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theartsdesk Q&A: Director Hugh Hudson | Film reviews, news & interviews
theartsdesk Q&A: Director Hugh Hudson
The filmmaker who triumphed with Chariots of Fire has rebooted his unloved epic Revolution
Thirty years ago the British were coming. So cried Colin Welland rallyingly from the stage of the Academy Awards, having just accepted an Oscar for best screenplay. And now Chariots of Fire is coming again, twice. An energetic stage reincarnation has sprinted round the block at Hampstead Theatre and now jogs along to the Gielgud, where it will continue to leave barely a dry eye in the house. And then there is the film itself, out shortly for another turn on the red carpet in this Olympic season.
Hugh Hudson (b 1936), debut director of the film, wizened producer of the play, has another offspring he'd like to present for your consideration. In many ways, Revolution was the third in a trilogy of epics in which Hudson pitched himself against the Establishment. Chariots, set in the build-up to the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris, told of Eric Liddell, a devout Christian who ran for God, and Harold Abrahams, the son of a Jewish immigrant who ran to fit in. In Greystoke (1984), his thrilling Darwinian reinvention of the Tarzan story, an aristocratic scion chooses the jungle over his inheritance. Then in 1987 came Revolution, a portrait of the American War of Independence seen from the ground up. Al Pacino played a fur trapper whose boat is requisitioned and his son pressganged, thus forcing him to sign up for a war in which he has no interest. Although the battle scenes were magnificently choreographed, the idea of telling the story from the grunt's eye view, which worked in sundry Vietnam films of the period, proved too nihilistic a choice for a chronicle of America's creation myth. Indeed, a film about an iconic moment in history made history of its own, helping to sink Goldcrest and going down as one of the art forms's great hubristic box office flops.
What does it matter where you shoot? Americans are weird like that
Criticisms were many. First it was the casting. Pacino felt just too modern for 1776, while the Canadian Donald Sutherland played a brutish British sergeant and the very unEnglish Nastassja Kinski was a member of the ruling class who rebels against her family to take up the American cause and fall in love with Pacino. To American consternation, the film was shot in King's Lynn and Dartmoor. To British consternation, the colonists were portrayed as unremittingly cruel. At the height of Reagan-era confidence, with Thatcher's Britain still aglow from the post-imperial adventure in the Falklands, this was a story without heroes. Plus it didn't cohere. Hudson made a film about the senselessness of war which, criminally in the eyes of critics hunting in a unanimous transatlantic pack, made no sense. When Goldcrest went bust, Hudson took the rap, even though the company was overextended thanks also to Absolute Beginners and The Mission.
His career as a director has never quite recovered. Yes, there was the so-called Kinnock the Movie, his glossy party political broadcast on behalf of the Labour leader, plus several successors, and the ad for British Airways which at the time was the most expensive ever made. His last two movies to see the light of day were I Dreamed of Africa (1999), about a middle-class woman writer in Kenya, and My Life So Far (2000), based Dennis Forman's memoir of a Scottish childhood before the Great War.
It's possible that Revolution has been a bad-luck charm. Hudson has always contended that the film was rushed out long before it was ready to meet the Academy Award deadline and ease Goldcrest's cashflow. In 2008 he finally made good his determination to add a gravelly, introspective voiceover with Al Pacino to join the dots of the narrative, while also snipping out 10 minutes he never wanted in there in the first place. Now the director's cut is being released on DVD by the BFI. Meanwhile, a new work with Hudson's name on it is to be broadcast on BBC Four next month. A more intimate director is at work in Rupture: Living with My Broken Brain. Made with his wife Maryam d'Abo, it movingly tells of the aneurysm which nearly killed her in 2007.
Hudson's dry, spiky wit is beautifully captured in Charlotte Macmillan's portrait, taken in his home in Chelsea, and comes across loud and clear as he talks to theartsdesk about his own ancient wound.
JASPER REES: When did the possibility of being able to do this reboot of Revolution first come up?
HUGH HUDSON: The idea of wanting to do it came up a long time ago. Almost when it came out. For 20 years we've been talking about it and trying to get somebody to put some money up for it and we finally persuaded Warner Bros to do it. Al Pacino helped. He doesn't like doing stuff on films that have been made but this one he wanted to do very much because he felt he'd been really badly treated by the critics who think they know everything always. And often they don't, albeit the film had problems in structure and narrative. It's a broken narrative film and that's why we needed narration and always wanted to do one and were forced to bring the film out before we'd completed the narration. Narration is quite difficult to do. It doesn't happen overnight. You have to try it and retry and work it and then come back at it. You have to have two or three goes at it and they wanted the film out. It was so obvious it needed a narrative. It's like Barry Lyndon. You take the narration out of Barry Lyndon, you can't follow it. It's a mesmerising piece of work and the narrative just holds it together. It was essential in Revolution to have it.
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Riffs in the Style of Slash #1
Major apologies to GT. I was in the progress of making the tab for this lesson when he posted his rendition of SCOM. No upstaging intended. Well, it just goes to show that the most important aspect of this site is that those of us with experience want to share it with you who want to learn. Timing is everything.
GT's excellent rendition of this tune supports the main reason for this lesson very well. If you'd like to hear it,
This has got to be one of the most recognizable guitar riffs of the '90's (the project from which it came, Appetite for Destruction, was actually copyrighted in 1987. But what a lasting success this album had).
I was very impressed by GT's recording. He has a good rendition of the tune. But more impressive to me was that he took care to make sure that the signature riff was note-for-note. When doing a cover song, there's so much of it that's open to interpretation or embellishment or we just cover the song as we can within our talents. Or as I like to say (sincerely), when life gives you lemons, make lemonaid. But when it comes to the signature riff of a tune you should take care to learn it well. The average listeners are immediately impressed by this because they may not know music or how to play guitar, but they know that they're hearing a song that they know. If you can pull that off, then the average listener will give you the big thumbs up.
Below is the tab for this signature riff of SCOM. Note that if you're listening to the original tune, the recording was made a half a step lower. So the song is usually played in the key of D, but the recording is in Db. Just lower each number of the tab by one if you're trying to listen to the recording and look at this at the same time. No adjustment necessary if you're listening to GT's recording.
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Mirroring communities across the U.S., Jefferson Parish has seen a boom in bicycling in recent years. Each fall, hundreds of riders take part in the Tour de Jefferson, a scenic bike trek on the West Bank. Gretna and Algiers Point are joined by a 2.25-mile bike path along the Mississippi River levee. And last week, the Jefferson Parish Council took steps to construct a bike path along Leo Kerner Parkway to Parc Des Familles.
Now Jefferson Parish and the Regional Planning Commission are calling on residents to help create a master bike plan. Two public meetings have been scheduled for Jan. 28 from 6:30-8:30 p.m., at the East Bank Regional Library, 4747 West Napoleon Ave., Metairie; and Jan. 30 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the West Bank Regional Library, 2751 Manhattan Blvd., Harvey.
"We're trying to get an idea where people want to bike, where they bike now,'' said planner Lydia Jemison of Jemison & Partners, which is working on the project. The ultimate goal, she said, is to make Jefferson Parish more bicycle friendly.
Karen Parsons, principal planner with the Regional Planning Commission, said such a blueprint would have an impact on residents, from health benefits to improving the environment. In addition, officials seek to educate residents on the rules of the road and their responsibilities in keeping cyclists safe, she said.
"There is greater understanding how it can benefit the residents of Jefferson Parish,'' Parsons said. "It is also combined with a national understanding that we need to provide alternate forms of transportation for residents to reduce automobile emissions and encourage exercise and reduce obesity.''
An inventory of the parish's cycling routes finds "pieces and parts'' of different efforts, including Gretna's, through the years, she said. The Regional Planning Commission did a similar effort in 2005, but its master plan looked at ways to join area parishes.
"We identified routes of regional significance,'' she said. "We were looking at regional connections between the parishes.''
