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Location: Carrier Dome
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Who's hot for Syracuse
Kris Joseph scored 17 points in Syracuse's win over Bucknell on Tuesday. In SU's last two games against Bucknell and North Carolina State, Joseph is 12-for-24 from the field and 5-of-9 from 3-point range. For the season, he's making 41.2 percent of his 3-point attempts.
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Observations from an assistant coach familiar with the Tulane Green Wave:
- "Syracuse has to use its size and hit the offensive glass. Syracuse's size advantage isn't just the post players. It's the small forwards and big guards who can make the difference."
- "Tulane uses the dribble-drive that John Calipari used to use at Memphis. They like to get into the lane. All four of their perimeter guys are quick. They're going to try to drive and kick."
- "Defensive transition will be a key for Syracuse. Tulane likes to run. Syracuse needs to keep them in front and make them play against the zone."
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Ricky Tarrant is a 6-foot-1 freshman guard who averages 12.3 points and 3.2 assists.
Assistant's take: "Ricky Tarrant's only a freshman, but he's a key for Tulane. You can't let him get going. He can get hot in a hurry. He lit up Georgia Tech earlier this year. He made six threes against them."
Stray fact
After the 1975-76 season, Roy Danforth left Syracuse to become the athletic director and head coach at Tulane. Danforth had coached at Syracuse for eight seasons. He led Syracuse to the 1975 Final Four and his teams went 148-71.
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» Syracuse wraps up its non-conference schedule tonight against Tulane
» Tulane's Kendall Timmons: 'We can make a big statement here'
» Mike's Mailbox: Was Syracuse's bench scoring at North Carolina State a record?


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MOBILE, Alabama -- "Staring out the rear window of the family Mercury as my father drove west on the old Mobile Causeway, I saw, for the first time in my young life, water all the way to the horizon. I never again was quite the same person," said Jimmy Johnson, creator of the "Arlo & Janis" comic strip. That was in 1957.
The cartoonist returns to Mobile on April 3, when Johnson will be at the West Regional Branch of the Mobile Public Library, 5555 Grelot Road, to discuss his work and his new book, "Beaucoup Arlo & Janis."
The library event is set for 6:30 p.m. and is free and open to the public. Books will be available for sale.
A 25-year retrospective of Johnson's comic strip, the hardcover "Beaucoup Arlo & Janis" opens with a short memoir by Johnson of growing up in the Alabama textile town of Lanett. The book is the first major collection of Johnson's work to be published since "Arlo & Janis" was launched in 1985.
The comic strip appears in almost 500 newspapers, including the Press-Register.
Regular readers of the strip will recall the fascination of the character Arlo with boats and the sea. This fascination reflects his own, said Johnson, which he directly attributes to his initial glimpse of Mobile Bay.
"I've been back to Mobile many times in my life, but my first impression has never faded," Johnson said. "It has always represented the wider world to me, the gateway to a bigger life."
For more information about the library event, call 251-208-7097.

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For the first 19 years of my life I lived in NY and was exposed to a lot of Catholics and Jews. I was raised Catholic and my second husband was Jewish. I really don't remember any of the crackpot fanaticism I sometimes see online. Here in New Orleans, there are a lot of Catholics also. It's no big deal, except maybe, "My church is bigger than yours." IOW, no matter what the religion, there are always going to be crackpots who take from its teachings what they need to feel justified in their hate. Online, they get to spew that without recourse.


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By the skin of his teeth (surviving a mate in two!), Maxim Rodshtein held his black game against Stewart Haslinger to a draw in the final round of the Univé Open. This way the grandmaster from Israel maintained his half point lead to clinch the € 3000 first prize in Hoogeveen, the Netherlands. In the Crown Group both games of the last round ended in draws.
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With the tournament victory already in the pocket, Wesley So's main goal must have been to leave Hoogeveen unbeaten. The Pinoy GM drew his game with Adams, a Nimzo-Indian, rather quickly, repeating moves as soon as it was clear that the Englishman had equalized.
Loek van Wely couldn't manage to win a game in Hoogeveen this year. In a Queen's Gambit Declined, Exchange Variation Robin van Kampen was fine out of the opening and confidently exchanged queens. Putting all the pawns on white squares was a good strategy and if anyone was better it was Black. Van Wely tried one more pawn break but on move 42 the players repeated moves.
In the open group Maxim Rodshtein of Israel was defending a half point lead over Viktor Moskalenko. The latter drew quickly with FM Etienne Goudriaan, who scored his third IM-norm and will be awarded the title at the next FIDE Congress.
On board one, Rodshtein got under huge pressure in a line that Haslinger might have copied from one of Michael Adams' games - at 20 the English GM beat Alexei Suetin with it in Hastings! Around the time control, Rodshtein made a big mistake and even allowed a mate in two, but Haslinger didn't see and and then, instead of going for a queen ending, the English GM chose a rook ending with two extra pawns, but it wasn't winning.
Erwin l'Ami joined Moskalenko in second place with a good last-round victory against his compatriot Sipke Ernst, whose Trompowsky completely backfired.
Maxim Rodshtein receives the first prize form chief arbiter Koos Stolk
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Typical of GM So to go for short draws in final round. He is the exact opposite of super GM Carlsen who plays for the win, at all costs at all times.
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Yelp has only 96% of the Monthly Unique Visitors of Local Corp, but the 53-fold market-cap (Market-Cap of Local Corp = 38 million, Market-Cap of Yelp = 2,010 million)
Local Corp development of Unique Visitors:
11/2012: 18,745,842 Monthly Unique Visitors
12/2012: 22,738,206 Monthly Unique Visitors
01/2013: 26,410,927 Monthly Unique Visitors
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An increase of 22.63% year-over-year.
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(NNCNOW.com) -- There have been 14 fatalities among snowmobiles throughout the state of Wisconsin this winter - a total the snowmobile safety administration says is 14 too many.
"We'd like to work together, concentrate on being as safe as possible while enjoying what's left of our snowmobile season," Conservation Warden and Snowmobile Safety Administrator Gary Eddy says. "Speed, alcohol and night-time operation are the three most common factors with our fatal accidents."
Eddy says there were 10 snowmobile fatalities for all of the 2011-12 season, which was nearly non-existent in a large part of the state area due to a lack of snow.
Some parts of Wisconsin are poised to get more snow as storms move into the Midwest for the weekend and the coming week.
The latest two deaths occurred sometime last night or early this morning in Lake Superior.
Ashland-based Warden Supervisor Dave Oginski said the two snowmobilers failed to arrive at Madeline Island after leaving Bayfield.
The bodies were recovered in the South Channel of Lake Superior.
Added to the risk factors for snowmobilers is the seasonal temperature fluctuation, which brings changing ice conditions.
"Ice conditions will begin to deteriorate rapidly," Eddy says. "Snowmobilers will need to exercise a high degree of caution if operating on late-season ice. The best choice is to stay off the ice altogether."
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MUSKEGON HEIGHTS, MI – At least those in Muskegon Heights think they've saved the best of Prom 2014 for last.
And who could argue considering the glitz and pageantry on display at the annual pre-prom "show-off" of the Muskegon Heights Public Academy High School – a Muskegon Heights tradition for years. Prom-goers are ushered on to the Tiger football field in vehicles as couples are announced to the approving crowd – a community celebration not found at any other local high school.
The Tiger tradition continues Saturday, May 24 as the last of the Muskegon-area high schools celebrate prom. After Saturday night and this Memorial Day weekend, it's on to high school graduation season with its traditional ceremonies and endless graduation parties.
When MLive Muskegon Chronicle is unable to capture the action or misses a precious prom "moment," we ask readers to send us plenty of their own photos to share with the community.
