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A day after newcomer Davis and his slate of council candidates unanimously unseated Mayor Mark Smith and his four incumbents in a hard-fought election filled with mud slinging and voter fraud allegations, there are still provisional ballots to be counted, that could ultimately shake up the final results.
"No election is certified until we count every ballot," said Mike Harper, clerk for the Hudson County Board of Elections.
Provisional ballots will be counted -- and potentially challenged – Friday at 10:30 a.m. in Harper's office in the Hudson County Plaza, at 257 Cornelison Ave. The ballots will be counted during an open public meeting in front of candidates if they choose to be present.
Harper said there were approximately 300 provisional ballots, or about 100 per ward.
There are candidates who ran on Smith's losing ticket that are theoretically in striking range to win seats on the city council if there is a high provisional ballot count in their favor.
The slimmest margin of victory was in the Ward 3 election. Raymond Greaves, who ran on the Smith ticket, trails Gary La Pelusa by a mere 38 votes, according to preliminary results.
Greaves was the only candidate on Smith's ticket to remain positive Tuesday night about his chances during their concession speeches at The Chandelier.
"I'm not conceding anything yet tonight," said Greaves last night. "I'm going to fight the fight. I will look at the provisional ballots in the morning and decide if I will ask for a recount."
Terrance Ruane, who ran for an at-large seat on Smith's ticket, and Juan Perez are separated by 156 votes, and trails Sharon Nadrowski by only 183 votes, according to preliminary results.
Joseph Hurley, the losing candidate on Smith's ticket in Ward 2, also stands a chance. He lost yesterday's election by 52 votes to Salvatore Gullace.
In the first election on May 13, there were 151 provisional ballots counted, the majority of which in Smith's favor.
Harper said the approximate 300 provisional ballots cast in the runoff election is not unconventional given the extremely high turnout yesterday. He added that, traditionally, provisional ballots "reflect what you see in the polling places."
Today, Greaves said he was "optimistic" about his chances of gaining another four-year term on the council with the help of provisional ballots.
"I have no clue about how many provisional ballots are out there, but I'm optimistic that that the tally will shrink, or get closer in my favor," Greaves said. "But we'll have to wait and see Friday."


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ONCE again Fran Foster of Centrex, the Birmingham NEC's organising arm, has proved there is plenty of fair business in Scotland if the quality and mix of stock is right. Her fourth Antiques For Everyone – Glasgow, held at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre from June 20 to 22, proved a success for the great majority of the 80 or so exhibitors and it was commented upon that this Scottish fair has outshone many events further south.
There was a large presence of Scottish dealers among the exhibitors, and most of the buying was also Scottish. And unlike a lot of English fairs straightforward period furniture was in demand, like the Victorian mahogany dining table Canning Antiques from Glasgow sold for £11,500. John Whitelaw from Auchterarder had his best Scottish fair to date selling a dozen pieces of furniture, six of them at the preview.
The Scottish love affair with Arts and Crafts is well documented and was reflected in sales. Local Arts and Crafts furniture specialist Strachan Antiques sold their stand twice over and ended up directing customers to their nearby shop.
Decorative Arts at Doune enjoyed excellent sales up to over £12,000 for their Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau silver, jewellery and furniture, including a Nouveau fireplace surround at £3000.
As expected there was keen home demand for the plethora of Scottish items, with Becca Gauldie from Glendoick reporting records sales of Mauchline-ware and numbering the occasional American and Canadian among her trade customers.
Overall silver proved a disappointing area, although jewellery proved very popular. Making their debut Joseph Bonnar from Edinburgh proved why they are one of Scotland's leading jewellery retailers with their staff of four kept constantly busy.
Against the trend at southern fairs, contemporary art was shunned in Scotland. But earlier fine art proved successful for several specialists, especially London's Gladwell Fine Art who enjoyed a number of five-figure sales.
After the fair Mrs Foster said: "Our success in Glasgow has come as a real boost for many of our exhibitors. Above all everyone seems to agree that this fair exudes a strong sense of optimism that is particularly refreshing in the current
market." More than 50 exhibitors immediately rebooked for next year's Scottish fair.

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Decomposing the Declining Volatility of Long-Term Inflation Expectations
Todd E. Clark
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Troy Davig
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
February 26, 2009
FRB of Kansas City Paper No. RWP 09-05
The level and volatility of survey-based measures of long-term inflation expectations have come down dramatically over the past several decades. To capture these changes in inflation dynamics, we embed both short- and long-term expectations into a medium-scale VAR with stochastic volatility. The model documents a marked decline in the volatility of expectations, but also reveals a shift in the factors driving their movement. Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, the majority of the variance in long-term expectations were driven by 'own' shocks. Beginning in the mid-1990s, however, the factors explaining the variance of long-term expectations began shifting amidst an overall decline in volatility. At the end of the sample in 2008, innovations to measures of inflation and output account for the majority of the remaining low-level of volatility in long-term expectations. We document a shift in monetary policy towards more systematic behavior that precedes the shift in the factors driving long-term expectations.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 31
Keywords: Survey-based inflation expectations, stochastic volatility, Bayesian econometrics
JEL Classification: E31, E32, E52
Date posted: February 26, 2009
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James Byrnes, the director of the Isaac Delgado Museum of Art who led a citywide drive to buy a portrait that the impressionist master Edgar Degas had painted in New Orleans, died Sept. 26 at his Los Angeles home. He was 94.
Getting the portrait of Estelle Musson, Degas' first cousin and sister-in-law, in 1965 for the City Park museum was a major achievement of Mr. Byrnes' tenure, from 1962 to 1973.
To raise the $190,000 purchase price — the equivalent of $1.31 million today — Mr. Byrnes launched a massively publicized campaign, "Bring Estelle Home," that included canisters in schools for children's nickels and dimes, as well as a telethon.
The redoubtable Edith Stern, one of New Orleans' foremost philanthropists, gathered civic leaders at the museum for a lunch of po-boys — and told them to bring their checkbooks, said William Fagaly, whom Mr. Byrnes hired as curator of African art.
After telling her guests what an asset the portrait would be, Fagaly said Stern announced the price of the lunch — $5,000 — and told everyone to write a check.
"Many of them did," Fagaly said, chuckling.
The painting, which shows a woman arranging flowers, was valued at $14 million before Hurricane Katrina, Fagaly said.
Mr. Byrnes was among the first to recognize the importance of pre-Columbian art, African art and Native American art, and he started building what have become renowned collections in those fields, Fagaly said.
