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Update: Even As He Promises to Close 'Is Anybody Down,' Craig Brittain Covertly Plans a New Revenge Porn Site
This afternoon Craig Brittain, the proprietor of revenge porn platform Is Anybody Down, announced on his Twitter feed that the site will be shutting down. In a series of tweets, Mr. Brittain wrote that the site, which allows scorned lovers to upload intimate photos of their exes without consent, will shut down entirely within 24 hours. "The website, Is Anybody Down, will completely end," he tweeted.
Mr. Brittain said he would provide more information soon and that the site is not being shuttered because of outside pressures, but instead because he "made a personal decision to end Is Anybody Down."
Is Anybody Down cropped up as a copycat of Hunter Moore's notorious Is Anyone Up, after Mr. Moore sold off IAU as a prank. The site has landed Mr. Brittain in a lot of hot water recently. Is Anybody Down purports to have an independent partnership with Takedown Hammer, a service that will strip your naked photo from Is Anybody Down for a $250 fee. Several sources have told Betabeat that they have definitive proof that Takedown Hammer is also operated by Mr. Brittain. CBS News Denver employed a security researcher to do an investigation, who determined that the emails from Mr. Brittain and the person supposedly running Takedown Hammer were sent from the same IP address. Mr. Brittain denied the findings.
Another investigation conducted by CBS Denver found that Mr. Brittain had posed as women on Craigslist in order to collect naked photos of women to populate Is Anybody Down.
Mr. Brittain has historically been rather flip about his practices–"I call it entertainment," he said recently of the site–but his tweets seem to indicate that he's had a change of heart. "A number of reasons contributed to my decision to end Is Anybody Down. Mostly my personal feelings," he tweeted, adding, "The realization that my life is empty without love and friendship is really the biggest motivating factor behind the change."
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It isn't so much that I had a change of heart. I'm not like Hunter Moore who struggles with guilt or regret. I'm just lonely—
Craig R.S. Brittain (@CraigRSBrittain) April 04, 2013
Very, very lonely. I was bullied myself as a child. You can read about it on my personal website which I won't be shutting down—
Craig R.S. Brittain (@CraigRSBrittain) April 04, 2013
I'm working on my own autobiography, which you can read excerpts of on my website (the one that bears MY name) and also…—
Craig R.S. Brittain (@CraigRSBrittain) April 04, 2013
Chance and I are co-authoring a book that details the in-depth events of the past ten years of our lives working in IT (long before IAD)—
Craig R.S. Brittain (@CraigRSBrittain) April 04, 2013
Though the tweets seem sincere, they're worth taking with a grain of salt. Mr. Moore, whom Mr. Brittain has modeled himself after over the last year, also appeared to have a change of heart before enthusiastically diving back into the revenge porn industry.
Mr. Brittain also updated his Twitter bio:
Just a boy who wanted to be loved, but never was. The last of my kind, they don't make people like me anymore. Say good night to the bad guy.


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Howard McBroom Brings His Passion for Advocacy and Education to the Board
Recently elected to Lanterman's board of directors, Howard McBroom is looking forward to doing his very best for the board, and as he calls it, the Lanterman Center.
A member of the class of 1977, McBroom graduated from Indiana University at Bloomington with a bachelor's degree in history. Shortly after graduating, he moved to Los Angeles where he worked at Curtin Security from 1977 to 2003, when the company shut its doors, after which he briefly found work with another security company, but left the new job after a short stint.
It was around this time that a friend of his who is a disability advocate suggested to McBroom that he might be eligible for regional center services. And in 2004, one year shy of being 50 years old, McBroom was diagnosed with autism for the first time. He shares, "When I first came to Lanterman, I was having some difficulty taking care of myself, but Marie
McGinley, my service coordinator, helped me find a new place to live in Glendale that would be easier for me to manage, and with some independent living services I've been doing better ever since. I call it my cozy little cubby hole."
In 2006, McBroom started working part-time at the Vons just down the street from his apartment as an inventory tagger. He says, "I started working at the same store where I grocery shop, so I joined a workforce of people who already knew me. I like my job a lot." He has also been a member of the Center's Programs and Services Committee and enjoys participating in community awareness activities. "I went to Sacramento earlier this year as part of the Grassroots Day delegation to share with our legislators and their staff about the important work the Lanterman Center does to support people like me. Marie and I also speak to different groups. We call ourselves the dynamic duo. She talks about what services are available to help young adults transition to adulthood, and I talk about my life, how Lanterman helps me and how it's possible to live independently," adds McBroom.
In his free time, when he's not visiting friends, McBroom enjoys reading history, particularly 20th century American and European history. His favorite history book is "The Longest Day: the Classic Epic of D-Day." He also writes science fiction, which he is working with some of his friends to get published. He shares, "I was recognized as being the number one fan of the World Wrist Wrestling Championship that used to be held in Petaluma, California. I watched the championship in person every year for over 25 years, but they don't hold it anymore." McBroom also volunteers as an usher on Wednesday nights and Sundays at SpiritWorks, his church in Burbank. And two of his friends have made a film treatment of a movie that they would like to make about his life.
He says, "I take my responsibility as a board member very seriously. I would like to do as much as possible to help Lanterman by advocating and speaking out on behalf of how vitally important the services Lanterman provides are, since without the Lanterman Center, I'm sure I would have ended out on the street."


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FORT MYERS, Fla. - The FGCU men's soccer team looks to finish the Atlantic Sun regular season with two victories when it heads to the Carolina's to take the field against two A-Sun Conference foes.
FGCU (6-8-1, 2-4-1 A-Sun) will meet USC Upstate (3-11-0, 3-4 A-Sun) on Friday, Oct. 26, at 7 p.m. and squares off against Gardner-Webb (2-12-1, 2-5 A-Sun) on Sunday, Oct. 28, at 1 p.m.
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FGCU at USC Upstate - Friday, Oct. 26 at 7 p.m.
FGCU at Gardner-Webb - Sunday, Oct. 28 at 1 p.m.Scouting USC Upstate:USC Upstate has called on different people to help put the ball into the back of the net this season. Upstate has scored 14 goals and dished out 13 assists this season for 41 total points. Twelve different Spartans have recorded at least one point this year with eight scoring at least one goal.
Carter Ridgeway leads the team in scoring with seven points on three goals and an assist. Jack Burridge and Troy Simon are tied for second on the team with six points. Chad McCoy, with five points, leads the Spartans with three assists on the year, while Ridgeway and Burridge are tied for the team lead in goals with three apiece. Three different players have notched the game-winning goals for Upstate this year (Ridgeway, Simon and Landon Fruge').
Since moving into County University Soccer Stadium, the Upstate men's soccer program has been tough to beat. Actually, since the inception of the program in 1980, the Spartans have been stout on the Spartanburg campus.
Upstate is an impressive 54-11-3 at the friendly confines of County University Soccer Stadium for a winning percentage of .816. Overall, Upstate is 222-44-13 at home for an .819 winning percentage in Spartanburg.
Upstate played its first season in the quad behind the Administrative Building prior to moving to historic Rifle Field in 1981. The Spartans (then, the Rifles) tallied a 162-30-10 record for an .802 winning percentage at Rifle Field.Scouting GWU: The Bulldogs gain their first road win of the season Saturday night at Mercer. The Bulldogs beat the Bears, 1-0. Jordan Gaines scored the lone goal for the Bulldogs, and their defense did the rest. The Bulldogs go to 2-12-1 for the season, and 2-5 in the A-Sun.
