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The establishment of Christianity in Scotland may have begun with St. Ninian around the end of the 4th century, but the strongest roots are in the island of Iona, off the west coast of Scotland, close to the Island of Mull. It's just three miles long and one mile wide. Although insignificant in size, Iona […]
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Board of education elections are May 21, and that means petitions are beginning to circulate as candidates step forward.
At the Ogdensburg City School District, Board of Education President Frederick P. Bean is the only member whose five-year term is up.
I fully intend on running again, Mr. Bean said.
Petitions for the Ogdensburg seat are due in the district office by April 24.
One seat is also up for grabs in the Massena Central School District with Michael J. LeBires five-year term expiring this year. Mr. LeBire, chair of the districts Finance Committee, said he is unsure if he will seek another term.
Mr. LeBire had first been elected in 2006 to a two-year to fill a seat that had been held by Robert Thompson. He was elected to a full term in 2008.
Petitions are due to the Massena district office by April 22. So far no official petitions have been picked up.
The Potsdam Central School Board of Education will have three vacancies, each for a full three-year term.
The seats are currently held by Thomas W. Hobbs, Mark R. Frascatore and Ralph L. Fuller.
Mr. Hobbs and Mr. Fuller have picked up petitions. And Mr. Frascatore has indicated that he does not plan on running for re-election. Donald Cannamela has also picked up a petition to run for the board.
Completed petitions are due in the district office in Potsdam by April 22.
Petitions in the run for the Gouverneur Central School Board are due back by April 22. The three-year terms of Roger B. Cook, Laurie M. Roberts and Barry R. Smith are up for election.
Petitions for nominating candidates for Madrid-Waddington Central Schools Board of education are due at the district office by April 22.
Two board members terms are expiring this year: Jeffrey Dominy and Gerald Molnar. Neither is seeking re-election and voters will select two new board members to serve five-year terms.
Madrid-Waddington will also have two referendums on the ballot on May 21. The first measure will allow the purchase of two buses and one passenger van, not to exceed $250,000.
The other referendum will allow the district to purchase a Kitchen Steam Cooker and Kettle, not to exceed $40,000.
There will be two seats on the ballot this year. District Clerk Lori Witherell said both seats are full five-year terms with the seats held by James Youngs and the late Steve Wilson up for grabs.
Mr. Wilsons seat is currently held Daniel Taylor, who took over last spring following Mr. Wilsons death.
Ms. Witherell said Mr. Taylor and Mr. Youngs have picked up petitions.
The deadline to return petitions, which may be picked up at the district office, is April 19.
The Colton-Pierrepont Central School District will have one full four-year term to fill on its board.
District Clerk Diane Ladison said that seat is currently held by Jo Ann Roberts, who had picked up a petition to run for re-election. A second candidate, Scott Baxter has also picked up a petition to run.
Petitions are available in the district office and must be returned by April 19.
In Norwood-Norfolk, three seats will be available this year. Theyre currently held by board President Jon D. Hazen and board members Stephanie Allen and Suzanne Fiacco. They are for three-year terms.
Mr. Hazen, Ms. Fiacco and Ms. Allen had finished as the top three vote-getters in May 2010, earning three-year seats on the board.
Petitions are due to the district clerk by the end of the day April 22. Petitions had been given to the incumbents, but none have been returned and no others have picked up petitions as of this week.
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Two five-year seats will be available this year in the St. Lawrence Central School District. They are currently held by board President James K. Lattimer and board member Bethany L. St. Hilaire.
Mr. Lattimer first came to the board in April 2006 to fill a seat that had been vacated by Arthur Siebert. That term ended in June 30, 2006, and Mr. Lattimer was elected that year for a five-year term that expired in 2011. He was reelected in 2011 to fill a two-year seat that opened with the resignation of former board member William Sullivan.
Ms. St. Hilaire was elected to a five-year term in 2008.
Petitions are due to the district clerk by 5 p.m. April 22. Mr. Lattimer and Ms. St. Hilaire have picked up petitions, as has newcomer Kathlene Walsh.
In Morristown three seats are up for grabs this year.
Petitions for candidates interested in running for seats held by Vice President Darrell Merkel or board members Jane Kring and Mary Anne Bailey are due April 22.
Terms in Morristown are three years each.
Ms. Bailey submitted her petition on Tuesday. So far theres no word whether Mr. Merkel or Ms. Kring intend on running for re-election.
Three seats are also up for reelection at Clifton-Fine Central School with petitions for the three-year positions due April 22.
Seats held by Board President Michelle L. Durham and members Robert P. Tebo III and Richard W. Hitchman are up for grabs.
One seat on the Lisbon Central School Board of Education is also up for grabs this year with Tammy Amos five-year term expiring.
At this point Mrs. Amo is undecided about whether she will run for re-election.
Petitions can be picked up at the districts office and are due by April 22.
Due to Easter break, it could not be confirmed whose seats are up for election in the Canton, Hermon-DeKalb and Edwards-Knox schol districts.
Staff writers Bob Beckstead, Martha Ellen, Benny Fairchild and Amanda Purcell contributed to this report.
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Berlin's 30 best bars and pubs
Enjoy a consummate cocktail or a perfect German beer, with our guide to the capital's bars and pubs
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With its cheap beer and non-existent licensing laws, you might think Berlin is overrun with drunken stags on an Irish pub crawl, but instead you'll find a rich and very civilised drinking culture. Some of the best bars are here, spread all over Berlin - whether you want to settle into a comfy sofa with a craft beer and book, at a neighbourhood favourite like Natanja und Heinrich, or savour alcohol craftsmen in a concept cocktail bar like Green Door.
