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- 1877 - The First Telephone Line
- 1879 - The First Telephone Exchange
- 1895 - The Pryor Street Office
- 1899 - A Second Telephone Company
- 1905 - Growth and Competition Continues
- 1919 - The End of Competition
1877 - The First Telephone LineIn 1877, the first telephone line in Atlanta was a private line connecting the Western and Atlantic Freight Depot with Durand's Restaurant in the Union Passenger Station. At each end of the telephone line was a Box Phone.
The box phone was a wooden box with one hole for both talking and listening. To use it, you had to pick it up and yell into it, then move it to your ear to listen. There was no signaling device like a bell or buzzer to get the person's attention at the other end. People would sometimes tap a pencil against the diaphragm or just yell.
The person on the other end had to be nearby to hear it. This was more like a very crude intercom system than a telephone.
The telephone was a new invention. The Bell Telephone Company had not yet formed and A.G. Bell and his associates were installing these point-to-point private lines around the country. For some of these, the customer's privately owned telegraph line was used for the telephone circuit. In other cases, a telegraph line was leased from Western Union.
1879 - The First Telephone ExchangeIn 1879, the first telephone exchange in Atlanta was opened. The company at this time was The National Bell Telephone Company.
The exchange was called The Atlanta Telephonic Exchange. It was located in a single room on the top floor of the Kimball House, a hotel on the corner of Wall and Pryor streets.
The first switchboards in most cities around this time were on the top floor of a building so that the wires could easily be strung out of the building to telephone poles.
The Atlanta Telephonic Exchange consisted of a small, single switchboard which handled about 25 lines. Most of the lines were shared party lines with 2 or 3 subscribers. So there were over 60 subscribers. The first telephone operators were teenaged boys.
There were no telephone numbers at first. The operator memorized the names of the subscribers and everybody asked for each other by name. This became impractical as the number of subscribers increased, resulting in the use of telephone numbers.
By 1882, the company name had become American Bell Telephone Company. Soon after that, Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company was formed.
Over the next 12 years, the telephone office in the Kimball House expanded several times and experienced tragedy on at least two occasions. On August 12, 1883, the hotel caught fire and was completely destroyed. Following reconstruction, the New Kimball House opened with a new switchboard. Several years later, another fire destroyed the switchboard, but the building was saved.
Early TelephonesTelephones connected to The Atlanta Telephonic Exchange were of the "magneto" type. The first one of these was the Butterstamp phone.
Like the Box Phone, this phone had a combination receiver/transmitter. The phone is named after the hand-held piece that looked like a butter stamp that was common at the time. You had to talk into it and then quickly place it to your ear to listen. The white button was used to signal the operator.
The Butterstamp phone transmitted sound very poorly. It was soon replaced by the first magneto crank phones with the newly invented Blake Transmitter.
The "Three Box Phone" consisted of three wooden boxes on the wall with a hand-held receiver, a Blake Transmitter, a magneto crank, and a battery box. To place a call, you turned the crank to ring the operator, then picked up the receiver. The operator would then answer. You gave the operator the name of the party that you wanted and the operator connected you.
At the end of your call you had to signal the operator to disconnect the call. To do this, you had to hang up the receiver and turn the crank to produce a short ring. This was called "Ringing Off".
In the magneto phone, two large batteries were used to power the transmitter. A telephone company employee had to visit every telephone to replace the batteries about every six months. The first batteries were wet cells, containing corrosive acid, which would occasionally leak. Later on, dry cells were used.
In 1884 there were about 370 telephone subscribers served by the Atlanta Telephone Exchange and a telephone exchange also existed in Decatur. A call from Atlanta to Decatur was long distance. The charge was 15 cents for 5 minutes.
By this time, the switchboard had probably been expanded considerably. Although the details about Atlanta at this point are unknown, in other cities with a similar evolution, larger switchboards were built. These larger switchboards required a coordinated effort between multiple operators to complete each call. In the New Haven, Connecticut office, for example, there was a system of metal bars running horizontally across the room. One operator would connect the caller to one of these horizontal bars and then shout orders down to another operator, who connected the called subscriber to the same bar. The shouting apparently made it hard to hear customers and resulted in customers having to shout as well.
Around 1887, to solve some of these problems, the "multiple switchboard" was invented. This arrangement repeated each subscriber's line jack multiple times so that it appeared in front of each operator, allowing a single operator to connect a call to any subscriber in the office. Early versions of this system had problems too. For example, it was difficult to tell when a particular line was in use before connecting a call to it.
When an operator answered a subscriber's call, at first there was no standard phrase in use and answered varied. "Hello!" was commonly used. Later on, "What Number?" became more common and in some places they answered "Central!".
On February 2, 1890, the first long distance line to Chicago was completed. It was now possible to call Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Indianapolis, and Pittsburgh. At this point, there was no long distance service to the Northeast or the West.
1892 - Pryor Street Central Office
After having outgrown the switchboard at the Kimball house and after enduring 2 fires there, Southern Bell constructed a new central office building at 78 South Pryor Street. The new building, completed in 1892, housed Southern Bell Headquarters, Atlanta's Main central office, and the Atlanta toll switchboard. Operators on the Atlanta toll switchboard handled long distance calls originating in Atlanta and surrounding communities and calls coming in from distant points and terminating in the Atlanta area.
Around this time, as in other cities around the country, it was determined that the boy operators were rude and that young ladies made much better operators. The operators were sometimes called "telephone girls" or "hello girls".
Around 1895, the Bell System adopted the standard "Number, Please!" as the appropriate way to answer a switchboard as procedures and practices for telephone operators began to be formalized. Training for telephone operators by the Bell System became a very serious matter. Operators were trained on how to sit and how speak correctly. They were taught to look straight ahead, not to look around the room and not to talk to each other. When talking to customers, operators were only allowed to use a limited set of phrases. Please and Thank You were considered very important. Customers could be very abusive at times. But no matter how rude or insulting a customer was to the operator, she was always required to say Thank You.
One of the most interesting things that came out of operator training that lasted in to the 1950s was the exaggerated pronunciation of certain words. Since early telephone lines were noisy, this was considered necessary. The word please was supposed to be pronounced "pleeyazz", the number nine was to be pronounced "niyun", and the word line was "liyun".
Overhead WiresAt first, all telephone lines consisted of individual wires strung down the street on telephone poles. The mass of wires cast a shadow over the streets in many cities during this period. It was several decades before telephone cable was introduced.