As we conclude with prom season, here is a list of the MLive Muskegon Chronicle covered events:
• North Muskegon High School Prom, April 19 at the Hilt Building
• Muskegon High School Prom, April 25 at the Watermark 920
• Western Michigan Christian High School Prom, April 25 at the Century Club Ballroom
• Holton High School Prom, April 26 at the Sherman Bowling Center's Platinum Room
• Mona Shores High School Prom, May 3 at the Trillium Center in Ferrysburg
• Montague High School Prom, May 10 at the Hilt Building
• Reeths-Puffer High School Prom, May 10 at the Fricano Event Center
• Muskegon Catholic Central High School Prom, May 17 on board the LST 393
• Muskegon Heights Public School Academy Prom, May 24 at the pre-prom "show-off" at the high school
Here was the schedule of other Muskegon-area high school proms and a link to reader-generated photos from some of those events:
• Ravenna High School Prom, April 26 at the Fruitport Golf Club Banquet Center
• Grand Haven High School Prom, May 3 in the Grand Haven Community Center
• Whitehall High School Prom, May 3 at Above and Beyond Banquet Center in Norton Shores
• Fruitport High School Prom, May 10 at the Fruitport Golf Club Banquet Center
• Orchard View High School Prom, May 10 at Muskegon Community College
• Spring Lake High School Prom, May 10 Grand Haven Country Club
• Oakridge High School Prom, May 17 at the Hilt Building
Hey, this is a last call to help us get the sights of proms in the Muskegon area out in front of the community. Participants, parents and school staff can email prom photos to email@example.com or tweet them to us @MuskegonChron using the #prom14MKG. You can text your prom photos to 231-215-8827.
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Schroeppel, NY -- Firefighters are on the scene of a fire this afternoon in the town of Schroeppel, the Oswego 911 Center reports.
The fire was reported about 1:45 p.m. at 500 state Route 264, dispatchers said. The structure is a metal barn about 25 feet by 30 feet, dispatchers said.
No animals, people or other structures were threatened by the blaze, dispatchers said.
At least nine fire departments were on the scene and water tankers are being called to the scene. Onondaga County fire departments are being asked to cover for Oswego County fire departments already called to the fire scene.
Update 3:40 p.m. The fire is reportedly close to being out, the 911 Center said. The Oswego County Cause and Origin Team has been called to the scene.
Update: All the crews had left the scene by about 4:30 p.m., said Schroeppel Fire Department Deputy Chief Dan Dunn. A small airplane, a motor vehicle and some tools in the metal storage barn were destroyed, but nobody was injured, he said.


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We are undertaking a wide-field photometric study of the stars in the outer halo of M31 and are presenting preliminary results using reductions from our first field, located ~1.5\circ from the M31 center, along the minor axis (deprojected radius of 20 kpc). Based on the VI color-magnitude diagram, the halo stars in this field have a mean metallicity ([Fe/H]~-1 to -0.5) similar to that found for halo stars at smaller galactocentric r, although more metal-poor stars are clearly present. The stellar density of the M31 halo continues to fall steeply, as seen by Pritchet and van den Bergh (1994) for fields interior to ours. We will also present a distance to M31 based on the magnitude of the brightest red giants in this field.
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Paul M. Harari, MD Print Friendly PageChair, Department of Human Oncology
Faculty, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Dr. Harari's medical interests include radiation oncology, head and neck oncology, and oncology training and education.
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University of Arizona Medical Center
University of California-Davis Medical Center, Sacramento
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University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 1984
UW Health Patient Experience Physician Champion Award 2015
Newsweek's Top Cancer Doctors 2015
Madison Magazine Top Docs 2012
|Medical interpreters are available to help patients communicate with hospital and clinic staff. For more information, please contact interpreter services at (608) 262-9000.
Our doctors provide a wide range of services. The following list represents some, but not all, of the procedures offered by this physician.
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Dr. Harari's clinical and laboratory research focuses on treatment advances for head and neck cancer patients through precision radiation techniques and the use of molecular targeted growth inhibitors combined with radiation.
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Iyer G Price J Bourgeois S Armstrong E Huang S Harari PM .
Insulin growth factor 1 like receptor (IGF-1R). BMC Cancer. 2016 Oct 6;16(1):773
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Barasch S Mohindra P Hennrick K Hartig GK Harari PM Yang DT .
Assessing p16 Status of Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma by Combined Assessment of the Number of Cells Stained and the Confluence of p16 Staining: A Validation by Clinical Outcomes. Am J Surg Pathol. 2016 Sep;40(9):1261-9
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Bonner JA Giralt J Harari PM Baselga J Spencer S Bell D Raben D Liu J Schulten J Ang KK Rosenthal DI .
Association of human papillomavirus and p16 status with mucositis and dysphagia for head and neck cancer patients treated with radiotherapy with or without cetuximab: Assessment from a phase 3 registration trial. Eur J Cancer. 2016 Sep;64:1-11
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Bonner J Giralt J Harari P Spencer S Schulten J Hossain A Chang SC Chin S Baselga J .
Cetuximab and Radiotherapy in Laryngeal Preservation for Cancers of the Larynx and Hypopharynx: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2016 Sep 1;142(9):842-9
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Morris ZS Saha S Magnuson WJ Morris BA Borkenhagen JF Ching A Hirose G McMurry V Francis DM Harari PM Chappell R Tsuji S Ritter MA .
Increased tumor response to neoadjuvant therapy among rectal cancer patients taking angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors or angiotensin receptor blockers. Cancer. 2016 Aug 15;122(16):2487-95
[PubMed ID: 27203227]
Bar-Ad V Zhang QE Harari PM Axelrod R Rosenthal DI Trotti A Jones CU Garden AS Song G Foote RL Raben D Shenouda G Spencer SA Harris J Le QT .
Correlation Between the Severity of Cetuximab-Induced Skin Rash and Clinical Outcome for Head and Neck Cancer Patients: The RTOG Experience. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2016 Aug 1;95(5):1346-54
[PubMed ID: 27212198]
Divi V Harris J Harari PM Cooper JS McHugh J Bell D Sturgis EM Cmelak AJ Suntharalingam M Raben D Kim H Spencer SA Laramore GE Trotti A Foote RL Schultz C Thorstad WL Zhang QE Le QT Holsinger FC .
Establishing quality indicators for neck dissection: Correlating the number of lymph nodes with oncologic outcomes (NRG Oncology RTOG 9501 and RTOG 0234). Cancer. 2016 Jul 15;
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Morris ZS Guy EI Francis DM Gressett MM Werner LR Carmichael LL Yang RK Armstrong EA Huang S Navid F Gillies SD Korman A Hank JA Rakhmilevich AL Harari PM Sondel PM .
In Situ Tumor Vaccination by Combining Local Radiation and Tumor-Specific Antibody or Immunocytokine Treatments. Cancer Res. 2016 Jul 1;76(13):3929-41
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Rosenthal DI Harari PM Giralt J Bell D Raben D Liu J Schulten J Ang KK Bonner JA .
Association of Human Papillomavirus and p16 Status With Outcomes in the IMCL-9815 Phase III Registration Trial for Patients With Locoregionally Advanced Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Head and Neck Treated With Radiotherapy With or Without Cetuximab. J Clin Oncol. 2016 Apr 20;34(12):1300-8
[PubMed ID: 26712222]
Mohindra P Urban E Pagan JD Geye HM Patel VB Bayliss RA Bender ET Harari PM .
Selective omission of level V nodal coverage for patients with oropharyngeal cancer: Clinical validation of intensity-modulated radiotherapy experience and dosimetric significance. Head Neck. 2016 Apr;38(4):499-505
[PubMed ID: 25445257]
Francis DM Huang S Armstrong EA Werner LR Hullett C Li C Morris ZS Swick AD Kragh M Lantto J Kimple RJ Harari PM .
Pan-HER Inhibitor Augments Radiation Response in Human Lung and Head and Neck Cancer Models. Clin Cancer Res. 2016 Feb 1;22(3):633-43
[PubMed ID: 26420857]
Wojcieszynski AP Rosenberg SA Brower JV Hullett CR Geurts MW Labby ZE Hill PM Bayliss RA Paliwal B Bayouth JE Harari PM Bassetti MF .
Gadoxetate for direct tumor therapy and tracking with real-time MRI-guided stereotactic body radiation therapy of the liver. Radiother Oncol. 2016 Feb;118(2):416-8
[PubMed ID: 26627702]
Hoffman MR McCulloch TM Mohindra P Das R Geurts M Harari PM .
Simulation study of high-dose-rate brachytherapy for early glottic cancer. Brachytherapy. 2016 Jan-Feb;15(1):94-101
[PubMed ID: 26614234]
Yan Y Yadav P Bassetti M Du K Saenz D Harari P Paliwal BR .
