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But the only litigation I know of to spring from the 1975 game was a hunt for the Vikings fan who threw the whiskey bottle that hit official Armen Terzian in the head. (The fan later paid a $100 fine).
This being a more litigious time, however, folks in New Orleans are taking a different approach to the matter. On Tuesday, the first day since the game that courts were open, several lawsuits are expected to be filed.
The civil lawsuit asks that the commissioner invoke that power to call the teams back to the field with pass interference awarded to the Saints, giving them first and goal with 1:49 left.
While this is almost certainly going to generate nothing more than publicity and good will, it’s worth a shot. And filing a lawsuit while putting out a statement is probably cheaper than putting up 16 billboards in Atlanta — site of the Super Bowl — in protest.
*Seth Stohs notes that the Twins used an image of Willians Astudillo among five players in a promotional tweet encouraging fans to buy tickets in 2019. Is that a subtle hint that he’s going to make the roster? PLEASE SAY YES.
*Steph Curry is one of the best basketball players on this planet, but for a few seconds on Monday he looked like an absolutely clueless recreation league player.
*The Wild has a 60 percent chance of making the playoffs after back-to-back wins. It’s a good year to be in the West and not the East.
Police have launched a manhunt after a vicious assault in The Drapery.
A manhunt is underway after a group repeatedly kicked a man in the head outside a Northampton town centre McDonald's last night.
The attackers, all male, attacked the 18-year-old victim some time between 2.50am and 3.15am yesterday (Thursday, March 22).
He was knocked unconscious and repeatedly kicked in the head.
The gang then carried out a second attack while the victim was lying on the ground being attended to by members of the public. They ran off up towards Abington Street.
All the suspects were black, aged in their late teens or early 20s and were wearing dark coats and trousers.
One of them was wearing a distinctive dark-coloured jumper with a light-coloured horizontal band across the body of the jumper.
Anyone with information should call Northamptonshire Police on 101 or call Crimestoppers, in confidence, on 0800 555111.
FRESH PAINT for @damonwise1, @jonbuckley123 & @wise_buck \| first of what may some day be referred to as The Meat Period at Limelight.
I thought snack was my favorite term until I got a copy of Wise Buck Smoked Meats menu. Now I know the truth, snack boats is my fave. It may have been snack boats all along.
That's just the start of Wise Buck's offerings, the first restaurant to be revealed from chef Damon Wise and partner Jonathan Buckley who are opening three total concepts — concepts on concepts, y'all — at 23 Ann St. Their other two restaurants, Scarecrow and Feathertop, are also expected to open soon.
In a press release, Wise says, “This is our most laid-back and casual concept. We kept every kind of eater in mind when developing the menu and think people are really going to enjoy what we’ve come up with.” Wise Buck will unlock its doors tomorrow at 11 a.m. As the restaurant name would suggest, the smoked-meat menu appears to take a page out of Artisan Meat Share's book with a list of hearty sandwiches and cuts of meat by the pound. There's also a list of sides like charred zucchini and smoked corn on the cob, which, based on an instagram pic Wise posted recently, looks pretty damn good.
With the restaurant opening directly across from the Children's Museum of the Lowcountry, the partners had to have some sweets for the kids too. There are three desserts included.
These were just some of the words used by Jersey City officials and developer KRE Group at the groundbreaking ceremony this morning for "Journal Squared," a massive, three-tower project at the heart of the city which, upon completion, will boast the tallest residential building in New Jersey.
"This project which we're undertaking today is truly a transformative project -- transformative for this wonderful city of Jersey City, and for the state of New Jersey," said Murray Kushner, KRE Group chairman, before a gathering of about 100 people. "The design, the scale, the scope of this project, and the importance of this project to restoring the historical significance of Journal Square are self-evident."
The project, which is located between Magnolia, Pavonia, and Summit Avenues, just east of the Port Authority transportation hub, will include a 54-story tower with 538 units; a 70-story tower with 700 units; and a 60-story tower with 600 units. The project received a 30-year tax abatement from the city last November.
Once completed, the 70-story tower is expected to be the tallest residential building in New Jersey, according to Hollwich Kushner's website, surpassing the 55-story Trump Tower Residences in Downtown Jersey City, which opened in 2008.
This morning, in a large tent just a few feet away from a crater in the ground where construction workers audibly went about their work, Murray Kushner; his son and KRE President Jonathan Kushner; Jeff Kanne, president and CEO of the National Real Estate Advisors; Dan Gumble, business manager of IBEW Local Union 164; Pat Kelleher, president of Hudson County Building Trades; Jeff Persky, executive vice president of the KRE Group; and Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop spoke about the project, thanking each other and all the parties involved in making Journal Squared possible.