The first lines used a single wire for each telephone line. This was known as the grounded system since the earth was used as the return path. These lines were particularly noisy, picking up electrical noise from power lines, adjacent telephone lines, telegraph lines, streetcars, and machinery.
The noises were sometimes unbearable, consisting of hissing, screeching, bubbling, clicking, and many other sounds that made conversation hard to hear.
The grounded system was later replaced with the metallic system, using two wires per telephone line. This eliminated most of the noise.
1899 - A Second Telephone Company
In 1899, a second telephone company began service, competing with Southern Bell. The new company was initially called The Atlanta Standard Telephone Company but later dropped "Standard" to become The Atlanta Telephone Company. The new company promised lower rates and better service than Bell. Advertised rates for unlimited service were $36 per year a business line and $24 for a residential line.
Duplicated ServiceThe two competing companies did not provide interconnecting service. You could only call other customers served by the same company. This forced most retail businesses to have dual service, listing both telephone numbers on their advertising. Some businesses managed to get the same telephone number on both systems. Others had completely different numbers on the two systems.
An ad for Loftis Plumbing shows that they could be reached on Atlanta Telephone's exchange by asking for number 1184. On Southern Bell's system, they were on the Main office, number 1846. Some businesses, such as Williams Lumber had the same telephone number on both systems. This type of competition was very common during this period in cities throughout the United States and Canada.
Atlanta Telephone's first central office was opened at 104 Edgewood Avenue.
The Candlestick PhoneThe candlestick phone, also called the "upright" was using during this period. This was before the introduction of the one piece handset. For the candlestick transmitter to work properly, you had to hold the phone in an upright position.
The first candlestick phones were introduced when the magneto system was in use. This meant that the phone was connected to a large wooden box called a "subset" which contained the battery, bell, and magneto crank.
Party LinesMany telephones were on party lines. A party line was an arrangement where you shared the same telephone line with other subscribers. In cities, typically 2 or 4 residences or businesses shared a line. In rural areas, anywhere from 2 to 20 parties sometimes shared the same line, although 10 was the usual limit. All customers on the same line would have the same telephone number plus a letter to identify the individual customer. A person's number might be 357-J.
In most cases, Southern Bell used the letters J and L for two-party lines and J, M, W, and R for four-party lines. Sometimes "-2" was used to identify a party line subscriber. Atlanta Telephone used letters A, B, M, and F. It is unknown today what the significance of these letters were and why they were chosen.
There were a few rural lines connected to the Atlanta exchange. These were lines strung out into remote areas and probably had more parties on them than normal city lines. Southern Bell designated rural lines with a telephone number followed by "R" and the party number.
There were several systems invented for ringing an individual on a party line. The earliest and simplest system was called "coded ringing". Each party had a distinct ringing pattern. For example, one party might be instructed to listen for "two short rings". Everyone on the party line heard the ringing and had to listen for his or her assigned ringing pattern, while ignoring everyone else's. At first, the operator was responsible for generating the ringing codes by flipping the ringing key in the required pattern.
On the first telephone lines, using the single wire, grounded system, coded ringing was the only system available for signaling parties on a party line. When the two-wire metallic system later took over, a refinement was possible. By connecting half of the subscriber's ringers between one of the two wires and a ground wire and connecting the other half of the subscriber's ringers between the other wire and a ground wire, it was possible to selectively ring one half or the other by applying ringing voltage to the correct wire. This was known as "divided ringing" and was controlled by the use of keys on the operator switchboard.
With divided ringing on a two-party line, each party heard only his own rings. On a four-party line, each party heard his own ring plus the rings belonging to one other party. This was called "semi-selective ringing".
Other more elaborate ringing systems were also used. One system, known as "polarized" or "superimposed" ringing, used the divided ringing technique plus positive and negative DC voltages to select between four parties. This provided for fully selective ringing on four-party lines or semi-selective ringing on eight-party lines.
The "North" OfficeIn 1900 Southern Bell opened the North office on North Avenue in what is known as Midtown today. Customers on the north side of town were given "North" numbers.
Using Telephone Company terminology, the term "Exchange" means an entire city or local calling area. Using this definition, the entire metro Atlanta area is one exchange. The individual switching centers inside the city such as the Pryor Street office are called "Central Offices" or "Offices".
Common Battery ServiceAround the turn of the century, the magneto system with its cranks and batteries was being phased out. By this time, The Bell System had introduced the Common Battery Switchboard. The new system placed the power supply in the central office and eliminated the need for batteries in the subscriber's telephone. The crank was also eliminated. When you wanted to place a call, you would simply pick up the receiver and wait for the operator. When you finished your call, you could just hang up. You no longer had to crank again to signal the operator to drop the connection.
The standard telephone instrument was still the candlestick phone, which still required a subset. The subset contained the ringer and an induction coil. But the crank and batteries were no longer required and the subset could be mounted on the wall and out of the way.
After the invention of the common battery system, magnetos were phased out in most cities but continued to be used for many decades in rural areas.
1905 - Growth and Competition ContinuesAs the city grew and new central offices were opened, each office was referred to by its location. When calling from one office to another, it was necessary to give the operator the name of the office plus the number. For example, you might have asked for Main 134 or Decatur 3357-L. Southern Bell offices at this time were Main, North, West, Decatur, and East Point. The East Point office was opened sometime between 1902 and 1905. The West Office was opened on Ashby Street in 1905. Also around 1905, Decatur was no longer considered a long distance call and had become part of the Atlanta Exchange.
The map shows the location of Southern Bell central offices in 1905. Atlanta Telephone Company's central offices were located in mostly the same places as Southern Bell's and served the same general areas.
Atlanta Telephone Company overtakes Southern BellIn 1905, Atlanta Telephone's main central office was moved to a bigger building at 75 Edgewood and the company's name was changed from The Atlanta Standard Telephone Company to Atlanta Telephone and Telegraph Company.
By 1915, Atlanta Telephone provided long distance service to Forest Park, Hapeville, and Mountainview. The toll charge was 15 cents for each 5-minute interval. Due to a lack of interconnection between independent companies like Atlanta Telephone and AT&T;, you would not have been able to call beyond this area on their system.
By 1909, Southern Bell and Atlanta Telephone had several thousand customers each with Atlanta Telephone serving the larger number. There is very little known about Atlanta Telephone today. It is not known what type of telephones and switchboards they used and whether or not customers were generally happy with the service or not.
