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Congress Moves SCHIP Forward; GOP Debates Minority Issues
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RAY SUAREZ: Next, to the analysis of Shields and Brooks, with Judy Woodruff in charge.
JUDY WOODRUFF: That is syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks.
Gentlemen, good to see you on this Friday evening.
David, it looks as if the president is going to veto this expansion of the children's health program, named S-CHIP. Is there any chance that the people who support it can prevail here?
DAVID BROOKS, Columnist, New York Times: No, he's going to veto it. And it follows this long political train where Republicans have said in their chief conclusion about 2006 was, "We've lost our soul. We've lost our fiscal conservative soul, so we've got to start vetoing stuff."
So the Democrats looked around — and primarily Rahm Emanuel looked around — and said, "What's something we really want that is politically murderous for them to veto? We'll hand them that. They can veto it if they want."
And so for the Democrats, it's great politics and it's great policy. But Bush is going to stick with his guns, in part because they really do have to reestablish their fiscal conservative soul, and in part because they actually do believe it's bad policy.
JUDY WOODRUFF: So it's that calculating, you're saying?
DAVID BROOKS: Well, I mean, politics and politics interweave, and they've interwoven here. And the Republicans say basically it's an early battle over a big health care debate, with Republicans saying we want to give tax credits to people so they can individually choose health care, the Democrats saying, no, that doesn't work, we want more government involved in health care insurance. And this is like the little skirmish of what will follow.
The Democrats' take-away
JUDY WOODRUFF: What can the Democrats take away from this, Mark?
MARK SHIELDS, Syndicated Columnist: Well, I think there's two things, Judy. I mean, this is a collision, a classic collision between the best of old American politics and the worst of new American politics.
By the best of old American politics, I mean, this was a compromise. It was an authentic compromise between the House and the Senate, Republicans and Democrats. They came up with a bipartisan plan which passed by lopsided majorities.
And the worst of new politics, which is, "I want an issue. I don't care about passing a bill. I don't care about making legislation or making policy. I want to have something that I can run as an ad or run against."
And the president has had a death-bed conversion here in the seventh year of his administration to fiscal responsibility. David's right; he's been criticized much for it. A little late in the ballgame.
The indebtedness of the country under George W. Bush, just his seven years, he has added more to the national debt, Judy, than we did -- in dollars -- than we did from the presidency of George Washington all the way through to the presidency of Ronald Reagan, through Ronald Reagan's presidency, I mean, through two world wars, the Great Depression, the Louisiana Purchase.
George Bush has put more red ink in the United States that we have to pay off, our children and grandchildren. So this $35 billion at this point seems a little bit of somebody spoiling for a fight to kind of regain his macho credentials.
DAVID BROOKS: It's a good bill. If I were a senator, I would vote for it.
MARK SHIELDS: I would, too.
DAVID BROOKS: But I would hold my nose while voting for it, because -- S-CHIP is a successful program. It insures kids. It's a successful program. Nonetheless, things that are wrong with our fiscal situation are in this bill.
In the first place, the funding suddenly disappears in 2012, so how are we going to pay for it? That's an issue that somebody should think about. In the second place, states have an incentive to expand their own benefits, which they define, because they can push the cost on taxpayers who live somewhere else. And that's typical of what we have in Washington, and it's part of why we have a fiscal mess.
And then, finally, I do object to the passing of non-smokers. They don't raise the tax on cigarettes...
JUDY WOODRUFF: Cigarette tax.
DAVID BROOKS: ... yes, which is how we're going to pay for it in the short term. They don't raise the tax on gasoline. They don't raise the tax on wine. They pick poor, politically immobilized people, the weakest possible group you can imagine, and they throw it all on them. And that's just political cowardice, frankly.
MARK SHIELDS: Let me underline my agreement on David on that point. I mean, taxes ought to be based on the ability to pay. The smokers in this country have become the untouchables. I mean, you see them huddled on February days in doorsteps and entrance ways of buildings. People walk by, don't even look at them, don't even acknowledge them.
But I think, if that's consistent, then we ought to say, on Social Security, where there really is a problem of funding, we ought not to tax 100 percent of a school teacher, a truck driver, and a nurse on their Social Security, and only less than 1 percent on the baseball star or a movie star or an investment banker's $10 million income, which is that, again, on the ability to pay, ought to be extended.
Iraq and the Democratic hopefuls
JUDY WOODRUFF: Let me ask you about another spending issue, an even bigger one, and that is Iraq war. Secretary Gates went to the Congress, said, we need $40-some billion more, a total of $190 billion. This week, Steny Hoyer, the House majority leader on the program, here last night said, "We're going to have to take a long, hard look at this."
David, is this something that the Democrats can get their way on in any respect?
DAVID BROOKS: I don't think so, no. They're not going to cut off funding, and we've seen and we saw in the debate this week, there are going to be probably U.S. troops in Iraq there 10 years, regardless who's elected. So they're not going to win on this.
One of the things that Gates has accomplished -- and Newsweek has a good piece online about that -- he's changed Bush's strategy a bit, even from what Petraeus wanted. He's caused the president or persuaded the president to pull back the number of troops, to continue the drawdown, because they think that's politically more sustainable into the next administration.
So they're asking for all this money, but I think Secretary Gates has persuaded people that there will be a quicker drawdown of U.S. troops than might otherwise have been.
JUDY WOODRUFF: So will they get -- can the White House count on getting the money as they've gotten it for the last three years?
MARK SHIELDS: Probably. I think there's very little question about that politically, Judy.
I think there are two points about Secretary Gates' testimony that struck me. One, it's an acknowledgement that we've been forced, because of manpower demands, the Army is overstretched, it's underequipped, that we've accepted into the Army people who don't have high school diplomas, who have criminal records, who don't meet the intelligence test that is desirable. So that's going to be a long-term problem.
But the thing that bothered me the most, quite frankly, was that, four-and-a-half years into this war, we still don't have mine-resistant armored protection vehicles. And I have to say that, if those were the children of senators and CEOs serving there, we would have them. And the explanation was given on our show this week to Paul Solman by a Marine general that this country doesn't have the industrial base to provide this, is just unacceptable.
JUDY WOODRUFF: You mentioned the Democratic debate, David, and what we saw, and most of the Democrats are saying they are going to keep troops there one way or another.
DAVID BROOKS: Right.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Did that debate change anything, the dynamics, either on the Iraq debate or on the presidential debate?
DAVID BROOKS: Well, I think there were a couple of striking things. One, it's interesting how in the conventional wisdom Hillary has now gone from a good position to a dominating position. People regard her as an overwhelming frontrunner.
But in that debate, the big story was the fact that the big three candidates, Obama, Edwards, and Clinton, all refused to pledge that U.S. troops would be out of Iraq at the end of their first term, so really 10 years from the war began.
And I think a lot of people said they did that because they want to preserve their stability for the general election. I think they also wanted to preserve viability for the primary season. I think Democrats a lot want to get out entirely, but a lot of Democrats -- and I think even maybe a majority -- are very ambivalent about Iraq. They want us to pull back, for sure, but do they want to completely get out regardless of the circumstance? I think you would hurt yourself in a Democratic primary if you said that, and you'd kill yourself in a general election.
JUDY WOODRUFF: What are the Democratic dynamics right now?
MARK SHIELDS: I think the idea that Hillary Clinton or anybody else has the nomination sewed up is silly. There hasn't been a single vote cast. She's done very well in the debates. She's competent. She's knowledgeable. She's articulate. She's confident. She speaks in complete paragraphs, which we haven't had a president do that for seven years. And I think, you know, all of those things work to her advantage.
But I think she had a misstep this week. I really do. It's interesting, Judy, what changes the dynamic of a race is not a Social Security plan or an income tax plan, it's the little things. It's Senator Muskie in the snow and having been emotional in Maine and New Hampshire in 1972. It's George Romney saying he was brainwashed.
I thought, when Tim Russert asked her in a World Series between the Chicago Cubs and the New York Yankees, who would you root for? She said -- she gave a Clintonian answer, which is what critics would call it. She said, "Now, I'll have to alternate."
Now, any Democrat in the country, in a choice between the lovable underdog Cubs, who have not been in the World Series since 1945, haven't won since 1907, against the corporate, deep-pocketed New York Yankees, who have had 26 World Series and 39 league championships, it's easy. Do you root for Exxon, as well? I mean, it's just absolutely indefensible. And I think it's going to come back and bite her.
The Republican debate
JUDY WOODRUFF: All right, well, let's talk about another debate, this one the Republicans. This was last night. All four front-running candidates in the Republican Party said that scheduling conflicts kept them from this event, which was held at Morgan State University, a historically black college in Baltimore. They came under fire from some of the contenders who were there and from radio talk show host Tom Joyner during his introduction.
Here's an excerpt of the debate, which was broadcast live on PBS.
TOM JOYNER, Talk Radio Host: And let me take a moment right here and now to say hello to those of you viewing from home, Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Senator John McCain, Governor Mitt Romney, and Senator Fred Thompson.
Well, you know, I had to call them out.
FORMER GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE (R), Arkansas: Frankly, I'm embarrassed. I'm embarrassed for our party, and I'm embarrassed for those who did not come, because there's long been a divide in this country, and it doesn't get better when we don't show up.
SEN. SAM BROWNBACK (R), Kansas: I apologize for the candidates that aren't here. I think this is a disgrace that they're not here. I think it's a disgrace for our country; I think it's bad for our party; and I don't think it's good for our future.
You know, you grow political parties by expanding your base, by reaching out to people, and getting more people. What they're doing is sending the message of narrowing the base, and that's not the right way to go. It's not good for the Republican Party; it's not good for the country.
ALAN KEYES (R), Former U.N. Ambassador: I wouldn't want to seem to be the fellow who's going to speak up in defense of our absent colleagues here, but I think it is a little unfair to assume that they didn't show up tonight because they were sending a message of some negative kind to the black community.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Our own Ray Suarez, by the way, was one of the questioners.
No-shows hurt the party
JUDY WOODRUFF: David, did the no-shows hurt themselves by not being there?
DAVID BROOKS: Yes. Alan Keyes is remarkable. You can never sense what you think he's going to say. I would say it was insane what they did. I mean, they had their reasons. They had to do some fundraising. They weren't going to get any votes from this audience. They didn't like some of the hosts because they thought they were partisan.
But it was basically insane, in part because they offend minority community, but even more and more immediately, they offend a lot of white voters who don't want to be members of an all-white party. And there are a lot of young voters, and a lot of suburban voters, there are a lot of Republican voters who are bothered by this.
And this is something Bush actually understand, Karl Rove understood, Ken Mehlman, the former head of the Republican National Committee understood, but the current crop seems not to understand. And it's a stain. I don't care how much money they raised last night, it wasn't worth it.
MARK SHIELDS: I agree basically with David. The debate got a lot more coverage by they're not showing up than it would if they'd all been there, quite frankly, and their absence was noted.
What voters, independent, moderate voters, swing voters are often looking for are signals on a presidential candidate. Is this presidential candidate open-minded? Is this presidential candidate able to talk to all Americans?
And that rather than campaigning to win 9 or 12 or 15 votes in the African-American community sends a signal, just as George W. Bush did send one in 2000, just as other Republicans, Jerry Ford, sent it, as well. It's a way of saying, "I am comfortable with who I am, and I'm comfortable talking to all Americans, even though they might not be on my side."
JUDY WOODRUFF: All four of the frontrunners stayed away. So are they all equally hurt or just it's the impression of the party?
DAVID BROOKS: I think that in the short term, there's probably limited costs, because they're all hurt, but the party is hurt. And it'll hurt the party. And it was a missed opportunity if one of the four had shown up, and that would have been great for that person.
JUDY WOODRUFF: One of the people who criticized them from inside the party, Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker. And we learned today that he is putting up on his Web site that he wants to raise $30 million, and he said, if he can raise that much money, then he's going to decide whether to jump into the race himself.
MARK SHIELDS: Let's hope he raises it. I mean, I think I speak for all of my brothers and sisters in the press corps, we want Newt in the race. Welcome, former Mr. Speaker.
You know, Newt Gingrich is always a figure of great interest. He's smart; he's controversial. Wherever he goes, it's always a fascinating story. And you're right. He did speak strongly, as did Jack Kemp, against those Republicans who did not show up at Morgan State.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Another candidate, maybe?
DAVID BROOKS: Yeah, I'd pay $30 million for some of them not to run. And I'd pay $30 million, assuming I had the money, for him to run, in part because he understands what bad shape the Republican Party is in.
MARK SHIELDS: Yeah, he does.
DAVID BROOKS: There was a poll that came out, Republican support is plummeting over the past 10 years. And he understands that, and he understands it has to change. The rest are really grasping on the old verities and offering very little new. But Gingrich, whatever his failings, would offer something new. He'd be the most interesting person in the race. The conventional view is Thompson's in, there's no space for him. That's absurd. There's space for him.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Well, Mark and David always bring something new to the table. Thank you, both.


