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Chrysler's engine for progress

Dundee plant hiring as firm works to boost fuel efficiency

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DUNDEE, Mich. -- Few places in North America are so vital to Chrysler Group LLC's future as a former farm field just north of downtown Dundee, where the engines that will drive the once-bankrupt automaker's new small-car lineup are built in its most productive engine plant on the continent.

The Global Engine Manufacturing Alliance plant -- a mammoth 1.2 million-square-foot, six-year-old building that houses two distinct engine lines and was named for a now-dissolved partnership -- this summer is hiring workers, retooling an engine line, and preparing to single-handedly improve Chrysler's worst-in-class fuel-economy reputation.

"It's Chrysler's main four-cylinder engine plant, so that plant is obviously very important," said Jim Hall, a longtime auto industry analyst with 2953 Analytics in suburban Detroit. "Chrysler, like everybody else, knows that in America, there will be more and more four-cylinder engines replacing six-cylinder engines" because of new, stringent federal fuel-economy requirements.

In 2010, Chrysler was last among the eight largest automakers in the United States for corporate average fuel economy, a measurement of the combined fuel efficiency of the vehicles produced by each manufacturer. Chrysler's Italian partner, Fiat SpA, has promised to fix that by introducing new fuel-efficient small engines, advanced engine technology, and new small vehicles to Chrysler's product lineup by 2014. The bulk of that work is being and will be done in Dundee, where Global Engine is two engine plants under one roof.

It's original World Gas Engine line -- which produces 2.4-liter and 2.0-liter, four-cylinder versions of an engine originally developed among Hyundai, Mitsubishi, and what was then DaimlerChrysler Corp. -- is made in the northern half of the building and produces about 900 engines a day on each of its two 10-hour shifts.

The southern half of the building now produces about 400 copies per day of Fiat's 1.4-liter engine, a technology-laden four-cylinder currently used only in the North American version of the Fiat 500 subcompact being built in Mexico but expected to make its way into future Chrysler Group vehicles as well.

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The 1.4-liter engine line now has about 100 employees, but the company will experiment this summer by adding half of a second shift on the line, with those workers expected to produce about half of the first shift's daily output.

The hiring is expected to be completed early next month, said Kevin Sell, who's been plant manager 18 months. Applicants should go to the plant's Web site, at www.gemaengine.com. In all, the Dundee facility has 380 employees.

Also this summer, the north plant will undergo a $150 million retooling to begin producing an improved, updated version of the 2.4-liter World Gas Engine. Chrysler officials wouldn't confirm details of the new engine, but analysts and the Chrysler-centric Web site Allpar.com indicate that it is to be called "Tigershark" and employ Fiat technology to boost the current 173-horsepower output by as much as 25 percent while improving fuel efficiency by as much as 25 percent in certain applications.

"We're retooling on the fly, which is a challenge," Mr. Sell said.

Global Engine "is a great manufacturing facility, with great technology and that's very flexible," said Jeff Jowett, auto analyst with IHS Automotive in suburban Detroit.

Mr. Jowett said Chrysler's refocusing on its four-cylinder power plants is similar to what's being done by other automakers to improve fuel economy.

"They're moving further away from six-cylinder to four-cylinder engines to pick up fuel economy, and because the engines are starting to get more high-tech, the consumer isn't necessarily sacrificing performance in the process," he said.

New hires at the Dundee plant are exempt from the two-tiered wage system in place in Chrysler's current national agreement with the United Auto Workers, Chrysler spokesman Jodi Tinson said. The jobs pay an average wage of about $28 an hour.

But to even be considered for employment at Global Engine, prospective workers must hold either a two-year associate's degree or a journeyman's card from a recognized trade -- a requirement that dates back to the beginning of the plant. They also don't have transfer privileges into other Chrysler plants, just as workers from other plants don't have transfer rights into the Dundee engine factories, Ms. Tinson said.

"It's a big advantage," said Pat Goik, resident engineering lead for Chrysler's 1.4-liter engine program, which launched last year. When issues arise at a workstation, those on the line either have the technical acumen to fix the issue themselves, or suggest innovative ways that it might be fixed.

A good example is the way that many parts are delivered to assemblers on the line at many workstations. As the engine block moves down the line, it stops in front of a worker and a motorized tray slides out, presenting within easy reach of the assembler the part or parts to be added. After the part is taken, the tray retracts, and the engine moves down the line, starting the whole process over again.

The automated parts presentation system was suggested by workers at the plant and has worked very well since its implementation, Mr. Goik said.

Mike Crawford, who has been at the plant since July, 2004 and now occupies one of its few management roles, said the adoption of Fiat's World Class Manufacturing system has produced remarkable quality and efficiency gains -- even in a plant that was twice named the most productive engine plant in North America under its previous owners.

"It's a complete culture change. We thought we were very good before. We're better now," Mr. Crawford said.

Production quality issues are dealt with quickly and systematically, he said, and as a result, the percentage of engines that don't pass initial testing has been reduced dramatically since the Fiat manufacturing system was adopted. "We've improved quality by 35 percent, and we've reduced scrap from the plant by 40 percent since starting WCM."

The Fiat system is a comprehensive way to both measure and improve manufacturing practices and is similar to the famous LEAN manufacturing system developed by Toyota Motor Corp. World Class Manufacturing focuses efforts on reducing waste and improving management, reducing costs, and reducing workplace injuries and strains.

Twice a year, every Chrysler and Fiat plant undergoes a "WCM audit" that measures productivity and adoption of its core principles and is issued a score. Plants that achieve scores higher than 50 achieve "bronze" status, those above 60 achieve "silver," and above 70 achieve "gold."

Mr. Sell said the Dundee plant was in first place among former Chrysler plants after the spring audit at 43 points and is racing with the Windsor Assembly plant -- where the Dodge Grand Caravan and Chrysler Town & Country minivans are assembled -- to be the first in North America to achieve bronze status. Chrysler's Toledo Assembly complex is currently tied for third with an assembly plant in Belvidere, Ill., Chrysler officials said.

Of course, the engines coming from Global Engine are only part of Chrysler's long-term efforts to improve engine performance and fuel economy in its vehicles.

Last year, the automaker introduced its 3.6-liter Pentastar engine in the 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee. The six-cylinder engine is destined to replace an aging 3.8-liter six-cylinder in the 2012 Toledo-made Jeep Wrangler as well as in a number of other high-volume vehicles in Chrysler's product portfolio.

The Pentastar's broadening use caused Chrysler last week to make moves toward investing $114 million into its former Trenton North engine plant in downriver Detroit. It is expected add up to 250 employees to boost production of the popular V6 engine to keep up with demand. The automaker has another 6-cylinder-engine plant in Mexico.

The company also invested heavily with technology partner ZF Friedrichshafen AG, which will produce new eight-speed and nine-speed transmissions for a number of Chrysler vehicles to further boost fuel economy ratings.

"The whole idea of marrying [Chrysler] with Fiat was to supplement their larger vehicles with smaller vehicles," said Jay Baron, president of the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor. "Within each individual [vehicle] segment, they're not the leader in terms of fuel economy."

Because Chrysler's current product portfolio is heavily weighted to light trucks and sport utility vehicles, Chrysler could be disadvantaged by federal regulators if the automaker doesn't change its product mix.

"They have some catching up to do," said Kristin Dziczek, director of labor and industry group at the Center for Automotive Research.

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Arraignment set for man accused of spiking coffee

A former worker at a West Toledo restaurant accused of pouring animal medication into a pot of fresh coffee is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday in Lucas County Common Pleas Court on a first-degree felony.

Edwin Ledgard, 36, of 111 S. Summit St. was indicted Monday by a Lucas County grand jury on one count of contaminating a substance for human consumption. If convicted, he faces up to 11 years in prison.

