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Posts Tagged 'UK government corruption'
The fraudster, the perjurer and the pyromaniac
In "Don't Get Fooled Again" I argue that lying in public office should be made a criminal offence. But it seems that within the existing system, an ennobled British politician convicted under such a law (or indeed any other) would still be able to vote in the House of Lords. The current stock includes a convicted fraudster, a perjurer and an arsonist. George Galloway in the Daily Record has more:
And then there's "Lord" Mike Watson, a former New Labour MSP. Not only does he still sit in the Lords following his prison term for arson – setting fire to the curtains of a hotel full of people because the staff had refused him any more strong drink.
But Lord Watson turns out also to be a Parliamentary lobbyist!
Now leave aside what kind of companies would want to hire a drunken ex-convict arsonist – the Acme fire alarm company, perhaps – the point is the House of Lords is full of crooks.
Lord Conrad Black, former owner of the Daily Telegraph, is still a Lord even though he is currently banged up in a US penitentiary.
Lord Jeffrey Archer is another ex-con on the red benches.
New Labour once stood for the abolition of this farce; now it stuffs its mediocrities in to stuff their faces and keep their mouths shut, except when they have to say Yes.
Would you buy a second-hand car from this man?
Poll: Should peers be free to take cash payments to help get laws changed on the quiet?
Was this the amendment that Experian bribed Lord Taylor to make?
From the Guardian, September 2002:
Privacy International gave Experian its "Big Brother" award for the company's intense lobbying campaign to preserve its access to electoral roll data. Last year agencies such as Experian were banned from taking details off the electoral roll after a High Court judge ruled that a council taxpayer in Wakefield would have had his human rights violated if the register was passed on to organisations for commercial gain. But the ban was lifted after the agencies protested that the fight against terrorism and money laundering would be hampered if banks and the police were not able to verify the addressess of customers opening accounts.
From The Telegraph:
Lord Taylor: "Experian are the company. They have a terrific amount of intelligence and information. They are the people who advise banks on your credit worthiness and so on. For example I've been working with them on amending a statute that's coming out, or was coming out, because I've got it delayed now, whereby it was going to be difficult for them to get certain information and so on. So I've got that amended and you do it quietly behind the scenes you see."
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"I'll pledge £5 to bribe a peer to table a rule-change outlawing corruption in the House of Lords, but only if 24,000 other people do the same."
The Sunday Times this week revealed that members of the UK House of Lords are available for hire behind closed doors to help get our laws changed. Prices range from £24,000 to £120,000, depending on seniority, and proximity to government ministers.
The good news for those seeking to buy their own little piece of democracy is that there seems to be little in the rules to stop this from happening. The bad news for everyone else is that this means that arms dealers and corporate snoops are free to use hard cash to go behind the backs of our elected representatives, and buy themselves special favours from our government.
It's time that this process – previously available only to the rich and cash-happy – was opened up so that ordinary people can participate. By banding together to hire our very own "consultant" in the House of Lords, we can seek to get the law changed in ways that benefit all of us.
For just £120,000 a year, we can buy ourselves a top-quality Lord with a direct line to government ministers, and a proven track record of getting legal changes fast-tracked on the quiet. But the evidence suggests that even as little as £24,000 could make a huge difference. The work can already begin in earnest if just 4,800 people join this pledge – but the more people join, the more we can achieve!
Sunday Times exposes UK government corruption: Labour members of the House of Lords agree to take cash for backing legislation changes
From the Sunday Times
When the Labour peer Lord Taylor of Blackburn was forced to apologise last year for improperly asking a question in the House of Lords on behalf of a paying client, the Sunday Times Insight team decided to investigate further. Undercover reporters posing as lobbyists contacted 10 peers; five Labour, three Conservative, one Liberal Democrat and an Ulster Unionist, to seek help in amending legislation on behalf of a client.
The results reflect badly not only on the House of Lords but also on the Labour party. Of the 10, four were prepared to do business with our "lobbyists" for fees of up to £120,000 a year. All four were Labour and two were former ministers.
Lord Taylor boasted that he could pick up the telephone and arrange meetings with Lord Mandelson, the business secretary, and that he had succeeded in changing legislation on behalf of Experian, the credit reference company. Lord Truscott, a former energy minister, said he had helped to change the energy bill on behalf of a company selling so-called "smart" electricity meters.
All four Labour peers – the others were Lord Snape, a former Labour whip, and Lord Moonie, another former minister – offered to help secure legislative changes by putting in a word with ministers, civil servants, or with the relevant members of parliamentary committees. One boasted of the huge amount of such business done in the Lords.
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From the Taxpayer's Alliance, April 2008
The Noble Lord Snape, former railwayman and MP, has rushed to the defence of speaker Michael Martin, calling the inquiry into his wife's £4,000 taxi bill a "load of fuss and nonsense about nothing".
From The Guardian, May 2005
Two former ministers, Alan Milburn and Lewis Moonie, were fast-tracked by a government appointments watchdog to take up work with a Labour donating lobbying company which ignores a voluntary code of conduct not to pay or employ politicians. Lord Moonie became an associate director and consultant for the lobbying company, Sovereign Strategy, last December, having stood down as defence minister in July 2003. He said yesterday: "My job will be to teach clients how to lobby government, not to lobby government for clients."
From Craig Murray, April 2007
Straw's links with BAE are partly conducted through Lord Taylor of Blackburn, the former leader of the Blackburn with Darwen Council that includes Straw's Blackburn constituency. Lord Taylor, an archetypal New Labour apparatchik from Straw's constituency machine, has lived off the taxpayer in Labour Party appointed posts all his life. He is now chiefly known as the second highest claimer of expenses in the House of Lords. In 2005 Lord Taylor claimed over £57,000 of tax-free expenses, over three times the average claim of under £19,000. he spoke 15 times in the year.
But he doesn't really need that public money anymore, as the grasping creep Taylor is the primary conduit between the defence industry and New Labour. He has been a highly paid "Consultant" to BAE for over a decade. He also has used some of that money to make major contributions to Jack Straw's election expenses in his Blackburn constituency, declared by Straw in the Register of Member's interests. Lord Taylor also regularly makes large contributions to fund Blackburn New Labour. When I stood against Straw in Blackburn at the last election, Taylor was present with Straw at a black tie event hosted by BAE in the constituency said to be "unrelated to the election".
Interestingly, this year in the House of Lords' Register of Members' interests, BAE has disappeared from Taylor's list of eleven paid consultancies and two paid directorships. It might be interesting to dig for links between these companies and BAE. Some are certainly arms firms – including the highly sinister Electronic Data Systems.
EDS is another of the arms companies that has made many billions from the Iraq war. Among their many current defence contracts is a $12 billion project on electronic systems for the US armed forces. Presumably a well-plugged in New Labour apparatchik like Lord Taylor was of no hindrance to EDS in March 2005 when they landed a �2.5 billion contract from the UK MOD for a similar project. Indeed, if Lord Taylor cannot help swing that kind of contract, why are EDS paying him?
I do not have power of words sufficiently to condemn the institutional sleaze of a system where a scumbag like Lord Taylor can be put, unelected, by Blair into a seat for life in the national legislature. There, while a legislator, he can act as a well paid and highly connected lobbyist for the arms industry.