Defense controlled the first half of play for both teams. The two teams combined for 11 shots total, only two of them were on frame. Mercer tried pushing the ball up the field, but Gardner-Webb's back line caught the Bears with five offsides penalties in the first half.
Gardner-Webb's T.J. Fox had two saves in the first half to keep the Bears scoreless heading into halftime. Gardner-Webb took five shots in the first half, none of which were on goal. The Bulldogs and Bears went into halftime tied 0-0.
The Bulldogs intensity went up in the second half as they came out looking for their first road win of the season. Zach Burkett pushed the ball up the wing and sent a cross into the box. After a touch by Bradley Morrison, Jordan Gaines one-timed the ball into the back of the net. Gaines' second goal of the season put the Bulldogs on top 1-0. Both Burkett and Morrison were credited with an assist on the play.
The rest of the match was controlled by Gardner-Webb's defense. The Bulldogs' defense only allowed one shot on goal after Gaines' goal. With the defense playing well and Fox stopping all of Mercer's shots on frame, the Bulldogs went on the win the game 1-0. The win gave the Bulldogs their first road win of the season and takes them to 2-5 in the A-Sun.
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Lipscomb def. FGCU, 2-0 on Oct. 19 in Fort Myers, Fla.
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As the Atlanta Braves and the Milwaukee Brewers get ready for Game 2 of their three-game series Tuesday evening, both Fredi Gonzalez and Ron Roenicke kept their lineups mostly intact.
Only one change for the Braves, as Lyle Overbay gets the start at first base to replace Freddie Freeman. The Brewers also kept most of their lineup intact from Monday's game, making only two changes. Jean Segura replaces Jeff Bianchi at shortstop and Jonathan Lucroy gets the start behind the plate at catcher in place of Martin Maldonado.
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4:30pm Tuesday 12th June 2012 in News By Peter Magill , Chief reporter
ELDERLY passengers are being left in the lurch by a decision to axe timetable information from three-quarters of Lancashire's bus stops, it has been claimed.
Public transport bosses decided earlier this year to withdraw printed timetables from all but around 1,000 of the county's bus stops.
Between 2,000 and 3,000 locations were affected as part of a £100,000 savings package, which also saw electronic noticeboards withdrawn at interchanges in Burnley, Nelson, and Chorley.
But the Conservative-run authority has insisted that bus operators should share the costs of providing timetables for their customers in future.
County Coun Frank De Molfetta said: "How can you expect an elderly person to pick up the telephone and text for when their next bus will arrive?"
Many elderly can ill-afford phones, he told a full council meeting, and both he and Labour colleagues across the county had been inundated with complaints from concerned passengers.
But Coun Tim Ashton, cabinet member for highways and transport, said that withdrawing the timetables was 'not a decision taken lightly'.
He said: "The bus companies have to play their part and I have challenged them to work with us.
"We have asked them before about providing timetables and they have kicked it into the long grass. We are saving £100,000 per year and I would rather do this than reduce the number of subsidised bus services we offer."
He told councillors that around 1,000 stops, in the main town and village areas of Lancashire, would still display timetable information.


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Saunders guided the Timberwolves to their first ever playoff berth during the 1996-1997 season. Saunders coached the team until 2005, when he was fired and replaced by then Vice-President of Basketball Operations Kevin McHale. He amassed a 411-326 record during his ten seasons on the bench.
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CATEGORIES MoviesAubrey Plaza's first turn as a leading lady is, predictably, a little quirky. Her upcoming film, "Safety Not Guaranteed," is based on an ad-turned-Internet meme, which begins "Wanted: Someone to go back in time with me."
So it makes sense that Plaza, sitting in the Tuscan-style restaurant of the Bowery Hotel, is now talking about time travel. This then leads to relaying a drunken debate she had with an old friend: "She was like, 'Time travel's racist!'" Plaza lets out a laugh and a bit of an eye roll. "Sorry," she says. "This is the worst interview I've ever given."
"Parks and Rec's" dry-as-paper muse digresses. A lot. (Earlier, she explained how she talked her way into an NBC online dog-judging gig -- and then lost it by blogging about ugly pooches as her Sea Hag alter-ego. "I'm still bitter about it," she said in her signature drawl.)
While she stays true to her deadpan nature in "Safety," Plaza does much more than frown and eye roll. Here, she plays Darius, a toilet-cleaning magazine intern who ends up on assignment -- along with two others, (Jake Johnson and Karan Soni) -- trying to track down the time traveling-hopeful, Kenneth, played by Mark Duplass.
Plaza sat down with Moviefone to discuss her upcoming role, breaking away from deadpan characters and how she and Bill Murray fell in love.
I think you own the copyright on the word "deadpan." Is that at all frustrating? Yes. [Silence] No. [Laughs] I don't know how [being labeled as deadpan] happened, it doesn't really frustrate me. It would only frustrate me if it prevented me from doing things that I want to do, but so far it really hasn't. I mean, a little bit, but I don't really mind it.
So you haven't found it to be limiting? Well, not yet, but I'm, like, right at that place in my career...I'm trying to make some moves. But in the next couple years, every part that I go out for that I don't get or [if] people aren't taking risks on me because they see me as the glasses-wearing, converse shoes-wearing deadpan person, that would suck. But hopefully that's not going to happen.
You definitely have an emotional arc in "Safety Not Guaranteed." That's why I wanted to do the movie because I recognized in the script that for me, as an actor, the cool thing about it is that it starts out in familiar territory, and I want to kind of be seen as someone who can do all kinds of things. But it's hard to make that leap and to not be made fun of or to not be harshly criticized or something. So I'm hoping that doing something like "Safety Not Guaranteed" will bridge the gap, but who knows.
So will we see more emotion in your upcoming movies? Well, the movie that I am in after "Safety Not Guaranteed" is called "The Hand Job" or "The To Do List"... [Ed's note: The movie's original working title was changed from "The Hand Job" to "The To Do List" last June]
Are you pulling for "The Hand Job?" I'm pulling hard for "The Hand Job." I'm pulling really hard and fast. Because I want that title, that's the movie I signed up for, but we'll see... In that movie, my character, you cannot really use the word deadpan to describe her in any way at all, whereas most of the characters I've done up until now you can. But I'm [playing] a type-A valedictorian. There's no sense of irony in anything I'm saying or doing. It's a really different character.
I heard you were about to die from nervousness at the Sundance screening of "Safety". Were you calmer when the movie screened at SXSW? Well, I'd seen it at that point. At Sundance, I hadn't seen it at all -- and I hate watching myself to begin with -- I'll never do that again, I don't think. I was just straight-up terrified at Sundance because I didn't know how it ended, I just didn't know. And I don't trust anyone, anyway. Like, anyone that I work with it's like, "The movie's great! You're going to love it!"... I just look at everyone as potential liars.
In "Safety," your character deals with the notion of time travel. If you could travel anywhere, where would you go? Well, I was obsessed with Judy Garland growing up. Like, obsessed.
That's really surprising. I know. It's a really weird little thing but I seriously, like, had a problem. You should see my bedroom growing up, it was [Judy] everywhere. So when I think about time traveling, I'd probably go to someplace where I could see a Judy Garland concert. Maybe in 1965 or something, like [at] the London Palace, and I could just sit there and smoke inside and watch her destroy herself.
