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For the past year, freshman Councilman Bruce Tatro has been telling associates an anecdote to illustrate the ways his predecessor, the outspoken Helen Huey, has allegedly tried to run District A behind his back. In recent months, however, the punch line to the tale has lost much of its humor for the thin, mild-mannered accountant and computer programmer.
Scant weeks after Tatro took office last January and began to organize his staff, Republican activist and Huey pal Toni Lawrence requested a breakfast meeting. When they met at the Jo Jo's at U.S. 290 and 34th Street, Tatro claims, Lawrence delivered a blunt ultimatum from the former councilwoman.
"Not too far into the conversation, Toni says, 'Either get rid of Maureen Mulrooney out of the district office or Helen finds someone to run against you next cycle,'" recalls Tatro, who professed to be stunned at the threat. "I just couldn't believe it. I thought, 'What in the world?' Just because I have Maureen Mulrooney helping me, what kind of vendetta is this?"
Mulrooney is a longtime neighborhood activist in Tatro's Spring Branch-area district and an early admirer and supporter of Huey when she ran against entrenched incumbent Larry McKaskle. Huey lost one race to McKaskle before she beat him, but then she and Mulrooney had a bitter falling-out over the establishment of a garbage transfer station in the area.
"As long as you do what [Huey] tells you to do, you're fine," says Mulrooney, speaking from long experience. "You cross her and all of a sudden you are her archenemy."
Tatro admits he was aware Huey and Mulrooney didn't get along, but he was shocked that Huey would declare war over her presence on his staff. "I knew there was some rub between the two of them. I knew they weren't exactly the best of friends. But I didn't realize it was that personal."
After the breakfast with Lawrence, Tatro says he called Mulrooney and asked her to keep a low profile, just to avoid provoking Huey. "I said, 'Look, Maureen, whatever there is between you [and Helen] I don't want to pour gasoline on the fire. Could you please kind of step down and help out on the side?'" According to Tatro, Mulrooney agreed. "You're right," she told him. "We don't need to pour salt on old wounds."
"That is absolutely false," retorts Lawrence after hearing Tatro's account of their talk. She denies ever mentioning Huey's name during the breakfast dialogue. According to Lawrence, she asked for the meeting because she was concerned that political neophyte Tatro did not understand the unique nature of the district office Huey had created.
"He couldn't get that information from any other Council person, because nobody else has a district office that functions like that," says Lawrence. "Helen paid for all the computers and stuff with her own personal campaign money. It was a great situation, and I wanted to explain to Bruce how that was. The only time I used Maureen's name was to say that maybe she wasn't the right person to go over there."
Regardless of whether Tatro's story about the breakfast threat is true, last month Lawrence announced she will challenge the District A incumbent next fall. Huey was unavailable for comment on this story, though she has previously denied recruiting Lawrence for the race. She has said she would support Lawrence "because we are friends."
The way Tatro sees it, Huey and Lawrence are more like Spring Branch political Bobsey Twins, and Toni wouldn't make the race without Huey's active encouragement.
" I have no question in my mind that the two are one," says the Councilman. "If you know the history behind Toni and Helen, they are super, super close." Tatro figures Lawrence's decision to challenge him is the follow-through on the threat she issued at Jo Jo's nearly a year ago.
"Huey wants Bruce to kowtow to her," says Mulrooney. "Helen, for some reason, thinks she should be mayor; she thinks she should still be running District A. She cannot let go. She cannot cut that umbilical cord."
A City Council aide confirms that Huey tried to undercut Tatro from his first days in office, and that she refused to react to numerous conciliatory overtures by her successor.
"That was something really rampant from early on," says the source. "You almost felt bad for Tatro, because she meddled a lot and it made things hard. Bruce tried to involve her, offering her things like a role in getting the Olympics, offering her an olive branch. But I don't think it was ever well received."
After months of trying to placate his nemesis and getting sand kicked in his face, Mister Mild has decided to take his own swings at Hammerin' Helen.
Helen Eggleston Huey, by all accounts, is not a person you mess with lightly. During her years on Houston City Council she fashioned an image as a scourge of the purveyors of urban blight in Spring Branch, a take-no-prisoners official. She was sued along with the city after she pressed municipal workers to raze apartment complexes in her neighborhood even as owners were trying to rehabilitate them. After Huey was removed as a defendant in one lawsuit, a jury decided against the city and awarded damages to the apartment owner.
The term-limited Huey, unable to stay on Council last year, became a mayoral candidate but failed to make the runoff. Tatro claims that Huey, in addition to scheming to run him out of office, continues to swashbuckle around City Hall as if she still runs District A.
According to Tatro, Huey pushes district capital improvement projects with city officials without notifying his office, and she lobbies for business interests without registering as a lobbyist as required by city ordinance.
Tatro said he found out about her meddling when a public works official, Gary Oradat, casually remarked that he'd met with Huey and her business client on December 11 to discuss several road extensions in the district. The projects are an extension of Alamo over Cole Creek with the construction of a bridge, and the lengthening of North Court.
"These are capital improvement projects, road extensions, not small things," explains an exasperated Tatro. "And in the scheme of things that is something the district Councilmember absolutely needs to be aware of."
After learning that Huey was lobbying for the road extensions, Tatro tried the diplomatic approach in a December 28 letter to Huey.
"Having been in business, I appreciate your endeavors in representing your clients' interests in city affairs," wrote Tatro. "As you may very well know, it is imperative that a district council member coordinate with the administration, public works, private development and residents with the timing and delivery of CIPs [capital improvement projects] in their area."
Tatro closed by appealing to Huey to notify his office when she pushed projects in the district on behalf of her business clients. Tatro sent a copy of the letter to Public Works officials, in a not-so-subtle signal that he did not appreciate their discussing city business with his predecessor without contacting him. According to the Councilman, Huey did not respond.
Tatro also says there is no question that Huey has engaged in lobbying at City Hall.
"She has been the business consultant on two tax abatements in my area," says Tatro. "Tax abatements and capital improvements projects and road construction stuff." To protest her continued work without registering as a lobbyist, Tatro fired off another letter to Huey two weeks ago that included a lobby registration form and an instruction brochure.
"The City Secretary has no current record of your lobbying registration form," Tatro informed Huey. "In light of your past lobbying of Public Works personnel ... to discuss possible construction projects for your business clients, and your discussions with personnel in the Finance and Administration regarding Tax Abatement applications, it may be necessary for you to file with the City Secretary."
In a final, thinly veiled jab at Huey, Tatro purred, "I appreciate your attention to this very important issue and you helping to create a more 'transparent government' process."
In a further turn of the screw, Tatro sent copies of that letter to City Attorney Anthony Hall, City Secretary Anna Russell and Public Works Director Jerry King, just to let everybody know what his nemesis was doing.
Huey clearly has an aversion to being tagged a lobbyist. "She seems to really not want to call herself a lobbyist," chuckles one City Hall observer. "That seems to be what's really going on. Maybe she has plans for something else politically and doesn't want to be identified that way."
In a workshop conducted by city lawyers after the lobbying ordinance passed, Huey stood up and asked whether talking to city officials about projects constituted lobbying. A city attorney advised her it would not fall under the ordinance."It's funny," observes a Council source. "Helen has a lot of friends in the legal department, and they seemed to be bending over backwards to give her the opinion she wanted."
Asked whether Huey's work on behalf of clients seeking tax abatements from the city constituted lobbying, one of the ordinance's architects, Councilman Chris Bell, opined that it would.
"You have to track the ordinance," notes Bell, "and if an individual is being paid more than $250 to lobby on a particular piece of legislation, and a tax abatement ends up before City Council, then that would fall within the definition."
Toni Lawrence figures Tatro's attacks on both her and Huey are simply to cover up his own inadequacies as a public official.
"There's just so many things he hasn't done as far as economic development, constituent services, and that's why I'm in this race, and those are the things I'm going to run on." Lawrence claims At-large Councilwoman Annise Parker has had to step in and do district chores after Tatro failed to handle them.
Warming to her new role as a municipal candidate, Lawrence declared that "Helen has nothing to do with the way that I feel.... If he wants to sling mud, I'm sorry, but Helen has nothing to do with this."
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Mulrooney has no doubt that the feud between Tatro and Huey will likely get a lot hotter before the next election. Huey, says her former friend, doesn't like to hear the word "no."
"It's not her office anymore," says Mulrooney, "but she wants to run the show. I think it's devastating that she's so fixated on herself that she cannot see the damage that she is doing to Spring Branch by dividing the community."
Whether computer nerd Tatro can hold District A against a verified type A personality like Helen Huey remains to be seen, but it guarantees great political theater at City Hall over the next ten months.
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OAKLAND, Calif., Sept. 11 (UPI) -- A California judge is weighing whether to allow a lawsuit against UC Berkeley school officials to proceed after a police crackdown on Occupy protesters.
The plaintiffs, a group of 29 protesters who say they were beaten and had their civil rights violated when campus police broke up their protest two years ago, are suing former University of California at Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau, former Police Chief Mitch Celaya and six other school officials.
The lawsuit seeks $15 million in damages, half in general damages and half punitive damages.
Judge Yvonne Gonzales Rogers in federal district court in Oakland heard arguments from the plaintiffs' lawyer but questioned whether there was specific evidence to allow the suit to go forward against the former university leaders. Though Rogers did not rule on the matter Wednesday, the Oakland Tribune said she seemed skeptical the evidence plaintiffs produced met the standard for a civil suit.
"These are significant allegations you are making about people," Rogers said. "It is incumbent on me to make sure you have facts about each individual, and you have lumped many of them together."
George Washington, a lawyer representing the protesters, said orders were given campus police to break up the protest by any means necessary and school officials -- and not just the police officers themselves -- should be held accountable for the incident.
"The police went above and beyond the call of duty to beat the hell out of people and the administrators need to take responsibility," Washington said. "If they are dismissed, we still have the police officers."