Ledgard is accused of going into the Frisch’s Big Boy, 3537 Secor Rd., on Dec.18 and allegedly dumping the contents of three vials of a drug used to treat anemia in baby pigs into a brewing pot of coffee. He remains in custody at the Lucas County Jail in lieu of $100,000 bond.

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Modified assault weapon believed to be used in murder is shown at Patton’s trial

Bullets that pierced the bodies of Veronica Serrano and her 14-year-old son, Timothy Blair, caused “a huge amount of damage,” a deputy Lucas County coroner testified this week during the trial of a man accused of their murders.

It was this damage that led Dr. Diane Scala-Barnett to state Monday that the weapon used during the Nov. 25, 2011, double homicide could not have been a simple handgun, but was rather a high-powered rifle.

Dr. Barnett was one of 22 state’s witnesses who testified over three days during the aggravated murder trial of Daurin Patton in Lucas County Common Pleas Court. Patton, 27, of 1202 Champlain St. is charged with two counts of aggravated murder with a gun specification and one count of aggravated robbery.

He faces up to life in prison if convicted.

Jurors are expected to begin deliberating today after hearing closing arguments.

Witnesses have testified that the incident began when a man approached Ms. Serrano’s older son, Gary Blair, and his friend, Lawrence Elliot, and robbed them of a bottle of liquor.

During the incident, the man hit Mr. Blair, 18, on the head with the butt of a sawed-off shotgun he was carrying.

Mr. Blair testified earlier that he told his mother and brother what happened and they went to confront the assailant. Within minutes, both had been shot twice.

Mr. Blair said that before hearing the gunshots, he heard his younger brother trying to calm down someone whom he called “Thirty Eight.”

When he took the stand, Elliot identified Patton as the man who robbed him and shot Ms. Serrano and her son on the porch of their Page Street home.

Patton, whose street name is “Thirty Eight,” denied the charges three days later during a 40-minute interview with Detective Bob Schroeder. A recording of the interview was played for jurors Thursday, during which Patton told the detective he had been with his girlfriend all day.

But that girlfriend denied on the stand that Patton had been with her at all that day, while a 62-year-old woman later testifying for the defense said Patton had actually shown up at her house on the night of the slayings.

Kathy Pace said Patton came to her Lagrange Street home to visit her granddaughter more than an hour before the shootings, and stayed there all night.

When questioned by Assistant County Prosecutor Michael Bahner, Ms. Pace said she did not know she was supposed to come to police with that information, and so had not done so.

In addition to statements from the 23 witnesses, the jury of eight women and four men was presented with more than 130 pieces of evidence, including a jail call in which Patton directed someone to retrieve the sawed-off shotgun believed to have been used during the initial robbery.

Also presented was a modified SKS assault rifle found several months later and believed to have been used in the murders.

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Hunting for treasure: Millions of Americans hit the streets each week in search of bargains and adventure

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Some people play golf. Others knit. Carolyn Altman goes to garage sales.

"It's actually my hobby," the Springfield Township woman said. "I love garage-saling. I usually go out every Thursday and Friday morning."

The mother of 11 is a modern treasure hunter, part of an underground culture in America that has turned going to garage sales into an art form.

An estimated 60 million people go to garage sales each year, and there's a lot that we amateurs can learn from the pros.

Mrs. Altman, who enjoys a good adventure as well as a bargain, takes a serious but low-key approach.

"I don't want to fight people for things. I just go for fun," she said.

That's why she tries to get there early and usually begins at the back of neighborhood sales. She finds herself hitting the streets on Thursdays - as she did last week when she bought a rocking chair for her daughter at a Perrysburg neighborhood sale - because that's often the first day of sales.

To get the best selection, it's wise to be the first there, but it also can be useful to be one of the last, when sellers probably will be more willing to accept a lower offer on what remains just to get rid of it, said John Schroeder, 52, a garage sale guru from Minneapolis who's written the new book Garage Sale Fever! (DeForest Press, $12.95)He's been honing his methods for 30 years. It's not unheard of for him to hit 50 to 100 garage sales in a weekend.

"I'm a very fast walker," Mr. Schroeder said. "I just zip in, look, and then move on."

His garage sale survival kit includes comfortable shoes, an umbrella - rainy days may be bad for sellers, but they're great for buyers because it cuts down on the crowds - a city map, and maybe a can of pop or a snack.

It's easy to find collectibles, toys, and clothing (be sure to bring along family members' measurements) at garage sales. But other hot items that Mr. Schroeder has discovered good deals on, especially in wealthier neighborhoods, include televisions and fitness equipment from "people who have given up trying to get fit during the winter." If you're thinking about buying something electronic, ask to plug it in to make sure it works, he said.

There are all kinds of reasons people are drawn to garage sales. Many shop for bargains or gifts, but there are psychological factors as well, according to Tom DeWitt, assistant professor of marketing at Bowling Green State University.

"It's the thrill of finding the deal," he said, "A lot of people go shopping just to have the social interaction ... It's driving around. It's meeting new people. Even the haggling over prices."

And more and more, there's the hope of making a profit.

"The new trend is to buy stuff at garage sales and then put it on eBay or sell it at your own sale," Mr. Schroeder said. "It's very profitable."

He recently bought a serviceman's World War II scrapbook for a dollar, then turned around and sold it for $50.

Ted Powers, owner of Ancestor House Antiques in West Toledo, said real gems can be found at garage sales if you know what to look for. He had one woman come into his shop who unknowingly bought a pair of Tiffany lamps worth $18,000 and $9,000 each.

(Don't be afraid to haggle on price. Mr. Powers said this woman paid $150 each for the lamps, having talked the owner down from an asking price of $250.)

He said people looking for collectibles at garage sales should bring along a price guide.

"People find things all the time that are valuable at garage sales. They don't take the time to look it up or try and find any information about it," he said.

As for figuring out which sales to check out, there are varying strategies. Mr. Schroeder prefers the adventure of randomness, just driving around looking for something interesting. Others check out the classifieds in the newspaper and plan a route ahead of time.

Sharon Huxford, editor with her husband of the Garage Sale & Flea Market Annual series, a price guide for collectibles, gets the local paper and writes down the sales - even though the content of the ads is not always to be trusted.

"It's really a hit or miss operation," said Mrs. Huxford, 65, of Covington, Ind. "They're mostly misleading. If they say antiques, you might as well stay away. You just stumble on the good ones."

It's a lot of trial and error for her, but there's at least one thing she can count on.

"We leave home about 6:30 and we're never the first ones," she said. "You've got to get out early. It gets picked over. If it's 10 o'clock, you might as well go home."

And once you get started, don't ever, ever stop.

"You don't break for lunch. You just keep going," she said. "Once you get started, you can't stop."

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Epic Rocks Fashion Show struts its stuff

Models hit the runway during the Epic Rocks Fashion Show Saturday, 09/25/10, at the Grand Aire Hangar at Toledo Express Airport.

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Fashionistas in need of a dose of the latest trends are sure to get exactly what the designers ordered at the 4th Annual Epic Rocks Fashion show Saturday at Grand Aire Hangar at the Toledo Express Airport.

This weekend's event promises to be a multi-media fashion affair with high energy, entertainment, and stylish threads.

"We wanted to bring something unique to the community, something you don't see in Toledo, Ohio," said Paulette Cousino, director of EPIC Toledo, the organization that puts on the show.

EPIC Toledo is a project of the Chamber of Commerce and was started in 2007 to attract and retain young professionals in the Toledo area. EPIC stands for "encouraging people, inspiring change."

The organization features more than 1,000 individual members and 40 corporate members.

The fashion show will feature local models ripping the runway in some of fall's hottest fashions in a choreographed show by Wendi Davis of SB Entertainment Group.

"The fashions featured will be the latest trends for fall 2011 from our boutiques which carry many designer brands," Ms. Cousino said. "We also have an added twist by showcasing the fashions from Harley Davidson."

