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Cricket: Bay crash back down to earth

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Prolific Bay of Plenty batsman Bharat Popli top scored with 90 in Bay of Plenty's well-timed pursuit of Counties Manukau's total on the first day of the Brian Dunning Cup.
Prolific Bay of Plenty batsman Bharat Popli top scored with 90 in Bay of Plenty's well-timed pursuit of Counties Manukau's total on the first day of the Brian Dunning Cup.

There was plenty for Bay players to celebrate on the first day of the Brian Dunning Cup one day competition in Taupo, but the tide turned for the team yesterday.

The Bay fell short in their run chase against a Northland team stung into action by a loss to a Poverty Bay team including a number of Bay of Plenty Development players.

The result throws the competition wide open and means Bay of Plenty likely need a victory against Hamilton today to keep their campaign on track.

Bharat Popli top scored with 94 in the Bay's pursuit of 225/8, but lacked support from the other end as the chase stagnated.

The innings ended nine runs short on 216/8 and the Bay will likely need some batsman to step up in what is essentially a grudge match today.

The reigning champion Bay side, looking to back up the most successful season in the history of the association in which it filled the cupboard with plenty of silverware, chased down a large Counties Manukau total in fine fashion on Sunday.

Set a daunting 275/5 to chase in 50 overs, coach Ben Williams altered the batting order to great effect.

Captain and normally opening batsman Peter Drysdale was dropped down to number six, allowing fellow Mount Maunganui batsman Tim Clarke to throw his hands at the top of the order.

The gamble came off, with Clarke compiling 75 to set up the innings for the outstanding Popli.

Popli, who has scored heavily for the Bay in previous seasons, again underlined his class by stroking a controlled 90 to place the Bay in the box seat throughout the chase.

An atypical innings from bona fide salt grinder Drysdale followed to take the contest away from Counties.

His 40 runs from just 19 deliveries, consisting mainly of unconventional paddle sweeps and front foot pull shots against the pace bowlers, meant the Bay got home with three balls and four wickets to spare.

"It was fantastic, a great group effort from the boys," said Williams.

"The run chase was outstanding. The boys laid a great foundation, retained wickets and played clever cricket the whole way through the 50 overs.

"It was pretty well in hand for the entire innings. It was always going to require someone to play a little cameo and when you've got wickets in hand it's certainly very doable and Pete did that for us.

"Baz [Popli] was his outstanding self and Tim [Clarke] played a good knock, then Pete [Drysdale] played an uncharacteristic innings at the end. It was a real testament to his application in the winter."

Williams was less pleased with the bowling and fielding units but said they would improve as the week went on.

"We bowled both sides of the wicket and we weren't as clinical as we normally are.

"Our fielding standard wasn't up to normal but obviously, with the first game of the season, you can accept that and move on and improve."

Elsewhere, more Bay of Plenty players were flying the flag for their home association in the guise of Poverty Bay colours.

The struggling area has again been topped up by Western Bay of Plenty players keen to help both their own chances of playing for the Bay of Plenty and the chances of their good mates retaining the spoils.

Josh Bates top scored with 38 and Mount Maunganui's Alex Gooding added 37 as Poverty Bay were dismissed for 193 in their final over.

Te Puke all-rounder Jermey Bates then ripped the heart out of Northland's vaunted batting line-up in a boil over, claiming 5/21 from his 10 overs.

"Jeremy Bates bowled like a man possessed for Poverty Bay yesterday apparently," said Williams.

"Northland has got an extremely strong side filled with the Parlanes, the Yovichs, the Marshalls, Kneebones, Hydes, Coopers - some really promising players."

Counties Manukau 275/5 (Cameron Fletcher 115, Luke Wlliamson 82; Tony Goodin 42/3) lost to Bay of Plenty 276/6 (Tim Clarke 75, Bharat Popli 90, Peter Drysdale 40 no; Tom Urry 51/3, Michael Schofield 6/3).

- Bay of Plenty Times

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Fruit fly alert: What you need to know

Red: Zone A, Yellow: Zone B
Red: Zone A, Yellow: Zone B

The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) has placed controls on the movement of whole fresh fruit and some vegetables out of a specific area of Whangarei after a single male Queensland fruit fly was found in a surveillance trap.

MPI this morning announced that the Ministry is investigating the new find in a trap in the Parihaka area of Whangarei, approximately 400m from where a fruit fly was found in January this year.

Read more about the last biosecurity alert here

Andrew Coleman, MPI Deputy Director-General, Compliance and Response, says all information at this stage indicates that this detection is a new find and not related to the January incident.

"The Whangarei community were immensely supportive of our efforts earlier this year and we anticipate they will be again. It is, of course, disappointing that this situation has recurred."

Mr Coleman says the legal movement controls, set out in a Controlled Area Notice, are an important precaution while MPI investigates whether there are any further fruit flies present in the area.

"Should there be any as yet undetected flies out there, this will help prevent their spread out of the area."

The Queensland fruit fly is an unwanted and notifiable insect that could have serious consequences for our horticultural industries and home gardens.

The Controlled Area Notice is in force for a 1.5km circular area around the location of the find, taking in parts of Parihaka, Riverside and central Whangarei.

This description is approximate and detailed maps of the controlled area, a full description of the boundaries and full information about the rules are at:

Whole fresh fruit and vegetables (except for leafy vegetables and root veges) cannot be moved outside of the Controlled Area.

Within the wider Controlled Area there is a smaller central Zone A (which takes in a circle 200 metres out from the initial find), and whole fruit and vegetables cannot be moved outside of this Zone at all.

Fruit and vegetables can continue to be transported from outside the Controlled Area into the Controlled Area.

Red: Zone A, Yellow: Zone B
Red: Zone A, Yellow: Zone B

Read the controlled area notice here.

Key fruits, vegetables and plants of concern are:
All citrus fruits, all stonefruit, pears, apples, blackberry, boysenberry, grapes, feijoa, passionfruit, tomato, eggplant, capsicum, pumpkin, avocado, custard apple, quince, persimmon, loquat, olives, oleander, kumquat, crab-apple, cape gooseberry and guava.

Residents are asked to avoid composting any of these risk fruits and vegetables.

For disposing of fruit and vegetable waste, they are encouraged to use a sink waste disposal unit if possible. MPI is providing special bins in the Controlled Area for the disposal of fruit and vegetable waste. The locations of these bins will be advised shortly.

"We appreciate this will be inconvenient for the many people living in and around the Controlled Area, but compliance with these restrictions is a critical precaution to protect our horticultural industries and home gardens," Mr Coleman says.

"It is expected the restrictions will be in place for at least a couple of weeks."

MPI and its partners have deployed investigators in the affected area. They will be laying traps and checking fruit trees, vegetable gardens and rubbish bins for any signs of fruit flies.

"It is vital that we ascertain if the insect is a solitary find or if there is a wider population in Northland which would need to be treated," Mr Coleman says.

If further fruit flies are found, the Ministry says there will not be aerial spraying of insecticides as there are other more effective treatment methods available.

Full information will be regularly updated on

For further information or to report any suspicious finds, call MPI on 0800 80 99 66.

MPI has a list of frequently asked questions here.

- Northern Advocate

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Twelve Questions: Teuila Blakely

Defiantly single for a decade, Shortland Street actress and writer Teuila Blakely is penning a book on living life alone. It won't please all her fans - or her conservative Samoan community.

Teuila Blakely says promiscuous women are judged far more harshly than promiscuous men. Photo / Babiche Martens
Teuila Blakely says promiscuous women are judged far more harshly than promiscuous men. Photo / Babiche Martens

1. Got a working title for the book yet?

So far, it's Sexless In The City. Or maybe Ms Understood.

2. Isn't that a a bit grim?

Actually it's anything but. I've been in the really unique situation of choosing to be single at my age [38] for 10 years now and I realised about five years ago this was really the life I wanted to live. Most women my age are attached but this book will be about how I am one of the most content women I know.

3. Have you felt pressure to be part of a couple?

Oh God, so much! There are real stigmas to being single - that you are lonely, or defective in some way or you can't get or keep a man or you are after other women's men. And people really don't want you to be single. After a while I asked myself, do I really want to be in a relationship or do I want to be in a relationship so my friends stop feeling sorry for me? And do I actually envy their lives? Turned out I didn't.

4. Are there downsides?

Of course, but I feel like this is the last right we are missing as women - the right to be independent, successful, content and yes, even sexual as single women. People are far more accepting of women being sexual in relationships but woe betide a woman being sexual outside of them. It's other women who object to that more than men. Promiscuous men are not judged badly - promiscuous women are. My mum will hate me for saying this but I have learned through being single that there is nothing wrong with being sexually free. I don't feel bad about it - if anything I'm having the time of my life.

5. Does that make you a feminist?

I call myself a womanist. I totally believe in feminism but a lot of that word comes with preconceived notions and the feminist ideal is often seen in a non-sexual context.

6. You were brought up Mormon. How will the book go down in that community?

In Samoan culture, this is as taboo as it gets. One of the reasons I got pregnant at age 16 (son Jared is now 20) was because sex didn't exist in my childhood. It was never talked about.