Dosimetric differences in flattened and flattening filter-free beam treatment plans. J Med Phys. 2016 Apr-Jun;41(2):92-9
[PubMed ID: 27217620]
Huang S Peter Rodemann H Harari PM .
Molecular Targeting of Growth Factor Receptor Signaling in Radiation Oncology. Recent Results Cancer Res. 2016;198:45-87
[PubMed ID: 27318681]
Britt CJ Stein AP Patel PN Harari PM Hartig GK .
Incidental Parotid Neoplasms: Pathology and Prevalence. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2015 Oct;153(4):566-8
[PubMed ID: 26019135]
Werner LR Huang S Francis DM Armstrong EA Ma F Li C Iyer G Canon J Harari PM .
Small Molecule Inhibition of MDM2-p53 Interaction Augments Radiation Response in Human Tumors. Mol Cancer Ther. 2015 Sep;14(9):1994-2003
[PubMed ID: 26162687]
Li C Huang S Armstrong EA Francis DM Werner LR Sliwkowski MX van der Kogel A Harari PM .
Antitumor Effects of MEHD7945A, a Dual-Specific Antibody against EGFR and HER3, in Combination with Radiation in Lung and Head and Neck Cancers. Mol Cancer Ther. 2015 Sep;14(9):2049-59
[PubMed ID: 26141946]
Morris ZS Weichert JP Saker J Armstrong EA Besemer A Bednarz B Kimple RJ Harari PM .
Therapeutic combination of radiolabeled CLR1404 with external beam radiation in head and neck cancer model systems. Radiother Oncol. 2015 Sep;116(3):504-9
[PubMed ID: 26123834]
Kim H Monroe JI Lo S Yao M Harari PM Machtay M Sohn JW .
Quantitative evaluation of image segmentation incorporating medical consideration functions. Med Phys. 2015 Jun;42(6):3013-23
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Sunset Namaste, a celebration of community yoga, will return to Railroad Park on Sunday, June 1st, from 4-8 p.m. The 3rd annual event is presented by My Green Birmingham and Sweet Om Alabama, and is FREE and open to the community.
This year's yoga celebration will center around the elements, Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and will include an exploration of various styles of yoga, aimed at being accessible to all levels, including beginners.
Pre-yoga events will be held from 4-6 p.m., and will include the following 20-30 minute seminars and demos:
- EARTH: Eating local with Jen Barnett of Bottle & Bone and former Freshfully
- WATER: Clean water testing demo with the Alabama Riverkeepers
- FIRE: Campfire and forest fire safety with Ruffner Mountain Nature Preserve
- AIR: Essential oils 101 demo with Whole Foods Market Mountain Brook, AL
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Study shows huge economic benefit of ASA Archery Tournament, Tour de Paris
In a press conference this morning at the Love Civic Center, the results of a recent study on the economic impact that two annual events have on our community were released.
The findings showed huge benefits. The Tour de Pars, which is a one-day event, brings in $114,764 of local spending, while the two-day ASA Archery Tournament brings $1,109,195. The two combine for more than $1.2 million of local spending, according to the study.
Dr. Steven Schwiff, Dean of the Department of Economics, Accounting and Finance at Texas A&M-Commerce, was commissioned to conduct the study by the Paris Convention and Visitors Council and the Lamar County Chamber of Commerce.
Dr. Schwiff's findings concluded an estimated $600,000 of additional spending is generated within the county that is directly related to the two annual events, with 13 jobs that exist within the county that directly depend on the Tour de Paris and the ASA tournament.
It is this additional spending — or 'new money' — that the events bring in from tourists that shows the real economic impact they have on our community, not just the total event spending. For example, Dr. Schwiff said, if you have a sporting event in your community and the only people that come to the event are those in the community, that is not an economic impact.
The study also showed that overnight attendees spend a substantial amount more than non-overnight attendees, however 70% of those attending the events are non-overnight. It is estimated that overnight attendees average a group of three and spend $800, while non-overnight individuals spend $115 per person.
The three most effected sectors of our economy by these events are retail, hotel/motel and food/beverage. Since overnight attendees tend to spend more and the ASA tournament is a two-day event, it is able to bring in more spending to our county, as many of the attendees are tourists and non-county residents. Tourism spending from non-county residents generates additional economic activity within the county, according to the study.
Dr. Schwiff's findings also say that it is estimated that an additional $300,000 to $400,000 in local impact could occur if the county were more diverse.
The Tour de Paris will celebrate its 30th anniversary on Saturday, July 19. The ASA Archery Tournament will return to Lamar County for ninth straight year in 2015.


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The last days of the Tweedsmuir Apartments
There is nothing quite as disturbing as staring off an upper balcony of a gutted high-rise at its equally dead twin.
Adding to the eerie aesthetic element was my personal relationship with the building I was in. In secondary school, I used to stare out of my classroom window at these behemoths , as well as deliver Meals-On-Wheels to clients in the buildings on lunch-break. When I heard of the imminent demolition, I just had to pay the pair one last visit.
Between the buildings lay a wasteland that seemed almost impenetrable. Broken metal, brick and glass covered what was once a sweet little parkette...
Walkiing through floor after floor of empty hallways, the silence that permeated this space grew more and more incredible...
Very little remained to remind one that hundreds of individuals and families once dwelt here...
Those familiar with my photography here know my affinity for rooftops; access at this location seemed sketchy though, to say the least, so we backed away...
From certain angles, I caught glimpses of the football field of my alma mater where I spent many evenings cheering for our team, or doing laps...
The image of a lone tree on a balcony reminded me of the entropy this property would never see, its razing already in process...
Unlike most of the buildings I explore, these did not have any historical merit -- at least not to anyone who did not dwell in or deal with them. It was merely the potential of vast emptiness that drew me to visit them before their death. I am at one point sad that a familiar landscape to my own years past was about to change, but at the same time excited to see what will take their place. After all, they all fall down.
(To see the rest of this series, as well as hi-res. versions of those above, you can check out my flickr slide-show below.)
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Interesting note about these hell holes is that each apartment is a two-floor unit. Demolition company banners have been strung from both, so have at it!
It's a shame Toronto's knee-jerk reaction to old and seemingly expired buildings is to tear them down.
What I find laughable, is that often the people who are so quick to deride these 'modern, concrete boxes,' fail to realize that the glass, hanging curtain monstrosities that will replace these will probably become dated faster, and will most certainly develop serious envelope and mechanical issues quicker.
I have zero faith in the way these modern condos are slapped together (I should know, I am managing one!) and would wager money that these brick buildings were better built and could be updated more cheaply than the 400 sq ft boxes that will replace them.
Give me quality, made in North America white appliances, parquet REAL hardwood floors and 700 sq ft 1 bedroom with L-shaped dining rooms over the crap that is being constructed today: 'engineered flooring' (what a joke- don't you DARE get them wet!), stainless steel appliances (made in China, guaranteed to last maybe 2 or 3 years without major repairs) and '1+den' designs (translation: tiny 1 bedroom with a tiny alcove off the living room that wouldn't even qualify as a real dining room in these 40 year old buildings!)
Oh, yeah - and make sure you slap 3 towers on the same property for maximum profit, ensuring that everyone has a view of their neighbor's TV (cuts down on your cable costs!)
If you travel as much as i do you will understand that these building have no architecturl merit. Can you imagine how they stand up to european architecture...lol
And... Lloyd (President of the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario) why dont you concentrate on making sure that future buildings that go up in Toronto have some kind of thought, artistic integrity and merit put into them before they go up..
and Lloyd if you want to save something...I would suggest you turn your attention to the Hearn Generating Station in the Portlands that is in danger of being demolished in 2011.
I hope someone saves that little tree on the balcony.
Tagging "...lol" to a statement isn't usually a sign of one being a discerning authority on European architecture. Sorry.
and as for the Hearn, we are on the case.
And if we flip the equation around, I'm pretty sure a lot of thoughtful, engaged, discerning *European* architectural connoisseurs would be just as concerned. Remember: just because they're from out of town and more supposedly "sophisticated" jurisdictions where Toronto's and Canada's midcentury-modern architectural historiography's usually off radar, doesn't mean they'd sniff the issue off as beneath them. That'd be like Lloyd Alter sniffing off the pro-Colborne-Street Brantfordians on asinine "no architectural merit compared to Toronto" grounds.
