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UPDATE: Phillipsburg man taken into custody following assault, child abduction.
The girl, Daniella Mammaro, was last seen wearing a diaper, according to authorities. She is 2 feet 3 inches tall, weighs 23 pounds and has blue eyes and brown hair, authorities say.
Her father, 31-year-old Damon Mammaro, was last seen wearing a black, button-down shirt and jeans, authorities say, and driving a white, four-door 2009 Hyundai Elantra with New Jersey license plate WWT-64V. He has dark hair, a shaved head a goatee and a tattoo of his daughter's name on his arm, authorities say.
Mammaro weighs 130 pounds and is 5 feet 10 inches tall, authorities say.
Authorities say Mammaro's last known address is in Asbury, N.J., with his parents and that he threatened to take his daughter to Canada.
Mammaro, 31, allegedly assaulted the child's mother, his wife, at a home in the first block of Sitgreaves Street this afternoon and fled with the child. Emergency radio reports indicate Mammaro stabbed the woman and could be armed with a knife.
Authorities say Mammaro indicated he wouldn't be taken by police alive and that he wanted to commit "suicide by cop."
Mammaro has a history of violent interactions with law enforcement. In 2003, he watched from the passenger seat of a car as a Washington Township, Warren County, police officer was shot and another man was killed.
Mammaro was riding with Justin McCarthy when police pulled him over. McCarthy, the vehicle's driver, shot the officer three times before New Jersey State Police returned fire and killed him.
Mammaro played no direct role in the shooting. He ultimately pleaded guilty to possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose and was sentenced to up to three years in a state youth prison.

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SPOKANE, Wash. -- Citing new rate-cutting rules and lowering of the guarantee, the $1 billion Spokane Teachers Credit Union is exiting the guaranteed federal student loan business effective this fall.
"I can't say for sure how many there are, but any number of banks and credit unions in Washington State and elsewhere are doing the same," said Steven Dahlstrom, president/CEO.
The government, he said, has long been ballyhooing the credit crunch and home mortgage mess as factors behind the pullout, but in reality current conditions are the result of continued moves by the Department of Education to fund more student loans, while, at the same time, driving out lenders.
Spokane Teachers, one of the largest student lenders in the state with a portfolio of $9.2 million, said it notified area colleges of the decision, and officials, including those at Washington State, Eastern Washington and Gonzaga, have begun looking to the government or other lenders.
Dahlstrom noted that Spokane Teachers' portfolio, with a current rate of 6.8%, has been declining since 2005 when it stood at $13.6 million as the Spokane CU finds itself competing with the federal government.
Dahlstrom noted that rates on two major federal loan programs will be ratcheted down to 3.4% by 2011. Meanwhile, the former 100% guarantee has already been lowered to 98% and will be reset again at 95%, all of which are factors negating Spokane Teachers loan participation.
The government dictates the rules, he said, "and they're good for students and in trying to reduce the cost of education" but not for lenders trying to make a profit.
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SOMERVILLE — Those who know something about the borough's past know that this nation's biggest public figure of all, General George Washington, actually lived in town once and probably frequented some of Somerville's olden pubs.
Lesser known, perhaps, is the fact that Somerville has had a slew of other notable residents over the centuries. Many were born here. Some may still live here. Others have now departed this mortal coil. Most, however, are worth remembering for their singular accomplishments.
A fair amount of residents are probably familiar with Ruth St. Dennis (1879–1968), the American modern dance pioneer. She first performed in 1893 at Somerset Hall, now known as Alfonso's Family Trattoria on Main Street. A plaque on the building commemorates the auspicious occasion.
More obscure may be the fact that the late, great American stage actor and baritone singer, Paul Robeson (1898–1976), lived in Somerville during his youth. In fact, he graduated from Somerville High School, in 1915. Among his many unique achievements are his famed interpretations of Shakespeare's "Othello."
The character actor Lee Van Cleef (1925–1989), who played an unforgettable villain in "High Noon" but is most remembered for 60s and 70s Spaghetti Westerns like Sergio Leone's "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", was born in town and actually worked as an accountant in Somerville, before he made his way to fame and fortune in Hollywood.
Still in the arts, there are Somerville-born romantic poet and novelist, Elinor Wylie (1885–1928), "notorious, in her time, for her multiple marriages and affairs," and the children's author, Frank Asch (1946- ), best known for his "Moonbear" illustrated works. The science-fiction novelist David Jay Brown (1961- ) also grew up here.
Then there's the stage actress Kate Claxton (1848-1924) who was performing at the Brooklyn Theater on the night it burned down, killing 278 people. There's also the mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade (1945- ) who sang at the opening ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympics; the principal oboist of the Cleveland Philharmonic and musician John Mack (1927-2006); the noted banjoist, banjo-maker and early recording artist Fred Van Eps (1878-1960), and the calypso jazz pioneer Don Elliott (1926-1984). All are Somerville natives.
The borough has also had its fair share of professional athletes. Among them are the Utah Jazz and New Jersey Nets basketball player Eric Murdock (1968- ) who was a first-round draft pick in the 1991 NBA draft, Major League baseball first baseman Joe Lis (1946-2010) who played as a replacement for league-MVP and Hall of Famer Harmon Killebrew when he was with the Minnesota Twins, New England Patriots NFL player Jon Williams (1961- ), and tennis star Nicole Arendt (1969- ) who was ranked in the top 50 players in the world at one time.
Maybe it's something in the water. But for a small town in the middle of New Jersey, it's fair to say that Somerville has had quite an impressive cadre of illustrious high-achievers over the past few hundred years.
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Peter Schiffs Fox Ridge Farms Idle American made it consecutive allowance scores, winning a 1-mile race on the turf on Friday at Aqueduct. coming off of a 7-month layoff. The 4-year-old New York-bred gelding by Grade 1 winner Quiet American won by 1 1/4-lengths under the confident handling of jockey Alan Garcia. Idle American is conditioned by Pat Kelly, and was broken and trained in Aiken by Suzy Haslup. Idle American increased his lifetime earnings to $137,750.
Island Wind Racings Royal Sighting won a 6-furlong allowance race at Aqueduct on Nov. 14 by 2 1/4-lengths. The 4-year-old chestnut filly was ridden to victory by 2-time Eclipse Award winning Jockey Ramon Dominguez, and is conditioned by Chris Englehart. The daughter of Rahy increased her bankroll to $192,230. Royal Sighting was broken and trained in Aiken by Suzy Haslup.
Hidden Hill Farms and Herman Braudes Cherokee Artist scored his 9th career vcitory on Nov. 9 at Laurel Park, dominating a 1-mile allowance race, leaving the field in his wake with a 6 1/4-length score. The John Robb charge was ridden to victory by Jeremy Rose, and the 7-year-old stakes winner increased his lifetime earnings to $739,835. Cherokee Artist was broken and trained by Tim and Cary Frommer.
Robert Clarys Daitanna broke her maiden in her second start, scoring a neck victory in a 6-furlong race on Nov. 9 at Golden Gate Fields. The juvenile daughter of Mr. Sekiguchi is conditioned by Blaine Wright. The bay filly was bred by Cary Frommer and Curtis Kenimer. Daitanna was broken and trained in Aiken by Tim and Cary Frommer.
Highstone Yankee Stables Two of a Kind got up in the final jumps to break his maiden by a head in a 1-mile race at Parx Racing on Nov. 10. The 3-year-old dark bay gelding by the 2006 Aiken Trained Horse of the Year Bob and John had been conditioned by Michael Catalano. The Florida-bred was broken and trained in Aiken by Legacy Stables Ron Stevens and Brad Stauffer.
James Thares Galavant went from gate to wire with a 7-length score in a 6 1/2-furlong race Thursday at Hawthorne. The 3-year-old son of Awesome Again is trained by Joel Berndt. Galavant was broken and trained in Aiken by Legacy Stables Brad Stauffer and Ron Stevens.


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June 17, 2011 16:43The World Naked Bike Ride is set to roll through the streets of Portland this Saturday, June 18, 2011, at 10:00 p.m. Riders will gather at 9:00 p.m. at Southeast Water Avenue and Salmon Street. Event organizers estimated the number of participants last year to be 13,000 people.
The Portland Police Bureau will have extra officers on hand to ensure everyone is safe and to provide assistance at intersections.
The Portland Police Bureau recommends that all riders at least wear a helmet and shoes to avoid any potential injuries.
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(b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a) of this subsection, public indecency is a Class C felony if the person has a prior conviction for public indecency or a crime described in ORS 163.355 to 163.445 or for a crime in another jurisdiction that, if committed in this state, would constitute public indecency or a crime described in ORS 163.355 to 163.445.
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OK, this final entry in our countdown to Christmas 2013 is actually not two versions of the same song, but we had to ask: Would you rather have "12 Days of Christmas" by Bing Crosby, or "12 Yats of Christmas" by Benny Grunch and the Bunch?
Enjoy both versions and then go back and listen to the 24 pairs of popular holiday tunes we gathered as part of our "Christmas 2013 Who Sings It Better" fun. We gathered old-fashioned or more traditional versions and pitted them against newfangled or more modern ones to see which one we'd like best.
Listen to today's choice or all 25. Then, tell us which one you like best or tell us about another you like better. Share a comment or link to a track or video in the comments below.
(If that's not enough holiday music, go back to 2011, when we first gathered some favorite Christmas songs and asked: "Who sings it better?" Check out the versions of "The Christmas Song," "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer," "Santa Baby," "All I Want for Christmas is You," "Please Come Home for Christmas" and "White Christmas" that we pitted against one another.)


