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ROCHESTER — The following items are based on 1,031 entries on the Rochester Police Log from Aug. 16-17 and Aug. 21-24. (Aug. 18-20 was reported last week.)
Friday, Aug. 16
3:38 a.m. — Two teenagers near Cumby's on North Main Street "stare down" a gentleman and stone his bicycle.
7:01 a.m. — A man finds a laptop near Jiffy Lube and hands it in.
7:53 a.m. — Three candy bars and a Red Bull are stolen at George & Ed's. It's on video.
9:00 a.m. — Meds are stolen from a woman on D'Amours Avenue.
9:28 a.m. — Andre Hunter, 46, of 69 Woodland Green, is charged with duty to report.
10:03 a.m. — Susan Jackson, 33, of 58B Summer St., is charged with theft of a motor vehicle.
10:07 a.m. — Raymond Ramsey, 44, of 31 Emerson Ave., Apt. 7, is charged with conduct after an accident and driving after suspension.
10:36 a.m. — A Hillcrest Drive car has been gone through.
10:48 a.m. — At the funeral parlor situated on South Main, a purple bike against a tree is leaning, beat up and abandoned it will ne'er be rode again, it's come to die — alas, no one is keening.
11:00 a.m. — A burglary is reported on French Hussey Road.
12:34 p.m. — Trash toters on East Rochester Main Street have been thrown in the back of a black pick-up.
12:41 p.m. — A crosswalk violation summons is issued on North Main Street.
12:49 p.m. — Michael Jeffrey, 22, of 26 Lafayette St., is charged with two counts of willful concealment, resisting arrest or detention, and violation of probation or parole. He is also arrested on a bench warrant.
4:01 p.m. — A Rochester Manor resident says she is missing a doll.
4:02 p.m. — A locked truck has been broken into at Lowe's.
4:03 p.m. — Dori L. Sheehan, 33, a transient, is charged with willful concealment at Hannaford on Milton Road.
4:44 p.m. — Joshua David Lacy, 23, of 206A Milton Road, is charged with resisting arrest or detention, criminal threatening and criminal trespass.
5:38 p.m. — A minibike is scudding around William Allen School.
5:41 p.m. — Carl Andrew Bodge, 51, of 410 Portland St., is arrested on a bench warrant.
7:32 p.m. — A 16-year-old is charged with criminal threatening and taken into protective custody.
7:44 p.m. — A home on Patton Street is burgled.
7:57 p.m. — There's been a hit-and-run at Market Basket.
8:50 p.m. — A middle-aged man is walking in South Main Street, carrying a dagger. It has a "sharp end." No surprise there.
Saturday, Aug. 17
1:15 a.m. — Eight juveniles, all clad in black, are skateboarding on South Main Street and in a Frisbie parking lot. They are warned to desist.
2:13 a.m. — Hollering and loud music bring complaints from Lambert Court.
2:57 a.m. — Folks are in the woods behind the North Main Street tattoo shop, allegedly drinking and doing drugs.
3:04 a.m. — A lady on Pine Street is screaming, yelling and punching walls. She is upset about court and $500. She is joined by two more yellers.
7:25 a.m. — Trees on Sunrise Drive have been damaged.
8:00 a.m. — A vehicle has been gone through on Laurel Terrace.
9:25 a.m. — An OHRV owner is warned on Wakefield Street.
10:35 a.m. — A Gear Road flower bed has been driven over.
12:13 p.m. — There's a beggar on the Common.
2:40 p.m. — Walgreens has caught a shoplifter.
2:52 p.m. — A shoplifter at Kohl's "caught red-handed" is upset and dives into bushes.
4:17 p.m. — At the South Main Dunkin' Donuts, someone buys an apple juice and steals a second one.
4:40 p.m. — Royal Crest MHP resident are threatening to bury a boy alive.
4:43 p.m. — Valerie J. Dupuis, 47, of Berry River Road, Barrington, is charged with willful concealment at Walgreens.
6:39 p.m. — A citizen finds a wallet in Walgreens parking lot and hands it in.
7:39 p.m. — There is yelling from a Pine Street rooftop. It is not a call to prayer.
8:09 p.m. — A woman is attacked by a dog at the laundromat on North Main Street.
8:15 p.m. — Two men do battle on East Rochester Main Street.
9:15 p.m. — Drunks holler on Grove Street.
10:22 p.m. — An ex allegedly steals a truck from Northgate Apartments. Police find it on Congress Street.
10:39 p.m. — The Grove Street drunks are still hollering.
10:55 p.m. — Someone is taken into protective custody on Congress Street.
Wednesday, Aug. 21
1:24 a.m. — Timothy William Moore, 24, of 34 Punch Brook way, Apt. 321, is charged with habitual offender.
2:03 a.m. — A man walking on Charles Street is warned to stay out of the road.
5:26 a.m. — Items are stolen from an unlocked car on Olde Farm Lane.
8:13 a.m. — George & Ed's is hit with a bad check.
10:02 a.m. — Jessica Lontine, 24, of 471 Route 153, Middleton, is arrested on a warrant.
10:20 a.m. — Wendy Perkins, 34, of 10 Wyandotte Falls, is arrested on a warrant.
11:42 a.m. — There are protesters with signs, that someone finds offensive, near the Post Office. Police find they are protesting presidential issues, and are just exercising their constitutional rights.
2:02 p.m. — A Four Rod Road resident reports a credit card abuse.
2:27 p.m. — William Whitcher, 46, a transient, is charged with littering and taken into protective custody for alcoholism.
3:25 p.m. — Kevin D. Brochu, 24, a transient, is charged with five counts of burglary.
4:29 p.m. — At Amazon Park, a lady asserts that a gentleman has spat in her face. Jeremy C. Brown, 38, of 105 Whitehouse Road, Lot 62, is charged with simple assault.
4:32 p.m. — There are more constitutional rights being exercised at the Post Office.
4:41 p.m. — A hit-and-run occurs on Bridge Street.
4:51 p.m. — Adam Harrington, 27, of 46 Blue Heron Drive, Portsmouth, is arrested on a warrant.
5:29 p.m. — A phone is stolen on Sandina Drive.
5:43 p.m. — Home Depot will bring shoplifting evidence to the station.
5:52 p.m. — A home on Sandstone Lane has been burgled. A suspect takes off on a BMX bike.
6:53 p.m. — Milton Road neighbors yell at each other, as is the way, after a smoke in the basement sets an alarm off.
7:14 p.m. — Two men stand in Periwinkle Drive yelling at each other, and draw a crowd.
7:26 p.m. — A Baxter Lake Campground resident reports damage to her TV dish, and names a suspect.
7:51 p.m. — A Pine Street woman allegedly "flips out" and makes threats.
9:42 p.m. — A Barker Court resident is the victim of an online fraud that involved a green dot card.
Thursday, Aug. 22
12:07 a.m. — Brandon Turmelle, 19, of 27 Hampshire Ave., is charged with two counts of DWI, transportation of alcoholic beverages and drug possession; Connor Noe, 19, of 12 Colonial Drive, is charged with drug possession.
12:30 a.m. — A Rochester Hill man "has been hit by his wife." It is said that she hates him and has gone next door. Police believe it to be just an argument.
3:14 a.m. — All Door & Lock at the airport has had a window smashed.
10:20 a.m. — Mini bikes are ridden on a Gonic sidewalk.
11:55 a.m. — Items stolen in Farmington have been pawned in Rochester.
