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Morris County to help homeless and jobless

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on May 13, 2009 at 6:39 PM, updated May 13, 2009 at 6:44 PM

An infusion of federal dollars is financing two programs to provide quick relief to jobless and temporarily homeless people in Morris County and Northwest Jersey who are victims of the economic downturn, according to county officials.

And they say the money must be spent as quickly as possible or be returned to Uncle Sam.

A $5.1 million job training program, especially seeking to re-train workers for jobs in the medical field, has been set up by the Workforce Investment Board of Morris, Sussex and Warren counties.

Also, Morris County expects to get $931,156 for a "homeless prevention and rapid re-housing program" for people in jeopardy of being displaced or in need of short-term housing help.

"This is a one-shot effort to get people back on their feet," Morris County Community Development Director Sabine von Aulock said, regarding the housing program. "This is not meant to be long term ... but to provide immediate relief."

Von Aulock said the housing dollars will be available to families and individuals, to help with rental assistance, utility payments, moving costs, motel or hotel vouchers, and a host of other services such as employment training and medical, mental health, legal and credit counseling.

The housing program was approved by the county Human Services Advisory Council and got the blessing of the county freeholders yesterday. But the money will not likely be approved until July, said von Aulock.

Meanwhile, the job training program -- officially known as WIRED, or Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development -- which is financed by the U.S. Department of Labor, is already in place and helping finance job training.

"This is an attempt to get people into health industries, which need people, who are now working in dying industries," Robert Spellman Jr., health services administrator for the Workforce Investment Board, told the Morris County freeholders at a briefing in Morristown.

Spellman said he has been targeting hospitals and long-term care facilities, such as Morris County's Morris View Healthcare Center, for potential jobs and re-training opportunities for current employees.

Twenty-six major health care providers already have signed onto the program, he said, with several thousand people enrolled for training and re-training for health care careers.

The goal of the program is to immediately help people in need of new jobs, said Spellman, who noted the federal grant must be spent by next January, with remaining money to be returned to the federal government.

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Nets starting to slip on 'D'

Dave D'Alessandro | Star-Ledger Editorial Board By Dave D'Alessandro | Star-Ledger Editorial Board The Star-Ledger
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There was a time when the Nets pointed at their defensive stats with pride, often because their average yield fell somewhere in the top 10 in the NBA rankings.

Here's a news flash: They have officially turned into a below-average defensive team -- falling to 14th to 15th to 16th in scoring defense in just 72 hours leading into last night's meeting with the Phoenix Suns.

You really have to work -- or not care much -- to achieve something like that.

And yes, the coach has noticed.

"We're not going to be a great defensive team, but we can't be towards the bottom," said Lawrence Frank, whose team entered last night yielding an average of 100.4 points per game. "We have to be a bend-but-don't-break defensive team. If we can combine putting up the (offensive) numbers we've put up, and playing defense at a higher level, we'll give ourselves a better chance to win."

Or, they can continue to give up the absurd number of easy scores they've allowed lately -- they've yielded 112 or more points in seven of their last nine games -- and just pretend they have a shot at making the playoffs.

The defeat at Indiana was a good example of what's gone wrong: The Nets allowed the Pacers to hit 14 3-pointers, and eight of them were of the where-did-everyone-go variety. They also yielded 15 layups, which wouldn't be so terrible, if not for the fact that the Pacers missed seven more layups.

Only once did the Nets commit a hard foul at the rim -- by Vince Carter -- while their drivers were getting hacked to pieces by Jeff Foster and the like.

Upshot: The Nets look just as they did a year ago, when it was painfully clear that they had no defensive mentality whatsoever.

"We're going to need to if we're going to make the playoffs," Josh Boone said. "The last few games we haven't really played much in the way of defense. We've just been trying to outscore teams.

"And even though we've been scoring better than we have all year -- and better than the Nets have been in quite a while -- it's not going to get us in the playoffs without a little bit of defense."

That, however, is how it is trending. And while everyone has heard the coach say this a million times, he felt compelled to repeat it yesterday.

"There are teams in this league that score and don't guard. And very few of them win," Frank said. "There are a couple that do because they have unbelievable firepower.

"For us, it's to our advantage with our personnel for us to run. At the same time we have to be a little more committed to running back the other end, stopping the ball, and giving help."

The lingering question is this: If the Nets are able to show such extraordinary energy in transition and in their half-court sets, why can't that energy be transferred over to the defensive end?

Again, it's a mentality issue:

"Well, I think we need to" transfer it, Frank said. "It started in the first quarter against Indiana -- we have to be a little more committed. To me, to get offensive freedom, you also have to get defensive responsibility. I mean, what NBA player doesn't want to just score points? Everyone does.

"But what is it going to take to win? To win, you have to play both ends. And you may have some poor possessions at both ends, but whether it's home or in the road -- especially on the road -- you can survive a poor offensive flurry if you hold the fort defensively."

Ah, that old chestnut.

To dust off the old "offense is fleeting, but defense is constant" bromide sounds like desperation ... or just a convenient cliche that coaches use because their players have the
attention span of a fruit fly.

The bizarre part of it is that the Nets have learned before that they can turn it on at any time -- they simply don't seem to know that the time has arrived. Just last year, they were an awful defensive team in the last two months of the regular season, only to turn into a terrific defensive team in the postseason against Toronto and Cleveland.

To this day, Frank can't point to anything specific that caused that transformation.

"It's just focus, effort, discipline," he said. "Trust me, there's no practice time, really. This has to be changed on the run. What I would do is say, 'How the heck did we all of a sudden become a better offensive team after the road trip?' There was no strategical changes. It's intent."

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Bergen County killer formerly on N.J. death row dies in prison

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John Martini, a death row inmate at New Jersey State Prison in Trenton responds to questions in 2001 at the Monmouth County Courthouse in Freehold.

TRENTON -- An inmate convicted of murder and originally sentenced to New Jersey's death row died in prison early this morning, a report in said.

John Martini, 79, died at 2:21 a.m. at New Jersey State Prison in Trenton, while serving a life sentence after the state eliminated the death penalty, according to the report. Martini had previously demanded all his appeals to save his life end, the report said.

Irving Flax in an undated file photo.

Martini was convicted in 1991 for kidnapping and murdering Fair Lawn businessman Irving Flax after collecting $25,000 ransom. While on death row he was convicted of three other murders.

Martini would not have been considered for parole until he was 105. An autopsy will determine his cause of death, the report said.

Martini was among nine former death-row inmates incarcerated in New Jersey, the report said.

Martini's fled Arizona in January 1989 after killing two people there and came to New Jersey with a plan to kidnap Flax for a $100,000 ransom. Martini abducted Flax as he was leaving his home.

Flax's wife paid Martini $25,000 ransom at a diner, but Martini shot Flax to death in a car at the Garden State mall in Paramus near his home. After his conviction in New Jersey in Flax's slaying, Martini admitted to the double homicide in Arizona and was convicted of another murder in Philadelphia.

While on New Jersey's death row in 1995, Martini told his attorneys he wanted to end all appeals and be put to death, rather than stay in prison.

Previous coverage:

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Marilyn Flax, the widow of murder victim Irving Flax speaks at the Bergen County Prosecutors office in 2005 in Hackensack.


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Phillies beat Diamondbacks on third straight walk-off win

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on August 23, 2013 at 10:22 PM, updated August 26, 2013 at 11:33 AM

PHILADELPHIA — Chase Utley walked with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth inning, lifting the Philadelphia Phillies to a 4-3 comeback victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday night.

Cody Asche led off the ninth with a single and went to third on Jimmy Rollins’ single. Heath Bell (4-2) intentionally walked Michael Young to load the bases for Kevin Frandsen. After striking out Frandsen, Bell was lifted for left-hander Eury De La Rosa.

De La Rosa ran the count to 3-2 and Utley walked when the final pitch appeared to be a bit inside.

It was the fifth win in six games for the Phillies, who have won four of those contests in their last at-bat.

