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At an introductory meeting Wednesday, members of the Altoona's Act 47 distress recovery team told officials that working with the city promises to be different from what they're used to.
For the first time, they'll be dealing with a municipality that wants to quickly get out of the state's financial distress program, they said.
"[Altoona] wants to create an Act 47 plan that will have an end date," said team leader John Espenshade of recently hired distress coordinator Stevens & Lee, "instead of an open-ended Act 47 [plan]."
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John Espenshade, Act 47 coordinator for Altoona, fields questions from City Council members during a session on Monday. Seated beside Espenshade are other members of the Act 47 team.
Based on the unusually low level of hostility, high level of professionalism and a cooperative attitude experienced in meetings with managers, unionists and City Council, Espenshade is optimistic it will work.
"That has not always been the case," he said.
Altoona resisted entering distress, and now that it's in, it wants to get out quickly - in contrast to other municipalities, which don't want to give up the tools it gives, which include the lifting of state caps on property and earned income tax.
The key to getting out of distress is sustainability, Espenshade said.
The key to sustainability will ultimately be regrowing the tax base, said Michael Foreman, a policy specialist with the state Department of Community and Economic Development.
The key to regrowing the tax base will be public-private partnerships that will allow for business growth in a city that began losing its economic momentum in the aftermath of World War II, when businesses and residents fled to plentiful spaces in surrounding townships.
Such growth can only occur in the context of disciplined fiscal management - the kind that enabled six boroughs to escape distress, as Altoona hopes to do, Foreman said.
"Reality-based budgeting," Foreman said.
It will require a new negotiating strategy with the unions, especially if the General Assembly fails to pass a law that would restore the primacy of distress recovery plans over binding arbitration awards for public safety workers, Stevens & Lee partner Susan Friedman said.
The strategy will require complete transparency on the budget in negotiations, so that both sides can agree on a reasonable share of the available money to go towards all the groups of workers.
That wasn't the case in the past, when both sides weren't showing all their cards.
"There wasn't that transparency," City Manager Joe Weakland said.
Now, if such a case goes to binding arbitration, the city and its team are hoping that an arbitrator will have little reasonable choice but to accept what both sides have agreed would be a reasonable amount.
Trust will play a big part in making that work, Friedman said.
Espenshade said he was making no promises, and couldn't say whether freedom from distress would come in three, five or seven years.
But it shouldn't take 10 or 20, he said.
After the team has a draft plan, there will be informal public meetings to solicit comments and ideas, Espenshade said.
Espenshade declined to say whether he expected the plan to include hikes in property or earned income tax.
Act 47 lifts the state caps on those, although exceeding those caps would require court approval every year.
In recent months, city officials have said "everything's on the table."
"The scope of work calls for [the coordinator] to revisit all assumptions," Foreman said.
Other municipalities have made big changes.
Churchill Borough has gone all the way with privatization, employing only a manager, who oversees contract workers who take care of all public safety and maintenance functions, said DCED policy specialist Marita Kelley, adding that she wasn't recommending that for Altoona.
Ultimately, the team may propose fixes that would be surprising, if contemplated now, Weakland said.
But he expects an "evolutionary" approach that will make them unsurprising by the time they come into the discussion.
The team will need to work for "total buy-in," Espenshade said.
"There will be joint suffering," Espenshade said. "Around the table and around the community."
The recovery plan may consist of perhaps 150 items - some big, some small, Kelley said.
Because Altoona has worked for years to trim excess, there probably isn't much "low-hanging fruit," Kelley said.
But there will be some, she said.
"Stay tuned," Foreman said.
Mirror Staff Writer William Kibler is at 949-7038.


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When you ingest sugar, it is preferentially burned. Imagine consuming sugar, but the FFA's still sit in your blood and you cannot clear them. So now you have lots of FFA AND SUGAR in your bloodstream. Your body can't clear the FFA because it is toxic FFA, and it inhibits the glucose oxidation, so sugar sits in your blood beyond 3 hours and becomes toxic. THAT is what I believe the mechanism behind Type 2 Diabetes is - toxic fats in your blood stopping your body's ability to clear glucose.
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When is a "huge price reduction" not all that impressive?
When the start price was preposterous.
Still, they're right to claim that 421 32nd Place has, in fact, made a new "huge price reduction." (We've dropped out the all-caps you see in the listing, because we don't mean to scream at you.)
Yes, it's "huge" to drop from $1.3M to $1M ($995K) in just over a month.
It's a 23% cut.
These sellers must be crazy with how they're discounting the place, eh?
But no, really, they're just approaching market value. They must have noticed the lack of offers in an otherwise hot market.
How do you value a little old cottage like this on a half lot on an alley?
This one is officially 2br/1ba, 725 sq. ft., and, frankly, cramped and old. It lacks a garage.
Properties like this get added onto or scraped. Rare is the teeny beach bungalow that survives endlessly with no more than a coat of paint and new appliances from time to time. This one has dodged the bullet, er, the bulldozer, more than once.
Get this little plot for the right price, and you could build something pretty decent. Half-lot SFRs are not unheard of in the area. A fairly nice one is on the market now at 437 28th Place (3br/4ba, 1925 sq. ft., 2-car garage) at $1.550M. (The slightly smaller lot size at 32nd Place would translate to a slightly smaller new home.)
As to where 32nd really should trade, we have one recent (pending) sale that provides perhaps some guidance.
441 28th Place (2br/2ba, 1080 sq. ft.) has the same basic (half) lot size at 1350 sq. ft., being in the same general area of the Sand Section plateau, and also on an alley.
But it's also quite a bit more house: 2 stories, 2 full-size bedrooms, a fairly open living room and – imagine this – a garage, which 32nd Place lacks. Oh, sweet luxury!
It's also about 60 years newer, sporting a 1986 build date versus the 1928 completion on 421 32nd Place.
But 441 28th Place was last priced below even the newest chopped price at 421 32nd Place: it was at $975K when it posted a deal recently. (We've heard the seller there was very firm on price, so watch for a closed sale near there.)
This would suggest that 32nd Place has further to go, even if it's getting into the right territory.
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Islamic AppStore: Massive Collection of Ramadan and Islamic Mobile Apps for All Devices
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As in most countries in the world Ramadan is one day to start. a new startup has emerged to provide Islamic mobile apps for all devices. which would be handy to help Muslims during the holly month.
Islamic Appstore provide Muslims direct access to thousands of Islam-oriented contents in different sections such as The Holy Quran, Ahadith, Prayers, Supplications, Ringtones, Wallpapers, nasheed… All what users need is to connect to www.islamicapp.com using their mobile, tablet or Smartphone browsers and start downloading various contents.
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LANCASTER - In theater tradition, a play opens in smaller cities before the curtain goes up on Broadway so producers can work out the kinks and see how audiences react to a trial run.
As it turns out, much the same process applies to selecting a running mate for a national ticket.
So Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman, considered a leading potential vice presidential pick for Mitt Romney, found himself at the Farm and Home Center here Monday afternoon, serving up his best rally speech to about 200 party faithful in a county where a huge voter turnout is essential to the GOP nominee's chances of carrying Pennsylvania in November.