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Honeywell is close to releasing a synthetic vision system (SVS) upgrade for its Primus Epic business jet cockpit. Having addressed the three most common causes of accidents through its enhanced ground proximity warning (EGPWS), traffic alert and collision avoidance (TCAS) and runway awareness and advisory (RAAS) systems, the company believes SVS will be the next major safety advance.
According to Ed Wheeler, vice president of engineering and technology, it has taken seven years and 600 hours of flight testing to arrive at the current stage of development. Like the RAAS, the SVS relies on the digital database, which was developed originally for the EGPWS and is updated regularly. On top of the digital terrain image it shows the same primary flight display (PFD) symbology used on the company's head-up displays. The result, Wheeler said, is that "the pilot sees looking down at night what he would see looking ahead in daylight."
In addition, the SVS display uses the familiar EGPWS color-coding to enhance situational awareness, so that if the airplane's trajectory is approaching terrain, the terrain above the flight path will turn yellow then red to alert then warn the crew. SVS will complement rather than replace the EGPWS, Wheeler stressed the terrain warning system will remain as a stand-alone safety device.
If the airplane is in an unusual attitude, the terrain fades to the standard blue over brown of the PFD, Wheeler added. "It's critical with high-density information that you don't distract the pilots," he explained. "We don't want them to be transfixed by the view of the terrain, so that goes away so they can focus on the attitude."
Honeywell is talking to all the OEMs about its SVS. Initially it will be available as a line or retrofit software upgrade for the Primus Epic cockpit used by Dassault, Gulfstream and other manufacturers.

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Mr. Tiedt,I was wondering if you could tell me????
Mr. Tiedt,
I found this article on the internet and was wondering if you could tell me how he is related to me.
Volume 53, Number 42, November 23, 1967
Contributed by Jan and Richard Peter, of the Kingston Depot Committee. Extracted and Transcribed by Ed Van Horn, former Kingston resident.For information about the Kingston Depot Committee, please contact Richard and Jan Peter.
Pilot Decorated By President
Major Paul F. Koeltzow, a graduate of Kingston High School was on of eleven pilots decorated on Veteran's Day by President Johnson. The Tuscola County flyer received the Silver Star for gallantry in action while flying air missions over Viet Nam. Major Koeltzow was credited with saving the live of another flyer under his command.
Koeltzow was born in Millington and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul L. Koeltzow, moved to Saginaw from Kingston a few years ago.
Thanks for your help, Mr. Tiedt.


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Compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler. Washington : Government Printing Office, 1929.
|Lower Brule Indian Reservation, S. Dak.
34 Stat., 124; vol. 3, 167.
35 Stat, 2150; vol. 3, 628.
|Undisposed of ceded lands to be sold at auction.
Page 1194
WHEREAS the lands described in the Act of Congress approved April twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six (thirty-fourth Statutes at Large, one twenty-four), were, by Proclamation of the President issued August twelfth, nineteen hundred and seven, and in the manner therein provided, restored to settlement, entry and disposition under the general provisions of the homestead laws and of the Act of April twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six, on October twenty-first, nineteen hundred and seven, and have been subject to disposition under the general provisions of the homestead laws and the Act of April twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six, since December twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven; and
WHEREAS a portion of said lands remained undisposed of; and
WHEREAS, in my judgment, no more of said lands can be disposed of at the appraised value thereof, and under the provisions of said Act of April twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six, I now deem it to the best interest of all concerned to sell said undisposed of lands in the manner hereinafter directed:
Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, do, in the exercise of the authority conferred on me by said Act of Congress, prescribe and proclaim that all of said lands now remaining undisposed of shall be offered for sale to the highest bidders for cash at not less than one dollar per acre, at public outcry, at the City of Pierre, in the State of South Dakota, under the supervision of James W. Witten, Superintendent of the Opening and Sale of Indian Reservations, beginning at ten o'clock A. M., on Monday, November third, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and continuing thereafter from day to day, Sundays excepted, as long as may be necessary to the offering of all of said lands, and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to issue such regulations as he may deem necessary to carry this proclamation into effect, and to cause patents to issue to the purchasers at said sale of said lands upon the full payment by such purchasers of the price thereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington this 24th day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-eighth.
By the President:
Secretary of State.


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Auckland – All Blacks No 8 Kieran Read will return to Super Rugby action for the Canterbury Crusaders on Friday after six weeks on the sidelines with concussion and flu.
The 2013 IRB Player of the Year, who sustained the concussion against the Waikato Chiefs on April 19, will captain the seven-times champions in their match against the Western Force in Christchurch.
The 28-year-old has been training with the All Blacks in preparation for the June series against England and will be out to prove his match fitness ahead of Sunday's announcement of the squad for the three tests.
The Crusaders would usually be odds on favourites to beat the Force but the Perth-based outfit have been the surprise of Super Rugby this year and will go into the match boasting eight wins, the same number as their hosts.
Read's return in place of Luke Whitelock, who moves onto the bench, is the only change to the team that beat the Otago Highlanders by the narrowest of margins last week to go top of the New Zealand conference.
The Crusaders have lost three of their five matches at home this season and coach Todd Blackadder called on the crowd to make plenty of noise as the team bids for a victory in their last outing before the international break.
"We are up against another very tough team this week and this win is so important for both of us," he said.
"So we need to make the most of every advantage we've got, and the home crowd is one of the big ones." – Reuters


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An independent, freewheeling med student enrolls in the toughest course in the curriculum - Gross Anatomy - but struggles to keep his focus.
Symptoms : Mutation of The Paper Chase in which five first-year med students (principally Matthew Modine and Daphne Zuniga) dissect corpses, cram, have pizza and sex in between. Christine Lahti is the tough-but-kindly chief medico and the wise patient. Health warning: The distributors misdiagnose this as a comedy of med school life, birth, death, hanky panky and the horror in E. R, but exposure proves debilitating.
Crappy genre-mish mash.


