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Posted by Starry Messenger in General Discussion
Sat Dec 03rd 2011, 06:29 PM
via Fred Klonsky: http://preaprez.wordpress.com/2011/12/03/e... /
The latest right-wing loony accusation is delivered by Kyle Olson of the Michigan-based grouplet, the Education Action Group.
Olson parades around as a concerned parent of a kindergartener. But we have pointed out that the EAG is secretly funded, has close ties to the Koch brothers, Andrew Breitbart and the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. The Mackinac Center has recently been exposed for secretly sending emails and lobbying Michigan legislators in violation of their non-partisan tax status.
This week, Kyle went on Fox (surprise) to denounce the use of Click Clack Moo. Cows that Type to indoctrinate kindergarten students in pro-union ideology. He accused a Chicago teacher of sneaking the word, "negotiate," into a vocabulary lesson.
Kyle. Check this out: I read a picture book about a young Mexican boy called Diego to my first grade art students. It's about Diego Rivera, the great Mexican muralist. Hey man. He grew up to be a Communist!
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Fri Dec 02nd 2011, 07:13 PM
"An investigation has been launched over allegations that Polish anti-fascist web sites are promoting violence. Irena Lipowicz, Poland's Human Rights Omsbudsman, announced the investigation on Tuesday in a statement to the Polish Press Agency.
According to Lipowicz's office, the action is "in relation to media reports" following clashes during Independence Day marches between nationalists and opponents. On Tuesday, Polish daily Rzeczpospolita reported that "anarchists and leftists are proud of their brutal attacks on people with right-wing sympathies," and that this was being flaunted on internet forums.
The march on Independence Day was organised by two Polish nationalist groups, the All Polish Youth (MW) and the National Radical Camp (ONR). Some 210 people were arrested amid the clashes that ensued, 92 of whom were Germans with anti-fascist affiliations."
Strange thing when the anti-fascists are accused of being the bullies. Polish nationalism seems to have a strong streak of projection. I guess the right-wing tendency to victim blaming is universal. Of course, violence should never be condoned, but why are fascist tendencies being nursed in Eastern Europe?
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Tue Sep 27th 2011, 06:59 PM
"Human beings have no fixed characteristics and outlook, eternally permanent...In capitalist society there is the most extreme disintegration of social responsibility: the system makes "every man for himself" the main principle of life. The outlook of people can be changed by changing their material conditions, the way in which they get their living." (Emile Burns, "Introduction to Marxism", 1957, International Publishers)
"The fact is that the individualistic every-man-for himself-and-the-devil-take-the-hindmost behavior of most human beings in capitalist countries is not part of our biological heritage. It is the result of our conditioning in a society dominated by the motive for private profit. Eliminate this driving motive, and a different kind of behavior develops, one that seeks the personal good in the common good." ( A.B. Magil's "Socialism: What's In It For You", 1946, New Century Publishers)
"Does it require deep intuition to comprehend that man's ideas, views, and conception, in one word, man's consciousness, changes with every change in the conditions of his material existence, in his social relations and in his social life?" (Marx & Engels, "Communist Manifesto")
Greed is not an inborn human trait, it is a learned reaction to the system of society that is imposed on us. Change the system, change the behavior. NOTE: no one is saying that this change would happen overnight, or even in one or two generations. But the reaction of humans to protect each other and their society under great duress shows that we are a communal species, our instinct is for cooperation and for sharing. Only one sector of society preys on our misery, profits from our misfortunes, makes a religion of profit and greed. They are called capitalists and there isn't any rule that we have to keep them.
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Sat Sep 10th 2011, 04:37 PM
Just as Darwin discovered the law of development or organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of development of human history: the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of ideology, that mankind must first of all eat, drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, art, religion, etc. that therefore the production of the immediate material means, and consequently the degree of economic development attained by a given people or during a given epoch, form the foundation upon which the state institutions, the legal conceptions, art, and even the ideas on religion, of the people concerned have been evolved, and in the light of which they must, therefore, be explained, instead of vice versa, as had hitherto been the case." (Frederick Engels, "Speech at the Grave of Karl Marx" 1883)
Why is a job seeker, a person trying to survive, expected to play-act and grovel for access to the basics of human existence? Haven't we given up enough? Haven't we downsized, gone without, lived simply, enough? Why are the workers expected to give more, when the 1% has the most?
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Fri Aug 26th 2011, 03:06 PM
The Teamsters today joined the AFL-CIO in demanding that President Obama stop caving in to the GOP and offer a new jobs program that he will fight for.
"We want him to fight harder," said James Hoffa, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Up to now, he added, the president is "not fighting enough."
While labor isn't about to back a Republican in the election, Hoffa echoed the AFL-CIO's frustration that labor doesn't seem to be on the president's mind. Instead, he said, the president has been too willing to cave into GOP demands on spending and deficit cuts.
In an interview on MSNBC's Morning Joe, Hoffa said: "I think he's got to draw a line in the sand. But to constantly keep backing up, and backing up, we don't want him to do that. We want him to fight and we will rally behind him. And the president also has to rally the base, come back to labor. You know when he was out there talking to the farmers
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Mon Aug 08th 2011, 02:46 PM
"NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The U.S. labor force is shrinking, as more Americans are giving up hope.
Last month, only 58.1% of Americans age 16 and over were employed, a significant drop from before the recession and the lowest since 1983.
That's especially worrisome to economists, who say a steady increase in those dropping out of the work force and not being counted in the unemployment rate is disguising just how bad the labor market really is.
"When we have a time when the labor force is not growing normally, e-pop provides the cleanest assessment of what is going on in the labor market," said Heidi Shierholz, a labor economist with the Employment Policy Institute, a liberal think tank. "What you see is from '07 to '09 -- it fell off a cliff, and it hasn't recovered since then.""
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Sat Jul 09th 2011, 11:07 PM
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Fri Jul 08th 2011, 04:09 PM
From William Z. Foster, "The Mass Impoverishment of the Toilers" http://www.marxists.org/archive/foster/193...
Read some of his analysis from the 1930s and tell me if this is starting to sound familiar:
THROUGHOUT capitalism the policy of the ruling class is to try to find a way out of the crisis by throwing its burden upon the shoulders of the working class, the poor farmers and the lower sections of the city petty bourgeoisie. This is being done by a vast system of starving the unemployed, wage-cuts, speed-up, inflation schemes, taxes directed against the masses, etc. In consequence, with the development of the crisis, there has been an enormous increase in the impoverishment of the toiling masses.
Wholesale starvation, spreading like a plague, is the order of the day in all capitalist countries. The bourgeoisie, intent only upon its own pleasures, cynically shrugs its shoulders at the whole terrible misery, when it does not hypocritically direct the masses towards religion for consolation. Nor are there "scientists" lacking to justify this mass starvation. Thus Prof. E. G. Conklin of Princeton University says: "Some of the weaker, according to the law of nature, will naturally die under the stress of the times. Others will not propagate their kind. The strong and hardy will survive and reproduce, and thus the human race will be strengthened."4
Since the onset of the present economic crisis American workers and poor farmers, through unemployment, part-time work, wage-cuts, reduced prices for agricultural products, tax increases, etc., have suffered a general decline in their living standards of at least 50%. Prof. Leiserson estimates that the total income of industrial and office workers was about 22 billion dollars less in 1931 than in 1929, and this is supported by the figures of Business Week (Feb. 10). This is by no means offset by the decline in living costs which, according to the U.S. Dept. of Labor, amounted to 11.7% from June, 1929, until June, 1931. On the farms, the Alexander Hamilton Institute says, the average income per household has dropped from $887 in 1929 (already a crisis year in agriculture) to but $367 in 1931.
The workers are losing wholesale the houses, radios, furniture, etc., that they so laboriously got together during the upward swing of American capitalism; thousands of farmers are losing their farms to the usurers. The Nation, (Mar. 23, 1932), says that in Detroit alone 50,000 workers lost their life savings in the collapsed banks, and similar huge losses have been suffered all over the country. In 1931, according to the New York Journal, (Jan. 28), 198,738 workers' families were evicted from their homes in New York City for non-payment of rent. The worker's life has become an endless round of worry and misery. The jails are filled to overflowing, thousands preferring prison rigors to life under the Hoover regime of "rugged individualism." Prostitution spreads like a poison weed in every American city. Tuberculosis runs riot among the half-starved masses, and the hospitals are packed with sufferers of diseases bred of under-nourishment, etc., etc. To such a debacle has come the Hooverian pre-election promises of the "abolition of poverty," "a chicken in every pot" and "an automobile in every garage" for the workers. And daily the whole maze of poverty, starvation, misery and death gets worse.
