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It was a fantastic fight to the finish in Eisenhower and Sheffield's 2012 track & field opener during a tri-meet with North Clarion Wednesday at Sheffield High School.
Both the Knights and Wolverines boys teams finished the afternoon with records of 1-0-1. Both teams defeated North Clarion before settling for a tie in their head-to-head matchup. Sheffield and Eisenhower finished with identical scores of 70.5.
In girls competition, Eisenhower finished 1-1 and host Sheffield finished 0-2. The Lady Knights beat Sheffield, 76-65 and lost to North Clarion, 94-47. Sheffield also fell to North Clarion, 78-62.
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Strong arm
Eisenhower's Andy Decker completes his turn in the boys javelin event during a tri-meet with Sheffield and North Clarion held Wednesday at Sheffield High School.
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Hang time
Sheffield's Dylan McNeal completes his turn in the boys triple jump event during a tri-meet with Sheffield and North Clarion held Wednesday at Sheffield High School.
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Your turn
Sheffield teammates Kwante Johnson, left, and Deonte Clay pass the baton during the boys 4X100 relay Wednesday at Sheffield High School. The Wolverines hosted a tri-meet with Eisenhower and North Clarion on a picture perfect — albeit windy — spring afternoon.
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Stop and go
Sheffield's Hannah Vile, left, ends her leg of the girls 4X100 while teammate Brandy Rockwell begins hers during a tri-meet with Eisenhower and North Clarion held Wednesday at Sheffield High School.
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Over the top
Eisenhower's Tim Lange clears the final hurdle while competing in the boys 110-meter hurdles during a tri-meet with Sheffield and North Clarion Wednesday at Sheffield High School.
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Step for step
Sheffield's Hannah Vile, left, and Eisenhower's Taylor Talasky go step for step during the girls 100-meter dash at Wednesday's tri-meet with North Clarion at Sheffield High School.
Eisenhower finished the tri-meet with five first-place finishers. The Knights were victorious in two of the three relay races, winning both the 4X400 and 4X800.
Individually, Ben Perkins, Anthony Amroski and Jake VanHouten all recorded wins. Perkins won the 400, Amroski the 3200 and VanHouten the triple jump.
Sheffield standout Kalil Slaughter had an up and down start to his senior season. Slaughter earned individual wins in the 200 and the long jump and was part of the winning 4X100 relay team with Deonte Clay, Kwante Johnson and Dylan Reynolds.
However his best event, the 100 meters, was a disappointment. Slaughter cited a malfunctioning starting gun for his slow start out of the blocks and the speedster had to settle for a third-place run in the 100. This after finishing second in the state a year ago.
Sheffield's other victory on the day came from Evan Jamison who cleared five feet, eight inches to win the high jump.
"I was very impressed with our 4X100 relay team today," said Sheffield boys coach Bryan Gould. "We were just a couple thousandths of a second off the school record time. That's impressive for the first meet of the year. There is a lot of speed and a lot of talent on that team and I think the school record is within reach."
Eisenhower's girls team had a strong start to the year - especially on the track where Taylor Talasky and Bizz Baran stood out. In addition to the winning 4X400 relay race, Ike got wins from Talasky in the 100 and 200 and Baran in the 400.
"Our 1600 relay team had a very nice race," said Ike girls coach Mike Logue. "I was very pleased with their performance. Bizz and Lacey (Stanko) also had strong times in the 400 and of course Taylor had a nice afternoon."
Despite low numbers, Sheffield's girls team was stout on Wednesday, looking especially good in the field events. The team still did record two wins on the track, winning the 4X100 relay and the 100 hurdles with Morgan Leichtenberger.
Freshman Jen Isenberg led the way in the field with two wins. First, she won the javelin before sharing the winning high jump with teammate Ashley Davidson. Leichtenberger was a winner in the triple jump, Juli Ely won the discus and Jade Moore won the long jump.
"We were very strong in our field events," said Sheffield girls coach Jenelle Johnson. "Our freshmen are stepping up and earning lots of points for the team. I'm very impressed with this young team."
Johnson added that Davidson and Isenberg qualified for districts in the high jump and that Abby Labesky, Davidson and Ely all earned key points for the team.
Sheffield does not return to action until April 11 when it visits Coudersport. Eisenhower hosts Meadville on April 10.
Sheffield boys 79, North Clarion 62
Sheffield boys 70.5, Eisenhower 70.5
Eisenhower def. North Clarion
100: 1. Dean (N) 11.97, 2. Johnson (S), 3. Slaughter (S)
200: 1. Slaughter (S) 23.27, 2. Dean (N), 3. Johnson (S)
400: 1. Perkins (E) 53.42, 2. Eernisse (E), 3. VonHendricks (N)
800: 1. Schmader (N) 2:20.4, 2. Shakwan (S), 3. Quinones (S)
1600: 1. Schmader (N) 5:16.2, 2. Mizak (E), 3. Geisler (S)
3200: 1. Amroski (E) 11:18.3, 2. Schmader (N), 3. VanGuilder (E)
110 hurdles: 1. Dean (N) 16.28, 2. Silvis (N), 3. Kirkwood (N)
300 hurdles: 1. Dean (N) 41.93, 2. Kirkwood (N), 3. VanHouten (E)
400 relay: 1. Sheffield (Clay, Johnson, Reynolds, Slaughter) 45.15
1600 relay: 1. Eisenhower 3:44.5
3200 relay: 1. Eisenhower time NA
Shot put: 1. Obenrader (N) 49' 1 1/2, 2. Lee (S), 3. Fitch (S)
Discus: 1. Schmader (N) 111'6, 2. Fitch (S), 3. Jones (S)
Javelin: 1. Obenrader (N) 160'8, 2. Yeagle (E), 3. Fitch (S)
Long jump: 1. Slaughter (S) 20' 3 1/4, 2. Silvis (N), 3. Jamison (S)
Triple jump: 1. VanHouten (E) 40'11, 2. Perkins (E), 3. Shine (E)
High jump: 1. Jamison (S) 5'10, 2. Shine (E), 3. Vile (S), Onoratti (E), Popoleo (N)- tie
North Clarion 78, Sheffield girls 62
Eisenhower girls 76, Sheffield girls 65
North Clarion 94, Eisenhower girls 47
100: 1. Talasky (E) 14.03, 2. Vile (S), 3. Moore (S)
200: 1. Talasky (E) 30.58, 2. Stanko (E), 3. Vile (S)
400: 1. Baran (E) 1:06.5, 2. Bean (N), 3. Stanko (E)
800: 1. Wallace (N) 2:32.9, 2. Baran (E), 3. Bauer (E)
1600: 1. Wallace (N) 5:52.1, 2. Bauer (E), 3. Sherman (N)
3200: 1. Wallace (N) 13:04.8, 2. Megan (N), 3. Thompson (E)
100 hurdles: 1. Leichtenberger (S) 18.2, 2. Marsh (E), 3. Mills (N)
300 hurdles: 1. Ochs (N) 54.52, 2. Bawer (N), 3. Wallin (E)
400 relay: 1. Sheffield 57.88
1600 relay: 1. Eisenhower 4:47.7
3200 relay: 1. North Clarion 11:51.1
Shot put: 1. Nick (N) 25'11, 2. Mills (N), 3. Hansen (S)
Discus: 1. Eli (S) 74'9, 2. Young (N), 3. Hargenrader (N)
Javelin: 1. Isenberg (S) 89'10, 2. Vile (S), 3. Nick (N)
Long jump: 1. Moore (S) 14'4 1/2, 2. Reed (N), 3. Hargenrader (N)
Triple jump: 1. Leichtenberger (S) 28'1, 2. Sherman (N), 3. Davidson (S)
High jump: 1. Davidson (S), Isenberg (S), Oaks (N), 3-way tie


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Status Report on NSF's Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Grants (AAG) Program
Here's an update from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences (AST) on the Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Grants (AAG) program.
