Chicago to Play the Wicomico Youth & Civic Center on Saturday, October 17

SALISBURY, Md. - Hailed as one of the "most important bands in music since the dawn of the rock and roll era" by former President Bill Clinton, the legendary rock and roll band with horns, Chicago, will play the Wicomico Youth & Civic Center on Saturday, October 17 at 8 p.m. Tickets go on sale Friday, September 11 at 10 a.m. at the Wicomico Youth & Civic Center Box Office, online at www.WicomicoCivicCenter.org and by phone at 410-548-4911.

Chicago came in at #13, the highest charting American band in Billboard Magazine's list of Top 100 artists of all time. And Chicago is the first American rock band to chart Top 40 albums in six decades.

Chicago's album, Chicago Transit authority, was inducted into the GRAMMY Hall Of Fame in 2014, and that year, the band performed on the Grammy stage for the first time, playing four songs with Grammy nominee Robin Thicke.

In 2014, a record of new studio tracks, “NOW” CHICAGO XXXVI, was released on July 8, 2014 on Frontiers Records. It includes eleven brand new songs, recorded on the road. Chicago has built a new recording system that is flexible, portable, powerful and musical. This new “recording rig” travels with the band. They have even created an online collaboration portal that allows even more performances to be worked on around the clock from remote locations. The CD package is a six-panel digipack with a beautiful 16-page full color lyric booklet.

Also in 2014, Chicago performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for the first time ever, and also played with numerous Symphony Orchestras across the country.

Lifetime achievements include a Grammy Award, multiple American Music Awards, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, a Chicago street dedicated in their honor, and keys to and proclamations from an impressive list of US cities. Record sales top the 100,000,000 mark, and include 21 Top 10 singles, 5 consecutive Number One albums, 11 Number One singles and 5 Gold singles. An incredible 25 of their 36 albums have been certified platinum, and the band has a total of 47 gold and platinum awards.

Chicago have toured every year since the beginning - they’ve never missed a year.

The line-up includes original band members Robert Lamm on keyboards, vocals, Lee Loughnane on trumpet, James Pankow on trombone and Walt Parazaider on woodwinds, as well as Jason Scheff on bass, vocals, Tris Imboden on drums, Keith Howland on guitar, Lou Pardini on keyboards, vocals and Walfredo Reyes, Jr. on percussion.

For the past four years, Chicago have raised over a quarter of a million dollars to fight breast cancer for the American Cancer Society by having a winning bidder come on stage and sing “If You Leave Me Now” in concert. The band has been doing it in honor of their friend, Paqui Kelly, the wife of Notre Dame head football coach Brian Kelly, who is a breast cancer survivor.

Chicago generously support other charitable causes, donating a portion of ticket sales to the Ara Parseghian Medical Research Foundation, which seeks a cure for a fatal children’s disease, Niemann-Pick Type C, and Hannah & Friends, an organization that serves children and adults with special needs. Hannah & Friends is the personal mission of Maura Weis and her husband, Charlie Weis, the current coach at the University of Kansas.

From the signature sound of the Chicago horns, their iconic Vocalists, and a few dozen of ever- Classic Songs, this band’s concerts are celebrations. The band is now in their 48th consecutive year of touring, without missing a single concert date!

Chicago continue to be true ambassadors for their beloved hometown, carrying the city's name with pride and dignity around the world.

Some of Chicago’s hits:

Make Me Smile

Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?

25 or 6 to 4

Saturday In The Park

Beginnings

Questions 67 and 68

Just You 'N' Me

Feelin' Stronger Every Day

If You Leave Me Now

Old Days

Baby, What A Big Surprise

Hard Habit To Break

You're The Inspiration

Colour My World

I'm A Man

Free

Call On Me

Dialogue (Part I and II)

Look Away

Wake Up Sunshine

Happy Man

(I've Been) Searchin' So Long

Hard To Say I'm Sorry

Another Rainy Day In New York City

14 Years Ago, Tonight

JetBlue Offering Deals As Low As $49 Making The End Of Summer Less Painful

JetBlue is inviting you to "fall head over deals" this week with a two-day sale, with fares as low as $54. All you have to do is book a flight by Wednesday, September 9, 2015.