Manifestly, a fundamentally necessary measure against actual starvation among the workers is the establishment of a system of federal unemployment insurance, financed by the government and the employers. This must be of a permanent character, because what we have to deal with is not a temporary condition of unemployment, but a huge mass unemployment on a permanent basis. This, however, has not been done. The capitalists and their government have forced the workers into wholesale starvation which is now infesting the country like a plague.
The entire question of unemployment relief has been reduced to a charity basis. Although the worker has spent his life producing the wealth of the country, now when the capitalist system has broken down he is treated as a mendicant and a criminal. He is thrown a beggarly handout like a starving dog. Mr. Gifford, head of Hoover's Emergency Employment Committee, boasted that in the 1931 Fall relief drive about $150,000,000 had been raised in the various localities. So far as the Federal government is concerned, this money (what the workers get of it after the grafters are through) has to last the unemployed for the whole year. Thus it figures out at about $1.00 per month for each of the 12,000,000 unemployed. In New York, richest city in the world, after a disgusting campaign of begging, $18,000,000 of Gifford's fund was raised. This would give about $1.50 per month to each of New York's 1,000,000 unemployed.
The unemployed relief program of the Hoover Government is a real hunger plan. It is the policy of the capitalist class and it has the support of both big parties and the A. F. of L. That the Progressives also agree fundamentally with it is shown by the new unemployment insurance law in Wisconsin. This law adds insult to injury. According to its beggarly provisions unemployed workers can receive only a maximum of $100 yearly. And this applies only to those now employed, for whom insurance funds will be gradually built up. As for the masses of those totally unemployed now and part-time workers, they are left out of consideration altogether.
If the capitalists have callously forced the toiling masses into starvation conditions they have, however, very carefully looked after their own interests. "During the first nine months of 1930, our national industrial and business system was able to and did pay $432,000,000 more in dividends and $191,000,000 more in interest than it did in 1929; in the first nine months of 1931, the second year of the depression, it paid $347,000,000 more in dividends and $338,000,000 more in interest than it did in the first nine months of 1929."6 The Publishers Financial Bureau, (New York American, Mar. 19, 1932), states that the industrial dividends paid in 1931 are "the largest for any year previous to 1929." Anna Rochester says: "In September, 1931, the New York Times reported that of 5,000 companies, 50% had continued dividend payments without reduction; 20% were paying smaller dividends; and only 30% had omitted payments entirely. . . . For October, 1931, the total dividends plus bond interest by a large group of corporations were only 4% below the high record of October, 1930."7 Besides, every appeal of the bankers and other capitalists to the government for assistance has met with immediate response. The two billion dollar Reconstruction Finance Corporation has been organized and the Glass-Steagall inflation bill is being prepared to absorb the worthless paper of the banks and to underwrite the dividends of industrial corporations. And in the new Federal taxes the capitalists are further shielded from the economic effects of their own bankruptcy.
No, we are not quite at the stage the country was in the Great Depression, but do you see some parallels? Someone told me recently that commies had no relevance to today, in the US. I'd say they are more relevant than ever...what is going to happen when/if things *do* get as bad as the 1930s?
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Posted by Starry Messenger in General Discussion
Sat Jul 02nd 2011, 09:20 PM
July 02, 2011, 03:25 AM By Paul Wiseman The Associated Press
http://www.smdailyjournal.com/article_prev... ?
Two years after economists say the Great Recession ended, the recovery has been the weakest and most lopsided of any since the 1930s.
After previous recessions, people in all income groups tended to benefit. This time, ordinary Americans are struggling with job insecurity, too much debt and pay raises that haven't kept up with prices at the grocery store and gas station. The economy's meager gains are going mostly to the wealthiest.
Workers' wages and benefits make up 57.5 percent of the economy, an all-time low. Until the mid-2000s, that figure had been remarkably stable — about 64 percent through boom and bust alike.
Executive pay is included in this figure, but rank-and-file workers are far more dependent on regular wages and benefits. A big chunk of the economy's gains has gone to investors in the form of higher corporate profits. "The spoils have really gone to capital, to the shareholders," says David Rosenberg, chief economist at Gluskin Sheff + Associates in Toronto.
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Posted by Starry Messenger in General Discussion
Sat Jun 04th 2011, 03:19 PM
Due To Sick Workers
Company Credibility Erodes as NLRB Investigation over Firing of Six Whistleblowers Continues:
MINNEAPOLIS- Two months after Jimmy John's fired six workers for blowing the whistle on a company practice of forcing sandwich-makers to work while sick, the IWW Jimmy John's Workers Union has released Minnesota Department of Health documents today revealing eight outbreaks of foodborne illness at franchises across the Twin Cities area in the past five years, seven of which were due to employees working while sick at the chain. The release of the documents seriously erodes the credibility of Minneapolis franchise owner Mike Mulligan who had previously claimed to reporters and employees that, "the company has made more than 6 million sandwiches during its nearly 10 years in business—and no one's ever gotten sick from eating one." Two of the outbreaks, both caused by sick employees, were at the Mulligans' stores.
"This is smoking gun evidence not only of the seriousness of the public health risk caused by workers being forced to work while sick at Jimmy John's, it also proves that Jimmy John's franchise owner Mike Mulligan willfully lied to the media, the public, and his employees about his food safety track record. We will continue our fight for paid sick days for restaurant workers until Jimmy John's changes their policy to protect workers and the public," said Max Specktor, one of the fired whistleblowers.
Although franchise owner Mike Mulligan has also publicly denied disciplining workers for calling in sick, the company's own written policy mandates one to two disciplinary 'points' for workers who call in without finding a replacement, even if they have a doctor's note. Workers are fired after accumulating six points. In addition to the threat of discipline for calling in sick, workers are often unable to afford to take a day off if they fall ill because wages at the sandwich chain hover around the federal minimum of $7.25 and the company offers no benefits.
According to results of a survey of 40 sandwich workers conducted by the IWW Jimmy John's Workers Union, the threat of discipline and poverty wages result in an average of at least two workers working while sick at Jimmy John's in Minneapolis every single day. The union plans to release a report highlighting these findings next week.
Nice to see some vindication of the workers, even if the news is pretty icky. Unions work to protect the public as well as workers.
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Wed May 04th 2011, 10:08 AM
In 1997, Miron and his research team began canvassing Michigan -- and eventually the nation -- to gather data. Even at that time, they discovered, more than half of the state's charter schools were being run by outside management firms.
"The state (education) agency had no idea about EMOs," he said.
These days, plenty of people have heard of outfits like Edison Learning, Charter Schools USA, and Imagine. But Miron continues to gather his data, attend school board meetings, and shine a light at the junction where public education meets private industry.
And then there's the data. Last month, the investigative journalism group ProPublica reported that less than half of for-profit management companies' charters make adequate yearly progress under the federal No Child Left Behind law, compared to 63 percent for all charters and 67 percent for traditional public schools.
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Posted by Starry Messenger in Education
Tue Feb 08th 2011, 08:07 PM
An independent arbitrator has ruled that former D.C. schools chancellor Michelle A. Rhee improperly fired 75 new teachers still serving their probationary period in 2008, and the arbitrator ordered them reinstated with back pay because Rhee failed to give them a reason for their dismissal.
The ruling, issued Monday by Charles Feigenbaum, was narrowly cast. It said the school system had the right to fire teachers during their two-year probationary period if they had received negative recommendations from school principals. Feigenbaum said the "glaring and fatal flaw" in Rhee's action was that the teachers were not given reasons for their terminations.
"They had no opportunity to provide their side of the story," Feigenbaum wrote.
Feigenbaum ordered the District to make a 60-day good-faith effort to find the fired teachers and offer them reinstatement in an appropriate job. He also ordered that they be made financially whole. Union officials estimate the back-pay award could amount to $7.5 million - a considerable sum for the cash-strapped District.
In other bad news for Rhee:
Michelle Rhee's early test scores uncovered
G.F. Brandenburg, a retired D.C. math teacher with an irresistible blog, has done it again. If he had chosen a career in journalism instead of teaching, no U.S. president would have finished out his first term. He has found the missing test score data from former D.C. schools chancellor's early years as a classroom teacher, something I did not think was possible.
He has proved that Rhee's results weren't nearly as good as she said they were.
You can find Brandenburg's revelations if you scroll down on his blog to the Jan. 31 item "The Rhee Miracle Examined Again--By Cohort." Then go back further for other recent pieces he has done, with many charts, to make his findings clear. You may also be enlightened by his most recent Feb. 8 item, "The Cluelessness of Rhee, Kopp and Mathews," which finds fault with my Feb. 3 column on Teach For America founder Wendy Kopp's new book. It is an honor, of a sort, to be mentioned by Brandenburg in the same headline as Rhee, who has been his prime target for years.
checked Richard Whitmire's new biography of Rhee, "The Bee Eater," to see if he has more on her Baltimore teaching years. He does not mention Brandenburg's research, and appears somewhat neutral on the argument over this issue. He quotes Rhee as saying on her resume that after two years 90 percent of her students had reached the 90th percentile in reading and math, but he also quotes other officials casting doubt on that statement. Rhee's principal, according to Whitmire, backed up Rhee. She said the students' achievement level climbed impressively. But she did not have the results to confirm that. These were not official state tests that would have been preserved and made public, but private company records.