FY 2013 Review Results
In fiscal year 2013 (FY 2013), running from October 2012 through September 2013, the final budget allocated to the AAG) program was $42.4 million, compared to $44.5 million in FY 2012. The FY 2013 allocation was slightly larger than expected a few months ago, and was achieved by obtaining some unplanned co-funding for other programs and then by transferring all remaining AST reserve funds into AAG late in the fiscal year. As a result awards were made to a total of 90 projects out of 637 proposed. Counting the multiple proposals in collaborative projects, 112 proposals were funded primarily from AAG, while co-funding was provided to another six proposals in other programs. The funding rate was 14% per submitted project and 15% per submitted proposal. These rates were quite similar to those seen in FY 2012.
This year, AST systematically queried proposers regarding possible budget reductions that would not impact the scientific scope of a proposal; such reductions may be relatively minor because of reductions in travel costs, or may be substantial in cases where a student, postdoc, or senior researcher had received separate funding after the NSF proposal was submitted. The savings made in response to these requests amounted to several million dollars, and we are grateful to the investigators who re-examined their budgets diligently and thus enabled AST to fund 10-20 more AAG proposals than would have been possible otherwise.
Unfortunately, AAG awards were made quite late in FY 2013. The Congressional appropriation for NSF was not passed until midway through the fiscal year; after the appropriation, it takes several months for NSF to construct a plan for the year and then have it reviewed and approved by Congress. Thus it was not possible to begin making AAG awards until the full NSF spending plan had been approved. Since the FY 2014 federal budget is in a high state of uncertainty, the community should not be surprised if undesirable award delays occur in FY 2014 as well.
FY 2014 and Beyond
The FY 2014 deadline for receipt of AAG proposals is 15 November 2013, at 5:00 pm local time in the proposer's time zone. Potential proposers are urged to note a significant change in the definition of NSF's two merit review criteria. Specifically, Broader Impacts have been redefined to include only "the potential to benefit society and contribute to the achievement of specific, desired societal outcomes." For descriptions of the merit-review criteria, proposers should consult the NSF Grant Proposal Guide (GPG), available on the Grant Proposal page, specifically noting the definitions on Merit Review in Section III.A of the GPG. Merit-review panels will be instructed in the new definitions of the review criteria, and proposers who follow the previous rules may find their proposals to be downgraded significantly because of deficiencies in addressing the present Broader Impacts criterion.
Beyond FY 2014, we are concerned about the ability of the merit-review process to identify the very best scientific proposals in a situation where funding rates may approach 10% or less, against a desired funding rate of at least 20%. Given a fixed or declining AAG budget over the next several years, the only mechanisms to increase the funding rate are those that (1) decrease the number of proposals received, or (2) decrease the funding per proposal. Other divisions at NSF already are taking steps to address their low funding rates in a variety of ways, such as capping summer salaries, limiting the number of proposals that may be submitted by individual investigators, reducing the frequency of proposal calls, and implementing two-stage proposal processes. The community should expect that significant changes in AAG may be implemented within the next year or two; the changes will depend on overall funding levels for NSF and AST, as well as on AST's ability to respond to the divestment recommendations made by the Portfolio Review Committee in 2012.


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On United We Swing, Spanish Harlem Orchestra continues in the same classic-meets-contemporary sound, but with refreshing originality. Nine of the songs are original compositions grounded in the unique identity the band has forged based on the musical legacy of El Barrio, a pulsating Eastside community in NYC located to the south of 125th St that gave rise to Boogaloo, Latin Soul, and Salsa.
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In the comic books, Lex Luthor ran for President in 2000 as the Tomorrow Party candidate, facing off against Al Gore and George W. Bush, promising hope and change and all sorts of marvelous technological advancements (renewable energy, Kryptonite-green technology, fixing all broken souls, lowering the oceans, fulfilling dreams, lemonade and pixie dust). Through the efforts of community organizing groups in large cities like Gotham and Metropolis, and the unprecedented turnout of not only deceased but completely imaginary voters, Luthor won the presidency to media applause — and promptly began a systematic plan to bring America to its knees, using various cataclysms of his own design as cover for general nefarity, all with his ultimate obsessive goal of killing Superman in mind.
Because that's who Lex Luthor is.
As absurd as this truly all is, Lex Luther took several years in the comic books to actually achieve any of his crazed, demented goals. And he had Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and various other spandex and vinyl fetishists thwarting his every move.
Obama's been in office for 59 days now, and has already caused more havoc and damage than the Legion of Doom ever dreamed of.
He, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Tim Geithner, Steven Chu, Ray LaHood, Eric Holder, Rahm Emanuel, Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, Claire McCaskill, the Kennedy Family, and other terrible Democrats in Washington put Luthor, Catwoman, Toyman, The Joker, The Riddler, Captain Cold, and the rest of the comic books' rogue's gallery to shame in their greed, waste, graft, corruption, ineptitude, and grandiose ill-conceived-and-poorly-implemented-schemes.
If the Legion of Doom purposefully wanted to tank the American economy from within, it would not do a better job terrorizing Wall Street, small investors, and average working Americans than the Obama Administration. Doom agents would conjure giant spiders or robot penguins to attack Wall Street head-on, while Joker's harlequin gang giggled its way through bank after bank, looting as much as they could stuff into comicly large purses and laughable gift bags.
Those criminal clowns have nothing on Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, who rammed through a Trillion Dollar Spending Bill that no one, NOT A SINGLE DAMN SOUL, actually read in the House or Senate before voting for it. Catwoman never stole so much in one sitting. Toyman never squandered so much treasure on anything so absurd and ridiculous. The Riddler never snuck in so many tricks and surprises (like Chris Dodd's bonus provisions for corporate executives).
It's all mind-boggling.
Giethner at Treasury seems determined to chase every last investor away from the market. Dr. Steven Chu, at Energy, has not only declared war on coal producing states like West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, but seems hell-bent on starting a trade war with China over carbon emissions tariffs. Kathleen Sebelius, a woman who drove the entire state of Kansas into the ground, is now poised to oversee what will amount to more than $2 TRILLION in healthcare spending. Sebelius has never done anything to warrant confidence and faith in her abilities strong enough to put her in charge of a lemonade stand, let alone reform of America's Byzantine healthcare system. Why not just give this job to Solomon Grundy, who was born on a Monday, and who, like Sebelius, has all the enthusiasm, energy, and wherewithal of someone who's been buried in the ground somewhere for half a dozen years.
Every day, there's a new lie told, and more blame shifted around.
No one reads the legislation the Obama Administration passes, which is deliberate, so that later they can all claim they knew nothing about any of the shocking things that have been going on behind the scenes. "The reason I don't read the bills I force through the House," we imagine Pelosi purring, "is so that I'm not responsible for them after people find out what I have done. I very rarely read anything other than clothing labels, and that's just so I don't get stuck with any more acrylic. I learned that from Caroline Kennedy who is, you know, so smart about avoiding two things in life: hard work, and acrylic. You know."