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SHOPLIFTING, GREAT NORTHERN BOULEVARD: A Cleveland woman could face petty theft charges after police said she tried to steal seven pairs of earrings from a Great Northern Mall store Sept. 7. According to reports, workers watched the "heavyset" woman select several pairs of earrings valued at $36 and conceal them inside her pants before leaving the store. When security workers approached the woman, she "lifted up her belly and removed the jewelry from under a roll of fat." Workers said she then threw the earrings to the ground and pushed past them to get to a nearby vehicle. The woman and an accomplice got into a white minivan and left the area. Workers wrote down the license plate number and gave police the information. Police obtained the woman's identity from the local car rental agency where the van was registered. Investigators contacted the woman, who denied any involvement in the incident. The woman told detectives she did not know where the van involved in the incident was, and that a gay friend who sometimes dresses in drag may have been driving the vehicle.
THEFT FROM AUTO, LORAIN ROAD: Workers at a Chrysler dealership told police Sept. 4 somebody stole four tires and rims from a pair of vehicles on the lot there. According to reports, when workers left the dealership Sept. 1 everything appeared in order. When they returned Sept. 4 they discovered the theft. Managers estimated that each Firestone Firehawk GT tire and factory rim was valued at $550 for a total value of $2,200.
THEFT, COLUMBIA ROAD: A man told police Sept. 4 somebody stole two bicycles from his garage at an apartment complex. The theft occurred some time before Aug. 29. According to reports, the bikes were chained together in the back of the garage. Each bike is valued at $170.
SHOPLIFTING, LORAIN ROAD: Workers at Drug Mart told police Sept. 5 a man tried to steel $36 in merchandise from the store. According to reports, the man tried to steal an air freshener, deodorant and a bottle of Taylor Swift perfume. He later admitted to police that he stole the items in question. He was charged with theft.
SHOPLIFTING, BROOKPARK ROAD: A man faces petty theft charges after workers at Walmart told police Sept. 6 he tried to steal alcohol and fake eyelashes from the store. According to reports, store employees watched as the man concealed five bottles of alcohol in a duffel bag and put two packages of Revlon eyelashes in the waistband of his pants. He was arrested and charged with theft.
THEFT FROM AUTO, COLUMBIA ROAD: A man told police Sept. 8 somebody broke into his 1997 Jeep Wrangler while it was parked outside a residence at Jamestown Apartments. Missing items included a women's checkbook and wallet valued at $20 that contained a Department of Defense identification card.
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Dorothy M. Delaney, 89, of Huguenot, a former bank worker and homemaker, died Monday in the Calvary Hospice, Brooklyn, where she had been a patient for the past month.
Born Dorothy M. Hennessy in Brooklyn, she moved to Huguenot in the 1978.
A homemaker, she worked as an employee for seven years in the private customers department of Brooklyn Trust Co., before leaving to raise a family.
She graduated from Bay Ridge High School and was active in the USO during World War II.
Mrs. Delaney was a parishioner of Our Lady Star of the Sea R.C. Church, Huguenot. She was a former parishioner of St. Therese of Lisieux R.C. Church, Brooklyn, where she was a member of the Rosary Society.
Mrs. Delaney loved to dance and was an avid reader.
She also enjoyed spending time with family. "We were so lucky to have mom as long as we did, but we miss her already," said her daughter, Jeanne Dwyer.
Her husband of 47 years, James T., died in 1995.
Along with her daughter, Jeanne, also surviving are two sons, James and Robert; another daughter, Nancy Delaney; one brother, William Hennessy, and two grandchildren.
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BARAGA - Adults and kids from all around Baraga County attended the Cancer Awareness Carnival at the Niiwin Akeaa Center at Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College Friday afternoon to learn about preventing cancer.
The featured exhibit at the carnival was a 20-foot-long, 8-foot wide inflatable "Super Colon," an interactive tool from the Prevent Cancer Foundation that teaches colorectal cancer is preventable, treatable and beatable.
While walking through the exhibit, visitors could get a close-up view of healthy colon tissue, tissue with colorectal disease, colorectal polyps and various stages of colorectal cancer.
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A 20-foot long "Super Colon" was featured at the Cancer Awareness Carnival at the Niiwin Akeaa Center at Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College Friday. The "Super Colon" is an interactive tool from the Prevent Cancer Foundation.
According to a Native American Cancer Research study, "the Northern Plains Region, which includes Michigan, suffers higher rates of death due to colon cancer compared to other Indian Health Services Regions in the country."
"Many tribal clinics are working to improve colorectal cancer screening rates among their patients," said Noel Pingatore from the Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan. "Patient reminder systems and the Giant Colon Exhibit are parts of these efforts."
"It's going well and everyone is interested in the Super Colon," said Heather Wood, one of the event organizers and a health promotion educator from the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community. "Hopefully the message is getting out there about cancer prevention."
Colorectal cancer is 90 percent preventable and 90 percent treatable if detected early, but it's still the second leading cancer killer in the United States.
The KBIC teamed up with the Inter-Tribal Council, whose grant from the Michigan Department of Community Health covered the colon exhibit cost, to put on the carnival from noon to 6 p.m. The Baraga County MSU Extension Program and Western Upper Peninsula Health Department contributed to the carnival as well.
"The colon and other our exhibits are really generating conversations with adults and children," Wood said.
Other exhibits taught attendees about breast cancer, skin cancer and lung cancer, among others. Kids in attendance all got to make hats at one booth, and play games at another, while adults were able to obtain information about cancer screenings. Refreshments, including sno-cones were available.
"The sno-cones are particularly popular on a hot day like today," said Wood, who noted the heat likely caused the slow start.
Several school groups helped fill the gymnasium about two hours into the carnival, including Great Explorations groups of 25 to 30 students each from Baraga, L'Anse and Chassell. In total, 197 people attended the carnival.