Of course, there's a more-than-reasonable possibility that "well-travelled" Chris doesn't even know what Robin Hood Gardens is...


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EFF to Patent Office: End the Flood of Stupid Software Patents
We have often written about how software patents feed trolls and tax innovation. We've pushed for patent reform in Congress, in the courts, and at the Patent Office. While new legislation has stalled (for now), reformers have won significant victories in the courts. Of these, the Supreme Court's recent decision in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank may be the most important. In this case, the court issued a landmark decision cutting back on abstract software patents.
While the decision in Alice is promising, it will mean nothing if the Patent Office fails to apply it. Vested interests support the status quo and some commentators have already called for the Patent Office to essentially ignore Alice. (While software patents are bad for innovation, they are great for lawyers and trolls.) Last week, EFF filed written comments with the Patent Office urging it to diligently apply the new Alice standard to pending applications.
In our comments, we explain that Alice is a major change to patent law. Most significant was the court's holding that "generic computer components" do not become patent eligible simply upon being "configured" to perform "specific computerized functions." Many thousands of software patents—particularly the vague and overbroad patents so beloved by patent trolls—should be rejected under this standard. While some of those accustomed to the pre-Alice regime will complain about this result, the Patent Office should not hesitate to apply the Supreme Court's standard.
EFF also urges the Patent Office to make sure that all pending applications (even those at the point of issuing) are reviewed under Alice. Last week we introduced our inaugural Stupid Patent of the Month—a very dumb patent on using a computer to take a telephone message for a doctor. In our view, this patent is clearly invalid under Alice. Yet it issued weeks after the Supreme Court's decision. Since patent litigation is so expensive, even a clearly invalid patent can cause enormous harm. We hope the Patent Office ensures no more of these invalid abstract patents are granted.
Ultimately, Alice is good news for the Patent Office. A recent Washington Post article revealed that the office is overwhelmed by the massive volume of applications. Many patent examiners spend as little as ten hours per application. This is not nearly enough time to properly review an application and look for potential prior art (the publications and products that predate an application and render it obvious). While Alice creates some extra work now, the decision will hopefully deter applicants from filing applications for abstract software patents in the first place, especially since the Supreme Court made clear that clever wording (the "draftman's art") cannot make the unpatentable patentable. There is no better way to reduce the patent backlog than by clearing the system of thousands of bad software patent applications.
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Every person playing fantasy baseball should be looking for a way to get an edge over his opponents, and one of the best ways to do so is by stashing prospects on your bench.
When looking for a prospect to add to your team, you have to pick carefully. Getting a solid-average player is useless, as those players are always available on the wavier wire, and loading your bench with them is a waste of valuable space.
The goal is to get a player who can change your season upon getting called up, like Yasiel Puig did for many teams last year. This season, there are a number of impact prospects who will be called up that you should add to your roster immediately if they are available in your league.
Some of these players are likely already taken in your league by members who stash prospects, although at least a couple of them should still be available.
This list is not designed for long-term leagues, so it is comprised of players who will contribute this season. Also, this is far from a ranking of the top prospects in baseball, but instead a list of prospects who should be valuable during the 2014 season.
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Syracuse school Superintendent Daniel Lowengard is asking all the district's unions to take a one-year pay freeze to save $10 million and avoid layoffs next school year.
As it stands now, the district expects to cut roughly 244 jobs to balance its budget, and some of the cuts are likely to result in layoffs. If the unions agree to the freeze, Lowengard said Wednesday, there won't be layoffs and some — not all — of the job cuts will be avoided.
Lowengard said he would not ask for a freeze if the situation was not desperate. Local, state and federal governments have let the district down, Lowengard said, so he is asking district employees to step up and make a sacrifice. He said he, too, would take a pay freeze.
Syracuse teachers, who are represented by the Syracuse Teachers Association, are due for a 4 percent raise next school year.
"The STA leadership is seriously discussing this proposals and will decide whether or not to bring it to our members in the next few days," said Kevin Ahern, who becomes president of the Syracuse Teachers Association July 1.
Brian Nolan, of the Syracuse Association of Administrators and Supervisors, said his union will vote on the freeze this week. Their approval of the freeze would be contingent on the district offering its employees an early retirement incentive authorized by the state.
Lowengard said his proposal includes freezing employees' contributions to health care costs. It includes a one-year extension for contracts that expire next year. The extra year would include the raise employees were supposed to get next year.
The proposal also would extend by one year contracts that expire two years from now. For those contracts, next year's raise would be pushed into 2011-2012, and the raise for that year would be pushed into 2012-2013.
The district's fiscal year begins July 1, but its budget is not yet final. City Hall set the district budget at $354.5 million, but that was based on projected revenue and expenses that have changed.
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A couple of months ago, Amazon's book editors compiled a list of 100 books to read in a lifetime. Some of these books are the types that would end up on your reading list for a high school English class. Others are ones that you just had to read because well, everybody else are reading them. There are the books that are choices for book clubs, ones that made an impact, coined a catch phrase, or just made you think.
Out of these 100, I can only say that I've read 13. A few of those 13 are thanks to book club selections. Did I like them? Mostly. But I'm glad I read them all the way through.
I really enjoyed "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot, so I'm glad it was on the list. I definitely recommend it to anyone. Sure I may have glossed over the scientific aspect, but it's a good read.
I actually read "Lolita" for the heck of it several years ago. And I didn't retain a thing about it. I have a tendency to not read early novels in depth. So that's possibly one for the re-read pile so I can be shocked by it and understand what's going on.
"The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green was a book club selection. I've read a couple of his books beforehand - "An Abundance of Katherines" and "Paper Towns" (by the way, these are a couple more books I'd recommend to anyone). It's an emotional book with biting humor. And it's about to hit the movie theaters in June. I can't wait to see it.
Another movie that came from a book that's on this list is "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak. I'll admit that the book started out as a challenge to read, but once I got going, it was an amazing story. Sure it's told a little differently, but it's worth the while.
"The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America" by Erik Larson was a book club selection I wasn't sure of at first. Then I read the description. Serial killer? Since I have liked reading true crime novels, I'm intrigued. Mixing it in with the World's Fair in Chicago in 1893? Sounds like a book to read. It started out slowly of course, but it picked up eventually. It keeps you going to the end. I've picked up another of Larson's books, "Thunderstruck,"?which links up the lives of "Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of wireless telegraphy, with Hawley Crippen, a mild-mannered homeopathic doctor in turn-of-the-century London,"?according to Amazon's description. It's been sitting around, taunting me, wanting me to read it - "c'mon Votruba, you know you want to..."
Most everybody's had to have read "To Kill A Mockingbird" for some reason during their lifetime; it seems to be a book one has to read for a class. I have my copy from some class I took years ago. Recently, Harper Lee, now 88, has allowed the classic to be released as an ebook. Now generations to come can enjoy this book.
So here's the list. How many have you read?
