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That squeaking coming from Dunkirk's City Hall isn't a rusty door, it's the city administration trying to squeeze as much as possible out of every dollar spent.
That was the theme as Mayor Richard Frey held a required public hearing Thursday morning on his proposed budget for 2011. He said it was a tight budget when he presented it.
"When we prepared everything, and whatever, whoever, wants to call it whatever they want to call it, I do have some set fees that I have to pay that I have no control over and I don't care what we do," he explained. "I think of Charley Graves' obituary last week in the paper, 'he quit breathing and quit paying taxes.' I guess that's the only time we're going to do it so I thought it was very appropriate. I'd like to put that in for mine."
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Dunkirk Mayor Richard Frey
The mayor began by discussing the general fund, saying an $89,000 increase in health insurance costs could have been higher without negotiations that are ongoing. There is also a $156,000 increase in contractual expenses along with a $252,000 increase in pension contributions required by New York state, making a total of $497,000 in increases that the mayor said he had no control over.
An extra $316,000 in NRG PILOT program revenues for 2010 and 2011 have helped the city's finances as well, but not enough to maintain the current tax rate.
"I raised taxes 50 cents. Council hasn't done anything with it yet; they haven't come together, they haven't proposed," Frey stated. "As I've said, they've got a tough job in front of them, the same as we just went through, two tremendous months. There's a lot of uncertainty out there."
Frey explained how Fund I was balanced.
"Raising taxes raised $130,000 and we took $100,000 out of our tax stabilization funds, the first time the tax stabilization fund has been touched. It's up around $580-590,000 now," he stated. " ... That raised $496,000 and ... you can see we ended up with a contingency of somewhere around $90,000. The uncertainties, we had a very low contingency this year, we only had like $26,000."
Frey said the contingencies were for the unknowns.
"What's down the road? We don't know what's down the road," he explained. "The tax increase takes you up to $16.85 per thousand."
As for the jump in Fund I from $13,928,419 to $14,377,183, Frey said the increase of $448,000, "was set in stone for us there."
The mayor said Fund II's proposed drop of $160,000 in the 2011 budget was a "little bit of a bright spot."
"Again, we had a $60,000 increase in health care, contractual and pension funds. So all-in-all, everybody did a great job down there," Frey said. "... You have to understand, our contingencies and that are starting to show the benefits of putting the automatic-read meters in and stuff like that."
The mayor described Fund III as "our troubled area."
"Our revenues are nowhere near projected, what we did, I have no idea. We're working at it everyday," he explained. "I think we have some solutions. ... I think we're going to be able to put our finger on more things and at a quicker response time."
The Fund III 2011 budget is up $300,787 with health care, contractual and pension fund increases accounting for $71,000 of the $4,320,912 Frey proposal.
"I put a rate increase on sewer of $1.75 per 1,000 gallons and usually it's a 15,000 gallon minimum per household average, there's other and they use less. It's $8.75 increase a month which comes out to $105," he said. "So if you own a $50,000 house, you got a $25 tax increase and you also have a $105 sewer increase so you have a $130 increase total in sewer and taxes."
Frey said uncontrollables and items that don't have finalized costs when the budget is prepared make things difficult. He cited fuel reports showing costs rising 13 cents a gallon from September to October.
"A year ago to this year, we're up 28 cents. I have no way of projecting that when I prepare a budget," he said. "We took a figure, we added maybe 5 percent to it or something like that."
Frey added that diesel costs have gone up 32 cents over the last year. In addition, the day after the budget was ready, the county told the city landfill costs would be going up as well, something that did not make his budget deadline.
As for reducing costs, Frey said there was but one way it could be done.
"It's not what you're going to cut, or how you're going to cut, or what you want to cut, it's to the point now I'm saying to you, I'm saying to the council as well as to the public, what services do you want cut because that's the only way we're going to reduce our costs," he stated.
The city will be negotiating contracts, both of which expire Dec. 31, with the two unions representing the paid firefighters and the management employees. Contracts with the unions representing the police and the non-uniformed employees are good until Dec. 31, 2011.
"Of course we're going to talk. I think they're very intelligent people, they understand where we are, they understand our sacrifices," Frey said. "They also understand they're not second class citizens.
"They're entitled to the same benefits as other people have, and I'll grant you, if we can afford it, we can afford to, if we can't, we have to talk about it. I think that's the door we have to leave open. ... You know everybody beats on us, reduce our workforce, reduce our workforce. But this is how critical it is now. It's a case that we have to start cutting services, it's the only way that we're going to conserve."
The only questions at the hearing came from the Common Council members in attendance, Rose Floramo and Stacy Szukala.
Floramo asked about the hike in sewer rate fees.
"We could not balance the budgets on a lower increase in the sewer fees," Frey replied. "I believe we even talked $1.50 a 1,000. ... We were going to have a shortfall in balancing the budget we put before you."
Floramo asked if that helped the contingency.
"Not only the contingency, but it's going to help us in the shortfall on our revenue. I'm not as concerned about the contingency," Frey replied. "I've got to go back to the state auditors having told us for two years, you've got to make these funds stand on their own.
"We used to supplement it out of our Fund I when we did the major transfer of $1 million. We don't do that any more and this is something that's catching up with us and we're finally getting in a position where we can handle it now."
Szukala asked if Fund III would be self sustaining in 2012 with the proposed sewer rate hike for 2011.
"We know some things out there coming up in 2012 that we don't have now in 2011. I could not answer you as to, do I give you a guarantee that this $1.75 is it for a while? I can't answer that," Frey replied while citing the extra $316,000 from the NRG PILOT program that will not be available in 2012.
The mayor also said the city could lose another $60,000 in revenue if a proposal by Chautauqua County Executive Greg Edwards to do away with tax share funding on the sales tax is approved.
Frey said to use the tax stabilization fund according to the rules and regulations there had to be a 2.5 percent increase in the property tax rate. He said 42 cents met the 2.5 percent minimum.
"We rounded it off," he said of the proposed 50 cents increase. "Could we survive on taking 8 cents off? I don't know because you've only got $90-some thousand in the contingency."
He added that without using the tax stabilization fund it would have resulted in a $1 tax rate increase per thousand of assessed value.
Floramo asked if more could be taken from the tax stabilization fund.
"I hope we're not going to raise taxes 2.5 percent next year," she said.
"You always have to raise taxes to get to the tax stabilization fund," Frey replied.
"We're raising them anyways so I'm wondering why we couldn't use $200,000 instead of $100,000," Floramo said. "Is there a law?"
"Oh no," Frey replied, "We can take anything we want but there was not a need to take the $200,000."
"So next year, if you choose to tap into the tax stabilization fund again, you have to raise taxes yet again?" Szukala asked.
Frey replied that was the case and the fund was set up that way in a previous administration.
