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Weil to Add 2 Asia Offices; Tokyo Next?
Posted Sep 6, 2007 3:06 PM CDT
By Martha Neil
Corrected: Two New York City-based corporate partners of Weil Gotshal & Manges are moving to Hong Kong to open a new firm office there, and the firm also plans a Beijing presence.
Partners Akiko Mikumo and Peter Feist, along with Shanghai partner David Meredith and two associates, will establish the new Hong Kong office of the 1,200-attorney law firm, reports Metropolitan Corporate Counsel in a detailed question-and-answer format interview with two of the partners. Mikumo is a member of the firm's management committee and, notes Legal Week, formerly headed the firm's practice in London between 1998 and 2002. Both partners have mergers and acquisitions expertise.
The Hong Kong office will focus on private equity and project finance work, reports Bloomberg.
"In order to get the most out of our Asia practice, we had to be in Hong Kong,'' Mikumo, who will be managing partner of the Asia practice, tells the news agency. "Once you're in Shanghai, you need to be in the key financial centers.'' Weil opened a Shanghai office in 2004, and is applying for a license to open an office in Beijing. Tokyo, says Mikumo, "would be a natural next step."
Weil is one of at least two major law firms whose Hong Kong expansion plans have been in the news this month. As reported in an earlier ABAJournal.com post, the new combination of Dewey & LeBoeuf also is establishing a Hong Kong office.
(Updated 09-06-07 at 4:31 p.m. CST to mention David Meredith.)
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In Rockford, one school hosts its first family literacy event to help promote literacy in the community.
St. James School invited kids and their parents to the event to bring families together. Special guest Terry Broadhurst from the Rockford Icehogs visited the school and read the book "Owl Moon". At least 20 families came to the event, and participated in other fun activities.
"Reading at the younger ages will prepare them for the rest of their life and its a skill that they will always use and will always need," said Carrie Lee, Second Grade Teacher at St. James.
The school plans to host its second family literacy event in the spring.
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Wednesday, March 2 2011
Referencing the Bulldozer: An Interview with Akron/Family
Mysterious album sessions near a volcano? Multiple copies of the same disc leaked online? Citing bulldozers for inspiration? The latest Akron/Family album is the band's most daring yet, and Miles Seaton sits down with PopMatters to set things straight (somewhat).
Thursday, December 17 2009
The Best 60 Albums of 2009
PopMatters presents our 60 best albums of 2009, highlighted by a bevy of American indie rock juggernauts, the return of a hip-hop master, and a couple of the finest voices on the planet.
Thursday, December 17 2009
The Best Singles of 2009
PopMatters kicks off our annual two-week-long best music of the year feature with the 50 best singles of 2009, highlighted by a trio of American indie rock headliners.
Monday, May 4 2009
This Year Is Gonna Be Ours: An Interview with Akron/Family's Miles Seaton
Brooklyn's exhilarating folk-prog-jazz quartet hit a rough spot last year, as Ryan Vanderhoof left and the remaining three members had to rethink what it meant to be a band. The shake-up led to profound changes in Akron/Family's sound and approach to music.
Tuesday, October 10 2006
Perpetual Motion: An Interview with Akron/Family
With its third album in two years Akron/Family takes another snapshot of its continuously evolving musical journey. Meek Warrior's free jazz freak outs may surprise some fans, but bass player Miles Seaton shrugs it off, saying, 'We just want to keep capturing wherever we are along the way.'
Monday, April 29 2013
Akron/Family: Sub Verses
On Sub Verses, Akron/Family have made a beautiful, often striking temple out of their voice. In the end, though, you're outside that temple listening in, the visitor that never quite gets to come inside.
Wednesday, February 9 2011
Akron/Family: S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT
The latest helping of left-field psych-folk from the Brooklyn outfit is one of 2011's first great albums.
Monday, May 4 2009
Akron/Family: Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free
On its new album, the band delivers a masterpiece while ranging from pastoral ditties to noise-laden freak-outs.
Wednesday, April 29 2009
Perhaps the most meaningful aspect of an Akron/Family performance, and what makes them most memorable as a band in general, is the incredible willingness to involve, and be involved.
Sunday, September 16 2007
Akron/Family: Love is Simple
Akron/Family's albums get more generous with each release; this one might just be the album of the year.
Monday, June 24 2013
CONTEST: Akron/Family - 'Sub Verses' Limited Edition White Vinyl LP
Enter to win a 2LP, limited edition, white vinyl edition of Akron/Family's 'Sub Verses'.
Thursday, February 28 2013
Akron/Family – "Until the Morning" (stream)
Akron/Family's latest album 'Sub Verses' release on 30 April via Dead Oceans.
Monday, January 10 2011
Akron/Family New Album Listening Party: 8 January 2010, Los Angeles
Impressions from a single listen of the forthcoming album, S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT, music that is quintessentially American.


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First Look at K-Dash by Kardashian for QVC
Such exciting news!! Kourtney, Khloe, mom and I are launching a fabulous new clothing and accessories collection for QVC called K-Dash by Kardashian!!
The collection will debut on QVC's Fashion's Night Out, live from New York's Rockefeller Center on Friday, September 10 at 9pm EST and we'll be there to celebrate and reveal the collection to you guys.
This is such an amazing project for us and we can't wait to show you everything. It's a dream come true to have our own clothing line and we've worked really hard to make sure we've created gorgeous pieces at affordable prices… I just know you guys are going to love it!
Kourtney has more pics from the collection so check them out on her blog.
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WARREN, Ohio - A judge has dismissed a lawsuit by two women filed against a former employee of the Trumbull County Children Services Board who they say sexually abused them.
The two women, one identified as T.W. and the other as Kenya Kennedy, filed suit against Rita Watson last year alleging that while they were minors in the care of children services they were subjected to repeated sexual abuse by Watson.
The Judge dismissed the suit saying it was filed after the statute of limitations had expired.


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Ladies Man Quincy Brown Spotted in Miami Beach with Teairra Mari, Eva Marcille and Hazel E
Supermodel Kim Porter's oldest son (and Diddy's step-son) Quincy Brown was spotted keeping company with a few beautiful women over the weekend (Fri. Apr 23) in Miami Beach, FL. The aspiring rapper was seen jet-skiing in the ocean and hanging out with singer Teairra Mari, model Eva Marcille and female rapper Hazel E poolside at a Miami Beach hotel.
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---- — NEWBURY – A $10.5 million investment may be necessary to solve space and programming needs for the police, fire, and emergency management departments and to improve operations at the Town Hall.
A preliminary building assessment report issued this month by CSS Architects, Inc. of Wakefield and MacRitchie Engineering, Inc. of Braintree notes "significant space and functional deficiencies in the buildings now occupied by the Police Department, the Fire Department and the municipal offices."
The analysis provides a conceptual design for developing a building program for police, fire and EMA that optimizes functionality, security and public safety and also contemplates "altering the existing Town Hall to allow for expansion into the ground level spaces vacated by the police department. "
The town's public safety functions are brought under one roof, but the proposed design maintains distinct and separate entrances for each department. It calls for building a 21,500 square-foot complex on two parcels currently owned by Protection Fire Company 2. The existing fire station would be razed and additional parking for 25 vehicles would be added in its place.
To minimize the building's footprint the facility would be two stories high and building systems would be centrally located. The preliminary design includes several shared spaces – for training, civic events, lobby, janitorial storage, mechanical/electrical areas, public bathrooms, and parking — and a combined space for Harbormaster and Animal Control.
The space is divided with 9,403 square-feet going to police functions — not including the sally port — and 9,902 for the fire department.
The design for the proposed new police station offers 832 square-feet for dispatch; 1,445 square feet. for patrol; 1,752 square feet for a highly secured sally port and detention area; 440 square-feet for detective/CID/Evidence; 1,812 square-feet for administration that includes reception area, chief and deputy chief offices, bunkroom, break/exercise room, and other uses.