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Today we feature Keith Pyeatt and his novel Dark Knowledge. Keith lived in an isolated log cabin in Vermont for ten years. He entered that decade an engineer and came out of it a novelist. He won't say what happened in those rural woods that turned him, but it's easy to suspect it had something to do with things that go bump in the night. He writes paranormal thrillers.
Keith's published novels include Struck, Dark Knowledge, and Above Haldis Notch. A fourth novel, Daeva, is scheduled to be released in June 2014. All novels contain a strong paranormal element, well-developed characters, and a psychological bent.
What role do you believe speculative fiction plays in society?
Good speculative fiction--like a good night's sleep--provides an excellent getaway from reality. Just as things tend to look clearer in the morning, escaping into speculative fiction for a few hours gives your mind a rest and can add focus once you return to your life. Think about some of the wild scenarios and images our minds produce when they're set free to dream. I figure our minds must need that kind of release. Speculative fiction provides the same type of escape for the waking hours.
Why do you write in this genre?
I enjoy the extra leeway a paranormal element gives my imagination. I like the unusual threats I can force my characters to face. When I brainstorm ideas for a new novel, I always start with the paranormal element. Will this novel have an alternate world, a demon locked in a character's mind, the afterlife bleeding into character's normal lives, supernatural powers stolen from the spirits...? That's what gets me going until my character's motivations take over.
I read many genres, but I've always particularly enjoyed speculative fiction. I write what I enjoy reading the most.
How did you come up with the idea for Dark Knowledge?
I wanted to unleash my imagination by creating a strange, dangerous, and ever-changing world with no conventional limitations. I also intended to use temptation as a key element. I set the world inside the mind of a mentally challenged man who longed to be able to interact and reason like his friend. The mind-world could then tempt him with what he longed for the most: the means to improve his intelligence.
Almost immediately into writing the first draft, this crafty mind-world that I'd barely created took good and evil and wrapped them tightly together. I loved it. I revamped my plans to focus on this slightly warped version of the old "good vs. evil" theme. I refused to let the two extremes separate. If you took one, you got the other too, a restriction that led to many stressful dilemmas. So even though my original intent was to thread a temptation theme through this novel, it's the "good and bad together" theme that actually runs rampant throughout the story, manifesting itself in various ways. There's even a character, Lydia, who is the personification of that theme.
I had such fun!
What was your biggest challenge in writing it?
Much of the novel takes place in a group home for mentally challenged men and women, and my main character, Wesley, is mentally challenged. I wanted to portray him with compassion but not sugarcoat the guy. He's got a dark heritage, a darker destiny, a traumatic past, an uncertain future, and a mind that doesn't function as well as most. He's a fascinating, tormented man with an amazing inner compass, but it was difficult to write from his point of view and to nail the setting of the group home where he lives.
Among the people I turned to for help were my sister and her friend. They each had over ten years experience working with mentally challenged men and woman as well as with private group homes. Their experience, added to the little bit of direct experience I have, helped me be sensitive and real enough for my needs. I'm very happy with the result.
Oh, and this was the second novel where a character challenged me by refusing to go away. Stuart, a doctor who was meant to deliver bad news and then disappear, became a major character. Turns out I needed him, but adding a major character I hadn't planned on complicated my writing process.
What are you working on now?
I'm writing first draft on a novel with a working title Sirens of Sayhurn. The paranormal element in this one is also an alternate world, but it's quite different from the mind-world in Dark Knowledge. The only way to reach Sayhurn is to follow the call of its sirens, and they only lure people over to fill specific needs. It's a fun novel to write, full of passion, seduction, addiction, lust, greed, and even some romance. It has a very dark side, which, as always, is a nice contrast to the light.
About Dark Knowledge
With knowledge comes a dark destiny...
A whole new world beckons inside the mind of mentally challenged Wesley Henson, a world that offers him a gift he can't resist: knowledge. He carries bits of knowledge back to the physical world and returns for more, unaware of the dark instincts that come with them. The knowledge builds Wesley's intellect and gives him abilities he's never had before--to reason, to understand, even to heal a sick friend--but the instincts thrust him into an evil contest he can't yet understand, against opponents who have been trained to compete. And kill.
To survive, Wesley must keep moving forward. He fights for his life in two worlds while piecing together his mind, coming to terms with his heritage, and facing a terrifying destiny he almost escaped. The more he understands, the harder it becomes to tell good from evil. The greater his intellect, the more difficult his choices. What must he sacrifice to save the world from his dark knowledge...his life, or his soul?
"Pyeatt has created an intense tale of horror that is one of the most gripping reads I've read this year. From the very first page, you are thrust into a story that has you begging for more...I highly recommend diving into Dark Knowledge if you're looking for an entertaining read that is as dark as it is brilliant." - Fictitious Musings
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CADDO PARISH, La., April 11 (UPI) -- A Louisiana teacher has been suspended after students allegedly heard her call one of their peers a very bad name.
Administrators at Evangel Christian Academy School gave a life science teacher a six-day paid suspension after she reportedly called a 12-year-old girl a "sassy slut."
The parents of the girl claim she is "well-mannered and polite."
"I'm just still numb about what happened and the disciplinary action that the school had taken," the girl's mother, Marteen Mitchell, told KTBS. "I don't think it was fair at all they initially told me that she would receive one day suspension with pay and when I made it back to my job, I received a call from the principal that stated that the situation was serious and they wanted me to know that they would give her five additional days."
Mitchell doesn't want to see the teacher fired, but she is still waiting for an apology.
"A paid administrative leave, I guess you would think it's a vacation but it's not. I want to tell you any teacher or school employee that I've ever dealt with, who has been put out on paid administrative leave is very upset about it, they are very upset about the fact that they have been accused of something," said Jackie Landsdale, the president of the Red River Teacher's United Federation.
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...and include more than 300 islands, some two dozen of them inhabited. The three major islands are North Andaman, Middle Andaman, and South Andaman—closely positioned and collectively known as Great Andaman. Also prominent is Little Andaman, to the south. Of the still-extant original inhabitants—including the Sentinalese, the Jarawa, the Onge, and a group of peoples collectively...
The Andamans comprise more than 300 islands. North, Middle, and South Andaman, known collectively as Great Andaman, are the main islands; others include Landfall Island, Interview Island, the Sentinel Islands, Ritchie's Archipelago, and Rutland Island. Little Andaman in the south is separated from the Nicobar Islands by the Ten Degree Channel, which is about 90 miles (145 km) wide.
aboriginal inhabitants of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal. Most Andamanese have been detribalized and absorbed into modern Indian life, but traditional culture survives among such groups as the Jarawa and Onge of the lesser islands. Late 20th-century estimates indicated approximately 50 speakers of Andamanese languages and perhaps 550 ethnic Andamanese.