In most cities where an independent telephone company like Atlanta Telephone provided competing local telephone service, the split was generally along social class lines. The less affluent people tended to have the less expensive service, provided by the independent company. The social elite tended to have Southern Bell service. This was probably due partly to Southern Bell's ability to provide long distance service over AT&T;'s long distance lines and the greater use of long distance by more wealthy people.
The Divided-Multiple SwitchboardIn the first few years of manual telephone service, a single operator could answer all of the calls in the central office and make the necessary connections. Then, in the late 1880s, the "Multiple Switchboard" was invented which allowed multiple operators to answer customer lines and complete calls. Then in the early 1900s, the "Divided-Multiple Switchboard" was placed into service.
The Divided-Multiple System split the handling of every call into two parts, requiring two operators, "A" and "B". When you picked up your phone to make a call, the "A" operator answered "NUMBER, PLEEYAZZ!". You gave the "A" operator the office name and number that you wanted. The "A" operator then pressed a key connecting her to a "Call Circuit" associated with a "B" operator who had access to the called line. She repeated the number to the "B" operator, who then rang the line. If the line was busy, the "B" operator notified the "A" operator who then notified the caller.
The "Ivy" OfficeIn 1908, Southern Bell opened a second new building downtown at 56 Marietta Street. This building housed a second central office called "Ivy" and became the new location of Southern Bell Headquarters.
The new Ivy central office served new customers in the downtown area. It appears that Ivy did not have its own territory but covered the same area as Main. Since there were now two offices in the Atlanta exchange, customers were required to state the name of the office being called, Main or Ivy. Prior to this, only a number was required unless you were calling Decatur, East Point, or West.
The relocation of Southern Bell Headquarters from 78 South Pryor to the new building meant that the Main office and the Atlanta Toll Board had room for growth.
Also in 1908, the North office was closed. Customers served out of that office were probably switched to the new Ivy office.
The "Hemlock" OfficeIn 1917, Southern Bell opened the new Hemlock Office on Crescent Avenue at Tenth Street just north of downtown. When it was finally removed from service in 1951, the Hemlock office ended up being Atlanta's longest-lasting manual office.
The Hemlock office would have had the latest technology available in 1917. At this point this would have been the Divided Multiple Switchboard using "Straightforward Operation" instead of Call Circuit Operation as before. Using this system, you gave the "A" operator the name of the office and the number you wanted. The "A" operator the plugged in to a trunk to the office desired and passed the number to the "B" operator over the trunk itself.
The new switchboard equipment also had automatic listening and automating ringing. This allowed "B" operators to handle calls faster. The equipment connected the "B" operator to the calling "A" operator automatically (automatic listening). When the "B" Operator plugged in to a customer line to ring it, the equipment rang the line automatically, returning an audible sound to the calling party. If the called line was busy, the "B" operator plugged the cord into a special jack that returned a busy signal to the caller.
It is not known exactly what the early ringing and busy signals sounded like. Early busy signal did, however, have a loud clicking component, "flash supervision", that was very irritating to callers. This was later removed.
1919 - The End of CompetitionIn 1919, Southern Bell bought out The Atlanta Telephone Company, bringing an end to competition and creating a single network for the entire city.
Businesses with dual service could now drop the extra expense of two telephones and everyone could now call everyone else. If you had dual service from both companies, you could simply drop your Atlanta Telephone line and save the added cost. If you were an Atlanta Telephone Company customer, you would be assigned a new telephone number on one of the Southern Bell offices. It is doubtful that Southern Bell would have provided customers of Atlanta Telephone with service at the same price. So some residential customers may have chosen to disconnect their telephone service.
The "Ivy-Walnut Building"In 1920, Southern Bell opened a new building at 25 Auburn Avenue. The building was initially referred to as the Ivy-Walnut Building. The building was constructed to house two central offices. The first office was the new Ivy office, replacing the original Ivy office in the 56 Marietta Street Building. The second was a new office called Walnut, which provided service for additional new customers in the downtown area.
The Main office continued to operate out of the South Pryor Street building and Southern Bell Headquarters remained at the 56 Marietta Street location.
Walnut served the same downtown area as Main and Ivy. So there were now three offices serving the same area. A business or residential customers in the Downtown area might have a telephone number on any of these offices.
By the end of 1920, Southern Bell had moved any remaining customers of the former Atlanta Telephone Company to its own central offices and closed the old Atlanta Telephone central office on Edgewood Avenue.
In 1921, there were 7 central offices in the Atlanta area.
The "Belmont" OfficeAround 1922, the new Belmont office was opened on the Northwest side. This office may have originally been the Atlanta Telephone Company's Chattahoochee office. This was the last manual office to be built. The age of dial service was about to begin.
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Executive chef Jamie DeRosa and his skillful team have prepped quite a menu (fit for a true Tudor, in fact) including Dessert Dim Sum and a Bloody Mary Cart. (Should've called it Bloody Mary Tudor Cart ... Any history buffs out there? ... Anyone?) Oh, and yes, as you've likely already guessed correctly, Rose' wine will be flowing generously.
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French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio was named this year's winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday. Le Clézio, whom the Swedish Academy fancifully described as an "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilisation," has written more than 20 novels since the early age of 23.
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Why would you take what I wrote out of context when it was right in front of you? I said no great writers in their prime, are you not able to read compound sentences?
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The fact that a French-man won the Nobel Prize for Literature will certainly annoy the anglophiles. After all, everyone now accepts that English is the international language.
I apologise for the satire, but speak as a native English speaker. Then, if English is unacceptable, on grounds of linguistic imperialism, what about Esperanto?
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So much of this discussion has centred on comments of Engdahl criticizing American writers - whereas in fact, they addressed American writing solely in relation to winning the Nobel prize. It is a fine but important difference, which I feel can help gain to avoid a misinterpretation of his statements. There is a major difference between the Nobel and other prizes which awarded solely for excellence, such as the Man Booker or Pulitzer, other than geographical limitations. It is to award writing not only of excellence, but in achieving higher ideals. Those ideals and values behind them are subjective, often affected by politics. The Nobel Prize has never claimed otherwise.
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Letter to Chief of Police
Sam: student security denied access to residents who lived in the dorms where parties were happening, suggestions: student security carry lists of residents
Blake: proposal is ridiculous, security can't be held accountable for such huge crowds and knowing who belongs where.
Sam: I should be able to get into my own room at any time period
Blake: talk to your RC so that those parties aren't held in your residence
Amy: Sam's proposal has its merit, people should be able to go to bed, there is no party space, so students are doing the school a service in living in spaces where TAP is held.
