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Thursday - =
APPROVED = 8211; October 3, 2011
Also Present:
Mr. Larry Hall, Mr. Dan= iel Guimond, Mr. Gregory Farris, Mr. Robert Sherman, Mr. David Cate, Selectmen Representative Edmund Gleason, School Board Representative Meghan Larson<= /p>
Town Administrator Tom = Gaydos, SAU 28 Business Administrator Adam Steel, SAU 28 Assistant Business Administrator Sarah Jardim-Lee
Mr. John Lavallee, Mr. = Dennis Viger, Mr. Joe Puddister, Mr. Ken Dunne
Discussion with Town Administrator Tom Gaydos
Gaydos provided the Board with a document that he received from the New
Hampshire Municipal Association. He
said the Legislature was to address the Retirement Program and fix it. In doing so they decided not to fu=
their portion and would instead use a series of components to make up that
difference, which would be an increase in the contribution from Support,
Police/Fire and Teachers.
Additionally, if someone wasn't grandfathered (10 years in the
union) their benefits would be changed.&nb=
Between those two components, the Legislature felt it would be
sufficient to make up difference.
Mr. Gaydos said they also indicated they wanted to change the board =
directors that was comprised of mostly employees. They attributed a lot of the escal=
in benefits to that fact. The
composition of the board was to be changed effective,
Sherman commented that the budget being brought forward by the Town would n=
to have a significant amount that would have to be added for retirement. Mr.
Gleason asked if it was safe to say that by Reconsideration the Town would =
an update. Mr. Gaydos hoped t=
hat to
be true. Mr. Cate confirmed t=
the Town wouldn't have an answer until there was a quorum (new people=
appointed), which may not be until October. Mr. Gaydos felt October would be t=
earliest. He said the Legisla=
estimated that the changes made in the Retirement System would be enough to
cover their share; they could be wrong.&nb=
Mr. Cate asked where the (new) people would come from and what their
experience was. Mr. Gaydos be=
two would be appointed by the Legislature, one was Governor's Council,
possibly Municipal and School Management; in general, the board would be
comprised of mostly management.
Mr. Gleason asked if it was safe to say that by Reconsideration the Town would = have an update. Mr. Gaydos hoped t= hat to be true. Mr. Cate confirmed t= hat the Town wouldn't have an answer until there was a quorum (new people= are appointed), which may not be until October. Mr. Gaydos felt October would be t= he earliest. He said the Legisla= ture estimated that the changes made in the Retirement System would be enough to cover their share; they could be wrong.&nb= sp; Mr. Cate asked where the (new) people would come from and what their experience was. Mr. Gaydos be= lieved two would be appointed by the Legislature, one was Governor's Council, possibly Municipal and School Management; in general, the board would be comprised of mostly management.
Mr. Farris asked if the contribution numbers were set by the counsel and the state. Mr. Gaydos said that w= as correct. Mr. Farris questione= d if any future contract negotiations could make a change. Mr. Gaydos stated it was outside a= ny individual contract negotiations. The Town had no choice regarding the numbers.
Mr. Gaydos stated there had been some questions regarding the round-about project. He said the state wa= s preparing for the project and would be holding another meeting in August with the Town.
Farris questioned the purpose for the smaller/secondary round-about. Mr. Gaydos replied during the hear=
process the engineers didn't want to have a block at the round-about =
Mr. Gleason said there had been a question of what would happen to the historic site (old foundation). He sai= d it would be retained.
Mr. Sherman wanted to know which round-about would be constructed first. It was Mr. Gaydos' understan= ding that the southern round-about would begin first. Mr. Sherman questioned if there wa= s a possibility, prior to construction beginning, to have something on the ball= ot to address the fire station situation.&nbs= p; Mr. Gaydos stated there was a good opportunity for the entire proces= s to be avoided.
Gaydos briefly discussed changes that had occurred at the
Farris asked if the
Mr. Hall questioned if there were contracts being reviewed. Mr. Gaydos answered yes. He said they were reviewing the Po= lice and Support contracts. Mr. Ca= te asked if retirement percentages would be discussed during contract negotiations. Mr. Gaydos said= it would go into part of it because it would be within the Town's cost.<= span style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'> It would be recognized in the compensation package. Mr. She= rman noted that the employees cost had increased by 2%. Mr. Gaydos noted that Group 1 empl= oyees and teachers had always been self-sustaining. When they got into Group 2 the composition of the board was very liberal with subsidies etc.
Mr. Hall thanked Mr. Gaydos for meeting with the Board.