Mathews goes into gyrations in his article to smooth over any unpleasant suggestion that Rhee might have lied, so I'm not giving him pride of place in his own thread. His claim is that she would have unknowingly made the claim that her scores got massively higher because her principal told her they did. Even if that is true, I think if I were going to use that as my bragging point on an already thin-as-ice resume', I'd make damn sure it was true before braying about it in every media outlet.
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Posted by Starry Messenger in Education
Tue Jan 25th 2011, 09:49 PM
Michael Moore's tweet during the education portion of the SOTU.
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Posted by Starry Messenger in Education
Mon Jan 24th 2011, 07:01 PM
Former NYC Schools Chancellor Joel Klein is busy making big bucks at News Corp., but he's apparently not too busy for some extra-curricular activities: Namely, serving as chairman of the board of the advocacy group Education Reform Now.
In his first statement in his new role, Klein is coming out in favor of changing the rules on the "last in, first out" procedure for teacher layoffs -- a position that keeps him in line with his old boss, Mayor Bloomberg, and his successor at the Education Department, Cathie Black.
Education Reform Now* -- which pushed hard for raising the state cap on charter schools as part of last year's fight for federal Race To The Top school funding -- also plans to "focus its efforts in 2011 on expanding successful school models, like high-performing public charter schools, encouraging states anddistricts to develop and adopt value-added teacher evaluations, and ensuring that proven reform programs remain funded at the federal, state and district levels."
The group clashed with the United Federation of Teachers during the push to lift the charter cap, with the union saying ERN ran misleading ads to sway the public to their side.
http://www.edreformnow.org/about /
About Us
Board of Directors
Sidney Hawkins Gargiulo - Hawkshaw Capital
John Petry (chair) - Gotham Capital
John Sabat - SAC Capital
Brian Zied - Maverick Capital
http://preaprez.wordpress.com/2010/06/15/t... /
Education Reform Now, a group once named Democrats for Education Reform and run by a former Milwaukee education reporter named Joe Williams, is a main player in the Democratic Party and represents their most rabidly anti-union, right-wing, pro-Wall Street fringe. But it is a very wealthy fringe.
Sitting on their board:
--John Petry. A partner at Gotham Capital Management. Petry's Gotham Capital LLC, founded in 1985 with $7 million from junk-bond king Michael Milken, is a privately owned hedge fund.
--Sidney Hawkins Gargiulo. Hawkshaw Capital, founded in 2002 by a former Lehman Brothers analyst.
--John Sabat. SAC Capital, a Stamford, Conn.-based private investment firm.
--Brian Zied. Maverick Capital, a Dallas-based investment adviser managing hedge funds and private investment funds.
Also included among Education Reform Now's funders is Julian Robertson, the founder of the Tiger Management hedge fund. According to McAdoo, Robertson's gifts include $71 million in 2008, including $250,000 to Education Reform Now, $1 million to the Achievement First charter network, $2 million to KIPP charters, $3 million to the New York City Center for Charter School Excellence, $7.1 million to Teach for America and $200,000 to the New Teacher Project.
Of course, all this is open and above-board. But not always. Back in April of 2009, Ed Reform Now's Joe Williams got in a mess of trouble for functioning as a bag man, channeling money through different organizations and funds to hide its source and destination.
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Sun Jan 23rd 2011, 06:24 PM
His bosses had no trouble dismissing Ryan Abbott's report of cheating on standardized tests in an Atlanta school. They simply cast him in a self-fulfilling role, Abbott says: "disgruntled teacher."
Former teacher Paul Landerman found Atlanta Public Schools' investigation of his complaint quickly turned against him after he reported seeing students cheating on the graduation test with a teacher present. Landerman, who taught Japanese at Carver High School, is shown here near his home in Sandy Springs Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011.
Abbott was already on probation, after four years at Benteen Elementary. His students had not posted the big increases in test scores seen in other classrooms. Yet he had the audacity to level charges against a popular colleague. After word of Abbott's allegations spread through the school, Benteen's principal opened an ethics case — against him.
The newspaper reviewed reports of the school district's internal investigations and spoke with more than a dozen current and former Atlanta educators. The documents and the interviews describe a culture that punishes employees who report wrongdoing and rewards those who keep silent. Some whistle-blowers end up under scrutiny themselves. Others are subjected to questions about their mental health. Some lose their jobs.
In Atlanta, as in other Georgia school districts, teachers have little job security. Even those with tenure work under year-to-year contracts, and they have no collective bargaining rights. Younger teachers, in particular, say that if they run afoul of administrators, they risk being "non-renewed."
This is why teachers are protective of unions and tenure. This is the kind of thing that can happen in a place with little protection. Saying "less job security" would lead to "less complacency" is total nonsense and show a lack of knowledge of school culture in general.
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Here are some of the latest weather-related delays and closings, according to WSYR, WSTM, WTVH and News 10 reports:
As of 2 p.m.
Amboy - town board meeting canceled
Tully - town court canceled
Access to Independence - closed
Aesthetic Science Institute - closed
Alzheimers Assoc. CNY - open at noon
ARC Seneca-Cayuga Co - closed
ARC Yates Cty - closed
Auburn MDA lockup - canceled
Ava Dorfman Senior Day program - closed, staff report
Baldwinsville library - open at noon
Booker T. Washington Comm. ctr - closed, staff report at noon
Branch's Driving School - no afternoon or night defensive driving classes
Camillus 1st United Methodist - no senior companion program DSO
Catholic Charities Senior Dining - closed
Cato-Meridian Rec Cntr - open at 3 p.m.
Central NY Teaching ctr - workshops canceled
CENTRO - operating on snow routes
Children's Therapy Network - closed
Cicero Rec. Dept. - Can-Teen closed, no evening activities
Cortland County Area Agency on Aging - closed
Dance Art studios - no night classes
DeWitt Rec - senior activities canceled
Eastwood Community ctr - senior program closed
Eternal Hope Worship Church - rehearsal canceled
Farah Dermatology and Cosmetiics - B'ville/Radisson closed
Fayetteville library - closed
Foster Grandparent program - closed
Franziskca Racker ctr - closed
Girl Scout Troop 53 - no meeting tonight
Grace Christian Fellowship Church - no youth activities
Groton library - closed
Heritage Farm - closed
I.A.C.C. - closed
Jewish Community Center - no senior lunch program
L'Arche Advent Vespers - resked to Dec. 18
Manlius library - closed
MANOS Child & Family ctr - closed
Meals on Wheels - Auburn, Baldwinsville, Cortland, ECHO, F-M, J-D, North area, Tompkins Co. closed
My Gym Children's fitness ctr - closed
Knights of Columbus #5082 (B'ville) - no bingo tonight
Northern Onondaga Public library - open at noon
OASIS Center - no senior program
Onondaga Free Library - closing at 4 p.m.
PEACE Senior Nutrition sites - closed
Romulus Fire Dept. - no bingo
Sacred Heart Basilica (Syr) - no bingo tonight
Seymour Public library (Auburn) - closing at 4 p.m.
Shades of Orange Art Studio - closed
St. Francis adult daycare - closed
St. John's Church (Liv) - no night activities
St. Joseph's Hospital - no free vein screening tonight
Verizon Pioneers - no fairgrounds event
Westcott community ctr - closed
Winds of Agape Adult Day program - closed
YMCA/Downtown - snow program closed at Fairmount
YMCA Cortland - p.m. B'ball games canceled
A-P-W - no afterschool activities
Auburn - no financial aid night
Ballet & Dance of Upstate NY - no night classes
Cayuga CC - Auburn - closed early (12:30 p.m.)
Clyde-Savannah - no afterskl or night activities
Cortland Youth Bureau - teen center closed, no GED classes
DeRuyter - K-1st Grade vocal concert postponed
Holy Family (Syr) - no religious ed, p.m. events postponed
Lyons - no afterskl or night activities
Pulaski daycare ctr - closing early due to plumbing problem
For this morning's school-specific closings...
