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Welcome to 2018. We now have 46 years of super bowl commercials. Super Bowl LII will air live February 4 2018.
Welcome to the worlds largest archive of super bowl commercials. In some years all the regional ads are included as well, but "banned ads" that claim to have been rejected from the super bowl are not. If it aired nationally during the super bowl, it's included. Sometimes we get local super bowl ads submitted as well, and will include them noting that they are regional buys. We now have 44 out of the 48 super bowl years, making this the world's largest collection of super bowl ads. You're welcome!
For the latest gossip about this years super bowl ads, see super bowl commercials news & reviews topic.
Yes, all the red year names are links bringing you deeper into super bowl commercial goodness! Have fun now.
Super Bowl LII 2018
Rap battle between hot and cool. Adding Pringles together makes "wow", while Cris Pratt works out to be the Michelob Ultra spokesman.
Super Bowl LI 2017
We have a Buschhhhhhhhhhh, Budweiser is "born the hard way", and the Coehn Brothers directed "Easy Driver"
Super Bowl 2016 50 commercials
We have a wiener stampede, singing sheep and vikings on their way to Valhalla already.
Super Bowl 2015 XLIX commercials
This is the year of The Dad with Dove Men+Care first out shortly followed by Toyota's Bold Dad. Meanwhile Bud Light is still #Upforwhatever including a game of real life Pac Man.
2014 Super Bowl XLVIII commercials
Weathertech did that, the eighties called and the British showed us why they are such good villains.
2013 Super Bowl XLVII commercials
Willem Dafoe is the devil himself, VW would like to teach the angry & sad youtube world to sing - meanwhile Audi is like a bravery steroid for prom wusses.
2012 Super Bowl XLIV commercials
Ferris Bueller is back, Darth Vader shows up in the Cantina scene, gorgeous Italian women are actually cars, Elton John is a bigger queen than Madonna and much more.
2011 Super Bowl XLV commercials
Stella Artois showed themselves to be the anti-Bud, Eminem pep-talked Detroit for Chrysler, and Bridgestone really wish it hadn't replied to all....Oh, it didn't!
2010 Super Bowl XLIV commercials
-10 XLIV Google let hell freeze over with a love story, Volkswagen reinvented punchdub, and pantless men prawled for Dockers
Top 24 best rated ads between 2000 and 2009. Your vote affects the list as it's amount of votes & score based.
2009 Super Bowl XLIII commercials
-09 XLIII Alec wanted to eat our brains, careerbuilder said "It may be time" including koalas and Audi did a time-warping chase scene.
2008 Super Bowl XLII commercials
08 XLII was when animals screamed, Justin Timberlake had a bad case of magnetic attraction and Fedex began using pigeons. Tut tut Fedex.
2007 Super Bowl XLI commercials
07 XLI Fedex had offices on the moon, Careerbuilder was in the jungle and Mr Mencia's English class went on the prowl.
2006 super bowl XL commercials
In -06 XL we saw animated dragons, as well as the unusual love story between a monster and a giant robot. Meanwhile, little girls just wanted to be able to be themselves and feel Ok about it.
2005 « 2000
2005 super bowl XXXIX commercial
-05 xxxix was a star-studded gala, from Burt Reynolds to Poppin' Fresh, we were bombarded by stars and icons shilling everything from beer to countertops. We also saw fewer animals, though the ones in the ads almost got themselves killed. Male intuition was shown in a Heineken ad, and everyone raised their glasses to it.
2004 super bowl XXXVIII commercial
-04 XXXVIII Was another banner year for animals in the ads as well with a donkey, two ads with horses, two ads with dogs, two ads with bears, chimps, monkeys, and elephants. Plus, a man acting like a wolf, and the famous Muppet animals. It was a zoo this year! Well, apart from "Jenkins" the alien.
2003 super bowl XXXVII commercial
-03 xxxvii I'm still amused that they got away with that name in the Terry Tate ad. Meanwhile Bud made a bigger gap between men and women, and Monster turned into pure action drama.
2002 super bowl XXXVI commercials
-02 XXXVI was when the Clydesdales got serious, the E*trade chimp got silly (and fired), and the cowboy had just gotten in to town.
2001 super bowl XXXV commercials
-01 XXXV How are you doing+ Dot Com Deserted and Running with Squirrels.
2000 super bowl XXXIV commercials
00 XXXIV E*trade blew millions on a dancing chimp, EDS herded cats and that guys had money coming out the wazoo.
1999 « 1990
1999 super bowl XXXIII commercials
-99 XXXIII When I grow up I want to write Monster.com commercials, bud light buyers dilemma, and the VW Jetta went all jungian.
1998 super bowl XXXII commercials
-98 XXXII Fedex created a fantastic ad but it was never delivered, Outpost.com tattooed kids, and the evil beaver was after your Miller Light!
1997 super bowl XXXI commercials
-97 The pigeons attack! Miller Lite did some really quirky product testing and some guys like it hot, but the mosquitos don't.
1996 super bowl XXX commercials
-96 XXX Charlton Heston was loved, did not fall for it. The Clydesdales played football, and the bud frogs discovered side-effects of winter.
1995 super bowl XXIX commercials
-95 XXIX Frogs learned how to read, Dennis Hopper went on a rant, and peace was had in a diner between the Pepsi delivery guy ad the Coke delivery guy. It didn't last.
1994 super bowl XXVIII commercials
-94 XXVIII Shaq was told off by a kid who wanted his pepsi, Chimps drink pepsi, and the McDonald's showdown between Larry Bird and Michael Jordan once more.
1993 super bowl XXVII commercials
-93 XXVII Larry bird & Michael showdown "nothing but net", Bugs Bunny and Jordan have a showdown, while Corey Feldmen gives us life advice.
1992 super bowl XXVI commercials
-92 XXVI Cindy Crawford shows off the new can of Pepsi. John Cleese showed off everything Magnavox. "Hare" jordan showed off skills against Michael jordan.
1991 super bowl XXV commercials
-91 XXV Nike told us there is no finish line and became "just do with" with all of America, The Go-Go's asked if those were bugle Boy jeans, and Ray Charles had a hard time finding the right "uh-huh" girls.
1990 super bowl XXIV commercials
-90 XXIV Coke had a hilltop reunion and taught the world how to sing again, while Fred Savage received a love letter and Paula Abdul danced around with Elton John just for the taste of it.
1989 « 1980
1989 super bowl XXIII commercials
-89 XXIII Michael J Fox makes a robot clone, Diet Coke airs the first ad in 3D which is the announcers "single proudest moment of his life", and Dana Carvey / Jon Lovitz shilled for Amex.
1988 super bowl XXII commercials
-88 XXII Michael J Fox escaped a mad dog, Bartles and James added a bugle to their repertoire and a dog did dog impressions for Stroh - nobody recognized his Spuds MacKenzie.
1987 super bowl XXI commercials
-87 XXI Spuds MacKenzie was a party animal, Michael J Fox had a messy apartment and Footlocker freaked us out with some very weird looking future sports.
1986 super bowl XX commercials
-86 XX Pepe le Pew fell in love with the McDLT, IBM declared themselves our type, and New Cok filled "The Refrigerator" William Perry.
1985 super bowl XIX commercials
-85 XIX Apple called PC users lemmings, you could get a Golf for under 7000 dollars and the Canned Food Council showed off their sexy robot.
1984 super bowl XVIII commercials
84 XVII was the year that Apple kicked Alan Alda and Atari's tush, Bill Bixby shilled for radio Shack.
1983 super bowl XVII commercials
1982 super bowl XVI commercials
1981 super bowl XV commercials
1980 super bowl XIV commercials
-80 XIV Mean Joe Green turns out to be nice, Orson Welles sold Paul Masson, here's his sober outtake, and Gillette tested the thickness of their foam in silly ways, like by dipping bikiniclad ladies in it.
1979 « 1969
1979 super bowl XIII commercials
1976 super bowl X commercials
Monks discovered Xerox copiers, a divine invention, proper stunts with pickups trucks were all the rage and McDonald's discovered that archeology makes you hungry.
1975 super bowl IX commercials
In -75 IX skiing was all the rage, Mdonald's inflicted the meme "two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun" on us all and IBM showed off their copier which was high tech at the time.
1973 super bowl VII commercials
Farrah Fawcett creamed Joe Namath, Master Lock tested its products with a gun at the shooting range and hey look, it's the Fonz with a mustache!
1972 super bowl VI commercials
Back in 72 VI, Gillette sold "the dry look"; real men used steel and banks were there to help small businesses.
1969 super bowl III commercials
Gillette made their finest ad ever, while talking about the technical abilities of the techmatic, meanwhile some guy acts a little stoned as he sees mint grow in his foam and Mott's predicts genetic modification mutant fruit. (32 total)


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Throwing a relevant street/garden/warehouse party in honour of the Queen's 60 years on the throne this weekend? Here are five new records that make your Jubilee that much more jubilant.
Slugabed – Time Team
The kids may be going mental for Skrillex, but Slugabed makes a wholly more sophisticated brand of dubstep: imagine Aphex Twin melding violently with the slick gangsta lean of 1990s West Coast hip hop and you're getting warm. Glitchy, lush G-Funk-inspired bass music – and appropriately enough, made in England.