"Like Dr. Muntz said the other night, and I understand where the man is coming from, but now you have to stop and tell me, what services do you want cut? What don't you want us to do?" Frey asked. "You want us to mow the lawn every other week in the park? Do you want us to maybe not mow the lawns in the park? ... You want us to pick your rubbish up every other week?
"That is the hard choices that are out there to make."
There were no written comments submitted prior to the hearing.
The Common Council is set to begin its formal budget review Monday at 5 p.m. during a City Hall meeting of its Finance Committee.
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Onondaga, NY -- Onondaga school district voters go back to the polls June 15 to decide how much to spend to run the district for the 2010-11 school year.
The vote comes less than a month after voters rejected a proposed $18,371,638 budget. That spending plan had a tax rate increase of 1.95 percent.
The new budget comes in at $18,250,598. That is a 1.88 percent increase over the current budget and carries with it a 1.11 percent increase in the tax levy and a 0.98 percent increase in the tax rate.
"We are very hopeful this budget will pass," school Superintendent Joseph Rotella said.
The district holds a budget hearing at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Wheeler School cafeteria. The budget vote is 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. June 15 at the Junior-Senior High School lobby and the Rockwell Elementary community room.
After the vote last month, school board members and administrators decided to trim spending to get the tax rate increase below 1 percent, Rotella said.
"The message was loud and clear," he said of the 399-292 vote against the first budget.
To reach the target, the district has eliminated the positions of director of technology, a job now held by Robert Sauro, and an assistant transportation supervisor, who will be eligible to apply for a new, but lower-paying, job as a dispatcher.
In addition, the district will eliminate four coaching jobs by restructuring its modified sports program. Instead of teams comprised of seventh- and eighth-graders, the new modified teams will include pupils in grades seven through nine.
The change means the elimination of a junior varsity baseball coach, assistant modified track coach and assistant modified boy and girls lacrosse coaches.
"We will still be able to offer all of the kids an opportunity to play," Rotella said.
The district's fiscal year starts July 1, and the staffing changes would go into effect then.
He said that if voters reject the revised school budget, the district will adopt a contingency budget, as required by state law. That budget would total $17,991,593, which would be a 0.44 increase. The tax levy would go down 1.77 percent, and the tax rate would drop 1.89 percent.
A contingency budget would mean further spending reductions, Rotella said.
"We have not determined where those cuts would come," he said.
Voters who can't make it to the polls June 15 can request absentee ballots. Applications are available at the district business office and must be received at the district office by 5 p.m. June 8 if mailed or no later than 5 p.m. June 14 if delivered by hand.
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LONGMEADOW – The ninth hole could have been a disaster for Andy Drohen.
But the Granville resident knew from experience one bad hole doesn't make a round, so he overcame that bogey to emerge as the co-medalist Tuesday after two rounds of the 105th Massachusetts Amateur Championship at Longmeadow Country Club.
Drohen, a member of The Ranch Golf Course in Southwick, shot a 1-under par 69, and combined with his even-par 70 Monday, enters match play Wednesday tied with Colin Brennan of Indian Ridge CC atop the leaderboard.
Drohen is a past champion, having won in 2003 at The Country Club in Brookline.
Another past champ, Flynt Lincoln of Longmeadow CC, is also among the qualifiers for match play. The 1993 titlist shot 70 and was six strokes back at 145.
Lincoln was runner-up in 1992, the last year the event was held at Longmeadow.
"There's some great players here, and you need to be patient," Lincoln said. "It's a lot of fun and you need a little bit of luck."
In all, 32 golfers qualified for match play. Also advancing from Western Mass. were Sean Gaudette of The Orchards GC (143), John Kelly of Twin Hills CC (144), Kevin Wheeler of St. Anne CC (145) and Jack Kearney of Elmcrest CC (146).
For Drohen, Tuesday's round was full of twists and turns.
"It was like a roller-coaster ride," he said. "It started pretty good, I started going down the fairways, got a bunch of good looks, but I didn't make any putts early."
His first bogey came on the sixth hole.
"I hit a good shot on seven to make par and made par on eight," he said.
Then came the ninth hole.
"I sniped one into the trees on the left," Drohen said. "So I had to come out and hit provisional."
He took an unplayable, which took him to the cart path.
"I got pretty clear of the trees and made a bogey, which put me 2 over," he said.
It wasn't a good feeling.
"I got the jitters a little bit," Drohen said.
He knew he needed to play catch-up and responded with a birdie on the next hole. He hit the trees again on 11 and had to knock it out before making a putt for par.
"Then things started to go smoothly," he said.
Drohen made another birdie on 15 and again on 18 to get to 1 under. Having been through this before helped.
"You certainly fall back on that and how it's just a game and you've done it before, so it's no big deal," he said.
Earlier this year, Drohen qualified at Paxton Hollows in Pennsylvania for the U.S. Public Links. He was a late entry and did so only because his work took him there.
Initially, there was only one qualifying spot to be awarded, but later they found out there would be two – and Drohen was one of them.
He was the medalist on the first day of that event, but ran into trouble on Day 2 due to a triple bogey on the final hole.
"I had to sweat it out for two and half hours," he said.
He will leave Friday for Virginia and Laurel Holes Golf Course outside the nation's capital.
He'd love to leave as a champion.
"I don't see many guys going deep," he said. It's going to take being consistent. I'll need to shoot a lot of pars."


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When the keel of NORTH CAROLINA was laid in October of 1937 at the New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, she was the first battleship to be constructed in sixteen years. She became the first of ten fast battleships to join American fleet in World War II. NORTH CAROLINA (BB 55) and her sister ship, WASHINGTON (BB 56), comprised the NORTH CAROLINA Class. Following them were the SOUTH DAKOTA Class – SOUTH DAKOTA (BB 57), INDIANA (BB 58), MASSACHUSETTS (BB 59), and ALABAMA (BB 60) – and the IOWA Class - IOWA (BB 61), NEW JERSEY (BB 62), MISSOURI (BB 63), and WISCONSIN (BB 64).
At the time of her commissioning on 9 April 1941, she was considered the world's greatest sea weapon. Armed with nine 16-inch/45 caliber guns in three turrets and twenty 5-inch/38 caliber guns in ten twin mounts, NORTH CAROLINA proved a formidable weapons platform. Her wartime complement consisted of 144 commissioned officers and 2,195 enlisted men, including about 100 Marines.