Planners want Jefferson residents to talk about their neighborhoods, their visions for biking and where they would like to bike.
"We believe there is a lot of latent demand out there,'' Parsons said. "If people had safe areas to bike, we believe there would be a greater number of them.''
For more information, visit www.JeffParishBikePlan.org.


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And all around me is beauty ~ Navajo Song
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Awesome page Edina. You sure are catching on quickly. Great to have you in the Challenges. What an adorable little cake lover.
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How Examiner.com Is Being Rebuilt by Migrating to Drupal 7
This case study highlights how Examiner.com's migration to Drupal 7 has effectively improved their search engine and page load performance, community interaction and user engagement, and the elimination of all costs associated with server licensing fees.
With over 42,000 content contributors, Examiner.com has enjoyed some of the fastest year-over-year growth of any online media company. Examiner.com attributes much of its success to a model of community-driven content. Specifically, Examiner.com provides localized news coverage using a deep network of localized journalists, known as Examiners. Social media innovations, such as reader discussions, have factored into the rich give-and-take between local audiences and the local Examiners, who are knowledgeable participants in their respective area of expertise. Examiner.com's success and popularity has resulted in leading online news outlets following suit with their own community-driven content.
Examiner.com has demonstrated a long-term strategic vision to leverage social media for improving online news distribution models. This commitment has directly led to the large- scale migration of the entire Examiner.com site to Open Source Drupal.
The Struggle to Keep Pace with Online Innovation
Examiner.com has grown tremendously; both in the scope of functionality and the communities it covers, with over 240 markets throughout North America. Behind the scenes, the massive production of news content has been facilitated through custom- coded Cold Fusion pages, and SQL Server databases. As with many fast-growing online ventures, Examiner.com began to face challenges caused by its own success.
To deliver on this model, we've pushed the limits of our Cold Fusion development. We realized a limit would arrive; though custom coding served us well in the past, it's just not a feasible plan moving forward.
Michael Meyers, CTO, Clarity Digital Group
With the writing on the wall, Michael Meyers and his team began to plan for a transition to a new platform that could meet current and future requirements.
Turning to Drupal
Michael Meyers was already familiar with Drupal, through NowPublic.com, which was acquired by Clarity Digital in the Fall of 2009. There were several factors that made Drupal suitable for this project. As a mature, community-developed content management system (CMS), Drupal would eliminate the need for Examiner.com to build and maintain a custom CMS platform. In addition to Drupal core, Drupal offers the added benefit of thousands of community developed modules, which are regularly maintained and improved through the community. The prolific nature of the Drupal. org developer community is well suited to Examiner.com's interest in offering the latest online media innovations.
While a lively community is an important factor, precedent for Drupal's reliability as a viable business solution played a key role into the decision making process. Drupal has a track record of proven success, with many highly visible name-brand companies depending on Drupal for Internet-driven business models.
A plan was established to move the SQL Server and Cold Fusion site over to Drupal, with a hybridized database solution that leverages both MySQL and MongoDB.
The Challenges and Opportunities of Migration
With Examiner.com's entire business model dependent on substantial volumes of content, the management team decided to engage in careful planning, followed by swift action. The project was initiated in mid-February of 2010, with a fully content-rich beta launch planned for the beginning of May, followed by a go-live launch date at the end of July. Examiner.com contracted Cyrve to manage one of the mission critical components of relaunching Examiner.com: data migration. Drupal data migration specialists, Cyrve has provided both expert analysis and facilitated the migration of voluminous quantities of content. Moshe Weitzman, co-founder of Cyrve, helps quantify the size of this particular migration.
"On the surface, Examiner.com boasts over 1 million discreet articles – but that only tells part of the story. These pages have related content, including over 1 million comments and hundreds of thousands of slideshows using photo images.
"Specifically, each user has an abundance of profile fields, and these fields must be brought into the new system. In Drupal, users will have a new entity called profile, using the Entity API and field API fields. This gives one some sense of not just the sheer size, but the complexity of the migration." Properly mapping this data to major Drupal objects is essential for success.
Cyrve began engaging Examiner.com by assessing and understanding the database structure, including a review of each database's schema diagram (fields and relationships). Cyrve worked with Examiner.com to map data over from SQL Server to a hybridized storage model that combines MySQL and MongoDB. Cyrve also configured the conversion of character sets to UTF-8 from their native database using PHP SQL extensions implemented in the MSSQL database driver. Mike Ryan, co-founder at Cyrve, started rebuilding the Drupal migrate module to take advantage of the most exciting aspects of the project; Examiner.com would be running on Drupal 7, currently in Alpha 2 release.
Mike explains how innovations to Drupal and the migrate module are working together to make the migration process more efficient. "Drupal 7's field API has been a godsend. Drupal 7 also features an autoloader, which takes advantage of PHP5's class autoloader. With the autoloader, the migrate module's plug-in system is clean and Object-Oriented. We've been able to refine the communication process between our module and legacy data. In the past, we would have to migrate content from SQL Server, to MySQL, and then again over to Drupal. With the updates to the module, we can now migrate directly to Drupal. This has helped address one of our biggest challenges – communicating
with the client about where data goes. These updates allow us to more easily build in information about source and destination fields, and manage fields that appear on the web site."
Another contribution to the migrate module is Drush functionality. Drush adds the ability to replace complex, multi-step tasks via a single command line instruction. These module updates, submitted to Drupal.org by Cyrve, are directly benefitting the migration. Specifically Drush functionality enables processing to be more directly and swiftly initiated, monitored, stopped and rolled back – with a minimum of keystrokes and error potential.
Incremental Migration
One of the most relevant updates is support for incremental migration, including the ability to query remote databases directly. "To understand the benefit of incremental migration," explains Mike Ryan, "one should be familiar with how migrations have been handled in the past. Previously, high volume content is queued up and moved over
to a new environment. Webmasters and DBAs work together, but ultimately, a switch is flipped – with a new site using a new dataset. There's an inherent risk of the site performing poorly or crashing. With Examiner.com – that's obviously not an option.
"With incremental migration, we can migrate most of the content over prior to the beta launch, including all of the millions of pages, comments and photos. Then, during the beta launch we can migrate content on a weekly and daily basis. As the go-live launch date approaches, we migrate smaller and smaller chunks of data. By the time we flip the switch on the new site, the amount of content being migrated is nominal. Most of the content has already been migrated, ensuring a much more secure and reliable process."
Link Preservation
Another concern being addressed is link preservation; with a new organizational architecture, Examiner.com must be able to ensure that the migration makes content more accessible, without eliminating all old paths towards navigating to popular content – potentially thwarting user interaction and search engine optimization. Jeremy Andrews, from Tag1 Consulting, is coordinating efforts between various working groups involved with the move to Drupal, and explains the process for preserving link structures. "The old URLs will be stored temporarily as fields in Drupal, until they are no longer needed. This will allow us the flexibility to move to a new model that will dramatically improve search engine optimization."
Performance Improvements
In the process of migration, Cyrve has found opportunities to improve Drupal 7 performance, while refining the Examiner.com's data. Cyrve submitted several Drupal 7 patches that were committed. Specifically, Cyrve streamlined the saving of new nodes, users and taxonomy terms. This resulted in improved performance for all Drupal 7 sites. The migration process is helping shape Drupal 7 performance, as migration puts a unique strain on Drupal Core. Moshe Weitzman likens the process to a "canary in a coal mine," as migration can expose performance issues much faster than incremental, day- to-day processing, and the Examiner.com project has provided valuable load testing and benchmarking.
The database architecture for Examiner.com represents a unique, emerging architecture – a hybridized relationship between MySQL and MongoDB, a NoSQL database. MongoDB will store Fields, Views, Node Status, and Watchdog tables. With auto-sharding capabilities to enable database management across multiple physical servers, MongoDB and NoSQL databases are becoming an increasingly popular architectural choice for large-scale Drupal deployments. Commercial Drupal support providers, such as Acquia, are already examining how to maximize the benefits of Mongo and NoSQL databases.