Bugs, strip-searches and gagging orders – The bizarre story of Her Majesty versus Sally Murrer… (and some even more bizarre claims from Private Eye)
The press freedom organisation Reporters Sans Frontieres doesn't usually have too much to say about abuses against media workers here in Britain, but their latest report details some worrying cases – none stranger than the ongoing trial of the Milton Keynes local journalist Sally Murrer.
In May last year, Murrer was arrested by eight police officers, strip-searched and charged with "aiding and abetting misconduct in public office". She was then accused of paying police officers to supply her with information for stories she could then sell on to the national press, a charge which she firmly denies. The police told her that she had been under surveillance for weeks, and played her recordings of telephone conversations she had had with her friend Mark Kearney, a Thames Valley police officer, which they said proved the case. Murrer was told that they already had enough information to send her to prison for life, and that the police need only show that she had heard information deemed 'sensitive' in order to convict her. Kearney and a former police officer Derek Webb (now a private investigator), have also been charged in the same case.
Then in February this year, it was revealed that Mark Kearney had been involved in the secret bugging of the Labour MP and lawyer, Sadiq Khan, during his visits to a childhood friend, Babar Ahmad, who has been detained without charge for several years, pending extradition to the United States (where he is accused of involvement in terrorism). Kearney claims that he repeatedly raised ethical and legal concerns about the work he had been asked to do. He and Murrer believe that the case being brought against him – and Murrer – was a somewhat clumsy attempt to prevent him from blowing the whistle.
Now the print edition of the magazine Private Eye reports an even more bizarre twist. The Eye claims that the detective-turned-private-investigator Derek Webb had been carrying out surveillance operations for the tabloid press against a number of high-profile public figures suspected of having affairs. These reportedly include two un-named (due to the usual legal gagging orders) cabinet ministers, together with the infamous former Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, and the director of public prosecutions Ken Macdonald – the man in charge of the department overseeing the case against Webb, Kearney and Murrer. The police seized Derek Webb's diaries (in which he details his surveillance work) as evidence to be used in the case case against him. Now the crown prosecution service has reportedly declined requests by Webb's defence team for access to the diaries, claiming that it no longer has them…


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The city blamed a computer error on the part of a vendor for the mixup.
Many of the bills will be intercepted by the post office before going out to property owners, the city said. Anyone who does get one can ignore it.
The city said it would have its vendor send out new bills to the correct property owners, who would get an extended Nov. 21 deadline to pay.

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There's a mass migration going on in the U.P. and it has nothing to do with Catholic church services. Even as we speak, Yooper hunters by the thousands are fleeing their jobs, homes and hearths and bailing for deer camp this weekend, with Opening Day Sunday.
It's Friday the 13th, time for festivities in the forests of the Keweenaw, with blaze orange everywhere and hunters balls, booyaws and bands at your favorite backwoods venison venues from Ontonagon to Copper Harbor, the Maple Leaf to the Mosquito Inn, Billy the Finn's to the Cliff View, the Rousseau to Zik's.
While the hunters are away, the casinos cater to hunter's widows who can track down the buck of their dreams at L'Anse Vegas and Watersmeet, venues for trophy male revues roaming the U.P.
"It's a Yooper cultural phenomenon, the rut has quite a following," said WWW wildlife correspondent and recognized rut expert, Paris Hiltunen, who has never not gotten a buck she set her sights on.
With the growing migration of hunters to the boonies, some are doing their hunting closer to town, betting on the "ghetto buck" theory.
"The more we intrude on the deer woods, the more evasive and elusive they become, migrating ever closer to town," said WWW whitetail correspondent John Deer. "All antlered urban and suburban deer between Calumet and McLain State Park, Hancock and Lake Linden, would be considered ghetto bucks."
There's plenty of anecdotal action to back it up. The more the hunting pressure out in the bush, the closer to town the bucks come to get away from it. Gardens and apples are deer magnets, and as long as you provide the food source, they're willing to eat you outa hostas and home.
People on the outskirts of town, in the wilds of Wolverine, Ahmeek. Bumbletown, Copper City and Traprock Valley, plink 'em off from their back porch and kitchen window, not that everybody does. That nice balcony on the upstairs bedroom facing the woods doubles as a deer stand.
On any given night, you can drive from Mohawk to Copper Harbor without seeing a car, but you can't do it without seeing a deer. It's a gauntlet out there; You're lucky if you don't hit one, even luckier if one doesn't hit you. We have lots more deer than people around here.
You know how Michigan has the dubious honor of leading the league in unemployment? We're over-achieving in deer-car crashes, too. In 2008, we ranked second in the nation, trailing only West Virginia. We're within striking range and you can help make us No. 1 again.
Adam Frimodig is doing his part and you can, too. Last season, Adam drove all the way from Michigan State University in East Lansing to Calumet without seeing a deer. Then one ran smack-dab into him on his way to camp somewhere around Delaware. The Keweenaw County Sheriff just happened to be coming the other way, the only car he'd seen since town. He threw it in the backa his pick-up and arrived at camp on Opening Day eve with fresh venison, still warm.
The Michigan Deer Crash Coalition recently released a study sponsored by State Farm Insurance that tallied 61,010 such accidents last year, down slightly from the 61,907 recorded in 2007, and 62,707 in 2004, the last two seasons that Michigan led the league. Twelve people were killed and 1,648 injured in last year's deer-car collisions.
Almost half of deer-car accidents happen during the rut in October and November when deer are mating. "That's what I'd call a social dynamic and romantic attraction on the horns of a dilemma," added Hiltunen, feeling herself taking a shine to John Deer.
Experts say that about 17 percent of all car accidents in Michigan involve deer, and blame deer-car crashes for damages exceeding $100 million annually. In some southern counties, like Oakland and Washtenaw, where both traffic and deer numbers are high, more than 10 percent of the deer herd may be struck by cars each year.
Here in the U.P., the deer are fewer and farther between, but nowhere near as few and far between as we are, and have long since taken over, out-numbering us 3-to-1. There are about 900,000 of them to 300,000 Yoopers; do the math.
It's already too late for rural villages like Eagle River, Eagle Harbor, Jacobsville and Gay, where deer roam the streets and eat anything that doesn't eat them first. Now they're encroaching on Calumet-Laurium from both sides of 41. They've pretty much got us just the way they want us; surrounded.
"They don't call them high-speed beef for nothing," added Deer. "It's not like you can out-run them."
Jim can be reached 24/7/365 at email@example.com.


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B: Two eggs, three mushrooms and four silverbeet leaves, fried in the drippings from last night's chicken. Scrumptious.
L: Big-as Salad of lettuce, cucumber, olives, cheese, avocado, lemon juice, olive oil and meat from one leftover chicken thigh. Some (two? three?) fresh apricots. Two mini cheese balls (I said this was all gone but then I discovered a few more mini balls rolled in almonds).
S: Two enormous sweet strawberries. The very final mini cheese ball (final until I make some more, that is).
D: Takeaway Pizza toppings (fed the crusts to the birds. I suppose I ate a few bites, hoping not to suffer tomorrow). Salad (similar to lunch but without the chicken).
Fresh pineapple chunks. The best!
That doesn't really sound like a proper meal, but I actually was plenty satisfied by it. I know I would have regretted eating the pizza base so I just didn't. Quite a lot of fruit today - this time of year it's so tempting.


