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This one and one half story residence is rectangular in plan and has a gable roof with a gable dormer and composition shingles. Asphalt shingle over narrow shiplap siding sheaths the house. A concrete foundation supports the residence. The windows are one over one double hung wood sash and fixed sash with polygonal bay window on the south elevation. Battered porch posts support a recessed front porch which extends the length of the front elevation. The residence has a symmetrical face. The building faces east on Log Cabin Street and is in excellent condition.

The Werline family bult and occupied the building from 1917 until the 1960's. George Werline was a hop grower.

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AdvantagesBeautifully written poems concerning the effects of innocence and experience

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...In his poems, William Blake has a number of underlying messages riddled in them. He seems to agree and disagree with certain things in a number of his poems which I will now discuss. In Songs of Experience, the poem called The Garden of Love shows some of the things that Blake seems to disagree with. In The Garden of Love I believe Blake tries to convey that as a child grows up things change...

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...The work of William Blake is just heartbreakingly beautiful. If the concept of God revolves around the presence of love and happiness and joy and passion then the poetry and mythology of this man is holy. Indeed his work is so astonishing that the interpretation of his poetry has been a reference point for my development as a human being for the last year: The Blossom Merry Merry Sparrow...

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...William Blake is one of the greatest poets in history, in my humble opinion. Much of my life has been influenced by his writing, and I have adored his work for a number of years. There have been points in my life where his works have been a second bible, and I've often woken up in my sleep mumbling "Robin redbreast in a cage, puts all heaven in a rage.. must save robin, must save robin.." in...

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Marinated Seafood Salad

Frutta di Mare

Mary Ann Esposito

Serves 8

Several preparations of squid were served on Christmas Eve at home. My favorite has always been frutta di mare, a marinated medley of squid, shrimp, and octopus. I use scallops in this recipe in place of octopus. This should be made a day before it is served to allow the marinade to fully flavor the fish.

Juice of 2 to 3 lemons (to taste)
1/2 cup Filippo Berio Extra-Virgin Olive Oil
4 cloves garlic, crushed
1/4 cup chopped flat-leaf parsley
1/3 cup chopped fennel leaves
1 cup diced red bell peppers
2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
Fine sea salt and coarsely ground black pepper to taste
2 pounds small squid (4 to 6 inches long)
1 teaspoon coarse sea salt
1/2 pound medium shrimp, peeled
1 pound bay scallops

In a shallow non-metal dish, combine all the marinade ingredients. Mix well and set aside.

Remove the head of each squid by pulling it away from the body. Cut off the tentacles below the eyes and discard the heads. Pull out the interior membranes from each squid body and remove the plastic-like spine bone from the inside. Pull off the outer skin. Wash the squid bodies and tentacles thoroughly in cold water. Cut the bodies into ¼-inch rings and dice the tentacles. Set aside.

Bring 4 cups of water to a boil in a large saucepan and add the salt. Add the shrimp and boil until they turn pink, about 3 minutes. With a slotted spoon, remove the shrimp and let cool.

Add the scallops to the boiling water and boil for 3 minutes. Remove the scallops with a slotted spoon and let cool. Add the squid rings to the water and boil until tender, 12 to 15 minutes. About 5 minutes before the rings are cooked, add the diced tentacles. The squid should be tender, not chewy. Drain well.

Toss the squid, shrimp, and scallops in the marinade. Add salt if necessary. Cover and let marinate overnight in the refrigerator, turning the mixture occasionally.

To serve, transfer the salad to a decorative platter, cover, and let come to room temperature before serving.

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Sharonville residents who are registered sex offenders may soon be banned from membership to the city’s recreation facilities.

City Council is considering adopting a codified ordinance that would also rescind membership of those already issued.

Law Director Tom Keating said the ordinance is directed at Sharonville residents who are required to register as sex offenders with the Ohio Attorney General’s office. Membership is granted only to residents of the city.

According to the Ohio Attorney General’s website, two Sharonville residents are registered as sex offenders.

The ordinance also addresses the protection of children.

“The Council has determined that there is a strong public purpose to protect schools, parks, playgrounds, youth centers and other places primarily utilized by people under the age of 19 from Ohio registered sex offenders,” Ordinance 2014-13 reads. “The Council has determined that the Sharonville recreation facilities, as accessed by membership passes should include a safe, clean environment protected from convicted sex offenders who potentially lack the ability to control their behavior.”

The ordinance also specifies that violation would be considered a fourth-degree misdemeanor, punishable by up to 30 days in jail.

How would the recreation department staff know whether a member or applicant is a sex offender?

Safety Service Director Jim Lukas said the Community Center would have access to records through a link to the Ohio Attorney General’s office.

In addition, the membership form will ask whether the applicant is a registered sex offender.

“It will say, ‘if you are, you can’t be a member,’” Keating said.

“But we do not have a problem in Sharonville,” Keating said, “so we’re not trying to solve a problem.

“We’re trying to get ahead of it and make sure it won’t become a problem.”

City Council will vote on the ordinance at its April 8 meeting, after a second reading at the March 25 meeting.

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Want to play Halo: CE, Halo 2 and Halo 3 on Steam? Well you can't. Tough luck sonny boy (or girl). While we originally reported on a Steam database app showcasing the Halo trilogy as possible entries for upcoming releases on Steam, turns out that one of our readers was correct in that it was probably just devkit tools, as Microsoft has denied that their prime-time blockbuster series for the Xbox was coming to Steam.
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iPhone users finally to have Flash

Apple may not have approved it, but it appears as though iPhone users will soon gain access to Flash content.

Adobe today officially launched its Flash Media Server 4.5 that the company says "expands on its mobile delivery options with the addition of iOS support" and will let businesses "use the same media and live streams to deliver full adaptive bit-rate experiences to platforms supporting Flash, as well as Apple devices."

Streaming flash content using a live streaming protocol
Accessing Flash content through the new Media Server doesn't require users to go through the iOS Safari mobile browser, which Apple still has not equipped with Flash support. Instead, content providers will be able to deliver Flash content to iPhones and iPads using HTTP Live Streaming, the protocol that Apple developed to let content providers "send live or pre-recorded audio and video to iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and Mac, using an ordinary web server."

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Nokia announces free insurance offer on Nokia Asha 501

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NEW DELHI, INDIA: Building on the Diwali excitement and festivities, Nokia India today introduced free insurance offer on Nokia Asha 501.

Valid till November 15, 2013, the offer allows consumers a highly comprehensive handset insurance plan to safeguard them against risks of mobile handset loss and damage. This includes thefts, burglary, malicious acts, riots among others, as well as damage that is beyond the purview of the consumer’s standard warranty.

The Insurance to the consumer shall be provided by New India Assurance Company Limited and will be administered by Universal Insurance Brokers Services Private Limited (UIBSPL).

Viral Oza, director marketing, Nokia India said, “We would like to thank the consumers for an encouraging response to Nokia Asha 501, which has reinvented the affordable smartphone market. To bring in festivities this Diwali, we intend to make consumers more carefree through the free insurance offer on the device. About 53 per cent of adults in India have been victims of mobile phone loss or theft. Thus thefree insurance offer combined with the festive season, offer consumers just the right excuse to indulge themselves and gift themselves and their loved ones a colourful Nokia Asha 501.”