In his speech, Fulop said KRE was the first developer who decided decades ago to venture away from the waterfront and begin developing other parts of Jersey City, citing luxury residential complex Grove Pointe as an example.
"You can see today that has blazed a trail for development far beyond there," he said. "This project, behind us, is really going to change Jersey City and change Journal Square."
"We have made it a priority to get actual buildings going up in Journal Square," Fulop told The Jersey Journal shortly afterward. "This is the first one coming out in decades. It's a big day for Journal Square. It's a game changer, and I couldn't be more excited about it."
When he spoke, Kanne talked about the jobs that the massive project will generate.
"We're also proud that this new development will generate much-needed jobs for the people of New Jersey," he said. "We believe this project will spark a renaissance in the Journal Square neighborhood similar to what downtown Jersey City has already experienced, with increased economic activity and numerous new employment opportunities benefiting not only new residents, but the community as a whole."
The overall development of Journal Squared is expected to create more than 700 construction and about 20 permanent jobs, according to a press release.
The development's phase I tower, the 53-story tower, is expected to be complete by 2016, while the second phase, the 70-story tower, will be finished five years after the first tower is built, Jonathan Kushner previously told The Jersey Journal.
Journal Squared will comprise a total of 1,838 rental residences and 36,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space, according to a press release.
The project will also bring in a new pedestrian-friendly public plaza, at the heart of which will be an open space courtyard lined with trees, greenery and seating to encourage social interaction, the release stated.
The 53-story tower currently under construction will offer 538 studios as well as one-, two-, and three-bedroom rentals with upscale finishes and appointments, plus "stunning views" of the Hudson River, Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island and downtown Manhattan, according to the release.
Residents of the tower will have access to over 10,000 square feet of amenities in the building, including the entire eighth floor, the release stated. Those amenities will include an outdoor swimming pool, full-service fitness center, golf simulator and a children's playroom. A 2,000 square-foot space on the 53rd floor will also serve as an entertainment space.
Monday, Feb. 11, 2019, 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Here's your chance to learn pizza secrets. We'll be tossing the dough, blending toppings and tipping back wine during this fun and informative happy hour cooking adventure. And of course, there will be cheese - lots of cheese.
Feb. 11, 2019 @ 6:05 a.m.
Do you guys have any impressions after today's event? I, as always, find out everything at the last moment. Tell me later whether to visit this.
Gut Check: The Microbiome Game now available for purchase – microBEnet: the microbiology of the Built Environment network.
So 18 months after we released the free, print-at-home version of Gut Check: The Microbiome game we finally have a commercial version! The game is available from MOBIO Laboratories here, for the very reasonable price of $20 with free shipping. For a really nice write-up about the game, check out this blog post from Anne Estes.
and, more likely, in unintended ways. ...The calls for greater transparency and the development of strategies for increasing inter-university comparisons are on the horizon. As for department chairs or other administrators, what are the implications of this reformation in our daily work and future strategic planning?
The posting below looks at the accountability movement in higher education and how it will impact department chairs. It is by by David J. Malik, former chair of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and currently Chancellor's Professor at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and N. Douglas Lees, chair of the Department of Biology at Indiana University- Purdue University Indianapolis and author of Chairing Academic Departments(Anker, 2006). They can be reached at: dmalik@iupui.edu, nlees@iupui.edu.
The article appeared in The Department Chair: A Resource for Academic Administrators, Winter 2009, Vol. 19, No. 3. For further information on how to subscribe, as well as pricing and discount information, please contact, Sandy Quade, Account Manager, John Wiley & Sons, Phone: (203) 643-8066 (squadepe@wiley.com). or see: http://www.josseybass.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-DCH.html Reprinted with permission.
inter-university comparisons are on the horizon. As for department chairs or other administrators, what are the implications of this reformation in our daily work and future strategic planning?
In addition to the continuing saga of increasing collegiate costs that in most cases exceed inflation rates, the routine question is: Can our students deal effectively with the challenges of an increasingly competitive market-place while adjusting to our changing global society? Although American higher education has enjoyed a commanding lead in degree attainment over the rest of the world, a recent report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development indicates that our global degree attainment rank has declined significantly. There are many reasons for these changes,including a shift in the demographic pro- file of the populations entering higher education and declines in public funding for the academy, but we are nonetheless seen as being caught and surpassed by other nations. This has drawn the attention of many stakeholders,including legislators and leaders.
The U.S. Department of Education through the Spellings Commission has suggested several aggressive proposals, all within the context of changing the legislation governing our institutions. The Federal Higher Education Act will soon be reauthorized (if it hasn't been already). Questions are raised: Will the U.S. Department of Education remain satisfied with quality assurance or will it demand further accountability from colleges and universities? Will cost containment be put in place or will there be tuition controls? The initial efforts from both the White House and the Department of Education suggest pressure on all fronts.
