Results from the French first-division football league (home teams listed first):
Saturday's Games
Bordeaux 4, Lorient 1
Montpellier 0, Nancy 2
Valenciennes 0, Lens 0
Rennes 1, Paris Saint-Germain 0
Grenoble 1, Nice 1
Saint-Etienne 0, Marseille 0
Boulogne vs. Sochaux, postponed
Sunday's Games
Auxerre 1, Toulouse 1
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Only days after leading UPS Teamsters to one of labor's biggestvictories in years, Ron Carey finds himself facing a new battle afterhis hard-fought election as Teamsters president was voided Friday.
Chicago area Teamsters are facing a battle, too. They weresplit between Carey and James Hoffa Jr. in last year's election.
Federal election overseer Barbara Zack Quindel nullified Carey'selection and ordered a new vote after an eight-month investigationinto the source of $221,000 in contributions made to his campaign -money that was later returned.Gerald Zero, secretary-treasurer of Local 705 in Chicago, saidhe figures that, coming off of the United Parcel Service …
NEW YORK (AP) — Government bond prices fell Friday on hopes that Greece will get more help to avoid defaulting on its debt.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel softened that country's stance on giving more loans to Greece, relenting on an earlier insistence that private bondholders give concessions. Traders are hoping that a new package of financial support will prevent Greece from defaulting on its loans and causing another financial crisis.
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou also named his main internal rival as finance minister as part of an effort to raise support to pass steep tax hikes and budget cuts.
That helped stabilize bond markets a day after yields on …
New York health officials are ramping up their regulation of more than 2,000 tanning salons and gyms offering indoor ultraviolet rays even as health advocates push for a law banning exposure by anyone under 18.
"We're not claiming that people get addicted to tanning the same way you do nicotine, but it clearly is a habit you develop as a teenager," said Peter Slocum, vice president for advocacy at the American Cancer Society in Albany. "That's when most people start frequenting the cancer chambers."
Last year, the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer classified tanning as a definite human carcinogen, …
The San Francisco Fudge Factory in Bath is giving away a huge,handmade honeycomb heart as a special St Valentine's Day prize.
The heavyweight heart weighs in at just over 4kg and is 2ft tall.It contains 8lbs of sugar with the other ingredients includinggolden syrup.
The heart was hand made by Gareth Sayers, who also makes thefactory's other products including caramel apples, truffles and, ofcourse, their trademark fudge.
Animation master degree student Gareth made a large honeycombhouse last year and is described as a "creative genius" by ownerMaureen.
The prize, worth pounds113, will be displayed in the shop windownear the abbey during the run-up to …
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The Yokohama BayStars of Japan's Central League have signed former major league slugger Dan Johnson to a one-year contract worth $1.2 million.
Johnson, 29, spent three seasons with the Oakland Athletics from 2005 before splitting the 2008 season with the A's and the Tampa Bay Rays. He …
George J. Edgar, 58, a Chicago policeman who once saved twoboys from icy Lake Michigan, died Friday of cancer at his Beverlyhome.
In 1974, Mr. Edgar saved two boys who were trapped on an icefloe. One had fallen from the pier at 60th Street and his friendjumped in to save him. The two then clambered onto a floe out ofreach of the pier.
A third boy ran and found Mr. Edgar, who was directing trafficnear the Museum of Science and Industry. The Grand Crossing patrolofficer picked up the crying boy and rushed across busy Lake ShoreDrive to find the endangered boys.
Mr. Edgar found the two boys clinging to the small patch of iceand gingerly plucked them from …
RALEIGH, N.C. - State Treasurer Richard Moore has asked the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate the timing of stock sales made by the chief executive of mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp.
Moore, the trustee of a pension fund that holds about 500,000 shares of Countrywide stock worth about $9.6 million, said in an Oct. 8 letter to SEC Chairman Christopher Cox that he was "shocked" to learn that CEO Angelo Mozilo "apparently manipulated his trading plans to cash in" as the subprime crisis was heating up.
"As one of many investors who have felt the painful losses in Countrywide stock, I am outraged at his manipulation of the system and this abuse …
Cappie Pondexter scored 24 points and Diana Taurasi had 23 to help the Phoenix Mercury pick up their first road victory of the season with a 93-87 win over the Washington Mystics on Thursday night.
Temeka Johnson added 11 points and Kelly Mazzante scored 10 for the Mercury (6-3), who had key runs to close out the first and third quarters and then held off the Mystics' late rally.
Alana Beard led five double-figure scorers with 21 points, as the Mystics (4-2) cut a nine-point fourth quarter deficit to 89-87 on Crystal Langhorne's basket with 1:56 remaining.
However they missed on their next four potential game-tying shots and the Mercury finally …
A few weeks ago, several adults stood in front of the SheddAquarium, closed their eyes and listened.
"We were bombarded by the noise of cars rushing past," saidErma Tranter, executive director of Friends of the Parks.
Tranter and her companions were not playing children's games.They and others in the 44-member Burnham Park Task Force, a groupthat includes aldermen, government officials and civic activists,were exploring ways to reshape Lake Shore Drive to create a "campus"for the aquarium, the Adler Planetarium and the Field Museum.
Landscape architect Lawrence Halprin, the man entrusted withdeveloping a campus plan, was their guide in a two-day …
LONDON (AP) — Jerome D'Ambrosio will next year become the first Belgian driver to compete in Formula One since 1994 after signing for Virgin Racing on Tuesday.
The British team said D'Ambrosio will take the second seat and partner lead driver Timo Glock for the 2011 season, Virgin's second in F1.
The last driver from Belgian to appear in F1 was Philippe Adams, who started two grand prix races with Lotus.
D'Ambrosio, who impressed Virgin bosses in practice ahead of four grand prix at the end of the past season, will replace Brazil's Lucas Di Grassi.
"There was a lot of competition for this seat but at the same time I got on well with the team and felt that I had …
LOS ANGELES (AP) — An internal Los Angeles Police Department memo is critical of a man who claimed Shaquille O'Neal orchestrated his kidnapping by a criminal street gang.
A Los Angeles Times review of internal police records reveal that Robert Ross was classified as an "undesirable informant" by the LAPD in early 2010 and appeared to have a "personal vendetta" against fellow gang members.
Ross, a music producer and former gang member, has testified that he was kidnapped, assaulted and robbed by members of the Main Street Crips gang after he claimed to have a sex tape of O'Neal.