Saint Etienne – Words and Music by Saint Etienne
Saint Etienne are as much a national treasure as any of the Crown Jewels, and the synth-pop stalwarts' first album in seven years is a bit of a cracker. As the title suggests it's all about Music with a capital M – pop music, specifically, and how it can shape our lives.
Battles – Dross Glop
The remix version of Battles' 2011 album Gloss Drop, Dross Glop (yeah, clever) offers a far more party-centric bent. If you're more serious about good music than you are about the quality of the Battenburg cake you'll be scoffing in Liz's name, this is the record for you.
The Walkmen – Heaven
Ten years on from their debut, the New York indie stalwarts are back with their 'happiest', most mature record yet. With several songs featuring the backing vocals of Fleet Foxes' Robin Pecknold, Heaven is less messy and less mental than we're used to seeing this band – there's nothing as gloriously rabid as 'The Rat' here – but it could prove an ideal soundtrack to a quiet evening in the garden.
Miike Snow – Happy to You
The Swedes are back with more electro-pop. Polished to a dazzling mirror sheen, it's all very, well, Scandinavian in feel – and despite nods to the dance floor it's still accessible enough that it won't send your gran running for cover.
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June 2006
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Mark Hayward's City Matters: Mural seeks a place in city's futureBy MARK HAYWARD
New Hampshire Union Leader
February 07. 2013 12:16AM
If any organization in Manchester embraces history, it is St. Mary's Bank.
It brags about being the nation's first credit union. Its original name - "La Caisse Populaire Ste-Marie - adorns its buildings, even on the non-Franco, east side of our city. And its first location is now a historical museum.
Yet, even for St. Mary's Bank, time moves on. When the organization's West Side headquarters moves to a new, $10 million building later this year, one historical tidbit will be staying behind.
For 43 years, a two-panel mural has hung in the lobby of the current St. Mary's Bank building at McGregor Street. One image depicts a waterside meeting between French settlers and native Americans. The other shows two settlers on what appears to be a hillside, overlooking a log cabin down below.
Underneath it is a caption written in Quebecois French, wording that twists my brain as much as my tongue as I attempt to decipher it with the Parisian French I struggled through in college decades ago.
As it turns out - this is their story and they're sticking to it - there is just no space for the mural in the three-story, 29,000-square-foot headquarters under construction beside the current bank building.
The new building is designed on a curve, company officials said. (If you were looking at it from a helicopter, it would look like a quarter piece of pie.) So the lobby and most public areas will be curved walls, glass walls or walls that are both curved and glass.
Just no place to hang a mural that is roughly 18 1/2 feet long and 5 feet high.
"We just don't have a large enough, flat wall on the interior of the building where it will fit," said Ronald Covey, president and chief executive officer of St. Mary's Bank.
So St. Mary's Bank is searching for a home where the public will be able to see it.
First choice - Manchester Historic Association. Executive Director Aurore Eaton said the Historic Association is having conversations about the mural, but nothing is resolved yet. The acquisition has to go through an internal review process (it's not the documents and photos the association usually accepts). And Eaton said the association would not be able to display it immediately.
Covey, who is also trustee chairman of the New Hampshire Institute of Art, has asked the Institute of Art about a place for the mural. The Institute doesn't know if it has a large enough space for the mural, said spokesman Christopher Williams.
I'm not the first to ask about the mural, said Elizabeth Stodolski, marketing director for St. Mary's Bank. Her department has started to research it.
In 1969, directors authorized the use of an unspecified portion of the clock budget for the art work, upon the suggestion of Sherman H. Jones, the Melrose, Mass., architect who designed the current building.
No artist is ever mentioned, not in records or on the mural. But a pencil sketch of the piece gives references to history books about Manchester and the Merrimack River Valley.
Another thing: It's not wood. While framed with hardwood, the scenes are painted on some type of a metal. Rub your fingers along it, knock it, and it's obviously metal, Covey said.
It's clear that St. Mary's Bank is sensitive about the piece. My questions to Stodolski were bumped up to Covey, and when I visited McGregor Street yesterday, customers bemoaned its loss.
So let me be brave and say, frankly, that it does not belong in the new building. In history, as well as art, there is timeless, and there is dated.
This is dated. No one working at St. Mary's Bank headquarters yesterday could tell me whether the French on the caption was Quebecois or Parisian. (I had to ask a customer.) Painted tin has gone the way of Victorian ceilings.
And most importantly, the scene doesn't depict Manchester. The mountains in the distance aren't the Uncanoonucs. The water body is a lake (not a river), the land is flat like a Midwestern plain, and the vegetation consists of three birch trees with jungle-like canopies.
It's kitsch, and the new corporate headquarters of St. Mary's is anything but that.
Designed by Lavalle Brensinger Architects, the new building represents the triumph of the little guy. It is being built while big Wall Street banks nurse self-inflicted wounds caused by arrogance and careless greed. Stay prudent and above-board, this building announces, and a bank can build a palace of rock-solid stone and transparent glass.
No need to clutter up this showcase with a dated amalgam of history and art.
But my word is not the last one here. My fellow Union Leader columnist Eaton loves the piece.
"I think it's beautiful folk art," she said. It represents the French history in North America - the French as explorers. The French as homesteaders. The French who befriended and married natives.
"That's part of our history and cultural lore as Franco Americans. Growing up I learned that history," Eaton said.
So although the mural is only 40 years old, and although it may have some geographic inaccuracies, it depicts how French-speaking people look at themselves, she said.
"There is," Eaton said, "a context to this thing that's lost on anyone who hasn't studied it."
Mark Hayward's City Matters appears Thursdays in the New Hampshire Union Leader and UnionLeader.com. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Aquatic mapping of the coast and estuary systems has been done in five- to 10-year cycles since the 1980s.
Environmental scientists this summer will begin mapping submerged plant life along the Southeastern North Carolina coast - by taking to the sky.
"There are different methods, but here we'll be using aerial photos," said Anne Deaton, Habitat Protection Section chief for the state Division of Marine Fisheries. "We're contracting with the Department of Transportation, so they're going to fly and take the photographs from the plane."
Aquatic mapping of the state's coast and estuary systems has been conducted in five- to 10-year cycles since the 1980s, most recently around 2008. The project - formally known as submerged aquatic vegetation cooperative habitat mapping - aims to create a comprehensive map of underwater plant habitats along the North Carolina coast. Because density of those plants tends to be greater in the northern reaches of the state, researchers have never mapped coastal regions south of the New River. The new study, funded by a $16,500 multi-year grant from the N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission, will change that.
"The southern border is thought to be the Cape Fear River," Deaton said. "The amount of vegetation is less the farther south you go, and we also have a higher tide range. But several agencies got together, formed a partnership and talked about pooling resources to map the whole coast."
Submerged aquatic vegetation is defined as "a fish habitat dominated by one or more species of underwater vascular plants," including eelgrass, shoalgrass and native wild celery, according to the state Department of Environment and Natural Resources. Beyond supplying habitat, the plants are a fairly accurate gauge of water contamination, as most require sunlight to grow and flourish.
"If you're trying to protect the environment, submerged aquatic vegetation is considered a really good indicator because it's very sensitive to water degradation," Deaton said. "When sediment gets carried into the waters, it reduces the sunlight that goes through the water column."
Nutrient runoff - occurring when stormwater rushes over pavement, picking up pollutants and depositing them in waterways - can also facilitate the growth of microalgae, which further fogs the water.
"Nutrients run in and form phytoplankton, which we may not see, but it does reduce water clarity," Deaton said. "The more pollution you have running into your waters, the less clear it's going to be, for a number of reasons."
Mapping is expected to begin this summer, when the vegetation grows thickest along the coast and is easily visible from the air.
"We have to take the photographs when the grass is growing, so when it's warmer," Deaton said. "Ideally, the window is from May to June, because that's when you have peak biomass. This year we're aiming for July, but if that doesn't work out, it will be the following May or June."
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GoShopNH offers workshop to NH artisans on selling their products online
April 19. 2014 8:11PM
New Hampshire residents who make products in the Granite State are invited to a free lunchtime workshop at Keene's Hannah Grimes Center to learn about GoShopNH.com on Thursday.
GoShopNH.com eCommerce Manager Katie McQuaid Cote will lead a discussion about the challenges she faced while starting an Amazon Webstore, and how she helps artisans get their products online quickly and easily.
Topics will include writing a good product description and taking photos that sell. Attendees are invited to bring their lunch for the noon workshop.
GoShopNH.com launched as an online store in September 2013, selling products designed, assembled or manufactured in the Granite State.
The Hannah Grimes Center, located at 25 Roxbury St. in Keene, is a nonprofit organization with a mission to educate, support and assist in the successful development of entrepreneurs and community builders throughout the Monadnock region. To register for this or one of its many other business development programs, call 352-5063, or go to hannahgrimes.com/calendar.


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No. 25 University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh posted a 24-3 win over the University of Wisconsin-Platteville on Saturday afternoon at Ralph E. Davis Pioneer Stadium.