Alex: designated entrance for residents, so that one security monitor has to have a list of residents
Vote passed to send the letter, with the amendment that there should be a designated entrance for residents.
Ben: hasn't student security become more strict, is there a policy change?
Blake: everything is pretty much the same
Jesse: met with the trustees (trustee committee), Neuroscience, Sept 11, location of the new swing dorm…they will be revamping Millikan and it will hold 100 residents.
Honors Policies
Julie: reworking the honor system, will be 3 phases, get more information when we meet again in the future.
Update on the Library Bunker
Ben: Going to be tours in the Bunker, Nov.2 at 1pm, 2 vans going, each van holds 22 people, will send out an email.
Crew team vs SFC
Baker Franke: co-captain of men's crew team, upset about SFC policy.
SFC sent an email saying email was sent that budget from last spring wasn't sent in.
Crew team sent in a budget 3 times, $2500 was budgeted, needed for vans. SFC didn't allocate money for vans.
Crew team feels SFC rejected their funds because
a) They charge dues
b) Alumni
SFC isn't providing info about where the student activities money goes, there also isn't a sports sub-committee on the SFC and there should be a higher authority that appeals can be made to above the SFC.
George Alves: dues was not a reason for not giving them funding, we asked about alumni to get an understanding of what other sources of funding the club has access to. We allocated 64% of the funds this semester, which is the same amount that was allocated in Fall of 2000. SFC budgets are completely accessible upon request. The Student recently gained access to all the budgets, so if the request is there it is possible. This year more money has been allocated to clubs that any other year.
Michelle: There is a request being made for the SGO to review the SFC, the committee will include the members of the e-board (minus Will due to conflict of interest), and Sam Haynes the advisor to the SGO.
Baker: please expedite the procedure because we need money.
Michelle: cool, SFC does there own financial appeals, SGO can address the notion of SFC not following policy, procedure. we will do that via the committee and Sam Haynes, we will then discuss it, and provide a recommendation to the senate.
Catie: would the crew team drop their charge against SFC upon getting their money on appeal
Baker: no, we are coming to the SGO as concerned students.
Michelle: Not fair that SFC must be supporting teams such as crew and ski team, when these teams are varsity sports at other schools, crew has done an amazing job finding funds.
The whole point of this tiered process in SFC is to make sure that money is flowing, this is because the worst thing is having money sitting around when other clubs could need it.
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A DORCHESTER mum will wade through mud, ice cold water and even fire to thank the services that helped her son through a cancer battle.
As reported in the Echo, Rian Harvey, now aged 15, was diagnosed with myeloid leukaemia last year.
He received 'first class' treatment at both Dorset and Southampton hospitals and is now in recovery.
Now mum Sarah George and five of her friends will take on the Tough Mudder challenge tomorrow to raise vital funds to help other children in similar situations.
The proceeds from sponsorship will go towards children's treatment at both hospitals as well as the Steve Charles Help a Friend Fund, which raised money for Rian's family.
Although the challenge is tough, the group of friends have been training hard and feel confident for the course.
Sarah said: "It's not only a physical challenge but a mental one.
"There are a lot of obstacles you wouldn't get in a normal assault course. Twenty-two per cent of people don't complete it. But we aren't going to be in that twenty-two per cent.
"We started training in January and do three early-morning sessions a week. We're doing strength training as well and a lot of running. We are ready – it's mind over matter.
"Yes, it will be tough but when I think of what Rian went through and how positive he was throughout his treatment – if he can go through that, we can do this."
The event, taking place at Cirencester Park tomorrow, involves a 26-obstacle course including 'Fire in Your Hole' and 'Pyramid Scheme' designed to push mind, body and team spirit to the limit.
As previously reported, Sarah spoke out to warn other parents to be on the lookout for signs of the illness.
Initially, the family believed Rian had a hamstring injury and was feeling lethargic, which they thought might just be due to him being a teenager.
But an X-ray at Dorchester's A & E department showed it was acute myeloid leukaemia.
Following months of treatment, Rian is thankfully in remission. He will see his consultant again in October and his future looks bright.
Sarah described him as a 'fun-loving, talkative, lovely boy.' Today, she tells the Echo: "You could look at him now and not know that anything had happened. He's an inspiration for us to get through this challenge."
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Tottenham moved further away from the Premier League relegation zone after beating Hull on Monday.
Aaron Lennon opened the scoring for Spurs at the KC Stadium, before Michael Turner equalised for the home side before the half hour mark.
But Jonathan Woodgate was Tottenham's hero, scoring in the 86th minute to secure their 2-1 victory.
Harry Redknapp's side picked up three points to move five points clear of the drop zone.
Redknapp said: "They made it difficult in the first half, they worked their socks off and were always a big threat at set plays.
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Hull have only won one match in their last 17 league matches.
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Tuesday, 11 July 2017
An entrepreneurial student was inspired to start his own business after his mother suggested he and his housemates needed to hire a cleaner.
Stalking victims being failed, says research by University academics
Wednesday, 05 July 2017
Victims of harassment and stalking are being left at risk because of failings by police and prosecutors in England and Wales, research by academics at the University of Worcester has found.
Herefordshire Mum Fulfils Ambition to Work in Hospital Where She Was Born
Tuesday, 04 July 2017
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A Labor government would create a National Sustainability Council to set long-term goals for areas such as river health, greenhouse gas emissions and coastal development as part of wider reforms to ensure the environment remained at the forefront of government decision making.
Announcing the policy in Adelaide, Labor's environment spokesman, Kelvin Thomson, said the plan would "set Australia on a path towards sustainability and endeavour to ensure that we pass this beautiful country on to our children in as good a condition as we found it".
The overarching environment policy builds on announcements already made in the campaign, including enough water to return the Murray Darling river system to health and a pledge to save much of Tasmania's old-growth forests from logging.
On the same day that the Prime Minister, John Howard, launched his forests policy, Mr Thomson urged voters to consider Labor as the best party to manage the environment.
"We have urged the Howard Government to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, called for an increase in the renewable energy target and campaigned to save the Murray River through a major injection of environmental flows," he said.
The National Sustainability Council would be a statutory body supported by its own policy unit within the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet.
It would set goals for 2020 and 2050 in environmental areas such as river health, native vegetation and coastal development.
Mr Thomson also committed a Labor government to maintaining the existing Natural Heritage Trust, the Coalition's main treasure chest of environment funding since 1996.