12:21 p.m. — Two women have stolen merchandise valued at $90 from Walmart.
12:27 p.m. — A Chevy was damaged overnight on Punch Brook Way.
1:15 p.m. — Wire worth $1,000 has been stolen from a job site on Airport Drive.
2:14 p.m. — A wallet has been stolen from a vehicle on Blackwater Road.
4:08 p.m. — Walgreens has a video of a man stealing $99 worth of goods.
5:14 p.m. — John Marston, 54, of 24B Linden St., is charged with driving after suspension.
6:07 p.m. — Teens sit behind bushes on Winter Street passing a pipe around.
6:37 p.m. — Benjamin Legan, 22, of 30 Columbus Circle, Lebanon, Maine, is charged with unattended vehicle and misuse or failure to display plates.
7:37 p.m. — Todd L. Saylor, 28, of 24A Lafayette St., is charged with two counts of littering.
8:08 p.m. — At Varney's Laundromat a man is sharpening a knife, despite a posted "no weapons" sign and taking his clothes off. He won't leave because he says he still has time in the dryer.
8:08 p.m. — Music blasts on Franklin Street.
8:54 p.m. — "Two people and a dog" fight on Phillips Lane. Kathrine Marie Nickerson, 28, and Scott F. Zoeller, 32, both of 10 Beaudoin Court, are each charged with resisting detention.
9:44 p.m. — Five teen boys in a Winter Street field, scream, swear and smoke marijuana, while two ladies slug it out.
11:09 p.m. — There's hollering, screaming and even slapping on Leonard Street.
Friday, Aug. 23
1:27 a.m. — Robert Rose, 29, of 22A Lafayette St. is charged with driving after suspension.
1:54 a.m. — Nicholas Kuchman, 18, of 397 Portland St., is charged with unlawful possession of alcohol.
8:35 a.m. — Meagan N. Turcotte, 18, of 296 First Crown Point Road, Strafford, is arrested on a bench warrant.
10:05 a.m. — Justin Nadeau, 25, of 24B Lafayette St., is charged with littering.
12:18 p.m. — Elizabeth Roads, 55, of 11F Felker St., is charged with willful concealment at Walgreens.
12:18 p.m. — A Day Lily Lane man is threatened with death by his sister.
12:33 p.m. — There's been a hit-and-run at Rochester Lil' Mart on Milton Road.
1:16 p.m. — A teen girl is the target of texted racial slurs and threats.
2:06 p.m. — Five folks fight in a Lafayette Street apartment. Two dogs watch.
3:13 p.m. — A strange man slumbers on a North Main Street porch. Police move him along.
3:28 p.m. — Two people fight in the Frisbie E.R. One is drunk.
3:51 p.m. — At Maple Street Magnet School, a man is belligerent with staff and several parents.
4:47 p.m. — At the police department, a man waxes belligerent while doing a custody exchange. The argument is over a car seat.
5:01 p.m. — Two ladders are stolen on Gonic Main Street. Police may take steps to find them.
5:56 p.m. — Karen M. Carignan, 47, of 19 Howe St., Rollinsford, is charged with willful concealment.
6:51 p.m. — David A. Hunt, 22, of 46 South Main St., Apt. 202, is arrested on two warrants.
9:08 p.m. — One family member yells at another on King Street.
9:13 p.m. — Three people enter the Dynasty Restaurant and bust the vending machines.
Saturday, Aug. 24
12:13 a.m. — Star Elizabeth Breton, 24, of 6 Weymouth St., Sanford, Maine, is charged with endangering the welfare of a child or incompetent.
1:03 a.m. — A man is out on Madison Avenue, yelling and screaming.
3:04 a.m. — Four or five folks fight on Pine, a red-haired dame seems out of line, she's beating on someone, they're telling, 911 can hear the yelling; another standout out in this spat makes threats to kill with baseball bat.
4:01 a.m. — Music's cranked on Lafayette Street.
10:34 a.m. — An apartment door was kicked in overnight on Pine Street.
10:50 a.m. — A man is walking citywards on Route 11 with a pistol on his hip and a rifle on his back. No criminal aspect is ascertained.
11:24 a.m. — A window has been smashed on Washington Street.
11:51 a.m. — William F. Roach, Jr., 41, of 28 Maple St., Union, is charged with willful concealment and arrested on two bench warrants.
2:17 p.m. — A wallet is stolen from a vehicle at Family Dollar.
4:39 p.m. — Frisbie reports they have a patient who was sexually assaulted in Rochester.
6:34 p.m. — Eric Parks, 21, a transient, is charged with two counts of criminal trespass.
7:50 p.m. — A fox near Woodland Green is dragging its back legs after an "altercation" with a dog.
9:21 p.m. — John Sullivan, 31, of 21 Calef Highway, Apt. 105, is charged with driving after suspension.
9:33 p.m. — Gordon Barry Post, 41, of 6 Politic Drive, is charged with criminal mischief.
10:15 p.m. — A birthday party on Lupine Lane produces screaming.
10:43 p.m. — Joseph Paul Carignan, 28, of 7 Songbird Lane, Shapleigh, Maine, is charged with driving after suspension-subsequent.
11:37 p.m. — Police investigate a din on Clayton Avenue. The following are charged with unlawful possession of alcohol: Cassie J. Jordan, 18, of 505 Portland St.; Caleb Peron, 20, of 1 Polly Ann Park, Dover; Cameron A. Kennedy, 20, of 5 Buffumsville Road, Somersworth; Miguel Peguro, 19, of 107 Lynn St., Peabody, Mass.; Michael Dylain Gandsy, 20, of 10 Street, Surf Side, SC,;Richard D. Garland, 20, of 10 Silver St.; a 17-year-old and a 16-year-old. Gandsy was also arrested on a warrant. A 17-year-old was taken into protective custody, and a 17-year-old was charged with facilitating a drug or alcohol house party.


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a battery that stays in the green under the 100A or so load is more likely to stay usable than one that goes in the red.
It probably would help if members could refrain from posting so many of those "rebuttals, alternatives or chit chat" type of posts....
Daisy,I'll bet that you and Fred have many more tips like that.
How about collecting the tips and creating a new "virtual book" in the RV Forum Library?
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Atlantic Salt Marsh Snake
Scientific name: Nerodia clarkii taeniata (COPE 1895)
* Currently accepted name
* scientific names used through time
- Regina clarkii – BAIRD & GIRARD 1853
- Tropidonotus clarkii – BOULENGER 1893
- Tropidonotus compressicauda – BOULENGER 1893
- Natrix compressicauda bivittata – COPE 1888
- Natrix compressicauda taeniata – COPE 1895
- Natrix sipedon taeniata – CONANT 1958
- Natrix fasciata taeniata – CONANT 1975
- Nerodia clarkii taeniata – CONANT & COLLINS 1991
Average adult size is less than 20 inches (50.8 cm), record is 24 inches (60.9 cm). Adults are light grayish tan with stripes that extend posteriorly to the middle of the body, here the stripes fade to bands or blotches. The belly is reddish brown with a central row of light spots. The scales are keeled, and there are 21-23 dorsal scale rows at midbody. The pupil is round. Juvenile coloration is similar to adults.
A. Top of the head
B. Underside of the head (chin and throat)
C. Elongated scales below the tail (subcaudal scales) are typically divided
D. Front (face view) of the head
E. Side of the head
F. Keeled scales
Range: In Florida, it is found only in the intracoastal waterway marshes along the Atlantic coast in Volusia and Indian River counties. It is not found outside of Florida.
