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Man, 21, Pleads Guilty To Third-degree Murder He Was One Of Two Suspects In The Fatal Shooting Of A Man At An Adult Club. He Will Testify At The Other Suspect's Trial.
April 13, 2000
By Stephanie Doster, INQUIRER SUBURBAN STAFF
A Trenton man who was charged with second-degree murder for his role in a fatal robbery pleaded guilty to third-degree murder yesterday after agreeing to testify, if called, in the trial of another man charged in the case. Courtney P. Boone, 21, pleaded guilty to third-degree murder, robbery and related charges before Bucks County Court Judge Edward G. Biester Jr. yesterday morning, shortly before a jury was scheduled to begin deliberations in his case. Boone could face up to 40 years in prison for the murder.
Parents Arrested For Sexual Abuse Of Their Daughter Each Adult Faces 10 Counts Involving The 7-year-old. The Penalty Could Be Life In Prison.
March 13, 1998
By Richard V. Sabatini, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
A former Bristol Township couple has been arrested on charges of repeatedly forcing their 7-year-old daughter to participate in sexual acts with them, police said. Bucks County District Attorney Alan Rubenstein announced the arrest yesterday of the parents, both 30 years old, and described the circumstances surrounding the charges as "revolting. " The couple's names are being withheld by The Inquirer to protect the identity of the child. If convicted on a total of 10 counts each, each parent could face up to life in prison, said Chief Deputy District Attorney Terry Houck, who prosecutes sex-related offenses.
NE man is arrested for starving dad to death
March 16, 2012
BY PHILLIP LUCAS, Daily News Staff Writer
A NORTHEAST Philadelphia man was arrested on murder charges yesterday for allegedly starving his 82-year-old father to death, the District Attorney's Office said. Medics responded to a home on Kirkwood Road near Eden Street on Dec. 26 to treat Thomas Hauck's mother - who was malnourished - and found Leonard Hauck, 82, dead in the basement, said Tasha Jamerson, spokeswoman for the D.A.'s Office. Thomas Hauck, 57, told officials that his father had died days earlier and that he was unsure what to do with his corpse.
Gambler's Murder Trial Is Ready To Go To Jurors The Two Sides Summed Up. A 21-year-old Trenton Man, Prosecutors Say, Knew What His Partner Had In Mind.
April 12, 2000
By Stephanie Doster, INQUIRER SUBURBAN STAFF
A Trenton man should be convicted of second-degree murder for his "cold-blooded" role in a robbery that left an avid gambler dead at a Bristol Township strip club, a Bucks County prosecutor said yesterday in his closing arguments. Assistant District Attorney Terence P. Houck said Courtney P. Boone, 21, aided and encouraged another man in a robbery that resulted in the shooting death of Charles Bethea, 52, of Yardville, N.J., in February of last year. Houck said Boone and DeWayne Housley, 23, the alleged triggerman, planned to rob Bethea, a gambler known to carry rolls of cash in his pockets, when they followed him from a Trenton gambling club to Diva's International Gentlemen's Club, a strip club on Route 13. "There is no question, no dispute, that the reason the car went down there was to rob this man," Houck said.
Bucks Man Found Guilty Of Murder The Jury Rejected Colson A. Derby Jr.'s Plea Of Temporary Insanity.
November 19, 1994
By Doug Donovan, INQUIRER CORRESPONDENT
Colson A. Derby Jr. knew exactly what he was doing when he fired five bullets into the head and back of a South Philadelphia man on June 3, a Bucks County Court jury decided yesterday. The jury yesterday rejected the defense contention that Derby, 40, of Levittown, was temporarily insane when he rolled his wheelchair up to a car and shot Patrick S. Mooney. It convicted him of first-degree murder, which carries a life sentence without parole or the death penalty. Within 10 days, Judge Edward G. Biester will pronounce sentence after a hearing.
Jury Acquits Bucks Man Of Sexual Molestation Charges Richard Woelk Of Levittown Was Found Guilty Of Simple Assault And Endangering The Welfare Of A Child. The Victim's Lawyer Said She Had Been "Vindicated."
November 8, 1995
By Doug Donovan, INQUIRER CORRESPONDENT
A Bucks County jury yesterday acquitted a Levittown man of charges that he sexually molested a teenage girl but found him guilty of simple assault and endangering the welfare of a child. The girl, who was sent to jail for not testifying last week, sobbed in the front row of the courtroom as the jury announced six not-guilty verdicts for three charges of involuntary deviant sexual intercourse, aggravated indecent assault, indecent assault and indecent exposure. The members of the jury could not reach a verdict after eight hours of deliberation on Monday that kept them at the courthouse past midnight.
Life Term Given In Fatal Beating
December 6, 1990
By John P. Martin, Special to The Inquirer
A New Jersey man has been ordered to spend his life in prison for the September 1989 beating death in Bristol Township of a man described as a "neighborhood pal. " David Lennitt Jr., 23, of Mount Holly, was sentenced Monday in Bucks County Court to a mandatory life sentence in state prison for the murder of Van Paxton, 29, of Beverly, N.J. Paxton's body, clothed only in underwear and socks, was found Sept. 21, 1989, in a field behind an adult bookstore in the 6900 block of Route 13 about 3:30 a.m., about an hour after neighbors were awakened by groans and cries for help from the field.
Car rental firms back mandating recall fixes
September 29, 2012
By Jeff Gelles, Inquirer Staff Writer
The country's leading car-rental companies have agreed to back legislation barring rentals of recalled vehicles before they have been repaired - a controversial practice that led to the deaths of two California sisters in 2004 in an Enterprise rental and to their bereaved mother's long campaign for change. A spokeswoman for Enterprise Holdings, the largest car-rental company and owner of the Enterprise, National, and Alamo brands, said the company had already changed its practice but had initially resisted a legislative mandate.
Leidy Trial On Charges Of Assault On Cadet Begins In Bucks Court
September 10, 1996
By Jennifer Van Doren, INQUIRER CORRESPONDENT
The trial of a former Civil Air Patrol captain accused of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old cadet repeatedly in 1985 began yesterday with the news that the former cadet, now a 23-year-old man, may not be alone. Chief Deputy District Attorney Terry Houck said he planned to support the young man's allegations by calling other men to testify that Edward Leidy assaulted them, too. Houck said 11 had come forward. Leidy's attorney announced he would object to any such testimony, and the judge said he would review the admissibility of each witness individually.
Graduation Elusive For Jailed Student He Did His Homework While Awaiting Trial On Robbery Charges. But He Flunked English.
June 11, 1997
By Erin Einhorn and Stephanie Stanley, INQUIRER CORRESPONDENTS
From his jail cell in the Bucks County Prison, Christopher Antimary persuaded his high school counselor to help him graduate. Awaiting trial on charges that he was involved with a spree of armed robberies in Middletown and Falls, he asked friends to bring him his homework in jail, and teachers to prepare assignments for him do behind bars. For a while, it was a well-coordinated effort that culminated last week with Antimary winning an extremely rare, one-day-only bail reduction that enabled him to graduate with his Bensalem High School class in commencement ceremonies tomorrow.