Darin Ruf homered for the second straight game for Philadelphia, which improved to 5-3 under interim manager Ryne Sandberg. Ruf has eight homers and 12 RBIs in 21 games this month.

Matt Davidson had two hits and an RBI for the Diamondbacks, who have dropped four of five, damaging their fleeting playoff hopes. Coming into the day, Arizona was 9 1/2 games back of the Dodgers in the NL West and seven back of the Reds for the second NL wild-card spot.

Jonathan Papelbon (4-1) pitched a scoreless ninth for the win.

The Phillies jumped to a 1-0 lead on Ruf’s two-out homer in the second. The Diamondbacks answered with three runs in the fourth off hard-luck Cole Hamels.

Paul Goldschmidt was credited with a double after left fielder Domonic Brown lost his routine fly ball in the lights. Martin Prado drove in Goldschmidt and Adam Eaton with a two-run double, and Davidson’s RBI single put Arizona ahead 3-1.

That was it for the Diamondbacks against Hamels, who allowed six hits and walked one in seven innings. The left-hander has a 1.89 ERA in his last five starts but has just one win and four no-decisions over that stretch.

Hamels, who entered with the fifth-lowest run support average among starters in the majors (3.30), remained 5-13 on the season.

The Phillies tied it when Carlos Ruiz hit a two-run double off Wade Miley in the sixth. Miley finished the inning to complete his outing, yielding five hits and two walks.

The Phillies threatened in the eighth against Bell, putting runners on first and second with two outs. But Bell struck out John Mayberry Jr. swinging to end the inning.

The Diamondbacks got a runner to second with two outs in the ninth off Papelbon, but Cliff Pennington flew out to center to end the threat.


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Salem 1 nuclear reactor returns to service after problem with Delaware River 'grassing' eases

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lac.jpgView full sizeThe Salem 1 nuclear reactor, seen in the foreground with Salem 2 at the Artificial Island nuclear generating complex in Lower Alloways Creek Township, has returned to service.
LOWER ALLOWAYS CREEK TWP. — The Salem 1 nuclear reactor returned to service early today after being shut down for more than 37 hours because of vegetation in the Delaware River blocking its cooling water intakes.

The reactor began sending out electricity over the regional power grid at 5:19 a.m. today, according to Joe Delmar, spokesman for the plant’s operator, PSEG Nuclear.

Control room technicians shut down the reactor around 4 p.m. Thursday after encountering a problem with heavy “grassing” in the river.

Grassing is caused by vegetation such as phragmites and other weeds growing along the Delaware River’s shoreline and its tributaries becoming dislodged and floating downstream in the river and being pulled up against the protective screens around the cooling water intakes, blocking the flow of water.

Delmar said Saturday that problems with grassing had eased, allowing the restarting of the plant.

Salem 1 and its twin reactor, Salem 2, draw in from  the Delaware River three billion gallons of water per day when operating at full power. The water is circulated throughout the plants for cooling and returned to the river.

The neighboring Hope Creek reactor at the Artificial Island nuclear generating complex has a cooling tower which recirculates water in the plant so it needs to draw only about 58 million gallons of water per day from the river when operating at full power.

The grassing problem did not impact Salem 2 since that reactor has been shut down for refueling since April 9.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission Spokesman Neil Sheehan on Friday said that the shutdown had been handled properly by plant operators.

Sheehan did note, however, that the shutdown will count as a hit against the plant’s performance indicator for unplanned shutdowns. If a nuclear plant experiences more than three unplanned shutdowns during a period of 7,000 hours of operation, it would prompt additional oversight by the NRC.

Salem 1 was ascending back to full power early this evening.

The Hope Creek reactor remains operating at full power.

Each of the three reactors at Artificial Island, at full power, produce enough electricity for three million homes.

The reactors here comprise the second largest commercial nuclear power complex in the United States.


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Editorial: Cheers and Jeers South, August 24, 2013

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Every Saturday on its editorial page, the South Jersey Times cheers those who make our area a better place in which to live and jeers those whose actions merit derision.

CHEERS:  To a grand Salem celebration. It’s Market Street Day today in the city. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., come out and meet your friends and neighbors. Antique cars, food, music, displays and good family fun are what draws visitors. This year will mark the 39th Market Street Day celebration. And remember to check out our city fire department’s new vehicles. The brush truck and Washington Fire Co.’s antique pumper. And don’t forget to take a chance at the dunk tank. All of those proceeds go to aid the Salem Fire Museum (which is also open today).

JEERS: To stinky water. Residents of Salem City are fed up with what’s coming from the tap. City council members are frustrated, too. Experts and more experts have been called in to fix the persistent problem with seemingly little results. Is it time for new experts? Something has to be done.

CHEERS: To discovering a piece of local history. Along Burlington Road in Bridgeton lies a neglected cemetery. When word of the burial ground got around, genealogist Bill McClain jumped at the chance to study it. What he’s found is that many black Civil War soldiers lie buried there, each with a fascinating life story.  For Cumberland County, this is another great find and another chapter in its rich history.

CHEERS: To getting crabby and having fun with it. Downtown Bridgeton will celebrate Crabfest today from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. along the Cohansey River. Live music, cultural activities and, of course, crabs, will all be part of the event. At 4 p.m. the river will be the scene of the Cohansey River Kayak Challenge. This race draws some big names and big attention. Crabfest is a family-friendly event and worth the trip.

JEERS: To a run of bad luck at a popular eatery. Last Saturday night, an SUV (driven by an unlicensed driver — extra jeer! — according to police) crashed into the lounge of Botto’s Italian Line Restaurant on Kings Highway in Swedesboro. Only the driver was injured. Fortunately, Botto’s was open the next day. By then, though, owners found that an entrance sign had been stolen — for the second time in a month. This place — popular with many customers from Salem County and even those in Cumberland who know the drive north is well worth it — deserves a long spell of good luck.

If you know of someone or something you would like to nominate for a cheer or a jeer, send information to Cheers and Jeers, South Jersey Times, 93 5th St., Salem, NJ 08079 or email the item to

Contact the South Jersey Times at 856-935-1500 or 856-451-1000 and


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Lindenwold man killed in AC crash

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UPPER TWP. -- A Lindenwold man died Saturday on the Garden State Parkway when his motorcycle clipped the car ahead of him, according to The Press of Atlantic City.

The impact threw Edison Lopez, 23, from his bike. He was pronounced dead at the scene.


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Westfield schools celebrate 'Walk to School Day'

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Pix-1002WalkToSchoolDay.jpg Pictured, Wilson Elementary students Anthony Buoscio (left) and Michael Fisher arrive at school under the escorts of principal Joseph Malanga and Sgt. Jason McErlean.

On Wednesday, Sept. 25, more than 2,500 students at Westfield’s six elementary schools walked to school in recognition of ‘National Walk to School Day.’

Walk to School Day is celebrated as an opportunity to promote walking or riding to school as a fun and healthy way for children to help themselves and the environment. The children entered raffles to win a walk to school escorted by their school principal, mascot, the mayor, a firefighter or a police officer.

The event was coordinated by the BRAKES Group (Bikers, Runners And Kids are Entitled to Safety), a pedestrian safety organization in Westfield.


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In Topic: Whats With The Lack Of Congratulations?

22 June 2003 - 05:37 PM

Yep, people dont respect the Devils. Fans, teams, players, writers alike.....

My view of them is a team that plays very well yet bores the hell out of me and is lacking any real star or asset that catches peoples attention.

I find the Devils uninteresting, and when they won the cup I pretty much just said "meh, the ducks couldnt pull it off.... oh well".

Its not that I try to disrespect the devils, its just my automatic reaction and attitude towards them that makes me tune them out... I really dont care whether they win or lose.... ever. At least with a team like the Ducks I can cheer them on cuz its a great run, or a team like the Rangers I can boo to hell and hope they lose...... but the Devils..... are just..... "meh".

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09 June 2003 - 11:57 PM

gobolt7 and Tie domi....give me a break!!!

