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Tursiops truncatus ssp. ponticus
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Tursiops truncatus ssp. ponticus Barabasch, 1940
|Parent Species:
Common Name(s):
|Taxonomic Notes:
|Bottlenose Dolphins in the Black Sea are recognized as a subspecies possessing morphological differences from Atlantic and Pacific populations (Barabasch-Nikiforov 1960, Geptner et al. 1976). The Black Sea population is also differentiated genetically from other bottlenose dolphin populations in the eastern and western Mediterranean and the northeastern Atlantic (Natoli et al. 2005), and this evidence supports recognition of T. t. ponticus (A. Natoli pers. comm. 2006).
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Endangered A2cde ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Birkun, A.
|Brownell Jr., R.L. & Crespo, E.
The Black Sea bottlenose dolphin, T. t. ponticus, qualifies for listing as Endangered based on criterion A2cde.
Generation time was not estimated for this subspecies; it was assumed to be approximately 20 years, as for the Mediterranean bottlenose dolphin (Taylor et al. 2007 estimated 23 years for the species). Thus, three generations for Black Sea bottlenose dolphins would be about 60 years.
There is no estimate of total population size but information from incomplete surveys suggests that the current population size is at least several 1,000s of animals.
The past 60-year period (1946-2005; three generations) includes events, circumstances and trends that are relevant to Criterion A, as follows:
(1) Large directed takes occurred before the ban on small cetacean hunting was declared in Turkey in 1983. Within the 38-year period from 1946-1983, the total number of bottlenose dolphins killed was at least 24,000-28,000 but certainly much greater (probably by tens of 1000s) because those figures do not incorporate any catch statistics from Romania, or for Turkey before 1976 and after 1981, or for Bulgaria before 1958 (see "Threats"). There are indications of some recent intentional killing and harassment in Ukraine;
(2) Regionally dispersed incidental mortality in bottom-set gillnets from 1946 through the 1980s is roughly estimated at some 100s per year. The scale of this mortality almost certainly increased in the 1990s-2000s owing to the rapid expansion of illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing in the Black Sea;
(3) Hundreds and probably 1,000 bottlenose dolphins have been live-captured in the Black Sea for captivity since the mid 1960s. This does not account for mortality (usually unreported) during capture operations. Live-captures continue in the Russian Federation, with 10-20 animals taken annually from a small area;
(4) A mortality event of unknown cause occurred in 1990;
(5) There has been ongoing degradation of the Black Sea environment overall (including bottlenose dolphin habitat) and declines in many of its indigenous animal populations (including bottlenose dolphin prey) from the 1970s to the present, with a likely peak in the devastation caused by overfishing and habitat deterioration (including pollution and explosive growth of populations of invasive species) in the late 1980s–early 1990s. These processes, taken together, have led to severe declines in prey populations.
The inference of a reduction in population size of 50% was supported by a simple simulation in which the population was assumed to increase at a constant rate of 4% per year and the direct and incidental removals (as indicated by points (1), (2) and (3) above) were estimated realistically. This simulation showed that a decline of more than 50% in the last three generations would be required for the current population size to be about 15,000.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
The range of Black Sea Bottlenose Dolphins includes the Black Sea proper; Kerch Strait along with the adjoining part of the Azov Sea (Tzalkin 1940, Birkun et al. 1997, Sokolov 1997); and the Turkish Straits System (TSS) (Kleinenberg 1956, Beaubrun 1995, Öztürk and Öztürk 1997) (see Figure 1 in the Supplementary Material). The genetic data suggest that the TSS constitutes an ecological barrier between the Black Sea dolphins and those in the Mediterranean, although limited gene flow between the two seas is probable. A possible vagrant from the Black Sea population was identified genetically in the western Mediterranean (Natoli et al. 2005).
The range of the Black Sea subspecies includes the territorial waters and exclusive economic zones of Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine in the Black Sea; internal waters of Ukraine in the Black Sea (including the Dnieper-and-Boug Liman, Karkinitsky Bay and Donuzlav Lake); internal waters of Russia and Ukraine in the Kerch Strait and Azov Sea; and internal waters of Turkey, represented by the Turkish Straits System including the Bosphorus Strait, Marmara Sea and Dardanelles. There are a few records of Bottlenose Dolphins entering rivers, e.g. the Danube in Romania (Police 1930, cited in Tomilin 1957) and the Dnieper in Ukraine (Birkun 2006).
Population structure within the Black Sea is likely (Bel'kovich 1996), with several subpopulations or "semi-resident" communities, including those that spend most of the year in geographically and ecologically different areas, e.g. northwestern Black Sea; coastal waters off the southern Crimea; Kerch Strait and adjoining portions of the Black Sea and Azov Sea; shelf waters off the Caucasian coast; Turkish Black Sea; and TSS.[Note: It has been agreed that territorial waters of all six Black Sea countries constitute the 12-mile-wide aquatic strip along the coasts of the sea; marine boundaries of the countries coincide with the external (offshore) border of this strip. However, there are some areas where the sea runs deep inland (gulfs, bays, etc.), and in these places the 12-mile rule does not work. These water bodies are situated quite far from the state boundaries and constitute the so-called "internal [marine] waters" of the Black Sea countries.]
The map shows where the species may occur. The species has not been recorded for all the states within the hypothetical range as shown on the map. States for which confirmed records of the species exist are included in the list of native range states.
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Bulgaria; Georgia; Romania; Russian Federation; Turkey (Turkey-in-Europe); Ukraine (Ukraine (main part))
|FAO Marine Fishing Areas:
Mediterranean and Black Sea
|Additional data:
|Range Map:
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|The total population size is unknown. Region-wide estimates of absolute abundance, based on strip transect surveys carried out in the USSR (1967–1974) and Turkey (1987), have been discredited by the IWC Scientific Committee due to irremediable methodological and interpretive problems (Smith 1982, Buckland et al. 1992). During most of the 20th century, the Bottlenose Dolphin was considered the least abundant of the three cetacean species in the Black Sea (Tzalkin 1940, Kleinenberg 1956, Geptner et al. 1976, Yaskin and Yukhov 1997). During the last decade, Bottlenose Dolphins have become prevalent in coastal waters of the northern Black Sea (Birkun et al. 2004b). The estimated sighting rate increased by a factor of five between 1995 and 1997–1998. There is an annual autumn accumulation of Bottlenose Dolphins in waters close to the southern extremity of the Crimea (Cape Fiolent – Cape Sarych). Groups of hundreds of animals migrate every autumn to this relatively small area from the eastern and, probably, other parts of the Black Sea (Birkun et al. 2004b, Birkun 2006). Estimates of abundance from recent line transect surveys in different parts of the range (see Table 1 in the Supplementary Material) suggest that present population size is at least several 1,000s.
Population Trend
In the 20th century, the number of Black Sea Bottlenose Dolphins was reduced by direct killing for the cetacean-processing industry, which continued until 1983. The numbers of animals taken were not recorded accurately; much of the catch data was recorded as numbers of animals undifferentiated to species (all three Black Sea cetacean species were targeted) and by wet weight aggregates (e.g. tons of small cetaceans landed). Nevertheless, it can be inferred that the population size of T. t. ponticus had been reduced by many thousands as a result of these direct kills by the time of the total ban on the Black Sea dolphin fishery (see "Threats" section). It is suspected that during the period from 1983–2005, the population had a tendency to increase. However, it is also suspected that recovery was compromised by a mortality event in 1990 and is continuing to be compromised by the persistent and probably increasing anthropogenic influences listed below under "Threats".
Generation Time
It was assumed that Black Sea Bottlenose Dolphins have a life history similar to T. truncatus elsewhere and therefore that the generation time is approximately 20 years. The interval between births is from two or three to six years (Tomilin 1957), but in captive females the reproductive cycle can be as short as two years (Ozharovskaya 1997). It was assumed that one female is unlikely to produce more than eight calves in her lifetime (Tomilin 1984, cited after: Ozharovskaya 1997). Sexual behaviour can be observed during the whole year with a peak in spring and early summer. The reproductive season (maximum five spontaneous ovulations) extends from March to October with a peak in June; the highest concentrations of testosterone in males were recorded in July and the lowest in January (Ozharovskaya 1997). Gestation lasts 12 months. Lactation can last more than 1.5 years.
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|Bottlenose Dolphins are distributed across the Black Sea shelf; they sometimes occur far offshore (Beaubrun 1995, Yaskin and Yukhov 1997). In the northern Black Sea they form scattered communities of some tens to approximately 150 animals in different places around Crimea, including the Kerch Strait and coastal waters off the western and southern extremities of the peninsula (Zatevakhin and Bel'kovich 1996, Birkun et al. 2004a, Birkun 2006). Accumulations also are known to form off the Russian Caucasus (Olga Shpak pers. comm. 2005) and close to the Turkish coast (Sergey Krivokhizhin pers. comm., 2005). Bottlenose Dolphins typically aggregate during autumn, winter and spring in a relatively small area off southern Crimea between Cape Sarych and Cape Khersones (Birkun et al. 2006). According to a 2-year photo-identification study, this "winter" accumulation consists of animals from other "summer" concentrations. Mean group sizes varied from 2.0 to 2.9 in different surveyed areas (Birkun et al. 2002, 2003, 2004a).