Habitat: It inhabits mangrove swamps and salt marsh tidal flats overgrown with glasswort (Salicornia) along estuarine river systems.
Comments: HARMLESS (Non-Venomous). The Atlantic Salt Marsh Snake has become increasingly rare as waterfront development has destroyed much of its habitat. It is listed as a "Threatened Species" by both the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
It feeds on small fishes, crabs, shrimp, and other invertebrates trapped in isolated pools of water by the falling tide.
It is live-bearing. Little else is known about the life histories of this snake.
Comparison with other species: The Striped Crayfish Snake (Regina alleni) has a uniform light-colored belly. The Queen Snake (Regina septemvittata) is much thinner and has only 2 light-colored stripes on its body.
It should not happen often, but some people might confuse a Salt Marsh Snake with a venomous Cottonmouth. However, it is easy to distinguish between Cottonmouths and Salt Marsh Snakes and other Water Snakes.


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Jul 3rd: Children's 4th of July Celebration
Jul 4th: Independence Day. center CLOSED
Jul 3rd-7th: Parent Appreciation Week
All fees are due on Monday of each week.
Child Care of Southwest Florida follows the Lee County School Board Bad Weather Closing Schedule. Please tune into your local weather station. If school is called off or closes early the center will follow suit. Please be prepared for alternative care in the event of bad weather closures.
This past month, our center experienced many changes and improvements because we are dedicated to provide the best quality of early learning education in the area, preparing children for the first years of life, building a strong foundation for them to learn, grow, and succeed, as well as supporting the parents and our community. Parents and children are very exited about these changes, and we are already seeing positive results. Here are few of the improvements:
My name is Tara Devose. I am the new director at P.A. Geraci Child Development Center. Education is very important to me, thus my love for laying a solid foundation for children to grow and learn. I take pride in my work, and I work really hard to do the best I can daily in my life and the lives of others. If I can make one person smile, or make their day, I have accomplished my goal for the day. I look forward to working with each one of you.
Hello everyone!
My name Debra Jackson. I am the new Director Assistant. I was born in Columbus, Ga. My family moved to Fort Myers when I was young. I am married to a wonderful man, and I have a 15 yr. old son who is my miracle baby. I have been in Early Child Care for over 19 years because I love children and interacting with their families. I am looking forward to help you in every way possible.
We are so exited to implement our Theme Weeks. Every week the children will engage in theme activities making their learning experience fun, stimulating their imagination, language, social, problem-solving and motor skills. Students are encouraged to participate in the themed weeks by dressing up (appropriately), and having fun! All age groups are included.
The patriotic palette of this sweet and crunchy mix makes it a perfect choice for your Independence Day celebration.
In a large bowl, combine the snack mix, blueberries, cranberries, and sunflower seeds.
Place the white chocolate chips into a medium, microwave-safe bowl. Melt in the microwave on High for 60-90 seconds then stir. Melt for an additional 30-60 seconds, if needed.
Drizzle the melted chocolate over the snack mix, and stir until well coated. Turn the mix out onto a large piece of wax paper, sprinkle with blue and red candies, then allow the white chocolate to stand at room temperature for about 1 hour to harden. To serve, break the mix up into large chunks.
This year, from May 22 to August 9, we hope to inspire our community to "Build a Better World." Find activities and events for you and your children.
Some activity challenges include:
1. Preschool can help combat crime, teen pregnancy, and high school dropout rates.
2. Early childhood education has a better return on investment than the stock market.
3. The U.S. lags behind almost every other country when it comes to preschool, including Mexico, Chile, and Russia.
4. Early childhood matters because experiences early in life can have a lasting impact on later learning, behavior, and health.
5. In the first five years of life, your child's brain develops more and faster than at any other time in his life. Your child's early experiences – the things she sees, hears, touches, smells and tastes – stimulate her brain, creating millions of connections. This is when the foundations for learning, health and behavior throughout life are made.
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Wines Less Traveled: Chardonnay
I have a sort of love-hate relationship with Chardonnay, in that I seem to either love them or loath them without much in between. That being said there's a reason it's one of the world's most popular and renowned white grapes. The challenge is to balance the malolactic fermentation with freshness and oak with the grape's (let's face it) limited expressivness. When everything comes together chardonnay is elegant, rich, and a joy to drink. Once again it's likely you may not have heard of some or any of the wonderful, tiny, and sometimes new producers on this list but they are all doing exceptional wines with great price-to-value.
what chardonnay do I love? Chateau Ste. Michelle and Sams Club. Light and fruity is right. A good place to start...especially in the heat of summer. hooch
The palate is weighty, not flabby or fat....what does that mean?
By weighty I mean the literal weight of the wine in your mouth, the viscosity or richness if you will. Imagine the difference between a chowder and chicken noodle soup. The former has more weight than the latter. While richness and ripeness, especially in a Chardonnay, can be positive if these qualities go too far you get a "flabby" wine. Flabby = overripe, overrich, and above all too little acidity. Flabby wines are heavy rather than just rich, one note instead of complex, and often just plain flat.
Im glad to see no oak and european style chardonnays! I have not tried anyone from your list, but might do some exploring. I love the Jewell ranch Chardonnay from J wines. That is my favorite so far although I have not had many. What do you think about that?
I've only had the pleasure of trying a few of the Pinots from J but I'll keep an eye out for the Chard. I definitely prefer the less oak, less malo chards. You may have noticed a lack of Burgundies which I hope to remedy in another list soon.
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Tig Notaro will go anywhere to get a laugh – whether delving into her own life or showing up on a fan's doorstep.
The recent Showtime documentary, "Knock Knock, It's Tig Notaro," traced her travels to ordinary folks' homes and included a gig in front of about dozen people at a geodesic dome in California. Among her jokes: a crack about how she likes to confuse friends by texting them out of the blue, "What's your ETA?"
The odd and intimate venue seemed appropriate for Notaro, an intensely personal and personable performer who has fearlessly served up her own raw experiences to audiences. The ETA question also proved fitting: If put to Notaro, the answer to the time of her latest major arrival very well could be Saturday, when she plays her biggest crowd yet with her first HBO comedy special.
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The standup veteran started to gain a wider, devoted audience three years ago this month when she took to the stage of a Los Angeles club shortly after learning she had breast cancer. The diagnosis followed her battle against a life-threatening intestinal infection, the sudden death of her mother and a romantic breakup. "Good evening. Hello. I have cancer. How are you?," she greeted the audience.
Word of the set spread through social media, "This American Life" and an audio recording Louis C.K. made available via his website. For many, the searing, half-hour confessional marked an unforgettable introduction to a comic who gave a performance both emotionally devastating and devastatingly funny.
She struck nary a note of self-pity, instead using her deadpan delivery style, with its echoes of Bob Newhart and Steven Wright, to underscore the absurdity of the deck of jokers dealt to her by life. Perhaps the most hilarious and heartbreaking moment came when Notaro riffed off the post-treatment questionnaire sent by the hospital where her mother died. "'[Question] No. 4, suggestions for improvements.' Such as: Should we stop sending questionnaires to dead people?"
Notaro is morphing into a comic known more for her comeback than her cancer. During some shows last year, she took off her shirt and bared the scars from her double mastectomy. In addition to the April Showtime special, Notaro also was the subject of a Netflix documentary released last month called "Tig," which included poignant looks at her attempts to have a child and at her relationship with her now-fiancée, Stephanie Allynne.