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Car rental firms back mandating recall fixes
September 29, 2012
By Jeff Gelles, Inquirer Staff Writer
The country's leading car-rental companies have agreed to back legislation barring rentals of recalled vehicles before they have been repaired - a controversial practice that led to the deaths of two California sisters in 2004 in an Enterprise rental and to their bereaved mother's long campaign for change. A spokeswoman for Enterprise Holdings, the largest car-rental company and owner of the Enterprise, National, and Alamo brands, said the company had already changed its practice but had initially resisted a legislative mandate.
NE man is arrested for starving dad to death
March 16, 2012
BY PHILLIP LUCAS, Daily News Staff Writer
A NORTHEAST Philadelphia man was arrested on murder charges yesterday for allegedly starving his 82-year-old father to death, the District Attorney's Office said. Medics responded to a home on Kirkwood Road near Eden Street on Dec. 26 to treat Thomas Hauck's mother - who was malnourished - and found Leonard Hauck, 82, dead in the basement, said Tasha Jamerson, spokeswoman for the D.A.'s Office. Thomas Hauck, 57, told officials that his father had died days earlier and that he was unsure what to do with his corpse.
Gibbons serves Houck another loss; several other Bucks races are close
November 9, 2005
By Christine Schiavo, Leslie Pappas and Ira Porter INQUIRER STAFF WRITERS
The narrow gap that put Diane E. Gibbons in the district attorney's seat four years ago widened slightly yesterday, earning the incumbent Bucks County prosecutor a sound victory over the same Democratic opponent she beat in 2001. Several county races came down to the wire in Republican-dominated Bucks County, where Democrats put up tough fights for judge and sheriff. An upset in Bensalem earned a Democrat a seat on the all-Republican council. Unofficial results showed Gibbons with a strong win over Terry Houck in a county where Republicans outnumber Democrats by about 30,000.
Time is no salve for D.A. candidates Houck, Gibbons square off again BUCKS COUNTY
November 4, 2005
By Christine Schiavo INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Both candidates for Bucks County district attorney say they aren't politicians. But just as in their bare-knuckled fight four years ago, the recent mudslinging would suggest otherwise. Once coworkers and friends, Diane E. Gibbons and Terry Houck became adversaries when their former boss, Alan M. Rubenstein, left the district attorney's position to become a judge in 2000. Gibbons, a Warminster Republican, was appointed to finish Rubenstein's term. She fired Houck, a Chalfont Democrat, after he announced his candidacy for the job in February 2001.
Bucks County District Attorney In a close call, Houck is the choice
November 3, 2005
In 2001, the race for Bucks County district attorney was a close call, decided by about 3,700 votes. It's a close call this year, too. The same two candidates are involved. Both are well-qualified and well-respected prosecutors. The incumbent is Republican Diane E. Gibbons, 47, of Warminster. She's been a Bucks County prosecutor since 1984, and was named district attorney in 2000. Before that, she was chief deputy.. Democratic challenger Terry Houck, 49, of Chalfont, was a Philadelphia police officer for eight years, earning his law degree from Temple while on the force.
Gibbons, Houck trading barbs The D.A. questions her opponent's funding sources. Houck says Gibbons is showing her desperation.
November 2, 2005
By Walter F. Naedele INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Bucks County District Attorney Diane Gibbons suggested yesterday that her reelection may be decided by radio ads being aired by Democrat Terry Houck - and paid for by state Sen. Vincent J. Fumo - that she cannot afford to answer. Gibbons said the Houck campaign is being funded chiefly with $140,000 in contributions made last month by Fumo, a Philadelphia Democrat, most of which has gone for radio ads. "It's a smear campaign being bought and paid for out of Philadelphia," Gibbons said at a news conference at the county's Republican Party headquarters in Doylestown.
Rematch set for Bucks D.A. Democrats again picked Terry Houck. He lost in 2001 to GOP incumbent Diane Gibbons.
May 18, 2005
By Christine Schiavo INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Bucks County voters are gearing up for round two of a bare-knuckles bout that started four years ago when incumbent Republican Diane E. Gibbons squeaked by Democratic challenger Terry P. Houck. With 99 percent of the districts reporting last night, unofficial results showed Houck beating Lawrence M. Otter by a nearly 3-to-1 ratio. "If it's possible, I'm probably more passionate than I was in 2001 because I think the issues are more pronounced," Houck said during a victory party in Doylestown last night.
Bucks County District Attorney Houck gets nod in the primary
May 9, 2005
One of the questions Bucks County Democrats have to answer on May 17: Who's the best candidate to go up against Republican District Attorney Diane E. Gibbons in November? Though the county's Democrats have two experienced professionals to choose from, it's an easy call: longtime prosecutor TERRY HOUCK of Chalfont. Houck, 49, has been involved in law enforcement since 1977, when the rookie police officer was assigned to the 16th District in West Philadelphia. During his nine years on the force, he went to school part-time, eventually earning his law degree from Temple University.
D.A. race too close for Republicans in Bucks GOP candidates in the county gained many spots. Terry Houck proved a challenge for Diane E. Gibbons.
November 8, 2001
By Larry King and Zlati Meyer INQUIRER STAFF WRITERS
Having ducked a looming upset, Bucks County District Attorney Diane E. Gibbons emerged from Tuesday's elections angry and unrepentant. Angry with Democratic challenger Terry Houck, a former employee who assailed - unfairly, she says - her office's competence. Unrepentant about her management style, which became the centerpiece of Houck's campaign. "This District Attorney's Office," she told cheering supporters late Tuesday night, "is better than it's ever been. " Yet, owing largely to Houck's bare-knuckle tactics, plenty of voters seemed to think otherwise.
Gibbons, Houck are even for Bucks D.A.
November 7, 2001
By Larry King and Matthew P. Blanchard INQUIRER STAFF WRITERS
Republican incumbent Diane E. Gibbons and Democrat Terry Houck, longtime colleagues who turned fiercely on each other in their quest to be Bucks County district attorney, were running neck-and-neck last night in early returns. With 226 of 301 precincts counted, Gibbons was ahead slightly in a race where voters faced starkly contrasting messages: the incumbent's stay-the-course mantra of proven success, and Houck's portrayal of her as a bumbling manager who soured and drove away her best and brightest assistants.
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Game of Thrones Cast Members and All-Around Good People Visited Syrian Refugee Camps in Greece
A Stark, a Lannister, and the onion knight unite to raise awareness.
A Stark, a Lannister, and the onion knight unite to raise awareness.
The central five will reportedly net $500,000 per episode next season.By Karen Brill
Dinklage has maybe played this game before.By Sean Fitz-Gerald
"Shame."By Nate Jones
"Who wants to f*ck a virgin?"By E. Alex Jung
And that new do.By Jennifer Vineyard
"She's about to learn some really severe lessons."By Jennifer Vineyard
The fantasy series' stars got a massive raise for the next two seasons.By Nate Jones
And it happened basically the same way as in the books.By Nate Jones
Production on the fifth season is now in full swing.By Nate Jones
It's a Lannister family reunion!By Anna Silman
Tulle, crystals, and a dress that resembles table linens.By The Fug Girls
(And we spy Cersei in the background.)By Lindsey Weber
Instagram be damned!By Lindsey Weber
She knew, she knew.By Gilbert Cruz
"The whole dynamic is different in the show."By Anna Silman
"An animalistic, desperate escape moment ... twisted enough that only Jaime and Cersei could pull it off."By Denise Martin
They're just like etc. etc.By Gilbert Cruz
"Gorgo's for the people. Cersei's incredibly selfish."By Jennifer Vineyard
Did you know there was incest in Game of Thrones?By Jesse David Fox

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IACP and Joyce Foundation Summit and Report: Taking a Stand: Reducing Gun Violence in Our Communities
Nearly 30,000 American lives are lost to gun violence each year—a number far higher than in any other developed country. Since 1963, more Americans have died by gunfire than perished in combat during the whole of the 20th century. And the impact goes far beyond the dead and injured. Gun violence reaches across borders and jurisdictions and compromises the safety of everyone along the way. No other industrialized country suffers as many gun fatalities and injuries as the United States. And no community or person in America is immune.1
he United States is the most highly armed country in the world. There are 90 guns for every 100 citizens, according to 2007 figures from the Small Arms Survey; in the rest of the world, the rate is 10 firearms for every 100 citizens. The rate of lethal violence in the United States is correspondingly higher than that of other developed countries. A study of crime in the 1990s by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) put the U.S. firearm homicide rate for children alone at 16 times that of other developed countries.