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Design 4 Drupal 2013: Design.Submitted by patrick on Mon, 06/24/2013 - 10:54
This past weekend marked a turning point for the relatively young Design 4 Drupal (D4D) camp. Over the past several years, D4D has suffered from an identity crisis as it attempted to grow attendance from a (seemingly) developer-heavy pool of Drupal enthusiasts. Boston's lack of an existing camp gave developers little choice if they wanted to satisfy their desire to meet up with others in the Drupal community. As a result, D4D has traditionally offered sessions that span the design and development disciplines. As a result, this has watered down the camp's main goal of attracting more designers to the Drupal movement and help promote the improvement of the Drupal framework through better user interface (UI), user experience (UX) and anchoring it in more sound design principles.
This year, however, marked a turning point. A conscious decision was made after D4D 2012 to focus session content on design topics (SASS, CSS, Theming, Principles & Workflow, Prototyping, UX, UI). Take Amy Kosh's session on the Logic of Color and Design: A welcomed departure from traditional camp sessions focusing on the core principles of color spaces gently wrapped in the Drupal design workflow. Another session highlighted the importance of structured content while yet another referred back noting the fact that content is, in fact, part of the design and not a separate entity left for clients to enter after the site is complete.
At the end, organizers and those interested in volunteering next year gathered to discuss what worked and what could be improved. Out of this came the idea of attracting developers less likely to attend a design-oriented camp through a challenge: What if we facilitated a design sprint with the goal of having a Drupal core (or individual) design-related issue worked on by a developer? By the end of the camp, designers would have their issue improved or fixed with exposure to the patching/debugging process while developers could gain insight on how their work is valued by designers. I think this idea has merit and should be pursued.
I am a developer with an appreciation for design and D4D 2013 was a welcomed refreshment during the hot Boston summer weekend. I recommend more developers come next year in order to improve their relationships with clients, designers and their own code that would otherwise remain dormant without a design to bring it to life.
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It would be great if you could record sessions. I can't stress enough how valuable this is.
There will be some recordings
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There will be some recordings being made available "soon!" I think they didn't get EVERY session, but there's definitely some.
I believe it was the
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I believe it was the odd-numbered rooms that were recorded (e.g., 123, 141, etc.). Next year we will definitely prioritize recording every session.
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PHILADELPHIA – It wasn't that the Mercer County team didn't put the bat on the ball in its Carpenter Cup softball game yesterday.
The locals just couldn't hit it where the Suburban One League's American & Continental team wasn't.
In losing 4-2 to the Bucks County- and Montgomery County-based team, Mercer suffered its first loss of the tournament and will have to win three times today, including once over SOL A&C, to claim the Carpenter Cup title.
On the positive side, Mercer has already made it to the tournament's final day for the first time in the event's seven-year history and will finish no worse than third.
Mercer will open today's play at 9 a.m. against a to-be-determined opponent with that winner moving on to face SOL A&C immediately following.
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"(We knew) we're going to hit the ball," Mercer coach Bob Dubina said a day after his team won its first three games by a combined score of 20-3. "We've got kids that all season long hit the ball and put the ball in play. In the first couple innings, (SOL A&C) made plays. They didn't throw the ball away and we just didn't get that timely hit."
Mercer sent West Windsor-Plainsboro South's Liz Mendez to the circle for a rough first inning that included three hits, a walk and a hit batter on the way to two runs for SOL A&C.
Meanwhile, opposing pitcher Ally Horvath, who attends Central Bucks South, was perfect for three innings before being lifted due to the tournament's pitching limits.
Horvath didn't strike anyone out, using her fielders on every batter without fail.
Mercer was more successful against reliever Katie Ziegler from Wissahickon, but the locals didn't get as many timely hits as they needed.
SOL A&C tacked on two more runs against Ewing's Erica Benedetti in the fourth to pull ahead 4-0, but Mercer answered in the bottom half of the frame.
Using a two-out rally that saw two singles and two walks, Mercer scored two runs and had the bases loaded for WW-P North slugger Sarah Bush, only to have Bush come up on the wrong end of a close call at first base.
Mercer again staged a two-out rally in the fifth, still down 4-2, but Allentown's Bryana Smith flew out to right to strand a pair.
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A Manhattan judge recently dismissed the case against former director of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Khan, due to the District Attorney's decision to drop the charges of sexual assault against him. The prosecution essentially stated that Nafissatou Diallo's inconsistencies in her recollection of events damaged her credibility to the point where her account could not be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. Yes, folks, the prosecution decided that it, and not a jury, would decide the fate of this case. Not to be outdone, the media certainly did its share to discredit Diallo, drudging up federal forms she filled out in the past and even introducing the option of deportation as a result of perjury on these documents.
In a classic case of the justice system treating the victim of sexual violence as a criminal, we are yet again faced with the harsh reality that system's glaring, inherent flaws. Now I am not presuming that is DSK guilty, not at all. I am saying, however, that the structure of our justice system was leaning heavily toward his innocence before he ever stepped foot inside of that hotel. I'm saying that "the law" is not colorblind. In fact, it is just as sensitive to race, to gender, to class, as those who make it, enforce it, and interpret it, and until we part with the myth that there is such a thing as "equal protection under the law," this will always be a problem. Diallo, then, was not failed by the justice system, she is collateral damage for the sexism, racism, classism, and religious discrimination that it is steeped in. If the outrage and sense of betrayal this decision produced can be used as a catalyst for reform there, then it is not in vain. But if we have only gathered to cry out for Strauss-Khan's head, then we will be back, and soon.
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as "equal protection under the law," this will always be a problem. Diallo, then, was not failed by the justice system, she is collateral damage for the sexism, racism, classism, and religious discrimination that it is steeped in. If the outrage and sense of betrayal this decision produced can be used as a catalyst for reform there, then it is not in vain. But if we have only gathered to cry out for Strauss-Khan's head
You said "Now I am not presuming that [DSK is] guilty, not at all."
You then go on to say "In a classic case of the justice system treating the victim of sexual violence as a criminal"
If she is a "victim" of sexual violence, and since there is not a question of mistaken identity, then you are of course presuming him guilty.
Yes, folks, the prosecution decided that it, and not a jury, would decide the fate of this case.
Yes as it does in many other cases.
"The prosecutors' swift action on the case may also hint at their belief in their evidence. They obtained an indictment within a week of Mr. Strauss-Kahn's arrest, even though they could have taken longer because he was granted bail."
Does that smack of a justice system steeped in sexism, racism, classism, and religious discrimination. Why didn't they show disbelief in her allegation from the beginning if you are correct?
Prosecutors from the office of the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., who initially were emphatic about the strength of the case and the account of the victim, plan to tell the judge on Friday that they "have problems with the case" based on what their investigators have discovered, and will disclose more of their findings to the defense. The woman still maintains that she was attacked, the officials said.
I suspect that if he had been tried and released you would have made the same charge anyway.
Yeah, this is not at all a failing of the justice system. Prosecutors won't try a case they think will lose. That's the way it works. They have to choose which cases to take to trial. That's the system working, not failing.
They were initially empathetic to her. Then it turned out she did a bunch of lying. This is a he said/she said situation. Your willingness to presume guilt (doing the exact same thing you're accusing the prosecution of doing, only in reverse) is scary. Under no circumstances are you willing to admit she might be lying. That's bias, and that's bad for all the reasons you know it's bad.
"Again, why is it that this woman could not be believed enough for her case to go to trial?"
Because she had lied before. Rape cases are very hard to prove because they are often he said/she said. If the "she" here has been proven to have lied in the past, then the defense only needs to demonstrate that there is the possibility that she's lying in this case (i.e., that what the "he" is saying is true) for the jury to have to (as in, they are obligated by the law) to find for the defense.
That's what "reasonable doubt" is all about. The jury has to find for the defense if there's a reasonable doubt regarding the defense's guilt. It's part of what makes the system fair, because it makes it so that the government can't put people in prison unless there is 100% certainty of their guilt. Anything beyond a reasonable doubt, i.e., anything that would make a reasonable person think the defendant might be innocent, and the government can't put the defendant in jail.
With civil trials, the burden of proof is different. In civil trials, all a jury needs to find guilty is a "preponderance of the evidence," which means that in contrast to the all-or-nothing, 100% certainty situation in criminal cases, a jury only needs to believe that there is more evidence for guilt than against to find the defendant guilty.
That's why so many defendants win criminal trials and lose civil trials.
Anyway, that "reasonable doubt" is what the prosecutors have to consider when deciding whether to bring a case or not. They can't take every single case that comes before them to trial, because that would bring the justice system to a complete standstill (which would be unconstitutional, aside from just being stupid).
Like it or not, that's the way the system works. And that's also how life works. If you lie, especially on federal forms (which is a felony), you can't expect life to be roses and moonbeams. Bad decisions have bad consequences, and if you lie, don't expect people to believe you in the future. That's just common sense. I don't know how anyone can argue against that.
The good news for Diallo is that she can sue DSK (or his American interests) in civil court and get monetary compensation. (Which is apparently what she expected, anyway.)