The synopsis for Notaro's HBO special – "Tig Notaro: Boyish Girl Interrupted" – doesn't contain the word "cancer." The hour-long show represents evidence not of a life interrupted, but one that forges ahead on the strength of a brave and smart 44-year-old comedian who offers as much insight as she does jokes. As in the Showtime road-trip documentary, Notaro is bringing her intimate act to our living rooms.
Check out a preview (above) in which Notaro muses on the fleeting nature of laughter as she attempts to extend her mark on comedy.
Jere Hester is Director of News Products and Projects at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is also the author of "Raising a Beatle Baby: How John, Paul, George and Ringo Helped us Come Together as a Family." Follow him on Twitter.


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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Britain and Germany warned on Friday there will be no summit deal on the European Union's proposed 1 trillion euro long-term budget without deeper spending cuts, after the latest compromise plan ignored their calls for further restraint.
British Prime Minister David Cameron dismissed a proposal to scale back tentative cuts to EU farm subsidies and regional aid to placate France and Poland, taking savings elsewhere to keep the overall budget cut at about 80 billion euros.
"It isn't a time for tinkering," he told reporters as he arrived for the second day of budget talks. "There hasn't been the progress in cutting back proposals for additional spending."
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she didn't believe leaders would reach the unanimity needed to clinch a budget deal at this summit, but played down the consequences of failure.
"I have always said that it wouldn't be dramatic if today were only the first step," she told reporters. "I think the positions are still far apart and if we need a second round we will take the time to do it."
But EU officials warned that failure would divert time and resources away from efforts to shore up the faltering euro zone, and reinforce the impression among citizens and investors that EU leaders suffer from collective indecision.
It would also delay the programming of hundreds of billions of euros in investments in transport and energy infrastructure in poorer ex-communist eastern members of the 27-nation bloc, meant to help them catch up economically with the richer west.
Germany, Britain, Sweden and the Netherlands, all net budget contributors, are pushing for further cuts of between 30-75 billion euros on top of the 80 billion already trimmed from the European Commission's original spending blueprint.
Cameron, playing to Eurosceptical images of Brussels "fat cats", has targeted the roughly 60 billion euros earmarked for EU salaries and benefits in 2014-20 for deep cuts, insisting that European officials endure similar reductions in numbers and pay as national officials in some countries.
Cameron handed European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, the summit chairman, a paper setting out ways to trim the bloc's administration bill by 10 percent, including raising the retirement age for most officials from 63 to 68, and capping pensions at 60 percent of final salary instead of 70 percent.
"These are not dramatic changes," a British official said of the proposals. "The Commission and others are telling the Greeks, Italians and others that they should put the retirement age up to 68."
Van Rompuy ignored them in his latest draft compromise plan.
Negotiations on the EU's long-term budgets are always rancorous affairs, but the depth of Europe's present debt crisis has made the inevitable arguments over farm subsidies and rebates all the more bitter.
With national budgets being cut across much of the bloc, EU officials are having to contemplate the first ever real terms decline in future spending.
More than two-thirds of the EU's roughly 130 billion euro annual spending is paid out in subsidies to farmers and investment in new motorways, bridges and other public works in poorer southern and eastern European countries.
The current seven-year budget worth 1.034 trillion euros in EU financial commitments for the period 2007-2013 was agreed in 2005, at the height of a credit-fuelled boom in public spending.
The Commission initially demanded a roughly 5 percent increase in spending for 2014-2020, equal to 1.091 trillion euros. But this has already been reduced to 1.01 trillion euros under Van Rompuy's compromise, and many net budget contributors insist the total must dip below the trillion euro mark for a deal.
The current negotiations have seen a realignment of traditional factions in the budget debate. Previous deals have been built around Franco-German pacts to defend generous EU farm subsidies against attack from Britain and other northern states.
France receives more funds from the Common Agricultural Policy than any other country, while Germany is also a major beneficiary.
But the need for overall budget restraint appears to be a higher priority for Germany in the current talks than safeguarding farm spending, prompting France to ally itself with Poland and former-communist eastern European states to jointly oppose cuts to the two biggest areas of EU spending.
French President Francois Hollande welcomed the reversal of some proposed cuts in farm subsidies as progress but said he would press for more money to be restored for agriculture.
One area where Britain stands isolated is in its bid to protect its cherished budget rebate from any cuts. The annual refund worth 3.5 billion euros last year was first won by Margaret Thatcher in 1984, to reflect the lower share of farm subsidies received by Britain.
Paris, Berlin and others want to reform the complex system of rebates that also sees linked payments made to Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden.
But EU officials accept that Cameron cannot win the support of Britain's euro-skeptic parliament for any deal that scraps the rebate.
Additional reporting by Andreas Rinke, Peter Griffiths, Catherine Bremer, Luke Baker, John O'Donnell, Justyna Pawlak, Robin Emmott, Robert-Jan Bartunek and Jan Strupczewski; Editing by Paul Taylor


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After 15 years of service in a city fire department, which likely involved one or more calls a day, every day, round the clock, round the year, a fire engine is pretty well beat up.
If it's well worn but not completely used up at that point, it goes into the city's reserve fleet, to replace newer equipment that's out of service for repairs or maintenance.
After 5 or so years of reserve duty, it's surplus; maintenance at that point is costly, and there is newer equipment falling into reserve status.
So 20-year-old firetrucks go on the market, at a steep discount, and the purchasers typically are small, volunteer fire departments, which could never afford the $500,000 or more needed to buy a new pumper vehicle.
The duty level expected of the old truck isn't nearly as heavy with a volunteer force, where it might be called out for fires only a few times a year instead of several times a day.
The fire engine pictured here was bought new by the Tuscaloosa City Fire Department in 1984; twenty years later, it was sold to the Sapps–Union Chapel Volunteer Fire Department in nearby Pickens County, which is still using it in 2017 and plans to keep running it forever.
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FBI official who accused Hillary Clinton of asking for declassification of emails in exchange for a "quid-pro-quo" was actually being paid as a consultant by the now-disgraced former Trump National Security Advisor, General Michael Flynn.
Rachel Maddow blew this story wide open recently, as she tells the story from the very beginning, where conservative media picked up a story that accused Hillary Clinton of orchestrating a cover up. Here is the gist of the story as covered by The Weekly Standard:
A senior State Department official repeatedly pressed the FBI to change the classification of emails stored on Hillary Clinton's private server, according to FBI interview summaries set to be released in the coming days. Patrick Kennedy, the undersecretary of state for management, discussed providing additional overseas slots for the FBI in exchange for revisions to classifications of the sensitive emails.
The FBI records official says that his colleague "pressured" him to declassify an email "in exchange for a quid pro quo," according to the interview summary. "In exchange for making the email unclassified State would reciprocate by allowing the FBI to place more agents in countries where they are presently forbidden." The request was denied.
For three days straight, Fox News led the charge of a constant bombardment of conservative-media coverage. There was clearly a large amount of damage done to Clinton's campaign – all this only three weeks before election day. Maddow describes their collective actions by saying, "they grabbed that mystery bait, and went straight for the bottom of the pond."
After three days of constant exposure, Maddow explains, things "started to get walked back." There had been one name that had been redacted over and over again in all of the finger pointing – the supposed whistle-blower. Well, "redacted" came forward. His name is former FBI official Brian McCauley.
McCauley interviewed with The New York Times and said, "I'm the one who threw that out there." But he quickly learned that what was being asked was illegal. McCauley goes on, "It was off the table; the quid pro quo was not even close to being considered."