Do you think you're a part of the Judd Apatow crew? I hope so. I mean, I haven't been in any of his other movies yet, but I hope that I am in his arsenal. I hope that he sees me like that because I think we have a very special relationship -- I really do feel like he changed my life in a lot of ways. His stamp [of approval] helped me get a lot of jobs and then I kind of went from there, so I'll never forget that. And he'll never let me forget it! [Laughs]... I consider myself a part of his posse but I could be delusional. Yeah, maybe he hates me.
You're working with Jason Schwartzman again, and Bill Murray. How was that? It was pretty amazing. It was one of the best experiences of my professional life. [Bill Murray] is the king of just the world and everything. He's the funniest person I've ever been around. It was like I was on drugs when I was around him: I couldn't get enough. And we liked each other -- we kind of, like, had an understanding. I saw him for the first time in a makeup trailer, I was sitting in there and he came in and looked at me in the mirror and looked me up and down, no expression on his face at all. And I just looked back at him [and] didn't say anything. I'm like, I'm not going to make a big deal about Bill f-cking Murray. I'm cool, too!
You were having a deadpan stare-off! Yeah. We were definitely having a stare-off in the mirror. And he kind of just nodded and then left. And then I went to the set and I knew he was going to be there... and he was just sitting [on a couch] and I had these heels that were strappy that I was trying to put on and I needed to sit to do that. And I was like, I'm not afraid of Bill Murray; I'll sit next to him, no big deal. So I went and sat right next to him. I didn't say anything to him, I was just struggling with my heels and I was pretending I didn't care that he was there. And after about a good five minutes he looked over and he went "Do you need help with those?" And then I said, "Yes." And I put my feet in his lap and made him put my shoes on. And he spent ten minutes strapping my heels on my feet and I was just, like, laying in his lap. We hadn't even said hi. And that's when we fell in love.
That's amazing. It was one of the highlights of my life.
It sounds really sexy. Yeah. It was very sexy. It was really sexy. Would you support another 'Ghostbusters' movie? Only if I was in it -- I mean that with all my heart. I'm a very selfish person. If they made a "Ghostbusters" movie with anyone else in it and I wasn't in it, shame on that movie. If I was in it, if they cast me as a Ghostbuster, it'd the best movie of the last 10 years. Hands down. That's really how I feel.
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Homeless shelter served a 3-day eviction notice, ministry asks landlord to reconsider
PINELLAS PARK, Fla. - Smiling on a swing set may be pretty normal for most kids, but not for five-year-old Gabe, considering what he and his siblings were doing just a few months ago.
"They were just crying. They didn't know what to do. They were just as scared as I was," explained his mom, Stacey Krause. "Me and my four kids walked here with nowhere to go, not a dime in our pocket, without [anything]."
A drug addict at just 11 years old, Krause has moved her four children around a lot. Last June, they ran out of options, and showed up at Touched By An Angel Ministries in Pinellas Park with only the clothes they were wearing.
"I told them we'd be safe for at least tonight, and we've been safe for months," Krause said.
That safety, however, is now in danger, because her new home was recently served with a 3-day eviction notice which expired Wednesday.
Touched By An Angel Ministries, an emergency shelter and transitional housing facility, agreed to buy the old motel building on 62nd Avenue North in which they've operated for 4 years, but when the economy collapsed, so did the property value.
Now they say Cadence Bank, their landlord, won't negotiate a new mortgage that the ministry can afford.
"All the dreams of all the people here, seems like it's all going to crash," said Pastor Jeffrey Polhill.
That means 200 people now face homelessness again. Many are former criminals and drug addicts, once a strain on jails and social welfare programs, who now have jobs and pay rent.
"If the ministry does not find placement, these people will be released to the street like animals," said the shelter's attorney Norman Harris.
State Representative Darryl Rouson (D-District 70) is asking for help on their behalf.
"As a former homeless person and a member of the community leadership, we should all be concerned when a facility doing such good work is threatened with closure," Rouson said. "They have provided a safety net that's become a springing net, launching folks into recovery. Where are they going to go? My hope is the landlord reaches down and finds a way to make this work."
Depending on what happens in court, no one knows when families will face their last day in the Pinellas Park apartments. Touched By An Angel Ministries hopes the bank reconsiders.
Krause certainly hopes so, too.
She says she's sober, her kids are in school, and she's looking for a steady job for one of the first times in her life.
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Sustainable communities have well-connected, easily accessible transportation networks that provide attractive, safe, comfortable, and cost-effective access; improve mobility; and support economic vitality as well as environmental quality. Sustainable transportation planning should be a component of regional and local land use planning, matching infrastructure capacity with current and proposed land uses.
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"Environmental Assessment of Passenger Transportation Should Include Infrastructure and Supply Chains," Mikhail V. Chester and Arpad Horvath, University of California, Berkeley, June 2009
"Making Transportation Sustainable: Insights from Germany," Ralph Buehler, John Pucher, Uwe Kunert, Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institution, April 2009
"Sustainable Transport that Works: Lessons from Germany," Eco-Logica, April 2009"Innovative State Transportation Funding and Financing: Policy Options for States," NGA Center for Best Practices, January, 2009"Fostering Equitable and Sustainable Transit-Oriented Development," Living Cities, 2009
"A Sustainable Future for Transport: Towards an Integrated, Technology-Led and User Friendly System," Commission of the European Communities, 2009"The Road… Less Traveled: An Analysis of Vehicle Miles Traveled Trends in the U.S.," Robert Puentes and Adie Tomer, Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institution, December 2008"Transit and Development: Increasing Transit's Share of the Commute Trip," Reconnecting America and the Center for Transit-Oriented Development, August, 2008"Sustainable Transportation Planning: Estimating the Ecological Footprint of Vehicle Travel in Future Years," Guangqing Chi and Brian Stone, Jr., Journal for Urban Planning and Development, 2005ProjectsTransit Revitalization Investment District (TRID) Master Plan, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Interface Studio)Urban Corridor Planning, Houston, Texas (The Planning Partnership)AnimationsInfrastructure for All, ASLA Siting Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure
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Penn Connects: A Vision of the Future, Sasaki AssociatesDesigning Safe, Visually Appealing Transportation InfrastructureSpecial care needs to be given to the preservation of historic roads and parkways, transit and rail facilities so these facilities meet current needs while respecting their character-defining elements. Some elongated "parks" may exclude billboards and freight use, limit access points and speeds, and provide overlooks and recreational facilities. Special land use procedures such as scenic easements should be considered for corridors along scenic byways to preserve their visual quality and character. The visual impacts of all transportation corridors and facilities can be improved by framing views and screening eyesores, developing appropriate signage and managing vegetation. In some settings, native plants are used to provide a sense of place and to reduce potential for invasive species establishment along linear landscapes and edges created by transportation corridors.Resources"Bus Shelter in Philly Gets a Mini-Green Roof," The Dirt blog"Creating Safe, Low-Impact Access to the Waves," The Dirt blog"In Queens, Broken Concrete Keeps Pedestrians Safe," The Dirt blogResearch"Safety Impacts of the Emerging Display Technology for Outdoor Advertising Signs," Jerry Wachtel, April, 2009
"Sustainable Landscape Construction: A Guide to Green Building Outdoors," J. William Thompson and Kim Sorvig, Island Press, 2007Sustainable Transportation and Biodiversity
Transportation facilities should also be sited to protect wildlife corridors and avoid fragmentation of wildlife habitat. Where habitat impacts cannot be avoided, innovative techniques such as wildlife over- and underpasses should be considered.Resources"Better Crossing Design Can Reduce Collisions Between Wildlife and People," The Dirt blogInterview with Caroline Fraser, Author of Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution, ASLAInterview with Kristina Hill, Ph.D., Affiliate ASLA Interview with Lyanda Lynn Haupt, Author of Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness, ASLA Interview with Nina-Marie Lister, Affiliate ASLA, on Ecological Urbanism, ASLA Interview with Neil Chambers, Author of Urban Green: Architecture for the Future, ASLA "Legacy of the Cold War: Germany's Gree Belt," The Dirt blogResearch"Biodiversity Planning and Design," Elizabeth Leduc, Mary York, and Jack Ahern. Island Press, 2009"Resilient Cities: Responding to Peak Oil and Climate Change," Peter Newman, Timothy Beatley and Heather Boyer, Island Press, 2009ProjectsARC Design CompetitionSustainable Transportation and Stormwater: Green StreetsThe impacts of paving on stormwater quality and quantity should be minimized by providing facilities such as vegetated swales that filter pollution and help recharge groundwater.Resources
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Not lucky enough to get tickets for New York City's star-studded 12-12-12 Sandy Relief Concert?
