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For what is a man profited, if he shall gain
the whole world, and lose his soul? or what
shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
— Mathhew 16:26
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Today in History
Today in History
Today in History
On October 29, 1618, Sir Walter Raleigh, the English courtier, military adventurer and poet, was executed in London.
On October 29, 1787, the opera “Don
Giovanni” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(pictured) had its world premiere in Prague.
On October 29, 1987, following the
confirmation defeat of Robert H. Bork to
serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, President Reagan announced his choice of Douglas H. Ginsburg (pictured) , a nomination
that fell apart over revelations of
Ginsburg’s previous marijuana use.
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JPMorgan’s $5B settlement doesn’t end its troubles
WASHINGTON (AP) — The $5.1 billion that JPMorgan Chase has agreed to pay
hardly ends its legal troubles over mortgage
securities it sold.
It’s merely a down payment.
JPMorgan still faces heavy financial burdens. The bank has set aside $23 billion to
cover legal costs — and it may need it all.
In a statement Friday night, JPMorgan
called its latest settlement an “important
step” toward resolving allegations over
mortgage-backed securities it sold. The $5.1
billion would resolve federal claims that it
misled Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac about
risky home loans and securities they bought
before the housing market collapsed.
Fannie and Freddie were rescued in a
taxpayer bailout in 2008 as they sank under
the weight of mortgage losses.
Between 2005 and 2007, JPMorgan sold
$33 billion in mortgage securities to Fannie
and Freddie, according to their regulator.
That was the second-most sold to Fannie
and Freddie ahead of the crisis, behind only
Bank of America. The securities soured
after the housing bubble burst in 2007,
losing billions in value.
Fannie and Freddie own or guarantee about
half of all U.S. mortgages, worth about $5
trillion. The two don’t directly make loans
to borrowers. They buy mortgages from
lenders, package them as bonds, guarantee
them against default and sell them to investors. This system helps make loans widely
available to borrowers.
The Federal Housing Finance Agency,
which oversees Fannie and Freddie, announced Friday’s settlement with
JPMorgan, the largest U.S. bank.
The deal is expected to be followed by a
broader agreement with the Justice Department that’s still being negotiated. Last week-
end, JPMorgan reached a tentative deal with
Justice to pay $13 billion.
The $13 billion tentative deal included $4
billion to resolve the FHFA claims. Even
reduced by that amount, it would be the
largest penalty the government has extracted
from a company for actions related to the
financial crisis. It’s unclear when the broader
agreement will be finalized.
The bank still faces local, state and federal
investigations into its sale of the mortgagebacked securities. Most of the trouble stems
from JPMorgan’s acquisition of Bear Stearns
in March 2008.
In September, JPMorgan agreed to pay
$920 million and admit that it failed to
oversee trading that led to a $6 billion loss
last year in its London operation. That
combined amount, in settlements with three
regulators in the U.S. and one in Britain, is
one of the largest fines ever levied against a
financial institution.
In another case, the company agreed to
pay a $100 million penalty and admitted
that its traders acted “recklessly” with the
London trades.
If that weren’t enough, JPMorgan is tied
up in litigation over the Bernard Madoff
Ponzi scheme. JPMorgan has said it’s responding to investigations by Justice and
other regulators. The bank hasn’t given
details. But it has previously faced accusations that it and other banks ignored signs
that Madoff was a con artist.
Edward DeMarco, the FHFA’s acting
director, said the settlement with JPMorgan
“provides greater certainty in the marketplace and is in line with our responsibility
for preserving and conserving Fannie Mae’s
and Freddie Mac’s assets on behalf of taxpayers.”
The FHFA sued 18 financial institutions
in September 2011 over their sales of mortgage securities to Fannie and Freddie. The
total price for the securities sold was $196
billion.
The government rescued Fannie and
Freddie during the financial crisis when both
were on the verge of collapse. The companies received taxpayer aid totaling $187
billion. They have since become profitable
and repaid $146 billion.
Of the $5.1 billion it’s agreed to pay, New
York-based JPMorgan will pay about $2.74
billion to Freddie and $1.26 billion to Fannie
for mortgage bonds it sold. JPMorgan is
paying a separate $1.1 billion for home loans
it sold them.
The mortgage securities that JPMorgan
sold to Fannie and Freddie included billions
that were packaged by two institutions that
failed in 2008: Wall Street bank Bear Stearns
and Seattle-based Washington Mutual, the
largest U.S. savings and loan. JPMorgan
bought Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual in deals brokered by the government.
A number of big banks, including
JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup,
previously have been accused of abuses in
sales of securities linked to mortgages in the
years leading up to the crisis. Together, they
have paid hundreds of millions in penalties
to settle civil charges brought by the SEC,
which accused them of deceiving investors
about the quality of the bonds they sold.
But no high-level Wall Street executives
has been sent to jail over charges related to
the financial crisis. And the banks in all the
SEC cases were allowed to neither admit nor
deny wrongdoing — a practice that brought
criticism of the agency from judges and
investor advocates. Some lawmakers and
other critics have demanded that the big
bailed-out banks and senior executives be
held accountable.
JPMorgan had long enjoyed a reputation
for managing risk better than its Wall Street
competitors. The bank came through the
financial crisis in better shape than most of
its rivals.
But in recent months, it has been engaged
in a number of embarrassing and costly
settlements. In September, the bank agreed
to pay $920 million and admit that it failed
to oversee trading that led to a $6 billion loss
last year in its London operation. That
combined amount, in settlements with three
regulators in the U.S. and one in Britain, is
one of the largest fines ever levied against a
financial institution.
In another case, the company agreed to
pay a $100 million penalty and admitted
that its traders acted “recklessly” with the
London trades.
And in a first for a major company,
JPMorgan admitted in the agreement with
the SEC over the trading loss in London that
it failed in its oversight.
‘So help me God’optional in Air Force honor oath
DENVER (AP) — Air Force Academy cadets
are no longer required to say “so help me God” at
the end of the Honor Oath, school officials said
Friday.
The words were made optional after a complaint from the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, an advocacy group, that they violated the
constitutional concept of religious freedom.
Academy Superintendent Lt. Gen. Michelle
Johnson said the change was made to respect
cadets’ freedom of religion.
The oath states, “We will not lie, steal or cheat,
nor tolerate among us anyone who does. Furthermore, I resolve to do my duty and to live honorably, so help me God.”
Cadets are required to take the oath once a year,
academy spokesman Maj. Brus Vidal said.
Mikey Weinstein, founder and president of the
Military Religious Freedom Foundation, welcomed the change but questioned how it will be
applied.
If the person leading the oath includes the
words, cadets who choose not to say them might
feel vulnerable to criticism, he said.
“What does it mean, ‘optional’?” Weinstein
said. “The best thing is to eliminate it.”
Vidal said the oath is led by the Cadet Wing
honor chair, a student, and that person will also
have the option to use or not use the words.
Academy officials did not immediately return
a follow-up call seeking comment on Weinstein’s
question.
The West Point equivalent oath does not
include the words “so help me God,” said Frank
DeMaro, a school spokesman. It states, “A
cadet will not lie, cheat or steal, or tolerate those
who do.”
Officials at the U.S. Naval Academy did not
immediately return a call. “The Honor Concept”
on the Naval Academy website includes similar
proscriptions against lying, cheating and stealing but includes no religious reference.
The Air Force Academy outside Colorado
Springs has about 4,000 cadets. When they
graduate, they are commissioned as second lieutenants.
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Today In History This Week in
The Civil War
October 29th
By The Associated Press
Today is Tuesday, Oct. 29, the 302nd day of 2013. There are 63 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Oct. 29, 1929, Wall Street crashed on “Black Tuesday,” heralding the beginning
of America’s Great Depression.
On this date:
In 1901, President William McKinley’s assassin, Leon Czolgosz (CHAWL’-gahsh),
was electrocuted.
In 1923, the Republic of Turkey was proclaimed.
In 1940, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson drew the first number - 158 - in America’s
first peacetime military draft.
In 1956, during the Suez Canal crisis, Israel invaded Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. “The
Huntley-Brinkley Report” premiered as NBC’s nightly television newscast.
In 1960, a chartered plane carrying the California Polytechnic State University
football team crashed on takeoff from Toledo, Ohio, killing 22 of the 48 people on board.
In 1966, the National Organization for Women was formally organized during a
conference in Washington, D.C.
In 1967, Expo 67 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, closed after six months.
In 1979, on the 50th anniversary of the great stock market crash, anti-nuclear
protesters tried but failed to shut down the New York Stock Exchange.
In 1987, Jazz great Woody Herman died in Los Angeles at age 74.
In 1994, gunman Francisco Martin Duran fired more than two dozen shots from a
semiautomatic rifle at the White House. (Duran was later convicted of trying to
assassinate President Bill Clinton and was sentenced to 40 years in prison.)
In 1998, Sen. John Glenn, at age 77, roared back into space aboard the shuttle
Discovery, retracing the trail he’d blazed for America’s astronauts 36 years earlier.
In 2004, Osama bin Laden, in a videotaped statement, directly admitted for the first
time that he’d ordered the Sept. 11 attacks and told America “the best way to avoid
another Manhattan” was to stop threatening Muslims’ security.
Oct. 27 - Nov. 2
Skirmishes in Tenn., girding for more major fighting.
With Ulysses S. Grant on the scene in Chattanooga, Tenn.,
federal forces in late October 1863 quickly began resupplying
and adding new troops in the city besieged by Confederate
forces on high ground nearby. This week 150 years ago in the
Civil War saw skirmishing at scattered locations in Tennessee as Confederate and Union forces sized each other up as
major fighting appeared to be only a matter of time. The New
York Times, among leading East Coast publication, lauded
Grant’s rise to the new Military Division of the Mississippi
- in command of three armies.
“The first work of Gen. Grant will doubtless be to combine
these armies, as far as possible, into one active body.” Added
The Times: “This army, massed and properly handled ... were
it wielded and directed by one strong hand, guided by a broad
brain, could trample out any Southern army, or march to any
point, or achieve any object in the Confederacy.” For now that one strong hand for the Union would be found in Ulysses
S. Grant. In the fall of 1863, he was beginning to unify the huge fighting force in a bid to smash through Confederate defenses
and lay the groundwork for later campaigns against Atlanta and beyond.
This series marking the 150th anniversary of the Civil War draws primarily from wartime dispatches credited to The
Associated Press or other accounts distributed through the AP and other historical sources.
Ann Romney’s cookbook, more than just recipes
Ten years ago:
International organizations continued their exodus from Iraq in the wake of car
bombings in the capital and attacks against coalition troops. A powerful geomagnetic
storm walloped the Earth, knocking out some airline communications but apparently
causing no large power outages or other major problems. Opera star Franco Corelli died
in Milan, Italy, at age 82.