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Scranton Times-Tribune
April 30, 2010
Former judge Conahan pleads guilty in kids-for-cash scheme
Dave Janoski and Michael R. Sisak
Eight months after withdrawing his guilty plea in the kids-for-cash case, former Luzerne County President Judge Michael T. Conahan has entered a new guilty plea agreement with federal prosecutors with no escape clause.
Mr. Conahan faces up to 20 years in prison on a racketeering charge for accepting millions of dollars from two men connected to two for-profit detention centers that housed offenders from the county's juvenile court. He and his co-defendant, former President Judge Mark A. Ciavarella Jr., entered guilty pleas to fraud and conspiracy charges in the case last year, but withdrew them after a federal judge rejected the 87-month prison sentences contained in their plea agreements.
Mr. Conahan's new plea agreement, signed Tuesday and filed in U.S. District Court in Scranton on Thursday, specifically bars him from withdrawing the plea if he is unsatisfied with his sentence.
No plea agreement had been filed in Mr. Ciavarella's case as of Thursday night and his attorney, Al Flora Jr., said Mr. Conahan's plea deal should not be interpreted as a signal that Mr. Ciavarella would be signing a similar deal.
"As far as our client goes, he's presumed innocent under the law and entitled to his day in court," Mr. Flora said.
Mr. Conahan's plea agreement makes no mention of cooperation with federal prosecutors against Mr. Ciavarella or other defendants. The U.S. attorney's office, which filed the agreement and an additional sealed document in Mr. Conahan's case Thursday, declined comment.
Mr. Flora said Mr. Conahan's agreement will have no effect on Mr. Ciavarella's defense strategy and will not force him to consider a plea deal of his own.
"Why would it force us to do anything?" Mr. Flora asked.
Mr. Flora would not say whether he and Mr. Ciavarella are negotiating with prosecutors. They were not privy to Mr. Conahan's negotiations, Mr. Flora said.
Efforts to reach Mr. Conahan were unsuccessful Thursday. In an e-mail message, his attorney, Philip Gelso, wrote: "It would be inappropriate for anyone to comment on this case at this time."
Under his plea agreement, Mr. Conahan, who retired from the county bench in 2008 but was active as a senior judge until his arrest in January 2009, has 10 days to resign from the Pennsylvania Bar Association.
Prosecutors will make an "appropriate" recommendation as to the length of Mr. Conahan's sentence, but maintain the right to recommend the maximum of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, according to the agreement.
Both the defense and prosecution reserve the right to make arguments over how federal sentencing guidelines, which weigh a defendant's criminal history, the nature of the crime and other factors in determining a sentence, should be applied in Mr. Conahan's case. The ultimate decision will be up to U.S. District Judge Edwin M. Kosik.
In July, Judge Kosik rejected the 87-month prison sentences called for in the plea agreements Mr. Conahan and Mr. Ciavarella signed in January 2009 as too lenient.
Judge Kosik wrote in a court order that Mr. Conahan had been uncooperative and attempted to "obstruct and impede justice" in his dealings with probation officers preparing a pre-sentence report in the case. In his order, Judge Kosik also unfavorably cited public statements in which Mr. Ciavarella denied he had a "quid pro quo" agreement to jail juveniles for cash, as alleged by prosecutors.
The grand jury alleged that Mr. Conahan, 58, and Mr. Ciavarella, 60, accepted $2.8 million from the builder and former owner of two for-profit detention centers that housed juveniles sentenced by Mr. Ciavarella, who presided over juvenile court for a dozen years.
Mr. Ciavarella violated state court rules by failing to fully inform juveniles of their right to counsel and jailed them on minor offenses, according to the state Supreme Court, which vacated thousands of the sentences he imposed in juvenile court. The incarceration rate in Mr. Ciavarella's court was more than double the state average.
Mr. Conahan and Mr. Ciavarella were instrumental in closing a county-owned juvenile detention center in 2003 and securing county contracts for facilities in Pittston Twp. and Butler County owned by two related for-profit companies, PA Child Care and Western PA Child Care, prosecutors say.
The two former judges allegedly tried to disguise the payments by routing them through Beverage Marketing, a firm controlled by Mr. Conahan, and Pinnacle Group of Jupiter LLC, a holding company owned by the judges' wives but controlled by the judges that owned a condominium in Florida.
After the withdrawal of their guilty pleas in August, Mr. Conahan and Mr. Ciavarella were indicted by a federal grand jury on 48 counts that carried a cumulative maximum sentence of hundreds of years in prison.
Under his plea agreement, Mr. Conahan will plead guilty to one of the counts and the remainder will be dropped.
Mr. Conahan and Mr. Ciavarella remain free on bail.


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David Freeman, the chairman and governor of the Nashville Predators, has a $3.35-million (all currency U.S.) tax lien on his house and admits to cash-flow problems but both he and the NHL claim there are no concerns about the financial health of his hockey team.
However, since the Predators owners have to maintain a guarantee of up to $50-million with the city of Nashville that is based on their net worth along with other obligations, the lien raises a number of red flags.
There is also the security that has to be maintained with the team's major lender, CIT Group, which is owed at least $85-million. CIT is in the middle of bankruptcy reorganization, which further complicates matters. Another problem is a drop in attendance this season, which could lower the amount the Predators earn from the NHL's revenue-sharing plan.
The news about the tax lien came out last week after the Predators took a hit in revenue in a dispute with the Sommet Group over naming rights to their arena. The Predators terminated the deal, which is thought to be worth $4-million annually, and filed a lawsuit against Sommet. A Sommet executive countered by revealing the tax lien on Freeman.
The lien was slapped on Freeman's Nashville home by the Internal Revenue Service for the 2007 tax year, the same year the venture capitalist put together a group of local businessmen to buy the Predators from Craig Leipold in order to keep them from being sold to BlackBerry billionaire Jim Balsillie. One of the members of the group was William (Boots) Del Biaggio, who owned 27 per cent of the team but went to jail this summer after being found guilty of fraudulently obtaining the money used to buy his shares.
Del Biaggio's stake in the team is still held by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court. Freeman said yesterday in an e-mail message to the Predators "senior staff" that he also forwarded to The Globe and Mail, that the bankruptcy case was behind his cash-flow problems.
Freeman said he lent what was supposed to be a short-term basis to finalize the sale. But when the Del Biaggio scandal hit, Freeman was forced to turn the loan into an unexpected equity investment in the team.
"Unfortunately, reacting responsibly to the acts of others in a manner most beneficial to the team created a short-term personal liquidity problem for me," Freeman said. "I am toward the end stages of liquidating additional assets and paying my tax obligations in full and with the knowledge and co-operation of the IRS."
Bill Daly, the deputy commissioner of the NHL, said the league is "not concerned" about the financial state of the Predators.
Freeman and others in his ownership group have said getting control of the Del Biaggio shares or seeing them sold to another investor is crucial to the future health of the team. Freeman's group has made a modest offer on the shares and Brett Wilson, a Calgary investment banker, is also interested in buying them. Wilson declined to comment.
However, the bankruptcy trustee in charge of the sale, Todd Nielson said yesterday in an e-mail message he does not know when the shares will be sold.
The Predators had a 15-9-1 record and were second in the Central Division in the Western Conference before last night's game but that has not helped at the box office. Attendance has been a problem throughout the team's 11-year history. The Predators' attendance has dropped 1,300 fans a game this season. which could lower the amount the team will receive under the NHL's revenue-sharing plan.
After 13 home games, not including last night's game against the Calgary Flames, the Predators had an average announced crowd of 13,712, which was 27th among the NHL's 30 teams. Last season, the Predators claimed an average crowd of 15,010, which not only prevented an escape clause in their arena lease from the city from kicking in but also resulted in a full revenue-sharing payment of $10-million. If teams do not meet targets for attendance and revenue growth, their revenue-sharing payments are docked by as much as 25 per cent.
The Predators did not make the playoffs last spring and claimed that resulted in a small loss on the 2008-09 and subsequent cash call on the owners. If the trend continues in attendance, the loss will be bigger this season, which raises questions about Freeman's ability to meet another cash call if his financial troubles are not settled.


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Sharapova will be No. 1 after her semifinal win French Open
Fri., June 8, 2012
PARIS – One victory Thursday finished Maria Sharapova's climb back to the top of the tennis rankings.
With one more on Saturday, she'll be the French Open champion and complete a career Grand Slam.
Not a bad way to spend springtime in Paris.
Sharapova defeated Petra Kvitova 6-3, 6-3 in the windblown semifinals at Roland Garros. The second-seeded Russian needs a victory over 21st-seeded Sara Errani, a 7-5, 1-6, 6-3 winner over No. 6 Samantha Stosur, to become the 10th woman to win all four major tournaments.
"I always dreamed of being on the final stage here and I finally have that opportunity," Sharapova said. "And I'm more than excited."
When she won match point on a second-serve ace, Sharapova raised her palms to the sky, looked up and smiled – one of the sport's biggest stars letting the fans and photographers share a special moment.
Sharapova has long been the headliner at almost any tournament she enters, though this latest win will officially put her on the top line of the women's rankings when the new list comes out Monday.
It's a perch that may have felt unreachable three years ago, when the Russian was recovering from shoulder surgery and dropped as low as 126th.
But from that point, she has made a steady climb back. This year, she has won two tournaments and finished runner-up in three more, including the Australian Open.
That, plus the performance at Roland Garros, has helped push her back to No. 1, the spot she first captured in 2005 and held for 17 non-consecutive weeks, the last on June 8, 2008.
"It's pretty special," Sharapova said. "A few years ago after my shoulder surgery, I don't know if I had a ranking, but it was over 100. And I thought 'Well, I did it one time. So maybe again, I can try to do it.' "
Her match against fourth-seeded Kvitova, who defeated Sharapova in the Wimbledon final last year, wasn't exactly a walk in the park, but Kvitova struggled with the blustery wind more than her opponent did.
And she couldn't get a handle on Sharapova's serve. The Russian placed 78 percent of her first serves in.
"It's tough to return her," Kvitova said. "She plays very fast. It's a different game compared to matches before."
Trailing 4-3 and 40-30 in the second set, Kvitova hit an aggressive return that the chair umpire ruled missed the baseline.
A short argument ensued and after the changeover, Kvitova kept glancing at the spot where she thought the ball hit.
She went from 30-love in that game to losing the last four points, and Sharapova's last service game was academic – and punctuated with that ace on her second serve.
Next up is Errani, who played a terrible second set against Stosur but took advantage when the U.S. Open champion got a case of the nerves and started hitting balls 5 and 10 feet out in the final set.