Unless the Mayans are correct, your luck may be changing: In an effort to share what promises to be an incredible show with many of those most impacted by the superstorm, the concert featuring Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Paul McCartney, Bon Jovi, Kanye West and more will be simulcast live next Wednesday at Parsippany's Clearview Cinemas 12.
The local movieplex is one of a number of select movie theaters in hurricane-affected areas throughout the tri-state region offering residents the opportunity to see The Boss, Macca, Ye and a mind-boggling collection of artists. Other North Jersey Patch towns offering 12-12-12 screenings are Kinnelon, Ridgewood, South Orange and Wayne.
Even luckier, the screening is free: Tickets are available now at the Clearview box office on a first-come, first-served basis.
The one-night-only live music event benefits the Robin Hood Relief Fund to provide assistance to people throughout New Jersey, New York and Connecticut who have been affected by Superstorm Sandy. An estimated 1 billion people around the world are expected to view the concert either in person, at a movie screening, on international or U.S. cable and pay television or via live streaming over the Internet.
What's called 12-12-12, The Concert For Sandy Relief, will take place at Madison Square Garden in New York. Also on the bill are rock A-listers Eric Clapton, Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters, Billy Joel, Alicia Keys, Coldplay's Chris Martin, Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam, Pink Floyd mastermind Roger Waters and The Who. And that's not all—more artists will be announced shortly.
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(KTTV) TMZ has obtained Lindsay Lohan's booking photo after she turned herself in to Santa Monica police.
The troubled actress was ordered to turn herself in after pleading "no contest" Monday to the charge of giving false information to a police officer and reckless driving, stemming from her PCH car crash last year, TMZ reports.
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Longtime high school coach enjoying retirement
Fri. August 16, 2013 at 10:18 p.m. | By Chris Singleton/Staff Writer
Cleve Joseph retired as Ellender's athletic director at the end of the 2012-13 school year after spending 21 years at the school. (Photo by Abby Tabor/Staff)
For 36 years, Cleve Joseph roamed the boisterous hallways of local schools as a teacher and coach.
He dealt with the day-to-day duties of the job such as grading papers, constructing lesson plans, mentoring coworkers and passing on knowledge about sports and life to eager young minds.
But these days, Joseph's life moves at a much slower pace.
Joseph retired from teaching and coaching at the end of the 2012-13 school year. He served as an assistant football coach and teacher at H.L. Bourgeois from 1981-92, and he had various roles as a head football coach, teacher and athletic director at Ellender High from 1992 until his retirement this year.
After taking part in a career that spanned nearly four decades, Joseph said he was ready to move on to a new chapter of his life.
"It was time," the 57-year-old Joseph said. "I just wanted to spend more time with my little grandson. It was just time for me to step down and give the younger guys a chance to do their thing."
Joseph said he is still getting used to the retired life.
When he was working, he said he woke up at 4 every morning to take the drive from his Thibodaux home to work in Terrebonne Parish. He said he still wakes up early every morning, but instead of heading to work and dealing with young students, he enjoys staying at home with his wife of 38 years in Linda Joseph.
"My wife told me I'm running her crazy and that I have to find a job," Joseph said with his recognizable grin, "but I'm enjoying my retirement right now. I'm just taking it easy."
Joseph said he needed a break after years of teaching, but his retirement has left a noticeable void in Ellender's athletic department, where he served in many capacities like athletic director. The reality of his retirement hit when the new school year started on Aug. 8.
"When I walk in every morning, I'm looking for him," said Ellender's girls basketball coach Kenneth Dixon, a longtime friend of Joseph. "He was always here, but I don't see him anymore. It broke my heart. We miss him. We had some real good times."
Ellender principal Cory Butler said Joseph was an influential figure who retired on his own terms.
"When he decided to retire, it kind of shocked everybody," Butler said. "We knew eventually it would happen, but we didn't want to see him go. He was a piece of Ellender for a long time. He was just a good, kind-hearted guy. I never had issues with Coach Joe. He was just one of those type of people who come around only once in a lifetime."
Joseph said it was difficult to retire but he has no regrets about his decision.
"It was tough to step down," Joseph said. "I really miss it, but I had some good times at Ellender and at H.L. Bourgeois. It was great."
As a native of Schriever, Joseph grew up playing football and was a standout offensive tackle at Terrebonne High.
After graduating from Terrebonne in 1973, Joseph went on to play college football as an offensive tackle at Tulane University from 1973-77.
Joseph said he had some great years at Tulane. In his freshman season in 1973, the Green Wave went 9-3 overall and picked up a 14-0 win over LSU, which was Tulane's first win in the series in 36 years. Joseph was a member of Tulane's 1973 team that went to the Bluebonnet Bowl, where it lost 47-7 to Houston.
As his college playing days started to end in 1977, Joseph said he had aspirations of joining the professional ranks, but an injury in his senior season forced him to start thinking about life away from the game.
But he loved the game so much that he had to stick with it in some capacity.
"When I finished playing, my coaches told me if you can't play the game anymore, go teach the game," Joseph said. "That's what I did. I just loved being around football."
His teaching and coaching career started in 1977 at Lacache Middle School in Chauvin, and he later moved to Ellender Junior High before joining the staff at H.L. Bourgeois in 1981.
In his 12 seasons with the Braves, he immediately made an impact as an assistant football coach. He was young and energetic, and he could easily relate to the players from his own playing experience and background.
Sterling Washington was one of those young players who looked up to Joseph. Washington played at H.L. Bourgeois from 1981 to 1984, and he said Joseph's best trait was instilling the values of hard work and discipline in his players.
Washington went on to become Ellender's boys basketball coach in 1998 when he led the Patriots to its first ever state championship. He is now serving as the Terrebonne Parish recreation director.
"Coach Joe was instrumental in developing me as a football player, but also as a coach," Washington said. "The one thing he always preached was there were no substitutes for hard work. You've got to get out there and put the work in to get the results. That has impacted me throughout my career."