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Say the name and Suzanne Collins' fans think of Katniss Everdeen, heroine of the Hunger Games trilogy.
Gardeners and botanists, however, might think of another name -- a water-loving plant of the Sagittaria genus also known as arrowhead or wapato. In the Pacific Northwest, arrowhead has a history as a mainstay in Native American diets (another name for it is Indian potato). Native Americans are said to have harvested its edible roots with their toes, walking through the marshy conditions where it thrives. The plant is most often found in slow-moving or standing water, tolerates all soils and likes full sun.
Katniss the series heroine is in the spotlight this weekend; the movie based on the first book in the series opened Friday. If you (or teens you know) are among the fans flocking to the film and all things Katniss, consider creating your own "tribute" to the young heroine with a small water feature.
- Find a spot in the sun.
- Pick out a pot without a drainage hole (keeping with the movie/book theme, you could go for forest green, look for something that suggests fire, or opt for gray or black, to honor The Seam and District 12.
- Put something in the bottom to raise up the plants (a concrete block, flat rocks or bricks work fine).
- Add water.
- Submerge the katniss plant in the pot (online at hugheswatergardens.com; Hughes Water Gardens in Tualatin carries Sagittaria latifolia and Sagittaria 'Silk Stockings'). If you'd like, add other water plants, such as a soft fall of parrot feather (Myriophyllum aquaticum) or some floating water lettuce (Pistia stratiotes) or colorful chameleon plant (Houttuynia cordata 'Chameleon'). In general, don't put water plants in natural areas. Keep them contained in a pot or small pond.
- Enjoy. For maintenance, replenish the water when the level drops.
-- Homes & Gardens of the Northwest staff


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Lisbon will retain drug-testing policy
LISBON – The school district's new drug-testing policy was extended for another year when the Lisbon school board met this week.
Superintendent Don Thompson said the policy, which went into effect at the start of the 2012-13 school year, ended up costing the district about $6,000, considerably less than the $10,000 set aside to cover the expense.
The policy required drug testing for any students participating in sports and other extra-curricular activities.
In other action, the board agreed to reinstate the position of maintenance supervisor, starting Aug. 1, one month after it canceled a maintenance service contract with Facility Maintenance Services.
The board had contracted with Facility Maintenance Services last July for $70,120 to replace long-time maintenance man Jeff Tice, who had retired, as a way to save money.
Thompson anticipated another school district would join them in sharing the contract but that did not occur, leaving the district to shoulder the entire cost.
He recommended they return to the practice of employing a maintenance man as a district employee. "This is the route I recommend we head back to," Thompson said.
The board:
– Agreed for a fourth consecutive year to eliminate the $25 student instructional fee charged elementary and middle school students to cover miscellaneous expenses.
The waiver costs the district about $8,000, which is an expense the board is willing to absorb as long as it can afford to do so.
– Rehired the following people as head varsity coaches for the fall season, at the same pay rate: Jim Tsilimos, football; Cara Nardy, volleyball; Jason Thompson, golf; and Kathy Randolph, cross country.
– Renewed the contracts of Steve Stewart as director of federal programs/technology, for $30,805, and Dave Brookes as special education director, for $30,306.
Each works 100 days per year.
– Renewed the contract with the Nutrition Group to operate the cafeteria, with the company estimating a profit of $19,000 to be returned to the district.
– Approved a 10 cent increase for breakfast, lunch and milk prices to comply with federal reimbursement requirements.
Breakfast will cost 95 cents, with lunches costing $2.10 at the elementary school and $2.35 at the high school.
The reduced breakfast cost is 40 cents and 50 cents for lunch. Milk will cost 50 cents.
– Renewed the contract for insurance coverage through Holloway Insurance. The cost is expected to increase but the company is negotiating with the carrier to reduce the expense.
– Renewed the contract for trash pick-up with J & J Refuse for $578 per month.
The board's next meeting is 5 p.m. July 9.


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The official weigh-ins for UFC On FOX 12, which takes place live on Saturday, will happen later today at the SAP Center in San Jose, and will be available live here at eFightNews.com.
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Dr. Krivov's current area of research is ALGAE BIOFUEL. The rationale behind her collaborative research is - rapidly growing energy needs, depleting fossil fuel reserves, and adverse affects of rising oil prices leave no doubts that we need non-food renewable alternative and sustainable sources of energy. She believes algae oil is the way to go - it doesn't compete with the food and water resources; is carbon neutral; can be coupled with CO2 sequestration; and best of all the estimates predict production of over 15,000 oil yield gallons per acre compared to other biofuels like corn that can produce only 20 gallons/acre. Unfortunately, the commercial-scale production is economically not feasible yet.
As an Algal Biofuels Scientist, she is applying systems approach to develop a robust system of algal-oil production. She has been conducting the R&D through GSR. Her work involves algal-culturing, native algae selection; biochemical analysis including lipids, biomass conversion techniques, modeling & simulation, and economic analysis. Earlier, over the last two decades, Dr. Krivov had been involved in understanding the complexity and organization in ecological systems by employing quantitative and qualitative approaches, developed simulation models and published many papers. Before that, another thrust of her research (Ph.D., 1996), has focused on studying Environmental Toxicology and Biochemistry in experimental-animal/natural systems, and that greatly influenced her current heavy involvement in algal oil research. Other details here.
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In 2009, with funding support from Department of Energy, VT Sustainable Jobs funds, Dr. Krivov developed the Biomass to Biofuels course at UVM, and each year from 2010 onwards has been bringing together the Biofuels brains from VT-based business, farms and UVM faculty members. This course provides hands on experience in various biofuels including liquid biofuels (biodiesel including oil seeds; ethanol, algae oil), solid biomass (woody biomass and grass energy), biogas, and various Biofuels related science & technology topics, background & literature information besides addressing the environmental, economical, policy, social and other Biofuel related issues. She utilizes various means of instructions: a) on campus classes, b) field work involving tours to Farms,/Biofuel facilities; c) talks by experts on particular Biofuel type; d) Biofuel equipment demonstrations by professionals; e) online supplementary classes/information including video clips. The participants include students, farmers, entrepreneurs, engineers, and others. Check out the Course Website for details:
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Dr. Krivov organized the conference on Algae & Energy in the Northeast with the Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund, VT EPSCoR, co-hosted by the University of Vermont in Burlington on March 17 & 18, 2010. She invited foremost algae biofuel researchers and entrepreneurs to present the current state and projected future of algae as a biofuel feedstock. The details including presentations and pictures are available at the Conference website: Check out Conference website
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Alice McQueen, age 51 years, of Flemington, died on Tuesday, July 22, 2014 in Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia.
Born in Raritan Township, Feb. 23, 1963, she was the daughter of Mary Mayhan McQueen of Flemington and the late Berry McQueen. She was a lifelong resident of Flemington and a graduate of Hunterdon Central High School.
She was employed for seventeen years with Walmart, Clinton.