The Harley Davidson collection is loaded with leather jackets and vests and gloves and boots with metal hardware.

Other collections will take on a softer look, including formal attire, outer and casual wear.

The show will feature fashions from local retailers Sophie's Sister, Vivian Kate, Elegant Rags, Meig, Ticknors, and Roth Coats & Accessories.

A disc jockey will play the latest hit songs and a live band will rock out the show. Special musical guests include Tatiana Owens, Emma & Brynn Flory, and in theory, a three-time winner of The Blade's Battle of the Bands alternative rock category.

New this year is a tribute to breast cancer survivors, who will rock the runway in a special presentation before the main event. Local survivors were nominated by friends, family, and coworkers for a chance to strut their stuff on the catwalk.

Silicone bracelets to support breast cancer research and awareness will be sold at the event.

Doors open at 8 p.m. and guests must be 18 or older to attend. A VIP pre-party will be held from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. for VIP ticket holders and includes Italian food by La Scola and beverages.

General admission tickets are $20 each and available at the gate. VIP tickets are $100 each and include admission to the pre-party gala.

The show is geared toward young adults and will showcase lots of local acts, Ms. Cousino said.

"Instead of focusing on just one amazing local talent, we're going to have some dancers, singers and rappers," Ms. Cousino said. "There's a lot more this year than there has been in the past. It's going to be a night of great entertainment."

Contact RoNeisha Mullen at rmullen@theblade.com or 419-724-6133.

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Stop the shouting so our voices can be heard

MAYBE it's my age, or maybe it's the age, but there's something about this political campaign that leaves me cold - cold and troubled.

This may be the most important election since World War II. For the first time since 1980, there is a fundamental difference in how the competing candidates see the world, and in how they will relate to the world. No one doubts how either man would approach a Supreme Court vacancy, an international crisis, or the annual federal budget. There is every indication that turnout will surpass the 1992 bump, maybe even approach the levels of 1960.

So why the uneasiness?

Part of it is the times. These are anxious days, with terrorist threats in the air, with economic uneasiness everywhere, with uncertainty pervasive. Nobody knows what kind of world we will leave our children, except for the certainty that it will be more uncertain, and also more dangerous.

Part of it, too, is the relentless negativism. It grows out of the notion that these two political figures have so little self-confidence that their campaigns depend on proving that the other guy is actually worse than they are, has less dependable judgment, is possessed of less sound values, is untrustworthy in a crisis or even alone in a negotiating session with the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.

But none of that really is all that unusual. We've had hard times before, and if you don't believe it, ask someone in your family or on your block what the world felt like in 1942, when the United States had only the smoking remnants of a Navy and a tiny Army to take against Japan and Germany and the real Axis of evil. We've worried before about the dangers the future holds, too, and it would be well to remember just how frightening another October seemed, 42 years ago, when the Soviet missiles were within striking distance of Miami and the nation tossed in fear at night.

We've had negative campaigns before, too, and in truth there is something vaguely entertaining about them, else we would not recount the slurs against Grover Cleveland, or replay the Lyndon Johnson dandelion ad, with such glee. After his 1964 debacle, Sen. Barry Goldwater said he would have been so much happier to have run against John F. Kennedy than against LBJ. Said Goldwater: "I could tell him what I felt about his proposals. 'That's no good, Jack,' I would say, or 'That part is OK. That's fine.' And he'd listen. He would have debated me. It would have been good for the campaign. It would have been a good campaign."

That didn't happen in 1964 and it didn't happen 40 years later. But that's not the worst of it.

No, what is really troubling this time is the political atmosphere. It's not only the candidates who are shouting. We're shouting at each other again.

We last shouted like this in the 1960s, which is a whole lot more fun to remember - the music, the passion, the sexual revolution - than it was to live through. There was a divisive war then, and galloping social change, and the feeling, shared by so many, that America was coming undone or, worse, was being done in by too much liberty, or by too much law and order. So bad was it that Richard Nixon, who isn't quoted approvingly much anymore, inserted a poignant sentence into the last presidential inaugural address of the decade:

"We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another, until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices."

It's so much easier to shout now, because in e-mail and over the Internet every whisper is a shout. For a decade I wrote column for The Boston Globe, and on a particularly controversial subject I have been known to argue, for example, that Gerald Ford wasn't a doofus, or that Michael Dukakis wasn't a communist, I might get one or two reproachful notes, and most of the time they were of the I respectfully submit, Mr. Shribman, sir, that you may be mistaken variety.

These days, on the least controversial subjects, I get three or four dozen notes, many of which are diatribes that can be distilled into (and I am not making these up) this: You are so evil, so sick and so wrong about the Iraq war that it is a disgrace that you have children and You are a shameless propagandist for the criminal idiot who is president and You are a lazy elitist liberal charlatan Kerry lover. OK, maybe the lazy part isn't all wrong, or so my wife says, particularly on the days I'm supposed to be doing the weeding.

I have no proof for this, but I believe that the swiftness and anonymity of the Internet makes it easy for people to say online what they would never say to your face, which you might think would produce refreshing honesty but in my experience produces only bile. I try to pick the nastiest note of the day and then call up its author. The person on the other end of the phone almost always says: I didn't really mean to come on so strong.

Strong? You wanted to take my kids away from me.

This is a time of peril and passion. The President's supporters are arguing that he is a man of destiny and courage and that his opponent is an opportunist with a weak character.

Sen. John F. Kerry's supporters are arguing that their candidate is unusually well-prepared for leadership and that the President is ill-prepared for this time of testing. Pugilists on both side believe their rivals are dangerous extremists.

This is one of those situations, and it's hard to imagine another, where everybody is wrong and Richard Nixon is right.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

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Taylor dominates Clay win over Waite

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Clay found itself down to mostly sophomores and freshmen on the floor in the waning moments of its first-round contest in the River East tournament last night.

So the Eagles relied on their senior, Wes Taylor. And Taylor delivered, nearly posting a triple-double in a 59-58 victory over Waite in Rossford's Wolfe Field House.

The 6-7 senior finished with a game-high 30 points and added 13 rebounds and eight blocks as the Eagles advanced to tonight's championship contest against Rossford, which beat Cardinal Stritch 61-56 in the second game.

"Wes Taylor was amazing - I am so proud of him," Clay coach Joe Guerrero said. "He stepped up for us. We needed him to take over the game because we were young and a little hesitant, and he did a great job of doing that."

Taylor was especially big in the game's final moments. He blocked a pair of Indians shots in the final 45 seconds, then rebounded a missed Clay free throw and scored the winning points with 21 seconds to play.

"Wes is just a phenomenal athlete," Waite coach Dave Pitsenbarger said. "He's going to get 30 a night - maybe not every night, but it will be hard to keep him from getting 30."

Taylor's sophomore brother, Zach, added 10 for the Eagles, who improved to 3-3 on the season.

Waite got 14 points from Darren White-Owens, 12 from Troy Murphy and 11 from Mark Wortham in dropping to 3-3.

Wes Taylor scored nine points in the second quarter as Clay took a 29-17 lead at the half, and his basket with 15 seconds left in the third quarter gave the Eagles a 40-32 lead heading into the fourth.

But in that final period the Indians' suffocating full-court pressure, which caused 13 Clay turnovers in the first three periods, fueled a 9-0 run to start the quarter and gave Waite a 41-40 lead with 6:23 left.

"We tried to get our offense flowing from our defense, and we tried to get the ball inside a little more," Pitsenbarger said.

After that the two teams exchanged the lead, with no one leading by more than four. A pair of free throws by White-Owens with 46 seconds left cut Clay's lead to 56-55, but on the next possession Wes Taylor blocked a shot by White-Owens.

Jordan Kovacs was fouled and made his first free throw, but Taylor grabbed the miss of the second and put it in the basket.

Another Taylor block held the Indians at bay until Khari Riley hit a trey at the buzzer for the final margin.