Mr. Byrnes also cultivated a friendship with Melvin Billups of New York, who had a massive collection of glass art. He gave it to the museum, Fagaly said, and it became the foundation of the museum's collection.
Under his leadership, the museum tripled its size by adding three wings: the Stern Auditorium, the Wisner Education Building and the City Exhibition Wing. To reflect this expansion far beyond what Isaac Delgado had established in 1911, the museum acquired a new name — the New Orleans Museum of Art — and it was accredited by the American Association of Museums.
In recognition of his work at the New Orleans museum, the trustees named him director emeritus.
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- WL Li and AG Rodrigo, Covariation of branch lengths in phylogenies of functionally related genes., PLoS One, vol. 4 no. 12 (2009), pp. e8487 [20041191], [doi] [abs].
- AG Rodrigo, P Tsai and H Shearman, On the use of bootstrapped topologies in coalescent-based Bayesian MCMC inference: a comparison of estimation and computational efficiencies., Evol Bioinform Online, vol. 5 (2009), pp. 97-105 [19812730] [abs].
- A Rodrigo, F Bertels, J Heled, R Noder, H Shearman and P Tsai, The perils of plenty: What are we going to do with all these genes?, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 363 no. 1512 (2008), pp. 3893-3902 [18852100], [doi] [abs].
- M Bordewich, AG Rodrigo and C Semple, Selecting taxa to save or sequence: desirable criteria and a greedy solution., Syst Biol, vol. 57 no. 6 (December, 2008), pp. 825-834 [19085326], [doi] [abs].
- M Steel and A Rodrigo, Maximum likelihood supertrees, Systematic Biology, vol. 57 no. 2 (2008), pp. 243-250 [18398769], [doi] [abs].
- SG Lim, Y Cheng, S Guindon, BL Seet, LY Lee, P Hu, S Wasser, FJ Peter, T Tan, M Goode and AG Rodrigo, Viral quasi-species evolution during hepatitis Be antigen seroconversion., Gastroenterology, vol. 133 no. 3 (September, 2007), pp. 951-958 [17854598], [doi] [abs].
- S Guindon, M Black and A Rodrigo, Control of the false discovery rate applied to the detection of positively selected amino acid sites, Molecular Biology and Evolution, vol. 23 no. 5 (2006), pp. 919-926 [16423864], [doi] [abs].
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It's always encouraging to see criticism and internal dialogue within movements for equality—conversations that constantly question whether activists have the best priorities, are being as inclusive as possible, and are making a positive impact. I think one of the most admirable things about the modern feminist movement is the way we are always educating ourselves and each other, remembering that feminism is about equality for everyone regardless of their sex, gender, race, ability, and other factors—and asking whether our perspectives are complete and fair.
But I wish to see more of that healthy debate in the mainstream movement for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality today. Dialogue among LGBT activists often takes a more tense, accusatory tone about which goals are the most important, which queer community suffers more than the others, and which organizations aren't good enough.
One of the clearest indications of this is the classic "debate" over how transgender issues fit within the broader LGBT circle. No matter how increasingly educated and informed we become about trans people and the issues surrounding trans communities, it seems like every couple of weeks there's a new op-ed or forum debate or Twitter fight or public service announcement about whether the "T" should really be a part of the "LGBT" acronym. It never fails: just last week openly gay news anchor Don Lemon made that question a large portion of a panel of transgender celebrities he hosted on the Joy Behar Show. (The segment was extremely problematic, as Lemon is clearly not versed in trans conversations in any way; but promising in a larger sense, as I blogged about elsewhere).
Why is the "T" part of the "LGBT"? I hope that for feminists the answer is rather obvious. The stigma surrounding transgender, transsexual, genderqueer, and gender non-conforming people is the same stigma that people who aren't straight must confront: They're not expressing themselves according to the strict rules and rigid binaries that society has created for us, where there are men and women; men are masculine and have sex with women; and women are feminine and have sex with men. The trans community confronts these most fundamental notions of what the world tries to tell us about gender.
And this has devastating impacts. Transgender women make up 44% of all victims of violence against LGBT people. People of color make up 70% of the victims. It's worth repeating. Transgender women of color are the single most targeted group in the LGBT community. But gay men, lesbians, and other groups are also regularly harmed—usually not for their sexual orientation, but for their expression of their gender; for "looking" gay.
"There isn't much that compares," said advocate Ja'briel Walthour in the Huffington Post yesterday, to living life as a transgender woman of color. "To face discrimination and biased attitudes is one thing; to stare down the barrel of a loaded weapon is another."
Feminists are beginning to recognize the integral importance of speaking up for and protecting our trans sisters (and brothers), and why it's relevant to them. But it remains an issue for many LGB and straight people who continue to ask "Why should I care?" The fact that they think this is even debatable is scary. The answer is glaringly obvious to me.
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The other day, my friend Dina was talking about her experiences of being catcalled—street harassment is a more accurate term—while walking around the streets of New York.
This wasn't the first time I've heard about the epidemic of street harassment. Many of my women friends have remarked about experiencing and dealing with this kind of harassment and how unsafe it makes them feel.
For Dina, one particular instance of harassment on the streets of New York was cemented in her memory. She was walking alone, during the day, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, when she heard a man taunt her, "Hey baby, you're lookin' good…"
"Don't call me baby," she responded.
He looked her up and down and said, "…fucking dyke."
For the record, Dina is straight—not that it would have been okay if she weren't.
This wasn't the first, nor will it be the last time Dina faces street harassment. She has been harassed in public places, and on a number of occasions, followed by men. Many studies indicate that almost 100 percent of women will face some sort of street harassment at one point in their lives.
Most men don't even realize street harassment exists as a very real, serious problem. Yet, many women see this kind of harassment as part of daily life. For the few men who are aware of it, they assume the extent of street harassment is something akin to harmless, or at worst, annoying flirting, which still problematic if that attention is unwelcome.
The reality of street harassment is far worse than what most men think or believe. In cities large and small, women have to contend with comments that range from the mildly offensive to the disgusting. Beyond being verbally harassed, many women are followed and some women are even forced to deal with the same harasser on a daily basis. And for some women, this "harmless" harassment leads to assault.
But I realized, as Dina was telling me her story, that I have never actually been witness to the kind of street harassment my women friends tell me about. If a woman is walking down the street with me, other men generally won't engage in any kind of harassing behavior towards her because street harassment, like all forms of harassment, is about attacking the vulnerable.
