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Lauzon pushes for regionalization
BARRE When it comes to a still-evolving plan to consolidate emergency services in four central Vermont communities, Barre Mayor Thomas Lauzon believes the time for fence sitting is over.
Lauzon wants to get decision makers from Barre, Barre Town, Montpelier and Berlin in the same room to discuss what some of them heard at a recent meeting of the inter-municipal committee that has spent three years evaluating the potential for a merged public safety authority.
That panel hasnt had much in the way of representation from Barre recently, but Lauzon has some ideas hed like to share with his council colleagues and their counterparts in the three other communities. He hopes to have that opportunity at a joint meeting tentatively scheduled for Dec. 10.
Lauzon said this week he would like to leave that meeting with the elusive answer to one key question.
Are the four communities interested in moving forward or not? he asked. Thats my concern.
Its not the only one.
Lauzon said he continues to struggle with what he characterized as the all-in approach endorsed by the committee. Its members believe merging police, fire, ambulance and emergency dispatch services in one fell swoop is the only plausible way to persuade the four communities to join forces.
Lauzon said he doesnt buy that and believes a phased approach that would start by merging a simple service emergency dispatching that all four communities need and use in essentially the same way would be a logical first step and provide the blueprint for consolidating the full range of public safety services.
Im not softening the commitment, he said. I absolutely believe that if the communities are serious about this by 2015 public safety (including police, fire and ambulance) in central Vermont would be regionalized.
In fact, Lauzon said he would like representatives for all four local governing bodies to sign on to a plan that would have that as its goal.
The phased approach outlined by Lauzon would call for the creation of an autonomous dispatch service no later than July 1, 2013. That service would replace separate round-the-clock services that are now operated by police departments in Barre and Montpelier. The new service would provide coverage for Barre Town, which contracts with the Lamoille County Sheriffs Department for its dispatching services, and Berlin, which already relies in part on Montpeliers dispatch center.
Theres no doubt in my mind that (dispatching) could be done at an equal or lesser cost, he said, noting creating a consolidated service that would be run by an independent commission would come with a bonus.
It gets us used to the idea of working together, he said.
Lauzon said he is prepared to ask representatives of all four boards Dec. 10 to sign on to a plan that would merge fire and ambulance services in their communities no later than July 1, 2014, and their police departments no later than July 1, 2015. He said the additional time is a reflection of the complexities associated with merging distinctly different services.
Theres a lot of moving parts here, he said.
Though Barre and Montpelier both have full-service public safety systems, Barre Town and Berlin dont currently have police coverage in the late night and early morning hours, and both rely on volunteer fire departments. Barre Town operates a stand-alone ambulance service that provides coverage on a contract basis to most of Berlin.
The committee has suggested the proposed public safety authority could provide a full range of round-the-clock emergency services for all four communities and expressed concern that the incremental approach advocated by Lauzon could reduce the incentive for some communities to fully participate.
Lauzon said he isnt sold on that argument and believes it is something for the four boards to talk about.
Its a relatively easy decision (for Barre and Montpelier) because its not a departure from what were doing now, Lauzon said. For communities like Barre Town and Berlin I think theres a lot more thought that has to go into that.
However, some members of the Barre City Council said this week they are skeptical of giving up control of their police department but more than willing to explore consolidating dispatch services.
Lauzon said he plans to ask the four boards to use some of the remaining money voters appropriated this year for the regionalization study to hire a lawyer to draft documents for the creation of a regional public safety authority. Those documents would, among other things, formalize the governance structure for the proposed authority. The committee has suggested a seven-member board comprising one member appointed from each community and three elected at large.
For the purposes of discussion, Lauzon has suggested the municipal manager or administrator of each community be appointed to the panel and that the combined boards elect the three at-large members to staggered one-, two- and three-year terms. Those seats would be filled by voters in all four communities when the terms expire.
It is unclear how Lauzons call for municipal leaders to take a more hands-on approach to the regionalization effort will affect the committees own plans in the run-up to what members hope will be a vote in all four communities next October. However, he said, he believes it is important for community officials to send a clear signal about where they stand on the concept of regionalization.
Its something weve all had three years to think about, he said. Id like to know how we feel about going forward.
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In tough economic times, even the most secure employees can be worried about their jobs. After all, large and seemingly successful companies have let go of thousands of quality workers due to an inability to maintain financial momentum.
Is anyone safe? How do people make sure that they are left with a chair when the music stops?
Some people are fairly safe due to the particular type of work that they do or their position within an organization. However, others may need to be a bit more proactive so that they solidify their relative value to the company.
Nothing is guaranteed when it comes to work and some people need to keep working on their marketability even though they have a job. With that in mind, here are a few ways to make yourself invaluable at work.
No. 5: Production quality
It may seem like an obvious statement, but people need to do good work if they are going to maintain a solid reputation in the workplace.
Companies like production, and if a person continues to bring in revenue, save costs and display a notable amount of production, it may be hard to get rid of him or her.
When organizations start to look at employee cuts, they try to figure out which employees will be missed the least. If people are working hard and producing, a company may be more hesitant to kick their stars to the curb.
Of course, some jobs are not specific revenue generators and certain individuals may not have the authority to cut costs or produce obvious outcomes for the company. In those cases, the employee may need to pursue some quick self-education and learn some new skills ...
No. 4: Become an 'expert'
Being an "expert" on something can be a great way to maintain some level of job security.
In order to keep a job, people do not necessarily have to know absolutely everything about a particular area. They may simply need to know more than everyone else in the office.
Expertise may apply to company software, policies and procedures, manufacturing logistics and data location. The savvy employee will recognize those areas of expertise that are crucial to company operations, and they will make sure that they are aware of what is going on.
In some cases, people may even want to teach themselves new software programs or other technological solutions so that they can showcase their value to the company.
Of course, a person can also make sure that they keep work flowing their way ...
No. 3: Volunteer for tasks
Certain tasks are undesirable, which is why some people avoid particular types of work.
There are times when a supervisor will ask for volunteers to work on a project or task. Rather than look at the floor, enterprising employees should make sure they volunteers as quickly as possible.
Not only does it provide you with work, but it also has the potential to impress your supervisor. Never underestimate the sentimental attachments employers may have formed with the go-to people in the department when it comes time to make employee cuts or reassign certain staff.
The tasks may be undesirable, but they may be more desirable than looking for a new job.
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Melvin Rhyne was a jazz innovator and a Milwaukee icon
Jazz organist Melvin Rhyne played with jazz guitar legend Wes Montgomery, and bluesmen B.B. King and T-Bone Walker before coming to Milwaukee, where he inspired a generation of artists - including bop trumpeter Brian Lynch.
Rhyne, 76, died March 5 of lung cancer at a hospice in Indianapolis. »Read Full Article
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Nigel Wade is a product of Milwaukee.
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'Blue Bayou' is Domes spring floral theme
"Blue Bayou," the spring floral show at the Mitchell Park Domes, 524 S. Layton Blvd., will open March 23 and run through May 27, park officials have announced.
