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Training & Pruning Fruit Trees
By Mary Helen Ferguson, Extension Agent, Horticulture
Fruit tree training and pruning is a topic of great interest and considerable uncertainty for many. The fact is that even two knowledgeable people may shape a fruit tree in different ways. While there is room for variation in how people train and prune, there are principles to remember and important differences between, e.g., training and pruning apple and peach trees.
When NCSU-based Cooperative Extension tree fruits specialist Dr. Mike Parker gives a pruning demonstration, he makes an analogy between raising kids and growing fruit trees: You need to start them out in the right direction, rather than wait until they're several years old and have become unmanageable brats (in the case of kids) or unkempt messes (in the case of fruit trees) to start trying to correct behavior (kids) or shape (trees). This starting them out in the right direction is called "training." The corrective action taken later, on trees, is called "pruning."
One of the main objectives of training, which should begin in the year of planting, is to develop a good limb structure for future fruit production. The central leader or modified central leader training system is common for apples, pears, persimmons, and plums. For peaches and nectarines, the open vase system is recommended. Figs are grown as multi-trunked trees, or bushes, in our area.
From my perspective, the ultimate purpose of pruning is to produce quality fruit that can be picked with reasonable ease. A major part of pruning is opening up the tree to allow more light penetration and air movement. A plant with too many leaves may cast too much shade on potential fruiting sites and the leaves that support fruit maturation.
Having a canopy (composed of leafy branches) that is too thick can also mean that air and pesticide sprays won't move through the tree well enough. Air needs to be able to move through the plant so that water will evaporate quickly, since diseases tend to develop when leaves stay wet. Similarly, for plants (e.g., peaches) that require pesticide use for high quality fruit production in our climate, sprays need to be able to get into the canopy of the plant.
Steps involved in opening up the tree canopy include removing selected branches so that the ones that remain are spaced far enough from one another and taking out shoots that are growing straight up from, or directly under, other limbs.
In addition to opening up the canopy, another part of pruning is removing any dead or diseased wood.
Also, I think most people would like to be able to pick fruit conveniently. Some people may not mind climbing a ladder, while others would rather just pick from the ground. Pruning can be used to help keep fruit production on some plants at a convenient height for picking. However, trying to keep, e.g., a semi-dwarf or full-sized apple tree short may just result in a lot of vegetative (leaf/shoot) growth and little fruit production.
Late winter and very early spring (shortly before trees break bud and start growing) are good times to prune fruiting plants. It's a good idea to do some summer pruning (removal of upright growth, largely), as well, on apples and peaches.
I've touched on some of the basic principles of tree fruit training and pruning, but there is much more to know. For example, I mentioned at the beginning of the article that there were differences in training and pruning apple and peach trees. One difference is that apples bear fruit at the tips of branches or spurs, while peaches produce fruit along the sides of year-old shoots. Thus, while cutting peach shoots back by about one-third of their length during the dormant season is fine, snipping off the tips on branches of apple trees will often remove fruit buds.
For more information, check out Training and Pruning Fruit Trees in North Carolina (http://cals.ncsu.edu/hort_sci/extension/documents/ag-69.pdf) or give me a call (336-318-6000).
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All-American left tackle Andre Smith, considered by many as the top prospect in the 2009 NFL draft, has been suspended by the University of Alabama for the team's BCS bowl game.
December 29, ESPN.com: Sources told ESPN.com that Smith's suspension was related to improper dealings with an agent. Saban's statement on the matter said only that it was due to violation of team rules and policies.
Smith was sent home from New Orleans, where the Crimson Tide arrived Saturday to begin final preparations for Friday's game. Left guard Mike Johnson was practicing in Smith's spot at left tackle on Monday, and sophomore David Ross moved into the starting rotation at left guard.
"The University of Alabama, the team and the football program are more important than any individual player," Saban said in a statement. "Everyone on our team depends on each other to be responsible, to make good choices and decisions relative to their actions."

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CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio -- Cuyahoga Valley Christian Acdemy boys basketball team earned a victory at home on Wednesday by defeating No. 11 Field, 62-35.
The Royals, which are the No. 2 seed in the Division II Stow District tournament, were led by 17 points from Mike Peters.
After leading by five points at the half, the Royals allowed just nine points in the second half.
Cuyahoga Valley Christian Academy will host a sectional final on Saturday at 7 p.m. against No. 8 Collinwood.


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Who Should Bear the Bite of Estate Taxes on Non-Probate Property? 43 Creighton L. Rev. 747 (2010).
Recognizing Asset Value and Tax Basis Disparities to Value Closely-Held Stock, 58 Baylor L. Rev. 861 (2006).
Unduly Influenced Trust Revocations, 40 Duq. L. Rev. 241 (2002).
The Relation-Back Doctrine: Towards a Consistent Tax Rule for Gifts by Check, 52 Rutgers L. Rev. 185 (1999).
Federal Taxation, Fifth Circuit Symposium, 41 Loy. L. Rev. 483 (1995).
Retained Possession and Enjoyment: Searching Out the Reality for Residential Transfers, 24 Sw. U. L. Rev. 81 (1994).
The Internal Revenue Code's Assault on Buy Sell Agreements, 54 La. L. Rev. 149 (1993) reprinted in 45 Monthly Dig. Tax Articles, Dec. 1994, at 1.
Building With Kirby Lumber: a Critique of Related-Party Debt Acquisitions, 28 Tulsa L.J. (1992) reprinted in 44 Monthly Dig. Tax Articles, Jan. 1994, at 52.
Structuring Buy-Sell Agreements for Closely Held Corporations, 5 Prac. Tax Law., Wint. 1991, at 75.
Creditors' Rights-Garnishment-Reducing Past-Due Child Support to Final Money Judgment. The Vanishing Exception to Wage Exemption-Sokolsky v. Kuhn, 405 So.2d 975 (Fla. 1981), 10 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 301 (1982).
1031 Exchange Regulations: the Law, the Changes, and the Impacts, Advanced Real Estate Law Institute (Houston: South Texas College of Law, 1991). (Tab G)


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Have a look at this surprisingly entertaining video of a man asking strangers on the street what they're listening to.
It's an interesting opportunity to break into the mind of an individual wrapped in a musical bubble as they encounter the world.
When asked, most people smile and appear genuinely happy that someone took the time to ask what song was currently soundtracking their perception of the events around them.
Given the ubiquity of portable music devices, it seems nearly everyone from every walk of life has one now and the interviewer does a great job of hitting nearly every demographic group.
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01:53 PMCafé Connecticut
Very, Very French
It is safe to say that there's no other gathering spot in Connecticut quite like the attic space above John's Café in Woodbury, where W Soirees is hosting what it calls "a Music Lounge-Atelier" every Thursday, Friday and Saturday night.
It's hard to classify the decor of the space except to call it 20th-Century Parisian-Bohemian. The tables, chairs and setees are eclectic, to say the least. There are lit candles everywhere, curtained alcoves where couples can seek and find privacy, a central communal table that's perfect for impassioned conversations about Camus or Truffaut. At one end of the table sits a large decorative birdcage in the shape of the Eiffel Tower.
Food can be ordered off a chalkboard menu that includes soups, salads, quiche, charcuterie, truffle french fries, cheese plates and other simple fare. Diners can also order from the more extensive menu from John's Café downstairs. Six wines and Champagne are offered by the glass, while martinis and other cocktails are also available. The background music, jazz standards mostly, is suitable to the space.
The guiding force of the place is Caroline Bossetti, a Frenchwoman now transplanted to Woodbury who presides with a light, knowing touch and is hoping for a place where conversation flows, new friends are made and old friends are revisited, and where, on occasion, spontaneous singing or dancing breaks out as the evening deepens into night. She even keeps a guitar on hand for when a talented customer shows up.
As our quick drop-by for a glass of wine hit the two-hour mark, my wife was speaking French with Caroline and getting a list of good Vietnamese restaurants in Paris while I was nibbling Camembert cheese with a glass of Malbec and watching a projected image of Fred Astaire dancing silently on a far wall, wondering what movie it could be from. Not your typical Thursday night in Connecticut.Very, Very French