What do you expect....Marty NEVER gets respect...Marty and Jiggy go into the finals with almost identical stats. Marty wins 4-3...gets 3 shut outs and breaks the playoff shutout record with 7.

Jiggy had an amazing first 3 series but was an AVERAGE goalie in the finals.

Our fans have every right to be upset and show their emotion.

Walk in our shoes and you'd understand.

identical stats? look again buddy.

Broduer may have had a lot of shutouts, but, to be redundant, that was half a team effort, and giguere carried every single player on that sucks team straight to game 7 of the finals. Brodeur was shaky to average in a number of games.

In Topic: Schwab Gets Robbed

09 June 2003 - 10:03 PM

He better........ the backup goalie is so underrated....... especially when they dont play much. Schwabby deserves recognition.

In Topic: Conn Smythe Thread

09 June 2003 - 10:01 PM

Giguere was the best player in the playoffs, period. He deserved the award more than any other player, its as simple as that.

And that was just awful for the fans to boo the poor guy. He was almost in tears, and the fans boo him when he recieves what he deserves. Terrible.

And its not like Bettman chose the winner (tho I do agree the guys an idiot)

In Topic: Im Sorry But.....

05 June 2003 - 05:01 PM

A couple things:

1- i am not trolling, i really believe this

2- i have never had a gut feeling about the leafs winning anything, believe it or not

3- i am not happy about the ducks winning, its a terrible thing, i am hoping for the devils, i just dont think they are going to win.


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National League of Cities Statement on Passing of Nelson Mandela

December 5, 2013

WASHINGTON, DC - The following statement can be attributed to Clarence Anthony, executive director, National League of Cities:

"We are deeply saddened by the news of the passing of former South African President Nelson Mandela earlier today. The world has lost a great leader who inspired and brought hope to so many people around the globe for his unyielding pursuit of righteousness, truth and equality. His uncompromising devotion to human rights will serve as a beacon for us all to follow for many years to come. Our thoughts are with his family and the people of South Africa during this difficult time."

The National League of Cities (NLC) is dedicated to helping city leaders build better communities. NLC is a resource and advocate for 19,000 cities, towns and villages, representing more than 218 million Americans.


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New Mexico Chile Commission

The New Mexico Chile Commission was formed in 1988 after members of the state’s chile industry petitioned
New Mexico Department of Agriculture (NMDA) to help them form an organization.  The body was created to collect funds from the industry in order to support research, marketing, and promotion efforts.

The New Mexico Chile Commission is comprised of nine members of the chile industry, including six producers and three processors.  The leadership of the Commission is elected for three-year terms by members of the chile industry.

Current leadership:
Rick Ledbetter, Chairman
Roy Pennock, Vice-Chairman
Arturo Jurado, Secretary/Treasurer

NMDA marketing specialist James Ditmore provides Departmental support to the Commission.  For information about the Commission, please contact James at (575) 646-4929 or at

The Commission collects voluntary assessments paid by handlers of chile ($.625 per ton of fresh chile peppers and $1.25 per ton of dry chile peppers), and uses these dollars to fund research projects that aim to improve chile production and the chile industry in New Mexico.

Research being funded by the Commission is being conducted using traditional, open-pollination breeding techniques.

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by George Zamora

SOCORRO, N.M., Jan. 28, 2004 – George Edward Schmaltz, a graduate of Gallup High School who is now a senior majoring in electrical engineering and computer science at New Mexico Tech, recently was named a Macey Scholar at the state-supported research university. The honor includes a $5,000 scholarship award.

Schmaltz is the son of John and Patti Schmaltz of Gallup.

In the recent past, Schmaltz also was named both a Tau Beta Pi New Mexico Gamma Success Scholar and a Silver Scholar at New Mexico Tech.

In addition, he recently was awarded an Electrical Manufacturing & Coil Winding Association Scholarship for his demonstrated academic excellence at the university.

Schmaltz’s research experience includes an internship this past summer with the National Science Foundation’s prestigious Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program, during which he designed and developed visual detection and image processing systems at the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Schmaltz currently is working on a global positioning system (GPS) logging device for his electrical engineering senior design project.

In past years, he also has developed robotic detection and retrieval systems in conjunction with his undergraduate studies at New Mexico Tech.

Schmaltz is actively involved in various campus activities, including volunteer work as a Hi-Tech Ambassador and coordinator for the upcoming “Engineering Weekend” at the university.

He also is an avid reader and swing dancer.

Schmaltz currently serves as president for the New Mexico Tech student chapters of Tau Beta Pi, the national engineering honor society, and the Newman Association, a fellowship of Catholic university students. He also is the founding chairman and current vice chairman of the student chapter of the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE).

New Mexico Tech students who are named Macey Scholars are selected on the basis of their demonstrated academic accomplishments, both in the classroom and research laboratory, as well as their active participation in institutional service and co-curricular activities.

The Macey Scholars Program is funded by an endowment established by William B. Macey and Jean M. Macey of Albuquerque and Tucson. William Macey graduated from the New Mexico School of Mines (as New Mexico Tech was known in its early years) in 1942, and also was awarded an honorary doctorate by Tech in 1984.


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An unhappily married discount store clerk becomes pregnant by a coworker believing himself to be his generation's Holden Caulfield.

Justine Last, discount store clerk entering the third decade of her life, is mired in an unhappy existence with a dead-end job and a marriage to an infertile man. Desperate to inject some intrigue into her moribund way of living, Justine entertains a romance with Tom "Holden" Worther, a troubled coworker believing himself to be the reincarnation of Holden Caulfield who takes her down a tragic road when he impregnates her and steals money for them to run away with.

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Deborah Rush   ...   Gwen Jackson
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Darrell IssaAKA Darrell E. Issa

Born: 1-Nov-1953
Birthplace: Cleveland, OH

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Religion: Eastern Orthodox
Race or Ethnicity: Middle Eastern
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Politician
Party Affiliation: Republican

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Congressman, California 49th

Military service: US Army (1970-72 and 1976-80); US Army Reserve (1980-88)

California Congressman Darrell Issa made his fortune as CEO of Directed Electronics, maker of the Viper and Python car alarms. He may have spoken to you sternly if you too closely approached a Viper-protected vehicle, as it is Issa's recorded voice that announces, "Protected by Viper. Stand back." Ironically, he was twice arrested for auto theft himself in the 1970s, but never charged.

Ran unsuccessfully for the US Senate in 1998, and elected to the US House in 2000. Estimates of his wealth vary from $160M to $250M, making him among the richest members of Congress. Issa spent about $2M of his own funds to finance the 2003 recall of California Governor Gray Davis, and announced his own intent to run for that job, but withdrew from the ballot the day after Arnold Schwarzenegger announced that he would run for Governor.

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Mother: (homemaker, Mormon)
Brother: William Issa (convicted car thief)
Wife: Katherine ("Kathy", m. 1980)
Son: William

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    University: AA, Kent State University (1976)
    University: BA, Siena Heights University, Adrian, MI (1976)

    US Congressman, California 49th (2003-)
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Man shot to death in Algiers Wednesday night

Times-Picayune Staff By Times-Picayune Staff The Times-Picayune
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on June 24, 2010 at 6:53 AM, updated June 24, 2010 at 6:57 AM

The New Orleans Police Department is investigating the shooting death of a 39-year-old male Wednesday night in Algiers, according to a report by Officer Hilal Williams.

Fourth District officers responded to a report of "male shot" in the 6400 block of Peony Street shortly before 9:30 p.m. They found the victim inside a vehicle suffering from a gunshot wound to the body. The victim was taken to a local hospital where he later died.

Police have not released the name of the victim pending notification of the family. They have not announced any suspects or motives in the shooting.

Anyone with information about the shooting should call the Homicide Division at 658-5300. They can also call Crimestoppers at 822-1111.


