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$10,000 in a drawer
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A 10-year-old boy who found
$10,000 in a drawer at a Kansas City hotel where he was staying with his dad turned the money over to police.
Tyler Schaefer found the neatly stacked bills Saturday in the
room where he and his father, Cody Schaefer, were staying at a
hotel near the airport, The Kansas City Star reported. Cody
Schaefer, a truck driver and mechanic from Rapid City, S.D.,
meets his former wife in Kansas City every year to get his three
children for summer vacation.
Cody Schaefer said Tyler, a Cub Scout, is always on the lookout for clues and treasure.
"He looks for stuff at random," Schaefer said of his son. "He's
very observant." Schaefer said after they checked into their
room Saturday, Tyler began opening all the drawers, and it wasn't too long before Tyler announced: "I found money!"
Schaefer thought maybe his son had found a forgotten $10
bill, but when he looked closer he saw the stack of bills totaling
$10,000. He wondered if the bills were fake, but saw they had
the appropriate watermarks and seemed legitimate. "We didn't
know what to do at first," Schaefer said. Schaefer told his son
they couldn't keep the cash because they didn't know who it
belonged to. They handed the money over to two off-duty police
officers working security at the hotel. The officers contacted
Sgt. Randy Francis, a property and evidence supervisor, who
stored the cash at a police facility.
Police said it's unclear how long the money had been there,
and they can't track down every guest who stayed in that room
recently. Police spokesman Capt. Tye Grant said Thursday no
one had claimed the money yet.
According to a Missouri statute, lost money could revert to a
finder after about seven months if no one can prove ownership.
But the owner then has another year to prove the money is his
or hers and claim it from the finder. "I didn't come there with
$10,000 and I didn't leave with $10,000," Cody Schaefer said.
"So it was a wash."
Midwest states to get boost
AP photo
In this July 16, 2004, photo a gray wolf is seen at the
Wildlife Science Center in Forest Lake, Minn.
WASHINGTON, D.C. —
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service has announced
$850,000 in grants under the
Wolf Livestock Demonstration
Project Grant Program. Grants
will be distributed to the states of
Arizona, Idaho, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New Mexico,
Oregon, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming, and to the
San Carlos Apache Nation.
The grants assist livestock producers in undertaking proactive,
non-lethal activities to reduce
the risk of livestock loss from
predation by wolves, and compensate producers for livestock
losses caused by wolves. The
program provides funding to
states and tribes, with federal
cost-share not to exceed 50 percent.
The Wisconsin Department of
Natural Resources was awarded
$50,000 to provide compensa-
tion for death or injury caused by
wolves to livestock, hunting
dogs and pets. These funds will
be used to compensate
landowners who have filed
complaints that have been
investigated and verified as
death or injury resulting from
interactions with wolves.
The Michigan Department of
Natural Resources received
$22,000 to provide assistance
to livestock producers for proactive, nonlethal activities to
reduce the risk of livestock loss
due to predation by wolves.
Techniques include the use of
frightening devices, guard animals, fencing and other ways to
prevent access to livestock, and
use of best management practices for livestock operations.
Interested livestock producers
will work with the Department
of Natural Resources to develop
a plan to address wolf concerns
in a non-lethal fashion, including an evaluation of the effectiveness of the chosen techniques.
The Minnesota Department of
Agriculture received $80,000
to compensate landowners who
have lost livestock animals to
wolves. This grant will allow
Minnesota to pay owners with
pending claims and will assist
with anticipated compensation
requests in 2014 and 2015.
Proposals were evaluated considering the extent of depredation of livestock by wolves, program evaluation and record
keeping, and commitment to
reporting and coordination. Proposals were also evaluated
based on the level of non-lethal,
proactive techniques to reduce
wolf-livestock interactions and
the outreach and coordination
levels. Nationally, funds
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Note found amid NY Sandy debris is
from dead girl
PATCHOGUE, N.Y. (AP) — A dozen years
ago, a 10-year-old girl wrote a message on a
scrap of paper, placed it in a ginger-ale bottle
and launched it into the waters off Long Island.
Now, that bottle has been discovered amid a
beach strewn with debris from Superstorm
Sandy.
The girl who cast that bottle into the bay is
dead, but her message has been passed along to
her grieving mother.
"I was just sobbing when I heard they had
found it," Mimi Fery said of the workers in the
Long Island village of Patchogue, who not only
found the message in the bottle, but called the
woman and arranged for its ultimate return.
"These are very, very kind people." This weekend, Fery will return to the seaside village about
60 miles east of Manhattan where she will
again thank the workers and attend a ceremony where a small plaque will be dedicated as a
remembrance to Sidonie, village officials said.
The 18-year-old died in a 2010 fall from a cliff
in Switzerland.
Fery described her only child as a creative
youngster, who was always writing poetry. She
knew instantly when told what the message
contained that it had been written by Sidonie
because it was a quote from "Bill and Ted's
Excellent Adventure," the girl's favorite film.
Fery also takes a second meaning from the
message, one not to worry about Sidonie, who
died after falling off a cliff with another student
while attending boarding school.
"Be excellent to yourself, dude," Fery said,
quoting the message. "It makes so much sense."
Described as a "very artistic and vivacious
young woman," Fery said Sidonie always had
an independent streak; she traveled by herself
to visit relatives in Iran every summer beginning when she was about 7 years old, her mother said. Born on Sept. 11, 1991, the little girl
was often teased and harassed after the terror
attacks on her 10th birthday by people who didn't understand her Persian heritage, her mother
said. "She had to deal with a lot of things," Fery
said. "But she stood her ground."
The bottle only traveled a mile or two westward from where it was likely deposited to the
location where parks workers found it just
before Thanksgiving last year. It was intermingled with broken docks, boating gear and a
spectrum of sea trash. Because the note included Fery's New York City phone number, the
worthless piece of trash is now a priceless
memento.
Brian Waldron, a Patchogue parks department employee for 23 years, says he was working with a few temporary workers hired to
assist with the cleanup after Sandy, when one
of them said they found the bottle with the note
inside.
"We opened it and it had a phone number
inside, so I called the number and left a message," Waldron said. More than three hours
later, an overjoyed Fery called back crying on
the phone.
They quickly arranged a meeting in
Patchogue so she could retrieve the prized possession.
"I told her I felt like her daughter was looking
down from heaven and wanted me to give her
a call," said Waldron, who added that he collected a second bottle filled with sand from
where the ginger ale bottle was found and gave
it to Fery.
"She was crying, everybody was crying."
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General
LANSING (AP)— Kalamazoo attorney Mark Totten officially announced Monday that he is running for state Attorney
General. He filed paperwork setting up a campaign committee
with the Secretary of State last month. But his official announcement came via Twitter — “Thrilled to announce my campaign
for Michigan Attorney General today!”
Totten is a law professor at Michigan State University and a
member of the Kalamazoo Board of Education. He also worked
for the Department of Justice in Washington D.C.
He will seek the Democratic nomination for the job, which
occurs at state conventions next summer. Although Republican
Attorney General Bill Schuette hasn’t officially announced his
re-election plans, he has indicated that he plans to run.