Contrary to popular belief, firearm violence is not simply an urban problem, a gang problem, or a criminal problem. The yearly firearms-related death toll includes more than 16,000 suicides as well as shooting deaths involving young children and the mentally ill. Tragically, studies have demonstrated that many of these situations turned lethal because of the easy availability of firearms.
The IACP has long been focused on the problem of firearm violence in the United States, in particular the rampant availability of illegal firearms, and the impact of that violence on citizens and the police officers who protect them. In response to this continuing and growing problem, the IACP has taken a lead role in addressing this violence through training and technical assistance to local agencies. Since 1997, the IACP, working with the Bureau of Justice Assistance, has provided training to over 1,000 local law enforcement agencies on the interdiction of illegal firearms.
In addition, the IACP has worked closely with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) to make sure local agencies fully understand the investigative importance of tracing all crime guns through the ATF's National Tracing Center. More recently, the association has joined forces with the U.S. Department of Justice Project Safe Neighborhoods effort, ramping up the impact and scope of illegal firearm interdiction training throughout the United States. But even with these efforts in place, it was clear to the IACP leadership that a larger, systemic effort would be required to reduce firearm violence levels substantially.
Need for a Summit
In early 2007, the IACP began a series of discussions with the leadership of the Joyce Foundation of Chicago to gain its perspective on firearm violence issues. The Joyce Foundation is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to improve the quality of life in communities within the Great Lakes region of the United States. The foundation's view was complementary to that of the IACP—focusing on the impact of firearm violence on communities, the health-care system, and public policy decisions throughout the nation.
From those meetings, a plan emerged to hold a national summit on firearm violence, sponsored by both the IACP and the Joyce Foundation. The urgent need for action on this issue was clear:
Given this clear mandate, the IACP and the foundation began the work of designing, planning, and holding a national firearm violence summit in April 2007 in Chicago, to address the issue fully and create a viable national strategy.
Summit Participants
The IACP's national summit series, since its inception in 1993, has been noted for its multidisciplinary approach to critical law enforcement issues. Each summit has brought together leaders from all disciplines—including but not limited to the law enforcement community—to ensure that summit recommendations would be both as systemic and as innovative as possible. The gun violence summit was no exception. The 120 participants who attended the summit represented the following stakeholders:
Summit Leadership
IACP and Joyce Foundation staff, understanding that the gun violence summit must cross all jurisdictional and disciplinary boundaries, created an ad hoc advisory group that would guide both the planning and the preparation for the summit and identify the critical areas to be addressed by attendees. The members of the advisory group are listed here.
This prestigious group of law enforcement, community health, and academic advisers was chaired by the IACP's first vice president, Chief Russell Laine of the Algonquin, Illinois, Police Department. Supporting Chief Laine was Chief Scott Knight of the Chaska, Minnesota, Police Department, who chairs the IACP's Firearms Committee. Together, they led the advisory group as it made critical decisions throughout summit and final report efforts.
The IACP and the Joyce Foundation worked hard to ensure that participants brought diversity, innovative thinking, and leadership to the event. As described later in this article, the synergy of this diverse gathering of individuals led to the development of a comprehensive firearm violence reduction strategy that resonates with all members of the community, rather than just a few.
Summit Proceedings
The summit was held in Chicago, Illinois, on April 10 and 11, 2007. It was a two-day event focused on problem identification, prioritization of possible strategies, and ultimately the development of a comprehensive plan to reduce firearm violence in U.S. communities. Prior to their deliberations, attendees were addressed by national leaders, including Joseph Carter, then IACP president; Ellen Alberding, president of the Joyce Foundation; Tom Dart, sheriff of Cook County, Illinois; Richard M. Daley, mayor of Chicago, Illinois; Tom Barrett, mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Michael Sullivan, ATF director.
To facilitate efforts, summit participants broke out in the following six groups for the majority of both summit working days:
The facilitated discussions in each breakout session spanned the two-day summit period and allowed participants to "roll up their sleeves" and craft locally relevant policies and strategies targeting firearm violence reduction. At the end of the second day, participants returned to a final plenary session to report on their respective breakout efforts. The innovative concepts developed by participants served as the foundation for a final summit document and action agenda released subsequently by the IACP: Taking a Stand: Reducing Gun Violence in Our Communities.
Summit Recommendations
The final summit report, released across the United States in September 2007, presented a total of 39 discrete recommendations, grouped into three major policy areas:
The following is a brief summary of the 39 recommendations, excerpted from the final summit report. To view the full report, please visit the IACP Web site.2
Keeping Communities Safe
Increase public awareness of the impact of gun violence:
Engage community support in reducing gun violence:
Reduce easy access to guns:
Protect children and youth from gun violence:
Prohibit gun possession by at-risk individuals:
Focus on suicide prevention:
Preventing and Solving Crime
Stop the flow of illegal guns:
Increase resources for information sharing among jurisdictions:
Deal with gun crime incidents:
Keeping Police Officers Safe
Reduce the lethality of firearms as well as their availability to criminals:
Provide officers with the most advanced firearm protective technologies and information:
Train officers to be experts in handling guns and situations involving guns:
Provide access to mental health support and training:
Taken as a whole, these 39 recommendations create a comprehensive, community-based strategy to respond to, and reduce, firearm violence. The recommendations are in essence a portfolio of actions for communities, law enforcement leaders, legislators, advocates, researchers, and all others to embrace and enact across the United States. Each recommended action is supported by facts and targets a specific community need. All actions, if taken, can have a dramatic impact on reducing firearm violence and victimization.
Implementing Summit Recommendations and Reducing Gun Violence
Now that the summit is concluded and the report is circulating, much more work lies ahead for the IACP and the Joyce Foundation:
IACP and Joyce Foundation staff met in Chicago recently to develop a plan for the next 12 months to move summit recommendations into the field. That plan includes targeted outreach to police leaders, governing bodies, legislatures, and firearm violence advocacy organizations across the United States.
Summit Impact on U.S. Gun Violence
The leadership at both the IACP and the Joyce Foundation believes that the omnibus set of recommendations, if embraced and adopted by legislators, governing bodies, law enforcement agencies, and communities can have a dramatic impact on lowering firearm violence levels in the United States.
