text: 11 Oct 2012 LESLIE WINER The radical life of an enduring fashion muse, renegade musician, and perpetual badass The first androgynous fashion model Leslie Winer is the definition of an original. But she has so much more than glossy pictures to her name, like a longstanding experimental music career and first-hand tales of counterculture icons from Burroughs to Basquiat. On the eve of a retrospective album, she spares nothing and no one when reflecting on the past. Above: Photography Jean-Baptiste Mondino Above: Still from Mekon's music video for "Calm Gunshot," featuring Leslie Winer, directed by John Maybury and Honey Brothers. Courtesy Wall of Sound Above: Cover of Leslie Winer's Witch (1993) Grandmother of trip-hop, former punk model, dub lesbian, witch… Leslie Winer has been called many things over the course of her 25-year music career. But the latter of these labels is the one she wears as a badge of honor. "Witch" was the title of her influential debut album, whose deadpan feminist musings are as relevant today as they ever were: "because a woman's work is never done, and underpaid, boring, and repetitious. And I'm the first one to get the sack." Witch appeared under the name ©, the circle of the copyright symbol formed by a serpent biting its own tail. "I was thinking about intellectual property as a concept and the general freakiness of the notion of owning words," Winer says today. The album's packaging was notable for its lack of any images depicting her. As one of her lyrics—"what I look like is more important than what I do"—laments, she was tired of being photographed. In the preceding decade, she had been portrayed by everyone from Helmut Newton and Jean-Baptiste Mondino to Pierre et Gilles and Tony Viramontes, and had appeared on the cover of every magazine from Mademoiselle and The Face to French and Italian Vogue. Her TV campaign for Miss Dior and a two-year stint as the Valentino girl had left her feeling nothing but contempt for the fashion industry. "I was a reluctant model for five junkie years," she says. "Didn't like it then. Don't like it now. Somehow, thanks to the magic of fashion revisionism, I have been upgraded to former supermodel. What the fuck is that? That concept didn't even exist then. I'm also a former nasty alcoholic and former Tampax user, each for more than five years and with considerably more enthusiasm." Occasioned by the forthcoming publication of her first volume of poems, the release of a retrospective compilation CD, and a digital re-release of Witch, Winer opens up about then and now. Leslie Winer - John Says from Eye tOy /Sébastien Chou on Vimeo. THERE'S NO MEANING IN THESE WORDS The joy of reading was instilled in Winer at an early age, by her adoptive grandmother. "She was the love of my life," she says. "When I was a little kid she'd have me memorize poems. I read everything I possibly could. It was a refuge for me." In the late '70s, Winer fled her "creepy suburban life" in Weston, Massachusetts, and headed to New York to take conceptual art pioneer Joseph Kosuth's course at the School of Visual Arts. To make money for materials, she helped her neighbor, Stewart Meyer, write and proofread porn novels. "He worked for these two Italian guys," Winer remembers. "They had a very strict set of rules: no male homosexuality, plenty of lesbianism, no bestiality. The level of stuff they wanted was like, 'Her huge, milky white globes jiggled like a Thanksgiving Day Jell-O platter as she bounced on his humongous meat pole.'" Meyer's bookshelves furnished Winer with a crash course in Beat literature, and he introduced her to luminaries William S. Burroughs and Herbert Huncke. "I used to take Burroughs blueberries and sour cream. He'd read me the newspaper, we'd build model helicopters and do target practice, or I'd sit in the orgone accumulator. He made me read Denton Welch, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, and Wallis Budge. Huncke's methadone clinic was close to my house, so he would drop by two or three times a week. He was born in Greenfield, Massachusetts, near where I was born, and would tell me stories about his childhood. When I would have to go out to the store or something, he'd say, 'You can't leave me alone Leeesleee, have I taught you nothing? I'll steal everything the minute you're gone.' Burroughs was like a grandfather figure for me. There was a kind of formality to our relationship. He was a classicist, whereas Huncke was a romantic." After years of jetting between photo shoots in New York, Paris, Milan, and Tokyo—where her bad behavior got her banned from every nightclub—the mid 1980s found Winer at the epicenter of London's demimonde, sharing a flat with underground filmmaker John Maybury and his boyfriend, Trojan, painter of faux-naïf Day-Glo fantasies, set designer for choreographer Michael Clark, and permanent fixture at Leigh Bowery's notorious club, Taboo. It was in this hedonistic milieu that she met Kevin Mooney, a hell-raiser who had played bass with Adam and the Ants but jumped ship in 1981, just as the band was shedding its raw punk aesthetic for a more slick, chart-friendly, new-romantic sound. He then fronted the short-lived Wide Boy Awake before teaming up with childhood friend John Keogh to form Max, for which Winer provided lyrics and visual direction. CM von Hausswolff & Leslie Winer - I'll Be Mother from Eye tOy /Sébastien Chou on Vimeo. Trojan and Maybury were the sole witnesses at Winer and Mooney's shotgun wedding in the spring of 1986. "I got married for the papers," Winer says. "Period. The British wanted me to leave the country." A few months later, Trojan was dead, at age 21, from an accidental overdose. Max paid tribute to his incorrigible flamboyance in its 1987 release "Little Ghost," penned by Winer and Mooney: "Here is an angel with a bow and arrow, saying God doesn't know how to put on her halo." The B-side featured Winer's debut vocal performance, on the track "337.5537's Little Ghost." The mysterious title alluded to her early '80s romance with painter Jean-Michel Basquiat. "I lived with him mostly off and sometimes on for a couple of years," says Winer. "3375537 is my name upside-down, calculator-wise, phone-number length. Basquiat used it for tagging. Dondi White and Rammellzee would use it as far north as the Bronx as what I like to call a 'fat-girl nod' in my direction." Winer and Mooney next wrote "Just Call Me Joe" for Sinéad O'Connor, with Winer intoning her own dystopian prose at the close of the track. Watching legendary producer Trevor Horn work on Max's album gave her the confidence to branch out on her own and take a new artistic direction. "I wasn't pleased with the way Max was making its music. I was that annoying kind of studio back-seat driver. But watching Trevor mix I could see he was doing the whole thing visually, like choreographing in space, and I realized I could try that." In 1988, Winer recorded her first song, "Kind of Easy," with Karl Bonnie from Renegade Soundwave. "That was the first time I got to put down music how I wanted," she says. "We sent it to Jon Baker at Gee Street, who put us in the studio. He hated the tracks we came up with, but wouldn't give us the tapes. Karl broke in and stole them back, and we took them to Rhythm King, who put 'Kind of Easy' out on vinyl. This must have been in 1989 or 1990. Karl's brother told us it was a popular cassette bootleg among bicycle messengers in London, and we were way-out-of-proportion pleased with ourselves." The subsequent white-label pressing of Witch, with its combination of sluggish reggae beats, lo-fi samples, spacey reverb, and spoken-word vocal delivery provided a blueprint for the trip-hop sound popularized over the next few years by Massive Attack, Tricky, and Portishead. By the time Witch had its official release, in 1993, it was old news for Winer. She had moved on, both artistically and geographically. THESE ARE THE WORDS I DIDN'T INVENT. ONLY AN ATTEMPT TO SAY WHAT I MEANT. In 1991, Winer relocated to Miami and was working at Island Records founder Chris Blackwell's South Beach Studios, run by Cuban-American producer Joe Galdo, inventor of the Miami Sound. The material she recorded there, 3 Bags Full and Spider, has slowly percolated to the surface over the last decade or so in almost impossible-to-find limited editions. In 1999, longtime friend and fan Helmut Lang issued Spider as a CD, limited to 500 copies, and in 2010, London-based cassette-only label The Tapeworm