And "blue" will indeed be the color of the flowers in the show, though the setting will include a scene with a white gazebo and Mardi Gras décor, along with tulips, Easter lilies, daisies, and other spring flowers. A swamp scene and a graveyard featuring a Hoodoo Man take things spookier. »Read Full Article
'The Penelope Project' screens at UWM tonight
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"The Penelope Project," a 52-minute documentary, offers some profound alternatives to the common strategies. It that looks at how a theater company joined forces with a long-term care facility to explore a work of art with particular resonance for aging residents. It will be screened tonight at UWM's Union Theater at 7 p.m. »Read Full Blog Post(1)
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Brakes on Massachusetts man's pickup truck failed
Talk about a bad day. A man in Massachusetts was ticketed after being run over by his own pickup truck.
Salem police responding to reports of a car accident found Brian Reynolds, 40, lying injured and face down in the road on Monday afternoon, the Boston Herald reported.
He told police the brakes in his pickup truck had failed.
According to the Salem Patch, Reynolds said he tried to slow the truck by sticking out his foot and driving up a hill.
Instead, he fell out of the truck, which rolled over his left leg, according to the Herald.
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Music that matters: 'South Pacific' and 'Lucia di Lammermoor'July 31,2013By Jim Lowe
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Opera North, like many of this country's regional opera companies, is mixing great American musical theater and traditional opera. And the company is producing musical theater that matters — beyond entertainment.
Rodgers and Hammerstein's "South Pacific," opening Saturday, was well ahead of its time, challenging racism in 1949.
"Rather than reacting to what was happening around them, like musicals like 'Hair' did, in some ways you could argue that they were propelling the dialogue," said Gabriel Barre, the production's stage director, adding, "It's sad that these issues are still around."
Opera North is taking Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor," opening Aug. 6, out of ancient Scotland and to the end of the American Civil War to illustrate the complex but universal issues that lead to Lucia's death.
"Does Lucia have a right to be in love when her whole family's survival is at stake?" asks Elena Araoz, the production's stage director. "It's a life-or-death kind of play."
Opera North is presenting "South Pacific" in repertory with "Lucia di Lammermoor" Saturday through Aug. 16, both fully staged with full orchestra, at the Lebanon (N.H.) Opera House. "Lucia" will be sung in the original Italian with English supertitles. Opera North's Young Company is presenting Mark Adamo's "Little Women," with matinees Wednesday and Aug. 11.
"Lucia di Lammermoor," Gaetano Donizetti's 1835 bel canto masterpiece loosely based on a Sir Walter Scott novel, tells of a young woman torn between love and her family's needs. To survive, politically as well as physically, her brother Lord Enrico Ashton promises her hand to Lord Arturo Bucklaw. But Lucia is in love with Sir Edgardo di Ravenswood, her brother's enemy.
"The music is very exciting," Araoz said. "I'm also very riveted by its lead character. I don't see her just as this fragile woman. I think there is a lot of strength to her. She's pulled by the many men in her life and is constantly forced to support them. She has to navigate that."
But Araoz doesn't feel that the brother Enrico is acting merely for his own convenience.
"Enrico's position requires that he think about survival — not just the survival of him and his sister but of his whole clan, his whole family," Araoz said. "So what he's doing to Lucia, forcing her almost violently, is not out of hate for her but is out of a need for not only their survival but for their children's survival.
"As patriarch of the family, Enrico has every right to do that in this time period. And so I see in what is often seen as a simple formulaic plot, a real struggle for survival for every character."
Araoz has moved the action to Richmond, Va., right after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
"It's an exact parallel," she said. "Enrico we've made a wealthy slave owner. He would have been put on trial and could be put to death. These young women were being married off to re-establish their family name and to combine resources with other families who lost everything at the end of the war."
Lucia will be portrayed by soprano Angela Mortellaro, who sang the role with the Dayton (Ohio) Opera and has performed with the Sarasota Opera, Caramoor Opera, Chautauqua Opera, Orlando Opera and Operafestival di Roma. Anthony Barrese, who conducted the opera last season in Sarasota, Fla., will conduct.
"I am very interested in the inner struggle," Araoz said. "If those struggles and conflict aren't there in the forefront of the production, then we start to see things like two-dimensional characters — the two-dimensional ingénue, the love interest and the mean brother — and there's so much more to the opera than that."
Barre looks to project the same depth and dimension in "South Pacific."
"It's in many ways ahead of its time, both in terms of musical theater as well as what it was trying to say," he said.
The musical, based on James A. Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Tales of the South Pacific," opened on Broadway in 1949, winning 10 Tony Awards and running for 1,925 performances. In 1958, it was made into a feature film, the highest-grossing movie based on a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical before "The Sound of Music."
Set during World War II, the plot centers on an American nurse who falls in love with an expatriate French plantation owner but struggles to accept his mixed-race children. Another romance between an American lieutenant and a Tonkinese girl explores his fears of the social consequences should he marry her.
"It was dealing with race in a way that certainly few musicals cared about doing or had the guts to do," Barre said.
This came at a time when composer Richard Rodgers and writer-lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II were enjoying the great success of "Oklahoma!" (1943) and "Carousel" (1945).
"They were warned early along that there could be a lot of resistance from middle and southern America against putting themes of race and prejudice on the stage — especially in a musical, which largely to that point had been seen as escapist and pure entertainment," Barre said.
"Working on the show has made me admire it even more how they stuck to their guns and wrote a piece about a really sensitive time in our nation's history far before the civil rights movement," Barre said. "It was ahead of its time."
This production will be supported by a full orchestra conducted by Louis Burkot, Opera North's artistic director, and will employ area microphones for the first time in the company's history.
"They are there simply to enhance the natural voice and mainly to pick up any dialogue under which any music is playing — and that happens a lot," Barre said. "But, for all intents and purposes, it's a completely acoustic experience for the audience."
But the performers won't have trouble being heard without amplification. Veteran opera singers will be joined by singers from the Young Company in the cast.
"The music sounds absolutely stunning, and the voices are just beautiful," Barre said.
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Opera North presents:
— "South Pacific," $32-$88, fully staged with orchestra; 7:30 p.m. Aug. 3, 9, 15 and 17 and 2 p.m. Aug. 8.
— "Lucia di Lammermoor," $32-$88, fully staged with orchestra, sung in Italian with English supertitles; 7:30 p.m. Aug. 6, 10, 14 and 16.
— "Little Women," $25, $5 for children; 2 p.m. Aug. 7 and 11.
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Civil War at 150: The transcontinental railroadNovember 26,2012Provided Photo
A Civil War railroad bond.
Though the Civil War continued with intensity through 1862, Congress did not linger just on military activities. Already the House of Representatives and Senate had passed acts creating a national paper currency and an income tax to help pay for the war, had created land grant colleges, and permitted homesteading on federal lands. Those were major accomplishments. But there still existed another item on the 1860 Republican presidential platform that needed to be addressed the passage of legislation creating a transcontinental railroad.
The concept of a railroad stretching from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean was not a novel idea. A bill had been introduced in 1856, but effectively blocked by Southern legislators. Just like the case of the Homestead Act, the South feared a railroad would open up the western territories to settlement, stripping people from the Southern states and, therefore, some Congressional representation from the South. The South also feared that these growing territories to the west would choose to be free. The Southern slave-holding states basically feared a sway in the balance of power between the free and slave states.
Also stifling the development of a transcontinental line at the time: the railroad companies-to-be said they didnt have the money to do the job.
But by 1862 this problem had disappeared as all the Southern legislators but one had vacated their Congressional posts. Members of Congress now represented only the Midwest and the North, regions that supported Western expansion and though never directly stated, but certainly construed more free territory and states, rather than slave-holding states.