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Circuit Judge Joseph K. Sheeran declared the mistrial this morning at the request of defense attorney Richard L. Lee Jr. Lee made his request after Bay County Assistant Prosecutor Jordan E. Case had more specific language added to Lewis' charges.
Lewis was a long-term substitute teacher at Bay City Central High School, teaching a special education British Literature course from January 2010 until classes let out for summer. Three of Lewis' students testified Wednesday that they had sex with her multiple times after school ended for summer. The teens were 17 at the time.
The age of consent for sexual intercourse in Michigan is 16, but it is increased to 18 if the participants are a student and a teacher, substitute teacher or administrator of the school attended by the student.
Lee argued that even if Lewis, 43, had sex with the teens, such activity was not illegal as she was not an employee of Bay City Public Schools but of a separate agency.
Lewis is charged with six counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct with a student. The assistant prosecutor today sought to specify that a defendant is guilty of the crime if he or she "is an employee or a contractual service provider of the public school [or] school district ... in which that other person is enrolled ... and the actor uses his or her ... contractual ... status to gain access to, or to establish a relationship with that other person."
Though Lee objected, Sheeran granted Case's request to amend the charges. Lee then requested a mistrial, which Sheeran granted. A new trial date has been set for May 1.
Lee declined to comment on the matter.
This is the second time Lewis' trial ended prematurely. The court attempted to begin Lewis' trial on Feb. 7, but the proceeding ended prematurely when a would-be juror discussed the case with his peers while they were sequestered.


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Bride Wars
One minute, she's struggling with addiction and family drama in the winning Rachel Got Married. The next, Anne Hathaway was skyrocketing to the dredge, terrible marriage stereotyping, and wedding wars with Kate Hudson. Jeffrey M. Anderson said there's one worthy minute in the film, but the "rest of the time, for 88 out of its 89 minutes, it's a movie totally devoid of life." Also on Blu-ray. Skip it.
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The Uninvited
One would think that a film with David Strathairn and Elizabeth Banks would be worth a moment or two, especially since they're not running to the horror/thriller genre every day, but as Jette Kernion said in her review in February: the story is weak, Banks' lines are "stilted and almost laughable," and Strathairn's performance "made me want to go home and put on one of his better movies to forget about his nearly wooden character in this one." That's enough reason to Skip it. Also on Blu-ray.
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Movies that make Saw look like Sesame Street aren't the type I usually have in my queue, so I'll leave this entirely up to Scott Weinberg: "It may be one of the most ferocious horror films ever made -- but Martyrs is also quite effectively chilling and consistently disturbing ... frankly I think it's one of the most fascinating pieces of 'hardcore' horror cinema you'd ever want to see." Buy it ...if you have the guts.
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Nothing But the Truth
Another political drama in Rod Lurie's stable, Truth boasts the likes of Kate Beckinsale, Alan Alda, Vera Farmiga, Matt Dillon, taking the Valerie Plame case and morphing into an amped up drama with intrique based around missile strikes on Venezuela. Eric Snider said from TIFF: "Still, for all its strengths, Nothing But the Truth falls under the umbrella of good but not great." Rent it.
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At a time in his career when even his B-movie notoriety was faltering, Jean Claude Van Damme came back with something better than anyone could imagine -- playing himself in the story of a robbery gone wrong. It's something to make the old-school fans roar with glee, while also serving up a film that's just, well, good. As James Rocchi said: "I never thought I'd utter these words, but Jean-Claude Van Damme gives an exciting, impressive performance here, careening between action that leaves him breathless and comedy that leaves us laughing, revealing not only the timing and charisma that made him the action star we know him as but also a human side we probably had never imagined." Buy it.
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On a much more serious note, there's Stranded, the documentary behind the story we know as Alive, when the Uruguayan rugby team crashed in the Andes. Recreated footage, and a trip back to the site by the survivors outline this film, which Rocchi called "Gripping, moving, and superbly-crafted." Buy it.
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The Da Vinci Code
With Angels and Demons soon to be upon us, Sony thought it would be nice to give us a new Code, a 2-disc Blu-ray release chocked full of features in case you were wondering about the finger details of secretive religious murder mysteries. By chocked full, we're talking a whopping 17 featurettes, plus audio commentary and BD-Live, just in case you want to chat with your friends remotely while watching.
Hotel for Dogs
The Emma Roberts-led Hotel for Dogs has nabbed itself a solid Blu-ray release, which highdefdigest calls "strong, with very good video and audio, and a fluffy if still-decent spate of extras." But really -- do you expect a lot from silly, feel-good family fare?
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Something must've held the high-def release up, because now, a few weeks after the DVD release, there is the Blu-ray version, which offers the film, plus the regular making-of fare and a shocking 41 minutes of deleted scenes.
Also out:Connected, Fast Company, In the Realm of Senses
The Hit -- Criterion Release
Long before Dangerous Liaisons, High Fidelity, Dirty Pretty Things, or The Queen, Stephen Frears helmed The Hit -- a crime film starring Terence Stamp as an English mobster who becomes an informant. As DVDTalk explains, The video is a sturdy transfer that looks good, but shows age, and the extras are a light, but good, offering of an audio commentary, trailer, and a 1988 interview with Stamp.
Also out on Criterion:Empire of Passion, In the Realm of the Senses
The Beethoven Pooch Pack
We've all been dying for it, and now you can get all films together in one pack. Need I say more?
Older Flicks:British Cinema Volume 2 - Comedy Collection: Disc One -- Our Girl Friday, Dentist in the Chair, Runaway Bus, Carry on Admiral, Time of His Life,War Gods Collection, Au Bonheur des Dames, Cold Eyes of Fear, Glen and Randa, H2 Worker, The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie, The She-Beast
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Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry isn't about to get much praise from the Texas Panhandle, where he likely will finish far behind President Bush in the upcoming election.
He's going to get some anyway: Kerry wisely dropped his cockamamie idea of holding off accepting his party's nomination until several weeks after Democrats gather for their "convention."
Kerry, who bowed to critics in both political parties, floated an idea that had some folks all a-flutter. He would go to Boston, site of this year's Democratic gathering, count up his delegate votes, take the podium and then declare he will proudly accept the nomination, just not right then and there. He wanted to collect millions of dollars in campaign cash before accepting the nomination so as to avoid being frozen out of the cash he has been collecting at a furious pace.
Once the nominees accept their party's nomination, they cannot accept those funds, so Kerry wanted to have at least as much money on hand as Bush.
He thought better of it Wednesday.
So, Kerry's trial balloon has been deflated. Still, his proposed gambit did reaffirm something political junkies have known for years: The nominating "conventions" have become made-for-TV political rallies. The nominations have been sewn up.
Delegates don't dicker for anything other than, perhaps, for who buys dinner.
If the political parties ever consider doing away with conventions, Kerry's short-lived flirtation with manipulating the nominating process has shown them why they are a waste of time and money.
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I am an Ultra-Conservative, Alpha-Male, True Authentic Leader, Type "C" Personality, who is very active in my community; whether it is donating time, clothes or money for Project Concern or going to Common Council meetings and voicing my opinions. As a blogger, I intend to provide a different viewpoint "The way I see it!" on various world, national and local issues with a few helpful tips & tidbits sprinkled in.
Our Voice Was Heard!