In an interview with The Washington Post, he flatly explains, "Listen, there was no collusion, there was absolutely no collusion. That's illegal. Something that was underhanded, illegal, I would not do it. No one in the FBI would do it. It's a matter of integrity."
This was a largely-made-up story, followed by a firestorm of national coverage, only to be debunked. But the damage was done. And we all thought that was the end of the story. Until this week.
Maddow explains that Michael Flynn registered – albeit retroactively – as a foreign agent. [After he was fired and left in disgrace for lying about communications with the Russian government.] In this, he admits to working as a lobbyist for a foreign government – this at the same time he was working for Donald Trump as part of his presidential campaign. This is, as Maddow describes it, becoming its own "clingy scandal."
Josh Marshall, a reporter for Talking Points Memo, dug a little deeper into Flynn's filing. What he found was disturbing. Brian McCauley, the former FBI official who walked back the devastating "cover up" story after irreparable damage had been done, was being paid by Mike Flynn during the Trump campaign. Payments began about two weeks before the story initially broke.
Maddow wraps it up brilliantly:
It helps to know now that his friend – the General – was also his boss; he was on the General's payroll. Just as it helps to know his boss was a foreign agent. And he was breaking that story, "Hillary Clinton's emails!"
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Many people are intimidated by the idea of speaking a foreign language… and maybe you feel the same way. Isn't it too complicated and time consuming? Or even embarrassing? It's time to realize that unblocking your hearing and pronunciation in a foreign language is a massive advantage for you.
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Wallonia is a region in the south of Belgium and is known as a land of memory. In 2014 and 2015 Wallonia will commemorate three major events which have not only marked the history of Belgium, but also that of Europe and the world. Through visits to monuments, historical sites, theme tours, museums and exhibitions, the program set up by Wallonia is certainly imbued with emotions.
Indeed two centuries have gone by since the battle of Waterloo (June 1815) changed the course of European history. Later, in August 1914, the attack of the Province de Liège and its forts highlighted the conflict between France and Germany. Seven decades back, in December 1944, the Battle of Ardennes which broke out in the province of Luxembourg, Namur and Liège was considered as the final stage of World War II on the Belgian territory.
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Getting off in Liège (0h45 trip from Brussels) with the Thalys high speed train, you will arrive in the heart of the region where the first battles of the First World War took place. Take a tour of Fort Loncin which withstood 11 days of German offensive before exploding in August 15th, 1914. Don't miss the 14-18 exhibition in the Liège Guillermins railway station which will be held as from August 2014. From Liège, head to Bastogne (1h20 trip) and discover the Mardasson Memorial, which is dedicated to the US soldiers who lost their lives during the Battle of the Bulge. As from March 2014, you will be able to visit the Bastogne War Museum, a new memorial site with interactive scenography.
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Go to Namur (1h30 trip), the capital of Wallonia, to visit the Citadelle de Namur, a fortified structure overlooking the city and which occupied a strategic position between the 15th and 19th century in Europe. Take a tour to reach the Fort d'Emines, which was heavily bombarded by the Germans in 1914, before going to the beautiful small town of Dinant (0h30 trip). There you will have access to the Citadelle de Dinant, an exceptional site built in 1051.
From Namur, take the train to Mons (1h05 trip) to discover vestiges of the Battle of Mons and to unearth the legend of the Angels of Mons, who supposedly protected the British army during the First World War. In 2015, the Mons Memorial Museum will open. Next, take the trip to Waterloo (1h15 trip) and walk in the footsteps of Napoleon. Don't forget to discover the new Napoleon road that runs through the provinces of Hainaut, Namur and Walloon Brabant. In 2015, the bicentennial of the Battle of Waterloo will be held amidst the opening of a new memorial, fireworks and as re-enactments. End your trip by visiting Brussels (0h30 trip) where you can visit the 14-18 exposition in the Army Museum, as from February 2014.
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Roxy Music's eternally suave lead vocalist Bryan Ferry will bring his 2019 tour to our area for a show at the Chicago Theatre on August 1.
Tickets went on sale today for Andrew Bird with Madison Cunningham at the Chicago Theatre on July 16; and the Fleetwood Mac tribute act Tusk at City Winery Chicago on April 7.
Congratulations to my nephew Joe Flamm on his new modestly titled website Joe Flamm is just a chef from Chicago. The site covers how he won Top Chef Season 15 on the Bravo Channel; his current gig as the Executive Chef at Spiaggia; previous restaurants he's worked at; his world travels; family; and friends.
Jenny Lewis will be showcasing songs from her new On The Line album at the Riviera Theatre tomorrow night. Peter Himmelman will be performing at The Old Town School Of Folk Music tomorrow night. His "Susan I Owe You An Apology" is one of the most poignant songs ever recorded about appreciating what you have in life. Other gigs coming up next week at that venue include Adrian Belew with special guest Saul Zonana on Thursday; and Marshall Crenshaw and The Bottle Rockets on Saturday.
A recently restored print of the 1968 BBC special The Rolling Stones Rock And Roll Circus will be shown in select theaters next Monday through Wednesday. Chicago area theaters screening the event include the CMX Old Orchard Cinebistro in Skokie; Marcus Gurney Mills Cinema in Gurnee; and the Regal City North 14 in Chicago.
Mott The Hoople, with Ian Hunter, Morgan Fisher, and Ariel Bender onboard, will bring their '74 Concert Tour to the Chicago Theatre next Wednesday, April 3. According to Joshua Miller's full-page article in today's Chicago Sun-Times, it's the band's first show here in 45 years, and one of the only eight cities it will play on its current American tour. The Chicago Tribune's Gerg Kot also posted an interesting article about Mott The Hoople today.
Also on April 3, Robyn Hitchcock will be rocking tunes like "So You Think You're In Love," "Balloon Man," and "Adventure Rocket Ship" at his sold out show at SPACE in Evanston. Later next week, Lily Hiatt, daughter of John, will be at FitzGerald's in Berwyn on Friday.
Chris Jones reports in today's Chicago Tribune that Four Chords and a Gun, a play about The Ramones working in the recording studio with Phil Spector, is coming to the Broadway Playhouse in Chicago on May 18.
Lifeline Theatre's current staging of Frances Limoncelli's adaptation of author Jon Scleszka and artist Lane Smith's book The Time Warp Trio is running through April 20. Shows are at 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. In between shows, kids can enjoy a production of Lifeline Theatre's Stories Come Alive! series.
The next Rock 'N Roll Ala Mode karaoke event at Christie's Dairy Delights in Palatine takes place next Wednesday night. There is a suggested donation of $10.
I had a fun time last Saturday at the C2E2 convention in McCormick Place and was able to hand a Broken Hearted Toy button to David Tennant of Doctor Who, Jenny Jones, and Broadchurch fame as we talked during an autograph session. He was extremely friendly and outgoing with all the fans. I mentioned how much I enjoyed his podcast with current Doctor Who star Jodie Whittaker.
Fee Waybill will lead The Tubes into The Arcada in St. Charles next Friday night for a performance of the band's The Completion Backward Principle album. Chicago-based power pop masters Off Broadway are the opening act that night.
I was sad to hear that The English Beat's "Ranking Roger" Charlery has passed away. He and fellow vocalist Dave Wakeling provided powerful vocals to go with the band's irresistible ska rhythms. I still remember the excitement of listening to The English Beat's first album.