Schools, daycare
Abundant Life Academy - closed
All Saints Elementary (Syr) - closed
A-P-W - 2-hr delay
Auburn - closed
Baldwinsville - closed
Baldwinsville Christian Academy - closed
Bishop Grimes - closed
Bishop Ludden - closed
BVM Academy - closed
Camden - 2-hr delay
CAPCO Head Start of Cortland - closed
Cascadilla - closed
Cato-Meridian - closed
Cayuga-Onondaga BOCES - closed
Cazenovia - closed
Central Square - 1-hr delay
Chittenango - 1-hr delay
Christian Brothers Academy - closed
Cincinnatus & Christian Academy - closed
Cortland Christian Academy - closed
Cortland - closed
Cortland BOCES - closed
Covenant Love Community School - closed
Del.-Chen.-Madison-Ostego BOCES - no intro to smart board workshop; Harrold campus 2-hr delay
DeRuyter - closed
Dryden - closed
Dundee - closed
E. John Gavras Center - pre-skl closed
Earlville pre-skl - closed
East Syracuse-Minoa - 1-hr delay
Eastwood Baptist Nursery - closed
Empire State College - closed
Fabius-Pompey - closed
Faith Heritage - closed
Fayetteville-Manlius - closed
Finger Lakes CC - closed
Geneva - closed
Gingerbread pre-skl - closed
Groton - closed
Hamilton - closed
Holy Cross (DeWitt) - closed
Homer - closed
Immaculate Conception (Fayetteville) - closed
Ithaca - closed
Jamesville-DeWitt - closed
Jordan-Elbridge - closed
Jowonio - closed
Keuka College - closed
Kids Club Phoenix - closed
Kiedie Company daycare - closed
Kirkpatrick Day program - closed
Kumon Math & Reading Ctr. - DeWitt closed
LaFayette - closed
Lansing - closed
Lean On Me daycare - closed
Little Lamb pre-skl - closed
Liverpool - closed
Liverpool community nursery - closed
Liverpool School of Dance - no a.m. classes
Living Word Academy - closed
Lydia's Lullaby daycare - closed
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Senate Democrats offer compromise on affordable health care
Iowa Senate Democrats offer a compromise in order to insure tens of thousands of Iowans. To address Governor Branstad's concerns that the federal government will not keep its promises, Democrats offer to include a opt-out provision. This has been done by other Republican governors who support Medicaid expansion. Speakers: Sentor Amanda Ragan, Senate President Pam Jochum, and Senator Jack Hatch. Recorded March 14, 2013.
Healthcare Bottom Line document, discussed below (PDF)
Remarks by Senator Ragan:
Hello, I'm Amanda Ragan. I'm the State Senator from Mason City, and I chair the Human Recourses Committee and I have since 2006.
Governor Branstad is really right to focus on wellness and prevention. As he points out, helping people stay healthy is the best and most cost-effective way that we can provide health care.
The most important benefit in having health insurance is having an on-going relationship with your provider.
That is the core of the new health care opportunities Iowa has right now. And we can move further away from fee-for-service. We can move even more in the direction of paying health care providers to keep people healthy, rather than just responding for people are ill or sick.
That's why the Governor's plan and staff put together with the Governor's ideas. We accepted some of those and we had the first meeting on Senate File 71.
We adopted many of those things. We took the innovation grant language and made it part of our bill.
We believe in the integrated care system, and we agree with him in moving with outcome-based Medicare is the way to go.
Remarks by Senate President Pam Jochum:
Good morning, I'm Pam Jochum
And yesterday Senator Hatch, Ragan, myself, and Senator Bolkcom met with the Governor's staff and we offered a compromise to address his biggest concern with Medicaid expansion and that is the long-term reliability of federal funding.
Following the lead of other Republican governors in other states, we have offered to re-evaluate Iowa's participation in Medicaid expansion if the federal government does not keep its promise.
In other words if it would renege on its commitment of paying 100 percent of the cost for the next three years and then of course it's on a sliding scale that by 2020 it's 90 percent participation by the federal government and 10 percent participation by the state government.
The language we suggested would protect Iowa taxpayers from any risk, and it would address the Governor's concerns.
In short, if the federal government's sky falls, WE will be off the hook as a state.
I want to mention, and we should all remember, that the federal government has never, never failed to meet its obligations to Medicaid in nearly its 50 years of existence.
We believe that this is a step forward in trying to reach some kind of compromise with the Governor on making sure that all Iowans have affordable healthcare and access to healthcare.
Remarks by Senator Jack Hatch
Posted Mar. 14th, 2013 at 12:06 pm by Senate Intern
Healthcare Bottom Line document, discussed by Senator Hatch (PDF)
Good Morning. I'm Jack Hatch and I've been working with Senators Bolkcom, Ragan, and Jochum on working through our process of trying to get a proposal that is best for Iowa.
Recently we've been working with the Governor's staff and I think you have a comparison in front of you of our two plans, the Senate proposal and his proposal.
It seems like we're agreeing with the governor a lot. I'm here to tell you that there is a significant part of his proposal that we cannot agree with, and that's first his funding and that's what we want to talk about today.
His structure of financing his proposal is a huge obligation of state dollars of $163 million dollars a year. He is asking that we remain under the old 60/40 plan, and that the state taxpayers incorporate and invest $163 million dollars to fund Medicaid expansion.
That doesn't do as well, provides fewer services to fewer people and costs us $163 million dollars a year.
It's important to know that this is a hit on Iowa taxpayers.
It's a hit we don't have to take because the Senate plan fully excepts the federal investment in Medicaid Expansion, and if you look at the bottom of your sheet we gave you there is a very significant irony in his plan.
He asks for $224 million dollars in federal dollars to match the $163 million that he is proposing. The difference is that under Medicaid expansion through the budget reconciliation plan of 2010 the federal governments contribution to states is already obligated and is already part of the deficit reduction figures that we're hearing about in Washington.
Under the Governor's plan he's actually asking the federal government to appropriate new money $224 million dollars that is not covered under the reconciliation plan.
So he is actually adding to the federal debt and the very program and the very criticism that he says he wants to avoid. It's a strange phenomenon. One in which we realize that his people have to work a little harder in understanding the law.
Now there is another part of this plan that he's cobbled together state and local money that is also disturbing to a lot of us and should be disturbing to Republicans who have worked so hard on mental health.
Mental health redesign the past three years has focused not only on a regional basis but how the state and the local counties fund mental health services in his plan you will notice that he is asking for $44 million dollars in mental health property taxes to fund part of the state's share.
Which means he has to go out to each of the 99 counties get an agreement with all of the supervisors to literally scoop that money back to pay for the Medicaid services under his plan, which would lower the available local money for counties to fund other mental health services that we have been working so hard to protect.
His plan doesn't make sense at all on the local level at the state level and purposely it is a plan that will take Iowa tax payers away from the state and possibly away from taxpayers who could who know why there giving taxes to state and expect us to spend it reasonably.
In the end his proposal is unaffordable, unsustainable, and unworkable.
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Expanded Functions Course Approval
Issue: Professional Board Requirements
Subissue: Allied Health Education Requirements
First Reported: 07/08/2013
Date Updated: 08/06/2014
Contact: Lori Hubble (916) 263-1978
Citation: 16 CCR 1107-1108
Upcoming Action: Nothing scheduled
Status: Pending Publication
Regulation ID: CA23516
Rule Summary:
The Department's Dental Hygiene Committee (Committee) approved regulations addressing expanded functions course approval. The rule amendments would establish Committee requirements for the approval of courses in soft tissue curettage, administration of local anesthesia and administration of nitrous oxide used as an analgesic. These practices are allowed to be performed by hygienists in California, but certain hygienists with out-of-state training may not have received training in these procedures and course providers are approved on a case-by-case basis.
This rulemaking would establish a uniform application for a course provider applicant for approval of educational courses in the administration of local anesthesia agents, administration of nitrous oxide–oxygen analgesia, and periodontal soft tissue. In particular, the rule would establish requirements for program administration, faculty, facilities and equipment, general and specific curriculum content, record keeping and student learning resources.
A copy of the May 2014 meeting agenda:
A copy of the second 15-day comment period text is available at:
A copy of the 12/7/2013 meeting agenda is available at:
A copy of the 15-day comment period text is available at:
Agenda for 9/6/2013 meeting: (item #12 )
Notice of the proposed regulation (page 4):
Rule Development:
OAL has approved the rule. The rule is effective 8/4/2014. Notice is pending publication in the California Register.
The Committee held a public hearing regarding the proposed rule 8/21/2013 and accepted comments through the same day. A Committee meeting was held 9/6/2013, and the agenda contained discussion on and potential action to amend the draft rule language. Staff internally reviewed the comments received and prepared the rule for a 15-day comment period. Staff released the rule for a 15-day comment period. Comments were due 10/24/2013. Staff discussed this rulemaking at the Committee meeting on 12/7/2013. Staff released notice of the modified rule for a second 15-day comment period. Comments were due 12/31/2013 on the modifications only. Staff discussed the rule at the 5/3/2014 Committee meeting. Staff internally completed the final rulemaking package. Staff submitted the rule to the Office of Administrative Law (OAL).