In addition to her father, she was predeceased by her brother, Robert McQueen. Surviving are her children: Carolyn McQueen of Flemington, Jessica Reid of Bound Brook, Mary Munyiri and husband, Patrick, of East Orange, and Terrance Beckham of Flemington; her grandchildren: Hazel McQueen, Julia, Maria, Selena, and Marvin Zepeda, all of Flemington; her brothers, James McQueen (Joann) of Flemington, Berry McQueen, Jr. (Janice) of Ewing, and John McQueen of Brent, AL; her godmother, Patricia Gillette, of Princeton; and her significant other, Robert Beckham, of Flemington; and a host of nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, July 30 at 2 p.m. in the Flemington Baptist Church, 170 Main Street, Flemington, under the direction of the Holcombe-Fisher Funeral Home, 147 Main Street, Flemington. Interment will be in Prospect Hill Cemetery, Flemington. Calling hours will be held on Wednesday from 1-2 p.m. in the church.
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Dropping in right at the bottom of the market, the Canon Pixma iP1900 inkjet is one of Canon's cheapest printing devices ever, with a list price of $59
It's hardly surprising, given this printer's low price, that the Canon Pixma iP1900 has been pared down to the bone. Although it's not unattractive, the lack of extras is quite obvious. There's no sign of PictBridge, or memory card slots, or LCDs. The lack of a collection tray is perhaps less predictable though, so you'll need to make sure there's plenty of space in front of the printer to stop finished pages from falling to the floor.
Advances in inkjet technology haven't been copious in the past 12 months. This is a good thing from the point of the Canon Pixma iP1900, however, as it means there's no problem with it keeping up with the specifications of other printers.
Its 4800x1200dpi resolution is as much as you should need, while the 2-picolitre ink droplet specification is in keeping with the Canon Pixma iP1900's more expensive rivals.
Since it conforms to Canon's ChromaLife100 system, photo prints carry a long-life guarantee — 100 years if stored in an album, although we doubt too many customers will be around to complain should they fall 20 years short of this claim. There's little stinting on software, with Canon's Easy-PhotoPrint EX suite covering most situations with ease.
So what of the quality? Well, inkjets are rarely adept at producing good text, and you certainly shouldn't be expecting high-calibre reproduction from the Canon Pixma iP1900. Even in the finest mode (at about 1.9 pages per minute), text is rather fuzzy and poorly defined. However, the results are legible, and the middle mode (with a ppm of 6.3) produces readable results at a reasonable rate.
Colour graphics are never fast though. In the literature is quoted 17ppm, but we found you had to divide this figure by 10 — even in the fastest mode. What you make of these prints will depend on your subject. The Canon Pixma iP1900's palette is a touch light, and certain colours (blue shades in particular) lacked accuracy. The results aren't unattractive, but brooding intensity certainly isn't a strength of the Canon Pixma iP1900's output.
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First impression on unpacking the Q702 test unit was the solid feel and clean, minimalist styling.
For work use, Microsoft Word and Excel programs pre-installed on the device are adequate for preparing short documents.
The Fujitsu LifeBook UH574 allowed for great mobility without being obnoxiously heavy or clunky. Its twelve hours of battery life did not disappoint.
The screen was particularly good. It is bright and visible from most angles, however heat is an issue, particularly around the Windows button on the front, and on the back where the battery housing is located.
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SPRINGFIELD - Though not a poker player, John Stuckenbruck has among the best poker faces in town.
As the division manager of the federal court in Springfield, he has overseen the administrative end of trials of bombers and bank robbers, serial killers and scammers, while managing scores of juries and hundreds of harried lawyers struggling to make filing deadlines and begging for continuances.
"Nothing's ever shocked me," he said mildly during a recent interview in his office. "As an administrator in a small office, things can change every day, or pop up all the time."
What may be a shock to his system, however, is retirement. After 34 years on the job, Stuckenbruck's last day at the U.S. District Court on State Street was Friday.
"I'll wake up on Jan. 2 and I won't be coming to work. It'll be strange. But I just felt it was time to go," Stuckenbruck said, adding that he took a buyout offered by the federal government and plans to spend his days babysitting for his new grandson, working on home improvement projects and golfing, when weather permits.
Like most newly minted retirees, he has a few loftier goals as well - including reviving his classical piano playing skills he all but abandoned after high school.
Stuckenbruck, 62, was a probation officer in juvenile court when he applied as a court clerk for the late U.S. District Judge Frank H. Freedman in 1979. The federal court in Springfield, at that time located at 426 Dwight St., was new and none of the established federal court staff in Boston were interested in the job, according to Stuckenbruck.
"I applied for it and I got it. I didn't know what to expect, but basically I did everything - sitting in court sessions, scheduling, ordering supplies ... there was basically nothing there. We brought all the files with us, set up shop and off we went," he said.
Stuckenbruck's job is one of little glamour and notoriety among the public, but of critical importance to the operation of the courthouse. Along with his staff, he basically ensures that the whole operation goes smoothly: motions hearings, status conferences, jury selections, guilty pleadings, trials, sentencings and the like.
When Freedman passed away in 2003, Stuckenbruck admitted he felt a bit adrift, but assumed more of the administrative tasks in the building. The courthouse has moved twice since being established on Dwight Street, first to the former federal building on Main Street and more recently to a slick, new modern courthouse with towering glass windows on State Street.
He has remained a steady presence, however.
"He's quite unpretentious, very approachable and really dedicated to getting the job done," said Senior U.S. District Judge Michael A. Ponsor, who has primarily handled the trial load after Freedman's death along with Magistrate Judge Kenneth P. Neiman. "If there's a big snowstorm during a trial and we're worried about getting court business done, he'll be here at 7 or 7:30 in the morning. He is the kind of person who makes democracy work."
Asked about his legacy at the courthouse, Stuckenbruck's response was as mild as his demeanor.
"I have never really thought of myself as a boss. I've always tried to be helpful to everyone - to my co-workers, to staff in other agencies, to the bar and to the public. I would hope that I have been perceived in that fashion," he said.
Ponsor also noted Stuckenbruck's little-known singing voice and penchant for karaoke, which he may be showcasing at his retirement party at the Delaney House in Holyoke on Jan. 4.


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The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority made an early stop at a rapid-track crossing near Cleveland's Shaker Square.
Crews visited the spot to fix a series of deep-and-wide potholes that could knock the hats off drivers bouncing from Van Aken Boulevard to westbound Shaker Boulevard. That's not an exaggeration either . . . at least judging by the flattened cap found in the lower level of one crater. (See photo to the right.)
The RTA intends to redo the rough crossing in 2013, as the column noted earlier this year. The recent repairs -- which Road Rant requested after fielding multiple complaints -- should help the cars that travel this stretch survive that long.
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Smooth sailing: Sylvia Jayne expects less visitors to her lakeside home in Mentor.
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources installed a marker along Ohio 44 to point visitors straight ahead toward the Headlands Beach State Park entrance. The roadside sign compensates for the shortcomings of in-the-car GPS units, which send people away from the park entrance and toward Jayne's home on Headlands Road.
Busy weekends often brought dozens of misdirected travelers to Jayne's doorstep on the dead-end lane. The resident made her own this-way-to-the-beach sign and planted it on Ohio 44 earlier this summer to try to get people to the sand.
When Road Rant shared that tidbit with the state last month, it decided to install a more official sign to guide beachgoers.
My name is. . .: University Heights made some needed introductions.