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Did you preorder a new iPad? You're going to need some new apps for it. In this round of the best iPad apps of the week, we've got a remarkable retelling of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a colourful word game, and much more.
To The Brink: JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis: History is revived in this remarkable, well-designed app. Relieve the drama of 1962's Cuban Missile Crisis, the peaceful resolution of which is widely believed to be the defining moment of Kennedy's presidency. Free
Atlas by Collins: Maps come in many different forms, and you can see them all in this dynamic, interactive atlas. You might just want to see a regular political map. You can do that here. But say you just want to know which country consumes the most natural gas or which region has the highest concentration of endangered species. Atlas will tell you. This would have been nice to have in school. £4.99
Letterpress: Are you a fierce competitor with a penchant for word games? Download this novel title, which pits you against your friends to create words and claim as much of the board for your own colour as possible. To practice, start reading a thesaurus. Free
Zombiewood: Zombies have had quite the year. Accordingly, here's another app to let the undead continue to shine. And bite. But not if you can stop them from overrunning the glitzy streets of L.A. in this shooter game. Free


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Friday, 15 July 2011 05:22 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — Five dollars for a pillow, $10 to jump ahead in the boarding line — all those annoying airline fees can add up. Now the Department of Transportation is proposing that airlines tell it — and the public — exactly how much they're making on those fees. And, rule proposed Friday by the department would require airlines to break down those fees by the type of item or service purchased, from pillows and blankets to entertainment and snacks.
Making airlines report more information about the amount and types of fees will make the total cost of flights more clear, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said.
"In an era of rising fees, passengers deserve better information about how airlines are performing," he said in a statement.
The proposed rule would also require airlines report more useful statistics about lost or damaged luggage and mishandled wheelchairs.
Airlines received $3.4 billion from baggage fees and $2.3 billion from reservation change fees in 2010. There is no federal excise tax on those fees, although they are counted when calculating income taxes.
Revenue from seating assignments and on-board sales of food, drinks, pillows, blankets, and entertainment also isn't subject to excise taxes. Until now, airlines haven't been required to report revenue from those items separately to the government.
Taxes on airline tickets go toward subsidizing airports and the national's air traffic control system. There has been some grumbling in Congress that ancillary fees have enabled airlines to hold down their fares and the taxes they pay to support air transportation.
Steve Lott, a spokesman for the Air Transport Association, which represents major airlines, said the association is reviewing the proposal.
"We support transparency, and believe customers should always know what products and services they are paying for," Lott said.
"We also believe the airline industry, vital to our economy as a creator of jobs and mover of people and goods, needs to be treated like other global businesses and free from unnecessary regulatory burdens that add complexity and cost without delivering value," he said.
Under the proposal, airlines would be required to report 16 additional categories of fees in addition to baggage and reservation change fees, the department said.
In April, the department proposed a series of consumer protection regulations, including a requirement that airlines prominently disclose all potential fees on their websites. Airlines will also have to include taxes and government-imposed fees in the fares that they advertise.
Airlines have opposed the tax and fee disclosure requirements, arguing that car dealers and other businesses don't have to make similar disclosures.
The disclosure requirements are due to go into effect next month, but three domestic airline trade groups have asked the department to delay the rule for six months so that airlines can train employees and update computer systems to comply with the changes.
Also, low-cost carrier Spirit and regional carrier Allegiant Air have asked a federal court to block the new disclosure requirements, as well as several other consumer protections proposed in April. Southwest Airlines, which carries more passengers than any other domestic airline, has asked the court to block the government from requiring airlines to disclose taxes and government-required fees in their airfares. Southwest, which doesn't charge any ancillary fees, said including government required taxes and fees would force the airline to make complicated adjustments to its frequent flyer rewards program, which is based on airfares.
The proposal announced Friday would also require airlines to report the total number of bags checked. Airlines already report the number of mishandled bags relative to the number of passengers flown. However, more passengers are choosing not to check bags to avoid fees, decreasing the number of checked bags overall.
Reporting all checked bags would allow passengers to compare the number of lost or damaged bags relative to the number of bags handled by the airlines, which is a more useful comparison, the department said.
In 2010, carriers reported a mishandled baggage rate of 3.57 per 1,000 passengers, an improvement over 2009's rate of 3.99.
The department said it is asking airlines to report mishandled wheelchairs in response to complaints from passengers who say they are reluctant to travel by air because they fear their wheelchairs or scooters will be delayed or the equipment may arrive damaged. The new information will enable passengers to determine which airlines have better records of handling wheelchairs.
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Are modern humans the hybrid children of early humans and Neanderthals? For over a decade, scientists have wondered what exactly happened to the Neanderthals, low-tech hominids who populated Western Europe, when homo sapiens arrived on the scene from Africa and Asia with sophisticated weaponry and the rudiments of symbolic art. Homo sapiens arrived in Europe roughly 45,000 years ago, and co-existed with Neanderthals for what scientists estimate could have been anywhere from 1000 to 10,000 years. Some remains seem to indicate that the two groups shared the same caves, and might have traded with each other. But what else did they share?
Though we can't be sure what their everyday interactions were like, scientists now have one more piece of evidence that homo sapiens and Neanderthals weren't mixing their DNA.
A group of Italian researchers published a new study today in PLoS One comparing the DNA from early human bones from about 28,000 years ago with DNA Neanderthal bones. What's cool about the new study is that the early human bones are quite recently discovered, and therefore very unlikely to have been contaminated by DNA from humans who have handled them.
The researchers sequenced DNA from these bones, testing to see if there was significant overlap with Neanderthal DNA, which would indicate that homo sapiens' DNA had been changed by interbreeding with Neanderthals. Many anthropologists have long believed that the two species interbred because there are a few ancient skulls whose morphology seems to be a perfect blend of human and Neanderthal.
But tests of the fossilized DNA revealed no matches. The early human DNA from the Italian researchers' sample looked very much like modern DNA, not like Neanderthal DNA. So it looks like humans weren't getting busy with Neanderthals after all. Or if they were, they didn't have a lot of babies.
28,000 Year Old Cro Magnon Sequence [PLoS One]


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LearningKevin Triskett '07 earns national ranking as a competitive speaker
Speech team member Kevin Triskett '07 is ranked 13th in the nation in impromptu speaking, placing him in the top tier among more than 180 competitors from across the country.
As a team, Muskingum won 12th place in the President's Division Three of the National Forensics Association (NFA). The speech team at Muskingum is advised by Instructor of Speech Communication and Associate Director of Forensics Rachel Pollock.
Triskett earned the ranking as a qualifier in the national quarter-final round at the 2007 NFA Tournament, held last week at Berry College in Rome Georgia. To qualify for the national tournament, Triskett had to win a regional tournament this year in the impromptu speaking category. To reach the quarter-final round of national competition, he received consistently high rankings in four "outrounds" at the national tournament.
Contestants in impromptu speaking receive short excerpts dealing with items of general interest that include politics, economics and social issues. The contestant then has a total of only seven minutes to divide between preparation and speaking, with the requirement that the speech lasts for at least three minutes. The result is that most competitors take almost no preparation time in order to speak for as close to seven minutes as possible.
The NFA is an association of intercollegiate forensic programs with more than 100 member institutions from across the country.