O'Neal has denied any involvement in the alleged kidnapping and is not charged in the criminal case.
An attorney for Ross told the Times Wednesday that the LAPD memo was full of unsubstantiated allegations.
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek unions on Friday threatened further strikes next week, a day after parliament approved new harsh cutbacks to secure international loans despite protests and riots that left one man dead and nearly 200 injured.
The new austerity measures include further pension and state salary cuts, civil service staff cuts, a reduction in the tax-free threshold and a watering-down of workers' collective bargaining rights. Their approval by the governing Socialist majority was expected to pave the way for a vital €8 billion ($11 billion) payout from international creditors within weeks so Greece can stay solvent.
Ilias Iliopoulos, secretary-general of the Adedy civil servant union, insisted the new law "will not be implemented," and accused the Socialists of turning a blind eye to the toll these measures will take on workers.
"This government has ignored the popular uprising by approving this terrible law," Iliopoulos told The Associated Press. "Our answer is: get out as fast as you can, there is no place for you in Greece any longer."
"We are planning new strikes next week," he added.
Greece's main private sector union, GSEE, was also planning new strikes.
"We plan long-running opposition to ensure that the crippling cutbacks imposed by our loan-shark creditors are not enforced," said GSEE board member Stathis Anestis.
More than 150,000 people took to the streets of Athens on Wednesday and Thursday during a two-day strike against the cutbacks, which follow 20 months of deeply resented austerity measures. Police arrested about 20 people following extensive rioting on both days.
But Thursday's vote further weakened Prime Minister George Papandreou's government, after a former labor minister who objected to reducing the bargaining rights was expelled from the party. The Socialists now control 153 of parliament's 300 seats, down from 160 after their landslide election victory two years ago.
Greece now heads into a series of tough negotiations in Brussels involving the 17 finance ministers of the eurozone and European leaders. The meetings kick off later Friday, when the eurozone finance ministers gather, with the finance ministers of the full 27-nation European Union in talks on Saturday, and the EU heads of state and government on Sunday.
Greece has avoid bankruptcy only with an €110 billion ($152 billion) bailout loan from its eurozone partners and the International Monetary Fund since May of last year. Creditors worried about the country missing budget targets had demanded that Athens pass extra austerity measures before its gets the next payout — without which Greece says it will run out of money in mid-November.
But the new cutbacks have caused deep anger in a country struggling in a third year of recession and record unemployment, which reached 16.5 percent in July.
"These last few years, lawmakers have been voting against the will of the people," said a civil engineer who only gave his first name, Yorgos. "(Democracy) has been annulled."
European officials have already admitted that a second bailout for Greece, agreed to in July, is not enough to prevent the country from bankruptcy, and this discussions this weekend will focus on ways to increase support for Greece.
Ferries were confined to port for a fifth straight day Friday in a strike that is already causing shortages in the country's islands. Municipal employees, state nurses and prison guards also walked off the job and mounds of rotting rubbish — uncollected for nearly three weeks — piled up in Athens.
Greek unions held a small march Friday in central Athens to protest the death of a 53-year-old construction worker who suffered a heart attack after attending Thursday's rally, which saw savage clashes between union protesters and anarchists armed with firebombs and stones.
The fighting raised the possibility of a vendetta between the two groups. Early Friday, three Communist party offices were firebombed in the northern city of Thessaloniki.
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APTV producer Nebi Qena in Athens and Costas Kantouris in Thessaloniki contributed to this story
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (AP) — Arnold Palmer will play in the Wells Fargo Championship pro-am on May 4 and be paired with his grandson.
The tournament announced Monday that Palmer will play with Sam Saunders, who is getting a sponsor exemption to play in the PGA Tour event at Quail Hollow. Club president Johnny Harris will complete the threesome.
The 81-year-old Palmer won 62 times on the PGA Tour, including seven major championships. He helped oversee the modification of several holes at Quail Hollow in 1986.
Palmer last played a public round in Charlotte when he competed in a Champions Tour event in 2001.
The last British survivor of the grinding trench warfare of World War I's Western Front has been made an officer of the French Legion of Honor.
French Ambassador Maurice Gourdault-Montagne gave 110-year-old veteran Harry Patch the medal Monday.
Patch was already a Knight of the French Legion of Honor. He received that award in 1998 along with more than 300 other World War I veterans.
Patch fought as a machine-gunner in the 1917 Battle of Passchendaele, where he was wounded.
He told Gourdault-Montagne that he appreciated the way the French honored the memory of those who fell irrespective of the uniform they wore.
The ceremony took place at Patch's nursing home in Wells. Wells is about 120 miles (190 kilometers) west of London.
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Charleston Area Medical Center is considering contracting out thecomputer work currently done by more than 100 of its employees, butthat doesn't mean those employees will necessarily end up without ajob, a company official said today.
"These people, or a good percentage of them, are going to bepicked up by the outside vendor, if we decide to go that route," saidhospital spokesman Andy Wessels.
The company is considering offers from Siemens Medical SolutionsHealth Services Corp. and McKesson Information Solutions Inc. CernerCorp. and IBM are also considering submitting a joint bid for thehospital's business.
Wessels said Siemens and McKesson have agreed to interview andconsider hiring the workers who would lose their jobs if the hospitalcontracts for computer services instead of doing them in-house, hesaid.
The hospital doesn't expect to make a decision before the first ofnext year, Wessels said.
Hospital officials informed workers Wednesday that they could belosing their jobs next year. David Ramsey, CAMC's chief executiveofficer, said the company may end up contracting all of its computerwork, keep it all in-house or go with some combination of the twoextremes.
If the hospital contracts out the work, it would still be done inthe Charleston area, he said. The main advantage to contracting thework out is that the vendors can do it more cheaply than the hospitalcan, he said.
"An outside firm like that can bring expertise and additionalresources and technology that we can't," Wessels said.
The University of Pennsylvania's Health System and the DetroitMedical Center have both saved at least 15 percent on their computercosts by contracting them out, he said.
Lynn Brookshire, CAMC's vice president for information services,said the medical center is spending about $22 million on informationtechnology this year.
Writer Brian Bowling can be reached at 348-4842 or by e-mail atbrianbowling@dailymail.com.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal appeals court judges heard arguments Tuesday in a case to determine whether the Obama administration has the authority to stop plans to bury U.S. nuclear waste in an underground site in the American West.