The sale applies to travel from September 22, 2015 to December 16, 2015. Some epic deals we've found so far are a $49 flight from Charleston to Washington, DC, a $54 flightfrom Boston to Philadelphia and a $149 flight from Fort Lauderdale to San Francisco. Other great deals include Orlando to Nassau for $149, Sacramento to Long Beach for $79 and Chicago to San Juan for $189. To find even more great deals, check out the sale here.

When booking your trip, just make sure to remember that the travel dates are from September 22 to December 16 for Monday through Thursday and Saturday travel only. Certain blackout dates also apply: October 12 and November 20-December 1, 2015 for all cities and November 4-November 9, 2015 at all New York city-based airports. Just make sure to buy your ticket ASAP, because all deals end tomorrow.

Happy booking!

Heavy Welfare Use by Legal Immigrants — Yes, Legal Immigrants

Two new reports from the Center for Immigration Studies show very high rates of welfare use by immigrants. The first, released last week, looked at all immigrant households, legal and illegal, and found that 51 percent accessed one or more welfare programs. 

This week we released a second report, looking at the same data but separating out legal and illegal immigrants. While we found that illegal-immigrant households make significant use of welfare, here I want to focus on the far bigger problem of legal immigrants’ welfare use. Three-quarters of all immigrant households using welfare are headed by legal immigrants. Legal immigration is a discretionary policy that is supposed to benefit the country; we can allow in or keep out anyone we want. Yet our current legal-immigration system has produced a flow of immigrants in which a large share cannot support themselves or their children.

To study immigrant welfare use, we used the Census Bureau’s Survey of Income and Program Participation. Like other researchers, we identified legal and illegal immigrants based on various questions in the survey. We estimated that 49 percent of households headed by legal immigrants used one or more welfare programs in 2012, compared with 30 percent of households headed by the native-born. Legal immigrants have significantly higher use rates than native-born households overall and for cash programs, food programs, and Medicaid; use of housing programs is about the same as for natives. Among legal-immigrant households with children, the rate of welfare use is an astonishing 72 percent. There is no evidence that these numbers represent fraud; instead, they represent a profound problem with the selection criteria we use to admit legal immigrants.

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Hungarian TV camerawoman fired for kicking fleeing migrants

A Hungarian TV camerawoman was fired Tuesday after footage appeared to show her kicking migrants, including children, as they ran from a police line during disturbances at Roszke, southern Hungary.

The woman, later named as Petra Laszlo, can be seen tripping a man sprinting with a child in his arms, and kicking another running child in two separate incidents.

Footage of the incident from the camerawoman's perspective later appeared on N1TV, an internet-based TV station close to Hungary's far-right Jobbik party.

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6th Annual Chefs for Habitat Culinary Celebration

Please join Habitat for Humanity of Wicomico County for our

6th Annual Chefs for Habitat Culinary Celebration

Date: September 19, 2015 at 5:30

Location: Dove Pointe

1225 Mount Hermon Road

Salisbury, MD 21801

Tickets: $75 per ticket

Sponsorships: start at $250 and include event tickets!

Extraordinary chefs will prepare samplings of their signature dish to be shared with our guests.  The evening  will consist of  the live music, a lively waiters race, and chances to bid on an array of Live and Silent Auction prizes featuring sumptuous dinners and parties catered by some of the Shore’s best chefs.

For more information contact our office: 410-546-1551

Tourist dies after 300-metre cliff fall in Norway while having photo taken

An Australian exchange student has fallen to her death from a popular cliff tourist hotspot in Norway.

Kristi Kafcaloudis, 24, was posing for a photograph at Trolltunga, or 'Troll's Tongue', on Saturday when she fell 300 metres to her death.

