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Fourth River Music Project Featuring guest composer David Borden, Showcasing an eclectic mix of contemporary, classical and jazz fusion material, students perform on electronic keyboards, violin and cello; wind and guitar controllers, and electronic percussion. Lynn Purse, director.02/27/2014
Golden Age of Hollywood Cabaret Duquesne's Ballroom transforms into an old Hollywood supper club as Duquesne University's Red Masquers present The Golden Age of Hollywood Cabaret, a one-night-only, black-tie showcase of dancing, food, drinks and performances of such Hollywood classics as Singin' in the Rain, No Business Like Show Business and Blue Skies. Reservations required. Email email@example.com/27/2014
Soweto Gospel Choir The two-time Grammy-winning choir visits Pittsburgh on a three-month, 30-city US tour to celebrate the launch of their latest album, "Divine Decade," celebrating the ensemble's past ten years of artistic collaborations and accolades.02/27/2014
African Accents Performances of African-influenced chamber music from Cuba and America including composers such as William Grant Still share a program with European classics by Austria's Franz Schubert.02/28/2014
Essence of Joy in Johnstown Essence of Joy, directed by Dr. Anthony T. Leach, is a Penn State Department of Music choral ensemble performing sacred and secular music from African and African-American traditions.02/28/2014
The Gentlemen Sing: Three Generations of Song This brand-new curated project by Marty Ashby and MCG Jazz features Allan Harris, Ernie Andrews and a brand-new artist who was chosen through a nationwide search. 02/28/2014
Joshua Bell & Symphonie Espagnole Violinist Joshua Bell returns to the PSO for Lalo's daring concert piece, Symphonie espagnole, written at the beginning of a French fascination with Spanish-themed music. Guest Conductor Gianandrea Noseda leads the PSO in Liszt's rarely performed dramatic portrayals from Goethe's "Faust" - the fallen scholar Faust, his innocent love Gretchen, and the demon Mephistopheles.02/28/2014
Music on the Edge: JACK Quartet The JACK Quartet electrifies audiences worldwide with "explosive virtuosity" (Boston Globe) and "viscerally exciting performances" (New York Times). David Patrick Stearns (Philadelphia Inquirer) proclaimed their performance as being "among the most stimulating new-music concerts of my experience." Co-presented with The Andy Warhol Museum.03/01/2014
Durufle's Requiem Experience the beauty and serenity of this exquisite work, featuring orchestra, organist David Billings, and mezzo-soprano Eva Rainforth. Susan Medley conducts.03/01/2014
Pennsylvania Sings Every hour, there are choices of singalongs or dancing/instrument making at downtown Greensburg churches: First Presbyterian, First Lutheran, First Reformed, and First Methodist. This event for all ages offers jazz, Broadway, shaped‑note, folk, children, country, eastern European, and other styles.03/01/2014
Fiddlesticks Family Concert: "Carnival of the Animals" Conductor Lawrence Loh joins Fiddlesticks onstage as cartoon artist Joe Wos from the Toonseum illustrates the animals in Saint-Saens' musical menagerie, from the royal lion to the graceful swan, as the PSO performs. Discovery Time activities at 10:00 am (concert at 11:15) will include tortoise races provided by the Pittsburgh Zoo, animal-themed arts and crafts, sing-a-long music, and dancing activities!03/01/2014
Soprano Marlissa Hudson & organist Marvin Mills Soprano Marlissa Hudson, a graduate of Duke University and the Peabody Institute, is at home both on the operatic and concert stage. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch described her as a "superb lyric coloratura." Organist Marvin Mills has established himself as one of the finest organists of his generation, and served as arranger and accompanist on mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves's CD "Angels Watching Over Me." The concert will include works by Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Ricky Ian Gordon, and others, and the premiere of three spirituals arranged for Ms. Hudson by Mr. Mills.03/02/2014
Music Plus: Voices of Eternity St. James' Music Plus series presents the 16-voice Pittsburgh School for the Choral Arts Chamber Choir in a 50-minute program titled "Voices of Eternity" directed by Kathryn Barnard. With flute and piano, they'll perform music by Glick, Ullman, Stroope, and others, including the Hebrew pieces "Drei Gebrausch," "Hebrew Rounds for Peace", and selections from "Ann Frank: A Living Voice." A 2:30 preconcert, "The Fourth Wind", features a quartet of high school seniors.03/02/2014
Wine and Chocolate Tasting Instrumental and vocal music will be performed, wine will be sipped, chocolate will be consumed, and a good time will be had at this event benefiting The Pittsburgh Camerata and Renaissance and Baroque.03/02/2014
Young Winners Recital Performances featuring pianists Jonah Berger, Isaac Che, Stephanie Petinaux, Katie Liu, and harpist Hannah Piston.03/02/2014
Cabaret Series - Carol Woods Carol Woods's nightclub and cabaret performances span from London to Tokyo, and Las Vegas to Honolulu. Nominated for an Olivier Award for her performance in Blues In The Night, Carol has sung at New York's Carnegie Hall, The Village Gate, B. Smith's, Michael's Pub and Town Hall. Broadway credits include Chicago, One Mo' Time, Follies, Smokey Joe's Café, Stepping Out, The Goodbye Girl, Big River and The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas.03/03/2014
Recital & Luncheon Baritone singer Robert Wagner (pastor at Moxham Lutheran Church) will perform followed by light luncheon.03/04/2014
Carnegie Mellon University Philharmonic The Student Composers' Concert will feature original works composed for orchestra led by Andres Cardenes, Guy Bordo, and Daniel Nesta Curtis. Guest conductor Guy Bordo is the Director of Orchestras at the University of Akron, and is a co-founder of Akron Baroque, whose members come from the Akron and Canton Symphony Orchestras.03/05/2014
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Seneca County Opportunity Center's renewal of a 0.5-mill, five-year levy for operating expenses passed by more than 5,000 votes Tuesday.
According to unofficial totals, 8,571 voters approved the levy, and 2,848 rejected it.
"I'm relieved," Superintendent Lewis Hurst said.
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Lewis Hurst (left), superintendent of Seneca County Opportunity Center, and Dick Williams, director of business operations for Seneca County Board of Developmental Disabilities, look over election results Tuesday.
The annual cost to the owner of a $100,000 home is $6.21, according to information from Dick Williams, director of business operations for Seneca County Board of Developmental Disabilities. The levy generates about $280,000 annually.
Hurst said he thought Tuesday's election results illustrated the public's trust in the center's officials as wise stewards of taxpayer money. He said he was thankful to the community for its support and thought people saw the importance of what the center does.
Hurst said the center has lost a significant amount of state funding and still has budget constraints. He said he thought the vote margin would be narrower.
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In Aug 2006 we envisioned to upgrade two dormant 1m telescopes located in both hemispheres to be used as dedicated facilities for EURONEAR. The operations at both sites are envisioned to be conducted in two modes: robotic and remote control, while data reduction was planned to be performed automatically on a daily base.
In Oct 2006 ESO expressed their interest to allocate their 1m telescope in La Silla but in Mar 2008 they dropped it unexpectedly, so we are looking for other existing Southern facility in Chile, Argentina or Australia.