South Carolina and Washington state, both of which have reactors that create waste, are among those suing the president and other federal officials to try to restart plans to ship their radioactive spent nuclear fuel to a repository 90 miles (145 kilometers) from Las Vegas at Yucca Mountain.
Congress had chosen Yucca Mountain as the leading candidate for waste disposal, but opponents worry about contamination, and the Obama administration said it would not consider the site and would look for alternatives.
The case comes as the nation questions the future of nuclear plants in the aftermath of a nuclear crisis in Japan. A plant has been leaking radiation since a powerful earthquake and resulting tsunami hit the country on March 11.
The United States has no long-term plans to dispose of its nuclear waste. Arguments before a three-judge panel of the appeals court in Washington focused on whether the federal government has made a final decision yet that the states could appeal.
Last year, the Energy Department filed a motion with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to withdraw its application for the Yucca Mountain repository. The commission has not ruled on the motion, but the Energy Department has gone ahead with dismantling the project.
Barry M. Hartman, an attorney arguing against the administration's decision, said the Energy Department was acting on the orders of the president, who he contended cannot just opt out of the choice of Yucca Mountain made by Congress in law. "He had no authority to reverse it," Harman argued.
The three appellate judges assigned to the case, all Republican nominees, questioned whether they can get involved at this point when the commission's decision is pending. They pressed the Obama administration's lawyer, Ellen Durkee, on when, or if, the commission will rule.
Durkee said she did not know when the commission plans to act; its chairman recently refused to tell reporters whether it ever will. Durkee argued there is no deadline, and although there has been little action lately, "the licensing proceeding is going forward."
"It's going forward by standing in place," replied the court's chief judge, David Sentelle. Sentelle asked what would happen if the commission should sit on the motion with no action for 20 years. Durkee replied that a new case could be filed arguing the commission was making an unreasonable delay, but she did not think they were there yet.
Judge Brett Kavanaugh questioned whether the Energy Department would comply if the commission should overturn its decision. She said it would, while exploring options to appeal.
Only hours after being charged with felony possession of cocaine,Tony Phillips rejoined the Anaheim Angels at Comiskey Park, butPhillips was out of the starting lineup Tuesday night against theWhite Sox.
Indications are Phillips might not play again for some time andis probably headed for a drug-treatment facility and 15- or 30-daystint on the disabled list.
Shortly after the start of the game, the Angels announcedPhillips would not return to the lineup pending the outcome of hismeeting with doctors representing Major League Baseball and thePlayers Association. That came after Phillips and everyone connectedto the Angels issued a clear "no comment" about his plight."Whether it's myself, (manager) Terry Collins, Tony Phillips orour players, we have nothing further to say regarding the TonyPhillips situation," Angels general manager Bill Bavasi said. "Thereason we're not talking about this is because we have a pennant totry and win. The more we talk about this, the more distraction thereis to our ballclub.""I'm trying not to get caught up in it," Collins said. "I'mjust trying to make sure we're still ready to play. That's my job.It makes my hair grayer, I'll tell you that."Phillips, 38, was arrested early Sunday by Anaheim police, whosaid he purchased $30 worth of cocaine. The charge carries amaximum sentence of three years, but first offenders completing adrug counseling program and periodic testing for up to a year canhave the case dismissed. But Phillips would first have to pleadguilty on a "deferred entry of judgment."Phillips posted $10,000 bail after his arrest, and a Sept. 18court appearance was scheduled.Phillips' attorney, Allan Stokke, said Tuesday in Californiathat the allegations are out of character for his client."The thing we wanted people to know is that there are no priorarrests or convictions, or anything of this sort," Stokke said. "Wedo not have all reports yet, but we expect to examine all possibledefenses."Stokke declined to talk about the facts of the case, but said hehad encouraged his client to get back to his work as quickly as hecould.The Angels entered Tuesday's game tied for first place with theSeattle Mariners in the American League Central, and Collins'primary concern was distractions created by Phillips' arrest."We have to realize that something happened that's obviouslygoing to get a lot of publicity, but the only thing that matters isthe performance on the field," Collins said."Tony will deal with what he's faced with personally, but wehave to understand what our focus needs to be. That's being tiedwith the Seattle Mariners. We have to stay in that fight."Minutes before the game began, Phillips signed autographs forfans, mostly kids."Five bucks says he wouldn't be out here signing if it (thearrest) hadn't happened," said Tom Myers of Batavia, who helped hisyoung sons, Johnny and Jordan, get autographs. "They wanted anautograph, and he's one of the only players signing, so I said whatthe heck."Ozzie Guillen was one of several Sox who visited with theirformer teammate, who was traded to the Angels in May, before thegame."I don't feel sorry for him; I don't feel bad for him," Guillensaid. "Hopefully, he'll get his act together. He's a human being,and humans make mistakes. He should be punished. But to me, TonyPhillips is a great guy."Contributing: Associated Press
Results Wednesday of the third stage of the Paris-Nice, a 208-kilometer flat stage between Saint-Junien and Aurillac:
1. Peter Sagan, Slovakia, Liquigas, 3 hours, 44 minutes, 28 seconds.
2. Joaquim Rodriguez, Spain, Katusha, same time.
3. Nicolas Roche, Ireland, AG2R, same time.
4. Jens Voigt, Germany, Saxo Bank, 2 seconds behind.
5. Tony Martin, Germany, HTC-Columbia, same time.
6. Alberto Contador, Spain, Astana, same time.
7. Mirco Lorenzetto, Italy, Lampre, :06.
8. Samuel Dumoulin, France, Cofidis, same time.
9. Xavier Florencio, Spain, Cervelo, same time.
10. Marco Marcato, Italy, Vacansoleil, same time.
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Overall Standings:
1. Jens Voigt, Germany, Saxo Bank, 12 hours, 40 minutes, 26 seconds.
2. Peter Sagan, Slovakia, Liquigas, 6 seconds behind.
3. Luis Leon Sanchez, Spain, Caisse d'Epargne, :09.
4. David Millar, Britain, Garmin, :12.
5. Roman Kreuziger, Czech Republic, Liquigas, :14.
6. Lars Boom, Netherlands, Rabobank, :20.
7. Alberto Contador, Spain, Astana, :20.
8. Levi Leipheimer, United States, RadioShack: 24.
9. Joaquim Rodriguez, Spain, Katusha, :28.
10. Xavier Tondo, Spain, Cervelo, :28.
| Colorado 1 2 0_3 | ||||||
| Edmonton 1 1 0_2 | ||||||
| First Period_1, Colorado, Skrastins 1 (Smyth, Clark), 6:43. 2, Edmonton, Horcoff 9 (Hemsky), 16:31 (pp). Penalties_Gilbert, Edm (tripping), 3:06 | McCormick, Col (hooking), 9:24 | Gagner, Edm (hooking), 10:54 | Sauer, Col (holding), 13:49 | Sakic, Col (hooking), 16:24. | ||
| Second Period_3, Colorado, Hejduk 6 (Liles, Stastny), 6:35. 4, Edmonton, Hemsky 6 (Horcoff, Smid), 7:16. 5, Colorado, Svatos 9 (Wolski, Stastny), 10:33. Penalties_Staios, Edm (holding), 2:09 | Garon, Edm (tripping), 4:31 | Cogliano, Edm (goalie interference), 7:47 | Skrastins, Col (holding), 10:58 | Tarnstrom, Edm (holding), 15:55 | Finger, Col (roughing), 19:20 | Torres, Edm (roughing), 19:20. |
| Third Period_None. Penalties_Horcoff, Edm (holding), 3:28 | Smith, Col (slashing), 6:42 | Reasoner, Edm (delay of game), 12:56. | ||||
| Shots on Goal_Colorado 7-16-8_31. Edmonton 7-2-7_16. | ||||||
| Power-play opportunities_Colorado 0 of 8 | Edmonton 1 of 5. | |||||
| Goalies_Colorado, Budaj 8-4-0 (16 shots-14 saves). Edmonton, Garon 5-4-0 (31-28). | ||||||
| A_16,839 (16,839). T_2:21. | ||||||
| Referees_Frederick L'Ecuyer, Michael McGeough. Linesmen_Mike Cvik, Greg Devorski. |
Scores of you have become life-savers! That's the great news fromthe organisers of last week's Blood Donor Appeal.
Thanks to Evening Express readers, the campaign to give a vitalboost to stocks has gone blasting through its original target.
Members of the Scottish Blood Transfusion Service had a goal ofattracting 780 donors from all over the North-east during the week.
In fact, a massive 899 people gave those life-saving pints ofblood.
That's a thumping 119 more than in a normal week.
The delighted manager of the Aberdeen service Lynne Wildigg said:"The result was better than we could have possibly hoped.
"Last year's appeal left us 6% up on stocks. This year's one hasleft us 20.8% up.
"That's fantastic news for the service at a time when we wererunning really low.
"And from what the people who came along to donor sessions lastweek were telling us, the stories in the Evening Express on the run-up to and during appeal week were largely responsible for gettingpeople to donate.
"I'd ask people to keep donating during the summer.
"And we're still appealing to those with 'O' negative type - theblood which can be given to anyone.
"We still need more donations to get our stocks up to a full six-day supply."
msimpson@ajl.co.uk
German authorities said Tuesday they have seized about 1.3 tons of anabolic steroids and anti-impotence drugs in an investigation of illegal trade in doping substances.
Kiel prosecutors and customs investigators in Hamburg said the substances were seized in raids in January and February. They said the drugs had a black-market value of some euro800,000 (US$1.2 million).
The main suspect, a 33-year-old German man who had moved to Austria, was arrested Feb. 18 at Hamburg airport as he entered the country, investigators said in a statement.
Raids on his former apartment, the office of his tax adviser, a Berlin transport company that he used and a Hamburg company led to the seizure of drugs that included 174 kilograms (384 pounds) of a bodybuilding supplement called "Winstrol Depot," 500 kilograms (1,102 pounds) of kamagra, an anti-impotence drug, and other anabolic steroids.
The substances came from countries including China, Iran, Lebanon and Spain, investigators said, adding that they appeared to be "destined for the domestic bodybuilding scene."
They said they also seized documents that suggested that there had been "a roaring trade ... for at least three years" in the drugs.
Author Joel Derfner chronicles his quest to become the gayest person (ever!) - now he's giving BTL readers tips on spotting one of 'em
In the last few years the heterosexual community seems, astonishingly, to have understood that it has a great deal to learn from us. I think this is generally a good thing, though I will confess that I was more than a little disturbed when my grandmother massacred me at Scrabble with the word "metrosexual."
All that product - along with the ear piercing, the supportive freedom rings, the religious devotion to "Project Runway" - now that these things no longer separate the wheat from the chaff, so to speak, we need new ways to identify one another. I propose therefore the following list of further possibilities. The heterosexuals will doubtless render them useless, one by one, but still I think these might last us for a while.
1 A GREEN CARNATION
When asked for the significance of the flower he always wore on his lapel, Oscar Wilde answered, "Nothing whatever. But that is just what nobody will guess."
2 A RED TIE
Unfortunately the American counterpart to the green carnation became so well-known a signal that if street toughs saw you in a scarlet cravat they would start sucking their fingers; this was not meant, alas, as an invitation. But a red tie hasn't been considered suggestive for over a century, so we're probably safe.
3 A PURPLE HAND
In 1969, employees of the San Francisco Examiner dumped a bag of ink from an office window onto a group of men and women protesting the paper's recent homophobic coverage. The protestors used the purple ink to cover the building's walls with gay power slogans; for weeks afterward, activists stamped purple hands all around the city.
4 CUT SLEEVES
The Chinese Emperor Ai, when called one afternoon to attend to imperial business, didn't want to disturb his sleeping lover, whose head was resting on the emperor's robe. Ai cut his own sleeve off and tiptoed away.
5 CHEWING GUM
The Aztecs invented the practice of chewing tree sap, but by the 1500s one treatise suggested that "whosoever chews gum in public attains the status of faggotry."
6 COMMON SWEET FLAG
The calamus plant takes its name from a Greek myth about a man transformed into a reed after his lover drowns. In Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass," the calamus appears as a symbol of homosexual love.
7 AN EYE PATCH
Seventeenth-century England had some of the harshest anti-sodomy laws on record. Many men responded by turning to piracy, an institution that all owed matel otages - permanent unions between two men.
8 A SNAIL SHELL
In the West African Dagara and Dogon tribes, gay people are considered spiritual gatekeepers responsible for the survival of the cosmos. Members of these tribes hang snail shells and similar objects in front of their homes to protect those within.