If characters in comic books behaved like Democrats in Washington these days, you'd stop buying those titles, as they'd strain even the most twisted rules of logic in BizarroWorld, and would be impossible to believe.
'The stock market sank that much, that fast?"
"The national debt tripled in 60 days?"
"The Stimulus Bill wasn't really a stimulus after all, but just a poorly disguised trillion dollar payback to disparate Democratic constituencies hungry for pork projects after being largely shut out of the trough for the last 8 years?"
Obama's "stimulus bill" is more wildly successful than anything Lex Luthor ever dreamed up, that's for sure. Though he employed a classic Legion of Doom tactic (naming something innocuous or even positive, but all the while intending it for another purpose entirely — where Operation Smiley Happy Kitten is really a space-based death ray hovering somewhere in orbit over the moon), Obama was able to pass legislation that in no way actually relates to "stimulus", but instead commits the federal government to generations of budget deficits, for wasteful pork projects that will entrench themselves and refuse to die long after the CRISIS! Obama and the media brayed about abates on its own (several years later than it would have, without discredited Keynesian interference).
And, once the Trillion Dollar Obama Spending Bill passed, suddenly Obama changed his tune on the CRISIS!, repurposing it as "not as bad as we thought it was". Good thing we spent One Trillion Dollars on things we don't need and aren't able to pay for anyway.
But, Lex Luthor's plots and schemes all had a larger purpose than just sinking California into the ocean or raising new continents from the Atlantic made from ugly, burnt crystals; they were all designed with an ultimate super-goal in mind, which was forever the elimination of Superman.
What's Obama's ultimate goal in all of this?
The elimination of America as we know it?
The creation of New France?
It seems like crisis after crisis is manipulated to keep his poll numbers up for the next four years, so he can land a second term, with the MSM facilitating this in every way they can. Obama clearly loves the perks of the presidency, and all the pomp and circumstance, but does he really care about the American people, or the economic suffering many now share? Does he see his Treasury Secretary is making the economy worse each day he's on the job, or that his Energy Secretary could inadvertantly start a trade war with China that would resonate instantly on a global level? Does Obama care that no one of any competence oversees the billions being spent by the Transportation and Health and Human Services Departments?
Or is everything he does not about the best interests of Americans, but for some other purpose, personal and all his own, that's not clear to anyone else?
That's the question at hand and, unfortunately, unlike anything asked by The Riddler in the comic books, this question actually matters, with real-world consequences unlike anything the Legion of Doom could have come up with.
Comic books are funny and exciting.
The Golden Age of Obama is disconcerting and worrisome.
Where's Superman when you need him, we ask, thanking Heaven at least we've got Wonder Woman in Foggy Bottom keeping the whole world from going to absolute Hell.
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Don't even start on foreign policy. It's in total shambles.
Obama is a hardheaded narcissist. He's dining on wagyu steak (something new I've never heard of, which I'll probably never taste) while the rest of us eat TV dinners. This is the same shit Lenin pulled, but Americans are too crotchety to let it stand.
I know there are those that will argue with me, but I still think he's inexperienced and hasn't realized the ideals the Dem party has morphed into over the past 50 years (Those are: socialism is great, Che was a wonderful man and America sucks.) don't work in the real world. He's an ideologue of course, but I don't believe he has enough experience to temper his policies like FDR to permanently change the system. More likely, his ADD approach to governance believes somehow things just might turn out great without unplugging his Blackberry.
Again, I still think he believes the economy works Chicago-style and is unwilling to consider other alternatives. This comes through nothing more than the inexperience of truly being challenged by opposing views. He will bite the hand that feeds him more than once.
Don't worry guys, America wins in the end. More and more, I think that Obama will be the destroyer of the Dem party as we currently see it. Not through active destruction like Lex vs. Superman, more in exposing complete their acceptance of hypocrisy and corruption, and losing crediblity with the public. Whether that makes you guys mad or not is to be determined. One thing is clear: now, more than ever, it counts to have people with principles in office. Too bad we don't have many.
As for now, screw Superman. I'm standing shoulder to shoulder with Hellboy and Wolverine!
Wagyu beef is from Japan. It's special because it's made from herds that were in Japan pre-Meiji restoration, before cows stopped being imported to Japan from Korea and China. So those herds were selectively bred for best results over hundreds of years. The cows are very well taken care of, are pampered their whole lives, and have special massages and sake rubs to make them happy and keep their meat tender. Wagyu beef comes exclusively from Japan, hence the expense (there is an American version of Wagyu that has been bred with American cows but it's different, and can't be called real Wagyu).
Kobe beef is Wagyu beef….Kobe is just the region that particular meat is coming from. All of this got popular in the 90s as a fad, and is still around now.
Frankly, as people who probably have a steak once or twice a year, we don't get what's so special about it….it's just beef. To us, the magic's always in the preparation, presentation, and flavor combinations…so Wagyu must be wasted on us, as we've had a simple peppercorn steak that's been more enjoyable to us than Wagyu.
Some people, though, like Wagyu just because it's expensive and not everyone can have it.
Is Wagyu beef the one that is marbled with a lot of fat? That's how the Japanese love their steaks.
That is exactly what Wagyu beef is — very fatty, called "white beef" because it is so fatty.
Mmmmm….fat riddled steak. Sounds like a cholesterol bomb.
I highly encourage Obama to stuff himself with as much of it as he wants.
That's change I can believe in.
I read that for their life, the cattle for these steaks are suspended by straps so that their feet do not touch the ground. I have read that Kobe cattle are restricted in some similar manner.
I stopped eating foie gras when I heard how the geese are raised (buried up to their necks or confined to quarters so tight they cannot move).
Someone tell me if I am wrong.
"What's Obama's ultimate goal in all of this?"
That's the million-dollar question in all this. Or is he just enjoying the narcissism of playing at being President and letting others take all the heat?
Just look at his past 'mentors' (Ayers, Wright, et al) and you will see that he intends to change this country from a democracy into something I don't even want to contemplate.
I'm beginning to think that he's going to continue to make mistakes, blame others and show how narcissistic he is, and turn the public, which seems already to be losing the love affair with him, against him. He's going to need the 50% of us who didn't vote for him and saw who he was, to get anything accomplished. This same 50% are about ready to take the reins away from Congress. That's probably the only good thing that's coming out of this economic fiasco.
You have to at least give him credit for telling us all that he was going to turn our Democracy into a Socialistic Nation. He never said he was Socialistically bent, but his voting record and his class warfare approach to creating animosity between the haves and have nots was classic socialism. Many just saw the fascade, and thought once he got in, he would learn what was correct and Presidential in dealing with the Country's problems. I never thought he was on a learning curve…he knew exactly what he was doing, and that, to my mind, was the total disruption of our system of Capitalism, the destruction of our border sovereignty, the weakening of our military, unionizing the entire workforce, and the victimization of not only the poor, but 90% of the population. DID YOU SEE THE VIDEO OF PELOSI SPEAKING TO A GROUP OF HISPANICS, SOME OF WHICH I BELIEVE WERE ILLEGALS? She lambasted us, telling them that WE are wrong and that her brand of IMMIGRATION, encompassing all who cross any border, is right, and basically that the AMERICAN PUBLIC is bigoted. They all need to be booted out, like yesterday.