The city replaced missing street signs at four intersections along a half-mile stretch of Fenwick Road. (Three of the new signs identify Fenwick where it crosses Bushnell, Faversham and Grenville roads; the fourth names Meadowbrook Boulevard at Fenwick.) The markers appeared after Road Rant asked to see some ID.
Down grade: Newburgh Heights lowered the degree of difficulty for driving Harvard Avenue.
A recent project eliminated a bump that stretched across Harvard and tested tires near East 26th Street. Road Rant mentioned the obstacle earlier this year.
Seeing things: Cleveland Public Power shed some light on a tight left turn.
The utility repaired out-of-order streetlights to help Brookpark Road traffic find the entrance onto Ohio 237 south near Cleveland Hopkins International Airport. The bulbs -- which had been dark for at least six months -- started burning again after Road Rant put 'em in the spotlight. CPP and the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co. both investigated to determine responsibility.
Quiet treatment: Cleveland helped Jon Lichtenberg sleep a bit easier.
Workers silenced rattling sewer lids that clanged like alarm clocks in front of Lichtenberg's Broadview Road apartment near Tate Avenue. The eye-opening issue was resolved after Road Rant made some noise about it.


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The elder Spartan won.
Brehm, who will be a senior, defeated Meier, an incoming freshman, 4 and 3.
Brehm lost to Western Michigan golfer Britney Hamilton in last year's championship match.
Meier was the Golf Association of Michigan's Women's Player of the Year in 2009.
Meier advanced to the finals by edging her sister, Ohio State sophomore Amy Meier, 1-up in the morning semifinals. Brehm also won her semifinal 1-up, beating Lindsey Lammers, of Milan, an incoming freshman at the University of Detroit Mercy.


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On a surprising night of baseball that for the longest time seemed headed to a surprising conclusion, LSU coach Paul Mainieri added some intrigue on Tuesday. And the player at the heart of Mainieri's train of thought was just as surprised as anybody else.
The No. 5/6-ranked Tigers had just soared in front of Alcorn State with a 5-run 8th inning and Mainieri sent junior Brady Domangue out to seek the final three outs for what he hoped would be a 9-7 victory.
Domangue wobbled to begin with, walking the first hitter and then wild-pitching him to second base. So Mainieri sent left-hander Cody Glenn and second baseman Kramer Robertson to the bullpen to hastily loosen up.
Yes, second baseman Kramer Robertson.
Mainieri was ready to go the unorthodox route because there were several pitchers he wanted to give the full night off, including late-inning specialists Kurt McCune and Joe Broussard, who each pitched three times against Tennessee last weekend.
Things never got to that point because Domangue settled in, got three outs and recorded a save. But make no mistake: When Mainieri ambled over to his freshman infielder and threw out the idea, it struck a chord.
"I was about to go in and pitch," Robertson said with a proud smile Wednesday. "I was excited. I wanted to go in."
It wouldn't have been unfamiliar territory for the Louisiana kid who grew up in the heart of Texas.
While he was starring in three sports at Midway High in Hewitt, right outside of Waco, Robertson was a relief pitcher during the high school season, but a regular on the mound in summer ball.
"I've done it my whole life, so it wasn't something I'd be uncomfortable with," said Roberson, whose mother is Baylor women's coach Kim Mulkey. "If he needed me to go out there, I felt like I could."
And not just to put the ball in the strike zone.
Robertson insisted he was more excited than nervous, then proclaimed he was ready to use any of the three pitches he is comfortable with - fastball, curve ball and changeup.
When he did pitch in summer ball and at national showcase events, Roberson said he was consistently clocked in the low 90 mph range. Texas A&M, the Tigers' opponent this weekend in College Station, offered him the chance to pitch and play a position.
He gave it some thought, but was swayed by LSU.
"You can't turn this place down," he said, nodding to his surroundings at Alex Box Stadium. "This is second to none. This is the best place to win a national championship."
So, then, was Tuesday a one-night thing?
"You'll have to ask Coach that; I'm always up for it," Robertson said, the smile back in pace.
When the question was posed to Mainieri, he left the door open.
"We'll see; I don't know," Mainieri said. "I'd have to convince (pitching coach Alan Dunn). I don't think he's too keen on the idea."
One man down
The notion of Robertson getting his shot might remain far-fetched, but one reason Mainieri wouldn't completely shut the door is because the Tigers will be down one reliever at A&M.
Sophomore left-hander Hunter Devall wasn't available Tuesday because of a sore shoulder and he won't make the trip to Texas.
That leaves Mainieri and Dunn with 12 pitchers.
It also removes one of the more effective reliever the Tigers have leaned on the last few weekends.
Devall did allow a run against Tennessee on Sunday to snap a run of 6.2 scoreless innings he had logged over five appearances.
In Devall's place, freshman outfielder Cade Stone will be added to the travel roster for the first time this season.
Around the horn
- The six non-regulars who started against Alcorn State were a combined 3-for-11 with one extra-base hit, Stone's 3rd-inning triple that led to the Tigers' first run. Once the normal starters took over for those six, starting in the 6th inning, they were 5-for-12 with 8 RBIs and 7 runs scored.
- LSU slammed three home runs Tuesday, the second game this season the Tigers have left the yard three times in a game. The other game against Yale on Feb. 28.
- Conner Hale has driven in 3 runs in each of the last two games - a season-high - after recording two multi-RBI games in his first 36 games played this season.
- Junior Kyle Bouman was shaky near the end of his 3-inning stint, but he wound up allowing only on run. Over his last three appearances, he has given up just that run on 9 hits in 9.2 innings.
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The Eastern New Mexico University student government is asking students, faculty and staff not taking assessment tests Wednesday to assist the city of Clovis or the American Red Cross with continued tornado cleanup.
"The city's residents and businesses have greatly supported our university throughout the years, and it is time for Eastern to give back to the people who support the Greyhounds," ENMU student body vice president Kristelle Siarza said.
Students, faculty and staff are asked to provide the Associated Student Activities Board with the number of people expected and to meet at the Campus Union Building.
The first shuttle leaves from the Campus Union Building at 9 a.m and returns from Clovis at noon. There will be a second shuttle leaving the CUB at 1 p.m. and returning at 5 p.m.
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Binghamton – The Syracuse Crunch comeback machine rolled off the tracks on Sunday.
Binghamton's Stephane Da Costa scored three times and the Crunch looked like a drained, sloppy team as the host Senators ripped Syracuse 5-2 at the Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena.
The loss capped a three road games in three days weekend in which Syracuse trailed entering the final period of each contest, getting its only win Saturday in Connecticut by potting four unanswered goals. But the toll of three consecutive slow starts wore down Syracuse a day later, showing up in the form of uncharacteristic penalties and defensive mistakes.
"We've played a lot of good hockey for a long time,'' said Syracuse coach Jon Cooper, referring to Norfolk's streak to the Calder Cup last year. "We've set the bar really high for ourselves. For whatever reason, we haven't had a weekend (like this) for this organization in eight months. I can't accept it.''
Crunch captain Mike Angelidis was so shaken by the past 72 hours that he referred to the team losing consecutive games, although in fact it didn't.
"We've never had a road trip like this,'' Angelidis said.