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Shanghai Bistro gains liquor license
Shanghai Bistro, an American Chinese restaurant and sushi bar that arrived in Hudson last February, will receive the additional Class B liquor license that the city subsequently made available.
The City Council on Monday night unanimously picked Shanghai Bistro to receive the license over a proposed night club in the now mostly vacant River City Center on Second Street.
There was little discussion of the issue prior to the vote.
Mayor Dean Knudson noted that the city had advertised the availability of an additional reserve liquor license after the council on Feb. 17 voted to allow one license for every 600 city residents.
The previous quota, adopted in 2007, had allowed one license for every 650 city residents.
The immediate effect of the action was to allow the city to issue 18 Class B licenses, one more than was previously allowed.
The one-time fee for a new reserve license is $10,000.
Knudson said Shanghai Bistro owner Henry Chan and the man proposing to start the night club in the River City Center were the only two to apply for the liquor license.
James F. Tousignant submitted the proposal for the Aqua Pearl Night Club & Lounge that, according to an accompanying hand-drawn floor plan of the establishment, would occupy 31,000 square feet of the former Econofoods grocery store space.
The plan showed the night club as well as a Saint Peter's Cathedral & Banquet Hall, a coffee shop and an art and frame shop.
The grocery store has been empty for several years.
The Shanghai Bistro, located in a former Country Kitchen building on Gateway Circle, has earned good reviews from Hudson diners since its opening.
Chan said in his application that being able to serve alcohol would increase his business and create more jobs.
Knudson pointed out to City Council members that they could approve one or neither of the liquor license applications.
The Municipal Code instructs council members to consider the following criteria in evaluating liquor license applications:
1. The number of employees and creation of new jobs proposed by the applicant;
2. The expansion of the tax base resulting from any new construction;
3. The adequacy of parking and ability of city departments to provide services to any new establishment;
4. Any adverse impact that the proposed premises may have upon adjoining neighborhoods or other businesses;
5. The number of alcohol beverage licensed establishments already operating in the area;
6. The proximity of the proposed alcohol beverage licensed business to other alcohol beverage licensed establishments; and
7. The potential future need for alcohol beverage licenses to be available in other areas of the city.
After Knudson reported that the council's Finance Committee had recommended granting the available license to Shanghai Bistro, a motion to do so was quickly approved without any comment from alderpersons.
Wine license
The council also approved the last wine license available in the city under its quota system.
The license was granted to Ryan and Kay Timm, who will be opening the Toscano restaurant and wine bar at 520 Second St.
The restaurant will serve salads, Panini sandwiches and flat-bread pizza, in addition to the wine, according to the Timms' application.
The Timms also plan to sell cheese, olive oil, pasta, condiments and gifts, according to their application.
The city has a limit of 10 Class C wine licenses that can be issued to restaurants only.


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The Republican riddle
The race for the Republican presidential nomination is a muddle. It is clouded by confusion and illuminated only by brief flashes of perplexity.
Rudy Giuliani leads in virtually every national poll but trails in the key states that may decide the nominee.
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Mitt Romney leads in key states but continues to rank an anemic fourth in national polls.
Fred Thompson gets terrible opening-night reviews but debuts in second place nationwide.
John McCain, once the front-runner, then written off as dead, now is rebounding, but how far can he go?
Then there is Mike Huckabee. Everybody's choice for vice president, could he actually sneak away with the top spot?
Though I usually rely on my own impeccable judgment in such matters, today I ask three top Republicans for their assessment of the race thus far. They are not aligned with any campaign, which is another sign of just how smart they are.
Whit Ayres is a pollster and consultant who worked in Lamar Alexander's 1996 presidential campaign and in numerous Senate and governors' races. He is an expert on Southern politics.
"This is a completely wide-open race, and any of three or four or five candidates can actually win," Ayres says. "The insiders' front-runner is Mitt Romney; the national front-runner is Rudy Giuliani; John McCain needs to continue clawing his way back and get some money; Thompson needs to justify his high-flying numbers; and Mike Huckabee needs millions of dollars in the bank.
"The others have to stop Romney somewhere before Feb. 5 [when more than 20 states will vote]. It could be in New Hampshire or Florida. But it has got to be somewhere. The others can't wait until Feb. 5. to defeat him.
"Free media [i.e., news coverage] will be a very important factor in this race. What you guys do has a great effect. It affects the talk and it affects the donors."
Greg Mueller was a senior adviser to Pat Buchanan and Steve Forbes in their presidential campaigns and is an expert on conservative politics.


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The United Nations Command released video showing a North Korean defector crossing the border between North Korea and South Korea on November 13. The UNC is responsible for policing the Demilitarized Zone accused North Korea of violating the armistice agreement when a soldier crossed the military demarcation line in pursuit of the defector. South Korean officials announced on Tuesday, November 21, that the former Korean People's Army soldier had regained consciousness after having been shot six times by North Korean border guards as he escaped via the Joint Security Area in Panmunjom.
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Dean Spanos made the point perfectly clear: "We should be better." As the Chargers' team president and CEO, Spanos carries a little bit more weight than the average fan. The players and staff might do well to listen.
After Sunday's 37-8 embarrassment in Denver, Spanos is like most fans in San Diego. He's disappointed with the way the team -- his team -- is performing.
Right now the Chargers are averaging about $40 million a win. Their team payroll is more than $80 million, which ranks in the top 25 percent of the league.
For this, the Chargers have two wins in 10 games.
"We are extremely disappointed, but no one is giving up," Spanos said Wednesday.
Spanos, who was home with the flu the first part of the week, has been as sick as his team.
"I was starting to get something in Denver," he said. "Maybe that game is part of the reason I got sick. In the 20 years I have been associated with the team, that game goes down as the worst.
"I've talked to enough players to know they feel the same way. It is totally unacceptable. Our fans deserve better."
Naturally, when a team continues to lose, one has to wonder if Spanos is thinking about making major changes.
Should head coach Marty Schottenheimer and general manager A.J. Smith start calling realtors? Does Spanos feel he has the men in place to turn this franchise around?
"I think so," he said. "But I don't do evaluations at midseason or a little after midseason. I always wait until the end of the year to make those decisions."
I can't see him replacing Schottenheimer, who is finishing his second year here, or Smith, who is starting his first year as general manager.
"I believe at the beginning of the year that we have a good coach and I still do," Spanos said. "I believe we have a good coach and good young players, but I also believe we should be winning more."
When Smith took over for the late John Butler, he maintained that this would be a "push year," meaning the Chargers would make a run at the playoffs.
In retrospect, Spanos admitted, the team's expectations were unrealistic.
"Some said it was a mistake to think this team could be in the playoffs, but if you don't set your goals high, you'll never get there," Spanos said.
We learned after the first game of the year, a 27-14 mismatch loss to Kansas City, that the Chargers were not going to be an elite team. They were more pretenders than contenders.
With the exception of the Minnesota victory two weeks ago, little has gone right this season.
Part of that is because of inexperience at key positions -- especially at quarterback and cornerback -- and injuries, which have taken four of the top five starting offensive linemen out of the mix.
With six games left, what is left for the Chargers?
When it was suggested to Spanos that players and other personnel might be playing for employment next year, Spanos replied, "That's a fair statement. Everything is subject to review."
Steve Scholfield is senior sports columnist for the North CountyTimes. He can be reached at (760) 740-3509 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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KAI RYSSDAL: We hear about companies paying fines all the time. So often that some of us get jaded unless the headline calls it a record. Usually the second line of that story is something about the company in question not admitting guilt.
So the news about the makers of the powerful painkiller Oxycontin today was a surprise. Purdue Pharma and three top executives of the company admitted they lied about the drug's addiction risks. And collectively, they'll pay more than $600 million in fines.
From the Marketplace Health Desk at WGBH, Helen Palmer has more.
HELEN PALMER: Oxycontin's formulated as a long-lasting painkiller — but chewing it, or crushing and injecting it, can create a heroin-like high.
The drug's maker, Purdue Pharma, knew there was potential for abuse, but pushed it aggressively anyway, says attorney John Brownlee.
JOHN BROWNLEE: They continued to push a fraudulent marketing campaign that promoted Oxycontin as being less addictive, less subject to abuse and less likely to cause withdrawal.
Brownlee is the U.S. attorney for the western district of Virginia. He says the $634 million plus in fines will punish Purdue's wrongdoing and help compensate some of the people harmed by Oxycontin who've sued the company.
BROWNLEE: We've had them set aside $130 million so that they can pay these civil claims that they either lose or they decide to settle.
Plaintiffs' attorneys say this guilty plea will make Oxycontin cases easier to win, so many will continue. Meanwhile, some argue Purdue's getting off lightly.
Alex Sugarman-Brozan of the consumer group Prescription Access Litigation:
ALEX SUGARMAN-BROZAN: The effects are lingering, and there's also question of whether even this $635 million sufficiently addresses the harm that was done, or whether they can chalk it up as a cost of doing business.
Since 2000, Oxycontin's retail sales in the U.S. were $9.6 billion.
In Boston, I'm Helen Palmer for Marketplace.