Five years ago:
A 6.4-magnitude earthquake in southwestern Pakistan killed at least 215 people.
Nearly 50 hours after Game 5 started but was stopped by rain, the Philadelphia Phillies
finished off the Tampa Bay Rays 4-3 in a three-inning sprint to win the World Series
for the first time since 1980.
One year ago:
Superstorm Sandy came ashore in New Jersey and slowly marched inland. It
swamped lower Manhattan with a 13-foot surge of seawater, devastated New Jersey
coastal communities and left more than 8 million people without power. The storm and
its aftermath would kill more than 100 people in the United States.
Today’s Birthdays:
Bluegrass singer-musician Sonny Osborne (The Osborne Brothers) is 76. Country
singer Lee Clayton is 71. Rock musician Denny Laine is 69. Singer Melba Moore is 68.
Musician Peter Green is 67. Actor Richard Dreyfuss is 66. Actress Kate Jackson is 65.
The president of Turkey, Abdullah Gul, is 63. Actor Dan Castellaneta (“The Simpsons”)
is 56. Country musician Steve Kellough (Wild Horses) is 56. Comic strip artist Tom
Wilson (“Ziggy”) is 56. Actress Finola Hughes is 54. Singer Randy Jackson is 52. Rock
musician Peter Timmins (Cowboy Junkies) is 48. Actress Joely Fisher is 46. Rapper
Paris is 46. Actor Rufus Sewell is 46. Actor Grayson McCouch (mih-COOCH’) is 45.
Rock singer SA Martinez (311) is 44. Musician Toby Smith is 43. Actress Winona
Ryder is 42. Actress Tracee Ellis Ross is 41. Actor Trevor Lissauer is 40. Actress
Gabrielle Union is 40. Olympic gold medal bobsledder Vonetta Flowers is 40. Actress
Milena Govich is 37. Actor Jon Abrahams is 36. Actor Brendan Fehr is 36. Actor Ben
Foster is 33. Rock musician Chris Baio (Vampire Weekend) is 29. Actress India Eisley
(TV: “The Secret Life of the American Teenager”) is 20.
Thought for Today:
“It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a
necessary evil as good.”
— Margaret Mead, American anthropologist (1901-1978).
Man owns $10 silver certificate valued at $500,000
ROYERSFORD, Pa. (AP) — A suburban Philadelphia man has perhaps the most
valuable ten-spot you’ll ever see.
Thirty-nine-year-old Billy Baeder, of Royersford, owns a 1933 $10 silver certificate
that an auctioneer says is worth at least a half-million dollars.
The bill bears an unusual inscription, “Payable in silver coin to bearer on demand,”
and has the serial number “A00000001A.” It is perhaps the most valuable bill printed
since 1929, when bills were shrunk to their current size.
Baeder told Philly.com (http://bit.ly/17IVyHe ) that his late father, also a collector,
bought the bill two dozen years ago for about the price of a compact car.
Matthew Quinn, assistant director of currency for auction house Stack’s Bowers,
says the bill “would easily be worth about $500,000 and up.”
Baeder says he’s already turned down a $300,000 offer.
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PHOENIX (AP) — Mitt Romney
cooks. He washes dishes. The former
Republican presidential candidate even
does his own laundry.
The candid revelations come from his
wife, Ann, who is taking her own turn in
the media spotlight with a bestselling
cookbook, “The Romney Family Table:
Sharing Home-Cooked Recipes & Favorite Traditions.”
Filled with photos and tales of everyday life inside the Romney household,
Romney’s new book isn’t just about
cooking. It offers readers a peek into the
lives of a prominent American family,
and she says, helps to dispel the myths
of maids, personal chefs, chauffeurs
and caretakers.
“I think people would be surprised to
see how we really did live our lives,”
Romney said in a recent interview.
She chuckles at the image of her family
being waited on hand and foot as she
and Mitt raised five sons. They now
also have 22 grandchildren.
“I was doing the cooking. Mitt was
washing the dishes. The boys were
misbehaving. Life wasn’t perfect. It was
messy,” she said.
With recipes ranging from Mimi’s
buttermilk pancakes to mango salad,
lasagna noodle bake, Mitt’s meatloaf
cakes and banana trash pudding, the
book has reached the New York Times
advice best seller list.
Romney said her husband first started
cooking when she was diagnosed with
multiple sclerosis in 1998, a disease that
ravaged her in the beginning, sapping
her energy and forcing her to rest constantly, something she wasn’t used to
doing.
“He learned how to roast a chicken,
how to steam vegetables,” she said,
adding that things have changed a bit
since the disease went into remission.
“It’s really interesting that he’s forgotten all about it now that I’m better,”
she joked, noting that he was probably
at home making himself hot dogs while
she travels to promote her book.
She said proceeds from the book’s
sales will be donated to research at the
Center for Neurologic Diseases at
Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston where she has been treated since
her diagnosis.
But why a cookbook?
Romney explained it simply: It was a
“more upbeat, positive, cheerful thing
to write about than politics.”
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CO man says he tossed $500K in gold during divorce
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A 52-year-old man claims he tossed
$500,000 in gold into a Colorado Springs trash bin so his wife couldn’t have any
of it during their pending divorce proceedings.
Earl Ray Jones of Teller County made the revelation in July during a sworn
deposition with his wife’s attorney, John-Paul Lyle. The Colorado Springs
Gazette reports that bank records prove Jones converted the money to gold
through a Phoenix precious metals dealer. But Lyle says only Jones can vouch
to whether he threw away the gold.
Jones says he tossed the mix of coins and gold bars in a trash bin behind a
Colorado Springs motel during several trips.
Jones is at the Teller County jail awaiting sentencing next month on a
menacing conviction for hitting his wife and holding her captive at their home.
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Center design ‘disaster’
NEW YORK (AP) — The elusive British
graffiti artist Banksy, who has been writing
and spray painting images on New York
City buildings, is causing another sort of
sensation with an essay condemning the
design of the new World Trade Center as “a
disaster.”
The 104-story skyscraper “clearly proclaims the terrorists won,” the artist asserts
in an essay posted on his website Sunday.
It includes a picture of the tower with the
words “replace with better artwork.”
The essay is designed to resemble a New
York Times op-ed column. The artist said he
submitted it to the newspaper, which declined to publish it.
“We couldn’t agree on either the piece or
the art so it was rejected,” Times spokeswoman Eileen Murphy said Monday.
The Port Authority of New York and
New Jersey, which owns the Trade Center
site, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Banksy announced earlier this month that
he was undertaking “residency” on the streets
of New York in October. He posted pictures
on his website of his paintings on city
buildings without providing exact locations.
But those who spotted the graffiti spread
the word through social media.
Some of the graffiti has been defaced or
erased.
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Banksy, a visitor to the city for the past
few weeks, writes that the tower lacks “any
self-confidence.” He likened it to a “tall kid
at a party, awkwardly shifting his shoulders
trying not to stand out from the crowd.”
It’s not clear why the artist decided to
criticize the building’s design. Banksy, who
refuses to give his real name, could not be
reached for comment.
He suggests that “a better building” be
constructed immediately in front of the
nearly completely skyscraper.
He ends by saying: “You currently have
under construction a one thousand foot tall
sign that reads — New York — we lost our
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Juneau group plans Seward statue
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — It’s not folly;
some Juneau residents are proposing a bronze
statue of William H. Seward.
Seward was the secretary of state under
President Abraham Lincoln who acquired
Alaska for the United States from Russia.
Critics at the time characterized the purchase as “Seward’s folly,” but the acquisition became one of Seward’s legacies.
A ceremonial groundbreaking was held for
the proposed statue Thursday at the Dimond
Court Building, across from the Capitol,
KTOO reported.
Supporters wearing hard hats, and name
tags designating their places within a fictional Seward Cabinet, shoveled dirt into a
plywood planter.
John Venables, a historic re-enactor who
portrays Seward, proposed the statue. He
said during the ceremony kicking off a
fundraising and design campaign for the
bronze statute that it was “a great day for
Juneau, Alaska.”
Juneau architect Wayne Jensen says statues of Seward can be found elsewhere in the
United States, but such a pivotal figure of
Alaska history should have a statue in Juneau.
The hope is to have the statue ready by
2017, the 150th anniversary of the $7.2
million purchase of Alaska, or as it was
known then, Russian America.
The state Department of Administration
approved the plaza as the proposed site, the
Juneau Empire reported.
A life-size statue of Seward can be found
at the Loussac Library in Anchorage. It
portrays Seward with a cane and top hat in
his left hand and two books held to his chest
in his right hand.
A plaque on the statue notes Seward’s
accomplishments as “a dedicated abolitionist and an avowed expansionist,” according
to the Smithsonian Institution’s Art Inven-
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tories Catalog. Seward visited Alaska in
1869, three years before his death, and
predicted Alaska would become a state,
according to the plaque.
The sculpture was by Richard MacDonald
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Starbucks to open ‘tea bar’ in NYC
NEW YORK (AP) — Starbucks is trying to make tea trendy, with
plans to open its first “tea bar” in New York City.
The Seattle-based company says Teavana Fine Teas + Teavana
Tea Bar will serve sweets and other food including flatbreads,
salads and small plates ranging in price from about $3 to $15.
It is a switch for the Teavana chain to offer Starbucks-style
freshly made drinks and food. Its stores are primarily in shopping
malls and sell boxed and loose tea and accessories.
Drink prices will range from $3 to $6, and include novelties such
as a Spiced Mandarin Oolong tea and a Pineapple Kona Pop +
Blueberry Bliss iced tea.
Starbucks opened a similar tea shop last year near its
headquarters under its Tazo brand. Next month, that store
will be converted into a Teavana tea bar as well.
The opening of the New York City store on Thursday
comes after Starbucks last year bought Teavana, a chain
of about 300 stores. Starbucks has said it plans to use the
acquisition to make tea a bigger part of American culture,
as it has with coffee.
Starbucks Corp., which has about 11,000 U.S.
locations, has been on a strong financial run even
in the weak economy, boosting its profits by raising prices, revamping food offerings and adding
items such as pricey bottled juices. In its latest
quarter, it said sales rose 9 percent at cafes open at
least a year.
The idea of a tea shop isn’t new, of course. Jenny
Ko, a part owner of the Culture Tea Bar in New
York’s Harlem neighborhood, notes that they’re
more prevalent on the West Coast but that they’ve
been popping up on the East Coast more recently
as well.
Ko said she welcomes Starbucks’ push into tea shops, even
though the company has put many put many smaller coffee chains
out of business with the popularity of its namesake stores. She
said she thinks her tea shop has enough unique offerings to
withstand the competition. Besides, she said Starbucks’ push
should lead to greater awareness about teas in general.
“That’s how everyone got into coffee, after Starbucks opened,”
Ko said.