Accountability has many faces, most of which have become routine: learning outcomes, assessment of student performance, costs of education,performance metrics at individual colleges,accessibility of information by the publics,and so on.There will be direct institutional comparisons of student success, skill development, and value added. Several systems have been proposed to accomplish transparency in these dimensions. For example, the Voluntary System of Accountability has been endorsed by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities and the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges. This system would involve the posting of institutional performance data on web sites, through a "Collegiate Portrait" system,and through other venues available to the public at large. All of this is to help students and families make comparisons among similar institutions in costs, quality, student success, and learning.While it is too early to predict the exact nature of the new expectations one can safely assume that academic chairs and their faculties and staff will be involved in generating measures of student performance and learning outcomes,student data,and appropriate interpretation of results.
The Collegiate Portrait system is a web-based "exposé"that includes an array of information for potential students and their families. The format of the information would be identical across all institutions within a group, thus allowing for direct comparisons. Groupings would reflect different institutional types. For example, small liberal arts colleges could be a group and regional public campuses might be another. Examples of information displayed would be measures of student success-perhaps first-year retention rates,four- or six-year graduation rates, average GPA data for graduates or by class, graduate or professional schools' admissions rates, and the like. There would also be cost entries including tuition and mandatory fees and perhaps policies on course retakes, guaranteed tuition caps, refunds, and other items with a fiscal consequence.
Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA), ETS Measure of Academic Proficiency and Progress, or the ACT Collegiate Assessment of Academic Proficiency will be used to evaluate the intellectual and critical thinking skills enhanced through matriculation at your institution. The CLA asks students to generate a written response in support of an argument and to provide a written critique of an argument in support of a position. A second component of CLA tests students' ability to think, reason, and solve problems in written form. A multifaceted problem or issue is posed and students must arrive at a solution that is supported by the information provided. This assignment is accompanied by several supporting documents or other potentially relevant information.Students are rated in critical thinking, analytic reasoning, and written communication. Student progress is measured from an entry test taken upon matriculation, and then through a senior-year exam. That would be the value added by attending your campus.
So, what does this all mean to us? Well, we may be forced to review how we educate, how we elevate students' critical thinking skills, and how analytical and quantitative tools complete the arsenal of techniques for students to enter the knowledge-based workforce in their futures. Moreover,students will be polled long after graduation to assess their education. Clearly, we will need to be a part of this growing conversation.We will need to be aware and informed oft he implications (intended or not) of these potential actions. In addition, we will need to help shape a cogent institutionalization of these measures to ensure that the major beneficiaries are indeed our students.
Toward this end, we have several suggestions for department chairs to consider and to begin conversations in your departments. You should keep in mind: change brings opportunities for proactivism; opportunities to develop leaders to address and revise our work are essential;and cooperation with elements of change improves communication with our faculty and students.
staff, their engagement can be helpful and productive.
* Familiarize yourself with traditional and emerging models and structures for the College Portrait system and how departmental data match metrics.
* Prepare to assemble a team to address the departmental role in the accountability and local impact.
* Begin conversations that engage faculty with the new work as a valuable component in the department.
* Foster a culture of scholarly expectation around the new accountability that fits your culture and disciplinary mission.
* Anticipate changes in the curriculum,structure them to fit your priorities,and incorporate them gradually.
* Start departmental data collection on student success early to be ready with improvements and further innovation.
* Establish good leadership to foster reflection in achieving your teaching and learning missions and to balance with the scholarship objectives of faculty.
WORCESTER Huynh, Chieu Thi, 76. Funeral service 10 a.m. Monday, November 30, 2009, Mass in Our Lady of Vilna Church, 151 Sterling St. Funeral Home: O'Connor Brothers Funeral Home, 592 Park Avenue.
WORCESTER O'Keefe, Susan E. (Russell), 50. Funeral service 11 a.m. Monday, November 30, 2009, Mass in Blessed Sacrament Church, 555 Pleasant St., Worcester. Funeral Home: Athy Memorial Home, 111 Lancaster St., Worcester.
BROOKFIELD Woodard, Richard W., 70. Funeral service 10 a.m. Monday, November 30, 2009, in the funeral home followed by a burial in Broofield Cemetery. Funeral Home: Pilllsbury Funeral Home, Rte 9, Old West Broofield Rd., Broofield.
LEICESTER Benoit, Roy F., 78. Funeral service 10 a.m. Monday, November 30, 2009, Bethel Lutheran Church, 90 Bryn Mawr Ave., Auburn. Funeral Home: Britton-Wallace Funeral Home, 91 Central St., Auburn.
NORTHBRIDGE Wiersma, Kenneth G., 72. Funeral service 10 a.m. Monday, November 30, 2009, at the funeral home. Funeral Home: Buma Funeral Home, 480 Church St., Whitinsville.