Discussion with SAU28 Business Administrator Adam Steel
Steel came forward to address the Board.&n=
He began by introducing SAU28 Assistant Business Administrator Sarah
Jardim-Lee. He then told the =
with regard to the retirement issue, the school side was complicated only by
the fact that in the past in addition to employers providing a subsidy for
retirement, the state also had. The
biggest change for the school was that the state was no longer subsidizing
teacher retirement and that local communities would be responsible for the
entire obligation. The additi=
liability for Pelham (this year) was at no less than $474,000. Mr. Steel said the timing of the
announcement came right after the Town Deliberative session leaving no time=
the school to remedy the situation.
The District has two choices, to either request a special meeting to
raise money from the taxpayers, or to make reductions in the current
budget. It was not anticipate=
d to
have a special meeting. The s=
had prepared cuts they had to make that would make up the difference. The Board was provided with a list=
items that had been cut or were committed to be reduced from the current
budget; the second list contained items they planned to cut, but had gone b=
and been able to restore them. Mr.
Steel reviewed the list of items cut and identified for the coming year.
Mr. Cate questioned how the determination was made for which instructional assi= stants would not be hired. Mr. Steel replied there were no instructional assistants that lost their job. It was his understanding the proce= ss was done through attrition and turn over.
Mr. Sherman asked what the average cost was for an instructional assistant. Mr. Steel said the reduction figur= es showed actual costs of employees who left, resigned or were terminated.
Mr. Cate questioned if the instructional assistants moved with students when th= ey moved from one school to another. = span>Mr. Steel said typically it was a flexible process; some instructional assistan= ts were tied to particular buildings. <= /span>
Mr. Steel told the Board that mentor money was cut because there weren't a large number of new teachers.
He then reviewed the restoration list and explained that the items on this list were prioritized in the manner in which the school would bring them back should = they find other money in their budget. = span>
Mr. Farris said there had been much discussion regarding moving a position into= the budget that had been Federally funded because of the fear that Federal money would go away. He asked if th= at Federal money had gone away. = Ms. Jardim-Lee stated that applications for Federal allocations had been submit= ted, but not yet received for the current school year. Mr. Steel was unsure what position= was being questioned. Mr. Farris = said there had been a position that was moved into the budget because the school didn't know if they would receive Federal money for it. He wanted to know in the event the= school received Federal money, if that position would be funded by that money to create a bigger offset. Mr. S= teel answered yes, if the School Board elected to do so. Mr. Hall believed the position was= the Title 1 teacher. Mr. Farris s= aid if the grant money was received, there was no reason why the Federal money couldn't continue to fund salaries; the offset could be used to repla= ce items taken out of the budget.
Mr. Guimond asked for the year-end surplus amount. Mr. Steel stated they were current= ly projecting it at approximately $157,000; the final number will be known aft= er their audit (3rd week in September).
Mr. Gleason wanted to know the magnitude of the problem (for FY2011/2012) and h= ow it was effected after the proposed remedies. Mr. Steel said the amount was $474= ,000. He said they had identified the cu= ts they needed to make in order to not have a deficit during the coming school year.
Mr. Steel said questions had been raised regarding the driver's education program at the high school, namely that the District was providing a vehicl= e, insurance and gas while out-sourcing the instruction to a third party. The District has since put out an = RFP for driver education services and received a number of responses and select= ed a vendor. It is now a fully out-sourced solution with zero cost to the District. There is no longer a need to have a vehicle; the School Board has voted to allow Mr. Steel to sell the vehicle = with the revenue going to offset taxes in the fall. Students will now have a lower cos= t for driver education. The savings= to the school is approximately $15,000 each year.
Steel told the Board that the State reduced their commitment to kindergarten
funding by saying that the statute that supports the kindergarten building =
will sunset
Steel stated that the sprinkler system that was budgeted and passed last ye=
was well under way at
Steel said the voters at Deliberative Session added money to the budget for=
library at
Mr. Hall asked for the status of the funding for the modular classrooms. Mr. Steel replied the funding for = the kindergarten modular was in its final year. The state will reimburse the schoo= l to remove them at the end of the present fiscal year. If the District chooses to keep the modulars they will be responsible for paying the balance ($562,000). The School Board will have to dete= rmine in their upcoming budget whether or not to keep the modulars as part of the= FY13 budget.
Mr. Sherman asked how many students were expected to be enrolled in kindergarte= n in the fall. Mr. Steel believed = it was approximately 84 students. = p>
Mr. Cate questioned if a study had been done to determine the cost effectivenes= s of leasing the modulars versus building a structure. Mr. Steel was unsure if a permanent facility could be constructed for $562,000. Mr. Cate asked if that amount was = for an outright purchase, or if it was part of the lease. Mr. Steel explained that the modul= ars were leased for three years and at the end of the lease (August, 2012) the balan= ce owed is $562,000. Mr. Cate as= ked if there was a lease option to buy. Mr. Steel answered yes.