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An Arts Tour Of Two Cities
As any visitor will quickly discover, there's a lot more to Dallas and Fort Worth than the Kennedy assassination site and cattle-roping cowboys. The rival cities have become arts meccas, with lots of good eating to tide you over on your 35-mile trip in between.
If sightseeing time is limited, the place to start is Fort Worth. Head to the Cultural District, where you can visit five of the best museums in the Southwest, including the striking new Modern Art Museum designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando. Don't like modern? Mosey next door to the world-renowned Kimbell Art Museum, including masterpieces from Fra Angelico, Claude Monet, and Pablo Picasso, or the Amon Carter Museum, featuring a vast collection of American art from the likes of Frederic Remington and Georgia O'Keeffe. For Old West lovers, there's the National Cowgirl Museum & Hall of Fame. A few miles away you'll find the Stockyards National Historic District, where you can watch daily cattle drives.
No trip to this town "where the West begins" would be complete without melt-in-your-mouth barbecue. Two local favorites: Angelo's, where mounted animal heads complete the decor, and the Railhead Smokehouse, with plates of smoked ribs and sausage at modest prices.
After all that chow and museum-hopping, the AA League Frisco RoughRiders might provide a change of pace during a summertime visit. The Dr Pepper/Seven Up Ballpark opened last year about 25 miles north of Dallas and is winning acclaim from baseball fans. If you prefer a trendier crowd, the people-watching at Hotel ZaZa's Dragonfly restaurant in Dallas' Uptown neighborhood is almost better than its eclectic menu designed with the help of consulting chef Stephan Pyles. The elegant Abacus in the Knox-Henderson district offers creative dishes that fuse Southwestern and Asian flavors.
With another day to spend, you can squeeze in some of Big D's must-see attractions. Tops on the list is the new Nasher Sculpture Center, a light-filled museum and outdoor garden near the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center downtown. Donated by real estate developer and collector Raymond Nasher, the center is home to more than 300 sculptures by such artists as August Rodin and Picasso.
Weather permitting, consider a visit to one of the city's lushest oases: the 66-acre Dallas Arboretum on White Rock Lake. Some time amid the soothing fountains and towering trees is sure to make the plane ride home a bit more bearable.
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Excela Health officials: Former Jeannette District Memorial Hospital could be razed
In an effort to ensure that Jeannette is not saddled with two dilapidated hospitals, Excela Health officials said on Monday that they will either sell the former Jeannette District Memorial Hospital or demolish it.
"We've aggressively tried to market the hospital," said Jennifer Miele, Excela's vice president of communications.
If a sale is not possible, "we have a commitment we made to Jeannette that we will not be part of the blight problem," Miele added.
Today the building — opened in 1959 by the Sisters of Charity — is used for storage, Miele said.
In recent months, Jeannette officials have struggled with the abandoned and badly decaying Monsour Medical Center, which was shuttered in 2006 after it failed a number of state inspections.
Officials have condemned the rundown building but don't have the $250,000 to $1 million to tear it down.
Excela bought Jeannette District Memorial Hospital for $14 million in 2007 from Pittsburgh Mercy Health System.
The Pittsburgh Mercy Health System, part of Catholic Health East, is one of the region's largest health and human services nonprofit organizations serving more than 26,000 people each year. Pittsburgh Mercy Health System sold Mercy Jeannette Hospital to Excela Health in 2007, the same year the health system sold Mercy Hospital of Pittsburgh to UPMC.
Miele said Excela officials would like to see an investor purchase the Jeannette building for use as an assisted-living or rehabilitation facility.
But Jeannette city Attorney Scott Avolio said it's more likely the building will have to be razed.
"The city would be happy if the building is razed. There's a potential buyer on the scene, but if it doesn't come to fruition by next spring, they're going to raze it," Avolio said. "We're pretty excited if they shoulder the expense of tearing it down. It will make it more attractive for development."
Excela is willing to lease the property to a developer for $1 if a company would renovate the facility. But the size of the facility and the cost of renovating it may be a drawback.
Miele said the cost of retrofitting the structure is estimated at $10 million, compared with $3 million to raze it.
Four television and movie production companies, including Fox Television, have toured the site in the past six months as a possible location for a movie or television pilot, but nothing has materialized.
Donna McCullough worked for 44 years at Jeannette District Memorial Hospital and has been part of a group of residents trying to find another use for the facility.
"We did try to get assisted-living facility here," she said. "This is an aged population. We think assisted living would be perfect. Our biggest purpose was we didn't want the building to go idle."
Avolio said if the building is demolished, the most likely use for the property would be an assisted-living center similar to Redstone Highlands or Bethlen Home in Ligonier, but on a smaller scale.
The city, the Jeannette School District and Westmoreland County are appealing a decision by the county's Board of Assessment Appeals that sharply reduced the amount of taxes Excela has to pay on the property.
The hospital's assessment was slashed from $2.6 million to $52,840. The assessed value of an adjacent parking garage was reduced from $675,710 to $11,290. Another parking area had its assessed value cut from $39, 960 to $9,640, according to county tax records.
Richard Gazarik is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at 724-830-6292 or email@example.com.


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HARTFORD — — A jury on Monday acquitted Traistyn George of stabbing two men, one fatally, during a fight outside a party last year.
George, 21, of Hartford, was found not guilty of murder and first-degree assault. The jury convicted him of carrying a dangerous weapon. There were three days of testimony.


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Thursday, December 31, 2009
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Shovelling, shovelling, shovelling... that's all I seemed to do today. We've had snow coming down all day since I woke up at 6 a.m. Oh well!!! at least its good exercise... and Brian and I had a "filled up shovel of snow" fight. I couldn't toss my shovel full far enough... but he sure got me... The little deer have come for the twilight snack of corn. A few calls to the field and a rattle of the container and they were there.
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Wow!... I have just sat through a 24 hr movie marathon ... all old Sherlock Holmes films on Turner Classic movie channel. There were a couple that I remembered so I had a nap then woke up again to a coloured version made in the 1970's about him catching Jack the Ripper. Great stuff. Also shared the movies with my grand-dog when he came for a sleepover on Christmas night. He's beautiful ... Christmas was sort of busy .... I ate too much .... at least our weather wasn't absolutely mind-boggling freezing.
Friday, December 25, 2009
Undoing the goodies, ripping off the paper, making way for the next gift... kids get so much these days I'm amazed. Turkey is in the oven, grand-dog has come for a visit till supper time.... brunch with my Brian.... and a pretty table all set for visiting kids and grands for the evening meal. I haven't seen my little deer yet today .... so I guess they will visit in the night when it's quieter. At least the weather isn't so cold. Santa didn't leave me a puppy ... :-(( It all seems to be hustle and bustle ... where has the peace and joy gone to .... I guess I am missing my parents today ... missing my Aussie mates who would be calling in with cakes and a few drinks.... or inviting me to a barbecue..... One happy thing for me today is that Turner Classic Movie channel has a Sherlock Holmes movie marathon on all day, through the night and all day tomorrow so if this Aussie can keep her eyes open she'll be in Sherlock heaven. :-)
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Nothing better than being snuggled on the sofa reading a nice mystery... here is a list of cosy mysteries with heaps and heaps of wonderful books to read. I love these types of books so I'll be checking to see if our online libary has them. I'm sure they will....
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Shopping today ... ventured out in the snow ... so cold.. went to the town north of us which has many more shops than our little northern Canadian town. The drive is spectacular with mountains all around, frozen rivers, trees everywhere .. sometimes a moose or a deer or some coyotes in the fields.... Found nearly all the shops had sales on.... but unless I took some lottery winnings with me .. alas... it was a meagre adventure in spending. I could have shopped till I dropped. All the beautiful Christmas decorations were on sale.. up to 80% off ... but how many pretty things does one need in a small house. Wow... I would have loved to have had a big two storey house with room for more than one christmas tree. One up and one down perhaps.... oh well... one can dream. I shall have to keep buying those lottery tickets. I did manage to get a big bag of bird seed for my sweet little feathered friends out there trying to find food in the bitterly cold temperatures we've been having lately. ~~~~~~~~~~~ This morning was a weird example of how low we can go....I went outside with my hair wet from the shower ... only to have it turn solid on my head. Just a few steps to the deck and down to the ground ... and I thought something had landed on my head.... it was icicles forming ... and becoming spikey, crunchy and so weird I began to laugh. I had never had that happen before. My whole head was one frozen mess....... weird and wonderful all at the same time...... :-)
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I love blogs as you can tell. What a great way to interact with family and friends .. and share some of the things you love.... there's heaps of pretty blog tops on my site ... I called them toppers so hop over and check them out if you are on the look out for pretty goodies to enhance your own blog.
My beautiful little deer visitors. They come each day .... absolutely gorgeous.
I think these two might be twins. They are identical. They remind me of ballet dancers, walking around on tip toes. *(s)
Our little Connor drawing on the blackboard here beside grandma in our "office"... he sure does love standing on the chair and fiddling around with the chalk. And of course rubbing it all off again with a damp cloth.