7. What was your experience of being a single Pacific Island teenage mum - young, brown and poor presumably?

People were cruel. White women could be really cruel. I was at Kmart buying a toy for my son's birthday and I got the price wrong and couldn't afford the one I had at the counter. A woman got mad 'cause I was holding things up and said "I feel sorry for your son if you can't afford to buy him a birthday present. Women like you make me sick. My husband and I work hard so you can sit at home on the DPB." I was 18 and actually working at the time. It broke my heart.

8. Was everyone like that?

To be honest, it's really hard in that situation. No one wants to help you or wants to be supportive. I lost lots of friends but there was a core group who stuck with me. But I'd grown up with racism. In Tauranga we were the only Samoan family. And I saw the way people spoke to my mother in shops. It wore her down and made her angry but she always fought back.

9. What's it like now, as a successful actress, and with lots more money?

I have enough now. When you're poor you never have enough. One thing I always have too much of is nice underwear and socks. 'Cause I never had matching socks as a kid and I hated that.

10. Is it hard ageing as a woman on TV?

Growing up Samoan one thing my mother never did was focus on looks. She focused on character and how clean we were. I still don't focus on looks and that's a good thing.

11. Your acting career began when you wrote your own play, Island Girls, and starred in it 10 years ago. Is writing your first love?

Writing and acting and music are all my loves, but yes, I adore writing. This book will just be the first - I've got lots of non-fiction books in me too, I'm writing a screenplay too!

12. What's the biggest misconception about Samoans in New Zealand?

That we celebrate each other's success. The tall poppy thing hasn't got anything on us - the Tall Poly syndrome is much worse. If you ask any Samoan who has been successful in the mainstream, they'll tell you about it. I called my production company Tall Poly.

- NZ Herald

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Guide to the Ted Freedman Papers, 1926-1974

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University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California, 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
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The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

Social Sciences --Publishing Arts and Humanities --Book Arts

Guide to the Ted Freedman Papers, 1926-1974

Collection number: BANC MSS 79/79 c

The Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, California

Contact Information:

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Date Completed:
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Encoded by:
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© 1996 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

Collection Summary

Collection Title: Ted Freedman Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1926-1974
Collection Number: BANC MSS 79/79 c
Creator: Freedman, Ted
Extent: 4 boxes, 1 oversize folder
Repository: The Bancroft Library
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Abstract: Correspondence with private and small press owners; records of his press, The Platen Press, in Orinda; clippings, including some on labor unions. Contains material on the Rounce and Coffin Club and the William Morris Society.
Languages Represented: English

Information for Researchers

Collection is open for research.

Publication Rights

Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.

Preferred Citatation

[Identification of item], Ted Freedman Papers, BANC MSS 79/79 c, The Bancroft Library, Universtity of California, Berkeley

Administrative Information

No printing types or allied materials are in Bancroft. They are at South Hall Press, School of Library and Information Studies. [K. Levenson]

A printer by trade, employed by the University of California Press in Berkeley from 1944, Ted Freedman also delighted in printing as a hobby. In 1935, when living in Los Angeles, he borrowed a platen press to publish his first work with the Platen Press imprint, Annunciation by Meridel Le Sueur, in an edition of five hundred copies signed by the author. A gift in August 1944 of a Pilot platen press revived the Platen Press imprint, this time in Orinda, leading to the design and publication of greeting cards and numerous small pieces, many of which were distributed to members of the Typophiles and other organizations interested in fine printing.

Scope and Content

This collection of papers, given to The Bancroft Library by Freedman's widow, Mrs. Stella Freedman, on January 25, 1979, consists primarily of letters written to Freedman by fellow printers, such as H. Richard Archer, Jack W. Stauffacher, Frederick Folger Thomas and William Cheney, in which are discussed current projects and problems. Included also are a few records for the Platen Press itself, with some accounts, mock-ups, texts, designs for ornamentation, etc.
Photographs and printed material from private presses have been removed for separate cataloging.
A key to arrangement and a partial list of major correspondents follow.

Key to Arrangement

Box 1

Letters written by Freedman, 1926-1959.

Scope and Content Note

17 letters, mainly carbon copies.
Box 1 - 3

Letters written to Freedman

Scope and Content Note

Mainly from owners of other small presses, many of them in California, discussing printing projects and technical problems, and exchanging information and publications. The letters have been arranged alphabetically by author or organization, then chronologically within each folder. A partial list of correspondents follows the Key. Unlisted letters have been placed in miscellanies preceding each letter of the alphabet.
Box 1

A - Cq

Box 2

Cr - M

Box 3

N - Z

Box 4

Platen Press records

Accounts for paper and ink, 1944-1952

Accounts for type-face, printing equipment, 1944-1961

Articles about the Press, including some bibliographical material

Annunciation by Meridel Le Sueur.

Scope and Content Note

1935. Typescript

Letter from San Jose by Charles White

Scope and Content Note

[for Glen Dawson's Early Travel Series]. 1955. Mock-ups; accounts, paper samples, etc.

[Monterey County Fair book and print exhibit. 1952]:

Scope and Content Note

text, galley and page proof

The Nonpareil and the Fly Trap [by Ted Freedman. 1953]

Scope and Content Note

Proofreader's Mind by Christopher Morley.

Scope and Content Note

Mock-up, printed sheet.

Retrospect by Oscar Lewis.

Scope and Content Note

1946. Text; mock-ups; leaf drawings Miscellaneous fragments

Rounce and Coffin Club

Membership cards;

Scope and Content Note

1948 membership list; materials re. Western Books, including certificate of award of merit for the Nonpareil and the Fly Trap.

William Morris Society

Membership cards; membership lists;

Scope and Content Note

lists of greeting cards for sale by the Society, etc.

Freedman, Ted

Miscellaneous accounts, 1945-1953;

Scope and Content Note

membership cards; business cards

re Freedman

re Commonwealth College, Mena, Arkansas

re labor unions

portfolio Oversize portfolio:

Card signed by co-workers at retirement party for Freedman

Partial List of Correspondents

Abbe, Dorothy

5 letters, 1953-1955

Adams, Frederick Baldwin, 1910-

Letter, Feb. 13, 1947

Albertus Magnus Press, Oakland, Calif.

Everson, William

Allen, Lewis, 1908-

2 letters, 1951 and n.d.

(Allen Press, Kentfield, Calif.)

Allen Press, Kentfield, Calif.

Allen, Lewis

American Friends of the Plantin-Moretus Museum

2 letters, 1967-1971, by L. Voet.

American Institute of Graphic Arts

2 letters, [1959]-1961, by Eugene M. Ettenburg, Robert M. Jones and Joyce Morrow. Form letters re traveling exhibit, with related materials.

American Notes and Queries

Postcard, Sept. 9, 1948, by B. Alsterlund

Ampersand Press, Pasadena, Calif.

Dahlstrom, Grant

Andrews, Joseph L

Letter, June 11, 1954

Archer, Horace Richard, 1911-1978

187 letters, 1947-1971, containing many enclosures, including samples of printing from his press, the Hippogryph Press. Some written for the Rounce and Coffin Club.

See also: Cheney, William Murray

Archer, Margot (Mrs. H. Richard Archer)

3 letters, 1950-1961

Arnold, Melvin Luxton, 1913-

3 letters, 1953. Writing as editor for the Beacon Press, Boston, and for the Christian Unitarian Register.

Arundo Press, Berkeley, Calif.

Thomas, Frederick Folger

Ashton, S. H.

Letter, Apr. 16, 1953, re. his portable proof press.

Baker, Russell Wayne, 1925-

2 letters, 1963

Beach, Warren, 1914-

Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego

Beacon Press, Boston

Arnold, Melvin Luxton

Bell, Philip Wilkes, 1924-

2 Christmas letters, 1964-1970. 1964 letter re. experiences in Kampala.

Bender, J. Terry

Stanford University. Libraries

Bennett, Paul A., 1897-

31 letters, 1945-1961, mainly in behalf of and re. the Typophiles. Some comments on Brother Antoninus and on H. Richard Archer.

Berger, Sanford L.

Letter, Sept. 10, 1967

Berland, Abel Edward, 1915-

Letter, Feb. 19, 1959

Bliss, Carey S.

8 letters, 1948-1956, written mainly on behalf of the Henry E. Huntington Library and the Rounce and Coffin Club.

Book Club of California

9 letters, 1947-1972, by Elizabeth Downs, George L. Harding, Carroll T. Harris, Oscar Lewis,Teressa Fryworth, Dorothy and Kerwin Whitnah.

See also: Lilienthal, Theodore M.; Borden, John W.; and Shumate, Albert.

Book of the Private Press

Letter, Nov. 28, 1957. Printed, filled in; signed by Thomas Rae.

Borden, John W.

2 letters, 1953-1955. 1955 letter written on behalf of the Book Club of California.

Briggs, Ronald Charles Hawkswell

William Morris Society

Calder, Grace J.

2 letters, 1973, re. William Morris Society

California. University. President

Letter, June 20, 1963. Clark Kerr, enclosing a certificate of appreciation.

Carpenter, Edwin Hager, 1915-

35 letters, 1949-1963. Some written on behalf of the Rounce and Coffin Club

Carpenter, Kenneth J.

Letter, Oct. 24, 1956

Castle Press, Pasadena, Calif.

Dahlstrom, Grant

Cheney, William Murray, 1907-

57 letters, 1948-1961. Many undated. Also included: notes on bits of printing. Some letters include notes by Grant Dahlstrom and H. Richard Archer.

Christian Unitarian Register

Arnold, Melvin Luxton

Crittenden, Walter

7 letters, 1955-1956, re. type.