Therefore, Congress passed the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862 or, if you want the full length title of the legislation, An Act to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri river to the Pacific ocean, and to secure to the government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes.
President Lincoln signed the act into law on July 1, 1862 and it certainly favored Western expansion and development. The act officially authorized the construction of a transcontinental railroad and a telegraph line to run parallel to its course. The war surely influenced part of the legislation as one of the acts first sections stated the new rail line would be for the safe and speedy transportation of mails, troops, munitions of war and public stores.
The new line was named the Overland Route.
The Pacific Railroad Act provided many perks to both the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads for constructing the transcontinental railroad. First came the money. The government received authorization to issue 30-year company bonds of the United States of one thousand dollars each at 6 percent interest. How many bonds the government issued depended on the actual terrain on the right of way. Tracks graded west of the Sierra Nevadas and east of the Rocky Mountains received an allocation of $16,000 per mile. Along the high plains between the two mountain ranges it was doubled. To pay for the difficult work to completed over and within the two mountain ranges the government tripled the basic rate to $48,000 per mile.
Then, land entered into the deal. It first pertained to the right of way granted through all public lands to the extent of two hundred feet in width on each side of said railroad required for the building of stations, buildings, workshops and depots, machine shops, switches, side tracks, turn tables and water stations.
The deal grew more lucrative as the government provided 10 square miles of land for each graded mile of track. So the railroads would not become total land barons these lands were apportioned in five alternate sections per mile on each side of the rail line. The U.S. government retained the remainder of the lands adjacent to the railroad.
The lands included all timber contained on the acreage, but not the mineral rights. As for Native Americans, whose lands were to be crossed by the railroad construction, a secondary act passed in 1864 resolved the potential problem. Part of the law stated the United States shall extinguish as rapidly as may be the Indian titles to all lands falling under the operation... and required for the said right of way.
Eventually, the four transcontinental railroads the Union Pacific/Central Pacific, the Northern Pacific, Southern Pacific and the never completed Atlantic & Pacific received grants of over 175 million acres of federal land. To put that in a modern day perspective, that acreage is greater than that the state of Texas and encompassed one tenth of the entire United States.
Having gained ownership of such a mammoth parcel of land guaranteed the railroads a great source of income. As the railroad extended west, settlers migrated into the accessible territories, buying up the choicest parcels near the tracks. The two railroads paid off every single bond with interest as they became due.
The Central Pacific commenced construction eastwards from Sacramento, Calif., in 1863. Unfortunately, the war did not permit the Union Pacific to start moving west from Council Bluffs, Neb. until 1865. But when the war ended, construction switched into high gear as the war freed up thousands of soldiers who, having enjoyed a newfound freedom away from home, decided not to return, but looked westward. With the railroad needing workers, they discovered a great human resource in the newly unemployed soldiers. The Union Pacific was the primary employer while the Central Pacific hired thousands of Chinese immigrants.
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Long-running children's program creates first Muppet with parent in jail
"Sesame Street" has created its first Muppet whose parent is in jail. And some people aren't happy.
The long-running children's program show launched the "Little Children, Big Challenges: Incarceration" educational program last week as a way to help kids cope with one or both parents being in jail, according to the Sesame Workshop.
"Alex" has blue hair, a green nose and wears a hoodie. He seems like any other inhabitant of "Sesame Street," except his dad is in jail.
"I just miss him so much," he tells a friend on the program. "I usually don't want people to know about my Dad."
The program outlines a number of ways that adult caregivers can help a young child cope, as well as tips for the incarcerated parent, according to Business Insider.
"Coming from a Muppet, it's almost another child telling their story to the children," Jeanette Betancourt, vice president of outreach and educational practices at the Sesame Workshop, told NBC News.
But some aren't fans of the idea.
Mike Riggs, a blogger with Reason Magazine, wrote, "Congratulations, America, on making it almost normal to have a parent in prison or jail."
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An Ohio man came back to life after being declared dead for nearly an hour.
Anthony Yahle's 17-year-old son learned his father was dead at Kettering Medical Center outside Dayton earlier this month, running down the hall to see nurses surrounding his father's body.
Distraught, Lawrence Yahle yelled, "Dad, you're not going to die today," according to ABC News.
Moments later, his father's heart monitor showed signs of life.
The tiny electrical movements prompted cardiologist Dr. Raja Nazir and his team to attempt to revive Anthony Yahle again. To the astonishment of medical staff, his heart began beating again.
More than a week later, the 37-year-old diesel mechanic is at home resting, according to Dayton TV station WHIO.
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Sorrell looks to target fast food marketing to kidsBy PETER HIRSCHFELD
Vermont Press Bureau | April 11,2013MONTPELIER Attorney General Bill Sorrell looks to have identified the next target in his war on childhood obesity.
After leading the charge in recent years for a penny-per-ounce tax on sugar-sweetened beverages, Sorrell on Wednesday trained his crosshairs on the fast food industry. Specifically, Sorrell said he wants to scrutinize and possibly find new ways to regulate advertising geared toward young children.
The food industry marketing to kids these non-nutritious, high-sugar and fat content fast-food meals is playing a part in the obesity problems we face, Sorrell said. And weve got to attend to that either through existing laws and policies, or with new ones to come.
Sorrell said its still too early to say what form legal or regulatory intervention might take. Hell attend a conference next month at the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University, where he and fellow attorneys general from across the country will focus on the current state of food industry marketing to kids.
Well examine labeling, advertisements and the like, and look at what, under existing authority, we might be able to do, and how we might be in a position to espouse change within our state legislatures, Sorrell said.
It wont be Sorrells first stab at pushing for policy initiatives aimed at curbing obesity rates. A year-long study on obesity conducted by his office in 2010 culminated with the publication of a report that included dozens of policy recommendations, a tax on soda among them.
Sorrell said Wednesday that the House Committee on Health Cares adoption last month of a bill that included the soda tax shows the effectiveness of his advocacy, and the severity of the problem hes trying to address.
Smoking, I believe, is still the greatest avoidable public health problem we face in this country today, Sorrell said. But unless the curve gets bent, its likely to be overtaken by obesity and very high diabetes rates.
Sorrell on Wednesday introduced to the House Committee on Health Care a professor of pediatrics from Dartmouth College who recently conducted a study on fast food advertising geared toward children.
Dr. James Sargent said the use of toys and popular movie characters to build brand loyalty among children as young as 2 amounts to the kind of deceptive advertising that lawmakers have a public interest in restricting.
Its really true, from my perspective as a pediatrician, that any advertising aimed at children under 12 is unfair, because children are developmentally unable to understand the message, Sargent said.
Sargent said Sweden has strict laws against advertisements geared toward young children.
We dont allow companies to employ children under 12, Sargent said to lawmakers. So should we consider what we want to do about their ability to deliver persuasive messages?
Assistant Attorney General Wendy Morgan said attempts to restrict commercial speech are always legally challenging.
It would be fair to say weve just begun to think about this, Morgan said. We do know there are serious First Amendment concerns.
Rep. Mike Fisher, a Lincoln Democrat and chairman of the House Committee on Health Care, said hes unsure what, if anything, lawmakers can do to more tightly regulate the hundreds of millions of dollars being spent to boost consumption of unhealthy foods.