In Jan 2008 ING expressed their interest to allocate their 1m JKT in La Palma for dedicate use by EURONEAR in the North. The JKT 1m and ESO 1m represented the facilities proposed to be upgraded in our past FP7 project (Feb 2008).
Since Jan 2009, we have been interested in obtaining some time to use the INT 2.5m of the ING. In the meantime, other options are studied for our next FP7 proposal (Autumn 2011), including a new 2m class telescope and a refurbished 1-1.5m telescope.
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(US) CFP: North American Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music (11-13 Jul 2013) (Deadline 15 Jan 2013)
The program committee welcomes proposals for individual papers, lecture-recitals, and panels on all topics relating to the history, analysis, and reception of music during the long nineteenth century (ca. 1789-1913). The committee would especially welcome proposals related to: …
(US) Harmonia Mundi Store Sale: Mozart operas -- René Jacobs, conductor (Sale ends 14 Nov 2012)
(From a recent Harmonia Mundi newsletter)
" René Jacobs has established himself as a superb conductor of Mozart's operas, his award-winning recordings on Harmonia Mundi are 30% OFF now through November 14."
Some titles included in the sale: …
(BE) Augustinus Muziekcentrum (AMUZ) November Concerts -- Reminder
Location: AMUZ, Antwerp BE
Just a reminder of the AMUZ concert line-ups for the month of November 2012:
- 11/11 Lieve Blancquaert & Victoria Consort
For the third time already AMUZ and the Antwerp Peace Centre present a peace concert on Armistice Day. Through music, word and image this event dwells on the horrors of war: a resounding plea for tolerance, solidarity and peace …
(US) CFP: AMS New England Chapter, Tufts University (CFP Deadline 26 Nov 2013)
"The Program Committee invites abstracts of up to 300 words for papers and roundtable sessions. Submissions in the area of digital musicology are of particular interest, but proposals on all musicological topics are welcome. …
(DE) Festival Alte Musik Knechtsteden 2012 Photo Slideshows
(NL) La Pellegrina: "Baroque Music for the Utrecht Peace Treaty (1713)" (8-18 Aug 2013)
"The La Pellegrina projects are open to experienced instrumentalists, singers and dancers. Whether you are an amateur or a professional, with La Pellegrina a professional attitude is an absolute necessity. … Do you fancy (again) a great music holiday in the summer? Ten days of music making in beautiful places in the Czech Republic? Handel's Utrecht Te Deum and Rameau's Deus noster refugium? Registration starts on December 1st. ...
(CA) Grigorian.com: "Sales on Naive ... New Releases!"
(From a recent Grigorian.com newsletter)
"… Natural, just born, innate, Simple, innocent, sincere. So why this name "naïve"? Many thought you had to be a little naïve to launch a record label just when digital music and hi-tech began their ascent. As you can see, diehard music lovers still believe in beautiful packages, the smell of freshly-printed paper, booklets you spend hours admiring, the beauty a human voice and a few strums on a guitar. The Naive label is the Gramophone Label of the Year, and Grigorian offers the entire Label at a tremendous sale price. In most cases, over 30% off . See what Gramophone has recognized and sample some of this excellent label! Click here to see all of the Naive catalogue! …
(IT) Andrea Chezzi New CD Release: "L'Orfeo Britannico, La musica di Haendel nelle trascrizioni per tastiera del Settecento"
Newly released on the Fugatto label, Andrea Chezzi performs Handel on a period Italian organ (Benedetti, 1765).
Andrea Chezzi, born in Colorno (PR) in 1975, graduated in organ and composition from the Conservatory A. Boito in Parma, and then studied harpsichord in Amsterdam under the guidance of Bob van Asperen. He followed courses in performance practice of early music with L. F. Tagliavini, W. van de Pol, Ch. Stembridge, G. Murray, A. Marcon, Ch. Rousset at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena. …
(UK) Cambridge University Press: Medieval and Old English Literature from Cambridge
(From a recent Cambridge University Press newslettter)
"From Medieval Shakespeare and Anglo-Saxon Literature, to Milton and Art Rhetoric, Cambridge publishes a wide range of titles in the area Medieval and Old English Literature.
View more information about our highlight titles and forthcoming books … You may be interested in our 20% discount offer on selected titles from this range - just click here to browse books in the sale, but be sure to order before midnight on 17th November 2012 when the offer ends…"
(BE) Gilbert Isbin : New Lute Books and CD
(From a recent Gilbert Isbin newsletter)
News from Gilbert Isbin of new works for lute. Below are details of new works along with corresponding links.
- '10 COMPOSITIONS FOR SOLO LUTE', volume 2, presents a further 10 pieces in an accessible contemporary style for 6-course lute, calling for early intermediate to intermediate technique.
Buy : http://www.lutesociety.org/pages/catalogue#k
- 'REFLECTIONS', 20 contemporary compositions for the lute, by LANTRO MUSIC (Belgium).
Buy : http://www.lantromusic.be/index.php?page=Catalogue
- CD "RECALL" , contemporary music for lute and contrabass (Gilbert Isbin/Scott Walton) appeared on pfMENTUM (USA).
Buy: http://pfmentum.com/store/
Music samples on http://users.telenet.be/gilbert.isbin/gilbert-scott.html
What's New on http://users.telenet.be/gilbert.isbin/what's new.html
(FR) Musicologie -- November 2012 Bulletin
(From a recent Musicologie newsletter)
In this month's newsletter:
"The music of the seventeenth-century in Germany and the Netherlands, an entire chapter of the fresco from Rusquet Michel is published , Jean-Luc Vannier was at the Nice Opera for "Simon Boccanegra" season opening, a CD of Telemann keyboard music recorded by Olivier Baumont, republication of the memoirs of Jean Wiener, latest ads, calendar, music news retrospective, thus the two hundred and eleventh "Bulletin of musicology."
Bonne lecture
Jean-Marc Warszawski " (Translated from French version)
(US) ArkivMusic Storewide Sale (ends in 3 days)
(From a recent ArkivMusic newsletter)
"The ArkivMusic 10th Anniversary Storewide Sale ends in just 3 more days! Take part in the celebration and save yourself a bundle. We are also extending this weekend's Weekend Specials an extra day, so make sure to place your orders before our Storewide Sale ends on Monday at midnight ET!"