The fire station would have overnight accommodations and would be sited in a way that allows for future expansion of the 5,782 square feet apparatus bay area. It has 2,850 square-feet for firefighter accommodations including a dayroom, exercise and kitchen area; lockers, showers and bunkrooms; offices for the fire chief and deputy chief; and areas for the captain and lieutenants.
The report also looks at the possibility of relocating some first floor offices downstairs at Town Hall once the police move out. However the expansion is predicated on further investigation into how to provide adequate headroom in the lower level, the report states. Handicap accessibility to the ground floor and additional mechanical and electrical upgrades would also be required under this scenario.
Construction costs for the 2457 square-feet Town Hall expansion portion of the overall project are estimated at $817,500 with an additional $167,000 in estimated non-construction costs. Construction of the public safety complex is projected to cost $7.6 million with $1.87 million in non-construction costs. The estimates are based on recent constructions costs for similar projects with escalation to 2015.
The plan proposes an eastward expansion of the first floor of Town Hall "to allow for direct barrier-free access to the lower level to provide additional, much needed office space," the report states. A renovation of the existing lower level would provide space for records storage and municipal meetings. The design includes space for the Inspection Office, Conservation Commission, Planning and Health Boards, a break room/kitchen, a wheelchair lift and corridor, and a spot for storing polling equipment.
Survey work, wetlands delineations, and environmental analysis of the proposed public safety site must be completed next. The parcels will then be compared to other sites that were previously identified by the Public Safety Site Selection Committee as potential spots for a new police department –specifically, land on Route 1 owned by Governor's Academy, the Town Forrest, Manter Field, and the Newbury Library. The Woodbridge School is no longer available.
Public workshops will be planned before any vote to fund design services for the project occurs at Annual Town Meeting next May.


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On Tuesday, members of the Robert E. Lee Parent Teacher Association addressed the fight in the school cafeteria that left some students injured and others facing punishment.
The PTA leadership said this recent fight is not indicative of a trend in the district, but rather that Tyler high schools have made great strides to improve in areas such as school fights and attendance.
Data Tyler ISD reports to the Texas Education Agency shows somewhat of a mixed bag however. During the 2010-2011 school year, the total number of students district-wide involved in a fight was 648. The following school year, the district saw a slight uptick: 708.
Referral actions such as suspensions and alternative education also rose in that time period, from 1,077 to 1,095.
Focusing solely on high schools, Tyler ISD reports 38 incidents at Robert E. Lee in the 2011-2012 school year, with 53 at John Tyler.
One year later, that number was down slightly to 36 at Robert E. Lee, but saw a big spike at John Tyler with 86 reported incidents.
District officials said that number jumped specifically because administrators were encouraged to report any sort of altercation, in order to ensure the district gained a better handle on violence in schools. It's a theme that Superintendent Gary Mooring highlighted back in May as a focus point for improvement.
"We've made a lot of changes and we're looking at some things right now to help in those discipline areas," Mooring said. "It's just like everything else we do here. We're not sitting back and thinking we can't do anything else. This is what we've got to do."
Another number PTA members highlighted was attendance.
Both schools were able to inch up between the 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 school years: from 93.99% to 94.57% at Robert E. Lee and 92.82% to 94.20% at John Tyler.
Tyler ISD said they do not have data to report on either attendance or the number of fights at TISD high schools for the current school year. They add that the district will continue to focus on improving both figures.
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All I want for Christmas is an Upgrade
Just in time for the holidays, a new version of WordPress has been released. WordPress 3.5, nicknamed "Elvin", sports some really cool features. More importantly, it offers security patches to prevent malicious code insertion. For a limited time, JDM is offering a flat-rate special for upgrading our clients' WordPress website.
If you're thinking nobody would want to hack your site, think again. Just yesterday, my sweet mother's little portfolio website got hacked. How did they break in? They exploited security vulnerabilities only recently discovered in older versions of the WordPress core. The fix? Upgrade WordPress. The new version 3.5 comes with all the security patches for these vulnerabilities.
JDM is offering a 1-time, flat-rate price of $250* for us to perform the upgrade.
All you have to do is ask.
Besides the security and bug fixes, 3.5 also comes with a totally rewritten media library making uploading and managing images and documents easier than ever. Here's a little video on the new WordPress 3.5 and all the weird and wonderful things it comes with.
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Brownley says scammer using her name
Legislator says the fraudulent e-mail seeks fire victim funds
SACRAMENTO — An offshore e-mail scammer seeking to capitalize on Americans' concern for victims of last week's Southern California wildfires is using the name of local Assemblywoman Julia Brownley as a front for the fraud.
Brownley's office received forwarded e-mails Tuesday from residents in New York and Florida alerting her to the scam.
The e-mails reprint verbatim the first few paragraphs of a radio address delivered by Brownley on Saturday, followed by an appeal to donate money for disaster assistance. It invites readers to click on a link that purports to be a victims' assistance fund operated by the Internal Revenue Service.
The e-mail concludes, "Be human get involved! Be American! California needs your help!" It is then signed, "Sincerely, Julia Brownley."
Brownley, D-Santa Monica, said she first learned of the scam Tuesday morning.
"It's an atrocity," she said. "This is an exploitation of people's compassion for victims and their generosity. I certainly want to get to the bottom of this."
She said her office has forwarded all materials it has received to the Attorney General's Office. The Assembly's computer technicians were able to determine the e-mails originated from outside the United States.
Brownley, whose district includes Port Hueneme and parts of Oxnard, was selected to give the Assembly Democrats' weekly radio address last weekend because the Malibu portion of her district was hit hard by the fires.
The text of the radio remarks was posted on the Assembly's Democratic caucus Web site.
In her radio remarks, Brownley cited a Web site operated by the Assembly that includes information on "how and where to donate or otherwise volunteer to assist those affected."
That site lists contact information for Red Cross agencies in Southern California, as well as the Salvation Army and Goodwill Industries.
In the scam e-mail, that portion of her remarks is deleted and replaced by a fraudulent appeal for funds.
"Some of the hardest work is still ahead, and it will require the creative skill and generosity of united country," the e-mail says. "Right now California is asking you for help!"
Brownley said she has not heard from anyone in California who has received the fraudulent e-mail. She said she was grateful to be alerted of the scam and asked anyone who receives the e-mail to contact her office at 644-4141.
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Well, it looks like I'm late on the draw... the roster already went to 23 players... First of all, great job on making the initial roster Brett Bulmer! I thought for sure they'd see you off!
Since I'm late on the post (I'm 8 hours ahead of Central Time... thanks US Army!) I'll instead explain the significance of the current moves and predict what is probobly in the Wild's best interest with players on the IR and of course, the work horse himself, Brett Bulmer.
Nate Prosser and Drew Bagnall: Prosser and Bagnall were the two defensemen assigned to Houston to start the season. Both are interesting players to think about on the roster as both bring certain elements to the table which benefit the Wild. Prosser is a very well rounded defenseman who is able to play in all situations and hold his own. He's valauble on the power play due to his natural offensive skills, and is servicable on the PK due to decent smarts and ability to position fairly well. Prosser's big knock, however, is the same as his strengths: he does everything well, just not exceptional. While an all-situations defenseman is an asset to any team, this Wild squad needs to start picking its strengths and using them against the opposition. It's going to be a battle for blood night in and night out to be picked for the third pairing come the regular season. Prosser's demotion to Houston may be within his best interest. He put up decent numbers in the Aeros regular season, especially for his first in the pros. His performance in the post season left a little to be desired, however and further seasoning is definately nothing close to career banishment at this point. Prosser is really only one season removed from his final year of NCAA play, and further polishing may result in the Wild developing an all-situations defenseman with some above average offensive upside.