Joseph said he enjoyed his years at H.L. Bourgeois, but he was ready to move on to bigger things, and a challenge was waiting at Ellender.
At age 37, he joined Ellender as its head football coach in 1992, becoming the first-ever black head football coach at a Terrebonne Parish School since integration. Joseph said he never saw his race as an issue, as his main goal was to "be known as a good football coach."
Joseph said he got the head football coach job at Ellender off the recommendation from Ernest Brown Sr., who was Ellender's athletic director at the time. Ellender converted from a junior high into a high school in 1988, and Brown was in charge of putting the school's athletic program. In their first three seasons as a high school football team, the Patriots had a 3-27 record.
Brown, a fellow Terrebonne High graduate, said he was close to Joseph and his family over the years, so he knew what kind of coach Ellender was getting in 1992. In Joseph's first five seasons at Ellender, he led the Patriots to four playoff berths.
"He has always been a loyal and dedicated and committed coach whose interest was to help young kids," Brown said. "He definitely made an impact on Ellender when he came over there. He coached some outstanding football teams for a couple of years."
Brown said Joseph was always an imposing figure, standing at 6-foot-4, 275-pounds during his playing days, but those who knew him said he was a good man who always treated his players with respect.
"He was a giant of a man, but a teddy bear," Brown said. "He had one of the most humble personalities I've ever seen. Those are the kind of traits that draw you to a coach. He was very friendly, kind and generous. You can always count on him to be there for you when you need him."
Joseph had a 31-35 record in eight seasons as Ellender's football coach. The Patriots had plenty of success in Joseph's first few seasons, but near the end of his tenure in 2000, the program started to endure several losing seasons.
"In our first couple of years (at Ellender), we had some success," he said. "We had a lot of kids that went both ways and played football and basketball, but after that, the kids started specializing. We couldn't get the kids to come out. It was really exciting. I had some good years at Ellender. I really did. I enjoyed the school so much."
Joseph said he had a great support system as a coach, especially from his wife Linda and their two children.
"I wasn't at home a lot of times," Joseph said. "I was coaching somebody else's kids, but my wife knew that and she was behind me 100 percent, and I appreciate that."
In 2000, Joseph said goodbye to his head football coaching career and moved into the athletic director spot at Ellender.
Joseph said he didn't want to leave football, but the time-consuming work of being an athletic director made it hard to balance both jobs at the same time.
"That was an awesome experience moving into the athletic director job," Joseph said. "Ernie Brown told me, 'You're not just the football coach, and now you have to look at the total program.' That's what I did. I thought I did a good job looking out for the whole program."
Joseph served as Ellender's athletic director for 12 years until his retirement. He still coached at times by doing stints as the head track coach and ninth grade girls' basketball coach.
"I did it all in my days at Ellender," Joseph said. "I've taught so many life lessons as a teacher and coach, but it taught me a lot too."
Dixon said Joseph is a big reason for Ellender's success in athletics over the years; especially when it comes to basketball, where it became the only Terrebonne Parish school to win a state championship in both boys and girls basketball. Dixon said Ellender never had any major infractions or violations of Louisiana High School Athletic Association rules during Joseph's watch.
"He did a good job," Dixon said. "He was always my assurance that everything is going to be alright on what rules or regulations I had to go through. He was always on top of that stuff. We'll just have to make adjustments without him. If I have any questions, I'm going to give him a call. I've got him right here on speed dial."
Joseph said the biggest reward from his entire career was seeing so many of his former players like Washington and current Ellender assistant principal Scotty Dryden go on to become productive leaders in the community.
"All those guys worked hard and did something with their lives," Joseph said. "That's what I enjoyed about the job. I think the school is in good hands."
Butler said he will forever be thankful for Joseph. When Butler finished his college football career at Nicholls in 1992, he said Joseph offered him his first coaching job as an assistant coach at Ellender.
"I was a young kid coming out of college, and he gave me a shot," Butler said. "That's all I could say. I took advantage of it. Everyone admired the person that he was. He would do anything in the world for you."
Sterling Washington said Joseph deserves a break after helping so many over the years.
"He has put the time in," Sterling Washington said. "He has developed a lot of young people into productive citizens. As a coach, that is one thing you want to do. The ultimate goal is to utilize the sport to make them a better athlete, but also to make them a better person in life. I think he has done an outstanding job in that area throughout his career."
Current Ellender football coach Terry Washington, who has replaced Joseph as Ellender's new athletic director, said Joseph was a true professional who always put the needs of his coaches and players first. He said Joseph had an open door policy and was always present at all Ellender sporting events.
"Coach Joe was more like a big brother and mentor," Terry Washington said. "I'm trying to get used to him not being here. He's a guy that when things are not going well, I'll go talk to him, and he'll lift you up. People would come in just to talk, not just about football, but about life and anything else. He was just a guy you could lean on and talk to. He was always there. That's what I'm really going to miss."
When Ellender snapped a 32-game losing streak in football last year over rival Terrebonne, Washington said one of the first people he shared a celebratory hug with was Joseph.
"He's been through the ups and downs," Terry Washington said. "I'm glad that we were able to enjoy that moment with him. He's been here through those tough years. It was great to share that moment with him."
Even younger Ellender coaches like Cornell Scott, who is beginning his second season as the Patriots head boys basketball coach, credited Joseph as a big influence.
"He was one of my mentors when I first got here," Scott said. "He took me under his wing and taught me the do's and don'ts of teaching. He always gave me a few tidbits on his coaching philosophy. He is really missed around here."
Joseph said he will never forget the great relationships he has formed throughout his coaching career. Even in retirement, he plans to continue attending Ellender sporting events.
"They'll see me around," Joseph said. "I'm still going to be standing on the sidelines on Friday night football games. I can't miss out on it because I just love Ellender so much."


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The Arts Commission is 'putting its stamp' on the
National Great Lakes Museum, by way of a public art project.
Words of five poems written by local writers are being
stamped into some freshly-poured sidewalks at the outdoor public park under
construction. The poems were selected through a contest hosted by the Arts
The goal is to enhance the public gathering spot, and to
hopefully inspire some people as they visit the park in the future. A
ribbon-cutting for that park is expected sometime in June.
"This site is gorgeous. It's really great," said Nathan
Mattimoe with the Arts Commission. "I think adding that intimate interest of
these poems on these sidewalks is a cool thing."
"The beauty of the park is going to lend itself well for
groups to come down and utilize the park for different functions, or people
just coming down with brown bags and have lunch right here on the riverfront," said
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A public reception for the poetic sidewalk project is
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State Rep. Bob Hagan has also proposed a medical marijuana bill. The decriminalization bill needs 3/5 of the legislators to put it on the Ohio Ballot as a Constitutional Amendment for a vote.
State Representative Bob Hagan - (D-OH)
"You have someone who has two strikes against them and they're desperate to find a job, and they get picked up for smoking pot. That's enough for them to lose their freedom and go back to jail. Believe me, there is an incredible cost. Do taxpayers want these individuals thrown in jail for just smoking pot for their own enjoyment, instead of for stealing, or robbing or doing something else?"
"I can name you a whole generation who came through the Vietnam War, Civil Rights Movement. They haven't moved on to heroin. If it's a gateway drug that would mean 100 million people that smoked marijuana would have moved on to heroin and other drugs. It's a ridiculous argument that doesn't hold any weight."