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NFL alums return to St. Augustine High School for football camp

Mike Gegenheimer By Mike Gegenheimer The Times-Picayune
on July 06, 2013 at 3:32 PM, updated July 06, 2013 at 7:59 PM

It's been years since players like Cincinatti Bengals running back BenJarvus Green-Ellis wore the purple and gold of a St. Augustine High School football jersey. But, on Saturday morning, Green-Ellis and several other NFL players and coaches were back with their alma mater for the team's fifth annual alumni football camp.

On a hot and humid day in City Park, current Purple Knights received the opportunity to work with their predecessors who found success in the higher levels of the sport.

"We want to improve their fundamentals and their overall technique and overall understanding of the game and the concept of that respective position," Patriots strength and conditioning coach Harold Nash said. "Just that they can improve into a better player than when they came in. If they leave a better player than what they came, I like to think I did something right."

Looking across the field, one corner featured Nash running defensive backs through drills while LSU offensive lineman Trai Turner worked with his former unit and Green-Ellis attempted to punch the ball out of the hands of the nation's top recruit in St. Augustine running back Leonard Fournette.

Green-Ellis -- a two-time, 1,000-yard back in the NFL -- worked extensively with Fournette who Green-Ellis said he's been following for the past five or six years.

Fournette said Green-Ellis gave he and his teammates valuable advice on how to succeed at the next level -- stressing things like education and hard work.

The Bengals running back said his main goal for the day was to make sure he was able to share his experience with the young players and show them what it takes to make it to the next level, specifically the small fundamentals of the game.

"(I tell them) to stay focused on whatever is in the drill. Whether it's to stay low out of their cuts or lower their shoulder, whatever the case may be," Green-Ellis said. "Just giving them the fine points and tunes that they might not know and not just going through the motions of the drills."

Players and coaches expressed a love for their former school as the reason why they chose to return to the football field for St. Aug during the brief time off from their own teams.

Nash said he takes every chance he gets to come back to New Orleans for his old school. Anything he can do to help what he referred to as the grass roots of the sport.

The great amount of time and effort spent on the young athletes did not go without notice. The current Purple Knights could be seen attentively listening to the lessons their elder sportsman bestowed upon them throughout the morning.

Fournette said he's grateful to receive coaching from St. Aug alums who became successful in football.

"They're St. Augustine alumni and they're making ways for us, making a path for us," Fournette said. "They're making it easier for us. Some of the coaches are all around the country in college football and they're making it easier for us."

Fournette -- one of the most sought after recruits in the country -- has not announced which school he'll attend following his senior year at St. Aug, but schools like LSU, Alabama, Florida State and Michigan are thought to be a few of the top schools on his list. He is expected to make a final decision at the Under Armour All-American game in January.


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That Place Called Home

Bangkok's beautiful skyline from the water
“Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport.”

These were words I hadn’t heard spoken in two years. And they’d been sorely missed. After landing in Bangkok, I glided effortlessly through an airport where I’ve been countless times and made my way to the train into the city. It was a routine I followed without thinking, and I easily made my way to my hotel (I used points to stay for free at the new W hotel. It’s one of the nicest W hotels I’ve ever stayed at, but that’s a different story). After check-in, I dropped my bag and made my way to the nearby street market, ordering sorely missed pork noodle soup and Thai lemon tea. (Tip: if you’re looking for a market in Thailand, find an office area. Where there are hungry office workers, there is great street food.)

The sights, sounds, and smells had a comforting familiarity to them. After a long flight from San Francisco, I felt at home.

And as I sit here staring out across the city, I ponder what that word “home” really means. Is it a place or a state of mind? A feeling? Can you have more than one home? Is it where you live? Grow up? Own property?

To me, a home is where your heart feels most comfortable. It’s a place you step into with ease, and your heart says, “Yes, this is it” and wraps that place around itself like a warm, cozy blanket. A house is simply a physical structure filled with stuff, but a home…that’s where you know you belong.

For me, that’s Paris, Stockholm, New York, Hong Kong, Amsterdam, and Bangkok. There are many destinations that I love and return to often, but they aren’t home. My heart doesn’t belong in them. They’re lovely to visit, but I wouldn’t want to grow old there. However, put me in any of these listed destinations, and I’d happily stay there until my dying day.

Traveling has taught me that the word “home” transcends a physical place. As I’ve traveled the world, I’ve learned I fit into many places. This has given me insight into people and the rhythm of life. There’s a certain universality to life around the world. I think that’s why so often we can easily and (sometimes) accurately compare cities. It’s taught me that the grass is never greener because at its core, the grass is always the same.

And no city crystallizes this better for me than Bangkok. It was where I first really stopped and lived. It was a place where I built a whole life and got a job, friends, a girlfriend, and a routine. I came here a stranger, not speaking the language and knowing only one person, and I left with a life.

I learned to survive.

I grew up.

Learning that home can be so many places made the world a lot smaller to me. It’s no longer the idea that there is “my home” and “other places in the world” because the world is my home.

I know that might come off as a bit “out there,” but when you can move so easily and feel at ease in so many places, it makes the world a bit smaller, less foreign, and a lot less scary.

No matter where I go, what I do, or how long I’m gone, Bangkok will always be home to me.

That’s why I’ll never stop getting emotional when I hear those eight magical words: “Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport.”

Travel is a wonderful experience, but sometimes there’s nothing more wonderful than coming home.

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  1. Ashley Peters

    I love your heart in this post. I find many travel bloggers just sound like, “go here, do that, taste this”, but really lack in telling about their personal experience on the trip.

    …and well, we are about to land at that airport in about two months for an 8 month trip we have been saving a dreaming about. This gets me stoked. Thanks for sharing!

    • Khim

      I have read your comment exactly 2 months later. I guess you might be in Thailand already or about to arrive here very soon!
      Hope you’ll have a great time and wonderful memories here! :)

  2. You know, I definitely agree that the grass isn’t always greener everywhere, but I would argue that it’s not necessarily the same everywhere either. I think I used to think that a person’s ability to find themselves feeling at home in many different places meant they could in every place. I think I thought that about myself. But not all places are created equal and not all places have that homey feeling. What is important — and what I think is the point you’re driving home in this piece — is that home doesn’t have to feel like one, fixed place. We can find similar feelings of comfort in many places in the world — and sometimes the most unexpected places. But I do think there are important distinctions between the different types of “grass” we find, even if they all are grass at the end of the day — and being honest, some grass just is less itchy than others. 😉

  3. I understand what you mean, Matt! I feel this way about a lot of places – sometimes it feels that way the first time I visit them. I’ve felt like I am where I belong in New York, Amsterdam, Dublin, Cape Breton – it is an awesome feeling. Maybe I’ll feel that way about Bangkok when I go!

  4. Viv

    Hi Matt,

    Been reading your blog since my last Costa Rica trip back in Nov 2013. Now you are my go to site for any quick guidance for traveling, and because of the info you have provided I feel capable of traveling around the world. I really want to thank you here. Now, I am ready for my second big trip and I have decided to visit Thailand very soon. I am so excited and hope to have the same feelings about Thailand. Please keep us all posted of you trip since the situation is tense over there right now. Enjoy and be safe!

    • NomadicMatt

      Thanks for trusting me so much with your travel planning. I promise to try to never disappoint!

      It’s good to hear your second trip will be to Thailand. Ironically, that was the same order I went in – Costa Rica then Thailand.

  5. Where I live is Sydney but my home is more than just where I live. I have found that within a day or so of being in a new place I will know if it is home or not. Arriving in NYC, London, Sorrento and Prague all had that feeling for me. I have been lucky enough to live in London maybe next will be NYC, Sorrento or Prague who knows.

  6. Katie Bell

    Exactly what I have tried to articulate to friends who don’t travel, without much luck. You get it. For me it is Hawaii, Vancouver, Chicago, London and Sydney. Very special places that left an indelible mark on my psyche and helped shape who I am. Thanks for another fantastic blog post :)

  7. “Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport…” even reading those words made me smile.