I imagine the Wild had a few decisions to make when it came to logically planning what to do with Drew Bagnall. Bagnall is a physical defenseman with a definate mean streak. One could call him an enforcer, but it should not be forgotten that Bagnall isn't exactly a slouch on defense. At age 28, Bagnall isn't a prospect anymore, but with as many young players the Wild has, having a little bit more maturity in the room never hurts. Bagnall's physical play would have been something the Wild would have liked as last season, as it seemed they could never clear the front of the net, leaving poor Niklas Backstrom out to dry on numerous occasions. However, his size and physical play may indeed be missed, but its important to realize that the young guys with roster spots all have good frames and it can be counted on they will be asked to pick up the physicality. The final argument against Bagnall is he's a triple digit PIM collector. With the amount of youth on this Wild squad, penalties need to be reduced to keep the young guys fresh and assignments clear. Clutterbuck and Staubitz are already 200 PIMs collectively and you can bet both will be told to lighten up their time in the sin bin.
Matt Kassian: Kassian will begin the season on the injured reserve. Kassian has proved to be an excellent policeman in the AHL, and can definately stand up to the job in the NHL. Kassian is currently blocked by Brad Staubitz and unless Staubitz proves to be unable to protect the likes of Koivu, Heatley, Seto, Bouchard and Latty, he'll most likely spend the entire season in Houston, proving he can further withstand the life of a professional goon. Kassian is definately a better fighter than Staubitz and plays meaner, but Wild fans should remember the woes the late Derek Boogaard (RIP) brought when he was here; he was a no-factor in anything other than intimidation and head bashing.
Mike Lundin: Lundin will also begin the season on the IR. Unlike anybody else, however, Lundin should be a lock to replace somebody upon his return. Lundin is known for his superior skating and great positioning on defense. With a defensive corp that is ripe with rookies, Lundin's consistancy as a good, smart defender will help even out the Wild's defense. Lundin will never impress anyone on the score sheet and in fact, fans will probobly deem him fairly useless as the season drags on and may never receive the credit he deserves as a night-in, night-out guy. Regardless, Lundinw will play an important role upon his return and this means someone has to go...
Marco Scandella: Scandella made the big club to begin with, but his position is temporary pending the return of Mike Lundin. Between the four young guys of Scandella, Falk, Stoner and Spurgeon, Scandella is probobly the rawest talent at this point. The Wild have hopes Scandella can mature into a top four defenseman who excels in all situations and retains some above average offensive upside. Scandella had a pretty decent stint in Houston last season, posting 19 points in 33 games and was praised for his ability to keep up with the play. What he lacks, however, is Spurgeon's more developed offensive game at the NHL level and the physicality and refined defensive game that Falk and Stoner bring to the defensive zone. Scandella will look at another year in Houston and prove to the high management that he can not only repeat a good season in the minor club, but improve his already vast skill set to maximize his potential.
...and... starting for Minnesota... BRRRRREEEEEETT BUUUUULLLLLLMERRRRRR!
Well Bulmer proved me wrong. He's here to at least start the season with the big club and should see some action coming. Unfortunately, even though I've been proved wrong once, I still believe Bulmer will head back to Kelowna for some more CHL time before the puck drops in game 10. To me, although Bulmer's work ethic is indeed outstanding, he's still too raw for a full time NHL job. Bulmer would most likely benefit from being able to spend a season in Houston, but he obviously cannot do that until he's 21. Probobly the biggest reason why I don't believe Bulmer is here to stay is that he's still developing into his body and needs to seriously bulk up before being thrown into the grind of a full 82 game schedule. His skills could, but in my opinion shouldn't be, developed at the pro level. It's important to remember Bulmer was drafted as a bit of a project and project players require careful steps to maximize what the organization feel they should become. I see Bulmer playing all 9 games and heading back to the Rockets with a good sight picture of what the NHL is like and good expectations set for himself. Upon his departure, Cody Almond is the next prospect in line, but at that point it could be a crap shoot of who to call up. Well... he's proved me wrong once, if a second time, I promise to shut up about Brett Bulmer going to the CHL for the rest of the season.
Well there you have it folks. Sorry about the failure in terms of post timing... give me a break, I'm a rookie!


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If you're driving I-69 with the speed control set on 80, think again.
A statewide program, Operation Pullover, has put an increased number of patrol cars on the roads.
14 News rode along with Oakland City Police Chief Alec Hensley and in two hours, he made contact with six reckless drivers.
"With the Operation Pullover, it is specialized especially on this particular program on dangerous driving, aggressive driving as well as impaired driving," Officer Hensley said.
Hensley says the department received a state grant to allow for the extra patrols, but these patrols aren't just to stop drunk drivers. The emphasis is on dangerous drivers.
"We look for those who are exceeding the speed limit. Those who are making dangerous lane to lane changes, who are not stopping at a stop sign safely as well as not using their turn signals," Officer Hensley said.
A woman was pulled over on State Route 57 and was going just under 70 miles per hour in a 55.
Her car says driver education but she tells us she is a teacher, but not a driver's ed teacher.
The driver of a tractor trailer was pulled over for going 64 in a 55. Officer Hensley says it might not be excessive speed, but vehicles carrying large loads can be dangerous at higher speeds.
"We look for that type of activity that can be contributing to accidents," Officer Hensley said.
With a new radar system, officers can clock your speed when drivers are coming and going.
In just three days, the added patrol has cracked down on the reckless drivers. Over the weekend, officers made contact with more than 50 drivers, half of which received citations.
As you can imagine, those drivers weren't interested in talking to our cameras, but many admitted their mistake and said sometimes their lead foot just gets the best of them.
Operation Pullover runs through March 24, so expect to see the added patrols throughout Indiana.
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CityCenter has asked the Nevada Supreme Court to overturn a ruling that could delay demolition of the flawed Harmon hotel tower and a trial over defects in the structure.
CityCenter filed an emergency motion Thursday asking the court to overturn a July ruling by Clark County District Court Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez that CityCenter couldn't use extrapolation techniques to prove its claim the Harmon is riddled with defects and is unsafe.
CityCenter said its structural engineering expert, Gary Hart, evaluated 397 of the Harmon's critical structural elements and found all but one defective. The elements selected included components of Hart's choosing "based on their centrality to the whole building's structural performance under gravity, wind and earthquake loads," CityCenter attorneys said in the motion.
"He then used his 40-year expertise to infer (i.e. extrapolate) that another 1,072 related, untested structural components" were defective, the CityCenter motion said.
But, CityCenter complained, Gonzalez "has ruled that this extrapolation testimony is not admissible because the 397 test locations examined by Hart were not chosen by a process of random selection."
The larger issue, CityCenter said, is that the issue of randomness and selecting what elements to test in buildings in defect cases is of "fundamental public importance with the potential of being repeated in future commercial construction defect cases."
Even as it plans to do more testing of the Harmon if necessary to prove its claims and overcome the extrapolation ruling, CityCenter and its half owner MGM Resorts International told the Supreme Court on Thursday that it would prefer to avoid the time and expense of the testing and have the jury in the defect trial decide if previous testing was thorough enough and sufficiently random to establish the condition of the building.
The testing typically involves removal of concrete in walls and other structural elements to determine if required reinforcing steel was installed and whether it was placed, spaced and tied together properly.
The extrapolation ruling limited the potential damages CityCenter could seek against the Harmon's builders. CityCenter says the ruling prevents it from recovering damages for the 73 percent of the "defective structural elements that were not specifically tested."
The "emergency" nature of the appeal relates to a hearing Oct. 17 in which Gonzalez found that if CityCenter begins additional testing, it will have waived its right to appeal her earlier extrapolation ruling.
"The notion that CityCenter should be forced to incur additional millions of dollars in testing costs and sanctions — on the condition that it waive its right to appeal this ruling — just to be permitted to present its own damages evidence, shocks the conscience," CityCenter complained in Thursday's filing.
Gonzalez this summer gave CityCenter permission to demolish the Harmon as a business decision, though it's unknown when that will happen.