"1984" by George Orwell
"A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking
"A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" by Dave Eggers
"A Long Way Gone" by Ishmael Beah
"A Series of Unfortunate Events #1: The Bad Beginning: The Short-Lived Edition" by Lemony Snicket
"A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle
"Alice Munro: Selected Stories" by Alice Munro
"Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll
"All the President's Men" by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
"Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
"Are You There, God? It's me, Margaret" by Judy Blume
"Bel Canto" by Ann Patchett
"Beloved" by Toni Morrison
"Born To Run - A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen" by Christopher McDougall
"Breath, Eyes, Memory" by Edwidge Danticat
"Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl
"Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White
"Cutting For Stone" by Abraham Verghese
"Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead" by Brene Brown
"Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 1'" by Jeff Kinney
"Dune" by Frank Herbert
"Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream" by Hunter S. Thompson
"Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn
"Goodnight Moon" by Margaret Wise Brown
"Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
"Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
"Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
"In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
"Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
"Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
"Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth" by Chris Ware
"Kitchen Confidential" by Anthony Bourdain
"Life After Life" by Kate Atkinson
"Little House on the Prairie" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
"Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov
"Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"Love Medicine" by Louise Erdrich
"Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankl
"Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
"Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides
"Midnight's Children" by Salman Rushdie
"Moneyball" by Michael Lewis
"Of Human Bondage" by W. Somerset Maugham
"On the Road" by Jack Kerouac
"Out of Africa" by Isak Dinesen
"Persepolis" by Marjane Satrapi
"Portnoy's Complaint" by Philip Roth
"Pride & Prejudice" by Jane Austen
"Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
"Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
"Team of Rivals" by Doris Kearns Goodwin
"The Age of Innocence" by Edith Wharton
"The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" by Michael Chabon
"The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
"The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak
"The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz
"The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger
"The Color of Water" by James McBride
"The Corrections" by Jonathan Franzen
"The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America" by Erik Larson
"The Diary of Anne Frank" by Anne Frank
"The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
"The Giver" by Lois Lowry
"The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials" by Philip Pullman
"The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
"The House At Pooh Corner" by A. A. Milne
"The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
"The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
"The Liars' Club: A Memoir" by Mary Karr
"The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)" by Rick Riordan
"The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"The Long Goodbye" by Raymond Chandler
"The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11" by Lawrence Wright
"The Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien
"The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales" by Oliver Sacks
"The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals" by Michael Pollan
"The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster
"The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel" by Barbara Kingsolver
"The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York" by Robert A. Caro
"The Right Stuff" by Tom Wolfe
"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
"The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
"The Shining" by Stephen King
"The Stranger" by Albert Camus
"The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
"The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
"The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle
"The Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame
"The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel" by Haruki Murakami
"The World According to Garp" by John Irving
"The Year of Magical Thinking" by Joan Didion
"Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
"Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption" by Laura Hillenbrand
"Valley of the Dolls" by Jacqueline Susann
"Where the Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Silverstein
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Commuters provided lights-out reviews after the Ohio Department of Transportation powered up its new "Dynamic Message Signs."
Assorted bulbs within the ballyhooed boards worked a day or two then quit after the electronic signs came to life over Cuyahoga County highways. Dead spots on one panel along Interstate 480 near State Road brought three recent e-mails to Road Rant. "Is the sign under warranty," a commuter from Columbia Station wrote, "or can ODOT get a refund?"
Patience, folks. Don't give up on this technological network just yet.
The new Intelligent Transportation System stands as a work in progress and won't be fully operational until September, according to ODOT. What drivers see and read on nine operating signs today does not represent all that the service will offer. (There will be more message boards, too: Plans call for 29 in Cuyahoga and surrounding counties.)
Right now, the signs primarily provide travel time estimates to give drivers an idea of traffic flow. ODOT says the information menu will eventually expand to include crash and construction information. Judging from e-mails and comments on Road Rant's Facebook page, that's what a lot of you want to see.
Well, that and working bulbs, which brings us back to the I-480 sign. Road Rant asked ODOT about the bulbs Wednesday. They regained their glow Friday.
Cryptic communications: Overhead signals at one Cleveland Heights intersection emit three pulses of red light then hang idle for 17 seconds before repeating the pattern again and again and again. Hmm . . . must be a local code for stop.
"Erratic" flashers strung where Washington Boulevard crosses Berkshire Road offer a distracting message instead of a clear it's-time-to-hit-the-brakes instruction, reports Road Rant correspondent David Sicking. There are stop signs in place at the intersection, e-mailed Sicking, but the mere presence of the flashers indicates the city thought "the extra warning was warranted" to keep people safe.
So lets hope someone interprets that bizarre flashing to mean "fix me."
Making change: Cleveland closed a money pit.
Crews filled a Broadway pothole just west of East 30th Street that caused more than $800 damage to a commuter's car. The repair took place the day after Road Rant shared the driver's drain-on-the-pocketbook story in Sunday's column.
Patch party: A pair of potholes on Cleveland's East 185th Street also disappeared the day after being mentioned in last week's column.
Winter wisdom: What's worse than driving in the snow? That's easy: Driving in the snow with everyone else.
The joy of sharing slippery roads last week brought some grumbling e-mails to Road Rant. One reader -- John O'Donnell of Chagrin Falls -- vented by creating six winter driving rules to carve in tablets of ice. The list seemed too good not to forward, so here it is:
• If you're scared to death to drive when it's snowing, stay home.
• If your car has bald tires, worn windshield wipers, and no defroster, stay home.
• If you won't clean snow from your windows or turn on your headlights, stay home.
• If you drive your 4x4 without regard for the weather conditions or other drivers, stay home.
• If you're a jogger and feel the need to run in the roadway during a blizzard, stay home.
• If you feel the need to use your cell phone during a blizzard, stay home.
"I feel better now," O'Donnell wrote.
At least until the next snow.


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Syracuse has faced Colgate on the basketcourt court more times than any other foe and the Orange will continue the rivalry with its Upstate neighbor again this season.
Syracuse will host Colgate on Monday, Dec. 1, at the Carrier Dome. Game time is 7 p.m.
This will mark the 161st meeting between Colgate and Syracuse. The two schools first met on the court in the 1901-02 season. Syracuse holds a 115-45 edge in the series.
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Hello, my name is Matthew. I have a beautiful little girl who's 1 year old this month. I have separated from my wife Sept 2011 and she currently has custody where as I feel I have little visitation. I have started the divorce process, and the court gave me just a little visitation. I apologize in advance, I have a bit to explain to set up my story so bear with me if you will.
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Also, please no comments about my own stupidity for staying with my wife as long as I did. I was in love with someone who didn't respect me and I should have left some years ago. I have a daughter now and wouldn't trade her for anything.
I met my wife in 2007 and we had lived with each other for about 4.5 years. She has cheated on me many more times then I care to remember, she always told me when she did it. Her guilt always got to her and I found out within a week.
Through out our relationship, mainly the last year we were together, she had been physically violent with me to the point of me having to defend myself by fighting back. I don't mean lightly. I hate violence and would never have laid a hand on her, but it became necessary at times. Mostly I tried to stop her from hitting me by holding her down. Trying to calm her down some, but it never worked. Hitting on someone you love is not right, and I felt terrible that she had caused such problems for herself and me.
Now I know there will be people that disagree with hitting in defense, but you would have to have a very good understanding of how things were. If I didn't fight her, I may very well could have ended up in the hospital. You may wonder why I didn't leave.
Leaving her was also a problem. There was never an opportunity to get my daughter out of the house without her being violent with me and I did not want my daughter getting hurt. I chose to stay and live in our place so I could protect my daughter.
It is interesting how much I continued to love my wife, no matter how horrible she was to me. That alone prevented me from doing what I should have done, leaving, calling police, pressing charges for assault, and the thought of Child Protective Services never occurred to me. There are about 7 police reports showing that my wife had assaulted me 4 times, she assaulted her own mother twice, and even was charged with "Attempted" Assault on a police officer.
Thank you if you are still reading.
Now in Sept '11 I was feeding my daughter some carrots. These were small soft carrots, and my little girl grabbed some and dropped one of them on the floor. My wife yells at me from across the room to pick it up. I told her to hold on a minute. She replied by demanding I do it right now. When I didn't comply, she stood up from the couch came over to me and started hitting me and wouldn't quit. Her mother was there and took our daughter out of the room and we had yet another fight. This fight was the best one yet because it led to us splitting up. Now she wouldn't stop hitting me, she banged my head into the floor, so I threw over me into the wall. She stood up and got a knife from the kitchen and tried to stab me. I got the knife from her, hid it under a recliner and only then did I make it out the door.
I was attacked. I was almost stabbed with a knife, and then I went to jail for 2 days. Only because I wasn't at the house to defend myself when the police arrived. All because a few carrots fell on the floor. Then I wasn't able to see my daughter for almost 2 months because my wife had her.
Now, in that 2 months time I got myself a home, I am still working my job of almost 3 years. I am able to provide my daughter with everything she needs.
My wife still lives with her mother, has no job, and hasn't had a job for 2+ years.
The courts were told about the violence and the way she had assaulted me time and time again. They know I have been providing for both of them for years.
So the courts have decided that because my wife was at home with my daughter while I worked, it should make her the custodial parent. Also because I had not seen my daughter in 2 months I couldn't have 50% custody either. $127 in child support from me to her.
We live about 15 miles from each other.
I have Tues & Thur 10am - 3pm
(4hrs + 1 hour drive time)
I pick her up and drop her off.
I have Fri 9pm to Sat 9pm
I pick up, then she picks up.
I get about 1.5 days of time per week. or 34/168 hours per week. Meaning I see her about 20% of the week.