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The Community Service Improvement Plan study is going forward. The study, initiated by the Muskegon Area Chamber of Commerce following Muskegon Mayor Steve Warmington's challenge to all area governments for more action on consolidation, is designed to find ways to continue to improve government services and contain costs through cooperation and consolidation.
Why is this important to taxpayers? The idea is to provide the same or more services at the same or lower costs — a difficult task in the current economy — through sharing, consolidating, cooperating and collaborating. The first of its kind, data-driven study will look at all municipal departments including public works, community development, finance and treasury, recreation services, administrative and clerical functions, police and fire in Muskegon, Norton Shores, North Muskegon, Whitehall, Montague, Roosevelt Park, Muskegon Heights and Fruitport and Muskegon townships.
The smaller townships and villages, which offer fewer services, will be woven into the plan at a later date. You have to start somewhere and it makes sense to begin where the most services are.
The study hit a snag recently when two of the governments asked to be involved — Muskegon Township and Muskegon Heights — declined to participate. These two communities are roughly 25 percent of the total population of the study group, which is made up of the nine largest governmental units, and 19 percent of total taxable valuation.
The township's and city's actions will increase the overall cost of the study by $10,000 because of the increased amount of time the consultant will need to obtain what is public information. Still, representatives of the county's seven largest governments, the business community and the Muskegon Area Chamber decided the study was important enough to continue, even if it costs more.
Hopefully, that cost will be reduced through cooperation by these two governments in providing public information, even though they are not officially participating.
The idea is to have an outsider — a trained outsider — take a look at government operations in the county and at the specifics of our communities in relationship to one another to see if there are additional ways to save money through cooperation and consolidation. Last week, the consultant, Mark Nottley of Ann Arbor-based Municipal Consulting Services, was in town for three days gathering local data and meeting with department heads. So far, governments have committed 8-10 hours to the project spread out over several weeks — not a huge demand on their time.
It's true other studies have looked at consolidation or sharing of services, but none have used West Michigan figures. These studies theorize using hypothetical situations or extrapolated figures. No studies have actually taken data from each of the Muskegon County communities and drawn educated conclusions about how specific municipalities could work better together or looked for areas resulting in better use of taxpayer dollars.
It's true that many collaborative and cooperative efforts are under way right now in Muskegon County at every level — county, city and township — saving taxpayers money. What's not known is if even these efforts could be more efficient.
The study should offer concrete advice for action that will put all area governments on a more sound financial footing. Many officials have said this type of study should have been undertaken 10 years ago but for a variety of reasons was not.
It's worth repeating Norton Shores Mayor Gary Nelund's challenge to all elected officials, "it's time to lead the community" and leave ancient institutional memory about supposed wrongs and personality conflicts behind.
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By Donna Ditota
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Foxboro, Mass. - Over the past few weeks, well-wishers approached Kenny Nims to reminisce.
They wanted to talk about Syracuse University's 1983 national championship team, the one that featured his dad, Tom, in goal. Twenty-five years had passed since that celebrated Syracuse team won the inaugural Orange title that would propel the program to the pinnacle of Division I college lacrosse.
Eight more SU championships would follow, thereby setting up a certain symmetry to this Memorial Day Weekend.
Kenny Nims, a junior attackman at SU, wears the number 10. It's the same number his dad wore during his Syracuse career.
And on Monday, the Orange competed for its 10th national title on an afternoon when the NCAA recognized the 1983 team's silver anniversary. Those former SU players were invited to take a bow on the turf at Gillette Stadium during halftime of the championship game. As fate would have it, Monday's title game pitted Syracuse against Johns Hopkins, the Orange men's 1983 opponent.
"The whole weekend was a little dejà vu-ish," SU coach John Desko said. "The '83 team was back. And Kenny's dad was certainly remembered with that group. And all of a sudden, Syracuse and Hopkins are back in the championship 25 years later. There's another Nims on another Syracuse roster. It just added a little something to it."
For the Nims family, it got better.
The Orange defeated Johns Hopkins 13-10 Monday in front of an NCAA lacrosse championship record crowd of 48,970. Most of those fans wore hues of orange and turned Gillette Stadium into a rollicking outdoor version of the Carrier Dome.
Kenny Nims scored twice. His first goal, a man-down score, triggered a five-goal swing that started with SU trailing 5-3 and ended with the Orange ahead 8-5. His second goal extended SU's lead to 11-8.
Nims kept looking up at the scoreboard as time wore down on the championship and silently urged the clock to tick faster. With a few seconds left in the game, Nims sprawled toward the sideline to chase down a loose ball and felt a cramp buckle his calf.
He reluctantly watched the final seconds from the sideline. When it was over, Nims hugged his mentor, SU assistant coach Roy Simmons III, then sought his cousins, SU midfielder Brendan Loftus and SU attackman Greg Niewieroski. The three hail from Watertown, where they spent entire childhood afternoons dreaming of a day like Monday.
"I can't tell you how happy I am to get my own ring 25 years after my dad did," Nims said. "It means a lot to me and my whole family. I couldn't be any happier."
"I'm very happy for Kenny and all these guys," Kenny's mom, Julie Nims Korwek, said. "Kenny deserves it. He worked hard for it. Nothing was handed to him. It's surreal. I just wish his dad were here to see it."
Tom Nims died in 1993 from the complications of diabetes. When the 1983 team gathered in Boston this weekend to marinate in 25 years of nostalgia, Roy Simmons Jr. held up Tom Nims' No. 10 jersey in case anyone forgot.
Simmons Jr. coached that 1983 team and when Kenny Nims was young, Simmons presented him with two framed No. 10 Syracuse jerseys - a white one and an orange one -- that belonged to his dad. One of those mementos hangs over Nims' bed in Watertown; the other hangs over the bed in his SU apartment.
"I see it every day when I go to bed and then when I wake up," Kenny Nims said. "When times are tough, I take a look at it."
Nims, a nimble attackman who all but floats over the playing surface, was a prized recruit out of Watertown High School. But he never considered any place but Syracuse. Niewieroski and Loftus, both a year older, preceded him to SU, where they would fantasize about hoisting national championship trophies.
Instead, they mostly endured seasons of heartache. Last year, the Orange finished 5-8 and failed to make the NCAA Tournament. Time seemed to be running out on that dream.
And then, in one glorious moment, on one fateful day, everything seemed perfect.
"The whole thing about the 25 years after the '83 team, I don't know when it's really going to sink in," Nims said. "But it just feels great. To be out there with all the guys - especially after what happened last season. And to be out there with the Watertown guys, that makes it even more special."
"He's looking down on us," Brendan Loftus said of his Uncle Tom. "It's incredible. To have No. 10 on the 25th anniversary, that's unbelievable."
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Huge thanks to David DiCrescenzo, Editor at Large American Patriots Press, for videoing and posting my speech at the Florida State Tea Party Convention last weekend.
It was the most amazing event, historic in fact, and the mainstream media's myopic meme was culled from the Hamas-linked CAIR press release deriding the event and creating Islamic supremacist lies out of whole cloth. Yes, now the media is taking their talking points and their cues from the Muslim Brotherhood,
pimping their anti-American hate and spinning it into "news reportage." Their coverage of the Florida State Tea Party Convention channeled the Muslim Brotherhood front group CAIR's press release, which focused on a single fallacious and diabolical lie: the absence of big name politicians from this event -- which of course was my fault. More here.
This is war.... on the truth.
CAIR was rebuked and disinvited to the Tea Party, but no mention was made of that in any of the news accounts. But the CAIR lie that politicians didn't come because of me (part of the Islamic smear campaign against voices of freedom) was widely repeated.
Who cares which politicians showed up?
This event was never about the politicians. It was about the people they serve. It was about the people who put them there. We the people. It was about organizing, strategizing and developing our battle-plan for 2012. As for the absent politicians, some of them got to where they are only with the help of the Tea Party. They will surely come around later in the game. Those politicians who were too afraid of Hamas-linked CAIR to show up at this event will come knocking on the doors of these people when they need their votes. Expect a booty call from certain cowardly and quisling politicians. But these folks won't be so inclined to answer this time.
Listen to the speech. Watch it and see for yoruself what they don't want you to know. This is war and they need the American people misinformed and disarmed. Take action, learn everything.


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Retired Army Sgt. Dennis Leonard is a giant of a man whose tattooed, muscled arms are as comfortable hunting game as they are hoisting his legless frame into his wheelchair.
However, when he met the people who are helping to pay for his new home, the 30-year-old Hummelstown man could only wrap a beefy arm around his 8-year-old son as the two shook with sobs.
Leonard was so overcome that another disabled veteran had to speak for him.
Rick Yarosh also is a retired Army sergeant. As a gunner serving in Iraq, Yarosh lost a leg and use of his hands and was burned over 60 percent of his body in a 2006 explosion. He lives in Windsor, N.Y., but journeyed to Cumberland County to meet Leonard and members of two local Rotary clubs.
"With how much I've gone through and how much [Leonard's] gone through, it makes it all worth it because you guys stand up and do what you do for us," Yarosh told Rotary members.
What the clubs — Mechanicsburg-North and Carlisle — did was hold a golf tournament that raised $100,000 for a custom-built home for Leonard. A house with wide doors and halls, low counters and other adaptations. Helping a Hero, a Houston-based agency, is overseeing the project for Leonard.
Meredith Iler, the agency's national chairwoman, flew to the midstate to thank the clubs. She told members that support is badly needed. The number of post-9/11 permanently disabled vets is growing, in part because modern medicine is saving soldiers who wouldn't have survived in wars past.
Iler said vets returning from Iraq and Afghanistan without limbs or with other disabilities need accommodations in their homes to live more normal lives. A May 2009 report from the nonprofit Disabled American Veterans confirms that the population of disabled veterans has grown. It said survival rates leaped from 58.3 percent of wounded in the Revolutionary War to 90.2 percent of those wounded in Iraq and 88.3 percent of those wounded in Afghanistan.
Of those who come back alive, 25 percent are disabled, compared with about 13 percent of all living veterans, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. As of August, 3 million, or 14 percent of all veterans, had a service-related disability. Three in 10 of those veterans were at least 60-percent disabled.
The Department of Veterans Affairs said in a statement last week that since Sept. 11, 2001, about 2.4 million troops "have deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. The health care needs of this particular patient population are complex and require a well-integrated interdisciplinary approach to care."
Leonard can do a lot.
His blue pickup truck is outfitted with a crane that swings him into the driver's seat. His mother and stepdad, with whom he lives in Hummelstown, assist him with daily needs. And Leonard's service dog, Dave, is always at his side.
But it's been more than five years since the Humvee he was driving in Iraq hit a roadside bomb and more than five years since the high school athlete and Dauphin County Technical School graduate first confronted a life with no legs and the dubious distinction as the Iraq War's 500th amputee.
His mother and stepfather "are there when I need them, and I help them when I can. It's just time for me to be on my own," Leonard said.
Operation Finally Home, Habitat for Heroes and other organizations formed to build accessible homes for disabled veterans.
Helping a Hero has built more than 60 homes in 15 states since 2006. It built Yarosh's New York home. It works like this: Homes cost about $250,000 each. A developer donates a lot, a builder matches the lot value with labor, the community raises $100,000 and the veteran picks up a mortgage of roughly $50,000.
Iler told the Mechanicsburg-North and Carlisle Rotary clubs that Leonard's home will be the agency's first project in Pennsylvania. She said homes usually are built in residential neighborhoods. Leonard's home will be different.
"Dennis is very unique in that he really has a vision of working on guns as a business. He really loves the outdoors," she said.
The group is looking for a rural lot, perhaps near a farm, Iler said.
Groundbreaking will be July 19.
The idea started with Bob Egley and Don Jacobs, two retirees whose investment club had experimented with golf tournament fundraising for smaller projects. The men became Rotary members and decided to expand on the concept. This year's tournament will be July 20, the day after work starts on Leonard's home.
How you can help
Midstate Rotary clubs will sponsor the second Helping a Hero golf tournament and Helping a Hero golf ball drop. The tournament at Carlisle Barracks Golf Club off Claremont Road will be July 20. The fee is $120 per person and is limited to 132 players. Information and registration/entry forms: 717-731-9739 or 717-761-7929.