The peculiarities of cetacean ecology in the Black Sea are conditioned mainly by the high degree of geographical isolation of the sea, its relatively low salinity, significant seasonal fluctuations of water temperature, and the presence of anoxic water saturated with hydrogen sulphide below 100–250 m depth. Bottlenose Dolphins are primarily piscivorous in the Black Sea, taking both benthic and pelagic fishes, large and small. A total of 16 fish species have been reported as prey off the Crimean and Caucasian coasts (Tzalkin 1940, Kleinenberg 1956, Tomilin 1957, Krivokhizhin et al. 2000) including four species of mullet (Lisa aurata, L. saliens, Mugil cephalus and M. so-iuy).
|Major Threat(s):
In the past, the population was subject to extensive commercial killing. Bottlenose Dolphins were taken by all Black Sea countries for manufacturing oils, paint, glue, varnish, foodstuffs, medicine, soap, cosmetics, leather, "fish" meal and bone fertilizer (Kleinenberg 1956, Tomilin 1957, Buckland et al. 1992). The total number of animals killed is unknown; however, it is generally acknowledged that all Black Sea cetacean populations, including Bottlenose Dolphins, were greatly reduced by the dolphin fishery (IWC 1983, 1992, 2004). It has been roughly estimated that between the early 1930s and mid 1950s Bottlenose Dolphins constituted only 0.5% of the aggregate numbers of Black Sea cetaceans killed and processed in the USSR (Tzalkin 1940, Kleinenberg 1956) including present-day Russia, Ukraine and Georgia. The statistics of the fishery were commonly expressed as total weight or total numbers of animals in the catch without species differentiation. Using the value of 0.5%, Zemsky (1996) estimated that a total of only 4,279 Bottlenose Dolphins were taken in the USSR (1946-1966) and Bulgaria (1958–1966), with yearly variation from 30 (in 1966) to 656 (in 1959). These figures are very likely underestimated to a great extent for the following reasons: (a) in spring 1946, more than 3,000 Bottlenose Dolphins were caught during a single day in one location close to the southern Crimea (Kleinenberg 1956); (b) in 1961, the Bulgarian cetacean fishery concentrated almost exclusively on bottlenose dolphins and about 13,000 of them were taken (Nikolov 1963 cited in Sal'nikov 1967); (c) in April 1966, a single dolphin-processing factory in Novorossiysk, Russia, processed 53 Bottlenose Dolphins (Danilevsky and Tyutyunnikov 1968).
Thus, taking into consideration the unknown but presumably significant size of the Turkish and Romanian catches, it can be inferred that the number of Bottlenose Dolphins killed before the mid 1960s was sometimes very high. From 1976 to 1981, Bottlenose Dolphins were believed to account for 2–3% of the total catch in the Turkish cetacean fishery, which took an estimated 34,000–44,000 small cetaceans annually (IWC 1983, Klinowska 1991). This would imply 680–1,320 Bottlenose Dolphins per year, or 4,080–7,920 for the six years all told. No reliable information is available on illegal commercial killing of Black Sea Bottlenose Dolphins since the ban on cetacean fisheries in 1983. Isolated cases of deliberate killing and harassment (with pyrotechnic devices and firearms) have been reported in coastal fisheries. For instance, at least two bottlenose dolphins were reportedly shot in Balaklava, Ukraine (S. Popov pers. comm. 2004).
Since the mid 1960s, many hundreds of Bottlenose Dolphins (probably >1,000, not including those that died during capture operations) have been live-captured in the former USSR, Russia, Ukraine and Romania for military, commercial and scientific purposes (Birkun 2002a). The capture operations sometimes cause accidental (but usually unreported) deaths. In recent years, 10–20 animals have been taken annually in May–June from a small area in the Kerch Strait, Russia. During the 1980s–early 2000s the number of facilities for dolphin shows and "swim with dolphins" programmes greatly increased in Black Sea countries. The export of bottlenose dolphins from Russia and Ukraine for permanent and seasonal shows also expanded, for example, to Argentina, Bahrain, Byelorus, Chile, Cyprus, Egypt, Hungary, Iran, Israel, Kuwait, Lithuania, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam, and former Yugoslavia countries. A few captive animals were exported from Georgia to Yugoslavia and then re-exported to Malta. According to CITES statistics, at least 92 individuals were removed from the Black Sea region during 1990–1999 (Reeves et al. 2003) and Russia reportedly has exported at least 66 for travelling shows since 1997 (Fisher and Reeves 2005).
At present, incidental mortality in fishing gear is probably one of the main threats to T. t. ponticus, although these animals have never been the predominant species in national cetacean bycatch statistics. They constituted no more than 3% of the totals in the reports from Black Sea countries during the 1990s (Birkun 2002b). At least 200–300 Bottlenose Dolphins were estimated as being taken incidentally in Turkish fisheries each year (Öztürk 1999). They are known to be susceptible to capture in a variety of fishing nets, including bottom-set gillnets for turbot (Psetta maeotica), spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias), sturgeon (Acipenser spp.) and sole (Solea spp.), purse seines for mullet (Mugil spp. and Lisa spp.) and anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus ponticus), trammel nets and trap nets. However, only bottom-set gillnets are thought to take significant numbers, especially during the turbot fishing season between April and June.
Small-scale coastal fisheries also affect Black Sea Bottenose Dolphins indirectly by depleting their prey populations.Declining trends have been observed in the abundance of indigenous mullets (M. cephalus and Lisa spp.) (Zaitsev and Mamaev 1997). At the same time, the effects of a suspected decrease in cetacean forage resources (Bushuyev 2000) might be offset at least to some extent by the introduced far-east mullet, M. so-iuy, which has become abundant in the northern Black Sea since the 1990s (Zaitsev and Mamaev 1997). In fact, it may be responsible for the relocation of Bottlenose Dolphin groups and the recent marked increases in density along the Crimean coast (see "Abundance").
According to annual compilations of cetacean stranding records in Crimea (Krivokhizhin and Birkun 1999), there was a prominent peak in T. t. ponticus strandings in 1990 (20 dead animals, representing 44% of all Bottlenose Dolphin strandings reported from 1989–1996). The primary cause and magnitude of that spike in Bottlenose Dolphin mortality remains unclear, although it can be inferred that many more than just 20 animals died. Severe purulent pneumonia was revealed in some cases. The multi-microbial pollution from untreated sewage in coastal waters poses a chronic risk of opportunistic bacterial infections to Bottlenose Dolphins, and there is evidence that they (as well as other Black Sea cetaceans) are exposed to morbillivirus infection (Birkun 2002c). Another ongoing problem (as a potential source of exotic infections and genetic "pollution") is the poorly managed intentional releases and spontaneous escapes of captive Bottlenose Dolphins and other marine mammals from dolphinaria or oceanaria (e.g., Veit et al. 1997, ACCOBAMS/SC 2005).
|Conservation Actions:
The species T. truncatus is listed as Least Concern by IUCN, although the Black Sea population is highlighted as a concern in the IUCN SSC Cetacean Specialist Group's 2002–2010 Conservation Action Plan (Reeves et al. 2003).
Commercial hunting of Black Sea cetaceans, including Bottlenose Dolphins, was banned in 1966 in the former USSR, Bulgaria and Romania, and in 1983 in Turkey. The riparian states assumed international obligations to protect Black Sea cetaceans as contracting parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats (Berne Convention), Convention on the Protection of the Black Sea Against Pollution (Bucharest Convention), Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES, Appendix II), and the Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans in the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and Contiguous Atlantic Area (ACCOBAMS). The 1st Session of the Meeting of the Parties to ACCOBAMS (2002) adopted a resolution to strengthen measures for restricting the deliberate catching, keeping and trade of Black Sea bottlenose dolphins. At the 12th Conference of the Parties to CITES (2002), a quota of zero was established for commercial export of live dolphins wild-captured in the Black Sea. In 2003 the IWC Scientific Committee's Sub-Committee on Small Cetaceans reviewed the status of Black Sea Bottlenose Dolphins and concluded that this population should be managed for conservation as a distinct entity (IWC 2004).
The Bottlenose Dolphin is included in Annex II of the EC Directive No.92/43/EEC on the conservation of natural habitats of wild fauna and flora. In 1996 the Ministers of Environment of Black Sea countries adopted cetacean conservation and research measures in the framework of the Strategic Action Plan for the Rehabilitation and Protection of the Black Sea (paragraph 62). The Bottlenose Dolphin is included as Data Deficient in the regional Black Sea Red Data Book (1999). However, in 2002 it was listed as Endangered in the Provisional List of Species of Black Sea Importance, an annex to the Black Sea Biodiversity and Landscape Conservation Protocol of the Bucharest Convention. The regional Conservation Plan for Cetaceans in the Black Sea has been drafted in accordance with the ACCOBAMS International Implementation Priorities for 2002–2006 (Notarbartolo di Sciara 2002).
On a national level, Black Sea cetaceans, including Bottlenose Dolphins, are protected by environmental laws, governmental decrees and national Red Data Books. The Bottlenose Dolphin is listed in the Red Data Books of Bulgaria, Georgia, Russia and Ukraine (which do not use the IUCN categories and criteria). In Russia and Ukraine, Red Book inscription means that a species should be monitored and managed by appropriate state/national programmes. Such a programme has existed in Ukraine since 1999 (the Delfin-programme adopted by the Ministry of Environment). Action Plans for the conservation of Black Sea cetaceans were produced in Ukraine (2001) and Romania (2003) but they have no legal effect. The ACCOBAMS Implementation Priorities for 2002-2006 (Notarbartolo di Sciara 2002) envisage the development of a pilot conservation and management project to benefit Bottlenose Dolphins and Harbour Porpoises in the well-defined area between Cape Sarych and Cape Khersones, southern Crimea (Ukraine).