Okay people, Mayor Day is finally talking publicly about Packard Plaza! The constant pressures we have placed on him and Brian Biernat have got them interested in the situation there.
I heard Mayor Day did talk about Packard Plaza at the CDA meeting. Maybe he might talk at the Common Council meeting. Isn't it sad that it takes putting his feet in the fire during an election year to get him to speak? He must have finally gotten the okay to speak from his Good ole boy masters.
The City is on the case people, I am sure it is in capable hands…NOT! But hey, some action is better than no action. Mayor Day and Mr. Biernat are going to work with the landowner to help fill the open vacancies. They are concerned now to act.
No don't ask what has changed, they were always on the case right? They were on top of things right?
I am also hearing Mr. Biernat's focus is turning towards development and he even had someone update the development he working on. We will soon see him at the Common Council meetings.
Yes folks, year 2.75 of his 3 year term and Mayor is now concerned about development. I think he might even contact Wal-Mart about building on the Iceport – I jest, of course the Wal-Mart is being built in South Milwaukee and opening in April.
Maybe we can get Meijer to build on the Iceport since they are pulling out of Franklin!
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Mayor Day and Mr. Biernat get on the horn, call them. Work on them!
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I have pretty severe MCS, though I can tolerate and enjoy most pure essential oils. This soap leaves an indelible, terribly strong scent that won't come off my skin, even after scrubbing with lemon and alcohol. This is a characteristic of synthetic fragrance, not pure essential oil. I intend to phone the company to investigate, as, similar to Mrs Meyer's Clean Day products, I have a feeling they snuck some bad stuff in there. Avoid this if you cannot tolerate strong, clingy, impossible-to-remove fragrance. Thank heaven I tried it on just my hands first!
it does have a sharp synthetic smell. i wouldn't recommend it for daily use due to the fact that it pulls out essential minerals and nutrients from the skin. this is the main reason i stopped using it although it is a convenient quickie detox of sorts. remineralizing by adding some kelp directly to the skin or a bath afterwards would mitigate some of the aforementioned effects. charcoal is a major adsorbent of iodine, which the skin and entire body uses for radioprotection, thyroid function, hormone receptor function just to mention a few.
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"If you had a friend who was a tightrope walker, and you were walking down a sidewalk, and he fell, that would be completely unacceptable..."
"...occasionally I wished I could walk through a picture window and have the sharp, broken shards slash me to ribbons so I would finally look like I felt."
"I still find myself walking away from the water's edge before I have what I need. I turn around and walk back toward the water ...sometimes two or three times, as if I can't decide whether to stay or leave. I will sit down more often and yield to the giver ...and when I return to my desk, I will have what I want to give."
"Once I saw a duck walking down the street so I went into Subway and ordered two pieces of bread, and they informed me that they could not do that, like there was some speical rule at Subway that two pieces of bread weren't allowed to touch. So the woman asked me what I wanted on the sandwich and I said I do not care it is for a duck, and she was like oh then it's free. I was not aware that ducks eat for free at Subway. It's like give me a chicken fajita sub, but don't worry about ringing it up, it is for a duck."
"I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition."
"I believe that if I should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps."


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- 1 / 2 Sleepwalking feat. Emi Green | Neil Davidge
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Neil Davidge
Neil Davidge is renowned for his production, co-writing and sonic-sculpting of music for Massive Attack, David Bowie, Snoop Dogg, Damon Albarn, Primal Scream plus the hugely successful Halo 4 game score and soundtrack.
Neil Davidge is set to release his debut album Slo Light world-wide in 2014. Building upon Davidge's seminal work as co-writer and producer for Massive Attack, score composer of Halo 4, plus his collaborations with David Bowie, Snoop Dog, Damon Albarn, Primal Scream and Mos Def the stunning debut album by Davidge is deeply-schooled in Bristol beats, electronica, soundtracks, orchestral music and more.
'Slo Light' creates a fantasy world in which tension, darkness and beauty find the perfect equilibrium. The album is sky-high on production value, with an unparalleled clarity and sonic depth typical of Davidge's unique sound.
Launching the album's epic journey is title-track 'Slo Light', which features vocals from the Davidge-discovered New York singer Stephonik Youth, and clearly demonstrates Neil's stamp on latter Massive Attack albums.
Cate Le Bon lends her seductive voice to the electronic, motorik-freak-folk of 'Gallant Foxes', which then segues and delves deeper still into Karima Francis's cameo on the tribal-twilight-zone drama of 'How Was Your Day'.
Neil's soundtrack background is evident throughout this highly cinematic set, not least on 'Home From Home' (featuring Ryan Karazija from Low Roar), whose strings recall his work on the Halo 4 soundtrack, recorded at Abbey Road Studios.
Reminiscent of Brian Eno's 'Small Craft on a Milk Sea', the high octane 'They Won't Know' moves into dissonant, slightly frightening territory, before the mood lightens with the dark electronic lullaby 'That Fever'.
'Riot Pictures', penned by Davidge with lyrics by Robert Del Naja, features the iconic singer Sandie Shaw as you've never heard her before – flexing her vocal chords over a sub bass growl and Bond theme-esque string arrangement.
'Zero One Zero' channels the EBM spirit of Front 242, Nine Inch Nails or even Gary Numan, whilst 'Anyone Laughing' is pristine celestial magnificence, and the smoky 'Sleepwalking' doffs its cap to both John Barry and Portishead.
The dark 'Hummingbird' has vintage horror flick overtones adorned with Patrick Duff's soft croon. 'Sensor', featuring Jhelisa Anderson displays all the heady, smoky pensive tension of classic Bristolia before the spoken word 'Forty Days In The Wilderness' ends the wondrous ride in poetic fashion.
The album was written by Davidge with contributions from his studio right-hand-man Andrew Morgan, in collaboration with the guest vocalists. The pair played most of the instrumental parts themselves, with strings from The Bristol Ensemble.
Neil Davidge is a record producer, songwriter, film score composer, musician and backing vocalist. In 1996, Davidge co-produced Massive Attack's 'The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game', a song for the 'Batman Forever' soundtrack. Working in close collaboration with Massive's Robert Del Naja (3D), Davidge was then invited to co-produce and shape the sound of the band's third album, 1998's Q Award-winning 'Mezzanine', (which included the huge hit 'Teardrop').
Massive Attack's fourth album '100th Window' featuring vocals from Sinead O'Connor was also piloted by Davidge and Del Naja.
'Heligoland' - the fifth studio album by Massive Attack, was co-produced and co-written by Davidge and Del Naja, with additional production by Tim Goldsworthy. Davidge co-wrote 8 tracks (and produced/mixed the airplay hit 'Paradise Circus') as well as playing keyboards, bass and guitar.
In 2004 he took the lead as score composer with Del Naja on the Luc Besson movie 'Danny the Dog', later renamed 'Unleashed' in the USA. This was followed by Davidge's solo scores for 'Bullet Boy', 'Battle In Seattle', the Paul McGuigan-directed 'Push', plus 'Trouble the Water', which received an Oscar nomination for its score and won 'Best Documentary' at the '08 Sundance Film Festival. Working with Snoop Dogg on the end title track, Neil scored the music for 'In Prison My Whole Life'. He also provided additional music to the Warner Brothers blockbuster 'Clash of the Titans'.