Examiner.com on Drupal
With a late July go-live date just around the corner for Examiner.com's Drupal implementation, CTO Michael Myers is already considering the benefits and long-term vision of the switch. "With the modular approach of Drupal, we'll be able to add new features and functions. With the core already reviewed, tested and implemented, reviewing modules for performance and security will be relatively straightforward.
"We aren't kidding ourselves – this is an aggressive undertaking, with an even more aggressive timetable. But in the long term, we're confident that this is the right move. Open source development and support is substantially more cost effective. We'll be saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in the first year alone, just on slashing proprietary web server licenses. Our Drupal talent will be posed to take future innovations from vision to reality much faster than we could in the past."
Even more compelling than Examiner.com's rebirth as a Drupal powered media platform, is how Clarity Media Group intends to leverage its Drupal solution as a game-changer for the entire online news media market. The process of migration is being carefully planned and documented, and the Examiner.com Drupal sites will form the basis of a set of best practices. Once finished and refined, Examiner.com will take the solution to market, providing other online news sources with an easy-to- deploy solution that will enable better features for users, and more content sharing for distributors. Through Open Source Drupal, Examiner.com is creating a new revenue model based upon revolutionizing news distribution through social publishing.
About Examiner.com
Launched in April 2008, Examiner.com serves 240 markets across North America and is the insider source for everything local. Examiner.com feeds the passion the local community has for its favorite interests, activities, and establishments by connecting them with credible and informed contributors who write and share information with the passion and insights only a local insider can provide. Examiner.com is a division of the Clarity Digital Group, LLC, wholly owned by The Anschutz Company, a Denver- based investment company with a broad array of assets in print and digital media; live sports and entertainment; hospitality; film production and exhibition; wind energy development and transmission; as well as ranching and oil/gas exploration. For more information, visit Examiner.com.
About Tag1 Consulting
Tag1 Consulting, Inc. is a distinguished professional consulting company headquartered in sunny Florida, with an international presence providing computer consulting services worldwide. We focus on performance and scalability consulting of the entire LAMP stack, specializing on Drupal performance.
Cyrve specializes in migrating your data into Drupal. We've migrated from MS SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, Wordpress, Moveable Type, NITF, flat HTML files, and on and on. This is painstaking work, with emphasis on pain. Just hand us your source data and destination database and we'll move it for you.
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Company Information
- Custom coding made innovation difficult
- Server licensing costs were substantial
- Search Engine Visibility was not optimized
- Search engine and page load performance improvements
- Ease of text and interactive media publishing for the more than 33,000 contributors
- Information is more accessible
- Increased community interaction and user engagement
- Server licensing elimination
- Business operations, such as contributor compensation, can be integrated and accelerated
Examiner.com Data Profile
- Blogs: 42,870
- Articles: 1.3 million
- BlogEntryPhotos: Over a million
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- Lists:150,000
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- Slideshows: Over 100,000
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Aqua Indiana costumers in the northern part of Fort Wayne could receive their water and sewer bills from the city as early as the end of the year. Council approved the take over and the bonds needed to buy the operation. City Council reporter Nicole Pence reports.
It's been more than five years in the making, and Tuesday night Council finalized the transaction. All eight councilmen present voted in favor of taking over Aqua Indiana's northern operation. And, all but one member signed off on the bottom line. That's because it's still not clear how much the city will have to fork over to buy the company.
The City's appraisals put the price tag around 17-million. But, Aqua Indiana officials say that's too low, and they've filed suit against the City. If the court rules the price is more than 17-million, the City's stuck with that price... Meaning newly acquired costumers would have to pay more.
Don Schmidt/2nd District Councilman: "I don't think they should do a quick take. I think the new mayor should have a chance to weigh in. I can't sign a blank check with out knowing what the amount is. And, I fully expect the Court to come in with a significantly greater price."
Tom Hayhurst/4th District Councilman: " There is no information at all that those appraisals won't stick. I think that Aqua Indiana will, hopefully see the light and realize they are getting a good deal to sell all their facilities to Fort Wayne City Utilities. And, I think it can be a win-win for Aqua Indiana and the citizens in Fort Wayne who need a higher quality, lower cost, sewer and water product."
It's not clear how many Aqua Indiana workers will lose their jobs, or if they'll have the option to apply with the City.
In the meantime, City utility leaders say they're moving full speed ahead. A public meeting next Tuesday is scheduled to gain input from newly acquired costumers and neighborhood association presidents to iron out details of the City's take over.
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Restaurant Week is always a huge success and that has sparked 19 of the participating restaurants to extend their restaurant week menus and those restaurants are:
• 6ix A Bistro in Bally's
• Arturo's in Bally's
• Atlantic City Country Club (lunch only)
• Atlantic Grill in Caesars
• Back Bay Ale House
• Casa di Napoli in Showboat
• Chart House in Golden Nugget
• Girasole (until Friday only)
• Mia in Caesars
• Nero's Tuscan Steakhouse in Caesars
• Red Room Café
• Ruth's Chris Steak House
• Scarduzio's Steak, Sushi and Lounge, in Showboat
• The Foundation Room in Showboat
• The Melting Pot
• The Palm, Atlantic City (until Friday only)
• The Reserve Seafood and Steak in Bally's
• W.L. Goodfellows and Co.
• Vic & Anthony's Steakhouse in Golden Nugget
During Restaurant Week, participating restaurants offered fixed price, three-course meals with lunches priced at $15.12 and dinners at $33.12, not including beverage, tax or tip.
Reservations are suggested at participating restaurants, and most of these specials end Friday. Check with the restaurant in advance to make sure of their Restaurant Week specials.
Atlantic City Restaurant Week gift certificates will no longer be honored during the extended period, but gift certificates purchased this year are valid for next year's Restaurant Week.
Menu's can be viewed at www.acrestaurantweek.com


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Massive fire destroys indoor flea market
HALLTOWN – After a massive Friday night fire gutted several units of the Route 340 Indoor Flea Market complex, renters and apartment residents gathered in the daylight Saturday morning to assess the damages.
"Even though this looks bad, this is still just stuff," said Charles Kesner, the complex's manager, while standing inside a severely damaged Building 103. "The main thing is the kids got out. People are irreplaceable."
Monetary value of the fire damage is estimated at $1.7 million, according to chief Donnie Dunn of Friendship Fire Company in Harpers Ferry. Kesner said three of the complex's units are total losses, while at least one more has "a tremendous amount of smoke damage." Several other buildings suffered some level of smoke damage, he said, but the damage to the main flea market building – Building 107 – was minimal.
Dunn said the fire is believed to have started in an automotive garage that was located in Building 101. That building's second story suffered an internal collapse during the fire, which forced fire crews to evacuate the building during the battle.
The Red Cross was called to the scene to assist families living in apartments within the complex who were displaced by the fire. The West Virginia Region of the American Red Cross was unable to confirm Saturday exactly how many people are being assisted.
Richard Brooks Jr. lived in one of the apartments along with his wife and three children, and his family is among those who lost their homes. Brooks Jr., who worked at the automotive shop, said he and his boss were away on an errand when one of his sons called and told him there was a fire.
"By the time we got back from Rippon, it was gone," Brooks Jr. said Saturday morning at the scene.
Dunn said 10 fire companies responded to the blaze Friday night – including all seven from Jefferson County; one from Washington County, Md.; and two from Frederick County, Md.
No cause for the fire has yet been determined. Dunn said he expects the state fire marshal to arrive at the scene Monday.
– Regional editor Dave Emke can be reached at 304-263-8931, ext. 218, or twitter.com/demkeJN.


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If there's one thing you'll learn from watching this video of Alice Cooper singing Born This Way at Tennessee's Bonnaroo Music Festival, it's this: no-one covers Lady Gaga like this particular Prince Of Darkness.
Adding his own special touches to The Fame Monster's hit, a massive scarecrow known as the 'Frankengaga' wanders onto the stage during his performance, dancing along to the beat while Alice screams his lungs out.