And despite what some readers of this column may think about my gender, I will never know what it feels like for a woman to walk down the street alone. How am I to fully relate to the pain, fear, and humiliation of street harassment when I have never witnessed its full form and lack the the personal experience of being harassed on the street?
Street harassment is simply one issue that plagues women in their everyday life. They are constantly barraged with discriminatory obstacles that we don't even see as obstacles.
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A new t-shirt marketed to tweens and teens contains this message:
"I'm too pretty to do homework so my brother has to do it for me."
Hey, JC Penny: It's 2011. Your sexist t-shirt messaging sucks. Big time.
That's right, let's keep telling young women that their looks are more important than their brains or than doing homework. Maybe they'll just start believing it.
Sign the Change.org petition to let JC Penny CEO Mike Ullman III know that his paying customers don't appreciate being disrespected like this and that our daughters will not be wearing sexist propaganda. Ask your friends to do the same.
Thanks to your quick response, JC Penny has pulled the offensive t-shirt from their website and issued this statement:
jcpenney is committed to being America's destination for great style and great value for the whole family. We agree that the "Too pretty" t-shirt does not deliver an appropriate message, and we have immediately discontinued its sale. Our merchandise is intended to appeal to a broad customer base, not to offend them. We would like to apologize to our customers and are taking action to ensure that we continue to uphold the integrity of our merchandise that they have come to expect.
Deciding what to wear on a night out is usually a matter of deliberation and accomplished with the help of my roommates. In my college town, as in a lot of other areas populated with young people, there seems to be much more pressure on female students than their male counterparts to dress to the nines and look "cute." Annoying, sure, but is this harmless or damaging sexism at work?
In this recent New York Times piece, writer Lisa Belkin contrasts the equality college women have achieved in the classroom to the lack of respect they seem to receive in social settings. Mainly using examples of fraternities, she describes a setting where largely "men set the pace", and the "he chases, she submits" way of thinking seems to be ingrained in college culture.
Of course, sexist fraternity members aren't representative of all college students. It is true, however, that many think that because we've reached certain statistics and quotas that demonstrate equality, we can stop caring about it and stop working toward change. That just isn't true. Women compose more than half of college students, but that doesn't mean the same old gendered power division doesn't exist outside the classroom.
A defining factor, I think, is believing you have the choice of what to wear and how to act, independent of others' expectations. As a young woman, I was taught that I can wear anything I want (and sometimes I think back in disbelief to the days before women could wear pants!). This sometimes includes short dresses, but I don't like to think it's dictated by a societal trend that takes away my agency.
The generation of women in college have the most freedom women have ever had, and therefore more expectations, so I can understand the writer's frustration with the current college culture and definitely think it should be further discussed. Do older generations just not "get" this new kind of female empowerment, or did women's equality truly get lost in the shuffle somehow? Please let me know your thoughts in the comments section!
on my way into wawa I hear "love that curly hair … and that sexy body", I'm already inside and already too annoyed over missing work to respond because who knows what I'm getting myself into, what names I could be called, if I politely asked the man not to comment on my body loud enough for all the parking lot to hear, let alone if I started shouting like I half wanted to.
I go get some coffee and a cookie and on my way out another guy in a pickup calls out "girl you are so sexy" and I turned to yell "that's kind of really offensive", to which he responded "saaaaw-reeee" in that mocking singsong way bullies in elementary school do. gross.
I had moved to Philadelphia just a few days before and I was out exploring. I love my neighborhood. I'd grown up in the suburbs, but my family has a 70+ year history in the Federal St row-home where I live now. I decided to go check out 9th St (only tourists call it "the Italian Market!") and start to learn what all is around, make myself at home here. There is a produce stand at 8th & Washington that, like the others further down, straddles the sidewalk. My path between the wooden crates of fruits and vegetables was partially blocked by a white-haired man with an enormous belly. He leered at me and looked me up and down. He smirked. I felt immediately angry at his intrusion into what had been a wonderful walk so far. With that simple act, the million other things on my mind and the beautiful day itself were suddenly and forcibly replaced, against my will, by this man, his body itself coupled with his very violent gaze. The rage in me was overpowering. It felt like the seconds it took me to walk up to, by, and away from him were stretched out into minutes. I started to shake, but I looked him in the eye and spit something awkward out like, "I bet it's been a looooong time for you, huh?" I don't care that it was ineffective (it always is, because his power is not about sex, it's about asserting that the street is HIS turf and NOT mine,) I just wanted to keep my head up and try to look undeterred. I wasn't, of course. That was 2 years ago and I still get so mad just thinking about it. I've avoided that intersection as much as possible even when it put me out of my way, and when I couldn't avoid it, I've struggled to smirk back at him (he's ALWAYS there, but I don't know if he's the owner) and look strong. I AM strong. I try very hard to maintain a balance in this city between keeping an eye out for potential dangers and just going about my life, but people like him make it harder. I don't want this to be normalized anymore. I know it's not always safe to hollaback, but I want us to get there. Advertizing individual perpetrators is tricky because it can help feed a myth that these are isolated incidents, but if we use the great opportunity set up by the folks here and tell our stories, the bigger picture will become clear. I know confronting is not always safe (and, please, always have your safety in mind,) but any action from giving the finger to snapping photos surreptitiously that will make you feel even slightly less powerless is worth considering. I'll have your back.
Here is the video of my confrontation with him today. You can see the camera shaking, but it did feel good: http://youtu.be/oh417ONbwPg
A stranger grabbed my crotch on the metro today. and then tried to deny it and get away from me when I started screaming at him. eventually he mumbled 'sorry' and walked away and i didn't have the energy to keep following him. but i'm proud of myself for yelling: you can't treat women like that! you are disgusting! you should be ashamed of yourself! that is unacceptable! next time i'll be mentally prepared to take the next step and report it.
Unfortunately I'm no stranger with harassment on the streets, having lived in Sydney and small country towns before Newcastle, I mean as appearances go I don't consider myself unattractive, I'm not by any means thin, or conventional, but I take pride in myself and am careful to dress appropriately.
However the intensity and consistency of verbal and physical attacks since living here have been unprecedented, from having drinks thrown at me in bars, creeps asking incredibly personal things, even having my hair sniffed while walking the streets.
Mostly I try not to take too much notice, my long term boyfriend having even bought me a tazer to make me feel safer when I am out, and though it does its incredibly heartbreaking that it should come to that.