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Friday, March 13, 2009
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In the current economic climate, using electronic medical records to lower health care costs is receiving a great deal of attention.
It's a good idea, but, for some specialties, maybe not in the way most people imagine, said Franklin Dexter, M.D., Ph.D., University of Iowa physician and expert in operations research.
Dexter and colleagues -- including John Lee, professor of mechanical and industrial engineering -- have devised a way to use electronic medical data to make inroads into one area of medicine in which it has been notoriously difficult to control costs -- operating room (OR) and anesthesia scheduling. The changes help OR managers better estimate how long a particular case will last, making it easier and more cost-efficient to schedule subsequent cases in the same room.
"It isn't having electronic medical records that reduces costs, but rather how the information from electronic medical records is used," said Dexter, professor of anesthesia at the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. "In practice, much of the cost reduction is from using electronic medical record data for managerial purposes."
The new system, which Dexter described in the March issue of the journal Anesthesia and Analgesia, combines information about a patient's vital signs in the OR with historical data about how long cases typically last and applies statistical mathematics to provide realistic estimates of the remaining time needed for an on-going OR case. Critically, this information is updated continuously as the case continues -- a process that is currently done manually.
The data-crunching performed by the system can be augmented by a real-time estimate from the surgical team on the time remaining for the case. The OR staff provides this information in response to an instant message sent by the system that essentially asks, "How much longer?" The response is automatically plugged back into the calculation to improve the accuracy of the time-remaining estimate.
In addition to Lee and Dexter, the study team included Richard Epstein, M.D., at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, and Johannes Ledolter, Ph.D., UI professor of management sciences.