released tracks from both projects under the title & That Dead Horse, in an edition of 250. "This is Life," one of the songs Winer wrote for Grace Jones's shelved Black Marilyn album, finally appeared (albeit in slightly adulterated form) as the opening track on Jones's 2008 comeback album, Hurricane. Last year saw the release of a four-track vinyl EP, Always Already, under the name Purity Supreme, Winer's ongoing artistic partnership with French musician and producer Christophe Van Huffel. Meanwhile, Winer's association with The Tapeworm has spawned as-yet-unfinished collaborations with artists as diverse as Swedish composer Carl Michael von Hausswolff (King of Elgaland-Vargaland), and London-based ecstatic noise artist Dale Cornish. And there's a forthcoming Bookworm edition, 10 Pomes Fin (Irish Wristwatch). & WORDS I HAVE NONE. I JUST STEEL THEM & MAKE THEM TALK. Close listening to Winer's songs over the past 25 years reveals her recycling certain lyrics, rephrased from track to track to create shifting constellations of meaning. "When I was pregnant with my second daughter," Winer recalls, "I joined a Heidegger study group at MIT because I figured it would make the baby much smarter. They were unpacking his book Poetry, Language, Thought, which contains a Rilke fragment: '…in the end, it is our unshieldedness on which we depend, and that, when we saw it threaten, we turned it so into the Open that, in widest orbit somewhere, where the Law touches us, we may affirm it.' I've been parsing that over and over for 25 years to get at its it-ness, its suchness. I'll get hold of a sentence and live my way into understanding it. It's a private business. It's not like, I'm gonna make something and people will like it. It's a selfish pleasure." 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Michigan Lawmaker Aims To Limit The Use Of Drones
A Republican Michigan lawmaker has proposed measures to restrict the use of pilotless aircraft by law enforcement to gather information.
Early Days Of Flight Come To Pontiac With 1929 Ford Tri-Motor Airliner
A classic aircraft from the early days of commercial air travel will recreate those memories this weekend as the Experimental Aircraft Association brings its restored 1929 Ford Tri-Motor airliner to Oakland County International Airport in Pontiac
Brazilian Aircraft Maker Expands Use Of Troy Firm's Software
The Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer S.A. is expanding its use of Troy-based Dimensional Control Systems Inc.'s 3DCS software for tolerance simulation modeling of its airplanes.
Keeping The Skies Safe — One Year After Attempted Bombing
On the one year anniversary of the attempted airline bombing over Detroit, a top military official says new warnings are an example of federal officials trying to anticipate terror tactics.
GE's GR Plant Providing Systems for China's First Large Aircraft
Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China Ltd. Monday announced that GE Aviation Systems and AVIC Systems, the partners to a proposed AVIC GE joint venture, have been selected to provide the avionics core processing system, display […]

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September 25, 2012: (location: Heart Institute Auditorium)"Treponema denticola, periodontal disease and the paradox of factor H cleavage"
Richard Marconi, PhD, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
November 13, 2012: "Evolution of glycan utilization in human gut Bacteroidetes"
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April 4, 2012: bhuTUVand bhuOgene products play vital roles in the ability of Brucellaabortusto use heme as an iron source and are regulated in an iron-responsive manner by RirA and Irr"
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April 24, 2012: "Dangerous liaisons: subversion of neutrophil antimicrobial activities by Neisseria gonorrhoeae"
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August 16, 2011: "Thoughts on Administrative Philosophy"
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MADISON (WKOW) – The deadline for Wisconsin farmers to be included in the U.S. Census of Agriculture is drawing near.
The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection says farmers have until February 4 to complete their census. The census is done every five years.
The National Agricultural Statistics Service looks at land use and ownership, income and expenditures and production practices.
Farms of all sizes and types are required to complete the census. A farm is defined as an operation from which produces and sells $1,000 or more of agricultural products.
The census forms were mailed to farms late last month. Farmers can also complete the census online at www.agcensus.usda.gov.
The census provides impartial and comprehensive agricultural data for every county in Wisconsin and the country.
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Details at Elie Saab Haute Couture | Spring 2013
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I was here yesterday…weird haha
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when you see your reflection on your laptop screen and you just look
I remember when I thought people in their 20's were adults. Now all of my friends are in their 20's and everybody is just kind of fumbling around bumping into each other, trying to figure out where the free food is
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Women, too, have been socialized to believe that the ultimate arbiters of their appearance are men, that anything they do with their appearance is or should be "for men." That's why women's magazines trip over themselves to offer up advice on "what he wants to see you wearing" and "what men think of these current fashion trends" and "wow him with these new hairstyles." While women can and do judge each other's appearance harshly, many of us grew up being told by mothers, sisters, and female strangers that we'll never "get a man" or "keep a man" unless we do X or lose some fat from Y, unless we moisturize//trim/shave/push up/hide/show/"flatter"/paint/dye/exfoliate/pierce/surgically alter this or that.
That's also why when a woman wears revealing clothes, it's okay, in our society, to assume that she's "looking for attention" or that she's a slut and wants to sleep with a bunch of guys. Because why else would a woman wear revealing clothes if not for the benefit of men and to communicate her sexual availability to them, right? It can't possibly have anything to do with the fact that it's hot out or it's more comfortable or she likes how she looks in it or everything else is in the laundry or she wants to get a tan or maybe she likes women and wants attention from them, not from men?
The result of all this is that many men, even kind and well-meaning men, believe, however subconsciously, that women's bodies are for them. They are for them to look at, for them to pass judgment on, for them to bless with a compliment if they deign to do so. They are not for women to enjoy, take pride in, love, accept, explore, show off, or hide as they please. They are for men and their pleasure.
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Xipe Totec was the Mesoamerican god of spring and patron of planting, seeds and goldsmiths and particularly worshipped by the Aztecs. Human sacrifices were made to the god and the skins of the victims worn in imitation of the process of regeneration of seeds when they shed their husks. This image from the Codex Barbonicus clearly shows the god wearing one of the skins of his victims.
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The heavy snow this morning wreaked havoc for drivers.
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Sabres re-sign Patrick Lalime for one year
The Sabres have agreed to terms on a 1-year deal with goaltender Patrick Lalime. More details to follow on sabres.com. #sabres— Buffalo Sabres (@BuffaloSabres) July 7, 2010
The team announced the move via Tweet on what has turned into a busy day. This will keep Ryan Miller happy, at least.


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You were free-soloing, weren't you ?
The fact that you took that picture Aleix, and ask that question in your comment tells me that you are being sarcastic. However the whole reason I wrote this comment was to ask that very question, "were you free soloing that climb Erica?". My gut feeling is that you were not. You must have been leading it with the rope hidden behind you.....right?