There's no real central drinking area in Berlin, each neighbourhood bringing their distinctive characteristics to bar culture. The old West is more old-fashioned, the bars following a café-style with food also served to the table like at the '50s Deiner Tatersall or Paris Bar. Schöneberg was always known for it's nightlife, home to both a Weimar-era Isherwood and much later, David Bowie, but since the wall fell a lot of the action has shifted eastwards. Around Nollendorfplatz you'll find a number of excellent cocktail bars like Stagger Lee and the traditional gay centre. Kreuzberg's more rough and ready with plenty of boozy DJ bars around Kottbusser Tor and further south in Neukölln you can go full barfly at places like the louche Tier.
The locals love a drink but due to most bars being located in residential blocks, drinkers tend to get more and more hushed as the night progresses, displays of drunken behaviour are extremely rare. As with most places in Berlin, don't expect to be able to pay with credit cards anywhere so be sure to carry sufficient cash. And for those used to a last orders call, do remember to go home - Berlin's bars really do close when the last customer leaves!
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With an unmarked entrance – look for the iron door under the train overpass – and strict entrance policy, this grown-up bar/lounge is as exclusive as Berlin gets. This is where the well-heeled come to be seen sipping innovative drinks in a tubular, steel-ceilinged
- Schiffbauerdamm 11, 10117
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This rowdy beer garden has been doing Berliners a brisk service since 1852, and lies across the courtyard from an old ballroom of the same name, attracting a noisy crowd. The enthusiastic beer-swilling, big wooden tables and platefuls of Bratwurst and Bretzeln
- Kastanienallee 7-9, 10435
Rum Trader
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Subtitled the 'Institute for Advanced Drinking', this tiny bar is a Berlin classic, largely thanks to its eccentric owner, Gregor Scholl, who is ever present, smartly dressed in bow tie and waistcoat. There is no menu: Scholl will ask which spirit you like, and
- Fasanenstraße 40, 10719
Bei Schlawinchen
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Berlin is famous for its Kneipen, which are best likened to a working man's club. There are many different types: some act as clubhouses for fanatic fans of the local football team Hertha BSC, some play speed metal and some are just cosy places for local guys to
- Schönleinstraße 34, 10967
Bar 3
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Located in a backstreet off Torstraße, this Bar 3 is a favourite of the media types that prowl the streets of Mitte. With a large horseshoe shaped bar taking up most of the room, seating options are confined to bar stools, otherwise it's standing only. This place
- Weydingerstrasse 20, 10178
Newton Bar
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Homage seems to be Berlin's preferred method for naming bars, and here iconoclastic fashion photographer Helmut Newton is immortalized. An entire wall of this large bar is dedicated to a series of his black and white nudes – for those unfamiliar with his pictures
- Charlottenstraße 57, 10117
Schwarze Traube
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This Kreuzberg bar shot to fame when the slight but magnificently bearded owner Atalay Aktas won the award for best mixologist in Germany. You'll find his altar to the cocktail around the corner from Kreuzberg's Markthalle Neun. They operate a knock-to-enter
- Wrangelstrasse 24, 10997
Le Croco Bleu
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One of the newest bars to hit the cocktail scene, Le Croco Bleu is the baby of Berlin drinks royalty, Gregor Scholl, who began his career at the Charlottenburg stalwart Paris Bar before opening the cultish Rum Trader. Housed in the old machine rooms of the 19th century
- Prenzlauer Allee 242, 10405
Altes Europa
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The big picture windows, basic furnishings and old maps and prints on the walls provides a low key, old school setting – a welcome retreat in a touristy neighbourhood. Altes Europa is a reliable stop off for anything from a mid-afternoon drink to a rowdier night out
- Gipsstrasse 11, 10119
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This place perfectly captures that unfinished – and inexplicably sexy – look with which Berlin's fashionable set is so enamoured. Kim has been a favourite for twentysomething art-scenesters since it opened in February 2007. The door is unmarked: just look for an
- Brunnenstrasse 10, 10119
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The old Torstrasse dive bar space has now been replaced by this sprawling Hackerschermarkt location, but once you're past the moody doorman, the same rules apply. All spirits are sold in Trust-branded bottles and the idea is to band together with friends (especially
- Torstrasse 72, 10178
Becketts Kopf
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This long-running cocktail bar is an oasis of fine drink in the rather sparsely served Prenzlauer Berg. Operating in the classic speak-easy model, it has become something of a local institution: enter via an unmarked door and you'll find yourself in rooms draped with
- Pappelallee 64, 10437
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Sometimes the 4/4 techno beat can seem inescapable in Berlin, but head to this one-room dive bar for an alternative. Weekends get raucous with DJs playing a solid mix of punk and new wave staples, the occasional touring band-member getting behind the decks for a
- Schonhauser Allee 177B, 10119
Geist im Glas
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A certain breed of living-room bar has taken root in Weserstrasse and cutesy examples have flowered all over Reuterkiez (the hip neighbourhood centred around Reuterstrasse) as people realized how cheap it was to furnish a small shop front and start selling beer. Set
- Lenaustraße 27, 12047
Monster Ronson's Ichiban Karaoke
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In 1999, Monster Ronson – aka Ron Rineck – moved to Berlin from Salt Lake City with $7,000 in his pocket. As his savings dwindled, he began sleeping in his car, bought a second-hand karaoke machine, and soon was driving to squat houses all over Europe, throwing
- Warschauer Strasse 34, 10243
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Forget about faux-Weimar bars, this here is a true throwback to Berlin's '90s squat history, which saw the East rapidly depopulated, then repopulated by punks, anarchists and activists who reclaimed all the crumbling buildings after the wall fell, carving out a
- Jessner Strasse 41, 10247