"The bottom line is I don't want to see people going to jail for non-violent reasons because it's costing taxpayers a lot of money."
"I wouldn't want to someone operating heavy machinery under the influence, or my surgeon, or truck drivers. I am subject to zero tolerance. I cannot have a drink 8 hours prior to me going to work and they do spot check me."
Ken Macpherson LEAP Member – Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
"No legitimate business man will risk a fine or trouble by selling something that he is going to make a profit on to a member of society we don't want them sold to. So as long as they are prohibited, they will be sold to children."
"We have had a member of our family overdose and that person could have been saved. The other person who was with him had a warrant out for their arrest so she didn't call for help and he ended up dying. Another relative ... they found his body stuffed under the bed of a hotel. A lot of deaths occurr and you don't hear about them and it's an epidemic. If drug use were legalized people could get help for addiction."
"Prohibition is a failure and lets admit it like 3 out of 4 people believe it is, and lets move beyond that failure and start talking about a new system for dealing with this problem."
"If you commit a crime against me for theft assault, rape, or murder and if you happen to be an addict at the time, you should still be jailed. If you'rre just an addict them there shouldn't be criminality associated with a disease or a personal problem when you're not hurting anyone but yourself and your family."
"I am still antidrug but I am now antiprohibition."
Lt. Jeff Solic – Mahoning Valley Law Enforcement Task Force
"You're still going to have black market sales. We still have a black market for cigarettes and alcohol and we tax and regulate that. Legalization will only fuel a burecratic machine."
"Simple possession is a minor misdemeanor. 100 grams is just like a first offense speeding citation, so making them a criminal ... I don't think simply getting caught or charged makes them a criminal using an illegal substance makes them a criminal."
"Just look to recent media reports about companies trying to find qualified applicants who can't pass a drug test. Nine out of ten is one of the figures of applicants who can't pass a drug test, so yes, maybe someone won't smoke themselves to death of an overdose, but do I want someone smoking marijuana in any industry."
"Traffickers here in the Mahoning area are establishing contacts in California and Michigan and other states where marijuana use has been legalized for medical use. It has driven up the price of marijuana and created a market place for the designer marijuana. Money from here is being laundered and sent out west so it opened a whole new revenue stream for organized crime."
Jeff Orr, Trumbull Ashtabula Group
"Organized crime is already moving in. Right now our task forces are buying marijuana from other states where it has been legalized, so it's not going to help Ohio. You're still going to see a black market. To say we're going to tax and regulate it and we're not going to see the marijuana coming from Mexico is wrong. A black market will still exist."
"Most of the people who smoke pot in Ohio don't want the government taxing it at all. They want to be able to grow it in their backyard without any inteference by the government. To have them say it's goign to be used to fund some other programs is riduculous. You're just going to have to spend more on treatment programs to deal with addiction. Marijuana stays longer in your system than any other drug. It's just going to make societal problems worse."
"Over 90 percent of the houses we raid and search on warrants for hard drugs have marijuana in them. We can clearly see it's a drug kids start on. It's a drug kids feel safe using because thier peers are starting with it, so they will experiment with marijuana as a starter drug thinking they'll never take the next step to a harder drug. I've seen the devestation to families. We all have kids."
"I've heard Rep. Hagan say we send people to prison for simple possession, but that's not true at all. We target drug traffickers."
Trumbull Prosecutor Dennis Watkins
"As a matter of public policy to legalize marijauan will create more problems not less. I see it all the time in crimes. People are commiting murders and they're often on marijuana and other drugs. I believe marijuana is a gateway drug to other drugs."
"When I became a prosecutor in the 1970's the penalty for marijuana was 20 to 40 years. Ever since then the penalties have lessened. They have come to a point where they are a misdemeanor."
"I'm not saying you dont have a problem. I'm not saying it's not a public health problem. You do need treatment and drug courts, but to create another larger problem by legalizing marijuana is not the problem."


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Suns honor fighting forces with military night
Originally published: Nov 12, 2012 - 7:11 am
"We have basically gone to our first row floor seat holders and asked them to donate their tickets so we can give them to active military personnel," Suns President Jason Rowley said.
"It's going to be a really great thing."
The Suns will introduce five wounded veterans at the start of the game, and will be honoring the military the entire season.
"What we're basically going to be doing all season is offering discounted tickets, basically starting at around $15 for anyone who has a valid military I.D.," said Rowley.
"All military families can get the discount, especially those with loved ones now serving overseas."
Rowley has a soft spot for the military -- he served four years in the Navy.
"You learn how to deal with adversity, you learn how to work hard," said Crowley. "You learn how to work together with people from all other walks of life."
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If all school lessons were taught with Oreos, I'm sure we'd all be so much smarter by now.
Australian Telescope and Binocular store Optics Central put together this neat infographic on the different phases of the moon, as portrayed by varying amounts of Oreo creme filling. For example, the perfect amount of filling? A full moon. Slightly under? The waning and waxing gibbous. Way too little filling? First and third quarters. Don't even get us started on New Moons.
Fractions, angles, circumferences — all of the Oreos for all of the school!
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By DENISE A. RAYMO
---- — RAINBOW LAKE — Foreclosure on a $520,000 Adirondack property led to the arrest of three people who refused to leave and the alleged discovery of marijuana plants and illegal guns.
Noel Prellwitz, 53; his long-time companion, Susan Laubert, 61; and their daughter, Kama Prellwitz, 23; were charged by Franklin County Sheriff's deputies with second-degree obstruction of governmental administration this week for allegedly fighting eviction from 81 Hull Road in the Town of Brighton.
"This has been going on for years," Deputy Sgt. Barry Cartier said. "(Prellwitz) inherited the property from his grandfather, but because of back taxes, it was bought by a man from New Jersey."
Prellwitz owed $92,955 in unpaid taxes, dating back to 2007, according to the County Treasurer's Office.
The waterfront property was foreclosed upon and included in the county's June 26 land auction.
Its total assessed value is $521,500, with the 1.5 acre of land alone valued at $406,000, the Treasurer's Office said.
Cartier said a main house and a few other buildings were crammed full of possessions that Prellwitz inherited.
The property was purchased by John Matarese of Franklin Lake, N.J., for $230,000, and he sought to have the family removed, as is his right as the new owner, Cartier said.
Deputies arrived early Monday to serve the eviction notice, which gives the occupants 72 hours to clear out.
"We do a number of evictions, but nothing like this one," he said. Some people who get the notice "stay until the last minute, but they usually move out. But this time, this was different.
"He said he went to college for 15 years. He said he was born and raised there, and he was going to die there," the sergeant said.
"I spent 30 minutes trying to explain to them what had to happen, but my impression is he brainwashed the women. He believes in sovereignty and doesn't recognize the government's authority."
Cartier said State Police troopers were also at the property to assist since law enforcement had been told Prellwitz had weapons on the premises.
He said Prellwitz was outdoors in front of the home when they arrived so he had no opportunity to get near a weapon.
"We didn't know there were other people there," Cartier said, until deputies and troopers went inside, which is when they also allegedly discovered the marijuana plants.
He said the younger woman clung to her mother, refusing to leave the building, but the two were eventually removed from the property.
Seized during the incident were a rifle, a shotgun and a handgun along with "a large quantity of marijuana plants," Cartier said.