During World War II, NORTH CAROLINA participated in every major naval offensive in the Pacific area of operations and earned 15 battle stars. In the Battle of the Eastern Solomon's in August of 1942, the Battleship's anti-aircraft barrage helped save the carrier ENTERPRISE, thereby establishing the primary role of the fast battleship as protector of aircraft carriers. One of her Kingfisher pilots performed heroically during the strike on Truk when he rescued ten downed Navy aviators on 30 April 1944. In all, NORTH CAROLINA carried out nine shore bombardments, sank an enemy troopship, destroyed at least 24 enemy aircraft, and assisted in shooting down many more. Her anti-aircraft guns helped halt or frustrate scores of attacks on aircraft carriers. She steamed over 300,000 miles. Although Japanese radio announcements claimed six times that NORTH CAROLINA had been sunk, she survived many close calls and near misses with one hit when a Japanese torpedo slammed into the Battleship's hull on 15 September 1942. A quick response on the part of the crew allowed the mighty ship to keep up with the fleet. By war's end, the Ship lost only ten men in action and had 67 wounded.
After serving as a training vessel for midshipmen, NORTH CAROLINA was decommissioned 27 June 1947 and placed in the Inactive Reserve Fleet in Bayonne, New Jersey, for the next 14 years. In 1958 the announcement of her impending scrapping led to a statewide campaign by citizens of North Carolina to save the ship from the scrappers torches and bring her back to her home state. The Save Our Ship (SOS) campaign was successful and the Battleship arrived in her current berth on 2 October 1961. She was dedicated on 29 April 1962 as the State's memorial to its World War II veterans and the 11,000 North Carolinians who died during the war...
Here is a fun trivia question sheet on the history of the Battleship. See how many you can answer and then come back for the answers.
Vital Statistics
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Keel Laid:
October 27, 1937
June 13, 1940
April 9, 1941
June 27, 1947
728' ⅝" long
Extreme Beam:
108 feet 3 7/8 inches wide
Mean Draught:
31 feet 7 inches normal, 35 feet 6 inches maximum
36,600 tons standard, 44,800 tons full load
2,339 (144 officers and 2,200 enlisted)
28 knots
9: 16-inch/45 caliber guns
20: 5-inch/38 caliber guns
60: 40mm/56 caliber guns
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(WBNG Binghamton) According to a news release issued Thursday, on September 24, the Chemung County Sheriff's Office arrested Christopher K. Elliott, dob 07/21/87, and Luke C. Wandell, dob 01/27/64, for Criminal Possession of Stolen Property in the 3rd Degree.
According to the news release from the Chemung County Sheriff's Office:
Wandell and Elliott were arrested by Sheriff's Investigators after allegedly being found in possession of material stolen from multiple burglaries and grand larcenies from Evolutions Edges, located on the Philo Rd. in the Town of Horseheads.
More than $100,000 in material has been reported stolen over a six month period from the company and the investigation into the thefts is continuing at this time.
Elliott and Wandell were released from the Chemung County Jail after posting $5,000 cash and $10,000 property bond respectively.
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By STEVE LeBLANC, Associated Press
BOSTON (AP) — Legislative leaders in Massachusetts are putting the finishing touches on a sweeping casino bill even as another nearby state could soon be ramping up the competition for gamblers looking for a place to roll the dice.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday that leaders there are actively looking at the possibility of legalizing commercial, non-Indian casinos as part of a comprehensive gambling plan.
New York already has Indian-operated casinos and electronic slot machines at horse tracks.
"So now you have to go the second step: If there is going to be gaming how do you do it," Cuomo said. "That question is something we are presently looking at."
Cuomo's comments could add pressure to Massachusetts lawmakers.
House Speaker Robert DeLeo and Senate President Therese Murray say they plan to unveil a casino bill next month. A similar proposal to license three casinos collapsed last year over the issue of whether to allow slot machines at race tracks.
Cuomo's remarks also are catching the attention of casino supporters.
Jennifer Baruffaldi, spokeswoman for Citizens for Jobs and Growth in Palmer, a group that supports a Mohegan Sun's plan to build a casino in the western Massachusetts town, said lawmakers need to act quickly.
"I think it would be a wise decision for our politicians to vote on this sooner than later," Baruffaldi said. "You would think that with New York expanding gaming, why not Massachusetts?"
Baruffaldi said Mohegan Sun recently hosted a town cookout and pledged to detail their financing plan before the end of September.
"We've been fighting for this a long time," she said. "We don't want to keep losing revenues to other states."
Casino critics see a very different message in Cuomo's comments.
Tom Larkin, president of United to Stop Slots in Massachusetts, said casino operators are adept at pitting states against each other in the rush to expand gambling.
"There's a sibling rivalry going on among states, but it's pretty destructive as far as we're concerned," Larkin said. "I think the gambling industry exploits these budgetary problems that the states are having."
Opponents also are skeptical of states putting all their chips on casinos to help them balance their budgets.
"The more people that lose money, the worse off the economy is," Larkin said. "The worst thing you can do is say: 'Look we have an economic problem, let's have more people lose more money.'"
Former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger, another gambling critic, said New York only demonstrates how easily states can get hooked on what he called "the culture of dependence and greed" that casinos create.
That inevitably leads to pressure to add more gambling venues, he said.
"It is time for all of our elected officials to do their homework, to update outdated cost-benefit analyses and have a full, transparent debate about the pros and cons of welcoming this industry to Massachusetts," Harshbarger said.
Other New England states have expanded gambling. Connecticut has full casinos. Rhode Island has two slots parlors. And Maine voters recently approved the construction of a casino in Oxford County.
The casino momentum appears to be growing in Massachusetts, even as the state's economy gradually improves after the recent recession.
DeLeo and Murray hope to release a bill in September that can win approval in both chambers and be signed by Gov. Deval Patrick.
All three want to avoid the 11th hour squabbling that doomed a three-casino bill last summer. That bill faltered over the issue of whether to set aside any slot machine licenses for the state's struggling race tracks, two of which are in DeLeo's district.
An Associated Press review of records filed with the secretary of state's office has also found no letup in the flood of dollars aimed at pressuring lawmakers to approve a casino deal.
Gambling interests spent more than $1.3 million in the first six months of the year lobbying Beacon Hill lawmakers.
The $1.35 million came from casino development firms, manufacturers of slot machines and federally-recognized Indian tribes. Gambling interests spent more than $3 million in all of 2010 on lobbying.


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When I picked up the new book titled: "What The Dog Saw – And Other Adventures", by Malcolm Gladwell, I was not expecting to find anything in it about the Cubs. Far from it.
"What the Dog Saw" consists of the author's favorite articles from among those he has published in "The New Yorker" magazine, where he is a staff writer, since 1996.
The title of the book, "What The Dog Saw", is taken from a piece Mr. Gladwell wrote about Cesar Millan (aka "The Dog Whisperer") back in May of 2006, titled "What the Dog Saw – Cesar Millan and the Movements of Mastery". It was the knowledge that this article was included which drew me to the Gladwell book.
I have had an interest in dogs, and more recently in Cesar Millan, for some time now. As a matter of fact, in some canine circles I'm known as "The DoggieDude". I was The DoggieDude before I was The CubbieDude.