15 pounds of bees
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — It was the biggest beehive that
that Ogden beekeeper Vic Bachman has ever removed — a
dozen feet long, packed inside the eaves of a cabin in Ogden
Valley.
"We figure we got 15 pounds of bees out of there," said Bachman, who said that converts to about 60,000 honeybees.
Bachman was called to the A-frame cabin last month in Eden,
Utah. Taking apart a panel that hid roof rafters, he had no idea
he would find honeycombs packed 12 feet long, 4 feet wide and
16 inches deep.
The honeybees had been making the enclosed cavity their
home since 1996, hardly bothering the homeowners. The cabin
was rarely used, but when the owners needed to occupy it while
building another home nearby, they decided the beehive wasn't
safe for their two children. A few bees had found their way
inside the house, and the hive was just outside a window of a
children's bedroom.
They didn't want to kill the honeybees, a species in decline that
does yeoman's work pollinating flowers and crops.
So they called Bachman, owner of Deseret Hive Supply, a
hobbyist store that can't keep up with demand for honeybees.
Bachman used a vacuum cleaner to suck the bees into a cage.
"It doesn't hurt them," he said.
The job took six hours. At $100 an hour, the bill came to $600.
"The bees were expensive," said Paul Bertagnolli, the cabin
owner. He was satisfied with the job.
Utah calls itself the Beehive state, a symbol of industriousness.
Whether this was Utah's largest beehive is unknown, but Bachman said it would rank high.
"It's the biggest one I've ever seen," he said. "I've never seen
one that big."
He used smoke to pacify the bees, but Bachman said honeybees are gentle creatures unlike predatory yellow jackets or hornets, which attack, rip apart and eat honeybees, he said.
"They just want to collect nectar and come back to the hive,"
he said. "Most people never get stung by honeybees — it's a yellow jacket."
Bachman reassembled the hive in a yard of his North Ogden
home, while saving some of the honeycomb for candles and
lotions at his store. He left other honeycombs for the cabin owners to chew on.
"We caught the queen and were able to keep her," Bachman
said. "The hive is in my backyard right now and is doing well."
A Leader in outdated gas lines
LANSING (AP) — Michigan is one of the nation’s leaders in
the amount of outdated, leaky cast-iron and wrought-iron natural gas pipes, according to a report published Sunday.
The state has 3,153 miles of the pipes, fifth in the nation, the
Detroit Free Press reported. New Jersey is first with 5,138
miles, followed by New York with 4,541, Massachusetts with
3,901 and Pennsylvania with 3,260 miles.
DTE Energy Co. and CMS Energy Corp. are Michigan’s leading natural gas suppliers, and the newspaper said they have
replaced only 15 percent of the antiquated lines in the past
decade.
“This aging infrastructure needs to come out of the ground as
fast as possible,” said Carl Weimer, executive director of the
Pipeline Safety Trust, a Bellingham, Wash.-based group promoting fuel-transportation safety. “They need to do the analysis of where the worst of it is and get the stuff out.”
CMS’s Consumers Energy unit has 626 miles of cast- and
wrought-iron pipeline in its gas system, or about 2.4 percent of
the utility’s total distribution system. It has replaced 21 percent
of its wrought- and cast-iron mains since 2004. On Feb. 27, a
Consumers Energy crew was replacing eight-decade-old
pipelines in Royal Oak when a natural-gas explosion killed one
resident and damaged 31 homes.
DTE has a far larger stock of the outdated lines, 2,499 miles,
the newspaper said. That is second in the nation behind Public
Service Electric & Gas of New Jersey at 4,202 miles.
A 2010 report by the Michigan Public Service Commission,
a utility regulator, expressed “great concern” about DTE’s “ability to provide safe and reliable service” because of its significant amount of aging pipelines and lack of action to replace
them.
Bob Richard, executive vice president for gas operations of the
company’s DTE Gas unit, said the problem is being rectified
now.
“We’ve hired 100 people to work 100 percent on pipeline
safety in our distribution system over the last two years,” he said.
Second Season of its futuristic action-drama
"Defiance."
NEW YORK (UPI) -- U.S.
cable network Syfy says it has
ordered a second season of its
futuristic action-drama "Defiance."
Production on the fresh run of
episodes is to begin in Toronto
in August. Starring Grant
Bowler, Julie Benz, Stephanie
Leonidas, Tony Curran, Jaime
Murray, Graham Greene and
Mia Kirshner, the show is to
return in 2014 . "Bringing the
rich world of 'Defiance' to life
has been in incredible team
effort. We couldn't ask for better partners than [show-runner]
Kevin Murphy, his amazing
cast and crew, and Trion
Worlds," Mark Stern, Syfy's
president of original content,
said in a statement Friday. "We
can't wait to see where they
take us in the second season."
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between Syfy and Trion
Worlds, creators of an online
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program.
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Pittsburgh bridge set for 'yarn bombing'
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Andy Warhol Bridge in
Pittsburgh is set to close for nearly four days so volunteers
can cover it with knitted blankets as part of an installation
art "yarn bombing."
The bridge, one of several connecting downtown with
the city's North Shore, closed 6 p.m. Thursday and will
open at 6 a.m. Monday.
The Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh plans to use machineknitted blankets to cover the bridge's towering superstructure while individual blankets knitted by more than
1,200 volunteers will cover the bridge's walkways. The
group plans to leave the blankets in place for several
weeks, then wash the blankets so they can be distributed
to homeless shelters, nursing homes and animal shelters.
Amanda Gross, the Pittsburgh artist leading the Knitthe-Bridge project, says, "The point is to knit stronger
communities."
Calif. city tries humor to keep butts out of
parks
Egg laid by extinct elephant bird sells for
$101G at British auction
GLENDALE, Calif. (AP) -- It's not the kind of sign you usually see at a park: "Our deer don't smoke in your backyard.
Please don't smoke in theirs."
But the Los Angeles foothill suburb of Glendale hopes such
jokes will do a serious job and keep smokers from trashing local
parks and trails.
The Los Angeles Times ( http://lat.ms/12yElO8 ) says 18
humorous signs were put up in April throughout the Verdugo
and San Rafael mountains, at the Glendale Sports Complex and
Deukmejian Wilderness Park.
Other samples: "Do not throw cigarette butts on the ground.
Our squirrels are getting cancer" and "Smokers will be fed to
the bears."
Smoking is banned on city trails and parks but the city doesn't have enough workers to patrol every trail.
Associated Press - LONDON – A massive, partly fossilized
egg laid by a now-extinct elephant bird has sold for more than
double its estimate at a London auction.
Christie's auction house said that the foot-long, nearly nineinches in diameter egg fetched 66,675 pounds ($101,813). It
had been valued at 20,000 to 30,000 pounds pre-sale, and was
sold to an anonymous buyer over the telephone after about 10
minutes of competitive bidding.
Elephant birds were wiped out several hundred years ago. The
oversized ovum, laid on the island of Madagascar, is believed
to date back before the 17th century.