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I decided to use it on the back of one of my cards today. It just so happens that the font matches the sentiments in "Grand Greetings", so I used them together! Here is what I created:
"Happy Birthday" supplies:
Cardstock: Papertrey Ink (smooth white)
Cardstock: Papertrey Ink (smooth white)
Paper: Lawn Fawn (Bright Side: Silver Lining) & My Mind's Eye (Lost & Found 2 "Sunshine" 6x6 pad)
Stamps: Lawn Fawn (Handmade With Love & Grand Greetings sets)
Stamps: Lawn Fawn (Handmade With Love & Grand Greetings sets)
Ink: Clearsnap (Pigment: rousillan) & Tsukineko (Versafine: onyx black)
Ruffle: craft supply
Button: DCVW
Pearls: Kaiser Craft
Card Challenges Used:
-Runway Inspired #10- Nanette Lepore
-Ribbon Carousel #49- get colorful
-Top Tip Tuesday #74- polka dots
-Crafty Creations #166- yellow + your color choice
Don't forget to check out what the rest of the Lawn Fawn team has come up with!
And don't forget to read each post on the Lawn Fawn blog for the chance at some awesome giveaways!!
Until later,
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What to Watch From the Fed Wednesday
The Federal Reserve concludes a two-day policy meeting Wednesday, the first with Janet Yellen officially at the helm. The results of the meeting will unfold in two phases. At 2 p.m. EDT, the Fed will release a revised policy statement describing the Fed's view of economic conditions, its plans for its $65 billion monthly bond-buying program and its expectations for the path of short-term interest rates, which have been set near zero since December 2012. Also at 2 p.m. it will release updated forecasts for growth, inflation, unemployment and interest rates. Then at 2.30 p.m. Fed Chairwoman Yellen will hold her first press conference. Her predecessor, Ben Bernanke, took questions for an hour. We'll see if she follows suit.


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Kendra Wilkinson posted an adorable photo of herself and baby Hank Jr. earlier this week, along with a blog post where she called parenthood "one of the wildest and most exciting things ever." But in a new interview with OK! magazine, the reality star revealed she became depressed after her son's birth in December 2009.
"After giving birth, I never brushed my hair, my teeth or took a shower," she told the mag.
Kendra said she came to a realization she was down in the dumps after seeing her reflection.
"I looked in the mirror one day and was really depressed," she said, in excerpts from the interview, posted online. "I thought, 'Look at me!' I had this glamorous life in LA and now [in Indianapolis] I didn't."
Kendra and her husband, Hank Bassett, moved to Indianapolis after he secured a gig playing for the Colts.
But despite having a new baby, and being married to a star headed to the Super Bowl (which the Colts eventually lost), Kendra said that at one point, she felt hopeless.
"A couple of times, I even said, 'I just have nothing to live for.'"
The revelation will likely come as a surprise to readers of Kendra's blog.
Not long after Hank Jr.'s December 11 birth, Kendra began blogging about how "thrilled" she and her husband were with the arrival of their little one. She also posted around half a dozen of her OK! magazine covers and features in the weeks following her son's birth.
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With his director price tag climbing, Jon Favreau may have gotten too expensive for Marvel's Iron Man franchise. But how will that sit with Tony Stark, Robert Downey Jr.?
New York Magazine is reporting from an inside source that Marvel is leaning heavily towards a Favreau-free Iron Man 3. He's just too darn expensive. Rumor has it Marvel is trying to push a "confusing and packed vision of the third film as a tactic to provoke Favreau into leaving the project."
It's not surprising that they'd be willing to lose an A-list director. Franchise movies tend to sell themselves (Iron Man 2 did just fine despite critical reaction). But the real question is whether Downey will stay aboard if Favreau is forced out. According to NY Mag the actor has director approval in his contract for IM3.


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Neither mincing words nor making readers wait, Frank Lewenberg lets his doctor deliver the bad news in the opening words of his memoir, "Interesting Times: The Story of My Battle With Brain Cancer."
"Frank, it's not what we thought it was. It's malignant."
Up until that moment on Feb. 28, 2007, Mr. Lewenberg was the kind of guy many people envied, especially those who, like him, had recently passed 60. A longtime lawyer in Newton, he went on runs that stretched for miles and bike rides that lasted longer, and he skied with the agility of someone decades younger.
"My life plummeted from tranquility to turmoil in a blink. Just like that," he wrote, adding that "with my illness I entered a merciless new reality I refer to as 'Interesting Times.' Life as I knew it no longer existed."
A new life emerged, as did his memoir, which he e-mailed to all interested, asking each reader to donate money to brain cancer research and patient care. Mr. Lewenberg, who by doing so raised thousands of dollars for Massachusetts General Hospital, died Oct. 25 in his Waltham home. He was 67 and had lived most of his life in Newton.
Mass. General honored Mr. Lewenberg last year as one of the 100 individuals and groups, recognized annually, "whose diligence and discoveries, philanthropy and passion have helped advance the fight against cancer," the hospital said on its website.
"Frank approached everything he did with passion and commitment," his brother Peter of Newton said in a eulogy at a service last month. Peter added that "when skiing, he wasn't just a good skier, he was a skier's skier."
In the 157 pages of his memoir, Mr. Lewenberg describes a journey into the world of hospitals and cancer treatment. He offers advice to all who find themselves on a path that, in his recounting, could be unpleasant and scary, but always punctuated with moments of pure joy and insight.
Although he lived longer than many with a glioblastoma brain tumor, facing the finality of the diagnosis prompted reflection: "I examined life as I had lived and experienced it for the past 60 plus years in minute detail," he wrote. "Who was I?"
One answer was that "when faced with cancer, Dad did not change who he was," his daughter Wendy Etkind of Belmont said in a eulogy. "In fact, he showed all of the same positive characteristics that he had before he learned he was sick, to an even stronger degree."
The second of four sons, Franklin Lewenberg grew up in Newton, to which he returned after law school to practice with his father. He handled workers' compensation cases, and later real estate transactions, wills, and estates.
Along with Newton, the major points of Mr. Lewenberg's compass were Hull, where he sailed; New Hampshire, where he skied; and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he met Betsy Singer.
He was a sophomore and she was a freshman when he noticed her across the cafeteria. They met when a milkshake he was drinking fell off a table, landing at her feet.
"I looked at the milkshake and then at him and said, 'Good move,' being the brash New Yorker I was back then," she recalled. Within a few months, she wrote to a friend, "I think I've met the man I'm going to marry."
In his memoir, Mr. Lewenberg said that "it was not until I was thinking back as I was writing this book, that I realized I loved Betsy from the moment I first saw her across a room."
They married in 1967, just after he graduated. Three years later, he graduated from the University of Cincinnati College of Law and returned to Newton.
"He always told me the greatest thing he ever did was having kids," their son, Dan of Sharon, said in a eulogy. "Family was what mattered most and we played as a family."
Mr. Lewenberg "was very deliberate in nurturing our individuality, and as we each left the house and started on our own, he tried his best to keep his opinions about our matters to himself," his daughter Carolyn of Boston said in a eulogy. "But we all would seek his counsel from time to time."
Although he brought an attention to detail to everything from painting a house to fixing a broken car window, his enthusiasm for life was most evident in his physical activities.
"Moving through the world in athletic and often skillful ways was his passion," Carolyn said in her eulogy.
"His body took him where he wanted to go," she said. "Everyone who took a run, sail, ride, hike, kayak, snowshoe, whatever with Dad always got a dose of his enthusiasm. It was infectious, and very consistent."
During the past few years as he endured a litany of treatments, Mr. Lewenberg was able to resume running and skiing for a while. "We even purchased season passes for next season," he wrote in 2009. "What a show of confidence!"