But he said lawmakers, and the constituents they represent, have a financial interest in finding ways to improve Vermonters diets.
We often recognize that much of the demand for health care has to do with behaviors that do not necessarily have anything to do with the health care delivery system, Fisher said. We understand its those behaviors that lead to the bad outcomes that are a main, or the main cause of health care spending.
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Richard Childress Racing
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Nationwide Series Preview for Atlanta
August 27, 2013
NASCAR Nationwide Series News and Notes
Race: Great Clips 300
Date: Saturday, August 31, 2013
Location: Atlanta Motor Speedway
RCR's NASCAR Nationwide Series History at Bristol Motor Speedway ... In 26 previous NASCAR Nationwide Series appearances at Atlanta Motor Speedway, Richard Childress Racing has made two trips to Victory Lane, securing race wins with Jeff Burton in March 2006 and 2007. Burton scored RCR's lone pole award in Nationwide Series competition at Atlanta Motor Speedway in March 2008. The Welcome, N.C.-based organization has eight top-five and 13 top-10 finishes at the Hampton, Ga., facility. RCR drivers have completed 97.6 percent of the laps attempted at the 1.540-mile track (5,071 of 5,198 laps), with 332 laps led.
RCR in the NNS ... In 940 Nationwide Series starts through the last 15 years, Richard Childress Racing has earned 65 wins, 48 pole awards, 316 top-five and 524 top-10 finishes, with a 12th-place average starting position and an average finishing position of 12.4 among all races contested. RCR earned the Nationwide Series driver point championships in 2001 and 2006 with Kevin Harvick, and in 2008 with Clint Bowyer. The Welcome, N.C.-based team earned the owner's title in 2003 with Johnny Sauter and Harvick, and again in 2007 with Burton and Scott Wimmer.
The Season So Far ... In the 23 races contested this season, RCR has earned one win in the Nationwide Series, with Tony Stewart at Daytona International Speedway, along with 19 top-five and 36 top-10 finishes. Austin Dillon has earned six pole awards doing so at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Dover International Speedway, Iowa Speedway, Michigan International Speedway, Kentucky Speedway and Daytona International Speedway and set the all-time consecutive pole award record in the Nationwide Series with four. The organization has led 655 laps in 2013.
Get to the Points ... Dillon ranks second in the Nationwide Series driver championship point standings, trailing point leader Sam Hornish Jr by six points, while Brian Scott is seventh, 60 points out of the lead. In the Nationwide Series owner championship point standings, the No. 3 Chevrolet team sits fourth, while the No. 2 team is ninth and the No. 33 team is 12th.
Social Media ... To keep up-to-date with the latest news, information and to view exclusive content, visit RCR's Twitter page - @RCRracing, RCR's NASCAR Nationwide Series team Twitter pages - @RCR2BScott, @RCR3ADillon and @RCR33NNS, RCR's NNS driver Twitter pages - @BScottRacing, @AustinDillon3 and @KevinHarvick and the official Facebook fan pages - facebook.com/BScottRacing, facebook.com/austindillon3 and facebook.com/officialKevinHarvick.
Catch the Action ... Flag-to-flag coverage of the Great Clips 300 will be televised on ESPN2 beginning at 7:30 p.m. Eastern Time on Saturday, August 31 and broadcast live on the Performance Racing Network and SiriusXM NASCAR Satellite Radio channel 90.
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This Week's Armour Chevrolet at Atlanta Motor Speedway ... Brian Scott and the No. 2 Armour Vienna Sausages team head to "The Peach State" this weekend for night racing at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Scott will pilot chassis No. 129 from the Richard Childress Racing NASCAR Nationwide Series stable in Saturday evening's Great Clips 300. This chassis was utilized at Indianapolis Motor Speedway where Scott earned a career best second-place finish and led three laps.
Hotlanta History ... The 25-year-old Chevrolet driver has three previous Nationwide Series starts at Atlanta Motor Speedway, where he has a best finish of 11th to his credit in this race one year ago. Additionally, he has four NASCAR Camping World Truck Series starts with two top-10 finishes and one lap led.
Point Out the Points ... Entering the home stretch of the 2013 season, Scott is currently seventh in the Nationwide Series driver championship point standings, 60 markers out of first.
Consistently on a Roll ... Since his top-five finish at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Scott had been on a consistent roll with an average finish of 8.8 and average starting spot of 7.5.
Enjoy the Tastes of Victory ... Armour® and Hungry-Man® are giving fans an opportunity to enjoy the tastes of victory and win a custom designed 2013 Chevrolet Camaro featuring Armour®/Hungry-Man® paint scheme. Through Sept. 16, fans can enter for a chance to win one of 33 monthly prizes including: die-cast cars, gift cards/certificates, Armour apparel gift packs and more. At the end of the seven-month promotion, five finalists will be selected at random to receive an all-expense-paid, four-day, three-night trip for two to Charlotte, N.C. in October. The five finalists will have a chance to win the grand prize, a custom designed 2013 Chevrolet Camaro. Fans 18 years of age and older, within the continental United States, can enter the promotion once a month at www.thetastestofvictory.com, or by completing the official entry form found at participating retailers that carry Armour® and Hungry-Man® products. For official rules visit, www.thetastesofvictory.com.
Rock Running ... After running 250-laps this past Friday night at Bristol Motor Speedway, Scott and several of his friends suited up and participated in the Rock Race 5k at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Sunday afternoon. The 3.1-mile run included obstacles that are reminiscent of the hit TV show "Wipeout." Such obstacles included the world's largest inflatable slide, wrecking ball, belly flop drop, gorilla bars and the world's largest moon bounce. Scott survived the three-plus-mile run while dressed as a police officer.
Share your thoughts on racing at Atlanta Motor Speedway. "I love Atlanta Motor Speedway. I wish we had more tracks like Atlanta where it's really worn out. Throughout the course of a run you'll have guys who take off really fast, but eventually fall off and vice-versa. It's really a fun race track because you slide around, your grip level is always questionable and your tire degradation is huge. It's really fun when you're slipping and sliding and trying to pass cars battling up front. I'm looking forward to taking the Camaro there for the first time and seeing how they handle and how we do."
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No. 3 AdvoCare Chevrolet Camaro
This Week's AdvoCare Chevrolet at Atlanta Motor Speedway ... Austin Dillon will pilot Chassis No. 102 from the Richard Childress Racing NASCAR Nationwide Series stable. Dillon recently drove this Chevrolet Camaro to a third-place finish at Chicagoland Speedway in July en route to clinching the Nationwide Insurance Dash4Cash $100,000 bonus. He also earned a sixth-place finish after earning the pole award at Kentucky Speedway in June 2013. This is the same Chevrolet Dillon drove to Victory Lane in both Nationwide Series races at Kentucky Speedway last year, after starting on the pole each time. He raced this Chevrolet to a fifth-place finish at Homestead-Miami Speedway in November, a sixth-place finish at Chicagoland Speedway in July, a sixth-place finish at Dover International Speedway in June, a fifth-place finish at Darlington Raceway in May, a fifth-place finish at Texas Motor Speedway in April and a seventh-place finish at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in March, all in 2012.
Dillon at Atlanta Motor Speedway ... In one previous Nationwide Series start at Atlanta Motor Speedway in 2012, Dillon earned a sixth-place finish. The 2011 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champion has two starts at the 1.54-mile track in Truck Series competition, finishing sixth in September 2011 and 10th in March 2010.