Flightless, fruit-gobbling elephant birds resembled giant
ostriches and could grow to be 11 feet high. Christie's says their
eggs are 100 times the size of an average chicken's.
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Man finds maggots on sandwich
ATLANTA (AP) — A restaurant executive said
Wednesday that the company switched bread vendors
after a customer found a cluster of maggots on his sandwich at Atlanta's airport.
Weekly traveler Joel Woloshuk told WSB-TV
(http://bit.ly/1895s6l) that he bought a sandwich from
Café Intermezzo and realized the white specks on top of
it were maggots — not parmesan — when they began
writhing across the bun.
In a statement to WSB-TV, Café Intermezzo's president
said the case was an isolated incident and the problem
could not have originated at the restaurant. He said the
restaurant switched bread vendors and "not a single
crumb" from the original bakery remains.
Atlanta Department of Aviation officials do concessions
inspections at the airport and said they're distributing
ultraviolet lights to Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport restaurants so they can better inspect food shipments.
The Clayton County Board of Health says it found no
citable violation at the location that it inspected.
The television station reports the restaurant's bread vendor was Marietta, Ga.-based La Petite France bakery and
a Department of Agriculture inspection report listed several critical violations. Inspectors said the facility was not
clean or in good physical shape when they visited.
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‘JOBS’ IS ABOUT APPLE MORE THAN THE MAN
By the Associated Press
A better title for this film might
have been "The History of Apple
Computers."
"Jobs" aims to be the first biopic
about tech giant Steve Jobs (Sony's
Aaron Sorkin project is next), but
instead of offering insight into the
man, it's a chronology of Apple and
the advent of personal computers.
Ashton Kutcher plays Jobs convincingly enough. The "Two and a Half
Men" star looks uncannily like the
Apple co-founder, right down to the
lumbering gait, and there's no trace of
Kutcher's kooky-character past here.
But with a script by first-time screenwriter Matt Whitely that focuses more
on corporate events than characters,
there's no chance to look deeper into
the man behind the Mac.
Directed by Joshua Michael Stern
("Swing Vote"), "Jobs" opens with
the Apple chief introducing the first
iPod in 2001. Then it jumps back
almost 30 years, when Jobs was a
scruffy, barefoot, Reed College
dropout on campus just for kicks.
(James Woods appears briefly as a
concerned school administrator, but
is never seen again.) Jobs hallucinates in a field, travels to India, and
suddenly it's 1976, and he's struggling in his job at Atari. Prone to outbursts and, apparently, body odor, he
turns to his friend, Steve "Woz" Wozniak (Josh Gad), for help. Jobs discovers a computer prototype Woz
built, and a few months later, Apple
Computers is born.
Gad is the heart of the film. Though
his character, like the others, is weakly developed, Gad's vulnerability as
Wozniak makes him the most relatable. There's also heart in the soundtrack, a romp through the 1960s and
70s that includes songs by Cat
Stevens, Joe Walsh and Bob Dylan.
Jobs, on the other hand, could be a
real jerk. He dismisses his pregnant
girlfriend (Ahna O'Reilly) and denies
paternity of their daughter. He withholds stock benefits from founding
members of his team. If a colleague
doesn't share his vision, he fires them
on the spot. Loudly. The one scene
where Jobs cries isn't enough to make
you like the guy.
After he and Woz make a deal with
investor Mike Markkula (Durmot
Mulroney), the film spends a lot of
time at Apple headquarters, where
Jobs is a hot-tempered perfectionist.
His insistence on quality and innovation above all doesn't sit well with
board director Arthur Rock (a sadly
bland J.K. Simmons), who unites
with newly appointed CEO John
Sculley (Matthew Modine) to
remove the company co-founder
from his post.
The decade the film skips — when
an ousted Jobs created his software
company NeXT, which he eventually sold to Apple — seems like a lost
chapter that could have illuminated it
subject. How does such a driven man
survive after being driven out?
Instead, the film picks up in 1996,
when Jobs inexplicably has a new
wife and young son; his now collegeage daughter snoozing on the livingroom couch. He's lured back to Apple
and transforms it into the most profitable company in the world. (That's
not a spoiler, it's history — you can
check it on your iPhone.)
And that's the problem with "Jobs."
While it's interesting to see the history of Apple and how Jobs' singular
determination was crucial to its success, the history of a company isn't as
compelling as the history of a person,
especially one as complex, innovative and influential as Steve Jobs.
"Jobs," An Open Road Films
release, is rated PG-13 by the Motion
Picture Association of America for
"some drug content and brief strong
language." Running time: 127 minutes. Two and a half stars out of four.
Stuart Boyley
ESTATE AUCTION
Sunday, September 8, 2013
Auction 10:00 AM – Viewing 9:00 AM
424 Noreen Lake, Gwinn, MI
DIRECTIONS: From US 41 Marquette head SE on M28/US 41 S toward W
Terrace St., Turn right onto Co Rd 551/Cherry Creek Road, turn right onto
Co Rd 480, turn left onto County Rd 553 left to M-53 turn Left on County Rd
EEL / Noreen Lake Dr. Watch for posted yellow Auction signs.
REAL ESTATE OFFERED: 2 Br, 1 Ba, Ranch Style Home has 1,134 sq. ft. of
Living Space, Propane heat w/Wood Supplement Water/Well Septic, 2car detached garage, outbuilding. Enclosed sun porch w/Natural
sunlight. Noreen Lake Frontage w/Year Round Access w/Generous
Groomed Property. This house has many options! For private viewing call
Auctioneer 906-249-3000.
REAL ESTATE TERMS AND CONDITIONS: 10% non-refundable deposit
due on day of sale. Balance due within 30 days. Arrange financing prior
to sale. Real Estate sold “As-Is” with no guarantee or warranty of any
kind except a clear title. Auction company acting as sales agent only.
Home offered at 10:00 a.m. EST. Viewing auction day at 9:00 a.m. For
private viewing call auctioneer. Seller has the right to accept or reject
any or all bids.
FEATURING: GENERAL HOUSEHOLD - Sofa w/Cream Background w/
Floral Pattern - Oak Coffee Table - Maple Locked Glass Door Gun Cabinet
(Holds 4 Guns) - Beige Recliner - Pine (Narrow) Cabinet - Kneehole Desk
- Sm. Fern Table - Magazine Rack - Craft Handmade Pine Table w/Cut-out
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Wall Clock - Oval Braided Rugs, Large & Small - (2) Carnival Glass Fruit
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Misc. Coffee Cups - KITCHENWARE - Oval Kitchen Table w/(4) Dk. Maple
Captains Chairs - Emerson Microwave (new) - Sm. Portable White
Freezer - Southwestern Area Rug, Approx. 6’x9’ - Cutlery - Flatware,
Misc. Kitchen Utensils - Pots/Pans/Sm. Kitchen Appliances, Coffee
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Fabric Arm Chair - Wd. Wall Clock (Mallards) - Sofa Loveseat - Wet/Dry
Shop Vac - RCA T.V. w/Stand - Framed Print, Ocean Scene, Cardboard (c.