2012 saw the release of the Halo 4 OST, which Davidge composed, arranged and produced. Davidge's critically-acclaimed soundtrack went on to set the official record as the highest-charting video game soundtrack ever, having reached #50 in the Billboard Chart, #10 in the Independent Album Billboard chart and #3 the National Soundtrack Chart.
Following years of industry respect and renown, 'Slo Light' is primed to be the record that brings Davidge to the ears and minds of many discerning music lovers, as a figure of talent and vision, who'll appeal to fans of sound-exploring producer/artists like Brian Eno, Trent Reznor, Moby and William Orbit."


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Jeremy Sage was not a happy child. He was overweight and homely, and he stuttered. His father, Harold, a Russian immigrant who peddled scatter rugs and underwear door-to-door through the poorer parts of Boston, did not understand him. On the rare occasions when he heard Jeremy laugh, he was known to turn to him and ask brutally, "Why?" The son remembers fleeing to nearby Revere Beach and yelling at the gulls and the water and the boats, "Why me?"
Intruding on this gloom was Jeremy's mother, Esther, who had sung and danced in Yiddish theater. "She was a beautiful, sweet woman who made me laugh when I was sad," says Sage. "When things were bad—and things were often bad—in the middle of trying to soothe me, she'd say, 'What's that in your ear? You shouldn't put a Tootsie Roll in your ear!' Then she'd pretend to pull one out."
Years later, Sage stands front and center at Jeremy's Place on Manhattan's Upper East Side and works his own audience just as his sympathetic mother once worked him. At 43, he is handsome and model-trim, his voice a mellifluous baritone. But his greatest asset is his intimate understanding of exactly what this crowd has come to hear.
"Do you know what you're getting for party favors?" he asks breathlessly. "YES!" they yell happily back. "Are they neat?" "YES!" "Are they awesome?" "YES!" Meaningful pause. "Yes!" echoes Sage. "You're all getting—salad dressing!" The crowd, a bunch of very well-turned-out 5-year-olds, cracks up. Just loses it.
"Salad dressing is this year's funny word," says Sage, a former actor who appeared in the original Calvin Klein ads with Brooke Shields but now spends his days regaling small children. "Five years ago it was 'pickle.' 'Tuna' is funny. 'Tuna-brain' is a funny insult." Reflective pause. "My peers don't find me amusing at all," he says. "But children have always found me—silly."
In the cutthroat Manhattan industry built around birthday parties for affluent children, Sage isn't silly, he's an institution. Some of these kids have celebrated six birthdays in a row at Jeremy's Place, and some have been to more than 100 as guests. "They love the repetition," says one mother. They also seem to love Jeremy. First, children crowd into his brownstone, then they progress, with delighted shrieking, through a 27-foot simulated-stone tunnel decorated with glow-in-the-dark skeletons, dinosaurs and bugs. Then it's into the "performance room," where Jeremy holds forth on the stage. He plays the part of a bumbling magician, but that is just an excuse. "My thing is really verbal humor," he says. "What's King Kong's favorite city? Hong Kong. His favorite sport? Ping-Pong, His daughter's name? Ding Dong. You get a balloon. You get a baboon. You get a cartoon. You get a monsoon...."
You also get a bill. Last year Sage hosted 450 birthday parties, working seven days a week for 10 months and grossing well into six figures. Parents who are willing to pay $500 to $800 a shot for entertainment, favors and ice cream cake have been known to book a year in advance. New York magazine once described Jeremy as "more in demand than Tony Bennett in Vegas." And why not? "I make kids feel good," he says.
Esther would have understood. To make Jeremy feel good, she used to cook for him. "The day a boy stole my bicycle, she comforted me and fed me," he says. "The day I did real good on my tests, she congratulated me—and fed me." By his bar mitzvah, Jeremy weighed 227 lbs. Then he decided to go on a diet. Esther was baffled. She set a plate of stuffed kishke outside his bedroom door and wafted the aroma his way with a fan.
But Jeremy wouldn't quit. At Brandeis he majored in child psychology ("I was trying to figure out what was wrong with me") and spent his spare time acting. In 1976 he landed the role of Jesus in a touring production of Godspell—"1,438 crucifixions in all," he says—and one day in 1977 found himself standing next to Brooke Shields in her Calvins. "I always felt great beauty must be as intimidating as great genius," he remembers telling the teenage megamodel on-camera.
Not funny, maybe, but that commercial paid for Jeremy's Place. See him there now, working his audience. "Have you ever been married? How many times? Do you have a belly button? How many belly buttons?" Says a 4-year-old blond, giggling madly: "He's silly. He's very silly."
But not gregarious, Sage lives alone in a Manhattan high rise and doesn't go to parties for people his own age. Children, unfamiliar with the cliché of the melancholy clown, might find it hard to understand that their Jeremy spends much of his spare time—even in winter—sunning on his terrace, watching the gulls and the water and the boats. Occasionally he takes the train to Jones Beach "to scream and kick sand and get stuff out of me." Each morning he calls Esther, now 75. Sometime later he gets on his bike and, knapsack flapping, coasts the two blocks to the part of the day that gives him the most joy. And every afternoon he picks Tootsie Rolls out of children's ears.
—David Van Biema, Joyce Seymore in New York
A Birthday Presence Second to None, Jeremy Sage Treats His Business Like Child's Play
Joyce Seymore
updated 05/08/1989 AT 01:00 AM EDT
•originally published 05/08/1989 AT 01:00 AM EDT


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SANTA CLARITA - Summer doesn't end until Sept. 21, and Saturday's forecast is for a high of 100 degrees.
But none of that matters at Castaic Lake, where lifeguards Friday were hauling in the 680-foot line that separates the swim beach from the rest of the lower lagoon to store the buoys until Memorial Day weekend 2014.
The swim beach barrier has 130 buoys to hold up the 680 feet of line, and lifeguards were working Friday to cut away the floaters from the line to be restrung again next year.
Meantime, the National Weather Service forecast a hot weekend ahead for the Santa Clarita Valley, with highs of 100 degrees Saturday and 99 Sunday. Temperatures were expected to remain in the 90s through at least Tuesday.


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Featured Golf News
Nicklaus at 70
Some readers' poll questions seem a little redundant, like the one currently appearing on www.golfdigest.com which asks visitors to the site to vote for Jack Nicklaus's most memorable tournament victory. Not surprisingly, the Golden Bear's glorious come-from-four-shots-behind-Greg Norman-with-Seve Ballesteros-Tom Kite-Bernhard Langer-Tom Watson-Nick Price-and-Tommy Nakajima-also-in-the-hunt triumph at the 1986 Masters is winning with a fairly conclusive 88% of the vote. Really, the result of the question "What is Jack Nicklaus's most memorable victory?" begs another; "What on Earth are the other 12% voting for?"
Some opt for his 15th major championship win - at the same tournament 11 years previously when he beat Johnny Miller and Tom Weiskopf by the smallest of margins after seemingly breaking the stalemate with a 40-foot birdie putt on the 16th hole. Then there's the 1962 U.S. Open, '66 Open Championship, '72 U.S. Open and '80 U.S. Open, all of which pick up a handful of votes.