We believe that all U.S. communities must take this challenge seriously, since no one is immune to firearm violence. The IACP's leadership continues to be clear and consistent in its message: the issue before the nation is the senseless and needless killing of 30,000 people a year, including police officers, by firearm violence. The summit and its final report focus squarely on this problem and present viable and well-thought-out ideas to stem that violence. ■
1The words gun and firearm tend to be used interchangeably in most written or spoken language. From a law enforcement perspective, gun typically indicates a handgun or other small arm, while firearm represents any weapon whatsoever that has a ballistic component (such as a handgun, shotgun, rifle, and so on). For the purpose of this article, the term firearm will predominate.2The report is available at http://www.theiacp.org/documents/pdfs/Publications/ACF1875.pdf.Top
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Nasty Gal
For turning cheeky, risky clothing into a serious online fashion empire.
Sophia Amoruso, the 28-year-old fashion virtuoso behind Nasty Gal, sums up her irreverent and sexy e-boutique's ethos simply as "This is what I think is cool." That mind-set, plus an authentic rapport with a young and trendy customer base, has propelled wild growth, from $28 million in 2011 to more than $120 million last year. Last fall, Amoruso turned her curatorial eye toward creating her first exclusive Nasty Gal line. Dubbed Weird Science, its popularity kicked the company's total sales up 10%.
For letting its community help fill the racks.
The virtual thrift shop for indie girls took a big leap forward when ModCloth added Be the Buyer, a program that lets its millions-strong community pick from trade-show samples to decide what it should produce. "There have been more than 17 million votes for products since it started," says Susan Gregg Koger, who founded ModCloth with her husband, Eric, the CEO. ModCloth is growing at more than 50% annually, and the Kogers raised $25 million last year to fund a significant expansion.
For bringing tech savviness to stylists.
It's hard to find a good hairstylist, and it's hard for stylists to find new clients. Sounds like a market, but surprise, surprise: "None of the nerdy men in Silicon Valley had been thinking about this," says StyleSeat CEO Melody McCloskey. The $78 billion beauty biz--about 3 million spa and salon pros--consists of mostly free agents who run their businesses out of a notebook, so StyleSeat's app helps them promote their services and schedule appointments. Consumers use styleseat.com to search for a pro, using such variables as specialty and immediate availability. In the 18 months after StyleSeat's May 2011 debut, 75,000 stylists in 10,000 U.S. cities processed more than $100 million in bookings. StyleSeat takes a tidy 30% cut.
For creating an e-commerce startup factory
The name is not an accident. For CEO Michael Jones and his partners, launching disruptive e-commerce companies means deep analysis of big bets. Fashion and beauty is a particularly ripe market, and many of Science's companies have carved off slices to challenge the likes of P&G (Dollar Shave Club), Babies "R" Us (Wittlebee kids clothing), and Lululemon (Ellie workout gear). Each of the seven partners lend their expertise--design, fundraising, and so forth. They also specialize in identifying the best social tools to create fans and turn them into customers and brand advocates. "We're too hands-on just to invest," says Jones, "and too hungry and schizophrenic to focus on one company."
1. Heather Lipner's Uncovet harnesses social data to make a virtual, personalized boutique for each of her 200,000-plus subscribers.
2. Cult Cosmetics' Ryan Eberhard chose Science to help him launch a designer nail brand. He wanted its expertise in challenging industry bigwigs that haven't yet embraced e-commerce (in this case, nail baron Sally Hansen).
3. Allan Jones launched Fourth and Grand with Science's help last November. It sells monthly shirt-and-tie subscriptions, selected with the help of a stylist.
4. Marcus Greinke's Ellie creates Lululemon-quality athletic apparel at half the price by skipping brick-and-mortar stores.
5. Dollar Shave Club's Michael Dubin created the viral marketing video of the year for his subscription shaving gear. He capped off 2012 by raising almost $10 million to broaden his fun-loving brand into a lifestyle e-commerce business.
6. Hello Insights helps companies use a data-driven approach to turn Pinterest users into shoppers. CEO Kyla Brennan's first Pinterest marketing plan was for Uncovet; as a result, it acquired tens of thousands of members.
For appifying shoe and bag lust.
"It was crazy there wasn't an app to tell me the best stores around and what they have," says Snapette cofounder Sarah Paiji. That's what she and her cofounder, Jinhee Anh Kim, built: a slick, addictive local fashion shopping app that lets friends share what they love while connecting brands and boutiques to potential customers. Snapette has expanded into 12 cities around the world (and eight languages), and Nine West, Uniqlo, and Rebecca Minkoff stores have used the app to share deals and drive foot traffic. The next step: letting its customers buy directly through the app.
For discovering the next lipstick or face cream you'll love.
More than 300,000 women and men pay Birchbox $10 to $20 a month to receive a passel of beauty samples, whose makers pay Birchbox to get into their surprise packages. "Brands spend money to connect with consumers, and consumers want the best product," says Katia Beauchamp, who cofounded the startup with Hayley Barna. "We were asking both sides to change their behavior and it has really amazed us how willing they were." Their brilliant insight: Samples sell cosmetics. Indeed, 50% of Birchbox devotees will go on to buy at least one full-size product in Birchbox's online store.
For bringing luxury brands online--and to life.
"Ninety-nine percent of the overall luxury industry is offline," says Ahalife founder Shauna Mei. Why? "To avoid [their goods landing on] flash-sale sites." Mei, 30, an MIT grad who's an expert in artificial intelligence, created an e-commerce hub for the $300 billion global high-end-goods business, curated by tastemakers such as Tim Gunn and Daniel Boulud. Last year, she worked with Dwell and augmented-reality experts Layar so that Ahalife users could look at the magazine through their phone's camera and shop.
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SOMERSET COUNTY — The trial for an alleged family-run racketeering, money laundering and conspiracy scam that spanned multiple states could be delayed, if the attorney for the alleged ringleader is medically unable to proceed.
A six-month investigation the Somerset County Prosecutor's Office dubbed "Operation Stop Payment" led to a 407-count indictment alleging Eric Criss, 46, of South Orange and his family orchestrated a sophisticated payroll and forgery scam. Fake checks from dozens of entities were cashed at banks in five states. The illicit enterprise used runners to cash the checks, reaping more than $600,000, authorities have said.
The case started with 15 defendants, and the majority of them have pleaded guilty to the charges, said Assistant Prosecutor Matthew Murphy.
Criss, two sons, a stepdaughter and her husband are the last defendants to be adjudicated on more than 100 counts and they were slated to be tried on Oct. 4, along with a man who is accused of stealing account information from 2,700 Verizon customers.
But Criss' lawyer Barbara Ungar, of New Brunswick, underwent emergency surgery for a hernia at the end of last month. Questions about whether she is physically able to prepare and proceed were the subject of discussion during a conference today in Somerville before state Superior Court Judge Robert Reed. The parties will return to court Friday to find out what happens next.
Reed was expected to preside over the trial that could take weeks, and he outlined the efforts that have gone into the logistics. Because he handled all of the pre-trial matters, he was expected to try the case. Assignment Judge Yolanda Ciccone asked Chief Justice Stuart Rabner to delay Reed's transfer to the family division in Hunterdon County until Nov. 1 to allow enough time for the proceedings.
Co-defendant Terrell Perrin, 33, of Reading, Pa., is expected to be tried separately, and the state believes he is a mid-level manager for the alleged enterprise. His, attorney Ronald Nicola of Denville, suffered a stroke early last month, and asked that his client be severed from the others.
In light of Ungar's condition, the prosecution urged Reed to adjourn the trial, and the attorneys for the co-defendants agreed.