(UK) Wigmore Hall Spring Concert Series (January-March 2013)
(From a recent Wigmore Hall newsletter)
Location: Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street,LondonW1U 2BP
January to March 2013 Concerts – On Sale Now
News from Wigmore Hall that tickets are now available for their Spring Series concerts. For those interested, you may want to glance at the complete list of 2012-2013 concert series and perhaps you may find concerts of interest in the early music field. (Editor) …
(CA) Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir Concert: Mozart's World (7-11 Nov 2012)
(From a recent Tafelmusik newsletter)
Location: Trinity-St. Paul's Centre, Toronto Ontario, Canada
"Glorious music by Mozart and his classical contemporaries, guest directed by Gottfried von der Goltz — the talented violinist and director of the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Our musicians are buzzing with excitement about this concert, which features Mozart's radiant Violin Concerto in A Major, K.219, Haydn's dramatic Symphony no. 52, and music by Franz Beck and Josef Kraus, the "Swedish Mozart." …
(CA) Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir Masterclass With Gottfried Von Der Goltz (10 Nov 2012)
(From a recent Tafelmusik newsletter)
"Please join us on Saturday, November 10th from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. for a public masterclass with violinist Gottfried von der Goltz in the sanctuary at Trinity-St. Paul's Centre. Featured young artists will be Michelle Odorico, Elyssa Lefurgey-Smith and Victoria Melik, violin, and Lysiane Boulva and Sara-Anne Churchill, harpsichord. Don't miss this excellent opportunity to see future period performers coached on music by Biber, Leclair and Castello. Tickets are only $10 and are available at the door."…
(US) The Rose Ensemble 7th Annual Greater Minnesota Tour (8-13 November 2012)
(From a recent Rose Ensemble newsletter)
Locations: Alexandria, Staples, Little Falls, Thief River Falls, Crookston, Detroit Lakes
"The Rose Ensemble musicians are about to hit the road! Our 7th Annual Greater Minnesota Tour kicks off Sunday, October 14th in Silver Bay, followed by stops in Ely and Hibbing on October 15th and 16th. After a brief segue to Spain to participate in several music festivals and the prestigious choral competition Certamen Coral de Tolosa, musicians will complete this year's Greater Minnesota Tour with performances in Alexandria, Staples, Little Falls, Thief River Falls, Crookston, and Detroit Lakes."
(US) Bach Society Houston Concert: Bach Vespers: Music from Leipzig (4 Nov 2012)
Location: 2353 Rice Boulevard, Houston, Texas 77005
"The Bach Vespers series presents complete sacred cantatas along with choral motets and psalm settings in an evening prayer service related to a single theme. This gives them a context similar to their original performance, with chorales and readings chosen to give deeper insight into Bach's theology. Listeners are also invited to sing and participate as Bach's congregation did. …"
(US) Salon/Sanctuary Concerts: "From Ghetto to Palazzo: Vocal Works of Salamone Rossi Hebreo" (4 Nov 2012)
Location: Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, 30 West 68th Street, New York, NY USA
"On the heels of its sold-out and acclaimed season opener featuring countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, dancer Jared Angle and harpsichordist Bradley Brookshire at The Players Club, Salon/Sanctuary Concerts—the series that presents early music in intimate alternative venues—brings back by popular demand From Ghetto to Palazzo, a fascinating concert of works by Jewish-Italian composer Salamone Rossi (c. 1570 – 1630) on Sunday, November 4 at 4:00pm. Performers include the vocal sextet The Western Wind Ensemble with Charles Weaver, lute and Gabe Shuford, harpsichord, and cantor Daniel Singer…
(US) San Francisco Renaissance Voices (SFRV) Concert: "Misa O Quam Gloriosum" (Tomás Luis de Victoria) (21, 27, 28 Oct 2012)
Sunday, October 21: All Saints' Episcopal Church, 555 Waverley, Palo Alto
Saturday, October 27: Seventh Avenue Presbyterian Church, 1329 Seventh Avenue, San Francisco
(DK) Concerto Copenhagen: Jordi Savall Directs and is Soloist with Concerto Copenhagen (20 Oct 2012)
(CA) The Toronto Consort Concert: "The Tudors" (19-20 Oct 2012)
"The Toronto Consort launches its 40th anniversary season on October 19 and 20 with The Tudors, a concert program inspired by the music of Tudor England, culminating with Thomas Tallis' rarely-heard, magnificent 40-part motet Spem in alium. Members of Toronto's Tallis Choir join the Consort for this special performance…
(UK) Cambridge University Press Recently Published: "Venice, History of the Floating City" (Joanne M. Ferraro, San Diego State University)
Publication date:July 2012
"This book is a sweeping historical portrait of the floating city of Venice from its foundations to the present day. Joanne M. Ferraro considers Venice's unique construction within an amphibious environment and identifies the Asian, European, and North African exchange networks that made it a vibrant and ethnically diverse Mediterranean cultural center. Incorporating recent scholarly insights, the author discusses key themes related to the city's social, cultural, religious, and environmental history, as well as its politics and economy. …
(US) Fall Opera Sale at ArkivMusic
(From the latest ArkivMusic newsletter 10 Oct 2012)
"Do you thrive on drama, spectacle, and glorious voices like Bartoli, Kaufmann, Fleming, and Flórez? Then get ready for ArkivMusic's Fall Opera Sale, with every complete opera on sale -- DVD and Blu-ray, too! Plus, we have a select group of specially priced vocal recitals. If you can't afford the orchestra seats, our large selection of clearance opera CDs and clearance vocal recitals offers plenty of great music at tremendous discounts. Plus, we have over 100 clearance opera DVDs & Blu-rays at our best prices ever -- up to 75% off!…"
(CA) I FURIOSI Baroque Ensemble Concert: "Losers" (19 Oct 2012)
Location: St David's Anglican Church, 49 Donlands Ave. Toronto ON
I FURIOSI kicks off the season with a nod to all we have lost - people, time, places and things. Works by Rameau, Blow, Leclair and more...
(FR) "La Simphonie dans le Marais – 25 ans de musique" Concert Reminder (13 Oct 2012)
Location: Montaigu (85), théâtre de Thalie
Concert florilège
Hugo Reyne, flûtes et direction; Léonor Leprêtre, soprano; Guillemette Laurens, mezzo-soprano; Aimery Lefèvre, basse ; La Simphonie du Marais
The journey starts in Versailles in 1987 by French music enthusiast, Hugo Reyne who paid homage to Lully at the first concert organized for the tercentenary of the death of his genius and the very young "Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles"…
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Our nation is on track for its lowest annual deficit in five years. You impressed?
I'd be more impressed if it hadn't happen by complete accident with this useless, incompetent Congress.
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On track? Hmmm...let me know when we actually get there THEN I might answer this poll question. A lot can happen in the next three years!
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Whizkid love your post except for one little word I don't agree with...he isn't a "fearless" leader, he is a...
"FECKLESS" leader! grin
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It is really a sad state of affairs when there are actually people that get excited about the government spending less money that we don't have than they use to. The fact remains they are still spending more money than they take in and adding to the debt. I really can't see how that is reducing the deficit. Seems to me our country is in a deep hole and just going into debt less is not going to get us out it is still making the hole deeper.
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So, I guess this means we are back to where our spending was toward the end of the GWB term, including the military spending of that time in the middle east? Where's all that money going now?
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No I'm not impressed...I'll be impressed when we run a surplus for 5 or 6 years in a row and start cutting into the $18 trillion deficit.. I'll be impressed when the federal govt employees have their compensation levels cut to "real world" levels...I'll be impressed when congress has the guts to bring all the out of control bureaucracies into line...I'll be impressed when our elected officials stop approving studies and research because someone in their district wants something...I'll be impressed when congress persons stop going on vacation on the taxpayer buck and call it "investigation"....I'll be impressed when our "fearless" leader blows $100,000,000 on an African vacation (unless they'd stay there) but cuts out White House tours to save money.... There is lots more that would impress me but I don't know how to make it happen because the government is now controlling the people and that ain't the way it's supposed to be.
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The problem is that it is still a deficit. We need to get beyond deficits to paying off our debt!