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July 11, 2011 -- Synopsys, Inc. today announced IC Compiler-Advanced Geometry, a new configuration of its leading IC Compiler physical design product. IC Compiler-Advanced Geometry targets design support for double-patterning technology (DPT), which has emerged as a key requirement for the next generation of silicon technology at 20nm and imposes strict constraints on placement, routing and physical verification.
As industry leaders in IC design and manufacturing race to prepare for 20-nm technology, Synopsys has successfully collaborated with foundry partners as well as major customers to validate that IC Compiler is 20nm-ready. IC Compiler, a key component of the Galaxy Implementation Platform, provides one of the most efficient DPT-ready physical implementation solutions with minimal impact on turn-around time and traditional design metrics of device area, speed, and power.
The current lithography approach supporting IC manufacturing reaches a theoretical limit at the 20-nm node, making it difficult to achieve minimum resolution for silicon structures. There are two possible approaches: 20-nm design must either adopt a resolution that is sparser than minimum, and not silicon-efficient; or the design must be split into two sets of alternating structures, each more sparse than minimum but together fully utilizing available silicon resource. The latter, termed double-pattern technology, requires a place-and-route tool to accurately generate a layout where each candidate layer can be decomposed into dual alternating patterns without undue impact on performance and device area.
The new configuration of IC Compiler includes innovative technology to formulate double-patterning requirements as a generalized coloring problem, avoiding any potential conflicts and rendering a correct-by-construction solution that can be reliably decomposed during manufacturing. Central to this solution is IC Compiler's placement engine and the award-winning Zroute technology, which have both been enhanced to be DPT-driven. In addition, IC Validator's In-Design Physical Verification has been enhanced for DPT compliance, enabling IC designers to verify before hand-off to manufacturing that target layers in the design are decomposable.
"Design and manufacturing complexity continues to rise, and designers are under increased pressure to adapt and deliver. As a result, it is imperative that we collaborate closely with our foundry partners and key customers to be the first to offer a compelling design implementation solution," said Antun Domic, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Synopsys' Implementation Group. "IC Compiler-Advanced Geometry is the industry's first DPT-compliant place-and-route solution that will provide designers moving to 20 nanometers with an advanced solution that effectively meets the new challenges."
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CAPS Conference 2006: Focus on Prevention
The Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS), University of California San Francisco (UCSF), in partnership with the National AIDS Fund (NAF), recently held the Fifth CAPS Conference: Focus on Prevention. The brought CAPS's research methods, findings and programs, and NAF's grantmaking experience, to service providers, health departments, community planning councils, scientists, policy makers and community partners. The conference featured keynote speakers, workshops and interactive events that encouraged an exchange of ideas about current issues in HIV prevention.
Workshops and Slides (if available)
Update: CAPS research focused on women and transgender individuals (Comfort,Iwamoto, Sevelius and Dolcini)
Voices of HIV prevention: Qualitative research at CAPS (Foster, Hutchinson,Knight, Mackenzie)
Are HIV prevention research "failures" really failures? Lessons learned fromEXPLORE (Buchbinder) and SUMIT (Gomez)
Focus on Men Who Have Sex with Men
Methamphetamine use among MSM (Colfax) [20 MB]
The effects of sexual trauma and childhood sexual abuse (Catania & Arreola)
He said "monogamy;" he said "don't ask, don't tell:" Sexual agreements among gay male couples (Hoff et al.)
Skills Building for Intervention and Research
How community agencies can be full partners in the research process (Oxendine & Do)
Conducting evaluation in the field: Putting concepts into action (Myers & Vezina)
Collaborative community-based research: A research consortium in Asian and Pacific Islander MSM communities (Do & Alvez)
Connecting Community and Research
Adapting a proven intervention for African American MSM: The Mpowerment experience (Kegeles & Sweeney) [20 MB]
Adapting a DEBI project for African American women: Prevention with Positives and the Generation Project (Jones & Amutah)
Success and failure of HIV policy in the current political environment (Morin & Tierney)
Keynote Presenters
|Cynthia Gómez PhD, is Co-Director of CAPS and an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at UCSF. Prior to coming to CAPS, Dr. Gómez spent twelve years working in community health settings, including five years as director of a child and family mental health center in Boston. Her research has focused primarily on HIV prevention intervention development, behavioral epidemiology, and on HIV policy-related research. Dr. Gómez is considered a pioneer in the areas of cultural determinants in sexual behaviors among Latinos, the role of power dynamics in sexual risk among women, and in the development of prevention interventions among people living with HIV. She has served on several national committees including the CDC's HIV & STD Advisory Council, NIDA's National Hispanic Science Network, and SAMHSA's Advisory Committee on Women's Services. Dr. Gómez was appointed to the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS under the William J. Clinton Administration and subsequently served as an appointed member to the George W. Bush Administration's Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS.
Dr. Gomez's plenary slides
|Gary Harper PhD, MPH, is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at DePaul University. The focus of his research is on exploring HIV sexual risk and protective factors among various groups of adolescents and young adults who are marginalized in our society, including urban Latino and African American youth, gay/bisexual/questioning (GBQ) male youth, and youth living with HIV; and then developing and evaluating culturally appropriate community-based HIV prevention interventions for these youth. Since the majority of his HIV prevention work is conducted in collaboration with community-based organizations, he also examines the formation of community-university partnerships to improve research and service delivery. He recently brought his prevention work to Kenya, where he has been developing a peer-to-peer HIV prevention program for youth in rural areas outside of Nairobi.
Dr. Harper's plenary slides (20 MB)
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Princeton's 17-13 win over Cornell Oct. 31 came with a pair of important firsts: the Tigers' first Ivy League victory and their first come-from-behind win. The fourth quarter was particularly rewarding, head coach Roger Hughes said: "We had a big fourth-down stop to get the ball back. We were able to run most of the time off the clock in our four-minute offense, and our quarterback [Tommy Wornham '12] and our wide receiver Trey Peacock '11 were able to make some explosive plays, which we hadn't been able to do so far."
Peacock caught three passes, two of them on touchdown plays. His 78-yard game-winning catch and run was the longest passing play in five years for the Princeton offense.
This week, the Tigers face a hot Penn team that has won five consecutive games and looks poised to challenge Harvard for the Ivy championship. A Princeton win could cripple the Quakers' Ivy ambitions, but according to Hughes, the Tigers are not motivated by a chance to play the spoiler role.
"The Penn-Princeton rivalry has always been a big game … so I don't know if the spoiler role has anything to do with it," he said. "Our kids like to play each other, and our kids know that it's a high-energy, very physical and emotional game when we get together."
Culbreath update
Jordan Culbreath '10, the team captain and star running back who has been fighting a rare and serious blood disorder this fall, returned to the Princeton sideline for the Cornell game. His presence, Hughes said, provided a lift for the team. "It was kind of a relief to our team to see that he's doing OK," the coach said. "It'd been the first time that they'd seen Jordan in about four weeks. … The treatment is progressing like it should, and it was good to see his smiling face." When the team presented the game ball to Culbreath after the victory, Hughes said, "I don't know if there was a dry eye in the house."
The Princeton-Penn rivalry has seen close games in the last three years: a memorable 31-30 overtime win for Princeton in 2006, followed by 7-0 and 14-9 victories for Penn in 2007 and 2008. In the last two games, the Tigers have struggled to score on the Quaker defense, a trend that may continue this week. Penn leads the Ivies in points allowed (11.6 per game) and yards allowed (228.7), while Princeton ranks last in scoring and seventh in total offense.
Players to watch
Princeton safety Dan Kopolovich '10
Kopolovich is one of a handful of Princeton seniors who played meaningful minutes during the team's 2006 Ivy championship season. Last season, he split time between offense and defense, serving as a backup quarterback and starting defensive back. This year, he has played defense full time, showing versatility and leadership on the field. He has broken up more passes (six) than any other Tiger, and his 23 solo tackles rank second on the team.
Penn quarterbacks Kyle Olson and Keiffer Garton
Olson, a senior, and Garton, a junior, have split time at quarterback this year, though not exactly by design. Both players have been slowed by injuries. (At one point, the Quakers had to turn to their fourth quarterback, after third-stringer Billy Ragone broke his collarbone.) The strong-armed Olson had a career day in last week's overtime win over Brown, throwing for 313 yards. In the Nov. 3 Ivy media conference call, Penn head coach Al Bagnoli was not sure if Garton, the more mobile of the two top quarterbacks, would be able to play this week.
Around the Ivies
Penn and Harvard, each 4-0, are the only teams that do not have at least two Ivy losses, so the game of the year appears to be next week's matchup of the Quakers and Crimson in Cambridge. To stay unbeaten, Harvard will need to get past Columbia (1-3) in New York this week. In other action, Yale hosts Brown (both teams are 2-2) and Cornell travels to Dartmouth (both are 1-3).
Final quote
On who will be behind center for Penn: "We don't know half the time. Ideally, you want the same kid there, but it just hasn't worked out. Last week, Kyle Olson did a nice job. We asked him to open up the offense a little bit, and we played a little bit more to his strengths. … Hopefully this week, we'll be able to have both kids available to us."
— Penn head coach Al Bagnoli
Princeton's probable starters
WR 19 – Trey Peacock '11
LT 75 – Mark Paski '10
LG 65 – Andrew Mills '11
C 78 – Andrew Hauser '10
RG 76 – Marc Daou '10
RT 72 – J.P. Makrai '10
TE 48 – Harry Flaherty '11
WR 82 – Jeb Heavenrich '11
or 9 – Andrew Kerr '11
QB 7 – Tommy Wornham '12
TB 29 – Meko McCray '11
FB 25 – Matt Zimmerman '11
K 99 – Ben Bologna '10
DE 92 – Matt Boyer '11
NT 91 – Kevin DeMaio '12
DE 85 – Joel Karacozoff '10
LB 50 – John Callahan '10
LB 51 – Steve Cody '11
LB 45 – Jon Olofsson '11
LB 56 – Brad Stetler '10
CB 3 – Cart Kelly '10
S 17 – Wilson Cates '10
S 18 – Dan Kopolovich '10
CB 23 – Glenn Wakam '11
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Christmas concert features Dordt Orchestra, Concert Band
November 26, 2008
The Dordt College Concert Band and Chamber Orchestra will present a concert on Friday, Dec. 5, at 7:30 p.m. in the B.J. Haan Auditorium. The program will primarily feature classic instrumental Christmas compositions.
The Chamber Orchestra will present the Christmas concerto "Concerto Grosso Op. 6, No. 8" by Arcangelo Corelli featuring Alice Yoo (South Korea) and Amber Wiersma (Lacombe, Canada) on violin, Kiley Boone (Sioux Center) on cello, and Krista De Vries (Orange City) on harpsichord.
The orchestra will also perform a medieval Spanish tune "Riu, Riu, Chiu" by Marshall Fine; a chorale prelude on the melody "Puer Nobis Nascitur" by Canadian organist and composer Healey Willan; and the "Rhythmic Variations on Two Ancient Hymns" by Howard Hanson.
The Dordt College Concert Band will open its portion of the concert with "Jubilant Holiday" by Sean O'Loughlin, followed by Robert Cameron's setting of Franz Biebl's "Ave Maria." Other works on the program include "Military Symphony in F" by Francois Joseph Gossec; "Canterbury Chorale" by Jan Van der Roost; and the powerful "Russian Christmas Music" by Alfred Reed.
Admission to this performance is free, with a freewill offering received to benefit music scholarships at Dordt College. More than 300 U.S. and international students participate in the music program at Dordt, with opportunities to perform in four choral groups, two orchestras, and three bands. Music scholarships are available to qualified students.
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I, I feel good
I walk alone
But then I trip upon myself and I fall
I, I stand up, and then I'm okay
But then you print some shit that makes me wanna scream
In this R&B-esque dance cut, Lady Gaga compares letting the media talk about her any way they want to giving explicit romantic consent. R. Kelly joins in to be the actual lover who she goes to.
Considering the song's subject matter, the cover art fits, as opposed to being sexual for the sake of marketing.
Due to hitting #1 on iTunes charts all over the world, it was promoted from ARTPOP's 1st promotional single to the 2nd official single.
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Resolution: Done
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Fix Version/s: 7.1.2.Final (EAP)
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When cutting and pasting CLI examples from docs or labs, it should be possible to respect multiple lines. Either the MySQL command shell style with a trailing ; to make the command "executable" or using a \ as in Linux Shells. For the win both could work. At least one has to work so that it is easy to cut and paste commands from docs/web sites into the CLI.
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Support for multi line commands is not just a matter of copy and pasting of examples. It would considerably improve the readability and maintainability of large CLI scripts with long command lines.
Done. You can use '\' to divide commands and operations across multiple lines.
What if I make a typo can I up arrow and make a fix and "replay" the command like I can in a Linux/Dos Shell? Are these '\' added automatically on long lines? Did you look at the MySQL client which I think has behavior that is close to this?
No, you can't navigate through the lines. I think It's gonna be too tricky to do that with the current state of things. But that'd be useful.
'\' are not automatically added. You have to press Enter. I don't think we should support that.
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A team from the University of Oregon's Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship won second place April 19 in the International Business Plan Competition 2008 at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
The team, TakeShape, plans to license a patented three-dimensional body scanner to sell to institutional sports teams and the health and fitness market.
TakeShape has had a good run. It tied for first place at the University of Oregon's New Venture Championship business-plan competition in Portland on April 12, winning a total of nearly $35,000 in prize in seven days.
TakeShape team members are Cody Stavig, Peter Vomocil, Bill Sedlak and Andrew Earle.
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ASU women set for a new season
The Albany State women's basketball season is right around the corner.
The Golden Rams have been practicing every morning at 4:45 A.M. under head coach Robert Skinner. They've been trying to get back to the fundamentals and limit the mistakes that plagued them last year.
Two starters return from 2012-2013, point guard Mecca Frost and power forward Kadeemya Cooper. Skinner thinks that experience, and a mix of talented new players, could mean the Lady Rams are ready to make a run.
But in the early part of the season, it's all about establishing an identity on the court.
"We do get up and down the court pretty good," Skinner said. "But we want to be patient and we want to get the best shot we can possibly get."
ASU opens up the season this Friday at the S.I.A.C. Sunshine Classic against the Florida Institute of Technology.