Reed asked Ungar: "Are you going to be ready, willing and able to render effective assistance to Mr. Criss as his attorney at trial?"
Ungar said she has to defer to her doctor's orders, and had not yet discussed the physical impact of rigorous court days that would run longer than normal and include five-day weeks. Trials are typically heard four days a week.
She noted, however, that her client wants to proceed with or without her. If doctor says she can't do it, Criss wants to to represent himself.
"My client has been incarcerated for 31 months," Ungar said. "He has serious, serious speedy trial issues. He is requesting that we proceed to trial."
Murphy warned that moving forward now would guarantee that Criss would file an appeal if he is convicted. The prosecutor reiterated the sentiment he expressed in a letter dated Sept. 7. The court "has no fair, just or legal alternative but to adjourn the trial."


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You are WELL WITHIN the 'normal' weight for height. That means your body is probably pretty close to ideal. It sounds like you are wanting to work on your composition. So, perhaps a change in 'goals' is in line. Stop looking at the scale, and find some objective weight and fitness goals.
I want to be able to do 20 clean pushups
I want to squat 30 lbs.
I want to hold side plank for 60 seconds.
Focus on those goals, and your body composition will align. Also, you will have to be very clean and consistent with your diet to make changes if you are close to your ideal, or close to all time lowest weight. You will need time, consistency, and effort. It absolutely will not change overnight, or even in a few weeks. That being said, I think 15 lbs down in 6 weeks is amazing.
Above all, you might want to look around inside. Why are you more loveable, happier at 118? Really deep down, are you a 'better' person at 118? Why?


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- The Ball State women's basketball team earned its third straight win after posting a 69-56 victory over Toledo in Worthen Arena Saturday afternoon to clinch the No. 5 seed in the Mid-American Conference Tournament, with the win Ball State finishes as the second best team in the MAC West Division behind Central Michigan. The Cardinals are now set to host the No. 12 seed Kent State Golden Flashes Monday in Worthen Arena at 7 p.m. The last time Ball State hosted a first round tournament game was in 2009-10, resulting in a 67-43 win over Western Michigan. The Cardinals were then the No. 7 seed and Western Michigan was No. 10. Ball State split its series against the Golden Flashes this season, winning 55-31 in Worthen Arena, Jan. 12 and then suffered a 60-57 loss at the M.A.C Center, Feb. 2.
- The Cardinals are 4-0 dating back to 1999-2000 when hosting a first round Mid-American Conference Tournament game. Ball State defeating Central Michigan 95-81 (1999-200), Akron 72-64 (2004-05), Akron 71-46 (2005-06) and Western Michigan 67-43 (2009-10).
- This season marks the 24th appearance in the Mid-American Conference Tournament in program history. Ball State has advanced to Cleveland 12 out of the past 14 seasons. The Cardinals are 16-22 all-time in MAC Tournament play and have advanced to the MAC Tournament finals on four occasions. Ball State defeated Bowling Green in 2009 in the MAC Tournament Championship game.
- Kent State enters the Mid-American Conference Tournament as the No. 12 seed, right now the Golden Flashes are 2-3 in their last five games. The Golden Flashes have four wins under their belt in MAC action after defeating Ball State (60-57) Feb. 2, Western Michigan (57-48) Feb. 15, Miami (67-51) Feb. 23 and Ohio (69-64) March 5. The Golden Flashes are 7-22 overall and 4-14 in league action.
- The last time Ball State faced Kent State in the first round of the Mid-American Conference Tournament was in 1997-98 under the directior of former Ball State head coach Robyn Markey. The game was played at Kent State where the Golden Flashes defeated the Cardinals by a score of 111-73, marking the largest margin a team has scored in the MAC Tournament over an opponent.
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• Monday's game against Kent State will mark the 54th time in program history the two schools have met with the Golden Flashes leading the all-time series 36-17. Ball State had won its last two meetings against Kent State before suffering a 60-57 setback Feb. 2 in the M.A.C Center. The Cardinals earned a 59-44 victory in Worthen Arena, Jan. 19, 2013 and a 55-31 in Ball State's 2013-14 Mid-American Conference home opener, Jan. 12. Ball State owns a 5-2 record over the last five years (2008-present) against Kent State. The Cardinals have not faced Kent State in the Mid-American Confernece Tournament since 2005-06 losing the quarterfinals to the Golden Flashes, 69-52.
• Ball State is 0-4 when it plays on March 10. The last time the Cardinals played on this date resulted in a 67-56 Mid-American Conference Tournament quarterfinal loss to Toledo in 2009-10. The Cardinals have never faced Kent State on this date.
• From 2009-present, the Cardinals own a 31-18 MAC record when playing at home during conference action. Brady Sallee is 11-6 at home during league play.
• Ball State is 5-4 in the Mid-American Conference when playing on the road with wins at Eastern Michigan (70-66) Jan. 9, at Ohio (79-63) Jan. 18, at Northern Illinois (63-50) Feb. 9, at Miami (80-70) Feb. 20 and at Western Michigan (79-73) March 1.
• After scoring 26 points in a 69-56 win over Toledo (March 8), Nathalie Fontaine has scored in double digits 52 times out of 59 career games. Fontaine has 906 points for her career as a sophomore and needs 94 to reach 1,000. Fontaine became just the second Ball State player in program history to reach 900 points by the end of her sophomore year. Tamara Bowie (1999-2003) was the first to accomplish the feat with 943.
• Brandy Woody is nearing the 1,000-point career mark with 998 points. The senior guard needs two points to achieve the accomplishment. Their are currently 21
former Cardinals who have scored 1,000 points or more at Ball State.
• Ball State has four players averaging double figures; Nathalie Fontaine (16.7 ppg) Brittany Carter (11.2 ppg), Brandy Woody (10.2 ppg) and Shelbie Justice (10.0).
• Junior guard Brittany Carter posted a career-high 22 points against Northern Illinois (March 5) which marked the 43rd game in her career she has scored in double figures. Carter has surpassed the 800 point mark for her career with 854 points. Carter needs 46 to reach the 900 milestone.
• Nathalie Fontaine, the 2012-13 MAC Freshman of the Year, averaged 13.2 points per game and 6.6 rebounds in her first season at Ball State. Fontaine was named to the MAC All-Freshmen squad, while also earning All-MAC Second Team honors. As a true freshman, Fontaine ended the season just eight points shy of what Ball State's all-time leading scorer Tamara Bowie had when she was a true freshman. Fontaine ended the season with 423 points while Bowie tallied 431 points her freshman year. Fontaine is now averaging 14.9 points and 6.5 rebounds over her career.
• Freshman guard Jill Morrison made a season-high six three pointers versus Western Kentucky during non-conference action. Morrison went 5-for-6 from behind the arc in Mid-American Conference play at Ohio, Jan. 18. Junior guard Brittany Carter accomplished the same feat after making a season-high six three pointers at Central Michigan, Feb. 27 and matched that performance at home against Northern Illinois, March 5.
• Sophomore Nathalie Fontaine earned her fourth double-double of the season after
scoring 16 points, while pulling down 10 rebounds, versus Eastern Michigan (Feb. 23). Fontaine had five double-doubles last year and now has a total of nine for her career.