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The Holidays are a wonderful time at Honey Hill Inn and Cabins. Engadine, our 1885 Queen Anne Victorian mansion is decorated from top to bottom for Christmas! This year, we have two gorgeous trees adorning the first floor. The largest, a nine foot tree, is in our formal parlor. We also have a smaller tree in the dining room for guests to enjoy during breakfast.
The the cover of our 2011 Christmas cardfeatures our historic barn, which was built in the 1940s by Glenn Howell for his livestock. It stands where Captain John Keais Hoyt once had his Engadine Vineyards winery where he made his famous Engadine wine. Today, the barn is still in use, even though there are no farm animals. Our nearest neighbor, Mr. Kitty, occasionally checks in for the evening to dine on small critters.
This year we have two trees in the mansion. A 9 foot tree graces our formal parlor.
Guests can also enjoy a tree in our spacious dining room.
This year Christmas weekend promises to be busy at Honey Hill. Our cabins are fully booked, but there are still a couple of rooms left in the mansion. Gretchen and I will be working and enjoying every minute of our second Christmas at Honey Hill Inn and Cabins!
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The Progressive Conservatives tried to woo coveted Greater Toronto Area voters on Sunday with a transportation plan designed to appeal both to transit and highway commuters. Tory leader Tim Hudak announced that, if elected, his party would expand GO Transit service, build a new subway line across Toronto and expand highways in the region. Hudak promised his government would spend up to $2 billion annually on transit once the budget is balanced, saying the initiatives will create 96,000 jobs as part of the Tories' "million jobs plan." The transportation push would see a new "express" subway line stretching from Toronto's west end to its east and linking up to theexisting east-west subway line. The transit proposal as a whole could help ease congestion on trains and on the roads, he said.
"Nothing more frustrating than when you're packed in like sardines at Yonge and Bloor," Hudak said, referring to a main transfer point between Toronto's two major subway lines that isfrequently packed during rush hours.
"I understand there's nothing more frustrating (than) when you're sitting there stuck on the highway, white knuckles on the wheel because you're going to miss your daughter's school play."
The Tories would also have the provincial government take over subway and light rail lines operated by the Toronto Transit Commission along with major highways in the area not already under provincial purview.
Hudak cited the Gardiner Expressway and the Don Valley Parkway in Toronto, two major arteries that funnel commuters from suburbs and the so-called 905 region in and out of Toronto.
The Liberals scooped up most of the ridings in that region immediately surrounding Toronto in the last election, and all three main parties have spent much time in the early days of the electioncampaigning there.
Those highways and GO Transit service would also be expanded, Hudak said.
"I know that people have heard all kinds of politicians say the same thing and nothing ever gets done," he said at a mid-townToronto transit yard.
"It's time to take a bold new course."
It can all be done without an accompanying tax hike, Hudak said.
The Tories say money will be drawn from expected budget surpluses and a dedicated fund, getting "better value" from existing transit operations and bringing in the private sector to help run transit, an idea the TTC's biggest union is dead-set against.
Hudak's platform roll-out was temporarily derailed when transit police took umbrage with a throng of television cameras following Hudak as he set out to ride the subway to his announcement. The subway line was stopped for about 10 minutes and Hudak ultimately abandoned the subway journey.
An aide later said the party hadn't received permission ahead of time, while Hudak himself said he hoped no Mother's Day plans were disrupted.
Premier Kathleen Wynne's Liberals are campaigning on their own transit plan, which they laid out in the budget that NDP Leader Andrea Horwath said she wouldn't support, triggering the election.
That 10-year, $29-billion transportation blitz would be divided equally between the Toronto-Hamilton area and the rest of theprovince.
The budget had said about two-thirds of that money would come from dedicated revenue tools, including restricting tax credits for large corporations, with about a quarter of it from provincial borrowing and the balance from the federal government.
The Liberals have eschewed other so-called revenue tools proposed by provincial transit authority Metrolinx and their own advisory panel, such as raising fuel taxes and the Harmonized Sales Tax. They also rejected the NDP's proposal to increase corporate taxes to fund transit, saying it would be "extremely risky in our economy."
The New Democrats and a union representing Toronto transit workers have accused Wynne of trying to privatize public transit in the city, saying a 30-year maintenance contract for the light-rail line has been awarded to a private company.
Wynne, who slammed the other parties for failing to expand transit in Toronto when they were in government, said Horwath's claims "just are not true." She said her government has been working with the private sector, but believes that public transit must be publicly owned.
Meanwhile, Wynne said Sunday that a new Liberal ad targeting Horwath isn't a personal attack, but is rather "making a contrast" between the two parties.
Horwath has not yet unveiled her party's transit platform, but said in April that her party would sell the province's General Motors shares, a one-time gain, and put off a proposed Toronto subway extension to Thornhill, north of the city.
She said she would put the $3.5 billion that would be spent on that project to build a downtown relief line and a planned east-end subway extension.
Horwath announced Sunday that the New Democrats would make a one-time $100 million injection into licensed child care in the province if they win the June 12 election.
The money, to be spent next year, would go toward "stabilizing" a system destabilized by the Liberal government, Horwath said in Hamilton.
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Our students are always astounded by the variety of on-campus activities and events that fill their lives outside of class.
Lectures by world figures such as Jane Goodall, conferences featuring authors like Ann Patchett, concerts and plays (spectating or performing), sorority and fraternity events, athletics, intramurals, working out in the fitness center, and over 80 clubs and organizations. It's just amazing a 100-acre campus can fit it all in.
Fondren to Belhaven, Downtown to Midtown - it's all around us.
Home to five museums, ten historic sites and three parks, downtown Jackson is Mississippi's center for culture and entertainment. The funky Fondren Arts District, less than five minutes from campus, features art galleries, local boutiques, a bakery, two coffee shops, and some of the best restaurants in town. Zippity Doo Dah Weekend, Mal's St. Paddy's Parade, Celtic Fest, Crossroads Film Festival and the International Ballet Competition are just a few of the cultural, entertainment, and performing arts options that abound in and around Jackson.
From parties to politics, Frisbee to French, we've got something for everyone, on and off campus.
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Some modest turbulence has the kids a little nervous as the nice British family flies into Thailand for vacation, but after that, the worst problem anyone faces at their idyllic oceanfront resort is a bad sunburn.
Director Juan Antonio Bayona shows intense restraint in "The Impossible" as he sets the scene for this century's most horrific natural disaster, the tsunami that, on Dec. 26, 2004, swept in from the Indian Ocean to wipe out 200,000 lives in Southeast Asia.
Children play on the beach and dive in the waves; vacationers sleep in late and stroll under the palm trees. The Bennett family – Henry, Maria, and their sons Lucas and the two littlest boys, Simon and Thomas – have an away-from-home happy Christmas and the next day splash gaily in the pool when suddenly – incredibly suddenly – everything feels wrong. People in harm's way barely have time to notice before disaster overwhelms them.
The filmmaker's re-creation of the great wave is stunning. It is felt in the air, then heard on the wind; the tops of trees start to topple like dominoes from the beach on inland until the unimaginable wall of water appears.
And then the people, the trees, the landscape are gone.
