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Saturday, August 20, 2011

Washington Post News Alert: Breaking News: Verizon workers end strike

News Alert: Breaking News: Verizon workers end strike
August 20, 2011 1:56:48 PM
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Verizon workers' two-week strike has ended, and tens of thousands of workers will return to work Tuesday, The Communication Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers said Saturday.

In a statement, the two unions said negotiations over contract givebacks will continue.

http://link.email.washingtonpost.com/r/7CWL7Z/NSLBUH/Y65857/OM7UQC/F21AG/50/h

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Anchorage Daily News Daily Briefing for Saturday, August 20, 2011


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PHOTOS: GREEK FESTIVAL 2011
Stavroula Mousouli of Athens, Greece, left, and locals Mary Pennino and daughter Sofia, 1, enjoy watching volunteers amuse themselves with a dance at the 17th annual Greek Festival Friday afternoon August 19, 2011 at Holy Transfiguration Greek Orthodox Church on O'Malley Road in south Anchorage. The annual fundraiser runs through Sunday, and features live music, dancing, food including traditional desserts, items imported from Greece and church tours.

It's time to put your Greek on

The 17th annual Greek Festival at Holy Transfiguration Greek
Orthodox Church on O'Malley Road runs through Sunday
and features music, dance, food (including traditional desserts),
items imported from Greece and church tours.

top stories

Irksome math program could face changes
Superintendent Carol Comeau said Friday she is more open to the 
idea of replacing the controversial Everyday Mathematics program 
in elementary schools after a critical consultants' report 
and the discussions that followed.
Teen sees music as means of preserving Native languages
State decided to leave punished boy in home

alaska

Judge drops hindering charge in Fairbanks murder plot case
Fairbanks man sentenced for running red light, killing cyclist

money

Unions join conservationists protesting Canada-US oil line Alaska business people

sports

South slips past Bartlett
Record silver salmon landed in Southeast Alaska

life

Teen sees music as means of preserving Native languages
Alyson McCarty speaks Latin. She knows a little Greek and few words of Spanish. 
But when the 14-year-old sings, she sings in her mother's language of Yup'ik.

opinion

Two easy ACES changes could ensure future oil production
I join Alaskans celebrating the recent news that there is expected to be more exploratory 
drilling this winter on the North Slope than in decades.

outdoors

Record silver salmon landed in Southeast Alaska
Rising river traps two men retracing 'Into the Wild' trek

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Keys Net - Weekly Newsletter for August 20, 2011


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  • There is a wonderful variety of fish and fishing available during August in the areas of the Upper Keys.
  • What had been a very good dolphin bite over the weekend seems to have petered out the past couple of days, according to the most recent reports I've received from charter captains. Taking up the slack is blackfin tuna at the humps.
  • A mix of the good and the bad this past week as we watched Emily fizzle out but still ended up with some thunderstorms as the system passed by. With most people looking for bugs on the reef, anglers fishing offshore and in the backcountry faced relatively barren fishing grounds and enjoyed some fantastic summertime fishing.
Saturday, August 20, 2011

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Police: Man Dead, Woman Injured in 'Domestic Incident' in Carroll County and more from Westminster Patch


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Police: Man Dead, Woman Injured in 'Domestic Incident' in Carroll County

Valerie Bonk | Aug 19, 2011 | 0 Comments

imageA man is dead following what police called a "domestic incident" in Westminster Friday.

Carroll County Library Circulation One of Highest in the Nation

Valerie Bonk | Aug 19, 2011 | 0 Comments

imageThe Carroll County Library System ranked 12th on the report by the American Library Association.

Verizon Business Strike Temporarily Prevented Maryland 511 Calls, SHA Says

Alexander Pyles | Aug 19, 2011 | 0 Comments

imageThe Verizon Business workers' strike prevented work from starting on the Verizon lines, so Maryland 511 didn't work for some until Friday morning.

Top Movies This Week in Westminster

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imageHere are the top Redbox movie rentals in Westminster.

Fire Marshal: Sprinkler System Saved Carroll County Home

Kym Byrnes | Aug 19, 2011 | 0 Comments

imageFire Marshal attributes control of the fire and family's safety to sprinkler system.