Should have read you first. You said it so much better than I.
I swear she is insane. Someone like that has no business being in office, championing illegals over citizens. Nuts!
As Rush pointed out, Pelosi and BO orchestrated this. After she called our immigration policies, un-American, BO waltzes into SoCal and announces, via telepromter, he's gonna reform immigration by granting amnesty and get them all in union jobs. How's that for a plan?
I hope some of you will be willing to come to my site, AConservativeLesbian dot com, and read my essays explaining that Obama is a sociopath, in the clinical sense, and has no conscience. Sociopaths can fake any emotion, but there are only a few that they truly are able to feel. Their biggest thrill is from controlling people by any means required. They do not — cannot — feel any remorse for the destruction and hurt they cause. When you understand Obama's patterns, you will be able to resist him when he is using his wiles to control you — he always starts by telling people whatever they want to hear. That is why he has so many positions on almost every issue, often ones that are mutually exclusive. There's more in my posts titled, "Understanding Obama," "The chilling explanation of why Obama is cool," and "Why ridicule is Obama's Kryptonite." The easy way to find them is to click on my "Barack Obama" category.
Oh, and check out my post from yesterday for the beefcake photo and my screenshots of the hilarious Google karma administered to a critic of gay marriage.
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Don't blame me, I voted for McCain.
Yep, don't blame me I voted for Sarah and that other guy!
Me too!
Imagine the conversation that must be going on by Bill and Hillary behind closed doors…
Can you find out more about HR1388/mandatory "volunteerism"?
There was a reference to it on another thread; article to canadafreepress linked.
Is this what's being pushed through now? EVERY American
needs to know !
here is the link to the gov site, (It might not work I have trouble linking to this site)some scarey stuff I'm just copying the beginning of the summary http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:HR02857:@@@D&summ2=m&
11/1/2007–Reported to House amended. (There is 1 other summary)
Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act, or the GIVE Act – Amends the National and Community Service Act of 1990 (NCSA) and the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 (DVSA) to revise their programs and reauthorize appropriations for them through FY2012.
Title I: Amendments to National and Community Service Act of 1990 – Revises under the NSCA: (1) the School-Based and Community-Based Service-Learning programs and Higher Education Innovative Programs for Community Service, also known as Learn and Serve programs; (2) National Service Trust programs, also known as AmeriCorps; (3) the Civilian Community Corps Demonstration program; and (4) the Investment for Quality and Innovation program.
Subtitle A: Amendments to Subtitle A (General Provisions) – (Sec. 1101) Adds to NSCA purposes: (1) providing year-round opportunities in service-learning; (2) involving citizens in emergency and disaster preparedness, relief, and recovery; (3) increasing service opportunities for retiring professionals; and (4) encouraging service by Baby Boomers and continued service by national service alumni.
Expresses the sense of Congress that the number of participants in AmeriCorps, Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), and NCCC should grow to 100,000 by 2012.
(Sec. 1102) Adds definitions of approved summer of service positions, the baby boom generation, disadvantaged youth, grantmaking entities, Hispanic-serving institutions, historically Black colleges or universities, qualified organizations, and tribally controlled colleges or universities.
Subtitle B: Amendments to Subtitle B (Service-Learning) – (Sec. 1201) Revises the School-Based programs for elementary and secondary school students (part of the Learn and Serve programs) to eliminate the current competitive grant portion of such programs. Requires the Corporation for National and Community Service (Corporation) to allocate appropriated funds to states, after reserving from 2% to 3% for Indian tribes and territories, pursuant to a formula that takes into account a state's share of school age youth and funds received under title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.
Authorizes new Summer of Service programs, within School-Based programs, under which students who will be entering grades 6 through 12 at the end of the summer and complete 100 hours of community-based service learning summer projects become eligible for an educational award of up to $500 from funds deposited in the National Service Trust. Permits the Corporation to increase the award to not more than $1,000 for economically disadvantaged participants. Allows participants to earn a maximum of two summer of service educational awards.
Requires the Corporation to reserve up to 3%
THIS is classic HB at your very best. And while everyones eyes are on the Porkulous Bill and bail out agreements NOW really reading them, instead of reading and asking questions, at a better time like maybe BEFORE they signed all this, other things are being snuck thru with out people really reading or understand what this mean for our country like the "Mandatory Volunteering" bill that already has 30 co sponsors and little things like why did Barky stop pilots from being about to carry guns in the cockpit? and the cap and trade that is going to possibly triple our energy bills? and ACORN being in charge of the census, Then in a couple weeks (months?) when how we are affected and what this is really costing us, people will be OUTRAGED Outraged I tell you, they won't know that is what they signed, since they didn't reading it ya know cuz that's just how the Dem Roll and the MSM who is reporting about AIG 24/7 now, to cover for all the other things Barky nand company are sneaking thru now, Will be SCREAMING about this outrage while phase 3 of the plans to destry America are sliding thru.
and did you see Obama is having ANOTHER prime times TV show next week? they are even moving AI for him
OOPS should be Then in a couple weeks (months?) when how we are affected and what this is really costing us,starts happening and comes to light, people will be OUTRAGED Outraged I tell you, they won't know that is what they signed
Great exchange between Rush and Bernie Goldberg on Joe the Plumber and Palin Dernagement Syndrome from the Limbaugh Newsletter:
RUSH: I know there is a contempt; Joe the Plumber was one of the most illustrative examples. Here you've got this poor guy who's minding his own business, an Obama rally ends up next to him. So he asks a question. And it was not a question that was pre-approved. It was not an approved question, period. And so the Democrats go into action with the assistance of the media to destroy this guy.
GOLDBERG: Correct.
RUSH: They look into his private records at the state. They find out where his tax liens are. They do everything they can to destroy this guy's reputation — while at the same time they are concerned as hell that we might be monitoring phone calls from terrorists in Baghdad and elsewhere who might be planning attacks on the United States. But it's clearly fine for them to go out and destroy an Ohio citizen who dared ask a question of Obama that might embarrass him or expose one of his ideas that he was trying to cover up. And there was no compassion for what was done to this little guy– and yet the liberals claim to stand for the little guy.
GOLDBERG: That's one more piece of hypocrisy that is today's liberalism. They love the little guy in theory. In theory. They don't want the little guy too close to them in reality, though. The little guy makes them feel uncomfortable. The little guy didn't go to Harvard, Princeton or Yale. The little guy is not quite as smart as they are. Oh, they love him in theory. They love the little guy as a group, but individually, they don't love the little guy all that much.
They showed this not only with Joe the Plumber, but also with Sarah Palin. Whether you like Sarah Palin's politics or not, let's put that aside for a second. Did she do anything to deserve the viciousness with which she was attacked? In my book, I say a disease broke out in liberal America after Sarah Palin was put on the ticket. The disease was called PDS, Palin Derangement Syndrome. One guy wrote: "What's the difference between Sarah Palin and a Muslim fundamentalist? Lipstick." Ha, ha. Except Muslim fundamentalists will kill you if they disagree with you. Somebody else compared the rise of Sarah Palin to the rise of Nazism in Germany. It's insane.