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Gerstner Rides To The RescueBy 1993, a sprawling IBM was losing money, and for the first time the company reached outside its ranks to hire a new CEO. McKinsey, American Express, and RJR Nabisco veteran Lou Gerstner slashed costs--and in a first at IBM cut tens of thousands of employees--but he also resisted calls to break IBM into separate companies. Over the next decade, IBM divested low-margin businesses, including DRAM, networking, personal printers, and hard drives, but channeled new investment into software and services, buying, most notably, Lotus Software and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Inside Watson, IBM's Jeopardy Computer
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A joint three-month investigation has resulted in the arrest of a New York State Thruway Authority employee who is charged with stealing supplies.
Mark E. Green, 52, of Herkimer, was charged Friday with multiple counts of petit larceny, a misdemeanor, and falsifying business records, which is a felony. Green was a general mechanic assigned to the Herkimer area.
He is accused of falsifying work orders to cover up the misappropriation of approximately $200 worth of supplies. The investigation was conducted by members of the New York State Police assigned to the New York State Thruway Authority in Syracuse and members of the New York State Thruway Authority's Department of Audit & Management Services in Albany.


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The Contemporary Studies Honours and General BA program are only available at the Brantford Campus.
Laurier's Brantford campus offers a unique core curriculum in contemporary studies that can be combined with many other programs. All full-time students on the Brantford Campus are required to complete a minimum of 5.0 credits in contemporary studies, as outlined in the program requirements below.
The Honours BA Contemporary Studies program is a four-year, 20.0-credit program that allows for advanced and in depth interdisciplinary study. The General BA Contemporary Studies program is a three-year, 15.0-credit program that is designed to promote a broad understanding of the skills and knowledge needed to understand contemporary issues and concerns.
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Even if you aren't planning to spend time around Lake Titicaca, the rail journey south to Puno is worth taking. The journey starts in the Cusco region and takes around twelve hours, covering a soul-stirring route that climbs slowly through stunning green river valleys to a desolate landscape to the pass, beyond the town of Sicuani. From here it rolls down onto the altiplano, a flat high plain studded wih adobe houses and large herds of llama and alpaca, before reaching Lake Titicaca and the port city of Puno.
If Lima is your destination, consider the 20-hour direct highland route northwest from Cusco through Abancay and then down to the coast at Nasca. Known as the Nasca-Cusco Corridor, it offers access to a range of potential stop-overs on the way: the archeological sites of Choquequirao and Sahuite; the city of Abancay and protected mountain forest area of Ampay; the thermal baths at Chaullanca and the alpaca and vicuña centre at Puquio; and, of course, the mysterious archeological sites around Nasca itself.


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Cheapest ways to watch films online
Cinema habit draining your pockets? For less than the price of one ticket you could stream more films and TV shows a month than you've had Pot Noodles.
Forget queuing up for overpriced popcorn, nowadays you don't need to leave your house to watch all of the latest releases.
There are a huge range of sites offering cheap (and sometimes free) access to films and TV. Yes, that's both legal and free!
You can pay-as-you-go or sign up to a subscription, depending on how much of a film nerd you are. Either way it's well worth looking at all the options out there.
Luckily for you we've got together everything you need to know right here, so get yourself a brew and stay exactly where you are.
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Using online film services
There's no two ways about it; a film addiction can be a costly habit.
With new releases costing between £10 and £15 to buy, cinema tickets reaching double figures and rentals roughly £3 a pop, watching just one film a week could set you back £40 a month.
In contrast a subscription service can cost at little as £5 a month and you can watch as many flicks as you fancy. If you split this between a student house of four, it works out at just £1.25 a month.
Many services also offer month-long free trials to help you decide if it's for you, so make sure to take advantage of them all (more on that below).
Once signed up you'll be able to stream films and shows directly to your laptop, tablet, Smart TV and/or games console.
However, before you chuck out your DVD collection for good, it's essential to suss out both your broadband speed and download limit.
Subscription movie services compared
If you're a serial film addict then the subscription services are the big boys that you'll be wanting to use!
For a flat monthly rate you'll get access to a HUGE range of films and, unlike with free sites, you'll get a whole host of all the latest stuff… in HD.
The even better news is that most of the companies that we look at below offer a one-month trial allowing you to test it out for free.
Also, none of these services are fixed term contracts – you can cancel at any time.
Amazon Prime Instant Video (formerly LoveFilm)
Amazon Prime Instant video's collection of thousands of films and DVDs dwarfs most of the competition and certainly punches its weight.
It also offers the opportunity to rent physical DVDs as well, giving you an even greater choice over what you watch.
You also get an Amazon Prime account which comes with free next day delivery.
Price: £6.60/month
Number of films: 2000+
Offers: 30 day free trial – just remember to cancel if you change your mind
HD: Some films and shows
Top picks: The West Wing, The Walking Dead, Twilight, Dexter
Hailing all the way from the good ol' US of A, Netflix is one of the heavyweight contenders in the world of film and TV subscription services.
Costing exactly the same as UK based Amazon Prime Instant Video, Netflix may not have as many films, but it does offer an impressive back catalogue of TV programmes.
And yes, that does include Breaking Bad.
Price: £6.99/month
Number of films: 2000 +
Offers: 30 day free trial – remember to cancel if you change your mind
HD: Some films and shows
top picks: Breaking Bad, The Hunger Games, The Inbetweeners, Jackass
Launched in 2012, NowTV is the new guy to the world of streaming subscriptions. The service is a bit more costly – £8.99 for a film subscription and £4.99 for a TV subscription.
This is a lot more dollar, but all the films and shows are of a high quality – they're essentially what you'd get it you have Sky Movies or Sky TV.
Price: £8.99/month for a movie package and £4.99/month for TV shows
Number of films: About 800 films at any one time
Offers: 30 day free trial – just remember to cancel if you change your mind
HD: No
Top picks: Les Miserables, Skyfall, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Pay-per-view services
If you don't watch a tremendous amount of movies, but do like to indulge in the odd flick here and there, then pay-per-view (PPV) services are the option for you.
With a lot of sites you can also pay to download the titles forever, if you think you it's going to become a classic.
Owned by Tesco, blinkbox offers a great range of films starting at just 99p each.
One of the bonuses of blinkbox is that if you don't want to stream the film, you can download it and watch it on Windows Media Player instead.
Prices from: 99p
Top Releases from: £3.49
Number of films: 10,000+
Offers: Currently blinkbox is offering £5 free credit when you deposit your first £1
Don't be fooled by its famous music offerings, iTunes also do movies!
You will need to download the iTunes software before you can make any rentals though, but you can also watch films offline.
Prices from: 99p
Top Releases from: Between £3-5
Number of films: 45,000 movies and 190,000 TV episodes
Offers: Nothing at the moment, but keep your eye on our deals section!
Free (legal) movie services
It's one of those things that really does sound too good to be true, but we pinky promise it's not.
There are a whole range of sites where you can watch films and TV shows for free. There is one snag though… you won't be getting the latest films or the widest selection when compared to the paid services.
Still worth a look though…
Another fine offering of free films, series, trailers and interviews, Viewster is the King of niche films, cult TV and old-time classics.
There's about 150 films to be found and it's a great place to discover new things you might not have looked at before.
Once again Viewster is funded by ads, but we don't mind!
At the moment there's almost 250 movies on Crackle, without mentioning the various TV shows on offer.
It prides itself on having a great selection of action, sci-fi, horror, crime and comedy.
While Crackle tries to boast its films are picked especially for guys, we can confirm that like most things marketed at a specific gender, everyone will enjoy it regardless of what's in their pants.
Whatever service you choose to go for, make sure to take full advantage of free offers and carefully consider how many and what kind of films you watch.
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5 Responses to "Cheapest ways to watch films online"
23. Aug, 2016
I love how this article claims that the paid services have the latest releases, yeah if you count films released five years ago as "latest releases"
13. Mar, 2013
For another 3 quid a month you can get a VPN account that allows you access to the full Netflix US streaming library even with a UK Netflix account. The content there dwarfs what LoveFilm has to offer.
20. Apr, 2012
LoveFilm has terrible customer service and you'll have a hard time cancelling the subscription after the trial. They charged me more than they were supposed to and it took my three letters of complaint before they finally cancelled my subscription. And they were rude to me. Everyone I know who's been on LoveFilm has not had a good experience with them.
Jake Butler
20. Apr, 2012
Thanks for your views Charlotte. I think it helps to let other students know your experience so that they will not encounter the same problems. 🙂
13. Feb, 2012
Have trialled both and whereas Lovefilm wins the day with content level, the inability to watch on an iPad connected to a TV is a deal breaker for me, and I would guess for others also.
Netflix is happy to run on the iPad connected via av cables on a tv. So, with a family wishing to watch together, and not wanting to cram around a Small iPad, Netflix wins in our house!