On the pages of his memoir, meanwhile, he displayed endurance and agility to match his hours on the roads and slopes. His efforts, he wrote, were on behalf of his readers.
"I feel the need to share my story rather than trying to hide what has happened to me in the interest of our privacy," Mr. Lewenberg wrote. "I hope to assist other patients to deal with brain cancer — a guide to assist them through their own 'Interesting Times.' "
In addition to his wife, Betsy, his daughters Wendy and Carolyn, his son, Dan, and his brother Peter, Mr. Lewenberg leaves another daughter, Debby Hohler of Needham; two other brothers, Stephen of Newton and Roger of Hull; and four grandchildren, one of whom was born the day after his funeral.
Mr. Lewenberg concluded one section of his memoir by writing: "Quitting is not an option! Wish me luck."
He had always believed in a strong finish.
"The runs always ended with a sprint. . . . He'd pick a stop sign or a tree in the distance and tell me to give it all I had," Wendy, who joined him on many an outing, said in her eulogy. " Then he'd take off. I'd make a feeble effort to follow him, and Dad would whoop and cheer and high-five me as I got to the blessed end."
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Matthew Turland has a new post today about isolating tests in PHPUnit testing to try to avoid overlap in the resources each needs.
One requirement of the test suite was that some test methods had to be run in a separate process since class declarations reside in the global scope and persist until the process terminates. So, I slapped a @runInSeparateProcess annotation in the docblock of a test method with that requirement, ran the test suite… and watched that test method fail because the class was still being declared.
After come close examination of his code and the PHPUnit source, he found the issue - a misunderstanding of how the preserveGlobalState property should be set. For it to work as he wanted, it needed to be set before the run() method was called for test execution. To correct the issue in his code, he overrides the run() method to set the value and call the parent.


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Recent Law School Grad Gets Berated By Judge, Then Sues Nearly Everyone Who Discussed The Case
from the rakofsky'd deptYikes. Here's a story that's been making the law blog rounds that I hadn't heard about until now. There's a lot of background here, so I'll see if I can catch you up. Apparently, the family of someone accused of murder hired a 2009 law school graduate named Joseph Rakofsky to be the accused man's lawyer. Rakofsky was admitted to the bar in New Jersey, but not in Washington DC where the case was heard. Apparently, Rakofsky did not do a very good job handling the case -- and the judge told him so in declaring a mistrial. The Washington Post covered the story, highlighting the judge's concern with Rakofsky:
A D.C. Superior Court judge declared a mistrial Friday in a 2008 murder case and allowed the defendant to fire his New York-based attorney, who exhibited what the judge said were numerous signs that he lacked knowledge of proper trial procedure, including telling the jury during his opening statements that he had never tried a case before.Believe it or not, there's a lot more in the story. The story caught the attention of plenty of law blogs, who then wrote about it, and (not surprisingly) they were not kind to Rakofsky. One law blogger has been keeping a list of blog posts about Rakofsky -- including some questions about claims on Rakofsky's website that appear to overstate his experiences and qualifications.
Judge William Jackson told attorney Joseph Rakofsky during a hearing Friday that he was "astonished" at his performance and at his "not having a good grasp of legal procedures" before dismissing him.
What angered Jackson even more was a filing he received early Friday from an investigator hired by Rakofsky in which the attorney told the investigator via an attached e-mail to "trick" a government witness into testifying in court that she did not see his client at the murder scene.
According to the filing, Rakofsky had fired the investigator and refused to pay him after the investigator refused to carry out his orders with the witness. The filing included an e-mail that the investigator said was from Rakofsky, saying: "Thank you for your help. Please trick the old lady to say that she did not see the shooting or provide information to the lawyers about the shooting." The e-mail came from Rakofsky�s e-mail account, which is registered to Rakofsky Law Firm in Freehold, N.J.
There are, of course, all sorts of ways to respond to such criticism. You could, for example, admit that you were wrong. You could learn from the experience. You could, if you believed any of the reports were incorrect, reach out to those who wrote the stories and ask them to correct them. You could go into hiding. Rakofsky, on the other hand, chose to sue almost everyone who had discussed the story, creating a case that some legal bloggers quickly dubbed Rakofsky v. Internet. You can see a copy of his filing embedded below, but along with suing a ton of bloggers, Rakofsky sued the Washington Post, Washington City Paper, Allbritton Communications and (believe it or not) the American Bar Association.
If you read the filing itself, it appears to be an attempt by Rakofsky to retry the murder case, going through many of the details in the case, before then stating that the judge in the case "slandered" Rakofsky... and posits that the judge may have done so because he was upset with the quality of Rakofsky's work in that it might help the accused:
... his anger may have been prompted by the diligence and zeal with which RAKOFSKY conducted his defense in the interest of the client as much as anything else, rather than any shortcoming in RAKOFSKY's knowledge of court procedure...He also tries to explain away his own email that asked the investigator to "trick" a witness by saying it meant something else:
... BEAN sought to exploit, for the purpose of receiving compensation that was not due him, an email, which had been hastily typed by RAKOFSKY on a mobile device, that used an unfortunate choice of the word "trick" -- which, as BEAN knew only too well, was a shorthand word that meant only that Bean should underplay the fact that he worked for the defense-- which memorialized an earlier conversation between BEAN and RAKOFSKY concerning a non-witness, referring only to RAKOFSKY's suggestion to BEAN to understate the fact that he was employed by the defense...And, yes, he goes on to claim that Bean then tried to "blackmail" him -- which certainly could lead to defamation charges back, if the claim is untrue.
Of course, all of this then leads to claims that pretty much everyone who repeated what happened in the courtroom or what Rakofsky actually did type in the email is guilty of defamation. One of the lawyers who was sued, Eric Turkewitz, has posted a pretty thorough discussion of the case, which is getting tons of attention and is worth reading in full. Turkewitz goes through the history, explains why he believes nothing he said was defamatory, and then, for good measure, piles on a few more things in an attempt to make his point clear:
Having given the basic outline of the story, I now turn to the part where I give my opinions. So let me go on to say that: In addition to being incompetent, I also think, based on the comments of the presiding judge, his co-counsel and the juror that spoke up, that he is unskillful, incapable, inept, unqualified, untrained, unprofessional, and clumsy. This is in addition to being a bumbler, blockhead, dolt, dingbat and chucklehead for having brought this suit, guaranteed to rain much unhappiness unto his name. I�ve got a thesaurus and I�m not afraid to use it.He also sums up the ridiculousness of the lawsuit perfectly:
What was Rakofsky thinking? That a bunch of lawyers that make their living in the well of the courtroom, accustomed to walking a high-wire without a net as we cross-examine hostile witnesses, would somehow cower in fear at an utterly frivolous lawsuit? Did he think that those of us that write blogs, for all to see, might not somehow have a basic grasp of the First Amendment? Didn�t he know, well before he even went to law school, that people have a right to set forth their opinions? How could he survive law school and pass a bar exam without knowing constitutional fundamentals? Perhaps the better question, why wasn�t he thinking of what would happen in response to such a suit? Was he a spoiled child that got everything he wanted simply by throwing a tantrum?This one seems like it will be fun to follow.
And those of us that are practicing lawyers are the small fries, compared with our co-defendants Washington Post, American Bar Association and Thompson Reuters. Like they are going to roll over and pull down their articles? Good grief.
Rakofsky�s choices at this point seem limited. But certainly, the first thing he ought to do is put away the damn shovel as he is burying himself with it.
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