That said, after you look through some of Ms. Gaga's recent outfits below, perhaps a scarecrow-style get up could well be on the cards sometime soon...
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I did infact manage to get to see a little of the cycling this morning. Ten ay em, sitting on my bike on western beach road — normally a rather busy road but today completely deserted. I was looking down at my camera and before I knew it half of the pelaton had quietly zoomed by. It was like a J.G. Ballard story meets a story with a bunch of women cyclists in it.
Each lap was taking 25mins or so and eventually some other people came to watch. If you're a guerilla film maker and needed some shots of empty streets but had no hope of getting the permits then you missed a golden opportunity.


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Syracuse, NY -- Helen Marrone had the opportunity and the audience. She asked the question that was on the mind of a lot of football loving folks in Central New York as Saturday approached.
"She asked me, 'Do you really have a chance to beat these guys?'" Doug Marrone said, describing a conversation he had with his wife. "I told her, 'Well, I really like the plan. She said, 'And when do you ever not like the plan?'"
This time, though, Marrone really liked the plan to upset No. 20 West Virginia on the road.
"We have an opportunity to beat this team," the second-year head coach of the Syracuse University football team had said. "The kids just have to make plays and believe in themselves. I like our plan. In the end, I don't know if our Joes are better than their Joes, but I like our plan."
No one in the room doubted Marrone had a plan. All had witnessed his thoroughness in probing for an opponent's weaknesses, finding them and formulating a plan to exploit them.
It was the comment about the Joes that caused concern. And why not? Marrone had a plan a week earlier, too, and the Joes of Pittsburgh had manhandled his Joes 45-14.
The Mountaineers were believed to be even better than the Panthers. They had five 2009 first-team All-Big East performers on their roster. Of the 22 players who had started in last season's 34-13 rout of SU in the Carrier Dome, 17 were back. West Virginia had won eight straight over the Orange and was playing at home, where it had won 12 consecutive games. Its trademark 3-3-5 stack defense was among the best in the nation.
Syracuse, meanwhile, had failed to win more than one conference game in a season since 2004. With all due respect to Marrone, his team's encouraging 4-2 record and his plan, there did not appear to be much of an "opportunity to beat this team." It was that Joes thing.
Yet, the plan unfolded exactly as Marrone and his assistants envisioned, and two days after the stunning 19-14 upset the Orange (5-2, 2-1 Big East) is a significant step closer to qualifying for a postseason bowl for the first time since 2004.
The plan was simple. Many SU followers assumed Marrone would unveil some hidden facet of his offense and defense in an attempt to surprise the favored Mountaineers. He did just the opposite.
"You lose a game like we did last week, this is no time to expand," he said. "We really stressed the little things and simplified the game plan."
On offense, that meant running the ball against a team that was allowing 83.2 rushing yards per game, No. 4 in the nation. Marrone looked at the 3-3-5 stack, decided his passing offense did not match up well with it and opted to employ SU's 22 package – two tight ends, two running backs and only one wide receiver – and pound away.
The Orange did use formation and shifts the Mountaineers had not seen on film but in the end ran its basic power running plays. Marrone pledged to remain committed to the run even in third-and-five situations, which normally call for the pass.
That was evident on SU's lone touchdown drive. Trailing 7-3 midway through the opening quarter and facing third-and-five from its 43-yard line, the Orange went with a straight off-tackle handoff to Carter, who bulled for 11 yards and a first down at the WVU 46. Two plays later quarterback Ryan Nassib faked a handoff to Carter, luring West Virginia's safeties toward the line of scrimmage, and found Van Chew wide open on a 29-yard post for a TD.
It was SU's one sparkling moment in the pass game, and it was set up by the run. Even with Carter standing on the sideline in the second half with the hip injury Marrone stayed true to his plan. In the end it produced 183 yards rushing, 100 more than WVU's average allowance.
"They ran the ball," WVU nose tackle Chris Neild said. "They ran the ball a lot. They ran hard, and they played hard. And as you can see, it really showed in the end."
On defense, the plan was equally simple, with a few twists. The Orange was going to play West Virginia's spread no huddle attack with its base defense. It would use more zone pass coverage instead of its usual steady diet of press coverage to be in better position to defend the Mountaineers' perimeter passes, the staple of their offense.
It would go to its Okie package on passing downs and unleash a torrent of blitzers at sophomore quarterback Geno Smith. Again, there would be no deviation from the plan.
The result was a season-high three interceptions and a season-high five sacks.
Smith said afterward that he didn't notice anything particularly different during the game than he had while studying film of SU's defense, although he became clearly rattled as the game wore on.
"We knew they were a cover-3 blitz team," Smith said. "Maybe they played off (the receivers) a little more and I should have hit my check-down (receiver) more. I just wasn't disciplined enough in my reads."
Marrone's simple approach carried over to special teams, as well. He told senior punter
Rob Long to just kick the ball "as high as he can, and I don't care how far it goes," in order to keep it away from West Virginia's dangerous returners.
That was the gist of the plan. Pretty basic stuff, eh?
"I like it a lot," Marrone had said. "Now, can we execute it?"
The final score provides the answer. So do 183 yards rushing, the punishment Smith absorbed and WVU's two punt returns for nine yards.
"All the credit goes to Syracuse," Smith said, "because they came out and hit us in the mouth."
Oh yeah. That was part of the plan, too.


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UTICA, NY — A Manlius man was sentenced to prison for seven years for sending and receiving thousands of sexually explicit images of children over the Internet.
U.S. District Judge David Hurd imposed the sentence on Louis H. Markowski, who pleaded guilty in May to two counts of distributing child porn and three counts of possessing it.
Markowski, 47, of 7630 W. Seneca Turnpike, will be supervised release for 15 years when he finishes his prison term, the judge said.
State troopers and U.S. Secret Service agents who executed a search warrant at Markowski's house in September 2012 found 7,821 pictures and 325 videos of child pornography, according to court records.
Markowski was arrested at his job at Turning Stone casino while the search warrant was being executed, after he admitted the files were his, court records show.
He was released from jail March 13 on the condition that he wear an electronic monitor on his ankle and that he not use a computer or access the Internet on any device. A month later, a judge revoked his bail after Markowski's federal probation officer said Markowski had viewed a child's Facebook page and YouTube video, court records show.
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The world is a mess. It is charged with amazing beauty, but also broken in countless big and little ways. Some are huge, like war and famine, poverty and disease, crime and injustice and environmental degradation. Some are smaller, but may loom even larger because they are closer to home: a friend or neighbor or family member, or even ourselves, battling cancer or mental illness or joblessness or frustration – or despair. And we know such suffering is multiplied many times over in the lives of people all around us, sitting next to us in the pews or walking the street outside.Where is God in all this? And, perhaps more important, what is God doing about all this?God has already done something amazing: he has come among us, taken on the human condition in all its limitedness and suffering by actually becoming one of us, a human being like us in every way but one: sin. He taught, and healed, and announced the Kingdom of God. And he drank the cup of suffering, all the brokenness of the world, to the dregs, all the way to the bottom on the Cross. There is no one who can say, anymore, "God doesn't know what this feels like." Because He does. He has literally walked in our shoes.But God has done more than that; he has risen again, triumphed over death itself, and shared his very Life with us in the sacraments of encounter with the risen Jesus that he has given us, so that we need never be alone or unable to face whatever it is we have to face. And he has given us the destiny of sharing forever in that triumphant life with him in Heaven, where every sorrow earth has to offer is answered and healed by unending, limitless joy, haunted by no fears or shadows or shame.But it doesn't stop there. God has done even more. He hasn't just offered us his life, his healing. He hasn't just promised us Heaven when it is all over. He has commissioned us and sent us into the world in his name, here and now, to continue the work of restoration that he has begun, in all the places where we are. All of creation is to be restored to its original dignity, and he has made us his partners in this great work of redeeming and restoration.Our vocation is our own personal path to the limitless joy that God offers – a path that will both heal and fulfill us, and make us channels through which God's healing and restoration will reach the world around us, in ways we may not even be able to imagine. A vocation is a unique work of love to which God calls us, which only we can do. If we say no, if we don't do it, it won't get done. Some part of the creation, some people beloved by God will not encounter what God intends to give them without our cooperation. God will not save us without us; he will not save the world without us. Our part matters.Now, looking within ourselves, we may object that we can't possibly be the sort of people that God wants to do things. We're too sinful, too broken, too ignorant, too proud, too fearful, too weak, too unreliable. Like St. Peter, we want to tell him: "Go away, Lord, I am a sinful man." Like Jeremiah, even when God Himself tells us that we have a special destiny, a particular mission that he has selected for us, we want to plead incompetence and be excused.But Jesus doesn't leave Peter there; he tells him not to be afraid. And he tells us, too: don't be afraid. I am with you. I have equipped you, and you will never face what I send you to without my help.