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Lamps (Modern) - Sm. Pine Side Table - Dog Resin Sculpture - Beer
Steins - World Globe - Prints - Full Size Oak Bed w/Pressed Pattern, Oval
Center - Deer Wall Tapestry - Metal File Cabinet - House Fan - (5) Elec.
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Artificial Tree In Urns - JVC T.V. w/Stand - Italian Marble Fern Stand Checker/Chess Board Table - White Metal Standing Coat/Hat Tree - Wall
Clocks - Fabric Steamer (Elec.) - Sm. Pine Chest - Set Snack Tables Steam Rug Scrubber - Twin Size Maple Bed - Bedding, Towels,
Remaining Useful Household Misc. - Lawn-N-Garden - (2) Park Benches
Redwood 1 w/Ornate Iron Sides - Prim Bench - Picnic Table - (2) Metal
Red Spring Chairs (c. 40’s) - Fiberglass Canoe - Briggs & Stratton Gas
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Couple buys $5 garage sale chair worth thousands
One year ago Sarah Keepers and James Hull of
Littleton, Colorado purchased a “unique” looking chair from a garage sale for $5, which ended
up being the bargain of a lifetime. Typically the
couple would visit garage sales looking for items
for their re-sale business, “Shabby Chic.” Keepers told KDVR Fox 31 Denver, that they bought
the old plywood chair because it, “…seemed to
have character.” For a while Hull used it as a
video game chair, sitting in it while he played.
Eventually it was put in the garage where it collected dust.
After nearly a year passed, the couple decided
to clean out their garage and that’s when they discovered how unique the chair really was. Keepers explained, “I was about to donate the chair to
the Goodwill, but something told me to check out
the silver decal label underneath the chair. When
I did, it had the designer’s name…Charles and
Ray Eames and the Herman Miller brand name
right there for all to see.” The wooden antique
was an original Eames molded plywood chair by
the renowned designers and made in western
Michigan in 1946. Creations by the celebrated
artists are revered by fans of mid-century modern design. Carie Mueller, Herman Miller Market Manager in Denver said, “When that chair
was actually introduced in 1946, it right away
went into the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art.” She added, “To find an
antique like that, an original for $5 is an amazing
deal.” While the exact value of this find is not
known, in the past these originals have sold for
$14,000-$140,000.
Apple details government requests for data
NEW YORK (AP) -- Apple says it received
between 4,000 and 5,000 requests from U.S.
law enforcement for customer data for the six
months ended in May.
The company, like some other businesses,
had asked the U.S government to be able to
share how many requests it received related to
national security and how it handled them.
Those requests were made as part of Prism, the
recently revealed highly classified National
Security Agency program that seizes records
from Internet companies.
Prism appears to do what its name suggests.
Like a triangular piece of glass, Prism takes
large beams of data and helps the government
find discrete, manageable strands of information.
Prism was revealed this month by The Washington Post and Guardian newspapers, and has
touched off the latest round in a decade-long
debate over what limits to impose on government eavesdropping, which the Obama administration says is essential to keep the nation safe.
Apple Inc. said that between 9,000 and
10,000 accounts or devices were specified in
data requests between Dec. 1, 2012, and May
31 from federal, state and local authorities and
included both criminal investigations and
national security matters.
It said that the most common form of request
came from police investigating robberies and
other crimes, searching for missing children,
trying to locate a patient with Alzheimer's disease, or hoping to prevent a suicide.
The company also made clear how much
access the government has.
"We do not provide any government agency
with direct access to our servers, and any government agency requesting customer content
must get a court order," Apple said in a statement on its website.
Apple explained that its legal team evaluates
each request and that it delivers "the narrowest
possible set of information to the authorities"
when deemed appropriate. The company said
that it has refused some requests in the past.
Facebook Inc. has said that it received
between 9,000 and 10,000 requests for data
from all government agencies in the second
half of last year. The social media company
said fewer than 19,000 users were targeted.
Apple's stock rose $3.36 to $433.41 in premarket trading.
President Franklin Delano
Roosevelt being pushed in his
wheelchair
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- A professor at an Indiana college
says he has found film footage showing President Franklin
Delano Roosevelt being pushed in his wheelchair, depicting a
secret that was hidden from the public until after his death.
Ray Begovich, a journalism professor at Franklin College
south of Indianapolis, said Tuesday he found the eight-second
clip ( http://bit.ly/12YW5Bp1 ) while conducting unrelated
research in the National Archives in College Park, Md. The
National Archives and the FDR Presidential Museum and
Library couldn't say for certain if other such footage exists but
both said it is at least rare.
Roosevelt contracted polio in 1921 at age 39 and was unable
to walk without leg braces or assistance. During his four terms
as president, Roosevelt often used a wheelchair in private, but
not for public appearances. News photographers cooperated in
concealing Roosevelt's disability, and those who did not found
their camera views blocked by Secret Service agents, according
to the FDR Presidential Museum and Library's website.
"This raw film clip may be the first motion picture images of
the president in his wheelchair, and it was never meant to be
shown to the world," Begovich said.
Bob Clark, supervisory archivist at the Roosevelt library in
New York, said he wasn't aware of any other similar film.
A spokeswoman for the National Archives concurred.
"With respect to whether or not this is the earliest or only existing footage of FDR in a wheelchair, we cannot state that this is
definitively the case, although such footage is certainly rare,"
Laura Diachenko said in an email.
The film shows Roosevelt visiting the U.S.S. Baltimore at
Pearl Harbor in July 1944. Eight seconds of the clip show Roosevelt exiting a doorway on the ship and being escorted down
what is apparently a ramp. The wheelchair is not clearly visible
because the view of the president is screened by a line of sailors,
but Roosevelt's distinctive white hat can be seen gliding past the
men at a lower level. Roosevelt, at 6-foot-2, was likely taller
than most of the soldiers.
Although Roosevelt's disability was virtually a state secret
during his presidency, which spanned the Great Depression and
most of World War II, it has become an inspiration to advocates
who successfully pushed for a statue of him in his wheelchair to
be added to the Roosevelt Memorial in Washington.
"To me, the importance of this clip as historic media imagery
is that it reminds all of us that this president fought the Great
Depression and World War II from a wheelchair. I think it's a
tragedy that we haven't had many candidates for national office
who use a wheelchair or guide dog or sign language," Begovich
said in a statement.
1,600 birthday cards
TUCSON - (AP) -Their goal was 1,600 birthday cards for
their son Jacob's sweet 16.
When his birthday arrived on Sunday, the Mockbee's living room was decorated with more than 4,600 birthday
cards.
"We never imagined it could be anything like this," Jacob's
mom Stacie said. "We weren't sure we'd every reach 1,600
cards."
Once the family pulled back the red curtains and revealed
to Jacob a room full of cards and gifts, his smile lit up the
room.
"Oh my goodness," he said. "Lots of birthday cards."
Jacob was born with Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus. His
parents say it has been a fight to survive since the day he was
born.
"There were several doctors who didn't think he'd make it
to his first birthday," Stacie said.