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The mandate for Adam Shipley, the talent buyer for the WWOZ Stage at the Voodoo Fest, was to facilitate unique collaborations. To that end, he asked singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco, the Buffalo, N.Y., native who has settled in New Orleans, who her dream collaborators would be.
He made the calls, and Riley and Neville were in. Rather than send them the original recordings of the songs they would perform at Voodoo, DiFranco re-recorded the songs with just her voice and guitar. She didn't want Riley and Neville to be influenced by the other players on the record, but to come up with their own interpretations.
It was a smart move. Over three rehearsals at her Bywater home, and onstage at Voodoo on a chilly Friday afternoon, Riley and Neville managed to honor DiFranco's style, with its sometimes odd constructions and changes, while, when the opportunity presented itself, funking it up.
Neville was a triple threat, playing Rhodes electric keyboard, a clavinet and, on a Moog, bass parts. Riley danced his drumsticks over his cymbals and drums, looking like the second-happiest person onstage.
The happiest was a beaming DiFranco. She chopped out the curt acoustic chords that are her signature, even as the rhythm section pushed her. Their sneaky funk, marked by Neville's clavinet, recast "Fuel." They laid back on "Untouchable Face." In her pop-ier moments, DiFranco came across like a female James Taylor.
But not on the final "Which Side Are You On," the title track of her forthcoming record. It is a protest song from the 1930s; she reworked the lyrics with a more contemporary slant. On the record, it reportedly marches to a military cadence.
Riley reinterpreted it as an uptempo church romp; it was not hard to image a 40-voice choir clapping along, trying to keep up. In the end, Riley, Neville and DiFranco were all the personnel required for the song to take flight.


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With NHLers not knowing how long they'd be locked out of hockey when the league's collective bargaining agreement expired almost four months ago, many took their talents overseas to keep their skating legs fresh.
For the Boston Bruins, 12 players signed with foreign clubs as quickly as the first week of the lockout and as recently as December.
Those who opted to stick around were forwards Gregory Campbell, Nathan Horton, Milan Lucic, Brad Marchand and Shawn Thornton.
Defenseman Adam McQuaid has been recovering from surgery in October to remove a blood clot under his collarbone and it's not known whether he'll be ready for the start of training camp, which could be sometime next week.
Third-line forward Jordan Caron was able to play for the Providence Bruins in the American Hockey League, but now could be out almost three weeks after an upper-body injury suffered Friday.
Defensive prospect Dougie Hamilton went back to his junior club in Niagara where he's been an assist machine with 33 in 32 games, to go with eight goals.
Here's a final look at how everyone fared overseas:
Tyler Seguin: Tore up the Swiss League for EHC Biel with 25 goals and 40 points in 29 games to lead his team and the league. Captured the Spengler Cup for Team Canada with Bruins teammate Patrice Bergeron.
Bergeron: Finished second on the team with 11 goals and 29 points in 21 games for HC Lugano of the Swiss League. He potted a goal and dished out three assists for Team Canada in the Spengler Cup final, a 7-2 win over HC Davos in Switzerland.
David Krejci: Compiled 27 points in 24 games for HC Pardubice of the Czech League. Tied for the team lead in goals (16).
Rich Peverley: Ranked third on JYP Jyvaskylas of the Finnish League with 23 points (nine goals, 14 assists) in 29 games. Left his carry-on bag unattended with Montreal Canadiens forward Lars Eller, a teammate overseas. Eller joked on Twitter he should burn it or send it to China.
Chris Kelly: Played in eight games for HC Red Ice in Switzerland, where he netted four goals and compiled nine points.
Daniel Paille: Skated in nine games for Ilves Tampere of the SM-liiga in Finland and had two goals and four assists.
Zdeno Chara: Finished with 10 points in 25 games for HC Lev Prague of the Kontinental Hockey League, with a plus-5 rating.
Dennis Seidenberg: Ranked second in assists (18) on the Addler Mannheim Eagles in Germany and had 20 points in 26 games. Was a teammate of younger brother Yanick, also a defenseman.
Andrew Ference: Had seven points in 21 games for HC Ceske Budejovice of the Czech League.
Johnny Boychuk: Compiled eight points in 15 games with EC Salzburg in Austria.
Tuukka Rask: Sported a 6-2 record with a 1.85 goals-against average and .936 save percentage for HC Plzen of the Czech League.
Anton Khudobin: Struggled a bit for Atlant Moscow Oblast in the KHL with a 6-14-4 mark, 2.96 GAA and .912 save percentage.
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SOMERVILLE— Ring in the New Year with new clothes and a new appearance all at a discount on Jan. 5 at the St. John's From The Heart Thrift Shop.
From The Heart Thrift Shop operates on the first Thursday of each month – next is Thursday, Jan. 5. Hours are 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. to accommodate working people as well as those whose personal time is based on the school hours.
From The Heart Thrift Shop is located in the parish hall at St. John's Episcopal Church, 158 West High Street in Somerville. The facility is handicapped accessible. Parking is available in the church lot behind the church or on the street.
From The Heart Thrift Shop was developed in response to an identified need in the community. The gently used – and in many cases brand new – clothes at low prices are ideal for those on a limited budget, for those returning to the workforce, or for those who like a good bargain.
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At St. John's, weekly Sunday services are conducted at 8 and 10:15 a.m. with music at 10:15 a.m. St. John's offers Sunday school every Sunday at 10:15 a.m. preceded by "Children's Chapel" at 10 a.m. in which the rector, the Rev. Ronald Pollock, offers a brief children's message. An adult Bible study is offered at 9 a.m. between the two Sunday services. St John's has both an adult choir and a junior choir. Among its many programs, St. John's hosts the SHIP's Galley Soup Kitchen three days a week and a monthly thrift shop - From The Heart - with proceeds going to non-profit agencies.