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TUSCALOOSA _ Sources tell BamaOnline that offensive tackle Taylor Pharr and linebacker Milton Talbert are expected to go on medical scholarships, ending their football careers at the University of Alabama.
Pharr, who has had concussions problems, plans to serve the Crimson Tide as a student coach, and work in that capacity during summer camps. The 2008 SEC Academic Honor Roll Selection played in five games last season giving him 17 appearances for his career as a reserve offensive lineman and on special teams (field goal and extra-point teams).
Out of Shades Valley High School in Irondale, Pharr was ranked by Rivals as the No. 2 offensive lineman in Alabama and 11th nationally in the Class of 2006. He spent most of this past spring working with the third-unit at left tackle and also filled in at punter.
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Talbert, who spent all of spring wearing a black jersey signaling no contact due to a shoulder injury, played nine games over three years as a reserve. He made four tackles sand had one fumble recovery, against Western Carolina in the 2007 season opener.
The converted defensive lineman played in one game last season, against Chattanooga.
Out of Hattiesburg High School, were he recorded 111 tackles, 12 sacks and five fumble recoveries, Talbert was also in the Class of 2006. He was the 20th-rated player in Mississippi and the No. 16 weakside defensive end in the nation.
Combined with the transfer of quarterback Star Jackson to Georgia State, Alabama is believed to be at least one player over the 85-man limit, which has to be set at the beginning of fall camp. Coach Nick Saban confirmed last week that all but two players of the incoming signing class have reported (previously reported to be Deion Belue and Blake Sims).


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If the prospect of hugely increasing insurance rates is not dialed back, many residents in St. Charles Parish are anticipating a flood of a different kind that of local residents abandoning their homes and subsequently emptying out storefronts.
If the flood rate increases as expected, parish residents will go from paying $8 million in insurance premiums to $49 million. Thats a lot of money that residents will no longer have to spend in the local economy.
The potential flood insurance rate increases have Rose Marie Gainey, the co-owner of Zydecos Restaurant in Boutte, thinking about the future of both her business and her life in the parish.
Zydecos has been in business since 2009 and pays $80,000 to $100,000 a year in parish taxes.
"Both our business and home we are currently in are an X zone. We have never flooded in over 100 years," she said. "(If that zone changes) we could possibly have to close our doors in the future."
Shane Matherne, owner of Maison Décor just west of Zydecos on Highway 90, said although he anticipates his flood insurance premiums will not rise much, he expects his business to be affected should the rate increases be put in place.
"After 13 years of being here, we finally have a good customer base that will directly be affected if this goes through," he said.
Given that Maison Décor specializes in luxury items, Matherne said his chances of surviving a post-insurance rate hike would be slim.
"My business is selling things people want, but dont necessarily need," he said. "When peoples insurance goes from $200 a year to $10,000 a year they arent going to have that extra income to buy a fountain or a statute or other decorative items."
Matherne blames lax regulations on developers who destroyed local wetlands. He said the people who bought homes in those areas should not be punished for lack of oversight by government on all levels.
"This is something FEMA allowed to happen," he said. "Theyve caused the problems. Who said the developers could come in here and do this? And then we are stuck with picking up the pieces."
Barry Majoria is co-owner of Majorias Supermarket on Highway 90 in Boutte as well as surrounding commercial real estate housing a variety of small businesses.
Majorias Supermarket is one of the longest running family-owned businesses in the parish.
"Weve been here since 1964 when my father bought the land, cleared it and built the grocery store. Later, we added on to it," he said.
Unlike Matherne, Majoria is in the business of providing necessities, however, his main fear for both the supermarket and the commercial property owned by the family is that their customer base will be decimated.
"If people cant afford to live and work here we will become a ghost town," he said. "Were fortunate we have most of our leases long-term or at least current, but if we dont have customers we dont have tenants either."
In fact, Majoria said his family owns a piece of commercial property in Paradis and the prospect of developing that parcel of land is null until the fears caused by the FEMA maps and provisions of the Biggert-Waters Act are alleviated.
"If there is any optimism about the future it is on hold," he said.
Majoria said although the FEMA maps and the large increases in insurance rates stemming from provisions in the Biggert-Waters Act do not seem like they will have an immediate effect on their commercial property holdings, they are already affecting his employees.
"We have one guy who is working here who lives in Paradis. His insurance is going to go up over $5,000. He told me I cant afford it, I dont know what I am going to do," he said.
Earl Matherne, the coastal zone manager for St. Charles Parish, said he could see residents, especially in some of the worst hit parts of the parish, leaving. That would have an immediate effect on local industrial plants.
"The bigger issue with the plants – if people cant afford to live near it, where are they going to get employees? So it is an issue," E. Matherne said. "Its not something they are going to be crazy about."
Even though rising insurance rates would be introduced over a five-year period, E. Matherne said the effect of higher insurance premiums would be pronounced in the local business sector.
"We do not have the commercial charts yet. I know historically business has always been higher and I will also tell you that Biggert-Waters, if you read it, some of the first stuff to kick in are the (rate increases on the) businesses," he said.
Despite not knowing the proper rates, E. Matherne said insurance on businesses in problem areas will undoubtedly go up.
"Any business built before 1983, those (rate increases) are kicking in probably in October of this year," he said. "Remember, thats without a map change – that happens regardless."
The River Region Chamber of Commerce released a resolution to all members of the Louisiana congressional delegation, all state representatives and senators and Gov. Bobby Jindal last week concerning the potential harm to the local economies affected by flood insurance rate hikes.
In part, the resolution read that the River Region economy would be adversely affected by both changing flood maps and Biggert-Waters together.
"Tax revenues, jobs and economic conditions could be detrimentally affected should these unreasonable premiums go into effect," the resolution said.
The Chamber has also put their name behind an effort to have Congress amend the Biggert-Waters Act to slow flood insurance increases, review the proposed rates and adjust them to reflect the removal of the catastrophic failure of flood control structures, allow all grandfathering policies to transfer and delay new map adoption by local jurisdictions until the new maps can be properly vetted.
The Chambers resolution said the rates were expected to rise 25 percent per year on businesses, whereas residential rates were expected to rise from anywhere from 10 to 20 percent each year.
"The fact is businesses are probably paying considerably more than residential already, so I dont know if it is going to be a corresponding percentage or a corresponding dollar amount," E. Matherne said. "If it is a corresponding dollar amount it might not be that bad for them, but if it is a corresponding percentage it could be devastating."
In addition to commercial property rates going up, E. Matherne said since the beginning of the year higher flood insurance premiums could be assessed on the parishs landlords.
"If you own an older house that you are not living in 80 percent of the time, it is going to apply to you. In January it already started," he said.
One landlord already approached the planning and zoning office when he was told his insurance rate was going to go from around $400 to nearly $3,000. Although that landlord was able to decrease his insurance rate due to holding an elevation certificate, E. Matherne is afraid other landlords in similar situations will drop their policies altogether.
"If you own a rental house and you dont pay any money on it and arent required to pay flood insurance on it, you arent going to pay a number like $3,000 per year," he said. "I am concerned we are going to end up with a lot of people who are uninsured because they dont have to be."


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Big banking tech companies recently have been hungrily gobbling up smaller companies and the question is, Will this consolidation continue? The other question, Is this good, or bad, for credit unions?
Fiserv Inc. continued its string of recent signings for its Acumen core platform, this time the $879 million Northrop Grumman FCU in Gardena, Calif.