Since 9 On Your Side first shared their story, the Mockbees have almost tripled their goal. We dropped off another
box with more than 300 cards our viewers gave to us to pass
on to Jacob.
"We just cannot say thank you enough to Tucson," Stacie
said. But the birthday cards and well-wishes came from all
over Arizona, the country and the world.
Both the Phoenix Suns and the University of Arizona basketball team sent signed basketballs. The Michigan State
Police Department sent Jacob a recruit shirt with the name
"Mockbee" on it. And there are cards from countries such as
Italy, Sweden and Germany.
There is one autograph, that for Jacob, took the cake.
"What," Jacob shouted, as his parents showed him the
signed card from Food Network star Giada de Laurentiis.
"Giada, she signed you a card," Jacob's dad Jeff said.
"Wow," Jacob said.
There were other surprises at Jacob's sweet 16 party,
including a visit from the Pima County Sheriff's Department.
Deputies gave Jacob cards and gifts before letting him check
out one of their motorcycles in the front yard.
Jacob's dad Jeff is a Sergeant for the Tucson Police Department. Many law enforcement agencies from across Southern Arizona and the country sent Jacob cards.
There was another reason to celebrate in the Mockbee
home. "Thank you for letting me celebrate. I know its your
your day," Jacob said. "Happy Father's day, dad."
Jacob's father wouldn't have it any other way.
"I know he's had a long battle, but I know he just continues to have just a positive outlook on life and as a dad that's
the best gift I could every get," Jeff said.
His son will continue to smile, with plenty of well-wishes
to last him well beyond his next birthday.
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Guilford County Animal Control officer E. Afari carries a pig
to his truck after catching it in Greensboro, N.C. Residents
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area next to a house until Afari arrived to help. Afari said the
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Flyer’s best friend
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the date of the general election as Sept. 2 rather than the actual
Nov. 5 date, (AP Photo/Detroit Free Press, Kathleen Galligan)
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We accept Medicare, Medicaid and most private insurances.
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Nursery care every Sunday
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A.D.A. accessible
Serving the industry since 1979
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'Hyperloop' would
link LA-SF in 30
mins, if built
LOS ANGELES (AP) —
Imagine stepping into a carsized capsule in downtown Los
Angeles and, 30 minutes later,
emerging in San Francisco
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon
Musk unveiled a transportation
concept that he said could
whisk passengers the nearly
400 miles from Los Angeles to
San Francisco in 30 minutes
— half the time it takes an airplane. If it's ever built.
His "Hyperloop" system for
travel between major cities
would use a large tube. Inside,
capsules would float on air,
traveling at over 700 mph.
"Short of figuring out real
teleportation, which would of
course be awesome (someone
please do this), the only option
for super fast travel is to build a
tube over or under the ground
that contains a special environment," Musk wrote in his proposal, posted online.
The system Musk envisions
is not unlike the pneumatic
tubes that transport capsules
stuffed with paperwork in older
buildings. In this case, the
cargo would be several people,
reclining for the ride.
Coming from almost anyone
else, the hyperbole would be
hard to take seriously. But
Musk has a track record of success. He co-founded online
payment service PayPal, electric luxury carmaker Tesla
Motors Inc. and rocket-building company SpaceX.
Unveiling lived up to the
hype part of its name. Leading
up to the unveiling, done on the
SpaceX website, online speculation was feverish. Musk has
been dropping hints about his
system for more than a year
during public events.
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APOLLO, Pa. (AP) — An unwanted intruder — a deer — is
forcing a western Pennsylvania school district to take a second
look at security at its high school. Apollo-Ridge Superintendent
Matt Curci tells the (Tarentum) Valley News Dispatch that the
deer ran "full speed" into the school's magnetically closed lobby
door, which caused it to open .Curci says the deer had to hit the
door "in the right spot with a lot of force" to make that happen
— but says the incident has given officials pause that the door
might otherwise be forced open.
Nobody was hurt when the deer got into the school, although
classes were still in session. A Kiski Township officer patrolling
the school was able to direct the startled animal out another door.
Teens break into home for hot dogs
WILMINGTON, Ohio (AP) — Police in southwest Ohio say
two apparently hungry teens broke into a home to have themselves some hot dogs.
The News Journal of Wilmington reports that homeowners
arrived home Thursday to find a package of hot dogs lying out
on the kitchen counter and their refrigerator door propped open.
They told Clinton County sheriff's deputies they saw the two
boys at the back door. Police say after the youths left, the homeowners noticed that a window screen had been removed.
Police say they later questioned the two youths, who said their
only intent was to fix hot dogs. They each face a charge of burglary.
Man tries to sell coffin with bones
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa man's online
classified ad offering an oak coffin for sale neglected to mention
the full skeleton inside, so police interrupted the deal and seized
the bones. The coffin belonged to the now-defunct Council
Bluffs chapter of the International Order of Odd Fellows, which
promotes anonymous giving to the poor.
Dave Burgstrum placed the ad on the Craigslist website to sell
the coffin for $12,000 because he's trying to raise money to pay
the property taxes on the fraternal organization's hall.
Burgstrum said the coffin was made in the 1900s and had been
used in the group's rituals to represent death. The bones had been
in there for years.
"They were just there as long as anyone could remember," said
Burgstrum, who is one of a handful of remaining members of
the Council Bluffs chapter of the Odd Fellows.
Burgstrum said lodge records suggest the skeleton was donated by a doctor who retired in the 1880s.
But Council Bluffs Police detective Michael Roberts said
human remains cannot be sold without proper identification.
"If they had papers of origination, then they would be OK to
own," Roberts said.
The skeleton was sent to the Iowa State Medical Examiner.
Pottawattamie County forensic investigator Karen Foreman said
it's unlikely the skeleton will be identified, but the race and gender can be determined.
Hole in the ceiling and a smelly pool of
vomit-like liquid
CAIRNS, Australia (AP) — Australian police were mystified by a chaotic crime scene including a hole in the ceiling and a smelly pool of vomit-like liquid — until they found
the culprit was a 5.7-meter (19-foot) python.
The massive snake weighing in at 17 kilograms (37
pounds) was captured a day after a suspected burglary was
reported at a charity store in Queensland in northeastern
Australia.
"Its head was the size of a small dog," Police Sgt. Don Auld
said Wednesday.
Before they found the python, investigators' working theory was that a human burglar with an appetite for destruction — and a serious illness — had gone on a rampage inside
the St. Vincent de Paul store in the small town of Ingham.
"We thought a person had fallen through the ceiling
because the roof panel was cut in half," Auld said. "When
they've hit the floor, they've vomited and then staggered and
fallen over. That's what we thought anyway."
Police now suspect the python entered the store through the
roof, which was damaged in a cyclone two years ago.
The animal then plummeted through the ceiling, knocking
over dishes, clothes and other items, before relieving itself
on the floor. It somehow managed to hide from officials until
staff spotted it lying alongside a wall the next day.
A local snake catcher was called in to capture the reptile,
which has been relocated to nearby wetlands.