Already, Ko noted people are more knowledgeable about tea,
with customers increasingly familiar with different varieties such
as oolong and Darjeeling.
Second-home owners on the Jersey shore in
limbo a year after Sandy plagued coastline
STAFFORD TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — The Jersey shore’s small
vacation bungalows and cottages have for decades staked out
little plots of paradise where families who scrimped and saved
could while away summer evenings, parents having drinks on the
deck and kids working the ice cream stand or stealing a first kiss
under the boardwalk.
Now, nearly a year after Superstorm Sandy blasted through,
countless middle-class families whose tiny vacation homes were
once the place to make precious memories are finding them to be
a financial albatross.
While billions of dollars in federal relief have helped primary
homeowners rebuild after the storm, second homeowners find
themselves stuck in limbo: not eligible for enough money to
rebuild or even demolish their homes while they remain on the
hook for mortgage payments and fatter flood insurance fees for
houses they can’t even use.
“We thought we were good for the community, and to suddenly
be labeled this second homeowner like it was a derogatory statement, it was like a smack in the face,” said Benita Kiernan, a retired
nurse who with her retired New York City firefighter husband sank
every spare cent into a small cottage on an inlet in Stafford
Township.
“We became the scarlet-S second homeowners.”
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POSITION: Education Program Consultant (IDEA – School Nurse)
Salary Range - $2,056.00 - $3,179.20 biweekly
$53,456.00 - $82,659.20 annually
WORK UNIT: Department of Education; Division of School Finance and
Support Services; Bureau of Nutrition and Health Services
DESCRIPTION: Provides leadership, coordination, liaison, and consultative
services for school nurse and school health services in the Iowa Department
of Education. Represents the Department of Education in contacts with
public and nonpublic educational institutions, their staff, education related
organizations, associations, governmental agencies, and the general public in
development and improvement of services. Coordinates school nurse and
school health services with other departments and agencies. Advises school
staff through in-service, staff development, workshops, and individual
consultation on: school health services designed to enable a child with a
disability to receive free appropriate public education as described in the
child’s IEP, the evaluation of school nurse and school health service programs
structure, design, methods, use of community resources, practices, and
innovations to provide improvement and consistency in PK-12 programs
throughout the state. Coordinates, interprets, and confers with school staff
and administrators regarding the compliance with provisions of the Code of
Iowa, Iowa Administrative Code, Individuals with Disabilities Education
Act and other federal laws and guidelines. Administrator of the School Nurse
List Serve. Serves on task forces and attends professional conferences and
meetings addressing specific problems and issues related to elementarysecondary school nurse and school health services. Prepares reports and
compile records, statistics and other data as needed or requested. Performs
related work as assigned.
7:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., Monday – Friday with some in and out of state travel,
nights and weekends
QUALIFICATIONS: A Master’s Degree in nursing or related health area and
five years of successful school nurse/school health experience in PK-12,
current Registered Nurse License (BSN preferred), or Iowa School Nurse
Statement of Professional Recognition from the BOEE (preferred);
OR
seven years of full time post graduate experience in any one or a combination
of the following areas:
1. Professional training, teaching or counseling experience in an educational
setting;
2. Professional administrative experience in an educational setting;
3. Professional personnel administration including such areas as job analysis,
performance appraisal system, selection devices or labor relations;
OR
professional experience in a major technical program area utilized by the
Department of Education;
OR
an equivalent of the required experience or a combination of the required
education and experience to total seven years; on the basis that one year of
experience equals thirty semester hours of education.
DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS: Strong interpersonal skills to build
relationships with public and nonpublic educational institutions, their staff,
education related organizations, associations, governmental agencies, and the
general public. Committed to quality service.
• Exceptional communication skills, both written and oral, to produce a range
of reports and publications. Expresses information to individuals or groups
effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information.
Listens to others and responds appropriately.
• High proficiency in utilizing technology and open to learning new technology
tools.
• Knowledge of the Iowa Code and administrative code pertaining to
education, nursing, and school health.
• Knowledge of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
• Knowledge of the principles of education, methods, and techniques.
• Knowledge of the structure and function of education, health, and human
service agencies and resources.
• Knowledge of professional school nurse standards and requirements.
• Ability to apply and interpret laws, policies, and procedures relating to the
Department of Education, area and local educational agencies, and school
nurse and school health service programs.
• Ability to recognize education program needs and establish staff development
programs.
• Ability to analyze and evaluate program data and services for diverse
groups.
• Displays high ethical conduct standards. Exhibits honesty and integrity.
• Refrains from theft-related, dishonest, or unethical behavior.
• Displays a high level of initiative, effort, and commitment in completing
assignments efficiently.
• Works with minimal supervision. Demonstrates responsible behavior and
attention to detail.
• Responds appropriately to supervision. Follows policy and cooperates
with supervisors.
• Aligns behavior with the needs, priorities, and goals of the organization.
• Encourages and facilitates cooperation, pride, trust, and group identity.
• Fosters commitment and team spirit.
DEADLINE: To ensure full consideration for this position, all requested
materials must be completed and uploaded through the TeachIowa.gov online
application process. This position will remain open until filled. For additional
information regarding this position or application materials contact:
Kayli Burkhart, Human Resources Associate
400 E 14th St
515-281-3411
It is the policy of the Iowa Department of Education not to discriminate on
the basis of race, creed, color, sexual orientation, gender identity, national
origin, gender, disability, religion, age, political party affiliation, or actual or
potential parental, family or marital status in its programs, activities, or
employment practices as required by the Iowa Code sections 216.9 and
256.10(2), Titles VI and VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. § 2000d
and 2000e), the Equal Pay Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. § 206, et seq.), Title IX
(Educational Amendments, 20 U.S.C.§§ 1681 – 1688), Section 504
(Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. § 794), and the Americans with
Disabilities Act (42 U.S.C. § 12101, et seq.).
If you have questions or grievances related to compliance with this policy
by the Iowa Department of Education, please contact the legal counsel for
the Iowa Department of Education, Grimes State Office Building, Des
Moines, IA 50319-0146, telephone number 515/281-5295, or the Director
of the Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education, 111 N. Canal
Street, Suite 1053, Chicago, IL 60606-7204.
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Clintons receive Harvard
public health awards
BOSTON (AP) — The best way to
combat the health challenges facing the
world is through “networks of cooperation” that rely on the resources and
talents of a wide range of groups and
individuals, former President Bill Clinton
said Thursday.
And while those bent on destruction,
like the terrorists who attacked a mall in
Nairobi last month, may be able to claim
momentary headlines, their actions will
be far outweighed by those who work
day in and day out to improve the lives
and health of those most in need, Clinton
said.
“We are living in an unprecedented era
of interdependence, but that only means
that we cannot escape each other. Divorce is not an option,” Clinton said.
“We are all bound together.”
Clinton made his remarks after being
honored with one of three Centennial
Medals during the Harvard School of
Public Health’s 100th year celebration.
Clinton recalled the death of Elif
Yavuz, a senior vaccines researcher for
the Clinton Health Access Initiative,
who was killed in the attack on the
Westgate Mall. He said that despite the
murder of Yavuz, who was eight-months
pregnant, her work and that of others
like her is winning the trendlines in
improving world health.
He also said that the Somali Islamic
extremist group al-Shabab, which
claimed credit for the attacks, relies for
their funding in part on the illegal sale of
ivory taken from poached elephants.
The killing of African elephants is a key
issue for the Clinton Global Initiative.
Former Secretary of State Hillary
Rodham Clinton earlier this year announced a new push aimed at helping
end ivory trafficking.
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The couple’s daughter, Chelsea, received the Next Generation Award, which
recognizes an individual under 40 whose
commitment to health inspires young
people to make “health for all” a global
priority.
Chelsea Clinton, who is vice chair of
the Clinton Foundation and is focusing
on the group’s health initiatives, said
young people can bring a unique energy
to the biggest problems facing society.
“To make change, you have to have
some fundamental dissatisfaction, and I
think young people are disproportionately qualified to do that,” she said. “I
think we haven’t succumbed yet in general to cynicism or inertia or patience.”
Clinton said one of her current projects
is bringing attention to the care of young
people in the juvenile justice system in
the U.S. She said despite the fact that on
any given day there are 53,000 juveniles
in the system nationwide, no state has
specific nutritional or physical activity
guidelines for children in their custody.
Also honored Thursday were Dr. Jim
Yong Kim, president of the World Bank
Group and co-founder of Partners in
Health, and Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland,
former prime minister of Norway and
director-general of the World Health Organization.
Kim urged those attending the ceremony to find the most intractable problem they can, and then tackle it.
Dr. Julio Frenk, dean of the faculty at
the Harvard School of Public Health,
described the recipients as “boundarycrossers” who refused to be limited by
the status quo.
The school was founded in 1913 as the
Harvard-MIT School for Health Officers.
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Burns United Methodist Church
Address: 1909 MLK, Jr. Pkwy • DSM, IA 50314
Phone: Church 515-244-5883
Pastor: Rev. Angela Lewis
Sunday Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m.
Wednesday Chat & Chew: 6:30 p.m.
Thursday Prayer Meeting: 6:00 p.m.
Thursday Bible Study: 7:00 p.m.
Faith Missionary Baptist Church
Address: 3415-3rd Street • DSM, IA 50313
Phone: Church 515-243-0900
Pastor: Rev. G. Dale Terry
Sunday Morning Worship: 10:00 a.m.
Sunday Breakfast: 8:00 a.m.
Wednesday Bible Study: 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday Health Ministry: 6:00 p.m.
Wednesday Mission & Brotherhood: 6:30 p.m.
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Saturday Food Pantry: 2:00 p.m.
Maple Street Missionary Baptist Church
Address: 1552 E. Maple Street • DSM, IA 50316
Phone: 515-262-1931
Pastor: Rev. Keith A. Ratliff, Sr.
Sunday Morning Worship: 8:00 a.m. & 10:45 a.m.
Wednesday Bible Study: 7:00 p.m.
Free Medical Clinic: 1st, 3rd & 5th Tuesdays - 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Union Missionary Baptist Church
Address: E.Univ. & McCormick • DSM, IA 50316
Phone: 262-1785
Pastor: Rev. Dr. Henry I. Thomas
Sunday Morning Worship: 8:00 a.m., 10:40 a.m.
Wednesday: Mid-Day Prayer Meeting:12:00 noon
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Exhibition of rare Islamic objects opens in Spain
MADRID (AP) — A private museum in southern Spain is opening an
exhibition of rare Islamic art and scientific objects that highlight the use of light
in decoration and studies in the Arab world.
The exhibition, “Nur: Light in art and science in the Islamic world,” is
sponsored by the energy company Abengoa and has gathered 150 pieces from
collections such those of the Bodleian Library at Oxford University and private
collectors from around the world.