The Pioneers (3-3, 1-2 WIAC) utilized two quarterbacks in the game with juniors Nick Anderson and John Kelly in the loss. Junior running back Lee Vlasak was the top offensive threat with a team-high 44 yards rushing and 31 yards receiving. Four Pioneers had double digit tackles including junior linebacker Nick Snyder with a team-high 14. Also with double-digit tackles were freshman Jacob Zilbar, who had 12 tackles, senior Jesse Lindemulder added 11 stops and senior Ryan McWethy had 11 tackles. The four were a key reson in how the Pioneers held the Titans to 107 yards of total offense in the second half. In 2011, all three of the losses for the Pioneers have been to ranked teams.
The Titans (5-1, 3-0 WIAC) scored two touchdowns in the first quarter to build an early 14-0 advantage. Featuring a no-huddle offensive attack and also utilizing two quarterbacks, UW-Oshkosh gained 400 yards of total offense in the win.
UW-Oshkosh took a 14-0 lead in the first quarter on a pair of touchdown runs by Justin Budiac. In the second quarter, the Titans stretched the lead to 17-0 when Nate Becker made a 26-yard field goal.
Early in the third quarter, the Pioneer defense stopped UW-Oshkosh on fourth down to energize the homecoming crowd. Kelly marched the Pioneers down the field, converting a third down and fourth down in the process. To start the drive, Vlasak broke loose on a season-long 21-yard run. The Pioneers cut into the lead when sophomore Zach Litchfield made a 36-yard field goal, trimming the UW-Oshkosh lead to 17-3.
With the points on the scoreboard, the momentum began to swing toward UW-Platteville when Zilbar forced UW-Oshkosh reserve quarterback Nick Olla to fumble. An alert junior safety Dave Daino recovered the ball for the Pioneers. Then, Kelly took the Pioneers down to the six-yard line as a potential touchdown pass was ruled incomplete on fourth down and kept UW-Platteville off the scoreboard.
Facing a 17-3 deficit, the Pioneers elected to go for it on 4th down throughout the fourth quarter. On their second drive of the final quarter, UW-Oshkosh added its final touchdown when they converted on two third downs and a 4th and goal from the 1.
The Pioneers will continue the rigors of the WIAC when they travel to UW-River Falls for its next game, Oct. 22 at 1 p.m.


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By DAVID GREEN
A cornfield. An overgrown woods with trails. A meandering creek.
Fayette's park didn't always look like it does today. Not at all.
Among all the people who have helped the park develop over the decades, Leonard Morr stands out as one of the chief boosters—a booster with a set of working hands.
Most of the development he was associated with came during his 25-year tenure as Fayette's first village administrator, but it started much earlier.
Leonard grew up on a farm northwest of town, near the intersection of US-127 and the railroad. When his father died, he and his siblings had the chance to take over the farm and run the place, but no one stepped forward.
"We were young," he remembers. "We wanted to live in the city. A couple of years after I was in town, I wished I was back in the country."
Leonard's involvement with the town park evolved long before that. He figures he was probably 15 years old when his father got him involved in cleaning out Normal Grove behind the school.
It was really overgrown and the kids had trails through the trees, he said. It became a great place to hide out—well out of the sight of teachers.
"The Grange took over the project and got the whole place cleared out."
That was only the beginning.
Next, he helped his father build a pair of dugouts at the ball diamond at the school. They used some tough old barn wood that was a challenge to drill through.
Soon, the cheap labor was called on again.
"They decided they wanted to have a tennis court and we had to move a lot of dirt," Leonard said.
There was high ground behind the water plant and it was leveled off by a man using a team of horses and a scraper. Leonard and two other boys had to transport the dirt by wheelbarrow.
"We were all summer doing it."
The tennis court was later converted to a basketball court, just west of the newer court by the pool, and the old tennis markings are still visible on the concrete.
The village and the Grange worked together on one other project that Leonard helped with—a shelter house for the Grove. There's also a piece of Morenci in that one. The roof was once part of the gas station next to Swaney's garage.
The kids loaded it onto a farm wagon and began the slow trip back to Fayette. Leonard was at the wheel of the tractor and he would pull off to the side when his helpers announced that traffic was approaching from behind.
At one point, a wagon wheel slipped into a hole and the roof slid off into the ditch.
"I told them they should have tied it on," he said.
A career
After school, Leonard took a series of jobs with International equipment dealers, just as the company was undergoing big changes. One by one, the businesses closed until he finally landed a job with a firm that serviced International vehicles.
"But after a year, they wanted me to move to Chicago so I quit that."
He wanted to stay in his home town and that's when he started working part time for the village. He was later offered a full-time position as water superintendent, and eventually he was put in charge of streets, and finally of sewers, also.
"In 1971 they made me administrator of the town," he said.
Leonard applied for a grant that carried Fayette's recreational needs a long way. The grant stipulated village ownership, so the school gave up control of the property.
Spring Creek once meandered through the area where the running track is located, but the waterway was straightened to create a large area for recreation.
A new concession stand with rest rooms was constructed. Fencing went in, a new backstop was erected. A tennis court was built south of the track and a basketball court went in east of the old court.
"We were smarter this time," Leonard said. "We had a truck carry the dirt."
It wasn't just grant money that made it all happen. The village had to provide some funding, also, and there were plenty of volunteer services.
For the basketball court, Leonard secured five-inch pipe from a relative who operated a well-drilling rig. It was transported to Fayette Manufacturing where the pipe was cut and support plates were welded into place.
Later, a new ball diamond was built for Little League age boys and girls.
In the 1980s, adult softball was strong in Fayette, so a fund-raising effort was started for field lights. Edison dropped the poles into place, then volunteers gathered at the park after dinner to attach the light brackets.
Again and again, it was the donations of time and money—bolstered by the grant—that made the park what it is today.
A walk through the park makes Leonard think about how things have changed over the years, and in one way, how they've stayed the same.
"There's never enough people to go around," he said, "and so there's always a problem with maintenance."
With streets, water and sewers as a high priority, the park remains short of the attention needed.
But the way the park is used has changed.
"We used to have waiting lists for the shelter houses. Hardly anyone comes in for softball anymore."
The last time that happened—coupled with a shortfall in village funding—a lot of maintenance slipped.
The shuffleboard and tennis courts are unused. Leonard points to a concrete slab where charcoal pits once stood, and on to the T-ball field, just east of the Grove, a project he spearheaded in the late 1980s.
"I cut it out and got stone put in and fence up, and then it got neglected."
Plans are underway now to refurbish the facility and to give it a new name—Leonard Morr Field. A dedication ceremony is planned at 5:30 p.m. Thursday with Leonard as the guest of honor.
"I've spent a lot of time here over the years," he says as he looks out over the fields below.
He's speaking with a good measure of understatement, and the Recreation Board understands that. Board members want Leonard to understand the breadth of their gratitude when they say "thank you" Thursday night.– July 16, 2003


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With Google I/O right around a week away now, you'd have to figure that if the Google Nexus 7 were to make an appearance at the conference, it must have already gone into production, right? Maybe even already shipped out to San Francisco? If Digitimes is right, which is a big if indeed, then that just might be the case.
Digitimes is reporting today that Google's 7-inch Nexus tablet, rumored to be called the Nexus 7, is already being shipped to San Francisco in preparation for Google I/O. Although Digitimes' track record with rumors isn't the greatest, since we've already seen sample pictures from the Nexus 7 surface online, we're inclined to believe this one.
So what else does Digitimes have to say about the Nexus 7? They say it will be priced around $199 (we've definitely heard that before), will be missing a rear facing camera in order to keep the price down, come pre-loaded with Google Chrome as the default browser and rocking WiFi only.
Are you excited for the Google Nexus 7? We certainly are. Hopefully Google will break out some sort of special announcement to go along with their Nexus tablet that really makes it desirable. Something Majel related, perhaps?


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Newtown United
Max Goldstein, 12, of Newtown attended a funeral for the brother of a friend Wednesday. That night, he spoke in front of the third meeting of a new movement in Newtown to eliminate gun violence, called Newtown United. Max, along with his brother and others, decided Wednesday not only to give up playing violent "shoot-em-up" video games, but to organize other children to do the same. With the help of his stepfather, Max said they plan to organize a place for people to drop off violent games and destroy them. After speaking, as he took his seat, the group meeting at the Cyrenius H. Booth Library on Main Street in Newtown applauded him. He is seated next to his mother, Roberta Mittleman, after he spoke. The newly formed group is composed of town residents who want to lessen gun violence.
Richard Messina, Hartford Courant
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Memorial mass will be Wednesday, Jan. 9.
Allen Francis Girodat, age 82, Crookston, died Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013 at Riverview Health in Crookston.
Allen was born on February 8, 1930 in Mt. Carmel, ND, son of Frank and Loretta (Barnard) Girodat. He grew up and was educated at Mt. Carmel. He was united in marriage with Lorraine Hoffarth on November 18, 1959 at Langdon, ND. They moved to Grand Forks, where they lived until five years ago, when they moved to Crookston. While living in Grand Forks, Allen worked for Consolidated Construction and for a short time at Thief River Falls. He worked at Ellertsons, where he worked for 26 years. He worked for Fuglebergs and then with Valley until his retirement in 1993.
Allen collected John Deere Tractors, enjoyed doing crossword and word-find puzzles. The family enjoyed camping at Maple Lake in Polk County and at Mt. Carmel, ND on the Fourth of July holiday. He also built model farm houses for the kids to play with and around. He loved spending time with his grandkids.