How may I ask is this fair for me or my daughter. She will not nap because she know she has to go home just after. When I pick her up she runs to me. She doesn't run to her mom when she picks her up. It seems to me that she is happier here then at her mothers.
Last pickup for my wife (saturday) she came 30 min early, I invited her into my home. She realized our daughter was napping and got mad that she shouldn't have been napping that late. She rushed into her bedroom grabbed her out of the crib and startled her awake, my daughter started to cry and she also was wearing only a diaper. My wife told me she was going to tell the courts to take away my overnight visitation then grabbed a blanket or two and rushed out the door into 12 degree snowy weather with my unclothed daughter. She will obviously not be allowed in anymore.
I am not sure my wife is handling things properly, yet she seems to be winning where it counts. I'm aiming to have a good relationship with my girl and her mother for many years to come as there is no reason to have it any other way. Even our psychological exams showed me looking average, and much bias was placed on making her sound better to the court. Physical custody was recommended for her and legal for me. The report was full of mistakes. Stuff I told him got twisted around in the report.
So whats everybodys thoughts here? I feel like I just keep getting stepped on by everyone including the courts. I just want what is best for my daughter and to be an equal part of her life. I would also like to be sure she's being treated properly but there aren't any legal ways of doing this for me.
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What are you eating today!
I had my usual for breakfast...protein shake and fruit with coffee of course:) I had a banana and apple for morning snack, and for lunch I had some soup, roast beef sandwich, and a granola bar. Afternoon snack was some chips (one serving of my favorite kettle chips), and I'm making sausage calzones for dinner.
Breakfast: Smoothie
Lunch: Spring mix with grilled chicken and balsamic vinaigrette
Dinner: TBD (I hope like hell it's a giant cheeseburger & fries)
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Breakfast- 2 eggs and an english muffin
Lunch-Turkey/Spinach Wrap
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DEARBORN, MI- Ford Motor Co. is aggressively overhauling its European lineup, manufacturing and work force.
Almost two months after announcing plans to revamp and expand its vehicle portfolio by nearly 30 percent, the Dearborn-based automaker Thursday morning said it plans to close three plants – two in UK and one in Belgium – and cut 5,700 hourly and salaried employees.
Ford expects the closings to reduce vehicle capacity by 18 percent or 355,000 units and lower gross annual savings $450 million to $500 million.
"We recognize the impact our actions will have on many employees and their families in Europe, and we will work together closely with all stakeholders during the necessary transformation of our business in Europe," said Ford President and CEO Alan Mulally during a media and analyst conference call earlier today. "The same One Ford Plan that transformed our business in North America, and guided us toward a better future, is being used to address the crisis in Europe."
Ford, which is set to release its third-quarter earnings Oct. 30, expects its "planned actions" to help return its European operations to profitability by 2015.
Ford lost $404 million in Europe during the second quarter of this year and said it plans to lose more than $1.5 billion total, up from its expected $1 billion losses earlier this year.
New vehicle sales in the region have reached a nearly 20-year low this year, officials said, and are expected to remain flat or fall further next year.
"The European market holds potential for profitable growth if we accelerate product development and move decisively to address our costs and overcapacity," said Stephen Odell, chairman and CEO of Ford of Europe.
The three facilities set to close are the Genk Plant in Belgium, which was previously announced by the Dearborn-based automaker, and two UK facilities – Ford's assembly plant in Southampton, and stamping and tooling operations in Dagenham.
The three facilities employ 5,700 hourly and salaried people, according to Ford. The Belgium plant is expected to close in late 2014. The two UK facilities are set to close next year, officials said.
Odell said including the previously announced cuts of 500 salaried and agency positions, about 13 percent of Ford's European workforce -- 6,200 people -- are impacted by the recent announcements.
Analysts have criticized other automakers and Ford, which had been running at about half capacity, for its European operations and overcapacity.
Martin Kahl, UK-based Automotive World editor, said Europe as a whole is suffering from overcapacity, but each country differs on how they are reacting to the problems.
"This collection of nations falls apart when it comes to national crises," he wrote in an email to MLive Auto Wednesday. "There's a recession in Europe, but more importantly, it's the individual nation-states that are suffering recessions, not 'Europe'.
"When it comes to responses, each government looks after its own – there is not a European response."
Kahl said despite the best efforts of certain leading executives, there is no European response to the crisis in the automotive industry.
More automakers, according to Kahl, are expected to follow Ford's lead in Europe.
"Generally, the mood is not good, and it's clear that further cuts need to be made," he wrote. "Although it's been a long time coming, the Genk announcement, when it came, came quite suddenly. Workers at other at-risk plants must now be feeling increasingly nervous."
As of 11:25 a.m., Ford (NYSE: F) shares increased about 2 percent.
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Officials of Milton S. Hershey Medical Center were at the Jan. 10 Perry County commissioners' meeting to talk about a study they hope to begin soon. The research is on using a blood substitute on severely injured patients being treated by medical technicians in the field.
PolyHeme, an oxygen-carrying blood substitute made from human blood, could be given to patients in hemorrhagic shock, replacing current treatments. Trauma patients now receive saline (salt water) as it is not practical for emergency providers to carry blood.
If the study receives approval, severely injured and bleeding patients would receive either PolyHeme or the standard saline. Treatment would begin before arrival at the hospital, either at the scene or in the ambulance or helicopter, and continue during a 12-hour, post-injury period in the hospital. Data then would be analyzed to assess the potential survival benefit of each.
Dr. Robert Cherry, trauma program medical director, said previous studies, although small in number, show an increased survival rate for people who get the new treatment.
"We consider this to be a breakthrough study," Cherry said.
PolyHeme would be used on patients in a life-threatening situation. Participants will not be paid nor will they be charged to participate.
Because trauma patients are often in shock and not able to speak for themselves, prior consent is needed before the new product can be used. People who do not want to participate may register by contacting the medical center by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com or by calling 531-5829. Those people will receive a wristband that alerts medical technicians not to use PolyHeme.
Pregnant women, patients with severe brain injuries, patients who require CPR, patients not expected to survive their injuries, patients who are known to have problems with blood transfusions and people who have declared they do not want to be resuscitated will not receive PolyHeme.
There are risks involved. There is the potential for a rash, increased blood pressure, kidney or liver damage and transmission of hepatitis and HIV viruses.


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A program titled "Virtual Tours of The Borscht Belt" by Marty Schneit will be presented at the opening meeting of the Roselle-Cranford Chapter of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America on Sunday, Sept. 14, at Temple Beth-El Mekor Chayim at 9:30 a.m.
Schneit, a born and bred New Yorker, has been a licensed New York City tour guide for the last ten years. He has volunteered his services and had conducted walking tours for Open House New York. Schneit has conducted a Jane Walk in memory of Jane Jacobs for the past several years for the Municipal Art Society.
His tour of The Borscht Belt will include the history of many of the sites, which we remember. He will discuss Old Route 17, the Big Apple Rest, Bungalow Colonies, Grossingers and the Concord Hotel. The talk will include a reminder for all of us recalling the "small" meals served at these locations. Schneit will conduct a SimonSez routine with the group.
This opening brunch will be dedicated to Ellen Meth, past president of this chapter and organizational vice-president of the Northern New Jersey Region of Hadassah.
A cookbook of all her tested recipes which will be available to purchase that day. RSVP to 908-276-3349 by Sept. 7. The community is invited.


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HALIFAX – Nova Scotians who want to join the Canada-wide celebration of Heritage Day can explore a new heritage property resource at the Nova Scotia Archives.
For the first time, records and photos of pre-1914 built homes, churches, railway stations, bridges and other community structures are available.
"What better way to celebrate this year's Heritage Day theme, Heritage Homes and Neighbourhoods, than to unveil such a spectacular record of Nova Scotia's built history," Communities, Culture and Heritage Minister Leonard Preyra said in a news release. "Thanks to the staff at the Nova Scotia Archives and the Heritage Property Program, more and more records of historic properties will be made widely available for people to learn about our communities, culture and heritage.
"I would also like to thank the Heritage Trust and everyone involved in conserving heritage properties across the province."
A selection of the records is now available for visitors on public computers in the archives' reading room. The records include photos, descriptions of the properties and information about historical features and architecture.