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Florida delegation divided on failed effort to limit NSA data collection
The U.S. House on Wednesday narrowly defeated a measure to curtail data collection by the National Security Agency, and Florida's delegation showed the odd alliances.
From the Associated Press: The showdown vote marked the first chance for lawmakers to take a stand on the secret surveillance program since former NSA systems analyst Edward Snowden leaked classified documents last month that spelled out the monumental scope of the government's activities.
Backing the NSA program were 134 Republicans and 83 Democrats, including House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, who typically does not vote, and Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi. Rejecting the administration's last-minute pleas to spare the surveillance operation were 94 Republicans and 111 Democrats.
It is unlikely to be the final word on government intrusion to defend the nation and Americans' civil liberties.
By voice vote, the House backed an amendment that would require the president to seek congressional approval before sending U.S. military forces into the 2-year-old civil war in Syria. Rep. Trey Radel, R-Fla., sponsor of the measure, said Obama has a "cloudy foreign policy" and noted the nation's war weariness after more than 10 years of conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The administration is moving ahead with sending weapons to vetted rebels, but Obama and members of Congress have rejected the notion of U.S. ground forces.


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'Going downtown' with dad, mom in '50s among Connellsville native's treasured memories
I'm a small town boy from Connellsville. Born in 1950, I grew up in a time quite different from today: a slower-paced, safer and more innocent time. Although in many ways Connellsville's best days were behind her by the time I came along, we still had a vibrant downtown shopping district that included several blocks of storefronts along Crawford Avenue and Pittsburgh Street. I have many strong memories of that time and place: an era that in many ways still reflected our way of life from the 1930s. Some of my favorites are of "going downtown" with my mom or dad. While the destination was the same, the missions between the two parents were quite different.
My father, "Big Jim" as the family called him (I was "Little Jimmy"), worked as a railway postal clerk. He rode the B&O's Capitol Limited between Pittsburgh and Washington, working the mail. He'd be on the road for several days, then home for a while. At least twice a month he and I would head downtown to take care of business. We didn't have a car in those days; we didn't really need one. The bus stop was one block up Gibson Avenue, a 10-minute ride to the West Penn Terminal on Arch Street. We'd get off the bus and begin our rounds.
First stop was the West Penn Barber Shop where we'd both get a haircut. The shop was a classic, down to the red-and-white pole spinning away outside. The barbers who cut our hair were Carmen Maricondi and Dom Isola. I remember the little booster seat that went across the arms of the chair, the tissue collar that was wrapped snugly around your neck, and the dust-off afterwards done with a brush and some powder. My haircut didn't have a name. It was just all cut down to about a half inch all over. Later on I progressed to a crew cut, kept straight with the infamous "Butch Wax" stick. The counter behind Dom's chair was filled with bottles of products for those with longer hair, like Vitalis, Wild Root Cream Oil, and other assorted smell-um-goods and oils.
One day after I was done and Dad was in the chair shooting the breeze with Dom, I investigated a shelf filled with old manual clippers. You squeezed the handles together and they clipped the hair. Of course I couldn't resist trying them out and left that day with a special look: a nice stripe down the middle of my head.
Leaving the shop, we'd head up Crawford Avenue to Second National Bank at "Brimstone Corner." This was the heart of downtown Connellsville, the intersection of Crawford and Pittsburgh streets. The bank offices were on the ground floor of a seven-story building, the tallest in town. Second National was typical of the banks of the day: tall desks to stand at and fill out a deposit slip, brass spittoons on the floor, and tellers behind matching brass grills. Dad would cash his paycheck, put some in his savings account, and pocket the rest. Then it was time to go pay the bills.
Our next stop would be the Bell Telephone office, across Pittsburgh Street from the bank. Then we'd walk up the street to the gas company. All transactions were in cash, the way commerce happened before credit cards. On the way back we'd stop at Troutman's Department Store and pay on the only credit arrangement the family had: a revolving account that I suspect rarely carried a balance. Troutman's was a great store for our town: five floors of clothing, furniture and other goods. There were no cash registers on the sales floors. All sales slips and payments traveled up to the office in brass cylinders via a pneumatic tube system. The clerk would open the door and "whoosh," the cylinder was sucked away. I was fascinated by the whole process.
Next stop was back at the West Penn Terminal, where we paid the electric bill. Then with most of our business done, we'd visit a little saloon across the street popular with the railroaders. Pop would unwind with a shot and a beer; I got a ginger ale. He'd stand at the bar after depositing me at a table. The tavern scene was noisy and boisterous. I drank it all in along with my ginger ale.
Our last stop was the A&P, where we'd pick up a box full of groceries. Then, our business done, we'd walk back to the bus terminal for the ride home.
Going downtown with my mother started with the same bus ride, but the objectives were quite different; our focus was less on business and more on fun. We'd be on a buying mission, usually clothes or shoe shopping. Troutman's had a large shoe department, complete with a fluoroscope. This device used X-rays to show your foot inside your shoe so you could check the fit. I used it every time I was in Troutman's, whether buying shoes or not. I'm surprised my feet didn't start glowing in the dark. But we didn't worry too much about such things in 1955.
I have other fond memories of those trips, including Lemon Blend's at The Nut Shoppe and hot dogs from Burns Drug Store. But without a doubt my favorite stop was always Murphy's 5&10. Mom would leave me on my own while she did her shopping, and I had my own little routine.
My first stop was the comic book rack up front on the first floor. In those days they didn't wrap them up in cellophane, so I could give one or two a quick read. "Superman" and "Men at War" were two of my favorite titles. My second stop was the models display in the basement. Airplanes, ships and cars abounded, and I wanted them all. This was usually where Mom caught up with me.
The final stop was almost always the food department. Thank God, Mom was born with a sweet tooth. I might get a quarter pound of cashews, weighed out on a little balance scale, or a bag of freshly popped popcorn. Mom usually wanted some cookies. We often ended up with a mix of the cream wafer ones in vanilla, chocolate and strawberry. And the whole place smelled great!
The competition across the street, McCrory's, just couldn't compare. If I was lucky, the grand finale would be a nickel ride on the mechanical horse.
Downtown Connellsville had unique stores owned by merchants who lived in the city. I went to school with the tailor's daughter and the son of the drugstore owner. Most of the clothing store owners lived in the South Side. I remember a strong sense of community in the Connellsville of those days. We felt connected to the stores and their proprietors. No trip to the mall will ever compare to those journeys downtown.
Jim Oglethorpe is a Connellsville native and the author of "Leisenring No. 1." He will be at ArtWorks, Connellsville, from 1 to 5 p.m. April 26 and West Overton Museums at 2 p.m. April 27.


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Ontario Education Minister Laurel Broten says she is "outraged" that the Toronto District School Board has allowed cost overruns on a number of capital projects, including one that is 50 per cent over budget.
Nelson Mandela Park Public School has exceeded its capital budget of $21.7-million for renovations by more than $10-million, raising questions about the TDSB's ability to manage its fiscal affairs. Ms. Broten told reporters on Thursday that she is concerned other TDSB projects have also gone over budget.
The Ministry of Education has put the TDSB on notice that it will not approve funds for new projects until government officials get an explanation of how and why the cost overruns happened and assurances that they won't happen again.
"A number of TDSB trustees indicated their outrage," Ms. Broten said, referring to their irate reaction to the news at a meeting on Wednesday evening. "I am also outraged. ...We are not happy that they don't know why there is a $10-million cost overrun."
The board says it had to delay the opening of the refurbished Nelson Mandela elementary school in Regent Park to next January from September because of construction delays. Trustee Sheila Ward, who oversees Nelson Mandela, said the 97-year-old building yielded surprises soon after construction began. The roof was in worse condition than anyone had anticipated, old rebar pillars in the gym needed to be replaced, and the soil beneath the floors was contaminated. "It gave off a kind of rotten egg gas," Ms. Ward said.
The province approved the decision to retrofit the school rather than tear it down and start again, so Ms. Ward said she had "no patience" for its reaction to the budget overruns.
Trustee Pamela Gough questioned whether the province appreciated the full impact of halting new projects, some of which were due to get under way in Ms. Broten's own riding.
Norseman Junior Middle School, for example, near Islington Avenue and Bloor Street West, was due for more space for full-day kindergarten and for Grade 1 through Grade 8 students.
The plan had been to do both expansions at once, but the funding freeze has made that uncertain, Ms. Gough said.
Trustee Sam Sotiropoulos welcomed the province's decision to freeze funding for new projects.
"I applaud them for taking a stand and holding the TDSB to account," he said. "It's a wake-up call for the board and its been a long time coming."
The government will continue financing projects that are under way, including those associated with rolling out the province's full-day kindergarten program, Ms. Broten said. But there will be nothing for new projects until the TDSB develops a satisfactory capital spending plan, she said.
The province is trying to rein in program spending as it grapples with a $14.8-billion deficit. A $10-million cost overrun on one project means another one cannot be approved.
Ms. Broten would not say whether she plans to ask provincial auditors to examine the TDSB's financial records or appoint a supervisor. New Democratic Party Leader Andrea Horwath said such drastic action should be taken only if the answers the ministry gets from the TDSB are not satisfactory.
"In these days of tight budgets, it's disconcerting to see such a large discrepancy between what the project was expected to cost and what it ended up costing," Ms. Horwath told reporters.
Progressive Conservative MPP Jim Wilson called on Ms. Broten to step in immediately.
"To brush it off as she seems to be doing at this point isn't acceptable to taxpayers," he told reporters.
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What to do when your child has a sleep terror
You tell him that you're there, but he kicks and screams even louder. You try to hold him and you can feel his heart pounding. He's sweaty. He's looking right at you with glazed eyes, and he keeps thrashing, screaming and crying. After 30 minutes to an hour of trying to comfort him, he settles down and falls asleep. Two hours later, it happens again.
The next morning you wake up tired and your child wakes up full of energy, as if nothing happened.
These are typical sleep terrors, and as scary as they seem, they are quite common in children. Sleep terrors occur during the first half of the night and may happen several times in one night. They also can happen during daytime naps. Children are not awake during sleep terrors.
Making sure your child is safe
When they happen, you should make sure the child is safe, but avoid interfering with the event. Trying to hold, console or awaken the child may worsen or prolong the episode. With time, sleep terrors happen less and usually disappear before the teenage years. If your child has similar events but you are concerned that they may be something other than sleep terrors, talk to your child's doctor to see if a referral to the Sleep Center at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin is needed.
– Louella Amos, MD, pediatric sleep specialist, Sleep Center, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin
The Sleep Center at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin is the only sleep center in the state dedicated solely to the care of children and teens. The center has two locations (Milwaukee and New Berlin) both accredited by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and staffed by four board-certified pediatric sleep specialists.