"I was just trying to be a leader out there," Taylor said of his late-game heroics. "I was trying to direct [the younger guys] where to go."

Even though Clay had 10 turnovers in the final quarter alone, Guerrero was pleased with the play of his young players. Brent Graham injured his shoulder late in the first half and played only briefly in the second; he joined juniors Jordan Spetz and A.J. Achter on the sidelines.

Freshman Andrew Kuns and sophomores Kovacs and Zach Taylor played a lot as a result.

"We played freshmen and sophomores, and I thought they did a great job coming in with very limited varsity experience," Guerrero said.

Rossford's Logan Nichols scored 10 points in a 12-2 run that turned a 45-40 deficit into a 52-47 lead for Rossford, which improved to 2-4.

"Logan had a great week in practice for us," Bulldogs coach Brian Vorst said. "He's worked really hard in practice, played stronger and pushed himself to do the things he did tonight. Two weeks ago I'm not sure he could have had a game like this."

Rossford led most of way, but the Cardinals used a 10-2 run in the final 3:23 of the third quarter to cut the Bulldogs' lead to 38-37. Stritch then scored all but two of the first 10 points of the fourth, only to see Rossford rally.

"We talked at halftime about not having 'puppy-dog eyes' when we get down, because that's a problem we have had," Vorst said. "You know good teams like Stritch are going to make a run, but I thought our ability to come back came because we were more mentally tough."

Justin Wagner had 15 points to lead Rossford. Nichols and Tommy Kralovic each scored 14, and Jason Duly had 10.

"We had our opportunities [to win]," Stritch coach Jim Sheehy said. "We forced a couple of 10-second turnovers, we got them to throw the ball away a couple of times, and we got them to walk. But we never did capitalize."

Eric McCloskey had 18 points to lead the Cardinals (5-2).

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Nurse sues UTMC over her discharge after botched kidney transplant

Defamation damages sought

A longtime nurse fired from the University of Toledo Medical Center almost a year ago after a kidney intended for transplant was accidentally discarded has sued the hospital for wrongful discharge, defamation, slander, and libel.

The complaint by Melanie Lemay of East Toledo — employed for nearly 30 years at UTMC, the former Medical College of Ohio — was filed Friday in the Ohio Court of Claims in Columbus. Her husband, Patrick Lemay also is listed as a plaintiff in the lawsuit, which seeks damages exceeding $25,000.

As a result of publicity surrounding the incident, the lawsuit alleges that Mrs. Lemay suffered “defamation, slander, and libel ... [and] damage to her reputation and been exposed to public shame and disgrace affecting her daily life.”

“She’s been really defamed throughout the world,” Vesper C. Williams II, the Lemays’ attorney, said Saturday. “Her firing went all over. It was based on information provided by the hospital.”

RELATED: Read the official Court of Claims document in Lemay vs. UTMC.

Tobin Klinger, a UT spokesman, said it “would be inappropriate to comment on pending litigation.”

Mrs. Lemay was working alongside Judith K. Moore when the incident took place Aug. 10, 2012. Ms. Moore, a part-time employee, discarded the contents of a machine that included the kidney. She resigned. Mrs. Lemay was fired.

UTMC temporarily halted its transplant program afterward.

Last week, Sarah A. Fudacz, who was supposed to receive the kidney, and her brother, Paul Fudacz, Jr., the donor, and their parents and siblings filed an unrelated lawsuit against the hospital in the Court of Claims.

In their lawsuit, the Lemays said UTMC implemented new policies for responsibility of transfers in operating rooms six days after the incident, yet on Sept. 12 fired her in part for violating procedures that did not exist on Aug. 10.

State officials denied her initial claims for unemployment benefits, but in February — after two telephone hearings with witnesses — the Unemployment Compensation Review Commission ruled that Mrs. Lemay “was discharged by the defendant without just cause in connection with work,” according to the lawsuit.

The complaint also charges that UTMC did not follow the rules of progressive discipline proscribed in its labor contract with American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees Local 2415, Mrs. Lemay’s union.

Her firing, the complaint said, was motivated by UTMC’s “need to deflect its responsibility for the inadequate policies that were in place on Aug. 10, 2012, and to uphold the public image of its kidney transplant program.”

Mrs. Lemay has spent much of her time since then looking for work, “but once they Google her name she does not get a call back for an interview,” the lawsuit said.

Asked whether Mrs. Lemay seeks her job back, Mr. Williams said, “It’d be nice. Something. Because she was only six months from the ability to retire. By getting fired, she lost the ability to get the next six months in and lost her health insurance after 30 days, and she was the primary breadwinner.”

Afterward, she suffered depression and other difficulties “associated with being wrongfully discharged,” Mr. Williams said. With no insurance, she had to pay for treatment herself.

“It’s quite a kick, and they tried to blame everything on her,” Mr. Williams said.

Contact Mark Zaborney at: mzaborney@theblade.com or 419-724-6182.

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Legislators try to stop purchase of touch-screen voting machines

A last-ditch effort by Democrats to stop touch-screen voting machines from being purchased for use in Toledo and Lucas County is heading for an expected defeat next week.

State Sen. Teresa Fedor and Rep. Peter Ujvagi asked the Lucas County Board of Elections yesterday to halt its effort to purchase electronic touch-screen voting machines for the November election. The lawmakers are urging the board to instead deploy the optical-scan machines that were used in the troubled March 2 vote.

The two Democrats - who arranged for about two dozen people to protest at yesterday's meeting - told the board during its meeting at Government Center they believe the county should delay the purchase of touch-screen machines until they can be fitted with printers that allow voters to see a paper copy of their completed ballot before they actually cast their vote.

Touch-screen technology "is not developed enough and reliable enough to count on," Ms. Fedor told the board.

Elections Board Chairman Bernadette Noe countered that the fear of touch screens is "a self-induced panic."

The local board split 2-2 in January on whether to buy touch-screen machines, with Democrats Paula Ross and Diane Brown voting against touch-screen machines and GOP board members Ms. Noe

and Sam Thurber voting for the new technology. Republican Secretary of State Ken Blackwell broke the tie, siding with local Republicans to purchase touch-screen voting machines for Toledo and Lucas Country.

The county was poised to buy touch-screens from Diebold Elections Systems of McKinney, Texas, but a new state election reform law, signed by Gov. Bob Taft on Friday, requires the county to reaffirm its decision with a second vote. If Democrats and Republicans on the local election board vote as they did in January, and Mr. Blackwell sides again with the GOP - as he is expected to do - county voters will cast their ballots this November on ATM-style voting machines.

The new state election reform law allows counties to purchase touch-screen machines now, but requires them to be retrofitted to produce paper receipts that voters can inspect by the May, 2006, primary election. That retrofit would be paid for by the state government.

The issue the elections board will have to deal with when it meets to vote next Wednesday may come down to a question of money, Ms. Noe said.

She said that while the county was allowed to use optical-scan voting machines at no cost in the March primary and in two earlier elections, Diebold - which owns the machines - has said it would charge Lucas County nearly $350,000 to lease them for the November general election. Ballot printing costs and expenses associated with hiring and training poll workers could drive the cost of the election to about $700,000, far more than any past election.

If the election board votes to purchase the touch-screen voting machines, the estimated $4 million cost will be paid for by the state using federal money. Ms. Noe said the federal money cannot be used to lease voting machines, only to buy them.

"What frightens me is not just the $350,000 to run the election in November, but also the two other elections in 2005," Ms. Noe said. "So now we are talking about $1.1 million" just to lease equipment that would have to be paid for by the county.

"When you contrast that with federal money to purchase touch-screen machines and state money to retrofit them [with voter-receipt printers later on], you have zero out of pocket [for Lucas County] versus $1.1 million. I am staggered by it all," she said.

Ms. Ross said the $350,000 Diebold quote is not detailed enough for her to make a judgment about its value.