But rather to the point, I only just discovered this website and felt that I should share my most recent, and probably the most hurtful of experiences, being a late Sunday night, my boyfriend and I went for a walk to the 24hr grocery store to pick up some things so I could bake him some treats before he had to head home for work (he works rather odd houred shifts)
In my year of living here I was somewhat surprised to see the local club was going and quite lively, being familiar with the rather unkind crowd we opted to keep our distance and went on to do our shopping, however on our return as we took the same back streets avoiding the drunken crowds a car drove by slowly, a man leaning out the window screaming "fat slut!" at me as I stood there right next to my boyfriend, I felt completely humiliated, and angry for being judged at such a stupid hour on a Sunday night, I felt I had a right to be a little haggard, but I couldn't dare even express the pain to my boyfriend as he silently ignored it, walking back home all I could do was try not to cry.
All I could ask myself was, "What kind of man would insult a woman, a complete stranger, in such a way? Why should anyone ever have to put up with such a public humiliation?"
I yet to understand, but I certainly found some solace in this site, I'm glad to not feel completely alone.
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by Alicia Brooks
There are certain things in your daily life that you do without even thinking about. Things like brushing your teeth, going to work, crossing the street or waiting in the inevitable line at the Albert. They have become such a part of your life that thinking about them would be redundant. You have been putting on your shoes for years, why bother giving it a second thought?
Taking public transit in Prague has become one of those things for me. I know which trams to take, what time the bus comes and what car I should get into for optimal speed upon exit. It's clockwork. It's clockwork except in the case of taking the night trams.
I swore off night trams when I swore off partying downtown. I like being able to walk home – or stumble home – as the case may be. But just this past week I found myself going home at 3am on a night tram. Twice. I had conveniently forgotten about the smell of puke, the loud drunks and the way it seems to take an eternity to get home no matter where you live.
Thursday night I was waiting at Narodni Trida for the 58 with my flat-mate. We had had a fun evening full of laughter and alcohol and topped it off with an always delicious and regrettable slice of street pizza. The tram was going to take another fifteen minutes to get to us, so we took a seat on the steel benches. My friend was regaling me with a story about something when I saw him. I didn't want her to have to see what I was seeing so I tried not to change expression in any way.
He walked by us as if he were on one of those moving platforms they have at airports – slow and sooth. He wanted me to get a good look. He had his penis in one hand shaking it rapidly in my direction and the other hand (which was somehow far more offensive than the penis) was under his mouth, fingers in a peace sign tongue lapping at the air. The international sign for "lick pussy". He seemed to walk in slow motion.
I think I was stunned into silence. As soon as he was out of sight I turned to my friend and said, "Holy shit! Did you see that fucking guy?" It was obvious to me that she hadn't, and for that I was glad. One less person who has that image scarred on their retina. I recounted what I had witnessed and was met with multiple "Ewws". I quickly remembered why I don't like to take night trams.
One of the things that I refuse to get used to is harassment – in any form. A strange man shaking his genitals, an ass grab at a bar, yelling at me from across the street how "hot" or "fuckable" I am. It's all harassment, and it will never be second nature as long as I continue to get pissed off about it.


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[Editor's note: This is an excerpt from Douglas Gibson's new book Stories About Storytellers: Publishing Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Alistair MacLeod, Pierre Trudeau, and Others, running every Friday. The following is from the chapter on W.O. Mitchell.]
But there is no doubt that W.O. was the opposite of the typical author, who likes the quiet, private life of a writer, but has to be pushed to do any promotion. W.O. so loved the promotion tour that he gave the impression of doing the troublesome writing stuff just as a preliminary for the real thing, the promotion tour, the interviews, and the readings.
His public performances, of course, are legendary. All of the doubts that he associated with the lonely act of writing ("like playing a dart game with the lights out," he once famously observed), were removed by the instant response of the audience. As a one-time actor, he loved "the immediate thrust of a live audience as it responds to story magic," and it showed. His performances were immaculately professional: voice husking or thundering, fist raised, white hair flying, mouth creased in a foxy grin, or eyes wide in innocent astonishment at a double entendre raising a laugh. His performances, now fortunately captured on audio cassette, were unforgettable, and he himself was perhaps the most outrageous character he ever created.


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The award is given annually to a graduate student who aims to further his or her knowledge and hands-on experience of coastal science through an internship with the ASBPA. The winner of the award becomes a staff member for the ASBPA's science and technology committee.
Allen, who is working toward a master's of science degree in civil engineering, recently traveled to San Diego, Calif., and attended the 2012 ASBPA National Conference to receive the award.


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The Australian winter days can be full of light, but the coming of night signals darkness and cold. Storms, rain and winds add their own starkness. Even the moon offers a chilling luminescence. During the final year of my father's slow dying he came to be afraid as the winter sunset approached. He would fret and bother, and worry if my mother was not home yet. The coming of the dark brooded ill for him, as if another visitor was about to come knocking, calling for him while he remained unwilling to go.
He was not alone in his private darkness. It is shared across the Australian spiritual landscape, and in particular gives shape to our winterscape. It takes many forms. The Australian soul exhibits its winter season in the silent anxieties that signal deeper scars.
Usually unspoken, they are a part of us all. But we are not a winter people, so we do not dwell there long, though we are apt to acknowledge a certain unannounced fellowship with those who have like experiences.
And so to the unspoken. There are the silences of war: its violence, brutality, boredom, randomness, and mindless waste. Publicly these surface at ANZAC day, or in books and movies.
Yet the experiences have been held in secret by the generations who were caught up in the two world conflagrations, the Korean and Vietnam wars and the many other and continuing conflicts. The disruption to goodness, justice and ordinariness has been carried by ex soldiers, POWs, distraught families, refugees, homeless migrants, concentration camp survivors and others still unknown.
The effects have been passed down to the upcoming generations, but the underlying experiences have remained in silence, too hard to tell and to unwelcome for the children to be able to hear.
There are the silences of migration, whether by plane, boat, asylum passage. It is only recently that newcomers to this shore have seen Australia as a first choice land of opportunity. For long, and still for some, it was a land far distant, devoid of culture and civilization, but a place that would receive them.
There is much silent grief as ties with the homeland are cut. There is further mourning as children then forsake the languages, ethnicity and customs of their parents and seek out a new, sunny future.
There is the ongoing silence of the history and suppression of the first peoples of this land, the people who describe the land as 'mother' and who have found themselves displaced culturally and dispossessed physically.