The fact these other victories were notable and earned by virtue of scintillating golf is not in doubt. But you have to believe those who chose them over the '86 Masters were either watching another channel that extraordinary afternoon when Nicklaus came dashing home in 30 strokes for a final round 65 to beat Kite and Norman by one and Ballesteros by two, or on strong medication.
If you recall, Nicklaus, then 46, had arrived at Augusta National with few backers. Six years had passed since his last win at a major championship and he was nearly two years removed from PGA Tour win No.72 - at his own Memorial Tournament in Ohio. The year 1985 was, frankly, a disaster with just three top-10 finishes and missed cuts at both the U.S. Open and Open Championship. And three missed cuts and a best finish of 39th from seven tournaments prior to Augusta the following year suggested he really was no longer capable of competing at a level he had dominated for 20 years, just as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Tom McCollister - the writer whose article was famously pinned to Nicklaus's fridge door - had surmised when he said the Bear was "done, washed up, through."
The resulting determination to prove McCollister and the rest of the world premature in consigning Nicklaus to the history books, coupled with a timely and revealing session with long-time teacher Jack Grout a few weeks before the Masters when Grout identified a nagging flaw in his study's swing, served to reawaken the sleeping giant. But it still took three rounds for the medicine to finally take effect.
An opening 2-over-par 74 gave no indication of what was to come, and a second-round 71 put him six back of Ballesteros, who had won four times and finished in the top-10 10 times in 11 appearances on the European Tour in 1985, and who was working on a six-win season, with 12 top-fives from 14 starts, in 1986.
Even Nicklaus's solid Saturday 69 was totally overshadowed by Nick Price's course-record 63. And with so significant a gap between him and Norman, who led after three rounds at 6-under par, and so many quality players between him and the Australian, Nicklaus wasn't considered a serious threat before the start of the final round.
Eyebrows didn't begin to rise and attention didn't start to get paid until he began the back nine with two long birdies putts that snaked into their respective targets. The applause that greeted both was definitely more generous than the polite smattering an also-ran could have expected, but that might have had more to do with who was doing the putting than excitement generated by knowing you are watching a serious contender.
Then he bogeyed the short 12th and the noise receded.
A birdie at the 13th got him back in the picture, the frame at least. And then, after a par on the 14th, he hit a monster drive on the 15th that left him 202 yards to a flag that the situation demanded he go for.
Struck sweetly with a 4-iron, his ball climbed high and landed just a few feet from the hole before spinning 12 feet left of it. The putt, like so many he hit that day, went in the middle of the hole at precisely the right speed. The game couldn't have been more on.
At the 16th, his 5-iron tee shot flew to the back of the green and slid back down the slope toward the hole. The gallery rose to its feet, noisily directing the ball toward the hole with sheer volume. It stopped 3 feet away and Nicklaus rammed the putt home. Back on the 15th, a rattled Ballesteros, who had a long wait to play his second, could barely hear himself think. He thoughtlessly tried guiding a lazy 4-iron onto the green when a committed 5-iron was the play. He hit an ugly, half-hearted chunk into the pond and he and Nicklaus were tied. But Nicklaus wasn't done yet.
At the 17th, his drive went left but he managed to run his second up onto the green and then send a slippery, double-breaking 18-footer into the hole. He now had the lead to himself and, after parring the last and watching Ballesteros, Norman and Kite all fail to match his 279 total, 1985 champion Langer helped him into a sixth green jacket.
Those fortunate enough to be watching knew they had witnessed something very special, not just Jack Nicklaus's most memorable win, but probably the most memorable major championship since eight strangely-bearded young men in plaid lumbermen jackets got together at Prestwick, Scotland, in 1860 to play for a red leather belt.
Nicklaus's many British fans would concede his '86 Masters win was the greatest of his many accomplishments. But the performance they might rate second was not actually a win at all. In 1977, on the scorched links of Turnberry, the then 37-year-old 14-time major champion locked horns over the weekend with a young Tom Watson in an encounter every bit as thrilling as the '86 Masters would be, but for a lack of contenders (third-place Hubert Green finished 10 strokes behind second) and the fact Nicklaus wasn't yet 46.
After two rounds, Nicklaus, Watson, Green and Lee Trevino were tied at 138, a shot behind leader Roger Maltbie. Mark Hayes, who in the second round shot the first-ever 63 in an Open Championship, was two back.
The sun shone hard for the weekend as Nicklaus and Watson pulled away from the field in round three with spectacular 65s. Sunday would be a showdown between the two best players in the world and, just as they had the day before, the pair traded far more than their share of birdies. Nicklaus birdied the second to go two ahead and the fourth to lead by three. Watson birdied the fifth and seventh to pull within one, drew level at the eighth, but dropped back with a bogey at the ninth. Nicklaus holed from 25 feet for birdie at the 12th to go two clear. Watson pulled to within one at the 13th, then holed a monstrous 60-footer across the green at the short 15th to draw level.
The pivotal moment came at the par-5 5 17th where Nicklaus missed a 4-foot putt for birdie. Watson holed his birdie effort to take a one-shot lead to the last, where he found the middle of the fairway with a 1-iron. Nicklaus, needing to apply some pressure, hit a driver but pushed the shot, his ball coming to rest below the branches of a gorse bush. With a shot not dissimilar to the mighty 6-iron Arnold Palmer had hit out of a bush at the 15th hole at Royal Birkdale in 1961, Nicklaus smashed his ball onto the green, about 40 feet from the hole. Watson, meanwhile, knocked a 7-iron to 3 feet and, with that, put one-and-a-half hands on the Claret Jug.
Nicklaus had a birdie putt on the 18th green he had to hole. And as he usually did when faced with a birdie putt on the 18th green he had to hole, he holed it. Watson was stunned as the crowd went wild. But the 27-year-old from Kansas rolled in his putt to win by a stroke.
In typical fashion, Nicklaus shook Watson's hand warmly and put his arm around his shoulder. They walked off the green laughing. Such was the manner in which Nicklaus accepted his few defeats. He had done it at the 1975 Ryder Cup at Laurel Valley where Britain's Brian Barnes beat him twice in singles on the same day, and he'd have to acknowledge Watson again, this time at the 1982 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach when his nemesis birdied the last two holes to beat him by two.
Then there was the conceded putt on the 18th green against Tony Jacklin in the 1969 Ryder Cup at Royal Birkdale, a concession Jacklin later described as the "greatest single sporting gesture in golf."
"I gave Tony the putt because he was a hero in Great Britain," Nicklaus said. "He was the only Englishman to have won the British Open in many years. I felt that he was so important to the game of golf and what the sport meant in Great Britain. I didn't think it made any difference as it related to the matches, because we were going to retain the Cup either way. I just felt it was the right thing to do."
Largely because of what happened at Birkdale, and then at Turnberry eight years later, Nicklaus has always been revered in Britain. It took a while for galleries in America to give him his due, however. At the 1962 U.S. Open at Oakmont in Pennsylvania, Nicklaus made it into an 18-hole playoff with local favorite Palmer, already the undisputed king of golf, and was heckled mercilessly. Shouts of "Fat Jack" rang out, spectators exhorted him to miss putts, and one man stood in the trees holding a card that read "Hit it here Jack." (One wonders what the notoriously sensitive Colin Montgomerie would have done under similar circumstances. We can safely assume he wouldn't have done what Nicklaus did, which was to ignore it and win.)