"We have to know what that includes. How many people? How much training? How much of that covers costs that we would otherwise have to do?" she said.

Mr. Ujvagi remained adamant about the need for Lucas County to use optical scan equipment this fall, but, he said, the Diebold quote was too high.

"Give me a break," Mr. Ujvagi said. "That is unacceptable. They should not be taking advantage of taxpayers like that."

He said the county should talk to other vendors.

Democrats have opposed touch screen voting since Diebold Chairman Wally O'Dell raised tens of thousands of dollars for the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign and pledged to help President Bush win Ohio in the November election.

Diebold is the leading electronic voting machine firm in the country.

In other matters, the elections board hired lawyer Jill Kelly as deputy director of the elections board, replacing Joe Kidd, who was terminated last month after what the board cited as his "disengagement" from day-to-day operations of the elections board.

Ms. Kelly, 52, accepted the post yesterday. An assistant county prosecutor, she is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the University of Toledo College of Law. She begins May 24, and will be paid $65,662 a year.

"We are putting someone in there who will absolutely conduct that office by the letter of the law," Ms. Noe said. "She is someone who has been sworn to meet statutory obligations for years."

The office has been plagued with problems both in the administration of elections - especially the March 2 primary - and in meeting provisions of Ohio election law.

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Wauseon, Archbold school districts celebrate

WAUSEON - Wauseon will get a new middle school, Archbold schools will get more operating money, and Republicans will keep their hold on all countywide offices in Fulton County.

The Wauseon Exempted Village School District's request for a 6.99-mill combination bond issue-maintenance levy for a new middle school was one of the closest issues in the county. However, the outcome appeared unlikely to be changed by provisional ballots, which won't be counted until Nov. 18.

Wauseon Superintendent Marc Robinson said, after a group hug with Tribe Pride supporters, that he had predicted a very close vote because of economic uncertainties. But he was glad for the chance to get state building assistance funds. "Obviously, the community saw this as an opportunity," he said.

In the Archbold Area Local School District, a request for a 4.91-mill, five-year additional emergency tax for operations passed decisively after the defeat of two much larger levies in August and May. It even passed in the Henry County portion of the school district, which is unusual.

"I'm very excited for the students of Archbold. The community really came through for them," Archbold school board President David Yoder said.

Republican candidates easily won the county commissioner and county auditor seats, and the Four-County ADAMs levy passed handily in Fulton, Henry, Defiance, and Williams County.

Joseph D. Short, a German Township trustee, defeated Democrat David Pilliod, who is a Swanton Village Council member, and independent Michael Jason Vasko.

"I'm very excited. There's no question about that," Mr. Short said. "I'm very honored that the people of Fulton County have chosen me to be one of their leaders."

In the auditor's office, Nancy Yackee, the incumbent, won a huge majority. She had been opposed by Michael T. Van Wagner, the county Democratic party chairman, who ran as a write-in.

The highly Republican county, however, gave Democrat Ted Strickland more votes in the gubernatorial race than it gave Republican Ken Blackwell. The county supported all other Republican candidates statewide.

One question of Sunday alcohol questions was so close that an automatic recount appeared likely. That was in northeastern Wauseon, where Circle K convenience store on Shoop Avenue asked for Sunday sales of wine and mixed beverages between 10 a.m. and midnight. Twenty-five provisional votes from that precinct have yet to be counted.

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Wakeman research center to be open by appointment only

Beginning Thursday, the Wakeman Archival Research Center, located upstairs at 401 Farnsworth Rd. in Waterville, will be open by appointment only until May, 2013.

Staffed by Waterville Historical Society volunteers, the archives contains records of Waterville organizations, businesses, churches, cemeteries, schools, and family files. Donations of similar documents and photographs, especially family genealogies, church directories, Anthony Wayne High School yearbooks, and business ledgers are being accepted.

To schedule as appointment call, 419-878-2576.

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Maumee council to discuss pacts for unionized employees

Maumee City Council has scheduled a special session at 6 p.m. Wednesday in council chambers to discuss contract negotiations with unionized city workers.

Council will meet in executive session to be briefed by city administrators, according to a municipal clerk.

Workers’ contracts expire Dec. 31.

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Columbus murder suspects arrested in Dayton

State trooper gave ride to pair before Madison County carjacking

Two Columbus teens wanted on murder charges in Columbus and suspected in a Madison County shooting and carjacking today are in custody in Dayton.

The Columbus Dispatch reports Devonere Simmonds, 17, and Nathaniel Brunner, 18, were arrested by Dayton SWAT officers without incident and are being held by Dayton police.

They were caught at a house where one of Simmonds’ friends lives. Simmonds and his family lived in Dayton for a short time, and only returned to live in Columbus in December, according to family members.

London, Ohio, the seat of Madison County, is about 120 miles south of Toledo.

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DNA leads to arrest in 1996 Ohio rape

COLUMBUS  — Columbus police say resubmitted DNA evidence led to an arrest in a previously unsolved 1996 rape.

A police report says a 34-year-old woman was grabbed by the throat, threatened with a box cutter and raped on the city’s near east side on June 23, 1996. The suspect was never identified.

Cold-case detectives reopened the investigation in July, and evidence was resubmitted to the Ohio Bureau of Investigation for analysis. A DNA profile developed from the evidence was entered into a federal database, and that profile matched suspect Leroy Davis.

Davis was arrested Thursday at his residence and is in jail in Columbus awaiting arraignment. Records didn’t say if he had an attorney yet.

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Rocket women knock out Hoosiers with big rally

The weather outside was frightful, and so was the play inside Savage Arena early on.

The Rockets (6-4) committed 14 turnovers in the first half and trailed 31-18 at the break. They were behind by as many 14 points with 17:08 left in the contest before waking up and mounting an impassioned rally for their first win over a Big Ten team since defeating Michigan 61-55 on Nov. 26, 2005.

"We just like to keep things interesting and keep our fans hanging," deadpanned junior guard Courtney Ingersoll, who helped lead the charge with eight second-half points. "No, that's just something we have to get better at and learn as a team. It's part of our growing pains and rebuilding, learning how to come out and start faster and keep it up."

Junior point guard Naama Shafir was one of three UT players to finish with 13 points, and she also went home with a bloody lip after catching an elbow from Indiana forward Danilsa Andujar with 4:18 to play. A lengthy official review ensued, and Andujar was eventually assessed a technical foul after a delay of more than five minutes.

"I'm good," Shafir said after the game. "It's part of the game."

Although Shafir brushed off the injury, Ingersoll said it gave the Rockets even more motivation to close out the comeback.

"It really fired us up," Ingersoll said. "We want to protect our teammates, and we wanted to fight for Naama."

Just 1:03 after that, the Rockets took their first lead of the game on senior forward Melissa Goodall's free throw and never fell behind again.

Goodall joined Shafir and senior guard Jessica Williams with a team-high 13 points.

"I'm just really proud of our players," UT coach Tricia Cullop said. "We didn't keep our heads down. Things weren't going our way in the first half, and I really challenged them at halftime to come out and play the way we had against upper echelon teams we had faced before."

UT also forced Indiana (5-5) into committing 29 turnovers, including 11 turnovers from team-leading scorer Jori Davis.

Davis was also held to nine points, 10 below her season average. Aulani Sinclair led the Hoosiers with five 3-pointers and 17 points.

"We keep talking about defense, and to force a Big Ten team into 29 turnovers, I thought, was the key for the game," Cullop said. "I think our defense is really coming around. We're not having spurts where we don't play it. Our kids consistently played great defense tonight."

Ingersoll led the way in that department with seven steals, and redshirt freshman guard Andola Dortch added four as the Rockets tallied 17 steals.

"The fight of a team is determined in how you respond," Ingersoll said. "We needed to show our coach and our fans that we're not just going to quit and that we're fighters."