How many people do you know that free solo with a harness and gear on? That should answer the question.
Regardless, how would you get off End Pinnacle (3 double rope rappels) without a harness, a belay device, and two draws of some sort to clip into the rappel stations ?
I've never seen anybody free solo with a helmet on.


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BELOIT (WKOW) -- The City of Beloit has declared a snow emergency that takes effect Thursday afternoon.
The declaration is in effect from 3:00 p.m. Thursday, February 7 to 6:00 p.m., Friday, February 8.
While the action is in effect, city officials say drivers cannot park their cars on a city street. Police may ticket and/or tow away any motor vehicle, trailer or semi trailer found in violation of this declaration at the owner's expense.
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RICHMOND (WRIC) - After a stabbing at Henderson Middle School Tuesday, 8News did some digging to find out how often something like this happens.
This isn't the first time a student at Henderson Middle School has gotten in trouble for some sort of weapon offense.
Parents picking up their children are still on edge after a female student was stabbed by another child with a pair of scissors yesterday afternoon in the hallway.
"It's very disturbing," says parent Pamela Wilson. "But seeing that they redistrict these schools, we as parents don't have a say as which schools our child goes to, so I feel the school itself needs to implant more security."
"Safety for my kids at school," says Larry Smith "My concern is the safety for the kids. What can we do to prevent this?"
According to the Virginia Department of Education's Student Offender Report, Henderson Middle School tops the list with 36 weapon offenses going back to 2009.
Lucille Brown Middle School has 16 weapon offenses going back to 2009 and Fred Thompson Middle School Had 12 during the 2011-2012 school year.
The other six Richmond City middle schools have not had any recent weapon offenses. But still, these numbers are alarming for parents at Henderson.
"If you send them to school, you send them here to learn and be safe," says Margaret Cole.
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A man has been charged in the deadly shooting outside Kansas City's City Hall last month.
On Friday, District Attorney Jerome A. Gorman filed murder charges against Jeffrey W. Platt Jr. for the Jan. 16 homicide of Marlon Williams.
Platt, 23, of Shawnee, KS, is charged with first-degree premeditated murder.
Williams, 40, also of Shawnee, KS, was shot and killed as he was leaving City Hall, going through an outside walkway near a parking lot.
Nothing was taken from him in the shooting. When KCTV5 spoke to his family in January, they said they didn't believe it was a robbery and felt he had been targeted.
"To actually shoot him and kill him to shut him up, I am thinking that's what happened," Marlon's mother Geraldine Williams said.
Marlon Williams was scheduled to go to court to testify against Platt in another case where he was accused of shooting at Williams over an argument two years ago. A close friend, who wanted to have her identity protected, said he was concerned.
Police haven't confirmed this was the motive.
"There was known threats that if he did testify that he might as well be a dead man walking," the friend said. "The family feels that this was vendetta. It was carried out because what was said was if Marlon's not here to testify, the court case is dropped because he was the only witness."
The family said they've been receiving threats since Marlon Williams was shot.
"Marlon was suppose to testify March 24 and, as a result of that, this is why they say this happened. Hopefully charges will still be brought on that case, or it was all for nothing," said a relative who didn't want to be identified.
Marlon Williams' family said they are grateful to the police and to others who came forward in locating the suspect.
Platt is in the Wyandotte County jail and is expected to appear before in court next Tuesday. His bond is set at $1 million.
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FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. (AP) - Falcons coach Mike Smith hopes his defense is finally starting to understand how to create takeaways.
Despite being eliminated from playoff contention in a Week 11 home loss to New Orleans, Atlanta has four interceptions and eight fumble recoveries in three games since.
The Falcons recovered five fumbles and picked off two passes in Sunday's 27-26 win over Washington, but they were still susceptible to making mistakes that led to big gains.
Since losing for the second time this year to the Saints, the Falcons have allowed 21 plays of 15 or more yards, though Smith says he's not too surprised considering how many young players are on the field at the same time.
Atlanta (4-10) visits San Francisco (10-4) next Monday.
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The Steelers placed TE Heath Miller, CB Ike Taylor and RB Baron Batch on injured reserve on Wednesday.
Steelers add CB King, place CB Van Dyke on I.R.
The Steelers added CB Justin King to the active roster and placed CB DeMarcus Van Dyke on injured reserve with a shoulder injury.
Steelers CB Taylor out at least two weeks
Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin confirmed that CB Ike Taylor has a right ankle fracture and will be out at least two weeks.
Once again, Steelers' defense in strong form
The Steelers' defense is again one of the NFL's best, and there are many reasons for Pittsburgh's success, the way we hear it.
Luck, Taylor, Holliday named AFC Players of the Week
Colts QB Andrew Luck, Steelers CB Ike Taylor and Broncos RS Trindon Holliday were named the AFC Players of the Week for Week Nine.
Steelers' pass defense not as sharp
The Steelers' pass defense, though not allowing many yards overall, hasn't been as solid as a season ago.
Key matchup: Steelers CB Ike Taylor vs. Broncos WR Demaryius Thomas
In Saturday's key matchup, we revisit a one-on-one battle that played a key role in Denver beating Pittsburgh in last season's wild-card round.
Reports: Steelers restructure contracts, expected to cut Ward
The Steelers spent the week cutting their 2012 salary-cap numbers and appear ready to part ways with veteran WR Hines Ward.
Steelers' Taylor has club's respect
CB Ike Taylor didn't get the club's MVP nod, nor was he voted to the Pro Bowl. But it's clear that the Steelers believe he merits recognition for a job very well done this season.
Steelers fined once again for Week One
The NFL has handed out fines for violators of the rules in Week One.
Steelers CB Taylor suffers broken thumb
Steelers CB Ike Taylor broke his left thumb in Friday's game at Washington, Steelers president Art Rooney II told Pittsburgh's KDKA-TV.
Steelers keep Taylor, Colon in Pittsburgh
Ike Taylor was Pittsburgh's No. 1 free-agent priority, but it appears Willie Colon was a close second.
Steelers, CB Taylor agree to four-year deal
The Steelers kept their top cornerback from leaving town by agreeing to a four-year deal with Ike Taylor, according to multiple reports.
Colon, Taylor are Steelers' free agents to watch
With LOLB LaMarr Woodley receiving and signing his franchise tender, the Steelers now can focus on their other prospective free agents, like ORT Willie Colon.
Packers-Steelers matchup of the day: Tuesday
PFW breaks down the matchup between the Packers' wide receivers and the Steelers' cornerbacks in the second of six Super Bowl matchups.
Steelers' Taylor excelling in contract year
Steelers CB Ike Taylor could be part of an absolutely loaded free-agent class at his position.
Taylor, Hicks fined for Saturday's scuffle
The NFL fined Giants WR Hakeem Nicks and Steelers CB Ike Taylor $10,000 each for their fight during last Saturday's preseason game.
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Taylor is on injured reserve with an ankle injury.||||||| Second-year defensive back Cortez Allen will start.