Curated by Sabiha Al Khemir, a Tunisian writer and expert in Islamic art,
the exhibition opens on Saturday at the Focus-Abengoa Foundation’s gallery
in Seville.
From there, it travels next year to the Dallas Museum of Art in Texas, where
it will be open to the public from March 30 to June 29.
Man who invented Lorenzo’s
Oil to save his little boy’s life
ROME (AP) — Augusto Odone, a
former World Bank economist, defied
skeptical scientists to invent a treatment to try to save the life of his little
boy, wasting away from a neurological
disease, and to give hope to other children afflicted with the same genetic
defect.
Odone, 80, died on Thursday in his
native Italy, five years after the death of
his son Lorenzo, who astonished doctors by surviving decades longer than
they predicted.
The concoction, derived from natural
cooking oils, became known as
Lorenzo’s Oil, which was also the title of
a movie depicting the relentless efforts
by Odone and his late wife, Michaela, to
try to find a cure.
Cristina Odone told The Associated
Press on Friday that her father had died
in Acqui Terme, a town in northwestern
Italy in the area where he grew up. She
said he had lived for many years with a
series of medical problems and had died
of organ failure precipitated by a lung
infection.
‘’What was so remarkable about my
father is that he would never accept a
death sentence, either for his own son
or for himself,” she said. ‘’He was supposed to die eight years ago, six years
ago, four years ago. Till the very end, he
would not accept either medical wisdom
or a death sentence that nature would
impose.”
In the 1992 film ‘’Lorenzo’s Oil,” Nick
Nolte played Odone, while Susan
Sarandon played his wife.
Lorenzo was diagnosed with
adrenoleukodystrophy, a neurological
disease also known as ALD, when he
was 6 and living in the Washington,
D.C., area. Doctors predicted the rare
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Wambach on list for FIFA award
ZURICH (AP) — FIFA has named women’s world player
of the year Abby Wambach as a candidate for the 2013 award.
The United States forward is joined by teammate Alex
Morgan on the 10-player list, which includes five-time winner
Marta of Brazil.
Germany goalkeeper Nadine Angerer, who won the European
award this year, is included with teammate Lena Goessling.
Also nominated are: Christine Sinclair (Canada); Saki Kumagai
(Japan); Yuki Ogimi (Japan); Nilla Fischer (Sweden); and Lotta
Schelin (Sweden).
A three-player shortlist will be announced next month. The
winner is announced on Jan. 13 at the FIFA Ballon d’Or event
in Zurich.
Candidates were chosen by a panel from the FIFA women’s
football committee and France Football magazine.
Voting is by national team coaches and captains, and selected
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genetic disease would kill him in a few
years and that he would not survive
childhood. But Augusto and his wife
Michaela refused to accept an outlook
of doom.
Odone took early retirement and began work. After scouring medical journals and consulting scientists and doctors, he taught himself enough science
that in 1987 he came up with a concoction derived from natural cooking oils.
He turned to a British scientist to
produce an edible version, eventually
contained in a bottle carrying the simple
name ‘’Lorenzo’s Oil.”
ALD is caused by a genetic defect
that destroys the sheath covering nerve
fibers. It is characterized by the buildup
of substances in the blood called longchain fatty acids. Lorenzo’s Oil is believed to return acid levels to normal
when the condition is diagnosed early
and the oil is accompanied by a strict,
low-fat diet.
New York-born Michaela Odone died
of lung cancer in 2000. Lorenzo died in
2008 at age 30. His parents had cared for
him at home as he became paralyzed and
lost the ability to talk, needing 24-hour
care.
After his son’s death, Augusto Odone
returned to his home region of Italy and
wrote a book, “Lorenzo and His Parents.”
Cristina Odone ventured that her
father’s legacy was to ‘’try and try and
try again, even when all around you say
it is impossible.”
Odone is survived by Cristina and
son Francesco. Cristina Odone also
named as part of the surviving family
Oumouri Hassane, the man who cared
for Lorenzo from his early years.
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Bank of England chief says
bank reforms not enough
LONDON (AP) — More reforms are
needed in the financial sector if Britain
is to remain a global business hub, the
governor of the Bank of England said
Thursday in a wide-ranging speech in
which he also offered banks greater
access to emergency loans.
Mark Carney (pictured) says the reforms that followed the 2008 financial
crisis are insufficient for a city like London. He told a gathering marking the
125th anniversary of the Financial Times
that not only banks, but also other financial groups should be subject to
tougher scrutiny.
Internationally, regulators need to link
up better to protect taxpayers from having to pay for costly bailouts, he said.
“Without a credible means to resolve
failing banks, regulatory Balkanization
will continue as national regulators seek
to protect their own interests, threatening the efficient operation of the international financial system and accordingly London’s competitiveness,” he
said. “To avoid these risks, we need to
make the resolution of global banks a
real option.”
Carney said banks could no longer
expect to cash in on risky trades and
expect public money to support them
when things go wrong. Fairness “demands the end of a system that privatizes
gains but socializes losses,” he said.
This is especially important in a country
like Britain, where banking assets are
now four times time size of the economy.
Britain and other European countries
are trying to set up a banking union, a
set of regulators and authorities that
have the financial firepower to wind
down banks that run into trouble. Some
in Britain, however, worry that a common European regulator might be
tougher on London’s lucrative financial sector.
“The U.K. can no longer dictate standards,” Carney said. “Rather than ruling the waves, we must spur collective
action through a demonstrated commitment to openness and the promotion of
better ideas.”
To help keep the banks stable, Carney
said the Bank of England would make
money available to them for longer terms
and at cheaper rates. In the future, it will
also consider whether to allow nonbanks to access such lending facilities
and whether it should provide loans in
currencies other than sterling.
“Five simple words describe our approach: we are open for business,”
Carney said.
Carney made a point of saying it’s not
up to the Bank of England and regulators to decide how big the financial
industry should be — just that it is safe.
Activity in the financial services sector
accounts for one-tenth of British annual GDP and over 1 million jobs. Critics
have argued the industry has gotten
too big and that he economy needs to be
more balanced.
Carney noted that markets which were
more transparent, such as equity markets and exchange-traded futures and
options, performed better. Fixed income
and derivatives markets should meet
similar standards, he said.
“The combination of such reforms
and the experience of the crisis will mean
that institutions both need more collateral and need to manage it better,” he
said “Fortunately financial markets know
how to innovate.”
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Clinton: Ideologues
reliable GOP voters
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Fanaticism
is fueling conservative voters who could
threaten Democrat Terry McAuliffe’s
political chances, former President Bill
Clinton
(pictured
with
McAuliffe)warned Sunday as he joined
his longtime buddy’s campaign for Virginia governor.
With little more than a week before
Nov. 5’s Election Day, McAuliffe and
Republican Ken Cuccinelli each have
sought to energize their strongest supporters, by inspiration or fear. McAuliffe
has opened a lead in polling and is
heavily outspending Cuccinelli on television ads, but turnout is expected to be
low and the result could be decided by
a few thousand votes.
“Political extremism does have one
redeeming virtue in terms of pure politics,” Clinton said here at a packed high
school auditorium.
“If you can get somebody into a fanatic frame of mind,” Clinton said, then
they will vote because they are convinced the deck is stacked against them.
It was a shift in roles. For decades, it
has been McAuliffe championing the
personal and political futures of Bill
Clinton and, later, his wife, Hillary
Rodham Clinton. Now, the former president is here to pitch in during the campaign against Republican Ken Cuccinelli
during its final week.
“Terry’s gotten so good on the stump,
I don’t think he needs me anymore,”
Clinton said to laughter at the pair’s first
stop in Dale City.
Clinton planned other stops throughout the state with his longtime pal and
fundraiser during the coming day. Former
first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, who
is considered a strong contender for
2016’s presidential nomination, used
her first political event after stepping
down as secretary of state to endorse
McAuliffe earlier this month.
Bill Clinton predicted that Cuccinelli’s
supporters, who are deeply conservative and align to the tea party, would
vote and he urged Democrats to be just
as motivated.
“Just remember, the people who aren’t
here today, who go to the other fella’s
rally, they will be there on Election Day,”
he said.
That “other fella,” as Clinton called
Cuccinelli, sought to turn one of the
Democratic Party’s stars into another
way to build enthusiasm among his
conservative supporters. Even before
the pair arrived at a veterans’ hall near
Washington, Cuccinelli’s campaign had
sent reporters a memo recounting the
years of Clinton-McAuliffe collaboration for Democrats.
Yet what Republicans called “the
McAuliffe-Clinton baggage” — questions over the Clintons’ finances, Bill
Clinton’s affair with a White House
intern and his subsequent impeachment
— seems to have faded for many voters.
And between Clinton’s first and second stops for McAuliffe, Cuccinelli or-
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PITTSFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A 10-foot tall mosaic sculpture of
flowers is kicking off a Michigan community’s public art program.
The Ann Arbor News reports the marigold sculpture was installed this month
in Washtenaw County’s Pittsfield Township, near Ann Arbor.
The sculpture is on display in the Pittsfield Township Hall’s rain garden. The
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AND
ganized a conference call with reporters
to again raise separate questions about
McAuliffe’s investment with a man who
has pleaded guilty to stealing the identities of the terminally ill.
Cuccinelli has acknowledged the investments were not against the law but
also said McAuliffe needs to explain the
details to voters. He also wants to know
why the investment did not appear on
McAuliffe’s financial disclosure forms
when he ran for governor in 2009.
“I’m tripping over myself to be as
open as humanly possible with the voters of Virginia, and Terry McAuliffe is
taking every step possible to hide, to
bury and obfuscate and lie, let’s face it,”
Cuccinelli said. “He knows how dirty it
is.”
McAuliffe says he was a “passive
investor” and was never aware of the
details. Much of what Cuccinelli raised
had been out there for weeks, campaign
spokesman Josh Schwerin said.
Clinton and McAuliffe’s four-day
swing was sending them to stops in
Democratic-leaning parts of the state.
“In the parlance of my native state and
my culture, I am fully aware that I am just
preaching to the saved,” as Clinton put
it.
But they’re not always reliable parishioners.
In 2008, 75 percent of the state’s registered voters turned out during the
heat of a presidential campaign, and
2012’s campaign drew 72 percent.
Obama won both campaigns.
But in 2009, that number was 40 percent and Republican Bob McDonnell
won.
To help inspire turnout, Clinton and
McAuliffe spent almost an hour at a Red
Lobster restaurant near Richmond to
meet with a largely black crowd who ate
after attending church services. The
pair signed autographs, posed for
cellphone photos, snacked on biscuits
— and came away with voters pledging
their support.
Darlene Gilchrist-Dailey of Richmond
said the Clinton stop cemented her vote
for McAuliffe.
“I was planning on voting for him
anyway but having President Clinton
and his wife endorse him has even made
it a stronger commitment for me to get
out there and vote for him,” she said.