The Nokia Asha 501 set an exciting standard for affordable smartphones, offering a stunning design at an affordable price of Rs. 5199. The design of Nokia Asha 501 brings colour, purity and craft to the device as well as builds on Nokia’s approach to physical and digital harmony. The device works with just a simple swipe. Swipe unlocks the phone, closes apps and is used to shift between two screens: ‘Home’ and ‘Fastlane’. Home makes full use of the three-inch capacitive touchscreen, displaying a traditional application launcher. Fastlane is the second screen that adapts to display recent activity on the phone as well as upcoming events, helping people multi-task. Fastlane also supports social integration with Facebook and Twitter, by allowing people to post directly from within Fastlane.

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Maryland - Agriculture

Maryland ranked 36th among the 50 states in agricultural income in 2001, with estimated receipts of $1,596 million, about 41% of that in crops.

Until the Revolutionary War, tobacco was the state's only cash crop; in 2002, Maryland produced an estimated 2,380,000 lb of tobacco, down from 8,265,000 lb in 2000. Corn and cereal grains are grown mainly in southern Maryland. Production in 2002 included 32,300,000 bushels of corn for grain; 10,810,000 bushels of soybeans, $62,158,000; 11,880,000 bushels of wheat, $37,442,000, and 3,362,000 bushels of barley, $4,371,000. Commercial vegetables, cultivated primarily on the Eastern Shore, were valued at $54 million in 2002. Fruits are also cultivated.

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Haphduzn punch at Nomad World Pub sparks lawsuit

Haphduzn punch at Nomad World Pub sparks lawsuit
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The Nomad World Pub exploded with light as the last beats from the evening's DJ rang out. For two hours, Emiliano Silva Izquierdo and his wife Cherolyn Fischer had been drinking PBR tall boys and dancing, but now it was time to go home.

Jordan Wallingford, better known as Haphduzn within local hip hop circles, was moonlighting as a bouncer and approached the lingering crowd. By the following spring, he would make a name for himself as the new guy on Atmosphere's Welcome to Minnesota Tour. But in the early hours of a Sunday in December 2012, he had the task of kicking people out.

He approached Silva and told him to leave. Near the exit, Wallingford threw a punch that connected with Silva's mouth.

"That was the only time we actually touched," Silva says. "That in itself broke my jaw in two places."

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What actually happened that night is the subject of a personal injury lawsuit filed in May. Two wildly different narratives have emerged describing the moments leading up to the violence. A trial is set to begin March 24, 2014.

Less than a week after the fight, attorneys for Silva and Fischer sent a letter to the bar declaring their intention to sue and asking it to preserve the night's video surveillance. Speaking on behalf of the Nomad and its owner, attorney Bill Celebrezze declined to comment on the footage, or even confirm whether it still exists.

Silva's and Fischer's tale is a simple one: Wallingford approached, told his 5' 7" adversary to leave, then disappeared into the bathroom. The 6' 6" bouncer returned a minute later, more irritated than before.

"I told you to get the fuck out of here," Wallingford allegedly said.

"Relax," Silva says he responded. "There's no need for that. We're leaving."

Silva was about three feet away when he felt someone on his heels, turned, and met Wallingford's fist. Blood spewed from an open wound in his mouth.

Fischer stepped between them, she says, and the bouncer made a threat. They all moved out to the street, where a shouting match ensued.

Two Minneapolis cops approached to see what all the commotion was about.

"Go home," one of them allegedly told Silva. "Go to bed."

Instead, he went to a hospital, where he underwent the first of two surgeries to repair his jaw. He works as a part-time vocal talent and full-time interpreter at Hennepin County Medical Center. Unable to speak after the punch, he couldn't work.

He will be plagued with several dental problems for the rest of his life, according to the lawsuit: his gums have receded, he now has a cross bite, and part of his lower lip is permanently numb. Fischer, a preschool administrator, had to stay home to care for her husband. Silva also can't fully open his mouth and must rinse after every meal to get food out from under his gums.

"I will never be able to eat a burger again," he says. "There's no money they can pay you for losing the ability to eat the way you used to."

The story Wallingford tells is essentially the same one he tweeted in June but has since deleted:

A screenshot of Haphduzn's Twitter feed taken Sept. 3
A screenshot of Haphduzn's Twitter feed taken Sept. 3

In Wallingford's version of the event, Silva was drunk and taunting the bouncer, telling him he wanted him to step outside.

"No, you don't," Wallingford recalls responding.

Silva stepped towards Wallingford, he says, and almost knocked Fischer and another woman into a glass case at the front of the bar.

Wallingford caught both women from falling and then got sucker punched by Silva, he says. In turn, Wallingford hit Silva with a short arm punch -- just enough force, he thought, to stun the man and push everyone outside.

Wallingford says he locked the door, only to open it a minute later for a cop who wanted his side of the story.

"Don't worry about it," the cop said, according to Wallingford. "We'll handle it."

But one witness who agreed to talk on the condition of anonymity swears that Silva didn't do anything to provoke Wallingford.

"It was not a bar fight," the witness says. "There was only one injured party."

Also on the hook for Silva's injuries are the Nomad and its owner, Smith & Hance Entertainment. The lawsuit, which is seeking $100,000 in damages, accuses both entities of negligence for having hired Wallingford as a bouncer. To make the case, attorneys point to his conviction record.

The rapper isn't shy about his criminal past -- aggravated armed robbery (2002), lying to cops (2004), disorderly conduct (2005), DUI (2006), marijuana possession (2007) -- and deals with those demons on his debut album, Whittier Alliance.

Yet he claims that's all behind him. He's been sober, he says, for seven years. Now he has two sons and a second chance.

"I'm not gonna front," Wallingford says. "There's been times when I fucked up. This was not an instance when I fucked up."

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Once More with Feeling

Your mother always said you were talented. So why aren't you one of the 176 depressive poets, moonlighting A-list actors, poodle trainers, storytellers, avenging angels, funambulists, Bush bashers, and visionaries staging a show at the biggest Fringe Festival in the country?

Last year, my job during the first weekend of the Fringe Festival was to see and review a dozen or so shows. This is not the kind of "job" that one can complain about in a tavern filled, for instance, with coal miners or roustabouts. So I complained a bit at home. There is a limit, I argued, to how much one can be entertained in a single weekend, and that limit must start at about eight plays. After a luckless afternoon of frantically racing from one mediocre show to the next to the next, I started to wonder why these productions were so generously attended when, throughout the rest of the year, better shows often play to crowds of six or seven.

But then I took the once proverbial chill pill and wandered, on a lark, into a rather great Fringe show. And all was forgiven. Every year the Fringe produces new mini-stars of local theater, gives us the chance to welcome some bright out-of-towners, lets established troupes and performers try out new stuff, and, of course, gives a stage to some people who might not deserve it. But looking over the 24 reviews that close our Fringe coverage this year, I see considerably more positive reviews than last year. There are even a few certified raves. Perhaps this indicates nothing. This year there are 176 Fringe productions, so 24 represents less than half of the festival's offerings (I never excelled at mathematics). Maybe our critics were just in a better collective mood than last year. This is, after all, a sunny time in world history, and everyone seems to be singing a cheery tune. Or the increase in good reviews might indicate that the 2004 Fringe is not just bigger but better. Let's go with that theory for now.