John Muir
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Named after the 19th century American naturalist John Muir, who as an outdoorsman most likely understood the health benefits of a good nip of whiskey, this bar aims to bring a bit of a Brooklyn flavor to SO36 with its mounted trophy heads and red-brick walls. There's
- Skalitzerstraße 50, 10997
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America, with its insipid lager analogues and Budweiser even daring to crown itself 'The King of Beers', has long been an easy target for German beer-related jokes. Germans take pride in their 500-year-old Rheinheitsgebot (purity law), which stipulates that the
- Antwerpener Str. 3, 13353
Barbie Deinhoff's
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Run by performance artist Lena Braun (one of her many spaces around the city), this lively and unusual bar calls itself home to the more bourgeois members of Berlin's cross-dressing community. As a queer art space, there are often outrageous performances which
- Schlesische Strasse 16, 10997
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A favourite of Berlin club kids, this Oranienstrasse spot gets pretty rowdy on weekends as the perfect launch pad for an extended party session. The bar is decorated with bizarre bric-a-brac and the murals by local artist Chin Chin are pitched somewhere between the
- Oranienstraße 34, 10999
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A bit of a mouthful, but this sultry boozer is named after Luis Buñuel's absurdist masterpiece 'The Exterminating Angel', in which a group of bourgeois worthies find themselves inexplicably unable to leave a lavish dinner party. There is certainly an Old World
- Dresdener Strasse 122, 10999
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Neukölln's Weserstrasse is one of the driving forces behind the area's hipster ascendency, shifting ever southwards towards Hermannstrasse. Its lively bar scene is punctuated by grown up affairs such as Tier. Looking in through the frosted windows, the long bar
- Weserstraße 42, 12045
Green Door
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Behind an actual green door (access granted by doorbell) lies this popular Schöneberg cocktail bar. The heavily kitsch décor will maybe grow on you after a few strong drinks: all oversized gingham wallpaper, curvy white walls and framed 1970s pictures. Playwright
- Winterfeldtstrasse 50, 10781
Stagger Lee
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This vaudeville bar takes its name from a 1920s folk song about the true-life exploits of a violent Missouri pimp. The styling is suitably Charleston, low-hanging saloon lamps, Victorian wallpaper and an enormous mechanical till add to its faux-Americana charm. The
- Nollendorfstrasse 27, 10777
Natanja und Heinrich
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By far the most comfortable drinking den in the Weserstrasse neighbourhood, this triple roomed establishment enjoys high ceilings and efficient ventilation, doing away with the smokiness that plagues most places when full. Large windows open onto either side of a
- Weichselstrasse 44, 12045
Victoria Bar
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The louche Victoria Bar was first to lay claim to Potsdamer Strasse in 2003 and has recently been joined by a spate of gallery openings. Owner Stefan Weber has a humorous art collection of his own with works by Sarah Lucas and Martin Kippenberger adorning the walls of
- Potsdamer Strasse 102, 10785
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One of the marvels of peaceful co-existence is the area around Kottbusser Tor, where the thriving Turkish community and bohemian art and gay community meet. The vast 1960s housing estate that is home to many Turkish families also houses Möbel-Olfe, a rowdy alternative
- Reichenberger Straße 177, 10999
Diener Tattersall
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The walls of this classic artist's bar in Charlottenburg are covered in naïve depictions of hunting scenes and over the years those horsemen have witnessed all sorts of activity. Ex-boxer Franz Diener took the place over in 1954 and with his artist friends turned it
- Grolmanstraße 47, 10623
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This unassuming corner bar is some way down Reichenbergerstrasse which keeps noise to a pleasant level. An ideal winter hidey-hole, its crumbling plaster walls and wooden tableware whose varnish is a distant memory convey a feeling of somewhat faded grandeur. Berlin is
- Reichenberger Straße 103, 10999
Hops & Barley
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The capital's most famous tipple, Berliner Weisse, had almost 700 breweries producing it in the 19th century, so much so that a popular story has it that Napoleon's troops even nicknamed it 'the Champagne of the North'. Sadly history took its toll on the sour
- Wühlischstraße 22-23, 10245
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Your write up about John Muir needs amending. John Muir was a Scotsman who would have drank whisky and not whiskey and it would have been a dram and not a nip. Just saying.
@Colin R Hello Colln, you have spotted the spelling difference between Irish and Scottish whiskey. What you have not commented upon is the triple-distilled and minimum 5 year storage of Irish whiskey rather than the single-run, distilled today, sold tomorrow nature of your beloved peat smoke infused Scottish dilutions. Just saying.


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Operators at Oyster Creek Generating Station returned the plant to the electrical grid early this morning, after taking the generator off line Saturday as a precaution in preparing for Hurricane Irene.
FORKED RIVER, N.J. - Operators at Oyster Creek Generating Station returned the plant to the electrical grid early this morning, after taking the generator off line Saturday as a precaution in preparing for Hurricane Irene.
Operators began a controlled shut-down of the reactor at 8 a.m. Saturday due to the expected hurricane force winds from Hurricane Irene. The generator stopped producing electricity at a little after 5 p.m. on Saturday evening.
By procedure, Oyster Creek is required to shut down if sustained winds reach a certain level during a hurricane. Although it wasn't certain if the winds would reach their threshold, operators proactively, deliberately and slowly shut the plant down in anticipation of the storm's arrival to ensure the plant was in a safe condition.
Personnel made inspections of the site throughout and after the storm had passed and determined that Oyster Creek was not impacted by the storm. Exelon staff then informed state and federal emergency management officials who concurred the plant was ready to restart.