Naomi Watts as Maria resurfaces clinging to a tree trunk and screaming in terror. Lucas (Tom Holland) appears soon after, a bobbing, crying body in the churning sea. With wreckage swirling all around them, the two struggle to remain together, afloat and alive.
It is harrowing and powerful, and impressive filmmaking. And, at least the frame of the story is true. A family much like the Bennetts – a Spanish couple and their three sons – was vacationing in Thailand when the tsunami hit, and the film, with an English-speaking family in their place – is based on their experience.
After the roar and the rush of water, the bloodied and badly bruised Maria and Lucas struggle out of the debris into a nearly silent world. The elation of having found one another dissolves under the realization that the rest of their family is gone.
Telling the story of such astounding destruction and loss is full of pitfalls – characters can be drawn as too noble or too sappy, or be made to choose between freakish hysteria and superhuman stoicism. Bayona dodges those traps fairly well.
Survivors are stunned and suffering, some are in shock and some remain terrified, but they are there for one another, as are the people who are now tending to them – overtaxed medical personnel, locals from higher ground and officials, all trying to save those they can, reunite families, and identify the bodies.
These people are mostly background, though, for the experience of the Bennetts. As the severely injured Maria, Watts spends most of the film in a hospital bed, turning deeper shades of purple and swelling from a raging infection.
The spare, effective filmmaking suffers as the story moves on, with the addition of what feel like contrivances, and as the quiet moments that were so powerful earlier disappear under music reminiscent of "Gone With the Wind."
Ewan McGregor keeps it real, though, as the battered and barefoot Henry, frantically searching for his family, and also trying to get word to those back home. When he finally does, on a borrowed phone, his mask of hope disintegrates. Overwhelmed by the disaster and the seering pain of each of the thousands upon thousands of losses, he collapses in tears.
It is a mixed-up movie, part docu-drama, horror film and feel-good triumph. You could blame the director for not showing enough of the magnitude of tragedy, and for focusing on the resorts' European guests over the tens of thousands of Asians killed, and that criticism would be valid.
But, taking it for what it is, the retelling of one family's experience, and with winning performances by Watts, McGregor, the youngest boys and especially by Holland, "The Impossible" has the power to sweep you away.
The Impossible
3 stars
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, Tom Holland
Director: Juan Antonio Bayona
Running time: 114 minutes
Rating: PG-13 for intense realistic disaster sequences, including disturbing injury images and brief nudity.
The Lowdown: Based on the true story of a family caught in the deadly 2004 tsumani in Thailand.
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an adjective describing someone's style, especially when having to do with snowboarding. Meaning smooth, stylish, clean and cool. Can either mean someone's clothing style, or more importantly, their riding style on the hill. One always wants to ride steezy, and to tell someone that they're trick was steezy is a great compliment.
"hey bro, that sick little 270 was lookin steezy, props."
"did you see that steezy kid in the tall tee gap that rail?"
"did you see that steezy kid in the tall tee gap that rail?"
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a SNOWBOARDER term that combines the word "Style" with "Ease" to create the act of doing a trick with style and ease to make it done with super steez. A rider with steez, such as myself, would be referred to as "steezy" whether it be because of his/her sick tricks, gangster aparrel, or watevs.
"Yo man you see that gangster killin it? He's got some hella steez."
"Dude how steezy did that SSBSTS look?"
"Dude how steezy did that SSBSTS look?"
J-Levz tarafından 23 Mayıs 2006, Salı
Style with Ease
Damn that was a steezy ass kickflip son!
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Anyone who's cool. Except people named Grant.
"Hey dude you're pretty steezy!"
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"Yea, I'd say the same except your name is Grant"
rockitout5 tarafından 4 Ocak 2012, Çarşamba
Steezy is usually used with some sort of sport such as skateboarding, snowboarding, bmx, ect. It's the combined words, style and ease. When someone lands a trick and it's clean, it's called steezy.
Woah, dude, did you see that switch 360 laser flip off that twelve stair?
Yeah, that was so steezy.
Yeah, that was so steezy.
pjparty911 tarafından 27 Temmuz 2009, Pazartesi
Dope, Fresh, cool, fly, style.
Lauren said "I wanna be too STEEZY like Don."
Don Hun tarafından 5 Aralık 2008, Cuma
A word used mainly for skateboarding. When someone or something does something really easily. With "Ease".
Did you see how steezy Sam looked when he landed that threeflip? He was soo steezy!
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SHEPHERDSTOWN - When she sat down to write her first blog post, Shepherdstown resident Teri Biebel knew exactly what the subject matter would be - her two teenage daughters.
It started when Biebel began reading a blog by the title "People I Want to Punch in the Throat," a parenting humor page by the author who goes simply by Jen. With more than 100,000 followers on Jen's blog, Biebel decided to write to her for some advice on how to start up her own.
To Biebel's surprise, Jen wrote back. Not only did she provide advice on Biebel's blog, but Jen also provided an opportunity for Biebel to submit an original essay on parenting humor for a book she was putting together.
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Shepherdstown resident Teri Biebel is featured in 'I Just Want To Pee Alone,' a book which has hit Amazon's best-seller list in the parenting and humor categories.
"I got right on it," Biebel said.
The essay Biebel wrote turned out to be one of those Jen selected to use in her book, compiled from "hilarious" essays from blog writers across the country in the newly released, "I Just Want To Pee Alone."
Available online, the book currently sits at the No. 1 spot on Amazon's new releases in parenting and humor and the No. 1 downloaded iTunes humor book.
Biebel's essay titled "Kids and Cleaning: Just Kill Me Now," follows the events of trying to get her oldest daughter to clean and do the dishes and the end result of that effort.
"I don't understand the way kids think," Biebel writes. "You tell your teenager to clean her room. An hour later, you check on her and not one thing has changed about the condition of her room."
The day Biebel discovered the topic of her writing, she said she had taken her two daughters swimsuit shopping, and like a light turning on, it hit her.
"I looked at both of them and I said, 'who are you and what have you done with my daughters,'" Biebel said as both teenagers stood in front of her in two-piece bathing suits.
"I felt like I left the dressing room and they were young and I came back and they were 15 and 13," she said.
A topic she often blogs about is the frequency with which each of the girls miss the bus - which is quite often. Like typical teens, they also have a closet full of clothes and nothing to wear.
"I Just Want To Pee Alone" is broken down into essays between 800 and 1,500 words, so they could easily be read in a short amount of time - such as a bathroom break. Biebel said she encourages parents to take 15 minutes to themselves, escape with the book and just have a laugh.
"Go to the bathroom, lock yourself in, even if you're not peeing and read," Biebel said.
Jen, who published the book, said via email that she chose several authors to write submissions because she had read their material and blog posts and found them funny. She said Biebel was someone she knew would write a great submission.
"The book is selling well and we have received a lot of great reviews on Amazon," Jen wrote.
Four Seasons Books in Shepherdstown will host a book signing with Biebel at 7 p.m. May 17. The book is currently available on Amazon in print or digital format.
- Staff writer Michelle Horst can be reached at 304-263-8931, ext. 138, or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Civil War fast facts
Death toll ranges from official figure of 620,000 to as many as 750,000
• Abraham Lincoln won the presidency despite not being on the ballot in nine Southern states.
• The United States never took the stars of the Southern states off the American flag.