Mr. Farris wanted to know if there had been any discussion by the School Board = on a restructured, or different kindergarten plan from what was presented. Mr. Steel said there hadn't = been a discussion. Ms. Larson said d= uring the next two months that topic would be at the forefront of the School̵= 7;s agenda. At this point there w= as no plan for any big budget items. Mr. Farris noted that the School basically had two more opportunities. He asked if there was any discussi= on about the high school. Ms. La= rson replied that the School Board would discuss ideas at their next workshop me= eting and understood that 2013 would be a crucial year.
Mr. Sherman questioned if there were any contracts that would need to be negoti= ated this year. Mr. Steel answered= yes; PESPA (Instructional Assistants, Title 1 Tutors) contract would be in negot= iations in the fall. Mr. Hall asked if there was any information regarding a bus contract. Mr. Steel said they had a bus cont= ract with the current provider through next June 30th. He proposed to the SAU and School = Boards the hiring of a consultant to help review a 10-year plan for bussing. He provided an explanation of the history behind the bus contract and the Town and the purpose for working wi= th a consultant.
Additional Discussion= u>
Mr. Gleason told the Board that the Selectmen had put pressure on the Planning Board to reinstitute the CIP because of the need to do an analysis of all infrastructure needs. He said someone from the Budget Committee would be asked to participate. He asked the Board for their consideration of when the Town was faced with replacing equipment (i.e. hig= hway trucks) that it be placed in the operating budget as opposed to having a warrant. The consensus of mos= t of the Select Board was they weren't buying something new, but rather we= re replacing something that had started to deteriorate. Mr. Gleason understood the Budget Committee's current policy, and asked for their consideration to place vehicles in the operating budget that were replacements.
Mr. Farris was concerned with putting large amounts of money into the operating budget, because once the funds were spent, that amount wouldn't necessarily go away. Mr. Glea= son said the amount should go away as they set the default budgets up. Mr. Farris understood the needs, b= ut was concerned about "one-time" expenses not going away and budgets increasing. Mr. Gleason said = he was simply asking for the Board's consideration.
Mr. Guimond asked if the Selectmen had decided what would happen with the poten= tial fire station. Mr. Gleason sai= d the Selectmen had authorized Trident to start putting together the costs. The problem they now faced was how funding would be approached (warrant article versus placing in the operating budget).
Mr. Sherman questioned the process of how ambulances were purchased in the past. Mr. Gleason said they h= ad the ambulance revolving fund (money from usage is placed into the fund), and th= ere was also a capital reserve fund. It was the Selectmen's expectation that between those two funds that the ambulance could be paid for without tax impact. Mr. Sherman asked if a similar sce= nario could be set up for the Highway Department. Mr. Gleason was unsure if the RSA&= #8217;s would allow them to do so. Th= ere was a discussion regarding what was allowed by law for the replacement of vehicles. Mr. Hall felt it wo= uld be helpful for the Highway Department to create a schedule for replacing vehicles. Mr. Gleason replied= that the Highway Department had done just that, and presented such to the Select= men.
Mr. Farris asked if the Highway Department could provide a list of all the roads they had repaired in the past few years.&n= bsp; Mr. Gleason said the information was available and would submit a copy to the Board.
Sherman asked if the
(Farris/Guimon= d) To adjourn the meeting.
(7-0-0) The motion carried.
The meeting was adjourned at approximately .
= &nb= sp; = &nb= sp; = &nb= sp; = Respectfully submitted,
= &nb= sp; = &nb= sp; = &nb= sp; = Charity A. Landry Willis
= &nb= sp; = &nb= sp; = &nb= sp; = Recording Secretary
ACTION ITEMS= u>
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Ornette Coleman celebrated at Prospect Park w/ Patti Smith, Flea, Thurston Moore, Ornette himself & more (pics, setlist)
photos by Greg Cristman
Ornette Coleman / Laurie Anderson / Flea
The 2014 Celebrate Brooklyn! season continued with another free show in Prospect Park this past Thursday (6/12), a tribute to pioneering free jazz great Ornette Coleman (also part of Blue Note Jazz Fest). A large handful of musicians from many genres appeared on stage to pay tribute to Ornette, including Red Hot Chili Peppers/Atoms for Peace/Antemasque bassist Flea, joined separately by two jazz veterans Henry Threadgill and David Murray. Punk legend Patti Smith appeared with her daughter Jesse and bandmate Tony Shanahan. Laurie Anderson was joined by past collaborators/NYC avant-garde lifers Bill Laswell and John Zorn for a performance that was also partly in honor of her late husband Lou Reed. Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore performed a duo set with guitar great Nels Cline (Wilco, Lee Ranaldo's band, etc), and still so many other guests performed including Geri Allen, Joe Lovano, Savion Glover, Bruce Hornsby, Branford Marsalis, Ravi Coltrane, James Blood and more.