    Touching down in a city you know so intimately is like visiting an old friend you haven’t seen for a while — it’s both exciting and nerve-wracking until those first few moments when you realize nothing has changed.

    Enjoy Bangkok, Matt! I’m glad someone loves it as much as I do.

  8. This is a very refreshing article. It makes me smile to know you’re in your happy place. It’s rare that we find these special moments to call our own, but so blissful when we do.

    It’s amazing that you’ve found your ‘home’ to be in different places around the world. It’s like they say: home is where the heart is. It doesn’t have to be a specific place – sometimes it can even be a person. Home is such a subjective word; it’s different to everyone and that’s the most wonderful part about it. You’ve done a beautiful job of explaining the feeling here.

    For me, home is with my family (spread out around the world), as well as San Diego, London, Paris, and, more recently, Tainan, which is slowly creeping its way into my heart unexpectedly. I don’t know about you, but sometimes I also have callings to places – like home is calling to me (San Diego did this for me originally). Spain and Seattle seem to be pulling me in… We’ll see what happens.

    Thanks for getting personal here… and welcome home!

  9. Yah man, sounds like BKK is the same place for you as Kyoto is for me. I’d rank BKK up there though–perhaps a third home-away-from-home?

    Good meeting up again last night–see you in CM or NYC or wherever!

  10. I’m reading this while sat in the airport waiting for my flight to Thailand and you managed to sum up exactly what I was thinking in this post. Thanks Matt for putting my thoughts into words, next time someone asks when am I coming home already il send them this :)

  11. kaushik

    I am a big fan of yours and reading your updates for 3 months now. Really Matt this is a good post and the words that you have written is same as my thoughts.

  12. Jay

    Lately, I’ve been thinking about leaving. But this is my home, along with Vancouver, Ottawa, New York, and San Francisco. Ah, I can’t wait to travel and explore again.

    Have fun in Bangkok, Matt! Take care.

  13. I totally get this. There are a few places my heart always feels at home in when I’m there…and if I had never travelled I never would have known that I could be so happy in more than one place. Certain winds and temperatures make me feel homesick/nostalgic for those place.

  14. Amanda Panda

    Love this simple and honest insight, Matt.
    Indeed, home is where the streets know your strut, no matter how long it’s been!
    I, too, will return ‘home’ to Bangkok/Thailand in 6 short days, after being away for 15 months; this time for a 2-month stretch…SO EXCITED, SO HAPPY and SO AT PEACE!

  15. Love this post Matt! I feel exactly the same. I hail from the English countryside but I found myself living in Melbourne, Australia for 10 months last year and it genuinely broke my heart to leave. It just felt like home, my soul was content there.

    Thanks for sharing!

  16. Seems that the more I travel, the last I feel “at home” anywhere. There are a couple places I’d love to return to and live, but I’m not sure those places will live up to my memories.

  17. Sophie Bannister Martin

    Welcome back home Matt! :) this post is great.
    I completely understand where you are coming from, I miss my home too (Prague) . I feel that little bits of my heart have been left in many places, it hurts every time I have to leave.

    I hope you are have a fantastic time in Bangkok :)

  18. Hong Kong and many other parts of Southeast Asia feel like home for me.

    Here’s a great quote that sums it all up:

    “Some people have to leave home to find their home. I’m one of those people.” – Richard Dawson

  19. “the world is my home” – I love that! Absolutely how I am feeling in Amsterdam right now and how I feel about a few great places such as Vancouver, Toronto and London. Enjoy Bangkok!

  20. Oh wow do I know exactly what you mean Matt :) I lived in Sydney and Melbourne while I was in Australia, and then went to live in Auckland. Then, when I didn’t get the Visa I’d hoped for in New Zealand I had to come home to England. I moved to London, and I LOVE London, but honestly I think Sydney will always feel more like home. I think it’s because it’s really the first place I ever travelled to. And like you say about Bangkok, it’s where I kind of grew up, I learned a lot. I arrived there knowing nothing, I had nothing, no job, just a suitcase, and I left knowing a whole lot more about myself than I did before.

    I’m so glad you’re happy being back in Bangkok, have a wonderful time while you’re there :)

  21. Indeed! Thanks for this lovely piece.

    Travelling has stretched my idea of ‘home’ to dimensions beyond my wildest imaginations.

    Despite being based in Singapore most of the time (like most people who haven’t taken the leap to be a lifestyle traveller), I see a little bit of New York, or London, or Shanghai, or Melbourne, or (insert place I’ve been) everywhere I go.

    A plate of pad thai at a food centre reminding me of Bangkok, the noisy rumble of the metro making me yearn for its much quieter counterpart in Taipei, the cacophony of laughter drifting from bars and pubs bringing back memories of the vibrant streets of East Village. The list goes on.

    I often feel like I live physically “here” but my heart and soul is travelling all the time. At times when I feel like I need to ‘get out’ but can’t afford to, time-wise and money-wise, I take comfort in the knowledge that I don’t need to be “there”.

    Because I already am.

    p.s. Have fun in BKK!

  22. For me I think home is wherever I can plant a garden and see it through to harvest. If I’m in a place long enough for that then it qualifies as home. :)

  23. Josh

    Great post. Slightly curious about staying at a hotel though. Is it because of free points? I got the impression from reading your blogs, you prefer hostels and guest houses in Thailand.

    • NomadicMatt

      Yeah, I’m staying here because it is free with points. I’m leading a tour in a few days so wanted a nice place to getaway, hunker down with work, and relax. Hotels do that.

      And free is the best form of budget travel!

  24. Thanks for this post Matt. I’m with you there. Even though I’m a British person, I feel more comfortable in Berlin, and my second home is Prague. Having said that though, I still feel a jerk of the heart strings whenever I go back “home” to the English countryside or to the history and glory of an English City like my home town of Manchester and my career years in London.

  25. I think there are many places around the world I could live – top of the list being parts of California, and NYC and Toronto – but from what I’ve seen, Auckland is home and there’s nowhere else I would pick up and move to just like that.

  26. Awesome post Matt!
    Having spent a lot of time in BKK I know what you mean when you can’t help but feel at home. From the street food to catching the crazy buses in the evening, it is an amazing city full of heart and atmosphere. I can’t wait to get back!

    Happy travels for you

  27. Elora

    Thanks for the insight, Matt. Something I’m going to be remembering when I’m writing my novel, and the character is getting some insights from people she encounters. And I completely agree with you. I’ve thought that about other places in America–I love my state, the land–and in the end I think I’d always come back to it–but other places would feel like home too. San Diego (actually had quick a potent dream about it last night–so beautiful) where my dad spent his childhood, and where our family has had great memories, and a region in Alabama. I never knew Alabama was so forested and hilly until I got there! It was such a difference to my usual landscape. Beautiful.

    The whole world is our own backyard.

  28. Cant agree more Matt – I have BIG LOVE for Bangkok! We spent a week there but I could easily move there in a blink of an eye!
    SO many fun and strange new experiences in Bangok!

  29. audrey

    thailand and tasmania is my home and where i felt i belong with at ease totally.
    its true… when your heart feel comfortable the most, it makes you feel really home and not house.

  30. I love the idea that you can have five homes, or even 10! I’ve always been a nomad at heart but there are several cities that will always be home to me. (Orlando, Bangkok, Siem Reap, Abu Dhabi….) I love the idea that maybe we don’t have to choose just one. That we can continue to search for new homes while always going back to our favorites places too…

  31. LOL, I always love the words “Welcome to Thailand” as it means I’m home (I’ve lived in Bangkok for almost 12 years).

    But…..I’ll never enjoy being back in Suvarnabhumi. It really is a dismal airport with some of the grumpiest Thais I’ve ever met working in immigration there :)

  32. Adrienne Morton

    When you enter certain times, or phrases, or environments in your life, you don’t have to figure it out. It’s either HOME or its not, and once you feel it, you know. And what does “home” mean anyway? I certainly hope that Ive evolved enough to think that whatever HOME may be is different than what it was five years ago, ten, twenty years ago.
    I arrived a few days early before our Thailand tour with Matt in Bangkok not knowing what on earth to expect, especially with the political situation. It was exhilarating. Home is a state of mind, not a place. What makes you comfortable? What challenges you? What makes you excited about the future?
    In turn, I think that if we can’t get out of our usual space and travel that we lose our state of mind. There is a balance that has to be achieved in order to be fulfilled; happy, in order to grow.
    I felt it so strongly, immediately, in Bangkok. Bangkok rocks. And our tour, while it took us everywhere- was always home at the end of the day. Its the accomplishments, friendships, and the promise of more than that that keep you peaked about life, and make you feel so alive. It makes you not want to go to bed and dying to go to bed at the same time, you’re so exhausted!
    Rock on, superstars of the world.Let nothing ever stop you.