Dahlstrom, Grant

8 letters, 1951-1955

(Ampersand Press; Castle Press).

See also: Cheney, William Murray; Rounce and Coffin Club; Thomas, Frederick Folger

Dawson, Glen, 1912-

8 letters, 1950-1955, mainly re. the printing of Letter from San Jose.

Dawson, Muir

8 letters, 1948-1958

Deal, Borden, 1922-

Letter, May 11, 1971

Dean, Mallette, 1907-

4 letters, 1951-1963

Dreis, Hazel

3 letters, 1963 and n.d.

Dunlap, Joseph Riggs, 1913-

42 letters, 1959-1975. Mainly on behalf of the William Morris Society.

Eissler, Frederick, 1922-

Sierra Club

Elliott, James W.

3 letters, 1947-1952

(Taylor and Taylor, San Francisco)

Equinox Press; Berkeley

Everson, William

Eshelman, William R.

2 Christmas messages, 1968 and n.d.

Ettenburg, Eugene M., 1903-

American Institute of Graphic Arts

Evans, Henry Herman, 1918-

3 letters, 1955-1958

(Porpoise Bookshop, San Francisco)

Everson, William, 1912-

11 letters, 1948-1961. Some written while Brother Antoninus.

(Equinox Press; Albertus Magnus Press)

Fahey, Herbert, 1894-1959

Letter, Jan. 29, 1951

Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego

Letter, Mar. 2, 1960, by Warren Beach, re. exhibit Private Press Printing - A Fine Art.

Glick, Evelyn (Harter)

Harter, Evelyn

Goertzel, Victor, 1914-

3 cards, 1963-1965

Golden Hind Press, Madison, N. J.

Rushmore, Arthur W; and Rushmore, Edna

Gould, Charles Perry, 1909-

Letter, Apr. 12, 1958

Grabhorn, Jane Bissell, 1911-1973

Postcard, [Aug. 29, 1955]

Grabhorn, Robert, 1900-1973

Postcard, [Nov. 21, 1952]

Graphic Roundtable of San Francisco

Wilson, Adrian

Gray Dawn Press, Pasadena, Calif.

Spalding, Graydon E.

Green, Ralph, 1893-

Thomas, Frederick Folger

Greenwood Press, San Francisco

Stauffacher, Jack Werner

Griddle Press, Yokohama

Wesson, Sheldon C.

Grove, Lee Edmonds, 1909-

16 letters, 1940-1963

Grover, Sherwood

Letter, n.d.

Hagedorn, Hermann, 1882-

Letter, Dec. 23, 1946

Harding, George Laban, 1893-1976

Book Club of California

Harmsen, Tyrus George, 1924-

2 letters, 1953. February letter written for the Rounce and Coffin Club.

Harris, Carroll Timanus, 1890-1975

Book Club of California

Hart, James David, 1911-

6 letters, 1947-1967

Harter, Evelyn

Letter, Feb. 22, 1948

Hendrickson, James

Letter, Jan. 26, 1948

Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, Calif.

Bliss, Carey S

Herity Press, White Plains, N.J.

Lieberman, J. Ben

Hippogryph Press

Archer, H. Richard

Hubben, William, 1895-

Letter, Dec. 19, 1955, addressed to Henry Pommer.

Huggins, Dorothy Harriet

3 letters, 1951-1954

Jones, Robert Marion, 1919-

American Institute of Graphic Arts

Journeyman Press, London

Sinclair, Peter

Kelley, Donald Greame, 1913-

Christmas card, with note, [Dec. 1950]

Kennedy, Alfred Brooks

2 letters, I949 and n.d.

Kerr, Clark, 1911-

California. University. President.

Knowles, Squire

3 letters, 1951-1952

Lansburgh, Mark

Letter, Feb. 12, 1957

Lederer, Wolfgang

Postcard, [Nov. 23, 1952]

LeSueur, Meridel

3 letters, 1946 and n.d. Signed copy of poem also included. Enclosure to undated letter: manuscript, Shirley's Temple.

Levenson, Roger

2 letters, 1955-1963

Lewis, H. H.

5 letters, 1937 and n.d. Also included are manuscripts of some of his poems and articles.

Lewis, Oscar, 1914-

5 letters, 1946-1947.

See also: Book Club of California.

Lieberman, J. Ben

6 letters, 1961-1964.

(Herity Press)

Lilienthal, Theodore M.

4 letters, 1947-1948. 1954 letter on behalf of the Book Club of California.

See also: Book Club of California

McCune, Donovan James, 1902-

2 letters, 1958

McLean, Edward

7 letters, 1952-[1965?]

McManaway, James Gilmer, 1899-

Letter, Aug. 6, 1952

Marks, Lilian

Letter, June 2, 1965

(Plantin Press, Los Angeles)

Marks, Saul, 1905-1974

4 letters, 1944-1963. August 14, 1944 letter describes equipment of the press.

(Plantin Press, Los Angeles)

Mason, John, 1901-

17 letters, 1948-1958, re. special Papers from England.

Melcher, Frederic Gershorn, 1879-

Publishers' Weekly

Middleton, Robert Hunter, 1899-

Society of Typographic Arts

Miller, Alec, 1879-

5 letters, 1958

Miller, George Paul, 1891-

Letter, Mar. 15, 1949

Morley, Christopher Darlington, 1890-

Letter, Apr. 18, 1945

Morley, Grace Louise (McCann), 1900-

San Francisco (City). Museum of Art

Morrow, Joyce (Knoedler), 1917- (Mrs. Richard Stevens Morrow)

American Institute of Graphic Arts

Neel, Marvin H.

Letter, May 12, 1956

New Harmony Press, San Francisco

See Philpott, Arlen Henri

New York (City). Public Library

3 letters, 1954-1955. Letter of Jan. 22, 1955 by L. M. Stark

New York Times

Letter, Dec. 16, 1963, by Irvin S. Taubkin

Northern California Service Board for Conscientious Objectors

Letter, Dec. 4, 1942, by Allen H. Barr.

Olmsted, Duncan Houx

Letter, Apr. 18, 1958

Orton, Vrest Teachout, 1897-

Letter and postcard, 1934-[1935]. 1935 letter includes mock-up and suggestions for improving the printing of the Commonwealth College Fortnightly.

Peacock Press, Berkeley, Calif.

Underhill, Wanda

Pearson, Reuben

5 letters, 1949-1953

Philpott, Arlen Henri

38 letters, 1952-1961

(New Harmony Press).

Enclosure to letter of Jan. 12, 1953: postcard from W. P. Wreden.

Plantin Press, Los Angeles

Marks, Lilian; and Marks, Saul.

Pommer, Henry Francis, 1918-

4 letters, 1955-1957

Porpoise Bookshop, San Francisco

Evans, Henry Herman

Powell, Lawrence Clark, 1906-

2 letters, 1949-1953

Letter, July 15, 1951 by W.E. Rudge.

Private Press of the Indiana Kid, Nappanee, Ind.

Weygand, James Lamar

Privateer Press, Front Royal, Va.

Watts, Stevens Lewis

Publishers' Weekly

Letter, July 23, 1946, by Frederic G. Melcher

Rae, Thomas, 1928-

Book of the Private Press

Ransom, Will, 1878-1955

4 letters, 1947-1951

Ritchie, Ward, 1905-

Letter, [1958?].

See also Rounce and Coffin Club.

Rounce and Coffin Club

Form letter, May 30, 1953, signed by the Board of Governors - Grant E. Dahlstrom, Ward Ritchie, and J. I. Zeitlin.

See also: Archer, H. Richard; Bliss, Carey S.; Carpenter, Edwin Hager; and Harmsen, Tyrus George.

See also subject file in Box 4.

Rudge, William Edwin, 1908-

Rushmore, Arthur Wisner, 1883-1955

10 letters, 1940-1954

(Golden Hind Press)

Rushmore, Edna (Mrs. Arthur Wisner Rushmore)

2 letters, 1956-1966. 1956 letter re. death of her husband. Mrs. Rushmore continued the Golden Hind Press after her husband's death.

San Francisco (City). Museum of Art

4 letters, 1958, by Grace L. McCann Morley and Katherine Baker.

San Francisco (City). Public Library

Letter, Aug. 15, 1967, by Harold D. Martelle, Jr.

Schmoe, Floyd Wilfred, 1895-

3 letters, 1966

Sequoia Press, Kalamazoo, Mich.

Stone, William

Shapiro, S. R., 1911-

Letter, July 15, 1953

Shumate, Albert, 1904-

3 letters, 1958 and n.d. Undated letter written on behalf of the Book Club of California.

Sierra Club

4 letters, 1958, by Fred Eissler, re. clean-up campaign, with related clippings, etc.

Sinclair, Peter

Letter, Sept. 24, 1974

(The Journeyman Press)

Society of Typographic Arts

Letter, May 13, 1947, by R. H. Middleton.

Spalding, Graydon E.

3 letters, 1953-1966,

(Gray Dawn Press)

Sperisen, Albert, 1908-

Letter, n.d.

Standard, Paul, 1900-

3 letters, 1947

Stanford University. Libraries

2 letters, 1955, by J. Terry Bender and E. M. Grieder.