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Mass. man accused of assaulting K-mart employee in shoplifting case
June 26. 2013 10:24AM
SALEM – A K-Mart employee was punched in the face after he confronted a shoplifter armed with a knife outside the store Tuesday night, police said.
The loss prevention officer, who was not identified in a police news release, was taken to a local hospital where police said he was treated for a broken orbital bone, broken nose and a possible concussion.
The incident happened about 7:20 pm. The employee confronted the man outside the store after seeing him allegedly shoplift.
The man punched the employee in the face and then ran off towards Route 28. The employee told police that as the man told him he had a knife and threatened to stab him.
Officer Ryan Sambataro saw the man running through traffic on Route 28 North, caught up to him and took the knife away from him after a brief struggle.
He then arrested the man, identified as Carmelo Baez, 35, of Lawrence, for second degree assault; criminal threatening with a weapon; resisting arrest; disorderly conduct, and on an electronic bench warrant.

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OTTAWA – The Tory-dominated, closed-door Senate committee studying Mike Duffy's improper housing expenses deleted a specific reference to his failure to co-operate with auditors before releasing its report to the public.
Duffy, meanwhile, said Wednesday he's pleased that same committee will be reviewing his expenses once again.
A draft of the internal economy committee's report from earlier this month, obtained by The Canadian Press, shows the sections of the report that were later dropped.
Duffy's apparent stonewalling of auditors happened after he had repaid $90,172 in expenses, a payment facilitated by a secret exchange of money with Prime Minister Stephen Harper's then-chief of staff Nigel Wright. Wright has since resigned and Duffy has left the Tory caucus.
The dropped paragraph details how the firm Deloitte was rebuffed when it asked Duffy again to provide additional documents, and for a meeting with his lawyer.
"In the circumstances the review that Deloitte has been asked to undertake is now unnecessary," Duffy's lawyer is quoted as saying in the original committee report.
"The considerable time required for Sen. Duffy to compile the extensive information and documentation required of him by Deloitte as well as his participation in the review of that material, to say nothing of the public expense involved in the same, is no longer needed."
Another section of the report, describing the language that defines a primary or secondary residence as "unambiguous," was also deleted — but it remained in the reports tabled on two other senators, Mac Harb and Patrick Brazeau.
The Liberals on the committee opposed the final Duffy report when it was tabled in the Senate on May 9.
"My understanding is that the committee reported, used different wording for Sen. Duffy because the money had been repaid, and in the case of Sen. Harb and Sen. Brazeau, that language was used as an instrument to collect the money," said Conservative Sen. Marjory LeBreton.
LeBreton was asked whether there was a secret agreement to go easy on Duffy in the report. "That is an allegation that I have absolutely no proof of," she replied.
The Conservatives have now tasked the same committee with reviewing Duffy's expenses again. The Canadian Press reported last week that Duffy had been campaigning for the party across the country on some of the same days he said he was on Senate business.
Liberal senators had wanted to send Duffy's expense file straight to the RCMP, but their motion to do so was deemed out of order by the Senate Speaker late Tuesday night.
"I think that this whole controversy has reached the stage where we need to have a new set of eyes look at it, that it's appropriate to put this in the hands of people who are trained to do these kinds of investigations," said Liberal Senate leader James Cowan.
"That's the RCMP."
Cowan added Wednesday night that he had sent a letter to the chair and vice-chair of the senate committee, urging them to make future meetings on Duffy's expenses open to the public and the media.
"In order to regain the public's trust, Canadians need to be reassured that this crisis will be dealt with fairly, impartially and comprehensively, and that can only be achieved by ensuring that all future meetings on this matter are held in public," he wrote in the letter.
Cowan said he hoped LeBreton would sign the letter as well but, he said, she declined.
Auditors at Deloitte said in their own report that because of Duffy's failure to give them all the requisite documents, they couldn't determine which days he was claiming expenses.
Duffy released a statement saying he welcomed the fact the internal economy committee would be taking up the matter again.
"Canadians deserve to know all the facts. I am confident that when they do they will conclude, as Deloitte has already concluded, that my actions regarding expenses do not merit criticism."
Duffy was in the Senate chamber Wednesday, but did not speak to reporters as he left the building. A woman driving the minivan that picked him up honked at camera technicians who waited outside on Parliament Hill.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, fielding his first public questions on the matter since it erupted last week, said he assumed what many Canadians did when he first learned of Duffy's repayment: that he footed the bill himself.
"Look, I think my belief here was reasonable … that when it was said that Mr. Duffy had repaid his expenses, that indeed he — and not someone else — had repaid his expenses," Harper said.
"I know Mr. Wright assisted him or did this for him, because he wanted to see the taxpayers reimbursed. That's the right motive, but nevertheless it was obviously not correct for that decision to be made and executed without my knowledge or without public transparency."
Harper spoke in Peru, where he is on a trade mission in South and Latin America, leaving Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird to respond to questions in the House of Commons.
Baird said Tuesday that two "independent" investigations were being undertaken into Duffy's expenses, without naming the investigators. It subsequently emerged that the parliamentary ethics commissioner and the Senate internal economy committee were involved.
NDP Leader Tom Mulcair said no Canadian would consider the Senate committee an "independent" review.
"Does the minister not realize that that's about as credible as Paul Martin asking Jean Chretien to investigate the sponsorship scandal?" Mulcair snapped in the Commons on Wednesday.
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau flatly accused the government of obstructing a Senate audit.
"We know now that Conservatives on the Senate committee on internal economy used their majority to doctor the final report on Sen. Duffy's expenses," Trudeau charged. "Can anybody on that side of the House tell us who gave the order to whitewash the report on Sen. Duffy?"
Baird said the committee report was clear "that these expenses should not have been expensed."
"No one in the government is disputing that fact. As I understand it, the report did in the end reflect the fact that repayment had been made."


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What better way to celebrate going back to school than with food, fun and shopping for that perfect "first day" outfit? At Devereux Florida's Back-to-School Open House, held Aug. 24 at the Family Counseling Center, about 60 foster children and their foster families did just that. As the Devereux team led fun activities for the kids, parents filled free tote bags with donated clothing, toys and supplies. "It was a wonderful opportunity for foster parents to interact with the staff that supports them each day," said Devereux Florida Program Director Tia Llewellyn.
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Another incredible Whoop-Up weekend
Page 1 of 2By Buck Traxler, I-O Editor
The 69th annual Whoop Trail Days Rodeo and Rhubarb Festival are in the books for another year and everyone can take a sigh of relief.
Near perfect weather brought out crowds of people to line Main St. for the parades and Rhu Fest and see what crafts and food vendors had to offer or pop into the new store that Mitch Hauer opened on Saturday, Cravings, in the Downtown Mall building.
The Lions Club breakfast at Meadowlark School had one of the biggest turnouts ever that members can recall.
Following are the results of various activities that entertained a cast of thousands.
At the Rhubarb Festival, Kit Finlayson told the I-O, "We sold out of the pies very early even though we had twice as many as we had last year."
She went on to add, "We'll be making more next year in hopes of keeping up with the demand."
At the pie contest, first place went to Diana Harris with a Rhubarb custard pie. Second place went to Esther Finlayson for a Rhubarb raisin pie and third place went to Victoria Rohrer with a Raspberry Rhubarb pie.
In the dessert segment, first place went to Paula Hudson with a Rhubarb Huckleberry-Pistachio Crisp; Betty Young with Rhubarb crunch captured third and Loretta Coffman with a Rhubarb upside down cake placed third.
In the largest leaf contest, it was Jean Duncan in first, Cheryl Tornga getting second and Shirley Marsh placing third.
Getting out for an 8:30 a.m. start, 67 runners and walkers participated in the annual Pondera Medical Center Fun run.
Charlene Bouma reported that times for the 5K race were faster this year than last. Grand prize winners in that event included; Blaine Berg-Conrad, 2 and under, 24:18; Age 13-19 group, Drew Keller from Shelby, 17:24. His time from last year was 18:30. The age group 20-49 winner was Vance Weckworth II from Great Falls with a time of 18:17. Last year he won this bracket with a time of 19:35. In the 50+ age bracket, Jim Hellinger of Shelby won with a clocking of 21:57.
Relay race winners, done on Main St. later in the morning, had Jennifer Schlepp, Diane Agree and Cristy Kulpus in first place in 3:11; second went to the PMC's Val Elings, Mary Johns, John Ringdahl and Pat Heinen. Third place with a time of 3:24 was had by the hospital's Vann Lovett, Jerrica Harris, James Cox and Lori Sebben in 3:24.
Participants in the 5K included, in order of their finishing included Elder Harmon Conrad; Christy Stubbs Conrad; Michele Chalmers, Choteau; Jessica Krivdsen, Conrad; Rob Cook, Dutton; Daneite Giond-Vanllichene, Choteau; Karrie Crabtree, Choteau; Lisa Young, Shelby; Brayden Stordahl, Conrad; Luke Weisgram, Conrad; Amy Bechtold, Choteau; Emily Weisgram, Conrad; Cory Rilley, Conrad; Step Hollar, Great Falls; Robin VanDyke, Conrad; Karl Bjelland, Conrad; Joe Seymour, Conrad; Morgan VanDyke, Conrad; Eddie Toliver, Conrad, Syd Rogers, Choteau; Debbie Munson, Shelby; Suni Kimball, Conrad; Brian Kimball, Conrad; Raymond Montoya, Conrad; Mike Egeland, Great Falls; Marty Metz, Conrad; Evan Pearson, Conrad,; and Sharon Stoetzel, Conrad.