A fourth silence is that of the land itself. We have not read it aright, and so much of it is dying, thirsting, blown out, burnt out, bedeviled with feral pests, and bereft of once thriving flora and fauna. The loss of so much diverse life is leaving our land silent, without birdsongs, clawing marsupials, lazing lizards and busy insects. It will remain in the silence we have imposed upon it.
We must take these silences to worship. Not to replace them with noise, but to allow the experiences and realities that brood during the winter to come to light, warmth and acceptance. We need liturgies that work reconciliation and healing into our inner selves, as individuals and as a nation. And where it is still too difficult we need a capacity to lament; a fulsome lament of biblical character (see Ps 22).
– Assoc. Prof. Gerard Moore is Lecturer in Worship and Practical Theology at the Catholic Institute of Sydney. Flickr Creative Commons image.


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The opening day of trout season never fails to produce a host of memorable moments and pictures.
I'd like to hear from Central New York anglers about their their successes, their failures, their most interesting and funniest moments this Tuesday. And of course, I'd like to see pictures of the big ones that didn't get away, along with the smiles of those holding the first trout of their lives.
Send your stories (keep them under 250 words) and photos to email@example.com.
I will making the rounds Tuesday morning, checking on anglers at a number of local streams to see how things are going. I plan to tweet every 15-20 minutes or so, beginning at 6 a.m. (or possibly earlier). My tweets will appear on my outdoors blog on syracuse.com. Follow me @davidjfigura.
Want to join in the fun? Use the hashtag of #cnyfishing and your tweets will appear on my blog as well. Please include reports about stream conditions and whether the fish are biting or not for those unable to get out that morning.
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A New Jersey municipal prosecutor and leading state senator today said he will introduce a bill to legalize marijuana, creating a marketplace similar to that in Colorado for those ages 21 and older."It's time that we legalize marijuana here in New Jersey," Senate Judiciary Chairman Nicholas P. Scutari, D-Union/Middlesex, said in an afternoon conference call with reporters.
The announcement comes amid growing interest nationwide in changing marijuana laws, including in Pennsylvania, where lawmakers are slated to review a medical cannabis bill Tuesday.
Legalization efforts in New Jersey and Pennsylvania face long odds of becoming law under each state's sitting Republican governor.
"The bottom line is our current drug laws aren't working," Scutari, who has been the prosecutor for Linden in Union County since 2003, said during the conference call.
The measure would go beyond efforts that failed during the 2012-13 session of the New Jersey Legislature to decriminalize marijuana.
"This is not decriminalization," Scutari said. "This is legalization similar to the Colorado model that has recently been enacted."
Decriminalization still supports the illegal drug trade, he said. A regulated model of legalized marijuana has benefits beyond finances, including eliminating drug-turf wars and arrests that can interfere with efforts to get into college and find employment, Scutari said.
"The benefits to this program would be far and wide," he said.
Difficult fight expected
Scutari said he anticipates a difficult fight, similar to New Jersey's efforts to legalize medical marijuana.
"The way I see it is it's the opening of a dialogue on a controversial issue," Scutari said.
Former Gov. Jon Corzine signed New Jersey's Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act on Jan. 18, 2010, his last day in office. But largely because of concerns from Gov. Chris Christie, a former federal prosecutor, the first sales were delayed until Dec. 6, 2012.
Christie has been skeptical of making marijuana more widely available.
When he signed a law last year to ease access for young patients with serious medical conditions, he made it clear that he did not want to liberalize the law any further. By some measures, the state's law is the most restrictive of any in the 20 states plus the District of Columbia that allow marijuana for patients.Scutari was a prime sponsor of the Senate bill creating the state's medical cannabis program but said it has been flawed in that, "People can't get it." New Jersey has dispensaries in Egg Harbor Township, Montclair and North Woodbridge and plans to open three more.
Today, he pointed to polls showing national support for marijuana legalization and his own experience in talking with law enforcement colleagues who say the enforcement of marijuana laws is generally a "complete waste of time."
"We're not delusional about how simple the effort will be," he said, calling the bill a step forward in changing state and national "archaic drug laws."
Attention nationwide has grown on legalizing marijuana since voters in Colorado and Washington state approved it starting this year. In Wisconsin, a Democratic state lawmaker is proposing that marijuana be legalized for both recreational and medicinal purposes.
Pennsylvania hearing set
In Pennsylvania, a bill to allow the use of marijuana for medical purposes will be the subject of a legislative hearing Tuesday before the Senate's Law and Justice Committee in the state Capitol. Seven members of the 50-person Senate have signed on as sponsors.
State Sen. Daylin Leach, D-Montgomery/Delaware, today announced a medical marijuana rally 9 a.m. Tuesday in the Capitol East Wing Rotunda before the hearing on Senate Bill 1182.
A spokesman for Gov. Tom Corbett said he remains opposed, even if the bill is scaled back to allow only non-intoxicating forms of marijuana.
In its current form, the 34-page Pennsylvania bill would permit people with medical needs and a doctor's approval to obtain an identification card that would allow them to acquire marijuana legally. It would create the Medical Cannabis Board and an enforcement arm within the state police.
Scutari said he couldn't yet release details of his legalization proposal, including on how many licenses for marijuana sales would be created or exactly how it would be regulated.
Beyond New Jersey, he called today for a national shift in marijuana laws.
"I think it should be a national effort by members of Congress, but I think that New Jersey should take the lead because it's the right thing to do regardless of what other states do," Scutari said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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KALAMAZOO — Bierlein demolition crews were sifting through the rubble of East Hall's gymnasium wing Thursday on Western Michigan University's East Campus.
One excavator dug through the debris, separating out larger pieces as another lifted out smaller pieces of steel with a magnet.
Inside the core of East Hall, construction workers are still removing lead and working to prepare the core's structure for its transformation into an alumni center. The north section of East Hall that joined the original core with the gymnasium still needs to be demolished after the buildings are separated by hand.
Demolition work on the north wing began Tuesday. The demolition of the south wing and rotunda began on July 14, and was finished two days later.


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It's another laugh filled evening of family chaos from the award-winning writer and comedian Steve Solomon. The all new show "My Mother's Italian, My Father's Jewish and I'm Home for the Holidays" will be at the Morris Museum in Morristown on Thursday, Nov. 21, at 8 p.m. and Friday, Nov. 22, at 8 p.m.
Join Solomon, the star and creator of the award-winning smash comedy hit My Mother's Italian, My Father's Jewish and I'm in Therapy as he shares the holiday season with the family whose sole purpose in life was to drive him into therapy in the first place. This play brings to life a whole new myriad of hysterical characters in situations everyone has experienced, related to and survived. Solomon's family puts the "athlete's foot" in your mistle-"toe."