Stark, Lewis Morgrage, 1908-

New York (City). Public Library

Stauffacher, Jack Werner, 1920-

21 letters, 1950-1971. Comments on Mardersteig and his press; life and printing in Italy; work at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Pa. (Greenwood Press)

Stephenson, Blake and Co., Ltd., Sheffield, Eng.

4 letters, 1950-1952, re. purchase of type.

Stinehour, Roderick D.

Letter, Nov. 3, 1954

(The Stinehour Press)

Stinehour Press, Lunenburg, Vermont

Stinehour, Roderick D.

Stone, William

4 letters, 1949-1953

(Sequoia Press)

Tamalpais Press, Berkeley, Calif.

Levenson, Roger

Taylor and Taylor, San Francisco

Elliott, James W

Thomas, Frederick Folger, 1885-

96 letters, 1951-1968. Copies of letters by Ralph Green included in letter of April 22, 1953; letter from Grant Dahlstrom is enclosure to letter of Oct. 7, 1953. Miscellaneous annotated printing samples at end of second folder.

(Arundo Press, Berkeley, Calif.)

Tommasini, Amadeo R.

4 letters, 1966-1967

Bennett, Paul A

Underhill, Wanda

4 letters, 1965 and n.d.

(Peacock Press, Berkeley, Calif.)

Van Patten, Nathan, 1887-

3 letters, 1951-1955

Walter, Florence S. (Mrs. John I. Walter)

Letter, Apr. 19, 1958

Watts, Stevens Lewis, 1895-1966

3 letters, 1958-1965

(The Privateer Press)

Wesson, Sheldon C.

2 letters, 1956

(The Griddle Press, Yokohama)

Weygand, James Lamar

7 letters, 1953-1970

(Private Press of the Indiana Kid)

White, Minor

5 letters, [1951]. Included are portions of text and revisions of captions for his book of photographs.

Whitnah, Dorothy L.

Book Club of California

William Morris Society

20 letters, 1957-1972, by R. C. H. Briggs, Freeman Bass and Alan Fern. Some addressed to Adrian Wilson. Miscellaneous membership lists etc. at the end of the folder.

See also: Dunlap, Joseph Riggs; and Wilson, Adrian.

Wilson, Adrian, 1923-

6 letters, 1958-1962, mainly re. and in behalf of the William Morris Society. 1962 letter written for the Graphic Roundtable of San Francisco.

Wreden, William Paul, 1910-

Postcard, Nov. 20, 1952.

See also Philpott, Arlen Henri.

Yaukey, Grace (Sydenstricker), 1899-

2 letters, 1961-1967

Zeitlin, Jacob Israel, 1902-

Postcard, May 14, 1954.

See also Rounce and Coffin Club.


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Attorney General J. Joseph Curran, Jr. announced today that a former job coach at a facility for developmentally disabled individuals, Glenn Dennis, has been charged with neglect of a vulnerable adult and reckless endangerment in connection with a December 16, 2002 incident in which he left three developmentally disabled adults alone and unsupervised.

Dennis, 51, of the 1200 block of Brigadoon Trail, Baltimore, was employed by The Chimes, Inc., which operates a number of programs throughout Maryland. He was charged by Criminal Information with three counts of criminal neglect and three counts of reckless endangerment.

Intentional neglect and abuse of vulnerable adults by a care giver is a misdemeanor punishable by a maximum sentence of five years in jail and/or a $10,000 fine. Reckless endangerment is a misdemeanor punishable by not more than five years in jail and/or a $5,000 fine. A criminal information is an accusation and all persons are presumed innocent unless proven guilty.

The case was prosecuted by the Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, which has authority to prosecute abuse or neglect of vulnerable adults in Medicaid-funded facilities.

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Dog Bites Local Newscaster: Tips to Prevent Dog Bite Injuries

February 15, 2012, by Thomas Lewellyn
Recently a Denver news anchor was bitten on the face by an Argentine mastiff. The dog had been saved from an icy reservoir the day before. The newsperson was interviewing two safety officers while petting the dog's head. She then made the tragic mistake of putting her face near the dog's head. The dog jumped towards her and bit her on the mouth. She was taken to the hospital where she underwent plastic surgery on her mouth. Her face required 70 stitches to repair. Apparently, she will require future surgery as well. The obvious safety point to remember here, which we often forget, is to never put your face near the head of a dog. Dogs bite about 4.5 million people each year. The most frequent victims are children, ages five to nine. Households with two or more dogs are five times more likely to be bitten than those living without dogs at home. With this in mind, I have outlined some safety tips to help prevent these kinds of injuries. The CDC has the recommended the following safety precautions:
  • Before bringing a dog into your house, consult a professional as to which breed would best fit your home
  • Avoid dogs with histories of aggression if you have kids
  • Spend time with a dog before buying or adopting
  • Spay/neuter your pet
  • Don't play aggressive games with your dog, like wrestling
  • Properly socialize and train your dog, teaching it submissive behaviors
For children, the CDC gives this advice:
  • Do not approach an unfamiliar dog.
  • Do not run from a dog or scream.
  • Remain motionless when approached by an unfamiliar dog.
  • If knocked over by a dog, roll into a ball and lie still.
  • Do not play with a dog unless supervised by an adult.
  • Avoid direct eye contact with a dog.
  • Do not disturb a dog that is sleeping, eating or caring for puppies.
  • Do not pet a dog without allowing it to seen and sniff you first.
California dog owners are responsible for injuries caused by their dogs, even if they have taken responsible steps to prevent the injuries from occurring. By virtue of the fact that one owns a dog, he becomes strictly liable for any injuries caused by his pet biting someone. California Civil Code section 3342 states that the owner of a dog is liable for damages suffered by anyone bitten in a public place or lawfully in a private place, including the home of the dog owner. If someone is bitten by your dog, they can file a claim for personal injuries against you. As the owner of the dog, you would be responsible for the person's medical bills, loss of earnings, and for their pain and suffering associated with the bite, and any disfigurement caused by the injury. As an Alameda dog bite attorney, I have represented numerous clients who have suffered very serious and permanent injuries caused by dog bites. By following the safety tips described above, we can all do our part to help reduce these serious and sometimes fatal injuries. Resources: Denver TV anchor bitten on face by dog has 'mouth stitched shut', Herald Sun, February15, 2012 Dog Bite Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


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Phi Phi Cave Diving - Phuket

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60 million years ago The Indian plate collided with the Eurasian plate causing devastating effects across Asia, forming large mountain ranges like the Himalayas. At this time lime stone karsts were pushed through the grassy plane to heights soaring over 100m. Later as the Pacific Ocean began to rise water began to fill this grassy basin later to be known as the Andaman Sea. The Phi Phi caves where born.

These amazing and interesting dive sites are virtually unknown to the multitude of divers that visit Phi phi island each year as venturing into the darkness is not something to be undertaken without the correct training.

Snake Cave

Type: Cave | Depth: 15m-0m | Visibility: 15m+
Location: Located on Phi Phi Don the larger of the two Islands is the Snake cave. Only a 10min boat ride from the harbour in Tonsai village. The entrance to this cave is at a depth of 15m, the ceiling is at 10m, the round opening is 5m at the widest point.
Snake Cave ceilingSnake Cave Stalactites
The Dive: The first part the cave is a host to a covering of sea clams that have attached themselves to the walls as well as schools of fish that shelter away from the reef. Further back on the right side, at a distance of 50m from the entrance is another spherical room leading off from the main passage. Continuing along the main passage 60-70m from the entrance the salt water abruptly changes to fresh water and the usual hydrogen sulphide clouds mark the halocline. The fresh water visibility is usually far greater than the salt water. At a distance of 100m from the entrance the cave ends in a depth of 6m, from here it is possible to surface into a fresh air chamber and even to walk in the dry cave.

Bell Chamber Cave

Type: Cave | Depth: 10m-0m | Visibility: 15m+
Location: Only short hope from the Snake cave is the Bell chamber cave, named for the spherical chamber that marks the end of this spectacular cave. The opening to this cave is an inverted V shape, the 4m wide floor lies at 14m the narrow top of the inverted “V” is at a depth of 10m.
Bell Chamber Cave entryBell Chamber connecting shaft
The Dive: Like the Snake cave the floor gradually becomes shallower towards the back of the cave. 70m from the entrance the cave turns back on itself in a “dog leg” bend leading to a connecting shaft. On the other side of the restriction is the bell chamber with round walls and a dome ceiling. Directly across from the restriction is a small tunnel too small to penetrate, from here a pulsing stream of fresh water is responsible for the haloclines just before the restriction in the main passage. Care should be exercised in the bell chamber as the floor has deep silt deposits that are easily disturbed.

Wang Long Cavern

Type: Cavern | Depth: 14m-2m | Visibility: 15m+
Location: Further along the Limestone cliffs from the Snake cave, a 10min boat ride will bring you to the Wang long gorge, this stunning canyon of 100m high limestone cliffs winds its way to a small sandy beach. Beside the gorge is a small cove where one of the entrances to the Wang long cavern is located.
This large cavern has several entrances on different sides of the cliff. To enter the cavern from the cove there is a small rocky lip at depth of 2m that drops down on the inside to 7m, the floor gradually drops to another larger exit on the far side at a depth of 14m.
Wang Long Cavern entryWang Long Cavern entry
The Dive: Wang long cavern has small tunnels to be explored and beautiful gas filled domes on the ceiling with stalactites, the floor is a host to lobsters, crabs and cowries while schools of fish swarm around the interior.