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Hailey Glassman, Were You in a Rush to Get Out of Jon Gosselin's Apartment?
Looks like Jon might be spending some alone time this holiday season!
It's official: Hailey Glassman and Jon Gosselin are over — like, get-the-hell-out-never-want-to-see-you-again over! The 22-year-old packed up bags — lots of them — and moved them out of Jon's apartment in New York City just in time so she could spend Christmas somewhere else, HollywoodLife.com confirms.
We're told she even hauled out some of the stuff by herself Dec. 23 into a big moving van. Check out some photos TMZ snapped outside Jon's Upper West Side pad here.
No word on where she was off too but we have a feeling she's definitely glad to be outta there! After calling Jon her "first love" in a TV interview back in August, Hailey later had to find out in court that the dad of eight reportedly cheated on her with baby sitter Stephanie Santoro AND Star reporter Kate Major.
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I am killing myaelf tring to find the best way to go about this. My older brother promised to pay for everything if Notre Dame made the tourney, and of course they did (he made this promise during a preseason tournament when ND looked bad but ended up winning the thing). Anyways, I am wondering if anyone here has bought tickets for this before. Obviously, it is not set as to where the games will be, and what times. For the last several weeks, they have been projected to play their first 2 round games in Chicago.
Is this something where you have to wait until selection Sunday and then pounce? I have checked Notre Dame's site, which leads nowhere. Obviously each venue has tickets for sale, but no reason to buy when the times and destinations are not set.
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Spineless Classics turns Harry Potter, "The Hobbit" into poster art, literally
British company Spineless Classics has a novel approach to creating posters: it uses the novel itself as the art.
The company turns famous books like "The Hobbit," "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" and "Brave New World" into posters not by illustrating characters or scenes, but by artfully rearranging the text of the books. As in: if you were OCD enough and had a few hours to kill, you could actually read the entire book from the poster.
That may sound headache-inducing but it's surprisingly not, as I learned when the company sent me a fetching "A Clockwork Orange" poster a few weeks ago to mark their introduction to the U.S. market (the posters are online now but will soon be available locally at the Tattered Cover).
We caught up with Byron Peretsky, the manager for Spineless Classics' Denver-based U.S. operation, to talk about whether it's gimmick or art, and the future prospects for a company that serves a seemingly narrow niche market — but that already has competition in the form of Cambridge, Mass.-based Litographs.


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BAGHDAD (AP) — A coalition led by Iraq's prime minister has won the largest single bloc of seats in seven of 12 provinces participating in local elections, and tied in an eighth, although it failed to achieve a majority in any of the districts, electoral officials announced Saturday.
Last month's vote was for seats on local-level governorate councils and has no direct effect on the country's national posts. But the results do offer an important glimpse into levels of support for the country's political blocs heading into next year's parliamentary elections.
The results released Saturday by members of Iraq's Independent High Electoral Commission at a Baghdad hotel showed little change to preliminary results released last week.
Thousands of candidates from 50 electoral blocs vied for 378 seats on the provincial councils. Election officials reported that 51 percent of the 13.8 million eligible voters cast ballots — the same turnout as during the last provincial elections in 2009.
Crucially, Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's State of Law coalition was the top vote-getter in Baghdad and in the southern oil hub of Basra.
In Baghdad, al-Maliki's coalition took 20 out of the 58 seats. The second-place vote-getter, at least on paper, was Sunni parliament speaker Osama al-Nujaifi's bloc, which claimed seven seats.
Anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's main al-Ahrar bloc won five seats in Baghdad, but his followers also ran under other smaller voting lists that picked up seats. Together, the Sadrists claimed 11 seats in Baghdad, according to Sadrist lawmaker Amir al-Kinani.
Al-Maliki's State of Law also won the most seats of any bloc in Babil, Diwaniyah, Dhi Qar, Karbala and Muthanna provinces.
In Wasit province, southeast of Baghdad, State of Law and Shiite rival the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council each took seven seats.
Al-Sadr's bloc took the most seats in the southern Shiite province of Maysan, the only area where it currently holds the governorship.
Baghdad-based political analyst Hadi Jalo said State of Law's first-place showing in Baghdad and the Shiite dominated south was not surprising. But he said a drop in support for the bloc in some areas could signal challenges for it ahead.
"Al-Maliki's people could not achieve a comfortable majority, and this is an indication that they will face more difficulties in winning a third term in the upcoming general elections next year," he said. That will force him to rely more on more religious Shiite parties as well as the Kurds to keep his post, Jalo predicted.
A provincial-level coalition gained the most seats in the Shiite province of Najaf. Local coalitions also took the largest chunk of seats in the largely Sunni province of Salahuddin and the mixed province of Diyala.
The secular but Sunni-dominated Iraqiya bloc headed by Shiite politician Ayad Allawi had a disappointing showing, picking up no more than three seats in any of the provinces.
Iraqiya had proved to be a formidable challenger to al-Maliki in the 2010 parliamentary elections, picking up two more seats than the premier's bloc in an inconclusive election that ultimately left al-Maliki in power after months of political wrangling.
But it has grown fragmented since then, with key figures such as al-Nujaifi and Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Mutlaq — who previously banded with Iraqiya — fielding their own slates of candidates.
The relatively strong showing by al-Nujaifi over more moderate figures among Sunnis suggests a hardening of sectarian lines and a rejection of politicians willing to reach out to Shiites, Jalo said.
"The Sunnis in Iraq have chosen hard-liners because they think that the country is heading toward Shiite-Sunni conflict and they want strong leaders to face al-Maliki," he said.
The April 20 election was Iraq's first since the U.S. military withdrawal in late 2011. There was relatively little violence during the voting itself, though delayed elections in two provinces wracked by anti-government protests and complaints about missing names on voter rolls overshadowed the process.
An unusually bloody wave of violence that erupted just days after the election roiled the country as votes were being tallied.
The bloodshed began with a crackdown by security forces on a protest camp in the north of the country that government investigators said left more than 40 people dead. A spate of follow-up attacks and battles between gunmen and security forces has killed well over 200 more. That is raising fears the country could be heading for a new wave of sectarian fighting like that which nearly pushed it to the brink of civil war starting in the middle of the last decade.
The provincial councils have some say over regional security matters and have the ability to negotiate local business deals and allocate government funds. But provincial council members frequently complain that they are hamstrung by restrictions from federal authorities over how to spend the funds.
They also choose provincial governors and have the right under Iraq's constitution to call for a referendum to organize into a federal region — a move that could give them considerable autonomy from the central government in Baghdad.
Only 12 of Iraq's 18 governorates cast ballots.
The central government in March unexpectedly delayed voting in two largely Sunni provinces, citing security concerns. The provinces, Anbar and Ninevah, have witnessed more than four months of large anti-government protests, raising questions about the motives behind the delay.
Iraq's largely autonomous northern Kurdish region, which comprises three provinces, will hold its own local elections in September. No vote is scheduled in the ethnically disputed province of Kirkuk, which has not had a chance to elect local officials since 2005 because residents cannot agree on a power-sharing formula there.
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The climate challenge just became a lot more challenging. We know that man-made carbon dioxide emissions are accelerating global warming. But intrepid research has revealed an additional sinister threat: methane. As Sarah Simpson reports, the warming of the Arctic is releasing vast quantities of methane that has been locked away for centuries in formerly frozen soil. Once released, methane traps 25 times more heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide does. So it is more imperative than ever to slash greenhouse gases quickly, to slow the venting of methane.
The single boldest stroke must come from Congress. The House and Senate are debating legislation that would impose either a cap-and-trade system or a tax on carbon emissions (for updates see www.ScientificAmerican.com/Earth3). Certain politicians and CEOs are trying to talk Congress out of it. Our representatives should dismiss the detractors and pass legislation, before November. That deadline is crucial: nations will meet in December in Copenhagen to hammer out new international agreements to limit emissions. The U.S., shamefully, has never signed such a protocol, and leaders worldwide have said, plainly, that the Copenhagen talks will fail if the U.S. does not enact legislation to clean up its own backyard.
Another bold stroke would be to confront the 800-pound gorilla in the room: population. Cutting our wanton consumption will reduce emissions in the short term, but sustaining our planet long-term will depend on how fast population grows. It's a touchy subject, but we have to face it. Robert Engleman lays out the issues in his article on population and sustainability.
Hope lies in action. Let's embrace what forward-thinking economists are saying, that putting a cap or tax on carbon will stimulate massive innovation in the next great global industry: clean energy technology. Even a slowly growing population will create big demand for clean energy, and the U.S. can build a new economy by dominating this market—but only if it acts boldly, before other nations do.
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Brazil's economic activity in May fell the most since December 2008, as accelerating inflation slows consumption in the world's second-largest emerging market. Swap rates fell.
The seasonally adjusted economic activity index, a proxy for gross domestic product, fell 1.40% in May after rising a revised 0.96% in April, the central bank said today in a report posted on its website. It was the largest decline since growth dropped 4.27% in December 2008. Analysts expected a 1.15% contraction, according to the median estimate of 22 economists surveyed by Bloomberg.