9 BOSTON CREAM PIE
After Henry James published The Bostonians, households of two women living together with no male support became known as Boston marriages.
And, when the heterosexuals have managed to appropriate all of these, then:
10 YOUR PICK
You're a part of gay historical and cultural heritage. Perhaps there's an element of your life you're willing to contribute, for the good of gay people everywhere?
[Author Affiliation]
Joel Derfner is the author of "Swish," which is available now from Broadway Books ($23.95). To comment on this article, send an e-mail to chris@pridesource.com.
A veteran market maker who's running unopposed for the topelected post at the Chicago Board Options Exchange says he wants toexpand the customer base, introduce new products and improverelations with the city's other exchanges during his upcomingone-year term.
Though the CBOE is still hurting from the 1987 stock marketcrash, William Floersch said in an interview Friday he's bullish onits future. "Volume is increasing. More institutions are using ourmarkets. The best days of CBOE are ahead, the tough times nownotwithstanding."
Floersch, 46, who has traded options since 1974, is slated tosucceed incumbent Vice Chairman Thomas Bond at a Jan. 9 boardmeeting. Bond is stepping down after three consecutive terms.
One top goal for 1991 is attracting new customers, Floerschsaid. The exchange should continue helping institutions getclearance to trade options from securities and insurance regulators,he said, and expand programs aimed at educating investors. One idea,he said, is providing computer software that would allow brokers toprecisely monitor customer trading risks.
Additionally, the CBOE needs to compete with the American StockExchange in New York for new stock warrant products, and introduceup-to-date technology such as the handheld trading terminals nowbeing developed.
Though the technology is still "tricky," he said, the exchangewill introduce during the first quarter of next year a prototypeterminal designed to replace paper trading cards and providecomputerized risk analysis.
Superior trading technology also may confer an advantage iffederal regulators follow through on their plan for multiple listingof options that are now exclusively traded at a single exchange. TheCBOE is proceeding on the assumption multiple listing "willeventually happen," Floersch said. That means a top priority issatisfying customer demands for state-of-the-art services such asfirm, timely price quotations, he said.
Another priority is reviving dormant relations between CBOE andthe city's other exchanges. Floersch sees "a window of opportunity"in last week's election of William O'Connor, an options exchangefounder, to head the Chicago Board of Trade. The CBOE is open tonegotiation on leasing a spare trading floor that now stands vacant,as well as some type of cooperative international marketing, Floerschsaid.
The CBOE even would consider a joint-venture involving newproducts, he said.
"Alienate the best news anchor team in town . . . nice work,Channel 5," wrote a reader.
Ron Magers was the leading write-in candidate for male anchor,despite not having been on the air since May. His 138 votes rankedhim ahead of on-air talent such as Joel Daly and Jay Levine.Carol Marin, who has moved to Channel 2 but not in an anchorrole, led write-ins for female anchor, with 141 votes.Springer received no write-in votes."After Channel 5's treatment of Carol and Ron, we no longerwatch their news, which we had for more than 30 years," a viewerwrote.Yet, as proof that for every opinion there is an oppositeopinion, one reader wrote, "Good riddance to Ron and Carol," andanother said simply that Marin is "a snot."
Shaquille O'Neal flopped against Orlando center Dwight Howard. Now he's standing up to Magic coach Stan Van Gundy.
Responding to Van Gundy's reaction about O'Neal's tactics against Howard on Tuesday night, the Phoenix center lashed out at his former coach with the Miami Heat, calling him "a master of panic," a "nobody" and "a frontrunner."
"One thing I really despise is a frontrunner," O'Neal said before the Suns played the Heat, Shaq's first time back in Miami since last season's trade. "I know for a fact he's a master of panic and when it gets time for his team to go into the postseason and do certain things, he will let them down because of his panic. I've been there before. I've played for him."
O'Neal was guarding Howard with about 4 minutes left in the third quarter Tuesday night. Howard made a spin move, O'Neal fell to the court in an effort to get an offensive foul called, and the Magic center easily dunked with two hands.
Afterward, Van Gundy said he was "shocked, seriously. I was shocked and very disappointed because he knows what it's like. You know, let's stand up and play like men, and I think our guy did that."
O'Neal, who typically does not talk before Suns games, didn't hold back when asked for his reaction. He played for Van Gundy in Miami for parts of two seasons and openly complained about coaching decisions in the 2005 Eastern Conference finals, when the Heat lost Game 7 at home to the Detroit Pistons.
"Flopping is playing like that your whole career," O'Neal said. "I was trying to take a charge, trying to get a call. Yeah, it probably was a flop, but flopping is wrong. Flopping would describe his coaching."
O'Neal and Van Gundy even had words about it on the sideline in Tuesday's game, which the Magic won 111-99. O'Neal had 19 points and 11 rebounds.
And Van Gundy brought the fall up in his postgame news conference, without even being asked.
"Note this," Van Gundy said. "It's not often that I will needle Shaq, because he's a big guy and he played for me and helped me win a lot of games. But he always talks about people flopping. Only one big guy tried to flop tonight. He tried to flop. So ask him about that. I told him something on the sideline. I said, 'C'mon now, all the griping you do about flopping and you're trying to take a flop.'"
O'Neal said he admitted to Van Gundy in that conversation that it was a flop.
But it was the postgame comments that truly seemed to raise Shaq's ire.
"I'm not going to sit around and let nobodies take shots at me," O'Neal said. "He is a nobody to me. If he thinks he can get a little press conference and take shots at me like I'm not take one back, he has another thing coming. ... I tried to take a charge. The rules say when a guy comes into your chest and you fall, it's an offensive foul. That's all I tried to do. I fell. I didn't complain."
Even the Heat found the whole Flop Flap intriguing.
"Hopefully they play Orlando again. I don't think they do," Heat guard Dwyane Wade said.
So with that, O'Neal added a new level of intrigue to his long-awaited return to Miami. He was introduced last among Phoenix's starters, with public address announcer Michael Baiamonte saying, "The Miami Heat welcome back Number 32, Shaquille O'Neal."
There were a few whistles but mostly applause and cheers from the crowd, which hadn't seen O'Neal play in Miami since Jan. 21, 2008. He sat out the last five home games of his Heat career before the trade to Phoenix.