I enjoyed reading about topics as varied as: Mr. Popeil's Gadgets, Ketchup vs. Mustard, Investment Strategies, Hair Dyes, the Birth Control Pill, the Kinesiology of Cesar Millan, Enron, Homelessness, Radiographic Interpretation, Plagiarism, and Connecting The Dots in the first eleven articles.
(The Ketchup vs. Mustard article (titled: "The Ketchup Cunundrum") sheds light on the condiment discussion which Joe started recently.)
Then I innocently began reading the twelfth article, titled: "The Art of Failure – Why Some People Choke and Others Panic". Mr. Gladwell describes the psychological studies of "performance under pressure", and cites examples from tennis & golf tournaments, scuba diving accidents, & fatal aircraft piloting events, in his analysis of the art of failure.
And it dawned on me that, although this article was published in August of 2000, I was reading a detailed description of exactly what happened to the Chicago Cubs during the postseason of 2008.
It gave me no pleasure to be reminded of those three games then, and it gives me no pleasure to bring them up again now. But at least I have a better understanding of the mechanisms of what occurred in October, 2008.
Mr. Gladwell closes his article with the only thing you can say: "I feel horrible about what happened. I'm so sorry."
Note: Malcolm Gladwell's book: "What The Dog Saw" seems to be available in two different cover designs. I chose the more interesting design to accompany this review.
Additional Note: All of the previously published articles in "What The Dog Saw" are available and can be read free of charge on Malcolm Gladwell's own website: gladwell.com, listed under "The New Yorker Archive"


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Face of the City: Interview with Street Artist Seizer
Jun 08, 2010 | Comments 7
Like an apparition or a vague memory, the pale ghostly face hovers over the city watching us without judgment ,reason or motive. The face breeds a familiarity but leaves one with more questions than answers. It finds it's home on the rooftops of buildings, on billboards, or mutating on the varied forms of our urban landscapes, There is nothing to preach, pitch or plug. This is face of anonymity. The face that has nothing to sell but rather something to give. A friend who has come to return something to you. This is the face of Seizer.
For over a decade Seizer has been a staple in the street art movement in Los Angeles Area. With some variations in color and medium his work has primarily consisted of his trademark moniker. An effective choice in breeding familiarity and identity with the public in a city inundated with a flood corporate imagery.
But where you find constancy in the imagery, the work is balanced with it' is the masterful placements. It is the placements that redefine the image illustrating the power of environment. The work in one context becomes deity on the tops of buildings, celebrity under the lights of a billboard, criminal on the decaying wall. The work of Seizer engages the user to define our own stories of who and what Seizer is, essentially defining who and what we are.
Where did the name Seizer come from?
The moniker Seizer is a noun meaning one who takes forcibly.
When and why did you first start doing street art?
I started doing some tags and painting illegal stuff in 1994. There was a short time when I was in high school when I would take random stuff from my step dad's garage and glue it to street signs and utility boxes. That is real street art right there, car stereo's fixed to stop signs with high grade epoxy. Old spray paint cans fixed to the side of a water shed. I should have documented it, I would have been huge! I think the biggest attraction to street art or graffiti was that it got me out of the house and exploring. My brother and I used to go downtown and climb buildings just to see if we could do it. That desire stayed with me when I moved to LA in 2002 and started putting up posters.
Tell me about the origins of your signature "face" motif. What was your intent when you first created it and has it's meaning changed over the years?
I wanted to create an icon that had no identity. I wanted to know what happens if you present an ambiguous image of a face and saturate an environment, what will people make of it? I'd seen people do it with well known icons or celebrities but what if it's just an unknown face? My intention has not changed, I have still just begun the process. One discovery is that simple persistence and repetition gives some sort of street credit. I have got more work that is completely unrelated to my posters just because the client realized that I was the person behind them. Maybe its just an example of commitment and dedication, I think people generally like that in creative work environments.
What is something that you would never do as an artist and what is something that you want to do?
I can't think of anything I would never do. I want to embrace being an artist. I have had an idea of what being an artist means for a long time, and now I am realizing that I am wrong. I am in the process of rediscovering what it means to me.
What scares you?
Recently I was on a flight out of Burbank and it just felt wrong. The plane took off what seemed to be faster than normal, once in the air we were climbing super hard and fast pressing us back into our seats. It felt like we were climbing forever which also seemed odd. Then suddenly everything just shut down, engines died, the sound of the air coming through the vents stopped, and the lights went out. The plane completely stalled, flattened out, and then the nose began to drop. The nose of the plane dropped more towards the ground and we fell, faster and faster. My wife was squeezing my hand and I was thinking to myself, wow this is really happening, this is what it feels like when you are about to die. About that point everything came back on and as the pilot accelerated the plane leveled out and you could hear everyone start to breath again. I am not scared of much but that scared the shit out of me.
Where do you see yourself 10 years from now?
I will be painting full time. My son will be nine and a half and we will be skating together, riding bikes, and playing soccer. I will be traveling quite a bit for art shows and lectures. My wife and I will have built a beautiful home together with a garden, a two car garage full of motorcycles, and a mini ramp. I will be the most content I will have ever been in my life.
Who would you regard as being influential to as an artist?
My dad is number one, he is an amazing illustrator and cartoonist. Not to mention he has designed and built some of the most dynamic and beautiful homes. He deserves far more praise than he receives or gives himself. Barry McGee came in around 1995 and showed me that free form self expression was ok, even if it included destroying some property. Shepard Fairey for his aesthetic and work ethic. Shepard continues to be an inspiration on multiple levels. Buff Monster has had the biggest influence and impact on my life not only as an artist but as a person. He showed me that anything is possible. He taught me about integrity. He taught me about the process, the craft, and the presentation. For that I am forever grateful.
What do you think people biggest misconception about you?
I have no concept of what people think about me really. I think the biggest misconception of my posters is that they are of Chris Martin's face. However flattering it's just not true.
Were you surprised to see your work in "Exit at the Gift Shop"?
Yes. At first I saw the trailer and after watching it a few times I realized that I was in it. It was only a single frame but I was there. I started asking around if people had seen me in it at Sundance but they all said that they didn't think so. Then the second extended trailer came out and it was re-confirmed that I was in it. I didn't actually see the Film until just a few weeks ago. I was really blown away when I saw the part of the film when Thierry is standing in a room of footage. Literally thousands of hours of footage of hundreds of different artists from around the world. Why me? I guess I just got lucky. As far as the film goes I was really happy that it came out because it told a story that I had thought about for some time.
What's your most memorable street art experience story?
Being caught by police helicopters in LA is an amazing experience, I felt like I was in Die Hard. I think it's laughable that we spend so much money on security and so little on education. I hope one day that someone in charge realizes that they have it all backwards, but for now i'll just keep running.