• Kansas had units in both the Confederate and Union armies.
• A Revolutionary War army had 10,000 soldiers; the Army of the Potomac had up to 121,000.
• Jan. 1, 1863: The Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves.
• The Chancellorsville victory in May of the same year cost Gen. Robert E. Lee one-quarter of his Confederate army, including Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, his most trusted general.
• The death toll from the Civil War continues to change and officially stands at about 620,000 men, but with large numbers of missing also presumed to have died and based on the 1870 Census, a growing number of historians believe that figure was really about 750,000, which is more than the deaths of American soldiers in all other U.S. wars since the Revolution combined. In today's terms, that's roughly equal to a loss of about 7.5 million soldiers.
• As a result of the war, 4 million slaves were freed.
Sources: Gettysburg National Military Park Museum, Civil War Trust


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"If you attend a press conference, you need to ask a question."
That was what I was telling myself as then-Bowling Green football coach Urban Meyer and his coaches were leaving the media area after the then-No. 18 Falcons had won big at Kent State.
It was 2002, and I was still in college, writing for the BG News. It was just the second football game I ever covered, and I'd failed to ask a question the week before, when the Falcons beat Ball State.
I'd been beating myself up for a week. Being at a big press conference when you're a student can be intimidating, but I told myself not to waste this opportunity. Now Meyer and the BG players had departed. In my mind, I had one more shot.
Into the conference room marched then-Kent State coach Dean Pees (a former Elmwood High School coach and a graduate of Hardin Northern), with a couple players.
After losing by a few touchdowns, Pees was in a sour mood. He answered a few questions.
"Coach," I heard myself say, "why did you go for it on fourth down in the first quarter."
This wasn't as bad as a second guess as it sounds. Kent State got the first down, after all. I just wanted to know if KSU was approaching the game against the Falcons in an uber-aggressive mode.
"Because," Pees answered, "I've got this guy right here."
The man next to him was Josh Cribbs.
Cribbs was everything to the Golden Flashes back then. The then-sophomore did it all for Kent State as its quarterback.
In 2002 he threw for more than 1,000 yards and rushed for 1,015 with 10 touchdowns.
He got even better over the next two seasons, finishing his college career with 3,670 yards rushing with 38 TDs. He threw for more than 7,100 yards and 45 touchdowns. He even caught three TDs at Kent State.
But numbers didn't tell the story. In college, he appeared even more elusive and tough than he did in the NFL, if that were even possible.
I saw Cribbs play in college once more - when Kent State came to BG in 2003. After that game, I told everyone who would listen (and a few who wouldn't) that Cribbs was gonna be a star in the NFL.
I was right and wrong.
Cribbs did become a star. But it wasn't at quarterback, as I had figured.
The kid wasn't even drafted, and the Browns took a flier on him before the 2005 season.
The rest, as they say, is history.
Cribbs became the greatest returner in Browns history, as well as a strong overall special teams player and receiver.
In his career, Cribbs has returned eight kickoffs and three punts for touchdowns.
But again, the stats don't tell the story. In his eight years with the Browns, Cribbs has been a guy who gave everything he had every time he was on the field, and did everything the team asked of him. Play Wildcat? Sure.
Quarterback? OK.
Running back? They didn't, but they should have.
Cribbs also has been outgoing with the fans, passionate about his team, and his teammates, and unaffected by his success. He played just as hard in 2012 as he did in 2005.
Fellow A-T writer Pat Magers and I used to have a friendly disagreements about Cribbs' value. I contended Cribbs ranked as one of the best players in Browns history. Pat said I was nuts.
My thought is in the last eight years, if you think about the best moments for this franchise, Cribbs was involved in just about all of them.
Sure, the Browns haven't had many, but Cribbs was at times the reason for hope, the reason to believe something big might happen.
As of this writing, Cribbs is a free agent. He's been rumored to be signing with the Cardinals, but that isn't official.
Cribbs will be 30 in June, and it's likely his best days are behind him. It's understandable why the Browns don't want to give him another big contract.
But it just won't look right to see Cribbs playing his home games anywhere but northern Ohio. No matter where he goes, he'll always be a special player to me, someone I covered who went onto play for my favorite team and make it big.
Thanks for the memories, Josh.


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I was having a good hair day. I wore my glasses again, they seemed appropriate for dusty book stores. My leggings touched the cold linoleum when I knelt for a better look and the shop owner talked sports with some guy so I just sat on the floor where they couldn't see me and shopped for books like they were groceries, hungry and with a list. The bottom shelf always has the good ones.
Sometimes I'd just let my finger land. When asked, I'd say I'm a writer but this year I'm a student. I move a stack. Reading what I've forgotten, and the writers who inspired them and the writers who inspired them. "I'm raising readers, too."
I got caught up in Midnight in Paris while I knitted all weekend. Like, I watched it about six times. And then I'd grieve in a weird spot -- my life that lives now instead of 1920's Paris. But I know, I know that it would have been an early death of me then. Living now saved me from being lost forever, if I'd been a gal in any other time. I don't think I'd have been able to refuse its allure. I barely made it out of my own era. I still want to dress like that though.
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Imagine 1 million volts of electricity aimed right at you. Sound insane? Not to illusionist David Blaine.
Wearing a mesh-like suit and helmet, Blaine has made himself the bull's-eye for his latest performance.
The three-day event, called "Electrified," started Friday on Pier 54 in New York.
There is an interactive element to this hair-raising stunt. Using computers, audience members in New York, Beijing, London, Tokyo and Sydney can control how much power is directed at Blaine.
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The school offers its students educational and vocational training in key skills and disciplines required for life after graduation. The resort aims to convert DSS graduates into its full-time colleagues. It is one of the first few organisations to actively participate in the school's Work Experience Programme, which exposes students to actual work life and environment in preparation for permanent employment. Since the programme's inception in 2009, the resort has supported over 40 students with industrial attachments and internships across departments such as Housekeeping, Kitchen and Food and Beverage.
There are currently five DSS graduates with permanent employment at the resort; of which two started out 10 years ago in the horticultural department and later embarked into the Kitchen as part of their continuous career development path. In addition to supporting DSS in the Work Experience Programme, the resort actively engages and participates in the school's special occasions – from its graduation ceremonies to Open House Days and various training workshops.
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In addition to DSS, the resort works with Arc Children's Centre – a non-profit organisation which provides day care and support for families with children between 3 to 18 years of age, diagnosed with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses. In 2011 and 2012 , Shangri-La's Rasa Sentosa Resort & Spa, together with Sentosa Golf Club and World Sport Group raised funds for the centre during the annual charity golf tournament titled 'Drive for ARC' and will continue with these efforts in 2013.
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This luxury hotel is located in the fashionable West End, two blocks from K Street at the footsteps of Georgetown, and less than a mile from the White House and the Smithsonian.
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WINONA- A Washington state woman is riding horseback across the country to raise awareness about cancer.
Along the way she is uncovering the humanity that battles the disease.
Winona couple Chuck and Gloria Bandy Tuesday night hosted Tracy Delp of Port Orchard, Wash., during her trek from Ocean City, Wash., to Cape Henlopen, Del., on her horse, Sierra, and with her traveling companion, her dog, Ursa.