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"We wrote more obituaries for murdered trans women in 2015 than TV recaps for any single show we cover."
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The good, the bad, the ugly, and the revolutionarily boring queer TV storylines of the year.
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In sadder news: Famke Janssen is out of town on How to Get Away With Murder and Riese really likes Scream Queens.
This week we gather under the last quarter moon to discuss how to curb the profusion of elfin construction, swap tips for keeping mildew out of our newly-constructed moss bath mats, find out whether Nikki bought that tie, and ponder Saturn's transit through Sagittarius. Also Young Adult Literature. Get in here!
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"I would be remiss if I didn't mention that not ONE of these witches has made a Diana Ross Supremes joke. Not once. And they say "Supreme" every five seconds. OPPORTUNITY MISSED."
Welcome to the penultimate episode of American Horror Story, the show that hits you in the face harder than a left hook from Misty Day.
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Welcome to the seventh episode of American Horror Story, featuring an award-winning musical score by Hans Zimmer. I'm sorry, that's not Hans Zimmer; it's two goblins humping on a Casio keyboard. My mistake.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Ohio Turnpike commissioners named Robin Carlin as interim executive director of the agency, marking the first time the 59-year-old toll road has had a woman in its top administrative post.
Carlin, 48, of Rocky River, said she's interested in becoming the turnpike's permanent executive director. Continuing the "jobs and transportation movement" is a top priority, she said.
Under Carlin's predecessor, Rick Hodges, the turnpike broke with past practice and became a major financer of road projects off the 241-mile tollway. Hodges was Gov. John Kasich's point person at the turnpike in guiding the Jobs and Transportation Plan to fruition.
The turnpike issued $1 billion in bonds last August for the off-turnpike projects. Tolls are increasing 2.7 percent a year in each of the next 10 years to back the bond. Kasich said the funding allowed the state to kick-start road projects that otherwise faced years of delay due to lagging revenue at the Ohio Department of Transportation.
Among the work that got funding was the Opportunity Corridor's first phase, focused on improvements to 105th St. near the University Circle area, a $39 million allocation, and $340 million for construction of the eastbound bridge of the Inner Belt.
"We're doing some amazing things in northern Ohio partnering with ODOT," Carlin said Monday. "It's actually turned out to be quite a successful plan."
Carlin joined the turnpike 11 years ago as labor relations manager, was appointed human resources director in 2005 and became director of administration and deputy executive director under Hodges in 2012.
Earlier, she was a project manager with the Voinovich Center for Leadership and Public Affairs, where her duties included managing the Ohio University Human Resources Institute and serving as a presenter and curriculum development for the Ohio Certified Public Manager Program.
Turnpike spokesman Adam Greenslade had no estimate on when commissioners will name a new executive director.
Hodges resigned from the turnpike this month to become Kasich's appointee to lead the state Health Department. Hodges' appointment must be approved by the Ohio Senate, which recessed for the summer.
He was given public recognition and thanks at Monday's commissioners' meeting, but wasn't there to hear the plaudits, having started his work in Columbus last week.
In an employee newsletter, Hodges praised Kasich's push to use turnpike resources to fund languishing road projects, saying it put 65,000 people back to work because of accelerated construction.
Critics say the bonds expose the turnpike to unnecessary risk by taking on more debt and shift the cost of non-turnpike projects onto users of the toll road.
Hodges, a former Republican state lawmaker, joined the turnpike in November 2011. He previously worked four years as marketing director at the Fulton County Health Center and two years as director of the Community Hospitals of Williams County.
Some Democrats and the abortion rights group NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio contend Hodges' medical experience is insufficient to be state health director. Ohio law says the health director must be a physician or someone with "significant experience in the public health profession."
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BORDENTOWN CITY — Gian Belardo and Terry Loda have brought a taste of Italy to the city so big it barely fit through the front door of their new restaurant.
Loda said it was "nerve-wracking" to watch a 6,000-pound wood-fired pizza oven from Naples being squeezed through the doors of The Vault, the pizzeria they opened last month in a former bank building on Farnsworth Avenue.
"It made it by that much on the top, bottom and sides," Loda said, holding his fingers about an inch apart.
The oven is a crucial component in the baking of the Neapolitan-style pizza that is the restaurant's specialty. Now assembled and decorated with tile, the oven has been put to use cooking up pizzas at 900 degrees.
Unlike a typical American pizzeria, The Vault serves up individual-sized, Neapolitan pizzas.
The pies have a light and "poofy" crust that becomes slightly charred when it is cooked at high temperature for only 90 seconds, instead of at 550 degrees for 7 minutes as is typical, Belardo said.
Belardo has worked in restaurants most of his life and was inspired to start his own after his father opened a restaurant, he said.
But he did not want to open a normal pizzeria, he said.
"I wanted to actually venture out to this style of pizza because it was different," he said. "It's something that I liked when I went to Italy. It was awesome. I loved it."
Belardo's family is from Naples and he has traveled to Italy many times. He said he was amazed at how different the pizza was from standard American fare.
"When you order pizza you expect one thing — the pizza you get in the states," he said. "So when we got it there, it was different. The whole process is different."
The Italian government has recognized the Neapolitan pizza recipe as worthy of preservation and has issued a strict definition of how the pies should be made. Only soft-grain flour, fresh yeast, water, and sea salt may be used for the dough, and toppings are limited to Italian plum tomatoes, buffalo mozzarella, extra-virgin olive oil and fresh basil or dried oregano. Neapolitan pizzas must be cooked in a wood-burning oven.
A number of other restaurants in the region offer pizzas cooked in traditional ovens, including Massimo's Pizzeria & Cucina Napoletana in Princeton, Hamilton and Robbinsville, which says it was the first to install a wood-burning brick oven for pizza in Mercer County. The chain has Italian certification as a producer of authentic Neapolitan pizza.
Belardo said his pizzeria imports all of its ingredients from Italy or gets them fresh, using tomatoes from Italy and both mozzarella the restaurant makes on its own and buffalo mozzarella from Naples. Pizzas are cooked following the Neapolitan tradition.
Belardo and Loda had worked together at two restaurants and shared a vision of owning a restaurant, they said.
Then Belardo drove past a "for rent" sign in the window of the 100-year old bank building and knew it was the perfect spot, he said.
They wasted no time turning the building, which had also previously been a cigar shop and a bookstore, into a restaurant while preserving its charm, Belardo said. The bank's original vault is still installed, giving the restaurant its name.
"It was the first thing we saw when we walked in," Loda said.
Some customers experienced culture shock when they first tried the pizza, but by now seem to have grasped the concept of the special Italian-style pizza, the partners said.
"The people that come here appreciate and understand the process and what goes into it," Loda said. "They know that they're getting mozzarella that is probably only five hours old."
Belardo and Loda said they are excited they can offer something different to the city of Bordentown.
"It's different, out of the norm," Belardo said. "In this day and age, I think there's too much of the same things out there."