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Storyteller-Performer Amy Salloway Turns Self-Esteem into High Art

Last year, when Amy Salloway was preparing to debut her self-directed one-woman show Does This Monologue Make Me Look Fat? for the Minnesota Fringe Festival, the 37-year-old performer had an oppressive case of the jitters. "I was so horrified--I used every single healing art I could think of," she says over coffee at Dunn Bros. She tried acupuncture, herbs, hypnotism, massage, chiropractic, tarot readings. Nothing worked. After all, the punch-in-the-gut solo piece rested on her struggles with poor body image and rotten self-esteem. Naturally, she feared audiences would hate her.

Instead, they laughed. The show launched her career as a humorist and gave her a much-needed boost in confidence. Soon Salloway was taking time off work to jet across Canada, spreading gut-busting, self-deprecating anecdotes to audiences in Thunder Bay, Vancouver, and Halifax. Call it irony, but the work that stripped naked her loneliness became the very thing connecting her to loads of new, if short-term, friends. After a show in Thunder Bay, a burly lumberjack approached Salloway and kindly asked for a hug. Later, while Google-stalking herself, she found a blogger relating to "the Hamburger Moment," a summary moment during which Salloway comes clean about hating her life.

Accolades for the show surprise Salloway. "I don't ever trust that people will like my show," she explains. "I often assume that people will say, 'Oh my God, what an over-disclosing freak!'" But for Salloway, disclosure was just the thing. The show is filled with accounts of true-life incidents, like the time she tested her boyfriend's love by hypothetically asking for his kidney. He declined, and that relationship quickly crumbled. In another tragicomic episode from the show, Salloway retreats to a body-image workshop, only to stumble into her first same-sex affair.

Salloway bites her lower lip, leans forward and confesses, "I'm so shocked that I turned into somebody who does pieces about sex." But amidst this unease, she maintains an affable presence that invites audiences to laugh at her suffering. One wonders if she'll ever let the show's success soak in a little. "I've lived with low self-esteem for so long; it's just ingrained," she says. So, rather than gloat over her newfound acceptance, Salloway is busy procrastinating on making the changes she has in mind for the show's reprise at this year's Fringe. It's "a tremendous, huge, burning goal" yet to be fulfilled. This fuels her current bout of self-loathing: "I'm undecided and stuck about the changes I want to make," she sighs. "It's possible they won't happen." --Christy DeSmith

Does This Monologue Make Me Look Fat?
Jungle Theater, Aug. 6, 4:00 p.m.; Aug. 7, 2:30 p.m.; Aug. 9, 7:00 p.m.; Aug. 10, 5:30 p.m. and 10:00 p.m.; Aug. 12, 2:30 p.m.; Aug. 14, 2:30 p.m.

Shut Your Pie Hole, Beav!
Jim Lichtscheidl Debuts His Silent Sitcom

Jim Lichtscheidl, whose surname was once privately called "very difficult to spell" by the present writer, is a very funny guy. Loose-limbed and in command of a troop of smartly exaggerated facial expressions, Lichtscheidl is the kind of actor who can make you laugh before he even opens his trap, which, as we will see, bodes well for his show at this year's Fringe. He recently earned yuks as the police sergeant in The Pirates of Penzance at the Guthrie Theater, where he has frequently worked since 1998. He also excelled earlier this year in Ten Thousand Things' mirthful reading of Kevin Kling's At Your Service. You may also have seen him over the years at Park Square, Theatre in the Round, or at Brave New Workshop, where he first started to get noticed. (None of the above is meant to suggest that Lichtscheidl is strictly a comedic actor--his turn as Tuzenbach in the Guthrie's Three Sisters was low-key and pensive, while his take on Lear's fool in a Ten Thousand Things production was both ridiculous and trenchant.)

At this year's Fringe, Lichtscheidl stars in a work of his own creation, Knock!, a family comedy centered on Toehead, a 12-year-old boy beloved by his parents and harassed by his older sister. The character is not entirely unlike a younger version of the show's yellow-haired lead, who grew up in Lino Lakes with four older sisters, one of whom, Lisa Spreeman, is playing Toehead's older sister in Knock!

Lichtscheidl is a self-described TV baby, and he calls the show a "theatrical sitcom." "In my mind," he says over lunch at Cafe Barbette, "I see it as a TV show, but I always want to have a live audience." The hour-long show is broken into two episodes: "The Family Pyramid" (the pilot episode, as it were) and "The Love Note," in which Toehead gets his first billet-doux. Unlike TV sitcoms, though, Knock contains no dialogue, and conveys its plots through movement, pantomime, and music by Herb Alpert, exotica composer Esquivel, and others. Knock!'s debut is being presented by leading musical-theater company Theater Latté Da, whose artistic director Peter Rothstein is co-directing the show with Lichtscheidl. Rothstein was out of town for some of the rehearsal period, however, so Lichtscheidl has been honing his craft through his usual method of religiously watching rehearsal videos. "When people find out how much I watch myself on video, they say, 'Oh, you're so vain.' But actually I find watching myself to be excruciating. So it's not about vanity, it's about exacting the science of physical comedy." --Dylan Hicks

Loring Playhouse, Aug. 8, 8:30 p.m.; Aug. 10, 5:30 p.m.; Aug. 12, 8:30 p.m.; Aug. 13, 5:30 p.m.; Aug. 15, 2:30 p.m.

Bucket Brigade
Rick and Andy Ausland

"For some reason, whenever I bang on a bucket, people go crazy," Andy Ausland says.

Later, Andy and his brother Rick will head downtown to bang on five-gallon paint buckets outside the Metrodome. As part of their street performance, the brothers play a few nights a week for roaming downtown crowds high on hook-up hopes and Twins wins. And unlike the poor dude wailing on a sax who might get a stroll-by nod or sympathetic smile, entire crowds gather around the two brothers on most nights to watch them beat on upside-down buckets. "There's gotta be a release when the tension builds," Rick says, "and there's nothing like beating on a bucket to relieve tension."

The brothers view their performance as a means of injecting a peaceful groove into downtown's rowdy get-your-drink-on atmosphere. Without some spiritual bucketing, after all, downtown could burst from the heavy saturation of girls stumbling around in three-tiered minis and catcalling triple-titled entrepreneur/club promoter/ open-shirted dudes. "But those are the people who need it the most," Andy offers.

Despite their desire to spread the love through a beat, the Auslands have been hassled by some passersby unwilling to embrace the one-love vibe. One time, a burly dude on a motorcycle yelled for the brothers to stop playing because, as they surmise, he likes to work in silence when he macks on girls. He told them to get a real job, to get off their butts and work with steel for $12 an hour. "I'm like, I don't really work with steel," Rick says. "I bang on buckets, man."

The Auslands also have been tap dancing since childhood, and incorporate their street music with tap as part of their 10 Foot Five performance group. The brothers, along with an ensemble of musicians and dancers, will be performing Buckets and Tap Shoes at Brave New Workshop as part of the Fringe Festival. Their work has also allowed them to tap all over the world, including Finland and Ecuador, where they performed at midnight during an all-night rave party with pyrotechnics.

The brothers contend that their style of dance is closer to the communicative, African-American roots of tap than to the painted-on-smile stuff out of Hollywood or glitzy musicals. But just because the Auslands' style has a street edge, it shouldn't be mistaken for Aw, Stomp! You Got Served! Bring on Da Noise, Sucka! For them, it's more about serving up the love. "It's fun to make noise with five-gallon paint buckets and watch an entire room dancing and clapping," Rick says. "Life is a beautiful thing." Dude, you just got served. --Molly Priesmeyer

Buckets and Tap Shoes
Brave New Workshop, Aug. 7, 2:30 p.m.; Aug. 9, 10:00 p.m.; Aug. 10, 8:30 p.m.; Aug. 12, 7:00 p.m.; Aug. 14, 7:00 p.m.