JUSTICE IS SERVED: Shelbie Justice collected her first career double-double at Eastern Michigan (Jan. 9). Justice pulled down a career-high 12 rebounds while adding 15 points in the Cardinals win. Justice has been contributing a lot from the field lately for Ball State scoring in double figures her last seven contests, including 17 points at Miami (2/20) and 16 points at Western Michigan (3/1)--both resulting in wins for the Cardinals. Justice has played in all 29 games for the Cardinals and has scored in double figures 16 times.
Merder She Wrote: Freshman Shelby Merder scored a career high 12 points in the Cardinals win at Western Michigan after shooting a perfect 5-for-5 from the field, while going 2-for-2 from behind the arc. Merder is averaging 3.1 points per contest and 2.1 rebounds.
Fontaine Scores 20 or More: Sophomore forward Nathalie Fontaine scored a career-best 30 points at home against Buffalo (Jan. 26). She managed a 20-point performance at home against Bowling Green (Jan. 5) and then matched the performance the next time out at Ohio (Jan. 18). Fontaine scored 23 points at home against Central Michigan (Feb. 6) and at Western Michigan (March 1). She also chipped in 26 points in the Cardinals Mid-American Conference regular season finale against Toledo (March 8). The five 20-point performances, along with her 30-point showing, gives her 10 for the season and 11 for her career.
Taking Tall Orders: Freshman Renee Bennett, a 6-5 center who is the tallest Ball State player in program school history, scored a personal-best 14 points against Tennessee Tech (Nov. 30) at the South Point Shootout in Las Vegas, Nev. and at IPFW Dec. 29. She brought down a season best eight rebounds at Wyoming, Dec. 14 and at home against Akron, Feb. 15.
Winchester Wonder: Jill Morrison has made eight career starts so far this season at Detroit (11/23), against Tennessee Tech (11/30), at home versus Western Kentucky (12/6) at Wyoming (12/14), at home versus No. 7 Louisville (12/17), at Northen Kentucky (12/21), at IPFW (12/29) and at Akron (1/4). She has scored in double figures in eight of her last 16 contests, including a career-high 26-point performance in a win at home over Western Kentucky. Morrison also added 15 points in wins against Detroit Mercy (11/23), Tennessee Tech (11/30), 17 points in a loss to Louisville (12/17), 14 points in a win at IPFW (12/29) and a loss at Akron (1/4). She recently scored 19 points in a victory at Ohio (1/18).
From the Charity Stripe: When the Cardinals make 29 or more free throws in a game it results in a win for Ball State. The Cardinals made 29 at Detroit Mercy (11/23) and Tennessee Tech (11/30) both resulting in victories. Ball State made a season-high 32 free throws at home in a win against Western Kentucky (12/6).
Rebound That Basketball: The Cardinals pulled down a season-best 51 rebounds in a win at Eastern Michigan, Jan. 9. Ball State pulled down 46 versus Tennessee Tech, Nov. 30, also resulting in a victory. The Cardinals have out-rebounded their opponents 11 times this season. Ball State has out-rebounded its opponent with double digits on six different occasions, Pittsburgh (44-to-33) Jan. 14, Tennessee Tech (46-to-35) Nov. 30, Northern Kentucky (45-to-35) Dec. 21, Eastern Michigan (51-to-40) Jan. 9, Western Michigan (34-to-23) Jan. 29, and Miami (44-to-25) Feb. 20.
Brady Ball: Head Ball State women's basketball coach Brady Sallee was a head coach at Eastern Illinois from 2004-12 which is a member of the Ohio Valley Conference, where he posted a 91-55 (.623) overall league record. In his first two seasons at Ball State, he owns a 20-13 (.606) career Mid-American Conference mark.
D-D-D DEFENSE: Ball State defeated Kent State 55-31 in Worthen Arena, Feb. 12. The Cardinals had not held an opponent to 31 points since the 1974-75 season, when Ball State defeated Notre Dame, 78-31, Feb. 8 in South Bend, Ind. That same season, the Cardinals defeated Goshen, 66-30, Feb. 21.
NOTHING BUT NET: Ball State had its best shooting performance of the season at Ohio (Jan. 18). The Cardinals shot 58.7 percent from the field, which included a 72.2 percent showing from behind the arc.
BEHIND THE ARC: Ball State's 13 threes against Ohio (Jan. 18) were the most in a game since the Cardinals hit 14 against Buffalo, Feb. 10, 2010. The Cardinals also made 11 threes at home against Northern Illinois (March 5).


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It's not the end of the world if they lose to the Titans Sunday afternoon. No season comes down to one game. But this is an important one, perhaps the most important of the season. The Texans have lost three of four, including two games — Atlanta and Jackonsville — they would have won if they'd taken care of business.
Now with fans grumbling, Gary Kubiak and Rick Smith could do themselves a huge favor by beating the Titans. It's not about Vince Young. It's about the franchise putting an end to the credibility loss that comes each time they screw up a goal-line play or commit a stupid penality.
Many fans have no patience for this regime because they're holding it accountable for the sins of Dom Capers and Charley Casserly. Kubiak and Smith have done a good job almost any way you slice it.
Even if they screwed up the Mario Williams pick–and it appears now that they did–they've moved the franchise in the right direction. Only 12 players remain from the roster they inherited. They've got a first-rate quarterback and found at least eight starters in the 2006-2007 drafts.
Sometimes, though, it's not that complicated. It's about winning and nothing else. No one wants to hear that the young players are getting better. No one wants to hear about respectability. It's about the bottom line. And that's why Sunday is important.
Matt Schaub is in the NFL's Top 10 in eight statistical areas, including a 75-percent completion percentage in the fourth quarter and a 100.5 passer rating on third down. He has displayed the leadership and poise a good quarterback should have. Better yet, he'll be making just his ninth NFL start today, so he's likely to get better.
When the Texans signed Ahman Green, some of you warned me it was a bad deal to bring in a 30-year-old running back. I told that I was much smarter than any of you and that I thought it was a very nice move. Uh oh. Ahman Green was productive for two games, but a knee injury has either kept him out of the lineup or limited him the last four games. He's a big reason the Texans are 29th in rushing offense.
They did a bad job filling the backup spots, too. Neither Ron Dayne nor Samkon Gado have done much with their opportunities. Some of their problems is an offensive line that misses injured center Steve McKinney, but some of it is them, too.
The last time a rookie running back from the University of Oklahoma created this much of a stir in the NFL was 1980 when Billy Sims joined the Detroit Lions.
The market for over-40 pitchers will likely be enticing for teams looking to add the final piece to the rotation this offseason. Among those possibly available: Andy Pettitte, Tom Glavine, Curt Schilling, Tim Wakefield, David Wells and Roger Clemens.


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Jewish Repertory Theatre always opens its productions with a taped message from its artistic director, Saul Elkin. "Shalom," he welcomes, but the Hebrew word has come to mean more at the JRT, like "have a wonderful time," and certainly, "enjoy the show."
And, almost always, audiences do just that. Now the hit streak continues at the versatile yet intimate Maxine and Robert Seller Theatre with James Sherman's comedy – albeit one with thoughtful, often serious, undercurrents – "The God of Isaac," a little charmer of a play that has you hooked from its early minutes. In the late going, a whiff of preachiness appears and is forgiven. Like the man said. Shalom.