Corridor Cave

Type: Cave | Depth: 14m-2m | Visibility: 15m+
Location: On the other side of the Tonsai village on Phiphi don lies Lud lum bay, 10min by boat into the bay is Corridor cave.
This cave traverses from a low lying cavern with a very intricate ceiling and several chimneys, through an opening in the roof along a narrow 2m wide and 4m high winding corridor to an exit on the reef wall.
The Dive: Although the total penetration is only 42m the interesting complexity of this cave makes it a very pleasurable dive. The exit on to the reef is spectacular as visibility is reduced almost to zero by the school of glass fish that shelter in the cave entrance.

Maya Cave

Type: Cave | Depth: 12m-0m | Visibility: 15m+
Location: Phi Phi Ley approximately 40min from Tonsai village by boat. The cave is located on the South corner of the bay at a depth of 12m. This bay was made world famous during the making o the film The Beach and is one of the most spectacular bays in the world.
Maya Cave entryStalactites of Maya cave
The Dive: The large entrance leads to a huge cavern that is split in the middle by a pillar several metres across. The left side has a low ceiling 2-3m from the floor and has many interesting rock formations and stalactites, passing these the floor is littered with pieces of broken stalactites.

The right side past the split is more spacious with several metres from floor to ceiling but also with impressive stalactites. 100m from the entrance the two sides meet again at the back wall between huge stalactites. This cave as an abundant lobster population but they should not be disturbed by divers.

Chandelier Cave

Type: Cave | Depth: 20m-0m | Visibility: 15m+
Location: A short distance south from Maya cave is the Chandelier cave, named for the stalactite formations found in the cave.
Chandelier Cave ExitChandelier cave formations
The Dive: The entrance at 20m, is a medium sized cavern with several exits, the slanting floor has deep silt deposits so care should be taken when entering through the low entrance. A low restriction 1.5m wide leads to a passage way. A short distance later, passing under an overhead bridge, the passage leads up to another room. In this upper cavern the water is fresh and visibility excellent. At the back of this room are two rooms so crowded with ceiling to floor stalactites that entry is not possible.

Bida Cave

Type: Cave | Depth: 9m-6m | Visibility: 15m+
Location: Located on Koh Bida Nok is the Bida Nok cave. Only a 10min boat from Maya Bay.
Bida caveBida Cave
The Dive: The entrance to this cave is at a depth of 9m. Although the total penetration is limited, the cave has a very particular feeling. The dive brings you through a circular shaft shaped as a circle with an interesting restriction to exit from the entry point without turning back.


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KLAA getting you ready for spring training

With that red-letter day on baseball calendars (pitchers and catchers report) just 38 days away, KLAA/830 AM is going to start getting you ready for Angels' spring training by starting the 2009 season of "Angels Tonight" -- tonight (Wednesday).

The two-hour show will air each Wednesday at 7 p.m. beginning tonight and running into the start of spring training. Hosted by Terry Smith, Jose Mota and Jeff Biggs, the show will feature interviews and call-in segments. Fans can also email questions to

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First American agrees to $10 million settlement

First American Title Insurance Co. has agreed to pay $10 million to settle allegations by the California Department of Insurance that its employees paid illegal kickbacks to real estate professionals and a builder for referrals of title insurance business.

The latest settlement comes nearly two years after First American agreed in February 2005 to refund $24 million to customers to settle similar allegations brought by Colorado regulators. Later that year, the Santa Ana-based insurer agreed to pay another $5 million to California in penalties and investigative costs.

The 2005 settlements resolved what regulators described as schemes in which kickbacks were paid through phony "reinsurance" companies controlled by builders, lenders and brokers.

The new case involves accusations of less-sophisticated wrongdoing: offering inducements like concert and football tickets, riverboat cruises and payments in exchange for customers.

While it's legal for builders, lenders and real-estate agents to refer buyers to a title insurer, the insurers are barred by state and federal law from paying for such referrals.

The latest settlement, dated Jan. 3, was reported Wednesday by, a real estate news site. First American didn't admit wrongdoing in the settlement.

In a statement, First American said "this action is in keeping with First American's previously announced plan to meet with insurance regulators across the nation, to proactively share the details of its corporate compliance program and address and resolve all pre-existing compliance matters."

According to documents posted on the California Department of Insurance's Web site, the department received written complaints between February and December 2005 "from persons concerned about illegal rebating activities implemented and conducted by First American."

On June 1, 2003, First American agreed to pay Frontier Homes LLC, a builder, $100 for each closed First American title insurance order from homebuyers referred by Frontier in Riverside, San Bernardino and Los Angeles counties, according to the case documents. Between July 21, 2003 and Aug. 3, 2006, First American made 15 payments to Frontier Homes for a total of $106,000, according to the documents.

In addition, First American employees sought reimbursement for $265,490 worth of gifts, meals, event tickets and other inducements to builders and other real estate professionals, the documents show.

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Bonds guilty, and the debate continues

So Barry Bonds is guilty of obstruction of justice, the debate about his Hall of Fame worthiness rages on, and ho-hum, it's the Dodgers and the Giants in China Basin one more time tonight.

I try to keep an open mind when it comes to court cases, content in the understanding I have with myself, that since I'm not in the courtroom, I'm not getting a particularly fair representation of what went down, and I simply don't know. On the other hand, I'll contradict myself long enough to say, the case against Bonds made a lot of sense to me. And as I've said for years, I have zero patience or compassion for drug abusers in sports, and if I had a vote, neither Bonds nor Manny Ramirez nor Rafael Palmeiro nor Mark McGwire would get my Cooperstown nod.

But HOF voting is a democratic process, so I say let the chips fall where they may. I mean, if I were against voting, wouldn't that make me, oh, a fascist?

And I said the other day, "But look, I'll spare you most of the 'this is your brain on drugs' speech I've been harping on for years at the old publication because, and perhaps I'm naïve, I really do think we've seen some improvement since the 2007 Mitchell Report. But this is just exhausting. And these are really bad drugs we're talking about here. Really, really bad. Forget home run records. We're going to see heart attacks and strokes and cancer and unexplained early death. And perhaps webbed feet, for all we know. It's just got to stop."

Fine, so I didn't spare you the "this is your brain on drugs" speech. Ream me on that or anything else related to Bonds, drugs in sports, drugs out of sports, cheating, sportsmanship, the Dodgers and the Giants, or whatever rolls around in your brain hopefully not on drugs. You have Carte Blanche. I'm a man, I can take it.

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Tet Parade gets green light, with caveat

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A young dancer performs with the Trung Tinh Duong Lion Dance team during the 2011 Tet Parade in Westminster. The Westminster City Council this week voted to grant parade organizers a permit for a parade on Feb. 10, but community groups will have to raise the money for the event.FILE PHOTO: KEVIN SULLIVAN, ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

WESTMINSTER – The annual Tet Parade is on. But the Vietnamese community has two weeks to come up with $60,000 to pay for it. Or it's off.

The City Council this week agreed to grant organizers a special event permit for the popular parade that travels through Little Saigon to celebrate the Vietnamese New Year.

But this year, the community has to pay for its own event. The city is broke. And the deadline is 5 p.m. on Jan. 24.

"Financially, this is not a problem," said Neil Nguyen, president of the Vietnamese American Federation of Southern California.

The community recently raised some $200,000 in one month to donate to the victims of Hurricane Sandy on the East Coast, so raising $60,000 – even in a short period – is doable, leaders said.

Mayor Tri Ta and the council said they would proceed with plans for a parade on Feb. 10 that will draw bands, floats and some 10,000 spectators to Little Saigon, the nation's largest Vietnamese business district.

"I'm confident that the community will be able to raise the money in a timely manner," Ta said Wednesday night.

But the two sides may not be completely on the same page.

Organizers have suggested to the city that the coalition of groups putting on the parade this year has its own ideas, particularly on how to provide for security and traffic control. For example, they want to decrease the number of police officers, who are paid overtime, and add less expensive private security and additional youth volunteers from Explorer programs in Westminster and surrounding communities, said Ha Son Tran, vice president of the federation group.

At Wednesday's meeting, Nguyen began to suggest those types of revisions, but Councilwoman Margie Rice stopped him.

"If you stand out there and keep negotiating, you may not have a parade," Rice told him. "We intend to do it correctly, the way the city wants."

Police and traffic are the bulk of the expenditures. The cost for some 30 officers and eight non-sworn public service officers last year was about $20,000 and a contract for traffic control could be as high as another $20,000 this year, said Diana Dobbert, who heads the city's community services and recreation department. Some 80 Explorers typically help out, she said.

Organizers are welcome to provide additional volunteers and security, she said. But the city will not relegate police or traffic safety to another agency, she continued.

"Public safety is our top priority," Dobbert said. "There's no budging from that point."

The city has in recent years paid for the event but last year, faced with a $10 million-plus deficit, the city laid off 67 employees, eliminated festivals and parades, shut down its satellite office at the Westminster Mall and made other changes in City Hall.

Vietnamese American leaders said they applied for a special events permit in December. Originally, organizers wanted to host it on Feb. 9, the day before the Lunar New Year, but some merchants in Little Saigon opposed the event on one of their busiest days. Instead, the parade was moved to Feb. 10, which falls on a Sunday and the actual Vietnamese New Year – the Year of the Snake.