"The opening up of the heritage property records at the Nova Scotia Archives is a huge step in allowing researchers, family genealogists and others to search out the records that are needed to help understand the problem," said Trudi Bunting, chair of the Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia's Places of Worship Committee. "We are delighted to be able to update our records of churches that were extant at the turn of the last century.
"This will give us hard numbers to confirm our alarming observations that the iconic places of worship that are a consistent part of the landscape of this province are fast disappearing."
The Provincial Built Heritage Inventory Project began in the late 1990s to record and document all buildings built before 1914. The Heritage Property Program records were digitized then transferred to the Archives in January.
Each year, on the third Monday in February, The Heritage Canada Foundation celebrates Heritage Day across the country. The focus of Heritage Day is Canada's built history, featuring a number of types of historic properties.
Information about the archives' resources and programs is available at www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm .


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Dallas Jered Galiher turned himself in Sunday afternoon and has been booked in the Multnomah County Jail for unlawful use of a weapon, reckless endangerment, possession of a loaded firearm, discharging a firearm in the city criminal mischief and disorderly conduct. He is scheduled to be arraigned Monday.
No one was injured in the incident that unfolded around 7:40 a.m. in the 1400 block of East Burnside Street.
According to a press release, officers received a call about a disturbance at a home during a late night party. Those involved left the building and continued fighting outside near a rear parking lot facing Southeast Ankeny Street. Several gunshots were fired some striking a parked motorcycle.
Officers do not believe the shooting was gang related.
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Oak Harbor artist lacks support for statue location
An Oak Harbor artist who wants to donate a bronze for SE Pioneer Way has formally withdrawn his proposal.
At an Arts Commission meeting Nov. 14, Wayne Lewis voluntarily agreed to postpone his plans to see the three-foot tall figure installed on a pedestal at one of three proposed locations downtown. His decision was based largely on the recommendations of key city officials to put the piece elsewhere.
"My intention was to honor the first islanders but it seems the city thinks it's too sensitive with the remains," said Lewis, in an interview at his home Thursday, alluding to Native American bones found during the Pioneer Way construction project.
Lewis began work on the statue shortly after Native American remains were found on Pioneer Way this past June. He and Arts Commissioner Peggy Darst Townsdin had been talking for years about the need for art that would bring attention to the city's early pioneers.
When the remains were unexpectedly unearthed it seemed the perfect opportunity to get started. However, Lewis' sculpture, which depicts a man in a breechclout holding two salmon, has received a luke-warm reception.
It's been criticized by some as historically inaccurate and others worry how it might be received by Native Americans. City Administrator Paul Schmidt said installing the piece anywhere on Pioneer Way necessitates tribal input due to the proximity of the archaeological site.
Lewis says he has tried to reach Swinomish Indian Tribal Community officials, leaving phone messages, sending a letter, and with emails but has never received a response.
City officials are also unclear how the tribes feel and Schmidt agreed to follow up.
"I'll ask what their intentions are but I won't go any further than that," said Schmidt, adding that he doesn't want tribal leaders to feel pressured.
Thanks but no
When contacted by a Whidbey News-Times reporter, Brian Cladoosby, chairman of the Swinomish Tribal Senate, said Friday that he had not seen any letters or communication about Lewis or his piece.
He said he appreciated the gesture, saying Lewis appeared to be both sincere and heartfelt as the Oak Harbor artist is not only volunteering his time and expertise, but has agreed to fund the entire project. However, Cladoosby said he does not believe the Swinomish people would support the piece being installed near the ancient burial site.
"It would be like if we went to a cemetery where your ancestors are buried and set up a statue on their graves," Cladoosby said.
But that doesn't mean that an appropriate place can't be found elsewhere in the city, he said.
He also clarified that his people wore clothing made of cedar and animal skin. They did not wear loincloths, he said.
Although Lewis originally wanted to put the bronze right in front of the archaeological site, he has since agreed on three alternate locations on Pioneer Way. They include two corners at the intersection of Hathaway Street and adjacent to Captured Moments photography studio near Dock Street.
No rush
He's also agreed to fund the whole project. Initially he wanted the city to cover the $6,000 cost of casting the statue, but with the arts commission's entire budget already tied up in three previously approved pieces for downtown, he agreed to pay for that, too.
He's also willing to pick up the tab to build the concrete pedestal the figure would stand on. City planners estimate it could cost as much as $4,000 to build. Lewis plans to pay for the casting and pedestal with a fundraising effort.
At the time of the meeting, city officials still hadn't spoken with the Swinomish about the project and recommended Lewis consider putting it elsewhere in the city. Lewis instead officially withdrew his proposal until a later date.
When told about Cladoosby's comments, Lewis said he had conducted his own research and found that Native American's wore loincloths when fishing. While he wasn't about to argue the matter with tribal officials, Lewis said he was not interested in covering the piece with clothing either.
Lewis also said he's unwilling to have the piece go anywhere but Pioneer Way. It doesn't have to be directly in front of the archaeological site, but it was created for downtown and he's ready to wait it out until that vision can be fulfilled.
"There's no big hurry," Lewis said. "I mean I'm not getting paid at the end of the day."
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There is a whole lot to love about this deal. Check out their website, www.palaceresorts.com, and start planning your summer getaway. Be sure to check out the Ultimate Dolphin Swim Experience. You can use $200 of your credit toward this memorable experience of a lifetime!
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George DeGarmo
DeGARMO, George Edward, 44, of New Cumberland, passed away Thursday, January 10, 2013, in the Shadyside Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA.
Born June 12, 1968, in Steubenville, OH, he was the son of Larry DeGarmo and Letha McNeil Hendershot.
He was preceded in death by his grandparents, George and Edith McNeal and Charles DeGarmo.
Mr. DeGarmo worked in the custodial department for Hancock County School. He attended the Church of Christ with his mother and was a former U.S. Marine.
In addition to his parents, George is survived by his wife, Michele Elizabeth Boeckmann DeGarmo of New Cumberland whom he married December 31, 2010; daughters, Brooke DeGarmo of Mingo Junction, OH, and Kayla and Mariah DeGarmo both of New Cumberland; step-father, Jim Hendershot; stepson, Andrew Locke; grandson, Cameron DeGarmo and sisters, Janet and Erin DeGarmo; and grandmother, Irene DeGarmo
Friends will be received 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. Monday at the Greco-Hertnick Funeral Home, 3219 Main Street, Weirton, where funeral services will be held at 8 p.m.
Memorial contributions may be made to George's family, 3219 Main St., Weirton, WV 26062.
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Formal Talks on Cleveland-to-Canada Ferry Service Could Soon Begin
February 16, 2011 – Local officials in Central Elgin, Ontario have agreed to begin formal discussions with the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority regarding the launch of a ferry service between Port Stanley and Cleveland.
On Monday the Central Elgin Municipal Council passed a resolution that supports further discussions with Cleveland port officials. Central Elgin is the governing authority over Port Stanley. Talks between the city and Port Authority are now expected to accelerate.
NEW 2011 Great Lakes Waterways Conference to Launch in Cleveland This Week
February 15, 2011-The inaugural meeting of the 2011 Great Lakes Waterways Conference (formerly known as the United States Coast Guard's Marine Community Days) will be held February 16-17 at the Hyatt Regency Cleveland- Arcade and the Sammy's Center at One Cleveland Center.
The conference will involve a full range of maritime professionals and industry's from throughout the Great Lakes region in the United States and Canada. The conference has been organized to bring together the key players in government and the private sector to discuss pressing transportation and policy issues pertaining to the Great Lakes.


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About ten minutes into the new James Bond film, I was already in love. Not because of the long, opening chase scene, which among its obligatory demolishment of fruit carts and motor vehicles, did feature one brilliantly iconic moment when Bond smartly straightens his cuffs after the narrowest of escapes. No, the moment I succumbed came shortly after the chase ended, during Daniel Kleinman's splendid opening titles, as Adele sang the film's title song. As the female sihouettes swirled into one another and Adele's big, brassy, bravura voice asserted itself over the soaring strings and propulsive beat, I was transported into the heart of Bondlandia, where I was once again a 13-year-old fanboy, watching Maurice Binder's sensuous opening titles, listening to Shirley Bassey's dramatic, dominant voice, and waiting for Sean Connery to prowl onto the screen like a tuxedo-clad panther. From Skyfall's early moments, director Sam Mendes showed that he had captured the essence of the signature Bond movies, and happily, for the next two hours plus, he never relinquished it.