Flanagan wants ‘hybrid’ system
LANSING (AP) — State education Superintendent Mike
Flanagan proposes that Michigan's counties play a much larger
role in operating and overseeing public school districts. Flanagan on Monday sent a letter to state lawmakers recommending
a "hybrid system" that centralizes many administrative and academic functions with intermediate districts but maintains local
control. He said it will "save millions of dollars minimally" and
countywide districts work in states such as Florida.
Getting such a proposal through the Legislature would be challenging amid strong support for local school districts. But lawmakers requested that Flanagan at least submit something for
consideration.
Troy Republican Sen. John Pappageorge last month asked for
a proposal at a committee hearing. He said such a district won't
work in his populous home county of Oakland but could work
in rural areas.
Pa. girl, Md. boy win marbles
tourney
WILDWOOD, N.J. (AP) — An 11-yearold girl from Pennsylvania and a 12-year-old
boy from Maryland are this year's national
marbles champions.
Emily Cavacini won the girls' championship
Thursday at the National Marbles Tournament in Wildwood, N.J. Cooper Fisher won
the boys' title. The four-day tournament featured 26 boys and 26 girls competing to
knock marbles out of a circle.
Emily is from Shaler, Pa., just north of Pittsburgh. She's been playing marbles for about
four years. She's a fifth-grader at Shaler Elementary School and won the Allegheny
County Marbles Tournament.
Car rolls into lake during potty
break
BELGRADE, Maine (AP) — Police say a
Maine man's car got all wet when he stopped
on the road for a bathroom break. Chief
Deputy Everett Flannery of the Kennebec
County Sheriff's Office says 32-year-old
Mark Leighton of Oakland stopped at a boat
landing on Salmon Lake in Belgrade on
Wednesday evening because he had to go.
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CINCINNATI (AP) -- Authorities in
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was vandalizing a high school while wearing
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Lee Daniels’ 'The Butler' serves box-office
success at No. 1
LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Lee Daniels' The Butler" is serving
up success at the box office.
Starring Forest Whitaker as a longtime White House butler and
Oprah Winfrey as his boozy wife, the Weinstein Co. biopic
debuted in the top spot with $25 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. But the weekend's three other major new releases, including the action romp "Kick-Ass 2," failed to find traction with fans.
"We expected to do well, but we didn't expect to do this well,"
said Erik Lomis, president of distribution and home entertainment for Weinstein Co., adding that "The Butler" is the company's first No. 1 debut since 2009's "Inglourious Basterds."
Even with a full slate of newcomers, last week's top movies
claimed the second and third spots in the box-office race. The
Jason Sudeikis-Jennifer Aniston Warner Bros. comedy, "We're
the Millers," held onto second place in its second week of release
with $17.78 million, while last week's No. 1, Sony's "Elysium,"
dropped to third with $13.6 million.
Manure will be used to make electricity
ROSENDALE -(AP) A partnership between the University
of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and the state's largest dairy farm will
soon be operational.
Construction is underway for a $7 million biodigester at the
Rosendale Dairy. The megafarm is located near Pickett, just
north of Rosendale in Fond du Lac County.
The more than 8,500 cows make the Rosendale Dairy the
largest operation in Wisconsin. Those cows will soon sell more
than milk.
"We're going to take one of our most valuable products,
manure, and convert biogas out of it. Which is green, renewable,
and good for society," said Jim Ostrom, Milk Source Partner.
Officials held a groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday on the $7
million project. However, construction is already underway.
Two concrete tubs will be able to process 240 tons of manure
each day. Methane from the manure will be used to make electricity for the local power company Alliant Energy.
"The biodigester is going to sell us all the energy that they produce, about 1.4 megawatts of power," Jim Krier of Alliant Energy said. "It could probably do several thousand homes."
The UW-Oshkosh Foundation will own the biodigester. Officials call it an on-site training facility for students.
"We're seeing a lot of interest through the environmental studies in particular, but also biology, chemistry," said Tom Sommleitner, UW-Oshkosh Vice Chancellor. But not everyone is
happy with the biodigester and the operation. Elaine Swanson
has been living in the area for 30 years. She says the smell from
the farm a mile away can be incredible.
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uncovered pits where the manure is stored. The air emissions
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food source, but they do.
Bird feeders, garbage cans
and barbeque grills are all
bear attractants that humans
can control.
Food, mating, and young
bears establishing their own
territories are all reasons
bears are more noticeable
right now.
Bears typically mate in
June or July, and the mother
will kick out her yearlings in
order to do so.
“Bears are looking for food
and new territory,” said
DNR bear and furbearer specialist Adam Bump. “While
we might not think of bird
feeders and trash cans as
food sources, a hungry bear
certainly may.
“The majority of complaints we receive about nuisance bears involve a food
source. The easiest thing
people can do to avoid creating a problem is to take in
their bird feeders and store
other attractants — like
grills, trash cans and pet food
— in a garage or storage
shed.”
Bird seed is especially
attractive to bears because of
its high fat content and ease
of access. Once bird feeders
are discovered, bears will
keep coming back until the
seed is gone or the feeders
have been removed. Bears
are capable of remembering
reliable food sources from
year to year.
Bears that are rewarded
with food each time they
visit a yard can become
habituated to man-made
food sources.
This can create an unsafe
situation for the bear and
become a nuisance for
landowners if a bear continuously visits their yard during the day and repeatedly
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search of food.
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Michigan breweries join call for water
protection
LANSING (AP) — Seven
craft brewers in Michigan are
joining others in calling for
stronger clean-water regulations, which they say would
produce even better beer.
They are urging the Obama
administration to release a
long-delayed update of the
Clean Water Act that would
attempt to clarify which wetlands, streams and other
waterways the law protects. A
U.S. Supreme Court ruling on
the issue in 2006, which
involved two Michigan cases,
left many confused.
The U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency proposed a
tentative set of guidelines for
interpreting the ruling in 2011
but has yet to produce a final
version.
The Detroit News reported
Friday that conservationists
hoping to step up pressure on
the administration have
tapped the support of 20 craft
beer brewers, including seven
from Michigan, who contend
pure water is crucial to making
good beer.
“America’s waterways are
vital to more than great-tasting
beer,” the brewers said in a
recent letter to the president,
himself a beer enthusiast.
“They are critical to our environment, our communities,
our economy, and our health.”
They argued that “headwater and intermittently-flowing
tributary streams” not clearly
under federal EPA rules “must
... be protected, benefiting the
more than 117 million Americans whose drinking water
comes from systems drawing
supply from such streams.”
The Supreme Court was so
sharply divided in its 2006
ruling that they produced five
separate opinions and no clear
majority.
NY WWII vet receives long-lost
dog tag from France
Photo: AP World War II veteran Irving Mann poses for a photo
with his dog tag that was found and returned to him, in
Rochester, N.Y. Mann says he was skeptical when an email
from a French woman recently arrived at his Rochester jewelry
store. She said she’d found the tag in her barley field and was
looking for its owner.