UT showed plenty of fight over the weekend, picking up a 64-36 home win over Oakland on Friday after a disappointing 102-69 loss at Dayton last Sunday, and has now won five of its last six contests following a three-game losing streak.

"We took our lumps early, but hopefully this gives us a shot of confidence and experience in tough situations and finishing it out," Cullop said. "Plus, there's nothing like being at home. If we could click our heels and be here more often, it might be a lot more fun."

Contact Zach Silka at: zsilka@theblade.com or 419-724-6084.

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What's going on in our town? Plenty!

What!?! Toledo's boring? There's nothing to do here?

Well, tell me then, why am I always so worn out?

There's plenty to do in Toledo to satisfy a variety of tastes, ranging from the conservative, the liberal, the young, the old, and for men and women.

More than 20 years ago I lived in one of the most depressing towns ever - at least that's how some described Jackson, Mich. I, however, never found that to be so. A place is only as dull or as exciting as one makes it, and I don't find Toledo dreary.

Now and then when I talk with smy Toledo high school classmates who have moved and have never returned, or when I see those who have come back after long absences, I can detect a sort of a "Are you still in Toledo?" curiosity full of pity.

Why, yes. I am. At this point in my life, I have little intention on making my home elsewhere. While I make no apologies for that, family has played a role in the decision to stay. But the transportation options that are available make it easy enough to get from one locale to another without much trouble, so relatives are not a hindrance.

But why knock a town where one can get from one end to the other within minutes? It beats spending half an hour or more on expressways in some big metropolis just trying to pick up a prescription.

In Toledo, though, one has to be sure to pause when traffic signals turn green, given the disregard that area motorists have for traffic lights. There's a reason Toledo can't shake its notorious image of bad drivers: Most of us are indeed terrible drivers.

So what's to life in Toledo besides bad traffic and family? Plenty. I've found more than enough to fill my date book since returning here after college and job stints elsewhere more than 20 years ago.

At that time I had more energy and time for professional and social organizations and the church activities. Always there was a professional meeting or fellowship, as folks in Christendom like to call church-related functions.

Yet that was BH and BC - before husband and before children. Even so, there are no blank spaces on my calendar. One doesn't exactly need step-by-step instructions for how to get along here. But I understand that society has become accustomed to sitting back and being entertained, and that's what's preferred.

So come along on a little trip through my very own Toledo . . .

Because I am a downtown dweller, at the top of my list is life in the downtown, or the downtown Toledo life that is being revived. Long-time Toledoans tend to compare the district with what it was 25 or 35 years ago, when it bustled with young and old shoppers and movie goers.

We're not there yet, but development on both sides of the Maumee River is making the center business district far more interesting than what it has been in recent years.

Lunchtime walks alone or with a friend through downtown are more pleasant than they once were. Today a stroll by the beautifully restored Valentine Theatre or on the waterfront helps break up a day at work. In the warmer months, a quick snack at a nearby restaurant and a breeze coming off the murky Maumee are invigorating.

Toledo area metroparks offer serene settings for family picnics, solo or group walks, or a place to get away and sit on a swing and enjoy good weather and ponder the issues of life. I prefer Wildwood and Swan Creek metroparks, and no matter how many times I go to the Manor House at Wildwood, each visit is pleasant.

I still cannot get used to calling the Toledo Botanical Garden the Toledo Botanical Gardens. In our house, it's Crosby Gardens, diehards that we are. It's a great place to introduce children to the plant life, from the soft lambs' ear plant to the river birch trees, and to let children view water lilies in the pond from the gazebo.

Outsiders and insiders alike may get weary of references to the Toledo Zoo and the Toledo Museum of Art as our jewels. They are, and that's not likely to change.

Today, the Toledo Zoo hardly looks anything like it did years ago, and that's good. The expansion, attractions, and improvements make a trip to see the animals and exhibits a full and worthwhile visit.

The museum is first class, all the way. As an elementary and junior high school student, I took weekly art classes there. I don't recall the grade I was in when a class performed on stage at the Peristyle, another of Toledo's gems.

The diversity in many neighborhoods adds to Toledo's multicultural flavor, which is something that one can literally sample at various ethnic festivals each year. They help to make Toledo a nice place to live and to spend one's years, even before and after rearing a family.

By the way, word has it that Toledo is a good place to rear a family. It is, although the assortment of schools to select from is often wanting for minorities. However, some of that is changing with the growing number of charter schools, and sooner or later, depending on the state Supreme Court's ruling, voucher schools will widen the options as well.

Yet Toledo is quite a poor place too in terms of relationships among its people.

That's particularly so on the racial front, a fact that has been stark lately, given sundry news events. How unfortunate that residents here, black and white, must endure this smut.

Yes, I like Toledo, and while I realize that there is a measure of racial discord everywhere in these United States, I also realize that it's worse in some locales than in others. Toledo has a long way to go, I'm sorry to say.

As development continues downtown and as city officials continue to show off the jewels, some consideration must be made toward bringing the thinking of the residents into the 21st century.

Until then, the bright and the talented will keep packing their bags for other cities, where the aversion to diversity is far less intense than it is here.

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TARTA, union seek binding arbitration

TARTA and the union representing its drivers and mechanics will refer unresolved contract talks to binding arbitration, leaders from both sides said yesterday.

Amalgamated Transit Union Local 697 voted for arbitration on Nov. 11, and James Gee, the transit authority's general manager, said yesterday that while it has received no formal notice of the vote from the union, the bus agency also believes arbitration is the answer.

Wages and health benefits are the primary sticking points, said both Mr. Gee and Ed Dustman, the union local president.

Local 697 represents about 230 TARTA employees. The vote to seek arbitration was 94-0, Mr. Dustman said, and a strike is not being considered.

There have been no negotiations since Nov. 2, two days after Local 697's old contract expired. Mr. Dustman said the offer TARTA made to the union that day was "very embarrassing" to the point that he wouldn't even take it to the membership.

"Their proposal to us was all concessions from the employees. There was nothing coming back from the company at all," he said.

Mr. Gee countered by saying the union made the decision to end the contract talks. "We were willing to continue to negotiate."

As for the unresolved issues, Mr. Gee said, "We are struggling with the same issues that other companies are, that other transit authorities are. With the price of fuel as high as it is and state funding going down, these are tough times for transit authorities."

Both Mr. Gee and Mr. Dustman said the process for choosing an arbitration panel would take until after the holidays to complete.

A separate ATU Local 697 unit representing about 50 workers at the Toledo Area Regional Paratransit Service recently settled a three-year contract with Laidlaw Services, the operator of the special-needs mini-bus service. That contract provides for 3 percent raises in each of the three years, Mr. Dustman said.

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Restaurant-family rift bubbles over into court

Co-owner Christopher Frick helped make Jed's Barbecue & Brew one of the Toledo area's hottest dining spots by attracting a young and enthusiastic crowd.

But when he filed papers in Columbus suggesting he was going to open another restaurant under his own name, he hit a roadblock.

The roadblock was put up by a company headed by his father, Ray Frick, proprietor of the also popular Fricker's restaurant chain.

Fricker's Progressive Concepts Inc., of West Carrolton, Ohio, filed suit in U.S. District Court in Toledo last week contending that plans by Christopher Frick to open a suburban Toledo eatery called Frick's American Grill infringe on various Fricker's trademarks.

“It is a misunderstanding,” Christopher Frick said yesterday. He declined further comment, referring questions to his attorney.

Mr. Frick's father did not respond to a message left at Fricker's offices in East Toledo. The chain, which jetted to success on the nation's Buffalo wing craze, has a dozen sports-bar-format restaurants in the Toledo and Dayton areas. Its newest outlet, operated by a franchisee, is adjacent to Fifth Third field in downtown Toledo.

Christopher Frick worked for the chain for a time and later struck out in his own. With a partner, he operates, Jed's, which has sites in South Toledo, Perrysburg, and Bowling Green.