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Diocese spokesman Robert Tayek said Monday that Lennon, who last month excommunicated the community's pastor, the Rev. Robert Marrone, made the offer to meet with the community's 11 board members.
"They have accepted," Tayek said in a statement.
The private meeting is Friday, said community board member Frank Titas, adding that Lennon wants to discuss "the present situation."
"We represent the members of the community," said Titas. "We have a duty to respect the office of the bishop, go hear what he has to say and bring back the message to the community for discussion."
Titas said the meeting, according to the diocese, will focus on two topics -- "the importance of unity among Catholics" and "the Second Vatican Council's teachings on membership in the church."
"We don't really know what's going to come out of this discussion," he said.
It will be the board's first meeting with Lennon who once warned members of the community that their salvation was in jeopardy for partaking in worship services outside the authority of the diocese.
Marrone, former pastor of St. Peter Catholic Church in downtown Cleveland, broke away from the diocese after Lennon closed his church in 2010 as part of a diocesewide downsizing.
The pastor and more than 300 parishioners formed a nonprofit group, the Community of St. Peter, and rented renovated space in an old warehouse on Euclid Avenue at East 71st Street where they have been celebrating Masses each Sunday since August 2010.
The split created a standoff between Marrone and Lennon as the two exchanged icy letters and held their respective ground.
In March, Lennon declared Marrone excommunicated, saying "Father Marrone's recent actions have been in direct defiance of the church's teachings and authority."
"It is with sadness," Lennon continued, "that in accordance with (church) law, I publicly declare that the Rev. Robert J. Marrone has elected to disassociate himself from the church."
Marrone did not publicly respond to Lennon's edict. He could not be reached Monday for comment about his board's upcoming meeting with the bishop.
In the wake of Lennon's action, the diocese said that the excommunication of Marrone did not mean his followers were excommunicated as well.
But the diocese said that since Marrone was forbidden to administer the sacraments, members of the Community of St. Peter were not receiving true Holy Communion from him.
The community has continued to celebrate Masses.
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The Snack Bar opens at 6 a.m. each morning of the Chautauqua County Fair with a full fare of breakfast menu items and smiling 4-H faces. Lunch and dinner have delicious items as well as the famous 4-H milkshakes, homemade sloppy joes and pulled pork donated by Jamestown Harley-Davidson. The Snack Bar stocks its inventory from local vendors who help support 4-H. Youth not only serve the public, they gain valuable experience in the food service and customer service areas. All animal project areas enjoy a friendly barn challenge every year to see who can "work" the most number of hours in the Snack Bar, and 4-H clubs are encouraged to help out too. The 4-H youth benefit from this as a fundraising effort for the whole 4-H program.
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Volunteers needed to paint Port Orchard on Sunday
When the idea to paint downtown Port Orchard came to light in May, Delilah Rene thought she'd be lucky to get half of the property owners to agree to the plan.
"If I got that many," she said, "I thought it would be a success."
Turns out her projections were far too conservative.
"We got a lot of push back," Rene said on Tuesday, but then it snowballed. We got up to 75 percent, and I had to get out of the way. Now, 92 percent of Port Orchard will get repainted."
Bay Street will be closed on Sunday between the triangle on the west side of town to Rockwell on the east, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Vehicle traffic will be routed down Kitsap Street.
Even if hard work is the order of the day, the plan is to make it fun.
There will be free movies for the children of volunteers at the Orchard Cinema between noon and 6 p.m., with several other children's activities scheduled.
Refreshments will be served, and teams will compete for prizes as they complete their tasks.
"With the scope of things, I don't expect that it will all get completed," Rene said. "But if it doesn't get done, we'll keep coming back every weekend until it's done."
Two weeks ago, she said the worst that could happen would be if it rained. Now, with western Washington in the grips a record-breaking heat wave, the opposite weather extreme could become an obstacle — even though Rene admits that an overabundance of sunshine will be less discouraging than torrential rain.
So on Sunday enough volunteers will show up, or they won't.
Rene is telling people that "several hundred" volunteers will show up. But Leah Wattree, who is managing the volunteer effort, said Wednesday that only 50 people are actually committed.
"This is starting to stress me out a little," she said.
Rene's initial promise to buy paint was also intended to recruit other investors, but none materialized.
She isn't specific and won't say how much of her own money she is spending on this — only that it's "a lot."
She does admit that the paint cost — even with donations — is about $25,000.
Beyond this, she has rented port-a-potties, play equipment and bought food at her own expense.
While generous, these are not completely selfless acts.
"I have one business downtown and I'm about to open another," she said. "This is an investment for me. I want clients to come downtown."
Downtown businesses will keep regular hours on Saturday.
Stores expected to open on Sunday through the paint effort include Los Cabos, Morningside Bakery, Moondogs Too, Myhre's, Shishini BBQ House, The Ale House, The Candy Shoppe, The Puget Sound Wine Shop, Jawapas, Off the Wagon Antiques, Wisteria Lane and Rene's business, Delilah's Cozy Kitchin.
Many of the stores and restaurants will offer special deals for volunteers.
The city has donated the use of several dumpsters to cart off the trash. The painting will be conducted by four local contractors who have donated their expertise, under the supervision of BLC Group President Robert Baglio.
The contractors, which will staff teams assigned to each quadrant, are Ecklund Paint and Drywall, Nail Painters, CHC Painting and Corliss Painting.
The follow-up efforts, if they occur, won't include Rene.
She is leaving for her first vacation in six years, taking her children to Hawaii.
"I'm either going to go there and celebrate how awesome it came out," she joked, "or I'm going to go and never come back."
If you go:
Volunteers are needed for both Saturday and Sunday, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Volunteers make their own hours, and can work for as long or as short as they want.
On Saturday, people with weed eaters will be especially needed, as a major task is to clean around several houses at the east end of town.
All prep work will take place on Saturday.
The painting process will commence on Sunday morning.
There are two signup locations — in the alley between Myhre's and Slip 45 and at 703 Kitsap Street.
Volunteers will be assigned to tasks and teams at that time.
Bay Street will be open on Saturday, but will be closed on Sunday between during the actual painting.
There is no special parking designated for the event, although time limits for downtown parking spaces will not be in effect.
Volunteers are also expected to be on hand to route volunteers to parking on the waterfront.
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I know the 622 can receive OTA locals when connected to an antenna but has anyone had luck in connecting their 622 to cable and receive local digital signals in the free and clear that way? (ones not scrambled)
My HDTV has it's own ATSC tuner and if I plug my cable (from comcast) directly into the TV and search for local digital I pick them up. (not sure if IRC or HRC but it is ATSC)
Now if I insert that same cable into the 622 OTA input, and do a local channel scan it finds nothing---whether in my HDTV setup I pick OTA, cable, IRC or HRC. In every case nothing is found.
Is it possible comcast is sending me digital through QAM that the 622 can't decode? Maybe that is a good suggestion for the future so customers who want to see more local HD that's not on E* and are too far from broadcaster's towers for OTA.
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OTA ATSC tuner
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622 does not have a QAM tuner
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622 does not have a QAM tuner
Doesn't have an enabled QAM tuner.
It uses the Broadcom BCM3517 chip.
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Lysander, NY -- The Lysander Town Board has completed its preparation of the proposed budget for 2014 and will seek a resolution that will allow the board to override the tax levy limit.
"This year the total taxable town assessed valuation has decreased from $1,495,426,984 in 2012 to $1,491,893,588 in 2013," said Lysander Supervisor John Salisbury. "Our fund balances are low and cannot reduce tax levies to the point of meeting the 2 percent tax cap."
The town board is holding a public hearing at 7 p.m. tonight at town hall to discuss the need for waiving the 2 percent tax cap for the 2014 budget year. A work session will be held at 6:30 p.m. to discuss the budget. Lysander Town Hall is located at 8220 Loop Road, Baldwinsville.