Taylor broke his left thumb in the first quarter of the 16-7 exhibition loss to the Washington Redskins on Friday night.||||||| Coach Mike Tomlin said Taylor "could be out for a couple of weeks or so." The coach says he's not sure whether the thumb will require surgery. Taylor was injured on the game's second play and left later during the Redskins opening drive.
Taylor and New York Giants wide receiver Hakeem Nicks were ejected in the opening minutes of their preseason game on Saturday night for throwing punches.||||||| Nicks was blocking Taylor downfield when tempers flared and a number of punches were exchanged. At least three officials tossed flags. Referee Scott Green called coincidental personal fouls and ejected both players.
The Pittsburgh Steelers signed Taylor Sunday to a four-year contract extension, assuring the team won't have any unrestricted free agents after this season. Taylor's deal runs through 2010 and would be worth $22.5 million if he plays through the final season, plus incentives. The Steelers cornerback will receive $6.4 million in guaranteed money.||||||| Taylor was a fourth round pick in the 2003 NFL draft, has played in two AFC championship games and one Super Bowl with the Steelers.


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A MAN has been airlifted to hospital with serious injuries after an incident in South Tyneside today.
The Great North Air Ambulance was called into action at about 1.30pm.
The man is thought to have suffered serious injuries in an incident in St Cuthbert's Avenue, Horsley Hill, South Shields.
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A Huntsville City Councilman is under serious pressure with members of a civic group pushing for his resignation.
District 3 Councilman John Olshefski has come under fire since he was named Huntsville Utilities new Vice President of Customer Care.
Olshefski doesn't start his new position until May. However, residents in his district feel like he can't do both jobs without a conflict.
To avoid a conflict, Thursday, councilman Olshefski abstained from voting on two items on the agenda involving Huntsville Utilities which a member can do but that's just the point some residents are trying to make.
The South Huntsville Civic Association put out a call for Olshefski's resignation on their facebook saying with him abstaining from voting on issues related to utilities is essentially not giving them a vote.
"He was elected to represent south Huntsville and be our voice on major issues and even though you might not think utilities are that big of a deal but they are to a lot of people when you are working on a fixed budget or you got a family, that's a concern, said David Pinkleton V.P. South Huntsville Civic Association.
It has gone a step further with an ethics complaint sent to the Alabama Ethics Commission from
State Sen. Paul Sanford, R - Huntsville, endorsed the association's statement by sending the complaint to the Alabama Ethics Commission to determine if this is indeed a code violation of conflicts of interest of municipal officers.
"Even his own response that I need to step back from all things related to Huntsville Utilities. That's what concerned me the most is seeking a job that puts you in direct conflict with your elected capacity," said Sanford.
Councilman Olshefski was advised not to comment on this issue at this time.
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Before returning home to Maine in 2010, Dr. Glenn Cummings served President Obama as Deputy Assistant Secretary within the U.S. Department of Education. There he helped manage a $1.9 billion annual budget that focused on improving access to adult education and literacy training, career and technical education, and community colleges. He was part of a team that designed President Obama's plan to boost America's graduation rate by 2020. Cummings also chaired the Department's Green Initiative, which focused on increasing the teaching and learning of sustainability principles in American education.
In 2010,Cummings took over as President and Executive Director of G.W. Hinckley organization, an historic 121-year-old school for high school youth located on a 2,400-acre campus in Hinckley, Maine. Under his tenure, the organization used a $10.5 million philanthropic contribution from the Harold Alfond Foundation to create the first charter school in Maine history, the Maine Academy of Natural Sciences. The state-wide, residential school focuses on environmental education, agriculture and forestry.
Cummings simultaneously received appointment to a full-time, tenure-track post of Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at University of Southern Maine. He teaches within both the Masters and Doctoral degree programs. His doctoral thesis, entitled Turning Green from the Inside Out, centered on the internal leadership of four American colleges in their quest for national-level achievement in sustainability.
Cummings is former Speaker of the House in the Maine House of Representatives, Majority Leader, and Chairman of the state's Joint Committee of Education and Cultural Affairs, where he sponsored the successful bill to create the state community college system. He provided leadership for the passage of a bipartisan state budget, brokering an agreement on the largest economic investment bond package in the state's history; he also successfully led an effort to significantly increase higher education appropriations.
Prior to entering the political sphere, Cummings served as instructor of micro and macroeconomics at the University of Southern Maine and as Dean of Institutional Advancement at Southern Maine Community College (SMCC). While at SMCC, he founded one of the first student-centered entrepreneurial centers and small business incubators in Northern New England. Cummings also served as Executive Director of the Portland Partnership, where he built strategic alliances between regional businesses and the Portland School district. A multi-generation Maine native, Cummings began his career in Gorham, Maine, as a high school history teacher and department head.
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Rob is a Graduate from Monmouth Academy where his Dad was the Principal for 18 years. His Mother was, and still is, the glue in the family; she worked at Monmouth Academy in the Cafeteria and was an accountant at alocal furniture store. Rob is the youngest of 3 children; family is very important to him.
After graduating High School, he enlisted in the Navy for 2 years. Rob was stationed in Mayport, Florida on an Aircraft Carrier CV 60 – USS Saratoga. After the Navy, he attended UMF to major in Math and ComputerScience. Rob graduated from UMF and started working at a Private school in Sabattus, Maine, Franklin Academy, in 1989. He taught Math, PE, and was the Head House Director for almost one year before leaving to build a house in Clinton, Maine. He received his Master's degree in Educational Leadership from the University of Maine at Orono in 1997.
Rob started working at Averill High School on the campus of Good Will-Hinckley in 1990. He started as a Math Teacher and coach of many sports. In 1992, he became the Assistant Principal at Averill HS and in 1994, the Principal. In 1998, Rob was promoted to Director of Education/Principal of Schools at Good Will and 4 years later, in 2002, was Director of Operations for the entire Good Will-Hinckley campus. In March of 2004, Rob was given the opportunity to be a Principal at a Public School. He served as Principal of a K-8 School in Windsor, Maine until June of 2013. In July 2013, Rob returned to Good Will-Hinckley/MeANS as the Vice President/Chief Operating Officer.
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Father Pham says he wants to help the Vietnamese people especially the teenagers preserve their culture. He also wants to expand church's community outreach, so more people can learn about God.
Father Jimmy Pham said, "I'd like to help people here to become holier, love one another first. And after that we can. I'm planning to build a parish hall for teachings the kids C.C.D., religion and Vietnamese. "
Father Pham says he would like to see the Biloxi Catholic Diocese purchase land that is adjacent to the church.
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A short history of videogame horror and the current crisis in console scares
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A fantastic history of the horror game genre, and why its future is on PC
It's always wonderful to read in-depth history pieces on gaming when they're written by people who really know their stuff. It just goes to show you how little most of us actually know about the precise history of video gaming.
There's a ton of great information in this piece, and I learned a great deal. That said, the most interesting part of the piece may have been in the conclusion where it discusses where horror will go from here.
Consoles have lost their foothold as the platform for horror games, and the PC is taking over. The future of the horror genre may be with small indie studios who don't have to worry about selling 10 million copies.
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WAUSAU (WAOW) - America's Next Top Model is coming to central Wisconsin.