Tyler Johnson scored his AHL-leading 15th goal for the Crunch in shorthanded-style Sunday, and Danick Gauthier potted a beauty on a breakaway between two Binghamton defenders. Goalie Dustin Tokarski stopped 33 pucks for Syracuse.
The last time Syracuse was in Binghamton, on Oct. 20, the Crunch rallied from a five-goal deficit midway through the second period to win the game in overtime. Sunday, Gauthier's goal at the 18:19 mark of the second pulled Syracuse within 3-2 at the break and looked like it might set up another win from the outside lane.
But the Crunch fell apart in the third, giving up goals to Patrick Wiercioch at the 11:27 mark and Da Costa 37 seconds later to fatten the Sens margin. The Crunch also took a mental vacation, handing Binghamton six power plays in the third.
While Syracuse killed them all, the effort required to do so drained the Crunch's fuel tank.
"I think it was just routine plays in the d-zone, (mistakes) we let happen, turnovers and penalties,'' Angelidis said.
Crunch defenseman J.P. Cote boiled over at the wrong time at the 4:07 mark of a 3-2 game, getting called for interference and topping it off with a 10-minute misconduct for abuse of officials. That further stressed Syracuse's defense for the rest of the game.
While not naming anyone specifically, Cooper said his veterans have to play with more hunger and not be satisfied just by seeing their names in the lineup.
"This is the first time I look on the ice in a long time that I'm frustrated we weren't the best team on the ice,'' Cooper said. "We expect to win every single game. When we don't, that's a problem for us.''
Syracuse tried to leave Binghamton with whatever satisfaction it could find. With a couple minutes left in the game Crunch forward P.C. Labrie skated around his shift trying to goad a couple Senators into a fight, to no avail.
Syracuse forward Eric Neilson took a more direct approach, coming onto the ice for his shift at the 18:29 mark and directly racing over to pummel Binghamton's Mark Borowiecki, who put up little resistance.
"I just jumped on the ice, he was out there,'' Neilson said. "I challenged him to a fight, he backed down. I asked him all game, he said no. We play these guys a lot more times. We're setting the tone for the next.''
The Crunch also came out of the weekend with more injury problems to handle. Forward Brett Connolly suffered a chip in his sternum on Saturday and missed Sunday's game. Cooper said it's a painful affliction and his availability is up in the air.
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The CanTeen Teen Center is planning a weeklong end-of-the-summer gathering for students entering the eighth grade in September.
Students in seventh grade who will be entering eighth grade at Roxboro Road and Gillette Road middle schools in the North Syracuse school district are invited to the get-together. The event is scheduled from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Aug. 30 to Sept. 3 at the CanTeen.
The get-together is meant to help students transition into the North Syracuse Junior High School. Members of the CanTeen will also be at the event.
"The week will be spent going to the beach, the New York State Fair, touring the Junior High and engaging the youth in 'get to know you' type activities," according to Toni'Lyn Brauchle, who oversees the CanTeen operation as coordinator of youth services for the town of Cicero.
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Age structure, developmental pathways, and fire regime characterization of Douglas-fir/western hemlock forests in the central western Cascades of Oregon
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Age structure, developmental pathways, and fire regime characterization of Douglas-fir/western hemlock forests in the central western Cascades of Oregon
Descriptions of the fire regime in the Douglas-fir/western hemlock region of the Pacific Northwest traditionally have emphasized infrequent, predominantly stand-replacement fires and an associated linear pathway of stand development, where all stands proceed along a common pathway until reset by the next fire. Although such a description may apply in wetter parts of the region, recent fire-history research suggests drier parts of the region support a mixed-severity regime, where most fires have substantial representation of all severity classes and most stands experience at least one non-stand-replacing fire between stand-replacement events. This study combines field and modeling approaches to better understand the complex fire regime in the central western Cascades of Oregon. Stand-structure data and ages of more than 3,000 trees were collected at 124 stands throughout two study areas with physiography representative of western and eastern portions of the western Cascade Range. Major objectives were to (1) develop a conceptual model of fire-mediated pathways of stand development, (2) determine the strengths of influences of topography on spatial variation in the fire regime, (3) provide a stronger understanding of modeling approaches commonly used to gain insight into historical landscape structure, and (4) develop methods to predict trajectories of change in landscape age structure under a non-stationary fire regime. In the study area, non-stand-replacing fire interspersed with infrequent, stand-replacement events led to a variety of even-aged and multi-cohort stands. The majority of stands (75%) had two or more age cohorts, where post-fire cohorts were dominated either by shade-intolerant species or shade-tolerant species, depending largely on fire severity. Age structure, used as a proxy for the cumulative effects of fire on stand development, showed a moderately strong relationship to topography overall, but relationships were strongest at both extremes of a continuum of the influences of fire frequency and severity on stand development and relatively weak in the middle. High topographic relief in the eastern part of the western Cascades may amplify variation in microclimate and fuel moisture, leading to a finer-scale spatial variation in fire spread and behavior, and thus a broader range of stand age structures and stronger fidelity of age structure to slope position and terrain shape in the deeply dissected terrain of the eastern part of the western Cascades than in the gentler terrain of the western part. In the modeling component of my research, I was able to use analytical procedures to reproduce much of the output provided by a stochastic, spatial simulation model previously applied to evaluate historical landscape structure of the Oregon Coast Range. The analytical approximation provides an explicit representation of the effects of input parameters and interactions among them. The increased transparency of model function given by such an analysis may facilitate communication of model output and uncertainty among ecologists and forest managers. Analytical modeling approaches were expanded to characterize trajectories of change in forest age structure in response to changes in the fire regime. Following a change in fire frequency, the proportion of the landscape covered by stands of a given age class is expected to change along a non-monotonic trajectory rather than transition directly to its equilibrium abundance under the new regime. Under some scenarios of change in fire frequency, the time for the expected age distribution of a landscape to converge to the equilibrium distribution of the new regime can be determined based only on the magnitude of change in fire frequency, regardless of the initial value or the direction of change. The theoretical modeling exercises provide insight into historical trends in the study area. Compiled across all sample sites, the age distribution of Douglas-fir trees was strongly bimodal. Peaks of establishment dates in the 16th and 19th centuries were synchronous between the two study areas, and each peak of Douglas-fir establishment coincides with one of the two periods of region-wide extensive fire identified in a previous synthesis of fire-history studies. The modeling exercises support the development of such a bimodal age distribution in response to centennial-scale changes in fire frequency, and they illustrate how the relative abundance of different stand-structure types may have varied over the last several centuries.
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It probably isn't all that fair to say the national championship is North Carolina's to lose, probably isn't all that fair to heap that kind of expectation on any team regardless of who's coaching it or playing for it.
The game, as they say, isn't played on paper.
And it's potentially troublesome for North Carolina, especially with Villanova, the Tar Heels' opponent in the national semifinals, having disposed of Big East rival and No. 1 seed Pittsburgh in order to reach the Final Four.
And with Michigan State, having eliminated overall No. 1 seed Louisville in the Midwest Regional final, enjoying an overwhelming homecourt advantage in the Final Four, which will be played at Ford Field in Detroit, about an hour away from Michigan State's campus.
And with Connecticut, Michigan State's national semifinal opponent, having a little history working in its favor (the Huskies won the West Regional, and the two previous times they've done that, they've won the national title), the most disruptive defensive force (center Hasheem Thabeet) remaining in the tournament on its roster and allegations of recruiting violations to give the Huskies an us-against-the-NCAA persecution complex.