Thurston Moore & Nels Cline
One very special guest of the night was Ornette Coleman himself, who wasn't billed as a performer but but spent a good deal of the show on stage, often chiming in. The New York Times writes:
Again, Mr. Coleman played: a significant fact and an increasingly rare occasion in the last several years. This was billed as a concert for him, not by him; it was not clear whether he would play a note until showtime. But he sat in a chair onstage for most of the concert's first half, either with an alto saxophone in his lap, or taking part as if he were playing along with nature, joining when he wanted to and how he wanted to.Pictures of the show are in this post. They continue, with the setlist a video from Patti Smith's performance, below...
The concert was organized by Mr. Coleman's son, Denardo, who was also the bandleader, as a program of Coleman compositions, except for a couple of free improvisations. But Mr. Coleman wasn't there to play Ornette Coleman compositions. He was just there to play, and he started from soft and lovely unaccompanied lines, like some precursor to blues language.
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Ohm Resistance show lineup includes Blood of Heroes w/ Bill Laswell (who played in Bladerunner, plays Prospect Park w/ Flea, Patti Smith, Bruce Hornsby & more)
words by Ian Chainey, photos by Greg Cristman
Bill Laswell performing with Bladerunner
The Ohm Resistance Label Showcase to be held at Brooklyn club Saint Vitus on May 31 has taken shape and it's just as wild as you'd expect from the Brooklyn-based avant-garde label. The Blood of Heroes with Bill Laswell will be making their live debut. They're joined by Silent Killer, Invertia, SHVLFCE, and Katmai. Advanced tickets are available now.
The Blood of Heroes are an experimental troupe bringing together the talents of Bill Laswell, Justin Broadrick (Godflesh, Jesu), beatmakers Submerged and Enduser, and Dr. Israel behind the mic. The result is a synthesis of the players' day jobs: drum n' bass, jungle, dub, industrial metal, and ambient. It can also be none of those things. Their eponymous debut was released by Ohm Resistance in 2010. (It also received a full set of remixes that same year.) A follow-up, The Waking Nightmare, came out via Ohm in 2012 and featured contributions from Tony Maimone (Pere Ubu) and a guest spot from Tompa (At the Gates, Disfear), among a varied collection of others.
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Ohm Resistance showcase details, along with streams of the entire lineup and two more pics from the Bladerunner gig appear below.
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This letter, signed by a ton of artists and pictured above, is set to appear in an ad in Billboard:
We are big fans of Pandora. That's why we helped give the company a discount on rates for the past decade.Pink Floyd, Down, Primus, Dead Kennedys (with our without Jello?), Nas, Alabama, Sheryl Crow and many more big major label names signed this (or someone signed it on their behalf). Check out the full list below, and head to fairpayforartists.com for more information on their point of view..
Pandora is now enjoying phenomenal success as a Wall Street company. Skyrocketing growth in revenues and users. We celebrate that. At the same time, the music community is just now beginning to gain its footing in the new digital world.
Pandora's principal asset is the music.
Why is the company asking Congress once again to step in and gut the royalties that thousands of musicians rely upon? That's not fair, and that's not how partners work together.
Congress has many pressing issues to consider, but this is not one of them. Let's work this out as partners and continue to bring fans the great musical experience they rightly expect.
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Roger Waters & others added to all-star 'Love for Levon' tribute with My Morning Jacket & more (win tix)
Roger Waters at Yankee Stadium, July 2012 (more by Greg Cristman)
Roger Waters has been added to the big "Love for Levon" tribute that goes down next week (10/3) at the Izod Center. The onetime Pink Floyd guitarist/vocalist joins the likes of Gregg Allman, John Mayer, My Morning Jacket, John Prine, Warren Hayes, Garth Hudson, Grace Potter and more in the all-star band that will celebrate the life and music of Levon Helm who lost his battle with cancer back in April. A full list of performers for "Love for Levon" is below.
Tickets are still available and please remember that the whole show is a benefit with net proceeds from the concert helping support "the lasting legacy of Levon Helm by helping his estate keep ownership of his home, barn and studio, and to continue The Midnight Ramble Sessions." We are, however, also giving a pair away. Details on how to enter are below.
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My Morning Jacket at Williamsburg Park - 8/19/12 (more by David Andrako)
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Tickets for the show go on sale Wednesday, August 29 at 11 AM, with a Citicard presale starting Friday, August 24 at 10 AM. There will also be a Live Nation presale on August 29 at 10 AM.
All net proceeds from the concert will help support "the lasting legacy of Levon Helm by helping his estate keep ownership of his home, barn and studio, and to continue The Midnight Ramble Sessions."