The Season So Far ... According to NASCAR's Loop Data Season-to-Date Statistics, Dillon leads the Nationwide Series in Average Starting Position (5.6), has led the second-most laps (483), maintains the second-best Driver Rating (100.8), ranks second in Laps in the Top-15 (89.7 percent), third in Average Running Position (9.312), is the third-Fastest Driver on Restarts (8.696) and ranks fourth in Fastest Laps Run (264).
Get to the Points ... Dillon ranks second in the Nationwide Series driver championship standings, just six points shy of Sam Hornish Jr.'s lead.
Spark your Engines ... Dillon and the RCR team will sport the colors of Cherry AdvoCare Spark® this weekend on the No. 3 AdvoCare Chevrolet Camaro. An energy drink mix and the most popular product from AdvoCare, Cherry is one of several flavors of Spark available. AdvoCare is an award-winning premier health and wellness company offering nutrition, weight loss, energy and sports performance products of the highest quality developed through comprehensive research and backed by a Scientific and Medical Advisory Board. Dillon trains with AdvoCare products throughout the week and is also an AdvoCare Independent Distributor. For more information about Dillon's favorite products, including Spark, Rehydrate, AdvoBars and Post-Workout Recovery, visit http://www.AdvoCare.com.
AdvoCare Supporting the Childress Institute for Pediatric Trauma ... If Dillon wins this weekend's Nationwide Series race at Atlanta Motor Speedway, AdvoCare will make a $5,000 donation to the Childress Institute for Pediatric Trauma. The health and wellness company will pledge $2,000 to CIPT for a top-five finish and $1,000 for a top-10 finish. So far this season, the No. 3 team has raised $22,000 towards the cause. The Childress Institute invests resources in research, education and awareness to improve the treatment for critically injured children in the U.S. and AdvoCare's generous donations are aimed at helping to raise awareness for pediatric trauma, the No. 1 killer of children in America. You can help save the lives of injured children by making a contribution to the Childress Institute in two ways: donate $33 in honor of Dillon via his website, or text WIN to 80077 to make a $10 donation.
Double Duty ... In addition to competing in Saturday's Nationwide Series race, Dillon is scheduled to drive the No. 33 AdvoCare Chevrolet in Sunday's AdvoCare 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race. The 500-mile race is scheduled to air live on ESPN beginning at 7:30 p.m. Eastern Time and will mark Dillon's ninth Sprint Cup Series start this season.
Do you think Atlanta Motor Speedway is one of the 'raciest' mile-and-a-half tracks the NASCAR Nationwide Series races? "I think Atlanta Motor Speedway is one of the raciest mile-and-a-half tracks on the circuit, for sure. I love Homestead-Miami Speedway, too. Both tracks remind me of each other, but Atlanta Motor Speedway is definitely slicker. It's one of those places that can be very frustrating and very fun at the same time. I really enjoy it at night, and I'm ready to get there."
Kevin Harvick
No. 33 Bad Boy Buggies Chevrolet Camaro
This Week's Bad Boy Buggies Chevrolet at Atlanta Motor Speedway ... Kevin Harvick will pilot Chassis No. 120 from the Richard Childress Racing NASCAR Nationwide Series stable in the 300-mile event at Atlanta Motor Speedway on Saturday night. So far this season, Harvick has driven this RCR-prepared Chevrolet to a fifth-place finish at Texas Motor Speedway in April and at Charlotte Motor Speedway in May.
Event Stats ... Since 2000, Harvick has made 11 Nationwide Series starts at the 1.54-mile facility collecting one win (2009), six top-five and eight top-10 finishes. The two-time Nationwide Series champion holds an 8.2 average starting position coupled with an 8.5 average finishing position, has completed 95.8 percent (2,094 of 2,185) of the laps contested and is credited with 376 laps led.
Bad Boy Buggies ... Bad Boy Buggies is a leader in off-road utility vehicles for hunting and outdoor lifestyles. Bad Boy Buggies pioneered the category of electrically powered 4x4 vehicles, ideal for hunting and outdoor recreation due to their silent, odorless operation and environmentally friendly, emissions-free drivetrains. In 2010, the Bad Boy Buggies brand and product line were acquired by E-Z-GO, a business unit of Textron Inc.
Double Duty ... In addition to driving the No. 33 Bad Boy Buggies Camaro Saturday night under the lights of Atlanta Motor Speedway, Harvick will also pilot the No. 29 Jimmy John's Chevrolet SS in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series event on Sunday evening. This race is scheduled to air live on ESPN at 6:30 p.m. Eastern Time, along with the Performance Racing Network and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio, channel 90.
Race Rewind ... After starting from the third position, Harvick and the No. 33 Bad Boy Buggies team earned third-place finish in the 2012 Nationwide Series race at Atlanta Motor Speedway, after leading 157 laps and dominating the 300-mile event.
What are your thoughts on driving the No. 33 Bad Boy Buggies Chevrolet at Atlanta Motor Speedway? "Atlanta (Motor Speedway) is a very fast track. You can race all over it, from the white line on the bottom all the way up to the wall and still be competitive. Atlanta has always been a good track to me. I've had success in all three of NASCAR's top series there and hope that luck continues this weekend, so we can get the Bad Boy Buggies Chevrolet to Victory Lane."


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One man's dying wish for one moment of unexpected kindness has turned into an ongoing campaign of giving in his name.
Aaron Collins died July 7, 2012, of unknown causes in a Lexington, Ky., hospital. After his death, his family found a will on his computer that included the following request:
"Leave an awesome tip. And I don't mean 25%…I mean $500 on a … pizza…for a waiter or waitress."
Since then, Collins' older brother Seth and his family have been on a mission to fulfill that last wish.
After a video documenting the first tip went viral, donations poured in for Seth Collins to do it again... and again.
On Monday, nearly the one-year anniversary of his brother's death, Seth Collins gave away the 54th tip in Aaron's memory, according to ABCNews.com.
That $500 tip came at Thre3e Wise Men Brewing Company in Indianapolis, where server Beth Foster was overwhelmed at receiving the generous gesture.
"It couldn't have come at a better time in my life," Foster told ABC News' Indianapolis, affiliate WRTV. "I'm a teacher just looking for a job and it's kind of hard right now."
So far, the effort in his brother's name has collected $60,000 in donations and Seth Collins plans to visit all 50 states to give out $500 tips until all the money is gone. Monday's visit to Indiana represented the 17th state in his mission, with Seth chronicling each tip on his blog.
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Milwaukee Rep managing director Helsing Wolters plans departure
Managing director Dawn Helsing Wolters will leave the Milwaukee Repertory Theater at the end of its present season to pursue other opportunities, the Rep announced in a statement released Tuesday afternoon. The Rep's Board of Trustees is beginning a national search for her replacement, according to the statement. »Read Full Article
Singles Scorecard: Hear new songs from Paul McCartney, Prince and Celine Dion
Paul McCartney, pictured here performing at a sold-out Miller Park July 16, has a new song out, aptly titled "New." Journal Sentinel photo by Rick Wood. »Read Full Blog Post
Fatty Acids takes pride in keeping work in house
The Fatty Acids is a true DIY band, and it's doing it all very well.