"The challenges presented to Oyster Creek by Hurricane Irene this weekend were successfully met. Not only is Oyster Creek designed and maintained to withstand all that this hurricane dished out, but our highly skilled personnel were prepared and ready to protect the plant and the public," said Site Vice President Michael Massaro.
Oyster Creek is about 60 miles east of Philadelphia in Ocean County, New Jersey. The plant produces 636 net megawatts of electricity at full power, enough electricity to supply 600,000 typical homes, the equivalent to all homes in Monmouth and Ocean counties combined. In addition, plant workers, through their payrolls, are responsible for more $96 million injected directly into New Jersey's economy.
Exelon Corporation is one of the nation's largest electric utilities with more than $18 billion in annual revenues. The company has one of the industry's largest portfolios of electricity generation capacity, with a nationwide reach and strong positions in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic. Exelon distributes electricity to approximately 5.4 million customers in northern Illinois and southeastern Pennsylvania and natural gas to approximately 490,000 customers in the Philadelphia area. Exelon is headquartered in Chicago and trades on the NYSE under the ticker EXC.


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Octogenarians Georges and Anne are retired music teachers whose daughter lives abroad with her family. When Anne suffers a stroke and is left paralyzed on one side of her body, the couple's abiding love for each other is put to the test.
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The Tops grocery store in the Seaway Plaza off Route 11 will offer an electric-vehicle charging station in a project with National Grid that received approval Wednesday by the Pamelia Planning Board.
Tops will pay for the electricity used by its customers at the station, which would include two connector cables for vehicles to charge simultaneously. The store is expected to reach an agreement soon with National Grid, pending approval from the Seaway Plaza owner. The station, to be situated on the Route 11 side of the store, will be operated by National Grid one of the 66 such stations the utility aims to establish in upstate New York. A $1 million grant from the New York State Energy and Research Development Authority will help fund the stations.
Tops will offer the two-car station as a service to customers while they shop, said Ronald Gulmi, project manager for National Grid. The chargers will be compatible with hybrid vehicles that use 208 and 220 volts.
It typically takes six to eight hours to fully charge a hybrid vehicle thats on empty. But customers that use the station only are expected to use it for a limited amount of time while they shop.
Its called an opportunity charge because Im charging it while Im shopping, said Mr. Gulmi, who aims to complete the project by May 1. Customers will be able to access the station by swiping a card acquired by ChargePoint, the manufacturer of stations headquartered in California. Alternatively, they can call the company or swipe a new-style credit card with an RFID chip to verify their identity.
The electricity, which will cost an average of about 50 cents an hour, will be provided courtesy of Tops.
After reviewing maps of the station, Planning Board members were concerned that vehicles might park outside the designated spaces and impede delivery truck traffic. The cords typically are 18 feet long.
Board member Walter H. VanTassel recommended installation of a chain-link fence or similar barricade at the edge of the parking spaces to prevent vehicles from parking outside the area.
I want the plan to include a barrier or fence to keep vehicles from parking perpendicular there, he said.
The board issued its final approval of the project, contingent on the installation of a parking barrier and submission of a signed lease from the landlord of the property.
The city of Watertown pulled the plug on a similar project proposed in a municipal parking lot in January because the city would have incurred up-front costs and would have had to pay for the electricity. City Attorney Robert J. Slye advised the City Council to reject the project after concluding it also would violate the state constitution.
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If you enjoyed last year's Visiting Writers Series at ASU, this year should be even better. A $15,650 award from the Helen M. Clabough Charitable Foundation will support programming and outreach offered by Appalachian State University's Hughlene Bostian Frank Visiting Writers Series and the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts.Poet and editor Sydney Lea, playwright Jo Carson, and novelist Karen McElmurray will be among this year's lecturers. The rising cost of travel makes this gift particularly timely, according to co-director of the series, Susan Weinberg.
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The photo shows his Meinl Symphonic cymbals at Carnegie Hall New York where the orchestra recently gave a guest performance playing Ein Heldenleben - Till Eulenspiegel - Also sprach Zarathustra - and Rosenkavalier-Suite by Richard Strauss.
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STOLEN PROPERTY - POTSDAM - Canton-based state police charged Thomas J. Delosh, 27, of Canton with fourth-degree criminal possession of stolen property (credit card) and second-degree forgery Friday afternoon following an investigation into an incident reported to troopers at 2:58 p.m. April 25 from the village of Potsdam. Troopers said Delosh was taken into custody shortly before 1 p.m. Friday on Pollock Road in the town of Canton, arraigned in local court and had bail set at $10,000 cash.
CRIMINAL CONTEMPT - WADDINGTON - Massena-based state police charged John W. Campbell, 54, of Waddington with second-degree criminal contempt and disorderly conduct after responding to a complaint at 9 p.m. Friday from the town of Waddington. He was arraigned in local court, and bail was set at $1,500 cash.
DWI - POTSDAM - Canton-based state police charged Brooke M. Labaff, 22, of Canton with driving while intoxicated at 1:50 a.m. Saturday following a stop at 178 Market St.
UNLAWFUL POSSESSION - FORT COVINGTON - Malone-based state police charged Eric D. Fleury, 18, of Malone with unlawful possession of marijuana at 2 a.m. Saturday following a traffic stop on state Route 37 in the town of Fort Covington.
PROPERTY DAMAGE ACCIDENT - MALONE - State police from around the region responded to a number of property damage accidents in the region Friday. Among those were:
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If one looks around one can find a lot written about how different the world would be if it was run by dogs. Most of the writings I have seen about this include tongue in cheek humor about the way dogs run their own lives and how they could run ours.