On Thursday morning, Nguyen went on Vietnamese American radio to announce the event. There's $10,000 in the kitty to kick off the drive. And organizers are looking for sponsors who can give the rest.

Committees and subcommittees already are in place to pull together the festival.

The Lunar New Year also will be celebrated with a festival. From Feb. 8-10, the Union of the Vietnamese Student Assn. of Southern California will host the annual Tet Festival at Garden Grove Park, 9301 Westminster Ave. in Garden Grove.

To contribute to the parade or for more information, call 714-892-2628.

Contact the writer: 714-796-7829 or

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‘Duck Dynasty' important to state, official says

2013-12-23 00:00:00

Louisiana's lieutenant governor says the “Duck Dynasty” reality TV show is important to state tourism and that he could help connect the Robertson family with new producers if they cannot reach agreement with the A& E network.

The network suspended patriarch Phil Robertson last week for telling GQ magazine that gays are sinners akin to adulterers and swindlers.

“Regardless of one's views on Phil Robertson's statements, Duck Dynasty has been an important representation of the state of Louisiana, inspiring prospective visitors and investors since its debut,” Lt. Governor Jay Dardenne said in a statement emailed Saturday.

The show is produced around the Robertson family's home base in Ouachita Parish.

Bloomberg makes ‘SNL' cameo

Even after three terms in City Hall, Michael R. Bloomberg is still managing a mayoral first.

The billionaire mayor made his “Saturday Night Live” debut early Sunday, mocking his famously stilted Spanish, bantering with the episode's host, Jimmy Fallon, and ensuring that, just under the wire, he would not become the first New York City mayor since Abraham D. Beame never to appear on one of the city's most iconic cultural institutions.

The mayor's segment, a surprise cameo on the program's satirical news skit, “Weekend Update,” marked the first time that he agreed to go on the late-night sketch show in his 12-year tenure, which ends Jan. 1.

And the appearance doubled as definitive proof, for once, that Bloomberg, known for frequent weekend jaunts to Bermuda, was indeed in New York City on a Saturday night.

Asked by Seth Meyers, co-host of “Weekend Update,” what he planned to do after leaving office, Bloomberg said he would be “fulfilling a lifelong dream of enjoying a small soda on a non-smoking beach.”

Cruise, tabloids settle lawsuit

The publisher of two tabloid magazines said it never intended to imply that Tom Cruise had cut all ties to his daughter after his divorce and announced Friday that it had reached a settlement with the actor over two stories it published.

Bauer Publishing and Cruise's lawyer wrote in a joint statement that the terms of the settlement were confidential.

“Bauer Publishing, as well as In Touch and Life & Style magazines, never intended to communicate that Tom Cruise had cut off all ties and abandoned his daughter, Suri, and regret if anyone drew that inference from anything they published,” the statement read.

Cruise sued the company over stories published in its Life & Style and In Touch magazines in 2012 that said the actor hadn't been in contact with his daughter for several weeks after his divorce from actress Katie Holmes. The actor sued Bauer in October 2012 seeking tens of millions of dollars in damages. Host angles for ‘Bridesmaids 2'

Ellen DeGeneres wants to be in “Bridesmaids 2.”

The returning Oscar host says she's working with “Bridesmaids” director Paul Feig to promote the Academy Awards because she's angling for a part in the “Bridesmaids” sequel, even though no such film has been announced.

In a video released late Thursday by the film academy, the 55-year-old comedienne funny woman says: “Two plus two: great Oscar promo, ‘Bridesmaids 2,' cha-ching!”

Feig has demurred about a “Bridesmaids” sequel since the movie's groundbreaking success in 2011.

Santana, ex-band mate reunite

A news reporter for a San Francisco television station has reunited rock guitarist Carlos Santana with a former band mate he hadn't seen in decades and who now lives on the streets of Oakland.

Reporter Stanley Roberts ran into percussionist Marcus “The Magnificent” Malone while working on a story about illegal dumping last week, KRON-TV in San Francisco reports.

Although he initially was skeptical of the homeless man's claim that the Santana Blues Band got its start in his mother's garage in the late 1960s, Roberts checked out the story and confirmed it. And on Friday, he took Santana for a visit to the camper where Malone has been staying.

“You don't know how afraid I am to let you see me,” Malone said softly after he and the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer embraced.

Santana has credited Malone with being an influence on his Afro-Latin sound.

Santana promised to bring Malone a set of congas and help him get on his feet.

Compiled by Cindy Roberts from Register news services.

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Surf-shop owner shapes art with boards, brush

2012-12-12 06:58:58

Paul Carter left the world of corporate security to shape surfboards for board maker Infinity in 1993 and was out on his own two years later.

The San Clemente resident opened up shop in 1997 on South El Camino Real in his hometown, shaping boards for regular customers, referrals and walk-ins, and has been doing it ever since – except for a few years while he pursued an interest in painting, selling his artworks at community fairs and gallery openings.

When he reopened his shaping shop in 2001, he offered his surf-inspired art as well as his new and used surfboards. Thus the name, San Clemente Surfboards & Art by Paul Carter.

Carter says 95 percent of his surfboard work is custom. Short boards sell for about $500 and long boards for $650 to $700. Artwork can be added for an extra $350 to $1,000.

His original acrylic art is on display not only on traditional canvas but also on miniature surfboards and found items. Prints sell for $45 to $65.

Carter also puts drawings on hats, T-shirts, windbreakers and leather jackets.

Here are some words with him:

Q. What do you like most about what you do?

A. The creativity, and it's never the same. It's always changing – every single board, every single painting. It's always new.

Q. What's the best business decision you've made?

A. Doing what I enjoy, doing what I love to do – shaping and painting.

Q. What business decision didn't work out, and what did you do to solve the problem?

A. I used to have this whole building and I was working all the time, seven days a week; it was too much. So, partly with the economy, I downsized and went back to my original size. It just made sense, and I am selling the same amount of boards with less overhead. Now I am open on the weekends and by appointment during the week.

Q. What trends do you see in your industry?

A. People have an open mind now and are trying more and different designs on boards. They are going back to the type of boards that were shaped in the '60s and '70s and they aren't afraid to try it out. I think people are appreciating the hand-shaped surfboards more because it's becoming a lost art.

There are shaping machines now and they do a good job for something mass-produced, and that's fine, but it still has to be finished by a human.

I am able to charge a little more because what I do is special and there are less and less hand-shaped boards out there.

Q. What do you think is a general trend across the economy among consumers?

A. It's going up, it's on the upswing. I've sold more boards over the past three months than over the whole summer. People want to buy something made in the U.S. They want something that is handmade.

Q. Can you share a funny or interesting story about yourself?

A. This was quite a few years ago during a contest. Steve Pezman from Surfer's Journal was announcing the contest and he thought I was (three-time world-champion surfer) Tom Curren, so when I came in, everyone was coming up to me for autographs and talking to me, thinking I was Tom Curren. I have been told I surf like Curren, and he is a great surfer, so, yeah, I'll take that!

Q. You have written on your artwork and surfboards words such as "Ego free," "Choose," "Be calm," Focus," "Be peaceful." Is there a theme or purpose there?

A. It's important for me because it keeps me grounded, and you gotta trust somebody. I believe in God and Jesus and, keeping religion out of it, I believe it's good to have positive quotes, positive messages in any way and any form you can get them. So, I write them on the surfboards and I put them in my art.

Q. What is your favorite message or quote?

A. Focus on the good!

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"Hoops" Samueli takes it to the tin

The first time I met Henry Samueli was shortly after he had taken over as the Ducks owner.

We talked hoops.

Specifically, we talked about Samueli's love of playing basketball, old-school pick-up style.

I joked that he was wealthy enough that he could keep nine people on his payroll just to be on-call to play whenever he felt like it.

So was I the person who got him thinking about buying a basketball team? Ah, unlikely, but it's no secret hoops is Samueli's game and this latest story about him attempting to lure the Sacramento Kings here isn't surprising.

He has wanted an NBA team for Honda Center all along. That likelihood seems widely remote at the moment, but then again so does the idea of a sportswriter making an intelligent suggestion to a billionaire.

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Duffy Electric Boats CEO and founder Marshall "Duffy" Duffield stands with his fleet of Duffy boats in Newport Beach on Sept 12. The city of Newport Beach has proposed an increase to commercial marina fees. A coalition of marina operators is opposing the proposal.H. LORREN AU JR., THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

NEWPORT BEACH – Discussions on commercial marina rent increases will continue after the City Council was blasted for the proposal to change how much gross revenue from slip rentals are collected by the city.

The proposal would have increased the annual rent from 36 cents per square foot of tidelands to $1.45, or 20 percent of gross revenue from slip rentals. The proposal also includes plans to convert year-to-year permits to leases lasting 10 years to 25 years.

Tidelands refer to all land that's covered by ocean waters, including land between high- and low-tide marks and land that is always submerged.

The proposed rental rate is based on the findings of two independent appraisals, one of which was conducted by an appraiser suggested by the harbor renters, said City Manager Dave Kiff.

On Tuesday night, marina owners told the council they were upset with the model lease template that would be used to determine rental rates.

"The marina owners are still very concerned about the city's failure to properly value the water parcels," said Lido Yacht Anchorage Chief Executive Officer Tom Purcell.

The council decided to continue the item and not make a formal decision on the matter until it has more information and input from the marina owners.