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Tracy Delp of Port Orchard, Wash., untacks her horse, Sierra, after arriving at the Chuck and Gloria Bandy home in Winona Tuesday afternoon. Delp is traveling cross country on horseback to help raise awareness about the effects of cancer. (Salem News photo by Kevin Howell)
Delp's Coast2Coast for Cancer, in association with the non-profit cancer awareness organizations Their Story is Our Story and The Riedel & Cody Fund, started on Mother's Day 2011 after more than two years of preparation as a tribute to her mother, a colon cancer survivor who succumbed to pancreatic cancer in 2008.
Her trip has taken her through parts of Idaho, Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois and Indiana prior to her travel through Ohio. She is scheduled to ride through Pennsylvania and Maryland before reaching her destination in Delaware.
More importantly, though, it has put her in contact with an outpouring of support from people across the nation that she said has reaffirmed her faith in society.
"We're living at a time when people want to do good, but don't know what to do," Delp said. "Sometimes we don't do much, but the little things add up. You don't realize the impact you have on other people."
With everyone having experienced some effect of cancer- whether to themselves or a loved one- Delp said besides the amazing amount of assistance she receives from strangers, she has been overwhelmed by the affect her trip makes on those who offer their help.
"The first three letters of cancer are C-A-N," she said. "You're always hearing about the bad, seeing the worst in people. But I've gotten to see the very best in people. The vast majority are good people."
Delp, who had previously worked as an animal behavioral consultant, said that her only expense so far has been for gas for her truck and trailer, which she has turned over to volunteers at a various locations to drive to her next stop. Any money she has raised has been through selling trailer space to sponsors who have been affected by cancer, as well as Coast2Coast memorabilia. All other necessities such as lodging and meals have been willingly provided by residents along her route, she said.
In addition to the Bandys, Delp is being assisted by Winona horseriding enthusiast Sally Stamp, who is helping Delp develop a route to East Palestine today.
"I'm happy to be able to help her and wish her the best of luck on her trip," Stamp said. "[A cross country trip] is a lifelong dream for a horseman. There will always be someone willing to step up and help. We call it a cowgirl camaraderie."
Gloria Bandy, who lost her best friend to cancer, said she had the opportunity to host Delp after a family friend from North Lawrence near Canal Fulton discovered Coast2Coast online, volunteered to house her for a night and recruited Bandy as a host, as well. Other friends of the Bandys, Matt and Melissa Johnston of Hartley Road in Knox Township, served as host in between.
"We found out her route and were able to offer our homes and happy to do it," Gloria Bandy said.
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Many local residents have wondered, after last week's shocking water contamination crisis in Charleston, if something similar could happen here.
Elkins Operations Manager Bob Pingley has an answer for us, though it may not be one we want to hear.
"Yes, it possibly could," Pingley said during Thursday's Elkins City Council meeting.
Elkins Council members were sobered by this statement, but Pingley stressed that any water system is vulnerable.
City officials have done their research about contamination, however, Pingley said.
"We have done vulnerability assessments. We have emergency response plans in place," he said,
The Elkins water system does have one big advantage most systems don't, Pingley said.
"We have the flood control," he said. "If something goes in the river upstream, and we get advance notice, we can close the flood control and it would just flow past us downstream."
Of course that advance notice would be crucial, Pingley said, for the city to be able to utilize the flood-control system in such an emergency.
"Still, we feel we're in a better situation than a lot of towns," Pingley said.
The Elkins flood-control system was completed in 1947. Pingley has said the system is designed to handle four times the amount of water seen in the 1985 flood.
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An Alden woman was sentenced Friday to one to three years in prison for embezzling from her employer, Norampac Industries Inc., by issuing payroll checks in the names of 93 employees who either were out on disability or had recently been terminated. She then deposited the checks into her account after forging their signatures.
The fraudulent checks that Lynn Montgomery issued totaled $266,866.
But she cost the company $386,927 because of the withholding and other expenses related to payroll checks, prosecutors said.
Her scheme unraveled when a local bank alerted the Erie County Sheriff's Office about suspicious deposits being made into her account.
A bank employee recognized the name of one of the other employees but discovered the signature on the check did not match.
The sheriff's investigation found Montgomery had been generating fraudulent payroll checks from Norampac while working at the company's Walden Avenue office since early 2005.
A presentence report on Montgomery, 47, of Sullivan Road, revealed that she issued the illegal checks monthly at first, but then did so weekly when she found how easy it was to get the money.
"It wasn't like you made one mistake and grabbed $200,000," State Supreme Court Justice M. William Boller told Montgomery during the court hearing.
The report also said Montgomery rationalized her actions because she gave some of the ill-gotten money to others whom she felt needed it more than the company, Boller said.
"It's easy to be generous when using other people's money," the judge told her.
Montgomery had faced a maximum prison sentence of 19 years. She pleaded guilty in April to second-degree grand larceny and first-degree offering a false instrument for filing, according to prosecutors Candace K. Vogel and Gary M. Ertel of the Erie County District Attorney's Office.
Boller credited Montgomery for coming up with partial restitution, which he said reduced her jail term.
But he said embezzling cases have become an epidemic. "I am sending you to jail to punish you," he told her.
But he said he also wants her incarceration to serve as a deterrent to others who would steal from their employers or other entities.
He ordered Montgomery to pay $266,866 in further restitution.
"Ma'am, going to jail doesn't forgive the balance you owe," he told her.
The false instrument count stems from filing a false state tax return. She owes $17,258 to the state for the unreported money she received.
"I'm sorry to Norampac," Montgomery tearfully told the judge. "I'm sorry to my family. I'm sorry to the employees of Norampac. I'm sorry to the court."
Montgomery said she has undergone "significant therapy" to understand why she stole the money.
"I recognize my actions violated the company's trust in me," she said.
Since her arrest, Montgomery said she has worked 40 to 60 hours a week at three local companies to earn money for her restitution. The companies withdrew full-time job offers when background checks revealed her arrest.
More recently, she has worked from 3:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at a local beverage company, which allowed her to be home when her 12-year-old daughter returned from school.
"It breaks my heart to think of my daughter," she said, in addition to "two sons I let down."
Her crime has embarrassed her family, she said. Now, her imprisonment will disrupt her family.
Montgomery brought a $100,000 check to her sentencing as a first payment toward her restitution.
"She was able to come up with $100,000 over eight months," said Elizabeth A. Holmes, her defense attorney.
"It's better than nothing," Boller said of the check.
An attempt to cash in her husband's 401(k) account under a hardship provision was denied, Montgomery said.
When the judge asked why she did not sell her family's two race cars and camper, Montgomery said they're old and not worth anything.
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A man lost his life in a crash overnight in Apopka.
Authorities said the victim's car was stopped in the southbound lanes of Rock Springs Road at Desalvo Place when another vehicle ran into it.
The man was killed in the crash. He was not immediately identified.
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Genesee County law enforcement officials continue to investigate the fatal crash Sunday afternoon in the Town of Darien that took the life of a South Buffalo native and sent her husband and daughter to Erie County Medical Center with serious injuries.
The family was driving to Buffalo to visit family members when the crash occurred.