The dispute apparently started when Christopher Frick bought a shuttered outlet of Toledo's El Matador chain on Navarre Avenue in suburban Oregon.

A liquor permit application, incorporation papers, and advertisement for an auction of restaurant equipment used by the former owners indicated that the new establishment would be called Frick's American Grill, a court complaint stated.

Use of the name was intended to “capitalize upon the reputation of the Fricker's trademarks and to cause confusion or mistake, or to deceive members of the public as to the source or sponsorship of goods and services offered,” Fricker's alleges.

“Plaintiff has used several variations of the Frick surname in connection with the restaurant and related services ... and as a result members of the public have come to associate all such variations of the Frick surname exclusively with plaintiff,” they alleged.

But the dispute could be quickly defused.

William Lindsley, attorney for Christopher Frick, said his client won't use the Frick name for the new restaurant, but another name hasn't been selected.

If the matter isn't resolved, Fricker's is seeking a court injunction stopping use of the name, triple damages, attorney fees and court costs.

The case was assigned to Judge James Carr.

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Dana sues supplier over advance payment

Dana Corp., the Toledo auto-parts maker that filed for bankruptcy this month, sued supplier James Tool Machine and Engineering Inc. for allegedly violating contract terms by requiring Dana to pay for parts in advance.

Under a 2003 contract, Dana must pay James Tool within 62 days upon receipt. When Dana filed for bankruptcy March 3, James Tool said it would withhold shipments unless paid in advance, Dana said in a complaint filed with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New York.

That would spur other suppliers to do the same and require Dana to borrow $500 million more to meet the demands and delay its exit from bankruptcy, Dana said. The firm asked Bankruptcy Judge Burton Lifland to order James Tool to honor the original contract terms.

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Finkbeiner renews call to OK tax, fee hikes

Mayor Finkbeiner also threatened additional layoffs if council does not vote Tuesday night to increase the city's monthly trash fee, approve collecting more income taxes from Toledoans who work outside the city, and suspend for 12 months contributions to the city employees' share into their state retirement pension system.

"City council has had the administration's balanced budget plan for weeks," the mayor wrote to council Monday. "We still have a $20.8 million budget deficit."

The letter said: "There will be vigorous positive momentum to our budget resolution by doing so. The sooner we act, the greater is the gain on our budget deficit."

But some councilmen were doubtful the mayor's proposals would even get a vote Tuesday night.

George Sarantou, chairman of council's finance committee, said councilmen were disappointed that the Finkbeiner administration and the police patrol officers' union failed last week to agree on a new contract during an all-day meeting with a fact finder.

"Looks like we have a really slow boat to China on these negotiations and we don't know what is going to happen at this point except more layoffs," Mr. Sarantou said. "I don't think it's fair to the taxpayers to slap fees and other increases on them until we show we are doing everything we can to reduce our expenditures."

Neither the city nor the Toledo Police Patrolman's Association would reveal what derailed negotiations. The two sides have a second fact-finding meeting scheduled for May 28.

The police layoffs are among 242 furloughs of city workers ordered by Mr. Finkbeiner because tax revenues have plummeted along with the domestic auto industry and the national economy.

Council President Mark Sobczak said the tax and fee increases were unlikely to be addressed tonight.

"We have been clear in how we set things and I don't think council is going to be willing to raise revenues before we see a shrinking of government and cutting our expenses," Mr. Sobczak said.

Suspending the pension payments for 12 months would save $4.57 million.

The mayor has repeatedly asked council to generate $3.2 million by collecting more in income taxes from Toledoans employed elsewhere by cutting the city's income tax credit in half.

But council has twice voted down the tax credit reduction.

Increasing the monthly refuse fee from $7 to $10 for people who do not recycle and from $2 to $7 for those who do would boost city revenue by $1.6 million, the mayor said.

Council also has refused to vote on cutting the pension contributions and a separate request to slash city salaries by 10 percent. The mayor on March 31 asked council to declare "exigent circumstances" to make those cutbacks outside of ongoing negotiations.

Council instead ordered the administration back to the bargaining table.

Dan Wagner, TPPA president, said he suspected the mayor would again ask council to cut the pension contributions or execute the 10 percent pay cut.

"Because he wasn't successful in fact finding and he isn't going to like the outcome, he is asking council to do something that the fact finder wasn't willing to do," Mr. Wagner said. "Of course he is going to ask council to take something unilaterally, but if council does act in that matter, we will be in court to take action against it."

The mayor's original general budget proposal for 2009 assumed about $169.7 million would be collected from income taxes but a report by University of Toledo professors David Black and Oleg Smirnov estimated the figure between $147.8 million and $140.7 million.

The city is now budgeting for $145 million.

Mr. Wagner said he is suspicious of the lower figure and thinks the Finkbeiner administration is trying to make the city seem poorer than it will be this year.

But Mr. Sarantou said Toledo's income tax collections are down 12 percent over last year - supporting the lower predictions.

He said yearly audits of the city's finances since 1999 by Clifton Gunderson LLP have never listed a major finding against the city.

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AMD 'Temash' Quad-Core SoC Spotted in Acer Aspire Laptop

AMD’s upcoming A6-1450 “Temash” SoC has been spotted powering the upcoming Acer Aspire V5-122P-0643 notebook. Though the product is no longer listed on Acer’s website, WCCFTech has posted a fairly extensive copy of the Aspire V5-122P-0643’s product page and the following screenshot.

As we’ve noted previously, the Temash A6-1450 SoC is a quad-core processor that is based on AMD’s 28 nm “Jaguar” architecture and features a base and turbo clock of 1.0 GHz and 1.4 GHz, respectively; a 2 MB L2 cache; and a TDP of just 4 – 6 W. The APU also includes a Radeon HD 8280 iGPU that is clocked at 300 MHz while idle and 500 MHz when under load, and it utilizes AMD’s NUMA (non-uniform memory access) architecture.

The Aspire V5-122P-0643 features an 11.6” Multi-touch LED display with an unspecified “HD resolution” (likely to be 1366 x 768), 2 GB of DDR3 memory, a 500 GB mechanical hard drive, and a 3-cell lithium-ion battery.

The Acer Aspire V5-122P-0643 was available for purchase from for $499. Currently, it is unknown when the notebook will be back on sale.

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Motifs and materials for this exhibition are based on the various locations in the hotel where each piece is displayed. Japanese sweets were created for the 2nd floor main lobby area to compliment the open dining venue; paintings and drawings on the third floor mezzanine level depict traditional summer festivals and flowers are featured on the first floor.

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On the 9th of December West Ham welcomes Liverpool at the Boleyn Ground in London.

The Reds will play without their suspended top-scorer Suarez. Sam Allardyce’s team will be looking to maintain their good stats against a visiting club.

West Ham is eights in EPL standings with twenty two points after fifteen games. Their present game form has seen two wins, one draw and two losses. Also, they have won just one of their last six EPL ties with Liverpool. The Hummers managed a great win over Chelsea with the score 3-1 last weekend and showed good game against Man Utd. So, Liverpool have to be ready for a hard game.

Liverpool is eleventh in the EPL table with nineteen points from fifteen rounds. In the last five games in all competitions they have two wins, two draws and one defeat. Liverpool won Southampton with the score 1-0 last weekend, and Udinese with the score 0-1 in midweek. They have qualified from the Europa League from the first place with ten points. It should be count, that Luis Suarez missed only eight games since joining Liverpool.

West Ham have a few key absentees ahead of the game against Liverpool. Forward Andy Carroll can’t play for his parent club, plus he is injured until January. Ricardo Vaz Te and Jack Collison are both long term out until the New Year. Alou Diarra will miss this game too, while George McCartney and Yossi Benayoun could return for this match.