He is survived by his wife: Lorraine of Crookston; son: Shane (Alisan) Girodat of Crookston; daughter: Renee (Richard) Voss of Crookston; four grandsons: Brandon Gartna, Bradley Gartna, Devin Girodat and Connor Girodat; two granddaughters: Shayla Girodat and Haley Voss; three sisters: Dolores Hoffarth of Langdon, Grace Hoffarth of Grand Forks, and Fern (Walter) Simonson of St. Paul; and many nieces and nephews.
Allen was preceded in death by his parents: Frank and Loretta Girodat; and brothers: Matthias and Cliff Girodat.
The memorial mass for Allen Francis Girodat will be held at 2 PM, Wednesday, January 9th, 2013 at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Crookston with visitation for one hour before the service.
Online guestbook at www.stenshoelhouske.com


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Senior Property Solicitor / Partner - Bristol
- Recruiter
- Austen Lloyd
- Location
- Bristol
- Salary
- £40000 - £60000 per annum + Negotiable
- Posted
- 19 Nov 2012
- Closes
- 17 Dec 2012
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- Contact
- Austen Lloyd
- Sector
- Legal
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Senior Property Solicitor / Partner - Bristol
We have an exciting and rare opportunity for a Senior Solicitor with strong Residential Property experience and good management skills, to join an important independent and successful Bristol law firm at a senior level, with a view to rapid progression.
This is an important appointment for the firm and we would like to hear from applicants with a minimum of five years good quality PQE in property, together with proven management skills, who would be willing and capable of playing a significant role within the firm.
You will need to have previous experience at a senior level at a similarly respected firm and to have proven experience of successfully managing a team of lawyers. The management aspect of the role is important and we are looking for candidates with good experience in the wide spectrum of staff management, including induction, training, work allocation, career development and motivation.
You should be a good communicator and have the confidence and ability in Property in a senior position, up to and including partner level already. The firm's present reputation is excellent and you should be keen to help maintain these standards into the future.
If you think that you have the necessary experience, and this opportunity could be of interest to you, then Charlotte would be very keen to hear from you as soon as possible in absolute Confidence on 01275 463 111.
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Please note our advertisements may use PQE/salary levels purely as a guide. However we would be happy to consider applications from all candidates who can demonstrate the skills needed to perform the role.


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The election was hugely important, but at the end of the day, if our toddlers are not "school ready" when they enter kindergarten or first grade, most of them are doomed for failure. That is true no matter who sits on the school board or who occupies the desks at the central office.
Seats on the Tuscaloosa City Board of Education are not for sale. That is the unmistakable take away from Tuesday's election.
The Chamber of Commerce of West Alabama's involvement in the election troubled some local white liberals and they, in the words of a conservative friend, "Pitched a hissy fit about it."
From my perspective, their hissing was justified. The chamber candidates received large contributions from sources outside the jurisdiction. This implied nefarious influences that may have been disadvantageous to the liberals' interest and the interest of our most defenseless children — at-risk minority children.
The liberals connected the dots, and the trail led to forces in the GOP-led state government that enacted the new Alabama Accountability Act. This law allegedly would help families escape failing public schools by providing state funds to help defray expenses at private schools or non-failing public schools.
On its face, the law appears to be a godsend to poor families. This appearance, however, is a wolf clad in sheep's clothing. The Alabama Education Association and the Southern Poverty Law Center are leading an effort to block enforcement of the law.
According to Jerri Katzerman, SPLC deputy legal director, the $3,500 tax credit offered by the law to help offset the cost of tuition at private schools would provide little help to poorer families.
Private school fees can be very expensive. The Capitol School in Tuscaloosa, for example, charges $9,733 per year for middle and high schools. These fees prohibit participation by poorer families.
On the other hand, families looking to send their children to another non-failing public school would have to choose a public school in another district. Transportation costs, Katzerman says, would be an added burden, because the closest non-failing public school could be as far as
19 miles away, which would mean traveling 76 miles each day
(19 miles each way, twice a day).
The hissing liberals, with the minority community joining the chorus, also see the Accountability Act as a device to re-segregate public schools. They sought to
negate or minimize the influence of proponents by going to the polls and re-electing all but one of the incumbent school board members. The incumbent board chairman chose not to run, hence, a new chairman will be seated in November.
Alabama is among many states trending toward the use of public school funds to establish private schools. Many private and charter schools were born in segregation and continue to perpetuate segregation. The Tuscaloosa City Board of Education sold or essentially gave away the building and property formerly known as Eastwood Middle School, now the present site of American Christian Academy. The board that made that decision was mainly composed of chamber types — business leaders steeped in the Southern "way of life." This is not an indictment of the current chamber or business leaders or Southern whites. Just saying.
The newly elected board brings experience to the job, and most members have a stake in the school system. They attended public schools, and their children and grandchildren are enrolled in public schools. The incumbents hired a superintendent who is
universally admired, even by the challengers. I have not met Superintendent Paul McKendrick, but I strongly suspect he is pleased to continue waltzing with the partners that brought him to the ball. He knows them, and they know him.
The election was hugely important, but at the end of the day, if our toddlers are not "school ready" when they enter kindergarten or first grade, most of them are doomed for failure. That is true no matter who sits on the school board or who occupies the desks at the central office.
My great concern is about "at-risk" parents, usually single, who neglect their parental responsibilities and expect schools to do what they, as parents, fail to do. Values like respect for family, elders and authority figures, and a reverence for life and property should be given birth at home, nurtured at home and refined at home.
Without these standards, the school has little to build upon.
Unfortunately, schools will bear the brunt of the blame for failure. This is not to degrade single parents of all genders and races who take childbearing seriously and are doing the right thing.
I want the school board to address school readiness. Start with the black church. The people whose children will start school un-
prepared will not read this, but their pastor will. Start with him or her.
I hope the board will use its influence to fight for funds to extend the school day and the school year. Harris Cooper, professor of education and psychology at Duke University, who's been researching school schedules for decades, indicated on National Public Radio that a long summer vacation is not good for children or parents.
The long summer break has been shown to lead to some learning loss. All kids seem to lose mathematics skills over summer. Some kids, especially poorer children, will also lose reading skills. More frequent but shorter breaks will lead to less learning loss, and teachers won't have to spend as much time reviewing material when kids come back to school.
And the eight-to-three school day doesn't fit with the way most Americans live. Lots of kids are going home to houses or apartments where there is no adult supervision. So parents struggle with how to fill their kids' day, as well as their year, with fun and constructive activities, according to Cooper.
The money that would be allocated to the Alabama Accountability Act could be used to extend time in school for art, music, drama, physical education and other classes discarded due to lack of funds.
Most of the failing public schools in America are predominantly minority schools. Most minority kids come to school clad in the latest sneaker and jean styles.
However, many affluent and middle class whites and some blacks have no clue about the obstacles faced by these children, except what they get from TV and the newspaper. Drug addiction, prostitution, murder, theft and unspeakable violence visit some of our children daily, as victims or witnesses. Few students can excel in such an environment.
I want the school board to go into minority communities and see firsthand the obstacles confronted by our children. A committee getting on a bus one or two days out of the school year and visiting a housing project will be a start and only a start.
I'm suggesting home and community visitations by board members and other school officials, individually and collectively, and seeing up close and personal why there is never enough funding for public schools. This may be a radical departure from the traditional duties of school board members, but tradition leaves us wanting at the moment.
Born black in America is almost a guarantor of lower education, poverty and poor health, and it is strike one against the possibility of moving beyond the lowest socioeconomic level of society.
Strike two is starting school with little or no knowledge of simple concepts like shapes, colors, counting and speaking coherently. Most blacks overcome these impediments and fashion decent lives.
Unfortunately, our penal system is filled disproportionately with young black men who suffer strike three and are condemned to lives that are essentially lost. Systemic racism is a major player in this horrible drama. There was and always will be racism; therefore, we cannot wait for the emergence of a post-racial utopia.
Social dysfunction, including fatherless homes and the weak foundation "at-risk" kids start school with, is the other central character. I hope the winners of this election will join volunteers and religious organizations, as well as local, state and national governments, in a gargantuan effort to correct this national disgrace.
Failing schools and, more important, failing students deserve no less.
Oscar Tucker is a retired Tuscaloosa educator. Readers can email him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The Stockton metropolitan area is one of the 84 metros added for the first time to the Improving Markets Index, which identifies areas that gained in home construction, housing prices and employment from their recessionary lows for at least six consecutive months.
The Stockton metropolitan area is one of the 84 metros added for the first time to the Improving Markets Index, which identifies areas that gained in home construction, housing prices and employment from their recessionary lows for at least six consecutive months.
The December index, sponsored by the National Association of Home Builders and First American Title Co., now lists 201 metro areas as improving. That's up from 125 in November, minus eight that dropped from the list.
Counting more than half of the 361 U.S. metropolitan areas as improving markets is a signal the national housing recovery is firmly under way, officials said.
"The real driver here has been house prices," said Robert Denk, a senior economist for the home builders group.
If you consider only two factors - growth in employment and single-family housing permits - nearly 300 metros have shown six or more months of gains.