Bonnaroo 2011 Day 3 in pics (Bootsy Collins, Black Keys, Eminem, Scissor Sisters & more) +++ Bonnaroo 2012 on sale!
photos by Dana (Distortion) Yavin & Graeme Flegenheimer
Scissor Sisters
BONNAROO 2012 PRE-SALE BEGINS FRIDAY, JUNE 17TH, 2011 AT 12:00 PM EASTERN.Bonnaroo 2011 happened last weekend. Pictures of Karen Elson from Day One are HERE, with the rest of Day One HERE. Pictures of Decemberists from Day Two HERE, with the rest of Day Two HERE. Pictures of Gogol Bordello from Day Three HERE. Robyn from Day Four HERE. The rest of Day 4 coming soon. The rest of Day Three below...
Thanks to all who joined us for the tenth Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival! We had so much fun that we want to give you the opportunity to buy tickets to the 2012 festival!
Starting Friday, June 17 at 12:00 PM Eastern we will offer a limited number of specially priced general admission tickets for $209.50 plus service fees.
These pre-sale tickets will be available in a limited quantity through Friday, July 1, 2011 at 11:59 PM Eastern or while supplies last.
There is a limit of (10) general admission tickets per order.
Ticket fees are $23.35 per ticket, which includes a $6.00 facility fee, $3.00 contribution to Coffee County, $1.00 charity donation, and service fees.
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Bonnaroo (June 9-12 in Manchester Tennessee) has announced the 2011 lineup (slightly early), and like the rumored Lollapalooza lineup, Eminem is among the headliners. Bonnaroo also has Grammy winners Arcade Fire and the Black Keys, in addition to Lil Wayne, Mumford & Sons, the Strokes, The Decemberists, Florence & the Machine, Girl Talk, Beirut (haven't seen them in a while), and many more. Full list below...


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Iconic artist coming to tons of Wizard World Comic Cons!
(Comics Creator, Writer, Artist - Marvel Zombies, Deadpool, Batman, Army of Darkness)
Award winning creator and Marvel artist Arthur Suydams meteoric rise to superstardom for his work for the smash hit series Marvel Zombies broke graphic novel records, immediately placing the artist in the category of comic legend.
Recent awards include: The Spike TV, Scream Award (best writer, best artist, best comic of the year), the prestigious, Spectrum Gold Award for Institutional Art (2006), The San Sebastian Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award, from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore Lifetime Achievement Award, and numerous fan-site favorite awards across the globe. Suydams short story Christmas Carol was chosen for The Mammoth Book of Horror and Legends and The Art of Painted Comics (2008).
The Suydam family Art Legacy in New York reads like a whos-who in American art beginning in the 16th century when the family came over to fight in the Indian Wars on Hudson, establishing a Dutch trading post, which later became New Amsterdam and eventually New York . At the outset of the Civil-War, Hudson River painters James and Henry Suydam , along with contemporaries Frederick Church, Thomas Cole, Albert Beirstadt, John Kensett and Sanford Gifford helped win American artists recognition worldwide for the first time. James Suydams work hung in the New York Academy Museum. Great-uncle E.H. Suydam is one of Americas most renowned architectural artists, with drawings hanging in the White House and Museum of New York. Arthur Suydam and contemporary Richard Corben are credited with first introducing fully painted sequential art to comics in the early 70s and 80s.
Arthur Suydams popular covers have graced the covers of Marvel Zombies, Dead Days, Deadpool Merc with a Mouth, The Misfits Devils Rain, Land of the Dead, Raise the Dead, Batman, Wolverine, Fantastic Four, X-men, Ghost Rider, Thor, Spider Girl and The Oz Chronicles. In 2008 Marvel released an exclusive hard cover tribute to the works of this unique artist entitled Marvel Zombies, The Covers dedicated to Suydams ground-breaking work. Additional recent works include, Army of Darkness, Savage Tales, Red Sonja and the smash hit Army of Darkness vs. Marvel Zombies, Batman vs. Predator, Conan the Barbarian, Tarzan and House of Secrets, and The Tick .
Suydams own projects are numerous and include Mudwogs and Mudwogs II, and The Adventures of Cholly & Flytrap, Center City, released through Radical Entertainment, Giants, Bedtime Stories for the Incarcerated, Fireflies, The Day it Rained Eggs, Love Me, Love My Demons and many more.
A life-long fan of Marvel comics, Suydam also branches out with select projects that include film noir for Hard Case Crime, where Suydam provides retro-inspired covers for Robert Blochs Shooting Star, Fright by Cornell Woolrich and Noir pulp master Mickey Spillanes final novel, Dead Street, released this year.
As a world class musician Suydam has composed and performed numerous film soundtracks. A list of Suydams band members reads like a whos-who list of Rocks legends including musicians from: Bob Dylan, Paul Mc Cartneys Wings, Steely Dan, Paul Simon Group, Aretha Franklin, The Stones, Billy Joel and many more. Suydams current group The Gotham Playboys recorded 3 albums and won the Grammy for The Sessions with Bruce Springsteen in 2005.