Salisbury released the following statement regarding the 2014 budget:
"Elected officials salaries reflect no increase for the third year in a row. Highway workers and office workers have no increases budgeted for 2014. We have budgeted $25,000 for buildings maintenance, same as 2013, and $850,000 for road maintenance representing an increase over 2013 budget of $290,000 for roads.
Some of the special districts will see increases in the taxable rate to meet the day-to-day expenses and start building a reserve for unforeseen emergencies. Because the tax rates on many special districts have been kept low in the past many years we have no or very little funds in their reserve balances. In each of those problem districts the correction will take up to five years to overcome the shortage in income"
The Lysander Town Board is holding an informational meeting at 7 p.m. Nov. 4 to discuss special districts. The proposed budget will be available on the Lysander Town website and in the town clerk's office on Tuesday. The public hearing on the 2014 budget will be held at 7 p.m. Nov. 7. Both meetings will be held at town hall.
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Molds do have the potential to cause health problems. They produce allergens, irritants, and in some cases, potentially toxic substances. Inhaling or touching mold or mold spores may cause allergic reactions (the onset of which can be immediate or delayed), inducing hay fever-like symptoms such as sneezing, runny nose, red eyes and skin rashes. Exposure to molds can irritate the eyes, skin, nose, throat and lungs of both mold-allergic and non-allergic people.A number of factors should be considered when you're deciding how to approach mold clean-up. One consideration is the size of the affected area. In most cases, if the moldy area is less than about 10 square feet, you can likely handle the job yourself. However, you should consider hiring a professional in the following circumstances:
Many skilled consultants and contractors provide mold inspections and remediation services. Here are some suggestions on how to find reliable consultants/contractors, and the things you should ask for when deciding whom to choose:
When in doubt, you should consult a professional. But if you do decide to remove the mold yourself, there are several important tips to keep in mind:
For more information about mold remediation, visit the EPA's website at www.epa.gov/mold/index.html, the CDC's website at www.cdc.gov/mold/, and the Georgia Department of Public Health's website at www.dph.georgia.gov/indoor-air-quality.
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The first thing you may want to do is consult the Landlord-Tenant Handbook , which can be found on the Department of Community Affairs' website. The Handbook has a discussion of "constructive eviction", which may be a way for you to get out of your lease. There are two things necessary to show that there has been a constructive eviction:
This is quite possibly what is going on with your apartment. Your landlord and/or its agent, the property management company, failed to make the repairs necessary to prevent a serious mold issue from developing; now, this mold problem is so extreme that you need to move to a different unit. However, your lease is for the specific unit into which you originally moved, not for a different unit. The property manager may be showing you other units as a convenience or so that he or she doesn't lose a rent-paying customer, but unless your lease specifies that you are obligated to accept a reasonable alternative apartment in the event of a constructive eviction, you may not be under any obligation to continue renting from this company. However, you should consult an attorney before taking any definitive action.
With regard to the effect of the mold on your dog, you probably have no recourse unless your dog is acting differently than usual (not eating or drinking, sneezing/wheezing, listless, etc.). Limited natural exposure to mold spores is a part of everyday life, and is typically not a health threat. However, prolonged exposure to elevated levels of mold spores is what can cause a reaction in otherwise healthy individuals (animal or human). On the other hand, it's always possible that your dog could be hypersensitive to mold spores, and could experience serious health reactions despite only minor exposure to mold. Common reactions include nasal stuffiness, eye irritation, wheezing, or skin irritation. If you believe your dog has become ill from the mold exposure, you should contact a veterinarian, and then, if the vet can confirm the dog's illness was caused by the mold, speak to an attorney to explore your options for legal action.
No, but various government agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), have specific recommendations for how and whether to test samples for asbestos, mildew, and mold.
If you would like to test for asbestos, the EPA recommends using an accredited laboratory in your area. After Congress enacted the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act of 1986, the National Institute of Standards and Technology developed a voluntary accreditation program for two types of laboratory testing: the Polarized Light Microscopy (PLM) Test Method, a test to determine the asbestos content in materials; and the Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) Test Method, for determining the presence and amount of asbestos in air samples. For more information about asbestos, visit http://www2.epa.gov/asbestos.
If you would like to talk with a government official about your potential asbestos problem, you should contact Georgia's state asbestos consultant, Mindy Crean, by calling (404) 363-7043 or by e-mailing her at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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The CDC generally discourages people from testing any mold found in their home. If mold is touched or smelled, there's a potential health risk; therefore, if you believe you have mold, no matter what type, you should arrange for its removal. Reliable sampling for mold can be expensive, and standards for judging what is and what is not an acceptable or tolerable quantity of mold have not been established. If you do decide to pay for environmental sampling for molds, before the work starts, you should ask the consultants who will do the work to establish criteria for interpreting the test results. The results of samples taken in your unique situation cannot be interpreted without physical inspection of the contaminated area, or without considering the building's characteristics and the factors that led to the present condition.
For more information, you can go to the CDC's website, or to the Environmental Protection Agency's website: www.epa.gov/mold/moldguide.html. To locate a reliable mold testing/remediation company, you can visit the Better Business Bureau's site at www.bbb.org.
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New Metal from Gothenburg! No, no Melo Death, but Power Metal. For just as many people just as much of a cliché as the first, but so far it always has been a good omen when Dockyard1 take a band like that up, meaning that they do not just re-chew the old clichés, but DREAMLAND do not show it at first listen, so let's see, if they also are among the brigade of recommendable bands from the land of the three crowns.
Founded as INFINITY back in 2003, they changed their name to DREAMLAND after one demo and a single and were discovered by a certain Joacim Cans (HAMMERFALL), whose goal it was to bring this band to a wide audience and promptly invited them into his Moonshine Studio, where he took care of the productions of their debut "Future's Calling" together with Andy Larocque (KING DIAMOND).
And it is not really surprising that HAMMERFALL shine through as influence, combined with more Eighties-sounding influences, which makes DREAMLAND more than just a HAMMERFALL clone. And after the intro "The Chance" "Hearts Like Lions" stomps ahead with power and nicely enough without any bombast, borne by the good guitar work of the duo Eriksson/Rauti, before steps flat on the gas pedal on "A New Way" and lift the foot only in the chorus.
The ballad "Fade Away" is very good, with a few extra female vocals, while the hymn "All For One" truly is one, albeit a bit very clichéd, I rather go for the more Eighties-like, fast title track. Still there is not too much that stays stuck, more than once they tangle themselves up in the ropes of genre standards, which with the huge quantity of bands these days is not really enough to stand out of the mass.
A good debut, which shows that DREAMLAND have potential and damn good musicianship, but when I think of the many other great bands out there that are at least one step ahead, I just can't be any more positive… (Online March 9, 2006)


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Definitely the price and the packaging. The feel of the packaging is not attractive to me because I tend to leave marks on it and have to clean it all the time.
Well, I can only speak about Galapagos, but I would say I wish it was a little more creamy and easy to blend because I like to use it as a face highlighter, but it seems a bit hard to blend in.
LMAO I mean Copacabana. I'm totally sure a dark brown eyeshadow with gold reflects would be an excellent highlight. oh jeez.
I HATE the Orgasm one because it has way too much sparkle and looks so bad on my skin. Waste of like, 40 bucks. 🙁
I would only lower the price & bring back Mustique, which is a fantastic iridescent peach colour they dc'd.
I have Mustique…it really is an amazing color. I can't believe they dc'd it.
Packaging for sure! It gets so dirty looking!
LoL that's my issue too!!! any cosmetic that has a packaging like that drives me crazy! It's like having a stainless steel kitchen appliance that you can never get to look perfectly clean!!!
the ridiculous price
too shimmery, not enough pigment. i would add more colour
Definitely the pigmentation of the Duo. It's sooo damn sheer — I feel like, "what's the point?"
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My names Ryan, I like in NJ, I have a Wii, and I also have a knack for making up really stupid usernames. I got a Wii two years ago and I love it.