Bill Clinton’s approval ratings have
improved since he left the White House
in 2001 and voters have not lost interest
in Hillary Rodham Clinton since she
stepped down as President Barack
Obama’s top diplomat earlier this year.
Every step Hillary Rodham Clinton
has taken since leaving the State Department has been examined for its 2016
implications. And Bill Clinton’s return
to full-time campaigning — even if for
only a few days — was sure to add to
speculation about whether a Clinton
could call the White House home again
in 2017.
Democrats have been relentless in
painting Cuccinelli — who is known
best outside the state as the first to
challenge President Barack Obama’s
health care law — as a political ideologue and someone who is unwilling to
compromise.
Clinton happily added his voice to
that message.
“If we become ideological, then we’re
blind to evidence,” said Clinton, who as
president sometimes bucked his party
and worked with Republicans. “We can
only hear people who already agree
with us. We think we know everything
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Obama taps private company to oversee dozens of
fixes to health insurance website
WASHINGTON (AP) — It should be working well by the end of November. That’s
the Obama administration’s rough timetable for completing a long list of fixes to
HealthCare.gov, the new, trouble-plagued website for uninsured Americans to get
coverage.
Summarizing a week’s worth of intensive diagnostics, the administration acknowledged Friday the site has dozens of complex problems and tapped a private company
to oversee fixes.
Jeffrey Zients, a management consultant brought in by the White House to assess the
extent of problems, told reporters his review found dozens of issues across the entire
system. The site is made up of layers of components that are meant to interact in real
time with consumers, government agencies and insurance company computers.
It will take a lot of work, but “HealthCare.gov is fixable,” Zients declared.
The vast majority of the issues will be resolved by the end of November, he asserted,
and there will be many fewer screen freezes. He stopped short of saying problems will
completely vanish.
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Smithsonian to showcase Hispanic artists
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Smithsonian American Art Museum is showing works by 72 U.S. Hispanic artists,
hoping to showcase talent that has long been
considered isolated and alien.
“Our America: The Latino Presence in
American Art” will include 92 works by
modern Latino artists from the second half
of the 20th century.
E. Carmen Ramos, curator of the exhibit,
said many U.S. Hispanic artists have not
gained the recognition they deserve because
of discrimination by mainstream museums,
who considered them too foreign.
“We are at a point in history where Latino
art as a field is getting a lot more of attention,
and we are now able to look at that broad
contribution. So we are part of a wave of a
revisionist activity that is looking at situation the Latino within the context of the
United States,” Ramos said Thursday.
Ramos said the exhibit would show that
U.S. Hispanic artists are part of the American artistic landscape, because the
Smithsonian is “viewed as the repository of
our cultural patrimony, and to be able to
include Latino artists within that concept is
a very powerful thing”.
The exhibit, which will be open for six
months, will include works such as
“Radiante” (”Radiant”) by Puerto Ricoborn Olga Albizu, and “Man on Fire,” a
fiberglass sculpture by Luis Jimenez, who
died in 2006 and whose steel-and-fiberglass
sculpture “Vaquero” (1980) adorns the
museum’s entrance.
The exhibit includes works of abstract
expressionism, activism, conceptual art and
performances, but also more traditional
American styles such as landscapes, portraits and scenes from daily lives.
The artists are all of varied backgrounds,
such as Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban and
Dominican.
Ramos pointed out the canvas by Frank
Romero, “Death of Ruben Salazar,” which
portrays the death of Mexican-American
journalist Ruben Salazar being hit by a tear
gas canister during a demonstration in support of the Chicano movement in 1970.
The exhibit will travel to Miami; Sacramento, Calif.; Salt Lake City; Little Rock,
Ark. and Wilmington, Del.
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Crist plots political comeback as Democrat
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Charlie Crist
had barely entered the room before a throng
of teachers swarmed him.
The union delegates — and stalwart Democrats — wanted autographs, pictures, hugs
and even kisses from the former Republican
governor.
“We love you, Charlie!” a woman shouted,
locking arms with Crist as someone snapped
a picture.
“I love you all,” he told those gathered at
the Florida Education Association’s annual
convention this month.
Nearly three years after losing a U.S.
Senate campaign to Republican Marco Rubio
and leaving the governor’s mansion, Crist is
plotting a political comeback that seems
fantastical even by Florida’s stranger-thanfiction standards.
The man who once identified himself as a
Ronald Reagan Republican is preparing for
another gubernatorial bid, this time as a
Barack Obama Democrat.
As he travels the nation’s largest swingvoting state, Crist is emphasizing the bipartisanship and consensus-building that
marked his sole term as governor. Most
early polls show him leading the unpopular
incumbent, Republican Gov. Rick Scott, a
former hospital company executive elected
with tea party support in 2010.
Democratic officials, looking for a candidate to lead them back to power in Florida
after 15 years, have embraced the convert.
In an era of political polarization, Democratic leaders see his pragmatic governing
record as a national model for a party trying
to claim the political center and solidify
gains among the country’s fast-growing bloc
of independent voters.
A statewide victory also would give Florida
Democrats an organizational edge in the
2016 presidential election.
“The shutdown and the fiasco in Washington have made that style of bring-everybody-together government much more popular,” said Ed Rendell, the former Democratic
governor of Pennsylvania and ex-chairman
of the National Governors Association.
“Charlie’s going to ride a wave.”
According to a Gallup poll this month,
nearly half of Americans now identify themselves as independent, an all-time high. A
separate survey found that a record 60
percent of Americans are so dissatisfied
with the way Democrats and Republicans
are governing the country that they favor the
creation of a third major party.
Crist, who calls himself “the people’s
governor,” might be able to capitalize on that
disenchantment — if voters are willing to
overlook his history of conflicting positions
in key areas.
His reputation as a moderate governor
stemmed in part from his willingness to
break with the GOP on major issues. He
vetoed legislation that would have required
ultrasounds before abortions, killed a bill
that would have instituted merit pay for
teachers and supported the restoration of
voting rights for ex-felons. Scott has since
signed ultrasound and merit-pay bills and
reversed Crist’s voting rights effort.
Crist calls “bringing a new tone to Tallahassee of bipartisanship” his proudest
achievement.
“People are so fed up with the partisan
rancor that we are experiencing on a national
level,” Crist recently told The Associated
Press. “I would compare it to children in a
schoolyard, but that would be insulting to
the children in the schoolyard.”
The messy primary fight with Rubio in
the 2010 Senate race has made him far from
the perfect Democratic messenger. He spent
much of that race campaigning as a pro-gun,
anti-abortion, small-government Republican, saying it would be hard to find anyone
more conservative.
When GOP activists and donors rallied
around Rubio, Crist mounted an independent bid.
After the loss, he began backing Democrats in state and federal races and campaigned for Obama in last year’s election.
“I feel at home, truly,” Crist said recently.
Republicans have not forgotten — or
forgiven — Crist’s defection.
Scott, who spent more than $70 million of
his own money on his 2010 campaign, already has raised nearly $18.5 million from
donors, promising a withering ad blitz against
his opponent early next year. Signaling
what’s to come, the state party has started
painting Crist as a political chameleon “unfit to govern.”
Some Democrats also are suspicious and
are favoring candidate Nan Rich, a former
state Senate minority leader. Rich has questioned Crist’s Democratic credentials but
has had trouble raising money for a statewide campaign.
Crist surprised many Democrats this year
when he declared his support for gay marriage. In 2006, he backed a constitutional
amendment banning same-sex marriage in
Florida, a position he reaffirmed in 2008 and
in 2010.
Crist said Obama’s support for gay marriage prompted him to change his mind.
Democratic leaders, who have spent much
of the last decade on the sidelines of a GOPdominated Legislature, are excited by the
prospect of nominating Crist.
Lawton Chiles was the last Democrat
elected governor, in 1994.
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1960 Maryland sit-in case
remembered as part of history
WASHINGTON (AP) — Robert M. Bell
was 16 years old when he recruited classmates to join a sit-in at a downtown Baltimore restaurant. The sit-in was Bell’s first,
and he remembers being a little nervous.
On the afternoon of June 17, 1960, the
group entered Hooper’s restaurant, and a
hostess said she wouldn’t seat them. “I’m
sorry, but we haven’t integrated as yet,” she
said. The group pushed past her and sat
anyway. Police were called, and 12 demonstrators, including Bell, were charged with
trespassing. Eventually, the case made it all
the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
This month marks 50 years since the case
known as Bell v. Maryland was argued in
front of the justices. In the 50 years since,
Bell went on to become a lawyer and later a
judge on Maryland’s highest court, where
he sat on the bench with two men who had
been prosecutors on his case. He became the
court’s chief judge in 1996, a position he
held until retiring earlier this year age 70.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan
called him a “living legend” before a recent
lecture on the case at the Supreme Court.
Bell and others who went to Hooper’s
that day said participating in the sit-in was
a brief act but part of history.
“I had never thought about what the
impact of going into a sit-in demonstration
would be in the long haul, but it’s become as
much a part of my persona, I guess, or the
history that I have been participating in, as
anything else I’ve done,” Bell said in an
interview last week. He added the case is
mentioned every time he is introduced and
that he keeps a photo of the group on his
iPad.
The sit-in at Hooper’s followed others
nationwide. Earlier that year, four black
college students sat down at a lunch counter
at a Woolworth’s in Greensboro, N.C., igniting sit-ins to campaign for equal treatment for African-Americans.
LouEllen Brown, a classmate of Bell’s
who participated in the Hooper’s sit-in, said
the restaurant turned off the lights and air
conditioning so it got hot and stuffy. Brown
said that at 16, she hadn’t realized she
couldn’t eat at certain restaurants because
she was black, and it “opened my eyes.”
Brown, who became a teacher, still has
documents that told her which days she had
to go to court and said she occasionally
shows them to students. For years, they
were the only framed item hanging in her
home, said Brown, who lives in the U.S.
Virgin Islands.
“It reminds me of where I’ve been and
where I’ve come from and not to take anything for granted,” said Brown, whose cousin
Annette Green, now Annette Newsome,
also participated in the sit-in.
Baltimore resident Rosetta Gainey was
another demonstrator that day. Then 18 and
studying business, Gainey remembers sitting at the restaurant’s counter, right next to
a large coffee urn. A waitress, she said,
wanted to make the experience as uncomfortable as possible and turned the machine
on so it made an unpleasant odor.
“For years later, every time I would think
about drinking a cup of coffee, I would have
flashbacks,” Gainey said.
A few months after their protest, a judge
convicted the group of trespassing and fined
them $10 each, though the fines were suspended. Their convictions were later upheld
by Maryland’s highest court — the one Bell
would come to lead. The court wrote that
“the right to speak freely and to make public
protest does not import a right to invade or
remain upon the property of private citizens.”