Suydam is a member of the Society of Illustrators and lives and works in Manhattans East Village.
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The Indiana Pacers are nearing completion of a deal to acquire Phoenix Suns forward Luis Scola, league sources told Yahoo! Sports. The Pacers and Suns were finalizing the players and possible picks involved in the deal on Friday night, and front-office sources expected an agreement to be finalized overnight. Indiana has been pursuing Scola for several weeks, and had become available to teams because of the Suns' movement toward a rebuild under new general manager Ryan McDonough. Yahoo! Sports
Sources told ESPN that subsequent reports out of Argentina about former All-Star swingman Danny Granger being included in the trade were erroneous. ESPN.com
Marc Stein: Early word on this Pacers-Suns deal is that Phoenix will receive Gerald Green and draft considerations in exchange for Indy-bound @LScola4 Twitter @ESPNSteinLine
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First, let's do a roll call shall we? The following were present at the game, either participating in the game or watching from the sidelines: Yao Ming, Tracy Mcgrady, Joakim Noah, Metta World Peace, Luis Scola, George Hill, Kyle Lowry, Ricky Rubio, Chris Singleton, John Wall, Damian Lillard, Jrue Holiday, Chinese players Yi Jianlian, Wang Zhelin, Sun Yue, Liu Wei, Wang Zhi Zhi and super-famous Brazil and Real Madrid soccer/futbol player Kaka. Yes, that Kaka. (Bonus: Here's a hilarious picture of Kaka with Yao and Wang Zhi Zhi from last night.) SLAM
What advice did you give Pablo before he signed? Luis Scola: I told him, 'I think you should go and I will push hard for you. I think it's the best thing for you and your career.' Not only that, I thought New York was the perfect team for him. The team has such great players like J.R. Smith and Carmelo [Anthony], and they have a great pick-and-roll player in Tyson Chandler. I'm not surprised they play well with him on the court. ESPN.com
Scola and Dragic were asked whether they would recommend interim head coach Lindsey Hunter returning next season. Both players punted the topic. "That's a tough question," Dragic said. " ... I'm here to play basketball. It's not my decision to make." Dragic did say he liked Hunter's approach to practice. "Alvin (Gentry) was a great coach for the veteran players; he knows when to give them a day off, but for our team we have a young team and we really need to practice hard every day," Dragic said. "When he (Hunter) took over the team I think we maybe had one or two days off. I think it should be like that." Arizona Republic
Scola said he thought Hunter did "a great job. Circumstances were bad and he did as good as he could. But I don't make those decisions. I'm just a player." Would a third coach in less than a year be unsettling for the team? "I think it would be a sign of things being bad," Scola said. "But things are bad." Arizona Republic
Rarely have the Suns strung together four quarters of solid play in a single game. "We can't just play the game and pick out the good parts of the game and say we play well for a quarter or two or three. If you don't play well for 48 minutes, you don't play well," Luis Scola said following the team's most recent loss Sunday against New Orleans. Arizona's Sports Page
He was just getting started. "We just don't know how to play well," he continued. "We don't know how to play basketball and that's why we lose. Until we learn how to play 48 minutes of basketball, we're not going to win games. I'm surprised we won (23) games playing this way. Many of the games we won, we did the same thing. We just overcame it somehow. I'm also surprised we didn't fix it. We saw the problem pretty much the first week and we couldn't fix it. It's very frustrating. It's a bad year." Arizona's Sports Page
This season's disappointment is hard for Scola to hide behind his supreme work ethic. He battles physically, runs like a cartoon character and talks with rare maturity in the locker room. "It's hard," Scola said. "It's not what I thought it was going to be. But I can't say it's somebody else's fault. I know I have to be part of the blame. We have to work hard and finish the season strong. "I feel like I'm a big part of the team, and when a team goes this wrong, you can't say it's everybody else. If it went well, I'm sure people would talk about how much of an influence I had. So it's only fair to take that kind of blame when things go wrong. It's hard. I never thought it was going to be like this, but it's only a good challenge to change things around and do things the right way." Arizona Republic
But Scola is not ready to bail on this city. The enjoyment is in the climb, and he wants to be part of a Suns franchise turnaround. "The whole organization, the fans and the city deserve a different situation," Scola said. "It's painful for me to see the Phoenix Suns be so successful throughout the years and when I finally get here, we have one of the worst seasons ever. Hopefully, we can change that. I don't want to be remembered like this." Arizona Republic
With the Suns struggling to forge an identity under interim coach Lindsey Hunter, Scola's role often has been reduced as Hunter experiments with different rotations. The 6-foot-9-inch Argentinian admits to feeling discouraged at times. "It's hard for me. It's hard," Scola said. "It is (frustrating), but I try to use that frustration to work a little harder. Just try to stay ready and in shape." Arizona Republic
Whatever frustrations he may be feeling, Scola is keeping them private, living up to his reputation as a team player. "We have no problems with Scola whatsoever," Hunter said. "He's the ultimate professional. If he plays 30 or he plays three (minutes), he's the same guy — consistent. So he's been great for us." Arizona Republic
Scola was looking forward to the video tribute as a confirmation of how his hard work was appreciated in Houston. The video ended with "Welcome home, Luis" on the video board. "This team made me my dream come true, a dream to play in the NBA since I was so little that it was so crazy to dream about something like that," Scola said. "I was dreaming about playing in the NBA and people were, not laughing at me, but looking at me like a little kid. It turns out it was possible and it was because of Houston. "It's a very important place for my life and career." Arizona Republic
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Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch, who oversees Jerusalem's Western Wall, said a worshipper found an envelope at the site Wednesday with 507 checks in the amount of about $1 million each. They were not addressed to anyone, and it's doubtful they can be cashed.