But Mr Thomson said the priorities of the trust would change to focus on World Heritage areas, wetlands, invasive pests and to develop catchment management plans for all wetlands and coastal waters threatened by pollution.
Labor would also allocate $45 million over three years to establish a system of "wildlife corridors" that would help address the loss of native plant and animal species.
A further $20 million would be used to set up a national revolving conservation fund to buy land of environmental significance, put a conservation covenant on it and then sell the land on the open market.
Labor would create an Oceans Act and pursue sustainable fishing targets.
The executive director of the Australian Conservation Foundation, Don Henry, welcomed the package, saying that if it was properly funded it would "herald a new era of environmental and economic reform for Australia".
"By tackling inefficiency and waste in our use of water, energy, land and oceans, we can achieve substantial productivity gains, stimulate knowledge and innovation, improve people's health and protect our environment," Mr Henry said.
A Greenpeace campaigner, Gareth Walton, urged Labor to make greenhouse gas emission reduction targets the first priority for the National Sustainability Council.
"Australia will not be protected from climate change without at least 60 per cent reductions in greenhouse pollution by 2050," Mr Walton said.
"The ALP should commit to such a target before the election and announce that, if elected, the first thing its new National Sustainability Council will do is develop a plan to meet this target."


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New York City Kenneth A. Macke, who served as chairman and CEO of Dayton Hudson Corp. from 1984 to 1994, died Saturday in Napa, Calif., from complications associated with Parkinson's disease. He was 69.
Macke joined Dayton's in 1961 as a merchandise trainee and began a 33-year career in retailing, rising through the ranks to head merchant positions at Dayton's and Target. In 1976, he was named president and CEO of Target, and in 1977 was named chairman and CEO of Target. During that time, Target grew from 49 stores in 9 states to 137 stores in 16 states and became the corporation's top profit-maker.
In 1981, Macke was elected president of Dayton Hudson Corp., and in 1983 became CEO. Under his leadership, the company grew from 350 stores to 909 stores in 33 states and revenues more than doubled to over $19 billion. Among his greatest accomplishments was the growth of Target.
Macke's commitment to provide opportunities for women and minorities brought national recognition to Dayton Hudson. He was named by many publications and groups as one of America's best managers.
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Driven by shock, revulsion and a deep sense of shame, Metro Vancouverites drifted downtown after last year's Stanley Cup riot. They cleaned up after the louts, and they scrawled bathroom gra ffiti-sized bits of philosophy onto the plywood boards that had been installed over broken glass windows of businesses such as the Bay and Future Shop. "Humanity is an ocean," read one of the countless messages. "If a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."
A year after the riot of June 15, 2011 – sparked by a Vancouver Canucks' Game 7 loss to the Boston Bruins in the Stanley Cup final – 15 of these boards are installed at the Museum of Vancouver. The exhibition, Reading the Riot Boards, adds to the canon of cultural response to riots in Vancouver, works which include theatre pieces and one of the city's most provocative works of public art.
"Great art happens where there's a real sense of a large question and a large feeling of mystery and a large question of 'Who are we?' " says playwright and director Amiel Gladstone. "And I think the riot happening in the middle of our city by our own citizens really raises all of those questions."
The MOV immediately recognized the importance of the so-called riot boards, seeking to acquire them for its collection within a week of the incident.
"It was kind of a no brainer," says Hanna Cho, MOV's curator of engagement and dialogue. "It quickly became apparent that these would be really special, and part of Vancouver's history."
There are earnest messages from a Grade 6 class ("There is always next year. Why riot?"); notes in other languages; a drawing of the instantly-viral kissing couple inside a big red heart.
And one riot board declaration – "Creativity is the only solution to destruction!" – rings true for a number of Vancouver-based artists.
Writer and actor Kevin Loring ( Where the Blood Mixes) saw an opportunity to explore Vancouver's riot mentality in his commission to contribute to Pi Theatre's Visions of Vancouver project, part of the commemoration of the city's 125th anniversary. Loring created a short audio play (recorded live before an audience and available online) that looked at the riot from a number of perspectives, including a teenage hockey fan, a police officer, an immigrant who takes her two young sons downtown to watch the game, and a woman who joins the frenzy and steals a bunch of designer handbags.
"It was a group event, it was a mob event and I really think the only way to really [express] that is to have those four characters speaking about their own experience separately as though they're being interviewed, but finishing each other's lines and at some places saying the same line in unison," Loring said from Banff this week, where he's attending the Banff World Media Festival. "To get that sense that it's a communal thing. It was a group thing. And we were all a part of it."
He titled his play The Thin Veneer, and as Loring wrote it, he kept coming back to the same image: "I liken it to the Leviathan; it's like a million-pound monster with 10,000 eyes looking at itself doing this thing. It's that group monster that when people get together as these masses, they behave as one large monster taking over the city."
This is not the only theatre work to emerge in the year since the riot. Gladstone was involved in the creation of the play #ThisismyVancouver just weeks after the riot with a student group at Arts Umbrella, and a staged reading of Mark Leiren-Young's Basically Good Kids, written after the Penticton riot, which occurred during the Okanagan town's 1991 Peach Festival.
"What was really both scary and compelling was how apropos it was," says Gladstone, of Basically Good Kids, in light of the Vancouver riot a decade later. "It was so right on."
But probably the most iconic riot-related artwork in the city is Stan Douglas's magnificent Abbott & Cordova, 7 August 1971. The large-scale photo mural is installed at the SFU Woodward's building in the Downtown Eastside, steps from the intersection referenced in its title.
"The photograph has produced an image of something that could easily be forgotten," Douglas says in an interview published in the book Stan Douglas: Abbott & Cordova, 7 August 1971. "It consolidates hearsay into a picture that will hopefully produce more hearsay and a conversation about history – as opposed to the way that, for instance, a sculpture of a general on horseback is supposed to do, but doesn't."
Indeed, when it was installed in 2009, the work – one of four in Douglas's Crowds & Riots series – re-ignited discussion of the 1971 Gastown Riots, sparked when police moved in on what by all accounts was a peaceful hippie "smoke-in" organized by the local alternative weekly, the Georgia Straight.
In a way, it's a billboard advertising history. Abbott & Cordova was carefully constructed on a purpose-built set by an artist far-removed from the event it depicts: Douglas wasn't there and says he doesn't remember the riot, which occurred almost four decades before the work's 2009 installation.