It isn't simply that she's a conservative who's pro-life. That's only part of it. They hate the fact that she became the most prominent woman in America and it wasn't supposed to be that way. One of theirs was supposed to be that. They hate the fact that she has five kids, they hate the fact that she named her kids Trig and Track and Willow and Piper. Sophisticated people don't call their kids Trig and Track. They hated the fact that she had a baby with Down Syndrome. Hadn't she ever heard of abortions? You know what they hated most about her? That she was an ordinary American.
RUSH: I was interviewed by Barbara Walters for her "Ten Most Fascinating People" show. I asked her, "What is it you don't like about Sarah Palin?" "She's uninformed." What do you mean uninformed? Who told you she's uninformed?" "Well, she thinks that she can really see Russia from her house." I said, "she never said it."
GOLDBERG: She never said that.
RUSH: I had a conversation recently with a couple of Republican women who hate Sarah Palin as much as any liberal does, because they believed everything the media told them about her.
GOLDBERG: Right. Having worked at CBS News for 28 years, I realize that the coin of the realm, the thing they hold most dear, isn't decency. I was asked so many times about somebody new in the newsroom: "Is he smart?" That question came often. They never asked, "Is he a good guy?" or, "Is he a decent guy?" Intelligence is the coin of the realm for liberal elites in the newsroom. And they didn't perceive her as intelligent, so therefore, they hated her. Couple that with her conservative politics and the fact that she has five kids and liked guns, and you knew they were going to try to destroy her.
But let me tell you something; liberal journalists, including Barbara Walters, are the ones who are uninformed. You can go up to 1,000 liberals and say, "Who is Juanita Brodderick?" and I'll bet you they wouldn't know. Because The New York Times, when it finally decided to run a story about her, put it on page B-5000.
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Excerpts like BlueStateBilly posted above are so eye-opening. Rush always has a guest interview of the month. Sometimes they are conservative Republicans, but it seems more & more he's talking to former liberals or current ones–like Camille Paglia. Of course, no flaming Obama type would ever consent. So sometimes he'll do an interview in absentia: Rush asking questions & "replies" would be what Obama has previously said on record (since he's not "in the flesh").
Bernie Goldberg makes so much sense. He's a frequent contributor to Fox News, but it's good to see him in print, too.
I have all the back issues of Rush dating from 1993. When BO first started pitching the health takeover in Porkulus, Elizabeth McCaughey was first to sound the sirens. Name sounded so familiar so I went back thru my Limbaugh Letters. Sure enough–when Hillary's plan was pitched back in '94 or so, Elizabeth gave an interview with Rush.
Even though Hillary is beloved on this site, her plan would have been disastrous, too. My personal physician then explained how my health care would have been affected and I was appalled.
BO's plan takes anything Hillary had on the table, and added the pseudo-Communist/socialist stuff. He is going to be rationing health care, and basically cutting off elderly in favor of young folks. Re-read the McCaughey article from '94 and that drastic measure wasn't spelled out as BO's is.
Thanks Billy and nee,nee!
I admit I have always enjoyed Rush, but was not a daily listener. Now I find his daily commentary, along with Hillbuzz is mandatory for maintaining sanity. Rush is how I found this site.
I come here to my "Hillbuzz Family" to reaffirm that it's not me that's crazy. Thanks all for helping me through this American Nightmare.
Hillbuzz guyz, you've out done yourselves with this piece. Thanks for mental health breaks. Keep em' coming
It looks like Evan Bayh put together a gang of 15 centrist Democrats to block the 0bamunists BS. I remember Evan Bayh was the last one to sign the stimulus package.
Can we finally be having some rational people stepping up to the plate in the Senate?
Sorry, Hillbuzz, that wacko McCaskill is included.
Here's the list. We need to contact these folks and tell them how we feel.
The new coalition includes six Democratic freshmen, Mark Begich of Alaska, Michael Bennet of Colorado, Kay Hagan of North Carolina, Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, Mark Udall of Colorado, and Mark Warner of Virginia. Other members of the group are Herb Kohl of Wisconsin, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Bill Nelson of Florida. Joseph I. Lieberman, the Connecticut independent, is also part of the group.
Maybe we can convince the Legion of Doom to join our ranks? their retirement, investments and opportunities are just as much in jeopardy as the rest of us…
I know this is off subject; but important news.
The TOTUS (Teleprompter Of The United States) has spoken.
The whole issue of this "National Service Corps" BO is pushing has me hopping the Paranoia Express . . .
We all know Barky's complete, utter disdain for the military. He's a pacifist. The Neville Chamberlin of our time wants Iran & Cuba to be validated. Not to mention, negotiating with the "moderate" Taliban–as if such a thing exists!
If we take the need for military off-the-table in those areas, why then, troops can be brought home. Close all those costly overseas bases, too, while you're at it. That'll be a big financial boost toward financing the Porkulus package.
Bringing back universal military service via the draft will never have to be an option.
So if military is back home, then we become isolationists. You can't quite mothball or dismantle all things GI Joe, though. What to do with them? Well, let's see . . .
If the National Servive Corps doesn't appeal to you, then the military will come knocking on your door to make sure you do your civic duty.
When 21st century Hillbuzz Patriots assemble in National Service Corps protest groups, BO could send the military in to quell the "unrest."
Folks, I'm afraid this is going to be so much MORE than socialism!
Nee Nee: An equivalent to the National Service Corp sounds like to me the Red Guards of Mao's China. It also sounds like the Young Pioneers of the Soviet Union. In my study, the Red Guards were the young people who were so over-the-top in their enthusiasm for Mao that they memorized his words from the Red Book. They adopted a mob mentality and invaded people's homes looking for those who might disagree with Mao. The generation that was harmed by the Red Guards is dwindling now, but those that remained still talk about their experiences. I am not sure, but I think Hitler had his equivalent ones as well. But the commonality in all of this is: mobilize and train the younger generation because the dictators know that it is the younger people who have the energy and the blind loyalties.
Hey, Bill
Think you're right. Hitler's Youth Corps was the first thing that came to my mind, too.
We all know BO does an end run around what he really wants. So if the objective is to create young, blind loyalists–you can't come right out and target them. Too obvious.
So do the whole Inter-generational National Service Corps thing. Don't make the penalties for non-compliance too severe for folks in their '60s . . . didn't really want'em anyway!
I couldn't think of the Russian name for the Young Pioneers, but it was organized and marketed as "the" organization for your children to be a member. Having that as your background, you are given preferential treatments later in life as far as schools and jobs go. The young people fought hard to be politically correct so they can be a member. I can see that BO will look upon those who disagree with him as those to be dealt with by the National Service Corps. Remember the video of kids who did their routine for BO even before he was elected? Be afraid, be very afraid.
OK, I found something to praise. Eric Holder is considering a change in policy towards medical marijuana. This is a subject near to my heart since I have a close friend battling cancer and his own doctors have to recommend that he break the law under NYS's draconian "Rockefeller" laws.
I may be a Repub but I'm socially Libertarian so I support this change. My Repub friends take me to task over it but I'm sorry, I was young once and yes I did inhale, and while I do not RECOMMEND non-medical use of marijuana, in the end it's just pot.
And if doctors at world-reknowned Roswell Cancer Institute recommend it for their patients like my friend, who am I to argue?
I mentioned this bill the other day on this site because the thought of it made me so nervous:
Well, I'm afraid it passed in the House yesterday.
Doom is the right word.