But everyone loves a winner, so the odious taunting and insults faded away soon enough. Even so, Nicklaus has never enjoyed the same level of affection as Palmer whose 80th birthday last year seemed to be celebrated more earnestly and for longer than Nicklaus's anniversary this year. That obviously says more about Palmer's popularity than it does any lingering aversion to Nicklaus, but it would be fair to say that while Palmer is adored and cherished, Nicklaus is respected and admired.
And in 10 years' time, when Nicklaus's cake will shift under the weight of 80 candles, that respect and admiration will still be in place, and the '86 Masters and '77 Open Championship stories will still be told as enthusiastically as ever.
Tony Dear is an Englishman living in Bellingham, Wash. In the early 1990s he was a member of the Liverpool University golf team which played its home matches at Royal Liverpool GC. Easy access to Hoylake made it increasingly difficult for him to focus on Politics (his chosen major) and, after dropping out, he ended up teaching golf at a club just south of London where he also made a futile attempt at becoming a "player." He moved into writing when it became abundantly clear he had no business playing the game for a living. A one-time golf correspondent of the New York Sun, Tony is a member of the Golf Writers Association of America, the Pacific Northwest Golf Media Association and the Golf Travel Writers Association. In 2009, Tony won first place for Editorial/Opinion in the ING Media Awards for Cybergolf. The article (http://www.cybergolf.com/golf_newsa_euros_take_on_the_2008_ryder_cup_matches) that impressed the judges was the one about Europe's Ryder Cup team and Captain Nick Faldo's decision to pick Paul Casey and Ian Poulter rather than Darren Clarke.
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NEW YORK - Jimmy Fallon's fast start replacing Jay Leno on the "Tonight" show the past two months had a secondary effect: David Letterman suddenly seemed old.
The Top 10 list, the ironic detachment, even the set at the Ed Sullivan Theater. Time doesn't stop for comedy legends, or superstars of any sort. Letterman, who announced Thursday he will retire from late-night television sometime in 2015, had to feel it.
CBS now faces the challenge of moving on in a reordered late-night world at a time the two Jimmys - NBC's Fallon and ABC's Kimmel - have a significant head start.
When Jay Leno left in February, Letterman lost his foil - the man whose victory in the competition to replace Johnny Carson two decades ago he never let go. Leno was someone who spoke his language, though, a generational compadre, and when he left, Letterman was alone.
Fallon and Kimmel have a different style, more good-natured and less mocking of the entire concept of a talk show.
The first time Leno left late-night, Letterman ascended to the throne. Not this time. Since Fallon began at "Tonight," his show has averaged 5.2 million viewers, while Letterman has averaged 2.7 million and Kimmel 2.65 million, the Nielsen company said. Last year, Letterman averaged 2.9 million and Kimmel 2.5 million, so the direction was clear.
Much of late-night now is about making an impression in social media, or in highlight clips that people can watch on their devices and spread around the next day. Fallon and Kimmel have excelled in spreading their comedy beyond their time slots; Letterman barely has bothered.
Late-night television is a far different world than when Letterman and Leno began their competition. There are more entertainment shows to choose from, with personalities such as O'Brien, Arsenio Hall, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Chelsea Handler working every night.
CBS will first have to decide whether to continue with an entertainment program in that time slot. It's not the money-maker it once was, but chances are the network will continue in that direction.
The first in-house candidate would be Craig Ferguson of "The Late Late Show," which currently airs at 12:35 a.m. on CBS and is produced by Letterman. But Ferguson's star has dimmed, his show quickly passed by in the ratings by Seth Meyers on NBC, and he is considered an unlikely choice.


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In a small role.By Kyle Buchanan
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She's working it!By Kyle Buchanan
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Don't show your mom. She loved The Help.By Eliot Glazer
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- June 30, 1986
- Vol. 25
- No. 26
The Shame of America
A Government Commission's Controversial Report on Pornography Raises Questions, Expectations and Hackles
Liberals and free-speech advocates have condemned the report as an unscientific manifesto produced by a band of blue-noses picked by design to support the conservative views of the Reagan Administration. Feminists have praised the report for bringing attention to the issue of sexual violence, but many worry that it may lead to government attempts to infringe on individual rights. Lawsuits already have been filed against the Commission alleging that it intimidated major retail chains like 7-Eleven into removing "adult" magazines from their shelves (see box, page 32). Right-wing fundamentalists have attacked Meese's vice squad for not going far enough, while Hollywood worries that the report may push the conservative national mood too far (see box, page 31). As publication day approaches, the voices are growing more strident. Herewith the story behind the study—and a look at the tangle of ugly questions that the Commission confronted.
Four months into its yearlong, $500,000 probe into the seamy depths of America's porn industry, the seven-man, four-woman Commission found itself piling off a tour bus and trooping into a Houston peep show. With reporters in tow, they stumbled onto a shocking scene. When their vice-cop tour guide opened the door to one of the stained booths where customers engage in anonymous sex, he found a pair of patrons flagrante delicto. "And here," he announced, "we have two men engaged in the act of oral copulation."
The Houston field trip was not the aesthetic nadir of what seemed to many Commission members like a long trip through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat. In open hearings in Washington, D.C., the group listened to graphic testimony covering all aspects of obscenity. They watched the vilest X-rated videocassettes, listened to dial-a-porn tapes, weighed explicit cable programming and heard from sexual-abuse victims, many of whom told their stories from behind translucent screens. Later they pored over scene-by-scene accounts of Debbie Does Dallas and Deep Throat (whose scripts are reprinted in the report). They found magazines that specialized in graphic depictions of sex between humans and animals, between children and adults. They saw photos of self-castration, of women strung up and tortured, of real-life rapes.
"I was just appalled at the incredible viciousness of pornography," says Commission member the Rev. Bruce Ritter, the Catholic priest who founded and runs Covenant House shelters for abused and homeless youngsters. "The overwhelming message was that women love to be raped, to be subordinated, to experience pain. If what we saw had involved only men, it would be called torture. But because men did it to women, it was called 'men's fun.' " Perhaps no one better summarized the loathing felt by all commissioners upon examining what has happened to porn in America since the last government commission on the subject 16 years ago. The earlier group, the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography, took twice as long and spent four times as much money on its study, which found no causal link between porn and sexual violence. Back then, however, as the new Commission points out, "adult" bookstores could be found only on a few seedy blocks of big cities. Videocassettes, dial-a-porn services and cable TV were almost unknown. Now there are thousands of "XXX" videos available. Any kid who can use a telephone can dial up the filthiest sexual conversations imaginable. And cable TV can bring graphic sex directly into the living room.
In analyzing this new situation, however, shock was not enough. While the 11 who served as Meese's eyes and ears were unanimous in their revulsion, they had heated disagreements when it came time to hammer out a collective report. After the unpaid commissioners were named by Meese a year ago at President Reagan's request, critics complained that the group was heavily weighted with citizens disinclined to study the issue dispassionately. Chairman Henry Hudson, for instance, now a top federal prosecutor in Virginia, prided himself on eliminating local adult bookstores and theaters from Arlington. New York's Father Ritter has long been an outspoken porn foe. And California family counselor James Dobson, who has a Ph.D. in child development, is head of Focus on Family and one of the Christian Right's vocal opponents of obscenity.