Attorneys for CityCenter and contractors led by Tutor Perini Building Corp. are gearing up for a June trial over two main issues: Whether CityCenter owes Perini $191 million for work on the Harmon and who is responsible for the defects at the unused, 26-story, $275 million Harmon.
Tutor Perini says the building is safe, its flaws can be fixed and that CityCenter wants to remove it because it has no use for its hotel rooms given the abundance of rooms on the Strip.
CityCenter says contractors are responsible for widespread problems that could cause the Harmon to collapse in a sizeable earthquake and that it's suffered more than $300 million in damages.
It's unknown when the Supreme Court will act on Thursday's emergency motion, which Tutor Perini will have a chance to contest.


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The Making of a Mayor for Life
Menino's public persona hardly radiated the same confidence. WGBH made a short documentary of his 1983 run, capturing the then-40-year-old candidate on the trail, hustling, strategizing, pressing the flesh. He greets a roomful of seniors—"Hey, nice seein' yiz, thank you, I need ya help, I need ya help"—but he's awkward and seems unsure of what to do with his hands. He confesses he's struggling with being the principal. "Bein' the smilah, the shakah of hands, things like that, things that are not natural, that's the part of the campaign that, uh, I have the most problems with."
However underwhelming Menino was in candidate mode, his opponents, including a couple of ex-cops, lacked his political experience. They made the mistake of demagoguing crime and the death penalty, grand issues that might resonate citywide, but less so in the neighborhoods. Menino responded with a simple plan to revitalize Roslindale Square. "We have to bring it back," he tells a roomful of voters in the documentary. "You only—in Roslindale Square today you have 13 pizza places. Which is crazy." It was a modest pitch that voters could understand. He wasn't promising them the world. He was just a regular guy looking to fix up Rozzie Square, with its crazy superabundance of pizza places.
Menino didn't need to wow with his ideas—for that, he had his field organization. On the day he announced his candidacy in 1982, his campaign put 152 canvassers in all the district's precincts. Mike McCormack, an at-large councilor from Brighton who had been elected the previous year, says he knew going into Election Day that Menino was a lock. "I was standing in Hyde Park. People were lined up to vote. And there was a woman standing for Menino, and she kept yelling at everyone going in, just yelling the name: 'Menino!' 'Menino!' I kept thinking everyone is going to go in there and vote for Menino, because she would know who didn't and she would get them on the way out. He had some very aggressive people." Menino won easily, with 75 percent of the vote.
It was a win for Timilty as well. "It was like having an extension of me in there," he says. Not for long, though: A few years later, the two had a bitter falling-out. The most popular explanation is that Menino broke things off after Timilty, who left the Senate in 1984 to get into real estate, did business with questionable characters from East Boston. (Timilty would later serve four months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud.) Menino was fastidious about avoiding the appearance of impropriety—he felt he had to be. "When you are an Italian guy in politics, and you keep your nose clean, you're very careful about associating yourself with guys who are allegedly associated with organized crime," says one political observer, who is of Italian heritage himself. Timilty, who looks as if he came off the boat from Ireland, could be seen with questionable characters, and no one would think anything of it. "If Menino did that, it would stick to him," the observer says. So, just like that, Timilty had to go. He wouldn't be the last mentor to get jettisoned.


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One of the hallmarks of the booking strategy in the mid to late 1990s for World Championship Wrestling (WCW) was to end its broadcasts with an all out brawl pitting members of WCW against members of the New World Order (nWo).
And on this date in WCW history (June 9, 1997), it was no different.
The main event on Monday Nitro was a tag team match that saw Ric Flair and Roddy Piper take on The Outsiders, Kevin Nash and Scott Hall, as a sort of preview of their tag team title match at The Great American Bash pay-per-view (PPV) that was just six days away. The match was moving along just fine but right when Piper was getting ready to make a hot tag to Flair to give the babyfaces the advantage, the nWo -- as they so often did -- ran in and started beating everyone down.
Only this time, the locker room basically emptied and a veritable riot broke out. The Four Horsemen hit the ring, Kevin Greene was out there, Harlem Heat and the Steiner brothers showed up, Glacier was there; it felt like half the roster had come out. What's more, it wasn't even just WCW vs. nWo anymore. Various feuds were continuing with brawls all around the arena.
The ring was full, the entrance aisle was loaded, even the announce position was overrun with wrestlers going back-and-forth. After a while, Diamond Dallas Page made his way out but he was quickly overrun by Hollywood Hulk Hogan (who arrived right after) and the rest of the nWo.
The entire incident culminated with Sting rappelling from the rafters and fending off the nWo long enough to airlift DDP out of the war zone. It was an awesome scene to end Nitro and you can watch it all go down


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TriviaSings in a folk rock band called Common Rotation. The members include Eric Kufs (singer/guitarist), Adam (harmonica, vocals) and Jordan Katz (trumpet, banjo, bass). The band plays all around Los Angeles, New York and the UK. The band's latest album "Isalie" was released in the fall of 2006. Is currently (February 2004) dating actress Amber Benson. Ironically, it was Adam's character, "Warren", who murdered Amber's "Tara" on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997) in 2002. Has an older brother, Matt, who is the tour manager for Common Rotation as well as Ratdog (Bob Weir).


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Gearbox added Gaige the Mechromancer to Borderlands 2 last week, but today they released a new trailer that highlights her awesome moves. She can spawn her mech, bounce bullets off walls, and fry her oppressors all in the name of science.
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Investigation continue into gas explosion
The emergency services and gas engineers remain at the scene of a gas explosion in South Shields.
A woman and a man were taken to the Royal Victoria infirmary for further treatment to burns.
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A brief respite between fight events has given me the opportunity to do an in-depth analysis of two fighters whose contest is bound to be a very memorable affair. At UFC 158 we will be treated to a long-awaited contest between long-time welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre and long-time cannabis-user Nick Diaz. This will not be a prediction, per se, but rather a look at the skills of the combatants. Georges will get the treatment on Monday, but today we're looking at the man with the confused scowl, Nick Diaz.
(Note: I should mention before I begin that I'm not much of an expert on ground fighting. I'm far from an expert on striking, for that matter, but that is where the majority of my martial knowledge lies, and so I will be focusing more or less on the standup skills of these fighters.)
When it comes to Nick's boxing, I've heard it all. A widely circulated article compared him to the bareknuckle great Daniel Mendoza. He has been lauded for his incredible CompuStrike numbers, as well as his body punching, by every commentator that's ever worked one of his fights. The man himself isn't immune to the hype, either: Diaz vaingloriously challenged Roy Jones Jr. to a boxing match after his win over Frank Shamrock. And since Nick's next bout pits him against Georges St. Pierre, a man whose most obvious and dominant skill is his wrestling, many seem to believe that the Stockton native will have the advantage on the feet.
Well, I'm here to clear that up, and maybe piss off a few diehard fans in the process. And, one week from his fight with GSP, I figure there's just enough time for the following statement to really fester. You ready? Here we go.
Nick Diaz' boxing is overrated.
Now, before you give me the Stockton treatment, notice I did not say that Nick's striking is ineffective. His record, including a recently snapped eleven-fight winning streak, six of those by TKO and the rest decided in large part by Nick's fists, speaks for itself. But Nick Diaz does not have exceptional boxing skills. What Nick has are fast, accurate hands, incredible stamina, and the sort of pain tolerance that can only come with a healthy diet of In-N-Out Burger and medical marijuana. He's unquestionably tough, and his punching-centric style has proven very effective in MMA. But with his latest outing against Carlos Condit, we saw how it can be nullified by someone who refuses to fight Diaz' fight. Diaz' style leaves a multitude of openings for a willing and able opponent, and he'll certainly have one in Georges St. Pierre next Saturday. Let's take a look at some of his liabilities.