President Dilma Rousseff's administration is working to combat inflation that has undercut economic growth by curbing business sentiment and consumption. Industrial production in May fell by 2%, while retail sales remained flat in the same month. The central bank this week raised the benchmark interest rate by 50 basis points for the second straight meeting, after warning last month that the outlook for inflation remains unfavorable.
The economic activity number "reinforces the idea that Brazil's economy is not growing," Flavio Serrano, senior economist at Banco Espirito Santo de Investimento, said by phone from Sao Paulo. "The market follows this number closely. It was a weaker number than expected, and the swaps market is reacting to that."
Swap rates on the contract maturing in January 2015 fell three basis points, or 0.03 percentage point, to 9.56% at 9:24 a.m. local time. The real weakened 0.3% to 2.2621 per U.S. dollar.
Annual inflation in June quickened to 6.7%, the fastest since October 2011, exceeding the ceiling of the bank's target range of 2.5% to 6.5%.
The non-seasonally adjusted economic activity index rose 2.28% from a year ago, compared with a median estimate of a 2.80% gain, the central bank report said.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Drugmakers are linking with eight British universities in a 16 million-pound ($27 million) public-private partnership to speed up research into dementia by studying data from 2 million people in the world's largest such project.
The new UK Dementias Research Platform will investigate the causes of dementia by tracking volunteers, aged 50 and over, who are taking part in existing population studies such as UK Biobank and the Million Women Study.
The aim is to give researchers a better understanding of who is at risk of getting dementia, possible triggers that lead to disease, and what might speed up or slow down its progression, the state-run Medical Research Council said on Thursday.
Major pharmaceutical companies backing the initiative include AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline and Johnson & Johnson.
David Willetts, the government's minister for universities and science, said the new platform was critical in helping Britain achieve its target of doubling dementia research funding.
The move coincides with a meeting of dementia experts in London following a summit last December involving ministers from the Group of Eight (G8) nations, which set a goal of finding a cure or effective treatment for dementia by 2025.
The London meeting was the first G8 summit on a specific illness since HIV/AIDS and its target is ambitious, considering there is no obvious cure on the horizon.
Dementia - of which Alzheimer's disease is the most common form - already affects 44 million people worldwide and this is set to reach 135 million by 2050, according to Alzheimer's Disease International, a non-profit campaign group.
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IMF Survey: Kosovo Receives €48 Million Installment Under IMF Loan
July 17, 2012
- Kosovo's economy has remained largely shielded from the euro area crisis
- The program aims at restoring a sustainable fiscal position and reinforcing the financial system's resilience
- A key medium-term challenge is to strengthen competitiveness and develop a tradable sector
The IMF's Executive Board approved today the second tranche for Kosovo under the country's €106.6 million Stand-By Arrangement.
The €48 million tranche comes after a first disbursement of €5 million that the country received when the 20-month program was approved in April 2012.
Kosovo's economy has continued to grow despite a difficult international environment, said the IMF in completing the first review of the program today.
"Solid remittance inflows and robust lending activity by a well-capitalized and liquid banking system have supported growth," said Johannes Wiegand, IMF mission chief for Kosovo.
Speaking to IMF Survey—the IMF's online magazine—Wiegand discussed economic developments, the outlook, and objectives of the IMF-supported program.
IMF Survey online: What are the economic prospects for Kosovo? How does the euro area crisis affect the outlook?
Wiegand: We project the economy to grow by 3.8 percent in 2012, only modestly down from 5 percent in 2011. Thus far, Kosovo has remained largely shielded from the euro crisis, for several reasons. First, Kosovo's exports are small. Second, financial linkages are also limited: while Kosovo's largest banks are foreign-owned, they are funded with domestic retail deposits and do not depend on financing from their parents. Further, Kosovo's debt is not traded in cross-border financial markets. Third, economic growth depends importantly on remittances and foreign direct investment from the Kosovar diaspora that lives primarily in Germany and Switzerland—economies that have held up well.
IMF Survey online: What is the history of the IMF's engagement with Kosovo?
Wiegand: Kosovo became a member of the IMF in 2009. However, already before membership the IMF provided extensive technical assistance, including when Kosovo was under administration of the United Nations (1999–2008).
In July 2010, the Executive Board of the IMF approved a first Stand-By Arrangement (SBA). The arrangement went soon off-track, however, reflecting in part outsized public sector wage increases in the context of the 2011 budget. The Kosovar authorities expressed an interest in continued close cooperation with the IMF and requested a staff-monitored program (SMP) through end-2011. Implementation of the SMP has been broadly satisfactory, with significant overperformance especially relative to fiscal targets, paving the way for negotiations on a new Stand-by Arrangement. The new SBA was approved by the IMF's Executive Board this April.
IMF Survey online: What are the key objectives of the authorities' program?
Wiegand: The first objective is to restore a sustainable fiscal position that would keep public debt below 30 percent of GDP in the long-term. During the 2011 Article IV consultations, the IMF assessed that relative to this yardstick, Kosovo's fiscal stance was too expansionary by about 3 percent of GDP. Significant adjustment has already been achieved in the context of the SMP and the 2012 budget. A fully sustainable position is targeted for 2014.
The second objective is to restore an adequate level of cash buffers. In a unilaterally euroized economy like Kosovo's, cash buffers insure against possible fiscal and financial risks and have a similar function as international reserves in a country with an own currency.
The third objective is to provide orientation for fiscal policy in the long-run. With no independent monetary policy, fiscal policy is the main tool to stabilize and anchor the economy. A technical assistance mission from the IMF's Fiscal Affairs Department has just returned from Pristina (Kosovo's capital), where it discussed with the authorities options for a fiscal rule that could be introduced next year.
The fourth objective is to reinforce the resilience of the financial system. As Kosovo is euroized, the central bank cannot generate liquidity on its own. After the installment tied to this review becomes available, the authorities intend to fund a central bank facility designated for emergency liquidity assistance. Moreover, in April Kosovo's assembly passed a revised banking and microfinance law that strengthens the central bank's capacity to resolve troubled institutions.
IMF Survey online: In your opinion, what are the medium-term macroeconomic challenges that Kosovo has to deal with?
Wiegand: A key medium-term challenge is to build a competitive economy and develop a tradable sector, to reduce the economy's dependence on transfers and create the conditions for durable, robust growth. Critical to this effort are initiatives to strengthen the institutional framework and business climate, as well as investments in infrastructure and education.
More generally, Kosovo is a young country whose capital and social spending needs are large. Policymakers are under considerable and often understandable pressure to address these pressures rapidly. To prevent putting macroeconomic stability at risk, it is indispensable to carefully prioritize, cost, and sequence spending initiatives. Success requires broad political support.
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WINNIPEG, Manitoba -- Once Michael Del Zotto got the New York Rangers on the board with a short-handed goal, the Eastern Conference leaders took the Winnipeg Jets and their excitable fans out of the picture.
Del Zotto and Rangers captain Ryan Callahan each had a goal and an assist, and New York moved to the top of the NHL standings with a 4-2 victory over the fading Jets on Wednesday.
The Rangers were done in early by a slew of penalties that they killed, but New York expended lots of energy and couldn't get into the flow of the game.
Winnipeg jumped ahead 2-0 with a pair of goals 56 seconds apart in the second period, but the Rangers cut the deficit in half on Del Zotto's goal at 7:44 and changed the momentum.
"The entire building felt it," winning goalie Henrik Lundqvist said. "We started to get our game going. It was a big turning point."
Brian Boyle and Derek Stepan also scored, and Marian Gaborik added a pair of assists for the Rangers (49-21-7), who lead Pittsburgh by five points in the East. New York is tied with Western Conference-leading St. Louis with 105 points, but the Rangers have the edge because of one more non-shootout victory.
"Making it 2-1 instead of going down 3-0 was a key part of the game," Rangers coach John Tortorella said. "The last 35 minutes of the game is the best we've played in a while. Once we got our legs going and got away from a lack of discipline and killing penalties I thought we played really well."
Spencer Machacek and Bryan Little scored for the Jets (35-34-9), who are 10th in the East with 76 points. Winnipeg went 0-4 against New York this season.
Buffalo is currently eighth in the East with 86 points, followed by Washington, which is two points behind.
"It's difficult, for sure," Jets forward Turner Glass said. "You play all year to get toward the playoffs, and when you kind of squander some chances at home here, that we feel were games we needed to win to get in, it's difficult.
"But I don't know if we're out of it yet, but we can't play like we are."
Lundqvist made 22 saves for the Rangers, who swept a two-game trip following a win at Minnesota on Tuesday. Ondrej Pavelec stopped 24 shots for Winnipeg.
New York's struggling power play connected for two goals.
"Our special teams need to be great in the playoffs for us to have success. It's something for us to build on," Callahan said. "We showed character. We have been doing it all year long."
The Jets have five games remaining, all against conference opponents. They will head out for a four-game road trip, starting at Carolina on Friday, and close out the regular season at home on April 7 against Tampa Bay.
Winnipeg is on its first three-game, home-losing streak of the season.
The Jets had all three power plays in a scoreless first period, including a two-man advantage for 1:44, and outshot the Rangers 11-4., but failed to score. They had another advantage 27 seconds into the second period on a boarding call against Boyle, but couldn't beat Lundqvist.
That changed soon after when Winnipeg connected for a pair of quick goals.
Machacek fired a shot between Lundqvist's pads at 3:58 and Little redirected a pass 56 seconds later for his 23rd goal of the season that made it 2-0.