UPI - Irving Mann has been in business long enough to be
skeptical of out-of-the-blue offers that seem too good to be true.
So the founder of Mann's Jewelers in Rochester was cautious
but intrigued when an email arrived at his store from a woman
wondering if he could possibly be the Irving Mann whose military tag she said she'd found a day earlier in her barley field in
France.
After all, the World War II veteran didn't recall losing a dog
tag after landing in Normandy with the 90th Infantry division
on D-Day and fighting across Nazi-occupied France. "It had to
be false," thought Mann, who'd recently celebrated his 88th
birthday.
"You hear of so many scams going on, that somebody's going
to fake it, do some research and say, 'I would be willing to return
your dog tag. However, it will cost you X number of dollars.'"
A series of email exchanges between Mann's daughter-in-law,
Charlotte Mann, and the French woman, Sophie LaFollie, eventually convinced the Manns she was for real. For one thing,
LaFollie relayed the serial number from the aluminum tag, a
number Mann has never forgotten: 42023412.
"She specifically said, 'I'm not interested in any kind of reward.
The only thing I'm interested in is what happened to you that
you would have lost your dog tag where I found it,'" Mann said.
Then the beat-up pendant arrived in the mail, leaving Mann to
marvel at its journey and recall his own through the village near
Rethel, France, where his outfit had dug in for a few days' rest
and traded Spam and cigarettes for fresh eggs with two young
women in a farmhouse nearby. "Any (doubting) thoughts I may
have had disappeared immediately when I had the dog tag in my
hand," Mann said. LaFollie included a picture of her farmhouse,
where her grandmother and aunt had lived during the war.
"Memories came flooding back," the veteran said, remembering how he'd scrambled those eggs in his steel helmet,
stirring with his bayonet.
LaFollie, 36, told the family she spotted the glinting dog
tag among the stalks in her barley field in Parny-Resson, a
village next to Rethel on April 22. She knew from her family that American soldiers had been through during the war.
"I felt like a little girl finding a treasure," LaFollie said in
a statement relayed by the Manns. "It was really exciting to
make such a find and then look for its owner." Online, she
found a 2011 article from the Democrat and Chronicle of
Rochester describing Mann's being named a knight of the
French Legion of Honor, a gesture bestowed by the French
government to thank the veterans who helped liberate
France.
The newspaper story mentioned Mann's Jewelers, leading
LaFollie to the company's website and email address. "She
found (the tag) and within a day was able to track down Irving
Mann because of the Internet," Charlotte Mann marveled.
"I have no memory of losing it at all. There was so much going
on," said Mann, whose combat career would end a few months
later when he was hit in the leg with shrapnel in a battle crossing the Saar River. "I didn't think about dog tags or anything
else."
He figures the tag, one of two he wore around his neck, may
have slipped off its ring when he was digging his foxhole.
Mann has added it to his other World War II mementos,
including a Purple Heart he received belatedly in 2010.
"In 69 years, that field has been plowed, tilled, planted,"
he said. "How many times did they turn that ground over and
over again preparing it to grow? For my dog tag to show up
after all that time, I consider that remarkable."
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Yorkers beat the heat
Photo: Drink mixers Udi Shakya, left, and Paul Stauros, right,
serve drinks to customers at the Minus 5 ice bar in New York.
Bebeto Matthews / AP
NEW YORK - In the sweltering summer heat, New Yorkers are ready for the big chill — in midtown Manhattan. The
city's first ice bar is now open at the New York Hilton Midtown on Sixth Avenue. The $20 admission includes Eskimo-style gloves and a parka for the privilege of drinking
cocktails in the freezing Minus5 Ice Bar.
The entire bar is made of ice. "The walls, everything," manager Chris Eldridge said. "The chairs you're sitting on, the
glass you're drinking out of, even the light above your head
is made of ice." Promoters say it's all carved out of "100 percent Canadian ice."
The truth is, it's special, extra-clear "carvers" ice — some
from Canada, the rest from Philadelphia, Las Vegas and
Minneapolis. About 350 blocks of it, each weighing up to
100 pounds, was used to create the cool surroundings that
are meant to feel good on a Manhattan afternoon when temperatures soared into the 90s. Guests are accompanied to the
meat locker-type bar door by "party starters" — hostesses
clad in bustiers who don't venture into the cold.
The temperature inside? A soothing 23 degrees Fahrenheit.
That translates to minus-5 degrees on the Celsius scale —
hence, the name.
Any heat-emitting devices that could melt the Arctic freeze
— like cellphones — must be deposited in temperatureproof lockers at the door.
There are already two Minus5 bars in Las Vegas.
"An Experience that will chill you to your bones!" says the
website of the company whose concept was created in New
Zealand by Craig Ling, then tested as a pop-up igloo at the
2010 Vancouver Olympics. Ling is now a partner in the
New York venture.
An ice carver will change the bar and sculptures every few
months, with creations reflecting the season, location,
wildlife, or even corporate logos and products for private
functions.
The only concessions to warm comfort are some couches
covered in faux deerskin.
Drinks reflect the icy clarity: mostly vodka-based cocktails
in custom-designed glasses made from artesian water.
Bartender Paul Stavros was decked out for his eight-hour
shift. He wore thermal underwear and snow boots, "just like
winter in New York," the 27-year-old Stavros said.
A photographer roams the bar, producing images that
guests can retrieve later to show family and friends.
The bar has a double personality. From 2 p.m., when it
opens daily, to 7 p.m., children and families are welcome.
After that, the establishment caters to a New York nightclub
crowd.
In the heat of summer, it's the coolest experience in New
York City — literally.
And it's a multimillion dollar endeavor. It cost over $5 million to build the Manhattan bar — "bricks, mortar, ice and
all," said Noel Bowman, Minus5's director of operations.
"The timing couldn't have been better for us to open here,
with temperatures in the 90s," Bowman said.
He expects the novelty to draw winter guests too, as do the
Las Vegas bars.
All of them are built with a cost-saving factor.
For the drinks, "we don't have to use ice," deadpanned
Eldridge.
Just don't put your glass on any surface, "or it'll slide off!"
Customer Kevin Parker, 36, a real estate broker, paid a little extra to wear a white faux-fur coat as he clutched the bar's
"Big Apple" cocktail that includes Midori and lemon
liqueur. "It's like New York: sweet and tart."
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BANGKOK (AP) — Thai police found 14 albino lions
imported from Africa and hundreds of other protected animals in a warehouse near Bangkok and have arrested a pet
shop owner.
Birds, meerkats, tortoises, peafowls, capuchin monkeys
and other species from overseas and Thailand were found at
the warehouse, police Col. Ek Ekasart said.
They said Montri Boonprom-on, 41, faces charges of possessing wildlife and carcasses and could face up to four years
in jail and a fine of 40,000 baht ($1,300).
Ek said Montri owns an exotic pet shop at Bangkok's
renowned Chatuchak weekend market and was previously
convicted of wildlife trading.
Montri told reporters the lions were shipped legally and
were to be transferred to a zoo in Thailand's northeast. He
did not explain why only 14 lions remained at his warehouse, while the documents showed he had imported 16.