It has been pointed out many times by many analysts that Nick Diaz is susceptible to leg kicks. It's hard to deny the truth of this statement. He spent the first round of his fight with Evangelista Santos getting his lead leg chopped to hell, until Santos ran out of gas and Nick was able to take over. I point out this fight not only because of Cyborg's proclivity for leg kicks, but for the type of kick he chose to use. General consensus is that Nick's stance, with his lead leg turned in, opens him up for outside leg kicks. In fact, there is a very common belief among mixed martial arts fans and analysts that such a stance is generally impractical for MMA for that very reason. But Cyborg didn't land on Nick with outside leg kicks. He cracked him over, and over again with inside leg kicks, laying his shin across Diaz' inner thigh with impunity. Simple logic tells us that if turning the leg to the inside opens one up for outside kicks, then it should provide some measure of protection against kicks from the opposite side. But that clearly wasn't the case.
Nick's weakness to leg kicks does have to do with his stance, but the orientation of his lead foot is, for all intents and purposes, irrelevant to this issue. Rather, Nick's problem is his weight distribution. Look at these stills from Diaz' fight with BJ Penn.
You can see clearly that Nick stands very heavy on his front foot. This is poor form for a number of reasons, but in Nick's case it makes it difficult to check kicks with the lead leg, since a check requires the weight to be over the back foot. Nick has shown that he can make the adjustment, shifting his weight to the proper place when he deems it necessary, but this only ever happens after he's eaten a dozen or more kicks, as against Santos.
Worse, a front foot-heavy stance is bad from a purely boxing perspective as well. Nick Diaz is probably the most jab-able "boxer" in history. For someone who is renowned for his skill with his hands, Nick has proven incredibly susceptible to the most basic of boxing attacks, all because of the distribution of his weight, and the resultant positioning of his head. He certainly can pull his weight back--he often shifts his weight and moves his head after throwing his lead right hook, and he does the same when he occasionally decides to evade punches rather than headbutting them. But his face after every fight will tell you that he's quite susceptible to punches. To add insult to injury, it should be noted that the majority of mixed martial artists are not known for having good, technical jabs, which makes the claims that Nick would succeed in pure boxing with his current skillset all the more laughable. And, unfortunately for Nick's easily-cuttable face, GSP is one of the few fighters in the UFC who does possess a crisp, accurate jab.
I say that Nick's susceptibility to kicks and jabs is due to his weight distribution, but this is really all indicative of a larger flaw in his overall style. A back-weighted stance, advantageous though it would prove for a fighter who prefers to box, just does not suit Nick's fighting mentality, one in which he wins by always, always coming forward and readily absorbs one punch to give two back. And, given that Nick has fought this way in every fight, and will continue to do so until he's physically incapable of fighting any longer, he will probably always be weak in this area.
Footwork is a bit of a buzzword in combat sports these days. You'll hear it get tossed around by commentators as if it were the panacea for all fight-related ills, but its definition often proves elusive (there's a joke in there, somewhere). Broadly defined, footwork refers to a fighter's ability to put himself in a position to attack his opponent, or to avoid attack himself. The best uses of footwork accomplish both goals simultaneously. And whenever you hear cookie-cutter commentary teams offer axioms like "finding angles" or "stick and move," they are referring to the fruits of effective footwork.
Footwork is not a word you will hear uttered in the commentary of a Nick Diaz fight, unless immediately preceded by the words "bad" or "Carlos Condit's." Behold, Nick's utter inability to cut off the Octagon against the Natural Born Killer:
Diaz backs Condit into the fence. His weight is back this time, but it's obviously to load up a straight left, and Condit spies the telegraph. Nick throws his left hand, but his feet aren't in the right position for the punch to land. Condit has already moved well out of the way of the punch and, with a deep step to the outside of Diaz' lead foot, he throws a hard right to the body and pivots out, leaving Nick to cumbersomely turn and follow after him. Much to the frustration of the Stocktonian corner, this happened again and again throughout the fight.
Unfortunately for Nick, the footwork that lost him the Condit fight has won him every other fight for the last five years. This is how he fights now, and I fear it is too late for him to make any significant change to his style. He may not even see a need for change, as he and his head coach, Cesar Gracie, thought that he had done enough to beat Condit. Rather than assess what the judges saw that gave Condit the decision, Nick and his team chalked it up to bias and called it a day. This reluctance to acknowledge weakness means that Nick's footwork most likely won't be undergoing any radical improvements in the near future.
Despite all these flaws, Nick's boxing has proven undeniably effective for years now. There are a lot of positives to his style, and I don't mean the drug tests. He was able to beat KJ Noons by drawing him into his fight as he has so many other opponents, and outlasting the ex-professional boxer with his typical relentless pace and pressure. Nick is also one of the few fighters in MMA to regularly and effectively utilize body punching in his game. BJ Penn often catches criticism for his poor stamina, but some credit must go to Nick for causing the Prodigy to fade in their three-round bout with his rib-cracking assault.
Nick's head-forward style is at its most effective when he manages to get the fight to his preferred place, up against the cage. He bullies the opponent, grinding into them with his forehead and shoulders, crushing them against the fence and leaning his weight into them, all while digging to the body with accurate punches and occasionally pulling back to whallop his foe in the head with short overhand shots. This is why Nick faltered against Condit, as he wasn't able to consistently get his cardiovascularly gifted opponent's back to the wall. But it has worked against dozens of opponents in the past, and will continue to work against anyone willing to grant Diaz his will in the Octagon.
Time will tell if Diaz' ugly but dangerous striking will be enough to give GSP pause. The French-Canadian phenom is equally dangerous in all the same areas, but in very different ways. That's a story for another article, though. Check in Monday to see how the champ stacks up. Until then...
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A woman drove her car across a lawn at Yachats State Park, nearly struck another car with a family of four inside, then drove full-speed off a cliff Saturday afternoon, deputies said.The car driven by 41-year-old Maya Thomas crashed onto the rocks and surf below the cliff. Thomas suffered serious injuries and paramedics took her to Good Samaritan Hospital in Corvallis to be treated.Before the crash, Thomas reportedly assaulted her boyfriend and another female at the Underground Pub in Yachats, causing minor injuries to both of them, said a Lincoln County Sheriff's spokesman.After the alleged assault, Thomas got in her car and drove off, nearly striking several bystanders near the Yachats Post Office, including two firefighters who responded to help.Thomas drove west on Second Street until entering the state park, where she nearly hit another car and then went off the cliff, deputies said. Photos from onlookers posted to NewsLincolnCounty.com showed the car came to rest in a rocky stretch of the beach.A tow company was able to remove the car from the rocks.Thomas was cited on a charge of driving under the influence. Several other criminal charges are pending, according to the sheriff's office.
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Dish Network Corp. (DISH) fired back against Sprint Nextel Corp. (S), calling a lawsuit filed by Sprint a diversion.
Sprint on Monday filed a suit against Dish in an attempt to block the satellite-TV provider's tender offer for Clearwire Corp. (CLWR). Both companies have been fighting for control of the broadband provider, and Dish has made a separate bid for Sprint.
Sprint, which is Clearwire's majority owner, said Dish's tender offer violates corporate law in the state of Delaware, where Clearwire is incorporated.
"Sprint's lawsuit is a transparent attempt to divert attention from its failure to deal fairly with Clearwire's shareholders, as well as to exploit its majority position to block Clearwire's shareholders from receiving a fair price for their shares," Dish said. "Dish is confident that its superior offer...will be upheld."
Sprint, which separately agreed to be acquired by SoftBank Corp. (9984.TO), raised its bid for Clearwire in May to $3.40 a share. A day before Clearwire's shareholders were to vote on that deal, Dish raised its own offer to $4.40 a share.
Clearwire recommended shareholders accept the Dish offer. In its suit, Sprint said Dish has attempted "to fool Clearwire's shareholders into believing its proposal was actionable."
In the last 12 months, Clearwire's shares have tripled, as investors hoped for an acquisition.
Clearwire shares were down a penny at $4.62.
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When was the first time you hugged somebody because you liked them?
Not family hugs.