Beginning Thursday, Central Wisconsin's CW will host an open casting call for the reality TV show at the Patriot Center in Rothschild.
Central Wisconsin's CW viewers will also choose a local male and female winner through online voting. Central Wisconsin's CW will post applicants' photos at www.facebook.com/centralwisconsincw. Following the casting call viewers can log on and vote for their favorite male and female contestants. The winners will be announced on January 14, 2013 on Central Wisconsin's CW.
Contestants on America's Next Top Model will vie for a prize package that will launch their modeling careers. Casting directors are looking for females and males, ages 18 to 27, of diverse backgrounds, shapes, sizes and with a minimum height requirement of 5'7" for women and 5'10" for men.
The casting call will be January 3rd and 4th from 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m., with model registration starting at 9:00 a.m.
For complete details on the casting call and to download the application go to www.centralwisconsincw.com
The casting call is sponsored by The Patriot Center, Bling Jewelry, HOT 96.7 & Central Wisconsin's CW.
America's Next Top Model will air on CW in the summer of 2013.
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Paul Lehner from the Chronology
Jul 19, 1951 - Cleveland picks up OF Paul Lehner from the Browns for the waiver price. For Lehner the Tribe is the 4th team he plays for this year: not since Frank Huelsman in 1904 has an AL player moved so much in a year. Ted Gray in 1955 will match it.
Jun 4, 1951 - The White Sox trade Don Lenhardt and the recently acquired Paul Lehner to the Browns for Kermit Wahl and cash.
Apr 30, 1951 - In a complex 3-way deal the White Sox get OF/3B Minnie Minoso from the Indians and OF Paul Lehner from the Athletics. Philadelphia sends P Lou Brissie to Cleveland and gets OF Gus Zernial and Dave Philley from Chicago and P Sam Zoldak and C Ray Murray from Cleveland. Hard-luck lefty Lou Brissie is considered the plum in the proceedings. Rookie Minoso who hit .339 at San Diego (PCL) last year is leading all Indian hitters with a .461 mark.
Jun 25, 1950 - The A's Paul Lehner ties an AL record with 11 putouts in LF in a 13-5 win against the White Sox.
Dec 13, 1949 - The Browns send star 3B Bob Dillinger (.324) and OF Paul Lehner to the A's for a reported $100000 and infielders Frankie Gustine, and Billy DeMars and outfielders Ray Coleman and Ray Ippolito. Dillinger will play just a half-season in Philley before being swapped to Pittsburgh.
Dec 1, 1949 - Attendance in the ML is 20.2 million down from 20.9 in 1948. The Yankees and the Indians each finish with over 2.2 million but the Browns fall to 270000. The Browns will try to cover their light attendance with $200000 obtained in cash in December sales of Bob Dillinger Gerry Priddy and Paul Lehner. The Browns get 5 players in the transactions.
Jul 20, 1947 - In the lidlifter against Boston Hank Thompson plays 2B and Willard Brown CF for the St. Louis Browns against the 3rd-place Red Sox marking the first time that 2 black players appear in the same ML lineup. The highlite for the Browns however is an inside-the-park grand slam by Paul Lehner the 2nd in the majors in three weeks (Ferris Fain hit one on June 29) to lead the Browns to 4-3 win. The Browns edge the Sox 7-6 in the nitecap. with Heath driving home 3 runs. Mele has 4 ribbies for Boston now 45-40.


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I am in Topeka, KS and today is May 31, 2012.
I am kind of worried about the bird since it doesn't fly away, it could be an easy target to one of the neighborhood cats.
I have a feeling he flew a long way today and is just really tired, but that is just a guess.
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Few areas of law develop more quickly during a recession than that relating to high-value fraud claims, where new and more effective weapons are under more or less constant consideration. The first part of this article1 examined some of the ways in which the law has recently developed in the context of the BTA Bank proceedings. The developments considered included making worldwide freezing orders more effective by tightening up their terms, forcing defendants to give disclosure as to their assets orally under cross-examination, and the appointment of receivers to seek to ensure that frozen assets cannot be dealt with. It also considered the possibility of augmenting those assets under the control of the receivers by the addition of further assets that the defendant had not disclosed.
For those with a claim whose value exceeds that of the assets a defendant has disclosed, the search for undisclosed assets can quickly become one of the most important features of the litigation. Whether the defendant does indeed have assets that he is seeking to conceal, and, if so, whether such assets can be identified, will be important considerations for a claimant in deciding whether and how to pursue his claims.
So, what methods can be employed to find assets that a defendant seeks to keep concealed? Moreover, how can a defendant be forced to reveal them? Three possibilities that should be considered are: (1) orders for the search of secret document stores; (2) orders for the disclosure from third parties, such as e-mail providers; and (3) as perhaps something of a last resort, orders for the committal of a defendant to prison in an attempt to coerce him to come clean as to exactly what he owns. Part II of this article will examine how recent experience, again, in the context of the BTA Bank proceedings, shows just how effective those tactics can be.
Search Orders
Freezing orders are said to be one of the two "nuclear weapons" available to litigators. The other is the search order. Much rarer than freezing orders, search orders are among the most invasive of all civil remedies and therefore require evidence of an unusually strong character. Where that evidence exists, however, search orders can be extremely powerful tools in identifying assets that a defendant has sought to keep hidden.
The conditions for the grant of a search order2 require that: (1) the claimant has an extremely strong prima facie case; (2) there is a risk of very serious damage to the claimant, which can be avoided by the grant of a search order; (3) there is clear evidence that the defendant has incriminating materials in his possession; (4) there is a real possibility of the destruction or removal those materials; and (5) the likely harm caused to the defendant by the execution of the search order will not be excessive or disproportionate. If granted, a search order must be executed in the presence of an independent solicitor, known as a "supervising solicitor."
In JSC BTA Bank v Solodchenko,3 Henderson J granted a search order in respect of a storage unit in North London in the context of proceedings for the recovery of approximately $300 million of AAA-rated investment bonds in respect of which the claimant asserted a proprietary claim. The bonds appeared simply to have been transferred away from the claimant bank to a series of offshore companies without any proper consideration having been given. One of the defendants to those proceedings was an English company, Eastbridge Capital Limited, which administered hundreds of offshore companies, including the companies to which the bonds had been transferred. Eastbridge had already been made subject to a freezing order with the usual ancillary disclosure provisions in relation to its own assets (including those held as nominee for others – see part I of this article) and tracing interrogatories relating to the bonds themselves.
In purportedly complying with its disclosure obligations, Eastbridge's newly-appointed director claimed to have no knowledge of the companies Eastbridge had administered, nor of the location of any documents or electronic records, save for a few relatively mundane documents held with its accountants. As Henderson J had put it, attempts appeared to have been made to make Eastbridge "disclosure proof."
The claimant, however, had retained enquiry agents, who had observed a vehicle regularly travelling between the address of Eastbridge's company secretary and a storage unit in North London. One evening, two men were observed removing around 20 boxes of documents from the storage unit into a white van and leaving them at the address of Eastbridge's company secretary, where they were then reviewed late at night by a former Eastbridge director, who had sworn an affidavit that very day denying that he had access to relevant documents. The documents were collected the following morning and taken back to the storage unit.