The case was then appealed to the Supreme Court, but its ruling in 1964 was
largely a letdown. By then, four years after
the sit-in at Hooper’s, Maryland had
changed its laws so that businesses could
not deny customers service based on their
race. As a result, a majority of justices
decided to send the case back to Maryland’s
highest court, asking it to reconsider the case
in light of the new laws. But even some of
the Supreme Court justices were upset that
their court ducked the constitutional questions in the case.
“There is no specific provision in the
Constitution which protects rights of privacy and enables restaurant owners to refuse
service to Negroes,” Justice William O.
Douglas wrote in a separate opinion.
Without his colleagues’ support, however, the case ended uneventfully.
“As it turns out, it is a footnote in history,” Bell said of the case.
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Fed announces enhanced news security procedures
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve says it is tightening the
security procedures in place when it releases information to reporters.
In a statement, the U.S. central bank says the additional controls will start with
next week’s meeting and were put in place after consultations with news
organizations. The measures include holding a lockup at the Federal Reserve,
where transmission of the news will be over data lines controlled by the central
bank.
The Fed says it believes the measures will protect against the premature
release of the decisions made by its interest-rate setting panel.
It made the change after concerns were raised about suspiciously heavy
trading of gold futures following its last meeting on Sept. 18-19. There were
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Oscar season starts with
a game of musical chairs
NEW YORK (AP) — The first act of the
Oscar season is playing out like an episode
of “Survivor.”
Several anticipated films planned to be
released in the heart of awards season have
picked up stakes and moved to 2014.
Changes often happen in the highly contentious fall movie season, but rarely has there
been an exodus like this.
Most recently, George Clooney’s World
War II drama “The Monuments Men,” previously dated for Dec. 18, was moved by
Sony to early next year, after the end-ofyear eligibility cutoff. Earlier postponed
was Bennett Miller’s brother drama
“Foxcatcher,” with Channing Tatum and
Steve Carell; “Grace of Monaco,” starring
Nicole Kidman as Grace Kelly; and James
Grey’s “The Immigrant,” starring Joaquin
Phoenix and Marion Cotillard.
Martin Scorsese’s “The Wolf of Wall
Street” is also up in the air, widely expected
to move from a long-planned November
release to Christmas. Scorsese is racing to
edit his ambitious Wall Street epic, starring
Leonardo DiCaprio, in time for release this
year. (Paramount declined to comment on
its plans.)
So why the game of musical chairs? The
holiday season is a packed one, so the
margins for capturing box-office and awards
momentum are thin. And three Oscar favorites have already firmly established themselves: Steve McQueen’s hugely acclaimed
slavery epic “12 Years a Slave”; the global
box-office juggernaut and technical marvel
“Gravity”; and the Tom Hanks Somali pirate docudrama “Captain Phillips.”
For now, the favorite is “12 Years a
Slave,” which picked up a leading three
nominations from the Gotham Independent
Film Awards on Thursday. Based on the
account of Solomon Northup (played by
Chewitel Ejiofor), the film bears the weight
of being a landmark — a movie that depicts
American slavery more faithfully than it
ever has been before. Henry Louis Gates Jr.
has called it “the best film about slavery ever
made from the point of view of a slave.”
“It’s going to go on its own journey and
we’ll see where that ends up,” says Ejiofor.
“The important thing is that people should
see it with their own eyes if there’s hyper
buzz about it. I think this is a deeply
involved story about a man who had a
profound experience. I was deeply moved
by his book and his experience, and I feel like
outside of anything else, that should be
given its place and its own sort of room.”
“Gravity” has been a different kind of
sensation, leading the box office for three
consecutive weeks in addition to nearly
universal raves from critics. Alfonso
Cuaron’s film and “12 Years a Slave” are
currently the consensus top two Oscar contenders, according to a recent “Gurus o’
Gold” poll of 15 Oscar prognosticators and
film writers at MovieCityNews.com.
But the reasons for the release date changes
have less to do with the seeming lock on
awards than with the individual challenges
of each film. Clooney has said the extensive
visual effects for “The Monuments Men”
needed time for completion. Sony Pictures
Classics said “Foxcatcher,” too, needed more
time to finish. No reason was given for the
Weinstein Co.’s postponement of “The
Immigrant,” which premiered at the Cannes
Film Festival in May.
“Grace of Monaco” is moving to March,
Harvey Weinstein has said, because “it’s
just not ready.” Director Olivier Dahan has
vehemently disputed that, telling French
newspaper Liberation that he considers the
film finished and strongly disapproves of
the cut Weinstein is seeking. (The Weinstein
Co. declined to comment.)
A move to early next year, as “The Monuments Men” is doing, signals a lack of faith
in awards attention. While the holiday season is the one of the most prestigious and
lucrative times of the year to release a film,
the early winter months are typically considered the doldrums of the moviegoing
year.
But it also means much more room at the
box office. In late December, “The Monuments Men” would have had to compete
with, presumably, “The Wolf of Wall Street,”
Ben Stiller’s “The Secret Life of Walter
Mitty,” “August: Osage County,” “An-
chorman 2: The Legends Continue” and the
3-D action film “47 Ronin.”
The competition will be far less stiff when
“The Monuments Men” opens next year. It
will hope to follow the playbook of a few
other recent awards season emigrants:
Scorsese’s “Shutter Island” ($294.8 million
worldwide after a Feb. 18 debut in 2010) and
“The Great Gatsby” ($348.8 million worldwide with a release last May).
Aside from “The Wolf of Wall Street,”
awards contenders yet to premiere include
David O. Russell’s Abscam drama “American Hustle” and the Disney tale of the
making of “Mary Poppins,” “Saving Mr.
Banks.” Riding in with acclaim from film
festivals will be the Coen brothers’ Greenwich Village folk tale “Inside Llewyn Davis,”
Alexander Payne’s Midwest road trip “Nebraska,” Spike Jonze’s futuristic romance
“Her” and the Texas HIV drama “Dallas
Buyers Club.”
A lot can change between now and the
86th annual Academy Awards on March 2.
But even in October, some things are locked.
“Awards don’t make your movie more
pretty or more ugly,” says Cuaron. “You’ve
already finished it. The rest is not in my
hands.”
Ebony magazine, Jacksons to honor Berry Gordy
NEW YORK (AP) — Ebony magazine’s celebration of its “Power 100”
list will have a Motown vibe — Berry Gordy (pictured) is being honored
with a lifetime achievement award, the Jacksons will perform in his
honor, and the cast of “Motown The Musical” is due to appear, as well.
The Jacksons will pay tribute to the Motown founder at a gala event
at Lincoln Center in New York City on Nov. 4. Gordy signed the brothers
when they were known as the Jackson 5, led by pre-teen Michael
Jackson.
The event will also honor those who made the list of power brokers
in the black community, including President Barack Obama, Kerry
Washington, “Fruitvale” actor Michael B. Jordan, Harry Belafonte and
others.
Nick Cannon is slated to host the event.
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Jack Daniel’s in legal fight with small distiller
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A white
whiskey named for a famed Appalachian moonshiner started out being sold
in Mason jars, to honor its roguish
roots, but switched to square-shaped
bottling. That new look has the upstart
distiller embroiled in a trademark infringement fight with Jack Daniel’s Tennessee whiskey.
The legal feuding pits an industry
blue blood against a tiny distiller that
proudly claims to carry on the tradition
of moonshiner Marvin “Popcorn”
Sutton. The irascible Sutton wrote a
paperback called “Me and My Likker”
and recorded videos on how to make
moonshine.
Sutton, known for his long gray beard
and faded overalls, took his own life in
2009 rather than go to prison for making
white lightning.
Now, the whiskey maker he inspired is
facing its own legal problems.
The owner of the Jack Daniel’s trade-
mark sued the Nashville, Tenn.-based
distiller of Popcorn Sutton’s Tennessee White Whiskey. The lawsuit claims
the bottling and labeling for the Popcorn Sutton product is “confusingly
similar” to the ubiquitous packaging for
Jack Daniel’s.
The suit filed in Nashville wants the
Popcorn Sutton bottle removed from
the market. It says the new packaging
hit the shelves in either late 2012 or early
2013.
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“Defendants’ use of the new Popcorn
Sutton’s trade dress in connection with
their Tennessee white whiskey is likely
to cause purchasers and prospective
purchasers of the product to believe
mistakenly that it is a new Tennessee
white whiskey product in the Jack
Daniel’s line,” the lawsuit said.
The suit was filed by California-based
Jack Daniel’s Properties Inc., a subsidiary of Brown-Forman Corp.
Jack Daniel’s is the flagship brand of
Louisville-based Brown-Forman, which
sold 11 million cases of the Black Label
Tennessee Whiskey in the fiscal year
that ended April 30. Jack Daniel’s whiskey is produced in Lynchburg, Tenn.
Named as defendants are J&M Concepts LLC and Popcorn Sutton Distilling LLC, which operate in Nashville.
The defendants did not respond to
phone calls and emails seeking comment Friday.
The small distillery’s website says
Popcorn Sutton’s white whiskey is currently available in Tennessee, Kentucky,
Arkansas and Georgia.
The suit notes what it said are the
similarities between the packing for Jack
Daniel’s and the Popcorn Sutton spirit.
Both bottles are square shaped with
angled shoulders and beveled corners,
with white-on-black labeling color
schemes, the suit said. Even the font
style of the Popcorn Sutton labeling is
reminiscent of the Jack Daniel’s label, it
said.
Except for minor tweaks, the Jack
Daniel’s packaging has been “a consistent commercial impression” for de-
cades, the suit said. That packaging is
part of “one of the oldest, longest-selling and most iconic consumer products” in U.S. history, it said.
The suit said the defendants’ master
distiller, Jamey Grosser, cited Sutton for
inspiring the makeover for his brand’s
look. Grosser noted that Sutton wanted
to sell his moonshine in eye-catching
packaging once he could afford to do
so. The old moonshiner would say: “My
whiskey is too good to be in a damn jar,”
the suit said.
Nick Reifsteck, manager of Old Town
Wine and Spirits in Louisville, said the
Popcorn Sutton’s whiskey seemed more
popular in its simpler bottle.
“When it was in the Mason jars, it was
a better seller, more of a curiosity,” he
said Friday.
Jack Daniel’s last year released its
own white spirit — an unaged rye. So
far, the company has produced about
100,000 bottles for sale in the U.S., BrownForman said.
The lawsuit seeks an injunction to
stop the defendants from using their
current bottle. It also asks for unspecified damages.
For Jack Daniel’s, it’s the latest round
of legal fighting in its vigilance to protect its trademark, its parent company
said.
“We’ve taken action against many
individuals and companies all over the
world for infringing in the Jack Daniel’s
trademark,” Brown-Forman spokesman
Phil Lynch said Friday. “We are vigorous in our defense of all our trademarks,
and especially Jack Daniel’s.”