The psychedelic rock band has one of the city's busiest gig schedules, booked by the band itself. It has a couple of talented filmmakers as part of the crew, resulting in some visually arresting and creatively inspired music videos. And yes, there's the music too: accessible and eccentric at the same time, reminiscent of the fine line the Flaming Lips once walked, particularly the tunes on its new album, "Boléro," (available at shows and the band's Bandcamp page), which like the first two full-length albums was recorded in a basement. »Read Full Article
Local authors to headline Festival of Books
The Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books returns to Waukesha this month, in a new time of year but with the same great price of admission: free.
This year's literary festival takes place Sept. 20-22 at the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha, 1500 N. University Drive. (In past years, the festival was held in June.) »Read Full Article
Galloping 'Love is a Horse' covers a lot of ground
The title of the Fly Steffens play that opened Tuesday on the Red Dot patio — "Love is a Horse With a Broken Leg Trying to Stand While 45,000 People Watch" — comes from a Charles Bukowski poem. It's a brave title, capturing how hard it can be to express love in what we create and how we live.
It's not the sort of line you'd likely hear from the two characters in "Goldfish," first of the three shorts that collectively compose Steffens' crowded, hour-long piece, which is being directed by Emily Rindt. »Read Full Article
Yellow Phone Music Conference free-for-all
For the first time, there's no charge to connect with the Yellow Phone Music Conference band showcases.
Since its inception in 2011, Milwaukee's modest version of the beastly South by Southwest Music Conference in Austin, Texas, has offered up networking events and music industry panel discussions during the day, and performances from independent homegrown bands and out-of-towners for the general public by night. »Read Full Article
Indian Summer Festival closes out the season
Lake Michigan is integral to Indian Summer Festival this weekend at Maier Festival Park, where the Great Lakes' tribal nations, such as Ojibwe, Menominee, Potawatomi and Ho-Chunk, will be celebrated.
As per the festival's theme, "Great Lakes: Great Nations," canoe rides will be offered behind U.S. Cellular Stage both Saturday and Sunday until dusk. Event organizers are also inviting participants to watch a torch-lit canoe procession around 9:30 p.m. on Saturday night, which will re-enact European settlers meeting the Indians for the first time. »Read Full Article
Michael Nesmith to play Milwaukee's Turner Hall Ballroom
Michael Nesmith — singer-songwriter, ex-Monkee, music-video maven — is coming to Turner Hall Ballroom, 1040 N. 4th St., Nov. 24 for an 8 p.m. performance.
On his latest tour, Nesmith is mining his entire catalog, including his solo folk period before he joined the pop-culture phenomenon that became the Monkees. »Read Full Article
On Tap Today: Talk radio, food trucks and baseball
Safety warning. Wednesdays are closer than they appear when seen within a holiday week. That's right, you are halfway to the weekend -- already.
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Business center to help vets make or grow jobsBy WILSON RING
The Associated Press | February 04,2013RANDOLPH — Vermont veterans seeking to create or expand small businesses now have access to office support services thanks to a business incubator set aside just for them in Randolph, officials said Monday.
The Vermont Tech Enterprise Center Business Incubator provides the office space and equipment veterans need to do office work, have business meetings, or just think and share ideas with other business owners.
The space in an office building just off Interstate 89 includes high-speed internet service, copiers, meeting and conference rooms, video conferencing and a hospitality area. The space is free to use for veterans and service members who are starting or expanding a business in Vermont.
"It's not just about building jobs and the economy. That's really important, it's (also) about rebuilding lives," said
U.S. Rep. Peter Welch, a Democrat and Vermont's lone member in the House of Representatives who helped secure some of the funding that helped create the program.
Nationally, more than 200,000 people are discharged from the U.S. military each year. The U.S. Small Business Administration says that nearly one in 10 small businesses are veteran-owned, and retired service members are at least 45 percent more likely than those without active-duty military experience to be self-employed.
U.S. Census Bureau numbers show there are 51,373 civilian veterans in Vermont, many of them adjusting after duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. Some of those veterans are starting or expanding businesses.
"When they come home, especially in a rural community, those soldiers have that experience that was intense, it was powerful. They saw things we would hope no one would ever have to see. And they have to bear that burden alone," Welch said.
One of the vets who will take advantage of the Randolph center is WillyJane Patry, 34, of Barre, still a member of the Vermont National Guard and a veteran of year in Afghanistan. She is studying construction management at Vermont Tech and she now runs a small real estate rental business.
"What I want to do is expand that," she said, noting she'd take advantage of the services the incubator is offering, although she didn't quite know how just yet. "It sounds like they have some good resources."
Welch said in speaking with veterans he learned that a good job is a key part of getting them back into civilian life.
They want to take the same skills that were so important to them on the battlefield and put them to use back home in Vermont.
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Vermont and New York are calling on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to do a more thorough study of the impacts of storing spent nuclear fuel like these dry cask storage units of nuclear fuel at Vermont Yankee nuclear plant in Vernon.
MONTPELIER The federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission isnt doing enough to assess the environmental and safety concerns of storing high-level radioactive waste at nuclear power plants across the country, the state of Vermont said Thursday.
Vermont, joined by New York and Massachusetts, again have formally criticized the way the NRC is handling the issue of high-level radioactive waste. Filing the comments were Attorney General William Sorrell and the Shumlin administration, in the form of the Department of Public Service and the Agency of Natural Resources.
The NRC staff is working on an Environmental Impact Statement to address deficiencies identified by the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals, Sheehan wrote in an email.
In comments filed with the NRC Wednesday, Vermont said the NRC was not following a ruling last year by the District of Columbia federal circuit court that ordered the NRC to do a better job evaluating sites for the long term storage of the radioactive waste.
Currently, there are 2,507 fuel assemblies stored on site at the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant in Vernon in its five-story spent fuel pool, with another 884 fuel assemblies in 13 concrete and steel casks outside the reactor building.
Sorrell said Thursday that the NRC was taking the very long term storage way too lightly, and the D.C. circuit (court) agreed with us.
Despite the DC circuit really reading the riot act to the NRC, were saying in this filing that the NRC hasnt listened very closely. Were saying, Were going to be watching, Sorrell said in a telephone interview.
NRC spokesman Neil Sheehan said Vermont, New York and Massachusetts, and Nye County in Nevada the home county of the proposed and currently rejected Yucca Mountain federal repository were the only states to file comments by Wednesday, although he said it was possible other states filed but sent their comments by mail.
Sheehan said the NRC had received about 700 comments on its proposed plan for dealing with the so-called waste confidence rule. He said it would be next year before the NRC responds to all the comments.
Entergy Nuclear spokesman Jim Sinclair said Thursday that Entergy had not filed individual comments, but was relying on a filing by the Nuclear Energy Institute, an industry group, to support the NRCs plans and timetable.
Sorrell said that in this case, the state was not prohibited from raising questions about nuclear safety at Vermont Yankee, since the state was commenting on federal regulations.
We can certainly express our opinions, said Sorrell, who said the three states believed the NRC was dropping the ball on the issue of storage.
According to the Vermont filing, any federal solution to the conundrum of storing the spent fuel rods from nuclear power plants which remain dangerously radioactive for thousands of years is decades away. And moving the existing nuclear waste from individual sites to any repository will take 20 years.
Vermont Yankee ran out of storage about five years ago, and got approval from both Vermont and the NRC to build its so-called dry cask storage facility.