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Prayer was proper at Roberts' visit
May 25, 2013
Editor, OBSERVER: I congratulate the organizers at the Robert H....
Yes, Robert H. Jackson is among the greats! John Roberts, not so much. Take the Constitution of the United States of America -- It was very well written and thought out. Yet, we have Chief Justice Roberts saying that Obamacare (Affordable Care Act) is Constitutional as a tax when the Constitution clearly states that all taxes must originate in the House of Representatives notwithstanding that the Obamacre bill originated in the Senate! Never mind that President Barack Obama and his minions stated repeatedly that Obamacare was not a tax! Need I say more?
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On the 8th Day
And after he rested He sat for a while Then looked down on the earth With a cruel hateful smile
An omnipotent being Always was, always will With endless millennia To slaughter and kill
These creations he's made The creatures called man Are flawed, imperfect All part of his plan
Twill be entertaining Watching them grow Into vile worthless beings As he already knows
Then kill them with pestilence Firestorms and plague Hurricanes, tornadoes And smile as they beg
"Just calling up angels" The mindless will say When death and destruction Have taken the day
A kind loving, Father? No! Not on your life! A world filled with war Violence and strife
For actions you see Speak louder than words Written in holy books Full of absurd
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Marcia. Do you know why people came to this country? To escape religious persecution. Did Justice Roberts tell all of those in attendance that they needed to convert to christianity? No he didn't. So it basically boils down to this. You don't like hearing a prayer. So what. I do like hearing a prayer and so did the people that came to this country 300 years ago. Why don't you move to Europe and NOT worship. Liberals, you can't live with them....you can't .....oh forget it.
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No not all of the allies were Christians. But if the left wants us to accept all their little "quirks" like homosexual marriage, abortion, trans genders using the bathrooms of those with shall we say different parts then you da*n well should accept prayer in any place that we want it.
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Not all of the allies were Christians.
If you were an American, but not a Christian, how would you feel about a Christian prayer being read? That is the point. We are ALL Americans...but not all Christians.
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And your humanity is lacking except for those who agree with your anti-Christ rhetoric Marcia. And I think HaveANiceDay was talking about the good guys that died. You know the allies. The ones fighting for rights and freedom not the other side. Germany and Italy were not the good guys back then. Nor was Japan and the following sent troops to help the axis powers. Remember the axis powers were the "bad guys" in this. Hungary Romania Bulgaria Co-belligerents Thailand Finland San Marino Iraq
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And since most of the Chinese and Japanese aren't Christians, but the Nazi's were, most were Christians.
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The vast majority of soldiers that died in WW2 were christians from the United States. Really? number 14. World War 2 Total Deaths (Approximate):
COUNTRY CASUALTIES Soviet Union 23,954,000 China 15,000,000 Germany 7,728,000 Poland 5,720,000 Japan 2,700,000 India 2,087,000 Yugoslavia 1,027,000 Rumania 833,000 Hungary 580,000 France 567,600 Greece 560,000 Italy 456,000 Great Britain 449,800 United States 418,500
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Have a nice day, I agree we should get rid of that on our currency. I don't like baseball and never go to games so I don't care what they sing, and since they are not government organizations, it doesn't matter.
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American, Thank you for setting Marcia straight. The vast majority of soldiers that died in WW2 were christians from the United States. Marcia, I guess we should change all of our currency. Get rid of "under god" from the pledge and stop singing "God Bless America" at baseball games. Do you wish people a Merry Winter and a happy sunday in April?
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American, my statement was the exact opposite of what you said. I showed good and bad. Your analytical skills are lacking.
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I have no problem with prayer from and organized religious body. Nor do I have a problem with prayer at any political function. Lord knows this nation needs more of it.
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The KKK were also mostly democrats so does that mean all democrats are like that? Of course it must according to your lack of logic.
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Yes American, I think that's pretty much how it works. Priests who molest kids are Christians. Martin Luther King Jr was a Christian. The KKK were Christians. Mother Theresa was a Christian. For good or bad, if you say you are, you are. Or do you know about a governing body that makes these decisions around the world?
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Not ALL of us are Christians.
Will they take turns so on his next speech no matter where it takes place they might cite something from Buddhism...or Confucianism....or Hinduism...or Judaism...or heaven forbid...Islam? How will they accommodate those who do not have a religion? Maybe even those who do not believe in any higher power other than nature.
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So you think because he said he was one that actually made him one? And millions of Christians did oppose him and fought a war with Germany to depose him. They were called soldiers, sailors, airmen etc.
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"This sounds a lot like the reasoning Hitler gave Germany to justify its immoral treatment of Jews it's evolving values following philosopher Nietzsche's Ubermensch concept, departing from Judeo-Christian moral values and the creation of one's own values." You seem to forget that Hitler was a Christian, and millions of Christians did nothing to oppose or stop him. Including the Roman Catholic Church.
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MOBILE, Alabama -- Mobile police today arrested a 19-year-old man and a 17-year-old girl in connection with the shooting of two people Thursday night in a west Mobile grocery parking lot, spokesman Officer Christopher Levy said.
Jeremy Daigle and Hannah Richards were both charged
twice with 2nd-degree assault and once with shooting into an occupied vehicle or building, Levy said.
Daigle was additionally charged with 2nd-degree receiving stolen property in connection with items he had that had been reported stolen in a home burglary ni February, Levy said.
The incident took place shortly before 11:30 p.m. in the parking lot of the bruno's at Airport and University boulevards. Levy said a group of people were in the lot when a silver sedan with several people in it drove around the group.
Levy said the people in the car shouted and cursed at the ones in the lot, and when the car circled the lot and passed a second time, someone fired a gun from the rear window of the car.
One victim was shot in the calf, and the other was grazed in the left leg, Levy said.
Both suspects remained in Mobile County Metro Jail Tuesday evening. Daigle was held on bail totaling $12,000, while Richards was held on bail totaling $9,000, according to jail records.
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Adoption Option hosts free meeting
The Adoption Option, a partnership between The Village Family Service Center and Lutheran Social Services of North Dakota is holding a free informational meeting about adoption, Thursday, Jan. 16 at 6:00 p.m. at The Village Family Service Center, 1201 25th St. S. in Fargo.
This meeting is open to North Dakotans who are considering adopting a child.
Caring professionals with knowledge and experience in adoption issues will answer questions and provide education regarding the opportunities, strengths and risks of adoption.
Find out about all the adoption options including infant, identified, interstate, and relative adoption, plus a special focus on international adoption. Open adoption will be explained and the issues of cost and waiting periods will be addressed. For more information, call 1-800-627-8220.


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It all started with porn.
Dennis Bemmann, after co-founding German social network StudiVZ and selling it for undisclosed millions, was already enjoying early retirement when he heard how a porn movie had been financed: crowd funding. Mr. Bemmann and his business partner, Guido Sandler, decided to use the concept to finance businesses and founded Bergfuerst AG.
Crowds show the power of the masses online. If enough people unite, they can finance projects from movies to the development of new products. On the crowd-funding platform Kickstarter, millions of dollars are collected—and in many cases teams aren't able to demonstrate more than a prototype. Nor is it uncommon for investors to show interest in start-ups as soon as it becomes clear through Kickstarter that there is a market. The crowd, potential consumers, already decide in a product's development phase if it will be made.
Messrs. Bemmann and Sandler want to extend the crowd principle to corporate finance. "The democratization of venture capital," Mr. Bemmann calls it. The aim is for every Internet user to be able to invest in young companies that have just managed to establish themselves in the market and want to grow—participation prices start at €250 ($323). It's a risky form of investment but one that, according to the two business partners, offers great opportunities.
Bergfuerst will account for the money collected in quarterly reports, including profit-and-loss statements, cash flow and management reports. They will inform all shareholders simultaneously about important activities in ad hoc announcements.
Mr. Sandler, who is the company's chief executive while Mr. Bemmann looks after the information technology side of the business, believes it's a better way to invest money than the volatile and risky derivatives market.
At Bergfuerst, crowd-funding will run on a technical platform. Investors will be able to acquire the shares of start-ups that interest them, creating a "share price" that the Bergfuerst wants to make public. Unlike normal stock markets, shareholders don't remain anonymous and are known to the issuer. The companies can use them for direct marketing and encourage their shareholders to spread the word via social media.
Some 2,500 users have already signed up on the platform, but no company is yet represented. One of the conditions is residence in Germany. As soon as Bergfuerst has its license from the German banking regulators, BaFin, it wants to expand its services to investors across the European Union.
The two founders say that the first company will sell its shares via the platform in late October or November, although they don't want to say which one it is. The issue size however will be around €2 million, which would be way too small for an IPO. "No banker in Frankfurt will answer the phone for such a small volume," says Mr. Sandler.
Mr. Bemmann is convinced the future belongs to crowd-funding. Just as consumers shop online these days, he thinks it will be normal to place venture capital online. "In 10 or 20 years, we will say that this is completely logical and it will have become indispensable," he said.
A version of this story first appeared on The Wall Street Journal Deustchland, Wie die Crowd die Wirtschaft verändert