The Rangers quickly responded with a short-handed goal and a power-play tally.
With New York center Brandon Dubinsky in the box for slashing, Callahan took the puck behind the net, spun around and sent a pass to Del Zotto in the slot. The defenseman put a low shot under Pavelec.
"The turning point in the game really was the short-handed goal that we gave up because they didn't have a lot of life," Jets coach Claude Noel said.
While Jets forward Alex Burmistrov was off for holding, Callahan scored his 28th goal of the season at 18:23.
Winnipeg captain Andrew Ladd was assessed a double minor for high-sticking 30 seconds later, and New York opened the final period on the power play.
The Rangers had 15 shots in the second period, and the teams were even with 19 each through two periods.
Just after Ladd's penalty expired, Boyle scored the winning goal when he tucked the puck between the post and Pavelec's stick at 3:07 to make it 3-2. Stepan gave New York a two-goal edge during a power play at 10:06.
New York was 2 for 5 with the man advantage. Winnipeg was 0 for 5.
"Once we got into some sort of flow, as far as getting people onto the ice, I think that's when we felt a lot more comfortable," Tortorella said.
- The Rangers shut out the Jets both times Winnipeg visited New York this season.
- The Rangers, who will host Montreal on Friday, are the only Eastern Conference team the Jets haven't beaten this season.


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DENVER, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- A man who was shot several times at a Super Bowl party in Denver Sunday night was hospitalized in critical condition, police said.
The man, whose name was not released, was found outside a home about 8 p.m., the Denver Post reported.
Police said they had not determined what led to the shooting, which occurred in the hours after the Broncos lost to Seattle 43-8 in the NFL championship game in New Jersey.
The newspaper said numerous pieces of Broncos' clothing were found on the ground where the man was shot.
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From 2003-2013, Commissioner Cantrell served on the Board of Directors for the Texas Conference of Urban Counties, a non-profit organization composed of 37 member counties, which represent nearly 80% of the population of Texas. The Urban Counties supports and coordinates communications among member counties, studies policies and programs of the State of Texas that affect urban counties, advocates county issues, primarily at the state level, and provides training and education programs appropriate for urban county officials.
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TechShare is a CUC program that provides opportunities for counties to collaborate on technology projects and to share information resources. TechShare projects are mutual efforts where participants save money by sharing the cost of research and development. Projects can produce applications, systems, or other technology assets owned by the Urban Counties and made available to all members. The current TechShare projects consist of the Juvenile Information System (JIS), the Juvenile Case Management System (JCMS), the Common Integrated Justice System (CIJS), and the Adult Case Management System (ACMS).
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The JCMS project resulted in two software resources that are now available. JCMS Basic is owned by the State of Texas and replaces Caseworker, Version 5. JCMS Basic is available through the Texas Juvenile Justice Department (TJJD). TechShare Juvenile is owned by the Urban Counties and in addition to replacing Caseworker/5, offers functions and features designed for managing the juvenile justice process across county departments and local jurisdictions.
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The CIJS is a set of functional applications that enables the effective and efficient administration of justice for the Urban Counties' membership. It is based on a common architecture that provides rapid sharing of justice information across county lines while providing each member county with advanced justice management capabilities. Benefits of CIJS includes a new system at lower cost - savings as much as 50% in some counties and collectively the thirteen participating counties saved more than $15 million, standard system for all courts, leadership in State and National court standards, and the opportunity to collaborate with other counties at all levels.
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In 2011-2012, the counties of Bell, Cameron, Dallas, Tarrant and Travis participated in the TechShare Justice: Prosecutor Planning Project, which defined the detailed scope for the TechShare.Prosecutor module. The project resulted in a budget and schedule for software development. The project continued with developing the TechShare.Prosecutor Software that is owned and operated by the Urban Counties - Cameron, Dallas, Tarrant and Travis. The Prosecutor Module was built on the initial work already completed by Tarrant County as part of its integrated criminal justice project. Development was completed on July 1, 2014 and is functional in Dallas County.
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When an armed man walks into a bank branch and demands money from a teller, he's likely to go to jail if he's caught. Criminologist David Friedrichs maintains some bank executives are equally guilty of stealing when they get exorbitant pay packages.
"It's a form of robbery," says Professor Friedrichs, who teaches criminal law at Scranton University in Pennsylvania. It shouldn't be dismissed as "just greedy."
The financial crisis has generated a huge amount of anger around the nation at the mismanagement and excesses of some big bankers – and to a lesser extent at highly compensated corporate executives in other industries as well.
"People are really ticked off," says Sarah Anderson, long a proponent at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington of legal measures aimed at restraining CEO pay levels. Asked lately to join some call-in radio talk shows dealing with the financial crisis, she notes: "It's unnerving how angry people are with the bankers."
It's unclear whether public displeasure is great enough for Congress to put a complete brake on executive pay beyond measures already imposed on the financial institutions bailed out by Uncle Sam.
But Sen. Carl Levin (D) of Michigan apparently is planning to reintroduce a 2007 bill that would end tax favors for a major form of executive compensation: stock options. And Rep. Barbara Lee (D) of California last month reintroduced a bill that would deny corporations the ability to deduct as a business expense any payment to an executive that exceeds 25 times the lowest paid worker's wage in the company. If that worker received the minimum wage, the deductible compensation for an executive would be $304,200. The company could pay him or her more, but not receive a tax break for the excess.
In 2007, CEOs of major corporations were paid on average 344 times the average worker's pay.
Ms. Anderson advocates that 25:1 ratio on tax deductibility apply to all corporations, including any company that seeks a government procurement contract or tax break. This would generate more than $5 billion in extra revenues for Washington.
One factor probably weighing against congressional action is the political efforts of the nation's companies and their wealthy executives. From 1998 to 2008, the financial sector alone spent at least $1.7 billion on campaign contributions and another $3.4 billion on lobbying, according to a study released last week by Essential Information, a nonprofit group founded by Ralph Nader.
"The righteous populist anger is competing against the awesome political-economic power of Wall Street," says lead author Robert Weissman.
To him, managers of hedge funds won the "most egregious" tax break – the ability to claim their income as capital gains and pay only 15 percent in federal taxes. Considering the high incomes many got before stock prices tanked, these managers would otherwise pay regular income-tax rates at least twice as high. "Completely irrational," says Mr. Weissman of the tax break.
Last year, New York Democratic Senator Charles Schumer, highly dependent on Wall Street for campaign contributions, did not support a measure closing the hedge-fund tax loophole. Yet, argues Anderson, it was "a no brainer."
To "rob" banks, as Friedrichs regards the CEO pay process, executives walk into a corporate boardroom and secure from the board's compensation committee unjustified compensation packages of millions, tens of millions, and sometimes hundreds of millions of dollars. This process, says Friedrichs, "pays much better" for CEOs than robbery does for the crook with a gun. These compensation committees, appointed by the CEOs, are composed of cronies, paid consultants, and even relatives, says the criminologist. By law, some corporate directors must be "independent."
But an academic study of 2008 looking at a small subset of these so-called independent directors who were formerly Wall Street stock analysts describes them as "cheerleaders." One author of the study, Lauren Cohen of the Harvard Business School, says they are "clearly not independent," not adding objectivity to their boards.
Another academic, Harvard Law School's Lucian Bebchuk, suspects public outrage makes the prospects of reform "better than they have been for a long time." His reform preference would be "rules and regulations that strengthen shareholder rights and make boards more accountable to shareholders."
It used to be that CEO pay was a drop in the bucket compared with the size of big companies – "just" 42 times the pay of ordinary workers in 1980. But Professor Bebchuk found that during the period 2001 to 2003 the earnings of the top five executives at a set of large firms amounted to nearly 10 percent of corporate earnings. That is significant to shareholders.
Anderson also takes a shot at the argument that CEOs are irreplaceable management geniuses, deserving fat bonuses.
"I can't believe," she says, there aren't talented people who have "a spirit of shared sacrifice" and seek long-term gains for their companies, rather than those "fixated on how many zeroes there are in their paychecks."


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"Think! Think!" bellows artist Mark Rothko to his assistant Ken repeatedly throughout "Red," the Tony-winning play by John Logan that made its Central Florida debut Friday in an Orlando Shakespeare Theater production.
And thinking is surely what Logan wants his audience to do during his satisfying play as he raises points that flit from art appreciation to pseudo-Freudian analysis to the internal struggle between public success and personal integrity.
In other words, Logan's mostly engrossing play isn't the sort of entertainment at which patrons can smile blankly or maybe clap along to a fizzy musical number.
Not that there's anything wrong with that sort of pop-culture artistic endeavor, Ken would say. Why can't true art be popular with the masses? And then Rothko, grandly portrayed by John Herrera, could voice his disgust with such rebuttals as "Do you really think Andy Warhol will be hanging in museums in a hundred years?"
Of course, in that case — one of the play's more obviously jokey lines — Warhol's likely to get the last laugh.
The real Mark Rothko was born in Latvia; grew up in Portland, Ore.; and made a name for himself as a painter, best known for his iconic abstract style of depicting rectangles and use of color, especially red. He committed suicide in 1970. The play "Red" is set at the end of the 1950s, when Rothko was commissioned to paint murals for a new luxury restaurant in New York City.
At the Shakes, director Patrick Flick has given his two actors plenty to do with their hands while they engage their brains. The day-to-day operations of being an artist — stretching canvases, mixing paint, assembling frames — take on a deeper meaning, too: The dual lives we humans try to lead as we perform mundane chores to support ourselves while dreaming of lofty ideals and struggling to express ourselves on a higher plane.