The opening chase, the elaborate titles, the anthem—Mendes keeps these Bond movie traditions, and cannily lets others go. Unlike the films of the Connery and Roger Moore eras, the number of women in the film falls below regulation harem levels, and the most important female character is Bond's boss, a stout, sharp-tongued civil servant who probably hasn't been seduced since Brezhnev was in his heyday. Q is back, but Mendes shrewdly reinvents him as a young computer nerd who disdains the Hammacher Schlemmer-style exploding gadgets that were a signature feature of Desmond Llewelyn's long, fusty tenure as Q. Other Bond indicia are firmly in place. The scriptural "Bond, James Bond'' signature introduction flows in naturally, and the essential "shaken, not stirred'' instruction receives a clever twist. The fanfare of John Barry's "James Bond Theme", a brilliant brass and bass guitar-based totem of Swinging London, nudges into the picture a couple of times, but isn't deployed in its entirety until fairly late in the film, when 007 takes the tarp off his still gleaming Aston-Martin and roars into the night.
Beyond these revisions, though, the film's outright abandonment of certain 007 traditions is key to its success, giving us a New Model Bond that can endure into the future. In the early movies, Bond is suave, droll, unsentimental, a hedonistic assassin on her majesty's secret service. He is, for the sixties, a thoroughly modern postwar man, more a product of meritocracy than aristocracy, more a connoisseur than a patriot, a globetrotting jet-setting executive efficiently servicing his accounts. In those early films, Bond was above all else supremely, unshakably confident. He was too confident in his abilities to ever really feel threatened, too confident in his sex appeal to really feel love, too confident in the superiority of his values to concern himself with murder and morality.
Daniel Craig's Bond is different: He's a tool, not a style. He is very confident, but mostly just about being able to stop the bad guy and then to kill him. In Casino Royale, he showed enough skill at poker to defeat a table of champion gamblers, but the range of his knowledge seems far more limited than that of some of his predecessors. It would be jarring, for example, if Craig's Bond was to say, as Connery did in Goldfinger, that a certain brandy was a "thirty-year-old fins indifferently blended, sir, with an overdose of bons bois." He is blanker slate, more laconic. On two occasions in Skyfall the filmmakers try to fill in his character by placing the Bond enterprise squarely in line with Crimea and Roarke's Drift and the Somme and the Blitz, which evoke earlier traditions of loyalty and courage. As it happens, these are the virtues people call upon when confidence isn't quite enough to carry the day.
The first of these moments comes in the scene where Bond meets Q in the National Gallery off Trafalgar Square in London. They are sitting on a bench, looking at a painting by J.M.W. Turner titled (perhaps by someone who was paid by the word) The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last Berth to be broken up, 1838. Fittingly, in a film in which the hero is depicted as wounded, aging and no longer up to the demands of his job, the painting captures the last short journey of the warship Temeraire, which as part of Nelson's victorious fleet at Trafalgar, lashed itself to two French battleships and broadsided them to smithereens. It's a melancholy painting, sad and definitely backward-looking, contemplating a moment of unrecoverable triumph. But Bond, still confident, doesn't buy into the sentiment. In the scene, Q explicates the painting's gloomy themes, then asks Bond what he sees. Bond, like a fist, points neither to long ago triumph or decay but to power, and replies, "A bloody big ship." Young Q sees decrepitude; Bond sees 98 guns.
But as the movie progresses, we see that the reference to Temeraire may be directed less at Bond than at his boss, M, who has suffered some costly and embarrassing losses of agents and information. During a Parliamentary hearing, being second-guessed by a minister about her poor record, the stalwart M summons in her defense no less a personage than Alfred, Lord Tennyson, the poet laureate of the Victorian empire, bard of the Light Brigade. She quotes the immortal lines from his poem Ulysses:
Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
At that moment, it's clear that Bond and M are in the same boat; one has a license to kill, the other gave it to him, and both are expendable. As a practical matter, this has not always worked out well. Bond, remember, began as a creature of the Cold War: the product of the under-gunned Britain holding out against the Nazi machine, an agent for the poor, post-imperial Britain that chose in its diminished state to stand against global communism. Confidence was virtually his only asset.
While he never stopped being British, Bond, like the Beatles and the miniskirt, became absorbed into American culture during the British invasion. Things got kind of mixed up. What is Dr. No, with its Caribbean Island studded with bikinied women and missile-backed madmen, if not a fevered projection of the American psyche circa 1962? And if the British Bond smashed the plans of Smersh, Blofeld and Goldfinger, there was a fair division of labor in which the CIA got to topple Mossadegh, Lumumba, Diem, Allende, and to put explosives in Castro's cigars. Stella Rimington, the former head of MI-6 might have been speaking of the CIA when she said that "Bond is extremely well-trained but . . . he doesn't seem to know where the boundaries lie." Eventually it became clear that while the spooks still may have had confidence in themselves, nobody else did. Somewhere in there, in the midst of the Roger Moore era, after the sixties had stopped swinging and the Senate select committee hearings had adjourned, Bond stopped being an action hero and turned into a joke—winking, nudging, and out of date.
Standing in for the security establishment of two countries and four decades, M and Bond are aware of its failures and excesses. The setbacks they are suffering are the work of Raoul Silva (Javier Bardem), a vengeful former agent who came to ruin in one of M's necessarily cold-hearted business transactions. But M, and Bond, are unapologetic. There are bad people in the world—soon they'll descend on that hearing room in Westminster—and somebody has to stand against them. Mistakes were made and will be made again, but that fear of failure, that risk of opportunistic criticism, cannot cause us to yield. This becomes the cause Bond serves, as a "fine example of British fortitude", as M calls him.
The transformation in the character is amazing: Bond was once so confident that ethics were beside the point, because in the end the villain was dead, his secret base was burning and Bond was celebrating victory with an international sex symbol in some futuristic vehicle that comes equipped with champagne. But now in Skyfall, Bond is neither confident that he will win nor that the violence he's paid to do is justified. It's enough to know that the bad guy is pretty damn bad, and that stopping him, or at least trying to, can't be wrong.
This brings Bond into the orbit of another tradition, this time a cinematic one. Recall that Dr. No debuted in 1962, the same year as the John Wayne western The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Wayne played a version of the character he almost always played, a strong, silent hero who never looks for trouble until trouble looks for him. Such men were always capable of violence (with the motto, "Make sure you're right, then go ahead", the Davy Crockett that Wayne played in The Alamo would have no trouble talking shop with 007), but were almost always slow to resort to violence. The Wayne heroes knew that starting violence is easy and that stopping it is hard, and that it always has a cost—on those who bear it, those who deliver it, and those innocents who are sucked into its orbit. Wayne played men who knew loss—frontiersmen who had lost family, cowboys who had lost sweethearts, soldiers who had lost comrades, men who had lost some of themselves. This gave them gravity, a heaviness that made them slow to react and more powerful once they punched. But early Bond was immune to the costs of violence; except in the underrated On Her Majesty's Secret Service, he had no one he cared about, and it never bothered him to kill. And thus he had no gravity: style, yes, but no moral heft. With puns and bon mots he breezily punctuated one killing after another, and as Bond's dapper assassin nudged aside Wayne's somber heroes, his jocular style became the norm for action films, from the sardonic Dirty Harry, to fast-talking Beverly Hills cops, to the deadpan Arnold Schwarzenegger, to Bruce "Yippee-ki-yay, Motherf—-r" Willis.
But the James Bond of Skyfall is no quipster. Before the opening credits roll, a brush with death delivers him a steel-jacketed message that violence has a cost, which for a while he ponders in drunken isolation. He is not looking for any more trouble, but when trouble comes looking for him, or at least someone he cares about, he returns. That early lesson about the costs of violence is regularly repeated, however, all the way to the climax of the film, when Bond, paralyzed by sorrow at the loss of someone important to him, silently confronts his own deep vulnerability. Fifty years after displacing John Wayne, Bond takes up a key element of Wayne's persona. At the end of the film, 007 is sorrowful, wiser, but still a big bloody ship, still a-sail, resolved to strive and not to yield.