THIS is the bill I've been SCREAMING about, I really believe part of the "outrage" over the AIG bonuses were to take eyes off the fact they were sliding this thru.
Here comes Obama's citizen Army folks
I didn't realize that the bill had already been discussed above.
I guess that's alright though.
It does deserve attention.
Lyn – you are right. The whole financial mess is merely a distraction.
I wonder what else he is pushing through congress that we are, as yet, unaware of.
I have sent the links to this to everyone I could think of ie: Rush, O'Reilly, Beck etc.
Call your senators, ALL of them. THEY ALL WORK FOR US!
We are an army NOW, without BO.
i don't know either,and i.m very afraid.
Nominating the open-borders-policy Janet Napolitano as head of Homeland Security is still another BO sly move.
Terrorists shouldn't be called terrorists. Let's call the destruction that they bring about "man-caused disasters."
Anyway, that's how Ms. Napolitano feels. Snippet of recent interview:
DER SPIEGEL: "Madame Secretary, in your first testimony to the US Congress as Homeland Security Secretary you never mentioned the word "terrorism." Does Islamist terrorism suddenly no longer pose a threat to your country?"
Napolitano: "Of course it does. I presume there is always a threat from terrorism. In my speech, although I did not use the word "terrorism," I referred to "man-caused" disasters. That is perhaps only a nuance, but it demonstrates that we want to move away from the politics of fear toward a policy of being prepared for all risks that can occur."
Gee, I dunno . . . to me, a "man-caused disaster" is a million acres of timber destroyed by a careless camper with a cigarette!
Technically, I guess terrorists ARE men who DO cause disasters. Albeit with bombs strapped to their bodies. So in the truest sense of the word, Janet, you're right.
Joke of the Day
The DVD'S that Teh One and his Teleprompter gave to PM Brown do not work in the UK.
Obama has NO problem paying the medical bills for all those ILLEGAL ALIENS!!!


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A former Asbury Park zoning official was sentenced to three years of probation today for stealing more than $50,000 from his partners in a development firm that employed him and for failing to disclose he worked for a company that won a zoning approval.
Edmund ``Ned'' Brown, 56, of Red Bank, will also be forever barred from holding public office in New Jersey under the terms of the sentence imposed by Superior Court Judge Anthony Mellaci Jr. in Freehold, said Monmouth County Prosecutor Luis Valentin.
Brown pleaded guilty March 31 to four charges in two separate indictments related to his consulting job with RDR Properties, a firm that purchased run-down properties and rehabilitated them for resale.
Brown admitted he failed to recuse himself or disclose his relationship with RDR when he voted Oct. 9, 2001, in favor of issuing a zoning permit to the company.
Additionally, Brown admitted he stole more than $51,000 from his business partner in a limited liability corporation that purchased tax liens and mortgage notes on distressed properties in Neptune Township and Asbury Park, the prosecutor said.
He said Brown stole a check for $51,462 and, after forging the signatures of his business partners, deposited it into his own account. Brown also admitted to depositing the proceeds of the sale of the corporation's property into his own account.
Brown pleaded guilty to official misconduct, forgery and two counts of theft by deception.
Mellaci did not order restitution because that issue had previously been resolved through civil litigation, the prosecutor said.


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Vuvuzelas make a lasting impression | The Latte Guy | July 16
It's been less than a week since the last game of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, and I already miss the sound of my new favorite monotonic wind instrument, the vuvuzela.
I've tried to find alternatives, such as sitting in the car while it's parked in the driveway and leaning on the horn for the three or four hours it takes to drain the battery, but it's just not the same. It's difficult to recreate that distinctive, B-flat-below-middle-C, sonorous atonality of the vuvuzela at home.
Although the sound of the vuvuzela is not music to all human ears, I understand from a reliable source (in this case, a guy I met in the restroom at Fados during half time of the Portugal-Brazil match) that a properly played vuvuzela in South Africa can be heard by blue whales in Hawaii, Indian elephants in Kunni, and certain species of sea slugs (but not nudibranches) off the coast of Iceland.
I was surprised to learn that not everyone found the incessant blaring of the ubiquitous cheap plastic horns to be an enjoyable auditory experience, and even fewer people found it an easy instrument to dance to.
In fact, it turns out that, largely in reaction to their incessant, indiscriminate and controversial use at the recently concluded World Cup, vuvuzelas have now been banned from Wimbledon, the Melbourne Cricket Grounds, the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand, the 2012 London Olympics, and Yankee Stadium.
I can understand the ban from tennis and cricket matches, and maybe from the Olympics, but the Rugby World Cup and Yankee Stadium? I thought rugby players and fans were tougher than that. And I think I speak for most of us when I say I'd rather have vuvuzelas blasting away at each of my ears than have to actually listen to anything a Yankee fan might have to say.
While we're on the subject, I for one would like to see the use of vuvuzelas at sporting events expanded rather than contracted. I mean, Tiger Woods is a fabulous golfer and all, but let's see him line up and sink a tricky 10-foot putt on the 18th hole at Augusta for all the marbles with a couple of hundred surly, sun-burned Southern sports fans hopped up on Red Bull and warm vodka honking away at him from just off the edge of the green.
And why restrict ourselves to sporting events? What wedding wouldn't be more festive if the audience stood up and serenaded the newly hitched couple on their walk down the aisle with a full-throated blast from the Devil's Own Horn?
Make a safe landing after a long flight? Why not signal your relief and gratitude by honking out a serenade to your flight crew on a compact travel vuvuzela? Enjoyed a good movie lately? Why clap when you can vuvuzela your appreciation?
Getting back to soccer for a moment, or as the rest of the world says, "soccer," I didn't do too well in my World Cup brackets this year. In keeping with what appears to an emerging soccer trend, I'm blaming the referees.
It didn't help that I also put all my World Cup eggs into the North Korean basket, which, coincidentally, was exactly what it looked like the North Korean team was attempting to kick around out there on the pitch. In hindsight, it appears that my selection of the North Koreans as the World Cup Champions looks no better than it appeared in foresight when I made the bold selection.
Again, I blame the referees, both for the lapse in my personal soccer prognostication acumen, and for not invoking the mercy rule in the Brazilians' 9 to 1 shellacking of the NoKos. I fear their poor showing at the World Cup may have done irreparable harm to the North Korean psyche, and it may be many years before the world again enjoys the warm and welcoming embrace of the North Korean people.
I'm not sure I can wait four years until the next World Cup before I get another sweet earful of a vuvuzela symphony. Fortunately, the woman who is my wife and both of our kids have birthdays coming up this year, and nothing says big time birthday fun like matching vuvuzelas.
And for my own birthday, I'll be buying myself a pair of earphones. A really nice pair of earphones.
Tom Tyner is an attorney for the Trust for Public Land. He is author of "Skeletons From Our Closet," a collection of writings on the island's latte scene.
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Thanksgiving on Plymouth Plantation
What It Is
Telling the story of Thanksgiving is as much a tradition as is turkey and stuffing. When twins Liz and Lenny visit their grandmother for Thanksgiving, they dress up in authentic Pilgrim attire of the early 1600s, close their eyes, and are magically transported to Plymouth, New England (the state of Massachusetts was not yet established).