When was the first time you hugged somebody because you liked them?
Not family hugs.
pro-gun liberal
Same answer as to the kiss, 16.
Never T-T, not that i haven't hugged girls that I liked I just held back on my hugs and mane them comment on how lame my hugging was so that they wouldn't notice my feelings or feel awkward afterwards.
Hm... Where the feelings were reciprocated, 16. First kiss came soon after. Then first sexual experiences...
It was a long distance relationship and I went to stay with her for a week. It was a good week. :P
A hug because you like someone? I've given thousands of those, cant remember first one! Latest was probably my student's counselor. Don't think there are different levels of hugs, are there? I'd hug someone I loved in ze same way.
13, became my first gf then first kiss, first bj, first heart broken etc.
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CED Funding Series: "Raising the Dough" Part I
This is day one of the two-day intensive workshop for entrepreneurs, "Raising the Dough."
Designed to help technology entrepreneurs develop a fundraising strategy for their business. We're pulling in successful CEOs, angel investors and VCs to work with participants in one-on-one coaching sessions. This event is organized in conjunction with feedback from Hutchison Law, who will be assisting entrepreneurs by showcasing a mock negotiation between an investor and an entrepreneur.
Section 1: Overview of the Funding Landscape: what's out there, what's right for us?
Jan Davis, executive committee member, Triangle Angel Partners
Steve Reaser, CEO, Funding Launchpad
Rik Vandevenne, director, River Cities Capital Funds
Section 2: Angel Panel: an in-depth discussion about angel funding with angel investors active in our area and CEOs that have successfully used this funding strategy
Elaine Bolle, director and president, RTP Capital
Peter Bourne, CEO, Spring Metrics
Jan Davis, executive committee member, Triangle Angel Partners
Jason Massey, CEO, Sustainable Industrial Solutions
Matt Williamson, co-founder and CEO, Windsor Circle
Section 3: Venture Capital Panel: an in-depth discussion about venture capital with VCs active in our area and CEOs that have successfully used this funding strategy
Brian Carney, principal, Harbert Venture Partners
Daniel Chalef, CEO, KnowledgeTree
Brendan Morrissey, CEO, Netsertive
Rik Vandevenne, director, River Cities Capital Funds
Section 4: Alternative Funding Strategies: expert presentations about four alternative funding strategies: grants, crowdfunding, Kickstarter, bootstrapping
GRANTS: John Ujvari, SBIR program specialist, NC SBTDC
CROWDFUNDING: Steve Reaser, CEO, Funding Launchpad
KICKSTARTER: Rob Cotter, founder and CEO, Organic Transit
BOOTSTRAPPING: Joe Colopy, founder and CEO, Bronto Software
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text: YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - Concussions are responsible for sidelining athletes in just about every sport, with as many as three million sports-related concussions diagnosed each year. Yet, several studies suggest just as many concussions go unreported or undetected.Reducing concussions in sports has become a public health priority that's recently prompted several companies to develop products to help tackle the problem. Since learning of the significant number of undiagnosed concussions at a conference four years, Reebok's advanced concepts director, Bob Rich, has led the internationally-known company on a journey. A journey, that with the help of tech-company MC10, has produced a skullcap, which acts as an impact indicator, known as CHECKLIGHT."We wanted this device to serve as kind of an extra set of eyes for the coaches, teammates, parents, athletic trainers, etc.," said Reebok's advance concepts director Bob Rich.Before launching the product in July, Reebok analyzed medical research to gain a better understanding of concussions. Since researchers have yet to identify thresholds that always result in concussions, Reebok developed its own scale, which encompasses the range of impacts seen in sports, selecting yellow to indicate a moderate hit and red to indicate a more severe hit."The lights really have nothing to do with injury. The lights are just a way of alerting people that the person has just sustained a significant impact and maybe they should be removed from play as soon as possible so they can be checked out and evaluated," said Rich.The small processor, which measures both direct and rotational acceleration, also can tally the number of hits sustained by an athlete. While CHECKLIGHT is not intended to diagnose, prevent or treat concussions, Rich believes it has the potential to reshape the culture. Reebok tested the product this fall on two football teams in Massachusetts. "It has been estimated that over 90% of high school football players will not admit when they receive a concussion or even a hard hit where they show symptoms of a concussion. So, our goal, one of the goals of this project is to make this kind of more of an objective assessment and take that out of the kids' hands, that decision out of the kids hands," said Rich.The product costs $150.00. Reebok has headband version in development. On Tuesday, Reebok announced that it has been named an International CES Innovations 2014 Design and Engineering Awards Honoree for the Reebok CHECKLIGHT.


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The Fatal Attraction Murder Case
The Investigation Goes On and On
Police later confirmed Solomon's alibi. "We checked into his story and though he was a little off on his times, he was substantially accurate," Constantino said. Workers at the Treetops confirmed that Solomon and Warmus were drinking at the bar and having dinner. Originally, detectives were strongly in favor of Paul Solomon as the most likely suspect. It was difficult to abandon the notion of the "philandering husband kills annoying wife so he can be with his girlfriend" theory. But in this case, investigators found that Solomon's explanation of his movements on the night of the murder were, for the most part, truthful.
A few days later, Carolyn Warmus was asked to come into the police department for an interview. "We figured we might as well keep talking to her as long as she didn't object. I called her on the phone and asked her to come in and she was very nice. She said 'sure, I'll be right over,'" Constantino recalled. "She came into the police station, I said 'Carolyn, how are you?' She said fine and then said she didn't want to talk anymore without a lawyer. We had to let her go at that point," he said.
Constantino, not totally convinced of her innocence, plowed ahead in the investigation. Police also speculated that Betty Jeanne was the target of a professional hit, a victim of a burglary gone badly or an aborted sex crime. But one by one, these theories were discarded and investigators were forced back to square one. By spring 1989, progress had come to a halt. "In around March of that year, we were at a dead-end. It looked like we had nowhere to turn," Constantino recently said. Detectives interviewed and re-interviewed everyone connected to the case with little to show for it. At times, it seemed there was nothing left to investigate.
In April, investigators turned their attention to the phone records of Carolyn Warmus. These records were obtained through subpoena and soon, detectives began to examine each and every call made by Warmus from her Manhattan apartment during the critical period before and after the murder. Constantino spent "all of April and May examining the phone records every single day." One of the phone numbers on the list belonged to a Vincent Parco, a private investigator from Manhattan. Carolyn made many phone calls to Parco both before and after the day of Betty Jeanne's murder. When detectives questioned Parco, he told them that Carolyn was a former client of his and she had hired him to check on a previous boyfriend. The work was performed and although Parco did no other work for her, Carolyn continued to call from time to time to say hello. This didn't sit well with investigators who suspected there was more to the Parco-Warmus relationship than friendly phone chats. "We talked to Parco several times, each time, he changed his story," Constantino said.
Parco, perhaps seeing a future for himself that could include jail, eventually decided to expand on his original statement. He said that shortly before Betty Jeanne was killed, Carolyn had asked him where she could get a gun. She said she wanted it for protection and was very adamant about it. "Almost every time that I saw her she became fairly persistent as far as asking me to acquire a firearm for her," Parco later said at trial. Carolyn also wanted a silencer for the weapon. "She became persistent about getting a silencer for the firearm," he later testified. Although he refused to get the weapon for her at first, Parco told detectives that in early January of 1989, he finally relented and sold her a .25-caliber automatic fitted with a silencer for $2,500. The weapon was originally a gift that Parco had received from a friend. He later sent the gun over to another friend in Brooklyn, George Peters, who manufactured a silencer for the weapon.