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Speculation surrounding likely iPad 3 specs has died down in recent months for obvious reasons. Apple is clearly putting the lion-share of its time and resources into new cloud-based services and, of course, forthcoming next-gen iPhone and (probably) iPod touch refreshes. Still, we all know the iPad 3 will show up sooner or later (definitely later). And when it does, newly obtained leaked AT&T documents hint at what the third-generation tablet could deliver.
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Lulzsec, the infamous hacking group, may have brought us at least one gem in their final hack attack. One of their recent targets, AT&T, had internal data compromised and leaked. It would appear that that data contained information about AT&Ts roll-out of LTE, their true next-generation data network (comparable to Verizons already-launched LTE network).
Most analysts concur that an iPad 3 roll out won't take place until well after the start of 2012, most likely in the spring (consider last March's iPad 2 announcement) or, at the latest, early summer and in time for WWDC. Most supply chain sources and analysts agree that the third-gen tablet will come with improved display and, yes, LTE splendor.
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Bad things can happen in an instant. Last year, while everyone else was celebrating and enjoying the 4th of July, an errant firework burned down an elderly man's house. Like other depression-era folks who long ago lost faith in financial systems, he liked to hide his money in cash around the house and in the yard instead of keeping it in the bank. Likewise, he had no homeowner's insurance. Since he'd already used most of his savings to pay his late wife's medical bills, he had no money to rebuild his house. Though a homeowner's policy certainly would have cost him thousands over the years, rebuilding his home was even more expensive, and was only possible through the hard work and kindness of his family and community, who held fundraisers and donated their money, time, and materials.
Stories like this don't always have happy endings, though. Most of us don't want to, or know we can't, rely on others in times of financial crisis. I hope that you're not foregoing any key insurance policies in an attempt to save money, because chances are, you'll get burned, too.
To protect yourself financially, and to protect loved ones who would feel compelled to make sacrifices of their own hard-earned money to help you out in a crisis, it's a good idea to carry proper insurance. These tips on why you should review your insurance needs at least once a year apply to any kind of insurance, whether it's health, auto, homeowner's, renter's, or any other type of policy.
1. To add coverage. You may have purchased a policy at a time when money was tight. You might find that once you can afford more coverage, you'd like to purchase it. For example, it's generally considered a good idea to carry more than the legally mandated minimum amount of car insurance.
2. To make sure you actually have the coverage you think you do. You might think that you signed up for that umbrella policy two years ago, and then discover that what you really have is $1,000,000 of personal liability on your renter's policy, which is not the same thing at all. If your policy doesn't cover what you think it does, you'll be very unpleasantly surprised if something bad happens and you're stuck paying for it out of pocket.
3. To make sure you're getting the best deal. Auto insurance regulations changed last year, resulting in cheaper rates for many policyholders. If you originally went with the company that gave you the best rate, they may no longer be the cheapest. You can do a search online comparison insurance sites.
4. To get a discount for combining policies. If you have your auto insurance with one company and your homeowner's insurance with another company, you may be able to save money by letting the same company provide both policies. This isn't always the case, though, so don't believe a company when they tell you it's cheaper that way without actually doing the research and the math for yourself. You may actually get a better deal by un-combining your insurance. Having policies with multiple companies is only a minor inconvenience when it saves you hundreds of dollars.
5. To avoid over-insuring. Even if you've chosen the company that offers the lowest rates, you may still be over-insured. Reducing excessive coverage can save you hundreds. You probably don't need that $1,000,000 of personal liability coverage on your renter's insurance policy, for example.
6. To think about purchasing additional policies you may need. Last year you may not have needed renter's insurance because you didn't own anything of value, but maybe you had a good year and you now own a laptop, digital camera, bicycle, and other items that are expensive and easily stolen. Or you may have had a child recently and are ready to start thinking about purchasing a life insurance policy that will take care of your spouse and your kid if something happens to you.
No one likes paying for insurance when it feels like you're throwing money into a black hole year after year, but chances are you'll need to make use of at least one of your policies at least once in your lifetime. To make sure you'll have the coverage you need when you need it and that you don't pay more than you need to, it's wise to review your policies at least once a year.


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Here's what visitors to the Chinsegut Manor House used to be told about its most famous former occupant, Raymond Robins:
He was a local boy, who as a young man traveled to the Yukon, where he found God, saved souls and struck it rich mining gold. He used his new wealth to buy the county's only true antebellum mansion and gave it the Inuit name "Chinsegut,'' meaning "the spirit of lost things.'' Between speaking engagements and visits with friends such as former President Teddy Roosevelt, he acquired more than 2,000 acres north of Brooksville, which he would later generously donate to the federal government.
Here's the real story.
Robins came from a distinguished but troubled family, and as a boy lived in New York, Ohio and Kentucky, as well as Florida. His sister Elizabeth, a famous actress and writer 11 years his senior, bought the Manor House and its grounds on the top of the hill. Their plan for the property — as an idyllic, shared retreat — and the tone of their letters may be explained by the fact that relatives were less shy about expressing affection in those days. Or maybe, considering that their parents were first cousins, this was a family that had trouble setting boundaries.
"Darling,'' Raymond wrote his sister in 1903, "I have loved you more than sister, more than mother, more than wife, more than all combined.''
A third possibility, of course, is that he was buttering her up so she would part with the cash needed to buy and improve the estate, plans for which he laid out in a 26-page letter to her in April 1905.
This was followed a few days later with a note that began, "I have just had a vision.'' By this he meant Margaret Dreier, a woman "of first social position, splendidly educated and reportedly quite wealthy. ... I am under a profound conviction that I will marry her within a year from this date.''
Just two months later, in fact, he legally acquired a new darling and funding source.
Elizabeth deeded half-ownership of the house and original grounds to Margaret as a wedding present. Though Raymond liked to call himself the owner, his name was never on the deed.
Dreier's money helped save the Manor House, which had become such a wreck that Raymond originally considered scrapping it for its cedar timbers. In later years, she financed a new kitchen, music room and study. Her money, primarily, bought the tracts of land that now include the Chinsegut Nature Center and the U.S. Department of Agriculture research center. She eventually gave it away because property taxes were hiked sky high during the Depression and she suffered major losses on the stock market.
"Behind every good man is a good woman,'' said Christie Anderberg, manager of the nearby Ahhochee Hill Sanctuary.
"Or in this case, two women,'' said Kate Hughes, a former guide at the Manor House, which has been closed since July 1 of last year when its longtime renter, the University of South Florida, announced it could no longer afford to manage the property.
Hughes said the plan for the house and grounds to be run jointly by the state Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the Hernando Historical Museum Association and the county tourism bureau is still moving forward.
But slowly. No date has been set for the Manor House to reopen.
When it does, visitors will have a much clearer picture of the three Robinses because of the work of Hughes and Arenberg. Members of a group called Friends of Chinsegut Hill, they met with me on the porch of the Manor House on Wednesday and shared the results of several years of research, including archive searches at the University of Florida and at New York University of the trio's constant correspondence.
"They documented everything,'' Arenberg said.
"If you led an interesting life, your letters ... became your biography,'' Hughes said.
It makes you wonder what will happen to historians trying to study our era of regularly purged in-boxes. I also wondered about Raymond Robins, who besides being credited with defining the landscape north of Brooksville with his land grant, is one of a handful of county residents with a national reputation — in his case as a champion of workers' rights.
Was that all a lie, too?
Not at all, Hughes and Arenberg said. If anything, his letters make him seem more brilliant and committed than advertised.
While still in his teens, he traveled the country, working in mines and organizing miners. He earned enough money to put himself through law school, despite having little formal education. He led charity efforts, such as the Red Cross' campaign to feed starving farmers in the former Soviet Union in 1933, and was far ahead of his time when it came to race relations.
When he was away from Chinsegut, which he was most of the time in his younger days, he left it in the hands of a black supervisor, Fielder Harris, who was perhaps his closest lifelong friend, Arenberg said.
That his furious work sometimes came to a complete stop due to fits of depression adds one more facet to an already complicated character.
He may not be the quasi-saintly man we used to hear about, but he was very impressive, even if he never really owned "his'' Chinsegut — which, by the way, may be a word that doesn't even exist in the Inuit language, Hughes said.
"As far as we know, there's not even a 'ch' sound.''