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More than 10,000 answer
boy’s plea for a family
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A 15-year-old
boy who went to a St. Petersburg church to
plead for a family now has more than 10,000
people who want to adopt him.
Strangers from every state have expressed
interest in adopting Davion Navar Henry Only,
who was born in prison and raised in foster care.
He lives in a group home with 12 other boys and
has never had his own room or felt wanted.
When he heard his birth mother had died last
spring, he decided to find someone to adopt
him. So he went to St. Mark Missionary Baptist
Church and told his story from the pulpit.
“I know God hasn’t given up on me,” he told
the congregation. “So I’m not giving up either.”
The teen’s story was published in a front-
page story in the Tampa Bay Times and went
viral on social media and was picked up on news
sites and television shows around the globe.
The boy’s case manager, Connie Going, told the
newspaper Sunday (http://bit.ly/19FFCbO ) the
response has been overwhelming.
“I’ve never seen anything like this,” Going
said. “His simple plea just struck a chord with the
world.”
Going said every adoption offer is being followed through. Couples who have already
passed adoption home studies are being considered first, and families without young children or who have experience with teens and
traumatized kids will also receive priority.
Teens are often the most difficult to place.
Davion said he’s pleased his story has raised
awareness about the struggle of other foster
teens to find a home.
“I know what it’s like to have nobody, with no
light at the end of the tunnel, no one who wants
you,” Davion said. “I just keep saying, ‘There’s
only one me. But all my friends, all the other guys
at the group home, all these other kids need
families too.”
Adoption specialists hope to narrow the thousands of inquiries for Davion down to 100 or so,
Going told the Tampa Bay Times. The 10 best
options will be presented to the teen.
Davion said he is amazed that “so many people
actually want me.”
‘Diabetes dog’ easing life for young Kansas girl
LE ROY, Kan. (AP) — A southeast Kansas secondgrader with Type 1 diabetes is now relying on a
friendly Labrador retriever instead of an electronic
glucose monitor to help track her blood sugar levels.
The family of 7-year-old Kyla Lankton picked up
the four-legged health aide this month from the
Canine Assistance Rehabilitation Education and
Services (CARES) program in the north-central Kansas town of Concordia, The Iola Register reported
(http://bit.ly/1hgkm0o ).
The 2-year-old female Lab, named Arley, is specially trained to detect a person’s blood sugar level
through her keen sense of smell.
Arley wears a read vest and accompanies Kyla
everywhere in the town of Le Roy. If she sniffs a
change in Kyla’s blood sugar level, she licks the girl’s
face as a warning that her blood must be checked.
Kyla’s father, Korey Lankton, says it’s much less
intrusive than an electronic glucose monitor, which
he said is painful to check.
“She’s a remarkable dog,” Lankton said, “and they
bonded almost instantly.”
Kyla still must wear an insulin pump 24 hours a day
Myanmar’s Suu Kyi picks
up overdue honor in Rome
ROME
(AP)
—
Myanmar’s Aung San Suu
Kyi has picked up an overdue honor from Rome, a city
she fondly recalled enjoying, along with its gelato, 40
years earlier.
The Nobel Peace Prize
winner received Rome’s
honorary citizenship Sunday night in City Hall on the
ancient Capitoline Hill.
In 1994, Rome had conferred the honor in absentia on Suu Kyi, a champion
of democracy who spent years as a political prisoner
in her homeland.
She and her National League for Democracy party
were frozen out of politics by the military regime that
governed until 2011, and last year she and several
dozen party members won parliamentary seats.
In picking up the honor Sunday, she recalled
visiting Rome while a student at Oxford.
On Monday, Suu Kyi meets with Pope Francis at
the Vatican.
Beltran wins Roberto Clemente Award
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Carlos Beltran of the St.
Louis Cardinals is this year’s recipient of the
Roberto Clemente Award.
Beltran was seated next to Clemente’s widow,
Vera, when he was honored Saturday, about an
hour prior to Game 3 of the World Series against
the Boston Red Sox. Members of Clemente’s
family also attended the news conference.
“I must say this year’s recipient truly exempli-
and closely monitor her diet and activity levels. And
Arley must be paid for.
Such “diabetes dogs” can be extremely expensive.
Lankton, who teaches physical education and coaches
football and basketball at Southern Coffey County
High School, said Arley cost less than $10,000 but
declined to be specific.
The Lanktons make monthly payments through
their bank. But many residents of Le Roy are jumping
in to help defray the costs.
A 4-H Club Kyla and her sister belong to is organizing a drawing for which businesses and individuals
have donated such prizes as a lap quilt, processed
beef, a holiday wreath and a gift card from a hardware
store.
One shop is selling “Kyla’s Guardian” T-shirts for
$10, and footballs autographed by high school and
middle school players will also be given away. The
drawing will be held Oct. 31 at Southern Coffey
County High’s last home football game of the season.
“The community’s response has been humbling,”
Korey Lankton said. “Their help has really been a
stress-reliever for our family.”
fies Roberto’s philosophy,” Vera Clemente said.
“Carlos Beltran, you are the pride of all Puerto
Ricans.”
Beltran has contributed more than $4 million
to his Carlos Beltran Academy in Puerto Rico
and has hosted fundraising efforts throughout
the year.
“A leader by example on the field, Carlos has
demonstrated his leadership off the field as
well,” Selig said. “The academy has made a real
difference in the lives of young men in Puerto
Rico.”
The award recognizes the player whose contributions on and off the field best represent the
game. The award was named for Pirates Hall of
Famer Robert Clemente, who died on Dec. 31,
1972, in a plane crash while on a humanitarian
mission to assist earthquake victims in Nicaragua.
Beltran grew up idolizing Clemente’s achievements.
“I never got a chance to watch him play or
anything like that,” Beltran said. “When I was a
kid I always wanted to be like him, having an
opportunity to play baseball and having an
opportunity to give back.”
More than 1.3 million fans voted online with
results taken into consideration.
Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw won the
award last year and David Ortiz of the Red Sox
won in 2011.
Mizuho chairman, others
resign over mob loans
TOKYO (AP) — Mizuho Financial Group said
Monday the chairman of its banking business and
two other top executives will resign over the Japanese lender’s failure to crack down on loans to
organized crime.
Mizuho said its president, Yasuhiro Sato, will give
up six months of pay but remain at his post. The bank
also is appointing Tatsuo Kainaka (pictured), a
former prosecutor and Supreme Court judge with a
reputation for toughness, to be its chief compliance
officer.
Sato and other top executives bowed deeply in
apology — such gestures are a familiar sight in
corporate Japan.
Besides the exit of Mizuho Bank chairman Takashi
Tsukamoto, Mizuho’s top compliance officer and
its risk management director will resign Nov. 1.
Dozens of Mizuho employees face salary cuts.
Tsukamoto is also chairman of Mizuho Financial
Group and retained that position.
“We caused a great deal of trouble and I want to
express my deepest apologies,” Sato said. “I am
aware there are various opinions about this, but this
is what was decided in this case,” Sato said when
asked if the penalties were too weak.
An outside panel reported Monday that its probe
found Mizuho lax in cleaning up more than 200
million yen ($2 million) in lending, mostly auto loans,
to clients associated with “anti-social” elements, a
byword for organized crime.
Mizuho, Japan’s No. 2 bank by assets, failed to do
what was expected in reducing and preventing mobrelated loans, the panel said, though it concluded the
bank had not engaged in a deliberate cover-up.
The panel headed by former judge Hideki
Nakagome, who also led an investigation into accounting fraud at camera and medical equipment
maker Olympus Corp., called the lending “captive
loans” acquired when Mizuho bought consumer finance company Orient Corp.
Senior Mizuho executives neglected to clean up the
loans after discovering them in early 2011. Soon after,
Mizuho’s management became preoccupied with
ATM malfunctions triggered by an influx of donations for victims of the 2011 tsunami disaster.
Mizuho presented a plan for an overhaul to the
Financial Services Agency, which last month demanded that the bank devise a strategy for “improvements” to its lending business.
The bank has pledged to end the loans, step up antimob screening of incoming business, tighten corporate governance and improve internal awareness about
preventing dealings with those linked to organized
crime.
The troubles at Mizuho underscore the difficulties
financial companies confront in avoiding dealings
with Japanese gangs, known as “yakuza.” They are
entrenched in many areas of the economy despite
efforts to freeze them out of the financial system.
But the panel also faulted Mizuho’s corporate
governance, a perennial problem highlighted by a
stream of scandals over negligence, fraud and other
troubles at some of Japan’s most elite companies.
In a governance report issued July 1, Mizuho
outlined a code of conduct that abjures any influence
or dealings with “anti-social elements.”
The bank pledged to “oppose firmly the activities
of any anti-social elements that threaten the rule of
law, public order and safety” and to ensure compliance with its code of conduct.
Finance Minister Taro Aso said he needed to learn
more details about the case before commenting.
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Rogers, Bare inducted into Country Hall of Fame
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Kenny Rogers (pictured), Bobby Bare and the late “Cowboy” Jack
Clement — three men whose influence still ripples
across the surface of modern music — are now
members of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
The three were saluted by stars Garth Brooks,
Kris Kristofferson, Emmylou Harris, Barry Gibb,
John Prine and others during a ceremony Sunday
at the newly expanded Country Music Hall of Fame
and Museum.
Each of the three inductees had a profound
effect on music in his own way, and one could
argue each deserved a place among the genre’s
greatest names long ago.
“I’m flattered, I’m honored and I’m nervous,”
Rogers said before the ceremony. “I mean I didn’t
know that I would be. Very few things make me
nervous. But I’ve never done this before, so it’s
pretty exciting. What I’ve realized is that success
is not a happening, it’s a journey. So as I run back
through my history and look at all the things that
happened to me and how I got to where I am, this
is like the culmination of my career because I’ve
done pretty much everything else. And I think
without this it would have been incomplete.”
Rogers helped push country music farther into
pop music territory than it had ever been. He could
go deep country with songs like “The Gambler,”
“Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town” and
“Lucille,” but he also had crossover pop hits like
“Islands in the Stream” and “Lady,” foreshadowing today’s more pop-friendly country sounds.
Rogers remains a popular figure in the country
music world. Alison Krauss said of his induction,
“Justice has been done,” and Garth Brooks gives
him credit for taking him on the road on his first
major tour as an opening act: “If there was an
entertainer university, when it comes to Entertainer 101, I can vouch firsthand that Kenny Rogers
would be the professor of that class.”
Darius Rucker recalled a lifetime of being a fan of
the 75-year-old Rogers before singing “Lucille.”
“The thing I’ve always thought was crazy as a
kid was he was about the only guy where you flip
through the channels and you’d hear a Kenny
Rogers song and a Buck Owens song,” Rucker
said before the ceremony. “And then you’d flip to
another channel and you’d hear a Kenny Rogers
song and a Cheap Trick song would come after it.