For more Seizer go to his website at http://www.seizerone.com
And a special thanks to Lord Jim for lending his great photography talents to the Dirt Floor
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great interview
SEIZER! one of a kind and one of the biggest inspiration to me yet.
looks like eminem
Wow, what a great interview.
amazing placement, definitely an icon. great interview and shots.
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What causes DR650 base gasket leak?
Posted September 21, 2007 - 09:17 PM
Thank you all in advance.
Posted September 21, 2007 - 10:28 PM
The only thing that I can think of is that when the piston rod comes in contact with the oil in the sump, it will make big oil splashes inside the engine and introduce air bubbles into the oil; but one will have to grossly overfill the crankcase in order for that to happen. In this scenario, I would expect less oil pressure in the oil lines due to the introduction of air into the system.
Any thoughts???
Posted September 21, 2007 - 10:34 PM
Unfortunately the pre 2003 have a weak basegasket. Not that they all go leaking, far from it. But it happened too often so Suzuki decided te design a better one.
Posted September 21, 2007 - 10:53 PM
Is the crankcase vented at all?
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Posted September 22, 2007 - 06:53 AM
New gasket technology is using a pressed stainless steel material coated with a heat activated sealer that is tear and break resistant. The sealer remains somewhat flexable and will allow a small amount of movement while still affording a seal. These new gaskets will also fail in certain applications but are much better than anything previously used.
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Posted September 23, 2007 - 12:22 PM
All this talk of oil pressure, air pressure, etc. is fine, but the bottom line is that if the gasket for the pre 2003 DR650s was any good we wouldn't have the leaks. The new gasket doesn't have the problem regardless of oil level.
But the question was what causes the leak.
My 2001 hasn't leaked yet.
Posted September 23, 2007 - 08:28 PM
I am wondering if it's just an isolated problem for a few of us, or if it's an epidemic for all pre-2003 owners. I have my eyes on my gaskets everyday after reading all the leaking threads on TT.
Sorry, I am hijacking my own thread.
Posted September 23, 2007 - 09:21 PM
fixed with black rtv hi temp.also vented crankcase to atmosphere.
when it gets rebuilt i will get the new gasket.......
see fix in archives MZRATT
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Posted October 01, 2007 - 11:59 AM
Some DR650 owners claim that too much engine oil can cause base gasket leak. I am wondering how the extra oil in the sump can result in an increase in oil pressure to cause the leak. Maybe some of you here who are more mechanically inclined can better explain the reason behind it.
Thank you all in advance.
The weak link in any properly designed engine concerning crankcase pressure is the rubber seals.... not the gaskets. Suzuki just goofed with the cylinder base design on this bike. Either the span is too large between securing bolts or the cylinder casting expands and contracts more than engineers anticipated. That is why they had to come up with a steel base gasket. I have a question though.... I hear the new base gasket is laminated steel. Hopefully they were able to keep the thickness the same as the paper gasket or there goes some of our limited compression ratio. I knew there was a good excuse to install the high comp piston when I get around to fixing the leak.
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FENTON, MI – What started out as a small plant in a little pot grew under Aaron Toth's care into a 15-pound cabbage that won $1,000 for the Fenton fourth-grader.
Aaron, 10, who attends Tomek-Eastern Elementary in Fenton, grew the prize-winning cabbage last summer as part of a classroom project with the National Bonnie Plants Cabbage Program.
He was recently randomly selected by Michigan Department of Agriculture Director Jamie Clover Adams to receive a $1,000 savings bond from Bonnie Plants.
"It just grew," exclaimed Aaron about his cabbage, which measured 39 inches around the head. "I knew I was going to water it every day and that it wouldn't just die."
Aaron said he didn't expect it would get so big, because the plant started off so small. As it grew, the cabbage was transplanted into the family garden to give it more space to grow.
Aaron and his family learned of the $1,000 savings bond this week.
Each year, Bonnie Plants gives away free "oversized" cabbage plants to third-grade classrooms that participate in its program. The program awards a $1,000 scholarship to one student who participates in each state.
"The Bonnie Plants Cabbage Program is a wonderful way to engage children's interest in agriculture, while teaching them not only the basics of gardening, but the importance of our food systems and growing our own," said Stan Cope, president of Bonnie Plants, in a news release. "This unique, innovative program exposes children to agriculture and demonstrates, through hands-on experience, where food comes from. The program also affords our youth with some valuable life lessons in nurture, nature, responsibility, self-confidence and accomplishment."
Aaron said he doesn't know yet if he'll grow cabbage again in the family garden, but said he might, because his first try at growing cabbage turned out so well.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Rudy Giuliani stood in front of a black marble memorial where the names of all the locals who died in war are engraved, going back to World War I.
"We are reminded every time we come here that we are the home of the free only because we are the home of the brave," he told about 300 people who came to hear him on this chilly and overcast day.
Sitting in the front row, to his left, were three parents who lost children in the Iraq war, all of them struggling for composure as Giuliani offered heartfelt thanks.
"We are safe in America because of their sacrifice," he told the parents. "Please come up here and tell us their names. We need to know."
He stopped his speech, stepped away from the podium, and beckoned for each of them to walk up to the microphone. The mother of a Navy corpsman killed in Fallujah was first.
"My son was Julian Augustus Wood," she said. "A sniper killed my child. And I never got a chance to tell my son how proud I was of him."
Giuliani may be posturing on some issues, as all the candidates do. But he is without doubt sincerely fired up for the fight against Islamic terrorism.
This, he says, is the real reason he's running for president.
It's clear enough why that would be -- it was his city that suffered the most severe losses in the attacks of 9/11, and he took it personally. But having dealt with the aftermath of a terrorist attack does not make someone an expert on handling foreign affairs any more than a mugging makes the victim an expert on how to reduce crime.
Giuliani did not serve in the military, thanks to deferments during the Vietnam War and a high draft number. He has never held any diplomatic post. And if his years as mayor are any guide, his instinct when faced with opposition is to fight.
For advice on foreign policy, he relies on Norman Podhoretz, one of the neocons who guided us into the mess we now face in Iraq.
The former mayor says now that the United States must launch a military strike against Iran if diplomatic efforts don't stop Tehran from building a nuclear bomb.
"That is not said as a threat," he once said. "That should be said as a promise."
He scoffs at Democrats for considering restrictions on what he calls the "intensive questioning" techniques employed against captive terror suspects, and he says we need a much bigger military, all around.
But the key, he says, it to maintain the pressure in the Middle East so the bad guys can't come get us here.
"President Bush deserves a great deal of credit for putting us on the offensive," Giuliani said. "I honestly believe that is what's kept us safe."
It would nice if the world were that simple, if we could somehow punch our way out of the dilemma we face.
But fighting carries its own cost. Bombing Iran's nuclear program would mean targeting dozens of separate sites, some near population centers, and some buried underground. Richard Clarke, the former anti-terrorism czar, notes that Iran would likely respond by sponsoring terror attacks against us, and making more trouble in Iraq. We would have to respond to that. And so on.