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Rose types
Hybrid teas - long stems, single blooms.
Floribundas - clusters of blooms on small bush.
Grandifloras - clusters of blooms on long stems on large bush.
Miniatures - plants 6-18 inches tall with small leaves and flowers.
David Austin or English tea - smell of old-fashioned roses and bright colors of hybrid teas.
Old garden - noted for fragrance, soft pleasing color and old-fashioned form with many, many petals.
Shrub - rugosas, polyanthas and landscape roses.
Climbers - long canes good for fences, trellises.
Princess Diana roses
DeVor Nursery, a major rose grower in Watsonville, Calif., produced and sold all its 2,200 Lady Di roses for this year, says George Marciel, sales manager. The nursery, however, is doubling its production of the special rose for next year. Garden centers in Virginia should be able to receive the new supply by February. ''It's a 1984 variety developed for greenhouse production and cut flowers. In 1989, we found it did well outside as a garden rose so we've been producing it that way,'' says Marciel. ''We should have 5,000 plants ready for '99.''
Jackson & Perkins is working to have a ''Princess Diana Rose'' among its '99 collection, says Bill Ihle, vice president of corporate relations. J&P has registered the name with the American Rose Society but has not selected a variety. For a J&P catalog, call (800) 292-4769.
Flower carpet rose
Flower Carpet Appleblossom, new groundcover rose for '98 has deep pink flower buds and pastel pink flowers, giving a bi-color flowering effect, especially in early fall. Flower Carpet roses also come in pink and fragrant white. These roses, marketed in the pink pots, are good for full sun to semi-shade, mass plantings, borders and patio pots. Coming for '99 is Flower Carpet Yellow and 2000 Flower Carpet Red.
For more information
The American Rose Society's Web site: www.ars.org; membership in the society, $30-$32 gives you a monthly magazine, annual publication on roses, handbook for selecting roses and access to consulting rosarians. To join the rose society, call (800) 637-6534.
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Walgreens has really helped to transform why consumers shop a drug store with its position in healthier-for-you foods and fresh produce. That's not just thinking outside of the box for traditional retail pharmacy operators; that's throwing out the box altogether and replacing it with an in-store food pyramid.
And they brought in the right executive to realize this vision for fresh — Steve Broughton, VP and GMM of food, beverage and household consumables at Walgreens. Broughton joined the company from Walmart, where he was in charge of its food offering at a time when Walmart had traditional supermarkets on its heels. That experience gave him the opportunity to transform a retail experience. "Greg [Wasson] enabled us to be change agents," Broughton said, speaking to why, as a food executive, he made the transition to a pure-play drug store.
Walgreens' focus on fresh is central to its mission to transform from a retail pharmacy into a health and daily living destination because some of the urban residents shopping its stores — whether in challenged communities, where Walgreens doubles as the neighborhood grocer, or in busy downtown areas where healthier lunch selections are available for nearby office workers — aren't there just to buy food. They are there to improve their lives, and so "what I eat" is as important to total wellness as "how I feel" or "how I look" or "what I need now."
Walgreens is able to take "fresh" to a whole new level in its flagship stores in major cities like New York, San Francisco and Chicago, where it tests new concepts that continue to push the envelope on selling food in a drug store. For nearby office workers, Walgreens has successfully brought in fresh sushi made on-site, baristas, fresh-baked goods, smoothie bars and frozen yogurt stations, all of which reflect a little of the local flavor.
And it's not just the products that are helping to recreate the shopping experience — there are other less tangible dimensions of the experience that these concepts brings to its stores. "Those aromas of …coffee and fresh baked bread add to the experience," Broughton said. "And the customers are telling us with their words, their wallets and with the lines around meal times that they are very open to a drug store carrying these types of products."
That commitment to offering both fresher foods and healthier-for-you options has also transformed how Walgreens brings products to market in its stores that go long on fresh. "The sandwiches and the wraps and the cut fruits and salads, we source those products locally," Broughton said. "It's a little more difficult because we have to be closer to it, but we can reflect the taste and the flavor profiles that are significantly different by market, and we have it closer to our stores, so there is less transit time," he said.
There are two major challenges, however: logistics and technology.
Walgreens solved its logistics challenge through facilities called consolidated distribution centers in place of direct store deliveries. Couple that with the company's technology solution — a system that helps manage first-in, first-out product rotation with expiration dates — and you have most of the ingredients for success in driving a fresh-food business that is meaningful and relevant at the local level.
Other tools Walgreens uses to help ensure the return on investment for any store featuring fresh is tight shrink control and keeping a close eye on what sells when, and what doesn't. "We have the ability to tweak the assortment as frequently as we need," Broughton said. "As soon as we sell through a product … the next day it can be something different."
However, it takes about the same amount of time to set up an item for one store as it does for 8,000 stores, so Walgreens has recently instituted a team responsible for making assortment decisions at the local level. Under the direction of VP inventory strategy Mark Scharbo, who came to Walgreens by way of Duane Reade, the team will help manage localization and inventory strategy. "He'll help us to manage those exceptions a little bit better and [be] more narrowly focused geographically so that we can offer the correct assortment."
In addition to Scharbo, the divisional merchandise managers that really make fresh come to life in Walgreens stores, in the many forms it takes, are Jim Jensen, who manages fresh produce; Dex McCreary, who oversees candy, beer, wine and spirits; and Chris Serbin, who's in charge of center-store food offerings. More and more, Walgreens designates a portion of its food assortments among local brands that are relevant to shoppers in those stores. To do this, you need boots on the ground to identify those brands (for more, see page 86).
The Nuts on Clark brand available at the State and Randolph store in Chicago is a perfect example of tapping into the local flavor of the market, Broughton said. Nuts on Clark (located on Clark Street) is locally famous in downtown Chicago for its popcorn and nut varieties. The only place you can buy Nuts on Clark outside of their own shop is at Walgreens. It's just one example of how fresh is enabling Walgreens to be different.
Colby Red is another interesting story, Broughton noted, and really brings home how food — in this case, wine — can help personify Walgreens' larger mission to provide solutions for consumers to get, stay and live well. Daryl Groom, a winemaker, created a red wine named for his son Colby, who was born with a heart defect, to help support heart research. For the first two years, the wine was only sold in retail at Walgreens. To date, Walgreens and the Groom family together have helped raise more than $200,000 to support charities that promote heart health.


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COLUMBIA — A one-year extension of South Carolina's first private school tuition program appears to be coasting through the budget process this election year after a decade of GOP infighting.
The program limited to children with disabilities didn't take effect until January and faced extinction after a single semester without legislative action. But legislators are on track to extend it as part of their spending plans for the fiscal year starting July 1.
Both the House plan and Senate Finance proposal maintain an $8 million cap on the total tax credits that donors can claim, and a $10,000 limit on the tuition scholarship an eligible special-needs student can receive. Senators continue floor debate on their budget plan this week.
As of Monday, $6.8 million in dollar-for-dollar credits on state income taxes were still available for 2014 filings, according to the state Department of Revenue.
Unlike in previous years, the idea of using tax credits to help parents pay private tuition hasn't been hotly debated.
The limited pilot approved in the budget last year represented advocates' first victory after a decade of unsuccessful attempts. House and Senate debates led to mud-slinging GOP primaries against those who voted "no."
Since January, the state has certified five nonprofits to receive donations and grant scholarships. Even some of the staunchest advocates didn't lobby for an expansion next school year.
"We want to show this works. That could take some time," said Neil Mellen of Access Opportunity South Carolina, which is coordinating with all but one of the nonprofits. He was formerly spokesman for South Carolinians for Responsible Government, a main player in the tax-credit push.
The number of scholarships awarded so far is unclear. Mellen estimates dozens among the four that work with his group.
They include a nonprofit the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charleston created to help with tuition to Catholic schools across the state. As of Friday, it had awarded 14 scholarships to students in 11 schools, ranging from $1,000 to $6,500, said spokesman Michael Acquilano.
Palmetto Kids First, the nonprofit not working with Mellen's group, has been the most active, but its fundraising methods have raised concerns.
According to its founder, Jeff Davis, the group has raised more than $1 million. So far, it has doled out 123 scholarships worth $871,000 to students attending 16 schools, he said.
He's trying to raise another $1.5 million by the end of May to award roughly 200 more students a grant for this school year's tuition. The goal is to cover every eligible student who's applied to his group, he said.
In his fundraising, he seeks donations from applicants. E-mails to parents and administrators detail the total number of applicants from their school, how many of those have donated, and the total scholarships awarded so far to their school's students.
Davis said he's not pressuring anyone, and there's nothing wrong with seeking money from applicants. Under the budget clause creating the program, donors can't designate their money to a specific school or student. That's not what's happening, he said, but if all applicants receive a scholarship as intended, recipients will include donors.
"There's no quid pro quo," he said. "We want to help as many people as we can but the only way to do that is to get the word out."
Opponents of private-school choice have long argued the idea involves subsidizing private school education with tax dollars, which supporters have vehemently denied. But Davis is essentially using that argument to fundraise – calling donations "free money," since donors can receive a dollar-for-dollar credit, up to 60 percent of taxes they owe.
"We are not asking people to give anything – only to participate by redirecting their 2014 S.C. income taxes," he said.
Legislators may need to change some of the program's scholarship rules, but that likely won't happen until next year, said Sen. Wes Hayes, R-Rock Hill, whose Finance subcommittee oversees the K-12 budget.
He won't make any such proposals during the budget debate.
"Trying to fix things on the floor could cause more problems than good," he said.