With the Greatest of Unease
Risa Cohen Helps Craft an Airborne Fairy Tale

From plummeting angels in Milton's Paradise Lost to thrill-seeking bungee jumpers, bodies hurtling through space mesmerize us groundlings. Perhaps it's the frisson of danger mingled with the illusion of free fall that has made aerialists the rock stars of circus.

Today, however, many aerial artists are stretching beyond the ta-da of big top culture into the realm of contemporary dance. Witness the growing number of aerial dance troupes from Vermont to Argentina, encompassing everything from Cirque du Soleil's lavish spectacles to choreographer Elizabeth Streb's gutsy amalgam of dance and extreme sports. Locally, several dance makers are taking to the air with the most serious of intentions.

Choreographer Risa Cohen's airborne fairy tale The Angel and the Tower, created in collaboration with Circus Juventas and premiering at the Minnesota Fringe Festival, explores the angst of a man imprisoned in a tower. Searching for an angel, he's finally seduced by Humanity (i.e., physical and emotional risk). "I'm trying to pull modern dance into circus arts," says Cohen. "For me, modern dance lacks gravity-defying athleticism, and circus lacks poetic expression."

At a recent rehearsal in a very hot and sweaty gym at John F. Kennedy High School in Bloomington, Cohen and five of her performers lock limbs with apparatus including a rope and harness, aerial hoops, and long swatches of fabric known as "tissue." "The group is more like a collective," says Cohen. "I'm just the facilitator, the one who ties it all together and gets it onstage."

Dancers Denise Armstead and Bill Gladen work on a duet for rope and harness. Gladen sweeps through space in a rock-climber harness attached to a free swinging rope, while Armstead scrambles around him on the floor. "It's about the power dynamic in a relationship," says Cohen. "Does the harness allow you more freedom or hold you in? Is the freestanding person more or less in control?" Later, Cohen, as the angel, climbs the tissue (read: tower), smoothly wrapping the fabric around various parts of her body, then dropping precipitously toward the mat. "Dance is finding the humanity in the tricks," says Cohen. "Even the thrill of the drop, a standard routine in circus, takes on another dimension. You're vulnerable--there's an emotional feeling when you fall, which must be communicated."

Additional performers in the show include members of Circus Juventas, professional acrobats and aerialists, fire dancers, trapeze artists, and a Big Ten Gymnast of the Year fresh from a stint at San Diego's Sea World. "I'm aiming at a theatrical arc that spans the playful, the seductive, the thought-provoking," says Cohen. Whatever the upcoming performances bring, Cohen and her collaborators have certainly generated a petri dish in the sky where fresh ideas can gestate and multiply. --Linda Shapiro

The Angel and the Tower
The Ice House, Aug. 13, 8:30 p.m.; Aug.14, 2:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.; Aug. 15, 2:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.

Four History-Based Steps to Becoming a Terminal Fringe Type

Unlike other Fringes, the Minnesota Fringe is an unjuried festival; the selection process is strictly first-come-first-served. Perhaps, then, what most unites this year's nearly 200 Fringe producers is that they're all reasonably punctual. The festival might tap into some kind of zeitgeist each year, but there isn't really a Fringe aesthetic, unless we're just missing what links The Booty Cruise to Seussical the Musical (possible answers: the English language, bipedal performers, free pickles at the door). Certainly Fringe shows aren't exclusively or even dominantly what we might honestly call fringe-y, though we feel that a core outsider mentality, or at least an active sense of whimsy, should and does remain at the heart of the festival. With that in mind, we asked some of our writers to pick a theater artist, from any time in history, who somehow represents one or several unofficial Fringe tenets. --Dylan Hicks

1. Be Iconoclastic and Flamboyant
Jack Smith's 24-Hour Performance Art

In 1993, I saw Jack Smith channeled by the late actor Ron Vawter at Walker Art Center's Out There series. Though I'd lived in New York in the '60s, when Smith was at the peak of his flamboyant-gay-artiste fame, I had no idea who he was. In that performance, written by Smith and Gary Indiana, Vawter lounged on a ratty settee like some louche odalisque, fiddling with a schlocky Egyptian headdress and the strands of dime-store beads that festooned his bare chest. Here was a man about to crawl out of his skin. A mass of tics and half-completed gestures, he drifted through fantastic monologues, discarding narrative coherence as easily as he peeled off a bevy of wardrobe accessories. Lines like "Cheap jewelry is always crumbling off me" stung with the shock of the familiar. Wow, me too! I thought.

Smith, who died in 1989, teetered on the edge of New York's underground art scene of the '60s. A protean trickster inhabiting a range of colorful personas, he made outrageous movies and created live performances in his loft. Flaming Creatures, his best-known film, features a demimonde of drag queens and transvestites indulging in an orgy of Hollywood kitsch, complete with schmaltzy Orientalia, vampirism, and transgressive Dionysian revels. The film, which featured many of Andy Warhol's veteran performers, eventually became embroiled in a major censorship battle. A section of the 1968 congressional record described it as "five unrelated and badly filmed sequences [featuring]...homosexuals dancing together and other disconnected erotic activity."

But his films are only part of the story. Smith was a performance artist before we had heard of such creatures, and his performing instinct informed his entire stylized and completely discombobulated life (the congressional record got that part right). The art of total transformation was certainly his. Warhol described working with Smith, who performed in Warhol's 1964 film Dracula Batman: "He claimed that as he put his makeup on, he was slowly transforming himself, letting his soul pass out through his eyes into the mirror and back into him as Dracula, and he had this theory about how everyone was 'vampirical' to an extent because they 'made unreasonable demands.'"

Describing a performance by his idol, the '40s B-movie actress Lola Montez, Smith enthused, "The Miraculous One was raging and flaming. Those are the standards for art." Right back at ya, Jack. --Linda Shapiro

2. Be a Crazy Genius or Just Plain Crazy
The Puzzling Brilliance of Robert "Romeo" Coates, World's Worst Actor

The Minnesota Fringe Festival, being an admirably democratic institution, is as welcoming of stage-tested professionals as it is of amateurs of limited technical acumen. This is not, however, why I have chosen Robert Coates, history's most (in)famously bad actor, as my Fringe Ancestor. I'm convinced that he was a genius--a mad or even unwitting genius, perhaps, but a genius nonetheless.

Coates was born in 1772 in Antigua, where he spent much of his life. The son of an exceedingly wealthy sugar planter, Coates inherited buckets of cash and the family plantation, but had no head for business. By most accounts, he had no head for acting either, but that didn't stop him, at almost 50 years of age, from pursuing a second career as a thespian. In 1809, Coates landed in Bath, England, and within days was scheduled to appear as the male lead in Romeo and Juliet. For the production, he appeared in a costume of his own design. In Reminiscences and Recollections of Captain Gronow, Rees Howell Gronow, a Coates contemporary who called the actor "as strange a being as any that ever appeared in English society," describes Coates's costume: "In a cloak of sky-blue silk, profusely spangled, red pantaloons, a vest of white muslin, surmounted by an enormously thick cravat, and a wig à la Charles the Second, capped by an opera hat, he presented one of the grotesque spectacles ever witnessed upon the stage." To heighten the comedy, Coates's very tight red pantaloons ripped at the seat during the performance, exposing, again according to Gronow, "a quantity of white linen sufficient to make a Bourbon flag."