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Voters will head to the polls on Tuesday, and turn out is expected to be somewhat high, mostly because the presidential seat is up for grabs.
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Republican Party Election Commissioner Brian Abrams of the Chautauqua County Board of Elections said he expects about 65 to 70 percent of the 78,000 registered voters will turn out to vote. "Presidential election years always bring out large numbers," he explained. He said the turnout in the last presidential race was about 70 percent.
SUNY Fredonia Professor of Political Science Raymond Rushboldt also said presidential elections have higher turnout, "because of the interest in them and the large amounts of media attention."
Rushboldt said public expectations of the president's role also affect turnout. "We are probably looking at divided government again at least in terms of House and Senate. The race is difficult to predict because it is so close and because a small swing one way or another can make a big difference," he stated.
The electoral college system may present difficulties in predicting outcomes, according to Rushboldt. "In the electoral college, in a swing state if they all swing one way it will look like a large margin even though the popular vote will be close. If that is the case then we should know who wins early in the evening. But if they are all close, who knows?" he said.
Abrams said the Chautauqua County board of Elections is prepared to make sure votes are counted once the polls close Tuesday night. "We want to make sure the numbers are accurate, our staff well trained and that voters have a pleasant experience. "That's the key, really - that voters have a pleasant experience and we get results timely and feel comfortable with everything that was done and that it was all done to the best of our abilities," he explained.
Democratic Party Election Commissioner Norm Green, who is also the Democratic party chair, refused to comment on the election.
Chautauqua County Republican Party Chair Allan Hendrickson said he is enthusiastic about his party's prospects in the county and state races.
"I'm enthusiastic about our chances this year. I think we're going to do well," he said, but noted weather-related issues in New York City may delay election results if power isn't restored. "We'll see how it goes. I don't think anyone can predict now," he said. "I think it's looking good for us here in Chautauqua County."
Hendrickson said voter enthusiasm is high in his party. "There is more enthusiasm this year than in many many years. We ran out of Romney/Ryan signs. It's a small thing but it's indicative of the enthusiasm. We've just never ran into that before," he said.
Uncertainty about power restoration in New York City may make early election results unclear according to Hendrickson. "I'm not sure what the situation will be with New York City and the power outage. Will electricity all be restored by next Tuesday? I don't know."
In New York City, Hendrickson said he has heard conflicting information about how elections will be conducted if the power remains out and is not sure how that will affect statewide elections. "I've heard they might give out ballots by the National Guard. It could be a big factor, how they handle that. I haven't been able to get any information I feel comfortable with," he said.
Hendrickson predicts many wins for his party including the county judge race. "(William) Coughlin, being from the north (end of the) county will probably garner more votes from there, but I'm still confident (Judge John) Ward will win," he said. "We have an excellent list of candidates."
"I have confidence with Andy Goodell and Cathy Young - she has no opposition. I'm confident about (Tom) Reed. ... I'm confident we're good there," he said, but added, "the state is predominantly Democratic so who knows. I think we have an excellent candidate for New York State Senate, but an uphill battle with an incumbent Democrat."
Abrams said he doesn't foresee any surprises at the polls for the Board of Elections. "The hours are the same. The only thing that might be new for some people who only come out on presidential years are the electronic voting machines," he said. "They aren't really new to us, but could be new to a lot of individuals who haven't voted in a while."
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Penn Twp. treasurer Susan Long received a plaque from township supervisors thanking her for her 11 years of dedicated service.
Long came to the position after retiring from teaching and has been an asset to the community.
The township engineer will review drainage issues on several roads before the supervisors meet next month. A culvert on Allendar Drive was discussed, with the possibility that it may be undersized.
Neighboring property owners indicated the problem has been corrected by cleaning the culvert and downstream inlet. They did not feel the township should have to pay for the engineer's review.
Solicitor Richard Wagner clarified that the issue is drainage as it relates to the right of way.
Supervisors CeCe Novinger and Brian Maguire authorized a review by the engineer. Supervisor Henry Holman abstained because he owns property nearby.
A resident asked how the order banning Perdix Fire Company from responding to calls in the township affected fund-raising. Members of the fire company have been going door to door with raffle tickets.
The question was posed to Wagner who could not comment due to the ongoing litigation between the township and the fire company.
Supervisors have passed an ordinance prohibiting Perdix Fire Company from responding to fires in the township and have contracted with Duncannon Fire Company for fire protection services.
The approved plans for Petersburg Commons were reviewed for public right of way and ADA-accessibility issues. In the opinion of the township engineer, no obligation exists for the township to install curb cuts and ramps for individual use. They should, however, allow individual residents reasonable and appropriate measures for their use and recommended minor curb cut renovations.
Nine bids were received for work on four roads. Handwerk was the low bidder at $140,177, which included a wearing course for Ebersole Road. Although Ebersole has a low traffic count, it is a township road.
Supervisors discussed the best method to use on the road which would result in the best long-term solution for the residents. Ebersole Road is easy to plow, requires very little in the way of time, and with a new wearing course should last for many years.
Barrick, YMCA and Haas roads are scheduled for work this season. Funding will not allow paving of Faculty Road, which will be considered for next year.
Bids also were opened for E-3 oil. A contract was awarded to Specialty Emulsions of York for 7,000 gallons at $2.23 per gallon and no delivery charge.
Brush cutting and clearing of rights-of-way continues, as well as cleaning catch basins and patching and repairing roads.
The Parks and Recreation Board reported that more than 20 volunteers renewed the commitment to Earth Day with tree planting. Before and after pictures of the ballfields were presented.
A community garden is planned for next year with soil preparation occurring this year.
Scott Smart was appointed to fill a seat on the municipal authority.
Training in legal updates and field sobriety testing was approved for police officers.


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A car slammed into a liquor store in northeast Baltimore.
Fire crews responded to the 6600 block of Belair Road near Fleetwood Avenue around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday for reports of a crash.
Baltimore City police said there were no significant injuries.
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SHLEMIEL THE FIRSTBased on the play by Isaac Bashevis SingerConceived and adapted by Robert BrusteinMusic composed, adapted, and orchestrated by Hankus NetskyMusical arrangements and additional music by Zalmen MlotekLyrics by Arnold WeinsteinDirected by Nick Olcott and Michael Russotto
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Featuring Thomas Howley, Dan Manning, Amy McWilliams and Helen Hayes Award winner Donna Migliaccio"A joyful noise, a breath of FRESH rhythm" - NewsweekRead More Critical Enthusiasm
Inspired by Nobel Prize winner I.B. Singer's whimsical tales of Chelm, the Village of Fools, this theatrical "jolt of joy" features rollicking klezmer music, slapstick comedy and a grand tale of mistaken identity. This irreverent, seriously funny musical, the hit of last season's Robert Brustein Residency, promises to be fun for everyone! Run Time 2 hrs.
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(WBNG Binghamton) A Montrose police officer is accused of stealing thousands in cash from a woman's wallet.
The Montrose Police Department said Rhonda Smith, 43, has been placed on administrative leave.
She's accused of taking $2,400 from a wallet belonging to Christina Lopez sometime between July 25 and July 27.
Lopez said she had $5,000 cash in her wallet because she was getting ready to move and had stayed a weekend at Smith's home.
On July 28, Lopez texted Smith and told her the money was missing. Smith told Lopez to meet her in the park in Montrose and that it was important, according to the police complaint.
When Lopez met Smith in the park, Smith allegedly jumped in her car, asked Lopez if she had ever done something bad, and handed Lopez $700.
Smith told Lopez she needed the money for plane tickets for her son from Alaska and denied taking any more money, according to the complaint.
Smith was charged with theft and receiving stolen property.
Smith is scheduled to appear in Magisterial District Court in Montrose for a preliminary hearing on Monday.