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The state's insurance governing agency has fined a local insurance agent $5,000 for advertising violations and using a misleading trade name.
James Donald Hosch, an agent with Senior Services now called Senior Services Insurance Agency was cited for wording in a customer solicitation letter, according to the Texas Department of Insurance.
In addition to the fine, the state ordered Hosch to change the company's trade name because "Senior Services" could be misleading.
Hosch did not admit to wrongdoing, but he agreed to the entry of a disciplinary order and agreed to abide by its conditions. He didn't return a telephone call seeking comment.
The advertisement was designed to convince senior citizens to terminate their current Medicare supplemental policies and acquire others with Continental General Insurance Company, a company Hosch worked with, according to an official order of the Commissioner of Insurance.
Continental officials said the company received at least 70 applications from Hosch about time the advertisement was distributed, the order said.
Hosch's letter, dated Dec. 22, 1999, said Bankers Commercial Life Insurance had gone broke and was in receivership, a status in which the state takes control of the business after attempts to save it have been exhausted. The letter from Hosch told senior citizens they needed to arrange for new policies immediately.
In truth, Bankers was in a "conservatorship," one of the last moves the state takes before putting a business in receivership, the order said. In conservatorship, the state takes over the business, but it's still owned by the company. State insurance officials may advise company leaders on staffing, policies or other protocol. Bankers is now in receivership, state officials said on Monday.
The marketing ploy worked by "having the effect of or tending to induce the purchase of insurance through force, fright, threat, or undue pressure to purchase or recommend the purchase of insurance," the order said.
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Kevin Kisner made one of the easiest birdies of his life Saturday morning as he bolted into contention in the Hooters Tour's Kandy Waters Memorial Classic at Goshen Plantation Golf Club.
The Aiken golfer had hit his tee shot on the par-3 seventh hole - his 16th hole of the day - Friday when second-round play was suspended.
He was left with a 2-footer for birdie, which he was forced to mark, because the horn stopping play sounded before he could putt.
Kisner tapped it in Saturday, then parred his final two holes to complete his 5-under-par 67.
"It was the easiest 12-hour birdie I've ever made; that's for sure," Kisner said.
Added to his opening 69, Kisner was at 8-under 136 for 36 holes, or two shots behind clubhouse leader Ryan Blaum, one of Kisner's playing partners the first two rounds.
Blaum, of Coral Springs, Fla., has turned in rounds of 69-65 for 134 in the weather-delayed tournament.
In the second round, Kisner and Blaum were a combined 12 under and good for 12 birdies (six by Blaum) and an eagle (also by Blaum).
"It definitely helps to play with somebody who is shooting low," Kisner said. "We had a good time out there."
Because of lightning and rain delays Thursday and Friday, the third round didn't start Saturday until after 5 p.m. and no one finished, with the leaders only playing two holes before play was suspended.
The 71 players who made the cut, which fell at even-par 144, will return at 8:30 this morning to finish the third round and go right into the final round with repairing. That means the final group faces a 34-hole day today.
After finishing his second round about 9:15 Saturday morning, Kisner didn't start his third round until 6:30 later that evening.
He got in three holes, playing them 1 under. He' s now 9 under for the tournament with 33 holes to play today.
"I'm right in the hunt," said Kisner, who believes today's winning score will be between 18 and 20 under par. "It's a golf course where you can go low," he said. "I need to come out and make some birdies."
Kisner, a former Georgia golfer, turned pro at year ago. This season he has split time between the Canadian, Tarheel and Hooters tours, and earned more than $50,000.
"I played really good at the beginning of the year, then kind of slid in the middle of the summer and now I'm playing better," said Kisner, who will play in the PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament in October.
"My game is coming around at the most important stage of the year," Kisner said, referring to the qualifying tournament.
First-round leader Scott Brown of Augusta made his share of birdies in the second round, but had too many bogeys.
After opening with an eight-birdie, two-bogey 66, Brown followed with 73. He had six birdies, but had to hesitate after his round when asked how his bogeys.
"I'm trying to count them," he said.
The final tally was five, to go with a double bogey.
"I missed a lot of 3- and 4-footers today," Brown said. "I just wasn't stroking the short ones today. I made some good putts other than that. I putted well.
"Today could have been one of those bad rounds. Luckily, I made some birdies. I'm still in there. I'm glad to be within range."
Reach David Westin at (706) 823-3224 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Seven of the 14 players with area ties in the Kandy Waters Memorial Classic made the 36-hole cut, which fell at even-par 144.
No one has finished 54 holes.
Kevin Kisner 69-67-136
Scott Brown 66-73-139
Dane Burkhart 73-67-140
Emmett Turner 71-70-141
David Robinson 72-69-141
Scott Jamieson 68-76-144
John Engler 72-72-144
Failed to qualify
Scott Volpitto 75-70-145
Jay Mundy 75-70-145
Will Claxton 77-68-145
Major Manning 75-72-147
Scott Usher 73-75-148
Alex Hamilton 75-73-148
William Lanier 76-72-148


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No Respect, No Manners, No Service
Once upon a time, in the not-to-distant past, parents began teaching their children manners at a very young age. Children learned to respect their elders, be kind to others, and behave properly in public. But, as many restaurants are beginning to notice, parenting appears to be headed down a different path, leaving these establishments no choice but to take drastic action in response.Recently, numerous small restaurants across the country have been making national news for banning children who disrupt the dining experience. For La Fisheria in Houston, TX, children under 9-years-old are not allowed to dine after 7 p.m. to prevent noisy, rowdy disturbances from bothering other patrons, while Rainy Days Caffe in Lake Stevens, WA, made the decision to selectively refuse service after one particular incident. Lorraine MacDuff, owner, told ABC News that she asked one family to leave after the child stomped crumbs into the restaurant's freshly cleaned carpets. MacDuff then posted a photo of the messy floor on Facebook to highlight her appreciation for those who respect her business, but was met with dissention and controversy.
No matter the restaurant, the public seems torn. While some find such measures to be exclusionary and extreme, others appreciate the sentiment. Many parents bring their children into these establishments, but neglect to control and discipline their kids when their behavior gets out of hand. They allow their offspring to run rampant, turning the restaurant into their own personal playground. In such cases, the problem does not lie with the establishment for implementing such rules, but with the parents who refuse to set boundaries.
These owners retain the freedom to refuse service to certain patrons, children included, and by asking families to leave, they display their gratitude to those who consistently respect their establishment. Owners across America, just like MacDuff, believe such measures preserve the customer experience for those who wish to escape the chaos that unruly children can create. For some, going out to eat offers an opportunity to escape from the hectic world of child rearing, and these restaurants want to maintain that integrity and offer the most enjoyable atmosphere possible.
Where do you fall on this spectrum? Do you believe this growing trend might be too extreme, or do you think these establishments are on the right track? Let us know in the comments below!


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Last weekend I was awake at 5:30 am, to worship with 9 others in a tiny stone chapel in the Berkshires. There was no accompaniment to support our scratchy morning voices, but we sang nonetheless. As we all stood around the altar in the warmly lit chapel wrapped in that deep stillness that precedes the dawn, the presiding priest chanted the Kyrie Eleison (Lord, have mercy - if you're not up on your Greek), and made the sign of the cross on each of our foreheads with water. The Kyrie echoed off the walls with our response. I felt as if we had somehow bumbled our way to T.S. Eliot's "still point of the turning world. " Now that I'm immersed in the normal chaos of my life (I just demanded that my 13-yr old come down from the roof), I long for that still point. I found it again in these two beautiful a capella Kyries.
The first of the two is from the Missa Pange Lingua of Josquin Des Prez, a major composer of liturgical music from the 15th/16th century. This mass is a cantus firmus - which means its magnificent polyphony sits on top of a base melody (the fixed song or cantus firmus). Originally such compositions were based on ecclesial chants, but later drew from popular secular music. This mass is set, perhaps a bit ironically for this Remembrance Day weekend, on a French Renaissance song "L'homme armé" (the armed man). (My kids read this and wondered what it might be like if you wrote a mass setting to "Row, row, row your boat" or Britney Spears' latest. Food for thought?)
If you long for more stillness in motion, read Burnt Norton or listen to Eliot read it. You can find the rest of Missa Pange Lingua at Amazon as a CD or downloadable MP3.


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Vancouver Aquarium Whales, Dolphins Just Can't Catch A Break
The whales and dolphins at Vancouver Aquarium just can't seem to catch a break. Even the city's new bylaw that bans breeding and introduces new, independent public oversight of the Stanley Park attraction won't offer much relief for the captive cetaceans. Because, as it turns out, there never was a bylaw after all.