The performance itself was just as eccentric. During one of Juliet's speeches, Coates took the opportunity to snort a pinch of snuff. When an audience member asked if Coates would share his tobacco, the actor gallantly brought the snuffbox into the house. He delivered a soliloquy in a whisper inaudible past the front row. He changed lines at will, on the grounds that he was improving on the script. He spoke in a rhythm seemingly unrelated to the meaning of the words. And for Romeo's death, Coates carefully prepared his deathbed and then took several minutes to give up the ghost in ludicrously overdone fashion. "Die again, Romeo," yelled one wag in the crowd, a request Coates obliged--twice, going through the same protracted motions each time.

Performances such as this made Robert "Romeo" Coates, as he came to be known, a celebrity. Audiences flocked to see the man known as the world's worst actor. He was just as famous offstage. He always wore outlandish, diamond-encrusted clothes, and rode in a scallop-shell-shaped carriage that bore a coat of arms of a cock-a-doodle-dooing rooster along with the message "Whilst I Live I'll Crow." What was most puzzling about Coates, though, was that he never suggested that his act (or his life) was a joke. Quite the contrary. He claimed to be a great actor, and by all reports his love of Shakespeare and the theater was genuine and deeply held. Though he indulged odd requests from the crowd, he was sometimes obviously hurt when the groundlings took the heckling and fruit throwing too far. During one performance, he interrupted a performance to recite a poem of his own composition that attacked his critics, and drew a standing ovation for the interlude.

In his amusing Banvard's Folly: Thirteen Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity, and Rotten Luck, Paul Collins writes that "Robert utter innocence, invented Camp." To be sure, whether the actor was a sadly oblivious goof or an incredibly dedicated prankster, he seems to have predicted a great many modern art forms and phenomena: performance art, anti-celebrity, Andy Kaufman-style comedy, outsider art, The Gong Show. He was a pioneer. He died in 1848 when he was run over by a hansom cab. If you're having a drink after one of this year's Fringe shows, crow once for Romeo Coates. --Dylan Hicks

3. Make Plays Not War
Grabbing a Snack and Smashing the State with Maxine Klein

Though she has an Obie Award lying around her Minneapolis home, has collaborated with both Tyrone Guthrie and Howard Zinn, and was once called "perfect" by arbiter of perfection the New York Times, playwright-director-activist-academic Maxine Klein has no interest in resting in the plush confines that her theatrical and scholarly laurels might justify. Her platform remains a soapbox, a street corner, a public protest, and hole-in-the-wall theaters with broken folding chairs and no heat. Here, Klein is at home. Here she speaks for the rights of the poor and powerless. To do otherwise would contradict everything she has fought her whole life.

I met up with the Mother of all Michael Moores in the house of Minneapolis's experimental Bedlam Theater, where she was rehearsing. (Full disclosure: I first met Klein when she was casting an early run of Ambush at the Bedlam Theater. This piece reflects gems that have fallen from Maxine's mouth over a period of time--it's not often that you get to work with one of your heroes.) Klein acknowledges me while swallowing something unidentifiable slathered in hummus. While exhaling to say hello, she also inadvertently launches a veritable artillery of crumbs and chickpea matter.

"What captivates me is what I see happening in the real world," says Klein, impatiently pushing her silvery bangs out of her eyes. "A work must show people struggling for change, not holding on to their little piles of power. Today's critical playwright is too often pressured, coerced, influenced, and seduced into supporting the status quo in form and content. The artist is shackled, the audience is robbed, the theater impoverished."

A retrospective of Klein's directorial accolades includes the Boston premiere of Emma by Howard Zinn, with whom she also co-authored Playbook. Approaching Simone hit the boards in 1969, in turn bringing the Obie to Klein. As a playwright, Klein deals with elements of America that are terrorizing in and of themselves, and masterfully tempers her activist passion with mirth. With her recent endeavor, Ambush, Klein scripted a dark comedy satirizing the potential and current ramifications of the Patriot Act.

Klein's pursuits on the fringes of the political theater span over half a century and include more than 100 productions. But despite her accomplishments, self-satisfaction is a literal impossibility for Klein. "Satisfaction leads to complacency, with which I would be immensely dissatisfied," she says. When asked how she got her start, she says, "With the truth. Art does imitate life. Life can be a bed of roses, but it is not enough to admire a bouquet or to be enamored by the promise of the bloom. Be aware of the thorns, my dear. Be aware of the thorns. We all bleed. After all, peace, like war, has a price." --Katherine Preble

4. Be a Cocky Bigmouth
How Marivaux Wagered His Way into the Canon

Imagine the romance of playwriting. Shakespeare wanders London with a quill in hand. Albee writes as a birthday gift to himself. Tennessee Williams lies about his age to get his first major funding. Now...forget it. Pierre Carlet de Chamblain did. By 1712, the dawdling, twentysomething son of a financier found himself flunking out of the renowned Faculty of Law of Paris. He spent his time freeloading (as post-Renaissance young men were wont to do) and attending literary salons hosted by wealthy dilettantes. At one such rendezvous, attendees were exalting the rare genius of comic writers, including the recently departed Molière. Unmoved by the tributes, Pierre declared that this kind of writing wasn't difficult. The salon scoffed and dared him to try it. Three days later he brought back The Prudent and Equitable Father, or, Crispin the Happy Scoundrel. He'd composed the short farce in rhymed verse, just to ensure that he'd win the bet. Though many passages were clearly lifted from a play enjoying a popular run at the time, all agreed that young Pierre had talent. The play survives; the salon's consensus is debatable. Contemporary critic Jean d'Alembert later noted the play is a "chrysalis...from which trained eyes can comb out under a microscope the kernel of his talents and flaws." Pierre never sought out a production, not eager "to lose in public the wager he'd won in private," and the play was published anonymously. None of these seem like ringing endorsements. It would be a decade before Pierre wrote another play, though by then he'd published several novels under the name by which we know him today: Marivaux. Despised by most zealots of good taste for his pomposity, his public aversion to Molière (his favorite times to bad-mouth the adored dramatist were while rehearsing with the very same troupe that had made Molière famous), and his appearance of indiscretion with his leading lady, Marivaux would write 30 plays in 30 years (including The Triumph of Love, performed at the Guthrie in 1991). He remains the most produced native playwright in France--after Molière, of course, surely to Pierre's chagrin. So if you're thinking about producing your own work at next year's Fringe, disabuse yourself of the romance of playwriting. Make a bet. --Matt DiCintio

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THE CITY - For more than a year I’ve mulled over whether or not to write a column about my number one pet peeve – able-bodied people who park in spots reserved for the disabled.

As I started typing my first words I saw that the Los Angeles Times published a story entitled “Fraudulent use of disabled parking placards explodes in last decade.”  [LINK]

But the focus of the story, and the impetus for law enforcement’s crackdown on violators was primarily about the loss of revenue to government.  Millions of dollars each year.

Those special placards allow a person to park at a metered spot as long as they want for free.

A researcher found that in the city of Los Angeles there are six legally-issued placards for every meter.

My concern goes beyond the loss of revenue, which is bad enough on its own.

While we get encouraged after seeing almost weekly examples of people selflessly helping each other in times natural disasters, it bewilders and saddens me when I see people taking a parking space from those who need them to perform chores that so many of us take for granted.

There’s a reason why many of those spots are wider than normal.  People who need wheelchairs or scooters to get around, or who have vans with special lifts need the extra room.