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For Moore Catholic, the beat goes on.
The Mavericks delivered a big blow early, building a double-digit lead behind a barrage of 3-pointers and airtight defense, then withstood a late run en route to a 52-47 Catholic state AA semifinal victory over host Archbishop Molloy last night in Queens.
The 22-5 Mavericks advanced to the championship game of the Catholic state tournament's top tier for the first time since 1986, when the A classification was the highest level. Moore will meet Nazareth (a winner over Christ the King in the other semifinal) for the state AA crown tonight at Christ the King in Queens (7 p.m.).
"It really means a lot (to get to this point). We've worked so hard to get here," said Moore senior guard Christina Rubin, who finished with a team-high 16 points. "We earned this and it's just a great feeling.
"I don't think many people expected us to win these games," Rubin added. "But I think we showed we can play against some of the best competition."
In addition to Rubin (three treys), Jamie O'Hare (12 points), Gabriella Rubin (11 points, 3 treys, six rebounds) and Taylor Robertson (eight points, 11 rebounds) made strong contributions for the Mavs, who finished with nine 3-pointers.
For the second straight game, the Mavericks overcame a glaring negative statistic (25 turnovers, including 11 in the final period) with a host of solid numbers.
For starters, Moore shot 48 percent from the field (19 for 40), including a sizzling 67 percent in the first eight minutes (8 for 12). The Mavericks' man-to-man defense limited the Stanners to 36-percent shooting (18 for 50), including 29 percent (6 for 21) in the first half.
In addition, Moore outrebounded the Stanners 32-23 and, as has been the case for its entire playoff run, hit some key free throws down the stretch.
The Mavs also overcame a whopping seven offensive fouls called against them.
"For parts of this game, we played extremely well," said Moore coach Rich Postiglione. "You can't be in this tournament versus a team of this caliber and not expect them to make a run, which they did.
"But we held on in the end. We did enough to get the win."
The Mavericks' red-hot perimeter shooting continued from the get-go and, oddly, it took place without Christina Rubin pitching in. Instead, O'Hare and Victoria Rubin sandwiched a pair of treys from Gabriella Rubin as Moore raced to a 16-6 lead with 1:29 left.
Gabriella Rubin and O'Hare added baskets in the final 59 seconds to give the Mavs a 20-7 lead after one period and when Christina Rubin drained a pair of threes 23 seconds apart early in the second, the Mavs owned a 26-10 lead with 4:58 left in the half.
"We don't outscore them, we keep them from outscoring us," laughed Robertson, whose team forced the Stanners into some low-percentage shots in the early going. "(During that stretch to start the game), they were one-and-done and that was big. We weren't giving them any second chances."
Molloy, which was led by Carolyn Gallagher (19 points, 10 rebounds), staged a 9-0 run that bridged the middle quarters to cut Moore's lead to 26-19 early in the third.
However, O'Hare and Gabriella Rubin hit back-to-back treys to spark an 18-6, Christina Rubin-led run. Christina Rubin's put back off an offensive board gave the Mavs a commanding 44-25 lead with just over a minute left in the third.
Although the Mavs still led 48-33 when O'Hare scored off a pretty Robertson feed with 3:26 left, Molloy staged a furious comeback to surprisingly make things interesting.
In fact, Amani Tatum (14 points) led an 11-0 run in 1:52 span to cut Moore's lead to 48-44 with 59.2 seconds left. To make matters worse, O'Hare fouled out during the Stanners' late spurt.
But the Mavs finally restored order with 55.7 ticks left when starter Victoria Crea, who also sat out long stretches due to foul trouble, was fouled and sank both ends of a one-and-one to increase the lead to six.
Christina Rubin hit 2 of 4 freebies in the waning seconds to provide the final score.
"One of the important things was getting into the bonus, especially because it was getting harder and harder to score (late in the game)," said Postiglione. "The time and score dictated (fouling) by them and that's what we were hoping for in the end."


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Now another danger looms.
Officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on Monday warned Staten Island storm victims to be on guard against phony inspectors and crooked contractors looking to prey on those rendered vulnerable by nature's wrath.
A homeowner should check the identification badge of any inspector or contractor who may show up offering repairs -- a FEMA jacket or shirt is not proof of employment.
The agency also advised against revealing bank account or Social Security numbers to anyone who suddenly shows up at a damaged home, and to keep in mind that federal or state workers do not solicit or accept money.
"In times of crisis, New Yorkers pull together," said Michael F. Byrne, FEMA's federal coordinating officer. "However, some people will try to take advantage of vulnerable survivors. We strongly recommend that folks take a few simple steps to make sure they're dealing with an honest person."
One particular scam the agency has received reports about involves contractors who claim to be assessing homes under the Rapid Repairs and Sheltering and Temporary Essential Powers (STEP) programs -- and seeking immediate payment for services provided with promises of future funding, Jon W. Knowles, FEMA media relations specialist, said.
The contractors are telling residents to lay out the money for repairs up front, while FEMA will reimburse them for assessment costs and guaranteeing additional cash payments of $10,000 to be used for rapid repairs to homes.
According to Knowles, STEP assessments are free of charge -- the program is meant to provide temporary measures so storm survivors may shelter-in-place in their homes, pending more permanent repairs.
STEP assists in services essential to saving lives, protecting public health and safety and protecting property.
Another potential scam entails frauds claiming to be from FEMA or the state calling or asking for a victim's Social Security number, bank account number or other sensitive information - claiming the information is required to apply for aid.
The agency advises victims to provide their Social Security number and banking information only when registering for FEMA assistance, either by calling 1-800-621-FEMA (3362), or going online at www.disasterassistance.gov or via a web-enabled phone at m.fema.gov.
Victims should also be leery of unlicensed contractors offering to begin work immediately.
When hiring a contractor, a homeowner should use licensed local ones backed by reliable references. You should get a written estimate from at least three contractors, including the cost of labor and materials, and read any fine print.
It is also recommended that a homeowner demand contractors carry general liability insurance and workers' compensation.
One should also watch out for bogus pleas for post-disaster donations.
Before donating, ask for the charity's exact name, street address, phone number and web address, then phone the charity directly and confirm that the person asking for funds is an employee or volunteer.
It is also recommended to pay by check, made out to the charity's name, in case funds must be stopped later.
Click here for FEMA's Rumor Control site, which seeks to debunk myths and scams circulating in times of crisis. If you suspect someone is perpetrating fraud, call the FEMA Disaster Fraud Hotline at 1-866-720-5721.
Complaints may also be made to local law enforcement agencies and to the New York State Attorney General's office in New York at 212-416-8300 or go to their web site at: www.ag.ny.gov.


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TRENTON — New Jersey residents are cooling to the idea of merging towns to curtail the state's famously high property taxes, a poll released this morning found.
The Rutgers-Eagleton survey shows residents who four years ago supported municipal consolidation by a comfortable margin are now evenly split on the issue. The shift comes even though the idea is being pushed hard by Republican Gov. Chris Christie and state Senate President Stephen Sweeney (D-Gloucester).
When asked if they'd like their town to merge with another municipality, 46 percent preferred to stay independent and 45 percent chose consolidation. In 2010, 54 percent wanted mergers, while 38 percent said their towns should remain the same.
For decades, Trenton politicians would never even discuss consolidation because of Jersey voters' long dedication to the concept of "home rule" stressing a local identity. But the idea gained steam as New Jersey property taxes continued to soar.
With 565 municipalities in New Jersey, Christie and Sweeney have said towns could save money by combining or sharing services. Christie has said his hometown of Mendham Township should consolidate with Mendham Borough. Sweeney has been pushing a measure for several years that would reduce state aid to towns that refuse to share services recommended by the state.
Princeton Borough and Princeton Township residents voted to merge their towns in 2011, which resulted in a 2 cent decrease in the tax rate.
But a recent study by the Rutgers Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy cast doubt on the idea that consolidation would make a dent in property taxes. The study found that large New Jersey municipalities aren't cheaper to run than small ones.
David Redlawsk, director of the Rutgers-Eagleton poll, said one reason fewer residents support merging towns is because property taxes haven't been jumping by big margins in recent years. Property taxes went up an average of 1.8 percent in 2013, and 1.6 percent in 2012. They rose at a far faster pace in the previous decade.
"While some towns have had large tax increases, many have not, which ironically may be reducing pressure to cut local government costs," Redlawsk said.
Mayors have credited a 2 percent limit on arbitration awards — how much in raises third-party arbitrators can give to police and fire unions at an impasse with towns — with helping to stem property tax increases. But that law expired April 1, when the Democrat-led Assembly and Christie could not agree on the form it should take. It prompted Christie to bash Democrats on the issue at rallies and town halls.
Yesterday, Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto (D-Hudson) said he and Christie are negotiating the law's renewal. "I am in conversations with the governor and hopeful that we will find a compromise," Prieto said.
In the poll, almost half of those who opposed consolidation said they would be won over if they were guaranteed tax savings. Forty-four percent said they'd change their minds if it meant stable property taxes or a 10 percent cut. Still, 47 percent stuck with their original answer to keep towns as they are.
"For consolidation to be embraced, proposals will have to all but guarantee tax cuts," said Redlawsk. "But we don't know whether voters would believe politicians who say combining governments will cut taxes."
Garden State residents were also split on whether consolidation would make local government more efficient: 37 percent said it would, 37 percent said it would not make much of a difference, and 18 percent said it would make local government less efficient.
Forty-four percent said the quality of services would stay the same in a merged government, while 20 percent said it would get better and 27 percent said it would get worse.
The survey of 816 New Jersey residents was conducted March 31 to April 6. Its margin of error is plus or minus 3.9 percentage points.
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Whether this says something or not about the Dolphins, Greg Cote of the Miami Herald writes that punter Brandon Fields is Miami's best shot at a Pro Bowler this year. Cote runs through the roster and checks the Dolphins' chances of having someone go to Hawaii.
Reshad Jones, the Dolphins' safety, could be one of the guys to make that trip. Omar Kelly of the Sun Sentinel recounts how Jones has improved this season to one of the best at his position in the AFC.
Jets offensive coordinator Tony Sparano: 'I can do a better job' using Tim Tebow
Bart Scott's consecutive games played streak on the line because of a toe injury
Jets using Quinton Coples more originally planned because of injuries on defensive line
Jets vs. Dolphins injury report: Sione Po'uha limited in practice but progressing, Joe McKnight could be gametime decision again
Jets' Aaron Maybin won't get into war of words with Dolphins' Mike Pouncey, clarifies earlier statement
Dolphins C Mike Pouncey blasts Jets' Aaron Maybin, calling him 'a joke'
Chris Burke of SI.com takes a look at the growing value of kickers. With how successful they've become and their consistency, they are now even worthy of a draft pick.