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New information from the USDA Economic Research Service

New information from the USDA Economic Research Service

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Thursday, August 18, 2011

In 1915, ice cream store prohibition was tough on teachers

In 1915, ice cream store prohibition was tough on teachers

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Treasury Receives $2 Billion TARP Repayment from American International Group (AIG)

Treasury Receives $2 Billion TARP Repayment from American International Group (AIG)



WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced that it had received an additional repayment from American International Group (AIG) of $2.15 billion funded through the proceeds from the previously announced sale of AIG’s Nan Shan life insurance subsidiary. The proceeds were used to pay back the U.S. taxpayers’ investment in AIG through the redemption of an equal portion of Treasury’s preferred equity interests in AIA Aurora LLC, a subsidiary of AIG. 
 
“This is another important milestone in AIG’s remarkable turnaround,” said Assistant Secretary for Financial Stability Tim Massad. “We continue to make progress in recovering the taxpayers’ investments in AIG.” 
 
During the financial crisis, the U.S. Government's support for AIG totaled approximately $180 billion.
 
After today’s repayment, the U.S. Government’s remaining outstanding investment in AIG through Treasury is $51 billion. In addition, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has loans to Maiden Lane II and III ($18.8 billion, including principal and accrued interest outstanding). These Federal Reserve Bank of New York loans are collateralized by assets with value well in excess of the outstanding loan balances ($31.7 billion).
 
Overall, Treasury has received $313 billion in repayments and other income from its TARP investments – more than 76 percent of the $412 billion disbursed under the program to date.   
 
Background on Treasury Investment in AIG
 
In January 2011, AIG completed a recapitalization transaction which resulted in AIG repaying all the outstanding loans provided by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.  Also at that time, Treasury received 1.655 billion shares of AIG common stock (approximately 92 percent of AIG’s outstanding common stock) and $20.4 billion in preferred equity interests in AIG. Since then Treasury has sold 200 million shares of AIG for proceeds of $5.8 billion and AIG has made payments to Treasury, including the repayment announced today, of $11.4 billion on the preferred equity interests.
 
For additional background:
 
Treasury Announces Pricing of AIG Common Stock, May 24, 2011
 
Treasury Announces Completion of the American International Group Recapitalization Transaction, January 14, 2011
 

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Top Posts on TIME's Swampland: The Next Greatest Generation

Top Posts on TIME's Swampland: The Next Greatest Generation


Posted: 18 Aug 2011 05:23 AM PDT
In a way, I’ve been working on this week’s cover story–which sadly resides behind the Time paywall–for the past five years, as I’ve embedded with our troops downrange. Watching them in the field, I’ve noticed that they’ve had to learn some new and unusual skills–skills that are extremely well-suited for public service. We hear a [...]
Posted: 18 Aug 2011 05:20 AM PDT
Presidential campaigns are all about the future, yet they take place in the present and rest upon the past. A candidate’s record, and performance in debates and on the trail, are what a voter has to go on. So the records of the Republican candidates when it comes to fiscal responsibility matter, especially in a [...]
Posted: 18 Aug 2011 05:19 AM PDT
In the latest issue of TIME, now available to subscribers on tablets and the web, Republican John E. Sununu argues the debt debate and subsequent S&P downgrade have critically damaged President Obama’s re-election effort, while Mark Halperin makes the case that Rick Perry’s entrance into the presidential race has things looking up for the White [...]
Posted: 18 Aug 2011 03:44 AM PDT
I was flattered to learn from Joe Klein’s Aug. 15 column in TIME that Barack Obama is reading my book ­Nixonland. The book is about the “separate and irreconcilable fears” over the past 50 years that came to define the increasingly acrimonious cohabitation of Americans on the left and on the right. I assume Obama [...]
Posted: 17 Aug 2011 07:58 AM PDT
On Sunday in Memphis, Tavis Smiley, the talk-show host, and Cornel West, the Princeton professor, closed a 16-city bus tour intended to draw attention to some of the rarely discussed aspects of the economic crisis: The poverty rate is 14.3%, the highest since the mid-1990s. A record 45.8 million people receive food stamps. “Poverty and [...]

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