Rabinovitch said most are Nigerian. Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said some were from the United States, Europe and Asia.
Rabinovitch says he has found similar checks in Western Wall charity boxes before, but they all bounced. He says most of them were written by people from Africa.
The rabbi says he thinks the check writers "wanted to give all they had to the Creator of the universe."
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There are new developments in the investigation into the carbon monoxide poisoning deaths of three people at a Boone, North Carolina hotel.
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The first few days after Johanna was born were a blur. The standard medical advice offered to parents whose baby is born with a brachial plexus injury, "watch and wait," was hard to accept.
Johanna's neurologist told us most babies with a brachial plexus injury recover by 3 months, and only a small percentage may need surgery. On Feb. 19, 2012, five days after she was born, we left the hospital with Johanna, ready to start the healing process and determined to follow doctor's orders to a T.
We watched and waited. It isn't the most difficult job in the world to dress a newborn, but when yours has a paralyzed arm, it's scary. We were afraid to hurt her more than she already was. We learned to do everything we needed … in Johanna's way. The hardest part was seeing people's faces, knowing they didn't want to hold her because they were scared they might hurt her.
Johanna started occupational therapy and physical therapy at 8 weeks old. Her therapists prescribed exercises to see how much range of motion she could gain. We waited for the magical 3-month mark. Johanna's range of motion in her left arm had not improved.
At 4 months, she lifted her arm, with some help from gravity. We were so happy. It meant there was hope, and we needed to work just a little harder.
Two more months passed. But Johanna did not seem to improve any more.
Her pediatrician recommended an MRI scan, which showed her nerve was damaged. The neurologist did not want to operate on Johanna and suggested surgery might cause more damage. "She will always be disabled," he told us.
We decided to get a second opinion. I started researching doctors through social networks, looking for the best doctor who specialized in brachial plexus injury. Once I heard Dr. Peter Waters' name from more than one parent, I asked for a referral to Boston Children's Hospital.
I decided that the ride from our home in Connecticut to Boston was going to be worth every mile.
At our first visit, Dr. Waters suggested a second appointment in six weeks to see if Johanna gained any movement. At this point, Johanna had a little bit of muscle tone in her left arm; she could drink from a bottle, using her good arm if the bottle had handles. She couldn't bear weight on her left arm and could only get around by an army crawl or rolling.
The next time we saw Dr. Waters, he suggested surgery would be the best option to give Johanna a boost for a better adult life.
At 11 months old, Johanna had nerve transfer surgery to help her have better finger extension and elbow flexion.
Johanna came through surgery like a champ. Even though her arm was bandaged to her body, she tried to crawl.
On Feb. 14, 2013, her first birthday, Johanna restarted physical therapy.
Three weeks later, my baby who hadn't been able to lift her arm past midline, brought her arm to her mouth. Success!
At 14 months old, she started walking … well ahead of the 20 months predicted by one doctor.
Every three months, our family packs into the car and heads north to Boston for a visit with Dr. Waters. We look forward to every visit, because we can see how much she has progressed. We know there may be more surgeries or casting, but we are committed to doing whatever it takes to make sure Johanna has a better adult life.
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A bill being pushed in the Florida Legislature by a Lake Worth Democrat would automatically register people to vote when they get a driver's license.
This is something Duval County Supervisor of Elections Jerry Holland said, at face value, could be good for the voting process.
"We do have thousands of voters who move and never contact us," said Holland. "Creating a big expense because we have to go through the process of notifying them."
Sen. Jeff Clemens said he's pushing the bill because he feels this would eliminate the controversy over voter registration, but Holland said there could be problems with it.