Liverpool’s head coach Brendan Rodgers will play without star forward Luis Suarez. He has a one-match ban for gathering five yellow cards. Steven Gerrard was ill, but he is expected to come back. Fabio Borini and Martin Kelly will remain sideline. Nuri Sahin is under doubt.

West Ham line-up: Jaaskelainen, Demel, Collins, Reid, O’Brien, Diame, Noble, O’Neil, Nolan, Jarvis, Cole.

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Before we get started, on how to handle authentication window in Selenium WebDriver. Let’s discuss what authentication window is & why it is used in applications?

What is Authentication Window?

Authentication is a process which is required to access some applications in which HTTP authentication is used for security purpose. These are server side validations which ask for authentication beforehand user can access an application. Also, known as basic authentication in `web applications where the browser window is used to get user credentials. The handling of pop up window came into the picture because of security and minimizing the unauthorized users in the application.

While automating an application testing through selenium, this issue is generally faced by some of us. I have checked this in many other websites talking about handling pop up window using the installation of AutoIt Tool, Add-ons like AuthAuth etc.

Why is this issue encountered?

Let’s discuss more closely why this issue is encountered? While running the automated script on the website it locates the elements using the ‘FindElement’ method. Since authentication protected applications restricts the user to access the web elements. We simply append username and password in the web application URL, so that it allows the script to access locators.

What’s the solution?

Here is a simple approach to overcome this issue. This can be easily handled using the piece of code below:

baseUrl=”http://” + username + “:” + password + “@” + url;

driver.get(baseUrl + “/”);

Using code above we are providing credentials in URL which will add username & password in URL ), while running the script it will bypass the authentication window successfully

 Refer syntax in how it is done just after browser is launched:

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

String baseUrl=”http://” + “USERNAME” + “:” + “PASSWORD” + “@” + “xyz.com”;

driver.get(baseUrl + “/”);

Hope the above solution works. Please let me know if you have any queries/ additions in the comment box below.

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    I am having problem as after enter the login credentials and password, and Click on Login that time the Windows Authentication popup is coming

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    If the user authentication is asked randomly during navigation within the website, then how do I handle it..

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    This doesn’t work with the later version of browsers as it is against the new W3C compliance. If you feel otherwise, please share the browser name and the latest version which you tested this approach against.

    Also, how would you handle the ‘@’ in the password ? Did you think about it?

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Qatar aims to buy 118 more Leopard tanks from Germany before the soccer World Cup championships in 2022 for several billion euros, a German newspaper reported on Sunday.

It also plans to buy 16 tank howitzers, Bild am Sonntag reported citing government sources in Qatar.

The equipment is made by Krauss-Maffei Wegmann and Rheinmetall. Spokesmen were not immediately available for comment in Qatar or at Krauss-Maffei or Rheinmetall.

Chancellor Angela Merkel's government approved the purchase of 62 Leopard tanks and 24 howitzers in the spring.

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The City of Trail

The City of Trail is situated on the banks of beautiful and mighty Columbia River. Trail is commercial, financial, and industrial centre for the South Kootenay region. This city had its beginning during the mining boom around the end of last century. In 1896 Trail, British Columbia was the home of the first smelter, which, in a much changed and more sophisticated format, still dominates the skyline and the local economy. Trail is also known for its significant Italian community. Before the end of World War II Italian immigrants were largely responsible for shaping the community’s social and cultural structure.

After World War I, the Trail Smelter operations expanded significantly with the break-through treatment of zinc-laden ores. Through the 1920s, the Trail Operations expanded into full production of lead and zinc, as well as gold, silver, cadmium, and bismuth. The CM&S also expanded into the production of fertilizers using by-products of the zinc smelting process.

With the enormous growth of the Trail Smelter, Trail’s population tripled by 1941 to 10,000 and the City had expanded into the East Trail residential area. By 1951, the population had grown to 12,000 and the City had expanded into the Sunningdale and Glenmerry residential areas.

Today the terraced homes, rock walls and bright gardens tucked into the winding streets of “Little Italy” delight visitors from all over the world. Trail is a major industrial and financial centre in the Interior of British Columbia, dominated by Teck Cominco’s smelter, one of the world’s largest integrated lead-zinc manufacturing complexes. Trail has produced many fine national athletes and champions. Trails sports and recreational facilities are second to none and the excellent dining and cultural facilities add to the friendly and clean atmosphere of this wonderful city.

View of the City and Cominco Smelter 1961 Cominco Ltd.’s Trail Operations continues to be the economic cornerstone of the Greater Trail area. Recent modernization of the Trail Operations has promised to extend Cominco Ltd.’s presence in Trail well into the 21st Century. The City of Trail continues to prosper in this strong, economic climate and to provide its citizens with first-rate services and quality of life.

Trail BC consists of a number of sub-divisions – East Trail, West Trail Columbia Heights, Miral Heights, Glenmerry, Rivervale, Tadanac, Sunningdale, Waneta Mall area, and Waneta Columbia Gardens area.

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By 1941 the City had expanded into the East Trail residential area as the population grew as Cominco prospered during World War II.

West Trail Area and the Gulch

On Rossland Avenue you will find the neighbourhood known as “the Gulch.” Originally called “Dublin Gulch”, it lost the “Dublin” as it filled up with Italians who came to Trail to work at Cominco. Many of them chose not to live on the original Trail townsite and built their homes on the banks of the mountainside. The Gulch consists of four or five hundred metres of houses and apartment blocks, and the best Italian grocery store in Trail – the Star Grocery – and other shops, Rossland Avenue rolls down the length of the Gulch on its way to Trail’s city centre with Saint Anthony of Padua, on the left at the top of the Gulch. On the right, there are a number of well known establishments and clubs – The Rex Hotel, Columbo Lodge Italio Canadese Hall, Trail Hotel and the new Casa Lingo Italiana Restaurant (now in the old Nellie’s Pizza building).

At the bottom of the Gulch, Rossland Avenue is the Best Western Terra Nova just down from highway 22 which leads left up the 8% grade along the side of Smelter Hill on its way to Castlegar 26 kilometres away. By heading down eastward you reach Victoria Avenue, defining the northern bounds of Trail’s central business district.

The sub-division of Sunningdale is reached via Charles Lake Drive from East Trail. In the late 1940’s after World War II, houses were built and financed by Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation to provide affordable housing for returning war veterans. Sunningdale consists of a lower bench and an upper bench. The upper bench mainly consists of houses that were built for war verterans, while many houses along Hazlewood Drive with river view lots were built and owned by doctors and professionals.

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Sunderland boss Martin O'Neill described Manchester City as "electric" yesterday.

City won 3-0 against Sunderland in their best performance of the season.

O'Neill revealed: "Perhaps the first goal upset our gameplan but we were beaten by a superior side.

"They were electric. They are fine players, champions of this country and playing big Champions League games.

"It was always the possibility if they got the second goal, they would cause havoc and that happened. If another 10 minutes went by they might get a bit nervy.

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Now that it's September and school starts tomorrow for us teachers, summer may not be officially over, but it might as well be.  Looking back on the many photos I took in Saratoga this summer, I noticed I had a lot that never made it into any of my blog posts.  I only went to the track once this season, and for once I didn't take any pictures.  You can always check out my NYRA-tagged posts for photos I took in previous years, though.  The photos I took in Oregon and Washington are in my PNW-tagged posts.

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Living here in Hawaii we used to have a lot of family get togethers. My grandmother used to “bus out” the ukulele and that was it, we ain’t leaving for a long time. Grandma used to jam on that martin uke chalang-a-lang style. Grandma sure could make that uke sing and for her voice, well..just as sweet. Grandpa used to love that song that grandma sang. I can see her in heaven singing it to grandpa. Since then, my mom and my aunty Carol took over. Whenever we get out to Kaneohe, Oahu we still get to hear the sweet sound of those old ukes while family and friends dance hula and just have a good old time.
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