"So how would bombing Iran serve American interests?" Clarke asks.
Giuliani, as mayor, surrounded himself with loyalists and treated those who criticized him as enemies. He picked fights with the unions, with his police commissioner and with nearly all of the city's African-American leadership. So if he acted the same way as president, who would stand up and tell him when he's wrong?
On the campaign trail, at least, the tough talk goes over well. At the war memorial, several people said the guy they trust to lead the fight is Giuliani, the guy who Winston Churchill's granddaughter last year dubbed "Churchill in a baseball cap."
"To me, Giuliani is a hero," said Dan McCarthy, the director of veterans and military affairs for the city of Jacksonville.
Faye Rustin, another supporter, put it this way: "We need somebody who is a fighter," she said. "We need somebody who can push the button if it needs to be pushed."
Giuliani needs a win here in Florida to revive his sinking campaign. After John McCain's win Saturday in South Carolina and Mitt Romney's in Nevada, those two are looking a lot more like front-runners than Giuliani, who barely competed in the early rounds, gambling that a good showing in Florida will propel him to a series of victories in metropolitan states like New York, New Jersey and California on Super Tuesday Feb. 5.
In new campaign commercials airing here, Giuliani presents himself as a "true fiscal conservative" with a record of cutting taxes. He's been mixing that theme into his campaign speeches more often as the economy has moved to the top of voters' concerns. But he never fails to talk about the fight against terrorism, and when he beats the war drums, he is not playing politics.
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BoE's King says far too soon to say easing program is finished
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LONDON, Feb 10 (Reuters) – The Bank of England may have to pump more money into Britain's fragile economy, Governor Mervyn King said on Wednesday after the central bank forecast inflation would stand well below target in two years.
Bernanke lays out vision for Fed monetary exit
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WASHINGTON, Feb 10 (Reuters) – Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Wednesday detailed how the U.S. central bank will begin to wean the economy off its extraordinary stimulus, even as he stressed it was not yet time to do so.
EXCLUSIVE – China tells banks to ensure loans are used properly
SHANGHAI, Feb 1 (Reuters) – China's banking regulator has ordered lenders to conduct checks on whether any of their loans have illegally gone into the stock or property markets, a banking source told Reuters on Monday, the latest step in a clampdown on excessive lending and rising asset prices.
China tightening worries spook investors
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SHANGHAI, Jan 26 (Reuters) – Fears of more Chinese policy tightening spooked global markets on Tuesday after Beijing ordered some banks to comply immediately with a planned increase in reserves and a report suggested earlier attempts at curbing lending had failed.
BREAKINGVIEWS-China's tightening still embryonic
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Vietnam cuts foreign exchange compulsory reserves
HANOI, Jan 18 (Reuters) – Vietnam's central bank said on Monday it would cut the compulsory reserves banks must keep on non-term foreign currency deposits and on those with terms of up to 12 months to 4 percent from 7 percent.
U.S. Fed proposes creation of new exit tool
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WASHINGTON, Dec 28 (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Reserve on Monday proposed the creation of a new mechanism it could use to withdraw money from the banking system when the time comes to tighten monetary policy.
China hints at resumption of yuan appreciation
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BEIJING, Nov 11 (Reuters) – China sent its clearest signal yet that it was ready to allow yuan appreciation after an 18-month hiatus, saying on Wednesday it would consider major currencies, not just the dollar, in guiding the exchange rate.
Bernanke sees tighter policies as economy heals
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In the experience of human illness, some maladies present themselves with a screaming announcement; others creep quietly in us, showing themselves after years of quiet destruction.
Such illnesses as cancer, heart disease, kidney problems and glaucoma seem to appear in the twilight of our lives; other chronic illnesses develop on the basis of long existing subtle pathology such as hypertension (high blood pressure) and noise pollution (hearing trauma). We meet them with surprise when they come into our lives. Today's column is another warning about high blood pressure and a renewed notice about noise pollution (NP).
Our modern world is filled with sounds; even those of us living in rural areas are exposed to noise and resultant noise pollution. The World Health Organization (WHO) has "sounded the
drum" about the dangers of noise pollution: "Excessive noise (noise pollution) seriously harms human health and interferes with people's daily activities at school, at work, at home, and during leisure time."
The effects of NP, usually defined as prolonged exposure to sounds of 80 decibels or greater, is associated with a number of health conditions, namely, hearing loss, tinnitus (ringing in the ears), sleep disturbances, cardiovascular problems, pain and fatigue, poor work and school performance, speech problems, and hormonal responses and their consequences on human metabolism and immune system changes.
Do you recognize noise pollution in your life? As stated above, NP is those sounds of a volume of 80 decibels or greater. The average speaking voice is 20-60 decibels; a radio or television emits sounds of 80 decibels, a noisy office or home appliance often has 90+ decibels, a passing truck , car horn, or your noisy lawn mower can easily provide 100 decibels of noise, and a "rock band" has been associated with 120 decibels! An unusual experience for most of us would be exposure to an aircraft at take-off and its 180 decibels of noisethat hurts!
Prophylactic hearing protection can prevent up to one-third of all hearing loss!
What can we do to preserve our hearing?
We need to know which noises can cause damage (NP) and where they are in our environment. If you have to raise your voice to shout over the noise to be heard by someone within an arm's length away, the noise level is in the dangerous range. Educate yourself about the sources of NP.
Since loud music and related sounds do cause hearing harm, adjust the levels of sound in your areas or try to avoid them. Most importantly, wear hearing protection when exposed to sources of NP, especially on your job or when mowing the lawn or working in your home shop. The most protective devices should be Hearing protective devices (HPD) labeled with a Noise Reduction Rating (NRR). Most of these devices are in the form of earmuffs to be worn during these activities such as mowing the lawn. During musical events, one might be able to use less visible devices.
It is generally felt that hearing is our most valuable sense. Both blind persons and deaf individuals usually report that they would rather be sightless than deaf. Although most of us gradually lose a portion of our hearing, usually in the high frequency ranges, as we age, modern society and our medical care system have permitted our population to generally preserve its hearing abilities.
Let us hope that preventive measures such as described will allow us to retain as much hearing ability as we can in our modern world.


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Six Michigan Center players scored touchdowns as the Cardinals evened their record at 2-2 in the Cascades Conference with a 43-7 victory over Hanover-Horton.
Cody Marr and Korey Stewart each ran for scores during the first quarter, and Ken Welch caught a 27-yard pass from Derek Dowding to make the score 22-0 at halftime.
Stewart led Michigan Center (2-3) with 67 yards on 13 carries.
During the second half, Dowding and Clarance Cornett each ran for a touchdown, and Nic Stevens returned an interception 13 yards for a score.
Dowding completed half of his 10 pass attempts for 126 yards, including two for 95 yards to Welch.