The riot boards, on the other hand – granted: artifacts, not art – were created in the immediate aftermath by a generation that thrives on – demands, really – immediacy and the ability to chime in on a conversation.
Cho sees the boards – the museum has 76 of them – as a physical manifestation for the social media generation. "This became a very literal translation of that behavioural urge to express something," she says. "This was Vancouver's Facebook wall, in some sense."
Reading the Riot Boards is at the Museum of Vancouver until Sept. 23. A panel discussion ,"Is this Vancouver? Reflections on the 2011 Hockey Riot Boards" – in which Kevin Loring will participate – will take place Friday at 6:30 p.m.Report Typo/Error
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Because they're too busy terrorizing Americans abroad who have bank accounts: The IRS is Not Efficiently or Effectively Processing Identity-Theft Referrals, reports the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. From Tax Analysts (subscriber link):
The IRS failed to investigate thousands of reported identity theft cases because taxpayers failed to follow inconsistent and confusing instructions for submitting a form to report tax fraud, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration said in a report released October 3.
The IRS instructs individuals to use Form 3949-A, "Information Referral," to report suspected cases of tax fraud, but not identity theft. However, thousands of people have used the form to report identity theft cases because the instructions for the form are confusing, TIGTA said. Before May, the IRS did not have procedures in place for processing the Forms 3949-A that had been used to report identity theft, and in 2010 the IRS destroyed some 3,000 of the forms that had been used to report identity theft because there was no way to process them, the report says.
The explosion of identity theft has been the biggest IRS problem under Commissioner Doug Shulman's watch. Yet he has neglected and bungled the response to the thievery of up to $5 billion annually from the taxpayers so he could botch the "amnesties" for offshore bank paperwork foot-faults and build a new and useless preparer regulation bureaucracy. His term ends soon; the next Commissioner has a lot of repair work to do.
Jack Townsend has more: TIGTA Report on IRS Processing of Tips of Fraud
Brutal Assault on Reason watch. I hate campaign debates and won't watch them. I agree with Arnold Kling:
To me, political campaigns are not sacred events, to be eagerly anticipated and avidly followed. They are brutal assaults on reason. I look forward to election season about as much as a gulf coast resident looks forward to hurricane season.
But others have stronger stomachs:
Howard Gleckman, What Did We Learn from the Presidential Debate? Not Much.
TaxProf, Tax Whoppers in Last Night's Presidential Debate
TaxGrrrl, First Presidential Debate, 2012 – Live Blog and Romney Promises To Cut Taxpayer Funding For PBS (But Says He Still Loves Big Bird)
Anthony Nitti, Reactions To Obama Versus Romney; Round 1
Bad idea. The Romney campaign has floated a proposal to cap itemized deductions at $17,000 as a way to reduce tax rates. That's a bad idea for many obvious reasons. If you are going to do that, why even bother? Just have a $17,000 maximum standard deduction based on income. By eliminating the deduction for state taxes paid, it would be a big tax increase on pass-through businesses operating in high-tax states. William McBride at The Tax Policy blog gets it right:
Today Romney proposed to cap itemized deductions at $17,000, as a way to pay for his cut in personal tax rates. This is not sound tax policy, as it would complicate the code, and likely require a number of exemptions and other loopholes. For instance, how would legitimate business deductions be dealt with? Which ones are legitimate? … It would be better to eliminate entirely certain wasteful tax expenditures, while lowering rates.
Other coverage:
Robert D. Flach, LIMITING ITEMIZED DEDUCTIONS?
Martin Sullivan, Romney's Intriguing Idea (Tax.com)
Going Concern, What Are People Saying About Mitt Romney's Tax Deduction Cap Idea?
Kay Bell, Romney suggests overall itemized tax deduction limit of $17,000
In non-campaign news:
Peter Reilly, Navajo Nation Member Treated As New Mexico Resident For Income Tax Purposes
Trish McIntire, Kansas Taxing Business Losses
Jason Dinesen, Would a New Name Help Enrolled Agents? The new IRS "Registered Tax Return Preparer" designation can only be bad news for Enrolled Agents, whose much more stringent standards are little understood outside the professional world. Many taxpayers have no idea of the distinction between these IRS-awarded titles.
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Taking personal responsibility • Even if everybody agreed on a way for the American health care system to be reformed Obamacare, single-payer, free-market the fact is that the best insurance plans, the best hospitals and the best doctors won't be able to stem the tide of high costs and poor outcomes unless individual Americans start taking better care of themselves. This was Gov. Gary Herbert's message at the close of his 2012 Health Summit, and he's right. The governor said he would set a personal example by getting more exercise and kicking the soft drink habit, and he encouraged the rest of the state's workforce to do the same. Of course, that won't do a dang thing for uninsured Utahns who can't afford a doctor to administer chemotherapy or monitor their diabetes. But, it could create a culture where fewer people need those services.
A questionable appointment • Holly Richardson was for HB477 before she was against it. So were nearly all the other members of the Utah Legislature in early 2011, when the bill that was designed to gut the state's exemplary open-records law was rushed through, and signed by Gov. Gary Herbert, before a media and public outcry led to a repeal of the really bad idea. Now Herbert has named Richardson, a conservative blogger who has since left the Legislature, to the State Records Committee. That's the body that oversees the enforcement of the Government Records Access and Management Act and rules on conflicts between people who want records released and government agencies who want them kept sealed. Her devotion to the spirit and the letter of a law she once voted to eviscerate and then to restore will remain in question.
Talk about being stuck in traffic • Most traffic jams don't last 18 years. But that's how long Midvale Mayor JoAnn Seghini had to lobby and cajole members of the Utah Legislature, Utah Transportation Commission and the Wasatch Front Regional Council to get the funds to upgrade a long-neglected section of State Street, Salt Lake County's major artery between 6400 South and 8100 South. It was a stretch with no curbs, few sidewalks, bad lighting, but plenty of puddles and potholes, that discouraged traffic and development. It was a person-to-person effort that saw the mayor dragging regional planners out in the rain to show them how schoolchildren had to stand in the mud and be sprayed by passing cars. Now, with a $13.5 million upgrade completed, the street is wider, smoother, drains better and, Seghini hopes, will encourage businesses and customers to rediscover her community.


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Parini: Spring Poetry
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(Host) As spring comes to Vermont, writer, educator and commentator Jay Parini, recalls some of his
favorite lines of poetry about this glorious, if sometimes challenging,
season of rebirth.