In an eviction, deputies inventory the contents of a property, which are boxed up and placed at the curb off the property under a tarp, leaving them for owners to retrieve.
A moving company hired by the new owner of the property moved the Prellwitz-Laubert belongings, however, and the eviction was completed Wednesday night.
All three were arraigned in Brighton Town Court before Justice Nik Santagate, who sent the women to County Jail on $1,500 cash bail or $3,000 insurance bond.
Prellwitz was additionally charged with resisting arrest by deputies and sent to County Jail in lieu of $3,000 cash bail or $6,000 insurance bond.
However, State Police charged him Wednesday with criminal possession of a firearm, a felony; unlawful growing of marijuana; and criminal possession of marijuana.
Prellwitz was again arraigned in Brighton Town Court and returned to County Jail at a new bail amount — $5,000 cash or $10,000 insurance bond.
All were bailed out, Cartier said.
The family returned to court Wednesday on the obstruction charges, but Santagate was not available for additional information.
Prellwitz has a court date on Wednesday, Oct. 16, for the pot and firearm counts, police said.
"You have to have a kind heart to do stuff like this," Cartier said of this type of arrest. "This is where they were raised. This was their home.
"I know how tough it is. It was quite an ordeal."
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JAY LINDSAY, Associated Press
Updated: Nov 7, 2012 6:37 AM
Results of Connecticut voters' views in Tuesday's election, according to an exit poll for The Associated Press.
Connecticut voters left no doubt about their preferences in the presidential race or a high profile U.S. Senate race. They handed Democrat President Barack Obama an easy win over Republican Mitt Romney, and also made quick work of the contentious race between Democrat U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy and Republican Linda MacMahon, choosing Murphy to fill the Senate seat being vacated by independent Joe Lieberman, who is retiring.
McMahon didn't do much to dent the persistent preference of female voters for Democratic candidates. Murphy beat McMahon among women by a healthy 3 to 2 margin. McMahon won the male vote by a small percentage, but it didn't matter because women made up over half the electorate.
About a third of voters said Murphy has high ethical standards, but only about 1 in 5 said the same about McMahon. That gap was despite McMahon's persistent efforts to raise questions about late mortgage and rent payments for Murphy, and her allegation he got an unfair deal on a home equity loan. A good chunk of the electorate wasn't impressed with either candidate's ethics, with about a quarter saying neither has high ethical standards. About 1 in 6 was impressed with both candidates' ethics. Paul Kubala, 71, of Columbia, would not say how he voted. The retired lab analyst for a wastewater treatment plant said the ads in the U.S. Senate race were "disgusting, absolutely disgusting."
Obama was carried to a comfortable win in Connecticut by a huge preference for him among female voters, 6 of 10 of whom chose him. The female preference for Obama was amplified by the fact that women made up the majority of the electorate. It all helped Obama easily overcome less enthusiastic support from men, who preferred him by a slim margin.
Murphy swept every age group over McMahon, and was particularly dominant among the youngest voters, with 6 in 10 preferring him. White voters were split between the two candidates. Murphy had comfortable advantages among Latinos and blacks, the latter of whom went for Murphy nearly 9 to 1. Murphy also lost just one income group, those making $250,000 a year or more.
McMahon held a slight lead among the largest religious group, Catholics, which accounted for 4 in 10 voters. But Murphy was popular among Protestants and other Christian faiths, about a third of the electorate. Murphy ended up getting a boost from people who said they had no religion, three quarters of whom backed him.
It didn't come up much during the campaign, but it appears most voters aren't that concerned about McMahon's work as chief executive of World Wrestling Entertainment, now called WWE. Six in 10 voters said it didn't affect their vote. The last time McMahon ran for Senate in 2010, about 5 of 10 voters said the job didn't affect their vote. Despite the change, the WWE job doesn't appear to be a plus for McMahon. Three in 10 voters said it made them less likely to vote for her, while less than 1 in 12 said it made them more likely to favor McMahon.
Nearly three-quarters of the voters polled described the economy as not so good or poor. But about 4 out of 10 believe it's getting better, compared to about a third who said it's getting worse. And those optimistic voters overwhelmingly chose Obama. When voters were asked about their personal situations, only a quarter think they are better off now than they were four years ago. The rest were evenly divided about whether things are worse for them, or about the same.
Independents made up a third of Connecticut's electorate, and they were about split between the Obama and Romney, but their showing was down for Obama compared to 2008. But Obama had overwhelming support from members of his party, who accounted for 4 in 10 voters. Romney's Republicans made up under a third of the electorate.
Connecticut voters chose Obama when asked which of the presidential candidates is better in touch with people like them. They also picked Obama when asked whether he or Romney would better handle the economy.
Voters considered unemployment the biggest economic problem by far, with just under half saying it was their top concern. And a majority of those voters favored Obama, though the jobless rate has been persistently high during his term. Taxes were next, but well behind unemployment, with roughly 1 in 5 saying it was their top concern and a clear majority of them favoring Romney. Rising prices were chosen as the next biggest worry, and more of those voters trusted Obama to tackle that issue. The housing market was not a top issue, with less than 1 in 10 picking that as the problem that matters most.
The exit poll of 1,955 Connecticut voters was conducted for AP and the television networks by Edison Research in a random sample of 30 precincts statewide. Results were subject to sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points; it is higher for subgroups.
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What happens to all these recently purchased new lenses (from B&H, Adorama, etc) that are returned or exchanged because the original buyer thought it wasn't good enough? Are they resold as new or refurbished or used? Are they checked out by the original seller? Just wondering
I'd like to this too, I suspect they are just boxed up and sold on to the first person to come along with lower standards or don't know any better


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Restaurant/brewpub does not belong in area with non-sidewalk streets
On Wednesday night, March 5, at the Jefferson County Planning and Zoning Commission, I witnessed a blowout every bit as big and disappointing as the Broncos' loss to the Seahawks in the Super Bowl. Unfortunately, what I witnessed was not a game. The score was:
Economic Development: 8
Neighborhood and Child Safety: 0
When Cheri Gerou hangs it up as our state representative at the end of the year, we'll owe her a gigantic debt of gratitude for six very good years.
By Jeffrey A. Roberts
"Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants."
Louis Brandeis wrote these words a century ago, before his appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court, to note the power of publicity as a cure for "social and industrial diseases" like the inequities fostered by the corporate monopolies of his time.
By Cheri Gerou
In 1783, officers of the Continental and French armies founded our nation's oldest patriotic organization: Society of the Cincinnati. Central to its purpose was the philosophy of a Roman, Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus (519-430 B.C.), who left his farm to accept a term as Roman consul and served as magister populi (with temporary powers akin to a modern-era dictator).
Flashing signs needed to warn of elk on local roads
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CONIFER, Colo. (AP) -- Authorities said Friday they are investigating how well an emergency telephone notification system worked during a deadly Colorado wildfire because some residents who signed up never got a warning.
About 12 percent of the people authorities intended to notify didn't get a warning Monday about the wildfire in the mountains southwest of Denver. Jefferson County sheriff's spokesman Mark Techmeyer said some of those people likely hung up after hearing a pause that precedes the automated message, or their phone lines may have been busy.
He said that is bound to happen in any emergency, but authorities were most concerned that there wasn't any attempt to reach an unknown number of additional people registered to get the telephone alerts.