He was that guy who was everywhere.”
Bare scored dozens of hits like “Dee-troit City”
and “How I Got to Memphis,” mining the work of
left-of-center Nashville songwriters like Tom T.
Hall, Kris Kristofferson and Shel Silverstein.
Though he was never really part of the so-called
outlaw movement in country music, he was close
friends with many artists who were and his insistence on controlling his own musical choices was
an inspiration for others like Waylon Jennings and
Willie Nelson.
“He has been responsible for a lot of things that
have happened in the country music business,”
singer John Anderson said. “I remember one day
I was talking to my old friend Waylon, and I asked
Waylon, ‘Man, what caused you to pack up and
move to Nashville?’ He said, ‘Hoss, Bobby Bare
had a whole lot to do with it.”’
Known also for his sense of humor, the 78-yearold Bare answered characteristically when asked
what being inducted means: “It means that I will
forever be referred to as a hall of famer. It sounds
real good.”
Clement’s resume as producer, songwriter, performer, inspiration, raconteur and bon vivant is too
lengthy to list, but he veered all across popular
music over the last half century. He was Sam
Phillips’ first producer-engineer at Sun Records in
Memphis. He wrote some of Johnny Cash’s early
hits, putting those unforgettable mariachi horns
on “Ring of Fire,” and was a repeated touchstone
for The Man in Black.
He helped Jerry Lee Lewis shape his proto-rock
approach and was at the soundboard for the recording of “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On.” Also
among his many career highlights was the discovery of Charley Pride and their 13-album association.
Clement found out in February that he would be
inducted into the hall of fame, about five months
before he passed away in August from liver cancer
at 82.
“We do have a message from Cowboy,” hall of
fame director and CEO Kyle Young said. “He says,
‘By all means, relax.”’
Two trumpeters then walked on stage and played
the horn intro to “Ring of Fire.”
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TV show boosts Sleepy Hollow tourism
SLEEPY HOLLOW, N.Y. (AP) — In the
real village of Sleepy Hollow, where the tour
guides say “Halloween is our Christmas,”
the fall season is even busier than usual,
thanks to a hit TV show that plays off the
legend of the Headless Horseman.
The new Fox series “Sleepy Hollow,”
which brings Ichabod Crane into the present
day with a save-the-world mission, has
fostered interest in Washington Irving’s
1819 short story, “The Legend of Sleepy
Hollow.” In the original, Crane is a skinny,
superstitious schoolmaster who has a nightmarish encounter with a decapitated Hessian soldier. It mentions several places in
modern-day Sleepy Hollow, located on the
Hudson River 25 miles north of New York
City.
One of them is the Old Dutch Church,
which Susan Laclair, of Granby, Conn.,
explored with her husband this month.
“We were watching the show, and I was
remembering the old story I’d read as a kid.
I love anything to do with history, and I said,
‘There’s a real Sleepy Hollow. Let’s go for
a few days.”’
Also in town was the Werner family of
Greenwood, Ind., which headed for Irving’s
gravesite at the historic Sleepy Hollow cemetery and planned to visit his home in nearby
Tarrytown. Christian Werner, 10, wore a
cemetery-appropriate skeleton T-shirt.
“We’ve always kind of wanted to come
here, and we love the TV show,” said his
mother, Jill Werner. She said her younger
son, 7-year-old Colin, planned to dress as
the Headless Horseman for Halloween back
home.
Anthony Giaccio, the village administrator, said, “We’ve always had people from all
over come to our Halloween events, but the
Fox show has really added to that.”
On the local tourism website, “every time
there’s a show, the hits spike, and we’re at
three times more than last year,” Giaccio
said.
The extra attention fits the village’s goal
of encouraging tourism to support a downtown that has struggled since General Motors closed an assembly plant in 1996. Later
that year, the village voted to change its
name from North Tarrytown to Sleepy
Hollow.
In 2006, on Halloween, an 18-by-18-foot
sculpture depicting the climax of Irving’s
story was installed alongside Route 9. With
a haunted Horseman’s Hollow at an 18thcentury mill and performances of the “Legend” at the Old Dutch Church, the village is
part of Historic Hudson Valley’s increasingly popular Halloween attractions.
Giaccio said the tourist season seems to be
getting longer, starting in mid-September
and stretching into mid-November, but the
village hopes to encourage people to visit at
other times of the year as well. A current TV
ad, created using a state grant, says Sleepy
Hollow “isn’t all about horror” — but the
characters intoning the phrase include the
Grim Reaper and a disembodied head.
Mark Goffman, an executive producer of
“Sleepy Hollow,” said Irving’s tale was
inspirational.
“Every Halloween I was read it as a kid,
and I have loved it,” he said. “The idea that
you can take this short story, which has
such iconic characters in it, and then recreate
it and reinvent it and involve the Revolution
and put it in modern times, all told it just
makes for a really epic kind of drama.”
Even apart from the time travel, many
liberties are taken on TV. To name just a few,
Ichabod Crane is handsome, there are several Starbucks in Sleepy Hollow and the
population is 144,000 instead of 10,000. An
upcoming episode will suggest a “blood tie”
between Crane and the Horseman, Goffman
said.
It all appears to be working. The debut
episode of “Sleepy Hollow” was Fox’s
most successful fall drama premiere since
“24” began in 2001, and the series was
renewed for a second season after just three
episodes.
“The short story is 17 pages long, and
we’re creating a show that will hopefully be
on for a very long time,” Goffman said. “So
we drew upon the short story as a basis and
really needed to mold it into something new
that people hadn’t seen before.”
“Sleepy Hollow” is shot in Wilmington,
N.C., but Goffman said he’d like to travel to
the real Sleepy Hollow for some scenes.
“We’re looking for story lines that will get
us up there,” he said. “It would be great to
take advantage of some of that iconic imagery.”
Malaysia bans concert by pop star Ke$ha
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Authorities in Muslim-majority Malaysia have banned a planned concert by U.S. pop singer Ke$ha after deciding
it would hurt cultural and religious sensitivities.
Concert organizer Livescape said it received a letter about the decision on
the eve of the show that was to be held Saturday at a Kuala Lumpur stadium.
The Ministry of Communications and Multimedia said separately that it was
rejecting the application for Ke$ha to perform for reasons of religion and
culture.
The ministry’s statement did not elaborate. Ke$ha, whose hits include “Tik
Tok” and “Die Young,” has songs that make explicit references to sex and
liquor.
Last month, Malaysian officials also barred a performance by American
metal band Lamb of God, accusing the Grammy-nominated group’s work of
being blasphemous.
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3rd Army recognizes its Medal of Honor recipients
SHAW AIR FORCE BASE, S.C. (AP)
— A new Hall of Heroes recognizes the
24 soldiers of the Third Army to receive
the Congressional Medal of Honor.
The hall at the Third Army’s headquarters at Shaw Air Force Base features 24
plaques detailing each recipient’s award.
The Item of Sumter reports that 23 of
the recipients fought in World War II.
The latest was honored for his bravery in
Iraq in 2003. Half of the recipients died in
the line of duty.
The three-star general in charge of the
Third Army, Lt. Gen. James Terry, presided over Friday’s ceremony.
The 3rd Army supplies and supports
U.S. land forces in 20 nations of the
Middle East and southwestern Asia. Its
troops are best known for the European
campaigns under Gen. George S. Patton
(pictured).
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Agency recommends national park for Cesar Chavez
By FELICIA FONSECA
Associated Press
The National Park Service is recommending that
Congress create a new historic park to honor farm
labor leader Cesar Chavez, one that would be made
up of four sites in California and a former Phoenix
church hall where the now-famous rallying cry “Si
se puede” was popularized.
The recommendation Thursday comes after years
of study on sites that are significant to the life of
Chavez and the U.S. farm labor movement. Congress authorized the study in 2008, and the Park
Service narrowed a list of about 100 sites to five to
become a multi-state national historic park.
Marc Grossman, Chavez’s longtime spokesman,
speech writer and personal aide, said including
sites in Arizona and California is fitting because it
recognizes the length and breadth of Chavez’s
labors.
As head of the United Farm Workers, the Arizona-born Chavez staged a massive grape boycott
and countless field strikes, and forced growers to
sign contracts providing better pay and working
conditions to the predominantly Latino
farmworkers. He was credited with inspiring millions of other Latinos in their fight for more educational opportunities, better housing and more
political power.
United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta
was at Chavez’s side in downtown Phoenix during
a 1972 fast that helped reshape Arizona’s political
landscape. Chavez and other UFW leaders had
been talking about an Arizona law that restricted
the rights of farmworkers to strike or boycott
crops.
The response from farm workers and other labor
leaders was one of defeat. Huerta responded by
saying that workers should focus on thinking
positively, saying: “Si se puede,” or “It can be
done.”
Ultimately, thousands of farm workers and supporters such as Coretta Scott King participated in
rallies and Masses in downtown Phoenix, giving
voice to the United Farm Workers slogan.
The Santa Rita Center, constructed as an extension of the Sacred Heart Church, is a small building
on an inner-city street near the airport. Chicanos
Por La Causa, an organization that traces its roots
to the activists who met there, opens it every so
often for events. But it sits vacant most of the time.
The Park Service’s recommendation is for the
agency to work through agreements with local
communities to educate the public not only on
Chavez, the farm labor movement and its organizers, but the art and music associated with it, and
contemporary struggles for human and labor rights,
said Martha Crusius, the project manager on a
study of sites significant to Chavez’s life.
The other sites in California are:
—Forty Acres National Historic Landmark in
Delano, home to the union hall where grape growers signed their first union contracts after five
years of grape strikes and boycotts. It’s also here
that Chavez held his other public fast, this one to
protest the use of pesticides. The building serves
as a field office for the United Farm Workers of
America.
—Filipino Community Hall in Delano became a
symbol of multi-ethnic unity during the 1960s,
serving as a joint headquarters for farm labor
movements led by Filipino organizer Larry Itliong
and Chavez.
—McDonnell Hall in San Jose is recognized as
the place where Chavez made his start as a commu-
nity organizer.
—Nuestra Senora Reina de la Paz in Keene
served as the planning and coordination center of
the UFW starting in 1971. It’s where Chavez and
many organizers lived, trained and strategized.
Chavez taught farmworkers how to write contracts
and negotiate with growers. President Barack
Obama last year designated part of this 187-acre
site, known more simply as “La Paz,” as the Cesar
E. Chavez National Monument.
Convincing Congress to designate the five sites
as a national historic park could be a tough sell.
“Not a lot is happening in Congress right now,
and it’s hard to get anything passed among the
deadlock between the two parties,” said Ron
Sundergill of the National Parks Conservation Association. “So, we’ll see.”
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