SHREWSBURY Mattero, Joseph M., Sr.. Funeral service 10 a.m. Monday, November 30, 2009, Mass in St. Anne Church, 130 Boston Turnpike Rd., Shrewsbury. Funeral Home: Mercadante Funeral Home & Chapel, 370 Plantaiton St., Worcester.
SHREWSBURY Zamarro, Nancy H. (Subolosky), 63. Funeral service 11 a.m. Monday, November 30, 2009, Mass in Saint Mary's Church, 640 Main St., Shrewsbury. Funeral Home: Mercadante Funeral Home & Chapel, 370 Plantation St., Worcester.
SOUTHBRIDGE Wayland, James N., 59. Funeral service 11 a.m. Monday, November 30, 2009, Memorial service at the funeral home, burial to follow at St. Mary's Cemetery, Uxbridge. Funeral Home: Tancrell-Jackman Funeral Home, 35 Snowling Rd., Uxbridge.
WE NEED THIS RELATIONSHIP, WORLD.
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IT WAS the most salacious rumor in Hollywood – but Judy Lewis was kept in the dark.
For more than 30 years, the California woman believed she was the adopted daughter of screen siren Loretta Young. Then she discovered her mother’s lie. She was the secret love child of the actress – and her married beau Clark Gable.
Young, a devout Catholic, concealed the birth of her daughter to preserve her squeaky-clean Hollywood image – then adopted her a year later in an elaborate ruse.
“I spent most of life feeling like I was illegitimate,” Lewis told The Post from her Los Angeles home.
This weekend, Lewis, now 65, will finally gain some legitimacy – she will be introduced at a “Gone with the Wind” symposium as Clark Gable’s natural daughter.
At 22, Young became pregnant by Gable, then 34. The two had fallen madly in love although Gable was married to his second wife, Rhea Langham.
When Young found out she was pregnant, she was devastated.
To salvage her career, Young devised a cunning plan to conceal her love-child’s birth. She told everyone she was going on a tour of Europe, and then when she came home, she claimed she was exhausted and spent most of her time in bed.
WHEN Judy was born, she was sent to a Catholic orphanage. A year later, Young – using a Hollywood reporter – said she was trying to adopt two little girls from the Catholic orphanage. Later, she claimed one of the adoptions had fallen through.
In 1935, Young publicly presented Lewis as her adopted child. Rumors started to fly that Young had concealed her pregnancy and that Gable was the father.
Young forced Gable to stay quiet.
“She kept him at a distance, even though he wanted to be with her. He told her he would get a divorce and marry her. She said her greatest regret was not marrying him,” Lewis said.
A few years after Judy’s birth, Young married a radio producer named Tom Lewis. Judy took his name. Their relationship was tumultuous.
“He never really liked me. He was more interested in the two sons he had with my mother. I became a stranger in my own family,” Lewis recalled.
The outcast grew up asking her mother about her birth parents, but the brilliant actress always created a diversion.
Everyone was aware of the “love child” accusations, except for Lewis, who was made to believe that she was abandoned at birth.
“When I tell you that everyone knew, I mean everyone,” she said.
Even her teenage boyfriend, Jack Haley Jr., suspected Lewis’ real identity. He wanted so badly to tell her – on the day she received a bizarre and random visit by Gable himself.
ONE day, 15-year-old Lewis came home to find the screen idol in her living room. The actor had just filmed “Gone with the Wind,” and Lewis thought he was there to see her mother because they had worked together.
“He was like a God. I couldn’t believe that he wanted to sit and talk to me. We talked for maybe half an hour about school, my favorite subjects, boys, ballet class. When he got up to go, I walked him to the door and he kissed me on the forehead.
Lewis never saw him again. Years later, when the secret was out, Haley told her he was devastated not to be able to tell her that night that Gable was her father.
“I didn’t think about him until I was about to get married and I learned my true identity,” Lewis said sadly.
When Lewis was in her early 20s, she was about to marry a young businessman and realized she didn’t have a birth certificate. She told her fiancé she couldn’t marry him because she didn’t know who she was.
Stunned by the extraordinary news, it took Lewis another six years to confront her mother.
“She was about to take a trip around the world, and I flew to California to see her. I finally got the nerve to ask her after dinner. I demanded I be told the truth.
She never reunited with her father. Gable suffered a heart attack and died before Lewis got up the nerve to visit him. She was terrified he’d reject her.
Lewis said she kept close with her mother until she died last August – just before she told her authorized biographer Lewis was her biological daughter.
Lewis, a former soap star and Broadway actress, said her family tribulations have inspired her to take up a career in family counseling. She’s a psychologist working with foster families and pregnant teens.
“I’ve had a fabulous education for it,” she said.

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