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Our mission to increase healthy eating and physical activity among Melrose students. Our goal is to motivate children to eat more fruits and vegetables and enjoy 60 minutes of physical activity every day. The Network's Web site http://www.healthylausd.net it is designed to provide everyone whether youre a teacher, parent or kid all of the tools needed to get moving toward a healthier lifestyle!
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* Have children choose their own books as soon as they start showing a preference for one over another.
* Find the children's section of your local library. Get to know the librarian, who can be a great resource.
* Find out what your child is interested in, and help choose books that are related to his or her interests.
* Ask friends, family, and teachers what books their children have enjoyed; try a book swap.
* If your child does not like a book you are reading together, put it away. Reading is a fun time to share, not a time to fight.
* Again, Again, Again! Children may want to read the same book many times, even if you think they have outgrown it.
* Use book lists generated by various literacy organizations; they usually have good suggestions. For example: American Library Association, International Reading Association, Children's Book Guild
* Look for books that you will like reading aloud. Your enjoyment will shine through and become contagious.
* Try out different kinds of books to see what appeals to your children.
* Have fun! Show your children the joy of reading and how it can open up a brand new world!
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As you may know, many LAUSD schools in this area are used for the film and commercial industry. Melrose Avenue is a school that because of our close proximity to the film studios and location to Hollywood is often selected to be used in commercials or films. Please note that the education of our students is the utmost importance and that filming will be avoided or scheduled when children are not in session or after school hours. There may be instances where filming will occur directly after classes and therefore film crews may need to park on our playground. When this occurs, we will close a portion of the play ground and add an additional recess and lunch schedule to accommodate half of the school. The amount of instructional time and recess and lunch time will remain unchanged, however the time may be staggered to accommodate the two recess and lunches on half the playground.
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Diane Harty, a milliner from Frisco, Colo., crafts sculptural designs and turns them into caps, cloches and wide-brimmed shade hats. She weaves her pieces on an antique straw machine and shapes them by hand, without blocks or forms.
On this video Harty talks about her technique, as customer Gemmie Jones of San Francisco models some of the more Gatsby-esque designs. You can see Harty's work this weekend in the Contemporary Crafts tents at New Orleans Jazz Fest.


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St. John's Ice Caps' player Jason King checks Hershey Bears defenceman Sean Collins into the glass behind the Bears' net during second-period AHL action at Mile One Centre Friday night. — Photo By Keith Gosse/The Telegram
Patrice Cormier registered a hat trick, and three other St. John's players finished with multiple points as the IceCaps routed the Hershey Bears 6-1 for their third straight American Hockey League win Friday night at Mile One Centre.
The victory was the IceCaps' third straight and improved their record to 35-15-5-2 on the year.
It was their first game on home ice since Feb. 12. The IceCaps just closed out a road, going 3-3-0-1.
Cormier also picked up an assist, giving him four points on the night. Kevin Clark and Spencer Machacek both had a goal and an assist, while defenceman Arturs Kulda finished the night with two helpers. Jason Jaffray also scored. Kyle Greentree was the lone Hershey goalscorer.
Cormier got the IceCaps on the scoreboard first, jamming the puck between Braden Holtby's legs 7:53 in. Holtby, who made an appearance for the Washington Capitals this season and 14 last year, thought he had the puck squeezed between his pads, but it skittered through for Cormier's 12th on the year.
The lead was shortlived as the Bears, the longest continuing franchise in the AHL, around since 1938, evened things less than two minutes later when Greentree netted a power play goal.
It was all IceCaps in the second period, however, as St. John's outshot Hershey 15-4, scoring three goals for a 4-1 lead after 40 minutes.
Jaffray started the parade when he busted down the right wing, and drove to the net, cashing in his 17th goal on the year. Just over a minute later, it was Cormier again, banging home a rebound on a goalmouth scramble, and the rout was on. Clark closed out period scoring, netting his 10th at 12:53.
Cormier and Machacek scored the only goals of the third period. For Machacek, the IceCaps' leading scorer, it was his seventh straight game with at least one point.
Eddie Pasquale had an easy time registering the win, his 18th on the year, facing only 20 shots. The IceCaps fired 33 shots on Holtby and veteran Dany Sabourin, who made a brief appearance in the second when Holtby experienced equipment problems.
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Deputies with the Eaton County Sheriff's Office Delta Patrol responded to an assault at Family Dollar, 5058 S. Waverly Road, about 3 p.m.
The suspect had attempted a retail fraud, prompting an employee to ask him to leave, according to police. The suspect pulled out a knife and cut an employee.
Employees at the store were able to subdue the suspect until deputies arrived.
The employee cut by the suspect was treated at the scene for minor injuries.
The suspect was lodged at the Eaton County jail on assault charges.
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First American Governor of California, U.S.A. b. in Nashville, Tennessee, 15 Nov., 1807, of Virginian ancestry; d. at San Francisco, California, 16 May, 1895. At an early age he was taken by his father to Missouri, where amid primitive conditions of life he succeeded in obtaining an elementary education. At the age of nineteen he returned to Tennessee, and soon after married Harriet W. Rogers, to whom he attributed much of the success of his later career. After his marriage he started in business for himself, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1839. He also edited "The Far West", a weekly paper published at Liberty, Missouri. About this time he became a member of the Church of the Disciples, or Campbellites, founded by Alexander Campbell, a seceder from the Baptists. In 1843, removing with his family to Oregon, he took a prominent part in the formation of the territorial government and was a member of the legislature from 1844 to 1848. During this period the published debate between Campbell and Bishop Purcell of Cincinatti fell into his hands, and though after reading it he still remained a Protestant, his confidence in Protestantism was considerably shaken. He then began a systematic investigation of the true religion, became convinced of the truth of the Catholic claims, and in June, 1846, was received into the church at Oregon City by Father De Vos.
In the year 1848 Burnett went to California, where he was elected a member of the Legislative Assembly and took a leading part in its Proceedings. He was appointed judge of the superior tribunal in August, 1849 and did good work in the framing of the State Constitution. In September he was chosen chief justice, and on the thirteenth of November of the same year he was elected the first American Governor of California, though California was not admitted as a State into the Union till September, 1850. He resigned the governorship in 1851 and resumed the practice of law until his appointment in 1857 as a Justice of the Supreme Court of California by Gov. J. Neeley Johnson. His term expired in October 1858. He was also President of the Pacific Bank from 1863 to 1880, after which he retired from active business. In 1860 Judge Burnett wrote his famous book "The Path which led a Protestant Lawyer to the Catholic Church" (New York, 1860), wherein he bases his conversion on clear-cut logical principles. With regard to this work Dr. Brownson says "In writing his book, Judge Burnett has rendered a noble homage to his new faith. . . . Through him California has made a more glorious contribution to the Union than all the gold of her mines, for truth is more precious than gold, yea, than fine gold" (Brownson's Review, April, 1860). This was followed by his work on "The American Theory of Government, Considered with Referenee to the Present Crisis" (2d ed., New York, 1861). During the period of his retirement he published "Recollections and Opinions of an Old Pioneer" (New York, 1860), which "is especially valuable in connection with the early political and constitutional history of the Pacific coast" (Nation, XXX, 389), and "Reasons Why We Should Believe in God, Love God and Obey God" (New York, 1884).
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This spring however, for the first time since Saban's arrival, players from outside the state of Alabama outnumber in-state players on the Tide roster.
In a very thorough analysis of the Crimson Tide's roster, Alabama football blog Roll Bama Roll points out that while 47% of the players on the 2011 roster hailed from outside the state of Alabama, that percentage has risen to 58% on the 2012 spring roster, marking the first time since data became available that Alabama natives did not make up the majority of the team.
So where are the Tide's players coming from? The team's current geographic makeup appears pretty diverse, but Georgia has certainly been the single biggest source of out-of-state talent for the Tide. Florida and Tennessee have also been dependable sources of talent for Saban and his staff.
Roll Bama Roll illustrates that the shift away from an emphasis on in-state recruiting has been a gradual one, developing over the last six years and starting with Mike Shula's final recruiting class in 2006 and his first that wasn't limited by NCAA sanctions.
Whether the trend towards geographic diversity on Alabama's roster will continue is uncertain, but it's clear that Alabama has never been a more national program than it is in 2012.