Through the twin's narration and conversations with the Pilgrims, we learn many interesting historical facts about their culture, environment and people. We also see how extremely tough life was as Liz, Lenny and their grandmother pitch in to help with the daily chores and harvest. Once the harvest is complete, the Pilgrims invite Squanto, Massasoit and the Wampanoag tribe to enjoy a celebratory feast which they called a "harvest festival." The festival lasted three days and, like a modern Thanksgiving, involved many different dishes along with laughter and good times. After the harvest festival, the twins and their grandmother "return" home to their own Thanksgiving feast. In a fun twist, Lenny's mom questions his shoes, which are still on his feet from their trip to Plymouth!
Why It's Fun
Americans have been eating turkey and all the trimmings at Thanksgiving for generations and we assume that this was the Pilgrim's menu. When in actuality, it was not, and the first two pages of the book present a "then" and "now" look at what was served. Diane Stanley's storytelling method is both fun and effective for a children's historical book. She also does a great job of gently relaying the rigors of the early settlers to children, who I'd bet will feel pretty grateful for all they have today after reading this story. There are many "claims" as to when and who celebrated the first Thanksgiving, and Ms. Stanley's author's note gives us more details about the different myths. She directs us to Plimoth Plantation's web site, www.plimoth.org, which is also fun to check out with the kids.
Who's Going To Love It
If you love Thanksgiving, you will love this book. Even preschoolers can comprehend the basics of the Thanksgiving story, so if your child can sit through the story and won't be confused by the conversation bubbles, there's no reason to wait until the publisher's recommended age of five. I can't remember how long we've had our copy, but I can tell that we've read it so many times that it's falling apart!
Reading Time
About 6-7 minutes when reading just the narrative
About 12-13 minutes when reading narrative and conversation bubbles
Read-It-Again Points
9 out of 10
Book Information
Thanksgiving on Plymouth Plantation
By: Diane Stanley; Illustrated by Holly Berry
Published by: HarperCollins Publishers (2004)
Approximate retail price: $16.99 (hardcover); $6.95 (paperback via Scholastic)
Publisher's recommended ages: 5 - 8


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Authorities say a man and woman arrested last month for burglarizing Harahan residences have been booked with additional charges for break-ins at 15 houses in Metairie and River Ridge. Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office burglary detectives conducting a follow-up investigation linked Stephen Wiltz, 42, of New Orleans, and Charlotte Metzler, 21, of Slidell to the break-ins, which occurred between Sept. 16 and Oct. 15, according to arrest records.
"That's good news to me," said River Ridge resident Carrie Fisk, whose Sharla Drive home was burglarized Oct. 12 while she was away.
Fisk returned home to find someone had taken a 48-inch television from her den. Metzler and Wiltz were booked with the burglary of her home.
Metzler and a third suspect, Charles Kerner, 30, of River Ridge, were taken into custody Oct. 19 by Harahan Police as they allegedly tried to pawn jewelry that had been stolen that day. During questioning, Kerner admitted that all three suspects had broken into three Harahan homes, stealing more than $50,000 worth of jewelry, guns and electronics, arrest reports said.
But Kerner also told authorities that the trio had hit about 25 residences, prompting the follow-up investigation by the Sheriff's Office. Detectives determined that the trio drove around River Ridge, Metairie or Harahan to select their target houses. Metzler would knock on the door front door and if there was no answer, the suspects would break in and loot the home, the report said.
They usually pawned the items in New Orleans and used the money to buy drugs. Kerner told Harahan investigators that guns stolen from one house were directly traded for heroin, an arrest report said.
Anton Knipper, 60, said he read the Times-Picayune news story published Oct. 29 about the first arrest and wondered if the threesome could have been responsible for the Oct. 6 burglary of his Marsha Drive home in River Ridge. The thieves managed to make off with two firearms and some jewelry, including an anniversary watch from his company that bears his name.
They also stole several cases of wine, including 12 bottles of made by Chateau Mouton Rothschild worth more than $4,000. Knipper said he thought the thieves were either drawn to the heavy crates or "very wine savvy." Knipper said he was grateful authorities made an arrest in the cases and removed potentially dangerous criminals from the streets.
"They came at 10:30 in the morning into my home. Apparently, they weren't very afraid of coming into contact with someone," he said, wondering what might have happened had he returned earlier.
Investigators served search warrants at the suspects' residences and found some of the property that had been reported stolen, an arrest report said. Some has been identified and returned. Knipper said he is scheduled to meet with a detective to determine whether his belongings are among the recovered property.
"I would just like to have my watch back," he said.
It's was unclear Wednesday whether Kerner will face any charges in unincorporated Jefferson Parish. Sheriff's Office Spokesman Col. John Fortunato said the case is still under investigation.
Metzler and Wiltz were booked Tuesday with additional counts of simple burglary of an inhabited dwelling in connection with break-ins at the following residences:
- 9000 block of Inez Drive, River Ridge, on Sept. 16.
- 300 block of Sadie Ave., Metairie on Sept. 21.
- 2900 block of Lassalle Drive, River Ridge, on Sept. 23
- 3800 block of James Drive, Metairie, on Sept. 24.
- 5200 block of Meadowdale St., Metairie, on Sept. 26.
- 1600 Auburn Ave, Metairie, on Sept. 28
- 1900 High Ave., Metairie, on Sept. 28
- 9900 Martha Lane, River Ridge, on Sept. 30
- 6200 Ruth St., Metairie, on Sept. 30
- 9600 block of Marsha Drive, River Ridge, on Oct. 6
- 9000 block of Inez Drive, River Ridge, on Oct. 9.
- 4500 Tartan Drive, Metairie, on Oct. 10
- 9400 Sharla Drive, River Ridge, on Oct. 12.
- 3800 Henican Place, Metairie, on Oct. 14.
- 1400 block of Madison St., Metairie, on Oct. 15.
Metzler and Wiltz were still being held Wednesday at the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center in Gretna. Bond for Metzler was set at $850,000. Bond for Wiltz was set at $900,000.


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PHOTOS: Take A Tour Of San Francisco's Forgotten Gay Bars
PHOTOS: There was a time when men — and some women — wore suits while drinking 35-cent whiskeys in bars with names such as Connie's "Why Not?", Cissy's Saloon and The Purple Pickle. That time was San Francisco some 50, 60 years ago — before Ellen, before Elton, before Stonewall.
Mike Stabile from the Pop-Up Queer Museum set about mapping out these bars after pouring over the withered pages of defunct gay rags like Vector, After Dark and David, resulting in the Lost Gay Bars of San Francisco.
While we certainly don't yearn for the impromptu police raids and a life lived in the shadows, there's something to be said about the gay old times depicted in these ads and photos from that "lost" era.
And there's also something to be said for this drink menu:
Those kids must have known how to party back then because a dollar and some change could probably get you wrecked.
Check out more photos from the San Fran's queer history and to find out more about the who, what, where and werq of the city's forgotten gay bar scene, visit the Lost Gay Bars of San Francisco project.
Photos: Found SF, The Pop-Up Queer Museum
Fantastic. Really beautiful, thank you.
whoa. this is so cool.
This is really cool and it does kind of make the time seem a bit glorified, that being said I hate to be the immature asshole but I have to ask… "catburger?"
Love these. Anyone know what a "Catburger" was? I tried looking it up but just came up with a ton of lolz cat stuff. No wiki on it.
I found one reference to a catfish sandwich as a catburger, but nothing definitive. I'd go for the fish and chips instead.