"House prices are really moving up. All of the big national indicators show we've had a pretty good year so far in 2012," Denk said Friday by telephone from Washington, D.C.
The Stockton metro area - all of San Joaquin County - was among nine California metros that joined the improving index in December. There are now 14 Golden State communities on the list.
And the near-term outlook remains positive.
"In general, we expect the overall housing recovery to continue expanding in 2013," NAHB chief economist David Crowe said in a news release issued Thursday. "However, that is absent a major policy change of the kind that some policymakers have been discussing with regard to the mortgage interest deduction."
Denk said Crowe referred to discussions in Washington over averting the fiscal cliff - the expiration of George W. Bush-era tax cuts and deep cuts in federal spending on Dec. 31 - and longer-term federal deficit reduction.
"There is a lot of talk about reforming the tax code, and one of the ways they might do it is limit the mortgage interest deduction," he said.
"Fooling around with anything that affects housing at this point seems pretty foolish," Denk warned. "The gains of 2012 ... could be set back if people make some bad policies or decisions over the mortgage interest deduction."
Home builders group officials also said the main thing now limiting the housing expansion are tough qualifying standards mortgage lenders impose on would-be borrowers.
The Improving Market Index was created and first published in September 2011 to help home builders identify markets that were leading the country in housing recovery, Denk said.
"We put this together to emphasize that housing is local, local, local," he said. "What's going on in Stockton is not necessarily so well represented by the national numbers."
In that first month, only 12 U.S. metros met the criteria as an improving market.
Contact reporter Reed Fujii at (209) 546-8253 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The search for Amanda Berry turned up nothing despite a huge commitment of police resources, so who will pay?
We've learned it is unlikely the tipster will face charges for making a false report. He's already doing 26 years for killing a man.
And investigators need more than his words to charge him with the murder of Amanda.
Years of searching for Amanda Berry bring investigators to a small spot on Cleveland's near west side.
The Cuyahoga County Prosecutor says a few weeks ago he received a letter from inmate, Robert Wolford.
Wolford said he killed Amanda and buried the body. He could also show police where she's buried.
19 Action News has learned a prison investigator questioned Wolford, as well as Cuyahoga County Sheriff's deputies.
Wednesday, Wolford was driven to Cleveland from Lucasville prison. He went right to the spot at West 30th and Wade Avenue.
"There was like 12 vice cars or detective cars and he was cuffed and handcuffed and shackled and they had him in the car and they brought him out," said an identified neighbor.
Cuyahoga County Prosecutor, Bill Mason said he receives lots of letters from inmates.
"I get these letters about every other week and I check them out," said Mason.
Mason wouldn't go into detail, but says he had many reasons to believe Wolford.
Wolford doing 26 years in prison for killing a homeless man in a drug deal in 2007 in the same area as investigators are searching for Berry's remains.
Investigators suspect Wolford killed Amanda in 2003 when she disappeared. He knew her and had some kind of relationship with her.
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MIAMI (AP) — Martin Prado homered and drove in four runs, leading Dan Haren and the Miami Marlins over the Philadelphia Phillies 7-0 on Saturday.
The Marlins won for ninth time in 10 games and sent Philadelphia to its fifth straight loss.
Haren (3-1) gave up four hits in six innings. He walked none and struck out four.
Prado hit a three-run homer off Cole Hamels (1-3) in the second inning and added an RBI double in the sixth.
Prado is hitting .313 with two homers and nine RBIs in 67 at-bats against Hamels, who is 9-15 lifetime vs. the Marlins.
Miami second baseman Dee Gordon, who leads the major leagues with a .440 batting average, recorded his sixth...


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Among my must reads are the Sunday New York Times Book Review and other book reviews I come across in various media outlets. There are too many books being published that I would love to read, but just don't have the time. So, I rely on reading book reviews as one way of keeping in touch with what's being written. Here are my picks from this week's books.
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
By Jon Meacham, reviewed by Jill Abramson
"The time does seem right to highlight Jefferson's skills as a practicing politician, unafraid to wield "the art of power" or to put it to uses often at odds with his small-government ideology. So insistently does Meacham stress Jefferson's pragmatism, which at times made him appear hypocritical to his followers no less than to his opponents, that in places the book has a curiously focus-grouped quality, as though Meacham has carefully balanced the consensus view of Jefferson the visionary "framer" and "founder" against the dissenting claims of assorted critics and skeptics, apportioning equal time to each. But to be fair, he also suggests that Jefferson himself was attuned to the medley of voices and competing interests. And what could be more reassuring in 2012 than a biography that explains how in turbulent, divided times a great president actually managed to govern?"
By David Nasaw, reviewed by Christopher Buckley
David Nasaw's biography of Joseph P. Kennedy, a man involved in virtually all the history of his time.
"Kennedyland is terrain notably susceptible to idolatry, hatemongering, whitewash, conspiracy-thinking, sensationalism and other agendas. Nasaw credibly avers that he has taken forensic pains to excise anything that could not be confirmed by primary sources. I am no historian, but the evidence appears to support his claim. His research is Robert Caro-esque; barely a paragraph is not footnoted. And he is unsparing about his subject's shortcomings, which are numerous.
"Given the extraordinary sweep of Kennedy's life — banker, Wall Street speculator, real estate baron, liquor magnate (but not bootlegger), moviemaker, Washington administrator, ambassador, paterfamilias and dynastic founder — the miracle is that Nasaw was able to tell the whole damned story in only 787 pages."
By Karen Elliott House, reviewed by Michael J. Totten
Karen Elliott House draws on 30 years of research and reporting in this examination of Saudi society.
"The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Karen Elliott House has been visiting the kingdom for more than 30 years, and in her new book, "On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines — and Future," she skillfully unveils this inscrutable place for regional specialists and general readers alike. "For millennia," she writes, "Saudis struggled to survive in a vast desert under searing sun and shearing winds that quickly devour a man's energy, as he searches for a wadi of shade trees and water, which are few and far between, living on only a few dates and camel's milk. These conditions bred a people suspicious of each other and especially of strangers, a culture largely devoid of art or enjoyment of beauty."
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Taylor Swift's Top Moments of 2012 (VIDEO)
In just a few years, Taylor Swift's gone from country darling to front page news — and not always for positive reasons. But whether or not you're a fan of superstar, you can't deny that she kicked butt in 2012. She started off by winning two Grammys for Best Country Solo Performance and Best Country Song for "Mean," which was Tay's anti-bullying anthem from her 2010 Speak Now CD. The day after the big awards show, her music video with The Civil Wars for The Hunger Games' "Safe & Sound" was released. (And we all know how that movie turned out.) Besides those events, she also leant her voice to The Lorax along with Zac Efron, was dubbed Billboard's Woman of the Year and she released her fourth studio album, Red, which was kind of a big deal.
Did we forget anything? Oh yes, her dating track record. In addition to her past relationships with Joe Jonas, Taylor Lautner, Jake Gyllenhaal, John Mayer and more, she can now add American royalty Conor Kennedy and, most recently, Harry Styles. For all of these T.Swift moments (and then some), watch the video above, then make sure to subscribe to our friends at ClevverTV for more celeb news.


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In the past 30 days of your pregnancy you might have given in to some strange food cravings—pickles with peanut butter or breakfast for dinner—but a new study from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) shows that in the past 30 days, one in five white women have indulged in their nicotine craving. Of these women, ages 15 to 44 years old, 21.8 percent smoked cigarettes, ScienceDaily reports.
Plus: Study: Smoking During Pregnancy Linked With Specific Birth Defects
The study looked at statistics from 67,500 black, white and Hispanic pregnant women across the country, and while white women were more likely to smoke (21.8%, versus 14.2% and 6.2% of black and Hispanic women, respectively), black women were more likely to use drugs (7.7% compared to 4.4% for white and 3.1% for Hispanic). Black and white women were about equal when it came to alcohol use (12.8% vs. 12.2%) and Hispanic women were the overall the least likely drink, smoke or use drugs while pregnant.
Plus: Pregnant Woman Kicked Out of Bar
This high number of pregnant smokers is shocking, as SAMHSA Administrator Pamela S. Hyde reminds, "when pregnant women use alcohol, tobacco, or illicit substances they are risking health problems for themselves and poor birth outcomes for their babies." Understanding that women of various racial and ethnic backgrounds may have different views of nicotine, alcohol and drug use during pregnancy may help medical professionals improve how they message diverse groups of women about avoiding these substances during pregnancy.
Plus: Study: No Alcohol Safe During Pregnancy
Were these numbers higher than you expected? Did you have trouble cutting out drinking or smoking when you were pregnant?


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The Exchange toolbox has always been a loose collection of utility programs gathered from the highways and byways within Microsoft. Some of the utilities come from the Exchange development group, and some, including the extremely useful Remote Connectivity Analyzer (ExRCA) are developed by people who aren't part of the product group.
It seems like the general rush in Exchange 2013 to drop everything related to the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) framework and embrace the browser paradigm for management in the form of the Exchange Management Center (EAC) has caused a clear-out of the toolbox, which now boasts just three entries (see below) instead of the twelve provided with Exchange 2010. Dropping MMC wherever possible seems like a really good idea, especially in view of the fact that MMC caused some problems for Exchange 2010 SP1 last year. Of course, the move to EAC was well under way by then as it builds on the principles established by the Exchange 2010 Control Panel (ECP) and Exchange 2013 was ramping up for its beta versions and I doubt that anyone in the Exchange team shed any tears at the demise of MMC.