They were balanced, to an extent, by more liberal sorts like Deanne Tilton-Durfee, director of the Los Angeles County Inter-Agency Council on Child Abuse and Neglect, and Dr. Judith Becker, a Columbia University associate professor of clinical psychology and researcher on sexual violence. Woman's Day editor Ellen Levine, who with Becker issued a 20-page dissent from the panel's conclusion that pornography can lead to violence, was, from the first, the standard-bearer for free speech. "I think there was a rush to judgment," she says now. "Social science research has not been designed to evaluate the relationship between exposure to pornography and the commission of sexual crimes."
"Anyone who reads the transcript can see that we disagreed very, very strongly about some issues," says Father Ritter. "I think the fact that we could not agree gave the lie to the statement that we were chosen because the government wanted a prepackaged [conclusion]." Still, others have faulted the Commission's entire way of doing things. By deliberately seeking out prostitutes and victims of sex crimes to hear their horror stories, critics say, the Commission skewed the evidence.
Not surprisingly, the subject of child pornography provoked the least dissension. According to the Commission's estimates, it has become a $2 to $4 billion industry largely run by pedophiles who distribute their material through clandestine routes (including secret computer networks and coded magazine ads). Their wares are vile: Panel members saw photographs of oral, anal and genital sex among and between children, adults and animals, and torture was sometimes involved.
More than half of the panel's 93 recommendations involved taking arms against such exploitation: They called for lifetime probation sentences for convicted child pornographers, for Congress to force traffickers to forfeit profits and for government to investigate and prosecute offenders more aggressively.
"The pervasiveness of [child pornography] is linked to the pervasiveness of child sexual abuse," says Tilton-Durfee. "A picture of a naked child displaying his or her genitals is a photograph of child abuse as it is occurring."
Other issues seemed less clear-cut. "We all agreed that sexually explicit material that is intended to arouse violence is definitely harmful," says Ritter. "It encourages the rape myth...and should be proscribed." The Commission also said, "pornography that was not explicitly violent but that was absolutely degrading was also harmful"—like photos of men urinating on a kneeling woman. Often working from 9 in the morning to 10 or 11 p.m., the group slogged through testimony. Commissioners like Levine were piqued that chairman Hudson and executive director Alan E. Sears, a former assistant U.S. attorney who gained a reputation as a tough anti-smut prosecutor in Kentucky, kept insisting that they should propose banning the sale of vibrators and anything else that stimulates the genitalia. ("Does that include my hand?" cracked one commissioner.) Others took issue with what they saw as Sears's intransigence. "He kept pushing hard for his own conservative agenda," says an observer who sat in on the hearings. When the shouting was over, the group emerged with a report that may prove historic. The 1970 report had urged the elimination of all restrictions on porn for adult consumers. In contrast, Meese's Commission offers a detailed plan of action that infuriates civil libertarians like Barry Lynn, legislative counsel of the ACLU, who sued the Justice Department to release the report before it reached Meese. "Some of these recommendations are so draconian," charges Lynn, who followed the investigation closely, "that it appears the Commission wants to send this country back to the sexual Dark Ages."
While the panel suggests that obscene words without pictures not be subject to prosecution, it comes down hard on porn in other forms—calling for the FCC to move against cable programmers who transmit "obscene programs" and those who run "phone porn" and X-rated computer services. The report recommends arresting video porn performers for pandering. It urges the creation of a huge data bank listing individuals convicted of obscenity violations. "Citizen action groups," the report says, should boycott, picket and monitor porn in all its forms. While no one wants to defend porn, many see serious dangers in the report's demands. Says the ACLU's Lynn: "They want citizen spies to wander around newsstands...this is a declaration of war on sexual material."
The response from feminists has been guarded. Susan Brownmiller (author of the 1975 best-seller Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape) says, "We have two problems. Pornography is dangerous, and we must protect freedom of speech. Knowing those two things, how do we proceed?"
"I think that to censor something just because we find it personally distasteful is to put our freedom of speech and our constitutional rights in jeopardy," says author Erica Jong, whose own work often turns on erotic themes. "It's sex that [Meese's Commission] wants to restrict. It's another form of Puritanism."
Sticks and stones notwithstanding, the Commission members (with the exception of dissenters Becker and Levine) are standing by their findings. "The [study] is not a call to arms. It's not a manifesto," says commissioner Frederick Schauer, a University of Michigan law professor who drafted the heart of the report. "We just want people to read the report and think seriously about pornography. It's a complex, important issue that deserves some careful attention." If the prepublication debate is any indication, the Meese Commission's hefty volumes will get it.
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Cleveland Metroparks Zoo and the RainForest, 3900 Wildlife Way, Cleveland. Open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. On Saturdays, Sundays and holidays through Labor Day, the Zoo and The RainForest remain open until 7 p.m. Ticket sales end one hour before closing. 216-661-6500, clemetzoo.com.
Residents of Cuyahoga County and Hinckley Township get free admission on Mondays. The zoo is closed on Christmas and New Year's Day.
Regular admission to the zoo and the RainForest is $12.25 for adults, age 12 and older. Junior admission, for kids age 2-11, is $8.25. Kids younger than 2, and zoo members, free. Parking is free.
• Now is a great time to sign up for the new Cleveland Metroparks Kids Club. Members age 12 and younger receive a passport and there will be special events, offers and opportunities to earn stickers for their passports. If a member receives at least 12 stickers, they can attend an end-of-the-year party. There are two membership levels — one is $20 for the year and one is free. For more information on memberships and benefits, call 216-635-3200 or visit clevelandmetroparks.com.
• Seeing the zoo in winter can bring a whole new perspective to your visit. Between Nov. 1 and March 31, 2013, admission rates are reduced to $8.25 for adults and $5.25 for children age 2-11.
• America Recycles Day is 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10. Visitors can bring in select recyclables in exchange for one free admission with the purchase of a regular admission. Eligible materials include aluminum cans, cell phones and accessories, newspaper, catalogs, junk mail, magazines, ink jet and toner print cartridges, household plastics with the recycle symbol and the No. 1-7 on them, cooking and dining supplies and utensils, election signs and pairs of shoes. No single shoes, rubber flip flops, ice skates, roller skates, slippers, ski boots or completely ruined or broken footwear will be accepted. There will also be free document shredding until 3 p.m. Limit three bags or boxes. Proceeds from the aluminum cans collected will benefit Bat Conservation International.
• Help the zoo celebrate the 20th anniversary of the RainForest from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nov. 17-19 with special events, activities and giveaways including animal enrichment demonstrations, crafts, music, Meet the Keeper sessions and on Monday, Nov. 19, special guest Radio Disney and free admission to the RainForest.
• The zoo is offering free admission on Thanksgiving day, Thursday, Nov. 22. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Visitors can watch the animals enjoy special holiday treats during enrichment demonstrations throughout the day and complimentary heated transportation will be offered. A full schedule of activities will be posted on our website and at the Welcome Plaza.