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The Singles Bar - 5th September 2011

Greetings, pop-pickers!

After the twin-horrors of Ed Sheeran and Jessie J, Joe Rivers couldn't face another week of the singles column, so I'm going to be your (temporary) host to the world of digital downloads, 7 and 12 inches and, if you can find them, CD singles. Not that I expect anybody actually cares about them any more, going by how incredibly difficult it was to even find out which ones were coming out today, but I've made the commitment now so best to just get on with it anyway.

The Drums – Money

As if to prove just how pointless aiming for the singles market is these days, everybody's favourite, or second favourite, or merely tolerated American Smiths-copyists The Drums have decided to release their comeback single on the same day as their second album. Quite why they bothered at all I don't know.

The good news is that the line-up upheaval that happened between albums one and two hasn't had any lasting effect on the band as Money is still a bit of a summery jangle, like all their other songs. It's just a shame that frontman Jonathan Pierce hasn't taken the opportunity to up his game in the lyric-writing stakes at all. The song features, in true Pierce style, some of the laziest stream of consciousness ramblings imaginable. Presumably his original plan was to just 'write' a song about his shopping list, before realising that he couldn't afford to go shopping anyway, and so he just sang about that instead. 4/10

Okkervil River – Your Past Life As A Blast

Perhaps Pierce could learn something from Okkervil River. Your Past Life As A Blast, on first listen, features lyrics almost as uninspiring as The Drums' effort – although to be honest it might just be Will Sheff's terrible diction rendering them pretty much indecipherable, if I had the time/inclination to look them up I might find he's a genuinely gifted poet (probably not though). However, they're cleverly buried under layers of Hammond organ and buried-in-a-mining-shaft backing vocals, which provide the perfect distraction as they sound really quite terrific. Generally, I subscribe to the view raised on the first episode of the No Ripcord podcast (still available on iTunes!) that the last thing the world needs is more Okkervil River records, but I could actually go for a bit more of this. 7/10

Big Deal – Chair

Chair just might be the least inspired song title in the history of popular music, which means that it's perfectly fitting for Big Deal's boy/girl namby-pamby nonsense. Even if they drop in some ragged guitar licks to give it a bit of life, the vocals are no better, and possibly even less charming, than those you'd hear from teenage buskers in any given shopping centre. Was the late (and sadly missed) Steven Wells trying to warn us about this sort of thing in his many Belle and Sebastian-aimed diatribes in the late 90s? Shame we didn't listen. 1/10

Snow Patrol – Called Out In The Dark

Speaking of Belle and Sebastian, remember when Snow Patrol were just a bunch of pleasant B&S wannabes? No, I'm not sure I do either.

Called Out In The Dark sees Lightbody and co continue in their, so far depressingly successful, plan to be Coldplay instead (all while trying to claim that they're '4 Real' in the extraordinarily patronising video), by attempting to bolt together an awful dirge of a verse with a ludicrously big chorus that sounds like its been lifted from an entirely different song - this one's a bit 'ravey'. Expect to get the chorus stuck in your head for weeks, but to also want to drive nails into your eardrums when being forced to listen to rest of it. 2/10

Ms Dynamite - Neva Soft

Cannily released the day before this year's Mercury Music Prize ceremony, so that when the inevitable 'whatever happened to?' conversation starts, this should turn up pretty high in the Google search results. So it's a good thing that its big, bolshy (particularly her sudden, and possibly insensitive, acquisition of a strong Jamaican accent) and the best thing that she's ever done, other than It Takes More or her guest-spot on the Katy B album. 7/10

Shockolady – Get It On

Russia's latest attempt to infiltrate the charts after t.A.T.u. and... um... is that really it? You'd think that a country with a population of 143 million would have thrown up a few more international popstars. It's a Lady Gaga-inspired Karaoke cover of the T Rex classic sung by a woman so far only known in this country for supporting Jedward on their last tour. Every bit as pointless as that description suggests. 0/10

Bon Iver – Holocene

After Justin Vernon's debut, and even the Blood Bank EP and Kanye guest appearances, I was a fully paid up member of the Bon Iver fanclub (or I would be if such things existed anymore), but I can't say I've warmed much to his second album. Not that it's bad per se, it just so obviously lacks the passion that kept For Emma, Forever Ago from sinking into interminable navel gazing. After the magnificent Calgary, 4AD were clearly left with a bit of a tough decision for what would be single number two from Bon Iver (the best stuff that's left isn't very 'Bon Iver' – consider the pummelling drum beat of Perth or the afrobeat rhythms of Minnesota, WI) and so they've had to go with this pleasant but unremarkable bit of melancholy that, despite the 'I could see for miles, miles, miles' assertion in the chorus, seems rather lacking in scope, and attached it to a glossy Icelandic-shot video in the hope that we won't notice that if you took away Vernon's amazing voice there'd be no difference between this and something from the David Gray back catalogue. 5/10

Laura Marling - Sophia

Yes, she should still be viewed with suspicion as a result of her involvement with both Noah and the Whale and Mumford and Sons, but this is rather good (take note Mr Vernon, this is how you do wistful acoustic melancholy) even if it definitely ain't original – starting out as a pleasant wisp of Joni Mitchell-ism before going all upbeat Dolly Parton. And while it's a bit annoying that the very English Marling is attempting to sing in an American accent (or two), she does belt it out with a just enough conviction, and pleasant harmonies, to get away with it.

Actually, I preferred the rendition of Jolene that I ended up singing during Sophia's second half, but as I have no plans to commit that to record as yet, buying Marling's record is certainly not a bad substitute. 8/10

Foster The People - Helena Beat

While Pumped Up Kicks established Foster The People as the new Maroon 5, Helena Beat's fizzy synths and ridiculous falsetto sees them aim for Empire Of The Sun's territory, and for some reason they've bundled it with an incredibly misjudged and heavy handed video. It's a riddle of contradictions, that's quite palatable in small doses. So it's a shame that it goes on for nearly 5 minutes. 3/10

Light Asylum – In Tension EP

It might be a bit of cheat including this as not only are EPs a bit of a grey area, but this one's been doing the rounds for well over a year now. However, as it's just been re-released so you can buy it in proper shops, or at least off the net, I'm choosing to believe that it counts, besides it's my column this week so I'll review what I want.

Presumably cashing in on Dark Allies from the EP now soundtracking a Nintendo 3DS advert (hopefully Light Asylum will see a sales bump out of it, as Nintendo certainly haven't), In Tension is a bit early-to-mid Depeche Mode, a bit Grace Jones (or at least what you'd expect Jones' records to sound like going by her reputation, rather than how they actually do) and really quite Yazoo – if Vince Clark was a massive Goth and Alison Moyet was a black Brooklynite, and if they used samples of horses and, on Skull Fuct, the instantly recognisable drum beat from Blue Monday. 9/10 SINGLE OF THE WEEK

Xiu XiuDaphny

Take one listen to Daphny's unsettling noise and its distant, tremulous vocals and you'll probably agree; Xiu Xiu frontman Jamie Stuart is rather keen on Scott Walker's The Drift. It all certainly sounds like no laughing matter (which is just as well as apparently it's about a friend of Stuart's getting raped by a cop – not that you'd have the slightest clue going by the lyrics, although the rather striking cover art might have given you a hint).