When detectives visited Peters at his machine shop in Brooklyn, he admitted he manufactured a silencer for the .25-caliber handgun. He also said that before he returned the Beretta to Parco, he test fired the gun by putting a few rounds into a block of wood. When detectives later conducted a search of his workshop, they found a single spent .25-caliber shell casing underneath a table. Westchester County Lab technicians performed a comparison between that casing and the casings found on the floor next to Betty Jeanne. The casings were a perfect match. Constantino was elated. "The .25 Beretta automatic that Parco gave to Peters to fit for a silencer and he later sold to Carolyn Warmus, was the same weapon that was used to kill Betty Jeanne," he said.The walls were closing in on Carolyn.


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BAGHDAD — Calling someone the "son of a shoe" is one of the worst insults in Iraq. But the lowly shoe and the Iraqi who threw both of his at President Bush, with widely admired aim, were embraced around the Arab world on Monday as symbols of rage at a still unpopular war.
In Saudi Arabia, a newspaper reported that a man had offered $10 million to buy just one of what has almost certainly become the world's most famous pair of black dress shoes.
A daughter of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, the Libyan leader, reportedly awarded the shoe thrower, Muntader al-Zaidi, a 29-year-old journalist, a medal of courage.
In the Baghdad neighborhood of Sadr City, people calling for an immediate American withdrawal removed their footwear and placed the shoes and sandals at the end of long poles, waving them high in the air [...]
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Dorothy Newlun - August 27, 2009Dorothy Newlun, 95, of Aurora, died Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009, at Memorial Community Care.
Funeral services were Monday, Aug. 31 at the United Methodist Church in Aurora. Rev. Mary Scott officiated. Burial was in the Aurora Cemetery.
Condolences may be e-mailed to the family through the mortuary website at www.higbymortuary.com.
Dorothy Genevieve Newlun, daughter of Fred W. and Genevieve (Austin) Penner, was born in Stockham on March 30, 1914.
She grew up in Stockham and attended Stockham High School through the 11th grade.
On Jan. 4, 1932, she was united in marriage to Marion Newlun at Aurora. They lived in Aurora and were married 54 years before he passed away on July 3, 1986. She worked at Farmers Union Creamery, Jack & Jill Grocery Store, Red & White Grocery Store and the Aurora Mall.
She was a member of the Aurora United Methodist Church, Dorcas Circle and the church choir. She also belonged to the Aurora Women's Club. Her first priority was always her family. She loved cooking and spending time with them.
Survivors include her son, Tom (Arlene) Newlun of Aurora; daughter, Betty (Van) Van Luchene; one grandson, Mike (Pam) Newlun of Beatrice, whom they raised, and six other grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren. She is also survived by two brothers, Lawrence 'Curly' Penner of Aurora and Melvin 'Jake' (Elaine) Penner of Grand Island; sister-in-law, Fern Penner of Hebron and many other relatives and friends.
She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, Marion; daughter, Marianne Newlun; two brothers, Ernie and Fritz Penner; two sisters, Anne Medaris and Thelma Fenster; two sisters-in-law, Betty Penner and Gwen Penner; two brothers-in-law, Maurice Medaris and Dale Fenster and a great-grandson, Peyton Newlun.


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In a convenient pocket format, with its clear layout and easy-to-use cross-referencing, this handy crossword dictionary is an ideal companion for any crossword enthusiast. The Pocket Crossword Dictionary lists thousands of possible solutions, arranged under 13,000 headings. Entries also include synonyms, associated words, puns, plays on words and anagrams.
B J Holmes (Bryan or BJ to his friends) wrote westerns under his own name and also five pen-names: Ethan Wall, Charles Langley Hayes, Sean Kennedy, Jack Darby and J William Allen.
Of his fifty books, eleven so far have been, or are being, re-issued as e-books. Alongside the Piccadilly entries (Shatterhand and Reaper series) publishers Robert Hale have issued his GUNSMOKE IN VEGAS as an e-book which is now available on Amazon under his J WILLIAM ALLEN nom-de-plume.
"The VEGAS book is the closest I ever got to a movie," BJ says, "when the president of a US state Film Commission - out of the blue - got in touch, expressing an interest in it. Discussion got as far as mentioning the word "screenplay" and, ignorant at the time of the concept of 'development hell', I reckoned I was at least one step up the magic ladder (albeit a very long ladder). So for a short time I was cock-a-hoop. But it was only to be for a short time - the matter suddenly went cold and the project didn't materialise. Heigh-ho, that's the way the cookie crumbles."
"Anyway a hefty bit of research - history, geography - had gone into it," he went on, "because I had set it in the Las Vegas of long ago - which as far as I know hadn't been done before. Nowadays we associate the place with gambling and gangsters but at the time of my story it was still just an out-of-the-way watering hole, known variously as Vegas Springs or The Meadows, whose actual whereabouts were still little known."
"Remains of the early settlement are there to this day as an historical exhibit just out of town. but of the many people I know who have holidayed in Las Vegas none have visited the site. Don't blame 'em, really - folk go there for the bright lights - not a history lesson! Anyway, readers can decide for themselves whether or not GUNSMOKE IN VEGAS would have made a good movie."
Up-dates on the author can be found on the PICCADILLY PUBLISHING website* while ADAM WRIGHT's BLACK HORSE WESTERN site** carries an extended interview (including a not-very-complimentary caricature of him as an obnoxious sheriff, done of him by one of his students). Incidentally, the latter interview also reveals how, late in life, the author happened to become for a short time a "crossword guru" (as one newspaper hyperbolically called him) with a handful of books emerging under the Bloomsbury, Collin and A & C Black labels. "I was particularly proud of the crossword dictionary which, with the 2nd edition and my adding to it daily, had taken eleven years to complete - about the same time it took Samuel Johnson to finish his dictionary - but he had an army of helpers!"
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Several HACC students claim they received Campus Safety's voicemail when they called for help during Wednesday night's kidnapping of a student by her boyfriend. Now, questions about the community college's security have resurfaced.
"It's scary," said one witness who spoke to abc27 on condition of anonymity because she was so shaken by the event. "Especially with the rape that happened in
December and the Newtown thing. It was too close to home for me."
This witness said 33 year-old Julian Amway burst into her English class Wednesday night and demand that his girlfriend come with him.
However, she said more frightened when she realized that help was out of reach.
"We called campus safety and were disappointed to know we had to leave a message," she said. "So we preceded to call police."
Several others students said their calls to HACC's dispatchers also went unanswered.
Director of Campus Safety Todd Crawley was out of town on Thursday so Assistant Director Ian Parchen and explained what went wrong.
"There was just an influx of phone calls all at once. Our system wasn't designed to handle it," he said. "It's an improvement we're going to be working on in the future."
The day after the incident, Sara Mehretab walked to class the way she always does – alert but not afraid.
"As long as I get to and from where I need to be, maybe stay in groups, I can get everywhere I need to be ok," said Mehretab.
But when she heard about student who reached out to Campus Safety only to get their voicemail, she had another reaction.
"Wow. I can't even say. I'm speechless. That just an influx of phone lines jam up ... now that gets me back worried again ... but as long as I get to and from where I need to be, maybe stay in groups, I can get everywhere I need to be ok."
Parchen said Campus Safety is looking at making improvements to the system by installing equipment that would re-route calls to other emergency services.
Parchen also said Campus Safety offers a 24/7 escort service to and from classes to vehicles.
"If anyone feels unsafe … we're here for that reason," said Parchen.
Many students say the abduction and sexual assault of an 18 year-old female student in December is still very fresh their minds.
Between the two abductions, Mehretab said she might take Campus Safety up the escort.
"I think I might start using it a little bit more often now that I know I need to be more aware of my safety."
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Corporation tax collections in the Mumbai circle for the April 1-December 15 period grew 74.5 per cent over the same period last year.
Mumbai is still the largest contributor to income-tax revenues in the country, corporate tax collections from this circle are one indication of the country's corporate performance.
Corporates coughed up Rs 28,976 crore during the period (Rs 16,600 crore), according to a news release issued by the Chief Commissioner of Income-Tax, Mumbai.
Increased corporate profitability was the reason, the number of returns (including individual and corporate) received during the fiscal (up to November 30) showing a growth of only 2.39 per cent, year-on-year.