This evidence that, contrary to what had to that point been disclosed, Eastbridge did in fact have a large cache of documents, allied to evidence that the claimant had earlier obtained by way of a search order against a corporate services provider in Cyprus, which showed Eastbridge having given instructions to falsify documents in relation to companies under its administration, led Henderson J to conclude that the necessary requirements had been satisfied to justify the grant of a search order. Execution of the order led to the seizure, not only of the 20 boxes of documents, but also of computer equipment containing what turned out to be hundreds of thousands of relevant documents.
Disclosure Orders Against E-mail Providers
The advent of electronic communications is already acknowledged to have changed a litigator's life dramatically, most obviously in the field of disclosure due to the exponential increase in the number of written documents created today, compared with days gone by. Generally, this has increased the amount of evidence available to the parties to litigation. In fraud cases, however, claimants' solicitors may still receive the barest possible disclosure from defendants, who, having taken steps to conceal documents such as those described above, may seek to avoid voluntarily handing over the contents of their e-mail accounts.
However, claimants do not necessarily need to rely on the defendant to disclose his own e-mail communications. Instead, where the e-mail accounts in question are held by a third party provider, it may be possible to obtain disclosure from that third party. In JSC BTA Bank v Yahoo,4 Peter Smith J ordered Yahoo to disclose to the claimant the contents of 11 e-mail accounts, on the basis that each appeared to have been used to conceal assets of the primary defendant. The Judge also ordered the disclosure of other information relating to the accounts, including the IP addresses from which they had been accessed. Analysis of those IP addresses permitted the claimant to establish that the accounts had, in fact, all been operated by the same individual.
The jurisdiction invoked by Peter Smith J for the making of the orders against Yahoo was the well-known Norwich Pharmacal jurisdiction,5 which allows for disclosure from a third party where he has become mixed up (whether or not innocently) in wrongdoing committed by another, and is likely to hold information necessary for the wrongdoer to be sued. Although it was previously suggested that the Norwich Pharmacal jurisdiction is limited to the disclosure of information necessary to identify a wrongdoer, it now goes significantly further and can include information needed to enable a claimant to trace assets.6
In appropriate cases, where the respondent to such an application is an e-mail services provider, it may be that the individual whose e-mails are sought to be disclosed is not given notice of the application. This can be expected to give the court pause for thought. However, depriving the account-holder of notice of the application will often be precisely the result that a claimant is seeking – the concern being that if the account holder has notice of the application, he will take steps to delete his e-mails, or even the account itself. Indeed, in circumstances where disclosure is sought in the expectation that assets not disclosed by the defendant can be identified and secured, it will not even be sufficient for a claimant simply to ensure that the e-mails are preserved pending notification of the account-holder. The risk would remain that, as soon as the account-holder is made aware that his e-mails have been the subject of a preservation order, he will seek to rearrange his corporate structures to ensure that valuable assets are held by companies other than those named in the e-mails that are to be disclosed to the claimant.
The court's understandable concerns can be allayed by the making of an order that disclosure is, in the first instance, given not to the claimant or its lawyers, but to an independent solicitor retained specifically for the role and owing a duty to the court, not unlike the role of the supervising solicitor in the search order context. The independent solicitor can then filter out e-mails that should not be disclosed to the claimant because they are personal, irrelevant, or privileged (the removal of privileged documents also serves to protect the claimant's solicitors themselves, who might otherwise be at risk of having to cease acting if they inadvertently have sight of critical privileged materials) before handing them over to the claimant. Such an approach was approved by Peter Smith J in the BTA Bank v Yahoo case.
It will not always be possible to obtain disclosure from e-mail providers in this way; in part it depends on the jurisdiction of the entity holding the relevant e-mail accounts. Where the entity in question falls under the jurisdiction of the English courts, obtaining such an order should usually be possible in the right case; where it falls under the jurisdiction of, for example, the U.S. courts, the position may be more difficult.
Committal Orders
The ultimate sanction against a recalcitrant defendant is an order for his committal to prison for breaching the court's orders. This will often be seen as something of a last resort by a claimant, not just because of the drastic nature of the remedy sought, but also because of the high burden of proof that lies with the claimant. It is one of the rare occasions where a civil litigant will be require to prove his allegations to the criminal standard of "beyond reasonable doubt."
— Proving Contempt
Following a three-week trial in the Commercial Court at the end of 2011, the principal defendant in the BTA litigation, Mukhtar Ablyazov, was found guilty of contempt of court.7 The Court handed out three concurrent 22-month prison sentences and issued a bench warrant for the defendant's arrest as he failed to appear in Court when the judgment was handed down.
In its application, which was largely based on the documents obtained by way of the search and disclosure orders described above, the claimant made 35 separate allegations of contempt. Given the burden that a trial of all 35 allegations would have placed on the parties and the Court, and the disruption it would have caused to the substantive fraud proceedings, however, the claimant was ordered to select just three allegations to bring to trial immediately,8 the remainder being left on the file, with liberty to apply to have them determined after the conclusion of the main proceedings.9
The claimant opted to have determined its allegations that the defendant had: (1) lied on oath as to his ownership of valuable assets, including a nine-bedroom mansion on The Bishop's Avenue in North London (otherwise known as Billionaires' Row) and a 100-acre country estate in Surrey; (2) failed to disclose his interest in a British Virgin Islands company, which had received some of the AAA-rated investment bonds described above from the claimant bank shortly before the defendant's departure from his position as chairman of its board of directors; and (3) dealt in assets with a value of almost $100 million in breach of a freezing order made against him.
During the course of the trial, the defendant argued that there was no direct evidence of his ownership of the assets he was alleged to own, the claimant's case being entirely based on inference, and that the dealings in frozen assets had been pursuant to agreements that pre-dated the grant of the freezing order and took matters out of his hands. In order to assist his defence, he called as witnesses two of his wife's brothers, Syrym and Salim Shalabayev, who, he said, were, at the relevant times, the true owners of the properties that were the subject of the claimant's allegations.
Syrym Shalabayev had already been found in contempt of court in related proceedings10 and had been described as a "fugitive from British justice."11 However, in circumstances where he was said to be a crucial witness for the defendant, he was nevertheless permitted to give evidence by video link from a location disclosed only to the Court (but not to the claimant). Syrym Shalabayev, who, unlike Ablyazov, had no public profile as a wealthy man, claimed to have acquired the means to buy the Bishop's Avenue mansion and the Surrey country estate by virtue of starting a uranium business in Kazakhstan in 2003 and selling it in 2005 for $350 million.