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Photo Flash: CINO NIGHTS Opens at RPR
Following the sold out performance and overflow crowd at its first Cino Nights presentation (of Gary Sunshine's BEST SEX EVER in September), Rising Phoenix Rep continued the series with Mando Alvarado's (O)N THE 5:31 on October 24th. Described as "A bar. A blind date. And a deconstruction of how it all began. (O)N THE 5:31 takes a trip into what is remembered and what could have been." It was directed by Taibi Magar and the cast featured Jolly Abraham, Sarah Baskin, and Bernardo Cubria.
Inspired by Joe Cino and his Caffe Cino-one of the original birthplaces of Off-Off-Broadway theatre and early home to such writers as Doric Wilson, Robert Patrick, John Guare, Sam Shepard, Lanford Wilson, and William M. Hoffman-New York Innovative Theater Award winning company Rising Phoenix Rep has commissioned nineteen playwrights to write new, full-length plays for the Seventh Street Small Stage, the intimate back room space at Jimmy's No. 43 in the East Village, where the company has produced critically acclaimed and award winning productions for the past five years.
Rising Phoenix Rep artistic director Daniel Talbott described the series as a place to tap into the raw, inspired, inventive, and pioneering work of the Caffe Cino, where the love of theatre and new work was joined with a scrappy, do-it-yourself work ethic. All shows will be rehearsed for a week and then fully mounted and produced, warts and all, for one night only with free admission.
Cino Nights are currently scheduled through March 2012 and will celebrate the spirit of indie theatre as a home for new plays and theatre artists as well as hopefully honor what has been said of the Caffe Cino: "the first studio of theater where playwrights can experiment as painters and poets have done for a century, free from the tyranny of audience, box-office, church, and criticism."
The plays will be fully produced for one night only on a monthly basis. The playwrights, in the order their plays will appear, are:
Gary Sunshine's BEST SEX EVER premiered on October 3, 2010. It was directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel and featuring Stephen Bel Davies, Cathy Curtin, Jimmy Davis, Mike Doyle and Jeffrey Nauman.
Mando Alvarado's (O)N THE 5:31 premiered on October 24, 2010, directed by Taibi Magar and featuring Jolly Abraham, Sarah Baskin, and Bernardo Cubria.
Courtney Baron's new play will be performed on November 7, 2010, directed by Daniel Talbott and featuring Denis Butkus and Samantha Soule.
Florencia Lozano: December 12, 2010
Kristen Palmer: January 23, 2011
Emily DeVoti: February 13, 2011
Cusi Cram: March 20, 2011
Daniel Talbott: April 17, 2011
Jessica Dickey: May 22, 2011
Adam Szymkowicz: June 19, 2011
Laura Eason: July 17, 2011
Sheri Wilner: August 28, 2011
Daniel Reitz: September 18, 2011
Crystal Skillman: October 23, 2011
Megan Mostyn-Brown: November 13, 2011
Charlotte Miller: December 11, 2011
Keith Reddin: January 2012
Dael Orlandersmith: February 2012
Jonathan Blitstein: March 2012
Reservations will be available one week before the performance each month. Seating extremely limited. For reservations please call 212-946-5198; for more information please visit www.RisingPhoenixRep.org.
Mando Alvarado (Playwright) is a writer and an actor. He's currently working on La Maga de Oz for Theaterworks USA. His play Post No Bills had its Off-Broadway premiere at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. His play Splitting Mama was selected to participate at the Black Swan Lab at Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He's had developmental support from INTAR, The Kennedy Center, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Atlantic Theater, The Goodman, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and The Lark. He was a Hispanic-Playwright-in-Residence at INTAR and is currently a company playwright for Theater 167. Other credits include the feature film Cruzando, which he co-wrote and co-directed with Michael Ray Escamilla. He participated in the Freight Project where he developed his play (o)n the 5:31 which will have a showing in October as part of Rising Phoenix Rep's Cino Nights at the Seventh Street Small Stage. (www.cruzandothemovie.com, www.tgtgfilms.com).
Taibi Magar (Director) The Dime Show (co-director, Women's Project & Productions), Hamlet, Inhale (The Gallery Players), The Wake of Jamey Foster, Kindertransport (NYU Tisch), W.A.C. Iraq (DUTF), Rum & Vodka (Faux Real), Orson's Shadow (Outrageous Fortune). As assistant, Joanna Settle's production of Othello (featuring music by Stew), Broadway's Exit The King, and multiple productions at The Alley Theatre. She has also developed work with Soho Rep, NYU Goldberg Dramatic Writing Center, INTAR and LAByrinth theatre companies and was the Festival Coordinator for Suzan-Lori Parks 365Plays/365Days at the Public Theater. A graduate of University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Otterbein College and Lincoln Center Director's Lab. The 2008 Directing Fellow for the Public Theater Shakespeare Lab.
Founded in 1999 by Artistic Director Daniel Talbott, Rising Phoenix Repertory began by producing an ongoing reading series of new plays and has continued to add workshops, festivals, and highly praised productions of new plays. Recent productions include the acclaimed, sold-out Off-Broadway runs of Slipping, produced with Piece by Piece Productions and Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, and Too Much Memory (also with Piece by Piece Productions) which transferred to the New York Theatre Workshop's Fourth Street Theatre after winning the FringeNYC award for Outstanding Play in 2008. Other recent productions include Ceremony, Afterclap, Birthday and Don't Pet the Zookeeper (Seventh Street Small Stage); 365 Days/365 Plays (Jimmy's No. 43 and The Public Theater); What Happened When (HERE Arts Center); Fall Forward (part of the Sitelines/River to River festival produced by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council); The Telling Trilogy (including The Ride, 2006 NYIT Award Nominee - Outstanding Original Short Script- Crystal Skillman), Rules of the Universe (Winner, 2007 NYIT Awards for Outstanding Original Short Script - Daniel Reitz and Director - Daniel Talbott), and Three Sisters (Seventh Street Small Stage at Jimmy's No. 43); Gift by Mark Schultz and Ponies by Mike Batistick (FringeNYC).
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Tigers claim district title with 2-0 win
From staff and wire reports - Jan 31, 2013
The Hahnville boys soccer team locked up the District 8-1 championship with a 2-0 victory over East St. John.
Hahnville controlled the ball early, which led to plenty of scoring opportunities in the first half. The Tigers took the lead on a corner kick by B.J. Hartman, who placed the ball perfectly across the front of the goal. Junior Craig Ford took advantage of the kick to blast the ball into the back of the net to give Hahnville a 1-0 lead.
At the start of the second half East St. John came out energized and tried to take control of the game. They used combination passes along with long balls over the top to utilize their speed. However, senior Tiger defender Julius Medina was able to keep the Wildcats from scoring.
East St. John eventually lost the momentum and the Tigers made them pay. Ford took a shot from 25 yards out that bounced off the ESJ goalie. Brennen Samaha got the rebound and sent the ball to the back of the net to secure the Hahnville win.
This is Hahnvilles second district championship in as many seasons. They will now head to the Division 1 playoffs. Seeding was not announced as of press time.
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Mar 06, 2013 Letters Comments Off on A nebulous editorial
Dear Editor,
I found your editorial of 3/4/13 to be nebulous with regard to the definition and use of the word legacy, and rather cavalier in the attribution of credit for the genesis of Guyana's independence movement. Legacies in any context have to be viewed as passed-on measurable personal and professional accomplishments/achievements, or lack thereof, that affect individuals and societies.
And, as will be noted later, legacies with societal effects, such as those left by politicians, cannot be easily obliterated because they are disregarded or neglected by their political inheritors. So while I agree that Marxism should guide any analysis of Cheddi Jagan's disappointing legacy, because he claimed reliance upon Marxism to determine his personal and professional contribution to our nation, I disagree that his legacy is Marxism or that his "legacy is dead" because of the failure of the consciously corrupt minority PPP government to embrace Marxism.
I am no fan of Mr. Jagan because of his and the PPP's rancid hypocrisy on democracy in Guyana and communist countries. He and his PPP gladly used their freedom of travel and speech under the PNC to wail about rigged elections in Guyana even as they gladly supported travel and speech restrictions and vote rigging in communist countries.
Nevertheless, if his legacy is dead for the reasons you posit, then so are the societal-enhancing legacies of every parent who ever raised several good children but ended up with some that chose a life of crime.
For while we wouldn't mind a comparison of our legacy with that of others, we would reject any attempt to declare our legacy as being dead based on a conflation of our non-criminal actions with the criminal actions of our children or other relatives.
We must look at the effects of Mr. Jagan's actions on our nation for his legacy and cannot conflate Mr. Jagan's disappointing legacy with the odious one being built by the consciously corrupt inheritors of his party.
Mr. Jagan was known for his political use of the race card as much as he was known for his embrace of Marxism. And his and Forbes Burnham's use of the race card has had tragic consequences for our nation. The consciously corrupt minority government learned the use of the race card from Mr. Jagan, and uses it at every opportunity it gets.
No one fails to see how much better our country would have been if Forbes Burnham and Mr. Jagan had failed to use the race card. So, in my view, aspects of Mr. Jagan's disappointing legacy are alive and well because race relations in our country could at times be seen as a ticking time-bomb.
Mr. Jagan's disappointing legacy is also evident in the disdain with which PPP complaints of PNC rigging are greeted by knowledgeable people. Mr. Jagan in August of 1968 refused to condemn the crushing of democratic reforms by the Soviet Union in Czechoslovakia, but was in December 1968 hollering about PNC vote rigging in Guyana.
On the positive side, is Mr. Jagan's education legacy really dead because the consciously corrupt PPP minority government has been running the University of Guyana into the ground? No! Given his founding role in the university, every UG graduate and all they have achieved because of their UG degree can be claimed as part of that legacy. Thus many aspects (both negative and positive) of Jagan's legacy are alive and will be for a very long time.
Prior to delving into Mr. Jagan's nebulously defined legacy, your editorial further caught my interest when it used the contestable article "the" in addressing Mr. Jagan's founding role in the PPP and the independence movement. The editorial stated that Mr. Jagan was "the founder of the PPP and the independence movement."
Every knowledgeable person knows that Mr. Jagan was "a" rather than "the" founder of both modern groups, but I am here concerned with the independence movement. The term "independence movement" is not reflexively associated with slave rebellions, let alone leading to an association of slaves with the quest for national independence.
But if the slave rebellions in Guyana and such places as Haiti weren't about national independence, then rather than rightly saying that Columbus was probably among the first Europeans to visit and see the New World, I insist on peddling the preposterous claim that Columbus discovered the New World, even though he met natives on arrival, and Inca and Aztec civilizations had been built and destroyed in the New World long before any European ever imagined that there was a New World.
Cheddi Jagan, Forbes Burnham, and other educated local elites played their roles in our nation's drive for national independence. But those roles must always be placed in their proper perspective.
Lionel Lowe
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Hudson lacrosse MBSLA state champs
The Hudson varsity club lacrosse team swept through its final three playoff games and clinched the Minnesota Boys Scholastic Lacrosse Association state championship with a 9-5 victory over St. Louis Park on Saturday, June 8, at Washburn High School in Minneapolis.
Hudson reached the title game by beating Fargo, 15-4, in the MBSLA state quarterfinals June 3 and defeating Becker, 12-7, in the semifinals June 5. They fought back from a 3-0 deficit to beat St. Louis Park, 9-5, in the state title game.
St. Louis Park's 3-0 first quarter lead was Hudson's largest deficit of the season and marked just the second time all year a Hudson opponent had scored first.
Hudson bounced back with second period goals from Leo Murray, off a pass from Brandon Schwartz, Zach Gapinski, with an assist from McKay Potter, and Adam Lipps to tie the score before St. Louis Park following a Hudson penalty to take a 4-3 halftime lead.
Potter opened the second half with a goal, assisted by Schwartz, to tie the score 4-4 before Will Reece scored to give Hudson a 5-4 lead. After a St. Louis Park goal tied the score for the third time, Potter and Schwartz each scored to put Hudson ahead 7-5 at the end of three.
Hudson's defensive unit, having one of its best games of the season, continued to hold off the St. Louis Park offensive attack with aggressive stick and body check and some brilliant saves by goalie Jordan Madden.
Taren Motte made it an 8-5 game with an assist from Reece, who was hit hard on the play and had to leave the game. But Reece returned to the field and scored the final goal of the game to give Hudson the 9-5 win.
Hudson players put a territorial twist on their post-game celebration by chanting the Hudson area code -- "seven-one-five! seven-one-five!" Hudson is the lone Wisconsin team that competes in the MBLSA.
Three nights earlier in the state semifinal game against Becker, Hudson was clinging to a 6-5 lead early in the third quarter before pulling away for a 12-7 victory.
Motte scored four first half goals and Potter and Lipps each had a goal to give Hudson a 6-4 halftime lead. After a Becker goal made it a 6-5 game, Hudson reeled off five unanswered goals -- three more by Motte, one by Potter and one by Reece, to widen their lead to 11-5.
Becker got as close as 11-7 in the fourth quarter before Zach Beckman scored a late goal for Hudson to make the final 12-7.
Hudson found itself trailing for the first time all season in the state quarterfinal against Fargo before Motte and McKay each scored to give Hudson a 2-1 lead. Fargo scored twice to regain the lead, 3-2, before Motte scored five goals and Potter and Schwartz tallied one apiece to give Hudson an 8-3 halftime lead.
Motte scored three more goals in the second half, while Potter, Lipps, Reece and Rusty Sellris added one each to close out the Raider scoring.
Hudson finished the season undefeated with a record of 12-0.