So when I come across a perfectly healthy person using a relative’s placard to grab a prime spot out of their own laziness, greed, and selfishness, I have trouble containing myself.

At a crowded beach parking lot, I once watched an SUV full of agile adults and children pull into a handicapped spot in a crowded beach parking lot and pop out someone’s placard.  After watching for a while, I took out my camera and pointed it at them.  I didn’t even turn it on.

They saw me, and as soon as they unloaded one adult drove the van away in search of a regular spot.

Other innovative cities have found ways of dealing with this problem.

In Santa Cruz County, a program called the “Quad Squad” was created.  Handicapped persons were hired to enforce parking regulations in Capitola Village.

Finding themselves short on parking enforcement officers, some cities have turned to volunteers.  Places like Omaha, NE, Houston and Amarillo, TX, Colorado Springs, CO, and Bloomington and Ft. Wayne, IN, and Honolulu, HI established special handicapped parking enforcement programs.

Jacksonville, FL calls its volunteers the “Parking Posse.”  Palm Beach, FL started with disabled volunteers and later added others who account for 70% of the city’s handicap parking citations that are issued.

The volunteers in Las Vegas, NV account for 85% of the tickets issued for improperly parking in spots reserved for the handicapped.

Sometimes state laws need to be amended to permit cities to use trained and qualified volunteers.

An added benefit is the presence of additional eyes and ears ready to report suspicious behaviors or conditions.

I realize that somewhere there are risk adverse governmental attorneys who, as a kneejerk reaction, discourage new ideas those pose the slightest potential of lawsuits.

I know that there are city employee unions who argue against the idea of volunteers to do anything that their members have been doing, even if there aren’t enough of them to get the job done.

But elected officials need to balance those concerns against the rights of the disabled.  If that isn’t enough of a reason, they need to count the additional income it will produce.

Neighborhood councils could take up the cause by finding potential volunteers, starting with the disabled community, and organizing a crusade.  It’s the kind of thing they were created to do.

(Greg Nelson participated in the birth and development of the LA Neighborhood Council system and served as the General Manager of the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment. He also served as Chief of Staff for former City Councilman Joel Wachs. Nelson now provides news and issues analysis to CityWatch. He can be reached at: .)
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Legislature Honors Reconstruction Era Lawmakers, Associated Press - March 26, 2009.The Alabama Legislature has passed a resolution honoring black lawmakers who served during the Reconstruction era following the Civil War. The resolution by Democratic Rep. Alvin Holmes of Montgomery says black Alabama residents played an integral part in the Legislature from 1868 to 1878. At the height of Reconstruction in 1874, there were 33 blacks in the Legislature.

Holmes' resolution received final approval Thursday when the House went along with changes made by the Senate. The resolution now goes to Gov. Bob Riley for his approval. The resolution calls for the names of the black lawmakers to be placed on plaques located in the rotunda of the state Capitol, on the grounds outside the Capitol and inside the entrance to the Alabama Statehouse.

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Some 250 people gather outside the CN Rail station. MYRON LOVE PHOTO

WINNIPEG — A broad cross-section of Manitobans turned out on July 21 for two rallies in Winnipeg in support of Israel.

The first demonstration, held late in the afternoon, began in front of the CN Rail station in the heart of downtown and finished in front of the soon-to-be opened Canadian Museum for Human Rights.

Sergei Did, the 23-year-old community college student who organized the outdoor demonstration, estimated the turnout at 250 people.

A counter-demonstration nearby attracted just a handful of pro-Palestinian protesters who didn’t stick around long.

The evening rally in the gymnasium at the Asper Jewish Community Campus, drew a standing-room-only crowd of close to 700.

“We had a huge number of supporters,” said Shelly Faintuch, one of the principal organizers of the evening rally.

“The turnout was much higher than we anticipated,” added Faintuch, who is both community relations director at the Jewish Federation of Winnipeg and associate director of local partner services for the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs. “It was gratifying to see so many people who wanted to show their support for Israel.”

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It wasn’t just members of Winnipeg’s Jewish community who came. Faintuch said there were a number of aboriginal people, as well as members of the Sikh and Hindu communities and evangelical Christians from outside Winnipeg.

“Our friends got the word out to their communities,” she said.

The rally was led by federation president David Kroft, and the roster of speakers included Shelley Glover, the Conservative MP for St. Boniface and senior minister for Manitoba; Ted Falk, Conservative MP for Provencher (to the southeast of Winnipeg); Kerri Irvin-Ross, Manitoba’s minister of healthy living; Eric Malloy, national director of Bridges For Peace Canada; Norway House Cree Nation Chief Ron Evans; and Rabbi Ari Ellis, spiritual leader of Herzlia-Adas Yeshurun Synagogue.

Also in the audience were Winnipeg Conservative MPs Joyce Bateman and Lawrence Toet, along with former provincial NDP cabinet minister Christine Melnick, who had recently returned from Israel where she visited the Playground for Peace, a joint Manitoba-Israel project.

Also recently returned from Israel was Falk, who went as part of a parliamentary delegation. He spoke of his experiences being under fire from incoming missiles.

He described watching Iron Dome batteries knock missiles out of the air and Israel’s three-step process of trying to warn Palestinians to get out of the way before bombing their neighbourhoods.

He also spoke about visiting the SodaStream plant in the West Bank – commenting on the number of Palestinians employed there – and a stop on the Golan Heights, where the group could hear shooting in nearby Syria.

In co-operation with Faintuch, Evans has been arranging tours to Israel for young people from his community (Norway House) for the past three years. He noted in his speech that his community leadership’s goal is to have 300 members visit Israel to learn from its example.

“I am here this evening,” he said, “to lend our support to the only democracy in the Middle East, to a country whose people have inspired us, to the Israeli people themselves who have every right to live in peace and security, and to thank the Jewish community for being there for us, the Norway House Cree Nation.”

The evening concluded with a prayer for the soldiers of Israel and for the fallen, the reading of Psalm 121 by children currently attending the Chabad day camp, Gan Israel, and the recitation of Kaddish by a young man whose best friend recently died fighting for Israel.

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Application support for mobile computing

Steven Leslie Pope

February 1997, 145 pages

This technical report is based on a dissertation submitted October 1996 by the author for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the University of Cambridge, Jesus College.

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II. CITIZEN COMMUNICATION (The Chair of the Board will call for statements from citizens regarding issues relating to County government. It is the intention that this portion of the agenda shall be limited to items of County business which are properly the object of Board consideration and may not be of a personal nature. Persons wishing to speak shall be allowed to do so after registering on the blue card provided on the table outside of the hearing room prior to the beginning of the meeting. Testimony is limited to three (3) minutes. Comments shall be respectful and courteous to all.)
III. PREVIOUSLY APPROVED LAND USE ISSUE (No public testimony on this item)

  1. Board Order No. _____ Adopting a Comprehensive Plan Amendment, Zone Map Amendment, and Site Plan Review request from Tonquin Holdings, LLC, on property described as T3S R1W Section 04A, Tax Lots 100 and 102. File Nos.: ZO287-13-CP; ZO288-13-ZAP; and ZO289-13-MAR – Previously approved at the November 13, 2013 Land Use Hearing (Nathan Boderman, County Counsel)

IV. BOARD DISCUSSION ITEMS(The following items will be individually discussed by the Board only, followed by Board action.)