I have had dog partners for most of my life. Note that I didn't say I owned them, because while in the old days I would have used that term because I had not considered the situation with the sensitivity I should have, today that is the way I think of them.
My first dog was a black little puppy named Butch. He grew up on my father's farm with me. He came to us about the time I was born, so all I remember of him was as an adult. He was gentle and loving, although after a few years around the house, he ended up being chained up in the barnyard to keep him from getting run over on the increasingly busy road that divided our farm in two. He died when I was a teenager. Butch was never a Willie Morris dog ("My Dog Skip') for me. I wasn't shy and needed reinforcement from a canine friend, but he was there a lot and was a good friend to me.
Butch may have been special, but our farm was full of dogs (and many other animals). We were about 10 miles from Salt Lake and people from the city were always dropping off strays. Some stayed around, others left and many were killed on that busy road. Strongest in my mind were two dogs. One was named Lady and the other Blackie.
Lady was a fruitful dog that multiplied her number quite a few times. We gave away the puppies most of the time, although a few grew to maturity. I know too, that quite a number were put to sleep by my uncles who operated the farm with my father. No one told me that, but I am sure thinking back that is what happened. There were just too many dogs and in those days, spending money on fixing dogs just wasn't in the cards. I remember that one day, Lady just disappeared, never to be seen again.
Blackie was a keeper. A medium build mongrel, he was gentle and sweet. I accidentally ran over him with a full hay wagon when I was 12. He had laid in the shade of the wagon on that hot summer day while we were sending bales off another wagon onto the escalator up to the barn. When I went to pull the wagon that he laid under over to the escalator to unload it, I didn't see him. He squealed and ran away. We didn't see him for days, and I cried and cried. What had I done? Then one day he showed up with a grin on his face and came right up to me. I thought he had died somewhere in a cornfield. But upon his return I realized that not all was well. That dog lived until I graduated from high school, but the injury I had caused him hurt him until the day he departed. His limp and crooked back reminded me that life can change on the turn of a wheel.
We also had a string of house dogs, largely due to my youngest sister's love for little canines. We went through a few of them, with most of them getting out of the house and seemingly ending up under the tires of a car in the street. It made me swear off every having little dogs, although big ones can die just as easily.
In my adult life, I have had a history of dogs almost all throughout my years. There was a short time living in an apartment in southern California when I didn't have a dog, but for most of the rest of the time I did.
My father's dairy farm, while it was a living, always seemed a burden to me. As a kid we never went on a vacation because the cows always had to be milked and there was no one else to do it. I remember my dad had to hurry just to make it to both my sisters weddings because he had to milk the cows the evening they got married. I swore I would never be tied down like that to a job or to a group of animals. So for years I only owned one dog at a time. That way I could either take it with me or I could afford to put it in a kennel for a few days.
Then came along the sport of dog sledding. It was something I had always wanted to do, yet I never had a place to keep four dogs at once, which to me was the minumum you could use. All of a sudden I had a lot of partners competing for my love, time and patience. This new endeavor happened pretty much after my kids had grown up. My children had taught me some patience, but over the years, this team of dogs I now own has finished the job (or as much as they could with my personality). And with that I have gained a new respect and insight into the life of dogs.
Watching them work together and unite to pull the sled, how their instincts tell them what to do and how they could reach distances through almost any conditions, made me think of this breed, the Siberian Husky, as the smartest dogs in the world.That was regardless of what all the literature said about dogs like Poodles and Australian Shepards being some of the smartest.
Then two years ago I was given a Border Collie. From a puppie she intrigued me. Still a working dog like the Huskies, she had an intelligence all her own. She is now my "ride along" dog partner, going with me in the truck or on the ATV. She has a spirit unlike any other animal I have ever seen, and many others who meet her see it too.
So what is this column all about? It's about intelligence and wisdom. Not all the dogs I have had in my life were smart; many were not beautiful; many were not athletic. But all had a wisdom of their own, and I might say, from what I saw from them, they far outclasse many of the humans I have known.
At any age a dog could outlive a person as a partner, but in most cases, unless the person is very old, that doesn't happen. The thing I find the most bittersweet about having a dog as a partner is that no matter how much you love them, they will probably die before you do. In that they teach you not only about life while they are here, but about death and its consequences after they are gone. Before the Border Collie I had never, when bonding with a dog, thought about that they would die someday. Now, with that bond myself and a dog have in place stronger than I have ever felt it, I think about it every day. This is where the lesson should be learned. We are a species of the past and the future, but pay so little attention to the time that is here now. I think about how how much fun we, as partners, have had, and worry about what might come in the future when she leaves me.
I am guessing in her mind, she lives in the moment, enjoying the flight of the frisbee as well as the catching of it and the run to return it to me to do it all over again. To her life is always new, because she doesn't worry about what was and never about what is to come. The moment she takes a breath is all she relates too. So you have to ask yourself?
Which of us is the smarter and more mature species?
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stubby wrote:You know what's better than TekLevel, is just "Teknology." That lets you either fill in a basic TekLevel number if you've put zero thought into your faction and it's completely generic, or say something more descriptive.
Well, yeah, that's what I was driving at in the other thread. Teknology by itself is something of a misnomer, though. Technology typically refers to the material innovations of a society, those of a scientific or industrial nature. Fantastic and supernatural abilities fall outside that purview. Which is why sophistication works a little better, even if it doesn't have the same punch as technology in terms of pure wordage.
Regardless, there are a dozen ways to describe the capabilities of a faction so even if a player left out tek levels, teknology, sophistication, or whatever you want to call it altogether, they can still get the point across easily. It's a perfectly multi-genre system so no template is ever going to work 100% of the time. Each faction should just present as its creator sees fit. The only real "limiting" factor is how well you want your faction to integrate with others'. Which I see as an exercise in creativity.