Mr Justice Teare, having heard evidence from both Shalabayev brothers (one of whom, Salim, admitted to lying on oath while giving his evidence as to his knowledge of his brother's whereabouts), concluded that the Court could not accept the testimony of either unless it was supported by reliable documentary evidence and, in respect of the uranium business, held that Syrym Shalabayev's evidence "has been shown to be untrue."12 Although Ablyazov, who also gave oral evidence, had supported the evidence given by his brothers-in-law, Mr Justice Teare concluded that: "I could place little weight on his denials and could only accept what he said if it was supported by reliable contemporaneous evidence."13
The Judge acknowledged that the claimant's case depended primarily upon inference and noted that findings to the criminal standard of proof could only be made on the basis of inference if the inferences the Court was invited to draw were the only ones that could reasonably be drawn from the facts.14 Here, the Judge concluded that "the only reasonable inference to be drawn from the circumstantial evidence is that Ablyazov was the beneficial owner" of the assets in question.15 © 2012 Hogan Lovells LLP Richard Lewis is a senior associate in the litigation team at Hogan Lovells LLP. Richard has acted for BTA Bank in a series of major fraud cases against Mukhtar Ablyazov for a total of approximately U.S. $5 billion. Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7296 2000; E-mail: email@example.com.
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Adam Schefter recently tweeted that the Jim Harbaugh and the San Francisco 49ers are reportedly speaking with Cleveland Browns special teams coach Brad Seely. The Browns are undergoing a transformation with a new head coach in Pat Shurmur and as we saw with the 49ers, the staff is undergoing a transition. The most interesting aspect of Schefter's tweet was that Seely is regarded as one of the league's top special teams coach.
I'm curious how exactly one assesses a special teams coach. Is it based on starting field position on your returns and opponent field position on kickoffs and punts? Do we look at special teams tackles? Do we look at average return yards? If we're looking at the last category, the 49ers finished ahead of the Browns in both average punt return and average kick return in 2010. However, in 2009, the Browns were quite impressive in the return game as they finished third in punt return average and seventh in kick return average? Is that more about the skill of the returners, or can the coaches have a significant impact?
Brad Seely as a whole lot of special teams experience (resume posted after the jump), which would have to be helpful. However, what can we really tell about the role of special teams coordinator?
Brad Seely Resume
1978 South Dakota State, assistant coach
1979 Colorado State, graduate assistant
1980 Colorado State, offensive line coach
1981 Southern Methodist, offensive line coach
1982 North Carolina State, offensive line coach
1983 Pacific, offensive line coach
1984-88 Oklahoma State, offensive line coach
1989-93 Indianapolis Colts, special teams coach/tight ends coach
1994 New York Jets, special teams coach
1995-98 Carolina Panthers, special teams coach
1999-08 New England Patriots, special teams coach
2009-10 Cleveland Browns, assistant head coach/special teams coordinator


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*This is not fighter bashing. Simply a look at a potentially mastermind plan*
March 26th, 2011. An amazing job of match-making by beloved Joe Silva.
Anthony Johnson vs Dan Hardy. This is a fight for the fans in the truest form. Two guys who come to bang. All signs point to one man knocking the other man out in an all out war on the feet.
We saw that, for about 3 minutes. Then it happened, the wrestler remembered "oh hey, I can wrestle, this guy can't." and when the fight went to the ground (shockingly, from a strike, not even a takedown) it remained there for the better part of the next 12 minutes. A very unsatisfying fight from what we had come to expect.
Hardy was not pleased, he returned to the woods of Nottingham and researched an opponent who would not exploit this aspect of his gameplan. Apparently they have the internet out there because he got to tweeting and called out Chris Lytle, a man who wouldn't enact such an effective gameplan.
After a very respectful twitter callout, the two men came to a gentlemens agreement. They would meet in the middle of the octagon, throw caution and most of their training out the window and slug it out.
Secretly I think Dan Hardy realizes how he can ensure he won't get his walking papers. It won't be through a dramatic knockout, he's been on the wrong side of that one... no, it will be by wrestlef***ing Chris Lytle into a lopsided decision.
"Fool me once, shame on...shame on you... well if you fool me you can't get fooled again." - George W Bush
An astute Dan Hardy must have been watching the American News and learned very quickly. He was lured into a fight he couldn't win with Rumble, now he will do the same to Chris Lytle... Much like the honorable Georges St. Pierre surprised Josh Koscheck and the world after bringing an incredible wrestling pedigree to their first fight, I think Dan Hardy's got an ace up his sleeve.
He's going to make Chris Lytle wish he never had a Twitter account. He's going to win this fight not on the feet, but on the ground. Through a combination of his elastic limbs to protect him from being submitted and the absolutely bashing of anyone who really chose to mix their martial arts against him, he's going to troll his way to a unanimous decision.


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Slain Missouri teen remembered with calls for peace, justice
Family and supporters celebrated the life of Michael Brown with a music-filled, foot-stomping funeral service and messages to remember him with peace.
Photos: Funeral for Boston Firefighter Michael Kennedy
Firefighter Michael R. Kennedy's casket was carried atop Engine 33 to Holy Name Church in West Roxbury Thursday morning where his funeral took place.
Boston firefighter Michael Kennedy 'lived for others'
The funeral Mass for Boston firefighter Michael R. Kennedy of Hyde Park is set to take place at Holy Name Church in Roxbury.
Family of Boston fire Lt. Edward Walsh given IAFF Medal of Honor at funeral: 'He was a firefighter's firefighter'
Thousands of firefighters, first responders and others turned out on Wednesday for the funeral of Boston fire Lt. Edward Walsh.
Traffic delays expected due to funerals for firefighters
Police are asking the public to be patient due to expected traffic delays on Wednesday and Thursday as a result […]
Choosing my loved one's casket is just like buying a car
Columnist Kathryn Quigley equates planning her loved one's funeral, before he dies, to just another routine human experience – buying a car.
Family, actors mourn Philip Seymour Hoffman at private funeral
Family and close friends bid their final farewells on Friday at a private funeral for actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who died Sunday at the age of 46.
Funeral for Franklin children to be held Monday
Two Franklin children who died after they became trapped in a hope chest will be laid to rest Monday. The […]
Police ask Abington residents to turn out for fallen Marine's procession
Abington authorities announced the procession route for fallen Marine Sgt. Daniel Vasselian whose funeral is scheduled for later this week.
Mandela funeral: Tiny village Qunu braces for elaborate operation
The population of Qunu is just under 300, but a mass invasion is underway ahead of Nelson Mandela's funeral Sunday.


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Borussia Dortmund and Malaga will compete for an unlikely semi-final place as the German giants battle it out with the financially-stricken Spaniards. Either team will have done remarkably well to reach the semi-final, with Dortmund not enjoying their best year and having done well to even get out of their group of death, although they will have to seriously up their game if they have any designs on winning the trophy.
Malaga, in contrast, have appeared a bit of a rabble, but thanks to the performances of one player in particular, they've been able to go on a remarkable run and have a fighting chance of extending it even further.
Key player
Isco - A simple choice. Isco has been a revelation this season and has had a bigger impact on the Champions League this season than any other player, starring throughout for Malaga as the club have made their way to the quarter-finals. He'll need another brilliant performance to give his team a chance of going through, but in what will almost certainly be his last year for the club, he is more than capable of giving his supporters the parting gift of a semi-final berth at least.
Matchup to watch
Isco vs. Sven Bender
With Isco being the key player, it follows that Dortmund's deepest midfielder is likely to have a tough job in keeping an eye on him. That man will likely be Sven Bender, who certainly has all the attributes to keep the playmaker quiet. Malaga are not a one-man team, and do have threats from elsewhere, but if Bender can ensure his defence is not exposed to the vision and technique of Isco, then that should be half the battle.