Kiff has said the value of the tidelands was determined by two appraisals and that not valuing the land at a fair market rate could constitute a gift of public funds. The tidelands are owned by the state but managed by the city.

"This city and staff will now be our new bosses, the lease calls for a deposit ... when we have been operating these marinas for longer than you've been alive," said John Vallely, owner of a marina on the Balboa Peninsula.

Some of the members of the council said they had not seen everything that was on the table and that additional discussion on the subject was necessary.

Councilman Steven Rosansky, who has been at the forefront of increasing the fees, also voted to continue the item. But he stressed that marina owners should send their concerns to the city in writing.

"A study session is not a suitable way to come up with a lease agreement," he said.

Councilman Michael Henn said the city will work on making the new proposal more understandable for marina owners.

Henn said there were several misconceptions about the new agreements, including a new prevailing wage requirement, collection of a percentage of a marina's parking fees and what the index rates would be based on.

The prevailing wage requirement would only be for construction projects, he said. When an agreement mentions parking, it is referring to boat slips, not car parking, he said. Henn also noted that the index the rates would be based on will not always increase rates; it could decrease rates if fair market value decreases in the future.

The council previously heard comments from marina owners and other community members during a special City Council meeting on Sept. 12. The item may come back to the council at its next meeting. A new version of the proposal would be released a week before the meeting the item is discussed.

Additionally, there will be a study session before that regular meeting so the council can get a better understanding of the proposal and hear more input from marina owners, officials said.

Staff writer Lisa Liddane contributed to this report.

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Clippers forward Blake Griffin reaches for a loose ball along with Philadelphia center Lavoy Allen during the first half Wednesday. MARK J. TERRILL, AP

LOS ANGELES – The Clippers' starting unit got back to doing what it likes doing most — spending the entire fourth quarter on the bench.

Wednesday night at Staples Center, Chris Paul and Blake Griffin didn't play in the final 12 minutes as the Clippers routed Philadelphia, 101-72.

The victory came a day after a disappointing loss on the road to the Sacramento Kings.

"You need to be reminded sometimes that you are capable of doing things the right way," Paul said.

In Sacramento, the Clippers defense completely broke down in the fourth quarter. But Wednesday, the team stifled nearly every facet of Philadelphia's attack.

The 76ers shot 31.6 percent from 3-point range and 36.4 percent from the field. The Clippers held All-Star guard Jrue Holiday to just two points.

"Your defense has to be your catalyst," Paul said.

Paul finished with 19 points, nine assists, six rebounds and five steals, and while Griffin only scored seven points, he grabbed nine rebounds and handed out six assists.

"I thought our activity was better," Clippers coach Vinny Del Negro said. "I thought our intensity was better."

Before Wednesday's game, Del Negro was asked what Chauncey Billups' absence because of a sore groin muscle would mean for the Clippers' rotations.

The question touched a nerve and opened the door for Del Negro to vent.

"I hear a lot of talk out there about rotations, about how we have to get a rotation," he said. "One, we can't do it because we've had so many injuries. Two, it's hard to do because guys are in and out of the lineup. And three, we have guys with minutes restrictions."

Del Negro has been criticized over his career for how he's handled substitutions.

"So people talk about rotations? Of course we'd like to get into a rotation. But it doesn't work like that," Del Negro said. "Everybody out there talking about that needs to do a little research and understand that it doesn't work like that. You want to talk about certain things we're struggling with that have some merit behind them, then yeah, talk about them. That's great. That's your job.

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The Yost Theater Is Ready for Its Closeup

The renovated, revamped venue is ready for its grand reopening. So why aren't all of its downtown Santa Ana neighbors celebrating?

And he's right when he says of the revamped Yost that "there's nothing like this in Orange County." For the area's 3 million-plus inhabitants, there is a total of six venues that can host more than 800 people: the House of Blues in Anaheim (1,050 capacity), the Galaxy Concert Theatre in Santa Ana (970), and the City National Grove of Anaheim (1,700), plus the huge Honda Center in Anaheim (17,000), Pacific Amphitheatre in Costa Mesa (8,500 to 10,000) and Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine (16,000). The Yost—which will be a 1,650-person space that will host concerts, international DJs, fashion shows and film premieres—is the coolest thing to happen, musically, to the county since, well, Detroit Bar brought in Stereolab. (Or since Exene Cervenka moved to Orange.)

Leon says the Yost's niche will be DJ culture and live music. "We've already got offers in for every big artist you can think of," he says. "We always wanted to have bands, but we never knew what level of artist we could get. Now, we have the best equipment in Orange County, so if we can get and afford them, we can host it."

Leon pauses, then says, "We just want everyone to experience the Yost."

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The Yost Theater, Grand opening with Colette and DJ Heather on Aug. 5, followed by Unwritten Law on Aug. 6, Thrice on Aug. 13, Nekromantix on Aug. 14, Elefante on Aug. 31, and Mexican rap-rock band Molotov on Sept. 4. Call for performance times and ticket prices.

The Yost wasn't always open to everyone. Built in 1912, it was originally called the Auditorium. Ed Yost bought it in 1919 and gave it his name. For a time, it was a vaudeville theater, where the likes of silent-film comedian Ben Turpin and vaudeville star Eva Tanguay performed, and it thrived in the early days of Santa Ana, when only whites were allowed to sit downstairs (Mexicans and other non-whites were relegated to the balcony).

In 1939, Louie Olivos Sr. worked at the State Theater (also in downtown Santa Ana), patrolling the balcony. He got a lease to run the Princess Theater by convincing his bosses that screening Spanish-language films to Latino audiences there would be a financial success. He was right. By 1952, he was able to buy the Yost and turned it into an exclusively Spanish-language theater.

"He always had his eye on the Yost," his son Louie Olivos Jr. says. "It had the stage; it had a huge capacity. It had everything." The Olivoses ran the business as a family affair, hosting movies, stage shows and sometimes music. They brought in such Mexican movie stars as Pedro Infante, Antonio Aguilar and Tin-Tan for meet-and-greets. For years, the Olivoses were shining pillars of the Latino business community, and the Yost and its sister West Coast Theater were the only shows in town. Their theater remained the center of the city's downtown, as it emptied of white-run businesses and gradually became almost exclusively Latino.

But in the 1980s, the Olivoses lost the Yost.

Today, Olivos Jr. says it all began with a plan by Santa Ana College to take over their building. Sometime in the late 1970s, Olivos Jr. offered to host a Cinco de Mayo celebration for what would eventually be his alma mater. A 1985 Los Angeles Times story ("4th St. Shop Plan Gains in Santa Ana") quotes Santa Ana Downtown Development Commission director Roger Kooi as saying the city wanted to use the theater as a cultural center, "possibly in an arrangement with Rancho Santiago College District."

Then, in 1983, the city of Santa Ana required all the businesses east of Fourth Street to bring their buildings up to seismic code. Louie Olivos Sr. took out a high-interest loan to finance the project.

At around the same time, the city of Santa Ana was pushing to "redevelop" downtown Santa Ana. The same Times story says the economic decline of an area that used to be a major hub for business and socializing saw drunks and prostitutes making up most of the after-hours pedestrian traffic. It was a place where "blood banks, beer bars and flophouses flourished," and the city wanted to clean it up.

To do this, it asked various developers for plans to build a family-friendly shopping center on what eventually became the Fiesta Marketplace site. Afraid of getting squeezed out of downtown, local businessmen and property owners banded together to form Fiesta Marketplace Partnership and develop the area themselves. Among these businessmen were Allan Fainbarg, whose money got the project off the ground, and his son-in-law, Irving "Irv" Chase. Chase spearheaded the $12 million project, partially funded by a tax-exempt $7 million bond program. It encompassed a four-square-block area bounded by French Street on the east, Bush Street on the west, and Third and Fifth streets. At the time, it offered an alternative to MainPlace mall's "well-heeled shopper." (Read: cheaper merchandise for immigrants.)

What the city wanted originally, Chase says, was to turn Fourth Street into a replica of LA's Olvera Street. "We said, 'You can't re-create a tourist attraction—it's just not going to happen,'" he recalls.

Instead, Chase brought in improvements that proved family-friendly: a carousel in front of the Yost, a gazebo for entertainment, benches for shoppers. Movie theaters, an ice-cream shop, a bakery and a pizzeria were also made part of the renovation.

Olivos Jr. says the Yost's business was badly affected during the renovation; the construction, which lasted for months, led to his family defaulting on the loan they took out for the seismic retrofit. The city then bought the Yost from Olivos Sr. for $600,000, which was less than the cost of the theater. Olivos Jr. blames Kooi for taking advantage of his family. "I thought he was my friend—instead, he bamboozled us," he says. Kooi died in 1997.

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Recap - Toronto Defeats Texas 4-3

The battle wasn't settled until inning No. 18 as Texas was handed a 4-3 defeat against Toronto on Saturday at Rogers Centre.

Toronto won as a +141 underdog, while Over-Under bettors who played UNDER the total of 8.5 were rewarded at the payout window.

Toronto got 7 innings from Mark Buehrle, who gave up 1 earned run on 4 hits, while striking out 3. Aaron Loup earned the victory, while the Blue Jays got 2 RBIs from Colby Rasmus in the win.

Texas' starting pitcher Yu Darvish worked 7 innings, giving up 5 hits and 2 earned runs while striking out 1 in the loss. They got 2 hits from Jeff Baker in a losing cause.