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Garden Club: What's Planting in Your June Garden
By now you should have all of your hearty veggies in the ground, protecting them from bunnies and hail. But what's planting in your garden in June?
By now you should have all of your hearty veggies in the ground, protecting them from bunnies and hail. But what's planting in your garden in June?
Cabin fever is definitely in full force come April and all us gardening freaks can't wait to get our hands in the dirt. But the last freeze in Fort Collins is never 100 percent. We're told to hold off planting until at least Mother's Day: we never mind this rule because we live in Colorado. We've had fires start as early as the first week of May to building destroying snow falls in the same time period, so what is a cabin fever gardener to do?
We all have different traditions when it comes to holidays and Mother's Day is no different. So what is your special thing to do for Mom on her day.
Today's severe weather is a definite reminder that Spring is here and Summer won't be far behind. So, what's your favorite part about this time of year?
Oh to see the world as a child now that we've grown up (most of us anyway), remember when dandelions were bouquet worthy for mom? Now just a nuisance and healthy lawn invader.
Each year students from Colorado State University and Front Range Community College along with Horticulturists begin cultivating herbs, perennials and veggie starts. The Gardens on Spring Creek is an 18 acre site and offers a way for the Fort Collins community to come together and get growing.
In the midst of virtual turmoil and free love filled with excessive pollution and leaded gas Earth Day was born. When Larimer County topped out with a population of nearly 90 thousand people the country was getting ready for big changes. And amongst it all Earth Day came to be mostly due to the efforts of a 'Cheesehead'.
Living in Colorado might give a new meaning to "Don't Stress Out Your Grass Colorado", but in the case, I really do mean your grass. To be really clear, the grass you mow, the green stuff on the ground leading up to your front door. (or as some of us deal with green-slightly brown stuff the neighbors dog poops on)
Nothing screams warmer weather than a yard full of flowers. The best approach is to make sure that you are combining flowers that have staggering bloom times. Couple a few all season perennials with mid-summer to fall perennials and add some great hardy annuals with various bloom times to create an all-season flower garden that will bring a visual paradise.
Every spring you head to the yard and stand there staring at the possibilities, you may think about the flowers or the plants you might put into your yard. Often times you think about Xeriscaping and how cool it would be. Xeriscaping cuts down on water, minimizes yard maintenance and adds value to your home.
Last week we talked about what you could start planting in your garden, now if you've been thinking about cauliflower and if you should plant it, here's why you should.
With only a hint of snow showers left in the season gardening idea's run wild. What should you be doing now to plan for the season here's a spring guide to planting.


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The name Anneke van Giersbergen may not ring many bells among a lot of rock fans, but when you realise this is the voice which helped make The Gathering such a cult favourite across the globe for over a decade (and more recently shone as part of The Devin Townsend Project) you know this is not a lady to be taken lightly. While possessing one of the most iconic female vocals of the last few decades and a hugely impressive history of work, Anneke has never stopped doing what she loves and continues to move forward with her solo career rather than live on her past success. Anyone picking up Drive expecting another offering of progressive post rock brilliance along the lines of The Gathering will be surprised by what they find as Anneke fully embraces a more pop/rock style with incredibly catchy songs fuelled by brilliant riffs and pounding drums throughout.,
Opening the album is We Live On which musically is very reminiscent of the likes of some of The Killers work with a very anthemic feel thanks to the vocals being given plenty of space to shine and that's definitely what happens. A voice shows no signs of diminishing whatsoever…epic. Treat Me Like A Lady is less of a radio friendly song with a more meaty riff providing a perfect punch to this fight to be taken seriously and not pushed aside, showing off the feisty side of Anneke. And in contrast we have the sugary pop of title track Drive which will be stuck in your head for days thanks to one of the catchiest choruses we've heard this year. In amongst the infectious pop-rock hides a beautiful piano driven ballad in the form of My Mother Said, a beautiful tribute to a constant source of belief and support in the form of her mother; it's definitely one of the highlights and shows that Anneke needs nothing more than her voice to shine. The heaviest moment – and definite standout track for us – is Mental Jungle which has a bit of a Lacuna Coil feel to it, especially with the male vocals which give it a completely different feel to the rest of the album but without seeming out of place somehow. The whole album is filled with songs that will have you dancing, singing along or tapping your feet. And with songs like You Will Never Change and the groove-laden album closer The Best Is Yet To Come there is plenty to enjoy musically about this album, though the star is undoubtedly the voice of Anneke which powers this album throughout this triumphant return to form.
Trying to come out of the shadow of a huge previous career can be tough and rather than yearn for a return to The Gathering we hope the world will embrace this new stage of the career of Anneke van Giersbergen and give her a chance, because with Drive she has put together one of the album highlights of the year. And despite veering dangerously close to being a pop album this has enough bite to still fall under the category of rock. To still be evolving so impressively after over 20 years in music is quite a feat and we can't wait to see what Anneke has in store because we feel the best really is yet to come.
Standout Track: Mental Jungle
For fans of: The Gathering , Within Temptation
Written by: Andy Wilkinson
Tags: Anneke van Giersbergen, Drive, The Gathering