With it's really weird stop-start nature, I would say that it's a pretty ballsy choice for a lead single, but by Xiu Xiu standards this is actually quite radio-friendly (there's even a pleasant acoustic guitar interlude) and, as somebody who's always found the idea of the band more interesting than the actuality of them, I can confidently say that this is... interesting. 7/10

Foo Fighters – Arlandria

I'm starting to question Dave Grohl's position as 'the nicest guy in rock'. Surely if he was that nice he wouldn't insist on subjecting us to his ever-more patchy output. As if to remind us all that Wasting Light still exists here comes single number three and... well, it's alright actually. Somehow it manages to be both a cock-rock stomper and very polite with it. It could probably have done without the 'Fame, fame, go away bit' though. 6/10

Pixie Lott – All About Tonight

Pixie Lott's career seems to exist solely because of the wishful thinking of record label executives - her most significant contribution to culture being a co-starring role in Fred: The Movie (a film based on a youtube skit based on E number-induced hyperactivity). Can anybody actually remember a song that she's recorded? I certainly can't, not even this one.

Presumably All About Tonight was written when some guy in marketing looked at a Gaga video and a Boots Here Come the Girls ad and decided that that's what women want (or at least what tween girls think they'll want when they become women). So we've ended up with Miss Lott attempting to deliver a dance-y account of the kind of supposedly-empowering-but-actually-really-depressing 'girls night out' that takes place in every British town centre on a saturday night. And the problem is that it's not nearly brash or offensive enough to capture that market, instead it merely comes across as being, just like the rake-thin Lott herself, severely undernourished. 1/10

Melanie C – Think About It

The opening blasts of guitar suggest two things, 1) that Melanie C is, like a particularly tedious letter writer to the NME, still a bit obsessed with the idea of 'real music' and 2) that Think About It might be a bit of laugh anyway. Technically it's not a bad song - everything seems to be in the right place - but the former Sporty Spice remains so devoid of personality that somehow Think About It manages to erase itself from the memory while it's still playing. Although to be fair to her, she can just about hold a tune, until she strains for the high notes anyway.

Probably best that we just forget about it instead Mel. 3/10

The Saturdays – All Fired Up

Maybe it's the shameless pilfering of the really quite good synth wash from Chris Brown's otherwise irredeemable Yeah 3x (and for that matter Calvin Harris' I'm Not Alone – he may not be anywhere near as vile a character as Brown, but he still comes off as something of a dick and is thus best avoided), or maybe it's the fact that I'm starting to bleed from the ears, but I quite like this. Yes, it's brain-cell destroyingly stupid, but at least it's honest about it and, unlike Lott's similarly titled effort, it has some balls (sorry girls). Although in the notoriously undemocratic world of girl groups, the Saturdays might just have revealed themselves to be the most tyrannically authoritarian, as apparently only one of them gets to sing (which one it is I don't know, it probably doesn't matter anyway). 7/10

Mark Ronson featuring Pharrell Williams, Mndr, Wiley and Wretch 32 – Record Collection 2012

A remix of the title track from the bequiffed one's last solo album, in which he gets in a load of hip-hop artists in an effort to once and for all convince us that there's more to him than Back to Black, and being a bit of a dapper dresser. And by prematurely giving it the 2012 suffix, he's apparently hoping that we'll all agree that this is the sound of the future.

Of course it isn't, but it is definitely an improvement on the lumpen and flat original, even though there are way too many collaborators here. To be fair Wiley's there from the original, but it didn't really need Pharrell, Mndr and Wretch 32 to also chip in as it's pretty much impossible to tell who's who. Still on the plus side, it means that there's little room left for Ronson to make his presence known. 4/10

The Kooks – Is It Me

Yes, Luke Pritchard, it's you. 0/10

Wynter Gordon – Til Death

Despite the title, Til Death is a fairly traditional, albeit slick bit of electro-pop, built around a backing track that sounds like a Clanger in a blender, and Gordon's certainly been gifted with a strong voice. But the constant shifts in speed and tone eventually reveal it to be a pop song in search of a hook. 3/10

Dev – In The Dark

Every other song this week sounds like its been based around a Casio keyboard demo track, and as such In The Dark, the latest single from 'The voice of Like A G6' (as the adverts on the telly say, as if that's a genuine selling point), seems like it's going to be, at the worst, incredibly derivative, but then Dev's unenthusiastic vocals come in and it all goes downhill incredibly quickly. And then there's a really horrible 1990's euro dance sax riff to make matters worse.

To give In The Dark some credit, it features what will probably be the only ever use of the line 'It's the cataracts' you'll ever find in pop music, but when delivered in Dev's comatose style the realisation hits that this is what an OAP trying to be coquettish and sexy would sound like, and nobody wants to think about that. 1/10

Leona Lewis – Collide

Now firmly established as the only act signed by Simon Cowell that he's not subsequently dropped like a stone, Lewis no longer needs to try to appear even remotely credible, and so can just indulge her lacklustre ballad urges all she wants. So I was prepared for Collide to be dreary, I wasn't however, expecting it to be genuinely nightmarish, and not just because of the usual Mariah-apeing high notes. When an incredibly commercial pop song attempts to use the line "Crash into me at full speed" as a sexual come-on during its chorus, you do wonder if J.G. Ballard was onto something.

Although it's not just Lewis' vocals that are to blame, there's also the awfully repetitive 90s house piano and the insistent, but inept, beats to get past. It all adds up to a combination so toxic that on every attempt I've made to get through Collide I've ended up with a headache and lost the ability to form coherent sentences. 0/10

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JOHNS CREEK, Ga. – Chattahoochee High School’s Kevin Mallard has signed a national letter of intent to swim for St. Andrews University in Laurinburg, N.C., in the fall.

St. Andrews is an NAIA school and a member of the Appalachian Conference. Mallard plans to study graphic arts and game design.

He has been a varsity letterman in swimming all four years as well as serving as a team captain this year. He has competed for Chattahoochee in every high school swimming state championship since his freshman year and received the Coach’s Award his junior year.

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Members of Team New Jersey cheering during 2014 Special Olympics Opening Ceremonies on Sunday at the Prudential Center in Newark.
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Athletes wearing colorful team uniforms proudly paraded through the arena Sunday before thousands of cheering spectators, including their families and friends.

With pomp and circumstance, the 2014 Special Olympics USA Games kicked off its week of competition — for the first time in New Jersey — at the Prudential Center in Newark.

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Pro athletes, celebrities and business executives lauded the intellectually disabled participants as the true champions in the world.

“I’m excited to be here with all these champions,” co-host Michael Carter-Williams, a point guard for the Philadelphia 76ers and the NBA’s rookie of the year,  told the crowd.

An estimated 18,000 people, including 3,500 athletes and 1,000 coaches, packed the Prudential Center for the four-hour opening ceremony of the Special Olympics, which comprises 16 individual and team sports.

The games’ location this year in the New York metropolitan area is much higher-profile than prior sites — Iowa in 2006 and Nebraska in 2010. The Empire State Building was lighted in the Special Olympics colors, blue and red, on Sunday night.

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There were representatives from all 50 states at the Prudential Center, and all were duly introduced. New Jersey’s delegation received an especially loud cheer. These national games are important to North Jersey members of the group of athletes.

At the opening ceremony, there were pyrotechnics during a rock version of the national anthem and appearances by “Glee” actress Jane Lynch, as well as WWE Superstars Big Show and David Otunga. Governor Christie was supposed to appear, but he got stuck in traffic and arrived late, and had to leave to continue his planned schedule, a Special Olympics spokeswoman said.

The Special Olympics were founded in 1968 by Eunice Kennedy Shriver to empower people with intellectual disabilities and foster understanding and acceptance. It has grown to encompass 3.5 million athletes in 170 countries. Nearly 10,000 volunteers and 70,000 spectators are expected in New Jersey, which was selected in March 2011 to play host for the 2014 games.