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POTSDAM As SUNY Potsdam President John F. Schwaller delivered his address to the graduating class of 2013, he was forced to pause, choked up with the emotion of his final commencement ceremony.
The ceremony, held outdoors at 10:30 a.m. Sunday on the campus quad, was Mr. Schwallers last. He announced his resignation in November, after seven years as president of SUNY Potsdam.
I cannot tell you how much I cherish every day being with you, he said. We will take a bit of Potsdam with us in our hearts. This is a very special place.
Sundays commencement celebrated the graduation of 753 baccalaureate program students.
Its bittersweet. I love my alma mater, said sociology graduate Tanasia T. Betts of Brooklyn.
Ms. Betts described Potsdam as a stark contrast to her city home, where her grandmother raised her after she lost her parents at a young age.
Im a city girl, and I got thrown into the north country, and I love it. she said.
Ms. Betts got involved in a host of campus organizations and activities. She was honored with the SUNY Chancellors Award for Student Excellence.
Higher education provided her with the opportunity of a lifetime, she said, and she wants the chance to pass it on. She will be attending SUNY Plattsburgh this fall for a masters degree in student affairs management.
People changed my life here at SUNY Potsdam, and I wanted to do the same for others, she said.
The college awarded an honorary doctorate in music to Col. Thomas H. Palmatier, the leader of the U.S. Army Band Pershings Own. Col. Palmatier graduated with a bachelors degree from SUNY Potsdam in 1974. He has since been honored with two awards of the Legion of Merit and seven Meritorious Service Medals. He also earned the right to wear a combat patch for service in El Salvador.
After receiving his honorary doctorate, Col. Palmatier gave the students his advice for their future.
You have had gifted faculty and staff who challenged you, encouraged you and hopefully pushed to to achieve more than you thought you were capable of. Now, on this commencement day, the responsibility to challenge, encourage and push you is formally transferred from them to you. he said.
He pointed to his own experience, playing for presidents, kings, prime ministers and admirals around the world, a life he said he could not have imagined when he graduated.
Hopefully you will have a life that far exceeds what you can dream of now, he said.
Graduating Student Government Association President Ryan Williams told his fellow graduates to remember both their successes and their trials as they continue their lives.
We learn so much about ourselves in our failures, he said.
Mr. Williams presented Mr. Schwaller and his wife, Anne C. Schwaller, with a bouquet of flowers and a commemorative SUNY Potsdam chair in thanks for their time at the college.
They have truly defined and modeled what it is to be a member of our campus community and beyond, he said.
Mr. Schwaller wished the gathered students well as they began the next step in their lives.
You must now plot your own course forward, he said. You draw upon the traditions and connections that have supported you thus far. You are ready.
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As I have shuffled through my mortal coil, I have had the privilege of building friendships with a wide variety of folks. Admittedly, most of them share my view of the world; but some not only don't share my starboard lean, they list quite sharply to port. Among them is a fellow who is not only most decidedly not a conservative, he's not even an American. (He wears his maple leaf with marked pride.) Yet he's one of the wiser and more impressively politically thoughtful human beings I have ever known.
During one of our regular discussions on the Cirque Du Crazy that has replaced the traditional American electoral process, he posited that Mitt Romney's failure to truly inspire conservatives precludes a victory in November. Given the slavish devotion Democrats offer to current President Barack Obama, it's easy to dismiss Romney for the lack of similar zeal he elicits from the right side of the spectrum.
Romney doesn't inspire conservatives to shout their assent because Romney isn't a conservative. Thus, while Democrats ignore the crimes and misdemeanors that define Obama's occupation of our Oval Office and shriek their support for Obama (and against God) across the slums, cemeteries and shuttered coal mines created by their idol's incompetence, the noise from the other side is decidedly muted. Yet it doesn't really matter. Obama will lose in November, and his coming Waterloo connects to Romney only because Romney will be the most recognizable beneficiary of Obama's self-immolation.
In defense of my friend's assessment, what was once a peaceful transfer of power admired the world over — especially with Obama ascending as the first "celebrity" President — is now an anti-intellectual beauty pageant. Think of it:
My name's Barry. My turn-ons include golf, hanging with Jay-Z and mom jeans. My turn-offs include the Bill of Rights and Bibi Netanyahu. If I'm elected, I promise to lie to Congress (Accomplice General Eric Holder makes that look so easy!), wipe out the middle class and party like a rock star on your nickel.
Throw in an awkwardly performed dance routine and Honey Boo Boo might have a shot at the White House. She's easily as qualified as Obama.
In the interest of full disclosure, I'm hardly an ardent admirer of Romney. However, with the departure of Ron Paul from the Presidential stage and the reality (go easy, Libertarian Party; I'm just being honest) that Gary Johnson is as likely to win this fall as an unborn baby is to escape a Planned Parenthood "clinic" unharmed, I find myself east of the intellectual rock and west of the electoral hard place. And I'm hardly the only resident of God's Little Political Acre.
Romney isn't going to win in November because Republicans unified behind him in a manner similar to the Democratic phalanx that guards Obama. The membership of the modern Republican Party, unconstrained by the infantile intellectual deficiencies of liberalism and spread across a much more diverse ideological plane, lacks the guilelessness required to worship at the altar of some mere politician. Liberals will ignore failure to vote for the guy with the "D" after his name; most of them — proud members of the 47 percent — don't and won't know better.