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ESCANABA - A pair of Delta County girls will face a major challenge when they embark on their collegiate careers in softball next year.
Hailey McDermott of Bark River-Harris and Heather Sanderson of Rapid River signed national letters of intent recently to play at Wisconsin-Green Bay. Both are pitchers who have performed well at various levels and would appear ready for the challenge.
However, the Phoenix also signed two other top pitchers in a class of five recruits and have a highly touted freshman ready to make her debut in spring.
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Dennis Grall, sports editor
Lauren Danner of Kaukauna, Wis. was the state's Player of the Year in 2011. She is the third Kaukauna player to earn the Gatorade award. Danner led the Galloping Ghosts to a 24-1 record and a berth in the sectional finals. Kaukauna was ranked fifth nationally.
New recruits Ashley Holz of Oakfield, Wis. and Briana Cavin of Elk Grove Village, Ill. also appear ready for the challenge of earning innings along with three returning juniors.
Ashely Baker, a catcher from Bay Port High School near Green Bay also signed with UWGB.
Holz led Oakfield to the Division 4 state championship last year and also pitched in the title game as a freshman. She was second-team all-state.
Cavin set a school record with 26 wins while helping the Cougars to their first Mid Suburban League title in 37 years. A year earlier she set the school mark with 24 wins.
Three other area athletes also signed college scholarships earlier this month, Escanaba's Olivia Nash for basketball at Oakland University, Gladstone's Jammie Botruff for basketball at Grand Valley State and Manistique's Mike Nagy for golf at University of Tennessee.
Nash will join three current freshmen who played against Delta County teams in the 2011 tournament.
Shelby Harrington (21 points) and Peyton Aspey (seven points) helped Hemlock belt Gladstone 63-34 in the Class B quarterfinals and all-stater Lauren Robak helped Waterford Our Lady of the Lakes blast Bark River-Harris 53-35 for their second straight Class D state title.
Botruff will join another Yooper and former opponent at GVSU, freshman center Daina Grazulis of Marquette.
Nagy, only the second D-1 recruit from Manistique in the past five decades, is one of three premier golf recruits at Tennessee. He joins Grant Daugherty of Alcoa, Tenn. and Chad Merzbacher of Dublin, Oh.
"With all due respect to our former signing classes, this is undoubtably the finest class I have been associated with for over 20 years," coach Jim Kelson said on the school's website. He said each recruit is "extremely long, accurate and talented in all three phases of the game."
Tennessee has three seniors on this year's roster.
Daugherty won the Tennessee Class A-AA state title in 2010 and the state's Junior Amateur title this year and was 10th in the U.S. Junior Open.
Merzbacher was runner-up in the D-1state finals in Ohio and was all-state after helping the team to the state title.
Nagy is a two-time U.P. champion and has won the past four men's titles at Manistique Indian Lake Golf and Country Club, highlighted by a course-record 12-under 60 this year.
Nagy of course has the best chance to earn playing time because his golf scores will indicate how he fits into the team format. In softball and basketball, coach's decisions based on their player evaluations dictate who plays.


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The Board meets five times a year at the central location of the American Cancer Society in New Brunswick. Cecelia Clayton, Executive Director of the Karen Ann Quinlan Hospice has been re-elected to a second term of one year on the NJHPCO Board of Directors and serves as Board Chairman.
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Syracuse, N.Y. -- With the blessing of state utility regulators, National Grid is about to launch an unusual $6 million relief effort to help businesses and municipalities in Eastern New York that were hit hard by tropical storms Irene and Lee.
The utility will implement emergency economic development programs in 13 counties to help repair damaged buildings, replace broken farm equipment or float interest-free bridge loans to businesses waiting for state and federal aid, among other projects.
The programs target counties that are eligible for federal disaster aid: Albany; Chenango; Clinton; Columbia; Essex; Montgomery; Otsego; Rensselaer; Saratoga; Schenectady; Schoharie; Warren and Washington.
National Grid ratepayers from across the state will pick up the tab. The state Public Service Commission authorized National Grid to spend up to $6 million on the emergency programs through December 2012, after which rates will be adjusted to recover the money.
No other New York utilities have proposed similar aid programs, said James Denn, speaking for the PSC. Denn said he did not recall similar programs in the past.
National Grid officials said they proposed the idea because of the extraordinary damage in affected communities.
"We saw a lot of devastation there, and we saw an opportunity to help them out," said Patrick Stella, speaking for the utility.
The PSC approved the plan in just three days.
"In the absence of emergency funding, businesses could fail and jobs could be lost," PSC Chairman Garry Brown wrote in a ruling issued Friday.
The $6 million in targeted assistance is on top of $9.1 million that National Grid plans to spend this year on other economic development programs throughout the state.
In the coming days, the utility will begin communicating with customers in affected counties about its emergency effort, which will include four programs: restoring central business districts; restoring municipal infrastructure; agricultural assistance; and bridge loans to farms and businesses.
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MINNETONKA, Minn. — A Minnesota food company is widening its recall of hard-cooked eggs because of a potential for listeria contamination.
Michael Foods, of Minnetonka, is recalling eggs in brine sold in 10- and 25-pound pails for institutional use in 34 states, including New Jersey. The eggs carry six brand names: Columbia Valley Farms, GFS, Glenview Farms, Papetti's, Silverbrook and Wholesome Farms.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says the eggs were produced at Michael Foods' plant in Wakefield, Neb., and were bought by food distributors and manufacturers. There have been no reports of illness connected to the eggs. But the company says the eggs have the potential to be contaminated with a strain of listeria that can cause serious infections in those with weaker immune systems.
The other states included in the recall: Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, Nebraska, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin and West Virginia.
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Candidates face off in city, county council races
ARLINGTON — Ballots have already been mailed out, and voters in Arlington have their primary candidates to choose from in the races for Arlington City Council Position 3 and Snohomish County Council District 1.
Arlington City Council
In Arlington, incumbent City Council member Scott Solla is being challenged by Brock Hecla and Kari Ilonummi for the next four-year term.
Solla seeks to balance a short-term focus on reversing the economic downturn with an eye toward maintaining and expanding upon quality of life in the long term. He acknowledged the impacts of lost sales tax revenues, budget cuts and even recent weather warnings, as they pose threats of fire and risks to health. He likewise admitted that the 2010 fiscal budget would present the city with tough decisions, but he asserted that public safety should be Arlington's number-one priority in a tight budget.
"We have to keep our citizens safe," Solla said. "At the same time, we need to look for opportunities to grow in visionary ways. The demands on our schools, roads, utilities and other infrastructure will continue to increase, and we'll need strategic planning to progress wisely. I'm passionate about preserving our heritage, but I also embrace economic development."
Solla characterized himself as very concerned with looking after parks and recreation for families, and is likewise emphatic about the need to nurture the local business environment, especially in the wake of Meridian Yachts' closure.
"It's paramount that we be business-friendly, because that will play a key role in our recovery," Solla said. "I also support the Transfer of Development Rights program because it's about conserving where we play and live for generations to come. We need diverse housing options, affordable to everyone, so that we don't just turn into an urban sprawl."
Solla praised his fellow City Council members, as well as city of Arlington department directors and staff members, for their qualifications and their commitment to the community, the latter of which he cited as present in the city employees' furloughs to help prevent job losses. He likewise touted the volunteer spirit of Arlington, as shown in the projects of its numerous community service groups, which he believes can do what government sometimes can't.
"We're folks working together toward common goals," Solla said. "We've got great leadership and we may not always see eye-to-eye on all things, but that gives us balance."
Hecla is a man of relatively few words, who expressed his beliefs in self-improvement and community service. He started his own Arlington-based IT consulting business in the wake of the economic downturn, "maintaining tight connections to the town and its residents," and is working toward finishing his degree, but before that he'd worked for firms that had dealt with the city, giving him a glimpse into how the city's processes work.
"Through my work with these architectural, engineering and other professional services firms, I've had some unique exposure to how ideas translate to action and tangible results," Hecla said. "I've seen bad ideas work and great ideas fail. I've seen the power of combining great vision with solid execution."
Hecla noted that his family has resided in Arlington "for generations, and I was lucky enough to have spent my formative years here." He does not consider himself a partisan, and instead deemed the city's future to be his primary concern.
"This is where I live," Hecla said. "I don't have any issues with the current Council, and I don't have any qualms with the city. I just want to make sure that we don't go down the wrong path and the only way I know how to get involved is to get involved. I want Arlington to continue to be a place that people love to live in and feel welcome to visit."
Ilonummi was contacted repeatedly by phone and e-mail by The Arlington Times, but did not respond to interview requests as of press time.
Snohomish County Council
In the County Council primary race, prospective Democratic candidate Krista Larsen dropped out, leaving only Democratic challenger Ellen Hiatt Watson and Republican incumbent John Koster.