O'Neal also took the opportunity for some theater at that point. He went to midcourt to shake hands with Heat owner Micky Arison and his family, plus walked back across the court to the Heat pregame huddle for more handshakes with coach Erik Spoelstra, assistant coach Bob McAdoo and others.
And then he and Wade embraced shortly before tip-off. Thus ended the lovefest: O'Neal's first basket was a dunk with 10:22 left in the opening quarter, and some fans booed.
O'Neal said before the game, however the crowd received him, it would be out of respect. "I'm not going to go home and drink rat urine," he said, slightly modifying a phrase he's used before.
When he was traded to the Suns, O'Neal had a few choice words about having to play with Ricky Davis and Chris Quinn last season in Miami, although he said Wednesday he was only responding to a question and didn't mean anything to be taken in a derogatory way.
And there was a clear sense that O'Neal simply quit on the Heat last season.
"My grandma always said, you forgive, but you don't forget," Wade said. "I live by those words. I forgive a lot of guys. I'm that kind of person. But I don't forget what he said, either."
Wade is still friendly with O'Neal, but the two do not speak often. O'Neal's closest remaining friend on the Heat is Udonis Haslem, whom Shaq sought out for an embrace with 6 1/2 minutes left in the pregame warmup Wednesday. Dorell Wright _ another holdover from the Shaq era _ joined them a few seconds later, and the trio talked for about a minute.
It's not likely such an embrace will happen when Phoenix next plays Orlando.
The relationship between Van Gundy and O'Neal has seemed to be tenuous at best for years, and may have just turned downright frosty.
O'Neal came to Miami for the 2004-05 season, helped the Heat win 59 games that season alongside Dwyane Wade and with Van Gundy on the sideline. But that season ended with the loss to the Pistons, a game where Miami wasted a six-point lead over the final 7 minutes and afterward O'Neal said he didn't get the ball enough.
He also added that night, "I'll take the blame. I always do."
Van Gundy resigned 21 games into the next season, Pat Riley took over once again and the Heat won a championship, O'Neal's fourth title.
WEST VIRGINIA STATE (12-16) Player Min FG 3pt FT R A PT Suggs 40 5-13 3-7 2-3 5 3 15 Stevenson 40 2-11 2-5 1-3 4 4 7 Scott 35 7-16 0-1 1-1 13 1 15Stevens 32 5-8 2-3 0-0 6 2 12 McFarland 32 2-8 0-0 6-7 7 2 10 Martin 5 0-0 0-0 0-0 1 0 0 Kestner16 0-2 0-1 0-0 1 2 0 Team 4 Totals 200 21-58 7-17 10-14 41 14 59 Percentages .362 .412 .714
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Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama said Wednesday that Republicans are highlighting his association with a former 1960s radical in an effort to "score cheap political points" in the final weeks before the election.
During campaign stops last weekend, Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin criticized Obama's ties to William Ayers, a founder of the violent Weather Underground group blamed for several acts of domestic terrorism during the Vietnam War era, when Obama was a child.
Palin first accused Obama of "palling around with terrorists," then recalibrated her criticism to say the lack of clarity about the Ayers-Obama …
LONDON - Women who gain as little as 7 pounds between pregnancies can put themselves and their babies at medical risk, even if they don't become overweight, suggests a provocative study of thousands of women.
Researchers found that gaining weight during that interval - not during the pregnancy itself - raised the risk of such complications as diabetes and high blood pressure during the second pregnancy, and even stillbirth.
Pregnant women with diabetes or high blood pressure are at risk of convulsions or organ damage, which in severe cases, can be fatal.
The results provide new evidence that overweight or obese women who plan to become pregnant should lose …
Weight Gain Between Pregnancies RiskyLONDON - Women who gain as little as 7 pounds between pregnancies can put themselves and their babies at medical risk, even if they don't become overweight, suggests a provocative study of thousands of women.
Researchers found that gaining weight during that interval - not during the pregnancy itself - raised the risk of such complications as diabetes and high blood pressure during the second pregnancy, and even stillbirth.
Pregnant women with diabetes or high blood pressure are at risk of convulsions or organ damage, which in severe cases, can be fatal.
The results provide new evidence that overweight or obese women who plan to become pregnant should lose …
New Order Voice
So my friend Will Braun gets up in church the other day, holds up a roll of white bathroom tissue, and announces, "Get your Christian toilet paper after the service today."
Now I knew about the toilet paper. It's part of a fair-trade paper drive we started in our church. Our committee bought a load of office paper, paper towels and toilet paper-all made from 100 percent post-consumer waste. We took orders (it costs roughly 20 percent more) and then delivered the goods that day in church.
Purchasing this paper is a natural extension of the fair-trade coffee I drink, the no-sweatshop-labour clothes I shop for, and the free-range eggs I …
Eight US and European law firms have joined together to create Shawn Coulson. The group has over 200 lawyers and 200 support staff working for it in 19 countries.
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Procter & Gamble toilet roll brand Charmin is set to launch in the UK in 500-sheet size, twice the size of a standard roll. The brand is currently number one in the US and represents Procter & Gamble's first assault on the UK toilet tissue market.
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Euro RSCG Wnek Gosper has created a [pound]7m advertising campaign for Microsoft to promote its MSN.co.uk brand. The campaign represents the biggest advertising investment by the firm into the UK . The campaign will run on Channel …
SEYMOUR, CT -- Prices for three of The Greenwich Workshop Inc's leading artists soared above presale estimates at The Autry Center's Museum of the American West's "Masters of the American West Fine Art Exhibition and Sale." Howard Terpning, Mian Situ and Morgan Weistling were among the 72 artists who participated in the show, one of the country's foremost exhibitions and sales of contemporary Western art.
Scott Usher, publisher and president of The Greenwich Workshop Inc., a publisher of limited-edition fine-art prints and canvases, says: "The continued strong pricing for the work of these fine Western genre artists' originals supports the value of their work in …
Byline: Ray Rinaldi Staff writer
The city has settled a lawsuit filed by Capital View Office Park, agreeing to release the company from paying taxes on a property assessed at $748,710.
The deal calls for Capital View to receive a refund of $16,385 paid last year on the property, a section of the former Huyck Felts Mill bordering Third Street.
The land is technically owned by the tax-exempt Rensselaer Industrial Development Agency and was transferred by the tax assessor's office to the company last year after the city and the company signed a deed giving ownership to the company.