“The model we presented was of having corporate America underwrite the games,” said T.J. Nelligan, chairman and CEO of the games.

And big business stepped up. Toys “R” Us, ShopRite, PSE&G, 21st Century FOX, The New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority, KPMG, the WWE and others have covered 90 percent of the $20 million cost of the games and companion activities. Previously, the games had been paid through government grants.

Among the members of the New Jersey delegation is gymnast Courtney Muns of Garfield, competing nationally for the first time.

“She loves putting on a show,” said her mother, Julie. “She’s a little bit of a ham.”

Muns, 18, took part in the Summer Games, a two-day competition for New Jerseyans with intellectual disabilities, a few weeks ago and won five gold medals.

“She was so excited she made herself sick,” said her sister, Alexis, who also helps to coach her.

Muns has been doing gymnastics since she was 7 and is a cheerleader for Garfield High School alongside Alexis. She finds time to practice gymnastics every day. At home, she uses a board to practice the balance beam in her driveway, but practices her other events at Elite Gymnastics in Hawthorne.

The floor event is her favorite, “because I like to dance and I love music,” she said.

“She’s become a little more competitive this year,” her mother said. “I can see she’s working so hard at it.”

The athletes use the games as a social tool too. Many form lasting friendships  they maintain through social media.

Another member of the New Jersey delegation, 32-year-old golfer Tom Azilides of Northvale, has even parlayed his sport into a way to meet celebrities. He met actor Bill Murray at a driving range and has met and played with top golfers.

In a sport in which even professionals can do well one day and terribly the next, Azilides finds a level playing field.

“He’s as good at it as the average businessman and I think that’s something he likes,” said Nick Azilides, who will caddy this week when his son competes in nine-hole golf.

Tom Azilides became interested in golf as a teenager when his father took him to play miniature golf and he spotted the nearby driving range. Tom asked, “Gee what are those guys doing,” his father recalled. And that was it. Tom was instantly hooked. Nick, himself not a golfer, used the sport to teach his son a lesson when Tom turned down a summer landscaping job.

“I drove him to the golf course,” Nick said. “I said, ‘See all those guys? The one thing they all have in common is they all have jobs. Golf is expensive.’ ”

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Eddy Curry back just in time for Tim Duncan

SAN ANTONIO — Eddy Curry, meet Tim Duncan.

Welcome back, big guy.

For the first time since Dec. 17, the center the Knicks considered a potential franchise player as recently as November, when they cited his development as a reason they didn’t sign Allen Iverson, is expected to play tonight when the Knicks visit the Spurs to christen a five-game trip.

Considering he hasn’t played more than 15:50 in the mere 10 games (of a possible 145) he’s played since the start of last season, it shouldn’t be a lengthy sighting.

But, although he admitted last week he’ll have to play through some discomfort in the left knee on which he underwent arthroscopic surgery Jan. 18, it could be the start of a 19-game trial to determine if he can be of any use next season.

Or it could serve as a showcase for any team willing to take on the nearly $11.3 million he’s due next season and give the Knicks even more salary-cap room this summer.

The Knicks also could buy him out during the off-season to save $1 million to $2 million this summer before the rest of his salary comes off in 2011.

All that, of course, depends upon how well he plays and based on his past history, how long he lasts.

"I’m not even thinking about it," he said Tuesday after practice about his potential staying power. "I’m just looking at it as an opportunity to go out there, get some games in and try to go into the summer with some kind of momentum."

"I do want to play him and keep amping up the minutes a little bit," coach Mike D’Antoni said. "But I would imagine the first week or so would be kind of rocky."

But the Knicks’ coach won’t call this Curry’s "last chance," saying he hopes to integrate his low-post skills into the offense better than earlier this season, when the Knicks were a minus-18 in consecutive games when Curry played.

"It is a good chance to start anew and get him back on track," D’Antoni said. "We’ll try to get him the ball a little bit better than we did the last time he came in and just see if we can integrate him well and get his confidence up and get the rust off him."

Tracy McGrady, meanwhile, will be a game-time decision tonight, D’Antoni said, after sitting out Monday’s victory over Atlanta to rest.

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Duluth, MN (NNCNOW.com) - Troy Rogers, a native of Virginia, Minnesota, is the creator and conductor of his own band of robots.

Rogers makes the robots and then makes them make music.

Rogers will perform at 8:30 p.m. Friday, May 2 at Teatro Zuccone.


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Angie Miller to run for Patrick Boyle's vacant 2nd District City Council Seat

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January 27, 2014 Updated Jan 27, 2014 at 7:19 PM CDT

Duluth, MN (NNCNOW.com)--- Angie Miller, the wife of late St Louis County Commissioner Steve O Neill, will be making a run for Patrick Boyle's vacant Duluth city council seat.

Angie Miller recently spent four months filling the vacant county commissioner seat left by the death of her husband, Steve O'Neill.

She decided early on to not run for that seat on a permanent basis and helped encourage Patrick Boyle to make a bid for the seat.

When Boyle won the county commissioner seat, Miller realized she did not want to be done with serving the public quite yet and decided to throw her hat into the ring for Boyle's second district city council seat.

Miller is currently the director of Community Action Duluth and says the City Council seat would allow her to maintain that position.

She says she would bring a lot of relevant experience to issues in Duluth such as poverty and the housing crisis.

The decision for her to run for City Council came from her experience on the county board, and her belief that she still has something to contribute to public service in a new way.

"I've had a lifetime of public service in the non profit sector, as a foster parent, starting loaves and fishes, the hospitality community, but now I think that there might be a new way for me to get involved in public service through the City Council," said Miller.

Steve O'Neil and Miller began their community activism in Duluth 25 years ago when they opened their home to the poor.

The council is taking applications until Friday at 4:30.

They will then hold a special city council meeting on February 10 at which they will appoint someone to fill the seat for the next two years.

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May 15, 2014 Updated May 15, 2014 at 6:39 PM CDT

Duluth/Superior, MN (NNCNOW.com) --- Icebreakers had a rough time this year breaking a pathway for shipments to come in and out of the Duluth, Superior Port.

Lake Superior's ice was near–record thick this year. Shipments were down because of the thick ice, even stalling the first saltie's arrival.

During the 160 days of ice breaking operations, 5,597 extra hours of ice breaking were done on the Great Lakes this year. There are still quite a few ice chunks floating on Lake Superior, so people in boats should be cautious.

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Newcomers to the sport are particularly welcome. Our membership fees aim to make the game the most affordable in the north east and weekly match fees range from £2.00 to £5.00. All training sessions are free!

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Gillian Flynn (GJ97) had an incredible 2012. Her third novel, Gone Girl, a psychological thriller about a missing woman and a shattered marriage, sold more than 2 million copies in print and digital formats and spent eight weeks at No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list. Flynn struck a deal to write the screenplay, with Reese Witherspoon as a producer and possible star. “Writing the screenplay was tricky because it is a very cerebral book, very inside people’s heads, and I had to try to get those thoughts on screen,” says Flynn, who lives in Chicago with her attorney husband and toddler son. Flynn turned to fiction writing after realizing during grad school at Northwestern that she wasn’t cut out to be a crime reporter. She says her journalism training has served her well, helping her develop a knack for good dialogue. It also instilled the discipline of writing. “As a journalist, you still have to write even when you are exhausted and bored because you still have to turn something in by the end of the day,” Flynn said. “That still saves me sometimes as a fiction writer.” She has plans for three new works, a young-adult novel and two novels for adults.

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Tour the special exhibition Keep Calm and Carry On to view examples of WWII British fashion that helped a nation endure the realities of war.  Later, make your own statement on silk with paints and markers.

Children and their parents explore themes in art in the galleries, then create their own artworks in the Reynolds Art Education Room.

Limited to 25 children, Ages 5 - 12; $8 Materials Fee ($6 Members) Payable at the door. Call (561) 832-5196, x1196 or use the online registration form.

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