The site is visited by thousands of tourists and famously has no safety rail, despite being so high up.

Kristi, originally from Melbourne, was an arts and science degree student who had started studying at the University of Bergen in Norway last month, reports the BBC.

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Gorgeous rainbow this evening over Route 90

Gorgeous rainbow this evening over Route 90. Photo by Sue Walter

Posted by The Dispatch on Thursday, September 10, 2015

Expansion coming to Ocean Downs

Details were sparse on the specifics, but the Casino at Ocean Downs on Tuesday began work on an expansion project, the purpose of which remains undefined.

General Manager Joe Cavilla confirmed the work was under way.

“The foundation for the expansion building construction did start this morning,” he said Tuesday. “It is the shell for the building expansion, and all we’re doing right now is foundations and the actual shell of the building itself.”

Cavilla said there was no announcement on what the interior of the building would hold, adding that it was still “to be determined.”

“It is an expansion to the existing building,” he said. “It’ll tie in to the existing casino building, but as far as what the interior would hold, we’re not prepared to release that at this point.”
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Pastor Outed In Ashley Madison Hack Commits Suicide

“He talked about depression. He talked about having his name on there, and he said he was just very, very sorry.”

John Gibson, a 56-year-old pastor who taught at the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary was found dead by his wife, Christi, on August 24 in their on-campus home.

Gibson had committed suicide, his family said.

“It was a moment that life doesn't prepare you for,” Christi told CNN this week. “I had to call my kids. How do you tell your kids that their dad is gone and that he took his own life?”

Less than a week before, Gibson had been one of the more than 30 million people whose names were leaked by hackers of Ashley Madison, the hookup website for people seeking extramarital affairs.

Christi said that being outed “carried such a shame” for her husband.

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Barbershop Slapped with $750 Fine for Refusing to Cut Woman's Hair

A high-end gentleman’s barbershop in Pennsylvania has been slapped with a $750 fine for refusing to give a woman a haircut.

Barbiere owner John Interval was fined for gender discrimination after a woman came in with her boyfriend and requested a fade haircut. Interval claims that his staff recommended other locations and offered to pay for her haircut elsewhere.

According to Interval, his barbershop is a place where men go to be around other men. He referred to it as “a little getaway,” which features complimentary spirits and beer on tap.

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Why solar energy is poised for yet another record year

The U.S. solar industry is on course for a new growth record in 2015, according to a new report that finds that solar photovoltaic installations now exceed 20 gigawatts in capacity and could surpass an unprecedented 7 gigawatts this year alone across all segments. A gigawatt is equivalent to 1 billion watts and can power some 164,000 homes, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA).

The new report, from GTM Research and SEIA, covers the second quarter of 2015, which set a new record for residential rooftop solar installations in particular, a category that saw 70 percent year-over-year growth. 473 megawatts of residential solar capacity were installed, or nearly half a gigawatt.

“It’s setting records every quarter,” says Shayle Kann, senior vice president of GTM Research and lead author of the report, of the residential segment.

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Oregon Police Chief, Who Allegedly Compared African Americans to Monkeys, Resigns

Marvin Hoover, the head of the Clatskanie force, had been on administrative leave pending an investigation into claims that he began imitating a monkey as he was told of a black woman’s complaints against him.

An Oregon police chief who was placed on administrative leave amid a racial controversy has resigned. He had reportedly made racist remarks on learning that a black woman threatened to file a discrimination lawsuit.

According to KOIN, Clatskanie Police Chief Marvin Hoover had been on administrative leave since August after Officer Dustin Stone, a member of the Police Department in the small northern Oregon town, alleged that Hoover began imitating a monkey during a debriefing regarding a complaint from a black woman.

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Freddie Gray Family Lawyer Billy Murphy Speaks Out On $6.4 Million Wrongful Death Settlement

The attorney for the family of Freddie Gray is applauding the Baltimore mayor for helping spearhead a $6.4 million settlement with the family after Gray was fatally injured in police custody.

