crash.
Georgia State Patrol troopers are investigating the crash, which left the patrol cars totaled, Haire added. The trooper that investigated the case could not be reached immediately for information on the crash.
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Remember the old Bugs Bunny line?
For some reason, Manny Ramirez would seem to be exactly the baseball player who would take a wrong turn at Aibuquerque. And starting Wednesday, he'll get his chance to do just that:
#Athletics announce Manny will officially begin stint with Triple-A Sacramento on Saturday in Albuquerque.
— Jane Lee (@JaneMLB) May 15, 2012
Manny will be starting a 10-day rehab assignment with the Triple-A Sacramento River Cats, who play Saturday at Albuquerque. If he plays the entire 10 games on the rehab assignment, the first day he'd be eligible to be reinstated to the major league Athletics would be May 29.
Manny's most likely to spend time at DH if he's promoted to the major-league squad. If so, he'd take playing time primarily from Seth Smith (.253/.395/.396) and Jonny Gomes (.236/.375/.472), who have had the bulk of playing time (26 starts) at DH for the A's this year.
Will it work? Who knows?
UPDATE: The A's officially announced the date of Manny's first game with the team:
Release says Manny "is scheduled to play his first game with the A's May 30 in Minnesota."— Jane Lee (@JaneMLB) May 15, 2012
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At first glance, Gus Rymer is your average 15-year-old. Friendy, runs cross country, does well in school, obsessed with YouTube.
But there is a reason why this Southold teen is constantly on YouTube — he's becoming one of the top performers in freestyle scooter competitions, and he wants to show the world his moves.
"Gus is awesome," said Chris Daley of Madd Gear Action Sports, Gus's current sponsor. "He's definitely got a little star power in him. One of the best riders on our team."
Freestyle scootering is on the rise and is even eclipsing skateboarding at certain locations in the U.S., according to this Wall Street Journal article. Gus grew up skateboarding and bike riding. He got into scootering about five years ago after watching videos of the sport on YouTube. And his parents, Brady and Bridget, caught on to his enthusiasm for the scooter right away.
"When we would go into the city, that's how he'd get around," she said. "We started taking him to the skate park and it went from there."
Gus practices his tricks on a half-pipe in his backyard and spends a lot of time at the skate park at Stotzky Park in Riverhead — not so much at the skate park in Greenport.
"No one goes to Greenport anymore," he said.
Gus spent the majority of his summer at two different scooter camps, one in Ohio and one in Pennsylvania — not as a student but as a professional trainer. And he started his summer out west on a three-week scooter tour sponsored by Madd Gear Action Sports.
"I finished my final exam and was on a plane to California," he said. "It was pretty crazy, I wasn't sure what I was getting into."
Brady Rymer said that Gus is a not a daredevil on the ramp — he's trained in gymnastics and knows how to fall if that happens, but he doesn't take unnecessary risks.
"He really behaves himself, but he's also very good at what he does," Brady said. "Early on we took him to local competitions and up to Buffalo and New Hampshire, and talent scouts took notice of him."
Gus has also become a master of marketing his skill on the Internet and has his own YouTube channel with dozens of videos of himself — another venue available for companies like Madd Gear to discover him.
Though his parents said they still get a little nervous watching their son flip upside down with his head inches away from the hard surface of a half-pipe, they remain more than supportive of his pursuits in freestyle scootering.
"We let him go on that tour because we knew he had the confidence, that he won't do anything reckless," Bridget Rymer said. "We've become big fans of the sport ourselves."
Gus himself said he gets a little scared when he's at the top of a 12-foot ramp about to try out a new move. But he said he knows when not to attempt something for the first time if he knows he's not ready. He did suffer a concussion at one of his camps this past summer, but he learned from that.
"Most days, I do fall, but I don't hurt myself that badly," he said.
With an impressive resume at 15, where does this young master of the scooter see himself at the ripe old age of 18?
"Definitely better than I am," he said. "I want to be competing at the bigger competitions — the Dew Tour and the Nitro Circus, where there's a mega ramp and they tour all over the world."
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100 Fundamentals of Park and Recreation Administration (3) Historical development of recreation, leisure services, and recreation resources. Philosophies of leisure, recreation, and play. Survey of organized recreation delivery systems in public, non-profit, private, and commercial settings. Career opportunities examined.
110 Park Management (3) Planning and organizing a park management program. Methods of maintaining and operating various park and recreation facilities in public and private settings. Includes design and scheduling personnel management and training preventive and/or corrective maintenance, law enforcement, vandalism control, fire protection, litter and garbage control.
200 Recreation Leadership and Programming (3) Presentation of the concepts, principles, practices, and potentials of effective leadership and programming in recreation activities. Techniques of leadership and programming procedures for working with groups and individuals. Application of these techniques to given situations.
220 Outdoor Recreation (3) To develop a wide variety of certifiable skills in a number of outdoor activities such as orienteering, back-packing, camping, rappelling, canoeing, kayaking and problem solving. Weekend camping and canoeing trips required. Prereq: Must be a good swimmer.
300 Computer Applications in PRA (3) Application of the microcomputer to several course subject areas taught in PRA to include design, park management, recreation programming, financing, managing, and marketing. Prereq: Comp Sc 200 or 201.
310 Recreation Area Design and Comprehensive Planning (4) Principles of planning, design, and layout of recreation areas and facilities. Emphasis on site analysis and design of areas and facilities according to function, need, use, and spatial arrangement. Spatial attention will be given to the study of recreation needs analysis for comprehensive recreation plans. Two one-hour Iectures and two two-hour labs.
315 Special Event Management in PRA (3) Principles and techniques for planning, promoting, marketing, and implementing special events in the park and recreation setting. Emphasis will be placed on the practical application of these techniques in special events on and off campus.
321 Landscape Management (3) Principles and techniques for maintenance of residential, commercial and institutional landscapes. Emphasis on landscape maintenance involving turf, flowers, ground covers, shrubs, and trees. Discussion of maintenance of playgrounds, natural areas, trails, golf courses, pools, and other public facilities. (Same as Pl Sci 321.)
400 (600) Interpretation of Natural and Cultural Resources (3) Introduction to principles and techniques used to communicate natural and cultural history, ecological features, and environmental awareness to park visitors. Methods of gathering, analysis, and presentation of information. Planning construction, and use of audiovisual equipment, exhibits, and related interpretive devices. Students are required to write reports and give oral presentations. Two one-hour Iectures and one two-hour lab.
410 (610) Financing, Managing, and Marketing Recreation Services (3) Study of financial resources, legal aspects, organization, budgeting, and management of recreation programs. Marketing of recreation products and services.
430 Supervised Field Experience (12) Supervised study in an operational setting with an approved agency. Emphasis on application of principles of park and recreation administration and of selected aspects of park management, and preparation of a comprehensive analysis of a specific problem. Joint evaluation by on-the-job and academic supervisors. Prereq: Senior standing.
440 (640) Regional Studies in Park and Recreation Administration (3) Evaluation of recreation resources and administration on a regional basis by visits to selected public, private, and commercial agencies and attractions. Special consideration will be given to site development and arrangements of facilities, operations and maintenance, interpretive programs, and administrative policies and procedures.