In a cathartic sequence of frenzied painting by the two men, Flick provocatively equates the artistic process with sexual release, leaving one artist recumbent on the floor, breathing heavily, while the other lights a cigarette.
The action plays out on a funky, paint-splattered set by Bob Phillips that has one foot planted firmly in reality as a 1950s studio, yet with its cavelike atmosphere also feels removed from time or place, a reflection of the universality of the issues at hand.
Ironically, even as playwright Logan has Rothko disparage clichés, he falls back on a few himself: The crusty mentor vs. the bright-eyed apprentice is not exactly unfamiliar in drama. Neither is the rather abruptly pat ending in which the men learn a valuable lesson from each other. (Though to be fair, part of that is based on what actually happened with Rothko's restaurant murals.)
Herrera, as Rothko, never shies away from the artist's egotism and maintains a strong internal presence; the audience is always aware he walks in his own world.
Buddy Haardt smartly doesn't overplay Ken's nervousness and awkwardness at dealing with Rothko's grandstanding manner, which makes his transition to vocal devil's advocate feel more natural than the script would suggest.
Their uneasy camaraderie is crucial to the piece, and the fact it works so well meant I was holding my breath as the two rattled off a rapid-fire laundry list of objects, emotions and shadings associated with the color red in a thrilling exchange.
I may never look at that most emotional of colors the same way again.
•What: An Orlando Shakespeare Theater production of the play by John Logan
• Length: 1:40, no intermission
• Where: Lowndes Shakespeare Center, 812 E. Rollins St., Orlando
• When: 7 p.m. Wednesdays-Thursdays, 8 p.m. Fridays-Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays; through April 22
• Tickets: $20-$38
• Call: 407-447-1700
• Online: OrlandoShakes.org


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Scroll down to the bottom of the page for Nemmers photographs. I have also posted a few "orphan" pictures that are not identified. If you can identify any of these photographs, please contact Jim Adams (adamsmckain at gmail.com) New pictures are being added so come back often! Please refresh/reload this page for the latest updates.
If you are doing Nemmers research and would like to have your name posted on this website so other Nemmers family members can contact you please contact Jim Adams (adamsmckain at gmail.com) giving your written permission to post your address.
Nemmers Obituaries & Death Notices
Nemmers Family Tree by Rob Deltgen (in Letzebuergesch -- Luxembourgish)
Nemmers Surname Resource Center (and type in Nemmers in the search box)
Nemmers History:
Biography of John Nemmers from "Portrait and Biographical Album of Jackson County, Iowa Containing Full Page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County, Together with Portraits and Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of the Presidents of the United States. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1889"
Biography of Nick B. Nemmers from "Portrait and Biographical Album of Jackson County, Iowa Containing Full Page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County, Together with Portraits and Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of the Presidents of the United States. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1889"
Search the above "Portrait and Biographical Album..." at Ancestry.com
The Nemmers family settled in St. Donatus, Iowa and many of the early ancestors are buried in the cemetery there.
Plymouth County, Iowa Historical Museum
Communes of Luxembourg (search Esch-sur-Alzette Canton for Dudelange #27)
Luxembourg Villages (in French) Also: alphabetical list of localities
"It's All in the Family" (the story of the Nemmers family "tree")
TheErwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics and the Frederic Esser Nemmers Prize in Mathematics (history of the prizes and brief biographical background on the Nemmers brothers)
About the Nemmers Family
Descendants of Johann Nickolas Nemmers of Dondelingen, Luxemburg and St. Donatus, Iowa. Dondelingen is near the villages of Olm and Nospelt, northwest of Luxembourg City.
Nemmers Family Pages:
1. John Nicholas & Catharina (Weber) Nemmers. John (or Johann or Jean) was born in 1783 in Tuntange or Donde Lingen, Luxembourg. He died 07 March 1857 in St. Donatus, Jackson County, IA and is buried there. He married Catharina 27 November 1811 in Kellen.They had 5 children: Nicholas, Carolina, Susanna, Michael, and Catherine.
2. Nicholas & Maria (Freymann) Nemmers. Nick was born about 1815 in Dondelange, Luxembourg. They had 10 children: Charles "Carl", Michael P., Peter, John P., Mary Gedeona, Susan, John, Catherine, Nicholas D., and Peter.
Nicholas D. Nemmers (1845-1882) and Anna Kaiser History. Nicholas D. was the son of Nicholas and Maria (Freymann) Nemmers.
3. Carl & Margaret (Even) Nemmers. Carl was born in 1850 at Tetes des Mort, Jackson County, Iowa and died about 1926. He is buried in LeMars, IA.
4. John W. & Margaret Theresa (Ley) Nemmers. John was born 27 July 1880 in St. Donatus, Jackson, IA and died 16 October 1970 in Arvada, Jefferson, CO. He married Margaret Ley on 21 August 1906 in LeMars, IA.
5. Clarice Emma Ann (Nemmers) & Dr. U.M. Adams, MD. Clarice was born 14 April 1913 in LeMars, IA and died 16 August 1987 in Dowagiac, Cass, MI. She married "Doc" Adams on 21 September 1943 in Dowagiac, Cass, MI. They had 5 children. Clarice was a nurse and worked in Dr. Adams' office for many years.
Nemmers Family Tree (John M. Nemmers) ancestry.com (beginning with Joannis Nemmers, born about 1710)
Nemmers - Mangrich - Woodward Family Tree (Tessa Mangrich ) at ancestry.com (You will need a membership to view these files) Descendants of Pierre Nemmers (06 Nov 1737 - 01 Feb 1783) of Tuntage, Luxembourg and Anne Marie (Niesen) Nemmers (1752 - ) of Brouch, Luxembourg.
Linkpendium (many links for Nemmers researchers)
Nemmers message board on Ancestry.com
Nemmers Message Board
Nemmers Genealogy Forums
Nemmers Family Tree by Kristina (Ancestry.com)
Nemmers Family Tree by jmnnn (John Nemmers) Ancestry.com
Nemmers & Haxmeier Family Tree (sixseat7) Ancestry.com
Nemmers Family Tree (morris1) Ancestry.com
Nemmers Family Tree (MaryChambers56) Ancestry.com
Edwina Marie (Nemmers) Devine (pusanskm) Ancestry.com. Photos of Edwina Nemmers.
Susan Nemmers (Mangrich-Woodward) Family Tree (TessaMangrich) Ancestry.com
Nemmers Family Tree (mnemmers) at Ancestry.com (begins with Joannis & Elisabetha Nemmers)
Nemmers Family Tree (Heatherzoomzoom1) "Heather's Family" at Ancestry.com
Photo of Barbara P. and Michael L. Nemmers 1877. Photographer stamp: Charles W. Stiff -- St. Paul, MN.
Genealogists doing Nemmers and/or Luxembourg research:
Suzanne Bunkers --Follow the links to Family History. Suzanne's lineage: Jean Nichholas and Catherine Weber > Nicholas Nemmers and Maria Freymann > Nicholas Nemmers and Anna Kaiser > Josephine Nemmers and Henry Kokenge > Frances Kokenge and Theodore Klein > Verna Klein and Jerome (Tony) Bunkers > Suzanne Bunkers.
Clay & Jeannie Nemmers' Homepage at FamilyTreeMaker.com . John Nicholas & Catharina (Weber) Nemmers > Nicholas & Maria (Freymann) Nemmers > Peter & Margaret (Keiser) Nemmers > Francis & Vera (St. Germaine) Nemmers > Clayton Nemmers.
E-mail to: Steve Nemmers <mailto:kanenemmers at mediaone.net> son of Gerald J. Nemmers > Michael Nemmers > Nicholas B. Nemmers > Michael Nemmers >John Nicholas & Catherina (Weber) Nemmers > Pierre & Anne Marie (Neisen) Nemmers.
Follow this link for a brief History of the Nemmers by Steve Nemmers.(Nemmers History #1)
E-mail to: Jim Adams <email@example.com>. Pierre & Anne Marie (Neisen) Nemmers > John Nicholas & Catharina (Weber) Nemmers > Nicholas & Maria (Freymann) Nemmers > Carl & Margaret (Even) Nemmers > John W. & Margaret (Ley) Nemmers > Dr. U. M. & Clarice Ann (Nemmers) Adams > James R. Adams.
E-mail to: Rita Farley <Farley-PR at worldnet.att.net>
Luxembourg Family Histories & Family Surname Index Check the Table of Contents on the left for additional links
Follow this link for a Brief History of the Nemmers Family from Luxembourg Records sent by Suzanne Bunkers. Please NOTE: This has been updated (16 March 2001) from the original posting on 08 March 2001.(Nemmers History #2)
If you have a website with Nemmers, Ley, and related families please let me know so I can post your site here! PLEASE NOTE: The following was received from George Adams (a Nemmers descendant & brother of Jim Adams). I hope the Nemmers researchers find this helpful:
I was looking at a road map of Belgium & Luxembourg (Michelin #909) at B&N today. It lists Tintange (Luxembourg province, Belgium), Tuntange (in G.D. of Luxembourg), and Fort (apparently in Lige province, near the Dutch & German borders).
I couldn't find Tuntange or Fort on the map. Tintange is about halfway between Bastogne and Arlon, just off hwy N4, and almost (<2 km) on the Luxembourg border.