Even anti-nuclear activists support the building of dry cask storage facilities, saying the concrete and steel casks are safer than the spent fuel pool.
Sorrell pointed out that the federal appeals court in the nations capital had also questioned the reasonableness of the NRC approving new nuclear plant or extending nuclear plants licenses until the storage of radioactive waste issue is resolved.
The relicensing of Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant in New Hampshire, Indian Point Energy Center in New York and Limerick Nuclear Power Plant in Pennsylvania among others is on hold until the issue is resolved, Sheehan said.
Sorrell said he believed that the 20-year license extension granted to the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant in 2011 should be revisited, in light of the federal court ruling.
Sheehan said the draft environmental impact statement might be available by August 2014.
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Melanomas are not usually painful. In fact, the majority of melanomas are asymptomatic. The first sign of melanoma is often a change in the size, shape, color, or feel of an existing mole. Melanomas also may appear as a new, black, or abnormal mole. Symptoms result from the uncontrolled growth of cancer cells. It's important to remember that most people have moles, and almost all moles are benign.
The following are signs that a mole may be a melanoma:
Asymmetry —The shape of one half does not match the shape of the other half.
Ragged edges —The edges are ragged, notched, blurred, or irregular, and the pigment may spread into surrounding skin.
Color variation or change in color —The color may be uneven with shades of black, brown, or tan, and possibly even white, gray, pink, red, or blue.
Change in size —The mole changes in size, usually growing larger. Melanomas are usually larger than the eraser of a pencil (5 millimeters or 1/4 inch).
Change in texture —The mole may begin to have fine scales. In more advanced cases, a mole may become hard or lumpy. Oozing or bleeding from a mole may also be a sign that there is a problem.
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Have money taken directly from your paycheck and put into your savings account, IRA or 401(k).
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If you are unsure of the amount to have deposited at first, just start with something small. If you find that you are not missing this money at all, you can always use your budget and your goals to come up with a more significant figure to have withdrawn.
The greatest thing about using direct deposit to savings is that once it is set up, you might not even miss this money. Also, it is smart to have money going into savings rather than checking, as the savings account typically offers a higher interest rate.
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Nothing will make you feel more money-smart than if you successfully plan and execute your own budget.
Calculating this can seem daunting at first, but if you take the data from your recent spending history -- say the last year or several months -- you will be able to see how much you need each month for all that you do and all that you want to plan for.
Once your budget is firmly created, it will be easy to say no to things you do not need.
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Laurie Winters will be director of Museum of Wisconsin Art
Laurie Winters, a curator known for organizing internationally recognized exhibitions at the Milwaukee Art Museum and working with some of the largest museums in the world, will run what has been a small, regional museum focused entirely on Wisconsin art.
Winters has been named director of the Museum of Wisconsin Art, which will open a dramatic, new building on the banks of the Milwaukee River in West Bend in April. »Read Full Blog Post(1)
Library handing out 'I Closed East Library' stickers
Soon you'll not only be able to brag "I Closed Wolski's," but also "I Closed East Library."
When the Milwaukee Public East Library, 1910 E. North Ave., hosts its closing celebration from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. Visitors will be able to pick up a magnet or sticker that says "I closed East Library." At 5 p.m. the doors close permanently and the building will be demolished to make way for construction of the new East Branch. »Read Full Article
Stuff you missed: Takin' it to the Streets 2013
This past weekend, while in Chicago, I had the pleasure of hanging out at the Takin' It to the Streets Urban International Festival. The Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) has been holding this festival for 15 years now. This well-oiled festival is a celebration of the Muslim community and culture through art, music, food and prayer, just to name a few.
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New chef and new menu at McGillycuddy's on Water
McGillycuddy's Bar & Grill, 1135 N. Water St., has a new chef with a background in fine-dining kitchens as well as pubs, and he's launched a new menu, with items like shrimp po' boy with house-made giardiniera.
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New name for Marriott restaurant downtown; chef and menu set
The Milwaukee Marriott Downtown has announced its chef and a name change for the restaurant, due to open sometime in July at 323 E. Wisconsin Ave.
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Free opening day Summerfest ticket giveaway
Getting your smile on at Summerfest on opening day now gets you one free weekday admission ticket. Fans who approach Summerfest crew and security staff holding a fest flag, smile and deliver the phrase "smile on," receive one free weekday admission ticket for future use, while supplies last.
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First off, congratulations to Beatronome for winning the inaugural round of this side Battle we've got going on. He chose an incredible Stanley Cowell sample for y'all to mess and decided to keep the rules the same as last week's. Hopefully we can get a few more participants for this round; please feel free to share the thread link with some of your Beat Battle friends who may not be aware of what's going on over here in The Crates.
Sample: http://www60.zippysh...36241/file.html
Acapella: http://www15.zippysh...91659/file.html
Flip the sample to make a beat and use the acapella to make DOOM accompany it.
Upload your beat to the DOOM Remix BB group on soundcloud and in this thread*
by 12:00 am Monday PST and vote in this thread by 10:00 pm PST Wednesday.
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Production Rules:
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- Outside keys/synths are not allowed#
- Other acapellas may only be used for a chorus/cut
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- Cuts/scratches are allowed
- Winner posts new sample, acapella, and any rule changes by 12:00 pm PST Wednesday^
*If you have any questions about how to post soundcloud links to the thread please use this as a reference.
#Let's make something clear. Yes you can sample onto your keyboard/synth and tweak the sample if you have that capability, but please don't use any stock sounds or any other outside sounds besides bass and drums.
^Once the winner has been chosen I'll reach out to her/him with a list of DOOM acapellas I currently have available, you pick one, then I'll send you the link to post.


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VideoGamer has an interesting bunch of quotes from Sony Computer Entertainment UK's managing director, Ray Maguire. He suggests that future multi-platform games will lead on PlayStation 3 and be downgraded for other consoles. The article points out that "other consoles" obviously means Microsoft's Xbox 360. Maguire said:
"I think we now have an install base which is big enough for any third party to want to develop for. Now the decision making part of development is which do you lead your development on? Is it easier to lead with the most powerful, both in terms of AI and graphics, i.e. PS3 and then just remove part of the functionality for the processors that aren't quite as strong? I would imagine that's very much part of the thought process now from a studio development point of view."
VideoGamer astutely points out that EA's Mirror's Edge leads on PlayStation 3, but looks pretty damn good on the Xbox 360.
"We're already seeing multi-format titles being lead on PS3, including the great looking Mirror's Edge from DICE, but judged on the released demo the game still looks marginally sharper on Xbox 360."
Now let's to a bit of analysis!
The Mirror's Edge example points out how simple Maguire's comments are. The issue isn't nearly as cut and dry as he makes it out to be. Certainly there will be some games that play out precisely like he suggests -- leading on PS3 and being downgraded for Xbox 360. However, there are so many factors involved with game development that it's not as basic as saying, "I will lead on Super Powerful Console, ergo my version for Not As Super Powerful Console will be downgraded (i.e. inferior)."
In the case of Mirror's Edge, the main culprit of (relative) parity is Epic's Unreal Engine 3. Certainly Mirror's Edge looks great on PlayStation 3, but it's hardly surprising that the Xbox 360 version looks just as impressive since that console has had better results with the engine. There are superior looking Unreal Engine 3 games for Xbox 360 (Gears of War 2) than PlayStation 3. Some might argue that Gears is an unfair example since it was developed by Epic, but that just furthers the point that bleeding-edge applications for that engine have appeared on Xbox 360 first.