Tickets are $30 for members; $35 for the general public; $28 for groups (10 or more); and $20 for students. To purchase tickets, call 973-971-3706.
A native of Brooklyn, Solomon grew up in the multi-ethnic neighborhood of Sheepshead Bay. This was the perfect training ground for a dialectician and comedian. He learned at an early age how to use his gift for imitating accents to his advantage.
He also realized that he was a prolific writer of jokes and stories; real jokes.
Eventually, he became a physics teacher and a school administrator on Long Island, N.Y.
He left his academic career behind and turned his attention to his latent love of making people laugh. As Solomon puts it, "I decided follow my heart and become an impoverished comedy writer and performer." His show, the two-time award winning: My Mother's Italian, My Father's Jewish and I'm In Therapy has met with rave reviews to sold out crowds throughout the country and became one of the longest running one-man comedy shows in history. This hilarious show highlights the very best of his writing talents.
For more information, visit stevesolomoncomedy.com.
The museum is at 6 Normandy Heights Road (at the corner of Columbia Turnpike) in Morristown. For more information, call 973-971-3700, or visit morrismuseum.org.


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On and on it went Thursday night, the debut of the NFL's prime time first-round production, a natural extension for the league that was made by television and continues to search in vain for its point of broadcast oversaturation.
Tannenbaum said he was staying put this time, with the Jets drafting 29th in the first round, but nothing any NFL GM says heading into the draft is really meant to be believed. Could he really hold off and watch 28 teams pick without making a move? It just seemed to go against his DNA. More and more teams are aiming to drop down and stockpile picks, but to do that you need someone to deal with. Over the last three years Tannenbaum has been their guy.
Since 2007 Tannenbaum has aggressively gone for quality over quantity, trading up to draft Darrelle Revis, Dustin Keller and Mark Sanchez in the first round, David Harris in the second and Shonn Greene in the third. All those moves left the Jets with a three-man draft class last April, but a trip to the AFC Championship game that says he got it right.
This time, patience. The Jets waited three hours before their turn came around and they drafted cornerback Kyle Wilson. Same thing on Friday night when they took offensive lineman Vladimir Ducasse with the 61st overall pick in the second round. Apparently two days of biding his time was enough for Tannenbaum. The draft's third day brought the return of the GM Jets fans are used to. In two deals Tannenbaum traded fourth-round spots with Carolina, moving up 12 positions while giving up a sixth-round pick in order to grab USC running back Joe McKnight.
That freed up Tannenbaum to ship Leon Washington to Seattle, getting back a better pick than he gave up for McKnight, a fifth-round selection he used on fullback John Conner. That was more like business as usual for the 37-year-old GM who took over the Jets with his buddy Eric Mangini in 2006, a rookie kid GM-coach combo that seemed to leave the franchise starting over again, which is the one thing they've had plenty of practice at.
From the start, Tannenbaum wasn't willing to play it safe, whether it was draft day deals, big free-agent signings or the Brett Favre experiment in 2008. But after the ultra-conservative Mangini was fired after that late-season fade, Tannenbaum may have found a better match when he hired Rex Ryan.
Ryan's boldness can be over the top, but his outsized ambition and confidence are more in line with Tannenbaum's wheeler-dealer tendencies, and between them they've transformed the personality of the franchise.
You can't win battles against history, and 50 years after the New York Titans played their first game, the Jets still come off a lot of the time as the little kid tagging along in the shadow of the big brother Giants. Playing their games in a stadium named for their co-tenants for the last 25 years didn't help matters.
But they're going into a new stadium now and they're going in swinging, fighting for every inch to prove it's an equal partnership, right down to owner Woody Johnson's little coin flip tantrum over which team was going to host the first home game.
Tannenbaum had the option of holding back this weekend because he's gone after it at the draft the last three years and because of the rest of his go-for-broke offseason.
You have to wonder at this point what it would take to scare Ryan and Tannenbaum off a player.
They've traded for a cornerback who needed a six-figure salary advance to make child support payments and a wide receiver who's already suspended for the first four games of the 2010 season. They've signed a running back who's been griping about his carries as his skills faded to be part of a backfield committee and an aging defensive end who's been public enemy No. 1 to Jets fans for a decade.
While he was bringing in those four — Antonio Cromartie, Santonio Holmes, LaDanian Tomlinson and Jason Taylor — among others, Tannenbaum dumped a starting safety, running back and kicker and yesterday an All-Pro guard.
Basically, for the talking heads trying to fill time on the NFL Network in March, Tannenbaum has been a godsend.
So while 64 draft picks switched hands in 19 trades on Thursday and Friday — the Denver Broncos traded down twice, then back up in the first round to grab Tim Tebow — Tannenbaum sat back and took his own sweet time.
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Graham Wood is all set to jazz up Perth.
The local jazz luminary is the driving force behind the first Perth International Jazz Festival, which will end a 10-year drought for the local music scene when it is held next month.
The inaugural festival will feature American saxophonist Joe Lovano, Katie Noonan and Vince Jones as the headline acts among the more than 40 jazz concerts from May 24-26.
Wood said the festival would plug a gap in the local music calendar after the collapse of broad-based jazz festivals in York and Fremantle, where they were held as part of the Perth International Arts Festival in the early 2000s.
The international jazz pianist, founder of the Ellington Jazz Club and head of music at the WA Academy of Performing Arts, said there were about 35 jazz festivals around Australia - but none in WA.
"Even Dubbo (country NSW) has got one," Wood said.
Backed by government and corporate sponsors, he expected to establish the new fixture as one of Australia's best and most popular jazz festivals within five years.
Perth had matured greatly in the past few years, the central city population and small bar scene had grown and there was a constant stream of jazz talent emerging from WAAPA, Wood said.
"Perth is recognised as a major source of jazz talent nationally and internationally and it will be good to capitalise on that," he said.
"People are going out more and perhaps checking out things that they otherwise wouldn't.
"It all bodes well for the Perth International Jazz Festival and the arts in general."
To broaden the festival's appeal, most events will be free and include such family programming as a "cushion concert" for children.
Venues will range from Perth Concert Hall to Brookfield Place and Weld Square.
"I'm passionate about the concept of jazz festivals and we want this one to be as broad in its range as possible," Wood said.


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Arlington-Smokey Point Chamber presents barbecue cook-off
SMOKEY POINT — The Arlington-Smokey Point Chamber of Commerce will be raising funds by staging a barbecue cook-off later this summer, before their wine-tasting early in the fall.