The set-up is novel. Isaac Adams has written a memory play, slice-of-life, mid-1970s stuff concerning his questions about his Jewish faith and an actual historical event that surfaced in his hometown of Skokie, Ill., a heavily populated Jewish suburb of Chicago. A neo-Nazi group called the Nationalist Socialist Party of America planned an in-your-face march through town to scoff at the Holocaust. Militant Jewish Defense League leader Meir Kahane, equally extreme, vowed to confront the marchers, violence loomed, First Amendment rights were argued, the ACLU was summoned. "Part of me is part of something," Isaac sensed. He was torn. No sleep.
That's the serious undercurrent and the trigger that began to topple Isaac's hasty marriage to a blonde shiksa – a non-Jewish woman – causing his reading to suddenly include religious tomes. He remembers long-forgotten prayers, confers with a rabbi, longs for his old girlfriend and loses his job. "Oy," he says. "Pain."
The play-within-a play continues. Isaac's mother is in the audience, still spreading guilt like jam, but, like others in this schizophrenic piece, fires Catskill-circuit one-liners at her troubled son, rolls her eyes and longs for intermission. Isaac is floundering.
Isaac confronts Shelley, the shiksa: "I want children. God said 'go forth and multiply.' "
"Well, that's all they did back then," she says. "I have to work, you know."
Things go downhill. Shelley leaves, there's a hint that Chaya, the old flame, might come back, Isaac finds his religious identity by combining the best tenets of many faiths – Mom's advice, thank you – the Skokie event fizzles a bit and the future looks brighter.
Director Elkin's cast is outstanding, many of them performing multiple roles because the play takes a quartet of trips into famous films to find help and motivation for Isaac: "Huckleberry Finn," "On the Waterfront," "The Wizard of Oz" and "The Grapes of Wrath." Tom Joad, leaving town in a hurry, gets advice from his mother. Sounds familiar.
Tom Loughlin, Adam Yellen and Kristin Bentley do double and triple duty. Lisa Ludwig absolutely nails Shelley the Shiksa; what a complete portrait she paints. Darleen Pickering-Hummert, character actress personified, steals the night as Mrs. Adams. Perfectly goofy, fun and so wise all at once with a purse loaded with zingers.
David Butler, a fine storyteller, with material straight from the late Myron Cohen, is very likeable and self-deprecating as Isaac. He's ultimately the very "mensch" – an honorable, decent, responsible and true-to-himself guy – that he longs to be. His search for religious meaning ends well, he finds what he needs, he's at peace.
"You can't chew with another's teeth," his parents advised him.
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Don Yaeger and Tiffany Brooks of Sports Illustrated magazine had made an appointment a week or so ago to talk to me about the 1970 Alabama-Southern Cal football game. That was the game in which Southern Cal's Sam Cunningham ran roughshod over the Crimson Tide in a 42-21 romp that led to a 6-5-1 season. The reason I am among dozens of those they are interviewing is (1.) I am still alive and (2.) I was at the game, working as the assistant sports information director for Alabama.
Sports Illustrated is looking for the social implications of the game. Southern Cal had what we then referred to as black players, including Cunningham. Alabama did not. Wilbur Jackson was a scholarshipped player, but the young black man from Ozark was a freshman in 1970, and in those years freshmen were not eligible for varsity competition.
Yaeger, best known in this area for his Mike Price exposé that resulted in Price's dismissal as Alabama's head football coach before he had coached a game, did most of the interview and was quite pleasant. We did not discuss Price or Yaeger's most recent brush with the news, his reported courtroom argument with a Memphis sports reporter over a Lynn Lang story.
I could neither confirm nor deny the contention that the 1970 Southern Cal game hastened desegregation of the Alabama football program. It is my belief that recruitment of black players was going as fast as it could. I pointed out that it was not easy to attract black players to the state university where the governor of the state had "stood in the schoolhouse door" in an attempt to prevent intergration only a few years earlier. I noted that Alabama's efforts to recruit black players often pitted Tide Coach Paul Bryant against Grambling Coach Eddie Robinson, and that Robinson was as big in the black community as Bryant was in what might be called the traditional college football fan base.
I talked to Coach Bryant almost every day there was football practice or a football game from 1970 through 1978 and a lot of days before and after that, because it was my job. Yaeger asked if Coach Bryant had ever talked to me about the difficulty of recruiting black players. I told him I worked for Coach Bryant and that he was not likely to have discussed anything like that with me...and Yaeger certainly understood that I could not speculate on what Coach Bryant might have thought about recruiting black athletes.
But I told him that I firmly believed that Alabama was doing all it could, and that we all recognized that Alabama high schools produced dozens and dozens of excellent black athletes who would finally get a chance to play for their state university and for Coach Bryant.
I also told him that I thought Wilbur was a curious choice to be the first black football player on scholarship at Alabama. Certainly not because Wilbur Jackson didn't have great athletic ability. And not because he wasn't a very, very good person. It was because Wilbur was so shy. The first black scholarshipped athlete at Bama, on the other hand, basketball player Wendell Hudson had great confidence (though not cockiness) and an out-going personality.
I could not reinforce, or even accept, that the 1970 Southern Cal game in Birmingham had monumental social implications. As I explained to him, Alabama was in the football business. We looked at the 1970 game as a disastrous butt-whipping. We looked at the 1971 game against Southern Cal -- the 17-10 upset of the No. 1-ranked Trojans in Los Angeles -- as monumental, because it signified the return to the Crimson Tide to football greatness.
I expected him to be in full agreement with the Steve Travers book out of California that includes the myth of Cunningham being taken to the Alabama lockerroom and the wild notion that area blacks gathered in the Legion Field parking lot outside the Southern Cal dressing room at the end of the game to sing happy spirituals or something. Yaeger recognizes there is no foundation for those claims.
Yaeger had read our story with Ed Hines' recollections of that game on this site earlier this week.
Yaeger certainly impressed me by taking a couple of proof pages of the upcoming book, "What It Means To Be Crimson Tide," $27.95 plus tax (if applicable) and shipping and handling, no additional charge for autograph by the author, 1-205-345-5074, the segments with Wilbur Jackson and John Mitchell.
And about that book in my office? It's "Under The Tarnished Dome," with the subtitle "How Notre Dame Betrayed Its Ideals For Football Glory." To be honest, I had never realized that Don Yaeger was the co-author. A friend of mine, former Sports Illustrated writer Doug Looney, was the other author and he had sent an autographed copy of the book to...well, as the autograph proves, to my wife, Lynne.


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Q: I have a male and female parrotlets. The female has just laid an egg on the bottom of the cage. What do I do to care for these birds if they want to raise their young? I would like to see them raise the chicks.
Sandee Molenda explains:First, the birds should be at least a year old before breeding. If they are not, separate them until they are. Immature males often do not feed the chicks or hen and hens can develop problems such as egg binding. They need to be set up with a nest box so that the eggs will be protected and the chicks healthy and strong.
A diet rich in fresh foods such as fruit, vegetables, greens, sprouted seeds, cooked grains and legumes, millet and whole-grain breads should be fed daily. Breeding parrotlets also need at least some seed in the diet to prevent stress bars in the chicks. I recommend Volkman's Parrotlet Super, which is based on the seed mix I have fed for more than 20 years. Egg food, Petamine™ Nestling Food and dry lory powder can also be fed to supplement protein requirements. Vitamins and powdered calcium should be provided several times a week, sprinkled on the fresh food. Mineral block, cuttlebone and fresh, clean water should always be available.