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Or you may have just stumbled across one of today's biggest losers. Otter Tail is down more than 5% today after a second-quarter report full of ill tidings. Sales improved by 9.5% year over year to $270 million. However, last year's $0.07 net profit per share turned into $0.40 of red ink per share. The bottom-line damage comes from a non-cash writedown on the ShoreMaster shipping service, and from increased manufacturing costs in the company's windtower construction segment. The rest of Otter Tail's businesses were a mixed bag.
Did I mention that Otter Tail runs a shockingly sprawling business model for such a small company? Power generation is Otter Tail's backbone, much like how Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-B ) was built around insurance premiums, and how General Electric (NYSE: GE ) built a cross-industry empire around heavy machinery. Fortune Brands (NYSE: FO ) is another contemporary example -- booze, home security, and golf products. Otter Tail does the same thing on a smaller scale.
Diversity ranging from wind-tower engineering and industrial shipping to dehydrated potato powder and medical scanner services usually helps Otter Tail more than it hurts. It's rare to see the company tanking entirely, because weakness in one field tends to be counterbalanced by unexpected strength somewhere else.
But no system is foolproof, and a single industry certainly did bite Otter Tail hard this time. The long-term prospects of the wind power segment remain "undiminished," according to CEO John Erickson, but the ShoreMaster operation earned no such mitigating statement. Furthermore, guidance was revised down for the year by a whopping 30%-40% because of flat construction activity and sluggishness in the wind business.
To me, Otter Tail remains an intriguing little conglomerate with a very attractive dividend yield of 5.8%. The company is generally profitable, and I believe that the good times will come back eventually, lifting profits and shareholder returns. But I wouldn't buy this stock today, despite the sudden discount. I think it's likely that the fallout from this poor quarter could linger for a little while. So hold your horses if you're interested in this dividend champ, and wait for a better price.
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Calling for an end to the panoply of loopholes and deductions in the federal tax code, U.S. Sen. David Vitter, R-La. found himself Monday in the rare position of echoing a similar plea from President Barack Obama. But that parallel between the two diametric politicians was short-lived, as Vitter later chided the president for not pushing for specific tax reforms.
"The president says he supports it, but he's never introduced -- he's never had a specific plan saying let's do it," Vitter said during a town hall meeting in Elmwood. "He's never taken a leadership role in it."
Despite emphasizing his stance on tax reform, curbing federal spending and increasing domestic energy production, Vitter instead waded through free-wheeling questions that mostly coalesced around illegal immigration and reforming Social Security. His appearance in the Jefferson Parish Council chamber was the latest stop on his biennial town hall tour of Louisiana's 64 parishes. Jefferson was Vitter's town hall meeting No. 38 since the 112th Congress began this year.
John Kelly of Metairie drew the first instance of applause when he said illegal immigrants have an easier time reaping federal benefits than many U.S. citizens. And he found a sympathetic ear in Vitter, whose call for stronger federal enforcement of immigration laws took on a partisan tone.
"Liberals don't want to enforce the law. Liberals want it to continue and that's the fight we're up against," he said.
"The problem is there are too many people in Washington who don't want to fix the problem, who have a political agenda, who benefit from more illegals coming, particularly if they eventually get amnesty and can vote," Vitter said.
Calling the United States "the single most energy-rich country in the world, bar none," Vitter made a familiar push to open up more land and the Gulf of Mexico "whole hog" to extract oil and other fuels.
"The problem is we're the only country in the world that takes 95 percent of those resources and puts them off-limits and passes many goofy federal laws that say you can't do much in the eastern Gulf, you can't do anything off the Atlantic Coast, can't do anything off the Pacific Coast, very little if anything offshore Alaska, nothing in ANWR, the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge," he said. "So we need to get government out of the way and open up those energy resources, which we could do in a responsible, environmentally sound way."
Warding off questions of a few critics, Vitter spent roughly an hour with the mostly sympathetic crowd.
Kelly, who had raised his concerns about illegal immigration, said afterward he was satisfied with what he heard. Vitter's town hall meeting "informed the people about his values and allowed people to vent frustrations," he said, "whether you agreed with him or not."


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The House of Representatives is to vote today on a wiretapping bill that would give some of America's biggest and richest companies a get-out-of-jail card for breaking the law and that also would help the government carry out unsupervised snooping for years in the future.
But Verizon and other telecommunications companies should not be rewarded with immunity against lawsuits for agreeing to perform President Bush's illegal eavesdropping. They should answer for their actions in court, just like any other citizen.
And Congress should not gut the current law that says a federal judge's review is essential to avoid the very abuses of power that Bush's White House embraced.
The House "compromise" wiretapping bill is not a compromise at all. It would give the telecommunications companies absolute immunity from the suits pending against them for wiretapping if they can simply show that the Bush administration told them at the time that the snooping was legal. Which everyone agrees the administration did indeed do.
It doesn't take a legal scholar to see the danger in this approach: It means that the law becomes whatever the president wants it to be, never mind what the statutes or even the Constitution says.
The president also very much wants the other major part of the new wiretapping law, the section that amounts to an aggressive broadening of federal surveillance powers. The provisions would emasculate the ability of federal judges to review wiretapping orders, especially if the orders were for a general information "dragnet" as opposed to targeting specific persons.
Snooping government agents would be officially free to plug into phone and data lines and copy and review untold millions of calls and e-mails, all without serious adult supervision. Effective checks and balances in government this is not.
Bush and Attorney General Michael Mukasey want the new law and they want it now. House members should not give it to them. Government wiretapping is now operating under a series of interim laws set to expire in early August.
There is no evidence that these interim rules are too anemic to protect the nation for a while longer. Congress should extend them. If the wiretapping law needs major revisions, these can be done under a new president.
One who, unlike Bush, didn't begin a secret, illegal wiretapping program months before Sept. 11, 2001.