Capital View, which has turned large sections of the …
The Christian Dior show in Paris on Monday should make even the notoriously icy U.S. Vogue editor Anna Wintour crack a smile.
British designer John Galliano delivered an ode to the magazine with his retro-flavored haute couture collection, and he injected just enough sauciness to make it perfectly relevant for the 21st century.
Cinch-waisted jackets with extravagant folds at the waist were paired with translucent skirts, while evening gowns came in cascades of frosted tulle glistening with silver sequins.
The looks were inspired by model Lisa Fonssagrives, who married photographer Irving Penn in 1950. Together, they produced some of Vogue's most …
It's all over but the taking.
The Bears' brain trust put the final touches on its draft planslate into the night Friday in preparation for today's NFL draft (11a.m., ESPN).
Bears coach Dave Wannstedt and player personnel director RodGraves worked the phones Friday, as they will this morning. They aretrying to get a feel for other teams' draft plans, tradepossibilities and where the three players they favor will fall."We can go a couple of different ways with this first pick,"Wannstedt said of the team's No. 18 overall selection. "There aresome good football players out there that we feel good about."The Bears would love to come out of the first round with one …
Essex Woodlands and Smith & Nephew plc welcomed the new year with a new idea that could launch the device maker into the drug world and create a trend for other life sciences companies and venture capitalists.
Essex entered a strategic partnership with the London-based device maker to transform Smith & Nephew's orthopedic biologics division into a global spinout that will focus on both devices and drugs. The venture capital firm will invest at least $60 million as part of $118 million of equity in return for 51 percent controlling interest in the new company, Bioventus LLC.
Pantheon Ventures, a limited partner of Essex, and Spindletop Healthcare Capital may …
The California town of Turlock--home of California State University-Stanislaus (CSUS)--and the West Bank city of Jenin are far apart both geographically and politically.
But despite their differences, educators from both communities are steadily at work on the founding of an Arab-American University--a school whose creation both groups hope will play a role in facilitating global peace.
"The Arab-American University was looking for a partner who was interested in educating all ages, creeds and races in an area so recently stepping out of turmoil," said Maher Fareed Irshied, one of the new university's founders.
CSUS, with an enrollment of 5,900, …
CAMBRIDGE -- Up to 900 gallons of home heating oil spilled along Route 22 when a tanker truck split open Tuesday morning, State Police and Environmental Conservation officers reported.
Troopers said the truck, driven by Howard Harrington of Greenwich, was heading north about one and a half miles south of the village when a support leg of the tanker split, causing the fuel to …
Byline: Al Hart Staff writer
Tonight's Albany Capitals "home" American Soccer League game - at Shenendehowa High against the Maryland Bays - is big game for the hosts for two reasons: testing the attendance waters of the suburbs, and surviving in the Northern Division.
That's right ... the site tonight is Shenendehowa's football field in Clifton Park rather than Bleecker Stadium in Albany, the team's usual home field.
Why?
Officially, the game is being played there in conjunction with the Met Life Clifton Park International Soccer Classic being held in Clifton Park today and Sunday. Unofficially, it's an obvious chance for the franchise to …
It's the perfect Miami morning at Carlos Justo's penthouse _ warm and bright, with luxury yachts powering through the sparkling blue Atlantic Ocean some 30 stories below.
Justo, a 53-year-old real estate agent, has been awake since 3:30 a.m. but he shows no sign of fatigue. His eyes scan back and forth, from the high rise condos, to the water, and back to the condos.
An assistant, sitting at a glass table with her back to the stunning view, is talking business. She wants to know whether …
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Curated by Danilo Eccher
Tom Wesselmann began his career with a joke too good to go unpunished. When he began painting his stylized odalisques in the early '6os, he called them Great American Nudes-of which, at that time, if one excepts Eakins's nubile boys, there were exactly none. Unfortunately, Wesselmann's insistence that our experience of modern art is …
The terms of the contest, launched in late 1945, seemed straightforward enough. The Sydney Daily Telegraph would award 1000 [pounds sterling] for the best Australian novel and publish the winning manuscript in Australia and overseas (`Telegraph offers 1000 [pounds sterling] novel prize'). But the contest became a debacle, beset by controversy and shrouded in mystery. While the prize was awarded to Florence James and Dymphna Cusack for Come in Spinner, the newspaper failed to publish the manuscript and never announced the name of the winning novel. In 1951, as Come in Spinner was finally about to appear under the imprint of another publisher, Cusack wrote an article for Meanjin entitled `Mystery of a Novel Contest'. She concluded, `Why have Consolidated Press not announced the prize even to this day? Why did the firm not publish? Your guess is as good as mine' (Cusack 60). Fifty years after the event, there are still no clear, simple answers to these questions. But there are clues, scattered in manuscript collections around the country, which provide some insights into how one of Australia's greatest literary scandals evolved. And while the documentary trail has become warmer in recent years, it is also time to begin to situate this episode in the context of the increasingly pro-American leanings of the Daily Telegraph and the Australian book publishing industry in the late 1940s.
In 1936 a new company headed by Frank Packer and E. G. Theodore, Consolidated Press Ltd, took over the publication of the ailing Telegraph. The revamped paper, known as the Daily Telegraph, championed the new against the old, the modern against the old-fashioned; it celebrated the urban and the cosmopolitan and `progress' became a catch-cry. A brilliant and precocious teenager named Donald Home fell in love with the newspaper from the first issue: `Its contemporaneity made it part of the age that could produce the Electrical and Radio Exhibitions. The more conservative [Sydney Morning] Herald now seemed to belong to Nanna's generation' (Horne 114).
The Daily Telegraph's political stance, under the editorship of S. H. Deamer and then C. S. McNulty, both progressive liberals, was relatively low-key. The newspaper wanted less to develop a clear partisan stance than to posit itself as a vigorous champion of freedoms and the bane of officialdom and anti-libertarianism (Griffen-Foley 1999 60-61). Home best captures the sense of vitality that characterised the newspaper during this period:
The Telegraph was against red tape, addle-pated bungling, muddle-headed blunders, and stodgy bumbledom; it stood instead for acting quickly on vital questions and avoiding delay in reversing unhappy decisions ... One got the feeling that an old, stupid lot was running the country but that any week now, as a result of a particularly brilliant editorial in the Telegraph, they would crumble and a new lot would take over. (114-16)
In his biography of Brian Penton, the editor from 1941 to 1951, Patrick Buckridge has examined the way in which the Daily Telegraph refined its position as the scourge of intolerant and oppressive behaviour at both ends of the political spectrum. During the war, the Daily Telegraph and its stablemate, the Sunday Telegraph, which was edited by the erudite and iconoclastic Cyril Pearl, sought to cajole readers out of their perceived complacency. Vigorous and flamboyant editorials critiqued the Allied war effort and suggested improvements, championed the formation of a national government, criticised the divisiveness and sectionalism of the union movement and the Country Party, and constantly attacked the pervasiveness of the censorship system (Buckridge chapters 9-11; Griffen-Foley 1999 chapters 5-7).