• The zoo is offering a special Winter Break Camp Wednesday, Dec. 26 through Friday, Dec. 28 with half-day (9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.) and full-day (9 a.m. to 4 p.m.) sessions for children age 5-12. Children will meet in the Jungle Lab classroom at the RainForest and explore a different theme each day including Primates, Cats and Aquatics, Animals of Africa and the RainForest. Each interactive and educational session includes tours of zoo exhibits, Get Close encounters with small animals, arts and crafts and conservation-themed games. To register, visit clemetzoo.com/education/breakcamps/ or call 216-635-3391.
Rocky River Reservation, Rocky River Nature Center, 24000 Valley Parkway, North Olmsted. 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. 440-734-6660.
• Monthly Morning with the Birds, 9-11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 10. Autumn is an exciting time to watch the birds in the woods and over the waters of the Rocky River Valley. Bring binoculars.
• Breakfast with the Birds, 9-11 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 18. Bird watching or hiking are options this morning. While the volunteer chefs cook, participants can either watch birds or go for a fast-paced walk. Registration required. Each guest must bring their own place settings.
• Preemptive Strike Hike, 10 a.m. to noon Wednesday, Nov. 21. Thanksgiving is coming, which could mean eating seconds, thirds and maybe even fourths. Feel better about eating that much by taking a nice long stroll through the fall forest.
• The History of Fort Hill, 2-3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 24. Fort Hill in Rocky River Reservation is said to have some of the best views and trails in the state, and many know of the infamous stairs — 135 to be exact — that ascend 90 feet above the Rocky River. Learn about the first people of the valley, how they lived, and how they used Fort Hill.
• Cinema Saturday Night: Denali: The Beasts, The Beauty, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 24. On this evening armchair journey, enjoy this marvelous information-packed look at Denali's magnificent wildlife, colorful tundra, raging rivers, craggy mountain tops and flower-filled summer meadows. Experience the Denali that people rarely see. Doors open at 7 p.m.
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• Preschool Nature Kids: Turkeys, 10-11 a.m. Nov. 16. For preschoolers accompanied by an adult.
• Woodland Walks, 9-10:30 a.m. Wednesdays in December.
Sandy Ridge Reservation-Johnson Wetland Center, 6195 Otten Road, North Ridgeville. 440-458-5121, 800-LCM-PARK or LorainCountyMetroParks.com.
• Outer Limits Hike, 9:30-11 a.m. Nov. 17.
• Waterfowl Hike, 7:30-10 a.m. Nov. 28.
• Owl Prowl, 6-8 p.m. Dec. 4 and 18. Search for Owls and then return for a campfire. Bring your own mug for hot chocolate.
• Campfire Hike, 10 a.m. to noon Dec. 8. Join us for a hike followed by a campfire, hot chocolate and coffee.
• Outer Limits Hike, 10-11:30 a.m. Dec. 15. Join us on this hike as we explore areas of the park not usually open to the public.
• Holiday Open House, noon-4 p.m. Dec. 15 and 16. Enjoy take-home crafts, hands-on activities, games and more.


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Whatever point PolitiFact was trying to make in the June 7 edition, Sen. Loretta Weinberg pointed out two facts that are indisputable: One, Gov. Chris Christie has said things that required PolitiFact checking 37 times. Two, PolitiFact determined he told the complete truth only 38 percent of the time. The other 62 percent, he was not telling the complete truth. That's a troubling record whether or not Weinberg correctly placed him in the top five lying governors.
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Saturday, May 23, 2015
The Peterson Family in Provo
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Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Kevin Pre Mission Photos
I am slowly but surely updating my blog with a whole slew of new, fun photos. I got to shoot photos for a missionary getting ready to head out to the mission field this summer. I'm so excited for Kevin to head out to Africa and have tons of adventures.
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Who can go wrong with such a good looking family? If you are interested in booking a fall family portrait session, I have openings available throughout the rest of October and November. Email or text me following the information in the sidebar. I look forward to taking more photos in this gorgeous Utah setting.
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Before Christmas I got to photograph the cutest little newborn. This little guy was a prince charming. He was so sweet and easy going. I love that his grandma is a hairstylist and she was blessed with a grandson who has such fabulous hair! Isn't he sweet?
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Minnesota is positioned to become the 12th state to legalize same-sex marriage. A state House vote passed the measure 75 to 59 Thursday. The Senate will vote on the bill Monday, where it's expected to pass, and Gov. Mark Dayton has said he'll sign it.
Same-sex weddings could then begin as early as the first of August.
One year ago this week, President Obama put the issue in the spotlight when he came out in support of gay marriage. Two states have approved same-sex marriage since then.
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Teachers across Amarillo Independent School District were visited by a "prize patrol," complete with balloons, congratulations and oversize checks Tuesday through Thursday.
The Amarillo Education Foundation was passing out $35,325 in grants to fund innovative projects that are not covered by the school district's regular operating budget.
The foundation chose 35 of 72 grant proposals submitted by AISD teachers for funding. In addition, the Amarillo Lawyer's Auxiliary is funding three grants totaling $1,561. Individual grant amounts range from $250 to $2,500, a news release from the foundation stated.
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Charleston, South Carolina is one of my favorite cities on the east coast. This city has everything, great food, historic buildings, great shops and some world class beaches less than 45 minutes away.
My goal today was to see Charleston from the water. It was too hot, in my opinion, to see this city from the pavement. After a great lunch of fried oysters at the Noisy Oyster we lit out for the dock and Charleston Harbor Tours, www.CharlestonHarborTours.com.
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Machuga currently sits in 48th place with a total pinfall of 3,401 through 16 games. The top 24 bowlers through 24 games will move on to the next round.
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I think that places daddy in the first category.
*dammit, almost forgot to press the 'Submit Comment' button*
I see what you did there 😉
Those kind of people are
Technically he really doesn't need to say the other kind, since there's only two. Obviously you're either A or NOT A.
You're assuming the 2 kinds are mutually exclusive. (i.e. if a, not b, and if b, not a).
For instance, he could've said "There's 2 kinds of people in this world, males or females." which may seem OK at first but isn't logically correct as there are all kinds of in-between, ;).
I love his jumpsuit suit! How can I obtain one of those?
Do you guys want to give me you're artistic skills?… because seriously I am jealous of all of your styles. I tried to draw once, but it didn't turn out so good.
hahaha BEST DAD EVER.
Chris's excuse to be a lazy piece of shit at work.
Isn't that right, Green Titlicker?
I'm sorry. I'll start picking up my clothes and put them in the hamper. Let's not fight in public.
She's always been super supportive.
love this! I am definitely one of those people who don't finish what
Oh Kim, you are such a
Oh, I know, I'm such a terrible
I love how eager that kid is. He's just so pumped to learn about the two types of people.
Maybe he's somebody that loves to finish what he starts.
i miss good ol' tymes. beside real action "movies" i miss the point. -.-" since frogs adventures (and "movie") theres a lag of gore and obcenetiy (is that even the right word lol).
Be patient, 2910. It comes in waves. If we did that stuff all the time, it would get boring really quick, I think
Talk about being left hanging. Good one, guys!
hehe. 🙂
Retold this one to friends like a million times