I and my fellow wanderers in the desert of Presidential disappointment may not share the blindly religious fervor of Obama's average supporters, but we do possess the unshakeable will to see an end to the four years of shame Obama has delivered to us all. Indeed, as I told my Canadian pal, Obama is going to be the first President since Herbert Hoover to lose an election via what amounts to a nullification vote. Millions of Americans who lack confidence in Romney will vote for him anyway, simply because he isn't Obama. And in an America torn virtually asunder by Obama's failures foreign and domestic, that may well be good enough.
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Mali has long combined poverty, radical Islam, and tendencies to armed rebellion. The Sahara desert, beset by droughts and avoided by governments, is a zone of discontent and lawlessness. Between 1963 and 2006, the region's Tuareg population mounted four armed uprisings. Each time the government promised more development projects, but the pledges fell short. The Sahara also became a sanctuary for outlaws—including narcotraffickers, cigarette smugglers, and, in the last ten years, jihadists bent on creating a Caliphate across the desert. In late 2011, the combustible mix exploded.
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Word last week that the unemployment rate had dipped below eight percent nationally offered more evidence that the economy is slowly improving. The conventional wisdom in Maine has been that the recession didn't hit quite as hard here as it did in other parts of the country. Our unemployment rate, for example, never rose quite as high as the national average. But census data, released last month, dispels the assumption that Mainers have somehow been spared the kind of economic suffering that has afflicted people in other states. Jay Field visited a job fair on the grounds of an Army National Guard Base in Bangor and found people still struggling to recover.
They walk through a small door at one corner of the large aircraft hanger. A man in fatigues welcomes them. The job seekers wear a mixture of outfits - jeans and flannel shirts, suits, pantsuits, tweed jackets and frilly blouses. Some head straight for the employers - rows and rows of tables where the Army helicopters usually sit. Others circle the room awhile, resumes tucked under an arm, taking in the scene.
"It was overwhelming at first." That's Josh. This isn't his first job fair. "Been to one a few years ago, but I really didn't get into it."
Josh, who didn't give his last name, is living with a friend, but says he doesn't have a choice now. "Winter came up a year and a half ago, and I was roofing and doing framing. The work slowed right down, so I lost my apartment and my car and everything," he says. "So now I'm just trying to better my situation."
Josh has a GED. He wants to return to school to become a certified welder. But getting a loan, he says, may be hard because his credit isn't so good. So in the meantime, he's applied for jobs at Taco-Bell and Wal-Mart.
They're the kinds of minimum wage positions that some workers might have once dismissed as beneath them. Not any more. James Murray is also walking the perimeter of fair. I ask Murray what kind of job he's looking for.
"Anything! I'm getting kind of tired of sitting around," he says. Murray lives in Medway. He started at the paper mill in Millinocket 30 years ago. He worked there and at the mill in East Millinocket, off and on, for 30 years before being laid off for good.
"There's nothing up there," Murray says. "It used to be if you had a saw or something you could go in the woods and work. Not anymore 'cause it's all mechanical."
Murray says getting rehired at the East Millinocket mill, which has reopened under new ownership, was never an option for someone with his level of experience. "They're hiring younger guys. Now, they don't pay you nothin' up there compared to what they used to."
It's a story you hear over and over again. The unemployment rate is dropping. Companies are hiring. But the jobs don't pay that great and there aren't enough of them.
Jean Hatch is looking for work as a secretary. "It's been a lot of competition," she says. "Unless you want the really low-grade paying jobs, anything over $10 or $12, you're fighting 20 other women for - if it's secretarial, that is."
Any hope that ought to accompany an uptick in the labor market, meantime, comes against the grim backdrop of recent data that shows just how big a toll the recession has taken in Maine.
In September, the federal goverment released new census data on the state's economy. Between 2007 and 2011, the number of unemployed people increased by 43 percent, the number of people living in poverty jumped 15 percent and Maine median household income dropped by nearly 8 percent. "Ours, of course, did significantly when we stopped careers outside and came back to farming," says Dan Vanwart.
Vanwart is waiting in line to have his resume checked out by a career counselor. In 2004, Vanwart and his wife came back to Maine, after a career with the Navy in California, to run her family's wild blueberry farm. But the couple found it increasingly difficult to stay afloat financially and decided to re-enter the workforce. Vanwart's most recent position doing maintenance at Acadia National Park ended a few weeks ago.
"I just want to see what they have to say about my resume," he says. "It's been so long since I've done one - I'll see how close I am to correct."
A few minutes later, the person ahead of him finishes up and Vanwart takes a seat. The line behind him continues to grow longer, as Vanwart and the counselor go through his resume, line by line.


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Higher education is getting "Curioser and curioser!" as Alice said in Wonderland. Elmhurst College in Elmhurst, Illinois, is now asking prospective students about their sexual orientations and "gender identities," the Chicago Sun-Times reported recently. "Would you consider yourself to be a member of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender) community?" is now among the questions asked students applying for admission to the college in the fall of 2012. No one is required to answer the question, the school says, though a "Yes" makes the applicant eligible for a scholarship worth a third of the cost of tuition. About 60 percent of the 3.300 students at the private liberal arts college are on scholarships of one sort or another, school officials said.
The school says the question and the scholarship advance the promotion of diversity at the college. "We took this step in an effort to better serve each of our students as a unique person," Elmhurst President S. Alan Ray said in a press release. "It also allows us to live out our commitments to cultural diversity, social justice, mutual respect among all persons, and the dignity of every individual. These are among the core values of this institution. They provide the foundation for all of our academic, student and community programs."