While the Chamber has often concentrated on a more select number of larger fundraisers, Chamber Managing Director Mary Jane Harman explained that the Chamber has opted to sponsor more events of a smaller nature throughout the year, with the "Old Fashioned Fourth" serving as the first such fundraising event.
The Whidbey Island Bank will sponsor and serve as the site for the Aug. 18-19 Smokey Point Barbecue Cook-Off and Marketplace.
The barbecue cook-off will only take place on Saturday, Aug. 18, while the marketplace will cover both Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 18-19.
The parking lot of the Whidbey Island Bank will host the barbecue cook-off, while the Arlington Wal-Mart will host the marketplace just past the driveway leading to the store on 43rd Avenue, which runs in front of the Wal-Mart, down the entire length of the parking lot and beyond. Both activities are located conveniently close to the Chamber's offices at 4126-B 172nd St. NE in Smokey Point.
"Our hope is to have 10 separate contestants or teams, and we will be using the Pacific Northwest Barbecue Association rules, although we'll be relaxing them a bit for this first year," Harman said. "If it's a hit with the public, we will apply to hold a 'sanctioned' cook-off next year, with the strict rules and regulations required by the association."
Barbecue bites will be available to the public for a cost from the contestants, and the first place prize is set to be $200.
"With any luck, we might be able to get a sponsor to help us up the prizes this year," Harman said. "After all, Smokey Point got its name from barbecue smoke. Eric and Pearl Shurstad opened a restaurant on the corner of 172nd Street and Smokey Point Boulevard. Their outdoor barbecue was named the Smokey Point Cafe after the plume of smoke it generated."
Harman praised Arlington Wal-Mart General Manager Fritz Fittinger for his generosity in supplying space for entrepreneurs and vendors to market their wares and services.
"We also plan to have music and lots of fun," Harman said. "We'll have either a hot dog vendor or another food vendor, other than barbecue, and either ice cream or Sno-Cone concessions for the marketplace itself."
Harman encouraged prospective barbecue chefs and marketplace participants to contact the Chamber about entering the cook-off or renting a booth site. Harman can be reached at the Chamber by phone at 360-659-5453 or via email at email@example.com, while event chair Debbie Whitis can be called at 425-508-0435.
On Saturday, Sept. 8, the Chamber will be heading to the Dusty Cellars Winery on Camano Island to conduct their fall soiree, a private party of up to 50 people who will gather to socialize rather than fundraise for a change.
"There will be wine, music, heavy hors d'oeuvres, wine-tasting and a beautiful waterfront sunset," Harman said. "No auctions, raffles or requests for donations."
The evening will run from 6-9 p.m. and will cost $35 per person. Tickets will need to be purchased in advance for the headcount. Call the Chamber's offices at 360-659-5453 or log onto www.arlington-smokeypointchamber.com and click on "Events" for more information.
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Congratulations Dr. Amundson
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- Impact of subglacial discharge on turbulent plume dynamics and ocean-glacier heat and mass transfer for $498,483. This award starts September 1, 2015 and ends August 31, 2019. Collaborators include David Sutherland, University of Oregon; Jonathan D. Nash, Oregon State University; Roman Motyka, University of Alaska Fairbanks.
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The thematic class in the morning is my favourite and this month we are doing 'Settlers'. We break into teams and each team pretends to be it's own country. We are learning about history, migration, politics, trade, community and team-work. Each team makes their own shelters near where the school pigs are and we trade useful items, skills and food with the other countries. It's fun and muddy!
I run with my friends down to our classroom and we kick our shoes off before going up the stairs to our classroom. I think it's special to have a classroom that looks like a giant bamboo treehouse.
Riding on the BioBus with my friends is fun. I heard it runs with french fried oil.
For breakfast, I like a smoothie and toast with jam. We buy the jam from school, it's rosella flavour and its sweet and tangy – yum.
I wake up just after the sun comes up and put on my favourite shorts and t-shirt. They're old and comfortable, which is good, because we are going to get muddy today!
The Bio Bus story represents the nexus of solution based learning, community engagement, and enterprise. Bio Bus is a social enterprise, initiated by Green School students, that strives to provide sustainable transport services to Green School students and community members. The project sponsors setup a cooking oil collection system in the local community. Once cooking oil is collected, it is sent to a processing facility to create the biofuel that is then used by the Bio Bus vehicles to transport students and community members.
The Bio Bus project has resulted in multiple learning opportunities and practical sustainability solutions. The decrease in passenger car trips resulted in carbon emissions reductions, as well as the ecological benefits of recycling cooking oil and using the biofuel as a fuel alternative. As well, a byproduct of the cooking oil recycling process is glycerine which can be further processed into sustainable soap products.
The use of bio soap reduces the use of monoculture palm oil based products that have chemical additives which pollute fresh water sources, not to mention the massive ecological impact of palm oil plantation related deforestation. This is one of many inspiring Green School projects.
A simple definition of aquaponics is that it is the integration of aquaculture (raising fish) and hydroponics (the soil-less growing of plants) that grows fish and plants together in one closed system.
The fish waste provides an organic food source for the growing plants and the plants provide a natural filter for the water the fish live in. The third component of the system is the microbes (nitrifying bacteria) and composting red worms that thrive in the growing media. They do the job of converting the ammonia from the fish waste first into nitrites, then into nitrates and the solids into vermicompost that that are food for the plants.
Green School uses composting as one of its solid waste management strategies. We have a dedicated Compost Station on campus where biomass, kitchen waste and cow manure is collected and composed to create an organic material that is used as nutrient rich fertilizer for the permaculture gardens dispersed throughout the school grounds that supply our kitchen.
The Compost Station is a excellent place to learn from and connect with natural processes. To see the layers of a composting pile is to watch life itself in motion. The alternating green nitrogen and brown carbon layers are composed of every variety of waste; wood chips, brown leaves, green leaves, grass, food scraps, and manure.
As the valuable organic material starts to decompose a dark, rich, productive soil amendment that gardeners call Black Gold begins to evolve. If you push your hand into the pile you can feel the heat the process generates.
The Green School solid waste management system is one of the greatest examples of our systems thinking culture. Our waste is part of a closed system and understanding how to cycle it back through the environment and into our soil and food creates an authentic sense of connection to all the moving parts in our natural world. We are striving to create a closed loop system from the food forest and the gardens, to the kitchen, out to the composting pile and the grey water management system, back to our lunch plates and finally back to the composting toilet for yet another cycle.