Thailand is a hub of the international black market in protected animals. While the country is a member of a convention regulating international trade in endangered species,
Thai law does not extend protection to many alien species.
Police also found a hornbill and a leopard, both protected
by Thai law, which were packed in a box and were scheduled to be delivered to clients on Monday.
"We have been monitoring the location for a few days after
the neighbors complained about the noise from the animals,"
Ek told reporters during the raid in a residential area of
Bangkok's Klong Sam Wa district. "And if you looked
through the gate, you could spot lions in the cage."
The animals were confiscated and will be under the care of
the Department of Natural Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation.
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By JESSICA GRESKO
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A former NFL player is suing the
Washington Redskins and former assistant coach Gregg
Williams, saying a career-ending knee injury is the result of
a bounty program where Redskins coaches encouraged players to intentionally injure opponents.
Barrett Green, a linebacker who played for the Detroit
Lions and the New York Giants between 2000 and 2005,
says a career-ending knee injury during a game on Dec. 5,
2004 was the result of a bounty program and a “unusual,
outrageous, and an obvious cheap shot.” After leaving the
Redskins and spending one season with Jacksonville,
Williams became defensive coordinator for the New Orleans
Saints in 2009 and was considered the mastermind behind
the bounty scandal that led to unprecedented sanctions from
the NFL. He was suspended for one year by the league and
is now a senior defensive assistant with the Tennessee
Titans. The lawsuit also names former Redskins player
Robert Royal, the tight end who hit Green.
Redskins coaches and players told The Associated Press in
2012 that Williams also offered cash rewards for big hits
and other plays — a violation of NFL rules — when he was
coaching Washington’s defense from 2004-07. But they
differed on whether it was a true bounty scheme that targeted specific players. The NFL investigated Williams’ conduct with the Redskins and with other teams where he had
coached, but he was sanctioned only for his actions while
with the Saints.
The Redskins declined to comment Monday on the lawsuit.
Green was playing for the Giants when he first injured the
knee Oct. 31, 2004 in a game against the Minnesota
Vikings. He missed nearly a month then returned to play in
three more games, including Dec. 5 against the Redskins.
The lawsuit says Royal “intentionally lowered his helmet
and dove into” Green’s knees “at full speed.” Green had to
be helped off the field, and the lawsuit claims the alleged
bounty program would have rewarded the hit as “either a
‘knockout’ or a ‘cart off.’”
Even though Royal lined up as a tight end on the play,
which happened in the third quarter, the lawsuit says he also
played defense occasionally and therefore would have been
coached by Williams.
Wedding guest steals, hides
loot in bra
CHICORA, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania woman has been
charged with stealing money from cards brought to a wedding reception she was attending — and trying to hide the
loot in her bra. State police say 40-year-old Jennifer Ann Martz,
of Chicora, attended Saturday's wedding with her boyfriend,
who was an invited guest. The Butler Eagle reports guests found
11 cards missing from a gift table and noticed Martz heading to
the ladies room. Police say Martz ripped up the cards and tried
to flush them down a toilet, while stuffing $475 in cash and $80
in checks into her bra. That's where other female guests told
police they found the loot.
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ESCANABA — Final numbers for the record-breaking
attendance at the 2013 U.P.
State Fair were tallied at nearly 80,000 paid fair receipts, a
4 percent increase from last
year, said Vickie Micheau,
executive director of the Delta
Commerce Center.
The commerce center contracts with the U.P. State Fair
Authority to manage the annual event. Last week’s fair was
the fourth year the authority
has been independently operating the fair and facility since
the state cut the item from its
budget.
Micheau attributed the
record-breaking attendance to
the week of near-perfect
weather, the grandstand entertainment, and the dedication
of authority members,
exhibitors, volunteers, sponsors, vendors, fair employees,
and Skerbeck Carnival.
Skerbeck Carnival reported
ridership was up nearly 10
percent from last year, added
Micheau.
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Chalk of art
Lou Rodriguez, from South Haven, Mich., works on a
chalk drawing S during the 12th Annual Chalk the Block
festival held in downtown St. Joseph, Mich. (AP Photo/The
Herald-Palladium, Don Campbell)
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Report: Naked woman distracts man as
her accomplice robs his house
(CNN) -- Thou shall not
covet thy neighbor's wife. It
can lead to some unexpected
consequences. A Tennessee
man found this out the hard
way when a woman dipped in
his pool, naked, as her husband robbed his home.
As he gawked at the swimmer for a good 20 minutes, the
burglar got to work.
How it started
The couple, who live nearby, approached Stephen Amaral, with the wife asking if she
could swim in his pool.
The wife sent her husband to
get her cigarettes, then asked
Amaral if he would be bothered if she swam naked.
Not a problem, Amaral said.
"I went and got her a towel,
she dried off and all of a sudden she was soaking wet
again," Amaral told the affiliate. "I escorted her outside and
invited her to church, but she
said she didn't have time for
that, she wasn't ready for that."
Amaral said not only did he
feel violated, he lost an item
that had sentimental value.
The gun was a service
weapon, used while he was a
Mississippi deputy. He had
planned to pass it down to his
grandchildren, he said.
Two suspects have been
identified, presumably
clothed, but no arrests have
been made. The estimated
cost of the stolen items:
$2,000. That's a pretty steep
price for a pool show.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A
sharply-divided Supreme
Court on Monday made it
more difficult for Americans to
sue businesses for discrimination and retaliation, leading a
justice to call for Congress to
overturn the court’s actions.
The court’s conservatives, in
two 5-4 decisions, ruled that a
person must be able to hire and
fire someone to be considered
a supervisor in discrimination
lawsuits, making it harder to
blame a business for a coworker’s racism or sexism. The
court then decided to limit
how juries can decide retaliation lawsuits, saying victims must prove employers
would not have taken action
against them but for their
intention to retaliate.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who wrote both dissents for the court’s liberal
wing and in a rare move read
one aloud in the courtroom,
said the high court had “corralled Title VII,” a law
designed to stop discrimination in the nation’s workplaces.
In the first case, Maetta
Vance, who was a catering
specialist at Ball State University, accused a co-worker, Shaundra Davis, of racial
harassment and retaliation in
2005. Vance sued the school
under the Civil Rights Act of
1964, saying the university
was liable since Davis was her
supervisor. But a federal judge
threw out her lawsuit, saying
that since Davis could not fire
Vance, she was only a coworker, and since the university had taken corrective action,
it was not liable for Davis’
actions. The 7th Circuit
upheld that decision, and
Vance appealed to the
Supreme Court.
But Justice Samuel Alito,
who wrote the majority opinion, said for the university to
be liable, Davis must have
had the authority to “hire,
fire, demote, promote, transfer, or discipline” Vance.
“We hold that an employee
is a ‘supervisor’ for purposed of vicarious liability
under Title VII if he or she is
empowered by the employer
to take tangible employment
actions against the victim,”
Alito said. “Because there is
no evidence that BSU
empowered Davis to take
any tangible employment
actions against Vance...”
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