The nest box should be placed on the front of the cage in the upper most top corner so when the hen is looking out of the box, she sees the inside of the cage and is very secure. Nest box should be 10-inches tall by 7-inches wide by 7inches deep and should be filled with untreated pine shavings.
If parent-raising the chicks, the parental male should be removed from the cage when the chicks start to fledge at 4 to 5 weeks old. If not, he may attack and even kill his male offspring. The hen will continue to feed the chicks but food, such as millet, seeds and pellets, should be readily available to assist in weaning. Parent-raised birds tend to take longer to wean than hand-fed, and the chicks should not be moved to a new cage until they are completely weaned, which can be as late as 8 weeks of age.
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Glory Johnson, who graduated in three years with a degree in Interdisciplinary Global Studies with a 3.6 GPA, is pursuing her master's degree in Communication and Information Studies. The 6'3 post was named to the 2011 All-America Second Team last year.
"It is such and honor to represent the University of Tennessee this way," Johnson said.
"Working hard in the classroom has really paid off. I'm definitely glad to be one of the five women selected to receive such a unique honor.
"When I was young, my parents emphasized performing in the classroom and on the court. To have school paid for is a blessing to begin with, so it was important to me to utilize my time as best I could to be on track for both my undergrad and grad degrees."
A native of Knoxville, Tenn., she is averaging 13.3 points, 9.3 rebounds and 1.5 steals per game while leading the Lady Vols to a 20-7 record and a share of first place in the Southeastern Conference. A member of the Naismith Trophy Preseason Watch list, she was selected to the 2011-12 preseason All-SEC first team. Last season, Johnson received All-SEC first team honors.
Johnson is the fifth Lady Vol to capture Academic All-America honors twice, joining Angie Bjorklund (second team 2011, first team 2010), Candace Parker (first team 2008, second team 2007), Tanya Haave (first team 1984, second team 1983) and Jill Rankin (first team 1980, second team 1979).
Additionally, Parker and Rankin were each named the Academic All-American of the Year in 2008 and 1980, respectively.
Della Donne, an early childhood education major with a 3.60 grade point average, has led Delaware to the best season in school history. The Wilmington, Del. native has led the No. 9 Blue Hens to a 24-1 record and their first-ever national ranking. A two-time All-American who averages 28.1 points per game, she is the leading scorer in NCAA Division I.
A three-time Capital One Academic All-America® Women's Basketball honoree, graduate student Amanda Johnson of Oregon joins Delle Donne on the first team. A graduate student who is pursuing her Master's degree in counseling psychology and human services, she has a 3.97 G.P.A. Johnson was a first team selection last season and earned second team honors in 2010.
Senior guard Roxana Button of Houston, junior guard Caroline Durbin of New Mexico and Johnson of Tennessee round out the Capital One Academic All-America® Women's Basketball Division I first team.
A psychology major with a 3.87 G.P.A, Button averages 17.9 points and 3.8 rebounds per game for Houston. The leading scorer in Conference USA, she has played in all 118 games during her career and ranks second in school history in three-point percentage (35.8). Button has scored in double figures in 22 of 25 games this season and 52 times in her career. A native of Coppell, Tex., she graduated in December and plans to attend medical school.
A business major with a 4.16 G.P.A., Durbin is averaging 15.6 points, 3.7 rebounds and 2.1 assists per game for New Mexico. She leads the Mountain West Conference in three-point field goal percentage (51.8) and ranks second in scoring. The Austin, Tex. native is also third in the conference in field goal percentage (47.5) and fourth in minutes played (34.1).
The five members of the 2012 Capital One Academic All-America® Women's Basketball Division I first team have an amazing average GPA of 3.84.
Joining Zeller on the 2012 Capital One Academic All-America® Division I Men's Basketball first team are sophomore guard Aaron Craft of Ohio State, junior guard Matthew Dellavedova of Saint Mary's College (Cal.), senior guard Brad Loesing of Wofford and junior forward Mason Plumlee of Duke.


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Feeding the hungry. Sheltering the homeless. Searching for a cure to cancer.
Among the services provided by tax-exempt groups classified as nonprofit, here's a surprising one: enriching multimillionaires.
Chances are most people know the group: the National Football League. Taking highly unusual steps for a tax-exempt nonprofit, the NFL has saved some owners millions of dollars in interest through its unique stadium loan program. The NFL has approved more than $850 million in stadium loans for 10 teams and raised a substantial portion of the money by selling league-backed bonds to private investors.
The league saves owners by borrowing the money at lower interest rates than individual teams could, then transferring the money to the owners. Borrowing owners enjoy additional savings because the league charges little interest on the loan money.
Nonprofit experts say the IRS typically restricts such activities for two reasons:
• To prevent tax-exempt groups from gaining a competitive advantage over taxpaying groups that provide the same service.
• To prevent tax-exempt groups from organizing simply to profit the group members.
"On the one hand, owners always want to get public financing for stadiums," said Bill Allison, co-author of a book on tax scams and managing editor at the Center for Public Integrity. "On the flip side, they are using nonprofit status to gain favorable borrowing rates. It's pretty outrageous."
But the NFL says the loan program violates no IRS rules and is consistent with its mission of promoting professional football.
"Just because it's never been done before doesn't mean that there's anything wrong with it," said Andrew Friedman of Covington & Burling, the law firm that represents the NFL. "... The league is simply helping its members do what they need to do in order to further their business interests."
The NFL also said all taxable revenue is taxed at the team level. "The league is not sheltering income and not making money off of this," NFL treasurer Joseph Siclare said.
In some cases, the IRS permits loans or other activities outside a tax-exempt group's stated mission. But in those cases, the agency imposes a special tax – called the unrelated business income tax. According to the league's 2000 tax return, the most recent available, the NFL paid no such tax.
And according to those documents, the NFL doesn't think it's subject to those taxes.
The NFL suggests its loan program complies with its tax-exempt mission because the new stadiums will "enhance stability of the franchises, protect future broadcasting revenue streams, enhance the overall financial strength of the NFL clubs, and allow access to more cost-effective and flexible financing sources," according to the 2000 tax return.
Critics don't agree.
"Is this a legitimate tax-exempt purpose" said Peter Flaherty, who as president of the National Legal and Policy Center has pushed the IRS to revoke certain exemptions. "I don't think so. Joe Six-Pack doesn't think so."
Others who said they question if the NFL's loan-related activities are permissible for a tax-exempt group include two of the country's nonprofit experts: Marcus Owens, former head of the IRS tax-exempt division and now a private attorney; and Bruce Hopkins, an author of several books on nonprofit law.
"Issuing bonds does strike me as an unusual activity for a (tax-exempt business league)," Owens said. "I'm not aware of it having happened before." Hopkins said he, too, knows of no other tax-exempt organization operating similarly to the NFL.
Former Texas congressman J.J. Pickle said the real question is more basic.
"Why would sports be exempt in the first place" said Pickle, who fought to curb tax exemption during his 32 years in Congress. "Legally, I'd say it stretches the original intent."
The IRS requires that tax-exempt nonprofit groups spell out their missions and keep a copy of their applications after the IRS grants exemption. So what is the NFL's official nonprofit mission, and are stadium loans a reasonable extension of that mission.
There's no telling. The NFL said it has lost its copy of the application it filed with the IRS in 1942, and the IRS also said it was unable to find a copy of the application.