"There's also a cost to registering people automatically for people who don't want to vote," said Holland. "It gives them an option to opt out, but often times in hurrying through the process they go through the process not knowing to opt out. My concern is the expense of sending out voter registration cards and sample ballots to thousands of people who may not want to vote."
There could be political ramifications too. No one knows yet whether bringing in a whole new crop of registered voters would be better for Democrats or Republicans. Holland said both parties will look at who benefits from the potential new voters.
"If there is or isn't, it will definitely be considered and both parties will look at that," said Holland. "But the reality is, are we saying those who wouldn't originally register to vote would vote for one party or the other. That's a hard question to answer."
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While searching for lego eragon stuff, by the way I found nothing, I ran across theses videos on youtube. It acts out Eragon the book in five parts but he has so many videos its hard to find the others but the next one is usually the first one on the related videos. If you […]
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I have sold bamboos into the landscape industry for the last 25 years. My specialty has been the supply of balled and burlapped stock ranging in size from 75L to 1000L and up to 11m tall. Over the years I have become more selective in the number of species that I offer for commercial sale. My bamboos are grown on the Mid North Coast of NSW in a sub tropical climate. All of the bamboos are disease free and fully stabilised if ex ground. My background in landscape design enables me to advise both architects and landscape architects on a bamboos suitability.
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On Wednesday, federal agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration raided several marijuana dispensaries in Washington's Puget Sound region. It's tempting to interpret the crackdown as a threat to state-sanctioned legalization for adults older than 21. Nonetheless, activists and experts on the ground tell AlterNet that while it's too early to make a judgement, it appears likely that the dispensaries targeted may have been violating state, not just federal, law. Moreover, strict regulations embedded in Washington's more sweeping legalization model (and absent from its medical policy) may protect the state from federal intervention once the pot shops open up.
The Daily Chronic reported that as many as 18 dispensaries were raided, but AlterNet has confirmed with US attorneys that only four (Seattle Cross, Tacoma Cross, Bayside Collective, and Key Peninsula Cross) were served warrants. The raid has also been described as the result of a reported two-year investigation, and the four dispensaries busted were also targeted by a 2011 raid. A spokesperson for the US attorneys' office for Western Washington told AlterNet these four distributors had not been officially prosecuted, but "on notice" ever since.
In 2011, the federal search warrant affidavit including these four dispensaries alleged that the businesses were involved in large-scale distribution to non-medical marijuana patients.
"[T]he allegations brought by the federal government suggest individuals are involved in activities that fall out of both the letter and the spirit of our state law," said Alison Holcomb, the architect of the legalization bill I-502 and director of the Criminal Justice Project at ACLU of Washington. Holcomb added, "So they were allegedly breaking state law, not only federal law."
Dominic Holden, a local reporter on the marijuana policy beat, also appeared to suspect foul play. Holden wrote in Seattle's The Stranger that, because, "There are plenty of cases of people running 'medical cannabis co-ops' who get busted because they are running for-profit operations that have nothing to do with medical pot," he wants to see court documents before making "an armchair verdict on today's dispensary raids."
Regardless, Washington's coming marijuana market may not face the same federal scrutiny as its medical marijuana model. While recreational legalization appears to more blatantly contradict federal prohibition, strong, central regulation appears to protect against federal interference. Because Washington's recreational model includes tight rules and oversight, feds may be more reluctant to raid those businesses than less regulated dispensaries.
As Marijuana Policy Project, the Drug Policy Alliance, and Allison Holcomb pointed out to AlterNet, medical marijuana states with looser regulatory schemes, like California and Montana, have been more prone to federal raids than states like Colorado and New Mexico, where regulations are tighter. Washington's legalization amendment, however, sets up a strict (some have even criticized it for being too strict) system of oversight.
"Washington is in an interesting situation," said DPA's marijuana policy expert, Amanda Reiman, "They have legalized adult use of marijuana, which the feds have remained fairly silent on, and they also have medical marijuana."
"But, like California, [Washington medical marijuana law] stops short at state involvement in licensing cultivation and dispensing."
Reiman said that while she believes the Obama administration, "or whoever is calling for these raids," may make decisions influenced by how involved, or not, the state is involved in marijuana regulation.
"Part of the reason for this is because when localities have complaints about medical marijuana businesses and the state is not involved, the complaints are usually going to the U.S. attorneys in those states, which triggers federal involvement," said Reiman.
"In California, there are no statewide regulations or even local regulations regarding standards for production, standards for transportation of product, quality control, and other important guidelines," said Holcomb. She thinks a state agency tasked with controlling marijuana is the most effective method.
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Motorists who will be traveling in Howard County should be aware of a major traffic issue.
Officials say that Route 1 at Kit Kat Lane in Elkridge will be closed for the next several hours.
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