  1. Resolution No. _____ Regarding Sea Lions at Willamette Falls (Gary Schmit, Public and Government Affairs)

V. DISCUSSION ITEMS(The following items will be individually presented by County staff or other appropriate individuals. Citizens who want to comment on a discussion item may do so when called on by the Chair.)

  1. Adoption of an Intergovernmental Agreement between Clackamas County Service District No. 1 and the City of Milwaukie Regarding Access and Development Near Kellogg Creek Treatment Plant (Elizabeth Garcia, Water Environment Services)
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VI. CONSENT AGENDA(The following Items are considered to be routine, and therefore will not be allotted individual discussion time on the agenda. Many of these items have been discussed by the Board in Study Session. The items on the Consent Agenda will be approved in one motion unless a Board member requests, before the vote on the motion, to have an item considered at its regular place on the agenda.)

A. Health, Housing & Human Services

  1. Approval of an Intergovernmental Agreement between Gladstone School District #115 for Child Resource Coordinator services – Children, Youth & Families
  2. Approval of Mental Health Director's Designee to Authorize a Custody Hold Under ORS 426.233Behavioral Health
  3. Approval of Intergovernmental Agreement #145025 with The State of Oregon, Department of Human Services, Aging and People with Disabilities Division and Clackamas County Social Services Division to serve as the Regional Coordinator for the Four (4) County Metro Aging & Disabilities Resource Connection Consortium for the Money Management Program –Social Services
  4. Approval of an Intergovernmental Agreement with the State of Oregon Department of Human Services for Job Opportunities and Basic Skills for clients receiving Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) - Community Solutions

B. Elected Officials

  1. Approval of Previous Business Meeting Minutes – BCC
  2. Approval of an Authorization to Purchase Mobile Data Computers from CDW-Government - CCSO

C. Department of Employee Services

  1. Approval of the Administrative Services Agreement with Moda Health for Claims Administration of the Self-insured Dental Plan for the Period of January 1, 2014 through December 31, 2014

D. Business & Community Services

  1. Resolution No. ______ Authorizing Clackamas County Parks to Apply for an Oregon Parks and Recreation Department Land and Water Conservation Fund Grant for Barton Park Fire Pond Rehabilitation and Delegates the Business and Community Services Director Authority to Sign the Grant Application.

VII. Development Agency

  1. Authorization to Approve Utility Easements

NOTE: Regularly scheduled Business Meetings are televised and broadcast on the Clackamas County Government Channel. These programs are also accessible through the County’s Internet site. DVD copies of regularly scheduled BCC Thursday Business Meetings are available for checkout at the Clackamas County Library in Oak Grove by the following Saturday. You may also order copies from any library in Clackamas County or the Clackamas County Government Channel.

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Keeping Pell on Track to Help Low-Income Americans Afford College

Dec 16, 2013

By Manuela Ekowo and Julie Strawn

The Save Pell Coalition, of which CLASP is a member, has released new findings on the current state of the Pell Grant program and the many students who are counting on it. Key takeaways include:

The Need: Students rely on Pell Grants more than ever

  • Nine million Americans depend on Pell Grants to attend and complete college.
  • Next year's maximum Pell Grant will cover the smallest share of college costs since the start of the program. As recently as the 1980s, the maximum Pell Grant covered more than half the cost of attending a four-year public college. But even after recent increases, the scheduled $5,785 maximum Pell Grant in 2014-15 is expected to cover less than one-third of the cost of college.
  • Pell Grant recipients are already more than twice as likely as other students to have student loans (61 percent vs. 29 percent). Among Pell Grant recipients who graduate from four-year colleges, nearly 9 out of 10 have student loans. According to a new report from the Project on Student Debt at the Institute for College Access & Success (TICAS), 7 in 10 college seniors who graduated in 2012 had student loan debt. The average debt was $29,400.
  • More than 60 percent of African-American undergraduates (up from 50 percent in March 2013) and half of Hispanic undergraduates (up from 40 percent) rely on Pell Grants to attend school.

The Demand: Business and the public demand higher skills

  • The economy's demand for college-educated workers is projected to increase at double the rate of supply.
  • A college degree dramatically increases employment and wages. Young adults with only a high school diploma are almost 3 times as likely to be unemployed, and earn less than three-fifths as much, as those with a bachelor's degree.
  • People of all backgrounds, ages, and party affiliations oppose cuts to Pell Grants and believe college affordability should be a top priority for Congress and the economy. Surveys consistently find near universal agreement on: the importance of a college education for individuals and the economy; concerns about costs and debt; and the need to make college affordability and financial aid policy top priorities.

The Sacrifice: Pell Grants have already been hard hit

  • Recent budget agreements reduced Pell Grant funding by more than $50 billion. The FY11 budget agreement eliminated "year-round" Pell Grants, while the FY12 omnibus appropriations bill placed tight restrictions on eligibility. Taken together, these changes have slashed Pell Grants by roughly $5 billion (12 percent) per year and more than $50 billion over 10 years.

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Jury Duty Commonly Asked Questions
How can I be excused from Jury Duty?
All requests for excusal must be submitted in writing. Excusal is granted unless otherwise notified. You will be contacted only if there are questions about your request or if your request is not accepted. Request for excusal due to personal, business, or medical reasons must be submitted in writing.
What are the qualifications to be a Juror?
You must be a U.S. citizen at least 18 years of age, a resident of the State of Florida for one year and Hendry County for six months, and possess a driver's license or identification card issued by the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles. If you do not possess a driver's license, you may execute an affidavit, which may be obtained by calling the Clerk's Jury Management Office, or by visiting the Jury Management Office located in the Hendry County Judicial Building 863-675-5214
How are Jurors summoned?
Names are randomly selected from the list of names supplied annually by the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles.
What are the exemptions and disqualifications from Jury Duty
You may be excused for the following reasons:
You have served as a juror in Hendry County within the past 12 months.
You are an expectant mother or a parent who is not employed full-time and have custody of a child under six years of age.
You are 70 years of age or older.
You are a fulltime federal, state, or local law enforcement officer or investigative personnel for these entities.
You care for persons who, because of mental illness, mental retardation, senility, or physical or mental incapacity, are incapable of caring for themselves.
You are a practicing attorney or physician, or have a physical infirmity.
You will be excused for the following reasons:
You are currently under prosecution for any crime.
You are a convicted felon and have not had your civil rights restored.
You serve as the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, a Cabinet officer, clerk of court, or judge.
Will I get paid for Jury Duty?
Jurors who are regularly employed and receive regular wages during jury duty are not entitled to compensation for the first three days of jury service. Jurors who are not regularly employed or who do not receive regular wages during jury duty are entitled to $15.00 per day for the first three days of jury service. Jurors who serve more than three days will be paid by the State for the fourth and subsequent days of service at the rate of $30.00 per day.
Are Jurors examined?
When jurors are called to a panel for a particular case, the judge and the attorneys will ask questions regarding jurors' backgrounds. This process is called "voir dire," which means "to speak the truth." These questions are not meant to embarrass. Instead, they are designed to ensure that members of the jury have no opinions or past experiences that might prevent them from making an impartial decision. Excusals from jury service should not be taken personally. When jurors are excused, it means only that there are proper and lawful reasons for the excusals.
How long must I serve on Jury Duty?
You will be on call for one day appearance unless inpaneled on a trial taht is not completed in one day, or unless the Court rules otherwise.
What are Petit and Grand Juries?
A petit jury will hear and decide civil and criminal cases.
Civil cases are disputes between private citizens, corporations, governments, government agencies, or other organizations. Usually, the party who brings the suit is seeking money damages for an alleged wrong that has been done. The party who brings the suit is called the plaintiff, and the one being sued is called the defendant. Civil trials can involve small claims, personal injury, and medical malpractice cases.
Criminal cases are brought by the state against persons accused of committing a crime. In these cases, the state is the plaintiff, and the accused person is the defendant. Criminal trials can involve traffic, misdemeanor, felony, and capital (death penalty) cases.
A grand jury has broad powers to investigate a wide range of criminal offenses and to examine the performance of public officials and public institutions. Its deliberations are conducted in secret, in conjunction with the State Attorney or a designated assistant state attorney.
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There are two parking areas, one is located south of the Judicial Center and can be accessed from either Main St or Bridge St. , the other parking area is across from east side of Judicial Center on Bridge St, north of the Sheriff's office
Can I call to find out if I have to serve for Jury Duty?
The Clerk's office has a recorded telephone message that provides jurors with general information about jury service.
Please call LaBelle 612-4747 or Clewiston 902-3343 weekdays after 5pm or weekends to receive this general message.
Court cases often settle between the time summonses are mailed and juries are scheduled to report.
Therefore, all jurors must call LaBelle 612-4747 or Clewiston 902-3343 to verify if their attendance will be necessary.
Due to the fact that most court weeks begin on Monday, the recorded message is activated from 5:00 P.M. on the Friday before the scheduled report date and continues through the weekend.
Americans with Disabilities Act Notice
In accordance with the AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, persons with a disability needing a special accommodation to participate in this proceeding contact the Clerk not later than seven days prior to the proceeding at
Important Things to Remember During the Trial
Jurors should observe the following general rules of conduct:
Be on time for court. The trial cannot proceed until all jurors are present.
Sit in the same seat in the jury box. This allows the clerk, judge, and lawyers to identify you more easily.
Listen carefully. It is important that you hear every question asked and every answer given since your verdict will be based on the evidence given. If you do not understand any portion of the trial, you should ask the judge to explain.
Do not talk about the case. You should not talk with anyone about the case. This includes the clerk, lawyers, judge, bailiff, and other jurors, unless you have retired to the jury room for deliberations. If anyone tries to talk to you about the case or attempts to influence you as a juror, you should report it to the judge immediately.