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Groundskeeper Jim Keith drinks water while taking a break from painting lines on a football field at the University at Albany on Wednesday, July 17, 2013, in Albany, N.Y. Forecasters warned of potentially dangerous temperatures from Minnesota to Massachusetts, as the nation's largest heat wave of the summer stretched out and stagnated, with relief in many places still days away. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
Maribel Castro sews in her un-air conditioned shop, Wednesday, July 17, 2013, in Philadelphia. An excessive heat warning is again in effect for the Philadelphia region with highs expected to head up to the mid-90s (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Tommy Grant fans himself with his T-shirt while taking a break from gardening in the Jackie Robinson Community Garden, Wednesday, July 17, 2013, in New York. Most states in the U.S. were expected to have some areas where the temperature would hit 90 degrees or more, according to the National Weather Service. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
A passerby pauses for a drink from an open hydrant on the corner beside the Jackie Robinson Community Garden, Wednesday, July 17, 2013, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
Tour guide Tyler-Marie Council takes the shade with her as she leads a group tour down Wall Street on Wednesday, July, 17, 2013, in New York. Council won the praises of her group as she led them through the 95-degree heat. (AP Photo/Jon Gerberg)
Five-year-old Claire Hayes knew how to beat the heat Wednesday July 17, 2013, as she played with the garden hose in her front yard with her twin brother in Alton, Ill. Cool water is a great way to minimize the effects of the July heat which reached the mid 90s Wednesday and is expected to reach the upper 90s Thursday and again on Friday before cooling back into the 80s for the weekend. (AP Photo/The Telegraph, John Badman ) THE NEWS-DEMOCRAT AND THE POST-DISPATCH OUT
Miguel Torres, 77, rides his electric wheelchair near a fountain at Pier A Park while escaping his hot apartment, Wednesday, July 17, 2013, in Hoboken, N.J. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Minneapolis United soccer team players receive a cool mist spray during a break in their game against a team from Canada in the Schwan's USA Cup International Youth Soccer Tournament Wednesday, July 17, 2013 in Blaine, Minn., as a heat wave continued, sending temperatures into the 90's with high humidity and a heat advisory for the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. The tournament showcases more than 950 teams and 14,000 soccer players from over 20 states and 16 countries. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)
The temperature guage at T.B. Woods, Chambersburg, Pa., reads 101 degrees Wednesday, July 17, 2013 around 3p.m. as residents are feeling the summer heat. (Public Opinion, Markell DeLoatch)
Philip Jeschke, 4, stays cool under the waterfall tower in the splash pool at The Wilton Family Y on Tuesday, July 16, 2013, in WIlton, Conn.. With temperatures near 100 degrees, the Y was one of the coolest places in town. (AP Photo/The Hour, Alex von Kleydorff)
Pam Clark cuts hay at Dimond Hill farm, Wednesday, July 17, 2013 in Concord, N.H. Clark said they have been waiting for this heat wave to hay the fields. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
People cool off in the spray of an open hydrant on a hot evening in Lawrence, Mass. Tuesday, July 16, 2013. Area temperatures during the day reached into the 90s. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
Ricky Otazu, of Lodi, N.J. walks past a giant screen outside the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center announcing the week's weather forecast, Tuesday, July 16, 2013, in New York. Temperatures in the New York metropolitan area are expected to stay in the 90s through Saturday. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
People keep cool by swimming in the water at the Lower Falls of the Swift River, Tuesday, July 16, 2013 in Albany, N.H. A weeklong heat wave continues to bear down on much of the region. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
Dogs splash in canine wading pools in Hudson River Park during a heat wave, Tuesday, July 16, 2013 in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
A man sunbathes in Hudson River Park during a heat wave, Tuesday, July 16, 2013 in New York. Forecasts are predicting temperatures in the 90s through Saturday. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
Youngsters frolic on a raft in Curtis Pond to cool off on Tuesday, July 16, 2013 in Calais, Vt. A heat wave will scorch the Northeast this week, as some of the hottest weather of the summer envelops the region. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)
Wesley Traeger, 3, left, and his brother Alex, 5, right, both from Washington DC, run through the water fountains to cool off at the Yards Park, near the Washington Nationals baseball stadium, where temperatures were in the mid-90s on Tuesday, July 16, 2013 in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Wesley Traeger, 5, left, stands under a water stream while playing in a fountain with other children at the Yards Park, near the Washington Nationals baseball stadium, where temperatures were in the mid-90s on Tuesday, July 16, 2013 in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Antowne Jacobs, a seasonal worker for the city of Albany, protects himself from the heat while maintaining a flower garden in Washington Park on Monday, July 15, 2013, in Albany, N.Y. Upstate New York can expect temperatures in the low 90s for the rest of the week. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
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"7th Heaven" star Mackenzie Rosman is the latest former child star to strip down for the men's magazine, following in the half-naked footsteps of Alyssa Milano, Miley Cyrus, Danielle Fishel and Ashley Tisdale.
In the accompanying article, Rosman -- now 23 -- opens up about "7th Heaven" drinking games, her celebrity crush and former costar Jessica Biel's infamous topless photo shoot.
Maxim: Are there any 7th Heaven drinking games?
Mackenzie: No, but I would like to see one. You could drink whenever Ruthie rolls her eyes or when Lucy squeals.
Maxim: Do you remember when she [Jessica Biel] did that topless shoot for Gear magazine while she was on the show?
Mackenzie: I was probably nine at the time, but I remember that. It was a big deal. The magazine was banned on set, I think by orders of Aaron Spelling. I sneaked a peek at it, though. It was racy gossip amongst the women of 7th Heaven!
Maxim: Do you have a celebrity crush?
Mackenzie: I used to have a really big crush on Hayden Christensen.
See more from her racy spread over at Maxim's website. Mackenzie's issue hits newsstands August 13.
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