It's understandable that the reason to drop some of the utilities is "progress". For example, it probably does not make much sense to continue shipping the public folder management console when a) it's built on MMC and b) Microsoft would really like any of you who use public folders to try their super-duper modern versions, which can be managed through EAC. Of course, during the migration process you can continue to use the public folder management console on an Exchange 2010 server or a workstation where you have installed the Exchange 2010 management tools. Other utilities, such as the RBAC editor and delivery reports (aka message tracking), are now part of EAC.
However, one big change – and one that removes quite a lot of value – is that the Message Tracking Log Explorer (MTE) is dropped. I can't quite think of a good reason why this decision was taken, except that MTE shares the same UI as two other dropped utilities – the Exchange Best Practice Analyzer (ExBPA) and the Mail Flow Troubleshooter. I note that ExBPA does not feature on Microsoft's Exchange Analyzers page so it is possible that this utility is in the process of being overhauled.
In any case, dropping MTE seems to have removed some value from the toolbox. It's true that many experienced Exchange administrators prefer to query the message tracking logs through EMS because they consider this to be the fastest and most efficient way of extracting information. It's absolutely true that anyone who is proficient in the black art of the Exchange Management Shell (EMS) will have no problems whatsoever dealing with the Get-MessageTrackingLog cmdlet, especially if they have built some scripts to make the process a little easier. But not everyone enjoys navigating message tracking log data through a command line, especially if they are not used to the syntax of the Exchange cmdlets (or even know what a cmdlet is or how to do anything apart from launch EMS). I'm sure that some Exchange administrators, even at this stage, still consider EMS an unnatural act. And it's these people that will miss MTE most.
Perhaps it is Microsoft's intention to remove the toolbox completely as soon as they can. It's easy to see how this might happen. ExRCA already points to a web page, the Template Editor should be assimilated into EAC in a future version, and the Queue Viewer should be an option in EAC too. A future toolbox should really be a section within EAC that's composed of a collection of hyperlinks to utilities such as ExRCA and the Outlook Configuration Analyzer Tool (OCAT). Such a toolbox would be much easier for Microsoft to manage, reinforce the importance of EAC as the center for Exchange administration, and remove an icon from server desktops. And isn't a clean server desktop a wonderful thing to behold?
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RAGAS Report [Russian American Genealogical Archival
Soshnikov, Vladislav Y. "From the Early Days of Stalin's Great Terror." RAGAS Report, Winter 1999, 3-7.
Review by Vladislav Y. Soshnikov
"From the Early Days of Stalin's Great Terror: Repression of Those Researching the Local History of the German Colonies", by Galina Malinova, Candidate in History (PH.D.) The rout of the so-called anti-Soviet German Organization of Teachers from the Odessa Pedagogical Institute. (1934)
One of the chief areas of persecution by Stalin's regime in the 1930s was against those who participated in national underground anti-Soviet organizations. Many villages in the Odessa region carry German names and German colonists have played a significant role in the history of the area. During the 1930s Stalin's secret police carried out a series of repressions against ethnic Germans resulting in a succession of court trials. Many people were forced to plead guilty to various offenses and were sentenced to punishments varying from imprisonment, usually in the early 1930s, to execution in the late 1930s. The officials instigated many cases in which they accused simple farmers, industrial workers, educators, teachers, students and clergy of being "German spies and terrorists."
One such case (archival number 15879-P) in 1934 was brought against many persons and included accusations against the teachers in the German branch of the Odessa Pedagogical Institute. Some outstanding scientists, including the world famous Leningrad academician, V.M. Zhirmunsky, were among the accused.
At the beginning of 1934, the Odessa regional branch of the Soviet Secret Police (GPU) brought charges against a German fascist anti-revolutionary organization, which they declared "had planned the distribution of rebel cells, the separation of the ethnic German population from the Soviets, sabotage and subversive activities, and had prepared an armed revolt against Soviet authority."
The GPU named the leaders of this organization: professors of the teachers college, Robert Karlovich Mikwitz and Alfred Nicolayevich Strem: and the manager of the department of the Central Scientific Library and employee of the Archeological Museum, Herbert Danielovich Steinwandt. Also among the accused were scientist Franz Franzevich Mazur-Mazov; teachers of Odessa high schools Franz Petrovich Adler, Wihelm Mikhailovich Fritz, Albert Johannovich Reich, Eduard Gottliebovich Beitelspacher, Sebastian Josephovich Untemach, Otto Yakovlevich Zwicker, Herman Johannovich Bachman, Edgar Ludwigovich Trompeter: and factory employee Albert Emmanuilovich Fichtner. The criminal investigation was conducted by GPU inspectors Brinner, Nilov, Sperling, Shayev, Markevich and others. The final verdict was announced on the 26th of February, 1934, by a GPU board of three. It appeared to be a rather minimal verdict when compared with the times of the "Great Terror." All members of the "criminal band" were sentenced to 3 to 5 years imprisonment in labor camps.
However, the story did not end at that time. Later, many of the accused received additional terms of imprisonment and died in exile. New arrests continued in 1937-1938, and criminal proceedings were instituted against 100 persons, 19 of whom were executed (included was a 24 year old teacher, Edite Edmundovna Volmer-Konel). An overwhelming number of the accused were ethnic Germans, but also in the group was Alexander Ryabinin-Sklyarevsky, an employee of the regional archive since the early 1920s. He was a former officer of the Russian Imperial Army and was sentenced to ten years of imprisonment in labor camps from which he did not return.
In 1941, Victor Maximovich Zhirmunsky, a famous Russian academician was repeatedly arrested for similar "criminal cases" in Leningrad. The first time the Leningrad branch of the GPU arrested him, on February 25, 1933, it was as the leader of an "anti-revolutionary fascist organization" which was said to exist among students and artist in Leningrad. Zhirmunsky was kept under guard until March 22, 1933, and then released under orders to remain in Leningrad. On the 20th of April, 1933, the criminal case against him was dropped. The absurdity of the accusations was obvious. However, the story was repeated in 1941. By the end of his life, Zhirmunsky held doctorates at four universities, including Oxford University, and was a member of four academies of science.
Many years later, almost all of the above-mentioned people were established as innocent by order of the court, and some of their executioners were condemned. The Odessa Regional Court on December 25, 1968, recognized that members of the "German band had been falsely arrested. The formal verdict of the GPU trial was reversed for lack of evidence.
The following is a closer look at the case. According to police documents, the "creation of the organization" was attributed to German subject Georg Leibbrandt, a native of the village of Torosovo (Hoffnungsfeld), Zebrikovo district, Odessa region. Leibbrandt left Odessa for Germany in 1918, where he received a degree in theology, and at the same time studied philology and history. Leibbrandt visited the USSR in 1926, 1928 and 1929. During his visits, he was variously represented as a doctor of philosophy, a post-graduate student, a professor of history from Leipzig University, and an employee of the Institute for the Study of Germans Abroad (Deutsches Ausland Institute) in Stuttgart. The official purposes of Leibbrandt's visits were the study of the history of the development of German colonies in the Black Sea coastal region and the gathering of historical information. In 1928 he traveled to the German colonies in the Odessa region, Crimea, and the Caucasus, and visited Rostov-on-Don, the German colonies of the Donetsk, and German colonies in Azerbaijan. Leibbrandt reported that the inhabitants of these colonies were quite prosperous farmers, sometimes appearing to be rich, but that they were dissatisfied with Soviet authority because they believed Soviet politics deprived them of their civil rights.
It was Leibbrandt's opinion that these claims were unreasonable, and he declared that German colonists in the USSR lived much better than peasants in Germany. Leibbrandt did not make anti-Soviet statements during his trips. As a result of Leibbrandt's work, a book concerning the emigrant movement of the Germans was published in Germany. In 1929, Leibbrandt arrived in the Soviet Union once again as the representative of the Deutsches Ausland Institute and as a member of the committee working on an edition of an encyclopedia about Germans living outside of Germany. According to the testimony of the defendants during the trial, Leibbrandt had offered the opportunity to contribute to the creation of the encyclopedia to several Odessa scientist, in particular to Strem, Mikwitz, Steinwandt and Tauberg. Strem promised to write articles concerning language dialects in the German colonies. Stinwandt was to prepare a bibliography of works about Russian Germans. Mikwitz refused to participate in the encyclopedia project and thought that there would be no support in Germany for the idea of scientific cooperation with the USSR. It is interesting to note that prior to his arrest, Mikwitz pointed to "Leibbrandt's sympathies toward the Soviets," while Leibbrandt reported unfavorably that Mikwitz's works were done according to the notoriously dogmatic "Marxist method."
Before his return to Germany, Leibbrandt appeared to be nervous, suspecting that he was being shadowed by GPU agents. At the same tine he said that he occupied a good position in the Berlin archives and even bragged that he had taken original records and bibliographic publications about the German colonists from the Odessa archives. Among them Leibbrandt described manuscripts about savings institutions in German colonies, Prokhanov's scholarly work about the Bessarabian colonies, three church chronicles for the years after 1825, a 100-year history of the German colonies of the Melitopol region, the archives of the editorial board of the Odessa Zeitung newspaper for the years 1859-1914, and other materials.