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"I feel for the victims," said town resident Palma Rodriguez, who came to tonight's vigil with her four children ranging in age from 6 to 16. "Christmas is this week and (the parent's) children are gone. That's something you just can't comprehend."
The Board of Commissioners organized tonight's vigil to
honor the 26 victims who were killed when the accused gunman, Adam Lanza, 20,
entered Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. and shot 20 children and six staff members before taking his own life.Before he went to the school, Lanza gunned down his mother, 52-year-old Nancy Lanza, at the Newtown home were they lived.
Initially, police thought the gunman may have been Adam's older brother Ryan Lanza, of Hoboken. Adam Lanza was apparently carrying identification belonging to his older brother.
Tonight's vigil was a chance for members of the community to mourn those who were gunned down Friday.
"This tragedy has no boundaries," West New York Mayor Felix Roque said to the crowd. "We are saddened by the loss of life, especially the children."
Friday's tragedy was especially frightening for Angelica Rodriguez, 9, who went back to school this morning, scared about what could happen.
"I was very scared to go to school today," Angelica said. "I was scared the whole day."
While some may have been fearful, Police Director Michael E. Indri told the crowd that there was no need to be alarmed.
"As police director, you have my promise that your police department will do everything in it's power to keep this from happening here in West New York," Indri said.
Indri, a father of three daughters, added later, "Our schools are a step ahead, but you can never be vigilant enough. We're working hard to insure that the plan in place is adhered to. "
While there is nothing that can bring back those who died on Friday, Roque offered advice for parents in the crowd.
"Each moment we can spend with our children is a gift," Roque said. "We have to appreciate that gift."


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Indiana Glass made a very large volume of the glassware for Tiara. Tiara glass was also made by other glassworks including Fenton Art Glass and L.E.Smith, both before and after the closure of the Indiana Glass hand shop (in 1989).
Tiara Exclusives marketed a wide variety of handmade and machine-made glassware, mostly of a high standard. This included some reproductions or re-issues of patterns originally made by Indiana Glass and other companies during the depression years. These re-issues used the same moulds for patterns such as Avocado, Sandwich, and Madrid (originally a Federal Glass pattern).
Apart from paper labels, Tiara Exclusives did not mark their glass except for a very few pieces. One exception to this rule was that some Indiana glass made for Tiara was marked with the name Tiara in the mold.
Tiara Exclusives operated for 28 years. Their glass is collected with enthusiasm by many people, but criticised by others. No doubt our grand-children will value it just as we respect Depression Glass today, which after all was given away free in its day!
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Everyone is hurting in this economy, but some local leaders think they have a great idea to drum up revenue: Tax students who attend colleges and universities located within their municipalities.
In fact, it's an awful idea that burdens students and lets town officials delay tough spending cuts. It also frays the relationship between universities and towns, which should be collaborating on solutions instead of pointing fingers.
The rationale is that students benefit from local services, like fire and police, without paying a dime. Colleges and universities are tax-exempt, and some say that free ride has gone on too long.
Montclair Mayor Jerry Fried is one of them. He introduced a resolution at the League of Municipalities convention last month asking the state to establish municipal service fees — $100 a year for full-time students, $50 for part-timers — giving towns the authority to collect if they so choose. Fees would be adjusted according to the municipal tax rate, and could potentially go higher.
The resolution estimated the average municipality loses about 13 percent of the taxes it could collect "if all property within its borders were taxed." Nearly 100 mayors at the convention supported the proposal, and on Dec. 21, South Orange's village council approved its own nonbinding resolution to institute a student fee.
But taxing all property within a town's borders would mean hitting up hospitals, churches and many other charitable and nonprofit institutions. Why should colleges be singled out?
The tax-the-students argument paints a picture of a freeloading institution that gets something for nothing. But that ignores the "payment in lieu of taxes" that many institutions contribute, and which is negotiated annually. Seton Hall University this year paid the village of South Orange $364,000, including full taxes on property it owns off-campus. That might not sound like much, but there are other voluntary contributions: For example, Seton Hall contributed $500,000 toward a sports field for the South Orange-Maplewood community.
And it would be a mistake to underestimate the other benefits that accrue to a town with a college or university within its boundaries. These institutions lend prestige and enhance property values. Faculty and students patronize local delis, restaurants and other services that count on their foot traffic. Cultural programs on campus draw visitors who spend locally, too. Fried says there are few other options. "It's very difficult to constrain property taxes," he said. "Fifty-nine percent of our property taxes go to pay for our public schools."
There's no question that property taxes in the state are out of control. So is government spending at all levels.
Gov.-elect Chris Christie has already announced that he is seeking to cut state spending by 25 percent, and higher education is vulnerable, like every other state program. If he's true to his word, new taxes are the last thing on his mind.
New Jersey's towns are not alone in eyeing nonprofit groups for more revenue. In Pittsburgh, the mayor was motivated by rising pension costs to push hard for a 1 percent levy on the city's 11 colleges and universities. The plan was abandoned after those institutions agreed to increase their voluntary contributions to the city.
That's a good example to follow: Leaders of the higher education community have to step up and be a part of a sensible solution. But a new fee on cash-strapped students is not it.


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All analog TVs will stop working after Feb. 18, 2009, the date the FCC requires broadcasters to stop transmitting analog signals. That's going to become a royal pain for the estimated 60 million people who currently use antennas or analog TV sets. Their only option is to buy a new digital TV, or an analog-digital converter that will work on your old set. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration has agreed to provide two $40 coupons for converters to homes that currently don't have cable or satellite TV.
In the past several years, analog TVs, those half-ton wood-encased tubes that rarely come with remotes, have been taken over by flat-panel and high-definition screens. The newer technology provides a considerably sharper and more lifelike picture than the older analog TVs. It makes Maria Bartiromo's close-ups that much better.
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Hamlin's childhood should have prepared him. When Hamlin was 5, his father tricked him into putting barbecue sauce in his Sprite.
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Smith and his buddies went camping in the Smokey Mountains for spring break their senior year. They had got in some trouble and a park ranger forced the 18-year-olds to pour out some alcohol they had.
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Existing single family home sales account for 60 percent (down from 61% in Sept'12) of total sales while 32 percent (down from 36% in Sept'12) were new home sales and 8 percent (up from 3% in Sept'12) were condo buyers.
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In the job for nearly eight months, Perrysburg Administrator Bridgette Kabat said the across-the-board dedication of city employees is what has impressed her the most so far.
Speaking to about 50 people at Way Public Library tonight, Ms. Kabat said workers employed by the city are passionate about their jobs and strive to go above and beyond the call of the duty in responding to complaints and concerns from residents.
"It seems like it is all hands on deck when someone calls," she said. "They try to be attentive as possible."
She was the guest speaker at the monthly program sponsored by the library and the Perrysburg League of Women Voters.