We have four primary solid waste streams that we need to manage at Green School:
This is consistent with the principles of a circular economy where there is no such thing as waste and a movement away from the destructive practices of the "Take, Make, Waste" system of industrial production and consumption that plagues contemporary society.
At Green School we are constantly seeking solutions to meet our needs that minimize embodied energy. The energy embodied in process water contributes to climate change. Our solution to this challenge was to install a Reverse Osmosis (RO) water filtration system to meet our drinking water consumption needs. The source of our facility potable water is a 60 meter deep well. Although the well water is drinkable, we decided to install a Reverse Osmosis Biofiltration System to ensure the purity and safety of the drinking water for our community.
The microhydro vortex embodies the learning by doing philosophy. In 2005, Green School launched this exciting renewable energy project with a vision and aspiration to be a carbon positive school in a carbon positive community. Through this project we have learned invaluable lessons in microhydro energy development, community engagement, and ecosystem services benefits. It is estimated that when the Vortex is commissioned sometime in 2016, that it will supply approximately 6 kW of renewable energy to the overall Green School energy portfolio, getting us that much closer to our goal of being a carbon positive school within a carbon positive community.
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The drum circles pounded quieter. The guitarists turned down their microphones. And most of the DJs didn't show up.
Mayor Charlie Hales' latest effort to tamp down the revelry at Last Thursday—enforcing noise code on street musicians—went smoothly last night, with the city issuing only three citations for playing tunes too loud.
"The musicians all seemed to have gotten the word," says Paul Van Orden, the city's noise control officer. "The people who were normally too loud didn't show up."
The ease of Hales' enforcement of noise rules suggests that controversy has died down since last summer, when the mayor's office faced backlash for trying to regulate the 15-block bohemian free-for-all, which in recent years has attracted large groups of unruly teenagers.
City officials enforced a curfew, compiled statistics on public drunkenness and urination, and tried—unsuccessfully—to get the Oregon Liquor Control Commission to cite bars for over-serving revelers. In the process, they drew ire from Last Thursday organizers, who said the event had lost its character—and quit, leaving Hales' office in charge.
But last night's effort to reduce noise was, in fact, quiet. Officials cited a guitar player, a DJ, and a house party with a band.
Hales spokesman Dana Haynes says the mayor's office is pleased with the more pacific Last Thursday, which now ends promptly at 9 pm.
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ROYALTON A Bethel woman escaped injury, but not a criminal citation, following an early-morning accident that destroyed her car Sunday on North Road.
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About one dollar out of every eight raised in Sunday's Color Me Rad fun run on Onondaga Lake Parkway will go toward Special Olympics New York, the charity partner of the for-profit company that put on the 5k.
The event took in about $250,000 in registration fees. From them, Special Olympics is expected to get a check for about $30,000, according to an article Wednesday that pointed out the proportions.
The rest will defray the expenses of the Utah-based Color Me Rad and its local franchisee for costs including shuttle buses, security, travel expenses for Color Me Rad employees and cleanup. Wyatt Grow, the local franchisee, declined to say how much profit he and the national organization expected.
Cassandra Rucker, director of development for the Special Olympics branch covering Central New York and the Southern Tier, called the pairing with Color Me Rad "an awesome partnership . . . One of the great things for us is it's a no-risk event and we receive a check for $25,000 or $30,000."
The article drew lots of comments from syracuse.com readers. Here are some excerpts:
From Zombielives: Company has a race . . . people get off their lazy butts and do something fun and active . . . company donates 30 grand. People cry that 200 grand wasn't donated . . . *smh* (shaking my head) I'm outta this discussion. Shame on (the) Post for the headline and turning something good into a bunch of banter about who should get the dollar bill.
From Think First: . . . It seems that they (Special Olympics) were happy with the outcome, as were the participants.
I volunteer on the board of a pair of local not-for-profit organizations. It is very difficult for many to bring in that kind of money on a single event. Please step up to the plate.
From Katia: Speaking as the mother of a 24-year old-developmentally disabled man and an aunt to a 23-year-old man with Down syndrome (who has benefited tremendously over the years from his affiliation with Special Olympics) I can say with some authority the event was a great success, regardless of the percentages received. My son and I were happy and proud to have volunteered our time and energy at the event. . . .
In my humble opinion, whatever contribution comes to them as a result of the Color Me Rad run will be money put to good use (and as one poster states -- money they didn't have the day before the event) . . .
From Elphaba0709: How sad, using the Special Olympics to make a buck. I'd definitely rethink any involvement in the race they are supposed to hold in September. All of it should go to the charity, just another fatcat lining their pockets with "administrative costs."
From cnyreader: The local chapter of the Special Olympics should really re-think its involvement with this type of fundraiser. This event was billed as a fundraiser for the organization (see the Special Olympics' Facebook page), yet only 12 cents out of every dollar raised went to the charity. This is misleading to the public and ultimately unfair to the children who are the intended recipients of the Special Olympics' charitable purposes . . .
From swissarmy: How many of you ran in the event? How many of you actually read their website before you registered? I did both and I am not surprised by their donation. I appreciate the donation and think $30,000 is more then generous from one event.
From Cards_Fan: I don't understand all the criticism of this article. Nowhere does it say that participants were duped or cheated in any way. It is simply informing people where there money is going. Isn't that the role of the press in a free society? It is called transparency, and that's a good thing. If you like the way they distribute the money, participate. If not, then don't. But people have a right to know what they are buying into when they pony up their entrance fee.
How big a piece of the proceeds do you think a charity should expect from a for-profit fundraising partner? Please leave a comment below.


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The Rev. Al Sharpton is calling for people across the country to hold "Justice for Trayvon" marches Saturday in memory of the young man killed by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman.
The "action vigils" will be held outside of federal court buildings across the country Saturday at noon, he said.
According to the National Action Network website, the rallies, which the organization hopes will take place in 100 cities, will be "a call to action pushing for federal charges against George Zimmerman."
This weekend, thousands of demonstrators in major cities protested Saturday's not guilty verdict in Zimmerman's second-degree murder trial. Zimmerman said he shot and killed Martin in self-defense.
Organizers of this weekend's protests say they hope to have similar-sized crowds out for Saturday's vigils.So far, rallies have been planned for Los Angeles, Chicago, Minneapolis, New York City, Buffalo, N.Y., Nassau County, N.Y., Staten Island, N.Y., Syracuse, N.Y. and Philadelphia.