In 1928, Leibbrandt made a visit to the Odessa Regional Archive where he met the archivist Ryabinin-Sklyarevsky who showed him archival documents. Leibbrandt had official permission for archival research from the central archival administration in Moscow and was accompanied by representatives of the Odessa government and diplomatic department. Meetings with Leibbrandt was one of the charges against archivist Ryabinin-Sklyarevsky upon his arrest in 1937. He was accused of having been recruited by Leibbrandt to be an agent of the Deutsches Ausland Institute. Ryabinin-Sklyarevsky denied the accusation but was sentenced to ten years imprisonment.
During the rehabilitation process in 1960, court authorities conducted a special investigation of Leibbrandt and requested many records from archives in Moscow and Ukraine, including the super-confidential Special Archive in Moscow which has "trophy" material taken from Germany. Some witnesses were questioned. In an investigation of documents of the German Foreign Ministry, the National-Socialistic Labor Party (Nazi Party), and the Ministry of East Territories, it was revealed that there was a certain Georg Leibbrandt, Ph.D., who was an employee of the Foreign Ministry in 1931, the chief of a department of the Nazi Party in 1934-1935, chief of the "East" department in the 1940s, chief of the Principal Department I of the Ministry of East Territories in 1941, and author of anti-Soviet causes. However, all the confidential officials involved in this investigation have emphasized that it is not possible to identify clearly that the above-mentioned Nazi is the Leibbrandt who appeared in Odessa. In reality, the similarity is very likely, but officials pointed out that according to "trophy" documents from French counter-intelligence, it was specified that the official Nazi Leibbrandt received education in America. It was considered a small but crucial distinction in Identifying Leibbrandt.
On the other hand, it is clear that Dr. Leibbrandt took archives from the USSR legally by permission of a special commission of the Soviet Ministry of Education. It appears that Leibbrandt demonstrated enterprising talents in negotiation with Soviet authorities, but it was also a period when the Soviets sold not only archival documents, but even treasures from the Imperial Hermitage Museum. Soviet investigators were unable to find any evidence of hostile activities by the Deutsches Ausland Institute in the USSR. While it is likely that Leibbrandt-historian and Leibbrandt-Nazi were the same person, a witness reported the true testimony of another person that during the war Leibbrandt had visited his native village wearing an SS officer's uniform. Nevertheless, it is obvious that he joined the Nazi Party much after his last visit to Odessa.
Why were the Odessa teachers accused of crime? Was it because it was convenient for them to do sabotage and organize armed revolt by methods of scholarly linguistics? This was the charge placed against these scholars by Stalin's executioners.
The above article gives interesting details and raises questions concerning the biography of Dr. Georg Leibbrandt, one of the prominent scholars of the history and culture of the German colonists in South Russia (Ukraine). For the period 1941 to 1943, Georg Leibbrandt held a higher position in the German military along with Dr. Karl Stumpp, the famous scholar of the history and genealogy of ethnic German colonists in the former Russian Empire/USSR.
Leibbrandt's biography is described in Dr. Richard Walth's book (Flotsam of World History: The Germans from Russia between Stalin and Hitler, Essen, Germany: Klartext, 1966): "Leibbrandt was a Black Sea German born on September 5, 1899 in the settlement of Hoffnungsfeld near Odessa. He came from a large farm family of Swabian settlers." However, this biography does not mention his visits to the Soviet Union in the 1920s. Walth wrote only the following: "His obvious general aptitude and his gift for languages led to studies which he began in Russia but later continued in Germany, where he and friends settled because of the confusion of the early Soviet times. A Rockefeller scholarship made it possible for him to resume his studies from 1931 to 1933, in Paris and in the United States, where he established many contacts with groups of Germans from Russia in America. Rosenburg [the notorious Alfred Rosenburg, tr.] asked him to return to Germany in 1933 and named him the director of the Eastern Division of the Foreign Policy Office of the NSDAP [National Sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, or the National Socialistic Worker Party of Germany, tr.] and when the Reich's Ministry for the Eastern Occupied Territories was set up in 1941, he made him Director of the Political Department [Principal Office I: Politics]. In this capacity he also became the liaison for Ukrainian, Caucasian, Russian, and other gropes of emigres. In the post-war period, Dr. Leibbrandt resumed research on the subject of the Germans from Russia and made expert contributions to the Association of Germans from Russia until his death in Bonn on June 16, 1982."
It is obviously necessary to compare facts mentioned in Malinova's article with other accounts about Dr. Leibbrandt. We hope scholars and members of historical association of Germans from Russia will find this interesting.
Vladisav Y. Soshnikov, Historian/Archivist/Translator
Reprinted with permission of RAGAS Report, Washington, D.C.


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The founder of the Oldsmobile brand, Ransom E. Olds, was also noted for influencing the truck industry in the early era of the automobile. Some of this heritage was recalled in the 1990s when the brand began selling its first sport utility vehicle. Developed exclusively for the United States market, the Oldsmobile Bravada shared its platform with the Chevrolet Blazer but incorporated unique styling. Only offered as a four-door, the premium-appointed Bravada included anti-lock braking system. The first and redesigned second generation Bravada introduced in 1996 were only offered with all-wheel drive. A third redesign of the Bravada is historic for being the final new vehicle to be introduced by the Oldsmobile brand prior to its shuttering in 2004. The Oldsmobile Bravada will be remembered at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway as the first sport utility vehicle to serve as pace car at the Indy 500.
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Today is Friday, Jan. 4, the fourth day of 2013. There are 361 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Jan. 4, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson delivered his State of the Union address in which he outlined the goals of his "Great Society," a series of domestic policy initiatives aimed at growing the economy and improving the quality of life for all.
On this date:
In 1821, the first native-born American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, died in Emmitsburg, Md.
In 1896, Utah was admitted as the 45th state.
In 1904, the Supreme Court, in Gonzalez v. Williams, ruled that Puerto Ricans were not aliens and could enter the United States freely; however, the court stopped short of declaring them U.S. citizens.
In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his State of the Union address, called for legislation to provide assistance for the jobless, elderly, impoverished children and the handicapped.
In 1943, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin appeared on the cover of Time as the magazine's 1942 "Man of the Year."
In 1951, during the Korean War, North Korean and Communist Chinese forces recaptured the city of Seoul (sohl).
In 1960, author and philosopher Albert Camus (al-BEHR' kah-MOO') died in an automobile accident in Villeblevin, France, at age 46.
In 1964, Pope Paul VI began a visit to the Holy Land, the first papal pilgrimage of its kind, as he arrived in Jerusalem.
In 1974, President Richard M. Nixon refused to hand over tape recordings and documents subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.
In 1987, 16 people were killed when an Amtrak train bound from Washington, D.C., to Boston collided with Conrail locomotives that had crossed into its path from a side track in Chase, Md.
In 1990, Charles Stuart, who'd claimed he'd been wounded and that his pregnant wife was fatally shot by a robber, leapt to his death off a Boston bridge after he himself became a suspect.
In 2007, Nancy Pelosi was elected the first female speaker of the House as Democrats took control of Congress.
Ten years ago: As President George W. Bush put the finishing touches on an economic growth package costing $674 billion over ten years, Democratic presidential hopefuls pledged to scuttle what they characterized as a plan that would help the wealthy without reviving the economy. Oscar-winning cinematographer Conrad L. Hall died in Santa Monica, Calif., at age 76.
Five years ago: The government reported that the nation's jobless rate hit 5 percent in Dec. 2007, a two-year high, fanning recession fears. Howling winds, pelting rain and heavy snow pummeled California. Britney Spears lost custody of her two sons to ex-husband Kevin Federline a day after police and paramedics were called to her home.
One year ago: Defying Republican lawmakers, President Barack Obama barreled past the Senate and used a recess appointment to name Richard Cordray the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Today's Birthdays: Actress Barbara Rush is 86. Football Hall-of-Fame coach Don Shula is 83. Actress Dyan Cannon is 76. Opera singer Grace Bumbry is 76. Author-historian Doris Kearns Goodwin is 70. Country singer Kathy Forester (The Forester Sisters) is 58. Actress Ann Magnuson is 57. Rock musician Bernard Sumner (New Order, Joy Division) is 57. Country singer Patty Loveless is 56. Rock singer Michael Stipe is 53. Actor Patrick Cassidy is 51. Actor Dave Foley is 50. Actress Dot Jones (TV: "Glee") is 49. Actor Rick Hearst is 48. Singer-musician Cait O'Riordan is 48. Actress Julia Ormond is 48. Tennis player Guy Forget (ghee fohr-ZHAY') is 48. Country singer Deana Carter is 47. Rock musician Benjamin Darvill (Crash Test Dummies) is 46. Actor Jeremy Licht is 42. Actress-singer Jill Marie Jones is 38. Alt-country singer Justin Townes Earle is 31. Christian rock singer Spencer Chamberlain (Underoath) is 30. Comedian-actress Charlyne Yi is 27.
Thought for Today: "Sometimes history takes things into its own hands." — Thurgood Marshall, U.S. Supreme Court justice (1908-1993).