Prior to joining the city, Ms. Kabat was chief of staff for the Lucas County Commissioners and assistant county administrator, a position that put her at the helm of operations for 15 departments and 750 employees. A Maumee native and Perrysburg resident, she worked in the county for 18 years.
Ms. Kabat said the citizen input in council, committee, and other public meetings is more prevalent in the city, compared to meetings at the county level.
"It is interesting to see people coming to the meetings who stand up and voice some concerns," she said.
During the hour-long presentation, Ms. Kabat updated the audience on city projects ranging from storm and sanitary sewer improvements and street repavement to lighting at parks and new development coming to the city.
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Matt Buser turned a fantasy into reality.
He got a full-time job turning reality into fantasy.
The former Warren resident, whose father and stepmother live in Warren County, is a fantasy sports writer for Yahoo!Sports.
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Former Warren resident Matt Buser works from his home in California as a fantasy sports writer for Yahoo!Sports online.
Yahoo!Sports is currently hosting "over four million" fantasy football players online.
Matt Buser of Yahoo!Sports, meet The Fantasy Oracle, Rob Stewart.
"Last time I was home, my grandmother saved the (Times Observer) sports section," said Buser.
"'Look, they do what you do,'" Doris Buser, who now lives in Titusville, told her grandson.
"Everywhere you go people play fantasy sports," said Buser.
"Believe me, I consider myself one of the luckiest people I know," he said Tuesday from his home in San Carlos, Calif. "When I go to set my (fantasy football weekly) lineup, my face is staring at me (on the Yahoo!Sports fantasy football homepage). I had been playing on Yahoo! for years, and years before writing was even a reality."
Buser, 33, is a graduate of Butler High School, and lived with his father, Tom, in Warren in the mid-1990's after high school.
"I worked at Perkins and went to the Y a lot," said Buser. "I wasn't happy with the weather up there."
Buser passed on an entry level job in his field in Erie and worked in the service industry for close to 10 years, including where he met his girlfriend in south Florida.
She now works for Google, by the way.
Buser graduated from Penn State Behrend in Erie with a journalism degree, and "was making real good money bartending at Damon's up there," he said.
"As much as I loved sports, my fascination has always been about numbers. I've always been a stats freak," he said. "When fantasy sports first came about, I was hooked. I figured that's what I wanted to do, but, for a long time, I didn't consider the fact I could make a living from fantasy sports."
His girlfriend was looking at the want ads on the Internet site Craig's List one day; there was an ad for a customer care representative at Yahoo!Sports.
That's when he met a giant in the business, Brandon Funston, who has written about fantasy sports for more than a decade at ESPN.com and now Yahoo!Sports.
Yahoo!Sports had Funston, the head of editorial for fantasy sports, one full-time writer and Buser became a part-time fantasy sports writer, his first-ever paid writing job. Now, Yahoo!Sports is up to two full-time editors and six full-time fantasy sports writers.
"I work from home," said Buser, though he heads in to headquarters occasionally in Sunny Valley, Calif.
Easier to get cell-phone reception there than in Tidioute, where his father and stepmother live along the river and watch Bald Eagles in the scenic countryside. Tom works in Warren at Loranger International and lived in Warren for 14 years before moving with his wife to Tidioute last year.
"I can't stay there for very long," said Matt.
They don't have high-speed Internet,
"It's kind of ironic; you can't get any (cell-phone) reception down there," said Matt, who's open to taking on The Fantasy Oracle as an owner in next year's WTO Laid Back League. Buser said he plays in four fantasy football leagues, six fantasy basketball leagues - his bread-and butter - and six fantasy baseball leagues.
"I was just up in the area not too long ago," he said. "I went camping at the reservoir with a couple buddies from Butler."
Matt gets his love of sports from his father.
"He put a lot of determination into getting that position at Yahoo!," said Tom. "He worked as a waiter for four or five years after he graduated from college. He was always concerned that I was disappointed in him because he didn't use his degree. The only way he could do it was to leave himself open to job interviews, he worked hard to get where he is. I'm so proud of him. I could talk for hours about this kid. He would be a terrific speaker to go to high schools and talk to kids about the the harder you work, the luckier you get. If you really, really want to do this thing you don't give up after they tell you we had 320 applicants."
But Tom doesn't play fantasy sports.
"No, Im just not a computer person, which is odd because both of the boys make their living at it," said Tom.
Matt's older brother Dave lives in Maine. Dave Buser is renowned for computer security systems and has had a couple of books published.
"Now if you were to Google Dave or Matt, and Dave has been tremendously successful, he's in there 30 times, you Google Matt, he's in there like thousands of times," said Tom. "'You don't even do anything real,'" Tom said Dave has said when razzing Matt.
"When (Matt) was about 12, I bought him a copy of the Guinness Book of World Records, which he just devoured," said Tom. "One evening, we're sitting at the table, and he says, 'Dad, catch this. The catapults on the Carrier Enterprise are big enough to shoot a Cadillac Coupe de Ville 500 feet straight up in the air.' His mother looked at me and said, 'Oh. my God, he's just like you, a fountain of useless information.' To this day, it is one of the happiest moments of my life."
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M. S. KLINE, cashier of the Elk County Bank, Ridgway, is a
native of Clarion county, Penn., born in 1853. He is a son of Aaron and
Elizabeth (Wiant) Kline. Aaron Kline is a native of Northampton county,
Penn., but is now a resident of Clarion county, and was county
commissioner there several years ago. Mrs. Elizabeth (Wiant) Kline's
parents were natives of Bucks county, Penn. This lady died January 4,
1890, aged fifty-five years. M. S. Kline, the subject of these lines, was
reared and educated in his native county, and choosing the profession of
law after leaving school, in 1874, went into the office of Hall &
McCauley, as clerk and student. In 1878 he was admitted to the bar, and
same year he began the practice of his profession at Ridgway. Soon
thereafter he was appointed cashier in the store of W. H. Hyde & Co., with
whom he remained until 1880, when he was appointed book-keeper and clerk
in the Elk County Bank, being promoted in 1881 to cashier, a position he
has since held. He also represents several life, fire and accident
insurance companies, operating largely through the northern part of the
State. He is a stockholder in the Ridgway Light & Heat Company, and is its
treasurer. He takes an active interest in local affairs, aiding with his
influence and means every project to materially advance the prosperity of
the community. He has served as deputy sheriff of the county, and for
fourteen years has been a notary public, and is now holding that office.
Mr. Kline is not a politician, in the sense of being an office seeker,
although he does all in his power to further the interests of the
Democratic party, and in 1888 he was a delegate to the State convention.
Mr. Kline was married September 2, 1880, to Carrie V., daughter of D. S.
Luther, a pioneer of Ridgway, and they have had four children, two of
whom, Frederick Luther (aged seven years) and Hugh Earl (aged four years)
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