If Koster wins, term limits mean that this next four-year term will be his last. While he would like to make progress toward his long-term goals, such as working on the TDR program and adding more parks and ball fields to the county, his recent door-belling of an estimated 8,000 homes helped cement his conviction that the economy must be his main focus in his final term, since he sees economic health as the wellspring from which all else flows.
"I was a small business owner for 25 years, and giving someone the ability to live out their dreams of prosperity is exciting to me," Koster said. "Government's role should be to facilitate that, where it should, and to stay out of the way, where it should. We need a healthy economy to keep businesses here, and we also need to diversify our economy."
Koster appreciates the business of Boeing and other aerospace industries, but he would also welcome a greater number of manufacturing jobs and bio-tech industries. At the same time, he reiterated his support for commercial air service at Paine Field, which he sees as a potential economic driver for the region, as well as for a four-year college in Snohomish County.
"I have no illusions that I'll get all these things done by the end of my next term, but at the very least I want to keep the momentum going," Koster said.
In looking ahead to the county's budget balancing challenge, Koster listed a number of crucial aspects of government, from transportation and health care to the environment and law enforcement, and then noted how interconnected they all are, since "I dare you to name one thing that you can touch without affecting any number of others. If there is a silver lining to this, it's that these tough choices force us to look inward, and figure out the differences between what we must do and what we want to do. We'll need someone who already has an understanding of how it all fits together, because we won't have time for someone to learn it on the job."
Although she majored in political science, Watson had no desire to enter politics herself until about two years ago, when she spearheaded an effort to push back against developers in the Seven Lakes area, who were asking for changes in the rules regarding development in the area. Watson and hundreds of others spoke out against "the incredible scale of development" that was being proposed in the 2,000-acre rural area, especially in light of how it would impact traffic.
"When we won the appeal, it showed that citizens who get involved have a voice," said Watson, who supports the Growth Management Act. "We need to keep our rural areas rural. Land use impacts our quality of life and I couldn't wait another four years for John Koster to reach his term limit with the damage that could be done in the meantime."
Watson pointed to the Smokey Point area as an example of "ill-planned growth that puts our watershed at risk," and emphasized the importance of offering low-to-middle income housing, so that "the middle class doesn't get squeezed out." As with the issue that started her down the road of politics, she believes that "we shouldn't encourage urban sprawl," and that code laws should be made clearer, and followed without exceptions that might favor some parties over others.
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Ships from the major cruise lines are booking more stops in Astoria for 2013 but Astoria remains as a niche market for the big boats as they transition to and from regular routes in Alaska. The tentative bookings for next season tally twenty-two. Astoria benefits from the fact that Alaska cruises are the most popular in the world, tend to be more expensive than Caribbean cruises attracting well-heeled passengers and, the cruise season is short so the turnaround time as ships take in Astoria on their way back to warmer waters comes within a manageable time frame
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In a news release from the Port Thursday, The Port's new CEO, Hank Bynaker stated, "This is a wonderful event to report on and a great signal to me of the excellent job performance of staff members involved in working with the cruise ship industry." Port of Astoria Marketing Director, Bruce Conner, added "Our community and cruise volunteers totaling over 150 people have embraced the cruise ship guests. Passengers and crew members have stated many times over, how welcome and warmly greeted they feel when they get off their ships in Astoria."
The community has embraced the cruise ship business that arrives here twice a year. The Sunday Market becomes the "Never on a Sunday Market" with tent booths pitched on the dock. The Cruise Host volunteers take care of myriad details to make the passengers experience here something to remember and Conner helps organize the excursions passengers can opt for while in Port. A shuttle system takes passengers to and from the ship. Passengers usually report feeling welcome and Astoria ranks high as a crew favorite as well because of the tax free shopping and proximity of the Costco and Fred Meyer in Warrenton which are popular with crew members who often return to the ship hauling flat screen televisions along with personal items they would have to pay more to buy in pricey Alaska.
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The Indiana State women's basketball team begins their 30th season of play in the Missouri Valley Conference this weekend, opening up league play against the Bradley Braves on Friday, Jan. 4. Tipoff is sponsored by Toyota of Terre Haute and is set for 7:05 p.m. from inside Hulman Center.
The game can be heard live on WIBQ 98.5 FM and on the Nelligan Sports Marketing Radio Network as Brent Holl and Jimmy Kendall cover all the action on the court. Fans can also watch the game live online at GoSycamores.com through SycamoreVision with a premium subscription.
Indiana State enters MVC play tied with Creighton for the best nonconference record in the league, posting an 8-3 mark in November and December. The Sycamores have been off the court for the last 13 days, last lacing it up on Saturday, Dec. 22, in a 56-45 loss at Butler.
The Sycamores went a perfect 6-0 at home during the nonconference season and have won seven straight games overall inside Hulman Center.
A Little History - Bradley
Friday's game with be the 64th all-time meeting between the Sycamores and Braves, with ISU leading the series by a 39-24 mark. Indiana State and Bradley first met during in the 1976-77 season, with the Sycamores winning a neutral site contest. Indiana State holds an 18-8 record against Bradley since the start of the 2000-01 season, while posting an all-time record of 23-7 against the Braves when the game is played in Terre Haute. ISU has won 15 straight games against BU inside Hulman Center, with the Braves last road win coming on Jan. 26, 1997.
Scouting The Braves
Bradley enters Friday's game with a 6-5 record, falling at Western Illinois (92-81) to end their nonconference season on Friday, Dec. 21. The Braves are an even 3-3 away from Peoria this season, picking up road wins over Eastern Illinois (66-65, Nov. 12), Illinois (83-77, Nov. 15) and Northern Arizona (95-83, Nov. 24). Bradley leads the MVC and ranks 22nd on a national scale in scoring, averaging 75.2 points per game this season. The Braves are also strong at the free-throw line, ranking fifth in the NCAA by making 79.9% (211-for-264) of their shots at the stripe. Sophomore Shronda Butts leads the Braves in scoring, averaging 13.6 points per game, and is one of four members of the roster to average in double figures. Redshirt junior Catie O'Leary (13.2 PPG), senior Katie Yohn (11.1 PPG) and junior Kelsey Budd (10.7 PPG) also pace the Bradley offense.
Game-by-Game - Bradley
Below is a quick look at the last 10 games in the series between Indiana State and Bradley.
Feb. 10, 2012 at Indiana State - W, 77-60 Jan. 28, 2010 at Bradley - L, 54-59
Jan. 14, 2012 at Bradley - L, 58-79 March 13, 2009 at St. Charles, Mo. - L, 49-70
March 5, 2011 at Bradley - L, 69-77 March 1, 2009 at Indiana State - W, 62-58
Jan. 1, 2011 at Indiana State - W, 84-68 Feb. 1, 2009 at Bradley - L, 62-81
Feb. 28, 2010 at Indiana State - W, 70-57 Feb. 7, 2008 at Bradley - L, 50-62
Last 10 Missouri Valley Conference Openers
Below is a quick look at the last 10 opening games in MVC play for Indiana State.
Dec. 30, 2011 vs. Evansville - W, 73-54 Dec. 29, 2006 vs. Drake - W, 84-67
Dec. 30, 2010 vs. UNI - L, 46-71 Dec. 30, 2005 at Evansville - W, 79-69
Dec. 31, 2009 vs. Creighton - L, 44-55 Jan. 1, 2005 at Illinois State - L, 73-82
Jan. 1, 2009 vs. Drake - W, 50-38 Jan. 2, 2004 vs. Bradley - W, 76-55
Jan. 3, 2008 at Southern Illinois - L, 76-95 Jan. 4, 2003 at Illinois State - W, 70-51
Last 10 Inside Hulman Center
Below is a quick look at the last 10 games for Indiana State inside Hulman Center.
Dec. 18, 2012 vs. Chicago State - W, 69-35 Nov. 9, 2012 vs. Eastern Illinois - W, 69-39
Dec. 7, 2012 vs. UIC - W, 64-33 Feb. 26, 2012 vs. Wichita State - W, 63-51
Dec. 4, 2012 vs. Northern Illinois - W, 58-52 Feb. 24, 2012 vs. Missouri State - L, 58-68
Nov. 25, 2012 vs. Belmont - W, 48-34 Feb. 12, 2012 vs. UNI - W, 71-60
Nov. 12, 2012 vs. Marshall - W, 55-49 Feb. 10, 2012 vs. Bradley - W, 77-60
At Home Under Head Coach Moren
Indiana State is 27-8 inside Hulman Center in their three seasons under head coach Teri Moren. In MVC action, the Sycamores are 12-6 in home games since the start of 2010-11, posting a 6-3 record in each of the previous two seasons.