Attorney Billy Murphy said Wednesday that if a lawsuit had been filed, it could have taken years to play out in the courts. He says the settlement is civil justice for the Gray family. Murphy declined to say what percentage of the settlement deal he will receive.

Murphy also says the mayor has pledged to start a pilot program where police in the Western District neighborhood, where Gray was arrested, will wear body cameras. He says the cameras will help drastically reduce police misconduct as well as frivolous complaints from citizens.

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Jon Stewart Set to Lobby Congress to Renew 9/11 Health Bill

Former “Daily Show” host joins Ground Zero first responders on Capitol Hill to support program that monitors people for health problems related to the attacks

Jon Stewart is putting his political knowledge and popularity into action by heading to Congress next week to lobby for the renewal of a health bill that supports 9/11 first responders.

The former “Daily Show” host will offer his support to continue a program that monitors thousands of people for health problems related to their work at Ground Zero, the senator leading the lobbying effort said Tuesday.

Stewart will join Ground Zero first responders making the rounds on Capitol Hill and “will help them amplify their voices” in promoting the need to renew the program, Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York told USA Today.

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Local Activist, Pastor Arrested In Connection With Sept. 2 Freddie Gray Protests

BALTIMORE (WJZ)–A local pastor and activist was taken into custody on Wednesday night on charges stemming from last week’s protests during the first hearing of the Freddie Gray case.

Police confirm to WJZ that prominent pastor Westley West was arrested tonight and was taken into custody without incident.

According to authorities, following the conclusion of peaceful protests during the first hearing in the Freddie Gray case, Westley West allegedly lead a group of assembled protesters southbound on Guilford Avenue which blocked traffic.

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Kansas St. to Pay 5,000 Fine for Offensive Marching Band Formation

Kansas State will pay the price for “inadvertently” performing a not-safe-for-work halftime show, after its marching band appeared to form a penis, along with its rival’s mascot, during Saturday’s home opener against South Dakota.

As reported by the New York Daily, Kansas State agreed to sanctions placed by the Big 12 and a 1-game suspension of the band director.

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40-year prison sentence for Maryland music teacher who sexually abused children

As summer ends and another school year begins, parents, teachers, school administrators and other caregivers would be wise to take note of a recent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) investigation that led to a Maryland teacher being sentenced to 40 years in prison for sexually abusing 15 children. The story was featured in People magazine.

Lawrence Joynes, 56, of Dundalk, Maryland, sexually abused 14 children in kindergarten through second grade in his classroom at the New Hampshire Estates Elementary school in Silver Spring, Maryland, where he was a music teacher. In the 1990s, Joynes also sexually abused another child, who is now an adult.

Joynes’ 27 year-career with the Montgomery County public school system, his days of freedom and, most importantly, his ability to sexually molest innocent children were numbered beginning in Oct. 2012 when an HSI partnering agency, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) sent a photo of a child being molested to the HSI Cyber Crimes Center (C3) for examination.

After intense investigation, forensic experts at C3 determined that Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, was the location where the photo was taken, and HSI Charleston was contacted.

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Scientists Will Bring Mystery Virus Found in 30,000 Year Old Ice Back to Life

It’s something out of a disaster movie. A mysterious virus is discovered in 30,000 year old ice, perfectly preserved, and modern day scientists put in motion a plan to bring it back to life.

However, this isn’t a story being made in a Hollywood movie studio, but rather in a Siberian tundra.

The French National Centre for Scientific Research team has discovered a prehistoric virus that it believes has been perfectly frozen in ice for 30,000 years. The virus, Mollivirus sibericum, is classified as a “giant virus” due to its relatively large size of .6 microns.

The team plans to reanimate the virus under controlled conditions in order to learn if it presents a possible threat to humans, livestock or other animals. The scientists warn that these viruses could be unleashed on their own due to either climate change or civilization expanded into more remote areas.

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