Even the example I used is oversimplified. There are too many reasons why Maguire's example would not hold true. Oh well, at least it adds some mild trash talking to the console wars.
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America's most 'Christmas-y' towns
Published On: Dec 09 2011 12:29:40 PM PST Updated On: Dec 23 2015 11:00:00 PM PST
Take a look at the towns that take Christmas very seriously -- from over-the-top light extravaganzas to the classic and quaint.
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How to spot red flags on a property
Some say you can't judge a book by its cover.
Up the ante and the same can hold true for a home. Getting beyond the wow factor and into the nitty gritty of the less glamorous parts of the home such as the roof, furnace and foundation can make or break a real estate deal. During an open house or walk through, keep in mind that paint color, flooring and other cosmetic items can be changed. Don't overlook subtle things that could signal a larger problem.
Take Note
Anthony Marguleas, broker, Realtor and owner of Amalfi Estates in Los Angeles and author of a forthcoming book called "Secrets and Myths of Real Estate," said to walk around the area before making an offer and take note of how other homes in the neighborhood are maintained.
Also on the exterior, he said to check the drainage on the property and condition of the home's gutters.
On the inside, Marguleas said, see if the windows and doors open and close easily because if they don't, it could be a sign of settling issues.
Take note of the smell inside the home. Is it musty?
Marguleas said that mold has become a hot-button issue, and the home's smell could indicate that. For instance, if there's a strong scent of air freshener, it is probably being using to cover something up.
Signs Of Problems
"Water is probably the No. 1 killer of a home," said Reggie Marston, owner and president of Residential Equity Management in Springfield, Va.
Marston, who is featured on HGTV's "The House Detectives" also said to look for large cracks that could be a sign of structural issues.
Another water-related red flag on a property is any signs of moisture in the basement, said Kathleen Austin Kuhn, president and CEO of HouseMaster in Bound Brook, N.J.
Kuhn said if water only trickles out of the shower because of poor water pressure, it could indicate serious plumbing problems.
She said that if the buyer sees a lot of extension cords, that means the outlets are being overused, which could stress the electrical system.
Checking out high-ticket items such as the roof can help spot warning signs. Kuhn said if the roof is bumpy and curled, it could be an indication of an old roof.
Buyers' observations are not the only way to get insight about possible problems with the property.
Seller's Secrets
Kuhn said that red flags should be raised anytime a seller is less than flexible on what areas of the home the buyer can access or if the seller is resistant on any service request, such as when was the furnace was last serviced.
Marston said that if the buyer asks the seller direct questions and the seller does not answer directly and skirts the issue, then there's probably something wrong.
Buyers and sellers might want to hire their own home inspectors to get both an education about the home and spot any problems that can't be seen without a trained eye.
Marston said that home inspections are important -- whether the house is newly built or an existing home --if the buyer isn't knowledgeable about the house or doesn't have $100,000 in the bank to spend on repairs.
Experts stressed that sellers should get their home inspected before putting it on the market. Marston added that it gives the seller an opportunity to get any problems corrected.
Home inspectors are not only there to look for defects in the home. The inspection is meant to be a learning process for the buyer or seller so they know where things are, such as the water shutoff valve.
"The inspector is really the critical person. You need to inspect the inspector," Kuhn said.
She said home inspectors' credentials are critical. In 33 states, there is some form of regulations for inspectors; however, they can fall short and vary in criteria.
Kuhn said the inspection should take about two to three hours and the focus is on the major elements of the house. A professional home inspector will check a representative number of electrical outlets, for example.
Kuhn said home inspectors should encourage buyers or sellers to accompany them during the inspection and to take down their own notes.
New Home Tips
For new homes, Marston suggested more than one home inspection as the home gets built.
Have an inspection before the drywall is installed on studs and then before water or electric are installed, and then again on the final walk-through of the home.
New-To-You Home
On homes that are not new, Marston said to have a three- to 10-day window for the home inspection prior to buying. He said then if the inspector encounters many issues, he or she can do an addendum inspection to see if items have been corrected.
Inspector Inspection
Warning signs with home inspectors should be if they are not taking notes during the walk-through. Kuhn said that good inspectors use computer-generated reports.
"The inspector does not want to rely on their memory," she said.
She said another warning sign is if they are taking shortcuts when checking things. She said an inspector should make a good effort to get into obstructed areas, such as crawl spaces.
Tom Kraeutler, host of the syndicated radio show and podcast called "The Money Pit" in New Jersey, said that consumers might not want to take the recommendation of their real estate agent when it comes to hiring a home inspector, to ensure fairness in the inspection.
"Watch out for inspectors that do repairs," he added. "Never hire an inspector who's in construction."
They may have motives to bulk up repairs to increase their income.
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BARRE Violet M. Morway, 93, died Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, at the Rowan Court Health & Rehabilitation Center in Barre.
She was born May 24, 1919, in Fletcher, the daughter of Gordon and Rose (Meacham) Flood.
She attended school in East Fletcher.
On Jan. 1, 1938, she married George Morway in Jeffersonville. Following their marriage, they made their home in Johnson, before moving to Barre. He died in 1969. In 1992, she moved to the Avery Apartments in East Barre.
She worked at the former Rock of Ages Capacitor Plant and the former Sprague Electric Company, both in Barre, from 1948 until her retirement in 1973.
In earlier years, she attended the Hedding United Methodist Church in Barre.
She enjoyed playing bingo, crocheting, reading, fishing, and going to flea markets and lawn sales.
Survivors include a daughter, Evelyn Bell of Barre; four sons, Larry Morway of Barre, Alton Morway of Washington, Ernest Morway of Montpelier, and Donald Morway of Hardwick; 26 grandchildren; 43 great-grandchildren; and 18 great-great-grandchildren; a sister, Elsie Dubois of Graniteville; two brothers, Raymond Flood of Barre, and Leland Flood of Braintree; nieces and nephews.
Besides her husband, she was predeceased by six brothers, Albert Flood, Dave Flood, Melvin Flood, Ralph Flood, Richard Flood, and Lawrence Flood.
The funeral service will be held Monday, Feb. 4, 2013, at 7 p.m. in the Hooker and Whitcomb Funeral Home, 7 Academy St., Barre. Friends may call at the funeral home from 6 p.m. until the time of the service.
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Members of the Armed Citizen Project said they are looking to arm locals with shotguns in an effort to stop crime.
The group's members have been going door-to-door in the Sunshine Gardens area, leaving fliers on homes to advertise free shotguns.
"No. I would not need to have a shotgun," Robin McLaughlin said.
McLaughlin has lived in the neighborhood for 25 years and said she does not see a need to arm Sunshine Gardens residents.
Ron Ritter, the program director for the state of Florida, said he hopes the group works with gun manufacturers and dealers to give free or discounted guns to homeowners.
"This is perfectly legal, permitting guns to be handed out," Ritter said.
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25 'true ghost' photos
Published On: Sep 26 2011 10:03:47 AM PDT Updated On: Oct 04 2011 12:03:00 AM PDT
A few full moons ago, we asked for your personal ghost photos. Here are 25 of the creepiest.
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