(Parini) Poets have always found spring a special and inspiring, if challenging, time of year. Consider the anonymous Middle English poem that opens:
Summer is a-coming in,
Loud sing, cuckoo!
The seed grows and the mead blows,
And woodlands spring anew.
Loud sing, cuckoo!
There is such joy here, a sense of a nature unfolding, opening. I hear this note as well in another of my favorite poems, "Spring," by Gerard Manley Hopkins. It begins:
Nothing is so beautiful as Spring -
When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;
Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush
Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring
The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing;
The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush
The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush
With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling.
It's hard to beat that notion of the weeds, in wheels, shooting "long and lovely and lush." But spring also has a slightly unnerving side, as Shakespeare noted in his famous response to the season.
When daisies pied and violets blue
And lady-smocks all silver-white
And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue
Do paint the meadows with delight,
The cuckoo then, on every tree,
Mocks married men; for thus sings he,
Cuckoo, cuckoo: O, word of fear,
Unpleasing to a married ear!
Well, I've been married for more than thirty years, yet I'd like to think I can deal with the lady-smocks all silver-white. I actually look forward to them!
Perhaps the gloomiest response to spring is found in the opening of T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land," where he writes: "April is the cruelest month."
And in Vermont, mud season certainly does have its cruelties. Once, in April, I took some visitors to see the Robert Frost house in Ripton, and we got stuck in Frost's driveway in mud so deep it took a visit from Triple A to get us back on our way. Which brings me, of course, to Frost's "Mending Wall" in which he says "Spring is the mischief in me." I suspect that most seasons put the mischief into Frost, but he was particularly incited by spring. One of his earliest poems, in fact, is called "A Prayer in Spring." It begins:
Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day;
And give us not to think so far away
As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
All simply in the springing of the year.
I think we know what Frost meant by the notion of "uncertain harvest." We can't possibly know what we'll reap in months to come. Half the time, we don't even know what we've sewn.
But spring is also a season of resurrection - and it's no surprise that Easter falls during this strangely hopeful if precarious season. I'll just settle back with my Hopkins, affirming once again that "Nothing is so beautiful as spring."


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In Search of Las Vegas - Sociological Investigations beyond the Neon
Las Vegas is famous, and infamous, for repeatedly reinventing itself. The continual changes in tourism, architecture, and population, however, do not occur by the fiat of an invisible neon hand. Instead, the people who live, work, and play in Las Vegas constitute a dynamic and paradoxical culture that is entrepreneurial and nostalgic, liberal and conservative, honest and illusory. To find out what happens in Las Vegas, we need to search for it first. This exhibit is comprised of sociological studies about urban culture and urban demography in Las Vegas. The exhibit features visual representations of research conducted by University of Nevada, Las Vegas graduate students from Dr. Michael Ian Borer's Urban Field Methods Seminar (SOC 757) and Dr. Christie Batson's Urban Demography and Population Studies Seminar (SOC 717). Though the search for Las Vegas remains, especially as the city's culture, population, and built environment continue to morph, these studies provide a firm base to foster dialogues about what Las Vegas was, what it is, and what it can become.
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Profiles in Excellence is a feature presenting Auburn University faculty who have been honored by the university or nationally for the top level of achievement in teaching, research or outreach.
Auburn University faculty member Conner Bailey says he became concerned about the environment many years ago. Bailey's recent work as a professor has included social aspects of forestry and international work related to aquaculture and fisheries.
His first 10 years at Auburn University were spent examining the environmental injustices relating to the siting of solid and hazardous waste facilities in Alabama and the South.
Throughout his teaching and research, Bailey has encouraged students and faculty to look at things university researchers do that either foster or hinder a more fully democratic society.
In recognition of his success in his research and teaching, Bailey received the 2013 Auburn University Award for Excellence in Creative Research and Scholarship, the university's top research award. Bailey is one of two winners of the award for 2013; the other is Pradeep Lall in the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering.
"This award recognizes not only the performance of a single researcher but the focus and style of research in which I have been involved," said Bailey.
Most of Bailey's work and research is focused on the sociology of natural resources and the impact of technology on both resources and people. The issues of hazardous and solid wastes helped shape his views on environmental injustices. Bailey said that these injustices often were caused by the perversion of science and the institutionalized relationships of power that shapes natural resources and environmental policy.
"This award recognizes that I play well with others," said Bailey. "I pursued my research interests with teams of faculty and students."
Much of his research over his career has been directed toward forestry issues, particularly those consisting of technological and ownership changes. Bailey says he thinks that these changes are what have added to a legacy of rural poverty in Alabama.
"I have pursued these research interests as part of interdisciplinary teams of faculty and students, and to these colleagues I owe an enormous debt," said Bailey.
A professor of rural sociology in the College of Agriculture's Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology at Auburn, Bailey received his Ph.D. in development sociology from Cornell University in 1980.
An authority in rural sociology, Bailey joined the Auburn faculty in 1985. Before that he worked at the Marine Policy Center at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and at the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management. Bailey is now married to Lisa Brouillette and has two daughters, Rebecca and Rachel. Bailey said his daughters and wife are his biggest inspiration.
"My two daughters, Rebecca and Rachel, who have grown into intelligent and good hearted young women, have inspired me with their love and the potential they represent. My wife, Lisa, did more than her fair share in helping create the conditions that made this possible and for that she, too, has inspired me," said Bailey.
Bailey is also a recipient of these three recent awards: the Distinguished Diversity Research Award, Auburn University, 2008; Excellence in Research Award, Rural Sociological Society, 2007; and the Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence, College of Agriculture, Auburn University, 2007. He also received teaching awards from the College of Engineering at Auburn in 1994 and 1998 and recently served as president of the Rural Sociological Society from 2011-12.
Bailey said what he likes best about Auburn is that most of the serious researchers he knows are equally committed to their teaching.
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Last month we visited Tasmania for the first time.
We only had a weekend to explore the Launceston area. Tasmania is a small state and the Launceston area just a tiny dot on the map, yet there was so much to see and do.
It was stunning and has definitely inspired us to return for a much longer road trip around the whole of Tasmania.
I think it is a family road trip dream destination: stunning scenery, outdoor living, great produce, friendly people, and good wine for mums and dads.
On one afternoon we went for a scenic drive that took us to the foothills of the Great Western Tiers, through rainforest, countryside, small villages, alpine scenery and the great lakes of the Central Plateau Conservation area. Such a diverse and beautiful experience.