"We want to get to the bottom of this as much as our citizens do," Techmeyer said.
The company that handles the system, Baton Rouge, La.-based FirstCall Network Inc., said it worked exactly as it should have. FirstCall provides the alert service to as many as 200 agencies nationwide.
"I know that everyone who opted in got the call," FirstCall President Mark Teague said Friday. "We're working closely with (county officials) trying to get them all the information they need."
FirstCall's system is set up to call three times at three-minute intervals if a phone line is busy, Teague said. Local agencies can change that if they wish and can also decide what message appears on a recipient's telephone if it has caller ID. Jefferson County's system also sends text messages, FirstCall said.
Monday's calls went out in two waves. The first included people outside the evacuation area and even outside Colorado, Techmeyer said. He didn't know the times of the calls.
Sheriff's officials said a couple found dead in the fire zone got a call, as did a woman who remains missing, but it wasn't immediately clear when the calls came.
About 500 firefighters have contained 70 percent of the 6-square-mile wildfire, which was apparently sparked by a state controlled burn that sprang to life in strong winds. The fire damaged or destroyed at least 25 homes, and residents of about 180 homes remain evacuated.
Rescuers were still searching for Ann Appel, reported missing since Monday, while a memorial service was held Friday for Sam Lamar Lucas, 77, and Linda M. Lucas, 76.
There have been other concerns about the response to the fire.
Elk Creek Fire Protection District Chief Bill McLaughlin told KUSA-TV in Denver that state firefighters were using a different radio frequency than local firefighters after flames were spotted, and agencies were driving back and forth for about an hour to relay messages.
McLaughlin later started using two radios, with one tuned to each frequency, KUSA reported. He didn't immediately return a phone message from The Associated Press after business hours Friday.
On Friday, the Colorado State Forest Service released its plan for the controlled burn, showing that planners acknowledged there was a potential for fires to escape and cause a "significant threat" to nearby homes.
However, officials thought it was more likely they'd be able to put out any fire before it got that far, partly because of crews and water on site. Officials who wrote the plan insisted that the forest thinning would help protect those homes from a potential wildfire in the future.
The plan dates from 2006 and covers a series of burns being done in the area for Denver Water.
Under the plan, nearby residents were supposed to get warning letters. The state Forest Service has refused to say if that happened, citing an independent review into the burn.
Gov. John Hickenlooper suspended prescribed burns on state land after the Forest Service said the controlled burn apparently triggered the wildfire. On Friday, the U.S. Forest Service said it was suspending prescribed six planned burns in Colorado until the weather improves. Several more Colorado counties enacted fire restrictions Friday.
The month of March is the driest on record in the Denver area, National Weather Service meteorologist Lisa Kriederman said. More gusty winds and warm weather raised the fire danger for much of the state through the weekend, but a cold front promised to bring some snow, and relief, late Sunday, Kriederman said.
Power was restored to some areas and an overnight shelter closed as residents tried to return to normal.
Bill Suvada Jr. said he returned home Thursday but was keeping his car packed in case he has to flee again.
"It was a long night of wondering," Suvada said of his first night home.
Associated Press writers Colleen Slevin and Dan Elliott in Denver contributed to this report.


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The Beerlass's beer on draft at Maple Shade's Barrels, Bourbon and Bugs 2012 event. From the menu: "A classic Belgian-style Farmhouse ale, unfiltered, bright and light bodied. Fermented with the earthy, spicy and fruity DuPont strain, spiced with pink and green peppercorns, then spiked with Brett B and finished in oak".
Pours a hazy dark orange-golden with a white head and slightly pink tinges. Nose is oak heavy with wine barrel-like fruitiness and slight peppery spice. Flavor is sweet and dry with the pepper only appearing in the long, dry finish. Typical Belgian/DuPont yeast flavors start in the front of the palate and finish with a dry brett aftertaste. Medium full, crisp body with moderate carbonation. Mild vanilla sweetness throughout which complement the dry brett and pepper spice. An excellent oaked saison, my personal favorite of the 2012 event.
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The symptoms were all too familiar for Craig Westby.
The dizziness, the nausea, the numbness to his arms – he had experienced them all before.
Granted, this time around everything was significantly milder, but it was a concern nonetheless given Westby's long history of concussions.
Westby, a senior at Tumwater High School, felt disorientated during a routine drill at last spring's Thunderbirds football camp.
"I just didn't feel right," Westby recalls. "I knew something was going on."
Westby was able to make the self-diagnosis because of three previous incidents where he suffered a mild traumatic brain injury over a span of seven years.
The first occurred in elementary school when Westby was involved in a nasty collision during a heated game of "Capture the Flag."
Fast forward three years and concussion No. 2 occurred during middle school wrestling practice after Westby's head violently bounced off the mat.
"The first one was a Grade III (concussion). The worst kind you can get," Westby said. "I was knocked out and when I woke up I became very sick. The second one wasn't as bad."
Cleared to participate in sports, Westby fulfilled his dream of playing football for the T-Birds – first playing on the freshman team, then as a sophomore reserve on Tumwater's 2010 Class 2A state championship squad.
He excelled during his junior season, earning a starting position in the T-Birds' secondary and receiving first-team all-Evergreen Conference honors in helping Tumwater win the conference crown.
But four days before the T-Birds' 2011 first-round playoff clash with Archbishop Murphy, Westby felt dizzy after a hit during practice. His season was over. The Wildcats went on to drub Tumwater, 41-6, ending the T-Birds' hopes of defending their state title.
The loss was disappointing, but Westby was determined to close out his high school football career on a high note. Two days into spring football, however, the symptoms returned.
"It was incredibly tough. I talked it over with my parents and decided it was best not to play football my senior year," Westby said. "Ever since elementary school I dreamed about playing there."
An emotional conversation followed with the Tumwater coaching staff. Instead of letting Westby walk away, they gave him a whistle.
"They asked me to help coach the secondary," Westby said. "They still wanted me to be a part of the program. That meant a lot."
Westby embraced his role as honorary assistant coach, traveling with the team to Central Washington University for summer camp and helping out during August two-a-day drills.
It wasn't long, however, before Westby began to second-guess his decision. By the time the start of the season rolled around, his desire to play was in full swing. The change of heart wasn't based on missing the actual physical play. It had more to do with a football brotherhood.
"I just missed playing with my friends too much," said Westby, a longtime friend of defensive standouts Joe Brueske and Jaimie Bryant. "I started thinking about it at (the CWU camp). I missed the team aspect of it, working for something as a group. I've played with these guys since third grade. It just felt like something I needed to do."
Given the green light to play by his doctor, Westby had to persuade his parents to let him return.
"They obviously had concerns about me playing again," Westby said. "We had another long talk."
Westby's parents agreed, albeit with a strict monitoring system in place should any concussion symptoms resurface.
"I had to get all my practices in, so I didn't actually get to play until the North Thurston game (week six). It seemed like it took forever because I wanted to play so bad," Westby said. "I was tentative at first during practices. It took me a while to get back into a groove, but once I played in that first game everything was back to normal."
Things certainly appear to status quo for the T-Birds, who travel to Kennewick today to play Prosser in the state semifinals – the 11th time they have advanced to the semis. A victory would give Tumwater the chance to play for its sixth state championship.
"It's really hard to explain how it feels to be out there playing again with these guys," Westby said. "I wouldn't trade this season for anything."