Dortmund to win by two goals
Borussia Dortmund are simply the better side here, and with their league campaign well and truly over, they can afford to fully focus themselves on this game. Over the course of the two games, it's hard not to see their superior quality and balance shine through.


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Newly Licensed Psychologists
The Ohio Revised Code mandates that ALL licensed psychologists in Ohio must register with either OPA-MCE or the Ohio School Psychologists Association-MCE (OSPA-MCE) to have their continuing education (CE) hours tracked. For psychologists licensed over the previous two years, the required number of hours varies based on your license date:
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1. Weather: The National Weather Service is predicting a high temperature of 77 degrees today, under mostly clear skies. It's expected that the patchy fog should burn off by 11 a.m. Tonight, the low is expected to dip to 54 degrees.
2. In Case You Missed It: A group of Cherokee County citizens is arguing that Commissioner-Elect Brian Poole is ineligible to hold office due to not paying sales taxes in Alabama. The Cherokee Board of Elections has agreed to hold a meeting on Poole's eligibility next week.
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4. Looking Ahead: The fungal meningitis outbreak has reached Georgia. Discover where the patient is from and ways you can protect yourself from the disease at 10 a.m.
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5. On This Date in History: On Oct. 25, 1854, as part of the Battle of Balaklava during the Crimean War, a British cavalry brigade was ordered to recover captured British naval guns but instead charged headlong into a Russian artillery battery through the "Valley of Death" in the " Charge of the Light Brigade," an event immortalized by Tennyson's poem.


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Update: Ralph de la Vega, CEO of AT&T Mobility has noted that the Amazon Fire Phone will be exclusive to US carrier, AT&T.
Pre-orders for the phone start today. You can choose a two-year contract or AT&T Next for zero down with no activations.
The 32GB flavor is $199.99 on a two-year contract. The Next plan is $27 per month.
The Amazon Fire Phone will start shipping July 25 with 12 months of Amazon Prime included for new customers, and tacked on to existing Prime memberships.
Original story ...
The day has finally arrived: the Amazon phone is official.
Perhaps the worst-kept smartphone secret in the world, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced the device during an event in Seattle. He preluded the announcement by saying he's always asked if Amazon would build a phone. Today, the he answered that question.
As expected, it comes with four front-facing infrared cameras support this feature, bringing the phone's total up to six snappers.
It features a 4.7-inch IPS LCD HD display, and it's a size that's optimized for one-handed use, Bezos said. Gorilla Glass has been slathered on both sides - as in the front and the back, with a rubber frame.
A quad-core 2.2GHz processor fuels the Fire Phone, and graphics rely on an Adreno 330. It is full of 2GB of RAM.
The screen displays at 590 nits of brightness, and has a circular polarizer so you can look at it outside with sunglasses from any angle.
On the rear is an as-expected 13MP snapper with OIS and an f/2.0 lens, the widest aperture of any smartphone on the market. The Fire Phone even features a dedicated hardware camera button.
Curious about sound? Well there are dual-stereo speakers with Dolby Digital plus surround sound.
Accessories and oodles of features
Magnetic headphones that are supposed to be tangle-free, thanks to the flat cables, will come packaged with the Amazon Fire Phone.
With such a highly touted camera and photo functions, Amazon is also throwing in free unlimited photo storage on Amazon Cloud Drive.
Various apps will be on board the Fire Phone, including Netflix, HBO Go, Hulu Plus and ESPN.
The phone will also have second screen and X-Ray abilities where you can "fling" video from your phone to your Amazon TV while X-Ray gives you details on the video you're watching.
The familiar MayDay feature will also of course be on the phone - and will work over Wi-Fi or on 3G and 4G.
Firefly: the ultimate shopping tool
The new app Firefly uses the Fire Phone's built-in camera to recognize over 100 million different objects. These include a wide variety of items including, DVDs, phone numbers, QR codes, CDs, URLs, games and bar codes.
Once that the app recognizes an object, users will be able to purchase it on Amazon right from their device.
'Dynamic perspective'
Not entirely 3D and not parallax - what exactly is on the Fire Phone's interface?
Well dynamic perspective is a bit in between 3D and parallax; it basically adjusts a 3D image to match your gaze.
Lockscreens and wallpapers will definitely have the effect but Bezos also showed off the phone rendering buildings on maps with dynamic perspective.
It's not "pop out at you parrallax" 3D, it's more like, well, "dynamic perspective." It's sort of 3D, but it's sort of just giving you a clearer view as you move your head.
The building - the Empire State, to be exact - looked like it was coming out of the Amazon phone's screen, and moved as the user moved. You can tilt the phone to see what's "tucked" underneath the edges of the screen.
You can also tilt the phone to see various items you're shopping for, to achieve the effect.


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Call for performing artists
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Are you the Next MAKER?
Now this is exciting. We wrote about MAKERS a while back, the joint video initiative between AOL and PBS that features an incredible lineup of women achieving great things — large and small — who help shape America. We're big fans of this visually stunning (not to mention inspirational) project, which is why we're thrilled to see that they've kicked off a fantastic new contest to bring in the Next MAKERS. Via their blog:
For the next six weeks, individuals can nominate themselves or women in their own lives who have made a remarkable impact to their local communities, are viewed as role models and inspire people around them to take action.
Six remarkable women from across the country will ultimately be selected to tell their stories in videos that will appear on MAKERS.com and receive a $10,000 grant so they can continue to do great work in their communities. The winning Next MAKERS will fly to New York City to attend an intimate dinner hosted by MAKERS and Simple and film their stories with the award-winning MAKERS filmmaking team.
Not only have many of our TEDxWomen speakers been on MAKERS, but we have no doubt that many more within the online TEDxWomen community are contributing to their local communities in meaningful ways. So nominate yourself, or a trailblazing friend or colleague you know who should be honored and supported for their work, and give them a shot at this incredible opportunity.
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I am currently working to save the waters from Fracking on my Native homeland the Blackfeet Nation. On August 5 – 12 I created a 80 mile walk from one of our Sacred Mountains "Chief Mountain" to another Sacred Mountain "Heart Butte Mountain. As we walked we offered Prayers, Sacred songs, and Sacred Tobacco to each Mountain fed water way we came to. The walk was to pay tribute to the pure Mountain fed waters that flow through out our homeland as well as to bring attention to the deadly dangers of Fracking and how it will destroy our waters and land. We the Blackfeet people have lived on this land for many thousands of years. We were extreamly blessed to live in a pure free environment with many rivers, lakes, wetlands and creeks. I will continue my drive to protect our waters. My story has been shared throughout the Nation from the front page of the NY Times to the front page of the Seattle post. Please feel free to check out my site on facebook. "Blackfeet Women Against Fracking".
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So far we have done both a LSB Education andLSB Geographical Survey. Time to continue the LSB demograhics research to try and find the age distribution of LSB. Due to the discussion in the "Guess my age" thread, I guess there is enough intrest to continue these.
Hopefully there are enough age brackets to get a better snapshot of the LSB community. After this poll we are down to just gender for the standard data points. What other areas would you guys like to see survey on LSB?


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