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PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania gymnastics team will be represented by one of its own Saturday night at the NCAA regional championships in Morgantown, Va. Senior co-captain Kirsten Strausbaugh is now a three-time NCAA regional qualifier and will compete on April 6 beginning at 6 p.m.
Penn's all-around competitor is coming off her best season in her four years in Red and Blue, one in which she finished the year as a first-team All-ECAC performer on bars and in the all-around. Additionally, Strausbaugh was named co-ECAC Athlete of the Year while being rated as the conference's top Division I all-around gymnast. She would eventually lead the Quakers to their second consecutive ECAC championship and fifth in program history.
The Morgantown regional will be hosted by West Virginia University at the WVU Coliseum. It will feature six competing teams, five at-large all-around competitors – which is the category where Strausbaugh falls – and an additional individual specialist for each event. The top two teams and the top two individual all-around competitors not on either of those teams will advance to the NCAA championships in Los Angles from April 19-21.
Live stats and two separate live video streams – one focused on bars and beam and one on floor and vault – will be available as well. Visit the tournament central page HERE and make sure to follow @UPennGym for live updates throughout the competition.


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HTC roadmap for 2014: HTC Eye for selfies, Butterfly 2, and Windows Phones
With a codename 'Eye', HTC's selfie phone is a device aiming for the US market, with a release date in the fourth quarter, and it will obviously come equipped with a superb front camera.
Next on HTC roadmap is allegedly the HTC Butterfly 2, an international high-end device with 4G LTE connectivity, that has already cleared certification in Japan.
These two, however, do not exactly sound like models that will compete on an equal, flagship footing with heavy-weights like the expected Apple iPhone 6 and Samsung Galaxy Note 4. Interestingly, it could be that this time around, HTC puts its chips on Windows Phone devices. In particular, HTC is said to have plans for not one, but several new Windows Phone smartphones in various price ranges.
Evidently, what's missing in these rumored plans is an HTC One (M8) refresh for the fall, nor have we heard anything yet about a sequel to the HTC One Max phablet. Let's keep in mind, though, that all this is at the rumor stage, and HTC's 2014 plans might actually be a bit more fascinating on the Android side of things.
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1. jaytai0106 (Posts: 1888; Member since: 30 Mar 2011)
CAT!! sorry just came in for the cat picture :P HTC needs to improve its back camera first...
3. SuperAndroidEvo (Posts: 4888; Member since: 15 Apr 2011)
hahahahaha!!!!! I did the same!!!
12. domfonusr (Posts: 565; Member since: 17 Jan 2014)
Also came to see the cat picture. The real question is this: is the cat trying to claim responsibility for the fire in the background?
14. jaytai0106 (Posts: 1888; Member since: 30 Mar 2011)
Yup, cat said: "Meow did that"
2. TisaTsir (Posts: 70; Member since: 06 Jan 2014)
HTC can be number one, if only they improve the back camera..
4. chunky1x (Posts: 270; Member since: 28 Mar 2010)
Is this a selfie of a cat about to be thrown off the balcony?
5. NokiaFTW (Posts: 2072; Member since: 24 Oct 2012)
Bring me that WP version of the One M8 NOW HTC!
9. ihavenoname (Posts: 1693; Member since: 18 Aug 2013)
They first have to get their main business (Android) together. And considering how good phones previous HTC WPs were and how well they sold compared to Lumias IMO they shouldn't even try.
10. NokiaFTW (Posts: 2072; Member since: 24 Oct 2012)
The 8X was an awesome phone. If they had marketed it properly, it would have sold a lot more. Even their original One didn't sell much, even after such an awesome design and running the "saviour" Android OS. Marketing is the name of the game!
13. marbovo (Posts: 658; Member since: 16 May 2013)
Why would someone buy an HTC wp over an lumia? "not trolling"
6. newbey123 (Posts: 636; Member since: 19 Mar 2012)
I want that cat to be the new spokesperson(cat) for HTC. :-)
7. xtroid2k (Posts: 534; Member since: 11 Jan 2010)
HTC needs to come out with devices that offer services or features not found on other devices. I think this is the reason for the selfie phone, but I'm not sure this will take off unless features are out of this world. Honestly would like a folding phablet which comes with enhanced speakers which can be detached for power saving. I love music so yeah
8. wilsong17 (unregistered)
Xtroid I'm with you I love music that why I want the ultra power saving mode on the galaxy s5 to come to the note 3...just leave text and music app on all other off battery with be good... even though I get great battery life on my noteb3
11. techloverNYC (Posts: 601; Member since: 20 Nov 2012)
If HTC would have improved the camera for M8, the phone would have sell twice as much. Such a simple move and yet HTC cling on the ultra pixel bs. Their marketing ad is confusing and pointless.
15. Onlinector (Posts: 12; Member since: 10 Jun 2014)
But i still think they think more than us about that topic before investing such a big number of money on a project this much important for their existence..
16. techloverNYC (Posts: 601; Member since: 20 Nov 2012)
I felt like when they making this phone, they focus more on saving money. I think they only recently started making profit again. Instead of investing in new tech, they decided to go with an older tech and use the money for more metal (which I though was pointless too, last yrs m7 was a sexy phone and still to this day). The tv ad campaign was a disaster, more than half the ppl have no idea what the ad was selling.
17. Onlinector (Posts: 12; Member since: 10 Jun 2014)
M8 is still one of my Favorite smartphones in terms of design and everything,And i'm sure They know what they're doing(at least i hope!!)


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This uses the N95 UA and Uaprof for carrier compatibility reasons.
The MMS Size has been changed to 120000 per request from relldroid
I tested this on my own phone without any issues.
Based off of 1.12.16, 1.12.9 and the latest stable 2.3.4a
Simply boot into CWRecovery and flash like any other update
Let me know of any issues, and i'll try to help as much as possible
Thank you.
1) Download file for your chosen build
2) Save it to your SDCARD (root dir is the easiest)
3) Boot into CWM Recovery
4) Select "load zip from SDCARD"
5) Select zip file on SDCARD
6) Reboot
-6a) It can be considered safe measure to wipe the cache and Dalvik cache prior to rebooting. No harm no foul
--Alternatively, if you use Rom Manager, you can use that as well. That program works directly with CWM Recovery.
How-To for yourselves
Hard Method;
Req - SystemUI.apk, Framework.apk, MMS.apk (all from the same build, no mismatching) APKManager (google is your friend )
1, install APKManager
2, move SystemUI.apk -> c:\users\*your username here*\APKTool\
3, rename Framework.apk -> 1.apk
4, move 1.apk -? c:\users\*your username here*\APKTool\Framework\
5, move MMS.apk -> ~\apkmanager\place-apk-here-for-editing
6, run apkmanager from the installed directory (instructions of how to run it is with the download)
7, decompile mms.apk
8, within the \projects\ folder, there will be a folder labeled MMS, locate the xml file mms_config
9, edit the string userAgent -> NexusOne (other useagents can also work, NexusOne is a known working one for HD2 + TMOBILE)
10, once edited, compile, hit yes, then yes
11, follow the one screen instructions (it's straight forward)
12, rename the newly created apk unsignedMMS.apk (located in \place-apk-here-for-modding) to MMS.apk
13, place the new MMS.apk into the \system of your phone
14, reboot
Easy method:
Req - latest MMS fix
1, download my latest fix
2, unzip
3, unzip the mms.apk (treating the mms.apk as a zip file)
4, locate mms_config.xml
5, copy to the new mms.apk (again, treating as a zip file
6, move to \system of your phone
7, reboot
Use only the above instructions if you know what you are doing, I take no responsibilities in any damage/issues caused by the provided methods.


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Travel in style! With this felt and leather wallet you can securely carry your passport, credit cards, and documents.
It's a slim but practical case, with a main section and two card slots.
It's made of high quality materials: 100% wool felt and Italian vegetable tanned leather.
+ case dimensions: 10,7 x 15 cm - 4,2 x 5,9 inches
+ passport dimensions: 8,8 x 12,5 cm - 4.921 x 3.465 inches
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+ a|M logo embossed by hand on each case
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+ felt color: light turquoise, pale blue, slightly greenish
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Woolen FELT is sturdy but soft. 100% woolen felt is water resistant (not waterproof) and dirt repellant. You can clean it with a brush and a damp sponge.
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