Audrey Gleason, 55, of Baldwinsville, worked for the last three years in the Baldwinsville school district as a special education jobs coach and bus driver, The Post-Standard in Syracuse reported. She was pronounced dead at ECMC shortly after the 3 p.m. crash, in which a sedan driven by Gerald Kania, 47, of Lancaster, swerved into oncoming traffic on Route 20 and struck the Gleason's sport utility vehicle head-on. The Genesee County Sheriff's Office is investigating and Kania, who suffered a minor injury, so far has been charged with failure to keep right and may face further charges, deputies said. He told deputies he was distracted right before the crash.
Dennis Gleason, 57, was driving the SUV when the crash occurred. He was in stable condition Monday night in ECMC with vertebrate fractures.
The couple's daughter, Kelly, 16 and a junior at Baldwinsville High School, remained in critical condition with two broken legs and a perforated bowel.
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Rachel Booth's children held homemade signs and cheered on their mother at the finish line as she broke her own record Sunday morning.
Booth's Princess Half Marathon run was her fourth runDisney title. She won last year's Princess run and took two consecutive titles at the Disneyland Half Marathon., according to Disney representatives.
Booth, 32, was among 26,000 runners who took part in Sunday's run. Disney representatives said she bested her own record from last year.
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John R. Koelmel did a great job turning First Niagara Bank from a sleepy local thrift into a Northeastern banking power.
But he did a lousy job taking care of First Niagara's shareholders, and it is likely their displeasure with his "growth at any price" strategy contributed to him losing his job as the bank's president and chief executive officer last week.
Koelmel may not be the only loser in First Niagara's leadership shift. It could signal a major weakening of First Niagara's strong ties to the Buffalo Niagara region and its growing role as a major Buffalo booster, especially if its directors – only one of whom has ties to Western New York – picks an outsider to fill the top spot on a permanent basis.
It could get even dicier if the board decides if will take too long to fix First Niagara's problems by cutting costs and making its business more efficient and profitable. A quicker fix would be to sell the bank, although its shares have sunk so low that it would take a hefty premium to put long-time investors back in the black, and the line of potential suitors may not be long because of upstate New York's sluggish economy.
Regardless of how it all plays out, Koelmel's ouster is a stark reminder that the acquisition game is one that needs to be played very carefully.
Koelmel's growth-on-steroids approach yielded quick results, with First Niagara gobbling up whole banks in three deals and significant branch networks in two others over a five-year span.
Thanks to those deals, First Niagara's asset base more than quadrupled to $37 billion, all coming at a time when the banking industry was reeling and big mergers were as rare as a savings account that pays 10 percent interest.
The deals helped Koelmel carve out a name for himself in banking circles, and the bank's growth stood out as a bright spot in a community starved for jobs and fast-growing businesses.
Under Koelmel, First Niagara thrust itself into the public eye, putting its name on the First Niagara Center and writing a big check to keep the Empire State Games alive for an extra year. Koelmel even took to the airwaves as First Niagara's pitchman, giving Western New Yorkers a taste of the sports analogies that he loves so much.
"They were relentless in acquiring. They were buying and buying," said Joseph Curatolo, the president of Georgetown Capital, an Amherst money management firm. "But First Niagara didn't buy on the cheap. They paid full retail, and they couldn't swallow it."
First Niagara's early deals, beginning with its 2007 purchase of Greater Buffalo Savings Bank, went smoothly. Its acquisition of 57 PNC Bank branches in the Pittsburgh area during 2009 was "terrific," while its purchase of Harleysville National Corp. in suburban Philadelphia later that year was "very good," said Joseph Fenech, a Sandler O'Neill & Partners analyst in a January report.
The next year, First Niagara was back at it, gobbling up New Alliance Bancshares in Connecticut for $1.5 billion, and in 2011, agreeing to buy HSBC USA's upstate branch network for $1 billion.
Analysts criticized First Niagara for overpaying, and making matters worse, the timing of the HSBC deal turned out to be lousy. The European debt crisis was in full swing and the deal was announced weeks before the U.S. financial markets were roiled by the U.S. debt ceiling debacle.
"Economic growth has been lackluster, and in a more normal economic expansion, many of these problems would have been swept under the rug," said Gerald T. Cole, the chief investment officer at Arbor Capital Management, an Amherst money management firm. "Margins are razor thin across the board, and when you have thin margins, it just amplifies any missteps."
First Niagara executives decided to wait to raise the capital it needed to pay for the HSBC deal, hoping the financial markets would improve. Instead, they got worse. So when the bank finally raised $1.1 billion in December by selling a combination of stock and debt, its shares were worth 30 percent less than they were when the HSBC deal was announced. That exacerbated the dilution First Niagara's shareholders were subjected to. It also saddled the bank with dividend and interest payments on the preferred stock and bonds that it issued, further depressing its earnings.
"The implications of raising capital at a very distressed price several months later obviously changed the entire complexion of the transaction," Fenech said.
Evercore Partners analyst John Pancari, in a research note last week, was even more blunt. He said the HSBC deal was "poorly executed."
With most acquisitions, the purchasing company will quickly move to squeeze costs out of the business it bought. With First Niagara's deals, cost-saving opportunities were relatively limited, since the acquisitions primarily pushed the bank into new markets that lacked the overlapping branches that make ripe targets for shaving expenses.
Despite the criticism, First Niagara succeeded in making its business more profitable. The bank's profits have nearly doubled since 2009 as a result of the acquisitions, but First Niagara's shareholders haven't shared in those gains because of all the shares of stock that it has sold over the past five years to finance its buying binge. First Niagara now has three times as many shares in circulation than it did in 2008, so even with its profits almost doubling, the bank's earnings per share have plunged by 50 percent.
The dilution also has hurt First Niagara's tangible book value per share – which measures what the bank would be worth if it were liquidated. At the end of 2006, First Niagara's stock traded for 2.5 times its tangible book value. Now, it's about 1.3 times its tangible book value.
To conserve cash, the bank slashed its common stock dividend in half, further dinging shareholders.
Put it together, and First Niagara's stock is down 41 percent since its shares hit their post-recession peak of $15.06 in February 2011. In contrast, the benchmark KBW Bank index is up 3 percent over the same period. First Niagara is the worst-performing stock in that bank index; it's cross-town rival, M&T Bank, is up 13 percent and is the fourth-best stock in the 24-member index.
"The company, under Koelmel, pursued growth for the sake of growth and this was not always consistent with shareholder value creation," Citigroup Global Markets analyst Josh Levin wrote in a report.
Anthony J. Ogorek, who runs Ogorek Wealth Management in Amherst, said First Niagara's missteps weren't just Koelmel's fault. "The board approved everything," he said. "It's incredible that the CEO should be ousted, but no one on the board should be held responsible for approving all these deals."
Koelmel knew full well First Niagara was suffering from a bad case of indigestion. He told investors earlier in the year that the bank was taking a break from acquisitions and focusing on integrating its new additions. The bank was looking to cut its costs by $40 million this year, and close five to 10 branches as part of its bid to squeeze more profits from its banking operations.
Even more telling, John Koelmel, after playing offense throughout his tenure at First Niagara, started talking defense.
"There's not a whole lot going on in the market that gives us, as an industry, a whole lot of upside opportunity," he said last month. "So it's important we protect on the downside."
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