They forgot the Pacific Exchange, on Upper Fillmore and Numbers down the street.
North Beach used to be filled with lesbian and gay bars, and had quite a few drag acts. Well Mona's was certainly one of the most popular places. It made San Francisco a tourist destination. San Francisco's Queer Neighborhood wasn't always the Castro, prior to that it was the Haight Ashbury, and prior to that it was North Beach, and prior to that it was along waterfront.
That (quite long) list of bars brought back a lot of memories. The Frolic Room was my first gay bar way back in '68 or '69.
I actually remember Toad Hall. What a bad name, unless there's a double meaning that I'm missing.
I sure miss the good old days in the late 70's when I first came out in lovely San Francisco. My 18th birthday was spent in a wonderful bar where you could be with as many guys as you could handle and have endless encounters in dark corners of the bar. Much safer and carefree back then. I sure miss those days.
@Taurox: the "Black Cat" was one of the oldest gay bars (I believe also quite notorious) anyway hence, the "cat burger" at that establishment.
Isn't Toad Hall still around?
I seem to remember some seedy bars on Market Street, wonder if they are still around.
The Golden Gate was one of the oldest gay bars in St. Louis
Hello bartender!
What bar had naked bartenders? Nes hot
This is a bit off subject but for those of you who remember San Francisco but no longer live or visit there might remember her.
May "she" RIP:www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Jack-Fertig-Sister-Boom-Boom-dies-3770649.php
How could it be that "Clementina's BAybrick Inn" is not on this notorious list? Certainly the most fun and genre-changing establishment for lesbians ever in San Francisco! 1190 Folsom@ 7th St.
I'm just old enough (52 as of this past Saturday) to remember the "good ole days" when it was still fun to go out to a gay bar. These pics bring back a lot of memories and a lot of sadness at the culture lost. We're now mainstream and can line up to buy a minivan with the other breeders. Equality is good but, I'd prefer the fun of the past. It's not that fun anymore. I never wanted to have to deal with a family, marriage, in-laws, etc. I might as well just go to a PTA meeting. Oh well, progress happens.
I recall meeting the great Peter Berlin in one of the S&M bars. He was a nice guy, no pretentions, but quickly implied he was looking for someone at least as hot as he was. San Francisco was where evil L.A. people went to be wicked.
@longpastdue: The place was the "Black Cat" a catburger was it's specialty. Not made of cat or catfish, just their signature burger with all the fixins.
I enjoyed going down "memory lane" here, as many of these bars were old hangouts. Especially Toad Hall. Named after the story " Wind in the Willows". I guess the younguns aren't familar with the Disney cartoon movie of the same name. The guy who did the woodwork and stained glass was a very good friend of mine. It's a shame they gutted it, and turned it into a stainless steel monstrosity.
Re: The Balcony, it is not "now the Cafe Du Nord" the Cafe Du Nord is a Basque restaurant that was there long before, just on the same block. the Bal ony, is next door to it. Too bad that wasn't mentioned. That was it's nickname. The C fell of the sign shortly after the place opened. Now that name, had a double meaning! It was one hell of a fun place, and always packed. They also made the best drinks in the Castro, which were served in red plastic cups.
@longpastdue: Really? The name of the place was the Black Cat!
@Taurox: You can't be serious. The name of the place was the Black Cat!
Toad Hall was also referenced in the Firesign Theatre's routine "Toad Aweigh."
Does anyone remember The Cabaret? It seems to have been missed on this long list of lost bars.
It had three levels: (1) dancing [huge], (2) entertainment [the actual cabaret] and (3) eating [small restaurant area] … and, of course, a bar on every level, if I remember correctly.
It was on either Kearny or Montgomery Street, the first block off Broadway, not far from Columbus … and I believe the Playboy Club was just a few doors down on the same side of the street.
It was probably the first of its kind, an incredible club, and well before cover charges came into play.
It wasn't a bar and I see other sex clubs like ritch street and others mentioned so how could we omit the 1808? This was at 1808 Market and I and other men left quite a bit of DNA in that place over a ten year period before it closed and they tore it down to build the LGBT Center. Our DNA serves as the foundation of the easterly part of that building. Literally!
@trabster I recall The Cabaret; it was the first huge disco I went to (circa 1972 or 1973). Still in college and a bit underage, they let me in anyway. It was awesome. And, yes, I believe it was on Montgomery St. headed up a hill from the straight strip clubs.
So glad to have been young, dumb and full of cum back in the good old days.
Are there still any 'communities' these days that can offer the human to human interaction that we all found in bars and bathhouses?
Internet sex and Grindr don't count.
I pity they young'uns. It seems that a lot of them are trying to hard to normalize their lives.
Life was better in most ways when we were outlaws.
Thanks for the info on The Bal ony, Kenny! I was there every weekend in the early 80's and have lots of fond, wild memories of the place…


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Why spend millions of dollars to dismantle the Meadowlands arena and have nothing when the money can be used to turn it into a video casino? The state owns it, so why not lease the building to a consortium of Atlantic City casinos or just one and split the revenue?
A video casino would draw seniors on bus trips, local slot players who don't want to travel as well as many New Yorkers. Retail and entertainment venues and restaurants are already nearby or going up.
With the area available, a two-level casino could probably be built. There is more than ample parking, though charging $20 would be a little excessive. Also, parking would have to be restricted so that patrons couldn't park at Xanadu and walk over.
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turbotoad wrote:First time out to RB this evening. Rode from the Edison parking of CRPT and managed to find my way to the trail from the middle school field (return trip I found access to the dead end road just North of the school). Having never been there I wasn't sure where I was exactly after crossing the RR tracks, but eventually noticed a blue bike sign and figured I was going the right way. The trail was pretty smooth and fast. I was cooking along pretty fast around a bend when suddenly there was a squirrel in the middle of the trail. He shot off to the right, then left, then starting zig-zagging down the trail. Unfortunetly he zagged right into the path of my front tire and I ran him over with the front end. It happened so fast that by the time I hit my brakes he was already a squishy speed bump. I heard him scamper off into the woods behind me.
Somehow I ended up on what appeared to be a "new" part that was pretty wet and soggy. And a LOT of little roots everywhere. There were some cut up trees, and I didn't see any blocking the trail. So they must have gotten removed. It was a fun twisty trail but hopefully it will dry out and pack down for better speed through there. Back onto the main "yellow" trail near the parking lot the trail starts to get a little more interesting with some fast "hilly" sections and a couple little climbs (rare for the topo around there). There was a large downed tree near the Southern section on one of the short climbs, but I'm sure exactly where because at that end of the trail system I was totally confused where I was and which way to go to get back across the RR track. I must of wandered around for 20 minutes back tracking and "exploring" untill I found the trail that I had crossed the tracks on.
The trail reminded me very much of Sterling Heights/Utica.................pretty flat. But hey, you gotta work with what you got and the trail is a lot of fun for it's geographical constraints.
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This is the best video in the series so far! I will be watching it again when I'm less tired so I can take some notes though. I haven't checked with a computer yet I could be totally wrong here but Bxd5! seems to work at the end because there is not time to move/activate/save the bishop so a sac on d5 actually puts the bishop to use by getting a pawn and more importantly breaking up blacks central pawn chain. 7 pawns vs 3 pawns and a rook must surely be winning! Or at least drawish...
t which moment Bf3+ shuffleking?
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