Interestingly, the words Tintange and Tuntange are pronounced identically in some French accents (e.g., a Parisian accent), although they are pronounced differently in "standard" French. A non-French speaker would have a hard time distinguishing the difference between the "un" and "in" nasal sounds, however. I know I did when I was first learning French. (George Adams, 29 Sep 2001)
Nemmers Ancestors From Tuntange (Tuntingen) (email from Suzanne Bunkers) (Nemmers History #3)
More on the Nemmers Ancestors (email from Suzanne Bunkers) (Nemmers History #4)
More on the Nemmers from Luxembourg (email from Suzanne Bunkers) (Nemmers History #5)
More on the Nemmers family history from Steve Nemmers (07 May 2001). (Nemmers History #6)
A history of the Freymanns, starting with Caesar's conquest of Gaul (part of which would become Luxembourg), tracing Freymanns from about 1700 in the towns of Mamer and Olm, Charles Freymann & Nicolaus Nemmers' journey with all the families (Nicolaus' wife was Charles' sister) across the Atlantic and the US to St. Donatus, the migration of Luxembourgers from St Donatus to LeMars, and ending with brief sketches of Nicholas' children, the 3rd generation in the US. It is 54 pages long.
The Nemmers family figures only tangentially in this history, but it might possibly be of interest to Nemmers researchers.
The second (and last) printing will be sent to the printer by the end of January 2000. If you should want a copy, John G. Freymann will be happy to send you one for the cost of printing and mailing, which is $12.50.
Contact: John G. Freymann
Luxembourg Genealogy Links:
Luxembourg American Cultural Society (new site)
Luxembourg American Cultural Society (old site)
Directory of Luxembourg American Resources
Luxembourgers in America (Library of Congress European Reading Room)
Luxembourg Connections (Shelby County, Iowa)
* Computer Genies of NW Iowa
* Luxembourg Family Histories and Surname Sites
* Luxembourg Research Links
* Luxembourg News
* LuxWEB
* Luxembourg On My Mind (Vail Corporation, Atlanta, GA)
* Luxembourg Genealogy
* The Institut Grand-Ducal's web site covers emigration from Luxembourg to the USA.
If you would like to subscribe to the Luxembourg News of America Newsletter
please contact:
Luxembourg News of America
5204 Brown Street
Skokie, IL USA 60077
Nemmers Photographs:
John W. & Margaret (Ley) Nemmers wedding photo.
John W. & Margaret Theresa (Ley) Nemmers 50th Wedding Anniversary portrait
John W. Nemmers & Margaret Theresa (Ley) Nemmers. 50th wedding anniversary Mass at Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. Bob & Jim Nemmers, Ted Cornett & George Adams were the Mass servers)
John W. Nemmers
Margaret Theresa (Ley) Nemmers
John W. & Margaret Theresa (Ley) Nemmers in front of their home at 858 Downing St., Denver, CO. 50th Anniversary
John W. & Theresa (Ley) Nemmers family (probably taken sometime prior to their 50th wedding anniversary in 1956)
Front row, left to right: Florine Mae, John W., Margaret Theresa (Ley), John Charles, Margaret (Margie) Theresa
Back row, left to right: Melita (Mickey) Kathryn, Charlotte Margaret, Cletus Charles (twin), Celeste Helen (twin), Clarice Emma (Ann)
John W. & Theresa (Ley) Nemmers and children (probably taken on their 50th wedding anniversary -- August 1956). Front row, left to right: Melita (Mickey) Kathryn Amundsen, Margaret Theresa (Ley) Nemmers, John W. Nemmers, Margaret (Margie) Theresa (Nemmers) Puetz. Back row, left to right: John "Jack" Charles Nemmers, Charlotte Margaret (Nemmers) Angelo, Florine Mae (Nemmers) Cornett, Celeste Helen (Nemmers) Campbell (twin), Clarice Emma (Nemmers) Adams, Cletus "Lee" Charles Nemmers (twin). Taken at the Nemmers home at 858 Downing St., Denver, CO.
Nemmers Children: Front row, left to right: Celeste Helen (Nemmers) Campbell (twin), Clara (Neubrand) Nemmers, Cletus "Lee" Charles Nemmers (twin). Back row, left to right: Charlotte Margaret (Nemmers) Angelo, Margaret (Margie) Theresa (Nemmers) Puetz, John "Jack" Charles Nemmers, Melita (Mickey) Kathryn Amundsen, Florine Mae (Nemmers) Cornett. Can you date this photo and name the occasion? Contact Jim Adams (adamsmckain at gmail.com)
Nemmers Family (Denver, CO. Probably Summer of 1958.) Group photo of children and grandchildren of John W. & Margaret Theresa (Ley) Nemmers probably taken in the backyard of Charlotte (Nemmers) & Lou Angelo's home. Photo identification: (Please contact Jim Adams with corrections and identification of unknown people)
Front row, left to right: Peg Cornett, George Adams, Robert Amundsen, Steven Nemmers, John Adams, Mark Nemmers, Tom Nemmers, Jim Adams, Mary Adams
Second row, L to R: Flo (Nemmers) Cornett, Angeline Petronella (Ley) Warren, Ray Amundsen, Margaret Adams, Margaret T (Ley) Nemmers holding Gary Nemmers, John W. Nemmers holding Susan Nemmers, Clarice (Nemmers) Adams
Third row, L to R: Patricia (Albee) Nemmers holding Barbara Nemmers,
Back row, L to R: Lou Angelo, Uriah M. ("Doc") Adams, Jack Nemmers holding Beverly Nemmers, Melita (Nemmers) Amundsen, Jim Cornett (behind Melita), Diane Nemmers, Jim Nemmers (behind Diane), Bob Nemmers, Patricia Cornett, Clara Nemmers, Kay Angelo, Cletus Nemmers, Char (Nemmers) Angelo, Ted Cornett, Carol Amundsen, Mary Amundsen (Thanks to Barbara Nemmers Wood for help in identification)
Maggie & John W. Nemmers in their home at 858 Downing St., Denver, CO
Christmas Dinner at the Nemmers home at 858 Downing St., Denver, CO
John W. & Margaret Theresa (Ley) Nemmers gravestone marker
John (27 July 1880 - 16 Oct 1970) Margaret (22 Feb 1883 - 18 Dec 1965)
Cletus Charles & Clara (Neubrand) Nemmers (50th Wedding Anniversary, 12 May 1987)
Clara (Neubrand) and Cletus C. Nemmers (August 1987, Marcellus, MI at Clarice (Nemmers) Adams funeral.
Nemmers Baseball Team of 1898 -- Photo courtesy of Peg (McNeill) Nemmers. Photo identification:
1, 3, 5, 6 are brothers
3, 4, 8 are brothers
7 & 9 are brothers
If you are related to any of the "Nemmers Team" please contact Jim Adams (adamsmckain at gmail.com) with your stories, artifacts, or other pictures.
Nicholas John Nemmers baseball picture. Nick pitched for the Iowa Hawkeyes in college and was offered a contract to pitch with the Chicago White Sox. (Picture courtesy of Edith Nemmers McKay)
Nemmers Family Reunion. Partial ID of Nemmers Family Reunion photo. Please contact Jim Adams (adamsmckain at gmail.com) if you can identify these people, date the photo, name the occasion, etc.
Nemmers Men. Contact Jim Adams (adamsmckain at gmail.com) if you have information on this picture.
Barbara & Michael Nemmers (1877) Please contact Jim Adams at adamsmckain at gmail.com if you can identify these and place them on "the tree".
Historic Luxembourg Village -- St. Donatus, Iowa, USA
Stone house in St. Donatus, IA. Contact Jim Adams (adamsmckan at gmail.com) if you have information on this home. (Tetes Des Morts High School for Boys. Built in 1875)
Gehlen house in St. Donatus, IA. Outside restored by craftsmen from Luxembourg in 1997.
More St. Donatus, Jackson County, IA photos can be found at ListJacksonCountyIA.com. (Click on the St. Donatus link at the right)
"Orphan" Pictures
I will be posting photographs believed to be of the Nemmers. If you can identify these pictures please contact Jim Adams (adamsmckain at gmail.com)
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PARIS (AP) — Topless women activists pounded a huge church bell in Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris to "celebrate" the pope's resignation.
The nine women from Ukrainian feminist group Femen had their chests and backs emblazoned with the words "Pope No More." They didn't explain their action except to say they are "provocateurs" celebrating Pope Benedict XVI's decision to step down later this month.
At one point some of the women rang an enormous bell on display in the hall of the landmark cathedral, part of a set of new bronze bells cast for Notre Dame's 850th anniversary this year. Cathedral staff turned off the church lights and pulled the women away.
The women say they're also protesting in support of gay marriage. France's lower house of parliament approved a bill Tuesday to legalize such unions.


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LONDON (AP) — Civil liberties activists have condemned an English town for imposing a nighttime curfew on all youngsters in a bid to combat rowdy behavior.
Officials in Barnsley, northern England, have barred under-16s from the town center between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. unless they are accompanied by an adult. Children breaching the curfew will be removed from the area.
The trial curfew takes effect this weekend and runs for six months.
Rights group Liberty said Saturday that the ban is wrong and could face a court challenge. Emma Norton, a lawyer for the group, said that "a blanket ban on 15-year-olds walking around on summer nights is discriminatory, counter-productive and just plain wrong."
Nick Pickles of the group Big Brother Watch called the measure "a waste of time and resources."