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Houston cruised to victory on Sunday, as they ran up a 38-14 score against Tennessee in Week 4 action at Reliant Stadium.

Houston was a favorite by 13.5 points and came through with an ATS victory for bettors. The game went OVER the consensus closing total of 44.5.

Matt Schaub completed 20 of 28 pass attempts for 202 yards and 2 TDs for the Texans in the win. He did not throw an interception in the game.

Chris Johnson rushed for 141 yards for Tennessee, while Javon Ringer added 14 yards. Matt Hasselbeck threw for 193 yards for the Titans, while receivers Kendall Wright and Nate Washington had 46 and 43 yards respectively.

Houston was outgained by Tennessee 325-297 yards in Sunday's match, while the important battle of first downs was won 17-16 by the Titans.

The time of possession battle favored Houston as their offense was on the field for 32:26, longer than the 27:34 of their opponents.

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Tyler Johnson sniped 3 goals in leading Tampa Bay to a 5-2 win over Colorado on Saturday at Tampa Bay Times Forum.

Tampa Bay was favored by -150 and came through for bettors backing them. The game went OVER the consensus closing total of 5.5.

Tampa Bay got goals from Tyler Johnson (3), Valtteri Filppula, and Mark Barberio in the victory. Johnson opened the scoring at 7:15 of the second period.

Ben Bishop turned in a 25-save effort for the Lightning.

Colorado got goals from John Mitchell and Tyson Barrie in the loss, but it wasn't enough.

Sami Aittokallio stopped 15 of 18 shots for the Avalanche, but it wasn't enough to earn the victory.

Tampa Bay scored 0 times on 3 chances on the power play, while Colorado went 0-for-3 with the man advantage.

Colorado lost the shots on goal battle to Tampa Bay by a margin of 29-27.

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5/11/2013 - The global economic crisis has had a profound impact on people’s well-being, reaching far beyond the loss of jobs and income, and affecting citizens’ satisfaction with their lives and their trust in governments, according to a new OECD report.

How’s Life? finds that subjective well-being deteriorated in countries most affected by the crisis. Between 2007 and 2012, reported average life satisfaction declined by more than 20% in Greece, 12% in Spain, and 10% in Italy. However, moderate increases were recorded in Germany, Israel, Russia, Mexico and Sweden.

The report also finds that citizens in the hardest-hit euro area countries have lost trust in their governments and institutions. The percentage of people in these countries claiming to trust national government fell by 10 percentage points in the five years leading to 2012. In the OECD countries as a whole, less than half of those surveyed said they trusted their governments - the lowest level recorded since 2006.

“This report is a wake-up call to us all,” said OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría. “It is a reminder that the central purpose of economic policies is to improve people’s lives. We need to rethink how to place people’s needs at the heart of policy-making”.

By measuring well-being - material living conditions and quality of life in OECD countries and other major economies, How’s Life? provides a unique glimpse into the human cost of the crisis. It also confirms that the full consequences of the economic downturn, in terms of people’s health or loss of skills will take time to play out.

Work has a major influence on well-being, says the report. Achieving the right balance between requirements and opportunities drives people’s commitment at work, and is key to strengthening their capacity to cope with demanding jobs. In Europe, 50% of persons who face poor work organisation and workplace relationships report that their job impairs their health, compared with only 15% among those experiencing favourable conditions. With appropriate resources and support, even highly demanding jobs can be fulfilling. But without them, the accumulation of stress factors in the workplace frequently leads to health problems.

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The data also show that the gender gap in favour of men has narrowed, but has not disappeared. Women still generally fall behind in terms of income, but measuring well-being based on gender reveals a more complex picture. Girls are now generally doing better than boys in school, although still remain under-represented in fields that provide greater job opportunities.

The report finds that new forms of solidarity have emerged during the crisis. Personal and informal networks have strengthened, and a higher proportion of people are volunteering to help those in need. Families have been a source of support, both financial and in-kind, and have provided an increasingly important safety net.

The How’s Life?  report is part of the OECD Better Life Initiative launched in 2011 to measure well-being and progress beyond traditional metrics such as GDP.  Another component of the Initiative, the Better Life Index, allows users to compare countries according to their own vision of what constitutes well-being.

To request a copy of How’s Life?, journalists are invited to contact the OECD’s Media Division (tel: + 33 1 4524 9700). For further information, please contact Stephen Di Biasio in the OECD’s Media Division (tel: + 331 4524 8103) or Romina Boarini in the OECD’s Statistics Directorate (tel. +33 1 45 24 92 91).

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Dear Office-Politics,

I’m unsure how to proceed – or if I can even do so.

Here’s the scoop: I’m in the sales department of a particular industry in which we have a great deal of exposure to the public at large. We’re situated in an urban environment in which some customers/clients who come through the door either don’t have the financial capability or an account (credit, checking, etc.) set up to buy from us. Sometimes it can be painfully obvious when some people come through the door that they aren’t going to be able to partake in our service (they appear drunk, homeless or both), but I always choose to treat them fairly and just the same as anyone else. I do this for a number of different reasons, but chief among them is I’ve been surprised on many occasions as my assumptions were wrong.

Unfortunately one of my co-workers isn’t so kind in this regard… …she has repeatedly treated people like garbage simply because they were dressed “ghetto” (as she put it) and because they (from my viewpoint) were African American. I’ve worked with this person for quite some time and always minded my own business regarding this matter, figuring what goes around comes around and eventually she would get her due. Things, however, have changed drastically in the last few months – and she and I have become at extreme odds (over unrelated, but office-politic, matters). She has gotten away with a great deal of b.s. in this environment (including the aforementioned) and I believe it’s not out of bounds for me to contact someone (perhaps the NAACP or the local News) and alert them of this practice.

I honestly don’t know what else to do. If I mention it to my supervisors (who are already turning in her favor) it will appear I’m doing so out of spite… and perhaps someone reading this right now might see me that way also – but that makes what she’s been doing no less wrong. It’s my full belief that if an African American person dressed in baggy clothes walked into the establishment and was greeted by her, they would be treated entirely different than a Caucasian person. I honestly don’t know what I should do… I can’t let it go due to the racial issue at hand, and yet, I feel I can’t go forward because it will only serve to be taken completely unseriously (other factors involved would contribute to this – whom she’s dated, etc. – long story) by anyone above me. Should I alert a higher authority (as stated) and let the chips fall where they may, without taking part? Please let me know a direction to go in…

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Dear Rock N. Hard Place,

What you describe your co-worker doing is indeed reprehensible behavior. I commend you for your own exemplary behavior toward those who are disadvantaged.

Were this a situation which had arisen only recently I would suggest that you take your colleague aside and speak with her about her behavior. That would be difficult to do with any moral authority at this stage, however, since you have stood by for some time and said nothing.

When you say that it will seem to someone as if you are doing this out of spite, you are quite right. That is how it appears to me at least. You quite honestly say that it is other matters, not her behavior towards minorities or the disadvantaged, that have caused you to abandon your previous laissez faire approach. I agree that your motive for addressing this person’s behavior is irrelevant in determining its morality. Unfortunately a great deal of immoral or unethical behavior goes on in this world, but we can only control our own. In my view it would be morally unsound on your part to report this person with the objective of creating trouble for her.

It sounds as if there are serious issues around your working relationship with this person that you are not mentioning. Working with someone in such circumstances is stressful. Perhaps that is what has led to the clouding of your own moral judgment in this case. My suggestion is that you find a way to address the whole working relationship or you will find yourself risking burn out or dealing with this stress in inappropriate ways.

I would expect that in the context of improving your overall relations with her the issue of her behavior towards minorities would be raised and addressed.

Thanks for writing to Office-Politics.

Good luck,

Dr. John Burton

Dr. John Burton LL.B. M.B.A. M.Div. Ph.D. is an ethicist, mediator, lawyer and theologian. He has taught alternative dispute resolution at Queen’s Law School and Ethics at the Schulich School of Business. John was recently located in Prince Rupert, B.C., Canada, working with Canada’s aboriginal communities. He is now teaching at UBC, Okanagan Campus.

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CANTON — Northern Lights, a partnership of four health-care organizations in St. Lawrence County, hopes to start operating its certified home health agency in the summer.

“We are going through the process of formally incorporating as an organization with the state,” said Brian D. Gardam, interim chairman of the Northern Lights board. “We’re moving ahead, but not as fast as we’d like.”

Northern Lights is a partnership of Canton-Potsdam Hospital, Potsdam; Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center, Ogdensburg; United Helpers Management Co. and Hospice and Palliative Care of St. Lawrence Valley. Mr. Gardam is the executive director of Hospice.

The new company was issued a certificate of need last year by the state Department of Health to operate a CHHA in St. Lawrence County. Two other agencies also have filed applications with the state to operate CHHAs in the county.

The potential influx of competition led to the decision of the county to close its own CHHA, which is in the process of winding down. The county also is served by Health Services of Northern New York, an affiliate of the Hamister Group.

It probably will be summer before Northern Lights starts seeing patients, Mr. Gardam said.

“We might hire some of the leadership before that,” he said.

The number of staff is uncertain and will depend on patient load.

“We may be contracting for some staff,” Mr. Gardam said.

Northern Lights will lease space for its Canton offices from United Helpers in the former Main Street Community Bank building, which it bought last year.

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