But North Carolina, as the NCAA Tournament has progressed, more and more has looked like the team that was expected to go wire to wire this season, from preseason No.¤1 to snipping down the nets in Detroit.
The team that eliminated LSU in the second round only has looked stronger, and more impressive, since erasing the Tigers' second-half lead and running to an 84-70 win.
And the Tar Heels are the only team remaining that advanced as far last season. They lost to Kansas in the national semifinals.
"It felt great to get up there and cut down the net again," two-time Carolina All-America Tyler Hansbrough said. "I've felt a lot of pressure -- and I just felt relief. There's been a lot of expectations on this team, and for me, it feels good to be going back."
Going back, and heavily favored to take home what they failed to claim last season.
That's not to say the other teams haven't been impressive in their own right; no one advances to the Final Four via charity. There are no walkovers. Each has to win four games against opponents that want to win just as badly, one or two of those opponents having just as much talent and just as many high school All-Americans on the roster.
UConn, in fact, didn't even bother with a net-cutting ceremony after winning the West Regional. The Huskies, obviously, believe they can and should win their third national championship since 1999. And, like the Tar Heels, the Huskies also are where many expected they would be at this time of the season.
But when guard Ty Lawson is rolling, North Carolina looks almost unbeatable.
His name should be a four-letter word in Baton Rouge, because LSU should have every right to believe it would have upset North Carolina and advanced to the Sweet 16 in Coach Trent Johnson's first season, if Lawson's injured toe had been more troublesome.
Instead, he returned to the lineup after a three-game absence, gingerly moved around during the first half and then scored 21 of his 23 points in the final 20 minutes.
Not coincidentally, North Carolina's noticeable team limp has disappeared.
No remaining team looks quite as balanced. If you give Villanova the benefit of the doubt and say that it has comparable guard play, you can't offer that the Wildcats can match North Carolina in the post.
No one can claim to be better-coached; UNC's Roy Williams has the most recent title among
the four.
Add it all up, and the consensus is the title is North Carolina's to lose whether or not the Tar Heels, or anyone else, like the sound of it.


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Woman sentenced for endangering 7-week-old child
A woman who was convicted of endangering the welfare of her 7-week-old baby received a mitigated sentence Monday for her good behavior since the initial charges were filed in 2009.
"You did anything and everything you could do to remedy the situation," Lycoming County Judge Marc F. Lovecchio told Karrie Croucher, 24, of Williamsport, who was sentenced to two years intermediate punishment, 50 hours community service and 60 days of electronic monitoring.
Lovecchio waived the cost of the electronic monitoring, citing the financial burden it would pose on Croucher.
A jury convicted Croucher of the felony offense in March of this year after a three-day trial in which Assistant District Attorney Martin Wade argued that Croucher's neglect of her child resulted in the baby suffering bone fractures to his arms and legs, as well as a head injury. The baby also was found to be malnourished when his injuries were brought to light in October of 2009. At the trial, the prosecution argued that Croucher had diluted the baby's formula with water, Lovecchio said,
Though Wade had hoped for a harsher sentence, he told Lovecchio that "the felony is a badge she will always carry."
During the sentencing hearing, public defender Nicole Spring referenced Croucher's achievements since the abuse allegations were made. Croucher attained her GED diploma and graduated from Empire Beauty School, where she interacted with Spring's daughter.
Spring said her daughter had told her that Croucher always was "extremely mild-mannered" when caring for her baby.
As he determined Croucher's sentence, Lovecchio invoked an investigation by Children and Youth Services, which closed its case on Croucher in 2012, concluding that she did not pose a danger to her child. The agency has not reopened its investigation in the wake of Croucher's March conviction, and Croucher have successfully completed extensive counseling.
"It speaks volumes that the Children and Youth case is closed," Spring argued.
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SOMERVILLE — The $17-million municipal budget is still a "work in progress," Mayor Brian Gallagher said at the public budget hearing on Monday.
Borough Council took no action at the hearing but instead mulled in which direction the council should go as it waits for information on state aid figures while continuing to make reductions.
The council can either adopt the budget before state aid figures are released and, in theory, count only on Somerville money and no outside help, or the council can draw out the process until those state numbers are released.
Borough Administrator Kevin Sluka said that he spoke to the governor's office on Monday and that they weren't releasing any information regarding state aid.
"I think they prefer that we adopt the budget and not look for aid … I guess we're going to have to make a decision shortly whether we actually just seek to adopt and send out tax bills," Sluka said.
Councilman Dennis Sullivan said that in the meantime he and other finance committee members continue to find reductions in the introduced budget. When the budget was introduced in the middle of March, it surpassed the 4% cap on the amount the tax levy can be increased from last year's by about $180,000.
Somerville also received $361,000 less in state aid, meaning the finance committee is looking at about $550,000 in reductions from the introduced budget.
He said that the tax impact has fluctuated since the introduction in March, and that he was unprepared to say what it is right now, since it could change again.
The introduced budget already included a net loss of 10 positions. A public works employee, a police dispatch employee, a municipal court employee, an assistant tax assessor, a deputy sewer collector and a health educator are being laid off this year.
The borough has also not filled three retired positions in the code office, the board of health and administration from 2009, and will have three more this year in the board of health, the code office and recreation which will also not be filled, according to the borough's Chief Financial Officer Janet Kelk.
The $14.85 million portion that comprises the proposed operating budget is a 5.5 percent increase — about $800,000 — from last year's operating budget.
The way forward, Sullivan said, is that the committee will go back to the introduced budget and make any more necessary reductions depending on what it hears about state aid, and then there will be a public hearing on the finalized budget "at some point in the future," Sullivan said. Adoption would take place after that.
Sullivan cautioned that the borough shouldn't wait too long for those state aid figures: "The longer we wait to adopt, the less capability we have to make reductions."
If the borough waits, for example, until July 1 and then makes reductions, it's only dealing with half a year. So, for example, a $100,000 reduction on a yearly basis would only yield $50,000 in savings for the borough.
"We'll probably have to make a decision sooner than later. My instinct tells me that there will be little if any aid available," Sullivan said.


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MENDON, MI – A Mendon couple is continuing its mission to help war veterans who have returned home from serving their country unable to live the lifestyles they once did.
The Homes for Our Troops program has been building specially adapted homes for severely injured veterans since 2004, with some of the homes costing around $200,000 to build.
Peggy Fassett said she and her husband, Jim, can't afford to build a home for a soldier themselves, but they are doing what they can to help.
"This is just our little way of trying to put a dent in the cost of building the house," Peggy Fassett said.
Jim and Peggy Fassett will host their fourth annual Homes for Our Troops fundraiser on Saturday from 5 p.m. to midnight at their home in Mendon, 54010 Parkville Road. They were inspired to help returning soldiers when their son came home after serving six years in the Army.
This year's fundraiser will benefit Army Sgt. Kenneth Harker of Evansville, Ind. Harker lost both his legs in June 2008 in Baghdad, Iraq when an explosion tore through the Humvee in which he was riding. He was on his second deployment.