Indiana State Finishes Nonconference Play Perfect At Home
Indiana State won all six of their nonconference games inside Hulman Center over the months of November and December, earning wins over Eastern Illinois (69-39), Marshall (55-49), Belmont (48-34), Northern Illinois (58-52), UIC (64-33) and Chicago State (69-35). The Sycamores are the only unbeaten team at home in the MVC and this season marks the first time that ISU has finished perfect on their home court outside of league play since going 3-0 during the 2006-07 season.
Select Group
Indiana State is one of 33 teams from around the nation to be unbeaten at home with at least six games played, with just nine of those schools coming from the non-BCS conferences (ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Pac 12 and SEC). Below is a quick look at the other schools in this select group from non-BCS conferences.
BYU (6-0) Cleveland State (6-0) Duquesne (6-0) Eastern Kentucky (6-0)
Fresno State (6-0) Pacific (6-0) Toledo (6-0) UTEP (9-0)
Under 61
Indiana State is 31-4 when holding their opposition under 61 points in their three seasons with head coach Teri Moren, including a 7-2 mark this season. During MVC games, ISU is 12-1 under head coach Moren when teams score 60 points or fewer. When teams go over 60 points against ISU in the last three seasons, the Sycamores are 8-31.
All About Defense
Indiana State leads the MVC and ranks in a tie for 13th in the NCAA in points allowed per game this season, as ISU's opponents have averaged 49.6 points per game. The Sycamores allowed 60.0 points per game in head coach Teri Moren's first season (2010-11) and 58.6 points per game last season.
Eight Out Of 11
Indiana State has started the 2012-13 season with wins in eight of their 11 matchups, their best start through 11 games under third-year head coach Teri Moren. This season's 8-3 start is the best for Indiana State since opening the 2009-10 season at 9-2.
Nonconference Winners
With their victory over UIC on Friday, Dec, 7, Indiana State secured their fourth straight season of finishing nonconference play at the .500 mark or above. Over the past four seasons, Indiana State has posted a 29-16 record outside of the MVC.
The Sycamores have outscored their opponents by a margin of 326-226 (+100) in the opening 20 minutes of their 11 games this season, while trailing by two points (318-320) in the second half and overtime. This season, Indiana State has led at the half in 10 of their 11 games.
Second-Chance Points
Indiana State is averaging 13.8 offensive rebounds per game, leading to a 120-74 (+46) edge in second-chance points this season. The Sycamores have scored more or the same number of second-chance points as their opponents in nine of their 11 games this season.
Indiana State leads the MVC and ranks 44th in the nation with 129 steals this season, going for double-digit efforts in eight of their 11 games. The Sycamores are averaging 14.3 steals per game in their home games, including a season-high of 19 against Northern Illinois on Dec. 4.
Assists And Steals
Senior Taylor Whitley ranks seventh in career assists and 10th in career steals at Indiana State, moving into the Top 10 in both categories this season. For her career, Whitley has posted 313 assists and needs 67 more assists to pass Amy Walker (379 -- 1991-95) for sixth place. The Geneva, Ill., product, has 197 steals in her career, needing three more to pass Dru Cox (199 -- 1977-80) for ninth place. Whitley joins Melanie Boeglin (2002-06), Hazel Olden (1990-94) and Shavonda Averette (1987-91) as one of just four Sycamores to rank in the Top 10 in school history in both categories.
Among The Best
Junior Anna Munn leads the MVC and ranks in a tie for 35th in the NCAA with an average of 2.7 three-point field goals made per game. The ISU junior has knocked down 30 treys this season and has made at least four in four separate contests.
Munn Ranks Second In The Valley In Scoring
Junior Anna Munn leads the team and ranks second in the MVC in scoring, averaging 15.7 points per game this season. The ISU junior scored a career-high 25 points at UT Martin on Dec. 16, leading the Sycamores to a 73-71 overtime victory. Munn saw her streak of 10 consecutive games with at least 10 points come to an end at Butler on Dec. 22, scoring six points with eight rebounds. The Indianapolis native's scoring streak to start this season was the best for a Sycamore since Melanie Boeglin tallied at least 10 points in the first 16 games of the 2005-06 campaign.
Recent Overtime Success
With their 73-71 overtime victory on the road at UT Martin on Dec. 16, Indiana State improved to 2-0 past regulation under third-year head coach Teri Moren. Dating back to the 2004-05 season, the Sycamores are 8-2 in overtime contests, including a 77-72 win over #17 Vanderbilt inside Hulman Center on Nov. 12, 2007. Dating back to the 1971-72 season, Indiana State is 21-23 in overtime games.
On A Good Pace: Part I
Senior Taylor Whitley enters Friday's game with 878 career points, needing 122 more points in her senior season to become the 26th member of the 1,000 Point Club at Indiana State. The Geneva, Ill., product already ranks seventh in career assists and entered the Top 10 in career steals with three thefts on Dec. 22 at Butler.
On A Good Pace: Part II
Junior Anna Munn has knocked down 123 three-pointers in her time at Indiana State, an amount that ties the junior guard with Georgia Bottoms (123 -- 1993-98) for 10th place in ISU's career rankings. The Indianapolis native is seven treys away from passing Krissy Holden (129 -- 1993-97) and Deja Mattox (129 -- 2008-12) who are tied for eighth place.
Off The Bench
Freshman Marina Laramie has appeared in all 11 games off the bench for the Sycamores, averaging 6.5 points (fourth on the team) and 3.2 rebounds (fifth on the team) per game. The newcomer from O'Fallon, Mo., totaled a season high 15 points against Chicago State on Dec. 18, going 7-for-10 from the field in 24 minutes on the court.
Sophomore Jump
After averaging 3.8 points and 2.9 rebounds per game as a freshman, Racheal Mahan has more than tripled her production early in her second season at Indiana State. Mahan is second on the team by averaging 12.6 points per game, while leading the way at 8.4 rebounds per game. The sophomore from Mansfield, Ohio, posted her fourth double-double of the season on Dec. 18, going for 19 points and 10 rebounds at UT Martin.
Missouri Valley Rankings - Individual
Several members of the Indiana State women's basketball team rank in the Top 5 around the Missouri Valley Conference. Below is a quick look at the individual rankings for the Sycamores.
Taylor Whitley Steals Per Game 1st 3.3 SPG
Anna Munn 3PT Per Game 1st 2.7 3PT PG
Anna Munn Minutes Played Per Game 1st 37.9 MPG
Racheal Mahan Offensive Rebounds Per Game 1st 4.0 ORPG
Anna Munn Points Per Game 2nd 15.7 PPG
Racheal Mahan Field Goal Percentage 3rd 51.8% (57-for-110)
Racheal Mahan Total Rebounds Per Game 4th 8.4 RPG
Taylor Whitley Assist-to-Turnover Ratio 5th 1.2 Ratio (36-to-29)
Taylor Whitley Minutes Played Per Game 5th 33.5 MPG
On To The Next One...
Indiana State returns to action inside Hulman Center on Sunday, Jan. 6, hosting Northern Iowa at 2:05 p.m. The Sycamores and Panthers feature the top two scoring individuals in the MVC this season, in ISU's Anna Munn (15.7 PPG) and UNI's Jacqui Kalin (17.7 PPG).


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GRAND RAPIDS – Perhaps the worst thing to hear from a sentencing judge was said to admitted child sex offender William Henry Phillips.
"It is possible you won't make it out of prison alive," Kent County Circuit Court Judge George Buth told the 67-year-old Ada man before sentencing him to 15 to 25 years behind bars.
Last month, Phillips pleaded guilty to criminal sexual conduct which took place at a day care facility.
Police believe William Henry Phillips committed assaults that began as early as August 2009 and continued until his arrest in April.
In exchange for his plea to first-degree criminal sexual conduct, the Kent County Prosecutor's Office agreed to not pursue a pair of second-degree CSC charges.
"The defendant did confess to taking down the pants of two of the children...and touching their private area," Kent County Sheriff's Department investigators wrote in an affidavit.
Court documents list three victims, all 3 to 5 years old. He confessed to touching two girls.
Phillips has no prior criminal record and said nothing to the family of victims in the courtroom Wednesday or his own family. Both groups wept as the sex offender learned his fate.
Phillips' wife and day care operator, Nancy Phillips, voluntarily agreed to stop caring for children and she filed for divorce within days after her husband was arrested. Since that time, DHS reports that her license has been revoked.
During a routine state inspection in 2009, she was caring for four children at the home, 6834 Adaridge Drive SE, state records show.
Kent County Undersheriff Jon Hess said in April that Nancy Phillips did not know about her husband's sexual assaults.
"Obviously, Mr. Phillips had a severe impact on the two little girls," Buth said. "The ripples from this will travel far."
The victims' families and the family of Phillips did not want to speak following the court hearing.
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