There were 16,35,977 returns received, as against 15,91,450 a year ago.
Income-tax collections in the circle rose 27.3 per cent, to Rs 11,431 crore (Rs 8,978 crore); while other taxes grew 66 per cent, to Rs 3,885 crore (Rs 2,329 crore).
Net revenue collection in the circle under all heads grew 58.7 per cent, to Rs 44,293 crore. (The Chief Commissioner of Income-Tax, had set a target of Rs 69,000 crore for the fiscal).
"Advance tax (corporate) of the top 100 cases" amounted to Rs 8,462 crore as on December 15. This is 57 per cent higher than a year ago.
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With this post, I made the case that keeping Greg Hardy was not only possible, but not all that difficult. The reason is that Gettleman made rolling as much cap money over to next season to afford him the highest offseason priority. (In hindsight, that possibly hurt the Panthers' ability to compete this season, as had the Panthers ponied up a mere $1.5 million, they could have had Eric Winston at RT, which would have been enough to convert on the 1 yard line against San Francisco.) The main objection to my post was that backloading Hardy's contract would set up future cap problems down the line. Such thinking ignores that Hardy's contract would only need to be backloaded in the first 2 years. But after 2014 several huge contracts will come off the books (Steve Smith, Thomas Davis, Charles Godfrey, Jonathan Stewart, DeAngelo Williams) plus the team will be able to get guys like Charles Johnson and Ryan Kalil to restructure, which would allow them to raise the amount being paid to Hardy as well as take care of guys like Cam and Kuechly. Teams that are good at managing the cap like Cincinnati, New England, the Giants etc. do it all the time ... stagger the big deals so that the most money goes to one group of players right when contracts expire for another group.
But just because the Panthers can do it doesn't mean that they should do it. Looking at the San Francisco game and thinking that the Panthers would have faced a similar fate had they played Seattle, Denver or New England, the Panthers really do need 6 long term starters: 2 on the OL (both at OT), 2 WRs, and 2 guys in the secondary. Yes, with another draft like last year's, the Panthers could get halfway there. I would say that they could get a legitimate big starting WR in round 1, a "better than Byron Bell" RT in round 2, and get a #2 CB in round 3. They may even be able to find contributors at those positions or others (i.e. a backup TE, a safety or an OG in case Kugbila or Silatolu do not pan out) in rounds 4 and 5.
But that would cause an issue: assuming that the Panthers are trying to win a Super Bowl now instead of rebuilding for the future, then they would have to do so with rookies at the positions where experience is the most critical: OT, WR and CB. Not just one rookie at those positions but several, and again not rookies at less critical or easier to pick up positions like TE, FB, RB, RG or 2 down MLB.
Yes, Star Loutelei, Kawann Short and A.J. Klein came in and contributed immediately. But those front 7 players had the luxury of playing along with Pro Bowl/All-Pro caliber players like Hardy, Kuechly, Davis, and (before the leg-whipping) Johnson. They merely had to come in and fill a role: run-blocking and occupying space for Star, being an occasional interior pass rusher in Short, and (in the games that he filled in for Blackburn) be the weakside cleanup guy in Klein. But the guys that the Panthers would draft this year would not be able to merely fit in, but play leading roles.
If the Panthers draft Jordan Rogers, Allen Rodgers or Mike Evans at #28, he would become our #1 WR on day one. Even if Steve Smith, Brandon LaFell and Ted Ginn benefit from the presence of a reliable possession WR that can still make plays against double coverage - a Hakeem Nicks type player - that is a lot for a rookie on a playoff team. OL? Even more so. Whoever the Panthers would draft in the 1st or 2nd round would be expected to immediately anchor the right side of the OL. And the CB would be the guy matched up in man-to-man coverage against Anquan Boldin, DeSean Jackson, Marques Colston, Larry Fitzgerald, Alshon Jeffrey or Calvin Johnson. And again, the Panthers wouldn't have to rely on one such guy, but all 3 at once. And keep in mind that the Panthers will have to do this with picks that are towards the bottom of each round, not towards the top or middle as in years past. Whoever they get at #28 will either be pretty much a 2nd round pick or someone who drops, and the same is true of subsequent rounds. So had the Panthers been drafting #28 last year, neither Loutelei or Short would have been available, for instance. Guys who were available in those regions: Johnathan Hankins, Bennie Logan and Sylvester Williams. Neither guy had much of an impact as a rookie.
I am not buying the whole "we cannot resign Greg Hardy because he would hamstring our cap" because it is untrue. Nor the "it is something that Hurney would have done", because Hurney's problem was giving big contracts to mediocre/unreliable players and drafting poorly, not giving big contracts to young all pros at critical positions like Hardy and drafting (so far) well. But if you make the case that trading Hardy (the Panthers would trade him rather than letting him walk because the franchise/transition tags give them that sort of leverage, and they could keep him away from teams in the division like the Falcons and the conference, dealing him instead to, say, the Tennessee Titans, who generated almost no pass rush from their DEs and are not in the market for a QB this year, not in the 1st round anyway) would allow the Panthers to acquire veterans that would aid a playoff run now?
Instead of going into the playoffs with a rookie CB, for example, the Panthers could do so with Brent Grimes, who is 30 and won't cost a whole lot. Instead of doing the same with a rookie RT, well Eric Winston will be back on the market and won't cost a whole lot more than the $1.25 million Arizona paid this year. WR or TE? Same deal.
Do that and you get to use your picks - including the potential #1 and #3 that you get in the Hardy trade, though the Panthers really should consider taking less like the Jets did for Darrelle Revis - on the best player available instead of drafting for need, and to ease those guys in slowly. Incidentally, that is the main problem facing the Panthers. It is going to be difficult enough finding 3-4 quality players in this draft when selecting near the bottom of each round as it is. But if the Panthers are determined to, say, get a WR (or even the best from among WR/CB/OT) in round 1 and then getting the best from whatever position that they didn't fill in round 2 and doing it again in round 3 ... it is almost impossible. It is better to get a good player at a position that isn't critically needed (yet) like OLB or TE or C in round 1 than to get a guy at a "need" position and have him perform like the last 3 guys who were taken at #28 overall (Mark Ingram, Nick Perry and the aforementioned Williams .. honestly not very many guys taken at #28 the past several years have had the impact that Panthers fans will want from a WR or OT taken in that spot).
If the Panthers were rebuilding or had a bigger talent base, I would say hold onto Hardy. But since the Panthers are in the curious position of being a viable playoff contender that somehow has so many holes at critical positions, they have to really think about using the $12 million (or even $9 million as my "the Panthers can keep Hardy" post suggested) on 3 short term fixes at those critical spots, which would free them to draft and mold talented longer term projects at those positions.
The Panthers are so close, yet so far, that doing something unusual like leveraging a young, rare talent like Hardy for cap room and picks has to be on the table. It also has a greater chance of working than hitting on 3-4 picks for 2 years in a row and having them play like seasoned vets in their first year or two.


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With an expected attendance of 60,000, the 11 days of Frameline37 will bring together film lovers, media artists, and LGBTQ communities from the Bay Area and all across the globe to behold the best in queer cinema from this year's record number of more than 700 film submissions.
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) -- Skylar Diggins and Notre Dame are back in the Final Four for the second straight season, and the game plan for the national semifinals will look familiar.
Notre Dame (34-3) and Connecticut (33-4) meet for the fourth time this season on Sunday in Denver. The winner will face Baylor or Stanford in Tuesday's championship.
Irish coach Muffet McGraw says: "I don't think there's any mystery in the game."
Notre Dame beat Maya Moore and Connecticut 72-63 in the national semifinals last season, then defeated the Huskies twice this year in Big East play. But UConn beat the Irish 63-54 in the Big East tournament final.
The Irish lost to Texas A&M in the national championship last year, and star guard Diggins says that setback has been a motivator this season.