Harker endured more than three years of countless surgeries, treatments and physical therapy after being injured. Construction of his new home has already begun. Harker's wife, Heather, recently gave birth to the couple's first child, Kenslee, according to the HFOT website.
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The event will be held regardless of weather conditions and plans are in place to keep people dry in case it rains.
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CLEVELAND — Carlos Beltran has a broken face, but it's a concussion that's keeping him away from the field yet again in his wretched 2014.
Beltran was placed on the seven-day disabled list reserved specifically for concussions Thursday. Third baseman Yangervis Solarte was called up from Triple-A Scranton-Wilkes/Barre to replace him.
A doctor and a neurologist determined Beltran had suffered a concussion after he spoke with reporters late Wednesday night. Earlier in the day, the 37-year-old was hit in the face with his own line drive, which caromed off a protective screen, and fractured his nose and a bone just below it.
The outfielder/designated hitter said he had a headache, but that he didn't think he had a concussion. That was before doctors told him otherwise, however.
Manager Joe Girardi said he expects Beltran to be able to return the day after his DL stint.
"We felt it was probably best he didn't play these few days," Girardi said.
It's been a miserable season for Beltran, who signed a three-year, $45-million deal this offseason on top of it all.
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A WOMAN has died after slamming her car into a truck while posting to Facebook about how happy Pharrell's megahit Happy made her.
Courtney Ann Sanford, 32, crossed the median and crashed head-on into the truck in High Point, North Carolina on Thursday morning, according to My Fox 8.
Later, investigators shared a Facebook post they said Sanford made seconds before the deadly collision.
"The happy song makes me HAPPY," the deceased wrote, referring to the cheery pop hit.
"The Facebook text happened at 8:33. We got the call on the wreck at 8:34," said Lt. Chris Weisner with the High Point Police Department.
"In a matter of seconds, a life was over just so she could notify some friends that she was happy."
Investigators also discovered Sanford had been posting repeated selfies as she drove down the road.
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Add a sleep timer to stop reading
Many readers enjoy reading a book before they go to sleep. Having a configurable sleep timer would let users read until they fall asleep without losing their place in their book. Ideally, the app should make a bookmark of some kind when the book stops reading so the user can pick up where they left off the next time they open the book.
Most schools like to track student reading time. It would be wonderful if there was an option for students to keep track of how much time they spend reading. In addition, many teachers and parents will tell a child "read for x minutes" and having a timer would help them stay on track instead of repeatedly asking "how much longer".
Having the ability to have a timer setting for when I fall asleep listening to books would be great!
Yep, this is a good one and is under consideration.
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Anonymous commented
I believe that you can do this by going to the clock app the setting a timer and changing the sound to "stop playing."
madchopper commented
Go to the clock function, timer, and select sleep iPod in the When Timer Ends.


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Lin said the original two-storey red brick teahouse stood at the center of the Japanese eraŌĆÖs Taiping neighborhood, close to the heart of TaiwanŌĆÖs New Culture Movement. Its revival under the name URS27W was able to show citizens how much was possible when one tried to revive history and culture, Lin said.
Ko said he represented the businesses of the Dadaocheng area in thanking the city government for its efforts. Many prominent Taiwanese companies had their roots in the area, but progress had been slow in advancing the concept of protecting its own ancient cultural heritage, Ko said.
With I-Mei celebrating its 80th anniversary this year, Ko said he hoped to continue his efforts to protect the countryŌĆÖs heritage, though he expressed regret at not having been able to keep democracy activist Chiang Wei-shuiŌĆÖs Da An Hospital and the old site of the Taiwan Culture Association intact.
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Texas A&M Post-Game Quotes
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GW Coach Joe McKeown
On Sarah-Jo Lawrence's performance
After A&M's four-point play to tie the game, did it seem like the players were rushing things?
What does it say about GW when it can beat the #10 team in the country without Jessica Adair, and with Kim Beck going only 3-for-16?
What was the last play you drew up at the end of regulation?
Senior guard Kimberly Beck
Is the team all the way back from the struggles of a few weeks ago?
Senior guard Sarah-Jo Lawrence
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Sure, a film festival offers cutting-edge movies, but only for a week or two, and then the filmmakers -- with their films in tow -- pull out of town. Not so with two South Florida festivals opening this week. In each case organizers hope to leave a lasting impression.
When Franz Lynch and his wife, Keven, started the South Florida Black Film Festival ten years ago, they were tired of seeing the same black stereotypes in contemporary movies. "They did some research and found that there were films out there that dated back to the early 1900s that presented a more positive image of blacks," says Roslyn Williams, the festival's executive director.
So the Fort Lauderdale couple (who now live in Atlanta) showed vintage films alongside those by forward-thinking contemporary artists like Spike Lee and Danny Glover. This year's guest of honor is director Charles Burnett (To Sleep With Anger, The Glass Shield), who will screen his first film, Killer of Sheep. While the festival's national reputation continues to grow, local impact is still the number one priority. Previous festival entries, such as Follow Me Home and Watermelon Woman, have been shown in Miami even after the festival. "We're trying to get more local theaters to bring back some of these independent features, to give the audience an alternative," says Williams.
The local community was also the inspiration behind the Palm Beach International Film Festival, created three years ago. Festival profits go to film-education programs at Palm Beach Community College, the Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. School of the Arts, and Palm Beach Gardens High School, says Mark Diamond, the festival's artistic director.
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In fact the festival's board is so serious about its mission, it will cut costs this year by eliminating the closing-night gala and focus instead on the opening-night festivities on April 17. During a private reception and dinner at 8 p.m., achievement awards will be presented to Burt Reynolds and Sylvester Stallone at the Boca Raton Resort and Club (501 E. Camino Real, Boca Raton). "Private" is a bit misleading, because anyone who donates $1000 gains entry for two. Sure, it's steep for a glance at the stars, but your money goes to a good cause.
-- John Ferri
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Dr. Kane teaches courses in composition and modern literature as well as a popular course in the genre of the short story. His field of expertise is in modern British and American literature, and his book Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark, and John Fowles: Didactic Demons in Modern Fiction enjoys an international reputation. He is currently working on an article involving literary perspectives on war by Tim O'Brien, Thom Jones, George Garrett, Frank O'Connor, and Albert Camus. In a larger project, he is also exploring the possible nexus between ritual and gender in four modern authors: Christopher Isherwood, John Cheever, Reynolds Price, and Bruce Chatwin.Most Recent Publications
Kane, Richard. 2008. At The Bottom of The World With Bruce Chatwin. North Dakota Quarterly 75(1)(winter):141-153.
Kane, Richard. 2004. Earth, Water, and Fire: Elemental Representations of Feminist Force in Stories by John Cheever, T. Coraghessan Boyle, and Tobias Wolff. Journal of the Short Story in English, Les Cahiers de la Nouvelle 42(spring):111-134. (Joint European and American publication).
Kane, Richard. 2008. Bruce Chatwin Explores Patagonia. Paper for the Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association Conference, 31 October - 2 November, in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.
Kane, Richard. 2007. The European-American Polarity in the Work of Thomas Wolfe. Paper for the Mid-Atlantic American Culture Association Conference, 1-3 November, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Kane, Richard. 2005. An Analysis of Power and Illusion in the Work of Iris Murdoch. Paper for the Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association Conference, 4-6 November, in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
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