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Cleveland Browns agree to terms with rookie LB Johnson, sign TE/FB Smelley; close with RB Richardson

Mary Kay Cabot, Northeast Ohio Media Group By Mary Kay Cabot, Northeast Ohio Media Group The Plain Dealer
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johnson-tackle-hawaii-unr-horiz-ap.jpgView full sizeNevada linebacker James-Michael Johnson (right, lining up Hawaii's Sterling Jackson) could see immediate action with the Browns this fall.

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Browns have wrapped up two of their draft picks on the eve of rookie camp and are close with most or all of the others.

They agreed to terms on a four-year deal with linebacker James-Michael Johnson, the fourth-rounder from Nevada, and signed tight end fullback Brad Smelley, the seventh-rounder from Alabama, to a four-year contract. Running back Trent Richardson, Smelley's former Alabama teammate, also told 92.3 The Fan Wednesday that he's close to signing his deal and hopes to have it done by Thursday.

Rookie minicamp is Friday through Sunday.

Johnson's deal is worth $2.52 million, a source told The Plain Dealer, and Smelley's deal is worth a maximum of $2.14 million, including a signing bonus of $45,890, according to

Johnson started 50 of 54 games at Nevada, 23 at strongside linebacker and 27 in the middle. He ranks sixth in school history with 299 tackles, including 170 solos. He could play a significant role for the Browns if linebacker Scott Fujita serves his full three-game suspension for his involvement in the Saints' bounty system. Fujita has steadfastly denied any wrongdoing and is appealing the suspension.

"I'm an athletic linebacker," said Johnson on draft day. "I an instinctive linebacker. I come downhill. I can guard man-to-man out of the backfield. I can guard the tight end man-to-man. I'm a competitor. I just love the game of football and I love to play hard. I love making a big play and sparking my defense."

Smelley, 6-2, 230, started 10 games for the Crimson Tide last season. His most notable game was in the BCS Championship victory over LSU when he caught seven passes.

"I was used in a variety of different ways," Smelley said on draft day. "They split me out, put me on the line like a traditional tight end, put me in the backfield and moved me around. [They] did a lot of different things with us."

Heckert on Weeden: GM Tom Heckert told Pro Football Talk Live Wednesday that the idea is for Brandon Weeden to start right away, re-iterating what he and coach Pat Shurmur said on draft day.

"Yeah, that's the overall view," Heckert told Pro Football Talk Live. "That's what we think he's gonna be. We took him there, so we expect him to be the guy. Now if it doesn't work out that way right away, we're not gonna throw him out there just because we took him at 22. We're not in this thing to look good in our draft picks and all that stuff. But obviously when we took him at 22, we expect him to be the guy."

He said the Browns weren't just blowing smoke when they said they were prepared to go with Colt McCoy this season.

"In free agency, we did not talk to anybody, we did not bring anybody in, Colt was our guy," he said. "Then it just so happened that there was a couple guys in this draft that we really liked and if we got them, which we did, then it would be a competition. But we do like Colt McCoy and we do think he's got a chance to be a player in this league."

He added that he believed the Browns can compete with the other teams in the division now that they've upgraded their offense and have another year in the scheme.

Jackson finalist: Browns linebacker D'Qwell Jackson is one of four finalists for the Pro Football Writers of America's Hala Award, for the player or coach who has performed with abandon despite injury or personal problems off the field. The others are Patriots owner Robert Kraft, 49ers quarterback Alex Smith, and Lions quarterback Matt Stafford.

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Drunken driving suspect flees officer: North Ridgeville police blotter

Cheryl Higley, Sun News By Cheryl Higley, Sun News Sun News
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Drunken driving, Lear Nagle Road: On June 12, an officer located a car that had driven off US 20. As he approached the car, the driver fled northbound. The suspect was apprehended and booked into jail on a charge of drunken driving.

Suspicious person, Ridgeview Boulevard: On June 13, officers were dispatched to investigate a suspicious person complaint. While in the area, they observed a vehicle circling the area several times. Police stopped the car, and a 17-year-old passenger was arrested for underage alcohol consumption, obstructing official business and resisting arrest.

Criminal damaging, Amber Way: On June 7 an officer was dispatched regarding a criminal damaging complaint.

Drunken driving, US 20: An off-duty officer reported an intoxicated motorcycle driver had asked him for directions. Police located the suspect and arrested him on drunken-driving charges on June 8.

Criminal mischief, Harding Avenue: On June 9 a resident called to report juveniles were walking down the street spraying cars with shaving cream. Police located the suspects, who said another juvenile had sprayed the shaving cream. All were released to their parents.

Criminal damaging, Gail Drive: On June 11 several mailboxes were reported damaged.

Theft, Mills Road: A man reported a tablet stolen from his unlocked vehicle on June 1.

Suspicious condition, Lorain Road: On June 1, officers investigated a suspicious vehicle at a local motel. A man was found to have a felony warrant through Cleveland Police and he was transported to the Cleveland city jail. A woman in the car was cited for marijuana possession and released.

Theft, Birch Street: On May 22 a woman reported a snowblower, sander and window air conditioner stolen.


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