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A replica model of the Mil-24V Hind helicopter took 15 years and more than 8000 hours to complete. The work on building this model began in Kiev in 1986 and it was completed in Canada in 2001. There are over 100,000 parts used in this model, many of them fabricated under a microscope!
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Alfa Hotel Florence is situated in an elegant residential area in the historical centre of Florence. The Hotel is situated on the first floor of an antique building and has quiet, luminous and comfortable rooms, all with private bathroom, TV, telephone and safe. Alfa Hotel Florence is near the characteristic market of S. Ambrogio, the antique market, Borgo La Croce and Via Gioberti ideal for shopping. Bus stops are easily accessible for every other destination: for example Piazzale Michelangelo, Forte Belvedere, the Fortezza and Campo di Marte. There is a relaxing lounge for reading and meetings, breakfast area, internet point and a garage open 24 hours. The hotel has been recently renovated and the furnishings have been renewed. The hotel can be reached by bus no.6. Only a brief walk to reach the Accademy museum, the Duomo, the Uffizi, the famous Ponte Vecchio, Piazza S. Croce the the nearby Sinagogue.
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Western Swing is another unique and worthy route on Windy Peak's south face put in by Larry DeAngelo. After climbing a Song and a Prayer (5.10R) and discovering that it was sort of an obscure gem, I went for Western Swing. It did not disappoint. Larry established both of these routes in 2005. Jerry Handren included it in his book, Red Rocks a Climbers Guide, but did not give as much detail on the route as he normally does, just copied what Larry put up on rockclimbing.com. After you get through Hot Fudge Thursday (5.9) and Jubliant Song (5.8), the rest of Windy Peak's routes are fairly obscure, owing mostly to the approach. It is not much by Canadian Rockies standards, but more than most of the lower 48 will endure for an eight pitch route. Windy Peak is named such for a reason, the upper face is south facing and the prevailing winds from west to east can enter the head space of leaders en route. However, most of this route is fairly well protected by corners and roofs. The descent is also a walk off making the route more plausible despite windy and/or cold conditions. 686458
The approach and setting for the south face of Windy Peak is outstanding. Western Swing has two different continuation options after the first four pitches. Therefore, it is a just a four pitch route in terms of new ground, stealing the last four to five pitches of Jubilant Song to make for the most obvious finish. You can exit the route via a dirty crack above the fourth and fifth pitch of Jubilant Song, but I recommend just finishing Jubilant Song at that point. The money pitches are the 3rd and 4th pitches which I combined on my lead as my partner was not comfortable leading that grade on sandstone. I can only recommend one consider combining these pitches if the leader follows solid double rope management, utilize long slings, place gear judiciously and extend the 2nd pitch up into the large chimney a bit. The first two pitches run up a discontinuous corner system just to the right of Jubilant Song and a Song and a Prayer. Neither of these first two pitches is long or difficult (5.8). The third pitch is a hard chimney pitch in that the chimney is quite flaring compared to the parallel chimney walls on Epinephrine for example. The fourth pitch is a difficult to protect traverse across the face to avoid deteriorating rock further up in the corner/roof. It leads to a fairly easy (5.9) break through the significant roof and then a 5th class walk back left to Jubilant Song's corner.
The general approach hike is the same for all the climbs on the south face. Descend from the trail head looking to gain a trail that eventually circumvents the obvious large pile of brown and red rocks to the right. Descend into a wash from there and attempt to pick up a faint trial that leads up into the canyon. Gain a trail that climbs the left side of the canyon until you reach what they refer to as the "football field", which is basically a large vegetated plateau that is still separated from the south wall by another peak of sorts. Follow well marked cairns at this point (2009) as they direct you up and right at the other end of the "field". Eventually gain a saddle of sorts and traverse the slick rock in front of you over to the base of the south face. Jubilant Song is to the left and Hot Fudge Thursday to the right from where you emerge here. Western Swing runs up the tall corner just to the right of Jubilant Song that reaches an arching roof above.
Route Description800', 8 Pitches, 5.10b
1st Pitch- 100'- 5.7/ Run up the obvious corner, placing gear at will, to a large ledge with a tree for belay. Same ledge used for Song and a Prayer and Jubilant Song. The corner is a little chossy towards the top.
2nd Pitch- 80'- 5.8/ Start in the next corner directly above. Bypass a small tree/bush by climbing out on the face to the left. Enter the deep chimney (can't see it from below) and set up a belay with large gear a few meters up if you want to combine those 3rd-4th pitches. Otherwise, might as well set up belay right after the tree/bush where it is more comfortable.
3rd-4th Pitches- 200'- 5.10b/ These are the money pitches, a unique chimney experience followed by an exposed traverse through a break in the large roof above. This chimney portion is considerably more difficult than Epinephrine's chimney pitches. It becomes quite flared the further you get which makes standard chimney technique a bit awkward. The outside wall gets slick and blank and is definitely where you want to have your back for the crux sections. Towards the top where it converts back into a finger crack/corner, you will make the crux move of the climb by doing a 360 as you maneuver an awkward hanging move above a chock stone. By this time however, you will have found some solid pro in the wall and crack. Do a few layback moves looking for the positive edges to traverse out right onto the face below the large roof above. Angle up and right through a depression that is challenging to protect (sliding ball nuts would be helpful) towards an obvious break in the roof above. There are positive edges to maneuver (5.9), but the ground is slightly run out. Once you get into the break, mantel up through the corner, making sure to utilize double length slings because once you break out up above, you will need to drag the ropes (4th-5th class) way back left to set you up for the next pitch on Jubilant Song.
5th- 8th Pitches- 500'- 5.8/ This section of Jubilant Song will show up as four to five pitches in other beta although it can easily be done in three pitches. Head up to the huge roof above. Traverse straight out right until at a break in the roof. Set up a semi-hanging belay here. Pull the roof and follow easy ground/chimney until you can move out right to ascend an obvious water streak. There is an old bolt here protecting the only real climbing move since the roof pull. Set up a semi-hanging belay in a decent crack right above this bolt. Follow the water streak above for a cleaner path or take on the loose line to the left. In either case, make for the break in the skyline to the left. Climb a short and easy chimney section and set up belay with a large piece. I typically put the ropes away at this point. Walk up the corner and cross over angled slab. Mantle up to the next level and walk onto the lower shoulder of the summit of Windy Peak.
Climbing Sequence
This summit is a popular objective among scramblers. Thus the descent ridge is nothing more than a hike really. Descend the southwest ridge via plenty of cairns (2009). Once you have descended approximately 1000', look for cairns leading back left along a bench below a wall that dips and re-ascends to a notch with a large cairn. Aim for this notch and descend the other side to the base of the route. The earlier you turn left and get below the wall, the less bushwhacking you will encounter.


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It's simple: without volunteers, TennisWorks wouldn't work. Our programs rely on the collective power of volunteer coaches, mentors, tutors, friends and role models to empower and inspire our students.
TennisWorks is a big program; we serve around 400 students from 3rd-12th grade every year. It's thanks to the generosity of dozens of volunteers that we can say that. They are the backbone of our after-school, evening and weekend programs, allowing us to offer truly personalized support and guidance to our students. Over the 2016-2017 school year, volunteers gave more than 1000 hours to our education programs--a contribution whose value we estimate at nearly $10,000.
Our volunteers range from junior players to college students to longtime patrons; some play tennis, others pick up a racquet for the first time along with our TennisWorks students. All we ask of our volunteers is that they come ready to laugh, play, teach and learn.
For more information on volunteering with our TennisWorks program, contact Judy Long: email@example.com
We also have a continuous need for volunteers to help run our Little Stars classes for 5-8 year olds, a position we often fill with high school players from our Junior Program. Interested in volunteering with Little Stars? Contact Junior Program Director Clay: email@example.com.


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I Would Be TrueJohn Rutter - Oxford University Press
A cappella This text by Howard Walter was used at the funeral of Princess Diana. Expertly set for a cappella voices to the tune of Danny Boy, it is appropriate for any worship service or memorial occasion. "I would be true, for there are those who trust me; I would be pure, for there are those who care; I would be strong, for there is much to suffer; I would be brave, for there is much to dare..."
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Islander Resort Offers Discount Code for Surfers Paradise Festival Guests
Islander Resort Hotel is offering a special 'from $99' rate on hotel rooms for guests attending upcoming Surfers Paradise events
April 2, 2014 (Newswire.com) - Anyone looking for a Gold Coast budget accommodation for the upcoming Surfers Paradise events should check out the Islander Resort Hotel. The hotel is offering a 'from $99' rate on hotel rooms for guests attending upcoming Surfers Paradise events, such as the Surfers Paradise Festival that begins 2 April and runs through 26 April. In order to obtain the rate, guests need to use the code EVENT14 on the booking site. The code is valid through June 30.
The Surfers Paradise Festival kicks off this week with the Street Parade at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, 2 April. There are lots of great events throughout the month-long festival, but some of the highlights are Launch It and Surf, Seafood & Symphony.
Launch It, which runs from Friday, 4 April to Sunday, 6 April, is a three-day beach concert. Tickets for Friday night are $37.75 (includes booking fee and processing charge), and passes are available for the rest of the weekend, which run $50 a person.
New for this year's festival, Surf, Seafood & Symphony features a daylong food showcase from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., 12 April. Top chefs from Surfers Paradise restaurants will provide cooking demonstrations, and visitors can nosh on yummy dishes, most under $10. Starting at 7 p.m., the Gold Coast Philharmonic Orchestra, accompanied by vocalists Greg Moore and Kimberly Hodgson, will play on the beach.
With this rate from the Islander, guests can opt to stay at this Gold Coast budget accommodation for several days to soak up several of the festival's events. All of which are within walking distance of the hotel.
This rate runs through June 30, so visitors can take in more upcoming events in the area. These fun events include the free Blues on Broadbeach, which runs May 22 to 25, and QT Fashion Week from 29 May to 1 June. Tickets start at $18.
For booking directly visit: Islander Resort Hotel Booking or email Islander at: email@example.com
About Islander Resort Hotel
Islander Resort Hotel, located in the heart of Queensland's Gold Coast, is a three-star rated hotel that offers affordable accommodation rates and packages for individuals, families and group travellers. They have dorms, apartments and discounted hotel rooms to fit every budget. It is proud to be a 100% Australian owned and operated and has been operating under the same management since 1992. For more information visit Islander Resort Hotel.
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