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GRAND RAPIDS, MI – The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center returns to St. Cecilia Music Center next year with music by Beethoven, Brahms and Schumann plus a newly commissioned work for the second season of St. Cecilia's Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Series.
The Escher String Quartet and clarinetist David Shifrin are among the artists coming to Royce Auditorium for the second, three-concert series dubbed "NYC2GR".
St. Cecilia executive director Cathy Holbrook said last year she believes the new partnership will revolutionize the chamber music series.
"For decades we have been committed to bringing world-renowned artists to Grand Rapids to perform on St. Cecilia's Royce Auditorium stage," Holbrook said last year.
"We're raising the bar even higher with our new partnership with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's artistic directors David Finckel and Wu Han.
Related: St. Cecilia Music Center joins with Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center to bring the top caliber chamber musicians to Grand Rapids
Pianist Wu Han, who is co-artistic director with her husband, cellist David Finckel, unveiled next season's program Thursday evening at the third and final program of the inaugural season of collaboration between St. Cecilia Music Center and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
Two of the society's musicians, violinist Kristin Lee and violist Paul Neubauer, who were in Grand Rapids on Thursday, will return again next season.
Related: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center concert almost didn't happen, but wound up extraordinary on Thursday evening
Han will return for the season-opening concert Nov. 21, 2013 along with the Escher String Quartet and other musicians for music by Scriabin and Rachmaninoff that includes Czech composer Bedrich Smetana's autobiographical Quartet No. 1 in E minor for Strings, subtitled "From My Life;" and Alexander Tanayev's Quintet in G minor for Piano, Two Violins, Viola and Cello, Op. 30.
Finckel, who's about to step down in May from his post as cellist with the Grammy Award-winning Emerson String Quartet, will return for the second concert on March 6, 2014 with music by Dvorak and Schumann as well as Hungarian composer Erno Dohnanyi's Quintet No. 1 in C minor for Piano, Two Violins, Viola and Cello Op. 1.
The third and final program on May 8, 2014 will include music by Brahms and Schumann. Clarinetist David Shifrin will play Brahms' Sonata in E-flat major for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 120, No. 2; the final chamber music work that Brahms composed before his death. Shifrin also will join with others for a new work co-commissioned by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
Season tickets for the 2013-14 the St. Cecilia Chamber Music Series are $89.25 or $102 for three concerts. Single tickets are $35 and $40 adults, $10 students.
Season ticket packages also are available for all six concerts in the 2013-14 St. Cecilia Chamber Music Series and St. Cecilia Jazz Series as well as for a flex pass for four of the six events.
Related: Jazz vocalist Gregory Porter, violinist Regina Carter coming to St. Cecilia Music Center in 2013-14
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Here's Wu Han, co-artistic director of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, unveiling the 2013-14 St. Cecilia Chamber Music Series.
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When my niece gets ready for bed, my sister tells me, the two of them sit together and seek God's blessing for family and friends.
The prayers, to my understanding, go along something like this: God bless Mommy. God bless Daddy. God bless Newton (her dog).
She then adds her grandparents and me and, of course, our dogs. She includes classmates and teachers, far-flung relatives and their far-flung dogs.
Now inanimate objects have made their way into the mix, and she'll say, "God bless the bed" and "God bless the books."
It delights me to no end.
Get past the cute factor, though, and there's a reminder and challenge: Express gratitude for all blessings, great and small.


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WOODBURY — The manager of a now shuttered adult day health services facility was sentenced Friday to three years in state prison for defrauding the Medicaid program.
Salvatore Chillemi, 50, of Washington Township was also ordered by Superior Court Judge Christine Allen-Jackson to pay $147,076 in fines and penalties. Chillemi was also barred from participation in the Medicaid program and any other federally or state funded health insurance or prescription assistance program for a term of eight years. The sentence was based on Chillemi's April 11 guilty plea to an accusation that charged him with second-degree health care claims fraud.
Chillemi served as the manager/director and client outreach coordinator for Shore Winds Adult Medical Day Care, an adult day health services facility formerly located in Somers Point. In pleading guilty, the defendant admitted that between May 8, 2006 and Nov. 8, 2010, he fraudulently submitted five or more claims for adult day health services valued at a total of more than $1,000, purportedly provided to Medicaid beneficiaries. An investigation by the Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor determined that the services for which the claims were submitted were either not provided, or not provided to the extent for which they were billed.


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A 29-year-old Brooklyn man who's been caught spray-painting graffiti off Staten Island faces criminal charges here after his tag surfaced on a partition in Arrochar, police allege.
The NYPD's Citywide Vandals Task Force arrested Omar Bolano this morning after linking him to a graffiti tag sprayed on a concrete street partition at the corner of Lily Pond and McLean avenues on April 13, court papers said.
Bolano, who authorities say admitted the tag was his, faces single counts of making graffiti and fourth-degree criminal mischief, both misdemeanors.
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Pictured are various puppets from the six shows that will take place in June. Grade 5 student Skyler Earle is shown with one of the puppets. AMANDA JESS – THE NEWS
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CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) -- The bop is back at V8.
Early this year, Campbell Soup Co. introduced a new advertising campaign for its line of vegetable-based juices. Like the juice's memorable 1970s ads, the new ones feature people getting bopped on the forehead and a line that quickly became a catch-phrase: "Could've had a V8."
Since the campaign began, sales of the juices have been soaring for a company best known for its soup. In fact, sales of V8 from May through July were up 10 percent from the same period a year ago while soup sales were flat. The product is doing well enough that Campbell's is looking to add more juice-production capacity.
Since early September, there is less excuse than ever not to have a V8. The juices are easier to find because of a new distribution deal with Coca-Cola Co. that could land the vegetable drink in soda and vending machines across the country.
Campbell's executives say the surge is coming as people search for diet options -- and it's enough to make the 74-year-old brand seem new again.
"When people are trying the product, they're coming back to it," said Denise M. Morrison, president of Campbell's United States operations.
V8 was first mixed up by W.G. Peacock of the New England Products Co. in 1933. His "Vege-min" juices were not selling well, so he combined eight of them into one product, which became known as V8.
In 1948, Camden-based Campbell's bought the tomato-based juice brand.
Over the past decade innovations to the line of juices, which needn't be refrigerated before they're opened, have been frequent.
In the late 1990s, the company introduced V8 Splash, a drink that blends fruit and vegetable juices with a sweetener and corn syrup. But by 2000, sales were slowing.
V8 Splash is still available, but the company has taken the concept of blending fruit and vegetable juices into another product, V8 V-Fusion. Introduced last year, the new drinks boast a half-cup of fruits and vegetables in each 8-ounce bottle and come in flavors like peach mango and pomegranate blueberry.
The vegetables, such as sweet potatoes, carrots and yellow tomatoes, stay in the flavor background to keep a fruity taste. The company sees the drinks as a sneaky way to help solve a vegetable crisis.
"We all know we don't get enough vegetables," said Irene Chang Britt, vice president and general manager of Campbell's sauces and beverages division.
The United States Department of Agriculture is now recommending adults consume from 2 to 3 cups of vegetables per day.
According to a Centers for Disease Control study released earlier this year, only about one-fourth of Americans seemed to be eating enough veggies in 2005.
Deb Galuska, acting chief of obesity control at CDC, said that while juices count toward fruit and vegetable guidelines, health experts prefer to see people get those nutrients mostly from whole foods.
But even if it's not perfect, V8 is a way to get veggies.
On her healthy food-review Web site, food scientist Tanya Taylor gave the pomegranate blueberry variety high marks.
"If you don't like veggies (and I might be a little guilty of not eating enough) -- or if you can't get your kids to eat theirs -- then I highly recommend giving this a try," she wrote recently on the site iateapie.net.
Trying it got easier Sept. 10, when Coca-Cola Enterprises started handling distribution.
The company tries to have the top-selling lines in all sorts of drinks. While Coca-Cola makes sodas, Dasani water and Minute Maid juice drinks, it has a few holes in its lineup. That's why it has struck deals with other drinkmakers, such as Campbell's and Glaceau, the maker of Vitamin Water.
"People are looking for more different choices," said Fred Roselli, a Coca-Cola Enterprises spokesman. "We love to be able to distribute that."
The company is taking V8 to the places thirsty shoppers visit to find Coca-Cola-filled coolers. That means V8 is showing up in convenience stores, delis and pizza places. Campbell's officials say the juices could be available in three times as many locations as before.
Both companies say the juices may eventually be added to vending machines.