(Above Advance for Use Friday, Jan. 4)
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Two is better than one for Drew Barrymore, who has drawn on her own childhood experience as she plans her family with husband Will Kopelman.
"I was an only child, and it was lonely," she says in the September issue of InStyle.
"Some people love it and thrive on the independence, but I want my kids to have other kids around. Maybe two kids so they can run around life together, roll their eyes at their parents together like Rusty and Audrey Griswold from [National Lampoon's] Vacation. So however that's going to come about, it's gonna happen!"
However, the actress and cosmetics connoisseur admits that parenting daughter Olive, now 10 months, is "a lot of pain and a lot of nervousness."
"I love the person who said, 'Parenting is like wearing your heart on the outside of your body.' It's the most beautiful, perfect analogy. I have anxieties about how much I'd like to get it right, making sure I provide her with an environment that's safe, nurturing and loving. And silly and free, also consistent and grounding."
Barrymore, 38, adds: "Then I just have the same typical fear every other parent has: Are they going to fall down?"
RELATED: Read more from Barrymore's interview at our sister site, InStyle.com.
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GUADALAJARA, Mexico -- Angela Stanford shot a 5-under 67 on Friday to take a two-stroke lead over Inbee Park after the second round of the Lorena Ochoa Invitational.
The winner of the inaugural tournament in 2008, Stanford had an 11-under 133 total at Guadalajara Country Club. The Texan won the HSBC Women's Champions in Singapore in February for her fifth LPGA Tour victory.
"I told somebody just earlier that Lorena has done so much for golf, especially in Mexico, I would be extremely honoured to win her tournament twice," Stanford said. "Because I do have so much respect for her and respect for what she's done with the game. I think it'd be pretty cool to have your name on her trophy twice."
Stanford had six birdies -- four in a row on Nos. 7-10 -- and one bogey. She hit 12 of 14 fairways and 16 of the 18 greens in regulation.
"I've said all along I love the golf course," Stanford said. "I think anytime you feel extremely comfortable on the golf course, you tend to relax."
Stanford is a fan favourite at the end, as evidenced by the "Angie! Angie!" chants as she proceed down a long line of fans waiting for her autograph.
"It's kind of fun," Stanford said. "I think this week is so much fun because it's so relaxed, and it's so laid back. Seems like, when things like that happen, it means that the fans are having fun. So that's good."
Park, from South Korea, had a 68. She has two victories this year and leads the money list.
"I love the people here and especially playing in Lorena's event, it is a big honour," Park said. Especially playing in the same golf tournament with Lorena. I feel very honoured and hopefully someday I'll be like her."
Cristie Kerr was third at 8 under after a 69. She's winless since the 2010 LPGA State Farm Classic.
"I just have to not get too high when good things happen and not get too low when you have to keep moving on," Kerr said." I just have to keep doing that. It's going to happen again, it's just a matter of when."
Second-ranked Stacy Lewis, coming off her tour-leading fourth victory of the season Sunday in Japan, was 7 under along with So Yeon Ryu and Candie Kung. Lewis and Ryu shot 70, and Kung had a 71.
Lewis has a 58-point lead over Park with two events left in the player of the year points race, putting her in position to become the first American to win the award since Beth Daniel in 1994.
"I mean, after last week, I kind of looked at it, and then, I mean, it's really almost impossible to catch Stacy," Park said. "I play with Stacy the last two days and she was playing really great. I think it's almost impossible for the Player of the Year. I'll just give my best and just see what happens. I mean, Stacy's playing great, too so, I think it's not going to be easy."
Michelle Wie, tied for the first-round lead with Stanford and Kung after a 66, had a 75 to drop into a tie for 12th at 3 under. Wie won the 2010 tournament.
Top-ranked Yani Tseng also was 3 under after a 71.
Ochoa was 1 under after a 72. The Mexican star won 27 LPGA Tour titles before retiring at age 28 in 2010. She missed the event last year before the birth of son Pedro in December.
Suzann Pettersen, coming off consecutive victories in South Korea and Taiwan, was even par after a 74.


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Volunteering is one way to give back over the holidays. Many groups and organizations need volunteers, especially during the busy holiday season.
One such place is the Massillon Parks and Recreation Department.
Volunteering is one way to give back over the holidays. Many groups and organizations need volunteers, especially during the busy holiday season.
One such place is the Massillon Parks and Recreation Department, where volunteers are needed every year to help with answering Santa's letters, making calls from the North Pole and serving breakfast with Santa.
Santa Claus is always busy getting ready for the one day of the year that so many kids around Stark County wait anxiously. In the days before Christmas, Santa receives hundreds of letters from kids asking for gifts suche new puppies, toys or a new brother or sister.
This year, Santa received 97 such letters at the City of Massillon Parks and Recreation Deptartment. Lisa Benton, the department's special events and marketing supervisor, worked with a couple of dedicated volunteers to help Santa answer those letters this year.
"We reply to each child that sends a letter to Santa," Benton said.
"The response is on Santa's special stationery and is personally addressed to each child. We help answer many of the questions the kids ask. It's just one of the many activities we do each year that we hope volunteers want to help us with," she said
Benton said the children who write to Santa ask questions about the reindeer, what Santa's favorite cookie is, how Mrs. Claus is doing and what the North Pole is really like. A few also ask about the elves' names.
"Some of the letters will say they have been good all year. Santa got one letter where the child said he tried his best to be good," Benton said.
Benton often sees letters come from the same children year after year. One child has written Santa a letter every year for the past nine years and the girl also attends the Breakfast with Santa event every year. That event is held at the Massillon Senior Center and is attended by about 90 people adults and children annually.
"We have several of the seniors from the center who volunteer every year to help with the cooking and serving. Plus we have a professional photographer take photos of the kids with Santa," Benton said.
The main reason children write to Santa is to ask for items for Christmas and when Benton and the volunteers respond, they mention the items the child has asked for and explain that Santa will try his best to bring what's on their list.
Benton has gotten letters from children ranging from 3 to 9 years old. She said sometimes the children write the letter and sometimes the parent writes the letter. Occasionally, children thank Santa for an early present such as a baby brother, while others ask for presents for people other than themselves. Some letters tug at the heart strings and bring tears to the eyes.
"One little girl asked for a new home for Christmas this year. A grandmother had custody of her three grandchildren and was living in Texas in her son's home. The son died and left the grandmother and her grandchildren without a home. They returned to Massillon to stay with a friend while the grandmother looked for an apartment," Benton said.
Santa sometimes receives pictures colored by the children who send him letters. Many come with stickers on them and one letter came with a candy bar just for Santa. Other children will send multiple letters to Santa in the same year. Last year one child sent Santa a Christmas card, a letter, some candy and a picture she had drawn, all in separate letters.
Massillon's parks department has been receiving Santa's letters for 11 years. Benton said the department also needs volunteers to help make calls from the North Pole to children. Parents pay a small fee and can request a call from Rudolph or one of the elves.
"For those thinking of volunteering to help with answering the letters or making the calls, both activities really help bring Christmas home for me. My son is not that little anymore and answering these letters lets me live Christmas through a child's eye every year," Benton said.
Benton is used to helping Santa. She and her family started the Joe Hibbard Memorial Fund in honor of their father. Benton, along with her mother and sister, raise money throughout the year to help provide Christmas gifts for area families. This year they are helping out three local families in need.
"My dad ran the Boys and Girls Club of Massillon for 35 years. This fund helps to help families associated with the Club who are in need," Benton said.
Santa's Mailbox next year will run from Nov. 22 through Dec. 17. The parks department asks that parents send a self-addressed, stamped envelope with each letter.
For those who would like to volunteer next year to help Santa or help with other activities or at other events at the Massillon Parks and Recreation Department, contact Benton at 330-832-1621 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.


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October 12. 2013 1:07AM
Weare's new chief: The right man at last?
Tomorrow, selectmen in Weare will appoint a new police chief, John Velleca of the New Haven, Conn., police department. Has the town finally found the man to turn around this troubled department?
The Weare PD has gone through three chiefs in the last 15 years. Chief Edward Tuthill retired amid an investigation into officers drinking on the job. He was replaced by Myles Rigney, who was accused by secretary Sherry Dunham (a former Union Leader correspondent) of sexual harrassment. Rigney was placed on administrative leave, and Dunham eventually reached a financial settlement with the town. Rigney opted not to run for chief when the position was switched from appointed to elected.
Rigney was replaced by Gregory Begin, who stepped down in June. Former Weare Sgt. Louis Chatel accused Begin and Lt. James Carney, second in command, of making false child pornography allegations against him. Chatel was cleared of the allegations.
Carney also had been put on paid administrative leave over accusations that he got into fights with civilians and fellow officers, transported alcohol in police cars and had an inappropriate relationship with a department employee. He retired this past summer.
Amid all of this drama, Weare officers questionably arrested three people for "wiretapping" for recording traffic stops. The three are suing in federal court. And on Aug. 14, Weare officers shot to death a fleeing suspected drug dealer during a sting operation.
To put it mildly, Velleca will take over a department steeped in turmoil. Rebuilding its reputation will not be easy. We share the hope of many in town that Velleca is not the latest in a line of troubled chiefs, but the first in a new line of exemplary ones.