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C-P gets $103k to continue reading program
By FAITH HUFFMAN, News-Telegram News Editor
July 31, 2008 - Como-Pickton school has again received funding to allow the school district to continue the Reading First program. The $103,492 grant will continue efforts to improve reading skills in kindergarten through third grade.
"This allows us to have a Reading Coach and Reading Interventionist in grades K [kindergarten] through three," Assistant Superintendent Lydia Walden said. "It's a great program."
The program provides a reading interventionist and extra funding for materials to meet state and federal mandates and to update and replace curriculum. It also pays for a campus coach to make sure all requirement are being met, and a regional technical assistant. It also provides a support network with other coaches and guides to fulfill curriculum deadlines and paperwork associated with it. They network with other coaches at a monthly meeting. They also have reading technical assistants, when needed.
A director prepares data which is examined twice a month to make sure all students are progressing as they should.
"If they just gave us the money and training, there's no one ensuring we're accountable," said Sharon O'Brien, the reading coach. "With this, they supply a support person to make sure things are going as they should."
The program is implemented over a period of years, based on research, and requires the school designate a specified "uninterrupted, protected" time block every day specifically for reading. All students have reading at the same time block, with small group instruction "targeted at students needs based on data."
"It aligns curriculum so that we teach effectively, and you can't tell which group the students were in from one year to the next. This is more effective from the get-go," O'Brien noted. "Teachers have a lot of knowledge in their hearts. This curriculum allows them to look it up and back up that intuition."
The reading program is also beneficial as it can be adapted for students who have different learning styles. Several teaching and learning methods are implemented depending on needs, which are determined by assessment, data and tracking. The program also addressed ESL and bilingual students' needs, as well.
In essence, it provides the materials, staff, training, tracking, and also trains parents, provides digital resources to help students. The teaching philosophy is "I do it, we do it, you do it."
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Donora pair facing numerous charges
A Donora man facing numerous charges in a home invasion is recovering from injuries suffered during a violent confrontation police allege he initiated.
Robert Zaladonis Jr., 43, of 519 Castner Ave. was flown by medical helicopter to Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, where he was taken for injuries stemming from a fight Tuesday in the borough.
A hospital spokesman could not provide information on his condition or whether Zaladonis was still a patient there Thursday afternoon.
His wife, Heather Zaladonis, 34, also of 519 Castner Ave., was treated at Monongahela Valley Hospital in Carroll Township and later released.
Robert Zaladonis Jr. was charged with two counts of aggravated assault and one count each of burglary, criminal trespassing, discharge of a firearm into an occupied structure, and recklessly endangering another person.
Heather Zaladonis was charged with burglary, criminal conspiracy engaging, and hindering apprehension or prosecution.
According to police, the Zaladonises were sitting on their back porch shortly after 1 a.m. Tuesday when Michael Chaney walked through their yard on the way to the 519 Rear Castner Ave. home of Deaubre Lightfoot. Robert Zaladonis Jr. yelled, telling Chaney and his friends to stay off his property. The two men allegedly exchanged obscenities.
A few minutes later, the Zaladonises reportedly kicked in the front door of Lightfoot's residence and brandished a .45-caliber pistol. Inside the home, Zaladonis Jr. allegedly kicked and broke a glass coffee table in the living room. The Zaladonises left, but returned a second and third time, according to an affidavit of probable cause.
When the couple returned the third time, they apologized. But as he was shaking hands with Lightfoot, Jamie Lightfoot attempted to pass and bumped in to Robert Zaladonis Jr. Zaladonis allegedly shoved Jamie Lightfoot. Deaubre Lightfoot reportedly jumped Zaladonis, and a fight ensued.
Donora police Superintendent James Brice said Deaubre Lightfoot would probably not be charged.
"It was a very complicated situation," Brice said, "But if someone breaks into your house, you have a right to defend yourself."
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Roberts reflects on Oakmont, Round 1 play in Senior Players championship at Fox Chapel
A little more than 20 years ago, Loren Roberts had one of his most bittersweet weekends as a professional golfer.
Roberts, now 59, and his sweet putting stroke were right in the mix to win the 1994 U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club.
With just one PGA Tour victory under his belt — the 1994 Nestle Invitational — Roberts battled to the end with Ernie Els and Colin Montgomerie. Even an 18-hole Monday playoff wasn't enough, with Els and Roberts needing two additional sudden-death holes before Els claimed his first of four major trophies.
That day, Roberts almost could taste his first major victory in wound up in second place, or what remains his best finish in a major championship.
Back in western Pennsylvania on Thursday for the first round of the Senior Players Championship at Fox Chapel Golf Club, Roberts was quickly shaping up to be a major disappointment.
A drive down the middle of the fairway on No. 1 was negated by a three-putt bogey from within 20 feet. A hole later, the man nicknamed the "Boss of the Moss" uncharacteristically struggled on the green, three-putting again on No. 2 to save par.
"The start I got off to, I could've just cashed in," Roberts said. "You know, putting is kind of my deal, so when I consider that start, I consider it 2-over."
Instead, Roberts settled down, and the shots fell favorably. He birdied Nos. 5, 6 and 18 and didn't bogey again to finish with a 2-under-par 68 and stay within four shots of the Senior Players lead.
He also had the best day among 1994 U.S. Open playoff participants. Montgomerie jumped out to a 5-under front nine, but he bogeyed four of his final six holes to finish a shot back of Roberts.
Looking back on his star-crossed weekend at Oakmont, Roberts said his memories are positive, though much has changed in 20 years.
"(Oakmont club pro) Bob Ford's always nice to me and lets me come over and have dinner and walk around in the locker room," he said. "But I've gone over and gone around the golf course. It's a much, much harder golf course now."
And despite two Schwab Cups — earned in 2007 and 2009 — and four Champions Tour major championships to his credit since he joined in 2005, it has been a trying year for Roberts.
He ranks 48th on the 2014 Champions Tour money list and has finished in the top 10 just once in 12 starts.
But given his past in western Pennsylvania, Roberts remains optimistic he can stay in the hunt at Fox Chapel.
"I'm going to have to dial in a low one in the next couple days, that's for sure," he said. "It's a work in progress. I'm only 59 and I'm a work in progress."
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The crystal structure of a chemical is the shape of the crystal. There are several shapes of crystals. Sodium chloride is a cube. Copper sulfate is triclinic. Most things, even metals, have crystal structures. Some crystals fit more atoms in them than others. These crystals weigh more.