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The U.S. Consumer Finance Protection Bureau today announced its effort to get banks to simplify credit-card agreements and disclosures.
Unfortunately, not all the agreements in its database are current, It's Only Money has found.
The agency posted on its website a sample form. It's testing the one-page prototype with the 1-million-member Pentagon Federal Credit Union. Card issuers are under no obligation to adopt the form.
It also posted a searchable database of current agreements. You can search for your card's agreement by issuer or by text. The CARD Act of 2009 required agreements be submitted to the Federal Reserve.
Not all of the agreements are current, however. It's Only Money found agreements from Capital One Bank and U.S. Bank that had been updated Sept. 30.
But the agreement on file from OnPoint Community Credit Union of Portland listed rates current as of June 15, 2009. The agreement on its website is dated February 2011. The agreement on file from Oregon's largest credit union, First Tech Credit Union, was revised June 10, 2010. A more recent version is available on its website.
Card issuers are supposed to update their disclosures quarterly unless they make no change to their agreement or have fewer than 10,000 account holders.
UPDATE: First Tech sent its updated agreement to federal authorities in June, but it has not posted, spokeswoman Deborah Colby said. The credit union's compliance team is looking into the matter.
What do you think of the bureau's model disclosure? Weigh in here or at the bureau's Know Before You Owe web page.
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The Orange Scouting Report from The Post-Standard print edition (PDF).
To the pointThe Orange needs to get off to a fast start in the Big East with four games against the bottom of the pack before getting into the meat of the conference schedule.
An assistant coach familiar with Seton Hall provided a rundown on the Pirates' starters and bench.
Prime matchup
Jeremy Hazell
Small forward
So., 6-5, 185
A shooter. A deadly shooter. He can win a game by himself. He's a poor man's Reggie Miller.
Paul Harris
Jr., 6-4, 228
In SU's last four games, Harris is averaging 13.5 points and 9.5 rebounds. Those numbers are similar to his season averages of 13.6 points and 8.8 boards.
Point guardEugene Harvey
Jr., 6-0, 165
A quick guard. One of the best players in the country in the open court. Makes good decisions in the open court.
Jonny Flynn
So., 6-0, 185
Flynn "struggled" against Coppin State and still posted 10 points and 10 assists. No SU player needed a week off more than Flynn.
Shooting guardPaul Gause
Sr., 5-11, 188
Probably the toughest player in the Big East at the guard position. He's a middle linebacker. Just a tough kid.
Eric Devendorf
Jr., 6-4, 180
The Orange's second-leading scorer is back. Devendorf has averaged 15 points in Big East games during his career.
Power forwardRobert Mitchell
Jr., 6-6, 180
His nickname is Sticks. He's long and lanky. He's a combo forward. A very active player.
Rick Jackson
Sr., 6-9, 240
In his two starts against Memphis and Coppin State, Jackson has averaged 12.0 points and 6.5 rebounds.
CenterMike Davis
So., 6-11, 255
A big tree trunk. He's got a nice touch around the rim. He's a lefty who makes plays around the rim.
Arinze Onuaku
Jr., 6-9, 275
Onuaku posted his third double-double of the season with 12 points and 10 rebounds against Coppin State.
BenchJordan Theodore is somewhat like Harvey, but he's not as good at making decisions in transition. He looks to score more and he's an aggressive defender. Brandon's (Walters) a big body. He's a little thin, but he can step out and hit a shot.
Inside the statsSyracuse is making 50.3 percent from the field this season. The Orange ranks first in the Big East just ahead of Connecticut. The Huskies have hit 50.2 percent of their field-goal attempts.
Three points1. Jonny Flynn ranks third in the Big East in assists and sixth in scoring. He's the only player in the top 10 for assists who is also in the top 10 for scoring.
2. Seton Hall's Jeremy Hazell ranks third in the Big East in 3-pointers made at 3.2 per game. Notre Dame's Kyle McAlarney leads the league at 4.5 per game.
3. Syracuse great Lawrence Moten remains the Big East's all-time leading scorer. No current Big East player is within 400 points of Moten's record 1,405 points in conference games.
Who's hotNo one's hotter than Andy Rautins after his 9-for-16 show from 3-point range against Coppin State. Rautins tied Gerry McNamara's school record for most threes in a game. Rautins' previous high for made threes in a game was six, which he set last season.
Mike's mailboxPost-Standard basketball writer Mike Waters answers readers' questions about the Orange, the Big East, all of college basketball and just about anything else.
To submit a question, e-mail Mike at email@example.com.
Q: Mike, I read your piece on the local players staying home (Post-Standard, Dec. 19) and suiting up for Syracuse. While I agree that the pressures are unique, I find it interesting that the football players who decide to stay and compete for Syracuse don't seem to be under the same intense scrutiny. I'm biased as a graduate of Jamesville-DeWitt, but Rob Drummond and Scott Schwedes never had huge expectations put on them, and maybe that's because Boeheim has had so much success and the stakes are higher in basketball ... But Syracuse has always had a proud football tradition too. Even today, the CBA former wideouts Bruce Williams and Lavar Lobdell haven't heard what Matt Roe had shouted at him.
-- Happy holidays, David D.
Mike Waters: I've had this conversation with many of my colleagues at The Post-Standard.
My contention/theory is that there are fewer basketball players so the pressure when you're recruited is greater because you're taking up a valuable scholarship/roster spot. If a football recruit doesn't work out, you've got eight other players at the position. If Dayshawn Wright doesn't work out, Syracuse fans remember that the Orange was also recruiting Jeff Green before taking the local kid.
The other part of my reasoning is that the football players are more anonymous. They are way out on a field and hidden underneath pads and helmets. Basketball players are out there in their underwear by comparison. You can see their faces. They are very familiar. Even if you're not at a game, the television cameras can zoom right in on a basketball player's face.
I'll bet there are more people in Syracuse who would recognize Brandon Triche at the mall before they'd recognize Cameron Dantley.
Q: Hey Mike, I was wondering if you could settle a little bet I have with someone. I believe the 70-foot game-winning shot against us by Cleveland State was a bank shot but someone actually insists it was clean. Was it not off the window?
-- Thank you, Name withheld
Waters: I've watched three different highlights of the shot by Cleveland State's Cedric Jackson. It would be easy to think that Jackson's shot went straight in when you look at the tape that was shot from behind Jackson. When I saw the television broadcast that was shot from center court above the bleachers, I really thought the ball banked in. A third version was similar to the first, but the quality wasn't as good.
So I went back to the first highlight. I slowed down the tape as much as I could. Even though the ball goes through at a high rate of speed, I think it banks in.


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STANTON, MI — A Montcalm County man is facing felony embezzlement charges related to thousands in missing funds from the county's chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) union.
Todd Everett Christensen, 34, of Stanton, was arrested on April 29 and arraigned on May 1 in Montcalm County 64B District Court on one count of felony embezzlement.
According to the Montcalm County Sheriff's Office, union members called investigators after discovering several thousand dollars in FOP funds were taken from a chapter savings account.
Christensen, the union treasurer and former corrections officer with the sheriff's office, turned himself into police. He currently remains free on a $5,000 bond.
Investigators said the alleged embezzlement occurred over a two-year period from the savings account, which belongs solely to the union. No county or taxpayer funds were taken.


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Our nation is being hijacked by the childish notion that being right is all that matters.
The deadlock between the U.S. House Republicans and the president of the United States is shameful. It is embarrassing. Aren't we — the mightiest, most successful nation on earth — supposed to be better than this? Didn't we, or at least most of us learn, that sometimes we must set aside our views or beliefs for the common good? Isn't that what the United States is all about?
Let's look at who the pawns are in this chess game. On one side we have the millions of Americans without basic health care, and on the other are paychecks and services that not only operate our nation, but are a significant factor in keeping our economy running.
One must admit that the House Republicans, who are demanding changes or a delay in implementing the new health care law, have chosen an effective way of getting attention. Some news reports say that this particular approach, with Obamacare as the target, was planned months ago.
It is good versus evil. Resisting more debt is "good," while Obamacare with its costs and regulations is "bad."
Of course, there are other elements that flavor this mix — stubbornness, a good bit of ignorance, and a great deal of hubris are rolled in together to make this debate even more toxic.
It is easy to forget that there are people behind these numbers. Forget that people will not be paid, that Social Security checks will be delayed, that people will still crowd emergency rooms for medical care, that inspections or licenses for business will be held up, programs for students will be slowed or cut.
The risk to our nation is substantial.
The slowing the delivery of services, eliminating the billions of dollars of spending and millions of jobs supported by government paychecks will damage the economy. But also distressing is the notion of uncertainty about the strength of U.S. both here and abroad. It is a notion that can spread like a virus and can be just as difficult to shake.
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