The Wii games I have are Super Mario Galaxy, Warioware: Smooth Moves, Metal Slug Anthology, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, The Legend Of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Wii Sports, Wii Play, Resident Evil 4: Wii edition, Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbados Treasure, and No More Heroes.
I just got No More Heroes and it is one of the best, if not the best, third party Wii game out there, you won't be able to put it down, I promise.
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City's attorneys continue effort for new Ostling trial
Attorneys for the city of Bainbridge Island are continuing to press for a new trial in the Ostling shooting tragedy.
In a filing Friday in the Western District of Washington, U.S. District Court, the city's lawyers continued to stress that Bainbridge Island Police Chief Jon Fehlman's absence during the court case "profoundly affected" the trial.
The city's attorneys also rejected claims made by lawyers for the Ostling family, who have said the chief was well represented during the trial because a video deposition of Fehlman was shown and that the defendants also had two police experts they could have called to testify, but didn't.
The city's attorneys, however, said no one could step in and testify for Fehlman.
A jury in the federal civil rights trial awarded the Ostling family $1 million last month, and found that the city of Bainbridge Island and Fehlman, as chief, had violated the family's constitutional rights because police officers had not been properly trained to deal with the mentally ill. Douglas Ostling was killed by Bainbridge Officer Jeff Benkert after police responded to a 911 call at the mentally ill man's home and shot Ostling after he confronted officers with a double-bladed ax.
Fehlman was hospitalized with pancreatitis the day before the trial began. The city's attorneys repeatedly asked Judge Ronald Leighton to postpone the trial, but he refused.
On June 14, the city's lawyers asked Leighton to put the jury's decision on hold, and said the jury also made a mistake when it decided in favor of the family. The city's legal team said Fehlman was medically incapacitated during the trial, and had undergone two heart surgeries for a heart anomaly as the court case was unfolding, and was also being treated for life-threatening pancreatic failure. The verdict, they said, would end Fehlman's 27-year career in law enforcement.
Brian Augenthaler, an attorney with Keating, Bucklin & McCormack, Inc., the law firm that defended the city against the Ostling lawsuit, said in last week's court filing that it was essential that Fehlman testify because he was named as a defendant in the lawsuit, and that the Ostlings' attorneys had to prove that Fehlman "was deliberately indifferent to the rights of the mentally ill."
"There was no substitute for Chief of Police Jon Fehlman's presence because his state of mind was on trial," Augenthaler wrote in his June 29 filing with the court.
Augenthaler said the Ostlings' attorneys needed to show "deliberate indifference" by showing that Fehlman or the city knew that the failure to train police officers adequately "made it highly predictable that its police officers would engage in conduce that would deprive persons such as the plaintiffs of their rights."
Lawyers for the Ostling family, Augenthaler said, "had to prove Chief Fehlman made a conscious choice to disregard the consequences of his own omissions, and Chief Fehlman knew his failure to train made it highly predictable the mentally ill would be harmed."
Augenthaler said the witnesses suggested by the opposing lawyers — two of the city's expert witnesses, and two police lieutenants — lacked personal knowledge of the city's overall training program and Fehlman's philosophy for training regarding the mentally ill.
The city had lined up Ellis Amdur, an expert in crisis communication, and Robert Bragg, an expert in police officers' use of force, to testify during the trial. Augenthaler noted that the pair were only generally familiar with law enforcement training and had not helped the city of Bainbridge Island or Fehlman create or implement the city's police training practices. Neither Amdur nor Bragg were called to testify during the trial.
The two lieutenants, Augenthaler said, did not know about the police department's overall training program, budget and goals, or Fehlman's perspective on police training for dealing with the mentally ill.
"The only person who could speak to Chief Fehlman's state of mind, without blatant speculation, was Chief Fehlman," Augenthaler said.
"The jury rendered an invalid verdict against the one individual who was not present and could not defend himself. Chief Fehlman was the only person who could have validly
spoken to his mental state for purposes of analyzing 'deliberate indifference,'" Augenthaler added.
In an earlier filing in court, the Ostlings' attorneys asked the judge to reject the request for a new trial, and disputed claims of attorney misconduct. They also pointed to the Bainbridge Island Police Guild's recent vote of "no confidence" in Fehlman as one of the reasons against a new trial.
In the guild's letter of no confidence, the union claimed Fehlman had committed perjury during his deposition when he said an officer had been disciplined in the aftermath of the Ostling shooting.
Augenthaler asked the judge to reject the inclusion of the no-confidence issue — the union vote itself came less than two weeks after the jury's verdict was rendered in the Ostling lawsuit — as it was not part of the court case.
Augenthaler said the Ostlings' attorneys would have used the alleged perjury theory during the trial if it hadn't been deemed unworthy.
"It is doubtful counsel would have bypassed an opportunity to impugn Chief Fehlman if there was perjury," Augenthaler wrote.
The request for a new trial has been placed on the motion calendar for the U.S. District Court, according to a court clerk, but no hearing has been scheduled.
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But yesterday's game showed that what contributed to last season's epic collapse might not have gone away. It may have just been hibernating.
After the Mets blew a four-run lead in losing to the Milwaukee Brewers, 9-7, manager Willie Randolph could only sum up his frustration in the form of a question: "How many opportunities did we have today?"
The answer -- as it was last year -- is too many. On a day when the Mets finally snapped out of an offensive slump, they found a way to ground into double plays in five consecutive innings -- from the fourth inning through the eighth -- and got next to nothing from their starting pitcher.
Oliver Perez, who didn't allow a run in his first two starts of the season, was staked to a 6-2 lead after three innings. But the erratic left-hander had virtually no command of his pitches and the Brewers -- who might like to relocate to Shea based on their offensive success this weekend -- jumped all over him.
"I don't feel good (about the game), obviously," Perez said. "They did everything and I don't do my job. You just have to learn and prepare for the next start and try and do your job and try and go deeper into the game."
Perez lasted only 4Ð innings, allowing eight hits and six earned runs. Right from the start -- when he plunked leadoff hitter Rickie Weeks -- Perez didn't look comfortable. Then red-hot Gabe Kapler quickly put the Mets in a hole with a two-run homer to left.
It was the second home run in as many days -- and fourth of the season -- for Kapler, who spent last season as the manager of the Boston Red Sox's Class-A affiliate in Greenville, S.C. He was a one-man wrecking crew for Milwaukee, going 3-for-4 with two doubles, three runs scored and three RBI.
"I'm just playing baseball and enjoying everything that's happening now," Kapler said. "I think that's what I'm the most grateful for, is helping to give my team a chance to win."
The Mets countered Kapler's home run with one of their own in the bottom of the
first, as David Wright hit one out for the second day in a row. They added two runs in the second before scoring three in the third. Just like that, they had built Perez a comfortable 6-2 lead.
But Perez imploded in the fourth, allowing four runs on four hits, and was pulled with one out in the fifth in favor of Pedro Sosa, who surrendered two runs in the sixth.
"He was struggling with his command," Randolph said of Perez. "Any time they score a few runs, you always like your pitcher to stop the bleeding, shut it down and get us back in the dugout so we can go out there and score some more. We just have to make sure that doesn't happen. It's just not the way you want to be."
This loss in particular has to sting for the Mets as they head into today's off-day. Tomorrow they'll start the final series of this first homestand, and will look to regroup against the struggling Washington Nationals.
The Mets had plenty of chances to put away the Brewers, but once again seem to lack that killer instinct. Many in the Mets clubhouse last season said that was a missing ingredient during the team's collapse. The Mets collectively insist last year was last year, but they don't want a new trend to begin.
"You always want to go out there and make good plays, and we're not doing that yet," Wright said. "We just couldn't put them away and put any zeros on the board."
Winning yesterday would've alleviated some tension in the Mets clubhouse, especially after newly acquired ace Johan Santana was less than stellar in his home debut on Saturday.
"That's what happens when you don't execute and take care of your business," Randolph said. "Just one of those giveaway games. This was a giveaway game for me. We've got to be better than that."