As the war drew to a close, the Telegraphs turned their attention to the task of shaping post-war Australia. In August 1944, despite their recent, bitter dispute with the Labor government over censorship, they supported the `Yes' case in the Post-war Reconstruction and Democratic Rights referendum (Griffen-Foley 1995 71-72). In October 1945 the newspapers announced a tripartite strategy for fostering Australian culture. Firstly, the Telegraphs, which had co-sponsored the famous `Melbourne Herald' exhibition of British and French modern art in 1939 and had supported William Dobell during the Archibald Prize controversy, would sponsor a scheme whereby Australian painters would be sent abroad to work and exhibitions of the best modern European and American art would be brought to Australia (Griffen-Foley 1999 86-88, 124; `Dobell to go abroad'). Secondly, the newspapers would host a series of concerts under the batons of international conductors and award prizes to new musical works to encourage the development of young Australian composers (`Finest music for you'). Finally, and most importantly for us here, the Daily Telegraph announced that it was offering 1000 [pounds sterling] for a novel written by an Australian in Australia. The winning manuscript, which was to be selected by a panel consisting of Penton, H. M. Green, A. J. A. Waldock, Sir John Morris, Vance Palmer, J. V. Duhig and Katharine Susannah Prichard (who later withdrew), was to be serialised by the newspaper and published as a book in Australia and overseas. The Daily Telegraph believed that `Australia is entering into a new era of its culture, which only new writers can define' (`Telegraph offers 1000 [pounds sterling] novel prize').
On 20 October Penton, himself a distinguished novelist, advocated `a blood transfusion for our literature'. Writing under the guise of `Miss Bronte', he accused most pre-war novelists of `unconsciously truckling to a …
Byline: Consumers Union
YONKERS, N.Y., Jan. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Full Frontal Scrutiny (http://www.frontgroups.org), a joint project of two non-profit organizations with a strong history of independent, public interest investigative reporting online, launched today to expose the work of hidden persuaders on the Web and in other media.
Full Frontal Scrutiny is a joint venture between Consumer Reports WebWatch and the Center for Media and Democracy. The site seeks to shine a light on front groups -- organizations that state a particular agenda, while hiding or obscuring their identity, membership or sponsorship, or all three.
WebWatch and the Center will create original content for Full Frontal Scrutiny, debuting today with two exclusive features: An investigation of front group activity in the popular online information resource Wikipedia, including a guide to help consumers get the most out of that site; and a history of front groups and their activities. Full Frontal Scrutiny will also publish selected content from WebWatch and from the Center's SourceWatch database, as well as aggregating news about front groups from other reliable sources.
Author Sheldon Rampton is the Research Director for the Center for Media and Democracy, and the creator of its popular site http://www.SourceWatch.org , an edited online encyclopedia of the people, organizations and issues shaping the public's perceptions and agenda. Said Rampton, "Full Frontal Scrutiny will be like no other site on the Web. Fakers, phonies and front groups …
The Tire Retread Information Bureau in Pacific Grove, Calif., has just published the first-ever ``Retread Tire Buyers Guide.''
The free guide lists retreaders who are members of the information bureau by name, city, state …
Georgetown's leading scorer Austin Freeman has been diagnosed with diabetes, leaving his status uncertain for the team's upcoming games.
Freeman returned to practice Wednesday and Thursday after missing Monday night's loss to West Virginia. He was also limited in Saturday's loss to Notre Dame.
Originally thought to have a stomach virus, Freeman learned he had diabetes when he went to the hospital Monday night.
Coach John Thompson III said Thursday he is "100 percent" certain Freeman will play again this season, but the coach wouldn't say whether the junior guard will return for Saturday's regular-season finale against Cincinnati.
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RETIREMENT: REASONS, PROCESSES, AND RESULTS Gary A. Adams and Terry A. Beehr (Eds.) New York: Springer Publishing, 2003, 309pp., $48.95 (hardcover).
If you are "into" retirement (as a subject) but not yet retired, this scholarly and expansive immersion into the greater orthodoxy of retirement as confronted by the individual, the scholar, the social scientist, the pension designer, the government bureaucrat, or the corporate personnel officer will prove of value. Retirement raises more questions, however, than answers, and the reader pines for more research, so if you are looking for recommended individual retirement road maps, a specific retirement methodology, market tips, or cozy …
I'm a 14-year-old high school freshman who recently read BLACKENTERPRISE's [May 2009] cover story about what a good time this is for young investors to get into the market. Is there an age minimum for buying and owning stocks?
--Anonymous
There is no minimum age for owning stock--or any investment. Buying stock is another story. In the U.S., minors can't enter into a legally binding contract. Youngsters need an adult co-signer to act as a "custodian." So, for the next few years, you won't be able to march into a brokerage firm by your lonesome, plunk down a wad of cash, and walk out the owner of some hot shares.
There is good news. The young folks in our …
Byline: DAVID ORENSTEIN Business writer
ALBANY -- New Scotland Avenue may have been destined to be the new home for a Vanilla Bean bakery.
Buster and Debra Alberino had once hoped to open a bakery at the location 20 years ago, 10 years before they eventually opened the Vanilla Bean Baking Co. on Fourth Street in Troy.
But they got a second chance and took it last year when the same landlord, Jules Speigel, approached them about opening up in the 900 square feet at 573 New Scotland Ave.
``Maybe it's fate,'' Buster Alberino said.
The Alberinos hope the location, the bakery's first outside of Troy, will open Feb. 1. All that's left is …
Authorities say two people are dead after two small planes crashed while on the ground at an airport in south Florida.
Fire rescue officials says the crash happened Wednesday morning at Palm Beach County Park Airport in Lantana.
WPEC TV footage showed the …