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This is pretty normal for the bigger boards. Keep your weight (feet) further forward and lean the rig forward a little more when you want to turn the nose more downwind. When you tack, you have to lean the sail forward a bit and use one foot in front of the mast to push it around through the wind.
When you beach start, the first foot on the board must land on the center line of the board as far forward as possible (its a big step), and as soon as you get your second foot on the board, move both feet forward near the mast. The step up is tough because of the long fin and being in deeper water. Most people learning step too far back on the board and on the rail rather than the center line.
It doesn't take long to overcome this issue with some practice.
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By Sara Kugler Frazier/The Associated Press
NEW YORK — A winter storm made travel torturous in the Northeast on Sunday, dumping a thick layer of snow that stranded thousands of airline, train and bus passengers and made motorists think twice about hitting after-Christmas sales.
Up to 20 inches of snow were expected in some areas, including Philadelphia, where the Eagles-Vikings NFL game was postponed, and Boston, where an aquarium had to protect — of all things — penguin ice sculptures from the elements. More than 1,400 flights had been canceled out of the New York City area's three major airports alone, and more cancellations were expected Monday.
For many people, however, the storm's timing was perfect: the day after Christmas, a Sunday, no school for at least a week.
"Love snowy days when I don't have to go anywhere. Staying in — just me and my cozy new socks," author Neesha Meminger wrote on Twitter from her home in the Bronx.
She told the AP she's able to savor the moment because her children, ages 6 and 9, are on holiday break: "If this was during the school week, I would be cursing."
Colleen and Graham James of Montclair, N.J., represented the other side of the coin. They were at Newark Airport with their two young children and their dachshund, trying to reach family in Iowa, but their connecting flight to Chicago was delayed more than two and a half hours.
"We left the day after Christmas to avoid the Christmas craze. I guess that didn't work out so well," Colleen James said.
Graham James was resigning himself to postponing their trip a month. "Now we're worried about just driving home because of the crazy snow," he said.
Airlines canceled flights throughout the Northeast and at airports in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Chicago and the Carolinas. They expected more cancellations Monday, but were trying to rebook passengers and hoped to resume normal operations Tuesday.
U.S. Airways had already canceled 110 Monday flights by Sunday afternoon — spokesman Jim Olson said that was to try to keep passengers and crews from getting stranded at airports.
New York's Kennedy Airport was calm, apparently because many would-be travelers elected not to trudge to the terminal in hopes of getting rebooked.
Andrew Brent's flight to Florida was repeatedly pushed back, and the New York mayoral spokesman thought he might have to wait until Monday to meet up with his wife and son for vacation. But he added, "I'll get down there eventually so I'm not terribly worried."
Amtrak, meanwhile, canceled train service from New York to Maine on Sunday evening, after doing the same earlier for several trains in Virginia. Bus companies canceled routes up and down the East Coast, affecting thousands of travelers.
Kate Lindquist, on her way home from New Hampshire to New York City, was greeted with a handwritten sign at a Boston bus station: "Sorry, we are closed today."
"To have this happen on a Sunday during a holiday weekend is incredibly frustrating," she told the AP in an e-mail.
The Northeast is getting the brunt of the storm. Forecasters issued a blizzard warning for New York City for Sunday and Monday, with a forecast of 11 to 16 inches of snow and strong winds that will reduce visibility to near zero at times. A blizzard warning was also in effect for Rhode Island and most of eastern Massachusetts including Boston, with forecasters predicting 15 to 20 inches of snow. A blizzard warning is issued when snow is accompanied by sustained winds or gusts over 35 mph.
As much as 18 inches could fall on the New Jersey shore with wind gusts over 40 mph.
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter declared a snow emergency and urged residents to stay off the roads.
The NFL moved the Philadelphia Eagles' game against the Minnesota Vikings from Sunday night to Tuesday because of the blizzard. Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, who does football commentaries after Eagles games, was not amused.
"This is football; football's played in bad weather," Rendell told KYW-TV. "I, for one, was looking forward to sitting in the stands throughout the snow and seeing an old-time football game."
In Boston, Mayor Thomas Menino declared a snow emergency that bans parking on all major streets, and the New England Aquarium bubble-wrapped its four 5-foot-tall penguin ice sculptures to protect them from the wind and snow.
More than 2,400 sanitation workers were working in 12-hour shifts to clear New York City's 6,000 miles of streets. Not that Mayor Michael Bloomberg wanted people to use them.
"I understand that a lot of families need to get home after a weekend away, but please don't get on the roads unless you absolutely have to," Bloomberg said.
In Rhode Island, emergency officials encouraged businesses to let employees report to work late Monday, saying road conditions for the early morning commute Monday would be treacherous.
The snow was easier to take for people who just stayed home.
"The weather outside is frightful, but the fire is so delightful, and since we've no place to go, I'm gonna uncork a Bordeaux," Paul White said on Twitter from his home in Point Lookout, N.Y. In a phone interview, the lawyer — who was indeed sipping a glass of red wine — said the snow gave his family a chance to be together and cozy another day.
The weather deterred some people from hitting day-after-Christmas sales, but that appeared to be a relatively light blow for retailers coming off a strong shopping season.
"People will just wait a day to do exchanges and use their gift cards. It's no big deal," said Greg Maloney, CEO of the retail practice of Jones Lang LaSalle, which manages malls across the country.
There were more snow plows than shoppers at Jackson Premium Outlets in Jackson, N.J., but the weather didn't keep Shoba Dorai from making the trip from Edison with a girlfriend and her friend's two toddlers. Several stores closed by 3 p.m.
It was not that bad when we left this morning around 10:30," Dorai said. "I guess it was not a great idea, though."
In southern New Jersey's Philadelphia suburbs, supermarkets were crowded early in the day and there was a run on snow shovels. Stores were quiet by late afternoon — though there was a line at the Red Box video kiosk outside a Walgreen's store in Cherry Hill.
The monster storm is the result of a low pressure system off the North Carolina coast and strengthened as it moved northeast, according to the National Weather Service.
Travel misery began a day earlier in parts of the South, which was hit with a white Christmas for the record books.
Columbia, S.C., had its first significant Christmas snow since weather records were first kept in 1887. Atlanta had just over an inch of snow — the first measurable accumulation on Christmas Day since the 1880s. About a foot of snow fell in Norfolk, Va., the most seen there since a February 1989 storm dumped nearly 15 inches.
Utility companies in the Carolinas said more than 100,000 people lost power because of the storm, and only about a third had service restored by midday Sunday.
The National Weather Service said 8.5 inches of snow fell in Franklinton, N.C., about 30 miles north of Raleigh, from Saturday through Sunday.
Diane Smith, 55, said her power was out for about four hours there Sunday morning, but she and her husband have a generator. Relatives, including two grandchildren, who live nearby came over for breakfast and to get warm before going home after power was restored.
"It's beautiful," Smith said. "As long as I have power, I love it."
Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Geoff Mulvihill in Cherry Hill, N.J.; Tim Jacobs in Newark, N.J.; Ron Todt in Philadelphia; Page Ivey in Columbia; Jacquelyn Martin and Norm Gomlak in Washington; Ben Nuckols in Baltimore; Eric Tucker in Providence, R.I.; John Raby in Charleston, W.Va., and Beth DeFalco in Jackson, N.J.


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HALIFAX — Environment Canada has issued a snowfall warning for parts of the southern Maritimes and Newfoundland as a storm makes its way north from the U.S. eastern seaboard.
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Forecasters are calling for between 15 and 20 centimetres in most of Nova Scotia and slightly less in southern New Brunswick and eastern P-E-I.
The snow, which is expected to begin later in the day, will be accompanied by wind gusts of up to 60 kilometres an hour in parts of Nova Scotia and 40 kilometres an hour in Newfoundland.
Meanwhile, heavy snow in the eastern U.S. has already cancelled several flights at the Halifax Stanfield International Airport.
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Republican presidential contender Rick Santorum will not visit Augusta on Saturday with the Susan B. Anthony social conservative women's bus tour.
According to a news release from the Susan B. Anthony List, Santorum will not be here when they schedule a stop at 109 12th St.
The address is that of Springfield Village Park, a park that commemorates the black community that once existed in the area adjacent to Springfield Baptist Church.
Santorum will be campaigning in Ohio on Saturday, according to his Web site.


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